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A02843	A sermon of the stewards danger preached at Paules Crosse the 15. of August by Iohn Hayward ; and now published at the earnest request of diuers well disposed.	Hayward, John, Sir, 1564?-1627.	1602 (1602)	STC 12984.5; ESTC S122933	21,688	62

SERMON OF THE STEWARDS DANGER Preached at Paules Crosse the 15. of August by IOHN HAYVVARD And now published at the earnest request of diuers well disposed LVKE 16.11 12. If then you haue not been faithfull in the wicked riches who will trust you in the true treasure And if you haue not been faithfull in another mans goods who shall giue you that which is yours AT LONDON Printed for Humfrey Lownes and are to be sold at his shop at the West doore of Paules 1602. THE STEWARDS DANGER LVKE 16.1 2. 1. And he said also vnto his Disciples there was a certaine rich man which had a Steward and he was accused vnto him that he wasted his goods 2. And he called him and said vnto him how is it that I heare this of thee Giue an account of thy Stewardship for thou maist be no longer Steward OVr blessed Sauiour in this place rehearseth a Parable of a rich man and his steward that before he was to leaue his office prouided for himselfe whereof to liue afterward By the example of whose wisdome he teacheth al men that are stewards to the most rich God all the time of their abiding in this world before they leaue their office and deliuer vp their account to prouide wisely for the time following that they may then haue whereof to liue in another world The parable reacheth vnto the eight verse and from thence vnto the fourteenth reacheth the application of the parable in the doctrine that from the parable our Sauiour Christ deliuereth In the parable occupying seauen verses we are to consider the persons whereof report is made and the report that is made of them the persons are named to be a rich man and his steward in the beginning of the first verse The report made of them reacheth to the end of the seauenth verse The report hath in it two things the daunger of the steward and the remedie which he deuised aforehand to helpe afterwarde The stewards daunger is in the two verses of my text The remedie that he deuised is in the next fiue The two verses that report the stewards daunger report also the occasion of his danger The occasion of his daunger was his wastfulnes The daunger occasioned by his wastfulnes is set downe in diuers degrees thereof The first degree was that he was accused to his master to bee a waster in the first verse A second degree of his danger was this that hee was called to giue account A third and last that he must be put from his office These two last degrees are in the second verse And he said also vnto his disciples there was a certaine rich man which had a steward In these words the persons are named of whom the report is made in this parable the one for his wealth is called a rich man there was a certaine rich man the other by his office is called a steward which had a steward And here wee are to consider whom our Sauiour would haue vs to vnderstand by this rich man and his steward that wee may profit our selues by the parable By the rich man wee are to vnderstand almightie God to whom the title of rich doth most properly appertaine because the heauēs and the earth are his and all that is in them Concerning the heauens who shall contend against him Among men the wicked haue no inheritance there no claime they can make no title haue they vnto it The godly haue but it is of the gift of God And they doe not seeke heauen as men desiring to turne God out of the possession that they may hold it to themselues as the vnbeleeuing Gentiles fabulously reported of the giants that made warre against their gods sought to thrust Iupiter out of heauen By which fiction they noted the pride of men that spoyle God of his honour to decke themselues withall The Saints doe not so claime heauen as those that would turne God out of heauen to hold it themselues but they desire heauen in hope there to dwell with God he being King and they citizens of that place Concerning heauen therefore none will contend against the Lord but that it is his He made it of nothing and hath planted there his habitation and throne though the heauen of heauens cannot containe him The Prophet saith Psal. 115.16 The heauens euen the heauens are the Lords But concerning the earth men being in possession of it will perhaps contend against God and say that it is theirs And so indeede it is but of the gift of God as in the same Psalme and verse it followeth But hee hath giuen the earth to the sonnes of men Which hauing granted to men for a time he holdeth the right of it in his owne power for euer taking it at his pleasure from them to whom hee had giuen it and constituting new Lords of it As he teacheth vs in Iere. 27.5 saying I haue made the earth the man and the beast that are vpon the ground by my great power and by my outstretched arme and haue giuen it to whom it pleaseth me But now I haue giuen all these lands into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babel my seruant But were it so that men helde the earth in absolute right so that they could not be remoued from it and God had no right at all in it yet should they bee beggars compared with God that is Lord of heauen and hee onely worthie the name of rich But now the earth also is the Lords and all that is in it and al that dwell vpon it so that rich men among vs are part of the Lords possession and the riches of the rich among vs are his possession As it is written in Psal. 24.1 The earth is the Lords and all that therein is the world and they that dwell therein This I could not passe ouer vnobserued for your sakes that are pinched daily with many wants One wanteth foode another cloathes a third wāteth a setled dwelling place a fourth peace in his place a fift hath outwarde things but hee wanteth health and strength Another hath the gifts of the bodie but his drie soule is thirstie his starned soule is hungrie he wanteth the knowledge of the truth he wanteth wisedome to direct him in prosperitie and aduersitie he wanteth faith and the comfort of Gods spirit and is not able to keep peace and to quiet the troubles of his conscience hee wanteth the grace and help of Gods spirit to subdue and keepe vnder the lusts of his flesh And it may bee those things which men haue not they know not where to haue and being themselues beggars they know not where the rich man dwelleth that is able to minister to their wants This rich man most rich I shew you this day aske of him and you shall receiue seeke at his hands and you shall finde knocke at his doore and it shall be opened vnto you If foode bee wanting hee giueth foode to

case hath no priuilege and both men and women must giue account Neither is there greater immunitie in the condition then in the sex For the King together with his subiects the Noble together with the base the honourable Iudge together with the people the Captaine together with his souldiers the Lord together with his tenants the master together with his seruants the rich together with the poore and the free together with the bond must all come to account with God If any sort and condition should be freed the inferiour sort of subiects of common people of souldiers of tenants of seruants of poore men and bond men should be freed rather then Kings Nobles Iudges Captaines Lords Masters rich men and free men For Luk. 12.48 our Sauiour saith To whomsoeuer much is giuen of him shall much be required and to whom men commit much of him the more will they aske As we doe rather vrge them to come to account with vs that haue in their hands of ours many pounds then those that haue but a few pence But it is certaine that al both great and small must giue account For the duties euen of Kings Iudges great men is set down in the word of God as well as the duties of subiects meane and poore men and great mē haue bin examined iudged and punished in the day of Gods visitation as well as meane men The Kings of Sodome and Gomorrah perished with the people and Pharaoh was drowned with his seruants And howsoeuer in this world the difference is great betweene the great and the small yet to God they are all one his seruants and his stewards and all people of whatsoeuer age sex or condition they be must giue account Heare this I pray you and beguile not your selues you must all giue account and woe to the faulty You must giue account how you haue ruled and woe vnto tyrants You must giue account how you haue obeyed and woe vnto rebels You must giue account how you haue vsed superiour dignitie and woe vnto the proud And how you haue borne your low estate and woe to the enuious You must giue account how you haue vsed riches and woe to them that haue set their hearts vpon them And how you haue borne your pouertie and woe vnto murmurers You must giue account of your soules and the faculties therof that haue corrupted your vnderstanding with errours and haue refused to be inlightened with the truth that haue inclined your will vnto euill and haue refused when you were called to turne backe vnto goodnes Here all your delights pleasures studies and thoughts shall be brought to remembrance You must giue account of your bodies that haue decayed your health with surfets your strength with fornication that haue your mēbers maimed through braules and fraies that haue made more reckoning of the beautie of the face then of the glorious comelines of the well attired inward man that haue wantonnes and enuie in your eyes lying slander and blasphemie in your tongues bloud and spoyles in your hands You must giue account also of your time which some of you haue lost in sleeping some in playing some in pursuing pleasures riches and honours in the meane while neglecting the work of the Lord standing idle all day long in the market place taking great paines to serue the diuell the world and the lusts of your flesh and wholy idle vnto God neuer entring into his vineyard no not at the eleuenth houre to do any seruice there How many spend a summers day and doe not the good of an houre How many spend a whole yeere and doe not the good of a day How many spend their whole age and doe not the good of a yeere and grow old in yeeres remaining yong in knowledge and are come hoareheaded to the graue and vnderstand not the mysterie of their Baptisme For all these things all must giue account and woe to wastfull stewards Heare this I pray you that haue the precious riches of God in occupying and take heede of wasting and be carefull both of the stocke and of the gaine for the time will come when it shall be said vnto you as it was here said vnto the steward Giue an account of thy stewardship We fooles thinke our selues Lords and are but seruants and thinke our selues freeholders and are but stewards and bailifes VVhatsoeuer is in our hands wee thinke it to bee our owne and haue learned without booke and without vnderstanding also that text of Scripture Matth. 20.15 Is it not lawfull for me to doe as I will with mine owne when as wee haue not a peny of our owne no not a minute of time to cast away and waste at our pleasure But we are the Lords and all wee haue is the Lords and wee must one day giue account Thus much of this second degree of the stewards danger For thou maist be no longer steward In these words is y e last degree of his dāger to lose his seruice and to be turned out of office Infinit are the things that God doth betrust vs withall while we are in this world wherin he proueth our fidelity Some are outward things as kingdomes offices riches houses lands friends children seruants and such like Some in a sort are proper to the bodie as health strength beautie agilitie long life with foode and cloathes which wee vse to sustaine those other things in the body withall Some things pertaine to the soule as dominion ouer the bodie in the vse of all the members thereof sense vnderstanding memorie will affections wisedom and other vertues with manifold knowledge of Artes tongues histories and other things together with the graces of Gods holy spirit as knowledge of God in Christ faith loue humilitie with all the branches of true regeneration Of these things many are transitorie and serue onely to transitorie vses as the outward things and the things of the bodie sauing that after the resurrection vnto the bodie raised vp out of the dust of the earth many things shall be restored better then now they are In the meane while kingdomes riches and all outward things decay and come to nothing And in the body also sicknes taketh away health much labour spendeth strength age chaungeth beautie into wrinckles and the graue taketh away life and all The things of the soule are either naturall therby I meane al those things that a natural man not regenerate may attaine vnto or spirituall whereby I meane those things that are giuen to the spirituall man and which the naturall man sauoureth not things naturall either faile or are chaunged Also some spiritual things in the regenerate cease for faith and hope excellent graces of Gods sanctifying spirit doe cease when the promises are performed vnto vs and we possesse the things that we hoped for These things that cease are sometime taken away with Gods fauour and without their losse that lose them because God otherwise recompenceth them As sight was taken from