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A02462	Tvvo fruitful sermons, needfull for these times whereof the one may be called, A mariage present; the other, A sickemans glasse. Compiled by Roger Hacket, Doctor in Diuinitie.; Two fruitful sermons, needfull for these times.	Hacket, Roger, 1559-1621.	1607 (1607)	STC 12592; ESTC S118993	30,700	42

Chrysostom speaketh that beautie was giuen to a woman lust vnto man sheweth nothing else but that this by the Almightie was therefore done that the wife might bee beloued of her man Wherefore as S. Paul speaketh to the Colossians so I to you Coloss 3.19 Husbands loue your wiues and bee not bitter vnto them For your bitter dealings nay speeches nay lookes for kindnes is killed by a bitter looke abates the sweetnes of a womans loue and maketh them hate where they are bound to loue Wherefore ô ye men as the Rosemary affecteth your heads and moueth you in wisedome for to rule so let it also affect your hearts and moue you in kindnes for to loue Remember of all the creatures God had made he found none worthy a mans best loue and that therefore he made the woman to be an helper meete for him Genes 2.20 Do not ouer much tote on their faults and please your discontented humors with their wants this beseemeth not your wisedome nor your loue For as Zanchius speaketh He truly loueth who when he findeth in his wife some things that do displease Zanch. in 5. ad Ephes not well beseeming her and scarse agreeing with his profit doth yet loue her and performe the duties of a good husband to her Chrysost in Epist ad Ephes Hom. 21. Which as Chrysostom speaketh hideth her wants and gratifieth her in her due desires which saith not to her this is thine and that is thine but which rather saith all is thine I am thine this is not the speech of him that flattereth but rather of him that wisely loueth Wherefore ô ye men although the high growing Rosemary sheweth your rule yet let it remember you to rule in wisdome to rule in loue And yet before I leaue this scepter of your rule with you consider in the third place that the Rosemary in summer and winter is alway greene euen so should men alway continue true and loyall to their wiues the same in loue and loyaltie at the last the which vnto them they were at first they should in summer and winter be alwaies greene Man should not onely forsake father and mother and all strange flesh Genes 2.24 Prouerb 5.15 but euen to the last still he should cleaue vnto his wife Vers 20. As the Wiseman speaketh he should content himselfe with the water of his owne well of strange waters he should not drinke For when God made woman he tooke not two but one ribbe from man neither did he ioyne in mariage two but one woman vnto man and of them two hee said hee spake not of more they shall be one flesh Genes 2.24 Matth. 19.6 Those whom God hath ioyned together thou seekest to sunder and transgressest the holy ordinance of the highest in that thou couplest thy bodie to another and defilest the bed that should bee vndefiled But yet feare howsoeuer thou canst beguile and blind the world thou canst not God Hebr. 13.4 Fornicators and adulterers God will iudge If thy wife should walke after thee in that sinfull way and should beare for thee strange children which although thou fatherest yet thou didst not beget to sit at thy fires and to inherit thy goods thou shewedst her the way by thy ill example and with vncleannes God hath iustly punished thy vncleane selfe Wherefore despise not O man the wife of thy youth nor let her first loue bee euer forgotten keepe thy vowed faith with her Prouerb 5.18 of which both God and his Church are witnes Genes 2.23 Honour the holy ordinance of the highest he hath ioyned thee to one Marke 10.7 and not to many he hath willed thee to cleane to one and to forsake all other he hath said that you two are but one flesh Vers 8.1 Cor. 7.3 that thou hast not power ouer thine owne bodie but thy wife Thou maist not therefore with the wreck of thy faith breach of Gods ordinance to the wrong of thy wife hurt of thy soule ill example of other defile the bed which should be vndefiled and pollute thy bodie with other women which onely belongeth to thy wife Be therefore true and loyall to your wiues O ye married men you are their heads thereby you shall teach them to bee loyall to you Let this ros marinus this flower of men ensigne of your wisedome loue and loyaltie bee carried not only in your hands but in your heads and harts that by this your wiues may vnderstand how much they are beholding and endebted to you Thus haue I scattered my flowers the Prime-rose amongst you all let God giue Eue to Adam let all your mariages begin in the Lord. Amongst you maidens the Maidens-blush Eue is brought and giuen vnto Adam so should you by your parents bee giuen vnto men it doth not stand with a maidens modestie for to goe and giue her selfe Amidst you maried wiues the sweete cooling cordiall and low-growing Violet although God made Eue subiect yet hee made her an helper meete for man And lastly among you men the Rosemary the flower of men although God hath giuen you to rule ouer your wiues yet rule them in wisedome you are their heads respect them in loue they are bone of your bones and flesh of your flesh and in loyaltie euer cleaue to them for with them you are become and so should remaine distasting all other one flesh Now what remaineth but that we beseech our heauenly Father to plant these sweete flowers in the garden of your hearts and to water them from aboue with the sweete dewes of his heauenly grace that you may daily reape the fruites of all happie content to your mutuall comforts in this life and encrease of blisse in the life to come The which the Lord giue you for his Sonne Christ Iesus sake to whom with the Father and the blessed Spirit be all power maiestie and dominion both now and euermore Amen FINIS A SICK MANS GLASSE ISAIAH 38.1.2.3 About that time was Hezechiah sicke vnto the death And the Prophet Isaiah the sonne of Amos came vnto him saying Thus saith the Lord set thy house in order for thou must die and shalt not liue Then Hezechiah turned his face to the wall and besought the Lord saying Now I pray thee Lord remember how I haue walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and haue done that which is pleasing in thy sight and Hezechiah wept sore THis Scripture diuides it selfe into two principall parts whereof the first is the message done to Hezechiah whilest he was sicke contained in the first verse About that time c. The second is the behauiour of Hezechiah when he had heard the message remembred in the two next verses Then Hezechiah turned his face c. In the message we are to obserue these fiue points first the time when it was done About that time Secondly the person to whom it was done to Hezechiah that was sicke Thirdly

prayers but vnto him which best knoweth thy neede and which hath bound d Psal 50.15 Joel 2.32 Iohn 14.13 himselfe by promise to helpe thee in this time of thy neede Although e Psal 121.1 thou art to looke vnto the hils to follow the examples of holie men yet as Austin vpon that Psalme obserueth f August comment in Psal 121. thou must still acknowledge that thy saluation commeth from the Lord. Wherefore to him lift vp thy soule in prayers and with thy heart crie when thou canst not with thy weakned voyce Now O Lord I beseech thee remember me And then doe not boast of thy merits and well doing as though God were therefore bound to helpe thee and to yeeld reliefe but rather let thy merits be Gods mercie as Bernard speaketh a Bernard in Cantic serm 61 Shall I sing of my righteousnes nay I will remember thy righteousnes onely for that is mine And yet that thou maist the better assure thy staggering soule of Gods fauour to thee in this time of thy neede remember with Hezechiah Gods former mercies before-time shewed to thee in the progresse of thy life for that God which hath giuen thee to walke before him in truth and with a perfect heart that God which hath giuen thee to doe that which is good and pleasing in his sight he will not now leaue and forsake thee but he will then heare thy prayers and as thou beseechest he will then remember thee Alas beloued in this time of thy neede what can thy wealth and worship steed thee what can thy friends and well willers helpe thee what can then better comfort thy fainting soule than thy harmelesse and well deeded life which thou hast passed in Gods feare these b 2. Pet. 1.10 Ephes 1.4 thy good workes will assure thy soule that thou art an elect vessell chosen of God c Matth. 7.17 John 15.5 these fruits of thy beleeuing faith will witnes to thee that thou art a blessed plant whom Gods right hand hath planted d Rom. 8.14 Ephes 5.8 these holy actions of thy spirituall life will speake to thy soule that thou art liued of God and that hee liueth in thee by his grace This his e Ezech. 9.5 6. marke God doth see and will acknowledge in thee and these f Reuel 14.13 fruits of thy faith workes of pietie when all things else will leaue and forsake thee will not forsake thee but will accompanie thee vnto the heauens and there will present themselues with thee to thy God How studious therefore should wee bee in pietie how fruitfull in good workes how prouident for this oyle how carefull to do that which is good in Gods sight since these in the time of our greatest need make so much for our comfort and reliefe Surely to a man that g Ierem. 17.5 maketh not flesh his arme but h Philip. 3.8 1. Corin. 1.20 reposeth himselfe on the mercie of Christ and on his all sufficient merit a well deeded life will make much for his comfort Insomuch that in a good confidence of hope he will say with Dauid i Psalm 31.5 Lord into thy hands doe I commend my spirit for thou Lord of truth hast redeemed me And when thou hast thus according to the good ensample of Hezechiah prepared thy selfe do not thou forget that which in the last place he is said to do and that is hee wept very sore for when the seruants of God do see that k Psalm 23.6 God still followeth them with his helping grace how l Mat. 14.27 Luke 12.32 in the middest of their troubles he still speaketh words of cōfort to their soules when a Rom. 8.11 16. Ephes 1.13 Hebr. 11.15 they find that inward witnes of Gods spirit testifying to their spirits that when b 2. Cor. 5.1 this earthly tabernacle shall be destroyed they shall haue a building not made with hands but which is eternall in the heauens yea when God so farre openeth their eyes that c Matth. 17.2 2. Cor. 12.2 they see some part of that his goodnes which he will fully shew vnto them in the land of the liuing then d 2. Cor. 5.2 Jerem. 31.18 Ezech. 16.61 all ashamed of themselues and full of teares they bewaile their sinnes and neglected duties because they haue not sought Gods glorie in a more forward zeale nor more carefully haue honoured him in the course of their liues e Psal 126.5 O blessed soule which thus sowest in teares for thou shalt reape with ioy O blessed soule which thus doest f Matth. 5.4 mourne and bewaile thy sinnes for thou shalt bee comforted the Lord shall not forget thy teares but hee shall put them into his bottle Nay hee shall forthwith giue thee a g Reuel 14.13 life in which thou shalt serue GOD without all sinne rest from thy labours and h Jsai 25.8 Reuel 7.7 haue all teares wiped away from thine eyes Wherefore O ye that heare me this day since you are all the sonnes of Adam and must to earth from whence you came since to euery of you the heauenly voice hath said You must die and shall not liue Set an order to your housen prepare your soules and whilest you liue before you bee preuented by death cast vp your reckonnings and make your selues ready for the Lord. With this good King Hezechiah turne your selues from the world your wealth and worship and turne vnto the Lord. Vnto him powre forth your prayers and in the bed of your sickenes say when all helpe of friends and physicke do faile now O Lord I beseech thee remember mee And that he may the better bee moued to heare you then and to giue you succour to your content during this your earthly pilgrimage and small abode in this decaying world walke with your God faune not on the world in truth not in falshood with a perfect not a dissembling heart euer seeke to do how irkesome soeuer it be to thy flesh and vnpleasing to the world that which is good and pleasing in Gods sight And when thou hast fayled in these thy duties bewaile thy sinnes and ouersights and with an humbled soule come to the feete of thy blessed Sauiour grieue not to wash them with the teares of thine eyes which hath washed thee with his most precious blood Thus much in the applicatiō of this text to you Now resteth it that we should somewhat speake of this our brother for whose sake wee are heere assembled For since it hath been an ancient and most laudable custome vsed by the holy Fathers in the Primitiue Church and continued throughout all ages vnto this day to commend vnto the people of God in their Funerall Sermons many vertuous men and women and that to these ends that they might shew their thankefulnes to God for giuing such grace vnto men performe their last dutie to the deceased and might stirre vp their hearers