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A03950	Certaine godlie and learned sermons Made vpon these sixe following parables of our Sauiour Christ, declared in the Gospell. 1. Of the vncleane spirit. 2. Of the prodigall sonne. 3. Of the rich man and Lazarus. 4. Of the vvounded man. 5. Of the vnmercifull seruant. 6. Of the faithfull seruant. By S.I.	I. S.	1601 (1601)	STC 14058; ESTC S119692	196,316	502

not in gluttony and drunkennesse neither in chambering and wantonnes but put ye on the Lord Iesus Christ and take no thought for the flesh to fulfill the lusts of it Rom. 13.13 Take heede to yourselues saith Christ Luk. 21.34 least at any time your harts be oppressed with surfetting and drunkennesse and least that day come on you at vnawares For as it was in the daies of Noe Luke 17.26 so shal it be in the dayes of the sonne of man they are they dranke they married wiues and gaue in marriage vnto the day that Noe went into the Arke and the flood came and destroyed them all The nourishing of the body is not forbid but the superfluitie thereof building of houses is not denied but glorious and sumptuous buildings are spoken against garments are profitable but the brauerie of garments and excessiue expences are to be auoyded The meane would very well serue our turnes and the excesse might very well be bestowed to the benefit and behoofe of the poore Haue conuenient care for thy body but let it not be thy chiefest studie but rather let it be thy chiefest care how thou mayst be rid from these cares The body is but the garment of thy soule and who would make more account of the garment then of the body and of the body rather then of the soule Yet for the most part the world is set vppon banketting and carowsing he is not a man in these dayes that cannot quaffe and carowse and drinke as much as a horse Indeede beeing like vnto horse and mule that haue no vnderstanding And so is the world that Christianitie is turned vp-side downe into good fellowship and Epicurisme Birds of a feather will flie together yea and draw many into the snare that little thought of any such matter The Phisition will say that the body is best nourished with one dishe of meate and nowe it is no dinner of account that hath not great store and varietie of dishes but which of them comes to the poore mans share Stand at the gate of rich mens houses and see what store of scraps come forth who if they did rightly consider Gods commaundement vvould make the poore their chiefest guests Poets haue mightily inueighed against the ryot of their people but if they vvere now among Christians what would they do what would they speak what would they write Surely they would hold theyr peace and wonder and grieue with sorrow of hart This I thinke was a great cause of the vnmercifulnes of the rich man toward Lazarus that he thought all prouision but little enough for himselfe Let vs learne abstinence and sobrietie according to the counsell of the Apostle Ro. 8. If yee liue after the flesh ye shall die but if ye mortifie the deeds of the flesh by the Spirit yee shall liue That shyp which hath too heauie a burden must needes sincke and that body which is ouer-loden with gluttonie must needs make the soule more guiltie God that he might shew how small a care man should haue for meate did first appoynt him the hearbes and the fruites of trees to be his meate Gen. 1.30 to teach him abstiuence and sobrietie Paule the elect vessell of God did diuers waies keepe vnder his body 1. Cor. 9.27 wilt thou spend thy time in eating and drinking in quaffing and gur●nun dizing Daniel that he might be more ready for heauenly consolation comfort fared ful barelie Dan. 1. The deuill hath no greater weapons against vs then our owne sinfull appetites and if thou wilt ouercome him take away his weapons keep thy body in subiection Cruel beasts are tamed with watching by this maner of resisting the deuill flyeth frō vs. For if thou shalt afflict thy body with watching fasting prayer thou shalt tryumph ouer the deuill Nothing is more against the deuill then asperitie of life and nothing maketh him more bold to tempt vs and to set vpon vs then when we giue ourselues to liberty and to pamper vp our bodies with delicat● and dainties And fared delicatly euery day Sometimes to fare delicatly is no fault and to be merry with our friends in good honest and ciuill ●ort as is the custome of some men else how should we passe away thys wearisome life of ours if wee were debarred of all libertie and all recreation But to vse this continually and euery day is the fault heere spoken against For a day or two thou maist be merry with thy friends but in such sort that thou leaue not of thy manner of praying heauenly meditations thy straite course of life But in thys thy mirth turne all to the best and giue God thankes for his great aboundance vvhich the sensuall and sencelesse Rich man cannot frame himselfe to doe looking vpon the varietie of meates how and with what manner of meate he may fill and stuffe his belly Yet this is worthy the noting that God dooth graunt these sinners and rich men health riches many dainties to this end that by these meanes he might allure and win them to serue him with freer mindes and to consider frō whom they haue them that they may vse them as he hath appointed if not heereby to leaue them without all excuse You see the sleeting Hawke which flies astray is not brought againe with threatning but by shewing the baite So God vseth the rich and wealthy which goe astray from him thee allureth them with his manifolde blessings and benefits that they may reioyce to come to his l●re and to obay his will The Lord wayteth for the conuersion of sinners that they seeing his great goodnes and how much they are indebted may at the last relent But if there be some few that doe relent there are many thousands the more is the pitty that are too too stubberne abusing Gods blessings at their pleasure as this rich man did To such the Prophet Ezechiell giueth warning chap. 16. by the example of Sodome This was the sin of Sodome pride fulnes of bread aboundance of idlenes neither did they strengthen the hand of the poore and needy Thus much of this rich mans excesse in apparrell and riot in fare the third is of his vnmercifulnes towarde poore Lazarus But before we handle that point let vs see what manner of man this poore Lazarus was euen an image patterne of the godly afflicted in this world and in manifold distresse And there was a certaine begger named Lazarus which was laid at his gate full of sores Lazarus is heere named because GOD hath care of the godly and their names are written in the booke of life because being sustained by hope with patience they endure such crosses and afflictions that it pleaseth GOD to lay vppon them for the try all of theyr fayth and for theyr further exaltation in the lfe to come And heere beginneth the second principall matter namely that vnder Lazarus is contained the patterne of a godly man submitting him selfe

reports and reproches vvhich are more gre●●ous to the minds th●● shipes are to the fl●sts and blood which may be vnderstood vnder smiting of his fellowes The Lord by the prophet Esay chap. 21 22 23. doth greatly reproue them who when they were called to weeping and mourning gaue themselues to ioy and gladnes slaying oxen and killing sheepe d●ting flesh and drinking wine ●ating drinking as though they should ●●ie the next morrow But this iniquity as there we may reade was not purged till they dyed And when Ministers giue themselues to spende their time in the vanities and pleasures of this world as though this vvorld and the transitory ioyes thereof were their portion Wise 2 9 it may well be sayde of them that they thinke theyr maister is far of that he will neuer come So did not Moses that faithfull seruant in gods house who chose rather to suffer aduersitie vvith the people of God then to enioy the pleasures of sinne for a season These that are so giuen to worldly pleasures the Apostle Saint Iudo ver 18. termeth to be mocleers which shall arise in the last time which shall walke after their owne vngodly lusts which hauing a sh●w of godlines haue denied 〈…〉 which turns the grace of God 〈…〉 shewing he●●●by whereinto they are ordained Whose worldly and sinfull life as it ought to be no example vnto vs so are we willed to auoyde to turne away from such Eating and drinking in a moderate sort is no other but to bee pertakers of Gods benefites Eccles 5 ●8 but to eate and drink to be drunken and the excessiue abuse of Gods creatures shall make ministers of all kind of people most g●il●●e and to be without all excuse For to him that knoweth how to doe well doth it not to him it is sinne Not that it is no sinne to others but that it is the greater sin to him How worthy of reproofe this euill seruaunt and negligent worldly minister is will better appeare by companing him to that minister who deserueth commendation 1 Tim. 3. He giuen to watching and sob●ietie this to carelesnes and pleasures of this present life He being harberous bestowing his goods vpon strangers and the pore keeping hospitalitie for the that are worthy thereof this being couetous and giuen to spend nothing on the poore or to good vses he apt to teach this will not 〈◊〉 into the hatred of the world by being too busie who had rather keepe mens good-will by saying nothing 〈◊〉 no striker what is they● d●●ie and still set this as their gl●sse before them the negligent carelesse ministers beholding heerein in howe many ●●atters they offend may learn warily to ●●●yth● and speedily to amend thē There great faults are heere reprooued where vnto 〈◊〉 nature is mightily addicted that is First ease and idlenes Secondly ●ouetousnesse and thirdly hard dealing by which meanes many worldlie ministers strange the minds of those that are committed to they● charge whom by they● discreet and charitable dealing they ●ight otherwise w●● Much wrong is to be p●● vp many displeasures to be born● 〈◊〉 ●●●sgested some toff●● and disaduantag●●●● not so greatly to be regarded Their 〈◊〉 ought to be of greater account which 〈◊〉 not so easily performed These things wise minister hath in de●p● consideration whereas they that 〈◊〉 vndis●●● 〈…〉 gods stray in sin and in offending GOD and yet they doe neglect 〈…〉 ha●● they ●●y car● to admi●●s●● 〈…〉 them in any dis●●●sse 〈…〉 they giue them no comfo●● 〈◊〉 they ow● them any thing they 〈…〉 beeing ouer-hasty 〈…〉 and l●●●ng goe 〈…〉 ch●●●y● are of their soules 〈…〉 might gain● vnto God 〈…〉 the 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 commodity that they might receau● Being the end nay die 〈◊〉 of all their 〈…〉 The 〈◊〉 19 〈…〉 to be the very vtmost of the 〈…〉 of a true godly and pa●●full 〈…〉 Who is it now a daies that 〈…〉 which hee may haue and the excell●●● and slauery of a mans 〈◊〉 is their in siluer and golde and worldly commodities wherein a Minister should shew great wisdome rather regarding the good estate 〈◊〉 his people then to satisfie his owne hungry de●●●● Companying with worldlings Lastly to are and drink with the drunken i● well spoken of them who of all company m●●● their cho●●e of 〈…〉 worldlings father then of those that be godly and ve●●●●●●y disposed Which if they did to 〈◊〉 them vnto God as Christ 〈…〉 Publicans and sin●●● 〈…〉 of their sinfull life but 〈…〉 them out of the kingdome of 〈◊〉 and to deliuer them from th●● straies of the de●●ll ● Tim. 2 ● 〈…〉 of the wicked so long as we dwell in this world 1 Cor. ● 10 but the godly are greeued with th●● euill examples as the soule of righteous 〈◊〉 was vexed with the vncleanly conuersation of the wicked 2. Pet. 2 7. And ●eere-hence it ariseth that the prophet Dauid Psal 120. is greeued at the hart that he must dwel among the wicked Wee is 〈◊〉 that I am constrained to dwell with Meseck and to haue my habitation among the tents of Cedar In the meane time to long as the Ministers and the godly liue in the world which is so full of offences corruptions Phil. 2.15 let them learne to be blamelesse and pure a● the forms of God without rebuke in the midst of a naughty and crooked Nation among whom they ought to shine as lights in the world Mat. 5 16.1 Pet. 2 12. And for their further comfort this they may assure them selues that how so●uer in this worlde they are troubled with the wicked yet in the world to to●●● they shall be altogether free from them For no Cana●oite shal enter or be se●●e in 〈◊〉 them ably Ierusalem Zach 〈…〉 any vncleane thing Re. 21.17 And for an ●●m a cau●at and forewarning to take heede of the company of the vngodly let vs consider these weighty reasons First that they can minister no matter of true comfort vnto vs seeing all their waies are full of offence Secondly they are strong to draw vs vnto euill and wen weake to resist and to shunne their ill example For flesh and blood without the speciall grace of God and the assistance of his holy spirit is easily taken in the snare The vse therefore heereof is to teach vs first neuer to take any delight in their cōpany and secondly to auoid their companie to the vttermost of our power and where wee cannot to suspect euen theyr friendship Howe the euill examples of the ministers are to be interpreted But least by the declaration of the properties of an euill seruant negligent Minister as also beholding their faults falls wee should grow out of loue with Gods word and our christian profession or else through their offences and scandalous examples we should fall away from God from our owne saluation by sliding into herisie and papistry or letting loose the reines to licentiousnes and vngodlines it is