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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60385	Ergon pseudous kai misthos alētheias, or, The wicked mans sad disappointment and the righteous mans sure recompence being a sermon preached the 17th day of October, 1661, at the solemn funerals of the Right Worshipful Sir Abraham Raynardson, Knight, late alderman of London / by George Smalwood.	Smalwood, George, 1604-1679.	1661 (1661)	Wing S4006; ESTC R10143	27,597	40

himself and his Son Jesus Christ and the Spirit of comfort both in the communications of Grace here and the fruition of Glory hereafter So prayeth Novemb. 15. 1661. Madam Your Ladyships humble Sevant in the Lord Jesus GEORGE SMALWOOD The wicked mans sad disappointment and The righteous mans sure recompence PROVERBS 11. 18. The wicked worketh a d●ceitful work but to him that s●weth righteousn●ss shall be a sure reward THis Booke of the Proverls is made up of Divine Aphorismes and short Sentences which as one of the Ancients 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith upon another occasion are very short if you measure the words but full of spiritual energy and Soul-saving Vertue like a little body full of spirits or like juycy clusters of Grapes filled with the noblest liquour and ready to burst forth with new wine Here are heavenly Apophthegmes fit for all occasions for all persons for all actions Here are comforts for the poor counsels for the rich instructions for the ignorant corrections for the obstinate wholsome precepts and precious promises Characters both of good and bad matter for all to work upon It was pen'd by Solomon who himself was a Proverb for his wisedom a man though not without great failings to shew that the Saints have their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their fainting-fits their imperfections and aberrations as well as others and we must expect no absolute perfection in those that dwell in houses of clay Yet he was one in whom much matter of great worth and excellent knowledge was shut up and contained The Holy Ghost saith He spake of trees from the Cedar-tree that is in Lebanon even unto the Hysop that springeth out of the wall He spake also of Beasts and of Fowls and of creeping things and of Fishes and there came of all people to hear the wisedome of Solomon 1 Kings 4. 33 34. It pleased God to use him as one of his Amanuenses or Divine Penmen of holy Writ and so notwithstanding his failings he is to be reckoned inter Sanctos Dei among the holy Ones of God For Saint Peter telleth us that Prophesie came not in old time by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1. 21. so then he was one of those holy men that were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inspired of God himself and guided by his spirit And this eminently wise man like a careful Physician hath in this Book as it were piled one upon another boxes of Medicines for all diseases cordials to comfort and chear up pious souls in the midst of all troubles and distresses with short inscriptions upon each of them that any man without overburthening his memory may easily learn a compendious and sudden cure for every particular malady and find a Cordial to revive and comfort his heart in any fainting fit whatsoever These words which I have chosen for the subject of my discourse upon this occasion like most of the rest have no dependance at all upon the former but are in themselves two absolute divine sentences or doctrines as contraries one to another as the persons they speak of and so they adde lustre each Contraria juxta se posita magis elucescunt to other For contraries placed together make one another more apparent Now here is an Antithesis or opposition between the state of the wicked and the state of the righteous shewing the vast difference between the one and the other in their respective conclusions or finall events or the issue and result of both their works 1 The wicked mans work how prosperous and happy soever it seems for the present yet at last it proveth vain and deceitfull For the wicked c. 2. The righteous mans work whatever outward evils accompany it for the present yet in the end it proveth most blessed and successful For to him that soweth c. Thus this world is like a common field where both good and bad have ground to work upon But the wicked sow such bad seed that it brings forth nothing but briars and brambles it is all overgrown with thorns and nettles cover the face thereof as it is said of the field of the slothful and the Carduus spinis surgit paliurus acutts Virgil. Vineyard of the man void of understanding Prov. 24. 30 31. And so the wicked work to no good purpose but lose all the fruit they expected and are nigh unto cursing whose end is to be bur●ed Heb. 6. 8. For as the work is false which they do God biding them do one thing and they doing another he commanding them to sow to the spirit and they sowing to the flesh so it proveth a work of falsehood to themselves also wholly frustrating their expectation for it is a deceitfull work It is in the Original the work of a lye or a lying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 work The work of a wicked man telleth him a most notorious lye for it promiseth him good success and he thinks his happiness is placed in it he hugs and applauds himself in his politick enterprises Populus me sibilat sed mihi plaudo domi Horat. as the covetous man in the Poet did in his heaps of money though all the people were ready to hiss at him As the Prophet speaks of the oppressors in his time He sacrificeth unto his net and burneth incense unto his drag because by them his portion is fat and his meat plenteous Habak 1. 16. How many such fishers have fished in our troubled waters and thought themselves the wisest and best men in the Land Thus the wicked mans work makes a fair shew in the beginning nay perhaps it hath a very hopeful progress for a long time for the Tabernacles of robbers may prosper and they that provoke God may be secure into whose hands God may bring abundantly Iob 12. 6. but at last it bringeth nothing but woe and misery and so all his devices fail and vanish into nothing they become a meer lye and there is no truth in them But the righteous sowe the pure corn of righteousness which therefore proveth sincere also and true to their hope it deceiveth not their expectation but bringeth forth the harvest of a plentifull reward which is reaped in Heaven though it were sown upon earth So then these words contain two remarkable dispensations of divine providence 1. The wicked mans sad disappoi●tment after all his tedious toil and labor in the works of iniquity he works a deceitfull work 2. The righteous mans blessed success after he hath laboured in the work of the Lord and passed through many difficulties he loseth not his labor he scattereth not his seed in vain For to him that soweth c. I shall not speak much to the first of these viz. The wicked mans sad disappointment but onely to warn you to take heed of his ways For it is not so sutable to our present occasion save onely to