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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10393	The necessitie of righteousnes. Or A profitable and fruitfull sermon vpon the fift chapter of the Gospell of S. Mathew. vers. 20. Preached and penned by that famous, learned, iudicious, orthodoxall, holy, wise, and skilfull preacher and servant of God, now deceased, and with his God triumphing in Heaven, Iohn Randall, Batchelour of Divinitie, pastour of St Andrewes Hubbart in little East-cheape London, sometimes fellow of Lincolne Colledge in Oxford. And now published, to the glory of God, the edification of his Church, and the honourable memoriall of the author, by William Holbrooke, preacher of the Word of God in the church aforesaid	Randall, John, 1570-1622.; Holbrooke, William.	1622 (1622)	STC 20675; ESTC S115634	15,134	32

THE NECESSITIE OF RIGHTEOVSNES OR A PROFITABLE AND FRVITFVLL SERMON Vpon the fift Chapter of the Gospell of S. Mathew vers 20. Preached and Penned by that famous learned iudicious Orthodoxall holy wise and skilfull Preacher and servant of God now deceased and with his God triumphing in Heaven IOHN RANDALL Ba●●elour of Divinitie Pastour of St Andrewes Hubbart in little East-cheape LONDON Sometimes Fellow of Lincolne Colledge in OXFORD And now published to the glory of God the edification of his Church and the honourable Memoriall of the Author by WILLIAM HOLBROOKE Preacher of the Word of God in the Church aforesaid LONDON Printed by I. D. for Nathaniel Newbery and William Sheffard and are to be sold at their Shops in Popes-head Alley 1622. TO THE RELIGIOVSLY AFFECTED LADY THE LADY BENNET Wife to Sir Iohn Bennet all happinesse here and hereafter bee multiplied MADAM AS you were a great looser by the death of that servant of God master Randall who was to you whilst he lived a faithful and able counseller both spiritually and bodily and from whom you received great satisfaction direction and comfort in all distresses whensoever you resorted to him as you haue oft confessed to the glory of God And as your loue was great to him manifested many wayes whilst he liued and in his sicknesse and since his death by your much lamenting and weeping for the death of him that a man may say of you and your loue to this man departed as the Iewes did of our Saviour concerning his loue to Lazarus when he wept over him Behold how he loued him Ioh. 11.36 So I know your Ladiship will be readie to receiue and yeeld your best countenance to whatsoever was his wherevpon I haue made bolde in testimony of my thankfulnesse to your Ladiship for your readinesse lately to doe me good here to Dedicate vnto you a Sermon of his Preached and penned by his owne hand as it commeth to your view I need not perswade your Ladiship to accept it I know the child shall be welcome both for it owne and Fathers sake especially considering that it will in some sort supply the losse and absence of a profitable and deare friend whom though you cannot heare nor see any more speaking vnto you and counselling viva voce yet you may heare and see counselling you by this and other of his writings for friends absent whether liuing or dead speake by writing when they cannot be personally present and viva voce speake Consider then good Madam when you reade this and other of this mans writings you heare him speaking vnto you and counselling you and this will be motiue enough to perswade your Ladiship to entertayne what is here presented vnto you The Lord Iesus that Counseller of his Church and People by his Spirit counsell direct and comfort you and so supply the lacke of this and other friends he being in stead of all To him I doe and will commend your Ladiship for euery good blessing by Prayer And in Him I rest and acknowledge my selfe your Ladiships much bounden friend WILLIAM HOLBROOKE TO THE RELIGIOVS GENTLEVVOMAN Mris THOMASIN OVVEFIELD All happinesse in this life and that which is to come be multiplied GOod Mris Owefield Considering your case to be the same with the Lady Bennets aforesaid both in respect of your losse in Mr Randall who was as to her so to you a faithfull Counseller every way as you haue often confessed and also in respect of your loue to him both in life sicknes death and since onely the odds is on your side in that you haue not onely in your owne particular susteyned a losse but your Family also by the death of that worthy servant of God who oft instructed them in the way of the Lord considering I say your case to be like vnto the foresaid Ladies in the foresaid respects I haue made bolde as a testimony of my thankefulnes for your loue divers times shewed vnto me to Dedicate this Worke also to you that your losse may in some sort be supplyed by seeing and hearing him speaking to and counselling you in Print whom you so reioyced to see and heare speake when he was living by word of mouth I make no question of your acceptance of what was his as this was both penned and Preached by him as here it commeth to your View My desire shall be to God for you to blesse this and all the labours of his which you haue inioyed any way to the furthering edifying and confirming of you and yours vnmoueably in your present faith which God grant for his Christs sake in whom I am And rest your much bounden Friend WILLIAM HOLBROOKE THE NECESSITIE OF RIGHTEOVSNES MATHEVV 5.20 For I say vnto you Except your righteousnesse exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharises you shall not enter into the Kingdome of Heaven AS soone as our SAVIOVR had wonne certaine Disciples and followers to himselfe some by his Word and expresse commandement as Peter Andrew Iames and Iohn whom he called from their Nettes to follow him that he might make them fishers of men as it is in the fourth Chapter of this Gospell verse 22. and some by his Doctrine teaching in their Synagogues and Preaching the Gospell of the Kingdome verse 23. and other some by his Miracles healing the Lunaticke curing the Palsie dispossessing the Devils and helping every sicknesse and every disease among the people as it is vers 24. so that there followed him great multitudes out of Galilee and Decapolis and Ierusalem and Iudea and from beyond Iordan as it is in the 25. verse of that Chapter As soone I say as he had so done he went vp into a Mountaine and his Disciples thither resorting to him he opened his mouth and made a Sermon to them as it is in the beginning of this Chapter In which his Sermon having first proposed vnto them whole troupes and multitudes of blessings and withall shewed them how to attaine thereunto he giues them certaine necessary instructions for their vocation and that especially they should be carefull in doing good workes that whereas they were the Salt of the earth they must not be vnsavoury but by their good example season the hearts of the people and whereas they were the light of the world they should so shine before men that they seeing their good workes might glorifie their Father which is in heaven as it is vers 16. And because the Law and the Prophets of God are the onely rule of good workes therefore vers 17. hee puts them in mind of them both shewing that he is not come to destroy them but to fulfill them and therefore howsoever he preaches faith and the free remission of sins and the glad tydings of the Gospell yet he is so farre from abrogating the Law from disanulling good workes that contrariwise the chiefe end of his comming was to establish good workes and to fulfill the Law For as a Painter that hath first cast