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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09675	A sermon, vpon the wordes of Paul the Apostle vnto Timothie, Epist. 1. Chap. 4. vers. 8 Preached at Litlecot, in the Chappel of the right honourable, Sir John Pompham, knight, lord chiefe justice, of England, before his honourable Lordeshippe, and to the assemblie there, the 17. of Iulie, 1597. By Charles Pinner, minister of the Church of Wotton Basset, in North-Wiltshire.	Pinner, Charles.	1597 (1597)	STC 19945; ESTC S114276	13,808	48

SERMON VPON the wordes of Paul the Apostle vnto Timothie Epist 1. Chap. 4. vers 8. PREACHED AT LITLEcot in the Chappel of the Right Honourable SIR IOHN POMPHAM Knight Lord chiefe Iustice of England before his honourable Lordeshippe and to the assemblie there the 17. of Iulie 1597. By CHARLES PINNER Minister of the Church of Wotton Basset in North-Wiltshire 1. Tim. 6. verse 6. But godlinesse is greate gaine with sufficiencie Printed at Oxford by Ioseph Barnes and are to bee solde in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Bible 1597. TO THE WORSHIPFVL Master IOHN SIMS of Charde in the Countie of Somerset grace and peace from God in Iesus Christ SIr it may be marveiled of some if not of your selfe that I should bee thus familiar as you see cannot but be seene of many Whom I pray to take this for my excuse which vnfainedly I speake and from my very hart That a desire conceiued now a good while since engendered by a report of your godly friendes mine is now come vnto the birth by speech with your selfe and this it was that I wished once to know you as novve in part I do and shal I trust more fully in time to come For why should you depriue mee of the farther fruite of that and call it I must your godlinesse by the very name which so tasted in part already I could not but forth with tel and testifie vnto others also that so great zeale of true Religion hath seldome bin planted in so tender yeares and I looke to the time of the first report For the watering and groweth whereof as much as my poore penne pensil can performe herein behold againe the gaine of godlines presented to your eie and yet vnpresented for what pen or pensill can deliuer her as shee is whom as Cicero saith of vertue their vertue a weake shadow therof if with the eies of our body wee might beholde it woulde make vs to loue her not without wonder But we must tarry the time till we see her and him togither of whom S. Iohn saith Dearely beloued now are we the sonnes of God Ioh. 1.3 but yet it appeareth not what we shall be howbeit we know that when he shall appeare we shall bee like him for we shall see him as he is And then and there also shall we see this godlinesse which wee desire which till that appearing and now in this age of so great vngodlines whose spreade hath overshadowed so much of this land so little appeareth that shee dareth not almost be known by this her name of godlines for fear of the flouts which without fear do flow so fast from the vngodly of which this is not the least when they say to anie person whom they most despise O you are very godly Whose mouthes must be stopped which speake prowde thinges as Iude saith hauing mens persons in admiration Iude. 16. because of aduantage And to stoppe their mouthes or if not that to open the mouth of godlines to speak for her selfe I say not how praise-worthy she is vnto whom al praise is due but how profitable vnto vs I then preached now haue published this litle Sermon Accept it as you finde it and my selfe by it The Lord Iesus preserue you encrease in you the graces of his holy spirite Amen From Wotton Basset the 23. of Iulie 1597. Yours in Christ CHARLES PINNER 1. Tim. Chap. 4. vers 8. For bodilie exercise profiteth litle but Godlinesse is profitable vnto all thinges as having the promise of the life present and of that that is to come OF the wound cure of sinne or rather of the death of sinne in the soale the life of righteousnesse by Iesus Christ His Lordships Chaplaine that day preached of such matter Iohn 5.15 we haue heard alreadie Of the which our Sauiour saith in the 5. of Iohn Verilie verilie I say vnto you the houre shall come and now is when the dead shal heare the voice of the son of God and they that heare it shall liue And wee haue heard and beleeued and liue in God Of the course of which life in godlinesse and the blessed benefite of the same wee haue nowe to heare farther out of this sentence of the Apostle which depending on the former as a reason of his exhortation there vnto Godlinesse containeth doctrine admonition Doctrine for the whole Church as admonition likewise for the same but properlie for Timothie a man and a minister young in yeares but graue and austere in manners verie much if not too much hauing alwaies before his eies that dutie which this our Apostle himselfe otherwise embraced 1. Cor. 9.27 where hee saith I beate downe my body and bring into subiection least by anye meanes vvhen I haue preached vnto others I my selfe should bee reiected Yet missing the rule of too much superstitiō or too little descretion in going too far as Nimium and Parum Too much too litle are still in our way for every godly duty the Apostle calleth him back as els where by special admonishment to look vnto his stomacke so here by these generall wordes Bodily exercise profiteth litle and lesse in deede he meaneth then Timothy took it Wherein to bleare his eies a litle who stared to much on it he setteth before him another obiect so much more greate excellent that because it swalloweth vp the first wee also will stay our selues in the cōsideratiō of this in these words but godlinesse is profitable vnto all thinges as having the promise of the life present and of that that is to come Wherein wee haue two pointes a doctrine and the same assured by a reason to vs the doctrine in these wordes Godlinesse is profitable vnto all thinges the Reason in these as having the promise of the life present and of that that is to come Of the which wee may note first how the Apostle speaketh which is abstractive as they say in the Abstract and not in the concrets schoole-rearmes but of easie vnderstanding the one noting the qualitie alone and by it selfe considered the other the subiect or person with the qualitie or in whome is that qualitie And this no doubt also but the Apostle meaneth namelie that the godlie person hath the promise and yet hee both not so speake but saith that Godlines hath the promise and why because the godlie person for his godlinesse and not else but godlinesse for it selfe it being such a thing and so like vnto God himselfe that hee cannot but blesse it euen now in this life present especiallie in that that is to come and thereof hath made and given his promise to vs that wee not onely shoulde haue it and take it when it commeth but also shoulde hope and waite for it even when we haue it not From whence ariseth the truth of this sentence or proposition that Godlinesse is profitable vnto all thinges as that which giveth vs al thinges either