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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10319	Labour forbidden, and commanded A sermon preached at St. Pauls Church, September 28. 1634. By Edvvard Rainbovve, fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge.	Rainbowe, Edward, 1608-1684.	1635 (1635)	STC 20603; ESTC S115541	25,768	48

livery of other mens leisures Let this shirking generation be cast out as Christ would have the Divels by Prayer and Fasting Devotion and Hunger their most feared enemies and when they want their penny-worths of newes let their very apparell pay for their Ordinary Let the very Constables and Marshals of the City be the undertakers to draine and scoure this fenny and viciously over-growne this untill'd unfruitfull ground O let not those gardens of our selves be over-growne with the weeds of sloth let not customary sluggishnesse make us unweeldy for any thing but gossipings and to be the tradition of tales and reports let not us bee that unfallowed ground where the Divell may sowe his tares or standing pools which ever end in stinch and corruption but let us gird up our loynes and though it be the last howre of the day yet adventure into the field and labour But yet not too fast nor too eagerly for this falls into as dangerous an extremity on the other side and when you have digg'd as deepe as you can and follow'd the game as farre as t is possible you prove but th'unprofible servants of your unlimited desires and all for which you tugge thus diligently shall perish Fore-see your heaps of silver sunke to the center from whence it came your houses bury'd in the ruins of your Cellars your wardrobes intomb'd in the bellies of contemptible Moths your pamper'd carkasses baits for the wormes then say here 's meat that perisheth All those things that swell thine heart and hoist thy mind above the memory of mortality which barricado'd with barres of Iron snatch'd with the servile lives of others defended with thine owne for which the furrowes of the Sea were smooth'd with blood the walls of Cities shaken the leagues of affinity friendship and blood have beene so often broken are now no longer thine they were but lent or if they were thine owne they 're perishing Goe now vaine man and spread thy Factors through all Languages fetch both the Indies to thy capacious Cellars make all the Kings of the Nations thy debtors pile up thine house with obligatory parchment umbra's and fancies empty shadowes of wealth and substance farme out th' usurious time sanguivolentae indies duplicentur centesimae and let each day redouble thine hundreds blesse thy speculations with the volumes of thy riches and survay the Maps of thy purchas'd Territories Pride thy selfe at the sight of thy great Babilons which thou hast built for thine honour and now when thou commest to eat the fruit of thy labours to use that felicity which all this while thou hast but serv'd know and consider that it and thou thy selfe shalt perish O then let us turne the eyes of our appetites and the limbs of our labour after that meat which indure's to Everlasting Life that Manna that came downe from heaven and carries man up thither that Angels food which luxury ne're look'd at bread made and composed of th' immortall seed of the Word Lord give us evermore this bread Let the froward appetites of worldlings thirst after their broken Cisterns leave those that never felt the sweets of Canaan to breath after Aegypts Onions and Leekes letearthly pottage be those Esau's birth-right surfet poore prodigals with your Swinish huskes Lord give us evermore this bread Turne O the stormes of our earthly tuggings into a calme bee still O you waves of over-flowing desires Say unto God Thou art my Rocke my heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed there Fly away O thou Sea of pleasure and be thou driven backe thou swelling Jordan of pride Skip away ye mountaines of Ambition like Rams and ye little hils of Riches like Lambs Tremble O earth of care at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the God of Iacob Let the Spirit and the Bride say Come and let him that heareth say Come and let him that is athirst say Come and whosoever will let him take of this water of life freely And come O Son of man and with that meat make men the Sonnes of God O blessed Father scale to us the love of thy Sonne which is our life and sanctifie that living meat O holy Spirit Now to that Sonne of man that gives and God the Father that seales and God the Holy Ghost that sanctifies to the unspeakable glory of Everlasting Life Ascribed be all praise dominion life and glory In secula seculerum Amen FINIS

in their owne unalterable Kallenders nor is it mans power to make the soules feasts moveable to be serving ourselves when we should be serving of God is to turne day into night to make the armour of God a worke of darknesse The Sunne and Starres the worlds great Clocks and and witnesses of time have taught our Dials to measure out God's by inches and mans by ells hee that would pilfer from that is too ingratefull to live a spanne of life Shall we doubt to give him his fulnesse of time who hath both invested us with time and made us capable of Eternity When hee 's lessoning our soules shall we be crambing our bodies or rather leave the best Junkets of the body to gaine one morsell for the soule Whilst that is feeding on the bread of Life Labour not for the meat that perisheth And this is both the Specification of the Object Perishing Meat and the reason inforcing this negative precept why we must not labour for it because it perisheth But before we enter into this were it no tworth the labor to enquire why our meat should be called Perishing Certainly as it is mans meat his food and sustenance 't is that commune vinculum which knits and marries the soule to the body shall it be then the cause of their divorce When man perisheth surfetting indeed may be a cause but meat seemes to be a Catholique Antidote against all malignant poysons and enemies of natures continuance Is it not Meat which armes our perishing flesh against the powers of death and dispatches new supplies to nature when the former spirits beginne to faile Does not the tender suckling seeme apprehensive of this truth which knowes the dugge that feeds it before the mother that brought it forth Being cannot continue without sustenance and shall the Author of our continuance be likewise the cause of our perishing Shall that which inlarges the epitomy of infancy and sets it forth into those early editions of growth and stature that which spins the thread of life to such a length be likewise the knife to cut it off If honey be meat dip but the tip of Ionathans rod and besides the continuance of life it may adde a victorious courage to his limbs Drinke taken but from the brooke in the way may make the languishing soule lift up his head Even poyson having taken acquaintance with the pallat of Mithridate as meat could now sooner nourish than destroy The flying spirits with the tast of meat recoyle to their tabernacle and famisht bodies even dropping into their earthly principles receive this doome from food Returne ye sonnes of Adam then how can meat be perishing To make meat perishing were to metamorphise bread into stones fishes into Scorpious honey into gall even food into poyson how then can meat be perishing Are not two Sparrowes sold for a farthing and shall we buy our owne destruction and set a price on those petulant creatures that come within us to undoe us Arise Peter kill and eat were the words of the vision but if this were true these words might well have follow'd such creatures as will rise in thy stomacke kill and devoure thy selfe 'T is true indeed our fathers eat Mannah in the wildernesse and are dead and perisht but was the Mannah the cause of their perishing And have wee not read how David when he was an hungred went in and eat the Shew-bread and regaind more vigour and was further from perishing by the eating of it Man lives not by bread alone saith our Saviour whence we may gather that bread is a partiall cause of his life shall we then thinke that little leaven unleavens mans whole lumpe that those treacherous graines prove Amalekites and Iebusites thornes in our eyes and prickes in our sides or seed us into putrifaction How then must we doe to joyne this epithite of perishing with meat Neverthelesse if we attend the doubt will not be very intricate why our Saviour should make use both of the metaphor of meat and the specification perishing the former both befitting the present occasion meat being that which they now sought for likewise most able to beare the whole latitude of the signification for all outward necessities and for the latter although as 't is food it cannot be said to be causally perishing yet in regard of its substance it is both perishing in it selfe and likewise by accident proves as commonly the cause of mans perishing as of his sustenance Ever since the eating of that forbidden fruit a curse having cloven to our meats and as Gods grace makes them nourishable so that primitive malediction makes them perishable as they proved sowre grapes to our first parents so they have continued to set our teeth on edge and sinne necessarily accompanying their enjoyment corruption and death the sting of sinne must needs ensue and therefore we may well prosecute the specification as a reason to flye the object and so to inforce the negative Precept Labour not for the meat which perisheth or as now I am to handle it in genere causae because it perisheth For why should wee struggle and strive to attaine that which being attain'd will not abide the use So childishly to spend our breath for bubbles and hunger for meat which cannot stay to satisfie Shall we like foolish Merchants compasse sea and land for a purchase which will not last the bringing home Shall our paines reape the soonest decaying fruit or shall our desires long for that which is shortest of continuance Doe we not desire to invest our bodies with rayment of the longest weare and marke the highest prized stustes with such lying names as may boast of their durable continuance Is it not a perpetuity which Nature aymes at and has she not cloth'd the weeds and mildest of her creatures with most perishing garments The vanishing smoake and vapours the languishing clouds which roule themselves into their owne hasty consumptions the short-lived meteors and all the children of the melting ayre fill the same day in their Kalender with their birth and death whereas the purer heavens involve themselves in their endlesse orbs the lively Sunne and Stars those Iewels of Natures garment shine in an everlasting constancy of glory nor can all the Arithmeticke of time subtract from their native vigour but each new day sends them forth as Gyants ready to runne their course Why then is it the more perishing part of nature which wee ayme at and build our senses on the slippery sands when there are rockes so neare Amidst an whole Paradise of fruit onely the tree of Life is never tasted Wee sowe within our selves the seed of our owne corruption and choose such meats for the belly as will make God destroy both it and them our meat is receiv'd into us as fiery hulks into a Navy which ruine themselves and those that admit them Accepimus peritura perituri mortals feed on mortals nor can Natures salt turne season into Eternity preserve