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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53078	The divine goodness a pattern to all A sermon preached at the assizes held at Chester. Sept. 16. 1689. By Henry Newcome, M.A. Rector of Tatten-hall, in the County Palatine of Chester. Imprimatur, Octob. 22. 1689. Z. Isham. R. P. D. Henrico Episc. Lond. à sacris.	Newcome, Henry, 1627-1695.	1689 (1689)	Wing N895; ESTC R224190	13,272	33

he hath advanced above the rest of his visible Creatures as in the dignity of his Nature so also in the multitude of his Favours For doth not Time continually travel in the production of new Blessings on us every Season entertaining us with its peculiar Conveniences Is not every Creature given us to serve our Necessities for Food and Raiment nay and to minister to our moderate and sober Pleasures too But not to stay on smaller Largesses hath not the same Bounty given us his eternal Son to be born to obey to suffer and to die in purchasing Heaven for us Hath he not sent his holy Spirit to assist us and given us his holy Gospel and by a late Miracle of Mercy to this Nation confirmed us in the possession of it to direct us in the way thither Is he not ready to give us all things we need all things that are fit for us and that for asking Yea and doth he not frequently by his Bounty preventour Petitions as well as exceed our deservings God's Bounty is a Fountain always running over and yet never exhausted And need I now to say Who is a follower of this Goodness Not sure the Envious Man who is so far from giving to others that he grudges them the Gifts of Heaven Not the Covetous Man who is so far from being bountious to others that he is not so to himself but for fear of dying a Beggar lives like one Not those selfish narrow Souls that can influence no wider than the Bodies they inform confining their Love and Care to their own Carcases and like the fat Monk who at the dissolution of the Abb●es had got a Pension for his own Life not at all concern'd for the Necessities of others so they can save their own Stakes But least of all those morose Malicious Men who love Mischief delight in harrasing and ruining their Neighbours and like the Hedg-hog as one compares him wrapping themselves in their own soft Down turn their sharp Prickles to all the World besides No he only transcribes the Divine Bounty who is ready to distribute 1 Tim. 6.18 willing to communicate Who like the Sun liberally scatters about him that Light wherewith he abounds and with-holds his warm Influences from none of his Inferiors that wants them Who as * Epist ad Diog● Edit 1593. p. 387. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Justin Martyr pursues the Character takes part of his Neighbours Burden gladly communicates to them any good thing wherein they are deficient and by bestowing on them that want the abundance God hath given him becomes a God to them that receive it He as † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Antonius in Jul. Caesar's answers Silenus who needs the least himself and gives the most to others best resembles the Infinite Good who needs nothing and gives all things Let this then be considered by you whom God hath enriched with plentiful Estates and so qualified that you may be great Blessings to your Country and to your Inferiours Look up to Heaven and remember that you are not Great as God is unless you be Good too unless you lay out your selves in Works of Beneficence for the Service of the Public and the relief of the distressed unless as you have more than others ye do more Good with it nay unless ye can not only give to them that need your Bounty but forgive them also that need your Mercy Which leads us to the next branch of the Divine Goodness which we are to imitate 3. His long-suffering and Mercy toward them that provoke him That God is patient and merciful not easily provoked nor inexorable when he is provoked is as evident as that we survive the Sins we have committed and live still in hopes of pardon after all our Provocations Our own Experience assures us that he is not wont to send down Fire from Heaven upon the kindling of every Lust below That he doth not command the Earth to swallow up every bold Offender as soon as he hath made himself unworthy to tread on it That he is not always moved at the first Affront but is still as slow to Wrath as we are forward to provoke and no less backward to punish than we are to reform For do not all of us breath by the benefit of his Forbearance Had not the very best of us been dead in the Grave in Hell long since had not he made known his Power Rom. 9.22 by enduring with much long-suffering us Vessels of Wrath so fitted for Destruction But to forbear with Sinners is not all the Goodness that God shews towards them for he is always ready to forgive them and his Mercy is no less conspicuous than his Patience How importunately doth he invite all Prodigals to return and how ready is he to entertain and embrace them when they do How loth is he that any of us should die in our Sins and how forward to give us Life if we forsake them And in the mean time even whilst we persist in our Rebellion how constant is he in his Care of us and Bounty to us And need I now to say who are the followers of this Goodness Not sure the froward and passionate the cruel and revengeful Man who never forbears with any that provoke him longer than till he have an opportunity of Revenge and is never at rest till that be found out Not those tumultuous Spirits that never can be quiet till they have signalized their Resentments by the ruin of their Adversaries and through the unruliness of their Passions are miserable themselves till they have made their Enemies so No such impetuous Souls derive their Heat from Hell not from the calm Influences of Heaven Rev. 12.12 and imitate the great Wrath of that wicked one whose Malice designs the destruction of Mankind not the Goodness of God Isa 30.18 who always waits to be gracious even toward the most provoking Offenders If you will transcribe this Copy you must be slow to Wrath Jam. 1.11 and merciful as your Heavenly Father is and that is not only to the good but also to the unthankful and evil Luk. 6.36 You must be so just toward others as not to need Pardon from them and so merciful as never to deny Pardon to any that need it from you You must resolve to practise no other sort of Revenge on your Enemies than by your kindness to heap Coals of Fire on their Heads Rom. 12.20 21. and according to the method of Divine Goodness in leading Sinners to Repentance Rom. 2.4 take this only course to make them repent the Injuries they have done you by overcoming Evil with Good. And now you have a fair opportunity to shew this Christian this Divine Temper Whatever Injuries may have formerly been done to any of you now that you have it in your Power to be revenged let the World see you have forgiven them That the Christian hath so much the