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A00405	Sathans sowing season. By William Est minister and preacher of Gods word in Bydeford.	Est, William, 1546 or 7-1625.; Est, William, 1546 or 7-1625. Mirrour of mercy.	1611 (1611)	STC 10536.5; ESTC S118580	32,844	100

Letchery he hath appropriated to none but prostituted her vnto all that so she might draw the the more vnto hell with her For the rooting vp of this hurtfull tare it shall greatly profit if among many other places of holy Scripture which shew Gods hatred of this sin we would diligently ponder in our mindes the Apostles most patheticall reasons 1. Cor. 6. The summe whereof is By whooredome great iniury is done to Christ our head to whom our bodies are sanctified great reproach to God who shall raise vs vp to glory as hee hath done the body of Christ Great indignity done to the holy Ghost whose temple we are and which dwelleth in vs. Our bodies themselues are hereby dishonoured damnified which are by whoredome pulled from Christ our head ioined to an harlot and made one body with her To conclude thereby wee are made sacrilegious theeues in defiling giuing of that vnto another which is not in our power This is the summe of the Apostles reasons which shewe the horriblensse of this sinne and the incomparable losse that cometh to the whoore monger thereby and should be sufficient to win the most refractary minde if there be left in it one spark of the feare God Hauing in some sort delineated the malice and industry of Sathan the enemy of mankinde in corrupting the good seed with the tares of vices and the oportunity hee watcheth for the same Now the order of prosecution requireth that I should set downe also the weapons and armour which euery good Christian should haue in readines to resist the fury of this enemy and withstand his assaults which the blessed Apostle and expert Champion of Iesus Christ out of Gods armory most excellently prescribeth Ephes 6. verse 14. vnto verse 19. Stand therefore saith he with your loynes girt about you with verity c The Apostle said before Take vnto you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the whole armour of God Now particularly hee expresseth the parts of this armour He setteth downe two kindes of armory necessary to euery Souldier against his enemy Some which are needfull for the defence of our selues and other to strike and repell the enemy Of the first kinde he speaketh verse 14. 15. 16. and part of the 17. Of the other verse 17. and 18. Hee armeth the whole man from the head to the feete that hee might in no part bee hurt of his enemy and of this kinde of armour hee nameth fiue The Girdle the Breast-plate the Shooes the Shield and the Helmet Hee beginneth with the loynes which must bee strengthened with the girdle and the breast as the principall parts in which the life and strength consisteth and which the enemy chiefly assaulteth and therefore the souldier is wont especially to arme those parts in which the strength and life abideth He saith therefore Stand he requiquireth here three things First that euery one should keepe himselfe in his station or calling that hee yeeld not nor turne his backe to the enemy And this calling is two-fold the one generall whereby we are all called into the Church militant that is to the army of Christian Soldiars vnder the conduct ensignes of Iesus Christ The other is a speciall calling whereby a certaine station and office is assigned to euery man in the Church as it is in a military army Euery one ought especially to keepe himselfe in the army of the Church and next in his priuate station First therefore he requireth that euery one abide in the Church and that hee depart not from the army for if hee depart actum est farewell to him as to him that going from the army is either slaine of the enemy or of his owne company by the command of his Prince Secondly hee requireth that euery man should conteine himselfe within the limits of his owne station or calling for in an army nothing is more pernicious then ataxia and confusion First therefore euery man must constantly remaine within the limits and bounds of the Church and next in his owne proper condition to which he is peculiarly called and not to giue place to the Diuel which diligently laboureth to draw him from both Thirdly vigilancy and watching is signified by this word stand This is necessary also and opposed to security For while men slept this enemy came and sowed tares Bee sober and watch for your aduersary the Diuell as a roaring Lyon goeth about seeking whom hee may deuoure Therefore wee must watch euery one in his seuerall station lest Sathan oppresse vs at vnawares But that we may stand in the battell and ouercome these things are required First Constancy in doctrine or in the truth this is the baltheus or girdle wherewith the Apostle would haue our loynes girded The loynes are as the foundation whereon the inferiour and superiour parts of the body doe rest and leane For against the Diuell this first is necessary that we stand fast in the truth of religion grounded vpon the word of God for this is the first thing which Sathan seeketh to shake and take from vs namely the truth of doctrine and obtrudeth vnto vs lyes and false doctrine This then is the first part of the armour of God the Girdle of truth vpon which the Church is founded to which pertaineth this of the Apostle 1. Tim. 1. 19. Hauing faith that is the truth of doctrine vpon which faith resteth and a good conscience which is the second part of this armour The second part he calleth the Brest-plate of righteousnesse for after that the minde is fortified with the verity of doctrine there must follow the Breast-plat of righteousnesse and of a good conscience that is of a holy life For euen as the breast-plate defendeth the breast of the Souldier so the care of righteousnes holines fortifieth the minde of a Christian man and conserueth his heart against the assaults of the Diuell that hee bee not wounded with his darts The Saints of God do slide and sinne they receiue wounds but not to the heart they sinne but not from the heart according to this of Saint Iohn VVhoso is borne of God sinneth not and why so because his heart is armed with the loue of righteousnesse holinesse and of a good conscience Dauid which at first had his heart fensed with the knowledge of the truth and did set his loue vpon righteousnesse yet hee fell and that shamefully and was wounded with the weapons of the diuell but these weapons did not pierce so farre as his heart they remained but in his flesh and why because his heart was fortified with this Breast-plate of righteousnesse This place of the Apostle agreeth with that of Christ Luke chap. 12. Let your loynes bee girded about and your lights burning These lightes are the holinesse of life and the workes of righteousnesse and a good conscience And this is the brest-plate of righteousnesse The third part of this Christian panoplie is

the sword for the taking away of euill doers Exod. 21. Leuit. 24 Deut. 12. 19. 21. Rom. 13. 4. Otherwise wicked men are to be tollerated with lenity in the congregation of the godly and not by and by without discretion to bee plucked vp as this Householder heere teacheth who forbade his seruants to pull vp the tares The same Apostle counselleth Timothie 2. Timothie 2. 24. 25. 26. and that to this end Prouing if at any time God will giue them repentance that they may knowe the truth and come out of the snares of the diuell For he that is wicked to day may perhaps to morrow bee conuerted And if wicked men bee not patiently suffered they will neuer come to a laudable change saith S. Augustine Itaque si euulsi fuerint simul etiam triticum eradicabitur quod futuri essent si eis parceretur If therefore they bee plucked vp the wheate together will be plucked with them which wheate the wicked also might be if they had bene spared There remaineth a last iudgement and eternall punishment for the reprobate when the tares shall bee bound together and cast into eternall fire that is Pares paribus sociare vt quos similis culpa coinquinat paretiam poena constringat To sociate like with their like that they that haue beene polluted with the same sinne may bee tormented with the same punishment saith Saint Gregory They shall bee cast into the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone for euer Apoc 21. Into eternall fire Matth. 25. VVhere they shall haue nor est day nor night Apocalips 14. They shall bee punished with euerlasting perdition from the presence of God and from the glory of his power They shall bee cast into vtter darknesse there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Mat. 22. They shall say vnto the Mountaines fall on vs and hide vs from the presence of him that sitteth vpon the throne and from the wrath of the Lambe Apoc. 6 There shall be fire inquenchable the worme immortall howling lamentable stinke intollerable aspect of diuels horrible the wrath of God implacable the malice of the tormentors insatiable desperation insuperable and death eternall O then beloued that this golden sentence were ingrauen in our hearts that it neuer might bee forgotten Momentaneum est quod hic delectat aternum quod illi● excruciat The thing which here delighteth vs is but momentanie short and fading but the punishment for these short pleasures of sinne in the life to come are eternall and neuer shall haue an end Lastly out of the thirtie and forty three verses the sweet and most comfortable promise of the ioyes in the life eternall is confirmed by our Sauiour vnto his faithfull and elect children They shall bee gathered as the good wheate into the barne of their heauenly Father and so shall they be euer with the Lord 1. Thessalonians 4. 17. Then shall they shine as the Sunne in the kingdome of their heauenly Father vers 43. as the brightnesse of the firmament Daniel 12. 3. O sweete consolation the godly then through the angust straites of this mortall life passe to the August and ample glory by death they are not so much consumed as consummated Death to them is to bee reputed not so much a graue as a gaine when death doth launce their hearts doe laugh a blessed and true life followeth such a death according to this of the Poet Frigida mors vitam mortem rapit altera vita Mors vanae vitae finis origo bonae Cold death takes life away True life yet death subdues Death ends this brittle life Whence happy life ensues Why then should not the godly most cheerefully and with a zealous heart cry out with a learned Father O mortem beatam quae vitam etsi adimit non tamen perimit adimit quidem sed ad tempus restituendam in tempore duraturam sine tempore O blessed death which though it taketh away our life yet it doth not destroy it it taketh it away for a time to be restored in time to indure without time It is sowen heere in corruption but it shall rise againe in incorruption They that sow heere in teares shall reape there in ioy There shall bee eternall health and healthfull eternitie secure tranquilitie and ioyfull securitie happy eternity and eternall felicity The ioy of that life shall neuer decrease nor the loue euer waxe cold such a blessednesse as the eye hath not seene the eare hath not heard neither hath entred into the heart of man It surmounteth all speech exceedeth humane sence and goeth beyond all our desires Let vs striue therefore good brethren to bee the good wheate in this life that in the life to come we may bee gathered into to the Lords Barne of euerlasting blessednesse which God grant for the merits of his Sonne Iesus Christ to whom with the holy Ghost be all honour and glory both now and for euer Amen FINIS The generall diuision The particular diuision The first part Tit. 2. 14. Ioh. 15. 8. The kingdome of heauen what Luk. 17. 12. Rom. 14. 17 Psal 8. 4. Dan. 7. 13. 1. Pet. 1. 23 Ioh 1. 12. Obser and doctrines Gen. 8. 21. Luke 3 8 1 Cor. 3. 9. 2 Tim. 4. 2 Phil. 2. 13. Ioh. 15. 16. Sene● Heb. 6. 7. Deut. 32. Amb super Luk. 3. Against ingratitude Esay 1. 1. 3 An example Simile Elianus 〈◊〉 hist lib. 5. Wis 16. 29. Seneca de benefic Eras apoph lib. ●… Euseb Chrys hom 1. act 1. Hier. in epist ad Neop 1. Cor. 2. 1. 3. Ber ser 16. in Cant. Psal 78. 2. The secōd part The tares what Obseru doctrine Chrysost in Mat. 1 Pet. 5. 8. Iob. 1. 6. Apoc. 12. 12. The Diuell three maner of wayes hindreth the fruit of the word The definition of sleepe Two things to be considered 2 Cor. 6. 1. Simile Hob. 12. 15 Verse 12. Eph. 4. 14. 1 Ioh. 2. 11. Eph. 5. 12. Luk. 12. 19. 1. Pet. 5. 8. Pro. 22. 13. Mar. 13. 37. Luk. 12. 39. 1 Thes 5. 5. 6. Luk. 12. 36 Luk. 12. 40. Eccles 22. Simile Apo. 16. 15. Matth. 25. Luk. 12. 37. Apoc 3. 3. Simile In how many respects this negligence is hurtfull Similiun congeries Luk. 14. 16 Old father Time hath haity locks before but not behind Cato Ioh. 9. 4 2 Cor. 6. 2 2 Thes 5. 6. The third obseruatiō Iamees 4. Ephes 6. Simile Obser 4. Augustine Greg. lib. 32 moral cap. Isidor lib. 3. de summo bano 1 Pet. 5 Ephes 6. Iames 4. Ser. 12 sup Psal 91. Simile Ibid. Ser. 11 Laert. lib. 1. Obseru 5. Two causes of all euill Lib 1 de summo bono cap. 2. Ioh. 8 Eze. 33. 11 God not the author of euill Obiect Exod. 4. 21 Exod. 11. 10 Answer Aug. con Faustum Obseru 6. Iefoelix lolium ●●…r steri●●●●minant●● au●●e Virg. Hos 5. 1. Prou. 29. Mab. 2. 9. 11 12. Eccles 10 14. 1. Pet. 5. 5. Iames 4. Matth. 11. Ioh. 19. 20 21. Augustinus super Ioau In Epist Phil. 2. 6. 7. 8. Augustiue In corpore Lentum protrahit heu moriens qua carperis hectice febrim Iob. 20. Reasons why wre should flye fornicatiō The horriblenesse of this sinne Ephes 6. 14 Casling two-fold 1. Pet. 5. 5. The first part of the armour 1 Tim. 1. The secōd part The Breast-plate of righteousnesse 1 Ioh. 3. 9. Luk. 12. 35. The third part our feet shod The fourth part of the armour 2 Sam. 11. 1 Pet. 5. 5. 1 Ioh. 5. 4. Question Answer The fifth ●rt 1. Thes 5. 8. Rom. 8. 24. Aug. super Psal 3. Greg. in mora The sixth part of this armour The word of God Mat. 4. 1. Pet. 5. Ephes 5. 5. 1 Cor 6 10 1. Ioh. 5. 19 1 Ioh. 1. 7. Ioh. 3. 16. Rom 3. 28 Math. 28. 6 The seuēth part of this armour Esay 29 Obseru 6. Aug. de bapt lib. 5. 1. Cor. 1. 5 c. Cyprian lib. 3. Epist 38. 2. Tim. 2. The third part Aug in quest super Mat. Prosopopoeia is a faining of a person to speake Obseru doctrine Esay 5. 4. Ier. 2. 21. Aug. in Rom. 7. Tit. 2. 14. Heb. 6. 6. Simile Obseru 2. Note the subtilty of Sathan Mat. 4. Mark 1. 12 Luk. 4. 8. Simile The Diuell contrary to Christ Obseru 3. The gate of iniquity Enuy a diuelish sin The bane of charity Augustine The corruption of health Obseru 4. Eccles 13. 1 Cor 5. Iurenal Sa. 2. Greg. Mor. lib. 1. Greg. Hom. 12. in Eze. Luke 9. 54 Rom. 10. 2 The exposition Obseru doctrines Hiero● Ezech. 33. Chrysost super Mat Lactantius Valer lib. 1 cap. 2. Psal 7. 12 Greg. M●r. 19. cap. 21. Rom. 2. Vers 29. 30 A question Answer Rom. 13. 4 2 Tim. 4. 2. 1 Cor. 5. 5. 1 Tim. 1. 20 Exod. 21. Leuit. 24. Deut. 12. 19. 21. 2 Tim. 2. 24. 25. 26. Nisi patienter cum mali sunt tolerentur ad laudabilem mutationem non perueniunt c. Aug. quest in Matth. Ex vers 30. 41. 42. Obseru 5. Gregorius Apoc 21. Matth. 25. 2. Thes 1. Math. 22. Apoc. 6. Aug. Ser 26. ad frat in Erem 1 Thes 4. 17. Dan. 12. 3. 1 Cor. 15. Psal 126. 1 Cor. 2. 9.