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A05341	A sermon preached aboard of the Globe the 18. of May, anno 1617 At an anchor by the Cape of Good Hope, in the Bay of Souldania, 34. degrees to the southward of the æquinoctiall line. By William Lesk, minister of Gods Word. Entertained by the Honourable Companie of Marchants trading into East India, for the instruction and comfort of the fleet, by them sent forth for those easterne parts anno, 1614.	[Lesk, William].	1617 (1617)	STC 15493; ESTC S108492	35,356	52

comfort wherewith wee our selues are comforted of God for as the sufferings of Christ abounde in vs so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. The words diuide themselues into two seuerall branches in the first whereof Christ graciously inuites all such as labour and are heauie laden vnder the burthen of their sinnes to come vnto him as the only Physicion and comforter of perplexed spirits come vnto me all ye that labour and are heauy laden and I will giue you rest The second containes a maine condition with all care and diligence sincerely to be performed by such as accept and embrace this comfortable offer take vpon you my yoke and learne of me for I am meeke and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest vnto your soules for my yoke is easie and my burthen light the inuitation affords these particulars to our consideration first the exhortation it selfe Come vnto mee all yee that labour and are heauie laden secondly a large and ample promise annexed thereunto and I will giue you rest or as it is in the next Verse and you shall finde rest vnto your soules In the inuitation we are first to consider the particle or word of exhorting Come Secondly the quality and condition of the ghuests inuited yee that labour and are heauy laden Thirdly the number of them all and Fourthly the feast-maker or he by whom these ghuests are inuited Me come vnto me all ye that labour and are heauy laden the promise after the same manner resolues it selfe into these particulars first the thing promised rest secondly the qualitie of it it is a gift and thirdly the guide from whom the same is to be expected I come vnto me and I will giue you rest In the second part of the Text the condition to be performed by such as accept Christs offer is first generally propounded take vpon you my yoke secondly the same is by two seuerall arguments particularly enforced whereof the first set downe in the end of the 29. Verse is taken from Christs owne example Learne of mee for I am meeke and lowly in minde the second from the facilitie and ease of this taske in that which followeth for my yoke is easie and my burthen light of these then in order and first of the first Come this word is diuersly taken in text of holy Scripture somtimes it is a word of exhortation which looking backe vpon something to bee forsaken implies a secret reason why departure is to bee made from the same in which sence it is then cōmonly vsed when as one stepping out from the rest exhorts intreats others to enterprise or vndertake this or that thus Iacobs sons vpon the approach of their brother Ioseph encourage one another for effecting and bringing to passe their vnlawfull ends Gen. 37.20 Come now therefore and let vs slay him and cast him into some pit and wee shall say Some euil beast hath deuoured him and we shall see what shall become of his dreames and Balack in his speech vnto Balaam Come I pray thee Numb 23.27 and I will bring thee vnto another place peraduenture it wil please God that thou maist curse me thē from thence and in the Parable of the Householder who going into a farre Countrey let out his Vine-yard vnto tenants the husbandmen vpon the comming of the Heire are brought in after this manner speaking one to another This is the Heire come let vs kil him Matth. 21 38. and let vs seaze on his inheritance Come saith the Prophet Dauid and heare Ps 66.16 24.11 all yee that feare God and I will declare what the Lord hath done for my soule And againe Come ye children hearken vnto me I will teach you the feare of the Lord. Sometimes againe it is a word of command and charge as appeareth by the messages of the two Captaines whom Ahaziah sent for Eliah the Prophet Thou man of God the king hath said Come downe 2. Kings 1.9 11. O man of God thus hath the King sayd Come downe quickly Both which significations of this first word applied vnto the present occasion afford streames of great comfort and consolation vnto perplexed spirits that the Sonne of God Iesus Christ stepping as it were out from amongst his brethren should friendly exhort beseech and intreat that forsaking their wretched and miserable estate the momentarie pleasures of sinne the bondage of Sathan and allurements of this wicked world now at length they would be content to shelter safegard themselues vnder the couert and shade of his protection or otherwise for expressing of his further care and more earnest desire of the saluation of our soules that knowing the naturall and imborne backwardnesse of the heart of man in embracing and intertaining motions making for the good and euerlasting happinesse of his soule he should as Lord and Master commaund and charge vs leauing our former wicked and euill courses to come vnto him the onely fountaine and wel-spring of true happinesse howsoeuer then the words thus expounded afford many singular and extraordinarie comforts vnto distressed and diseased soules yet if in this place we vnderstand come to bee the same that beleeue wee shall not come farre short of the true sense and meaning of the speaker as by collation and conference of other Scriptures of like nature euidently doth appeare Ye will not come vnto me that ye might haue life No man commeth vnto the Father Ioh. 5.40 14.8 6.44 but by mee No man can come vnto me except the Father which hath sent me draw him Faith then in the Mediator Iesus Christ is that wherby broken and contrite spirits labouring and heauy laden vnder the burthen of sinne finde rest vnto their soules not a bare knowledge of the History of holy Scripture for then the diuels might challenge interest in Christs death as well as others Iam 2.19 because Saint Iames witnesseth The diuels beleeue and tremble but besides this knowledge there must bee an assurance grounded vpon the authority of Gods word that for Christ his sake God is reconciled vnto vs according to that of the Apostle Being not weake in faith hee considered not his owne body now dead when hee was about an hundred yeere old Rom. 4.18 19 20 21. neither the deadnesse of Saras wombe hee staggered not at the promise of God through vnbeliefe but was strong in faith giuing glorie vnto God beeing fully perswaded that what he had promised he was able also to performe so that the saith whereby wee come vnto CHRIST hath his seate in both parts of the soule in the intellectiue or vnderstanding part a sure and certaine knowledge of the truth of those things which are to be beleeued for faith as the Apostle witnesseth is the substance of things hoped for Heb. 11.1 and the euidence of things not seene And againe therefore it is of faith that it might bee by grace to the end the promise might be sure to all

Iudgements against the children of disobedience thereby to testifie his great dislike of Iniquity The end of all flesh is come before me for the earth is filled with violence through them Gen. 6.13 behold I wil destroy them with the earth If thine heart turne away so that thou wilt not heare Deut. 30.17 18. but shalt be drawne away and worship other gods and serue them I denounce vnto you this day that yee shall surely perish and sometimes againe hee inflicts exemplary punishments vpon such as delight and take pleasure in the waies therof as the destruction of the primitiue world the ouerthrow of Sodome and reiection of the Iewish Nation sufficiently witnes Thirdly because then commonly men take most to heart offences committed and feare to belch out mischiefes wherein otherwise they could be content at randome greedily to wallow when as they vnderstand their courses to bee odious and displeasing vnto men of great power and might for heerein stands the difference betweene Princes and peasants that all feare to offend or giue distaste to the one whereas no man will restraine or curbe any of the mean●st of his desires for auoiding the offence of the other therefore it is requisite and necessary to the end that we may labour and be heauy laden vnder the burthen of our sinnes that we be not ignorant of the vnspeakeable power might and maiesty of Almighty God For this cause it was that at the giuing of the Lawe whereby we come vnto the knowledge of sinne Exod. 19.18 the Lord appeared after so fearefull and terrible a manner that all the people that were in the campe trembled for feare that thereby seeing the greatnesse of his power in whose sight sinne is lothsome and abhorred they might feare to commit iniquity and tremble at the remembrance of by gone transgressions yea commonly when as the Almighty publisheth and proclaimeth vnto the world his dislike and detestation of sinne there are still let fall some flashes and apparant significations of his might maiesty and power Thus sayth the Lord the Lord of Hosts Esay 1.24.20 the mightie One of Israel I will ease mee of mine aduersaries and auenge me of mine enemies If ye refuse and rebell ye shall bee deuoured by the sword for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Fourthly and lastly because the nature of man is euer to put from him the euil day blessing himselfe in his heart and saying I shall haue peace Deut. 29.19 though I walke in the imagination of my heart to adde drunkennesse to thirst therfore for attaining the effect aforesayd it is expedient that men thorowly bee perswade that the Lord hath appointed a day of recompence wherein euery man shall bee rewarded according to that which he hath done in the flesh Rom. 2.6 whether it bee good or bad Now these things thorowly learned 1. Cor. 5.5 2. Cor. 1.14 cannot but bring vs to a true sense and feeling of the heauy burthen and intolerable weight of sin and iniquitie and consequently to labour and be heauie laden vnder the burthen of our transgressions wherby we come to haue interest in this comfortable inuitation and are made capable of the large and ample promise annexed thereunto Come vnto mee all ye that labour and are heauy laden and I will giue you rest not immunity and freedome from the temptations of Sathan the troubles of the world and crosses incident vnto vs whilst wee liue heere vpon earth No no for through many tribulations we enter into the Kingdome of heauen if wee be without chastisements whereof all are partakers we are bastards and not the Sonnes of God for the Lord whom he loueth he chastiseth and he correcteth euery Sonne whom he receiueth but the words that I speake vnto you are spirit and truth in the world ye shall haue tribulation but in me peace be of good comfort I haue ouercome the world Ioh. 16.33 14.27 15.11 Peace I leaue with you my Peace I giue you not as the world giueth giue I vnto you these things haue I spoken vnto you that my ioy might remaine in you and that your ioy might be full For the rest which Christ here promiseth vnto such as come vnto him must of necessitie be of the same nature with his Kingdome because of temporall felicity he himselfe publikely professed that the Foxes had holes and the Fowles of the heauen had nests but the Sonne of man had not whereon to lay his head Come therefore vnto me all ye that labour and are heauy laden and you shall haue my ioy fulfilled in you howsoeuer as concerning the things of this life Ioh. 17.13 you must resolue to take vp my yoke and learne from the intertainment which I haue had in the world that the Father in this life will not haue his children free from temptation and trouble Verely verily I say vnto you Ioh. 15.16 the seruant is not greater then his Lord neither he that is sent greater then he that sent him if they haue called the Master of the house Beelzebub how much more shall they call them of his houshold if they haue persecuted me they will also persecute you take vp therefore my yoke and learne of me for I am meeke and lowly in heart Ier. 11.11 I was like a Lambe or an Oxe that is brought vnto the slaughter and being in the forme of God made my selfe of no reputation took vpon me the forme of a seruant and was found in fashion as a man humbling my selfe vnto the death euen the death of the Crosse Phil. 2 7 8. learne therfore of me for I am meek and lowly in heart but because I haue sayd these things vnto you sorrow hath filled your hearts neuerthelesse I tell you the truth Ioh. 16.6 7. it is expedient for you to stand in the waies and see and ask for the olde pathes and walke therein Ier. 6.16 and yee shall finde rest for your soules for though our outward man perish yet the inward man is renewed day by day whosoeuer then will come vnto me let him take vp his crosse and follow mee for my yoke is easie and my burthen light because God is faithfull who will not suffer you to be tempted aboue that you are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that ye may be able to beare it 1. Cor. 10.16 for the Almightie by the gracious influence of his holy Spirit comforts vpholds and strengthens his children in the time of trouble whereby that becomes easie and light vnto them which otherwise they could neuer possibly bee able to beare according to that of the Apostle Blessed be God 2. Cor. 1.1.3 4 5. euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort who comforteth vs in all our tribulation that we may be able to comfort them that are in any trouble by the