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A19091	A vvedding sermon preached at Bentley in Darby-shire vpon Michaelmasse day last past anno Domini. 1607. Wherein is set forth the bond and preseruation. ... By R. Abbot ...	Abbot, Robert, 1560-1618.	1608 (1608)	STC 55; ESTC S100549	22,610	74

now belonging to vs all who are of that one who either seuerally or ioyntly ought to make it our happines and blisse to enioy this gracious amity and friendship with God Which mind the Prophet teacheth vs to put on when hee so often saith q Psal 33 12. Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord and blessed are they whom he hath chosen to him to be his inheritance r Psa 144 15. Blessed are they who haue the Lord for their God ſ Psal 146. 5. Blessed is the man that hath the God of Iacob for his helpe and whose hope is in the Lord his God The reason whereof the Apostle teacheth vs when he saith t Ro. 8. 31. If God be with vs or on our side who can be against vs Be it that in wil and purpose they be against vs yet in act and deed they can effect nothing Which made the Prophet when he had but named u Esay 8. 8. 9. Immanuel God with vs to breake out into those words of defiance Girde your selues and ye shall be broken in peeces girde your selues and yee shall be broken in peeces take counsell together and it shall come to nought pronounce a decree and it shall not stand for God is with vs. Thus the people of God reioyce in the Psalme x Psal 46. 1 God is our hope and strength a very present helpe in trouble therefore will we not feare though the earth be moued and though the hils be caried into the midst of the sea though the waters thereof rage and swell and though the mountaines shake at the tempest of the same c. The Lord of hosts is with vs the God of Iacob is our refuge The Prophet Dauid is full of these meditations y Psa 27. 1. The Lord is my light and my saluation whom then shall I feare the Lord is the strength of my life of whom then shall I be afraid z Psa 62. 6. 7. God is my strength and my saluation he is my defence I shall not be remoued in God is my health and my glory the rocke of my might in God is my trust a Psal 73. 25. Whom haue I in heauen but thee and what do I desire vpon earth in comparison of thee my flesh and my heart faileth but God is the strength of my life and my portion for euer Herein standeth the ioy and contentment of the godly poore man that though he want the wealth and glory of the world yet he hath the grace of God he walketh with God and hath God to walke with him which though it cary no shew to the world yet he more esteemeth thereof then of all the wealth of the whole world And without this what is all the pompe and glory of the world though a man haue whatsoeuer the world can yeeld him yet what is it all without God The rich man in the Gospell reioyceth in the abundance of his goods he saith to his soule b Luk. 12. 19. Soule eate drinke take thy pleasure thou hast goods layd vp in store for many yeares But it was answered to him from aboue Thou foole this night shall they take away thy soule from thee and then whose shall those things be which thou doest possesse so is euerie man saith our Sauiour Christ that is rich in this world and is not rich in God He is a foole by the testimony of our Sauiour Christ who ioyeth to be rich in the goods of this world and neglecteth to be rich towards God rich in knowledge rich in faith rich in grace rich in good workes rich in all things whereby we should be fitted and prepared c Eph. 1. 18. to the rich and glorious inheritance of the saints of God In a word the life of the body is the soule and the life of the soule is God and as the body dieth in the departure of the soule so is the soule yea the whole man dead when he is left of God Without God what is all our life but a shadow which sheweth to be something and indeede is nothing what but a dreame which mocketh a man and maketh him beleeue that he is a king when he is but a peasant that he is rich and abounding in treasure when he is a very beggar d Esay 29. 8. that he is well refreshed at a goodly banquet when he is readie to die for hunger He saith afterwards Me thought it was thus and thus but he findeth it nothing so Euen so the glory of worldly state flattereth men and perswadeth them that they are the only fortunate and happy men when indeede being strangers to God and deuoide of his grace they are found in the end to be most wretched and vnhappie of all other e Psal 49. 14. Their beautie is consumed when they are caried from their houses to their graues death staineth the pride of all their glory and vpon the Beere it is written as to Baltasar vpon the wall f Dan. 5. 26. Mene God hath numbred thy kingdome and hath finished it thou hast henceforth no kingdome no glory nothing but confusion and shame but sorrow and paine because thou hast liued without God and art for euer dead to him 9 Now it enamoureth euery mans affection and mind to haue God to walke with him euery man will pretend a desire to haue it so and a hope that it is so But that wee may not deceiue our selues we are diligently to consider vpon what condition it is that God yeeldeth himselfe to walke with vs and to continue with vs when he hath begun This condition the Prophet telleth vs is agreement with God who will by no meanes condescend to walke with vs vnlesse we haue care to accord and agree with him And what is our agreement with God but our agreement with the word of God by which he is present amongsts vs and by the fame imparteth himselfe vnto vs. g A●gust d verb. dom ser 1. If thou sinne faith Saint Austin the word of God is thine aduersarie and how canst thou be sayd to agree with God when thou art at variance with Gods word As touching this point the Apostle Saint Iohn notably well instructeth vs h 1. Ioh. 1. 5. God is light and in him is no darknesse at all if we say that we haue fellowship with him and walke in darknesse we lie and the truth is not in vs but if we walke in the light as he is in the light which what is it else but to agree with him then we haue fellowship one with another he with vs and we with him and the bloud of Iesus Christ his sonne clenseth vs from all our sinnes More particularly to expresse what it is to walke in the light and to agree with God it is sayd vnto vs i Mat. 5. 48 be ye perfect as your heauenly father is perfect k Luk. 6. 36 be yee mercifull as your heauenly

Cyprian inferreth b Cyprian lib. 2. epist 3. If Christ onely be to be heard or harkened vnto we are not to regard what any man before vs hath thought fit to be done but what Christ hath done who is before all for we are not to follow the custome of men but the truth of God And if by this rule we esteeme of the way wee shall soone perceiue that Popery is out of the way because in that path which the Apostles and Prophets haue chalked out vnto vs we neither find the Pope nor his pardons nor his masse nor his images nor his reliques yea all these and the rest of his trinkets are easily perceiued to be but false and base and broken wares 3 If wee desire somwhat more briefly to heare the way our Sauiour Christ telleth vs c Ioh. 14 6. I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh to the father but by me S. Austin amplifieth the words d August in Ioan. tract 22. Ambulare vis c. Art thou desirous to walke I am the way Woldest thou not be deceiued I am the truth Woldest thou not die I am the life There is no whither for thee to go but to me there is no way for thee to go by but by me Christ only himselfe is our way to come to Christ e Heb. 10. 20. Through the vaile that is his flesh he hath prepared the new and liuing way whereby we are to enter into the holy place His pas●●on is our redemptiō his obediēce our righteousnes his resurrection our iustification he is for vs whatsoeuer wee neede to bring vs vnto God f Act. 4 12. There is not saluation in any other nor any other name giuen vnder heauen by which we must be saued This way must we go if we will go the right way but if wee seeke for a way in our selues or in any other creature if we g Ro. 3. 10. set vp our owne righteousnes against the righteousnes of God another altar and sacrifice against the crosse and sacrifice of Christ if we trust to other mediations merits and satisfactions wee are out of the way wee wander in strange and crooked paths which will neuer bring vs to our desired end In a word the Apostle willing to instruct vs of the rightway and to that purpose setting downe a briefe summe of the doctrine of the gospell saith thus h Gal. 6. 14. God forbid that I should reioice but in the crosse of our Lord Iesus Christ wherby the world is crucified vnto me and I vnto the world for in Christ Iesus neither circumcision auaileth any thing nor vncircumcision but a new creature Now hereto he addeth And they that walk according to this rule peace and mercie shall be vpon them Here is then the rule and way of our walke to reioice that is to put trust and confidence of remission of sinnes saluation only in the crosse of Iesus Christ not in the crosse of Peter or in the crosse of Paul or of the Virgin Mary but only in the crosse of Iesus Christ so to be possessed with this reioycing as for the enioying of the ioy hereof to bee mortified to all worldly conuersation and to be content to beare the malice and persecution of the world They that walke in this way and according to this rule they shall finde mercie with GOD to attaine to peace but with the rest it shall come to passe which Ionas saith i Ionas 2. 8 They that wait vpon lying vanities forsake their owne mercie 4 Now that peace is the end of our walke euen the ending of all our labours and sorrowes and the fruition enioying of God who is k Rom. 15. 33. the GOD of peace and of Iesus Christ our Sauiour who is l Esai 9. 6. the Prince of peace in whom is full perfect blisse and happines for euer This is the thing wherto all our walking ought to tend which as the marke before the archer so ought to be before our eies to aime at in al the course of our life and the regard thereof so to ouerpasse all other regards as that nothing be further or otherwise regarded then as may stand with the attaining of this end hauing alwaies in remembrāce that which our Sauiour Christ saith m Mat. 16. 26. what profiteth it a man to winne the whole world and to lose his owne soule This mind the Apostle Saint Paul expresseth when he saith n Phil. 3. 8. I haue counted all things losse for the excellent knowledge sake of Christ Iesus my Lord for whom I haue counted all things losse and doe iudge them to be dung that I might winne Christ c. that I may know him the vertue of his resurrection and the fellowship of his afflictions and be made cōformable to his death if by any means I may attaine to the resurrection of the dead Giue me hunger thirst cold and nakednes sicknesse and sores torment and death this end to attaine to the blessed resurrection of the dead maketh amends for all Giue me the kingdomes of the earth and all the pleasures and glory thereof yet if my end be not to attaine this end I am a most wretched man and better had it beene for me that I had neuer bin borne The more may we wonder at the strange retchlesnesse of the greatest nūber of men with whom this is least of all thought of and least of all respected o B●rnard so vainley vsing their soules saith Saint Bernard as if they did not reckon that they haue any soules at all so wholly dreaming and doating vpon the things of the world as if they were borne to no other end but to liue for euer in the world A wandring fancy men commonly haue of a desire to come to heauen but how few set their hearts thereupon to make it the drift of their life the main end of all their purposes and counsels and doe not rather drowne the regard thereof in the purposes and desires of other things That we runne not with others into this common errour let vs duely remēber that our life is but a walke and a walke must haue an end therfore that it concerneth vs so to frame our courses and doings as that we may make a good end that our death to this world may be to vs the beginning of euerlasting life in the world to come 5 To this end we are to call to minde that walking importeth mouing and stirring and therfore aduertiseth vs that seeing our life is a walke we are still to be mouing and stirring and doing in the way and worke of God that being by the mercy of God broght into the right way we are not there to sit downe at rest idle and vnfruitfull but as the life of Christ is described p Act. 10 38. He vvent about doing good so ought our walking and life bee to doe good