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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12381	The sinfull mans search: or seeking of God. Preached by Henrie Smith, and published according to a true corrected copie, sent by the author to an honorable ladie	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1592 (1592)	STC 22697; ESTC S113756	32,346	94

THE SINFVLL MANS SEARCH OR SEEKING OF GOD. Preached by Henrie Smith and published according to a true corrected Copie sent by the Author to an Honorable Ladie LONDON Printed for Cuthbert Burby 1592. THE SINFVLL MANS SEARCH IOB 8.5.6.7 5. If thou wilt earlie seeke vnto God and pray to the Almightie 6. If thou be pure and vpright then surelie hee will awake vnto thee and make the habitations of thy righteousnes prosperous 7. And though thy beginning be but smal yet thy latter end shall greatlie encrease IN a sick and euill affected bodie dearely beloued we vsuallie see preparatiues ministred that the maladies may bee made more fit and pliable to receiue wholesome medicines The like yea and greater regarde ought wee to haue of our solues which being not crasie onelie or lightlie affected with sinne but sick euen vnto death had neede to be prepared with threats and exhortations comforts and consolations one way or other that they may bee made fit not to receiue the preparatiue but the perfection of happie saluation And for this cause haue I made choise of this part of Scripture as of a light to shine vnto vs in darkenesse a direction to our steps and a Lanthorne to our pathes while we wander through the boistrous waues of this wicked world The Text is plaine and obiect to euerie mans capacitie naturallie budding into blossomes The first containing our dutie which wee are to performe towards God The second Gods promises if we performe this dutie Our dutie towards God is implied in these three conditions First If thou wilt earlie seeke vnto God Secondlie If thou wilt pray vnto the Almightie Thirdlie If thou be pure and vpright so that the whole consisteth on these three points First what it is that God requireth namelie a diligent and speedie searche in these words If thou wilt seeke earlie Secondlie how thy search is to be made in praier in these words If thou wilt pray to the Almightie Thirdlie what effect these thinges ought to worke in vs a puritie and sinceritie of life in these words If thou bee pure and vpright As our dutie towards God consisteth in three points so Gods blessings towards vs is also threefold answerable to the same First for seeking hee promiseth he will awake vnto thee Secondlie for praying vnto him hee will make the habitations of thy righteousnes prosperous Thirdly for being pure and vpright hee will make thy latter end encrease exceedinglie yea though thy beginning be but small First therfore concerning the search it is a worke both in desire and labour to bee ioyned to God In the Psalme this standeth for the burthen of the song They called vpon the Lord in the time of their trouble and he deliuered them It is but Aske and haue seeke and finde knock and it shall be opened vnto you Sauing that heere these things are to bee regarded to wit how by whom and when we must seeke the Lord. How First faithfully for if yee haue but as much as a graine of Mustard seede and say vnto this mountaine remooue it shall remooue and nothing shall be vnpossible vnto yee Then next humblie for it is the humble petition that pierceth the skies and that shewed the Publican to depart home to his house more iustified then the boasting Pharisie and they alone that be humble and meeke finde rest for their soules And last of all continually for wee must not faint in well dooing because the rewarde is not promised to him that dooth but to him that continueth to do But wee may long seeke and neuer finde except wee seeke the father by the sonne For no man knoweth the Father but the Sonne and hee to whome the Sonne shall disclose him he is the waye the truth and the life and no man commeth to the Father but by him There is one God and one mediatour betwixt God and man the man Christ Iesus So that if we sinne we haue an aduocate Iesus Christ the iust and hee is the propitiation for our sinnes onely let vs seeke the Lorde while he may be found And to this end the word Seeking is vsed in this place that we may learne that as the heauens the planets and the whole frame of nature were ordained to finish their course by motions and operation so man as he was ordained to a most blessed and happie end should attaine therevnto not by sloth and idlenesse but by an earnest seeking of the same The kingdom of heauen is like vnto a treasure which cannot be found without seeking and digging for it It is like the precious Pearle for which the wise Merchant was content not onely to seek but to sell all that he had to buie it God hath placed vs heere in this world as husbandmen to plough vp the fallow of our hearts as labourers to worke in his vineyard as trauailers to seeke a countrie as souldiours to fight the battaile of the Lord against the flesh the world and the deuil And for this purpose hath he proposed vnto vs an vntilled land a vineyard a triple enemie to fight against that wee might remember that we must till the ground if we will reape the fruit that wee must prune the Vine if wee will drinke of the grape that we must fight if we will ouercome He that tilleth the land saith the wise man shall be satisfied with bread but he that followeth idlenesse shal be filled with pouertie Idlenesse is a moath or canker of the minde and the fruites thereof are wicked cogitations euill affections and worse actions corrupt trees without fruite twice dead and plucked vp by the roote engendring in the minde a loathing of God and godlinesse Eschue therefore idlenesse I beseech yee and by the want ye find in others learne instructions for your selues Be not forgetfull how busie your enemie is if he finde yee idle first hee putteth yee in minde of some vanitie then offereth opportunitie to practise then he craueth consent and if yee graunt him that hee triumpheth by adding practise hee leaueth no meanes vnattempted whereby he may subuert and bring yee to perdition To one as to Eua hee promiseth the knowledge of good and euill Another he seduceth with lying speeches as he did Pharaoh the king whom hee deceiued by false Prophets To the Iewes he pretended the Temple of the Lord. To the Heathen hee shewed vniuersalities and antiquities And to omit particulers hee leaueth no meane vnattempted wherby hee may entangle the soules of the simple and wrap them in the snares of death Flie idlenesse therefore and seeke vertue and the way therof seeke learning as for a iewell make diligent search and inquisition after hir seeke earlie and seeke late In the morning sowe thy seede and in the euening let not thy hand rest seeke him in the day of trouble and hee will deliuer thee and thou shalt glorifie him Seeke him there is the