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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44591	The poor mans misery, or, Poverty attendeth vain company with a speedy call to repentance from their ways. Wherein you may behold who they are that are reckoned in the ranck of vain persons, and also the great danger they live in, whilst they live in vanity, and follow the ways of sin and wickedness. Very necessary for all to read and consider of the danger thereof in this day, wherein so many take pleasure in sin, and wicked company. By Roger Hough a lover of sobriety.	Hough, Roger.	1670 (1670)	Wing H2913; ESTC R215374	9,893	27

of your Society and Company those that good David will put forth of his sight But Secondly There is a Vanity in the self Righteous Moral worldly man or the ●●vilest men of the world There is vanity in them though there is in them to the outward shew a Civil carriage and a fair show of uprightness yet where there is not a true zeal for God and a relyance upon Christs merrits for salvation they are yet in the dark paths of ignorance notwithstanding this their gilded carriage in the world the young man in the Gospel he had kept all the Commandements from his youth Mat. 19.20 here was a Moral man he had done his outward duty towards God and towards his Neighbour and thereupon he might be reputed that he had done no man wrong he was therefore as touching the Law blameless yea that which was yet more he came to Christ for Counsel he supplicated for eternal life in the 16. verse at his very first entrance and when Iesus had re●eated the commandements of the Law to him all these have I done verse 20 what lack l yet he is frill Inquiring after heaven but comes not to the price thereof but when he must part with all his substance he would kéep that And so he went his way sorrowing that one thing needful he could not attain unto because he could not part with that one thing burdensom for the text saith he had great possessions and they were such a burden unto him that he went away sorrowing if God contend with such men they are not able to stand before him the Civil Morral men of the world though they carry themselves uprightly to the outward eye of man yet they are too low for heaven he that is too high for grace is too low for glory and herein their poverty appears as being deprived of the best things which are durable for a few fading worldly endowments that leaves them when death comes to arrest them Nichodemus could come reason with Christ that was a great Ruler about Regeneration yet understands not the words of Christ though he was a Master in Israel John 3.10 Also Gamahel a Doctor of the Law could stand up in the Councel to defend the lives of the Apostles Acts 5.34 to 40. but beleived not himself Now a spiritual blindness and self confidence without a sure foundation or r●al reliance upon Christ attends this the Morral mans vanity Indéed by the company of these worldlings you come to no outward standers o● disgraces as you may do by the first rank But you get nothing by their company but learn to see●le your selves and take root in their self-confidences though you waste not your outward substances hereby yet you loose your precious time for that which prof●teth not and settle your selves upon false rests As first upon a civil life and chaste carriage think by that means to merrit heaven Secondly by self righteousness they will walk uprightly and use what they haue of the world to their best advantage and not offend Is it because they will deal uprightly in all outward appearances and think thereby to Merrit heaven Thirldly Some others will be very charitable to the poor and freely impart what the Lord bestowes upon them thinking thereby to attain eternal life Fourthly Others there are that will come néerer to the mark of profeshion and diligently attend the Ordinances of God in publi●ue and go daily every Lords day to hear the Word preached think thereby to obtain heaven Fifthly Others will do their duties incombent upon them by the Word of God they will read and pray in their families and maintain family Duties and think thereby to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven Nay sixthly and lastly there are some persons will do all these duties and repeat Sermons in their ●amthes and declare to others what external gifts they have received front God and discourse much of Heaven and Eternity in a high manner and yet for all this fall ●hor● of eternal happiness because they rest themselves upon these slaves on the Ladder of Eternity My beloved friends these things you must do if ever you intend to be s●ved but ●here is not any of these to be rested on the way to heaven is by faith in Iesus Christ for faith without works is a dead faith you must have works to accompany your faith James 2.17 Even so faith being without works is dead being alone But Thirdly There is a vanity in unsound professors and false worshipers of God all such as worship God in a false way contrary to the rule of the holy Scriptures these are vain persons such are all Papists Idolatrous Will-worshippers of God and such as worship God by a rule of mens Inventions and not according to his Will all unsound Teachers that speak without the life féeling and scence of the holy Spirit of God strengthened and Authorized by the rule of the Scriptures to guide and direct them in the truth and to be the touchstone of tryal to strengthen uphold and maintain them and herein all such scismacical and heritical opinianists show forth nothing but vanity such Craft mongers and soul-deceivers win God take in their own crastiuess John 5.13 Because such when they know God they glorifie him not as God neither are they thankful but become vain in their imaginations their foolish hearts being darkened professing themselves wise they became fools Rom. 2.21 22. and therefore all such as follow them in their dark paths though it may be in the way of a profession shall have poverty enough For where the sound bread of life is dejected the soul for want thereof may be infected now the poverty that attends these is eternal misery in hell for ever without a hearty and deep repentance besides the shame and disgrace they méet with on this side the grave amongst those that fear God when their hypocrisie is discovered and the filthiness of their shame is made known As first the Papists their cruelty against the truth their idolatrous worshipping of Saints and Angels unnecessary consecrations and all their idolatrous ceremonies where with they delude the simple and stéep them in ignorance and blindness which impostrous Religion path deluded many poór souls And then Secondly All such as contemn and dispise the Ordinances of God in a way of profession by corrupt opinions springing up amongst them as your Socinians and Frée-willers that would de●sure and publish Frée-will and a general Redemption to the world with many other opinianists that I shall not here stand to name because I am scanted of Room in this small Treatise and therefore must hasten to draw to a conclusion Therefore take héed my beloved that you grow not wilfully ignorant that this spiritual and eternal poverty do not overtake you Sirs you here sée the evil consequences that attends vain persons that is poverty Temporal Spiritual and Eternal Now there is same reasons-why it is that poverty attends vain persons And

is vanity and nothing wicked persons are vain persons they say as in Psalm 12.4 We have said with our tongues we will prevail our lips are our own who is Lord over us the Prophet David was hear complaining v. 2. Saith he they speak vanity every man to his neighbour with flattering l●ps and with a double heart do they speak well saith he verse 3. the Lord will cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things Sirs you sée here the palpable wir●●ediness of vain persons therefore he perswaded so look so pant companions As for the●● Fansso●valst persons ●●cious mortal woudly many th●self righteous men you 〈◊〉 no good nor inward comfort by them Because they want that one thing u●●dful there is one thing lacking that is their following of Christ and pasting with the world the young man in the Gospel was Morra●●● righteous he had kept the commandemeni●● of the Law yet onething was lacking Go sell all that thou hast and follow me and thou shalt have crea●●e in heaven Beloved a man may be 〈◊〉 careful in obserding his duties and 〈◊〉 the commandments of God and pro●●●● have In●ge possessions of the world in his heart he may be ●●●ned to many super●it●o●● worldly ●●●onts be 〈◊〉 have his he gre●●● upon the treasures in the world or 〈◊〉 the Pleasures of the world many a 〈…〉 maken profession and yet the 〈◊〉 of the world draws away his heart of the Pleasures of the world draw 〈◊〉 off 〈◊〉 becomes ●ain we read 〈◊〉 Mar●●● 〈…〉 busie-avaine the world into 〈…〉 thing the 〈◊〉 when as Mary 〈…〉 word the aking in 〈…〉 of Mary there ●●one thing needful Mary had chosen the better part Thirdly The third rank is unsound professors of Christ these are as dangerous as the first nay mo●●da●●● is in false professors of Christ a man may as well never profess Christ at all as profess him in an e●●onias may the Papist those Pass mon●ers that profess Christ under a notion of Image worship mens ●raditions indentions of men cense●●● 〈◊〉 Darers of Popes and Cardi●olls and as they say the Auriquitie of the 〈◊〉 of Rome whom they firm to be the Mat ●er Church of the World and the Pope the head thereof declaring him to 〈◊〉 Peters Successor● and to fit in Peters their whose Declaration is false and their Religion pernicious and the Pope himself an Im●●●● the 〈◊〉 Antechrist of the Wor●● 〈…〉 of that danger of them but 〈…〉 fined to keep in 〈…〉 Sosinians 〈◊〉 will not alow the Desep of Christ prede thrée substances in the God heart whic● is false and 〈…〉 Script 〈◊〉 there is a substance of the Father●●● making man at the first 〈◊〉 his own 〈◊〉 that be not suff●●●● to prove the substance of a person Christ is called Heb. ●● the exprest Image of his Fa●hers person Secondly Christ his self come down from his Fathers hoso●e took upon him the similitude of man and dyed yi●lded his body to the smiters sursly here was the similitude of a person in C●●ist who had a humane body given unto him Thirdly the Holy Ghost He then affirm not to be a person if that perticle He be not sufficient to prove him a person in the Deity where Christ saith He shall tell you all things yet there is a bodily shape put upon him when Itsus was baptized by John in Jordan in the 3. of Luke it is said the Holy Ghost descended upon him like a Dove there was a bodily shape to prove this undenyable truth and then the Arminians that hold Frée will and general Redemption as if persons had power within themselves of themselves to stand or to fall at their own will and pleasure These-company beloved are very dangerous to comply with for the avoyding of which take this word of exhortation if it be so that poverty attende●● vain company then ●●ee vain company the company of vain persons that you may thus do First Consider the discredit that is attained by vain company it is a disgrace to be found complying with vain persons Pro. 28 7. Whoso keepeth the Law is a wise son but he that is a companion of riotous men snameth his Father Prov. 13.5 a wicked man is loathsom and cometh to shame Secondly Consider the great wast you come by by following vain persons whose society many times wasteth your outward substance Prov. 29.3 Whoso loveth wisdom rejoyceth his Father but he that keepeth company with Harlots spendeth his substance the Prodigal in the Gospel wasted his substance after this manner Luk. 15.13 Thirdly Consider the advice that is given you by the holy Scriptures the Apostles followers of Christ exhort you to fly had company 1 Cor. 5.9 I wrote unto you in an Epistle not to company with fornicators ver 10. Yet not altogether with fornicators of this world nor with coverous not extortioners for then must you needs go out of the world but now have I writ unto you ver 11. not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or an idolater or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner with such a one do not ea● Fourthly Consider that such companions are reserved for destruction shall be thrust out of heaven without repentance Rev. 21.8 The fearful and unbeleiving the a●ominable and murtherers and whore mongens forcerers idoliters all Ipers shall have their portion in the lake which burns with fire and brimstour now beloved if you ask what you may do to avoid the evil take these helps along with you 1. Eye your company watch ●v●● your selves while you enjoy the presen●● of your Companians and cry them vp the Word of God in their discourses for with the holy thou shalt be holy and with the prophane thou shalt learn prophaneness 2 Thes 3.14 If any man obey not our word by this Epist●e note that man and have no company with him that he may be ashamed 2. Get into the company of all those that fear God kéep his commandements Psalm 119.63 I am a Companion of all those that fear and keep thy precepts 3. Set your delight on such as fear God really let your soul delight in them Psa 16.2 3. O my soul thou hast said unto the Lord thou art my Lord my goodness extendeth not to thée but to the Saints that are in the earth to the excellent its whom is all my delight Dearly beloved in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ consider of these things you have heard what evil attends vain company the Lord of his infinite mercy and goodness in Jesus Christ the great Shepherd and Bishop of our sou●s set it home upon your hearts to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever Amen FINIS