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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03614	Three sermons I. The wrath of God against sinners, II. God's eternitie, and mans humanitie, III. The plantation of the righteous / by T.H.	Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.	1638 (1638)	STC 13739.7; ESTC S4071	32,486	158

God canst thou say in good earnest and uprightnesse before the Lord is there any more truthes and more good will of thine of thy worship good Lord let me know it that I may love it and practice it Brethren is it so take then this in you and answer it is 〈◊〉 Lord. Brethren if there ●…e a sight of God in heaven ●…nd thou doest truely sub●…it to the word it is a true ●…gne that if any under heaven hath the worke of grace ●…ought in him thou hast it ●…hn 8. If any man love the ●…th and obey the Commande●…ents the truth will make him 〈◊〉 Dost thou then love and obey the truth it will make thee free it will make thee a freeman of heaven hold this truth Heaven and earth shall passe but that work of grace cannot passe This was the joy of the Apostle Iohn 5.4 I have no greater joy in the world then that my children walke in the truth in the light comfort and power of it If the Apostle Iohn could have no greate●… truth what great joy will it be to thy selfe no greate●… joy have I saith some ma●… not that my sonne is ric●… but that he is upright Ho●… mayest thou joy then 〈◊〉 ever thou see the face 〈◊〉 God with comfort try 〈◊〉 thou beest upright if th●… lovest the truth the Saint can see no greater joy then this Oh goe your wayes you blessed Saints ye walke after the truth you that have this can have no more God himselfe loveth truth in the inward parts hee is a spirit and will be worshipped in spirit and truth Dost thou love the truth of Christ then it will say as well of thee as of Demetrius Iohn ●… 12 Demetrius hath a good report of the truth So I say doth the truth report well of thee Doe not feare what the world thy friends enemies or adversaries say of thee that will bring thee comfort when all false witnesses shall lye aside but all you wicked of the world you are they that bend your selves against the Saints of God It is true the poore Saints of God as poore as they be they shall lift up their heads when you shall hang downe and turne aside because they have the truth for them when you shall see the poore dispised Saints of God poore Goodman such a one c. You that have made no care of Gods Commandements when yee shall see them ye shall wonder to see them lift up thither when the Divell shall say Lord how comes such a man to such a place he was a finner I Lord saith the poore soule I know I have many weaknesses Lord thou knowest that many a sad spirit I have carried about yet never a truth was made knowne but I entertained it never a sinne was made knowne but I entertained it never a sinne was made known but I loathed it then comes the blessed Truth I beare witnesse Lord he loved me and entertained mee though with many groanes and teares and persecutions hee would have me saith the truth hee is a blessed Saint of God You that are willing to receive every truth oh get you to heaven then you will be past the worst the Devill himselfe confesses and the damned spirits He is a holy and sincere hearted man Why Brethren who would not labour for the truth I say God and Christ 〈…〉 good spirit shall 〈…〉 such a soule God 〈…〉 of truth Jesus Ch●… 〈…〉 Word of truth 〈…〉 Ghost is a spirit of 〈…〉 they will embrace 〈…〉 God and Christ 〈…〉 Spirit all bids you 〈…〉 so you shall have 〈…〉 pinesse the Lord●… 〈…〉 you to it and you 〈…〉 it hereafter FINIS A GODLY AND PROFITABLE SERMON Of Gods Eternitie and Mans Humanitie OR The striving of the Lord with Sinners By T. H. LONDON Printed by M.P. for Iohn Stafford dwelling in Black-Horse-Alley neere Fleetstreet 1639. THE STRIVING of the LORD with SINNERS GEN. 6.3 My Spirit shall not al●…ayes strive with man for that 〈◊〉 also is flesh yet his dayes ●…all be an hundred and twenty yeares THe scope of this Chapter discovers it selfe in two parts first the divers conditions of them before the Floud Secondly the carriage of God towards th●… in the second part of 〈◊〉 Chapter First the carri●… of the people is double 〈◊〉 their wicked and sinfull li●… from the first verse to 〈◊〉 end of the seventh Secondly the holy d●… meanor of Noah in the 8 a●… 9 verses But Noah fou●… grace in the eyes of the Lo●… Noah was a just man and p●…fect in his generation and w●… ked with God Noah in th●… wicked time in that wick●… place and among those wi●… ked people was a holy ma●… saith the Text. Secondly we have the ●…vers dealing of God wi●… them First he threatens des●…lation to the wicked secondly he promises to preserve Noah and for the ●…guise of the wicked First consider the hai●…ousnesse of their sinnes that they broke all the Lawes of God and lust was their Law in the first ●…nd second verses the Text sayes When men began to multiply on the face of the ●…rth and daughters was borne unto them that the sonnes of God saw the danghters of men that they were faire and ●…ookt for wives of all that they ●…hose The sonnes of God the ●…eaning of that is they that professed the truth Second●…y they saw the daughters of men they saw Caine and they that were of God did what they list and chos●… crosse way and so ca●… strange generations as 〈◊〉 ants they were growne 〈◊〉 the height of sinne Secondly in the 3 6 a●… 7 verses is the sentence 〈◊〉 God against them hee s●… they come to this and th●… sets downe a sentence 〈◊〉 doombe as it were he say●… My Spirit shall not alway●… strive with man in that 〈◊〉 is but flesh yet his dayes sh●… be an hundred and twe●… yeares The Lord w●… strive no longer with the●… from whence by the w●… we may note Object That when the●… is a mingling of diuers ma●…riages it makes way to 〈◊〉 struction prooved in Sol●… mon when hee tooke him ●…ange wives then his ●…owne was taken from 〈◊〉 so this old World ●…en they gave themselves ●…strange marriages First In the sentence there 〈◊〉 two things first the ●…rds resolution second 〈◊〉 the reason of Gods deter●…nation First the resolution and ●…t is first generally hee ●…th strove but will strive no ●…re Secondly particularly he ●…l not strive and will strive 〈◊〉 hundred and twenty ●…res here is the resoluti●… of God though he strive 〈◊〉 hee will not strive al●…yes Secondly the reason of Gods determination hee is also flesh In the Text two things are to be observed First what is meant by spirit secondly what it is to strive first Gods Spirit we may understand to be the holy Ghost the third person in Trinity hee is said to strive not miraculously but mediately by his meanes the Word of God Ministers he is said to strive with

Three Sermons I. The Wrath of GOD against Sinners II. GOD'S Eternitie and Mans Humanitie III. The Plantation of the Righteous By T. H. ROM 1.18 The wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodlinesse and unrighteousnesse of men who hold the truth in unrighteousnesse LONDON Printed by M.P. for Iohn Stafford dwelling in Black-Horse-Alley neere Fleetstreet 1638. THE VVRATH of God against SINNERS ROM 1.18 The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodlinesse and unrighteousnesse of men who hold the truth in unrighteousnesse IN the fore going verses the holy Apostle by way of Preface prepareth way for 〈◊〉 truth that hee would deliver and the doctrine he purposed to dispence of and that all cavils might be removed and that the Word of God might take deeper root and better acceptance he●… uses these three particulars and first hee cleares the authority of his challenge hee came not before hee was sent of God and therefore being called it concerned him and was his duty to do good He discovers the tendernesse of his love and his marvellous readinesse to do them good in the 12 13 and 14 verses It was a de●… the Apostle ought the R●…●…ans therefore hee oug●… to pay it and now way b●…ing made he comes to 〈◊〉 ●…aine point that is That a ●…an is not justified by doing ●…ut by beleeving and this ●…e confirmeth first by the ●…estimony of Scripture that 〈◊〉 man is justified by faith and ●…ot by workes ye shall live ●…y faith Secondly by force of Argument and that after this ●…anner If all men by the ●…orkes of the Law cannot ●…unne the wrath of God ●…en a man cannot be saved ●…y the workes of the Law This hee propounds in the words of the Text and pro●…ecutes it in the Chapter following and affirmes that nei●…er of them can be saved by ●…e works of the Law First In the Text observe ●…ese two particulars first the dealing of wicked m●… with the truth of God th●… hold the truth of God in u●…righteousnesse Secondly Gods deali●… with them they dealt roug●…ly with the truth they la●… violent hands on it and G●… he deales as rigorously wi●… them And the reason w●… they hold downe the trut●… is because of some lust●… their soules that is belo●… of them Secondly The Apo●… shewes against whom G●… wrath commeth Thirdly The universal●… in these words All. G●… doth not deale partially 〈◊〉 all that misprison the tr●… in unrighteousnesse s●… have the wrath of God de●…ounced against them Fourthly The place from whence it shall come from ●…eaven First we are here to know what is meant by truth For ●…e better understanding of ●…e Text Truth carries two ●…ings with it First The rule of righteousnesse which is that ho●…age and obedience we owe ●…nto God and this rule of ●●ghteousnesse is the most ●…xcellent rule that is Secondly Truth carrieth 〈◊〉 it selfe the efficacy and ●…ower of truth and therefore ●…e Apostle Paul sharply ●…proves Peter Gal. 2.14 ●…rse that though he ob●…ved the Gospel in the maine yet he did not walke with a straight foot Secondly What is meant by holding the truth of God in unrighteousnesse To hold the truth of God in unrighteousnesse is by a kind of violence and strong hand to hinder the operation and passage of it that the Word cannot performe that worke which otherwise it would in the hearts of them to whom it is sent Thirdly What is mean●… by the word unrighteousnesse In some places it signifies●… sinne that is committed against the second Table onely but here in this place 〈◊〉 implies all sinful distempers and corruptions of heart an●… this word in unrighteousnesse It carries the cause and authority as when a man sayes stop such a man in my name 1 Doct. The truth of God is operative 2 Doct. That wicked men are enemies to the Word of God 3 Doct. That the corruptions of mens hearts is the cause of the hinderance of the word But I will draw them all into one Doct. That carnall and corrupt hearts hinder the power of the truth from working upon them or prevailing with them as much as in them lies It is true that truth is powerfull and will prevaile 〈◊〉 when he sends his truth to worke upon any corrupt●… heart he doth not stand to aske our wils whether we will receive or not but hee will make it effec●…uall hee will shake off all oppositions and he will drive all before him but let the Lord do what he will yet the carnall heart will resist and stand out and as much as in him lies labour to keep out the Word Rom. 2.14 15. Though Heathens be strangers from the life of God and from the Covenant of Grace yet this little remainder of the Law of God in their hearts which remaines will be a working in them so that murder and uncleannesse they will punish with death The truth is discovered ●…ree wayes First when a man is about 〈◊〉 commit any sinne as to ●…eale c. his conscience wil ●…mite him and so in other ●…innes Secondly the power and efficacy of God may be observed in the Creation yet ●…he darknesse of mens eyes ●…r the foggishnesse of their understandings do interpose themselves Thirdly by truth is meant the preaching of the Word when the truth is never so ●…pparant and prooffes never ●…o pregnant and arguments never so invincible yet their hearts will not yeeld nor ●…onsent when the light of ●…he Gospel is plainly dispensed and promulgated the●… must needs be a marveilo●… light and yet men will no●… yeeld to it as Paul and Barnabas the word they taught the Jewes put it away whe●… it gripes the heart and begins to worke effectually then they vomit it up againe●… Act. 7.57 Yee stiff-necked in heart yee doe alwayes resist the Holy Ghost as your Fathers did so doe yee Gen. 19.9 so the Sodomites did to Lot when the old and the young were gathered about th●… house and would have the●… out and when Lot said I pray you my brethren doe not so wickedly Stand back say they we will doe worse with the●… then with them As they did to Lot so you doe to Gods Ministers when Gods Messengers come and intreat you O brethren do not so wickedly profane the Sabbath and curse instead of praying be not so malicious against the wayes of God take heed of persecuting the servants of God Stand backe say they we will doe worse and thus they take up armes against the blessed truth of God when it comes to pull them off from their cursed practises c. For the discovery of the point give me leave to expresse three particulars First What is that worke which the truth would discover Secondly How wicked men hinder it Thirdly The reason why they doe so Quest 1. What is the power of the truth or what would it doe that wicked men oppose it Answ It appeares in foure particulars First it is a word of Information