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A09675	A sermon, vpon the wordes of Paul the Apostle vnto Timothie, Epist. 1. Chap. 4. vers. 8 Preached at Litlecot, in the Chappel of the right honourable, Sir John Pompham, knight, lord chiefe justice, of England, before his honourable Lordeshippe, and to the assemblie there, the 17. of Iulie, 1597. By Charles Pinner, minister of the Church of Wotton Basset, in North-Wiltshire.	Pinner, Charles.	1597 (1597)	STC 19945; ESTC S114276	13,808	48

that is to come But here groweth a question what it meaneth then that euen vngodlinesse it selfe hath or seemeth to haue our portiō at least in the things of this life present of which Dauid in the seuēteenth Psalm speaking maketh his praier thus Psal 17.13.14 Vppe Lord saith he disappoint him cast him down deliuer my soule from the wicked with thy sword frō men by thine hand O Lord from men of the world who haue their portion in this life whose bellies thou fillest with thine hidde treasures their children haue enough and leaue the rest of their substance for their children Where hee speaketh as he meaneth of the wicked namelie that they haue their portion in this life and no where else and that they haue already as much as they shal haue in this life present for in the life to come they haue no portion Answerably vnto that that Christ also warned those good almes-men forsooth in the 6. of Matthew which trumpetted the thing for the praise of men Therefore saith hee when thou giuest thine almes thou shalt not make a trumpet to be blown before thee as the hypocrites do in the Synagogues in the streets to be praised of men Verily I say vnto you they haue their reward That is they haue already that they desired to witte the praise of men and this is all they shall haue for besides this verilie they shall haue nothing And what then shal it profite the vngodly that they were wise and rich and honourable and had peace and prosperitie in this life when this life is gone and their portion ended nothing remaineth for the life to come the bitternes of which estate answered his doubt who in beholding the prosperitie of the wicked had almost denied providence till at the laste in acknowledgement of that which here is taught Claud. he saith Tolluntur in altum vt lapsu graviore ruant They are lifted vppe aloft to haue the greater fall As Dauid to expresse his greatest misery saith He taketh me vp and casteth me downe againe Psal 102. Euen as that we lift vp to cast downe we dash all in pieces And the beggers wo is nothing to the Prince his want But as he saith Sen. Theb. In servitutem cadere de regno graue est Of king to become a caitife that cuts the heart Yea but the wicked and vngodlie of the world haue wealth and welfare and while they haue it will some say they are wel and happy But this their happines what euer they haue in spite of all the wicked we deny for first it should be knowen how they haue any thing Not by promise for that pertaineth vnto godlines by testimony of our Text which saith significantlie that godlines hath the promise and not vngodlines How them without promise O miserable theues robbers which haue an heape of goodes so ill gotten Psal 24. v. 1. For the earth is the Lords he hath promised the same vnto the godlie and againe Math. 5.5 Blessed are the meeke for they shall inherit the earth And everie creature of God is good 1. Tim. 4.5 nothing to be refused if it be receaved with thanksgiving For it is sanctified saith the Apostle by the worde of God and prayer But who giveth thankes and who so receaueth the good creatures of God as good and lawfull and … ome are they sanctified by the ordinance and will of God but to those as before he saith which beleeue and know the truth that is the godlie For all the vngodlie of the world are yet in their pollution and are deprived of all the creatures of the earth polluting to themselues everie good creature of God in the abuse liue in the verie vse of them and polluting thēselues I say not now because stricto iure as they say by direct law they haue no right in them So Naboths vinyard was good 1. King 21. Levit. 25.23 Num. 36.9 seq 1. King 21. and Ahab had it But because he was not of the tribe besides the intrusion the forgerie periurie and murther committed hee defiled himselfe in the vnlawfull vse of it And this is the case of all the vngodlye who because they are not of his tribe who hath the right of inheritance in all these thinges besides the manifold abuses they put them vnto after they euen defile themselues in the having of them And so not this and that as in the former division of the legal pollutiō which taught vs that out right in all thinges through our attainder was so taken away that by touching almost and taking wee defiled our selues in them but even the breath of their bodies their life it selfe all things are defiled to them because to speake the same thing againe as light is come into the world men loue darkenesse roote the light Ioan. 3 19. so liberty is come into the world and men loue bondage more then it and the grace of adoption whereby we become sonnes and if sonnes saith the Apostle from a ground of their law for in the Civell law of the Romans all the sonnes succeeded together then heyres and heyres annexed with Iesus Christ is refused of the vngodlie and vnbeleevers who if they haue no part in Christ Heb. 1.2 who is the heyre of al thinges as the Apostle teacheth to the Hebrewes how woulde they haue right in any thing and not still remaine as children and heires of the first Adam cast out of Paradise with his children the verie blessing of the earth this day being turned into a curse vnto them euen because they haue no part in the second Adam Wherefore let all the vngodlie of the world here learne to looke west vnto their theevish handes care how to haue their hartes purified by faith Act. 15.9 2. Tim. 3.12 to liue godly in Iesus Christ that so they may be heires of the promise and that in the rich vngodlie especiallie it may be seene for a wounder to the world how the camel creapeth through the needles eye and that which is impossible with men Psal 22.30 is yet possible with God the prophesie of Davis in 22. Psalme beeing fulfilled in them All the fat of the earth those that are filled with earthlie felicitie shall eate as being nourished in the Church vers 28. and shal bow themselues As before hee saith All the endes of the earth shall remember thēselues and bee turned vnto the Lorde all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him Which lowly submission vnto Iesus Christ and to the septer of his worde in the kingdome of his Church if once we might see in the greate vngodlye of the world Lord how manye sinnes also would so be cut of which dailie are committed in the good thinges of God through the manifold abuse of them vnto sinne and wickednes And if wee see it not as to seldome in deede is

in present possession or expectation Many dispute many thinges many desires purposes haue wee but in nothing our mindes more corrupt destitute of the truth then in this if without or beside godlines wee count any thing to be gaine or profite Whose minds notwithstanding are so corrupt so destitute of the truth that any thinge almost we account gaine profite without godlines or at the least all the godlines we haue or doe besire is gaine profite For if other gaine we haue we haue godlines enough though we haue none in deede yet haue as much as wee desire Men of this making altogether this out Apostle painteth out in the 6. Chap. of this Epist the 5. 6. verses whome he saith to bee men of corrupt mindes 1. Tim. 6.5.6 destitute of the truth which thinke gaine to be godlines What is that in wit this their godlines or al the godlines they care for is gaine according to their corrupte mindes destitute of the truth embracing any in the world as good profitable and letting godlines alone of which the passe not a pin and care nothing of it as nothing worth if so they may attaine their other desires And that this is the meaning it is plaine in that the Apostle contradicteth it in these wordes following but saith he Godlines is greate gaine Not onely gaine but great gaine and if we will haue that expounded too the Apostle saith in our Text that Godnes is profitable vnto all thinges Wherfore we neede goe no further for weapōs to slay the madnes of Atheisme that is vngodlines it selfe which setteth godlines at naught and teacheth men to mocke at it as a thing of nothing and a thousand things we desire as good profitable but godlines with thousandes is good for nothing And Religion though it selfe honourable yet if as it hath the nature so the name of goodlines euen as this is her name also for what is religion but godlines and what is godlines but religion yet in this other name of hers wee cannot abide her and religion in the name of godlinesse is a derision For I tell you he hath a fine wit and hitteth his neighbour home as he thinketh which can hang the lip and say O you are very godly O tempora ô mores ô times ô manners saith he who saw the discipline of the city of Rome so weake that one Catelin a seditious rakehel could sit and be seene in the Senate amongst them And we must swallow our griefe and say nothing to see the Church of God defiled with thousandes of those sitting almost in the Senate and chiefest roomes amongst vs who not only secretly vndermine but euen bid open battaile almost vnto the name of godlines these being I feare the times of which Peter by a special remēbrance vnto the faithful foretold saying 2. Pet. 3.3.4 This first vnderstand that there shall come in the last daies mockers walking after their owne lusts and saying when is the promise of his comming such as even stowted the Lord and grieued the godly and gaue complainte before vnto the Prophet Malachie in the 3. Chapter Your wordes haue beene stoute against me saith the Lord yet yee saie Mal. 3.13.14.15 what haue we spoken against thee ye haue saide it is in vaine to serue God and what profit is it that we haue kept his commandement and that we walked humbly before the Lord of hosts Yea now we counte the prowde blessed euen they that worke wickednes are set vp and they that tempt God yea they are deliuered And they had euen wearied the Lord herewith as the Prophete complaineth in the former Chapter Mal. 2.17 Yee haue wearied the Lorde with your wordes saith he yet yee saie wherein haue we wearied him in that yee say euery one that doth euill is good in the sight of the Lord and hee delighteth in them or where is the God of iudgement and these haue euen wearied the Lord and vs as many as at this time embrace godlines and yet they saie wherin haue we wearied you in that ye say and say lowdly and lewdly with the greatest skorne we are foolish and busie fellowes But the vomit of these men is loathsome and we will leaue it and for the praise and price of godlines wil come to the proofe of that which the Apostle hath saide of it as we haue heard namely that Godlines is profitable vnto all things And this proofe is cōtained in the words next following implying a reason of the former speech or sentēce in these words as having the promise of the life present and of that that is to come And this reason is strong from a sufficient division of all thinges For all thinges are contained in this life present and in that that is to come And therefore godlines must needs be profitable vnto al things sith nothing neither here nor heereafter can be wished which it bringes not with it For though the Apostle only saieth it hath the promise of this life that life he meaneth as also he speaketh in the 17 of the Actes Life and breath Acts 17.25 and all things and as the Philosopher speaketh all things ad benè beateque vivendum to liue well and blessedly For life else were nothing if wee shoulde want those things that pertaine to blessednes And though some maie thinke that the Apostle commeth short of the matter speaketh not home enough saying that godlines hath the promise not the thing yet this is al one in deede cōsidering who is the promiser God that cannot lie Tit. 1. ● as other where he saith And because wee cannot haue al our happines at once but some is here in this life present and more hereafter in the life to come for assurāce of the whole we haue his promise which is alwaies as good as performaunce it selfe For whosoeuer saith the sonne of Siracke trusted in the Lord and was confounded Eccle. 2.11 O then who is wise wil be rich and honourable and haue true strength and beauty and health peace and blessednes with God euen the man that is godly which walketh with God yea and talketh with him as it is saide of Henoch Gen. 5.22 6.9 17.1 Noah and Abraham that they were iust and vpright men in their time and walked with God Euen as this is the ende of our deliuerance that we Luke 1.74.75 as Zacherie saith being deliuered out of the hands of our enemies might serue him without feare in holines righteousnesse before him or in his sight all the daies of our life that wee should walke and talke with God and hauing our delighte in the lawe of the Lorde Psal 1.2 shoulde meditate therein day and night that we should loue feare and honour him in all our waies and so wante nothing which we would should haue either in this life present or in that

seene so many sinnes remaine of this sort also that better for them it were if beggers they had beene borne and so had continued to their liues end then to answere this account before the great Iudge the riches also of whose bountifulnes and patience they haue abused not knowing Rom. 2 4.5.6 as the Apostle saith that the bountifulnes of God leadeth them to repentance but they after their hardnes hart that cannot repent heape vnto themselues wrath against the daye of wrath and declaration of the iust iudgment of God who shall reward everie man according to his workes open or secret to himselfe or others And therefore then and there also shall bee revealed touching their title of possession how it faileth with God which holdeth with men which is a secret to the world and to worldlie mans hartes but knowen vnto Gods Rom. 2.16 who shall iudge as Paul saieth the secrets of mē by Iesus Christ according to my gospell And therefore the good natured man also and of greater ingenuitie cannot escape with all his colours of naturall honestie and vertue amiable in it selfe and before the world Mark 10.21 but despised of God because it wanteth godlines According as our Saviour saith in the sixteenth of Luke namely Luk. 15.16 that that which is loftie before men is abhomination in the sight of God And to say the verie truth why should God esteeme them or any thing in them who never esteemed him but them selues in all their liues for looke we into these men with godlie wisedome and whither shal we see al their desires purposes counsailes and endevours directed but vnto themselues and to their owne pleasures praise and profit or to the profit of men like vnto themselues against whome and whose workes the former sentence of Christ is as good as against the praiers and almes of painted hypocrites Mat. 6.5 Verilie I say vnto you they haue their reward to wit in this world and with men and they are fowlie deceaved if they looke for more Wherefore to conclude this point if the wicked and vngodly being empty and having nothing haue no promise or hope of any things or having all thinges of the world haue with God no lawful tenure and occupation of the same and farther corrupting themselues in the greate abuse of them haue a heavier iudgment in time to come the best of the vngodly not here excepted what matterreth it what they haue and what they are here for a while in this world sith at the last they loose all themselues by a fearefull destruction and nothing in the ende is founde gaine but godlinesse which is profitable vnto all thinges and at all times as having the promise of this life present and of that that is to come But here we must stay a little at the least to examine this how the promise holdeth with the godly for the things of of this life for of the things of the life to come there is no question the Apostle himselfe in the 15. of the first to the Corinthians vsing these words 1. Cor. 25.29 If in this life only we haue hope in Christ wee are of al mē the most miserable Where albeit he gathereth a most sound conclusion for his present purpose the handling of which I now omit yet thus much he saieth withall by way of comparison betweene the godly and the vngodly that we in this life are more miserable then they And if we looke vpon the afflictiōs themselues in their own nature nūber and see no more I grant it too And because the Saints themselues are weak-sighted herein and tender vpon the sense of present sorrows no chastising for the present Heb. 12.11 as saith the Apostle seeming ioyous but grieuous they speake sometimes in their hast they know not what as if they were miserable Psal 31.23 psal 116.11 and others blessed and they will reason this matter with God aboute the trueth of his promise So Ieremie but with leaue and verie modestlie in the 12 O Lord saith he Ier. 12.1 if I dispute with thee thou art righteous yet let me talke with thee of thy iudgements Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper why are al they in wealth that rebelliously trāsgresse and Abacuk in the first Chapter Abac. ca. 1. speaking vnto God cānot tel how to set these togither namely the purity of Gods nature the prosperity of transgressours and the misery of the righteous Thou art saith he of pure eies and canst not see euill thou canst not beholde wickednes Wherefore dost thou looke vpon the transgressours vers 13. and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous then he and Iob and Dauid two excellente personages but much afflicted were more impatient and Iob euen terrified in the 21 Euen when I remember saith he I am afraide and feare taketh holde on my flesh Wherefore do the wicked liue and waxe old grow in wealth Iob. 21.6 seq their seede is established in their sight with them and their generation before their eies Their houses are peaceable without feare and the rod of God is not vpon them And so foorth with a long and tedious narration vnto himselfe of the great prosperity of the wicked And David pathetically and abruptlie as newly delivered out of this temptation beginneth his Psalme thus Yet God is good to Israell even vnto such as are of a cleane hart Verily as for me my feete were almost gone Psal 73. my treadings had well nigh slipt and why I was grieved at the wicked I did see all the vngodly in such prosperitie For there are not knots vnto their death but they are lusty and strong They are not in toile as other folke neither are they plagued like other men And then setting out more at large both their impiety and prosperity as thinges not so agreeable in his iudgement at the last he vseth this Acclamation vers 12. Lo these are the vngodly these prosper in the world these haue riches in possession And then he sheweth how weake he was and how ill at the first hee tooke this matter vers 13. And I saide saith this good man then haue I cleansed my heart in vaine and washed my hands in innocencie All the day long haue I beene punished and chastened every morning And so cleare is this thing the godly which haue the promise sometime for the most part in such aduersitie and the vngodly which haue no promise in such prosperitie that heereby they euen insult ouer God and his children as in the 15. verse Ecce generationem filiorum tuorum Behold the generation of thy children as if they should say who neede care much to be of the number and their case no better And yet stil my brethren we holde fast this trueth which heere is taught vs namely that godlinesse hath the promise not only of the life that

bringing light out of darknes ioy out of griefe grace out of sin deliverance out of destruction life out of death it selfe that the true cause of our rejoycing may so appeare as Paul in the third of the first to the Corinthians sheweth 1. Cor. 3.21.22 Therefore saith he let no man reioyce in men for all thinges are yours whether it be Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death whether they be things present or things to come all are yours yee are Christes Christ is Gods Wherefore my deare brethren let vs be Christs as Christ is Gods that is Christians in deede as in name we are all things are ours to serue vs Psal 91.13 to minister vnto our good nothing shall hurt vs we shall walke as he saieth vpon the lion aspe the young lion the dragon shall he treade vnder feete this miracle in a sort shal stil be seene felt of vs of which out saviour saith They shall take away serpents Mark 16.19 if they shall drinke of any deadly thing if shall not hurt thē And such reioicing hath godlines And why thē should we fear a flout to be called godly of the vngodly beggers brats no better which haue nothing or the promise of nothing neither in this life nor in the life to come And yet least heere they may stande at a bay with vs and say againe that wee haue nothing as many of vs yea most of vs haue lesse in the things of this life yet this is not true that we haue nothing and fewe of the godly not Lazarus himselfe but hath some thing according to the trueth of this which the Apostle teatheth vs that Godlines hath the promise of this life also For if he haue nothing else yet he hath life it selfe and the same more perfectly then any of the vngodly in the worlde For euery thing may be said to be had according to the vse perfection of the vse For if I holde a treasure in my hande which is fast sealed to mee in a bagge I may rather be saide to handle it then to haue it Or if I be in an house without any comfortable vse of that house in which I am it may better bee saide to haue me then I it And so likewise according to the perfection and excellencie of each vse every thing may be saide to be more or lesse perfectly had of vs. So Lazarus with his trumbes and rags because he had a godlie life and a comfortable life with God and a sweet expectation of the life to come he was more aliue then the rich with his robes depriued of all true comforte in all his life And I know not how yes it is the blessing of God which can multiplie in vse a little and so make it much much better and so and in this sense much bigger then the far and large portion of the wicked And in this sense I doubt not but Dauid saith in the 37 Psalme Better is a little Psal 37.16 which each righteous deeds which they haue vngodly cōmitted and of al their cruel speakings which wicked sinners haue spoken against him I adde and his for he and his must go togither And therefore let vs also my brethren as ioine-workers with God for the glory of God honour of godlines speake against them and do against them euery man as he can do most that al the vngodly of the earth like drosse may be consumed Psal 119. vers 119. the godlie in Iesus Christ increased and comforted Religion maintained and God aboue al glorified To whom be glory dominion and maiestie both now and euer Amen FINIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉