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A18963	Foure sermons The two first, of godly feare: on Hebrewes 4. verse 1. By Robert Cleauer. The two last. Of Christian loue and life. On Canticles 2. verse 10. By Richard Webb.	Cleaver, Robert, 1561 or 2-ca. 1625.; Webb, Richard, preacher of God's word. aut	1613 (1613)	STC 5381; ESTC S108059	69,327	96

giuen of them These are they which are not defiled with women for they are Virgins these follow the Lambe whithersoeuer he goeth these are bought from men being the first fruits vnto God and to the Lambe Reu. 14.4 Thus you see how we should goe after Christ and be well content to leaue all the world to follow him The reasons to moue vs herevnto are these First Reason because he is our husband and we are his wife Ephes 5.26 For the wife must follow her husband and forsaking all other friends must cleaue onely vnto him Gen. 2.25 Secondly because he will then take a great delight in vs and satisfie himselfe in our loue according to that which is in Psal 45.11.12 where it is said Hearken O daughter and consider encline thine eare forget also thine owne people thy fathers house So shal the King haue pleasure in thy bewtie for hee is thy Lord and reuerence thou him Thirdly because wee are dead to the world and a liue in him C●l 3.3.4 Lastly because he will liberally reward all such as doe come after him Verily saith he I say vnto you that when the sonne of man shall sit in the throne of his Maiestie ye which followed me in the regeneration shall sit also vpon twelue thrones and iudge the twelue tribes of Israel And whosoeuer shall forsake houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my names sake he shall receiue an hundred-fold more and shall inherit euerlasting life This reproues those that care not for Christ Vse but followes this world altogither Whatsoeuer they be whether rich or poor high or low wise or vnwise bond or free male or female certaine it is that they are none of Christs Hee will disclaime them and not approue them for his owne If any man saith he come to mee and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters yea and his owne life also he cannot be my Disciple And whosoeuer beareth not his crosse and commeth after mee cannot be my Disciple Luk. 14.26.27 wherefore let this worke repentance in the harts of worldly men and turne them to the louing Lord. As this doth serue to reproue all such as preferre the world before Christ so it may serue also to prouoke vs all to preferre Christ before the world Surely it should moue vs to set him still before vs and pricke vs forward to goe after him if a man were in a farre country farre from his friends and neerest kinsfolkes though his eyes did behold the fairest pictures his eares heare the sweetest musicke his mouth tast the daintiest meate his body lie vpon the softest bed and all his senses compassed about with the rarest obiects of tenne thousand yet would his heart be at home vnlesse hee were bewitched as the poets faine of Vlisses whom the cups of Circe did make to forget his natiue country and faithfull wife So cuen so vnlesse we be inchanted with the witchcraft of the deuill all the trash and pelfe of this world cannot hold vs here below but our harts will mount vpward and be fixed vpon our Bride-grome in whose presence is the fulnesse of ioy and at whose right hand are pleasures for euermore and all our trauell will especially tend to attaine vnto our country in the heauens and to celestiall Ierusalem that is aboue For wee are here as strangers and pilgrimes vpon the earth 1 Pet. 2.11 and our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or corporation whereof wee are members is in the heauen Phil. 3.20 Surely our earthly houses are not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is rather an Inne to lodge in then a permanent mansion to abide in 2 Cor. 5.1 wherefore I pray you let vs euermore set our hearts vpon Christ and follow him It is recorded in the greeke and Romaine stories that Hypsicrataea did so excedingly loue her busband M●●hridates King of Pontus that when hee was put to flight and enforced to wander vp and downe the woodes and deserts to saue his life she attyred in mans apparrell did follow him euery way through th●●●e and thinne reputing her kingdome her wealth her country and her happinesse to be there where her husband was So after the same manner if we be so faithfully affected to our most sweet and louing husband in the heauens we must not settle vpon our lees nor set our affections on things that are below but follow on hard though it be through the thorny path of persecution or the strait way that hee is gone before vs wee must count all things but dunge and drosse in respect of him Phil. 7.8 If any man would here know how wee must goe after Christ Obiection the answere is that we must doe it first by contemplation Answere secondly by desideration thirdly by determination fourthly by conuersation or imitation By contemplation wee euermore thinking of him and hauing our thoughts in heauen where hee is 2 Cor. 4.18 By desideration wee euermore desiring to be in his presence and to haue a fellowship with him in ioyes vnspeakeable Col. 7.1 Phil. 1.23 2 Cor. 5.8 By determination we euermore resoluing with our selues to cleaue continually to him and to repute all things but trash in respect of him Act. 11.23 Phil. 3.8 Reu. 12.11 By conuersation or imitation wee euermore labouring to doe as he hath done and to walke in such steps as hee is gone before vs. Ephes 5.2 Ioh. 13.15 Math. 11.29 Oh my brethren striue and contend to follow Christ after these waves if there be any thing that will hinder you from the same cast it away Heb. 12.1 Be it that the right hand or the right eye should cause you to offend herein yet spare them not cut off the one and pull out the other Math. 18.8.9 There are many Lords doubtlesse striuing for vs. The world with her pleasures allures many to follow her but pretend what she will in truth her word is Decipion I will deceiue you The flesh would haue man a seruant to her lusts shee wants not her baites wherewith to beguile him but in truth her word is Inficiam I will infect you Satan strongest of the three vsurpes superiority ouer man hee craues that man should fall downe and vvorship him he vvante not promises enough faire in shew but in truth his word is Interficiam I will destroy you Iesus Christ our lawfull Lord bee also calls vpon vs and exhorts vs to serue him he hath life in the one hand durable riches and honour in the other and in truth his word is Reficiam I will refresh you Now in this strife to vvhom shall vvee yeeld our selues but vnto him vvho cries Reficiam Let vs therefore doe as vve are here vvilled for to doe come away and then doubtlesse vvee shall vvant nothing Habent enim omnia qui habent Christum habentem omnia For they haue all vvho doe enioy Christ the Lord of all And so I end and commend you to God and to the vvord of his grace vvhich is able to build further and to giue you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified To the vvhich inheritance the Lord bring vs all for his sonnes sake to vvhom vvith the father and the holy Ghost one eternall God and three distinct persons be all honour and glory ascribed both novv and euermore Amen FINIS

neglect to giue an exhortation or consolation to the poorest and meanest when neede doth require But herein many doe lamentably offend who if some great one of their charge be present will afford them a Sermon but if they be absent the rest shall goe without This is wretched partialitie nay indeed grosse carnalitie and folly and argueth that they are men-pleasers and seeke themselues in their doctrine and not Christ Iesus in that they haue most regard of those that are commonly the most vnprofitable hearers and neglect such as vsually reape most fruit by preaching for ordinarily the poore receiue the Gospell Seeme to be depriued Doct. 8 Whence ariseth this point that The Lord would not onely haue men to be in the state of saluation There must be no appearance of being out of the state of Grace 2 Cor. 13.6 but would haue it knowen that they are in that state that there might be no suspition of the contrary Therefore is it that the Apostle saith vnto the Corinthians I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates Where the word I trust implyeth not any doubtfulnesse but indeed a certaintie of the thing affirmed And this had Demetrius attained vnto 3 Iob ver 12. of whom the Apostle Iohn speaketh thus Demetrius hath a good report of all men and of the truth it selfe yea and we our selues beare record and ye know that our record is true He carried himselfe so holily that he had a good testimonie from all Gods people from the truth which hee embraced and practised and from the Apostle Iohn himselfe who doeth in a sort ministerially commend him so that looke what he sayd of him the holy Ghost sayd the same in which regard hee addeth and yee know that our record is true and that we are not deceiued Now that it is necessary to make knowne our goodnesse by a Christian conuersation that both we our selues and other may haue a well grounded perswasion of our happy estate may appeare by these reasons First Reasons 1 because that will be a marueilous great incouragement vnto vs in the seruices of God in that we are assured that whatsoeuer we doe shall be both accepted and rewarded of the Lord. Secondly wee may then boldly reproue and admonish others neither need we be afrayd of that byting Prouerbe Physition heale thy selfe for all men may cleerely see that we haue healed our selues Thirdly this brings great honour with it so that Christians dare trust vs and lay open their hearts vnto vs yea wicked men will reuerence vs and in their distresses seeke vnto vs for counsell and comfort and sometimes put vs in trust with their wils and for the disposing of their goods and of their children after their death rather than carnall friends that are in bandes of nature neerely linked vnto them This should teach vs to giue all diligence as the Apostle Peter exhorteth to make our calling and election sure Vse 1 2 Pet. 1. and that not onely vnto our owne soules but as farre as possibly we can to giue testimonie thereof vnto other mens consciences If euer wee will vse diligence in any thing let it be in this It is good husbandry to make sure for our outward estate and not to builde vpon vaine hopes much more is it a point of wisedome carefully to looke vnto the state of our soules which should be a thousand times deerer vnto vs than our bodies If we be doubtfull that there is some dangerous disease growing vpon vs that is likely to take away our life who is there among vs but will seeke vnto the Physition to preuent that mischiefe how much more carefull should we be of our soules when wee plainely perceiue that there is not onely a deadly sicknesse vpon them but that they are already dead in sinne in danger to be damned eternally if we seeke not vnto Christ Iesus for a speedie remedy Let vs not be secure and carelesse in a matter of such consequence 1 Thes 1.4 but labour for a working faith and a diligent loue that so not onely we our selues but others also that haue the spirit of discerning may know that we are the elect of God by the fruits of godlinesse appearing in vs and proceeding from vs. Secondly Vse 2 here are those to be reproued that are content to liue in perplexitie and anguish of heart in regard of the vncertaintie of their saluation rather than they will be at the paines to haue this assurance sealed vnto their soules As also those that would faine haue a good opinion among men and desire much to be reputed heires of saluation and yet shew forth so little pietie towards God and loue towards their brethren that they cause their wisest and best friends to be suspitious of them To be depriued The word that is vsed in the originall signifieth properly to come too late as suiters doe that are preuented and also to be out-runne in a race and so to lose the prize both which senses may well stand and from thence this Doctrine may be raised that Many haue some likelihood of saluation Doct. 9 Many seeme to be religious who yet misse of saluation and yet faile of the same For otherwise the holy Ghost would neuer haue gone about to stirre them vp to an holy watchfulnesse ouer their hearts and wayes by this reason Lest any should seeme to bee depriued for if some did not come short of saluation that in appearance sought for it how should any seeme to be depriued therefore it is plaine out of this text that some may be in a sort suiters for eternall life and yet misse of it and runne though not as they ought to doe the race of Christianitie and yet not obtaine the crowne which is proposed to those that with a faithfull and true heart doe seeke for the same This may be seene in the foolish Virgins Matth. 25. who made an externall profession and ioyned with the wise Virgins in the seruice of God and thought to haue beene receiued with them when the Bride-groome came but for all this they were excluded when the rest were admitted The like we may obserue in the stony and thorny ground who receiued the seed and brought forth the one the blade and the other the eare as well as the blade and yet neither of them were good grounds and therefore the one sort shrunke when persecution came and the other were carried away with the commodities and delights of this present life So in this Epistle to the Hebrewes it is euident Hebr. 6. that some are inlightned by the Word and haue some taste of good things and yet being not sound in iudgement nor sincere in affection they afterwards fall away vnto their eternall perdition Which should cause vs to shake off all securitie Vse 1 and neuer to stand at a stay but to goe forward in the wayes of godlinesse working out our saluation in feare and trembling