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A02030	The bread of life, or Foode of the regenerate A sermon preached at Botterwike in Holland, neere Boston, in Lincolnshire. By Thomas Granger, preacher of Gods word there.	Granger, Thomas, b. 1578.	1616 (1616)	STC 12177; ESTC S121351	21,732	40

his owne conceit for his owne wisedome and prouidence Ezech. 28. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. He that is thus alienated in his heart from the Lord is a fornicator diuorcing himselfe from the Lord adulterating and polluting all the creatures and gifts of God In which kind of vsage both he and they are accursed euen as the Serpent was accursed whom Satan abused to tempt our first parents to sinne Gen. 3. 14. and as the brazen serpent was broken in peeces being abused by the Israelites 2 King 18. 4. In which sence and for which cause they are called wicked Mammon But the body is for the Lord. Euen for God and Christ who in him and by him and through him hath reconciled begotten and married vs his Church to himselfe that being separated from our selues from the world Psal 45. 10. 11. we should onely beleeue in him onely hope in him onely loue him and all things for him yea that we should be so rauished with the loue of his presence as that we should neglect all worldly things and euen forget to eate our bread Hereby we are taught to bridle our inordinate desires and to moderate our cares labouring for worldly things which are fraile vncertaine and corruptible and to busie our selues not so much in the getting of aboundance with continuall vexation disquietnesse feares and sorrowes as to seeke continually to the Lord to sanctifie and establish our hearts with his good spirit to grant vs patience and contentation with that which commeth to vs from his hand and to giue vs wisedome and discretion to order our affaires and so to dispose of the same as may be most for his glory the good of vs and ours and of others especially the godly the care of whose things pertaine to vs also To this purpose let vs alway beare in minde the words of the Apostle 1 Tim. 6. 8. When wee haue foode and raiment let vs be therewith content Vers 9. For they that will be rich fall into temptations and snares and into many foolish and noisome lusts which drowne men in perdition and destruction Vers 10. For the desire of money is the root of all euill which while some haue lusted after they haue erred from the faith and pierced themselues through with many sorrowes Vers 17. Charge them that are rich in this world that they be not high minded and that they trust not in vncertaine riches but in the liuing God which giueth vs abundantly all things to enioy Vers 18 that they doe good and be rich in good works c. Secondly seeing that our bodies are but the vessels and houses of our soules 2 Cor. 5. 1. And that all things serue onely for the sustentation and maintenance thereof wee are heereby taught to make a separation of the spirituall soule from the earthly body and to bee ioyned in spirit to the Lord not liuing to and for the body nor hauing any care to please and satisfie it in the lusts thereof but liuing in to and for the Lord subduing and beating downe the rebellious flesh crucifying euery thought imagination and lust bringing them into bondage and homage to the Lord that the vertues and graces of his spirit may shine forth in our words workes and euen in our persons as the light appeared out of darkenesse and gaue shine vnto the world 1 Cor. 9. 24. 25. 26. 27. Math. 5. 14. Phil. 2. 15. Prou. 4. 18. But alas how short wee come of those duties and how neerely and deerely we are addicted lincked and bound to the body may easily appeare if wee enter into vnpartiall iudgement with our selues examining our daily practice and the continuall course of our liues And comparing our selues as wee are with our selues as we should be wee shall easily see that wee are flesh and not spirit that our soules are the drudges of our bodies and our bodies the drudges of our meate seeing that for the large possessions and plenty of outward things many haue no regard to the body to the safety or health thereof Eccles 4. 8. In the practice of this multitude that followed Christ wee may behold as in a glasse the nature and condition of all earthly men For wee are all of one earth or clay descended of earthly Adam our mindes are full of darkenesse our wills froward our affections sensuall there is none righteous none vnderstandeth none seeeketh after God Rom. 3. 10. 11. All our labour trauel is to satisfie the flesh in the lusts thereof And therein are our paines endlesse and our desires boundlesse But when wee come to take view of our inner man the spirituall and regenerate part wee can see nothing our foules are dead or sicke and feeble for there is no spirituall hunger and thirst in vs after the bread of life the word of God there is no appetite desire care labouring for that because the sensuall body hath brought the soule into captiuity and subdued it to the flesh that with the powers and faculties thereof it should serue the flesh In the tillage and sowing of our ground what paines doe wee willingly take How readily doe wee plow and roote vp briers thistles and other weedes least they ouer-grow and sucke vp the fatte of the earth wherewith our corne should be fed How patiently can wee endure the cold of Winter the stormy blasts of the Spring and the broyling heat of Summer in doing our necessary businesses And when we haue done all what haue we got saue only a little perishing meat for our mortall bodyes But contrarily how little paines doe wee take in breaking vp the fallowes of our hearts in rooting out the thornes and briars of sinne which our nature doth as plentifully and willingly bring forth as the earth doth weedes Wee can well enough endure that the strength of soule and body should be eaten vp and deuoured of the canker-worme of sinne which should bring and shew forth the fruits of the Spirit A corrupt and weedy soile wee are and therefore wee are apt to receiue Satans tares and to cherish the same in vs but the word of life can make little or no impression in vs our cold waterish and heartlesse foules can not nourish the seede of God to bring forth any fruit for his vse In the time of haruest with what ioy doe we reape the fruits of the earth the very sight of our commodities so glads our hearts that hunger thirst sweat ache want of sleepe nothing troubles vs. We loue to be alwaies in the fields redeeming the faire season with losse of our pleasures and ease which otherwise wee know we should want afterward But how carelesse are wee in reaping the spirituall foode of our soules How little pleasure haue we therein We thinke we stand in no neede thereof therefore we goe dully and heauily to that field where the same is to be gathered as though wee came thither by compulsion of law rather than of a willing minde Many exeuses and