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A93240	Divine cordials: delivered in ten sermons, upon part of the ninth and tenth chapters of Ezra, in a time of visitation. By that godly and faithfull preacher of Gods Word, Iosiah Shute, B.D. and late rector of Mary Woolnoths in Lumbard-Street London. Published by authority.	Shute, Josias, 1588-1643.; Reynoldes, William.	1644 (1644)	Wing S3714; Thomason E38_7; ESTC R7756	101,687	190

Cor. 5.20 he intreats the Corinthians in Christs stead to be reconciled to God 2 Cor. 5.20 So that if it be the counsell of God if it be Gods Commission it is Gods word and till we be perswaded of this wee shall never reap any benefit by Gods Word Jer. 1.9 The Lord saith to Jeremiah Jer. 1.9 J have put my words in thy mouth Christ is called The Sun of righteousnesse Mal. 4.2 and the Ministers be starres in his hand Mal. 4.2 from him they have and borrow their light and influence Therefore let men be perswaded of this I inveigh against such a mans pride what faith he I thinke hee loves to heare himselfe talk and thus because he is not perswaded we speake Gods word like Noah's unclean beasts hither he comes and from hence he departs unclean and polluted whereas if men replyed it was God that put this invective into his Ministers mouth to meet with my corruption they would say as the people of Israel said Deu. 5.27 Whatsoever the Lord saith Deut. 5.27 that wee will doe Therefore pray unto the Lord that yee may bee perswaded that what his Ministers faithfully deliver he himselfe speaks in them and till you come to this perswasion in the care will be no attendance in the outward man no reverence in the heart no credence and in the conversation no obedience Sermon X. EZRA 10. the latter part of the 3. verse And According to the counsell of those that tremble at the Commandement of our God and let it bee done according to the Law IT should seeme that there were others besides Ezra which advised the people to put away their strange wives and they such as are said to tremble at the word of God and here observe the power of Gods word The power of Gods word is such Doctr. that if makes mem tremble Jer. 23.29 To prove this looke Jer. 23.29 Is not my word like a fire saith the Lord and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces it is a fire to melt the relenting heart and a hammer to break in pieces the heart that is obdurate See it in some instances when Josiah heard the Law read his heart was tender and melted 2 Kings 22.18 Psal 119. 2 Kings 22.18 there Gods word was a fire and in Psal 119. David saith sHe was afraid because of Gods Word There it was a hammer Hab. 3.16 and Hab. 3.16 the Prophet saith Whon I heard my bellytrembled my lips quivered at the voyce rottennesse entred into my bones and I trembled in my selfe Here also it was a hammer See it in the wicked themselves when Samuel told Saul that God had rejected him for his disobedience 1 Sam. 15. 1 Sam. 15. he was excedingly terrified and amazed The like wee see in Ahab when God sent Elijah to challenge him for killing innocent Naboth and taking possession of his Vineyard the word of God in that Prophets mouth made him quake and tremble 1 Kings 21.27 So wee read of Belshazzar 1 Kings 21 2● when he saw the hand writing on the Wall which yee must suppose to be the Word of God His countenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him so that the joynts of his loynes were loosed and his knees smote one against another and all his Concubines Wine and Copes-mates could not bring colour into his face Dan. 5.6 Daniel 5.6 And it is said Acts 14.15 As Paul reasoned of righteousnesse temperance Acts 24.25 and judgement to come Felix trembled Now that this effect of Gods Word may not seeme strange unto you see the causes thereof one cause whereof is in the word it self therefore it is said to be the power of God to salvation Rom. 1.16 Romans 1.16 And in Hebrewes 4.12 it is said Heb. 4.12 to bee quick and powerfull sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soule and spirit and of the joynts and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart and in the 2 Cor. 10.4 5. the weapons of our warfare are not carnall 2 Cor. 10.4 5. but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts it self against the knowledge of God mistake me not I doe not make this power to be in it as it is consisting of syllables but as it is Gods Ordinance and hath the Spirit of God going along with it The second cause is from the application of it when it is not onely generally delivered but particularly applyed when the Word of God meets with a mans particular sin then the conscience takes part with the Word against himself and makes him tremble so it was with Saul the Prophet Samuel fell so pat upon his finne that be became afraid and took part with Gods Word against himself saying I have sinned and have transgressed the commandement of the Lord the like wee see in Ahab he was very briske when Elijah first met him saying Hast thou found me O my enemy but the Prophet knowing him to be guilty of Naboths blood tells him home of it and before hee left him brought him upon his knees and when Felix trembled at Pauls Sermon of Righteousnesse Temperance and Iudgement to come some are of opinion that he trembled at the consideration of the last judgement and it cannot be denied but that is matter of such terrour as to make the fairest Lady look pale if shee be not painted but I rather conceive that there was something more which made him tremble for Saint Paul discoursed of Righteousnesse and Temperance now hee was a wicked man and defective in both these for hee was an unrighteous Iudge and abused the power committed to him however Tertullus flatter him in the contrary again gain hee was guilty of intemperance for he kept Drusilla another mans wife Now when a man that was a stranger to him should thus directly fall upon the sinnes which he knew himself guilty of it could not but make him tremble It was so with David the parable of the poor mans sheep came so home to him that he presently confesses that hee had sinned against the Lord as it is with a man that is smitten in a sound part of his body though you smite him hard hee can indure it but if he be but touched in a fore place he starts presently so when a man is met with in his sins hee will quake and tremble if any grace be in him Vse 1 Is the word of God of such power then it meets not onely with Anabaptists who contemn the Word of God but with many profane ones among us who vilifie the same saying it is an invention of man and hath no force in it although in my conscience I am perswaded that they speak against their consciences for out of doubt the Word of God hath at one time or other met with their corruptions

of thy house and shall they thus irritate and provoke thee thus the servants of God have been conversant in those courses which might make their prayers most fervent Dan. 6.10 it is said of Daniel Dan. 6.10 that hee prayed thrice a day and when he prayed hee opened his window toward Hierusalem which was instar flabelli devotioni as a paire of bellowes to blow up his devotion and this is a straine of Solomons prayer 1 King 8.44 1 Kings 8.44 If thy people goe out to battell against their enemies whithersoever thou shalt send them and shall pray unto the Lord toward the house that I have built for thy name then heare thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication and maintaine their cause Psal 5.7 and David saith Psal 5.7 In thy feare will I worship toward thine holy Temple all this was but to inflame the affections of these holy men in that religious duty Sermon VI. EZRA 10. the last words of the first Verse There assembled to him out of Israel a very great Congregation of men and women and children for the people wept very sore VVE come now to the first fruit of Ezra his humiliation and that is the convening of a great Congregation to him before that he had humbled himselfe as we have heard we finde not that any took it to heart although their sinnes occasioned it but this compassion of his made them congregate and weepe very sore so that Ezra hath here the glory of being an example of goodnesse to others and it is as great a glory as can be in this life for a man to goe before others in well doing it was so here with Ezra he begins and the rest follow What a glory was it to Abraham that among all the men in the world he should be called the friend of God What a glory was it to Sarah that shee above all other women should be called the mother of beleeving women What a glory was it to Salomon that he should be the first man that should build a Temple to God What a glory was it to Hezekiah that he should be made choice of to restore the Passeover which for so long a time had been intermitted What a glory was it to David that he led the people into the house of God with the voice of singing and praise Psal 42.4 42 Psal 4. It is a great commendation which Saint Paul gives to Epenetus 16 Rom. 5. hee calls him Rom. 16.5 the first fruits of Achaia unto Christ Ye know the first fruits were ever best pleasing to God and surely for a man to be the first in a Countrey which shall give up his name to Christ it must needs be a very great honour Chrysostome saith on that place if it be such a matter to be great in the world what is it then to be eminent for Piety Nay saith hee this good man was not onely the first fruites of Achaia but he was a door or entrance to all that beleeved in that place so it was a great glory to Mary Magdalene that our Blessed Saviour would vouchsafe to appear to her first after his Resurrection and it was no lesse glory to the people of Antioch that they above all others should be first called Christians it was no small honour to the Thessalonians which Paul testifieth of them in the 1 Thess 1.7 that they were ensamples to all that beleeved in Macedonia and Achaia 1 Thess 1 7. and hee saith as much to the honour of the Corinthians 2 Cor. 9 2. 2 Cor. 9.2 that their zeal had provoked very many It is to stirre us all up to this holy pride to be the first in good actions Hee that did first invent Printing his Name will be famous to the end of the world so now to be the first that beleeves in a Towne to be the first that puts a good law in execution to lay the first stone in a Pious worke this is no small but a very great honour but on the other side what a shame is it for a man to be the first that shall break a good Law to be the first that shall invent a new fashion to be the first in inventing wicked games and new wayes of drinking nay there have been those that have invented new pleasures as Sardanapalus and new torments as in the Primitive times the first experiment whereof was made upon the poore Christians and in the Rom. 1.30 among the catalogue of sinnes and sinners there spoken of Rom. 1.30 ye shall finde inventers of evill things to be of the number O it is an evill thing to be such and yet we have such as these in these times what strange oathes are coyn'd and devised now adaies they are such as I feare once to name them what strange fashions are invented by others such as our Fore-fathers never knew nor saw what strange wayes of drinking have the sons of Belial devised by the yard by the dye by the dosen by the score nay what beginners of strange opinions have wee amongst us and what strange kindes of cheats are there in the world they are such as no warinesse of Laws can take hold of the Authours wee wonder at new diseases that come amongst us every yeere but we may cease to wonder when we consider what new sinnes be every day committed therefore God sends strange diseases amongst us because we are guilty of new impieties in the Name of God let us affect being first in well-doing but let us not so much as move to be the last in evill I will not excuse him that followes an ill example but his judgement shall be greatest that gave an ill example that digged the pit for another to fall into for our Saviour hath said it Woe be unto him by whom the offence comes But will some say I could be content to follow any in a good way or worke but I would faine have others shew me the way To whom I answere that if Noah had stood upon this he had never built the Arke and if Nehemiah had stood on this the walls of Hierusalem had not been re-built had the Leaper in the Gospel stood on this he had never returned to give thankes for ten were cleansed onely one returned to give our Saviour thanks so if the Samaritan had stood on this the poore man that lay by the high-way side half dead had died outright how can the Kingdome of heaven suffer violence if men strive not to goe before each other in goodnesse We say he is an ill horse that will not lead the way but only follow and I will not give a button for that Christian that will doe no more then he sees others doe How doe yee in your affaires in the world if a commoditie come from beyond the Seas of which you stand in need doe you stay till others bid money for it no but with all speed yee get it into your