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A17324	Dauids thanksgiuing for the arraignement of the man of earth, set forth in two sermons by W.B. The first sermon sheweth the manner of Dauids thanksgining, and containeth many comfortable points necessarie for afflicted consciences. The second sermon setteth forth the matter it selfe, for Dauid giueth thanks and that is, The arraignement of the man of earth ...	Burton, William, d. 1616.	1598 (1598)	STC 4172; ESTC S109549	26,720	100

To sit in iudgment vpon the poore mans case So that when God doth proceede against the wicked it is in iudgement And though the poore commit his cause vnto God yet it shal be iudged and without a iudiciall proceeding shall nothing be done for God is no acaccepter of persons as men be though he loueth the godly yet they shall stand to their triall and though he hateth the wicked yet they shall haue their triall all shall be iudged and all wronges shall be righted by iudgement therfore it is saide in the Psalme The Lord shall iudge the people righteously This maketh the godly so willingly to appeale vnto God saying as Sarai said to Abraham The Lord be Iudge betweene me and thee God hath erected iudgement feates on earth vpon whom he hath set Princes and rulers and graced them with his owne name and sittes amongst them to make them to be honoured and regarded And their iudgments are or should be Gods iudgements but oftentimes through corruption good matters are borne downe bad matters are borne vp we see the complaint of Amos proue too true They turne iudgement to wormewood saith hee and leaue of righteousnes And that also of Esay By conceiuing and vttering out of the heart false matters iudgement is turned backe and iustice standeth farre of for trueth is fallen in the streete iniquitie cannot enter yea trueth faileth saith the Prophet and he that refraineth from euill maketh himselfe a pray But what was there no remedie how did the Lotd take this geare marke what followeth when the Lord saw it it displeased him that there was no iudgement And when he saw that there was no man he wondred that none would offer himselfe But is that all verily no. Therefore his arme did saue it that is his power did rescue the praie and his righteousnes it selfe did sustaine it that is he himselfe tooke the matter in hand For he put on righteousnes as an habergeon and an helmet of saluation vpon his head as if he were to goe amongst his enemies He put on the garments of vengeance for a cloathing was clad with zeale as with a cloak as to recompence and to requite the furie of the aduersaries he will fully repaie the Ilands So shall they feare the name of the Lord from the West and his glorie from the rising of the sunne for the enemie shall come like a floode but the spirit of the Lord shall chase him away And this is the godly poore mans comfort Therefore saith the Psalmist Let the people be glad and reioyce for thou shalt iudge the folke righteously and gouerne the nations of the world And Paule saith It is a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them that trouble you And to you which are troubled rest with vs when the Lord Shall shew himselfe from heauen with his mightie Angels And in his first Epistle speaking of the same matter in other wordes he concludeth thus Comfort your selues one another with these words And heere Dauid reioyceth and praiseth God for that he will iudge the poore and fatherlesse Iustice and equitie in the world and from the world are two of the hardest the dearest the rarest iewels that cā be gottē the poore do desire thē God hath granted their desire to iudge the fatherles the poore that the mā of earth cause to feare no more And here now we see that verified which is in Psal. 126. 5. They that sow in teares shall reape in ioy And that which we haue in a prouerbe A hard beginning maketh a good ending for one woulde haue thought by Dauids beginning of this Psalme that he should not haue made so good an end for thus he beginneth Why doest thou hide thy selfe aad stand a farr off O Lord in time of affliction That is Why haue we not iustice but he endeth as you heare Lord thou hast hearde the desire of the poore to iudge which is as much as can be desired But let vs reason a little with Dauid abou this matter How is it that thou beginning so rudely doest speed so well in the end If the God of heauen should haue dealt with thee Dauid as the Gods of the earth doe with their suters it were a wonder that euer thou shouldest finde so much fauour for though thy matter were good yet thou mightest haue marred it in the handling thou diddest vtter one speach that was inough to haue spilled all Why doest thou hide thy selfe c. What an vnreuerent rash and vnaduised speach was this to vtter to the Lord of Heauen and Earth would the Gods of the earth haue takē such a speach at thy hand or at any poore mans hand No Dauid no many haue sustained great wrong by wicked men and haue had good causes that for such a word yea for a lesse offence then thine haue bene very hardly dealt withal whē they haue but craued iustice c. Now thy fault is greater and God is a seuere God it is to be maruailed then how thou diddest escape and speede so well as thou diddest It is true indeed saith Dauid I confesse my frailtie and my fault to be great and so must they also that speake rashly before Gods Magistrates but if the Lord should narrowly marke euery word that is spoken or euery thing that is done amisse as men doe who coulde stand before him No the Lord knoweth whereof we be made and considereth in mercy that through extreame heate of passionate affections and weaknes of faith his children be caried many times beyond themselues but vpon their humble submission and vnfained repentance he freely forgiueth thē though men will not Yea the Lord in mercie doth put a difference betweene his seruants his enemies though men many times will not I recanted my opinion and sayde The Lord is king for euer and euer for all my rude beginning haue through Gods mercy obtained a good ending Praised be the Lord which hath hearde the desire of the poore to iudge the fatherlesse and the poore that the man of earth cause to feare no more A notable example for earthen Gods magistrates I meane to follow and not with bitternes and rigour to censure and in extremitie to prosecute euerie slip and aduantage of poore ministers and other honest men when they come to complaine before them but with loue words of graue and gracious counsell to heale or at least to couer the sore least the vncircumcised doe reioyce and triumph ouer their fathers and brethren as cursed Cham did at his fathers nakednes And so much for the bringing of the beginning and ending of Dauids petition together Nowe let vs heare a little more of the thing it selfe that the Lord hath granted and that is this that it will please his Maiestie to heare determine betweene his poore people on the one side and their cruell oppressors on the other side

more IN the former verse Dauid praiseth God for hearing the desires of his poore seruants but now he sheweth more particularly what was their desire and wherein God hath heard them at the last namely they desire that GOD woulde iudge and determine betweene them their oppressors and this is the thing that God hath granted them from whēce the faithfull may learne this comfortable generall doctrine that when they shal be vniustly oppressed God at length wil be reuenged of their aduersaries and deliuer his children which may serue to admonish vs to endure the crosse manfully because God will not many times helpe his poore children before they be brought to extreame danger A hard thing this is to flesh and blood because euery one desireth to be free from trouble and therfore except God doth quickly helpe he seemeth to be slow in helping or forgetfull of his promises which God forbid we should imagine but if we desire his helpe we must wait his leasure our affections must be tamed our impatience must be beaten downe our griefes must be mitigated vntill our extreeme miseries may prouoke the fauour of God and to this purpose is that parable of the poore Widow and the wicked Iudge propounded by our Sauiour Christ in the Gospell and in this sort applied to God and his children that if a wicked Iudge fearing neither God nor man will notwithstanding be ouercome with importunate suters at last to doe them iustice how much more will God that is a most righteous Iudge and all righteousnes it selfe heare at length his poore children which call and crie day and night vnto him for Iustice. That earthly man c. The wicked lift vp their heads aboue the clouds and yet are but mortall and subiect to many miseries and therfore are they called men of earth to shame them and to humble them for this is their insolent madnes and mad insolencie while they forget their estate and condition they breath out threateninges as Saul did against the Church of God as if God himselfe were not sufficient to represse their rage And yet they are but men men of earth too come against God as if wormes should come out of the ground to fight against their maker or as if an earthen pitcher should encoūter with a mountaine of Brasse they are made of earth yea and of the baseft earth to euen of the dust of the earth Clay is good for somthing Sand is good for somthing Marle is good for somthing Dung is good for somthing Grauel is good for somthing and earth is good for something but Dust is good for nothing except it be to put out mens eyes of that is mā made which cōsideratiō may greatly humble the hiest the stoutest the brauest the proudest but the wicked according to their making do sauour nothing else but earth and the most vile things of the earth and therefore are fitly called earthly because they liue like earth wormes And though there be legions miltitudes of them yet are they here called by a word of the singular number Man of earth not men And that may be either in regard of their wicked vnity or else in regard of their great inability to effect that which they purpose whē God shal crosse thē In wickednes they ioyne altogether as one mā Cast in thy lot amongst vs say theeues murtherers we will haue all one purse And in like manner the wicked in all euill ioyne as one man And yet they shall do no more then one man alone and that of earth too that is little or nothing except it be to their own ouerthrow as the Egytiās did when they all followed the poore Israelites into the sea For man of earth what is hee what can he doe what is his beginning what is his bringing vp and what is his ending Is he not begotten of wickednes conceiued of wretchednes and borne of weakenes worse then a dunghill Is he not brought vp in ignorance blindnes in folly and vanitie Is not he against God and God against him His life is death and his death is double temporall and eternall for the second hath no end what can he doe Doth he liue moue breath it is by God Pilates power was from aboue And while God doth giue him leaue to breath and to possesse the world he is cruell carnall proud and obstinate He is like the image in the second of Daniel whose head was of Gold his breast and armes were of Siluer his belly and his thighs of Brasse but his legges were of Iron and his feete of Iron Clay And in like sort is the state of great earthly worldlings compounded with their golden heads and stately buildings with their siluer breastes and armes and costly apparrell with their brasen thighes and mightie friends with their Iron legges and strong supporting liuings they make a terrible shew but with their Iron earthly feete with their hard heartes and earthlie affections they are caried vp downe in the world which hitting against one little stone cut without hands that is Christ Iesus and his Gospell that lie in their waies as a stone of offence to stumble vpon they crumble and fall downe to their vtter spoyle and euerlasting ouerthrowe But the heauenlie man shal be able through God to stand and to doe valiantlie and therefore they are called the man of God because the faithfull are as one man also vnited by the communion of Saintes and hauing God amongest them are able to doe great matters Princes Magistrates Preachers are made of earth too yet hauing but a sparke of Gods Maiestie in them or rather but the reflexion of a sparke of Gods power and Maiestie vpon them are mightie and terrible through Gods spirit and ought to be terrible to all Gods enemies and wicked men but not to the innocent and godlie if they vse or abuse their power which God hath put in them to the cooling of any good mans courage or to the quenching of the spirit or to the disgracing or oppressing of poore Christians as many doe as though they were Gods and not of earth surely God will iudge them make thē that they shal no more terrifie his children then Pharao that proud hearted King and the Aegyptians his subiects which laye drowned in the bottome of the sea and so much be the meaning of the words Now to the matter of Dauids thanksgiuing Dauid praiseth God for iudging betweene his poore seruants and their oppressors This is that for want whereof he complaineth in the first verse This is it for wante wherof the wicked were so lusty to contemne God By this he will breake the armes that is the power of the wicked and search out their wickednes This is the poore Churches desire namely a iudiciall hearing And to this ende hath God prepared their hearts and to this ende doth the Lord encline his eare vnto them namely