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A06192	The merchant reall. Preached by VVilliam Loe Doctour of Diuinitie chaplaine to the kings sacred maiestie, and pastour of the Englishe church of merchants adventurers residing at Hamboroughe in Saxonie	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1620 (1620)	STC 16688; ESTC S119918	69,019	116

〈◊〉 The light of this appeares in the vvord of the text vvhich signifieth beautifull cōmodious amiable superexcellent pearls Beautifull is goodnes in it selfe for if it could be portrayed in orient colours set out to the life vvonderfull vvould be the loue that men vvould be stirred vp to beare vnto it Cōmodious for godline is the goodliest riches Phil. 4.8.9 Amiable in effecte making them amiable that are good superexcellēt so sayth the Apostle whatsoeuer things are true vvhatsoeuer things are honest Whatsouer things are iust vvhatsoeuer things pure vvhatsoeuer things are louely vvhatsoeuer things are of good report if there be any vertue if there be any praise think on these things Those vvhich ye haue both learned and receaued hard seene in me doe the god of peace shall be vvith you The feete of them amiable that bring vs the meanes that makes vs to be good The promise that god vvould be present vvith it 2. Chro. 19 11. For Jehosaphat told his iudges that they should be of good courage doe it god vvould be vvith the good Mich. 6.8 And the declaration of this shevves it to be good For god hath shevved thee o man vvhat is good vvhat the lord requireth of thee surely to doe iustly to loue mercy to humble thy self to vvalke vvith thy god Secondly this appeares by the distinction of goodnes Naturall Morall Deuine Just Mar. For Christian Marchants doe not only desire accidentall good things as a good vvife good children good seruants Titus 2.12 such like vvhich are all gods good gifts And Morall goodnes in themselues but also Deuine goodnes vvhich leads them to this kingdome Heb. 10.24 2. Pet. 1.10 And these things doe soe neare touch vs that vve by goodnes the effecte thereof doe signe to others ● Tim. 1.7 seale to our selues the certainty of our election Wherein also our faith doth not only shevve it selfe but exercise Eph. 4. ●0 inflame vs to a godly seale Thirdly it abandoneth vs from sinne For as by euills vve greeue the holy ghost that sealeth vs vnto god soe by goodnes vve ioy our conscience in the holy ghost Fouerthly as by doing evill vve call to our selues many miseries Deut. 28. so by doing the good vve shall auoyd many euills of punishment see the goodnes of god in the land of the liuing Lastly goodnes is the vvay vvherein gods childrē ordinarily trade Eph. 2.10 for they are his vvorkmāshipe created for that purpose Thirdly there is a necessity of being good in gods children Not a necessity of coaction for gods children doe the good Chearfully Not of cause for goodnes is but the vvay and gods children vvalke therein but it is of necessary duty that vve should be good For that 's the vvill of god euen your santification 1. Thes 4.3 It is the commandement of god Let your lights so shine before men that they may see your good vvorkes Matt. 5.16 and glorifie your father vvhich is in heauen Tit. 2.12 it is the end of all preaching Noe good actiō can be done but by a good man vvho doth it out of a pure hart othervvise it is base sordid out of a true faith vvhich else is a glittering sinne to the glory of god Vae justitiae nostrae siremota justitia Christi judicetur Nam qu●equid in te est sine Christo Sathan est August vvhich othervvise is but hiprocrisie And this is the cause vvhy it is accepted of god for Christ his sake othervvise all our goodnes vvere menstruous monstrous The right of this appeares forasmuch as reall Christians knovve that god regardeth goodnes more then greatnes Nay there is nothing but foolish man regardeth greatnes Nature doth not for the sonnes of royalty are borne naked the god of nature is noe accepter of persons nor the destroyer of nature for death visits the crovvne assoone as the clovvne Againe it is the end scope of the reall Christians lyving vvhich hath three aspects in doing good First to the praise of god O lett my soule liue it shall praise thee sayth Dauid Secondly to comfort our selues in making our election sure by goodnes Lastly to ouercome others euill vvith our good ● Petr. ● 10 Secondly reall Christians are pertakers of the diuine nature For vvhen god tooke a vevve of vvhat he had made he savve it vvas exceeding good but vvhen mā tooke a suruay of vvhat he had done behold it vvas nothing but vanity vexation of spirit Thirdly good examples of good men doe encite gods children to goodnes For albeit none are absolutly good but god only 2. Chro. 32 32 2. Chro. 35 26. Yet the scripture stiles Hezekias Iosias to be good kings The goodnes of gods children hath a threefold povver Of Preseruation Vnion Communication It is a preservatiue to pull some out of the fire Iud. Epist 23. Of vnion to make peace Of communication by extending their goodnes to the saincts on earth Thy Christians faith is a proper a peculiar good betvvixt god thine ovvne soule but a Christians goodnes is extensiue delated to all demensions of goodnes The very profession of a Christian is goodnes See in the rule of addition in Christian arythmetike that S. Peter setteth dovvne for sayth he Adde to your faith vertue 2. Pet. 1● 5.6.7.8 to vertue knovvledge to knovvledge temperance to temperance patience and to patience godlines to godlines brotherly kindnes to brotherly kindnes charitie For if these things be in you abound they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor vnfruitfull in the knovvledge of our lord Iesus Lastly let vs reason from the povver of Christ bloud vvas it shed that vve should be vile still farre should any such thought be from vs that vve should professe religion deny the povver thereof By this then that hath bine spoken both from the light of Illumination in gods vvord by the right of Demonstration in reasoning from the vvord It is plaine that the high vvay to heauen is to consult and resolue to doe all the good vve can vvhile vve are here trading tovvard heauen The vse of this is manifold Practice 1 First of ansvvere to the cauills of popery vvho accuse vs Protestants for contemners of goodnes because vve teach that man is iustified by faith only And here vpon they accuse vs that we preach negatiue priuatiue doctrines not affirmatiue positiue And here vpō they say that the tymes are novve become Ablatiue vvhich vvere heretofore Datiue branding vs vvith the heresies of the Synomians Eunomians Jovinians such like vvhereas vve in one vvord ansvvere directly that these are meere slanders vntruths For vve teach onlie that good vvorkes haue noe iustifying quality in themselues before god but that faith only is like Iohn the deuine leaning on Christs breasts good vvorkes like S. Peter that followed after Christ Faith the bride good vvorkes the handmaids Faith the bride goeth into the chamber yea into the bed of her beloued vvhere the handmaids come not Faith the roote good vvorkes the fruite Faith only necessary to justification goodvvorkes

to saluation Practice 2 The second vse is of thankfulnes For all our good is of god vvhether it be the good of prouidence all sayth Iob is of the lord he giueth it The bread vve daylie eate is called ours but vve beg it of him The goods of the body as Sampsons strength Absolons beauty Sauls tallnes all of god The goods of the mind are of god he giues vvisdome to Solomon taketh it avvay frō Georgius Trapezuntius vvho being somtimes a great scholler at the last by accident forgat his ovvne name The diuersity of good gifts is of god Paull is profound Apollos eloquēt Cephas Zealous Augustine an excellent disputāt Ierome textuall Gregorij morall Ambrose iuditious Origen allegoricall Chrysostome excellent to moue passion all diuersified The goodnes of our vvill is of god My goods of mind are thy gifts Bona mea Dona tua August Conf. 10. lib. 4. cap. If any man think othervvise if he vvere as good as an angell his meate that he eateth as good as Māna his garmēt as good as the Ephod of Aarō let that mā knowe that he must attribute all to god be thankfull for all gods goodnes tovvards him either naturall or ciuill or spirituall or externall internall eternall for all our good is either god himselfe or from god himselfe it is his goodnes that hath follovved vs all our life Practice 3 The third vse is of Enquirie amongst you Marchants Are you traders for these goodly pearles If you be you vvill not abuse the good things of god to euill purposes Neither the goodnes of gods prouidence to excesse royott vanity vilenes nor the goods of your body to vvickednes you vvill not abuse your eares to become a sepulcher to burie the good name of your frend nor your tongues to be organs of despite nor your eies fireballs of enuy nor your hands engines of mischeefe nor your vvhole body a stie and stinck of sinne Nor the goods of your mind vvill you abuse either to your imagination to imagine mischeefe vpon your beds nor in your vvills to desire to doe euill like miscreants vvhen you cannot Nor to be as hammers to knocke out on anothers braines nor as svvords in each others bovvells nor as arrovves to on anothers harts But rather vvhich is the fourth vse here of to directe on another Practice 4 For negatiue justification auailes not It is Pharasaicall For euery tree that bringeth not forth good fruite is hevven dovvne cast into the fire Be therefore directed to recompence noe man euill for euill as Joab did Abner for that 's a poore spirit much lesse euill for good as Iudas did to Christ for that 's a diuells spirit Nay if you doe recompence good vvith good as Ahasuerosh did Mordicai it is but common justice but to ouercome euill vvith goodnes is more then to preach Rom. 12. vlt. or to doe a miracle or to cast out a diuell Practice 5 For if I should expostulate vvith you vvhy vve doe vsurpe these glorious titles as to be called the sonnes of god if vve haue noe good bloud of our heauenly father but are like the fig tree vvhich had only leaues so vve like Nepthalie haue goodlie vvords but doe neuer a good vvorke What doth it profitt vs to be stiled Citizens vvith the saincts Domestickes seruants saincts baptized illuminats Christians haue noe goodnes ansvverable to those goodly titles There may a Zozomen arise obserue that vve Christians like Turckes vvhich call themselues Sarazens vvhen they are but Hagarens soe vve call our selues Christians vvhen vve haue noe goodnes of Christ in vs but are indeed Cretians vvho as Paule citeth out of Epimenides vvere alvvaies Liars Tit. 1. ill beasts slovve bellies For tell me vvhat doe they meane that lay vvaste their consciences by doing euill trading for counterfeits coralls paultry ieat or for euill Doth any hard harted Pharoh imperious Nebuchanezer cruell Adonibezek prophane Passhur false harted Zidkiah foolish Ahab incestuous Ammon mispersvvaded Magus sorcerous Elymas vnmercifull Gluton Prodigall Prodigious vvicked miscreant thinke vvho here doth runne out his tyme vvith euill of sinne that there vvill not come a tyme vvhen the euill of punishment shall be avvarded seauen fold into his bosome Nothing more sure For he that had not soe much goodnes as extended to a crumme of bread had not afforded him a drop of the vvater of mercie Luc. 16. Look to it therefore Masters mortalls For the apostasie of faith vvas in the later tymes 1. Tim. 4.1 but novve for ought that I can see there is an apostasie of goodnes in the vvorld of both vvhich Paule prophecieth 2. Tim. 3.1 Looke therfore to euery case of your conscience Doe you feare the vvrath of god for the guilt of your sinne fall to doing of goodnes 2. Chro. 19.3 god vvill turne avvay his vvrath from you for Christ sake as he did from Iehosophat Is thy soule almost dead in sinne Incline to goodnes Act. 9.36 god vvill raise thee frō death as he did Tabitha that is from the death of sinne to the life of righteousnes Wilt thou be certified of thine election make it sure by good vvorkes 2. Pet. 1.10 Wilt thou be secured from the diuell god vvill check him if thou be doing of good vvill say vnto all the povvers of darknes as Christ sayd vnto those that hindered Mary Magdalen vvhy trouble ye the vvoman Matth. 26. Wilt thou spend thy tyme vvell Gal. 6.10 Doe good vvhile thou hast tyme. Wilt thou be crovvned continue in doing good thou shalt haue honor glory Roman 2. immortallity euerlasting life In a vvord good vvorkes doe not goe before one that is to be justified but they follovve him that is already justified Conceaue not therefore that thou art justified by faith vnlesse thou see good vvorkes follovve thy faith If thou dost imagine othervvise Christ vvas not conceaued in thee by faith nor borne by loue nor suffered nor arose from the dead nor ascended for thee And remember this that in the end of the vvorld in the day of iudgment as the forme is sett dovvne in Mathevves gospell there is noe question made of faith Matth. 25. but of facte vvhat vve haue done or not done For he that beleueth not Ioh. 3. is condemned already saith Christ Be therefore aduised doe the good here you shall see the goodnes of god in the land of the liuing The seuenth lesson The gratious endovvmēts of this reall Marchant to vvhom the kingdome of heauen is resembled are rare For first he is noe Lythersbye or