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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

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