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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20725	The Christian arte of thriving, whereby a man may become rich to God, or, A sermon vpon Matth.6.33 preached by the right reuerend father in God, George, Lord Bishop of Derry.	Downame, George, d. 1634.	1620 (1620)	STC 7109.3; STC 7109A; ESTC S120077	25,870	48

wee hunger and thirst after the grace of God and his spirituall blessings in heauenly things aboue all the things in this world Then our chiefe care also must be to keep a good conscience and to vse all good meanes whereby our saluation may be furthered to enter into a religious course of life wherein wee may walke before God in sincerity and truth to make choyce of our calling of our company of our marriage as may best stand with our spirituall good But chiefly and aboue all to auoid those things which doe hinder the saluation of our soules Now the soule is lost by sinne for the soule that sinneth shall die Seeing therefore the soule which is of more worth vnto vs than all the world besides is lost by sinne we ought euery one to haue this vnfained purpose and settled resolution not to sinne wittingly and willingly though wee might gaine the whole world thereby and much lesse the particular and pettie desires thereof Should we not sinne to gaine the whole world and shall euery trifle in the world moue vs to sinne For what is that which by sinne wee gaine in comparison of the world and what is the whole world to a mans soule For what will it profit a man if hee shall gaine the whole world and lose his owne soule Or what shall a man giue in exchange for his soule Secondly wee are to learne as wee haue been taught to place our happinesse and felicity in the saluation of our soules For then the eye of our mind shall bee single and sincere and the whole course of our life and conuersation will bee spirituall and religious Then will all our desires cares studies and indeuours tend chiefly to this end Then shall we alwaies with Moses haue an eye to the recompence of reward and with our Sauiour Christ for the ioy that is set before vs despise all earthly things Heb. 12. Then shall wee passe the time of this our pilgrimage in a longing expectation of euerlasting happines And therefore thrice happie are they who haue laid vp their treasure in Heauen and reposed their felicitie in the saluation of their soules Now followeth the promise which Christ hath annexed to his commandement And all these things shall be added vnto you Where before wee come to the words we may out of the promise in generall not vnprofitably obserue two things viz. the gracious dealing of God with vs and our vngracious indisposition in respect of spirituall things For whereas God in respect of his absolute dominion ouer vs might enioyne vs those things which appertaine to his glory onely without respect of our good as men vse to deale with their seruants yet he commandeth vs such things as doe tend to our owne good And that he might allure vs to seeke our owne good he addeth gracious promises thereunto The thing which our Sauiour here enioyneth is That we should seeke our owne happines And that we may be allured thereunto he hath promised that seeking weshall find And not only that but because we are sensuall and too much addicted to the things of this life he promiseth that if we shall first seeke our true and euerlasting happines we shall not only obtaine it but in the meane time he will giue vnto vs a supplie of all these outward things which naturally we doe so much desire Wherein the Lord dealeth with vs as louing Parents deale with their children who vse to allure them to learne or practise some thing which may be for their singular good by promising vnto them some pretty or pleasing reward wherewithall as children they are more affected The which gracious goodnes of God should allure and encourage vs to seeke first his kingdome and his righteousnes Secondly we may obserue our owne vntoward disposition to that which is spiritually good For whereas all men naturally and necessarily desire happines yet when we are informed that our happines consisteth in spiritual blessings in heauenly places we haue no mind thereunto Neither can we to the seeking thereof bee moued either by the commandements of God though wholy intending our good or yet by the promise of spirituall blessings vvhich are vvorth many vvorlds but the Lord must be faine to allure vs to seeke our eternall happines by promising vnto vs temporall revvards vvhich are but trifles to please children vvithall in comparison of the other And yet such is the vvayvvardnes of a great number that neither by the commandements of God nor by his threatnings neither by the promises of a better life nor by the promises of this life they can bee moued to affect or seeke spirituall things The which vntoward indisposition is so much the more absurd because it is contrary to the profession of Christians For Christian religion teacheth vs to deny worldly lusts And in the vowe of our Baptisme we haue promised to renounce thē And professing our selues Christians we professe our selues pilgrims in this world and citizens of Heauen and therefore ought to be weaned from earthly desires and affect and mind the things which are aboue But to come to the promise it selfe In handling whereof I will first explaine the words as they lye in order and then confirme the truth of this promise that it may serue as a forcible argument to moue vs to seeke first the kingdome of God and his righteousnes The coniunction And is here vsed as a note of consequence as ifhe had said Seeke first the kingdome of God and his righteousnes and then all these things shall be added vnto you Which teacheth vs that these temporall benefits by the promise and blessing of God are consectaries of spirituall grace that is doe follow vpon our study and care in seeking first the Kingdome of God and his righteousnes idest saith Augustine Consequentur si ista quaeretis But if any man shall hereupon infer that then belike the things of this life are promised to them that shall neglect them altogether I answere They are promised not to those that tempt God or liue inordinately but to them that seeke them in a secondary respect and subordinate their desire and care in seeking of them to their spirituall good God would haue euery man ordinarily to liue in a lawfull calling and to bee industrious therein to get his liuelyhoode in the sweate of his browes and walking ordinately to eate his own bread 2. Thes. 3. 11 12. Act. 20. 35. Ephes. 4. 28. The slothfull persons are sent to the Pismire to schoole of her to learne industry and prouidence Prou. 6. 6. The Householder is bound in conscience to prouide for his Family and the Father for his children 1. Tim. 5. 8. 1. Cor. 12. 14. and the good housewife is highly commended Prou. 31. Our Sauiour Christ commandeth vs by prayer to seeke our daily bread and what we desire in our prayer we are to seeke in our practice This promise therefore seemeth to be the same in effect with that