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A04284 The true guide to glory A sermon preached at Plympton-Mary in Deuon, at the funerals of the right vvorshipfull, and ... Barlow, John, b. 1580 or 81. 1619 (1619) STC 1440; ESTC S114791 30,821 66

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all their proceedings why then should not we imitate them What man if he be to goe a long and vnknowne iourney will not hire a guide to conduct him or to vndertake a voyage by water to the East-Indies Guiana or the New-found-land but desireth the most skilfull Pilot to goe with him And shall not wee seeke vnto God desire his direction from earth to heauen from this old Egypt to the new Ierusalem If we doe not we may well wander out ot our way and split the ship of our soules vpon the rocke of condemnation And because men naturally are not prone to put this point in practise take these following motiues to further thee in thy duty 1. Who is it that thou art to depend vpon for direction Is it not he that formed thee at the first and whom thou doest confesse to be thy Father who then would offend so good a God so mercifull a Creatour Gouernour tread vnder-foote the Lord of life and haue no care to walke after his steps Shall we not follow the Sonnes example who learned obedience of his Father must the holy Ghost not be obeyed whose invitements are more worth then all the world Is it so that his motions must be resisted and the Spirit of all truth wearied grieued Take heede what thou doest for if we put this guide farre from vs he will not be fetcht againe as the prouerbe is with a we● finger 2. Againe is not mans life short vncertaine too why should wee then omit the season let slip the present oportunity Dayes will not be redeemed time recalled Miserable experience haue wee of some who putting off the occasion offred were neuer reclaimed Lots sonnes thought their father mocked and were they not suddenly destroyed Ierusalem would not attend the day of her visitation but what became of her Iezabel had a time to turne but would not was shee not suddenly cast into a be sorrow Therefore vp and trauell to little Zoar Come out of Babel and what thou hast to doe doe with all thy power least thou want time when thou maiest be willing The rich Glutton in hell then would haue had his brethren instructed possibly hee would had hee beene aliue againe haue hyred a Preacher But hee that may and will not when hee would hee shall not 3. In the third place let the example of others and their successe also moue thee to runne vnto the Lord. How did the lame blinde deafe and dumbe s eke to our Sauiour and was their labour lost Goe to God therefore and say Lord open mine e●e● 〈◊〉 sleepe not in death Heale me for I am sore wou●●●● Conuert me and I shall be conuerted You that are Parents take your sonnes and daughters by the hand f●ll downe before God and cry Lord be mercifull to this my childe for he falleth often in the fire and is miserably seduced by the Diuell Let Masters imitate the good Centurion and desire God to recouer their seruants Shall they thus call and cry for the infirmities of the body and shall wee take no paines for the desperate diseases of our soules Weepe we pray we therefore for our selues and for our children and no doubt but the Lord will heare vs helpe vs And what a ioy will this be when they and we shall returne home againe seeing walking But alas our words take no impression because men thinke they haue no neede of the Physition 4. Moreouer doe but weigh well in thy minde what a misery it is to be out of the way we pitty a poore Traue ler that hath mist his path and seeme to take compassion on him And yet we by others harmes cannot learne to beware Christ I cannot tell what others m●y did account this a fearefull condition and makes it a reason to moue the people for to walke in the light these be his words Iob. 12.35 Least ye goe ye cannot tell whither If a man doe but set his face towards some steepe rocke or deepe draw well oh how will wee cry aloud that he might returne Is this so fearefull Then by earthly dangers learne to auoide Hels damnation 5. Besides consider where we shall arriue if we be not guided by God Is it at Samaria shall we finde a Prophet there that will feede vs with bread and water No we shall not haue one drop to refresh vs after our iourneyes end Wee count that mans condition wretched that fals amongst Theeues or that is cast into prison But whose eares will not tingle and heart tremble to consider at what a dolefull hauen wicked persons if they turne not shall one day be landed Neuer had any earthly Traueller so cold entertainment But wicked men are vnwise therefore they thinke not of their latter end Deut. 32.29 6. And in the last place adde to all this that they shall not depart thence till they haue paid the vttermost farthing and that will be neuer Was it a grieuous iudgement to be captiue 70. yeares in Babilon Did Dauid complaine and cry Woe is me that hee dwelt a few dayes in Mes●ek and Kedar What will it be then to be bound hand and foote cast into vtter darkenesse with the Diuell and his damned Angels If they that goe to this place of darkenesse might but hang their Harpes vpon the Willowes in sorrow of heart thinke on Ierusalem as many thousands of yeares as there be S●arres in the heauen drops of water in the great Ocean or graines of sand in the earths whole Globe and then haue hope to returne it might be some mitigation of torment But their eyes shall faile with waiting to returne yet they shall neuer be returned Consider this therefore yee that forget God Psal 50.22 least hee teare you in peices and there be none to deliuer you And thus hauing finished this Point wee come to gather a third which is that Doct. 3 Those that be guided by God are guided by his word When the children of Israel obeyed not the Law are they not said to forsake the Lord Iudg. 10.6 and not to serue him and when they had no Priest to teach or Law to direct 2 Chron. 15.3 were they not all that season without the true God Acts 20.32 Paul at his last farewell commends his friends to God and the word of his grace Dauid often prayeth to be guided by his precepts Psal 5.8 Malac. 4.4 Doth not Malachi conclude Remember the Law of Moses with the statutes and iudgements Reason 1 First because Vrim and Thummim dreames visions mirac●es and extraordinary motions and immediate irradiations of the spirit are ceased In old time Heb. 1.1 at seuerall times and in diuers manners the Lord spake to his children for then the word was not perfectly and fully written The Apostles too had dreames and visions in their dayes for they hauing their calling vpon the very border of the Law and commission too to preach to all Nations had neede of them otherwise
full of milke and their bones runne full of marrow Ier. 5.28 they are waxen fat and shining But where grace entreth like a pinching frost it maketh the flesh wither and fall freezeth the very marrow and congealeth the fatnesse so that the body often is weake and pineth away Psal 39.11 3. That much goods and Grace are not inseparable companions These two meete not as the Sunne and Moone runne their course night and day in one and the same subiect Therefore saith our Lord Matth. 19.23 How hardly shall a rich man enter into the kingdome of heauen and be saued Sometimes we grant they may but seldome It is said that Naaman the Syrian 2 Kings 5.1 was a mighty man and valiant but a Leper great for riches peraduenture valiant for body so that it may proue this at the least the former Doctrine But what rich or strong man amongst vs beleeues this report 4. That wicked persons often prosper Their Bullocke gendreth and faileth not Iob 21.8 9. c. Their Cow calueth and casteth not her Calfe They send foorth their children like sheepe and their Sonnes daunce Their Seede is established and they grow vp in wealth 5. That not to be afflicted is a marke of the wicked They haue no changes therefore they feare not God Psal 55.19 whereas the godly are chastened euery morning else bastards not sonnes Heb. 12.8 6. That peace in death is no sure signe of a better life They that liue like Lyons and dye like Lambs may not haue their names writ in the Lambes Booke of life But if a good life be the Antecedent this no bad but a desireable consequent this crosseth the iudgement of the common people Oh say some how quietly he dyed But I say how well hath hee liued Let vs then iudge men by their liues not by their deaths lest we acquit the guilty and condemne the innocent For all outward things come alike to all men iust or vniust This is one of those euils Eccles 9.1.2.3 that the wise man saw vnder the Sunne Againe from their Effects or Actions might many things be obserued as 1. That when wicked men haue most then they sinne most Hence it is that some hauing much money turne biting Vsurers and deuoure by oppression The bountifulnesse of God towards them doth not though indeede it ought leade them to repentance Rom. 2.4 And from the foure following accidents we note a foure-fold instruction First that notwithstanding the wicked be rich and strong yet they stand vpon a sandy foundation They are set on slippery places either vpon the Ice on the which if they slippe or it breake they be drowned spoyled or vpon a Quag-mire that is growne ouer with a thin skinne through which if they shrinke they sticke fast and are all be-mudded Secondly that wicked men shall dye certainly and suddenly Iob 12.2 in a moment the Text saith They spend their dayes in pleasure and suddenly goe downe to the graue Thirdly that prophane persons shall rise and come to iudgement And lastly that at the day of iudgement they shall haue their full torment Dan. 12.1 For they shall rise to shame and contempt eternall And thus we leaue them where God shall leaue them wishing their harmes may make vs to beware And so proceede we to the godly person of whom wee haue many things to say but because time will not permit vs we will omit them onely reducing them to these heads 1. A Conflict and 2. The Issue of it In this Combat note 1. Who they be that quarrell 2. The causes of it It is the Flesh and Spirit Faith and Infidelity that striue these twins are in euery regenerate person man or woman Sinne must not be counted as a meere priuation or nothing but we must conceiue of it as a strong man or corroborated habit Rom. 7.24 c. The ground of the quarrell groweth either from the fell opposition that is betwixt them for these are contrary one to the other Gal. 5.17 or the diuers condition of the wicked and the godly When the prophane man prospereth and the righteous are in aduersity it worketh strangely euen in the most sincere hearted Therefore the wicked are counted blessed For they that worke wickednesse Mal. 3.15 they are set vp and such as tempt God they are deliuered From this consideration this good mans steps had almost slipt and he embraced the world yet he hauing recourse to the word of God saw his owne folly and their miserable end so that though the combat for a time was fierce and the issue thereof doubtfull notwithstanding Faith preuaileth at the length and winnes the field triumphing with this confession Lord thou wilt guide me c. But before wee come to the words let vs obserue some things by the way And here we may see that 1. The prosperity of the wicked fretteth the godly There is a secret enmity betweene the seede of the Woman and the Serpents Also that 2. In the time of temptation the flesh will play its part Furthermore that 3. He that would see the present and future condition of good and bad must haue recourse to Gods word not flocke to the Stage or prophane History for they may deceiue this Booke cannot And so we come to the words in hand the which haue a double reading at the least Some reade them prayer-wise Lord guide me c. But I rather choose to reade them as a Confession being a speech of great reioycing and a declaration of the fruit of his faith that followed this great and terrible combat In the which we may obserue a double proposition and in either of them two principall things comprehended In the antecedent part this good man saith First that the Lord will guide him Secondly he acknowledgeth wherewith viz. by his counsell In the cons●quent proposition hee conf●sseth that he will also glorifie him and telleth the time when or order how after he had guided him by his counsell Thus you see the parts of it Now we come to shew you the meaning or sense of the words Thou that is GOD Father Sonne and holy Spir●t for all three consent in euery action done towards the creature what one doth all doe mediately or immediately yet in a diuers manner God the Father is said to guide by the word Christ by his example and the Spirit by immediate motions and irradiations iniected vpon mans vnderstanding yet with one ioynt consent all tend to one and the same thing There be Relatiue properties in the Deity that are peculiar to the distinct persons As the Father to beget the Sonne to be begotten and the Spirit to proceede but these wee speake of are internall not externall actions vpon the creature Shalt or wilt This word containeth in it the faith and confidence of the person how that hee did depend vpon God and assure himselfe that he would be his guide for future