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A18048	Christ his last vvill, and Iohn his legacy In a sermon preached at Clare in Suffolke, by Bezaleel Carter preacher of the word of God at Canham neere to Saint Edmunds Bury.; Christ his last will, and John his legacy.	Carter, Bezaleel, d. 1629.	1621 (1621)	STC 4692; ESTC S117382	37,432	99

hath reioyced in God my Sauiour How doe wee vnderprise and vndervallew the greatest blessings nay are wee not so farre from thankefulnesse that wee murmur and complayne because of the abundance of Gods blessings how many contemners of the word of God that in stead of thankefulnesse for the word cry out as the Israelites of their Mannah Wee can see nothing but this Mannah how many seditious persons that cry out against our glorious peace and in stead of praysing God for it are ready to say that times of warre are better then times of peace How many that in stead of praising God for our great plenty doe repine and murmur at it Wel take we heed if we be thus vnthankefull that we make not God to delight as much in punishing vs as euer he did in blessing vs that as it is in Ose that Osea 10. 10. wee make not God desire to chastise vs. A second reason why Iohn conceals his name cals himselfe the disciple whō Iesus loued was modesty therefore thogh 2. Reason Ob modestiā Aret. in Iohan. hee were the best beloued Apostle and Christ his master honored him so much as to cōmit his mother the virgin Marie to his custody yet as one regardles of praise he calles himself only by the name of the beloued Disciple out of thankfulnesse but mentions not his name out of an holy modesty and humblenes of mind eschewing of vaynglory An admirable patterne worthy to be set before our eyes in these dayes wherein wee thirst after mans prayse as much as euer dropsie man did after drinke we giue almes happily but it is to bee seene of men wee fast we pray we come to heare the word but whatsoeuer wee doe like the buylders of Babel here is our ayme to get our selues Gen 11. 4. a name I know not better to whom I may compare many men better then to Players you that haunt profane Theaters know their fashions better then I first they blow a trumpet to call spectators together and when many eyes are fixed vppon them then they begin their pageant and thus doe a number of our Pharises that neuer doe good worke but it is in publike in open view as if God would beleeue nothing without witnesse But what sayth the blessed Apostle Paul Let nothing be done through contention or vaine-glory And the same Apostle Be not desirous Phil. 2. 3. Gal. 3. of vaineglory prouoking one another enuying one another And our blessed Lord and Sauiour Christ Math. 6. When thou giuest almes let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doth when thou prayest enter into thy closet and shut the doore to thee doe that thou doest in secret so hee that seeth in secret shall reward thee openly And this out of the first part of the The second part of Christ his charge charge Cui to whom The second is Quid what hee sayth Behold thy mother 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This particle Behold is diuersly taken in Scripture somtimes as a note of admiration Behold a virgin shall conceiue and beare a sonne Behold Isa 7. 14. Luke 7. 37 a woman in the cittie that was a sinner came to him Sometimes as a note of attention Behold how good a thing it is brethren to dwell together in vnity Psalme 133. 1. Behold Psal 134. 1. praise ye the Lord. Behold the bounty and iustice of God Behold I stand at the doore and Rom. 11 22 knocke Sometimes as a note of exultation Reu. 3. 20. Behold I bring you tidings of great ioy which Luke 2. 10. shall be to all p●ople Sometimes as a note of demonstration Behold where they haue layde Marke 16. 6. him Sometimes a note of derision Behold the man that tooke not God for his strength Sometimes as a note of compassion mouing to take pitty vpon the miserable and so it is vsed here Behold thy mother that is comfort and cherrish her as if shee were thine owne mother or if you please take it thus to Behold implyeth two things in this text First to see the virgins misery Secondly to relieue her misery There are some that see the miseryes of others as the rich glutton happily saw Lazarus his soares or the Priest and Leuite saw the Luke 15. 20. wounded passenger after a regardlesse manner There are others also that see the necessities of others the father saw his Luke 10. 33. prodigall sonnes and had compassion on him and ran to him and fell on him and kissed him Or as the Samaritane that saw the poore traueller and had compassion on him and bound vp his wounds and set him vpon his owne beast c. My meaning is that they see after an operatiue and effectuall manner the miseryes of others and such a beholding it is that God calleth for in this text Iohn could not but see the virgins sorrow before our Sauiour spake vnto him yet sayth our Sauiour Behold thy mother how behold her effectually really operatiuely care for her cherrish her comfort her as she were thine owne mother The obseruation to bee collected hence because it generally concernesall Gods people and not Iohn alone I will propound it generally viz. that is the duty of all Gods people Obseruation not onely to see but according to the meanes that God hath giuen them to succor relieue the miseries of the afflicted Rom. 12. 13. So sayth Paul distribute and communicate to the necessity of the Saints Christ also charges vs to make our selues friends Luke 16. 9. Reason 1. with vnrighteous Mammon and to giue to the poore It were easie to produce Scripture vpon Scripture for the confirmation of this truth Suffise it to produce a reason or two First to see and succour others in affliction is a most honourable thing it honoureth God according to that of the wise man hee that hath mercy on the poore honoureth God It honoureth our Pro. 14. 31 religion and profession yea what is it that makes professors as they call them and profession euill spoken of but the dissolute and scandalous liues of our professors because they are gripers grinders of the poore extortioners vsurers merciles I haue heard many professors rayled vppon but few charitable professors It honours God then it honours our profession to be mercifull yea and it honoureth our selues also makes vs like to God himselfe according to that Bee you mercifull as Luke 6. 36 your heauenly father is mercifull It makes vs the Lords Stewards Almoners ● and if it be an honor to be a kings Almoner how great an honour is it to be Almoner to the king of kings Secondly to behold and succor others Reason 2 in affliction is a sure signe and syntome of true religion so sayth Iames pure religion and vndefiled before God euen the father is this to visite the fatherlesse and widdow and to keepe himselfe vnspotted of the world Their are two

offered at the time of her purification being a payre of turtle Doues or two yong pigeons This Luke 2. 26. Leuit. 12. 6. was Gods law that when the dayes of a womans purifying was fulfilled for a son or for a daughter she should bring a lamb of the first yeare for a burnt offering and if she were poore and not able to bring a lambe that then shee should bring two P. ver 8. Quoniam Euangelista Lucas mentionem agnicul nullā fecit c. Hun. in Euan. turtles or two yong pigeons If Marie had beene able to haue giuen a lambe it is not to be questioned but that she would haue done it and therefore since the Euangelist Luke makes no mention of any lambe but of two turtles or two yong pigeons Iudicare promptum est sayth one wee cannot but iudge that shee was a poore woman and not a rich Thirdly it appeares that she was poore Considerandū quae fuerie fortuna matris domini quam illa fuerit adeo tenuis vt necesse fuerit alicui comendari-Musc because our blessed Sauiour vpon the Crosse commits her to the care custody of another to prouide for her But I must not enlarge according to my desire The vses of this doctrine are diuers and vse full First of all let it be an item to vs as Salomon Eccl. 11. 2 Mat. 27. 55. Math. 8. sayth to cast our bread vpon the waters to giue a portion to seuen and also to eight since so godly people as the mother of Christ highly beloued of God may be in want nay since Christ himselfe liued by the beneuolence of others that ministred vnto him not hauing of his owne an house to hide his head in therefore as elect of God holy and beloued put on the bowels of mercy while we haue time let vs do good to all but especially to the houshold of faith Secondly see here as in a table drawne with most orient colours the strange inconstancy Vse 2 and mutability and mobility of all earthly thing Marie Christs mother was of the blood royall naturally descended Math. 1. 16. Luke 3. 27. out of Dauids loynes Ioseph also that was betrothed was right heire to the crowne and yet see how the wheele turns and in them as in a glasse behold the vanity and vicissitude of all things in this world the one being constrained throgh want was faine to labour for his liuing and became a Carpenter viz. Ioseph The other I meane the virgin Marie to liue by the almes and cost of Iohn the Apostle But this it was and will be euer riches and honours are deceiuable they betake them to their wings like an Eagle and are soone gone Wee may fitly compare them to a Squirrell or Bird that leapes or flyes from bough to bough from tree to tree so doe riches and honours from man to man In the Reuelation the world is resembled Reu. 4. 6. to the Sea Before the throne was a Sea of glasse that is the world as brittle and frayle as glasse as inconstant and turbulent Isa 57. 20. as the Sea that cannot rest but casts vp myre and durt In the twelfth of the Reuelation the world is compared to the Moone A woman was cloathed with the Sunne and the Moone was vnder her feet by the woman clothed with the Sun vnderstand the Church clothed with the Sunne of righteousnesse Iesus Christ by the Moone vnderstand the world and what more variable then the Moone that waxes sometimes and waynes somtimes and neuer continueth at one stay I remember what I haue read of one Eumenes Gall. Aca a Thracian raysed vp to that height by Alexander that he was able to meet Antigonus king of Macedonia in a pitched field made his party good against him and yet afterward hee starued for want of foode Cressus was so rich that it grew to bee a Prouerbe as rich as Cressus and yet hee came vnto great pouerty Zerxes renowned for his huge army was ouercome and vanquished and insulted ouer Baiazeth the Emperour after hee had conquered in many a pitched field was at length taken and kept and famished in an iron Cage by Tamberlaine the king of Parthia But thus it was euer and will be euer a man shall as easily make the Sea to cease her motion as to make the world cease from changing and inconstancy yet what adoe for riches before we haue them what trust and confidence in them so we may get them wee care not how we get them one man is to sell and he makes a small Ephah a great Shecle another is to buy and he cryes it is naught it is naught that hee may deceiue the seller one hath money to lend and he takes mercilesse vsury deuouring widdowes houses another wants money and he rises early goes to bed late and eates the bread of carefulnesse to supply his want one like Ioseph is put in trust with all his Maister hath and he proues a Iudas a thiefe and cares for nothing except to cramme his owne wallet or fill his owne purse another is to marry a wife and if shee haue but Achsah her portion fuitfull lands or that Peter wanted gold or siluer let her be what she will bee as blinde as Bartimeus as lame as Mephibosheth as stubborne as Vashti as light as Oinah it matters not it is a world to see how men bestir themselues exact law cheate breake cut one anothers throates ingrosse sophisticate grinde grate the poore lye sweare forsweare steale kill and what not to get the world which done it is a world to see also how men rely and trust in that they haue the rich mans riches are his strong hold saith Salomon he thinkes if he be walled about with a golden or siluer wall I meane if he haue but wealth enough that then hee is sure enough for any want or ill willers surer then if he were in Douer Castle or the Tower of London the criple laies not all his weight so securely vpon his cruches the Arke rested not so firmely vpon the mountaines of Arrarat as these securely rest vpon carnall helpes that will deceiue them But what sayth Paul charge them that are rich in this world that they bee Timotheus not prowd nor trust in vncertaine riches And Dauid Trust not in Princes nor in any sonne of man hee meanes that wee should not trust in any worldly helpes and yeelds this reason There is no helpe in them riches friends c. are but weake holdes they are but as paper Nahum 1. 7. walles that cannot defend vs but what sayth the Prophet The Lord is good hee is a strong hold in the day of trouble and Vse 3 he knowes them that trust in him Thirdly Marie Christs mother was a poore woman so haue many of the Saints from time to time beene poore be patient therefore in thy greatest wants the World is as it were a naturall Mother to all the