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A13547	The parable of the sovver and of the seed Declaring in foure seuerall grounds, among other things: 1. How farre an hypocrite may goe in the way towards heauen, and wherein the sound Christian goeth beyond him. And 2. In the last and best ground, largely discourseth of a good heart, describing it by very many signes of it, digested into a familiar method: which of it selfe is an entire treatise. And also, 3. From the constant fruit of the good ground, iustifieth the doctrine of the perseuerance of saints: oppugneth the fifth article of the late Arminians; and shortly and plainly answereth their most colourable arguments and euasions. By Thomas Taylor, late fellow of Christs Colledge in Cambridge, and preacher of the Word of God, at Reding in Bark-shire.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1621 (1621)	STC 23840; ESTC S118185	284,009	494

3. It excites them to much thankfulnesse when being acquainted with their owne weaknesse and Satans daily assaults they see themselues set into so firme an estate of happinesse as they are armed against the dread of vtter foyling or forsaking Whence Bucer on Ioh. 6. saith Nothing is more profitable than to preach to Beleeuers that it is impossible for them euer to fall from grace Vse 1. Let all this moue vs to the earnest desire of so permanent a condition and so to labour for truth of grace which onely shall continue Content and please thy selfe with no seeming or vnsound grace which shall leaue thee in thy greatest need In earthly things men desire such as are most durable and lay about them for long estates of life or liues or fee-simples And why not heere in so great necessaries and expectations 2. Let this prouoke vs to perseuerance in the state and measure of grace receiued And hereunto let vs consider 1. The end of Redemption to serue the Lord in righteousnesse and holinesse all our dayes Luk. 1.75 2. That righteousnesse departed from is vaine and forgotten Ezek. 18.24 All labour prayers hearing yea all sufferings are lost as the Galatians suffered many things in vaine Chap. 3.4 3. Thou shalt bee iudged as thou art found when the Lord comes the question shall not bee what thou wast once but what thou art As the tree falls so it lies If of straight it bee growne crooked so it shall bee iudged 4. This makes Election sure and is a note of the saued of the Lord to continue to the end Math. 24.13 Glory and immortality is the part onely of such as by continuance in well-doing seeke it Rom. 2.7 And our Sauiour is expresse Luk. 22.28 To you which haue continued with me in tentations haue I appoynted a Kingdome as my Father hath appoynted me a Kingdome The Lord make vs vpright that by continuing in his Word wee may manifest our selues Disciples so following our Lord with patience and perseuerance in holinesse vntill he bring vs vnto an vn-discontinued happinesse purchased by his owne blood Amen Prima perit perit altera altera quarta perennis FINIS THE ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF THE MOST REmarkable poynts inlarged in this Treatise ABuse of things lawfull is damnable as well as the pursuite of things vnlawfull Reasons 3. 164 Abundant measure of grace is the strength of a Christian in a foure-fold afflicted estate 395 Sound Affection to the truth vpholds men from withering 107 Of Affections renewed foure instances 347 Apparell abused how 166 Apostates in dangerous estate three reasons 397 Not to be Ashamed of the afflictions of the Gospell sixe reasons 417 The ayme of euery good hearer must be to bring forth an hundreth fold 392 B Behold what it noteth 16 Booke of nature to be translated into the vse of grace 18 Brutish ignorance after long hearing three reasons 61 C Callings abused how 168 Calling of God without repentance 430 Care of the family abused 169 Cares of the world are great chokers of Gods Word 1. Before hearing two wayes 180 Word 2. In hearing two wayes 181 Word 3. After hearing 182 Foure true Causes of the worlds hatred of God and his truth among many false pretensed ones 134 Church not to be defined by multitude 259 Christ the Author and matter of true wisedome 292 Christians must aspire to the highest pitch and measure of grace for fiue reasons 393 Circumstances necessary to doe good duties well seuen 359 Cleannesse of heart wherein it is 349 Comming to Church Satan euer comes with thee 58 Comforts in persecution three 135 Companions of holy desires sixe 78 Companions of true Illumination foure 82 Companions of sound Ioy 1. Holy affections three 86 Companions of sound Ioy 2. Holy graces fiue 87 Company and society abused 169 Comforts for a Minister who seemeth to lose much labour among a rude people foure 258 Conscience if sound hath 1. Sincerity 2. Tendernes 108 D Dangers in enioying earthly pleasures foure 227 Deceitfulnesse of heart in the matter of repentance in seuen particulars 370 Defects of an euill heart in the matter of his Religion in sixe things 319 Delicacy in Christianity condemned by fiue reasons 411 Holy Desires examined in their 1. ground 2. matter 3. ends 4. companions 76 Sound Desire of the Word tryed by three things 77 Differences between sound knowledge and hypocriticall three 81 Differences betweene Christs sowing and his Ministers 4.19 Despisers of Gods Word in fearfull case two reasons 36 E Earnest of the Spirit what 283 Effects of true Religion fiue 316 Effects of sauing knowledge three 123 Elect how farre they may fall in fiue conclusions 422 Ends to aime at in our pleasures 3. 250 Examination whether we are gotten beyond hypocrites in foure things 75 F Faith especially impugned by Satan many reasons 54 Tēporary Faith is raised on tēporary causes which they be 69 Iustifying Faith necessary to a good heart for 5. reasons 294 Faith gouerneth the whole life fiue instances 296 Forwardnesse to heare the Word of God vrged by 4. reas 5 To Fruitfulnesse in grace foure things required 20 Fruitfulnesse necessary to Christians fiue reasons 388 For our Fruitfulnesse the Lord hath done fiue things 399 Sweet Fruits of patience foure 414 The better the Fruits the more need of patience 415 G God glorified by ioyning of the Crosse to Christian profession foure wayes 129 Gods glory is the ayme of a good heart in all his parts and in all his actions 276 Godly men are most peaceable and yet none more troubled than they foure reasons 299 Godly man keepeth the whole Sabbath with the whole man 332 God esteemeth the goodnesse of our workes by the goodnesse of our hearts 372 Goodnesse of heart is a full Sea of comfort in all afflictions 1. Inward 2. Outward 375 Good ground bringeth forth fruits answerable in kinde to the seed 386 The thing hated in Good men is goodnesse 134 Goodnesse of hearers esteemed by goodnesse of heart for foure reasons 264 Grace if sound groweth still fiue reasons 307 Graces of the Spirit compared to water in 4. things 120 Graces speciall and sauing are wrought by the Word preached fiue 323 Sound Grace is blessed with perseuerance 418 Grounds of perseuerance in grace 6. cleered frō exceptions 424 Growth in Grace tryed in the 1. Root 2. Fruits 3. Measure 4. Affection 5. Continuance 88 In naturall Growth persons are higher but in spirituall they grow lower 91 Growth of hypocrites deceitfull in sundry things 98 Some Ground on which the seed of the Word falleth is good ground fiue reasons 252 True Growth is in all graces sixe instances 307 The good heart onely Growes 311 H Heart called good in two respects 261 An Heart qualified by grace is beyond an euill heart in sixe things 262 The Heart is softened by a threefold moysture 270 A good Heart hath fiue properties in regard of God 272 Hath fiue excellent properties in

seat of iniquity Whence our Sauiour exhorts to take heed lest the heart bee oppressed with these excessiue pleasures and so that day come vnawares as it did on the old world And no maruell seeing they can brawne the heart and make it senselesse against the iudgements and scourges of God Esa. 5.12 The Harpe the Violl and Fluit and wine are in their feasts but they regard not the worke of the Lord nor consider the operation of his hands Famous in this kinde is the example of Nebuchadnezzar the Lord sent him his Prophet Daniel to expound his dreame that he must be a beast for seuen yeeres together yet within one twelue moneths hee forgot all and said Is not this great Babel c Dan. 4.25 26. 4. Pleasures preuailing in the heart doe make men hate the Word as a bitter and deadly enemy The Word of God is the sword of the Spirit to cut off these lusts which are as deare to them as their eyes or hands And therefore it is so despised and hated 5. They thrust out the Word which reuealeth and offereth the pleasures of a better world The heart of the foole is in the house of mirth Eccles. 7.6 Yea though God call to mourning and fasting or any occasion whatsoeuer come hee hath set himselfe on a merry pin hee cannot abide to heare of change so he may hold his pleasure heere still Babylon will be a Lady for euer and set her minde on no other things besides nor remember the end Gods Phisicians would haue healed her but she would not be healed she laid none of those things to heart Esa. 47.7 8. therefore her end was vtter desolation 6. These pleasures are seldome procured without sinne being the ordinary baits of Satan cast before men which while they play withall and nibble at them they are catcht in his snare as Eue by the Apple which seemed pleasant to the eye and taste Balaam knew there was nothing of so much force to allure the Israelites to Idolatry and to make a breach among them and so set God against them as to besot them with vnlawfull pleasures with the daughters of Moab then was Israel presently coupled to Baal Peor Numb 25.1 2 3. Thus Satan as a cunning Fisher baytes his hooke with pleasure and catcheth innumerable 7. These pleasures are of great strength to hold men in sinne against all the threatenings of the Word and inuitations to repentance will not suffer the heart to thinke of death and iudgement and accounts to be giuen yea they make him maintaine a continuall warre in himselfe against his owne conscience being carried headlong to such things as seeme pleasant delectable glorious and profitable And against others also This man will hate his Preacher to the death because hee condemnes his vnlawfull pleasure If Iohn dare say to Herod It is not lawfull for thee to haue her it shall cost him deare As for his poore neighbours hee will maintaine his pleasure by oppression cruelty iniury any thing he cares not how sorrowfull and vnhappy hee make many other mens liues so hee may enioy his supposed pleasure Iudas must haue his thirty siluer pieces though it cost Christ his life and himselfe his soule and fill all his fellow-Disciples with much heauinesse Lastly such a man is well content to indure any vassalage and slauery vnder Satan so he may inioy a present pleasure and Satan is well content on that condition to allow it him dealing heerein as Cyrus with the Lydians who hauing ouercome them to gratifie and gaine them sure to himselfe allowes them to eate and drinke to feast and play with all kinds of sports games and gambals but in the meane time takes away their horses and armour so as they are vnable euer to thinke of recouering their former liberty And therefore seeing these pleasures hinder men from attending and vnderstanding the Word make them securely contemne and hate the Word thrust out the pleasures of the world to come are seldome procured without sinne and are of such strength to hold them in sinne we may well conclude with the Apostle 1. Pet. 2.11 that they fight against the soule And seeing they doe so wee must abstaine from them The seruice of lust and diuers pleasures is noted for a course of the vnregenerate Tit. 3.3 And these two goe hand in hand disobedient seruing pleasures Therefore beware of the preuailing of pleasures and as thou meanest the Word should profit in thy hart and tendrest thy owne saluation weed out this voluptuousnesse a meere choke-weede of grace Heere for thy further helpe in so necessary and withall so difficult a duty I will set downe three things 1. Motiues to resist these pleasures 2. Markes of a man in whom they preuaile aboue the Word 3. Meanes or Rules how we may inioy them without choking goodnesse I. Motiues or reasons to disswade from the pursuit of pleasures are sixe 1. Consider where thou art We are now banished out of the Garden of pleasure we are in this world kept out of Paradise with the shaking of a sword and doe we expect another Paradise in this Wildernesse of Baca and valley of teares Wast thou not borne weeping into the valley of weeping Shalt thou not dye and go forth weeping and canst thou liue in laughing and merriment While thou art heere obnoxious to so many miseries laden and daily loding thy selfe with so many sinnes conflicting with so many tentations beset with so many enemies canst thou bee so senslesse or mad rather to giue vp thy selfe to carnall pleasures and delights Remember thou art now in Babylon and sittest by the water-side of afflictions A member of the Church that now remembers Sion and his owne Countrey whence he is for the time banished will rather sit downe and weepe and mourne in the Countrey where they be strangers and cannot sing the songs of God rather than addict himselfe to carnall pleasures and profane delights This seemes to be the Apostles argument 1. Pet. 2.11 As strangers and pilgrims abstaine from fleshly lusts Now a stranger lookes for no great matters in his iourney nor expects pleasure till he commeth home 2. Consider what little content or saciety there is in these pleasures Let him try this conclusion who will after Salomon he shall finde hee shall sooner surfet of pleasures than fill himselfe with them One sweet morsell driues downe another and still is the carnall heart vnsatiable And it is with a man drunke with pleasures as a man drunke with wine his drunkennesse increaseth his thirst but quencheth it not Let a man compasse his pleasure in any kinde he may thinke the attaining of his desire will quench his desire but it prooues but as water which the Smith casts on his coles it seemes to abate and quench the fire but it makes the inward heate and concupiscence more burning and raging than before Besides the eye of the wise is cleere to discerne how little of