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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13711	Seauen sermons, or, The exercises of seuen sabbaoths 1 The prophet Dauids arithmeticke. 2 Peters repentance. 3 Christs last supper. 4 Christ combating with Satan. 5 The sea-mans carde. 6 The sinners bath. 7 The forming of Eue the first woman. Together with a short treatise vpon the commaundements.	Thomas, Lewis, b. 1567 or 8.	1599 (1599)	STC 24003; ESTC S111425	91,351	236

in lying to them But wilt thou receiue O thou sorcerer be thou wise man or wise woman alas we call them wise but they are fooles for they destroy their owne soules Wilt thou receiue I say thy full fraught at once and the totall summe of all thine infelicities thou hast no interest in God no society with the Saints no fellowship with the beleeuers no parte or portion in any the good creatures of God ful of terror and astonishment is that saying of Saint Iohn Reu. 21. 8 the fearefull and vnbeleeuing and abhominable and murtherers and sorcerers and all lyers shall haue their portion in the lake that burnes with fire and brimstone Cursing and swearing I will but point at and yet are these sinnes little inferiour to that which we haue already spoken of but what dare not prophane wretches commit when they may scape with immunity of punishment our common wealth looks not to the weight of these sins nor doth the magistrate care to shew his authority in suppressing them which makes these sinnes to walke in the high streetes vncontrowled What heart is so stony like the Adamant that would not bleede to thinke vpon or what eare would not tingle to heare the wicked bannings and blasphemous oathes of many a desperat wretch heart bloud nailes wounds flesh euen by all the parts of his glorious body as if they would crucifie Christ anew like the Iewes Who is it among vs that is not ginen in some measure to this sinne olde and young and all Children that haue not learned to go haue learned to sweare and is this to loue God nay is not this to hate God Let vs leaue this sinne betimes or God wil haue his day with thee too O thou swearer The wise man hath spoken it that the Ecclus. 23. 11. plague shall neuer depart from the house of the swearer The son of a certaine Israelitish woman for blaspheming the name of the Lord and Leui. 24. 14 for cursing was stoned to death without the host Againe if this loue of God be planted The fourth commandement in thy heart thou wilt keepe his Sabbaoth thou wilt remember that as a principall duty among the rest thou wilt both rest thy selfe and cause thy family al that belongs vnto thee to cease from labor and to sanctifie the same Thou must vppon that daye doe holy things for it is the Lords holy day thou must not doe thine owne waies nor seeke thine owne will nor speake a vaine worde that day must be bestowed vppon exercises of holinesse as in hearing the word read and preached in praying receiuing the Sacraments singing of Psalmes godly conference and meditation Thou must come to the church the house of prayer keep my Sabbaoth and reuerence my sanctuary There you are tied to come and when you come come with reuerence as you cary with you your holy day cloathes so must you carry with you your holiday affections This Sabbaoth is called in Esay the Lord Esa 58. 13. his day but if you follow vanities vpon that day or do your owne vnnecessary businesse on that day you make it your owne day and not the Lords day and so you honour not God but you honour your selues as Ely honoured his children The Lord hath giuen vs six whole daies and hath reserued onely one for himselfe and yet we would haue that from him too at the least we take the greatest part of that from him and doe bestow it vppon our lustes If we offer vnto the Lorde the morning sacrifice yet we are not ready to giue him the euening incense where God requireth both and will not be serued by peecemeales If we giue God but a peece of the day wee are like the vnnaturall mother who sayde of the child let it be neither hirs nor min 1. ●in 3. ●● but ●et it be diuided so we seeme to part stakes as it were with the Lord by diuiding the Sabbaoth day making it neither Gods wholy nor our owne This is the last Commaundement of the first table but it must be chiefe in request no commaundement carrieth with it such a charge as this for it runnes with a speciall Memento Remember that thou keepe holy the Sabbaoth day as who should say in any case see thou obserue this commaundement for if thon keepest this thou keepest all For in comming to church to heare and learne the word of God to praise and glorifie him thou art taught thy whole duetie both howe to obserue this and all the rest The second table expresseth the dutie The fifth commandement of one man towardes another it sheweth what loue thou oughtest to beare thy neighbour The principall duetie braunching out of this loue is the duetie to parents If thou loue God thou wilt also loue thy parents thou hast one father in heauen who must especially be honoured in manner as thou hast heard thou hast an other father in earth and God thy father in heauen commaunds thee to honour him that is thy father on earth And this honour hath God imprinted in his name by giuing them his owne name the name of father He is thy father therfore honour him as God gaue our fathers their beginning so hast thou from thy father thy beginning it hath pleased God to vse them as instruments to beget vs. This loue contaynes in it honour feare obedience and reliefe We read of the young stork that he carrieth the olde one vpon his backe when for age he is not able to flie This is recorded of the storke to condemne vs men that will not be careful to releeue our parents as they were carefull to releeue vs. God and nature and reason common sence do call vpon vs for this duty to parents therfore I wil not discourse further vpon it And in this commandement thou art not onely called vppon to be dutiful to thy naturall parents but also to the fathers of thy countrey or of our houses the aged and our fathers in Christ and vnto them that performe this honour a speciall blessing is promised which is long life Further if thou loue thy neighbour thou wilt euer bee doing him good and not euil all the dayes of thy life Thou wilt procure all the meanes thou canst to worke his safety thou wilt defend him from iniury offered him by others and if thou defend him thou wilt much lesse seeke to hurt him and if thou wilt not hurt him much lesse wilt thou maliciously proceede to kill him for all this is charged in that commandement Thou shalt not kill As the loue of God appeared in creating vs so it appeareth in preseruing vs God that gaue life will haue vs preserue life The Lorde will not haue thee so much Leui. 19. 17 Mat. 5. 22. as to be angry with thy brother vnaduisedly nor yet to haue him nor will he haue thee to mocke or quarrel with thy neighbour Whosoeuer sayeth vnto his brother Rachah

the second booke of Chronicles we find Salomon the son asking of God wisedome and here we find Dauid the father asking of God wisedome also A good father chawlkes the waie first and as gracious a sonne that well might seeme to descend from so good a father followes the same path after both walking towards God a father to them both both of one affection do aske one the same thing viz. wisedom but respecting a diuers end the one to th end he might the better gouerne his people the other to be able thereby to number his days And this much shal briefly suffice for the cleering of the first note which teacheth you if you will learne of Dauid to pray vnto God for knowledge desire him to direct you and teach you as to teach you al things so principally this pray him to learne you to number your daies This lesson wel learned wil bring you to the knowledge of all your other duties It followeth Dan. 5. To number It is ascribed vnto God by Daniel that God alone numbreth weigheth and diuideth he measureth times seasons daies yeares and he that is the numberer will teach vs to number if we wil offer our selues to be taught by him No lesson is more necessary for these times considering how sinne hath spread it selfe like a leprozie ouer all flesh and iniquitie hath gotten the vpperhand And more then this the vialls of Gods wrath are powred our alreadie vpon vs to consume vs as we are all eie-witnesses this day Al had bin preuented if we had bin carefull to get vnto our selues this one comfortatiue more worth than all the balme in Gilead to haue knowledge to number our daies From the first words of this psalme to this present text now handled the prophet recapitulateth and recounteth the shortnes and miserie of this life and in the tenth verse he makes vp a calender as it were of mans age in that he saith the life of man is threescore Psal 90. yeares and ten and though men be so strong that they come to fourescore yeares yet is their time then but labor and sorrow so soon passeth it away and we are gone The note raised hence must be this the shortnes of time ought to make vs more circumspect and certainly if men did in a careful conscience surueigh the short scantling of our yeares and crosses incident to the same they would not run so wilfully to the vomit of sinne as they do and so seale vp their own condemnation The want of this consideration blindfolds the sinful soules of men and casteth them headlong into a thousand inconueniences Gen. 19. If Lot had numbred his owne daies as he liued to see the Sodomites days both numbred and determined when fire from heauen consumed them he had not proceeded to commit incest so soon after with his own daughters Gen. 9. Righteous Noah forgat his righteousnesse and being drunke lay vncouered in his tent his owne sonnes being ashamed that their owne father had cast off shame He could preach to the olde world that their daies should be an hundred and twenty yeares and then should the floud come but he forgat to number his own dayes and therfore a seconde inundation preuailed against him he became ouerflowed with wine as the old world with water Dan. 4. If N●bucad nezzar had numbred his time when hee numbred his towers and riches and honor he had not so soon lost his honor nor haue bin sent out to dwel with beasts in the field where he was compelled to eate grasse like an oxe because he liued like an asse til his haires were growne like Egles fethers and his nailes like birds clawes Belshazzar carowsing wine among his Dan. 5. nobles thought of nothing lesse than the numbring of his daies although euen then the moment of time was come when he should resigne vp bo●h life and kingdome Not to stand vpon particulars if the great rich man in the Gospel had bin as careful to Lu. 12. 19. 20. number his daies as he was cumbered with deuising how to take downe hi●●lde barnes and to build vp new thinking to store vp for many yeares that voice of terror had not sounded from the Numberer of times Thou foole this night wil they take the soule from thee he dreamed of many yeares behind but because he reckoned without his host for he neuer schooled himself where Dauid learned his Arithmetike therefore he deceiued himselfe and that daie proued to be the last of his life Such is and hath euer bin the course of carnal men that do fixe their eies vpon the present time only and do think that the same shall neuer be altered This securitie was far from Iob when he Iob. 14. 14. saith al the time of my pilgrimage wil I wait til my changing come as if he made it his occupation euery daie from time to time he waited for his changing Iob hath lefte few his like behind him few such Numberers of time recorded Iob and Dauid both do teach vs to number our daies as they did their daies Satan casteth so many golden baites in our Coruinus waye that we cleane forget our time as Coruinus forgate his name We are so busied like Naball about white 1. Sam. 25. 10. earth and red earth in raping and scraping transitorie trash and so deuoted to fleshly pleasures and deceitfull vanities of this life that we haue no leisure at al to think on death and so we chop into the earth afore we be aware like a man walking vpon a greene field couered with snow and not seeing the waie runneth on and sodainely falles into a pit Herodotus writeth of Sesostris a King of the Aegyptians that he was caried in a chariot drawne with foure Kings whom he before had conquered one of the foure casting his eies behinde him looked often vpon the wheeles of the chariot and was at length demanded by Sesostris what he meant to looke backe so often saith he I see that 〈…〉 which were highest in the wheel 〈…〉 sently lowest the lowest eftsoo 〈…〉 highest cogito de mutatione fortu● 〈…〉 vpon the inconstancie of thi 〈…〉 hereupon aduising himselfe 〈…〉 milde and deliuered the sai 〈…〉 As it did Pirrus history noteth mans mortalit 〈…〉 Teach vs to number our d● 〈…〉 speakes not of yeares or monet 〈…〉 but of daies noting the shortnesse 〈…〉 in the word Daies And the same phrase is vsed of all the 〈…〉 men vpō the like occasion Iacob told Phar●oh that few and euill were the daies of his pilgrimage speaking of the time to note the shortnesse of life he names not yeares but daies and speaking of the toyles and troubles of life he calles it a pilgrimage Iob in like manner in numbring his daies my daies saith he are more swift than a post Iob. 9. 25. and in the 26. verse they are swifter than shippes Our Sauiour in teaching vs to