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A17330	Ten sermons vpon the first, second, third and fourth verses of the sixt of Matthew containing diuerse necessary and profitable treatises , viz. a preseruative against the poyson of vaine-glory in the 1 & 2, the reward of sincerity in the 3, the vncasing of the hypocrite in the 4, 5 and 6, the reward of hypocrisie in the 7 and 8, an admonition to left-handed Christians in the 9 and 10 : whereunto is annexed another treatise called The anatomie of Belial, set foorth in ten sermons vpon the 12, 13, 14, 15 verses of the 6 chapter of the Prouerbs of Salomon.	Burton, William, d. 1616.	1602 (1602)	STC 4178.5; ESTC S261	267,037	263

and the paines that follow sinfull pleasures and then let our soules be fed and nourished with the sweet foode of the heauenly word of God And then feare not for as Abraham found a sacrifice where he looked for none euen so if we be as readie to sacrifice our sinnes as he was to sacrifice his sonne at Gods bidding we shall find new comforts and pleasures where we looked for none And as Sampson first slue the lion and afterward found a sweet hony combe in the dead lions belly so if we wil arme our selues to slay our sinnes which like ramping lions do meete vs in the way we shall by the power of Gods spirit ouercome them and after that find a most sweet hony comb of Gods mercy in Christ Iesus by whom we haue ouercome sinne and Sathan to our euerlasting peace and consolation He that can truely say with Dauid vnto God Thou shalt guide me by thy counsell shall follow with Dauid and say assuredly Afterward thou wilt receiue me to glorie And he that is not come to that point is as yet at a miserable passe for the Lord in the first of Prouer. sheweth that because he hath called to the foolish to make them vnderstand his words and they haue refused to be instructed or to be guided by his counsell he will laugh at their destruction and mocke when their feare cometh vpon them yea when their feare shall come vpon them like desolation and their destruction like a whirle wind When affliction and anguish shall come vpon them then shall they call vpon the Lord and he will not heare them they shall seeke him early but they shall not find him Thus saith the holy Ghost they shall eate of the fruite of their owne way and be filled with their owne deuises To which the Apostle agreeth and telleth the men of Belial that as they regard not to know God euen so God wil deliuer thē vp to a reprobate mind to do things that are not conuenient And moreouer saith Christ Those mine enemies which would not that I should raigne ouer them bring hither and slay them before me A fearefull thing therfore the children of God pray heartily Thy will be done in earth ô heauenly Father as it is in heauen and with the Church in the Psalme Not vnto vs ô Lord not vnto vs but to thy name giue the praise fighting continually against their affections because they fight against their soules And as the oxe is not readie to worke vntill he be vnder the yoke so Gods children thinke not themselues readie to serue God vntill they haue put on the yoke of Christ and then they say as Dauid said I am readie ô Lord to do thy will And this shall be a singular comfort vnto vs at the houre of death to remember that we haue striuen against our affections and earnestly laboured and prayed to obey God which the man of Belial or lawlesse dissolute person neuer did And so much of the wicked mans first name The second tearme or name that is here giuen to the wicked man is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ish auén vir nihili saith Tremelius that is a man of no worth Auen signifieth both iniquitie and vanitie therfore the house of idols is called Beth-auen because idols are vaine things and idolaters are vaine wicked persons therefore lawlesse loose men are called Ishim auen because such are both vaine and wicked yea more full of vanitie and iniquitie First they are vnprofitable pursuing as it were the wind and the smoke secondly they are practisers of mischiefe and wrong This is profanenesse from which the Apostle dehorteth vs in the twelfth to the Hebrewes and 16. verse where Esau is propounded as a most liuely image of such prophane persons as preferre earth before heauen the world before the word gold before godlinesse the bodie before the soule and the shadow before the bodie as Esau did a messe of pottage before his birthright and as the Israelites preferred onions before Manna and as the Iewes did Barrabas before Christ. Such were they that said in Ier. 43. It was well with vs when we made cakes for the Queene of heauen as many say now adaies It was neuer merry world since we had so much preaching it was a good world when we could go to the Abbeys and other religious houses and haue our bellies full of good cheare for nothing Ieremie is a babler said they and preaching is babling say these But what were they and these too Surely but Ishimauen prophane persons This vaine profanenesse and prophane vanitie is called finenesse of wit now adaies whereby many prophane and vaine persons get their liuing which is nothing else but plaine and lewd shifting This is a matter that men make no reckening of but such a one is viler then the earth Yet the custome of the wicked is to commend such saying such a one is a good honest man and doth no bodie any harme which is vntrue For Ish-auen the vaine man is also a wicked man that is hurtful vnto others And if it were granted that he did no man harme yet is he no good man but a prophane beast and most wicked to Godward An honest man they say he is but of what religion is he what religious exercise doth he frequent How doth he serue God with his familie what striuing hath he against his imperfections When doth he enter into priuate prayer for strength against his speciall sinnes and temptations What care hath he to bring vp his children in the feare of God He may be an honest man and yet a prophane man for honestie is two fold ciuill and religious Some are ciuill honest men and not religious some are religious honest men and scarce ciuill some are neither ciuill nor religious and some are both ciuill and religious Examples we haue in the Scriptures of all these The Barbarians in Miletum were ciuill honest men whose ciuill courtesie and courteous ciuility appeared in that kind entertainment which they gaue and that abundance of necessaries which they ministred vnto Paul and his weather beaten company But religious honest men they were not that is to say such as giue God his due for they had not so much as the knowledge of the true God amongst them as doth appeare by those extremities that they ran into at the sight of Paul For one while they rashly iudged him to be a murderer and that was when the Viper leaped vpon his hand another while they did superstitiously suppose him to be a God and that was when he shooke off the Viper and had no harme In the first of Kings the 14. chapter and thirteenth verse it is said of Abijah the sonne of Ieroboam that when he dyed all Israel mourned for him because there was found in him some goodnesse toward the Lord God of Israel that is he was a man carefull to giue

same condition is to the iust and to the wicked 12. Neither doth man know his time but as the fishes which are taken in an euill net and as the birdes so are the children of men snared in the euill time when it falleth vpon them suddenly Yet this difference remaineth between the wicked and the godly whensoeuer wheresoeuer or howsoeuer they be suddenly taken to the godly death is a vantage to the wicked it is a losse for then the one changeth his hellish earth for heauen and the other then changeth his earthly heauen for hel and therefore of the godly sort it is said commonly that they sleepe when they die as Christ sayd of Lazarus he is not dead but sleepeth but of the other it is said that they perish and are destroyed The one shall recouer the other shall neuer recouer Without recouerie desperate is that disease that will neuer be recouered fearefull indeed is that estate which is alwaies feareful The wicked man dreameth of long life and repentance at the last gaspe but what promise hath he of repentance at that time if he despise the long suffering of God al his life long and neglect or abuse the meanes of repentance or what charter hath he of his life one houre longer then he doth now liue God may and will no doubt haue mercy vpon whom he will but yet that he will haue mercie vpon thee that goest on stil in thy wickednesse without any feare of wandring or any desire of returning is more then thou knowest He that doth so is threatned with the contrarie for custome of sin saith S. Paul breedeth impenitencie and impenitencie maintaineth custome in sin and both do heape vp wrath against the day of wrath and the reuelation of the iust iudgement of God Why did not Cain and Iudas and Elymas and Ananias and Saul and Esau diuers others repent that they might haue bene saued If it had bene in their power when they had listed as miserable Papistes dreame doubtlesse they would haue repented for they were as vnwilling no doubt to be damned in hell as any other but wicked Balaam knew and confessed that the end and death of the righteous is so blessed that it is to be wished of all men No no for the most part it falleth out otherwise then men looke for in stead of repenting and confessing their sinnes they lie rauing and cursing and blaspheming and talking leudly of their wickednes lying like blockes and dying like beasts that so Gods prouerbe here may be verified vpon them he is destroyed suddenly without recouerie And howsoeuer it be that God is good to Israel and mercifull to those that call vpon his name in truth of heart and faith in Christ which feare his name and keepe his couenant which are displeased with themselues and breake off their wickednes by righteousnesse as it is in Daniel yet is he most wise and seuere against the obstinate and lawles against their faces he hath set his bow and prepared his instruments of warre vpon their heads will he raine fire and brimstone and stormes and tempests and snares this shall be their portion to drinke yea and as Iob saith When wickednesse is sweete in his mouth and lie hidden vnder his tongue when he sauoured it and will not forsake it but keepe it close in his mouth then his meate in his bowels shall be turned the gall of Aspes shall be in the middest of him he hath deuoured substance and he shall vomit it out for God shall draw it out of his belly He shall sucke the gall of aspes the vipers tongue shall slay him he shall not see the riuers nor the flouds and streames of hony and butter he shall restore the labour and shall deuoure no more for he hath vndone many he hath forsaken the poore and destroyed houses that he builded not Surely he shall feele no quietnesse in his bodie there shall be none of his meate left therefore shall none hope for his goods In abundance he shall be filled with paine and the hands of all the wicked shall be against him when he is about to fill his belly God shall raine vpon him his meat in his fierce wrath He shal flie from the iron weapons and the bow ef steele shall strike him through The arrow shall be drawne out of his body it shall shine of his gall and so shall feare come vpon him All darknenesse shall be in all his secret places the fire that is not kindled shal deuoure him that which remaineth in his tabernacle shal be destroyed The heauen shall declare his wickednes and the earth shal rise vp against him the increase also of his house shal go away it shal flee away in the day of the Lords wrath Lo this is the portion of the wicked man from God and the heritage of God for his words If then this be the portion of the wicked man from God what reason haue the wicked to hope for saluation and not to feare destruction how can he imagine that he should recouer when the hand of the Lords wrath shall thus cast him downe if not in this life then not at all For from hell there is no redemption meaning for those that are there And as the tree falleth saith the Preacher so shall it lie therefore both falsly and wickedly do the Papists talke of helping and releeuing mens soules by their Dirges and Masses and Mattens and I wot not what else after their departure out of this life Falsly I say because they crosse the course of the Scripture in broching such an errour and wickedly because by such kind of vaine and false hope they do strengthen the hands of the wicked that they care not for repenting in this life neither do they regard the iudgements of the Lord when they are threatned because they hope to be releeued and released for their money when they are dead Therfore is that fire which shal deuoure the wicked called vnquenchable which it were not if dirges and other popish dirt or any thing else in the world could quench it Some kind of fire is quenched with water some with vineger and some with milk but nothing wil quench Topheth which is prepared of old saith the Prophet euen for the King the Lord hath made it large and wide the burning thereof is fire and much wood the breath of the Lord like a riuer of brimstone doth kindle it And if his wrath be once kindled yea but a little happy are they that kissed the Sonne of God before he was angrie and blessed are all they that put their trust in him for as by faith in his bloud they quench the firie darts of Sathan here so by the same faith shall they and do they quench those firie flames of hell which shall burne torment the wicked and vnbeleeuers for euermore Therefore if any here are or haue bene such as haue bene described by