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A03600	Foure learned and godly treatises viz. The carnall hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulnesse of sinne. The benefit of afflictions. By T.H.	Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.	1638 (1638)	STC 13725; ESTC S119015	85,186	298

away no therefore strive you to enter seeke after another manner then they doe that so thou mayst obtaine that which they shall never obtaine many deale in this case as Gentlewomen at a Sermon if they may have a seat at their ease they will sit downe and heare but if they must crowd for it then they returne and get no good so many seeke but they strive not with their seeking they are not able to crowd thorough all occasions and take up armes against the distempers of their soules that so they may obtaine that mercy they stand in neede of But you will say if earnestnesse and vehemency will not doe the deede what then will doe the deede the rules therefore for our direction in seeking are three first labour to seeke seasonably while the day of grace lasts and the Sunne shines take the season and goe on cheerefully and arrive at the end of your hopes call upon the Lord while hee may bee found it was the direction God gave to Ierusalem and the mone he makes for her neglect therefore Luk 19.41 O that thou hadst knowne in this thy day c. hee ceaseth praying and falls to weeping he had preached often and prayed often but nothing would prevaile hee falls a weeping over it O that thou hadst knowne at least in this thy day the things that belong to thy peace as who should say now this is thy day now the word is brought home unto thee now my Disciples are preaching and the Sonne of man himselfe is come to wooe you Oh that thou hadst knowne in this thy day the things that c. but they are hidden from thine eyes take notice every man hath a day and a season which is the harvest of salvation doe you not take notice of this that at some Sermon God opens the eye and prickes the conscience and sometimes lovingly perswades a man and the soule is yeelding and walking after the Lord the soule melts lovingly under the hand of God this is thy day take heede how thou neglectest it and as thou goest home intreat the Lord to make profitable that which thou hast heard and say this is my day I am now in the fire Lord melt me I am now under the power of thy ordinance make it effectuall to my soule and take notice of it if the spirit of God call and you regard it not and let all goe and all commodities are plucked up and gone you may come and call and cry but it is too late that Spirit which thou hast resisted shall never worke more thanke thy selfe the day is gone now they are hidden from thine eyes the day is over and therefore thou maiest crie Oh for a Minister oh for a Sabboth no no if all the Angells in heaven should speake and all the Ministers on earth should preach themselves hoarse thou wouldest not be affected therewith therefore take the season and the golden opportunitie of grace and when Christ comes to your soules entertaine him if Christ knocks open the doore if hee awaken thy conscience doe not snubbe it labour now to see thy sinne that thou mayest finde mercy at the hand of the Lord. Secondly as wee must seeke seasonably so wee must seeke with our whole heart now the whole heart makes knowne it selfe in two particulars the first is this when all the good things of this world be they what they will be cannot withdraw us from Christ this is one part of the whole heart when profits and pleasures of this world stand in competition and opposition betweene God and our duty to cast off all and say whether I have honour and libertie or no I care not so I have God my God I will have this is a happy seeking away therefore with that lazie heart I thinke it should be so and ought to be so and it is good sanctifying the Sabbath and praying it is mervellous reasonable I ought to doe it but if I doe it ease and honour will be gone and disgrace will be cast upon mee thou now seekest thy ease and honour and the Lord of heaven will curse thee and thy seeking but if thou diddest seeke with thy whole heart thou wouldest goe thorough the worke and say what regard friends and honours let ease and friends looke to themselves let friends bee displeased I had rather friends should be displeased then God it is not necessary to be rich or honorable but it is necessary to finde mercy and to have sinnes pardoned Secondly as no good thing must withdraw us from God so no misery must be a stoppe to let us from comming to the Lord but we must breake through all miseries that lie betweene God and us this is that Saint Paul resolved Acts 20.24 as who should say come what can come though heaven and earth meete together I am resolved to doe what God requires hee that seekes God with his whole heart if hee were to runne thorough hell he would runne thorough it to goe to God now away with that dawbing and hagling with the Lord O saith the poore soule I confesse the course is honorable God requires it and I should doe it but if I doe it trouble and persecution will befall me what shall become of me and mine will you have my wife and children undone if thou thus seeke the Lord thy seeking is accursed thou dost not seeke with thy whole heart they that seeke with their whole heart are like a mayd that sets her affections strong upon a man happily her friends will be reasoning about the portion and there is a cavill on the one side and an objection on the other povertie on one side and maintenance on the other side but if the woman love the man for the mans sake shee will say let me have him though I beg and die with him so it is with the soule of a poore Christian that seeke Christ with his whole heart when Christ and grace and duty bee propounded and the match offered and Christ tendered to the soule and the Lord saith I will bee thy Saviour and Redeemer but thou must looke for disgrace and misery and persecution but there is a better life a comming now if you stand for a portion with Christ that you must have ease and quiet and will not have misery and prison with Christ then you are never like to make a match but he that loves Christ for Christs sake the soule saith let the Lord Iesus be a Saviour to mee though I beg and die and never enjoy good day it is enough my soule shall bee saved if I should rot in prison and bee banished into the utmost coasts of the earth yet let mee have my Saviour let him take possession of me let his Spirit rule me whatsoever come of it this is to seeke God with our whole heart and now you are like to finde him Thirdly you must seeke the Lord constantly you must persevere in the use of all meanes looke as it is with a man that is resolved to finde another and not to leave seeking till hee hath found him he goeth first to his house he is not there he was gone to such a place an houre before well hee pursues him thither hee is not there but is gone to the Market hee followes him thither when hee comes thither hee is gone home againe well then backe againe hee goes to his house and never leaves hunting and pursuing of him till he findes him so it is with a soule that truly and constantly seekes after the Lord hee is to be found in his ordinances haply thou commest to the Word and findest him not here the Word saith hee went from hence to fasting and prayer then thou findest him not there neither then thou goest from fasting and prayer to holy conference then hee is not to be found there but is gone to the publike ordinance in the Congregation then thither thou goest and wilt not be content till thou findest him but goest backward and forward from the Word to prayer and fasting from them to conference from thence to the Word againe this to seeke the Lord constantly and hee that thus seekes is like to obtaine Psalme 122.1 The Prophet David saith Hee will waite untill the Lord sheweth mercy let this be thy resolution seeke unto God till he doe worke effectually upon thy heart thou hast fasted and prayed yet God hath not heard why fast and pray still untill hee supply what is wanting and pardon what is amisse thus never leave endeavouring and doing untill the Lord sheweth mercie unto thy soule and give the assurance of the pardon of thy sinnes thus seeke the Lord seasonably thus seeke thee Lord with all thy heart thus seeke him constantly thus seeke him with your whole heart and hee will be found of you in mercie and compassion FINIS

was no remedy but he would lay waste the Land when wee spill the physicke that should cure us and cast away the salve that should heale us how can we be helped and cured this is the ground and reason of those many phrases we have in Scripture Why the Lord is said to extend his providence over a people in vouchsafing the Gospell Mat. 23. the later end it is a well knowne place wee will open it a little and apply it to our purpose because it is pregnant the Text saith O Ierusalem Ierusalem how often would I have gathered thee under my wings by the preaching of the Gospell and revealing of their sinnes he would have gathered their hearts unto him and would have cast the wing of his providence over a people as they are willing to submit to the Gospell but Ierusalem would not hee sent his Prophets to reveale his will they stoned them therefore saith the Text Your habitation is left unto you desolute that is the issue they would not have the Word reforme them therefore they shall have the Sword to plague them Luke 19.44 the case is evident the Lord discovers the besiedging and the sacking of Ierusalem there shall not a stone be left upon a stone because thou knowest not the time of thy visitation as who should say the Lord came to visite Ierusalem with mercy to comfort her with pardon to cheere her to shew her her sins humble her soule but she regarded not this kindnes of the Lord therefore there is a siege about her and that is very heavie and take notice of it The Lord is specially angry with a Nation for the breach of his Covenant and neglect of his worship the Lord doth hate it and is carried with great violence towards those people that worship God falsely 1 King 13. the two last Verses the Text saith He made of the lowest of the people Priests as who should say he made a company of drunkards and belly-Gods Ministers and is that such a great matter Yes that one sin turned to the utter ruine of the house of Ieroboam to roote him out Fourthly if this will not doe the deede but men will resist the meanes that God puts into their hands then fourthly this is an other evidence that sinne groweth strong when there wants a competent number of mourners in a land which might uphold it and joyne sides against sinne and Satan and maintaine the good of a kingdome in despight of the wicked in a kingdome this is one of the last succours of supplies a kingdome hath how ever wicked men will not be perswaded and humbled yet if there be a competent number if there be so many as will make an army of fasting and prayer to grapple with God they may prevaile with God for mercy for a kingdome there is hope though the most be naught yet the better side will prevaile but when the flouds of iniquitie slow in amaine so that the best of Gods people are taken aside with the streame of corruption and beginne to grow carelesse and not to oppose the sinnes of the times this is a sore argument that there is almost no remedie for such a Nation no meanes to beate backe the indignation of the Lord Gen. 19 when Sodom could not save it selfe ten righteous persons would have saved it though they wold have pulled Gods indignation upon them yet a competent number often men would have stayed the indignation and gone betweene the living and the dead so were there a proportionable number of mourners in a Land though there be a company of mocke-gods that would pull downe the indignation of God upon them yet a company of godly gracious men might strive with the Lord and uphold their libertie but when corruptions are growne so strong that good men are defiled and their hearts tainted and their mouthes stopped woe to that kingdome and people Looke as it is with the sea-coast when the bankes are such that they can beare out the waves be the sea never so boysterous there is hope of safetie but if the sea breake all before it there is no hope to stoppe it so it is in this case the bankes that beare out the indignation of the Lord are righteous holy men they stay the hand of God and stop the floud of Gods vengeance that they doe not breake in and overflow all but if the banke be gone if a convenient company of godly men be taken away then there is no hope of mercy but the sea of Gods indignation will flow in amaine upon that place The fifth and last meanes to uphold liberty and safetie of a Nation is this when men begin to be sensible of misery when they have eyes to see the plague and hearts affected with the sinnes committed and with the judgements deserved when they observe what will befall they will use some meanes that it may not befall but when a people grow senselesse and benummed and secure in a base practise and ungodly course that they observe not the evills committed nor take notice of the judgements of God deserved but lie in a carelesse secure condition there is no expectation in reason how such a Nation should prevent the wrath of the Almighty when they see not what shall befall have no care to prevent what may befall 1 Thess 5.3 There is a warning shot before the Cannon shot there is a watch word before destruction commeth when they crie peace then commeth destruction when they quiet themselves in their owne courses when they are not onely wicked but secure in their wickednesse then comes suddaine destruction I conclude with that Matth. 24.39 As it was in the dayes of Noah there the Lord as it were smites men with Plagues answerable to their sinnes they were carelesse and secure in the dayes of Noah and then came suddaine destruction so it will be now as in the dayes of Noah when Noah was knocking the Arke every naile hee drave was a Sermon Repent you carnall and unjust oppressors the flood is comming and desolation approaching but they knew nothing that is they feared no such matter Let N●ah say what he will what a flood come and destroy all the world it will not be it cannot be they knew nothing before the slood came so then the issue is this when sinne is growne universall when men are shamelesse in the commission thereof and out-bid all meanes of reformation the corrections of the Lord humble not the mercies of the Lord perswade not the word reformes not nay when the righteous are perished from the earth and the bankes are broken downe when there is not a competent number of mourners to withstand the wrath of the Lord nay when men are sencelesse and secure all men commit sinne and feare not the wrath of God for sin then sinne comes to bee of a Giant-like strength and bignes Wee will now make use of the point the case is cleare when sinne outbids all meanes