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fire_n	earth_n	heaven_n	water_n	7,702	5	6.4487	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08772	The prentises practise in Godlinesse, and his true freedome Diuided into ten chapters. Written by B.P.	B. P., fl. 1608.; T. R., fl. 1608.	1608 (1608)	STC 19057; ESTC S120852	65,287	210

hereof not that I would seeme to take scholarship vpō me which I do freely confesse I haue not but for that I haue in other matters found the profit of order both to the writer and to him that readeth First therefore I beseech you as you loue and tender your owne soules which I doe now loue also euer since I began to loue mine owne consider with me not slightly but euen with a deepe earnest thought the tremblable estate of a man vnconuerted and the dangerous inconueniences we runne into by our impenitencie and obstinate persisting in our wicked waies And I trust by the cooperation of Gods grace though euery inconuenience seuerallie cannot moue vs yet all of them iointly together shall affect our harts and stirre vs vp to some more care conscience of being that which wee would be called CHAP. 2. ALmightie GOD in the creation assigned to euery thing in the world some particular end and impressed in their nature an appetite and desire to that end continually as to the very point and scope of their being As we see birds make their nests and breed vp their yong beasts skuffle for their fodder pastorage Fishes flote vp and downe the riuers Trees beare fruit Flowers send forth sweet odours herbes their secret vertues Fire aspires vpward with all his might Earth hath no rest till it come into his proper region Waters post vpon the necke one of another to the bosome of the maine Aire pusheth it selfe into euery open voidnes vnder heauen This is cleare in our owne obseruation and experience and shall wee thinke that man the most noble creature for whose comming all this pompe and shew was set in order as for their Lord and King was made in vaine and had not his peculiar end appointed him also proportionally to the noblenes of his quality and condition Yes doubtles that God that cā neuer erre nor ouersee in his workes allotted vnto man the worship and seruice of his maker in this world and the enioying of the same his makers glory for euer in the world to come as his maine obiect and aiming point whereto he ought to tend and referre himselfe all his daies Now for man to swarue from this end and to serue the Diuell the world and his sensuall lusts and being made for heauen to follow the direct line that leads to hel is to shew himselfe more base and degenerate then the most base and brutish creatures in the world and to be condemded cried out vpō by them cōtinually for they keep to this day without digression their proper ends and assignements enioined them by their maker in the creation onely man is irregular man alone powres out himselfe into all kinde of riot and disorder Oh my brethren turne againe and consider sadly of this point Shal the little Bee and the Emmet so carefully do Gods worke and fulfill the taske which hee hath set them shal the senselesse stone being forced to mount vpward against his inclination sinke and descend againe as fast till it come to the center which is his home and end and shall man the Image of God runne bias from his end and do euery other thing more then the worke prescribed vnto him shal they silly reasōlesse things keep a direct course without any voluntary swaruing and yet haue no tutor or remembrancer And shall we euen wilfully stray and vary hauing our owne hearts filled full of vnderstanding iudgement being so many waies called vpon and pulled by the sleeue as it were beside Gen 6. Shall God take ioy of all other creatures onely repent that he made man what a shame of shames is this to vs we read in the prone and groueling faces of beastes that they were made but for the earth vpon which they pore And do we not likewise in our owne erect and loftie countenances that our end is heauen and heauenly things as our vpright shape and high-raised looks tend thitherward continually But what shal I say * Iames 4. to him that knoweth to do well and doth it not to him it is sinne yea finne with a witnes Againe where as man hauing by his wilfull fall and disobedience lost those excellent powers and priuiledges wherewith at the first he was endued and enthralled himselfe for euer to sinne death and hell as it was forethreatned he should if hee did tast of the forbidden tree it pleased the Lord out of his vnutterable loue to his choisest peece of workmanship to send his owne euerlasting Son out of his bosome to pay downe the inestimable ransome of his innocent bloud for him in stead of the earthly paradise which he had lost to giue him heauen the seat of his owne Maiestie and the habitation of this Angels and purest spirits for his inheritance conditionally that for his freedome and bounty he should serue the same his Lord in holines righteousnesse before him all the daies of his life And surely if any Alien being by endenization made a member of the same body with the naturall children and inheritable to the common liberties and commodities doe willingly acknowledge himselfe bound and answerable to the publike lawes of that country wherein he is denized much more ought we that are forrainers and slaues by birth being infranchised and made free denizens of heauen and fellow citizens with the Saints of God much more I say ought we in lue of this so beneficiall legitimation to conforme our selues to the obedience of the heauenly lawes and ready to execute the most iust charges which our God and king hath imposed vpon vs. Ignorance of these lawes none of vs can pretend both because they are so short and compendious for God deliuered them at first but in ten words and our Sauiour hath since abridged those ten into two comprising notwithstanding in that Epitome the very end of all law and equity and also because wee of all places of the land are by Gods ministers the pastors of our soules so plainely and carefully taught them from time to time as afterward shall be shewed Now then for vs the premisses waighed to cary ourselues towards this most gracious Lord in such a disloiall fashion to shake off the yoke of his precepts and kicke al his commandements aside one after onother when they lie in the way of our profit or our pleasure and to go on with a bold face and a high hand multiplying sinne vpon sinne without any mind of turning to better waies til we be wrapt with age or pined with sicknes or worne out with sinne that euen sin her selfe castes vs off as vnseruiceable what rebellion or ingratitude can there be cōparable to this O my brethren is this to serue God in holinesse and righteousnesse not one but all the daies of our life from the first to the last Is this the state of life we hope to go to heauen in haue the vnsanctified any title of the inheritance of