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A12706	A sermon preached at Whaddon in Buckinghamshyre the 22. of Nouember 1593. at the buriall of the Right Honorable, Arthur Lorde Grey of Wilton, Knight of the most Honorable order of the Garter, by Thomas Sparke pastor of Blechley	Sparke, Thomas, 1548-1616.	1593 (1593)	STC 23024; ESTC S102431	51,655	100

his people to their smart found most true by experience for though they hadde as it is most cleare by the stories of those times and the writings of the Prophets Ieremy and Ezechiel not onely them two and Baruch sundry other very godly and vertuous men when this euill began first to breake in vppon them yet all these could not stay the Lord from executing his fierce wrath vppon thē as you may see Ier. 39. in the last of the Kings Cronicles And Ezechiel gaue them the reason why it could be no otherwise saying Cap. 24. vers 13.14 Thou remainest in thy filthinesse and wickednes because I would haue purged thee and thou wast not purged thou shalt not be purged from thy filthines till I haue caused my wrath to light vppon thee I the Lord haue spoken it it shall come to passe and I will doe it I will not goe backe neither will I spare neither will I repent According to thy waies and according to thy workes shall they iudge thee saith the Lorde Hee might well then say that the Lord would haue purged them and that they would not be purged For what shoulde the Lord haue done to his vineyarde which was that kingdome of theirs that he had not done as this our Prophet Isaiah most notably shewes them Cap. 5. vers 12 c. He had bestowed vppon them his holy woorde and lawe he ceased not early nor late no not when the iudgement was in sight to raise vp vnto them most faithfull Prophets to tell them of their sins and to teach them how to preuent Gods iudgements by true repentance he gaue them very many good kings and namely Iosiah euen a litle before the appointed time for this euell who was inferior to none that was before him to purge the Church of al corruptions and somtimes be thought to awaken them by forein wars as in Afa his time in Iehosophats and Ezechias his raigne and sometime by dearth and famine and sometime by the pestilence and notably by the iudgement executed vppon their neighbour kingdome of Samaria and yet neither any of these nor all these togither nor any other good meanes could cause them to shake of their senseles security in sin therefore what should the Lord doe else but giue thē ouer as he had threatned into the handes of that sterce cruell and merciles nation of the Babilonians Now welbeloued you know the prouerbe happy is he whom other mens harme may make to beware and we know and are taught Rom. 15. ver 4. that whatsoeuer thinges are written afore time are written for our learning and therfore I assure you we had neede to take these thinges to heart and to learne in time to mourne for our sinnes and both to feele the present iudgement of God vppon vs already in that of late we haue lost by death so many worthy menne as wee haue and to feare and tremble at that which this farther doth threaten vs. What meanes hath the Lorde omitted to winne vs to true repentaunce that hee euer vsed to that people Is not the light of his woorde shining now amongst vs vnder the new testament worthily in respect of the more lightsomenes thereof vsually by Paul compared to the daie light when as theirs in comparison thereof is called the night which is now paste and haue not we as many faithfull and painfull ministers thereby laboring to direct vs a right as ever they had and hath not the Lorde bestowed now of late sundry princes especially her Maiesty whom now we enioy and I praie God long may vppon vs very carefull to purge both the Church of corruptions and the common weale of disorders And to goe on to the rest we cannot haue forgotten but that by drough dearth and pestilence we haue beene and yet are by the last as earnestly summoned to repentaunce as euer they were and without warres we haue not quite bene the Lord hath caused the earth about some foureteene yeare agoe fearefully to tremble and shake vnder vs and now agaiue the satterday after this Noble Lorde Greye lefte this life sure I am in many places of this shire and somewhere else it shooke as sensibly and terribly as before And as for our neighbour countries rounde about vs wee knowe and in some sorte feele that the heauie hande of GOD hath lien fore vppon some of them a great while And wee haue founde that such hath beene the cankred malice of the cursed sea of Rome and of the confederates thereof against vs that along time by all treacherous deuises that they could inuent they haue sought to set vs togither by the eares amongst our selues and to queuch they care not howe the light of our Israell that is to bereaue our dread and gratious Queene of her life Finally as yet I hope it is fresh in most of our memories howe when these enemies of ours saw that by their secret practises they coulde noe way preuaile the Lordes name for euer bee blessed for it then they brake out into open hostilitie first in Ireland and sence in comming with a hudge and mighty navye which they counted therefore cald inuincible with a ful purpose to inuade our land and to satisfie their bloudthirsty mindes vppon vs. Indeede we must needes confesse to the glory of God that by the valiant worthy and faithfull seruice of this honourable Lord whose body now lies here before vs by gods blessing thereupon their courage in Ireland was so puld downe and their combseut that neuer since any more of them haue had any hart to giue any like attempt there again and as for their nauy the Lord of heauen led it such a procession about our country that most both of the shippes and men he hath scattered and confounded in the bottom of the sea Yet we may be sure his malice that set them thus on worke against vs is not so abated but that when strength is recouered and fitter opportunity espied we shall tast of it if they can Wherefore if all this notwithstanding we will still continue secure and careles in sinne and vngodlines with the Iewes and so ioine with them in the cause to prouoke God in his wrath to bring a further euill vpon vs what reason is there but that we shall we cannot tell how soone tast as deepely of the same some one way or other He is the same God now that hee was then and he can punish sin as well in vs as in them and there is no reasō in the world but that we should thinke if we be iumpe with them in sin wee shall be made iust and iumpe with them in the punishment for the same In the name of God therefore let vs take heede that th●s hearing Gods curses be no●●●ted against vs for out sinnes that wee blesse not our selues in our hearts saying wee shall haue peace although we walke on stil according to the stubbernesse of our hearts so adding

drunkennes to thirst as it pleaseth God by Moyses to speake to his people of Israell in that time Deu. 29. ver 19. For if wee shoulde doe so in the woordes there immediately following the Lorde telleth vs what we shall surely trust vnto namely that he will not be mercifull to any such But his wrath and ielousie shall smoke against such and euery curse written in the booke of the lawe shall light vppon them and hee will put out their name from vnder heauen Wherefore to conclude this part let eve●● of ●s learne to doe as Ieremi hath councelled vs Lam. 3. vers 40. that is search and trye our waies and turne vnto the Lorde lifting vp our handes and heartes vnto him in the heauens for mercy to vs and out Lande for as he faith in the twenty two verse of that Chapter our manifolde and great sin● considered so we haue cause to say also it is the Lordes mercies that we bee not consumed And further let Ezechiel teach vs this one lesson more that not onelye ●ee our selues euerie one for his owne particuler must thus turne to God from all our sinnes but that wee must cause others so to turne or else he will not once promise vs that iniquitie shall not be our destruction Cap. 18 vers 30. For euery man is bound to do what lyeth in him to draw on those that any way by his vocation in Church or common weal he hath a charge of And but that I hasten to the consolation I shoulde here teach you that this conuersion of ours to God must bee speedy without procrastination constant without interruption harty without dissimulation vniuersal without exception hūble without ostentation and yet faithful without all distrust or doubting For thus hath the word taught it ought to be if we would haue it to be acceptable before the Lorde to put of his iudgementes from vs that otherwise by our sinnes we haue deserued But let thus much suffise touching the Prophets complaint and the vse that wee are to make of it and nowe let vs proceede to the comforte or consolation that hee giues in these wordes of his Wherin as I haue said we are to consider whom be comfortes and therefore how he describes them then how he comforts them and therefore what the comforts be that he sets down for such He describes them in general to be every one that walketh before God in the latter verse and in the former more particularly to be righteous or mercifull men of these thinges therefore now orderly as they are preposed let vs consider By walking by an vsuall Metaphore in the scriptures we are to vnderstande liuing and hauing our conuersation in which sence saith God to Abraham Gen. 17. ve 1. walke before mee and be thou vpright that is ●ot and haue thy conuersation And 1. Corint 9. by a like metaphore the life of a Christian is compared to the running of a race the consideration of which metaphors may and ought to teach vs that as it is our dutie according to Christes counsail Luk. 13.24 to striue to get into this way wherein wee must walke and run and that betime ●e cause it is written Eccl. 12. vers 1. remember th● creator in the daies of thy youth whiles the euill daies comes not nor the yeares approach wherein thou shalt say I haue no pleasure in them so likewise when wee are got in that wee maie neither stande still nor goe backe but that we are to walke and runne right forwarde taking heede that neither we run round about nor ●ow of this side now o● that And therefore we haue a r●●t giuen vs. Heb. 12. vers 13. to make straight steps vnto our feere and there also we are ●arned to take heede of al halting in this way lest so we beturned out of the way Thus therefore to walke or to runne this race importes that therein there is some difficultie and that there had neede bee good paynes taken thereabout Whereuppon the Apostle Paule in the foresaide place to the Corint 9. hauing saide so run that ye may obtaine to prouoke vs not to think it much though so to do cost vs some paines he first tels vs that they that striue for ●asteries though they do it to obtain a corruptible crowne yet abstayne from all thinges that might hinder them and then hee layes before vs to the same ende his owne example howe that hee the better to runne this race bett downe his own bodie and brought it into subiection verse 25.27 And Hebrewes 12. verse 1. most plainelye hee calles vppon vs to cast awaye euery thinge that presseth downe and the sinne that hangeth so fast on and so then saith let vs runne with patience the race that is set before vs c. Wherefore the difficultie hereof considered we had need euery one to runne vnto God for helpe in this case saying with Dauid Oh that my wayes were directed to keepe thy statutes teach me O Lorde the way of thy statutes direct mee in the path of thy commandementes Psal 119. vers 5.33.35 Nowe touching this our walking seeing it must hee as I haue saide or else it is not that that heere the Prophet requires in those whome hee woulde comforte sure wee maye bee that there is prescribed vs by GOD who would haue vs to walke before him that is so that he may take pleasure and delyte in our walking some perfect rule from which wee maye not decline either to the right hande or left and this surely is his owne reuealed will and ●oorde For that is an ancient rule of God in matter of his seruice ye shall put nothing vnto the woorde which I commaunde you neither shall yee take ought there from as wee reade Deuteronomie 4. vers 2. and therefore saith he Esay 8. To the Lawe and to the testimonie if they speake not according to this woorde it is because there is no light in them ver 20. And therfore euen kings are commaunded by the Lorde to reade in the booke of the Lorde all dayes of their life Deuteronomie 17.19 And Iosua particularly to meditate therein daye and night that it might neuer depart out of his mouth that he might obserue and doe according to all thinges written therein neuer turning from the rule thereof either to the right hande or lefte Iosua the first verse 7. and 8. And wee may bee sure God is at the same point still and euer will bee and therefore both Isaiah the 29. verse 13. and Matthew 15. verse 9. as Christ hath alleadged it wee may see that both in the old testament and newe God hath counted them but vaine worshippers howe neare so euer they drawe vnto him in woordes whose feare is taughte by the preceptes of menne teaching for doctrine mens preceptes all which kinde of worshipping or seruing of God Paule condemne vnder the name of will worshippe or voluntarie religion though otherwise it carrie neuer such shew of humblenesse