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A02186	Greenvvoods vvorkes contayned in fiue seueral tractates. 1. Of the day of iudgement. 2. Of the Lords Prayer. 3. Of the race to saluation. 4. Of the torment of Tophet. 5. Of the baptisme of Christ.	Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5.; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Treatise of the great and generall daye of judgement. aut; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Race celestiall. aut; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Tormenting Tophet. aut; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Joyfull tractate of the most blessed baptisme. aut	1620 (1620)	STC 12329; ESTC S115797	129,145	422

tongue and beare much more malice in heart These cursed Hypocrites these dissembling Hel-hounds and these venemous Vipers are the very pictures of the Diuell and liuely representations of the old Serpent For as the Diuell lyeth coggeth counterfaiteth and dissembleth so doe these The subtill Serpent pretended great kindnesse to our first Parents counselling them to eate of the forbidden fruit that so they might see and be as gods but he intended their euerlasting destruction so these crafty Foxes séeme to be charitable Christians and to giue good counsel whersoeuer they become but yet they deuoure 〈…〉 Widdowes houses and that vnder colour of long prayers The subtill Serpent séemeth to be an Angell of light but yet he is a diuell of darknesse settered with the chaines of euerlasting darknesse So A 〈…〉 these Apes of the Diuell do beare an outward shew of holinesse and puri ty yet they are Wels without water and clouds carried about with euery tempest to whom the blacke darknesse 2. Pet. 2. 17 is referned for euer These Hypocriticall mock-gods may fitly be compared to Idols For as an Idoll hath an outward shape of 〈…〉 in 〈…〉 a liuing man but yet hath no life at all within So Hypocrites séeme to liue by the life of grace yet are they dead in sinne and rotted in corruption They are new vpstart Gyants hauing two faces vnder one hood they come neere vnto God with their 〈…〉 ●9 ●3 mouthes and honour the Lord with their lips but their hearts are farre remoued from him Deum laudant in t●mpa●o se● non in choro i● They praise the Lord in the Tabor but not in the dance they serue God in shew but not in truth they beare with the Figg●●trée great store of leaues but no fruit at all But alas alas these Hypocrites that thus deceiue thēselues hauing their reward on earth which they through vaine glory gréedily look for at the hands of men shall neuer obtaine a Crowne of righteousnesse being altogether vnrighteous but they shall haue their portion with Hypocrites where shall be weeping wayling 〈…〉 ●5 ●5 and gnashing of teeth For the Lord abhorreth all hollow hearts and double tongues all outward odlations and burnt sacrifices all outward shew and hypocriticall worship he is a Spirit and he will sp●e all such out of his mouth as worship him not in Spirit and Truth Simul●ta san●litas duplex iniquitas i. Counterfait godlinesse is so farre from holinesse a● it is double vngodlinesse I say therefore vnto thée with Saint Chrysostome Aut esto quod appares aut appar● 〈…〉 〈…〉 id est Either be as thou seem●st or seem as thou art It is not séeming but being that shall goe for pay Non audi●o●●s s●d f●●●or●s legis iustisic ibutur id est No● the hearers but the doers of the ●●●● shall be iustified N●● eandem pr●●i●●ntes sed eidem obedientes glorifi●●●untur id est Not professors but performers shall be glorified Woe therefore to all hypocriticall Mock-gods that run not in the Race of Christianity as they boast themselues by profession they shall roare at the gates of heauen and say Lord Lord haue wee not by thy name prophecied and by thy name cast out diuels and by thy Name done many good workes haue wee not professed thy Gospell and borne the name of thine But because they did not the will of our heauenly Father our Sauiour shal send them packing to hell with a Nescio vos professing on this manner vnto them I neuer knew Mat. 7. 22. 23. Mat. 23. 23 you depart from me yee workers of iniquity O yee viperous Serpents O ●ee generation of Vipers how shall ye escape the iudgement of hell Let euery Christian therefore beware of the leauen of the Pharises which is Hypocrisie Beware of false Prophets which come vnto you in ●●● 〈…〉 Sheeps cloathing but inwardly are rauening Wolues yee shall know them by their fruits doe men gather grapes of thornes or figges of thistles Walke wisely towards them that are Col. 4. 5. without redeeming the time for the dayes are euill That you may therefore preuent the damned traditions of this diuelish brood I say vnto you as our Sauior said vnto his Apostles a little before his Passion Behold I haue told you Mat. 24. 25 before Let euery Christian therefore auoiding all counterfait and hypocriticall profession runne in the Race of godlinesse seruing the Lord with all his heart with all his Soule with all his strength in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of his life God calleth for our hearts My sonne giue me thy heart The Lord Pro. 23. ●● August●ne as saith S. Augustine Quia totum fecit totum exigit id est Because hee made all hee will haue all not a piece of the heart nor a roome in thy heart but the whole heart for the Lord is a iealous God and as a iealous husband cannot indure that his wife should giue her hart or any part therof to any other man so the Lord cannot abide that wée should giue any part of our heart ●rom him He calleth not for a stony heart nor for a double heart but for a fleshy heart a heart purged by faith in CHRIST IESVS bathed in the bloud of the Lambe and throughly clensed by the fire of the Spirit not an old heart neither a corrupted heart but a new heart and a new Spirit for which the Prophet Dauid begged Create in Psal 51. 10 me a new heart O God and renew a right Spirit within me Let vs therefore I beseech you brethren by the mercies of God giue vp our bodies a liuing Sacrifice holy and acceptable vnto God which is our reasonable seruing of God and let vs Rom. 12 1 2. not fashion our selues like to this world but let vs bee changed by the renewing of our minde In stead of dead beasts let vs giue vp our bodies which are liuely Sacrifices And in stead of the bloud of beasts which was but a shadow and pleased not God of it selfe let vs giue vp the acceptable sacrifice of the spirituall Man framed by faith to Godlinesse of life Let vs sanctifie the Lord 1 Pet. 3. 23. in our hearts who dayly calleth for our hearts let vs say with Dauid My Soule praise thou the Lord and all Psal 103. 1. that is within mee praise his holy name Let vs praise him in his Sanctuary and in the firmament of his power let vs praise him in his mighty acts and according to his excellent greatnesse let vs praise him in the sound of a Trumpet vpon the Violl and Harpe yea let euery thing that hath breath praise the Lord And that not onely in word and in tongue but in déede and in truth not in outward shew and profession only but in our pure lines and holy conuersations that so running in the Race of Godlinesse to the end of our liues we may be blessed for euer and

with the sheep on his right hand and singing this blessed haruest song vnto you Come ye blessed of my Father inherite the Kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world To the which most blessed place of glory the Lord bring euery Soule of vs at the day of our death and dissolution and that for IESVS CHRIST his sake to whom with God the Father and God the blessed Spirit thrée glorious persons but one immortall God be ascribed all honour and glory both in Heauen and Earth this day and euer Amen * ⁎ * FINIS An Earnest and zealous Pray er to be saued from the damnation of TOPHET O Most glorious euerliuing and euerlouing Lord God the fountaine and well-spring of all our happinesse wee thy poore seruants vnworthy in regard of our manifold transgressions of the least of thy blessings doe most humbly fall downe before the throne of thy dreadfull Maiesty confessing in the bitternesse of our soules the basenesse and vilenesse of our estates by sinne O Lord ashamed wee are to come before thee that are nothing but sinfull corruption and abomination but thou a Maiesty most pure in comparison of whom the Angels themselues are counted impure we dare not therfore being thus lothsome and abominable presume to present our selues before thee as in our selues but in thy manifold mercies and thy Son Iesus Christ his merits in whom thou art delightfully pleased with all that faithfully call vpon thy name Lord in thy Son behold vs we humbly beseech thee accept vs in his worthinesse clense vs in his blood iustifie vs in his righteousnes sanctifie vs with his spirit and in his most precious death frée vs from the damnation of hell O till these comfortable tidings be sealed vp to our soules how perplexed are we O how do our harts quake and tremble till we haue found the saluation of thee our God! Reiect vs not O heauenly Father that faine would as be saued of thee so vprightly serue thee we plead now and euer for pardon so for grace whereby wee may in plentifull manner bring forth fruits worthy of amendement Lord kéepe vs in body and soule to thy euerlasting Kingdom and saluation Lord preserue vs from the terrible torments of Tophet O what shall become of vs if we for our sins when we dye be thrown into that Lake that burnes with fire and brimstone so bitterly as forceth screeching and screaming continually Lord deale not with vs according to our sinnes and thy iustice but in the multitude of thy mercies saue our soules aliue O consider the terrors of our troubled Soules Let not the grones of our hearts be despised but suffer them to pierce the heauens for a blessing O thou that art the God of endlesse compassion cast vs not away from thy presence we are the workmanship of thine hands O Lord confound vs not O Lord that delightest not in the death and damnation of a sinner bee moued to shewe pity vpon vs O Christ our blessed Sauior make intercession to God the Father for vs speake by thy gracious Spirit peace to our disquieted Soules bind vp our broken hearts giue vs that wée may cléerely sée our names written in the Booke of Life and our soules released from the fearefull damnation of Tophet To this end gracious God remoue all sinne from our soules and plant in the garden of our hearts all those spirituall and heauenly graces that are proper peculiar to thine Elect that we may be alwayes a swéet smelling sauor before thée giue vs faith in thy promises loue to thy Maiesty zeale to thy glory obedience to thy lawes and guide vs daily by thy blessed Spirit into all truth and godlinesse Lord giue vs to bee out of loue with the vanities of this life to hate euery worke of darknes the little sin as well as the great quicken vs O Lord by thy quickning Spirit O giue vs hearts to bee inflamed with the loue of thy truth O that wée could hunger and thirst after grace as the chased Hart doth the running Brooke O that wee could experimentally say with thy seruant DAVID that all our delight is in thy Commandements Thus O Lord we receiuing grace from thy Maiesty to repell the fiery darts of the diuell to flye euen from euery apparition of euill so doing we may reap much comfort to our soules in this world of trouble and at the fearefull day of Iudgement wee may be freed from the lamentable tortures of Tophet where howling and yelling shall be for euermore and that for Iesus Christs sake thy Sonne our Sauiour to whom with thée and thy most glorious Spirit we desire euen from the bottome of our hearts to haue offered vp all thanksgiuing and praise both in heauen and earth this day and euermore Amen FINIS A IOYEFVLL TRACTATE OF The most blessed Baptisme that euer was solemniz'd VIZ. Of the Baptism of our Lord IESVS by IOHN in Iordan The fourth Edition corrected and amended IOHN 3. 5. Except a man be borne of water and of the Spirit hee cannot enter into the Kingdome of God LONDON Printed by George Purslowe and are to be sold by John Clarke 1620. TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull M. ROBERT MORDAVNT of Massingham Hall in the County of Norsolke Esquire and Mistris AMY MORDAVNT his mostlouing Bedfellow All increase of Grace in this life and of glory in the life to come SEldome or neuer Right Worshipfull doe we finde Tractates either Humane or Diuine passe without their particular Dedications that being shrowded vnder the safe-garding gourds of honorable and right godly dispositions they might the better bee preserued from the parching detractions of malignant Cynicks I make bolde therefore discarding all selfe-humour and irregular singularity to commend this poore Present vostrum ad patrocinium to the worthy patronage of your well-affected Worships two especiall reasons mouing me hereunto First that mine vnfained gratitude entire affection and most humble duty for all your fauors inexpressible might heereby bee made apparent Secondly it being deliuered at that solemne baptisme of Charles your first born and hopefull heyre none I know more worthy of this Dication than your worthy and right Christian persons I present it to your religious considerations as a louing and friendly New-yeeres gift for it aymes at that blessed New birth and happy New life liuely in baptisme represented without which it is not possible for either of you to possesse the Kingdome of God Accept therefore I humbly beseech you and take in good worth this short Treatise short both in line and learning respect not as is that Prouerbe the measure of the gift but the minde of the giuer what is wanting in the one I dare boldly promise is made vp in the other At your best leisures vouchsafe I pray now and then to peruse it and I trust that your Christian paines herein shall bee well reguerden'd with heauenly pleasures herefrom The Lord God make this with all other like

dreadfull Maiesty bewayling bitterly all our offences committed against thee and quaking and trembling for feare thou shouldest in thy Iustice vtterly cast vs from thée into that wofull Lake that burnes with fire and brimstone Lord we confesse by birth our foule pollution by life our manifold transgression and therefore ashamed wee are that are but dust and ashes yea worse most lothsome and abominable sinners to come before thée or commence the least sute vnto thee that art a Maiesty most pure abhorring and seuerely punishing all that worke iniquity Therefore oh Lord our God wee most humbly beséech thee not to deale with vs according to thy iustice and our owne merits for then shall we be vtterly condemned but comming vnto thée as a child that feareth to bée beat for thy Christs sake with the ey● of pitty and fatherly compassion look thou graciously vpon vs behold vs in him in whom thy Iustice will soone turne it selfe into mercy thy frowne into fauour thine indignation into euerlasting saluation Lord for thy fauour now and euer we craue grant therefore to vs that aske for pardon of our sins at thy hands alone we séek grant that we may finde at thy gate of Saluation we earnestly do knocke good Lord therefore open vnto vs. But because thy sacred Word doth tell vs that thou wilt looke to none but those that are of a contrite heart and tremble at thy words Lord fit and prepare vs all by true humiliation to imbrace the sauing health of our soules grant gracious God that we may mourne our sinnes thorowly and lament our iniquities bitterly not so much because they might iustly condemne vs as that they haue so highly displeased thée and moued thy Maiesty to anger that hast béene so merciful a God vnto vs O giue vs hearts to grieue for that we cannot sufficiently grieue for our sinnes committed against thée And gracious Father we further intreat that we may not ●nely taste of the sowre of thy Law but likewise receiue in thy good time and in good measure the sweet and vnspeakable comfort of th● Gospell grant that thy Sonne Iesus may bée Iesus to vs all that his righteousnesse may couer our vnrighteousnesse that his death may bring our soules to life that in him and for his sake thou wouldest ●e well pleased to make vs thine by adoption to witnesse the same to our soules by the infallible testimony of thy blessed Spirit to work in our hearts a strong and resolute perswasion of Faith whereby we may graspe and hold fast this thy great mercy in Christ towards vs to the peace of our consciences in this life and the saluation of our soules in the life to come And holy Father for as much as all those that haue put on Christ are become new creatures grant vnto vs a new heart and renew a right Spirit within vs purge vs from our sinnes wash vs from our iniquities infuse thy sauing grace into our Soules whereby wee may dye to all that is euill and liue to all godlinesse of life all the dayes of our life to come Frame our hearts deare God to true and perfect obedience obedience being the best sacrifice that thou requirest oh grant that all our delight may be in thy Statutes that it may be euen our meate and drinke to walke in thy Commandements indeuoring alwayes and in all places to keepe a cléere conscience both towards thee and man Teach vs blessed Father to rely vpon thée alone by faith to feare loue honour and truely obey thee in wisedome and true sanctity to giue no worship from thee that is onely proper to thee reuerently to thinke and speake of thy most glorious name and word carefully to sanctifie thy Sabbaths and wholly set them apart for thy seruice Giue vs grace also thou that art the Author and giuer of all grace to carry our selues dutifully to man to honour and reuerently respect all our superiours both in nature and place to preserue and maintaine the good name goods and bodies of our brethren amongst whom we liue and not impaire hurt or maliciously massacre the same to keepe our selues chaste and vnspotted from all fleshly lusts and euery act of vncleannes iniuriously to take away no mans right or due to speake the truth and not to beare false witnesse against our brethren to be content with our owne estates more or lesse and not to repine at or couet that which is others O grant that our liues may bee vnreprouable before thée and men But because O Lord of our selues we are able to doe no good thing but it is thou that workest the will and the deed Lord therefore stand euer by vs with thy preuenting assisting and consequent grace whereby we may be able in some measure to do thy will on earth as thy Angels doe it perfectly in heauen Moreouer heauenly Father wee fully beléeuing our selues to be true and liuely members of that body mysticall whereof our blessed Sauiour is the Head doe earnestly desire at thy gracious hands the like mercy for the whole body of Christs Church as we beg for our owne soules Lord blesse and defend thy Church and Chosen in all Kingdomes of the earth wheresoeuer inlarge the bounds of thy Gospell increase the number of thy Saints daily adde vnto thy Church such as shall bee saued Blesse the Kings most excellent Maiesty with all spirituall blessings in Christ Iesus meet for so great and worthy a personage with the Prince and His whole issue in this Kingdome and beyond the Seas Grant that He may neuer want one out of his own loynes to sit vpon his Throne for the maintenance of thy Gospell till the comming of Christ in the clouds Blesse all afflicted members whether grieued in conscience troubled in body or persecuted for the Gospell according to their seuerall oc●●sions and need Blesse those that are neerer and dearer vnto vs in the flesh as are our Parents and kindred whether father or mother husband or wife brother or sister or childe with our Christian acquaintances and friends kéep them all and vs with them to thine euerlasting kingdome and saluation And in mercy good Lord this night looke downe vpon vs preserue vs and ours from all dangers bodily ghostly within doores and without giue vnto our bodies a comfortable rest and sléepe that they may be more able to do the works of their particular vocations before thee and swéet Lord watch euermore ouer our poore soules kéepe vs from sin and euill both sleeping and waking and when that sléepe of death shall fall vpon vs grant that our soules may wake to thy glory and saluation euerlasting and that for Christ Iesus his sake our onely Lord and euerlasting Redéemer to whom with thée and thy good Spirit three persons but one God wee heartily desire to offer vp all thanksgiuing and praise this euening and euerlasting Amen THe grace of our Lord and S●uiour Iesus Christ and the lo●● of God our heauenly Father and the most blessed presence of God the holy Ghost bee with v● all and within v● all both in Soule in Spirit and in body and with all things that remaine or belong vnto v● either within dores or without this ●ight and euerlasting AMEN FINIS