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A13547	The parable of the sovver and of the seed Declaring in foure seuerall grounds, among other things: 1. How farre an hypocrite may goe in the way towards heauen, and wherein the sound Christian goeth beyond him. And 2. In the last and best ground, largely discourseth of a good heart, describing it by very many signes of it, digested into a familiar method: which of it selfe is an entire treatise. And also, 3. From the constant fruit of the good ground, iustifieth the doctrine of the perseuerance of saints: oppugneth the fifth article of the late Arminians; and shortly and plainly answereth their most colourable arguments and euasions. By Thomas Taylor, late fellow of Christs Colledge in Cambridge, and preacher of the Word of God, at Reding in Bark-shire.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1621 (1621)	STC 23840; ESTC S118185	284,009	494

THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER AND OF THE SEED DECLARING IN FOVRE SEVErall grounds among other things 1. How farre an Hypocrite may goe in the way towards heauen and wherein the sound Christian goeth beyond him And 2. In the last and best ground largely discourseth of a good heart describing it by very many signes of it digested into a familiar method which of it selfe is an entire Treatise And also 3. From the constant fruit of the good ground iustifieth the doctrine of the perseuerance of Saints oppugneth the fifth Article of the late Arminians and shortly and plainly answereth their most colourable Arguments and euasions By THOMAS TAYLOR late Fellow of Christs Colledge in Cambridge and Preacher of the Word of God at Reding in Bark-shire Imprinted at London by Felix Kyngston for Iohn Bartlet and are to be sold at the signe of the gilded Cup in the Goldsmiths Rowe in Cheapside 1621. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVL MASTER WALTER BATEMAN Mayor of the Towne of Reding Master EDVVARD CLARKE one of the Masters of the Chancery and Steward of the same Towne Master IOHN SAVNDERS Iustice of Peace Master NICOLAS GVNTER late Mayor Master CHRISTOPHER TVRNER my especiall friend with all the rest of the Magistrates and Burgesses of the same Corporation Grace and plenty of peace from God c. RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL WE reade that when Obed-edom entertained the Arke of the Lord the Lord blessed Obed-edom and all that hee had because of the Arke of God That Arke was a signe of Gods presence and a type of our Ministery to which Iesus Christ hath tyed his speciall presence That Arke was graced with many miracles By it the waters of Iordan diuided themselues and gaue way to Israel to passe as on dry land By it the huge walls of Ierico fell downe to the ground By it Dagon the Idoll of the Philistims was throwne to the earth and dis-membred This our Euangelicall Arke is countenanced with as many and mighty miracles as euer that was It passeth all the Israel of God thorow the mighty flouds and impassable streames of afflictions and impediments that otherwise would stop them in their way to Canaan By it the huge walls of wickednesse and lusts euen all high thoughts lift vp against God and reared vp against heauen are throwne downe and cast to ground By it the adored Dagon of Popish Idolatry and superstition of errours heresies false-worship and ignorant conceits is cast vpon his face not able to abide the presence of the Arke and truth of God and a thousand such miracles are daily wrought by it in the conuersion of men From that Arke the Lord gaue immediate answeres and diuine Oracles From ours we haue as sure directions in all cases of faith and sound doctrine and also of Christian manners In that were the Tables of stone written with Gods finger In this are those Tables not laid vp but vnfolded and Christ the end of the Law included Before that was the Pot of Manna and the flourishing Rod of Aaron This exhibiteth Christ the Bread of Life and the Manna that came downe from heauen together with his Rod and gouernment which seemed quite cut off and withered in his death bur gloriously budding and flourishing againe in his powerfull Resurrection Now the way to meete wi●h blessing is to entertaine our Arke as Obed-edom did that For it was not the presence of the Arke but Obed-edoms reuerent entertainment of it that procured his prosperity No more is it the presence of a powerfull Ministery suppose by Christs owne person and presence but the kind and louing respect of it that may expect blessing from it This kind entertainment Obed-edom expressed in these particulars 1. He loued God himselfe first and for his sake the Arke of his presence Hee that loues not God can neuer entertaine the Arke and a sure signe of a man hating God himselfe is the hatred of a faithfull Ministery 2. Obed-edom embraced the Law of God with a reuerend affection and for the loue of that entertained the Arke in which the Law was preserued For if Obed-edom had violated the Tables of stone or broken the Rod of Aaron or mis-vsed the Manna he had been so frrre from being bettered by the presence of the Arke that it would haue proued his destruction No man can friendly embrace the Ministery that liueth in the ordinary violation of any of the Lawes of God or despiseth any of the rules by which Iesus Christ gouerneth his Church Yea for such a man to liue vnder a godly Ministery it rather furthers his Iudgement than any way procures his prosperity 3. Obed-edom entertaining the Arke entertained also the Officers of it hee brake not off the rings nor the barres in the rings by which it was carried to and fro No man can benefit himselfe by the Ministery that despiseth such godly Ministers who as the barres in the rings of the Arke propagate the Truth and carry the Word of saluation among the Nations This entertainment of the Arke of God hath promise of blessing to our selues and all that we haue It is true that Gods presence is not to bee desired for outward blessings but yet euen these are annexed often vnto it For godlinesse is neuer without some great gaine nor the doctrine of godlinesse so sory a ghest but it leaues some bountifull gratuity for kind and louing entertainment The Arke was neuer separated from the Mercy-seate to shew that Gods mercy is neere vnto him that affecteth Gods presence To you Right Worshipfull I commend this care of prizing Gods Arke set vp amongst you because I thirst after your prosperity Faile in this and you haue let out the vitall spirit of your Corporation which shall runne vpon rocks and ruine as the ships on a stormie Sea whose Mariners haue cast away their Card. Your wisdomes know what Gods Wisedome is plentifull in teaching that declining in goodnesse for most part bringeth a declination in the outward estate whereof Salomon had wofull experience whose departing from Gods wayes lost him ten parts of his Kingdome at one clap The dying speech of Phineas his wife is memorable that when the Arke was taken from Israel The glory is departed from Israel Many things I might heere moue in but I spare both you and my selfe seeing I can weakly speake vnto you Onely now I will turne precepts into praiers that as the dew from Hermon and Mount Sion did distill on the valleyes round about them so may this Towne by your prudent gouernment bee a patterne of piety charity and sobriety to the whole Countrey about you And as this famous Towne for pleasant situation and rich commodities for prudent gouernment and ciuill state but especially for the plentifull meanes of knowledge and grace is as a light set vp in a Candlestick as a Tower on the top of an hill and as a Beacon to the whole Countrey so your godly care may be so much the more to walk worthy your great

16.9 2. A pure and holy ioy is more in God himselfe and Iesus Christ than in all holy and heauenly things beside and in all other things for them Therefore the godly are said to make the Almighty himselfe their delight Iob 27.10 as the hypocrites doe not neither can doe It is a ioy of saluation but in the God of our saluation that hath couered vs with a robe of righteousnesse Esa 61.10 An hypocrite may delight in holy things but for nouelty or vaine-glory in vttering such knowledge as others haue not or selfe-loue or the like 3. Sound ioy is more in the time and things to come than for the present An hypocrites ioy is for the present and in the present it is sudden as the Text saith incontinently it receiues the Word with ioy and soone abates And in present things a conceit of a present good at least in appearance but in good things that are further off v.c. in Gods electiō or eternal life it reioiceth not so much because there is euer more sence than faith in it 3. Examine thy ioy in the measure and degree of it The ioy of the regenerate in holy things is the chiefe ioy Psalm 119.72 Thy Law is better vnto mee than thousands of gold And Psal. 137.6 If I preferre not Ierusalem to my chiefe ioy In hypocrites it neuer exceeds the ioy in the world the profits and pleasures and aduancements of the world doe more comfort and affect their hearts than the ioy of the Word and therefore they forsake the Gospell for them The wise Merchant sels all for the Pearle and goes away reioycing Math. 13.46 The Martyrs ioyed more in the Word than in riches honours liberty life or all the world 4. Examine thy ioy in the companions of it which are of two sorts First holy affections three in number 1. Feare and reuerence Sound ioy is neuer dis-ioyned from true feare of God Psal. 2.11 Reioyce before him with trembling Phi. 2.12 Worke out your saluation with feare and trembling 2. Loue of grace aboue all things Dauid neuer danced so as before the Arke because he loued Gods presence And Simeon was neuer so ioyfull as when hee had Christ in his armes because hee loued him 3. Sorrow to see the Word not kept Psa. 119.136 Mine eyes gush out with riuers of water because they keepe not thy Law And indeed sound ioy comes out of sound sorrow for sin Ioh. 16.19 Ye shall sorrow the world shall reioyce but your sorrow shall be turned into ioy Lots righteous soule was vexed with the vncleane conuersation of the Sodomites 2. Pet. 2.7 Secondly there are certaine holy graces attending it 1. Humility It issues from true humiliation in the sence of his owne infirmity The ioy of an hypocrite is proud because he sees not sinne or not all sinne and promiseth and assureth that to it selfe which the Word doth not 2. Regeneration The ioy of an hypocrite is a ioy of illumination not of regeneration as a man reioyceth in the sight and light of the Sunne but not in the sence of comfortable heate quickening and reuiuing by it The one reioyceth to heare of a Pearle the other to haue it 3. Faith attends the ioy of the regenerate therfore it is called the ioy of faith The hypocrites ioy is a ioy of affection not of faith He reioyceth to conceiue of rare nouelties and deepe mysteries but not as deeply rooted in himselfe 4. Righteousnesse attends it An hypocrites ioy is alwayes ioyned with the raigne and delight of some sinne See thy ioy take righteousnesse for his companion and dis-ioyne not them whom the holy Ghost hath ioyned Rom. 14.17 Know if the loue of one sin raigne if thy ioy marre not the taste of carnall ioyes if it thrust not downe the rule of the loue of the world yea if it imbitter not the rellish of earthly delights thy ioy is vnsound 5. The last grace is Constancy and continuance it is an euerlasting consolation 2. Thes. 2.16 And of this ioy Christ hath said You shall reioyce and your ioy shall none take from you Ioh. 16.22 Yea this ioy increaseth according to the increase of grace and continuance of meanes It holds in aduersity in persecution in life in death and is most vnspeakable and glorious in heauen But the ioy of hypocrites is a blaze at first and soone out it is suddenly and irrecouerably lost a little persecution or triall turnes all into sorrow and heauinesse but at their death and afterward not a sparke remaines So as Iob said truly The ioy of the hypocrite is but for a moment If thou finde that thy ioy is thus qualified no hypocrite falling from his ioy need dismay thee thou art beyond his farthest reach Thou hast drunke of the Well of consolation and shalt neuer thirst againe The stranger neuer enters into this ioy IV. Hearest thou from the Text that a wicked man may grow vp and rise vp to a farre degree of profession and reformation yea that an hypocrite may outwardly performe all that true Christians can doe and leade his life so seemly so innocently as how euer he shall neuer come to heauen by it yet his paines shall bee lesse in hell where it shall bee easier for some than for others Hearest thou this Then what great need is there that euery one of vs who would not at length proue reprobate ground should try our growth in our profession and standing not contenting our selues with a forme of godlinesse which now goes for good Christianity denying the power of it 1. Examine thy growth from what roote it is two wayes First an hypocrite springs from no root but onely the old Adam and whatsoeuer is of flesh saith Christ is flesh But sound growth in profession or reformation is from a new creation a tree of righteousnesse the planting of the Lord transplanted out of the old stock of old Adam and new rooted into the second Adam by spirituall regeneration and from this Root all acceptable growth riseth according to our Sauiours speech First make the tree good c. Secondly all the growth of an hypocrite is from an heart which at best restraineth some euill but neuer changed vnto good But sound growth is from an heart renewed a soule mortified a pure heart and good conscience 1. Tim. 1.5 2. Examine thy selfe in what fruits thou growest The best fruit of an hypocrite is in externall things and by externall things As first by education he may grow in ciuility and in morall vertue which many thinke Religion enough This was the righteousnes of the Heathens of the Scribes and Pharises Secondly by the meanes of saluation he may grow to an externall holinesse v. c. hee may grow in knowledge in hopes and confidence in zeale in many outward seemly duties and rest in these or in some other things in stead of some inward graces which would better bestead him But a sound

peace with God and onely is at rest in the signes and meanes of his reconciliation 2. It hath tranquillity and peace of conscience through sence of sinne not pardoned onely but healed in some measure This peace of conscience is the next thing to heauen and a very heauen vpon earth not when the conscience excuseth that a man hath not sinned but that his sinne being pardoned hee may goe and sinne no more 3. It hath peace with all men so farre as is possible with good men because of Gods Image and with euill because of his Commandement Obiect How can this bee seeing none are more conflicted with inward terrours and tentations or outward crosses and enemies Answ. This is true yet 1. In the world they may haue affliction in Christ peace their felicity is in Christ the Prince and procurer of it Psal. 25.13 Their soule shall dwell at ease if not their bodies 2. This peace is begun but yet imperfect as all graces bee the minde and will subdued to Gods minde and will but in part the flesh subdued to the mind and spirit but in part it can delight inwardly in the Law but seeth another law in his members rebelling against the law of his minde the Image of God we see but in part and cannot loue perfectly 3. This peace may be disturbed and interrupted for a time but the heart is then supported by patience vnder the crosse to the recouery of his peace 4. This peace cannot be abolished but perfected by troubles Your peace saith Christ shall none take from you Marke and consider the good man Psalm 37.37 the end of that man is peace A tree the more it is shaken with windes the better it is settled and rooted and so the trees of righteousnesse Now this peace is the portion onely of the Israel of God To these Christ had promised it namely the refreshing of soules Math. 11.28 To these he hath left it Ioh. 14.27 My peace I leaue with you But there is no peace to a wicked man saith the Lord. 1. None with God but onely a truce He dares liue in a state of enmity with God and bee still out in armes against him as a profest enemie Hee neither feeles nor feares sinne which is not peace but senslesnesse God in heauen proclaimeth peace he refuseth the conditions 2. None with himselfe but sometimes he is a terrour to himselfe that it is death to him to liue in such an estate witnesse Cain or Iudas Or if he be quiet and without accusation yet is hee without comfort which is but a dead sleepe of conscience which shall awake 3. None with others out of a peaceable disposition but being inraged he is fierce and cruell as Lions Esa. 11.6 Or as Ismael whose hand was against euery man and euery mans hand against him Yea he can cry out of Elias as a troubler of peace when it is himselfe and declaime against faction when himselfe is the onely factor The fifth spirituall grace is supplication or the gift of prayer the next to peace is accesse to the Throne of grace Rom. 5.2 For sinne shuts vs out of the presence of God And as Absalom might not come into Dauids presence till atonement was made by Ioab so Iesus Christ hauing made vp our peace with God we being shut out are admitted into presence nay of rebels not onely pardoned but honoured to become the Princes fauorites and familiars nay sons and children Now a good heart knowes 1. That as an Infant new-borne if it cry it is aliue if not it is still-borne so to send out strong cryes to the Throne of grace is a note of Gods Childe and a signe of the new-birth Rom. 8.26 Zech. 12.10 Therefore it comforts it selfe in crying 2. That it is bound by the Morall Law besides the Commandement of Christ and his Apostles to performe continually this part of worship to God namely by the affirmatiue part of the second Commandement which duty euen Adam in innocency free from sinne performed and needed to pray for perseuerance in the grace wherein he stood and else had he not kept the Law But a good heart seeing it selfe seazed on by sinne and the curse of the Law sees much more need in it selfe to performe this duty to the Lord and to it selfe 3. That this grace excellently vpholds the sweet society betweene God and a beleeuing soule For as strangenesse alienates and cooles the affections of friends whereas company and conference kindleth and inflameth them Euen so heerein as Iob saith chap. 22.21 wee acquaint our selues with God and grow into familiarity and fellowship with him He delights in vs while wee acknowledge him a God hearing prayer to whom all flesh must resort And the beleeuing soule hath exceeding comfort in his gracious answeres and supplies who is so ready to heare before we call and esteemes it no small grace that the Lord should not only admit it into his presence but set so easie a condition vpon his promises as for asking we shall obtaine them 4. It knowes that prayer being one of the chiefe Christian sacrifices the Lord will euer returne one token or other of his gracious acceptance For as the Legall sacrifices agreeable to Gods Institution were answered with a speciall signe of Gods approbation of the fire from heauen to consume them So will the Lord some way manifest his delight in these Christian sacrifices which himselfe compares to sweet Incense and Perfume yea to drops of honey dropping from the lips of the Church as from an honey-combe Cant. 4.11 And how can he but returne a comfortable answere on that which is so delightfull vnto him Therefore a good heart is carefull and frequent in this duty But not so much for the doing of it as to doe it well and therefore is carefull 1. for the mouer 2. the matter 3. the manner of his prayers 1. The mouer of prayer is not nature in the godly as it is in the wicked Nature teacheth that what we conceiue to be God is to be prayed vnto and the Heathen could pray to God as a Creator and Gouernour But the mouer in a good heart is the Spirit by which it cryeth Abba Father Rom. 8.15 True prayer is a proper action of the sonnes of God therefore Christ commanded vs in the entrance of prayer to say Our Father And it is the breath of the Spirit of God For he alone can leade vs into the sence of our wants He makes vs see the goodnesse of things that we craue He bends our affections and kindles our sacrifice without whom is no light or heat Let the Spirit remit but a little and the holyest men suppose Peter Iames Iohn shall bee fitter to sleepe than watch or pray in the very houre of tentation Math. 26.38 2. For the matter A good heart moued by the Spirit of supplication is most frequent and earnest 1. For things giuen by God in Christ