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A87809	A looking-glasse for Levellers: held out in a sermon, preached at St. Peters Pauls-Wharfe, upon Sunday in the after-noone, Sept. 24. 1648. / By Paul Knell, Master in Arts, of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. Sometime chaplain to a regiment of curasiers in His Majesties Army.	Knell, Paul, 1615?-1664.	1648 (1648)	Wing K683; Thomason E465_30; ESTC R204195	16,473	21

commonly eate their bread And herein they are a patterne and ensample unto us who indeed should labour more abundantly then they all because they labour but to sustaine mens bodies we to feed their soules We must therefore abound alwaies in the worke of the Lord we must Preach the word as Saint Paul charged Timothy not slothfully but painfully we must labour in the Gospel we must be instant and eager and earnest in our preaching in season out of season in time of peace in time of warre we must reprove we must rebuke we we must exhort with all long suffering and doctrine as the Apostle speaketh And as we must be fervent so we must be perseverant in our office having put our hand to Gods plow we must resolve not to look back We must not with Demas forsake our function and embrace the world nor must we cease to exercise it till we just put off this tabernacle though there be never so great danger in the exercising of it though there be never so many wicked warrants out against us Husband-men will not give over plowing for a showre of raine nor must we give over Preaching because of persecution though we are never so superannuated though we are such as Paul the aged or though so feeble that with St. John we must be carried to the Pulpit Neither must we lord it over Gods heritage like Presbyterian Pastors or like these chiefe Priests who that they may be Lords of the Lords Vineyard conspire to murder the right Lord of it the Conspirators our Text telleth us were Coloni the Husband-men And so likewise Pontius Pilate told our Saviour Thine owne Nation and the chiefe Priests have delivered thee unto me Joh. 18.35 What prodigious unthankfull miscreants were these there can be no Epithet bad enough for such Traytours For they that taught the people taught they not themselves They that were dressers of the Vineyard durst they conspire against the owner of it durst men of the Temple venture upon the worst of treasons well we see by this the truth of that old axiome Corruptio optimi est pessima the best wine maketh the sharpest vineger if Clergy-men once turn Traytours they are incarnate Devils So our Saviour stiled the traytour Judas and thus likewise all Synod-traytours may be stiled And so I passe from the first part of the Text the Conspirators the Husband-men to the second the person against whom they conspired which was the Heire when the Husband-men saw him The Heire The wise God of peace and order will not have every man be his owne carver for the best weapon would then be the best evidence as Levellers would fain have it the strongest arm would be the surest title But as he hath ordained a succession of men so of Estates their Children must be their Heires they must leave their substance to their Babes Dominio non fundatur in gratia they that call themselves babes of grace all things are not theirs had not Jacob supplanted Esau this gracelesse one had been Isaac's Heire For the inheritance was alway challenged by the eldest Son and therefore this title of Heire must needs be due to Christ who was the first begotten of his Heavenly Father the first-borne of his Earthly Mother the first-borne of every Creature the first-borne among many Brethren by right of primogeniture he was the Heir 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Apostle Heir of all things Heb. 1.2 The earth is the Lords and all that therein is the compasse of the world and they that dwell therein Psal 24.1 And he that is owner of all things maketh his eldest Son a promise of them he promiseth to give him the heathen for his inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession Psal 2.8 The Devill I know made his brags once that he was Heire of the world when he shewed our Saviour all the Kingdomes of it and told him they were his But as he was a murderer so he was a lyar from the beginning It is true that Abraham had a promise that he should be Heire of the World as the Apostle testifyeth Rom. 4.13 But though to Abraham and his seed there were such a promise made yet Christ for all this was still to be the Heire it is the same Apostles observation Gal. 3.16 He saith not to seeds as of many but to thy seed as of one which is Christ. But here we must not be mistaken for though our Saviour be stiled the Heire yet we must know that his inheritance is no temporall but a spirituall inheritance his Kingdome his Church his heritage is not of this world And as we Christians are not of it so our inheritance properly is not in it we are Heires to a better Country that is an Heavenly though not by nature yet by grace though not by birth yet by faith we are made partabers of the inheritance of the Saints in light we are heires of God co heires with Christ we have an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved in Heaven for us where we shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of God where we shall see our pierced-Saviour not to our terrour but our triumph where we shal see him not with other but with these same eyes the same numericall though not the same mortall eyes where we shall see that which Saint Austin so much wished to see Christum in carne Christ in the flesh and that which many Prophets and Kings desired to see and could not see it They saw this sight indeed a far off which did not a little chear their hearts Abraham rejoyced saith our Saviour to see my day and he saw it and was glad John 8.56 But when Simeon saw him in the Temple his eyes were satisfied with seeing close them now Lord saith he let me die in peace for mine eyes have seen thy salvation And we may observe here by the way that if ever we will see Christ in Heaven we must first see him upon earth for though we cannot see him yet as Simeon and these chief Priests did with the eyes of our body yet we may see him as Abraham did with the perspective of our faith we may we must see him thorow this glasse darkly before ever we can see him face to face A Christian must not be like a Cyclop with one eye the spouse of Christ as Peraldus observeth must have two oculum fidei and oculum gloriae the eye of faith and the eye of fruition We must walk by faith before we can walk by sight We must like Jacob be first married to blear eyed Leak before we can obtain beautifull Rachel we must first see our Saviour with the tender eye of faith before ever we can behold him with the brighter eye of glory Now though our Saviour pronounce them blessed that have not seen and yet have believed and though Faith be defined by the Apostle

and soule whose expresse command is that ye shall not kill If ye will not follow peace ye shall never see the Lord. If here ye banish that from you He will hereafter banish you from him he will renounce you with those words of David Psal 139.19 Depart from me ye bloudy ye bloud-thirsty men And as God abhorreth the bloudy Psal 5. so doth he the covetous man Psal 10. He that said Doe not kill said also Doe not covet as therefore ye must abstaine from bloud so must ye from covetousnesse let not this be on●e named amongst you as becommeth Saints but learn of the Apostle in whatsoever state ye are therewith to be content see that ye covet no mans silver or gold or apparell but having food and rayment be therewith content Ye know whose law it is Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house take heed then Brethren of coveting Bishops houses or any thing else that is anothers and not yours All covet all lose ye may have good Scripture for it Jer. 8.10 I will give their Wives unto others and their fields to them that shall inherit them for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousnesse from the Prophet even unto the Priest They that greedly get away other mens beget a gangrene in their owne estates De male quaesitis vix gaudet tertius hares Take heed therefore as our Saviour exhorteth and beware of covetousnesse Consider what S. Paul saith Ephes 5.5 no covetous man who is an idolater hath any inheritance in the Kingdome of Christ and of God and consider what the same Apostle saith 1 Tim. 6.9 They that will be rich as it were whether God will or no fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtfull lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition Covetousnesse tempteth men to murder this is that maketh Levellers so bloudy as they are from whence come wars and fightings among you Surely covetousnesse hath been the originall of them all the lower sort of people strive to be in an higher roome the poore would faine turn tables with the rich they would thus have every valley to be filled and every mountain and hill to be laid low as if in this sense every man were bound to seek anothers wealth they that were borne to nothing strive to get others birth rights calling themselves for sooth the Saints who they say must inherit the earth they would make themselves rich that have nothing and others poore that have great riches But to conclude this Brethren is not the office of Saints it is Gods office it is the Lord that maketh poore and maketh rich Presume not then to take Gods office out of his hand strive not to make your selves rich if God have made you poore but be content with that portion of outward things that he hath given you the silver is mine and the Gold is mine saith the Lord of Hosts Hag. 2.8 Deny him not therefore that priviledge which your owne selves challenge give him leave to doe what he pleaseth with his owne let not the least root of covetousnesse remaine in you remember that godlinesse with contentment is great gaine if the riches of others increase set not your hearts upon them seek not these things below but those above strive not for an inheritance on earth but to have one in heaven that ye may banish cruelty let covetousness be banished first that ye may not thirst after other mens blouds covet not their goods bast thou killed saith God to Ahab and also taken possession well ye know what became of him Jezebel for this stifle therefore not onely you murtherous but also your covetous thoughts if ye must needs be killing mortifie your earthly members if ye must needs be coveting covet earnestly the best gifts God hath chosen the poor of this world rich in faith to be heires of his kingdome labour therefore to get the gold of faith whereby ye may be rich towards God and then although here ye have no temporall inheritance yet hereafter ye shall have one far better ye shall be heires apparent unto Heaven ye shall inherit gloty God will give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified though now ye are in your nonage yet at the last day ye shall be perfect men ye shall be of full age ye shall attain to the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ who shall then invite you to enter upon your inheritance in these words Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world Which God of his infinite mercy vouchsafe to grant unto us all for the merits of his beloved Son our blessed Saviour To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost Three Persons one Immortall Invisible Indivisible only wise God be rendred and ascribed as most due is All Honour Glory Power Praise Might Majesty Wisdome and Dominion the residue of this blessed day present and for evermore world without end Amen FINIS