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A18963	Foure sermons The two first, of godly feare: on Hebrewes 4. verse 1. By Robert Cleauer. The two last. Of Christian loue and life. On Canticles 2. verse 10. By Richard Webb.	Cleaver, Robert, 1561 or 2-ca. 1625.; Webb, Richard, preacher of God's word. aut	1613 (1613)	STC 5381; ESTC S108059	69,327	96

seare by others falles least wee be ouertaken in the same sort L●t that had carried himselfe holily and chastely in Sodome was a man very vnlikely as wee would haue thought to fall into incest and to commit filthinesse with his owne Daughters yet such vvas the vilenesse of his nature that by his Daughters meanes hee was drawen first vnto drunkennesse and then vnto that other fowle and notorious euill before mentioned And if such a man as hee vvere so shamefully foyled who can secure himselfe from falling Secondly Sathan is the same now that heretofore hee hath beene yea and much more malicious because he hath since then had a number of foyles his time is still shorter in which regard hee is more imbittered and enraged and therefore more violent in tempting vnto all manner of iniquitie and haue not we then cause to tremble when we consider the falles of those that haue gone before vs Thirdly the Lords threatnings denounced against sinne are the same still and the strictnesse of his iustice in executing them is no whit diminished but as hee is constant in his goodnesse towards such as obey him so is hee in his righteousnesse toward such as disobey him and if there be any difference betwixt these our times and the dayes of old it standeth herein that those that are offenders now are likely to speede worse than those of former times because they haue had their examples vvhich should haue made them more fearefull of prouoking the LORD and yet haue not taken benefit thereby but rushed vpon those greiuous sinnes for which others haue beene much condemned and seuerely punished Let this therefore be an instruction vnto vs Vse 2 that we seriously consider what breaches of the commaundements the Lord hath pursued with sorest plagues heretofore and so become watchfull ouer our owne hearts and wayes that we be not found guiltie of the same Nehem. 13 17 18. thus did Nehemiah when he saw the Sabbath prophaned by the Iewes Then saith he I reproued the Rulers of Iudah and said vnto them what euill thing is this that ye doe and breake the Sabbath day Did not your fathers thus and our God brought all this plague vpon vs and vpon our Citie Yet yee increase the wrath vpon Israel in breaking the Sabbath In the same manner should we reason hath not the Lord smitten sundry particular persons in their estate for the prophaning of his holy rest besides other stroakes that haue lighted vpon their bodies and soules Nay hath he not brought vpon our whole Nation sundry iudgements euen for this haynous sinne among many other Why then should wee persist in prouoking him still and so pull downe vpon our heads one plague after another So for the abusing of the Lords supper the Apostle saith that many among the Corinthians were smitten with weakenesse 1 Cor. 11. and sicknesse and with death it selfe what vse should wee make thereof Surely this Did not they then escape Gods afflicting hand that came vnpreparedly and vnworthily without examining and iudgeing of themselues vnto the holy Sacrament then how can we expect to goe vnpunished if we pollute and defile that holy ordinance of God as they did The like may be said of other sinnes as namely of those wherewith the old world is charged Luk. 17.26.27 viz. That they eat and dranke and maried and gaue in mariage vnto the day that Noe entred into the Arke and the floud came and destroyed them all That is they liued in a profound worldlinesse being altogether carelesse of heauenly matters and setting their mindes vpon nothing but the things of this life they did traffique onely for their bodies not at all for their soules And was this so great a fault will some say for men to follow after their commodities and delights Yes that they should wholy giue ouer themselues vnto the pursuite of these was so offensiue vnto the Lord that hee swept them all away by an vniuersall deluge they had so defiled the whole world that it could not be throughly clensed till they were all washed away that were the offenders And if wee follow them in those carnall courses wee may iustly feare that the Lord will cut vs off as hee did them though not in the like manner if we be men of the world and for the world making it our whole life and the very end of our being here to eate and drinke and buy and sell and plant and build in a word if we be wholy addicted to our profit and pleasure and credit and in particular for the matter of mariage if wee looke wholy or for the most part to personage and portion when wee are to make choise of yoake-fellowes for our selues and our children not regarding vvhether they be Papists or Atheists or any manner of way prophane so that they can satisfie our fleshly affections for outward things if I say we be thus disposed either wee shal be cut off by an vntimely death as the old world and the Sodomites were or if our dayes be prolonged it shal be to the increase of our woe and misery either in the time of our life or after our death or both And whereas concerning that former matter of carnall matches some may imagine that albeit they mary recusant Papists or others that are as bad they can so order matters that they will receiue no hurt by them but bring them to Church and so doe good vnto them let them not presume too much vpon their vaine conceits Salomon was as wise as they yet was not he able to conuert his Idolatrous wiues but was himselfe peruerted by them and so haue many moe beside him Wee can be thus prouident for our bodily safety that when wee see one to be swallowed vp in some griefe or to perish in a quick-sand or the like wee will retire and not aduenture vpon the perill and surely the examples of Gods word though of things that haue beene acted many yeeres since should be more forcible to cause vs to shunne spirituall dangers than fearefull spectacles that are present before our eyes should be to make vs carefull of eschewing corporall euils Therefore in the second place Vse 2 here is a iust reproofe of those that are so farre from being afraid at the consideration of the saults of their Ancestors that they are thereby much emboldned vnto wicked practises of which number are all Papists and sundry els that are popishly minded Oh say they this is an ancient religion an ancient custome c. And what of that Therefore let all Churches be defiled and all particular persons corrupted therewith and so for the breaking of the Sabbath it hath beene an vsuall thing time out of minde say they and therefore why should you finde fault with it This is a bad argument and if it might stand for a rule that the antiquity of a thing doth euer proue the lawfulnesse thereof what grosse euill could be condemned as vnlawfull The

cary away all the preferment and yet when the question is concerning the chiefe preferment of all which is to be a found Christian they put euery body before themselues they are content that others shall be Kings but they will be vassalls vnto sinne and Sathan What folly or rather madnesse is this Doe they imagine that they shall not come to iudgement as well as others Doth not experience manifest vnto them that age creepeth vpon them as well as vpon others That sicknesse taketh hold of them as well as of others That horrible vexations and terrours doe sease on them as vvell as on others And why then doth it not enter into their hearts that damnation belongs vnto them as well as vnto others if by speedy repentance they doe not preuent the same Now as some doe fondly and falsly conceiue that they shall be boren vvith in regard of their greatnesse so doe others hope in regard of their meanenesse to be dispensed with We are poore day-labourers and seruants say they who are to be imployed in worldly affaires and to spend our whole time that way I hope it is not required of vs that wee should be skild in the scriptures be able to conceiue prayer able to admonish offenders c. And therefore either they absent themselues from the Church altogether or els are carelesse and negligent and sleepie when they are there and if they be called to an account and examined vvhat they remember they make answere that they are wearied out with labouring in the weeke dayes and therefore they must haue rest vpon the Sabbath day That they were hired for their worke and that they will doe and no more they will not be examined nor catechized nor be held to any such strict orders But doth not the Lord in his holy word require obedience of poore men and of seruants as farre forth as of any Doth not he in the fourth commandement enioyne them to obserue not a bodily rest alone as beasts doe but an holy rest And whereas they say that they are so toyled out with worke that they cannot listen to Gods word that is but a fleshly and diuellish excuse for vvhen the Sermon is ended they are fresh and liuely enough to follow after their sports and sinnefull recreations if they may haue libertie so to doe and can take more paines that way than they haue done in their callings all the weeke before and therefore these vaine shifts shall not serue their turnes Gods threatnings are denounced against them and his iudgements haue beene executed vpon such as they are heeretofore and so shall they be still profane seruants and sinnefull poore men were not spared in the destruction of the olde world and of Sodom and Gomorra and wee reade in the Gospell that at the comming of Christ those that are labouring in the Field Mat. 24.40.41 and women that are grinding at the Mill shall be some of them cast off vnto destruction as well as others are receiued vnto saluation But all seruants are not of so meane a condition as some but there are a second sort that haue another pretence for their casting off of Christ his yoake and they are such as are followers of great men who alledge that it is not for their Masters honour for them to be religious or as they tearme it precise but to be proud and quarrelsome to be ruffians and roisters to be swearers and blasphemers to be drunkards and whore-Maisters these they thinke be for the credite of the house vnto which they appertaine and by these practises they hope to be-please their Masters But when they haue spent their daies in these courses can their Masters saue them from perdition which by their leudnesse they haue iustly deserued no surely the holy Ghost speaking of the mighty ones of the world sayth Psal 49.7.8 that they cannot redeeme their brother nor giue his ransome to God they cannot procure their naturall life to be prolonged one day nay nor one moment much lesse can they purchase the redemption of their soules that they should liue for euer and that in perpetuall blisse and happinesse Others there are that thinke they may haue a tolleration to be vaine and sinnefull because they are yong especially if they haue this resolution that when their youthfull bloud is spent and the vigour of their bodies gone they will betake themselues to more sober courses and repent for that which is past but till that time if they take their libertie vpon the Lords day and liue in idlenesse and profanenesse euery day you must pardon them but will God pardon them doth not he say Remember thy creatour in the dayes of thy youth Eccles 12.1 whiles the euill dayes come not nor the yeeres approach wherein thou shalt say I haue no pleasure in them And if they will not take his aduise marke what he sayth in another place Reioyce Eccles 11.9 O yong man in thy youth and let thine heart cheare thee in the dayes of thy youth c. This they can well like of be too ready to put in practise but what followeth But know sayth the Lord that for all these things thou must be brought to iudgement Dauid found that the sinnes of his youth lay heauy vpon him and therefore prayeth God would not remember them Psal 25.7 and shall we make so light of them Paul admonisheth Timothy a very sanctified and mortified yong man to flie the lusts of youth and shall we let loose the raines thereunto as if they were matters of nothing ah let vs not be so foole-hardie vnto our owne ruine and ouerthrow but considering how fearfully the Lord doth iudge many young men that giue vp themselues to fornication and adulterie and theft and all manner of vile and sinfull behauiour as namely that some of them die an vntimely death being either brought to the gallowes or some other way strangely cut off and that others hauing great reuenewes left vnto them are notwithstanding cast into extreme miserie and necessitie and that some others being well descended are for all that branded with egregious infamie and reproch considering I say these and the like extraordinary tokens of Gods heauie displeasure against sundrie lisencious yong men let vs take warning by their example and consecrate the first fruits of our yeeres vnto him by spending our time religiouslie and profitablie in some good course or other Secondly Vse 2 sithence the care of saluation pertaineth vnto all indifferently let Ministers hence learne to deale equally with those that are vnder their charge and not know any man after the flesh to respect him more or lesse for that hee is rich or poore high or low or the like but giue euery one their due portion of spirituall food which they in the wisedome of the Spirit iudge to be most fit for them let them not feare to administer an admonition or reprehension to the greatest and wealthiest neither let them