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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04238	The good mans priuiledge A sermon lately preached at Plimmouth in Deuon, by I.B. And now published at the request of some that then were auditors.	Barlow, John, b. 1580 or 81.	1618 (1618)	STC 1436; ESTC S100848	19,948	34

THE GOOD MANS PRIVILEDGE A SERMON LATELY PREACHED AT PLIMMOVTH IN DEVON By I. B. AND NOW PVBLISHED AT the request of some that then were Auditors PSALM 4.6 Who will shew vs any good MICAH 6.8 He hath shewed thee O Man what is good LONDON Imprinted by F. K. for Nathanael Newbery and are to be sold at his shop vnder St. Peters Church in Cornhill and in Popes-head Alley ouer against the signe of the white horse 1618. TO THE WORSHIPFVLL FRANCIS DRAKE OF BVCKLANDDRAKE IN DEVON Esquire I. B. wisheth all grace and glory I Am constrained good Sir to satisfie your desire in so small a request as the publishing of those lines whereunto sometimes you in your owne person gaue attention and after the deliuery an acceptable approbation Now if it be well done you were the first mouer and deserue the honour of the action but if not I cannot impute the fault to any except my selfe Well howeuer it be I haue but done your desire and my owne duty for I freely confesse that your loue many waies manifested to me deserues aboue my abilitie to make equall requital proportionable satisfaction You are well acquainted with my familiar phrase rude manner of speaking therefore I cease to make any apology or defence in my owne behalfe yet truth is truth that as good cloath may haue the coursest colour the most precious stone bee put in the vncleanest corner and sometimes set too in the impurest mettall so may matter of great worth bee couched vnder a meane stile and come to view in a familiar and plaine habit For as the siluer vessell in which the meate is dished doth not adde to the essence of the dyet but comlinesse and content no more doe choise words to the truth deliuered only they may giue some outward glosse which may delight and that 's all Might I speake my opinion then it is this I doe affect and commend Rhetorique and elegancie of speech with any of any for therein the wisedome of God shineth But to haue queint phrase and a neate stile amongst the vulgar is though lawfull not expedient Hee therefore that will benefit the rude people must speake plainely carry a low sayle and descend to their capacities Was not our Lord Christ Wisdome it selfe did hee not notwithstanding draw similitudes from the most familiar and common things as the hiding of leauen the loosing of a groat and children playing in the market place Who wiser except the first and second Adam then Salomon yet none plainer then hee in his Prouerbs He telleth of wringing the nose churning of milke and of a ring in a Swines snout was this want of art wisdome or learning Wherefore let him that can and will amongst the simple grapple with his Greeke flourish with his Fathers bring foorth farre fetcht Etymologies and obscure Hebraismes but as for me I either cannot or will not And thus I commend you with all yours vnto God and to the word of his grace which is able to build further and to giue you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified Amen Your Worships in all dutie IOHN BARLOVV From my Study in Plymmouth Iuly 8. 1618. TO THE READER REader it is concluded for our parts whatsoeuer our aduersaries affirme that there are but two ends for all men at the last either life or death saluation or condemnation Then from this truth I collect this necessary position that All men are either tending to the one or trudging to the other If thou bee in the narrow path which is comfortable these few lines will yeeld thee some though little roome ease and ability to goe on with the more cheerfulnesse the which to a wearie and almost tyred traueller cannot but giue good content But if thou be in the broad which is fearful they may through the good hand of God be of force to cause thee smite thy hand vpon thy thigh and alter thy iourney For the producing of either which effects was the cause I first preached it and now since though requested haue penned it Who knoweth not the frowardnesse of mans will how improne it is to run after the rule of Gods commands And what mā but vnderstandeth that Good or Euill be the proper obiects for to moue and allure it to turne the perfect way Then this being truth reade these though ragged lines for they will giue thee to see into many mysteries secret things that be in the course of godlinesse and declare vnto thee what thing is profitable for all things so that if thou canst but obtaine one thing thou shalt want nothing Thou thinkest this a hard matter Well bee it so yet reade on and then consider consult and giue sentence Thine in the Lord Iesus I. B. THE GOOD MANS PRIVILEDGE Rom. 8.28 And we know that all things worke together for good to them that loue God and are called according to his purpose AMongst many three things haue and doe most molest the children of God One is The guilt of sinne another inbred or originall corruption the last is troubles and affliction Now the Apostle being a skilfull Physition prescribeth a threefold remedie for his distempered patients the which being truly vnderstood and rightly applied will expell the danger of the diseases and restore them that be sicke thereof vnto perfect soundnesse For the first Hee that would escape the guilt of his sinnes and be able to stand iust before God must not relie vpon the merit of his owne workes but by faith beleeue in and rest vpon Christ Iesus Psal 130.3 For if the Lord should marke what is done amisse man were neuer able to abide it neither the rigour of the Law or the seuerity of his iustice But he that beleeueth in the Sonne of God and is by faith made one with him becommeth truly and perfectly righteous 1. Tim. 1.9 so that the law of God cannot condemne him or the iustice of God lay hold vpon him for hee hath in Christ and by him a righteousnesse that can and will giue a full payment and an absolute satisfaction both to the Law and the Author of it Wherefore the Apostle maketh this peremptorie conclusion that to such There is no condemnation vers 1. where by the way wee may learne a double lesson Vse 1 First the vanity of the doctrine of the Papists that relie vpon their owne workes and worthinesse for iustification before the Lord when as Paul though knowing nothing by himselfe 1. Cor. 4.4 yet confesseth ingeniously hee was not thereby iustified Vse 2 Againe this must direct vs what to doe when the number of our sinnes are too heauie for vs viz. to labour to be found not hauing our owne righteousnesse which will neuer answere the iustice of the law Phil. 3 9. but the righteousnesse which is by faith in Christ Iesus For the second Inward and originall corruption will cause the man of God to droope to hang downe the wing like a Hawke that is