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A09054	Dorcas: or, A perfect patterne of a true disciple A sermon preached by Bartholomew Parsons B. of Divinity and rector of Ludgershall in the country of Wilts.	Parsons, Bartholomew, 1574-1642.	1631 (1631)	STC 19346; ESTC S105866	13,782	45

aske here what good workes are Good workes then as I haue learned at the feete of a Gamaliel of ours Zanchy on the 1. chap. of the Philip. verse 11. are workes and actions aswell inward as outward whether they be thoughts in the minde and elections in the will or words vttered by the tongue or deedes which may be done by a righteous man as he is righteous in any part of his soule or body For as an actuall sinne is any thing sayd or done or thought against the law of God so a good worke and as St Iohn calleth it in his 1. epist cap. 3. righteousnesse is any thing spoken or thought or done according to the Law of God The holy Ghost for our better direction and for distinction doth sometimes tripartite good workes into 1. sobriety in the vse of outward things as meate drinke apparell and the like 2. righteousnesse in our dealings with men 3. Godlinesse in our duties to God that we should liue soberly righteously and godly in this present world Tit. 2.12 sometimes hee doth more briefely bipartite them into holinesse in the duties of the first table that concerne Gods worship and righteousnesse in the duties of the second Table that respect our neighbours good that wee might serue him in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of our life Luke 2.75 And so doth our Saviour into the first and great commandement which is Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soule and with all thy minde and the second is like to it which is Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe Matt. 22.37.38.39.40 Now this being written for our learning we must learne of this Disciple this learner in in Christs schoole to joyne with our profession practice with our hearing doing with our faith vertue 2. Pet. 1.5 with our shew of godlinesse the power of it in our liues 2. Tim. 3.5 with our knowledge of God the service of him 1. Chr. 28 9. with our professing to know God a manifesting of it in our workes 2. Tim. 3.5 with our calling of Abrahā father a doing of the workes of Abraham Iohn 8.39 The professours of the Gospell must haue their conversation as becometh the Gospell of Christ Phil. 1.27 VValke worthy of the vocation wherewith they are called Ephes 4.1 worthy of the Lord vnto all pleasing Col. 1.10 adorne themselues with good works 1. Tim. 2.10 This is a faithfull saying and these things I will that thou affirme constantly that they which haue beleeued in God might be carefull to maintaine good workes Tit. 3.8 Men learne the trades of this world to practise them and the mysteries of godlinesse are taught vs that wee may turne wordes into workes as Bernard sayth in his tract of ordering our liues It profiteth not to haue learned what wee should doe and not to doe it saith Hierome in an epistle it is better not to know a thing then to learne it with danger and Augustine and in his 2. homily on the revelation As it booteth not for a great tree to be greene and yeeld no fruit so it profiteth not to be called a Christian and not to haue Christian workes and the same father in his booke of 83 questions and 76 question sayth that the words of the Apostle I suppose that a man is justified by faith without the workes of the law are not so to be vnderstood that when a man hath receiued faith we should call him just though hee liue ill But in this point wee that glory in God Rom. 2.17 and are called Christians are so bad schollers that if my head were waters and mine eyes a fountaine of teares I could not sufficiently bewaile our wants of fruites answerable to our profession wee make our boast of Gods law amongst vs but through our breaking of it we dishonour God and cause his name to be blaspheemed Rom. 2.23.24 with the Iewes Ier. 7. wee cry templum Domini the Temple of the Lord God is amongst vs and wee are his temple but we amend not our wayes we come and stand before God in his house as a nation that would do righteously but when we are gone wee doe all abominations steale murther committe adultery sweare rashly and falsely drinke till wee are drunke giue others drinke till they are drunke also and runne to all excesse of riot Wee are indeed baptized vnto Moses Gods Ministers whom he hath sent to baptize and eate the same spirituall meate and drinke the same spirituall drinke but please not God in our liues and conversations 1. Cor. 10.2.3.4.5 with Simon Magus wee haue a kinde of temporary beliefe but our hearts are not right in the sight of God but wee are in the gall of bitternesse and in the bond of iniquity Act. 8.13.21.23 we haue Iacobs voyce smooth and blessed words but Esaus hands rough and cursed deedes with the figge tree we haue the leaues of an outward profession but want the fruits of an holy conversation with Iudas vve are numbred amongst Christs Disciples sit at table vvith him but betray him assoone as vvee are gone out vvee heare but vvee do not vvith out mouthes and bodily presence vvee shevve much loue but our hearts runne after covetousnesse Ezec. 33.31 and all kinde of vvickednes In a vvord vve haue much knovvledge no charity a dead faith a faith of Devils but no workes Christs greatest friends and they of his owne houshold are his greatest enemies being as Bernard complaines in his time all friends and all enemies all necessaries and all adversaries all neere and yet all such as seeke their owne Videtur bone Iesu as Hugo complaineth in his time O good Iesu the whole company of Christians seemeth to haue conspired against thee and they which are first in thy Church are first in persecuting of thee Woe woe vnto vs for our ill liues shall our outward profession our dead and devillish faith saue vs without good workes Marke wee that faithfull saying of St Austine in his booke of faith to Peter the Deacon cap. 40. Beleeue it for a truth and doubt not of it that not all which are baptized within the Catholicke Church shall receiue eternall life but they who after baptisme receiued liue well for as infidels heretickes and schismatickes shall not haue the kingdome of heaven so vitious Catholickes shall not possesse it Next wee haue her good workes amplified by the extent Full of good worke she was filled with the fruits of righteousnesse Phil. 1.11 like those water pottes at the wedding that were full to the brimme Ioh. 2. and shee gaue to God and man good measure pressed downe shaken together and running over Luke 8.36 what we heare then and see in her we must doe we must be ready to every good worke Tit. 3. fruitfull in every good worke Col. 1.10 walking with Zachary and Elizabeth in all the commandements of God without reproofe Luke 1. and abounding alwayes in the worke of the

the ministery of the Gospell the way of peace the mysteries of Godlinesse And Tabitha hath this name here because with Mary shee sate at Iesus feete and heard his words Luke 10.39 with Lydia shee attended to those things which were spoken of Gods Ministers Act. 16.14 I cōmend then the imitation hereof not only to her sexe but to all the Saints all that will call on the name of the Lord to learne of her to be schollers in Christs schoole to sit at the beautifull feete of them that preach the Gospell of peace and bring glad tidings of good things Rom. 10.15 For all must learne of them that prophecy 1. Cor. 14.31 of such Epaphrasses as are faithfull Ministers of God for them Col. 1.7 all must obey 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be perswaded taught of them that haue the oversight of them and suffer the word of exhortation Heb. 13.17.22 all must receiue the word ingraffed with meekenesse Iam. 1.21 heare the Prophets that are raised vp vnto them Deut. 18.15 heare and receiue them as an Angell of God yea as Christ Iesus himselfe Luke 10.16 Gal. 4.14 Let vs so heare the Gospell Austin in his 30 tract vpon Iohn as wee would heare the Lord himselfe if he were present now for that precious thing which sounded out of the Lords mouth was both written for vs and is reserved for vs is rehearsed to vs and againe that which is to be learned by a man let a Christian learne without any pride let vs not tempt him in whom we haue beleeued least being deceiued by such subtilties and frowardnesse of our common enemy we should refuse to goe into the Church to heare and learne the Gospell or to read a booke or to heare a man read and preach And in his booke of Catechising the rude chapt 12. hee would haue men such cheerefull hearers that if our preaching at any time be colder then vsually it is it might be quickened and kindled by their vnvsuall hearing and attending But in these late and worser dayes if wee survay this weake sexe wee may every where finde silly women ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth 2. Tim. 3. never worthy of the name of Disciples or else so farre in the other extreme that in stead of Disciples they will be Doctors presume to teach 1. Tim. 2. according to that of Hierome in an epistle to Paulinus the babling old woman will teach the scripture before she hath learned it or else so farre from all holy learning in Christs schoole that with the Scribes and Pharisees they will neither enter into the kingdome of heaven nor suffer others Matt. 23.13 but with their grandmother Eue are tempters of others to ill Gen. 3. with Iesabell are stirrers of others to worke wickednesse 1. Kings 21.25 with Iobs wife are perswaders to profanenesse Iob. 2. with Solomons wiues are inticers to idolatry 1. Kings 11.4 with Herodias movers to murther Matt. 14. with the harlot allures to lust Prov. 7.18 with Michall despisers of religious zeale in others 2. Sam. 6. and with those complained of by Paul 1. Tim. 5.13 such as learne to be idle wandring about from house to house and not onely idle but tatlers also and busiebodies speaking things which they ought not But scarcely any where can we finde those women that learne in silence 1. Tim. 2. that with the honourable Dames of Berea receiue the word with all readinesse of minde and search the Scriptures whether those things are so Act. 17.11.12 and with Damaris there verse 34 cleaue vnto Pauls preaching that with the women and Mary the mother of Iesus continue with the Apostles in the exercise of religion act 1.14 and with Mary Magdalen Ioanna and Susanna are with Christ whilest hee is preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdome of heaven Luke 8.1.2 Nay if wee runne too and fro through the streetes of our Ierusalem and see and know and seeke in the broad places therof Ier. 5.1 where can we find any Disciples vnlesse such as Paul found at Ephesus that haue Learned nothing soe ignorant that they cannot tell whether there be an holy Ghost or no Act. 19.2.3 any such tractable schollers as Cornelius with his words in their mouthes to Christs ministers we are here as in the presence of God to heare the things that are commanded you of God Act. 10.33 any that presse vpon them to heare the word of God as those did Luke 5.1 Diogenes comming into Antisthenes schoole being often rejected by him yet stucke there still and when on a time Antisthenes offered to strike him with his staffe he bowed his head and said Beate me if thou wilt but thou shalt finde no staffe so hard wherewith thou shalt driue me away so long as thou speakest any thing According to which effect Augustine on Iohn sayth If thou canst teach me that I know not I ought not onely to indure thee patiently in words but also beating me with stripes But now though wee speake the hidden wisedome of God in a mystery able to make man wise vnto salvation and not the perishing wisedome of this world as the old Philosophers did wee haue neede of roddes and staues to driue men to vs to compell them to come in that Gods house may be full of Disciples Every where we may finde Despisers sooner then Disciples prophainers rather then professours good companions rather then good Christians brethren in evill rather then holy brethren children of the Devill rather then sonnes of God and the Synagogues of Satan rather then the houshold of Faith yea the very names of Disciple brother beleever professour Saint faithfull which should be our crowne and our joy are laughed to scorne by miscreants which yet would be good Christians But let them be assured that if they be ashamed to be Christs Disciples here to learne and know him that hee will be ashamed of them hereafter Luke 9.26 that he will not then know them for any of his Wee see that this woman hath begun to runne well to witnesse a good confession let her ride on prosperously as the Psalmist speaketh Psaml 45.4 for shee lacketh yet one thing comprehending in it many things to make her a compleate Christian shee must not onely professe well but also expresse it not onely haue her eares opened to learne Christs will mine eares hast thou opened but her heart and hand ready to doe it I delight to doe thy will thy law is within my heart Psal 40.6.8 for Christianum facit vita professio as Austine sayth life and profession together make a Christian Let vs marke then how these meete and kisse each other in her for her profession she is a Disciple for her profit shee is generally fruitfull in good workes Now concerning good workes here mentioned Pilate in the spirit of scoffing or curiosity asked our Saviour what is the truth Iohn 18.38 but wee in the spirit of meekenesse may well