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A51605	Saving faith and pride of life inconsisent delivered in a sermon, preached before the then commissioners of the Common-wealth of England for the affairs of Ireland, at Christ-Church in Dublin / by John Murcot ...	Murcot, John, 1625-1654.	1656 (1656)	Wing M3082; ESTC R32107	17,348	32

hath it and is great in the eyes of men and they lift him up and he is lifted up in his own heart then he goes on with a full saile in the wayes of God and his calling he is called to but alas let that cease from him and his spirit is down and flags And what 's the reason of this Alas poore creature he was ready to think it was the breathings of the Spirit of God that fill'd his sails and it was nothing but a little popular breath Take it away and the sailes fall flat there is no motion any more When the affections of a people toward a man are the chariot wheels take them but off he drives sadly and heavily as Pharaohs chariots did Ah poor soul This is their penny they will not serve the Lord cannot walk nor work his works except they have their penny except they be so and so thought of have so much and so much the hearts of his people Well such they have their penny Mat. 20.9 But it is their all and a poore reward it is as our Saviour speaks it will not serve at the last day when they cast up their reckonings they will finde it to be a poore thing Saith Luther Haud velim gloriâ aut nomine vehi majus enim gaudium in maledictis blasphemiis Well this is our condition the Lord make us sensible of this deceit of our hearts I doubt if we were well searched many of us would be found guilty before the Lord to be such as seek the honour that is of man and therefore our faith must be of necessity hindred How can ye believe c Tenthly a man that careth not what becometh of him so he have honour from men So Saul 1 Sam. 30 Honour me now before the people Use 3 The third Use shall be of exhortation then to stir us up every one Brethren this day in the fear of God and for the bowels of Jesus Christ as we would ever be saved by believing in the Lord Jesus or live by faith to look to it that we mind not so much the praises which are of men as the praise of God Oh that we were all of us perswaded this day but to study our hearts better to mind with what ends we are carried out to every thing Ask your hearts the question why do I this or that Is it to be seen of men is it to please men is it to have the honour and the praise of men and be humbled for it and not rejoyce in your sincerity uprightness before the Lord. Wherwithal shal I perswade you brethren To use a few arguments Arg. 1 It is the example of the Lord Jesus I receive not glory of men that is to say I do not gape for it I am not earnest for the good opinion of men it neither addeth to me nor diminisheth from me How oft did he silence the people when he had wrought great works as the Leper that was cleansed Mat. 9.30 Mat. 8.4 See thou go and tell no man And two blind men whose eyes he opened Jesus straightly charged them saying let no man know it Alas when our Saviour perceived they would come and take him by force and make him King dreaming of an earthly kingdom the Messiah should have he withdrew himself he had no mind of such things he came not to seek his own glory but the glory of him that sent him Which of us should have kept such Revelations as the Apostle Paul had 1 Cor. 12.2 so long a time together even fourteen years as he did Arg. 2 Heb. 11.24 The examples of other Saints that have gone before us Moses cared not to be accounted the sonne of Pharaohs daughter her adopted son he accounted the reproach of Christ greater gain then the pleasures of sinful delights 1 Thes 2.6 and their honours We sought not glory of men saith the Apostle neither of you neither of others Alas however you account of me whether as a Minister of Christ or no or as not approved as some would exclude us out of your affections It is a small thing for me to be judged of you or of mans judgement 1 Cor 4.3 Arg. 3 It is the Lord who must judge Brethren who knoweth the heart and will not judge as man judgeth according to mens parts and abilities and gifts of grace but according to that which is within Many a poore trembling soule that breatheth after the Lord Jesus is able to say little to make out little Oh how much dearer may he be in the eyes of the Lord then we with our honours with our great titles with our raised parts and learning as that learned man said when he saw the poore shepheard weeping over the toad that God had not made him such a creature and he had not been sufficiently thankful Oh saith he Surgunt indecti rapiunt coelum Oh! the Lord knoweth where is the circumcision of the heart Brethren where is the beleeving soul the humble soule indeed where is the fruitful soul full of love and of good fruits this is the soul that shall be accepted with him and he knoweth the ambition of the heart that would faine rise higher upon the wings of fame and renown Oh brethren remember this when we are any of us cried up what will this avail us if the Lord cry us down That which is of high esteem with men may be abomination in the eyes of God Oh therefore above all brethren Luk. 6.15 Phil. 4.8 let me beg of you that we may mind the things that are praise-worthy indeed If there be any vertue if there be any praise think on these things that is to say such things as will rather approve us unto God then unto men Arg. 4 Minde it Brethren What ever parts or abilities or gifts the Lord hath given any of us they are not our own but for the good of his people only the sincerity of our heart in the managing of them is our own Now while we have hearts lifted up in us Hab. 2.4 because of them where is the sincerity for so saith the Spirit of God whose heart is lifted up is not right within him so that alas poor creatures when we seek our own glory by our parts or gifts or whatsoever setteth us off in the eyes of men and not the glory of the Lord Jesus we boast of that which is not our own are proud of that which we have received and spend it upon our own lusts upon our own pride and ambition This is the reason wherefore the Lord denieth such parts to many that desire them to their own hurt not knowing the basenesse of their own hearts Oh therefore let us study our own hearts Brethren in this particular and what ever men speak of us look to it that it be found within us that it be good built not upon their sayings upon their charitable thoughts but upon what we

finde upon serious searching of our own hearts Be sure to make it your great work to grow inwardly Oh look to the circumcision of the heart that which God onely seeth and which he approveth and commendeth and is praise-worthy indeed For what will it availe us to be never so much celebrated amongst men and when we appear before the Lord Jesus to be cast off as an abominable thing Oh seek the glory which is of God! Arg. 5 It is the master sinne in sanctification as unbelief in justification For al other sins yield obeysance and give way to this Wherefore did the Heathens forbear much other wickednesses as Scipio and others was it not for honour among men and meerly for that Caput omnium peccatorum Primo enim vitio lapsa est anima hoc ultimum vivat saith Aug. upon Psal 7. And therefore the perfect or grown Christian should take heed of this above all others The second Branch of this Exhortation shall be to take heed then of laying snares in one anothers wayes I mean by loading a poore creature with honour and respect It may be that which may undo him away then with this base flattery in swelling and undeserved titles that is amongst us If such as will have honour amongst men seek it let them seek but not finde If there were no flatterers ambition would quickly flatten bring not fuel to the fire but rather cast on water You had more need Brethren stil to be putting on one another in minde of something to humble us then feeding one anothers humour with honours What doest thou know but the applause and honour thou through flattery puttest upon such a one may be the deadly snare to his soul to undo him for ever for if it lift him up and the Lord then know him afar off what is become of him then It is a great folly in us to think it is any advantage to any man or to our selves to flatter them into any high conceit of themselves to puffe them up with great titles and honours for if they be puffed up their hearts are not right within them and what then can you expect from them Ah Brethren you that know how catching corruption is what tinder it is that will take the least spark for Christs sake be more tender one of anothers souls I know indeed in some cases when the soule is indeed dejected and cast down and ready to cast away all comfort seeth nothing good in him it may be an act of charity then yet with sobriety and tendernesse but alas this is not the ground of our speaking highly one of another and to another Therefore take heed of this Use 4 The fourth Use shall be of Caution Notwithstanding that a man may not hence take boldnesse to prostitute his name and be prodigal of his credit not at all to heed what others speak of him For my own part if I see a man that hath no care of his name let people speak well or ill never heedeth it like Gallio careth not for any of these things I should be afraid such a one careth not for his conscience neither to keep a good conscience before God nor before men or towards men as well as towards God Therefore take heed of this 1. Such evil speakings of thee are a chastisement a rod can Shimei curse David and the Lord hath not bidden him curse Can a dog move his tongue against them and the Lords hand is not in it Can a man be outed of the hearts of the people of God and he hath not done it And hath not every rod a voice is it a child-like spirit not to matter what it speaks nor how many rods are laid upon thy back 2. Through thy name Religion may suffer if thou be disgraced and profess the Lord Jesus it reacheth further then thy self specially if a publick person Crudelis enim qui famam negligit Therefore the Apostle spent so much paines in vindicating of himself from those aspersions that false Apostles cast upon him as of being burdensome to them being poore and mean and contemptible in his bodily presence He knew that hereby the Gospel suffered much disadvantage and his Ministry was prejudiced and therefore he bestirreth him But it was not because he had an ambition to be thought highly of by men but because he knew his endeavours would not be so effectual for the Lord Jesus in his Kingdom 1 Cor. 9.15 as otherwise they would Therefore it is better for me to die saith he then to lose my glorying to make his glorying void in those former respects And that though born out of due time yet he had the Gospel by immediate revelation from God as well as the rest of the Apostles Use 5 A word of comfort to the poore soule that haply may gather some discomfort from this Doctrine as knowing much of the deceit of the heart in this respect Alas what shall I do might one say I thought something was the matter that I could not believe in the Lord Jesus and now I see what is the matter I have sought the honour which is of man and not the honour which is of God and therefore how can I beleeve I am more an outside Christian then an inside For answer to this 1. The best of Gods people have some of this corruption remaining in them Brethren some more and some less It is not thy case alone There is a desire of vain-glory at the bottom many times we are not aware of it Sometime we feel it sensibly Therefore it is possible thou mayest be a beleever though it be thus with thee It is not the having but the affecting of this or any other sinne that stands not with the Covenant of Grace 2. There is a contrary principle within that strives against it at least where it is known And is it not so with thee Is it not thy burden is it not thy trouble The Disciples had very much of it when they would be striving which should be greatest among them 3. It doth indeed more or lesse hinder faith Therfore pray against it be humbled for it Act faith upon the Lord Jesus and the Covenant of Grace That he should subdue all our iniquities for us Mic. 7.8 But be not discouraged because it is in thee if it reign not if thou love it not delight not in it please not thy self in it for it is that which is the ruine of poor souls in this particular FINIS