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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13711	Seauen sermons, or, The exercises of seuen sabbaoths 1 The prophet Dauids arithmeticke. 2 Peters repentance. 3 Christs last supper. 4 Christ combating with Satan. 5 The sea-mans carde. 6 The sinners bath. 7 The forming of Eue the first woman. Together with a short treatise vpon the commaundements.	Thomas, Lewis, b. 1567 or 8.	1599 (1599)	STC 24003; ESTC S111425	91,351	236

Christs body should be offered and his bloud powred out for our sinnes Giuen for vs. Here is all merite excluded the meere loue of God caused Christ to die for vs. So God loued the word that he gaue his only begotten Son that so many as beleeued on him should not perish but haue life euerlasting Hauing now the participation of his bodie and bloud we may sing with S. Paul now there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Iesus God spared not his only sonne but gaue him for vs al to death and again who shall condemne it is Christ who is dead or rather who is ●isen for vs. This should make vs loue God and this should stirre vs vp to be thankfull vnto him for so inestimable a benefit And God doth call vpon vs for this thankfulnes in the following words Doe it in remembrance of me O it is a thing especially to be remembred this benefit of our redemption O it ought to be printed vpon our nailes and vpon our tables and vpon our beds that we might neuer forget it Let vs remember Christ his death for it is our life it saues vs from death euen eternal death Dauid could say of Ierusalem If I forget Psa 137. 5. thee O Ierusalem let my right hand forget her cunning yea lette my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth if I preferre not Ierusalem to my cheefest ioy So let vs say the same of Christ if we forget thee O our redeemer let our right hand forget her cunning yea lette our tongues cleaue to the roofe of our mouthes if wee preferre not thy death to our cheefest ioye Remember thy creator saith the Preacher Eccle. 12 1 so I say remember also thy Redeemer Thou oughtest sooner to forget thy selfe as Messalah did his name thē to forget him that died for thee Consider this you that forget God you that dwell in sinful Ierico leaue your sinnes they procured Christs death Christ hath died for vs that henceforth we should learne to die to sinne and walke in newnesse of life knowing that our olde man is crucified with him to thend the body of sinne should be destroyed You then remember him as yee ought when you lay all the storie of his Passion before you as if you loo●ed vppon him nowe crucified and hanging on the crosse induring all the torments and paines of hell both in body and soule for our sakes consider of all the tortures and bitter pangs of his innocent passion which Nazianzene compriseth in three words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Buffets and blowes mockes and mowes railings and reuilings whips and scourges prickes and thornes hammers and nailes cordes and ropes crosse and gibbet thirst and vinegar reede and speare these were the instruments of our redemption Al this and more then can be vttered did he sustain patiently for our sakes in his most blessed body Which though they be now past in him ought not lightly to passe from vs but euer to be fresh in memorie as Dauid saide I will neuer forget these iustifications of thine so let vs say we will neuer forget these torments of thine The christian soules of men should liue Act. 7 55 and die in the meditation of Christs life and death like Stephan in the contemplating of his glory If the Philosophers call contemplation the greatest and chefest felicitie certainelie then in this contemplation consists the greatest felicity The forgetfulnes of this benefite driues vs blindfolded into al sin for whē we forget Christ we straightwaies forget our selues too and so this proud flesh of ours wil not suffer vs to crucifie our crooked affections What flesh can be proud that beholdeth our Sauiour so poore and contemptible vpon the crosse or what soule hauing any spark of grace like the maimed faith of Agrippa cā nowe giue himselfe ouer vnto sinne considering the seueritie of Gods iustice vppon his owne naturall and only begotten Sonne for our sinnes which otherwise could not be cleered but by so deere a price euen the hart bloud of so glorious a person But of this inough although inough can neuer be spoken and it ought rather to bee mused vpon in our harts than amplified in words Here may wise men studie and wonder like the disciples gazing after Iesus ascending or like Elisha when his maister was taken from him I will end with the woordes of this shorte charge in this place Do it in remembraunce of Christ Remember Christ hath redeemed you Christ hath reconciled you his bloud hath purged you his faith doth iustifie you his appearing will glorifie you to him with the father and the holy spirite bee glory for euer Amen Christ Combating with Satan Then was Iesus ledde aside by the spirit into the Wildernesse to be tempted of the diuell And when hee had fasted forty dayes and fortye nights he was at the last an hungry Then came to him the Tempter and sayd if thou be the Sonne of God command these stones to be made bread c. Math. 4. 1. This Historye is recorded for our learning and for our exhortation for our learning to the end we should know that Christ by this his faste hunger temptation and victory ouer Satan did all this for our sakes and therein worketh our good and safetie The faithfull in Christ must know that they shall neuer be left in temptation nor ouercome in affliction because our head Christ Iesus hath in his owne person ouercome al these things for vs according to that sweete testimony of himselfe in the 16. of Iohn Be of good cheere I haue ouercome the world We are exhorted after this example of Christ to indure hunger temptation and any necessitie or crosse of affliction soeuer that God shal lay vpon vs when and so oftē as it shall please God to exercise vs with any such triall arming our selues with patience and much constancie and we shall vndoubtedly be deliuered at Gods hands al in good time God wil comfort vs when we are most pinched as in this place hee comforted his sonne after his long fast by causing the Angels to minister vnto him In the time of trouble and heauines when wee combat with the diuel and our owne flesh comfort seemes for a time to be hid like fire that is raked vp in the ashes vntil the bellowes of Gods prouidence blowe vpon it and then it shewes it selfe vpon a sodaine like the sunne out of a cloude when the storme is past God requireth that we stay his leysure and at length though his helpe and succor seeme as farre from vs as Lazarus in Abrahams Luc. 16 22. bosome yet it wil come at last to do vs most good as the Sunne that was rising is risen and as the sheaues fell afore Ruth in the gleaning time If when wee bee no sooner downe God presently raiseth vs vp Ruth 2 16. why here can bee no triall of patience but God is woont to leaue vs for a time to the

Lord. I haue also with holden the raine from ●o● when there were yet three moneths to the haruest and yet you haue not retourned vnto me I haue smitten your fieldes with blasting and mildew your great gardens and vineyards I haue sent the pestilence amōg you to deuoure you and still concludeth euery plague with this bitter complaint and yet you haue not returned vnto me sayth the Lord. There are none of the aforesayd plagues ●ut haue bin inflicted vpon vs yet we shew no reformation It is not long since God strooke vs with the rod of pestilence being a generall plague that did spreade it selfe ouer all the land and almost ouer euery particular congregation and yet that did not humble vs. What heart can think of the sorrows of that time without compunction or what eye can looke back to the ruines of those times without compassion Was any sorrow since that time like the sorrowes then when the fattest and welthiest of vs were compelled to seeke our bread with sighes and to giue our pleasant things for m●ate to refresh our soules What a time of sorrow and perplexity was it to see all our friends and neighbours to stand a farre off disdaining to approach nere vs how the destroyer did bes●●rre himselfe in taking away the strong man the graues do yet witnes that shrowd so many corpses They who this day carried the dead b● dies to their graues were themselues on t● morrow carried by others into their grau● The parents mourned for the death of th● children and the children mourned as f● for the death of their parents This was the time of our visitation who now regardeth it it is al now forgott● like a wonder that dureth but nine daies ● that time the Lorde tooke from vs o● markets and faires the greatest stay of ● common wealth and not for a Sabboath● weekes but for many weekes many Sabb●oths euen a Iubile of Sabbaoths During the time of that humiliation eu● one seemed to turne vnto the Lord and t● Lord turned from his fierce wrath and so t● plague ceased But all that is now gone from vs lik● dreame and we haue since returned like t● dog to the vomite and like the filthie sow our old wallowiug in the mire And therfore a second plague hath ou● taken vs this plague of famine being indee● so great as the like hath not bin seene in t● memory of any man now liuing or of our ● ther 's afore vs. This is a time wherein that proclamatio● ●●ereof we reade in Ioel might wel be pub●shed in our streetes Heare O elders hearken O ye ancients ●hether any such thing hath bin in your Ioel 1. 2. ●ies or in the daies of your fathers tell your ●hildren these things and let your children ●● their children and their children againe ●nother generation And we must yet looke for the cōtinuance ●f this plague for till we leaue our sins God ●ill not leaue off to punish vs. I do not see any meane of reconcilement ●r pacification of this great wrath but euen nightie and strong crying vnto the Lord ●nd a generall forsaking of sinne We must ●●ke a couenant of our selues that we will no ●ore transgres as the people did in the time ●f Iosuah When Niniueh was but threatned it spee●ly Ionah 3. repented the King himselfe and all the ●eople beleeued God and proclaimed a ●ast and put on sackcloth from the greatest ●● the least of them and they cried mightily ●nto the Lord and turned from the euil way ●nd from the wickednesse that was in their ●ands and as they repented God repented ●f the euill that he determined to do vnto ●hem and he did it not Let vs humble our selues like these Ni●uites by turning to the Lord with fastin● weeping and mourning for the Lord is g●●cious slow to anger and of great kindnes● and such a one as is sory for our afflictions If we thus vnfeinedlie turne vnto the lo●● he will yet be iealous ouer vs to spare vs a● to remoue these iudgements He will yet open the windowes of he●uen and insteed of curses powre vpon ● twise so many blessings as he doubled to ●● his goods insteed of scarcitie wee shall ●● haue plentie for the mouth of the Lord ha● spoken it I will yet send you corne and wine an oyle and you shall be satisfied the pastur● shall yet be greene and the fields shal reioy● for the haruest I will giue you the raine of righteousne● Ioel 2. 23. I will cause to come downe for you the fir● and the later raine and the barnes shal be f● of wheat and I wil render vnto you the yea● that the cankerworme hath eaten and th● yeares that the caterpiller hath deuoured an● we shall yet reioyce before the Lord eue● man vnder his owne vine and vnder hi● ow●e figge tree Sic paucis lachrimis gaudia magna dabit fo● a few short teares he will giue infinite ioyes such ioyes as neither eie hath seene nor eare ●ath heard nor hath it entered into the heart of man what God hath prepared for them that loue him For the accomplishing of which ioyes and finishing of these dayes of sinne O thou whom my soule loueth make haste like the Roe vpon the mountaines Amen FINIS Christ his last Supper The Lord Iesus in the same night that hee was betrayed tooke bread and when hee had giuen thankes hee brake it and gaue it to his Disciples saying Take eate this is my bodie which is giuen for you doe this as oft as you do it in remembrance of me 1. Cor. 11. 23. ALL the volume of Gods booke dooth most plentifully lay out the vnspeakable loue of God towards vs in creating vs in holines protecting vs in security frō millions of daungers which else would swallow vs vppe in gouerning vs with the scepter of his word in sanctifying vs with his comfortable spirit in illuminating vs with his knowledge but most of all for sauing vs when we had lost our selues being now redeemed not with siluer and gold but with the death of his beloued sonne Christ Iesus who humbled himselfe to the death of the Crosse and susteined all contumely shame reproch yea the very paines of hell for our sakes al for vs. All being infallible testimonies of the superabounding loue of God in giuing vs his Sonne to die for vs that so many as beleeued on him should not perish but haue euerlasting life And this loue of God is made manifest vnto vs by twoo speciall pledges or tokens● that is by the two sacraments that of Baptisine and this of the Supper of the Lorde Reue. 13. 8 both like Iohn Baptist doe poynt at Christ the lambe of God the slaine lambe from the beginning whom they that know not abide in wrath Both declare and shew forth Iesus Christ crucified and that wee haue remission of our sinnes in his bloud onely Baptisine is that holy institution of Christ in