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A02741	Tvvo treatises I. The purchase of Grace, shewing the excellency of Christ, and the graces of his spirit. II. The soules delight in Gods tabernacles, shewing the excellency of time, spent in duties of God's solemne service. Instances in the chiefe, viz. prayer, word, and sacraments. Motives and directions for right performance. Lastly, the chiefe usurpers of time discovered, with apt remedies against each of them. The contents of the booke are methodically exprest in the margent, which to the diligent reader may serve instead of a table. By William Harrison, Mr. of Arts, and minister of the Gospell at Canwicke neare Lincolne.	Harrison, William, minister at Canwick.	1639 (1639)	STC 12871; ESTC S103879	208,196	400

kindle upon thee neither fire nor water can hurt us if God be with us This made Ioseph prosper so exceedingly in all his dangers He was first cast into a pit then sold into Aegypt then cast into prison put in the Stockes the iron entred even into his soule but in all these extremities the Lord was with him Gen. 39. 21. Yea and at last made him Ruler of all Aegypt This made Hezekiah prosper so exceedingly in all his enterprises see how the Text reporteth it in 2 Kings 18. 5. He trusted in the Lord God of Israel and clave unto him and served him ver 6. Then see the event ver 7. And the Lord was with him and prospered him whithersoever he went and therefore see how he could encourage his Souldiers against the invasion of the King of Assyria in 2 Chron. 32. 7. Be not afraid of the King of Assyria be strong and couragious for notwithstanding all his multitude there is more with us then with him Now see how he proveth it ver 8. both by way of confession and by direct affirmation With him indeede is an arme of flesh but with us is the Lord our God to helpe us and to fight our battells Yea thus the Lord encouraged Paul to an unwearied painfulnes in preaching the Gospel Act. 18. 9 10. Be not afraid but speake and hold not thy peace for I am with thee and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee This will make a man couragious even in the strongest dangers in the very jawes of death Psal. 23. 4. Though I walke through the valley of the shadow of death I will feare no evill sayth holy David for thou art with me thy rod and thy staffe they comfort me Let us therefore be couragious and abundant in the duties of Gods service for the Lord is ever present with us to defend us and to provide for us This is Davids reason in the verse immediately following the words of this Text ver 11. of this Psalme For the Lord is a Sunne and a Shield he will give grace and glorie and no good thing will he withhold from them that walke uprightly in his service So Jer. 1. 19. Thirdly He is a pitifull and tender-hearted Master full of compassion marvellous readie to lay to heart the afflictions of his servants In all their afflictions he is afflicted Isa. 53. 9. Excellent to this purpose is that of St. Iames 5. 11. Yee have heard of the patience of Iob and ye know the end of the Lord that the Lord is very pitifull and of tender mercie As if he had sayd yee may clearely see in Gods dealings with Iob that in conclusion he approved himselfe to be very pitifull and of tender mercie A strange place to this purpose is that we have Judges 10. Though he seemeth to reject them and hold them at staves end for a time yet upon their repentance see how sweetly he approveth and manifesteth his compassion towards them Ver. 16. They put away their strange gods and served the Lord and his soule was grieved for the miseries of Israel though he may shut up his bowells for a time yet at last his compassions will finde a vent his very soule is grieved for our miseries So Ier. 31. 18 19 20. Consider the estate of repenting Ephraim the Lord seemeth angry with him and speaketh against him yea and it may be smiteth him too but no sooner doth Ephraim truely repent and smite upon his thigh and fall out with his sinnes but then see how God is affected with him when he thinketh worst of himselfe then God thinketh the best of him see ver 20. Is Ephraim my deare childe It may be Ephraim thought himselfe scarce worthy the name of a servant and yet God even then calleth him his childe yea his deare childe Well how shall this appeare Surely by the Lords gracious pity and compassion towards him now he is sorry for his sinnes God is sorry that he did so much as speake against him For since I spake against him I doe earnestly remember him still therefore my bowells are troubled for him I will surely have mercie on him sayth the lord Oh who would not serve such a Master that is thus full of compassion thus readie to lay to heart and be affected with his servants miseries yea his very bowells are troubled his soule is grieved for them O let vs be plentifull and abundant in the service of such a Master Fourthly The Lord is readie to manifest this tender mercie and this gracious disposition of his in pardoning the wants and weaknesses of his servants in subduing their corruptions and in keeping covenant with them I must lap up many things together because I have not time to expresse them severally First He is sinne-pardoning Master yea he alone can doe it no man hath power on earth to forgive sinnes but God alone Mat. 9. Blesse the Lord O my soule forget not all his benefits who forgiveth thine iniquities and healeth thy diseases sayth David Psal. 103. 2 3. Here is a sin-pardoning Master yea he taketh no notice many times of our infirmities but graciously passeth by the weaknesses of his servants Numb 23. 21. He hath not beheld iniquitie in Iacob he hath not seene perversenesse in Israel or if he doe see he freely forgiveth it and spareth his servants as a man spareth his own sonne that serveth him Mal. 3. 17. And then he is a Covenant-keeping Master All his promises are yea and Amen 2 Cor. 1. 20. Daniel giveth him this title Dan. 9. 4. O God the great and terrible that keepest Covenant with them that love thee he is alwayes as good as his word and often better Faithfull is he that hath called you 1 Thes. 5. 24. namely to his service he will keepe Covenant with you Nay see a place that hath all these together in it Mich. 7. 18 19. Who is a God like unto thee The Lord is a most incomparable Master there is none like him in all the world Why so Surely for those three things whereof I have now spoken first He is a sinne-pardoning secondly a corruption-killing thirdly a Covenant-keeping Master See all these in this Text That pardonest iniquitie and passeth by transgression c. there is a sinne-pardoning Master secondly He will subdue our iniquities and heale our back-slidings as Hosea 14 4. there is a corruption-killing Master Thou wilt performe thy truth to Iacob and mercie to Abraham and therefore he is a Covenant-keeping Master If this be rightly considered this will make us spend much time in Gods service Fifthly The Lord is a soule-saving Master yea he alone is able to doe this no Master under heaven is able to doe this An earthly Master may be kinde to his servants and give them many good things but he cannot save or redeeme their soules he must let that alone for ever Even they that trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the

night or a Masters returne home who hath set no time but commandeth his servants to watch Watch ye therefore for yee know neither the day nor the houre saith our Saviour Mat. 25. 13. But blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he commeth shall finde so doing watching and working with all diligence Luk. 12. 43. Thirdly After wee once begin to serve God we had need to use all diligence and spend as much time as wee can that way because wee are long before wee spend any time at all to this purpose Some stay twenty thirtie fortie fiftie yeares before they doe God any service at all to any purpose all such had need to worke hard when they have once begun Yea and such as begin betime they stay long before they enter our child-hood and youth are a great part spent before we enter into Gods Vineyard Matth. 20. 1. There were some that began early in the morning but it was the third houre our nine of the clocke before any more came verse 3. and some stayd untill the eleventh houre five a clocke at night an houre before Sun set and therefore such had need to worke hard Generally we spend time for our selves for the world for Sathan before we spend any time for God for ye are all the children of wrath by nature Ephes. 2. 3. serving diverse lusts and pleasures Tit. 2. 3. So that for the most part it is long before we serve God Marke that speech of the Apostle to this purpose Romans 13. 11. And that knowing the time that it is high time to awake out of sleepe It is high time to serve God for the night is farre spent that is the time of this life is farre spent it is high time to fall to worke Now lay these together the time of this life is the only time that wee have to serve God it is very short and uncertaine at best and withall it is very farre spent before we begin therefore wee had need to ply our worke with all diligence This is the Apostles chiefe Argument to perswade us to spend much time in Gods service or according to his will 2 Peter 4. 2. That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men but to the will of God Why so see verse 3. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles i. e. it is enough and too much alas that wee have mispent so much of our precious time already it is now high time to redeeme time to spend in Gods service Hee that hath but a small stocke in all and mispendeth some part of that too had need to bee sparing and frugall with that which is left here is our very case our time that we have to spend in Gods service the whole time of our life is but short wee have mispent much already wee had need to spend all the rest if it were possible wholly in Gods service Fourth Motive to perswade us to spend much time in Gods service is drawne from the consideration of the excellency of that Master whom wee serve Behold Lord how that I am thy servant saith David Psalme 116. 16. Ye call me Lord and Master saith our Saviour and yee say well for so I am Iohn 13. 23. Yea Lord so thou art absolutely the best and most incomparable Master in heaven and earth This I will strive and endeavour to manifest in sundry particulars which will be so many severall Motives to perswade us to spend as much time in his service as we can possibly First Our heavenly Master is a most potent or Almightie Master able to defend us from dangers able to provide for us he is God Almightie as we professe in the first Article of our Creede So 2 Cor. 6. last Thus God himselfe encourageth Abraham to doe him service Gen. 17. 1. I am God Almightie or the Strong God walke before me and be upright He is able to bring to passe what he pleaseth in heaven or earth Psal. 115. 3. Is any thing too hard for the Lord sayth God himselfe Gen. 18. 14. He is able to defend us from all dangers that may befall us and to supply us with all necessaries so that we neede feare nothing if we be carefull to serve God Gen. 15. 1. Feare not Abraham I am thy Shield therefore nothing can hurt thee and I am thy exceeding great reward therefore make no question of thy wages let no man thinke or say it is in vaine to serve God for we serve such a Master as is both able to defend us and pay us our wages to the full that we neede never repent our worke For he is able to doe for us exceeding abundantly above all that we can aske or thinke sayth the Apostle Ephes 3. 20. there is his power This made the three noble Iewes sticke to Gods service they would by no meanes change their Master because they knew his power and abilitie both to defend and reward them Dan. 3. 17. Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us and he will deliver us out of thine hands O King So that if we serve this Master we neede feare nothing in regard of his power Secondly He is such a Master as is alwayes present with his servants to defend them If a Master be able yet what are his servants better for him in his absence ●ow our heavenly Master is ever present 〈◊〉 us to defend us his eye is continually 〈…〉 Psal. 33. 9. Thus God encouraget●● ●●uah Chap. 1. 9. Have not I commanded thee Be strong and of a good courage be not afraid c. for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest Now if God be with us we need not feare who are or can be against us Rom. 8. 31. Especially we never set our selves to serve God in the duties of his publike worship and service but he is present with us in a speciall manner Mat. 18. 20. Mat. 28. 20. Loe I am with you alwayes unto the end of the world This is an excellent argument to perswade us to spend much time in Gods service how difficult or dangerous soever it may seeme to be because wee may be sure of Gods presence with us Isa. 41. 10. Feare not I am with thee be not afraid I am thy God I will helpe thee c. What if we passe through the fire or water afflictions yet we need feare nothing so long as wee are sure the Lord is with us Now see what a promise wee have for this Isa. 43. 1 2. Feare not sayth the Lord I have redeemed thee thou art mine i. e. thou art my servant by purchase or redemption What then Ver. 2. When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee when thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burnt neither shall the flame