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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02030	The bread of life, or Foode of the regenerate A sermon preached at Botterwike in Holland, neere Boston, in Lincolnshire. By Thomas Granger, preacher of Gods word there.	Granger, Thomas, b. 1578.	1616 (1616)	STC 12177; ESTC S121351	21,732	40

perishing Thirdly naturall wisedome deuices and policies are perishing and vaine Psal 146. 2. 3. O put not your trust in Princes nor in any childe of man for there is no helpe in them for when the breath of man goeth forth he shall goe againe to his earth and then all his thoughts perish In another place he saith The Lord casteth out the deuices of Princes and bringeth the counsels of the wicked to naught Iob 5. 13. He taketh the wise in their craftinesse and the counsell of the wicked is made foolish Infinite examples hereof may be brought out of the Scriptures and prophane authors but it were needlesse seeing that euery day we may see with our eyes the fall of these things Therefore seeing that this world and the lusts thereof are vanishing flitting and perishing let vs not too much loue nor labour for the things thereof Our Sauiour Christ dehorteth from caring and labouring for bodily meat by two maine arguments The one is drawne from Gods prouidence Mat. 6. wherein he sheweth that God hath not care onely of great matters as some foolish Philosophers dreamed but euen of the least things For euery thing that hath breath and euery liuing thing is fed of his bountifull hand who like the good master of an houshold giueth meat drinke and all necessaries to euery seruant and child in his house in due measure and season More than that there is not a sparrow that falleth on the earth without his knowledge yea the hayres of our heads are numbred The second maine argument of dehortation is drawne in this place from the mortall and fraile nature of all things within vs and without vs. Now if God in his prouidence doe supply vnto vs all needfull things by such meanes as he offereth to vs and layeth before our eyes continually which he hath commanded to vse and none other and that all farther cares are superfluous and vaine not adding one iot or title to our estates and if so be that those things when we already haue them be corruptible and perishing and therefore cannot free vs in the vse of them from corruption let vs not vexe and disquiet our soules with care and thought let vs not toyle and weary our bodies with labour and trauaile as the heathen doe that know not God nor yet know by what meanes the soule though they confesse it to be immortall is fed and sustained to eternall life Thus much of the matter of the Dehortation Concerning the equity thereof It is not to be vnderstood that Christ here dehorteth vs from labour and trauell in a lawfull calling seeing that God hath giuen euery man some gift for the same purpose and hath prouided both meanes and place for the exercising of the same But his meaning is that we should not so much carke and care labour and trauaile for bodily sustenance and maintenance busying the faculties of the diuine and immortall soule and spending the strength of the body about earthly and perishing things as though God had made all things for vs and vs for our bellies and our bellies to liue for euer Againe he would haue vs hereby to know that as all things are created for the sustenance and maintenance of mans body so the body is made to be a vessell and receptacle of the soule and the soule is made an immortall and spirituall vessell or receptacle of the vertues gifts and graces of the holy ghost which the soule is to shew forth by the bodily members that so God may be glorified both in the soule and in the body therein beholding his owne image and likenesse with ioyfull complaeence euen as the father reioyceth in the sonne and that he may be glorified by the soule and by the body his power his wisedome his goodnesse his mercy shining therein before men Mat. 5. 16. and Angells Eph. 3. 10. For which cause he hath redeemed and sanctified vs 1 Pet. 2. 9. Ye are a chosen generation a royall Priesthood an holy nation a peculiar people that you should shew forth the vertues of him that hath called you out of darknesse into his maruellous light Therefore wee must not set our mindes on earthly things to satisfie the lusts and inordinate desires of the flesh therewith like bruit beasts that haue none vnderstanding but we must with godly care diligence labour and patience seeke and get our liuing by such good meanes and in such a calling as God hath giuen vs power and ability to discharge knowing and remembring alwayes this that perishing meate is not the end of our labours endeauours and proiects but serueth only for the building and maintaining of this Tabernacle of clay wherewith the soule is clothed and to which it is vnited The gathering together of wood stone lime yron lead c. and the building of our houses therewith is not the chiefe end that we ayme at but habitation making the house to serue for our vses and not our selues to serue it euen so meats of what kinde soeuer are but the matter and ornaments of our naturall buildings which is not the chiefe end but the soules habitation or dwelling which maketh her house euen the body to serue for her vse and not her to serue the body The body is nothing else but a shop furnisht with sundry instruments the great World that is the Firmament and the Elements with all things therein contained serue but to afford matter for the building making and maintaining of the shop with the tooles and furniture thereof Now the soule is Gods Apprentice Seruant or workeman doing the workes of God in the same and with the instruments of the same And the works of God are First that we beleeue in him Ioh. 6. 29. that is know and acknowledge him to be our master and Lord creating redeeming and sanctifying vs. Secondly that in this shop and with these instruments members and faculties we doe his will euen those things not which we our selues haue a lust vnto because we are not our owne Rom. 14. 8 but his 1 Cor 6. 19. but what he himselfe hath commanded Rom. 6. 13. Giue not your members as instruments of vnrighteousnesse vnto sinne but giue your selues vnto God as they that are aliue from the dead and giue your members as instruments of righteousnesse vnto God 1 Cor. 6 13. The body is not for fornication but for the Lord and the Lord for the body Though fornication in this place doth properly and specially signifie vnlawfull carnall copulation yet it may and doth also signifie the alienation of mans heart from God the creator Deut. 31. 16. and the setting of his affections on the creature Colos 3. 5. This he doth when he maketh his belly that is himselfe his Idoll Phil. 3. 19. Louing only himselfe and all things for himselfe seruing himselfe euen of God and of all his creatures blessings and benefits kissing his hand Iob 31. 27. that is magnifying and delighting himselfe in