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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30594	Moses his self-denyall delivered in a treatise upon Hebrewes 11, the 24. verse, by Ieremy Burroughs.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1641 (1641)	Wing B6097; ESTC R4358	105,177	285

improved your power onely upon sinfull wayes to satisfie the lusts of your owne hearts when these shall be taken from you or you from them with what confidence can you looke up to God for mercy doth it not come from low thoughts of God and want of the feare of his great and dreadfull Name for you to thinke to spend such great talents upon your lusts which hee hath betrusted you withall for his honour and yet to thinke that you can easily do well enough in this matter between God and you that this holy great and dreadfull God will be pacified by a word or two If you had indeed ventured those things that you did enjoy and so had parted with them in the cause of God you might then after all had beene gone have beene able to looke up to God with much comfort and to have expected with confidence much mercy from him It is reported of Alphonsus King of Arragon when a Knight of his had consumed a great patrimony by lust and luxury and besides ran into debt and being to be laid into prison by his creditors his friends petitioned for him to the King the King answered if hee had spent so much money in the service of his Prince or for the good of his Countrey in relieving his kindred I would have hearkned but seeing hee hath spent so much upon his body it is fit his body should smart for it So when you come and looke up to God for mercy in your distresse when the comforts of the creature shall be gone God may justly answer if you had spent that abundance of the creature that I afforded to you in my service for the good of my people I would have heard you but now it is just you should be left in your distresse and that so much pleasure as you have had so much misery should follow Doe not your hearts tremble at that Text 1 Cor. 1. 26. Not many rich not many noble it is enough to make a mans heart to tremble when he heares that of men few are saved but when salvation is straightned in a more narrow compasse and God saith of such a sort of men but few this hath more power in it to strike feare as if a company in a Church should heare that but few of them should goe out alive it would strike feare into all but when those who sit in the Chancell shall heare but few of those that sit in the Chancell shall goe out alive this strikes feare into such who sit there As Joshua when search was made for Achan amongst the Tribes he had cause to feare but when the Tribe of Judah was taken of which he was then much more but when the family of the Zarhites then much more So within the straighter compasse God hath said But few shall be saved if you be amongst them you have cause to feare the more and not to take more liberty then others but to be more diligent then others to make your calling and election sure It s a terrible speech that Chrysostome hath in his 34. Sermon upon the Hebr. you would thinke it so if it came from us it may be you will receive it better from him the speech is this I wonder saith hee if any Governour can be saved Howsoever conscience may be quiet and still now yet when it apprehends it selfe neere the giving up account to God it will speake it will sting then It is reported of Philip the third of Spaine although it is said of him that his life was free from grosse evils yea so as he professed he would rather lose all his Kingdomes then offend God knowingly But being in the agonie of death and considering more thorowly of his account hee was to give to God feare struck into him and these words brake from him Oh would to God I had never reigned Oh that those yeeres I have spent in my Kingdome I had lived a private life in the Wildernesse Oh that I had lived a solitarie life with God how much more securely should I now have dyed how much more confidently should I have gone to the Throne of God what does all my glory profit me but that I have so much the more torment in my death This storie Cornelius à Lapide hath upon the second of Hosea In the Bohemian Historie it is reported of one Hermanus a great Courtier who being to dye did most lamentably crie out That he had spent more time in the Palace then in the Temple and that he added to the Riotousnesse and Vices of the Court which he should have sought to have reformed and so dyed to the horror of those that were about him I confesse it is no little matter for you who have so much of the world to denie your selves in those things that give content to the flesh considering the corruption that is in the hearts of the children of men it is a hard thing and seldome hath successe to give rules for the ordering of life to men who are in great prosperitie in this world Hence Laertius reports of Plato who being desired by the Cyrenians that he would write down some Lawes for them and that hee would set the estate of their Common-wealth in some order he refused saying It was a very hard thing to make Lawes to bind men who were in great prosperity But the more hard any dutie is the more honourable is it to yeeld to it as Saint Hieronym writing to Pamachius hath this expression It is not a little thing for a Noble man for a rich man to withdraw himselfe from the companie of great ones to joyne with those that are meane and poore and to be made as a common man but the more low the more mean he is in doing this hee is the more sublime so much the higher in the esteeme of God and his people There are some who have beene in as faire a way of honours and worldly delights as any yet they have denyed themselves and they rejoyce in it and blesse God for it they finde all they were willing to part with made up abundantly to them they live most svveet and joyfull lives God hath made them honorable in his ovvne eyes and in the eyes of his people they are high and precious in the esteeme and hearts of the Saints Doe not feare trust your honours your Dignities and riches vvith God there vvas never any thing lost in a self-denying vvay for Iesus Christ nothing can make you more honorable then the vvaies of Godlinesse and nothing can cast that contempt and shame upon you as the vvaies of sinne doe it being the basest servitude that is both for your selves and all your estates and honours to bee under the povver of your lusts As you vvould account it a greater contempt and shame for you to bee made to serve in the meanest and basest worke that is then if an ordinary man should be forced to