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A04112	A iudicious and painefull exposition vpon the ten Commandements wherein the text is opened, questions and doubts are resolued, errours confuted, and sundry instructions effectually applied. First deliuered in seuerall sermons, and now published to the glory of God, and for the further benefit of his church. By Peter Barker, preacher of Gods word, at Stowre Paine, in Dorsetshire.	Barker, Peter, preacher of Gods word.	1624 (1624)	STC 1425; ESTC S114093	290,635	463

figured on his forehead the calenders of death appeare in the furrowes of his face the graue doth call him saying it is high time to depart this life to come away and dwell in it and therefore take the benefit of this â—hoâ—t time a Ier. 4. 4. brâ—ake vp your fallow groundes and sow not among the thornes be circumcised b Deu. â—0 16. to the Lord and take away the fore-skinnes of your hearts let vnquiâ—t passions and ambitious desires be crucified c Mat. 2â— 38 like the two theeues and euen in this sense let them d Gal. 5. 12 be cut off that trouble you The wicked slippe no time to worke wickâ—dnesse e Ioâ— 2â— 5 as wil le Asses in the wildernesse they goe forth to their businesse it is now no good argument they are not drunken f Act 2. 15. since it is but the third houre of the day for g Esa 5. 11. they rise vp early to follow a â—â— 23. 2. drunkenesse Balaam posteth for a bribe b Luc. 16. 5 the vniust steward hasteneth to make friends of the vnrighteous Mammon be you as wise in your generatioÌ„ c Ex 16. 21 gather Manna in the morning steppe into the water d Ioh 5. 7. with the criple while health may bee recouered open while Christ e Reu. 3. 20 knocketh f Mat. 23. 37. gather your selues vnder the hen while shee clocketh with g Luc. 19. 5 Zacheâ— come quickely when Christ calleth at this present instant change your hearts a â— Cor. 6. 2 now is the accepted time and now knoweth no morrow b Ioh. 9. 4. worke while it is day euery day lay vp somewhat for the last take order with death before it serues you with an execution take hold on time as it commeth and catch it by the forelockes seeke Christ c Mat. 28. 1 with Mary the first day of the weeke and first houre of the day chase not away good houres to bad purpose sit not at the Alehouse and see the race of an houre glasse vse not time with the slothfull but gaine by the expense of time when it steales from you let it carry with it some witnesse of the passage in that you haue in it made your election sure and would not hazarde the saluation of your soules vpon the doubtfull euent of your finall repentance they are your daies say not we will doe with our owne what we list but spend them and end them in God In the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee Long life is a blessing which God giueth to obedient children but hast thou but one blessing my father Yes surely thou blessest when thou hast blessed and therefore thou giuest Israel a fuitfull land also the land of Canaan d Ex. 3. 17. a land that floweth with milke and honâ— so that thou hast e Gen. 27. 3â— blessed Iacob and therâ—fore hee shall bee blessed f Eph. 2. â— thou art rich in mercy mercy there is the compassion of thy nature rich there is the abundance g Luc. 8. 1â— thou giuest after thou hast giuen as a spring runneth after it hath runne a Ps 100. 5 thy mercy is euerlasting and thy goodnesse is without conclusion Frst thou giuest breath that thy dayes may be long then thou giuest bread in the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee here is a blessing vpon a blessing as though one of thy mercyes did binde thee to giue another as though former benefits were an earnest lay de to assure vs of those which are to come as though thou wouldest shew what thou wilt doe by what thou hast done The Oyle ceaseth not as long as there are b 2. Kin. 4. 6 vessels to receiue it and thy mercy lasteth as long as there is a true concurrence as long as there is no let in vs to hinder the apprehension O Lord make our praise and thankes answereable to thy goodnes that as thy goodnes is without end so there may be no period to our praise but that we may still say c Ps 41. 13. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel world without end So be it euen so be it Giueth not that the Israelits should haue this land in present possession for they did not enter vpon it till the daies of Ioshua in whose time God cast out other nations and planted them in but he speaketh in the present tense for the certaintie of performance God forgiues vs our debts and when we sue out our pardon d Rom. 8. 33. hee acquits vs by proclamation and crosseth our accompts here that hereafter we may haue our Quietus est and he is as true a debter to pay as he is mercifull creditor to forgiue and doth reckon that his promise doth as much indebt him to vs as mens loue or desert doe indebt vs to them first therefore O Israel here is a land made ouer vnto thee and the grant is good for that it coÌ„meth from the right Landlord the Lord and it is gratious for that it commeth not from a stranger but from thy God the Lord is thy God and therefore thou shalt haue it cum gratia et priuilegio 1o. cum gratia thou shalt not purchase it or pay a fine or rent for it but it shal be passed ouer to thee by a deed of gift thy God giueth 2o. thou shalt haue it cum priuilegio there shall be no ioint tenants or copartners to hold it with thee but thou shalt haue it solely and wholy to thy selfe The Lord misdoubt not thy state thy God looke to haue it with all fauour giueth doubt not of thy freedome theâ— feare not any that now keepe the possession The Lord thy God giueth The diuels mouth doth run ouer when shewing Christ all the Kingdomes of the world he saith e Luc. 4. 6. All these are mine and to whom soeuer I will I giue the power and glory of them if thou therefore wilt worship â—e they shall be all thine for first for his claime he is like the franticke man who standing on the sea shore thought all the shippes that passed by to be his owne or he doth but dreame he hath them like him who sleeping thought he held in his hands two staues and waking did thinke verely they should be two crocier staues and therefore presently prepared himselfe tooke horse and posted for two Bishoprickes not doubting but he should be presently installed but his horse casting him himselfe turned to be criple and his crociers to be critches God is the Lord of all by right the diuell but by vsurpation the Scripture stileth him f prince of darkenes he shewes himselfe like the Poet Accius who being but a dwarfe made himselfe an image as if he had been one of the sonnes of Anac indeede he may g Iob. 1. 7. compasse the earth too and fro and walke in it a Ps 24. 1. but the

against a tree they deliuered to euery of them a Bowe and Arrowes telling them that he that could shoote nearest the fathers heart should carry the whole the two bastards in whom was neuer kindled any sparke of naturall affection drew to the head and shot with good will at the heart but the third did feele nature so working in him that he refused so vnnaturall a fact whereupon the wise and trusty Exequetors iudging him to be the true sonne deliuered vnto him his fathers legacy according to that saying Legum seruanda fides suprema voluntas quod mandat fierique iubet paerere necesse est Now if blaspheming swearers shall prepare their Bowes and make ready their Arrowes within the quiuer that they may not priuiely but openly shoote at God if they arme themselues to stricke him with some deadly wound and letting their oathes as arrowes fly pierce the honour of the most highest it is an argument they are bastards and not sonnes and therefore y Iob. 39. 37. with Iob we must either lay our handes vpon our mouthes and with Dauid keepe z Psa 39. 1. our mouthes as it were with a bridle or else set the feare of God as a Porter at the doore of our lippes to examine our wordes before they goe out But as the Lord hauing shewed the Prophet a Ez. 8. 8. Ezechiell the abominations of the Children of Israell bad him digge in the wall and he should see yet greater abominations which they did so though you haue already seene the abomination of the profane man in blaspheming God Yet digge deeper and diue further into the wordes of his mouth and you shall see greater abominations you shall haue a man vow to doe mischiefe and then strengthen himselfe in his sinne by an oath and then hee thinkes he must not goe backe for he takes his oath to be an entrance into band to performe his vow Such was the b Ios 9. 15. oath of the Princes in a case of pitty and the oath of those forty men and vpwards in a case of cruelty but it is a great fault to make such a rash c Act. 23. 12. vowe and therefore men should recall it and being sorry for it draw water out of their hearts and power it out before the Lord but to performe it because of their oath is a double fault for by this doing they make as though God did patronize their sinne and as though he did approue of it It was a fault in d Mar. 6. 22. 23. Herod to promise the dauncing damsell whatsoeuer she asked euen to the halfe of his Kingdome but to adde an oath and grant her request because of his oath and thereupon to send and behead Iohn Baptist for it was his head which she desired did double his fault e Gen. 49. 5 As Simeon Leui were brethren in euill so subtelty and cruelty sisters in sin were combined in that vsurper Richard the 3. subtelty tooke order for the time place and meanes when where and how the Lord Hastings should be brought to loose his head cruelty hastely vndertooke the Act and gaue the stroke but to behead him not vpon any iust cause without examination without any stay after his apprehension because of his oath for hee had sworne that hee would not dyne till he did see his head from his shoulders was a fault far greater then would haue been the breach of his vnlawfull oath In Lattin an oath is iusiurandum ius must go before iurandum when that which thou swearest is lawfull and right then pedem hinc ne discesseris be sure thou abide by it else thou runnest into pariury which is an especiall fault forbidden in this Commandement f Leu. â—9 12 Thou shalt not forsweare thy selfe An oath hath beene alwaies holden as most religious g Gen. 21. 23. Abimelech tooke no other band of Abraham for assurance that hee should deale well with him and his children after him then his owne oath h Ios 9. 4. c. The Gibeonites thought themselues safe enough when Ioshua and the Princes of the congregation had sworne vnto them to saue their liues though the oath was wrested from them by subtelty in the warre betwixt Rome and Carthage when the Carthaginians had taken Regulus a worthy Romane prisoner they vpon his oath onely to returne againe sent him home to Rome on a message which when he had performed he returned backe againe a prisoner to Carthage according to the faith he plighted Their owne faith were the best pledges that the Emperour Charles and King Frauncis the first layd in pledge when they made their leagues the one with the Souldian of Persia the other with the Turke Pharaoh did neuer sweare that Iacob should be buryed in the land of Canaan when he dyed in Egypt but he thinkes it a foule fault if he should keepe Ioseph who liued in his Dominion from keeping touch with his father and therefore saith vnto him i Gen. 50. 6 Goe vp and bury thy father as hee made thee to sweare k Act 7. 16. The other Patriarkes as well as Ioseph were remoued into Sychen and put in their Sepulchers l Ex. 13. 19 but there is an especiall mention made of Iosephs bones because of the oath for Ioseph dying in Egypt made the children of Israâ—ll sweare that they should carry his bones thence m Gen. 50. 25. God who is called a witnes is called a reuenger if we make no conscience of an oath n Rom. 1. 9 God chalengeth the children of Israell o 2. Cor. 1. 23. because they had forsaken him and sworne by them that are no gods p Ier. 5. 7. and threatneth that they shall fall and neuer rise vp againe which sweare by the sinne of Samaria q Amoâ— 8. 14. that is by the Idoles there worshipped Yet is it a greater offence to sweare q by the true God falsely then by a false god truely for he cares not to offend God who abuseth his name to colour his lying but he that shall doe this in an open assembly when a matter shall come to try all before a Iudge betwixt party and party is offensiue to three persons 1. Deo quem peierando contemnit 2. iudici quemmentiendo fallit 3. innocenti quem falsus testis laedit to God of whom he makes no reckoning for as though he were a Knight of the post he brings him at a call to witnes a lye at his pleasure 2. to the Iudge for he binding his lye with an oath causeth the Iury to bring in a wrong verdict and thereupon the Iudge to giue an vniust iudgement 3. to the party innocent for he robbes him of that which of right belongeth to him and so is as well guilty of iniury as periury and if it were better r for a man Mat. 18. 6 to haue a milstone hanged about his necke and be drowned in the depth of

5. 2. which the Riuers of life doe spring forth to heale the broken-hearted and quench the thirst of these which long after them Thirdly repairing to the Church as Christ to a Ioh. 4. 6. Iacobs Well We must bring our pitchers with vs our mindes and meditations vessels with which we must receiue the liquour of life we must not be like Serpents which haue their bodies in the water and their heads out of the water nor we our bodies in the Church and our heads out of the Church sleepe not here with b Act. 20. 9 Eutychus as though this house were a nest for dormise let not thy eies goe a whoring in it as though thou wouldest make a stewes of it sit not for a cypher as though bare hearing were all both duty and fruit of thy Religion but let thy eares be open to good aduice let not thy heart and resolution bee shut against it if thy regard in hearing bee not answerable to thy care in speaking thou maiest come to Church and returne without returning to God and art but as the Salamander which liues in the fire and is not made hot with the fire Fourthly hauing brought our vessels with vs euery man must gather c NuÌ„ 11. 6 his Gomer full and take heed he be not crop-sicke as the Israelites which loathed Manna but still hungering and thirsting after righteousnes tarry out the whole seruice this is that which is commended in d Luc. 2. 42 Ioseph and Mary they came to the Temple with the first and went away with the last doe not therefore touch and goe sippe and away but tarry the peace of God take the Priests benediction and valediction with you it is like the blessing of e NuÌ„ 6. 24 Aaron which God commanded and all the people tarried for Hauing thus gathered with the Bees the sweet of heauenly flowers we must by meditation worke our hony-combes within our hiues f Ez. 1. the doore of the inner court shut six daies must now be opened the meate which by speaking was set before vs in a dish must now by meditation concocct and digest in the stomacke and with the cleane beasts chewing the h Act. 17. 11 Cudde wee must still finde a sweetnesse in that wee haue receiued When once we begin to bee cloyed with our owne company I meane with our inward selfe talke then are wee with the men of Berea to vse conference for they when they had heard the word with all readines tooke their Bibles that that they might trye the truth of that which was spoken and laying their heads together like bundles of sticks might kindle one an other Hauing vsed these good meanes of hearing meditation and conference we are to pray vnto God that his word may bring forth in vs the fruit of good liuing that the worme of security and contempt may not eate vp the fruit that God would still water our soules with the dew of heauen in this life that hereafter we may be translated as glorious plants into his Paradise I omit here other religious exercises of this day as the partaking of the Sacraments collection for the poore saints of God visitation of the sicke the sacrifice of thanksgiuing and also the meditation of the workes of God the consideration whereof the forenamed Psalmes i Ps 92. 4. 95. 5. would teach vs to be one speciall vse of the Sabbath day and now I proceed in order of my diuision to the persons to whom the charge is giuen Thou that is thou that art a father or mother and hast vnder thee son or daughter thou that art a master or mistrisse and hast vnder thee man-seruant or maid-seruant thou that art a Magistrate and hast vnder thee proselites and people of an other nation thou and thou thou must haue a care to hallow the Sabbath and here that in this ranke they which are Superiours haue the first charge my note is this that they must begin to their Inferiours like an Alarum and be k Ier. 50. 8 like the hee Goates before the flocke they must not be like l Mat. 2. 8. Herod who bade the wise men Goe search diligently for the childe and then he would lagge after and worship but like m GeÌ„ 33. 3 Iacob who sets himselfe for most like n Iosh 24. 15. Ioshua I and mine house will serue the Lord and o Hest 4. 16 Hester I and my maides will doe the same Inferiours giuing more credit to their eies then to their eares doe rather imitate the workes they see their Superious doe then the words they heare them speake their deeds are copies their copies rules their rules the shortest cut of teaching their good lesson neuer doth so much good as their good life they are the great wheeles of a clocke which turne the lesser weeles the same way they are pillers p NuÌ„ 9. 17 when the piller stood still Israel stood still when that went they went and in the booke of Iudges q Iud. 16. 29. when the pillers of the house went downe downe went all the other parts are distempered if the head be sicke if the eye be darke all the body is full of darknes and then must the Sunne needs be set in the valleyes when it doth not shine on the mountaines And therefore as Caesar neuer said to his souldiers ite but venite so should not the housholder say to his family nor the great man to those of smaller accompt goe to Church and hallow the Sabbath but himselfe be primum mobile and say O come let vs goe vnto the house of the Lord O come let vs sing vnto the Lord for then doth the breach of this Commandement lift vp the head when it seeth the sinne and slacknes of those which are aboue them and in this case well may the inferiour say to those which are aboue them as the daughter of the crabbe-fish to her mother crabbe who swimming her selfe backward for such is the property of the Crabbe bade her young one swimme straight forward to whom shee answered prae I sequar mother goe you first and I will follow after Againe as they which are aboue other must be a good example to others so must they see that they which are vnder them follow it their good example is a bladder they must see that they which are vnder them doe swimme by it that their good life be a glasse for them and a lead-starre to direct their course for if thou art a father it is thy sonne or thy daughter if a master he is thy seruant if a Magistrate though the stranger within thy gates be not thine yet is he now within thy liberty within thy iurisdiction and therefore r Neh. 13. 16. Nehemiah carried a hand ouer the Merchant strangers that prophaned the Sabbath day concerning children and seruants as the Apostle speaking of the children of God saith Yee are not s 1

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