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water_n	bread_n	lord_n	wine_n	3,679	5	7.3104	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09450	The reformation of couetousnesse Written vpon the 6. chapter of Mathew, from the 19. verse to the ende of the said chapter. By William Perkins.; Reformation of covetousnesse.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.; Clapham, Henoch.	1603 (1603)	STC 19735.6; ESTC S106356	66,232	268

men omit heauenly treasure This I take to bee the true and right meaning and thus the dependance is in good order giuing vs the maine cause of couetousnesse which is a blind eye so that they cannot see to put difference betweene heauenly and earthly treasure Here three things are to be considered the single eye the wicked eye and the blinde eye with the fruites and effects of euery one The single eye is the light of the body There is exprest and noted the single eye with the fruites therof viz. to giue light to all the body The wicked eye makes the body darke Of these in order and first we will begin with the single eye And that you may know what is meant hereby I will describe it plainely By single eye vnderstand the minde of a man endued with true and heauenly wisedome for it is the single eye the minde that hath this gift which is enlightned with true wisedome Then if we shall knowe what true wisedome is we shall knowe what this eye is Therefore touching wisedome it is a gift of God in Christ no common gift which euery professor may haue but a speciall gift from God to them that are in Christ. 1. Corinthians 1. 31. Christ is made of GOD to vs wisedome not onely because hee is the maker and author of wisedome but also because hee is the roote from whence all our wisedome springs we must bee set to him and engraffed in him we must be made bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh As his righteousnesse is made ours by imputation and our holinesse is from his holinesse as from the roote so our wisedome is from his wisedome as the braunch from the stocke and the fruite from the tree This wisedome befalles not the diuell and his angels not all men nor all Christians in name but onely those that are in Christ truly for from his wisedome proceedes the true wisedome So then wee must cōceiue of it that this wisdome is a gift of God to them that are in Christ. This spiritual wisedome hath two actions First to discerne things that differ Secondly to discerne one thing from an other spiritually S. Paul prayeth that the Philippians may be enriched with knowledge and sense or iudgement What is this sense that we might be able to discern things differing and be sincere Marke how hee ioyned with knowledge sense that is a gift of discerning good and badde earthly and heauenly what we must do and what we must leaue vndone We ought to haue our senses exercised to discerne good and euill that is wee ought to be endued with the propertie of true wisdome to haue our senses enured to put difference betweene things good and euill And this is the first point of heauenly wisdome to put such a difference As for example Hee that is in Christ and hath this spirit of discerning hee can discerne the voyce of his shepheard and can put a difference betweene it and all the voyces of false shepheards Againe by this men can distinguish betweene the water in Baptisme and other waters betweene the bread and the wine on the Lords table and common bread and wine And the discerning of these is by this gift of wisedome Thirdly by this the Church of God is able to discerne of afflictios betweene crosses and curses chastisements iudgements He can take the hand of God for a fatherly correction and for no curse nor iudgemēt and hee knowes what vse to make of them Fourthly by this gift the childe of God can discerne the things of God namely his own election vocation adoptiō iustificatiō c. He can know thē perceiue thē more or lesse In a word by this mē are able to put a differēce between earthly riches and heauenly treasure He can discerne the excellencie of heauenly things aboue earthly and put a plaine difference betweene them which the carnall man can not doe The spirituall man discernes all things truely Vertue from vice Heauenly things from earthly things and so all other things whatsoeuer Heere then marke what is the first action and property of this wisedome to discerne things that differ I adde further this the Prouidence Wisdome and Iustice of God in all things which the naturall man cannot do Hereby you see how excellent and necessarie a thing this is seruing to many excellent vses The second action is to iudge determine giue sentence of things what we must doe and what we must not doe what is good and what is euill what is heauenly and what is earthly Heere one thing must bee remembred It is a principall point of wisedome to determine what is the chiefe happines of man and the scope vnto which all our life is to bee directed It is the loue and fauour of God in Christ see examples of this iudgement Psalm 4. 6. Many say who will shew vs any good c. Marke there Dauids iudgement of this matter and how he differs from others He determines that it is true happinesse to bee in the fauour of God So Paul cared for nothing but Christ crucified shewing what was his wisedome when he came amongst the wisest of the world viz Christ crucified for the sinnes of the world And indeede if a man had all the wisedome and policie in the earth and faile in this if hee cannot determine where to place his happinesse and what is the scope of his life his wisedome is but folly Therefore remember this is a principall point of true wisedome to bee able to iudge of our true happines what it is and the scope of our life Thus you see the spirituall wisedome hath two actions what they be viz First to discerne things that differ Secondly to discerne onething from another spiritually Heere marke further that a principall part of this wisedome is heauenly prouidence When a man discernes what is the principall good then commeth prouidence and vseth all meanes for the compassing of that principall good She forecasteth all the waies and means to come vnto it without this our wisedome is not perfect And thus you see what is meant by wisdome It is a gift of Gods spirit to thē that be in Christ whereby they are enabled to discerne of things that differ the scope of our life of true happines and withal to forethinke and forecast all the means to come vnto it And the single eye that is the single minde which is able to discerne of this wisedome Now in the next place mark the fruite of it The whole body shall be light That is the whole life shal be full of righteousnes of good successe Prou. 8. 19. 20. My fruite is better then gold and fined siluer I make a man walke in the wayes of righteousnes and the paths of iudgement To make some vse of it considering this is thus heere commended wee are first admonished to labour for this heauenly wisedome single eye The singular commendation of it