A20529:136
Four godly and fruitful sermons two preached at Drayton in Oxford-shire, at a fast,…Foure godlie and fruitful sermons two preached at Draiton in Oxford-shire, at a fast,…
Four godly and fruitful sermons two preached at Drayton in Oxford-shire, at a fast, enjoined by authority, by occasion of the pestilence then dangerously dispersed. Likewise two other sermons on the twelfth Psalm. Whereunto is annexed a brief tract of zeal. / By I. Dod. R. Cleaver.Foure godlie and fruitful sermons two preached at Draiton in Oxford-shire, at a fast, enioyned by authoritie, by occasion of the pestilence then dangerously dispearsed. Likewise two other sermons on the twelfth Psalme. VVhereunto is annexed a briefe tract of zeale. / By I. Dod. R. Cleauer.
London: printed by T.C. for William Welbie, 1611
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Another instance may be in covetous persons, who have wealth in wonderful admiration, so that it is made the common god, and most usual Idol of the world: and when they have gotten it, they, and many others think they shall have great credit with it: and many times it so falls out, that they are men of great place, because they are of great substance: they have many to attend upon them, many to flatter them, and to crouch unto them, and by their riches they may procure almost what they list: doth not this now seem to be an easy, a pleasant, and happy life? Yet the Apostle telleth us,1 that they that will be rich, fall into tentation, and snares, and into many foolish and noisome lusts, which drown men in perdition and destruction: so that when wealth (together with the love of it) flows in on every side, men are as it were cast headlong into a sea of misery: and therefore ⟨p. 41⟩it is added, that the desire of money is the root of all evil: for it doth not only poison mens hearts, make them err from the faith, and bring them into the snares of the devil, to be lead by him according to his will; but it pierceth them through with many sorrows: for greedy worldlings are ever discontented and froward, falling out with one, and chafing with another: so that those things which seem to glad their hearts, do not indeed bring them any sound contentment, because their desires can never be satisfied, but especially because they are often times much crossed: as when their sheep or cattle miscarry, their grounds prove unfruitful, their servants untrusty, thieves set upon them by violence to spoil them of their goods, or subtle adversaries by craft seek to defraud them of the same, with many such like occurrences, which will neither let them rest quietly in the night, nor live comfortably in the day: and the hearts of such covetous persons can tell them, that many times all other things do them no good, sithence they cannot have some one thing which they would, as the case stood with wicked Ahab in the matter of Naboths vineyard.
Another instance may be in couetous persons, who haue wealth in wonderfull admiration, so that it is made the common god, and most vsuall Idoll of the world: and when they haue gotten it, they, and manie others thinke they shall haue great credit with it: and manie times it so falls out, that they are men of great place, because they are of great substance: they haue manie to attend vpon them, manie to flatter them, and to crouch vnto them, and by their riches they may procure almost what they list: doth not this now seeme to be an easie, a pleasant, and happy life? Yet the Apostle telleth vs,