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A12260	A sacred septenarie, or, A godly and fruitful exposition on the seven Psalmes of repentance viz. the VI. XXV. XXXII. XXXVIII. LI. CXXX. CXLIII. the 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. of the penitentials. Seruing especially for the direction and comfort of all such, who are either troubled in minde, diseased in body, or persecuted by the wicked. The second impression. By Mr. A. Symson, pastor of the church at Dalkeeth in Scotland.	Simson, Archibald, 1564-1628.	1623 (1623)	STC 22568; ESTC S107775	256,267	548

2.17 moreouer that none can truly reioyce but these who haue gotten remissiō of their sins The righteous doth sing reioyce The stranger shal not medle with his ioy Let them that seeke reioyce and be glad in thee My seruants shall reioyce sayth the Lord. For they get the white stone giuen them And a name written therein which no man knoweth sauing hee that receiueth it And this is Thy sinnes are forgiuen thee Indeede the wicked haue their owne earthly and fleshly ioyes but if yee would examine them strictly they are rather torments then ioyes which Chrysostome obserueth wel Chrys h●m 18. ad pop Atiochenum affirming that ioy is only proper to the godly neuer to be attributed to the wicked For the couetous man whose pleasure is in riches the more they grow the more his thirst increaseth which desire tormenteth them as also the feare of the losse of them excrutiats his minde night and day when riches grow feare groweth And the Prophet Isaias sayth Isa 57.20 The wicked are like the raging Sea Es 57.21 that cannot rest whose waters cast vp myre and dirt there is no peace sayth my God to the wicked The godly and wickeds ioy differ But there is a great difference beweene the ioy of the godly and the ioy of the wicked if yee will compare them for the one reioyceth onely in God the other in earthly things The scule of the godly is indued with true and solid ioy the flesh of the wicked only enioyes perishing pleasures the godly they reioyce in the midst of their troubles the wicked are grieued in the midst of their ioyes The ioyes of the godly are eternall the ioyes of the godly are euermore augmented till at last they attaine to eternal felicitie but the hope of the wicked turneth in dispaire their life in death eternal Finally the ioyes of the godlie spring out of teares They sow a precious seed in teares and reape in ioy for the spirituall haruest is farre different from the temporall haruest The Spirituall and earthly haruest differ for the husbandmen holdes by their experience that the haruest will be answerable to the seede time but in the Christian haruest wee fow with watrie teares and reapes on dry weather by the contrarie the wicked haue a dry and seasonable seede-time but they reape with waterie teares with confusion Reasons of the peoples ioy The reasons wherefore First because none else haue warrand to reioyce For the wicked man nothing troubles him not sinne 1 The godlie haue a warrand to reioyce for it is his pleasure not tentations these he swalloweth vp not his conscience it is a sleepe not the Deuill he is alreadie made his vassall and Seruant not the world it is his treasure no outward afflictions hee will not indure them Iam. 5 1. Luk 6.25 Yea S. Iames bids them not reioyce but houle Houle yee rich men And S. Luke saith to them woe be to you that reioyce now for yee shall mourne 2. They are commanded to reioyce Secondly as the godly onely are commanded to reioyce so they haue onely cruse to reioyce because they onely enioy the presence of God by reason of the couenant they haue entresse to all things in heauen and in earth as a woman hath to the goods of her husband which is a great cause of ioy Next they know that their names are written in the booke of life as our Sauiour saith Luk. 10.20 Reioyce not in this that yee may cast out deuils but that your names are written in the booke of life 3. They haue the spirit of God the author of ioy Thirdly onely they haue the spirit of God the author of true ioy which is therefore called the ioy of the holy Ghost Onely they are annoynted with the oyle of gladnesse Fourthly onely they haue escaped from condemnation 1 Thes 1.6 Psal 45.7 as the Israelites escaped the hand of Pharoah and reioyced 4. They escape condemnation Exod 15.1 Fiftly onely these sucke and draw their ioy out of the Wells of sound consolation that is out of the Scriptures which are written that their ioy may be full 5. They draw ioy out of the Scriptures Isa 12.3 1 Ioh. 1.4 Sixtly onely these enioy a good conscience which is a continuall feast and the cause of the Apostles ioy in the midst of their persecutions Finally onely they haue the hope of eternall glory We reioyce vnder the hope of the glory of God 6. They haue a good conscience Pro. 15.15 sayth the Apostle Ye righteous and vpright in heart They are called righteous in two respects 1. Because they haue received the bloud of Iesus Christ which hath made them righteous before God 7. Hope of eternall glory Why called righteous by his p●ssiue obedience in that hee hath suffered for their sinnes as likewise by his actiue obedience whereby he hath fulfilled the law which are both imputed to them as though they had suffered and done both themselues As also they are righteous having received the Spirit of sanctification which teacheth them to render to every one that which is his owne To Caesar Mat. 22.21 that which is Caesars To the Superiours that which is his To his equall that which appertaines to him to his Inferiour that which he ought to doe The rule of righteousnesse The rule of righteousnesse is set downe in the 15. Psalme that neither in name bodie nor goods we should iniure any man The righteous man must be sincere and vpright The righteous man must also be vpright in heart that is sincere for faith and hypocrisie can never stand together for of all vertues God liketh best of sinceritie and singlenesse of heart that in our Religion we meane sincerelie and we may say to the Lord Thou tryest my reines in the night season and foundest nothing in my mouth which was not in my heart And with our neighbours we should deale so vprightly that we may not haue Butter and Oyle in our mouth and a sword in our heart but as we professe kindnesse to them who speake kindly so our heart may meane the same Psal 12. Righteousnes cannot be without sinceritie and haue not an heart and an heart To conclude this point righteousnesse and sinceritie are so ioyned together that the one can never be without the other and they are reciprocall that a righteous man must be sincere and a sincere man must be righteous The godly reioyce in the Lord. The limitation of this ioy is set downe in the last part In Iehovah which distinguisheth the Christian ioy from all ioyes earthly Some reioyce in one thing some in another but the Christian reioyceth in the Lord. Let not the rich man reioyce in his riches nor the strong man in his strength nor the wise man in his wisedome but reioyce in the Lord. Onely one question remaineth to be dissolved Ob

Rom. 8.30 And Paul Whom God predestinateth he calleth iustifieth and glorifieth therefore they cannot fall away finally Which is against that damnable doctrine of the Papists Against the Papists who thinke the elect may be reprobates which is repugnant to the whole Trinitie Against God Against Christ who thinke the elect may be reprobates This doctrine is iniurious to the whole Trinitie for the Father is greatly wronged in that he is thought to be impotent or inconstant who hath ordaned vs before the world to glorie that his work could be hindred or altered by any intervenient fault or sinne in vs as though he would or could not remoue and pardon it And our Sauiour getteth no lesse iniury by them that one of his members can perish and so he should haue a defectiue body For if any who once hath bin a member of his mysticall bodie fall away or be cut off of necessitie his bodie by want of that one member would be disgraced And the holy Spirit who is the pledge of our adoption Against the holy Spirit sealing vp Gods grace in our hearts and giuing vs that full perswasion of Gods promises causing vs to crie Abba Father Rom. 8.15 is greatly wronged when his work is accounted nothing of as friuolous light and vncertaine So to speake the truth the Papists do what in them lieth to disgrace the holy Trinitie and aduance Angels and men in plaine contempt of that glorious Godhead which we ought so much to aduance in our doctrine and writings This is a great comfort to vs The graces of the Spirit can not be taken away that the graces of the Spirit which we haue once gotten cannot be taken away againe For howsoeuer we do not feele them alike at all times yet we haue them sin may take away the feeling of grace but not the possession thereof Albeit God be angrie by correcting his best children yet whom he chastiseth he loueth Heb. 12.6 But Dauid saith Obiect Psa 69 ●0 Blot them out of the booke of life Solut. It is not to be thought that Dauid supposed they were written in the booke of life but because they seemed to feare God and were in the visible Church but not of her he prayeth that God would make it knowne they were neuer written in it And in praying that the holy Spirit may not be taken from him he doubteth yea he standeth in feare of the losse thereof Blessed is he that feareth continually He doubteth but doth not despaire The Spirit may be grieued by vs and so cease to worke in vs good things or to let vs feele good motions but he cannot go away for when he hath brought vs to our selues and letten vs feele our sins then he purgeth his dwelling place and maketh it more meete to worke in such diuine operations as it pleaseth him to inspire in vs. Verse 12. Restore to me the ioy of thy saluation and stablish me with thy free Spirit IN this 12 verse Dauid craueth another necessary gift and effect flowing from the remission of his sinnes to wit the ioy of his conscience For the kingdome of God standeth not in externall things ●om 14.17 as meate and drinke but in righteousnes peace and ioy in the holy Ghost saith the Apostle For being made righteous by Christ and peace made with God there ariseth a wonderfull tranquillitie in out consciences from which finally ariseth a ioy vnspeakable For all the ioyes of the earth could not make vs ioyfull vnlesse God were at one with him neither can all the troubles that can fall vpon our outward man discourage vs if we find the ioy of God in our hearts Nothing spoileth vs of this ioy and pleasure that we haue in God but onely sin Pleasure in sin taketh away our ioy in God For once delighting in sin we can haue no pleasure in Gods seruice for these two can neuer stand together Therefore we must loath sinne that we may reioyce in God Christians haue ioy and sorrow intermingled 2. Cor. 12.7 Next ye see the estate of a Christian is not alwayes one ioy and sorrow is intermingled he hath a Summer of ioyes and a Winter of griefes Saint Paul had the messenger of Satan to buffet him that he should not be exalted aboue measure with his great reuelations After a Christian hath mourned he will reioyce He who neuer sorrowed for sinne will neuer reioyce for grace He that neuer mourned for the affliction neuer reioyceth for the consolation of Ioseph Mourne with them that mourne and reioyce with them that reioyce saith the Spirit The substance and ground of this ioy is the saluation of God so God is the matter of it and this saluation is purchased by God onely Psal 3.8 Saluation is the Lords Whereby he letteth vs see that the first grace will not do the turne to vs of initiation but we haue need of the second grace of confirmation which is the accompanying and perseuering grace Stablish me This stablishing is to make vs sure whereby he would aduertise vs of our instabilitie and vnsurenesse if we were not yet supported Samson was strong in grace but being left to himselfe he fell Peter bragged presumptuously in his owne strength Though all the world would forsake thee Mat. 26.33 yet I will not yet being left to himselfe he fell according as Christ had prophecied Before the cocke crow twise thou shall denie me thrise Let vs now take heed vnto our selues the time is come to trie all Christians what is in them and I feare our weaknesse will appeare to the world to our shame and the dishonour of our profession And I neuer saw any who presumed aboue others of their owne strength Nota. but they haue proued the weakest souldiers who by Thrasonicall confidence in their wisedome holinesse constancie and other of their vertues bragged aboue their neighbours yea contemned them but in the end they proue cowards presuming in pride and falling with shame This is one of the most certaine markes of Gods Spirit that as he is free in himselfe so he giueth libertie and freedome to all his children whom he possesseth For where the Spirit of the Lord is there is libertie Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is libertie They are not bound with the chaines of sin they are not bound with mens traditions but they freely serue God as the children of the house are free The Romans were free men as citizens brag of their freemen and there is great difference between them and other free men that they may vse their trades of merchandize without controlement so is a Christian of all men the most free Our Sauiour said to Peter Who should pay tribute children or strangers But I pray you is a Christian who braggeth of the Spirit Mat. 17 2● Obiect Solut. free to do what he pleaseth God forbid he is onely free to do Gods commandements and to

them no better then they keepe themselues Dagon could not helpe himselfe 1 Sam. 5.3 Oftentimes our faith is ecclipsed We depend no longer on God then withall we see meanes by which he may helpe vs. that we see not his invisible protection and we cannot depend vpon him longer then wee can see some meanes whereby he will helpe vs and so we leaue the waters of Shiloah and runne to Rezin and seeke other meanes and lurke vnder some fleshly hold which is to be imputed to the distrust and imbecilitie of our faith for we see not the company of the invisible Angels with the servant of Elisha 2 King 5.17 Seeing therefore that the Lord is a sure hold and al-sufficient all other helpes being vaine let vs say with Dauid Doctr. Christians though subiect to troubles yet not overcome by them 2 Cor. 4.8 Thou art my refuge Yet we must not thinke that we are free from all dangers for we lacke not our owne perils but I may well say with the holy Apostle We are afflicted on every side yet are we not in distresse in povertie but not overcome of povertie we are persecuted but not forsaken cast downe but we perish not as vnknowne and yet knowne as dying and behold we liue as chastened and yet not killed as sorrowing and yet alway reioycing 2 Cor. 6.9 10. as poore and yet making many rich as having nothing and yet possessing all things For if Christians be Warriours haue they taken Weapons to sit idle Simil. and looke about them and goe to pastime that they be not reproched as the Poet sayd Salmacida spolia sine sanguine s●dore The spoyle of Sarmatum without bloud or sweat If we would haue victory Nisi praecedat pugna non sequetur victoria Except there precede a battell there will not ensue a victorie For the wisedome of God his power iustice and goodnesse shines most clearely when his Church is in trouble Beside then the drosse and corruption of our nature is burnt vp by the fire of tentations The vse of ●●oub●es to the godly our faith exercised and our patience crowned yea the bitternesse which we felt in our trouble maketh our delivery more sweete and comfortable as the sharper paine the woman hath felt in bringing forth her childe her ioy will be the greater when shee is delivered as Prorsper the Disciple of Augustine sayd Dulcior fit salus cum dolor excruciat sanitatis amissae dulcedinem languoris amaritudo commendat That is Our health becommeth sweeter when dolor hath tormented vs and the bitternes of our disease commends the sweetnesse of our health which was lost We needed not safetie ●f the necessitie of perill did not vrge and what needeth a Saviour where there are none that haue need to be saved Thou preseruest me from trouble Davids faith is not confined within the bounds of the present time of his delivery but looketh ●o the future time and continuance of Gods ●reservation The experience of his former mercies makes him bold The experience of former deliveries a mea●● to cause vs wait for more 1 Sam. 17.36 Psal 23.6 and confident of ●he constant continuance thereof in time to ●ome which often he vsed in his conflict ●ith Goliah Thy servant slew a Lyon and a ●eare and so shall it be with this Philistim And ●n the 23. Psalme seeing before he called him ●is Shepheard he concludeth and I shall dwell 〈◊〉 long season in the house of the Lord. And the Apostle Paul sayth and he hath delivered me out of the mouth of the Lyon 2 Tim. 4.17.18 and he will deliver me from every evill way So we s●ould keepe a Booke of memoriall and register written in our hearts of Gods auncient dealings to vs that they may refresh vs in our present trouble Gods children reioyce in the mids of troubles God preserueth his owne children not onely in deliuering them from their troubles as he doth many a time but also in the midst of their grieuous pangues so comforteth and assisteth them by his presence that they reioyce in the midst of death Although some be wounded and slaine as the Martyrs and many other thousand good Christians as in the Marian dayes in England as yee may reade in the booke of Martyrs And in France where on Saint Bartholmews day August 24. 1572. an 100000. Christians were killed The church remaineth euer victorious yet the Church remaineth euer victorious for the Lord maketh the bloud of his seruants the seat of his Church plagueth her enemies and advanceth his truth yea hee turneth their corporall destruction to the best They would not be deliuered because they looked for a better resurrection In the midst of the winter of their afflictions they shall see the Summer sunne-blinks of Gods gracious countenance comforting them which is their greatest preseruation from defection and tentation Thou compassest me about mith joyfull deliuerance or Songs of deliuerance First In this verse hee sayd God was his secret place next Would deliuer him in trouble and now by Gradations he assureth himselfe hee will giue him matter of reioycing and Sing prayses to him for his preseruation Here the nature of faith is seene it sings the triumph before the victorie for it is sure Faith sings the triumph before the victorie 1 Ioh. 1.9 Psal 4.8 Psal 3.6 God who hath promised is faithfull to performe whereby he hopeth against hope This made him lye downe and sleepe when his enemies keepe watch about him hee was not affraid of ten thousand because God was his protection Hee assureth himselfe of Gods preseruation and also that God shall giue him Songs of deliuerance and by his deliuerie shall minister occasion of his owne prayses and this deliuerance hee ascribeth to God and that he would deliuer him from ingratitude for I thinke all our temporall deliueries from troubles so many chaines to fastē our selues vnlesse we prayse God for them And doubtlesse this second grace of God to be thankfull is greater then the other for asmuch as the first is often a temporall benefit To be thankfull an especiall gift of God Luk 17.17 2 King 5.18 but gratitude to God is a Spirituall benefit belonging onely to Gods children Many with the nine Lepers returne not backe to giue thankes Few with Naaman promise to serue no God but the God of Israel So to be short that yee know whether your deliuerie be in mercie or iudgement see how yee are affected toward God in thankefulnesse after the same Dauid sayes Psal 51.15 thou shalt compasse me with songs of deliuerance So he acknowledgeth he hath both of God and in the 51. Psalme he sayth Open my lippes and I will shew thy prayses Dauid assureth himselfe God would giue him a thankfull heart which is the worthiest part of Gods seruice for when we pray wee haue some great respect to our selfe When we pray we chiefly respect our s●lues when we