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A52476	Three choice and profitable sermons upon severall texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17, John 14. 3, Heb. 8. 5 : the first of them being the last sermon which he preached at the court of election at Boston, the second was the last which he preached on the Lords-Day, the third was the last which he preached on his weekly-lecture-day : wherein (beside many other excellent and seasonable truths) is shewed, the Lords soveraignty over, and care for his church and people, in order to both their militant and triumphant condition, and their fidelity and good affection towards himself / by that reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Norton ...	Norton, John, 1606-1663.; Norton, John, 1606-1663. Copy of the letter returned by the ministers of New-England to Mr. John Dury about his pacification.	1664 (1664)	Wing N1324; ESTC R40050	44,511	76

Three Choice and Profitable SERMONS Upon Severall TEXTS of SCRIPTURE VIZ. JER 30.17 JOHN 14.3 HEB. 8.5 By that Reverend Servant of Christ M R. JOHN NORTON Late Teacher of the Church of Christ at Boston in N.E. The First of them being the LAST SERMON which he Preached at the Court of Election at Boston The Second was the LAST which he Preached on the Lords-Day The Third was the LAST which he Preached on his Weekly-Lecture-Day WHEREIN Beside many other excellent and seasonable Truths is shewed the Lords Soveraignty over and Care for his Church and People in order to both their Militant and Triumphant condition and their Fidelity and good affection towards himself 2 Sam. 23.1 Now these be the LAST words of David David the son of Jesse said and the man who was raised up on high the Anointed of the God of Jacob and the sweet Psalmist of Israel Deut. 31.29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt your selves and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you and evil will befall you in the latter days c. Ezra 3 3. And they set the Altar upon his Bases for fear was upon them because of the people of those Countries Zech. 1.5 6. Your fathers where are they and the Prophets do they live for ever but my words and my statutes which I commanded my servants the Prophets did they not take hold of your fathers and they returned and said Like as the Lord of Hosts thought to do unto us according to our wayes and according to our doings so hath he dealt with us CAMBRIDGE Printed by S.G. and M.I. for Hezekiah Vsher of Boston 1664. JOHANNES NORTONUS ANAGR NONNE IS HONORATVS NOnne is Honoratus Deus ipse coronat honore Servum cum periit non pereunte suum Abstulit Enôchum translatio mira sed ejus In Coelis decorat pulchra Corona Caput Qui nobis subito raptus miser esse videtur Forsitan Ignaris vivit at usque Deo Vivit in Coelis cumulatus honoribus amplis Regnat in aeternum sic ait ipse Deus Mors inopina potest Jobi cito perdere Natos Sors quibus in superis inviolata datur Multa priùs passi Moses Aaronque fuere Tempus ante suum jussus uterque mori Quid si non licuit Canaanem visere Tanto Celsior in Coelis cessit utrique locus Curribus ignitis Elias raptus at illis Ad summi vehitur culmina summa poli Esto Sit in Bello Josias victus ictus Mortuus in pace est non pereunte tamen Funera non unquam Mage lamentanda Sioni Josiae nunquàm Gloria major erat Quem deflent homines Deus optimus auget honore His dolor ast illi Gloria summa fuit Si Caput amisit gladio resecante Iohannes Ejus honor Christo judice quantus erat Sit Stephanus lapidum licet obrutus ictibus Illum Christus in amplexut traxerat inde suos Christus ipse fuit quàm dirâ morte peremptus At sequitur tantam Gloria quanta Crucem Sic Deus ut Christum sic Christus honore Coronat Eximio quibus est Gloria chara Dei. Qualis erat noster syncero corde Iohannes Cui nisi quae Christi chara fuere nihil Hoc scio nemo negat nisi veri Testis aequi Non velit esse Bonos Consule sive malos Pro Samuele olim contestabantur omneis Hunc qui pro meritis vix coluere suis Vel siquis forsan magis invidet Ejus honori Hinc cumulus crescet major honoris ei Anagr. 2. JESV ANNON THRONOS JOHANNES NORTONIUS Anagr. 3. ANNON JESV HONOR SIT ANnon dandus honor sit ab omnibus omnis Jesu Est quibus in Jesu sanguine parta salus ENGLISH OH Iesu hast not thou prepared Thrones For us thy poor and ill deserving ones How should we then to Thee all Honour give And to thy Name who in the Heav'ns dost live And there preparest Mansions for thine Where they may all in endless Glory shine To the same purpose JOHN NORTON Anagr. INTO HONNOR FRom Honour into Honour go the Lord thus calling thee To higher Honour then there could on Earth obtained bee Heav'n is the Seat of Honour for those whom he Crowns with Grace For the most honourable Crowns Heav'n is the onely place By men that are most ignorant of Gods revealed Will Thou may'st be miserable thought for so they construe still Like bruitish ones the minde of God if Saints die in a swoon As if their Sun all bright before Were now gone down at Noon As if their case were now by farre the more to be deplor'd As that which doth but little hope or none of Bliss afford Yea holy Job his Friends to this did too-too much incline That sudden Changes such us his do argue Wrath divine But when the Saints do perish thus as foolish men conceive That is the time and means whereby more Honour they receive As being Crown'd with Royal Crowns which are at Gods right hand Like Joseph from his Dungeon rais'd by the Kings Command 'T was a translation marvellous which did Enoch remove From out this sinful world to be crown'd in the Heav'ns above Where now he lives reigns with heaps of highest honour fill'd All his Predictions to be from time to time fulfill'd An unegnected death did saize on Jobs posteritie But in the Heiv'ns a glorious Lot for them prepar'd did lie Moses and Aaron when as they had suffer'd much were bid As 't were before their time to die as in their Mounts they did What if the Land of Canaan they might not visit yet A place more glorious in the Heav'ns they both of them did get In flaming-fiery-Charet wrapt from earth Elijah was And by the same convey'd he was unto his bliss-ful place Be it that good Josiah were cut off with suddain stroke He dy'd in peace and unto rest eternal was he toke No funeral to Sion was as his so lamentable Yet was his death as well as life to him most honourable Theirs was the griefe the joy was his God highly honourd him Although his death to carnal eyes might miserable seem The cursed executioner cut off John Baptist's head But how did Jesus honour him both when alive and dead The Crowned Martyr holy Stephen in cruel wise was ston'd But by his blessed Saviour's most sweet imbraces own'd Yea Christ himself Gods own dear Son whose death more woeful was Yet from his cross how soon advanc'd to that most glorious place So God his Christ with honour crown'd So Christ doth honour his To whom Gods Honour and his Christ's most dear and precious is And such an one our Norton was whose death we so lament Whose whole desire was upon Christ and on his glory bent None can deny it good nor bad like as to Samuel They all were forced to confess he had done all things well If any one should have an heart with envy fill'd so

look after his Out-casts and care for us being Out-casts for the Truth Let it appear that we are such Out-casts to whom the calamity and temptations of Out-casts are sanctified Out-casts healed Out-casts that care for the truth and then Out-casts on which God will bring the blessing of his own people If this plaister findeth acceptance with you you shall finde esteem and acceptance and favour from God and man Let us all labour so to carry it as that we may have this Rejoycing of a good Conscience to sweeten that bottle full of tears shed in your Out-cast condition in this wilderness viz. That we came into it not onely with a Spirit testifying according to the Scriptures against the Inventions of men but also that we do come up unto the Institutions of Christ that as we have departed from Inventions Humane so we may not be found to be or here continue opposers against Institutions Divine that we are not negligent of but faithful to that Order of the Gospel which we are Out-casts for THE BELIEVERS CONSOLATION In the Remembrance of his Heavenly Mansion prepared for him by CHRIST BEING THE SECOND SERMON AND Preached on the LORDS-DAY MARCH XXIX 1663. John 14.3 And if I go to prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you to my self that where I am there you may be also THis Verse and the former holds forth a double Consolation to support the Disciples against the suffering which they were to conflict with either In the way of Truth or For the way of Truth This Verse holds forth the second Argument of Consolation the former you have in the second Verse it is taken from the Place they were to be taken to after Death And this Argument in this Verse is taken from the Company they shall have in that place and that is his Personal Presence his full and clear Presence Where I am there you shall be also Now this Argument of Consolation is described 1. From the Scope of Christ in preparing such a place for them and it was that he and they might be there together I go to prepare a place for you that where I am there you may be also 2. It is declared from the Time when they must expect their being taken to Christ and that is when he comes again I will come again and receive you to my self 3. It is declared from the Efficient of it the Undertaker of this and that is Himself I will come again and receive you to my self To open the words thus resolved 1. Touching the Presence of Christ and Believers together That where I am there you may be also you must understand this of his Presence emphatically so called of his Presence in the place of Blessedness In thy Presence is fulness of joy Psal 16.11 There is a double Presence of Christ but he means here his Presence in Glory where we shall see him as he is 1 Joh. 3.2 I said this Argument of their Consolation was declared from the Scope of it I go to prepare a place for you that where I am there you may be also it was one great end of his being a Fore-runner Secondly he should fail of his Fidelity and Ability if there should be a disappointment 2. From the Time When I come again Christs coming is either his last Coming or his coming by Death Of his last coming you reade 1 Thess 4.18 Of his coming by Death you reade Luke 23.43 To day thou shalt be with me in Paradice Now the Soul goes to Christ when He comes to us by Death at his last coming both Soul and Body shall be together with him 3. This Argument of Consolation is described by the Efficient of it or Undertaker I will receive you to my self We may doubt how our Souls when we dye shall come to Heaven why saith Christ I will come and receive you to my self They therefore say properly when they dye that say Into thy hands I commend my Spirit Psal 31.5 it is a proper saying so to speaks Acts 7.59 Lord Jesus receive my Spirit It is a blessed thing to commit our Souls by Faith to Christ when they go out of the Body He comes by the ministry of his Angels or otherwise as he please I will come again and receive you to my self You may remember the words of Steven he dying called upon God and said Lord Jesus receive my Spirit we receive Christ and we receive the Spirit of Christ Now to as many as received him to them gave he power c. Joh. 1.12 Christ receives our Spirits then If we receive his Spirit now he will receive our Spirits then I will receive you to my self Doct. That the effectual Remembrance that at Death Christ will receive our Souls unto Himself is a Soveraign Preservative to quiet our Souls throughout all the Sufferings we meet with either In the way of Truth and For the way of Truth during this life You shall finde in Iob 19.25 saith he I know that my Redeemer liveth He might say I know my Estate is gone and I see that my Friends are gone and my Children be gone and my Health and Strength is gone and the Grave is ready for me but what stayes Iobs heart now I know that my Redeemer lives This is a living truth for a dying man I know that my Redeemer lives and that he shall stand in the latter day upon the earth and I shall see him c. This was now In the way of Truth for you cannot say that Iob was persecuted For the way of Truth But you shall finde in a way of suffering for the way of Truth Phil. 1.23 I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ Having passed through many troubles I would be out of the body and freed from the body of death I desire to depart and to be with Christ 2 Cor. 5.8 We are confident and willing rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord. You must either be absent from the body or absent from the Lord it is an hard thing to be absent from the body but not comparatively We desire rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord We shall meet the Lord and shall ever be with the Lord. What is the use of this 1 Thess 4 18. Comfort one another with these words what are these Comforts They are nothing but Promises Promises rightly applied these are the Comforts of the holy Ghost they hold forth more good then the affliction doth evil If you would comfort one another bring out the Promise that is comfortable and seasonable Comfort one another with what with these words for in them the Comforter doth come and apply comfort Reas 1. Because hereby we are made fit for this rest fit to be with Christ that is by our trouble by this remembrance Mixing this remembrance with our trouble doth fit us for this place 2 Cor. 5.5 He that worketh us

the Believer cannot bear I desire therefore to be loosed from the Body It is said of one * Mezentius that he would bind a dead Corpse to a living man and so he would torture them This new man is boudn to a dead Corps there is no part of the Understanding Will or Affections throughout the whole man but this dead Corpse is there 3. There is the Cord of our absence from Christ that he expresseth as if it did in an especial manner move with him to be with Corist which is the best of all Simeon speaking of death Lord now lettest thou thy Servant depart in peace Luk. 2.29 as if he should say Give me my dismission as we use to speak from one Church to another so here from a Society Militant to a Society Triumphant So you see here he calls it but a dismission it came to pass when the time was come that he should be received up Luk. 9.51 relating to his death if you did but think that this were the great business when you dye namely the receiving of your Soules you would not be troubled you cannot give up your Soules into better hands 〈◊〉 5.24 you shall there finde it is called a passage from one Room to another he is passed from death to life it is like a passing from one room into another Look at death as in the Curse and what more terrible But look at it in the Promise and it hath another kind of aspect 1 Cor. 15.43 you see there it is compared to sowing it is sown in weakness it is raised in power This is now with relation to the body it is but sowing of it it shall rise again and that with advantage you are not affraid of sowing your seed that will bring a glad harvest It is a going from those that are not our own people to those that are our own people 2 Cor. 5.6 8. it may be you have a friend here but it is not an ordinary thing to meet with a Jonathan here It is but a going from them who are not our people whom we cannot so fully close with nay you cannot close with your own souls fully while here but you are going from those who are not your people to those who are your people where you shall find perfect closing with this new man you are come to the spirits of just men made perfect Would you see what Peter saith concerning death 2 Pet. 1.14 I must put off my tabernacle it is a strange Phrase he makes no more of it then for Elijah to put off his mantle What a thing was it for Elijah to let his mantle fall he gets him up into his Chariot and le ts go his mantle I speak this that you may see what expressions the Scripture gives concerning death O let my last end be like his I tell you it is a lovely thing Let me dye the death of the Righteous let my last end be like his I tell you there is another good in their last end that the unbeleiver is not aware of It is but a going out of one place to another I have done with this when I have minded you of that place 1 Thes 4.14 They sleep and they sleep in Jesus They also that sleep in Jesus shall God bring with him you see two bodies lye by the wall and they look both alike but believe it they are not both alike in the Promise if one be a Believer and the other an Unbeliever one is gone to this Mansion place the other not Instr 4. The presence of Jesus is the place of blessedness So saith Christ here I will take you to my self and you shall be where I am We shall see him we shall be inlightned by him we shall be satisfied in him and blessed with him 1. We shall see him 1 Ioh. 3.2 We shall see him as he is 2. We shall see him so as to be inligtned by him Psal 36.9 In thy Light we shall see light They are marvellous Lights that are in the place of Blessedness 3. We shall be satisfied in him Psal 17.15 As for me when I awake I shall be satisfied with thy likeness A satisfaction there will be at our Dissolution though more fully at the Resurrection 4. We shall be Blessed with him Blessed are the pure in heart Mat. 5.8 for they shall see God Then you that hear me look to your hearts for it is not whether you are rich or poor but Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God But what is it to see God I shall see my Redeemer saith Iob and that is true the eyes of our bodies may see the body of Christ but you shall see God you shall see him face to face you shall see him as he it I tell you the soul of man is never at rest till it sees God Some shall never see God therfore never be at rest There is no peace no rest to the wicked Isa 57.21 saith my God But now the soul it rests when it comes to see God He is such an Object as nothing without him will satisfie our Souls may be they may be pleased as children with a Rattle for a while here but not satisfied without him therefore know it these Souls of ours are more worth then we are apt to think of prize them how you will Unto the seeing of God to speak plainly there are three things that are required 1. There is required an Object 2. There is required the Purifying and Perfecting of the Vnderstanding 3. There is required the Light of Glory which may enable the Soul to see that Object Now 1. The Object is God we shall see him I shall see God Job 19.26 not onely see his Redeemer but I shall see God whatever might be the meaning of Iob yet we shall see him as he is 1 Job 3.2 We shall see him face to face 1 Cor. 13.12 It is true we cannot see infinitely our capacities cannot be made infinite yet we may see him that is Infinite we may see him apprehensively though not comprehensively yet we shall see him so as to fill the Soul though not see him so as to comprehend him but we shall apprehend so much of him as we are capable 2. There is the Perfecting and Purifying of the Vnderstanding that must be purified from all Ignorance Sin and Darkness and Mistake 3. There is the Light which God doth communicate of Glory As we have here the Light of Grace so there is the Light of Glory which enables a Soul to see him according to the Vision of Glory But what do we see in the seeing of God We see his Being or Essence as the Object is united to the Faculty relatively not formally We shall see the Attributes of God they which are in Heaven you shall see what they are making mention of Rev. 4. Holiness Almightiness Eternity You know not what Omnipotency is now but then you shall know it more