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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87562	A sermon preached at Mary Aldermanbury, on the 5. day of November, 1651. Being a day set apart in remembrance of that great deliverance from the gunpowder treason. By William Jenkins, sometimes minister of Christ-Church London, and late prisoner in the Tower. Being the first sermon he preached since his releasement. Published by speciall authority.	Jenkyn, William, 1613-1685.	1651 (1651)	Wing J651; Thomason E791_2; ESTC R207325	10,674	8

A SERMON Preached at MARY ALDERMANBURY ON The 5. Day of NOVEMBER 1651. Being a Day set apart in remembrance of that Great Deliverance from the Gunpowder Treason By WILLIAM JENKINS sometimes Minister of Christ-Church London and late Prisoner in the Tower Being the first Sermon he Preached since his Releasement Phil. 2.21 For me to live is Christ and to dye is gain 1 Cor. 6.20 For yee are bought with a price therefore glorifie God in your body and in your spirit which are Gods S. Chris Homil. 5. in Ep. ad Rom. In having nothing I have all things because I have Christ having therefore all things in him I seek no other Reward for he is the Vniversal Reward Published by speciall Authority London Printed by R. Wood for G. Horton 1651. A Sermon preached by Mr. JENKINS at Mary Aldermanbury being the first Sermon he preached since his Releasement from the Tower of London DEUT. 32. VERS 10. Later part of the Verse He found him in a desart Land and in the waste howling Wilderness he led him about he instructed him he kept him as the apple of his eye MOses that man of God being about to leave the World bestows his Legacies on his friends that were about him and it is a blessed thing indeed when we come to die to have that liberty of Heart and Spirit that we may be benefactors to others and not to have Oyl onely for our own Lamps but to have some also for our friends The Song that Moses here made was for to ingage the people of God more strongly and firmly unto God for those men that are unprofitable persons they dye whilest they live but the children of God that live to God live when they dye nay they live after Death There are in this Text three things considerable First The great proness and readiness of the people of God to apostatize from him on all occasions as you may see at large in the six first verses of this Chapter Secondly By way of ingageing them to stedfastness to God he not onely tells them of the proness of their hearts to fall away from God but shews them also the goodness of God in keeping and preserving them from apostatizing from him in the next nine verses Deut. 32.7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15. Thirdly He also layes down the Denunciation of the Judgments of God against those that do apostatize from him in the following part of the Chapter I shall speak of the second thing and that is the goodness of God to his Israel which he sets out several wayes but more especially in the Text which is two wayes First His directing 〈…〉 Secondly His protecting Goodness to his people 1 His directing Goodness he hedgeth them about he keepeth them and instructeth them saith the spirit of God 't is most properly understood Gods hedging them about in all their journeys and occasions he is a Cloud by Day and a Pillar of Fire by night to guide them he is their God and Guide 2 God instructed them and that two wayes First he taught them to see the wickedness of their own hearts by the goodness of his wayes he watred them and gave them water out of the Rook and gave them bread from Heaven Secondly He instructed them in the Laws of God in the Wilderness as it is said There was none like Jacob who had all the Statutes of God Thirdly The Spirit of God doth not set out his goodness to his people by directing them onely but by protecting them also as in the later part of the Text which I shall principally insist on at this time First for explication out of which I shall draw some proper inferences for your own benefit 1 He kept them as the apple of his eye Here you may see the great love and goodness of God in preserving his people as you may see in that devouring Wilderness which the Israelites were in where the red Sea was before them and Pharoah with an Army behind them and so many furious Beasts in the Wilderness round about them ready to devour them yet their God preserved them and kept them as tender as the Apple of his eye Now for application there are three things First Why the Church of God may be compared to the Apple of his eye Secondly Why doth the care of God extend it self to Israel as the care of the Apple of the eye 3 God will express his care to Israel as men do express care to the Apple of their eye First The Church of God may be compared to the Apple of the eye First Because of its meanness and small esteem it hath in the World so the Apple of the eye is the smallest part and of as little esteem as any part of the whole body What the Apple of the eye that 's a very mean part indeed and the Apple of the eye by reason of its smallness is called in the Hebrew the little man in the eye Secondly The Church of God is final in its own account it accounts of it self but lowly for there is no high self-advancing soule enters into the Kingdom of God 1. T is small and low in the account of wicked men nay of the godly men themselves t is small also in comparison of the few that go to Heaven and the number that run headlong to Hell there goes but here one and there one but one of a Family and two of a Tribe but there are many that run into the Gulf of everlasting perdition 2. T is mean in regard of its blackness for it is continually in mourning and it is black and black all over with natural corruption and black with original impurity and black with actual Rebellion against God and black with the adversity of its condition here as well as in regard of its disposition by reason of persecution this is the perpetual habit and condition of the Church of God as long as it is on this side Christ it is called Nigerrimus occulus sicculus as long as she is without her Saviour she is defiled with much corruption and will never lay off her mourning apparel till she arrives at the beauty of Eternity Thirdly the apple of the eye t is mean by reason of the hiding of it felf t is not alwayes seen so the Church of God is not alwayes visible by reason of its external condition or prosperity as the goodness of God to his enemies is no token of their being a true Church so neither are the corrections of God to his people any token of Gods anger against his Church And the people of God are resembled to the Apple of the eye 1. In regard of their not appearing in themselves to others their life is hid in God but when he who is their life shall appear then shall they also appear with him in glory they are separated from the world as the grane is separated from the chaffe Secondly there is a resemblance between