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A07450	The Christian mans assuring house. And a sinners conuersion Two sermons; the former, preached, before the Prince his Highnesse at St. Iames: the other to his Maiesties houshold at White-hall, on Sunday the 6. of February by George Meriton Doctor of Diuinitie, and Deane of Peterborough.	Meriton, George, d. 1624.	1614 (1614)	STC 17837; ESTC S112663	30,464	58

complexa est saith the Orator hath such strong motiues to affect vs as Vlisses is reported in Homer to preferre the smoake of his country before the immortalitie of the gods Yf then our Apostle had said in plain termes Countrymen I exhort you euen by the name of Iewry our promised land where you haue once pleasantly liued and wherin our father Abraham and his posteritie lie buried by all the sweetnesse that our Country hath afforded you I exhort you to make your calling and election sure the strength of his motiue were already much increased Kindred is yet a further and faster bonde and so reputed both by the law of God and man the very name whereof possesseth many with so gratefull delight as that they are ready to claime it of those who are many degrees remoued Naturall Brotherhood goeth beyond the rest in so much as nothing is deemed more odious then that those who are conioyned in bloud should be disioyned in affection But if the names of Affinitie and consanguinitie haue abilitie and force to plead most of all Christianitie which bindeth men together in the straightest coniunction hauing one God for our Father one Church for our Mother one Christ for our elder Brother being all begotten by the same immortall seed washed by the lauar of one new birth conglutinate by the sinnowes of the same faith nourished by the milke of the same word hauing all the same hope of immortalitie in the world to come The name of this Brotherhood is saith S. Basil like a precious oyntment which sweetneth by a pleasing perfume the whole Church of God and by so much is it the more forcible by how much Grace is a stronger bonde then Nature That of Nature representeth the similitude of bodies but this of Grace the agreement of mindes And hence it commeth that there is no passionate louer will endure more for his best Beloued than one true Christian brother will aduenture for another A Louer as they say is tried by these three things First hee will vndergoe any labour for his loues good so did Hercules for the loue of Omphale Secondly he will susteine hard measure offred him for her cause so did Iacob for the loue of Rachel Thirdly hee will abide whatsoeuer shee please to impose vpon him so did Sampson for the loue of Dalilah And such are the affections of Christians one to another They are content to suffer pro fratribus à fratribus propter fratres They will endure for their good Beare for their sakes put vp at their hands And why will they doe this but because they are Brethren If then Nature be able to mooue much more grace If our Country much more our Religion If affinitie much more the fellowship of Gods spirit If the name of Brother in euery sense bee forceable then out of doubt in a Christian signification it is exceeding strong Heere is then the wisdome of our Apostle S. Peter who to perswade a matter of maine importance is not content to expresse his affection in a vulgar terme he calleth vpon the Iewes not by the name of Men of Kinsmen of Countrymen c. but as if such words had been but tokens of an estraunged minde he tells them of their adoption which they had in Christ calls to their mindes that inviolable knot of loue wherewith all of them as members by the spirit of Loue were ioyned vnto Christ their head And the rather to preuaile he saluteth them by the name of Brethren in the sweetest that is in the Christian sense Wherefore my Brethren This is likewise the practise of S. Paul I beseech you Brethren Rom. 12.1 And in his Epistle to Philemon Brother refresh my bowels 2. vers Phile. Now these Apostles beloued me thinks prescribes a method vnto Ministers of a louing behauiour towards the flocke of Christ It is fit I confes sometimes to vse sharpe reprehension to fling firebrands to denounce iudgments where sinne is red and ranke Bonarges a sonne of Thunder is more requisite then Barnabas the son of consolation yet suspendite verbera producite vbera saith S. Bernard hearers may not be commonly gauled or goared It is a point of high skill to catch a soule by craft 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith S. Paul Brethren if a man be ouertaken by any sinne restore him or as the word importeth put him into ioint Bones out of ioint must not be boisterouslie touched That Surgion deserueth praise who lightly presseth the wound and handleth it cleuerlie with the tops of his fingers not he that rudely thrusteth in his fist Manna is pleasant vnto many which cannot patiently abide the rod of Aaron Mildnesse hath bent where seuerity could not breake The horseleach by gentle sucking draweth more bloud then the Gnat doth by her fierce biting He that will cleanse a glasse must not rub it too hard least in laboring to cleanse it he breaketh it in pieces Such as seek to perswade by sharpnesse Quos volunt correctiores faciunt plerumque deteriores saith S. Austin they cleanse not but breake the glasse they pinche but they draw no bloud there actions without skill comes oftimes to ends without profit Away then with rough and boisterous cariage though thou wert as good and as great as S. Peter yet it best beseemeth thee to support with mildnesse to strengthen with gentlenesse to instruct with meeknesse to imitate S. Peter who carrieth Balme in his mouth sauoureth of the sweetest ointment and stricking out the teeth of his words least in biting the Iewes hee might chance to grieue them to expresse his loue and winne them to his purpose he calls them Brethren wherefore brethren thus much of the motiue now to the duty Giue diligence rather to make your Calling and Election sure Euerie dutie must be known and done First we must know it then doe it God willeth his people first to teach their children the law there is to know it and then to see them keep it there is to doe it These two words in my Text calling and Election stand for instruction to informe the other serue for action to reforme Deut. 4. Calling hath precedency not because it is first in Gods counsaile but for that it hath priority in mans conceiuing The former being indeed the execution of the latter And th●… order of standing in the Text prescribes vnto vs a rule of searching first to look to our calling then to our Election Calling to begin as the Text doth guide me is a worke of God in Christ by the Spirit whereby we are translated from darknesse to light from nature to grace from the kingdome of Sathan to the Church of God The absolute Lord of all creatures is God alone and therefore hath he power to call into his owne kingdome both when and whom he will It is God alone that calleth the things that are not as though they were as S. Paul speaketh Rom. 4.17 And albeit those are said

THE CHRISTIAN MANS ASSVRING HOUSE AND A SINNERS Conuersion TWO SERMONS The former preached before the Prince his Highnesse at St. Iames The other to his Maiesties Houshold at Whitehall on Sunday the 6. of February By GEORGE MERITON Doctor of Diuinitie and Deane of Peterborough LONDON Printed by Edward Griffin for Ralfe Mab and are to be sold in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Greyhound 1614. TO THE PRINCE HIS MOST excellent Highnesse Most noble Prince IT pleased your Highnesse to heare this Sermon with patience and afterwards to command it at my hands which I offer vnto you as Dauids seruants did their gifts for the Temple 1. Chron. 19.9 with a good heart willingly It is an incomparable comfort to all true professors in the number of whom J desire to be accounted that your Grace at these yeares is so religiously disposed The God of mercy fill you more and more with his blessings that it may bee said of Prince CHARLES as was spoken of our greatest Master Christ And the child increased in wisdome and stature and in fauour with God and man Luk. 2.52 By him that serueth your Highnesse with his earnest praier to God for your happinesse George Meriton THE TEXT 2. PETER 1.10 Wherefore Brethren the rather giue diligence to make your Calling and Election sure THE office of a Minister saith Tertullian consisteth in the performance of three speciall duties tingere offerre docere And answerable vnto these are there as many places appointed in the Church for his attendance the Fonte the Altar the Pulpit The Font for dipping or baptizing the Altar for offering the Pulpit for teaching In Christs commission Goe teach all Nations baptizing them c. Math. 28.19 Teaching hath the first place And as it is chiefest in commission so among all points of Diuinitie that can be taught there is no One of greater moment than to bee acquainted with the counsell of God concerning our saluation What can be more comfortable than Pauls Certus sum Rom. 8.38 I am well assured what sweeter newes than to heare that it is our Fathers pleasure to giue vs a kingdome what more acceptable than to know that wee are the chosen of God Chosen infallibly to be saued Translated from death to life Neuer to bee snatched out of the hands of Christ This high point of Religion so comfortable so sweet so acceptable I am now about to deliuer My text craueth your diligence not only in the reading but much more your best indeuour in labouring for the same Giue rather diligence Brethren to make your calling and election sure It is S. Peters aduise to the dispersed Iewes who were now become Christians and had obteined like pretious faith with others 2. Pet. 1.1 The words haue dependance wherefore and the Context is this In the verses before he exhorteth them to the practise of excellent vertues which would adorne their profession as Knowledge Temperance Patience Godlinesse Brotherly kindnesse Charitie and such like vers 5.6.7 if these saith he abound in you you shall neither be idle nor vnfruitfull nor blind as men which cannot see or at least not remember that they are purged from their sinnes 2. Pet. 8.9 To be idle nihil agentes doing nothing is the root of euill To be vnfruitfull aliud agentes doing things impertinent is the note of folly To be blind and in darknesse male agentes committing wickednesse is the mother of mischiefe He that standeth let him take heed that he doth not fall Brethren you haue not thus learned Christ such cariage befits not Conuerts wherefore the rather giue diligence to make your calling and election sure H c nobis apponuntur nobis proponuntur saith S. Bernard these things are written for our learning St. Peters good counsell hath been reiected by the Iewes and they are fallen the destruction of them should be instruction to vs. Wherefore suppose I pray you that our Apostle were now turning himselfe vnto the Gentiles and were thus speaking to you Brethren it is enough that hitherto you haue mis-spent the time some in idlenesse shorting in summer like sonnes of confusion Prou. 10. some in vanities which is the trauell of fooles Eccles 10. some in sinne which is the seruice of the Deuill It is enough that you haue wearied your bodies troubled your wits broken your sleepes in the pursuit of the world some setting nets for commodities as the Spider doth his web to catch a Flye some striuing for honours still building vpwards as if Nimrods Tower were now too low some wallowing in pleasures as if they would lye deeper and longer with the swine in the mire My brethren what profit can be in those things whereof ye are or may be or shall be ashamed The Iewes are fallen wherefore doe you Gentiles first seeke the kingdome of God Giue diligence rather to make your calling and election sure The parts of the Text are two 1. A motiue 2. A dutie The Motiue in this word Brethren The Dutie in the rest And first of the Motiue Brethren There are Brethren by 1 Humanitie 2 Country 3 Affinitie 4 Consanguinitie 5 Christianitie 1 For the first God will require the life of a man at the hands of his brother Gen. 9.5 2 For the second Paul desireth to be separate from Christ for the Israelites his brethren Rom. 9.3 3 For the third Abraham said to Lot his nephew Let there be no strife between me and thee for we are brethren Gen. 13.8 4 For the fourth Children of the whole or halfe parents as Iacob and Esau Andrew and Peter the 12. Patriarkes were Brethren 5 For the fift One is your master Christ and all ye are Brethren Math. 23.8 Brother is a name of much loue and it mooueth howsoeuer it be taken One Man is not borne a wolfe vnto another but so made by custome though we are dispersed vpon the face of the earth yet are we framed out of the same moulde The slime of the earth is our common Mother wee are formed with the same stampe A reasonable soule is our common character we haue one Authour from whence wee all come God who is our common Father Non taliter fecit omni Creatura It is not so with the foules of the aire the beasts of the field the fishes of the sea Only one Man was created from whom all should proceed that a strength of Brotherhood might be amongst all And if S. Peter had been pleased to haue pressed the word Brethren in this large sense and had aduised the Iewes euen by their common humanitie to make their calling and election sure his motiue were not to be despised Our Country wherein we haue our being and breathing which susteineth feedeth ministreth content vnto vs wherein we worship one God obey one King where our stocke and linage doth remaine and where are many monuments of our ancient predecessors omnes in se charitates