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A69196	Foure sermons viz. 1. The blessednesse of peace-makers. 2. The aduancement of Gods children. Preached before the King. 3. The sinne against the holy Ghost. Preached at Pauls Crosse. 4. The Christian petitioner. Preached at Oxford on the Act Sunday. By Iohn Denison Doctor of Diuinity, and one of his Maiesties Chaplaynes.	Denison, John, d. 1629.; Denison, John, d. 1629. Beati pacifici.; Denison, John, d. 1629. Sinne against the holy ghost plainly described.; Denison, John, d. 1629. Christian petitioner. Shewing how we must sue for reward and remission.	1620 (1620)	STC 6587; ESTC S120377	95,129	308

them And this afterwards he cals an intangling meaning so that one cannot be loosed and an ouercomming so that he cannot be deliuered the issue of which estate he expresseth saying They bring vpon themselues swift damnation And truely when Sathan preuaileth so farre that he vanquisheth them with his suggestions and fettereth them in the chaines of sin striking his temptations like the nayle of Iael into the temples of their k Iudge 4.21 heads so that they lie groueling like Sisera in his Tents being made euen his bondslaues and vassalles there is little hope that euer they shall recouer For it is impossible that they which haue beene so qualified with the grace of Gods spirit if they fall away should be renewed by l Heb. 6.6 repentance The children of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they doe fall but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as here it is Prolapsi m Ansel in Heb. 6. Id est totalit Lapsi Aquin id est prorsus lapsi as Anselm interprets that is vtterly fall away they cannot for the Lord staies them vp with his hand Psal 37.24 As when Peter through the terrours of the waues was ready to sinke Christ tooke him by the hand and saued him So when we are oppressed with the waues of temptations and are ready to sinke in the Gulfe of despaire the Lord reacheth forth the hand of compassion and preserueth vs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in many things we stumble all as Saint Iames n Iam 3.2 saith Yea the iust man falleth seauen times that is very oft as Salomon o Prou. 24.16 witnesseth But here is the comfort that hee riseth againe though his foote slip through his frailty or hee be cast downe through the stumbling blocks of temptations yet he findes the center of Gods mercie to rest vpon and takes new footing by vnfayned repentance Non sic impij non sic as for the vngodly it is neyther so nor so with them for their fall is totall it is finall Dauid fell dangerously in the matter of Vriah 2 Sam. 11. but Saul fell away fearefully when hee consulted with a Witch 1 Sam. 28. Aaron fell grieuously when hee suffered the Israelites to make earings and dance about the Calfe Exod. 32. But Balaam fell away wilfully when hee taught Balaac to intrap the children of Israel Numb 31. Peter fell dangerously when he denied Christ Iesus Mat. 26. But Iudas fell away desperately when hee hanged himselfe Mat. 27. Thus the godly although they fall into grosse sinnes yet doe not vtterly fall away According to that in the first of Iohn and the third Whosoeuer is borne of God sinneth not that is he sinneth not totally and finally Christs speech to Peter Luk. 22. was very comfortable Luke 22.32 I haue prayed for thee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that thy faith faile not that it be not wholy Eclipsed And that intercession of Christ is effectuall for all Gods children who albeit they may sometimes labour in obscuritie like the Sunne yet can they neuer be wholly Eclipsed like the Moone Though diuers bones be broken or out of ioynt yet the skilfull Surgeon will set them together againe but if all be asunder how can they be vnited Though the body be subiect to a mightie confusion of bad humours and distemper of blood yet if the vitall spirits be not consumed nor the vigour of nature vtterly exhausted the skilfull Physitian hath hope to recouer his patient But if the spirits be spent and there be no force of nature to assist the medicine but rather to resist the same there is no way but one for what can be expected but death And so is it in the sicknesse of the soule it may be recouered vpon many particular diseases of sinne but if it once be subiect to a totall Apostasie it can neuer be cured there is no way but death with such a sicke sinner and therefore Saint Iohn o 1 Iohn 5.16 doth very fitly call it a sinne vnto death If the soule of man be left like the tree that Nebuchadnezzar saw in a p Dan. 4.26 dreame the stumpe and rootes whereof was left in the earth though many branches of grace be lopped off by Sathan yet behold it may flourish againe but if it be like the tree that Saint Iude q Iude ver 12. speakes of Without fruite twise dead plucked vp by the rootes then the axe of Gods iudgements lies neere to it r Luk. 14.34.35 If the salt haue vtterly lost his sauour it is good for nothing but to be cast out so if a Christian haue lost all the sappe and sauour of grace and become vtterly without relish in the practise and profession of godlinesse hee is good for nothing but must looke to be cast forth into vtter darkenesse and into that violent fire that shall deuoure the aduersasarie Behold now beloued you see what is the sinne against the holy Ghost euen a witting a willing a malicious a totall Apostasie And this monstrous sinne is like the mighty windes which beating on the foure corners of the house wherein Iobs children were did cast it on their heads ſ Iob. 1.19 for when sin once breathes and blowes from these foure Climates it drawes downe the iudgements of God vpon the sinners heads to their euerlasting ruin t Leuit. 11.20 And as the Fowles that went on all foure being vncleane were abhomination to men so hee that goes groueling on these foure feete of Apostasie is abhominable in the sight of God and shall be subiect to the filthie dungeon with the vncleane spirits But to the end that the nature and danger of this sinne may the better appeare let vs consider why it is called the sinne against the holy Ghost Where first we must obserue that it is so called not because it is committed against the person but against the attributes and especiall operation of the holy Ghost The old and vulgar distinction of the Schoolemen doth illustrate this very well The Father is called Power against him therefore men are said to sinne in weakenesse and infirmitie The Sonne is called Wisedome against him they offend of ignorance and simplicitie The holy Ghost is called Grace against him therefore they sinne who transgresse wilfully and maliciously It being then the proper and especiall worke of the holy Spirit to inlighten the vnderstanding to mollifie the heart by repentance and to sanctifie it by grace hee that shall thus oppose himselfe against the worke of the same spirit must needes become gracelesse and impenitent that blessed and gracious spirit being taken away For as the yron which was made soft by being in the fire when it is taken forth becommeth harder then euer it was So the heart of man which with the fire of Gods spirit was in some sort mollified and made to melt when the same spirit is vtterly withdrawne becomes extreamely obdurate and incorrigible v Dan.

the eye in the Head and the heart in the Body the noblest and worthiest of all the children of God And this their worth shall bee published to the world It shall be published by the sonnes of Peace by the sons of perdition by the Son of God himselfe Thus as the Laurell was to the Roman Emperors both Munimentum Ornamentum a Defence against danger and an Ornament of honour So shall this Oliua Pacis be to the children of God Quanta est huius pacis retributio saith S. Austin August de ●emp Ser. 169. haereditatem possidere cum Christo substantiam patris habere cum filio caelesti regno participare cum Domino And what can your hearts desire more then this To be the children of God and the best affected of his children heyres of Grace and Glory co-heyres annexed with Iesus Christ partakers of that vnspeakeable happinesse which shall be honourably published on earth enioyed eternally in the heauens Therefore to conclude let mee say to you with Chrysostom Chrys in Psal 34. Quaerite Pacem vt inueniatis premiū Seek Peace follow after it that you may haue the reward of Peace-makers Psal 34. Chrys ibid. Pulsate ianuam Pacis knock at the gate of Peace till it be opened to you So shall the same be to you a doore and passage into Heauen which mercy the God of Peace and Mercy grant vs for his Sonne our Sauiour Christs sake to whom with the holy-holy-Ghost three persons and one immortall God be ascribed all Honour and Glory Might Maiesty and Dominion now and for euer more Amen FINIS THE SINNE AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST PLAINELY described By The Authoritie of Scriptures The Testimonie of Fathers The consent of Schoolemen In a Sermon Preached at PAVLS Crosse by IOHN DENISON Doctor of Diuinity and one of his Maiesties Chapleynes LONDON Printed by T. S. for Iohn Budge and are to be sold at the signe of the greene-Dragon in Paules Church-yard 1620. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD IOHN KING Lord Bishop of LONDON Right Reuerend and Honourable THESE two Sermons being thought a second time worthie of the Presse I make bold to present to your Lordship They were both Preached in your charges the one in that eminent place where your Lordship hath Episcopall iurisdiction At Pauls crosse the other in that famous Vniuersitie At Oxford where then you were a worthy Gouernour The one hath passed hitherto vnder your patronage and the other being an Orphan desires it It obtained good acceptance with that Noble Lord The Lord Elsmere Lord Chancellor of England who loued your Lordship dearely and to whom my selfe was exceedingly bound In regard whereof I hope it shall finde the more fauourable entertainment at your Lordships hands The God of heauen who hath honoured you with many gracious endowments and made you an excellent ornament of our Church continue his fauours and enlarge his blessings to you for the Churches good and your owne eternall comfort Your Lordships humbly deuoted IOHN DENISON To the Reader IT fareth with me Christian Reader as with those Physitians who hauing employed their study for the health of their Patients doe afterwards divulge their experiments for the good of others For hauing at the request of certaine friends prepared these ingrediences and found them comfortable to their tender soules I haue beene moued to publish the same both for the further comfort of them and benefit of others And the rather haue I beene hereunto induced 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hippoc Aphor. because to vse the Physitians words here is a dangerous experiment and difficult iudgement the disease being the most dangerous and deadly of all diseases incident to any mortall creature and the physicke for cure description or preuention very rare to be had in our vulgar tongue None to my knowledge hauing of purpose handled it though I haue knowne some distressed soules haue greatly needed it and many very Christianly affected haue much desired it And so commending these my Meditations to thy courteous acceptance and my selfe to thy Christian prayers I commend thee to the grace of God in Christ Iesus Thine in the Lord I. D. A SERMON VVherein the Sinne against the Holy-GHOST is plainely described HEB. 10.26.27 For if we sinne willingly after we haue receaued the knowledge of the truth there remaines no more sacrifice for sinnes but a fearefull looking for of iudgement and violent fire which shall deuoure the aduersaries IT is the part of euery Christian at his enterance into the profession of Christianitie Right Honorable right Worshipfull and welbeloued in Christ Iesus to consider our Sauiours Caueat to the Disciples He that indureth to the end shall be a Mat. 10.22 saued To what purpose is it that the Sea-faring man sailes prosperously ariues safely and obtaines a rich prize if he sinke or suffer shipwracke in his returne This life is a sea-faring life to what purpose is it that a Christian be farely imbarked for heauen if afterward he suffer shipwracke of his holy Faith What auaileth it the Warriour to march hotly with Iehu fight manfully with Ionathan if hee turne his backe with Ephraim before the end of the battaile This life is a warfare what can it auaile vs to incounter Sathan if we suffer him to foile and conquer vs For he onely that fights the good fight finisheth his course and keepes the faith can expect the crowne of b 2 Tim. 4.7 righteousnesse This is the thing whereof Saint Paul doth in this place admonish the Hebrewes namely that they forsake not the fellowship they haue among c Vers 25. themselues Wherein that he may the better preuaile he inferreth these words of my Text as a pithy reason and powerfull ingredience to make the medicine of his admonition to worke the more effectually If the Souldier shall flie forth of the field reuolt from his Captaine forsake his colours runne from his company and turne to the enemie he disgraceth his militarie profession disableth himselfe for the trophies of honour and meriteth condigne punishment Behold we are the Lords Souldiers the Church is our field Christ Iesus our Captaine the word and Sacraments our colours the communion of Saints our company he that shall flie forth of this field reuolt from this Captaine forsake these colours runne from this company and be found fighting vnder Sathans conduct dishonoureth his Christian profession depriueth himselfe of the crowne of glory and incurreth the danger of Gods heauy iudgement For if we sinne willingly after we haue receiued the knowledge of the truth That is if we haue giuen our names to Christ serued in his campe taken pay in his warres and yet play the carnall Apostataes with d 2 Tim. 4 9. Demas the hereticall with e 2 Tim. 2.17 Hymeneus and Philetus the scornefull with f Socrat. Theodoret Iulian the Emperour the spightfull with g 2 Tim. 4.14 Alexander the Copper-smith there

into which they are infranchised There is that blessed society innumerable Angels Heb. 12.22 the spirits of iust and holy men and Iesus Christ the mediatour of the new couenant to whom they are ioyned There are those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Pet. 5.4 those thrones and crownes of glory that shall neuer fade Yea there the sonnes of God shall shine like the Sunne in the kingdome of their father In a word Mat. 13.43 from this Adoption it is that the children of God haue an interest in all the comforts and all the creatures that heauen and earth doe yeelde according to Saint Pauls epiphoneme whether it be Paul or Apollos or Cephus or the world or life or death 1 Cor. 3.23 or things present or things to come they are all yours because you are Christs and Christ is Gods Behold here the admirable and comfortable aduancement of Gods children And therein behold the blessed condition of the Peace-maker who is so estranged from the world that he doth not in some degree desire aduancement and who is so voide of iudgement that hee doth not preferre this honour before the greatest aduancement in the world Aug. in Psa 84. Habetis patrem habetis patriam habetis patrimonium saith Saint Austin If you be the sonnes of peace you are the children of God you haue a louing father a rich inheritance a goodly patrimonie When the Apostle Peter speakes of this he breakes forth into this vehement acclamation Blessed be God 1 Pet. 1.3 euen the father of our Lord Iesus Christ who hath begotten vs againe to an inheritance incorruptible and vndefiled that fadeth not away but is reserued for vs in the heauens Giue me leaue now to make some Application of what I haue deliuered and so I will finish this maine point And first I hope that this discourse hath not beene heard of you without comfort We hold it a great cause of ioy to be the children of Nobles and to be admitted into the fauour of Princes and surely they are great temporall blessings that men may lawfully reioyce in But let me say vnto you in our Sauiours words Reioyce not in this Luke 10.20 but rather reioyce because your names are written in heauen let it be your ioy that you are the children of God and in fauour with the King of Kings as the Apostle saith Reioyce in the Lord Phil. 4.4 and againe I say reioyce Againe are wee the children of God farre be it from vs to vnder-value the glorious inheritance of the Saints of God in life Farre be it from vs to dis-esteeme it like that carnall Cardinall Cardinall of Bourbon who said he would not giue his part in Paris for his part in Paradise Let vs not be like profane Esau who for the satisfying of his appetite lost his birth-right Heb. 12.16 But rather let vs say resolutely with Naboth 1 Reg. 21.3 God forbid that I should make away the inheritance of my fathers So God forbid that for all the vaine and transitory profits and pleasures vpon earth we should depriue our selues of those riuers of pleasures which the Saints of God doe enioy in heauen Bernard saith truely of the best things of this present life possessa onerant amata inquinant amissa cruciant The possession of them burdens vs the loue of them defiles vs and the losse of them vexes vs And the time will come when either the day of death or the day of iudgement shall swallow them all vp as the Ocean doth the riuers For the glory of this world passeth away like a shadow 1 Cor. 7.31 Againe are wee the children of God then let vs indeauour that our carriage and comportment may answere this dignity It becomes not the children of Nobles to be conuersant in base actions And how vnfit is it for the children of God to become like the Indian drudges to be taken vp with the corruptions of this euill world and to haue their affections in caeno when they should be in caelo Our Sauiour hath taught vs better in the fift of Matthew Let your light so shine before men Mat. 5.16 that they may see your good workes and glorifie your father which is in heauen To conclude Let vs as the Apostle Peter exhorts 2 Peter 1.10 Rom. 8.16 study to make our election sure by good workes Let vs get the euidence of our adoption sealed vp to our soules and consciences by the spirit of God Then let the earth totter and her pillars tremble vnder her let the sea roare euen to astonishment let the heauens burne to dissolution and the elements with vehement heate be consumed this our adoption shall be our comfort on earth and our crowne in heauen for euer more The third part The appropriation of this aduancement BVt what is this Adoption tyed onely to the ornament of Peace Surely no Gal 3.26 For Saint Paul saith You are all the sonnes of God by faith in Christ Iesus And Saint Austin in largeth the meanes Per gratiā per fidem per sacramentum per sanguinem Christi De verb. Dom. ser 63. saying We are the sonnes of God by grace by faith by the Sacrament by the blood of Christ Euery faithfull Christian is made one with Christ whereby he becomes the childe of God He hath the image of God stamped vpon him And as our natural birth makes vs the children of our earthly parents so our supernaturall and new birth makes vs the children of our heauenly father May not I then say of the Peace-maker as Saint Paul of the Iewes What is then the preferment of the Iew So Rom. 3.1 what is the aduantage and aduancement of the Peace-maker Yes and answer with him in the same place much euery way Though Iesse had eight sonnes yet was Dauid onely the Lords darling Though Christ had twelue Disciples yet was Iohn the Disciple whom Iesus loued Though all Iacobs children were deare vnto him yet was Bemamin the son of his right hand So may I say that howsoeuer all the faithfull are the children of God and consequently blessed yet the Peace-makers haue that honour in a more especial kinde because they doe in a more liuely manner resemble almighty God in that which is most excellent For as amongst the diuine attributes some of them are quoad nos more excellent then others as namely those of mercy and peace which are the sanctuarie to a distressed sinner so all those who doe in a more especiall manner come neerest to God in the same are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by a kinde of eminency called the children of God For as Bernard saith Deus Deus pacis Bern. ergo pacifici filij Dei iure optimo vocantur God is the God of peace and therefore those who are Peace-makers are the children of God by especiall right Though the body of man consist of diuers humours yet the denomination of the