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A12071	Reasons most humbly offered to the honourable House of Commons in Parliament, by Sr Robert Sharpeigh, Knight, and Alexander Haitley, Esquire patentees for survey of sea-coales at Newcastle, &c. by nomination of the late Duke of Richmond and Lennox, proving the grant and patent thereof to be necessary and profitable to the common-wealth, the fee to be but competent and proportionable to the charge, and no imposition but a meere wages, or quid pro quo, voluntarily, offered to be payd for the service.	Sharpeigh, Robert, Sir.; Haitley, Alexander.	1624 (1624)	STC 22379.5; ESTC S2878	274,966	3

conceived of the prophanenesse and poyson that is in mans nature against Divine Truths as I shall shew afterwards how it slights the meanes of its owne salvation and stands wondering at baubles and trifles and so men waste away their precious time in admiration of that which is nothing but vanitie of vanities whereas we should take up our time in studying these transcendent things that goe beyond the capacitie of the very Angels yet these things we dally and trifle withall Againe from hence that Christs was seene and attended on and admired by Angels there is a great deale of comfort issueth to us it is the ground of all the attendance and comfort that we have from the Angels For this is a Rule in Divinitie that there is the same reason of the Head and of the members both Head and members are one Therefore what comfort and attendance Christ had who is the Head the Church which is his Body hath the same onely with some difference they attended upon him as the Head they attend upon us as the members they attended upon him immediatly for himselfe they attend upon us for his sake For whatsoever we have of God we have it at the second hand we receive Grace for Grace of Christ we receive attendance of Angels for the attendance they yeelded to Christ first they attend upon us by his direction and commission and charge from him so we have a derivative comfort from the attendance of Angels upon Christ but surely whatsoever they did to him they doe to us because there is the same respect to Head and members Therefore the Devill did not mistake he was right in that when he alledged out of the Psalme He shall give his Angels charge over thee that thou dash not thy foot against a stone He was right in that applying it to Christ For how-ever it be true to Christians yet it is true to Christ too it is true to the members as well as the Head and to the Head as to the members for He that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all one as the Apostle sayth one Christ. Now the care of Angels concerning Christ and his Church it was shadowed out in Exod. 25. and 26. There the Mercie-Seate which covered the Arke wherein the Law was upon the Mercie-Seat there were two Cherubins counter viewing one another and both pryed to the Mercie-Seat they shadowed out the Angels that looke on the Mercie-Seat Christ for he is the Mercie-Seat that covers the Law and the Curse in whom God was mercifull to us There they looke upon that with a kind of wonderment and attendance which S. Peter alludes unto in that place I●to which Mysteries the very Angels prie And so in the Veile of the Tabernacle the Veile had round about it Pictures of Cherubins What did that shaddow out unto us The multitude of Cherubins and Seraphins and Angels that attend upon Christ and his Church So he was seene and attended on by Angels and it belongs to all that are his as you have it Heb. 1. They are ministring spirits for the good of the heires of salvation They that serve the King serve the Queene too Christ is the King of his Church and the Church is the greatest Queene in the World they attend upon her nay Christ hath made us with himselfe Kings Now what a King is that that hath a Guard of Angels As they guarded and attended upon Christ so they guard and attend all that are his as you have it excellently in Dan. 7.10 There are thousand thousands of Angels about the Throne continually All this is for our comfort because we are one Mysticall body with him You have in Iacobs Ladder a notable representation of this Iacobs Ladder it reached from Earth to Heaven and that pointed to Christ himselfe who is Emanuel God and man who brought God and man together He was a Mediator betweene both and a friend to both He was that Ladder that touched Heaven and Earth and joyned both together Now it is said the Angels ascended and descended upon that Ladder so the Angels descending upon us is because they ascend and descend upon Iacobs Ladder first that is upon Christ. All things are yours sayth the Apostle What be those God is ours the Spirit is ours Heaven is ours the Earth is ours Afflictions Life Death Paul Apollo the Angels themselves all is ours Why Ye are Christs that is the ground So it is a spring of comfort to consider that Christ was seene and admired and attended by Angels they are ours because we are Christs Let us consider what a comfort it is to have the attendance of these blessed Spirits for Christs sake And hence we have the ground of the perpetuitie of it that they will for ever be attendants to us because their love and respect to us is founded upon their love and respect to Christ. When favour to another is grounded upon a sound foundation when the favour that a King or a great person beares to one is founded in the love of his owne sonne he loves the other because he loves his sonne whom the other loves so it is perpetuall and sound because he will ever love his sonne The Angels will for ever love and honour and attend us why for what ground have they respect to us at all It is in Christ whose members and Spouse we are So long as the Church hath any relation to Christ so long the Angels shall respect the Church but the Church hath relation to Christ for ever therefore the respect that the blessed Angels have to Christ and to the Church it is for ever and for ever Well let us thinke of this so as to make use of it that now in Christ we have the attendance of Angels We doe not see them as in former time before Christs Incarnation it is true because now since Christ is come in the flesh the Government of Christ is spirituall and we are not supported with those glorious manifestations but they are about us in an invisible manner We have Elizeus Guard about us continually but we see them not There were more apparitions in the infancie of the Church because the dispensation of Christ to the Church was according to the weake state of the Church But now Christ is come in the flesh and received up in glory and there is more abundance of Spirit wee should be more spirituall and heavenly minded and not looke for outward apparitions of Angels but be content that we have a Guard of them about us as every Christian hath Despise not saith Christ these little ones th●y are about Christians and about little ones little in yeeres little in esteeme for their Angels c. It is a strange thing they are Gods Angels but they are theirs for their service Their Angels behold the face of your heavenly Father So that Christs Angels are our Angels they

of Gods glory 6 6 When it works a glorious joy The hinderances of Gods glory 1 1 Ignorance 2 2 Vnbeleefe 3 3 Too much light When wee thinke our sins greater then Gods mercy Doting on outward things How to come to glorifie God Meditations of Gods mercy in Christ. Ephes. 3. Question Answer The benefit of this meditation 2 2 Begge the spirit of revelation Gal 2. To glorifie God the end of our life 3 3 See the vanity of all things else Draw neere to God Application to the Sacrament Esay 6. Psal. 145. They that glorifie God also love men We cannot glorifie God till we know we are at peace with him Whence peace comes Peace what Ephes. 1.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Out of Christ a separation 1 1 Betweene man and God 2 2 Betweene man and Angels 3 3 Betweene man and man 4 4 Betweene man and other creatures 5 5 Betweene man and himselfe Christ our peace Ephes. 2. Esay 9.7 Peace founded on Christ. Question Answer Why peace is wrought by Christ. 1 1 In regard of God 2 2 In respect of us 3 3 In regard of Christ. Simile No entercourse with God without Christ. Meditate of this peace Question Answer Why is it said peace on earth How to know God and we are at peace 1 1 If God be reconciled to us we are reconciled to him 2 Cor. 5.19 Man naturally hates God 2 2 Gods friends and enemies are ours 3 3 Boldnesse of spirit Iob 22. Acquaintance with God 4 4 Hatred of knowne sins 5 5 High esteeme of the Gospell 2 Cor. 5. 6 6 Peaceablenes with others Isay 11. Danger of false peace Necessitie of application How to maintaine this peace Watchfulnes 2 2 Renewing our Covenant 3 3 Prayer to God Ph●l●p 4. 4 4 Good imployment Philip. 4.8 Motive to unregenerate men to get peace To stirre us up to search the grounds of this peace 1 1 The danger without it In resp●ct of God 2 2 Christ. Psal. 2. 3 3 The Holy-Ghost 4 4 Creatures Esay 1. 5 5 Devils 6 6 The Church●● 7 7 Damned spirits Exhortation to make our peace Happinesse of him that is at peace with God Afflictions sanctified to those that are at peace with God Difference of men in trouble Psal. 112. Confidence of Christian● in death Comfort after death Peace comes from grace Gods good pleasure to men To love mankind Gods good will the g●ound of all good Gods love independent Deut. 7.8 Covenant of grace Foundation of the covenant free Rom. 8. All good by Christ free To empty our selves Gods free love onely in Christ. Iohn 17. Why God● love to us is in Christ. Col. 1. Vse The misery of man out of Christ. To looke to God in Christ in what we do Gods love in Christ ground of comfort Rom 8. How to know Gods love to us The Holy Ghost testifies Gods love The Spirit alters mans disposition to delight in God Psal. 16. Hos. 2. Rom. 12. Psal. 51. Love of God quickeneth to dutie Direction to those that find not God love to them Greatnesse of sin hinders not Gods love To have a good conceit ●o God Danger of neglecting Gods offer Mistake in a●plying Gods mercy Study Christ daily Beg the Spirit of revelation Psal 63. Gods love fruitfull Deut. 33. Isay. 43. Simile Scope of the words Examples forcible Example more prevalent then precepts Doct. 2. Christ was rich Riches what Psal. 24. Christ God before he was man Arius Phil. 2.6 Christ a Mediator from the beginning Simile Quest. Answ. Our Mediator must be God 1 1 For the greatnesse of the ill wee were in 2 2 In regard of the good wee have by him Doct. 2. Christ became poore 1 1 He tooke our natu●e 2 2 Our nature fallen 3 3 Our condition 4 4 Our misery 5 5 Our sinnes How farre Christ tooke our sinnes Simile Simile Particulars of Christs poverty Iohn 4. Aggravation of Christs poverty Christs riches vailed in his poverty Simile Christ no begger Bellarmine Doct. 3. Christs Poverty our riches Not for himselfe Not for Angells Christs poverty to make us rich Quest. Answ. Quest. Answ. What riches we have by Christ. 1 1 Our debts discharged We are rich by imputation By infusion In prerogatives Adoption Liberty to the throne of grace Ephes. 3. All things turned to good Rom. 5.10 Riches of glory Ephes. 3.8 First fruits of glory Quest. Answ. We are inriched by Christs poverty 1 1 Because wee fell by pride 2 2 We must be restored by satisfaction Else we could not have the spirit No riches by Christ without union Colos. 1.27 Freedom from evill by Christ. Conveyance of all good Object Answ. Christians rich●s hidden Object Answ. Christians riches chiefly spirituall Christ provides for his Want of outward comforts supplied Simile Christians rich in promises Christians have a rich pawne Poverty a part of our riches Vse 1. A Christians state in contraries Greatnesse of Christs love Bernard How to bee thankefull to Christ. If we be rich by Christs poverty much more by his riches Rom. 5.10 Not to despise men for poverty Heb. 11.38 Christ came not to purchase outward riches Digression concerning the feast of Christs Nativit● 1 1 They are not our owne Luke 16. 2 2 They are not true riches 1 1 They make not a man better Simile 2 2 A man out-lives them Simile 3 3 They are not proportionable to the soule From what ground to esteeme our selves and others Our own fault if we want spirituall riches To examine what riches we have from Christ. Christians are rich and know it not Rev. 2. Why Christians are so poor in grace Quest. Answ. How to improve the riches by Christ. 1 1 Humility 2 2 See the excellency of grace 3 3 Know Christs riches for us 4 4 To make use of them for our selves To make good use of recreations Whence to esteeme of our priviledges All our riches from Christs grace Grace what it is Christ a joynt cause of our salvation Chrysost. How to think of the ●ersons in Trinity Revel 5.6 Christ the meritorious cause of grace Christs abasement voluntary All we have of Christ is by grace Foure descents of grace We are justified by grace how meant Grace twofold Simile Iohn 17. How to value blessings Christs grace fruitfull Simile How to know we are in Gods favour Not to despaire Christs grace is free Doct. 5. Grace may be knowne What knowledge this is It requires good diligence Cause of doubting Assurance of salvation no enemy to good workes Titus 2.11.12 Luke 7.47 The Gospell forceth strictnesse of life Doct. 6. The example of Christ should move us to good Christs example our p●tern Quest. How profit by Christs example Answ. 1 1 The consideration of Christs mercy Simile 2 Cor. 3 18. Why conversion wrought by the Gospell not by the Law 2 2 Converse with those that