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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46526	Compunction or pricking of heart with the time, meanes, nature, necessity, and order of it, and of conversion; with motives, directions, signes, and means of cure of the wounded in heart, with other consequent or concomitant duties, especially self-deniall, all of them gathered from the text, Acts 2.37. and fitted, preached, and applied to his hearers at Dantzick in Pruse-land, in ann. 1641. and partly 1642. Being the sum of 80. sermons. With a post-script concerning these times, and the sutableness of this text and argument to the same, and to the calling of the Jews. By R.J. doctor of divinity.	R. J.	1648 (1648)	Wing J27; ESTC R213600	381,196	433

occasionally And that it may further appear that Gods power goes along with the Word preached and heard wee will briefly shew this first In the persons who preach and hear secondly in the work of the Ministry it self and in the order thereof The power of which is further shewed 1 In the persons of Preachers who by the power of God are 1. Called 1. There is a power goes along in the very calling and sending of Ministers their calling and abilities are from Gods power When Christ called Peter and Andrew James and John from their fishing trade Matth. 4.18 19 20 21 22. was there not a secret power drawing them to leave both ship and father Zebedee and to follow him but especially in calling Matthew from that gainfull trade the receit of custome Matth. 9.9 who forth with arose and followed him so in calling of Paul to be an Apostle and after when the holy Ghost said Separate me Barnabas and Saul c. Acts 13.2 Men may not arise from their ordinary callings and thrust themselves into the ministery unlesse God more immediately and extraordinarily do call them as Christ did these named where to his authority he adds inward power to obey Men may not then thrust in themselves into the Ministery as of themselves that power and authority belongs to God and Christ to call them 2. Inabled with gifts 2. Men even the best are of themselves insufficient to these things and unable to discharge such a weighty duty what through bodily what especially through spirituall defects and inabilities but yet God enables such as he calleth and makes them able Ministers 2 Cor. 3.5 6. Vse c. who therefore are taught not to trust to their own gifts studies and endeavours men so doing fail most of all as might by instances be shewed 3. Made willing and encouraged 3. Men often are unwilling by reason of the greatnesse and danger of the task to undergo or undertake such a great difficult and hazardous work as we see in a like work how unwilling upon this ground of inability Moses was to obey Gods call but see Exod. 3.11 12. and 4.10 11 12. Jeremy was foretold of such things but strengthened and encouraged against them see Jer. 1.6 7 8 9 19. And when he was by discouragements ready to give over Gods spirit quickned and set him to his work again Jer. 20.2 From this power it is that godly Ministers do so constantly holdout and still preach for all their discouragements and that they dare oppose and reprove even great ones for their sins as John did Herod who if either they resist the word or hate and persecute their reprovers for their faithfullnesse they so doing do resist the power and spirit of God in them and the ordinance of God There is a wisedom and spirit by which these speak which the ungodly though learned otherwise are not able to resist Acts 6.10 In a word when Christ sent his Apostles to preach to the Gentiles saying go teach all nations and it is premised Mat. 28.18 19 All power is given unto me in Heaven and in Earth which was spoken for their encouragement who had a mighty work in hand the Conquest of nations to Christ and were to meet with the wisdom and power of the world to withstand them 20. This promise is extended to us even unto the end of the world 2 For hearers 2. Of hearers whose 1 Hearing or willingnesse to hear is a work of power first It is a work of power that men come to hear being called It is God that humbles them and gives them an heart to do his will in obeying even the commandment of godly Magistrates therein as 2 Chron. 30.11 12. That some being called by the bell or otherwise come to church to hear Gods word especially as Gods word and as in obedience to him with desire of profit as verse 8. when others having the same call refuse go to cards drinking walking abroad or to a Masse in a word refuse to come It is not from any power of mans will but from the spirit of God moving the heart of the one effectually and leaving the other to their own hardnesse who as Popish and profane Recusants now being by Moses the godly Magistrate called on refuse obstinately saying we will not come up which Numb 16.12 Vse by the way 1 shews The justness of Gods judgements on all such Recusants being given over to their hearts lusts and 2 teacheth all such to acknowledge his power and mercy to them whose hearts tell them they come to the hearing of his word in obedience and with desire to profit thereby 2 When men thus lend their presence 2. So their attending yet it is God onely who by his Spirit opens their hearts 1 to attend as he did Lydia's Acts 16.14 So that it is a signe when men do not attend to the word which they hear that corruption and Satan is strong 2Vnderstanding of the word 2 To understand the Scriptures which otherwise they could not though delivered to them by the mouth of Christ himself Those to whom he expounded in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself stood in need that he should also by his power open their understandings that they might understand the Scriptures Vse See Luke 24.27 with 45. So that men must not so much trust to their own piercing wits and understandings in their giving the sense of the Scripture or expounding the mysteries of Religion especially those deep points of Predestination and Election 2 This power is shewed in the effect of the Ministery 2. And so we come to see Gods power in and by the Ministery who by his Spirit goes on with his own work and makes it powerfull to conversion as 1 Cor. 3.5 6 7. 2 Cor. 3.3 whosoever be the Planter yet it is God who by his Spirit gives the blessing and increase Whatsoever be the pen yet it is God who by his Spirit writes with it It is Gods ordination yea and power by which hearing faith and obedience cometh Rom. 1.16 10.17 All which should teach us 1 to magnifie the ministry of the word even in the mouth of weake man if otherwise faithfull as Gods power to salvation And 2 to see and try our selves whether it be so powerfull in us or yet have such a powerfull and saving worke in us as it hath in many others SECT 3. The order of the work of Conversion and first of the Law 2. The order of Conversion in regard of the work it self The popish order disallowed ANd thus we come more particularly and neerer to the work it self and to shew in what order God by his word doth work conversion and beget faith in us Schoolmen and Papists make three degrees of penance or of repentence 1 Compunction 2 Confession 3 Satisfaction the first is of the Heart the second is of the Mouth the third

prophesie falsely witness the Arminian and Popish doctrine taught by many and the Priests bear rule for whose demerits Princes are left to themselves and are strengthened by their meanes and that the people also love to have it so what will we doe in the end thereof Jer. 5.30 31. What can be expected that good is It is said The anger of the Lord was first kindled against Israel and then he moved or suffered Satan to move King David against Israel to say to Joab though unwilling go number Israel and Judah and all to the end that a plague might come upon Israel 2 Sam. 24.1 Now our people have besides all their other provocations so generally complied with their Priests for so in a more Popish sence they will be called and with their Prophets and strengthned them by their readiness to entertain their opinions superstititions and new Ceremonies and are yet such enemies to Reformation yea and yet so generally senceless of our present sufferings in the true causes thereof that we have just cause to thinke that his Majesty whose Throne ever be guiltlesse is what by the demerit of their ill deeds what by their ill counsell and instigation moved to say go number England and Wales array as many as you can c. and all that the deserved wrath may at length fall upon themselves as the first and chief procurers of these evills and that withall the better affected among them may be further tried humbled approved and prepared for after mercies Yet good hope upon our humiliation and reformation Howsoever our good hope is that upon our more solemn yea and daily humiliations in compunction of heart for our own sins and the sins of the land and times God after some triall will graciously be pleased to crown the pious laborious and constant indeavours of this present Parliament with an happy end both for our selves with a peaceable and blessed conclusion and happy Reformation now to be begun and in due time further to be setled according to his word in our own Churches of great Brittain and Ireland other nations and as our hope is to be followed in his good time also by others in other Countries by degrees and so long till the great stumbling block and main hinderance of the Jewes conversion and calling again in and by the downfall of Rome be removed out of the way and especially the Jewes Now that the Iewes shall be called and again received as from the dead and graffed into their own Olive-tree their sins according to Gods election and love taken away and the vail of their ignorance removed we need not doubt whose calling and conversion we expect See Rom. 11 12.-15-23 24. to 29.2 Cor. 3.14 15 16. And for the occasions and grounds thereof we may more then probably conclude when they shall be pricked in heart upon like grounds that by Gods blessing they shall be the same for effect and in the general which they were by the same grace working effectually to these in this my Text where that old prophesie of Zachary only began to be fulfilled God having on that day of Pentecost in outward and visible signs and otherwise poured upon them the hearers as well as teachers the spirit of grace and supplications And saith the Lord Zach. 19.9 10 11. they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only son and shall be in bitternesse for him as one that is in bitterness for his first born Now when was it that these were so pricked in heart and mourned as were these Jewes here in my Text but when they were convicted first of Christs glory and that Jesus the son of Mary being now advanced to glory at the right hand of the Father was made and declared of God to be both Lord and Christ Secondly or withall of their own sin and unworthy carriage towards him whom they were truly charged to have crucified as appeares by the close of Peters Sermon in the words immediatly preceding my Text Acts 2.36 And when shall the body of the scattered Nation of the Jewes mourn and convert to God but when they also shall be convinced namely first of the glory and power of Jesus Christ and withall of their own wicked blasphemies and sins against him so loving a Saviour Vpon conviction and fight 1. Of the glory of Christ 1. Christ to their conviction will at length even here on earth though I will not say by a bodily appearance and residence amongst us shew himself King of his Church and deliver as once the Israelites from Pharaoh and the Ark from the Philistines and himself out of the power of death and the grave so it from the tyranny of Antichrist and from all yokes of superstitious ceremonies and of his power and victory over Antichrist and other enemies spirituall and bodily and tyrannicall government which hath so long and that in part even since the time of Reformation lien upon the necks of his people as also from all licentious doctrines and practises The Kings of the earth and of the world whom those three unclean spirits coming out of the mouth of the Dragon Beast and false Prophet shall gather to the battell of that great day of God Almighty into a place called Armageddon to make war against Christ Rev. 16. or as he is called the word of God King of Kings and Lord of Lords who sits on the white Horse and against his Army Rev. 19.11,12 -18 19. those Kings I say by their ill successe shall at length see and acknowledge as the power of Christ against whom they warred so their own madness in opposing him and his people and how they have been deluded and so not knowing what to do or how to be saved in their own Religion and way shall at length abandon the same embrace the truth and way of Christ and submit to his Scepter Then shall they hate the whore and see the abominations of poperie and so shall Euphrates be dried up that is as a good Author doth interpret the succours Mr. Cotton on the sixt viall supplies and revenues of Rome that the way of the Kings of the East whom the best Interpreters make the Jewes may be prepared Revel 16.12 13 c. for then also by the same successe of the battel in Armageddon shall the Jewes see the mighty power of Christ in rooting out all Idolatry and superstitions and prophanenesse of Professors which have so long kept and hindred them from comming to the knowledge and acknowledgement of their Messias 2. Of their own sin in crucifying and rejecting him 2. Then also upon conviction of their sin against their Messias and King now acknowledged by them there shall be great mourning but in a godly manner as at the mourning of Hadadrimmon upon the death of good King Josiah in the valley of Mageddon unto which this Armageddon may allude Which mourning shall be in compunction such as this in my Text was and with contrition of heart not only because Jesus now acknowledged their Messias and the King of glory was crucified by them but also for them and his blood shed even for them that spilt it Yet their sin in crucifying and rejecting him so long yea of cursing the name the Lord Jesus in their Liturgies praying that it might perish from under these heavens and from above this earth shall be their sorrow also as having so long brought them and their fathers under the curse of Cain Gen. 4.14 and made them no better then fugitives and vagabonds in the earth Thus when the enemies of the Church and that man of sin shall as well by the mouth ●f the sword as by the sword of the mouth be destroyed Rev. 19.21 these Jewes convinced by them both shall mourn and come to true repentance After which Christ shall reign in the purity and power of his Ordinances here on earth and in due time after make his appearance as a glorious King and judge of quick and dead and come to wipe all teares from the eyes of true mourners according to his gracious promise Joh. 14.3 I will come again and receive you unto my self that where I am there may yee be also Rev. 22.20 Surely I come quickly Amen Even so Come Lord Jesus Dantzick October 30. 1642. 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