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A52476 Three choice and profitable sermons upon severall texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17, John 14. 3, Heb. 8. 5 : the first of them being the last sermon which he preached at the court of election at Boston, the second was the last which he preached on the Lords-Day, the third was the last which he preached on his weekly-lecture-day : wherein (beside many other excellent and seasonable truths) is shewed, the Lords soveraignty over, and care for his church and people, in order to both their militant and triumphant condition, and their fidelity and good affection towards himself / by that reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Norton ... Norton, John, 1606-1663.; Norton, John, 1606-1663. Copy of the letter returned by the ministers of New-England to Mr. John Dury about his pacification. 1664 (1664) Wing N1324; ESTC R40050 44,511 76

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look after his Out-casts and care for us being Out-casts for the Truth Let it appear that we are such Out-casts to whom the calamity and temptations of Out-casts are sanctified Out-casts healed Out-casts that care for the truth and then Out-casts on which God will bring the blessing of his own people If this plaister findeth acceptance with you you shall finde esteem and acceptance and favour from God and man Let us all labour so to carry it as that we may have this Rejoycing of a good Conscience to sweeten that bottle full of tears shed in your Out-cast condition in this wilderness viz. That we came into it not onely with a Spirit testifying according to the Scriptures against the Inventions of men but also that we do come up unto the Institutions of Christ that as we have departed from Inventions Humane so we may not be found to be or here continue opposers against Institutions Divine that we are not negligent of but faithful to that Order of the Gospel which we are Out-casts for THE BELIEVERS CONSOLATION In the Remembrance of his Heavenly Mansion prepared for him by CHRIST BEING THE SECOND SERMON AND Preached on the LORDS-DAY MARCH XXIX 1663. John 14.3 And if I go to prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you to my self that where I am there you may be also THis Verse and the former holds forth a double Consolation to support the Disciples against the suffering which they were to conflict with either In the way of Truth or For the way of Truth This Verse holds forth the second Argument of Consolation the former you have in the second Verse it is taken from the Place they were to be taken to after Death And this Argument in this Verse is taken from the Company they shall have in that place and that is his Personal Presence his full and clear Presence Where I am there you shall be also Now this Argument of Consolation is described 1. From the Scope of Christ in preparing such a place for them and it was that he and they might be there together I go to prepare a place for you that where I am there you may be also 2. It is declared from the Time when they must expect their being taken to Christ and that is when he comes again I will come again and receive you to my self 3. It is declared from the Efficient of it the Undertaker of this and that is Himself I will come again and receive you to my self To open the words thus resolved 1. Touching the Presence of Christ and Believers together That where I am there you may be also you must understand this of his Presence emphatically so called of his Presence in the place of Blessedness In thy Presence is fulness of joy Psal 16.11 There is a double Presence of Christ but he means here his Presence in Glory where we shall see him as he is 1 Joh. 3.2 I said this Argument of their Consolation was declared from the Scope of it I go to prepare a place for you that where I am there you may be also it was one great end of his being a Fore-runner Secondly he should fail of his Fidelity and Ability if there should be a disappointment 2. From the Time When I come again Christs coming is either his last Coming or his coming by Death Of his last coming you reade 1 Thess 4.18 Of his coming by Death you reade Luke 23.43 To day thou shalt be with me in Paradice Now the Soul goes to Christ when He comes to us by Death at his last coming both Soul and Body shall be together with him 3. This Argument of Consolation is described by the Efficient of it or Undertaker I will receive you to my self We may doubt how our Souls when we dye shall come to Heaven why saith Christ I will come and receive you to my self They therefore say properly when they dye that say Into thy hands I commend my Spirit Psal 31.5 it is a proper saying so to speaks Acts 7.59 Lord Jesus receive my Spirit It is a blessed thing to commit our Souls by Faith to Christ when they go out of the Body He comes by the ministry of his Angels or otherwise as he please I will come again and receive you to my self You may remember the words of Steven he dying called upon God and said Lord Jesus receive my Spirit we receive Christ and we receive the Spirit of Christ Now to as many as received him to them gave he power c. Joh. 1.12 Christ receives our Spirits then If we receive his Spirit now he will receive our Spirits then I will receive you to my self Doct. That the effectual Remembrance that at Death Christ will receive our Souls unto Himself is a Soveraign Preservative to quiet our Souls throughout all the Sufferings we meet with either In the way of Truth and For the way of Truth during this life You shall finde in Iob 19.25 saith he I know that my Redeemer liveth He might say I know my Estate is gone and I see that my Friends are gone and my Children be gone and my Health and Strength is gone and the Grave is ready for me but what stayes Iobs heart now I know that my Redeemer lives This is a living truth for a dying man I know that my Redeemer lives and that he shall stand in the latter day upon the earth and I shall see him c. This was now In the way of Truth for you cannot say that Iob was persecuted For the way of Truth But you shall finde in a way of suffering for the way of Truth Phil. 1.23 I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ Having passed through many troubles I would be out of the body and freed from the body of death I desire to depart and to be with Christ 2 Cor. 5.8 We are confident and willing rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord. You must either be absent from the body or absent from the Lord it is an hard thing to be absent from the body but not comparatively We desire rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord We shall meet the Lord and shall ever be with the Lord. What is the use of this 1 Thess 4 18. Comfort one another with these words what are these Comforts They are nothing but Promises Promises rightly applied these are the Comforts of the holy Ghost they hold forth more good then the affliction doth evil If you would comfort one another bring out the Promise that is comfortable and seasonable Comfort one another with what with these words for in them the Comforter doth come and apply comfort Reas 1. Because hereby we are made fit for this rest fit to be with Christ that is by our trouble by this remembrance Mixing this remembrance with our trouble doth fit us for this place 2 Cor. 5.5 He that worketh us
you know not Perfect Holiness now but then you shall know it more and we shall see the Trinity He that hath seen me Iohn 14.9 hath seen the Father And we shall see Christ that Person that is God and Man And for the Counsell of God we shall see it it shall be an open Book so far as concerns our happiness Now when the Soul comes to this you will have no further need of enquiry What God is or What Christ is you will never be satisfied till then you will never love God perfectly till then and you will never rest in him here as you will then you shall come to understand that then Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Exhort 1. It is abundantly to incourage every Christian to constancy in the profession of the truth notwithstanding all the suffering we may meet with either in the way of truth or for the way of truth This is that which John makes use of 1 Iohn 3.2 We shall see him as he is and He that hath this hope to see God purifieth himself even as he is pure ver 3. Do you say you have hope to see God this is a very purifying meditation Can you endure any impurity and yet maintain this hope in you to see Christ Acts 24.15 16. mark there how it did work with him And have hope towards God which themselves also allow I have hope that I shall see God and that there is such a truth as the resurrection herein do I exercise my self to have alwayes a Conscience void of offence both towards God and towards Man they that are false to his truth they shall not see him that dye without Repentance of it herein do I labour to keep alwayes a Conscience clear both towards God and man that this may not hinder me from a sight of this Mansion 2 Cor. 5.8 9. speaking to the same purpose We desire to be with the Lord wherefore we labour that whether present or absent we may be accepted of him Thus you see what this meditation doth call for this makes a man or woman of a labouring spirit it calls for adherence to the truth And more particularly consider then what it is to be a Christian in earnest to be such a Christian as walks in that way wherein they walk that have the Promise to go to Christ when their Soules go out of the body these are such as the eleven were not such as Iudas was he went the other way he went to his own place You must be such Christians as the Apostles were that is such as do continue with Christ in the profession of his truth that you may be Conquerours in holding on in your Profession 2. Consider what you must expect while you are in your way you must expect such troubles as nothing will quiet you but the exercise of Faith in Chirst Jesus Your hearts they will be assaulted but let not your hearts be troubled the Truth it will cause trouble to you though you think of carrying of it never so inoffensively and amiably among men Christ by all his good carriage could not reconcile those that hated the truth Hence those that profess the truth let them not think strange if they meet with trouble Then Acts 9.31 had the Churches rest Other places have rest very frequently but for the Churches those that profess the Truth to have rest is a special favour of God 3. Your troubles here while you carry it with a Christian Spirit they shall fit you for this blessed estate as it is said 2 Cor. 5.5 He that worketh us to the self-same thing You may think God means evil to you when you meet with affliction and trouble but provided you are In the way of Truth or be it For the way of Truth that which God ayms at is to fit you for your Mansion-place Christ would fit us to be in the body and he would fit us to go out of the body He works us to the self-same thing If you have a strong body he would fit you for that body to walk with him in that body Saith Caleb Josh 14.11 I have as strong a body as in the day that Moses sent me Now as it is a great matter to have such a body so it is a great matter to walk with God in such a body if you have an healthful body he would sit you to walk with him in that body that you may know how to possess your vessel in sanctification and honour not that your body should be the slave of filthy lusts Suppose you have a sickly body 2 Cor. 4.16 Our outward man decayes but our inward man is renewed day by day and he worketh us to the self-same thing by fitting us to go out of the body Acts 20.24 that I may finish my course with joy and the Ministry that I have received 4. Concurre with God in this scope of his Providence to you he is fitting of you to walk with God If he fit you to go out of the body or to be in the body close with him as the Patient closeth with the Physician interpret the Changes that are upon you of one nature or of another interpret them as dispensations whereby God works to fit you to be with him in the body or to go to him when you go out of the body Let us work together with him I did it to humble them Deut. 8.16 then close with him and say This is his end and for that end joyn with him You shall finde more trouble then rest while you are In the way you shall finde more rest then trouble when you are at the end of your way You that are lovers of truth more then of the pleasures of Sin you shall finde more trouble then rest while you are in the way but when you are out of the body you shall have full rest without any trouble you shall have Truth enough and Peace enough That which is hard to gain now is Union in the Truth but then you shall have Union enough and Truth enough you shall finde Christ making good that truth to you that He will come and receive you to himself When Noah put forth his hand and received the Dove into the Ark it was a welcome ease so will it be to your Souls when they have been wearied with so many troubles and Christ Jesus shall come and receive you to himself when your Souls go out of the body for otherwise the Devil will be ready to receive them and to carry them to Hell Whither went Dives Soul when it went out of his body you that are now in Pleasures whither went Dives Soul it is not said he was an Adulterer or a Drunkard but he was a man of Pleasures In thy life time thou hadst thy good things Luke 16.25 But what became of his Soul when it went out of the body And being in Hell he lift up his eyes in torments c.