corn it shall as Godlinesse hath the promise enrich both for heaven and earth doing good to him and not evill all the days of his life by pardon the alteration of the coast and similitude giving him a trade wind for the port of his desired rest IN this last age we are not to look for miracles by a sensible feeling of the rite or significant ceremony here used yet still Christ breaths on the Elect enlargeing to that degree their bowels of Love that they â—hew him always their faces being averse neither to his Doctrine nor to his Crosse yet forget not that he ascended before the mighty strong wind blew in upon them and that there may be no mistake there are some â—pon whom the Spirit comes never being â—eft in the ignorance of nature coldnesse of the Earth rawnesse of the flesh there are oâ—hers upon whom he comes but abides not â—lowing only upon them and no more heats â—hem indeed but as warm water they are â—older soon after he washeth them yet afterward they go to the puddle and are offensive â—s before to others he cometh and abideth â—itteth upon them liveth in them fills them outwardly with heavenly ardor celestial â—eat and by fire from above causes them seem â—peaking Seraphims and inwardly with wisâ—ome understanding knowledge in the â—eepnesse whereof they may be stiled Cheâ—ubims yea gods in the liknesse of men and â—hose fiery ones too this was for the Apostles BVT alas we see not those signs to passe â—he fiery tongues of too many in this age atâ—nded with smoak and brimstone the known fewel of Hel flames it is but one of a Citty and two of a Trib in whom we see the love of God an evidence of the Spirit which is known chiefly by the loveing of man who being ready for good works to both and patient in suffering and enduring evill from both and makeing progresse from one degree of vertue to another not falling back into perdition in the sight of either this is for us unto whom the Disciples are as lights after they received the promise of the Father as a gift from Iesus in his triumphant chariot the right hand of the Father the Captain of our Salvation haveing led Captivity captive giveing gifts to men to those then to us now more dureable treasures then those offered by the Roman conquerors of old as Sanctity in fire Purity in wind Eloqution in tongues that a Hebrew man might in Roman Oratory and with Attick Eloquence publish Salvation to the respective people and even perswade and reason them by the Spirit into everlasting blesse I say by the Spirit for unlesse he signifie unto the heart the preaching in the Air wil little avail neither shal ever he be Oraly instructed for laying aside the weight that so easely besets whose mind by the Spirit is not perfectly anointed for discovering the reward designed for observers of the Law he being the principale Master Clearing the memory Refining the Reason Inclining the will by the first alwayes minding us of God by the second directing how to apply him for our good because to him that knoweth his Masters will and doth it not there are appointed double strips by the third he sweetly willingly and powerfully draws us to the practise of the good we know for our souls sake and by the mercy of Iesus and by the fellowship of the Spirit and this alwayes for tongues being the organ of expressing words manifests the perpetuity of the things heard which as by fire are to be engraven and melted into their head and heart for their subsistance in them who are sanctified as is published in the Multitude of converts their joy their union their increase though under persecution AFTER the Disciples return from Olivet we find them enter into an upper roome continuing in prayer by some learned thought to be the place where our Saviour instituted the blessed Sacrament of his body confirmed Thomas in the faith of the Resurrection and where the HOLY GHOST came down in fire upon this day And was as antiquity records the Church and Synod-house of the Apostles in Ierusalem called Coenaculum Sion being first hallowed by our Lords supper and consecrate by other appearances for holy use and service a Church being builded thereupon called the Church of Sion on the top of the mount whereof there yet remaineth some reliques confirming the History and Tradition In this place the multitude of believers about an hundreth and twentie some of them possibly of our Saviours own kinred converts and acquaintance in Jerusalem mett prayed for the Election of Mathias at which time surely God loved the gates of Sion more then all the dwellings in Ierusalem his foundation being in this Holy mount 87. Psal. 1.2 Here was Mary the Mother of Jesus it may be Martha Mary Lazarus who ever they were they continued in one accord in prayer Acts 1.14 for if men give bread when their Children importunatly ask from them and afectionatly being at peace among themselves How much more shall our heavenly Father give the Spirit to such who call for him especially if in sound faith upright heart chast bosoms holy groanings innocent thinkings with unwearied solicitings Which unweariedness is intimated in the words they continued the fire of the Spirit burning up the stinging wither'd Nettles of contention the Thorns of worldly cares the Heath or Heather of â—â—ars and dejectments opening the ground of soul and Spirit for the seed of the good husband man that they might be inriched with â—nd bring forth fruit meet for repentance and â—mendment of life blowing away as with wind the sandy vanâ—ty of self-conceit and opinion hindring growth in grace and knowledge and all triviall trash sordidness being either burned or scattered while the world is Sataniz'd by lust continuing in Gluttony Drunkenness Excess Wantoness and Pride these continue in prayer peace and expecting the promise in high and â—ervent love for the Spirit came down and filled the house where they were sitting that is in quietness together iniquity passionatness talkativenesse itch of disputing about words which gender strif contention and debate the HOLY GHOST purposeng eternaly to be estranged from THAT being known to them and of us to be heeded the Spirit expresseth more then once after the Ascension that the multitude met together in one accord sueing for the acomplishment of the promise which in few dayes that is ten they received haveing asked with the mouth for they prayed with the heart for being heavenly endowed they wenâ— no more a fishing but about the fullfilling of the Scripture Judas being gone to his own place THEY were in Ierusalem likewise which is by interpretation a City of Peace being commanded not to depart thence untill they received the promise of the Father Acts 1.4 Christ purposing to glorifie his Ascension yea all his actings with the greater splendour for there was his greatest humiliation the greatest powring forth of his
day we may truly pronounce that the Godlesse are not this day raised the communication of those two who went to Emmaus discovers the truth of this who though sadned at their Masters Death yet were not Spiteful at the instruments thereof speaking how the chief Priests and the Rulers delivered him to be condemned without any other epithet expressing rancour there be who will have these Luke and Cleophas Luke is rising up and Cleophas hath glory in his name and surely the rising from darknesse and deadnesse with the desire of being glorious is to go to Emmaus which by interpretation is desire of counsel and how happy were it if this age would advise with and about it self touching the verity of Christ and Him risen together with the duties dâ—pending thereupon leaving Ierusalem and all its gâ—udinesse to walk those sixty furlongs Morally these two physically trod it is a number arising from multiplying of ten by six The Ten Commandments being appointed by IEHOVAH for the rule of our Actings and the renouncing this present World amending our Lives crucifying Self voyding Hypocrisie keeping of the Heart wâ—tching over the door of our Lips being the six paces to be observed in our going over the moral Law We cannot chuse but have Christ with us and our eyes to see Him with great â—oy where now because glorified He shal not only eat bread with us as in the History but shall sup with us and we with him as in the Revelation unto which a serious reflection and deep meditaâ—ion upon the Cross and sufferings of our LORD this passage examplifies to be a fertil-mean LAY your ear to the holy Communication these two had and it 's properly a devout imagination to conceit Luke speaking Brother Cleophas can you forget the clamour of the Priests against our Master when Pilat was determined to let Him go how they cryed away with Him crucifie Him not this Man but Barabbas yea a murtherer whereas our Master shed no mans bloud but went about doing good to every body and that in such a way by commanding praying advising that I should have sworn he had been the Son of God whereas now I conjecture his Faâ—her haâ— smitten them with blindnesse as he did he Sodomites with Hemroids as the Philistens with fire as did Elisha the Capâ—aiâ—s oâ— sâ—me other way had been found as by a vâ—ice from heaven for his sons delivery but to lay hold on that tattle of his appearance to the women is to be swallowed up of errour Luk 24.11 their brains their early rising their â—eaâ— hath certainly disturbed them and made them fancy they saw God knows what and as some think the bells Clâ—â—k Dear Brotheâ— might Clâ—ophas say I should almost be of yâ—ur mind but when I remember of Lazarus whom you mind me of for you know we heard a voice from Heaven I sâ—y when I think upon him How fresh how well-coloured he was raised by a Loud not Cheâ—ping voice with words we understood not dark Phrases as Conjurers and Charmers 〈◊〉 to do I must conclude him to bâ— the Son of God though I confesse I marvel he wrought no miracle to save himself from scâ—urging from dying and since he said he was King of the Iews he came not down from the Crosse that they might believe this I confesse sticks with me this I am sure of if he be alive this day he will be so to morrow and next day also and we shall see it and know it his goodnesse sweetnesse kindnesse and merciful disposition towards all in distresse but especialy to us makes me confident he will not concâ—al himself long but will come unto us and God who in the simplicity of our heart doth know we followed him not for any lucre we got by it shal setle us in the truth at last and reward us according to the integrity of our hearts therefore be not affraid at our return we shal know more and your bells clink may be retorted unto turned by a Crosse Proverb before the lame post make much of one there is few good a true axiome and holds here the women being of excellent endowments formeth hope of future comfort by a certainty of all things SVCH communication administrats such grace that it is no wonder if the fiery chariot of Religious gifts hasten to come down for conveying the heart aloft and the Spirit as at Pentecost to come with full information of all sâ—ving truths takeing the Scalls of doubtings from the eyes of the mind as Saul did from those of his body makeing it to be known for a truth that Christ is risen indeed and if he should seem as though he were to depart in the coldnesse of the heart to those conferences then be instant with thy Mane â—obiscum abide with us Luk. 24.29 the evening of thy dark and cold surmises clouds temptations and other perplexities being approaching and if serious he shal continue to the end and make appear that he is no stranger to thy affairs but well acquainted with whatso-ever hath shall or can befall thee comforting thy soul in all and all because of the Resurrection IT was a Iwell expression that fell from the mouth of the golden-mouth'd Father that at the Sun rising upon the day of the Resurrection it was defraying of just debt to begin teaching of brotherly kindness and charity applying the power of the Resurrection for cementing the hearts of men one towards another it appearing to unite God and Man yea gloriously procured it but how can these things be without a conformity to his death Not such as is fabled in the Legend of that Popish Saint Francis who is said to have the print of the nails and spear in his feet hands and side or such either as is recorded of the herb Granadille in America in which if we believe report the instruments of the Passion to the whip the piller and the thorns are visibly seen in the flour nor it may be with St. Paul to have the wales of the persecutors rod upon the flesh the gore blood lying and not cured in the blewness of the stripe upon the skin the Fellowship of his suffering even to his condemning by Pilat being to be answered by a severe sentenceing our selves singling out every sin and processing it before the barr of Conscience according to the judgement God makes thereof causing execution to follow with as much Zeal and as little delay as did the Jews after the Governours sentence of of which take one Coppy in record Take you Iesus of Nazareth a contemner of Cesar and one who calleth himself the Mesâ—iâ—h as hath been proved by the Testimony of his own Nation to the Common place of execution and in derision of his Kingly Majesty fasten him to the Cross but to evidence the uncertainty of this History â—ake it as another Coppy sayes it was I Pilat President of Ierusalem adjuageth thee Iesus of Nazareth for making thy self a King and for calling
thy self the Son of God and for making sedition among the people Ordereth according to the Laws of the Roman Empire thy fastning to the Cross and to be lifted vp unâ—ill thou die waveâ—â—g thâ—s every sin pretending to have rule and command hath forced us to deporable actings and by usurped Authority countermanded God harressing the soul by Sedition having seduced it from orderly and peaceably walking Pride Ambition Lust or Envy having been made King by the wills content ordering obedience to our Makerâ— dishonour and our own disquiet Redness of eyes Deadness of heart Fury in face wounds in the side Death in the fiâ—ld moving on uproar wandring thoughts as posts runing to and fro abbetting every lust almost to uâ—pardonable transgression in that sinfull stayedness as if because of Impudence Corruption had bâ—en of God for which it is to be adjudgâ—d to the 〈◊〉 by man who is established under God over the Common-wealth of his own Soul having Common-Laws and rules for discerning of matters which if not hearkned unto by passion fear or otherwise may cause deposition which Pilat feared who when called to Rome to answer for tirany fearing contumely and receiving affronts slâ—w himself as Herod also did who is thought to be aimed at in the parable of the unjust Steward and like him when layed aside for male-administration being banished by Caesar proved fellon de se a self Murtherer AND hark is it not perspicuous how that all the persecutors of our Lords body which is his Church or the instruments and abbettors of his Death as Judas in himself or the Patriarchs in his Tipe Ioseph in selling him have bought sorrow for twentie pieces of silver in common sickles the other for thirty of the Sanctuary they for their Brother had twentie five shillings sterling he for his Master three pound fifteen shillings and for a Courtezan a Draught a piece of silver a morsel of Bread a Madrigall a Song how oft is he betrayed into the hands of sinners men selling their Saviour to hugg their lust THEERFORE such as design profit by the Resurrection must conclude the additament of worldly pelf or carnall pleasure so basely purchased to be sordid and unhappy studying rather the particulars wherein Christ can be advanced that estimation may be made according to reall worth and the account of truth he being the Truth the way and the Life the first of Religious verity the next of holy Conversation the third of happiness eternall which are infinitly in true reckoning preferable above and beyond the deceitfull appearances of temporall possessions for appearances they only are as is to be seen in the agents of our Saviours Passion First of the Patriarchs who sold him in Ioseph for a bond-man next in Iudas who delivered him to them who condemn'd him as a Malefactor HE was slain by Cain in Abel and for that Cain is to be censured that is sin must be charged with his blood In Isaac after but he escaped and the Ram in the thicket served for a burn'd offering we as that Son of Laughter escape the hand of justice he is the other's seized upon found in the thorns of his Passion which were planted by our hands and made to tear his holy Body by our folly and since he hath also escaped let his endurance dash the lust of the Eye the lust â—f the Flesh and the Pride of Life which were the thorns that pricked him the nails that pierced him and the Envy that caused him to be persu'd for which Crown him with Roses and vailing our face as did Rebecca being ashamed for former delinquences let us as chast Virgins espouse him unto our selves returning into our houses dead in sin and crucified unto the World which is seemly Christ having suffered for it before us for that end having promised â—n the third day to raise us up we bearing our Cross in sincere sorrow not comming down from it by consuâ—ing with Flesh and Blood or keeping any one sin back through prophane Custome rive ed in us but bow down our heads in humility and give up the Ghost in constancie sleâ—pâ—â—g â—hat is resting in the seâ—enity of a good Conscience lookiâ—g for that hopefull assurance of the Resurrâ—ction and blessed hope of the fruâ—tion of the Spirit of holinesse with Hâ—avenly mindedness in which as by Aâ—gles we shall be comforted assured and solaced Untill we meet the Lord in the holy Mountain where he shall be seen as he is and we know as we arâ— Known WE are said in our Carnal-capacity to be dead in sin though alive by nature as having neither Life Breath nor Motion for things Heavenly the greatest vants of Heaven though set before us in Word and Sacraments or any other nourishing spirituall aliment benefiting us no more then the choicest Bâ—â—que savour or reâ—lâ—sh of the most delicious or 〈…〉 from the most artificial cook câ—uâ—d replenish saâ—isfie or fill the empâ—y because no 〈◊〉 entralls of one Deceas'd Buâ— tâ—at Spirit of Holiness which aiâ—â—d up IESVS shall uicken this mortal body and giving iâ— a living breath cause it become a living soul hungring and thirsting after righteousâ—esse groaning that so industriously it should have pulled misery upon it self which can only be compensed by being naked as all Crucified malefactors were in an Ingenuousâ—cknowledgment not putting on the Fig-leaf of an excuse as Adam but rather when reproved answer as CHRIST did Herod in silence which indeed may put flesh and blood into a heat a sweat pleasure and reâ—enge saying Let this be far from thee pitty by self and me who hath been ever with thee yet it must be endured For because of this thou cam'st into the World and Angels shall then comfort and strengthen in that â—avishing sentence the Father hath forgiven thee thy iniquity is taken away thou shalt 〈◊〉 die ONE Thief must be Crucified that is thy deceiâ—full Heart another must be peniâ—ent and beg mercy that is thine own Soul for delinquencie offending yet let it not be desperate as those without Hope but urging pressing as earnest for Salvation anâ— infallible note of prepared Paradise and then of all thy sinful courses cry they are finished Hanging still upon the Crosse by outstretched hands in Obedience securing thy Soul in all service within the Rock of thy Saviours merits fitting us for a Resurrection upon the third day First from the plague of the heart the boile of putrid Corruption as from the bed of Hezekia next from the belly of Hell in dismal frightnings and starrings of Conscience as from the Whale in Ionah and from the sentence of death passed in the breast of the Law as did Isaac from the Altar of his Father the third day being figured in that Patriarch that Saint that Prophet and a Day in which there was never one raised from the Dead HE excepted the third Day being keeped for him in Honour and therefore He is said to rise the third Day according to the
if you weigh those particular workings in the conscience by proportionating them according to it's quarterly effects DOTH the South wind ordinarly bring warm showers and rain by vapours drawn from the Midle-Sea heated by the Suns fervency in the Equator for fructifying the earth It is as evident that the Spirit shall no sooner convince of sin and say to the sinner Thou art the Man then rivers of waters will run down my eyes said David because they that is my eyes keep not thy Law Psal 119. 136. Mary Magdelen was weâ—t further then the skin and Peter is said to make furrows in his cheeks O thou that made me have mercy â—pon me was a form of prayer appointed a luxurious wanton but then a penitent Tha â—s for procuring mercy as not daring to pronounce God What fruitfull showers hath the Spirit made in the valley of an humble and depressed Saint Making the rain to fill the pools causing Grace even when stocked to grow as the grass and seed in prayer supplication intercession for all Saints the most obâ—ur'd weeping so loud that the house of Pharoah that is the Court of heaven hears and are admitted into that favour as to be assured of the best fruits of the Land THE North wind dâ—rives away rain Pro. 25.23 And when clouds of fears and doubts threaten a spirituall tempest dark thoughts gathering and the glory of the Lord the light peace and comfort of the Soul preparing to remove the conscience lying as the ashes of the Sacrifice on the North side of the altar in solitary sadness digesting its own perplexities to nourish heart-biting anguish How hath the Spirit becaâ—m'd the Air in his seren breathings scattering the portentuous clouds that had a sound of abundance of rain keeping the Soul within the Pale or inclosure of eternall Election whereby the chilling blasts of terren disasters or spiritual desertions do but cause it diâ—e the deeper procuring greater evidence and from vocation concluding that neither Death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other Creature were it my self who at this time is made unwilling to be parted shall be able to separat from the love of God Rom 8.39 Who saith unto Evil come not nigh this mans dwelling David encouraged himself in the Lord his God Sam. 30.6 And Iob at last was re-installed and enjoyed more then Halcyon-like tranquility in the feild and bosome of his own conscience OBSERVE the west-wind and to herbs and flowerâ— it is so good that one of its name is Favonious for rendering so many favours being not so moist as the South nor so corroding as the Eâ—st so is the Spirit influencing the soul for exciting to the delectableness of handsomly contrived purposes causing God delight in man and again man to delight in God the grand scope of its enlarged acts that as the Heliotropis to the Sun so it turneth to the spirits motion Imprinting upon the mans observer and Surveyer of his paths positions proving his growth in grace All which emergeth purely from the vertue of the Sun of righteousness not from the â—ullenness of rigid opinion which is to be hated â—qualy to the sordidness of the profligat sinner both being Spots and blemishes in the Church of God uniting to infester the commendable tract of vertue and religious complacency the one giving it an ill name the other contriving its finall overthrow MARKE the strength of the East wind and you shall find it imployed in eminent services as in dividing of the Red-Sea Exod. 14.21 For bringing the Locusts upon Egypt Exod. 10.13 For breaking the ships of Tarshis Psal. 48 7. And blastinâ— of the seven â—ars of Corn in Pharaohs dream Gen. 41.6 Yet all this is but the mightiness of a creature but when men imperiously are advancing with full sails of prophane intentions for executing villanous undertakings this Spirit the Creator of all things will convince them arrest them and cause them become a Magor missabib a terrour to themselves because of terrour round about and blast them in their greatest ranknessâ— empting them also in their greatest fullnesse and coaling them in their most passionat heaâ—s as Laban when charged not to do ill not to speak ill Gen. 31.29 It shaketh the roots of the stâ—ffâ—st and bloweth away the sails and cables of the fleshes highest confidence making some to cry out with Saul Lord what wilt thou have me to do others with David It is good for me that I was afflicted and may be with Ruben to roar out and I whether shall I go Gen 37.30 HOW again from the intestins of a secure and becalmed conscience it hath raised Hyrricans of feares and terrible out-cryes came from the jaylor What shall I do to be saved Acts 16.30 And here blew upon the Apostles that all stratagems before feared of the Iewish malice were hush'd and gone for by this did their throats as from a Trumpet give an allarum to all the world to seperate from an untoward generation and added so to the Church that three thousand were either by beleiving as Adult or by baptizing as in infants in one day made members of his body who is all in all and these abounded so in good works that they had all things common i. e. for use not in property Acts 2. coaling their otherwise angry and feavorish souls enflamed against the doctrine of Christ crucifiâ—d they opening their hearts giving their bodys to be washed in holy baptisme by both being exceedingly refreshed eating their bread with gladness and joy of heart THE Prophet got a charge to cry Come from the four winds O breath and breath upon those slain that they may live and accordingly 〈◊〉 their was a â—oice a shaking and a re-enlivâ—â—ing Sin hath made a Charnel house of each â—tructure a slaughter house of each Familie having slain all in them with the weapon of unbeleif and O! that the spirit in purifying by grace in gracious prayer in full assurance of faith were given to each one for themselves and for the good of all others to stand in this valley of Earth which is but a valley of bones and those dry and who can tell if they can live Though â—hey may cry Come 〈◊〉 Spirit and breath of God from the East that we may see and know our selves to be sinners renewing and sanctifying by hope from the west to understand that our iniquities have caused a setting of our Sun of consolation having lost the beams and rayes of Fatherly love and dwelling in darkness From the South that showers of tears from our eyes through bitterness of sorrow for the grosness of our misbehaviour and from the North that we may behold the ruddy countenace of an Angry God and the bow which he threatens Inverted its true and unstringed yet long shal not be so if his patience be not answer'd in our amendement and fear cause penitencie for
lying and cursing now fluently detects the monstruous deformity of the Jews bloody Zeal and bridles their passion yea from convinced guilt oblidgeth them so fare to renounce there former impietys against Christ honoured and blessed of his brethren as to rejoyce in the knowledge of him Crucified craving remission of sin thereupon to the Churches ineffable glory the accession of Multitudes to her banner upon that score dispiriting her opposers and creating fear upon every soul beholding the stupendious wonders wrought by the Power Hands and Tongues of such whom the wise of the world though not worthy of veneration BEFORE Christ dyed his Apostles feet were washed John 1â— 5 For exact circumspect and clean walking and after he ascended he cleanseth their tongue for Prudent Holy and Pure talking consulting in all their converse with truth verity and love That as it is naturaly placed between the heart and head so its motion should be regular by there consent being seasoned with salt Colos. 4.6 That is gracefullness and discretion flowing from mature deliberation and wise for-thinking not hurried to the violation of precepts by the winds of passion but consult and compleat what from duty and charity upon holy and sober inspection we shall find incumbent for our place and calling Not swelling in rancor but alwayes remembring the proverb of the Arabs being wary least our tongues cut our throats For can it be questioned but that Dives was the more tormented in his tongue that he had scandelously offended in that member which walking in uvo i. e. lying in moysture is the more prone to glid glib fiery in colour edged as a sword therefore by nature sheathed in lips and teeth quenched with water God seting more guards and closer Centurys about it then other parts of the body arguing its ferity and unrulyness TONGVES resting upon the first preachers of the Gospel and probably upon others also the contexture of the History Acts 1.15 being grounded from the hundreth and twenty and not reading how Stephen Philip and the other Deacons received the HOLY GHOST a more conjecturall time is hardly to be found then the Pentecost I say tongues resting at first upon those Holy Teachers indicats how the Spirit tryeth and designeth their willing condiscending to those generous rules of refined language and what he sayes to them he sayes unto all Take heed unto your wayes that ye sin not with your tongue Psal 39.1 The image whereof as it were growing from because rooted in a serpents tail with the inscription quo tendis whether goest thou was of old an Embleme of those unhappy issues men were brought into whose tongues were not poysed with premeditation and wise government which yet must not be thought identical with carnall subtilty or that selfish principle of fawneing flattering and caressing any in unjust practises for sensuall and proper advantages there being a time of and for speaking as well as a time of silence and restraining of the tongue which cannot be more pertinently said though more properly to be set on fire of hell then when it is employed by the Divel or brib'd by his emissarys to stand mute and not defend the truth under pressure or to utter words of slander Calumny Atheism and Blasphemy lyingly or wickedly engaging men into Hellish broyls dangerous garboyls glorying in the bravery and finness of Satanical Rhetorick boasting because we have outrail'd and it may be silenced our Brother not convinced not converted but heated by our words as by coals of Iuniper which kindled once burneth even some months after Devil like leaves off speaking in not answering again for a season purposeing afterward in fiery rage to work revenge even unto blood IF the tongue be the glory of a man how shamefully do some abuse their glory and tread there honour in the dust Let thy talk Reader hereafter and thy silence also be such as is fit for Saints and worthy of God symbolizing with Crucigerious of the Last age who spake oft to his Friends about Christian Doctrine of the wounderfull preservation of the Church of immortality and the â—ope of glory which and the like thereto shall evidence the Spirit to have sat upon thy head as the tongues rested on the Apostles ignorance evanishing and the Mutinees that so oft hath risen in Societies formerly about questions of honour and preferment of sitting at the right hand and who should be the greatest one great cause of our late calamity shall be dashed quieted and repented for all agreeing to talk of the wonderfull works of God! following Iesus our Captain and our Master whom we have oft mistook and misinterpreted but now having a true light and purchas'd a perfect Idea of things Mystical by ouâ— zealous yet sober behaviour by our holy yet peaceable deportment clear to the Multitude that in truth we have been with Iesus and received the earnest Spirit THE tongues are said to be cloven Acts 2.3 Not divided for that were Babel but dimidiated as it were double pointed since there was Heresies to confute sin to detect Exhortations to be given reproofs to be made reason would have them to be gifted for this work and needfull it waâ— to shew there invisible endowments different gifts inwardly possessed by this outward and visible appearance the multiplicated number whereof discovering the variety of those languages which by the spirit they were to instruct in whether to Iew or Gentile implyed in the Mystery from the dimidiatness of the same tongues forkednesse or clift in them these two nations thereby to be united and Law and Gospel though seemingly different to be joyned into one root as proceeding from one cause viz. our Lord Iesus Christ. THIS was known to the multitude of believers out of all nations dwelling at Ierusalem much about the time Christ was expected by the studious Jews themselves and by those now truly gifted brethren who having the true sence or marrow of the law which is nothing but the pith of the Gospel could work the hearts of the observers of either to know and imbrace both yea properly to inferr each others duty and there own requisit practise from what they heard imposed upon the one or known formerly revealed to the other as Davids sepulchre with Peters Exposition doth excellently make offer and convinceingly prove YET not in this only but in the circumstance of time did the Law and Gospel harmoniously unit for these things happned in the dayes of Pentecost one of the three solemn feasts of the Jews so called as being the fiftieth day from the Passeover in which day the law was given from Mount Sina in fire God speaking out of the cloud But that law being broke fiftieth dayes after the rising of our Saviour at the Passeover who then as a Lamb did take away the sins of the world God the HOLY-GHOST came down in fire that is in fiery tongues to imprint a new education of his law in the hearts of the true Israelite
yet with this excellent and comfortable difference that as Moses yeelds to Christ so must Sinai to Sion here was fire only their fire and smoak there was clouds darknesse and earth-quakes accompanâ—'d with fear and trembling Sinai it self quaking But in Sion only a sound as of a mighty wind to prepare the receivers and cloven tongues uniting Iew and Gentile the boundiary of the wilderness being pulled up and variety of tongues perswaded the scattered abroad that God had given the Kingdoms of this world to his dear Son that in a spirituall sence not Israel only but the Earth might become the Lords and the fullnesse thereof typified by that multitude gathered and converted by the heat fireynesse yet harmlesnesse of the Saints charity and ardor having received the remission of sin and that from heaven the self same day their Fathers received the law against which they had transgressed for both was at the time oâ— Pentecost as may be demonstrated in computing the time thus THE people came from Egypt on the 14 day of the month there therefore remained 16 dayes for travell the Hebrews always reckoning 30 dayes for a month the first day of the third month they came to Sinai 30 dayes of the second month being accounted there will with this be found 47 dayes then the Peoples encamping Moses goeing up to God his returning again to the people for clear calculation is called one day which is 48 in which going up again to the Mount he is ordered by God to order the peoples being ready against the third day which will make the 50. â—n which God appeared for reckoniâ—g from the peoples want of bread or fall of Mannah is uncertain and may be erronious this is more clear and evidenceth the Anology better betwixt that fire from God by the Ministry of Angels and writting his law on tables of stone and that by fire in the descending of the Spirit that came one the 50 day after the slaying of the Passover Christ Iesus writting his law upon the tables of the hearts of men in a fuller fairer larger and more clear Character typ or impression but note this reckoning is inclusive the other not THE Persians and some other nations adored the fire for a god because of its excessive power and force in resolving matters combustible how great so-ever into it's own substance and being and usually it 's accounted the most noble among elements being as the heavens among bodies the sun among planets yea it 's purgeing operation made it of old to be the heirogliphick of purity as if they had known the world it self was to be cleansed thereby but how hath the fire of the Spirit from Ierusalem enlarged it self making the frosted heart of the unbelieving world even to glow while it talks of the Cross from heaven which is one of the three things by wise men admired in the earth looking upon the Resurrection and Ascension far short in comparison of that conquest the Holy Ghost hath made of the Grandees of the Nations in their honourable receiving of that doctrine from the mouths of plain men so contrary to the hair of natural inclination and mark it where ever the Spirit cometh it comes ordinarly by the sound of the Gospel and by it's heat we are assured of his reception a heart touched a heart pricked is but a heart heated a heart open'd when a man crys what shall I do with Peters converts Acts 2.37 or take away the iniquity of thy Servant with David 2 Sam. 24.10 surtiship may be offered that the Spirit hatâ— spoken in a saveing way but if it be a complaint of the punishment with Cain or a remove the â—râ—gs with Pharaoh be not rash in Cautoâ—ry this being a Legal not a Gospel expression far from that request of creating a clean heart which the Iews compareth to the Holy of Holies to Solomonâ— throne to Mosesâ—ables â—ables and truly displays that the wickednesse is done away by the Spiriâ—s inhabiting his resting therein and writting thereupon the doctrine of pardon and remission provyding the man seperate himself from an untoward generation Acts 2.40 IT 'S said the Spirit sat upon each of them in which it differs from that unclean Spirit that goeth about compassing the earth to and fro seeking rest but findeth none whereas holinesse is pacifique serene tranquilling consolidating the heart in which he dwels makeing it calm in it self and causing quietnesse towards all others condemning Ambition Covetousnesse Hatred Envy Vanity and what ever els tends to the Churches disturbance in which the Spirit rests sitting in it as upon a Throne purposing to reign as on a Tribunal resolving to judge as on a Chair purposing to instruct for all which in all ages to come he represented his undertakeing on this day establishing himself upon the Apostles heads as by fire clearing them from the rust of Errour the filth of Corruption that as Patterns as well as Preachers they might be exâ—mples of Sanctity to their own generation and give infallible rules for obtaining happinesse unto all posterity for ever COMPVNCTION of heart and remission of sin are both from the Spirit of God and is that new wine which shall only be put in the new bottles of a regenerated soul whereby they shal do and speak as the Spirit shall prompt them I had almost said as the Spirit give them utterance as here the Apostles for we find the whole house was filled with the rushing wind the Majesty of the Holy Ghost excluding all in-maets and though each Apostle had the sanctifyed operation of the Spirit filling every angle and corner of the soul as the understanding with Faith the will with Love and that sin or Devil might be exiled the hands with Promptitude the feet with Solicitude the eyes with Modesty the tongue with Eloquence the whole man with Prudence the Faculty Concupiscible being filled with good the Irascible with courage the Rational with verity though they had all gifts and were all filled yet they spake as the spirit gave them utterance some had five others had two talents and S. Paul abounded and spake with tongues more then they all whereby he who expects the gifts bestowed unto all ought not to caresse himself or hug and embrace himself in the deceiving hopes of a rich ample and perfect possession of the Spirit here but rest satisfied with his gift and with being one of the eleven not envying Peters singularity for he is particularly spoken of and eminency since a pinnace a small yaught shall land as wel as a great ship with full sail under the conduct and flag of the Admiral VPON the coast of the Whit-sea there is a cap called Pentecost and somewhat east of that there is another called Bonae Fortunae q d. good-luck let this day be any mans Pentecost a time of gathering in that is of heeding the law offering the first fruits of strength unto the Lord as the Jews did this day of their