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A53308	The stone rolled away, and life more abundant an apologie urging self-denyal, new-obedience, faith, and thankfulnesse / by Giles Oldworth ...	Oldisworth, Giles, 1619-1678.	1663 (1663)	Wing O255; ESTC R8404	298,711	491

of a small burden anchoreth a Netherlander pretendeth the death of a Merchant in that Vessel beseecheth the thirty Frenchmen that the dead body of their Merchant might be buried in hallowed ground namely in Sark-Chappel unto a Request so charitable the secure Frenchmen yield The Flemings bring into the Isle a Coffin filled not with a dead body but with murdering Harquebusses then entring the Chappel they shut the door upon themselves take their Weapons from out of the Coffin slay every Frenchman in Sark and immediately possesse themselves of the whole Island Many many a covetous Tradesman receiveth just such [2] Prov. 1.19 5.22.11.1.22.23.23.4.13.11 Exck. 7.13 a Coffin into his shop from out of a gracelesse good will unto himself he welcometh false measures false weights false wares false accompts with all the security that may be But note the event Wherewith this Shop-keeper deceiveth his Customers therewith [3] Acts 5.3 the Devil [4] 1 Tim. 3.6 7 surprizeth this Shop-keeper taketh [5] 2 Tim. 2.26 possession of his captived heart and [6] 1 Pet. 5.8 slayeth his deluded soul Alas ill fareth the owner whose shop is the Devils [7] Pro. 1.32 ware-house When once the Prince of darknesse playeth at Sark a Soul may soon [8] Eph. 5.5 acquit her self of the Mansions in my Fathers House Every unjust gain [9] Luk. 12.21 1 Tim. 6.9 Prov. 28.20 Jer. 7.19 selleth heart and body body and soul grace and Glory Heaven and the God of Heaven for a messe of the Supplanters pottage When it is too late you will then be able to resolve your selves who findeth least trouble of heart the [10] Prov. 15 16 16.8 poor man that is righteous or the rich man [11] Psalm 4.3 that is fraudulent And yet mercy God! What do most of our Markets and Faires signifie other then [12] 1 Thes 4.6 Hos 4.2 lying and cheating Ah how is the Prince of this world pleased to see many who vote themselves [13] Tit. 1.16 Christians as very lyars as [14] John 8.44 himself Judas is not the [15] Heb. 13.5 2 Pet. 2.3 only Disciple who selleth Jesus Christ for a piece of money But had Judas peace who sold his Master neither shall ye Full well are divers Faires among us kept upon Holy-dayes for pray all we can you that turn and wind moneys will hardly keep [16] James 1.27 Esay 8.13 65.16 your selves unspotted of the world your covetous practises witnesse to your face that ye doom [17] Amos 9.10 Prov. 12.3 your hearts to trouble Alas alas how can ye lay claim to the [18] John 14.1 2 5.44 Mansions in my Fathers House so long as ye distrust God and his Christ Beloved rather make the fear [19] Prov. 8.1 3 of your God your wisdom esteem the Spirit of Jesus Christ your [20] Luke 16.11 only Riches set a high value [21] 1 Pet. 1.4 upon the Mansions in my Fathers House then [22] Acts 24.16 shall you be at peace with your own consciences then shall you find that Godlinesse hath the [23] 1 Tim. 4.8 promise of this life then shall this Gospel [24] Esay 26.3 say unto you Let not your heart be troubled Fifthly This Let not condemneth every Soul Of all Christistians which at any time [1] Rom. 8.1 2 Cor. 1.12 omitteth any Duty every person who in performing any Duty maketh not [2] Psalm 52.7 his God his Rest every Christian which [3) Esay 50.10 rolleth not But as easily may I cramb all Homers Iliads into a nut shell as [4] Eccl. 1.8 repeat all the troubles of a neglected heart in one breath Yea as soon may I force a Camels [5] Mat. 19.24 back through the eye of a Needle as remove [6] Gal 6.1 offences meerly by finding fault The end of rebuke is [7] 2 Tim. 4.2 Ezek. 3.26 to correct I passe therefore from these [8] Joh. 14.1 troubles of heart unto a faith in the living God I proceed from what our Saviour here prohibiteth unto what he next enjoyneth Dearly beloved you will now at the last escape reproofs if [9] Pro. 10.17 15.31.12.1 without further troubles of heart you receive instruction I told you Matter of instruction from the (1) Page 2. beginning that this seasonable Precept Believe in God believe also in me was cloathed with Evangelical instructions It is so Take the words 2 absolutely and they are our instruction they teach us that believe in God believe in Christ we must but consider them as opposed against the distractions of the Disciples hearts you will then learn that This (2) 1 Joh. 5.4 is the victory which overcometh all our troubles even our faith How great a comfort faith is against the greatest troubles of mind will appear from the (1) See page 6 various occasions of this Text. Occasion One was (1) Luke 22.24 ambition disappointed The hearts of these Disciples hab been troubled with worldly interests They had (2) Luke 24.21 Acts 1.6 dreamed hitherto of glorious preferments upon earth they had been (3) Luke 22.24 striving which of them should sit nearest unto their enthroned Lord I say these Disciples although they (4) Mat. 16.16 John 6.69 knew Jesus as the Son of God yet not [5] Mat. 20.9 knowing the Scriptures they aimed at worldly greatnesse they as yet fancied that (6) Matth. 20.21 Mark 9.34 Acts 1.6 Surely Christ would in good time reign gloriously upon earth To follow this to them [7] Mat. 2.2 known to others [8] Mat. 27.11 unknown King of the Jews they had (9) Mark 10.28 30 forsaken all and in so doing they had (10) Mat. 20.21 Luke 22.29 promised unto themselves no small advancement Now when they (11) John 13.31 learn that God would straightway glorifie their long attended Master not with Thrones but with Thornes not with a royal Diadem but by 12 sufferings when they in stead of seeing Christ restore the Kingdom unto Israel hear him (12) Mat. 16.21 John 13.1.33 14.2 contriving his departure out of this world when instead of being exalted by their Lord they must by him be (13) Mat. 13.36 37 shortly left at a losse this was unto them a consternation of spirit the failing of this their long expectation made their (14) Pro. 13.12 heart sick this this was one reason why our Saviour mindeth them to their comfort ye believe in God Secondly Whereas these were they which Occasion of all men had (1) Luke 22.28 continued with Christ in his Temptations Christ now twitteth them how of them one should (2) John 13.21 betray him another should (3) John 13.38 deny him all should (4) Mat. 36.31 forsake him These were (5) Mar. 8.38 Rev. 21.8 hard sayings Their meek Master had deserved no such uncomely neglects from them And now long at last

napkin [5] Mat. 27.5 for want of a halter In stead of ascending to heaven after Christ of rising to a lively hope in Christ of crucifying it self with Christ c. the heart of Judas could [6] Mat. 27.3 see Christ condemned and so [7] Mat. 27.5 leave him Wherefore Christ will leave the name of Judas for [8] Isa 65.15 a curse unto his chosen For unto [9] Isa 65.11 such as forsake him thus [10] Isa 65.13 saith the Lord Behold my servants shall eat but ye shall be hungry behold my servants shall drink but ye shall be thirsty behold my servants shall rejoyce but ye shall be ashamed behold they [11] Isa 65.14 that for sake the Lord shall cry for sorrow of heart they shall howl for vexation of spirit but unto You in my Text unto you his constant followers he saith Let not your heart be trrubled The Text opened Ye believe in God believe also in me In my Fathers house are many Mansions Which words as they are [1] Vide sis versionem Persicam all spoken in a breath so they do all breath out one and the same consolation This Gospel is a kingdom of heaven in an unexpected sense Look up unto the heavens in them ye see one glory of the stars another glory of the Moon another glory of the Sun yet all these together help to make up but one Heaven So look down upon my Text in it ye see the tryal of afflictions the exerctse of faith and the expectation of glory yet do all these make up but one comfort The Tabernacles of God the Son of God the God and Father of Mercies are all of them brought within this Text purposely to ease the Disciples hearts Object Object Though it be [1] Isa 65.14 promised My servants shall sing for joy of heart even then when we expect that [2] Isa 51.11 sorrow and mourning should flee away we are forced to break forth (3) Job 30.26 with Job When I looked for good then evil came and when I waited for light then came darkness Answ As there is no denial Answer that [1] Act. 14.12 through much tribulation we must enter into the kingdom of heaven so it must be confessed that (2) Isa 35.10 The ransomed of the Lord shall obtain joy and gladness While Christ adviseth Let not your heart be troubled he presumeth [3] Dr. Sibs Serm. in locum that troubles were nigh and nigh they were many already did and more [4] Erasmus Tr●inus Marloratus Maldonatus Rupertus Gorraaus Jansenius c. in locum shortly would press and press heavily upon their hearts whence ariseth DOCTRINE I. viz. Even the hearts of Christs Chosen Disciples are not exempted from troubles in [5] Dr. S bs ubi supra this world But while against these sorrows of this world he enjoyneth Let not your heart be troubled there ariseth another instruction which rolleth away the burden of the former namely this DOCTRINE II. Even great afflictions may not trouble a chosen Disciples heart 1. That even the hearts of Christs chosen Disciples are not exempted from troubles in this life sad experience evinceth one [1] Mat. 6.34 day telleth another of this truth our whole [2] Job 14.1 life the whole [3] Joh. 16.33 world constantly afford witnesses of this complaint 2. On the other side since (1) Heb. 12.11 no chastening for the present seemeth joyous but grievous seeing as a [2] Prov. 27.3 stone so [3] 1 Pet. 1.6 1 Sam. 25.37 affliction is heavy it shall be my care to ease you of your griefs and to remove if not the stone it self yet a great part of its heavinesse Wherefore not questioning the former Doctrine the Doctrine implied I shall prosecute the later the Doctrine expressed while I First The Method State what Doctrine I would propose Secondly Prove the Doctrine which I state Thirdly Apply the Doctrine which I prove There be many that say unto us [1] Psal 4.6 who will shew us any good but Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us Beloved let not my weaknesse be your discouragement although I of my self [2] 2 Cor. 4.7 cannot turn your sorrow into joy or your mourning into gladnesse the good Angelin my Text now speaking by me [3] Rom. 10.17 can Where the word is the Word of a God although the voice be the voice of a man yet if that voice speak dry bones [4] Ezek. 37.4 7. may live Upon occasion other Disciples as well as you once asked among themselves [5] Mar. 16.3 4 Who shall roll away the stone from the Sepulchre And when they looked they saw the stone rolled away the like may ye if our God shall now vouchsafe to sanctifie unto you this Truth namely That even great afflictions may not trouble a believers heart I say DOCTRINE Even great afflictions may not trouble a believers heart The Doctrine stated viz. Though during this life sound believers are not exempted from great afflictions yet those great afflictions may by no means trouble their heart Object At this we already stumble What Object if the righteous perish may we not [1] Isa 57.1 lay it to heart When great afflictions befall us may not we well be troubled If the Lord strike should not (2) Jer. 5.3 man grieve Must we be stupid must we be Stoical when griefs are upon us Answer Questionless Answer we [1] Mic. 6.9 ought to hear as well the rod as him who hath appointed it this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 forbiddeth no such laying to heart it requireth no such heedlesness I say this Text prohibiteth not a reasonable sense but a (2) Rev. 21.8 distrustful fearfulnesse not a moderate care but an (3) 2 Cor. 7.10 unprofitable astonishment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 (4) Phil. 4.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be careful for nothing this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth a carking care a care not furthering but hindering duties I would have you (5) 1 Cor. 7.32 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without pensivenesse Let not your hearts be (6) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luk. 21.34 overcharged weighed down with cares So here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let not your heart be disturbed let not your fountain of right reason be mudded make not a Tartarus make not a hell of your heart While our Saviour here saith Let not your heart be troubled he v. 27. explaineth (7) L. Brugensis ad variant Lectiones Lat. notae himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 neither let it be dismayed Thus resolved I trust the longer while our troubles have stuck by us the sooner we shall be established in our present truth which is DOCTRINE Even great Afflictions should not perplex a believers heart Not to repeat what ye receive from (1) Dr. Donne his LXXIII Serm. and Dr. Sibs his

two Sermons on this Text. others That even great afflictions may not perplex a true Believers heart I shall endeavour to prove unto you from within the confines of the Text in hand I shall endeavour to clear it unto you 1. Negatively The Doctrine proved from the last closing of my Text. 2. Affirmatively from the first entrance of it 1. Negatively from v. 2. Negatively if it were not so I would have told you Whether ye supply (1) Dan. Heinsii Exer. i at in locum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or whether ye accept (2) Thus Regia Biblia Hispan Tho. Mo●tfortius MSS. Alexand. Nonnus MSS. Cantabr Sixtus Quintus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without a point before 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or whether (3) Thus Tremellius and to him assenteth Lud. de Dieu in locum with an interpunction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or whether ye reject both the interpunction and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 too (4) Thus the Version●s Arah ut Lat. Vulgat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or whether as we in our best English Translations do ye (5) Thus Erasmus Piscator Ro. Stephanus drias Montanus Beza Vers Syr. Grotius reject the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but make sure of the interpunction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To omit several (1) Such as the Aethiop and Pe sick Versions I in short conclude Whether with some ye paraphrase the words thus There is in heaven (2) Hammond in locum room enough for both you and me so that I need not tell you of my going to prepare a place for you Or whether ye lay aside Paraphrases and follow the various readings in a nearer sense as In vain (3) Lud. de Dieu ubi supro should I go to prepare a place for you could I not assure you there are in my Fathers house many Mansions Or There are (4) Heinsius ubi supra already prepared in my Fathers house many Mansions else I had told you that I go c. Or Iu (5) Arias Montaaus Erasimus Bez● Piscator G otius and as Dr. Donne saith the Church of England c. my Fathers house are many Mansions if it were otherwise I would not conceal it I would have told you for I who will not leave you ignorant go c. If it were not so I would have told you Whether ye examine the variantes (6) Vide sis Waltoni Biblia Polyglotta lectiones whether ye follow the most obvious opinions of most Interpreters or whether ye keep strictly to the last and best copy and sense too This one phrase from the mouth of Jesus Christ our Lord this I would have told you Is Law from Zion Statute-Law standeth a good and a most undeniable proof From these few words If it were not so I would have told you that English (1) Act. 14.12 S. Paul of (2) Dr. Donn ours deduceth (3) Ubi sapra a Standard whereby to measure [4] 1 John 4.1 all Doctrines Judge therefore By the mouth of no one of all his servants in the Old Testament in the New Testament neither by his servants nor by himself did the Lord Jesus at any time either expresly or implicitly say He would have great afflictions perplex believers hearts Wherefore the constant silence of the Lord Christ calleth out aloud and giving unto this truth his free assent most undoubltedly assureth every one among us that in as much as Jesus Christ our Lord requireth no such [1] Isa 1.12 matter from our hands No afflictions how great soever may at all perplex a believers heart That 's my first proof My second Proof is from verse the first Affirmatively Let not From verse first c. Throughout this whole Context these Disciples of the Lord Jesus were and were to be under great and sore tryals All this while how doth this captain of their salvation lead them How doth their Lord and Master tutor them Answ He telleth them what they must accompt upon he forewarneth them how that In the world they must [1] Joh. 16.33 expect trouble in the world they must [2] 2 Tim. 1.8 partake of the afflictions of the Gospel they must [3] 2 Tim. 2.3 endure hardness must [4] 2 Tim. 2.12 suffer persecution must [5] Mat. 16.24 in quem locum vide sis Casparum Sibelium deny themselves must [6] Luk. 9.23 take up their daily cross But may they at all disquiet may they at all perplex their minds No saith our blessed Saviour Fear (7) Rev. 2.10 none of all these evils Take (8) Ph●l 4.11 12 1 Pet. 5.7 Mat. 6.31 Luk. 12.11 nothought Possess your (9) Ph●l 21.19 souls in patience and however ye speed Let not (10) Joh. 14.27 your heart be troubled My Brethren of the clearness of any truths whatsoever greater evidence hath no man then this the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the precept the command the testimony the authority of Him who is the wisdom and the truth even of Jesus Christ our Lord. Wherefore I beseech you be your tryals never so great be the removal of a near friend never so afflicting yet remember the words which the Lord hath spoken unto you Let not your heart be troubled While ye draw near [1] Mat. 28.1 toward the Sepulchre I beseech you take notice that the [2] John 20.1 stone is taken away take notice that it is [3] Mat. 28.2 rolled back by the good Angel in my Text nay cast an eye again and having [4] Luk. 24.2 found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre behold how this Angel sitteth upon that (5) Mat. 28.2 stone That is the next viz. uponwhat ground for what reason it is that our most compassionate Redeemer will not here allow no not any afflictions how great soever to perplex his Disciples hearts The Reasons are seven-fold From the whole Text. But ere ever I can bring forth my Reasons I must remove one more stone at which some few are peradventure willing to stumble Quest Dub. If I would have told you standeth a most undeniable prohibition then what Statute-Law have you for Bowing at the name of Jesus for Bowing towards the East and to instance in no more for placing Tapers upon the Altar Answ 1. Solut. Law from Zion which therefore because it nowhere declareth these practises contrary to Gods revealed will [1] 1 Cor. 6.12 See also Cases of conscience about things indifferent 1662. by an indifferent hand alloweth them to be lawful Answ 2. Thou canst not say that they oppose Decency and Order for the most learned Fathers of our Church to whom it appertaineth [1] Tit. 1.5 1 Cor. 14.40 11.34 to determine what doth and what doth not make for Dececcy and Order do if not enjoyn yet allow them especially in Cathedrals Answ 3 Thou canst not say We have [1]

worketh in us both to will and to do then when we loath our mis-doings we know whom we are for Did no sin dwell in us it would not then appear to us that we follow after Righteousnesse for our Gods sake We should then lose that satisfaction which we now partake of Namely while our hearts assure us that we hate every false way hate sin as sin nay as our nay as our Gods enemy we can then conclude we can then unto our Joy conclude that while we (3) Rom. 7.25 in the mind serve the Law of God His we are (4) Rom. 6.16 2 Kings 9.32 unto whom we obey By this we satisfie our selves Herein we rejoyce yea and will rejoyce 6. 6 Comfort The forwardly Disciple is therefore suffered to (1) John 13.38 Math. 26.34 deny his Master that while he standeth he may expect to fall if he lean not (2) John 15.5 upon Christs strength but upon his own Not I but (3) 1 Cor. 15 10 grace The affrighted Child clingeth (4) Jer. 10.23 delightfully upon his mothers bosome I have set the Lord alwayes before me because he is at my right hand I (5) Psalm 16.8 shall not be moved I live yet not I but (6) Gal. 2.20 Christ liveth in me 7. 7 Comfort His grace is (1) Qu Deo proximus est lapsui non est vicinus Ambros sufficient for us Of Christs fulnesse all we receive (2) 1 Cor 12 9 Psalm 124 1 grace for grace either grace pardoning or grace assisting God would never have suffered Adam to have forfeited (3) Heb. 4.9 Paradise if he could not have prepared a better Rest for his Saints Let Lazarus sleep (4) John 11.4 9.3 our comfort is the Lord Jesus will awake him Sin desileth but the Fountain opened (5) Zech. 13.1 Heb. 7.25 unto the house of David washeth out all our pollutions Our spirit within us is wounded but there is (6) Mal. 4.2 healing in Christs wings and as we have ever need of pardon so the (7) Heb. 4.16 Throne of grace is never taken down The Child that cryeth is (8) Heb. 4.15 pitied nor is he ever more indulged then (9) Esay 40.11 27 29 31 45.24 when he is most diseased Surely I (10) Jer. 31 8 heard Ephraim bemoaning himself We are susfered (11) Esay 55.1 Cant. 5.1 Revel 22.18 to thirst that we may drink abundantly Food is pleasant unto (12) Jer. 31.25 the hungry Soul and Wine refresheth the (13) Zech. 10.6 7 fainting spirit If you see Peter weeping bitterly observe Jesus Christ (14) John 14.1 wiping away his tears Peradventure the Disciples hearts are troubled on purpose (15) Hos 2.14 to wit that their Lord Jesus may have an occasion to speak comfortably unto them 8. 8 Comfort The Righteous (1) Psalm 58.10 shall rejoyce when he seeth the vengeance for by this we know (2) Psalm 41.11 that God favoureth us I say we endure assaults that (3) Psalm 112.8 our eye may see our desire upon our (4) Eph. 6.12 Enemies We lye in ambush to take the accuser of the Brethren in his own malice We are set to strive (5) Psalm 59.1 3 11 60.3 4 5 61.3 against sin that the Captain of our Salvation may take our Adversary in his own (6) Assiduā tentatione tentat diabolus ut saltem taedio vincat quod in paradiso egit hoc quotidie agere non desistit Greg. mor. 24.5 Revel 12.10 stratagems At Doomes-day Satan shall know to his cost that it was his good will 6 to have ruined the Elect of God for every wound every bruise every scar which lighteth upon us here he shall pay dearly at long running Every fall which he giveth us shall be his own one day He shall be talked with in the end for having dealt so despightfully with our Fathers children Let us therefore refist unto blood striving against sin The Lord of our hosts he is the defender of our faith It is unto us a pleasure to fight under the banner of Christ Jesus our Lord forasmuch as in Him we are more then Conquerors 9. 9 Comfort Our demerits (1) Ezek. 16.61 63 Rom. 8.5 endeer unto us the loving-kindnesses of our Redeemer VVill these Disciples forsake Christ deny Christ c. and yet may not their heart be troubled By this we know that Jesus Christ (2) Hos 14.4 Rom. 3.24 1 Cor. 2.12 John 15.16 Esay 64.6 63.7 Deut. 9.6 7 10.15 loveth his Disciples freely Herein is comfort the Rich Bridegroom of our Souls loveth His Spouse as well in sicknesse as in health He taketh us with all our faults He loveth us not for our sake but for his own He loveth us meerly because he delighteth to love us 10. 10 Comfort No Conquest (1) 2 Tim. 2.5 1 Cor. 9.24 Heb. 11.6 Revel 3.21 Phil. 4.17 2 Cor. 9.6 Gal. 6.7 8 Matth. 16.27 1 Pet. 5.4 no Crown no Victory no conquest no fight no Victory no sin against which to strive no fight Behold now O ye mortals it is a favour if we are singled out to be of the forlorne hope a favour if we are allowed to strive against that evil which the holy Spirit of our Almighty God overcometh for us The gracious and bountifull God fighteth in us and for us purposely that he may reward and crown us according unto our rather according unto his Victories So dealeth the most liberal Lord God by us as we deal by our little children We finde employments for our very little children not for any service which little Infants can do us but for that we do naturally delight to give them all possible encouragement We do every minute put them upon duty that we may every minute feed them with Rewards Oh my Beloved These troubles in these Disciples hearts are abundantly recompenced within the (2) Quomodo multas mansiones apud Patrem si non pro varietate meritorum Tertullian Scorpiaco mansions in my Fathers House Probably others may give better reasons for it then I do or can but that all of you may henceforward encourage your selves against the sins dwelling in you you will henceforward Against our want of grace often call unto your remembrance that in even one (1) John 13.38 14.1 and the same breath the mighty Jesus both forewarneth Peter thou shalt deny me thrice and forearmeth Peter Let not thine heart be troubled Now as here is life of comfort against our inherent silthinesse and superfluity of naughtinesse so here is strong Consolation against our decay and want of grace When these Disciples were [2] John 13.38 foretold that as well resolved as they were they should forsake Christ when they had heard within how small a space Cephas should thrice at once deny his Master then there arose in their heart fears and jealousies doubtings and despair They then began to

Gospel these very persons [21] Luke 6.13 he ordained to be His Apostles and Embassadors 6. Lastly VI. Reply Believers (1) Like Nicostratus in Aelian have another eye to view such Pictures with then disquiet spirits have In this Text very faulty our persons spoken unto are their hearts are overcharged with care they have little or no Faith in Christ they sin against heaven nevertheless their Master you see harboureth (2) Compare John 13.38 with Luke 22.16 and Mar. 16.7 against them no discontents forgiveth all maketh the best of all yea he here preventeth their trouble He doth not despise but pity not reject but assist their persons So many of you as are followers of Christ like dear Children Let the same (3) Eâ que nque ansâ prehendas quâ commodè teneri potest Epictetus mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus If we your Ministers err like men that is like these Apostles let this stir up in you not your corruptions but your Graces Ye will not therefore dash your feet against (4) Mat. 16.18 these stones Happily we your Ministers are therefore permitted to follow these persons here spoken to in their defects that ye our Congregations may have the praise of imitating the person here speaking in His perfections With joy may we draw (5) Isa 12.3 waters from these Wells of salvation if ye thus roll away the stone from your (6) Zech. 13.1 fountains (7) Jer. 15.19.2 Of their Prelacy mouth So long as friendship with the world is enmity against God so long will humane obstinacy be (1) Joh. 15.19 20.16.33 wounding Godliness Some whom natural light daunteth from opening their mouths immediately against God himself make bold and (2) Numb 16.3.11 spare not to ease their spleen upon Gods chosen Prest-hood as the Law so the (3) Jude 11. Gospel shall never want for such as unawares to themselves second the gain-sayings of Corah Let our Clergy mourn or pipe fast with the Baptist or feast with their Lord yet still as the (4) Isa 8.14 Master himself abideth a rock of offence to every unregenerate person so abideth his Minister too Before the Repairer of our breach had (5) See Dr. Washburn his 1661. May 29. Serm. upon Isa 58.12 prosperously disappointed them who took the Houses of God into their possession the rock of offence then was that the consecrated Levite was and alas he was made the very Off-scouring of his people Now that great Mountain cannot stand before our Zerubbabel the prejudice the scandal now taken is that the self same Levite is no longer continued the Scum and Off-scouring of his people that is the (6) Mal. 3.9 Deut. 12.19 Reproach and Guilt of his brethren He is now envied as too great or too rich or both Might some men prevail the person here speaking in this Text should have been neither Melchizedec nor the son of David no King of the Jews by birth nor High-Priest by Calling nor should his immediate servants his immediate successors in the work of his Ministry have received either Dignity or Revenue whereas that ineffable felicity which we do all of us partake from our Head Christ Jesus who so often as he pleased did in the days of his flesh in all holiness and wisdom exercise the power to him committed may seem unto me at least to justifie unto the Ministers of his Gospel both Dignities and Revenues First I see this holy Jesus blessed for ever 1. In Dignities anointed in the days of his flesh (1) Psal 45.7 above his fellows yet not ashamed to call them brethren I see him owning a (2) Joh. 10.16 Plurality but it is for the benefit of his Church I see him receiving (3) Mat. 2.11.21.5 Homage Presents and Triumphs yet still he ceaseth not to deny himself I see him (4) Heb. 8.6 dignified nay (5) Joh. 13.31 glorified mean while he taketh up his Cross all power was (6) Mat. 2.2.28.18 committed unto him nevertheless He so used (7) Joh. 18.36 Luke 9.58 this world as though he used it not An (8) Heb. 3.1 1 Pet. 2.25 Arch Bishop he is and blessed be God that he is such A Rabbi he (9) Joh. 1.38 was and therefore a (10) Joh. 3.2 Rabbi because a Teacher sent from God They called him (11) Joh. 13.13 Lord Lord but so far was he from lording it over Gods Inheritance that I advise you learn of him for he is meek Ye see now that a Samuel a Jehoiadah a Jesus may be a good Priest yet a good Ruler too Ye perceive that let a Preacher of Righteousness keep close unto the (12) In ea regula incedimus quam Ecclesia ab Apostolis Apostoli à Christo Christus à Deo accepit Tertul. de Praes c. 37. example of Christ Jesus and make him rich make him great give him a Plurality make him a Doctor make him a Prelate make him a Bishop make him a Lord Bishop make him a Lord Arch Bishop yet still the zeal of Gods house eateth him up His feet still not only continue but appear beautiful upon the mountains and He himself not only appeareth but continueth a Pastour according unto (13) Prov. 22.11 his King yea according unto his (14) Jer. 3.15 Gods own heart Trample not upon Aarons Rod for it (15) Num. 17.5 flourisheth Secondly 2. In Revenues I need not entitle the person or persons in my Text unto Church-Revenues where methinketh they defend themselves and have methinketh warrant so to do 1. First From the light of Nature Ask a Heathen what he (1) Videas quae Selden de Dits Syris Syatag 1. c. 4 c. 6. Syntag 2. c. 17. Videas Dan. 3. 1. Hos 2.8 Act. 19.24 can do what he can part with in service to his false gods The blinder his devotion the more mayest thou see Next From the (2) Ex. Le Num. Law of Moses for my part I cannot conceive that God who requireth Faith Purity and Sincerity as well under the (3) Isa 1.11 Law as under the Gospel God whose Spirit and Truth is opposed not (4) Mede on John 4.23 unto the Beauty but (5) 2 Cor. 3 8 11. unto the Ceremony of Levitical Rites I say I cannot conceive that this wise God who was so sumptuous in the (6) Heb. 10.1 shadow will have the substance less (7) Gen. 14.20 2 Chro. 29.31 costly Take in the third place Examples of good men He harpeth on another string then (8) 2 Sam 7.2.24.24 1 Kin. c. 5. c 6. c. 7. would David he maketh himself wiser then was Solomon who esteemeth any part of this worlds wealth too excellent for Gods Temple Fourthly From Evangelical (9) Isa 61.6 60 6 7 9. Deut. 33.19 compared with Mat. 4.15 Predictions these therefore promise unto us affluence of temporal blessings because plenty of

3.20 greater then thy heart and knoweth all things mean while thine own conscience condemneth thee over and over and loe the guilt of thine own conscience keepeth thee aloof from Gods presence thou art rightly Adams brat if God call thee thou [6] Gen. 3.8 10 hidest thy self Thy heart reproveth thee for not believing the [7] Deut. 7.9 faithfull God thy heart reproveth thee for not receiving the Lords Christ thy heart reproveth thee for not preferring the mansions of Heaven before the torments of Hell and knowing so ill by thy self thou playest least in sight thou hast forfeited thine own peace by troubling thine own soul yet seekest not for peace in Christ Yea thou hast so dis-countenanced the Ministerie of reconciliation so despised the Spirit so neglected thy Redeemer and so defaced the Fathers image that though such is their goodnesse the Trinitie of Persons would shew thee compassion thou hast not confidence to look them in the face Thou hast repeated contumelies and obstinacies against Heaven and mayest justly wonder that thou art not already in Hell True heavenly mansions there are but thou fanciest them too neer the Lodgings of a provoked Governour couldest thou hope for mercie alas thy title (8) Non est censendus haeres qui non festinat ad haereditatem seemeth lost thorough want of timely claim grant thy claim to continue valid thou canst not knock at heaven gates for pure shame they indeed are open but thy tardie heart blusheth to look toward them this the third see now the tri-angle in thy heart opposeth it self against the Trinitie in thy God I mean there is never a corner in thy stonie heart whereon thou hast not sealed thine own doom in despight of God and of his free grace 5. Hadst thou a power hadst thou a will Findeth this sealed stone watched hadst thou a face too to overtake God in Christ at the heavenly mansions there yet remaineth one hinderance which rendereth this stone of unbelief more unlikely to be rolled away from thy heart then did all the three former circumstances together Several of the inhabitants could not (1) Genes 29 8 remove that stone which lay upon the mouth of the Well at Haran yet Jacob then strong in affections could by himself (2) Genes 29 10. alone roll it away Vehement love may doe much neverthelesse I must assure the unbeliever that were his Zeal although so it is not but were his Zeal as fervent towards Gods heavenly Mansions as ever Jacobs was toward Labans house yet still his condition is farr short of Jacobs when Jacob heaved at that weight he found no opposers but the Unbeliever when he once striveth to remove the stone from off his heart he shall meet with as many Oppugners as (3) Gen. 26. Isaac and his servants found Thou who art dead and buried in trespasses and sin as verily as thou cherishest a heart of unbelief so verily upon every sealed corner of that stonie heart of thine there is set a strict a constant watch look how often thou attemptest to undeceive thine heart to shake off thine unbelief and to walk in newnesse of living so often though thou seest them no more then Elishaes servant (1) 2 King 6.16 17 saw his friends so often thou meetest enemies more then one or two That thou didst (2) Gen. 3.7 rashly cast thy self into that (3) Gen. 3.5 pit which thine adversaries digged for thee was (4) Eccle. 7.29 thine own foolishnesse that being fallen into this open sepulchre thou like the (5) Job 38.30 lost waters under the earth or like the carkasses in their graves art hid with a stone is from thy self too that being (6) Rom. 23.32 shut up under unbelief thou hast affixed thine assent is also thine own wilfulnesse but now that all these evils are thus by thy self brought upon thy self the World the Flesh the Devil they (7) Mat. 27.66 set a strict watch and keep a strong guard upon thy stone-dead heart Men Fathers and Brethren ye have a little seen what a wretch he is who is none of you in my Text by continuing in sin he would (1) Mat. 28.12 conceal that ever Jesus Christ (2) Col. 2 12 arose from the dead and by adhering unto vanitie he would divulge that (3) Mat. 28 13 Christ is (4) Tit. 1.16 Phil. 3.18 stollen from him but by this shift what good plotteth he for himself Alas whether he will or no he is shaken he becommeth a dead man a stone of unbelief lieth upon the (5) Mark 15 46 door of his heart and that stone is (6) Mat. 27.66 setled fixed and sealed with insufficiencie aversnesse despaire he wanteth a power he wanteth a will and saith within himself There is no hope We read of stones of (1) Job 28.3 darknesse of stones of (2) Ezek. 28 14 fire and of (3) Esa 34.11 stones of emptinesse and we find them all three in the heart of unbelief Wretch the world circumventeth thee the world permitteth thee not to mind that one (4) Luke 10.42 only thing which is necessary the world hurleth stones of emptiness at thy head the flesh that (5) 1 Pet. 2.11 warreth against thy soul that slingeth stones of fire against thee the Devil he fooleth thee with delaies he lulleth thee to sleep on stones of darkness thou walkest in thy sleep thou walkest in (6) Joh. 12.35 darknesse and knowest not whither thou goest Poor creature thy heart is never free from the worst of troubles and those troubles alas are but forerunners of wrath to come in as much as thou (7) Jer. 5.3 hast refused correction Thou hast no God to trust in a God to (8) Lev. 26.14 c. punish thee thou hast thou hast no Jesus to flee unto a Judge to (9) Esa ● 24 avenge himself upon thee thou hast the mansions above are (10) Matt. 25 10 shut agoinst thee but the gates of hell (11) Psal 9.17 Esa 5.14 groan for thee thou hast like (12) Psal 22.16 Shebnah digged thine own grave even destruction eternal destruction to thy self thy soul is among Lions on whose Den a (13) Dan. 6.17 stone is rolled and sealed thou hast of thine own accord gone (14) Esa 14.19 down to the stones of the pit as a carcase trodden under foot by Satan Hast thou not (15) Jer. 2.17 procured this unto thy self in that Judas (16) John 13 30 like thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God Know (17) Jer. 2.23 what thou hast done for thine own (18) Jer. 2.19 wickednesses shall correct thee this is thy lot the portion of thy measures (19) Jer. 13.25 from the Lord because thou hast unthankfully forgotten him and hast like another Judas trusted in falshood Peradventure the Lord hath now at length given thee a heart to dread him Gratifieth and smite thee Peradventure With

of grace then those [11] Isa 41 2.55.5 Jer. 4.2.10.7 Zech. 2.11.8.22 Turks have which worship Mahomet the same God which (12) Isa 38.19 Eccle. 8.113 Dan. 4.17 Psal 66.9 spareth unto thee the breath of life while Judas Julian nay while some born since thou wert born are grievously tormented in Hell the self same God would have thee [13] Ezek. 33.11 escape the everlasting torments due unto thee and to thy heart of unbelief Thy Rebellion [14] Isa 1.2 4 24. Nahum 2.2 6. hath been inexcusable and thou liest wholly at the power of that King against whom thou hast rebelled yet lo he offereth [15] Ezek. 18.32 Isa 55.7 a Free Pardon yea he offereth terms of Peace every way for thine advantage thou (16) Rom. 8.7 art at enmity with him but he hath Love free (17) Hos 14.4.2.19 love everlasting loves for thee though (18) Psal 9 17 11.6 Hell be thy portion fain would God entitle thee (19) 1 Pet. 1.4 to an inheritance in heaven When thou hast done all that ever thou canst be able to do thou wilt be at the best but an (20) Luk. 17.10 compared with Mat. 25.30 unprofitable creature I wiss yet loe God longeth to (21) Deut. 4.6 7.28.58.10.21 Psal 34.2 Jer. 17.14 honour thee with his service as (22) Deut. 3.1 Ezek. 6.9 corrupt as thine affections are God (23) Hos 2.14 Jer. 3.14 Isa 54.5 wooeth thee for them as wicked as thy heart is God (24) Gen. 6.5 compared with Jer. 4.14 and Prov. 23.26 calleth for it if thou wilt not believe him search the Scriptures in them he offereth thee his (25) Prov. 1.23 own Spirit in them he offereth unto thee his his own Son Oh he taketh glory Luke 19.10 in saving so lost a sinner as thou art Thou witness thy life past thou hast had no (26) Psal 14.4 knowledge of God let it be Gods glory that he can cause thee to (27) Jer. 24.7 know him thou hast a stony heart of thine own let it be the glory of thy God that he can (28) Ezek. 36.26 give thee a heart of flesh The Lord hath (29) Deut. 29.4 not given thee a heart to perceive nor eyes to see nor ears to hear unto this day let it now be his praise that he hath giveth thee a (30) Pro. 20.12 hearing ear a seeing eye and a believing (31) Phil. 1.29 heart too Thou hast had no (32) Rom. 3.18 Job 6.14 fear of God before thine eyes let God have the honour of (33) Jer. 32.40 Psal 51.6 10. putting his fear in thy inward parts Happily God hath hitherto winked (34) Act. 17.30 at thy carelesness on purpose that the (35) Rom. 5.20.7.13 transcendency of thy guilt may exalt (36) Luk. 7.47 Isa 30.18 Psal 130.4 his free his unsearchable mercies the (37) Luk. 51.13.25.11 Dan. 9.9 Lord forgive thy sins for they are great the Lord help (38) Mar. 9.14 thine unbelief for thy heart is not stedfast the Lord have compassion upon thee for (39) Heb. 5.2 thou art ignorant The holy God can write his Law even in (40) Jer. 31.33 thy heart he can pour upon thee a (41) Zec. 12.19 Spirit of Prayer and of supplication In all thy doings (42) Ezek. 21.24 thy sins appear but the person speaking in my Text can take away those (43) Zech. 3.4 Isa 64.9 filthy rags from thine incurable wounds thou hast no (44) Jer. 30.13 healing Medicines but the Physitian in my Text is the God of thy health he (45) Jer. 30.17 can heal thee and all thy back-slidings he can cause thee to draw near and to (46) Jer. 30.21 approach and to come with (47) Heb. 4.16 boldness unto the Throne of His grace Sinner thou hast (48) 2 Kin. 17.17 sold thy self to work wickedness but be no longer the (49) Rom. 6.16 servant of a Devil for Christ (50) 1 Cor. 6.20 hath bought thee and that not with corruptible gold but with his own blood his precious blood his precious his most precious blood Greater love hath no man (51) John 15.130 then this viz. that he lay down his life for his friend but Christ commendeth his love toward thee in that thou being (52) Rom. 5.8 an Enemy a polluted an inconsiderable a contemptible enemy and He being a righteous a holy person a person therefore a man (53) Heb. 2.14 because a God died died the shameful death of the Cross and despised the shame because he died for thee Who (1) Rom. 8.34 is he that condemneth It is the person speaking in my Text that died Thou who hast been so careless of Christ hitherto happily thou now turnest over a new leaf happily thou wilt now (2) Ephes 5.16 redeem thy time and amend one the (3) Jer. 7.3.23.22 evil of thy doings thou wilt put away from thee if thy canst thou wilt be renewed (4) Eph. 4.23 Col. 3.10 as well as thou canst in the spirit of thy mind happily thou art mortified and grieved and full (5) Zech. 12.10 of bitterness for the (6) Eccles 7.25 wickenness of thy folly happily thou resolvest to (7) 2 Cor. 7.1 clense thy self from all filthinesse of the flesh and of the Spirit to give (8) 1 Thes 5.17 thy self unto prayer to exercise (9) 1 Tim. 4.7 thy self unto godlinesse and to (10) 2 Cor. 13.9 strive after perfection all the days of thine appointed time if so this is a good change of mind in this thy good resolution go on prosper this notwithstanding know unless thou make the person speaking in my Text thy Refuge thy practise of Piety will never (11) Heb. 10.22 Tit. 3.5 quiet thy conscience the reason is though a (12) Rom. 8.15 spirit of bondage may restrain thee from evil and may presse thee upon duties yet it can (13) Ephes 2.9 never render thee acceptable in the presence of an offended God alas the best works that ever thou canst perform (14) Tit. 1.15 Gal. 2.16 shall never be able to satisfie the most infinite Justice of a provoked God no not (15) Heb. 9.22 for the least of the least of all thine infirmities Be as upright as ever thou canst yet of all those innumerable debts due from thee unto thy Lord thou shalt never be able to pay (16) Mat. 5.26 one mite that is sterling if this alone be that Plea by which thou hopest to (17) Rom. 3.20.24 answer the Law never never look the severe Judge in the face assure thy self that the just Judge of all the earth will do right Judas (19) Mat. 27.4 repented himself of his evil and yet Judas (20) Act. 1.25 perished in his transgression and so mayest thou if thou hope to pacifie God by thine own righteousness How then shall my Conscience obtain peace with

74.20 every dark corner of thy [17] Jer. 17.9 deceitful heart with Gods [18] Zeph. 1.12 compared with Prov. 6.23 and Psal 119.9 105 candle mourn [19] Zech. 12.10 as well thou mayest for undoing thy self and for putting the ouly begotten of thy Father unto the expences of so much pains sufferings and blood This done [1] Mat. 26.41 fast and pray lest thou enter into temptations Let a deep a lasting [2] 1 Tim. 1.15 sense of thy vileness ever and anon pluck thee upon thy knees be often humbling [3] Jam. 4.9 10 thy self in the sight of that God whom thou hast so carelesly [4] Rev. 3.20 bloted out of doors be often mourning at the remembrances of those wounds wherewith thou (5) Zech. 12.10 compared with Phil. 3.10 hast peirced the very heart of thy truest friend grieve frequently (6) Eph. 4.30 for those unkind repulses which thou hast almost daily given unto the meek and Dove-like spirit even then when he attempted thy sanctification All this while be not (7) 2 Cor. 2.11 ignorant of Satans devices but counter-mine (8) Eph. 6.11 his stratagems expect his (9) Eph. 6.13 assaults and (10) Ibid. arm thyself as against an (11) 1 Pet. 5.8 enraged Devil for a hundred to one but being (12) Mark 9.26 forced to surrender his strong hold he will tear thy bosome cast thee down and mischief thee all he can One thing more if thou wouldest fight a (13) 2 Tim. 4.7 good fight have as little to do with (14) 2. Tim. 2.4 Heb. 12.1 1 Cor. 7.23 Phil. 3.13 the world as thou canst alas thou hast business enough and enough to set right all accompts between thy Redeemer and thy soul and having laid (15) Heb. 6.1 a good foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith towards God reserve a jealous eye over thine unexperienced heart lest at any time that make the present (16) Psal 30.6 7. John 5.14 Psal 85.5 peace of thy conscience a snare and occasion unto future security In a word (17) Phil. 2.12 work out thy salvation with fear and trembling for (18) Heb. 10.26 if thou sin wilfully after thou hast received the knowledge of the truth thy last errour will be worse then (19) Mat. 12.45 thy first Be not weary (20) Gal. 6.9 of well-doing God (21) Jude 24. is able to keep thee from falling follow him and follow (22) Num. 14.24 him fully turn unto him with (23) Psal 119.2 Jer. 24.7 thy whole heart and the Lord perswade thee so to do as by others so by these following MOTIVES MOTIVE Motive 1. I. The Duty incumbent Many would accept of life did they fancy the (1) Luk. 1.74 75. terms the stone whereat they stumble is not God severity but Gods (2) 1 The. 4.3 Will they are jealous not of his fierce wrath but of his good (3) Psal 5.4 Rom. 12.1 pleasure they would seek his pardon could they avoid his [4] Psal 119.4 commands but be not thou thus ignorant Oh consider that although [5] Joh. 13.30 Mat. 27.4 5. Judas reject Christ still and still expect damnation yet still this neglect of his doth no [6] Deut. 28.58 whit exempt him from homage Dispair is no [7] Mat. 25.27 Mas 3.13 14 acquittance from duty whether we be good or evil [8] Mat. 4.10 Deut. 10.12 20 servants we are Will we nill we God is [9] Jer. 5.22 Mal. 1.6 Prov. 16.4 Lord over us and we whether we [10] 1 Tim. 4.16 save our selves or perish are bound [11] Jer. 10.7 to obey him Walk among all the spirits in [12] 1 Pet. 3.19 prison those souls in hell that are now suffering torments there they will all enform thee that had they obeyed more they had suffered less Were it utterly impossible for Judas to escape condemnation yet still it is his prudence to be as guiltless as he may be The reason is God [13] Mat. 16.27 rewardeth every one according to his works whether his works be fruits of faith unto holiness or of unbelief to unrighteousness Were I a Reprobate I would be beaten with as few stripes as I could but the [14] 1 Thes 5.9 2 Tim. 1.7 Scripture offereth more grace MOTIVE II. Motive 2. Mans perfection before his Fall When our late Rebellions grew monstrous and robbed us of the (1) K. Charles the Second Lam. 4.20 breath of our Nostrils forcing the (2) 1 Sam. 9.20 desire of our eyes to see many a sad day and to (3) 2 Tim. 2.3 endure hardness beyond the seas as (4) Mic. 7.8 dark as his afflictions were his (5) Isa 62.3 Diamond shined in the thickest cloud his serene Majesty reserved a lustre how low soever he was brought in worldly exigencies yet still he cherished within his royal bosome the soul of a King how deserted so ever he did and would live like a Prince Imitate thou thy most exemplary Soveraign Leave sordid actions unto Swine and Vermine for thereunto they were (6) Gen. 3 14 2 Pet. 2.22 created mean while consider thou thine extract be not mean-spirited for thou art high (7) Judg 8.18 21 born The world was created to serve thee serve (8) Psal 8.6 not thou the world neither become a slave unto thy lusts for God (9) Gen. 1.26 made thee a master of thine affections during his innocency Adam knew no sin abhorre thou to be acquainted with it God made thee for (10) Isa 43.7 himself change not so great a Master He made thee (11) Eccl. 7.29 Deut. 32.5 upright do not thou grow crooked he made thee [12] Gen. 1.31 27. good be not thou evil thou didst resemble the King thy Father once renew in thee the beauty [13] 2 Cor. 3.18 of his Image strive after Holiness because he [14] 1 Pet. 1 15 Mat. 5.48 is holy after perfection because he is perfect affect to be like so heavenly a Father wear his Righteousness tread in his steps follow him (15) Eph. 5.1 Phil. 2.15 as a dear child How great soever thy fall is (16) 1 Cor. 15.22 in Adam remember thou from whence thou art fallen Let the world confess that Alexander is indeed the son of the Macedonian Philip I say in all thy Tran●actions remember (17) Eccl. 12.1 thy Creatour Adam (18) Luk. 3.38 was the Son of God MOTIVE III. Motive 3 Man 's Fall in Adam if thou perish thou (1) Esth 4.16 canst but perish In a small Orchard of mine At the Parsonage in Burton on the Hill 2 Psal 148.7 8 Jer. 4.11 12 the high winds 1661 2. Feb. 18th blew up a fruit-tree tearing the very roots from the stump although it was blown quite up and was separated wholly from the roots with much ado I planted it again for why it may nay it

because he is yet a youth a Gideon will make make them his (19) Judg. 8.21 ornament MOTIVE XIII To omit many others Motive 13. the last Motive which now presseth why thou shouldest return why if thou return thou shouldest return unto the Lord and why if thou return unto the Lord thou shouldest return unto him with thy whole heart is The (1) compare Ex. 7.13 with Job 23.16 Gen. 19 11. with 21.19 Numb 22. v. 25 with ● 31. 2 King 6.20 ● 18 17. Luk. 24.16 31 John 20.14 with Dan. 3.25 Deut. 29.4 with 2 Tim. 2.21 Deut. 5.29 with Isa 59.1 2 sim 6.9 power of God Whence was it that heretofore what evil thou wert loth to commit in the sight of man that thou couldest boldly perpetrate before the face of the (2) Gen. 16.13.39.9 ever-present God Whence was it that the very same affections of thine which have been (3) Phil. 3.19 so mindless of spiritual blessings have been so inordinate unto vile lusts or that the same understanding of thine which is so wise (4) Rom. 3.11 18. in the things of this world is so far to seek in the things of a better world If thou knowest not whence this is I will resolve thee the thing is of God viz. from the power of his justice Now the same God which can in justice leave thee to thy foolishness so far as to make thee fear (5) Rom. 3.18 man more then the face of the most holy The same God can in mercy bring unto thee thy right senses and make thee fear to do evil if for mans sake for Gods (6) John 5.9 Jer. 5.22 sake much more The same God which could suffer thine affections to go awhoring after their shame (7) Psal 25.12 can place them upon the things above and the same God which suffered thy brains to weary themselves in studying how to ensnare thy self in the world the same God can when he shall so please make thee (8) Psal 51.6 wise unto salvation True (9) 2 Cor. 3.5 were there not a power in God able to give unto thee what he expecteth from thee there were then some cloak for thy back-slidings but the same God which (10) Ezek. 18.32 biddeth thee turn is able (11) Jer. 31.18 Lam. 5 21 to turn thee and therefore he (12) Prov. 1.23 reproveth thee to this end that through his strength thon mayest turn unto him The same God which calleth thee unto (13) 2 Pet. 3.9 repentance can (14) Act. 5.31 give repentance and therefore he (15) Hag. 1.5 Rev. 2.5 instructeth thee to consider thy ways that thou mayest by his help gain repentance The same God which requireth (16) Deut. 28.58 thy fear can (17) Jer. 32.40 put his fear into thine inward parts and therefore he (18) Deut. 4.10.17.19 Prov. 3.2 Psal 19.7 directeth thee to the Scriptures that thou by them mayest learn to (19) Hos 3.5 fear the Lord and his goodness The same God which commandeth (20) 1 Joh. 3.23 thee to believe can (21) Phil. 1.29 give thee a power to believe and therefore (22) Rom. 10.14 instructeth thee that faith cometh by hearing The same God which (23) Eph. 5.18 willeth thee to be filled with the Spirit is able to (24) Joel 2.28 pour out spirit upon all flesh and therefore adviseth thee how (25) Luk. 11.13 Prov. 1.23 Gal. 3.5 thou shouldest obtain it In a word God who (26) Rev. 22.17 would have thee come unto Christ is able (27) Joh. 6.44 to draw thee unto him which that he may do he (28) Mat. 17.5 Heb ●2 25 calleth unto thee from heaven and a (29) John 1.37 9.38 smaller invitation then that by far hath served to make others deny themselves and follow Jesus Wouldest thou (30) Num. 23.10 have heaven drop into thy mouth open thy mouth wide and it (31) Psal 81.10 will so not (32) Mat. 7.21 Qui sicit te sine te non servabit te sine te else Wherefore O thou who hast so (1) Rom. 9.32 33 dangerously stumbled at the rock of offence that I have hitherto (2) Gal. 4.11 stumbled at thy fall thou gone so far (3) Joh. 13.30 from the person speaking in my Text that I have left my Text it self to follow thee thou whom I found with Judas but would bring back to Jesus with tears I ask thee What shall I do at the great and terrible day of the Lord Shall I call God to witness that thy (4) Hos 13.9 2 Pet. 3.9 1 Thes 1.10 5.9 perdition is of thy self Shall I call Judas to witness that thy damnation is (5) Joh. 3.19 just or may I with (6) Luk. 15.7 holy Angels joy at thy conversion Thy life may end before to morrow yet as short as thy life is before it doth end know One drop of the Lambs blood is able to dissolve even thine (7) 1 Pet. 1.2 adamant The Word of thy God is a (8) Jer. 23.29 hammer sufficient to deal with thy (9) Psal 19.7 nether-milstone it can make it a hewen stone it can carve it into several (10) Mal. 3.17 Jewels into Jewels engraven after the similitude of thy (11) 2 Cor. 3.18 Redeemer Destroy not thou that (12) Rom. 14.15 soul for which Christ died For my part what (1) 1 Kin. 19.20 have I done unto thee if a greater then Elijah hath cast his mantle of righteousness upon thee What (2) Joh. 13.17 Eccles 9.10 thou dost do quickly sacrifie (3) 1 Kin. 19.21 Rom. 12.1 thy self unto him minister unto him of thy (4) Luk 8.3 Mat. 3.8 substance bring for him thy (5) Luk 23.56 Mat. 25.4 best ointments See the (6) Luk. 23.55 Joh. 5.39 place where he is laid look (7) Mat. 28.1 Gal. 6.14 toward his sepulchre and while thou (8) Mark 16.4 Psal 32.5 lookest thou shalt find the stone rolled amay yea as undoubtedly as (9) Mat. 11.28 29 30. John 6.37 thou seekest Jesus who was crucified so undoubtedly the good Angel in my Text the person here speaking Jesus whom thou seekest shall number thee among his beloved Disciples and as he comforteth them so with the same affections and in the very same words he shall encourage thee Let not thy heart be troubled believe in God believe also in me in my Fathers house are many Mansions THrough a neglect of seeking the Lord while (1) Isa 55 6 Psal 95.7 2 Cor. 6.2 compared with Dan. 3.9.3 Mat. 7.7.22.29 John 5.39 he may be found To be believers the unbeliever conceiveth [2] Mat. 25.24 hard thoughts of his God conceiving so hard thoughts of his God he [3] Luk. 19.20 24 unthankfully wrappeth his talent in a napkin at last forfeiting [4] Luk. 19.26 that single talent for want of use he useth his

they should [17] Psal 119.107 Heb. 12.11 James 1.12 advance our duties too they are brought not to flatten but to [18] 1 Pet. 5.10 quicken us to our sins they are [19] Rom. 6.11 compared with Col. 3.5 Exod. 20.20 sepulchres but unto our graces they [20] Rom. 1634 Deut. 8.16 Gen. 22.18 are Monuments if once they be sepulchres unto our duties then this good Angel in my Text [21] 1 Cor. 10.13 rolleth them away but where they are Monuments of his [22] 2 Cor. 12.9 power in our graces there he resteth there he 23 sitteth down upon them Reason 2. 2. Reason from the heart From the [1] Jer. 4.19 seat of these troubles the heart Let not your heart be troubled because a heart Chirurgeons in their Anatomies phrase such and such a part a vessel a vessel for the brains a vessel for the urine for the blood c. Now he that fashioned for himself all our limbs while as yet there were none of them he useth this language too Mans soul body and (2) 1 Thes 5.23 spirit they are (3) 1 Pet. 3.7 2 Cor 4.7 vessels in the hand of the Potter this vessel he formed for such and such uses and for (4) Rom. 9.22 Prov. 23.26 none other intents or purposes whatsoever I say the (5) Psal 2.9 1 Thes 4.4 whole man much more the (6) Mat. 25.4 heart is a vessel a vessel appointed like those of the Temple for (7) Pro 23.26 Gods service wherefore the heart may not at all be taken up (8) Luk. 21.34 with cares fill a heart with the (9) Hos 7.7 scalding waters of lust or with the (10) Phil. 3.19 muddy waters of an earthly mind and what (11) Hos 4.11 room can there be in that heart for either (12) 1 Joh. 3.3 purity or (13) Mat. 6.21 heavenliness So fill a heart with bitter waters of (14) 2 Cor. 7.10 unreasonable grief or with the unwholesome waters of (15) Isa 7.9 distrustful fears and what room is there in that heart for the exercise of faith waters of affliction are of a (16) Job 33.16 Isa 44.33 Hos 5.15 cooling (17) 〈◊〉 1.16 clensing (18) Psal 119.67 healing nature and the heart should be a vessel prepared to receive them as (19) Eccles 7.3 such Blessed are ye that (20) Isa 32.20 sow unto the spirit besides all waters for the Spirit of God delighteth to (21) Pro 1.23 move upon these and it concerneth us that he findeth a (22) Eph. 4.30 quiet habitation Let neither (23) Jam. 1.4 impatiency nor (24) Mat. 8.26 distrust nor (25) Job 33.16 compared with Pro. 15.32 21.11 insensibleness neither quench nor grieve in the least any motions of so holy a Spirit If we would find our chastisements chastisements of peaee let not the heart be troubled That a second Reason as the heart is the seat of the vital spirits so it should be the seat of spiritual graces too It is at lest it should be a vessel [26] 2 Tim. 2.21 compared with Heb. 10.5 prepared for the [27] Col. 2.12 operations of God It should be filled not with carefulness but with the [28] Eph 5 18 Spirit Reason 3. 3 Reason from You. From you your heart Let not the heart be troubled because yours because it is as a vessel so a [1] Isa 66.20 consecra●ed vessel As for the wicked the heart of the wicked [2] Pro 10.20 is little worth but the heart of a believer is a [3] Jer. 31.20 dear heart unto her Bridegroom The heart of a believer is a rich [4] Mat. 25.4 Ephet 3.19 cabinet which holdeth vertu●s more graceful then gems graces more precious then jewels The heart of a believer is a heart not taken up with the blood of the fabulous Duck at Hales no nor yet with the blood of bulls or of goats but [5] Heb. 10.22 1 Cor. 2.2 Gal. 2 20 Acts 20.28 with the blood of the sacrificed lamb it carrieth within it self the blood of the Lord Jesus It is I say the mansion (6) Vita est mansio animae in corpore rectiùs spiritus in animâ say I. where the spirit of God dwelleth and is it fit think you that such a Temple as this such a Mercy-seat as this should be prophaned with fears and jealousies 4. Reason from God with cares and with destructive sorrows Reason 4. From God Almighty Let not your heart be troubled for ye believe in God The true Christian hath a (1) Exod. 34.6 2 Chro. 30.9 Neh 9.17 Isa 30.18 Psal 84.11 86.15 116.5.145.8 gracious God to believe in an all-knowing a merciful an (2) Gen. 17.1 all sufficient God to believe in and shall he not endure affliction according to the [3] Rom. 16.25 Eph. 1.19.3.28 power of God working mightily [4] Col. 1.29 in him shall a believers heart stoop should such a man as Nehemiah (5) Nehe 6.11 flee The Disciples were at the [6] Mark 16 5 first affrighted with the sight of their good Angel but what [7] Mark 16 6 followed There is if ye mark it there is a good Angel in this burning (8) Exod. 3.4 Dent. 33.16 bush Be not far off O Lord for trouble is (9) Psal 22.11 hard at hand Do thine afflictions make thee cry out Be [10] Psal 34.18.85.9 145.8 of good chear If once the child cryeth the Nursing-mother runneth If troubles be upon us be ye sure God [11] Psal 46.1 is a present help in those troubles That a fourth Reason V. from me also Reason 5. From Christ beleive also in me Let not your heart be troubled for ye have the [1] Act. 26.18 Lord Jesus to beleive in True no man can upon a well-grounded and a well-experienced [2] 2 Tim. 1.12 Knowledge say that Jesus is [3] 1 Cor. 12.3 the Lord but [4] Mat. 3.17 1 Tim. 3.16 John 6.44 by the Holy Ghost neverthelesse where once the Holy Ghost enableth to say of Christ My Lord and my God there the soul [5] Phil. 4.4 rejoyceth in this Lord as in the horn of her salvation God revealeth much of his goodness in the [6] 1 Chro. 29 14. Psal 57.2 workes of his Common providence thus the Roman Seneca the Greek Aratus and other Gentiles saw that the Lord was good and that his mercy endureth for ever More of his goodnesse he revealeth in [7] as in Esa 41.10.13 14 his word of promise five several times is that one promise repeated I will never leave thee nor forsake thee But the goodnesse of God is (8) Hos 3.5 most of all revealed in his own [9] Joh. 1.18.14.9 10 11 Son in him are [10] 2 Cor. 1.20 all the promises Yea and Amen for a Son ye know resembleth his Father Hence it is that [11]

Redeemer who hath done [4] Rev. 5.9 and suffered so great things for us will in due time welcome us to his Fathers house [5] 1 Thes 4.17 and so shall we ever ever ever be with the Lord When [6] Psal 101.2 shall I come unto thee I will walk in thy house with a perfect heart O my Soul [7] Psal 37.34 Isa 49 23 40.31 wait for the Lord wait I say for the Lord O ye Saints of his rejoyce in the Lord [8] Phil. 4.4 3. The Doctrine applied again I say rejoyce Hallelujah Ye have I trust such is your patience [1] Mat. 13.51 understood all these things ye have seen every afflicting stone [2] Mar. 16.4 rolled away ye have seen a world of Troubles [3] Joh. 14.1 2 swallowed up in Mansions of glory ye have seen life in death yea and life [4] Joh. 10.10 more abundant too ye have seen the good [5] Deut. 33.16 Angel in my Text as it were face to face ye have seen his strong [6] Isa 41.21 reasons his seven reasons his seven spiritual Reasons I had almost said his seven [7] Rev. 3.1 Spirits Our hearts should be troubled should we neglect [8] Luk. 9.44 Application O blessed Spirit Application is thy (1) Jer. 30.21 work Thy work O blessed Spirit Thou hast opened (2) Luk. 24.45 our understandings open our (3) Act. 16.14 hearts too Lord the stone is rolled (4) Joh. 11.39 41 43 away raise up thy Lazarus Give us life give us life (5) Joh. 10.10 more abundant AND now whether I look back upon the troubles past and gone or whether I look up unto the Mansions already prepared let my tongue cleave unto the roof of my mouth and let my right (1) Psal 137.6 hand forget her pen if I prefer not my Soveraign above the head of my comforts Therefore though I forget not my (2) Prov. 25.6 distance my first Application shall be The Lively Pourtraiture of CHARLES the Second King of Great Britain France and Ireland c. TO THE SACRED MAJESTY Of our most GRACIOUS SOVERAIGN LORD in all Causes and over all Persons as well Ecclesiastical as Civil our Supreme Governour CHARLES second only to that blessed Martyr and glorious Saint his royal Father of Great Britain France and Ireland KING Defender of the Faith and next unto God and his Christ the Prince of our Peace My Lord O King LIve like your (1) Psal 112 6 Name for ever live (2) Psal 61.6 and be The same you are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 (3) 2 Cor. 3.18 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Great as was your (4) Psal 132.1 Affliction and our (5) 2 Sam. 15.30 woe Good as late (6) Psal 61.8 116.14 2 Chro. 32.25 Vows Happy as we (7) Psal 144.15 Prov. 13.12 are now Thus thus I (8) Ezra 6.10 pray But let Applauses be Suppress'd by others and refus'd by me Not as undue nor that a zealous praise May too too much mans expectation raise Nor that words match not though when all is done Ne're yet could pensil fully paint the Sun But loe Believers Sir should we display Your brighter beams would ravish'd sin for joy Saw they your soul they would sleight heav'n again And doat on earth because on earth you reign I blame my fears From Charles no evils spring They walk with God who follow such a King Next unto Christ this Prince of our Peace may If Subjects please roll ev'ry stone away Next unto Christ He doth our life appear Good Subjects find life more abundant here That Truth that Peace which with [9] 1 Tim. 2.2 Isa 49.23 His Throne consist Lifts us from Earth to Heaven from Charles to Christ But the Stairs at Whitehall are no winding stairs Blessed be God there is no cause why I should borrow Verses feet to bring me to the Presence-Chamber there I need not there measure mine approaches where blessed be God the golden Scepter is always [1] Hesther 5.2 held forth As in Majesty and [2] Psal 82.6 Power so in Patience and Clemency King Charles the second resembleth his God God is a God (3) Psal 65.2 that heareth Prayer and his Servant Charles (4) Deut. 17.20 shutteth not his ear no not unto his meanest Subjects In prose therefore When I compare the troubles of these Disciples hearts with the Mansions that are set before them rather To the Kings most Excellent Majesty when I compare the 30. of January with the 29. of May and again the third of September with the 23. of April Verily if ever any Christian in the world had encouragement to believe in God and in the only Son of God your Sacred Majesty hath I trust the same God who hath delivered (1) 1 Cor. 1 10 will yet deliver Nations could not get Dominion over your sacred person I trust (2) Rom. 6.14 sin shall not The Lord hath raised and removed the many burdens but I trust not the many (3) Heb. 12.6 7 Psal 94.12 13 and 132.2 5 compared with 1 Cot. 3.16.17 blessings of your Majesties late sorows Should not afflictions so great as your Majesties have been be more and more sanctified unto your Royal soul alas your heart might then be troubled indeed Should you desist to believe in God who (4) Psal 89.27 placeth your Majesty higher then the Kings of the earth it might then be unto you and your Kingdoms a grief of heart Should not your Princely soul believe in that only Son of God who (5) Isa 53.8 Heb. 2.10 suffered more for your Majesty then your gracious Majesty suffered for your lost people this might also trouble your heart Lastly should your soul (6) Isa 53.3 neglect so great salvation should your soul despise the Mansions in your heavenly Fathers house then then your heart would be utterly perplexed everlastingly troubled and that beyond measure But although King Hezekiah did not render according unto the (1) 2 Chro. 32.25 benefit received I trust your most excellent Majesty will True the more God blesseth his (2) Job 1.10 servant Job the more the Devil (3) Job 1.11 seeketh his ruine No doubt where the Lord hath multiplied so unparalleld favours as are heaped upon your dread Majesty there the malice of Satan will be very wilte very full of (4) 2 Cor. 2 11 stratagems the Serpent once enraged will first (5) 2 Cor. 12.17 buffet then sting Nevertheless while your sacred Majesty figheth not only against (6) 1 Pet. 2.11 flesh and blood but even against (7) Eph. 6.12 Principalities and Powers the same God who (8) Psal 140.7 covered your royal head in the day of battle the same God your sacred Majesty hath to believe in The same Christ who delivered you from so (9) 2 Cor. 1.10 great a death the same Jesus your Majesty hath to believe

in yea he who so powerfully restored unto your birth-right your Majesties strangely revolted Kingdoms he can (10) Psal 73. guide you with his counsel and afterward receive you to glory He I say can bring you to the Mansions in your Fathers house Once more The bed of love wherein you rejoyce over our most Gracious Queen your royal Consort as a Bridegroom (1) Isa 62.5 rejoyceth over his Bride the love of your (2) Jer. 2.2 Espousals and afore that the day of your (3) Can. 3.11 Coronation and before that the day of the gladness of your (4) Ibid. heart I mean the (5) May 29th day wherein the splendour of your glorious Majesty celebrated therefore the greatest because the happiest Triumph that ever yet was by mortal Prince solemnized of these of all these your prosperous Majesty hath tasted I most humbly appeal now unto your dread Majesties bosome-experience What yea what are all these transitory joyes these fugitive felicities if (6) See what Mr. Bolton in his four last things p. 111. illustrateth upon 1 Cor. 2.9 compared unto the Mansions in your Fathers house When he that (1) Psal 29.10 sitteth upon the floods sent (2) Psal 18.16 from above took and drew you out of many waters when he that (3) Psal 144.10 giveth salvation unto Kings commanded (4) Lev. 25.21 1 Sam. 10.26 the hearts of all your people as (5) 2 Sam. 19.14 the heart of one man when he that (6) Psal 46.9 causeth wars to cease made your patience victorious when at length your meekness (7) Mat. 5.5 captivated our afflictions well might your Subjects shout (8) Psal 47.1 unto God with the voice of triumph so wonderfully had the (9) Heb. 13.20 God of peace made your Highness what you still remain more (10) Rom. 8.37 then Conquerour Oh how great (11) Zech. 9.17 was Gods goodness how abundant (12) Jer. 33.6 our peace how matchless your bliss how unconceiveable the (13) Psal 114.1 Novelty of your joys And yet believe it Sir in the very height of all your glory though I dare affirm your glory exceeded Solomons I say in the height of your glory your sacred Majesties enlarged heart was never one half so much transported as in the midst of his unsufferable perplexities your blessed Fathers most gracious soul was daily then transported when possessing (14) If Galcacius Caracciolus could much more could Charles the First say Let their money perish with them who esteem all the gold in the world worth one days society with Jesus Christ and his holy Spirit heaven upon earth he compiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O King Let not your [1] Chro. 28.7 9 heart be troubled May your Majesty roll your self upon your God He who first honoured your Christian Father with a Crown of throns and then [2] 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Solium which signifieth a Beer or Cossin signifieth also a Throae or Chair of State Rev. 2 10 converted that thorny crown into a Crown of Glory He can make your Crown of pure gold a Crown incorruptible He who when you [3] Psal 21.4 asked life gave you long life can give you life more abundant even life eternal He who translated your royal Father from a world of troubles [4] 2 Tim. 4.7 8 unto heavenly Mansions will though we your loyal Subjects hope it will be [5] Regni Co●ona Rex long first receive [6] Rom. 7.24 25 your ransomed soul from a body of sin unto your Fathers house Sir the holy God who unto your suffering Father made January the 30. an everlasting May 29. can sanctifie unto you that fatal September 3d. into a perpetual April 23d As we have seen what the Prophets fore-told [1] Isa 9.7 55.3 Hos 3.9 sim Psal 89.29 36 sim of David fulfilled in the [2] Mat. 1.1 21.9 Rom. 1.3 2 Tim. 2.8 Rev. 3.7.5.5.22.16 Son of David so what was [3] By good Dr. Holdsworth in his Epistle Dedicatory before his Sermon on Psal 144.15 prophesied of King Charles the First your Majesty hath lived to see fulfilled in King Charles the Second Believe therefore in God Believe also in the Son of God He who was unto you at your royal [4] As at the birth of Christ so at the birth of his immediate servant our King Charles the Second a star appeared Bp. Morley's Coronation Serm. p. 59. and Mr. Carles his Serm. on the same day p. 15. birth a bright [5] Rev. 22.16 morning star may be unto you during your happy Reign a [6] Mal. 4.2 Sun of Righteousness your [7] Psal 84.11 Shield he hath continued your Sun I trust he will continue here and Rev. 22.5 in Heaven Believe also in the blessed Spirit he inspired your holy Father to write 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O make this good Spirit your Comforter he will day by day enable your sanctified Majesty more and more patrissare while your afflictions past become future sanctification So may your Majesty increase in faith that on earth in the sharpest tryals and in heaven within the highest Mansions your Majesty may shine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Live in faith O King and live for ever Live for ever in your Fathers house within your Fathers house possess the highest Mansions and in those heavenly Mansions you shall for ever face to face enjoy Charles the First Christ our Redeemer God our Saviour My Lord O King instead of further applying the several Duties in my Text suffer that I this [1] Possibly as Justine Martyrs Apology was read by his Emperour so may my Address by mine once propose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sure I am that in these two words I have spoken all for What [2] Eccles 2.12 can the man say that cometh after the King 2. By whom Kings reign To the Nobility by him [1] Prov. 8.15 Princes decree justice It is of God that our Ruler is in the midst of us it is likewise of God that [2] Jer. 30.21 our Nobles are of themselves wherefore my [3] Judg 5.9 heart is toward the Governours of Israel that offer themselves willingly among the people Right Honourable Late Divisions [4] See Bp. Fearns Serm. on Judg. 5 14 caused great searchings as in the unsearchable heart of our most serene Prince so in your heart too Alas Wheresoever the mighty Oak falleth there the nearest trees are most crushed Time was when your heart was perplexed God not long since poured [5] Job 12 21 Psal 107.40 contempt upon your Honours As ever ye would that the Lord should roll away your reproach 1. Keep your hearts [1] Isa 48.22 quiet I mean keep yovr selves without (2) Job 11.15 16 spot ye know They who [3] Mat. 11.8 dwell in Kings houses wear [4] Isa 61.10 soft cloathing Oh keep your garments always

[5] Eccles 9.8 A rich raiment soundeth better then a good report keep your garments white My Lords Nasty vices and Court Favourites are [6] Psal 105 17 incongruous a noble unthrift a noble swearer a noble drunkard a noble oppressor c. are mere contradictions might a great person be a noble Defrauder a noble Lecher sim Nobility would then cease to be vertuous in as much as all sin especially every gross folly is sordid and (7) Virtus vera nobilitas ignoble wherefore if ye would not have your heart troubled keep your selves from whatsoever is vile and impure keep your selves worthy your Princes favour if ye would obtain your Princes favour [8] Prov. 22.11 love pureness of heart 2. If ye would prevent troubles of heart Let not the pleasures of his Majesties Court (1) Gen 42 28 Heb. 11.25 swallow up the Mansions in your Fathers house Ah it would be a fearful trouble unto any of you that dwell in Kings houses to jump from out of a Palace Royal into a Devils Dungeon Let it therefore be unto you no grief of heart to have your Conversation as becometh (2) Phil. 3.20 Christians In the Kings Chappel (3) Amos 7.13 it is not now Preach (4) exeat aulâ Qui volet esse pius not in this place but [5] Psal 42.2 When shall I come and appear before God I will [6] Psal 61.8 daily perform my vows 3. If ye would not have your heart troubled frequent the (1) Psal 16.16 Presence-Chamber Thou (2) Gen. 16.13 God seest me (3) Gen. 39.9 preserveth from many sins Again neither say to the King of heaven What dost thou (4) Eccles 8.4 neither (5) Ibid. dispute the power of his Word You will believe the word of a King believe the word of a God much more Believe I say in God 4. Believe also in Christ Then do your (1) Num. 21.18 staves of honour grace your persons when with them ye digg in this Well With their staves their Ensigns say (2) Jer. Dyke in his Epist Dedicat before his Treatise of the Lords Supper some the Princes the Nobles of the people digged a Well at the Direction of the Law-giver Quest Dub. Solut. What of his Direction Answ They did all drink of the same (1) 1 Cor. 10.4 spiritual drink so [2] Aiasworth on Num 21.18 here v. 17. Ascend O Well [3] John 4.14 spring up I will not say with the [4] Onkelos Paraporas Child Hiero solyt Rabbines that these waters followed them not only down the vallies but up the hills though v. 14. at these waters of Arnon some stupendious miracle was wrought but this I observe that when [5] Num. 20.11 Moses smote the rock by himself alone with his Scepter there was then no such exultation but now that as Moses Scepter so the [6] Num. 21.18 Princes ensignes are engaged now [7] Num. 21.17 sing ye to the Well Right honourable some imagine that with their staves as in an [8] 2 Kin. 3.16 17 other valley so in this they only made water-troughs (9) Vatablus Mansterus in Numb 21.18 or ditches to collect and retain that water which miraculously sprang up if so we have the more probability for what Interpreters conclude However Oh that our Princes would thus [10] Psal 84 1.6 make it a well Oh that the living [11] John 7 11.37 38 waters in my Text thus sprang up in their hearts Right Honourable The Bereans were the [12] Act. 17.11 more noble for searching the Scriptures How so Answ The Scriptures [13] Joh. 5.39 restifie of Christ Be wise [14] Psal 2.10 therefore O ye Nobles would ye preserve your hearts free from trouble Seek [15] Pro. 11 27.19.6 the God of Heavens favour Would ye that the God of Heaven should accept your persons Apply your selves to him [16] Mat. 3.17 17.5 whom this King delighteth to honour It is good having this friend at Court What shall I more say The greatest noble man in the world is [18] Mat. 28 18 1 Cor. 15.27 Jesus Christ then at length will our Princes [19] Isa 49 23 Court abound with waters of Comfort when this (20) ●o●l 3.18 fountain of spiritual life this pure fountain Jesus Christ is Beer [21] Isa 15.8 Elim the well of the mighty ones 3. To the Clergy By the [1] Num. 21.18 Nobles of the people some [2] Vatablus Muasterus understand not the several heads of the twelve Tribes but the (3) Psal 77.20 two leaders of the people Moses and Aaron I shall therefore in the next place attend not Moses among his (4) Num. 21.18 Princes but Aaron the (5) Psal 106.16 Psal 99.6 Saint of the Lord among 6 his Priests Most Reverend Right Reverend and Reverend I am no (1) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Suidas Origen but I (2) Fungar ego vice cotis shall stir up your pure minds if while I call to your remembrance the (3) See the Preface to Herberts Priest to the Temple days that are past I bless our God for the days that are present Should we be [4] Mal. 2 9 partial in the Law should the service of our God be a [5] Mal. 10.13 weariness unto us should we either by sloath prophaness vain-glory or worldly-mindedness give advantage unto the Adversary to blaspheme well might our heart be troubled with a just fear least God should once again both remove us into corners and cast dung upon our solemn feasts But blessed for ever blessed be his most holy name the God who did cast us into his hottest (6) The Heb. 11.36 Tryals of all cruel mockings To fry a faggot is not more Martyrdom then continual obloquy said Mr. Ferrer Herberts life before his Country Parson ubi supra furnace hath brought most of us forth like refined silver if ever sons of Zion were comparable unto fine gold they have reason to be so now Ye that dwell in the Courts of our God go on and prosper Let the haters of God be found liars while ye countenance as well Truth as Peace as well Vnity as Uniformity as well Purity as Decency and as well Sanctification as Order It was Theodorets praise of Gregory Nyssen that He ever shewed himself in withstanding that whatsoever it was which was contrary unto the rule and power of godliness may it be your praise too ye who give so great diligence (7) Hag. 1.4 8 2.8 in building up the waste places of Gods ruined Temples will give much more diligence to (8) Jude 20 15. build up Gods people in a most holy faith ye who spared neither means nor moneys to redeem those (9) See a list of them in the News-book 166 2 3 Jan. 14th See also Mat. 25.36.40 Christians which were captived by the merciless Turks

have [37] Heb. 10.36 need of patience receive ye this Gospel When all outward comforts fail you then then to chuse let not your heart be troubled ye believe in God believe also in Christ and when anguish of spirit maketh your present life a wearinesse unto you when you cry out It is [38] 1 Kings 19 4. enough Lord then let this be your comfort viz. that in your Fathers house are many Mansions and in those Mansions the poor and rich [39] Pro. 22.2 meet together O my Brethren I am afflicted for you but let not your heart be troubled Surely men are (1) Psalm 39.6 disquieted in vain Surely men of low degree are a lye Application to persons of all Ages and men of high degree are (2) Psalm 62.9 no better Hence it is that King David directeth (3) Psalm 39.11 all of them unto God He directeth one (4) Psalm 49.2 with another but commonly what is spoken unto all is heeded by none therefore as he joyneth all together so he (5) Psalm 62.9 taketh them severally He singleth them out by their Qualities high and low rich and poor and in another (6) Psalm 148.12 place by the years of their lives Middle aged and young men old men and children And no marvel for as there is (7) Eccl. 3.1 a time for all things so there is a season for every sin a season not for any sins lawfulnesse but fo rs sin impetuousnesse Sin is lawfull in no person but as unlawfull as it is it hath a greater power (8) Psalm 18.23 Prov. 30.8 9. on some estates then upon others The Nobleman hath not so great a temptation to murmuring (9) Jude 16 1 Cor. 10.10 and complaining to pilfering and theft as the hunger-starved beggar hath neither hath the hunger-starved beggar so great a temptation unto pride and (10) Ezek 45.8 oppression unto ambition or treason as hath the Nobleman In like manner as every condition of man so every age of man is more subject to stumble upon some offences then others As our (11) 1 Joh. 1.8 fare altereth with our estates so our appetites (12) Jam. 3.2 alter with our years alas the abundance of corruptions in our hearts like the abundance of waters in a River encreaseth by running and by encreasing spreadeth yea it ever rusheth forth at every breach untill at last it emptieth it self into the (13) Mare mortuum lake of Death Troubles will (14) Job 14.4 Heb. 12.1 arise in our hearts when we have done our uttermost perplexed (15) 2 Cor. 4.8 we shall be so long as our flesh is above ground so long it cherisheth a (16) Rom. 6.6.7.24 body of sin O wretched men that we (17) Psalm 130.1.69.2.42.7 Rom. 7.24 are who shall deliver us When we have mastered one infirmity a second succeedeth and after that a third c. and the more by many because as the wayes so the (18) Gen. 47.9 dayes of our pilgrimage are evil It is therefore abundantly requisite that we proceed to take some further care that seeing our busie hearts will alas be perplexed with the troubles of almost every sin every sin do as little as possible may be trouble our hearts Perplexed with sin our hearts (1) 2 Cor. 4.8 should be but let them not be sinfully perplexed Let us watch against the vanities and vexations first of our callings next of our years I have a little removed the trouble of our Estates already while I have with St. John the Baptist spoken unto several persons of several professions according unto (2) Luke 3.10 14 their qualities That I hope hath helped to free you from some troubles with the good assistance of our God in whom we believe I shall ease you of many more troubles which are apt enough to perplex your hearts if in the next place I imitate St. John the Evangelist and (3) 1 John 2.12 13 14 write unto you as not forgetting the years of your age Mine Application shall be first to little Children TOo blame are those Nurses which sport themselves with the frowardnesse quarelsomenesse or fantastiquenesse of sucking children To little children these argue a strength of nature indeed but they argue a strength of a corrupt nature These are matter not of Merriment but of Humiliation alas the imputation of original sin Baptism may wholly wash away the power of original sin (1) Rom. 6.4.3 Col. 2.12 1 Pet. 3.22 Gal. 3.27 it washeth away but in part True Great is the benefit of this most holy Ordinance to the praise of the Author of this holy Institution let it be for ever acknowledged that as the (2) Gal. 3.2 7 Obligation so the (3) Rom. 6.3 6 Aqua Baptismatis habet gratiam Dei praesentiam Trinitatis Ambros de sacram lib. 1. cap. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Concil Nicea Aqua exhibet forinsecus Sacramentum gratiae spiritus operatur intrinsecus beneficium gratiae August Ep. 23. Operation of Baptism is of no small moment When Lewis the ninth of France was asked how he would be stiled he said he would be entituled Lewis de Poyssy Reply was made His Majesty might finde out other places of greater Renown and of them some where he had obtained Victories famous Victories No said the King I desire to be called Lewis de Poyssy because there I got the most famous Victory that ever I obtained for there I overcame the Devil viz. I was there baptized He knew well that so many as are buried with Christ in baptism arise new creatures but notwithstanding the Sanctifying Spirit is in this Laver of Regeneration (4) Tit. 3.5 Eph. 5.26 1 Pet. 3.21 vouchsafed unto the elect of God yet even the elect of God still have within them the remainders (5) Job 25.4 of sinfulnesse yea the root the spawn the seed of every wickednesse The least Infants forbear to commit evil upon (6) Pro. 22.15 Esay 48.8 no other accompt then they forbear to go High alone to wit only because they cannot Give them ability they will be (7) Psal 51.5 Prov. 20.11 proud of a Ribband ere ever they can tie it on They will wrangle (8) Psal 21.8 Esay 44.20 ere ever they have teeth to bite and will speak (9) Mat. 12.34 amisse ere ever they can pronounce a plain word So true is that of Ecclesiastes (10) Eccles 11.10 Childhood is vanity that Nurses had need to swathe (11) Pro. 29.15 13.24 23.14 as well the faculties of their Souls as the limes of their bodies they had need prevent as well their minds as any other part of them from growing crooked they had need to meet their inclinatious and as much as in them lieth to render their first dispositions facile ductile tractable In a good Nurse is required discretion as well as milk and the Babe sucketh in good or evil

young men and Maidens Therefore my next Counsell instructeth you young men That your heart be not overmuch troubled Know your selves I mean know your selves to be heady and therefore [1] Young men should serve at the Oare before they come to sit at the Stern as Sylla said of Marius Turn not away your ear from hearing reproof Moreover know your selves to be well conceited of your own abilities if therefore any one among [2] 1 Cor. 10.12 you thinketh that he standeth let him take heed lest he fall Childhood is [3] Eccl. 11.10 vanity Youth much more more addicted to disports then unto a walking with God and yet a charge is layed upon thee by the dayes of thy youth to [4] Eccl. 12.1 Remember thy Creatour Since jesting is not [5] Eph. 5.4 convenient say of laughter [6] Eccl. 2.2 it is madnesse and of mirth What dost thou Since evil words [7] 1 Cor. 15.33 corrupt good manners keep thee from the evil [8] Prov. 2.12 man from him the talk of whose tongue tendeth [9] Prov. 14.23 only unto poverty turn away thy self even from him in whom thou [10) Prov. 2.7 findest not the lips of understanding since thy flesh [11] 1 Pet. 2.11 warreth against thy soul defile [12] 1 Cor. 3.17 While the Duke of Burboa was accused of high Treason the Emperour Charls the fifth required one of Madrid to lodge him in his house The Spaniard told the Emperour Obey thee I will but so soon as the Duke is once out of it I will fire my house for that house of mine my Predecessors never built to harbour Traitors not that body which the Holy Ghost makes his Temple Know how to possesse thy Vessel [13] 1 Thes 4.4 in sanctification Though thy reins [14] Psalm 16.7 chasten thee in the night-season yet hate thou the [15] Jude 23. garment that is spotted with sin Flee I say [16] 2 Tim. 2.22 youthfull lusts and sanctifie [17] 1 Pet. 3.5 the Lord thy God in thy heart Sow not [18] Gal. 6.2 unto corruption but rather possesse [19] Job 13.26 the iniquities of thy youth let them ever humble thee [20] Psalm 51.3 Esay 66 2. in the presence of the pure God Thy Fathers house hath no [21] Ephes 5.8 mansions for an unclean wretch Therefore keep thine [22] Job 31.1 Prov. 4.25 eyes straight before thee avoid pass [23] Job 4.15 by come not near the house of her who flattereth with her lips She is but a [24] Job 22.14 Prov. 23.27 deep Ditch and will mire thee shamefully Whose heart is snares and nets [25] Eccles 7.26 and whose hands are bands her [26] Pro. 7 27 Chambers are the Chambers of Death Though thou wert as wise as Solomon I would counsell thee Remember Delilah [27] 1 Kings 11 1 4 Jude 6. Lust hath no mean but not to be at all for it is a dangerous fire which beginneth in the bed-cloathes He never thinketh that he fleeth fast enough who fleeth from a mischief The more shou eschewest evil the more leisure thou wilt have to do good and to ensue it When a [1] Quo semel imbutarecens Child thou wast trained up in the way wherein thou shouldest go therefore go on Let not the Christian in [2] As was spoken of one who habited in Orange-tawny tilted ill one day and habited in Green on the morrow tilted worse Herberts Apothegms green behave himself worse then the Christian in the Orange-tawny First that which was natural saith the [3] 1 Cor. 15.46 Text then that which is spiritual When thou wast nurtured in the Lord thou didst begin in the Spirit be not [4] Gal. 3.3 made perfect in the flesh Say unto Pleasure [5] Psal 5.4 Prov. 21.17 James 5.5 Tit. 3.3 Heb. 11.25 2 Tim. 3.4 Gentle Eve I will have none of your Apple Look not on pleasures as they come but goe fool not if thou art a beast [6] Jude 10. 2 Pet. 2.12 be [7] Jude 19. sensual if a man [8] Rom. 8.6 spiritual If thou likest [11] Dan. 4.33 9. Nebuchadnezzar better then thou likest Daniel take thy choice Whether is more desirable to be endued with the Spirit of a holy God or to be postessed [12] Eph. 5.3 2 Pet. 2.10 with an unclean Spirit A Wanton creature is [13] 2 Tim. 2.26 Mummy for the Devil Let him that loveth the flames [14] Hos 7.7 James 3.6 of Hell burn in lust as Sodom did Youth with what body wouldest thou arise with a [15] Phil. 3.21 body vile or glorious It was the idlenesse the foolishnesse the brutishnesse of youthfull lusts which made the [16] Aedituus Catullus Tibul. Hor. Javen Persius c. Roman Poets so salt Take away the abuse which lust putteth upon us and many an Epigram in Martial sim may like the Tragedies of Theognis be as cold [17] 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as snow for any wit they have Were they as hot as are idle brains yet that person who is so impudent so ill-behaved that he can be acquainted can be familiar can be [18] 1 Cor. 6.16 all one with a [19] Pro. 5.21 22.14.26.16 strange woman may justly expect trouble of heart The French-pox is [20] Num 5.21 no new Disease Be it thou escapest [21] Hos 4.12 rottennesse in thy bones sure I am there is rottennesse in thy heart Let Pythagoras [22] 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 commend Souls unto [23] Jude 10 bruits as for thine Let thy soul [24] 1 John 3.3 expect Mansions in thy Fathers House The body is not for fornication but for the [1] 1 Cor. 6.13 Lord it is his [2] 1 Cor. 3.17 Temple the strength the abilities the gifts wherewith it is endowed are [3] Mat. 22.37 holy unto the Lord the more will be the trouble of thy heart if thou commit sacriledge Church-revenues like the Gold of Tholouse in Narbon consume such as do [4] Among all the Souldiers of Scipio not one of those which plundered the Temple at Tholouse escaped an unfortunate end Guebara alienate them Do not do not therefore impropriate unto the use of an [5] 1 Cor. 6.15 harlot those Endowments which of right belong unto the services of thy God Give not thy strength unto [6] Pro. 31.3 women much lesse unto an [7] 2 Pet 2.10 unnatural licentiousnesse Look upon their prodigious practices and thou wilt the lesse marvail at the degenerate faces of Apes Monkies and of Baboones Wo unto him who is alone if he [8] Eccl. 4 10 render himself like one of these Had Jacob allowed himself in [9] I am a shamed to read what I find in Tho. Shepherd upon the ten Virgins viz. on Mat. 25.5 p. 18. of the second part self pollutions he could never have called his [10] Gen 49.3

first-born his might his strength the beginning of his strength Oh then provoke not the holy Spirit to give thee over unto thine [11] Rom. 1.24 Esay 66.3 own hearts lusts Be not be not subjected under the power of that itchy idlenesse which scarcely ever yet found a name no not among the Gentiles Thou mayest be exalted [12] Heb. 2.13 6.20.9.24 above the Angels be not worse then a beast that nature which the Lord of Glory hath already extolled above the [13] Eph. 2.6 Heavens do not thou [14] Esay 57.9 debase that Humane Nature even unto hell We shall in Heaven be as free from any occasion of blushes as are the [15] Mat. 23.30 In Deum S. Jerum Ep. 143. In Dei naturam Lactan. non cadit sexus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. Iraeneus l. 11. c. 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. 3.20 Angels Have thou thy conversation in heaven Meddle not with that nakednesse which is at the best thy [16] Gen. 12 25 13.7 shame Place it as the Hebrew Language doth too low to be thought of even at [17] Gen. 49.10 Deut. 28.57 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thy feet Sensuality is in an unreasonable creature the highest [18] Jude 10 in a reasonable creature the lowest of seeming delights so low that the person speaking in my Text would be conceived of the holy Ghost of man he would [19] Mat. 1.20 not be begotten True The bed undefiled is honourable [20] Heb. 13.4 but why Not for that it [21] Gal. 6.8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist de gen corrupt l. 1. soweth unto corruption but because it prepareth a [22] Mal. 2.15 holy seed Thus our uncomely parts have the more [23] 1 Cor. 12 23 abundant honour not so much from our Apparel as from our God while he by them preserveth inhabitants upon the earth successively supplieth his militant Church and raiseth colonies to people his heavenly Kingdom Do thou therefore cloath that with a sanctified chastity which the wisdom of God hath formed after a manner [24] Job 10.10 Psalm 139.13 15 16 Job 31.15 Psalm 22.9 Gen. 2.7 Ezek. 16.6 Numb 16.22 Phil. 3.21 Ephes 2.6 1 Thes 4.17 fearfull and wonderfull I say herein our uncomely parts will have the more abundant honour if we keep our hearts circumcised from all impure thoughts Wherefore reserve thine [25] Sapientia prima est Luke 1.27 Stultitiâ caruisse affections for spiritual Blessings and not for unmortified flesh There are other matters to take up thy mind if thou review my Text There are vain imaginations lodging in thy heart which call for [26] Gal. 5. thy troubles 16. vers 18.24 25 Thy thoughts have mansions within thy Fathers house to dwell in Thy sences should be exercising a faith in God Thine affections should enamour themselves upon the person speaking in my Text I say upon Him whom thy soul loveth even upon Jesus Christ our Lord. The dayes of thy youth should be so far from [1] Eccl. 12.1 being dayes of vanity uncleannesse and provocations that they call upon thee to follow hard after holinesse Quest Why of all days the dayes of thy Youth Quest Answ 1. If ever thine affections be inordinate Answ 1. they are inordinate in [1] Psalm 119.9 thy youth therefore in the dayes of thy youth remember thy Creator viz. while thou art yet a youth be [2] Prov. 7.7 14.26.15.33 so wise as not only to fear but to imitate thy Creatour that is be ever in action for No [3] Otia si tollas idlenesse no lust Answ 2. Answ 2. The midst of our age is [1] He that entereth into the world entreth into a spiritual warre lanched out into an Ocean of Turmoils The dayes of our Childhood they were not yet grown up unto years of discretion therefore remember thou thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth Childbood [2] Et discas oportet quod didicisti agendo confirmes Qui facienda ac vitanda percipit nondum sapiens est nisi in ea quae didicit animus ejus transfiguratus est Seneca Ep. 94. maketh a shift to gain the Elements Youth layeth them orderly together Childhood learneth to read Youth learneth to understand what it readeth Childhood findeth Moods and Figures youth frameth Syllogisms Childhood getteth the principles of the Doctrines of Christ Youth goeth on toward perfection Answ 3. Answ 3. As Education fitteth us for our distinct callings so youth fitteth us for our Education Then is Custome [1] Fran. L. Verulam most prevalent when it beginneth in our minority for then we are apprehensive active vigorous if ever we will learn to [2] 2 Tim. 2.3 James 5.11 endure hardnesse if ever we will [3] Eccl. 12.1 Ephes 6.13 withstand in the evil day we must be seasoned in our youth if ever we will acquire vertuous habits it must be in our younger age if the youths [4] Esay 40.3 shall faint well may others Answ 4. Answ 4. While Saul was young he was choice [1] 1 Sam. 9.2 and goodly While Jeroboam was young he was [2] 1 Kings 11.28 industrious They are young men whom [3] Ruth 2.9 Boaz employeth in his Harvest-work whom David sendeth [4] 1 Sam 25.5 for provision from Carmel whom Joshua sent to [5] Josh 2.1 16.23 espy Jericho Or Moses to [6] Exod. 24.5 sacrifice burnt-offerings Abraham appointeth [7] Gen. 22.3 young men to attend him in his Obedience and Elisha dispatcheth a [8] 2 Kin. 9.4 young man then when expedition was requisite The holy Order of Nazarites who more fit for it then [9] Amos 2.11 young men and of all his Subjects the young men are them whom the King [10] 1 Sam. 8.16 will deem goodliest and [11] Ezek. 23.6 most desirable Priamus himself [12] Plutarch in Agesilao was not unhappy while young as Agesilaus readily replied The Lord shall have [13] Esay 9.17 no joy in your young men if not in your young men in whom As (1) Seneca one observeth Had not Ovid reduced the acutenesse of his wit mind and matter unto boyish fancies he had been of all the Roman Poets the most ingenuous so I Did not young men and maidens mis-place the ingenuity of their youthfull age they would prove of all believers the most fervent There is an hour (2) Jer 3 4 saith the (3) Jacula Prudentum by Mr. Herbert Proverb wherein viz. wherefrom a man might be happy all his life could he (4) Eccl. 2.17 8.5 6 find it Such as are young may find this hour would they set themselves with full purpose of heart to believe in God through their Lord Jesus Christ Beloved I beseech you let not want of troubles be the (5) Luke 10.41 42 trouble of your heart It was said of Hesiod (6) By Plutarch that he was fed with

to believe in Christ It is the trouble of our hearts that we have parted from the innocency (6) Matth. 18.3 4 of our Childhood It is the grief of our minds that we have not improved (7) Pro. 22.6 our education and can we fool away our interest in the world too When we were Children we did not (8) 1 Cor. 13.11 put away childishnesse while we were youthfull we [9] Psal 25.7 served divers lusts Now that carnal pleasures have been the trouble of our hearts shall earthly cares be our vexations too we ought to sacrifice our bodies unto the Father of [10] Rom. 2.1 Heaven and dare we sacrifice our hearts unto the God [11] 2 Cor. 4.4 of this world On the other side If through mercy our Childhood hath been [1] Eph. 6.4 nurtured in the fear of the Lord or if God gave us the grace to remember [2] Eccl. 12.1 our Creator in the dayes of our youth how is it that we forget him now What iniquity [3] Jer. 2.5 have we found in our God that we should cast him off now in the midst [4] Psalm 102.4 of our age in the very (5) Psalm 29.5 best of our estate In our Infancy we entred into a Covenant with our God we were baptismally engrafted into Christ in our youth we blossomed now that we are in our Autumn shall all the fruits of our Faith fall to the ground shall we like the [6] Mat. 19.20 cursed fig-tree fail our Makers expectation When [1] Agesilaus in Plutarch Agesilaus having gained one Victory would animate his Souldiers for another he caused the Prisoners whom he had taken captive to be stripped then calling unto him his Souldiers he telleth them [2] 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 these effeminate small-limbed inconsiderable wretches are the enemies ye fight against these Ornaments costly Apparrel and Treasures are the spoil ye fight for Beloved if the [3] insoelix paupertas homines ridiculos facit contempt that accompanieth a mean estate be the Enemy we fight against how [4] Rom. 8.35 1 Cor. 4.8 9 contemptible is this enemy● especially unto him that [5] Psal 27.1 hath a God to sustain him a God to rely upon● the mansions in our Fathers house the Son of our God the Father of mercies the God of all blessings these are the prize we fight for Let us therefore in understanding shew our selves [6] 1 Cor. 14.20 men Every day bringeth its [7] Luke 11.3 bread had we the wit to trust [8] 1 Pet. 4 19 an all-sufficient Creatour if it be better for us to be rich [9] Pro. 30.8 then poor to be honourable then mean let not our heart be troubled our God needeth [10] Phil. 4.6 none of our shifts none of our carkings nor indirect means of ours to make us wealthy great or honourable the way to [11] Prov. 10.22 1 Cor. 3.22 be wealthy great honourable is to take God along with us If any man love this world [12] 1 John 2.15 with his first love if he love it otherwise then for (13) He loveth God too little who loveth any thing beside God except for Gods sake R. B. Gods sake the love of the Father is not in him Dare we in the ripenesse of our experience and understandings [14] James 4.4 commit so high an affront against the great God Dare we preferre [15] Mat. 6.31 our vain shifts before his daily Providence our worldly [16] Gen. 17.1 wisdom before his spiritual instructions Dare we love the [17] 1 John 2.16 things of this world before the mansions in our Fathers House Nay would any of us if we might occasion the King of Sodom to say [18] Gen. 4.23 I have made Abraham rich or would we accept of plenty [19] Pro. 15.16 16.18 peace pleasure or honour from any hand but Gods Commendable [20] Jam. 4.4 was that Souldier in Oxford-Garrison who as needy as he was would not accept of Gold from Him who was no friend unto his most gracious Soveraigne O my God as low as I and my Family are if [21] Exod. 33 15 thy presence go not with us carry us not up hence Beloved mine Exhortation is that this [1] Gal. 1.4 present evil world may not perswade us out of our Christian names By these we in ordinary converse call our Children Why Answ Because they had need be often minded of their Christendome and of their vow in Baptism Striplings we likewise call by their Christian names so subject are they to an inconstancy But he that is of full age he that is stled and stayed we repute him so much a Christian that ordinarily we term him Good-man Master sim The more unhappy they that create unto themselves [2] Jer. 2 36 needlesse troubles of heart by trying the [3] Eccl. 7.25 wickednesse of folly with Solomon or by [4] Ames 3.15 Esay 5.8 1 King 21.1 laying house to house and coveting Naboths Vineyard with Ahab or by building [5] Luke 12.18 Gen. 4.17 Castles in the ayr with Gain or by [6] Psal 10.3 2 Kings 20.13 boasting themselves in their own Treasures with Hezekiah Every field is a Garden to him that acquainteth [7] quaelibet herba deum himself with his God A mans wisdome consisteth not in coveting what he cannot easily compasse [8] Luke 12.15 Beatus est noa qui habet quae cupit sed qui non cup t quae non habet Desius Ausonius but in improving what he already hath unto the benefit of his soul would we not over-task [9] Eccl. 2.24 3.22.5.18 Hoc tandem di dicit Henricus Wotton Animas quiescendo fieri fapientiores our selves with needlesse law-suits projects and designs we should find in the world food and rayment Sun-shine and Star-light Rivers and Fountains Flowers and Prospects enough and enough prepared to our hand for our Recreations and Delights Instead of minding their Books and other their Duties Children scatter away their [10] 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pindar precious time upon idle toyes and yet their Fathers which mourn for them [11] like Hermogenes who was among boys an aged man among aged men a boy Magno conatu nugae cherish the very same folly The Child is pinning and unpinning baby clouts the mother doth the same in affected Apparrel the child buildeth Ovens with untempered morter in the streets the Father is as vain in Housings and Enclosures How our children mis-spend their time and abilities we are sensible but alas many of us [12] He that hath time and looketh for better time Time will come he shall repent of his lost time are insensible that of the two we are the more blame-worthy our best experiences our best understandings our best estate what is it employed upon upon things which [*] Vivere Gallio frater omnes beate volunt

their number receive their instructions The aged Believer is as full of Soliloquies (18) Psal 1.2 63.6.77.12.119.99 as of Solitudes While wearisome nights hold his eyes waking he communeth with his own heart upon his bed even then when his life is a bitternesse unto him then then (19) Psal 104.34 his meditations are sweet Death cannot come so fast towards his decrepid body (20) 2 Pet. 3.12 but he can hasten as fast to meet it in his desires a long while he hath desired to lay (21) 2 Pet. 1.14 aside his Tabernacle of flesh which were it not the (22) 1 Cor. 9 16 Temple of the holy Ghost would be the trouble of his heart he hath hitherto (23) Hos 12.9 Mic. 7.7 Hab 2.3 tarried the Lords leisure he will now give diligence to endure unto the end every day he is waiting [24] Matth. 10.22 and (25) Psal 42 1 84.1 2. longing to see those Mansions many years since prepared in his Fathers House he hath believed the suffering of his Redeemer he would (26) Col. 3.1.20 now behold him in his glorious exaltations and he knoweth so well in whom he hath believed that he thinketh the time long before his soul taketh wing to [27] 1 John 3 2 see him as he is Danger it self is (1) Ingens telum necessitas Exod. 14.10 Hos 2.7.5.15 the best remedy against danger nor is there any forrain means so prevalent to free our hearts from unprofitable troubles or to (2) Mat. 8.25 force us upon a faith in God or to drive (3) Deut. 30.15 us toward the mansions in our fathers house as unavoidable necessity is In other parts of our fraile life although we are so often called upon by (4) Mich. 6 9 Psal 119 15 1 Cor. 11.32 aches diseases and manifold afflictions allthough we are frequently foretold in [5] Mat. 24.42 44 the holy Scriptures that Christ will steal upon us unawares allthough our Church-yardes openly convince us of this truth while we weekely stumble over new graves yet our [6] Luk. 24.25 slow dull backsliding souls will not timely remember their dissolution at hand we design to make our calling and election sure but what we design that we delay Now the happinesse of the aged convert is that although other Christians most unwarrantably run the hazard of delayes He being so aged dareth not He wisely considereth that First As age groweth old so [1] Psal 119 36 Heb. 13.5 covetousness groweth young Usually Head and shoulders stoop not towards the ground faster then the heart it self doth Dust [2] Hab. 2.6 would to dust He considereth wherefore since he can carry nothing out of the world he bequeaths the love of the world [3] 1 John 2.15 James 4 4 unto such as will trouble themselves for it while his experienced [4] Psal 131.2 heart is weaned satisfied fixed He well knoweth that so long as he sought the world he never missed troubles but the wind in his face doth now [5] 1 Cor. 15.19 Mat. 6.19 20 Pro. 22.3 make him wise for his latter end Secondly James and John (1) Mat. 4.21 amended their netts Every neglect of duties is like a breach in those fishing netts (2) Eccles 9.10 the longer it continueth the wider it groweth delaies like over ripe cherries do one draw down another but as even reckonings keep us [3] 2 Cor. 1.12 long friends so [4] 2 Cor. 13.5 daily accompts keep even reckonings True He undertaketh a great work that worketh out his salvation yet nothing is [5] Mark 9.23 hard to him that setleth to it Thirdly Light burdens long born (1) Heb. 10.36 wax heavy and who so travaileth far hath (2) Eph. 6.12 many encounters viz. Our originall sin is so (3) Psal 51.5 bred in the bone that it will not out of the flesh the treacherous heart (4) Jer. 17.9 so conspireth with the flesh that it (5) 1 Pet. 2.11 warreth against the soul the envious Devil so (6) 1 Thess 3.5 seduceth the soul that she full often starteth a side from her God therefore [7] Job 14.14 Luk. 18.1 all the dayes of his appointed time he will waite untill his change come He should not [8] Eph. 6.13 14 1 Pet. 5.8 sleep that watcheth an enemy suspicion [9] Psalm 39.1 18.23.119.11 is no vice where we are jealous of our selves and since in (10) Gen. 6.5 every house lives a Theif woe unto that house wherein (11) 2 Cor. 7.1 13.5 is no chideing for if Christ be out of doors there (12) John 15.5 is no body at home and if (13) Rom. 8.9 no body be at home the house is dead Fourthly The (1) James 1.14 15 Heb. 12.1 Eph. 4.27 Rom. 12.9 Esa 59.5 Cant. 2.15 death of a young wolfe never cometh too soon as Heresie so any other sin whatsoever is better suppressed at the first then it is afterwards removed Every wickednesse is at strife (2) Pro. 15.26 with God the begining hereof is as (3) Pro. 17.14 when one letteth out water it is best left off before it be medled with The resolved mind hath (4) Luk. 17.32 Exod. 16.3 no thoughts for Egypt no lingrings (5) Gen. 19.26 for Sodom An (6) Luk. 14.28 examined enterprize goeth far and since the idlenesse of unbeleif must be shaken off the sooner the better for the offender never pardoneth (7) Psal 51.3 himself if he be a Christian Fifthly At dinner (1) Job 1.9 my man commeth The hypocrite stalketh with religion (2) Ezck. 33.31 Hos 7.14 to shoot at worldly aimes But he that is holy is (3) Psalm 86.2 1 Tim. 4.8.6.6 holy for himself He (4) Gen. 12.4 Revel 21.7 17.1 Eph. 6.8 Mat. 16.24 commandeth enough who obeyeth a wise God Themistocles liked his banishment from Greece into Persia so well that he gave out he had been utterly lost if he had not perished and this we see had not the heart of (5) Job 9 25 these disciples been troubled they had been the lesse minded of their fathers house Old age bethinketh it self (6) 1 Cor. 1 5 19 of heavenly mansions Sixthly He that is thrown once would (1) Gen. 30.8 32.24 2 Pet. 2.19 ever wrestle When the news of the death of (2) Bonsin lib. 8. Cited by Camerarius Hist meditat l. 2. cap. 9. John Corven father of Matthias King of Hungary was brought unto Mahomet Sultan of the Turkes Mahomet vehemently casting down his eyes brake forth first into tears next into these words (3) Ibid. Never Never Prince since the beginning of the world had such cause to weep as I have for I am deprived of all means of avenging my self for that great shame which in winning so many battels from me John brought upon me My Fathers he that hath listed himself under the banner of Jesus

malum videri qaod naturae necessitas afferat Cicero de Sen●ctute Christians you who have been at so much pains to obtain and at so much care to preserve Grace will not discontinue it in your last hour You will not lose the return of so many years prayers the [2] Conscientia bene actae vitae mullorumque benesactosum recordario jucundissima est ibid. comfort of all your former obediences the answer of your long expectations the recompence of our perpetual labours for want of a little pains taking now at the very last tryal Doubtlesse the longer ye have served your God the longer ye will [3] Qad enim est jucundius sen●ctute stipatâ studiis juventut is ibid. delight to serve him you will follow the Captain of your Salvation whether soever he shall lead you In you aged Believers as natural strength decayeth so the Spirit of Grace [4] Ait senescere se multa indies addiscentem Solon ibid. getteth strength It is not with you as it is with Sathan the older the worse Your sensitive powers may dry and shrivel with their Organs your Souls not so much lesse the Spirit of your God Therefore since your day is far spent you will give the more diligence to finish your work Naturally the nearer the Centre the more violent the [1] viz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A●st de Coelo lib. 4. cap. 3 motion Let it never be said of a Believer as [2] 1 Kings 15.23 it was of King Asa that in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet Now that he kenneth Sion he [3] Psam 84.7 will amend his pace The worst is past he will [4] Cant. 2.10.11 now onward chearfully A wearisome Pilgrimage it would be were he to run over [5] Psalm 120.5 84.10 1 Cor. 15 19 the same steps again but now that he is [6] John 14.3 17.24 within view of the City built without hands now that he hath gotten a sight [7] 1 John 3.2 of these Mansions he will by no [8] Hodie si exclusus fuero nunquam desistam means desist He will strive and strive [9] Luke 13 24 vehemently to enter in at the straight Gate now that he hath gotten on foot upon [10] 2 Tim. 2.11 the Threshold The [11] Aate obitum nemo soelix Evening praiseth the Day and [12] Psalm 37.37 2 Tim. 4.7 8. the life of Faith doth crown the hour of Death Having known the fellowship of his sufferings and the power of his Resurrection he will likewise [13] Phil. 3.12 13 14. accompany Christ unto the Mount of Olives nay from the Mount of Olives I say he will wing [14] Psalm 84.2.42 1 2 his thirsty soul with a stedfast faith and will [15] Heb. 6.18.20 with Joy unspeakable ascend after his most glorious Forerunner fain he would be [16] 2 Cor. 5.4 8. absent from the body that he may now at length be present with the Lord Nothing troubleth him more then that he cannot be so thankfull in this earthly Tabernacle as he [17] Psalm 35.9 62 5 6 7. 63 1-8 66.8 9. 68 3 4. 81.1 Psalm 110 103.1-5 149.5 Esay 12.2 4 5. 61.10 is assured he shall be when anon he appeareth before Jesus Christ in his Fathers House Aged as he is he complaineth Lord I believe help mine unbelief but he thanketh his God through Jesus Christ his Lord. As no Quality so no Age is we see priviledged from troubles of heart To all Christians of what degree or age soever In the last place therefore we shall apply our selves unto all Christians unto high and low rich and poor young and old In general one with another Christians as ever we would not have our hearts troubled let one main trouble of our hearts be not so much the evil of our doings as the evil of our hearts Beloved If Jeroboam the son of Nebat cease (1) 1 Kings 14.20 to make Israel to sin Nadab (2) 1 Kings 15.25 beginneth Baasha may (3) 1 Kings 15.27 conspire against Nadab yea he may smite all in Jeroboams house (4) 1 Kings 15.29 that breath yet he himself may continue (5) 1 Kings 16.2 wicked Baasha still Elah may (6) 1 Kings 16.6 step into Baasha's Room Zimri may conspire against (7) 1 Kings 16.10 Elah Omri may (8) 1 Kings 16.16 be a note above him Tibni may (9) 1 Kings 16.22 justle Ahab may (10) 1 Kings 16.28 succeed Omri Jehu he may cut off both Ahab and Ahabs (11) 2 Kings 10.16 House yea he may boast his Zeal and yet over Jehu Ahab Tibni Omri Zimri Elah Baasha and Jeroboam one and the same spirit of Rebellion might and did Reigne It mattereth not much who is Vice roy so long as (12) Mala mens malus ammus the King of Babylon beareth the Rule Let the youth lay aside childishnesse the middle-aged flee youthfull lusts the aged cease to love the World yet if our naturall corruption can make any one sin finde (13) Prov. 8.13 Psalm 119.128 113.139 21 22 acceptance from us the heart necessarily either is or should be troubled A Dog hung up by the heels disgorgeth himself but still it is his nature to return (14) Prov. 26.15 to his vomit you may wash a Sow clean but neverthelesse she hath a property (15) Naturam expellas surcâ licet usque recurret which would fain be wallowing so a Christian may restrain many a wicked work word yea and thought too yet still there abideth an innate corruption within him and untill this corruption be the grief of his heart he hath not (16) Psalm 78.37 set his heart aright We may fight against small and great evils yet if we bend not (17) See The sinfulness of sin Animalis homo by Bishop Reynolds and p. 185. of The Natural mans blindnesse by Hen. Hurst our greatest strength against that originall pollution which staineth our purest actions while we slay the Amalekites we preserve Agag alive When the holy Spirit hath once rolled aside the stone of unbelief the more abundant our life of Faith is the more we grieve under the weight of that stone David was ashamed that he had committed Adultery the murder of Vriah wounded his very heart-blood but that which stuck more close unto him then even these crying sins was that he was shapen in iniquity and (18) Psalm 51.5 conceived in sin the evil of his doings made him sensible of the evil of his (19) Gen. 6.5 Matth. 15.19 20 heart Thou hast weaned thy self from swearing well but doest thou (20) Prov. 28.14 Eccles 9.2 fear an Oath thou fearest an Oath but is it for conscience towards God If it be thy heart mourneth and bleedeth for that it cannot not not half enough (21) Rom. 7.15.17 8.7 Gal. 5.17 sanctifie this thy God in thy heart Thou

doest (22) Psalm 119.104 hate every false way but thou doest hate thy false heart more viz. for being so unwilling to have any evil way whatsoever So often as sin brancheth out and that isperpetually thou shouldest strike at the root I mean at the original sin which [23] Rom. 7.18 20 dwelleth in thee If the world is crucified to thee [24] Gal. 6.14 thou wouldest be crucified to the world that is if thou couldest Thy stiffe neck is ever [25] Rom. 7.24 painfull to thee the back-slidings of thy heart cast thee down while thou keepest it even with the greatest diligence that thou canst Long it was before thou couldst crucifie this [26] Gal. 5.24 affection or the other lust but the flesh that body of sin that doth to this hour keep thee wretched and low in thine own eyes Let not sin reign [27] Rom. 6.12 in your mortal body that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof This obedience is the outward actings of sin these lusts are the inward breathings of sin the sin it self which is so forward to reign is not some one partscular vanity but that [28] John 3.6 flesh of thine that [29] Rom. 7.23 Law in thy members that corrupt bent of thy soul and body and spirit which maketh [30] Rom. 7.21 25 thee so subject to revolt from God and his Christ Now if we would not have this sin [31] Rom. 6.12 14 reign in our mortal bodies we [32] Pro. 13.5 Job 42.6 Psalm 32.5.51.3.73.22 Ezek. 16.61 63 must loath it as that which aggravateth whatsoever evil thoughts words or deeds we are guilty of unlesse we be [33] Job 40.4 vile in our own eyes let us never expect to be precious in [34] Isa 1.18 43.4 Gods sight The [35] Jer. 8.22 Matth 11 28 balm of Gilead is not for us unlesse we complain of our wounds and bruises and putrified soares In that Fountain [36] Zech. 13 1 which is opened unto the house of David we see our Leopards spots and the heart is therefore troubled because it is not [37] Nahum 2.7 Psalm 31.10 Rom. 7.15 24 troubled enough The more the Holy Spirit delivereth it from the power of darknesse the more darknesse it [38] Psalm 19.12 25.4.26.2.31.3.139.2 3 4 23 24 complaineth of The more he beateth down Satan the more jealous we (39) 2 Cor. 2.11 are of Satans stratagems Heathen Moralists could lop off the (40) Rom. 2.14 branches of sin but we Christians must (41) Jer. 3.10 Col. 3.15 Rom. 8.1 lay the axe to the root of the Tree sin reigned in their hearts the Spirit of God must rule in ours We then bethink our selves of the Mansions in our Fathers House when we begin to believe in Christ we then begin to believe in Christ when we are turned (42) Acts 26.18 from the power of Satan unto God we are then turned from the power of Satan unto God when the sinfulnesse of our corrupt mind is (43) John 14.1 2. Rom. 8 11 14.7.24 25 so the trouble of our heart that it quickneth us to believe in God through Jesus Christ our Lord. To conclude If the Twins do not struggle in the womb it is a manifest Symptom of miscarriage for the (44) Gal. 5.17 Rom. 7.8 14 17 19 Heb. 12.1 4 Psalm 19.12.25 11 20 21 Flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other so that you cannot do the things that ye would But if ye (45) Rom. 8.15 allow not of your evils if your sin doth not (46) Rom. 6.12 get dominion over you if you be (47) Rom. 8.1 13 14 led by the Spirit if you (48) Gal. 5.25 16.18 walk after the Spirit if your (49) 2 Cor. 4.16 renewed minds seeke (50) 1 John 3.3 Heb. 12.14 holinesse strive (51) Col. 4.12 after perfection chuse (52) Esay 66.4 whatsoever your Lord delighteth in making the Glory of your God the (53) 1 Cor. 10.31 Deut. 16.15 26.11.12.12 18. Psalm 119.14 Esay 61.10 Deut. 28.58 27.9 10. Phil. 4.4 Col. 3.17 businesse and joy of your Souls then though troubled it be let not your heart be troubled believe in God believe also in Christ In my Fathers House are many Mansions The Stone thus rolled away from every heart we all of us are raised unto life more abundant IN what sort the person here speaking In particular Uses applyeth himself [1] Page 11. unto Gospel Ministers restrictively and unto [2] Page 53 Gospel-Professours universally we have long since perceived We have heard him speak [3] Page 55 privatively to None of you Unbelievers [4] Page 109 positively to All of you that believe I shall now proceed from the persons spoken unto to the matter spoken of and that I [5] Page 2. 14 told you was matter of Reproof matter of Instruction and matter of Comfort And I beseech you Brethren [6] Heb. 13.22 suffer a word of Exhortation lest the Stone rolled away tumble back upon us again let us let us passe from the Duty here enjoin'd unto the means here recommended let us to say no more make application of our Text. Beloved Hitherto we have heard a Voyce [7] Matth. 3.3 crying in the Wildernesse we now more fully prepare the way of the Lord Hitherto we have examined to whom we would apply this Gospel we now enquire what this Gospel is which we would apply Hitherto we have beheld the [8] Mar. 16.4 Stone rolled away now rolleth [9] Esay 48.18 in upon us Life more abundant namely First The [10] Pro. 15.21.6.23 Life of Reproof Next The [11] Pro. 10.17.16.22 Life of Instruction Thirdly The [12] Pro. 3.18 22 Life of Consolation Lastly that which [13] Psalm 145.1 2 3 7 146.2.147.1 crowneth all our Consolations to wit a Thankful Life A Life thankfull while we overcome the troubles of the heart thankfull while we exercise Faith in God through Jesus Christ our Lord thankfull while we expect the Mansions in my Fathers House Uses 1 Of Reproof When you read how the Angels of the Lord [1] Mar. 28.2 came and rolled back the Stone from the door of the Sepulchre you will not imagine that this Augel heaved it lifted it and shouldered it as men shouldered away that other stone from [2] John 11.38 39 41 the Grave of Lazarus No who art thou [3] Zec 1.4.7 O great Mountain which standest before Zerubbable The very presence of an Angel of the Lord caused [4] Mat. 28.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a great shaking viz. of that part where the Grave was Hammoad Annot on Matth. 27.51 the Earth to quake now beyond all peradventure the earth so quaked that the stone unsetled shook joggled tottered and could not choose but roll yea [5] Mar. 16.4 the more weighty it was the

more naturally it rolled backward So here Do not think that this Good Angel in my Text rolleth away your troubles from your minds by any forced restraint or interposed violence No Your gracious Lord doth here move not so much your troubles as [6] Esay 61.1 Acts 16.14 26 18 your hearts I say In this Text of mine the [7] John 6.63 Rom. 8.11 blessed Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ kindly removeth troubles from these Disciples hearts by (8) 1 John 5.4 the bringing in of Faith as calmely encreaseth their Faith by (9) Luke 24 45 enlightening their understandings and again as naturally enlighteneth their understandings by (10) Pro. 6 23 beginning his Instructions with a mild Reproof Let not your heart be troubled A better Example I cannot follow then (11) John 13.15 the Example of Jesus Christ He began with reproofes and so shall I may the same blessed spirit which inspired his sanctifie mine I foresee that what stones I would remove from others may [1] Pro. 26.27 roll upon my self but Let not my heart be troubled If I refuse to be of [2] Phil. 2.7 no reputation for his Gospel-sake I have not yet [3] Eph. 4.20 learned Christ To steal sheep oxen and other goods To some Ministers or chattells is we know an iniquity to be punished by the judge For creating troubles and I heartily wish there were as severe laws for the punishment of him who disposeth of unadvised children against or without their Parents allowance O the two evils the latter is so much worse then the former by how much the blessing of children is above the blessing of wealth Wherefore they among us are rendred (1) Pudet haec opprobria nobis Et dici potuisse non potuisse refell most inexcusable who without either Licence from their Ordinary or Banns legitimately published do for a morsel of bread or some little filthy lucre marry they care not whom These (2) 1 Sam. 2.17 Mal. 1.6 Rom. 2.24 1 Tim. 6.1 Tit. 2 5. are the very reproach of a Gospel-Ministery the scum the poison of the Clergy Errours in marriage like those in War are as remedilesse as pernicious and shall a Minister of Jesus Christ countenance such errours Where inordiate affections make the match there riot disobedience fraud and such like sins are iojned together and is this a marriage for a Minister to celebrate Is it a light matter to undermine betray and ruine whole families and this too by vertue of a trust in our holy function reposed So many of us as do in this sort prophane our holy orders deservedly incur our Lord Bishops and may justly expect our Lord Gods displeasure We call such weddings stollen weddings Trust me neither of the maried couple is so very a Theif as is the Parson who marrieth them he sinneth against his own soul his crime is capital Brethren let every Minister who nameth the name of Christ rolle away this stone from the door of his tabernacle Never hereafter (3) Where factum valet threatneth a ruine of the persons there fieri non debet must be a Rule to the Minister let such grosse scandals be the trouble of any Christians heart Secondly Believe in God For want of zeal believe also in Christ reproveth such among us as seem so farre from honouring God with their heart that they are not at the pains to honour him (1) Esay 29.13 with their lips So void of Devotion are these that they (2) Rom. 12.11 wear the Act for Vniformity as a cloak for sloath These so slubber over the Liturgy as if they were hired to (3) 1 Sam. 2.17 make it a Reproach Brethren this is not to exercise (4) 1 Tim. 4.7 our selves in godliness this is not to (5) Heb. 11.39 10.22 exercise faith this is not to believe either in God or in Christ Who so believeth in that God before (6) Esay 61.6 1 Sam. 2.11 whom he ministreth will (7) Rom. 12 7 be zealous in the whole service He will distinctly deliberately and solemnly with such due accents and cadencies read the most holy Scriptures that his very voyce shall (8) Neh. 8.8 be an interpreter of what he pronounceth He will (9) 1 Pet. 4.11 give the Hearers to understand that he is now divulging the Oracles of his God He will utter threats as one (10) Amos 8.8 2 Cor. 5 11 well knowing the terrour of the Lord He will deliver (11) Deut. 4.6 Precepts as the Wisdom and Commandments as the great (12) Hos 8.12 things of Gods righteous Law He will insinuate (13) 2 Cor. 7.1 promises as who would not only (14) Gal. 1 10 perswade but charm (15) Psalm 58.5 his people The now established (16) Pro. 15.4 1 Tim. 6.3 2 Tim. 1.13 set-Forms help his devout Soul to pray more fervently and to give thanks with Rejoycings truly spiritual To wit while both matter and phrase are already prepared to his eye his heart seeketh not (17) 1 Cor. 14 15 to find out acceptable words but acceptable desires his heart is fixed his heart meditateth not matter but God as his Heavenly Father (18) Mat. 6.32 knoweth what things he hath need of yea and knoweth (19) Psalm 139.2 his thoughts too long before so he himself long before knoweth what words to (20) Hos 14.2 take with him While he maketh his request known (21) Phil. 4 6 unto his God no (22) 1 Pet. 4 7 inadvertency surprizeth his Petitions No (23) Jam. 1.6 hallucinations stumble his faith No hesitation (24) 1 Cor. 14.15 no lapsus linguae no (25) Mat. 6 7 tautology mangleth his sacrifice A Form of wholsome (26) 2 Tim. 1.13 words he is sure of wherefore he is now in the power [27] 1 Cor. 2.4 of the Spirit making use of those wholsome and acceptable words to wrestle with that God who is a God that (28) Psal 65.2 heareth our prayers and accepteth (29) Gen. 19.21 our persons He ever so frameth (30) Hos 5.4 his doings as to seek the Lord the gracious Lord while (31) Esa 55.6 he may be found He is therefore an (32) 1 Tim 4.12 example unto Believers because while he ministreth (33) Rom. 12.7 unto the most High the most High he serveth with all (34) Deut. 10.12 his might and with all his strength He hath purposed (35) Psal 17.3 that his mouth shall not transgresse His prayer goeth not out of (36) Psal 17.1 feigned lips yea his Soul doth (37) Luke 1.46 47 magnifie the Lord and his Spirit rejoyceth in God his Saviour in a word He therefore believeth in God because he believeth in Jesus Christ the Righteous Thirdly The many Mansions in my Fathers House silence our dissenting Brethren For want of comformit Reverend and Beloved Many of us deal

Believers they seem unto themselves I say of this breast-plate of Salvation the generality of Believers are utterly frustrated 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Most true is that of Saint Augustine It seemeth good saith (1] St. Augustin de Civitate dei lib. 1. cap. 7. he It seemeth good unto the Almighty Providence to prepare such Blisse in the world to come as the just only shall enjoy and not the unjust and such torments as the unjust only shall feel and not the just but as for things temporal these the divine providence distributeth both to the just and unjust Mat. 5.45 viz. that temporal blessings may not be too vehemently desired loe even the wicked are sometimes happy in this world again that worldly evils may not be too much avoyded even the dearest of Gods children are sometimes afflicted in this world Beloved hence hence it is that [2] Eccl. 9.2 All things come alike to all that both adversity and prosperity seem promiscuously common to him that [3] ibid. sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not to the clean and to the unclean to the righteous and to the wicked In the mean while as I have already [4] viz. from page 57. forwards argued at large Look how much unbelief reigneth in the heart so much the heart is troubled I say Whether one be prosperous in his sinfulnesse like [1] 1 King 12 Jeroboam Or whether the more he trespasse the more he be distressed like [2] 2 Chron. 28.22 Ahaz Or whether he do that which is right but not with a perfect heart like [3] 2 Chron. 25.2 Amaziah Or whether though he end in the Spirit he begins in the flesh like [4] 2 Chron. 33.12 Manasseh still still the heart while a heart of unbelief must necessarily be troubled First View sinners who are not [1] Psal 73.5 in trouble like other men sinners who are compussed about with pride [2] Psal 73.6 as with a Chain who [3] Psal 73.8 speak loftily and set [4] Psal 73.9 their mouth against the Heavens These Asses are thus pampered with provender that they may bear such burdens [5] Deut. 6.10 11 7.22 1 Kings 9 11 Esay 45.14 Prov. 21.18 compaced with Esay 43.3 as might possibly cumber and divert the Church in her pilgrimage While sound Believers spend their time and thoughts upon things spiritual these Unbelievers though no thanks to them for they [6] Deut. 10.7 mean not so drudge for their service in the affairs of this World just as Indians dig Gold and Christians traffique with it I say notorious sinners are permitted to wax fat and well-liking that they may be like [7] Josh 9 27 ●s●y 49.22 23 2 Chro. 36.22 Ezra 1.7 8 Esay 44 28 45.1 hewers of wood and drawers of water for the Lords Congregation Or it may be God suffereth some of them to prosper that they may be the [8] Ezek. 19.18 19 38.11 12 5.30 4 5. overthrow of others as Judges reprive one malefactour that he may be the Executioner of his fellows Or God suffereth them to slourish and branch forth that he may use them as [9] Esay 10.5 Psalm 17.13 Judges 2.22 Rods for the correction of his Children Or as Tryals [10] Esay 3.1 Phil. 2.15 to let the world see that the prosperity of evil-doers cannot allure Gods servants unto wickednesse Neverthelesse while these prosper in the world settle upon the lees are at ease in Zion dwell carelesly and blesse themselves in their abundance while they have more then heart can wish poor fools their present prosperity [11] Pro. 1.32 Eccles 8.11 threatneth their eternal destruction Let them ask [12] Exod. 5.2 Prov. 30.9 who is the Lord that we should obey him Let them say [13] Zeph. 1.12 The Lord will do neither good or evil [14] Psalm 73.11 How doth God know is there knowledge in the most High Lo God hideth his face to see [15] Deut. 32.20 Jerem. 7.19 what their end will be to see what falshood they [16] 2 Sam. 18.32 will work against their own life Let them alone saith [17] Hos 4.7 1 Matth. 15.14 13.14 God I will not reprove them nor set before them the evils which they do let them fill up the full measure of their iniquities let them treasure up wrath against the day of my wrath Beloved the more these glory in their vanities the more at the great and last day will God exalt his Severity his Wrath and his Justice [18] Pro. 16.4 Rom. 9.22.17 2 Pet. 2.9 upon them Therefore since they had rather be [19] 2 Tim. 2.26 captives to Satan then made free [20] John 8.32 36 Rom. 6.18 22 8.2 1 Cor. 7.22 by Gods Spirit let them glory in their choyce at Doomes-Day when Satan shall accuse them God will [21] Psal 2.4 37.13.59.8 Prov. 1.26 laugh at them Since they had rather be bond-slaves to the Prince of darknesse then Heires to the Father of Lights let them have their bellies full of pleasure God can [22] Psa 50.8 12 13 22 Job 22.2 3 Tir. 3.5 Ephes 2.9 Job 35.6 7 live without their service or good affection Serve him they do and [23] Isa 66.2 60.12.43.13.44.24 Ephes 1.11 Exod. 18.11 Psalm 72.11 1 Chro. 29.14 Nehem. 9.6 Prov. 16.4 Psalm 135.6 Rom. 11.36 shall but against their wills God will not be beholding to them for their obedience nay he will not honour them so much as to deigne to [24] Esay 1.5 Hos 4.14 Esay 57.17 punish them here they shall not have the the [25] Hos 4.17 Heb. 12.6 7 favour to be scourged yea they are not worth a whistling after they forsake forget despise and neglect God and God hath as [26] 1 Sam. 2.30 light an esteem for them he doth but will not see them he leaveth them to their own presumptions in a Glorious Neglect Notwithstanding they are rendred altogether inexcusable for God meeteth them in their own [27] Hos 8.11 folly a whelp of Lilly they request and a whelp of Lilly is given them They desire no other portion then in this life and in this life their [28] Psalm 17.14 portion they shall have God oweth them no such patience no such [29] Rom. 2.4 goodnesse yet let them partake of either let the Church see whether Gods long-suffering will indeed lead the world to Repentance and make men wise for their latter end They can have no pretence that God is [30] Matth. 25.24 Zeph. 3.5 a hard Master for he is before-hand with them in his wages all [31] Esay 66.2 Rom. 11.36 Acts 17.28 that they are or have they receive from him and from him only They cannot say but that a Lord who is is so liberal unto them while they continue [32] Mat. 5.45 Zeph. 3.5 17 Psalm 31.19 Acts 14.17 Psalm 132.15.16 enemies and rebellious might prove a favourable Benefactour unto them would they

to (14) Pro. 13.11 Psalm 33.10 punish such a person with scarcity in vain shall the Defrauder Oppressour or Thief heap up unjust gains If God cast but half (15) Deut. 28.20 an eye upon his Babel in vain doth the Worldling build high comforts upon his sandy Foundation If God (16) Esay 10.26 1 Sam. 26.19 1 Kings 11.14 23 compared with Prov. 16.7 stir up the Spirit of his Prince of his Kinred of his Family of his truest Friends against him in vain doth the man-pleaser trust in the arm of flesh No marvail then if the recompence of vanity be vexation of spirit no wonder if they that sow the wind reap the whirlewind if they who provoke God provoke him (17) Jer. 25.7 to their own hurt Every affliction which exerciseth a gracious Soul is grievous for the present how much more judgement for sin as judgement If God (18) Levit. 26.19 break the pride of mans power man shall soon (19) Levit. 26.39 pine away in his iniquity If when sinners turn from the Lord the Lord will not (20) Num. 14.43 be with them the sound of a shaken leaf shall (21) Lev. 26.36 chase them To the impenitent sinner God can if it suit with his glory make every expected Refuge pricks in the eyes and thorns in the side He can so often as pleaseth both (23) Levit. 26.16 appoint terrour and cause sorrow Foolish persons are plagued (24) Psalm 107.17 by reason of their offences Now if God will by his temporal judgements (25) Ezek. 38.23 magnifie himself and sanctifie himself that he may be (26) Ezek. 39.23 known in the eyes of the Nations there is nothing more natural then that he who suffereth for his sins should finde (27) Psalm 39.11 trouble of heart Let his heart be troubled Thirdly Who so doth what is Right but not with an upright mind hath a mind to be troubled If Machiavel hath the policy to attain not vertue it self but the appearance of vertue I rather pity thed envy him fool that he is while he fancieth the exercise of Vertue burdensom but the credit of it beneficial he is a contradiction unto himself Pusillanimity [1] Omnis compositio indigentiae cujusdam videtur esse particeps not discretion drave him upon these shifts Where the heart is divided it is [2] Hos 10.2 forthwith found faulty even unto it self Reason telleth us that in one and the same bosome a [3] Psal 12.2 heart and a heart can never agree together if the double-minded man be unstable [4] James 1.8 in all his wayes it is impossible his thoughts should be stablished He hath no [5] 2 Pet. 3.17 stedfastnesse of his own and must therefore expect to continue unsetled Besides The Hypocrites attempt is of all undertakings the most irksome The behaviour of other persons is [6] Magìs ingenuè Peribonius like their Apparel suitable and habitual but this mans carriage is like that of a [7] Suasit jam olim Valla bypocritam Latinè reddendum esse histrionem Sculcet in Matth. 6.5 Stage-player therefore forced because mimical Again He can never enjoy his freedome who walketh in a disguise for while he so walketh he ever and anon feareth to be discovered and moreover most equal it is that he should have vexation enough and enough who had rather please [8] Gal. 1.10 man then God Such a man his Conscience [9] Sêque unum clamet cansámque Caputque malorum 1 John 3.20 accuseth him because he wittingly seemeth what he is not and again the same conscience condemneth him because he seemeth not what he is Once more Whoso would bear the world in hand that he hateth what he vehemently loveth and that he loveth what he vehemently hateth may well complain of trouble of heart for he is his own Tormentor Knowledge [10] Pro. 14.6 is easie to him that understandeth and unto him who like his God affecteth plain-dealing and faithfulnesse sincerity is pleasant but oh the Vnquothnesse of an hypocritical conversation To forbear sin not out of conscience but out of craft to perform duties not out of obedience but out of subtilty to force [11] Invitâ Minervâ for ignoti nulla cupido ones self upon mock-reading mock-hearing mock-praying mock-praising c. I say to be religious meerly for profit or ostentation to walk [12] 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist Echic as it were spiritually on a carnal accompt to professe a form of that godlinesse which the Soul naturally abhorreth to boast of heaven and dread hell to pretend a love toward God and to [13] To him that would not depart from iniquity the name of Christ must needs be terrible nor can he who serveth divers lusts serve God in sincerity and with hopes of acceptance wish in the mean while that there were no God these these are servitudes which the Devil himself was never subjected unto Hell is ignorant of these torments The Hypocrite is so very a fool that he thinketh to out-wit the only wise God I conclude therefore that until he [14] Ut dometur homo Deus quaeratur Aug. Tom. 10. Serm. 4. de verbis Domini at length convince his understanding that God is infinitely wiser then He it can be no marvail if his pragmatical heart be troubled Lastly Sometimes the wise and gracious God doth (1) Esay 1.5 Jer. 10.24 humble soften and prepare at least he would humble soften and prepare a soul for grace by giving unto it a sorrow of heart first whether (2) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plato the person were formerly as prosperous as prophane or as unprosperous as hypocritical Manasses (3) 2 Kings 21.6 2 Chron. 33.12 13 19 compared with the prayer of Manasses was stormed from a spirit of divination unto a spirit of bondage from a spirit of bondage unto a spirit of liberty Thus if the heart of unbelief be not in justice troubled that trouble may (4) Rom. 9.17 22 fit it for destruction it is in mercy troubled that troubles may fit it for conversion What our Lord doth that we know not now but hereafter (5) John 13.7 we shall know He who hath mercy upon whom he will and (6) Rom. 9.18 hardneth whom he will weigheth (7) 1 Sam 2.3 Quem locum de divin's cogitationibus à proposito nunquam deficientibus intelligant Th●odor Symmach Vatabl. Cajdan Pagnin Fraa de Men. doza actions He at this present provideth for the future storeth up sometimes vengeance sometimes mercies decreeth that before all Worlds which either his severity or his loving kindnesse determineth to accomplish in (8) Acts 2.23 dayes yet to come Sirs is any thing (9) Gen 18.14 too hard for God Such yea such is the unsearchable goodnesse of the most High that the self-same prosperities the self-same adversities which formerly hardened may (10) Hoc enim est

troubled Sinner Bethink thy self Jesus Christ his sufferings [3] 1 John 22 are thy pardon Come unto him thou that art heavy laden [4] Mar. 11.28 Christ will ease thee Hate sin that Christ [5] Act. 26.18 may pardon it Did the Lord Christ suffer the death of his body and the fierce wrath of his own Father all to keep thee from Hell and wilt thou again pawn thy Soul unto the Devil [6] 1 Pet. 5.1 for some trifling sin Are fire and brimstone [7] Matth. 25.30 Jude 15. Esay 30.33 2.19 and everlasting darknesse such flea-bitings Are Peace and Glory and [8] Rev. 21.7 everlasting Joy so contemptible that whatsoever the Son of God hath suffered should not at all concern thy soul Cast off thy [9] Dan 4.27 Esay 30.22 sins thine unprofitable sins for for Thee Christ dyed Thy Thy Soul the Mercifull Jesus would pardon Thirst [10] Dan 55.1 Revel 22.17 thirst after Righteousnesse that Christ may impute it Jesus Christ hath [11] Isa 53.4 born thine iniquities and wilt thou pluck them from off His shoulders to again place them upon thine own Oh rather set thy face toward Heaven and look look up upon [12] Zech. 12 10 Him whom Thou hast pierced Let Christ but see once [13] Esay 53.11 of the travel of his Soul and He shall be satisfied and thou too The Son of God dyed and dyed to save thee from thy sins That is one Inducement to force [14] Foelix est periculum ad Deum consuge e. thine heart of unbelief to seek the Lord while he may be found 2. Circumstance Although this was or was near upon Circumstance the same night wherein he was betrayed from the beginning of Chap. 13. unto the end of Chap. 17. Christ taketh much thought not for his dying self but for his sinfull Disciples Sinner it will not repent him that He layed down his life for thy sake if where He hath layed it down there thou wouldest take it up for thy preservation he is solicitous for his own he was not 3. A third Circumstance Three other Evangelists Circumstance three other faithfull Pen-men Jesus Christ had of his most holy Gospel but such a subject as this This the turning of his bowels the unbosoming of his loving Kindnesses so choyce a portion of the Gospel as is this He peculiarly reserveth for his fittest Pen man His bosome Evangelist his beloved Disciple his darling JOHN shall be the Author of this Evangelical Scripture and this purposely that such a desperate Caitiffe as thou hast been may [1] John 20.31 believe and conceive hopes 4 Circumstance The tender compassion of Christ Jesus over the present troubles of these Disciples hearts Circumstance Sinner The heart which melteth to see a wound lanced will never have the power to see a Sword ripping up thine entrails What troubles these Disciples here met with were but only the troubles of this world yet see here the swooning of Christs bowels Tell me Would not Jesus Christ endure that these should perplex their hearts and will he take any pleasure in the eternal torments of thy lost Soul Believe it the merciful Jesus doth not willingly afflict To be gracious he waiteth at thy death he aimeth not Thy Spirit had long since failed before him had not He forborn to strike I tell thee Thy case thy state of unbelief is so desperate that God deferreth his just anger unto the very last minute He knoweth shouldest Thou to Hell once thou art then a lost man for ever After death no redemption Thy sins are so great that Christ would if possible forgive them although thou imaginest not so He would if thou wouldest assent heal all thy back-slidings lest otherwise thy Soul thy wretched Soul should unto all eternity be tormented miserably tormented in Hell in the nethermost Hell If the Disciples afflictions move Christ unto compassion know the vengeance due unto thy sins pierceth his heart Shouldest thou to Goale once thou wouldest be sure to be condemned and executed wherefore ere ever thou art questioned for thy life Thy Jesus would procure for thee the Kings pardon nay He hath procured it and willeth thee to accept it upon the Kings terms Sinner if thou hast grace to believe any one of these Circumstances these Circumstances will be unto thee Life from the dead Secondly Life of comfort for Believers For Believers First against all worldly distresses Against worldly distresses viz. Although the afflictions of the Righteous are [1] Psalm 34.19 many yet [2] 1 Pet. 4.12 think not that strange True as A Child of God in the anguish of her spirit [3] Mr. G. C. in his Epistle before his Sermon at the Funerals of Mrs. A. Childe of Northwick Worcestershire replyed unto her Minister A sharp Visitation seemeth to signifie displeasure but Let not your heart be troubled For First The very same afftictions are [1] Pet. 51 9 accomplished in your Brethren No temptation can take you but such as is [2] 1 Cor. 10.13 Bonus quicquid accidit ei aequo animo feret Sen. Epist 7. common unto men nay unto Saints Art thou afflicted Answ So were Christs chosen Disciples yea so was Jesus Christ Himself even in the compassions of this very Text His heart was troubled then when he said Let not your heart be troubled I say Secondly So kind a Master so loving a Brother is Jesus Christ that he is [1] Heb. 4.15 touched with a sense of our infirmities Who is afflicted and he [2] 2 Cor. 11.29 burneth not I say In all thine afflictions thy dearest Bridegroom is [3] Esay 63.9 afflicted with thee He in this Text forgat his own sufferings although so near at hand that he might [4] Dr. Sibs Sermon on John 14.1 comfort his Disciples in these their troubles Thirdly The same Redeemer who bringeth the trouble layeth this command Let not your heart be troubled Be ye sure now He who [1] John 14.1 Esay 54.5 7 8 40.1 2 Jerem. 31.20 Hos 11.8 9 will not give way that thy heart should be any whit troubled at all will in due time remove what He Himself dis-liketh If thy Plaister [2] Rom. 8.28 Phil. 3.21 hurt it shall be taken off and that quickly Or ever he find out a temptation for thee he will out a way for thy [3] 1 Cor. 10.13 temptations escape rather then thy heart should be over-much troubled What thou canst not [4] Heb. 7.25 Matth. 11.30 12.20 well bear shall never burden thy feeble shoulders Fourthly Suppose thy distresse burdensome I reckon that the sufferings of this [1] Rom. 8.18 present life are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us What yea what are these light afflictions which are but for a [2] 2 Cor. 4.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Domum apud Pati●●n habéo camque vòbis

paratam lo ●è toculentissimam amp●●ssimam bonis omnib●●● instra●ctissimam Jac. Capellus Ostendit hoc nomine Apostolos Deo fi●ere debere quod in domo Patris sui variae sint paratae mansiones A transsugis sumpta Metaphora quibus magno solatio èst habere varia Asyla ad consugièndu quae promittit Christus sive praesentem vitam spectes sive futuram Zegerius moment if compared unto the 3 Mansions in my Fathers House Fifthly Imagine these afflictions I which for the present seen so grievous were worthy to be compared unto the Joyes that are set before us yet [1] Deur 4.29 believe in God God is [2] Psal 47.7 King of all the earth Again I say believe in God Faithfull are the [3] Prov. 27.6 3.11 Job 5.17 Heb. 12.6 Revel 3.19 wounds of a Friend I know O Lord that thy Judgements are true and that thou in 4 very faithfulnesse hast afflicted me Sixthly Believe also in Christ In Him thou mayest find peace He [1] John 14.29 foretelleth thee that he hath [2] John 16.33 overcome the world for thee He hath [3] John 13.15 given thee an Example of [4] Luke 21.29 possessing thy Soul in patience His peace he [5] John 14.27 giveth unto thee and what he giveth that he [6] ibid. leaveth with thee He putteth that into thine eye which will make thee see the better soweth that in thy [7] Psalm 126.5 Heb. 12.11 tears which will bring forth fruit to thine accompt even the peaceable fruits of Righteousnesse Once Jesus Christ doth in thy sufferings give thee the [8] Phil. 1.29.3.10 2 Cor. 4.11 Credit the Reputation the honour of having a fellowship in his sufferings A second Life of Comfort here is Against the death of our Friends namely [1] Videbat eos commotos antecedentibus de suâ morte Sermonibus it áque eos erigit Grotius in John 14.1 against the [2] 2 Sam. 1.26 18.33 John 11.3.33 Phil. 2.27 Death of our Friends Thou who art a follower of God art thou troubled on every side So were these Disciples Art thou disappointed of worldly hopes So were these Disciples Is some dear Friend deceased Loe these Disciples were [3] John 13.33 16.6 fain to part with their dearest Jesus What it was to be bereaved of so good a Master you have [4] viz. p. 235. already seen but This was not all When Jesus had escaped death was [5] Luke 24.21 beyond all hopes raised from the Grave was beyond all hopes restored unto them again for his Disciples then again to lose Him to lose Him whom [6] Cant. 3.4 their Soul had found Him who [7] Revel 1.18 was dead and is alive and behold he liveth for evermore This this is much very much One would think if at Christ his death his Disciples hearts were troubled they would have been at his [8] Acts 1.6,11 ascension troubled much more Did I not say unto my Lord [9] 2 Kings 4.28 Do not deceive me If when Christ dyed all their hopes [10] Luke 24.21 dyed with him then much more when he arose their hopes [11] Luke 33.34 Acts 1.11 revived also Consider now For Jesus after that he had overcome death to depart from his Disciples again to depart from them now no more by a necessity of death but during health and life to ascend from them [12] Luke 24.9 just then when they [13] Luke 24.6 expected the issue of his [14] Matth. 21.7 8 riding in triumph of his [15] Matth. v. 9 15 accumulated Hosanna's of his declaring and owning of himself to be the [16] Matth. 2.2 27.11 King of the Jewes the long expected [17] Matth. 21.15 Luke 2.11 Son of David yea the [18] Matth. 3.17 17.5 Rom. 1.4 Son the only Son of the great and only God Loe ye here a tryal yet see when this dear this potent friend thus unexpectedly ascended I say when the most loving Jesus most unexpectedly departed his Disciples which had formerly drooped were now so far from being at all troubled that they were [19] Luke 24.52 filled with great joy Consider consider my Beloved When the God of all flesh taketh away from us our best our nearest friends he can and if we trust in him he will leave a greater comfort [20] John 14.16 16.17 behind them This for the death of others Against our fear of death Is now thlne own death thy [1] 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist terrour I say is the darknesse of the shadow of death thy discomfort Fear thou [2] Psal 23.4 none evil He who hath [3] Joh. 16.8.5.4 taught thee to live will [4] Phil. 4.13 help thee to dye Women bring forth in sorrow but it is to their comfort for their repeated pains in Child-bearing [5] 1 Tim. 2.15 teach that fearful Sex how to overlook a lesser pain namely that of death As when the Moon so when the soul is in the change she is then nearest unto the [6] Psalm 84.11 Sun When Christ came from Bozrah his dyed [7] Esay 63.1 Garments drew the [8] 1 Cor. 15.56 Fiducia Christianorum resurrectio mortuorum Tertul. de carnis resur sting out of Death and as of the flesh of Adders are made Antidotes against poyson so of that sting is now made a Cordial for the deceasing Party The Grave seemeth to [9] Prov. 30.16 Rom. 3.13 gape like the red Sea mean while it maketh way for our more speedy coming unto the promised Rest Christ was placed within the Grave that we [10] 2 Cor. 4.10 Col. 3.4 See Bishop Reynolds his Churches Triumph over Death might step over it with ease The Believer now a dying is onely passing from death to life nay more from the death of sin unto him who is [11] John 14.6 1 John 3.2 Col. 3.3 4 The Life The Earth provideth a Rest for our Bodies the Heavens contain a Rest so our souls but Jesus Christ will be a Rest unto them both True Death [12] Rom. 5.12 passed upon all these Disciples This [13] John 21 19 spake Christ signifying by what death he should glorifie God viz. Peter was to put off his earthly Tabernacle [14] 2 Pet. 1.14 shortly As for St. James he was [15] Acts 12.2 killed with the Sword Great very great [16] Gal. 2.9 Matth. 19.28 were these Apostles but notwithstanding their greatnesse as (17) Psal 82.7 Princes so THEY must dye like men A Believers Comfort is [18] Job 30.23 not that he shall not dye but that he shall not dye the everlasting death of common men Of the beloved Disciple himself the Lord Jesus never said [19] John 21.23 he shall not dye but Unto him he said [20] John 14.2 In my Fathers House are many Mansions The least child of God can now [21] Revel 1.18 fetch a stride

the seed the spawn of all uncleannesse and wickednesse soever It was not it could not be unknown unto the most holy Jesus how that Peter would deny him or how that these other disciples would all of them forsake him Fore-known unto Him it was prevented by him it was not Behold O Lord our Redeemer Thou hast dyed for sin and yet sin abideth in us Thou hast called us unto holinesse and yet we have no inherent holinesse at all alas we continue above measure sinfull Lord if thou wilt thou [3] Luke 5.12 canst make us clean Our seet thou hast washed Why [4] John 13.9 not also our hands and our head But [5] Gen. 32.10 beggers must not be their own chusers Oh wherefore doth living man [6] Lam. 3.39 22 complain What is dust and ashes that any thought of his [7] Jer. 18.6 Rom. 9.20 should at all reply against his King and his God Secret [8] Deut. 29.29 causes why while we are in the flesh sin dwelleth in us belong unto Him We may finde comfort from the reasons which he [9] Rom. 15.4 hath revealed whether in regard of himself or in regard of us 1. In regard of himself The glory of all his Attributes 1. While He as he is God the Father 1 Comfort taketh occasion to reconcile his justice unto his mercy c. in creating light out of darknesse good out of evil order out of confusion peace out of guilt grace out of sin and out of dishonour his most [1] Psal 35.27 34.3 40.16 Luke 1.46 Phil. 1.20 Eph. 1.10 12 unsearchable Glory 2. 2 Comfort While as he is God the Son Son of the Father and Son of man too he magnifieth that [1] John 5.27 compared with Prov. 29.2 and Job 36.22 authority which the Father hath put into his hands All power was [2] Matth. 28.18 1 Cor. 15.27 given unto Him and it is fit that [3] Matth. 28.28 Prov. 8.22 30 the world should know it In the work of his Creation he [4] John 1.3 Heb. 1.2 sheweth himself a free agent forming many Creatures quite void of life many capable of life among living creatures he giveth unto some a power vegetative as that of Herbs Trees c. but not sensible to others as that of brutes a power both vegetative and sensible but not rational but unto mankind he giveth a power vegetative sensible and [5] Gen. 1.27 reasonable too Just thus the Son of man to shew how absolutely his elect Vessels are [6] Eph. 1.22 Phil 1.10 Revel 4.11 at his pleasure His pleasure is that man before his souls conversion [7] Rom 11.32 Gal. 3.22 should abide void of all grace but full of all sin and should after his souls dissolution [8] Phil. 3.21 1 Cor. 15.42 remain void of all sin but filled with all grace but should be from his souls conversion to his souls dissolution [9] Gal. 5.17 divided between sin assaulting and Grace assisting 3. 3 Comfort While as he is God the [1] 1 Joh. 5.7 Holy Ghost he keepeth man [2] Jude 24 from falling raiseth man [3] Psalm 145.14 Rom. 8.11 when fallen The preserver of men delighteth [4] Prov. 8.3 in the habitable parts of the earth and since this is his will even [5] 1 Thes 4.3 our sanctification He will not fail of his Will if we [6] Cal. 6.8 his Vessels be not wanting unto our own selves 2. In regard of us He glorifieth himself many wayes by our inherent sin as 1. 1 Comfort The demeanour of Gods Children under their corruptions (1) Job 1.8 22 Deut. 32.5 Phil. 2.15 16 justifieth the severity of God against Reprobates We are Gods witnesses Are Vnbelievers sinfull so are sound Believers but (2) 1 Sam. 24 10 Psalm 32.5 51.3 Zeph. 3.5 Jer. 3.3 6.15 Esay 44.9 66.5 Ezek. 16.61 43.11 2 King 22.19 not with that high hand not with that greedinesse not with the like presumption fearlesnesse shamelesnesse or impenitency When we commit evil there is sooner or later some regret some remorse some compunction some mis-givings in our consciences St. Peter (2) Matth. 27.75 weepeth out of the Hall he getteth he avoideth the like temptations again The Disciples forsake Christ but the Disciples hearts are troubled Alas (3) John 14.1 sinfull (4) 1 John 1.8 we are but this is one comfort yet viz. The (5) Deut. 33.29 haters of God shall be found lyars They shall not say we (6) 1 John 3.3 take that pleasure in our evil doings which the unbeliever taketh 2. 2 Comfort Our continual guilt ever remembreth us [1] Rom. 6.23 Lam. 3.39 Psalm 103.3 4 from what everlasting burnings we are rescued Unto which of the Angels said he at any time Thy sins are forgiven thee If the men of Jabesh must lose every one their right eyes [2] 1 Sam. 11. 2 compare v. 9 with 2 Sam. 2.4 it must be because their lives were given unto them for a prey The Lords mercy it is [3] Heb. 12.29 that we are not eternally consumed 3. 3 Comfort Our corruptions mind us from what an (1) Psalm 51.6 Exod. 12.8.11 compared with Exod. 1.14 12 39 excessive sinfulnesse we are delivered Slay them not lest (2) Psalm 59.11 my people forget it Are the imaginations of our heart evil continually evil Blessed be our God that they are not (3) 2 Cor. 3.5 more evil I thank my God (4) Rom. 7.25 through Jesus Christ our Lord. 4. 4 Comfort Our sins teach us (1) Rom. 12.9 Acts 11.23 Jer. 13.11 Psalm 101.3 Josh 23.8 22.5 Deut. 10 20 21 11.22 13.4 18.13 28.47 58 30.20 self-denial for Who would serve divers lusts Who would love a false heart Who would maintain an enmity against holinesse Who would make provision for that flesh which warreth against his soul or cherish those affections which lust against the Spirit yea who would combine with Satan against God 5. 5 Comfort Our in-bred sin (1) Deut. 13.3 Gen. 22.12 Exod. 16.28 20.20 Deut 8.2 16.30.15 19.20 Judges 2.22 31 4. compared with Psalm 26.2 Rom. 12.2 8 6 2 Cor. 8 8 13.5 Gal. 6 4 5.25 James 2.27 3.18 Heb. 3.13 1 John 3.7 8 9.10.2.3 5.3.19 24.4.13 2 Pet. 1.10 Eph. 5.1 proveth us VVhat thanks is it unto the Sun that he daily runneth so even a course or that his beames are ever glorious just none at all for a necessity of Nature compelleth the Sun to be as he is and to do as he doth I say the Sun doth never run nor shine upon choyce But our God who worketh in us all our holy desires setteth before us as well evil as good that we (2) Dicet aliquis si Deus vellet isti boni essent sed melius voluit ut quod vellent essent August may have the comfort of chusing the better part Since God

sort of praise [15] Psalm 50.23 glorifieth God Thirdly Nor canst thou thus order thy conversation In heart until thou keep thy heart (1) Pro. 4 23 first 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with all diligence True he that doeth righteousnesse is righteous even as he [2] 1 Joh. 3 7 3 John 11. is righteous but loe such a Righteousnesse must be the work of the sanctifying Spirt upon thine inward parts Then will David sing and give praise when his heart is [3] Psal 57.7 prepared and fixed The God of [4] Psal 109.1 thy praise is a God not of the dead but [5] Luke 20.38 of the living He is not for [6] Heb. 6.1 dead works He accepteth of no duty which is not [7] Heb. 11.6 the fruit of faith and of no faith which is not the [8] Rom. 8.9 fruit of the Spirit The carcasses of good works take not at all [9] Esay 1 11-19 with God Therefore whensoever thou wouldest honour him with thy lips or in thy deeds let not then thy [10] Esay 29.13 heart be far from him They must be well affected that glorifie the [11] Esay 1.19 Victo que volentes Per populos dal jura God of love wherefore he saith I will make them 12 joyfull in my house of prayer Ye then who would glorifie him [13] Psal 31.23 love him Ye who would love him be [14] Psal 5.11 Ephes 5.1 Psalm 63.8 joyfull in him Thou who as becometh a dear child followest hard after God that thy mouth may praise him with [15] Psal 5. ● joyfull lips let thy soul I say let thy [16] Psal 35.9 soul be joyfull in thy God What thou dost do it in [17] Eph. 6.5 singlenesse of heart as unto Christ do it [18] Col. 3.17 heartily as unto the Lord Fear the Lord and [19] Hos 3 5 his goodnesse When thou with thy whole heart [20] Hos 5.4 framest thy doings to seek after thy God When thou with all thy might [21] Esay 64 7 stirrest up thy self to lay hold of him When thou walkest with God [22] Num. 14.24 Deut. 28.47 fully When for the abundance of all things and for all the goodnesse and for all the prosperity which the Lord thy God procureth unto thee thou doest [23] Jer. 33.9 fear and tremble least a Vessel so brim full should spill somewhat When thou wrappest thy [24] Mat 6.10 26.42 Psalm 119 35 47 Deut. 4.2 will in Gods secret Will and thy desires close with Gods revealed pleasure When thou placest thy happinesse in [25] Acts 21.13 Phil. 1.18 the glory of thy dearest Father thy dearest Redeemer thy dearest Preserver thy dearest Bridgeroom making Him thy [26] Esay 60.10 stay thy [27] Gen. 15.1 Psalm 62.5 6 7 8 73.27 28. 119.51 Jer. 17.14 17 Deut. 10.20 21 reward thy [28] Eph. 3.16 Col. 1.10 11 1 Pet. 4.11 praise when thy soul boasteth of him and cleaveth unto him When in all things appertaining unto life and godlinesse thou doest serve the Lord thy God in the strength of his Spirit and through the righteousnesse of his Son with [29] Deut. 28.47 joyfulnesse and gladnesse of heart thou doest then glorifie God Thus thus O Christian let us let us daily give thanks unto that God who [30] Psal 68.19 daily loadeth us with his Benefits [31) Psal 148.13 let us daily praise that God whose Name alone is [32] Psal 104.1 excellent over all the world let us daily honour that God who is 33 cloathed with Majestie and Honour and let us daily daily let us bless that God whom the Angels in heaven joy and delight to [33] Psal 103.20 Revel 5.11 15.2 reverence and adore Thus yea thus O Christian let us now and ever glorifie our God thy God and mine He that is Our God is the [34] Psalm 68.20 God of salvation Who is so great a God as is [35] Psalm 77.13 Our God Let the Lord in whose hand is our breath and whose are [36] Dan. 5.23 all our wayes let the [37] Psalm 70.4 Lord be glorified Blesse the Lord all ye his works in all places of his Dominion [38] Psalm 103.22 blesse thou the Lord O my soul How the Lord must be by us glorified we have seen The next is why Wherefore God must be by us glorified Beloved To produce many Arguments wherefore we should all of us make it the whole businesse of our whole lives to glorifie this great and dreadfull Name The Lord our God were to question whether we are indued with reason or no To produce none were to deny our affections a few then First Seeing he Reason 1. who is the Father of us all is a God the only God Why may he not be by us glorified Might all men From no reason to the contrary and with them all Angels evil and good lay all their forces together they could not if they would produce one piece of an argument why the Lord our God may not be by us glorified Seriously then let this be our first motive Therefore therefore let us glorifie our God because there is (1) Esay 41.21 no reason in the world to the contrary A second reason Reason 2. why the Father of all things must be by us glotified From creatures void of reason I deduce from all creatures void of reason Reason is entrusted not with them but with us neither can they but by us (1) Sola prosecto actio Deum in hac vitâ glorificandi gloriosa nobis esse poterat corona quâ meritum nostrum cumulatissimè remuneratum esse credere possemus Citharistae citharizaadi pretium à rege exigenti sertur respondisse Rex satis amplum retulisse citharizaido Anius respoaderi potest laudanti Deum meritum lau dandi solá laudatione satis superque remuneratum Mendeza in 1 Sam. 2.30 speak the praises of their Creator They are the leaves the blossoms the fruit which prepare a sweetnesse we alone are those Bees which ought to collect the honey Large Volumns they are and very learned in the ineffable Name of the Great JEHOVAH but as every other Volumn so this Book of the Creature is serviceable not unto it self but unto us a very fair Edition it is an Edition published for the Authors immediate glory but this glory the Author expecteth not from the Book but from the Reader if from so incomparable a Work as this is we for whose sake alone it is published will derive no glory unto the Author the incensed Author will burn first the Reader then the Book I say the Sense Life Motion and being of every Creature whatsoever are only the materials of Gods praise and glory the praise and glory which God deserveth from them he demandeth from us for it not they but we are accomptable it is a fearfull sin to defraud God of that which

dicere hoc est quod trepidabam proferre Qui ergo se tanti patris silium consitetur credit respondeat vitâ generi moribus patri mente at que actu asserat quod caelestum consecutus est naturam Chrysologi Serm. 72. our God be by us few glorified Fourthly Reason 4. From grace assisting Therefore God must be by us glorified because if Christs Disciples we be we have the benefit not only of reason but of grace As unreasonable creatures want understanding to know there is a God so unregenerate creatures want grace to glorifie that God whom they know a rational power over all which is before them they may and [1] Rom. 2.8 must exercise a spiritual they should but cannot As ever they would [2] See William Fenner his Wilfull Impenitency Mr. Baxters his Call to the Unconverted his Now or Never c. obtain that glory which shall hereafter be revealed as ever they would work out their salvation as ever they would escape condemnation as ever they would quiet the barking of their guilty consciences as ever they would entitle God unto a protection of what they possesse nay since the fewer their offences the [3] Mat. 16.27 Luke 12.47 48 fewer their torments as ever they would mitigate the severity of eternal wrath let the vilest unbelievers see to it that they do ever make the best use which possibly they can of that little understanding they have David even then when he himself was [4] Psalm 109.4 all prayer made this imprecation against Judas [5] Psalm 109.7 Let his prayer become sin the meek Moses who [6] Exod. 32.32 petitioned rather then not forgive Israels sins blot me out of thy book against Dathan and Abiram brake forth [7] Num. 16.15 Respect not thou their offering Sirs the same is the [8] Mark 3.29 intercession of the merciful Jesus against such unbelievers as despising salvation harden themselves in their [9] John 3.18 accursed estate Such a one cursed he is and will not feel how [10] John 3.5 mortal his sins are he liketh his inbred corruption so well that he had rather be without the Spirit of Regeneration then endure the pangs of a new birth he serveth divers lusts and he liketh it well most contented is he to be Satans underling he [11] Rom. 6.12 7.22 Psalm 51.10 Gal. 5.24 Libera me à malo hom ne viz à merpso Aug. complaineth not that he was conceived in iniquity that he hath a heart rebellious c. In short nature cannot relieve him and he will not seek out for grace therefore is his whole life but a series of hypocrisie and of guilded sins So unreasonable is such a one that he is too [12] Psal 10.4 Homo sib obnoxium Deum exist mat non se Deo Spanhem proud to obey he scorneth instruction so fool-hardy he is that he feareth none of all that infinite power none of all that infinite justice which the Almighty glorieth in Since now the holinesse of God is an [13] Prov. 29.27 abomination unto his heart it is no marvail at all if his sacrifices are an [14] Prov. 15.8 21.27 abomination unto his God for he cannot be said to serve the Lord but [15] Qui facit ea solummodò quae vult facere non Dominicam voluutatem implet sed suam Salvian his own fancy Never never let such a nasty sloven dream that ever the King of glory will accept any confessions any thanksgivings any prayses any panegyricks from such a [16] Psalm 50.16 Prov. 17.7 rustical clown such a vagrant Tinker such a black-mouthed smuttifac●● Chimney-sweeper as he silly unbeliever is Let him know it is for [17] Psal 4.3 33.1 City-Recorders for Vniversity-Orators and for select Ambassadors to receive audience from Princes if these will speak good of our Kings most excellent Majesty our King will graciously vouchsafe unto them this honour that their speeches shall if not please yet not offend What is his Royal Person [18] Job 22.3 4 bettered by any subjects applause Jesus Christ he refuseth Hosanna's if they proceed not from a sincere heart and unlesse you [19] Rom. 8.4 5 seek out for his quickning renewing and sanctifying Spirit vain are your pretences of seeking to glorifie your God Sinners For the Lords sake lay aside this idle this unreasonable unbelief of your hearts Give unto your God the right use [1] See Bishop Prideaux his Euchalogia or Doctrine of Prayer Part 2. cap 7. viz. Of Christian Atacrity of your Reason and of your natural affections It is impossible for him to sincerely seek to glorifie God who hath no apprehension of God other then of an enemy both denouncing judgments and ever likely to execute what judgments he denounceth Now he that drowneth the [2] See of this Book pag. 109. use of his Reason in a perverse unbelief can have no other I mean no other true apprehension of the infinitly just God then some such like disheartening notions Oh do not cherish such perverse such [3] Qualem te paraveris Deo talis oportel appareat tibi Deus Bernard in Cant. Ser. 69. distrustful thoughts He that nourisheth hard thoughts of so good a Lord as our Lord God is verbal thanks he may bring but such alas take not neither with himself nor with his God Not with himself for [4] Prov. 25.20 what are songs unto a heavy heart Zions Songs [5] Psal 137.4 unto an enthraled captive How can one conscious that he is dead in trespasses and guilt come [6] Heb. 4 16 with any boldnesse unto the throne of grace how can he give lively praises Shall the dead [7] Psal 88.10 praise thee O ever living Ood When their Daughter lay [8] Matth. 9.23 without life her weeping parents took small pleasure in the noise of minstrels and unto the prisoner that is guilty the Judges Trumpet giveth but an uncomfortable sound just so unto him whose soul affecteth to be gracelesse the remembrance of God is but a [9] See Bishop Reynolds third Sermon upon Hos 14. mihi p. 7. sad remembrance enlarge the heart it doth not aggravate and renew guilt it doth Neither doth God regard [10] Esay 19.13 such empty lip labours The same unbelief which discourageth man in his duties the same [11] Rom. 8.8 14.23 Heb. 11.6 rendreth his duties displeasing unto his God if God [12] 1 Sam. 25.35 accepteth not his person neither accepteth he his pretended services for as good never a whit as with an evil will and needs must [13] 1 Cor. 12.3 Rom. 8.9 Acts 7.51 that will be evil which hateth to be spiritual Where the heart is not Gods what valueth he the rest nay where the heart undervalueth his Spirit what valueth he the heart That heart which would [14] Ex arbitrio non ex Dei imperio Tertul. like Israel who when he saw without a God

he could not be said Exod. 32.8 unto the work of his hands Thou art my God H●s 14.3 impose upon God without the intermediating righteousnesse of Jesus Christ offereth not prayses but affronts not thanksgivings but provocations The water which he bringeth he [15] Job 14.4 poureth forth of an unclean vessel the fruit which he tendereth he tendereth [16] Tit. 1.15 with a left hand with a left hand lame and leprous the prayer which he sacrificeth is no more then the cutting off of a dogs neck and his rejoycings are much like the shoutings of them who [17] Exod. 32.18 compared their glory unto a molten calfe Thus all the honour which God purchaseth from the heart refusing grace is only like unto that drudging work which just Masters [18] Quod faciunt contra voluntat●m Dei non impletur nisi volunta● Dei Aug de praed Sanct. l. 1. c. 6. exact from their froward servants or much like those confessions which [19] Josh 7.19 Joshua extorted from accursed Achan like the assistance which wise Commanders squeeze from enemies taken in War else like that medicinal use which able Physitians make [20] As Philip of Macedon who made his enemies the Athenians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch of dangerous poysons In a word without faith it is impossible to please God for whatsoever is not of faith is sin viz. notoriously short of that reasonable service which the pure God may justly expect from every person since every person hath reason enough to thirst after the holy Spirit of Christ Jesus Sirs from those that do or may understand that such a Spirit is to be sought but seek it not all the honour which the Lord procureth is [21] Rom. 2.8 Job 21.30 Jude 15. Prov. 16.4 Rom. 9.22 Just as the Artist turn●th the natural violence of sire winds and water unto profitable works of Art as forced as that which through his transcendent power and wisdome he raiseth unto himself out of the hardnesse of Pharaohs heart or which is the same out of Adams disobedience out of sin as sin and out of Devils as Devils Wherefore the Lord perswade you to pant after the holy Spirit that you may with simplicity of mind endeavour to glorifie your God Object To pant after the holy Spirit of the holy God is a work of Regeneration and we are no more able to regenerate our selves then to beget our own substance in our mothers womb Answ To regenerate our selves in our power it is not we are meerly passive in our spiritual as well as in our natural birth It is tho [1] Ut letum Deo detur h●minis voluntatem boaa● praeparat adjuvandam adjuvat praeparatam Aug. sole work the sole act of the Holy Ghost to create anew The more [2] Ut velimus sine nobis operatur Deus cum autem volumus nobiscum co-operatur S Aug. de grat lib. arbitr cap. 7 observance and the more thanks is due from us unto that Father of Lights who is of his own will so ready to beget us with his word of truth that we should be any of us regenerated by his Spirit Object Though the word preached be spiritual we are [1] Rom. 7 carnal and sold under sin we are natural and [2] 1 Cor. 2 savour not the things of God Answ Naturally (1) Rat●o communionum opinionum consilii coelestis incapax hoc solum putat in naturâ rerum esse quod aut intra se intelligit aut praestare possit ex sese Hillar de Trin. lib. 1. we savour not the things that are of God but this we may do a natural man may be strength of reason so much as in him lyeth with humility and earnestnesse endeavour to know and taste of God as God is now manifested in his works and Word He may with (2) Plangendae tenebrae in quibus me mea facultas latet Aug. confess l. 10. cap. 32. the greatest of diligence he can observe and do the Will of God unto him in the holy Scriptures revealed As One most unworthy of so great a Treasure he may in a constant use of holy Ordinances wait for the (3) Luke 24.49 spirit of Promise moving causes for which the Spirit of grace is vouchsafed these are not Antecedent duties in which this Spirit is vouchsafed they are I say upon these waters of knowledge the Spirit delighteth to move Would a lost sinner patiently wait in the use of these appointed meanes should he never receive the Holy Ghost yet still he had done what in him lay he had submitted unto Christs Scepter he had glorified his God to his power he had made the best of a lost condition But the Scripture offereth more grace He that is faithful in a little natural abilities shall be entrusted with (4) Luke 119.17 16 16.10 gifts above nature True (5) See Manto● upon James 2.4 confound nature with grace we may not sinful man may not justle the holy God may not reckon himself a co-adjutor in that wherein God will have the (6) See Bishop Reynolds Joy in the Lord in quarto mihi pag. 24. Videatur etiam Animalis homo habitus à D. D. Edvardo Reynoldo sole glory Mean while as we desire with all possible humility to acknowledge that the holy Spirit of the great God is infinitely a free Agent free as the wind which bloweth where it listeth so we are bound with all possible gratitude to confesse that this free Spirit hath tyed himself up * Deus promitteado se facit debitorem unto the truth of his Promises wherefore we dare not but expect to (7) Esay 64.5 meet God in those wayes wherein his free goodnesse hath appointed us to find him Saith one (8) Mr. Tillian a Dately of Banbury in his New Birth cap. 9. mihi p. 103. God hath appointed certain things to be done by men which they that will not refuse to do may do and the which they that shall do shall be Regenerate For saith (9) ibid. Neverthelesse Paedissequa noa praevia volantas saith St. Aug. Epist 106. he There is a common work of Illumination which so maketh way for Regeneration that it putteth into man a power of doing that which when he shall do the Spirit of God shall mightily work within him provided alwayes that he damp not the present motions of the Word and Spirit of God with procrastinations and delayes It is much-what in Regeneration by the Spirit as it is in generation of the flesh the fruit of Sarahs womb is expresly the gift of God but there was first a generation before a conception As to expect the fruit of the womb without generation so to expect the Regenerating Spirit without the use of meanes were to tempt nay to contradict and to controle the wise God Object The wind bloweth where it listeth Answ Most true it is that the blessed Spirit sanctifieth (1) John

more then when we through his mediation make use of his Spirit to glorifie our God Object If the holy Spirit may be so easily had if Jesus Christ be so forward to seize and seal us then may flesh and blood (1) Thus the urgodly Psalm 36.2 slat re●h herself in his own eye until his inequity be f●●d to be hateful borrow a little more freedom Some piety and some pleasure some godlinesse and some worldlinesse may the one help out the other Though we go on in our practices a while longer we will be so wise unto salvation that before death surprize us we will settle our selves once for all to repent believe obey live strictly c. Answ [1] Psal 59.5 119. v. 119.155 Satan can furnish us every day in the year with as handsome a device as is this There is no resolution more common among the sonnes of men then this is but withal none more pernicious none more devillish This is Sir Politique Would-be his smooth forecast a project fit for a limb of the Devil for certainly no child of God (2) Nolite sperare in iniquilate nolite peccare in spe Bernardus Serm. 2. de Advent In viis custodict nunquid in Praecipitiis Idem in Psalm 91. dareth to harbour so prodigious a thought in his bosom What! Will you serve the Holy Ghost as you serve your dogs Will you (1) Ezek. 14.3 make use of the holy Spirit hereafter to hant and catch your prey but turn him quite out of doores now while you sit down at meales There is not a greater (2) Esay 26.10 spice of Atheism in the heart of man then this Then is the stone of unbelief (3) James 1.7 most unlikely to be rolled away from thy door when it sinketh deepest in such sandy Foundations Know son of Belial know To (4) Porcis comparandi sunt qui ca prius concupiscunt ut luto caenoque involvant quae mox avidè devorent Parker de antiq Brit. in praefat neglect God in our sicknesse To trample under foot the blood of Jesus hoping to serve our turn upon it hereafter This is not to glorifie but to delude God! This were not to obey but to command the Almighty It is not to have a true fear of the Lord but a false love of our selves Take it for a Rule although it glister never so much that is (1) James 2.17 26 1.27 no true grace which feedeth upon delayes One who now feareth he is now drowning (2) Sera nimis vita est crastina timor addidit alas 1 Tim 6.12 will not say To morrow I will strive to swim The finger which feeleth a burning coal will quickly hands off Whoso espyeth gold dropped in the street will not passe over it to day saying I will come and look after it at night nor will one who is a sincere follower of Christ Jesus ask (3) Matth. 8.21 suffer me first to bury my dead This (4) Vive hodie Nauseabit ad antidotun qui hiavit ad venenum Tertul. cont Gnost cap. 5. future repentance this future faith which you sinners store up in your idle imaginations is not Repentance but Ignorance not faith but fancy a meet (5) Sub lege est qui timore supplicij quod lex minatur non amore justitiae se sentit abstinere ab opere peccati no●dum liber nec alienus à voluntate peccandi In ipsâ caim voluntate reus est quâ mallet si fieri posset non esse quod timeat ut liberè faciat quod occultè desiderat Augast de nat grat cap. 57. Esecta in naufregio dominorum adbuc su●t quia non eo an●mo ejieiuatur quo l●eas habere nolint sed ut periculum effugiant lib. 41. cap. 9. Sect 8. glow-worm having no light at all except what it borroweth from darknesse Hypocrites if you see many such glow-worms it is night with you ye walk in darknesse and since ye know not wether ye go I will inform you you are going directly in the road way to hell although you want eyes to see him the Devil walketh with you step by step Do ye not feel him bearing sway in your hearts He laugheth at your security he laugheth but keepeth himself invisible he keepeth himself invisible and leadeth you onward to perdition Escape for your life return the Lord Jesus he calleth after you His Spirit giveth you to understand that To repent believe c. is not to flatter thy God that thou wilt forsooth hereafter become dutiful but to deny thy self forthwith viz. to stand in present (1) Therefore all commands in Scripture requiring us to repent believe c. enjoyn us to repent believe c. presently awe of Gods justice to fear his displeasure to delight in his Commandements to obey his Authority to (2) Deum colit quisquis imitatus est Seneca Ep. 95. reverence his holinesse to rejoyce in his praises c. which to do since we are of our selves so strangely indisposed we seek for a communion with and for assistance from the co-operating Spirit and this Spirit we cherish that by it we may be (3) Suavissima est vita indies sentire se fieri meliorem more and more enabled to glorifie our God Object Since the glory of the Eternal Power is so great that it cannot be (1) In this Book see pag. 280.281 encreased and so infinite that it cannot be diminished Whence is it that God expecteth glory from man and man seeketh to glorifie God Answ Seeing vain man is so selfish that though he is not (1) Non nobis so'ū nati sumus Cicero born for himself alone he would little benefit others were it not that he sought his own prayse rather then he (2) Of this Treatise see p. 239 240. should not be instrumental unto the service of the chosen of God there is indeed implanted in him an affectation of glory The numerous and excellent Writings of all heathen and many Christian Authors the invention and improvement of Arts and Sciences yea the most famous Works throughout the world may most of them be ascribed unto the vain glory of their performers But we may (3) See also pages 280 281 282 284 and there N. 5. conceive no such unworthy thoughts of the infinite God as there is in him no defect so there can be in him no affectation The great God willeth that we should glorifie him partly in regard of us partly in regard of himself 1. In regard of us God infinitely delighteth to communicate good giveth us occasion to glorifie him that thereby He Himself may take occasion First to relieve (1) Psalm 50.15 our necessities Many charitable Christians fall to building planting mounding sim for no other cause but that they may relieve the needy in finding work for them just so the liberal God (2) Esay 32.8 deviseth libera●● things Secondly to (1) Vere

wilfully drop a Glove his Majesties sacred person can indeed stoop to reach it from the ground but [3] Gratias ago tibi Domine quia quod quaeris à me prius ipse donasti Cyprian happy I if I may be preferred to reach it in his stead Friends where God alloweth us to do that for him which he without us can do for himself it is Our wisdome to accompt it our honour that serve him we may will the Lord voucbsafe to accept of our prayses Let us then glorifie him as God Seventhly Of insufferable [1] Psal 10.4 Pride alas without God we are nothing nothing we have but [2] Deum namque ire per omnes Terrasque tractusque maris calumque profundum Virg. from God yea and [3] Prov. 16.4 for God too How is it therefore that we do not proclaim Him most worthy our utmost thanks Guilty malefactors that we are [4] Ezek. 16 3-6 where is our humility We might long before this day have been [5] Lam. 3.22 frying amid Hell tormenrs and dare any of us cease from glorifying our God yea if we durst if we might if we were thereunto encouraged could any bribe could any price could all the [6] Psal 89.6 joyes in Heaven buy us off from glorifying the Lord our God Lastly Of vile [1] Ingratum si dixeris omnia dixeris gracelesnesse an unthankful person is a gracelesse person No thanksgiving no [2] Gratiarum cessat decursus ubi recursus non fuit Bern. Serm. 1. in cap. Jejunij grace Oh since it is our bounden duty at all times and in all places to [3] Ad locum unde exeunt gratiae revertantur Idem Serm. 3. in Vigil nativit 1 Cor. 10.31 render thanks unto the Lord at all times and in all places according● as occasion shall either admit or require let us do all 4 things to the glory of our God The gracious person will glorifie his God And well he may inasmuch as Our constant seeking to glorifie our God is First Our safest (1) Lex data ut gratia quaereretur gratia data ut lex impleretur tenure For that (2) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plut. servant which would be profitable unto his Master the Master will not easily part with Beside Unto * A chi li pro torre cic che hai da gli cidu ichis de Torriano him who can (3) Merca●●ra est pauca amittere ut majora lucreris Tertul. ad Martyr take from us all that we have it is good giving (4) Petamus ut det quod ut habeamus jubet S. August in Exad quaest 55. what he asketh Secondly Our only (1) Mic. 6.8 Eccles 12.13 2 Kings 5.13 Psalm 116.12 13 pay Who among us would fear an arrest might meer acknowledgments and verbal thanks cancel our bonds The blood of Jesus Christ would wipe off all old stores were we earnest so to have it Whatsoever He hath purchased for us is ours upon exceeding easie terms namely if all which he hath for us purchased we receive with thanksgiving Christians (2) Ephes 5 4 20 Col. 1.12 3.17 2.7 4.2 1 Tim. 2.1 Heb. 13.15 2 Cor. 4.15 9.11 1 Tim. 4.3 4 Revel 7.12 not money but grace not wealth but holinesse not worldly honours but sincere affections holy desires spiritual rejoycings are sterling at the heavenly Exchequer These these are the Treasures wherewith We are required to glorifie Our God Thirdly Our richest (1) 1. Tim. 4.8 6.6 Omnis mihi copla quae Deus meus non est est egestas S. Aug. Confess l. 12. c. 8. gain Whatsoever we enjoy is never so well improved as then when we employ it unto the glory of our God partly because what duties proceed from a grateful heart them God vouchsafeth to receive as a (2) 2 Cor. 8.12 Gen. 32.12 2 Sam 7 5-17 2 Chron. 1.11 12 Luke 7.44 45 46 Matth. 26.13 kindnesse chiefly because all that we possesse is doubly ours when we can entitle God unto it Could I say The Signet upon my finger was given unto me by my King Gold should not buy it It is a diminution unto spiritual knowledge saving faith and heavenly graces to ascribe them unto our own industry power or successe The excellency of these is that they are free the liberal (3) Compare Exod. 23.8 2 Sam. 19.42 Prov. 17.8 18.16 Eccles 7.7 with 3.13.5.19 John 4 10. Rom. 6.23.12 6. 1 Cor. 7.7 2 Cor. 1.11 Eph 4.7 Jame 1.17 1 Pet. 4.10 A Jove prin cipium Est Deus in nobis agitante calescimus ipso gifts of our great God Gifts are more unto us then either inheritance or purchase Benjamins messe transcended not so much in (4) Gen. 43.34 quantity as from the greatnesse of Josephs affections Well may David boast his chear when the Lord spreadeth his (5) Psalm 23.5 Table The food the rayment the content the righteousnesse the salvation the glory upon which Believers accompt are all endearing gifts we may write upon them as Scholars do on their Books ex dono Their value is great of themselves but greater is that value which they (6) Ipse ad alia non ordmatur sed potiùs alia ad ipsum Aquin. p. 1. qu. 21. artic 1. O Servum illum beatum cujus emendationi Deus instat Fertul de patien cap. 11. derive from their Donor even from the Father of gifts Friends that is most yours which ye receive as from God which ye enjoy in God and ascribe unto God Wherefore in all that you possesse glorifie ye your God Fourthly Our chiefest (1) 1 Sam. 2.30 honour The greatest value which we can put upon our selves is to be not the vassals of Sathan nor the bond-slaves of sin no nor the servants of men no nor yet the favourites of Princes but the servants the favourites the (2) John 1.12 Sons of the most high God Those Offices which do most nearly attend his Majesties sacred person are of all preferments the most honourable Happy that (3) 1 Kings 1.34 Psalm 84.4 10 140.13 Esay 49.5 61.6 10 1 Chron. 16.25 35 10.27 Deut. 10.21 Jer. 9.24 Psalm 42.11 Arch-bishop which may have the dignity to anoint his Soveraign and that Nobleman which may bear a part at the solemn inauguration of his Prince Before the day of his (4) Esay 52.13 Phil. 2.9 10 Coronation his Majesty was (5) Esay 2.17 12.4 30.18 equally our Soveraign as he now is since the solemnite of his blessed inauguration just thus whether we exalt the Lord our God or no The Lord our God he is and (6) Nehem. 9.5 exalted he is Yet let me tell you That Believer who with (7) Psalm 34.1 71.15 146.1 2 138.1 35.18 61.8 full purpose of heart seeketh the glory of this God doth not give a Throne a Scepter a Crown unto the Lord for his of right they ever were and are but this favour that

well knew the excellency of her gracious spirit that he aimeth to have our spirits like unto Hers His cost is your benefit His Liberal soul deviseth liberal things and by liberal things may He stand But may you and I glorifie our God [6] Gal. 1 24 in Him And as in Him so in his other Self whose untimely [7] Like Rachels Gen. 35.16 19. untimely not to her but unto us as Phil ip of Macedon spake of his friend Hipparchus Plutarch Apotheg death first gave life unto what you now read One especial matter which setteth forth the prayses of our God consisteth in [1] Psalm 66 16 Veritatem celare est aurum sepelire S. Aug. confess l. 12. what the Lord hath done for his chosen servants Our God is glorified in those divine Histories which tell us how great mercies the Lord poured upon Abraham Moses Joshua Samuel David Solomon c. He is glorified in such Scriptures as mention the prayses of Sarah Rebeccah Deborah Ruth Hannah Abigail and those other Matrons whose good examples are recorded for our learning There were that [2] Mat. 26.8 had indignation at Mary for pouring so precious ointment upon the Head of our Saviour neverthelesse it is the glory of our Saviour that Her prayse is [3] Mat. 26.13 in the Gospel May it likewise be interpreted unto the glory of our God if wheresoever this small Treatise shall finde acceptance there some of those blessings which the Lord vouchsafed unto this religious Gentlewoman be told for a memorial of her To the Right Worshipfull Sir JOHN HALES Baronet Encrease of favour with God and man SIR AMong those affectionate Kinsfolk so uncomfortably withheld from the solemn burial of your pious Aunt YOU her Dearest Nephew were a Chief Her embalmed Corps you did not see her spiced and perfumed Grave you could not attend I am bold therefore to place before you this Specimen of [1] [1] Illa quidem anima in societatem sidelium recepta landes nec curat nec quaerit humanas imitationem quaerit non laudem S. Aug. Epist 125. her Funerals A rough unpolished unhewn Tomb-stone it is a Stone worthy to be rolled away by the same hand which erecteth it Vouchsafe neverthelesse to approach unto it as [2] [2] Tumulum intuens pius esio unto her lively Monument For if the memory of this good Gentlewoman shall remain dear unto you you by delighting to imitate her vertues will partake of Her happinesse past and present You will during life obtain peace and after death life more abundant Dominae Dorotheae Rutter Vera Effigies Martij 21 mo 1661 2 Anno Aetatis suae ult et 31 mo Life more abundant in her lookes you see Picture her Soule a Heav'nly Saint is Shee Sir I willingly promise my self this blessing because it farreth with those good Christians who bury their Friends as it doth with us Ministers when we are crucified with Christ Espy us in the Town you see us in black mourning for the sinfulnesse of the World but meet us in the Temple you finde us in white rejoycing at the purity of the Gospel just so when good Christians have buried their dead if their thoughts reach no further then this World well may they cloath themselves in mourning but let their thoughts follow their dead unto their Fathers House and then their grief and sorrowes are swallowed up in Joy and Rejoycings From my Study April 3d. 1662. COnsider this dear and worthy Gentlewoman first as She was a part of this world next as She was a Member of the Church and thirdly as She is present with the Lord within the mansions in her Fathers House In every of these you will see plentiful matter layed before you for the prayses of Our God First In the things of this Life It is the glory of our God that while he [1] Psalm 17.14 giveth unto the wicked their portion only in this life He is also in the things of this life sometimes bountiful as well unto the [2] Matth. 5.45 just as unto the unjust thus he was unto [3] Gen. 13.2 6 Abraham and thus he was unto this [4] Gal. 3.7 Daughter of Abraham From the Cradle which first danced at the voyce of her cryes unto the grave which now bewaileth her silence little very little cause there was why Her heart should be troubled For instance The more loyal our affections be toward our most gracious Soveraign Lord the King the more honour we have for that Sexe which gave conception and birth unto his sacred Majesties sacred Person Adam he [1] Gen. 3.20 calleth his wives name Evah Why Answ Because she was the Grandmother of Christ in whom all are made alive Beloved Let not the community of a Blessing bury that Blessing in oblivion The Friend of whom we now speak was a Daughter in Israel to wit One of that Sexe which had both the Happinesse and the Honour to bring the Great Redeemer of all mankind into the World As for her lineage I am no Herald yet this I can say as by wedlock she matched into a [1] For she was married unto Michael Rutter of Burton on the Hill in the County of Glou. Esquire worthy Family a Family of a just esteem a Family of a good and [2] See page 117. of the Vale Royal of England viz. The County Palatine of Chester illustrated by Dan. King long descent so She her Self was no Filia terrae It is of God that while one Family is low and obscure another is superiour and exalted This Gentlewoman was of the later and superiour sort She was the branch the off-spring of a very Generous Stock I shall utter more then in other words I can so well expresse if I tell you she was a [3] Of which Family see Dugdals Surveigh of Warwicksh HALES a HALES no way over-reached by any specious pretences of hypocritical Rebels Whereas the honesty of some great Ones is rugged and the seed of their goodnesse unformed for want of an early education it was not so with this Friend she was highly civilized Indeed Her education was as well became Her Eminent birth very singular Furthermore it was as successeful-as exquisite Her wealth was suitable unto her birth The blessing of the Lord made her rich and he added no sorrow with it Her body that body which now sleepeth in Jesus was herein a picture of her soul upright and graceful In the natural endowments of her mind she surpassed many of her equals She had a tenacious memory an elegant fancy a piercing judgement and a deep understanding Her acquired parts were no lesse remarkable She read much and much unto her benefit witnesse her language alwayes apposite witnesse her habitual transcendent elocution and from that again the law of kindnesse which was ever in her lips together with that charity and that piety which so often perfumed her familiar Discourse Although she could not

He is not to his elect as Justinian was to his sometimes favorite Belisarius He is not so cruel to us as Nebuchadnezzar was (5) Jer. 39.7 unto Zedekiah He dealeth not by us as Naash (6) 1 Sam. 11.2 would have dealed by the men of Jubesh He treateth us neither as Joshua (7) Josh 9.21 served the Gibeonites nor as the Philistims (8) 1 Sam. 13.9 used the Israelites Secure Davids Intelligencers (9) 2 Sam 17.18 19 though it be in a damp well under ground corn So you conveigh him down out at the Window (10) Acts 9.25 let Paul for once be (11) 2 Cor. 11.33 Paul in a basket and so you bring him up out of the Dungeon bolster up Jeremiah with (12) Jer. 38.11 Old cast clouts and with old rotten rags Beloved although God giveth us quarter although he spareth our lives yet should he deal with us as we deserve he might justly continue us in this life servants (13) with Rom. 6.16 compare Matth. 1.21 and with 2 Tim. 2.26 1 Cor. 5.5 1 Tim. 1.20 Compare Acts 26.18 unto sin captives (14) Psal 103.10 unto Satan He might make us like the Jews wear yellow badges Oh my Brethren God hath not dealed with us 15 according to our sins he hath not rewarded us according unto our iniquities He hath (1) 2 Kings 6.20 brought us into the midst of Samaria but (2) 2 Kings 6.23 he setteth bread and water before us He crucifieth our old man but our inward man he (3) 2 Cor. 4.16 reneweth daily He taketh from us our filthy garments but giveth unto us (4) Esay 61.10 robes of Righteousnesse He (5) Gal. 6.14 disarmeth us of our rebellious forces but harnesseth us with the (6) Eph. 6.11 2 Cor. 10.4 whole armour of God He dispossesseth us of (7) Eph. 6.5 our strong holds mean while He Himself is (8) Psal 18.2 71.3 91.2 62.7 our strong habitation whereunto we may alwayes resort O my dearly beloved Brethren The mighty Captain of our salvation doth conquer us but he conquereth us with kindnesse Behold He giveth us free (1) Gal. 5.1 13 liberty to (2) Ephes 5.16 make the best of our time of our abilities nay of his what Talents we have are (3) Matth. 25.14 1 Cor. 4.7 James 1.17 his goods with these he permitteth us to traffique (4) Matth. 16.27 1 Cor. 15.58 Heb. 6.10 for our selves He then (5) Rom. 2.6 7 10 Phil. 2.13 1 Cor. 9.24 Revel 3.5 21.21.7 accompteth that we do him the most and best service when we work out our own salvation he encourageth us to procure all the peace all the vertue all the godlinesse all the graces all the present prayse and future glory we can Blessed blessed be the holy God for that while we abide here sinners upon earth we are allowed to be spiritually minded to place our affections upon things above to have our conversation in heaven we are not forbid to use (6) With 1 John 2.27 compare Exod. 30.33 no not the most precious ointment of the Sanctuary Seventhly For bestowing upon us all things [1] 2 Pet. 1.3 appertaining to godlinesse People who never yet head the [2] Psalm 89.15 joyful found may [3] Psalm 102.22 Revel 11.15 be religious if they will that is if they can I say The Gentiles which [4] Luke 1.79 sit in darknesse are [5] Acts 11.18 17.30 not prohibited light but light hath not yet shined unto them Whereas the day-star from on high hath visited us so that we walk at least we should walk as children of the light Yea [6] It is with us as Deut. 4.6 7 Psalm 147.20 unto us of this age and kingdome are given of Gospel-priviledges the best in every kinde We above all other the Churches of Christ have Matter of Thankfulnesse unto God First For his revealed will Luther was no lesse worthy rehrehension for [1] Epistola Jacobi collata cum Evangelio Johannis ejus epistolâ primâ cum Epistolis Paulinis imprimis quae ad Romanos Galatas Ephesios scriptae sunt verè straminea epistola est See Brochmand and Luthers German Bible printed 1528. terming S. James his Epistle a strawy Epistle then that plow-man was worthy to be praysed who for one single leaf of it gave a whole load of hay Verily if one Oration of Isocrates did cost [2] viz. if not an 133 l. yet 100 l. twenty talents of silver if for every verse which Oppianus presented was given a [3] viz 0 l. 16 s. -4 d. stater of gold then is every word of our God more [4] Psal 119.72 to be desired then thousands of gold and silver Sirs every judgement denounced every warning given every truth related every prediction and prophesie every precept every command every promise c. abundantly claim from us our studied thankfulnesse A small portion of holy Writ the Pentateuch is especially if it be compared unto all the other canonical Scriptures neverthelesse great [5] Psal 19.7 119. per totum 1.2 138.2 very great was the esteem given unto the word of God even then when no word of God was extant saving only those five books of Moses Beloved blessed are your eyes for they see those holy Scriptures which neither Moses nor David nor any of the Patriarchs saw Next For this revealed will of God [1] with Psalm 102.18 compare Hos 8.12 written By signes and wonders and by several other meanes hath the God of truth given testimony unto the truth of his Word (2) See du Plessis Grot. de veritate relig Christianae and Dr. Hammond his Reasonablenesse of Christian Religion Among which this is not the least namely the harmonious consent of various Copies in several Nations and Languages transcribed and preserved And herein let our God receive the prayse due from us for none of the Churches of Christ can equal their Bibles unto that published by our English Clergy even in [3] Videas Praefat. ad Waltoni Bibl. Polyglotta perillous times Thirdly For this written Word [1] Deut. 28.49 1 Cor. 14.14 Revel 14.16 translated and [2] Gen. 40.8 Job 33.23 Prov. 1.6 1 Cor. 12.10 14.13 Esay 50.4 interpreted Nor hath any Kingdome under Heaven so great cause to be thankful for the purity of Scripture-translations interpretations as England hath Fourthly For these truths of God wholsomely applyed In England every place is full of Manna I mean of religious Treatises almost in every kind When the Reverend Prelacy of this English Church were silenced by (1) The Tribe of Levi. standeth and falleth with the Tribe of Judah a rebellious power God gave them a heart and an ability to leave a Monument of truth in Bishop Waltons voluminous Bible The Lord stir up the hearts of those Ministers among us which now silence themselves to improve their talents likewise Whether in

Angels Him who did once give himself for us and doth ever since give himself to us Him unto whom God hath given (1) Nec patior me quicquam nescire de co quem amew Plin. Epist a name above every name Him we shall worship blesse admire and adore in my Fathers house But That which putteth so great a value upon my Fathers house is (1) Bonum mihi Domine in camino habere te ●●●cum quam esse sine ●e vel i● caelo Bernard principally my father himself The Refuge the Rest the Reward the Riches the Inheritance the Crown The Mansions the many Mansion the many Mansions in my Fathers house The eternal peace the infinite love the everlasting joy there set before us neither these nor the fellowship of the Saints nor the society of Angels shall be able to (2) Rom. 8.39 divert us from gloryfying our God as God For as all things appertaining unto life are therefore bestowed upon us here that here we may in body in soul and in spirit be (3) Testimonium credibile nimis gustatae sapientiae est esuries ipsa tam vehemens Idem Serm. 2. de duab mensis Oportebat quidem si fi●ri posset revivere me ut ita loquar denuo quod malè vixi srá saciam cogitaado quod reoperando non possum Idem Cant. de Serm. Hezekiae wholly taken up in obeying trusting loving honouring worshiping blessing and gloryfying our God as God so all the peace pleasures mansions joyes and glories which are treasured up for us in our Fathers house are therefore freely and everlastingly vouchsafed unto us that we may with a perfect love joy thankfulnesse and delight both admire and adore our everlasting Father Lastly as here upon earth no one mercy can so much require our thankfulnesse as the communion betwixt (1) Deus tuus totum tihi crit S. Aug. in Psalm 26. Et quem scmper habeat semper habere volunt our spirit and the sanctifying spirit of our most holy God so neither can any thing in heaven more excite our prayses and thanksgiving unto him who sitteth upon the Throne then the blessed Vision of our most glorious God even of God the Father of God the Son and of God the Holy Ghost ever for ever blessed and glorifyed In His presence is fulnesse of everlasting joy To him be the Kingdome the power and the glory ever ascribed Amen Dear Christians hear the [1] Eccles 12.13 conclusion of the whole Fear God and keep his Commandements love God and cleave unto him with your whole heart esteem [2] Solicitus incipit ambulare cum Deo suo ex omni parte scrutatur ne vel in le vissimà re tiemeadae illius maj statis offendatur aspectus Bernard Serm 3. in vigil nativ every thought word and deed misplaced which is not ordered to glorifie your God as God Oh let not your heart be troubled saving that it cannot be troubled enough for neglecting so merciful a God stretch out daily hourly stretch out and stir up your faith believe in God he hath [3] Esay 54.8 an everlasting love for you believe in his Son he is [4] 1 Cor. 1.30 made unto you wisdome and sanctification and redemption and righteousnesse believe in his Spirit he is [5] Jude 24. able to keep you from falling and to present you to your Bridegroom and to his Father with exceeding joy Look for and [6] 2 Pet. 3.12 hasten unto these mansions in my Fathers house Beloved this is life eternal this will be joy eternal to see God! Without holinesse it is [7] Heb 12.14 impossible to see God the Lord [8] Heb 13.21 perswade the Lord allure the Lord ravish your hearts Blessed for ever blessed are the pure in heart they shall possesse these mansions in my Fathers house they shall see God! Oh then for your own sakes yea for your Redeemers sake for your Gods sake improve [1] Luke 19.13 every talent of his which he in this your day putteth into your hands [2] Ephes 5.16 redeem [3] Cajus unius av●●tia hotesta est Seneca time value time husband time do not oh do not content your selves with the lowest of these mansions in my Fathers house make you hearts more and more obedient more and more watchful humble faithful loving and thankful hearts the [4] Matth. 6.19 20 2 Pet. 3.18 1 Tim. 6.6 1 Cor. 15.58 Gal. 6.7 8 Mark 10.29 30 Revel 3.5.12 2.17 more grace the more glory you do treasure up for your selves the more you glorifie your God as God Be holy as the Spirit your Preserver is holy put on the Lord Jesus finde it [5] Consilium futuri ex praeterito venit Seneca Epist 83.9 your duty make it your businesse to glorifie the God and father of your Lord Jesus Christ so doing let not your heart be troubled believe in God believe in his Christ in my Fathers house are many mansions Oh thou who speakest in my Text speak [1] Psal 33.4 the word and our heart shall not be troubled Lord we believe help thou [2] Psal 33.2 our unbelief in Thy Fathers house are many mansions Brethren Unto these mansions after that we have [3] 1 Pet. 5.10 hoped trusted obeyed waited and suffered a while the God of all grace who hath called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus will receive first our soules then our bodyes To him be [4] 11 Pet. 5.11 glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen D. Bernardus Epist 341. Erubescat anima conversa ad Dominum minori affectu sectari justitiam quàm iniquitatem antea sectaretur pudeat negligentius nunc in vitam quam prius in mortem ire minori studio salutis acquirere quam perditionis augmentum PSALM 105. v. 4.3 Seek ye the Lord and his strength seek his face evermore Glory ye in his holy Name Let the heart of them rejoyce that seek the Lord. FINIS Venial escapes the Reader is desired to impute unto the Authors absence from the Presse and to correct these or the like ERRATA Read P. 12. l. 31. our days p. 42. l. 13. a King p. 44. l. 9. this stone p. 47. l. 3. Aegyptians had p. 121. l. 5. sibi p. 123. l. 18. flatten p. 128. l. 28. I cleared p. 138. l. 12. affections p. 143. l. 5. Arnon p. 151. l. 19. to ply p. 152. for Tertullian r. Cyprian for Cyprian r. Tertullian p. 156. l. 18 19. Let them Who p. 122. l. 26. Three particulars p. 201. l. 31. 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and much health be hardly found in one person Beloved I urge not these as complaints but as vindications the sincere Minister hath (5) Fhil 2.20 2 Cor. n. 28 29 Sancta laudabilis est in religionis negotio impatientia Jeron other cares wherewith to busy his thoughts then these low troubles his soul is too spiritual to be satisfied with any thing under the (6) Phil. 3.8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. Chrysost Master whom he serveth these earthly cloggs which the world calleth Mony Wealth Pleasure Honour c. He rather useth then desireth true without them live (7) paupertas ridiculos hommes facit Qui mirantur opes hi nulla exempla beati Pauperis esse putant he cannot he cannot without them so (8) Saepius emoliunt eleemosynarum dona quos non commovent concionū verba 1 Tim. 3.8 Tic. 1.8 live as becometh his vocation they are that oyle of the sanctuary which the wisdom of the all-sufficient God hath made necessary to preserve our light of life and consequently the light of the Gospel from extinguishing wherefore since a Minister can no more subsist without these then without the aire which he breathes in stoop he must to take them up for his livelyhood and seeing he must of necessity encumber himself with these requisite supplies very equal it is that what is his right be tendered unto him not only as his due but as his encouragement and (9) Philem. 14. Phil. 4.14 17 comfort If the over-watched Midwife be wearied and humbled with the loud cries dolefull complaints and fearfull pangs of a woman labouring and travailing as well for her own life as her infants your courtesie considereth not only this midwifes handinesse but her discomforts not only her dexterous skill but her irksome watchings In stead of enjoying the sweets of some pleasant garden the Chirurgeon tieth himself up unto his patients wound dresseth bruises deep and putrified sores enough one would think at once to affright and poison him in this Chirurgeon ye regard not only his art but his patience The Physician neglecteth his estate his home his ease his sleep his health to attend the groans of a dying man for these his self-denials the mercilesse souldier would not (1) Dr. Gauden Hieraspistes p. 490. grudge him his twenty shillings a day The (2) Pro. 18.20 Aestuat infalix angusto● mine eloquent Lawyer who neglecteth his own estate to secure thine crowdeth sweateth and wearieth as well his whole body as his tongue thou wilt not for shame offer this Lawyer a single fee The infirm Judge though aged and crasie rideth his Circuit through ill ways and worse weather he afflicteth his weak body to relieve the oppressed sitteth all day long in much pain to ease his country of many vexations the King him-self will see this judge rewarded Beloved great are these inconveniences but no burden under that which crowneth his sacred Majesties royal vigilancies and Princely affections can equal those throws (3) Gal. 4.19 wherewith the Ministers of Jesus Christ travaile Who hath believed our Report is (4) Jonah 4.1 2. compared with Esay 53.1 an afflicting question Dear people we mourn in secret for your (5) Eccles 2.2 No indifferent gesture is so seldom without sin as laughing for it is commonly raised upon things to be pitied K. James flores regii Aphorisme 54. laughter we grieve because ye lay not your sins to heart so sad an accompt of the flocks to us entrusted so little fruite of our great labours of the souls for which Christ died so many posting to Hell forbear ye tears if ye can we I am sure cannot the names written upon our (6) Exod. 28.29 brest-plate stick too close upon our bosom to afford us any such ease Omitting then what we suffer in our name peace wealth and health is any revenue or honour a suitable requital for these our frequent alas our constant discomforts If ye Parents have in your hearts any bowels of pity over one childes ricated consumption anothers angry blaines a thirds bruised limbes a fourth burnt in your fire or other like calamities from which God forefend ye have then a little turning a little of the melting of our bowels a little taste of our inward bleedings ye will then see us in the same Positure as was the sister of that forlorn Moses Exod. 2 4 or as was Hagar when she had eys able to weep but not able to (7) Gen. 21.16 see the perishing of Ishmael yea in the same Positure as was Rachel then when she therefore wept for her Children because they (8) Jer. 31.15 were not Beloved He that could have with-held (9) Prov. 31.6 wine from either Hagar or Rachel deserved little himself either take from us these waters of affliction else mix with these waters some wine of gladness Lay ye aside the hardness of your hearts we will then be content to make Brick without Straw Affright us no more with frequent Symptomes of your everlasting death and then debar us of what worldly shelters our earthly Tabernacles may justly demand either preserve your precious souls from being lost or grudge not our bodies the melancholick comfort of a mourning weed But if our trembling hearts therefore die daily because ye daily neglect to escape death afford us we beseech you some of your weak Julips for Cordials ye can give us none Since we must suffer heaviness because some of you repent not of your unbelief allow us that liberty which was not denied unto the persons in my Text The person here speaking was a man (10) Compare Mat. 26.36 and Joh. 18.1 with Luke 22.39 of sorrows ye therefore sometimes find him in (11) Ibid. a Garden of pleasures Cause enough he (12) Compare Mat. 13.34.19.41 Mat. 23.37 had to weep over Jerusalem repine not if he (13) Compare Mat. 21.7 Luke 19.37 compared with Judg. 5.10 ride to it as (14) Ibid. honourably as he can Since the (15) Psal 69.9 Reproaches of his God fell so often upon him blame him not if he (16) Mat. 21.9 accept of Hosannas since he doth (17) Luke 22.15 not refuse to be crucified upon (18) Luke 23.33 one Mount grudge not to see him (19) Mat. 17.1 2. transfigured upon another if he disdain not a (20) Luke 2.12 Manger spare him your presents As for the Persons here spoken to they are likewise spoken to in the tenth Chapter of St. Mark where for what they suffer in verse 29 they receive a hundred fold in verse 30. 21 Mat. 2.11 I conclude then so long as the yerning of our bowels beggeth of you Believe in God believe in Christ In your Fathers house are many Mansions So long your Equity if not your Bounty will treat us Let not your heart be troubled 2. If our necessary Supplies part from you with an Evil Will we then address our selves unto you all not

only as Sufferers through your default but as Messengers of your peace viz. For so much as the Tidings which we bring are glad Tidings the just Lord hath (1) Luke 10.7 Gal. 6 6. ordained that we should live not upon the Courtesie but upon the Duty of Christians not upon their arbitrary Collation but upon a Reward unto our Heavenly Message The Lord of Hosts that is the (2) Psal 84.1.68.24.134.1 God of them who Soldier-like kept their (3) Luk. 1.8 9. courses in the Temple made not Levites to keep Watches at (4) 1 Cor. 9 7. their own charge he allowed them Standing-Pay even (5) 1 Cor. 9 13. constant Stipends of Houses Cities Tithes Offerings and Sim. The (6) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Chaldy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Sam. 18 22. signifie not only Nuncium but Nuntit praemium too Thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homer Odys 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ioid. Learned Mede on 1 Cor. 9.14 like Reward requireth he for Gospel-Service Ye know ever in State Affairs Tidings of great joy receive (7) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plat. de gloria Athen. quous 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qlae 1. dona qualia reddam nescio Cicero ad Atticum Thus 2 Sam. 4.10 1 Cor. 9.14 23. Noble Rewards The more considerable the News the more signal the Recompence unto him who bringeth it When the Person here speaking came as our (8) Isa 62.11 Salvation his Reward was with him as for us so for Himself and that not only when he ascended up on high but likewise when he rode into the holy City with (9) Mat. 21.7 Triumph As for the Persons here spoken to since they also published the Gospel let St. Paul alone to (10) 1 Cor. 9.4 5. plead their right It is folly to expect Esteem from them who understand not Vertue therefore unto the righteous man is Praise (11) Psal 111.10 1 Pet. 2.14 assigned by his God It is in vain for Evangelists to expect large gratuities from them who cherish a heart of unbelief therefore God himself (12) Gal 6.6 steppeth in and allotteth unto these Messengers of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A (13) 1 Cor. 9.14 suitable Recompence even a (14) 1 Tim. 5.17 Double maintenance or Honour If then the Revenues of our Church have been either for merly or of later days an eye-sore unto any of you if your Eye hath been evil because your Lord and Masters eye is good If any of you expostulate what need of all this cost ye will no more be so heedless as to stumble at this stone rather having (15) Gen. 28.11 slept upon it ye will (16) Gen. v. 18. upon it pour more and more oyl until ye have made it a (17) Gen. v. 19 20. Bethel indeed viz. until ye have made it The house of (18) Psal 84.1 God yea no other then Gods amiable house Object Object Be it that they grudge not at your Revenues yet well may we stumble at your Hierarchy For in what part of all the Holy Scriptures do we read of Arch-Bishops Deans Prebendaries Arch-Deacons and Sim set to lord it over Gods inheritance 1. 1. Answ Answ If any that should rule well do (1) 1 Pet. 5.3 over-rule that blame lieth not upon the Hierarchy but upon the persons 2. 2. Answer Answ As for the Prince in whose favour the Hierarchy of England (1) Prov. 19.12 findeth life seeing he is The Vice-Gerent of the person speaking in my Text He is ye know a Supreme Governour over all persons among us as well over persons Ecclesiastical as over persons Civil If then His sacred Majesties Royal Favour vouchsafeth to extend it self as well unto his Clergy as unto his Laity Do not ye I beseech you clip the Kings Prerogative neither let your eyes be evil because his gratious Majesties are good 3. 3. Answer Answ As for the Names or Titles wherewith our most Reverend Arch-Bishops our Reverend Deans Prebendaries Arch-Deacons and Sim. are dignified I suppose thou wilt not stumble at them until thou canst first produce out of Scripture the honourable Titles of Lord chief Justice Serjeant at Law Bencher Barrister Attornie Solicitour c. 4. Answ 1 Answer As for the Legality of their Constitution there is the same Law of the Land for their Authority as there is for the excellent Magistracy of this Realm Now If thou (1) 1 James 4 11. judgest the Law thou art not a doer of the Law but a Judge Object No part of the Laws of our Land Object ought to be contrary unto the Laws of our God Answ Answer If any part of the Laws of our Land opposeth the Word of God I humbly I earnesty wish it were repealed for of right our Law-givers can (1) 2 Cor. 13.8 do nothing against the truth but for the Truth But as for that part of our English Laws which establisheth Hierarchy it in no wise opposeth the Holy Scriptures Object Object It opposeth the Holy Scriptures in constituting an Hierarchy not enjoyned by Gods Words Answ Hierarchy is enjoyned by Gods Word Answer as it is an (1) 1 Pet. 2.13 Ordinance of man viz. Our Law-givers are themselves immediately (2) Prov. 8.15 Rom. 13.1 2. Revel 1.5 ordained of God and being ordained of God they have an (3) 1 Pet. 2.14 Exod. 18. v. 23. compated with v. 24. Authority and Warrant from Scripture to ordain subordinate Powers Object Object Holy Scriptures give us examples of subordinate powers among Magistrates as (1) Exod. 18.25 and Sim. Magistrates but they give unto us no such Examples of subordinate powers among Ministers as Ministers Answ Answer As holy Scriptures mention subordinate powers among the Magistrates under Moses and his Successors so they do also (1) Exod. 28.1 Numb 18.2.3.6 33. mention subordinate powers among the Levites under Aaron and his Successors Object Object The subordinate power among those Levites was by vertue of Gods (1) Ibid. express Command Answ Answer So were (1) Exod. 18.23 the subordinate powers among those Magistrates Object Object Although in the old Testament God appointed a Hierarchy among the Levites In the new Testament Christ appointed no such Hierarchy among his Ministers 1. 1. Answer Answ Although in the Old Testament God appointed a (1) Deut. 17.15 Exod. 18.25 Josh 1.2 1 Sam. 10.15 2 Sam. 7.13 Model of Magistracy for his people yet in the new Testament Christ appointeth no such Model of Magistracy for them that shall believe his Gospel 2. Answ As the Model of our English Magistracy is acknowledged and proved (1) Prov. 8.15 Rom. 13.1 2. 1 Pet. 2.13 14. Rev. 1.5 lawful though there be no Model of any Magistracy at all in the New Testament nor the same

proprium Deipoteatis ac veri inexorata benesicia praebere Amobius advers Gentes lib. 3. henceforward affect and melt Chyrurgeans first purge the body and that done salve the lanced Ulcer Before I was afflicted I (11) Psalm 119.67 went astray If thou Lord sayest AMEN when thy judgements are in the earth the (12) Isa 26 9 Inhabitants of the world learn Righteousnesse Where thou ordainest peace there (13) Eccl. 7 3 by the sadnesse of the countenance the heart is made better By providence high winds blow up (14) 1 Cor. 11.32 seasonable rains and waters of affliction soften (15) Hos 5 15.10.12 fallow grounds Whirl-winds Earthquakes and fire these these may be the immediate Trumpeters (16) 1 Kings 19.12 of a small still voyce If mighty rushings astonish anon may follow a (17) Acts 2 2 4 manifestation of the holy Ghost Jonah had cause to blesse God that ever the Seas were (18) Jonah 4 so unquiet and before the Law came came (19) Exod. 19.16 Thunder True vexation of Spirit doth (20) Pro. 1.26 Psalm 107.17 in no wise presage grace a forerunner of it it (21) Pro. 119.71 may be First that which is natural afterward that which is (22) 2 Cor. 15.46 spiritual Where worldly sorrow worketh death there (23) 2 Cor. 7.10 godly sorrow may work repentance unto salvation Pinch a man soundly in this sleep it is a marvail if he (24) Psalm 50.15 awaken not from his hypocrisies unto Righteousnesse Would we understand it the language of every trouble doth most plainly tell us that This is the (25) Compare 1 Thes 4.3 with Prov. 3.11.12 Lament 3.33 Hos 11.10 Gal. 6.8 1 Pet. 5.10 2 Cor. 9.8 will of God even our Sanctification Ah my Beloved instead of quarrelling at the trouble of your hearts examine (26) Compare 13.5 your selves whether ye be in the faith Know one main cause why multitudes who snatch up a form of godlinesse have no victory at all over their troubles is They have (27) Psalm 42.5 no trust in God no trust in Christ a dead faith (28) Such as Mr. Eaton describeth they swallow down a (29) Such as Mr. Baxter requireth See also his Saints Rest. Part. 3. Cap. 3. Sect. 2. lively faith they never yet obtained Sorry sorry I am to pronounce it Of them who (30) 2 Tim. 2.19 name the Name of Christ exceeding few depart (31) Acts 26.18 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Damascen from themselves to Him They are most of them saplesse branches Christlesse Christians nor is it any marvail at all if every one who accepteth seeming faith instead of saving faith gain no victory at all over the troubles of his heart Answ 3. Answ 3. As seeming faith gaineth no victory over real troubles so true faith is then only [1] Esay 64.7 Quid penna quae caret usu prevalent when stirred up and exercised Faith must [2] 2 Tim. 4.7 fight a good fight if it will be victorious Be Sampson never so stout eft-soon shall the Philistims over-match him if he betray his strength David was strong in the Lord and in the power of his might and yet even Davids soul was disquieted within him until he [3] Psalm 42.5 See Dr. Sibs Souls Conflict Mr. Scudders Christian daily Walk and Mr. Symonds his Case and Cure of a deserted Soul Mr. Youngs Victory of Patience and Joy in tribulation by Phinees Fletcher renewed his trust in God These Disciples in my Text believed neverthelesse because they did not as David did encourage themselves in the Lord their God you see how their heart was troubled Had they foreseen the Mansions in my Fathert House had they believed in Jesus Christ as in their mighty Redeemer had they believed in God as their [4] Psal 46.1 present help they had in all their troubles been more then Conquerers A good sure friend is a better help at a pinch then [5] Psal 62.1 5 Francis L. Verulam all the stratagems and policies of a mans own wit Your half-faced Christians lean upon Honor Riches Greatnesse Friends c. as if these could succour them against distresses but it is better to [6] Psalm 52.7 118.8 9 Prov 10.15 14.26 Jerem. 9.24 17.5 trust in the Lord then to put confidence in all these together Many were the Titles of the Emperour but this one Title [7] Franc. L. Verulam Psalm 34.2 King of France distinctly answered unto all them and more saving faith alone affordeth more and more solid comforts against all sorts of troubles at once then all the advantages of this world can be able to supply against any one trouble Jehovah [8] Judg. 6.24 Shallom a faith [9] See Triumph of faith by Tho. Goodwin and Capels Temptations Luke 12.15 springing from Christ and ascending to Christ overcometh all temptations whether darted upon us by Satan or heaped upon us from our own ignorances sloath and corruptions or brought upon us more immediatly from the good Hand of our God Brethren a mans life consisteth [10] Omnia cum seipso contulit Deus oma●a cum eo perdit avarus Beda Exhort 3.7 not in the things which he possesseth but [11] See None but Christ by Mr. Wall in the life of faith Dearly Beloved and longed for my Joy and Crown would ye find comfort would you find strong consolation Loe ye here Taste and see Sirs here is life life more abundant O all-sufficienr God O God and Father of Jesus Christ our Lord In the multitude of my thought within me thy [12] Psalm 94.19 comforts delight my Soul I find here Comfort for the most desperate Caitiffe and comfort for the broken Spirit Comfort I say for the heart of unbelief but for the sound Believer the Life of Comfort First Comfort even for the heart of unbelief Of Comfort He that believeth not Even for Unbelievers viz. against their Unbelief is [1] John 3.18 condemned already because he hath not believed in the Name of the only begotten Son of God yea but as desperate a sinner as thou art this is thy comfort that the very circumstances of this one Text alone mind thee invite thee nay urge and constrain thee to believe in Jesus Christ as in [2] Esay 55.7 8 9 Ezek. 18.21 22 a Mediatour ready to seek and save even thy lost Soul Here are four circumstances within the compasse of my Text which do in Christ his stead beseech thee to be reconciled unto Him 1 Circumstance The main occasion of all these troubles Circumstance which thou seest thus tumbling in here upon these Disciples viz. Jesus Christs [1] John 13.1 being made an offering for sin His hour was come and it was [2] Mat. 16.21 compared with John 13.21 and 14.1 against the sad sight of his ineffable sufferings that He here engageth his Disciples Let not your heart be