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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63826	A good day vvell improved, or Five sermons upon Acts 9. 31 Two of which were preached at Pauls, and ordered to be printed. To which is annexed a sermon on 2 Tim. 1. 13. Preached at St. Maries in Cambridge, on the Commencement Sabbath, June 30. 1650. By Anthony Tuckney D.D. and Master of St Johns College in Cambridge.	Tuckney, Anthony, 1599-1670.	1656 (1656)	Wing T3216A; ESTC R222406	116,693	318

of God will appear terrible when it is become like an army with banners Cant. 6. 4. 10. 3. Hence also more comfort and joy to the godly for here the more the merrier and the better cheer too thus the Jewes who had returned from Babylon prayed for thereturn of the test that stayed behind whose accession to them to fill up their number they accounted would be as rivers in the South i. e. most refreshing and comfortable Psal 126. 4. and so before it was with the voice of joy and praise when David went to the house of God with a multitude Psa 42. 4. as elsewhere he greatly praiseth God when it was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Psal 109. 30. Psal 22. 25 the midst of the multitude 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the great congregation if there be a full number of them the Communion of Saints is more full and their joy in it more joy to them 4. And which is the greatest blessing of all more glory to God when he is praised and blessed and served by so many as a King in the midst of his army or Iob 29. 25. a great Lord incompassed with a great retinue of his servants and followers This his praise will be most fully sounded out when the whole Chorus in Heaven shall all together joyn in their Hallelujah's A praeludium to which even an heaven upon earth is when many Churches from all quarters of the world shall sing their severall parts as well as they can to make up the Consort Abundant grace 2 Cor. 9. 12. through the thanksgiving of many redounds much to the glory of God 2 Cor. 4. 15. But it will be a most royal found which the Trumpet of the 7th Angel will make and will fill the whole earth with the glorious praises of God when there shall be great voices in heaven saying All the Kingdomes of this world are become the kingdomes of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign for ever Revel 11. 15. And thus we see that in the multiplication of Churches and true Beleevers in them is contained a multiplyed blessing we may then say with Leah when such a Gad is born that a Troop Gen. 30. 11. cometh And which was the second thing to be cleared this blessing of Multiplication cometh upon the Churches peace and edification Peace breeds plenty as in other cases so in this The Churches the Text saith had peace and thereupon it is added that they were multiplied Not but that God may and often doth improve affliction and persecution to the enlargement of his Church and the multiplying Beleevers in it as sickness make's some young ones grow tall and cold Northerly climes use to be more prolificall So Israel in Egypt most multiplied after Iosephs death Exod. 1. 7. 12. and so had lost their best friend to support them and when most burdned and afflicted And the scattering of the Disciples mentioned Act. 8. 1. appears from the 4th verse following but to have been a sowing of the seed of the word and the Preachers as seeds-men for a following more plenfull harvest as after times made Tertullians word true Semen est Apologet. cap. 50. sanguis Christianorum that the Christians blood became seed to beget many to Christ such trees of righteousness grow fast in winter whose cold blasts and blusters do not so much blow out as like bellowes blow up this divine flame times of persecution by Gods happy improvement of them have proved times of the Churches multiplication But yet as you use to say it's pity that fair weather should do any hurt nay it 's pity if it do not a great deal of good And if in it vermine swarm it is some bodies fault if something better also do not thrive that the Churches of God be not multiplied 1. When they have fewer and less discouragements and hinderances which naturally and too usually like cold blasts nip and check an out-putting spring It was a very low Ebb when there was no Smith found in all Israel 1 Sam. 13. 19. and as low when there are few or no Ministers left in the Church very low it was when five horses 2 King 7. 13. were as all the multitude of Israel and yet lower when they are brought down to the like number who are the Charrets of Israel 2 King 2. 12 2 King 13. 14. and the horsemen thereof 2. When on the contrary they have many encouragements and furtherances viz. When Ministers with Paul Act. 28. 31. may Preach not onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no man forbidding and hindring but also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with all confidence and boldness whilest Christian Magistrates command maintain and countenance them in so doing And Christian professors have the like vacancy and fre●dome that they may be as good as they will for any thing which they meet with coming cross either from God or man This freedome I acknowledge through our corruption and perversness may breed many hypocrites yet it helpeth to nourish and cherish multitudes of sincere hearted Christians as the same fair weather which makes bad weeds grow helpeth more wholesome hearbs to flourish and multiply Foule weather in the Church make's invenomed enemies like Snailes and Frogges and Toades to creep out of their holes in abundance but fairer and calmer dayes give the people of God opportunity and invite them to appear abroad in greater numbers as the men of Israel who had before hid themselves when they heard that the Philistines fled came forth and increased the hoste 1 Sam. 14. 22. as afterward in Solomons reign when the land had peace and every man dwelt safely under his vine and figge tree the Pomoeria of the City of God were so inlarged and the number of its Citizens so much increased that it was from Dan to Beersheba 1 King 4. 24 25. Churches are multiplyed first when their peace is setled And therefore all that I shall Vse say for the Application of this is in the word of the Psalmist O pray for the peace of Jerusalem and say Peace be within thy wals and plenteousness within thy palaces even plenty of all other blessings and above all of blessed Beleevers which then either do or should increase and multiply for whereas warre inlargeth the Territories of other Tyrants a godly peace helpeth in a great measure to inlarge the Kingdome of the Prince of peace therefore all the sons of peace pray for peace that the Gospel of peace may be all over preached and the Churches of Christ thereby multiplyed 2. But that with their peace they may be also edified for so in the Text it 's said first they were edified and then and thereupon it 's added that they were multiplied The true edification of the Church maketh much for the right and orderly multiplication of it And this according to the double edification of it before mentioned 1. Whether we mean the edification of the whole