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The nail & the wheel the nail fastned by a hand from heaven, the wheel turned by a voyce from the throne of glory / both described in two severall sermons in the Green-yard at Norwich by John Carter, pastor of Great St. Peters.
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Carter, John, d. 1655.
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answers of young Mrs. Philip Hobarte and the rest I could not but think thus with my self This day is that Prophesy fulfilled in mine eares I wil powre out of my spirit uppon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shal Prophesy and your young men shal see Visions and on my servants and on my hand-maids wil I pour out of my spirit and they shal Prophesy Madam Wil not your honor be offended if I show my folly and boast a little to the world You are my glory my Crown and my rejoycing the comfortable Harvest and precious Seal of my Ministry And this is discerned by others as wel as by my self Your paralel is not to be found or at the least scarcely was ever any Christian seen who did thrive and grow so fast in Grace as your Honor hath done especially of late years Now if either your Honor or any others that shal cast their eye on these my free expressions and think me indiscreet in writing thus to your Honor I Apologize for my self in the words of Christ when he prayed vocally and loud at Lazarus his grave Not for your sake Madam but because of the people which stand by I said it I propound a pattern to other Christians and other families and my sole aim is the glory of God and the provoking of many to a holy emulation The God of heaven and earth the God of my father bless your Honor and your noble and hopeful daughter I beg for you the upper and the nether springs The God of all Grace perfect all Grace in you be filled with the Spirit with inward peace and joy of the Holy Ghost Be the Lords darling Beleeve me Gracious Lady The tongue shal cleave to the roof of my mouth and my right hand shal forgets its skil before I shal cease to bear your Honors name at my heart and to present it unto the Lord as often as I appear at the throne of Grace Be sure Madam I am Your Honors most humbly Devoted servant for ever Thankful for your Superlative favour bounty and care And As under God your Honor raised me from the grave So if I can beleeve mine own heart I am your Honors faithful Pastor who if God should call him to it would willingly lay down his life to establish your Ladiship in the truth and grace of Jesus Christ and to further your eternal Salvation IOHN CARTER To The whole World O WORLD THou seest what Contradiction these poor weak Sermons have met withall how they have been and are accused of falshood envy malice peevishness that the Magistrates are slandered in them and very lies uttered in the face of City and Country I am necessitated to appeal to God and the World O World I hold forth unto thy view faithfully all that was spoken nothing omitted I call unto thee to be my true and impartial witness and let the God of Truth be Judg THE Nail hit on the head AND Driven into the City and Cathedral Wall of NORWICH By JOHN CARTER Pastor of Great St. PETERS in that City At the Greenyard June 17. 1644. Being a preparative to the Guyle-Solemnity the day following EZRA 9. 8. Grace hath been shewed from the Lord our God to leave us a remnant to escape and to give us a nail in his holy place THE NAIL ESA. 22. 23. And I wil fasten him a nail in a sure place and he shal be for a glorious throne to his fathers house THe business of this Text is nothing else but the driving and fastning of a nail Wherein 1. The Master-worker who it is that fastens the nail I. 2. The nail that 's fasten'd what or who is that Him 3. Vbi Where is this nail fasten'd in loco fideli in a sure place 4. The end use and benefit of this nail so fastned He shal be for a glorious throne to his fathers house These are the parts and particulars of the Text. But I wil not tye my self strictly and punctually to these or at least I wil not fall upon them presently but according to my plain and usual way I shal concerning this Text dispatch these things 1. I wil speak something of the sense and meaning of the words 2. I wil give you the sum and substance of the whole verse in one general proposition of doctrine to which also I shal make some general applycation 3. And then in the third place I wil look over the particulars I wil search and examine them for such observations and instructions as may be for our profit and use besides the main and general doctrine Of these in their order And the Lord be with us Amen 1. The Exposition And I and who is that it is as Solomon calls him the Master of the Assemblies that fastens the nail in the 15. verse of this Chapter he is called the Lord of Hosts Wil fasten HIM Him this is the nail to be fastned a living nayl You have his name and also his Character shortly v. 20. Eliakim so was his name the servant of the Lord that 's his Character He was a Courtier a great man a holy man a good Patriot faithful to his King to his Country to Religion and Reformation all which appears plainly by the current of this place and also by other passages of sacred Scripture And I wil fasten him as a Nail a nail is a pin or peg For the matter some are made of brass some of iron some of wood A nail is fastned when it 's knocked beaten and driven into a wall beam post or pillar The use of such a nail orpeg or spirkit is to hang thingsout of hand and such things especially as we would have ready for our use as garments vessels pots instruments of musick and the like Such things as otherwise would ly scattered about the house and be subject to miscarry Metaphorically to fasten a man as a nail is to confirm and establish him in some place or office in the Church or Common-wealth and to make him useful and profitable for the Publique good Here the Kingdom of Juda is compared to a wall or post Eliakim to a nail and the Lord fastens him in the Kingdom that is puts him in place and office and confirms him in it Q. But what place what office was he settled in that must be known A. I answer There was another nail pul'd out and he was put in in the room The other nail viz. his predecessor was Shebna he was deprived and Eliakim substituted in his room therefore let 's enquire what place Shebna was in and then all wil be clear Some of the Hebrew Doctors and learned Hierom with them conceive that Shebna was the high-priest Lyra Sanchez Lapide Pintus Tirinus and most of the Popish-writers are of the same opinion Their arguments are principally †First the authority of the old-Vulgar-latine translation of the 15. verse which with them is authentick Vade ad Sobnam praepositum
The Nail the VVheel THE NAIL FASTNED by a Hand from Heaven THE WHEEL TVRNED by a Voyce from the Throne of Glory Both Described in two severall SERMONS In the Green-yard at NORWICH By JOHN CARTER Pastor of Great St. PETERS LONDON Printed by J. Macock for M. Spark and are to be sold by WILLIAM FRANKLIN at his shop in the Market-place in Norwich 1647. TO the glory of her Sex The Right Honorable both by the first and second Birth the worthy and most religious Lady the Lady FRANCES HOBARTE MADAM YOur Honor knows I have ever been afraid of the Press hitherto I have stood out against all importunity and I was peremptorily resolved never to have published any thing in Print but now I am inforced whether I wil or no to send abroad these two smal pieces And since they must out I humbly present them to your Ladyship Not for any worth that is in them Not for your Honors protection of them let them go forth at their own peril nor yet for the subjects sake the matter of them in the general not so directly and properly complying with your Ladyships condition they are rather for the instruction of Magistrates But I dedicate them to your Honor because they are your due Whatever I can perform in the service of God and more by far then ever I am able to do low to the gracious Lady Frances To say truth your Honor called for them and here they are take them with favorable acceptation Something your Ladyship wil meet withal in both Sermons appliable and useful in regard of your self The NAIL I mean the good Nail wil give your Honor a fresh sight of that Noble Gentleman worthy Sir JOHN HOBARTE your Honors lately deceased husband He was a gallant Nail by the grace of God wel filed from all rust and ruggedness He was a bright Nail as burnished gold shining more and more every day he lived that I can testifie to the comfort of my soul by a godly conversation He was a great and a strong Nail His abilities were beyond the common pitch He had a good head for wisdom and understanding He had a good heart Faithful and zealous he was for God for Religion for his Country for our Solemn Covenant He was a fixed Nail not only in the Capitol but also in the Sanctuary his care and painful endeavors were layd out not only for the Common-wealth but for the Church also yea he himself was a little suncturary to the faithful Manisters of Jesus Christ He was a stout Nail steeled with Christian resolution and courage not counting his life dear if he might have sacrificed it as partly he did for the Kingdoms peace his Countries safety and the Churches settlement He was a Nail on which the Welfare and prosperity of our Sion did much depend And for our sins God hath plucked out this useful Nail We see this great Nail turned into a little Wheel and he is now rolled into the House appointed for all the living I wil not tel the world of your Ladiships immoderate sorrow and how you sit disconsolate sighing sobbing and mourning like a faithful Turtle bereaved of her mate I wil rather guide my speech to your Honor and direct your eye to the Wheel Worthy Sir John Hobarte he was a stately Wheel he moved bravely in his time and did much of Gods work with all alacrity yea he counted that life worse then death when his motion was any whit stopped by infirmity of body so as he could not be active in the Publick service as he desired This Voluble and swift Wheel is now broken at the Cistern and your heart Madam was almost broken too Oh! I beseech your Honor look up to the throne of glory it is the voice of the Lord hath turned the Wheel He hath spokâ—n and hath done it Submit Submit with humility patience cheerfulness Rejoyce rather what a world of comforts may your Ladiship have in your loss He did worthily in his life he dyed religiously I saw him draw his last breath but so much Majesty and peace in a dying countenance I never saw A stranger would have thought he had been only in some sweet-contenting sleep or tasting the heavenly joys What an Honorable name hath he left behind him Is it not as an oyntment powred forth even as the fragrant spikenard The Nail is pulled out of this lower wall but it is not lost it 's only advanced and set up higher He is fastned in the wall of the New Jerusalem he shines and ever shal shine bright in glory And we all ere long shal roul after him and then shal your Ladyship enjoy a better Communion with your husband then ever Be content to waite is it not a little while I intended a very short Epistle but my pen begins to be free and eager of its way I can hardly hold it in it would fain be dropping out something of your honors goodness I wel know how little your Honor affects the praise of men your praise is in the Gospel and your Ladiship wel knows how much I abhorr base flattery And God he knows my design is not to make you proud by speaking your vertues to your face but only this I would most gladly take occasion to publish something to the world of those eminent Graces which the Lord hath wrought in your Honor by his holy spirit that your Ladiships example may be propounded as a pattern to all Chrâ—stian women which they may ever look upon and follow Elect Lady I could tel them how I have ever found you walking in the truth even in the most perilous and seducing times with what obedience you have always heard the word resigning up your wil to Gods Command How your deportment was to your Noble yoke-fellow the heart of your husband did safely trust in you All that were but lookers on did see tâ—e entireness of your heart the intention of your love your loyalty and faithfulness joyned with all diligence and care You made in your study and work to do him good in regard of his body in regard of his estate but especially and above all in regard of his soul I could take occasion by this my dedication to tel the world That even whilest you are on earth your conversation is in heaven I can truly testify that your Ladiship is a widow indeed continuing in fasting and prayer and reading and meditation and that this is your work night and day in the temple in your closet in your family That 's remarkable in your family you observe Davids houres Every morning every noon and every night you have prayer Scripture read and expounded and that by an able and a called Minister of the Gospel besides repetitions of Sermons singing of Psalms and constant Catechising a most necessary work the Noble Olive-plant your precious daughter answering with the first with all readyness and cheerfulness to her immortal honor I confess hearing the