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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04151	Gods call, for mans heart in 1 Knowledge, 2 Loue, 3 Feare, 4 Confidence, 5 Singing of Psalmes, 6 Prayer, 7 Hearing the word. 8 Receiuing the Sacraments. Deliuered in a sermon, by Abraham Iackson, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word at Chelsey, neere London.	Jackson, Abraham, 1589-1646?	1618 (1618)	STC 14294; ESTC S119409	15,280	54

GODS CALL FOR Mans Heart Jn 1 Knowledge 2 Loue 3 Feare 4 Confidence 5 Singing of Psalmes 6 Prayer 7 Hearing the Word 8 Receiuing the Sacraments Deliuered in a SERMON by ABRAHAM IACKSON Master of Arts and Preacher of Gods word at Chelsey neere London MATH 22.21 Giue vnto God those things which are Gods LONDON Printed by T. S. for Roger Iackson and are to be sould at his shop neere Fleet-streete Conduit 1618. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE Edward Lord Russell Earle of Bedford and the Lady LVCIE Countesse of Bedford such felicitie in this life as may end with the beginning of those ioyes that shall neuer end Most noble and truely religious Lord and Lady AS your vndeserued fauour to me wards challengeth my seruice as a debt so tho vnmerited mercies of God to vs all requires our hearts as a due The meditation of the latter moued me to pen this Treatise and the consideration of the former animated me to Dedicate it to your Honours not that there is any thing in it which you knew not before as hauing long since learned how to consecrate your hearts vnto the Lord but to put you in minde of your knowledge that you doe not forget to practise it All that the Lord requires of you for whatsoeuer hee hath bestowed on you is in effect but this that you studie to know him to loue him to feare him to trust in him that you sing vnto him pray vnto him heare his Word and receiue his Sacraments with your hearts and soules as you shall finde briefely proued in this Treatise which if you doe as all that obserue your religious liues and conuersations are perswaded you doe you may rest secure of Gods loue and fauour towards you in Iesus Christ euen to the full assurance of that inheritance which he hath prepared for those that giue him their hearts in his seruice And so crauing pardon for my boldnesse if in this Dedication I be delinquent I rest Your Honours ready in all humilitie to doe you seruice ABRAHAM IACKSON GODS CALL FOR MANS HEART PROV 23.26 My Sonne giue me thy Heart LEast in this time of giuing and receiuing of gifts amongst friends and acquaintances you should be vnmindefull of your best friend euen your God from whom whatsoeuer good and perfect gift wee haue is deriued Iames 1.17 I haue made choise of this Scripture for the subiect of my speech the better to stirre you vp to present vnto God by way of gratefull acknowledgement of his loue and fauour the best Iewell or to vse Dauids words the best member that you haue euen your hearts and the rather because he requests them at your hands in the words of my Text My sonne giue me thy heart If a Sonne would gratifie his Father or a friend his friend that loues him dearely and out of his loue hath done much for him he will consider with himselfe what his father or his friend best likes and accordingly endeuour to the vttermost of his power to prepare it for him Beloued our gracious God and mercifull redeemer hath so dearely loued vs and done so much for vs as that betweene his loue and created affections there holds no proportion For suppose some great Prince should set his affection vpon some poore man so farre as to disrobe himselfe of his royall apparell cast off his Crowne and cease to be a King onely to inioy more freely this poore mans company and familiaritie certainely it would be a great argument of loue Nay suppose this Prince should yet goe further in the manifestation of his loue by offering himselfe willingly to die for this his poore friend if his death might be any way auaileable vnto him as Damon it may be would haue done for Pythias or Pylades for Orestes a greater testification of loue there cannot be and that by the testimony of our Sauiour Ioh. 15.13 Where he saith That greater loue then this hath no man when any man bestoweth his life for his friends Yet notwithstanding all this loue comes far short of Christs loue towards vs for he being the Prince of peace from all eternitie clad with the royall robes of glory attended on with myriads of blessed Angels swaying the scepter of the whole world sitting on the right hand of his fathers maiestie on high measuring the waters in his fist and counting heauen with a spanne and comprehending the dust of the earth in a measure and weighing the mountaines in a weight and the hils in a ballance Es 40.12 This great Prince I say notwithstanding all these prerogatiues was so inflamed with the loue of vs poore creatures the wretched broode of sinfull Adam lumpes of vanitie masses of misery banquerupts in respect of grace and captiues to sinne and Sathan that he left the brightnesse of his fathers glorie and tooke vpon him the vilenesse of our nature he forbare thundering in the cloudes to crie in the cradle he left the spacious and starre-beautified chamber of heauen to be lodg'd in a stable crowded in a cratch and swadled in a few proore cloutes here on earth in a word The Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst vs and yet this is not all he did not onely take vpon him our flesh and our nature but our nakednesse our misery our pouertie our shame nay that which is yet beyond the conceipt and apprehension of men and Angels hee tooke vpon him our mortalitie he made himselfe subiect vnto death for vs euen to that shamefull painefull racking tormenting lingering death of the crosse he was crucified for vs he had his hands and his feet peirced and torne with nailes for vs his head was crowned with thorns for vs his side and heart was wounded with a speare for vs his hands his feete his head his side his heart gusht out with streames of bloud for vs and that cum adhuc inimici essemus when as yet we were his enemies Rom. 5.7.8 Cum non solum non existentes sed etiam resistentes when we were not onely not existent but resistent euen his professed foes and mortall enemies When our hearts were as yet captiues to sinne and Sathan fighting vnder their banners against him he spent the precious bloud of his heart to redeeme vs. Oh the exceeding loue of a gracious God to an vngracious people infinite degrees beyond the affection of the dearest friend to his friend Well then what remaines to be done on our part but that by way of gratefull acknowledgement of this his vnproportionable fauour we present vnto him this day for a new-yeares gift the best member that we haue euen our hearts and the rather because he askes them at our hands as you may see in the words of my Text My Sonne giue me thy heart It may be called Gods demand of his tribute due vnto him from his children or in fewer word Gods call for Mans heart In the which for my better proceeding and your better perceiuing I haue thought good to obserue

these foure circumstances I. What it is that God would haue when he cals for our Hearts II. The Persons whose harts God cals for in these words My Sonne III. The manner how he would haue these persons Hearts in this word Giue he would haue them by gift IIII. The Person to whom hee would haue them giuen in this word Mee he would haue them giuen to himself My Sonne giue mee thy heart 1. That which God cals for to be giuen vnto him it is our Hearts My Sonne giue mee thy Heart That you may the better vnderstand what he meanes when he cals for our hearts consider I pray you the seuerall acceptations of this word Heart This word Heart it is taken either properly or improperly First properly so it signifies that dissimilar part that internall pyramidall or triangular fleshly substance within the body of man which the Philosophers call the chaire of state or throne of the soule the seate of the affections the consistorie of mans thoughts and meditations conceits and imaginations the fountaine of the vitall spirits the first member of man that liues and the last that dies Secondly improperly and so it is taken either Synecdochically or Metaphorically or Metonimically First in a Synecdochicall acceptation it signifies the whole man as well his body as his soule and in this sence our Sauiour vnderstood it when in Luke 21.34 he bids vs Take heede lest at any time our hearts be ouercome with surfetting and drunkennes Here the heart which is but a part of man is by a Synecdoche taken for the whole man for drunkennesse is hurtfull both to body and soule Secondly Metaphorically so it signifies either the pith of a plant or tree by which vegetatiue life and motion is conueyed from the roote to the branches or else the courage and valour of a man so that a stout and valiant man is oftentimes called a Heart Thirdly Metonymically and so if you take the subiect for the accidents it signifies the vnderstanding and the sinceritie of the affections of the heart Now when the Lord cals for our hearts he cals not for them in a proper acceptation nor in an improper Synecdochycall or Metaphoricall sence but as I conceiue chiefely and principally in a Metonymicall meaning so that when the Lord cals for our hearts he cals for our vnderstanding for our loue for our feare for our confidence hee cals for the sinceritie of our hearts in singing of Psalmes in Prayer in hearing the Word in receiuing the Sacraments My Sonne giue me thy heart that is know me with thy heart loue me with thy heart feare me with thy heart trust in me with thy heart sing vnto me with thy heart pray vnto me with thy heart heare my word with thy heart receiue the Sacraments with thy heart whatsoeuer thou doest in my seruice doe it with thy heart and it shall be acceptable vnto me So that when the Lord requires our hearts he requires the sinceritie of them in the performance of these eight duties as I shall indeauour to proue by seuerall places of Scripture 1. First we must studie to know and vnderstand what God is we must set the meditations of our hearts aworke about it 1 1 Knowledge Hence is it that the Lord promiseth to giue his people A heart to know him to be the Lord. Ier. 24.7 Whence I obserue that vnlesse our hearts be inflamed with a speciall touch of grace to meditate vpon God and to study to know him so farre forth as he is pleased to make himselfe knowne in his word we can neuer giue him our hearts as hee requires Let vs then bend our hearts to that end for which he gaue them vnto vs. He gaue vs our hearts to studie to know him Oh let vs render to him our hearts againe by imploying our best indeuours in this businesse Which we shall doe if we be diligent readers hearers and meditatours of his word especially that part of his word by which he is pleased to make himselfe knowne vnto vs in his Essence Attributes Names and Actions If you meditate on these places of Scripture you shall be well furthered in the true knowledge of God When wee meete then with any Scripture that describes him either in the a Deut. 4.35 Deut. 6.4 Esay 43.10 44.6 45.5 1 Cor. 8.4 Gal. 3 20. Ephes 4.6 1 Tim. 2.5 Iam. 2.19 Vnitie for his Essence or in the b Esay 6.3 Mat. 13.16.17 28.9 Ioh. 14.16.17 1 Iob. 5.7 Trinitie for the manner of his existence or in his Attributes either incommunicable such as are c Ioh 4.24 Heb. 12.9 2 Cor. 3.17 Es 31 3. simplenesse without mixture d Ps 90.2 92.8.9 102.27.28 eternitie without beginning e 1 King 8.27 Ioh. 11.8 Ps 139.7.8 Ier. 23.24 immensitie without limitation f Ps 102.13.27 Mal. 3.6 Heb. 1.11.12 Iam. 1.17 Exod. 3.14 immutabilitie without change or communicable such as are g Ioh 1.4 Deut. 32.40 Dan 4.34 life h 1 Tim 6.16 immortalitie i Iob 12.13 Dan. 2.20 Rom. 11.33 1 Tim. 1.17 wisedome k Rom. 9.18.19 will l Gen. 17.1 Psal 62.12 Ier. 33.17.19 Luk. 1.37.49 Rom. 4.17 power m Psal 115.3 liberty n Mar. 9.18 Psal 118.1.2.3.4 Psa 108.5 31.20 Tit. 3.4 goodnesse o Exod. 33.3 grace p 1 Ioh. 4.8 loue q Dan. 9 9.18 Exod. 34 6. Psal 116.5 10● 8.13 146.8.9 mercie r Rom. 2.4 3.26 9.22 1 Pet. 3.20 2 Pet. 3.15 patience ſ Ezek. 18.23 33.11 clemencie t Deut. 32.4 Psal 11.7 145.7 Apoc. 16.5 iustice u 1 Sam. 2.2 Es 6.3 Hab. 1.12.13.1 Ioh. 1.5 Apoc. 4.8 holinesse and x Deut. 10.17.1 Cron. 29.11.12 Psal 83.19.1 Tim. 6.15 You may see a plaine description of Gods Essence and Attributes in The Practi●e of Pietie set forth by Docter Bayly now Bishop of Bangor from the 4. page of the eight Edition to the 59. glory or in any of his Names Titles or actions we should meditate on it and consider it deepely in our hearts wee should treasure it vp in our memory and walke as in the sight of his so awfull and diume Maiestie If thus we indeauour to know him we giue him one chiefe thing which he requires when he requires our hearts 2 2. Loue. When the Lord cals for our hearts he cals for the loue of our hearts Deut. 6.5 Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy soule and with all thy might Now he that loues God with his heart and soule will delight to be in his house sometimes lauding and magnifying his name with the congregation of his Saints sometimes talking with him by meditation and prayer hee will esteeme Gods loue and fauour dearer then his life Psa 63.2 He will bewaile his absence in disfauour as a bitter crosse Can. 3.1 He will hate those that hate God