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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

fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the holy Ghost 2. An effectual argument to inforce it because thus doing will be the most effectual way and means to have the Churches of Christ edified and multiplyed I begin with the duty and first with the first part of it in those words walking in the fear of the Lord and the Note thence is this That when God vouchsafeth to Doct. his Churches rest and peace it is their duty then especially to walk in his fear And here I shall not need by way of explication to hint that 1. By walking is meant their diligent and constant practise and course of life 2. And by Gods fear Primarily and most properly is meant that sanctified affection or sanctifying grace both in the habit and act of it whereby out of a filial and ingenuous awfulness we are afraid to offend God by sinning against him And Tropically the whole Eccles 12. 13. Deut. 6. 2. 13. See Cartwright on Prov. 1. 7. worship and service of God of which this fear as it is one great and especial part so also it awfully commandeth and putteth us upon all the rest and withholds us from the contrary So that this their walking in the fear of the Lord was their diligent and constant course of obedience and service out of an awfull and reverential respect to him and an ingenuous and filial fear to offend him This was their practise when God had given them rest and it is the duty incumbent now on us when the like mercy is vouchsafed to us viz. now upon consideration of it to Heb. 12. 28. serve him with reverence and godly fear indeed it must be without unbeleeving and slavish fear of man Luke 1. 74. but with as much nay with more Reverential fear of God then ever for although perfect love casteth out fear 1 John 4. 18. yet in true filial fear there is as much nay more love then fear and so they who are said to fear God Psal 145. 19. are in the 20th verse immediately following styled such as love him To have fear and joy meet is a riddle to a carnal heart yet to rejoyce with Psal 2. 11. trembling is a peece of the mystery of godliness which Grace teacheth and a godly heart is acquainted with And especially upon the receipt of any greater mercy as at the Resurrection of our Saviour it is said of the two Maries that they departed from the Sepulchre with fear and great joy Matth. 28. 8. So in any other kinde of Resurrection wherein God pleaseth to raise us as it were from the grave such a sweet mixture of those seemingly contrary graces should be felt in our hearts and expressed in our carriages so as at the same time to rejoyce in his goodness Nehe. 9. 25. yet to fear him and his goodness Hos 3. 5. Slavish spirits may fear his greatness but a good heart will fear him for his goodness will fear when inlarged Isa 60. 5. and with such a Systole and Diastole doth it breathe and live This being a great part of that Tribute which our Soveraign Lord requireth for all his bounty and blessings And now Israel what doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to fear the Lord thy God c. Deut. 10. 12. and which a soul truly subjected to Christ doth most freely pay from mercy takes an argument of fear There is forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be feared Psal 130. 4. it saith Let us fear the Lord who giveth unto us rain and reserveth to us the appointed weeks of the harvest Jer. 5. 24. fear's him for plenty and fear's him for peace as in a peaceable Solomons reign when the mountains shall bring peace to the people Psal 72. 3. and so you might think to find them most secure it is added that they shall fear him as long as the Sun and Moon indure v. 5. the less that in their peace they fear their enemies the more they fear their peaceable King That in Solomon as a type fore-prophesied what should be under the more peaceable government of Jesus Christ and in this Text that prophecy was fulfilled for when these his best subjects had rest and were still even then they trembled walking in the fear of the Lord. But you will say Is fear consistent Quest with the security of peace or rather is it not an aguish distemper to stand quaking and trembling in the Summers warm Sunshine The Psalmist saith when the Sea-man when he Psal 107. 27. is tossed and reeleth to and fro and staggers in a tempest is like a drunken man but is it not right out drunkenness or rather madness to do so in a calme and when gotten on the shoare To which I answer It is so Answ indeed to do so out of a slavish or unbelieving distraction or despondency which yet the best of Gods servants are sometimes overtaken with yea and that sometimes when both for inward and outward man they have all cause of joy and an holy confidence and security But as the Schoole observeth Biel. there is a double act of a chast and filial fear 1. One when we avoid sin for fear of offending God and so of being in any measure separated or estranged from him and thereby of losing of any either measure or manifestation of that good which we injoy through communion with him And thus Austin Tractat. in Johan defineth fear to be Fuga animi ne perdat quod diligit 2. The other is an awfull Reverence of God not as to any fear in us of our loss of him but onely as in himself he is the most perfect and absolute good and so most worthy of all humble observance The first of these they truly say is only here in via whilest we are here travellers in our way because when we come to our journies end and confirmed in glory there will be no danger and therefore no fear of any such offence and loss and disjunction But the latter abideth yea is perfected in heaven and so is both of in via and in Patria I am sure both of them are or at least should be found in us whilest we are here in the way and that not only in the foulest but even in the fairest plat of it where we should not onely be afraid of Gods judgements Psal 119. 120. but also of his tenderest mercies not only in the time of our danger and trouble but of our greatest rest and security even then we should walk in the fear of the Lord and that upon a twofold ground answerable to that forementioned double act of this godly fear 1. In the time of our rest and peace we have great need to put forth the first A●t of it in taking heed of offending God and so of being estranged from him because Then we are in the greatest danger of it 2. And as great cause we have Then also to put forth that second

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 The land had rest and he had no war in those years because the Lord had given him rest Therefore he said unto Judah Let us build c. So they built and prospered 2 Chron. 14. 6 7. LONDON Printed by J. F. for I. Rothwell 1656. To the Right Honorable Sr CHRISTOPHER PACK Knight Lord Major together with the Honourable Court of Aldermen of the Famous City of LONDON Ever Honored THe ordinary excuse which many usually make for publishing their Writings by laying the fault upon the importunity of friends is grown so threed-bare that it is now almost past wearing and yet such is my poverty that I have nothing else wherewith to cover my nakedness in the putting forth of this poor piece now presented to you It containes a few Sermons all first preached in the Universitie but two of them afterwards at Pauls before You and the rest of that Honorable Audience which by the Order of your Court sent to me I was desired to Print how unwillingly I best know who should best know my own weaknesse and what course I took to avoid it My Lord you can very wel witness But seeing by your Honours Command they must come forth be pleased to understand that He who hath Naomies field must Ruth 4. 5. have Ruth also Those two which you are pleased to call for had their Fellows which they cannot part with And therefore as when Gehazi asked one talent of Naaman he bad him 1 King 5. 22 23. be content and take two So when you ask but for two I am more liberall and desire you to be content to take five or six not to patronize the Truth in them that is Gods which He will own and maintain but to expresse the sense of those obligations which your Honour hath by many favours laid upon me which have forcibly drawn me to this from which otherwise I had a very great aversation and if by the blessing of God hereby any further service may be done to him or his Church it will be the rejoicing of Your servant in the Work of the Gospel ANTHONY TUCKNEY Cambridge Oct. 10. 1655. A GOOD DAY WELL IMPROVED Act. 9. 31. Then had the Churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria and were edified and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the holy Ghost were multiplied IT is accounted to be a bad 1. Sermon preached in Pauls July 16. 1654. sign if the sick man grow more sick after sleep but if better there are then some hopes of his recovery So here The Churches of Christ as to outward respects had been brought to a very low weak and sick condition by that Calenture or fiery tryall which had dispatch'd Steven Chap. 7. and afterward brake out and spread further to the persecution and scattering of the whole Church at Jerusalem Chap. 8. 1. And Saul still breathing out threatnings and slaughter did blow the coal to carry the flame as far as Damascus in the beginning of this Chapter but his Spirit was happily cooled in the sequele of it and with it the heat of that persecution and now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the like are called Chap. 3. 19. cooling refreshing times came from the presence of the Lord and so we finde the heat of the fever abated and the sick spouse fallen to her rest Then had the Churches rest and then if He sleep the Disciples concluded he would do well especially if upon it all proved better John 11. 12. as here it did for when they had rest they were edified and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the holy Ghost were multiplied And so in the Text we may observe these three particulars 1. The formerly afflicted and wearied Churches rest Then had the Churches rest c. 2. This crowned with two most happy Concomitants or consequents They were edified they were multiplied 3 Both these set out by two as happy means and causes of them viz. Their walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the holy Ghost Blessed flocks of Christs sheep that thus come up Cant. 4. 2. from the washing in the waters of affliction None barren whilest they are thus multiplied and all bearing twins in these two lovely pares walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the holy Ghost and so were both edified and multiplied And happy we if we could go in the footsteps of those flocks that Cant. 1. 8. seeing God in mercy hath begun to give us as he did them rest or as the word is Peace this peace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may not make us proud and petulant but that with them we may now more then ever walk in Gods fear and that fear not dis-spirit us but may be sweetned and animated with the comforts of the holy Spirit that so in stead of those many ruines and pullings down in our former blusters now in this fair weather we may begin to think of building up and edifying our selves and others in faith and love and whereas in our former wars men have been minished and sins and factions and furies have swarmed the true Churches of Christ and true Saints in those Churches and true Graces in those Saints may be now increased and multiplied This indeed would be even an heaven upon earth a new Rev. 21. 2. Jerusalem the vision of peace coming down from heaven A blessed remembrance of what was in those best and primitive Churches in the beginning of the Gospel and a more happy first fruits and pledge of what is now hastning on in the most glorious Churches in the end of it yea of what shall never be ended but perfected in glory I begin with the first blessing in those first words Then had the Churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria which need not much explication Then or therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Calvin Beza Piscato● Tyndal Numero plurativo quòd tum c. Erasm The Churches which some read Congregations in the plural number the Church in the first verse of this Chap. which was at Jerusalem upon the dispersion there mentioned became Churches one multiplying into many Had rest the Greek is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Grotius in locum de jure belli c. lib. 1● cap. 2. Peace for so they called the rest they then had from persecution as the Psalmist phraseth it rest from the dayes of adversity Psal 94. 13. Throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria That is throughout the whole compasse of Israels inheritance and