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A07450	The Christian mans assuring house. And a sinners conuersion Two sermons; the former, preached, before the Prince his Highnesse at St. Iames: the other to his Maiesties houshold at White-hall, on Sunday the 6. of February by George Meriton Doctor of Diuinitie, and Deane of Peterborough.	Meriton, George, d. 1624.	1614 (1614)	STC 17837; ESTC S112663	30,464	58

10.5 And thus much of that part of your inward euidence which respecteth sinne That which concerneth Gods mercies in Christ is twofold 1 An earnest desire of reconciliation with God 2 And ardent loue to Christ and his righteousnes For the first when as man feeleth himselfe distressed with the burthen of his finnes when hee apprehendeth the heauy displeasure of God in his conscience for them if then conceiuing his great neede of a Sauiour hee doth heartily desire yea hunger and thirst to bee at peace with God in the meritas of Christ no perill being so fearefull vnto him as to bee out of Gods fauour no blessing so chearefull as to bee at vnity with him vnto such a one hath Christ made most comfortable promises which can appertaine to none but the Elect vnto him shall bee giuen of the Well of the water of life freely Revel 21.6 And this water shall bee in him as a Well of water springing vp vnto euerlasting li●e Iohn 4.14 For the second hee that can so highly esteeme of Christ and his righteousnes as that hee accouneth with Saint Paul Philip 3. the most pretious things that are to be but doung in comparison He that can proferre Christ and his loue before father and mo●her wife and children He that hath so strong an affection wrought in his heart as that if his young childe should hang about his necke his mother shew her breasts which gaue him sucke his Father lye in the dore to stay him from Christ hee could cast away his childe contemne his Mother tread vpon his Father renounce all et volare ad vexillum Chrisli as Hierome speaketh flye to the Banner of his Christ like Aene as in the Poet who when Troye was won carried away neither kithe nor kinne sed Deos ciuitatis but the Gods of the citie Certainly such a one is marked out to saluation hee hath the seale of God vpon him and as Iohn saith 1. Ioh. 3.19 he may assure his hart before him Euery man will say of himselfe that hee is thus afected vnto Christ when as indeede most men had rather haue Esaus broth then Iacobs blessing Wherfore least we be deceiued wee must trye our loue vnto Christ by these two tokens First he that doth rightly esteem of Christ doth in like manner esteem of those which are his members Tustis et Amor Celari non possunt as the Cough cannot be couered no more can loue it will breake out to others Hee that receiueth a Prophet in the name of a Prophet shal receiue a Prophets reward He that receiueth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receiue the reward of the righteous Math. 10 It is hee that loueth Christ and shall dwell in his Tabernacle who maketh much of him that feareth God Psal 15. And heereby doe wee know that wee are raised from death to life because wee loue the Brethren that is such as are the members of Christ euen because they are so 1. Ioh. 3.14 Secondly it is a token of our loue to Christ if we loue his comming that we may haue full participation and fellowship with him The carnall man careth little he hath no sense nor sight of his comming but as the Oxe is fatted in the pasture and the Birde singeth sweetlie and feedeth without feare yet sodainly one is carried to the slaughter the other is taken in the snare so are worldlings drowned in security and seldome thinke of much lesse wish for the comming of Christ Others who are strong in sinne and which force the wrath of God against them doe tremble and quake at the remembrance of his comming They wish it might eyther neuer bee or euer be deferred Oh it is most terrible vnto them once to thinke that a day will come when all of them shall be cited before Gods Iudgement seat when as all their workes their words their thoughts shall be reuealed when as a heauy doome of damnation shall be pronounced against them when to lye hidden wil be impossible for them and to appear will bee intollerable to them The consideration of these terrors of the Lord dooth affright them so as if the Diuell were at their dores But the children of God who loue Christ crye Lord Iesu come quickly Now they are as wardes then shall they come to their owne Now are they in the skirmish then shall they bee in the victorie Now are they in the tempestuous Sea then shall they bee in the quiet Hauen Now in the heat of the day then in the rest of the Euening Now are they absent from Christ Then shall they follow him wheresoeuer he goeth And why should they not be ioyfull at his comming to iudge them who came to be iudged for them A louing Spouse desires to bee in the bosome of her husband and such is the longing of the Church after Christ for if being absent from him he doth so enrich vs with grace and tokens of his loue Lorde how will he hugge vs and embrace vs when we are present with him Si sie es bonus sequentibus te qualis futurus es consequentibus saith Saint Bernard The very desire then we haue wholy to enioy the fellowshippe of our Christ makes vs to lift vp our heades and to loue his comming which is another Argument vnto vs that wee shall be saued because a Crowne of Righteousnesse is laide vp for them that loue his appearing as S. Paul doth tell vs. 2. Tim. 4.8 There remaineth now the last and outward euidence of our calling and Election that is new obedience our endeauour by good works to obey Gods commandements for hereby are we sure we know him if wee keepe his commandements 1 Iohn 2.3 we neede not to wring or wrest a good deed out of a good man as one would wring veriuice out of a Crab. He is a tree that hath euer some figges vpon him But least here againe wee should chance to deceiue our selues The obedience which is the infallible marke of Gods childe must not bee a halfe but a whole obedience of the whole man To the whole law of God In the whole course of our liues First it must bee obedience of the whole man in Body in Soule in Spirit 1. Thes 3.13 Wee must summon all our parts and powers together like a Cryer to pe●forme a seruice vnto our God Secondly it must bee obedience To the whole law for the condition of the Law is meerely Copulatiue All the parts of it are linked one to another He that 's bound to One is bound to All Hee that makes no Conscience to keepe One when Occasion is offered will breake any Herod gaue Iohn Baptist the hearing in many things but would not leaue his Brothers Wife Iudas followed Christ and preathed the Gospell but would in no case forsake his Couetousnes Saul was content to slay some of the Amalekites but left Agag aliue But this peece meale

Teaching vs hereby to testifie our inward calling by our outward comming For Mary being called she answered she came she came presently and she came not empty For as it followeth in the Text she brought a box of oyntment with her That whereof she made so high account wherwith she annointed and perfumed her selfe when she liued like a wanton that sweet and precious oyntment she brought vnto Christ Was it for that her sinnes were vnsauorie and therefore would come with odours Indeed in the 30. of Exodus we read that before the sacrifice for sinne was offered Incense by the law was to be burned So perhaps did this Sinner she came first with her sweet smelling oyntment lest by the stench of her sinnes shee should offend her Sauiour Or was it rather to prepare him with her gift and therefore did beare him this box of oyntment This was Iacobs policie toward his brother Esau Hee gaue gifts vnto him to preuent his anger Gen. 32. or was it for that God commanded that none should appeare before him Exo. 32. Being therefore now about to present her selfe vnto her God to show her sorrow for her sinnes to professe her obedience vnto his law Did shee iudge it meet for her according to the law to come with something in her hand or it may be bicause shee thought him to be the Messias to come and for that shee saw him indued with more than humane power She iudged him worthy of honour and therefore brought him a box of pretious oyntment that after the manner of that nation by annointing of him shee might giue honour vnto him howsoeuer it was shee came not empty Condemning heereby the practise of many professours in the world who loue to come to Christ of free cost if hee once proue chargeable they will shrinke in the wetting and their profession growes cold when cost is required but let vs walke with these Pharisies into the Pharisies house and see how Mary there behaued her selfe First we find her standing at Christs feet behinde him for as the Publican durst not lift his eyes to heauen Luke 18. so was Mary ashamed to behold her Sauiour in the face shee goeth boldly into the house shee feareth not the countenance of those that were present shee knew whom shee had offended and therefore in an humble bashfulnesse shee cast her selfe behind him Against thee O Lord haue I sinned saith Dauid in his 51. Psalme Why doth Dauid say so Had he not transgressed against Vriah also It is as much as if Dauid had saide Though I haue sinned diuers wayes and offended others yet it is thou O Lord alone which causest me to be ashamed of my sin Thus was Mary affected when she came into the house her sinnes against Christ made her abashed to looke vpon him This is flatly contrary to the practise of worldly men and women who neuer care how grossely they offend their God so the dores be shut they can escape the shame of men as for Christ they will stare him in the face his eies they feare not so the world do not see them if they can be drunke in a cellar if they can oppresse cunningly with some pretty colour if they can but get the good opinion of men as for Christ Iesus they will beard him to his head and braue him out of countenance This holy conuert was otherwise affected she was not ashamed because of the Pharisie the guests which were at the bord did not affright her the multitude in the house nothing moued her It was only Christs presence that strucke her conscience and therfore she stood behind him But what did she there I will tell you but of one thing she did and leaue the rest to your reading in the Text. She beganne to water his feet with her teares that is such a fountaine of teares gushed out of her eyes as that they beganne to water Christs feet not onely wet them and that as she stood also before she bowed herselfe vnto the ground to wipe them to kisse them to annoynt them with her oyntment O what a wonderfull griefe did this woman conceiue for her sinfull life past that being a woman no doubt of some reasonable stature for Mary Magdalen is held to haue beene a comely person yet euen as shee stood did her teares runne downe her cheekes did they descend to the ground and watered the feet of Christ Surely that same ice which was congealed in her breast being frozen in her sinnes did now at her comming to Christ resolue and flowed from her eyes She set her sinnes in the eyes of her minde and her sinnes set teares in the eyes of her bodie Let vs learne to follow Mary in this godly practise If Baronius out of his old manuscript sayth true she came with Lazarus and her sister Martha into Britaine Her example is thereby made more proper vnto vs. Wherefore let vs with Mary set our sinnes before vs that our eyes may weepe for vs. Nettles and thornes are hurtfull in a garden yet are they profitable in the pale or hedge for that they serue as a fence to preserue the same Sinnes in the soule are very dangerous vnto it they pricke they sting they wound the conscience like nettles and thornes but retaine them in the memory keepe them in the skirt of the soule that thou mayst mourne for them and then are they profitable to defend the soule Adam was placed ouer against Paradice Gen. 3. that beholding the garden from whence hee was cast and therby being brought to the remembrance of his sinne he might be grieued for it So Marie heere recounting with her selfe that shee had lost her God and the pleasures of Paradice for the delights of her flesh she is grieued at the heart and resolued into teares Often haue I seene the heauens to raine vpon the earth but neuer the earth to poure showers vpon heauen till now here is an earthly woman which watereth heauenly feet Peter went out and wept bitterly but heere is one that blusheth not to weepe within dores at a feast and where is wont to bemirth she fals a monrning Indeed God commanded Numbers 29. in maxima solemnitate in the greatest feast to offer vp a Goat for a sacrifice for sinne There is no time of ioy no solemne assembly wherein the remembrance of our sinnes is not grateful vnto God if thou sighest before thou eatest if thou chance to weepe for thy sins at a feast thy teares are accepted Christ in the highest honor that was euer giuen vnto him in this mortall life when multitudes came from Ierusalem receiued him triumphantly with great boughes and songs of ioy then did he mourne in all that pompe for the sinnes of Ierusalem And this holy woman knew that at this banquet plenty of teares would bee more gratefull and ioyfull vnto Christ then many bowles of Wine Wee doe not reade that she spake as shee wept No no shee stoode as a woman