of Nature will tel us something of the mercy of God but there 's nothing that sets out the bowels of Gods mercy so as the Gospel of Jesus Christ doth there you have the very bowels of Gods mercy indeed made legible to all the world in Luke 1. 78. Through the tender mercy of our God whereby the day-spring from on high hath visited us The tender mercies of our God the bowels of mercy so the words are here 's the depth of the bowels of mercy held forth in the Gospel of Jesus Christ it 's imposible that we could have understood the depth of those bowels of mercy but by the Gospel Adam in innocency knew little of the mercy of God for he not being in misery had no need of that mercy to help out of misery but though he by his understanding must needs know that mercy was a good thing and therefore in God the First being of all but yet he did not understand that mercy that the Gospel holds forth yea the Angels in Heaven know it not but by the Gospel and so they desire to pry into those deep mercies of God unto man kind Oh here are the mercies of God that shall be the subject of the praises of Angels and of the Saints to all eternity held forth in the Gospel You think 't is a great mercy when a child is sick that God recovers it you think it is a great mercy when you are at Sea that God turns the wind when if it had stood but one half hour more that way it did you had lost Vessel lives and all when you have been in any danger abroad in forraign parts that the Lord was a present help in time of trouble when there hath been any affliction upon your family that God hath sent deliverance to you these are mercies that God is to be praised for Oh! but what are all these to the mercies of God in Jesus Christ His right-hand mercies and indeed this would be a good argument of a gracious heart when any particular mercie is granted unto them either family mercies or personal mercies Thus to meditate Lord I am less I am less than the least of all thy mercies yet here is seasonable comfortable mercies to me and mine c. but O Lord what is all this to that infinite fountain of mercy in Christ thy mercies in the Gospel thy mercies in thy Son there 's depths infinite depths of mercy indeed this is but a drop and indeed that 's sweet but the infinite Ocean of mercy it is in Jesus Christ Christ is the mercy of God to mankind in the bowels of which all other mercies are conceived and brought forth in the world All my fresh springs both upper and neather springs are in him who is All in All. Oh it were a good argument that the Gospel is revealed to you if you admire at Jesus Christ as the great mercy of all mercies though thankful for every mercy yet when you come to consider of the mercy of Christ look upon that as mercy of wonder stand amazed at the thought of that mercy well it 's the Gospel that holds forth the glory of the riches of the mercy of God God is said in the word to be rich in mercy He is not said so much to be rich in power as rich in mercy Now what Conversation is sutable to this What 's that but as Christ himself saith Be ye merciful as your heavenly father is merciful Oh have you a merciful heart one towards another look with a merciful eye upon those who are in great misery this is it that becomes the Gospel of Jesus Christ Oh a harsh rugged and cruel disposition it is infinitely unbeseeming the Gospel of Christ To see a Christian one that professes the Gospel that makes more profession of the knowledge of God and of the free grace of God in Christ than others and yet when it comes to it that he hath to deal with such as are in misery to have a hard heart Oh a hard hearted Christian is a monster I say a hard hearted Christian is a monster in the world not to be ready to forgive others and to do any thing for others that are in misery is devilish but to rejoyce that they may have any object to shew pity and compassion unto Oh this is that which becomes the Gospel of Christ though they be strangers to you that are in misery yet be merciful to them for you were strangers to God Yea Be merciful to your enemies not only be willing to be at peace but be merciful Do you see any that have wronged you to be in misery do not let them perish but let bowels of compassion even work towards them Oh that our hearts did yern towards all Christ when He came neer unto Jerusalem He wept over it Oh that the like spirit were in us as was in Jesus Christ There 's no such argument for mercy to others as the consideration of the mercies of God in Jesus Christ Oh bowels of mercy beseems the Gospel of Christ and it should be manifested really Let not people that are in misery have verbal mercies from you that is you seem to pity them in words Oh but let there be real mercies to them open your hearts and let something drop from you for releef of them that are in misery it is a notable Scripture in Ephes 4. 31 32. and sutable to that in Col. 3. 13. in the 4. of the Ephes there the Apostle speaking of the mercies of Christ saith he Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice and be ye kind one to another tender hearted forgiving one another even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you Be tender hearted Oh God manifests the tenderness of His heart in the Gospel and this is beseeming the Gospel to set forth this as a pattern the tenderness of Gods heart to poor sinners in the depth of misery do you see any to be in misery and do not you find your heart begin to break towards them if you do not find your heart breaking Oh set before you the infinite tenderness of Gods mercies in Jesus Christ and 't is that will break your hearts if any thing in the world will And so in Col. 3. 13. a place somewhat paralel to this Forbearing one another and forgiving one another if any man have a quarrel against any even as Christ forgave you so also do ye and above all these things put on charity You see the Apostle accounts this the great argument of all and therefore know that the Lord takes it very much to heart when the bowels of Professors are turned into gravel Search into that remarkable Parable Matthew 18 from vers 28. to vers 35. where Jesus Christ Preacheth down all cruel and unchristian like dispositions in those that are fellow servants belonging to one and the same Master and
living under one roof yea the Zeal of Christ did break forth like thunder and lightning against such a servant as takes his fellow by the throat therefore saith the text ver 31. His Lord was wrath and delivered him to the tormentors til he should pay al that was due to him The Lord Christ delivered that cruel servant that hard hearted wretch to the tormentors that did a thing so unbeseeming the mercy he himself had received from Christ Oh saith Christ art thou cruel and unmerciful when thou hast received so much favour from me as a full discharge of thy many great debts get thee to the tormentors let the most cruel executioners of my sierce wrath torment thee without any mercy and compassion Oh those that have hard hearts walk unsutable to the Gospel of Jesus Christ which is full of the riches of Gods grace to all Oh you that have received any pardoning mercies from Jesus Christ take heed of cruelty to your servants to your children It 's very sad to see how some Professors cast the Gospel of Christ behind their backs if their passions are but moved what will ye bite and devour one another when ye receive the least offront either by tongue or hand Oh where is you bearing and forbearing with one another for shame do not fly in the faces of any as a Bear bereaved of her whelps when ye are buffetted by men Oh remember Jesus Christ Oh remember you that stand in so much need of mercy every day from God for you to be cruel towards other Oh here 's a Conversation infinitly unbeseeming the Gospel of Christ and it is unbeseeming the grace that is offered to have a sullen a despairing and an unbeleeving disposition when as we see those that are Disciples and yet every little thing causeth them to despair and to be sullen and their hearts to snk within them Oh friends is this an Evangelical frame of spirit let me speak plainly to you when you come to hear the glorious riches of the grace of the Gospel set before you in the Word ye seem to be somewhat taken with it but when you go home to your family are ye not ready under the least cross then to bury a thousand mercies Oh what a dishonor is this to the Gospel of Jesus Christ that reveals so much mercy of God in it that it doth call for Christians that do profess it to go through troubles and through discouragements with cheerful hearts and although there be many things that might daunt the spirits of others that do not understand what the mercies of God in Christ are yet those that profess the Gospel should shew undaunted spirits for why It is infinite free rich glorious grace that is made known to them by the word of Christs lips Obj. You will say I if I knew that this mercy were mine Ans I but dost thou hear in the Gospel that it is free and there is no soul hath any right to this mercy but by casting its self upon this mercy and therefore it is as free for thee to cast thy self upon it as another indeed the mercy that is revealed by the light of Nature Is such mercy of God that is more conditional that is if I do such and such things then God will be merciful unto me the light of Nature goes no further than this if I obey and leave my sin then I may hope that God will be merciful to me It 's true the Scripture tells us if I do not leave my sin God will not have mercy I but the Gospel holds forth mercy thus There is mercy in God first to pardon thy sin and then to take away thy sin now the Gospel reveals Gods mercy in justifying the ungodly though I am poor and blind and miserable and naked and have not power to leave my sin yet I have free leave to cast my soul upon Gods mercy both for pardon and for power together against my sin for so it must be indeed I have no power I may not stay till I have power against my sin and then I will venture all that I have upon Jesus Christ this is the mercy of the Gospel I speak of this despairing and sullenness of heart as it 's manifested in the Conversations of men and women by which they do dishonor the Gospel of Christ when they live in their families and their hearts sink in such a sullen way as if there were nothing in the Gospel of Christ for encouraging of poor troubled souls no more than men might understand by the light of Nature Indeed if I did live better and honor God I might have encouragement that God would shew me mercy but the mercy of the Gospel it is such that there is mercy to pardon and to heal my soul too and therefore though I be sinful I must not stay from believing in Gods mercy till I be heal'd but I must believe in Gods mercy that I may be heal'd That 's the third particular that the Gospel holds forth unto us Now the Fourth thing that the Gospel reveals is this That though God be infinitly merciful yet He is merciful in such a way that justice shall not be wronged and this is proper to the Gospel too It 's impossible for Men or Angels to come to understand this Mystery but by this Gospel-light how God should be infinitly merciful and yet that He should be infinitly just too this is held forth in Rom. 3. 25 26. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God To declare I say at this time his righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of him which beleeveth in Jesus Now this is a great mystery of the Gospel a Scripture that Luther fasted and prayed that he might understand and he was a great while before he could know the mind of God therein Now the Gospel saith this I will manifest infinit riches of my mercy but yet so as my infinite justice shall be no loser and therefore though I le save Man-kind yet I 'le save them by such a way as I 'le have as much glory of my justice as if all the men in the world had bin damned to all eternity this is the mysterie of the Gospel and 't is cleer that though God manifest infinit mercy yet God hath a way for the manifestation of his mercy in the Gospel by which the justice of God is as much honored and satisfied as if all the men in the world had been cast into everlasting burnings that is through his Sons dying for mans sin being made a curse for us this is the great point of the Gospel which unlesse we understand we know nothing of Christ and his Gospel as we ought to know it Most men and women in the world they seek to God for mercy Lord be merciful to me a sinner but they think not of a way of
Gods shewing mercy so as yet he may have the glory of infinite justice God seals the forgivenes of sin in the Court of Justice as well as in the Court of Mercy few think of this and that 's the reason why people are ready many times to despair because a great while they having but slight thoughts of God they hope Christ will be merciful to them yet in time of temptation when the Devil comes and doth set before them the dreadfulness of Gods justice that God is a most just God as well as merciful this makes their hearts to sink like a stone within their breasts But now the soul that sees the way of God in the Gospel sees that God is infinitly set upon mercy and likewise sees a way how Gods infinit justice may be satisfied and seeing both these this is a mighty help to faith now let there come never so many temptations when the soul is catching hold upon Gods mercy I but saith temptation God is a just God as well as merciful and dost not thou presume No saith the soul the way of mercy that my soul rests upon I see there is in it a way of satisfaction to infinite justice as well as a way for the manifestation of mercy and therefore though God be a righteous God and a just God yet here I see a way for my soul to be sav'd yet for Divine Justice to have no wrong neither and therefore I can beleeve and venture my soul upon this It 's impossible for a sinner to venture his soul upon any way of mercy if it comes to understand with what a God it hath to deal except it comes to know God in Jesus Christ in that way wherein infinit justice is satisfied to the utmost farthing which is declared in the Gospel Now what Conversation is sutable to this Hence let there be that Conversation in you that may manifest that you do not turn the grace of God into wantonness Oh a wanton Conversation is infinitly unbeseeming the Gospel Oh there is infinite mercy and free grace treasured up here and what wilt thou be wanton and vain and loose therefore there is infinite grace but what way doth God take to manifest infinite grace Is it not in a way wherein the dreadfullest Justice of God appears too Is not the grace of God let out to you through the blood of his Son wherein the most dreadful fruit of Gods justice is manifested that ever was since the beginning of the world or ever shall be manifested to the end of the world if so be thou shouldest see all the damned in Hell the chambers of death unlocked under the wrath of God there flaming out in fire and brimstone it would not be such a dreadful sight as to see Jesus Christ made an offering for sin and lying under the vials of the wrath of his Father falling down upon the ground grovelling and sweating out great drops of water and blood and crying out upon the Cross My God my God why hast thou forsaken me This is the way of the purchase of thy mercy therefore there is infinit justice together with infinite mercy Oh be not wanton then do not turn the grace of God into wantonness but rejoyce in Gods mercy yet rejoyce with trembling and with fear and reverence of the Name of God When thou speakest of the free grace of God and when thou comest to beleeve in the free grace of God in the Gospel thou maiest come cheerfully and boldly I but come with reverence and holy humble fear I do not mean despairing fear nor servile slavish fear but with awful reverence of the glory of God that doth appear in the Lord Jesus Christ I need not send you to the Law to cause fear in your hearts there is enough in the Gospel to cause your souls to tremble before God as well as to beleeve in God Even our God is a consuming fire Oh what was he to Jesus Christ I need go no further to lift up God to make him an object of my fear but to look upon him in his dealings with his Son and therefore those Christians that walk loosly and altogether upon slight thoughts of mercy without any fear to ballast their hearts Oh certainly their Conversations are not Gospel Conversations for if thou didst understand the way of Gods mercy in the Gospel thou wouldest see that that should fill thy heart with fear and reverence all the daies of thy life And as to take heed of wantonness so to reverence Gods Justice even the dreadfulness of it so as the Gospel holds forth to think that God would only have you to have your thoughts about his mercy and not to have your hearts to give glory to his justice it is certainly a vain conceit and I fear it will cause the Gospel to vanish into little in the hearts of men when men apprehend the Gospel so as not to apprehend the dreadfulness of his justice as if so be that God would not have the glory of his justice Christ hath satisfied that Hath Christ satisfied that consider what thou saiest when thou saiest so do but consider how much of the glory of Gods justice doth appear in what Christ hath done and suffered I desire to hold forth no further the glory of justice than by holding forth Jesus Christ to thee Doest not thou think that God would have thee to sanctifie in thy heart and life all the Attributes of God that doth appear in Jesus Christ Now the glory of justice doth appear as much in Christ as the glory of mercy doth then thou that doest profess the Gospel thou must sanctifie this Attribute of God as well as the other thou sanctifiest them both in honoring Gods justice I do not say that thou shouldest have a despairing heart nay it will keep thee from despairing or that thou shouldest have a servile spirit but that thou shouldest sanctifie it with reverence And another thing that is very considerable What is God so set upon the glory of his Justice in the Gospel Oh labour you to be just in all your Conversations you see how God prizes justice that he will rather have his Son die and be made a curse than justice should not have honor Oh take heed of injustice the sin of injustice is a sin unbeseeming the Gospel and here 's an argument against injustice a stronger than I know any in all the Book of God or can be imagined by men and Angels which is this That in the Gospel I find that God hath His heart so set upon justice that rather than justice shall not be satisfied he will not spare his Son one farthing as the Scripture saith He spared not his own Son but His Son must pay to the uttermost His Son must bear his very wrath and all that God may shew his infinite love to justice Oh then let Christians love justice
God 1 Cor. 1. 24. it brings a great deal of power with it to help men against strong corruptions to overcome violent temptations to carry them through in any difficulties Powerful corruptions powerful temptations powerful difficulties are overcome by the power of the Gospel and therefore it is said by faith that is by faith in the Gospel we overcome the world the Gospel certainly doth not only stir in some men and women some wishings and wouldings and faint desires but it brings a power to transforme their hearts to make a metamorphosis there when there comes the light of the Gospel there comes the light of life together with it as that Scripture in Heb. 10. 32. After ye were illuminated that is by the Gospel then he speaks of their great sufferings they were willing to endure any thing for Christ therefore a Conversation that becomes the Gospel is such an one as exemplarily demonstrates the very power of godliness that men and women should not be alwaies learning and never come to the knowledg of the truth not alwaies wishing and desiring and never come to any powerful resolutions and determinations for certainly where the Gospel hath the upper hand in a soul it doth bring power but I do not say it brings power so as to overcome all our lusts so as there should be no sin remaining for so long as we live we must be hungering after a further degree of righteousness and sanctification but certainly when the Gospel prevails there comes a great strength there 's the strength of Christ put forth the Spirit of power as the Apostle saith We have not received the spirit of fear but the Spirit of power of love and of a sound mind be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord. As if Paul had said to Timothy it 's true you meet with many difficulties but hath not the Gospel given you a Spirit of power There 's spirit of power and resolution when the Gospel comes in Timothy was a poor weakly sickly man in his body and Paul himself had no bodily presence with him a poor contemptible man in regard of his bodily presence but he had a Spirit of power given him by the Gospel so we should manifest a Spirit of power that is as becomes the Gospel of Christ Lastly The Gospel of Christ is a glorious Gospel 1 Tim. 1. 11. it is call'd there by the title of a glorious Gospel According to the glorious Gospel of the blessed God Mark what a title is here the Gospel is the glorious Gospel of the blessed God that is the glory of all the Attributes of God doth appear in the Gospel more brightly than they do appear in all the works that God hath made There doth appear indeed a great deal of the glory of God in the Heavens Earth and Seas and you have seen much of the glory of God there but I appeal to you in this Have you seen more of the glory of God in the Gospel than ever you did in all the works that God hath made that were a good argument that you have had a true understanding of the Gospel and that the Spirit of God hath shined into your hearts if you can say Lord I have seen much of thy glory in thy Works when I have been abroad in the mighty waters where Gods paths and foot-steps are Oh the Seas they are thy glorious creatures but thy Gospel that 's glorious beyond all there do I see thine infinite wisdom and infinite power and infinite justice and infinite mercy and infinite faithfulness and the Lord knows that all the glory of the creatures hath been darkned in my eyes since the Lord hath shewed me the glory of His Gospel Can you say so This is a good evidence that the Gospel is a saving Gospel to your souls if you stand and admire at the glory of God in the Gospel Certainly there 's none though never so weak in parts yet if so be that God hath revealed Himself in the Gospel to them they see that which makes them stand and admire at God and darkens all the world in their eyes have you seen the Gospel thus then it is to you the glorious Gospel of the blessed God and in the 2 Cor. 4. 4. In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which beleeve not lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ should shine into them Oh reade over this Scripture again and again The God of this world hath blinded their minds Mark compare this Scriptrue with that I said before of Christ that His Kingdom is not of this world but the Devil is called the God of this world note this he hath blinded the minds of them which beleeve not if any which live under the Gospel beleeve not it is because the Devil as he prevails in the world and by worldly things by the pomp and vanity of the world he hoodwinks the eyes of those which beleeve not lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the express Image of God should shine into them Oh the Devil is loth that the gloriou Gospel should shine into the hearts of men he is content that they should come and hear the Gospel but he labors to keep off the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ that it shine not into them for he know when once it hath shined into mens hearts then all the glory of the world will be darkned in their eyes and they will admire then at nothing but Christ Oh none but Christ none but Christ Whom have I in Heaven but Christ and there is none upon earth that I desire in comparison of my dearest Saviour who is the fairest of ten thousand I never knew God before I saw him in the face of Jesus Christ and now I see God in the face of His Son I see him in another way than ever I did O the Gospel is a glorious Gospel there is more of the glory of God in one sentence of the Gospel than in all the Heavens and Earth beside this we may boldly aver Now our Conversations must be as becomes the Gospel then there must be a glory in our Conversations we must hold forth the Gospel in our Conversations therefor Professors of the Gospel they should shine as lights in the world I beseech you mark this one Note I remember in the close of all the last day I shewed you that the Saints and godly people are call'd the glory of Jesus Christ Himself surely you that are Professors of the Gospel should live so as to be the glory of the glorious Gospel and what manner of persons ought we to be then it's not enough that our Conversations be not defiled with the most filthy and abominable pollutions of the world but our Conversations should be such as should be a glory to the glorious Gospel Look in the Gospel there shine the Attributes of God in glory so in our
Saints shall ascend up into Heaven with Jesus Christ for the Beasts had their lives prolonged for a season and time after that But saith he in the 18. ver The Saints of the most High shall take your Kingdom and possess it for ever even for ever and ever And in the 21. ver I beheld and the same born made war with the Saints and prevailed against them until the Ancient of daies came and Judgment was given unto the Saints of the most High and the time came that the Saints possessed the Kingdom And then in the 27. ver And the Kingdom and dominion and the greatest of the kingdom under the whol Heaven shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most High whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and all Dominions shall serve and obey him What Dominions shall there be when the Saints are in the highest Heavens to serve and obey Christ He means the Dominions that are here upon the earth shall serve and obey Christ Therefore the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is not of this world nor be said hereafter to be such a world as this is but when there shall be another world then Christ shall have a kingdom that shall have such glory as shall be apparent to all and such a Kingdom as the Kings of the earth shall come and bring their glory to it as in 21. of Revelations you shal find that it 's said of the Kings of the earth Reade but that description of the glorious condition of the Church of God there and you shall see this true And the Nations of them which are saved shal walk in the light of it and the Kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor to it But that is in another world not that world that Christ speaks of here in this place of John Only now do but consider a little of the excellency of this point by way of preparation to you for the next time It would be a notable Scripture to take off our hearts from all the things of this world The right understanding of this would spiritualize the hearts of the Saints would take away the offence of the Crosse of Jesus Christ would help them to carry themselves through this world with a great deal of joy and triumph and not much to regard how things go here below I through the mercy of God am brought into the Kingdom of Jesus Christ And I find the whole tenor of Scripture carries it so that the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is not of this world but in a spiritual way Oh then let me have spiritual mercies let me enjoy Jesus Christ in way of His spiritual Kingdom and farewell the world and all things under Christ Truly Christians are not acquainted with this point of the spiritual Government of Jesus Christ in His Church and how God the Father hath so ordered things that In this world Christ should have a Kingdom but not Of this world And blessed are they that have by the holy Ghost an enlightning to understand this Mystery to see the reality of it indeed That the Kingdom of Christ is not of this world SERMON II. JOHN 18. 36. Jesus answered and said My Kingdom is not of this world MAny particulars I past over the last day briefly which I told you would need some further explication I 'le give you some few things about that then proceed to Aplication of al The Priviledges of this Kingdom of Christ they are not of this world I 'le name a principal one and this is the priviledg of al that are under the Kingdom of Christ That all businesses transactions between God and them are in the Court of Christ the Mediator They are not in the Court of exact severe justice but they are to be tried for their eternal estates for all they do in the Court of Christ in his Kingdom which is a mighty priviledg the Saints have As kingdoms have several priviledges 't is a greater priviledg to be tried in one kingdom than in another All men and women in their natural estate not under the kingdom of Christ they are to be tried in the Court of Justice i. e. the Court of Gods providential kingdom and there they are either to be acquitted or condemn'd by the Law that 's the way of Gods proceedings towards those that are under His providential kingdom only to be dealt withal according to the Law But al those that are under the kingdom of Christ have all their businesses in reference to God tried in another Court tried in the Court as I may so call it of the Gospel in the Judicature of Jesus Christ for Christ He is as Mediator to them He is the Judge to pass all sentences concerning them and the right understanding of this would much help in the point of Beleevers being chastised for sin it 's true they are not chastised by judgement out of the court of Law as other men are but they are chastised by Christ that hath the Judicature committed to Him and the Administration of all things especially concerning His Church and People and by a sentence from Him chastised not by a sentence from the Father as He is the Judge of all flesh proceeding according to the Law This is the main thing which we spake to before But yet there are divers other things 2 ly That all that are in Christs Kingdom are Free-men they are delivered from bondage all that are out of this Kingdom are bondslaves they are under the prince of this world that is the Devil and in slavery unto him they are all as vassals under the Law in bondage and have no other spirit but a spirit of bondage in them they are slaves to sin they are under the curse of the Law But now being brought to the Kingdom of Christ they are made free they are free Denizons of Heaven 3 ly And then from hence follows in the third place All that are in Christ's Kingdom have the priviledg of a free-trade to Heaven they have free traffick to Heaven there is now a blessed intercourse between Heaven and them that they have by being subjects of this Kingdom As we know the subjects of this Kingdom have many freedoms that forreigners have not that those that belong to another Kingdom have nothing to do with So the subjects of Christs Kingdom have a freedom of coming into Gods presence of trading to the promised Land that others have not others are cast out of Gods sight and cannot trade to Heaven so as beleevers do that are brought under the Kingdom of Christ 4 ly By vertue of this Kingdom they come to have right unto all the Ordinances of Christ And only by this we come I say to have right unto them so as to be our own Indeed Christ for the sake of such as are His Elect Ones that He intends to bring into His Kingdom He sends forth His Word the preaching of the Word unto them
great dishonor He hatb from the world ibid 2. In respect of wicked men 10 1 That you may convince them ibid 2 To stop their mouthes 11 3 To convert them ibid 4 To condemn them 12 3 In respect of the Saints ibid 1 They rejoyce in it ibid 2 They bless God for it ibid 3 They have boldness before men ibid 4. They are established by it 13 5 They are edified by it ib. 4 In respect of your selves ibid 1 It evidenceth the truth to your souls ibid 2 It continueth and encreaseth what is in you 14 3 It gets honor in the consciences of men ibid 4 It is an instrument of publick good ibid 5 it furthers a joyful account at the great day ibid 6 It keeps up the honor of Religion from one generation to another ibid Application 1 To reprove careless professors 16 2 To exhort to be careful of your Conversations 19 Arg. 1 It is a mercy you have conversation among men 20 2 Wicked men are able to passe judgment on your lives but not on your principles 21 3 Sometimes you must displease wicked men ibid 4 Your lives are but short 22 5 The eyes of all are upon you 23 6 God promiseth salvation to them that order their Conversation aright 24 SERMON II. Rule 1 Have a special regard to the duties of your relation 25 2 Take heed of the sins you are most inclined to 26 3 Take heed of the temptations of your callings 27 4 Take heed of the sins of the times 28 5 Take heed of secret sins ibid 6 Look not upon those that are below but upon those that are above you in profession 29 7 Be constant to the end 30 Doct. 2 The Conversation of Profesfessors must be sutable to the Gospel of Christ 1. It must be higher than the light of Nature will raise it 32 Viz. 1 That we are to knew God 33 2. That we must do as we would be done to ibid 3 We must make conscience of secret sins ibid What Conversation becomes the Gospel that is above the light of Nature 1 To worship God as a father 35 2 To love our enemies 36 3 To do to others as God hath don to us 37 4 To labor for the mortification of the body of sin within us 39 5 To love the Commandement you obey 40 Secondly It must go beyond such as lived under the Law SERMON III Consider first as a Covenant of works for life as it was at first made to Adam 42 1 Obedience to God meerly as Creator 43 2 Had only promise of natural things ibid 3 He must work by his own strength ibid 4 He was in hazard of miscarrying in his eternal estate ib. 1 The Saints are in a better condition 1 They serve God as a father 44 2 Vpon better promises ibid 3 Our strength is not put into own hands to keep 54 4 Are delivered from the hazzard of eternal miscarrying ibid 2. As the Law was in the ministration of it by Moses 47 1 Given under low promises ibid 2 Their Ordinances mean 48 3 Their burden great ibid 4 The administration terrible ibid 5 Their spirits servile ibid But under the Gospel 1 Our Covenant is better 48 2 Our Worship more spiritual 49 3 Our yoke more easie 50 4 We have access with boldnes to the throne of grace ibid 5 We have the spirit of Adoption ibid 3. It must be sutable to what the Gospel holds forth 53 Herein consider 1 What the Gospel holds forth 2 How to sute our Conversations according 1 The Gospel holds forth 1. The infinite love of God to mankind 53 2 Love in us becomes this love of God 54 SERMON IV. 2. The willingness of God to to be at peace with man 63 1 When we were enemies to Him 64 2 We were under his power ibid 3 He had no need of us ibid 4 He begins the work of reconciliation ibid 5 It costs Him very dear ibid 6 He will never be at enmity with us again 65 This cals us to love peace ib. 3 The infinite mercy of God to miserable creatures 69 It should work mercy in us 70 4 He is merciful in such a way that justice is not wronged 74 It should warn us first not to turn the grace of God into wantonness 75 To be just in our Conversations 77 5 What a high price he sets upon the Law 78 SERMON V 6 Gods infinit hatred of sin 80 It should move us to hate it 82 7 The great price of souls 85 It should teach us 1 To set a high price upon our souls 86 2 Not to pollute them with sin 88 8 The great honor God hath put upon human Nature above Angels 89 1. In the personal union of mans Nature with the God-head ibid 2 The body is the temple of the holy Ghost 90 3 The Personal Vnion of our Natures with the second Person in Trinity 91 4 The great example of Self-denial 93 SERMON VI. 9 Our Conversations should be sutable to spiritual worship 96 10 Our spiritual union with God 100 1 God is a Father Beleevers are Children ibid 2 We are one Spirit with God and Christ 102 3 The union of the Saints one with another 104 4 Their hapines in heaven 110 SERMON VII What Conversation becomes the Gospel 114 1 Denying ungodliness ibid 2 Sequestred from this world 118 3 A change of estate 120 1 From what there was before the Gospel came ibid 2 Between one man and another 122 4 Becoming the Ordinances of the Gospel 123 5 Sutable to the power of the Gospel ibid 6 Seeing the glory of the Gospel have a glory in our Conversations 125 Application 1 To reprove those whose Conversations becomes not the Gospel 126 2 Exhortation to walk worthy of the Gospel 129 Five Motives to it JOHN 18. 36 SERMON I. TEXT Opened 139 Doct. 1. Christ hath a Kingdom ibid 1 Providential 136 2 Mediatory ibid Doct. 2 Christs Kingdom is not of this world 137 Difference between worldly Kingdoms Christs Kingdom ib. 1 In regard of pomp and glory ibid 2 In regard of his subjects 138 3 In regard of his rule 139 4 His Laws are spiritual ibid 5 His homage spiritual 141 6 The Officers by Divine institution 143 7 His weapons spiritual 144 8 In regard of priviledges 147 9 In regard of penalties 147 SERMON II. Priviledges of the Saints 1 All their businesses are in the Court if Christ 152 2 They are all free men 153 3 They have free trade to heaven ib. 4 They have right to all the Ordinances of Christ ib. 5 They have his protection 154 6 They shall have certain victory over their enemies ib. 7 They are all Kings ib. 8 They have peace and joy in the holy Ghost 155 9 They have right to the gifts and graces of all the Saints 156 10 They are coheirs with Christ 157 Why Christs Kingdom is not of this world 1 Because he would confound the wisdom of
them First They begin to envie others that live better than themselves and after having envied them then they will begin to have their hearts rise against them and to hate them and after hating to speak against them and after speaking against them to persecute them and thus by degrees men that have been forward professors now they grow as bitter persecutors as others Oh therefore look to your Conversations And that should have been the exhortation Christians be careful of your Conversations in your families be careful there Psal 101. 1. you have an excellent Scripture of Davids professing his care of his Conversation in his familie how he would walk I will behave my self wisely in a perfect way when wilt thou come unto me I will walke within my house with a perfect heart Oh I beseech you look to this Scripture I will behave my self wiselie in a perfect way mark I 'le look that my way may be perfect everie way right and square to the world and when it is so I will labor to behave my self wiselie I will not carrie my self foolishlie in those waies that are good and then Oh when wilt thou come unto me Mark it was a time that God was absent from him and yet then he professes that he will behave himself wiselie in a perfect way and I wil walk in my house with a perfect heart There are some that make profession of Religion indeed and if you come to them before other companie then their conversations seem to be very fair and square but if you do but follow them to their families and see what they do there Oh those that live with them in their families after they have been abroad in companie shall see in what guiz they come home Shal they see their conversations to be holy as becomes the Gospel of Jesus Christ But thus it was with David saith David Let those that live with me in my house mark me as narrowlie as they can I will walk in my house with a perfect heart what I am in the Congregation or among those that are godly or any company I will be in my family that those in my family shall see my Conversation to be thus and thus Oh that professors of Religion would look to this not only to live before others in the parish or the town where they live but to walk in their familie with a perfect heart so as all in their family may even bless them and say Oh how doth my Master or Mistriss walk how graciously in their whol course from morning to night observe them in all their waies and you shall not be able almost to see anie miscarriage in them Oh that 's excellent when a man shall have a better testimony even from those in his familie than from those that are strangers it may be they think though thou makest profession of Religion yet all things are not answerable but those that see it everie day can testifie all things are answerable thus it should be w th every Christian that professes the Gospel to walk with a perfect heart in the midst of his family so to converse in the world Divers Arguments I shall give you to stir you up to look to your Conversations 1. Arg. First It is the mercy of God that you have your Conversations among men to this day that you have not your Conversations among Devils and Reprobates it might have been your portion that your Conversation might have been among Devils and Reprobates God might have sent you down to your own place to have conversed with them Let this be an Argument for you to look to your Conversations 2. Arg. Secondly consider this Wicked and carnal men among whom you live have no skill in the principles that you walk by but they have skill in your lives and Conversations they are able to pass judgment upon your lives and Conversations but not of your principles Godlie people are acted by such and such principles that are mysteries to carnal men but when it comes to their lives they can understand them they cannot search into their principles whether such a Doctrine be true or no or such a thing be according to such a Scripture whether there be a right interpretation of such a Scripture that carries them on in such a way they take no pains to look after this but they look to your lives there they have skill to discern how you walk and whether you walk to the rule or not in your lives and Conversations and therefore let it be your great care to look to your Conversations 3. Arg. A third motive is this There are some things that you cannot but do that will displease wicked men if you will act according to your Principles Well but this should make thee so much the more careful of thy Conversation in all other things that so wicked men may be convinc'd that if such men do some things that I do not understand yet surelie it is for some thing that God hath made known to them more than to me for I find this that in all things that I do understand there they walk exactly therfore though there be some things that they do that I cannot understand why should I be enraged against them As now in point of institution of Worship which doth not depend upon the light of Nature at all but meerly upon Scripture and such and such interpretations of Scripture and such principles wicked men have no skill in Now the professors of Religion they are tyed up by institution and by the words of Scripture thus interpreted which they think in their consciences is the truth they having compared all things together think this is the mind of Christ rather than the other and so long as they think thus they must follow it Now there 's many of these things that carnal men understand not for they take no pains to search into them and therefore they will be angry with you for them and indeed they will have cause to be angry with you for those things they understand not if they see you make no conscience of those things that they understand but if in other things that they do understand you walk circumspectly and that it appear to them that in those things they understand they walk conscionably then they will beleeve that it was meer conscience that made you differ from them in those things which they understood not or had no skill in this will make them ready to stand for you yea to speak and plead for you no such way to get true libertie of conscience as this is if you be careful to walk blameleslie in all those things that they understand with whom you converse they will be convinced in their consciences that if these men differ from us it 's conscience that makes them differ for say they we find that in all those things we understand these men walk conscionablie Certainlie a holie Conversation will
the laying down of his life could procure peace he should be willing to do it that if we may make up breaches by standing in the gap and offering up our selves a sacrifice of atonement and pacification let us thus prove our selves to be the true followers of Christ our Lord and Master who hath left us his own example herein for our imitation this were an excellent thing beseeming the Gospel of Christ that we do profess yea we should not only be willing to admit of peace but seek for it seek for it to our inferiours do not say that such a man hath wronged me and therefore let him seek to me Oh no it doth become you that make profession of the Gospel of Christ not to stay till he come to you that hath wronged you but for you that are wronged by another even to seek to those that have wronged you that they would be at peace with you you might perhaps consulting with flesh and blood think it unreasonable that you that are wronged should seek peace I but it becomes the Gospel of Christ that you should do so God sought to you you never sought to him If God had not begun the work of peace with you God and your souls would have been eternally enemies and therefore remember that you are not to live according to reason you think there 's all the reason in the world that those that have wronged you should crouch to your feet rather than you seek to them well grant it that there is all the reason in the world for it I but what is there in the Gospel to the contrary and you are not to live only in your Conversations as beseems reason but you are to have your Conversations as beseems the Gospel of Christ If you stand upon these tearms let him come to me rather than I will go to him Is this as becomes the Gospel What do you hold forth of the great Work of the Gospel if you do not hold forth this Your willingness to be at peace and to seek for peace even from your inferiors and do not you say that the offence is great Oh! 't is a great offence that such a one hath committed he hath dealt very proudly with me and shall I seek to him his offence to you is not so great as your offence was to God and yet God seeks to be at peace with you through Christ But he is my inferior it may be he is a poor mean fellow that hath so wronged me Do not you think there is such a distance between you and other men it may be thou hast a little power in thy hand and a few pence in thy purse more than thy neighbor hath but what infinite distance was there between God and you then Oh remember your Conversation must be as beseems the Gospel of Christ I but it will put me to a great deal of trouble I can with more ease have him punished than I can bring things to make peace between us With more ease Could not God with more ease have sent thee down to the nethermost Hell how quickly could God have brought thee down and undone thee for ever but God was content to be at peace upon hard tearms as I may so speak indeed they were hard tearms by which God came to reconcile the world unto himself the hardest tearms that possibly could be conceived for Jesus Christ his eternal Son did take upon Him our Nature and was made a curse for us that knew no sin that we might be made the righteousnes of God in Him and therefore stand not upon any hard tearms if peace may be purchased any way but by sin stand not upon it for this is as becomes the Gospel of Christ Yea And when you are reconciled to your brother be so reconcil'd as to be firm in your reconciliation Not as some there is peace made between them but how so as they are ready to take advantage against one another upon any miscarriage afterwards God doth not do so with you the Gospel holds not forth such a peace as this is that God shall be at peace with you for the present but look to your selves afterwards God will take all advantages against you that he can if there had been such a peace made between God and you you had been in Hell long before this time and therefore let your peace be a firm a setled and a constant peace Oh! that this were but thought on in these contentions daies wherein there is such breaches between Brother and Brother in every town in every family and none almost but are broken off one from another with an irreconcilable spirit Oh! how unbeseeming the Gospel of Jesus Christ is an irreconciliable spirit Certainly God hath not made thee to know what the mysterie of the Gospel of peace is who hast war in thy heart and tongue against thy brother And that 's the second thing that the Gospel holds forth unto us Only take this one note in this second thing That whereas there are many arguments to move us to such a conversation as now I am urging upon you yet let Christians above all arguments make the Gospel to be the argument of arguments to move them to it As now for the matter of peace there are many arguments to move us to be at peace with our brother from the inconveniences that will follow upon our breaches the like now shew your selves Christians in this Above all arguments make the consideration of what you understand in the Gospel to be the great motive of motive to prevail with you for peace and this argument will do it when nothing else will do it It may be a friend comes and perswades you to be at peace you will find a great deal of trouble in Lawing and suing and enmity one against another there will come a great deal of anxiety and therefore be reconcil'd and live like neighbors one with another well but when you find that your hearts do not stoop to any other argument then get alone into your closets search the Scriptures and there lay to your hearts all the arguments that you can from the Gospel of Jesus Christ there see how God reconcil'd the world to Himself and how God was set upon the work of peace lay them to your hearts and when no other arguments wil move the consideration of that through the blessing of God will do it And that 's for the second Point In the third place The Gospel holds forth the infinit mercy of God to miserable creatures When man was plunged into such a depth of misery nothing but bowels of mercy did move God to help men out of that depth of misery that they were plunged into and though man was unworthy of mercy Gods mercy was free yea and it was a transcendent mercy of God The mercy of God is over all his works The Heathens could understand that God was a merciful God the light
here would be a mighty change thou wert a beast before but here is the soul of grace there 's a new birth when the Gospel comes to prevail and to enter in upon an heart and it 's call'd a new resurrection if there should be a voice come from Heaven that should open all the graves that you have here in the yard and all the dead bodies should stand up and live what a mighty change would there be Such a change doth the Gospel make when it conquers a people indeed the Gospel may be preached and little change may be wrought because the power of the Gospel prevails not with their hearts but when it doth prevail in their hearts there is such a strange change Oh then What Conversation become this it must be a Conversation that doth hold forth to the world that there is such a mighty change wrought in you Now I appeal to you you that make profession of the Gospel you know what you have been heretofore worldly and base and carnal and sensual and froward and peevish and prophane men altogether unsavory before the Gospel came to you now you profess that God hath begun to work upon you by the Gospel What change hath it wrought in you Can those that live with you see your Conversations so changed as to make them stand and admire at the work of the Gospel upon your hearts the husband to stand and admire at the work of God upon the heart of the wife as if she were another woman and so the wife to admire at the grace of God upon the heart of the husband as if he were another man and so your children and servants not the same that heretofore they were Oh what honour would this be to the Gospel that in places where it comes to be preached in power there might appear a change that becomes the Gospel of Christ Certainly if your Conversations be not such as holds forth a mighty change that God hath wrought in you then it is not such as becomes the Gospel of Christ It may be you are somewhat better than heretofore you have been as not to be a common drunkard you see that 's despised by men Who regards drunken fools mad-men very beasts Therfore you come to be of more understanding that you will not be so prophane and lascivious as you were wont to be but live somewhat better Oh but this change is not that change which holds forth the work of the Gospel for when the Gospel prevails it makes the greâ—test change that ever was made in the world we may boldly ascert this that since the Creation of God in the first six daies there was never such a change made in the world as the Gospel makes and therefore a Conversation becoming the Gospel must be a Conversation that must be a changed Conversation must be mightily different from what they were before sometimes we see it so through the mercy of God that when men and women come to hear the Word in the cleerness and power of it to be revealed they have such changes that al their friends stand wondring at them What shall we have of you now Oh such have cause to answer and say Blessed be God it is so it is the Gospel that hath made such a change in me I this becomes the Gospel when it shall appear that your Conversation is so changed so holy and godly and gracious now over it was before But you whose lives are not better than they were before before you made some profession only your profession now is greater than it was before but your lives no better know this is a Conversation that doth no way become the Gospel of Christ the Gospel of Christ hath no honor by this Conversation of yours And then The great difference that the Gospel makes between one man and another As now those that the Gospel doth not prevail upon the Scripture tels us they are the children of wrath they are dead in trespasses and sins they are under the curse of the Law they are even enemies to God this is the condition of al men before this Scepter of Christ conquers their hearts children of wrath enemies to God dead in sins under the curse But now when the Gospel comes to prevail over mens hearts then they come to be the Children of the living God Heirs of Christ Co-heirs with Him they come to be partakers of the life of God they encrease with the encrease of God and their lives are hid with Christ in God and they come to be reconciled to God to be friends with God to be at peace with God and to inherit blessings Oh the change that the Lord puts upon the heart and state of the Saints when the Gospel prevails How high are they raised above other men Therefore you must not make other men to be your example in your way you must not think to live as the world lives and to say I do as other men do the Gospel makes a mighty difference between your estate and the state of other men therefore never look to what other men do but consider as God hath made a vast difference between you and other men so let there be a great difference between your Conversation and the Conversation of other men Now this meditation should have a mighty deal of power to prevail upon the heart I beleeve that I have such and such priviledges beyond other men and I look for such and such mercies above others now what things I look for beyond others I must labor to be as much beyond them in holiness of Conversation as God hath made me beyond them in spiritual priviledges and spiritual mercies I think sometimes I would not be in the condition of such men as are in their natural estate for a world nay I would not be one our in their estates if I might have ten thousand worlds for fear I should die that hour and then I should be lost for ever Well hath God made such a difference then let not my life be like theirs for one hour nay for one moment Oh this meditation through Gods blessing would mightily help us in our Conversation Our Conversation should be such as becomes the Ordinances of the Gospel The Word and Sacraments they have a great deal more in them than the Ordinances of the Law but because I spake of the Gospels being higher than the Law heretofore and these things may fall something neer yet had I time I would speak a little concerning these and shew how we are to hold forth a Conversation sutable to them Our Conversations should be sutable to the power of the Gospel there is a great deal of power in the Gospel it 's call'd the power of God unto salvation in the 1. of the Rom. 16. The very light of the Gospel it is a transforming light it hath a mighty power in it the Gospel it 's called the Wisdom of God and the Power of
venture them Indeed when God comes unto His choice Mercies in Christ there he looks to have glory from them and he doth never give them to any but first he prepares them that they may give him the glory of those mercies but it is otherwise with others As suppose you see a man gathering of Crabs although Swine be under the Tree he cares not much to drive them away they are but Crabs let them have them but if he were gathering any choice and precious fruit if any Swine should come under he drives them away As for outward things Crabs the Lord suffers the Swine of the world to come grunting and take them up but when he comes to his choice Mercies in his Christ there he makes a distinction Oh! that is precious fruit A Black-smith that is working upon Iron though a great many Cinders and little bits of Iron fly up and down he regards them not but a Goldsmith that is working upon Gold he preserves every ray and every dust of Gold and a Lapidarie that is working upon precious Stones every little bit he will be sure to preserve a Carpenter that is only hewing of Timber he regards it not much if Chips fly up and down but it is not so with a Lapidary So these outward things are but as the Chips and Cinders and such kind of thing as those are and therefore God even gives a Portion to wicked men out of them Sixthly God knows that He hath time enough to manifest His Justice upon them hereafter He hath an Eternity hereafter for the Declaration of His Justice and therefore saith God Let them have somewhat for a while As you know it is natural in all when they see a man going to execution that is not like to live above an hour or two every one is ready to pity him and to be any way officious to him Oh! saith every one the man shall not have comfort long we cannot do much for him he shall have pain enough ere long and misery enough ere long and so every one pities him It is observable let a man go to execution for wickedness and then he is pitied by all but if a man should suffer for godliiness then perhaps they will not be so full of pity towards him As I remember in the Book of Martyrs there is a story of Mr. In o Frith a learned godly Minister and Andrew Hewit that were Martyrs and were to suffer for their conscience and the Story tells us that one Dr. Cook a Parson in London he openly admonishes the people that they should pray for them no more than they would do for a Dog that Charity of theirs that they talked so much of is such towards them that suffer out of conscience and as amongst Papists so amongst ungodly men let a man suffer out of conscience they will rather rail at him and when he is in his sufferings they will rather give him gall and vinegar to drink as they once did Christ upon the Cross though in other sufferings they pity men Seventhly By this that God gives to the wicked the Lord shews what great things he hath reserved for his own Children what a portion there is for them Surely if the dogs have so much the Father keeps a good house if the hang-byes may have such doles certainly there is good provision for the Children within As by the afflictions of the Saints God doth declare to wicked men and would have them draw such an argument from it that there are fearful things that are like to befal them If judgment begin at the House of God where shall the wicked and ungodly appear So by the prosperity that wicked men have in this world God doth declare to his Children and he would have them argue from thence what then hath he reserved for his beloved Ones for his Saints for his Children that are so dear unto him Eighthly God fetches a great deal of Glory from hence He fetches about His own ends very much from the portion that wicked men have as sometimes He doth it that they might stumble and harden their hearts and break their necks at it and to ripen their sins hence He lets them go on a long time and have their wills in Isa 33. 1. Wo to thee who spoilest and wert not spoiled and dealest treacherously and wert not dealt treacherously withal when thou shalt cease to spoil thou shalt be spoiled I 'le let thee go on thou shalt spoil as much as thou wilt and when thou hast done spoiling thou shalt be spoiled And sometimes God doth it to fetch about this end Namely to chastise His own people with the prosperity of the wicked And as an Ancient writer hath this Story of one that he saith by an extraordinary way from being a Monk was advanced into an Episcopal Seat and being a lewd wicked man he began to be proud of this his Advancement and being proud he heard these words in the story Ab angelo audivit Cur superbus ô infaelix non es creatus Episcopus quia tu dignus sed quia Civitas haec digna fuit tali Episcopi it was a wicked place and this was the answer Why art thou so proud Oh unhappy man for thou art not advanced because thou art worthy of this advancement but because this City is so ill it is worthy of such a Prelate to be over it In way of judgment to that place God advanced such a man And so many are advanced that they may be heavy judgments unto others God gives them such a portion not out of His love to them though they are ready to gather the Argument but out of His displeasure unto others And then He gives a plentiful portion to many to teach us all to do good unto our enemies not only humanitati as they say but homini not only to human nature but to men to men that are wicked some good must be done unto them Ninthly The Lord would shew hereby that He would have no argument of love or hatred to be drawn from these outward things and also because He would not have them to expect any more It may be many men that are ungodly prospering in this world they gather this argument That therefore God loves them and intends mercy to them Cujus contrarium verum nay you may rather gather an argument quite th' other way because God intends no further good unto you hereafter therfore it is you have so much now We use to answer men that come for their dole who have had out a dole and they will come again Why do you come again you have had your dole already So God will answer to many men when they shall cry to him for mercy at that day Why come you to me for more you have had your dole already Have you not had already more than your work comes to more than you have done you have had your part and portion already indeed men speak much
glory and a Kingdom and a Crown of eternal life now they expect not to have it done presently they are content to stay Oh these are the best Traders the best Merchants that will trade with God for great things and be content to stay you will chuse that you have here for the present and therefore you have your portion Fourthly These things that are here they are the only sutable things to your hearts and what will you do with any more hereafter these things do exceedingly please you and give you content as agreeable to you and the things that are to come are disagreeable what would men do that are carnal and wicked now what would they do in Heaven Certainly if you hate Gods Saints now that have but a little Grace for their Grace sake you would hate them infinitly more afterwards when they are perfect in Grace when they shall be perfect and then when all your common gifts shall be taken away for so it shall be Now the things of God are unsutable to you though you have now many common 〈◊〉 and you now abhor the Grace of God though it be imperfect what then when all common gifts shall be taken from you and Grace made perfect how unsutable will it be then to you Therefore expect nothing hereafter Fifthly You abuse your portion you have now what will you do with more Who will trust you with the true riches You abuse that you have Indeed men of the world that are wicked and very rich are presently in places of honor and power Oh! what a deal mischief they do in the world what dreadful evils are they unto the earth Such men how do they abuse their portions Why now as it is with the Tooth in a mans head a Tooth indeed is prefer'd to have an eminent place in the Head but when the Tooth comes to be rotten and put us to pain what do we but pull it out and throw it away So when God prefers men to eminent places when through their wickedness they grow rotten and so do a great deal of hurt the Lord plucks them out in His anger and throws them away they abuse their portion and do a great deal of hurt and therefore must expect no more But above all the argument is Sixthly Because they have no interest in Jesus Christ The rich Treasures of the infinite grace of God they are let out in Jesus Christ God hath divers Conduit-pipes as I may so say of His Grace to let out unto His Creatures there are some lesser Conduit-pipes and those Conduit-pipes may be open'd through the general bounty of God but now the Lord hath the great Current of His eternal mercies for some that He doth intend eternal good unto and this great Current of His it is stop't by justice the infinite justice of God doth stop this great Current so as it cannot be open'd to have any drop of the mercy let out until Divine Justice comes to be satisfied In the mean time the other smaller pipes they run the general bounty of God Now then this is the very work of Jesus Christ Christ the Second Person in Trinity and it is the very mystery of the Gospel The Second Person in the Trinity sees that the children of men are capable of eternal happiness eternal glory and that there are glorious treasures with God to be communicated to the children of men but through mans sin this great Current is stop't in the mean time Gods general bounty lets out a great many outward comforts Christ therefore out of pity to man-kind that man-king may not be put off with these general outward comforts He comes and satisfies Gods infinite justice that He might open the Current the sluice of His infinite and eternal Grace to others Now happy are those Creatures who have interest in the Lord Christ for this is His work to satisfie the Justice of the Father that so the great pipe may be opened and then flows in all Grace infinit eternal Grace when that comes once to be opened No mervail though we hear of such glorious things that the Saints of God have in the life to come no mervail for Christ doth come and open the great sluice of Gods infinite Grace and Mercie to them as for the men of the world they have but a little of the drizling of Gods general bounty through some crannies but the Floudgates of Gods grace are opened in Christ therefore til Divine Justice be satisfied there can be no further good for a Creature here but the fruits of Gods general bounty patience There are some Creatures whom the Lord hath left to the Course of justice they shall have what they earn and no more this is the difference between Gods dealings with some Creatures and others I say some there are that shall have what they earn and no more others there are whom God hath set His Heart upon and whether they earn or no God intends eternal mercies unto them and will bring them unto eternal mercies Here 's the difference of the Covenant of works and the Covenant of Grace and therefore the one is left to Himself and the other Christ the Head of the Covenant comes to undertake for him that that he cannot do and here is the very Cut between the condition of some men other men that some have their portion in this world and others have another higher portion in the world to come Those have no interest in Christ these have Seventhly They are no Sons no Children and therefore they must not expect childrens portions As many of you rich men when you die you will leave your servants some Legacie perhaps you 'l give every servant in the house five pounds or so but when you come to your children to write in your Will what such a Son such a Daughter shall have that is another manner of business than 4. or 5 l. great things you leave to them Now the truth is the world may be divided between Children and Servants for though the truth is all men are at defiance with God yet God makes them servants one way or other and there is some little Legacy that servants shall have but they must not expect the Childrens portion therefore they have it here but must not have it hereafter In Ezek. 46. 16. Thus saith the Lord If the Prince give a gift unto any of his sons the inheritance shall be his sons but if to his servants then it shall be but till Jubile This was Gods Law that if a Prince gave a gift to his son the son should inherit it for ever but if he give it but to a servant it should continue with him but for a while So here is the difference of Gods administration of all His gifts He gives some to servants and these shall continue but for a while within a little while all will be called for again all the good and all the comfort thou hast God
will call for it all again but that which he gives to His Sons to His Children they shall have mercy for ever though not to enjoy it in the same way they shall enjoy the same good and comfort Eternally And then further Eighthly The portion that the world hath here you heard before it comes from Gods patience now there will be an end of the manifestation of the glory of patience in this world as thus As there are some graces of the Spirit of God in the Saints that shall have an end in regard of their exercise here in this world so there are some attributes of God that shall have an end in regard of the manifestation of them in that way that God doth now manifest them here in this world and that is the patience of God towards ungodly ones Now if they hold all upon patience when the time of the glory of that in this world shall come to be at an end then all their good is at an end Further Ninthly Ungodly men they shal have to deal with God immediately in the world to come I beseech you observe but this answer I 'le hasten they must have to deal immediatly with God in the world to come Now they have to deal with God through Creatures and while they have to deal with God through Creatures they may get a great deal and may make shift for much but when they shall come to deal with God immediatly then it will be otherwise with them As for example There are a great many hang-bies at great mens houses perhaps when they come to have to deal with the servants they get some bits and scraps and many things from the servants but if they know they can have nothing but from the very hand of the Knight or Lord of the house himself then they will expect no great matter So wicked men of this world they are as hang-bies that all that they have are but as scraps from the servants they have to deal only with creatures they look no further but hereafter things shall be setled another way and all things shall be weighed by God Himself in a ballance of Justice and distributed by the hands of God Himself immediately and now things will be carried after another manner the Lord Himself will come to dispose of things It was a speech of a German Divine though he were a good man and lived very innocently when he lay upon his sick bed and apprehended Death he was in great terrors of spirit mightily troubled and some of his friends came to him and asked him Why should you be so troubled that have lived so good a life as you have done This was his answer The Judgments of God are one and the judgments of men are another I am now to deal with God it is true I lived thus before Men and Men gave their Verdict of me as good and thought I was in a good condition but O I am now to go to God and to deal immediately with Him and Gods judgment and Mans judgements are different things when God shall come to weigh all mens portions out as it will be then So much Righteousness so much portion so much happinesse you will say then Lord what shall become of us all All our righteousness is as the menstruous cloath I but for the Saints the Righteousness of Christ will be put into one Scale and their Portion into the other and their Portion will be weighed by the Righteousness of Christ Now when thou comest to God thou must come to the Scale and thou wilt put in thy good servings of God and thy comming to Church and some good Civil actions and Natural and Moral things thou hast done thou wilt put them in the Scale saith God That which thou hast had already weighs down all those Hast thou nothing to put into the Scales but this thou hast had thy reward already for all this and much more than this then if there be nothing to but into the Scale but this thou art undone and there is nothing for thee for Eternity And here is the ground of the confinement of the Portions of wicked men These are the Two first things Thirdly I will give you some CORRALLARIES only from hence Is it so that wicked men have a portion here and here is all First Here we may see the Reason why the men of the world are so cunning in the things of the world why they can make so good shift for themselves in the world rather than other men can Why here 's their Portion their very happiness and good is here no mervail though they make such shift as they do here the Apostle in 1 Cor. 2. 12. We have not received the spirit of the world saith the Apostle we cannot tell how to shift in the world so as other men do for indeed we look further than these things and so cannot shift as other men can They that have the spirit of the world and have their portion in the world they can shift but we have not received the spirit of the world You know a Swine though it goes abroad all day wandring up and down it knows the way to the trough at night but a Sheep if it go a wandring a little way out of his place a Sheep doth not know how to come back again but wanders up and down till it be even lost and is as a lost sheep when it is once wandring up and down but Swine are not so So ungodly men though they go up and down wandring they know how to come to their trough at night they have better skil in the world they are more artificial in the things of the world they have better understanding as the Scripture speaks The children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light Why is it Their Portion is in this world That 's the first Corrallarie 2. Corr. Here we see the Reason Why there are so many great ones in the world that regard Religion so little as they do and the waies of God and the Church of God why 't is not their portion those things that concern another life is not any part of their portion they mind what it is that concerns the present life because this is their portion When many come into places of dignity and power What are their thoughts Now they think of gratifying their friends now they think of respect and honor that they shall have abroad in the world and be accounted some-body now they think of revenging al their wrongs of making up of all their broken titles c. This hath been heretofore I suppose very ordinary in men advanced amongst you these are all their thoughts as for doing service for God and for His Church and vindicating the Truth of God and Honor of God that is scarce in all their thoughts for they do not look upon that as part of their Portion Here is the reason
this and if this man have not his portion here what man hath the Lord strike such a mans heart But on the other side A gracious heart when God blesses him in this world though there be but a little grace it wil work thus The Lord hath raised my condition above my brother therein the Lord gives me a larger opportunity to do him service than my brother hath or than I had before there is such a poor man he is an honest man but God knows he can do but little in the place where he is he hath but little means but God hath given me means and this means enlarges my opportunity to do God service and for this my soul blesseth God I count my estate happier in this because I now may be of more use and do God more service than otherwise I could do Have you such workings in heart you rich men if you have not never be at quiet til you get your hearts working in this manner this will be a blessed testimony that God gives you a portion here and intends another portion for you in the world hereafter 6. What is that thing that you strive to make most sure That which a man strives to make most sure that he counts his happiness to consist in Oh for thy Land and Debts thou strivest with all thy might to make that sure but as for the matter of thy Salvation and peace in Christ thou hast a good hope in God for but takest no pains to make it sure 7. What dost thou admire most men for O! such a man is happy he hath so much coming in and hath so much a yeer But dost thou call the vile man happy it is a sign that thou hast not thine eye enlightened by the Spirit of God but now Canst thou look upon even those that are poor and mean in this world that have the least portion here yet as most happy Creatures because the Lord gives them the Grace of His Spirit and think well 't is true I have a greater estate than such a poor man that is my neighbor or than such a poor man but God knows he doth God more service than I do he prayes more and more heartily in one day than I do in a whol yeer Oh! the Lord hath other manner of prayers and sighs come from his poor Cottage than ever he had from my brave Pallace I have my City-house and Country-house but they were never so perfum'd with prayers Some that live in poor Cellers send up more prayers and God hath more honor from them than He hath from me in my family perhaps there is cursing and blaspheming of God in such poor Cottages there is perhaps blessing and praising of God Now see if thou lookest upon them as the most happy people in the world 8. What art thou careful to lay up for thy Children That is like to be thy portion If the things of the world take up thy care for thy children most that is an argument thou thinkest thy Children have a good portion if thou canst leave them so many thousands it is like it is thy portion too if thou countest it theirs And then further 9. Examin thy services what they are 1. Dost thou put off God with slight services Then know thy portion is like to be of Gods slight mercies 2. Art thou hypocritical in thy service Dost thou aim at the praise of men in outward duties That is a sign thou hast thy reward here 3. And are thy services forc'd that thou art compel'd Is it meerly conscience compels thee and not an inward agreeableness between the frame of thy heart and holy things Then it 's like a servants portion is thine and not a childs portion 10. Further Hast thou heretofore been a forward Professor in Religion and hast thou forsaken the waies of God I 'le give you a dreadful Scripture for this In Jer. 17. 13. All you that forsake the Lord shall come to be ashamed and they that depart from him shall be written in the earth All that depart from God shall be written in the earth If thou hast been forward heretofore and now thou comest to be more ancient thou art dead and dull and careless here is a Text for thee go home and tremble lest thou be a man whose name is written in the earth 11. Doth not God for the present Curse thy portion thou findest the more thou hast the worse thou growest As if a man should eat meat at ones table and assoon as he hath eaten it begin to swell he will conclude certainly the meat was poysoned So when thy estate rises thy heart riseth with pride surely it was poysoned with the curse of God that was in it 12. Examin thy heart by this whether hath God convinced thee of that which stops the great Current of His mercy I spake of even now that soul that hath its portion in this world looks no further but to Gods general bounty and looks not to what stops the great Current of Gods grace he is not brought to be sensible of his need of Christ and of his satisfaction unto Divine Justice but now the heart of God intends Eternal good too such a heart the Lord causes to understand that there is such an infinite breach between God and it as cannot be made up but only by the Meditation of the Son of God and therefore Lord it is not in any righteousness of mine nor in any thing of any creature in Heaven and Earth can do it that I expect to have my portion from but in the Mediation of the Son of God that I look after and my heart closes with that Mediation and I look upon that as the spring of all my worth He is a man indeed that is not like to have his portion in this world and I 'le only name that one more What saiest thou to this 13. That man that spends his daies without having some fear lest God should put him off with the things of this world there may be some danger of that Jude 12. it is said of some That they did feed themselves without fear You can go now to a merry meeting and can go and feed upon the cheer and you eat without fear you 'l never have such a thought in your heart What if God should put me off with these things I hear indeed there are some men are put off so what if it should prove to be my portion what a miserable creature were I I fear there are some men never had such a thought in their lives What if it should prove so what a miserable creature were I The wicked are described to be men that eat without fear and thus we have done the Fifth Thing There is only the Sixth and that is Sixthly Exhortation to you all and then I have done all And this Exhortation it must be divided First Vnto you that have some Evidences that God hath given you a
2. may prove to be your portion it is spoken of Doeg This is the man saith the Psalmist that did not make God his trust but trusted in his great riches this is the man So you may be pointed out one day This is the man Doeg was a great Courtier and because he was an Officer of King Sauls and because he had his favour he trusted in the favour of the King and in his riches and what did he care for David Yea by the Text it appears he was one that made some shew of Religion too in the 1 of Sam. 21. 7. He was detained before the Lord Tremelius thinks either out of some Religious vow or to keep the Sabbath or somewhat concerning the Law he was detained before the Lord and yet he was a vile Malignant against David and all because he trusted in the great countenance he had at Court Now this is the man that made not God his trust but that trusted in his great riches the Lord forbid this Scripture should be made true of any of you I leave this Text with you that are rich men take heed you trust not in your great riches I leave this Text with you that are in places of dignity and honor take heed you have not your portion in this world I leave this Text to Voluptuous men given up to pleasures take heed you hear not one day this Son remember in thy life-time thou hadst thy pleasure I leave this with those that dare not trust God for a portion to come And above all I leave this with all Hypocrites let them take heed it be not said to them Here is your reward Consider what hath been said and the Lord give you understanding in all things FINIS THE ALPHABETICAL TABLE A ABuse see Body Adam First Adam what he was and what he should have been had he stood Page 43 The state of Adam compared with the state of the Saints 44 Admiration Admiration of Saints and Angels 90 Adrian Adrian the Pope his wofull death 339 Alexanders rebuke 349 Angels Angels are the Saints keepers 155 Angels see Love Honor Anger Anger must be avoided 38 Arbitrary Arbitrary Government and the differences of it 324 Antichrist Antichrists great design 49 Argument see Gospel B Beginning Beginings of sin to be feared 83 Beleevers Beleevers draw strength from Christ 45 Beleevers should manifest Christ in their actions Ibid Beleevers cannot fall away 46 Beleevers are not without mixture of evil ib. Beleevers under the Law were as children under age 100 Beleevers under the Gospel are children of full age ib Beleevers must not be of earthly hearts and why 270 Beleeve The manner how to beleeve 76 Bishops see Prelats Blood The Blood of Christ takes us off from vain conversations 98 Body The body of sin must be mortified 39 The body of sin is unknown to Nature 40 Abuse not your bodies and why 92 Boldness see Saints Boniface Boniface his answer 288 Bowels Bowels of mercy beseem the Gospel 71 Branch see Christ C Canaan The Land of Canaan a type of Heaven 47 Carelesness see Profession Christians Carnal Carnal worship opposeth the soul of godliness 49 Carnal see Weapons Heart Ceremonies Ceremonies condemned and why 97 Chastisement Chastisements for sin what they are 148 Children see Beleevers Christ Christs love known in the Gospel 69 Christ is the mercy of all mercies 70 Christs kept the Law and why 78 Christs self denial 93 Christ is the Root and we are the Branches 103 Christs is a great King 116 Christ God-man governs all things and why 136 Christs Rule 139 Christs Law ibid See Dependance Subjects and Peace Christians Christians must be carefull of their families 19 Christians should eye those whose Conversations are above them 29 Christians subject to grow careless by degrees 31 Church Church of God as a City 3 Circumvent We must not circumvent one another 275 Citizen A Citizen's wretch'd speech 320 Civil Civil mens worship of God 35 Companions see Tribulation Compulsion see Persecution Conscience Liberty of Conscience the way to procure it 22 Contentment Motives to contentment 349 Conversation The meaning of this word CONVERSATION 3 What Conversation becomes the Gospel 5 Our Conversation must be looked to after conversion 7 Conversation becoming the Gospel 57 How our Conversation should be manifested 350 What Conversation becomes the Gospel 115 See Image Wanton Cook Cook his opinion of the Martyrs 308 Covetousness Covetousness unbeseeming a Saint 270 Customs Old Customs an hindrance to spiritual worship 100 D Daies Difference between daies of fasting and thanksgiving and holy daies 99 See Observing Danger see Help Deceivers Self Deceivers how 13 Dependance No dependance between the Kingdom of Christ and this world 284 Design see Gospel Despair The reason of despair 75 Despise Despise not the meanest of men 92 Difference Difference which the Gospel makes 122 Difference betwen Saints and worldly men 312 Divisions Divisions whence they come 105 Duty see Time Dying Dying one for another becomes the Gospel 58 E Elevation Elevation of spirit upon what ground 91 Enmity How enmity against God is kept up 15 Epistle The Saints should be the Epistles of Christ 113 Eternal life Little mention of Eternal life in the Old Testament 110 Excellency The Excellency of a Saints portion wherein it consists 354 Eyes The eyes of all are upon Professors 23 What the eyes of a Christian should be set upon 354 F Faith Faith acts upon Christ as a King aswell as a Savior 135 Necessity of living by faith 285 Fleshly-lusts Fleshly lusts unsutable to the Gospel 102 G Gentils see Partition German The speech of a German Divine 137 God Gods willingnesse to be at peace with man 63 See Hatred Love Glory People Mercy God is full of goodness 64 How the utmost of Gods glory is manifested 90 Godly Why godly men are willing to live 2 Gospel What the Gospel is 3 Gospel-Conversation what it is 38 Gospel Obedience proceeds from love 40 Difference between the Law of Adam and the Gospel 41 Those that live under the Gospel must live in an higher way of holiness than those that lived under the Law 42 The great Design of the Gospel 54 The Gospel cals for love 58 Gospel-arguments are the strongest arguments 69 Difference between the Gospel the light of Nature 73 See Law Mallice Christ Conversation Dying Bowels Wanton Worship Beleevers Power Government see Arbitrary Great ones see Religion H Hard-hearted see Monster Hatred Gods hatred of sin how to know it 81 Heart Carnal hearts will not trust God 351 Help Helps against the danger of the times 24 Holy Ghost The Holy Ghost dwells in our bodies 90 Honor How the honor of Religion is kept up 15 More honor put upon Men than upon Angels 89 I Jewes The error of the Jews about Christs Kingdom 117 See Partition Image How man holds out the Image of God Injustice A remedy against Injustice 77 Institution Whereon institution of Worship depends
21 Institution is the rule of Worship 141 Justice Gods Justice is no loser by His Mercy 74 K King Wherein the Kings of the earth ar not like Christ 137 See Christ Subjects Kingdom Christs Kingdom is not of this world 116 Why Christs Kingdom is not of this world 157 When the Kingdoms of this world shall be submitted to Christ 150 See Dependance L Latimer Latimers story 339 Law The Law of God goes higher than the light of Nature and how 41 The Law considered under two Considerations 42 The Law given to Adam what it was 43 Difference between the Law of Adam and the Law given by Moses 47 Difference between the Law given by Moses and the Gospel ibid They under the Law had somthing of the Gospel ibid See Gospel Christ Worship and Beleevers Leturgie True Leturgie what it is 355 Liberty see Conscience Light of Nature see Nature Life see Spirit Looseness see profession Love The love of God is more to men than to Angels 53 The love of God should work an answerable love in us 54 See Testimony Christ Lusts see Flesh Luther Luthers opinion of the Turkish Empire 306 Luthers's Protestation 334 M Magistrates How Magistrates are helpful to the Church 140 Malice Malice is unbeseeming the Gospel 58 Man see World Mercy Mercy must be real not verbal 71 Gods infinit mercy 286 Gods Mercy undervalued by worldly men ibid See Transcendant Christ Bowels Ministers Ministers of the Gospel what they are 4 Ministers ought to rule over none but those they teach 30 Ministers should be eminent in their Conversations every way ibid Ministers Charge over soules 88 Mixture What mixture is in worldly portions 336 Monsters Hard-hearted Christians are monsters 71 Moses see Law N Nature Light of Nature its extent 33 Difference between the light of Nature before the fall and since 41 Light of Nature shews something of the mercie of God 69 Necessity see Faith O Obedience The Obedience of a Beleever is of an higher nature than Adams in his innocency 44 Observing Observing daies forbidden 98 Old see Customs Opinions What Opinions are not to be tollerated 327 Opposed World opposed to Saints 272 Overseeing see Visitation P Papists Papists reproved 287 Parliament The PARLIAMENT defended 324 Partition The partition wall between Jew and Gentile taken down 66 Peace We should love peace 65 Peace with our Brethren what it should be 68 Difference between the worlds peace and Christs 155 Why men should have peace upon any terms 323 See God and Seek People Why Gods People are mean in this world 277 Perfection Perfection comes by suffering 279 Persecution Persecution unlawful 283 Persecution opposed 326 Pope A mortal choice of Popes 328 Portion Why wicked men have a portion 304 The worlds portion described 329 Rules to know who hath his portion only in this life 341 See Excellency Power What the power of the Gospel is 123 Prelates Prelates reproved 287 Priviledges Priviledges of the Saints 152 Profession The reason why some mens profession vanisheth 14 Loosness of profession what mischief it doth 16 The miseries attending a loose profession 18 Why forward professors turn persecutors 19 See Eyes Promises Difference between the promises of the Gospel and Adams promises 45 R Reason We are not to live altogether according to reason 67 Reason discovers some sin 80 Reconciliation Reconciliation to God 65 Rebels How the Saints are Rebells 280 Redemption What the Redemption of a soul is 86 Religion Religion comes to nothing without consideration of the duties of relation 25 Why Religion is so little regarded by great ones 319 See Honor Weapons Repentance Repentance is a mighty work 87 Repentance is out of our power 85 Root see Christ S Saints The Saints shall condemn the world 12 The Saints may come to the Throne of grace with boldness 50 The Saints shall judge the world 272 See Rebels Difference Seek Seek for peace 66 Self-denial see Christ Selvishness Selvishness unbeseeming a Saint 94 Schism What Schism is 108 Services Gods services are choice services 356 Sin Sin harboured in thought produceth sinful actions 29 No sin is little 82 The wages of sin is death ib. See Hatred Beginings Socrates Socrates his rebuke 331 Soul Souls Immortallity proved 1 Souls pawn'd to the Devil 86 See Worth Redemption Strength Strength drawn from Christ 45 Strive We must strive together not asunder 105 Spirit The life of the Spirit what it is 102 Subjects Difference between Christs subjects and the subjects of other Kings 138 Suffering see Perfection T Temptations Particular temptations must be looked to 27 Tenure The tenure men hold the world by 335 Testimonies Testimonies of Gods love to us 55 Testimonies of our love to God 56 Time The time sanctifies the duty 99 Transcendent The mercies of God are transcendent 69 Tribulation We have Companions in Tribulation 278 Turkish Empire see Luther U Unity Unity of the Saints 105 Visitation Visitation of the wicked what it is 10 W Wanton Wanton Conversation becomes not the Gospel 71 Well-doing Well-doing stops the mouthes of wicked men 11 Well-doing converts men ibid Weapons Carnal weapons not to be used in defence of Religion 145 Wicked Wicked men do something for God 305 See Portion Wickedness Wickedness is unbeseeming Professors 128 The wickednesse of the world 281 Works Our good works should shine before men 8 Difference between doing of good works that may be seen and doing good works that they may be seen ibid Women Women-Preachers in what sense lawful 9 Worship We must set up the Worship of God in our families 56 The worship of the world is carnal 96 God will have as much worship under the Gospel as under the Law ibid What worship becomes the Gospel 100 See Institution Worth The worth of the soul 85 World How to know a man of this world 263 See Peace Opposed Saints People Portion Worldly Why worldly men are cunning 118 Worldly men see Difference Worldly portion see Mixture Wronged We must seek peace of those that have wronged us 67 FINIS March 2. 1645. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 March 15. 1645 March â—2 1645 April 12 1646. 1. Pet. 2. 13. Humanae creationae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Preached on Easter Munday April 3. 1643. before Isaac Penington then Lord Major of London Mol. in Psal Doct. 1. Doct. 2.