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A70256	The priveledge of the saints on earth beyond those in heaven in respect of gifts and graces exercised, duties and services performed, sufferings and tryals undergone by them which the glorified are not capable of : being the sum of a discourse upon a part of Hezekiah's Song of thanksgiving ... : to which is added A short discourse of the nature and extent of the Gospel-day : reaching from the destruction of the old to the erection of the new Jerusalem out of Zech. 14, 6, 7 / by William Hooke.	Hooke, William, 1600 or 1601-1678.	1673 (1673)	Wing H2628; ESTC R28112	66,910	165

might speak unto our Children saying What have you to 〈◊〉 with the Lord God of Israel For the Lord hath made Jordan a border between us and you ye Children of Reuben and Children of Gad ye have not part in the Lord So shall your Children make our Children cease from fearing the Lord Therefore we said Let us now prepare to build us an Altar not for burnt-offering nor for Sacrifice but that it may be a witness between us and you and our generations after us that we might do the service of the Lord before him with our Burnt-offerings our Sacrifices and with our Peace-offerings that your Children might not say to our Children in time to come ye have no part in the Lord c. Here you see the care and endeavour of the two Tribes and half for the preservation of the true Religion and way of God's Worship among their posterity which is the Point that I am now pressing I beseech you lay it to heart for I fear that many are guilty in this matter and that posterity is like to be little beholding to them Admit of a few Expostulations and consider What will your Children and Servants say when they come to succeed you and peradventure dye at last in ther●● sins Lord our Parents and Masters did not make known the Truth to us they did not Catechize and Instruct us they did not deliver to us the form of sound words nor any brief sum of the Articles of Faith and true Religion but we lived and dyed in ignorance for they had no care of our Souls and if others dealt thus with their Children and Servants Religion it self might have perished as we have done Now would not this be most miserable And are you willing to be thus indited by your Children and Servants in that great day Doth not Hezekiah here say The Father to the Children shall make known thy Truth And is it not exprest as a duty and a great one too And doth not Hezekiah look upon this as one of the great works to be attended in this World without which it is not worth while to live Hezekiah indeed had no son at this time but he resolveth here that if God shall give him one he will make known the Truth and Faithfulness of God to him for he looks upon it as his duty when he saith The Father to the Children shall make known thy Truth And what is the reason that many are so ignorant this day but because they wanted Family-instruction from Parents and Masters For it is not enough that such do live under the preaching of the Gospel if they want instruction in the Families wherein they have lived the want whereof makes the Ministers Plow to go so heavily Oh let not the Children and Servants rise up in judgment against you and charge their ignorance and damnation upon the neglect of your duty towards them Thirdly Consider with whom God hath betrusted the Gospel and true Religion 1. He puts his Ministers in trust with it For saith the Apostle We are allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel And it is a great trust and we must be faithful in the discharge of it and you must not be offended if we deal plainly with you 2. He betrusteth all his people with his Gospel and pure Religion expecting their discharge of this trust by their utmost endeavors to transmit it to posterity as you heard but even now from that Text Psalm 78. 3 7. For he doth not as I said put the trust into your hands for your selves only that you should make use of it during your lives and then dye and let others that shall come after you shift for themselves for this were to be cruel like the Ostriches in the Wilderness who leave their Eggs in the Earth and warm them in the dust forgetting that the Foot may crush them and the wild Beast break them but he expecteth and requireth your faithfulness and utmost care and labour to recommend the same Religion to your Children and Servants that live with you And what saith Solomon My Father taught me and said thus and thus to me Prov. 4. 4. And my Mother also taught me and she said so and so to me Prov. 31. But how have you taught those that are under your care and what have you said to them And where is the Altar Ed that you have built for them as a witness and memorial of the true Religion and Worship of God which you have commended to them No marvel that Religion decayeth in many Families when their Governours have wrapt up their Religion in a Napkin and professed only for themselves and not for them that should come after them You that are guilty in this part will have a sad reckoning to make when you shall be called to give an account of your discharge of that trust which is commended to you and have never an Ed to witness your care of conveying the Truth to the generation to come Know therefore that it is your duty according to this trust committed to you to turn and wind your Religion for God's Glory the advantage of posterity which if you neglect take beed you be not numbred among the wicked and slothful servants and have your portion with them Consider the common care of Parents to bequeath their Houses Lands and Goods to such as are to succeed them They leave their substance to their Babes saith the Psalmist And the inward thought is that their houses shall continue for ever and their dwelling places to all generations and they call their Lands after their own names That is they are thoughtful for the upholding of their Families and the continuing of their names from one generation to another But as for the Gospel which they profess and the Religion which they own they have little or no care at all They leave their Earthly substance to their Children but that which is the most substantial thing of all they leave it not to them and they leave their names to their Children but the Name of God and Christ they leave not nor have they any care that Christ's Name be named upon them by endeavouring to make them Christians indeed according to their duty as the Psalmist saith I will make thy Name to be remembred in all generations They care not that his Name should be childed from generation to generation Truly it were just with God that their names should be blotted out from under Heaven who love their own names better than Christ's Consider the Covenant that pious Parents are entred into with God For when God saith I will be thy God and the God of thy Seed He expecteth and requireth that Parents do not only give up themselves but their Seed also unto God As Hannah said in her prayer If thou wilt give unto thine Handmaid a Man-child I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life

THE PRIVILEDGE OF THE Saints on Earth BEYOND Those in HEAVEN In respect of Gifts and Graces exercised Duties and Services performed sufferings and Tryals undergone by them which the Glorified are not capable of BEING The Sum of a Discourse upon a part of Hezekiah Song of Thanksgiving after his Recovery from his Sickness To which is added A short Discourse of the Nature and 〈◊〉 of the Gospel-day reaching from the Destruction of the Old to the 〈…〉 of the New Jerusalem out of 〈…〉 By WILLIAM HOOKE Preacher of the Gospel LONDON Printed for John Wilkins and are to be sold at his Shop in Exchange-Alley next door to the Exchange-Coffee-House over against the Royal-Exchange 1673. Courteous Reader Thou art desired to correct with thy Pen these following Errata's PAge 9. Line 15. for imparted read imported P. 11. in the Margin r. Eph. 3. last P. 13. l. 6. f. hence r. here P. 16. l. 10. for Spiritual r. special P. 22. in the Margin r. Job 7. 2. P. 23. l. 10. for the r. this P. 35. l. 13. blot out yet P. 51. l. 28. r. bridled P. 53. in the Margin r. Luke 8. 48. Luke 7. 50. P. 65. l. 9. for the r. your P. 91. l. 23 24. for Argumentations r. Augmentations P. 92. l. 8. for for r. so P. 92. l. last for were not the r. were it not for the. P. 95. l. 20. f. from plain to Plain r. from Place to Place P. 101. l. 22 for lon r. long In the second Sermon in the Epistle for go r. therefore TO THE READER THe greatest and highest Honour of the reasonable Creature is to serve him who is the best Good and last End Herein do we communicate with Angels whose glory it is that they are Ministring Spirits always beholding the face of God our Father for this very purpose How diligent then should we be to lay hold on and to improve all opportunities of service seeing our time is so short our work so great and our salvation nearer than when we first believed The Son of God hath given us a glorious pattern herein I must work the work of him that hath sent me c. Christ Jesus our Master improved all opportunities went up and down doing good filling all places where he came with the favour of his Doctrine and Miracles because he knew his time was short and the recompence of reward at hand The serious thoughts hereof would exceedingly spur us to a holy diligence especially considering that Heaven is a place not of work but reward where the Saints will be divested of serving and honouring God in many of these ways wherein now through grace they are enabled to bring much glory to his Name Many Graces Duties Gifts have here their place while we are Viatores but shall have no room when we come to be Comprehensores And this is the design of the worthy Author in this little Tract viz. to set before thee the great opportunities thou hast of service to God while thou art on this side Heaven beyond what are to be enjoyed there Were this throughly weighed how would Holiness be promoted Saints thrive Families flourish Churches revive we should not so passionately desire death meerly to be rid of all sufferings but should prize life if with it Christ Jesus might be magnified It is glorious work that God calls his Saints to ' ere they get to Heaven Is not suffering for Christ glorious work is not the exercise of Faith Hope and Patience glorious work To do good and to communicate both to the bodily and spiritual necessities of Saints and others is not this glorious work In a word to propagate pure Religion undefiled to the generations to come is not this glorious work Why herein are the Saints on Earth priviledged beyond those in Heaven where there is no room for the exercise of these Graces and Duties Oh! who would not pray that he might live to do God service spin not out precious time unprofitably Pray that thou mayest be counted worthy of this calling which is indeed a high calling and fulfil all the good pleasure of his Goodness and the work of Faith Hope and Patience with power that the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you and ye in him according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ Isaiah 38 18 19. For the Grave cannot praise thee Death cannot celebrate thee They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth The living the living he shall praise thee as I do this day The Father to the Children shall make known thy Truth THe words are a part of Hezekiah's thanksgiving for his recovery from his sickness beginning at the ninth verse This good King was not simply afraid of Death as appeareth ver 3d. But First He had then no Son to succeed him in the Kingdom for Manasseh was not then born and he was sollicitous for a Successour and the fulfilling of God's Promise to David which we have four times expressed viz. 2 Sam. 7. 12 13 16. 1 King 8. 25. Psal 89. 28 29. 132. 12. In all which places we find this Promise to David that there should not fail a Man of his Seed to sit upon the Throne of Israel so that his Children took heed to their wayes to walk before the Lord in truth as David their Father had done Here was a Promise with a Condition And hence it is I suppose that Hezekiah in his Prayer vers 3d makes mention of his fulfilling that Condition viz. That David's Children must take heed to their way if they desired to sit upon his Throne that they walk before him as David had done For saith Hezekiah Remember now O Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart have done that which is good in thy sight As much as to say Lord I hope thou wilt not cut me off and leave the Kingdom without an Heir of the Seed of David seeing thou did'st promise him that thou wouldest not provided that his Children took heed to their way that they walked before him as David did And through thy Grace I have so walked in my measure and therefore I hope thou wilt not take me away who have performed the Condition So that Hezekiah though a very good Man was afraid of Death yet not simply but lest the Kingdom should want an Heir of the Seed of David And this that I have said confirms the Opinion of those that say that Hezekiah was loth to dye because then he had no Heir though that was not all the reason For Secondly He was also loth to dye in God's displeasure so as a Child of God my do For God doth testifie his temporal displeasure many times against his own Children If his Children forsake my Law and walk not in my Judgments If they break my Statutes and keep not my Commandments Then will I

of such a Lord and Master Consider what I say For it is a very honourable thing to suffer for Christ his Gospel and Kingdom For the Spirit of God and of glory resteth upon all such And what are all the sufferings of this present time in comparison with the glory which shall be revealed in us But though we have escaped what others have undergone yet we know not what may be our portion as to suffering before we dye Perhaps there is the more behind God hath appointed the number of them that shall suffer for Christ And who knows what God hath appointed for him this way But what ever it be Heaven will put an end to it where are no sufferings but Crowns even incorruptible Crowns of glory You know what is said of them that came out of great tribulation they were clothed with white Robes and had palms in their hands Ninthly Exercise those fruits of the Spirit which are proper to this life You have heard of several as Faith Hope Patience love to Enemies and to Men out of Christ Sympathy common gifts for Edification Communication of Knowledge which is mediate in this life All these are the gifts of the Spirit on this side Heaven in the exercise whereof God is much glorified and others edified which is that which should be the scope and aime of us all Tenthly and lastly There is one thing more which we are exhorted to do in this world which cannot be done after death and it is a very great service and highly incumbent on us and I was willing to reserve it to the last place that it might the rather abide by us and 〈◊〉 this Endeavour to transmit pure Religion and undefiled to posterity by commending it to your Children The Fathers to the Children shall make known thy truth And we may run it through Fatherhood at large But Let me speak of Domestical Fathers that is Fathers of Families This is a great matter and is the special work of the godly in their generations How else shall that be made good which is written His Name that is Christ's shall endure for ever his Name shall be continued as long as the Sun Some render it His Name shall be continued as a son continueth his Father's name for the Original Jinnon or Janin cometh of Nin 〈◊〉 son As if one should say Filiabitur nomen ejus or sobolescet nomen ejus as Tremellius renders it That is Christ shall not only himself live for ever in his person but his Name also shall endure for ever and be derived to his Children who therefore shall prolong his days as Children mete out their Fathers mortality in bearing his name being called Christians and the sons of God and the Children of Christ And this shall be saith the Psalmist before the Sun that is as long as the Sun endureth Now God will use means to bring this to pass and what are those means one special one is this The Father to the Children shall make known thy Truth For how should the Name of Christ be childed from generation to generation as some render it if care be not taken by Parents to Child Christ's Name downwards to their Off-spring that his Name may be put upon their Children by being not only Christians by Baptism but by Regeneration And this is one of the great works and ends of our lives for Hezekiah here mentioneth First Praising of God and Secondly Making known the Truth to our Children which was a great Statute in Israel and obligeth us no less then them saith the Psalmist I will open my mouth in a Parable I will utter dark sayings of old which we have heard and known and our Fathers have told us We will not hide them from their Children shewing to the generations to come the praises of the Lord and his strength and his wonderful works that he hath done Here 1. Are such as are worthy of the name of Fathers viz. who transmit to posterity the Truths of God contained in the Scripture so as these here did as appears in the sequel of the Psalm And 2. Here is the only infallible sort of Tradition viz. that which delivereth to posterity what God first delivered to the Prophets Apostles and holy men of God and is now contained in the Scriptures 3. From these words we are taught that the godly in every age ought to have the same care to transmit the Word of Truth to their posterity as their Ancestors had to transfer it unto them and so to pay the debt which they owe to their godly Ancestors unto their succeeding Children for our Children are here called their Children vers 4th And if you descended not from such Parents immediately yet peradventure mediately you did However this here is your duty out of love to God to Truth and your Posterity Mark therefore what followeth in the same Psalm For God established a Testimony in Jacob and appointed a Law in Israel which he commanded our Fathers that they should make them known to their Children that the generation to come might know them even the Children which should be born who should arise and declare them unto their Children You see this transmitting of the Truth and true Religion to Posterity is God's love and Testimony because it testifieth and witnesseth for God and against us if we break it And this Law and Testimony we have several times in Moses So that the Law and Testimony is to transmit the Truth to Posterity For God did not deliver the Truth and true Religion to a person or people for the use of themselves alone but for the benefit of their Children also And he never loved the Truth truly who is careless whether it dye with himself or out-live him Let such Parents and Masters look to it who have been negligent in instructing their Children and Families The handing of Religion from Parents to Children from the Living to the next succeeding Age is a standing part of our Generation-work It is said of David That after he had served his generation he fell asleep And truly such as fall asleep before go to bed before they have done their work and that is the way to make them start as many do when they are newly setting themselves to sleep Oh sirs care and pains for the godly being of posterity is a great and necessary business I many times think of the care and endeavour of the nine Tribes and half lest their Children should lose their interest in the God of Israel To which end they built the Altar Ed as they tell the two Tribes and half in their Apology Say they The Lord God of Gods The Lord God of Gods he knoweth and Israel he shall know that we have not done it in rebellion to turn from following the Lord c. But we have done it rather for fear of this thing lest in time to come your Children