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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88417	England faithfully watcht with, in her wounds: or, Christ as a father sitting up with his children in their swooning state: which is the summe of severall lecvtures painfully preached upon Colossians 1. / By Nicho. Lockyer, M.A. Published according to order.	Lockyer, Nicholas, 1611-1685.	1646 (1646)	Wing L2794; Thomason E321_1; ESTC R200573	432,053	511

all transgressions utterly out of remembrance and esteeming our persons in crucified Christ as Christ the dearest to himself and so held communion with and dispensed to both here and hereafter I say 't is an act of God this act is evangelicall pardon springs from compassion kindnesse makes God ready to forgive and not any motive from without him Thou Lord art good and ready to forgive plenteous in mercy Psal 86.5 The latter expression explains the former good that is plenteous in mercy and this makes readinesse to pardon were not God plenteous in kindnesse a God rich in love he would never be ready to pardon sinne because it destroyes his visible being all this world and all things in it yea it destroyes his invisible being God is no God without nor no God within The fool hath said in his heart There is no God He affirms it to Gods face within the fool doth this that is the man that lives in his sinne Can you forget such as would crush you to nothing 'T is a conditionall act Men must repent and then God forgives Repent that your sinnes may be blotted out thus runs the Gospel throughout Repentance hath two things sence of sinne and faith in Christ which grace is said to justifie because a necessary condition of justification and without which though not for which doth God forgive Abraham believed and it was imputed to him for righteousnesse which is as much as if the holy Ghost had said Abraham went in the right way of justification and so found it he sought it not by works but by faith for you know that 's the dispute there This was imputed to him for righteousnesse this that is not nudus actus cred●ndi the naked act of believing the act abstractively considered but con●unctively considered as such a hand laying hold of such a person this is the condition which the Gospel calls for that Christ be trusted in which also God works which work beeing wrought justification follows actually 'T is actus numeratas a numerall act an act repeated in order to sense though not in order to the thing it self to wit sinne a repeated act in order to chastisements though not in order to condigne punishment We are forgiven this day and we are forgiven to morrow and when to morrow comes a man must be in this to ●e again we must pray daily for the forgivenesse of debts or else they are as not forgiven in order to internall sense and externall suffering Forgivenesse is a daily thing with him are forgivenesses saith Daniel and God doth multiply to pardon saith the Prophet Esay 55.7 Forgivenesse is actus multiplicatus and this with the property thereof and this property essentiall and which destroyed as many misled persons now do destroy forgivenesse and destroy their souls As such a multiplied act doth David apprehend mercy and maketh towards it According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions Mercy thou hast ordained to go forth in a multipli'd way in a repeated and a renewed way and in this way I come unto thee saith the Prophet Forgivenesse in the court of conscience est actus repetitus I have now opened to you the weightiest point in Divinity that vpon which your temporall and eternall good depends a very considerable point and circumstanced with a very considerable time 't is a bloudy time a very bloudy deadly time Sinners are your sinnes forgiven A dreadfull throne is palpably errected the judge of all the world is now riding his circuit in England and his trumpets sound sadly in every Countie Drunkards swearers bad good come away to judgement Sinners are your sinnes forgiven Execution is generall great and small are truss'd up every where bodies leave bloud bloud leaves spirits spirits leave this world apace but ah Lord to what world do they go England wicked England where dost thou bury thy dead thy dead souls which depart by troups in heaven or in hell One sad thing let me tell you all Death is at your doore therefore let every man smite his breast and say Shall I die in my sinne or shall I die in thy favour Coloss 1.15 Who is the image of the invisible God the first born of every creature YOu have heard of Christ according to the dignity of office a Redeemer a redeemer with his bloud you are now to heare of him according to dignity of person he is as in action so in person the noblest He is the image of the invisible God the first born of every creature Christ is admirable in action and person altogether lovely so in the judgement of God and so in the judgement of those who can discern what God and what the highest beauty is Christ hath his encomium here by men truly discerning and heare what they say and be taken For his office 't is the noblest 't is to make peace between man and God for his person 't is the noblest 't is the highest representation of God that is in this world no creature in this world yields the like he makes similitude to him who otherwise is without similitude if you look at calling if you look at countenance if you look at birth in all these he is beyond all if you look at calling none is imployed like him for he brings souls out of the devils power with his bloud if you look at countenance he is the image of that God which is so glorious that no mortall eye can behold and therefore called here an invisible God if you look at birth he is Reuben a first born not in reference to this little family or that but in reference to Gods great family which consists of two worlds three worlds all that compasse and every one of those rooms which contain every creature Who is the image of the invisible God the first born of every creature Some have beauty onely by their place and office and so had Saul and in this sense merely I think called the beauty of Israel the beauty of Israel is slain Saul was the shame of Israel and the plague of his family if personally and practically considered all his beauty then lay in his chair So others onely have their beauty in their face and skinne as Absolon and others in their birth and pedigree as Esau all over rude and hairy a rough man but of a beautifull stock the first-born of a brave family some have all these beauties without but none within of a good family of a good countenance of a good rank but not of one good quality but none of these are wanting in Christ he hath a generall beauty in place a King in countenance the image of God in birth primogenitus cunctae creaturae inside and outside both are as beautifull as the other his goodnesse as beautifull as his greatnesse therefore both are joyned together by the Prophet Zachary and admired How great is his goodnesse and how great is his beauty Zach. 9.17 Christs

have much of God in them and with them he never sends out these embassadours but he sends the very crown-jewels with them Christ goeth personally among them Three Angels came to Abraham and one of them is Christ as you shall plainly see if you examine the 18. and 19. of Genesis together And so the Psalmist saith the chariots of the Lord are so many thousands and the Lord is among them as in Sinai in the holy place Kings they have some that wait onely upon their person and chariots onely for their person Angels they wait onely upon Christs person where they go one may say as the Psalmist the Lord is among them though men cannot alwayes alike see it and this I think was the reason that Moses was called to put off his shoes when the Angel appeared in the bush because Christ was personally present there among those ministring spirits that were there to signifie good to that people Angels are unexpressable for power for courage and strength they affright all but themselves are affrighted with nothing neither with men nor with devils they will set upon either There is an expression Matth. 13. towards the latter end which demonstrates the strength and courage of Angels admirably They are Christs reapers of the great field of this world The enemy that sowed tares is the devil the tares are the children of the wicked the harvest the end of the world and the reapers the Angels The Angels are they that will make an end of the world that will cut down tares the sowers of them make no more of one then of the other they are such creatures as shall cleanse the world and then burn the world glean the world of all the godly and then burn the rest they can lay such a train that shall blow up the world they are those flames of fire that will set a fire burn all the world at the great day they can take up this world as bigge as 't is and throw it all into hell and hold it there to all eternity They shall be instrumentall about the greatest designe the Scripture speaks of The sonne of man shall send forth his Angels and they shall gather out of his kingdome all that offend and shall cast them into a furnace of fire I judge that good Angels are the inflicters of plagues upon the bad and that it is they that make hell to cursed spirits one sparkle of which is bigger then that flame which shall burn the world and judge you then of what courage and strength they are that can take all the wicked men in the world and all the wicked spirits in hell at once by the throat and make them all roar together to eternity All runnes into this that Christ hath an unexpresseable power and strength with him at command to over-rule the visible world Let us bewail the blindnesse of the visible world Would the great men of the world did know how great Christ is Thoughts advance themselves upon no ground pride will be the ruin of thousands a little fleshly dying strength makes men dare heaven this folly will sink men to hell This world is overmatched infinitely and yet proud in its attempts 't is beset with invincible force and yet sees nothing nor does nothing but rebell against all the host of heaven and the Lord of these hostes what strength Christ hath he will put forth against this generation Wicked men fear Christ he will eat you out like a moth else an invisible power will carry the day against you You can onely look upon fleshly strength and you see we have but little of this now so God in his wisdome hath ordered things against us and this makes you bold in your attempts but tremble for verily Christ hath a stratagem upon you when you are confident because you see little power on earth you shall be cut off without hand as the Scripture speaks with an invisible force This is Babylons proper judgement Thou hast trusted in thy wickednesse thou hast said in thy heart I am and none else besides me therefore shall evill come upon thee and thou shalt not know whence it ariseth and mischeif shall fall upon thee and thou shalt not be able to put it off and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly which thou shalt not know Esa 47.11 Wicked wretches glory not whatever your strength be Christ hath an ambuscadoe for you an invisible army which will consume you strangely I have two things to you Christians from this point trust in Christ and admire him Trust in the Lord for with him is everlasting strength Angels never die no work nor no weather kills them or tires them You will be sure Christians of one complete army to lie out for you all this winter which will cost you no money nor need no recrute an army of reformadoes which have been in all the fights that have been in the world since the creation and under such a generall to get skill as is not in the world No men more fearfull then the godly usually I wonder at it you have a wall of fire about you which is better then your wall of earth His ministers are a flame of fire and his ministers are your ministers and encompasse you The Angels of the Lord encamp about them that fear him Fear springs from unbelief and unbelief from unseen means and this is living by sence which if our Father Abraham had so lived in his journey to the mount Moriah and in his journey to Canaan he had broke his heart God hath in this and in many other things shadowed out to Christians how all things respecting the Church of Christ shall be carried in unseen wayes and by unseen powers and therefore commanded living by faith and not by sight and yet every man pleads for a life of sence God works in a way of means say they which is true but these means not alwayes visible As you get by such a life so continue your argument for it Passion is better confuted by the hand of God then by the word of God Unbelief is confuted with standing punishment Lots wife is turned into a pillar of salt and salt is a very tormenting and yet a very lasting thing Admire Christ for he maketh it manifest that he hath an unexpressable power at command to over-rule the visible world he letteth battells go against us for many houres together and cutteth off our arm of flesh and then turneth the day himself by wounded men in an instant no man knoweth how certainly he hath a great command by him which neither enemy nor we are aware of My heart bleedeth to behold how blind we are in talking of men but my heart is more sad to heare how our adversaries curse and take on they say that our Generall deals with the devill or he could not turn about the day so against disadvantage Poore souls some body hurteth them and they cannot see whom

as Simeon and Levi brethren in evill and God makes chaines to couple both together in misery and pinches that part most that is worst puts double bolts upon the leader to sin that 's the soule What God joynes he would not have us to part what we joyne he will not part we joyne body and soule in sin and he doth not part them in suffering not in the best Christ can distinguish between these two in the matter of affliction and so lightly touches the flesh that it shall never trouble the spirit but then man usually despiseth the chastening of the Lord yea the best are apt to doe so My sonne despise not the chastening of the Lord. God puts such twigs in all his cords for his children that he makes no wantons of them when they joy in sufferings under one notion they shall sorrow in them under another When they joy in sufferings it shall be against sense and against reason not as if they did feele a little but as feeling much onely apprehending the issue how glorious and how precious that will be Bonds and chaines are so heavie as to make our joy a pure joy the misery of Saints is so ponderous as to presse their joy pure to make it a joy of faith not of sense in the least body and soule being both in paine You squeese out the spirit and puritie of things so doth Christ Christ doth so affect the body and soule in his dealings that if any grace act forth it shall be pure grace such as is fed with no low principle If joy worke it shall be from faith not from feeling if faith worke it shall be from the word without not from any thing that it feeles else or sees without or within Our heights are necessitated with one medium or other When our soules are highest they are wound and screwed up to it with much paine and then when raised to this height 't would not be downe againe for all the world but kisses the rod chaines prisons any bitters that worke about so sweet so heavenly a life as to joy purely in Christ The nature of divine trials is the thing that I would stand upon how the arrowes of the Almightie are shaped now sharpe these are which he shoots at his people they pierce thorow all body and soule Wherefore is life given to him that is in misery and light to him that is in bitternesse of soule Job 3.20 These expressions aptly suite the point I am upon and doe open the nature of those trials that befall the godly they have misery that is not all they have misery wrapt up into such bitter pils as work upon the soule That 's strong physick indeed that sets all a trembling casting body and soule yet such God gives those he loves dearly in bitternesse of soule the expression is very emphaticall like that to Elymas in the gall of bitternesse it speakes a state steeped and soaked long in misery till soaked quite thorow every sinew stretched every bone put out of joynt no whole part within nor without not a thought lying still nor knowing where to find a pillow in any roome of the soule to lie downe on God makes no distinction of persons here I meane in the point that I am pursuing All things come alike to all alike sweet alike bitter alike for qualitie alike for quantitie a vessell of honour filled as full of sorrow here as a vessell of wrath waters coming into the soule I am feeble and sore broken I have roared for the disquietnesse of my heart Psal 38.81 None but evill spirits are broken and tortur'd below they are all cursed creatures that roare there but here good as well as bad are broken all to pieces all roare here wicked men Saints brave Spirits I am sore broken I roare What a dreadfull din and noise is all this world over One would thinke one were in hell whilest here in every Countie in every Citie in every house no dore sprinkled for a passeover in this point of sorrow sorrow at the heart The arrowes of the Lord are within me No house so walled nor so high here but God shoots into it when he will he moves in order to all trials with the godly as he doth in order to all judgements with the wicked according to an absolute will When he will he takes up whom he will amongst the wicked and trusseth him up so or so quarters him and hangs up his quarters makes him lesse or more notorious as he pleases so when he will he takes up whom he will of the godly prisons chaines them till the Iron enter into their soule sets them up as a mark and shoots them cleane thorow Why hast thou set me up as a mark to shoot at Job 7.20 And this a meere exercise of prerogative will which Job could not understand at present but did afterward Though God hath made over much to man yet hath reserved this priviledge to himselfe to have his Range in this great Forest here below to shoot at what he will at what goat he will or at what Deer he will and at what part of this Deer he will at the heart so he doth not make an incurable wound And this Christ can doe and this may be the reason of his priviledge He wounds as he pleases because he can heale as he pleases shoots the body and shoots the soule of his people because he can take out the bullet where ever it lies and heale that part as perfect yea perfecter then ever ' t was Poisons that gangrene and eate upward and inward towards the heart Christ can stop their secret motion and draw out the poison at the pores of the soule at the eyes at the mouth in spirituall breathings and kind soule-sweatings pantings mournings and turne this poison that drops out of these pores into a precious spirited liquid and bottle it up as a cordiall for himselfe to drinke of and to delight his palate withall for ever The rarest spirits are extracted out of the strongest poisons and Christ wants no skill to doe it he is an admirable Chymist and therefore takes whom and what he will to try his skill upon There are no such poisonous things in the world as sin and punishment especially when they meet together in the soule and yet then Christ can extract such a spirit out of both as all this world shall hardly match Christ can bring a body downe to the grave and raise him up againe and make his bones like Behemoth like barres of Iron David found it oft Thou hast renewed my strength like an Eagle So Christ can bring a soule down to Hell and raise it up againe to Heaven yea bring him up so full of Heaven that not one of a thousand not one of fortie thousand comparable and what Christ can doe in this point he doth when and as he pleaseth Mibbor s●●on He brought me up also out of a horrible