for any thing in mee For what am I O Lord c. Thus you see how the Promises are the breathings of Divine love and affection and upon this account are very usefull and profitable For love is loves loadstone therefore the Apostle saith Wee love him because hee loved us first The sense of Gods love to us will kindle a love in us to God Even as the beams of the Sun reflecting upon a VVall heats those that walk by the Wall So the Beams of Gods love shining into our souls warms our hearts with the love of God The lovâ— of God constrains us as saith Paul 2 Cor. 5. 14. There is a compulsive and constraining power in love What did not Iacob do for the love of Rachel How was Mephibosheth affected with the love of David 2 Sam. 9. 8. It is our duty to love those that hate us but not to love those that love us is more than heathenish and brutish 2 They are the life and soule of Faith Faith without a Promise to act upon is as a body without a soul as a dead flower which hath no beauty or sweetness in it But Faith grounded upon the Promises will inable a Christian to advance in all manner of holiness What made Abraham forsake his Country and his Fathers house and go hee knew not whither Nothing moved him to this but because God had promised to make him a great Nation and hee beleeved it Of all graces none so causal of holiness as the grace of Faith It is a world overcoming heart-purifying life-sanctifying wonder-working grace and therefore the Promises must needs bee very usefull because they are the life and soul of Faith 3 They are the Anchor of Hope Hope is called an Anchor of the soule both sure and stedfast But the Promises are the Anchor of Hope All Hope of Heaven which is not founded upon a Promise is presumption and not Hope Presumption is when a man hopes to go to Heaven upon no ground or upon an insufficient ground But true Hope is a Hope grounded upon a Scripture-Promise And Hope bottomed upon Divine Promises will mightily availe unto purity and holiness Abraham Isaac and Iacob lived as pilgrims and strangers upon earth because they looked and hoped for a City which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God The Old Testament Saints would not accept deliverance upon sinfull termes because they hoped for a better Resurrection The Papists and Arminians are much mistaken in teaching That the assurance of salvation is an enemy to godliness The Scripture saith the quite contrary 1 Ioh. 3. 3. Hee that hath this Hope purifieth himselfe even as hee is pure The true Hope of Heaven will make us live heavenly 4 They are the Wings of Prayer Prayer is a Divine Cordial to convey grace from Heaven into our soules It is a Key to unlock the bowels of mercy which are in God The best way to obtain holiness is upon our knees the best posture to fight against the Devil is upon our knees and therefore Prayer is not put as a part of our spiritual Armour but added as that which must bee an ingredient in every part and which will make every part effectual But now the Promises are the Wings of Prayer Prayer without a Promise is as a Bird without VVings And therefore wee read both of Iacob and Iehoshaphat how they urged God in their prayers with his Promises And certainly the Prayers of the Saints winged with divine promises will quickly flye up to Heaven and draw down grace and comfort into theâ— souls And upon this account it is that the Promises are so useful to a Christian because they are so helpfull in prayer When wee pray weâ— must urge God with his Promises and say Lord Hast thou not said Thâ—â— wilt circumcise our hearts to love theâ— thou wilt subdue our sinnes thou wilâ— give the Spirit to those that aske it Lord Thou art faithfull fulfill thesâ— thine own promises And wee must remember this great Truth That the Promises God makes to us to mortifieâ— our sins for us are greater helps against sin than our promises to God to mortifie sin Many men in the day of their distress vow and promise to leave sin and fight against it in the strength of these promises and in stead of conquering sin are conquered by sin But if wee fight against sin in the strength of Christ and of his promises if wee urge God in prayer with his owne Word wee shall at last get victory over it For hee hath said That sin shall not have dominion over us Rom. 6. 14. 5 They are the foundation of Induâ—try The promises do not make men â—azy and idle as some scandalously say 〈◊〉 they are the ground of all true laâ—our and industry therefore the Apostles perswade us from the consideration of the Promises unto the study of soul-purification to have our conversation without covetousness to flee from Idolatry and to separate our selves from sinfull communion Divine promises are â—reat incouragements unto spiritual diâ—â—gence Object Though conditional Promiâ—es bee the foundation of industry beâ—ause wee cannot have the thing promiâ—es unless wee perform the conditions yet absolute Promises say some are foundations of lasiness and therefore they a firm there are no absolute Promises in Scripture Answ. Absolute Promises are made foundations of industry in Scripture as well as Conditional The Apostle exhorts us to work out our salvation with fear and trembling because it is God 〈◊〉 worketh in us both to will and to do of hiâ— owne good pleasure And the reason is because God performeth nothing which hee promiseth though never so absolutely but in the diligent and conscientious use of the means on our part God promiseth Ezek. 36. 26. to give us a new heart and a new spirit c. but theâ— hee adds vers 37. I will yet 〈◊〉 this bee inquired of by the house of Israel 6 They are the rayes and beams as one saith of Christ the Son of Righteousness in whom they are founded and established As all the liâ—es in a Circumference though never so distant carry a man to one and the same Center So all the Promises carry us to Christ the Center For the Promises are not made for any thing in us nor have they any stability from us but they are made in and for Christ unto us unto Christ in our behalf and unto us so far as we are Members of Christ. Now Jesus Christ is the ground of all soul-purification soul-consolation and soul-salvation And therefore I may safely conclude that the promises are most singularly usefull and advantagious And that it is the duty of all those that desire to live holily and comfortably to consider and ponder the profitableness and beneficialness of the Promises 9 And lastly you must meditate on the great necessity that lyeth upon all men to get a
THE Godly Mans Ark OR City of Refuge in the day of his DISTRESSE Discovered in divers SERMONS The first of which was Preached at the Funerall of Mistresse Elizabeth Moore The other four were afterwards preached and are all of them now made publick for the supportation and consolation of the Saints of God in the hour of tribulation Hereunto are annexed Mris. Moores Evidences for Heaven composed and collected by her in the time of her health for her comfort in the time of sickness By ED. CALAMY B. D. and Pastor of the Church at Aldermanbury The second Edition corrected and amended London Printed for Iohn Hancock Brother to the late deceased Eliz. Moore to be sold at the first shop in Popes-head Alley next to Cornhill And for Tho. Parkhurst at the three Crowns over against the Great Conduit at the lower end of Cheapside 1658. TO Those of Aldermanbury-Parish Together With all others who attend constantly upon the Word of God there preached and more especially to such of them who are admitted to partake of the Lords Supper there administred Beloved in the Lord I Need not spend much time in giving you an account how these ensuing Sermons come to bee made publick It is not because they are more worthy than those which you hear weekly Nay I may truly say without boasting they are less worthy though I think none of them much worth than many others It is not because I desire to bee in print But it is 1 To present you with the Pattern of a Woman whom God did pick out to make an example of great affliction and great patience that when you come into great troubles you may bee comforted with those comforts with which shee was comforted 2 To acquaint you with the pains shee took and with her diligence in time of health to make her salvation sure That so you may bee provoked to lay up suitable seasonable and sufficient provision against an evil day and not have your Evidences for Heaven to get in the hour of adversity It is the grand sin of most people to delay and prorogue their solemn preparation for affliction and sickness till they come to bee sick and in affliction There are many in Hell who purposed to repent but were prevented by death therefore Bernard saith good purposes go to Hell and only good performances lead into Heaven To prevent your delaying and deferring to provide for affliction these Sermons are printed and to perswade you that whatsoever you do for Heaven you would do it speedily and with all your strength The Subjects handled are so plain and easy and the stile so rude and unpolished that I was resolved to have buried them in perpetual oblivion had I not been conquered by this following together with the forementioned consideration that they are calculated only for people under great troubles at which times learned debates about Discipline and controverted points of Divinity painted Eloquence and curious Language are of very little esteem and account Afflicted consciences are oftentimes puzled but never comforted with doubtful disputations Neat and elegant expressions may skin over but cannot Cure spiritual diseases Nothing can heal a wounded conscience and keep a man from sinking into despondency in the day of great tribulation but a real right and particular Application of the Promises to help a doubting Christian to performe this great work there are thirteen plaine Rules and Directions laid down in the following Treatise My prayer is that they may prove useful and successeful Seneca indeed comforts his friend Polybius and perswades him to bear his afflictions patiently because hee was the Emperours Favourite and tells him That it was not lawful for him to complaine while Caesar was his friend But this was but a poor Cordial For Caesar himself a little while after was so miserable that hee had not a friend to help him much less was hee able to help his friend The Word of God affords a better Cordial it bids a true Child of God not to bee overmuch dejected under the greatest affliction because hee is Gods Favourite It tells him That it is not lawful for him to complain while God is his friend and the Promises of God his rich portion and inheritance Though Job lost all hee had yet hee lost nothing because hee lost not his God who is All in All and they who have him have All. My purpose at first was onely to have printed the Sermon preached at Mris. Moors Funeral together with her Evidences for Heaven collected by her in the time of her health But the importunity of friends hath overswayed mee and caused mee to adde four more preached immediately afterwards on the same Text. And now Dearly Beloved having this fair opportunity to speak to you in writing give mee leave to propound and lay before you some cautions and admonitions some Rules and Directions for the right ordering of your lives and conversations in these dangerous and divided times that so you may bee able after my decease to have them in perpetual remembrance 1 Take heed of mistaking in the great work of Beleeving and Repenting Faith and Repentance are the two great Gospel-graces And the reason why so many miscarry to all eternity is not for want of them such as they are but upon a pure mistake in thinking they have them when they have but a shadow of them Where one goeth to Hell by desperation hundreds go thither by presumption O! quam multi cum hâc vanâ fide vana spe ad aeternos labores descendunt How many thousands go to hell with a vain faith and hope of heaven And therefore bee much in examination whether your Faith be right or no. Examine your selves whether yee bee in the Faith prove your own selves To bee mistaken in the great work of Beleeving is to bee necessitated to damnation For hee that beleeves not shall bee damned Ask your souls often whether your Repentance bee of a right stamp or no whether it bee a Repentance unto life a Repentance never to bee repented on To bee mistaken in purchasing of Lands can but hurt your outward estates but to bee mistaken in the graces of Faith and Repentance will undo your souls to all eternity What the Characters of a true Faith and true Repentance are you have frequently heard I will not now repeat them Only remember that self-flattery is self-mockery that soul-delusion is soul-damnation Pray unto God to deliver you from that great murderer of souls the sin of Presumption 2 Take heed as I have said of delaying and putting off the great work of providing for Heaven till sickness or old age The Lord Christ commands you to seek first the Kingdome of God and his Righteousness c. First before other things first more than other things You must seek after Heaven in the first and chief place and if you seek it in the least and last place you will never obtain
beloved and it is my highest priviledge that hee will give mee leave to love him who only can satisfie my soul and redeâ—m it from death eternal who hath justified mee by his blood and sanctified mee by his Spirit whom therefore I love with all my heart and all my soul and all my might and all my strength Finding therefore that God hath drawn out my heart to love him and make choice of him alone I from hence gather and ground my hope that God loveth mee according to that Scripture 1 Ioh. 4. 19. Wee love him because hee first loved us I finde my heart much inflamed with love to all the children of God because they are Gods children and the more I see or finde or hear of God in them the more I finde my heart cleaving to them and I thinke I can truly say with David That my delight is in the Saints and those that excel in grace not because they are friends to mee or I have relation to them in regard of outward obligations but because they bear the Image of God upon them and manifest it in their holy conversation I love them whether rich or poor And though I did never know some of them but onely hear of their holiness and piety yet I could not but exceedingly love such Therefore I hope that I am passed from death to life because I love the Brethren 1 Ioh. 3. 14. I do not only love God and the children of God but I labour to keep his Commandements and they are not grievous to mee But I pray with David O that my waies were directed to keep thy statutes Lord inlarge my heart and I will run the waies of thy Commandements Give mee understanding and I shall keep thy Law yea I shall observe it with my whole heart for therein do I delight I finde I am one that is very thirsty after Jesus Christ and the grace of Christ and I thirst to have his image more and more stamped upon mee and I would fain bee assured by Gods Spirit that I am transplanted into Christ and therefore I long and indeavour after a true and lively Faith because that Grace is a soul-transplanting and uniting grace Now Christ hath promised to satisfie the thirsty Matth. 5. 6. and such Christ hath earnestly invited to come though they have nothing to bring but what may make against themselves yet to come empty and hee hath promised to fill them Isa. 55. 1 2. I am willing to confess and with all my heart to forsake all my sins I am willing to give glory to God in taking shame unto my self I acknowledge my self a guilty malefactor and judge my self worthy of the just condemnation of the righteous Judge of all the earth And I do not only confess my sins but with all my heart I desire to forsake them and to turn to the Lord Now hee hath said hee will have mercy on such and will abundantly pardon them For his thoughts are not as our thoughts nor his waies as our waies Isa. 55. 7 8. It is my constant indeavour to dye to sin to live to newness of life And this is my comfort and hope that hee who hath begun a good work in mee will perfect it For it is hee that worketh all our works in us and for us Isa. 26. 12. and hee that hath wrought in mee to will to do that which is pleasing in his sight will work in mee to do also and that of his good pleasure Phil 2. 13. I hope I am one whom God hath taken into Covenant with himself because hee hath bestowed upon mee the fruits of the Covenant because hee hath circumcised my heart to love him and hath put his fear into mee and hath wrought an universal change in mee and hath given mee a new heart and a new spirit yea his own spirit which hee hath put within mee even the Spirit of Truth which will guide mee into all Truth It is his own promise to give his holy Spirit to them that aske it of him as I have done often Luke 11. 13. and I hope that God will make it in his due time a witnessing and a comforting Spirit I will wait upon him for the accomplishment of all his promises both of grace and to grace Hee hath said hee will bee a Sun and a Shield he will give grace and glory and no good thing will hee with-hold from them that walke uprightly And hee hath promised to subdue our sins for us and hath said That sin shall not have Dominion over us Rom. 6. 14. That hee will bee our God and wee shall bee his children and hee will save us from all our uncleannesses I hope I have a share in this blessed Covenant of Free Grace As for my Affliction that lyeth upon mee though it bee in it self very heavy I much more desire the sanctification of it than the removal I earnestly labour to learn all those lessons which God teacheth mee by Affliction I know I should not bee scourged nor bee in tribulation but that I have need of it it is for my profit to make mee partaker of his holiness Afflictions are an evidence of Sonship Heb. 12. 6 7 8. God hath promised that all things shall work together for good to them that love and fear him And I have had much experience of his faithfulness who hath not suffered mee to bee tempted above what hee hath inabled mee to bear therefore I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him Hee hath chastized mee less than mine iniquities deserve Hee chastizeth mee here that hee may not condemn mee hereafter Faith is the condition of salvation Beleeve in the Lord Iesus Christ and thou shalt bee saved And this is his Commandement that wee should beleeve in his Son Iesus Christ Now I find nothing so hard to mee as to beleeve aright to cast away all my own Righteousness as dung in point of justification and to cast away all my unrighteousness so as that bee no bar to mee and to role and cast and venter my immortal soul upon Jesus Christ and his Righteousness for life and salvation by him alone and to see my self compleat in him this is supernatural Yet I must and will give glory to God and say Lord I beleeve help thou my unbeleef And by this I prove that this precious grace of faith is wrought in mee because Jesus Christ is to mee very precious and I finde in the Word that to them that beleeve hee is precious and I am willing to take Christ upon his own termes as hee is tendred in the Gospel and am willing to give up my self soul and body wholly to him and my love to God and to the children of God is a fruit of my Faith as also my desire to bee made like unto him For hee that hath this hope in him purifieth himself
it In matters of weight delay is dangerous Abigail made haste to prevent Davids fury Rahab made haste to hang out her Scarlet threed The salvation of your souls is a matter of the greatest concernment and to delay providing for it is not onely a sin against the command of Christ but a sleighting of the Heaven of Christ. How justly may God deny to you who refuse when hee calls either space or grace to turn to him and say to you as it is reported hee said to a man who desired to repent in his old age ubi consumpsisti farinam ibi con-sume furfurem Where you have spent your flower there go spend your branne Therefore let my Counsel bee acceptable to you Make Christ your unum necessarium your one thing necessary and Heaven your primum quaerite Seek yee first the Kingdome of God and his Righteousness Say with David I made haste and delayed not to keep thy Commandements 3 Take heed of resting in the Ministry of man You must not despise the teachings of Orthodox Ministers lawfully called for hee that despiseth them despiseth Christ hee that is above their teachings is above the teachings of Christ for Christ teacheth by them They are his Embassadors and they preach not only in his Name but in his stead yet you must not rest satisfied with the teachings of men but pray That while the Minister speaks to your ears God would speak to your hearts That God would fulfil that blessed Promise Isa. 54. 13. And all thy Children shall bee taught of God That hee would give you an unction from the Holy One to teach you all things That you may see the goings of God in his Sanctuary you may behold the beauty of the Lord and see his power and glory in his holy Temple In a word That God would give you not onely the presence of Ordinances but his presence in them That you may experimentally know what it is to injoy communion with God in Gospel-Administrations 4 Take heed of formality customariness and carelesness in the performance of holy duties Hee that serves God carelesly brings a curse upon himself instead of a blessing For cursed is hee that doth the work of the Lord negligently Hee that serves God formally and customarily doth not serve him but mock him If the Israelites had brought the skin of a beast for sacrifice instead of a beast it would have been counted a mocking of God rather than a worshiping of him So do they who serve God negligently and formally 5 Bee not contented to have a name to bee godly and religious but labour to bee really such as you are supposed by others to bee Remember what Christ saith of the Church of Sardis That shee had a name to live but was dead What will it profit you to bee thought by men to bee godly if God knows that you are ungodly What will it advantage you to seem to go to Heaven and yet at last to miss of it O labour to bee Christians not only in word but in deed and in truth not onely by outward profession but by a holy conversation Rest not satisfied with a less degree of grace than that which will bring you to Heaven It will bee a double Hell to go within an inch of Heaven and yet at last to miscarry 6 Remember what Christ saith of Capernaum The Capernaites were not so bad as the Gadarens who desired Christ to depart from them much less as the Nazarites who thrust Christ out of their Coasts For they heard him preach every Sabbath-day and were astonished at his doctrine And yet because they did not sincerely practise what was taught them Christ pronounceth a heavy doom against them Matth. 11. 23 24. And thou Capernaum which art exalted unto Heaven shalt bee brought down to Hell for if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in Sodome it would have remained unto this day But I say unto you that it shall bee more tolerable for the land of Sodome in the day of judgement than for thee It is not enough to praise the Sermons you hear to admire and stand astonished at the Doctrine delivered If you do not practise what is preached If you do not live Sermons as well as hear them it shall bee easier for Sodome and Gomorrha at the day of judgement than for you 7 Take heed that the love of the world doth not eat out the heart of Religion and at last Religion it self out of your hearts Remember what the Apostle Paul saith That the love of money is the root of all evill which while some have coveted after they have erred from the faith and pierced thēselves through with many sorrows And what the Apostle John saith Love not the world neither the things that are in the world If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him There is no sin so contrary to true Saint-ship as worldly-mindedness A Saint is one who hath much of Heaven in him and is much in Heaven A Saint is one whose original is from Heaven hee is born from above his name is written in Heaven his meditations affections and conversation is in Heaven Hee is one who is elected to things above and called to partake of Heaven and eternal happiness And for such a man to minde things earthly is a sin of the first magnitude Therefore the Apostle would not have covetousness so much as named amongst Christians There is no sin more defiles the soul. It will besmear you and make you spiritual Blackamores and Chimny-sweepers in Gods sight There is no sin doth more dead and dull the heart in the doing of good duties It hinders a man both from and in Ordinances The Farmer and Merchant made light of the call of Christ and one went to his Farm the other to his Merchandize There is no sin will more eclipse the light of Gods countenance from shining upon you The Moon is never in the Eclipse but when the earth comes between us and the Sun A child of God is seldome without the light of Gods countenance unless it bee through the over-much love of the world No sin will more hinder your flight up to Heaven The Ostrich cannot flye high because of the shortness of her wings Jacob was forced in his travelling towards Canaan to go slowly and softly because of his multitude of children of flocks and herds And therefore let mee again beseech you to take heed of worldly-mindedness this will quickly betray you into Apostacy from Christ and from the truths of Christ. A man who loves the world will Judas-like betray Christ for thirty peeces Hee will part with his Religion rather than with his estate This sin is the root of all evil it exposeth a man to all temptations to hurtful lusts to all errors and all kinde of sorrows It will drown your souls in
another I should bee loath to lay such a clog upon you consciences as to say That every maid-servant and man-servant is bound to know and to bee acquainted with all those with whom they communicate in the Lords Supper Indeed the Church-officers are the eyes of the people and are to know all and to bee acquainted with all But yet notwithstanding this I say It is the duty of every member to endeavour according to his place and calling to grow up in spiritual acquaintance one with another as God shall offer occasion and not to be so strange and unacquainted but to walk in love one towards another to bear one anothers burden and so fulfill the Law of Christ Gal. 6. 2. And this you ought the rather to do that so you may contribute to the keeping of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper pure in the Congregation to which you belong There is much complaint amongst many and not without just cause of mixt communions and of 〈◊〉 universal liberty which some take in giving the Sacrament promiscuously to all that come though grosly ignorant and notoriously scandalous and in making If I may so speak the Chancel-door as wide as the Church-door This in my judgement is a great iniquity 1 It is to give holy things to Dogs and to cast Pearls to Swine It is a prophanation of the Ordinance in giving it to those who are visibly unworthy to receive it and to whom wee know Christ would not have us to give it 2 It is an act of great uncharitableness to those who are grosly ignorant and scandalous For it is to give them that which wee know will further their damnation 3 It makes the Church-Officers who have power to hinder them and do not use it partakers of other mens sins 4 It is an Act of cruelty to the Nation For because wee have been Prodigal of Christs blood therefore hee hath been Prodigal of ours 5 It is a great scandal to the truly godly and a stumbling-block to weak Christians causing them though unadvisedly to separate from our Congregations 6 It is to walk contrary to the practise of most if not all of the Churches of Christ in the Christian world To prevent this Sacrament-prophanation there are some Ministers wh◠wholly surcease from administring it This I allow not unless in case of absolute necessity For this is as it were to suspend the whole Congregation and to deny Children their bread for fear of giving it to Dogs The best way is to follow the advice which our Lord Jesus Christ gives Matth. 18. 15 16 17. where hee propounds Rules and Directions for the removing of scandals out of the Church If thy Brother shall trespass against thee saith Christ go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone Hee doth not say Go and separate presently For this is to rend the Church not to heal it This is to hinder thy Brother from Christ rather than to gain him to Christ. Hee doth not say Go and tell others for this is to backbite thy Brother This is to reproach him rather than to reprove him But hee saith Go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone if hee shall hear thee thou hast gained thy Brother But if hee will not heare thee then take with thee one or two more c. And if hee shall neglect to hear them tell it to the Church that is to such who are impowred by Christ to redress offences but if hee neglect to hear the Church let him c. Hence learn That all Church-reformation and Sacrament-purity must begin from Church-members and proceed from them in Christs way unto Church-officers That if any man who is called a Brother bee a Fornicator or a Railer or a Drunkard or guilty of any other scandalous sin It is your duty who are members of the same body with him and know his guiltiness to labour by private admonition to gain him to God not to shame him by telling others but to gain him by telling him alone But if hee will not hear you then you are in an orderly way to bring it to the Church which if you neglect to do the sin of Church-pollution is your sin and not the sin of your Church-officers If there bee three doors to get into an house hee that keeps mee out of the first keeps mee out of the other two All Sacrament-reformation begins with you you are the first door at which it enters if you faile of your duty the sin lyeth at your door not at ours It is the custome of all people though otherwise godly if a scandalous sinner bee admitted to the Lords Supper to charge the sin of it upon the Minister and in the mean time to forget that the sin is theirs not his because they have not done what Christ would have them for the gaining of him and for the inabling of the Church to proceed against him by censures if hee prove obstinate The Lord give you hearts to thinke of this and give you grace instead of murmuring against and complaining of mixt communions and of separating from us because of them to contribute your utmost towards the purging of our Congregations and to practise all those duties which Christ requires of you in order thereunto I have much more to say of this particular but I perceive that the Epistle swells to too great a bigness and therefore I shall defer what I have further to say till God shall offer mee another such opportunity 18 Labour to maintain peace and unity amongst your selves It is a good and pleasant thing for brethren to dwell together in unity Have Salt in your selves and peace one with another Labour to get your souls seasoned with the grace of humility self-denial and mortification and this will keep you in peace Remember the saying of Christ Blessed are the Peace-makers Now I beseech you Brethren by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ that yee all speak the same thing and that there bee no divisions among you but that yee bee perfectly joyned together in the same minde and in the same judgement 19 Study often and often the quatuor novissima the four last things Death Judgement Hell and Heaven The meditation of Death will prepare you for Death The meditation of Heaven will make you heavenly-minded The meditation of Hell will keep you from Hell Therefore Bernard perswades us to go often down to Hell by meditation while wee live and wee shall not go down to it when wee dye The meditation of the day of Judgement will bee both fraenum calcar a bridle to curb you from sin and a spur to incite you to all godliness that so you may give up your account with joy at that terrible day 20 Study the exceeding great and precious Promises of the Gospel make a Catalogue of them meditate on them and labour to apply them to your own souls for your everlasting comfort And for this
cannot receive any comfort by it in the day of his distress Iacob was not at all quieted in his spirit for Iosephs being alive till hee came to know of it And therefore wee must not onely provide grace but the assurance of grace that wee may bee able to say with confidence as Iob did upon the dung-hill Iob 19. 25. I know that my Redeemer liveth and with the holy Apostle Rom. 8. 38. I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall bee able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. That man who hath got a Scripture assurance of his salvation will bee more than a Conqueror in the day of his distress 3 A stock of Divine Experiences Happy is that man that lodgeth up in his heart all the former Experiences he hath had of Gods love and mercy towards him and knoweth how to argue from them in the day of calamity Thus did Moses in his prayer to God Numb 14. 19. Pardon I beseech thee the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy and as thou hast forgiven this people from Egypt even untill now Because God had forgiven them therefore Moses intreats him to forgive them this Argument is drawn from former experience And thus David incourageth himself 1 Sam. 17 37. The Lord hath delivered mee out of the paw of the Lion and out of the paw of the Bear and hee will deliver mee out of the hand of this Philistine Thus also Paul reasoneth 2 Cor. 1. 10. Who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver and in whom wee trust that hee will yet deliver us Divine experiences are the Saints great incouragements in the day of Affliction Blessed is the man that hath his quiver full of these arrows 4 A stock of Sermons Wee must do with Sermons as the Trades-men do with the mony they get some of it they lay out for their present use and some of it they lay up against the time of sickness That man is an ill husband and an unthrifty Trades-man that makes no provision for old age or for an evill day and that man is an unprofitable hearer of the word who doth not stock and store himself with Sermons whereby hee may be comforted in the hour of affliction And therefore the Prophet Isaiah adviseth us Isa 42. 23. to hear for the time to come or as it is in the Hebrew for the after-time Sermons are not onely to bee heard for our present use but to bee laid up for after-times that when wee lye upon our sick-beds and cannot hear Sermons wee may then live upon the Sermons wee have heard 5 And lastly Wee must prepare and provide a stock of Scripture-promises which will bee as so many reviving Cordials to chear us and as so many spiritual Anchors to uphold us from perishing in the day of our tribulation What these promises are you shall hear afterwards These upheld David in the hour of his distress and therefore hee saith in the Text Unless thy Law had been my delight I had perished in mine affliction If this our dear Sister had not had this stock shee had been quite overwhelmed under the grievousness of her tormenting pains Bee wise therefore O yee Saints of God and prepare these five provisions in the time of health that so you may live joyfully in the time of sickness 3 As wee must expect and provide for afflictions so also wee must labour when afflicted to improve them for our spiritual benefit and advantage Wee must pray more for the sanctification of them than for their removal It was not the staffe of Elisha that revived the dead childe but Elisha himself It was not the troubling of the waters of the Pool of Bethesda that made them healing but the coming down of the Angel It was not the Clay and spittle that cured the blinde eyes but Christs anointing them with it It was not the cloak of Elijah that divided the waters but the God of Elijah Troubles stroaks blows afflictions and distresses will do us no good unless the Lord bee pleased to make them effectuall And therefore let us pray unto God that hee would give us grace together with our affliction That hee would adde instruction to his correction that hee would make us good schollars in the school of afflictions and inable us to take out all those excellent lessons which hee would have us to learn in it that thereby wee may come to know God more powerfully and experimentally and tok now our selves and our own frailty and our absolute de pendene upon God more effectually that thereby wee may bee more purified and refined that the wind of temptation may cleanse us from the chaffe of our corruption that wee may learn righteousness by Gods judgements and bee made partakers of his holiness Such a good Scholar was Manasseh hee got more good by his Iron chain than by his Golden chain Such another was the Prodigal childe who was happìer amongst the Swine than when in his Fathers house Such was Paul his being strucken down to the ground raised him up to Heaven by the blindness of his body his soul received sight and hee was turned from a persecuting Saul to a persecuted Paul Such another was David who professeth of himself that it was good for him that hee was afflicted and such Scholars ought wee to bee There are some that are arrant Dunces in this School that are like unto the bush which Moses saw which burned with fire but was not consumed the fire did not consume the thorny bush Many such thorny sinners are burnt up with the fire of divine afflictions but their sins are not consumed Of these the Prophets complain Amos 4. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. Yet they have not returned c. Jer. 5. 3. Thou hast stricken them but they have not grieved thou hast consumed them but they have refused to receive correction they have made their faces harder than a rock they have refused to return Rocks and stones by hewing and polishing may bee made fit for a building But there are some men who by no afflictions will bee amended The Mountains melt at the presence of the Lord and the rocks rend asunder when hee is angry But there are some that have made their faces harder than the Rocks and the Mountains and are not at all affected with Gods anger Of such as these Bernard complains Multi humiliati pauci humiles corripimur sed non corrigimur plectimur sed non flectimur Multo facilius fregeris quam flexeris Non cessant vitia civium usque ad excidia civitatum Prius est interire quam corrigi Prius ipsos quam in ipsis vitia non esse There are others that are the worse for their afflictions like the Smiths Anvil the
Thess. 2. 18. Everlasting consolation Joh. 16. 22. Your joy no man taketh from you It is as a fixed Star But the delight of a wicked man in the Word is as the crackling of thorns upon the fire and as the Corn that grew on the stony ground which quickly sprung up and as quickly withered Iob 27. 8. Therefore it is said of the Jews Ioh. 5. 3. They rejoyced in his light for a season In the Greek it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for an hour A wicked mans delight in the Word is but as a blazing Star which is quickly extinguished Hee may rejoyce in the word while hee is hearing of it but it quickly vanisheth away Hee is like to a man that comes into a pleasant Garden and is delighted with the smell of it while hee is there But a childe of God makes a Posie of these Flowers to refresh him when hee is out Hee delights to read and to keep the Law of God continually for ever and ever Psal. 119. 45. Let us I beseech you labour with all labour for this superlative well-rooted powerful spiritual sin-excluding grace-increasing and abiding delight in the whole word of God Quest. VVhat must wee do that wee may bee inabled thus to make the Law of God our Delights Answ. 1. You must seriously study the excellency of Gods word this made David prize it so much and love it so much Psal. 19. 7 8 9 10 11. The Word of God hath God for its Author and therefore must needs bee full of infinite wisdome and eloquence even the wisdome and eloquence of God There is not a word in it but breathes out God and is breathed out by God It is as Ireneus saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an invariable rule of faith an unerring and infallible guide to Heaven It contains glorious revelations and discoveries no where else to bee found It hath a manifesting convincing soul-humbling soul-directing soul-converting and soul-comforting power and efficacy in it as appears by these Scriptures Heb. 4. 12. 1 Cor. 14. 24 25. 1 King 21. 29. Psalm 119. 105. 2 Cor. 3. 6. Psalm 119. 50. And therefore to delight in the Word and the God that made it is not only our duty Psa. 37. 4. But it is recorded in Scripture as our priviledge and as the great reward that God would bestow upon those that keep holy the Sabbath-day Isa. 58. 13 14. Then thou shalt delight thy self in the Lord. This shall bee thy great reward 2 You must fixedly ponder the necessity of practising this duty For if you delight in Gods Law God will delight in you If the Law bee your beloved you are Gods beloved If you take no pleasure in his word his soul will take no pleasure in you 3 You must pray for the grace of Illumination Whensoever you take the Bible in your hand to read in it pray Davids prayer Psal. 119. 18. Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy Law Philosophers observe that Lumen est vehiculum influentiae Light is the Chariot of influence as it begets the flower in the field the gold in the Mineral so the foundation of all regeneration is illumination Pray that God would open your eyes that you may understand the Scriptures as hee did to his Apostles Luke 24. 45. That hee would take away the vail that is upon your hearts 4 Pray that he that made you creatures would make you new creatures that as new-born Babes you may desire the sincere milk of the word 5 Pray that God would fulfill that excellent promise Ier. 31. 33. That hee would put his Law in your inward parts and write it in your hearts and then you cannot but heartily delight in it 6 Pray to God to give you the same Spirit that wrote the word to inable you to delight in it 7 Pray for a spiritual palate that you may not only delight in spiritual things but have a spiritual delight in spiritual things It is said of the Lioness that when shee hath once tasted of the sweetness of mans flesh shee is never satisfied till shee hath more of it Hee that hath tasted of the good Word of God and not onely tasted but eaten it and digested it into good nourishment hee will not onely delight in it but hee will delight in it above gold yea above fine gold and hee will never bee satisfied till hee bee filled with the fulness of that God that made it The End of the second Sermon THE Excellency and Usefulness OF THE WORD SERMON III. PSAL. 119. 92. Unless thy Law had been my Delights I should then have perished in mine Afflictions NOw I come to speak of the Proposition that is clearly held forth in the Text. Doct. 3. That the VVord of God delighted in is the Afflicted Saints Antidote against ruine and destruction Unless thy Law had been my delights I should c. The Word of God is the sick Saints salve the dying Saints cordial a most precious medicine to keep Gods people from perishing in time of affliction This upheld Iacob from sinking when his brother Esau came furiously marching to destroy him Gen. 32. 12. And thou saidst I will surely do thee good c. The promise of God supported him This also upheld Ioshua and inabled him couragiously to fight the Lords battels because God had said Hee would never leave him nor for sake him Josh. 1. 5. Melancthon saith that the Lantgrave of Hessen told him at Dresda that it had been impossible for him to have born up under the manifold miseries of so long an imprisonment Nisi habuisset consolationem ex Verbo divino in sua corde but for the comforts of the Scriptures in his heart There are eight things may bee said amongst many other in commendation of the Word of God 1 It is the Magazin and Store-house of all comfort and consolation There is no condition but one that a man can be in but hee may finde soul-supporting comfort for it out of the Word Indeed if thou resolvest to go on in sin the Word cannot comfort thee it threatneth Hell and Damnation to all such If the God of Heaven can make such miserable they shall be miserable But excepting this one there is no condition so miserable but a man may fetch a Cordial out of the Word to support him under it Art thou as empty of riches and as full of Diseases as Iob under the Old Testament and Lazarus under the New Testament are the sins-with which thou art willing to part many and great Is thy Conscience exceedingly wounded and disquieted Doth the Devil roar upon thee with hideous temptations let thy condition be never so sad the Word of God is able to afford thee comfort under it For it is the Word of that God who is the God of all consolation There is no kinde of true comfort but here it is to bee had here are Cordials of all sorts Comforts under bodily troubles
Christ and disgrace and reproach and poverty Christ and his Cross There are many would bee glad of Christ but they will not take up his Cross. They would take Christ down from the Cross as Ioseph of Arimathea did and leave the Cross behinde them But hee that takes Christ aright will bee as willing to wear a Crown of thorns for his sake as a Crown of gold 2 It is a receiving of Christ in all his Offices as our King Priest and Prophet A true Beleever is as willing to receive Christ into his soul as hee is that Christ should receive him into heaven hee is as willing to have Christ reigne over him as hee is to reign with Christ in Heaven Hee desires not only to bee saved but to bee healed by Christ. 3 It is a receiving of Christ into every room of the soul for Christ will come into every room or into never a room A true beleever opens every door unto Christ hee gives him the lock and key of the whole man and desires that hee would come and reside in every room 4 It is a receiving of Christ and him only For Christ must rule alone or not at all An Hypocrite would compound with Christ and together with the false Mother divide the childe but a true beleever saith with the Prophet O Lord our God Other Lords besides thee have had dominion over us but now by thee onely will wee make mention of thy Name And with the true Mother hee will give the whole to God 5 It is a receiving of Christ in health as well as in sickness in prosperity as well as in adversity in youth as well as in old age in life as well as in death Most people make use of Christ meerly as a shelter against a storme for their own ends as the Athenians did of Themistocles and when the storm is over forsake him Most people flye to Christ in their distress as Ioab did to the horns of the Altar and when they can serve the Devil no longer then they begin to think of serving of God but a true beleever will give his best dayes to God as well as his worst hee desires not onely to dye in Christ but to live for Christ hee receives Christ in health c. 6 It is a receiving of Christ not only for an hour or a day or a year but for ever True Faith marries the soul to Christ never to part Once a member of Christ for ever a member Now there is no childe of God of what size soever though hee bee but as a toe in Christs body who cannot truly say that hee is willing to receive Iesus Christ with all these Properties to receive all Christ with all his appurtenances and to receive him only in every room in health and for ever And therefore let not the Devil or thy mis-giving heart or thy melancolick-phancy keep thee off from beleeving that Christ Iesus is thy portion and that thou hast an interest in the main and fundamental Promise and by that in all the other Do to Christ as the Shunamitish woman did to the Prophet lay fast hold on him and suffer not the Devil to cause thee to let go thy hold Oh that there might bee this day a blessed and happy Marriage between Jesus Christ and every distressed Christian. Object But suppose I am willing to â—ake Christ upon Christs termes can I 〈◊〉 assured that Christ will receive 〈◊〉 Ans. Yes doubtless For hee hath said hee will and hee is truth it self 〈◊〉 cannot lye Indeed a poor wounded â—nner will sometimes confess that hee is willing with all his heart to receive Christ upon his own termes but hee â—s afraid lest Christ should refuse to receive him But this is a needless fear For Christ will in no wise refuse those that come to him To as many as receive him to all those hee will give power to become the Sons of God even to them that beleeve in his Name Hee that beleeveth hath everlasting life and shall never come into condemnation but is passed from death to life So much for the fourth Rule If these Rules and Directions already named will not inable thee to apply the Promises so as to keep thee from perishing in the day of distress Let mee adde Rule 5. 5 If thou canst not lay hold upon the Promises made to those who are in the highest form in Christs School lay hold upon the Promises made to those who are in the lower forms In Christs School there are divers sorts of Scholars some are in the high form some in the middle some in the lowest some are Babes in Christs School some are grown Christians some are as tall Cedars some are as low shrubs Now you must know that it is our duty to labour to bee of the highest form Hee that saith hee hath grace enough hath grace little enough Hee that stints himselfe in his endeavours after grace never had true grace Wee must labour to bee perfect as God is perfect But yet you must also â—now that hee that is a real Scholar in Christs School is in an happy condition though hee bee not the best Scholar And that it is our duty so to 〈◊〉 the eminent graces which are in others as to bee thereby incited to a further progress in grace but not so as to bee thereby disheartned and disâ—â—uraged There are many distressed Christians like to those who gaze so long upon the brightness of the Sun that when they come into their houses they cannot see at all they pore so much upon the transcendent excellencies which are in their Brethren that they are stark blinde in their own concernments and cannot see any grace in themselves and hereupon are apt to conclude that they are out of Gods favour But this is a non sequitur The foot must not say that it is no part of the body because it is not so eminent a part as the head or heart Wee must rather say with the Martyr Blessed bee God that I am a member in Christs body though but the weakest and lowest Wee must not rest satisfied with being loâ— Christians but yet wee must not therefore say Wee are no Christians And when wee are under great tribulations and temptations if wee cannot apply to our selves for our comfort those Promises which are made to â—â—minent Saints of the highest form let us apply those which are made unto true Saints though to such who are the lowest of the lowest form and hereby wee shall through Gods blessing finde our soules marveilously supported and comforted As for example Christ hath said Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdome of Heaven And therefore though thou art not rich in grace yet if poor in spirit thou art blessed Christ saith Blessed are they that mourn for they shall bee comforted Though thou canst not live without sin yet if a mourner for
for it because it will surely come it will not tarry This did Daniel when hee understood the time approached c. hee prayed Dan. 9. 2 3. Thus did David Psal. 56. 9 10 57. 1 2. Thus must you do These are the three great Duties which the Lord requires of us at all times but more especially in these our dayes wherein the Providences of God seem to run quite cross unto his promises The Lord give us grace to practise them So much for this Text. The End of the Fifth Sermon A Brief Repetition of what was said of Mrs. Elizabeth Moore at her Burial THough I have finished my Text yet I have another Text remaining of which I must speak a few words and that is The Party deceased at whose Funeral wee are here met Shee was a Woman I verily beleeve truly fearing God and yet throughout her whole life loaded with many and great troubles God picked her out to bee a pattern of afflictions as hee had not long before that Reverend and godly Minister Mr. Ieremiah Whitakers This Pattern teacheth us three Lessons 1 That all things come alike to all in this world and that no man knoweth love or hatred by any thing that is before him The best of Saints sometimes are upon the Dunghil when the vilest of men are upon the Throne The best of men are afflicted when the worst of men are in prosperity 2 That there is not so much evil in affliction or so much good in prosperity as the world imagineth For if there were God would not bestow so much prosperity upon the wicked and exercise his dear children with so many afflictions 3 That there will come a rewarding day in which it shall certainly bee well with the Righteous When I see a wicked man prosper I say Surely there will come a punishing day in which the wicked shall be turned into Hell When I see a godly man in adversity I say Verily there is a reward for the Righteous verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth Such examples prove that there is another life besides this And that if the godly had hope onely in this life they were of all people most miserable I will not trouble you with a relation of her Christian carriage in the time of her health because it is sufficiently known to most here present I shall onely take notice of her great care and diligence in making her calling and election sure Shee had not her Ark to build when the flood came nor her Corn to get when the seven years of Famine came Shee had laid up a stock of graces and comforts against the evill hour Shee had not her Evidences for Heaven to get at the houre of death But shee had collected and composed them in the time of her life and when shee came to dye shee â—ad neither her graces nor her comforts nor her Evidences for Heaven to seek shee had nothing to do but to dye Her sickness was very long and very painful concerning which I shall briefly acquaint you with these few particulars 1 God moved the hearts of very many godly people to take compassion of her sad and afflicted condition and to contribute liberally shee being poor towards her relief this merciful providence wonderfully comforted her She saw Gods love in it and was so much affected with it that she was for a little while really and exceedingly afraid notwithstanding her great torments by reason of a cancer in her breast lest she should have her heaven in this life and lest this mercy should bee all her portion The Lord recompence that labour of love and that Christian charity a thousand fold into the bosomes of those who manifested so much kindnesse to her 2 Her Patience was very great As God increased her pains hee increased her patience even to the admiration of such of us as were frequent spectators of it She was brought to such a sweet frame of spirit as to bee willing to live under all her torments as long as God pleased and to dye whensoever he pleased 3 Shee was a woman of a very fearful nature and in the time of her health had many doubts and scruples notwithstanding all her care forementioned about her salvation But in her sickness all her doubts vanished God chained up Satan The Devil had no power to tempt her shee felt a great calmness in her soul and had much inward peace and injoyed more of God and his consolations in the time of her sickness than in the time of her health 4 Shee was very forward in spreading and diffusing those graces which God had bestowed upon her and in giving good counsel to those who visited her I have heard her often and often perswading her friends to prize health and to improve it for the good of their souls to lay up against an evill day and to stock themselves with grace before sickness come Shee would frequently say O the benefit of health O prize health praise God for health and improve health for your eternal good 5 Shee was very well vers't in the Scriptures The Law of God was her delight and this kept her from perishing in her affliction Shee was continually fetching cordials out of the Word to comfort her under her great pains and to preserve her from fainting The twelfth Chapter of the Hebrews was a precious cordial to her so was the eight of the Romans and the 2 of the Corinthians the 4. Chapter and the 17 18. verses For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory While wee look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal 1 Cor. 15 53 54 55 56 57. For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shal have put on immortality then shal be brought to pass the saying that is written Death is swallowed up in victory O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory The sting of death is sinne and the strength of sin is the Law But thanks bee to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Iesus Christ. Phil. 3. 21. Who shall change our vile body that it may bee fashioned like unto his glorious body according to the working whereby hee is able even to subdue all things unto himself A little before her death shee said In the Lord Iehovah there is righteousness and strength righteousness for justification and strength for supportation Shee said that the Word of God was the best cordial in the world And that one minutes being in Heaven would make amends for all her pain and misery 6 And lastly I cannot but take special notice of the happy close of her life and of the blessed end shee
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