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A74686	The nonsuch professor in his Meridian splendor, or the singular actions of sanctified Christians. Laid open in seaven sermons at Allhallows church in the wall, London. / By William Secker preacher of the gospel.	Secker, William, d. 1681?	1660 (1660)	Wing S2253; Thomason E1750_1; ESTC R209664	179,725	448

Pibble with the price of which I can purchase a Jewell That which the bountious hand of God gives for a Pension that the covetous heart of man takes for a Portion These foolish Travellers are so taken with their Inn that they forget their home Well you sow the seeds of industry to reap the Harvest of vanity I confesse God hath not made all the Trees in his Garden forbidden fruit Doe you thinke he would spread a Table before us and bind us up with a touch not tast not handle not Godlinesse will allow us to taste of the world as sawce but not to feed on the world as meat Outward mercies are not so low as to be peremptorily deserted nor so high as to be primarily desired If they be seducements from the Mercy-seat they will be indictments at the Judgement-seat I may say of the earth as the Philosopher said of the City of Athens that it was a City Ad peregrinandum jucunda but ad in habitandum non tuta Pleasant for journying but not safe for dwelling Outward plenty it may be a comfortable Ship for indigence to sail in but a dangerous Rock for confidence to trust in Many so they may have but something of earth in their hands care for nothing of Heaven in their hearts Ah what fools are they that are so diligent about what is temporal and so negligent about what is spiritual so careful about decaying vanities and so sloathful about enduring excellencies When Crates threw his Gold into the Sea he cryed out Ego●perdam te ne tu perdas me I will destroy thee that thou mayst not destroy me If men do not put the love of the world to death the love of the world will put men to death Then thou wilt say as Cardinal Woolsey when he was cast out of his Princes favour and left to his enemies fury If I had served my God as faithfully as I have served my King he would not have left me thus O how many men are there that drops into perdition meerly for a Posy to smell on in their Road to Execution It was a notable speech of Erasmus That he desired wealth and honour no more then a feeble beast desired a heavy burden How are cares bound to crowns anxiety disfigures the face of prosperity and makes it like a Christall glasse blown on by an impure breath that retains little or nothing of its native lustre How far may a man goe before he can see the silver picture of a comely body set into the Golden frame of a gracious soul Work out your salvation with fear and trembling or else you will both fear and tremble for not working out of your salvation Most men are like that silly woman that when her house was on fire so minded the saving of her goods that she left her child rosting in the flames at last being put in remembrance of it she cryes out O my child my child Thus sottish sinners whilest they are scraping for a little substance their soules are consumed in flames and being in Hell they cry out O my soul my soul What got Sisera by his Milk and his Butter when he tasted of the Nail and the Hammer O how curious are men of their Out-wards and how carelesse are they of their In-wards What pains do they take to cover their flesh from nakednesse when their Spirits are not cloathed with the Robes of righteousnesse In a vigorous well complexioned flourishing body there 's a feeble languishing and consuming soul The evil disposition of the latter spoils the good composition of the former For a man to be true to that part that is without him and false to that part that is within him what 's this but as if a Husband-man should gather in his stubble and leave out his corn or as if a Gold-smith should weigh his drosse and disregard his gold Wilt thou trim up the Scabbard and let the Blade of admirable Mettal to gather Rust this is Jacob like to lay the right hand upon the younger and the left hand upon his elder child If there be nothing done by your souls on earth there will be nothing done for your souls in Heaven There 's such an eagernesse in contending for the wealth that 's given to the sons of men that there is no earnestnesse in contending for the faith that 's delivered to the Saints of God Ah what pity is it to see those spirits that came down from Heaven to loose their way up to heaven that ever that should go down to misery that came down from glory That 's the Eighteenth 19. Principle that beleevers should walk by is this That integrity is the best security Dogs that have no teeth may bark but cannot bite and Serpents that have no stings may hiss but they cannot hurt A naked man with innocency is Integer vitae scelerisque purus Non eget Mauri jaculis nec arcu Nec venenatis gravida sagittis fusce pharetrâ c. Hor. lib. 1. Ode 22. better armed then Goliah in brasse and Iron And who is he that will harme you if ye be followers of that which is good 1 Pet. 3. 13. As no flattery can heale a bad conscience so no cruelty can hurt a good conscience As steps in the wayes of righteousness are the most gracious so stripes for the works of righteousnesse are the most glorious A pious Martyr is more renowned then a bloody persecutor Righteousnesse is a brest plate to a man in doing and it 's a Crowne to a man in suffering Our integrity will not secure us Falsa crimina piis objectat et impingit Diabolus eosque suspicione et infamiâ aspergit Abel ubi prius pag 259. from infamy the choicest professors have had black markes in the worlds Calenders but though it do not keep us from being shot yet it will keep us from being hurt The Lord taketh my part with them that help me therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me Psal 118. 7. God will either find a hand to hold off suffering or an arme to uphold in suffering Though you be as sheep amongst wolves he will keep you from rending and though you be as Ships amongst waves he will keep you from drowning be not too quick to bury Christus quidem rex ille gloriae magnificum palatium scil Ecclesiam in p●trâ firmissimâ aedificavit et circuit muro divinae protectionis Idem pag. 252. a church before she be dead it 's time enough to dresse your selves in sables when you are invited to her funeralls Consult that saying Isa 43. 3. For I am the Lord thy God the holy one of Israel thy Saviour I gave Aegypt for thy ransome Aethiopia and Seba for thee God will pluck up the tares to preserve the wheat as he ript up the womb of Egypt to secure the fruit of Israel as Constantine impoverished all his Empire to enrich Constantinople Noah was sound alone when the

the bark of fidelity there 's no grace doth so glorifie God as faith and there 's no grace that God doth so glorifie as faith Will you see how two gracious persons dash their feet against temptations Lord if thou hadst been here my Brother had not dyed John 11. 32. As if Christ could not have saved his life when he was absent as well as when he was present and have sent him health as well as have brought him health But doe they stop at the first step no but march on further in this distrustfull Road vers 9. Lord by this time he stinketh As if the physitians potion came too late and the Grave would not make any surrender though Christ commands the release of its prisoner but their unbeliefe stunk more in his nostrills then their brothers body did in theirs And being not weak in faith he considered not his own body now dead when he was about an hundred years old neither yet the deadnesse of Sarahs womb Rom. 4. 19. Skilfull swimmers are not afraid to goe above their depth whereas young learners grope for the ground and are loth to stirre from the bank-side Faith is not only the instrument to Fides salvifica est viva radiae sanctitatis ma nus os et oculus filiorum dei vinculum quo summo bono per Christum nobis unitum unimur Id. conc 15. in limine receive the righteousnesse of Christ for our justification but it 's the instrument to receive the holiness of Christ for our sanctification Of his fullnesse we receive grace for grace John 1. 16. But how do we receive it Even by Faith Faith unites the soul to Christ and as by a pipe laid close to the mouth of a fountaine water is carried to our houses for the supply of the whole family so by faith is derived to the soule in abundance a supply for all its exigences He that beleeves out of his belly shall flow rivers of living waters Joh. 7. 38. Hence it is that when the Saints would advance to a high pitch in other graces they pray for an increase of this grace Lord increase our faith Luk. 17. 5. What the root sucks from the earth it soon disperces amongst the branches In faith there is such an efficacy Fides est armaturamentis et sicut scuto repellimus hostiles ictus sic fidem opponimus falsis diaboli suggestionibus Staplet in Dom. 4. ●ost Epiph. Tex 2. that it 's able to rout the whole body of impiety that not one lust stands in its unbroken strength Sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under the Law but under grace Rom. 6. 14. Lusts they may stirre like wounded souldiers on their knees they may rally like broken Troops but shall never be Masters of the field where faith is seene Faith it doth not shoot paper pellets but Cannon bullets mans weakness can easily build the rotten fabrick of sin up but its faiths strength which can only throw it down As lusts would not let Christ live without us so Christ will not let lusts live within us Holding the Mistery of faith in a pure conscience Tim. 3. 9. Fides est cardo super quem vertitur porta Caeli situla per quam hauritur aqua vitae annulus ille nuptialis quo mens Deo desponsatur c. Arrowsin Tact. sacr l. 2. cap. 7. Sect. 13. This heavenly Manna it 's laid up in a golden Pot if faith be a precious pearle a good conscience is the Cabinet in which it s lockt Faith comes out of the warrs a conqueror when fear is foyled and taken prisoner it 's as potent to keep us from falling under temptations as to keep us from fainting under afflictions The body of Adam it is a Rack for sufferings but the bosome of Abraham is an Ark for resting A Beleever is like Joseph though the Archers sorely grieved him and shot at him yet his bow abode in strength and all his Arrowes were safe in the Quiver Christians never was the Tallent of faithfullness wrapped up in the Napkin of idleness He is a rich man that lives upon his wealth but he is a righteous man that lives upon his faith The first poysonous breath which was drawn by Eves lips was sent in those words Yea hath God said ye shall not eat This was the Traitors gate thorow which all sin entered into the heart A Tree is easily felled when its root is loosned Unbeleef it doth not only choake the bullets of wrath which are sent out of the fiery mouth of the Law but it damps all the motions of grace which comes from the still voyce of the Gospell All the offers of reconciliation which are made to unbeleeving persons they are like sparks of fire falling into a river of water that are extinguisht by it as soon as ever they light upon it Fifthly Would you do more then others then resolve more then others It is the resolute Christian that is the excellent christian An action that is well resolved is an action that is halfe performed God looks more at our wills then at our works The very first fruits of conversion they grow upon the Tree of holy resolution I will arise and go to my father Luke 15. 15. Arrows weakly shot fall short of their marks Many stand watching on what dyall the Sun shines and on what earth the cloud drops they stand as spectators on the shoare whilst the Vessell is tossed on the Sea Shame is that which ambicious nature abhors and danger is that which timorous nature declines Reformation is an Icy path and cowardly spirits love to have it well beaten by others before they will set a foot in it themselves Firme resolutions are like Rocks against which the waves may beat and strike but cannot move and alter As our prayers manifest what we desire that God should do for us so our purposes manifest what we our selves are desirous to do for God The holiness of a Saints life may be resembled to a babes birth In every birth there 's three things A Conceiving a Travelling and a bringing forth So there 's a conceiving of holinesse in our understandings by way of illumination there 's a Travelling of holinesse in our wills by way of resolution and there 's a bringing forth of holiness in our lives by way of operation Till you attain to firme resolutions you will never be free from great temptations Look as it is with the ill humours of the body they flock and resort to the crazy part so it is with Sathans assaults they will be ever frequent where the heart is ready to imbrace them or not resolved to resist them The Laws Curse is the press-money to force a servile spirit but the love of God is the by as of a Volunteer Your purposes and resolutions must be like water from a fountaine that flowes of it self and not like water from a pit that is fetcht forth by

artificiall Engines Some never take up any resolutions but when they are under sharp afflictions these are like those Goates that never give any milke till they are stung Like children under the rod they make fair promises but all these blossomes falls from the Tree without bearing of any fruits when they are raised from their sick-bed pains they fall from their sick-bed vowes These are like Ice that thaws in the Sun but freezes in the shade They hang their lusts on the Cross for a time that they may be curbed but take them down again that they may not be crucified what is this but to put a Lion in chains and then let him loose again There must be a harmony between your resolutions and your conversations What shall we vow against our sins and then sin against our vowes This were to take the wages of one Master to do the work of another to make our promises unto God and our performances to the Devill Sacred vowes bind us to obedience but sinfull vowes bind us to repentance Christians say not that you have noble blood running in your veins except you can prove your pedigrees by heroick spirits That 's the Fifth 6. Would you do more then others then deny your selves more then others Either we must lay self aside or else God will lay us aside What can any true Israelite see in this Dagan of the Philistins that the Ark of God should fall before it Self seeking saith one was born in heaven but forgetting by what way she fell from thence she could never find the road thither again If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me This is the basis or foundation on which we must build the whole fabrick of our profession Sinfull selfe is to be destroyed and naturall self is to be denyed A little will serve a man that is strong in grace much will but serve a man that is weak in grace but nothing will serve a man that is voyd of grace As we must lay out all in the Cause of God so we must lay down all at the call of God But to close up all The Elder Israelites they mourned to see how short the glory of the second Temple was of the glory of the first I fear that we have cause to mourn to see how far short our professors come in purity of their fore fathers Behold I come quickly my reward is with me to give every man according as his works shall be Revel 22. 12. This very expression may much excite to eminency in Religion He that doth most shall receive most the more glory you bring to God the more glory you shall have from God The clearer the lamp of grace burns on earth the brighter the Sun of glory shall shine in Heaven Though your pilgrimage may be full of bitternesse yet your heritage will be full of blessednesse Let such golden spurs put you upon your full careers Mans excellency is to be measured by the standard of his usefullnesse The Sun and Moon those fountains of light and guids of time fulfill their courses in a shorter season when the dimmer planets are longer wheeling O that it might be said of you as it was said of her Prov. 31. 29. 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