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A63826	A good day vvell improved, or Five sermons upon Acts 9. 31 Two of which were preached at Pauls, and ordered to be printed. To which is annexed a sermon on 2 Tim. 1. 13. Preached at St. Maries in Cambridge, on the Commencement Sabbath, June 30. 1650. By Anthony Tuckney D.D. and Master of St Johns College in Cambridge.	Tuckney, Anthony, 1599-1670.	1656 (1656)	Wing T3216A; ESTC R222406	116,693	318

so a Minister or a Christian even in his forced absence edifieth and that it may be more then his Heb. 11. 4. presence sometimes would This therefore is his duty 2. Hence also take notice of Gods wisdom power faithfulness and mercy who knoweth how to provide for his peoples good by very unlikely means as here for his Churches peace by the absence of those that preached the Gospel of peace It is the absence of God onely which is the certain and necessary cause of his peoples disquiet who whilest he is but present may as here in the Text have rest when best either Men or Ministers are absent How little need hath God of our best help in his work and how all-sufficient is he who can do all for us when all outward helps are wanting He could at the first make the earth bring forth before there Gen. 2 5. was any rain to water it or man to till it and here we find him laying down his people to their rest after Pauls sun-set 4. I adde a 4th time which the Text also affordeth when God after trouble giveth his Churches rest and that is when the persecution and trouble is grown up to the height and the burden of it now proveth insupportable Such was that of this Church which ushered in this peace here mentioned for besides the other Jewes rage little Saul made great havock of the Church Act. 9. 3. and being as he himself confesseth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of his fathers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hyperbolically or beyond measure Gal. 1. 13 14. he persecuted the Church of God and wasted it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word is and that is quasi grassator praedo as Hierom interpreteth it an unmercifull spoiler and cruel enemy he layd all wast Very many and as sad are the expressions which we meet with in this book of the Acts to this purpose which set out his rage against Christ and his Churches At the Protomartyr Stevens death we read Act. 7. 58. that the witnesses who stoned him laid down their clothes that they might be more ready and nimble at that devilish exploit at his feet who though he was as is conceived by some of the Ancients both coaetaneus cognatus both of the same age and also of the same kindred with Steven his Cousen yet withall Being naturally acris fervidi ingenii as one saith of a quick spirit And also in the heat of his young blood And this yet more heated with zeal for his Jewish traditions yea and as some think with emulation of Stevens eminency which amongst young men of the same rank and age whilest they live together especially is too frequent and ordinary He grew so hot that as he himself confesseth Act. 22. 20. he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 two very sad words the latter of which signifieth that from his soul he was very well pleased with it and approved it and the other in the proper sense of it telleth you that he was not onely a by-stander looking on and taking content in it but that he was Dux choragus a principal Actor and superintendent in that bloody action so as that although he did not cast one stone at him yet in true Interpretation as Austin observeth he stoned Vt in manibus omnium ipse lapidare videretur Serm. 1. de Sanctis himby their hands Nor was this heat of his or the other Jewes rage quenched with Stephens blood but it flamed out to a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to a very great persecution of the whole Church Act. 8. 1. so as if Dorotheus say true no fewer then two thousand disciples more were put to death about the time of Stephens Martyrdome that the Scripture saith not but this it doth that all the rest were scattered abroad v. 1. whilest Saul made havock of the Church v. 3. the word here is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 answering to his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before Gal. 1. 13. and a both express such a vastation as a wild bore maketh in a vineyard when he rooteth up all or as a cruel enemy when he hath new broken into a besieged town or city who with fire and sword layeth all waste Nor his onely to them that are found in armes or abroad in the streets as is usuall in warre but those whom the savage Souldier spareth this then persecutor Butchereth for he entreth into the houses nay into every house 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 domatim the words are and there without pity of age or sex haleth and draggeth men and women into prison vers 3. Nor is this rage yet quieted for chap. 9. you read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He still and yet further breathes out threatnings and slaughter against the Disciples of the Lord like some roaring Lion or fiery-breathed Dragon he belcheth and spits out fire v. 1. and gets a blood inquisition Commission of the high Priest to reach as far as Damascus which they compute to be no less then five days journey from Jerusalem How fast and how far do they go whom the devil and their own malice drive that if he might finde any he meant none should escape him of that way whether men or women none it seemeth must be pitied by him he might bring them bound to Jerusalem and why to Jerusalem not onely because there was the chief Judicature of such matters but withall because there the Judges were more enraged and there he had more power and where he had been binding before and delivering them into prison yea and did persecute them even unto the death chap. 22. 4 5. And when they were put to death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he gave his voice against them not it may be as a Judge he had not got up to the Bench but as an Informer or by-stander at the barre he earnestly manifested his approbation answerable to his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before mentioned or as a busie Pursivant or officer who carried the sentence of the Court that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may signifie and looked to it to see it put in execucution Acts 26. 10. To which add onely what there followeth v. 11. And I punished them oft in every synagogue and compelled them to blaspheme and being exceedingly mad against them I persecuted them even unto strange cities Every word almost hath a very heavy Accent and Emphasis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I punished them and you may be sure it was not lightly he laid on load But you might think to prevent his own wearinesse it was but seldom nay 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it was very often we that are so soon weary in Gods service even when weary are yet unweariable in the Devils drudgery Isa 41. 12. But although it was oft in one place yet that little body could not be every where yes the more nim●le to skip up and down and therefore it 's added that