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A54483	Sermons and devotions old and new revived and publisht as an oblation of gratitude to all such of the nobility, gentry and clergy as retain the noble conscience of having ministred to the weak condition of the author, now aged 73 : the sermons at Court were before the war brake forth betwixt King and Parliament : also a discourse of duels, being a collection and translation of other mens opinions, with some addition of his own : and this in special dedicated for their use ... / by Thomas Pestel ...	Pestell, Thomas, 1584?-1659?	1659 (1659)	Wing P1675; ESTC R39086	197,074	355

perfect lacking nothing Alas if the unprofitable servant be cast out what shall become of the Malignant the Covetous the Proud the Luxurious How are we then to think of that triple charge of Pasce of Jacobs enduring frost and heat of the shepheards keeping watch by night and then of Leo Rugiens to devour both Pastor and Flock And how are they able to resist if we assist not unless we exhort rebuke exhort and minister a word of consolation to every soul that is weary and then the people to be swift to hear How precious is the treasure we bring though in earthen vessels Is it not the Word of God we bring and offer you To mens words we owe temporary belief if they speak wisely and a Resignation of our Judgements till we hear them out But to the Word of God which is diffused into a Sermon or else woe to him that makes it we owe an absolute Resignation and perpetual captivity Take heed then of contempt or wanton ranging after an heap of such Teachers as are after our own lusts lest we cause God to withold this bread from Heaven and endanger the famishing of our souls Let England remember the error of the Jewish Church once the Jewel and peculiar of the Lord of Hosts the defection of the Romish the Degeneration and then the demolition and abolition of Antioch Ephesus Corinth and many others O think in time for we draw very near it of this peoples sin here at the twelfth and thirteenth verses They held the Table of the Lord contemptible and snuffed at it perchance respecting the gorgeous Idols of the Gentiles In the same corrupt affection as many carnal Gospellers not ashamed to let men hear their wishes for the stately and triumphant shews again of Masse Dirges Processions Pilgrimages God hath blest the Land and Church even to the stupor and envy of our Neighbours with abundance of the Gospel of peace and the blessing of God in his Ordinance and with many curious and exact work-men Jewelers of souls and will we not bless the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever Will we not prize this unsearchable Riches of Christ Shall we rather strive to quench and do despite to the Spirit of his Grace by despising Prophecying and like Swine and Dogs trample upon and turning again rend and tear such as pour these precious Pearls before us stoning them that are sent unto us with hard and bitter censures If the ministration of the Law was glorious what is that of the Gospel Examine it Is it not the Power and Wisdom of God and in the Administration of the Sacrament is not the bread we break the communion of the body and the cup we reach out into you from God the communion of the blood of Jesus Are not the offices of the Church such as distinguish us from Dogs and Infidels Let me then first creep a little into mount Ebal and bitterly curse all those thas have evil will at Sion and then flie into Gerizim and cheerfully bless with blessings of the right band Praise and Honor and Salvation upon the heads of all those Christian Kings Princes and people of all conditions who in their several places seek the advancement of the Truth of God and the encouragement of his faithfull servants while their own hearts strike them with the conscience and guilt of maliciousness and propenseness to Idolatry or schismatick Innovations that dare not say Amen 3. We come briefly to the third day to which we must all come the day of death when Gods own having past the fervor of youth and clean escaped the flesh and worlds contagions and the fiery darts of Satan having in short done what they came for they descend into the grave with their bodies like a rick of corn into the Barn in due season and their spirits return to God that gave them when even death is to them precious as well for rest and security as for that new Newness of life which then begins in death clearing to them that whereof Euripides doubted whether to die were indeed to live and contrary for so St. Paul determines it Christ is to me life and death is to me advantage and therefore desired he this day of his dissolution wherein he might be more perfectly united to his Jesus For these his holy Jewels are never so well set as when inset in the joy and Glory of their Lord and Master which makes that in such souls even the approaching towards death fils and purifies with high and heavenly apprehensions as it is in natural motions nearer still to the center or as in Diggers in a Myne who work most earnestly when near the Treasure But if it happen that any of these Jewels be so far dignified as his Lord accepts his life in sacrifice by Martyrdome consummate in sealing the Truth of Jesus with his blood how doth this add fresh ornament and addition of honor to these Servants of God as came to pass with that Protomartyr St. Stephen first made up a Jewel after his Master those stones the Persecutors threw surrounding his head as a precious Crown of Glory However they are all that die in the Lord enfranchised from those chains of corruption which abide the best alive for we dare not boast our Saints as Bellarmine doth Gouraga or his Fellow doth Phil. Nerius who was fain to pray God to depart from him and draw back his mind from heavenly things No we have learnt another way of humble acknowledgement from St. Paul I know that in me that is in my flesh dwels no good thing and St. James In many things we sin all and the day of absolute absolution from sin is not till this day of dissolution wherein these Jewels by death come to take possession of everlasting life 4. The last is the last of dayes Novissimus and the day of Renovation which none but the ancient of days can know and of which also there is a mixt mention in the beginning of this fourth chapter The day of the Lord comes as a furnace and Rev. 6. The great day of his wrath called the day of the Lord Jesus and the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ Rom. 16. The first day we spake on the day of affliction and the last we spake on the day of death do roule up sometime all together It befals alike saith the Preacher to the clean and unclean to him that swears and to him that fears an oath and for the second the day of powerfull preaching the word Hypocrites elude it The devil can transform himself into an Angil of Light and his zanies may make a fair shew in the flesh saith the Scripture But at this great day shall be a real Partition of Sheep and Goats of Wheat and Tares which yet flock and grow together then he will gather his elect from the four winds and declare his mighty Power in glorifying both their souls and

in essence and properties And as lending thus his light to others averts no beam from us by reason of his full administration so nor the opacity nor incapacity of our Spirit can uneffectuate his power but that as our knowledge from a meer vacuity and brutish ignorance he brings up and raises to angel-like perfection so he can encrease and multiply that grain of precious faith to such a tree as shall lift up its Crown and reach the stars and apprehend and receive him there who is both the Author and Finisher of our Faith and Salvation Lastly Fix on what the school calls Convenientius for a surplusage to make this Cup o● Consolation brim-full and run over God was tied to no necessity absolute of sending his Son He could have saved us some other way yet this was so convenient that they dare think that if a man had not faln yet Christ had been incarnate for the demonstration of two things Gods infinite Power and Bounty His Power was not manisest so fully in Creation because no infinite Act and his bounteous and boundless love in it self apt for Communion had not yet come near enough to his beloved Creature in that our first Off-spring and universal Derive of being his generation Then a Christ Convenientius for man too more steadily to ●asten and anchor on Christ by faith and hope more to enlarge his knowledge in the proclaim of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here the Dignity to which sinfull flesh is exalted and thereby more enflame his love saltem redamare to relove him that so loved us in Christ Now observe in this second Edition of Grace and Mercy in this great work of the holy Ghost all these are reprinted and sealed in good assurance by the evidence and earnest and testimony which it gives to the bargain of thy salvation And to conclude this point As Christ was not sent till the fulness of time not presently after the fall a sense and discovery of sins power must precede ere we find our need of his powerful blood and man first sent to reason and to the Law under School-masters to bring us to Christ so the Spirit of Grace falls down in infinite Power and in strictest Union and yet performs the work in measure and by degrees which it could do by one Ransack and Destruction of all sin and infirmitie at once But for convenience and fit appliance to the Receiver it proceeds leisurely to fill our narrow vessels and stays that very season till the water be troubled mans heart made ready by remorse when he perceives himself sinking and is at it with Save Lord we perish and all this that the excellency of the power might be and might be felt and acknowledged to be of God and not of us By this time if you be content to taste this Cup so brewed I yet have no Power so to minister it not alone It must be mingled with both the former and if so it please you I shall be bold upon your Patience to urge and press the health of all three together AND first For conveniency in relation to our common Lord whose Cup it is The world hath her Cup of pleasure and she of Babylon hers of Fornication and what swilling in of these Even Kings of the earth drunk And shall we startle or scruple at this Cup of Christ What! Sit at my right hand in Glory and shame to taste a little shame and bitterness of a Cross and Cup which I have born and drunk off before you Remember 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is in the bottom what if it should make you sweat and pant in getting off this health Do but think how oft you have enforced your selves to take down those healths falsly so called and suffer then the word of exhortation which presses you down upon your knees to beg this pledge at the hand of your Soveraign Lord and Maker as his servant did Pota me Domine torrente voluptatis saith Austin for so you shall find it in the end though you should be compelled for Christs sake and the Gospels to drink it blood warm and in a fiery tryal So much the sweeter by his Grace and Power seasoning it who by his own example hath so begun it to us Secondly A Convenience in reference to our selves This Cup must down or else another that is worse and there is but another and that is in the hand of the Lord too wherein the wine is red and it is full mixt and the wicked of the earth must drink and wring out the dregs of Gods wrath If we would scape that drench and bane of soul and body which but begins the torment of those damned Spirits who must for ever drink it burning hot in a lake of fire and brimstone Resolve and speedily to taste and consider how gracious and sweet his offered Mercies are in Christ and if we would shun that Cup of his vengeance which runs out for the seirceness take then to day while it is called to day and while we are called to day this Cup of his Mercy which runs over for the sulness 2. As thus for Conveniency so is this Recipe to be prest on all for necessity absolute Wo to me if I do not preach or preach it dully or lazily and wo unto you if you receive it not as the unum necessarium For shall we need any more Receipts What would be given for a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Elixar a Cath●●con to cure all diseases of the body and beside renue and preserve health youth beauty and restore them still fairer and fresher then before Such a Merchant might have all the Lords and Ladies and all the Kings of the earth his Clients and Patients Alas Is our soul and inward beauty less precious Why Here it is that will cure all sinfull distempers Restore thy soul her native Candor and sweetness and ingenuity making thee young and lustie as an Eagle Make all their eyes that be of a right aerie able by a lively faith to look up and contemplate that sun where the body of that light is there will the Eagles be gathered together and that body is here 'T is the very Vitis and Vitals and the Corps of my Text. Let me not lose you then Be gathered still in the continuance of your gracious and patient Attentions For now the last way I am to urge this health for necessity respective on those first that deny the Lord that bought them either directly as the Arrian and Socinian do or indirectly yet desperately would undermine our faith and sap out of the corner stone on which all relies by ruining some other parts of the building These boast themselves the rational discoursers of the age such as Saint Paul means in that question Where is the Disputer of this world For these dare dispute openly against the Creation related by Moses and justified by Christ and quarrel the souls immortality and the bodies resurrection which

Pharisees by Christs own Testimony religious and yet wicked People may draw near with their lips and their hearts far enough off If thou hast Faith saith St. James let us see it Let your Light shine How why in action shine or else to bare Profession our Saviour threats a round and proportional Answer At that day I will profess to you I know you not Objection But will the weak soul say May I trust to these Answers I may I first trust to my Repentance I feel indeed the weight of sin and finding the offence of an infinite Justice I am horribly afraid dejected like David when he asked his sad soul Why art thou so heavy I am so so wounded pierced struck thorow and my heart rebounds into my eyes I weep and I crie mightily for Mercy but can I hope it Is not sin a Serpent a Sea a Fire a Poison Was I not stung by this Serpent drowned in this sea miserably schorcht by this fire envenomed in the whole Mass of my nature with this corruption before I was born And since alas I have added to this Ocean put fewel to this fire help to infix this sting and work into my heart the contagion and then am I able to resolve against sin to deny ungodliness to reject the Tempter to give my lusts their final answer I find indeed natural men moral men when they will compound an happy man put inthis one ingredient Responsare cupidinibus sibi imperiosus enabling him to check and controul to command and subdue rebellious Passions by the dictates of rectified Reason and their several answers to diverse corrupt affections are enough to shame me and all that profess themselves Christians But were they able to keep their own rules or am I able What to hate sin so as I ought with a perfect hatred I flie some enormous vices for fear of Laws But Tolle periclum Jam vaga prosiliet c. And though I know there is death in the Pot the wages of sin is no better though I pull the fruit and taste it and prove it to be nought but Gall and Bitterness nay barrenness and shame yet such is my madness to pursue a new shame and seek death in the error of life falling like a Bird or a Beast Nay no brid no beast would so oft fall into the same snare same pit into the same sin whereof I have again and again repented me What then shall I do Shall I rely on my second answer and trust in my own righteousness Some bold men dare do so and dare teach others so dare boast a stock and treasure of mercy and satisfaction But Lord I find the language of Canaan thy holy Word and the cries of thy holy servants far otherwise I find thy Bernard say Nolo Horreo meritum Thy David O Lord If thou enter into judgement no flesh shall be justified and thy blessed St Paul I find another Law haling me c. Rom. 7. and therefore I hear him crying ripe to say O miserable man who shall deliver me These are yet the Ejaculations of an humble soul asking seeking knocking at the gate of heaven and this very debating is a fruit of the Spirit growing on to a perfect answer In mens consultings and resolvings for worldly affairs they may they do usually mis-count miscarry fortune choaks their artillery But in these holy provisions the end is ever gracious success glorious If the Jailor in the Acts and St. Peters Hearers come but to a wounded conscience to be prickt at their hearts and cry What shall I do Mark what follows and how fast it follows Believe Repent be baptized and saved Saved How by Believing in him that is able to frame a sufficient Answer He that made them wonder at his gracious answers and to whom no man was able to answer a word Who was that and where is he to be had If any man sin any man that finds himself a sinner Let him put his answer to this Advocate for we have him saith St. John we have an Advocate Jesus Christ the righteous He is the Propitiation for our sins Take then thy shield of faith and quench all the fiery darts of the devil This is the new and living way of answering God by his Son by the blood of Jesus Hebrews 10. May not then the Christian Believer have access with boldness For shall both bleed for sin or shall he bleed in vain Peccavi peccatum grande saith he I have committed an hainous sin yet on my Faith and Repentance I will go to God and say Lord thou canst have but Blood Merit Sacrifice Satisfaction exact Obedience Take then thy Son Jesus He is all these and all these to me for he is mine I receive him by faith and I find comfort hope lively hope full assurance in him I will not therefore flie with Cain and cry with him My sin is greater No thy mercy rejoyces against sin and now therefore there is no condemnation to them that be in Christ Jesus My answer then to thy Bill is it was torn when his body was torn it is cancelled and was nailed to his Cross My debt was great but is paid to the utmost farthing Thy wrath let it be a cup he hath drunk it of Let it be more a whole Wine-press he hath trode it alone I will then put on my Lord Jesus and come in the rayment of my elder Brother and be roab'd in his innocency and canst thou then deny me No thou canst not thou mayest as well deny thy self For if I have it fair to shew under thy own hand Every gracious Promise in thy Gospel is such yea this was thine own Act in my salvation For God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself But may I not prodigally and presumptuously fling away my soul in a vain confidence of Mercy Yes many do so that will do nothing themselves not when they have the assistance and proffer of help from Heaven Therefore I will compound and put all these answers together I will trust to my Saviours merit But I will repent too and pray too and work too and so work out mine own salvation with fear and trembling And though I have no Holiness of mine own and without it no seeing thee at the Day of Judgement yet thou the God of my peace wilt sanctifie me against that day 1 Thess 5. O blessed and full answer now and O blessed condition of such happy souls so far from affrightment at thought of the Judges coming that they shall then rejoyce and lift up their faces and in the mean time are of the number and communion of those Saints that love his appearing looking for and hasting to the comming of their Lord in glory calling and crying Bow the Heavens and come down and Lord how long And come Lord Jesus come quickly I have done with the explication of my Text. There is a fourfold application First In general to