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A48929 An olive-leaf, or, A bud of the spring viz. Christ's resurrection and its end, viz. the conversion of sinners and a Christians compleat reliefe / opened by Nicholas Lockyer ... Lockyer, Nicholas, 1611-1685. 1650 (1650) Wing L2798; ESTC R31562 34,017 92

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perisheth but for that which endureth to everlasting life which the sonne of man shall give unto you for him hath God the Father sealed Iohn 6.27 i. poured grace into his lips all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge Collof 2.3 and maintained this full unction in its full vigor to be present and equall alwaies alike for quicknesse of understanding and aptnesse to action and to successe of action in all his undertakings which broad seale of Heaven God did put upon Christ with as great delight as this state of worth and so sent him in all fulnesse of endowments and with all fulnesse of content and triumph See all these Isa 42.1 Behold my servant whom I uphold mine elect in whom my soule delighteth I have put my Spirit upon him he shall bring forth judgement to the Centiles Here is Christs Oyle and his fresh Oyle as the Psalmist hath the expression to wit Christs unction and his upholding in this unction to be equall in vigor at all times unto all actions which differenceth his unction from ours for even a gracious heart amongst us is very unequall in his abilities and performances one day strong another day weake one day wise and another day and in another thing a beast and thirdly here is the delight of the father in sealing the sonne with this broad and beautifull seale which is all the glory of his fathers house cast upon him for what more could be done for Christ to make him an effectuall and honourable Saviour And withall you have in this one verse one thing more a pregnant proofe of this seale he shall bring forth judgement to the Gentiles this expression could not possibly follow at this height if Christs seale had not such glorious things in it as I have told you if his unction were not upheld at this height to be equall in his motion unto all undertakings the necessary certainty of his productions would faile or at least be in danger so to doe that one could not with that freedome and boldnesse as here God doth say this of Christ behold he shall doe this and he shall doe that A like place for this great point see Isa 45.13 I have raised him up in righteousnesse and I will direct all his waies here is Christs fresh Oyle and I will direct all his waies we though the people of God and sealed to in our measure yet in many of our waies are left of God unto our selves Christ is in all his waies directed by his father the dew of his youth is alwaies youthfull alwaies under a full sayle of assistance of the Spirit that is upon him and so alwaies equally able to any worke in our behalfe or else this could not follow in the verse at this heighth which it doth he shall build my City and he shall let goe my captives c. A like place to both these as a glorious type of this glorious truth is in Psal 89.20 21 22 23 c. I have found David my servant with my holy Oyle have I anoynted him then observe in the next verse his fresh Oyle and in what height of expression it is expressed With whom my hand shall be established mine arme also shall strengthen him the enemy shall not exact upon him I will beat down his foes before his face and plague them that hate him c. I humbly conceive the glory of Christs unction to be here gloriously shadowed with whom Gods hand was established and by which made to all things invisible as David to some things visible still prosperous and carrying all before him as one and the same at the day of death for vigor and strength unto war as when he first tooke the field Thus sent Christ is able certainly able to blesse which is the next word to be opened Sent him to blesse you c. i. to restore the ruined condition of man Bana which signifies to build is used by way of metaphor in the Old Testament to signifie to blesse to note what properly it is for Christ to blesse man to build up his ruined state 〈◊〉 pull down all old pieces and 〈◊〉 and build up all from the ground new not to leave this worke of pulling down old and rotten remainders til all be down and not ceasing building until all be made new as right and tight as beautifull and glorious as at first and more bigger roomes bigger lights better situation and out-let Elephas supposing Ioh to be like an old house rotten and ruinous outward and inward observe what he saith if thou return to the Almighty thou shalt be built up or blessed thou shalt put away iniquity farre from thy Tabernacle But what blessednesse is is mentioned in the following words namely to have our sinnes pardoned and our hearts changed which doe inseparably goe together and therefore one put to comprehend both as here To turn every one of you from your iniquities The generality of the Jewes conversion is twice spoken of in one chapter Rom. 11.26 And so all Israel shall be saved as it is written There shall come out of Sion a deliverer and shall turn away ungodlinesse from Jacob V. 32. for God hath concluded them a● 〈◊〉 unbeliefe that he might have me●…●…n all O the depth of the riches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God c. Of which language the Prophets in the old Testament are full And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest of them saith the Lord for I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember their sinne no more Ier. 31.34 And yet this conversion when it shall be accomplished will not be so generall as strictly and individually to involve all for many of the Jewes after these promises are accomplished notwithstanding the glorious testimony God shall then give of his Sonne shal remaine in their unbeliefe and rejection of him as appeares by these Scriptures compared together Dan. 12.1 2. And there shall be a time of troubles such as never was and at that time thy people shall be delivered every one that shall be found written in the book and many of them that sleepe in the dust of the earth shall awake some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt To which adde V. 10. Many shall be purified and made white and tried but the wicked shall doe wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand The Scripture cals the comming in of the Jewes a resurrection so doth the Prophet here but this resurrection will be but partiall Many of them which sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake and many shall be purified and made white not all but every one that is found written in the book that is the election of God will distinguish and carry it still even then when they shall come in most plenty