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A97360	The works of the judicious and learned divine Dr. Thomas Taylor, part 1. sometimes preacher of Aldermanbury, London. Published by himself in his life time, in several smaller volumes, now collected together into three volumes in fol. two of which are here bound together. The first volume containing, I. An exposition on the 32. Psalm ... The second volume containing, I. An exposition of the parable of the sower and seed, on Luk. 8. ... The third volume is in the press, and will containe in it, I. The progress of sts, to full holinesse ...	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1659 (1659)	Wing T560A	683,147	498

that this was a convincing argument if he could perswade his hearers that hee did deliver nothing but prophetical Doctrine for all men Jews and Gentiles were easily perswaded that Moses and the Prophets spake directly from God yea and the most blinded and wilful Jews at this day profess that if wee can prove Christ the Messiah from Moses and the Prophets they will beleeve in him so as in great wisdome did the Apostle adde this testimony to all the former knowing that that is the onely sound ground of teaching when men can bee perswaded that what they hear is uttered from the mouth of God as by this testimony his hearers were Now in the verse we have three thing to consider of 1 The generality of this testimony That all the Prophets bear witnesse unto him 2 The scope and end of their witness that men might beleeve in his Name 3 The fruit of this beleef that beleevers might receive remission of sin A proof that all the Prophets witness unto Christ For the first wee will by a brief induction make it appear that all the Prophets bare witness unto Christ and then gather some observations from it To begin with Moses who by Christ his own confession writ of him Joh. 5.46 In Genesis the first thing after the creation and fall is the main promise that the seed of the woman should break the Serpents head Exodus setteth out Christ our Passeover Leviticus in all those sacrifices pointeth out Christ our Sacrifice Numbers setteth before our eyes Christ our brasen Serpent lifted up upon the Cross Deuteronomy describeth Christ our chief Prophet whom whosoever will not hear he must dye the death Deut. 8.18 19. Act. 3.21 Joshuah beareth his name and most lively resembleth him in slaying the enemies of Gods people and bringing them into the promised land The Judges were all Saviours and types of him The book of Ruth sheweth he family whence hee sprung Samuel Kings and Chronicles his Genealogy and the very persons of whom hee descended especially David and Solomon both eminent types of him Ezrah and Nehemiah built the second Temple into which hee was to enter and so to become the glory of it as both Haggai and Malachy foretold Job knew that his Redeemer lived and that he should see him at last on the earth David in the Psalms acknowledged that the stone which the builders refused was become the chief stone of the corner and expresseth the peircing of his hands and feet Solomon in the Proverbs describeth his wisdome and eternity In the Canticles his contract and espousals with the Church Isay is called the Evangelical Prophet than whom no Evangelist could more lively express his Person his Doctrin his Life Death Burial Resurrection and Ascension that hee rather seemed to write an History of something past than a Prophecy of things to come Jeremy plainly stileth him the Lord of Righteousnesse Jer. 23. Ezekiel in all his dark shadows figureth out the government of Christ from point to point Daniel reckoneth the very year and time when the Messiah shall be slain at the end of whose seventy weeks Christ was put to death The small Prophets testify of him also with as joint consent 1 Malachy mentioneth with him his forerunner John Baptist 2 Micha describeth the place of his birth Micah 5.2 And thou Bethlem of Ephrata art little among the thousands of Judah yet out of thee shall hee come forth that shall be ruler in Israel whose goings forth have been from the beginning and from everlasting 3 Zachary nameth the place of his education which was Nazaret Zach. 6.12 There must hee grow that must build the Temple of the Lord. 4 Haggai prophecyeth of his comming into his Temple and purging it 5 Nahum wisheth Judah to behold on the mountains the feet of him that declareth and publisheth peace Nahum 1.15 which tydings none can bring but through Jesus Christ the prince of peace 6 Obadiah promiseth to Judah and Jerusalem such Saviours as should advance and set up the Kingdome of the Messiah Obad. v. 21. and so the Kingdome shall bee the Lords that is Christs who shall reign in his Church for ever and of whose Kingdome there shall bee no end 7 Jonas in his own person preached his Death Burial and Resurrection in that hee was swallowed of the Whale and lay three daies in the belly of it and in the third day was cast alive on dry Land 8 Hosea recordeth his triumph and victory over death Hos 13.14 O death I will bee thy death O Grave I will bee thy destruction 9 Habakkuk the sending out of his blessed Gospel into all the World by his Apostles so as all the earth should bee filled with the knowledge of God as the Waters cover the Sea 10 Joel foretelleth of his ascension and the pouring out of his Spirit upon all flesh Joel 2.28 11 Amos of the calling of the Gentiles a fruit of that ascension which hee calleth the ●●sing of the Tabernacle of David Amos 9.11 as James notably applyeth it Act. 15.16 12 Zephany shadoweth his second coming to judgement and sheweth what a fearful and terrible day it shall bee to all the wicked of the earth Thus have wee shortly seen all the Prophets witnessing unto the doctrine taught in this Sermon by our holy Apostle And that the chief aim and drift of all these Master builders was to lay this the main foundation of all our Religion that Jesus Christ the Son of Mary was the Son of God the true Messias the Lord of all and the onely Saviour and Redeemer of the World First note hence Consent of the Church to any doctrin to be received with these cautions what is the true consent which all Teachers must aim at in the delivery of any Doctrin unto the people of God namely the consent of the Prophets and Apostles it forceth not a Doctrin to bee Orthodox or Ancient for a man to say all the Fathers are of this mind which is the Popish cry for all their Heresies but to this Doctrin give all the Prophets and all the Apostles witnesse and therefore it is sound and perswasive Yet wee refuse not but challenge to the Doctrin which wee teach the consent of the ancient Church but with these cautions 1 With the Primitive and Apostolical Churches which as they were most ancient so were they the purest 2 With the Churches which were after them five or six hundred years so far forth as they consented in doctrin and discipline with the former for many Popish errors are ancient and the Apostle telleth us that Antichrist begun to work in a mystery even in their daies And some of the Fathers were carried into some superstitions and errors and so not espying the mystery helped up Antichrist whom they intended to hold down 3 The Holy Ghost hath revealed every Doctrin necessary to salvation more holily more clearly and more eloquently than all the Fathers put together who if they had

be sold by Elisha Wallis at the Golden Horse-shooe in the Old-Bayley 1659. TO THE Right Honourable and Learned Knight Sir ROBERT NANTON One of the Principal Secretaries unto His Excellent Majesty and of his Majesties Honourable Privy Counsel All the Blessings of this Life and a better SIR THat which Solomon teacheth in that one Aphorism often repeated wanted not apparent weight and moments of Reason saying Prov. 11.10 29.2 that In the prosperity of the Righteous the City rejoyceth For God being in Covenant with them for their sakes doth good to such as are joyned in the same Society with them for one Joseph all P●tiphars house was blessed and for one Paul all that were in the ship with him are saved yea good and vertuous men by their presence as Lot in Sodome by their Prayers as Moses in the breach and by their prudent Counsel as that poor wise man Eccl. 9.15 withstand the judgements of God and save the City for had there been found one good man all Jerusalem had been spared for his sake Again vertuous men advanced will confer all their honour and grace to the publick good they live not to themselves and theirs but take in the Church and Common-wealth as fellow-Commoners of all their goodness Mordecaies authority wrought publike deliverance to the whole Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Josephs advancement sustained the whole Land by opening the Garners in time of Famine The honour of one good man shall bee the grace of all good men his power the strength of many his greatness the raising of many as when one Mordecai is raised light and joy Ester 8.16 and gladness and Honour came to all the Jews Further good men honoured by God will honour God again and withstand his dishonour they will to their power provide that Gods worship bee erected that his Sabbaths be sanctified that true religion bee maintained that falshood and errors bee suppressed that publ●ke p●ace bee not disturbed that common justice bee not perverted est Gods favour bee discontinued Sine pli● cen●uplex murus rebus servandis parum est and his judgements let in Whence they are to bee esteemed the strongest Towers the thickest Walls the most impregnable Forts the surest Muniments and the stoutest Horsemen and Chariots of their Countrey yea the Wise man in one word saith much more Prov. 10.25 Justu● fundamentum mundi that the Righteous is a sure foundation upholding the whole World But why write I this or to your Honour surely as one who ever reverenced your worthy parts I could not but crave l●ave to express my self one of the City rejoycing and praising God in your honours prosperity and advancement and the rather because my self was an eye-witnesse how God led you through some of your younger years which were so studiously and commendably passed as this your later time fitly answereth that expectation which was then conceived of you You were then dear to our common Mother that famous Vniversity of Cambridge which for your Eloquence and grace of speech and perswasion appointed you her Orator for your wisdome and gravity in government chose you her Proctor for your soundnesse in all kinde of fruitful and commendable literature tendred you all her honours and degrees and for your sober studious and vertuous conversation worth ly held now her great Ornament And now as riper for greater imployments the same God whose priviledge it is to dispense promotions for bee pulleth down one and setteth up another hath moved his Majesty not only to set your seat among the honourable but to admit you as it were into his breast and betrust you with the secrets of this great state and Kingdome an Office not more Ancient than Honourable befitting only men of rarest wisdome fidelity and fitnesse to stand before so great so wise a King This was a most honourable Office among the most ancient Kings of Israel for King David had his two Principal Secretaries Serajah and Jonathan whom the Text commendeth for a man of Counsel and understanding 2 Sam. 8.17 1 Chro. 27.32 and King Solomon his Son had two other Elihoreph and Ahiah who were in chief place neer the King 1 King 4.3 We read also of Shebna principal Secretary to King Hezekiah 2 King 18.18 of whom Junius saith hee was secundus a rege Now your place being a service of such Honour under his Majesty cannot bee without an answerable weight and charge Your Honour easily conceiveth that the Lord chargeth you with a chief care of honouring him who hath honoured you that you stand charged to his Majesty with great trust and fidelity that the Church expecteth that by your authority you should promote her causes and stand in the maintenance of pure Religion that the Common-wealth claimeth her part in you for the preservation of peace within her walls and prosperity within her Palaces that the Vniversity looketh you should advance her just causes promote Learning and incourage her Students by helping them into the rooms of the ignorant and unlearned Ministers in a word Prov. 11.11 that the whole City hopeth to be exalted by the prosperity of the righteous And now if your Honours thankful heart shall call upon you and say Quid retribuam Domino Tota vita Christiani sanctum desiderium est Aug. in Joh. tract 4. you will easily fall into frequent thoughts and desires of discharging all this expectation This shall be happily done if you shall chuse about you the wisest Counsellors for the happy and prudent carriage of your great affairs imitating herein that peerless pattern of wisdome Solomon himself who notwithstanding his extraordinary measure of wisdome chose unto himself selectissimum senatum a bench of most wise and grave Counsellors whose Counsel Rhehoboam after despis●d The best Counsellor is that great Counsellor who is daily to bee consulted by fervent prayer The next is the word of God Isa 9 which as it giveth no less certain direction in difficult cases than the Oracle did unto Israel or than did the pillar of the cloud and of fire by day and night for their motion or station while they passed through the wilderness so the daily consulting with Gods statutes by reading and meditation as with so many learned Counsellors made holy David wiser than the Aged than the Learned than the Princes than his Adversaries Psa 119 98 99 100. Josh 1. ● And if Joshuah would prosper and have good successe in his high enterprizes he must keep him to the book of the Law and not depart from it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Prov. 10.32 The fear of God is wisdome and the next wisdome to that is to converse and consult with such as do fear God whose lips speak just and good things whereby a man shall become both wiser and better This is the high way to attain and retain grace and reputation with God and good men for this is an inheritance

Christian Circumspection Heb. 12.13 Make right steps unto your feet as good runners who not onely speed themselves in the way but are wary to keep the right way which they know is the shortest and so carefully observe every step and every advantage CHAP. III. Of the next Words of the Apostle further explaining Circumspect Walking Not as unwise but as wise THe Apostle here expoundeth what he meaneth by circumspect walking namely a wise ordering of a mans self according to the rules of Christian Prudence For wisdom is two-fold either Worldly and Carnal or else Heavenly and Spiritual This distinction is the Holy Ghosts own in Jam. 3.15 17. where both of them are at large described True wisdom what it is Our Text speaketh of spiritual and heavenly wisdom which is such a gift of God as both directeth and effecteth or causeth a man to do that which is acceptable and pleasing unto God Wherein it is much distinguished from humane wisdom which is meerly contemplative knowledge but this is an active knowledge giving rules and guidance in practice and action Eccles 10.10 The excellency to direct a thing is wisdom As a Coach-man in a Coach so spiritual wisdom in the heart orders the whole motion of a Christian in all his ways They are wisest men that walk most strictly The connexion implies that those be the wisest men that walk most exactly Prov. 14.8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way Deut. 4.6 Keep them and do them for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the people Onely this is a wise people and understanding Prov. 23.19 O thou my Son hear and be wise and guide thy heart in the way CHAP. IV. Proving strict walking to be the wisest walking 1. HE that is but a little acquainted with the Scriptures shall easily observe that he who walks most strictly according to Gods word is led by Gods wisdom which makes him discern between good and evil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist and so walketh at a certain by a most right and constant rule and direction so as you shall find him square and stable of good judgement and sound resolution in the things he is about He is the wisest man that followes the wisest guide But what man is he that feareth the Lord that is walketh exactly Him will the Lord teach the way that he shall chuse Psal 25.12 Whereas it is a just punishment of carelesness to wander as vagrants and unsetled persons in the way of Religion and grounds of Christianity and to be tossed and tumbled every way with the waves of inconstancy and doubtfulness in every thing for want of sound information and judgement in the wayes of God and needs must such be as wavering in their practice as in their judgement 2. He is the wisest man that being to journey takes the safest shortest cleannest and most lightsome way But so doth he that walks more strictly and circumspe●●ly he onely walks safely because he walks sincerely whereas in declining Gods ways but a little there can be nothing but fears without and terrors within and danger on every side which nothing but uprightness can fence out So who can deny but God himself hath described the rightest and so the shortest way to heaven which is the way over which he holds his own light And howsoever many aspersions and foul things be cast upon it yet this is the onely clean way of holiness and innocency that leadeth to the Holy of Holies into which no unclean persn or thing can enter 3. He is the wisest man whose words and actions being scanned most narrowly will abide the trial But thus must needs his words and actions be found that is most exact and stands most strictly to the word So David saith Then shall I not be confounded when I have respect to all thy Commandements Psal 119.6 and Job 31.35 The Almighty will witness for me though mine enemies write a Book against me Let the enemies of Grace slander reproach and traduce for a time the ways of Gods righteous servants He will make their righteousness break out as the light Psalm 37.5 time shal shew they were not so overshot as the world deemed For standing straitly to the word they may truly say with Jeremy Lord If I be deceived thou and thy word hath deceived me 4. He is the wisest man that best acquits himself in al estates but he that walks precisely according to the directions of the word shall most handsomly demean himself in all estates If God give prosperity to a wicked man it drowns him Prov. 1.32 Ease slayeth the foolish but this man useth it warily without pride or insolency 1 Cor. 7.31 he is taught to use the world weanedly as not using it If he be in adversity which sinks the sinner this man bears it without impatience or murmuring Phil. 4.12 yea he makes himself a great gainer by it Gods word fits him for every estate he can want and abound he is for peace or war for sickness or health for life or death no evil tidings can make him afraid As a wise man lace hath rule and power over his affections and is free from unruly passions 5. He is the wisest man that taketh the best course for his own preferment But so doth he that walketh most exactly 1 Tim. 6.6 Godliness is the greatest gain This man is ever in the way of preferment he stands still in the presence of God lives continually in his eye by constant honouring of him he is comming into place of great honour and great honour is comming upon him He hath wealth and riches and is still storing up as one covetous for heaven is ever encreasing in grace and glory 6. He is the wisest man that can give others the best and wisest counsel But who is so well able to give advise as he that is best acquainted with the ways of God If experienced counsel be the best who so fit as he Who hath tasted how good God is who so able as he whom God hath stored with wisdom 1 Pet. 2.3 such as hath winded him out of many troubles such as brought into his hands so rich a stock and revenue of grace and made him a pattern and example of piety and vertue to many others Such as charge strict walking of silliness and folly do it with greater folly Which if it be so then we might take occasion to reprove such as charge Gods people with simplicity and foolishness and condemn them of much madness in that they go in a way unknown uncouth and contrary to the world They cannot walk in the dirty path of sinful pleasures nor by the crooked rule of carnal policie nor make the fashion of the world the measure of their conformity Luke 13.34 but are content to walk in the straight way unto eternal life which the foolish world counts foolishness and a simple