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A46991	A collection of the works of that holy man and profound divine, Thomas Iackson ... containing his comments upon the Apostles Creed, &c. : with the life of the author and an index annexed.; Selections. 1653	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.; Oley, Barnabas, 1602-1686.; Vaughan, Edmund.	1653 (1653)	Wing J88; Wing J91; ESTC R10327	823,194	586

he was Fellow and partly when he returned President I never heard to my best remembrance one word of Anger or dislike against him I have often resembled him in my thoughts with favour of that honourable Person be it spoken to him whose name sounds very near him who being placed in the upper part of the World carried on his Dignity with that Justice Modesty Integrity Fidelity and other gracious plausibilities that in a place of Trust he contented those whom he could not satisfie and in a place of Envie procured the Love of them who amulated his greatnesse and by his Example shewed the preheminence and security of true Christian Wisdom before all the sleights of humane Policie that in a busie time no man was found to accuse him So this good Man in that inferiour Orb which God had placed him demeaned himself with that Christian Innocencie Candor Wisdom and Modesty that malice it self was more wary then to cast any aspersions upon him I shall willingly associate Him to those other Worthies his Predecessors in the same Colledge all living at the same time To the invaluable Bishop Jewel Theologorum quas Orbis Christianus per aliquot annorum centenarios produxit maximo as grave Bishop Goodwin hath described him the greatest Divine that for some former Centuries of years the Christian World hath produced To the famous Mr. Hooker who for his solid Writings was sirnamed The Judicious and entitled by the same Theologorum Oxonium The Oxford of Divines as One calls Athens The Greece of Greece it self To the learned Dr. Reinolds who managed the Government of the same Colledge with the like care honour and integrity although not with the same austerities He willingly admitted and was much delighted in the acquaintance and familiarity of hopeful young Divines not despising their youth but accounting them as sonnes and Brethren encouraging and advising them what Books to read and with what holy preparations lending them such Books as they had need of and hoping withall that considering the brevity of his own life some of them might live to finish that work upon the Creed which he had happily begun unto them This was one of the special advises and directions which he commended to young men Hear the Dictates of your own Conscience Quod dubitas ne feceris making this the Comment upon that of Syracides In all thy matters trust or beleeve thine own soul and bear it not down by impetuous and contradictious lusts c. He was as diffusive of his knowledge counsel and advice as of any other his works of Mercie In all the Histories of learned pious and devout men you shall scarcely meet with one that disdained the World more generously not out of ignorance of it as one brought up in Cells and darknesse for he was known and endeared to men of the most resplendent Fortunes nor out of melancholy disposition for he was chearfull and content in all estates but out of a due and deliberate scorne knowing the true value that is the vanitie of it As perferments were heaped upon him without his suit or knowledge so there was nothing in his power to give which he was not ready and willing to part withall to the deserving or indigent man His Vicarage of St. Nicholas Church in New-Castle he gave to Mr. Alvye of Trinity Colledge upon no other relation but out of the good opinion which he conceived of his merits The Vicarage of Witny neer Oxford after he had been at much pains travail and expence to clear the Title of the Rectory to all succeeding Ministers when he had made it a Portion sitting either to give or keep he freely bestowed it upon the worthy Mr. Thomas White then Proctor of the University late Chaplain to the Colledge and now Incumbent upon the Rectory A Colledge Lease of a place called Lye in Gloucestershire presented to him as a gratuity by the Fellows he made over to a Third late Fellow there meerly upon a plea of Poverty And whereas they that first offered it unto him were unwilling that he should relinquish it and held out for a long time in a dutifull opposition He used all his power friendship and importunity with them till at length he prevailed to surrender it Many of his necessary friends and attendance have professed that they made severall journeys and employed all powerfull mediation with the Bishop that he might not be suffered to resigne his Prebendship of Winchester to a Fourth and upon knowledge that by their contrivance he was disappointed of his resolution herein he was much offended that the Manus mortua or Law of Mortmain should be imposed upon him whereby in former dayes they restrained the liberality of devout men toward the Colledges and the Clergie But this was interpreted as a discurtesie and dis-service unto him who knew that it was a more Blessed thing to give then to receive But that which remained unto him was dispersed unto the Poor to whom he was a faithfull dispenser in all places of his abode distributing unto them with a free heart a bountifull hand a comfortable speech and a cheerfull eye How disrespectfull was he of Mammon the God of this world the golden Image which Kings and Potentates have set up before whom the Trumpets play for Warre and slaughter and Nations and Languages fall down and worship besides all other kinde of Musick for jollity and delight to drown if it were possible the noise of Bloud which is most audible and cries lowdest in the ears of the Almighty How easily could he cast that away for which others throw away their lives and salvation running headlong into the place of eternall skreekings weeping and gnashing of teeth If it were not for this spirit of Covetousnesse all the World would be at quiet Certainly although the nature of man be an apt soil for sin to flourish in yet if the Love of money be the root of all evil it could not grow up in him because it had no Root and if it be so hard for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God and the narrow gate which leads unto Life then he that stooped so low by humblenesse of minde and emptied himself so neerly by mercifulnesse unto the Poor must needs finde an easier passage Doubtlesse they that say and do these Things shew plainly that they seek another Countrey that is an heavenly for if they had been mindfull of This they might have taken opportunity to have used it more advantageously His Devotions towards God were assiduous and exemplarie both in publick and private He was a diligent frequenter of the publick Service in the Chappel very early in the Morning and at Evening except some urgent occasions of Infirmity did excuse him His private Conferences with God by Prayer and Meditation were never omitted upon any occasion whatsoever When he went the yearly progresse to view the Colledge Lands and came into the Tenants House it was his constant

Were that Register of Hierusalems Tragical Funerals to use his words now extant as entire as he intended it what other Conclusion from the former Premisses could we expect then such Wo and Miseries as Moses and Jeremy had foretold and others have related to us Josephus as if Jeremiahs spirit had directed his pen saith their Misery did far surpasse all Plagues inflicted upon any Nation either by God or Man The multitude of Jew● dead in the Wars was equal to the number of living men in Israel under King David when Jacobs posterity flourished most besides Fifty Thousand taken Captives The number albeit he maketh it eleven hundred Thousand cannot seem strange if we consider the Confluence of this people from all Nations almost under Heaven unto Hierusalem at their Passeover Dion telleth us that besides the natural inhabitants of Jewry strangers not onely of Jewish Progeny but such as observed their Rites and Customes did flock to the Cities defence both from those parts of the Roman Empire through which they were scattered and from the Countries beyond Euphrates not Subject to the Romans Consonant herein to Josephus where he telleth us that the greatest part of the slain were strangers but most of Jewish Progeny The whole Nation to use his words was shut up by Fates as in a Prison or to speak more significantly Foyled by the Romans in the Field they were driven into the City as into a Slaughter-House And here the Psalmists curse beginneth to seize upon the Nation that which should have been for their Good proves the occasion of their Fall the Effect of Gods blessing upon Abraham proves a Plague to his Seed the huge number wherewith God had multiplied them which had late made them swell with hopes of Victory in the Open field brings grievous Famin suddenly upon them once inclosed in the City and Famin no sooner got within the Wals but le ts in her Fellowmessengers of Gods Wrath first breeding the Pestilence by the Carkases of the famished then disposing the Bodies of the living to receive this and such other loathsome infectious diseases as hunger and the huge Multitude of the besieged in such a streit place would quickly breed and yet they so desperately set to increase these Miseries as even in their greatest penury to receive Fugitives from Titus Camp For as Dion storieth divers of his Souldiers sled to the besieged being partly wearied of the difficult Siege partly animated thereto by a Rumour bruted throughout the Roman Army that this City could not be taken 8 Thus All Occasions conspire to work them wo whom God will plague The general perswasion of the East that Jewry about this time should bring forth the Monarch of the world ministers matter for their False-Prophets to work upon and from their trust in their Prophets it was that neither the present Adversity which they felt nor Prodigious Signs from heaven could disswade or terrifie the Seditious from their enterprise unhappily undertaken God no doubt had so disposed that the Roman Souldiers should despair of Victory to give Countenance to these false Prophets and make these Cast-a-wayes who still delighted most in Lies more confident in the wayes of death Though the Signs recorded by Tacitus and Josephus in his 7th Book 12. Chapt. of the Jewish Wars might seem Fearful yet their Interpretation was Ambiguous they might as wel menace Their Enemies Harm as Their Destruction howsoever to regard them much might argue Heathenish Superstition and In-discreet avoidance of Superstition makes Hypocritical Professors of true Religion preposterously stubborn in Imitation of true Confidence They could pretend the Prophets admonition Learn not the ways of the Heathen and be not afraid of the signs of Heaven though the Heathen be afraid of such For the customs of the people are vain Jer. 10. 2. and hence assume his Resolution to themselves Paveant Illi ne autem paveas Tu Let the Idolatrous Heathen tremble and quake but why should Israel be afraid of these Apparitions of their God Or if a man would have measured all by Politick Observations it was more likely the Romans should have for saken the Siege then the besieged have fallen into their hands But God was against Them and They could not be for Themselves For as Dion notes which I think Iosephus omitteth they themselves by making way for their more commodious defence did against their will demolish the chief Muniment of the Temple at which breach the Romans entred but net without some Stay Amated only with Reverence of The Place Nor did the Successe answer their Resolution in the Assault albeit they were far more in number then the defendants until Titus commanded part of the Temple to be set on fire But then as the same Author witnesseth Some offered their bodies for sheaths unto the Romans swords Some killed their Fellows requited instantly with like kindnesse from them again Some leapt into the fire All accounted it their Happiness to perish with the Temple Dion l. 66. 9 The Lord had often professed his dislike unto their Solemn Feasts and his loathing of their Sacrifices both fully manifested in this their last Calamitie Such as the Stench of their Dead was now to their polluted senses Such had the Abomination of their sweetest Incense long been to His Holiness now to be purged with the Priests own Bloud sacrificed in the flames and ruins of the Temple the City as oft before was now taken upon the Sabbath day Other particular Miseries described by Iosephus and Eusebius I leave for this time to the Readers private Meditations desirous onely in these Generalities to justifie theirs or other Ecclesiastical Writers reports against all Suspitions cast upon them by Atheists or Infidels from the Testimony of such as Infidelity it self cannot suspect for partial Both sorts afford us Evident Documents of the divine Truth of Scripture and might afford us more then we are aware off were we better acquainted with the Ancient manner of interpreting Scriptures amongst the Jews in our Saviours and his Apostles time of which hereafter If now upon Occasions of these relations concerning Ierusalems last Day and the Signs of the Times ensuing I interpret One or Two places otherwise then such as are most followed in our times do the Christian Reader I hope will grant me Pardon upon promise of such Satisfaction as shall befit one Ingenuous Christian to expect of another to be made when I shall come to explicate the divers kinds of Prophecies amongst Gods People with the right manner of their Interpretations CAP. XXIV The Fulfilling of our Saviours Prophecy Mat. 24. with others concerning the Times ensuing Jerusalems Destruction 1 REading Josephus I cannot but acknowledge Hieremiahs Lamentation as well for a Prophecy of these late times under Vespasian and Titus as an History or Elegie of the miseries that had befallen Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar The Lord I know had then done that which he purposed but now more properly