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B12376	Heauens ioy, for a sinners repentance A sermon preached at VVhite-Hall the 4. of March, 1623. By Iohn Denison, Doctor of Diuinity, one of his Maiesties chaplaines.	Denison, John, d. 1629.	1623 (1623)	STC 6590; ESTC S109579	71,485	186

they doe certainly and happily inioy They are the holy Angels and the blessed Trinity euen by generall consent of Antiquity that doe here reioyce The Angels reioyce The holy Angels are those amici vicini mentioned in the sixt verse those friends which haue idem velle idem nolle Concurre in will with Almighty God and those neighbours that are neere to him in the place of blisse and happinesse Now the Angels do thus reioyce in respect of themselues in respect of vs in regard of Almighty God They reioyce in respect of themselues Quia numerus eorum repletur Anselme in Ephes 4. Because their society is repayred by the accession of repentant sinners which was diminished by the fall of the reprobate angels They reioyce for vs in regard of the singular benefits that accrew to vs by repentance For as the damned spirits would be glad of our confusion so these blessed Spirits reioyce for our conuersion they are our nurses Psal 91.11 and carry vs in their hands and therefore reioyce for our aduancement when by repentance wee are deliuered from the power of darkenes Colos 1.13 and translated into the Kingdome of Christ Iesus They are our guard Psal 34.7 and doe pitch their tents about vs so that they mourne when they see vs in Satans campe and reioyce when by repentance wee returne to our Captaine Christ Iesus They reioyce in regard of God for Angeli eos amant Chrysost ad Pop. Antioch ho. 22. qui Dominum suum diligunt The Angels loue those that loue their Lord and Master And as a good and loyall subiect reioyceth in the honor of his Soueraigne and the inlargement of his dominions so do the Angels reioyce when they see their Lord honored and his Kingdome inlarged by the repentance of a sinner Therefore S. Bernard cals Lachrymas poenitentium Bern in Cant. serm 30. vinum Angelorum The teares of repentani sinners the wine of Angels because they make them glad Thus as Iobs friends after he was freed from his heauy afflictions Iob 42.11 came to comfort him so the Angels our good friends when they see vs freed from the heauy burden of sinne doe reioyce for vs. The blessed Trinity reioyceth Verse 24. Againe the blessed Trinity reioyceth for our conuersion 1 God the Father is that indulgent Father who reioyceth here for the returne of his Prodigall Son He that protesteth so solemnely Ezech. 33. As I liue Ezech. 33.11 I delight not in the death of a sinner and calleth so passionately and compassionately Turne you turn you for why will you dye O you house of Israel must needs reioyce for the conuersion of a sinner For more honor redounds to Almighty God By the restoring of man that fell then by the creatiō of the Angels Beda Aquiu 1. sec q 11. Ar. 9. restauratione hominum quàm creatione Angelorum as Beda saith Yea The conuersion of a sinner saith the schoolman is a more glorious worke then the Creation of the world because the one is transient the other is permanent Therefore as Abraham Gen. 21.3 8. the father of the faithfull reioyced at the birth of Isaac and feasted it at his wear●ing so our heauenly Father reioyceth at our new birth A heauenly banquet Greg. and it yeeldes coeleste conuiuium when wee are weaned from our corruptions 2 As God the Father who created vs so God the Son who redeemed vs reioyceth for our conuersion He that in the dayes of his flesh mourned for the hardnesse of mens hearts Marke 3.5 and reioyced in the Spirit when hee saw Satan cast down like lightening Luke 10.21 and poore sinners rescued out of the pawes of that roaring Lyon cannot but be sensible of the happy condition of his seruants He that when he was on earth sighed wept sweat fasted prayed shed his blood for the saluatiō of sinners being now in heauen must needs reioyce for a sinners conuersion when he sees that his fasting sweating bleeding his sighes prayers and teares are not spent in vaine According to that in the three and fiftieth of Esaiah Verse 11. Hee shall see of the trauaile of his soule and shall be satisfied 3 God the Holy Ghost who sanctifieth vs Ephes 4.30 reioyceth For as we grieue the Spirit of God by our sinnes so we make him glad by our repentance as the carefull Phisicion is glad for the recouery of his sicke patient You are the Temples of the Holy Ghost 1. Cor. 3.16 sayth the Apostle Now when these temples shall bee like the Egyptian temples wherein was nothing but a Cat or a Crocodile the Spirit of God mournes but when these temples shal be clensed by repentance and become like the Arke which held the holy things of God hee reioyceth Thus as a man hauing taken paines in setting watering and cherrishing some faire plant greeues to behold it eaten with the Canker but when he sees the Canker killed and the tree become flourishing and fruitfull reioyceth in his labour So God the Father who hath planted vs with a diuine hand God the Sonne who hath watered vs with his precious blood God the holy Ghost who cherrisheth vs with the influences of grace beholding the Canker of corruption fretting in our soules mournes but seeing this Canker killed by repentance and vs like good trees become fruitful in good works reioyceth exceedingly NOw this ioy of the elect Angels For whom this ioy is in heauen and the blessed Trinity is for one sinner that repenteth Almighty God who hath recorded in his Kalender the Booke of Life the names of all the Elect neglects not one of them So that Whosoeuer shall offend one of these little ones Mat. 18.6 it were better that a Mill-stone were hanged about his necke and hee cast into the depth of the Sea Iohn 10.11 Luke 15.4 He that is the good Shepheard seekes after that one lost Sheepe and reioyceth so when hee hath found him Chrysost serm 168. Quia in vno inuenit omnes because in finding that one hee findes euery one One linke of his golden Chaine must not be broken because it is the dissoluing of the whole So that if ●ny one of his goe astray he sends after him to reclaime him and when this wandering sinner returnes by vnfained repentance hee reioyceth more in him then in ninety nine iust persons Luke 17 17. But as our Sauiour said concerning the Lepers nouem vbi sunt Where are the nine so may I say Where are these ninety and nine iust persons Surely it is here as it was there the writ wil be returned with a non sunt Verse 18. inuenti they are not to be found Salomon tels vs Eccles 7.20 that there is not a iust man vpo earth that doth good and sinneth not S. Iohn saith If we say 1. Iohn 1.8 Iames 3.2 We haue no sin we deceiue