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A43587	The sure mercies of David: or, a second part of Heart-treasure Wherein is contained the supream and substance of gospel-mercies purchased by Christ, and promised in the covenant of grace, together with the several ways how they are made and are to be improved for the saints fort and defence, settlement and incouragement in shaking and back-sliding times. Being the fruit of some meditations upon Isa. 55. 3. By O. Heywood an unprofitable minister of the gospel.; Heart-treasure. Part 2.	Heywood, Oliver, 1629-1702.	1670 (1670)	Wing H1775; ESTC R216795	143,081	284

in reading the Word of God Oh of what use would this be there you may find what God commands how Saints have obeyed by what means they have cleared up their integrity and interest in Christ here you may find what are the conditions of the Covenant and upon what terms the mercies thereof may be enjoyed and what are the infallible Characters of such as have received benefit thereby here you may find Christ the main and choicest mercy of the Covenant yea for this end was the Scripture written that we might have comfort in God and by consequence also assurance of our interest in him Rom. 15.4 for this cause did both Christ speak Joh. 15.11.1 Joh. 1.4 and John write Divine truths that are upon record that his joy might be in us yea that our joy might be full an express Text you have in 1 Joh. 5.13 these things have I written unto you that believe in the name of the Son of God that ye may know ye have eternal life the more you study the Scriptures the more clearly you may read your names in the Book of Life your hearts if sincere will eccho to the word you read because the Law of God is written in your hearts therefore read and study this blessed Book these words are Charters of your heavenly inheritance food for your hungry appetites glasses in which you may discern the face of your souls Oh Christians neglect not the Scriptures look up for a right understanding and due application of every passage therein and then comfort your selves and one another with these words 1 Thes 4. ult 2. Attend upon a quickning Ministry here the terms of the Gospel are propounded the mercies of the Covenant are displayed true believers discovered and characterized here you may meet with a Barnabas as well as with a Boanerges yea it may be the hand that wounded may heal you God usually makes the fruit of the lips to be peace Isa 57.19 and many times sends some choice Interpreter to declare unto a man his righteousness and clear up his integrity Job 33.23 and therefore is it that God directs all such as walk in darkness to obey the voice of his servants Isa 50 10. or rather gives this as their character that they do so Isa 40.1 2.2 Cor. 1.4 and God gives Ministers a charge to comfort his people and lays up comforts in their Breasts to this end that they may comfort such as are cast down Oh the reviving words you may hear in the Ministry of the Word here you may hear doubts resolved cases of Conscience propounded answered and hearts opened anatomized here the spirit of God is often conveyed which seals up the believing soul to the day of redemption Isa 59.21 Gal. 3.2 3. Mat. 28. ●0 the presence of God accompanies his institution so that what the Minister declares in the name and by the Authority of Christ Isa 44 26. Mat. 18.18 according to the word he will ratifie back and confirm it in Heaven and how many drooping heirs of promise hath God erected satisfied encouraged about their title to Covenant-mercies by this Ordinance Oh the advantage that many have got thereby therefore wait on God in this Ordinance Oh look not upon it as weak and beggarly Elements as some ignorantly and blasphemously call all Ordinances make them not a matter of Ceremony and Formality but prepare for them and use them conscientiously and you shall see the sweet effect thereof 3. Improve the seals of the Covenant both Baptism and the Lords Supper Rom 4.11 Circumcision is called the seal of the righteousness of faith because that sweet Evangelical priviledge or marrow of the Gospel-covenant is signified sealed and exhibited in that Ordinance Oh Christians understand and improve that sweet Ordinance of Baptism it would be a spring of sweetness and satisfaction to your doubting fainting spirits 1 Cor. 10.16 c. 11.24 and then for the Lords Supper herein Christs Body and Blood are particularly applyed to us to become our own yea verily and really though not corporally but spiritually exhibited to every worthy receiver and hence resulteth spiritual joy solace and satisfaction as in the Passeover in Hezekiahs days 2 Chron. 30.21 26. they kept the feast with gladness and there was joy in Jerusalem But be sure you examine your selves prepare your hearts excite your Graces understand the Covenant apply these blessed mysteries to your own souls open your hearts by Meditation that the King of glory may come in stir up your souls to draw near to God and he will draw near to you Gal. 3.1 you 'l see Christ Crucified before you you 'l enjoy a blessed feast of fat things that will nourish and comfort your pining souls here you 'l feel pleasant Apples and sweet flagons of the Wine of his special love to stay you up and support your hearts in the day of your affliction and sad desertion and if you cannot enjoy that refreshing Ordinance yet reflect upon your former enjoyments and meditate upon your Crucified Redeemer and represent his bruised body and effused blood to your selves and in due time you 'l cry out with Thomas my Lord and my God 4. Ply the Throne of Grace in Prayer say as David Psal 35.3 O Lord say unto my soul I am thy salvation Isa 56.7 God hath promised to make his people joyful in the house or duty of Prayer Saints have found by experience the sweet and satisfying fruit of a serious wrestling with God thus David Psal 31.16 make thy face to shine upon thy servant and ver 21. he breaks out in thankfulness for an answer Blessed be the Lord for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong City Yea Christ himself commands us to ask that we may receive that our joy may be full Joh. 16.24 and is not a clear evidence of our interest in the Covenant and the mercies of it worth asking therefore plead with God tell him thou preferrest Covenant-mercies above worldly enjoyments and that thou wouldst rather have these mercies made sure to thee than to have a lease of thy life for his loving-kindness is better than life Psal 63.3 tell him the joy of the Lord is thy strength and how much it will tend to thy furtherance in his service if he will lift up the light of his Countenance on thy soul tell him he hath granted comfortable assurance to many souls and thou needest it as well as they thou art an humble suitor at the Gates of mercy and art resolved not to let him go except he bless thee yet once again tell him it is no more then he hath promised in his word and Christ hath purchased by his blood and therefore it is no arrogancy for thee to crave or expect and when thou hast been pleading conclude with that poor man Mark 9 24. Mat. 9.29 Lord I believe help thou my unbelief and he will say according

through Jesus Christ is that these are most fully assured to us by the execution of Christs Mediatory Offices both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation Let us here consider 1. Christs Offices 2. His States 1. Christs Offices are of three sorts as 1. Sacerdotal 2. Prophetical 3. Regal 1. As Priest Christ insures to us many Covenant mercies for he hath put himself in our stead offered himself as a propitiatory Sacrifice to satisfie divine justice which is a sweet smelling savour Eph. 5.2 and of infinite value hence it is that Christ is called a merciful and faithful High-priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for the sins of the people Heb. 2.17 certainly remission of sins is one of the grand mercies of the New Covenant and this Christ assureth as Priest 2. As Prophet he reveals to us the will of his Father opens to us the sealed Book annoints our eyes by his blessed spirit the spirit of Christ inspired the Prophets of the Old Testament 1 Pet. 1.10 11. and the Apostles of the new in writing Scripture and Ministers in Preaching the Gospel and believers in discerning the meaning of the Word and beauty of Christ it is Christ as Prophet that writes his Law in Believers hearts which is one of the great mercies of the new Covenant that inlightens dark minds and unlocks to us Divine Mysteries and bringeth us from darkness to light 3. As King Christ Jesus doth what he pleaseth for the good of his Church converting and subduing souls to himself granting to them the spirit of power love and of a sound mind softening their hard and stony hearts mastering their high and sturdy Wills awing ordering and centring their unruly roving and raging affections subduing their strong corruptions regulating their conversations begetting and increasing their Graces supporting them under and sanctifying their afflictions all which Jesus Christ as King works for his Covenanted ones Yet more particularly in the second place let us consider how our Covenant-mercies are assured to us by Jesus Christ with reference to his two estates of humiliation and exaltation 1. In his estate of exinanition and humiliation here I might run through the instances of his contemptible birth his despicable life i. e. to a carnal eye his being in the form of a servant having no form nor comeliness his hunger thirst wandrings revilings of men wrath of God rage of Devils all these confirm the Covenant if we believe the history of the Gospel but there 's one thing more that put all out of doubt and that is his real ready and voluntary death for as he had a power so he had a will to lay down his life and he dyed for the confirmation of this Covenant and all the mercies thereof a pregnant proof of this you have in Heb. 9.15 the summ of which Text is that Jesus Christ the great Mediatour of this new Covenant hath suffered death for the sins of the elect that were committed against the first Covenant whereby all true believers might have the benefits of the new Covenant more surely and immutably made over to them and this he further comfirmes by the paralel case of a Testament and the Testatour even amongst men ver 16 17. where a Testament is there must also of necessity be the death of the Testator no man can challenge a Legacy till he prove the death of him that left it Thus the Apostle argues Gal. 3.15 Erethren I sp●ak after the manner of men though it be but a mans Co●e●ant y●t if it be co●●irmed to man disanulleth or addeth thereto for while he is alive he may alter his Will at his pleasure or as reason requireth but when the Testator is dead the heirs may look after their Legacies Jesus Christ is the Testator Saints are the heirs the Legacies are these mercies of the Covenant now the Testator is dead the Legacies come clear and the heirs of promise may claim their interest therein there 's no alteration of the Will when the Testator is dead there 's no reversing true Christians now come to enjoy their estates Christ emptied himself that we might be filled he lost his life that we might live he became poor that we through his poverty might be rich 2 Cor. 8.9 2. Christ's exaltation doth much more assure to us Covenant-mercies which consists in 1. His Resurrection 2. His Ascension and both these do abundantly confirm this to us 1. Christs rising again from the Grave assures us of the certainty of these mercies for though he was dead yet he is alive and so lives to be his own Executor if Christ had been detained Prisoner by the King of Terrours we might groundedly suspect that justice were not satisfied nor mercies fully purchased but he was delivered for our offences and raised again for our justification Rom. 4.25 and now he hath conquered death and through death he hath destroyed him that had the power of death that is the devil and so hath delivered the heirs of promise from the fear of death Heb. 2.14 15. nay and by his resurrection he raiseth us to a new life of holiness here and a blessed life of happiness hereafter Rom. 6.4 with cap. 8.11 2 Cor. 4.14 Christs Resurrection abundantly clears the Saints from all accusations and condemnation Rom. 8.33 34. in this therefore we may rejoyce and triumph as the foundtain of our consolation See Act. 2.24 25 26. 2. Christs Ascension into Heaven insures and secures Covenant-mercies to us both as it sets him in the holy of holies far above the reach of men and Devils and as he went before to prepare a place for us Joh. 14 2. he bids Mary to tell the Disciples Joh. 20.17 go to my Brethren and say unto them I ascend to my Father and your Father to my God and your God q. d. now you may be assured of your interest in God in a Covenant-way for now I have done that work on earth that obstructed your fellowship and obscured your interest so that now you may call him your God and come unto him as your Father without misgivings within or challenges from without There are two things in Christs Ascension that assure these mercies to us 1. His session at Gods right hand 2. His Intercession 1. Jesus Christ is set at Gods right hand in heavenly places Ephes 1.20 and the two following verses afford us two choice considerations that tend further to assure us 1. That he is far above all principality and power might dominion and every name in this world and that to come ver 21. i. e. Christ as man is advanced not only above all States and Potentates on earth but above all Angels and Arch-angels in Heaven therefore far above the Devils none can hinder all are his servants to help forward his design for the good of souls oh what a sweet consideration is this that our nature is advanced thus high yea in the person of the