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A87498	The best fee-simple, set forth in a sermon at St Peters in Cornhil, before the gentlemen and citizens born in the county of Nottingham, the 18. day of February, 1657. Being the day of their publique feast. By Marmaduke James, minister of Watton at Stone, in the county of Hertford.	James, Marmaduke.	1658 (1658)	Wing J432; Thomason E955_2*; ESTC R207614	34,420	74

Subjects which being good is no small addition to the glory of a Prince What Nation saith Moses is there in all the world so great and so glorious as thy people Israel There was but one people in all the world that was the Lord's people and David was their King and God's King He was not Rex Diabolorum as they say the King of England was the King of Divels Neither was he Rex Asinorum as they say the King of France is the King of Asses Neither was he Rex Hominum only as they say the King of Spain is the King of men But he was Rex Sanctorum the King of Saints wherein he assumes the very Title of God Rev. 15.3 O Thou King of Saints If we consider the settlement of this estate upon David and his Posterity We think an estate surely setled that is entailed upon the Crown but alas that Crown may fall in four or five hundred years and then what becomes of that Entail But David's estate was by God's Oath entailed upon the Son Once have I sworn by my Holiness unto David Psal 89.36 37. that his Seed shall be as the Sun before me and as the faithful witness in heaven If you lay these things together what an estate had David Nay rather what a heart had David to slight all these for these Testimonies We have not a drop to his bucket to his Ocean and yet alas how do our small estates draw our hearts from these Testimonies Let us mourn over this distemper Again If we consider how small a part of these Testimonies David had David had but eight books of the Scripture the five books of Moses Joshua Judges and Ruth this was all that David knew David had the Law it is true but he had none of the Gospel none of the Evangelists or Apostolical Epistles David had the Law but he had not any of the Commentators none of those Prophets called great or small lived in his time I dare be bold to say that that first Sermon of Christ in Matth. 5. is worth more then all that David knew David had the Letter that killeth but you have the Spirit that giveth life David saw through a Glass 2 Cor. 3.18 darkly but you with open face behold the glory of the Lord David lived in the Dawning of the day but you in those times when the Sun is in the full Heavens in its Meridian O what would David have said if he had seen the things that we see as Christ speaks Mat. 13.17 Many righteous men have desired to see the things that ye see and have not seen them Well Sir if you lay the greatness of this estate with the littleness of David's knowledge concerning these testimonies together for sic magna parvis componere solemus you will finde him a famous example and worthy your imitation But if any one should say what is the reason or what was there that David saw in these testimonies to lead him to his choice from so great an estate You have it in these words For they are the rejoycing of my heart And thus am I come to the second particular and the last thing that is the Theory in David's example For they are the rejoycing of my heart wherein you have three things insinuated First saith hee they are my Joy Joy is that flower that groweth out of every good and so far do we account any thing good as it is joyfull to us As if David should say I profess I have found more joy in these Testimonies then ever I did in my Crowns and Kingdoms It is a mistake when men think that a religious life is a sad melancholly cynical life It is true the life of a Christian is a life of temptation affliction a life of sorrowing and teares for sin and yet it is a joyful life for we finde joy in our very sorrows As dying and behold we live 2 Cor. 6.9.10 as sorrowfull yet alwayes rejoycing The Apostle brings in sorrow with a sicut sicut Dolentes as sorrowful as if our sorrows were not reall sorrows as if they were but Analogical or similitudinous sorrows But our joy real verè semper gaudentes alwayes rejoycing and truly if you look upon all the sons of affliction in Scripture you will finde they had their time of joy poor Joseph that was so innocently cast into the dungeon and those heavy irons layed upon his young and tender legs the text faith Psal 106.18 the very irons went through his soule yet he had his time of joy and David after hee was hunted by Saul like a Partridge upon the Mountaines had yet his time of joy And Job after Satan had discharged all the arrowes of his wrath upon him had his time of joy And Paul in the midst of those many deaths hee was as sorrowfull but alwayes rejoycing men may think what they will but the state of a Christian is a joyfull state for they are the joy c. The second thing observable is the intention of the deepness of his joy for they are the joy of my heart As if David should say my Crown and Kingdoms Wives and Children they are the rejoycing of mine eyes of my sensual and bestial parts but truly my rational and deep joyes they are from thy Testimonies for they are the rejoycing of my heart It is one thing to be merry ore tenus this the men of the world have it is another thing to be joyful this only the Saints have As the Poet speaks of the river Nilus that it is very deep and the waters are very swift and yet a by-stander would scarcely think they did move at all The joyes of a good man are deep and swift joyes and yet to others they are scarce seen to move there was such a difference in Davids comforts as there is betwixt the dew and the groundraine you know Sirs that in a hot parching season if there comes-a coole night and a fine dew upon the grasse in the morning it is a great refreshing but alas when the Sun is up an hour or two that dew is gone but if there comes a ground-rain that lasteth for eight and forty or threescore hours that reaches the root of the grasse and trees what a new face doth it put upon the Creature The comforts that David had from Absolom Amnon Tamar and his temporal concernments were like the dew for an hour or two but then were scorched but the joys hee had from these testimonies are like unto the ground-rain that reached his heart root for they are the joyes of my heart The last thing observable is how David doth place all the springs of his comforts in these testimonies For they They are the rejoycings of my heart As if a good man should fetch all his comforts from these testimonies and certainely we forget our selves when we do otherwise and therefore it is that God doth usually blast all the other objects of