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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02189	The iaylers iayl-deliuery. Preached at Great Saint Maries in Cambridge, the 6. of February. 1619. By Henry Greenvvood, Master of Art, and preacher of the Word of God	Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5.	1620 (1620)	STC 12333; ESTC S118959	14,276	38

THE IAYLERS IAYL-DELIVERY Preached at Great Saint Maries in CAMBRIDGE the 6. of February 1619. By HENRY GREENVVOOD Master of Art and Preacher of the Word of God 1. PET. 5. 5. God resisteth the proud and giueth grace to the humble AT LONDON Printed by George Purslow for Henry Bell and are to be sold at his Shop at the signe of the Sunne in Bethlem 1620. TO THE RIGHT WORTHY AND WORSHIPFVLL Mrs IANE BVRGOYNE Wife to the Right Worshipfull M. IOHN BVRGOYNE of Sutton in Bedford and Daughter to the Right Worshipfull Mr. WILLIAM KEMPE of Spainshall in Fiching-field Essex Esquire all encrease of grace from the Father of light and of life be most heartily commended * ⁎ * RIght vertuous and much belou'd and grac'd of God J cannot but present this trembling yet not all trembling Tractate to you partly knowing how welcome holy subiects are vnto your soule and especially considering your importunity for a written Copie of the same It is not fit that holy things bee giuen to dogges nor pearles be cast to swine but matters diuine to persons denoute most meete for presentment both for godly vse and strong defence against disgracers of them J haue therefore made this Jayler your Prisoner and committed him to your safe watch and warde looke what paines you take and time expend about him the Preacher of deliuerance to all Captiues Luke 4. 18. will one day most faithfully and richly reward I pray haue an eye alwayes vnto him see him sicke see him sound see him condemned see him saued see his passage through Hell to Heauen Let his example be your instruction his feare your humbling his faith your happying you must bee touchd with Legall attrition or else no taste of heauenly remission Let not his Hell despaire you nor his Heauen presume you but by the one hold awe of God and feare and by the other hope of happinesse for euer Now the Lord adde vnto your glory by these and other holy helps and meanes and his best blessings bee multiplyed vpon you your learned louing and religious Husband and all your tender Oliue-branches for his deare Christs sake Amen From Hempstead in Essex this 3. of April 1620. Your Worships faithfull welwiller and euer to bee commanded in the Lord HENRY GREENVVOOD THE IAYLERS IAYL-DELIVERY ACTS 26. 30 31. Sirs what must I doe to be saued And they said Beleeue in the Lord Iesus Christ thou shalt be saued and thine houshold THE onely course the Lord our God doth take in the effectuall calling and conuerting of such whose names are written in the booke of Life is this hee humbleth before he exalteth he shews our daninable estate through sinne by the Law before euer hee signifieth vnto vs that hee is our saluation A three-fold reason may be rendred thereof First because till men bee thus humbled they will neuer seek after Christ nor desire him without which they can neuer finde him for God hath appointed that by seeking we shall finde him Secondly that our redemption might be more precious vnto vs as health is more pleasant after sicknesse liberty after bonds plenty after scarcitie peace after warre and faire weather after foule Thirdly that Gods mercy in our deliuerance might bee prized in his kinde the redeemed in heauen for this especiall cause extoll the Lord and the Lambe with a perpetuall Halleluiah for an euerlasting redemption from an euerlasting damnation requireth an euerlasting glorification This generall truth is confirmed by a particular example in the words of my text for this poore Iayler is most greeuously tormented through the horror of the Law before euer hee can finde his soule recouered by the saluation of the Gospell Sirs what must I doe to bee saued and they said Beleeue in the Lord c. In which words I commend to your religious considerations in generall these two First an earnest inquisition for saluation and that on the Iaylers part Sirs what must I doe to bee saued Secondly a comfortable resolution to this perplexed Iayler and that on Paul and Syla's part Beleeue in the Lord Iesus Christ thou shalt bee saued and thine houshold In this Iaylers earnest enquiry for saluation I note these three First his reuerent carriage to the Ministers of the most high God in the first word Sirs Secondly the occasion of this his earnest inquisition and that was his humiliation by the Law in those words What must I doe I that am the sonne of bitternesse indignation and eternall weeping what must poore lamentable damnable I doe to bee saued Thirdly the inquisition it selfe and that is for saluation in these words To be saued Sirs Sirs what must I doe Sirs what must I doe to be saued Sirs It is nomen honoris a name of honour and title of dignity elim tributum ijs qui sapientia abundarunt in elder time appropriated to wisdome and learning Heere first I might take occasion to shew with how great reuerence Ministers of the Gospell are to bee respected good Pastors are to bee had in double honour yea their feet to be esteemed blessed that bring glad tidings of peace to our soules but I forbeare the prosecution of this point and propound vnto you the marueylous change that is found in this Iayler for in the precedent verses it is euident how doggedly and despectiuely hee vsed these holymen he laid vpon them hand and foot bolts and fetters as many as they could beare hee thrust them into the inner dungeon and prison but now the Lord hauing taken him to doe and giuen him the true and terrible fight and sense of his sinnes hee is of another minde now he brings them out washeth their wounds refresheth their bodies and reuerenceth their persons Sirs Reuerend Sirs you Ministers of the most high God what must I doe to be saued No reason can be rendred for this miraculous change but this The winde bloweth where it luft●th and God hath mercy on whom he will haue mercy and Of this stone God can raise a childe to Abraham This change wee must all be acquainted with if euer wee will proue our selues truely conuerted The Greek word for repentance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by name signifieth a change signifying vnto vs that hee that will proue himselfe truly penitent for his sinne must bee truly changed from his sinne This change we finde in penitent Mary those eyes which once inticed to sinne and those hayres which once were employed to iniquity were wondrously altered and changed for her eyes were conduits to distill whole buckets of teares to wash our Sauiours feet and her hayres an acceptable towell to wipe them This change wee finde in penitent Paul who of a Persecutor became a Profossor of a Lyon a Lambe and as he put to death others for the Gospell so in the end himselfe put to death for the same This change wee finde in Zacchee who before his conuersion was a notable pick-purse and poller of the