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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91431	A farewel sermon preached in VVake-Field, January 1, 1655 By Thomas Parker, Master of Arts, late minister of that church.	Parker, Thomas, Minister of Wake-Field.	1656 (1656)	Wing P476; ESTC R229920	24,920	28

disposition of Spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eph. 4.11 that being past feeling ye shall work all uncleannesse with greedinesse if wee shall thus out dare God in his threatnings and like that Behemoth esteem those iron weapons as straw or as they say of the old Italians shoot off our great Ordnance and Ring our bells to drown the noise of Heaven's thunder if wee thus presume Deut. 29.20 God will not spare us but the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoake against us c. remember that saying Eccl. 8.12 Though a Sinner do evil an hundred times and his dayes be prolonged yet surely it shall bee well with them that seare the Lord. This is a dangerous and common rock upon which many a poor soul splits it self and the more common it is the more let it bee your care to avoid it The other is in the excesse and that is a servile infernal fear of God as a Judge or Tyrant whence arise in the soul hard thoughts of God Quos mctacule odcrint hatred of him a secret rising up against him a wishing there were no God and the like This is that great Engine wherewith Satan labours to batter our faith when he cannot robb you of grace and make you wicked he will endeavour to robb you of comfort and bring you to despaire make you miserable Hee will assault you with doubts and feares touching your Election conversion adoption perseverance with the greatnesse and number of your sins with the Curse and horror of the Law the Majesty and Justice of an offended God who is a consuming fire In all these and such like temptations let your eyes ever be fixed upon Christ and his blood the satisfaction given to the Justice of God by his death that redemption from the Curse of the Law himself being made a curse for us then will your souls say Let the Lord live then will your desires be to the remembrance of his name then will your hearts love him and say I will sing unto the Lord because he hath dealt bountifully with me Psalm 23.6 This is the foundation against which the Gates of Hell shall not prevail when there is no light nor issue nor possibility to esdape here will a doo of deliverance flie open to you Remember this also I pray you if once you come to slight or undervalue this great mercy to tread under foot the Son of God there remains no more no other sacrifice for you you may as much offend God by despairing as by presuming of his mercy Heb. 10.29 both are destructive to the true fear of God lay these things up in your hearts the Lord of his mercy blesse them to you To all you that thus fear the Lord Mal. 4.2 shall the Sun of righteousnesse arise with healing under his wings joy in that day when all the Elect shall behold their King and Redeemer in his Majesty and Glory For all those that thus fear the Lord there is a book of remembrance written It is said of Tamerlane the Scythian that he had alwaies by him a Catalogue of the names and good deserts of his servants which he dayly perused and whom he duly rewarded Mal. 3.16 how much more shal the Lord who bottles up the tears of his people puts their Prayers as upon the File and records all their devotions All those that thus fear the Lord he will own in that day when he makes up his Jewels makes them up for himself and takes them away from the misusages and malignities of the World When one desired to see Alexanders Treasure shew him said he to his Servant not my Gold or Monies Plate or Jewels but my friends Henceforth says Christ I call you not servants but friends John 15.15 These are Gods Jewels his dearest friends his chief Treasure none can plunder or pluck them out of his hands They are called the dearly beloved of his Soul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jer. 12.7 the LXX read it his dearly beloved Soul noting Gods Saints to be as dear to him as a mans life or his Soul is All these and these only wil the Lord pity and spare at that day as a father spareth his own son that serveth him I have now done both with the Text and the Times I have presented you with a New-years-gift of an inestimable value and worth All I require from you is but this That I may see you wear it that as great Personages are known by their Rings and rich Jewels so you may be by the fear of the Lord This Ring truly worn will seal to your souls assurance of salvation in this life and be to every one of you at your death a wedding Ring to marry you to the Lamb for evermore Your tears at this time sufficiently witnesse how sadly you receive it from my hands God wil I hope put your tears into his bottle and that Fountain which he hath opened in your eys this day shall swell into Rivers of comfort and salvation at that day when God shall wipe away all tears from your eys All I can do is to pray for you since I must no longer Preach to you I pray God blesse his Church I pray God blesse you all and that God of Peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus that great Shepheard of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting Covenant make you perfect in every good work to do his will working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory and honour now and evermore FINIS