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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04156	The conuerts happines· A comfortable sermon preached at S. Maries Spittle in London, in Easter-weeke, the 19. April. 1609. By Thomas Iackson, Bachelour of Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word, at Wye in Kent.	Jackson, Thomas, d. 1646.	1609 (1609)	STC 14298; ESTC S107440	42,495	61

he loue him being absent and therefore as he appeared to Abraham in the mount to Iacob in the field to Moses in Midian to Ieremie in the Dungeon to Daniel in Babylon and to Peter in the Tanners house So in good time hee doeth appeare to his beloued Iohn in this poore I le and comfort him in his exile with sweete voices heauenly visions and most glorious Reuelations The Title of the Booke declareth the vse of it It is called according to the Greeke Apocalyps and according to the Latine Reuelation that is to say a Discouerie or Manifestation of thinges which before were hidden and secret in respect of men for the common good of the Church Which very Title doth most notably confute the Argument which the Iesuites vse whereby to discourage the People of God from reading and searching of this Booke For what though Saint Augustine and others haue spoken of the darkenesse and obscure mysteries of this Booke Tot Sacramenta quot verba etiam singulis multiplices latent intelligentiae One of the ancient Fathers saith truely writing vpon a Sentence of Daniel viz. that the booke should be sealed till the end of the time determined euery Prophesie is darke before it be fulfilled but then it is cleare so many things might seeme very darke Aenigmaes to those godly learned Fathers who liued before the fulfilling of them which nowe vnto vs are most cleare and euident Reuelations The Booke containeth and may fitly bee diuided into three Visions as it were into three generall Partes the first is contayned in the three first Chapters the second from the fourth to the twelueth the last from the twelueth to the end The first Vision is of seuen golden Candlesticks and seauen Starres representing seuen famous Churches and their Bishops in Asia minor to which hee was directed to write so many seuerall Epistles viz. Ephesus Smirnah Pergamus Thyatire Sardis Philadelphia and Laodicea and he chose rather to write to these Gentile Churches in Asia then to the Churches in Iudea to signifie that now the kingdome of God was come to the Gentiles and that the partition wall beeing broken downe the Gentiles were admitted adopted into the fellowship of Gods people yet so as vnder the seuerall estates of these 7. Churches the state of the whole Church militant is laid open and the doctrine therin contained so neerly cōcerneth euery one that the Conclusion of euery Epistle is Let him that hath an eare heare what the Spirit saith vnto the Churches The seuenth and last Epistle was written to the Angel or Bishop of the Church of Laodicaa of which name there were diuers Cities one in Macedonia another in Syria this was doubtlesse a most famous Citie in Asia scituate in the Countrie of Caria builded as Histories witnesse by Antiochus Theos and honoured with his wiues name Laodicaea and sometimes called Diospolis Some suppose that Saint Paul did Preach the Gospell vnto this Church because hee maketh mention of it in his Epistle to the Colossians and requireth them to read the Epistle written from thence and the first Epistle to Timothie is subscribed to haue beene written from Laodicaea but others more probably gather that the subscription is erronious and that hee was neuer there because in that Epistle written to the Colossians which was written at Rome in his last troubles a little before his death hee saith expresly they had neuer seene his person Howsoeuer it was a Church that enioyed many worthy Bishops as Eusebius reporteth but was now wonderfully decayed as this Epistle testifieth and nothing lesse then their name did import or signifie viz. a righteous people The Partes of this Epistle as of all the other are foure viz. First an Exordium or Preface in the foureteenth verse and hath three parts viz. first a Commandement Write Secondly the Person from whom described by three things viz. first Amen secondly Faithfull and true witnesse thirdly Beginning of the creatures of God Thirdly the persons to whom he must write described first by his office an Angel secondly by the place where of Laodicaea The second part of this Epistle containeth a generall proposition in these wordes I know thy workes The third generall part is spent in a narration in the latter part of the 15. and throughout the 16 17 18 19 20. The fourth and last part is the conclusion in the 21. and 22. verses and hath two partes Viz. a promise in the 21. verse and a command in the 22. verse This Scripture is a member of the third generall part of this Epistle which is the narration thereof and hath three partes Viz. first a reprehension secondly good counsell thirdly waightie admonitions First he very sharpely reproueth them and that by an elegant metaphor saying thou art neither cold nor hote that is they knew the truth but liued in a carelesse mediocrity and idle security they did neither vtterly denie the Gospel nor soundly professe it they were neither professed enemies nor sound friends but wholy plied their trades merchandise not greatly caring which end went forward in Gods matters so they might enioy their pleasures and profites yea hee telleth them flatly this is their estate and that they were deceiued for they thought themselues rich and increased with goods and had neede of nothing when as in truth they were wretched and miserable and poore and blind and naked and therefore this will be the end of it if they continue in this state hee will spue them but of his mouth And truely as it is a marueilous ordinary thing for them that liue in wealth and abound with pleasures and haue all things which the flesh desireth to grow secure so if wee make application hereof to our selues wee shall find that most Congregations men and women in this land are fearefully growing luke-warm and thinke themselues in farre better estate then they be Thus hauing laid open their dangerous estate that it might appeare vnto them hee sought their good and delighted not in their destruction In the second place hee giueth them louing and good counsell and sheweth them how they may become rich couer their nakednesse and cure their blindnesse Thirdly and lastly hee doth very grauely admonish them first to make good vse of their corrections by becomming more zealous and amending in the verse immediatly going before secondly to make good vse of the present meanes and occasion of their good in the wordes of my text Beholde I stand at the doore and knocke We are guilty of this Churches sin I pray God we may make good vse of this admonion and this day that God speaketh and knocketh let vs take heede we harden not our hearts she was reproued let vs repent she was well counselled let vs obey she was threatned let vs tremble she was admonished let vs take heede yea she is now