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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

the children of blessedness that exemption that is there from sin sorrows temptations tribulations persecutions c. It conveys and assures all the estate unto them insomuch there was never any childe of God could ever lay claim to God Christ to the Spirit to Grace to Glory but by these Testimonies Hence David knew what he said Psal 19.11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned and in keeping of them there is great reward That reward is no less then Heaven it self Hence it is that the Word is so often called The Gospel of the Kingdom Yea The Kingdom of heaven it self Repent Mat. 4.23 Mat. 24.14 for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand Mat. 4.17 The Kingdom of God is come unto you Hence Paul Luk. 10.9 when he bids farewel to the Ministers of Miletus I commend you saith he to God and the Word of his grace Acts 20.32 that is able to give you an inheritance amongst them that are sanctified giving thanks unto God that hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light Not only in the light of glory but in the light of grace and of these Testimonies For thy Law is a light unto my feet Psal 119.105 and a Eamp unto my paths And thus have we done with the second thing propounded to wit What is meant by this Inheritance and in what sense these Testimonies became David's Inheritance and so we come to the improvement of all by way of Application Use 1 If it be so that the Word of the Lord is his peoples inheritance Then we see the reason of its preservation to this day notwithstanding all those floods of malice that have been vomited out against it by Satan and his Instruments What is the reason that the Assyrian and Persian Monarchs and those bloody Roman Emperours that would have blotted out the name of this Book from under heaven could never effect it What is the reason that that Fox the Pope by all his subtilty could never destroy it somtimes setting the Church above it somtimes corrupting it with false glosses somtimes obscuring it from the people What 's the reason that those Locusts that are come out of the bottomless pit I mean the Seekers and Ranters and Quakers who crying up a light within them to destroy this glorious light without them could never effectuate Why you have the reason in the Text It is an Inheritance It is no easie matter to divide betwixt an Heir and his Inheritance A young Heir may be under a Cloud or a Sequestration for a time but Inheritances will revert God's entails are stronger then man's and so long as God hath an Heir a Childe upon earth it is impossible to destroy this Book this Inheritance Heaven and Earth shall pass away before one jot Matth. 5.18 one tittle shall pass from it Use 2 If it be so That these Testimonies are such an Inheritance then that man that hath an Interest in them hath little cause to be discontented in his condition If thou beest a rich man then bless the Lord that hath given thee both a portion in this life and that which is to come And if we have any Country-man here that is a poor man let him not say he is very poor having an interest in that which David prizeth above all his Crowns but let him say Psal 116.7 Return unto thy rest O my Soul for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee Use 3 If it be so That this Word of the Lord be such an Inheritance What is the reason that in these our days it is so slighted and the love of many grows so cold towards it We have a saying That rich men never want Heirs they may want children but they never want heirs Take the most mortified man and him that is the most withdrawn from the pleasures and profits of this life if he hear of any Inheritance fallen presently he saddles his Horse and rides away for possession for saith he it is an Inheritance If men did believe that this were such could they slight it as they do When the Son of man comes shall he finde faith in the earth Truly Sirs we have cause to think that the last age of the world is upon us I might stand here and lament over the sad Apostacy of these times and might take up the expostulation of the Prophet Jeremiah Ierem. 2.5 What iniquity have your Fathers found in me that they are gone away from me What evil Christian hast thou ever found in this Book that thy soul should loath it What is the reason Is it that of the Poet Inopem me copia fecit Hath plenty made thee poor Or Hath the abundance of this spiritual Manna given thee a surfet Or is it that of the Philosopher Nimis sensibile destruit sensum Art thou blinde by looking upon the Sun Or hath the glorious light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ put out mens eyes Well Sirs Let others do what they will you that are my Country-men you that fear the Lord amongst them hold fast this Book for it is your life and the length of your days and when any one attempts to seduce you from it say unto him as Naboth did unto Ahab Ahab was a King 1 Kings 21.3 and he proffered a valuable consideration and it was but for a temporal inheritance God forbid that I should part with the Inheritance of my forefathers Have all my Progenitors lived upon this estate and shall I now debauch it God forbid There is Abraham Isaac and Jacob and Job and David and Daniel and Paul and Peter and Latimer and our Countryman Cranmer and all these Patriarchal men and thousands more that are now sate down in the Kingdom of Glory by vertue of this inheritance God forbid that ever we should part with the inheritance of our forefathers And that I may fasten this Exhortation upon you we shall a little open to you in the conclusion of our discourse the famous example of David It is to be considered either first in the Practique or secondly in the Theory of it The Practique is considerable either first what the temporal estate that David had was Or secondly what of these Testimonies David knew For the first I believe that David had the greatest estate that ever mortal man had except it was A dam in innocency I know the story of Darius Alexander Caesar Charlemaine and those great and mighty men upon the earth yet under favour David seems to transcend them if these three things be considered David had a considerable bredth of ground over which he ruled he ruled over Palestina which was somtimes the seat of seven Kingdoms over the Philistims over Ammon Moab Amaleck c. and if you compare 2 Sam. 8. with the History of Josephus you will find him to be Lord of the greatest part of the Eastern world But If you consider the quality of his