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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00669	A sermon preached at St. Mary Spittle on Easter Tuesday 1613. By Roger Fenton D. in Diuinitie	Fenton, Roger, 1565-1616.	1616 (1616)	STC 10804; ESTC S115028	43,251	226

here on the earth he hath carried them with the same bodie vp into heauen and as hee remembred vs vpon the Crosse so doth hee not forget vs when he is now in his kingdome Hee is not like Pharoahs Butler that forgat Ioseph who was so kinde to him in prison when hee came to his preferment but Christ hee remembred the petition of the thefe thou now remembrest vs because thou art in the same passion with vs subiect to the same death but when this passion is past when thou cōmest into thy kingdome ô God remember me then So doth Christ remember vs now when hee is come into heauen to the right hand of God hee remembers vs as hee did remember vs when hee was dying and shed his precious blood for vs on the Crosse Wherefore did he take humane affection vpon him but that hee might expresse this loue vnto vs The affection of loue is noted to be most vehement in women as Dauid doth expresse 2. Sam 1 26. speaking of Ionathan Thy loue to me was wonderfull passing the loue of women And because the affections of that sexe are naturall so should be most tender therefore our Sauiour when hee came to bee incarnated and to take our flesh vpon him he was made of a woman Gal 4. 4. and yet because sinne doth naturally harden the heart and dull the affection therefore he tooke them from a pure Virgin and that they might yet bee more tender he did free them and purge them from all sinne and these affections hath he in his bodie taken vp with him into heauen and set them at the right hand of God his Father and therefore I may be bold to say hee hath set vs as a seale vpon his heart and as a signet vpon his arme and with his stretched-out arme he hath mightily defended vs and preserued his poore Church from time to time from all enemies Thus the petition is easily heard and granted therefore I will not stand long vpon it that which happily you are more loth to heare yet that which is more needfull for mee to speake is the dutie reflecting vpon it if we take that sense or the very literall sense it selfe that Christ doth exhort vs that we set him on our hearts as a seale and weare him as a signet on our arme And of this dutie here be many branches notably expressed in these two metaphors For first there 's a heart there we must euer begin It is a maxime in Diuinitie that which the heart doth not is not done at all before God for whatsoeuer is done is but formally done it is not effectually done vnlesse the heart be affected with it the heart it is the first that liues by nature so it is the first that must liue againe in our regeneration and new birth It is the first that God doth challenge in the first Commandment of the first Table Thou shalt haue no other gods before me that is in my presence or before mee in thine owne affection but thou shalt loue me with all thine heart and with all thy soule c. It is the last Commandment of the second Table Thou shalt not couet in thy heart God in his Table begins with the heart first because in all our actions the first thing that God beholds is the heart but in the second Table which is for continuall duties amongst men it is in the last place because the last that a man can see is to see into the heart so then to take all ten Commandments together the heart you see it is the Alpha Omega the first and the last of all and so in truth it is all in all for giue God the heart and all the rest will follow a heart therfore hee doth claime at our hands in this exhortation in the first place and this heart it must be wrought like wax that it may receiue the impression of a seale for so saith Christ here to his Church set me as a seale vpon thy hart You know the matter that is disposed for to receiue an impression it must neither be too hard nor too soft for if it bee ouer hard it will not take it and if ouer fluxible it will not hold it therfore the heart must bee of a good temper to receiue the impression of the seale of Christ As a braine if it be too dry it will not be apprehensiue and if too moist it will not be retentiue it must be a well tempered brain that shall receiue both in apprehension and memorie So the heart that receiueth Christ and his righteousnes must be of a good temper some hearts are too hard that will take no impression at all like the hearts of the Cheifetaines among the Iewes that nothing could mollifie them nothing would moue them nothing would perswade them to haue pitty and compassion on our Sauiour Christ Pilat himselfe when hee had made furrowes on his backe with scourging him and crowned his head with thornes he brought him out before them to see if they would haue pitty and compassion on him to say it is enough but their hearts they were hardned they would receiue no impression at all On the other side the hearts of the people they were soft and vnstable and vnconstant ready to cry Hosanna one day Blessed is hee that commeth in the name of the Lord and shortly after Crucifige Crucifige the hearts of men do offend in these two extremities somtime they are too hard to receiue any impression and somtimes they are againe too inconstant they will not hold it there be as a Diuine speaketh not onely Sabbatarians that were heretikes but Sunday-Christians also that haply vpon the Sabbath will take some impression some certaine qualme of religion haply may come ouer their consciences but it is quickly gone againe they serue God vpon the Sabbath and serue themselues and the Deuill all the weeke after they are resembled vnto that goodly Idoll Dagon in the 5. chap of the 1. booke of Samuel the 4. verse who so long as he stood in his place in the temple was a goodly Idol to looke vpon but the next morning when they came they found his hands and his head at the threshold of his temple so as the text saith there was nothing left but the very stumpe of an Idol so is it with many of vs who comming into the house of God to heare a Sermon and it may be with great shew of deuotion also to receiue the Sacrament but at the Church do●e there lies their hands and affections nothing remaineth but a very stumpe of religion they haue neither hands to doe a good deed nor happily tongues to speake a good word all the weeke after these be Sabbath day Christians But if we will fruitfully receiue the ingraffed word of Christ which is able to saue our soules as the Apostle speaketh Iam 1 21 We must haue a heart fit to receiue and retaine that his impression set me