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A02148 Meditations and disquisitions upon the first Psalme of Dauid Blessed is the man. By Sr. Richard Baker, Knight. Baker, Richard, Sir, 1568-1645. 1638 (1638) STC 1229; ESTC S100559 70,342 136

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for our sinnes and the mourning for our sinnes will cause a joy in the holy Ghost that we may be confident to say we have a comfortable blessednes seeing wee have the blessing of the holy Ghost the comforter And now if any man slight this joy as not deserving the name of blessednes Is it not because hee feeles it not in himselfe for without being felt it is not possible to bee understood but hee that feeles it and understands it will finde this joy to be that Iewell which the wise Merchant sold all that he had to buy For what availes it a man to enjoy the whole world and to want this joy For this joy is not an influence from the starres which yet can doe great wonders for breeding joy in the world but it is an influence from that spirit which moved upon the waters before the starres were made and is onely able still to move upon the waters and to remove the waters of a weeping soule It is a ioy begotten in our hearts by motion of the holy Ghost which moving upon the waters of a true repentance workes in us the joy of this assurance that wee have an Advocate and Intercessour for us with God the father Which joy was thought so great when time was that no Messenger was thought fit to bring the newes of it but an Angell from heaven Behold I bring you tidings of great ioy and great indeed it must needs be which an Angell cals great that scarcely would call the whole earth great and seeing St. Paul exhorts us to Reioyce evermore we may know the joy to be exceeding great that can make us able to hold out rejoycing so long together in all tempests and calmes in all actions and passions joy enough to maintaine a feast of rejoycing all our life long And then if this joy can make a blessednesse as certainly a greater cannot be had on earth and none partakers of it but the godly wee must needes confesse the Prophet had great reason to make it his challenge and that in the present Tense A godly man is blessed And will not this blessednesse appeare yet plainer if we consider the divers sorts of blessednesse For there is a blessednesse of the Law and this was delivered by Moses who delivering the Law but in litera delivers a blessednesse but in cortice Blessed shalt thou be in the field and blessed in the City blessed shall be the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy cattell c. There is a blessednesse of Grace and this was delivered by Aaron who being the Minister of our atonement with God delivers a blessednesse in this atonement The Lord blesse thee and keepe thee The Lord make his face to shine upon thee and be mercifull unto thee The Lord lift his countenance upon thee and give thee peace And there is a blessednesse of Glory and this was delivered by Christ who being himselfe the perfection of blessednesse delivers a blessednesse in perfection Come yee blessed of my Father inherite a Kingdome prepared for you And now that wee have these divers sorts of blessednesse laid out before us which of them may wee thinke was thought upon by David in saying Blessed is the man Not Moses his blessednesse for that is too imperfect nor yet Christs blessednesse for that is too consummate Moses his blessednesse is imperfect For Gold one of the best of his blessings hath commonly proved but aurum Tolos●●●m ominous to the owners and apt to bring them to utter ruine at most to blessednesse it hath never beene but neutrall onely as a cypher in Arithmeticke no value but from the placing it for if it be placed in a godly hand it serves in subsidium virtutis and may prove a meanes for augmentation of blessednesse but if it fall to be the lot of the wicked it is but incontivum vitiorum and serves but in majorem d●●nationem for an augmentation of misery And as Moses his blessednesse is too imperfect so Christs blessednesse is too consummate for the blessed face of God in which that blessednesse chiefely consists is no fit object for corruptible eyes God must make himselfe capabilte which now he is not and us capaces which now wee are not before wee can arrive at the haven of that blessednesse And so Moses his blessednesse being suspended and Christs blessednes not yet to be expected what remains but that we lay hold on Aarons blessednesse and this indeed we shall find to sympathize and suite well with this of David For Aarons blessednesse is a confidence in Gods mercy for remission of sinnes and a peace of conscience in being at peace with God in Christ. And it is no wrong to Aarons peace to adde in Christ for though Aaron expresse it not as speaking it but in figure yet wee may well thinke he understands it as meaning it in substance seeing no peace without Christ is safe unto us all peace without him is but dangerous security For Christus est pax nostra hee onely is our peace and this peace he hath ever used as his proper good It was the Present he brought the Apostles at his comming from Hell Peace be unto you and it was the legacy he left the Apostles at his going to Heaven My peace I leave with you this peace made Iob upon the dunghill blessed and the want of this peace made Saul upon his throne miserable this peace the world cannot give and the wicked cannot have here for there is no peace to the wicked saith the Lord. And now if any man sleight this peace as not thinking it to deserve the title of blessednesse Is it not because he hath no feeling of it in himselfe For not being felt it can never be understood but hee that feeles and understands it will finde this peace to be that purchase which Christ so deerely bought for us with his precious blood and is that in substance which Aarons peace was but in figure for to this peace it is not enough to have a Nil conscire sibi a cleere conscience in us seeing St. Paul knew nothing by himselfe yet was not thereby justified but we are justified by faith in Christ and thus justified wee have peace with God and being at peace with God we have peace of conscience within our selves And then if this peace can make a blessednesse as certainly a greater cannot be in earthly Tabernacles and none partakers of it but the godly we may speake it as well from Paul as from David or Aaron and so Priest and Prophet Apostle and all agree in this A godly man is blessed And if wee take another way to goe will it not come to all one journies end onely as having now taken the Prophets words in this manner A godly man is blessed And hee shall be like a tree There have appeared two distinct blessednesses one present and another future so if wee take the words in this manner as some will have