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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46526	Compunction or pricking of heart with the time, meanes, nature, necessity, and order of it, and of conversion; with motives, directions, signes, and means of cure of the wounded in heart, with other consequent or concomitant duties, especially self-deniall, all of them gathered from the text, Acts 2.37. and fitted, preached, and applied to his hearers at Dantzick in Pruse-land, in ann. 1641. and partly 1642. Being the sum of 80. sermons. With a post-script concerning these times, and the sutableness of this text and argument to the same, and to the calling of the Jews. By R.J. doctor of divinity.	R. J.	1648 (1648)	Wing J27; ESTC R213600	381,196	433

sound direction The word it self is every way as able to heal as to wound and so should the teachers of it also be Some they say can raise and call up spirits but not lay them Pharaohs sorcerers could by their inchantments bring blood and frogs so increasing the like plagues sent of God but they could not kill them or cause the plague they brought depart and cease no Moses must do that both for those brought by him and those brought by the Sorcerers Exod. 7.22 and 8.7 8. Vse 2. Being wounded and pricked in heart by the word in the ministery of it Use 2. thinke not the worse of the minister as if he intended your hurt or disgrace Being wounded not to conceive worse of the minister Each faithful minister though he seems to deal sharply with you yet aimes at your good if he wound you it is because he sees that course to be the only way to purge cleanse and heal you If they preach damnation to you it is to bring you to salvation If by discovery of your sin they seem to shame you it is to bring you to glory And when once they see you truly pricked and wounded they are both able by Gods assistance and as willing and ready to heal as they were to wound as ready with their oil as with their wine As the very mercies of the wicked are cruel so the wounds of faithfull Ministers and of the righteous generally are mercies their smiting a kindness their reproofs an excellent oyle Psal 141.5 3. To fly not from but to God though seemingly an enemy 3. Being wounded flie not from God from his word and ministers but to them Usually men fly from such as would wound them conceiving them enemies and in the hearers of the word it is too usually done by many who being touched by the sharp reproofs of the word forsake their teachers as either too saucy with them or too strict little thinking that thus flying from them they forsake their own mercies These converts here did otherwise betaking themselves and flying not from but to those that pricked them being indeed inwardly sustained by a secret power to expect help and direction from the same Apostles and no other If thou then or whensoever thou shalt be wounded in like case consult and say Come and let us return unto the Lord for he hath torn and he will heal us he hath smitten and he will binde us up After two daies will he revive us in the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight Hos 6.1 2. If God by his word do wound If he help not all other help is in vain it is in vain to seek to any other for cure when he is displeased who can afford help if he deny it resolve therefore if thou must perish as thou art sure enough to do if God save not to die before the footstool of his mercy he may save thee though in seeming thine enemy at least if he do not no other can imitate the Lepers of whom we have heard 2 Kings 7.4 5 c. But if being wounded in conscience thou seek to any of the aforesaid uncomfortable means thou so forsakest the fountain of mercy and with Cain fleest from the presence of God Thus do many who as one saith well as they beleeve without repenting and therefore their faith is presumption so they repent without beleeving and therefore their repentance is desperation They mutter and murmure and are like the chaffe which when it is shaken flutters in the face of the fanner as angry with him as those Jews Acts 7. flying in Stephens face but the godly are as great wheat falling down at the feet of the fanner as these converts here humbling to Peter c. What shall we do And so we come to the third relation which may be considered between these Apostles and some of these Jewes if not all CHAP. XXVIII Shewing how Gods Ministers and people are and shall be sought to and honoured by those that disrespect them 3. The Third relation of these Apostles being the same who formerly were neglected if not mocked 3. UNto whom then did these here in their distress of conscience seek saying Men and brethren c. I answer unto those whom formerly they contemned or at least neglected and accounted meanly of and in likelihood some of these were in the number of those that in the morning of the same day mocked and derided if not reviled them v. 13. saying These men are full of new wine But now that they are truly touched and pricked in heart they seek unto them with all submission and prostration of themselves and of their own wisedome and wills desirous to be directed and willing to be commanded by them by those that now seek unto them They are now taken down off the high conceit they had of themselves and in an high esteem of these Apostles they make their moan and requests unto them seeking comfort and direction from them whom formerly they so lightly accounted of if not railed on and mocked Howsoever they now thus honour those whom they formerly contemned Note The godly shall be honoured of those that contemn them 1. Often in this life which their enemies do 1. Either willingly as being converted Thus shall it be done to the man whom the King of heaven delighteth to honour Even such as seek their disgrace shall be made to honour them at one time or another 1. In this life Or 2. hereafter They shall be made to do it either willingly or against their wills 1. Willingly in and by their conversion and alteration of judgement concerning the faithful servants of God So that whereas they have spoken evill against them as evill doers they shall now by the others good works which they shall behold glorifie God in the day of visitation and so acknowledge them the true servants of God Thus the Jaylour having thrust Paul and Silas into an inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks came not long after trembling and falling down before their feet seeking help and comfort from them washed their stripes and so did them honour Acts 16.24 -29 30 c. This is according to the promise Isa 60.14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet and they shall call thee the City of the Lord the Zion of the holy One of Israel 2 Vnwillingly As 1 It may be Or 2. Unwillingly 1 By command of others as in Haman by command of higher powers So proud Haman who formerly despised good Mordecai and now had plotted his and the Jews destruction was commanded to honour him and afterwards all the Jews also in the person of Queen Esther a Jewesse before whom Haman stood up to make request for his life to her Esth 6.10 11.

his word being followed shall stand How happy then is that man who denying his own wisdome our happinesse if so we do shall in all his wayes and thoughts hood-wink himself make God and his word the guide of his thoughts and ways and be content to see nothing and no otherwise then according to the wisdome of Gods word God will guide such with his counsell and after receive him to glory Psal 73.24 Such as so blinde themselves and will see onely with Gods eyes and by the light of his word become truely wise whereas all others and contrariwise if we do not who are wise in themselves are denyed true wisdom Matth. 11.25 and their own wisdom is accursed to them Isa 30.1 and turned into folly as was Ahitophel's and 1 Cor. 1.19 and 3.19 20. John 9.39 c. I conclude Forsake the devices of thine own heart Hear counsell and receive instruction from Gods word that howsoever men think of thee for the present thou mayst be wise in thy later end Prov. 19.20 21. and not as the worldling who at his end shall be a fool Jer. 17.11 These here in my Text stood not upon any wisdom of their own but sought direction from the Apostles saying What shall we do And following the same became truly wise even to salvation 2 We must also deny our selves in our own corrupt Will and choice 2 In our corrupt wils Which must be denyed and submit to Gods will both in our doings 1 Tim. 6.9 wee must have no will of our own but such as willingly submits it self to Gods will who doth and ordereth all things according to his own will he is the onely Soveraign Lord unto whom our wils should ever be in subjection We must so far deny our own wils as not to say we will be rich and we will do thus or so We will go into such a Citie and continue there a yeer and buy and sell and get gain For that we ought to say If the Lord will we shall live and do this or that and sufferings Jam. 4.13 -15. And so in all crosses and evils befalling us we are to say The will of the Lord be done Acts 21.14 We must not think all things must be according to our will or that God should stoop to us in all things if he do This is the way never to be crossed in any thing it is with a curse 1 Tim. 6.9 The onely way to have our wils in all things is to deny our own wils not to be resolute peremptory and wilfull in any thing but onely according to Gods will and in all crosses to subordinate our will to Gods will when it is manifested as most holy and good and wise 〈◊〉 shall crosses be no crosses to us otherwise we shall never want crosses Gods will shall ever be done and he will oppose them that oppose him Take we heed then of being self-willed in any thing or of making our own will the onely law and reason of our doings which with respect to men is tyranny to God is flat obstinacy and rebellion as Jer. 18.12 and 44.16 17. 3 In all our carnall affections and fleshly lusts and desires 3 In our carnall affections See Heb. 4.10 1 Pet. 4.1 from all which we must abstain 1 Pet. 2.11 Otherwise God will give us our desires but with a curse as to the Israelites who lusted exceedingly in the wildernesse to whom God granted their request but sent leannesse into their soul Psal 106.14 15. and 78.29 30 31. And this self-denyall should be especially in our most beloved and darling sins Especially in our beloved sin so that to deny our selves in all and to deny God any one lust being loth to part with it or to deny our selves in it is in effect nothing at all In our bargaining and covenanting with God for his Son Christ for our own souls and the salvation thereof not to part with all and every lust and not to lose heaven for one lust as some do is to lose all even to lose souls our selves Christ yea God and all How many lose heaven for one lust as Judas for his covetousnesse and so the young man who boasted he had done all whom Jesus beholding loved telling him and saying One thing thou lackest Go and sell whatsoever thou hast and give to the poor and thou shalt have treasure in heaven and come and take up thy crosse and follow me Mark 10.20 21. Now this was a commandement not to build an Order of begging Friars on onely of tryall conviction and discovery This Perfectist had not denyed himself in his covetousnesse and so going away grieved it seems that he could not enjoy his wealth and ease and Christ too he denyed Christ his soul and the salvation of it yea and his wealth too in the end which he could not carry to hell with him So it is with others A small thing parts God and some A small thing as one notes parts God and them their deceit used in the shop their whore their vain delight otherwise their pride in apparel their ambition their desire of revenge their fear of losing mans favour or of forgoing such an Office Benefice or preferment keeps them wholly from Christ And this because they do not absolutely and totally deny themselves in their lusts which yet the grace of Christ teacheth them Tit. 2.12 4 In our sinfull practices 4 In all our sinfull ways and practices and in every such course of life as is either unlawfull or otherwise not so necessary as dangerous and full of strong temptations Thus men are to deny themselves in all such sinfull practices as by which they use to get gain as in their briberies lying cheating falsifying of wares weights and measures buying by the greater and selling by the lesser so by defraudation and under-hand dealing interverting from their Masters if they be servants from their owners and such as put them in trust if they be in places of trust or office by sea or by land from their Principals if they be Factours from the common Treasury if they being Magistrates or Officers are betrusted therewith from the King in matter of due Customes and Tributes unlawfull callings if they be Traders So in all unlawfull callings and trades as that of Players and Play-poets of living by gaming playing the whore and the like Yea where there is not otherwise necessity we are to deny our selves in such kinde of lives and in unnecessary kindes of life which debar us of better things which promising it may be much carnall delight gain honour and advancement yet apparantly expose us to strong temptations of sinning as to live where the Gospel is not either at all or not in purity and power as in forreign parts and Countries where there are onely more opportunities of getting gain then in our own Country perhaps where yet the Gospel is in better purity and more