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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

Corinthians that God hath all things well that 's true you know that Christ is Gods Son and Heir and therefore he hath all things well that is true also and you are Christs spouse and therefore for your good you have all things The third and last thing is Those Comforts that flow from their Union with Christ As a woman that loves her Husband receives more joy from the personall fellowship and acquaintance with him then from all his Estate besides so great are the Comforts that are received from Christ which must needs be inexpressible seeing the union from whence they flow is so great that the most gracious and learned men in the world do not fully understand it in this life which appears by that speech of Christ to his people Matth. 25.34 35. Come ye blessed of my father for I was an hungry and ye gave me meat I was naked and you cloathed me I was sick and you visited me Then shall the righteous answer when did we see thee hungry naked or sick and visited thee As if they should say we confess Lord that we have seen thy poor people hungry naked and sick and we relieved them but did we do it to thee to very thee Yes saith Christ you did it to me to very me you have not yet understood the near relation that is betwixt them and me for in that you have visited them you visited me c. To conclude all as the Love and Care of a friend or Father sheweth it selfe most towards death so we find the heart of Christ how it stood towards his people in that famous prayer before his death That they all may be one John 17.21 22 23. as thou father art in me and I in thee and the glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one even as we are one I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one that the World may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me See here what variety of expressions is used thou in them and I in them and thou in me and I in thee backward and forward as if no one expression was able to set forth this Union Me think this is like the speech of some young Heir that having taken a wife against his fathers consent brings her in his hand to him and saies Sir I confess this woman is below me in birth breeding portion c. But I have set my heart upon her and have taken her for my wife now good Sir as ever you hope to have comfort of your Son that you will own her as your Daughter else what good will my life do me That the same lodging diet respect attendance may be given to her that is given to me and that she may as truly in all respects be taken for your Daughter as you have taken me for your Son and that not privately onely but that all the Servants of the House and all the Tenants may see that you have loved her as you have loved me that all the World saith Christ may see that thou hast loved them as thou hast loved me I have done the Lord give a blessing FINIS The Everlasting Covenant As it was Delivered in a Sermon at St Paul's before the Gentlemen and Citizens of Nottinghamshire upon the 2d of December 1658. Being the Day of their Yearly Feast By Marmaduke James Minister of Watton at Stone in the County of Hertford 1 COR. 2.7 But we speak the Wisdom of God in a Mysterie even the hidden Mysterie which God ordained before the world unto our glory LONDON Printed by J. M. for J. Martin J. Allestry T. Dicas and sold at their Shop at the Signe of the Bell in St Paul's Churchyard 1659. To all my very much Honored Friends and Countrymen the Respective NATIVES of the County of NOTTINGHAM More especially To those of the two late Solemn Meetings And in particular To the Right Honourable Sir John Ireton Lord Mayor of the City of London John Lewes Esq and the r●st of the worthy Stewards for the two last Festivals held in the Years 1657. and 1658. My Lords and Gentlemen THe first of these Sermons being Copied out the last Year for the Press after serious perusal the Request for publication seemed to flow rather from a good opinion of then any real worth I found therein and further being discouraged by this foolish and Voluminous Age wherein every man almost abounding in his own sense if the product of his thoughts amount but to the worth of an Egg is restless till he cackles it to the Press the abhorrency from which practise did make abortive that Intention Yet afterwards being wearied with the many Why-nots both of City and Countrey Acquaintance I almost repented the retracted purpose and beginning to reflect upon the Mode of the Times found my self in an errour if the Directions of that Wise Man of France to his Scholar be true Charron to wit That 't is a great point of Wisdom most precisely to obey the Customs of the place and age wherein we live to prevent misprision and popular disdain however irrational they may seem to us And truly Gentlemen if you could read that honour I bear You in my heart You would easily believe your Entreaty to have the force of a Command upon me though it were to much inconvenience yet in the circumstance give me leave ingeniously to tell you that I chuse much more gladly to embrace the motion of the Press then to endure the shock of another years Interrogatories and the rather because I have not found either since the revival of your late Meetings or in times before their adjournment by unhappy War any thing extant from our Country of this nature which presumes the Virtues and Beauties thereof are not ordinary in that that comly Dame and keeper of the virtues Modesty I mean hath hitherto been so strangely prevalent For the last my notice through failed expectation being small and secular diversions then upon me great gave but one free day to recollect my self and I trust a good interpretation will be admitted in that this Gospel-Text seeing Necessity hath no Law at that pinch was ready otherwise a Text calculated for all the Countries under heaven Plainly as it was Preached you have it Printed without any alteration save only the particulars in the Analogie of the seed which was then named but the prosecution nipped off by the coldness of the season Wherein you have as from the Father the highest contrivance of heaven to be at peace with man so from the Son an example of eternal admiration in the acts and sufferings of his love to effectuate that Design for you There seems to remain nothing more but that you in a double sence Brethren after the exemplar of this love may learn to love one another and to the end that the great acts of this love

stone whereof before it 's dismantling was higher than the top stones of many others in the Land whose climbing Towers scituate upon those perpendicular rocks did ascend to such a stupendious height like another Zion as if the Spectators should believe that they intended to peer into the clouds or to pick a quarrel with the Moon Upon the highest part whereof in the beginning of the past miserable broyles was the Standard Royal of unhappy and too late alas too late lamented Majesty lifted up which Castle had not the divisions been home-bred might have said unto all her Enemies as sometimes the Jebusites trusting to the strength of Zion jeeringly told David That they would set up the lame and the blinde to keep that Tower against him Further I could tell you how that crystalline River Trent like another Jordan or that little River Line like that Brook Kydron trilling down by the foot and as it were washing the toes of that Hierusalem do sport their streams in the laps of those Virgins meadows whose beds without a metaphor are green over whom this fair Town sits as the delicate Spectatress smiling upon the scene while the hills crowd upon her shoulders as if over them they would steal a sight of those Valley delightfull pleasures and to conclude like another Hierusalem at what a distance does Shee present to the gazing traveller a stately and majestick Aspect upon whose fore-head as upon a Jewish frontlet in Capital letters seems to be written that of the Psalmist Walk about this Zion mark well her bulwarks consider her palaces that yee may tell it to the generation following c. But why lose wee time in spoiling the goodly face and native beauty of that Town and Countrey by the vain depictions of foolish Art those that are doubtfull of the truth of these things have such an answer ready as sometimes incredulous Nathanael received from non-plus't Philip about the person of Christ in the first of John Let them go and see But here Sirs lies not our business which is at this time to indeavour that as God was in Judah and Hierusalem so hee may be the God of our Countreymen and their guide unto death But alas Sirs as the ignorance of God in many parts of our Countrey has formerly been too apparent and much lamented So now in these dayes of light and reformation so call'd 't is sad to hear of those monsters in Religion I mean the Seekers Ranters and Quakers how they have over-spred the beautifull face thereof Just as the Sun when hee displaies his pleasant spring beams upon Orchards and Gardens and thinking thereby to warm and draw forth the fruits of the earth for the comfort of man then do the snakes adders and such poisonfull creatures come forth of their holes turning up their bellies and beaking themselves in the sweet beams thereof So hath this Vermin crept abroad in our Countrey to the disparagement of the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ shining on them and though 't is out of question that the Divel and the Jesuite is at the bottom yet many well meaning people that both some of you and I know are led away with those pernicious errors who are to be pitied and for whom wee should have continual sorrow in our hearts for these our Kinsmen as the Apostle speaks according to the fl●sh that have a zeal of God Rom. 10. but not according to knowledge I need not tell you that the soul of man is a precious thing and the loss thereof sad in any Countrey Yet mee thinks in the aguish parts of Kent and Essex where I have seen sometimes a whole Parish sick together the souls that miscarry thence seem but to go from Purgatory to Hell But those that perish out of Nottingham-shire go from Heaven to Hell And Thou Capernaum that art exalted to heaven shalt be cast down to hell and as sometimes when that mighty tyrant Nebuchadnezzar fell the nations flocked together Isa 14.10 14. and wondering said Is this the man that made the earth to tremble that did shake Kingdomes Art thou also weak as wee Art thou become like one of us So when a soul miscarries out of Nottingham-shire mee thinks in melancholy Visions I see those Infernal Spirits flocking about it and saying What art thou fallen from thine Excellencie Art thou come from those pleasant mountaines to these Stygian Lakes from that Lightsom and ambitious Air to these darksom Cells Art thou also weak as wee Art thou become like one of us The serious consideration of these things ha's put mee upon a plain practical Sermon lately delivered to my people in the Countrey which God grant may be preached more to your hearts than eares and that I may though the unworthiest of Gods Servants be as a guide this day to lead you from your earthly to that Hierusalem that is above and from your pleasant Ur of the Chaldees to the Land of Canaan to that Countrey and those Cities that have foundations whose builder and maker is God and whose rock is Christ This is life eternal sayes S. John to know thee the onely true God and him whom thou hast sent and therefore have I taken a Text which holds out to you the knowledge both of the Father and the Son and that in the most excellent and saving act that ever was done for the children of men ISAIAH 53.10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him hee hath put him to grief when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin hee shall see his seed hee shall prolong his dayes and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand THese words do contain that eternal Covenant which was made between God the Father and the Son for the redemption of mankinde wherein you have the Work and the Wages The work or what Christ was to do or rather suffer was death When hee shall lay down his soul an offering for sin The wages is laid down in the latter part of the verse in these three particulars First hee shall see his Seed Secondly Hee shall prolong his dayes Thirdly The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand These two I shall open a little to you and first of the first Wee reade in the verse before the Text it is said that hee had done no violence neither was there deceit in his mouth yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him This was strange yet that a just and a righteous God should greatly delight for so the word signifies to bruise an innocent person 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All that I can say to it is that the heart of God was so set towards mankinde to save it that it became unto him a very pleasant thing to limit his own Son in order to that salvation But lest that God while hee is thus mercifull unto man should seem cruel to his Son there are two things in the text which clear up the justice of