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A34946	The new paradise of God, or, The regenerate and his fruit set forth in a sermon to the Hertfordshire-citizens at Bow-Church in Cheapside, London, July 2, 1657, being the day of their publick festival / by Isaac Craven ...	Craven, Isaac, d. 1660.	1658 (1658)	Wing C6862; ESTC R7152	19,959	32

The New PARADISE OF GOD. OR The Regenerate and his Fruit. Set forth In a SERMON to the Hertfordshire-Citizens at Bow-Church in Cheapside London July 2. 1657. being the day of their publick FESTIVAL BY ISAAC CRAVEN Minister of the Gospel at Aston in Hertfordshire Cant. 4. 13. Thy Plants are an Orchard of Pomegranats with pleasant fruits LONDON Printed for J. Rothwell at the Fountain in Cheapside 1658. TO MY Honoured Friends and Countreymen of Hertfordshire inhabiting or sojourning in the City of LONDON More particularly TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL Sir Thomas Dacres Knight Edward Laurence Esq Mr. Francis Kirby Mr. Henry Clarke Mr. John Christian Mr. William Brewer John Jesson Esq Mr. Blunt Sadleir Mr. John Howland Mr. Dudley Short Mr. Charles Read Mr. Richard Weedon The worthy Stewards of their late FESTIVAL Honoured Sirs AN inbred affection to my Native Countrie a civil respect to your Vnanimous consent may suffice to justifie the readiness of my complyance in undertaking this late service Which having found the favour of your courteous acceptance attested by those after-intreaties in order to a publication inclines me to hope that the Doctrine then delivered will be drawn into some Vse by Your care to practice it I confesse my private genius stands little affected to the mode of appearing in print Nor do I value my pains at so high a rate as to judge them worthy of the publick view Howbeit to compleat my respects to those who imploy'd me I have so far prevail'd against all reluctancies as to gratifie Your desires though to my own dissatisfaction Beseeching the Almighty to blesse the expence of that hour with successe of eternity That it may prove in the issue as profitable to Your souls as it was judged suitable to the season And now dear Countrie-men having met with so fair an opportunity give me leave to remember You that this Your earthly Countrie can contribute nothing of it self to the illustration of Your persons a Nisi per te fulseris quid tibi lux patriae praeter tenebras allatura est Petrarch but waits to receive some rayes of splendour from the reflections of your own worth Be it therefore Your holy ambition so to excell in vertue and goodnesse that as it was anciently foretold what should be said of Rahab and Babylon b Psal 87. 4. c. This man was born there so it may reflect with honour upon the places of Your first breathing that this and that faithfull Christian was born there Nor will it a little advantage You to recount in Your meditations how in the Land of Your first Nativity Ye did but begin Your Pilgrimage Yea the World it self is but the place of Your exile c Quid aliud terra quàm Exilium Calv. Heaven onely deserves to be esteemed Your Countrie d Patriam nostram Paradisum computamus Cypr. Let Your conversation therefore be in Heaven And that You may speed in Your motions thither save Your selves from this untoward generation e Acts 2. 40. Buy the truth and sell it not f Pro. 23. 23 Maintain good works for necessary uses g Tit. 3. 14. Follow after the things which make for peace and wherewith Ye may edifie one another h Rom. 14. 19. To forbear any larger prefacing and to give You a summarie abridgement of all that I would say Whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest Phil. 4. 8. whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any vertue and if there be any praise think of these things And accept the poor endeavours of Your humble and faithfull Remembrancer IS CRAVEN THE NEW PARADISE Of GOD. OR The Regenerate and his Fruit. PSAL. 1. 3. And he shall be like a Tree planted by the Rivers of Water which bringeth forth his fruit in his season THis Book of the Psalms is a little Bible saith Luther An Epitome saith Athanasius of the whole Scripture a Ep. ad Marcellin A Compendium saith Basil of all Divinity b In Ps 1. With such high Encomiums have divers Expositors diversly magnified it none undeservedly For as the Scriptures in general are able 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to make a man wise unto salvation c 2 Tim. 3. 15. So the drift and scope of this in particular is to teach us the way to be truly blessed Insomuch as this first Psalm which I take to be the Preface to all the rest begins with blessedness yea by the word there used a plurality of blessedness as the portion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the man that walketh uprightly A Psalm whose Author and occasion the Original hath not hinted there being no Title prefixt for intimation of either Indeed the very notion of a Preface is enough to discover the occasion And being a precious piece of the Divine Canon it must have the Spirit of God for its prime Author by whose inspiration all Scripture is given d 2 Tim. 3. 16. And so it hath Title enough to our faith and obedience though the Front of the Psalm be without a Title Yet rather then it should absolutely passe without Athanasius was pleased from the first word in the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 blessed to intitle the whole Psalm 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a Psalm of blessedness e Ep. ad Marcell Not as if the proper businesse of it were to open the nature of blessedness but because having proposed it for our encouragement in the practice of true Religion f Vt humanam infirmitatem per spem beatitudinis ad innocens religionis studium hortaretur Copen in Ps 1. de Tit. it purposely deciphers and pourtrayes the person to whom it pertains For to inform us whose portion it is the Psalmist hath most exactly charactered him 1. Negatively or by what he abandons ver 1. He walks not in the counsell of the ungodly he stands not in the way of sinners he sits not in the seat of the scornfull Neither is nor does any of these 2. Positively or by what he takes pleasure in ver 2. His delight is in the law of the Lord. And this not dimidiatim with a halving partiality like that counterfeit mother that would have the child divided g 1 King 3. 26. but in a blessed juncture of Theory and practice of contemplation and conversation both For first he delights in the speculative part In his Law doth he meditate day and night And then for the practick He shall be like a tree planted by the Rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season It is the wisdom of the Holy Ghost in the volume of holy Writ to illustrate heavenly truths by earthly resemblances partly for their easier conveyance to our dark understandings and partly for their deeper impression in our hearts and memories And accordingly the words before us are a Similitudinary