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A18429	Hallelu-jah: or, King David's shrill trumpet, sounding a loude summons to the whole world, to praise God Delivered by way of commentarie and plaine exposition vpon the CXVII. Psalme. By Richard Chapman, minister of the Word of God at Hunmanbie in Yorkshire.	Chapman, Richard, d. 1634.	1635 (1635)	STC 4998; ESTC S122563	120,049	228

of faith and repentance sanctified in their soules bodies and spirits not like the blacke Apostata who after his cleansing is repossessed with seven spirits worse then the former or the Dog returning to his vomit or the Sowe to wallow in her myre and which is more fully made plaine in the fifth which are his corroborating mercies whereby hee continues in the state of grace not falling and backsliding with Adam in the state of mutabilitie but as mercy brought him to it so it continueth and keepeth him in it Sixtly and lastly are his crowning mercies whereby he shall perfect his worke begun in us and performe his Kingdome promised to us where there shall be no hurtfull thing but wee estated in the paradise of eternall happinesse shall have our Vnion and Communion with Christ and the heavenly Hierarchie of the high and holy Saints for ever such a measure of Beatitude Isa 64 4. As eye hath not seene nor eare heard neither hath entred into the heart of man 1 Cor. 2. 9. This unmeasurable extent of Gods mercies serves first to urge upon us the drift of the Prophet in this place viz. To praise God for his mercy the whole worke of our salvation goes under this Title 1 Pet. 2. 10. Which in time past were not the people of God but are now the people of God which had not obtained mercie but now have obtained mercie to what part soever we looke the whole frame of it is made of mercy if wee begin at Gods election the foundation and ground-worke of all and passe downe to the last period of all which is glorification and aske from what roote each part sprung this onely Mercie must answer all Mercie in chusing mercie in sending CHRIST in calling justifying sanctifying strengthening preventing preserving and the admitting of us to an Inheritance immortall and undefiled 1 Pet. 1. 4. all from mercy so that the burden of our song must still be with David Psal 132. 1. For his mercie endureth for ever In the parable of the profuse prodigals returne the whole streame of his Fathers carriage toward him is nothing but mercy when he was yet a farre off his father saw him had compassion on him ranne to meete him fell on his necke kissed him c. In the whole worke there is nothing but mercie Luke 15. 20. c. So that light and darkenesse God and the Devill hot and cold and not in a line of greater opposition then mercie and merit in the worke of mans salvation which Antichristian Doctrine is like a Centaure halfe man halfe horse or like that brood of Nilus halfe frog halfe earth or the minotaure halfe bull halfe man contraries in a remisse degree may admit intention and remission as heate and cold in tepide luke-warmenesse but in the highest degree they cannot So though we graunt with Saint Augustine good workes to bee necessary in regard of their presence not of their efficiency and with Bernard that they are the way to the Kingdome Yet in the case of Iustification Rom. 3. 28. Rom. 4. 6. and Rom. 6. 23. Considered in their highest degree even to the very sufferings of Martyrs Rom. 8. 18. they can no more stand with mercy then Dagon of the Philistines is able to confront the holy Arke of IEHOVA 1 Sam. 5. 3. By which wee see the Papist like an unskilfull Empiricke in Physicke make a Potion for a sicke soule as he that went into the field to gather herbes but found a wilde Gourd and put it into the pottage while the eaters cryed out Death in the pot 2 Kings 4. 39. So doe they temper the soules-salving herbe of grace with the poysoning Gourd of humane merrit dealing with the Church of God as unkindly as unnaturall Parents or Nurses giving their children a stone for bread and a Scopion for a fish as the Philistines with Isaacks wels stopping them with earth Gen. 26. 15. Choaking and damming up the fountaine of Grace which ought to be open to the house of Iacob Zach. 13. 1. Changing the reward of favour and promise Col. 3. 24. into their owne of debt Nay further it is the corrupt and dangerous conceite of many who would not bee accounted popish but seeme to magnifie the free mercies of God which yet will be saved by well-doing good meanings and good prayers like the children of the Iewes who marrying with the Ashàodites spake halfe in their language Neh. 13. 24. which is an impeachment to their sufferings which trode the wine-presse cleane Isa 63. which will not give to others nor communicate this his glory with others Isa 42. 8. It is onely mercy without merrit that must lift a man from the gates of despaire when the angry brow of the Almighty is bended against him for sinne as we see in David Psal 51. c. and our Saviour Christ standing in the gappe of Gods wrath being but our surety and pledge yet his soule was heavy unto death trickling down those thicke drops of blood in his miraculous sweat in the Garden thou mayest for a while with David cast the darke cloud of security over thy sins to hide them as the fish Sepia casts up a blacke liquor to hide her selfe but woe be to them that seeke in deepe to hide their counsell from the Lord their workes are in secret and they say who sees it Isa 29. 15. Eccles 23. 18. Hee that searcheth Ierusalem with a lanthorne will find thee out and rouze up thy slumbering Conscience and then so heavy is the sinne of conscience that without any more evidence it passeth Iudgement upon it selfe Pro. 18. 14. A wounded spirit who can beare even none but God In all other troubles miseries and molestations we wrastle with men or divels but here impar congressus weake man with his Maker brittle clay with it's Potter sinfull man with holy God which is of purer eyes then to looke upon evill Hab. 1. 13. and a consuming fire Heb. 12. 29. In other things man is a friend and favourite to himselfe as Peter perswades CHRIST to pittie himselfe but here he is his owne enemy and often in the rage of his conscience his owne executioner as in Iudas and Pilate Iere. 20. 4. Rehold I will make thee a terrour to thy selfe thy memorie reason every sense and faculty of thy soule is a Gorgonian-hell-●urie to torment thee Now in this case when a mans bones is full of the sinnes of his youth Iob 20. 11. His heart broken with one breaking upon another Iob 16. 14. His conscience upon the racke his God writing bitter things against him Iob 23. 26. Then comes the mercy of God to comfort him all other comforts of workes merits satisfactions c. are miserable comforters Iob 16. 2. And will consume as a rotten thing and as a garment that is moth-eaten the soule of a Christian is like Noahs Dove which finds no safety

was full of anguish refusing comfort ready to enter the Port of blacke dispaire verse 7. Will the Lord cast off for ever and will hee be favourable no more hath he forgotten to be gracious c. yet hee checks himselfe Verse 9. This is mine infirmity and weaknesse So must we● in the middest of our fiery tryals when the old Serpent layes the strongest siege at the Castle of our faith seeking by the roaring Cannons and murdering Bassaliscoes of diffidence and distrust to weaken our hope in the truth of Gods promises And to shake our faith the anchor of our Soule onely able to stay it in the swelling surges and boysterous waves of all temptations and crosses Heb 6. 19. But let thy faith which is the ground of things hoped for the subsisting of things which are not seene Heb. 11. 1. grounded upon the truth of God which purposed framed confirmed and inacted thy happinesse in the starrie coast of Heaven before the foundation of the world counter-guard thy heart against all the deepnesse strength power and pollicy of Sathan build thy selfe upon the rocke Mat. 7. 24. Which is CHRIST 1 Cor. 3. 11. and Wee are stones built upon him 1 Pet. 2. 5. say of this truth as Gamaliel in such a case Acts 5. 39. This is of God it cannot be destroyed or frustrated be not faithlesse but beleeving sinke not with Cephas in the pit of diffidency Mat. 14 31. but let his truth be thy supporter in all thine adversities let thine helpe stand not upon the sandy foundation of thine owne weakenesse but in the name of the Lord Psal 121. 2. Rowse up th● selfe with the cripple at the beautifull gate of the Temple Act 3. 8. for He that trusts in the Lord is as Mount Sion which cannot be remooved Ps 125. 1. Secondly out of the stedfastnesse of this truth learne further that in it are considerable 2 things Hos 2. 23. First on Gods part Thou art my people Secondly on our part Thou art my God hee promiseth confirmeth and performeth happinesse wee holinesse hee glory wee duty hee heaven wee obedience hee to be a father wee to become children hee is tyed to us by oath and we are bound to him in the strayte irrepealable condition of vowe if we want not in obedience he cannot in performance and if wee expect his performance let us looke unto our owne part which is obedience which if wee should doe with the reflecting optique and perspicill of true judgement and consider the crookednesse of our pathes he backwardnesse of our obsequence and the perverse carriage of our lives wee may with our tongues say with Saul to Samuell 1. Sam. 15. 13. Blessed bee thou of the Lord I have fulfilled the Commandement of the Lord but it might justly bee retorted against vs and sheathed in the inmost closset of our consciences in Samuels reply What meaneth then the bleating of the Sheepe in mine eare and the lowing of oxen which I heare Thus might it be replyed to our pretended holinesse and obedience what meane those troupes of Blasphemers Atheists Drunkards Lyers c. which like the frogs of Egypt cover the whole land and yet presumptuouslie daring claime the promises of God and scarce bearing the outward face of Christians yet are impudently bold with the gaine-saying Iewes to cleere themselves and say Mal. 3. 8. Wherein have wee trespassed When in the meane time our consciences testifie that wee have wearyed the Almighty pressed and oppressed him as a Cart with sheaves Amos 2. 13. with our enormous transgressions and rebellions committed with an high hand Num. 15. 13. seated in the chayre of the scornefull Masked with brasen-faced impudencie that we blush not Ier. 8. 12 with a blockish benummednesse a calumne and brawny dulnesse of heart that we cannot enter into the chambers of our heart in the consideration of our wayes not once crying in the remorse of soule Alas what have I donne Ier. 8. 6 the very tryall of our countenances testifying against us Esay 3 9. that wee can lay no sure ti●l to the Covenant and promise of Mercy because wee ●ilfully tre●● under foote the vowe of obedience but even that God in the rigour of his justice 1 Sam. 3. 11. should make our two eares to tingle and our bellies to tremble Hab. 3. 16. and not to be mercifull to such an one Deut. 29. 19. that addeth drunkennesse to thirst blood to touch blood Hos 4. 3. heaping one sinne upon another as one wave of the Sea followeth in the necke of another where is now the correspondence of this obedience when thou hast delt thus falsely in Gods covenant Psal 44. 67. When thine eares and thine heart are uncircumcised thy necke not used to the yoake thy rebellions growne so sinewie and strong that they cannot bowe and the promises of mercy for all this being made the Argument of thy security like the Sycamoore the more wet it receives the dryer it is so thou the more mercy the lesse obedience what part of Gods truth canst thou clayme but that of his justice even to be brayed and brayned with the foole in the morter of his wrath though thou be in no dammage like other men but flo wrish like a greene bay tree as David and that thy breasts be full of milke and the collops of prosperity appeare in thy flancke as Iob and though thou lye upon beds of Ivorie and stretch thy selfe upon thy couches eating Lambes out of the flocke and the calves out of the middest of the stall chaunting to the sound of the viall and inventing to thy selfe instruments of Musicke like David as Amos sayth Chap 6. 4. Yet it shall not goe well with the wicked hee that sowes iniqui●y must reape affliction Prov. 11. and he that soweth righteousnesse shall reape a sure reward it is thy goodnesse not greatnesse thy obsequious obedience onely holds plea in this case though thou post thy wickednesse upon the wings of the silent night and hide thy sinnes in the secret cavernes and subteraneous cloysters and valts of the earth yet the Lord will search Ierusalem with a lantherne The eyes of the Lord are upon thee Hab. 2. 20. and his eye lids consider thy wayes Psal 11. 4. though he now winke and seeme to sleepe considering with his eye lids the crookednesse of thy wayes taking leisure and respite ere hee bring them to light yet he goes with thee all this while as hee did with the old world 120 yeares and a long time with Sodome and Gomorrha as a publike notary marking thy courses till thou run thy selfe to perdition then opening his eyes which seemed shut seazing upon thee with this dierfull redargution Psal 50. 21. These things hast thou done I held my tongue thou thoughtest wickedly that I was even such a one as thy selfe but I will reproove thee and set before thee the things which thou hast done all the time of Gods patience wicked man