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A29118 Elijah's nunc dimittis, or, The authors own funerall sermons in his meditations upon I Kings 19:4 ... / by Thomas Bradley ... Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670. 1669 (1669) Wing B4132; ESTC R7187 60,180 133

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the will of God 2. The second follows and 't is this That it is not enough to doe the will of God Opere operato but they must doe it as it should be done or els it will never reach to the Satis est in the Text Now this Satis est hath respect to two things in doing the will of God First The manner of doing it Secondly The extent of it The first requires that it be done well The second that it be done home they both are included in the Word Zealous I have been Zealous for the Lord God of Hosts Zeale is a vehement affection composed of Love and Anger and Actions flowing from these two are ever done in earnest they are done home and throughly and so ought we to doe all things that we doe for God The Opus operatum the work done will not serve the turne but it must be rightly qualified in all the circumstances of it and done in a right manner If we love the Lord our God we must love him with all our heart with all our soule with all our mind and with all our strength If we serve him we must serve him with reverence and godly seare If we worship him we must worship him in Spirit and in Truth Luther said well That God loves Advers rather then Verbs the manner of doing more then the work done the will more then the deed the mind more then the matter we must not serve God negligently nor we must not serve him by halves either of these make our obedience fall short of Elijah's Satis est in the Text To say we beleeve in God we love God and we feare God and not to obey him to shew our faith by our works and our fear by our worship Non satis est it is not enough but to our faith to joyne our obedience and to our fear to joyne our worship and to our love our care to keep his Commandements Satis est it is enough To profess that we know God to confess his Name to draw neer unto him with our lips and in all outward deportment to have a forme of godliness Non satis est it is not enough but to know God in Christ reconciling the world unto himselfe to draw neer unto him with our hearts and dearest affections and with the forme of godliness to shew forth the power of it Satis est it is enough To cry Lord Lord as in the Gospel and Templum Domini Templum Domini The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord as the Jews did in Jeremy Non satis est it is not enough but to doe the will of our Father which is in Heaven and in his Temple to speak of his Honour and to worship him aright Satis est it is enough To make our boast of God and of his Law to heare every day a Sermon to know the Mistery of the Gospel to have a mouth full of Scripture ready at all times to throw at an adversary in dispute or discourse Non satis est it is not enough but to know the truth as it is in Jesus to receive the truth with the love of the truth to answer the end of the Evangelicall Law which is Love out of a pure heart a good Conscience and Faith unfeigned Satis est it is enough To bring multitudes of sacrifices and oblations unto the Lord to stretch out our hands before him and to make many Prayers Non satis est it is not enough but to wash us to make us cleane to take away the evill of our works from before his eyes to cease to doe evill and learne to doe well Satis est it is enough To come before the Lord with thousands of Rams and ten thousand Rivers of Oyle to give the fruit of my body for the sin of my soule Micha 6.6.7 Non satis est it is not enough but to doe Judgement to love Mercy and to walk humbly before the Lord Satis est it is enough To conclude this point to be admitted into the visible Church to be matriculated into it by Baptisme to live in a professed subjection to the Gospel of Christ to come to Church to heare Sermons to sit out the Service and at the appointed times to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper though this be more then we can gaine of many among you Non satis est it is not enough but to make it our care all the dayes of our life to make good the Covenant which we made in our Baptisme to become Members of the invisible Church incorporated into it and united unto it by the bonds of faith and of the spirit to express the power of the Word Sacraments and Spirit working by them in a constant holy walking before the Lord as becomes the Members of that holy Society Satis est it is enough And so we have made good the second Inference drawn out of Elijah's third Satis est in reference to what he had done Satis Feci I have done enough But stay a little before we take our leave of this Satis est it is necessary we should answer an Objection that lyes in our way and must be removed before we can proceed any further Obj. Quid audio What is that I heare Satis feci I have done enough Who can say so be he a Prophet be he an Apostle an Evangelist be he the holiest of Saints that ever lived can he say of himselfe Satis feci I have done enough Is there a Satis in our obedience unto which we may arrive and then say It is enough Our Saviour tells us That when we have done all that we can we are unprofitable servants How then can any say It is enough or I have done enough Sol. To this I answer by a double distinction First thus There is a Satis ad Justificationem and there is a Satis ad Testificationem there is a Satis as to Justification and there is a Satis as to Testification As to the former there is no man can say He hath done enough Enter not into judgement with thy servant O Lord for in thy sight shall no man living be justified Psal 143.2 But as to the later there is a Satis ad testificationem to testification that is To testifie the truth of our faith the sincerity of our obedience and the uprightness of our hearts in the Service of God When Abraham was so ready upon Gods command to offer up his Sonne Isaac in sacrifice to him as to bring him to Mount Moriah there to build an Altar to lay the Wood in order upon it and binde his Sonne to the Wood to take the Knife in his hand and to stretch forth his hand to Slay him God staies his hand bids him hold his hand proceed no further Satis est It is enough for now I know that thou lovest me seeing thou hast not refused to offer up thine onely Sonne in sacrifice to me at my