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A63825	Forty sermons upon several occasions by the late reverend and learned Anthony Tuckney ... sometimes master of Emmanuel and St. John's Colledge (successively) and Regius professor of divinity in the University of Cambridge, published according to his own copies his son Jonathan Tuckney ...; Sermons. Selections	Tuckney, Anthony, 1599-1670.	1676 (1676)	Wing T3215; ESTC R20149	571,133	598

as the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 imports yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their line is stretched out to its length and as long as God stayeth they will wait In waiting they will wait Psal 40. 1. Patiently they will wait Rom. 8. 25. and this every day continually Hos 12. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Believer's juge sacrificium which day by day he attends upon God with and this all the day Psal 25. 5. and this although it be a very Stormy Winter day all the days of my warfare will I wait saith Job Chap. 14. 14. and Jacob here though this Salvation which he expects was not till divers hundreds of years after his death yet because he knoweth that God is so true and faithful as never to forget his Word at last and so wise and merciful as to be sure to remember it at that time which shall be most fit therefore although this Tribe of Dan was one of the last that was setled in its Lot and therein very much molested by the Amorites especially by their bad Neghbours the Philistines yet Dum spiro spero as long as he lives he hopes and when he is now a dying his Hopes die not with his Life but he both liveth in hope and when he dieth rests in hope he be-believes that his Covenant will be able to reach his Seed when he is dead to a thousand Generations Psal 105. 8. and therefore expects that now which shall betide them then Mean while patiently waits God's leasure And now being upon the point of Death he layeth his Head in his Father's Bosom and there quietly breaths out his Soul with this warm Breath And how sweet is it I have waited for thy Salvation O Lord which comes to this that we are to stay God's Leasure and to wait upon him for Mercy 1. Though intervening Occurrences come cross as it was in the Danites infestations from Amorites and Philistims I acknowledg this puts Faith to it as it did David's who after that he was promised to be King was pursued as a Traytor whereupon he sometimes thinks it long and crieth out O when wilt thou come unto me Psal 101. 2. And sometimes grows very quick and hasty and in that haste saith All Men are Lyers Psal 116. 11. even Samuel himself who promised him a Kingdom and behold nothing but Misery and Thraldom But let Israel even when the Sea is before them and the Egyptians behind them and so nothing in view but em●●inent Destruction in stead of the promised Deliverance and Salvation let Israel I say even in that posture stand still and wait and see God's Salvation Exod. 14. 13. The Man may be taking the greatest Leap when he goes most backward and God may be then about to do most for his People when there is the least appearance of any thing but of the quite contrary Israel at last shall be settled in Canaan though when now upon the Borders of it they are driven back in the way to the Red-Sea again Stay therefore God's Leasure and wait upon him though intervening Providences seem cross 2. Though delays be very long The Danites had their Lot with the last and yet in reference to them Jacob's Faith could rest on God and say I have waited for thy Salvation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hab. 2. 3. Though it tarry and the word is in forma duplicata to express a longer double delay yet wait for it The precious Fruit that the Husbandman with such patience waits for lieth sometimes long under ground and so it is oft with God's preciousest Mercies Oftentimes they have but slow beginnings and no hasty progress it may be afterwards but As the Alder-Tree Borel l. c. ripen very fast towards the latter end like a natural motion slow at first but quick in the close After God's Promise of multiplying Abraham's Seed as the Stars of Heaven Gen. 15. 5. for above 200 Years of the 400 mentioned ver 13. The holy Seed were no more than Seventy Chap. 46. You will say It was but a backward Spring but yet for all that proved a very plentiful Harvest Though their beginning was small yet their latter Job 8. 7. end did greatly increase When that Seventy in a less time grew to six hundred thousand Men beside Children Exod. 12. 37. And of Dan one Hushim Gen. 46. 23. comes to Sixty two thousand seven hundred Numb 1. 38 39. As single Numbers may be but As an Elijah's Cloud 1 Kings 18. 43 44 45. few but soon rise to vast Sums if you go on to multiply them And the same People in their last year in the Wilderness advanced as much towards Canaan as they had before done in all the former thirty nine As he that runs fair and easily in the beginning of the Race puts on apace and makes all speed when now towards the end of it And so God tells the Prophet that the Vision is yet for an appointed time but at the end it will speak and not ly Though for the present you hear nothing of it yet at the end it will speak out to purpose and proclaim God to be True and Faithful and therefore he might well add though it tarry yet wait for it When the Master tarries the Servant waits And therefore if God tarry as a Master Faith should teach the Believer to wait as a Servant And this not only in fair Way and the lightsome Summer's Day of Peace and Prosperity for if so only our meaning is that God should wait on us rather than we on him but even in deepest Ways and foulest Weather and darkest winter-Winter-nights of Adversity and Afflictions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Yea even in the Way of thy Judgments have we waited for thee O Lord Isa 26. 8. An irksom task I confess and to Flesh and Blood intollerable which thinks it's for Melancholick Fools to sit so long waiting and starving in the Dark and to be looking for a late Morning-light in such long Winter-Nights It 's very hard meekly to tarry God's leasure especially when he tarries long and not one of these three ways to miscarry and yet all contrary to waiting After a longer sighing under Pressure and breathing after Ease not 1. Either to sink in Discouragement Lam. 3. 18. Or 2. To rise up in Discontent as Job Psal 39. 3. Or 3. To start out in some unwarrantable Way so to make a shorter cut to our Freedom 1 Sam. 27. 1. For we are naturally 1. Sensual and Brutish extremely affected with present Pain and Ease Wants and Enjoyments Want the wisdom of a Man to foresee what may be best for hereafter and the Faith of a Christian which is the substance of things hoted for and so are impatient of waiting upon even God himself of whom we will have present Payment and will give him no more time though he always allows for it especially if it be something that we are so greedy of that with Eli's

Gods people value Gods Ordinances in the enjoying of them and other mercies together Especially upon the restoring of them after that their sins had deprived them of them The men of Bethshemesh were at their Wheat-harvest and that of it self was a merry time but it was their chief Harvest-joy when they saw the ark of God brought back to them 1 Sam. 6. 13. though through their undue entertainment of it as I shall shew hereafter their mirth was turned into mourning and their harvest as the Prophet speaketh became a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow And so afterward you may observe how the Jews having Isa 17. 11 in their Captivity learnt to know the worth of Ordinances by the want of them as several Nations make their account of years from some high prized matter and occurrence as the Israelites from Abraham or their deliverance from Egypt the Greeks from their Olympiads the Romans ab urbe conditâ So they from the restoring of Gods Ordinances And so Ezekiel begins his Prophecy Ezek. 1. 1. Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year c. which very good Interpreters expound of the thirtieth year since the book of the law Junius Grotius was found and the Covenant thereupon renewed and Gods worship restored by Josiah after the sad vastation which had been made by fore-going Kings and especially by his Father Manasseh Such a price did they then set on such a prime mercy as afterward in Judas Maccabeus his time upon the dedication of the altar which Antiochus had profaned they instituted their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Mac 4 5 9. John 10. 22. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Castellio qui ex Scripturâ Ciceronem facit as * In John 10. 22. Maldonat saith of him affectedly translates Renovalia and which our Saviour seems not to dislike but by his presence to approve of It was an anniversary feast kept eight days with great gladness as 2 Macc. 10. 6 7. in the feast of Tabernacles and of the solemnities of that feast Authors write great matters The Author of the second of the Maccabees tells us of this that as in the feast of Tabernacles they bare branches and fair boughs and palms also and sang Psalms c. which feast as Josephus tells us they called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 light because of their burning lights all those whole eighth days to express their greater joy and so he saith of Judas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Joseph Antiq. lib. 12. cap. 11. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that in this festival entertainment of his Citizens he omitted no kind of pleasing delight but with joyful Hymns and Psalms and costly Sacrifices he honoured God and delighted them So highly did they esteem of the restoring and enjoying such a mercy and oh that once we of this Nation might upon the purging of the Temple and reforming of Gods now wofully profaned Ordinances have the occasion and opportunity of such Encaenia of such a joyful thanksgiving-festival Meanwhile in our want of it let us be learning to take out this first part of our lesson and duty which is highly to value and esteem of Gods Ordinances 2. And the second is when and while we enjoy them in our due use of them to expect much good and blessing in and by the enjoying of them By faith in obedience to Gods command and confidence in his promise of being with his Ministers to the end of Matth. 28. 20. the world to apply our selves to him in his Ordinances is as our duty so a promising pledge and effectual means of a blessing by them Here as well as in other Cases according to thy faith be it Matth 9. 29. unto thee In an humble dependance on God and good thoughts of him hope much and have much Open thy mouth wide and God will fill it Thou canst not out-think Gods infinite goodness or the power of his good word which hath done very great things whereas on the contrary like them Mark 6. 5. we weaken as it were Christs power and hinder the efficacy of his Ordinances by our unbelief Because we have but little faith we receive little and if none we get nothing But the Patients good hopes and perswasions help much to his Cure It would certainly do very much to ours if we had better thoughts and perswasions of God and his Ordinances when we apply our selves to either whilst infidelity applies the Medicine cool and so rendreth it less useful and it 's but just that whilst through despondency or neglect we cannot or will not give God the praise of his being able or willing to help us he should be as unwilling to make them able to bless us But therefore as it 's said of Jehoshaphat that his heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord and accordingly he prospered 2 Chron. 17. 6. so in our use of Ordinances we should labour by faith to get our hearts raised up to high expectations of blessing by them for great expectations are great obligations with God as well as with ingenuous men as when the Creeple gave earnest heed and looked on Peter as expecting to receive something from Act. 3. 4 5 6. c. him though he had not silver or gold for him yet he got an Alms much more precious and useful When therefore we go to hear think and say in faith with them Isa 2. 3. Let us go up to the house of the Lord and he will teach us his ways and so in Prayer say with them Micah 7. 7. I will look unto the Lord I will wait for the God of my salvation my God will hear me I will go to the Sacrament and hope that I as well as other hungring Souls have shall find there a feast of fat things and of wine on the lees at least Isa 25. 6. some Crumbs some drops as God shall see it best for me to refresh me And this is the both easiest and surest way to come by them God delighting not to discourage by disappointing the faith and Psal 147. 11. expectation of his people but to honour them that honour him and therefore it is that upon this ground he honours faith above all other graces and believers above all other men And thus as they are institutions of God and means of our best good in subordination to Christ it is our advantage and duty highly to value Gods Ordinances which was the first part of my task BUT how then did Paul and may we so undervalue them as St. Maries Jan. 29. 1659 60. to account and call them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 loss and dung Is not this Blasphemy to call the Bread of life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as some expound the word Dogs-meat and that loss which is the means of the saving of our souls Yes if they be so deemed and called as considered according to the former particulars For which as