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A47031	A sermon upon Ember-Week, preached before the University of Oxford, at Christ-Church in Oxford, 1698 by David Jones ...	Jones, David, 1663-1724?	1699 (1699)	Wing J939; ESTC R2427	21,461	34

Suffer'd so great a Famine of the Word that they were ready to Faint and to Perish for want of a Preaching Minister then let us have a great Care that we do not Provoke God to take away this Inestimable Blessing from us For at present blessed be God for it We have the Bible in our own Tongue that we may Read it at Home and we have some Few Ministers that Catechize as well as Preach out of it that we may be Edified when we are in Church And God increase their Number for Christ his Sake But if we make Light of this Unspeakable Mercy we can not possibly have it long For If we do not heartily Repent of all our Sins our Candlestick will Quickly be removed from us Rev. 2. 5. And if we do not bring forth Fruit meet for Repentance the Kingdom of God will shortly be taken away from us and given to a Nation bringing forth the Fruit thereof Matthew 21. 43. Nay further If we come to Church and do not come there with our Souls as well as our Bodies Mark this as long as you live If our Souls do not Think upon what the Minister Says to us out of Gods Word but do Think of our Studies our Shops our Fields or Such a Man or Such a Woman or the like If our Souls be Wandering and Roving abroad while the Minister is Reading Praying Catechizing or Preaching Then we Provoke God to take away the Gospel from us Yea and God himself has long Since Threatned to do So for this very fault as Little as you take it to be For thus Saith the Lord Isai 29. 13 14. For as much as this people draw near me with their Mouth and with their Lips do honour me but have removed their Heart far from me Therefore Behold I will proceed to do a Marvellous work among this people even a Marvellous work and a Wonder For the Wisdom of their Wise Men shall Perish and the Vnderstanding of their Prudent Men shall be Hid. And therefore when ever you come to Church with your Mouths and with your Lips but leave your Hearts and Souls at Home or Suffer them to Wander and to Rove abroad and to Mind any thing Save onely what Gods Minister says to you out of God's own Word Then have a Care have a great Care That the Wisdom of your Wise Men do not Perish and the Vnderstanding of your Prudent Men be not Hid And the Gospel which is the Word of Life the Gospel which is the Word of Salvation the Gospel which is the Word of God be not taken away from You for ever and given to Others that will make a better Vse of it From which dreadful Judgement good Lord deliver us all for Christ his Sake Amen Amen FINIS A Catalogue of BOOKS Sold by Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheap-side near Mercers-Chappel 1. SErmons and Discourses on several Divine Subjects in Folio by the late Reverend and Learned Divine David Clarkson B. D. and sometimes Fellow of Clare-Hall Cambridge 2. A Discourse of Saving Grace by the same Author 3. Of Free Justification by Christ Written first in Latin by John Fox Author of the Book of Martyrs against Osorius c. And now Translated into English 4. The Fountain of Life open'd or a Display of Christ in his Essential and Mediatorial Glory containing Forty two Sermons on various Texts Wherein the Impetration of our Redemption by Jesus Christ is orderly unfolded as it was begun carried on and finished by his Covenant Transaction Mysterious Incarnation Solemn Call and Dedication Blessed Offices Deep Abasement and Superemment Advancement 5. A Treatise of the Soul of Man wherein the Divine Original excellent and immortal Nature of the Soul are opened its Love and Inclination to the Body with the Necessity of its Separation from it considered and improved The Existence Operations and States of separated Souls both in Heaven and Hell immediately after Death asserted discussed and variously applied Divers knotty and difficult Questions about departed Souls both Philosophical and Theological stated and determined 6. The Method of Grace in bringing home the Eternal Redemption contrived by the Father and accomplished by the Son through the Effectual Application of the Spirit unto God's Elect being the second Part of Gospel Redemption 7. The Divine Conduct or Mystery of Providence its Being and Efficacy asserted and vindicated All the Methods of Providence in our Course of Life opened with Directions how to apply and improve them 8. Navigation spiritualiz'd or a new Compass for Seamen consisting of Thirty-two Points of pleasant Observations profitable Applications serious-Reflections all concluded with so many spiritual Poems c. 9. Two Treatises the first of Fear the second the Righteous Mans Refuge in the evil Day 10. A Saint indeed the great Work of a Christian 11. A Touchstone of Sincerity or Signs of Grace and Symptoms of Hypocrisie being the second Part of the Saint indeed 12. A Token for Mourners or Boundaries for Sorrow for the Death of Friends 13. Husbandry spiritualiz'd or the Heavenly Use of Earthly Things These Ten last by Mr. John Flavel Minister of the Gospel

A SERMON UPON Ember-Week Preached before the University of Oxford AT Christ-Church in Oxford 1698. By DAVID JONES Master of Arts and Student of Christ-Church Oxon. Ezek. 44. 6 8. Thus saith the Lord God to the Rebellious House of Israel Let it suffice you of all your Abominations Ye have not kept the Charge of mine Holy Things but ye have set Keepers of my Charge in my Sanctuary for your selves LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheap-side MDCXCIX Mr. David Iones's SERMON UPON Ember-Week Matth. ix xxxvi xxxvii xxxviii When Jesus saw the Multitudes he was moved with Compassion on them because they fainted and were scattered abroad as Sheep having no Shepherd Then saith he unto his Disciples the Harvest truly is Plenteous but the Labourers are Few Pray ye therefore the Lord of the Harvest that he will send forth Labourers into his Harvest NExt Lords-day is Ordination-day That Day upon which Learned and Religious Men are to be Ordained Priests and Deacons And next Week is Ember-week That Week which is Emphatically called a Week of Embers or Ashes For these two Words do only signifie one and the same thing And the Reason why this Week is thus called is this The Church hath commanded us to Fast and to Pray upon three days in this Week That God would be pleased to give us such Ministers as are both Willing and Able both by their Life and Doctrine to set forth his Glory and to set forward the Salvation of all Men. And these three Days have been heretofore so strictly kept by holy Men and Women that they covered themselves with Sackcloath and Ashes and ate nothing till Night nor then neither save only a Cake baked under the Embers which was therefore called Ember-bread And from this strictness and severity which was formerly used upon the three Fasting-days in this Week the whole Week came to be called Ember-week And the Reason of all this strictness and severity upon this Occasion is this When men do Fast from Meat they acknowledge themselves to be Unworthy of the least Crumb of that Meat they Fast from And when they do in the time of their Fasting cover themselves with Sackcloath they acknowledge That to be far better than they deserve They call to mind that their Cloathing is only the effect of their Nakedness and that their Nakedness is only the effect of their Sin And therefore they are resolved not to be Proud of those Cloaths which ought to Humble them with the thoughts of their first Original and to put them in mind of those tatter'd Rags they are Now Cloathed with instead of that Glorious Robe of Righteousness which they Once had in Paradise When men do cast Embers and sprinkle Ashes upon their Heads they publickly tell God that their Sins are so Many and so great that they deserve nothing but Death they deserve nothing but to have Those dreadful Words in the Office for the Burial of the Dead constantly sounding in their Ears Earth to Earth Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust And when men do thus Openly dedeclare their inward Sorrow of Heart by these and the like outward signs of Fasting and Mortification they mightily move both God and Man to have Mercy upon them For when the Servants of Ben-hadad King of Syria girded Sackcloath on their Loins and put Ropes on their Heads and presented themselves to Ahab King of Israel in that humble and miserable Condition he could not chuse but have Pity upon him though God had appointed him to utter Destruction and though he and his people were to lose their Lives for saving him and his people from Death 1 Kings 20. 32 42. Yea and that very same Ahab by Humbling himself with Fasting in Sackcloath and Ashes moved God to take away from him one of the greatest temporal Judgments that ever was threatned against a mortal Man 1 Kings 21 17. with the following Verses to the end of the Chapter And here now let no Proud Sinner that despiseth the Ministers of God's Word imagine that the day appointed for the Ordination of Priests and Deacons is not of to great Concern to the Nation that it ought to be kept with so much Strictness and Solemnity Let no Graceless Person think so scornfully of Ember-week and Ordination-day For the Apostles thought themselves bound to Ordain no Elders in any Church without the Solemnity of a Fast Acts 14 23. And Christ himself before he entered upon his Ministerial Office Fasted forty days and forty nights Matth. 4. 2 17. And if Fasting and so long Fasting was Necessary to fit and prepare Christ for the Ministry how much more Necessary is it to fit and prepare Us for it who are Infinitly short of his Divine Perfections And thus I have shewn you what is meant by Ordination-day and what is meant by Ember-week And that you may all keep them as they ought to be kept I have purposely pitch'd upon these Words which are the Gospel for the Ordination of Priests as being most proper for this Great Occasion and our most Serious Meditation upon it When Jesus saw the Multitudes he was moved with Compassion on them because they fainted and were scattered abroad as Sheep having no Shepherd Then saith he unto his Disciples The Harvest truly is Plenteous but the Labourers are Few Pray ye therefore the Lord of the Harvest that he will send forth Labourers into his Harvest In which words there are several Doctrines But I can at present only Insist upon this One Though there be a great many Ministers in a City or Country yet the Common People may be ready to Faint and to Perish for want of Knowledge for want of Plain Affectionate Practical and Scripture Preaching Yea and their Case may be so desperately Bad that nothing but a Company of poor silly Sheep scatter'd abroad without a Sheperd can possibly represent their deplorable Condition And the Reasons which prove this Doctrine are these First There were a great many Scribes and Pharisees and Lawyers in our Saviour's time For he denounced more Woes and greater Curses against Them than against all others because They were more against Him and his Gospel than all others were Matth. 23. throughout the Chapter And yet notwithstanding there were so many Ministers and Doctors and Preachers of the Law at that time the Text tells us The Labourers were Few Few of them all would Labour in the Harvest and Feed the Flock of the Lord. And therefore The Multitudes Fainted Or as the Margine of the Bible has it They were Tired by going so far to hear an Awakening Preacher and they Lay down for Weariness and they were scattered abroad as Sheep having no Shepherd And what was their Case then may for any thing we know be the Case of several Thousands and Millions at this present time For The thing that hath been it is that which shall be and that which is done is that which shall