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A46802	The burning yet un-consumed bush, or, The holinesse of places discuss'd held forth in two farewel-sermons at Christ-Church London, August 17th, 1662 / by William Jenkins.	Jenkyn, William, 1613-1685.	1662 (1662)	Wing J633; ESTC R28952	23,187	40

THE BURNING Yet Un-consumed BUSH OR The Holiness of Places discuss'd Held forth in Two Farevvel-Sermons at Christ-Church London August 17th 1662. By Mr. WILLIAM JENKINS 2 Sam. 23.1 Now these are the last words of David the sweet singer of Israel LONDON Printed in the Year MDCLXII THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER THe words of a dying man usually are very serious weighty and much regarded The ensuing Notes being this Preachers last Legacy to his Congregation a little before his civil though voluntary death by reason of the great concourse of People that were then assembled to leave their dying Pastor preach his own Funeral Sermon whilst he was yet alive many being too distant from him or too much disturbed by the croud fell short of their share and portion in them For the benefit of such as well as other who lost much by committing to memory are these Notes exposed to publike view I conceive I need not add any one Letter to take off the clamor that hath bin cast upon him as if out of Humour and Faction or which is worse disobedience to Authority he refused to conform enough you will find here to give an account why he chose to take up his Cross and follow Christ in a way of Conscience and Fidelity Farewell Mr. JENKINS's Forenoon SERMON Aug. 17. 1662. TEXT HEBR. 11.38 The former Part of the Verse Of whom the World was not worthy THe Apostle in this excellent Chapter that by some is deservedly called a little Book of Martyrs discovers the triumph of Faith or victory against all difficulty we meet with First Faith it assents to Truths be they never so improbable Secondly It puts men upon Duties be they never so irrational or against carnal Interest Thirdly It inables to sufferings be they never so afflictive These Wo●thies went through all by the victory that overcame the world the bitterness as well as the sweetness thereof In these Verses the Apostle doth two things First He sets down the greatness and smartness of their sufferings which are by some Learned men reduced to three Heads First Those sufferings that were to tempt them and draw them from God by those pains and tortures they were to undergo Secondly Those sufferings they underwent in dying Thirdly Their sufferings in regard of wandring and leaving their comforts rather then they would loose God There were all kind of persecutions laid upon these Saints through all which they waded and never would be brought to forsake God and his truth for any of them 2. We have here the excellency of the sufferer and that is in that expression These men or these persons wh●n they were under all these distresses from the world yet they were such of whom the world was not worthy Brethren The excellency of these Saints and servants of God is considerable two ways that we may proceed distinctly and clearly First in reference to the wicked their excellency was so great that the wicked world was not worthy of them Secondly Their excellency is discovered from the estimate or judgment that the Apostle passes upon them who tells us that he accounted them to be such though they were under such distresses and troubles yet they were a people of whom the world was not worthy I shall fall upon the due estimation the blessed Apostle raises upon these persecuted Saints who was enlightned by the Spirit of God and so was able to passe a right sentence upon these persecuted Saints from this I raise this ensuing Observation Observ That a godly man doth see a very great worth and excellency in the people of God in the midst of all their troubles and distresses Or That a godly man a gracious heart one that hath spiritual Spectacles does see an excellency and worth in the people of God in the midst of all trouble and persecution that can befall them Here I shall handle it first doctrinally according to my constant method then come to improve it by way of Application For the Doctrinal handling of it there are two things must be discovered First Wherein the high estimation of a gracious heart does appear wherein it doth discover it self wherein they shew they have such an high estimation Secondly Whence it is and how it comes to pass that godly men have this high and honourable esteem of the Saints and people of God in their troubles and distresses which befall them For the first Wherein the high estimation of a gracious heart does appear I shall shew it in five or six following particulars First It appears in this In that they are not ashamed of owning their persons and faith that they profess in their troubles and distress●s the society of the people of God and the fellowship of the Faith and profession is highly respected by a gracious heart let the Saints lye under never so great distresses This is manifest in Moses in the 25. and 26. Verses of this Chapter He chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to injoy all the pleasure and preferment of Pharaohs Court The Israelites Religion the profession of the true God and owning the faith and those Truths the Israelites stood up for this was that which Moses would not desert and thence it was he did not desert their company and society but went and visited them when they lay under those burthens under which they lay Secondly The second thing wherein is discovered so high an estimation of the Saints and people of God in sufferings is their sympathizing and follow-feeling with them in their sufferings if it goes ill with the Church and people of God all the rest sympathizes with them if one member suffers all the rest suffer Instance Nehemiah who had the greatest favour of the greatest Prince then on earth he lookt with a sad countenance because of the sufferings of the Saints and people of God Nehem. 2.2 Wherefore the King said unto me Why is thy countenance sad seeing thou art not sick this is nothing else but sorrow of heart Then I was very sore afraid and answered the King Because of the distresses the people of God lie under The pleasure of Musick should never be with him says David in Psal 137.6 If I do not remember th●e let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy As it is with two strings in an instrument rightly tuned if one be touched the other trembles if one servant of Christ be in a suffering condition the rest suffers with him this is the damp of all worldly delight if it be ill with any of the people of God the rest suffer in the way of compassion Thirdly In that they can plead for them and take their parts when they are never so much out of favour when they are never so much despised and abused This was in the case of Jonathan how he pleaded for poor David before his cruel father Saul though Saul called him a cursed

son and fell foul on his mother because of him See this in the case of Esther though it was death to go in to the King to plead for the Jews yet for all this she says If I perish I perish resolved I am come what will come of it in I will go I can die but I cannot be silent Fourthly In that they will relieve them and help and supply them with all needful good things they can if they cannot do what they would they will do for them what they can See this in the case of Jeremiah chap. 38. vers 8 11 12 13. Ebedmelech went forth out of the Kings house and spake to the King So Ebedmelech took the men with him and went into the house of the king under the treasury and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah And Ebedmel on the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine arm-holes under the cords And Jeremiah did so● So they drew up Jeremiah with cords and took him up out of the dungeon and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison He would never be quiet till he had got the Prophet out of the dungeon and though the cords were lined with rags yet more with love and this savour of Ebedmelech God remembred 1 Kings 18.4 Obadiahs master was not only an oppressor of the Saints and Prophets of God but a very great persecutor This good man Obadiah took and hid 400 Prophets of the Lord and fed them with bread and water I will not undertake to prophesie to you this day yet time may come when bread and water may be good food for a faithful Prophet Here note the gracious disposition of good Obadiah as well as the providence of God in this act 2 Tim. 1.16 17 18. The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus for he oft refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain But when he was in Rome he sought me out very diligently and found me The Lord grant unto him that he may finde mercy of the Lord in that day and in how many thing 's he ministred unto me at Ephesus thou knowest very well A most admirable Scripture to this purpose Blessed Paul being thrown into prison being in bonds Onesiphorus often refresht him and was not ashamed of his chains How did he shew this When he was in Rome he sought him out diligently By the way note That Rome was the place where the cruel Nero was Emperour it was the place where much blood of the Martyrs was spilt yet there this good man sought out Paul diligently Mark what follows which is the prayer of Paul The Lord grant to him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day I profess Sirs I had rather have the prayers of Paul then the preferments of the greatest Court on earth Christians it is the greatest treasure in your house to have the prayers of good men to God for you You that have shewn your great and abundant love to the Saints and Servants of God in distress I do from my soul beg the like mercy for you that whatever you have done for his may be ten thousand times made up by him that you may find mercy in that day and truly Sirs in that day mercy will be worth receiving Fifthly They supplicate to God for them they do not go to the Throne of Grace for themselves but Sion is in their thoughts I am confident it is so with some and am perswaded it is so with all they never beg daily bread for themselves but they remember Sion In the 51 Psalm David was under trouble of Conscience soul-trouble which is the soul of trouble yet at the latter end of the 51 Psalm he breaks out into this earnest supplication to God Do good in thy good pleasure unto Sion build thou up the walls of Jerusalem So long as it is ill with the people of God so long they are earnest with God and though they cannot overcome men with their prayers which by the way they are to endeavour yet they will never leave supplicating the Almighty till they have overcome As the sufferings of Gods people are precious in the sight of God so they are in the sight of the people of God I come now to shew whence it is That there is such an high esteem in the people of God of the people of God when under trouble and distress for this take two Heads of Reasons First In regard of those of the people of God that do behold their sufferings Secondly In regard of those people of God that are in sufferings First In regard those of the people of God that do behold their sufferings troubles and distresses in three regards First Those of the people of God that look upon others in trouble though they are such as may differ from them in regard of outward estate one may be in honour the other in dishonour yet they have an interest in the same head and do belong to the same body that they do they are not wooden leggs nor glasse eyes therefore Christ is called the ommon aviour and the Saviour of the body the whole Church Faith it is called the like precious faith 2 Pet. 1 ch in the beginning The saith of one believer does as trnely lay hold on Christ as the saith of another This salvation is called common salvation my meaning is this outward disproportion as to birth and education puts no difference at all in a spiritual respect between believer and believer a King and a Beggar all one in Christ a Iew or a Greek a great Scholar or a poor ignorant man as to the spiritual state all one made happy the same way Secondly Because they look at Spiritual excellency and are able to discern spiritual excellency they have a renewed Judgement as they look upon their old courses and sinnes with a new eye so they look upon their company with a new e●e those that before they highly esteem'd they now disesteem those persons that before hey esteem'd a damp to their mirth they now look upon them as the excellent ones of the earth Prov. 12. v. 26. The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour In the 16 Psalme sayes David My goodnesse extends not to thee but to the Saints the excellent ones in wh●m is all my delight Here was a renewed estimation David saw excellency in these which worldlings despised A carnal eye sees no glory but in carnal objects Worlding blesse the Covetous whom the Lord abhorrs A gracious heart sees a spiritual worth in a man divested of worldly enjoyments as a curious eye may and does see a great deal of Art and Curiosity in a picture though in a broken frame A Beast can see the shining of a Diamond but knowes not the worth of it a beast will rather lick up a lock of Hay then a Diamond though