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A46526	Compunction or pricking of heart with the time, meanes, nature, necessity, and order of it, and of conversion; with motives, directions, signes, and means of cure of the wounded in heart, with other consequent or concomitant duties, especially self-deniall, all of them gathered from the text, Acts 2.37. and fitted, preached, and applied to his hearers at Dantzick in Pruse-land, in ann. 1641. and partly 1642. Being the sum of 80. sermons. With a post-script concerning these times, and the sutableness of this text and argument to the same, and to the calling of the Jews. By R.J. doctor of divinity.	R. J.	1648 (1648)	Wing J27; ESTC R213600	381,196	433

joyn thereunto 1 Religious Fasting as it will give an edge to thy prayer so the afflicting of thy body if it be done without superstition will help well to the afflicting and humbling of thy soul and heart for so fasting is called And wee know that the hearts of Gods people have been wonderfully softned at such times as Judg. 20.26 1 Sam. 7.6 So David I humbled my self with fasting Psalm 35.13 and 69.10 2 Watchfulness especially against worldly cares and distractions 2 Watchfulnesse watch and pray Watch against all the former Lets named but especially against all worldly cares take heed of a heart busied with the world and earthly thoughts Distractions from the world keep the heart from minding such things as might affect it with godly sorrow as a man hastily and suddenly smitten whiles hee mindes his business is less sensible at least for the present of pain and grief from the hurt Simil. then hee would be in the apprehension of it beforehand and for the present when especially he cannot avoid or divert the blow And as a man forgets his pain when a friend talks with him which is the reason why such as are sick and sorrowfull for the loss of friends are comforted by company as having their thoughts and mindes by conference taken off in good part from thinking of their sorrow and why on the night time and in solitariness men are more sensible of their sickness and sorrow as in their other senses of hearing c. seeing all sense is from the soul Alex. Probl. l. 1. Prob. 118. it is the soul which sees which hears which feels and which accordingly being distracted with many objects is the less sensible in each So by like reason if the soul and thoughts be taken up with wordly cares and distracted therewith it can less be afflicted with such things as otherwise by gods blessing would prick and wound it To which end in our prayer and● meditation wee are to retire our selves In which regard it will help wel when we would meditate and pray to retire and withdraw our selves from company into some solitary place which we are also taught both by precept and practice of Christ himself His precept wee have Matth. 6.6 so Psam 4.4 Commune with your hearts upon your bed His practice Mark 1.35 So Peter went up to the top of the house to pray Acts 10.9 So Jeremiah's soul did weep in secret chap. 13.17 And of these Jews and Converts it was foretold they should mourn every family apart the husband apart and the wife apart Zech. 12.12 Retiredness both of place and thoughts is fittest to work our hearts unto goldly sorrow SECT 7. A reproof of the secure with an Exhortation and Caveat Conclusion of the Directions NOw for conclusion of these Directions It were good and it is needfull that such as have heard or now read the same would well consider with themselves whether they have in any measure followed or yet so much as do resolve to follow the same or to take any pains with their hearts hereabout Where 1 A triall and reproof of such as yet remain secure and sensless 1 It is to be suspected that many continue still secure careless and slothfull and do still go on in their old courses as inconsiderately as ever without a right knowledge of the power of Gods anger and are as stout-hearted partiall and self-loving both flattering themselves and as desirous to be flattered by time-serving and false Prophets and as much hardened against the true and faithfull servants of God by unbelief as ever And that they are still sensuall and worldly and remain still senseless without fear of being hardened either by great sins which lay waste the conscience or by giving way to smaller sins against conscience or by custome of sinning or yet by and in Gods secret vengeance giving them up to this heavie and dismal judgement of an hard impenitent heart neither afraid of it as the worst of Gods judgements on earth and as the first and irrecoverable entrance into hell nor praying against it nor carefull to avoid evill company and examples and such other things and sins in speciall which are the procurers of it whilest they still make as light of sin of reproof of the word and of Gods threatnings as ever before all of them signes of an hard and dedolent heart especially considering how little they care for hearing of such teachers as would most help them in this work of conviction pricking and wounding their conscience or for calling to minde Gods word and such truths as have come neer them or for applying it to themselves And as for their sins Originall or Actuall they are far from raking into that dunghill from questioning or yet loathing themselves for the same from keeping an account or catalogue of their sins either for number or foulness or aggravation of the same never weighing or pondering with themselves how thereby they draw upon themselves the heavie weight of Gods vengeance And as little do they make use of Gods severe judgements and corrections whether on themselves past present or threatned and in expectation as of death hell and the last generall judgement or on others either private Christians in their sorrows and true mourners in Sion or whole Churches of Christ or of the sorrows of Christ for them or of the unparalleld love of Christ so dying for them and of other the mercies yea and high majestie of God against whom without all ingenuity or fear they daily trespass And as for the exercise of prayer accompanied with fasting and watchfulnesse it s a duty they are wholly strangers unto they are without sense of their wants they have no true desire of this so needfull a work of humiliation they can spend no serious thoughts thereon nor time being so taken up with their delights vain pleasures worldly cares and imployments Now what may a man think of such men This their little care and study after true compunction this their disaffection to the means thereof is an apparant signe of their unsensibleness and securitie and consequently that all the evils and miseries mentioned formerly lie heavie upon them as that they are still in their natural and damned condition dead in and by sin in Satans possession farre from the first step to repentance and salvation and that they come short of very reprobates Pharaoh Felix Saul Cain and Judas and under certain expectation of eternal wrath seeing their sin will have sorrow if not here yet undoubtedly hereafter even such as made the eternal Son of God crie out on the Crosse as he did for a time and which they must suffer and undergo eternally without end or ease 2 An exhortation and a caveat to take heed that repentant sorrow be not swallowed up of Ah then dear Sirs ye that yet cannot say or give any good proofe that your hearts are or have been pricked for your

ministeriall pains and conceptions which with some of my ancient hearers proved altogether abortive will yet find better acceptance here and such as I blesse God with many other of better temper among my ancient hearers they have found and that the seed cast on the thornie and stonie ground and hearts of many in England will take better root and thrive better in another soil as some trees transplanted do I recommend this mite of my good will to your Worships and to their perusall here as also to the Churches service and use elsewhere resting Dantzick June 28 1642. Your Worships and the Churches Servant R. J. An Advertisement to the Reader KNow that this insuing Treatise was sent into England and should have been printed in Anno 1642 but what by the death of one undertaker after the book was approved according to Order of Parliament and what by the inconstancy of another who after hee had printed the first three sheets gave it over and fell to a more gainfull trade of printing Diurnals it hath been laid aside thus long But now since my return into England the Copy being recovered and the printing of it by a third person procured I thought good though after six yeers of the date of it to let it passe in the stile it was written in at first and so as if I were still with my Hearers at Dantzick Judge of it then according to time place and persons when where and to whom it was preached and it being of generall use make improvement of it for thine own spirituall good for which thou hast the prayers of the unworthy Author The general Contents of each Chapter of this Treatise and of the several Sections under their several Chapters respectively containing the chief doctrines handled therein As for the many particulars under each Chapter and Section they may by a short glance of the eye be viewed in the margine of the booke it self CHAP. I. Concerning the time of mens Conversion Section 1. But first of the Change which is in Conversion Section 2. Why Christ converted not so many at any one Sermon as Peter and the rest here did with Uses Section 3. Why mens Conversion is often so long delayed by God with Reasons and Vses CHAP. II. Concerning the Persons converted by Peter c. their Quality Number Section 1. That some otherwise devout men need Conversion Section 2. God freely singles out some of many of whom his Church consists And of the freenesse of Gods Grace with four Vses CHAP. III. Concerning the Means of Conversion the hearing of Gods word preached Section 1. Of the Act of hearing and of the power of Gods Word whence it is with five Vses Sect. 2. Of the profit of hearing Gods word aright whence it is with three Vses CHAP. IIII. The Object of hearing generall and speciall here And what doctrine is like to do the greatest good even that which most advanceth Christ and debaseth man with reasons sons and uses respectively CHAP. V. The effects of saving hearing of Gods Word Section 1. 1 Pricking of heart Section 2. Pricking of heart considered 1 As the work of the Word And that the best kinde of preaching is that which pricks the heart Why With two Vses Sect. 3. Pricking of heart considered 2 As the fruit of sin And that sin carries a sting with it With Vse Section 4. Pricking of heart considered here as the first step to true Conversion And that Conversion must begin at the heart With two Reasons and three Vses CHAP. VI. How these Converts in the Text came to be pricked in Conscience CHAP. VII Shewing that all true Converts must first in some measure be pricked in heart Section 1. The Explication of this point of Doctrine and of whom and how it is meant with the difference between the Elect and Reprobate in their legall sorrows Sect. 2. The former point illustrated by Scripture and examples Sect. 3. That all in some measure must be pricked in conscience though not all alike Where four Reasons why Sect. 4. Who are more roughly and who more gently dealt withall in their Conversion Which difference is shewed with respect of their different conditions 1. present 2. past 3. to come Wherein Gods wisdome wonderfully appeareth CHAP. VIII The Demonstration of the former Point with the Reasons both on mans behalf and Gods why God will have all Converts of age to be first brought under the spirit of bondage CHAP. IX Of the Order of Conversion and 1. As it depends on Love in God Where ten approaches of Gods grace towards us all free CHAP. X. Sect. 1. Conversion is also a work of Gods power Sect. 2. The Order of Conversion as it depends on Power And first In regard of the Persons and Means imployed in working of it which is onely the Word and no other means without the word neither Sacraments Miracles Afflictions c. without it Sect. 3. The order of the work it self of Conversion And first seven orderly works of the Law Sect. 4. Eleven orderly works of the Gospel CHAP. XI Containing anVse of Triall as preparative to the rest CHAP. XII Vses for such 1. as have not been pricked And first The danger of a false peace and the desperate estate of secure sinners CHAP. XIII 2. A large Exhortation to the secure And Motives urging them to be afflicted and to mourn for sinne CHAP. XIIII Containing Means of Contrition and first A removall of Lets Sect. 1. Such lets removed as hinder the Word of God to pierce And they are six Sect. 2. Le ts removed which make the soul senselesse And first Sensuality and worldlinesse Sect. 3. Three moe lets removed Which are Great sins Little sins Custome of sinning Sect. 4. Two moe Lets Gods secret vengeance and Hardnesse of heart with the nature and danger of it and means to prevent it CHAP. XV. 2. Of the Means of true Compunction and Sensiblenesse Sect. 1. And first Of Gods Word heard recalled and applyed With the power of it in pricking the heart Sect. 2. Of the Consideration of sin Originall and Actuall in the aggravations of it Sect. 3. Gods judgements on our selves past present and to come should humble us Sect. 4. Others sufferings especially Christs should move us Sect. 5. Gods high Majesty well thought on would abase us Sect. 6. Earnest prayer with God a meanes of Humiliation and a way to derive power from him when especially it is joyned with watchfulnesse Sect. 7. A reproof of the secure with an exhortation and caveat CHAP. XVI Vses for such secondly as have been wounded Sect. 1 And first that they return not to sins for which they formerly have smarted Sect. 2. That secondly they goe on with the work of humiliation and that they seek not ease too soon Sect. 3. An Exhortation hereunto that we follow home Gods strokes till we be throughly humbled and cured Sect. 4. Divers reasons why men are not to take up with legal qualms til they

shall lose that too God often confounds men when they either trust to their own preparations or aim at their own glory I have heard of some such who being confounded in their memory and non-plussed when they most of all sought themselves have so laid it to heart that one being so disapointed went mad another so crossed hanged himself But concerning this gift and grace of preaching yea and all other spirituall gifts duties and abilities to do duty I will say with the Apostle 1 Cor. 4.7 with respect both to the author and end of them What hast thou that thou didst not receive now if thou didst receive it why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it Why should we glory in any thing when nothing is ours For of him and through him and to him the holy God are all things To whom be glory for ever Amen Rom. 11.36 SECT 7. That we are thirdly to deny our selves in things eternall as first in some accidentals of glory as in the degree and time of it 3. We must deny our selves in some case even in things eternall 1. In some accidentals as THirdly and lastly To denie our selves fully and aright we must be content with respect to Gods glory to do it at least in readiness of mind and submission of will even in things eternall pertaining to everlasting life and glory And first in regard of some degree and circumstance Secondly in regard of the very substance and effence of it and that not only with respect to others such as are otherwise most dear unto us but also to our selves 1. In the degree of glory 1. As there is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the starres for one star differeth from another in glory So also is the resurrection of the dead saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 15.41 42. Where saith Daniel Some shall shine as the brightness of the firmament others that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever Dan. 12.3 Howsoever taking for granted that there are degrees of glory content with the least degree though not of grace as here there is of grace a godly heart though it aim at the highest pitch of grace in this life and so far also deny it self whilest with Paul Phil. 3.11 12 13. it forgets those things that are behind and takes not up with any measure of grace already attained but reacheth forth unto those things that are before yet so it may but attain by any means unto the resurrection of the dead that which is to life it will not stand with God for measure or degree of glory submitting it selfe to Gods will and glory therein yet of glory renouncing all merit accounting it self most happy if it be but as a door-keeper in that house It stands not upon merit now as some do to expect a more glorious crown then others in that kingdome striving to sit next to Christ in glory whether on the right hand or on the left No as then it will not envy the greater glory of others granting the forenamed degrees of glory for envy is banished out of heaven and even here it envies not the more shining graces of others so it will be content so it may have a place in that glorious firmament to be a star of the least magnitude At least we should all now so far deny our selves as though suppose we were not behind many or any in grace here yet not to expect by way of justice any greater degree of glory then the meanest of Gods servants 2. In the time of glory 2. That happiness and glory which by faith we are assured in due time to enjoy and be for ever possessed of we must be content to stay and wait for it and not to hasten it otherwise then by hastning our preparations for it content to wait for it 2 Pet. 3.12 nay though in and with the assurance thereof we be now in manifold afflictions and suffer not only labour but contempt disgrace and all sort of injuries from men yet we must not be weary of well doing nor through impatience or lothness to suffer and to glorifie God on earth though by suffering wish our selves dead that we might be the sooner at rest No herein we must deny our selves also so we may glorifie God by our sufferings on earth or any way edifie his Church we must be content to want our own glory and to wait till Gods time come Thus did Paul who though he were assured of his own glorification after death and could wish to be clothed upon with glory 2 Cor. 5.1 2 3 c. and to be with Christ as we see in Paul which is far better then to be absent from him by abiding on earth yet knowing that to abide in the flesh would be more for Gods glory here and for the good of the Church as more needfull for the members of it he is content to stay for his own glory and to abide and continue with them all for their furtherance and joy of faith Phil. 1.21 22 23 24 25 26. We should be unworthy of glory if so much as in our thoughts and deliberate desires we should so hasten to it as in the mean time not to be content to glorifie God in our callings and to edifie others to doe good to our children by seeing them edified and instructed in the faith and fear of God Such as hasten their own happiness too soon before Gods will be known in it And not to hasten our own happiness too soon as doe men of this world so far want faith and self-deniall as it is 01 with many who mistaking indeed their happiness seek it here on earth and will not deny themselves in their lusts in their earthly sensuall and sinfull delights by mortifying the flesh and by setting themselves in the waies and to the service of Christ but through too much haste to be happy come alltogether short of it as the impatient Israelites did of Canaan See Numb 16.14 SECT 8. In glory it self and first in the salvation of others 2. In glory it self NOw secondly for the very substance and essence of eternall glory we are so far to deny our selves in the same that Gods glory and will should be preferred before the salvation not only of our dearest friends children or others but if it could be a case of our own souls A ground laid Gods glory ought to be most dear unto us Here as a ground we must know that Gods glory ought to be most dear unto us more dear and precious then any thing else which we are to desire or respect and which in the first place and before all other things we are to seek all which in our seeking after them we are to subordinate unto the same proved from the order of petitions in the Lords Prayer This is most evidently taught us by

prophesie falsely witness the Arminian and Popish doctrine taught by many and the Priests bear rule for whose demerits Princes are left to themselves and are strengthened by their meanes and that the people also love to have it so what will we doe in the end thereof Jer. 5.30 31. What can be expected that good is It is said The anger of the Lord was first kindled against Israel and then he moved or suffered Satan to move King David against Israel to say to Joab though unwilling go number Israel and Judah and all to the end that a plague might come upon Israel 2 Sam. 24.1 Now our people have besides all their other provocations so generally complied with their Priests for so in a more Popish sence they will be called and with their Prophets and strengthned them by their readiness to entertain their opinions superstititions and new Ceremonies and are yet such enemies to Reformation yea and yet so generally senceless of our present sufferings in the true causes thereof that we have just cause to thinke that his Majesty whose Throne ever be guiltlesse is what by the demerit of their ill deeds what by their ill counsell and instigation moved to say go number England and Wales array as many as you can c. and all that the deserved wrath may at length fall upon themselves as the first and chief procurers of these evills and that withall the better affected among them may be further tried humbled approved and prepared for after mercies Yet good hope upon our humiliation and reformation Howsoever our good hope is that upon our more solemn yea and daily humiliations in compunction of heart for our own sins and the sins of the land and times God after some triall will graciously be pleased to crown the pious laborious and constant indeavours of this present Parliament with an happy end both for our selves with a peaceable and blessed conclusion and happy Reformation now to be begun and in due time further to be setled according to his word in our own Churches of great Brittain and Ireland other nations and as our hope is to be followed in his good time also by others in other Countries by degrees and so long till the great stumbling block and main hinderance of the Jewes conversion and calling again in and by the downfall of Rome be removed out of the way and especially the Jewes Now that the Iewes shall be called and again received as from the dead and graffed into their own Olive-tree their sins according to Gods election and love taken away and the vail of their ignorance removed we need not doubt whose calling and conversion we expect See Rom. 11 12.-15-23 24. to 29.2 Cor. 3.14 15 16. And for the occasions and grounds thereof we may more then probably conclude when they shall be pricked in heart upon like grounds that by Gods blessing they shall be the same for effect and in the general which they were by the same grace working effectually to these in this my Text where that old prophesie of Zachary only began to be fulfilled God having on that day of Pentecost in outward and visible signs and otherwise poured upon them the hearers as well as teachers the spirit of grace and supplications And saith the Lord Zach. 19.9 10 11. they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only son and shall be in bitternesse for him as one that is in bitterness for his first born Now when was it that these were so pricked in heart and mourned as were these Jewes here in my Text but when they were convicted first of Christs glory and that Jesus the son of Mary being now advanced to glory at the right hand of the Father was made and declared of God to be both Lord and Christ Secondly or withall of their own sin and unworthy carriage towards him whom they were truly charged to have crucified as appeares by the close of Peters Sermon in the words immediatly preceding my Text Acts 2.36 And when shall the body of the scattered Nation of the Jewes mourn and convert to God but when they also shall be convinced namely first of the glory and power of Jesus Christ and withall of their own wicked blasphemies and sins against him so loving a Saviour Vpon conviction and fight 1. Of the glory of Christ 1. Christ to their conviction will at length even here on earth though I will not say by a bodily appearance and residence amongst us shew himself King of his Church and deliver as once the Israelites from Pharaoh and the Ark from the Philistines and himself out of the power of death and the grave so it from the tyranny of Antichrist and from all yokes of superstitious ceremonies and of his power and victory over Antichrist and other enemies spirituall and bodily and tyrannicall government which hath so long and that in part even since the time of Reformation lien upon the necks of his people as also from all licentious doctrines and practises The Kings of the earth and of the world whom those three unclean spirits coming out of the mouth of the Dragon Beast and false Prophet shall gather to the battell of that great day of God Almighty into a place called Armageddon to make war against Christ Rev. 16. or as he is called the word of God King of Kings and Lord of Lords who sits on the white Horse and against his Army Rev. 19.11,12 -18 19. those Kings I say by their ill successe shall at length see and acknowledge as the power of Christ against whom they warred so their own madness in opposing him and his people and how they have been deluded and so not knowing what to do or how to be saved in their own Religion and way shall at length abandon the same embrace the truth and way of Christ and submit to his Scepter Then shall they hate the whore and see the abominations of poperie and so shall Euphrates be dried up that is as a good Author doth interpret the succours Mr. Cotton on the sixt viall supplies and revenues of Rome that the way of the Kings of the East whom the best Interpreters make the Jewes may be prepared Revel 16.12 13 c. for then also by the same successe of the battel in Armageddon shall the Jewes see the mighty power of Christ in rooting out all Idolatry and superstitions and prophanenesse of Professors which have so long kept and hindred them from comming to the knowledge and acknowledgement of their Messias 2. Of their own sin in crucifying and rejecting him 2. Then also upon conviction of their sin against their Messias and King now acknowledged by them there shall be great mourning but in a godly manner as at the mourning of Hadadrimmon upon the death of good King Josiah in the valley of Mageddon unto which this Armageddon may allude Which mourning shall be in compunction such as this in my Text was and with contrition of heart not only because Jesus now acknowledged their Messias and the King of glory was crucified by them but also for them and his blood shed even for them that spilt it Yet their sin in crucifying and rejecting him so long yea of cursing the name the Lord Jesus in their Liturgies praying that it might perish from under these heavens and from above this earth shall be their sorrow also as having so long brought them and their fathers under the curse of Cain Gen. 4.14 and made them no better then fugitives and vagabonds in the earth Thus when the enemies of the Church and that man of sin shall as well by the mouth ●f the sword as by the sword of the mouth be destroyed Rev. 19.21 these Jewes convinced by them both shall mourn and come to true repentance After which Christ shall reign in the purity and power of his Ordinances here on earth and in due time after make his appearance as a glorious King and judge of quick and dead and come to wipe all teares from the eyes of true mourners according to his gracious promise Joh. 14.3 I will come again and receive you unto my self that where I am there may yee be also Rev. 22.20 Surely I come quickly Amen Even so Come Lord Jesus Dantzick October 30. 1642. FINIS