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The sinners acquittance. A checke to curiositie. The safest seruice Deliuered in three sermons at the court. By Iohn Denison Doctor of Diuinity, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines then in attendance.
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not see death So those that walke with Christ in these holy pathes shall be partakers of eternall life according to that in the twelfth of Iohn Ioh. 12.26 If any man serue me let him follow me for where I am there shall also my seruant be As he that followes some great Riuer shall by it be guided to the Sea So those that follow Christ shall by him be conducted to the Ocean of eternall felicitie And so our Sauiour told his Disciples and that with an asseueration for ratification Verely I say vnto you Mat. 19.28 that when the Son of Man shall sit in the Throne of his Maiestie you that haue followed me in the regeneration shall sit also vpon Thrones and iudge the twelue Tribes of Israel Application THus haue you heard the matters the manner the motiues for our following of Christ Now it remaines that I conclude all with some words of application and so finish my speech S. Augustines discourse in his seuenth Sermon De Verbis Domini Ordine ali quantulum mutato shall be my ground There were saith Saint Augustine three men of seuerall dispositions and inclinations that came to Christ with whom he dealt accordingly 1 Vnus differebat culpatus est One deferred to follow him and he was blamed So are there many that deferre and neglect this following of Christ Some intend to become his followers but they put it off till sicknesse or old age seaze vpon them till Sinne and Satan hath cassiered them and they are able to do Christ little seruice Some there are who doe totally neglect this following of Christ They are entertained by the Flesh the World and the Deuill yea any thing but Christ though the waies wherein they walke yeeld nothing but vanitie and miserie Thus the young man in the Prouerbes followes the strange woman Prou. 7.22 like a foole to the stockes and an oxe to the slaughter till a dart strike through his Liuer Thus Demas imbracing the world 2 Tim. 4.10 forsooke the Apostles Thus riches caried away the man that ran to Christ Marke 10.22 For when he had giuen him histaske he became a flincher went away sorrowfull Caroclamat ego inficiam Diabolus clamat ego decipiam mundus clamat ego deficiam Ego reficiam But what can these Masters promise to their followers Only that which S. Bernard mentions The world it cries I will faile thee the Deuill he cries I will deceiue thee the Flesh it cries I will infect thee But come to me saith Christ and I will refresh thee Satan is a master like Pharaoh Exod. 5.14 who set the Israelites all day on worke and scourged them at night For so doth the Deuill employ his Vassals in the workes of iniquity in the time of their life but at the day of their death rewards them with the scourges of a troubled Conscience at the day of Iudgement with hellish torments To Witches and such other wretches he promiseth faire but the end is cōmonly a shamefull death to their bodies eternal condemnation to their Soules The world is a master like Laban Gen. 31.41 that changed Iacobs wages ten times and would haue sent him away emptie Who would serue that master which will keepe him hard in toyling and in the end strip him out of all he hath and turne him away naked Behold the world is such a master 1 Tim. 6.7 for as wee brought nothing into the world so it is certaine that we can carie out nothing Naked came wee out of our mothers wombes Iob 1.21 and naked must we returne againe Saladine at his funerall had one going before his corps who carrying his shart vpon a launce cried Saladine that Conqueror of Asia caries nothing with him but this Plat. in vit Clem 3. Ier. 2.13 The greatest Monarches as that great Saladine did well consider haue only a winding sheet or peraduenture some Monument a meere monument of the worlds vanitie mans mortalitie I may truly say therefore that those who leaue Christ Iesus to follow the world the Flesh or the Deuil commit those two euils that Ieremie mentions They leaue the Fountaine of liuing waters to dig to themselues broken Cisternes that can hold no water 2 Alius se obtulit reprobatus est Another offered to follow Christ and he was reiected And indeed such bad followers our Sauiour hath many Some respectu formae some respectu finis Some in respect of the forme some of the ends As it was in the daies of his infirmitie so is it now in the daies of his maiestie Some followed him for by-respects some for bad respects Some followed him to entangle him as the Herodians Mat. 22.16 Some to betray him as Iudas Mat. 26.15 Some only to gaine by him as those that followed him for the loaues the fishes Iohn 6.26 Christ hath some followers that are like Comets they are not fixed by a liuely Faith in Christ the Sphere of holines but are caried about with an vncertain motion according to some star which rules them they vanish accordingly Againe some there are which faile in the manner of their following As S. Bernard speakes of praying so may I say of their following Bern. de quaedrages Ser. 4. Some follow Christ timidè some tepidè some temerariè 1. Some follow him timidè fearfully As Peter did when he was led to Annas Caiphas Iohn 3.2 As Nicodemus that came to him by night He durst not be seene to be a follower of Christ And those rulers in the 12 of S. Iohn which beleeued in him Iohn 12.42 but were afraid to confesse him Thus euerie little rub turnes them aside whilest they say A Lyon is in the way Prou 26.13 A Lyon is in the streetes These are like those Israelites who liked well of the Land of Canaan Numb 13.33 but were afraid of the Anakims It was a iust recōpence that they neuer entred into it Reu. 3. 2. Some follow Christ tepidè coldly like the Church of Laodicea These are like Solomons sluggard Prou 13. Vult non vult piger He could be content to follow Christ but he cannot abide to take too much paines These follow Christ so as that they were as good to stay behind he had rather haue their roome then their cōpany He that wil be a welcome follower of Christ Acts 11.23 must as Barnabas exhorted with full purpose of heart cleaue vnto the Lord. Cant. 1.3 He must say with the Spouse in the Canticles Draw me we will run after thee And be resolute with Ioshua Iosh 24.15 Chuse you this day whom you will serue but I and mine house will serue the Lord. 3. Some follow Christ temerariè rashly Some march furiously with Iehu An. dom 1535 Sleidon Com. lib. 10. As the Anabaptists did in horrible vprores combustions in Germany The Papists
THE SINNERS ACQVITTANCE A Checke to Curiositie The safest Seruice Deliuered in three Sermons at the Court. BY IOHN DENISON Doctor of Diuinity and one of his Maiesties Chaplaines then in Attendance LONDON Printed by IOHN LEGATT and are to be sold by Iohn Budge at the signe of the Greene Dragon in Paules Church-yard 1624. THE SINNERS ACQVITTANCE A Sermon preached before the KING at Greenewich May 4. 1623. BY IOHN DENISON Doctor of Diuinity and one of his Maiesties Chaplaines LONDON Printed by IOHN LEGATT and are to be sold by Iohn Budge at the signe of the Greene Dragon in Pauls Church-yard 1624. TO THE RIGHT Honourable and Reuerend Father in GOD IOHN Lord Bishop of Lincolne Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England and one of His Maiesties most Honourable Priuy Counsell RIght Honourable and Reuerend I presumed long since instead of a better present Lord Elsmere Lord Chancelor of England to Dedicate my Act Sermon to that noble Lord my honourable Master who now rests in peace and found acceptance Whom me thinkes J see in part described when I reade that of Posseuin concerning the excellent Historian Thucydides who is stiled by him Posseuin de Historicis Sect. 2. Acutus concitatus neruosus densus solidus sapiens And I may adde that which was eminent in that noble Lord an especiall note of solide iudgement his Constancie For as Tully speakes of Cato grauitatem perpetua constantia roborauit Cicero de Offic. lib. 1. He was not like Alcibiades in conciliandis amicitijs quam in retinendis vir melior But did ratherimitate that famous Emperour Augustus Caesar Sueton. in August Caesar Cap. 66. Qui amicitias neque facilè admisit constantissime retinuit But that which did crowne all his naturall and morall parts was his pious care and courses in furnishing the Lords vineyard with good labourers For he conferred not preferments for gaine but freely and nobly And that which was extraordinarily honourable hee rather enquired after well deseruing men then stayed till be was sued to I write what some others haue done and many I doubt not wil ingenuously acknowledge Now your Lordship hauing beene to that noble Lord absit inuidia verbo like the beloued Disciple to our Sauiour Saint Iohn conuersing with him in matters diuine and humane and succeeding him both in the seat and actions of Honour with generall applause I haue beene emboldened to present vnto your Lordship these Sermons which many my worthy friends in Court haue much desired and to whom for the publishing of them I am by promise ingaged The God of heauen multiplie his blessings vpon you to the good of this Church and Common-wealth Your Lordships humbly deuoted Iohn Denison THE SINNERS ACQVITTANCE A Sermon preached before the King at GREENEWICH May. 4. 1623. ISAI 53.4 Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrowes WE reade in the first of Samuel and the ninth 1 Sam. 9.9 that the Prophets in ancient time were called Seers because that from that watch-tower of diuine speculation they saw that which others saw not Hierom. ad Paulin. or as Saint Hierom saith Eum quem caeteri non videbant Him whom others saw not Amongst the Prophets some were more eminent and excellent then others and amongst them all none comparable to the Prophet Isaiah who was amongst the Prophets 1 Sam. 9.2 like Saul amongst the Israelites higher then the rest by the shoulders vpward It is said of Abraham Iohn 8.56 that he saw our Sauiours dayes and so did Isaiah who albeit he liued aboue sixe hundred yeares before Christ was borne doth set forth his birth life and death so liuely as though hee had seen all things acted and accomplished before his eyes Hieron quo supra Insomuch that S. Hierom saith Non tam Propheta dicendus sit quam Euangelista He may rather be called an Euangelist then a Prophet and may seeme rather to haue written a History then a Prophesie whereof this which I haue read may be called an Abstract it is indeed an Epitome of the Gospell It may be fitly diuided into a Preface and a propheticall History Generall diuision The Preface is briefe in this one word Surely The History is not long it containes but fiue words in the Hebrew and not many you see in the English Hee hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrowes The Preface is briefe but materiall it giues assurance of the truth of the History which one fitly compares to the eyes of a man For Polybius as the eyes of a man put out leaue the body a meere truncke so the truth remooued from an History leaues it a vaine discourse The History is not long but full it containes matter admirable lamentable comfortable Admirable in respect of him who is the glory of the History euen the Lord of glory Lamentable in regard of what he sustained that is infirmities sorrowes Comfortable in respect of them for whom hee bare them they were our infirmities our sorrowes I may say of this Scripture in S. Chrysostomes words Chrys in Gen. hom 8. Etsi verba sint pauca magnus tamen thesaurus in illis est reconditus Though the words be few yet they containe a great deale of rich treasure This sentence is like Iacobs Ladder wee cannot spare one round of it It is a golden sentence and the least parcell thereof is more worth then all the gold of Ophir Wee will therefore diligently search the minde The Preface ANd first to beginne with the Preface The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Surely may be either Vox distinguentis or asseuerantis either a word of distinction or asseueration A word of distinction and so the vulgar Translater may seeme to haue taken it for he renders it verè tulit Hee hath truely borne our infirmities The Priests in the time of the Law were said to beare the sinnes of the people Leuit. 10.17 But they bare them typically he truely hee bare them not in figure but in fact not in type but in truth Againe hee bare them not imaginariè imaginarily and in outward appearance onely Tertul. aduers Marc. 4.8 August de haeres ad quodvul har 46. as the absurd Manichees and Marcion held but as he was a man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in nature and truth as Damascen saith so did he beare our infirmities and carry our sorrowes verè sicut verus homo truely as being truely a man Aquin. in loc as Aquinas interprets the word It was not with our Sauiour as with the three Children in the third of Daniel who came forth of the fiery furnace Dan. 3.17 not hauing their haire sindged Plutarch in vita Coriol nor their garmēts changed But rather as Coriolanus multas ostenderet cicatrices could shew many Cicatrices of the wounds receaued in the warres So our blessed Sauiour could giue the like demonstratiue satisfaction to the most incredulous Thomas