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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04151	Gods call, for mans heart in 1 Knowledge, 2 Loue, 3 Feare, 4 Confidence, 5 Singing of Psalmes, 6 Prayer, 7 Hearing the word. 8 Receiuing the Sacraments. Deliuered in a sermon, by Abraham Iackson, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word at Chelsey, neere London.	Jackson, Abraham, 1589-1646?	1618 (1618)	STC 14294; ESTC S119409	15,280	54

GODS CALL FOR Mans Heart Jn 1 Knowledge 2 Loue 3 Feare 4 Confidence 5 Singing of Psalmes 6 Prayer 7 Hearing the Word 8 Receiuing the Sacraments Deliuered in a SERMON by ABRAHAM IACKSON Master of Arts and Preacher of Gods word at Chelsey neere London MATH 22.21 Giue vnto God those things which are Gods LONDON Printed by T. S. for Roger Iackson and are to be sould at his shop neere Fleet-streete Conduit 1618. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE Edward Lord Russell Earle of Bedford and the Lady LVCIE Countesse of Bedford such felicitie in this life as may end with the beginning of those ioyes that shall neuer end Most noble and truely religious Lord and Lady AS your vndeserued fauour to me wards challengeth my seruice as a debt so tho vnmerited mercies of God to vs all requires our hearts as a due The meditation of the latter moued me to pen this Treatise and the consideration of the former animated me to Dedicate it to your Honours not that there is any thing in it which you knew not before as hauing long since learned how to consecrate your hearts vnto the Lord but to put you in minde of your knowledge that you doe not forget to practise it All that the Lord requires of you for whatsoeuer hee hath bestowed on you is in effect but this that you studie to know him to loue him to feare him to trust in him that you sing vnto him pray vnto him heare his Word and receiue his Sacraments with your hearts and soules as you shall finde briefely proued in this Treatise which if you doe as all that obserue your religious liues and conuersations are perswaded you doe you may rest secure of Gods loue and fauour towards you in Iesus Christ euen to the full assurance of that inheritance which he hath prepared for those that giue him their hearts in his seruice And so crauing pardon for my boldnesse if in this Dedication I be delinquent I rest Your Honours ready in all humilitie to doe you seruice ABRAHAM IACKSON GODS CALL FOR MANS HEART PROV 23.26 My Sonne giue me thy Heart LEast in this time of giuing and receiuing of gifts amongst friends and acquaintances you should be vnmindefull of your best friend euen your God from whom whatsoeuer good and perfect gift wee haue is deriued Iames 1.17 I haue made choise of this Scripture for the subiect of my speech the better to stirre you vp to present vnto God by way of gratefull acknowledgement of his loue and fauour the best Iewell or to vse Dauids words the best member that you haue euen your hearts and the rather because he requests them at your hands in the words of my Text My sonne giue me thy heart If a Sonne would gratifie his Father or a friend his friend that loues him dearely and out of his loue hath done much for him he will consider with himselfe what his father or his friend best likes and accordingly endeuour to the vttermost of his power to prepare it for him Beloued our gracious God and mercifull redeemer hath so dearely loued vs and done so much for vs as that betweene his loue and created affections there holds no proportion For suppose some great Prince should set his affection vpon some poore man so farre as to disrobe himselfe of his royall apparell cast off his Crowne and cease to be a King onely to inioy more freely this poore mans company and familiaritie certainely it would be a great argument of loue Nay suppose this Prince should yet goe further in the manifestation of his loue by offering himselfe willingly to die for this his poore friend if his death might be any way auaileable vnto him as Damon it may be would haue done for Pythias or Pylades for Orestes a greater testification of loue there cannot be and that by the testimony of our Sauiour Ioh. 15.13 Where he saith That greater loue then this hath no man when any man bestoweth his life for his friends Yet notwithstanding all this loue comes far short of Christs loue towards vs for he being the Prince of peace from all eternitie clad with the royall robes of glory attended on with myriads of blessed Angels swaying the scepter of the whole world sitting on the right hand of his fathers maiestie on high measuring the waters in his fist and counting heauen with a spanne and comprehending the dust of the earth in a measure and weighing the mountaines in a weight and the hils in a ballance Es 40.12 This great Prince I say notwithstanding all these prerogatiues was so inflamed with the loue of vs poore creatures the wretched broode of sinfull Adam lumpes of vanitie masses of misery banquerupts in respect of grace and captiues to sinne and Sathan that he left the brightnesse of his fathers glorie and tooke vpon him the vilenesse of our nature he forbare thundering in the cloudes to crie in the cradle he left the spacious and starre-beautified chamber of heauen to be lodg'd in a stable crowded in a cratch and swadled in a few proore cloutes here on earth in a word The Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst vs and yet this is not all he did not onely take vpon him our flesh and our nature but our nakednesse our misery our pouertie our shame nay that which is yet beyond the conceipt and apprehension of men and Angels hee tooke vpon him our mortalitie he made himselfe subiect vnto death for vs euen to that shamefull painefull racking tormenting lingering death of the crosse he was crucified for vs he had his hands and his feet peirced and torne with nailes for vs his head was crowned with thorns for vs his side and heart was wounded with a speare for vs his hands his feete his head his side his heart gusht out with streames of bloud for vs and that cum adhuc inimici essemus when as yet we were his enemies Rom. 5.7.8 Cum non solum non existentes sed etiam resistentes when we were not onely not existent but resistent euen his professed foes and mortall enemies When our hearts were as yet captiues to sinne and Sathan fighting vnder their banners against him he spent the precious bloud of his heart to redeeme vs. Oh the exceeding loue of a gracious God to an vngracious people infinite degrees beyond the affection of the dearest friend to his friend Well then what remaines to be done on our part but that by way of gratefull acknowledgement of this his vnproportionable fauour we present vnto him this day for a new-yeares gift the best member that we haue euen our hearts and the rather because he askes them at our hands as you may see in the words of my Text My Sonne giue me thy heart It may be called Gods demand of his tribute due vnto him from his children or in fewer word Gods call for Mans heart In the which for my better proceeding and your better perceiuing I haue thought good to obserue