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A87498	The best fee-simple, set forth in a sermon at St Peters in Cornhil, before the gentlemen and citizens born in the county of Nottingham, the 18. day of February, 1657. Being the day of their publique feast. By Marmaduke James, minister of Watton at Stone, in the county of Hertford.	James, Marmaduke.	1658 (1658)	Wing J432; Thomason E955_2*; ESTC R207614	34,420	74

the day of their birth the God that made them and the womb that bore them and the breasts that gave them suck this makes me afraid to sin against him Saith the fourth I think of the Joyes of Heaven methinks there I see meek Moses faithful Abraham patient Iob c. and all those children of blessedness that by faith and obedience do now inherit the promises And this doth wean my soul from sin These are all good Considerations But saith the last which is best of all when I am tempted to sinne I go up to Mount Calvary and there methinks I see a sweet Saviour hanging upon the Cross stretching out his Arms to Jew and Gentile as if he would grasp in all the world to salvation There methinks I see his bloody temples hands side and feet There I see him sweating and sighing bleeding and crying and dying under the weight of my sins Oh saith he this is such heart-conquering love that I know not how to sinne against it This is that kindly repentance which God hath promised to his people Zach. 10.10 Hos 14.8 That they shall look upon him whom they have pierced and mourn for him as an onely Son When repenting Ephraim shall see this he shall say What have I to do any more with Idols If Christ hath given himselfe an offering for us why then should not we give up our selves an offering for him 4thly It is but reasonable service saith the Apostle as reasonable as an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth Rom. 12.1 but alas men are very delatory about this work The Covetous person saith Let him but obtain an Estate of so many thousand pounds then he will repent and turn to Christ The voluptuous would reserve one seven years longer to enjoy the pleasures of sinne and then he will offer himselfe to Christ Most men defer this to old age and death but consider with thy selfe Christian hath Christ made it his first work to dye for thee and wilt thou make it thy last work to come to him Hath he given himself to death for thee and wilt thou not give up thy selfe to life for him Do but consider the Advantages that thou wilt have by this Act Many are the expressions in Scripture which set forth the relation betwixt Christ and his Church But there is none wherein the Spirit of God more delights then that of marriage Now there are three things to name no more which a woman that is well married receives from her husband First There is an exemption from all her Debts If so be she was five thousand pounds in debt before and the Bayliffs come and arrest her she tels them that she is not responsible she is now under Covert Baron and that lis feminae non intenditur is a maxime in the Law Thus a believer pleads against his sins when Satan and Conscience come to arrest him It s true saith he I was Gods debtor but now my condition is changed truly I am not responsible I am under the coverture of the Lord Jesus Go sin Go Devil to him that is my spiritual husband to him that hath lead captivity captive and that is now set down at the right hand of God he will pay you every groat or else he will shew you those acquittances that he took out for my sin at his resurrection Blessed is the man saith David Psalm 32.1 to whom the Lord imputes no sin He doth not say to him that hath no sin for there is not such a man in the World but the man to whom the Lord imputes no sin Secondly A Wife partakes of all the honours and riches of her husband first the husband is the fountain of honour to the wife if the husband be a King she is a Queen a Marquess she is a Marchioness a Knight she is a Lady c. Thus what Christ is in point of honour his people are What was the native honour of Christ but to be the Son of God why so are they Beloved saith th' Apostle 1 Joh. 3.2 We are now the Sons of God though it doth not appear what we shall be c. Though we be not glorified Sons yet we are Sons as truly as he What honour had Christ by Office why he was a Priest a Prophet a King so are they Who hath washt us in his blood Rev. 1.5.6 and hath made us Kings and Priests unto his Father c. And that not in a metaphorical but a real sence for every good man is a King he hath got some victory over his corruptions Et fortior est qui se quam qui fortissima vincit maenia he is a stronger King that conquereth himself then he that conquereth a City and he is a Priest he can pray unto God for himself family friends neighbours c. and God hears him Again he is instated in all the riches of Christ As where the husband hath a shilling there the wife can say is her six pence or groat for her benefit the riches of Christ I have not time to open to you temporal spiritual eternal They would require a large discourse onely take one place of Scripture which is the magna Charta of a Christian 1 Cor. 3.22.23 Whether Paul or Apollo or Cephas or the World or life or death or things present or things to come all things are yours and you are Christs and Christs is Gods There was a difference amongst the Corinthians about their Preachers some was for Paul Paul say they was a most excellent Preacher that Preached in the evidence and demonstration of the Spirit of God 1 Cor. 2.4 Acts 18.24 But sayes another sort we like Apollo best for he is a Rhetorical man and mighty in the Scriptures and he worked the best upon our affections but saith the third we are for Cephas he is an excellent Casuist and he resolves our doubts the best Why saith the Apostle will you like Children divide your own they are but your Chaplains Chaplains might the Corinthian say these are fit to be Chaplains to the greatest Emperours in the World why saith he the World is yours whether Paul or Apollo or Cephas or the World c. but what good will the World do us might the Corinthians say if we cannot live to enjoy it why saith he life is yours But what good will the World do us when we come to dye why saith he death is yours that is for your advantage but what will become of us after we are dead All things to come saith he are yours But might these Corinthians say blessed Apostle shew us the writings and the conveyances of this estate tell us how we hold it that we may not live upon fansies and build Castles in the aire why sayes he you-hold in Capite you hold of the Heir apparent of Heaven and Earth for you are Christs and Christ is Gods the Argumentation seems to run thus you know

Judgements saith David speaking of the wicked are far out of his sight even as the Stars though they be bigger then the Earth seem but by reason of their distance like the snuffe of a Candle But when a man begins to turn unto God then those sins that formerly he hath accompted little begin to appear in their dimensions and affrightingly to stare him in the face Well Christian hath God turned the right end of the Prospective to thee hath he awakened thy Conscience hath he written such bitter things against thy soul that thou now beginnest to read the sins of thy youth upon the Curtains of thy bed and upon the windows of thy house I mean that every Circumstance puts thee in mind of thy sinnings against the Lord. What dost thou see above an angry God below a gaping Hell on the one hand Conscience on the other Satan to accuse thee O direct thine eyes to this offering to this lambe of God that is a beloved and an onely begotten Son slain for sin in the indefinite for all sin that thou maist receive comfort from him Ah Sir saith the soul I am a great sinner you know not what a sinner I have been and of how scarlet a dye my sinnes are Why Christian if thy sinnes be great this offering is so Sure I am they can be but Infinite this offering is so Ah but saith the soul if I had but a promise that God did in particular belong to me I could believe this offering able to take away my sinne Why Christian thou hast all the promises that Abraham David and Daniel and Paul and Peter and all those blessed Creatures are now set down in heaven by thou hast the same promises that Idolatrous Manasseh persecuting Saul and diabolical Mary Magdalen are carried to Heaven by How particular wouldst thou have the promises This is my body which is broken for thee what wouldst thou have more If thou dost think Christ an hard-hearted Saviour yet thou dost not think him a fool Is it imaginable thinkest thou that he should be at all this cost and smart to redeem a soul and then refuse it when it comes unto him To conclude meditate upon these two Scriptures John 6.37 He that comes unto me I will in no wise cast out John 17.37 In the last day the great day of the feast Jesus stood and cryed if any man thirst let him come unto me and drink Mark how emphatical these words are in the last day As if they were the last words that Christ should speak the last words of a dying man are hearty words The great day of the feast That is of the Tabernacles when the Tribes were met in Jerusalem when there was a whole Kingdom in one City Jesus stood and cryed at other times he used to sit and preach But now he stood and cryed If any man thirst Luk. 5.3 let him come unto me and drink c. If any man though a great sinner be he Jew or Gentile Turk or Christian If he thirst without all restriction without all limitation Let him come unto me and drink Use 3 If Christs soul was poured out for sinne it teacheth us then with what eye to look upon sinne Many poor ignorant people when they read the story of Christs passion how angry are they at that Traytor Judas that cruel Pilate those hard-hearted miscreants the Jews for putting so innocent a person to death Alas Christian it was not Judas it was not Pontius Pilate but it was thy sin and my sin that procured it Sin was that which put upon his head a Crown of Thornes that spat upon his blessed face the Spear that pierced his side Sin was the nailes that fastned him to the Cross what remaines then but that he that loves the Lord Jesus should hate Iniquity Nevertheless saith the Apostle the foundation of God abideth sure 2 Tim. 2.13 let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity The like Scripture we have in the fifth of the Ephesians the 3 verse Let not fornication uncleanness c. be once named amongst you as becometh Saints Let it not be done amongst you is good counsel may some men say nay let not it be once named amongst you as becometh Saints It is said of Alexander That he had a Coward in his Army whose name was Alexander sending for him said What art thou Alexander and a Coward either change thy name or thy nature either be not a Coward or be not Alexander What a Christian and a Whoremaster a Drunkard a profane Swearer c Non bene conveniunt nec in unâ sede morantur these things seem to be incompetible in the same subject and inconsistent with that love which a Christian professeth to bear unto this Saviour that dyed for sinne If a woman having her husband murthered by an Assassinate should take that knife imbrued with the gore blood of her husbands heart and kiss it and put it in her bosome and say this knife will I keep in my bosome all the dayes of my life surely you would say this woman never loved her husband was guilty of the blood of her husband Thus the Apostle sets forth the monstrous nature of a wilful sinner Of how much sorer punishment saith he Heb. 10.29 shall he be worthy of who hath troden underfoot the Son of God hath counted the blood of the Covenant an unholy thing c. The Heathens such as Socrates and Cato might by moral reasons cause a stupefaction of their sinnes but the true mortification of sinne ariseth from the death of Christ and certainly no consideration under heaven doth more prevail with a gracious heart then this I have some where met with a story of five Christians who used to confer Notes about this point sayes the first When I am tempted to sin I think of the shortness of life and uncertainty of the time of death and this makes me to live every day as if it were my last day This keeps me from sinne saith the second I think of the Anomy Ataxy that confusion darknesse that is in sinne when I think of the great and glorious God prescribing a rule unto his Creatures whose wil is nothing but reason for their good giving them being and well-being that they might observe it Now to see a man thus carried in Gods arms to spit in his face methinks it is such an unthankful and unworthy thing that I cannot but hate it But saith the third when I am tempted to sinne I think of the day of Judgement and methinks I hear that voice of the Archangel with that Father alwaies sounding in mine ears surgite venite ad judicium Arise ye dead and come to Judgment and methinks I open the Casements of Hell in my meditations where I see Cain and Judas and Jeroboam the Son of Nebat c. and all those children of perdition in those bloody flames out of extremity of torments cursing