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A07450	The Christian mans assuring house. And a sinners conuersion Two sermons; the former, preached, before the Prince his Highnesse at St. Iames: the other to his Maiesties houshold at White-hall, on Sunday the 6. of February by George Meriton Doctor of Diuinitie, and Deane of Peterborough.	Meriton, George, d. 1624.	1614 (1614)	STC 17837; ESTC S112663	30,464	58

10.5 And thus much of that part of your inward euidence which respecteth sinne That which concerneth Gods mercies in Christ is twofold 1 An earnest desire of reconciliation with God 2 And ardent loue to Christ and his righteousnes For the first when as man feeleth himselfe distressed with the burthen of his finnes when hee apprehendeth the heauy displeasure of God in his conscience for them if then conceiuing his great neede of a Sauiour hee doth heartily desire yea hunger and thirst to bee at peace with God in the meritas of Christ no perill being so fearefull vnto him as to bee out of Gods fauour no blessing so chearefull as to bee at vnity with him vnto such a one hath Christ made most comfortable promises which can appertaine to none but the Elect vnto him shall bee giuen of the Well of the water of life freely Revel 21.6 And this water shall bee in him as a Well of water springing vp vnto euerlasting li●e Iohn 4.14 For the second hee that can so highly esteeme of Christ and his righteousnes as that hee accouneth with Saint Paul Philip 3. the most pretious things that are to be but doung in comparison He that can proferre Christ and his loue before father and mo●her wife and children He that hath so strong an affection wrought in his heart as that if his young childe should hang about his necke his mother shew her breasts which gaue him sucke his Father lye in the dore to stay him from Christ hee could cast away his childe contemne his Mother tread vpon his Father renounce all et volare ad vexillum Chrisli as Hierome speaketh flye to the Banner of his Christ like Aene as in the Poet who when Troye was won carried away neither kithe nor kinne sed Deos ciuitatis but the Gods of the citie Certainly such a one is marked out to saluation hee hath the seale of God vpon him and as Iohn saith 1. Ioh. 3.19 he may assure his hart before him Euery man will say of himselfe that hee is thus afected vnto Christ when as indeede most men had rather haue Esaus broth then Iacobs blessing Wherfore least we be deceiued wee must trye our loue vnto Christ by these two tokens First he that doth rightly esteem of Christ doth in like manner esteem of those which are his members Tustis et Amor Celari non possunt as the Cough cannot be couered no more can loue it will breake out to others Hee that receiueth a Prophet in the name of a Prophet shal receiue a Prophets reward He that receiueth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receiue the reward of the righteous Math. 10 It is hee that loueth Christ and shall dwell in his Tabernacle who maketh much of him that feareth God Psal 15. And heereby doe wee know that wee are raised from death to life because wee loue the Brethren that is such as are the members of Christ euen because they are so 1. Ioh. 3.14 Secondly it is a token of our loue to Christ if we loue his comming that we may haue full participation and fellowship with him The carnall man careth little he hath no sense nor sight of his comming but as the Oxe is fatted in the pasture and the Birde singeth sweetlie and feedeth without feare yet sodainly one is carried to the slaughter the other is taken in the snare so are worldlings drowned in security and seldome thinke of much lesse wish for the comming of Christ Others who are strong in sinne and which force the wrath of God against them doe tremble and quake at the remembrance of his comming They wish it might eyther neuer bee or euer be deferred Oh it is most terrible vnto them once to thinke that a day will come when all of them shall be cited before Gods Iudgement seat when as all their workes their words their thoughts shall be reuealed when as a heauy doome of damnation shall be pronounced against them when to lye hidden wil be impossible for them and to appear will bee intollerable to them The consideration of these terrors of the Lord dooth affright them so as if the Diuell were at their dores But the children of God who loue Christ crye Lord Iesu come quickly Now they are as wardes then shall they come to their owne Now are they in the skirmish then shall they bee in the victorie Now are they in the tempestuous Sea then shall they bee in the quiet Hauen Now in the heat of the day then in the rest of the Euening Now are they absent from Christ Then shall they follow him wheresoeuer he goeth And why should they not be ioyfull at his comming to iudge them who came to be iudged for them A louing Spouse desires to bee in the bosome of her husband and such is the longing of the Church after Christ for if being absent from him he doth so enrich vs with grace and tokens of his loue Lorde how will he hugge vs and embrace vs when we are present with him Si sie es bonus sequentibus te qualis futurus es consequentibus saith Saint Bernard The very desire then we haue wholy to enioy the fellowshippe of our Christ makes vs to lift vp our heades and to loue his comming which is another Argument vnto vs that wee shall be saued because a Crowne of Righteousnesse is laide vp for them that loue his appearing as S. Paul doth tell vs. 2. Tim. 4.8 There remaineth now the last and outward euidence of our calling and Election that is new obedience our endeauour by good works to obey Gods commandements for hereby are we sure we know him if wee keepe his commandements 1 Iohn 2.3 we neede not to wring or wrest a good deed out of a good man as one would wring veriuice out of a Crab. He is a tree that hath euer some figges vpon him But least here againe wee should chance to deceiue our selues The obedience which is the infallible marke of Gods childe must not bee a halfe but a whole obedience of the whole man To the whole law of God In the whole course of our liues First it must bee obedience of the whole man in Body in Soule in Spirit 1. Thes 3.13 Wee must summon all our parts and powers together like a Cryer to pe●forme a seruice vnto our God Secondly it must bee obedience To the whole law for the condition of the Law is meerely Copulatiue All the parts of it are linked one to another He that 's bound to One is bound to All Hee that makes no Conscience to keepe One when Occasion is offered will breake any Herod gaue Iohn Baptist the hearing in many things but would not leaue his Brothers Wife Iudas followed Christ and preathed the Gospell but would in no case forsake his Couetousnes Saul was content to slay some of the Amalekites but left Agag aliue But this peece meale

THE CHRISTIAN MANS ASSVRING HOUSE AND A SINNERS Conuersion TWO SERMONS The former preached before the Prince his Highnesse at St. Iames The other to his Maiesties Houshold at Whitehall on Sunday the 6. of February By GEORGE MERITON Doctor of Diuinitie and Deane of Peterborough LONDON Printed by Edward Griffin for Ralfe Mab and are to be sold in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Greyhound 1614. TO THE PRINCE HIS MOST excellent Highnesse Most noble Prince IT pleased your Highnesse to heare this Sermon with patience and afterwards to command it at my hands which I offer vnto you as Dauids seruants did their gifts for the Temple 1. Chron. 19.9 with a good heart willingly It is an incomparable comfort to all true professors in the number of whom J desire to be accounted that your Grace at these yeares is so religiously disposed The God of mercy fill you more and more with his blessings that it may bee said of Prince CHARLES as was spoken of our greatest Master Christ And the child increased in wisdome and stature and in fauour with God and man Luk. 2.52 By him that serueth your Highnesse with his earnest praier to God for your happinesse George Meriton THE TEXT 2. PETER 1.10 Wherefore Brethren the rather giue diligence to make your Calling and Election sure THE office of a Minister saith Tertullian consisteth in the performance of three speciall duties tingere offerre docere And answerable vnto these are there as many places appointed in the Church for his attendance the Fonte the Altar the Pulpit The Font for dipping or baptizing the Altar for offering the Pulpit for teaching In Christs commission Goe teach all Nations baptizing them c. Math. 28.19 Teaching hath the first place And as it is chiefest in commission so among all points of Diuinitie that can be taught there is no One of greater moment than to bee acquainted with the counsell of God concerning our saluation What can be more comfortable than Pauls Certus sum Rom. 8.38 I am well assured what sweeter newes than to heare that it is our Fathers pleasure to giue vs a kingdome what more acceptable than to know that wee are the chosen of God Chosen infallibly to be saued Translated from death to life Neuer to bee snatched out of the hands of Christ This high point of Religion so comfortable so sweet so acceptable I am now about to deliuer My text craueth your diligence not only in the reading but much more your best indeuour in labouring for the same Giue rather diligence Brethren to make your calling and election sure It is S. Peters aduise to the dispersed Iewes who were now become Christians and had obteined like pretious faith with others 2. Pet. 1.1 The words haue dependance wherefore and the Context is this In the verses before he exhorteth them to the practise of excellent vertues which would adorne their profession as Knowledge Temperance Patience Godlinesse Brotherly kindnesse Charitie and such like vers 5.6.7 if these saith he abound in you you shall neither be idle nor vnfruitfull nor blind as men which cannot see or at least not remember that they are purged from their sinnes 2. Pet. 8.9 To be idle nihil agentes doing nothing is the root of euill To be vnfruitfull aliud agentes doing things impertinent is the note of folly To be blind and in darknesse male agentes committing wickednesse is the mother of mischiefe He that standeth let him take heed that he doth not fall Brethren you haue not thus learned Christ such cariage befits not Conuerts wherefore the rather giue diligence to make your calling and election sure H c nobis apponuntur nobis proponuntur saith S. Bernard these things are written for our learning St. Peters good counsell hath been reiected by the Iewes and they are fallen the destruction of them should be instruction to vs. Wherefore suppose I pray you that our Apostle were now turning himselfe vnto the Gentiles and were thus speaking to you Brethren it is enough that hitherto you haue mis-spent the time some in idlenesse shorting in summer like sonnes of confusion Prou. 10. some in vanities which is the trauell of fooles Eccles 10. some in sinne which is the seruice of the Deuill It is enough that you haue wearied your bodies troubled your wits broken your sleepes in the pursuit of the world some setting nets for commodities as the Spider doth his web to catch a Flye some striuing for honours still building vpwards as if Nimrods Tower were now too low some wallowing in pleasures as if they would lye deeper and longer with the swine in the mire My brethren what profit can be in those things whereof ye are or may be or shall be ashamed The Iewes are fallen wherefore doe you Gentiles first seeke the kingdome of God Giue diligence rather to make your calling and election sure The parts of the Text are two 1. A motiue 2. A dutie The Motiue in this word Brethren The Dutie in the rest And first of the Motiue Brethren There are Brethren by 1 Humanitie 2 Country 3 Affinitie 4 Consanguinitie 5 Christianitie 1 For the first God will require the life of a man at the hands of his brother Gen. 9.5 2 For the second Paul desireth to be separate from Christ for the Israelites his brethren Rom. 9.3 3 For the third Abraham said to Lot his nephew Let there be no strife between me and thee for we are brethren Gen. 13.8 4 For the fourth Children of the whole or halfe parents as Iacob and Esau Andrew and Peter the 12. Patriarkes were Brethren 5 For the fift One is your master Christ and all ye are Brethren Math. 23.8 Brother is a name of much loue and it mooueth howsoeuer it be taken One Man is not borne a wolfe vnto another but so made by custome though we are dispersed vpon the face of the earth yet are we framed out of the same moulde The slime of the earth is our common Mother wee are formed with the same stampe A reasonable soule is our common character we haue one Authour from whence wee all come God who is our common Father Non taliter fecit omni Creatura It is not so with the foules of the aire the beasts of the field the fishes of the sea Only one Man was created from whom all should proceed that a strength of Brotherhood might be amongst all And if S. Peter had been pleased to haue pressed the word Brethren in this large sense and had aduised the Iewes euen by their common humanitie to make their calling and election sure his motiue were not to be despised Our Country wherein we haue our being and breathing which susteineth feedeth ministreth content vnto vs wherein we worship one God obey one King where our stocke and linage doth remaine and where are many monuments of our ancient predecessors omnes in se charitates