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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97020	Christian reconcilement or God at peace with man in Christ, delivered in a sermon at St Mary's in Oxford. / By John Wall, Dr in divinity and præbendary of Christ-Church in Oxford.	Wall, John, 1588-1666.	1658 (1658)	Wing W467; Thomason E2120_2; ESTC R210151	17,884	56

bruised the head of the Serpent and brake the head of the Leviathan in the midst of the waters sporting with him that sported therein with the staffe of his Crosse and the rod of his power his eternall power and God-head Rom. 1. Who then shall lay any thing to our charg It is God that justifieth who shall condemne It is Christ that died yea rather which is risen againe and sits at the right hand of God and makes intercession for us as we have it in that brave challenge graciously set downe and couragiously sent forth by that Champion of God and trumpet of the Gospel the Doctor of the Gentiles and vessell of election in plaine scorne and open defence of spirituall wickednesse in highest places We joy in God we joy over death we joy in God we joy over sinne we joy in God we joy over the grave we joy in God we joy and crow as it were over hell and Satan with all the powers of that infernall kingdome and may safely tread upon Serpents and Scorpions as the Apostles did without hurt and danger in the name of Christ and strength of our redeemer that hath set up his crosse as a glorious Trophy in the midst of the Nation to the everlasting reproach and eternall confusion of the Dragon and his angels Of this we have both an embleme and example an Embleme in the woman that was cloathed with the Sun and had the Moon under her feet an example in the Apostle when he brake forth into that triumphant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oh death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory The sting of death is sinne and the strength of sinne is the law but thanks be to God who hath given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ And therefore saith God by the mouth of his Servant Qui gloriatur in me glorietur let him that glorieth glory in me that he understandeth me and that he knoweth me who sheweth mercy and judgment and righteousnesse upon the earth Jer. 9. Give me leave then to put you in mind of those everlasting joyes which shall never be taken from you not of meat and of drinke not of harp and viol in the luxury of the greatest feasts but of God and of Christ the Word and his Spirit Quo nihil speciosius quo nihil pretiosius in the sweet language of that incomparable Father then which nothing is more amiable and specious for grace and beauty nothing more admirable and pretious for substance and value lest it be said of you as it was of the Pharisees Luk. 7. 32. Cantavimus non Saltastis we have Piped unto you but ye have not Danced we have Sung unto you but yee have not rejoyced you may peradventure have joyed in the pleasant noise of musicall instruments yee have not rejoyced at the Word of God and sound of his Gospell in sober dances of Spirituall rejoycings with this he is pleased with that he is grieved in this he is glorified in that he is dishonoured and sometimes mightily blasphemed I will not deny but that we may rejoyce in the outward comforts of humane life and take pleasure in the very creature joy in health joy in beauty joy in wealth joy in safety joy in Arts and Sciences Tongues and Languages friends and favours priviledges and preferments the gifts of nature and the graces of the Spirit whereby we are enabled to promote the honour of God and benefit of his Servants In these we may rejoyce in these we may triumph as they are blessings of our heavenly Father and pledges of his love so it be with a twofold Caution and respect the one of thankfulnesse in the right acknowledgment of divine bounty from whence they come the other of subordination in the reall intendment of divine glory whereunto they runne For that is finis debitus as Aquinas speaks and ought to be the maine aime of our best faculties and most eminent perfections In this sense we interpret the words of St Paul and are to understand that deprecation of the Apostle God forbid I should rejoyce in any thing but the Crosse of our Lord Jesus Christ not primarily and wholy but conditionally and moderately in order to Christ and the advancement of his glory And therefore as Aristotle said when they brought him two sorts of wine the one from Rhodes the other from Lesbos with allusion to his Scholars Menedemus and Theophrastus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. That of Rhodes is good but this of Lesbos is the sweeter So do I professe of earthly joy and heavenly joy corporall joy and spirituall joy the joy of the Creature and the joy of the Creator that may be good this is better that may be pleasant this is sweeter that may be usefull this is needfull and such as ought most to be desired Faine would I draw you to it that your hearts may rejoyce and your joy may be full when that which is perfect shall come and that which is imperfect shall be done away For in his presence there is fulnesse of joy and at his right hand there are pleasures for ever more But where I faile let Augustine go on and make supply with his gaudete in one of his Sermons de Verbis Domini Gaudete in Domino non in saeculo Gaudete in veritate non in falsitate Gaudete in spe aeternitatis non in store vanitatis rejoyce in the Lord not in the world rejoyce in the truth not in falshood rejoyce in the hope of life and glory not in the flower and flourish of Pride and of vanity All this is strongly enforced by the Word of God which indeed is mighty in operation and sharper then a two edged sword to divide betwixt the Soule and the Spirit the joynts and the marrow the world and your heart the earth and your affections I might send you to the Prophet David for ample direction who writes many Psalmes of this argument with a jubilate in Deo O be joyfull in the Lord all yee Lands serve the Lord with gladnesse and come before his presence with a song And with a Venite exultemus in Domino O Come let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily rejoyce in the strength of our Salvation let us come before his presence with thanks-giving and shew our selves glad in him with Psalmes But I shall leave you to a shorter compendium out of the Apostle Philip. 4. 4. where he gives you a double charge and bids you rejoyce in the Lord with an Iterum dico Againe I say rejoyce that he may awake you from the dreames of secular fancies and bring you to the joyes of Spirituall extasies I scarce remember a place in the Volume of this Book of greater emphasis that doth more insinuate into the heart of men with a sweeter Eccho of forcible ingemination and patheticall instruction then what I last spake unto rejoyce in the Lord and againe I say rejoyce Therefore I wish it may have a deep impression with you and be as nailes fastned by the masters of assemblies never to be removed and forgotten that yet may affect it and that it may lift you up from wordly desires and earthly Cogitations as the Spirit did Ezekiel when it took him by a lock of the haire and brought him to Jerusalem lift you up and bring you on to Jerusalem the vision of peace the fruition of blisse the new Jerusalem the celestiall Jerusalem Jerusalem which is above the Mother of us all Where amongst other songs and doxologies of praise and thanks-giving we may remember this and sing aloud upon our beds with Patriarches and Prophets with Apostles and Evangelists with Martyrs and Confessors with Saints and Angells We joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have now received the atonement Which the Lord Grant for Christ his sake to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit three persons and one God be ascribed all Power Majesty and Dominion now and for ever AMEN FINIS