Theophilact and Saint Austin do in this place so there is life remaining He hath still an Immortall soule endued with Vnderstanding Will Conscience Memory Affections Capeable of divine objects he still hath apprehensions and operations suteable to his nature being able to Compare Connect Discourse Deduct c. the Image of God in him is not wholy lost Consider man in a Civill sense Politically as he is a member of the Common-wealth so he is still endued with many excellent vertues he can go ride buy sell plant build c. Acts 5.4 Was it not in thy power c. Consider man in a Spirituall sense Theologically or as he is to be taken in Divinity so he is not halfe dead as here but wholy dead Colos 2.13 Ephes 25. Nor are we dead in some one sin but dead in many sins the soule having bled to death as it were at every joynt being deprived of all actuall goodnesse and wholy unable to recover himself out of this misery Thus Ferus on Mat. 7.16 17. without Gods assistance mans understanding cannot know good nor his will choose good By which good he saith he meaneth not morall nor humane good but the chiefe and the eternall good which cannot be knowne and chosen without the Revelation of divine light which speech with other such like Dominicus Sotho in lib. Annot. in Ferum condemns as favouring too much Lutheranisme Vse 1 It may admonish us not to think above what is fit as concerning mans nature that there is either lesse life or more in it then indeed there is The Papist and their followers too much advance it and many of us too much debase it while we conceit our selves so wounded as that there is no life at all remaining True it is we have no power to do any gracious acts as of our selves yet we have power to apply our selves unto the Ministery to heare what is delivered to apply our understanding to that we heare to consult to compare that which is delivered with the Scriptures which things a stock or stone cannot do Velle credere est gratiae sed posse credere est naturae Aug. So that it is an erronious and a false conceit to judge of man as of a block in the worke of his conversion For though man concurre not to the working of his own Salvation as a cause or agent yet he may and must concurre as a Subject God only worketh that which is good in man yet man of himselfe hath a generall power to will and work So that God worketh not without man but in man and by man as his Instrument Opus pium quatenus opus a libero Arbitrio est tantum quatenus pium a sola gratia est Bellar. lib. 6. de gratio Aug. Cont. Pelag. Act. 3. which receiveth the whole activity in good things from the first moover The naturall power of willing and thinking is ours the goodnesse and holinesse is Gods Freewill in good actions is as the Materia Grace working as the Forma now as the matter without the Form is rude and shapelesse So Freewill is altogether rude and deformed if it be not framed and fashioned by grace comming thereunto The one is as the Beast the other as the Rider Now as the Beast is guided by the hand of the Rider that it may go in the way to the Riders pleasure So Freewill is governed by grace to walke aright in the waies of God Be we than rightly informed of these things and so farre as God hath given ability and Freewill co-work we with God David calls God his helper now saith Saint Austin Adjuvari non dicitur qui nihil sponte conatur He is not said to be helped who never concurred with his indeavour And Beza on these words of the Apostle We are labourers together with GOD 1 Cor. 3.9 Inferrs that we doe gratiae primae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and hee that denies it denies that efficacie of the first grace But it is with us as it was with Naaman who comming to the Prophet to be cured of his Leprosie and being willed by him to wash seven times in Iordan he stomacks the matter and breakes out into a Passion I had thought said he he would have come to me and have called on the name of his God and laid his hands on me and so I should have been healed Three things he expected 1. That the Prophet should come to him 2. Call on his God 3. Lay his hands on him and cure him But all this while nothing is thought on to be done by himselfe So is it with us in the cure of our leprous soules God must do all he must deliver us if he will have us without our pains But frustra oramus pro quibus non laboramus saith St. Austin In vaine we pray for that blessing which our indeavours never seek God sends his Angell to stirre the waters but no Angell to dragg us into the Poole we must use those powers God hath bestowed on us and step in our selves if we would be healed Non trunci aut stipites sumus saith Beza on 2 Pet. 1.5 we are not blocks and stones but reasonable creatures and God workes on us accordingly Put case two men should go together both have Freewill and power which way to take to the Taverne or to the Temple one will to the Church the other to the Ale-house which of these two thinke you shall soonest be converted So here use the meanes follow that and however thou canst not doe any thing meritorious to deserve at Gods hand yet thou invitest him to shew thee mercy as the child doth that stands at the Table waiting at his Fathers elbow with a Trencher in his hand Thou art in the way of preferment Nor can I thinke God will ever leave himselfe without witnesse in such a case Vse 2 This serves to discover to every naturall man his condition Think not thy selfe to be alive to God because thou art able to do this or that action as to heare read pray do justice deale righteously with man for such a power stil remains since the fall But to do these things as thou oughtest Vide Calv. in Gen 9.6 Siquis obijciat imâ—ginem c is impossible till thou gettest a new nature till then thou art but like a walking ghost which seemeth to do the actions of a living man it walks it talks c. yet it doth these things not as a living man Not from any inward principle not from the motion of life within nor is it constant in the worke it only makes an apparition and so vanisheth Vse 3 Nor may we be out of hope so as to despaire either of our selves or others seeing man is not every way so dead as one whose soule is departed from his body Those that are naturally dead understand nothing but in man naturally there is a life of Vnderstanding remaining though marvellously corrupted by which he may know that
spirituall Kindred must take place and be preferred in workes of Mercy before those who are a kin unto us only in the flesh Psal 16.3 Rom. 12.13 Than they before any common friend or Neighbour and these before Strangers and Strangers before Enemies Thus if our liberality cannot extend to all sorts we must stretch it as farre as we can according to this order there being an equality of estate and the want and necessity being alike taking things in an even and equall comparison And so when we are linked to any in many of those bonds we are to preferre them before any of those to whom were are but bound in some one particular As a gratious Child before a gracelesse a Religious Kinsman and Neighbour before one irreligious As a Center out of which issueth many Lines the farther they are extended from the Center they are the farther dis-united amongst themselves and the nearer they draw to the Center the nearer they are united So the nearer they draw to God the nearer they should be to us and more beloved of us Phil. 16. How much more unto thee saith Saint Paul to Philemon both in the flesh and in the LORD And so much for this Point Mystically Doct. Christ is the good Samaritane by whom alone wee have Salvation and deliverance To this the Scripture beareth witnesse Samaritanus isse ipse est Salvator Christus Samaritanus custos interpretatur ideo ipse Dominus significa tur hoc nomine Aug. quaest Evang l. 2. ca. 19 Hypog l. 3. Mat. 1.21 Acts 2.36 4.12 2 Cor. 11.4 Phil. 2.10 11. Acts 16.31 Luk. 1.47 68 69. 1 Tim. 1.15 1 Iohn 4.1 Luk. 4.18 Rom. 7.25 We want not humane Authority to back this The Samaritane is Christ saith Theophilact So Saint Austin by the Samaritane understands Christ For it signifies a Keeper and he was thus upbraided thou art a Samaritane Thus Ambrose Melancthon Aretius with divers others Reason Iohn 6.27 1 Cor. 1.30 Him hath God the Father sealed God hath ordained and called him hereunto and given him alone Commission and warrant to deale about the businesse of mans redemption and salvation 2. As he only had a Calling to go about this work So he only had Power and Ability Those necessary conditions required to our help and succour were performable by no other creature Who could rescue out of the hands of the strong man but he Who could satisfie but he Rom. 3.26 Heb. 2.14 Who could restore to life but he who was God-Man no other could therfore he or none Vse 1 We may than hence first inferre that to whomsoever Christ is not revealed nor made known Isa 53.1 from them Salvation as yet is hidden Ephes 2.12 Salvation is by Christ no Christ no Salvation to be had Are not they much mistaken who think all shall be saved There were and are Nations amongst whom the name of Christ was rever heard Romans 15.20 Even at Athens the name was new and for the novelty of that strange God they desired to heare Paul further Acts 17.18 20. True it is God hath set up his Sonne for a Standard to draw all people to it yet what the better if we have no Eyes nor will to look up The Sunne is set in the Heavens for a publike light yet it benefiteth none but those who have Eyes and open them to admit and make use of that light A Court of Iustice or Equity is a publik Sanctuary yet it actualâ—y relieveth none but such as fly unto it Christ is a publik and universall Salvation set up for all commers and appliable to all particulars Iohn 3.16 Heb. 2.9 But all this is not beneficiall to life but only to those that receive him and that many receive him not is evident Isa 53.1 Vse 2 Secondly it may stay the heart of every poore wounded sinner who lies groaning under the sight and sence of his spoyled condition For see it is not an estate past hope There is a Samaritane who is willing and able to recover thee and worke thy cure Surely this only is the board that must help to escape the wrack no comfort in any other thing after the Priest and Levite have looked on us and passed by but in this news of the Samaritans comming When Noah was in the Arke if he looked downward he saw nothing but sinking drowning c. if he looked upward nothing but Beares and Tygers yet in the midst of all this he had the Arke to comfort himselfe withall Thus thou lookest upward downeward without thee within thee and every thing affrights thee till thou lookest on Christ and there thy heart reviveth Saint Paul Rom. 7.24 sinking as it were under an unsupportable loade A body of sinne and death which he carried about with him cryes out in an Agony Infaelix ego wretched man that I am His sins seemed to be so many his transgressions so fowle that he counted himselfe miserable and wretched in respect of them Finding himselfe sinking he gets hold upon this twig there he hangs I thanke God through Iesus Christ my Lord q. d. yet I hope God hath sent his Sonne into the world to save sinners of whom I beleeve my selfe to be the cheife Through this cranny let light enter into thy soule Vse 3 And let us learne to receive this Doctrine of Salvation by Christ with all possible joy and affection Luk. 2.10 11. There is matter of joy to the Patient to heare from his Phisition that his disease is cureable To the client to hâ—are from his Councell that the day is his To one condemned to heare from his friend that a pardon is obtained It is a sweet thing to be saved from fire from water from the sword from Pestilence but to be saved from our sins is a farr greater matter Therfore the joy arising thence should farr exceed the joy that ariseth from any thing of that nature this joy should be like Harvest joy Such strong affections have the godly sensible of their sins and misery borne to this doctrine of Salvation by Christ as that the very name of IESVS hath bin sweeter to the smell of their soules than roses and violets to the outward sense Nomen cum rosis violisque natum Mart. Epig. l. 9. Quod Hyblam sapit Atticosque flores Quod nidos olet avis superbae Nome nnectaredulcius beato Nothing relished Saint Austin without it and therfore in his Confessions speaking of the great delight he tooke in Ciceroes Hortensius professeth that the heat of his delight was abated only upon this ground he found not in that Book the Name of Christ Saint Bernard was the like affected Si scribas non placet nisi legam ibi Iesum c. If thou writest unto me thy letter doth not please me unlesse I reade there Iesus If thou conferrest thy Discourse is not sweet without the name of Iesus A name it is highly advanced by God himselfe above all names Phil. 2.
is a brand of your sin and shame so shall your hearts be the better affected as was Davids Ps 119.136 Lastly upon Gods Ordinances we should look especially in the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper When we see the Bread broken and the Wine powred forth O what a deepe impression should that make Zach. 12.10 Vse 2 Secondly it sets forth the blessed condition of the faithfull departed and taken out of this wretched world First in regard of what they see not Isay 57.2 2 Kings 22.20 Iosiah had a tender heart it melted to heare of the threatnings how would he have endured then to see the miseries of his country and people therfore God tells him His eyes shall not see that evill he will first take him away by death The like promise did God make to the young child of Ieroboams 1 King 14 13. And it was the Prayer of Luther that he might not live to see the Judgements which he did verily believe God would bring on Germany for their sins and therin God heard him for soon after his death the land was almost made desolate by the sword Secondly in regard of what they doe see though not as yet with their bodily Eyes yet by Vision But one day both they and we shall see with these Eyes face to face Iob 19.27 1 Iohn 3.1 O think how great then that joy and happinesse shall be when the Eyes both of soule and body shall be full If the sight be such a working sense what impressions then will they make upon the soule In these respects why should it be thought a thing unlawfull to blesse GOD for soules departed Vse 3 This is a terrour to wicked ones who no sooner shall peepe out of their graves but they shall see him whom they have crucified with the scarrs and wounds in his sides which they have made come in the cloudes to judge them to see those they have derided and scorned to be taken up to him to see all that they have delighted in burning about them and themselves with those they have drawne into sin their own Friends Children Acquaintance c. to be driven from Gods presence into everlasting vengeance how this will affect their hearts let them in time thinke Vse 4 Lastly desire we the Lord to cast his Eye upon us seeing sight worketh so effectually on the heart We read 1 Sam. 6.5 what advice the Priests of the Philistines gave their Princes who were stroken with Emerods make Images say they of your Emerods and Images of your Mice which marre the Land and you shall give glory to the God of Israell Peradventure he will lighten his hand from you Conceiting with themselves as some conceive that God but looking upon the similitude of their loathsome disease and grievance presented before the Arke his bowels would be mooved with compassion towards them Sure I am that David thought it enough to shew God his trouble Psal 142.2 And to say Aspice afflictionem meam looke upon my affliction and misery Psal 25.18 This kind of cunning Martha and Mary used Behold he is sicke whom thou lovest Iohn 11.3 And so Hezekiah 2 King 19.14 16. God never casteth his Eye upon any but there he setleth his affection and he never setleth his affection without an intention of blessing As Christ cured mens bodies with a word so their souls with a look He looked upon Saint Peter and presently he repented He looked on Zacheus and presently he was justified He looked on Saint Mathew and presently he was called Lord look on us miserable sinners that we are and the bowels of thy compassion will be mooved and our soules saved He had Compassion Text. His very intrals were affected for so the word imports even an affection comming from the bowells or inward parts of the heart much like to that of a mother grieving for the misery of her chiâ—d Isay 49.15 So it is said of that woman who contended before Salomon for the living child 1 King 3.26 She would not endure that the child sh uld be divided for saith the Text her compassion was kindled her bowels were mooved and did burne and yearne within her And Gen. 43.30 we read that such was Iosephs affection towards his brother Benjamine Aust de Civ Dei l. 9 c. 13. Accordingly Saint Austin defineth Mercy to bee a fellow feeling in our hearts of anothers misery And Gregory saith it hath the denomination and Etimology a misero corde from a miserable and woefull heart because as often as wee behold a maâ— in misery the minde through commiseration being touched with griefe at his misery doth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mi sereor as it were Cor miserum facere vexe and torment the heart with a sympathy and a fellow-feeling of his misery And indeed there is a two-fold branch of Mercy the one is referred to the mind and heart properly called Misericordia pitty or compassion the other to the word or work called Miseratio Bounty or Beneficence They thus differ saith Hugo Misericordia est quasi fons in affectu miseratio quasi rivulus in effectu The first is as the Fountaine in the heart and affection the other as the River flowing forth to outward action so we see in this good Samaritane From whose Example first wee learne Doct. To be tenderly affected towards the afflicted and so touched with the sight of others miseries as if they were our owne Rom. 12.15 16. Col. 3.12 Heb. 13.3 1 Cor. 11.25 Examples see Neh. 1.4 Dan. 10.2 3 Exo. 2.6 2 Sam. 11.10 Reason Humanity requires it Every creature will commiserate such of their kind as be in misery if a Swine be lug'd all the rest of the company will in their kind condole If a beast be slain and the blood spilt another of that kind spying it will scrape Earth upon that blood bury his fellow and solemnize his Funerall with a kind of lamentation over him Homo sum humanuÌ„ a me nibil alieaum puto Teren. And doth not humanity much more teach us to pitty the ruins and miseries of other men Isa 58.7 2. Christianity much more enjoynes it And that First from the consideration of our owne frailty Heb. 13 3. Secondly from the consideration of our neere community Rom. 12.5 1 Cor. 12. Vse 1 Such then transgresse who insult over their poore brethren in their miseries persecuting them whom God hath smitten Psal 69.26 dealing hardly with those who are afflicted as Shimei did with David drawing blood from the back which was yet blew with the stroakes of the Almighties hand So the Edomites in the day of the destruction and captivity of Iudah as we read in Obadiah or like Iosephs brethren when they had cast him into the Pit They sate downe to eate bread and to bee merry Genesis 37.25 Vse 2 They also are to be lesson'd who though they afflict not yet they affect not they do not sympathize and condole
Congregations for the most part are mixt he walks by rule whatsoever the foolish prescripts of our people are who mixeth both Moses and Christ met both upon the Mount not Moses alone nor Christ alonâ— Mat. 17. both Law and Gospell are to be conjoyn'd A two edged sword still we must carry in our mouthes if we would do good and like the Nurse have both Dugge and Rod or like the Arke wherin was both Manna and the Rod of Aaron laying this ever for a ground that there is more mercy in Christ then sinne in us So there can be no danger Vse 2 And it may next admonish all to seek for the Salvation of our selves and others in attending upon the meanes the word preached The Ministery of the Word is the hand of God wherby he plucketh us out of sinne and misery as we do the beast out of the mire Heb. 12.18 And in this Ministery he will thunder and lighten in Mount Sinai mans conscience before he speake unto him in Mount Sion If thou wouldest have thy wounds cured submit thy selfe to the Ministery of both Let the Law first do its office and be content that with that wine thou mayest be prepared for receiving of the oyle the Lenitives of the Gospell Violence must be offered to our corruptions ere there can be roome for grace Christ will never come into that soule where the Herauld of Repentance hath not bin before him David desires the Lord to purge him with Hysop Psal 51. no matter how smarting so it may be healing And yet withall be carefull that you nourish not the disease against the Physick as the manner of some is who cry out for more Wine thinking they are not humbled enough when it is high time to apply oyle unto the soare he is cast down enough who is in case to heare of raising up And he that hath his soule wrought to an hearty griefe for offending God and a perfect and inward hatred of sinne is in such a case Act. 2.37 As for others who are deare unto us whose good we do desire let our care be to bring them to the means There is some good hope of help and health whilst we are under the Physitians hands Thus Elkanah brought his whole Family 1 Sam. 1.21 Naaman his company to attend upon the Prophet 2 King 5.15 Cornelius his Kinsmen and neare Friends Act. 10.24 And the godly every one his Neighbour Isa 2.3 Vse 3 Lastly let all such as yet lye under the terrours of the Law receive hence comfort For the yoake shall bee destroyed because of the Oyle Isay 10.27 You are come to Mount Sinai which burnes with fire unto blacknesse darknesse and tempest Heb. 12.18 such terrours as made Moses himselfe say Expavefactus sum ac tremebundus I quake exceedingly for feare But here shall not be thy rest there is a Mount Sion thou art hastening unto where thou shalt injoy the priviledges of the first borne Gods purpose is not to leave thy soule in that distressed case Satan indeed like Simeon and Levi with the Sichemites Gen. 34. take the time while we are sore to fall upon us God doth not so Luk. 4.18 he will bind us up and powre in oyle of comfort in due time Quest. But why doth God suffer a wounded soule to be so terrified with the wine of the Law before he bring and powre in the oyle of the Gospell Resp This God doth as for the magnifying of other attributes so especially of his mercy which would not be so sweet unto us if the terrors of Justice had not made us smart A Prince will sometimes suffer the Law to passe upon a malefactor and have the head laid upon the block before he pardon and then mercy is mercy it draws down teares and works marvellously both on offenders and all that are Spectators Secondly God doth this that he may hold and keep the soule from all revolt to former lusts This Reason God gives why he lead not the children of Israel out of Aegypt the readiest and nearest way but through the wildernesse a way dangerous and desolate full of fiery Serpents where they met with many dangers that they might be afraid to return Exo. 13.17 18. Thus when God brings us out of the thraldome of sin he leads us a painfull way indeed through many teares and sorrows yea through the feare of death and hell that we may not dare to practise sin again nor think of returning to the practife of that we have so smarted for before Be we of good comfort then for though there be pain and trouble in the way yet there will be comfort in the end He that was anoynted himself with oyle will use oyle as well as wine in the healing of all his Patients In due time thou shalt heare of joy and gladnesse Psal 51. so that the bones now broken shall rejoyce Only see that you follow the means with Eliah who when he had gone a daies journey was called upon to eate 1 Kings 19. and when he had eaten he was willed a second time to arise and eate and after he had travelled fourty dayes he must arise and eate again Still attend upon the Word It is an Aegyptian tricke to take away the means from thy soule and yet expect the tale of bricke Joy Peace Righteousnesse with other graces as if straw were laied by And set him on his owne Beast Text. Doct. God hath given the Creatures to bee serviceable unto us and that not onely for our necessity but also for our utility and delight as the Oxe to labour for us the Horse to beare our burthens and carry us c. Vse This we should take speciall notice of as David did Psal 8. and in a speciall manner take great heed least we be unthankefull unto him who deales thus bountifully with us Giving us all things richly to enjoy or cruell and unjust to them we shew our selves unthankfull unto him while as Iehu did the Messengers sent unto him we put the Creatures behind us and inforce them to fight against God in the service of the enemy Hos 2.8 This is a provoking sin and causeth God in wrath to deprive us of these blessings which we so abuse Hos 2.9 We deale too hardly with the Creatures when we overburthen them and oppresse them either with load too great or journies too long or pace too swift or stripes too many or meat too little using them as cruelly and hardly that work for us travell with us beare and carry those loads that otherwise must lie upon our shoulders as if they every way were noisome and hurtfull unto us Arighteous man saith Salomon â—oscit animam jumentisui knoweth the soule of his beast knoweth what he stands in need of and what in his need hee desireth and is ready to afford it him but the tender mercies of the wicked are said to be cruell in this respect Prov. 12.10 Should God open the
And also in distributing of Rewards amongst them Ephes 1. 4.1.2 Towards his Enemies confounding their Projects holding up his kingdome in the midst of their malice 2. Their Persons so that not an enemy was left unsubdued Not Sin 1 Cor. 15.17 Not Death 1 Cor. 15.54 Nor Hell Revel 1.18 Nor Satan Colos 2 15. Nor the World Ioh. 16.33 Vse 1 The Use of this is first to informe us of the worth of the soule and the excellency of Salvation Were it not a rate and a pretious thing would Gods owne Son have come downe from Heaven and himselfe personally tooke the care therof Had it not bin of great worth would he ever have undertaken such a peculiar charge 1 Pet. 1.10 And yet we neglect so great Salvation We have a care to preserve a plant from withering a beast from perishing a body from dying and count of them who have care and skill this way but who esteemes or accounts of that care which keeps a soule from damning The more grace we have the more shall we be taken up with the contemplation of this subject and with the continuall study and care after it Vse 2 It should teach us dependancy upon Christ for life and for Salvation Paul was not ashamed of Persecutions 2 Tim. 1. because he knew whom he had beleeved he doubted neither of his care nor power and therfore committed his soule unto him against the last day when all forsook him 2 Tim. 4.16 17 18. And surely want of consideration of the care of God and Christ is the ground of all diffidence Math. 6. Why do men trust in themselves and friends but because they rest assured of their care and good-will towards them Did men rest assured of the care of Christ and compare his affections with other succours they would rather choose to build their hopes and assurances on him hence it is that Saint Peter useth this as an argument Cast your care upon him quoniam ipse cura est de vobis for he careth for you 1 Pet. 5.7 A right Judgement of Christ would help us to imploy our Faith in any condition whatsoever be it never so hard as 1 Sam. 26.10 11. While David had Faith in Gods Providence he could say of Saul The Lord shall smite him or his day shall come to dye or he shall descend into the battaile and perish Absit mihi a Iehovah God forbi that I should stretch forth mine hand against the Lords annoynted But when he once began to doubt of Gods care and providence then he said Tandem absumar die unaper manum Saulis Surely I shall one day perish by the hand of Saul 1 Sam. 27.1 See therfore that we get Faith in Gods Providence as well as in his Promise and feare not any of our adversaries or their malitious practise against us they shall never hinder us of salvation Psal 23. None shall be lost that are under his hand Ioh. 10.29 It is Gods command that he which hath received a calling should waite upon his calling Go then boldly to Christ thou that art of a drooping spirit beseech him to continue his care over thy poore soule It is of his fold beseech him not be absent when the woolfe commeth Be not thou wanting to thy selfe and rest assured he will no way be wanting unto thee 1 Pet. 1.13 Object But I am weake my sinnes are many How should he take care of such a wretch as I am Resp What was in this wounded man to move this good Samaritane to take this care of him but compassion in himselfe and misery in the object This is it that puts on Christ and causeth him as it were to turne Projector which way to shew mercy and do good So Hos 11.8 The Lord there sets himselfe to study and contrive mercy for his people gathering together his thoughts of mercy to conquer their sinnes which they in pride as it were did set up to pose his Covenant Object But though he hath taken this tender care of the Salvation of poore sinners will hee doe so still Resp He is Iesus Christ heri hodiè Yesterday and to day and the same for ever Heb. 13.8 there is constancy and continuance in this his care his mercies endure his compassions faile not Object But he is now in Heaven how then can he take care Resp He is so but there he is our Advocate and practising for us in that Court Secondly he hath made preparations and provisions for the future for us And on the morrow when he departed Text. c. Vers 35 This good Samaritane could make no long stay upon the Earth but as he tooke care of his Patient while be was present with him so now being to depart he commends him to the care of the Hoast with whom he leaves mony to supply that distressed mans necessities and withall gives speciall charge that he be well lookt unto promising to pay at his returne what ever above that he left should be laid out And on the morrow Text. Prima dies suit dies passionis altera resurrectionis Quis est ille alter dies nisi for te ille dominicae râ—surrectionis de quo dâ—ctum est hic est dies quem secit Dominus Ambr. in loc To handle the words as they lye in order The time when he departed is here expressed It was no long stay he made in this same Inn So soone as conveniently he might he departed thence From the History first observe Victualing houses are not for residence of Travellers guests are to make no longer stay at such houses than urgent occasion requires with the spies in the morning they must be gone at furthest Iosh 2 Doct. Such then as sit from morning to night from day to day yea from weeks end to weeks end tipling and gaming turne the lawfull use of Ins into abuse Vse To prevent which officers should make conscience of their duties and see that such disorders be reformed we having the edge of the sword of Justice backt by laws and wholsome statutes So the poore that are would be better provided for in most Parishes and the increase of poore much abated if the penalties imposed on such disordered persons by the Statute were duely required and inflicted Myst Mystically the departure of this Samaritane from the Inn teacheth us Doct. That this world was no place for Christs aboade longer then while he had finished his worke So soone as his businesse was over Christ made no longer stay upon earth then needs must he departed hence on the morrow as it were and tarried not Ioh. 13.33 14.3.4 16 7 8. Luk. 24.5 6. Act. 1.9 10. Reason For 1. His Kingdome was not of this world as he himselfe avoucheth 2. He had businesse else where Ioh. 16.7 It was expedient that he left the Church on Earth in regard of carnall presence and that for us not for himselfe first to open Heaven for us Heb. 10.19 Ioh.
Christian p. 121. It is to be measured more by the mind than purse page 122. The Charitie of some affoards no good words page 119. And of most no good works ibid. It well becomes Ministers pa. 53. It is the Sum of all their Sermons p. 54. Christ our salvation is from him p. 157. He is to be come unto for help p. 129. He preferred our good before his own ease p. 142. He came where we were and how p. 102. Few give him entertainment p. 104. How we should Come to him p. 105. We must be content with his worst as well as best page 116. Church it is like unto an Inne in many respects page 146. Whence it is called Catholike p. 147. None saved out of it p. 148. Christ reigneth there p. 149. The good of it must be sought by those who receive the goods of it p. 168. True members of it how known p. 150. It is the house of Perfumes and the gate of Heaven page 151. Comfort none to be had but in Christ p. 95. Communion of Saints is to be loved p. 27. Company good to be desired p. 25. Companions there will be in sin p. 65. Compassion Christ was touched with p. 117. It mooved him to seek our Salvation page 118. Conformity in evill dangerous p. 68. Conscience what it is pag. 204. It binds not but where the Word binds first page 205. It must be hearkned unto pag. 206. It is sometimes speechlesse but than it writes p. 207. The use of a good Conscience p. 208. The Priviledges of it p. 209. Conversation it should be in Heaven p. 161. Conventicles by some prefer'd to publik meetings p. 148. Cover our sins Christ doth and how p. 129. Cruelty to be abhorred page 59. Cursing how lawfull p. 90. Creatures given both for necessity and delight p. 137. Creatures not to be over-burthened ibid. Customes defraud Ministers p. 178. D Death frees the godly from the sight of much evill p. 108. Dead how far man by nature is p. 47. Debt of man double p. 155. Degrees God proceedeth by in curing our diseases p. 131. Descention for us by Christ p. 102. Diseases of all sorts cured by Christ p. 190. Diseases infections we are not bound to visit p 62. Divels they are thieves in many respects p. 34. There are more in the aire than men on Earth at one time p. 38. There is a chief amongst them p. 38. Doing required of a Christian p. 218. The power of Christianity consists in that p. 219. Doore Christ enters in by that not by the window p. 9. Duties belonging to a Christian are to be personally performed p. 220. Some Duties concern not all p. 221. E Election not universall p 149. Event not alike to all p. 51. Examples of all sorts in Scripture for our learning page 222. They no further bind than they are backed with a precept p 224. Best Examples are to be follow ed p. 67. Good Examples very profitable p. 225. Examples of Saints how farre they may be followed p. 225. Contempt of Examples laies us open to wrath p. 223. Bad Examples take heed of p. 66. The Examples of Superiours if bad very dangerous p. 67. Excommunication a fearfull sentence p. 149. If unjust then not to be feared p. 150. Eye a great help or hinderance to the soul p. 106. It is quick in apprehension and sure ibid. Most sins begin there p. 107. We should cast them on good objects p. 107. On whom God casts his Eye he settles his affection p. 109. F Fall sin is in divers respects p. 39. Faith is a weapon offensive and defensive p. 24. It is a good staffe p. 25. Feare of God where it is not ther no good can be expected 82 Flesh of man is the flesh of God p. 144. Our Flesh sits at Gods right hand in all our suits ibid. Filling all that Christ did or suffered was to fill up p. 155. Fortune how taken p. 49. Whither any thing come to passe by it ibid. The name was first brought in through ignorance and blindnes p 49. G Garment Gods Image is and that in many respects page 40. It is a Garment to be respected p. 41. Gifts of two sorts God hath betrusted his Ministers withall p. â—66 Giving unadvisedly is the worst kind of loosing p. 91. What we are to give and how much p. 122. Rules to be observed in Giving p. 119 What order is to be observed in Giving p. 42. Godlinesse hath both a form and power p. 218. Goods of the Church belong onely to Church-men page 168. Gospell is very pretious page 85. It is like Oyle p. 133. H Hand God stands at our right hand to blesse us p. 99. Healing it is from Christ page 130. He Heales upwards p. 132. Signes of one foundly Healed p. 133. Why men are not Healed p. 132. Heaven the fairest prospect p. 18. It is a place of peace p. 19. It will pay for all our pains about it p. 196. Honour of Christ to be prefer'd p. 142. Hope there is whilst there is life p. 47. Humility to be learned from Christs Example p. 105. Hypocrites respect Ceremoies above the substance p. 64. I IESVS a sweet name p. 96. Image of God is mans clothing p. 41. How far it is lost in man ibid. Imitation our nature is apt to it p. 66. One sin Imitates another p. 66. Imprecations how used in Scripture p. 91. Impropriations the Judgments of Divines and some Lawyers concerning them page 169. Impropriators are hard Masters p. 173. Their Pleas answered ibid. Speciall considerations for them p. 176. Inns two wont to be in every Town p. 145. The Church resembled to an Inne vide Church Inns are of good use p. 145. There mony bears the Mastery p. 162. Inferiours follow Superiours Examples p. 66. Intercession Christ not wanting in it p. 156. Iournies in them commend our selves to God p. 21. Christ took a Iourney to us so should we to him p 104. Iustification 3. things required to it p 70. Iericho a figure of this world 20 Ierusalem a type of heaven pag. 17. K Kings have both temporall and Ecclesiasticall authority p. 175. Kingly office of Christ he carefully discharged p. 156. Knowledge without practise leaves us inexcusable p. 220. L Lawes of 3. sorts p. 74. How some that good gave may be said not to be good p. 69. Law is like wine and how page 133. It is not the proper cause of death p. 69. How it is the ministration of death p. 70. How it is said to be weak ibid. It is impossible to be kept how p. 71. It discovers sin p 72 73. Why the Law was first given p 73. How far abrogated p. 74. Law Judiciall and Ceremoniall what p. 74. The Law a Schoole-master pag. 76. Why God suffers his to be long under the lash of it page 136. Law of man not to be pressed too far in case of Ministers maintenance p. 57. Libertie not to be abused page 78. Liberalitie