for it because it will surely come it will not tarry This did Daniel when hee understood the time approached c. hee prayed Dan. 9. 2 3. Thus did David Psal. 56. 9 10 57. 1 2. Thus must you do These are the three great Duties which the Lord requires of us at all times but more especially in these our dayes wherein the Providences of God seem to run quite cross unto his promises The Lord give us grace to practise them So much for this Text. The End of the Fifth Sermon A Brief Repetition of what was said of Mrs. Elizabeth Moore at her Burial THough I have finished my Text yet I have another Text remaining of which I must speak a few words and that is The Party deceased at whose Funeral wee are here met Shee was a Woman I verily beleeve truly fearing God and yet throughout her whole life loaded with many and great troubles God picked her out to bee a pattern of afflictions as hee had not long before that Reverend and godly Minister Mr. Ieremiah Whitakers This Pattern teacheth us three Lessons 1 That all things come alike to all in this world and that no man knoweth love or hatred by any thing that is before him The best of Saints sometimes are upon the Dunghil when the vilest of men are upon the Throne The best of men are afflicted when the worst of men are in prosperity 2 That there is not so much evil in affliction or so much good in prosperity as the world imagineth For if there were God would not bestow so much prosperity upon the wicked and exercise his dear children with so many afflictions 3 That there will come a rewarding day in which it shall certainly bee well with the Righteous When I see a wicked man prosper I say Surely there will come a punishing day in which the wicked shall be turned into Hell When I see a godly man in adversity I say Verily there is a reward for the Righteous verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth Such examples prove that there is another life besides this And that if the godly had hope onely in this life they were of all people most miserable I will not trouble you with a relation of her Christian carriage in the time of her health because it is sufficiently known to most here present I shall onely take notice of her great care and diligence in making her calling and election sure Shee had not her Ark to build when the flood came nor her Corn to get when the seven years of Famine came Shee had laid up a stock of graces and comforts against the evill hour Shee had not her Evidences for Heaven to get at the houre of death But shee had collected and composed them in the time of her life and when shee came to dye shee â—ad neither her graces nor her comforts nor her Evidences for Heaven to seek shee had nothing to do but to dye Her sickness was very long and very painful concerning which I shall briefly acquaint you with these few particulars 1 God moved the hearts of very many godly people to take compassion of her sad and afflicted condition and to contribute liberally shee being poor towards her relief this merciful providence wonderfully comforted her She saw Gods love in it and was so much affected with it that she was for a little while really and exceedingly afraid notwithstanding her great torments by reason of a cancer in her breast lest she should have her heaven in this life and lest this mercy should bee all her portion The Lord recompence that labour of love and that Christian charity a thousand fold into the bosomes of those who manifested so much kindnesse to her 2 Her Patience was very great As God increased her pains hee increased her patience even to the admiration of such of us as were frequent spectators of it She was brought to such a sweet frame of spirit as to bee willing to live under all her torments as long as God pleased and to dye whensoever he pleased 3 Shee was a woman of a very fearful nature and in the time of her health had many doubts and scruples notwithstanding all her care forementioned about her salvation But in her sickness all her doubts vanished God chained up Satan The Devil had no power to tempt her shee felt a great calmness in her soul and had much inward peace and injoyed more of God and his consolations in the time of her sickness than in the time of her health 4 Shee was very forward in spreading and diffusing those graces which God had bestowed upon her and in giving good counsel to those who visited her I have heard her often and often perswading her friends to prize health and to improve it for the good of their souls to lay up against an evill day and to stock themselves with grace before sickness come Shee would frequently say O the benefit of health O prize health praise God for health and improve health for your eternal good 5 Shee was very well vers't in the Scriptures The Law of God was her delight and this kept her from perishing in her affliction Shee was continually fetching cordials out of the Word to comfort her under her great pains and to preserve her from fainting The twelfth Chapter of the Hebrews was a precious cordial to her so was the eight of the Romans and the 2 of the Corinthians the 4. Chapter and the 17 18. verses For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory While wee look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal 1 Cor. 15 53 54 55 56 57. For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shal have put on immortality then shal be brought to pass the saying that is written Death is swallowed up in victory O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory The sting of death is sinne and the strength of sin is the Law But thanks bee to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Iesus Christ. Phil. 3. 21. Who shall change our vile body that it may bee fashioned like unto his glorious body according to the working whereby hee is able even to subdue all things unto himself A little before her death shee said In the Lord Iehovah there is righteousness and strength righteousness for justification and strength for supportation Shee said that the Word of God was the best cordial in the world And that one minutes being in Heaven would make amends for all her pain and misery 6 And lastly I cannot but take special notice of the happy close of her life and of the blessed end shee
THE Godly Mans Ark OR City of Refuge in the day of his DISTRESSE Discovered in divers SERMONS The first of which was Preached at the Funerall of Mistresse Elizabeth Moore The other four were afterwards preached and are all of them now made publick for the supportation and consolation of the Saints of God in the hour of tribulation Hereunto are annexed Mris. Moores Evidences for Heaven composed and collected by her in the time of her health for her comfort in the time of sickness By ED. CALAMY B. D. and Pastor of the Church at Aldermanbury The second Edition corrected and amended London Printed for Iohn Hancock Brother to the late deceased Eliz. Moore to be sold at the first shop in Popes-head Alley next to Cornhill And for Tho. Parkhurst at the three Crowns over against the Great Conduit at the lower end of Cheapside 1658. TO Those of Aldermanbury-Parish Together With all others who attend constantly upon the Word of God there preached and more especially to such of them who are admitted to partake of the Lords Supper there administred Beloved in the Lord I Need not spend much time in giving you an account how these ensuing Sermons come to bee made publick It is not because they are more worthy than those which you hear weekly Nay I may truly say without boasting they are less worthy though I think none of them much worth than many others It is not because I desire to bee in print But it is 1 To present you with the Pattern of a Woman whom God did pick out to make an example of great affliction and great patience that when you come into great troubles you may bee comforted with those comforts with which shee was comforted 2 To acquaint you with the pains shee took and with her diligence in time of health to make her salvation sure That so you may bee provoked to lay up suitable seasonable and sufficient provision against an evil day and not have your Evidences for Heaven to get in the hour of adversity It is the grand sin of most people to delay and prorogue their solemn preparation for affliction and sickness till they come to bee sick and in affliction There are many in Hell who purposed to repent but were prevented by death therefore Bernard saith good purposes go to Hell and only good performances lead into Heaven To prevent your delaying and deferring to provide for affliction these Sermons are printed and to perswade you that whatsoever you do for Heaven you would do it speedily and with all your strength The Subjects handled are so plain and easy and the stile so rude and unpolished that I was resolved to have buried them in perpetual oblivion had I not been conquered by this following together with the forementioned consideration that they are calculated only for people under great troubles at which times learned debates about Discipline and controverted points of Divinity painted Eloquence and curious Language are of very little esteem and account Afflicted consciences are oftentimes puzled but never comforted with doubtful disputations Neat and elegant expressions may skin over but cannot Cure spiritual diseases Nothing can heal a wounded conscience and keep a man from sinking into despondency in the day of great tribulation but a real right and particular Application of the Promises to help a doubting Christian to performe this great work there are thirteen plaine Rules and Directions laid down in the following Treatise My prayer is that they may prove useful and successeful Seneca indeed comforts his friend Polybius and perswades him to bear his afflictions patiently because hee was the Emperours Favourite and tells him That it was not lawful for him to complaine while Caesar was his friend But this was but a poor Cordial For Caesar himself a little while after was so miserable that hee had not a friend to help him much less was hee able to help his friend The Word of God affords a better Cordial it bids a true Child of God not to bee overmuch dejected under the greatest affliction because hee is Gods Favourite It tells him That it is not lawful for him to complain while God is his friend and the Promises of God his rich portion and inheritance Though Job lost all hee had yet hee lost nothing because hee lost not his God who is All in All and they who have him have All. My purpose at first was onely to have printed the Sermon preached at Mris. Moors Funeral together with her Evidences for Heaven collected by her in the time of her health But the importunity of friends hath overswayed mee and caused mee to adde four more preached immediately afterwards on the same Text. And now Dearly Beloved having this fair opportunity to speak to you in writing give mee leave to propound and lay before you some cautions and admonitions some Rules and Directions for the right ordering of your lives and conversations in these dangerous and divided times that so you may bee able after my decease to have them in perpetual remembrance 1 Take heed of mistaking in the great work of Beleeving and Repenting Faith and Repentance are the two great Gospel-graces And the reason why so many miscarry to all eternity is not for want of them such as they are but upon a pure mistake in thinking they have them when they have but a shadow of them Where one goeth to Hell by desperation hundreds go thither by presumption O! quam multi cum hâc vanâ fide vana spe ad aeternos labores descendunt How many thousands go to hell with a vain faith and hope of heaven And therefore bee much in examination whether your Faith be right or no. Examine your selves whether yee bee in the Faith prove your own selves To bee mistaken in the great work of Beleeving is to bee necessitated to damnation For hee that beleeves not shall bee damned Ask your souls often whether your Repentance bee of a right stamp or no whether it bee a Repentance unto life a Repentance never to bee repented on To bee mistaken in purchasing of Lands can but hurt your outward estates but to bee mistaken in the graces of Faith and Repentance will undo your souls to all eternity What the Characters of a true Faith and true Repentance are you have frequently heard I will not now repeat them Only remember that self-flattery is self-mockery that soul-delusion is soul-damnation Pray unto God to deliver you from that great murderer of souls the sin of Presumption 2 Take heed as I have said of delaying and putting off the great work of providing for Heaven till sickness or old age The Lord Christ commands you to seek first the Kingdome of God and his Righteousness c. First before other things first more than other things You must seek after Heaven in the first and chief place and if you seek it in the least and last place you will never obtain
perdition Hee that seeks things below shall have his Heaven below The Apostle saith expresly that they who minde earthly things their end is damnation Therefore let mee once again repeat it Take heed lest you bee like the Thorny ground Let not the cares riches and pleasures of the World choak the good seed that is weekly sown in your hearts 8 Let it bee your morning and evening thought what shall become of you to all eternity and labour so to use things temporal as not to lose the things that are eternal Remember that this life is a moment upon which eternity depends and according as you spend this moment so you shall bee for ever happy or for ever miserable Remember that the pleasures of sin are but for a moment but the punishments of sin are everlasting 9 Look upon Sin as the greatest 〈◊〉 evils greater than poverty imprisonment banishment or death it selfe chuse the greatest Affliction rathe◠than commit the least sin If Hel◠were on the one side and Sin on the other chuse rather to go into Hell than to sin against God For Sin is a greater evill than Hell because it is the cause o◠Hell and more opposite to God who is the chiefest good than Hell is For God is the Author of Hell which hee hath provided for all unbeleevers and impenitent persons But it is blasphemy in the highest degree to say That he is the Author of Sin Look upon Christ as the greatest good greater than health wealth liberty or life Love Christ more than you love your estates or lives Hee that loves Christ more than the world will not forsake Christ to imbrace the world Hee that fears sin more than affliction will not sin to avoid affliction 10 Rest not contented with that measure of grace you have attained unto but labour to grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Remember that the Scripture doth not only perswade you to get into Christ but to grow up into Christ not only to bee Righteous but to bee filled with the fruits of Righteousness c. Remember that saying of Christ To whom much is given of them much is required God hath given you much you have plentiful means of salvation and you have had them for many yeares hee expects from you not onely good fruit but much good fruit not only thirty-fold and sixty fold but an hundred-fold Where the Husbandman bestows most cost hee expects most fruit The more a Merchant adventures by Sea the greater return hee looks for God hath done more for you than for many others and therefore hee expect that you should do some singular thing for him Hee looks you should be more humble more heavenly more knowing than others If the Sun should give no more light than a little Candle to what purpose hath God given it so much light If you that have Sun-like abilities do no more good than those who have but half your abilities to what purpose have you them It is a true saying As our gifts increase so must our account increase You shall answer at the great day not only for your gifts but for the measure of them Remember that God doth not only require service from you but service proportionable to the means and mercies you injoy Hee that hath but one Talent shall answer but for one but you that have five or ten Talents must bee answerable according to the quantity as well as the quality of them 11 Labour to diffuse those graces which God hath given you and to communicate them to those with whom you converse True grace is of a spreading nature and therefore compared to leaven which diffuseth it self into the whole lump and to Salt that seasoneth all those things with which it is mingled Assoon as the woman of Samaria had found out the Messias shee leaves her water-pet and goeth into the City to tell others what God had done for her Assoon as Cornelius had received the Message from the Angel to send for Peter hee calls together his kinsmen and neer friends that they together with him might bee made partakers of Gospel-grace A true Christian is like a Needle touched with the Loadstone A Needle truly touched draweth another and that will draw another and that another Whosoever hath his heart truly touched by effectual grace will labour to convert others and they others Philip will draw Nathaniel Andrew will draw Peter And Peter being converted will labour to strengthen his Brethren There is a natural instinct in all creatures to make others like themselves as fire will turn all things that come neer it into fire and there is a spiritual instinct in all converted Christians to convert others It is as natural to a true Christian to make others true Christians as it is for a man to beget a man True grace is not only of a communicative but of an assimilating nature See then that you labour by seasonable and religious admonitions and exhortations by communicating of experiences and especially by the shining pattern of a holy life and conversation to bring all those with whom you converse unto Iesus Christ. That man hath not grace in truth who puts it in a dark Lanthorne 12 Labour to bee good in your Relations good Husbands and good Wives good Parents and good Children good Masters and good Servants Remember that that man cannot bee a good man who is not good in his Relation Hee cannot bee a good Christian who is not a good Husband or a good Child or a good Father c. Shee cannot bee a good Christian who is not a good Wife and so of the rest and the reason is Because the same God who commands the Husband to love God commands him to love his Wife the same God who commands the Woman to obey God commands her to obey her Husband There is the same stamp of Authority upon our duties towards our Relations as upon our duties towards God therefore bee sure to make conscience of relative duties 13 Ioyn works of mercy and charity together with your profession of piety and holiness For God hates a penurious niggardly and covetous professor of Religion Let that saying of David abide upon your hearts God forbid I should serve the Lord with that which cost mee nothing God hates your obedience to the first Table if it bee not joyned with obedience to 〈◊〉 second Works of mercy and charity ar◠made in Seripture the touchstones 〈◊〉 the truth of our piety and holiness This is pure Religion saith the Apostle and undefiled before God and the Father to visit the Fatherless and Widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world If any man say saith St. John I love God and hateth his Brother hee is a liar for hee that loveth not his Brother whom hee hath seen how can hee love God whom hee hath not seen An
Dilectum delictum thy peccatum in deliciis thy beloved sin what is that sin to which thou art most of all inclined and if that sin prevaile over thee and thou canst not say with David Psal. 18. 23. I have kept my self from mine iniquity It is very probable that for the subduing of that sin thou art corrected of God 4 If ever thou hast been at the gates of death despairing of life consider what that sin was which did thee most of all trouble and perplexe thy conscience or if ever thou hast been in a dream supposing thy self to bee dying and breathing out thy last what was that sinne which did then most of all affright thee It is very likely that God by afflicting thee intends to get that sin more conquered and mortified 5 Consider what those sins are for which thy godly Minister under whose care thou livest doth reprove thee and of which thy true and real friends do accuse thee for if thou hast sleighted the voyce of thy faithful Minister and friends surely God out of his love to thee followeth their advice with the voyce of his Rod that thereby hee may open thine ear to Discipline and command thee to depart from those iniquities But if thou canst not finde out that particular sin for which God afflicts thee labour to repent of every sin and then thou wilt bee sure to repent of that sin If thou canst not finde out the Bee that stings thee pull down the whole Hive or the thorn that pricks thee pull down the whole Hedge Do that out of wisdome which Herod did out of malice who because hee could not finde out the Babe Iesus killed all the children in Bethlehem from two years old and under that so hee might bee sure to ' kill Iesus Let us seek the utter ruine and death of all our sins and then wee shall bee sure to destroy that sin for which God afflicts us and when the cause is removed the disease will forthwith bee cured and the Almighty pacified and reconciled unto us 2 Let us labour that the good wee reap by our afflictions may abide upon us after our recovery from them There are very many who while they are under the Rod seem to bee very penitent and do purpose and promise to amend their lives but as soon as the Rod is removed they returne like the Dog to the vomit c. Such was Pharaoh whilst he was plagued he confessed his sin and prayed for pardon but as soon as ever the judgement was gone hee hardened his heart Such were the Israelites Psal. 78. 34 35 36 37. They were not stedfast they turned back Just like a truantly School-boy who while his Master is whipping him will promise any thing but when it is done forgets presently to doe what hee promised Or like unto water which while it is upon the fire is very hot but as soon as ever it is taken off the fire presently groweth cold I knew a man who in the time of his sickness was so terrified in his conscience for his sins that hee made the very bed to shake upon which hee lay and cried out all night long I am damned I am damned and made many and great Protestations of amendment of life if God would bee pleased to recover him In a little while hee did recover and being recovered was as bad and as wicked as ever before And therefore let us labour that the good wee get by our afflictions may not vanish away with our afflictions but may abide on us after wee are recovered that wee may bee able to say with David It is good for mee that I was afflicted not onely that I am but that I was David praiseth God in health for the good hee had got in sickness and which still abode with him Let us say with the same Prophet Psal. 66. 13 14. I will go into thy house with burnt offerings I will pay thee my vows which my lips have uttered and my mouth hath spoken when I was in trouble Let us pray unto God that his afflictions may not onely skin over our spiritual diseases and coup up our sins but mortifie them and so change our natures that wee may never return to folly I will conclude this point with a famous saying of Plinius secundus worthy to bee written in letters of gold A friend writes to him and intreats him to give him advice how to frame his life so as hee might live as becomes a good man Hee returns him this answer I will not prescribe many rules there is this one only which I commend to thee above all other Ut tales esse perseveremus sani quales nos futuros profitemur infirmi Let us labour to continue and persevere to bee such when wee are well as wee purpose and promise to our selves to bee when wee are sick There is hardly any man so wicked but hee will in sickness make many and great promises of a new life and of universal reformation if God would restore him Now then if we not onely bee such but continue to bee such when restored as wee promise to bee when sick then wee shall bee excellent Schollars in the School of Affliction and God will either as I have already said deliver us out of affliction or send us to heaven by affliction So much for the first Truth supposed The End of the first Sermon THE Word of God IS THE Saints Delights SERMON II. PSAL. 119. 92. Unless thy Law had been my delights I should then have perished in mine Affliction NOw I come to speak of the second Truth supposed in the Text. That the Word of God is the Saints darling and delights not onely their delight but in the plural number their delights that is as our Annotations say a Saint doth greatly delight in Gods Law or as Iunius All the delight of a Saint is in Gods Law Gods word is the center of his delights Nisi lex tun erat omuit oblectatio mea Many were the troubles and sorrows of Davids life but against them all hee found as many comforts and delectations in Gods Word therefore hee saith vers 29. Thy Testimonies are my delights c. and 143. Trouble and anguish have taken hold on mee yet thy Commandements are my delights And in the Text Unless thy Law had been my delights c. Whilst others delight in vanity and iniquity whilst others take pleasure in hunting hawking carding dicing eating and drinking the Saints of God can say with Austin Sacr a Scripturae tuae sunt sanctae dellctae meae Thy holy Scriptures are my holy delights Quest. Why do the Saints of God take such delight in the Law of God Answ. 1. Because they are spiritually inlightned their eyes are opened to behold the glory and beauty and to understand the deep mysteries of the Law therefore David prayeth vers 18. Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy Law As the Apostle
hold out I was not taken off from the performance of holy duties no I thought with my self that I am commanded by God to perform holy duties which is the way and means whereby wee may meet with God For hee is ordinarily to bee injoyed no where but in his own ordinances but the Lord took mee off from resting and trusting in Ordinances And as hee made mee to see that without the practise of them hee would not accept of mee so also hee made mee to know that it was not for holy duties for which I was accepted The sins that cleave to my best performances are enough for which the Lord may justly condemn mee if I had no other sins 5 The Lord brought mee to see a Superlative beauty and excellency in the Lord Iesus Christ and my soul was deeply in love with him even with whole Christ in all his Offices and if I know any thing at all of my owne heart I desired Christ as much to bee my King and Prophet to teach and guide mee and subdue mee to himself and rule over mee as to bee my High-Priest to make Attonement by offering up of himself for mee and washing mee in his blood by which I must bee justified 6 The Lord brought mee to see a soul-satisfaction in the Lord Jesus Christ alone and I think I should bee as fully satisfied with Christ alone as my heart can desire If I know my heart it panteth after Christ and Christ alone None but Christ none but Christ. The whole world in comparison or competition with Christ is nothing to mee But in him I see full contentment To see and know my interest in him and to injoy communion with him is that which if the Lord would bestow upon mee I should with Iacob say It is enough and with old Simeon Now let thy servant depart in peace for my eyes have seen thy salvation Now I desire to set down some other Scripture Evidences that I finde upon search and examination of my heart by laying it to the Rule The Word of God My Second Scripture Evidence is taken from Mark 2. 17. Where Christ saith They that are whole have no need of the Physitian but they that are sick and hee came not to call the Righteous but sinners to repentance Now through Gods mercy I can say that I am a sin-sick-sinner the Lord make mee more sick I am not righteous in mine own eyes but a sinner and see my self undone for ever without the righteousness of Christ bee imputed to mee and therefore I hope I am amongst the number of those whom Christ was commissionated by his Father to come to save From Matth. 11. 28 29. I am weary and heavy laden now Christ hath promised to give ease to such And I am willing to take his yoke upon mee and would fain learn of him the lesson of meekness and lowliness and therefore am invited to come unto him I can say with David that my sins are a heavy burden to mee they are too heavy for mee Psal. 38. 4. and I can say that I mourn because I cannot mourn no more for my sins now Christ saith Blessed are they that mourn for they shall bee comforted Mat. 5. 4. From Matth. 5. 3. I think if my heart do not deceive mee I am pòor in spirit now theirs is the Kingdome of Heaven saith Christ. From Matth. 12. 20. I am a bruised reed and smoaking flax and therefore Christ hath promised hee will not break such a reed nor quench the smoak of grace if it bee true grace but hee will increase it more and more as hee saith Untill judgement breake forth into victory And hee came to set at liberty them that are bruised Luke 4. 18. Therefore I hope I am such a one as hee came to binde up and set at liberty Yea and that hee was anointed and sent by his Father to mee and such as I am Isa. 61. 1. From 1 Tim. 1. 15. This is a faithfull saying and worthy of all acceptation saith Paul That Iesus Christ came into the world to save sinners And so say I too it is worthy all acceptation that Christ should come from the bosome of his Father who was infinitely glorious and happy that hee should come into the world to save mee mee a sinner mee the chiefe of sinners mee that if saved I do verily beleeve there is none in heaven nor any that ever shall come thither that hath or will have the cause to magnifie and adore free grace as I shall have And herein doth God commend his love towards mee For if when wee were enemies wee were reconciled to God by the death of his Son much more being reconciled wee shall bee saved by his life Rom. 5. 10. I can say with Paul that I delight in the Law of God after the inward man and I am grieved that I cannot keep it I finde that spiritual war in mee between flesh and spirit which Paul complaineth of and I can say that Paul doth confess over my heart in his confessions Rom. 7. And I can go along with him there from verse 9. to the end of the chapter and from hence I gather that there is some spiritual life in my soul and an indeavour to walk after the spirit and therefore I hope and desire to conclude with him that there shall bee no condemnation to mee but that the Law of the spirit of life in Christ Iesus shall make mee free from the law of sin and death I finde an earnest desire wrought in my soul to bee made like unto Jesus Christ and that it may bee my meat and drink to do and suffer his will as hee would have mee I can say that the Lord hath in some measure put his fear into my heart that I fear to offend him out of love to him and I love to fear him I can say with the Church to Christ Cant. 1. 7. O thou whom my soul loveth and if I know any thing at all of mine own heart Christ is altogether lovely and most desirable to my soul. I think I can truly say with David that I have none in Heaven but thee and there is nothing on earth that I desire besides thee in comparison of thee in competition with thee Though all that is dearest to mee in the world should forsake mee yet if God whom I have chosen for my portion will not forsake mee I have enough It is my desire and endeavour more and more to account all things but loss and dung that I may win Christ. I can with Peter make my appeal to him and say Lord thou who knowest all things thou knowest that I love thee and that it is the desire of my soul to love thee more and to love thee for thy self because thou art holy and good and gracious and the chiefest amongst ten thousand Yea God in Christ alone is worthy to be
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Four Books lately published by Mr. Thomas Brooks Preacher of the Gospel at Margarets New Fish-street 1 Precious Remedies against Satans Devices OR Salve for Beleevers and Unbeleevers Sores being a companion for those that are in Christ or out of Christ that sleight or neglect Ordinances under a pretence of living above them that are growing in spirituals or decaying that are tempted or deserted afflicted or opposed that have assurance or want it on the 2 of the Corinthians the 2. and the 11. 2 Heaven on Earth OR A serious Discourse touching a well-grounded Assurance of mens eeverlasting happiness and blessedness discovering the nature of Assurance the possibility of attaining it the Causes Springs and Degrees of it with the Resolution of several weighty Questions on the eighth of the Romans 32 33 34. verses 3 The Vnsearchable Riches of Christ OR Meat for strong Men and Milk for Babes held forth in two and twenty Sermons from Ephesians 3. 8. preached on his Lecture nights at Fishstreet-hill 4 His Apples of Gold for young Men and Women AND A Crown of Glory for old Men and Women Or the happiness of being good betimes and the Honour of being an old Disciple clearly and fully discovered and closely and faithfully applied 5 His String of Pearles OR THE Best things reserved till last Preached at the Funeral of Mrs. Blake late wife of Mr. Nicholas Blake Merchant The Covenant of Gods Free Grace unfolded and comfortably applyed to a disquieted or dejected soul on the 2 of Samuel 23. 5. By that late Reverend Divine Mr. Iohn Cotton of New-England Darkness discovered or the Devils Secret Stratagems laid open shewing the way to end controversies in Religion written by Iacobus Acconcius and translated into English A brief Description of the Presbyterian Government approved by divers godly Divines and humbly presented to the consideration of the Assembly A Treatise of Civil Government by Robert Spey A Glass for the Times briefly confuting divers errors in Religion The Ruine of the Authors and Fomenters of Civil War as it was dilivered in a Sermon before the Parliament at their monthly Fast by Mr. Samuel Gibson sometime Minister at Margarets Westminster and one of the Assembly of Divines The New Creature with a Description of the several marks and characters thereof by Richard Bartlet A Learned Speech by Sir Francis Bacon in Parliament quinto Iacobi concerning the Scottish Nation A Mirrour for Christian States or a Table of politick Vertues considerable amongst Christians by E. Moliner Doctor of Divinity A Treatise of the external works of God 1 In General on Psal. 135. 6. 2 In Particular on Gen. 1. 2. 3. Of Gods actual Providence By George Walker B. D. late Pastor of St. Iohn Evangelist Church The Expert Physitian Learnedly treating of all Agues and Feavers essential whether simple or compound confused Erratick and Malignant shewing their different Nature Cause Signe and Cure written originally by that famous Doctor in Physick Bricius Bauderon and translated into English by Doctor Wells Licentiate in Physick by the University of Oxford To bee sold by by Iohn Hancok at the first shop in Popes-head Alley next to Cornhill 1658. Books lately Printed for Thomas Parkhurst at the Sign of the three Crowns over against the great Conduit at the lower end of Cheapside A Learned Commentary or Exposition upon the first Chapter of the second Epistle to the Corinthians by Dr. Richard Sibbs published for publick good by Thomas Manton Folio There is newly come forth Mr. William Fenner his Continuation of Christs Alarm to drowsie Saints with a Treatise of Effectual Calling The Killing Power of the Law The Spiritual Watch New Birth A Christians ingrafting into Christ A Treatise on the Sabbath which were never before printed bound in one Volume Fol and may bee had alone of them that have his other Works as well as bound with all his former Works which are now newly printed in the same Volume Truth brought to light and discovered by time or an Historical Narration of the first fourteen years of King Iames in 4 â— Mr. Robinsons Christians Armor in large 8 â— Book of Emblems with Latine and English verses made upon Lights by Robert Farlie small 8 â— Grace to the Humble as preparation to the Sacrament in five Sermons by Dr. Iohn Preston Picturae Lâ—â—ventes or Pictures drawn forth into Characters 12 â— A most Excellent Treatise containing the way to seek Heavens Glory to flye Earths Vanity to fear Hells Horror with godly Prayers and the Bell-mans Summons 12 â— Iohnsons Essaies expressed in sundry Exquisite Fancies The one thing necessary By Mr. Thomas Watson Minister of Stephens Walbrook 8 â— Sion in the House of Mourning because of Sin and Suffering being an Exposition on the fifth Chapter of the Lamentations by D. S. Pastor of Upingham in the County of Rutland Groans of the Spirit or the Trial of the Truth of Prayer A Handkercher for Parents Wet-eyes upon the death of their children or friends The Dead Saint speaking to Saints and Sinners living in several Treatises viz. On 2 Sam. 24. 10. on Cant. 4. 9. on Iohn 3. 15. on Iohn 1. 50. on Isa. 58. 2. on Exod. 15. 11. Never Published before By Samuel Bolton D. D. late Mr. of Christs Colledge in Cambridge Peoples Need of a Living Pastor at the Funeral of Mr. Iohn Frost M. A. 〈◊〉 Mâ— Zach. Crofton A Treatise against the Toleration of all Religions By Mr. Tho. Edwards Chatechizing Gods Ordinance in sundry Sermons by Mr. Zachary Crofton Minister of Buttolphs Aldgate London the Second Edition