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A74686	The nonsuch professor in his Meridian splendor, or the singular actions of sanctified Christians. Laid open in seaven sermons at Allhallows church in the wall, London. / By William Secker preacher of the gospel.	Secker, William, d. 1681?	1660 (1660)	Wing S2253; Thomason E1750_1; ESTC R209664	179,725	448

Canaan It s a true expression of Tertullian Major esset authoritas imperantis quamutili●as servientis That Divine authority should be of greater force then humane utility But Religion is so bountiful a Master that none need be afraid of becoming its servants But seek ye first the Kingdome of God and his righteousnesse and all these things shall be added unto you Matthew 6. 33. Our work below is the best done when our work above is the first done Do you make Heaven your Throne to serve it and God will make the earth your footstool to serve you The young Lyons lack and suffer hunger Psal 34. 10. The young Lyons that have old ones to provide for them that will have it if it be to be had but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing As you would have no evil things so you shall want no good things He that opens the upper will never close the lower springs There shall be no silver lacking in Benjamins Sack whilest Joseph hath it to throw in grace is no such beggarly blaze as will not pay for its owne blowing when the best of beings is adored the best of blessings are convayed Whilest the rough Esau's of the time hunt after the Venison the smooth Jacobs carry away the blessing For the Lord God is a Sun and Eum qui tam pretiosa largitur qualiter pigebit erga voselementiam exercere Aquin in 8. ad Rom. v. 32. a Shield the Lord will give grace and glory and no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly Psal 84. 11. What need he fear darknesse that hath a Sun to guid him Or they dread dangers that have a shield to guard them O Christian the God whom thou servest is so excellent that no good can be added to him and so infinite that no good can be diminisht in him he makes happy and yet is not the less happy he shews mercy to the full and yet remains full of mercy Did a man beleeve that the Lord would not fail his body how chearfully would he look after his soule Sinners they look upon times of obedience as upon times of hindrance they trust to their own unutterable toylings and not to his unalterable undertakings they drive such a trade on earth as makes them break in their merchandize for Heaven But what the Philospher said Solus sapiens dives That only the wise man is the rich man That may I say Solus sanctus dives Though every rich man be not one that 's truly godly yet every Godly man is one that 's truly rich The Sun can as easily display its Beams over the whole world as shed its Rayes upon a single field What God receives from man makes him never the richer and what man receives from God makes him never the poorer his goodnesse is capable of imparting but his goodnesse is not capable of impairing If the fountain be still running why shouldst thou fear the want of filling The Lord is my sheepheard I shall not want Psal 23. 1. The sheep of Christ may change their pasture but they shall never want their pasture Is not the life more then meat and the body then rayment Matthew 6. 25. If he trust us with the greater shall we distrust him for the lesser He that hath given us our beings will give us our blessings the great husband-man never over-stocked his owne Commons Jehu had an external Kingdom that served God but in hypocrisie but they shall have a heavenly Kingdome that serve God in sincerity if he valued counterfeit coyne at so great a rate how highly will he esteeme of true gold If he drops so much into a vessell of wrath what will he do into a vessell of mercy If he doe so much for a slave of hell what will he do for a son of Heaven O Generation see the word of the Lord Have I been a wildernesse unto Israel a land of darknesse Wherefore say my people we are Lords we will come no more unto thee Jer. 2. 31. God was not a wilderness to Israel when Israel was in the wildernesse when they wanted bread he gave them Manna from Heaven to satisfie their hunger when they wanted water he broacht a Rock to quench their thirst and though they had no new cloaths provided for them yet their old cloaths did not weare out upon them but as some think as their backs grew so their cloaths grew yea when they were put to their hardest pinch he made a dry lane with watery walls through the deepe channells of the Red Sea They were never better liking then when they were at his immediate finding O how good is a beleevers God! that doth not only shorten his pilgrimage for him but sweetens his pilgrimage to him Christians if they had too much in temporalls might then have too little in spiritualls The three children Daniel 1. 15. did thrive better with their pulse then the rest with the royall allowance O how safely have some men rowed in a narrow river that have been cast away in the large Ocean Little is sufficiency to him who with it enjoyes Alsufficiency Christian get a holy heart and thy estate in Heaven shall be transcendent yea thy estate on earth shall be sufficient Naked piety is a good commodity but Religion is a cloud that will water our gardens Let the people praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee What then Then shall the earth yield her increase and God even our God shall blesse us Psal 67. 5 6. It 's our unthankfullnesse that is the cause Gratiarum a●●io ampliora a Deo beneficia impetrat Stapl. in Dom. 3. post Epip tex 5. of the earths unfruitfullnesse Whilst man is blessing of God for his mercies God is blessing of man with his mercies Trumpeters repeat their sounding where an eccho is returning What 's the reason that men are so afraid of godlinesse but because they thinke that when they seek for heavenly Manna they shall loose their earthly Mammon That piety is the only enemy of prosperity Could they but reap profit by praying they would take pleasure in praying What is the Almighty that we should serve him and what profit should we have if we pray unto him Job 21. 15. Alas Who would set those plants about him that will yield no fruits unto him The world they look upon gain as the highest godlinesse and not upon godlinesse as the highest gaine As if a worldly substance would make amends for a wounded conscience I am afraid that this worme that is gnawing will bring you to a flame that 's everlasting But godlinesse is profitable unto all things having the promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come 1 Tim. 4. 8. Who knows how many sweet productions are in the wombe of this morning Sun So that men shall say verily there is a reward for the righteous verily there is a God that

THE Nonsuch PROFESSOR IN His Meridian Splendor OR THE Singular Actions OF Sanctified Christians Laid open in Seaven Sermons at Allhallows Church in the Wall London By WILLIAM SECKER Preacher of the Gospel For Isay unto you Except your righteousnesse shall exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees you shall in no case enter into the Kingdome of Heaven Math. 5. 20. Non magna loquimur sed vivimus Arnob. London Printed by M. S. for Thomas Parkhurst to be sold at his shop at the three Crowns over against the great Conduit in Cheapside 1660. TO THE HONOURABLE And truly Noble Patriots Sr Edward Barkham Knight and Baronet and his Religious consort Dame Francis Barkham of Tottenham in the County of Middlesex Honoured Worthies THis Piece reflects on no Interest but what is Eternall You have tide me in so many silken cords of your constant favours that I must live and dye bound in those pleasant fetters the only returne I am able to make you is in Ink and Paper to acknowledge my self your Debtor Your Noble minds are like that of Artaxerxes King of Persia who thought it as well becoming him to accept of small things from others as to give great things himself Let rotten posts be guilded and decayed beauties painted vertue like a precious Diamond needs no varnish Your own graces will spring you Rivers of praises without the tide of others tongues flowing in to brim the banks Reall honour is not built on the glittering foundation of refined clay the flourishing Lawrell of durable excellency doth not alwayes grow in the smooth field of a brave Geneallogy That blood which runs in vertues veins is of a more orient colour then that which swims in other channels The fairest flowers of humanity are those that spring up in the garden of sincerity piety is a more noble thing then parentage it is better to be new borne then it is to be high borne I beleeve you count that the sweetest honey which you suck out of Christs hive and take more pleasure in your inward goodnesse then in your outward greatnesse I am sensible what prejudices are taken against Epistles commendatory letters are too often like multiplying glasses which makes the smallest mole-hills appeare like the greatest Mountains But yet I dare shew your unspotted faces without borrowing the suspitious reflection of any false glasses You have too cleare a knowledge of God to take any thing into your hands before him and too deare a love to God to set any thing in your hearts above him you cast more propicious aspects upon Religion then ever to think it a friend unto Rebellion lookt upon Fear God and honour the King as a couple that God had joyned t●gether and that no man might put asunder and such as have shaken these Pillars with their own hands have pulled the house upon their own heads Providence having laid on them the hands of vengeance that laid on us the hands of violence and brought them under the sword of the Law that kept us under the Law of the sword You rejoyced in the first dawnings of the Morning of our Redemption from Aegyptian slavery and oppression deem the superstruction of prosperity is firmliest laid upon the foundation of Monarchy When others have sparkled like Stars in their Orbes you have shined like a Sun in yours having neither been like Crabs going backwards nor like snails creeping forwards When others have sailed with every wind of Doctrine you have steered your course according to the Compasse of Scripture and have carried the lamp of Truth in one hand and the beauty of holiness in the other It is said of the Families of some great Personages That there is more oathes heard in a day then there are prayers made in a yeare But I may say of yours there is more prayers made in a day then there are oathes heard in a yeare The oyle of grace that is poured on your heads runs down to the skirts of your garments O how comely a Vision is it to see the Tabernacles of great men to be the Temples of the great God! Honoured Worthies Many jewells God hath hung upon your terrestriall Crown he hath given you the fatnesse of the earth as well as the dew of Heaven Esau's Venison as well as Jacob's Blessing the nether springs of common bounty as well as the upper springs of speciall mercy There are four showers that have watred your Garden First a fruitfull Posterity Secondly a peaceful Tranquillity Thirdly a faithfull Society Fourthly a gratefull Memory As there is nothing wanting to you so let there be nothing wanting in you you cannot complain of God for want of mercy let not God complain of you for want of Duty as he hath opened his hands to blesse you so do you open your mouths to blesse him In the highest flood and spring-tides of outward mercies its hard to keep our hearts within the channell Respected Sirs You have a large roome in the bosomes of many that are godly but alas the best mens confidences on earth are insufficient evidences for heaven A house well compacted is able to bear out a storme but a dis-joynted building every push will throw it down The best Patrimony is that above us the best Testimony is that within us give me such hopes as will not only goe with me to my bed of rest but will lye with me in my bed of dust as will not only bear me up in the Calme of Life but will shoare me up in the Tempest of Death Sirs You are like Beacons upon a hill which are visible unto all A small star may be darkned and yet passe unobserved but the eclipsing of the suns splendor is a part of the worlds wonder a crack in the greatest pebble is not so bad as a flaw in the smallest jewell O how amiably should you live with men who look to live eternally with God! The highest preheminence calls for the exactest obedience he is unworthy to be the chiefest in a family that is unwilling to be the choycest of a family yea he puts a sword into the hand of Vice that snatches the scepter out of the hand of grace None can challenge an interest in the love of God but such as are indued with the life of God Deare Sirs I know you have affections to desire the truth as well as apprehensions to discerne the truth and read Books as Bees to fill your Combes and not as Butterflies to paint your wings and therefore I have presented you with a Piece that is not notionall but practicall A great shooe fits not a small foot nor a large Saile a little Boat the subject is fitter for a Christian to live upon then for a Critick to look upon They are as cruell Parents that murder the issue of their brains as those that murder the issue of their loynes I hope the dreggs doth not lye so thick in it but you may draw out some cleer

be thrown into the water whole it swims if broke it sinks Or like the Mary-gold that opens with the shining and shuts with the setting of the Sun of righteousnesse Love it puts not off its pursuits of Certe amor Dei tam efficax est ut effectus potius quam affectus dici debeat plus enim facit quam afficit Stapl in Dom. Pen. Tex 1. duty till it attains the possessions of glory There 's no rocking this child to sleep till it be laid in the Cradle of the Grave A soul that loves much is a soul that works much The commands of the Gospel are not grievous to them but precious to them The highest graces are fit for the hardest duties As God is not so much displeased at our having of sin as he is displeased at our loving of sin so he is not so well pleased at our doing of service as at our loving of service Different movings express different beings When a Christian yields obedience to Christ out of a principle of love he so serves Christ as none but a Saint can serve Christ When thou saidst seek ye my face my heart answered thy face I will seeke Psal 27. 8. The heart of obedience is the obedience of the heart That 's the second 3. Would you do more then others then pray more then others Our daily bread calls for daily prayers because new wants are created when old wants are supplyed The Garden of the Church is watred by the River of Prayer Are you called by the name of Christ and will you not call upon the name of Christ Take away spiritual breathing and you take away spirituall living a child that 's still born was never a childe that 's new borne Who would not stretch forth a Beggars hand to receive a Jewel of greater vallew then the world With what boldnesse may they appear at the Court that are assured of the ear of the King We shall soon give up the Ghost if God doe not give in the Holy Ghost to stop our breath is the way to loose our life You may pray alwayes and yet not allwayes be at prayer Thou allowest thy body daily sustentation O allow thy soule daily supplication Prayer it s like Noahs Dove though it goe forth of the Arke yet it will return againe with an Olive-branch of peace in its mouth In Gods injoyning our supplications there 's the shewing forth of his greatnesse in Gods fulfilling our supplications there 's the shining forth of his goodnesse Prayer never did man rightly make it but God did quickly grant it It 's no more a duty for Saints on earth to give over praying then it is a duty for Saints in Heaven to give over praising If you would speed in the injoying of mercy you must speak for the obtaining of mercy If man lets God goe without any begging God will let man goe without any blessing I am sadly sensible how many there are that cast off this duty But it is not because the lameness of their leggs is cured but because they are ashamed to make use of crutches Christians let not your want of accomplishments create in you any discouragements Dumbe beggars have got almes at Christs gates by making of signes The waters of life are sweet O what pity it is that God should turne the cock for want of pails to set under Take a dry spunge and throw it into the river and it will suck it self full of water As he prayed the forme of his countenance Christus cum oraret transfigurabatur ita in oratione magnae fiunt in anima mutationes quia lumen animae est oratio quae saepiu● eum quem invenit desperantem relinquit exultanter Ger. med 25. was altered and his rayment was white and glistering Luk. 9. 28 29. Christ had the brightest Sunshine of his fathers affection when he was moving in the Orbe of supplication Tell me Sirs is not that mercy worth the breath of a sinner which was worth the blood of a Saviour then to pray we can do no more to the removing of our own miseries and we can do no less for the obtaining of Gods mercies methinks man should never cease asking till God cease granting Lord what wilt thou give me seeing I goe childless So say you Lord what wilt thou give me seeing I goe gracelesse Prayer is the souls trading to Heaven Oratio justi clavis est caeli ascendit precatio et descendit Dei liberatio Id ibid. for such commodities as are only locked up in Gods Treasuries By fasting the body learns to obey the soul but by praying the soule learns to command the body Dumbness should never seize on the lips of man till deafnesse seize on the ears of God Shall God in Heaven want a man that is praying whilst man on earth wants not a God that is hearing Christians though your relations are excellent yet your conditions are indigent No Christian hath so little of Christ but he hath matter for praise and no Christian hath so much from Christ but he hath matter of prayer every day we find it a great worke to accomplish a little work every new act of obedience calls for new strength and assistance as our receits are greater then our desarts so our wants are larger then our receits Ask and ye shall receive that your joy may be full Spirituall supplication is the channell of spirituall consolation you must be full of prayers if you would be full of joyes now none are more fruitfull in divine labour then those who are most joyfull in divine favour Death that shortens our way on earth and makes it nearer but delight that sweetens our way to heaven and makes it fairer The neglect of the flowers will but administer advantage unto the growth of the weeds a little Ship with a strong wind moves faster then a greater Vessell with slacker gailes I never expect that a branch which receives no sap from the Vine should beare any fruit in the Vine Si ascendat oratio descendet gratia when prayer mounts upon the wing to God then favours come upon the spur to Non verbe de precantis deus intendit sed orantis cor aspicit Bern. de inter domo cap. 48. man The gift of prayer may have praise from men but it is the grace of prayer that hath power with God a few grapes prove the plant to be a Vine and not a thorne Prayer is Gods due as a Creator though truly performed to him as a Father None can pray aright but those that are new Creatures but all ought to pray because they are creatures Christians can never want a praying time if they do not want a praying frame in the morning this is a golden key to open the heart for servise and in the evening it is an iron lock to shut the heart from sin As the raine comes down from Heaven fruitfully so let prayer go up to Heaven fervently Peter