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A43844	Two sermons preached before the judges of assize 1. At Reading, on Cant: 7.4, 2. At Abingdon, on Ps. 82.1 : with two other sermons preached at St. Maries on Oxford, 1. On I Cor. 15.10, 2. On Psalm 58.11 / by John Hinckley ...	Hinckley, John, 1617?-1695.	1657 (1657)	Wing H2049; ESTC R37864	133,129	357

such as are without and have not their senses exercised to discerne pleasant fruit lying under the leaves of Tropes Gregory Nyssen entering upon his commentary on this book saies none are fit to read it but such as are stript of the raggs of carnall imaginations spiritualiz'd and made free of the bridegrooms bedchamber The spouse had admir'd the excellencies that are in Christ cap-a-pe Chap. 5. v. 10. to the end My beloved is white and ruddy his head is of most fine gold c. Now Christ to requite his church extolls her graces which she had by reflection from himselfe in a generall manner Chap. 6. More particularly in her severall lineaments and members in this Chapter but in another method then Christ had done before viz beginning at the bottome and so ascending upwards V. 1. How beautifull are thy feet with shooes thou princes daughter These feet of the Church do signifie that readinesse which is in the faithfull to harken to and comply with the Gospell of Jesus Christ This is to be e Ephes 6.15 shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace as their feet which bring glad tideings i. e of such as preach the Gospell are f Rom. 10.15 beautifull so do their feete shine that walk in the paths of the Gospell And as they are beautifull so they are noble too clad with shooes i. e. ingenious and freeborne so distinguished from slaves which use to go barefoot Esa 20.4 All good Christians are g These were more noble then those of Thes●alonica Acts 17.11 Bereans borne of an immortall seed their pedigree is from heaven who can declare their generation and borne to an immortall weight of glory borne not of blood nor of the will of the flesh or of the will of man but of God Jo. 1.13 Next Christ commends the Navell of his Church V 2. as a round goblet which wants not liquor noteing the nutritive faculty of the soule that pipe or channell whereby grace is convey'd into the heart as the oyle flow'd from the olive trees through golden pipes into the candle-stick Zach. 4.12 or as the child in the womb is nourisht by the strings of the navell whence the Metaphor is immediately taken The brests V. 3. of the Church are compar'd to two young Roes which are twins these brests are the sincere milke of the word contain'd in the two testaments which are the brests of consolation which we must suck and wherewith we must be satisfied Es 66.11 They are said to be as the clusters of the vine v. 8. because of the sweet promises therein which cherish and refresh the hearts of men They are called twinnes because of that likenesse and harmony which is betwixt them the law is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the law vailed Iustine Martyr and cloth'd in types and figures the Gospell is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the law reveal'd and fulfill'd The next step brings us to the text which describes the neck and eyes of the Church I shall not hold you in suspense what my thoughts are concerning these members By neck I do not only understand the power of faith whereby we are utited to our head Christ Jesus and whereby the life of grace is convey'd unto his mysticall members as the spirits flow from the head through the k Called the silver cord Eccle. 12.6 nerves and sinewes of the neck into the other parts of the body I say though this neck is a tower of Ivory which will not bow to the yoak of sin and Satan yet by neck with the Caldee paraphrast and others l Ainsw Hall c. I understand Magistrates who by their authority support the very frame of government are pillars to uphold order and keep a decorum in the Church of God and are pipes to convey justice and equity into all parts of a nation as the sun transmits her influences to us by her rayes which are her m Mala. 4.2 winges By eyes I shall not so much understand the eye of knowledge or of faith whereby we see him that is invisible or of repentance when weeping for sin the eyes are blubberd and become a fountaine of teares Jer. 9.1 Or as the pooles of Heshbon in the text but by eyes I meane the Seers in the Church i. e. the ministers of the word and Gospell n Gregory Nyslen Adducimur ut statuamus saies a commentator on the text we are perswaded as t' were by invincible reasons that eyes in this place point forth those speculatoys i. e. watchmen which are plac'd on the turrets of Gods house such as o Heb. 13.17 Ezek. 33.6 watch for soules as those I quake to utter it that must give an account and at whose hands I tremble againe the blood of soules lost by their negligence shall be required The necessity of Magistrates and Ministers in the Church and state even as the neck and eyes are necessary members of the body naturall The qualification both of Magistrates and Ministers that they may be both serviceable to God and his Church in their generations Magistrates must be pure upright beautifull strong and conragious as a tower of Ivory Ministers must be cleare and unblemish's both in life and doctrine as the fish-pooles in Heshbon Magistrates and ministers are necessary members of the Church Obs The body would be monstrous without a neck and eyes so would both Church and State be without these But first let 's observe that the spirit here joynes them both together and happy t is where there is so neare relation t'wixt necks and eyes where the neck supports the eyes and the eyes stand Centinells to watch and look out for the good of the neck it can not go well with either of these if there be not a mutuall aid and assistance afforded to each other the Ecclesiasticall power would quickly be contemned and troden under foot these eyes in the text would even quite be scratche out should not the neck bestirre it selfe should not the Magistrate stretch forth his sword to defend them nay the secular power it selfe would be much impaird this neck would have a palsy this tower would totter if the Ministers should not brandish their sword the sword of the spirit which is the word of God and vindicate rulers from those sons of Bichri I had allmost said those sons of Belial q Ester 6.2 Bightan and Teresh who are ready to cry with those Donatists in Optatus r Quid nobis cum regibus what have we to do with rulers Never Magistrates far'd worse then such as were enemies to the prophets as Saul Ahab c. None prosper'd better then such as were nursing fathers to Gods Embassadours as David Hezekiah and Joash did what was right in the sight of the Lord all the daies that Iehoiada the priest liv'd 2 Kin. 2.12 Iovinian protected truth and truth protected him what made Theodosius and Constantine so famous among

applyed will dispossesse us and empty us of all carking and distracting cares seeing we are under Covert-barne we have a rich and powerfull husband to provide for us we are not orphans exposed to the wide world but we have a faithfull guardian and a mercifull Father to take care of us So let us take heed lest we fall into the pit of fooles I meane the quite contrary extreame of security and presumption as if we need not take care of our selves and use meanes for our owne preservation seeing God provides for us and judges for us this is to tempt God without any warrant at all as if a man should throw himselfe into the sea and depend upon the providence of God to keep him from drowning All the devills Rhetorick together with his great promises could not perswade Christ to cast himselfe from the pinacle of the Temple upon these termes 2. God judges in the earth by releiving the oppressed and pleading the cause of the innocent In this sense we often finde David in his appeales to God lift a Ps 94.2 and 43.1 Judg and avenge our blood Rev. 6.10 Ps 68.5.10.18 up thy selfe thou judge of the earth judge me O Lord and plead my cause He is acknowledged to be the judg of the widdowes the fatherlesse and the oppressed And indeed this is the maine end of judging and executing malefactors that the innocent may be secur'd and defended from danger as foxes wolves and other wild beasts are hunted and taken that the harmelesse sheep may not be made a prey to their teeth It would be too long to trace the children of Israel through all difficulties and disputes with their enemies and to shew how the Lord judged their Cause against Pharaoh against the Canaanites and others He fought their battles He was a sun and a sheild unto them He snatch't them as a firebrand out of the burning when their enemies were ready to tune their song of triumph See this in the body of that people when the Midianites came against them like grashoppers they were all discomfited by three hundred that brake pitchers under Gideon Judges 6.5 See it in David in particular when Saul had compassed David in a mountaine in the wildernesse of Maon He made no doubt to swallow him up then the Lord judged for David by disappointing Saul in diverting his forces another way on a suddaine a messenger came to Saul saying Come make hast for the Philistims have invaded the land 1 Sam. 23.26 27. The time would faile me to tell of Joseph and Paul how the Lord Judged for them upon severall exigencies other stories are not barren of instances and examples to this purpose Athanasius was once accused for cutting off the arme of one Arsenius The Arrians who brought in this inditement made sure as they thought of the Cause by sending Arsenius into a farre Countrey But see the providence of God in clearing the innocency of this servant when this Criminall matter was in agitation the same Arsenius did suddenly appeare in the Councell and held up both his armes to confute that calumny The Arrians have not yet done As the Devill set upon Christ with three severall temptations one after another so these set upon a Sigonius de occidentali imperio lib. 4. p. 96.97 Athanasius againe He must be impleaded as guilty of whoredome An harlot is suborned to affirme it she was furnished with a ring which shee pretended to be the hire of her uncleanesse yet notwithstanding all this conspiracy the Lord judged for Athanasius and made his innocency as cleare as the noone day thus one Tymotheus a freind of Athanasius stands up and speaks after this manner to the harlot Egonè What did I ever enter into your house and had I familiarity with you this harlot having her forehead brazed with impudency answered presently yes you are the man and holds up the ring as the wages of her iniquity and so Athanasius was acquitted againe from this undeserved scandall How observeable is that which is recorded of a Eusebius Eccl. Hist lib. 7. cap. 29. Aurelian He had almost subscribed an Edict for the destruction of the poore Christians but on a suddaine his hand and his arme were so benummed and deaded that he could not write one letter more here God judged for the Christians Nay afterward when Diocletian had seal'd such a bloody decree and the Christians were brought forth to be devour'd by wild beasts yet these a Eusebius lib. 8. c. 7. beasts would not fasten upon the naked bodies of these Saints but recoyl'd back upon those instruments of cruelty who would have set them on even as b Dan. 3.22 Shadrach Meshach and Abednego were delivered from the fiery furnace when those that cast them in were slaine by the very flames of that furnace our owne c Speed p. 398. story reports of Emma the mother of Edward the Confessour that was accused of incontinency and according to the law ordalium shee must walk on hot irons fire hot which shee did being innocent and was not hurt as the bitter water of d Numb 5.19 21. jealousy which made the guilty womans thigh to rot and her belly to swell yet the same water being drunk by one that had not gone a side to uncleanesse was free from the bitter water that caused the curse doubtlesse there is a God that judgeth in the earth to defend the innocent And to make his judging in the earth in the behalfe of his servants the more illustrious he takes opportunity commonly to helpe in such a juncture of time as when they are in the greatest extremity In the Mount will the Lord be seene Gen. 22.14 When the knife is close at Isaackes throat then is the time for the Lord to steppe in for his rescue With this very argument David pleads with God for his Church when at a low ebbe even because it was so It is time for thee Lord to worke for they have made voiàe thy law Psal 119.126 When judgment was turned away backward in the Jewish Church and justice stood a farre off truth was fallen in the street and equity could not enter One would think it could not be worse yet it followes that then the Lord put on righteousnesse as a brest-plate and a helmit of salvation upon his head Esa 59 14 15 17. And in the same chapter v. 19. there 's a prophesie of Christs comming when was that when the enemy of the Lord shall come in like a flood the spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him and if we turne to the second chapter of Lukes Gospel we shall find this fulfilled for when Augustus sent forth his decree that all the world should be e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 taxed i. e. pay tribute and so acknowledge themselves captives and slaves to the Romane Empire then did an Angel verse 10. publish the glad tidings of the birth of Christ who