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A04156	The conuerts happines· A comfortable sermon preached at S. Maries Spittle in London, in Easter-weeke, the 19. April. 1609. By Thomas Iackson, Bachelour of Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word, at Wye in Kent.	Jackson, Thomas, d. 1646.	1609 (1609)	STC 14298; ESTC S107440	42,495	61

of the spirit whereby the vnderstanding is inlightned the heart mollified and our affections inflamed with the loue of Christ and heauenly things it profiteth not but becommeth the sauour of death vnto death vnto vs the more he so knocketh the more excuseles shall we be at the last day Again thogh the Lord take neuer so great a delight to do vs good euen emptie as it were the treasure of his blessings vpon vs yet without his spirite they doe but puffe vs vp vnto wantonnesse and presumption as we haue an example in Israel for whom the Lord doing so much as we haue heard Yea so much as hee could doe as himselfe witnesseth yet complaineth he that should haue beene vpright when he waxed fatte spurned with his heele and forsooke God that made him and regarded not the strong God of his saluation Oh the cause of this Moses elsewhere plainely layeth downe saying Ye haue seene all that the Lord did in Egypt vnto Pharaoh and al his seruants and al his land the great temptations miracles and wonders yet the Lord hath not giuen you an heart to perceiue and eyes to see and eares to heare vnto this day Lastly though the Lord adde strype vnto strype and one iudgement to follow in the necke of another as the waues of the Sea yet without the inward working of his spirit the more he so knocketh the more doe we harden our hearts against him as Pharaoh did Oh Lord knocke by thy word and teach vs knock by thy mercies and allure vs knocke by thy iudgements and feare vs but aboue all other knocke by thy spirit and perswade vs that when thou knockest we may open vnto thee Amen And now to make some generall Application of these things to our selues First I demaund with the Apostle Hath not England heard No doubt the sound of the Gospell hath gone throughout all our Land the Lord hath not sent a few as seuentie by paires two and two but so many thousands that as Dauid saith in another sense Great is the Company of Preachers the word of the Lord is not precious amongst vs as in Elies dayes neither need we with the Sunamite saddle our Horses or Asses to ride farre to heare it it is neere vnto vs and of our plentie wee can supply others lacke and herein the Lord blesse the intended Voyage and all them that aduenture Liues or Goods therein that it may bee for Gods glory the enlarging of Christs Kingdome the Honor of our Nation and Good of Church and Common-wealth Yea England is as Gods Temple where euery man speaketh of his Prayse and a Sanctuarie to such as loue the sound of the Gospel God hauing not yet so farre entered into iudgement with our sinnes as to remoue our Candlesticke take away his Kingdome and call our Ionahs to goe preach vnto Niniuie But hath not London heard Oh herein hath God exalted her to Heauen with Capernaum who beside her owne Ordinary with store hath her solemne Assemblies furnished with the choise of Vniuersitie and Countrie to speake vnto her so as if England be the Temple she is the very Arke of the presence of God aboue all other places of this Land Secondly hath not God beene mercifull vnto this Land Oh London London let me speake to thine heart to whom I am sent with the Message of God this day How great are Gods mercies that hath exalted thee to become the Princesse of the thousands the Chamber of our famous Kings and Queenes the Ioy of our Land the Empresse of Cities the renowmed Mart of Nations of whom I may say as sometimes God sayd of Tyrus thy Marchants are Princes thy Chapmen the Nobles of the world Oh so many and great they are that I cannot sayle in the huge Ocean of them I will thrust but into an Arme or Creeke Consider his mercies of Donation how aboundantly hee hath enriched thee with Peace Plentie Honor and Prosperitie yea taken such a Delight to doe thee good and euen to empty the Treasure of his Mercies vpon thee that most doe thinke it a great Happinesse to shrowde themselues within thy Borders It was once sayde of Rome but may now more truely bee said of thee that thou art an Epitome of all Gods mercies elsewhere bestowed vpon all the Churches and Common-wealths in the World Pindarus reporteth that there was an opinion of the Citie of Rhodes that Gold rained vpon it but if euer Citie receiued golden Showres it is this of London And therefore as Athens was called Greece of Greece so may London be called the England of England The Lord grant that his Gospell and thine obedience may meet together his Mercies and thy thankfulnesse may kisse each other Consider his mercies of Preseruation that whereas other goodly Cities haue beene ransacked and destroyed by Fire and Sword of cruell Souldier grasse brambles and nettles growing in their streetes houses and temples for want of passengers inhabitants and worshippers mens hearts fayling for feare of the continuall thundring of Drums sounding of Trumpets neighing of Horses ratling of Armor roaring of Cannons so neere our Borders that some of our houses haue trembled with the reporte thereof c. He hath alwaies watched ouer thee to preserue thee from the like desolation Yea giue me leaue to Gods glory and our owne comfort to instance in a few particuler examples First therefore it is not so ancient and superannate but rather kept in recent and fresh memorie how those who now we hope are our friends and God make them so to vs and the Trueth but then we know were our proud and cruell Enemies who came with an vnquenchable furie and as they thought with an inuincible Nauie with Ensignes of victorie and instruments of crueltie but the Lord strong in Battell was our refuge the God of Iacob was our defence who armed out all his Creatures in the day of Battell for our defence their offence that we might be deliuered and they destroied the Windes fought against them and their Ships as it did against Ahazias the Sea against them and their Hoast as against Pharace● yea the Starres in their courses as against the horses and chariots of Siserah that wee and our posterities may confesse with the Israelites The Lord hath triumphed gloriously ouer his enemies the Horse and his Rider the Ship and his Sailer hath he ouerthrowen in the midst of the Sea Secondly the day is now come and gone which our enemies so longed for and wee so feared would haue beene the Bane of the Gospell the Shipwrack of our Peace and Breake-necke of our Prosperitie a day of mourning and lamentation yea when all the Orders and Companies of this Realme fom the honorable Counsellor to him that draweth water from the reuerent Iudge that sitteth vpon the Bench

to the abiect Begger that sitteth in the ashes from the man of gray haires to the sucking child should haue cryed Alas for the day of the Lord Alas for the day of the Lord it is come it is come I meane that dismall day when that glorious Instrument of Englands happinesse renowmed ELIZABETH the Glorie of her Sexe the Paragon of Princes the Myracle of the Christian and wonder of the Infidel World drew vp her feete vnto her in her bedde of peace and slept with her fathers But behold and wonder at Gods mercie no sooner did our Sunne set but in a moment as it were passing thorough the other Hemisphere it rose againe giuing vs greater hope of the continuance of our ioyfull day giuing vs a Religious prudent and fruitfull KING insteade of a maiden QVEENE whose very name Proclaimed did so daunt the crue of idle rogues and inordinate walkers who thought at that time like Vultures to haue deuoured the fruits of honest mens labours and haue committed what mischiefe and villany they would without controlement that they stood amazed and rather bethought whither to flie and hide their heads then to commit any outrage Oh Lord finish the good worke thou hast begunne giue vnto the KINGS Maiestie an increase of Salomons wisedome Dauids vprightnesse Iosias zeale Ioshuahs courage and Methushalahs long life AMEN Thirdly and lastly our fathers haue not told vs but we haue knowen our selues the yeares are very few that haue passed ouer our heads since a bloody company of Romish Pyoners and Antichristian Mole-warpes had plotted a most prodigious and neuer pararelled treason in a subterraneous vault with one sulphurous mornings blast to haue brought a generall destruction vpon Moses and Aaron Princes and Peeres Commanders Commoners Yea Church and Common-wealth neither wanted there any thing to the ripenesse and perfection thereof but the last hand to acte it but a sparke from that hellish fire-brand F●ux to make that mortall cracke but see the goodnesse of God that all the glory may be his who neither slumbereth nor sleepeth who at that very time made them bewray themselues notwithstanding all their vowed and deiurated secresie and by a spirit of diuination in the mouth of our Kingly Prophet construing contrary to letter and arte their more then Aenigmaticall and Hieroglyphicall letter discouered preuented and deliuered vs from the danger of so facinorous a plotte which designe if it had taken effect as al England had beene ouerwhelmed with a bottomlesse Sea of misery and destruction so honourable London greatest had thy share beene therein thy massie and mountaine-like buildings and monuments of age and honour thy holy Temples Basilickes Chappels and Oratories thy royall Pallaces and sumptuous houses had beene laid in the dust and turned into rubbish thine Elisian fields had beene strowed with the discerped members of the massacred thy Christalline riuer of Thames running along thy side with her siluer streame to make glad the Citie of God had bin Dyed red like the riuers of Egipt with the blood which had run from the streets as from so many master veines thine houses set on flaming fire thy Shoppes and Store-houses rifled thy wiues and daughters abused thy children dashed against the stones and that which is or ought to be greatest of all the Gospel of Christ which thou so louest banished Oh that the remembrance of these things were written in Stone or Lead with an Iron Penne that we and our posterity for euer might say praysed be the Lord that hath not giuen vs for a prey to their teeth Amen But seeing his word hath not beene regarded and his mercies forgotten or abused hath not God also knocked by his corrections Yes the Lord hath wonderfully bowed the heauens and come down amongst vs giuen vs many tokens of his anger the last winter so hard and extream that neither man nor beast was almost able to abide his frost he hath called for a Dearth and destroyed our prouision of bread he hath caused the waters to swell and passe ouer their ful-sea-markes where they should haue stayed their proude waues and by fearefull inundations to dispeople whole Valleys he hath made the Windes to blow so tempestuously as if he would turne the foundations of the earth vp-side downe and discouer the very channels of the Sea Our bodies haue beene afflicted with consumptions hot burning feauers the botch of Egypt and many grieuous and loathsome diseases yea the arrowes of pestilence haue plentifully flowen abroade and wounded many thousands vnto death treasons against our King and Countrey haue beene manie and mighty monstrous to be imagined from a number of Lions whelpes lurking in their Dennes and watching their houre when to vndoe vs neyther hast thou London gone scot-free or sate as a Queen and seene no euill but so deepely tasted of the cuppe of Gods anger that thy louers and friends haue stood a farre off beene afraide of thy plague and lamented thee Alas alas that great Citie yea euen yet the Lords wrath is not turned away but his hand is stretched out against thee still Lord in iudgement remember mercy and be not angry for euer Lastly hath not the Lord knocked by his spirit I doe appeale vnto your owne consciences what deepe sighes what godly motions purposes desires yea and resolutions you haue had in your hearts from the hearing of the word consideration of his mercies and fight of his iudgements how often you haue said in your selues truely I will neuer so sinne any more I will euer hereafter more zealously performe and practise such and such a duety I will now not faile to reforme such and such an infirmity and whence are these things but from Gods spirite Let vs then rather accuse and condemne our selues for quenching the good motions of his spirit and for stubbornely resisting them and in all things giue glory vnto God for his goodnesse and patience towards vs for if euer any people then ought the inhabitants of England and the Citizens of London confesse with their tongues and subscribe with their soules to the truth of this proposition Oh Lord by thy word by thy mercies by thy corrections and by thy spirit thou standest at our doores and knockest So much for the first generall part of my Text. Now although it ought to be sufficient vnto vs all to moue vs to open vnto him to heare him say that he standeth at the doore and knocketh yet our louing Sauiour knowing the dulnes of flesh blood vnto that which concerneth mans eternall good and also considering how apt the nature of man is to be stirred vp by rewardes the rather to moue and allure vs vnto this holy duety of opening vnto him hee doth in the second place propose promises of ample reward If any man heare my voice and open the doore I will come in vnto him and will suppe with him and he with