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A50393 Eschatos echthros, or, The death of death in the death of Christ being a narrative of the first death as the mistress of mortals and empress of the universe : conflicting of various sections and directions (as appears by the index) in order to a holy living and happy dying / by R. Mayhew ... Mayhew, R. (Richard) 1679 (1679) Wing M1439; ESTC R31202 191,631 260

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the sharpest storms The Promises are the Armory of Faith The Promises are full Breasts and Christ delights that Faith should draw them but Promises out of Christ are meer speculations 2 Cor. 1.20 They who have no propriety in the Prince of Life have no propriety in the Promise of Life for All the promises of God in Christ are yea and in him Amen Providential mercies may fall upon other creatures but the promises of Life and Life in the promises is settled upon the Church as her Dowry To Abraham and his seed his believing seed were the promises made Gal. 3.16.29 And if ye be Christs then are ye Abrahams seed and heirs according to the promise Those actually Christs are not to judge of the Fidelity of God according to his providences but according to his promises nor to measure the Heart of God towards them by the Hand of God upon them But suffer an innocent Enquiry after the greatness of the promises and in the greatness of them read the preciousness of them There is a three-fold promise Civil Religious Divine to these distinctly Civil This is a word from man to man A Civil promise is a word passed from man unto man concerning the performance of some lawful thing as in Contracts and in other Affairs Thus Laban made promise to Jacob to give him his Daughters Thus Saul made promise to David that he would not hurt him nor hunt after his Soul to take it Thus also Jonathan made promise to David Saul spake unto Jonathan his Son and to all his Servants to kill David Jonathan delighting much in David 1 Sam. 19.1 2 3. intimates this unto David and advisith him to abscond until the morning promising him to commune with his Father and what he should see to tell him Religious This is a word passed from man to God A Religious promise is a word passed from man to God concerning some Duty relating to his Honour This is called a Vow I will go into thy h●use with burnt-offerings I will pay thee my Vows Psal 66.13 14. which my lips have uttered and my mouth hath spoken when I was in trouble Divine This is a word passed from God to man A divine promise is a word passed from God to man concerning the performing of some Good or removing of some Evil Spiritual or Corporal Stablish thy word unto thy servant who is devoted to thy fear Remember thy word unto thy servant upon which thou hast caused me to hope Psa 119.38 49. Now they are divine promises I am engaging That some promises are divine is evident for they are of God and from God If the Inheritance be of the Law it is no more of promise Gal. 3.18 but God gave it to Abraham by promise Take now a Tast of divine promises and read the preciousness of them in the greatness of them Divine Promises they are greater than a Believers Expressions Man is vast in expression but divine Promises are vaster Isa 36.13 than the Expressions of man Did Rabshakeh say concerning Sennacherib Hear ye the words of the King yea of the great King the King of Assyria what then may be said concerning Jehovah Thus saith Jehovah the great God the greatest God the God of Gods Mans saying is but saying Gods saying is doing A Writing may speak when man cannot when man may not yea which is worse than all when man is not Man may express a promise but the promise it self is above expression Some have expressed the greatness of persons and the greatness of places yea some have pretended to express the greatness of the Sun and Moon but who can express the greatness of the Promise Was not Paul next unto Christ the greatest Orator that ever was concerned in Evangelical work and yet when he comes to concern himself with the greatness of the Promise he seems to me to be as it were at a loss This profound Orator seems to me to be as it were puzled 2 Cor. 4.17 and posed For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory Here is glory yea a weight of glory yea an eternal weight of glory yea an exceeding and eternal weight of glory yea a more exceeding and eternal weight of glory yea a far more exceeding eternal weight of glory But so far as I can English it according to the Greek Text thus For our forthwith light affl●ction worketh for us as it were Excellency into Excellency eternal weight of glory Here are 1. The Subjects Affliction and Glory 2 The Kind of these Subjects Affliction is light Glory is a weight 3 The Continuance of these Subjects the one is for a moment the other is eternal Here is no parity all is to demonstrate that in this comparison all degrees of comparison are exceeded Here is Hyperbole upon Hyperbole which emphatical Graecism because other Tongues cannot word by word express to the full they are forced to use words and phrases which exceed all comparison May not now the preciousness of the Promise be read in the greatness of the Promise Divine Promises they are greater than a Believers Conceptions Man is said to be vaster in conception than in expression but divine promises are so great that they are not only above the Tongue of man but also above the Heart of man they do not only out-bid the Oratory and Expression of man but also the Intellectuals and Conception of man Solomon Israels Sage saith The Eye Eccl. 1.8 is not satisfied with seeing nor the Ear filled with hearing The Eye may see great things the Ear may hear greater things and greater than those seen or heard may enter into the Heart Oh! but there is that couched and wrapped up in the Promise which Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard nor Heart conceived Let the Apostle speak who was graciously read in these things Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard neither hath it entred into the Heart of man the things that God hath prepared for them that love him but God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit 1 Cor. 2.9 10. for the Spirit searcheth all things yea the depths of God so the Greek But what are these Depths of God They are the Promises together with the Grace and Glory couched in the Promises Divine Promises are Divine Depths Is not now the preciousness of the Promise legible in the greatness of it Divine Promises they are greater than a Believers wants The wants of Believers are many times great very great exceeding great Sometimes they want outward Mercies Oh saith one my Barrel is empty my Cruse is empty I have Bread for to Day but none for to Morrow Oh saith the Widdow to the Man of God 1 Kings 19.12 I have but an handful of Meal in a Barrel and a little Oil in a Cruse and behold I am gathering two Sticks that I may go in and