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A45318	The shaking of the olive-tree the remaining works of that incomparable prelate Joseph Hall D. D. late lord bishop of Norwich : with some specialties of divine providence in his life, noted by his own hand : together with his Hard measure, vvritten also by himself.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. Via media.	1660 (1660)	Wing H416; ESTC R10352	355,107	501

we finde the face of God clouded from us let our souls refuse comfort till we have recovered his favour which is better then life do we find our selves upon our sound repentance received to grace and favour of the Almighty and that he is well pleased with our persons and with our poor obediences and that he smiles upon us in Heaven courage dear Brethren in spight of all the frowns and menaces of the World we are safe and shall be happy here is comfort for us in all tribulation 2 Cor. 1.4 with that chosen vessel we are troubled on every side yet not distressed ●e are perplexed but not in despair persecuted but not forsaken 2. Cor. 4.8 cast down but not destroyed for which cause we faint not but though our outward man perish 16. yet the inward man is renewed day by day for our light Affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us 18. a farr more exceeding and eternall weight of glory to the full possession whereof the God that hath ordained us graciously bring us for the sake of the Son of his love Jesus Christ the righteous To whom with the Father and the holy Ghost three persons and one glorious God be given all praise honour glory and dominion now and for evermore A Second SERMON In prosecution of the same Text PREACHT AT St. GREGORIES CHURCH IN NORWICH July 21. 1644. By JOS. B. of N. EPHES. 4.30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed to the day of Redemption WE have done with the Dehortation it self and therein with the Act forbidden Grieve not and with the title of the Subject the Holy Spirit of God We descend to the inforcement of the Dehortation by the great merit of the Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed to the day of Redemption Those that are great and good we would not willingly offend though meer strangers to us but if they be besides our great friends and liberal Benefactors men that have deserved highly of us we justly hold it a foul shame and abominable ingratitude wilfully to do ought that might affront them It is therefore added for a strong disswasive from Grieving the Spirit of God that by him we are sealed to the day of redemption All the world shall in vain strive to do for us what our great Friend in Heaven hath done our loathness therefore to grieve him must be according to the depth of our obligation to him Cast your eyes then a little upon the wonderful Benefit here specified and see First what this day of Redemption is Secondly what is the sealing of us to this day and Thirdly why the sealing of us to this day should be a sufficient motive to withhold us from grieving the Holy Spirit of God These three must be the limits of my Speech and your Atrention Redemption signifies as much as a Ransome A Ransome implies a Captivity or Servitude There is a threefold Captivity from which we are freed Of Sin of Misery of Death For the first We are sold under sin saith our Apostle No Slave in Argier is more truly sold in the Market under a Turkish Pyrate then we are naturally sold under the Tyranny of sin by whom we are bound hand and foot and can stir neither of them towards God and dungeon'd up in the darkness of our ignorance without any Glimpse of the vision of God For the second the very name of Captivity implyes Misery enough what outward evil is incident into a man which bondage doth not bring with it Wo is me there was never so much captivity in this land since it was a Nation nor so woful a Captivity as this of brethren to brethren Complaints there are good store on both sides of restraint want ill-lodging hard and scant diet Irons insultations scornes and extremities of ill usage of all kindes and what other is to be found in the whole course of this wretched life of ours the best whereof is vanity and the worst infinite vexations But Thirdly if some men have been so externally happy as to avoid some of these miseries for all men smart not alike yet never man did or can avoid the third which is obnoxiousness to death By the offence of one saith the Apostle judgment came upon all men to condemnation Rom. 5.18 Sin hath raigned unto death Ps 21. It is more then an Ordinance a statute law in Heaven Statutum est c. It is enacted to all men once to dye Heb. 9.27 This then is our bondage or captivity now comes our redemption from all these at once when upon our happy dissolution we are freed from sin from misery from death and enter into the possession of glory thus our Saviour Lift up your heads for the day of your redemption draweth nigh thus saith St. Paul The creature it self also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption unto the glorious liberty of the Sons of God Rom. 8.21 It is the same condition of the members of Christ which was of the head that they overcome death by dying when therefore the bands of death are loosed and we are fully freed from the dominion of the first death and danger of the second and therein from all the capacity not only of the rule and power of sin but of the life and in-dwelling of it and from all the miseries both bodily and spirituall that attend it and when in the same instant our soul takes possession of that glory which shall once in the consociation of it's glorious partner the body be perfectly consummated Then and not till then is the day of our redemption Is there any of us therefore that complaines of his sad and hard condition here in the world paines of body grief of mind agonies of soul crosses in estate discontentments in his families suffering in his good name let him bethink himself where he is this is the time of his captivity and what other can be expected in this case Can we think there is no difference betwixt liberty bondage Can the slave think to be as free as his Patron Ease rest liberty must be lookt for elsewhere but whiles we are here we must make no account of other then these varieties of misery our redemption shall free us from them all But now perhaps some of you are ready to say of the Redemption as they did of the Resurrection that it is past already and so indeed it is one way in respect of the price laid out by the Son of God the invaluable price of his blood for the redemption of man but so that it must be taken out by and applied to every soul inparticular if we will have the benefit redound to us It is his Redemption before it is now only our Redemption when it is brought home to us Oh then the dear and happy day of this our finall redemption wherein we shall be absolutely freed from all the miserable sorrowes paines cares fears

the Gospell begin to cast wanton eyes upon their glorious superstitions and contrary to the lawes of God and our Soveraign throng to their exoticall devotions What shall we say Increpa Domine Master rebuke them And ye to whom God hath given grace to see and bewail the lamentable exorbitances of their superstitions settle your souls in the noble resolution of faithfull Joshua I and my house will serve the Lord. Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free Hath the Gospell of God freed us from the worship of stocks and stones from the mis-religious invocation of those who we know cannot hear us from the sacrilegious mutilation of the blessed sacrament From the tyrannical usurpations of a sinfull vice-god From the dangerous relyance upon the inerrable sentence of him that cannot say true from the idle fears of imaginary Purgatories from buying of pardons and selling of sins shortly from the whole body of damnable Antichristianisme and shall our unstable mouths now begin to water at the Onions and Garlick of our forsaken Egypt Oh Dear Christians if ye love your solus if ye fear hell stand fast in this liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free What mercy soever may abide well-meaning ignorance let the wilfull revolter make account of damnation I cannot without yearning of bowels think of the dear price that our holy fore-fathers stak't down for this liberty of the Gospel no lesse then their best and last blood And shall we their unthrifty progeny lavish it out carelessly in a willing neglect and either not care to exchange it for a plausible bondage or squander it out in unncecessary differences Do but cast your eyes back upon the fresh memory of those late flourishing times of this goodly kingdome when pure religion was not more cheerfully professed then inviolably maintained how did we then thrive at home and triumph abroad How were we then the terrour the envy of Nations Our name was enough to affright to amate an enemy But now since we have let fall our first love and suffered the weak languishments and qualmes of the truth under our hands I fear and grieve to tell the issue Oh then suffer your selves O ye noble and beloved Christians to be rouzed up from that dull and lethargick ind●fferencie wherein ye have thus long slept and awake up your holy courages for God and his sacred truth And since we have so many comfortable and assured ingagements from our pious Soveraign Oh let not us be wanting to God to his Majesty to our selves in our utmost endeavours of advancing the good successe of the blessed Gospell of Christ Honour God with your faithfull and zealous prosecutions of his holy truth and he shall honour you and besides the restauration of that antient glory to our late-clouded Nation shall repay our good Offices done to his name with an eternal weight of glory in the highest heavens to the possession whereof he that hath ordained us in his good time mercifully bring us for the sake of the Son of his love Jesus Christ the just To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost one infinite God be given all praise honour and glory now and for ever Amen DIVINE LIGHT AND REFLEXIONS IN A SERMON Preacht to his MAJESTY at WHITE-HALL On Whitsunday 1640. By JOS. EXON 1 John 1.5 God is Light IF ye mark it your very Calender so as the wisdom of the Church hath contrived it is a notable Catechism And surely if the plain man would but ply his Almanack well that alone would teach him Gospell enough to show him the history of his Saviour If one day teach another all dayes would teach him There should he see his blessed Saviours conception Annuntiated by the Angel March 25. Fourty weekes after that he should see him born of the Virgin accordingly at the feast of the Nativity eight dayes after that circumcised on New years day then visited and adored by the Sages in the Epiphanie then presented into the Temple on the day of Purification then tempted and fasting fourty dayes in Lent He should see him usher'd in by his fore-runner the holy Baptist six Moneths before his Nativity attended by his twelve Apostles in their severall ranks and Thomas the last for his unbelief And at last after infinite and beneficiall miracles he should see him making his Maundy with his disciples on the Thursday and crucified on Good Friday he should see that on Easter Morning God the Father raises up his Son Jesus from the dead Act 5.30 On Ascention day God the Son mounts up to Heaven in glory Act. 1.9 On Whitsunday God the holy Ghost descends upon the Apostles Act. 2.3.4 And his belief in all these summed up in the celebration of the blessed Trinity the Sunday following I shall not over-labour to reduce the Text to the day Fire and light have so near affinity that they are scarce ever separated The same Spirit of God who appeared as this day in the shape of fierie tongues to the disciples may be now pleased by my tongue to manifest himself to your souls in light And as that fire was very lightsome else it could not have been seen in the day-time so may this exhibition of light be accompanied with a fire of holy zeal both in my tongue and your hearts In my last Sermon at the Court I gave you the Character of man I shall now indeavour to give you some touches of the Character of God There is nothing in this world so much concerns a man as to settle his heart in a right apprehension of his God which must be the ground of all his piety and devotion without which all his pretenses of Religion are so nothing worth as that in them God is made our Idoll and we the mis-worshippers of him without which shortly our whole life is mis-spent in error and ignorance and ends in a miserable discomfort Whence it is that this dear disciple makes it the summ of all the Apostolicall mission which he had from his Lord and Saviour to informe the World what to think of God This then is the message which we have heard of him and declare to you that God is light Would ye know the message which the Apostles received from Christ would ye know the message which they delivered from Christ to the World it is in these three syllables of my Text. God is light It is not possible that our finite conceit should comprehend God essentially as he is in himself No motion of our weak humanity can thus reach his infiniteness our ambition must be only to conceive of him according to those expressions which he hath made of himself wherein it hath pleased his wisdom to condescend to our shallow capacity by borrowing from those creatures which come nearest to his most pure simple spirituall nature Amongst which none is more proper or more frequent then this of Light Not only therefore hath it pleased God to expresse those Heavenly

the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation before the Lord where I will meet you to speak there with thee Lo God meets us in the holy Assemblies Meets us yea stayes with us there Zach. 2.10 The prophet speaking of the dayes of the Gospell Sing and rejoyce saith he O Daughter of Sion for Lo I come and will dwell in the midst of thee saith the Lord Contrarily when he withdrawes from any people the ordinary means of salvation he is truly said to depart from them but this perhaps not at once but by degrees as in Ezekiels vision he removes first to the threshold and from thence to the door of the East-gate and this I would have you know to be done not only in a meer silence but in a corruption of doctrine not only when faithfull mouths are stopped but when mens mouths are lawlesly opened to the venting whether of popish fancies or satyricall invectives against authority for you may not think that all discourses are preaching or all preaching Gospell when men preach themselves and not Christ when they utter their own impetuous fury and not the glad tidings of peace how shall we call this the message of God No God was not in the winde he was not in the fire he was in the soft voice And he that walks betwixt the golden Candlesticks doth not go away only when the light is quite out but when the snuff burns unsavourily in the socket Shortly where the sincere milk of the Gospell is given to Gods babes and the solid meat of true Orthodox and saving doctrine is set before the stronger men there God visits his people in mercy and is drawn nigh to them in his holy Ordinance Secondly in his audience we use to say out of sight out of mind and those that are out of distance what noise so ever they make are not heard The ravished Virgin in the field saith God cryed out and there was none to save her Deut. 22.27 but when we come neer the least groan and sigh is heard Thus God who is never but with us is said to come neer us when he gives proof to us that he comes not only within the ken of our necessities but within the hearing of the softest whisperings of our prayers So David every where The Lord hath heard my supplication the Lord will hear my prayer Ps 6. The Lord will hear me when I call upon him The tender mother is never away from the bed-side of her sick child but if she perceive the disease to grow dangerous now she is more attentive and layes her ear to the mouth of it and listens to every breathing that it fetcheth so doth our heavenly father to us The Lord is nigh to all that call upon him saith the Psalmist Nigh them indeed for he puts into them those holy desires which he graciously hears and answers Contrarily when that sweet singer of Israel findes some stop made of his audience he is then in another tune Wherefore hidest thou thy face and forgettest our affliction and our oppression Psal 44.24 still measuring Gods nearnesse to us by his regard and as it were re-ecchoing to our prayers A third and yet nearer and happier approach of God to us is in his Grace and favour in the other two as in his word and in our prayers he may come near us little to our availe He speaks to many in his word that hear him not or that hear him to their further judgment Our gospell is howsoever a sweet savour to God yet a savour of death unto death to many a soul wo be to thee Chorazin wo be to thee Bethsaida He hears many speak to him in their prayers but for their own punishment and sometimes will not hear in mercy to the petitioner the Devill sues to enter into the Swine and is heard Paul sues to be freed from the buffets of the messenger of Satan and is mercifully not heard the Israelites have Quailes according to their desires but sauced to them with a vengeance But this third appropinquation of God is never other then cordiall and beneficiall It is a sweet word I will dwell amongst the Children of Israell and will be their God Exod. 29.45 Yea this is true happinesse indeed that God will so dwell with us as to be ours St. Paul told the Athenians most truely non longe ab unoquoque he is not far from every one of us how should he when in him we live and move and are but little are we the better for these generall favours which are common to all his creatures if we do not finde in our selves a speciall interest in the presence of his Spirit If he only call on us as a passenger or lodge with us as a stranger or sojourne with us as a guest this can be small comfort to us nor any thing lesse then his so dwelling with us as that he dwell in us and that not as an inmate but as an owner Know ye not that Christ dwells in you saith St. Paul unlesse ye be Reprobates Know ye not that ye are the Temples of the living God his Temples for a perpetuall inhabitation of which he hath said Here shall be my rest for ever Whereupon there will be sure to follow the fourth degree of his appropinquation which is our aid and sweet experience of his mercifull deliverance It was out of a full sense of Gods goodnesse that holy David breaks out into that heavenly Epiphonema The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart and saveth such as be of a contrite Spirit many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of them all Psal 34.18 19. His salvation is nigh to them that fear him that glory may dwell in our Land Psal 85.9 So then the sum of all is this that if we draw nigh unto God he will be sure to draw nigh to us in his Ordinances in his Audience in his Graces in his Aid But what shall we say to the order of these two approaches One would have thought he should have said God drawes near to you therefore draw you near to God For surely his approach to us is the cause that we come near to him and not our approach to him causeth him to come near to us Do not think that God and man strain courtesie who shall begin or that man hath any power to draw to God but from God The true order of our regeneration is that Cantic 1.4 Draw me and I shall run after thee There have been contrary heresies in the Church concerning this point The Manichees held man in all things dragged by a necessity of destiny The Pelagians held man led altogether by his will so as that can alone enable him to do good and to feoffe him in blessednesse And our Semipelagian Papists go not much lesse save that they suppose some help given to the will which it can thus improve The Orthodox Church still hath