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A86270	Repentance and conversion, the fabrick of salvation: or The saints joy in heaven, for the sinners sorrow upon Earth. Being the last sermons preached by that reverend and learned John Hewyt, D.D. Late minister of St. Gregories by St. Pauls. With other of his sermons preached there. Dedicated to all his pious auditors, especially those of the said parish. Also an advertisement concerning some sermons lately printed, and presented to be the doctors, but are disavowed by Geo. Wild. Jo. Barwick.	Hewit, John, 1614-1658.; Wilde, George, 1610-1665.; Barwick, John, 1612-1664.	1658 (1658)	Wing H1637; Thomason E1776_1; ESTC R209722	86,537	249

Fortior est qui se quam qui fortissima vincit Moenia He is the greatest Conqueror that can subdue his own passions and keep his body in subjection as St. Paul did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he I chastise my body from whence Friars draw their authority of chastising themselves though without cause and so take the word to be such a chastisement as School-masters use to boys We ought all of us against the grain of our flesh to mould and fashion our selves to repentance that so we may obtain a Trinity of Graces to save us Faith Hope and Charity and this Trinity of Grace will deliver us from a Trinity of Evils Blindness Error and Unbelief and if we be delivered from these we shall be freed from the predominancy of the World the Flesh and the Devil and if we be preserv'd from these we shall undoubtedly be crowned by the blessed Trinity God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost to whom be Glory Honour and Praise World without end Amen GOD AND MAN Mutually Embracing In the first Epistle of St. John the 4 Chap. and the 19 vers it is thus written We love him because he first loved us LOve is the punctum or centre SERM. III. about which the circumference of our thoughts doth move and the primus motor that induceth us to fix our spirits upon an object Love is to our souls as weight is to ponderous bodies for as the gravity of a body forceth it downward that it may enjoy a sweet repose in its centre so Love moves our souls to an object that promiseth repose and contentment therefore from hence it follows that as ponderous bodies move in a straight line toward their centre so if we will obtain a true rest our Love must be regular and proceed in a direct line by a divinely-composed motion This Text Beloved that I come from reading to you is the Epitome of Christian Religion or the great Folio of Christian duty reduced into a Decimo-sexto or pocket-volume In this Text there are two parts and these two parts are the two pillars of the Church and the whole Christian World 1. Our love toward God in these words We love him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Gods love toward us which is but the reason or rather efficient cause of our love toward him because he first loved us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Not to stand upon the nice and fine-spun distinctions that the School-men make of Love we shall only divide it into two sorts Divinum and Humanum amorem into Love Divine and Humane the divine is couched down by the holy Spirit of God in the latter part of the verse because he loved us and the humane in the former We love him We will begin with the latter humane love or the love of man to God Spiritual or true love gives repose and contentment to the soul when as carnal or false love is an irregular agitation and an inconsiderate motion without a Terminus ad quem it is ever repleat with inquietude and distraction and never ceaseth or resteth till it despairs or is quite tired out which is not properly a rest but an impotency and inability of motion and the desire is strong when the power is weak like a horse that tied to a manger gnaweth his bridle asunder such are most persons their desires are strong their power but weak they desire most what they can least perform The cause of this disturbance is this Our Love selecteth out Reasons why we love not God perfectly 1 Cause and fixeth upon false objects and such that cannot satiate the desire for if you survey all sublunary things that deserve the name of beautiful you shall find in them no true quiet or rest but a concatenation of cares interwoven with perpetual trouble The greatest delicacies are consited in bitterness The acquisition of honour and preferment is painful and many break their necks in riding upon the airy stilts of Fame The possession of riches is uncertain and the loss certain if they leave not us by some accident Death Natures Bayliff will arrest us and force us to leave them To aim at such things is but ventum prosequi To pursue the wind an action as ridiculous as can be Grant they be good yet they are incertain therefore we must seek after our repose somewhere else since the earth cannot afford it and turn the compass of our Love toward Heaven For as the lower region of the Air is the habitation of winds tempests and earth-quakes but that part that is near the Heaven is serene and quiet so our Love so long as it adheres to sublunary objects will be full of trouble but 't will find rest and quiet if it lift it self up to Heaven and lay hold of the promises of God and then the soul though in the midst of the confusions and afflictions of this world be they never so thorny will have the fruition of an assured tranquillity like the Needle of the Compass that remains firm upon one point notwithstanding the violence of the scolding surges of a Tempestuous Sea and all because it is guided by the motion of the Heavens God is the sole object or at least ought to be of our Love and hath only a power to render us amiable by loving us He that only can nay that will give them felicity and that unutterable too that love him As the Apostle St. Paul writeth in the first to the Corinth the 2 Chap. and the 9 vers Eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither hath entred into the heart of man to conceive the things that God hath prepared for them that love him He promiseth also in St. John chap. 14. vers 23. to come unto him that loveth him and make his abode with him O unparallelled Love that makes a Palace of our souls for the King of Glory and a Sanctuary of the Holy Ghost 2. 2 Cause Philosophy it self hath this down for a maxime that Natura Deus nihil fecerunt frustra that God and Nature made nothing in vain Now that infinite and insatiable desire or appetite that is in man were in vain if there were nothing to satisfie and content it Which since it is impossible to find out upon this Terraqueous Globe we must search after it in Heaven of God that is bonum infinitum an infinite good 3 Cause 3. Besides God created the world for the use of man and therefore without doubt he created man for something better then the world viz. God himself 4 Cause 4. God created man inter omnia animalia only secundum imaginem according to his own image with a straight body and an upright countenance according to mellifluous Naso Os homini sublime dedit coelumque tueri Jussit erectos ad sydera tollere vultus that so he might behold him whom he represented and that the But and White of all his actions and thoughts

an intent to contemplate his face but he transforms him into his own likeness or similitude by the irradiation of his splendor and perfection And if God be Charity and Love as the holy Apostle St. John affirms and all Christians are engaged to believe in the 1. of St. John 4 Chap. 8 vers it follows of necessity that the creature being by this beatifical vision made like unto God should be ravished with love and all on a flame with this spiritual fire Such a fire as hath imposed a name on the Seraphims to termed because of their ardor which is no other thing but the Love of God the fervor of their zeal and their promptitude and agility in his service This now should serve for a Use of exhortation to all good Christians Use viz. to labour after the love of God with all humility pious speed and integrity of heart that so they might be like unto God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Apostle expresseth it And unless you be drunk with momentary and totally deprived of a sense or imagination of the super-excellency and plerophory of joy that is in Heaven you cannot but strive by a holy life and conversation to attain unto the everlasting Crown of Glory and the seat and society of the blessed Angels in Heaven where you shall chant forth in aeternum Hallelujahs to God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost and live in felicity and joy that is unutterable to the praise and glory of Gods immortal name without care sorrow grief or distraction world without end Use 2 This serves for a Use of terror and horror to all wicked persons whose whole life hath been a perpetual wilful violation of Gods Law without any repentance of or amendment and conversion from their misdemeanours and offences They shall never enter into the joy of the Lord but have that terrible doleful doom and sentence passed upon them Go ye cursed into everlasting darkness where there is nothing but weeping and wayling and gnashing of teeth totally deprived of Gods comfortable soul-vivifying presence being entombed alive in this pit of darkness ubi miseriae ubi tenebrae ubi horror aeternus ubi nulla spes boni nulla desperatio mali where you shall be surrounded with miseries benegroed in more then cimmerian and that perpetuall darkness too overwhelmed by and implunged into eternal horror where there is no hope of restitution to a blessed or redemption from an accursed estate but there must be tormented world without end Thus have I demonstrated unto you the happiness of those that fear God and their unhappiness that go a whoring after the lusts and concupiscences of the flesh we have shewn you the five Degrees of Love toward God and our meditation cannot soar any higher this is the last round of Jacobs Ladder that conveys us to Heaven We all profess I must confess to love God but few do it seriously and cordially and by this kind of external pomp and outward shew of profession we deceive ignorant man nay we put a fallacy upon our selves But there is no humane policy or sophistry that can cheat a God wherefore it is necessary for the prevention and knowledge of such counterfeit hypocritical persons to bring them to the touch and try what metal they are composed of to discern the true sincere and pure Love of God from the false and counterfeit And as there are five degrees of our Love to God so there are five marks or tokens visible enough whereby we may discern whether or no we have the true Love of God 5 Marks of Gods Love which we shall only enumerate and so conclude for the present 1 Mark The first mark or token of our Love to God is this viz. It extinguisheth all other unchaste and inordinate Love 2 Mark The second mark and effect of this Love is the peace and tranquillity of the soul and conscience The third mark is 3 Mark our Love towards our Neighbour The fourth mark is 4 Mark the delight and pleasure that we have and take in communing and conversing with God The fifth mark is 5 Mark a zeal for the glory of God that is increased or diminished according as God is honoured or dishonoured He whosoever he be that perceives these effects wrought in him may assure himself that he loves God with a true real and religious Love and though it may happen sometimes that his love may be abated the heat of his zeal be somewhat quenched the vigor of his affection somewhat debilitated though this Love be weak yet it argues it not to be false it is true for all that for as a weak faith is a good faith so a weak love is a good love The very Apostles themselves were termed by our Saviour men of little faith though it be small so it encrease indies day by day tending to perfection 't will without doubt end in happiness and eternal joy Thus have I laid down these five degrees or marks of our true love to God which I shall desist from discoursing any farther on at present but commit you to God and leave the handling of them to the next opportunity If God permit Amen THE SAINTS COMFORT in the day of death In the book of Job the 19 Chapter and the 25 verse it is thus written I know that my Redeemer liveth c. HE alwayes goes stumblingly SERM. V. that walks in the night said Jesus Christ the true light of the World Joh. 11.10 And he that walketh in darkness knows not whither he goes said his beloved disciple If there be any thing wherein this may be clearly known is is in the mistake of judgement which those make of themselves who being destitute of the celestial light of verity suffer themselves to be led away by their own natural darkness For there is nothing more frequent in their mouths then the complaint of their misfortunes nor nothing more rare then the confession of their faults they out-speak their punishments and palliate their crimes they declare themselves miserable but would not be thought wicked you shall often hear the Philosophers call man a dream of a shaddow a weather-cock of inconstancy an example of weakness a general rendezvous of dolours and misfortunes A Democritus laughing at his folly an Heraclitus bemoaning his calamities The one termes those happy that go quickly out of the world and th' other those more happy that never come into it All too much occupied in the sense of their misery but never in searching or acknowledging their sins All accusing Nature as a stepdame but no man himself as a rebellious or disobedient child He of all men seems to have best hit of mans condition who hath qualified him the miserablest and proudest of creatures for whereas all declamations upon the pitiful estate of humane nature ought to be so many lively lessons of true humility and that cloud of misfortunes that showres on their

seek them in this perverse age where there are many that are more ready to sell their Country their Brethren and Parents for a little silver then to forsake them for the glory of God Where this rage of getting goods this infernal fury of avarice so possesses the greatest part of men that are so far from quitting their riches to follow Christ that contrarily they do not stick to truck with Jesus Christ for riches and do willingly leave the certain hope of the glory of heaven for the uncertain promise of some honour or some command in the world though but for three dayes and where at last in stead of the joy which the children of God resent in their tribulations and the actions of thanks which they render to God in the midst of his corrections we see painted upon the faces of the most modest a consternation and a sadness which witnesses that we regard his fatherly rods with a wicked eye and that these light afflictions do send us to deaths door notwithstanding the Weight of Justice which they carry nor the glory that followes them can any waies awaken nor cheer up our hearts And what is this but that faith goes by little and little failing and falling to the ground that we have no more but an appearance of piety and a shew of godliness but have renounced the force of it we believe not in the promises of God and Atheisme is but too far insinuated into the greatest part of souls that are slaves to the perishable Mammon that love your pleasures more then God unworthy to have an immortal spirit that set your affections upon things that have not so much honour as to be mortal Of all that which you sow to the flesh what do you reap but corruption What can you hope for after the contempt of the heavenly gift whereof you have tasted Of this power of the world to come which you have known of this spirit of grace which you have grieved of this blood of the Covenant which you tread under foot but an horrible expectation of the judgement of God a fervour of fire consuming his adversaries and a vengeance as much redoubled as the knowledge which you have had renders you more wicked and inexcusable You then faithful souls to whom God hath given better inspirations at this noyse and report of the faith of your fore-fathers awaken earnestly this drowziness of your own turn away your hearts from the vanity of this flower of the world that passeth see that your life is but a wind and that death shall shortly pull to ground and reduce to nothing this terrestrial and miserable masse And therefore seek while you are here below the spiritual goods of your souls that may follow you toward the Heavens And forasmuch as the light of the Gospel discovers move clearly to you then the Fathers could see under the shadows of the Law Love them therefore more ardently pursue them more constantly And since we are regenerate into a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from among the dead to obtain the incorruptible inheritance which cannot be contaminate nor withered but is reserved in the Hea●en for us Let us make lighter of the World and of her goods of these bodies and of these delights and esteem it a great gain to have lost them that we may gain Jesus Christ And that being found in him having not our own justice which is of the Law but his which is by faith we may also in him and by him obtain this good which eye hath not seen nor ear hath heard nor hath entred into the heart of man and which God hath prepared for those that love him 1 Cor. 2.9 To which God the Father the Son and Holy Ghost be honour and glory from henceforth and for evermore Amen ZION in Sack-cloath AND HER SAINTS in Tears In the 137 Psalm the first verse it is thus written By the waters of Babylon we sate down and wept when we remembred thee O Zion A Sad Text in a sadder time SERM. VII in which the rivers of Babylon swelled not so high with inundation of water in the letter as the waters in the Metaphor out-swelling and breaking down their banks have overflown both our Church and State The waies of Zion mourn and her children are set to a task of weeping whilest they behold the ruine of their Mother by the Caledonean Boars on th' one side and the mixt but wilder Herd then those of Africa the Foxes busily undermining the vineyard whilest the fowls of the air th' Atheists as did the fowls on Abrahams divided sacrifice seize on the divided Church she in the mean while doubtful to which as most powerful though alike pernicious she should yield up her life Religion for a prey And who is there now if not a stranger in Israel whose fears have not taught his eyes acquaintance with his heart to pour out water before the Lord with them at Mizpeth 1 Sam. 7.6 or whose heart hath not borrowed from his eye compassion with Jeremy Mine eye affecteth my heart because of the slain of the daughter of my people Lam. 3.5 and if so how shall not our better devotion hallow so pious an expence by sending them both up in an humble importunity of prayer to work an atonement with Heaven that we may recover the departed glory of Israel and the Ark of the Lord now captiv'd by the Philistins may be brought back to us though but upon the necks of the scarce yoked beasts Happy are those tears that are made the rich tribute of the Churches ransom happy those passionate groans that hasten to prevent a Jeremies reiterated lamentation a Jerusalems once total final expiring happy those childrens prevailing prayers that make their mother a debtor for that life she gave their offerers who as they live at her breasts so how shall they not expire in her blood if either tainted by corruption or let out by cruelty It is 't is true our unfortunate and deplorable condition to see these sad times of distraction and persecution which as they are for the tryal of our patience who are called to suffering and for the exercise of their wisdom to be honoured with publick counsel so they are for the actuating of all our devotions whose hearts would faint did not our eyes wait and our hands knock for a speedy composure and expected deliverance from the gates of Heaven And those that feel not great strivings of heart for the division of Ruben those whose bowels are restrained whose souls bleed not within themselves by compassion do with the actor of a mischief contract a guilt and by their own neutrality appropriate to themselves a curse Curse ye Merosh yea curse yea bitterly because they came not forth to help the Lord to help the Lord against the mighty Judges 5.13 a Text however sacrilegiously inverted by irreligious religious interpreters yet God does expect our help and we help