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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10384	A gleaning in Gods harvest Foure choyce handfuls; the gate to happinesse. Wounded saviour. Epicures caution. Generation of seekers. By the late judicious divine, Henry Ramsden, sometime preacher in London.	Ramsden, Henry, d. 1638.; Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1639 (1639)	STC 20660; ESTC S115629	109,922	246

wee seeke the things above or no but this our owne thoughts are the image of our soules and our words are the image of our thoughts hee that seekes these things above as hee ought he cannot but make them the ordinary subject of the one and the frequent argument of the other And here were our brests transparent and our thoughts written in Characters Lord for one thought that wee spend on things above how many thousand thousand doe wee spend about the profits and pleasures nay about our sinfull lusts Or if wee thinke they lye hid in the secrecie and reservednesse of our thoughts alas our language betrayes us how rare a matter is it for heaven to bee made theame of our discourse If our hearts did runne full to the things above they could not chuse but often over-runne the bankes And these are the Characters whereby wee may take the height of our thoughts and know whether wee seeke the things above or no. Vse Exhortation to seeke these thing● I conclude all with one word of exhortation The best things when they come to bee degenerate and to turne edge they become the worst Man the glory and Paragon of the creatures transgressing the the law of his maker though hee lost the whole world in his owne ruine and downefall yet hee drew the greatest weight of misery upon himselfe For whereas all other creatures by the sole discipline of nature seeke perfection and the thing it consists in Man onely bands against himselfe and stands in neede of wooing Alas that wee should neede to bee solicited to seeke the things above that wee cannot finde except wee seeke and are eternally lost our selves except wee finde The truth is these are seeking times as indeede what times are not some seeke pleasure some profit some honour a fourth is for favour and so the rest among all which set but aside our passion and preposessed thoughts and what shall wee see in them to command our affections or deserve them What is pleasure but a silken halter that if wee looke not well to will strangle us in the imbracing What are riches but as Saint Austin saith except they bee in a wise and wary hand agents and Pandors to execute our lusts As the same same Father saith Gold is clay that wee can hardly handle without soyling of us What is honour but a glorious misery a pleasant discontent What is fame but a windie meteor wrapped upon high which in a while vanisheth and comes to nothing Suppose a man wanted the things above and were placed amidst the confluence of all the contentments below Nay suppose hee wanted one of these things above the peace of conscience the assurance of the remission of his sinnes I say place that man amidst the confluence of all contentments below and see how miserable his case would bee Let his cup overflow with Belshazer let the whole world pay tribute to his Table let him get mountaines of Gold and Silver and let all the world be but one Exchequer let him trample on Crownes and Scepters and let all the Kings and Princes doe him homage and at his frowne let the earth tremble and move Here were content enough you would thinke But let this man want one thing the peace of conscience and see how soone all these contentments vanish as the dew before the Sunne Let but God awaken this man out of his deceitfull slumber and bid his conscience muster his sinnes and set them before him in their gastly shape let him give it charge to take him and as an earnest of his future torments shake him over the pit that one day hee must tumble headlong in I say how soon wil his contentments vanish How frayle are they in his greatest neede If hee call for Gold conscience will not be bribed if hee solace himselfe with royall banquets conscience as an unwelcome guest dogges him or as that dismal summons that appeared to Belshazer disrelisheth all the rest Let him settle his temples with a Crowne of Gold and take the royall Scepter into his hand conscience is like a master that will know no partner and acknowledge no commander So all things here in our greatest height they are unsound but in our chiefest neede they are false and trecherous Our wisedome therefore ought to bee in the middest of the infinite varietie of these objects in the pursuite of them to speed our selves to besure to get somewhat that will quit our charge that will stand us in stead here and comfort us hereafter And can there bee a fayrer object for our seeking then grace and glory called here the things above Who would not thinke grace worth the seeking to bee reconciled to God to bee freed from the power and dominion of sinne to have our soules inriched with heavenly graces and ourselues inherit a Crowne of glory All which fruits of grace must here be sought and may be found But what is there below How much better is it to goe up to the things above as the Angell did to heaven in the flame of the Altar O Lord wee cannot seeke the things above till wee have found them and when wee have found them wee must still seeke them thou by thy preventing grace must inable us to seeke and by thy grace also give us successe to finde Lord wee pray thee open our eyes that wee may seeke the things above and then let us finde them Say Lord seeke yet my face and thy face Lord will wee seeke And if wee seeke thy face here then wee shall bee satisfied hereafter with thine Image And so satisfie still our desires and so desire wee that wee may not want what wee can desire till we be swallowed up of that Ocean of happinesse and loose our selves in enjoying of thee But if all this will not stirre us there is somewhat yet that will let us looke further with Moses eye to the recompence of reward I say let us looke further take the perspective of our faith view those glorious Crownes and Scepters and long white robes the garments of Christs victory reserved in heaven for all those that in the meanes of grace here seeke those things that are above and an entrance into glory When wee finde our selves dull in seeking the things above let us betake our selves upon the wing in a flight to heaven and there bathe our soules in those pleasures that runne in a full Channell at Gods right hand for ever If wee taste but one drop of them wee should distaste all the bitter sweets below Let us goe to God with those glorious Queresters and beare a part in those sweete Hymmes and say thus Glory and honour and power and wisedome and might and majestie and dominion bee to our Lord and to the Lambe that sits upon the Throne for ever and ever even so Amen FINIS

corruption and sinne let us labour to wash them in this living spring and fountaine And then it is a fountaine opened not a sealed fountaine as wee reade in Scripture And then againe as it is a fountaine opened for the killing of sinne so for the quickning to a new life Looke as it was with that River that Naaman washed himselfe in he was not onely cleansed of his Leprosie but his flesh came againe as the flesh of a childe so every one that is washed in the blood of Christ he is not onely cleansed from the Leprosie and corruption of sinne but his flesh comes as the flesh of a childe the life that he formerly had in Adam comes againe to him by the vertue of Christ That is the first Vse if our death to sinne and life in grace proceede both from Christ this should be a motive to us to labour to be in Christ that we may die to sinne and live with him Vse 2 Secondly if our death to sinne To roturne the prayse of grace to Christ and life in grace proceede from Christ then when wee finde in our selves sinne in any sort mortified and that wee are inabled to performe holy duties wee know from whom wee have it let us know to whom we ought to returne the glory of it Let us say as David through thee we have done valiantly It is through Christ and by vertue from him that wee overcome our lusts or else they are too strong for us If wee be enabled to doe holy duties let us lift up our eyes to heaven and say through thee O Christ wee are enabled to doe this As all the vertue whereby wee dye to sinne and live the life of grace is from Christ so it is equall that all the glory should bee returned to Christ It is the greatest sacriledge in the world to attribute any thing to us To mortifie sinne it is a part of Christs kingly power of his kingly office Now hee that chalengeth any vertue and power to mortifie sinne in himselfe or to raise himselfe to a new lise of grace hee is guilty of high treason hee usurpes on the Kings prerogative It is Christs prerogative onely to mortifie sinne in us Thirdly if it come of Christ alone our death to sinne and our Iffe of grace then wee see what to judge of them that are out of Christ sinne is neyther mortified in them nor they quickned to a new life of grace If all water proceede from one Fountaine then that that is seperate from that Fountaine must of necessitie be dry If Christ be the Fountaine of all Grace by which our sinnes are mortified and wee quickned to a new life then they that are out of Christ they cannot have eyther death to sinne or the life of grace Whatsoever is in them it is dead if there bee any thing that is good whatsoever it is it is dead whatsoever is alive in them it is but dead it makes them dead to grace here and assures them that except they be revived they shall goe from one death to another from spirituall death to eternall for evermore FINIS THE WOUNDED SAVIOVR ESAY 53.5 But he was wounded for our transgressions IT was not without good reason that among all the Prophets in the Old Testament our Prophet Isay onely should bee stiley by ancient and moderne writers the Evangelicall Prophet He that reades this Chapter whereof my Text is a portion will confesse as much The Chapter conteines a description of Christ of his coming into and his harsh entertainement in the world his sufferings and resurrection so fully and punctually that at the first view a man would think it were rather a History than a Prophesie and rather a relation of some what past then a prediction of any thing to come Wherein for the better distinct understanding of the method and coherence of the words know that Isay the Eagle-eyed Prophet as one calls him having in the second verse of this Chapter shewed how meane and contemptible in the eyes of men Christs incarnation should be In the fourth verse hee shewes what the judgement and censure of the world should bee concerning Christ how basely and indignly they should conceive of him not as hee was indeede the innocent immaculate Lambe of God but as a notorious malefactor one that for his owne sins was stricken of God and humbled But how unjust and impious their opinion was the Prophet shewes in Vers 5. whereof my Text is a part First by remooving the false cause of his suffering which was supposed to be his owne sinne in this particle But We judged him to be stricken and afflicted of God But As if he should say there was no such thing He first remooves the false cause of his suffering which was his owne sinne we judged it to be his owne sinne and deserving But. Secondly by assigning the true cause in these words Hee was wounded for our transsions not for any sinne of his owne but for our transgressions you see the coherence of the words and the context In which observe three parts for they being a discription of Christs sufferings First consider the patient or partie suffering Hee Christ God and man the second person in the Trinitie Hee was wounded Secondly the passion it selfe in these words He was wounded whereby not onely though principally is understood the torments that as n = * Preached on a good-Friday this day hee suffered on the Crosse but withall all the calamities and miseries that befell him through the whole course of his life For howsoever it be true that the great Captaine of our salvation as the Apostle saith Heb. 2.10 Hob. 2.10 did never till the last enter into the maine battell with the spirituall enemies of our salvation yet hee had many skirmishes with them before off in his life-time he did taste and sippe as it were of the cuppe of Gods wrath but hee did never till then drinke and sucke up the dregges Hee was wounded for our transgressions Thirdly the cause or reason of these sufferings Our transgressions not for any sinnes or demerits of his owne no but hee was wounded for our sinnes and transgressions I shall not presently descend to these particulars I find a But in the entrance of the Text But hee was wounded for our transgressions Gold-smiths weigh their gold to the utmost weight and the priviledges of Scripture are such that there is not a word or tittle but it is as ful of weight as it is certaine of accomplishment This But is like a counterblast of a contrary wind that meetes a Ship in her full sayle and turnes her course another way Thus it runnes Wee judged him stricken of God as deserving it by his owne sins But. It checks and controlls the hard conceit that the world entertained of Christ who looked on him in the false glasse of envie and tooke him or mistooke him to bee a Wine bibber a Glutton a