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A69196	Foure sermons viz. 1. The blessednesse of peace-makers. 2. The aduancement of Gods children. Preached before the King. 3. The sinne against the holy Ghost. Preached at Pauls Crosse. 4. The Christian petitioner. Preached at Oxford on the Act Sunday. By Iohn Denison Doctor of Diuinity, and one of his Maiesties Chaplaynes.	Denison, John, d. 1629.; Denison, John, d. 1629. Beati pacifici.; Denison, John, d. 1629. Sinne against the holy ghost plainly described.; Denison, John, d. 1629. Christian petitioner. Shewing how we must sue for reward and remission.	1620 (1620)	STC 6587; ESTC S120377	95,129	308

euery man sicke So hypocrisie lets in this sinne readily but sinceritie keepes it out as carefully The Apostle therefore admonisheth fitly in the third to the Hebrewes Heb. 12.13 Take heede that there be not in you an euill and vnfaithfull heart to depart from the liuing God And in the twelfth to the Hebrewes Heb. 3.12 he exhorts Make straight steps to your feet least that which is halting be turned out of the way shewing that a false heart voide of sincerity drawes away from God and halting hypocrisie leads vs out of the way of life Therefore whatsoeuer we professe let it be in sinceritie for commonly where religion begins in hypocrisie it ends in apostasie Cherish the feare of God An awfull and humble spirit is a singular blessing Saint Cyprian saith well Timor innocentiae custos Cyprian Epist 2. Feare is a good keeper of innocencie And Salomon saith Prou. 14.27 The feare of the Lord is a well-spring of life to auoide the snares of death This deadly sinne cannot haue accesse to that heart where the feare of God resideth For as the vaines that haue narrow passages doe hardly receiue poison So where the passages of your soules are straightned with a reuerend awe of the maiestie of God you can neuer be infected with the poison of this blasphemy which is euer accompanied with haughty pride Therefore I may say with Salomon Prou. 28.14 Blessed is the man that feareth alwayes but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into euill Be carefull to entertaine the motions of Gods blessed spirit For how can you with hope and comfort knocke at the doore of mercy if you will not heare the spirit of God knocking at the doore of your hearts What true ioy can your hearts haue when you grieue the spirit of God by sending him away and what know you if you send him away whether he will euer returne to you againe When you haue entertained the good motions of Gods spirit be carefull to cherish them Behold how our Sauiour rowseth vp the Church of Sardis in the third of the Reuelation Reuel 3.2 Be awake and strengthen the things which remaine that are ready to dye The Lord cannot abide any losse in these rich Iewels And therefore Saint Paul exhorts 1 Thes 5.19 quench not the spirit as the holy fire which came from heauen was carefully preserued in the Temple So must you see that in your soules the temples of the holy Ghost his heauenly graces be carefully cherished Yea the Lord lookes for an improuement of his graces according to the Apostles exhortation Grow in grace 2 Pet. 3.18 and in the knowledge of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ Lastly Ephes 6. get the spirit of prayer and supplication which is the speciall part of the Apostles compleat armour Magnum oratio propugnaculum Chrys Idem de orando Deum lib. 2. This is a mighty fortresse against the assaults of Sathan yea it is saith Chrysostome the life and sinewes of our soules Prayer is an especiall meanes to inlighten the vnderstanding with knowledge and to water the heart with grace Eusebius Euseb hist Eccles 5.5 shewes that the Christians by Prayer obtained fulmen aduersus hostis imbrem ad refocillandum exercitum lightning against the enemie and raine to refresh the armie So be carefull daily and duely to power forth your prayers to God and you shall be fortified against this and other sinnes you shall be furnished with grace and established with the Lords free spirit for euer 3. Here is matter of consolation for euery penitent heart because Repentance is a most certaine supersedeas and euidence of freedome from this fearefull sinne which if you haue obtained though you haue wounded spirits as Salomon e Prou. 18.14 speakes though your soules were subiect to a thousand Vlcers as Chrysostome f Paulus eos curauit qui sexcenta vlcera habebant Chrys in Philip. Hom. 4. saith yet may I say of your sinnes as our Sauiour said of Lazarus sicknesse g Iohn 11. they are not vnto death For if they were your hearts would be like the Anuile in beating backe the hammer of repentance Onely this sinne doth distinguish betweene the sinnes of the elect and the reprobate There is no other into which the childe of God may not fall but into this hee cannot As the Lord said to Abimelech h Gen. 20.6 I kept thee that thou shouldest not sinne So may I say truely The Lord keepes all his seruants that they cannot fall into this sinne Their spirituall building may by diuers temptations be sore shaken and battered but the same can neuer be vtterly demolished because they haue laid their foundation vpon the vnmoueable rocke Are there any here that would gladly be assured in their soules that they are free from this sinne as I know by ample experience that tender hearts are apt to entertaine troublesome feares hearken then vnto me and I will giue you in a few words a most infallible direction for your assurance Examine your selues and search your hearts if you haue faith to beleeue Gods promises Repentance to bewaile your sinnes assure your selues you are free you are farre from the committing of this sinne against the holy Ghost The force of faith our Sauiour shewes in the fift of Iohn with a double asseueration for confirmation thereof i Iohn 5.25 Verily verily I say vnto you He that heareth my word and beleeueth in him that sent me hath euerlasting life and shall not come into condemnation k August in Psal 205. Oppugnat diabolus non expugnat He that gets the fort of faith shall be safe as Saint Augustine saith Sathan may assault him he can neuer subdue him The woman with the bloudy issue may be a comfortable instance in this respect l Mark 5.33 She came trembling and said If I may but touch the hem of his garment I shall be safe It is good when the heart speaks rather then the tongue But what said she If I may but touch a weake action the hemme of his garment the remotest part with a trembling hand a feeble apprehension yet saies shee If I may doe this I shall be whole So be you assured that if you can lay hold vpon Christ Iesus with the hand of a true faith though it be feeble vertue shall come forth of his wounds to cure the wounds of your soules and the bloudy issue of your sinnes When the man in the Gospell m Marke 9. brought vnto Christ his sonne possessed with a dumbe spirit whom the Disciples could not cast out he besought him thus If thou canst doe any thing Vers 22. helpe vs and haue compassion vpon vs. To whom our Sauiour answered If thou canst beleeue Vers 23. all things are possible to him that beleeueth If thou canst saith the poore man nay if thou canst saith our blessed Sauiour If the man haue beliefe in

the eye in the Head and the heart in the Body the noblest and worthiest of all the children of God And this their worth shall bee published to the world It shall be published by the sonnes of Peace by the sons of perdition by the Son of God himselfe Thus as the Laurell was to the Roman Emperors both Munimentum Ornamentum a Defence against danger and an Ornament of honour So shall this Oliua Pacis be to the children of God Quanta est huius pacis retributio saith S. Austin August de ●emp Ser. 169. haereditatem possidere cum Christo substantiam patris habere cum filio caelesti regno participare cum Domino And what can your hearts desire more then this To be the children of God and the best affected of his children heyres of Grace and Glory co-heyres annexed with Iesus Christ partakers of that vnspeakeable happinesse which shall be honourably published on earth enioyed eternally in the heauens Therefore to conclude let mee say to you with Chrysostom Chrys in Psal 34. Quaerite Pacem vt inueniatis premiū Seek Peace follow after it that you may haue the reward of Peace-makers Psal 34. Chrys ibid. Pulsate ianuam Pacis knock at the gate of Peace till it be opened to you So shall the same be to you a doore and passage into Heauen which mercy the God of Peace and Mercy grant vs for his Sonne our Sauiour Christs sake to whom with the holy-Ghost three persons and one immortall God be ascribed all Honour and Glory Might Maiesty and Dominion now and for euer more Amen FINIS THE SINNE AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST PLAINELY described By The Authoritie of Scriptures The Testimonie of Fathers The consent of Schoolemen In a Sermon Preached at PAVLS Crosse by IOHN DENISON Doctor of Diuinity and one of his Maiesties Chapleynes LONDON Printed by T. S. for Iohn Budge and are to be sold at the signe of the greene-Dragon in Paules Church-yard 1620. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD IOHN KING Lord Bishop of LONDON Right Reuerend and Honourable THESE two Sermons being thought a second time worthie of the Presse I make bold to present to your Lordship They were both Preached in your charges the one in that eminent place where your Lordship hath Episcopall iurisdiction At Pauls crosse the other in that famous Vniuersitie At Oxford where then you were a worthy Gouernour The one hath passed hitherto vnder your patronage and the other being an Orphan desires it It obtained good acceptance with that Noble Lord The Lord Elsmere Lord Chancellor of England who loued your Lordship dearely and to whom my selfe was exceedingly bound In regard whereof I hope it shall finde the more fauourable entertainment at your Lordships hands The God of heauen who hath honoured you with many gracious endowments and made you an excellent ornament of our Church continue his fauours and enlarge his blessings to you for the Churches good and your owne eternall comfort Your Lordships humbly deuoted IOHN DENISON To the Reader IT fareth with me Christian Reader as with those Physitians who hauing employed their study for the health of their Patients doe afterwards divulge their experiments for the good of others For hauing at the request of certaine friends prepared these ingrediences and found them comfortable to their tender soules I haue beene moued to publish the same both for the further comfort of them and benefit of others And the rather haue I beene hereunto induced 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hippoc Aphor. because to vse the Physitians words here is a dangerous experiment and difficult iudgement the disease being the most dangerous and deadly of all diseases incident to any mortall creature and the physicke for cure description or preuention very rare to be had in our vulgar tongue None to my knowledge hauing of purpose handled it though I haue knowne some distressed soules haue greatly needed it and many very Christianly affected haue much desired it And so commending these my Meditations to thy courteous acceptance and my selfe to thy Christian prayers I commend thee to the grace of God in Christ Iesus Thine in the Lord I. D. A SERMON VVherein the Sinne against the Holy-GHOST is plainely described HEB. 10.26.27 For if we sinne willingly after we haue receaued the knowledge of the truth there remaines no more sacrifice for sinnes but a fearefull looking for of iudgement and violent fire which shall deuoure the aduersaries IT is the part of euery Christian at his enterance into the profession of Christianitie Right Honorable right Worshipfull and welbeloued in Christ Iesus to consider our Sauiours Caueat to the Disciples He that indureth to the end shall be a Mat. 10.22 saued To what purpose is it that the Sea-faring man sailes prosperously ariues safely and obtaines a rich prize if he sinke or suffer shipwracke in his returne This life is a sea-faring life to what purpose is it that a Christian be farely imbarked for heauen if afterward he suffer shipwracke of his holy Faith What auaileth it the Warriour to march hotly with Iehu fight manfully with Ionathan if hee turne his backe with Ephraim before the end of the battaile This life is a warfare what can it auaile vs to incounter Sathan if we suffer him to foile and conquer vs For he onely that fights the good fight finisheth his course and keepes the faith can expect the crowne of b 2 Tim. 4.7 righteousnesse This is the thing whereof Saint Paul doth in this place admonish the Hebrewes namely that they forsake not the fellowship they haue among c Vers 25. themselues Wherein that he may the better preuaile he inferreth these words of my Text as a pithy reason and powerfull ingredience to make the medicine of his admonition to worke the more effectually If the Souldier shall flie forth of the field reuolt from his Captaine forsake his colours runne from his company and turne to the enemie he disgraceth his militarie profession disableth himselfe for the trophies of honour and meriteth condigne punishment Behold we are the Lords Souldiers the Church is our field Christ Iesus our Captaine the word and Sacraments our colours the communion of Saints our company he that shall flie forth of this field reuolt from this Captaine forsake these colours runne from this company and be found fighting vnder Sathans conduct dishonoureth his Christian profession depriueth himselfe of the crowne of glory and incurreth the danger of Gods heauy iudgement For if we sinne willingly after we haue receiued the knowledge of the truth That is if we haue giuen our names to Christ serued in his campe taken pay in his warres and yet play the carnall Apostataes with d 2 Tim. 4 9. Demas the hereticall with e 2 Tim. 2.17 Hymeneus and Philetus the scornefull with f Socrat. Theodoret Iulian the Emperour the spightfull with g 2 Tim. 4.14 Alexander the Copper-smith there