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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04151	Gods call, for mans heart in 1 Knowledge, 2 Loue, 3 Feare, 4 Confidence, 5 Singing of Psalmes, 6 Prayer, 7 Hearing the word. 8 Receiuing the Sacraments. Deliuered in a sermon, by Abraham Iackson, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word at Chelsey, neere London.	Jackson, Abraham, 1589-1646?	1618 (1618)	STC 14294; ESTC S119409	15,280	54

vse the words of the Prophet Ps 25.1 Vnto thee O Lord lift we vp our soules Well is it then which the Church of Scotland saith that the onely way to receiue the Lords Supper worthily is to lift vp our minds by faith aboue all things worldly and sensible and thereby to enter into heauen that we may finde and receiue Christ where he dwelleth We must not thinke as the Papists vainely imagine that we hold Christ bodily in our hands and masticate him in our mouthes when we receiue and eat the Bread but receiuing the Bread and Wine as the symboles of his body and bloud we should lift vp our hearts to heauen where he sitteth at the right hand of his father and where he must continue till the time that all things are restored Act. 3.21 And thus much be spoken of the matter of Gods demand namely of that which he requires at our hands when he cals for our hearts My Sonne giue mee thy heart that is apply thy heart vnto me in receiuing the Sacraments in hearing the Word in Prayer in singing of Psalmes settle thy heart to depend on me to feare me to loue me to know me Me I say that haue done for thee then any created vnderstanding can conceiue II. And so I passe from the matter what must be giuen to the person that must giue exprest in these words My Sonne The Lord cals for the hearts of his children My Sonne giue me thy heart Whence I obserue that a childe of God owes no lesse to his heauenly father then his heart For if a seruant owe his industry to his maister that paies him his hire if a Sonne owe his obedience to his Parents that prouides him maintenance if a subiect owne his allegiance to his Prince that defends him from theeues in respect of his goods and from murtherers in respect of his life I see no reason why we that stand in the relation of Seruants of Sonnes of Subiects of things of nothing of things worse then nothing vnto God as our Creator our Redeemer or Master our Father our King our Protector or defender should not be so much indebted vnto him as our hearts comes too as our soules comes too as all that is within vs comes too We owe then to God no lesse then our hearts if they were not his due he would neuer demand them Vse for examination By this Doctrine we may examine our selues whether we be the children of God or no for if we can be perswaded in conscience that we owe our hearts to God and accordingly indeauour to pay them we may be certaine that we stand in the relation of sonnes vnto God but if we cannot finde in our hearts to bestow our hearts on God if there be an indisposition in vs to know him to loue him to feare him to trust in him with all our hearts and with all our soules if we can sing with our voyce pray with our lippes heare with our eares receiue the Sacrament with our mouthes and not sing pray heare and receiue the blessed Sacrament with our hearts certainely we cannot as yet take any comfort in Gods election because we cannot certainely be perswaded that we are his sonnes in that we are not willing to pay vnto him that tribute which his sonnes owe vnto him we present not our hearts vnto him by way of gift which is the third circumstance of my Text namely the manner how we are to bestow our hearts on God exprest in this word Giue III. My Sonne giue me thy heart that is giue it mee 1. Instantly without delay 2. Wholy with out reseruation 3. And freely without repining 1. First we must giue our hearts vnto God instantly without delay for so much the words Cedò or Prebe import giue me thy heart presently or out of hand euen before thou goe out of the Church The Lord is impatient of delaies we must therfore be as quick in answering his call as an Eccho in redoubling our voyce This quicknesse was in Dauid when the Lord bad him seeke his face hee answers like an eccho Thy face Lord will I seeke Psal 27.9 Euen so beloued now that the Lord bids vs giue vnto him our hearts let vs instantly answer him O Lord we giue thee our hearts Many would take a day with the Lord for giuing vp their hearts they are loath to part with them vpon the sodaine The poore man would be borne withall till he be rich the rich man till he be sicke the sicke man till he haue recouered his health the healthy and strong man till he be weake the weake and feeble man till he be strong againe the young man till he be old the old man till he feele the signes of death the lasciuious man till his lust be satisfied the enuious man till he be reuenged on his enemie the Merchant till his trade be good the Parent till his children be prouided for the childe till he haue his patrimony in his owne dispose the seruant till he be a master and the master till he haue seruants to his owne likeing and then certainely God shall haue their hearts But Qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit Hee that is not willing to part with his heart to day will be lesse willing to morrow For the longer hee suffers his heart to be in the possession of his ease or his profit or his pleasure hee shall with the more difficulty get it out of their fingers to bestow it on God Indeed if it were in our owne powers to take our hearts from pleasure and vanitie giue them to God at our list there might be some colourable reason for delay or if wee had each of vs two hearts wee might aduenture one to see what would come of it But seeing God hath giuen to each of vs one onely heart and that heart not in our own power neither to be stow on God when we wil we shuld be afraid to keepeit from him when hee calles for it Oh then my deare christian Brethren let vs for euer take heed lest if with Argus we listen too long to the Mercury pipe of Gods long-suffering we be cast into a dead sleepe of securitie to the vtter seperation of our hearts from God Delayes as for the most part in our ciuill negotiation with men so euermore and especially in our spirituall commerce with God are very dangerous If God would not haue vs say vnto our neighbour goe and come againe and to morrow I will giue thee if we now haue that which hee desires and wee can well spare Pro. 3.28 much lesse when he himselfe askes our hearts for himselfe will hee be patient of a repulse till to morrow much lesse till a weeke be ouer much lesse till a month be ouer much lesse till a yeere be ouer much lesse till old age and dotage and weakenesse and sicknesse and death seaze vpon vs. Let vs consider Gods case by our