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A04156	The conuerts happines· A comfortable sermon preached at S. Maries Spittle in London, in Easter-weeke, the 19. April. 1609. By Thomas Iackson, Bachelour of Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word, at Wye in Kent.	Jackson, Thomas, d. 1646.	1609 (1609)	STC 14298; ESTC S107440	42,495	61

redde Sea deuoured them vp When the people of Israel would not bee reformed but Ierusalem was so abominable as she did iustifie Sodome hee that bare with them forty yeeres and sent all his seruants the Prophets vnto them at the last sware they should not enter into his rest and was so obstinate against them that if Moses and Samuel had stood before him to craue pardon yet would he not be intreated What shall bee done saith Christ to those Husbandmen that abused Gods Sonne and Seruants sent vnto them themselues gaue iudgement and themselues endured the execution of the Sentence He will cruelly destroy them and let out his Vineyard vnto others And what shall become of the Figtree if digged round about and dounged it still keepe the ground barren it must bee hewen downe and cast into the fire What became of this and the rest of these Asian Churches who did not grow in righteousnesse as they did in riches Though now he stood at their doore and knocked yet in the ende hee left them and gaue them ouer to Turkish slauerie Oh how then shall we escape if we neglect so great Saluation To conclude therefore this point I beseech you be not too bold with Christ if he haue stood long at the doore of thine heart and by his word and motions of his Spirit shewed thee thy sinnes and mooued thee to repentance and thou hast made light thereof Oh tremble and quake for feare that these knocking 's motions should cease and thou neuer any more haue any sparke of remorse or godly sorrow vnto repentance but thou become hardned in sinne and thy conscience become cauterized or seared as with an hot Iron vnto destruction Yea if this day thou hearest the voyce of Christ and sensibly perceiuest Christs spirit moouing thee to repentance giue eare to that Voyce entertaine those Motions and at the last open vnto Christ and let him stand no longer And so much concerning the first Praedicate The second Praedicate declareth the place where Christ standeth Viz. at the doore whereby the heart of man is vnderstood according to that of the Psalmist Lift vp your heads O ye gates and be ye lift vp ye euerlasting doores and the King of glory shal come in so then to open the doores of our Cities and to defend the Gospell to open the doores of our Temples and to preach the Gospel to open the doores of our houses to entertaine the Bible and reade the Gospel Yea to open the doores of our lippes and to confesse the Gospel the opening of all these doores is nothing worth vnlesse we open the doores of our hearts vnto Christ and the Gospel to loue and beleeue in him and therefore the Apostle did bowe his knees vnto God most earnestly begging of God that the Ephesians might haue grace to open the doores of their hearts that Christ might dwell in them by faith Here then we are all of vs taught if we will haue any benefite from those sweet and comfortable promises following to open the doores of our hearts vnto Christ But some man may say there is no man that hath not learned this lesson who will not bidde him welcome and be glad to entertaine him and seeke for saluation onely by him Alas alas my brethren thousands there are that in this waighty case deceiue themselues for the heart of man is deceitfull aboue al things there are many that thinke their harts are marueilously affectioned vnto Christ yea and perswade themselues they haue Christ sure in their hearts that they are euen hugged in his armes and shall bee saued by him aswell as the best who neuer so much as truely knew Christ or tasted of him and are furthest off from being saued by him one would not thinke there could be such deceitfulnesse in mans heart that when hee thinketh himselfe most sure hee should bee most deceiued but the estate of this people doeth witnesse no lesse for they had many good things in them as they professed Christ had the knowledge of his will and were partakers of the Signes and Seales of the Couenant of Grace and thought themselues rich and to haue neede of nothing when as in truth they were wretched and miserable and blind and poore and naked and the neerest that Christ was vnto them he stoode at the doore and truely if there were a due triall and examination I feare most mens Conuersion would prooue but Copper not able to abide the touchstone and if they were weighed in the ballance of of the sanctuarie Balthasars Embleme may bee written in their foreheads Thou hast beene weighed in the ballance and art found too light Yea many that thinke they haue opened vnto Christ haue beene as churlish as Nabal vnto him and as vnkind as the Bethlehemites hauing no roome in the Innes of their hearts for him Indeede whilest the word is Preaching and Christ calling and knocking they seeme to bee mooued will receiue the word with ioy and with Agrippa bee almost perswaded to open and with Herod peepe out at the wicket but no sooner Sermon done but their ioy vanisheth and by one predominant sinne or other they shut the doore and bolt it fast against Christ It will bee very necessarie to search how or by what meanes we may vndoubtedly know whether we haue effectually opened vnto Christ or no. And by these two things we shall know First hee commeth like a strong and mightie man and therefore if thou hast opened vnto him he hath bound Sathan spoyled his house dispossessed sinne and abandoned death and hell Secondly hee commeth as a King of glorious estate and bringeth his traine with him euen all the graces and fruites of his blessed spirit whereof Saint Iohn saith Hereby we know that he abideth in vs euen by that spirit which he hath giuen vs. Now then by these things trie and Examine thy selfe as in the presence of God How standest thou affected Doest thou hate those euill things which thou hast loued Dost thou loathe thy former vncleane conuersation And abhorre thine old sinnes Dost thou euery day striue to be more righteous and lesse sinfull Defying the garment spotted with the flesh and auoyding all appearance of euill Endeauouring and praying for strength to walke in all the ordinances and commandements of God And for all the world would not be in thy former prophane condition of life Doeth thy soule abound with spirituall ioy peace humilitie patience brotherly kindnesse and loue is thine heart enflamed with the zeale of the glory of God and hast thou a burning desire that the name and glorious Gospel of Christ may bee magnified And doeth it grieue and vexe thee when Gods glory is troden downe his holy trueth despised and his deare Church goes to ruine If these things bee in thee in trueth though but in

punished Oh let vs beware Thus with Noahs Doue I haue long houered but now I haue recouered the Arke yea with the Arke I haue long floted but now am arriued on the mountaine of Armeniah and I hope not vnprofitably made way to the Scripture that I purpose to insist vpon for the more orderly handling whereof these partes are to be considered Viz. first a proposition in these words Behold I stand as the doore and knocke secondly promises in these words If any man heare my voyce and open the doore I wil come in vnto him and will suppe with him and he with me The proposition sheweth the great willingnes of Christ to a sinners conuersion the promises shew the endlesse happines of the sinner conuerted In the proposition two things are to be considered Viz. First the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 preamble or note of regard wherewith it is fronted Behold Secondly the proposition it selfe and therein these two things are remarkable Viz. first the subiect which is Christ expressed by this pronoune I secondly the praedicate or what is pronounced of him and that is threefolde Viz. first his gesture how he behaueth himselfe I stand secondly the place where hee standeth at the doore thirdly what he doth standing at the doore and knocke In the promises two things are to be considered viz. first the conditions whereon and secondly the promises themselues what they are in the conditions two things are to be considered viz. first the generalitie and largenesse of them in these words of Proclamation if any man secondly the Conditions themselues which are two viz. first to heare his voyce secondly to open the doore The promises made vpon these conditions are two viz. first perpetuall abode I will come in vnto him secondly perpetuall reioycing together expressed by the Metaphor of feasting or banquetting which is twofold viz. first the Sinners feasting of Christ I will suppe with him and secondly Christs feasting of the Sinner and he with me The note of attention set at the doore of my Text doth knocke at the doores of your hearts for reuerent and christian attention to the handling of all these Partes And first let vs salute the Porter Behold This word hath principally a double vse First it is as a Demonstration vsed for the greater certaintie and assurance of a thing as a man is most certaine of that which he seeth therefore said the Disciples vnto Thomas We haue seene the Lord and he said Except I see in his hands the print of the nayles I will not beleeue Thus for greater certaintie and assurance of the Lords neere comming to Iudgement Saint Iude vseth this phrase of speech Behold he commeth with thousands of his Saints to giue iudgement against all men And Saint Iohn to like purpose hath the like phrase Behold hee commeth with cloudes viz. he commeth so certainely and is so neere that if you will but looke vp vnto the cloudes you may see him So to assure vs that this is no fable he saith here Behold I stand c. yea if we had but the eyes of Balaams Asse we might see him but if we had a true faith we would make no doubt of it for the assurance therof is greater then of sight or knowledge The second vse of this word is to procure attention to a thing spoken and to that purpose most familiar with the Prophets Christ and his Apostles Yea sildome doth this worde goe before to prepare the way but there followeth matter of exceeding weight and importance in the heele and that specially in a double Case First in matters of wonder the more to prouoke men to maruell this word is vsed So the Prophet Isay intreating of the rare and extraordinary strange and wonderfull maner of Christs Conception thus expresseth it Behold a Virgine shall conceaue and beare a Sonne Secondly in Case of gladnesse the more to prouoke men to reioycing this word is vsed as when Christ the Prince of peace and eternall glory should come into the Citie of Ierusalem to the great ioy of all such as receiued him the Euangelist cyting the words of the Prophet Zacharie sayeth Goe tell the daughter of Sion Behold thy King commeth vnto thee meeke and sitting on an Asse therefore reioyce greatly yea showt for ioy So here to assure vs that the matter here deliuered is no trifle but both cases concurring the more to prouoke vs both to wonder and reioyce he thus deliuereth it Behold I stand at the doore and knocke Yea there is not one word in this sentence but deserueth the stampe and impression of this Character vpon it Behold not a Seruant or Minister not a Prophet or an Apostle not a Saint or an Angell but Christ Iesus the Lord of life and glory himselfe If I had not come and spoken they had had no sinne Behold he neither sitteth nor walketh nor runneth but standeth as most desirous to enter and patiently expecteth the sinners leisure Behold hee standeth not in the Hall Parlour or Chamber places and roomes for friends and of comfort entertainement and content but at the doore in the open ayre a place for strangers and enemies where the head is filled with dew and the lockes defiled with the drops of the night Behold he standeth at the doore not mute still and silent but most friendly and louingly calleth and knocketh Yea behold all these together and as the Prophet saith it will make you euen showt for wonder and ioy Oh behold and consider what a matter of certaintie and importance to cause both wonder and ioy But I will not stand any longer at the doore of my Text. Entering in the first thing I meete withall is the subiect of this Proposition which in English is expressed and in the Greeke and Latine verbs implicitly included I stand viz. I that am all one with my Father I that am full of grace and trueth I that am the Lord of glory I that haue made all things I in whom the fulnesse of the Godhead dwelleth bodily I that for thee and thy saluation came downe from heauen tooke vpon mee the forme of a seruant and was obedient to the death of the Crosse I that haue all sufficiency in and of my selfe and desire to enter not for mine owne but thy good Oh open vnto me for I doe stand and knocke From whence two things are chiefly to be considered viz. First his great and incomprehensible louing kindnesse towards vs who will vouchsafe to come to our doore but much more to stand and knocke there which most fully appeareth from these three considerations viz. First his owne al-sufficiency in himselfe in that he standeth not in need of vs or any thing that we haue being the heire of all things equall with his Father and infinite with