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B02276	The spouses hidden glory, and faithfull leaning upon her wellbeloved. Wherein is laid down the soules glory in Christ, and the way by which the soule comes to Christ. Delivered in two lecture sermons in St. Andrewes church in Norwich. / By Iohn Collings Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word in Saviours parish in Norwich.	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.	1646 (1646)	Wing C5340A; ESTC R174086	70,368	91

may cast a covering over the man that hee shall not see the Sun But not over the body of the sunne to hide day-light To whom is she hidden therefore and to whom not hidden What of her is uncovered and what is covered First She is not hidden to God Elijah thought all the saints had beere both dead and buried when hee complained that he was left alone but God saw seven thousand in Israel that had not bowed their knee to Baal Ezechiel saw no mourners but God sent him to mark out such a precious tribe from the tribes of Israel he saw their private drops God need not say concerning the most retired saint Who is this that commeth up Secondly To her selfe she is not hidden She hath her conscience bearing her witnesse the manifestation of Gods love in her owne soule the prints of his foot-steps Gods Spirit bearing witnesse with their own Spirits Christ is written in great letters in their hearts she hath her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 her marks to know her selfe by By this we know 1 Iohn 2.3 and by this again we know vers 5. 3. She is unknowne and hidden to the world to the saints of the world her brethren know her not and to the men of the world to the one lesse to the other more the saints know her not infallibly It was a true saying of him When any of us come in heaven we shall see some faces there that we never thought had beene there and misse some others that we had verily thought to have found there But yet many wayes may the Saints discerne by the fruits betwixt light and darknesse yet not any that I know so certaine to our duskish eyes that by it I can positively and infallibly say of any This or that is a Saint of God though in charity I ought to judge so of many yet Samuel may bee deceived in Eliab Gods eyes see not as man sees Therefore I have sometimes wondred with what face any man that professeth himselfe a servant of Iesus Christ dare for a fee at a funerall lift a moralist to heaven that possibly burnes in hell that houre I should feare to speak it positively of him that in my deceivable eyes seems a pious Christian They are Hidden ones How many that shine in heaven at this day a glorious constellation that went out of the world clouded and with what face shall a minister of Iesus Christ say more of me then I dare say of my self How comes his assurance if I want mine I know charity in this case is pleaded But I conceive charity is enough shewen to say I hope or we hope if the tree may be judged by the fruits declare the probabilities and leave the soule to God But I am not amongst an indocible kinde of creatures that will tell me they are too old to be taught and I too young to teach them To return therefore whence I digrest and to tell you what of the Christian cannot be hidden and what of them is hidden 1. The acts of his graces cannot bee hidden A Christian must shew his love to God though God clouds himself to him If they have any habit of love in them it will act For Love is strong as the grave and jealousie burnes like fire Cant. 8.6 7. Many waters cannot quench love Their zeale cannot bee hidde no not from the world he cannot heare a wretch sweare see him drunk profaning Gods sabbaths nay abusing his Christs blood but he must speake The zeale of Gods house hath eaten up the Christian as well as his master The hypocrite learns that politick paradox to see and not to see to see and winke Eliah must be zealous for the Lord God of hosts The hypocrite will tell you of discretion O that idoll of discretion said hee and very well that drives the power of Godlinesse out of the Kingdome Discretion indeed is commendable The prudent man ordereth his affairs with discretion but not with discretion as now impleaded The Magistrate must be zealous in his place these tell him he must bee moderate Summum jus est summa injuria he must not anger his rich neighbour to levy the penaltie for swearing or blaspheming nor make the poore men his enemies by executing the Statutes for tipling and drunkennesse he must keepe his oath with discretion and punish sin with discret●on and damne his owne soule with discretion too The ministers they must act by the hypocriticall Newters luke-warme principles of discretion too they must not reprove faction till they see how it will be favoured above see what government will be settled and then speak against those that oppose it See the truth of Christ rent in peeces his precious robe of truth torne from top to bottome his church rent limb from limb cut in more peeces then the Levites concubine yet must they say nothing It were indiscretion want of moderation bitter Presbyterianisme what not to speak against these butchers wait and see what will bee done above and so indeed it may be salvation may bee brought to the church another way but we must know then assuredly that wee and our houses and our fathers houses shall perish The word of God was in Ieremiahs heart as a burning fire shut up in his bones Ier. 20.9 Grace commands a Christian Magistrate and a Christian Minister sometimes beyond what the world judgeth discretion witnesse that though an extraordinary case of Phineas for Zimri and Cosbi But alas where is this zeale we have more Discreeter as the world calls them then Gracious zealous preachers by one half meer Gallioes that can see a Church rent in peeces soules perverted truth torne and they care for none of these things And we have more moderate Magistrates then Godly more that the world calls honest then God will thank for their honesty another day It was never before our dayes the Commendation of a Magistrate to be last in action to do nothing against blasphemers Hereticks c. Where ●s these pretended Christians graces O away with these Cyphers on Benches act for God or the Devill When God calls as in these dayes Who is on my side who why do ye hide your heads in holes were there a dramme of grace in your hearts it could not be but we should see a little flame The acts of Christians graces cannot be hidden No one must say of them in that sence Who is this Secondly Their gracious and holy life cannot be hidden They must walk as it becomes children of the light they cannot be saints here and Devils there their company be it good or bad shall be the better for them It was a shrewd failing of Peter to be a Iew amongst the Iewes and a Gentile amongst the Gentiles Paul reproved him to his face for it Thus they are not hidden if they be Gods coine they will have his image and superscription upon them How then are they hidden from the world that they may say who is

Bridegroome These sermons are but a Record of your Honours practice and yet they are a prophecy of your Honours life too The Bride of Christ is not past all her dirty way when shee is espoused to her Bridegroome She walks with him through dirty paths also It is the way of heaven not the way to heaven that is strewed with flowers and roses He knew that told us By much tribulation wee must enter into the Kingdome of God Mortality is but the Christians wildernesse For why should the disciple bee above his Master or the servant above his Lord the Crowne of thorns was not made for Christs head only and if there be written over our heads in letters of glory These are the heirs of heaven what need wee care to hang here nailed to a crosse The nailes of the crosse are sanctified ever since they pierced his sacred Limbs A meditation of Christs agony may bee a cordiall draught for a soule sick with afflictions If Christ walkt upon the Sea to us let us gird our coats and walk also Though Christ seemes to sleepe yet our groanings will awaken him for he taketh care that we perrish not Though Christ shakes himself as if hee intended to shake off our hand sometimes yet let us consider it is because our hands are dirty and not be so foolish to let go our hold Christ may duck but hee will not drowne us He knowes the way out of the wildernesse and will lead us right if we will but leane Though wee sit in darknesse and see no light yet let us trust in the Name of the Lord and stay our selves upon our God we may be persecuted wee shall never bee forsaken we shall come out of the wildernesse leaning upon our Beloved I presume Madam to present these sermons naked to your Honours hands trusting your Ladyship will cover the imperfections with charity they were buried but if the Ghosts must walk I thought it no wayes proper to put them on gayer clothes let them walk in their winding-sheet If they will but tell a story of heaven to any they meet and shew them the way and learn them Christ I will promise them to give them an acquittance for any other debt they owe mee If they will but procure mee the Brides prayers my reward is greater then my desert If God will honour them to win a soule his free grace shall have the honour of it for here is nothing but I have received from his Grace and to it I owe all that I am Madam were not my discourse of heaven and Christ my Epistle might be tedious but I am confident your Honour could be content to hear of your Bridegroome all the day long The Lord grant your Honour yet more sweetnesse in his enjoyments and fill you yet more full of his grace till you shall come out of the wildernesse of mortality leaning upon your beloved into the pleasant Paradise of Glory which is and shall be Madam the prayer of Your Honours obliged Chaplain Iohn Collins THE SPOUSES HIDDEN GLORY SOLOMONS SONG Chap. 8. vers 5. Who is this that commeth out of the Wildernesse leaning upon her beloved THis Booke is called the Song of Songs Canticum Canticorum that is Canticum Excellentissimum the most excellent Song so Vatablus and Estius Qu●a sermocinationem continet Christi sponsi Ecclesiae sponsae Estius gives the reason because it contains a discourse betwixt Christ the Bridegroome and his Church the Bride The Song of Songs as a note of Eminency thinks hee Mr Brightman will have it as well Nota distinctionis quam Eminentiae a note of distinction as of eminency Canticum excellentius omnibus quae Solomon composuit A Song more excellent then all those which Solomon made The Song that sounded sweetest to Solomons penitent heart But truly well may that be called the Song of Songs where every straine is breathed by the Spirit of the most High whose pen man was Sonne and Heir to the sweet Singer of Israel and had the most wise understanding heart that ever blest a creature whose every note is a note of Free grace and every close a close with Christ an union with him who is the head of his Church Finally where every line breaths the perfume of the Rose of Sharon and is beautified with the colour of the Lilly of the Valleys It is a Song of Love sung in parts by the Sonne of his fathers Love The Lord Christ and the wife of his bosome The Church in generall and every beleeving soule in particular It begin● with Love Let him kisse me with the kisses of his mouth for his love is better then wine Osculum est Symbolum amoris And it ends with love Make hast my beloved and come away The fountain from whence it ariseth is a spring of love and the sea into which it falls is an Ocean of love where the soule that enters is swallowed up of love and drowned in sweetnesse The whole streame of the booke is a streame of love running betwixt two pretious banks Iesus Christ and the beleeving soule Sometimes it runnes an higher sometimes a lower water it is alwayes some though the Flood-gates be not alwayes open The two lovers spend their song in feasting themselves with each others beauties One while the Bridegroome is courting his Bride with ravishing strains of grace another while she is emptying her soule into her beloveds bosome The whole song is but a sweet enterchange of delightfull expressions while both seeme to be ravished with each others mutuall embraces I shall not study the coherence of the Text it being a straine of the Song that stands in small dependency to the other The spouse had now her bridegroome by the hand it was her turne to poure her love into her beloveds bosome from the 10. verse of the former chapter My text seemeth to be a parenthesis standing in small relation to the antecedent or subsequent words but seemes to be rhe voice of some third person viewing this blessed pair sweetly embracing one another and the beloved following her love through most rugged places and wildernesse wayes in those wayes leaning upon Christ either in admiration of Christs condiscention that he would please through wildernesses to lead his beloved or in admiration of the spouse so worthlesse a creature that she should leane or of her beauty by the refl●xion of her beloveds countenance or of her constancy that the bria●s and thorns of the wildernesse could not separate her beloved and her Quos Deus conjunxit c. cries out Quae est illa quae ascendit ex deserto What manner of creature is this that she should leane or what so glorious creature is this that leans What manner of love is this that makes her follow her Beloved through such uncoth rugged dangerous wayes as these Learned ●remellius would have these words to bee no Parenthesis at all but the continued speech of the Church and sayes