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A43568	Christ displayed as the choicest gift, and best master: from Joh. 4. 10. Joh. 13. 13. Being some of the last sermons preached by that faithful and industrious servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Nathaniel Haywood, sometime minister of the gospel at Ormschurch in Lancashire.	Heywood, Nathaniel, 1633-1677.	1679 (1679)	Wing H1757; ESTC R218948	147,704	290

Luk. 2.13 14. A multitude of the heavenly host was praising God saying Glory to God in the highest on earth peace and good will towards men Good Zachary so soon as his mouth was opened begun his Prophecy with Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who hath visited and redeemed his people Luk. 1.68 69. And old Simeon ended his life with praise and blessing God Luk. 1.19 'T is the duty of all Christians in every thing to give thanks 1 Thes. 5.18 because this is the will of God in Christ much more should every soul give thanks for Christ the top of all blessings the flower of all enjoyments think much of this threefold cord of obligation to praise 1. When a gift is free 2. When it is great 3. When special thanks is most due for though a man receive a benefit from another yet if he have in any measure deserved it before or it be in lieu of something to be done after it abates the thankfulness But though it be free yet if it be not much worth that lessens thanks but if it be a thing of worth yet if it be commonly to be had or given to all this will take off somewhat of the edg of thankfulness But now 1. Christ is an absolutely free gift not only undeserved but undesired and expected kindness by the rules of friendship and love in the heathens judgment doth challenge either recompence if we deal with our matches or acknowledgment where the distance is great and the greater this the greater that Now betwixt God and us the distance is infinite and if it were possible our love and thankfulness should fill up that distance and extend it self to infiniteness Let Angels and men adore and praise God for this gift to eternity in Heaven yet they must be ashamed and blush at the imagination of merit The dignity and worth of this gift must lay an infinite though sinless debt for ever on all the Citizens of Glory whether home-born and natives of the Country as elect Angels or adopted strangers as glorified Saints Christ is the flower glory and crown of free Grace 2 The gift is of unspeakable worth and excellency than which none could ever be greater none better the only begotten Son God blessed for evermore the brightness of his Fathers Glory co-equal and co-essential with the Father there could be no addition at all made to his Glory he was so high he could not be higher so great so good c. He is better than wealth or health than peace or life 3. There 's distinguishing favour in bestowing Christ on thee and not on others that which is common to all will never leave such an impression of wonder and praise but when it comes to me and us that makes deepest impression The passing by of my Father and Mother my Brother my Sister Husband or Wife Neighbour or Friend and taking me is a most endearing favour Two lye in the same womb sit in the same seat hear the same Sermon and one is taken and another left Psal. 147.12 19 20. Praise the Lord O Ierusalem praise thy God O Zion Among many other grounds and reasons that 's one in the 19. verse He shews his w●rd unto Iacob his statutes and his judgments to Israel he hath not dealt so with any Nation Here he speaks not of the measure as if others had the same grace revealed in nature but in inferiour degrees for he saith as for his judgments they have not known them and being full of it he concludes Praise ye the Lord Christ esteemeth this the flower of Grace and blesseth his Father for it Mat. 11.25 I thank thee O Father Lord of heaven and earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes To consider that of all England all Europe all Adam's posterity that ever were masters of a living soul the Lord passed by so many thousands and millions and the lot of free grace fell upon me precisely by name and not on many besides no less eligible than I was O how should it ravish our hearts into admiration and praise Blessed are your eyes for they see such things that many Kings and Prophets have desired to see and have not seen them Luk. 10.23 O what thoughts will ye have of this mercy in Heaven when you shall have your souls laden with a massy weight of glory and thousands of souls spitting out blasphemies on the Majesty of Heaven out of the sense of the torment of the gnawing-worm that never dies and you consider the soul of Iudas might have been in my souls stead and my soul in the same place of torment that he is now in O the unsearchable riches of the free grace of God in Christ How should we now sing that new Song that properly belongs to all redeemed ones Rev. 14.3 and to say with a loud voice Blessing and honour and glory and power be unto him that sitteth on the Throne for ever and ever Rev. 5.8 ad finem and Rev 7.12 O how should we extol and shew forth his praises had we as many tongues as members or joints or hairs were our whole body turned into that one member yet should we not be able for this high and glorious mercy sufficiently to celebrate the praises of the most high God 5. Fifth and last Branch of Exhortation Be fruitful in Christ True thankfulness improves the gift to the Donors honour A friend gives me a token I 'le receive it for his sake a jewel I 'le keep it for his sake a Book I 'le use it for his sake a Ring I 'le wear it for his sake that is so as may best express my love and report his goodness Were we truly thankful to our God we would use and improve this gift for his sake to his glory O let it be our chief care to improve this transcendently excellent gift to his glory who gave it Let me press this Exhortation on ●ou in the words of the Apostle Col. 2.6 As ye have therefore received Christ Iesus the Lord so walk ye in him It is not enough to have or to know that we have received Christ but we are to see that we walk in him or according to him 'T is not sufficient for us to take Jesus Christ this gift of God offered in the Gospel but our deportment and carriage must be such as becomes them that have received so great a favour Christ was the greatest Legacy that ever was bequeathed to poor creatures and he and his benefits that come with him is matter of greatest weight and concernment that ever God be-trusted in the hands of dust and ashes the most rich glorious and perfect gift that ever came out of the hands of God Wherefore let us gird up the loyns of our mind and be sober and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto us at the revelation of Iesus Christ as obedient

CHRIST DISPLAYED AS THE Choicest Gift and Best Master From Ioh. 4.10 Ioh. 13.13 Being some of the last Sermons Preached by that faithful and industrious Servant of Jesus Christ Mr. NATHANEEL HEYWOOD Sometime Minister of the Gospel at Ormeschurch in Lancashire 1 Cor. 2.2 For I determined not to know any thing among you save Iesus Christ and hlm crucified Salvian de Gubern Dei Lib. 4. In id penitus deducta res est ut sicut de Paganis Barbaris priùs diximus Christi nomen non videatur jam Sacramentum esse sed sermo Nam in tantum apud plurimos nomen hoc parvi penditur ut nunquam minus cogitent quippiam facere quam cum se jurant per Christum esse facturos LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers-Chappel 1679. To the Worshipful HENRY HOGHTON Esq And the Lady STANLEY His Vertuous Consort Worthy SIR MADAM I Presume to affix your Venerable Names in the Frontispiece of this Treatise not upon my own account or upon any such interest I can challenge in your Worships being much unknown to you but as acting the part of the deceased Author who had upon great reason conceived a very high estimation of you as I doubt not but your respects to him were reciprocal being grounded both upon long acquaintance and experience of each other his discourse of you with grateful acknowledgments of your multiplied kindness to his person and family in my hearing and his affectionate prayers for you were clear testimonies that you were engraven upon his heart and if his unparallel'd modesty had permitted him to have committed any thing to the Press doubtless his cordial affection would have issued it self in such an Epistolary inscription But since I am necessitated to supply his place in handing these Discourses to the World I prostrate this exposed Orphan at your feet and question not your candid reception and resolute protection of what was the genuine product of his mind and mouth which I will confidently assure you these Treatises are both for matter method words without the least addition substraction or alteration being taken out of his own notes as he preacht them writ at large with his own hand The matter of these Sermons is of greatest moment and importance fundamental truths they are of the gift of God in our blessed Redeemer and Christs Lordship and Soveraignty which are truths of the first magnitude most necessary like wool and corn the staple-commodities of this Kingdom like bread and salt that must be set upon the Table like ground-Cells upon which lyes the weight of the fabrick these are comprehensive and extensive truths without this gift sinners had not been pardoned accepted without this Lordship souls would wander and rebel the former brings us into favour with God the latter conquers rebellious wills subdues enemies regulates Saints and crowns them with glory The manner of handling these subjects is plain exact nervous and very pathetical which took great impression on the hearers vvhen first delivered with the lively voice of that fair spokesman for Christ whose heart was much taken with this lovely and beloved Lord and took great delight to recommend him to poor sinners which he did with great advantage and success whereby he became a spiritual father of many children whom he begot in the bonds of the Gospel Indeed he excelled others in other subjects but in this he excelled himself especially in this swan-like song which savours of Heaven and seems to be calculated for the height of Sion to be sung by that heavenly host in the praises of our dear Redeemer But neither do these weighty subjects nor the lively colours wherein they are set off need my recommendation nor yet the Authors gifts graces industry fidelity and other imitable properties well known to you and all that were acquainted with him need at all be mentioned by me at least at this season his singular accomplishments and conversation shine too bright to be darkened by any black-mouth'd Momus as his soul and body are beyond the reach of Satan and Sorrow so his name is above any just censures and calumnies I make bold to put these Posthumous works into your hands may your Worships in the first place reap the benefit and by your experiments thereof in your souls and conformity thereto in your lives incourage others to come and see how good our Lord Jesus is this is a lovely Song of one that could play well on an instrument may your hearts eccho to this Gospel-tune here 's solid food well cookt rendred delectable with the sweet sauce of acceptable words may your stomacks be keen and sharp and nourisht by it to eternal life These are goads and nails fastened by this master of assemblies now rewarded by his Master given out by one shepherd may Gods Spirit fasten them as a nail in a sure place upon many consciences I have then attained my ends in this undertaking may God be thereby glorified and souls edified we have enough The Lord bless you both and make you rich blessings to your Country in your publick domestical and personal station and relation The Lord drop down this choice gift into your laps and hearts that you may give up your selves to him again as his bored devoted servants for ever God Almighty that hath been the stay of your Youth be also the staff of your old age and maintain you as choice instruments of his glory in the land of the living and in a good old age conduct you through the valley of the shadow of death into the land of life so prayeth Your Worships humble Servant in our Dearest Lord O. H. Febr. 1. 1678 9. To the CHRISTIAN READER especially the Inhabitants of the Town and Parish of Ormeschurch and the places adjacent Grace Mercy and Peace My dearly beloved in our dearest Lord IT is an astonishing Providence that in such a day of Epidemical sinning general fears of approaching Iudgments and great necessity in most places God should thus weaken our strength undermine the fabrick by cutting off so many faithful Shepherds in so short a space therein seeming as if he would make a way to his wrath But as your dark parts have more need of such faithful Watchmen so you are most emptied God having of late renewed his witnesses against you and broken you with breach upon breach before your eyes were fully wiped for one loss another follows at the heels like Job's messengers bringing the sad tidings of the death of another gracious Minister and this last is not the least under which you lye bleeding It is true on his account that 's gone you have no reason to lament God hath put a blessed end to his torturing pains of body perplexing thoughts of heart and indefatigable labours in the Ministry and crown'd him with glory the sharper was his passage the sweeter is his present repose he finds himself abundantly rewarded God made great