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A70378 The true euangelical temper wherein divinity and ecclesiastical history are interwoven, and mixed, both to the profit and delight of the Christian reader, and moderately, and soberly fitted to the present grand concernments of this state, and church / preached in three sermons at St. Martins in the Strand ... by Jo. Jackson. Jackson, John. 1641 (1641) Wing J76B; ESTC R24398 51,187 243

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Baptismall Laver awaited by a Dove the most peaceable of birds S. Iohns testimony of him Behold the Lambe of God A Lamb the most peaceable of beasts His Gospel an Euangelium that is Glad tidings of peace His Ministers Messengers of peace and reconciliation His Salve or Present when he came to his Disciples Peace be with you His Vale or Legacy when he went from them My peace I leave with you His threefold office all concurring to peace As a Prophet he did foretell and proclaime peace As a Priest he did earne and purchace peace As a King he did settle and confirme peace And lastly all this so luculently foretold by this our Prophet Esaias that he seemes rather i to write an history of a thing past then a prophecy of a thing to come and is rather an k Euangelist then a Prophet as S. Ierome most excellently speaketh of him And though this Prophecie shine as the Sun in the Firmament yet is there one every whit as bright as this in the second Chapter of this Prophecy at the fourth verse The words are these He shall judge among the Nations and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plough shares and their speares into pruning-hooks Nation shall not lift up sword against Nation neither shall they learne Warre any more A Prophecy so trapped with the ornaments of speech that two of the Latin Poets k Martial and l Virgil like bold biards have plumed it to imp their owne traine just as before the Sibylls had done by my Text but to Application Application IN applying and making use of this point it will not bee amisse to hold to the former method of shewing how to elicite and fetch out of it the five-fold profit of 1 Doctrine 2 Redargution 3 Correction 4 Instruction and 5 Consolation and having so do●e to commit both the text and Sermons on it to the blessing of Gods Spirit which must incubate and brood both to make them fruitfull The Vse of Doctrine ANd first this point is profitable to bring forth this Doctrine that Christianity is a sociable Religion The end of Christs comming was to be a Mediatour not only to unite man to God but even man to man that Christians might dwell together in one house both Ecclesiastical the Church and oeconomicall the family and Politicall the Common-wealth lye downe together in the undefiled bed of holy and chast wedlock if they either need it or will it and in any other noble and lawfull familiarities of intimacie and deerenesse eate together both the Eucharisticall Bread of the Lords Table and the daylie bread of their owne boards Lastly play together in those honest and warrantable recreations which are of good report among the Saints to fit them better for both their generall and particular callings What is the Church but a Communion of Saints the Church Militant a Communion of Saints on earth and the Church Triumphant a Communion of Saints in Heaven Coetus fidelium A company or knot of the faithfull is a short and received definition of the Church The Religion of the Jews was all for distinction and separation of both persons and things the Jew from the Gentile the holy from the prophane the cleane from the uncleane But Christ did so demolish and breake downe that partition wall that it is like the Picts wall in Northumberland scarce one stone to be found upon another Christian Society is like a Fagot one stick keepes another glowing like stones in an arch one holds and fastens another Christ himselfe being the key-stone Solitary persons as they have indeed the fewest provocations unto evill so have they the fewest incitations unto good Divine Oracles still point at lonelinesse and solitude as at an abysse of misery Begin at the beginning it is observed to my hand that in the second dayes worke of the Creation God gave no commendation of nor blessing unto it as to the rest because it was a daies worke of division m And after that a little when he played his owne Critick it was the onely quarrell hee pickt with his workmanship that man was alone all was good and very good n but this was not good o Go on Elias a great Prophet yet hee complaines of it I onely am left alone p Iobs sorrowfull Messengers make it their under song of sad tidings I am escaped alone to tell thee q Martha murmures at it Master carest thou not my sister hath left mee to serve alone r Ieremy makes his threnes take their hint and rise from it how doth the popular City sit solitary s S. Paul bemones himselfe for it t Demas hath forsaken me yea u all forsooke me w Ruth bewailes it The hand of the Lord is gone out against me the Almighty hath imbittered my soule Yea it is every widows case as well as Ruths to be x desolate and alone But what say I of Elias or Iob or the like men of like passions with our selves Christ himselfe groaned under the burden of it when all his Disciples forsooke him and fled which thing the Evangelist notes as one of the criticall passages of his Passion and the Prophet sets it out as an heightning and advancing of his sufferings that hee trode the Wine-presse alone y So as this is the summe if a man be alone he shall be in misery and againe if a man be in any misery hee shall be left alone z Solitude and misery being like water and ice the one mutually producing the other Woe and alone goe together Eccles. 4.10 Hence it comes about that S. Iohn Baptist sent two of his Disciples to Christ a Yea a greater then the Baptist did so Christ did it in the Mission first of his Twelve b and after of his Seventy c both of which sacred Colledges he sent forth by two and two So of old two were of the Embassy to Pharaoh Moses and Aaron two into Canaan Ioshua and Caleb two to restore the Temple and worship of God after the Captivity of Babylon Ioshua and Zorobabel So likewise in the New Testament we have Christ and Iohn his Precursor two are sent to Jerusalem to prepare the last Supper Peter and Iohn two Witnesses Apoc. 11.3 So farther Iohn Husse and Ierome of Prague in the Councell of Constance Luther and Melancthon in Saxony Zwinglius and Oec●lampadius in Helvetia Bucer and Capito at Argentine Calvin and Farell at Geneva Binarii omnes all by couples and twoes That if the one fall his fellow may lift him up Eccles. 4.10 Hee that separates man from man doth as much as in him lyes separate man from God For what is poore and silly man alone but a very scrich-owle and satyre a melancholick and hypochondriack creature growing pensive and thought-sick turne him into his Oratory and let him shut the Chamber doore and doth hee not often