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A87498	The best fee-simple, set forth in a sermon at St Peters in Cornhil, before the gentlemen and citizens born in the county of Nottingham, the 18. day of February, 1657. Being the day of their publique feast. By Marmaduke James, minister of Watton at Stone, in the county of Hertford.	James, Marmaduke.	1658 (1658)	Wing J432; Thomason E955_2*; ESTC R207614	34,420	74

stone whereof before it 's dismantling was higher than the top stones of many others in the Land whose climbing Towers scituate upon those perpendicular rocks did ascend to such a stupendious height like another Zion as if the Spectators should believe that they intended to peer into the clouds or to pick a quarrel with the Moon Upon the highest part whereof in the beginning of the past miserable broyles was the Standard Royal of unhappy and too late alas too late lamented Majesty lifted up which Castle had not the divisions been home-bred might have said unto all her Enemies as sometimes the Jebusites trusting to the strength of Zion jeeringly told David That they would set up the lame and the blinde to keep that Tower against him Further I could tell you how that crystalline River Trent like another Jordan or that little River Line like that Brook Kydron trilling down by the foot and as it were washing the toes of that Hierusalem do sport their streams in the laps of those Virgins meadows whose beds without a metaphor are green over whom this fair Town sits as the delicate Spectatress smiling upon the scene while the hills crowd upon her shoulders as if over them they would steal a sight of those Valley delightfull pleasures and to conclude like another Hierusalem at what a distance does Shee present to the gazing traveller a stately and majestick Aspect upon whose fore-head as upon a Jewish frontlet in Capital letters seems to be written that of the Psalmist Walk about this Zion mark well her bulwarks consider her palaces that yee may tell it to the generation following c. But why lose wee time in spoiling the goodly face and native beauty of that Town and Countrey by the vain depictions of foolish Art those that are doubtfull of the truth of these things have such an answer ready as sometimes incredulous Nathanael received from non-plus't Philip about the person of Christ in the first of John Let them go and see But here Sirs lies not our business which is at this time to indeavour that as God was in Judah and Hierusalem so hee may be the God of our Countreymen and their guide unto death But alas Sirs as the ignorance of God in many parts of our Countrey has formerly been too apparent and much lamented So now in these dayes of light and reformation so call'd 't is sad to hear of those monsters in Religion I mean the Seekers Ranters and Quakers how they have over-spred the beautifull face thereof Just as the Sun when hee displaies his pleasant spring beams upon Orchards and Gardens and thinking thereby to warm and draw forth the fruits of the earth for the comfort of man then do the snakes adders and such poisonfull creatures come forth of their holes turning up their bellies and beaking themselves in the sweet beams thereof So hath this Vermin crept abroad in our Countrey to the disparagement of the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ shining on them and though 't is out of question that the Divel and the Jesuite is at the bottom yet many well meaning people that both some of you and I know are led away with those pernicious errors who are to be pitied and for whom wee should have continual sorrow in our hearts for these our Kinsmen as the Apostle speaks according to the fl●sh that have a zeal of God Rom. 10. but not according to knowledge I need not tell you that the soul of man is a precious thing and the loss thereof sad in any Countrey Yet mee thinks in the aguish parts of Kent and Essex where I have seen sometimes a whole Parish sick together the souls that miscarry thence seem but to go from Purgatory to Hell But those that perish out of Nottingham-shire go from Heaven to Hell And Thou Capernaum that art exalted to heaven shalt be cast down to hell and as sometimes when that mighty tyrant Nebuchadnezzar fell the nations flocked together Isa 14.10 14. and wondering said Is this the man that made the earth to tremble that did shake Kingdomes Art thou also weak as wee Art thou become like one of us So when a soul miscarries out of Nottingham-shire mee thinks in melancholy Visions I see those Infernal Spirits flocking about it and saying What art thou fallen from thine Excellencie Art thou come from those pleasant mountaines to these Stygian Lakes from that Lightsom and ambitious Air to these darksom Cells Art thou also weak as wee Art thou become like one of us The serious consideration of these things ha's put mee upon a plain practical Sermon lately delivered to my people in the Countrey which God grant may be preached more to your hearts than eares and that I may though the unworthiest of Gods Servants be as a guide this day to lead you from your earthly to that Hierusalem that is above and from your pleasant Ur of the Chaldees to the Land of Canaan to that Countrey and those Cities that have foundations whose builder and maker is God and whose rock is Christ This is life eternal sayes S. John to know thee the onely true God and him whom thou hast sent and therefore have I taken a Text which holds out to you the knowledge both of the Father and the Son and that in the most excellent and saving act that ever was done for the children of men ISAIAH 53.10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him hee hath put him to grief when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin hee shall see his seed hee shall prolong his dayes and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand THese words do contain that eternal Covenant which was made between God the Father and the Son for the redemption of mankinde wherein you have the Work and the Wages The work or what Christ was to do or rather suffer was death When hee shall lay down his soul an offering for sin The wages is laid down in the latter part of the verse in these three particulars First hee shall see his Seed Secondly Hee shall prolong his dayes Thirdly The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand These two I shall open a little to you and first of the first Wee reade in the verse before the Text it is said that hee had done no violence neither was there deceit in his mouth yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him This was strange yet that a just and a righteous God should greatly delight for so the word signifies to bruise an innocent person 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All that I can say to it is that the heart of God was so set towards mankinde to save it that it became unto him a very pleasant thing to limit his own Son in order to that salvation But lest that God while hee is thus mercifull unto man should seem cruel to his Son there are two things in the text which clear up the justice of

the children of blessedness that exemption that is there from sin sorrows temptations tribulations persecutions c. It conveys and assures all the estate unto them insomuch there was never any childe of God could ever lay claim to God Christ to the Spirit to Grace to Glory but by these Testimonies Hence David knew what he said Psal 19.11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned and in keeping of them there is great reward That reward is no less then Heaven it self Hence it is that the Word is so often called The Gospel of the Kingdom Yea The Kingdom of heaven it self Repent Mat. 4.23 Mat. 24.14 for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand Mat. 4.17 The Kingdom of God is come unto you Hence Paul Luk. 10.9 when he bids farewel to the Ministers of Miletus I commend you saith he to God and the Word of his grace Acts 20.32 that is able to give you an inheritance amongst them that are sanctified giving thanks unto God that hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light Not only in the light of glory but in the light of grace and of these Testimonies For thy Law is a light unto my feet Psal 119.105 and a Eamp unto my paths And thus have we done with the second thing propounded to wit What is meant by this Inheritance and in what sense these Testimonies became David's Inheritance and so we come to the improvement of all by way of Application Use 1 If it be so that the Word of the Lord is his peoples inheritance Then we see the reason of its preservation to this day notwithstanding all those floods of malice that have been vomited out against it by Satan and his Instruments What is the reason that the Assyrian and Persian Monarchs and those bloody Roman Emperours that would have blotted out the name of this Book from under heaven could never effect it What is the reason that that Fox the Pope by all his subtilty could never destroy it somtimes setting the Church above it somtimes corrupting it with false glosses somtimes obscuring it from the people What 's the reason that those Locusts that are come out of the bottomless pit I mean the Seekers and Ranters and Quakers who crying up a light within them to destroy this glorious light without them could never effectuate Why you have the reason in the Text It is an Inheritance It is no easie matter to divide betwixt an Heir and his Inheritance A young Heir may be under a Cloud or a Sequestration for a time but Inheritances will revert God's entails are stronger then man's and so long as God hath an Heir a Childe upon earth it is impossible to destroy this Book this Inheritance Heaven and Earth shall pass away before one jot Matth. 5.18 one tittle shall pass from it Use 2 If it be so That these Testimonies are such an Inheritance then that man that hath an Interest in them hath little cause to be discontented in his condition If thou beest a rich man then bless the Lord that hath given thee both a portion in this life and that which is to come And if we have any Country-man here that is a poor man let him not say he is very poor having an interest in that which David prizeth above all his Crowns but let him say Psal 116.7 Return unto thy rest O my Soul for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee Use 3 If it be so That this Word of the Lord be such an Inheritance What is the reason that in these our days it is so slighted and the love of many grows so cold towards it We have a saying That rich men never want Heirs they may want children but they never want heirs Take the most mortified man and him that is the most withdrawn from the pleasures and profits of this life if he hear of any Inheritance fallen presently he saddles his Horse and rides away for possession for saith he it is an Inheritance If men did believe that this were such could they slight it as they do When the Son of man comes shall he finde faith in the earth Truly Sirs we have cause to think that the last age of the world is upon us I might stand here and lament over the sad Apostacy of these times and might take up the expostulation of the Prophet Jeremiah Ierem. 2.5 What iniquity have your Fathers found in me that they are gone away from me What evil Christian hast thou ever found in this Book that thy soul should loath it What is the reason Is it that of the Poet Inopem me copia fecit Hath plenty made thee poor Or Hath the abundance of this spiritual Manna given thee a surfet Or is it that of the Philosopher Nimis sensibile destruit sensum Art thou blinde by looking upon the Sun Or hath the glorious light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ put out mens eyes Well Sirs Let others do what they will you that are my Country-men you that fear the Lord amongst them hold fast this Book for it is your life and the length of your days and when any one attempts to seduce you from it say unto him as Naboth did unto Ahab Ahab was a King 1 Kings 21.3 and he proffered a valuable consideration and it was but for a temporal inheritance God forbid that I should part with the Inheritance of my forefathers Have all my Progenitors lived upon this estate and shall I now debauch it God forbid There is Abraham Isaac and Jacob and Job and David and Daniel and Paul and Peter and Latimer and our Countryman Cranmer and all these Patriarchal men and thousands more that are now sate down in the Kingdom of Glory by vertue of this inheritance God forbid that ever we should part with the inheritance of our forefathers And that I may fasten this Exhortation upon you we shall a little open to you in the conclusion of our discourse the famous example of David It is to be considered either first in the Practique or secondly in the Theory of it The Practique is considerable either first what the temporal estate that David had was Or secondly what of these Testimonies David knew For the first I believe that David had the greatest estate that ever mortal man had except it was A dam in innocency I know the story of Darius Alexander Caesar Charlemaine and those great and mighty men upon the earth yet under favour David seems to transcend them if these three things be considered David had a considerable bredth of ground over which he ruled he ruled over Palestina which was somtimes the seat of seven Kingdoms over the Philistims over Ammon Moab Amaleck c. and if you compare 2 Sam. 8. with the History of Josephus you will find him to be Lord of the greatest part of the Eastern world But If you consider the quality of his

our joy Son of man I will take away the delight of their eies Ezek. 24.25 their Sons and their Daughters and why because they were the delight of their eyes Jonah greatly rejoyced under the Gourd and the Gourd withered God doth usually disappoint us in our comforts that we might fetch them from his testimonies We read that the Disciples came to Christ and told him what brave fellows they were Lord Luke 10.17 say they the very Devils are subject unto us Well saith Christ Go on tread upon Serpents and Scorpions and cast out Devils yet one thing let me tell you do not rejoyce in these things no might they say if ever mortal men had cause to rejoyce we have Have we not the power of God upon earth the very Devils are subject unto us No saith Christ do not rejoyce in these things why what then must we rejoyce in that your names are written in Heaven I dare be bold to say that no man ever yet entred into Heaven whose name was not first written in this book in the book of the Promises in the book of Life hence it is that you shall seldom read of these testimonies but there is joy with them if this word be preached there is great joy Acts 8.8 when Philip preached the word in Samaria there was great joy in that City if two Christians do confer upon this word there will be strange motions of heart Luke 24.32 Did not we feel our hearts burning within us when hee spake unto us If a man one of these long winter nights when he cannot sleep doth but think of these Commandments there is great joy O how do I love thy Law it is my meditation day and night Psal 119.91 If a man doth but put forth his hand to execute one of these Commandments there is great joy Prov. 21.15 It is a joy to the just to do judgment What joy have they that keep thy Commandments And truly Sirs there is one conveniency in these above all other comforts that they stand by a man when others fail him If a man hath a beautiful wife towardly children a great estate and if God throws this man into distress they do but tumble upon him like an old house upon his head and then it 's his misery that he cannot be miserable himself but he must make all his sweet relations miserable with him but these Testimonies stand by a man in the saddest hours This David well knew when he made his choice as appears by two verses in this Psalm Thy Statutes have been my Songs in the house of my Pilgrimage Psal 119.54 Where was it that David was a Pilgrim You know that David was a banished King he was hunted by Saul out of Palestina fled to Achish King of Gath 1 Sam. 21.12 poor man lept out of the frying pan into the fire at home he was pursued as a Traitor abroad was apprehended as a Spy truly it was a very fad condition where was his support now Why saith he Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my Pilgrimage The other is this I had then perished in my afflictions Verse 92. had not thy Law been my delight I had then perished when was that Very probably at Ziklag Ziklag was the greatest distress that ever we read David was in Ziklag was a Frontier Town belonging to the Philistims and there they suffered David to live 1 Sam. 30. the Amalakites came and take away all their stuff children wives and concubines bag and baggage burnt the City with fire and the worst was that his own souldiers mutined against him nothing would serve them but the stoning of David the Text saith That he wept till hee could weep no more But at the last he comforted himself in the Lord his God poor man little had he else to comfort himself in that is there was some Statute some Judgment some Testimony of the Lord that came into his minde at that time that did comfort him I had perished in my afflictions had not thy Law been my delight O happy is that man that hath an interest in these Testimonies to comfort him in the saddest hour It is the usual custom at these Yearly Meetings to speak somwhat of the Country the Soyl Scituation Antiquities Commodities and Memorable Accidents thereof How laudable this custome is I shall not here dispute but do purpose not to practise much of it at this time for all them that are here present this day are either of the Country or strangers If the first I can but tell them what by experience they better know which seems to me but as the carrying of coals to Newcastle or the lighting of a candle to the Sun If strangers they are prejudiced with the knowledge of that love every one bears to his Native Country and they will think that we read them a Lecture more through the spectacles of Affection then Judgement and besides the Memorables of our Country were so well reaped the last Year that passing what was then delivered the gleanings will scarce be a handful to present you withal and repetita sordent You had then at large the Chronological and Geographical Description of it M. Fuller by him that is the Camden of our age for Antiquities and our English Demosthenes for Eloquence neither is it consistent with the modesty of my Years and Parts to attempt the polishing of that which he hath perfected or with my trembling hand to draw a line after that Apelles Let it be the practise of others at these their Anniversary Meetings to Paint over their dirty and sickly Countries and by scraping here and there a clean bit together to flatter and befool their Country-Citizens with the figmentitious Landskips of their Countries Beauties Our Country needs no commendation that 's all commendation her praises are in the Gates and fearful I am to enter the Confines of Her being conscious to my self to be more able to sully and darken the Beauties thereof then to express them yet that She may not be altogether passed over in silence give me leave to tell you a story of a Learned and Observant Traveller much redounding to the honour of our Country and they say somtimes a By-stander sees more then the Gamester Long since in Cambridge I was acquainted with a young Gentleman whose addictions were to Geography and Travels whom after many years spent beyond Seas it was my happiness to meet with soon after his recess into England and enquiring concerning some Italian Cities and others of Fame in other Countries which we much hear and read of he affirmed the magnificence and stately Buildings of some the Riches and Trade of others the pleasant Scituation of others c. But since my return said he I have been in your Country of Nottinghamshire and spent some time in the curious observation thereof and do seriously profess that for Delicacy of Scituation