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A39934	Grace and mercy to a sinner in a time of afflictions, or, The serious meditations of M. Tho. Ford of Rochester during the time of his imprisonment, before his execution, faithfully delivered from his own copie : together with his funeral sermon, preached by Mr. Wil. Sandbrook, P.M. Rochester / set forth for the strengthning of our faith in Jesus Christ ... ; published for the satisfaction of his friends ... by John Plasse.	Ford, Thomas, d. 1656.; Sandbrooke, William.; Plasse, John.	1657 (1657)	Wing F1513; ESTC R40949	26,591	84

my Barbarism so as to swallow it down without chewing give me leave to lay open the heart of the fact with the chief incendiaries thereupon attending and that only in two particulars First laying before you the person on whom I acted it and the sudden deprivation of life in the action The person upon whom I acted this bloody tragedy it was not a stranger but an acquaintance and friend not a common acquaintance or friend but a sister an only sister by flesh and blood and I can shew no reason could incite me to it except it were for her over tender care and respect to me had of which I am now truly sensible other perswasions were nothing else but the jugglings and delusions of that old enemy of mankind Satan who hath been a lyar from the beginning The second Scene in this cruell and bloody Tragedy which much aggravates the fact was the suddenness of the action which robbed her of her life in a moment without giving her any warning to prepare for heaven so that as much as in me lay I did deprive her temporal and eternal happiness without Gods great mercy I might blaze this my cruelty with several other colours but let these suffice to let you know the horridness of the crime Gentlemen you know how for a long time my conversation amongst you hath been very inconsistent to the gospel of Jesus Christ I have plaied the Atheist in my practice though not in my profession I have acknowledged there is a God but in my works I have denyed him and Atheism in practise is the worst sort of Atheism I have been in the highest nature a rebel a traytor against the King of Kings endeavouring to unthrone God by not yeilding obedience to his commands and he that plucks the King out of his throne is as bad or worse than he that saith there is no King Now that you may be the better senseable how I have idolized my profession I will give you the Catalogue of sins which our Saviour gives you in the seventh of Mark the 21 22 23. verses for from within out of the heart of man proceeds evil thoughts adulteries fornications murthers thefts covetousness wickedness deceit lasciviousness an evil eye blasphemies pride foolishness all these sins have lain lurking and been rooted in my heart originally being by nature the child of wrath and have in some kinde or other been put in execution though not in the same manner literally as they lye in the text yet circumstantially as they may be considered and applyed But one main sin which is not here rehearsed hath been my mother sin to wit drunkenness and excess the abuse of Gods creatures this hath been the engine of this cruelty and the door and inlet to all my misery Beware of this Lion-like sin least it command you to do the same cruelty give not the least entertainment to it as a cup and away for it is the greatest peece of witchcraft that I know to betray the soul to the Devil Thus I have given you a glimpse of my wounds now let me shew you my Physitian But Gentlemen I must not forget one sin which was almost slipt out of my memory namely the sin of uncleanness I do not mean with a woman Gentlemen there is other uncleanness than that with a woman and there be some young Gentlemen in company that looks upon me which are guilty of the same and know what I mean Then stooping to Mr. Rosewell he began upon the breach of Sabbath saying Gentlemen I have lived a long time amongst you and indeed frequented the Church but in all my time never kept one sabbath to the Lord aright as I ought to do I beseech you Gentlemen to have a special care of keeping the Sabbath and slight not the Ministers of God who are his Embassadours and truly I see apparently an imminent judgment hanging over the head of this Nation upon the account of the Ministers disagreeing for well may the sheep be scattered and the flock come to destruction when the Shepherds quarrel and go together by the ears Well but now to my Physitian It hath pleased the Father that in Jesus Christ all fulness should dwell and if all fulness then the fulness of power to effect and bring to pass the work of our redemption he is the horn the strength of our salvation Thus God the Father from all eternity foreseeing mans inability of standing did provide a remedy for his fall the Son of God the second person of the Trinity to take our nature upon him and to dy a cursed death on the cross that we might live eternally in heaven and now he sits at the right hand of God making intercession for us that by a lively faith joined with contrition and mortification of the old man and sin in us can lay hold of him the right way to see the aboundant mercy of God in Christ is to see our own misery by reason of sin how lost and undone we are without him Behold what love the Father hath shewed unto us that we should be called the Sons of God Seemeth it saith David being moved by the Courtiers to entertain the offer of Sauls daughter a light thing to be the Kings Son in law and it is registred as a fruit of Moses faith to prefer the rebuke of Christ before the title of the Sonne of Pharaohs daughter between God and Saul what comparison between the King of heaven and the Daughter of Pharaoh what proportion David might have been Son in law to Saul yet not entituled to the Crown Moses might have been the adopted Son of Pharaohs daughter yet but a subject still Seemeth it a light matter to us to be called the Sons of God or to be the Sons of God which is all one this Prerogative which we have by Christs blood makes us heirs every one Not onely sons but heirs joint heirs with Iesus Christ we are all made Kings and Princes by ●im all of us intituled to a Crown of ●lory an eternal weight of glory which ●s laid up for us in heaven a most ●nestimable benefit which the tongue of men and angels are not able to express O let I beseech you the serious Considerations of Gods mercies in Christ constrein us from sinful courses ●et the words of me a dying man work ●n your spirits that you may speedily ●xamine your own hearts how you ●●and affected to a Saviour that offers ●imself to be yours ●●on condition you will leave your sins and turn unto him ●y repentance Gentlemen he were a desperate man ●●at being condemned to dy would not ●ccept of the Kings pardon if it were ●ffered Behold here is a pardon from the King of Kings here Jesus Christ ●●ffereth his Blood if we do not wilfully ●efufe it in persisting and going on in a ●ourse of sin Gentlemen be perswaded I beseech you to make your title good to heven fo● temporal things we bend all

hard and ●tony heart and give you a heart of ●lesh pray continually pray without ●easing and pray in Faith with a confidence that God hears your Prayers and will in his good time answer them not for thy sake but for his sons sake 4. Attend upon the means of Grace in the ministry of the word which is the only way and means God hath appointed for begetting of Faith in us and search the Scriptures the Word of God they ●are they that testifie of me saith our Saviour and as you love your souls take care of disrespecting or sleighting the Word of God and laying it aside as a thing not worth the looking into fo●● sleighting of it you sleight God himself you are the greatest enemies to you● selves in the world in being ignorant o● the word of God you are utterly disarmed against the temptations of Sata● when he assaults you When we go to war against a potent Prince or person we will not go without our arms bu● in a posture of defence I beseech you let us consider the strength and power of our adversaries we have to deal withall the World the Flesh and the Devil three potent enemies therefore labour to be well armed out of the Magazine the word the Word of God which is for doctrine reproof instruction c. and then to your armor that you may be compleat in the principal bag the sword of the spirit of God we know a souldier is no body without his sword no more are we spiritual souldiers without the sword of the spirit for a man may read and hear all his lifetme yet if the spirit of God go not along with him in accompanying him in his reading and hearing it is all in vain unless the sword of Gods spirit cut asunder our corrupt hearts and affections so as to understand the mistery of the word of God as well as the history of it barely The use of this doctrine should be for exhortation to all sorts of men and women in the world to beware of sin and to shun it as the greatest evil in the world and more especially of those sins which draw away our hearts and affections and likewise to consider the dangerous consequences of sin and how dangerous a matter and thing it is to let loose our hearts and affections to Satan Then it may serve for to admire the wonderfull and unspeakable love of our heavenly Father in Christ that he will accept of us upon our unfained return unto him by repentance that our pardon is already sued forth if that we can by faith lay hold on it and esteem of the favour in some measure according to the worth of it It lets us see the miserable condition of them that claim no interest at all in this pardon Of the comfort of those that can experimentally conclude and by the spirit of God witnessing with their spirits say This pardon is sealed unto me I shall have the benefit of it tho notwithstanding my sins reach up unto heaven and cry mightily for vengeance against me yet my whole alliance and sole comfort and confidence is in the merrits of Jesus Christ applyed by faith I shall find mercy for he that confesseth and forsaketh his sins shall find mercy but he that hideth them shall not prosper I am one of them that confesse my sins and earnestly desire of God that he would break my stony and hard heart for them and do without hypocrisie if my heart deceive me not unfainedly resolve to forsake my sins therefore I though the worst and greatest of sinners shall accordingly find mercy Tho. Ford Collossians the 2. and the 6 verse The words are these As ye have therefore received Christ Iesus the Lord so walk ye in him THe blessed Apostle Paul after Christ had awaked him from his sleep of security and unscaled the eys of his understanding which were before darkened with that mistiness which the Devil like a Jugler cast before him did immediately after the Holy Ghost had enlightned him preach Christ and so like a principall work-man in Christs Church and as a chosen vessell to bear the name of Christ amongst the Gentiles did with all vehemency and ardency of spirit and affection endeavour to build up a spiritual Church to Jesus Christ and in this Epistle to the Colossians amongst the rest of his Epistles he dischargeth his trust as a faithfull Ambassador of Jesus Christ The whole chapter is as it were a glasse wherein we may see the fruit of Pauls M●nistery the words being a perswasive part moved from a good priniple For the better explanation of them consider in them First the guift received Secondly the congratulation thereof 1. The gift received Jesus Christ 2. The congratulation of the Gift walk in him The words contain a serious exhortatation and the reason thereof The exhortation Walk in Jesus Christ The ground and reason thereof For you have received him As if the Apostle Paul should have said you had Jesus Christ preached amongst you by me and others of my brethren you are not ignorant of that eternal weight of glory which Jesus Christ hath purchased for you therefore walk not according to the rudiments of this world but walk according to the rules of Jesus Christ for this is all that Jesus Christ requireth of you that you would manifest your love unto him in walking obediently before him If you love me keep my commandments so that the words are in themselves a Proposition and do speak plainly thus much unto us That the incomparable love of the Lord Jesus Christ declared unto us in the word and laid open more abundantly in the Ministery of the Gospel should be a strong perswasion unto us to walk according to the rules of the Gospel Or thus That Christs exceeding love unto us in redeeming us from death and hell should be a strong ty upon us to love Jesus Christ Every one that hears me cannot deny but must needs confess and acknowledge that the point is very reasonable and I may say very seasonable in these apostatizing dayes of ours that Love deserves Love Our Saviour speaks of a deserved love as a thing not to be looked on not worth any reward For if ye love them that love you what thanks have ye saith our Saviour Do not even the Publicans the same denoting unto us that true love is of such an extensive nature that it sheweth it self even to our enemies this is perfect and true love Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect Now the greatness of Jesus Christs love is shewn in that he loved us when we were enemies unto him strangers and aliens from the common wealth of Israel And how did Christ love us was his love an ordinary love That Christ the Son of God co-equal with his Father should become man even the meanest of men although by Ioseph he was next heir

to the Crown of David yet he came in the very declining age of Davids Kingdom to shew us that his Kingdom is not of this World as he tells us My kingdom is not of this World and should suffer a cursed death on the Crosse for our sins that we might be delivered from eternal misery and from his Fathers wrath and overcome death for us Will not these considerations work our hard hearts to an humble frame and perswade us to love God and our Lord Jesus Christ again Is not the love of Christ to be esteemed by us in that he being the Son of God humbled himself to become a servant to men to make us Sons and j●ynt-heirs with himself and of the children of wrath to make us heire of ●●●vation ●re●t is mens readiness chiefly in 〈…〉 and giddy times to gaze upon strange and uncouth sights to run to see things that are rare and are seldom seen therefore now let me quicken your desire to behold a thing without comparison such a thing as we may with a kind of astonishment and amazedness admire but the eloquence of no man alive is able fully and effectually to express Behold saith the Apostle what love the Father hath shewn unto us that we should be called the Sons of God Behold the Son of God made man to dy for us that we might be delivered from the slavery of Satan and be made the adopted sons of God I might insist upon this point not out of any hope I have to set out a benefit so inestimable for the tongue of men and Angels cannot reach it but as it were as God said to Moses to let you see the back parts of that perfect glory which the dimness of our minds is not able to behold Now that we may be the better sensible of Christs love let us consider how and in what manner the Lord Jesus Christ is pleased to reveal himself unto us in the Gospel and that in three particulars First He uncovers and layeth open himself fully and manifestly in the Gospel we have a whole Christ offered unto us we have his offices and the whole work of our redemption set down Search the Scriptures for they are they that testifie of me saith our Saviour We do in the Word of God as in a glasse behold the proportion of Jesus Christ when we compare the Old and New Testament together for indeed it concerns us and it is most needfull and necessary in this great work of our salvation so that our faith may be the better grounded and confirmed to note and observe the order and agreement of the Scriptures both Old and New Testament by this mens Christ himself endeavoured to settle his Disciples Faith for the Text tells us that he began at Moses and the Prophets and interpretted to them in all the Scriptures the things which were written of him We live in an age that men are so backward in following Christs pattern herein that they are grown contemners and dispisers of the word of God which plainly appears in that they divide the New Testament from the Old making a separation of that which God hath joyned together they will it may be carry the New Testament in their pockets I and in their pates too yet sure I am it cannot be near their hearts when they shall think themselves too wise to read the Old or give entertainment to it upon which the Patriarchs and our forefathers of old built their Faith and by the light of which they found the way to heaven This was Pauls course for the establishment of his hearers he disputed by the Scriptures he said no other things then that Moses and the Prophets did say should come These and the like sayings we read often that the sayings of the Prophets should be fullfilled This is done that the Scriptures should be fullfilled which argues the care and purpose the Spirit of God had to ground our Judgement upon the Scriptures in so much that when we clearly behold those things fullfilled which are recorded in them we should set the higher esteem on them comfort our selves in them and strengthen our Faith by them Take now a view of Christ in the Scriptures and see first how he is represented in Zacharïas prophecy Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who hath visited and redeemed his people There you have Christ termed the horn of our salvation a Metaphor taken from beasts wherein doth ly their chief strenght and power giving us to understand that our saviour Iesus Christ is of full and absolute sufficiency to accomplish the work of our redemption for there is no other Name under heaven by which we can be saved But only in and through the Name and merrits of the Lord Iesus Christ It hath pleased the Father that in him all fullness should dwell would you see Christ promised read the 28 of Esaiah 16. therefore thus saith the Lord Behold I lay in Syon for a foundation a stone a tryed stone a precious Corner stone a sure foundation Psal. 118. 22. Matth. 21. 42. Acts 4. 11. 1 Pet. 5. 6 7. Esai 11. 1. Would ye behold Christs Nativity read Luke 2. 7. 10 11 12. Iohn 7. 42. Mich 5. 2. Would you behold his Passion Esaiah 53 7 8 9. Mat. 27 35. would you see him Dead and Buried read Mat. 27. 50. 60. would you see his Resurrection read the 28. Math. 6. Iohn 20. 2. 15. 19. 26. Would you see his Assention read Acts 1. 9. Would you see him at the Right hand of his Father in heaven read Hebrews 1. 3. Would you see him coming from heaven to Judge the quick and the dead read Matthew 25. 31. Thus you see in the first place how fully the Lord Iesus Christ is set forth unto us in his word in himself which is the Word Secondly Christ doth very friendly perswade us to imbrace him in the Scriptures and that upon very good grounds and reasons First because he came purposely into the world to save us he was wounded for our transgressions and broken for our iniquities and with his stripes we are healed Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest Behold I stand at the door and knock saith Christ he hath redeemed us from the curse of the law Beeing made a curse for us Oh every one that thirsteth come unto the waters and he that hath no mony come buy c. Secondly Christ doth very friendly perswades us to be reconciled unto him by his Ambassadors which he sends amongst us the Ministers and dispencers of his Word and Sacraments the Ministers of Christ they are the Ambassadors of Iesus Christ which bring his message unto his people they do the work which they are imployed in by their Master and Christ is pleased to set men apart purposely for this service as S. Paul

might and main to make them sure as in purchasing of Lands settling of estates what coun● selling and contriving is there Gentlemen it is an estate of immortality which will not fade away labour to get a fee● simple in this estate get interest in Jesu● Christ and let him be of inestimabl● value in your thoughts Thus Gentlemen I thought it a par● of my duty to ease my spirits to the world in hinting at particulars I migh● have been abundantly more large 〈◊〉 let this be enough to comfort my friend and acquaintance and the rest of 〈◊〉 well wishers for eternity that althoug● I am by an ign●●●inous death depriv●● of this temporal life yet I have goo● assurance of eternal life and that 〈◊〉 name is registred in heaven of whic● blessedness I shall by and by have ● taste and a full consummation at the da● of Judgement when we shall all appe●● before the Judgement seat of Christ 〈◊〉 give up our accompts And I beg 〈◊〉 God to afford you his Spirit of Grac● that you may be kept blameless un●● that day and that you may be assured upon good grounds before you depart this world that your names are written in heaven and that you may say with the Apostle blessed be God for this unspeakable gift The two and thirtieth Psalm was intended to be sung but not sung himself being desirous to finish his course in this life His PRAYER O Lord our God high and mighty King of kings Lord of lords the only Ruler of Princes look down from heaven upon us miserable sinners in and through the merits of the Lord Jesus pluck us out of our sins and implant us into Jesus Christ let us be living branches in that vine living members of that head remember these nations of England Scotland and Ireland and in them the principal member thereof govern thou him whose right it is to be our Governour implant thy grace in his heart let the Kingdome authority and power of Jesus Christ in the Gospel be by him advanced season his heart with wisdome from above and defend him from his Enemies remember the afflictions of Ioseph comfort thy people after thou hast afflicted them and for the yeares wherein thou hast shewed them tribulation quench the fire of ●hine indignation that is kindling amongst us and consume us not for thy Name sake Shew mercy unto Sion build up the walls of Ierusalem and love it still Be with me now that am to dye Just O Lord is it with thee to cast me into Hell but here lyeth my comfort Jesus Christ will receive me ●nto his bosome to whom with thy self and Comfortable Spirit be praise and glory dominion and majesty for ever And in whose name and words I further call on thee as my Saviour hath taught me to pray Ou● Father which art in heaven c. Compared with the original Copies and examined by us VVilliam Sandbrook P. M. R. Margaret Roch● December the 24. 1656. At the funeral of Mr. Thomas Ford of Rochester Micah chap. 7. verse 8 9. at Margarets Rochester By WILLIAM SANDBROOKE P. M. R. MICAH 7 verse 8. Rejoice not against me O mine Enemy when I fall I shall rise when I sit in darkness the Lord shall be a light unto me V. 9. I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him until he plead my cause and execute judgement for me he will bring me forth to the light and I shall behold his righteousness V. 7. Therefore I will look unto the Lord I will wait for the God of m● salvation my God will hear me SECT. I. The Preface Brethren YOu know and see and I do believ● are sensible of what the occasion o● this sad meeting and assembly is Time and opportunities of this nature especially in so stupendious and astonishing a● instance we have in hand must be mad● use of for our good you all grant the person deceased is no way advantage● by this exercise 1. Except we run to the Alylum o● Purgatory 2. And fly to those rotten shifts o● Dirges and Requiems of Rome which you all I believe know the Church of England with all other profest Protestants and the Reformed Orthodox Churches have justly exploded 1. As the doctrine of Antichrist 2. As a parcel of Heathenish abominations Ergo This the occasion Now in the next place let me also acquaint you with a paragraphe more in this preface to my work 2. The occasion of my being limited up to the text It was I understand his own request that it comeing often upon his thoughts it might be the remembrance of him in his Funerall obsequies and might be to appeare in this confidence upon the Churches hope the Lord Rejoyce not O mine enemy I shall make no long furrows upon his back it is sufficient what hath been already done and now it is totally in vain for any assistance towards him Except to rake up the ashes of so great a crime therefore letting these things passe as well known to you already Sect 2. The text it self Wherein I le not trouble you with dependance The words are a distinct paragraphe in themselves and may be kept entire within their own limits bounds and confines so according to my old method of for exposition of the text take this The sum This is easily resolved in this issue The sure stay support and setleness of the Church and by consequence of every Beleever in their utmost desertions greatest declinings from God by transgression against 1 The apprehension of Divine wrath sincking their spirits for ever 2 The insolent insulting of adversaries 1 They shall see 2 God to be light to them This being the sum of the whole text take the Analysis of the 8 verse for that is all I can or will meddle with at this time 1 The state of the Church and every Beleever in that condition she is fallen 2 The successe of this The adversaries tryumph and rejoyce 3 The state of recovery with a secret check to the malicious pride of insolent adversaries Rejoyce not For the rest of the particulars my time nor ability of body nor strong lunges to keep on in a strong carreer in a long and vexing winded discourse will not admit mee therefore I le be briefe if you expect it 1 Pardon my inabilities I am aged 2 Seek it where you know you may have it These things supposed let me now come seasonably to my last 4 Theorems 1 The best of Churches Saints or persons may fall deeply into grosse transgressions 2 The enemies to the Church and Saints have an akeing tooth and obstinate spirit of insulting and vaporing over the Church and Saints in their fallings ●in this their sadd and deep declining by transgression 3 In this distresse of falling and the exultancy and proud insolency of opposition they shall arise again and the glory of the Lord shall appear upon them in light These are the Theorems which I must