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A97360	The works of the judicious and learned divine Dr. Thomas Taylor, part 1. sometimes preacher of Aldermanbury, London. Published by himself in his life time, in several smaller volumes, now collected together into three volumes in fol. two of which are here bound together. The first volume containing, I. An exposition on the 32. Psalm ... The second volume containing, I. An exposition of the parable of the sower and seed, on Luk. 8. ... The third volume is in the press, and will containe in it, I. The progress of sts, to full holinesse ...	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1659 (1659)	Wing T560A	683,147	498

is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God c. First our Saviour would not yeeld to Satans temptations 2 nay hee repel● it with great vehemence 3 Hee hath just reason so to do I. Christ would not yeeld to the temptation no not for a world Quest Why what hurt had been in it Answ 1 Hee had taken the honour of God and given it to Satan wheras th● Lord hath said I will give mine honour to none other 2 Hee had consented to a Lye viz. that the World was Satans in possession and disposition 3 Hee had partaked and abetted all that injustice and wrong which Satan would offer to all the inhabitants of the earth if hee had yeelded or accepted any thing from him 4 Hee had impeached his own right and present possession of all things whereof hee was right beir already invested by his Father 5 Although the worship required was external yet it was Divine and so in giving it to Satan it had been idolatrous which had intangled the Son of God in sin and unfitted him to the redemption of mankind So as in respect of God of Christ of us and the whole Church it had been every way woful and dangerous as Satan yea our Lord well knew Doct. Hence wee learn From the example of our Saviour Christ to esteem and prefer Gods glory above all the World Christ could not bee corrupted with Gold nor Silver nor Kingdomes nor Glory but as a good Physician sees all Diseases and Eye-sores without contracting hurt to himself the Glory of his Father in his eye is an antidote to preserve him without infection And no marvel seeing hee had formerly preferred the Glory of his Fathers mercy in mans salvation above the glory of Heaven it self which he left and became a man of sorrows and was numbred among the wicked to that purpose Here is an example for us which wee cannot attain but must look on a far off for our imitation to come as near it as infirmity of flesh will afford us Moses That man of God so preferred the glory of God before the world that hee made a strange choice viz. To suffer with Gods people rather than to enjoy the treasures and honours of Egypt Heb. 11.24 25. Nay hee was so set for Gods glory as hee preferred it before his own part in the book of life Exod. 32.32 Rather than thou shouldest not glorify thy mercy in thy people and rather than thou shalt give the enemy cause to blaspheme rather blot my name out of thy book let me● have no part in Heaven The Apostles also following the steps of our Lord for Gods glory and the Gospels cause did Glory in the Worlds contempt and rejoyced that they were counted worthy to suffer for Christ Act. 5.41 Paul bare in his body the markes of Christ Gal. 6. v. 17. and was a prisoner Eph. 3.1 Reasons 1 Gods glory is the chief good and the utmost extent of all his own Counsels and actions wherein hee manifesteth his Mercy or Justice Rom. 9.22 23. and so it ought to be of ours 1 Cor. 10.30 Whatsoever ye eat or drink or whatsoever yee do do all to the Glory of God An earthly child honours his Father when hee imitates him in good so do wee honour our Heavenly Father in this imitation The first thing in Gods intention must bee the first in ours 2 The practice of this duty is a fruit of Faith and a support of Faith Heb. 11.24 By faith Moses refused to bee called the Son of Pharoahs Daughter The consideration of Gods faithfulness in promising and performing better things makes these inferiour things small in our eye as Moses therefore preferred the rebukes of Christ before the treasures of Egypt because hee looked at the recompence of reward And that the sight of Gods glory worthy to bee set above all things takes the part of faith to foil temptations is apparent in our Text by the practice of our holy Saviour 3 In the Lords Prayer the first Petition is that Gods Name may bee hallowed set before the desire of daily bread yea before remission of sins because all these are but means tending and serving to the main end of all which is Gods glory All our good-spiritual and temporal are or ought to be means tending to that end 4 Gods Glory is the dearest of all things to himself of which hee is most jealous and so ought to bee to all his children as wee professe our selves to be And what can more rejoyce the heart of a gracious and ingenuous child than the honour and high respect of his Parent 5 According to out estimation of God himself is our respect of his glory and so much as wee esteem his glory so much wee esteem himself It is true that Gods glory is eternal and so abides in it self not capable of our addition or detraction and God will bee ever most glorious though wee never had been neither need hee our help to make him glorious The Sun would shine in his brightnesse and glory if all Creatures were blind and no eye saw it But yet hee will try how much glory wee will ascribe unto him and how wee prize it and how industrious wee are to magnify and exalt it not that hee can get any good by it but wee our selves reap the fruit even as the fire is not hotter because wee stand by it but we are hotter so while wee glorify God not God but our selves are become better and more glorious God loveth his glory as hee loveth himself and wee as wee love himself so we love his glory 6 This is the perfection of Christianity and Grace here and of our glory and immortality hereafter to prefer his glory above all the World The Spouse Cant. 2.18 calleth Christ her best beloved which hee could not be if she● loved any thing better than him And our Saviour cashiereth him as unworthy to bee his follower that doth not at least in affection and full purpose forsake Father and Mother and Wife and Children and Goods and Lands for his sake This perfection of grace the holy Martyrs attained who rather than they would dishonour God in yeilding the least shew of Idolatry refused the whole World yea their lives And the perfection of glory in the life to come is that nothing else occupy or distract us from being wholly taken up in the immediate glorifying of God without either satiety or ceasing Vse 1. Let us learn to bee of the same minde with our Lord Jesus in whom wee have a worthy pattern of constancy and heavenly resolution in that all the world and the glory of it could not move him no not by a gesture to impair his Fathers glory The Heathen man could say if hee would forswear himself for any thing it should bee for a Kingdome Absolom for a Kingdome would kill his own Father Jehu for a Kingdome makes no end of Murthers One saith of him What was a basket full of

but it is nothing less than true obedience for 1 He came of his own motion but went away by Christs who spake a powerful word which he could not nor durst resist 2 He goes when hee can stay no longer his commission for this time was now expired his liberty was restrained the temptations were ended God permits him now no further and now he leaves the Son of God and so left he Job in the same reason when he had vexed him as much as he could obtain leave to doe 3 Satan could not change his wicked nature in leaving Christ hee leaves not his malice against him only hee leaveth the exercise of it for the present 4 He returns again afterward and sets upon our Saviour with new assaults which is a plain argument he went now against his will Doct. To doe that which God commandeth and to leave undone that which he forbiddeth is not always a sign of true grace The Devil is commanded to give over tempting of Christ and he giveth over is commanded to be gone and he goeth yet this is no argument of true grace and that which is incident unto the Devil cannot be a sign of grace in any man but as there is a forced and feigned obedience in Satan himself so in all his instruments which proceeds not from any true grace let them flatter themselves in it never so much Cain offers Sacrifice as well as Abel and brings a shew of obedience but his heart being filled with murderous thoughts was voyd of all grace Balaam was commanded not to curse the people of God and hee professed that if Balac would give his house full of silver he would not doe it as if hee had made great conscience of Gods Commandement but it was much against his will for having received an answer from God not to curse them he would not be answered but went again and again to know the mind of God not content to test in that answer with which he was not pleased And after that he giveth balac wicked counsel to send his people to Sittim to offer to their Idols where Israel was likely to fall in love with women and so commit fornication with them by which he brought the curse of God amongst them whereby numbers of them were destroyed Here was a seeming obedience without any grace in the heart Exod. 8.19 Jannes and Jambres and the rest of the Enchanters of Aegypt stood out in resisting Moses and Aaron so long as they could and then gave over but not of any conscience but because in the plague of the Lice they saw the finger of God against which they could not prevail The like was the obedience of the Jews when they desisted from persecuting the Apostles Acts 5.35 because Gamaliel a Doctor of the Law perceived that they did fight against God Adde hereunto the example of Judas who after his sin of betraying his Lord made a fair shew of repentance confessed his sin restored the mony bewayled and justified his Master but all this without all grace in his heart for he went away and hanged himself 1 A man only by repressing and restraining grace Reasons may both doe many things which God hath commanded and leave undone what God hath forbidden as Haman refrained himself from Mordecai Hest 5.10 though his heart was full of wrath chap. 3.5 Many other things might hinder him from the present execution of his rage against Mordecai as that Mordecai was as in a Sanctuary the Kings gate that he was the Kings servant that it was better to reserve him to a shameful death and effect it by a kind of form of Law than to embrue his own hands in the bloud of the Kings servant and so endanger himself But the chief cause is Gods restraint of wicked mens fury that they cannot execute what they can determine against his Church though hee use sundry means to restrain them Nay further a wicked man may be restrained from some evils which the child of God may fall into he affects an outward form and credit and glory of an outward profession sometimes and to attain this end in which he notably deceives himself he cannot enjoy the pleasures of sin with greediness not because he conscionably hateth these sins but hee is bridled with the credit of his profession 2 Obedience proceeding from true grace is so qualified Conditions of sound obedience ●our as neither Satan nor any wicked man is capable of it For 1 it is an effect of the love of God and of goodness Deut. 30.20 Choose life by loving the Lord and obeying his voice and cleaving unto him Josh 22.5 Take heed to the Commandement and Law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you that is that yee love the Lord your God and walk in all his waies and keep his Commandements and cleave unto him Love excludes all coaction and constraint Now wicked men resembling their Father the Devil cannot love God nor goodnesse but notwithstanding all their pretences are haters of God and enemies of righteousnesse they care not for his favour above life they love not his presence nor to bee with him nor his Image in his Child nor his will in his word nor his house nor his holinesse to resemble him nor his glory but are more troubled at the loss of a grain of their honour than all his 2 This obedience is a daughter of faith for without faith it is impossible to please God whereas wicked men have nothing above corrupt nature much less such a supernatural indowment as faith is which so uniteth unto Christ as it makes him more precious than all the World 3 It proceedeth from a man wholly renewed and changed such good fruit must come from a good tree which is the work of sound grace onely 1 The understanding is inlightened to discern between good and evil according to Gods Word 2 The will is sanctified and made willing 3 The heart is purified by faith and made a good treasury to send out good speeches and actions 4 The conscience is purged and being perswaded of the love of God in Christ it seeks to preserve it self good and pure and in all his waies out of Conscience indeavours in the good that God requires and avoids the evil which hee forbids 5 The affections are renewed and are sweetly perswaded by Gods Spirit to hate all evil and cleave to that which is good to grieve they can do no more glory to God but are at their best very unprofitable But wicked men are never a whit changed but are all impure even their mindes and consciences and out of the abundance of the heart the tongue speaketh the hand worketh neither can a bitter fountain send out sweet waters 4 Sound Grace within sendeth forth an obedience which is cheerful 1 In the undertaking love makes labours light and nothing is hard to a good will 2 In the manner of doing it is not forced but lead ruled by the word

through sleep of soul or body the Angels watch over our safety Matth. 2.13 Joseph was a sleep and thought not of that danger which was even upon him by means of Herods cruelty but even in that sleep the Angel watched and admonished him by a dream both of the danger and the means to escape How great a comfort is it that when wee see such difficulties between us and our desires as wee can never overcome then wee have Gods Angels present to do it to our hands Mark 16.3 when the good women that came to imbalme Christs body were very much troubled how to come to his body and asked who shall roul away the stone for it was a very great one when they looked they saw the stone rowlled away and it was done by the Angel as Matthew hath it Gods Angels rowl away all stones and impediments and make our way smooth to all good duties No less comfort is it that when Satan begins to insult and makes as if hee would trample upon us wee have a stronger guard about us any one of the Angels being as able to shut the mouth of this roaring Lyon as they were to shut the mouths of those hungry Lyons into whose den Daniel was cast And for the further strength of our faith and comfort in this Doctrin the Scripture notes three things further concerning Angels worth observing 1 Their wisdome and providence in pitching about us so as wee lye open no where Exod. 14.19 when Israel was gone out of Egypt the Angel of the Lord who went before them to lead them out now removed and went behind them because now Pharaoh and his people pursued them The power of the Angel was no lesse if hee had stayed before them as hee was being Christ himself but for the comfort of Israel and our instruction the Angel changeth his place and stoppeth between them and the danger 2 Their uniting of themselves and strength for our safety one of them readily will help another in helping us Dan. 10.13 one Angel being resisted by the Prince of the Kingdome of Persia Michael one of the chief Princes came to help him who whether hee were an Angel or as it is more likely the Prince and Lord of the Angels even the Angel of the great Covenant Christ himself it is every way full of comfort 3 Their patience towards us who if they should bee gone from us as often as wee by sin provoke them wee should perish every moment But as God is long-suffering so hath hee charged his Angels to bee and therefore they wait still for our return and rejoyce in the repentance of sinners Luke 15.10 and abide in their charge and ministery still Vse 2. Again this doctrin is a ground of manifold instruction 1 Hath God afforded us the Ministery of Angels then note the priviledge and preheminence of Gods children whose nature being assumed by the Son of God gives it dignity above the Angels who are the ministers of our humane nature in the head and members Angels are indeed called the Sons of God but that is by creation Christ never gave them this honour to call them brethren Nay there is a nearer conjunction between Christ and us than between Christ and the Angels which conjunction doth priviledge us with their attendance 1 By reason of his conception and incarnation taking on him the seed of Abraham and not of the Angels by which hee becomes flesh of our flesh 2 By reason of his Spiritual contract taking us to be one with himself by which we become flesh of his flesh and so nearly set into him as the Angels cannot be who are not members of this Head as the elect be Christ indeed may bee called their Head but as a Lord and Commander nor by such Spiritual union as is between Christ and the Christian Herein we may see the love of God in setting his Angels to be our keepers The more noble potent numerous and diligent the custody is the more is the care and love of the thing kept How great thanks therefore owe wee unto our God who notwithstanding he is daily offended with our sins yet affords us the ministry of his Angels Who and what am I that God is so mindful of me that he should give so many glorious Creatures charge over me that he should give me such a priviledge that even the holy Angels whose dwelling is in Heaven and see the face of God who are all spirit and no flesh who are free from all sin and misery should so narrowly attend me a lump of earth a peece of flesh compassed with so many sins and miseries as I can look no way either before or behind them David in the eighth Psalm burst out into the praise of God when he considered that God had afforded man the use of Birds Beasts and Fishes O Lord saith he what is man that thou art so mindful of him and hast preferred him over the works of thy hands How much more should we when we see our happiness by the ministery of the glorious Angels 2 Let us learn hence to look to our conversation because of the Angels 2 Cor. 11.10 for they are our keepers and observers they see all the good and bad we doe and we doe not speak any thing without many witnesses Sin makes God take away our hedge Isa 5.5 it grieves the Angels of God and lays a man naked to all his Judgements Shall we willingly offend them from whom under God we receive so great and daily comforts If we did beleeve or weigh this doctrine we would not but because wee see not God nor his Angels we love neither nor fear to offend either 3 Let us beware of wronging the Children of God even because they have the protection of the Angels To rise up against any of them is to rise up against the Angels their keepers Offend none of these little ones for their Angels behold the face of their heavenly Father and thou provokest the Angels against thee It the Sodomites rise up against Lot the Angels will save him and destroy them It Balaam will goe to Curse Gods people he shall have an Angel against him with a sword drawn ready to kill him 4 Learn wee to give God the honour of our salvation and safety when wee have avoyded any danger publick or private It is not by chance nor by our providence and policy but Gods charging his Angels to save and keep us Daniel did rightly ascribe his deliverance to God by the ministery of the Angel chap. 6.22 My God saith he sent his Angel and shut the Lions mouth 5 To be partaker of all this comfort these means are to bee used 1 Become a godly man Psal 34.9 The Angel of the Lord pitcheth his tent round about them that fear the Lord. Heb. 1.14 They are ministring Spirits to the heirs of salvation 2 Hold on in a godly course keep thee in thy ways in the duties of thy Calling general and