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The righteous branch growing out of the root of Jesse and healing the nations held forth in several sermons upon Isai. chap. 11, from vers. 1 to 10 : together with some few sermons relating to all who live under the shadow of the branch / by William Colvill.
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Colvill, William, d. 1675.
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comes by looking upon sore eyes so infection taketh hold upon many from their beholding the evil example of others for thou art more ready to comply with their corruption then they are to follow any grace or virtue that is in thee thou hath corruption dwelling in thy mortal body which is ready to correspond with them and to concurr in their works of darkness but they have not grace in them to correspond with thee in gracious dispositions or actions 2. Through their evil company thou may be in danger of a temporal judgment as was good Jehoshaphat 2 Chron. 18.31 Yea not only in danger but also involved in the same common calamity with them as was righteous Lot Gen. 14.12 3. By thy intimat fellowship with prophane men thou doth great prejudice to thine own good name and reputation for others seeing or hearing of thy fellowship with them cannot but think thou art like unto them as birds of one feather flocking together but thou shouldest consider that next to a good Conscience a good Name is to be sought and preserved Prov. 22.1 a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches and loving favour rather than silver and gold Silver and gold may be lost and recovered again but a good name once lost is not easily recovered it will cost a man more pains and labour to recover it then it would cost him to have preserved it It is compared to precious oyntment Eccles 7.1 A good name is better than precious oyntment It is more precious and fragrant than oyntment yet evil company is as a flee in the oyntment spoils it and makes it unsavoury 4. It is the will of God thou shouldest abstain not only from the substance of evil but also from the circumstances and appearances of evil 1 Thess 5.22 abstain from all appearance of evil 1 Joh. 5.21 keep your selves from idols Not only from the act but also from the object of idolatry therefore the Lord would not have the people of Israel plant a grove of any trees near unto the Altar of the Lord Deut. 16.21 lest it being too nigh the people might creep into the groves and there sin against the Lord for it becometh Christians to walk circumspectly even before the world a chaste and honest conversation becometh well the Spouse of Christ Cesar said it became Cesars Wife not only to be honest in deed but also to be free from all occasion of suspition how much more doth it well become all espoused to Christ to walk humbly with God and without offence before men 5. The man who without a call doth frequent evil company provokes God to leave him and to give him over unto the evil counsels and temptations of such evil company therefore godly men though never so resolute yet should they not without a call from God as Joseph and Daniel had for their being in Egypt and Babylon cast themselves into the snare of evil company no man nearest to danger by his own free option is long safe no wise Mariner in time of calm should cast anchor hard by a rock for he knoweth not how soon the storm may arise and dash the Vâ—ssel against the rock It was the wisdom of chaste Joseph not to abide privatly in one and the same room with that shameless woman Gen. 39.10 Vse 2. For exhortation to frequent most the company of such as fear the Lord because 1. their good example and instruction may be unto thee a restraint from evil doing as good Jehoiadah was to Jehoash for a long time 2 King 12.2 2. It may hold off a judgement temporal even from wicked men if there had been but ten righteous persons in Sodom it had been spared for their sakes yea Gen. 19.22 the Angel said he could bring no judgement upon it untill Lot was first gone out of it 3. The company of the godly through Gods blessing may do much good unto thee by their good example and counsel Prov. 13.20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise This may be clearly seen in the godly servants of Abraham and Cornelius the Centurion Gen. 24. Act 10.7 by their religious speech and dialect ye may easily discern they have been bred in the company of these who feared God yet sometimes it may be otherwayes contrary to the good example and instructions of the Masters of the families for in Davids company there was an Achithophel in Elisha's a Gehazi and even in Christs own company the Traitor Judas The second evidence of a real change and of true conversion is a willing submission to the Word of God in the ministry of his weak Servants subjected to the like passions as we our selves are a little child shall lead them these that are led by another have first life within them So men are first quickened by the life of faith through the Word by the Spirit and thereafter they are easily led by the Ministers of Jesus Christ unto duties revealed by God in the holy Word Joh. 10.27 My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me By the Spirit of God working effectually with the Word they are first made sheep and thereafter they follow him in the way of obedience to his counsel and direction Rom. 6.17 God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you because the Word of God by the Spirit puts a stamp and impression upon their spirits as the printing-iron doth upon the paper that a man may see therein the very letter of the Type it self this is signified in the Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this submission in believers is by the assent of faith in their minds to the Word as the infallible truth of the God of truth and by love in our hearts to it as the good and righteous Word of God which is able to save the soul of the believers 1 Thes 2.13 Ye received the Word of God not as the word of men but as the Word of God And withall there is an honest purpose of heart to obey the direction of the Word in practical duties Luk. 8.15 That seed on the good ground are they which in an honest and good heart having heard the Word keep it and bring forth fruit with patience Rom. 16.19 Your obedience is come abroad unto all men Vse 1. For conviction and reproof of many visible Professors who by their willful disobedience and rejecting the counsel of the divine truth declare themselves in effect not yet truly changed and converted from what they were formerly some flatly reject the Word as these Jews Jer. 44.16 others speak fair but prove indeed like the young fair-spoken son Mat. 21.31 He said I go Sir and went not How many in time of sad affliction confess their sins and profess a purpose of amendment as Pharaoh did Exod. 9.27 28. but all these professions and appearing resolutions are like the morning
THE RIGHTEOUS BRANCH Growing out of the Root of Jesse and healing the Nations Held forth in several Sermons upon Isai Chap. 11. from vers 1. to 10. Together with some few Sermons relating to all who live under the shadow of the BRANCH By Mr. William Colvill Minister of the Gospel and Primair of King James's Colledge in Edinburgh Jer. 23.5 Behold the dayes come that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch and a King shall reign and prosper and shall execute judgement and justice in the earth Zech. 6.12 Behold the man whose name is the BRANCH and he shall grow up out of his place and he shall build the temple of the Lord. Edinburgh Printed by George Swintoun James Glen and Thomas Brown Anno DOM. 1673. To the Religious and truly Noble Ladies my Lady Napier and to my Lady Mary Erskine Aunts to my Noble Lord the Earl of Marr. Noble Ladies IT is a true saying of the wise Solomon Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it The first part of this was made out by your gracious and noble Mother of blessed memory who trained you up from your Child-hood in the holy Scriptures and in the fear of the Lord as also in all vertue beseeming your Quality and Sex whereof I have had the honour and happiness to be a witness for many years I know it is a Christian duty in the due time to make honourable mention of the vertues of the deceased Saints to the end these who survive them may in a godly emulation follow their good example Your Noble Mother was like to Annah in her privat and publick Devotions like to Dorcas in her Christian compassion and supply to the necessitous like to Sarah in her dutiful deportment toward her Noble Lord your Father and like to Eunice in the Christian and tender education of her Children The other part of that Golden Sentence ye your selves endeavour through Gods grace to make good by resembling her in her Graces and Vertues and by transmitting the same in your careful education of these hopeful young Ladies happy in your example and breeding The like great obligation of Gratitude that strongly inclined me to dedicat a Book to your gracious Mother hath also prompted me to present this small Treatise unto your Ladiships and to honour the same by prefixing your Names thereto The main subject and design of both Books is the same In the first were some refreshing streams flowing forth from the fountain opened to the house of David for refreshing weary and thirsty souls and in this is held forth the Righteous BRANCH even the blessed Lord Jesus Christ also for the reviving of fainting souls by the sweet savour of his grace and power to convert and save lost man It is not in such a dress as will please the fancy of some others but I know well if the stuff be upright and solid your sober minds can easily dispense with the want of embroideries of Humane Eloquence That it may be profitable to your Ladyships and to all who shall be pleased to peruse the same is the humble prayer of him who is in all duty Noble Ladies Your most humble and devouted Servant Mr. Wil. Colvill TO THE READER THe desire of light and knowledge to the understanding is natural unto every man as by the outward light things visible are seen by the eye of the body So things intelligible are perceived by the light and the knowledge in the mind but of all knowledge the knowledge of God in Jesus Christ his blessed Son our Mediator is most to be desired It is most necessar because the specular knowledge of this in the holy Scriptures is the Rudiment of that full and perfect knowledge the Saints have in Heaven for to know this is life eternal Joh 17.3 It is the foundation of our spiritual practical duties without it man cannot believe in God and whom he sent Jesus Christ for how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard Rom. 10.14 without this knowledge we cannot desire nor seek after Christ and his benefits therefore our blessed Lord said to that poor sinful woman Joh. 4.10 If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that saith to thee give me to drink thou wouldest have asked of him and he would have given thee living water For the will cannot love and chuse Christ for our portion till first he be represented in his beauty of holiness by light and knowledge in the understanding This knowledge is most excellent in respect of the subject who is the brightness of the Fathers glory in whom are hid the treasures of wisdom and knowledge All natural knowledge though never so profound as was that of Solomon who knew and spoke of all Trees from the Cedar to the Hysop yet if we be ignorant of the true Vine and of the righteous BRANCH that healeth the Nations all our secular knowledge will prove unsavory and gustless at the hour of death but if we know love and obey in sincerity the Lord Jesus Christ then at the end of our life we shall rejoyce in our longing desire and lively hope to be with him after death and to know him as now we are known of him This knowledge is not dull but active by our knowledge of him we are justified Is 53.11 Saving faith whereof knowledge is a special and first ingredient receiveth Christ wholly in all his Offices and with him pardon of our sins as all who were stung in the wilderness if they looked to the brasen Serpent were healed So whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have eternal life This knowledge is active also for our Sanctification because this knowledge by the obsignation of the holy Spirit maketh such a deep impression of Christ known upon the minds and hearts of believers that they become like and conform unto him 2 Pet. 1.4 and by the knowledge and light of the Gospel representing him they are changed from glory to glory 2 Cor. 3.18 that is from one degree of grace to another in the course and progress of Sanctification which is no other thing but the commencement of that glory we look for in heaven This saving knowledge which true believers have of Christ is an humbling and encreasing knowledge Paul became very humble thinking himself the chief of sinners and least of Saints it is a growing light and knowledge the more they know him they love him the more and the more they love him they desire to know the more of him When they grow old and the natural faculty of understanding waxeth weak and dim though they grow not in the knowledge of the literal apprehension yet they grow in the knowledge of appretiation and estimation as the motion of every thing the nearer it comes to its center is the swifter So the sound believer the nearer he draws to the term of his life and the hoped