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Exercitations and meditations upon some texts of Holy Scripture and most in Scripture-phrase and expression. By Samuel Thomsonn, M.A. and Doctor of Physick; formerly student in Magdalen-Hall in Oxford.
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Thomsonn, Samuel, b. 1643?
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degrees of it are four Labour to dye well two things requisite thereunto 1. Preparation before death 2. A right behaviour in death What is preparation before death Preparation twofold 1. General 2 Particular and that 1. In reference to God 2. Our selves 3. Our Neighbour 2. A right behaviour in death and that in three particulars 2. Of Judgment What it is and that in six particulars When it shall be Four Reasons why the time is concealed Judgment is twofold 1. Particular presently after death 2. General at the last day Difference between the resurrection of the Elect and Reprobates in four things What is meant by the books shall be opened and what by the book of life The act of judgment performed two ways 1. By Examination 2. By pronouncing sentence Two differences between the examination of the Elect and the Reprobates and other things about the administration of it Four Reasons why this last judgment must be Who the Judg is 3. Of Hell Seven Epithites of the place of the damned in Scripture Five acceptations of hell Adireful representation of hell Three Reasons for it Of the punishment of loss and the punishment of sence An exhortation to labour to avoid it 4. Of Heaven What that eternal blessed life is The variety of heavenly joys in four things The three Scriptural Heavens described What is meant by Abraham's bosome The sum of the last Article of our faith in three things Whether we shall know each other in Heaven Proved affirmatively by six Arguments An exhortation to live the life of Grace here that we may live the life of Glory hereafter Books very lately Printed for Edw. Brewster at the sign of the Crane in Paul's Church-yard 1676. 1. THe Apostolical History containing the Acts Labours Travels Sermons Discourses Miracles Successes and Sufferings of the Holy Apostles from Christ's Ascension to the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus c. By Samuel Cradock B. D. fol. 2. Mr. Henry Smith's Sermons 4to 3. Cases of Conscience Practically Resolved By the Reverend and Learned J. Norman late Minister of Bridgwater in Sommerset 8vo 4. Christian Advice both to Young and Old Rich and Poor which may serve as a Directory at hand ready to direct all persons almost in every estate and condition under 17 general useful Heads By Thomas Mocket M. A. 5. Moses Revivâ—d A Treatise proving that it is not lawful and therefore sinful for any man or woman to eat blood viz. the life-blood of any Creature 8vo 6. Basilius Valentinus his last Will and Testament which was found hid under a Table of Marble behind the high Altar in the Cathedral Church of the Imperial City of Erford leaving it there to be found by him whom God's Providence should make worthy of it 8vo 7. The Royal Pay and Pay-Master A Sermon preached before the Military Company By William Sâ—later D. D. Minister of St. James Clarkenwell 4to 8. Exodus Or the decease of Holy men and Ministers considered in the Nature Certainty Causes and Improvement thereof A Sermon preached the 12th Sept. 1675. at the Funeral of the much lamented Death of the Learned and Reverend Minister of Christ Dr. Lazarus Sâ—aman late Pastor of Alhallows Breadstreâ—t London By William Jenkyn late Minister of Christ-Church London 4to 9. Lydea's Heart opened or Divine Mercy magnified in the Conversion of a Sinner by the Gospel By William Strong M. A. c. 8vo EXERCITATION THE FIRST Ezek. 16. 8. I entered into a Covenant with thee saith the Lord God and thou becamest mine GOd in this Chapter by Ezekiel a Priest and a Prophet declares His great mercies to the people of Israel and their horrid and vile ingratitude Among all His mercies this was none of the least that God entred into a Covenant with them There are three things among men that do induce a publick obligation and yet do differ in themselves As 1. a Law 2. A Covenant 3. A Testament A Law and a Testament are absolute and do not imply any consent of the party under them For a Law requires subjection not expecting the consent of inferiours So a Testament or a Will of a Man is to bequeath such Goods and Legacies not expecting the consent of others But a Covenant requires consent and agreement between two parties The Covenant of God with man is twofold 1. That of Works which was made before the fall with Adam in his innocency 2. The Covenant of Grace which was made since the fall The Covenant of Works with Adam before the fall is laid down more obscurely than the Covenant of Grace was Gen. 2. 16 17. after the fall And the Lord God commanded the man saying of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat but of the tree of Knowledg of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye Do this and thou shalt live â— if thou do it not thou shalt dye And so God enabled Adam to do that which was good for the which he was the more obliged unto God Or thus The Covenant of Works God made with Adam promising him therein an everlasting continuance of felicity and happiness under condition of his obedience unto God but threatning death to him if he were disobedient This Covenant of Works was confirmed by a double Sacrament 1. The tree of life 2. The tree of knowledg of good and evil both seated in the midst of Paradise The use of these was double 1. That by the use of the one and by abstaining from the other man's obedience might be tryed 2. That the tree of life might Seal to man being obedient his perpetuity of happiness and that the tree of knowledg of good and evil might signifie unto man if he were disobedient the loss of the greatest good and the purchasing and procuring of the greatest evil The tree of life was not so called from any inward implanted faculty of quickning in it but a Sacramental signification So also the tree of knowledg of good and evil had this name from the signification of the greatest evil or good with the event and consequences thereof Here in this Covenant needed no Mediator for it was before sin was in the world and Adam then was in perfect familiarity and communion with God It was Sin that brought in enmity fear and shame as well as punishment and death For presently after the fall Adam hid himself from the presence of the Lord and feared c. because of the guilt of Sin and breach of Gods Commandment So he confessed I was afraid Gen. 3. 10. because I was naked and hid my self These are the grounds and reasons to prove that God dealt with Adam in these Commandments by way of Covenant 1. From the evil threatned and good promised 2. Because his posterity became guilty of his Sin and obnoxious and liable to his punishment 3. Because the Apostle Paul in Rom. 5. 12 15 18. makes all
that occasioned my conversion who taught me c. And this may clearly be gathered out of Scripture 1. For if Adam before the fall had that measure of Illumination That he knew Eve and from whence she came Gen. 2. 23. at the first sight much more we who then shall be filled with the Holy Ghost and with wisdom shall know each other and all the Saints whom we never saw before in the flesh Now we see as through a glass darkly 1 Cor. 13. 12 but then face to face now we know in part but then shall we know even as also we are known 2. If Peter James and John who accompanied Christ in His Transfiguration had then a tast and glimps of glorification and were able thereby to know Moses and Elias whom they had never seen who lived many hundred of years before neither could they know their visage by statues or pictures which was a thing utterly forbidden to the Jews but by the alone grace and favour of God which put into their hearts this immediate light of wisdom and knowledg How much more shall we being fully enlightned and perfectly glorified in heaven know exactly all the blessed ones though never acquainted with them here upon the earth 3. Samuel being inspired by God â— Sam. 9. 17. knew Saul whom he had never seen before 4. John Baptist in his Mother Elizabeth's womb leap'd for joy to Luk. 1. 41. hear the voice of the blessed Virgin the Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ If the minds of these were so enlightned with the beams of the Spirit and did so shall not we much more know each other in heaven when all clouds and mists of darkness shall be wholly taken away and we shall be fully illuminated and glorified 5. Christ tells the Jews That they Luk. 13. 28. shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the Prophets c. in the kingdom of heaven therefore they must know them 6. And it is clearly gathered out of the Parable in Luke 16. 23 24 25 that the Saints do know the Saints in the Kingdom of heaven and the Reprobates in torments do know each other In this knowledg each of other the heap of reward encreaseth For as the Elect do more and more rejoyce when they see those whom they have loved on earth to rejoyce with them so the wicked in Hell when they see whom they dearly loved in this world to be tormented with them not only their own punishment but the punishment of those whom they so much loved in this life adds unto their misery Where-hence we conclude that the glorified Saints then plentifully endu'd with all knowledg and supernaturally enlightned by the Holy Ghost shall know each other and those Saints also whom they never knew in the flesh There all men shall be known of every several man of what Nation Country or stock soever he came and every several man shall be known of all We shall know the spiritual substances offices orders and excellencies of the holy Angels And the nature immortality operations and originals of our own souls yea and all things knowable But above all we shall be beatifically enlightned with a clear and glorious sight of God Himself which Divines call the Beatifical Vision which alone makes us blessed and happy for evermore Beholding the inexpressible glory of God issuing from His glorious Face whereby we shall be wonderfully taken with His Beauty and our souls inwardly ravished with the things that we shall behold with a delight of them and nothing shall be able to make our joys either to faint or to fail Immediately after that Christ hath crowned all the Elect with crowns of glory then every one taking the crown from his head shall lay it down at the feet of Christ prostrating themselves and with one heart and voice in a heavenly harmony shall say Praise and honour glory and power be unto Thee O blessed Lamb who settest upon the Throne Who hast Redeemed us to God by Thy bloud out of every kindred and tongue and Rev. 4. 10. 5. 9. people and nation and hast made us unto our God Kings and Priests to reign with Thee in thy Kingdom for evermore O now let us look and long for this blessed estate and this heavenly City whose builder and maker is God Heb. 11. 10. This was it which St. Paul longed for to be dissolved and to be with Christ Phil. 1. 23. which was best of all Every one would desire this blessed estate Therefore live the life of Grace here else thou 2 Cor. 4. 17 shalt never live the life of Glory hereafter Grace is glory begun and glory is grace consummate Without holiness Heb. 12. 14 none shall see God Into that holy place no unclean thing shall enter Rev. 21. 27. Therefore let us now strive to cleanse our selves from all filthiness both of flesh and spirit endeavoring to perfect holiness in the fear of God In Rome heretofore they must first pass through the Temple of Vertue before they came to the Temple of Honour This honour have all Gods Saints Psal 149. 9. Josh 23 14. And as not one good thing hath failed of all that the Lord promised concerning His Israel So we shall have cause then Psal 37. 24. to say As the Lord hath guided us by His counsel now He hath received us into His glory Therefore blessed be the Psal 72. 18 19 Lord God the God of Israel who only doth wondrous things And blessed be His glorious Name for ever and let the whole world be filled with His glory Amen and Amen Lo this is our God we have waited Isa 25. 9. for Him and He hath saved us this is the Lord we have waited for Him He hath brought us to His glory we will rejoyce and be glad in this His eternal salvation Amen FINIS