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A52476	Three choice and profitable sermons upon severall texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17, John 14. 3, Heb. 8. 5 : the first of them being the last sermon which he preached at the court of election at Boston, the second was the last which he preached on the Lords-Day, the third was the last which he preached on his weekly-lecture-day : wherein (beside many other excellent and seasonable truths) is shewed, the Lords soveraignty over, and care for his church and people, in order to both their militant and triumphant condition, and their fidelity and good affection towards himself / by that reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Norton ...	Norton, John, 1606-1663.; Norton, John, 1606-1663. Copy of the letter returned by the ministers of New-England to Mr. John Dury about his pacification.	1664 (1664)	Wing N1324; ESTC R40050	44,511	76

ver 23. Gen. 46. when Joseph received Jacob and his Brethren after so long an absence judge what a contentment there was Jacob fell upon Josephs neck and Joseph fell upon Iacobs neck but their embraces are not to be mentioned with the embraces of Christ and the Soul Do good that when you dye the good you have done may receive you into everlasting habitations Your works shall follow you It was the speech of one * Ambrose I have not so lived as that I am ashamed to live any longer nor am I afraid to dye Labour so to live as you may be useful in the body and so as you may not be ashamed to go out of the body but may say as Iohn did who was an old man and a Disciple I come quickly Even so come Lord Iesus come quickly THE EVANGELICAL WORSHIPPER Subjecting to the Prescription and Soveraignty of Scripture-patern BEING THE THIRD SERMON AND Preached on the LECTURE-DAY APRIL II. 1663. Heb. 8.5 Who serve unto the Example and shadow of Heavenly things as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the Tabernacle for see saith he that thou make all things according to the patern shewed to thee in the Mount THis Verse illustrates the Argument mentioned in the foregoing words from an adjunct or accident accompanying the Legal Priest-hood The Argument there used to prove that the Priest-hood of Christ excelled that priest-hood which was after the Order of Aaron was because they which were of that Priesthood ministred on Earth but Christ ministreth in Heaven He was a Minister of the true Tabernacle while he was on Earth and he still officiates in his Priestly Office now he is in Heaven the Tabernacle which they ministred in was upon the Earth and was made of earthly things and it was a figure or shadow of heavenly things he declares that that Tabernacle was a worldly Tabernacle or Sanctuary 1. From the quality of it it was onely a shadow or example of heavenly things and it was a type but Christ was a Minister of the true Tabernacle 2. It is declared from the certainty of it for He saith this But how doth that appear It appears from a Divine Testimony For see saith he that thou make all things according to the Patern shewed to thee in the Mount For the opening of the words First we are to consider what these heavenly things are They are called in Chap. 9.11 Good things to come In a word it means Christ with all his Benefits these are the Heavenly things that the other were but Shadows of Therefore it is truely said that the Ceremonial Law holds forth Christ i. e. it makes known the Gospel being rightly understood but after a Legal dispensation Secondly it was a shadow of good things i. e. it was a patern that did shadow out Heavenly things God shewed Moses a Patern or Type in a Vision according to which the Tabernacle was to be framed and Moses acts accordingly The word translated Patern intends as much as a likeness or example or a figure As for the Divine Testimony you may see it in Exodus 25.9 According to all that I shew thee after the patern of the Tabernacle and the patern of all the instruments thereof even so shall ye make it And in Chap. 39. this testimony is often given that All things were done as the Lord had commanded Moses But Christ was the Minister of another Tabernacle i. e. of his Body the true Tabernacle Doct. Great care must be hads in matters of Divine Worship or Divine Administrations that all things proceed according to the Prescript Word of God Or That all things be exactly corresponding to the Prescript of Gods Word Hebrews 7.14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Iudah of which Tribe Moses spake nothing concerning the Priesthood The Apostle thinks he argueth well and conclusively That Christ was not of the Levitical Order because nothing was spoken concerning it of that Tribe This is a good Argument in Divinity to say That there is nothing in Gods Word why you should act such or such a thing it is not enough to say that there is nothing expresly against it the truth is there is enough against it if there be nothing for it The Tribe of Iudah must not meddle with the matters of the Priesthood Why so because Moses spake nothing of them in that respect and in Exod. 25.9 Moses himself was to act nothing that he found not in the Patern Exod. 26.30 And thou shalt rear up the Tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the Mount He must act nothing that he doth not finde in the Patern It is true David for some just cause made some alteration in the Worship of God for the state of Temple-worship compared with Tabernacle-worship did call for a change But how did David proceed in it 1 Chron. 28.19 All this saith David the Lord made me uncenstand in writing by his hand upon me even all the works of this patern He made no alteration in Gods Worship but it was also by a Patern given to him by God And for Solomon you finde that David gave him the Patern ver 11. to build the Temple according thereunto And relating to Gospel-times the time of the Messias you have an eminent text in Ezek. 43.10 11. Thou Son of man shew the house to the House of Israel that they may be ashamed of their iniquities and let them measure the patern and if they be ashamed of all that they have done shew them the form of the house and the fashion and the goings out thereof and the comings in thereof and all the forms thereof c. Reas 1. Because it is the acknowledgement of the Prerogative of Jesus Christ I mean that he alone hath the honour to institute Divine Worship He in truth was the Author of the Tabernacle of the Temple and yet he was the Tabernacle and the Temple i. e. the true Tabernacle and Temple The power of the Keyes i. e. the instituted Worship under the Gospel you shall finde Christ is the maker and disposer of those Keyes Mat. 16.19 It is not for man to make a Key to open Heaven be will never be able to pick that lock Ye shall reverence my Sanctuary saith God Levit. 26.2 and why so I am that Lord make a pause here i. e. it 's no less then the Attribute of his Lordship that is demonstrated in the matters of his Worship as for instance Korah was very near unto the Priesthood Numb 16.1 and yet inferiour to the Priesthood and it may be that was some temptation to him to be so near it and yet inferiour to it but he must not offer Incense Numb 16.40 but the Priests which are the Sons of Aaron may Why may not Korah the reason is I am the Lord I will have this act to be matter of Divine Worship and not another and I will have

Three Choice and Profitable SERMONS Upon Severall TEXTS of SCRIPTURE VIZ. JER 30.17 JOHN 14.3 HEB. 8.5 By that Reverend Servant of Christ M R. JOHN NORTON Late Teacher of the Church of Christ at Boston in N.E. The First of them being the LAST SERMON which he Preached at the Court of Election at Boston The Second was the LAST which he Preached on the Lords-Day The Third was the LAST which he Preached on his Weekly-Lecture-Day WHEREIN Beside many other excellent and seasonable Truths is shewed the Lords Soveraignty over and Care for his Church and People in order to both their Militant and Triumphant condition and their Fidelity and good affection towards himself 2 Sam. 23.1 Now these be the LAST words of David David the son of Jesse said and the man who was raised up on high the Anointed of the God of Jacob and the sweet Psalmist of Israel Deut. 31.29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt your selves and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you and evil will befall you in the latter days c. Ezra 3 3. And they set the Altar upon his Bases for fear was upon them because of the people of those Countries Zech. 1.5 6. Your fathers where are they and the Prophets do they live for ever but my words and my statutes which I commanded my servants the Prophets did they not take hold of your fathers and they returned and said Like as the Lord of Hosts thought to do unto us according to our wayes and according to our doings so hath he dealt with us CAMBRIDGE Printed by S.G. and M.I. for Hezekiah Vsher of Boston 1664. JOHANNES NORTONUS ANAGR NONNE IS HONORATVS NOnne is Honoratus Deus ipse coronat honore Servum cum periit non pereunte suum Abstulit Enôchum translatio mira sed ejus In Coelis decorat pulchra Corona Caput Qui nobis subito raptus miser esse videtur Forsitan Ignaris vivit at usque Deo Vivit in Coelis cumulatus honoribus amplis Regnat in aeternum sic ait ipse Deus Mors inopina potest Jobi cito perdere Natos Sors quibus in superis inviolata datur Multa priùs passi Moses Aaronque fuere Tempus ante suum jussus uterque mori Quid si non licuit Canaanem visere Tanto Celsior in Coelis cessit utrique locus Curribus ignitis Elias raptus at illis Ad summi vehitur culmina summa poli Esto Sit in Bello Josias victus ictus Mortuus in pace est non pereunte tamen Funera non unquam Mage lamentanda Sioni Josiae nunquàm Gloria major erat Quem deflent homines Deus optimus auget honore His dolor ast illi Gloria summa fuit Si Caput amisit gladio resecante Iohannes Ejus honor Christo judice quantus erat Sit Stephanus lapidum licet obrutus ictibus Illum Christus in amplexut traxerat inde suos Christus ipse fuit quàm dirâ morte peremptus At sequitur tantam Gloria quanta Crucem Sic Deus ut Christum sic Christus honore Coronat Eximio quibus est Gloria chara Dei. Qualis erat noster syncero corde Iohannes Cui nisi quae Christi chara fuere nihil Hoc scio nemo negat nisi veri Testis aequi Non velit esse Bonos Consule sive malos Pro Samuele olim contestabantur omneis Hunc qui pro meritis vix coluere suis Vel siquis forsan magis invidet Ejus honori Hinc cumulus crescet major honoris ei Anagr. 2. JESV ANNON THRONOS JOHANNES NORTONIUS Anagr. 3. ANNON JESV HONOR SIT ANnon dandus honor sit ab omnibus omnis Jesu Est quibus in Jesu sanguine parta salus ENGLISH OH Iesu hast not thou prepared Thrones For us thy poor and ill deserving ones How should we then to Thee all Honour give And to thy Name who in the Heav'ns dost live And there preparest Mansions for thine Where they may all in endless Glory shine To the same purpose JOHN NORTON Anagr. INTO HONNOR FRom Honour into Honour go the Lord thus calling thee To higher Honour then there could on Earth obtained bee Heav'n is the Seat of Honour for those whom he Crowns with Grace For the most honourable Crowns Heav'n is the onely place By men that are most ignorant of Gods revealed Will Thou may'st be miserable thought for so they construe still Like bruitish ones the minde of God if Saints die in a swoon As if their Sun all bright before Were now gone down at Noon As if their case were now by farre the more to be deplor'd As that which doth but little hope or none of Bliss afford Yea holy Job his Friends to this did too-too much incline That sudden Changes such us his do argue Wrath divine But when the Saints do perish thus as foolish men conceive That is the time and means whereby more Honour they receive As being Crown'd with Royal Crowns which are at Gods right hand Like Joseph from his Dungeon rais'd by the Kings Command 'T was a translation marvellous which did Enoch remove From out this sinful world to be crown'd in the Heav'ns above Where now he lives reigns with heaps of highest honour fill'd All his Predictions to be from time to time fulfill'd An unegnected death did saize on Jobs posteritie But in the Heiv'ns a glorious Lot for them prepar'd did lie Moses and Aaron when as they had suffer'd much were bid As 't were before their time to die as in their Mounts they did What if the Land of Canaan they might not visit yet A place more glorious in the Heav'ns they both of them did get In flaming-fiery-Charet wrapt from earth Elijah was And by the same convey'd he was unto his bliss-ful place Be it that good Josiah were cut off with suddain stroke He dy'd in peace and unto rest eternal was he toke No funeral to Sion was as his so lamentable Yet was his death as well as life to him most honourable Theirs was the griefe the joy was his God highly honourd him Although his death to carnal eyes might miserable seem The cursed executioner cut off John Baptist's head But how did Jesus honour him both when alive and dead The Crowned Martyr holy Stephen in cruel wise was ston'd But by his blessed Saviour's most sweet imbraces own'd Yea Christ himself Gods own dear Son whose death more woeful was Yet from his cross how soon advanc'd to that most glorious place So God his Christ with honour crown'd So Christ doth honour his To whom Gods Honour and his Christ's most dear and precious is And such an one our Norton was whose death we so lament Whose whole desire was upon Christ and on his glory bent None can deny it good nor bad like as to Samuel They all were forced to confess he had done all things well If any one should have an heart with envy fill'd so

religious then so to carry it that they should no sooner see a Congregational-man then to have cause to say They see an Enemy to the Crown Prov. 24.21 My son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change Eccles 10.20 Curse not the King no not in thy thought Dan. 6.22 Innocency was found in me saith Daniel and also before thee O King have I done no hurt Is this thy voice my son David 1 Sam. 26.17 really so not hypocritically We have severe Observers Tongues are not untaught to inform against us It is but wisdome to give no cause especially such as our own Consciences cannot testifie for and such as all Orthodox Churches in the Protestant world will testifie against In matters of the State-Civil and of the Church let it be shewn that we are his Disciples who Matth. 22.21 said Give unto Cesar the things that are Cesars and unto God the things that are Gods and in matters of Religion let it be known that we are for Reformation and not for Separation 6. Lastly Take care thar the Order of the Gospel may have a free passage in the Churches I mean that our Practice may effectually answer our Doctrine in that Book entituled The Platform of Church-Discipline 'T is that for which we are Out-casts at this day that for the substance of it is it that sheweth what New-England is I would I might say that there are none among our selves that are against it There was a time when the General Court did approve of it and when the Members of that Synod pleaded for it Our reality herein will be in no small degree critical of our Integrity in this Undertaking and our Actions must be the demonstrations of our Sincerity This is a principal Ingredient of this healing Plaister and for the defect-hereof are such frequent and scandalous Breaches in our Churches so many Administrations in vain and such sad Non-administration and Remora's occasioning that sad Quaerie of Spectators Whether the Congregational-way be practicable yea or not I beseech you consider whom it is that it doth concern to answer this Objection you that are conscientious do not forget it at whom the stick lyes in one order or another If we cannot build without the noise of Hammers yield that we are not Temple-workmen yield we must either that the Congregational-way is not the way of God or that We are unfit for the behaviour of the House of God As concerning the Church-government according to the Platform of Discipline the practice of which doctrine who careth for is not this that truth which the Synod Churches the General Court sometime made a good Confession of and that now no man comparatively careth for Ezra 4.8 Rehum cares not for it ver 23. Artaxerxes careth not for it Nehem. 4. Sanballat and Tobiah care not for it the Episcopal man the Presbyterian care not for it the Morellian careth not for it the Merchant the Souldier the Husbandman the Labourer careth not for it Haggai 1. The people of Jerusalem the Church-members care not for it I am apt sometimes to think that Aaron may be under a temptation of irregular complyance but minde Ier. 15.19 Let them return unto thee but return not thou unto them I may say thus much and pardon my speech A more yeilding Ministry unto the People I believe is not in the World I beseech you let not Cesar be killed in the Senate after he hath fought it out and conquered in the Field let us acknowledge the Order of the Eldership in our Churches in their way and the Order of Councils in their way duely back'd and encouraged without which Experience will witness that these Churches cannot long consist God hath opened the mouth of the Speaker to you this day it being a day wherein after so many attempts and feares you are betrusted with your Liberties for another year You have this years oportunity and at such a time and blessed be the Lord God of our Fathers who hath put such a thing in the Kings heart so farre to accept your Application to his Majesty as not onely to give you the oportunity of the year present but also encouragement for many years to come Let all of us be stirred up by the Lord and at such a time to strengthen the hand of Zerubbabel and Jehoshua by your professed subjection to the Gospel of Christ Do not betray liberty under the pretence of liberty You that are in the honoured Magistracy remember Davids troubles Psal 132.1 5. he could not rest till the Ark had rest And those that are in the Ministry remember Paul's troubles and what his cares were 1 Cor. 11.28 Let us all minde what were the troubles and thoughts of heart that were in them that lived in the dayes of Malachi Chap 3.16 But are there not many that minde onely their cieled houses c and how much doth the work of the Out-cast lye unattempted witness the sick estate of the Churches and how can it be remedied if we will not acknowledge Order and shall I say that we are real therein You have brought upon your selves real troubles and likewise upon your Relations and Friends in England and those here that suffer with you in this Exile See then that you be not hypocritical but real to the Truth which you have professed I could tell you and you must not forget it That there have been Men of Renown as they are called Numb 16.2 Famous in the Congregation of Israel that did go out of Egypt but yet could not endure the Order of God in the Wilderness Let us shew it that we mistook not our selves pretending to come into this Wilderness to live under the Order of the Gospel We are Out-casts indeed and reproached but let us be such Out-casts as are caring for the Truth and therefore not to neglect an Apologie it doth become and greatly concern Gods Out-casts to minde it You know there are those who represent you as disaffected to Government and as Sectaries and Schismaticks and as Fanaticks you see cause to Apologize therein And for that term of Fanatick you must remember it is not of yesterday however it be now used or abused You may learn the original use of it from that distribution of Professors in relation to Church government in former times into four sorts viz. Orthodoxt Pontificii Rationales and Fanatici But I trust that God doth and Angels and Men shall know that we are Orthodox Gods Out-casts are not Fanaticks The Woman in the wilderness may have the vomit of the Dragon cast in her face if you let it lye on you will suffer wash it off therefore by an Apologie Thus did Justin Martyr Tertullian Iuel and others in their time Give not the advantage of interpreting Silence as Consent nor think it labour lost if an Apologie will wash your face And though we may be cast out by men yet may we hope that God will

this man to act and not another I am the Lord. Might not any man take a little perfume and sprinkle it on the coals No God will institute what acts and what persons he pleaseth I have heard I think some say that any man may administer Baptism or the Lords Supper and I say it may be a Childe is able to do it what then But we must remember what God saith I am the Lord and he will be owned in his Institutions Vzzah was a good man yet he may not touch the Ark why not I am the Lord 2 Sam. 6. It is one of the holy Institutions of God Ye shall all reverence my Sanctuary Hence it is that to the holy things of God reverence is a great part of duty and if this or that be Gods Worship remember Gods Lordship is in his own Institutions and he will make a difference as he pleaseth not that Aaron or Moses are better then others in themselves they may be worse but God will have his Lordship appear in these his holy things Therfore it is that we must be conscientious in our reverence of the holy things of God even in regard of bodily reverence by comely gestures for our bodyes are the Lords 1 Cor. 6. Hence Sitting is not a Prayer-gesture it is true if there be great weakness or infirmity of body c. that may give an excuse for the Lord will have mercy in case rather then Sacrifice And therefore also it is that Christ stood up when he read the word Luk. 4.16 and in Nch. 8.5 they stood up at the hearing of the Word read We should shew reverence at the holy things of God because they are his Institutions and he is the Lord. Reas 2. Because in Divine Worship we acknowledge God to be our Soveraign Lord and that we owe unto him absolute Subjection and Obedience and we acknowledge our selves to be his absolute Subjects The act of Worship is an acknowledgement both of his Soveraignty and of our meanness Who am I that am but dust and ashes that I should take upon me to speak unto the Lord Gen. 18. In acts of Worship we must exalt Christ and depress man Many in these dayes are against Forms but in the mean time let us not forget Worship For Israel to wait upon a Rock was a despicable thing to the Nations to see so many thousands come and stand about the Rock was strange but that Rock was Christ this is nothing else but the acknowledgement of God who will be known in his own way And this let me say Christ himself that was not onely Man but God attended the Ordinances while he was here on earth and so did his Apostles this is to shew the disevangelical spirit of those that do object against external Worship Reas 3. Because Divine external Worship is a means of conferring heavenly things The Keyes of the Kingdome of Heaven open or shut Heaven Mat. 16.19 Naaman must know if he be cured whence the Cure comes be must acknowledge the Waters of Iordan and he must acknowledge the Prophet God could have cured him without either but he was not pleased so to do You feed your Hens and Chickens but you throw their meat upon the ground and make them take it from thence so God feeds us with heavenly food but we must receive it in a lowly manner You can have no Faith to expect Gods blessing in any way but his own any Institutions so farre as they are Humane you cannot have Faith for Gods blessing to go with them Instructions 1. The Ceremonial Law understood teacheth Christ the truths of Christ are laid up under the types of the Ceremonial Law When you reade the Ceremonial Law if you understood it you would see Christ through it as for instance Heb. 9. the Tabernacle was a figure of Christs Body and so was the Vail Heb. 10.20 when they went into the first Court they remembred the Incarnation of the Messias and so when they looked on the Vail c. they who looked on these types whose eyes were opened they saw Christ Reade Lev. 16.15 compared with Heb. 9.24 26. As Christ shed his blood and so entred into Heaven so the High-priest slew the Sacrifice and then entred into the holy of holies And the efficacy of the Merit of Christ was figured in the incense this is to let us see how clearly we are taught the same truths above what they of old were comparing our times with theirs Instr 2. It is the part of those who are Conscientious to keep themselves unto Scripture-bounds in holy or Church-administrations 2 Cor. 10.13 the Apostle would have them walk by a line it relates to the Graecian exercises to which the Apostle doth delight to allude it comes to one with that which the Apostle doth elsewhere say viz. 2 Tim. 2.5 He that striveth is not Crowned except he strive lawfully There is a line of motion to regulate all administrations especially Church-administrations there is a line that doth regulate the Eldership and a line also to regulate the Brotherhood so that all Church administrations are to be carried on according to that line This was Moses his charge See thou make all things according to the patern and do you think there is not as much Conscience to be made of it now under the Gospel to make all things according to the patern as in the dayes of the Legal dispensation 1 Cor. 14.40 Let all things be done according to Order the case may be so that though a thing be done that is for the matter of it good there may yet be more hurt in the disorder of it then there is good in the doing of it If we exercise our own Notions and Apprehensions in matters of Worship this is Will-worship Mat. 15.9 In vain do they Worship me teaching for Dectrines the traditions of men Mark the opposition Me and Men can mens traditions be an act of Divine Worship No it s but Will-worship Col. 2.23 there may be that which is plausible to man yet it 's but Will-worship there may be parts and excellencies but if they are out of place it is that which God will not bear with Exod. 20.25 He that lifts up his tool upon mine Altar hath pollutedit it is enough to pollute it because it is a mans tool we must not turn to the right hand nor to the left but keep our way right on The Corinthians turned to the left hand when they would not Excommunicate the incestuous person and they turned to the right hand when they would not receive him in being a penitent it was an errour on the right hand in Peter when he would not have Christ suffer but a fearful scandalous one You shall not adde thereto nor take therefrom saith the Lord Deut. 4.2 12.32 neither Elders nor Brethren must take upon them that which belongs not to them nor the Council take that which belongeth not to it nor the Magistrates what