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A96524	Two treatises concerning I. God's all-sufficiency, and II. Christ's preciousness Being the substance of some sermons long since preached in the University of Oxford. By Henry Wilkinson, D.D. Then principal of Magdalen-Hall, Oxon.	Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.	1681 (1681)	Wing W2240A; ESTC R230884	231,748	498

Comfort wherewith we our selves are Comforted of God For as the Sufferings of Christ abound in us so our Consolation also aboundeth by Christ It would be a large Work though it may be worth the while to reckon up the comfortable Experiences of the Children of God I shall only Instance in some choice Servants of God who Experimentally reaped much benefit by Afflictions David joyns the Rod and Staff together for his Comfort Psal 23. 1. and Psal 119. 67. he confesseth Before I was afflicted I went astray but now I have kept thy Word Luther profest that Afflictions taught him to understand the Scriptures How many have been brought home by Afflictions who in their Prosperity went astray Isiodor saith Adversa corporis remedia sunt animae Aegritudo carnem vulnerat mentem curat i. e. Corporal Adversities are Spiritual Remedies Sickness woundeth the Flesh but healeth the Mind Beza one of the most pious learned and orthodox Criticks that I know of speaks of a great Sickness wherewith he was Visited Morbus iste inquit verae fuit sanitatis principium i. e. That Sickness was the beginning of true Spiritual Health It is not Dr. Arrowsmith chains of Principles vid. melch Adam in vit Exterorum as a reverend Divine observes more usual for Children to shoot up in length than with Christians to wax taller in Grace in or after Sickness Rolloc said upon his Death Bed I am not ashamed to profess that I never reached to so high a pitch of the Knowledge of God as I have attained in this Sickness Olevian said upon his Death Bed In this Disease I have learned to know aright what Sin is and what the Majesty of God is I shall mention Id in vit German but one Example more and that is of Learned Rivet who said upon his Death Bed In the space of Ten Days Dauber 9. in orat funeb since I kept my Bed I have learned more and made greater progress in Divinity than in the whole course of my Life before What further inlargement may be required I leave to the Saints particular Experiences and shall add no more concerning this particular Head CHAP. VI. For Demonstration of the Doctrine by Reasons and first from necessity of Precept HAving dispatch't the First Head of Head 2. for Demonstr by Reason my Discourse wherein I have proved the Doctrine That God is All-Sufficient by Four convincing and weighty Arguments I come now in the Second place to demonstrate this Truth infer'd from the Doctrine viz. That this Consideration that God is All-Sufficient should ingage us silently and quietly to submit unto God and stay and depend upon his All-Sufficiency amidst our greatest Losses and Afflictions The Truth of the Doctrine I shall endeavour to demonstrate by a Fourfold Reason drawn from the necessity excellency and utility of the Duty in quietly submitting to God's Hand and lastly from the mischievous Consequences of repining murmuring and strugling against God The First Reason drawn from the Reason 1 from necessity of precept Necessity of this Duty and that 's to be considered as Necessitas praecepti vel medii 1. For the Necessity of Precept We are frequently commanded in the Word of God to Exercise these great Duties of Waiting Believing and Submitting unto the Will of God David's Faith was an Excellent Cordial to keep him from Fainting Psal 27. 13. I had Fainted unless I had believed to see the Goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living And What 's the Duty which he prescribes see Vers 14. Wait on the Lord be of good Courage and he shall strengthen thine Heart Wait I say on th● Lord. He was much troubled about t●● Prosperity of Wicked M●n He prescribes the same Duty of waiting on the Lord. Psal 37. 34. Wait on the Lord and keep his Way and he shall Exalt thee to Inherit the Land When the Wicked are cut off thou shalt see it When he was troubled with treacherous hypocritical false-hearted Men he prescribed a Remedy Psal 55. 22. Cast thy Burden upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee And his Resolution is fixed Vers 23. But I will Trust in thee David chargeth this Duty of Waiting upon his own Soul Psal 62. 5. My Soul wait thou only upon God for my Expectation is from him And this Duty of Trusting he frequently presseth upon himself and others Psal 37. 3. 5. And he layeth down strong Encouragements to trust in God for there is Security in the Practice of this Duty Psal 18. 30. He is a Buckler to all Psal 18. 30. those that trust in him Psal 37. 5. Commit thy Way unto the Lord trust also in him and he shall bring it to pass Prov. 29. 25. The Fear of Man bringeth a Snare Isa 7. 9. but who so putteth his Trust in the Lord shall be safe And there 's Stability in Trusting in God Psal 125. 1. They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Sion which cannot be removed but abideth for ever There 's happiness Prov. 16. 20. Who so Trusteth in the Lord Happy is he A Blessing is their Portion that Trust in God Psal 34. 8. Blessed is the Man that Trusteth in him And what can be desired more Read further Isa 26. 9. Isa 40. 31. And I need name no more Scriptures for Comfirmation of so clear a Truth But if Men will be so Mad as to venture elsewhere they shall smart for it If Men will forsake a Fountian and betake themselves to Cisterns If Men will forsake God and try Creatures and put their Confidence in them they shall pay dear for their Madness and Folly and they shall never find what they expect from the Creatures They put Trust in them but they shall find them Deceitful as Jacob found Laban Gen. 31. David's familiar Friends dealt Perfidiously with him Psal 41. 9. wherefore he Communicates his Experience not to Trust the great Ones of the Earth Psal 146. 3. And injoyns us to put our Trust in God Psal 118. 8 9. It is better to Trust in the Lord than to put Confidence in Man It is better to Trust in the Lord than to put Confidence in Princes Quest But some will complain of their own Weakness and their Enemies Strength and Combinations For Answ We must have recourse to that strengthening Promise Isa 41. 14 15 16. Fear not thou Worm Jacob and ye Men of Israel I will help thee saith the Lord and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel Behold I will make thee a new sharp Threshing-Instrument having Teeth thou shalt Thresh the Mountains and beat them Small and shall make the Hills as Chaff Thou shalt Fan them and the Wind shall carry them away and the Whirle-Wind shall Scatter them and thou shalt rejoyce in the Lord and shalt Glory in the Holy One of Israel And against all Associations and Combinations of Adversaries we have abundantly enough to Arm and Incourage us against them

Things to come concerning my Sons and concerning the Work of my Hands command ye me God promiseth great Things to his People even the Sprinkling clean Water upon them the Giving them a New Heart the Putting of his Spirit within them and Causing them to walk in his Fear What high invaluable Promises are these Yet though God intend the full Accomplishment of all these Promises he will grant them in his own way he will be sought unto by the Prayers and Supplications of his People Ezek. 36. 37. Thus saith the Lord God I will yet be enquired of by the House of Israel to do it for them We have many Promises of the Churches Deliverance but the Church must Pray Turn back our Captivity O Lord as the Stream in Psal 126. 4. Psal 14. 7. Psal 44. 17. Psal 25. 22. the South And O that the Salvation of Israel were come out of Zion Thou art my King O God! Command Deliverances for Jacob. Redeem Israel O Lord out of all his Troubles You read of Manasseh's Prayer when Dulcio●es lacrymae orantium quam gaudia Theatrorum Aug. in Psal 28. he was in the Thornes of Jonah's Prayer in the Whales Belly of the Apostles in Prison And it 's the Churches Practice Isa 26. 16. Lord in trouble have they visited thee they poured out a Prayer when thy Chastening was upon them Whatever Losses or Calamities befal us Prayer is that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Universal Medicine mentioned by Solomon 2 King chap. 7. We have a Precept and an Encouragement Psal 50. 15. Call upon me in the Day of Trouble I will deliver thee and thou shalt Glorifie Me. What could Achitophel do against David's Prayers By them that great Politician was Counterplotted and his Counsels were turned into Foolishness What could Herod and the People of the Jews do against the Churches Prayers Though the Keeper shut the Prison Doors yet the Church opened Heaven Doors and Peter the Prisoner was inlarged by the Angel of the Lord and given in as a Return of the Prayers of the Church Mary Queen of Scots was afraid of the Prayers of John Knox She professed That she feared his Prayers more than an Army of Forty Thousand Men. But some distressed Persons complain Object That they Receive no Answer of their Prayers The Answer to them I shall return is Answ 1. To examine whether they Pray not for Superfluities unlawful Things whether they pray not for Revenge against their Enemies whether they allow some secret Iniquity in their Hearts or some Bosome-Sin unrepented of We read James 1. 3. Ye Ask and Receive not because ye Ask amiss that you may Consume it upon your Lusts 2. Let us labour to mend what is amiss in our Prayers It 's a Mercy to be denyed when we ask for Things not according Deus qu●dam negat propitius quae co●cedit iratus Aug. 1 Joh. 5. 14. to God's Will We only have a Promise of Audience when we ask according to God's Will. God knoweth what 's best to give in Answer to our Prayers That our Prayers may speed the better there are required Five Special Aut Deus dabit quod petimus aut quod nobis noverit esse utilius Bern Qualifications As First Humility Abraham when he Qualif 1. Humility had to deal with God acknowledged himself to be but Dust and Ashes and so did Job abhor himself and Repent in Dust Cum sis Humi Limus cur non es humilimus Bern. Qui sibi vilis est Deo Cha rus est Id. de inter Domin and Ashes and Ephraim smote upon his Thigh He that is most vile in his own Eyes is dearest in God's Eyes We cannot brook a proud Beggar We are all Beggars at God's Door poor Indigent Petitioners All whatever we receive is of Favour and nothing of Merit Shall Beggars be puff't up with Pride Shall proud Dust swell against God Bernard propounds Christ's Humiliation Apage ut intumescat vermiculus quum sese exinaniverit Dominus Bern. for a curb of Pride It 's saith he abominable that a Worm should swell when our Lord made himself so low Upon Deliberate Thoughts when we reflect upon our own Unworthyness we shall with Jacob confess I am not Worthy Gen. 32. 10. of the least of all the Mercies and of all the Truths which thou hast shewed unto thy Servant Let 's lye low and beware of all Inflamations of Pride when we have to deal with God we can never be Humble enough we can never think too Meanly of our Selves nor too Highly of God The more Holy the more Humble The Humblest Christians are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sedes prima vita ima the best of Christians Nazianzen gives a Character of Athanasius that He was High in his VVorks and Low in Mind The Higher Men are the more Humble towards God Now when we make our Addresses to God in Prayer let 's entertain serious and high Thoughts of God's Infinite Goodness and low Thoughts of our Selves and this will prepare us to Pray aright A Second Qualification of Prayer is Qualif 2. is Faith Faith We must Pray believingly otherwise there is no Hopes of speeding An Unbeliever so remaining is without Hope He cannot Pray nor trust God neither can any thing that he doth obtain Acceptance because Without Faith Heb. 11. 6. Heb. 14. 23. it is impossible to please God and Whatever is not of Faith is Sin Mr. Tyndal that precious Martyr in a Letter to Mr. Fryth layes down Four Expressions of Faith 1. To give up your self 2. To cast your self 3. To yield your self 4. to commit your self wholly and only to your Loving Father It 's the Prayer of Faith which proves Effectual | Sanitatem aegroti adscribet orationi fidei hoc est ex fide ad Deum profusae a Presbyteris Ne vero in Presbyteris vel in precum opere operato haerebit ●ger principalem addit causam Dominus excitabit c. Pareus James 5. 15. The Prayer of Faith shall Save the Sick The Promise is made to what 's Prayed for in Faith Mat. 21. 22. And all things whatsoever ye ask in Prayer Believing ye shall Receive Let 's then believe God to be True and Faithful in all his Promises and that he will not fail of performing what he hath Promised Though our Sense may be puzled and our Reason non-plust we must believe against all Reasoning with Flesh and Blood and submit our Reasonings to the Will of God Tertullian saith Faith fears no Hunger Fides non timet famem Tertul. And I have Read a Character of a Believer That he neither fears Poverty nor Quem neque pa peries que Mors nec vincula ter●nt Bonds nor Death Where 's greatest Difficulty there 's most work for Faith to put forth it self A true Believer will venture his All upon God's Word He will say Credo quia incredibile I belie●●

Strength stability and solidity Two Scriptures I shall fix on and by the Exposition of them clear the Analogy The first Scripture is Gen. 49. v. 24. Jacob giving the Blessing to his beloved Son Joseph saith But his Bow abode in Sub 〈◊〉 typo depicta est nobis imag● Christi qui antequam emergerat Victor m●rtis Author vitae positus 〈◊〉 Calvin Strength and the Arms of his Hands were made strong by the Hands of the mighty God of Jacob from thence is the Shepherd the Stone of Israel By this Shepherd and Stone Jacob endowed with a Prophetick Spirit look'd with the Eye of Faith upon Christ for Joseph was a Type of Christ who is the Shepherd of Israel the Foundation Stone and the Corner Stone of his Church Joseph as a Shepherd fed his Father and Brethren and was a helpful Instrument to save much People alive in the time of Famine So Christ is the Shepherd and Preserver of his People to provide for them and supply them Joseph was as a Rock or Stone for defence as an hiding place in providing for his Father and Brethren in Egypt So Christ is a Rock and Refuge and Shelter unto his People Without question that Prophecy of a King that shall reign in Righteousness is to be applied to Christ Isa 32. 1. Jerome one of the Learnedst of all the Fathers applyeth this Prophecy to Christ and the safety of God's People by Christ mentioned ver 2. And a Man shall be a hiding place from the Wind and a covert from the Tempest as Rivers of Water in a dry place as the Shadow of a great Rock in a weary Land * Quicu●que sub ejus umbraculo fuerit sic tutus ●rit in tribulationibus angustiis in mundi istius tempestate 〈◊〉 qui vent●m turbinem fugiens se tuto abscondit loco Hieron in loc Another Scripture which is more clear I shall mention out of Isa 28. 16. Therefore thus saith the Lord God Behold I lay in Zion for a Foundation a Stone a tried Stone a precious Corner Stone a sure Foundation These are rare excellencies of a Stone and this Stone is laid in Zion i. e. the Church of God Let 's review all these excellencies of a Stone and it will evidently appear that they all meet in Christ in an eminent manner 1. This Stone is laid for a Foundation 1. A Foundation Stone A Foundation Stone must be strong and firm whereon the Superstructure may depend for if the Foundation fail the Building either sinks or falls down Now Christ is the Foundation of our Faith He hath founded and setled his Church and if we rely and hold fast on Christ we cannot miscarry The Doctrine of the Gospel is built on Christ Other Foundation can no Man lay than that that is laid which is Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 3. 11. The Foundation which will hold is neither Gold nor Silver Hay nor Stubble no Merits no devised Will-Worship these are rotten Foundations and will fail But the Foundation which will hold is that of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief Corner Stone Eph. 2. 20. 2. This Stone is a tryed Stone Some 2. A Tried Stone Stones are tryed and they moulder and are unfit for a Building but Christ is every way tried by Buffeting Scourgings Crucifixion and by the highest Malice that Men or Devils could put forth against him Many try their Armour before they venture into Battel whether it be Shot-proof Now Christ is Bullet proof as we say and Armour of Proof the whole Quiver of God's Arrows were shot against him and yet he endured it and came off Conqueror 3. This Stone is a precious Stone So 3. A precious Stone Christ is precious in himself He is the Pearl of Price and Plant of Renown the chiefest of ten thousands Christ is precious in the estimation of the Father he is the beloved Son the brightness of the Father's Glory the express Image of his Heb. 1. 3. Person And he is precious in the account of all true Believers they know how to value him they admire his Beauty and are ravished with his Love They have interest in the Blood of Christ and this is more precious than Millions of Worlds If the Soul be precious as we all acknowledg how much more must he be precious who redeems the Soul and Christ alone is the Redeemer of the Soul 4. This Stone is a Corner Stone Other 4. A Corner Stone Stones are knit and cemented to the Corner Stone so all true Believers are cemented in one Body and knit to Christ their Head He is the Corner Stone and the Head of the Corner 'T is true that the Builders rejected this Stone The Jews reviled persecuted and crucified Christ yet he is the Person of whom the Prophecy Psal 118. 22. was fulfilled And so the Apostle expounds that Prophecy in his Sermon Acts 4. 11. This is the Stone which was set at nought of you Builders which is become the Head of the Corner 5. This is a sure Foundation Stone 5. A sure Foundation Stones may and are oftentimes laid for a Foundation but they are not firm and stable and no ways able to support the Building but Christ is a sure firm and strong Foundation To build on this Foundation there 's Strength and Security I might further add 6. That which 6. A living Stone is beyond humane Sence Christ is a living Stone And yet it is evident from the Word of God 1 Pet. 2. 4 5. To whom coming as unto a living Stone disallowed indeed of Men but chosen of God and precious Ye also as lively Stones are built up a Spiritual House Now Christ is a living Stone and he communicates Life unto his Members and by vertue of his Life they live The Dead were raised by the Voice of Christ and those that are dead in Trespasses and Sins are quickned by Christ Eph. 2. 1. Dry Bones take Flesh and Sinews and become an Army when the Spirit breaths Life into them so the Ezek. 37. dead sleepy drowsy never so unlikely in the Eye of Man may be quickned by the Life of Christ But this comparison I need inlarge no farther SECT II. Shewing that Christ is resembled to a Fountain A Second Resemblance of Christ is to a Fountain There are choise Words spoken by the Church as is conceived resigning all the praise of Beauty and Dignity unto Christ who gave it to her The Words are Cant. 4. 15. * Significat populum hunc habuisse foecunditatem copiam donorum spiritualium Clarius A Fountain of Gardens a Well of Living Waters and Streams from Lebanon Gardens that are of the greatest Note have Fountains to water them Standing Pools are not valued here 's mention made of Streams and Living Waters and these Streams come from Lebanon The Head of the Streams of Jordan riseth from Lebanon and makes the Land