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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46692	Ta kannakou the tragedies of sin contemplated in the ruine of the angels, fall of man, destruction of the old world, confusion of Babel, conflagration of Sodom &c. : humbly recommended to the present age, for the designed ends of caution and terrour : together with Remarques on the life of the great Abraham / by Steph. Jay, rector of Chinner ...	Jay, Stephen, d. 1689.	1689 (1689)	Wing J498; ESTC R36028	189,911	392

Men little think it they do but swallow their own Damnation 'till their Eyes discern the Lord's Body in his own light those that have Eat and Drunk in his Presence shall be turned off at the last Day with a doleful Discedite Depart from me for I know you not Prayer it self unless selvidg'd by Resolution ravels out into nothing so little trust is there to the best of external Priviledges where they are not accompanied with the Demonstration of the Spirit and of Power He is not a Jew which is one outwardly Circumcision is that of the Heart in the Spirit and not in the letter whose praise is not of Men but God. Though the Ordinances in themselves are ineffectual without God yet being of Divine Institution they bind us to a constant and faithful waiting upon him in the Use of them for who knows when or how soon he may work by them The pretence of their invalidity give us no License to depart from them or to lay them by since here we see utter Excision menaced against every Child of Abraham that should not bleed by the Circumcising Knife There are some benefits which the most wicked Men enjoy together with the Holy in the outward Communion of the Church for which they shall pay their Homage and yield a subjection such as it is though hypocritical and involuntary they shall sit before him as his People do and make some shews at least of a real Conformity and Union with Him though their Hearts run after Covetousness and they are as Traiterous as Judas who yet had his Sop dipt in the same Dish with Jesus God who had hitherto feasted his Abraham with a Banquet of Promises which only his Faith is to feed on all his Life long and must depart the World in Assurance of their Truth when his Eyes should be shut up in Death will yet present him with one Dish which himself shall see and all his Senses ravished with the very taste of Sweet Meats are kept for the last Course and help to digest all the rest the better Judge Reader with what Ears Abraham receives the Tydings of an Heir from the Body of his dearest Sarah who at once is made a Lady and a Lady Mother She shall have a Son that shall own and double that Honour together 'T is Astonishing News and Abraham's Feet can hold him no longer he embraces the Mercy of a Saviour and a Son with a lowly Prostration Blessings multiply upon him as Duties are multiplyed by him No Man shall ever lose by a munificent God. Adam parts with a Rib and behold a Wife Abraham with a superfluous Skin and behold a Son. The Heart of Man cannot bear the Kisses of Divine Love without dissolving into Joy and Abraham's Soul is so full of it now that it forces a vent at his Mouth He laughs out the excess of that Comfort which seems so pleasingly to oppress him And God himself is so delighted to see his Abraham thus humbly and innocently Merry at the Thoughts of Sarah's Breeding that while the Name of Isaak liveth it shall never be forgotten that Abraham laughed thus reverently in Faith and as sometimes one who finds that he hath gratified his Company by telling a Story which hath proved so acceptable and affecting beyond expectation will repeat it again in Assurance of that Virtue in the repetition that will still keep up the Humour so God disdains not to make a Rehearsal of what he saw sounded so sweetly in the Ears of his dearest Friend Sarah thy Wife shall bear thee a Son Indeed she shall v. 19. Tho thine Age of an Hundred and hers of Ninety Years may make it seem impossible to Nature yet I have revealed to thee mine Almighty Power to give it an Evidence in this Grace God is already teaching Abraham the exercise of his Faith in his Alsufficiency and he is no dull Schollar but presently takes out the Lesson and is dandling Isaak in the Arms of his Faith before he is Conceived in the Womb of his Mother Could we Believe with Abraham's Faith we should Rejoyce with Abraham's Joy. There is no true Pleasure but what is Spiritual all the Worlds Huzzah's but as the Noise of Thorns which Crackle themselves into Nothing Solomon commits the Vanity to Bedlam the proper place for the Franticks that distractedly Laugh while they are little sensible what Tears they shall Weep in Hell Eccl. 2.2 Canst thou be Merry Canst thou Play Silly Soul who Sinn'd to Day In Heaven where there is no Sin there is Fulness of Joy In Hell where there is nothing but Sin there is nothing but Sorrow but on Earth Men Sin and rejoyce in it too yet feel no Sorrow and no wonder when they feel no Sin as the Distemper'd are sensible of no Madness These are pack'd away by Abraham's Great Heir into their own Place to see if they can be as Jolly there too Woe unto you c. The Merry Frolick of a short day dying into an Everlasting Night of Horror and Torment But for a greater Increase of Abraham's Joy he receives not the News of a Son only but an Heir of the Covenant He shall inherit the Blessings of Grace and Glory God intends Isaac for Heaven e'er ever he had Life or Conception Where are those that quarrel at the comfortable Doctrine of Election which God himself Preaches to Abraham Well might he Laugh again for so good a Son maketh a glad Father 'T is well when Parents and Children go not two ways in the dreadful Day Isaac is sure of a place in his Fathers Bosom in the everlasting Kingdom When the Seed of Free Grace is Sown into a good Field it never fails of a Crop but where it falls in Barren Ground expect nothing but Weeds Too many want the Ingenuity to make Grateful Returns for Spiritual Mercies Men are not only Evil because God is Good but that very Goodness makes them Worse they tire his Patience and adventure to make trial to what length the Dimensions of his Long-suffering may be extended But the brave Abraham under the fore-knowledge of Gods Decree is so far from slackening his Duty in the careful Education of Isaac into Piety that looking on him as an Heir of Heaven he was ever dressing him up in such Robes as he knew would be worn and could be never out of Fashion there He endeavours to make him a greater Proficient if possible than himself And methinks Isaac's whole Life was nothing else but a lively Comment on the distinguishing Mercy of God towards him True Grace hath that excellent Property to inlarge the Heart into an Universal Concern for General Good and wisheth Epidemical Happiness to all Some quarrel at that charitable Supplication of the Church in the Litany That it might please thee to have Mercy upon all Men Never remembring that God would have All Men to be saved and hath Sworn That he hath no pleasure in the death of a Sinner

the Table of thy Heart That thou mayst ever retain this Glorious Inscription in thy Eye The Lord is my Shield and my Buckler He is my defence the Holy one of Israel is my King. Whom then should I fear of whom should I be afraid The Lord is on my side I will not fear what Man can do unto me The Lord taketh my part with them that help me therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me The Captain of my Salvation hath subdued all mine Enemies under me they are all fallen and shall never be able to rise again And thrô hun that loveth me am I more than a Conquerour over them all He hath redeemed me from the hand of mine Enemies that I should serve him without fear c. And this is the Mercy that he swore to our Father Abraham that he would grant us He confirmed it to thee by an Oath and wilt thou walk loosely under it and tamely yield thy self Prisoner to every base Assault When thou hast listed thy self under his Colours and entred into the Bonds of that Sacrament that obligeth thee to stand valiantly against every Adversary of his Glory who once said to the Great Abraham and in him to thee too Fear not for I am thy Shield And this Shield is a Sun too that will ripen all the fruits of his Bounty by which thy Table is spread Thou shalt not need Crouch to a Sodomite for a piece of Bread How deservedly did he wear the Leprosie of a Naaman upon his own Skin that could steal from the Presence of his great Master to post after an Assyrian for a little Silver and a few Changes of Raiment 'T is below the Princes of the Blood to court the Skullions of the Kitchin for Scraps These whose Spirits are feasted every day with Hidden Manna need little question their daily Provisions which flow in upon them from the less Expensive Current of Providence Jacob may send into Egypt for Corn but he shall send his own full Bags to pay for it And if David solicits a Nabal for a part of his Sheepsheer Cheer 't was but in order to the design of God to translate his whole Estate upon him with his Wife Abraham's Children have Milk and Honey in their own Canaan and if they had less yet is their Dinner of Herbs better than the stalled Ox of the Wicked The very Gleanings of Ephraim are better than the Vintage of Ali●zar And he that sups with Herod may chance disgorge his Stomach when he finds the Head of a Prophet brought up in a Charger for second Course even of that Prophet who to avoid the dangers of their poysonous Dishes contents himself with the Locusts of the Wilderness The Great Elijah can trust his Master to Cater for him by the Ministry of Ravens and when that fails is satisfied with the poor fare of a Widow rather then to Glut himself with Jezebel's Chaplains upon the Varieties of her providing His brave Successour with all his Colledge are thankful to God for a Mess of Pottage And the patient Habakkuk can joyfully feed on a God alone tho the Fields and Herd and Stalls should afford him not a Joynt to supply his Table These with their Great Lord had Meat to eat which the World knew not So had the Children of the Captivity who chose rather to make their Meals on Pulse and Water than to defile themselves with the princely Viands of the Royal Board The holy David fears to be choaked with them Let me not eat of their daintie● With an holy disdain have all the best Children of Abraham declined the dangerous Accession of earthly Superfluities Let the Swine of the World who offer to no other Deity but their Bellies swill themselves till they break again All their fresh springs are in God. And though Esau said he had enough and wanted not Jacob's Presents yet had he little enough who wanted Jacob's God. Let the true Children of Abraham learn to take out the lesson of Generosity from him and to wind up all their desire in God who abstracted from all Creatures will very shortly be their only Portion and themselves shall be for ever filled with his fulness who filleth all in all Let them give no occasion to any Sodomite of the Earth to suspect that they worship a God who is a Niggardly Rewarder of his Servants and are therefore forced to sneak to them for mouldy bread and clouted Shoes But sit down for a while and consider Reader what mean these Golden Words I am thy exceeding Great Reward When all the Great Ones of the World have the Plague of the Serpent upon them and lick the dust of the Earth and terminate their desires in a Cursed Portion to thee will I give my self for an Heritage And could thy shallow Apprehensions conceive what a God is in himself or can be and do for his faithful Servants thou mightest then reach the Dimensions of that Blessing which because they are so infinitely beyond all the strength of thy Faculties to comprehend therefore have I provided an Eternity for thee wherein I will enlarge those Powers of thy Soul to a sweet and ravishing Contemplation of all my Perfections and thine own exceeding Happiness in having an Interest in them when thou shalt more perfectly see the Happiness of that Enjoyment and more fully know what infinite Wisdom Power and Love can effect when they lay out themselves in Contrivances of all possible Felicity and Blessedness to all the Objects of my Favour and Grace And if I design this Happiness for thee to Eternity thou canst not fear that I should be defective to thee in this life but even now will crown all thy faithful Services with Rewards and Encouragemeats due to them Thy works of Faith and Righteousness shall be present Peace and Comfort and the effects of that Righteousness quietness and Assurance for ever And what is there Reader that the utmost desire of thy Ambitious Heart can reach out to to covet after but what Abraham's God can as bountifully conferr upon thee hadst thou the least degree of his Faith to believe it It is He that can make thee ride upon the High places of the Earth and open to thee all the rich Exchequers of his Treasure that thou shalt not need Crouch to Kings He can platt a Coronet of Honour for thy Temples and give thee a Name like unto the Name of the Great Men of the Earth Who promoted the poor Shepherd from waiting on those few Sheep in the Wilderness to become the glorious Head and Pastour of his People Who called the despicable Fishermen from their Boats and Nets to be Spiritual Princes in all the Earth and set them as glittering Suns to shine for ever in the Firmament of his Church He can prepare a Table for thee even here in the Desart that shall bafflle all the Elixirs of the Field and the Vintage Can give thee a Taste of