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B02276	The spouses hidden glory, and faithfull leaning upon her wellbeloved. Wherein is laid down the soules glory in Christ, and the way by which the soule comes to Christ. Delivered in two lecture sermons in St. Andrewes church in Norwich. / By Iohn Collings Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word in Saviours parish in Norwich.	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.	1646 (1646)	Wing C5340A; ESTC R174086	70,368	91

may cast a covering over the man that hee shall not see the Sun But not over the body of the sunne to hide day-light To whom is she hidden therefore and to whom not hidden What of her is uncovered and what is covered First She is not hidden to God Elijah thought all the saints had beere both dead and buried when hee complained that he was left alone but God saw seven thousand in Israel that had not bowed their knee to Baal Ezechiel saw no mourners but God sent him to mark out such a precious tribe from the tribes of Israel he saw their private drops God need not say concerning the most retired saint Who is this that commeth up Secondly To her selfe she is not hidden She hath her conscience bearing her witnesse the manifestation of Gods love in her owne soule the prints of his foot-steps Gods Spirit bearing witnesse with their own Spirits Christ is written in great letters in their hearts she hath her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 her marks to know her selfe by By this we know 1 Iohn 2.3 and by this again we know vers 5. 3. She is unknowne and hidden to the world to the saints of the world her brethren know her not and to the men of the world to the one lesse to the other more the saints know her not infallibly It was a true saying of him When any of us come in heaven we shall see some faces there that we never thought had beene there and misse some others that we had verily thought to have found there But yet many wayes may the Saints discerne by the fruits betwixt light and darknesse yet not any that I know so certaine to our duskish eyes that by it I can positively and infallibly say of any This or that is a Saint of God though in charity I ought to judge so of many yet Samuel may bee deceived in Eliab Gods eyes see not as man sees Therefore I have sometimes wondred with what face any man that professeth himselfe a servant of Iesus Christ dare for a fee at a funerall lift a moralist to heaven that possibly burnes in hell that houre I should feare to speak it positively of him that in my deceivable eyes seems a pious Christian They are Hidden ones How many that shine in heaven at this day a glorious constellation that went out of the world clouded and with what face shall a minister of Iesus Christ say more of me then I dare say of my self How comes his assurance if I want mine I know charity in this case is pleaded But I conceive charity is enough shewen to say I hope or we hope if the tree may be judged by the fruits declare the probabilities and leave the soule to God But I am not amongst an indocible kinde of creatures that will tell me they are too old to be taught and I too young to teach them To return therefore whence I digrest and to tell you what of the Christian cannot be hidden and what of them is hidden 1. The acts of his graces cannot bee hidden A Christian must shew his love to God though God clouds himself to him If they have any habit of love in them it will act For Love is strong as the grave and jealousie burnes like fire Cant. 8.6 7. Many waters cannot quench love Their zeale cannot bee hidde no not from the world he cannot heare a wretch sweare see him drunk profaning Gods sabbaths nay abusing his Christs blood but he must speake The zeale of Gods house hath eaten up the Christian as well as his master The hypocrite learns that politick paradox to see and not to see to see and winke Eliah must be zealous for the Lord God of hosts The hypocrite will tell you of discretion O that idoll of discretion said hee and very well that drives the power of Godlinesse out of the Kingdome Discretion indeed is commendable The prudent man ordereth his affairs with discretion but not with discretion as now impleaded The Magistrate must be zealous in his place these tell him he must bee moderate Summum jus est summa injuria he must not anger his rich neighbour to levy the penaltie for swearing or blaspheming nor make the poore men his enemies by executing the Statutes for tipling and drunkennesse he must keepe his oath with discretion and punish sin with discret●on and damne his owne soule with discretion too The ministers they must act by the hypocriticall Newters luke-warme principles of discretion too they must not reprove faction till they see how it will be favoured above see what government will be settled and then speak against those that oppose it See the truth of Christ rent in peeces his precious robe of truth torne from top to bottome his church rent limb from limb cut in more peeces then the Levites concubine yet must they say nothing It were indiscretion want of moderation bitter Presbyterianisme what not to speak against these butchers wait and see what will bee done above and so indeed it may be salvation may bee brought to the church another way but we must know then assuredly that wee and our houses and our fathers houses shall perish The word of God was in Ieremiahs heart as a burning fire shut up in his bones Ier. 20.9 Grace commands a Christian Magistrate and a Christian Minister sometimes beyond what the world judgeth discretion witnesse that though an extraordinary case of Phineas for Zimri and Cosbi But alas where is this zeale we have more Discreeter as the world calls them then Gracious zealous preachers by one half meer Gallioes that can see a Church rent in peeces soules perverted truth torne and they care for none of these things And we have more moderate Magistrates then Godly more that the world calls honest then God will thank for their honesty another day It was never before our dayes the Commendation of a Magistrate to be last in action to do nothing against blasphemers Hereticks c. Where ●s these pretended Christians graces O away with these Cyphers on Benches act for God or the Devill When God calls as in these dayes Who is on my side who why do ye hide your heads in holes were there a dramme of grace in your hearts it could not be but we should see a little flame The acts of Christians graces cannot be hidden No one must say of them in that sence Who is this Secondly Their gracious and holy life cannot be hidden They must walk as it becomes children of the light they cannot be saints here and Devils there their company be it good or bad shall be the better for them It was a shrewd failing of Peter to be a Iew amongst the Iewes and a Gentile amongst the Gentiles Paul reproved him to his face for it Thus they are not hidden if they be Gods coine they will have his image and superscription upon them How then are they hidden from the world that they may say who is

been brought up in the Court of glory One that in the day of thine espousalls to him shall put a degree of honour more upon thee though thou wer 't the Empresse of the world before No honour like the honour to be call'd the sons and daughters of the most High If thou hast an ambitious eye here is an object of highest honour for thee thou shalt be daughter to that King that can bind Kings in chaines and Nobles in links of iron and Bride to him that hath Emperors for his meanest servants and is Heire of eternity 2. Hast thou a wanton eye will beauty move thy affection My Master is the fairest of ten thousand white and ruddy Cant. 5.10 His head is of most fine gold his locks bushy and black as a Raven c. See the full description of him in that Chapter The creatures beauty is mouldring paint but His native beauty is permanent glory 3. Hast thou a covetous eye and doest thou look for a great joynture My Master hath it for thee Hee is rich in inheritance heaven is his and earth is his and the sea is the work of his hands He is rich in moveables Every beast of the forrest is his and the cattell upon a thousand hills The fowls of the mountaine and the wild beasts of the field Ay and all is thine for hee can with-hold no good thing from those that live uprightly The Father of glory gives all with his Son in marriage He hath given us his Son shall hee not with him give us all things 4. Hast thou a sober ingenuous eye that thou thinkest love is the best riches and a certainty in that the best joynture Know that my Master is of a loving nature too Read this delicious Song tell me what Gallant ever courted his Mistresse though far above himself with such Rethoricall expressions of love as this precious Jesus woes poor dust and ashes O tell me poore creature how wouldst thou desire to try my Masters love towards thee O man did ever Bridegroome do so much for his Bride why man he hath come and left his pallace of Glory for thee and lived a scornfull tedious life upon the earth he hath pleaded night and day with his angry father in heaven for thee that thy soule might not be damned but thou mightst be married to him he hath made thee a path for thy prayers to his father and thou hast not had a gracious answer to one prayer but hath come under Christs hand and been sealed with my masters blood Wilt thou try him by what he hath or will suffer for thee Why poor creature for thee hath he been buffeted beaten whipt prickt with a crowne of thorns for thee did he suffer his precious side to be ript with a speare for thee did that precious bloody balsamy sweat trickle down his sacred cheeks for thee was he nailed to crosse for thee he did suffer such torments as made his dying soule cry out Eli Eli lama sabachthani is this no suffering doth not he deserve thee that hath suffered so much for thee that art but a peece of momentary clay The Gallant perhaps will venture his life for his Mistresse but my Master hath more then ventured his life for thee he embraced death for thee He knew he should dye yet to shew that he valued not his heart blood for thee he shund not the crosse I doubt whether a gallant would fight a duell for his Love if he were certain he should be slain in that duel But this my Master hath done for thee Some have a trick to try the constancy of their lovers by making them long suitors If they be content to woe seven years then perhaps they will love This is but an unmannerly trick but yet thus hast thou tryed my Lord and Master most unworthy creature He hath proved himself constant in his patient woings and waitings upon thy scorne this hath been his woing place every minister came with a love-letter from my Master to thee He hath come himselfe many a time and knockt at the door of thine heart whilst thou hast been in bed with sin yea he hath stood and knockt while his locks have been wet with the dew of the night O hard heart Why dost thou tire out my Masters patience most worthlesse creature What hath he not staid for thee long enough is not yet the constancy of his love approved to thee What was it for a portion he should have with thee what portion but sin he must give his blood to cleanse thee before he can embrace thee yet rather then loose thee he will do it O precious melting love here love was stronger then the grave indeed was ever love like his Let me be familiar with thee this day I would gladly make joy in heaven this day for the marriage of some poor soule to my Master What makes thee so coy and scornfull Art thou a creature of such deserts dost thou think What dost thou deserve if any thing it is hell yet he even he who is in heaven it self and glory it self he woes thee What will move thee Thou art vile and filthie polluted in thy blood more loathsome then a toad worse then the stinking leper that goes up and down the stree●s O come come this day and be married to the Lord Christ Take him and him alone not for the heaven thou shalt have with him but for the heaven thou shalt have in him he shall make thee admired thou shalt be a Queen thou that art the childe of the Devil shalt become the childe of God thou that wert so filthy shalt learne the carriage of a Kings daughter thou that wert all dirty and besmeared with sin shalt become all faire Thou art all faire my s ouse Thou that hadst nothing but raggs of iniquity shalt now be clothed with the glorious robes of righteousnesse Isai 61. vers 10. Thou shalt be cloathed with the garments of salvation and covered with the robes of righteousnesse Thou shalt be deckt like a Bridegroome and as a Bride decks her selfe with jewells He shall make thee so glister with graces and shine with holinesse in thy life and conversation that the worlds eye shall be dazled upon thee and they shall say of thee Who is this O you that are children of pleasure Come O make haste and be married to this glorious Bridegroome the King of glory waits upon you to honour you this day O come to the wedding become his friends and Eat of his fatnesse and drink of his sweetnesse and be merry and rejoyce in the God of your salvation and let us all cry out Effice O Christe nos dignos ut ad Nuptias Agni aliquando introducamur Lord make us all worthy of such a Bridegroome Secondly Are the Saints of God hidden creatures that the world must say of them Who are th●se Then judge not that ye be not judged Say not This man is a Saint and the other a

man need to keep the love of his guide O Christian thou hast much more need to keep the love of thy Christ It is he that must succour thee at every need he that must make the rugged waies plaine for thee It is he that must carry the Babe of grace in his armes least it should dash its feet against the stones of affliction It is he that must lead the child of God upon his hand least in this world of afflictions it fall and hurt it selfe O keep close in his armes keep thy selfe warme in his bosome feare that which may make thy God go from thee Gods departing from the Creature is a peice of hell thou knowest not how soone thou mayest need him yea thou alwaies needest him therefore take heed of sinning against him thou wilt anger the best friend I will assure thee I hasten to the last use which shall be a word of Exhortation Doth the Spouse of Christ come out of the wildernesse leaning upon her Beloved First O then you that are yet in the wildernesse of sinnes come out come out get this Spouses Beloved and then leane upon him 2. You that are in the wildernesse of sorrow for sin afflictions temptations desertions leane upon your beloved live leaning and dye leaning you that say you are sinking and you cannot beleeve Oh leane and come out of this wildernesse leaning upon your Beloved A word to the first Is there any before the Lord this day that is yet in the gall of bitternesse and in the bond of iniquity with what arguments shall I plead with such a soule Those are not wanting but with what arguments shall I prevaile with such a soule to come unto the Lord Christ were any here drowning in the water a little Rhetoricke would perswade them to let me helpe them out were any cast in a wood I should not need much entreat them to give me their hand and I would shew them a way out of that loosing place why should I not as much prevaile for heaven this day 1 Consider what estate it is that thou takest such pleasure to continue in first It it a dangerous place more dangerous then the sands to the ship thou art ready to be swallowed up of hell every houre in it A troope of judgements waites upon thee to destroy it how canst thou abide consuming fire or dwell in everlasting burnings Secondly Consider it is a joylesse condition There is no true joy to the sinner though he sings sometimes amongst his drunken cups yet he cannot feed heartily upon a feast of joy because the Sword hangs over his head it is but a feigned joy that the sinner hath a sudden short lived flame without any coales underneath to preserve it There is no peace to the wicked saith God and if no peace there can be no joy when the sinner is serious he cannot rejoyce his rejoycing is like the skipping of mad men that know not what they do Thirdly Consider it is a starving c●ndition The sinners soule starves whiles he feasts bis body like a glutton his soule dyes for thirst when his body is overflowen with drunkenesse It is impossible the puffe-past of iniquity should nourish a soule Doth an Angell feed upon the earth doth a Saint feed upon hell The soule is of an Angelicke substance it cannot feed upon sin sin starves it Dost thou love to be in the middest of thornes dost thou delight to lye downe in sorrow canst thou endure to see thy better part starved whilest thou pamperest thy filthy Carcasse O let this deterre thee from the wildernesse of sin and perswade thee to come out of it unto Paradise There First Thou shalt be in a safe condition Out of the feare of judgements out of hells gunshot There life or death will be either peace temporall or else eternall either grace or glory unto thee here thy soule shall be in a harbour if thousands fall at thy left hand and ten thousands at thy right none shall make thee afraid thou shalt laugh at trouble when it comes Thou shalt be sure to go to heaven either by land or water If thou goest through the fire thou shalt be sure to have Christ with thee Heaven is a security in all estates a protection from all Arrests if the King of Glory hath a mind to sue thee thou shalt not be arrested like other men with a writ of wrath but invited to sup with him in glory only by a letter of love and he will send his Ushers of glory to waite upon thy soule to the chambers of glory Luke 16.22 The soule of good Lazarus was carried by Angels into Abrahams bosome you shall not live like other men haunted with the bloud-hounds of wrath nor dye like other wretches that go out of the world haled by the Serjeants of hell to everlasting prison but quietly sleepe and awake againe one day in glory O who would not desire such a protection for himselfe such a security for his soule who would not throw off his raggs of sinne to put on Christs livery of grace when Christs badge upon his shoulder shall free him from all Arrests That he shall walke up and downe and nothing shall make him affraid Secondly Consider that Heaven is a place as full of joy as ever the wildernesse was full of sorrow and trouble of this I spake before O thinke of the joy of the Saints you children of vaine pleasure you mad-men of the earth that can dance over the hole of the Aspe and put your hands on the Cocatrices den Your false and flattering joy is nothing to the reall joyes of heaven There is joy like the joy in the harvest like the joy when men divide the spoyle The yoke of their burthen is broken and the rod of the oppressour O you that love your drinking meetings and dancing dayes that you would but love heaven where you might drinke new wine with your Lord Christ where you might dance in glory and make all your daies dayes of joy and every houre an houre of pleasure Thirdly consider that there and there only is provision for your soule Christs robes is the only cloathing that will cover the nakednesse of it his flesh is meat indeed and his bloud is drinke indeed there my friends Eate and drinke and be merry there you may have wine and milke without money or without price O spend not your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which profiteth not Here you may eate that which is good Esa 35.1 2 3. and let your soule delight it selfe in fatnesse Here is a Feast of fat things The fatlings are killed O come unto the wedding Why should your roomes bee emptie in the day of the Lords Espousalls You shall bee welcome to my Masters Table Now O now Behold hee stands at the doore and knocks Lord breake where thou knockest If any man will heare his voice and open the doore he will come