Riolanus Anatomy 6 Veslinguâ— Anatomy of the Body of Man 7 A Translation of the New Dispensatory made by the Colledg of Physitians of London Wherein is added The Key to Galens Method of Physick 8 The English Physitian Enlarged 9 A Directory for Midwives or a Guide for Women 10 Galens Art of Physick 11 New Method both of studying and practising Physick 12 A Treatise of the Rickets 13 Medicaments for the Poor Or Physick for the Common People 14 Health for the Rich and Poor by Diet without Physick The London Dispensatory in Folio of a large Character in Latin The London Dispensatory in twelves a smal Pocket Book in Latin To the Physical Reader THe greatest Reason that I could ever observe why the Medicines prescribed in these Books above mentioned and in many other Physick Books do not perform the Cures promised is the unskilfulness of those that make up the Medicines I therefore advise all those that have occasion to use any Medicines to go or send to Mr. Ralph Clarke Apothecary at the sign of the three Crowns on Ludgate-Hill in London where they shall be sure to have such as are skilfully and honestly made The Printer to the Reader I Have in my hands divers other works of Mr. Stephen Marshals which for their excellency and variety of matter are highly esteemed by all that heard them preach'd Or have read them in writing I intend to print them in several smal Books that they may not be above the reach of a poor man's purse The Subjects on which they treat are Chiefly these that follow VIZ. 1. Of the Covenant of Grace And the great priviledges the Saints have therby 2. Formal Professors seldom become sincere 3. Reformation and turning to God the only means to prevent Ruine 4. Christ the Prince of Peace 5. The Excellency of Christ's Kingdom 6. How Freedom come by Christ. 7. The Vnion between Christ and Beleevers 8. The Riches of the Saints through the Poverty of Christ 9. How Christ is the Head of the Church 10. Christ and his Seed have sufficient strength to destroy their Enemies 11. Christ the Bridegroom Beleevers are his Bride 12. No Participation of Christ but by Faith 13. Faith so precious a Grace that Christ is glad of any thing that may further it 14. An Humble Spirit Infinitly acceptable to God 15. Great Joy to all that Mourn in Zion 16. The double Recompence the Godly shall have after their affliction 17. The Happiness of the Saints under the Cross 18. The untimely Death of good men a Ground of Great Lamentation 19. The Magistrates Dignity Duty and Vsefulness 20. The Churches Danger Deliverance and Duty 21. The Churches praise unto God for their Deliverance 22. A great Mercy in God to prevent his Peoples ingageing one against another in Blood 23. Gods Chosen Ones are the Preventors of destruction 24. Mens Misery is only from themselves Their Deliverance is only from the Lord. 25. The Pearl of the Gospel 26. How the Gospel is the Power of God to Salvation 27. It 's impossible for true Beleevers totally and finally to fall away 28. Parents Duty to their Children 29. Provision for the Poor 30. The Great Judgment of Famine 31. Of the Sacrament The CONTENTS of the first Book of Mr. Stephen Marshals Works VIZ. Of Christs Intercession or Sins of Infirmity SERMON I. On 1 John 2.1 And if any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous THe scope of the Epistle Opened Page 1 2 3. The words of the Text explained Page 3 4. Doct. That the Lord Jesus Christs Intercession in Heaven is the great dayly Relief that all the Saints diligentest their watchfulest work in the world to keep their hearts in a good frame when once the Lord in mercy hath put them into a good frame Page 132 133 Reasons of the Point Reas. 1. Because the Heart is beyond all comparisons the best part of Man it is the Head Quarter Page 142 Reas. 2. Because the Heart is not only the best part of Man but it is the Treasury wherein better things are laid up than it self Quest. What are the Treasures laid up in the heart of a gracious Man Answer 1. The great God chooses the Heart of every Godly man for his Privy and Presence Chamber 2. Christ Jesus dwels there Emmanuel dwels there in whom are bid all the Treasures of God 3. The Holy Ghost dwels there too the Heart of every Godly man is his Temple 4. All the Graces of the Spirit of God are laid up there 5. The Word that is the the rule of our life is laid up there Reas. 3. Because the Lord whom we profess to serve looks only at the Heart in al the Sacrifices we perform to him Reas. 4. The Devil makes all his Assaults and Batteries against the Heart and counts all his labor lost if he get not into the Heart Reas. 5. Because the Heart is not to be trusted but is deceitfull false cosening even the Heart of the best man in the world 139 Reas. 6. Because out of it are the Issues of Life thy whol Conversation wil be as thy Heart is kept Use 1. Serves to reprove thousands with a bitter reproof who would fain go for Children of God and yet 1 They are exact in keeping their Houses c but neglect their Hearts Page 143 144 2. Others are curious about their Bodies to Feed Physick Adorn them but neglect their Hearts Others are careful also of their manners and Conversation to avoid scandal and yet neglect their Hearts 4 Others keep indeed their Hearts but sleightly they do not keep them above all keepings Page 146 Use 2. This is a Doctrine of wonderful consolation though it carry just rebuke with it to al whose Consciences witness that their greatest care is to purge and keep their Hearts Page 147 Use 3. To exhort all men for the time to come to make this their study to keep their Hearts Before this can be done I. The Lord must break the Heart to pieces and new mold it And then you must 1. Keep it pure from Sin 2. Keep it fit for Duty The Life of Christ or the great Mystery of Spiritual Life SERMON I. THe Text Opened Page 1 2 3 Doctrine 1. Every Soul that hath Interest in Christ while he is in this world it is in Christ that lives in him Doctrine 2. The manner of their living this Life in this world it is by Faith For Explication consider that There is a twofold life 1. A Natural life which we have from Adam 2. A Spiritual Life which flows from the second Adam Quest. What is this spiritual life Answ. It is a Participation of Christs Righteousness upon the Souls union with him Use 1. Shews how necessary it is that we should all try and examin our Souls whether we are partakers of this Life or No. Page 20 Considerations to stir up to this examination 1. That in Truth this alone is
done that And therefore upon that very account it is that you shall see in Rom. 8.23 where the Apostle speaks there of the Groaning of the Saints the rest of the Creatures groan al the Saints groan for the glorious coming of Jesus Christ To what end saith he That we might receive the Adoption that is the perfecting of our Sonship Now we have Heaven it self when we have but our Sonship made that is plain and you wil see it still plainer in the Epistle to the Galatians Chap. 4 and the beginning the Apostle there speaking of Christs coming as our Surety When the fulness of time was come the Lord sent his Son Jesus Christ made of a Woman under the Law and made him a Curse To what end that we might receive the adoption of Children there is all But that the time would prevent me having many things to deliver I might go on to shew you more Scriptures that fully prove this truth That to be made a Son of God is to have the comprehension of all that is obtained by Jesus Christ so that this is no smal Theam that I am entred upon and I hope if the Lord help me but to make it out to you in this hours discourse you will before you part conclude they are happy men that have gotten an interest in Christ by Faith This premised now I come to the demonstration of the Doctrine That all who have really accepted of Christ for their Savior they are all of them made the Sons of God that is the Doctrine Now to explain it You must know that God is said to have Sons or to be a Father in the Scripture in many senses I may bring them all to these two heads for my purpose 1. Sometimes the Lord is said in a Metaphorical sense to be a Father in divers cases and yet he is not properly a Father he neither hath the bowels of a Father to those whom he cals Sons in that sense nor have they the bowels of Children who cal him Father in that sense for all the whol Creation he is the Father of them all in that respect That their being is from him and their dependance upon him and the like But then Secondly 2. God is said to have Sons properly and I explain when I say properly I mean Sons so that really he is a Father to them hath the heart of a Father the bowels of a Father whatsoever is desirable in a Father and they on the other side properly are his Children in being unto him what Children are unto a Father Now in this sense God is said in the Scripture to have Sons two waies two sorts of Sons The one is 1. Natural Begotten by him in which begetting or generation his own essence is communicated that as we beget a man so in that begetting God may be said to beget a God or a Person that hath the essence of God this is one sense and in this sense he hath no Son but our Lord Jesus Christ who was eternally begotten by him and is God over all blessed forever and it is blasphemy for any but Christ Jesus to challenge to be the Son of God in that sense and therefore the Scribes and Pharisees were right when they told Christ he did blaspheme because he called himself the Son of God they were right I say thus far that had not Christ been the begotten Son of his Father and so had the same nature he had blasphemed in calling himself Gods Son in that sense But then Secondly 2. But God hath other Sons to whom he is properly a Father and those are by Adoption which you frequently read of in the Scriptures especially of the new Testament where all Saints and Beleevers have the Adoption are the adopted Sons and Daughters of God Thus I have brought you to it that Beleevers are the adopted Sons and Daughters of God concerning which I shal the Lord assisting me in the Doctrinal part open these three things to you and the other shall be the Application so far as the Lord shall help me in the compass of the time Three things in the Doctrinal part The first is 1. What this means what it is to be an adopted Son of God Secondly 2. How this priviledg of being made the Son of God by Adoption is wrought that you may see it is not a Fancy I wil shew you how it is wrought and brought about and by it those that will be willing and Faithfull may be able to judg of their own condition whether they are the adopted Children of God or not And then Thirdly 3. I wil shew you in somwhat a more general way What this adoption or being made an adopted Child of God what infinite priviledges it doth comprehend in it For the first 1. What it is to be adopted What is Adoption I Answer Indeed the word was never used in the old Testament and the reason is because that adoption it was not then known though there was somthing like it but in the Roman Empire which was at the height when Christ and his Apostles lived there the thing that we cal Adoption was as wel known as almost any thing that belonged to the government of the Empire the Nature the Laws of it the Duties of it too they were all stated that our Lawyers have not more cleer Evidences how to set out things that belong to our Law now than in the Empire of Rome they were acquainted with the whole Laws and Manner and way of adoption and so because it is of so exceeding great use to shadow out the unexpressable benefits that we have by Christ the Lord was pleased if I may so say to adopt into the Covenant of Grace And amongst the Romans Adoption it was after this manner It was the taking of a Person or Persons who had no natural right to any inheritance a taking them into a Lawful right there are various descriptions of it amongst the Romans but the best of them is this A lawful act imitating nature whereby a Person or Persons who have no natural right to an inheritance are taken in into a lawful right and it was done after this manner in a few words for commonly none but Princes or Senators or great Persons did ever adopt any but this was the way When there was an agreement made betwixt the Persons that did adopt and the Person to be adopted for they never adopted those that were unwilling to it but when there was an agreement it should be so the adopter did carry the Person before the Judges or into some publick and Lawful Assembly and there before them al called the Party Son This is my Son and from that day forward he was his Son to all rights and purposes in the Roman Laws as much as if he had begotten him as you will hear more before I have done my discourse thus it was amongst them Now accordingly if you wil know in the Gospel
it self unto the Word the Word of Promise for matters of Comfort the Word of Precept for matters of Duty the Word of Direction in matters of means and Ordinances the applying of the soul to the Word in all these things the Lord according to his goodness making these things good to the soul that thus applies it self to the Word this is to live by faith So that now to come a little neerer to the business for I have not yet explained it so far as I hope by and by I shall but I say now to live by faith First It is not only for a soul to beleeve in Jesus Christ for salvation or to beleeve all our life time that we shal be saved by Jesus Christ when we go out of the world it is not only that that is but a piece of it But To live by Faith it is in our course to enjoy the whol revealed will of Christ to us as our life thereby fetching all our consolations that are fit for our life from promises thereby fetching all our practices from the declaration of what he makes our duty and applying our selves in the use of those means which the Lord hath appointed us to attend upon for the accomplishment of these this conversation of the soul is the living by faith To live by faith it is this I am not only made partaker of the Righteousness of Christ which is imputed for my justification and is inherent for my new quickening I have not only these principles in me but by the grace of faith al the comfort of my life is fetched from a promise al the rule of my conversation is from the Precepts and all the means I use for the accomplishment of one or other they are those that are prescribed there so that be it to undergo affliction to conflict with a temptation to go through my Calling be it to comfort my heart against temptations when the soul looks to the Word of Christ and there takes the Word for its guide both for comfort and duty until the Lord of his meer grace have accomplished in us all the good that he intendeth to us which wil never be til he takes us out of this world when faith ceaseth but in the mean time this and this only is that which the Scripture cals living by faith But now because I would yet make it a little plainer to you be pleased to know That although there are acts of faith applicable to every particular condition we are in which would require a Volumn to mention yet for the present purpose you must know that there are five things faith doth in this general living by faith that every one that is said to live by faith his faith doth five things in his ordinary course which are applicable to every thing that you can think upon which I shall not need to stand to prove though I will give a touch as I go along because I would spare a little time for the Application before I break off But there are five things applicable First The grace of faith looks at the Word as that which is most sure that is it yields a firm assent to the truth of all that Jesus Christ hath revealed concerning him in his Word The Promises that are made faith assures the soul they are al true they are not whimsies nor fancies The Duties and Directions there prescribed faith assures the soul they are things the Lord looks for so that the Apostle saith in Acts 20. when he lived as a Christian he did exercise himself to beleeve al that was spoken by the Lord in his Law and David saith Thy Word Lord is from everlasting It makes not any scruple or doubt but gives a firm assent to what the Lord hath set down in his Word That is one and that indeed is the Basis and Foundation of the rest The Second It not only assents that all these are true but faith acquiesses that these are the magazine the store house the comprehension of al excellencies that the soul shall ever be made partaker of he desires to be satisfied in the goodness of them he desires no other course of Life to order him but what is set down in the Word he thinks not there are any Councels nor Directions to be regarded nor compared to those set down in the Word he rests in them there his Treasure lies in that great iron Chest and the Word is not only true but his livelihood he knows God hath declared this in his Word and there his soul is satisfied That is the Second And then the third is this The Lord laies al our happiness up in his Word the happiness of our comfort the happiness of our holy conversation therefore faith directs the soul to attend to the Word as to its only guide and comfort that look as a man that is satisfied I am to travel in a dark night and to go through a dangerous place but I am sure I have a mighty guide not a Will of the Wisp as they cal it and an Ignis fatuus to miss-lead me and therefore as I love my life and happiness I will look to the Word by the Word I am guided by the Word I am directed as the Apostle expresseth it It is a thing you do wel to take heed to as to a light that shines in a dark place until the day dawn until the day of Heaven come and you be brought to glory The soul looks to the Word as its only card and compass as the Marriner at Sea looks at his Card and Compass they are his guide so the Beleever he only looks at the Word as his guide There is the third And then the fourth thing that faith doth in al that live the life of faith is this That they make the things revealed in the Word the matters of their prayers they dare not beg a thing of God until they know it is Gods wil that they find a warrant to beg it either absolutely or conditionally they make the Word the matter of their prayers and endeavors and if they go about any thing or be under distress and affliction they labor to get rid of it by making the word their direction in that And Fiftly and lastly Doing al these things as well as it can it staies it self upon the truth and faithfulness and power and wisdom and goodness of God and the Lord Jesus who hath revealed these things to him he staies himself upon him for the accomplishment of these things in his own time and in his own way And he now that doth these five things he truly lives by faith The Lord hath turned the bent of his heart to it and he is assured his Word is true and that there lies his happiness he looks at it as his only guide he makes this the matter of his prayer and endeavors and when he hath done knows all his poor endeavors are nothing but waits upon the Lord to