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lord_n	hot_a	zeal_n	zealous_a	91	3	9.1016	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29118	Elijah's nunc dimittis, or, The authors own funerall sermons in his meditations upon I Kings 19:4 ... / by Thomas Bradley ...	Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670.	1669 (1669)	Wing B4132; ESTC R7187	60,180	133

suffering of God should leade to Repentance But thou out of thine hardness and heart that cannot repent treasurest up unto thy selfe wrath against the day of wrath and the declaration of the righteous judgement of God And what a miserable thing is this for a man to treasure up unto himself wrath against the day of wrath and all his dayes to be carrying fuell to that fire in which himselfe is eternally to burne Lastly From this truth let all men certainly conclude a Judge to come for he that is the Judge of all the world hath said it That he will render to every man according to his works Rom. 2.6 But we see that is not done in this life in this life here are cross dispensations of Providence by which it falls out oft times clean contrary Solomon observed this in his time Eccles 8.14 That there be righteous Men to whom it cometh according to the working of the wicked and there be wicked Men to whom it cometh according to the work of the righteous The royall Prophet David before him observed the same ●sal 73. and complineth of it That the wicked flourish when the righteous perish they live at ease and have all things that their hearts can wish When the righteous are under the Cross and under the Rod chastised every Morning and visited every moment Hic pietatis honos Is this the reward of piety Is this to render to every man according to his works surely no and if things should rest thus then well might Saint Paul complain That of all men the Saints and servants of God were most miserable If in this life onely we have hope then are we of all men most miserable But say not so and think not so but possesse your souls with patience for a time and mark the end and you shall finde it is not so Remember that of St. Paul Acts 17.31 That God hath appointed a day wherein to Judge the world in righteousness by his Sonne Jesus Christ when he will make all these crosse reckonings right and streight wherein he will render tribulation to them that have troubled his and to those that have been troubled rest with him when he will say to all those secure and sensuall sinners as to the rich Epicure in the Gospel Sonnes remember you in your life time received pleasure and these my servants received pain now they are comforted and you are tormented that 's the day wherein this word shall be made good That he will render to every Man according to his works therefore called The day of refreshing Acts 3.19 The day of restauration The day of the righteous judgement of God Rom. 2.5 Gods Judgements are alwayes righteous but they are not alwayes declared to be so but then they shall be declared to be so in the sight of all the world men and Angels and they shall all confesse and say as in the Psalme Verely there is a reward for the righteous doubtless there is a God that judgeth the earth And so we have done with the Prophets second Satis est the second of his enoughs spoken in reference to what he had suffered Satis Tuli I have suffered enough We now pass to the third spoken in reference to what he had done 3. Satis Feci I have done enough And this ariseth out of the first words of the 14. verse I have been very jealous or zealous for the Lord God of Hosts this word is very significant and comprehensive it containes in it much as the faithfull discharge of his duty in the Office of a Prophet whereunto he was called his care to maintaine the true Religion and Worship of God his courage in reproving the sinnes of the ten Tribes even in the greatest Ahab himselfe not excepted his zeale in convincing and silencing the Priests of Baall in those perillous times when they had the protection and countenance of Authority on their sides and much more and that he did not these things coldly negligently perfunctorily but with all earnestness and fervency as the word imports for it comes from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to hisse as Iron doth when being red hot it is dipt in Water such was his activity in the performance of these his duties and fervency of affection Quicquid egit valide egit as the Italians are said to doe The zeale of Gods House did even consume him as another Prophet speaks he did these duties with zeale as hot as fire neither in this testimony did he arrogate to himselfe any thing at all more then due nor commend himselfe above his measure the Story of his Life and Actions evidently declares the truth of what he here asserts That he had been very zealous for the Lord God of Hosts in doing his Will in seeking his Glory and in upholding and maintaining his true Worship against all opposers c. The Inferences from hence are these three The first Those that are for God must doe the will of God The second It is not enough to doe Oper● operato but they must doe it as they should be done in due manner with due affections and they must doe it home or els it will never reach to Elijah's Satis est It is enough The third It shall be their greatest comfort in the evill day that they have done so the illation of these is cleare out of Elijah's Satis est in the Text compar'd with the first words of the 14. v. First Those that are for God must doe the will of God in that Place Calling and Condition of Life wherein God hath set them They must doe his will whether it be Prophet or Apostle or a common Christian Magistrate or Minister or common Beleever every one must in his Place doe the will of God It is our dayly Prayer That his will may be done in Earth as it is in Heaven And in this Prayer Is it fit that we should over-look our selves No as it is our dayly Prayer so it should be our dayly practise to doe his will Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven Not the hearers but the doers of the Law shall be justified If you know these things blessed are you if you doe them Christianity calls for Action it is not Logicall but Morall not speculative but practique it consists not in saying nor in knowing nor in professing but in working there must be a Feci in it Regnum Dei non datur otiosis as St. Bernard speaks the Kingdom of God is not given to idle professors and pretenders the Calling of a Christian is a laborious Calling a Building a Husbandry a Warfare all these call to work there is somthing to be done whereby we may bring glory to God good to men and comfort to our own souls The very Heathen were sensible of this That they were bound to doe some good in the Generation wherein

command Gen. 22. Here 's a Satis ad testificationem enough to testifie his love and obedience and so though none of Gods Saints and servants can reach to a Satis in reference to justification yet as to the testification of the soundness of their faith the sincerity of their obedience and the uprightness of their hearts in his Service there is a Satis which they may reach to and of which God himselfe will testifie and say Satis est It is enough The second distinction in Answer to this Objection is this There is another two-fold Satis First Satis ad perfectionem Secondly Satis ad acceptationem First enough In reference to perfection And Secondly enough In reference to acceptation As to the former Nunquam satis est we can never arrive enough as to perfection Our Saviour hath set us a Coppy that we can never come neer Mat 6. Be you perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect Alas our highest perfection is to acknowledge our imperfection and the best of us all when we have done our best to acknowledge We are unprofitable servants To confess with the Centurion Domine non sum dignus O Lord I am not worthy the least of thy mercies and with the Publican to pray Lord be mercifull to me a sinner so that if we look at perfection Nunquam satis est we shall never arrive to that degree or height of obedience as to say Nunc satis est It is now enough But if we look at acceptation blessed be God there is a Satis whereunto the Saints and servants of Almighty God may and doe arrive even in this life through the mercy of God and the indulgence of our Heavenly Father which where he sees a willing mind accepts of the will for the deed and of what we can doe instead of what we should doe which accepts according that a man hath and not according to that he hath not And so this rubb being removed we pass to the third Inference which is this That thus to have so done the will of God will be our greatest comfort in an evill day when we shall stand in most need of it Hezekiah found it so when the Message came to him by the Prophet Isay from the Lord That he should set his house in order for he must dye O Lord remember I have walked before thee with an upright and a perfect heart and have done that which was good in thy sight Isay 38.1 3. Nehemiah found it so who having done worthily for the people of God in obteining Commission from the King of Persia for the redeeming of the Jews out of the Babylonish Captivity and building the Walls of Jerusalem often comforts himselfe with the remembrance of it Nehemiah 13.14 Remember me O my God in this and blot not out the kindness that I have shewed to thy house And verse the 22. Remember me O my God concerning this also and pardon me according to thy great mercy And again verse 31. Remember me O my God in goodness Indeed he needed not have put God in mind to remember him the Lord would have remembred him and his kindness shewed to his people though he should forget it God is not unfaithfull that he should forget the labour and love shewed unto his Saints We see in Matthew 25 how he did remember it when they had forgotten it that shewed it ver 42.43 When I was hungry you gave me to eate when I was thirsty you gave me to drink when I was naked you cloathed me sick and in prison you visited me and ministred unto me this they had forgotten and therefore asked Lord when saw we thee hungrty or thirsty or naked or sick and in prison and ministred unto thee he remembred it when they had forgotten it and doth not onely remember it but reward it too and now they finde the comfort of it With such a remembrance doth Saint Paul comforts himselfe 2 Tim. 4.7 I have fought the good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith Henceforth is layd up for me a crowne of righteousness He was not afraid to sing out his Cupio dissolvi I desire to be dissolved Nor our Prophet in the Text to make it his suite to the Lord To take away his soule when he remembred how zealous he had been for the Lord God of Hosts while he was in the body The very Heathens were sensible of this and it was a great incitement to them to justice and honesty and all morall vertue Conscientia benè acta vitae multorumque benefactorum recordatio jucundissima est The Conscience of a life well spent and the remembrance of much good done in his life time O what a Cordiall it is to an old man a dying man And so is the contrary the remembrance of a life ill spent and of much evill done in a mans life time as great a corrasive at such a time Thou writest bitter things against me and makest me to possess the sins of my youth saith J●b cap. 12.25 and he none of the worst of men Beloved there will come a time when Conscience awakened and enlightened will be serious with us in calling us to account for things done in our life time how we have spent our life our time and our Talents what good we have done with them ever since we came into the world And what a sad account is this when a man can give no better account to God nor his own Conscience but thus That he hath lived upon earth forty or fifty or sixty or seventy years or more to doe nothing but eate and drink and sleep and play or worse and spent his life Aut nihil agendo in doing nothing Aut aliud agendo in doing things impertinent which is as good as nothing Aut malè agendo or in doing evill which is worse then nothing and now is going out of the world before ever he hath thought of his errand wherefore he came into it If this be not to be an unprofitable servant what is and what his doome is we have heard and may reade Matthew 25. Beloved Let this Meditation teach us wisedom so to lay out our selves while we live in this world so to improve our time and our Talents as that we may be able to give some account of them to God and to our own Consciences so to live that we need not be afraid to dye to be doing some good here in our life time the remembrance whereof may yeeld us comfort in our sickness and hope in our death so to lay out our selves in this world that we may have somewhat to take to in the other world when we shall leave this and all that we have in it and so shall we be great gainers by the change And so we have done with this third Inference also deduc'd out of the Prophets third Satis est It is enough spoken in reference to what he had done Satis feci I