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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02190	Markes and no markes, of the Kingdome of Heauen: or, A treatise of things neccessary, vnnecessary, to the Kingdome of God. By Henry Greenewood Master of Art, and preacher of the word of God	Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5.	1634 (1634)	STC 12334; ESTC S119046	14,649	53

the heart and partly out of hope of the reward to to come yea wée are joyfull in tribulation Rom. 5.3 In the holy Ghost It is called righteousnesse in the holy Ghost peace in the holy Ghost joy in the holy Ghost 1. to shew that the holy Ghost is the effici●●● cause o● thes● Heavenly graces ●● our soules 2. to destinguish Ch●i●●●an righteousnesse peace and ●●● from carnall worldly and unc●●stant For the Kingdome of God is j●● in the Holy Ghost Great is the joy and unspeakeable the consolation of euery live●● member of Christ when a poo●● soule shall see himselfe delivered from sinne and Hell and made just and righteous in the Lord Jesus and reconciled with God and given now to sée his name written in the Booke of Heaven O what cause is there of joy No marvayle therefore if the twelve men joyed and joyed and joyed and joyed when they found by the starre the Lord Jesus Mat. 2.10 They rejoyced with an excéeding great joy they rejoyced they rejoyced with joy they rejoyced with great joy they rejoyced with an exceeding great joy No mervaile therefore if the Apostle bids us rejoyce in the Lord alwayes and againe saith hee rejoyce therefore great is the joy of the beleever Our Saviour when hée saw the Apostles overjoyd in the casting out of Devills said rejoyce not in this that Devills are subdued unto you but rejoyce in this that your names are written in the Booke of life this is the ground of true joy This joy Mary was filled with My spirit rejoceth in God my Saviour This is the joy that every Christian more or lesse injoyeth and sometime or other comfortably and swéetely séeteth This Heavenly joy differeth from worldly joy in these foure 1. Worldly joy is naturall this joy is spirituall 2 Worldly joy ariseth from externall things this joy ariseth from God love remission of sinne assurance of life everlasting 3. Worldly joy makes men secure this joy maketh a man serve God more earnestly and perfectly 4. Worldly joy fadeth in adversity this joy makes us rejoyce in tribulation under the hope of salvation Rom. 5.3 I never felt this joy in mée may some object and yet I hope I am as good a Christian as others Ans If it bée hidden it is hidden to them that are lost This is Abscondita Manna hidden Manna Revel 2.17 It is onely knowne to them that injoy it and to them that are elected It is Gods owne wine laid up in Gods owne Cellers for Gods owne Spouse the wicked of the World shall never lick their lipps of it 1. O let us begge of God for this joy this joy is Heaven upon Earth this joy is the earnest of our Heavenly inheritance this joy is the injoyment of Gods backparts this joy if it bee perfited in us is no lesse than life everlasting Davids suite above all other was for this ioy Psal 4. The greater sort crave worldly goods and riches doe imbrace but Lord shew mee thy countenance thy favour and thy grace For thou thereby shalt make my heart more ioyfull and more glad than they that of their Corne and Wine full great increase have had Thus Moses prayed upon the Mount Exod. 33.18 Lord shew mée thy glory The Lord grant us this ioy unspeakeable and glorious which the world can neither give nor take away Ioh. 16.22 This your ioyshall no man take from you that wée tasting of the Heavenly comforts in the way may enter into our Masters ioy in the end with that blessed welcome enter thou into the ioy of the Lord. Vse 2 2. Hée that hath tasted in any measure of this Heavenly Nectar let him blesse GOD for these comforts for these reioycings are given but to few LORD what is man that thus thou shouldst reioyce him or the best of the sonnes of men that thus in mercy thou shouldst ioy them Vse 3 3. No life so comfortable as the Christian life it is full of peace and ioy there is never an holy duety holy performed but brings meate in the mouth with it ioy unspeakeable When wée pray how are our soules refreshed When wée preach and heare the holy Word of GOD our hearts many times leape in our bellies for ioy The worldling thinkes otherwise of it It is true to respect the outward condition of a Christian it is very miserable therefore Paul saith 1. Cor. 15.19 If in this life onely wee had our hope and our hap of all men Christians were most miserable But to respect the inward estate of a Christian it is most ioyfull and comfortable The sufferings of this life are not worthy of the ioyes that are here and in Heaven prepared for us There is ioyntly ioy and iointly sorrow in every Christian sorrow uppon sinnes commission but ioy upon sinnes remission sorrow because by our sinnes wée have killed Christ but ioy because by his stripes wée are healed Heb. 12.11 There is no afliction but is grievous There is the part of sorrow but it brings the quiet fruit of righteousnesse There is the part of ioy and gladnesse The Kingdome of God is joy in the holy Ghost Vse 4 4. If the estate of a Christian bee so ioyous then surely the condition of the wicked is restlesss and terrible horrour attends the wicked conscience here and hell hereafter The very wicked in Hell confesse no lesse Wisedome 5 Wée have wearied our selves in the wayes of wickednesse wée have gone dangerous wayes the way of peace wée have not knowne What hath pride proffited us or what hath the pompe of riches done us good The Lord grant that wée may fly all sinne and wickednesse for there is no peace to the wicked saith the Lord. Vse 5 5. Lastly if Gods people have such joy distilled and dropped into their soules here in this World of sorrow in this body of sinne O what are the ioyes prepared in Heaven for them that love and feare him neither eye hath séene nor care hath heard neither can the heart of man conceive or imagine of the joyes which the Lord hath prepared in Heaven for them that love him There is great tranquility tranquill felicity happy eternity everlasting blessednesse and the blessed trinity ô gaudium super gaudium extra quod non est gaudium quando intrabo in te ut Deum meum videam qui habitat in te O ioy above all ioyes without which there is no ioy when shall I enter into thée that I may sée my God that dwelleth in thée To which most blessed ioyes of the Kingdome of Heaven the Lord bring us all at the day of our departure for Jesus Christs sake our onely Lord and Saviour To whom with GOD the Father and God the holy Ghost bée ascribed all glory and honour power praise and dominion for ever and ever Amen FINIS Imprimatur modo intra duos Menses Rob. Austin Martij 22.1633 1 Cor. 1.10 11. Mat. 5.9 2 Cor. 3.11 ●ude 3. ●rov 20.3 Text. Doct. Vse 10. Ro● Text. Doct. ●●m 5.18 Doct. Ans Ans Ans Text. Doct. Object

corruption So wée receive from the 2. Adam a double blisse Imputation of his merits Derivation of his graces And no man shall bee justified in his merits that is not sanctified by his graces Vse 1 1 The Papist is then condemned that makes works his righteousnes not Christ Vse 2 2. The blind worldling is also here convicted that makes riches not righteousnesse the seale of his souls for Heaven That worldling Luke 12.18.19 was a foole in graine that trusted in his graine and never looked for faith no not so much as a graine of mastard-séede rich people if they have not the riches of Christ shall never enter into the Kingdome of Heaven for my text saith here that the Kingdome of GOD is righteousnesse not riches peace not pleasures joy in the holy Ghost not carnall mirth and laughter Vse 3 3. If righteousnesse be a marke of the Kingdome of God then first and above all things let us seeke the Kingdome of God and the righteousnesse thereof none but the incorrupt shall dwell in Gods holy hill Psal 15.2 what if we have all the world and want sanctity who can expresse our infelicity the Lord create in us all new hearts the Lord of his mercy renew in us all right spirits unholy unhappy unholy unhappy Vse 4 4. In the fourth place wee may plainely see how few of mankind shall be saved how few doe wee find among men righteous truely pious wée may take up justly in our times the cry and complaint of David Psal 12.1 helpe Lord helpe for good and godly men decay what a pity it is that this world should bée made for so many and the world to come for so few Vse 5 5. If righteousnesse bée the soundest and surest marke of a member of the Kingdome of God then how farre from Heaven are such as mock men for righteousnesse and despise such as precisely seeke to serve the Lord O generation of vipers how shall ye fly from the anger to come how shall yée escape the damnation of Hell Vse 6 6 If righteousnesse bee a marke of the Kingome of God then wickednesse is a badge of a limme of the Divell if vertue and knowledge and faith and temperance and patience and godlinesse and brotherly kindnesse and love bee assurers of Heaven then ignorance and infidelity and gluttony and drunkennes and covetousnes impatience and prophanesse and maliciousnesse are proofes of damnation The plague of plagues is to bee wicked For as righteousnesse brings peace and joy so ungodlinesse brings horrour Hell and torments everlasting Thus much for the first of the thrée Heavenly markes of our happinesse namely Righteousnesse The second thing that prooves a man a member of Christ a Citizen of the Kingdome of God is Peace The Kingdome of God is righteousnesse and Peace Peace is twofold 1. Good 2. Bad. Good peace is fourefold 1. With God Rom. 5.1 2. With the Conscience 3. With our Brethren 4. With our enemies Psal 147.13 Bad peace is an agréement in evill as was the peace of Simeon and Levi Herod and Pilate our peace must bee joyned with truth Zachar. 8.16 and with holinesse Hebr. 12.14 The thrée first are here meant whence let us observe this point for our instruction That every member of Christ is at peace with God through Jesus Christ from whence springeth a twofold peace of conscience with the Brethren This peace of conscience ariseth from the remission of our sinnes and our reconcilement with God through Jesus Christ Christ therefore is called our Peace and the Prince of Peace and Peace-maker Ephes 2.24 Esay 9.6 Colos 1.8 Concerning this inward peace I will propound these 4 questions First how this peace is gotten By two 1. By grieving for our sinnes done against the Law 2. By applying the promises of the Gospell for reunission Secondly how may this inward peace be preserved By these thrée 1. By avoyding all but especially knowne sins 2. By doing every duty uprightly though not perfectly 3. By often confessing our sinnes and craving pardon for them Thirdly May this peace be lest or no The sense of it may bee lost for a time but the thing it selfe never And it is lost by these thrée 1. By some or other grosse actuall sinne 2. By neglect of some or other duty 3. By some or other strong fit of temptation It fareth with the soule as it doth with the body sometime well sometime ill faith hath his swoones and this state of the soule is lively resembled by these The Sunne un●●● a Cloud a man in a trance ●●ées dead in Winter Fourthly Now is this peace got●●● againe being once lost ●y these ●●●e 1. By remembring Gods former mercies 2. By companying with the Godly 3. By attending the publike ministery 4. By renewing our repentance more seriously 5. By private and earnest prayer There is in the third place ano●●er peace a famous marke of the ●hild of God and that is peace with ●●e brethren This peace Abraham sought with 〈◊〉 when their servants fell foule ●●out grounds Gen. 13.8 David ●●ught to live peaceably with all ●●n Psal 120.7 and perswades 〈◊〉 men to peace 34.14 seeke peace ●●d ensue it The like doth Paul ●om 12.18 As much as lyeth you have peace with all men God is ● God of peace Christ is the Pri●●● of peace the Gospell is the Gosp●● of peace Heaven is a place of pea●● therefore let us live in peace t●●● the God of peace may be with us Vse 1 First here appeareth the hap●●nesse of a Christian he is at pea●● with his God Rom. 5.1 being ju●●●fied by faith wee are at peace w●●● God through our Lord Jesus Chri●● and on the other side the case of a ●●probate is very miserable Esay 5● 21. There is no peace to the wi●●ed saith my God Vse 2 2 Let every man breathing lab●●● to maintaine the peace of a good ●●●science for this peace is a Iew●● indéede a continuall feast Th●● Paul indevoured to kéep a cleare co●science both toward God and ma● Act. 24.16 Vse 3 3. Such as live in strife and c●●tention not in love and peace a●● members of Satan For the Kin●dome of God is righteousnesse a●● peace Let us then imbrace peac● as wee live together let us love ●●gether to this end let us take héede ●● such things as may hinder peace ● Pride for as wée reade in the ●roverbs onely by pride commeth ●●ntention Prov. 13.10 2. Malice 3. Revenge 4. Envy ● Fiercenesse 6. Busi-medling 7 ●ebate 8. Strife 9. Whispering 10. Backbiting 11. Tale-bearing The Kingdome of God is peace ●nd joy in the holy Ghost Righteousnesse brings peace and peace joy when wée sée God well pleased and reconciled with us and made our loving heavenly friend through Christ how can wée then ●ut joy By joy is meant the swéet motion of a Christian soule chéered up and made glad partly by the present sense of Gods love shed into