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mercy_n	israel_n	lord_n	redemption_n	2,132	5	10.1091	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54483	Sermons and devotions old and new revived and publisht as an oblation of gratitude to all such of the nobility, gentry and clergy as retain the noble conscience of having ministred to the weak condition of the author, now aged 73 : the sermons at Court were before the war brake forth betwixt King and Parliament : also a discourse of duels, being a collection and translation of other mens opinions, with some addition of his own : and this in special dedicated for their use ... / by Thomas Pestel ...	Pestell, Thomas, 1584?-1659?	1659 (1659)	Wing P1675; ESTC R39086	197,074	355

heart of my Text and will they not fall down and worship before this Lords of Lords and King of Kings For before him all Dominion and all distinction is lost the grearest Monarch in his presence must drop his Lilly and his Lion be couchant As for Bishops and Arch-bishops St. Peter tels us of Dominus here erecting an Arch over all their heads 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when that chief shepherd shall appear 1 Pet. 5.4 and cals him Bishop of all Souls for a difference for properly the cure of souls is his Men can but order our cloaths and hahits and regulate and article and qualifie our outward man But here is a Visitor whose Courts and proceedings are purely spiritual surveighs the rational within the brest sees down into the reins and views how close and clean the wedding garment sits upon one souls and what we are not in the Church or Pulpit or Closet but in the hid man of the heart And for extent of Diocess thit is the grand Primate of all Christendom over both his Churches Militant and Triumphant to whom all Patriarcks justling for Place and Title must submit whose Sea is from sea to sea from the river to the worlds end his Chair advanced far above all heavens all Gold Purple and Copes and Crosiers Keys Miters Coronets Crowns triple Diadems thrown at his feet to whom we may safely ascribe all Bellarmines fifteen great names De Pontif. lib. 2. cap. 31. and all too little and if we may justly cry for blessings to be dewed and multiplied on the heads of earthly gracious Soveraigns and all such Peers as really and cheerfully assist the deliverance of our Christian Brethren from spoil and rapine and Turkish slavery and raising means for Redemption of the Renown of this once renowned Nation then blessed be this Lord of Israel who hath redeemed us all a Mercy past into Act in his own person and at the expence of his most precious blood from all our enemies and the hands of them that hate us from the wrath to come and hath raised up a mighty salvation for us Salvation is of the Jews and we are Gentiles But my Text is St. Pauls Manifest to them too This Light revealed to the Gentiles and may be stil'd the Gentiles Jubiles Rejoyce ye poor Ephesians the day-spring from on high hath visited you Ephesians but still what 's that to us if it extend no further Yes Set these words upon their wings and we shall see them soar as high as heaven passing through the Sphears whisper to the Stars and Sun You were once in Darkness and shall once more lose your LIGHT And to the Light 〈◊〉 self you went once darkness and to those Elect Angels of Light There is a Prince and Legions of your fellows reserved to chains of darkness and that you stand here is long of his preserving and perpetuating Grace that keeps you still to be Lux in Domino Then down the Text stoops and walks round the Theatre and Amphitheatre of Churches East and West Tels the East that from darkness it was once Lux in Domino and leaves a Caveat for us in the West Take heed and never was this Caveat more needfull left as those Eastern Churches the Glory once of the Son of God are now under the Moon of Mahomet so our sins our divisions and disorders cause this Dominus to take away our Light Lastly Home it strikes at every bosom here and speaks to us that are or ought to be Lights in the Church you that are or should be Lights in the State to him who is the breath of our Nosthrils the Light of all our eyes it cries to every man Mement Homo es ‐ eras Tenebrae thus the Text would be usefull serve our turns whole as it lies And sure we should never divide it but that God hath done it to our hands He divided the Light from the Darkness For the first part of our Text in the shell and cover is Darkness The Kernel the meaning is the Lapse The second is Glorious without in the Metaphor Light and more glorious within The work-man-ship of God in Christ Jesus The Restauration The third and last part which makes up the Allegory in the word is Walking in the sense is Gratitude or mans duty the third part of the Catechism The first is Darkness and that 's past I shall desire to pass it briefly The second is Light on that I would insist for Explanation Dilatation The third is Walking in Light elsewhere called walking honestly as in the day I shall endeavour to walk on respectively through all these parts briefly plainly honestly EXPLICATION OUR first part is Darkness of which who can know the bounds or understand the paths of the house thereof Job 38.20 Only the meaning here is Ignorance these Ephesians and all Gentiles else under a manifold Ignorance First Original which lay on all mankind man had a Light but blew it out with overblowing and so all left in darkness Mox ut Praeceptum transgress● sunt intrinsecus gratia deserente nudati sunt as St. Austin saith De. Correp Gra. c. 10. Secondly Darkness of Restraint wanting those Assistances which the Jews had for Recovery 1. Divine Revelation in lively Oracles and renewing the prime Promise by Light whereof Euoch and Noah found Grace to walk with God 2. The Light enlarged in the Covenant with Abraham a Seal for security and the Promise affixt and pitcht upon his race In semine tuo 3. Then the Law a Sun of Light yet had they Prophets too to cast the beam by Interpretation God dealt not so with any Nation But there is a third a wilfull and obstinate Ignorance sitting down in darkness without Care or Endeavour to rise up from that bondage not improving the rational Light which was left stil as the Candle of the Soul For though we find extracts of admirable Light in the Gentiles Laws Inventions Moral Conversation too yet In conversione ad Deum so they were Prodigals and mispent their portion which St. Paul objects to the Athenians Act. 17.26 and proves in Rom. 1.28 that by the links and connexion of causes and light of reason climbing up to God yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they liked it not they listed not to retain God in their knowledge but wantonly and proudly abused the Glory of an incorruptible God by turning it into an Image made like Beasts and creeping things for which sluttish dealing God gave them up to uncleanness and vile affections and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a mind devoid of Judgement utterly dark And whereas wanting the Jewish Law they had yet the first draught and original wtitten in their hearts they smothered this light also with-held the truth of God in unrighteousness And by this darkning of themselves were left saith the Apostle without excuse So then here is no Light in this Darkness but Abyssus

for secresie You shall swear never to reveal what I payed and I will be drawn in pieces ere I tell how many score how many huudred pieces But my Patron when gone aside he boasteth and cannot chuse but tell his Lady perchance what fine things these presentations are sell my land and it never comes again that cruel word Ses heires But the Dunce or drunkard that bought may be forced to sell again or else resign or chop or be put out or dye and then there 's more money Thy money perish with thee Thou what shall I call thee Be what thou wilt and quarter what coats thou canst thy great Ancestors name was Simon Magus Well is that the worst No Remember what St. Peser said to Ananias why hath Sa'an filled thy heart and who it was that entered into the heart of Judas when he went to betray and sell his Mafter thou sellest thy Master and thy Masters Patrimony Patrimonium crucifixi The Patrimony of Christ crucified so it is called Tush caveat emptor You of the Clergy are the Magus's t is true and where 's the Purchaser too going to swear a dreadful swearing And hast thou done it What Neque per te nec per alium And canst thou again look God in the face in his beauty of holiness and take his word into thy mouth Hast thou any Lot any true clergy any Portion in our Ministry But quis talis fando quis tam ferreus hec dici potuisse non potuisse refelli Secondly Oppression is a work of Darkness though practised openly in extorting Ossicers and such men as greedy of Gain intrench and enclose themselves from others and hurl out the poor members of Christ turn them a walking to enlarge their sheep-walks Do these men walk honestly and as children of light And is there not a Brood and flutter of Prodigals that tend to oppression too Countrey Gull-Gallants that like NERO at first lap up horses houses and Lands into Balls and throw them away in Dole and Lottery till they come to a Dysentery So long mis-demeaning themselves in lavishing and flying out till it come to a cruel missing of their Demesnes in the end and then are forced to skrew and rack and grind the saces and bowels of the poor with Neroes resolution too Hoc agamus ne quis quicquam habeat Thirdly Drunkenness had wont to be a work of Darkness But now it defies the harbour of duil night and dares look day in the face But the Apofile meets them terribly both the Extortioner and the Drunkard Neither of them shall inberite the Kingdom of Heaven Fourthly and laftly That desperate and indesensible sin of swearing when the soul is let go for nothing No profit no pleasure unless hell and everlasting darkness dwell in mens desires But I forgee the time and I hope for better things of you and snch as accompany salvation And I trust I shall fitly and sully apply the Text to all that are here and in the Repetition of these words take in all the Congregation postremo meipsum Beloved we wers once darkness are now light in the Lord. Let us then walk as children of light Which that we may do let us pray to the Father of Lights Almighty God give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and put on the Armour of Light c S.D.G. A SERMON AT COVRT July 1640. MALAC. 3.17 And they shall be mine said the Lord of Hosts in that day when I make up my Jewels WHich words afford a double Priviledge of Gods servants be the times what they will in Reference to their owner described by his high and stately stile of Dominus Exercituum First his own they are his peculiar Secondly esteem'd of him at a high rate for they are his Jewels The first priviledge is laid out in this plain conclusion They that in a Deluge of corruption such as covered all in time of this Prophesie are yet emergent and bear up against the stream They that in desperate and desolate times dare yet make proof that they fear this Lord of Hofts and think upon his Name they are Gods own his peculiar For so the Rabbins interpret this word Segullah by peculium peculiare proprium speciale praecipuum singulare God hath a propriety a specialty in them I conceive your thoughts and expectations have by this time call'd me off from this seeming dry tree for what fruit shall you or I gather hence in being Gods own and of his peculiar people But I am even for this Imaginations sake desirous to insist and so far to intreat your patience too that I may yet be resident that I may spend the hour wholly incumbent on this little thing as it may seem of mine which yet in opening will appear I doubt not a rich and an inexhaustible Mine of Treasure and such as will prove useful and appliable to every Hearer You may then mistake you may prejudice me you cannot tell what work God may be pleased to enable me to make of this Text before and when I come to resresh the honour and comfort of my lise in preaching again in this Audience Now I mean not to part with this my first part in the Royalty the Priesthood and peculiarity of Gods people capable of that former Description which is compriz'd in this claim and promise and assurance for it is all those And they shall be mine sayes the Lord c. To every Text belongs but explication and application I intend both In the explication first that is now the opening that is the working of this Mine I shall present you with the riches of the Ore and then the refined Gold or draw first some materials from the Mine wherewith to build our comfort and then super-induce a roof and crown of pure Gold in precious things in Christ under the New Testament which was under the old too but not so clear so compleat Where God in Christ reconciling the world to himself weares the crown of Mercy manifold and enwraps us in a Robe of Totius total consolation by uniting us with the bonds of his Love by a plenteous Redemption made not with corruptible things as silver and gold but with the blood of Jesus the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world The first material from this Mine may be the very strowing of some grains of Golden comfort in our enterance on the consideration of Gods Word and work with man T is a special hightning of the spirit a mighty complacency and satisfaction to a servant of God to believe that God is and that he is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him Heb 11. for even Moses is said to have had this in his aym he had an eye to the recompence of Reward David begins his first Psalm where he describes Gods service with Beatus Blessedness is a blessed pully to Devotion and therefore both the Day-star and the Sun take this