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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48917	Baulme for bleeding England and Ireland, or, Seasonable instructions for persecuted Christians delivered in severall sermons / by Nicholas Lockyer.	Lockyer, Nicholas, 1611-1685.	1643 (1643)	Wing L2783; ESTC R30503	161,977	432

upon affection p. 61. Apprehension is plac'd sentinell p. 62. The dāger of soule-powers mis-working p. 63 How apprehension comes to worke Divinely upon affection p. 67. 68. c. We are to call divine power as it works p. 73 Sinners will not doe so when power workes against them p. 76. How divine power hath wrought in the hearts and hands of Christians in England to be admired p. 80. 81. Divine things so mentioned as to make best impression upon the soule p 84. God speaks as one in Heaven to make us heare so p. 90. Soules not stirr'd by the word dead p. 91. The funerall of the dead rung p. 93. 94. Accents Aspirations of truth must have their place in the heart p. 97. The goodnesse of the heart is as the word makes full impression p. 98. Christ hath a glorious dominion in dying man p. 103. Things which give being give beauty and being ibid. Power workes in order to majesty p. 106. In order to its own absolute nature p. 108. Much communicable many have nothing this pitifull p. 109. Glorious power how miserable t will make a sinner when set against him p. 113. 114. What hinders power from working gloriously in the soule p. 117. Love admired that makes two Heavens p. 122. 123. Patience defined p. 126. What patience does presuppose p. 132. 133. How much patience is now needed in England p. 136 137. Principles of Patience suited to Englands state p. 139 140. c. What all Patience is p. 150. 151 c. Persons exhorted to examine their patience to know how eminent in it p. 158. Many grow very wicked for want of much Patience p. 161. The evills of impatience p. 162. 163. c. How all impatience is overcome p. 168. 169. Gospel-sufferings sometimes of great duration p. 171. What men should expect in the way to heaven p. 178. Three sorts of hearts which cannot suffer long p. 179. 180. c. Severall things shewing Englands sufferferings likely to be long p. 183. 184. c. Suffering though long should be mannaged with a spirit of joy p. 196. Such spoken to who can make no joy out of suffering in a good cause the causes of it laid open p. 203. 204. c. God would have a Christian never without joy p. 209. Encouragements to suffer long in the cause of Christ now in England p. 211. 212. c. A Christian covets all Christ p. 21 T is a lost man which observes not which way the strength of his soule workes p. 220. 221. A soule in extremity cannot last long p. 223. Joy makes an ascending frame of heart p. 225. Christmas joy jostl'd against by Christ p. 231. 232. c. The property of bad joy p. 234. 235. c. Thankesgiving defined p. 2●8 What thankesgiving doth presuppose p. 245. Whose worke t is properly whose naturally p. 247. 248. Three things broadly speake Englands ingratitude p. 250. 251. c. The remedy of ingratitude p. 257. 258. c. Grace a Creation p. 263. Sinners utter undoing-time come p. 273. Principles demonstrative of soule ruined p. 274. And ruinous p. 277. The hinderances of creating and making power p. 281. Love singles out her objects p. 285. Man cannot argue Gods love to him from outward things p. 294. The properties of an electing love p. 295. 296 What persons Christ chuses to worke upon he makes through worke in p. 304. The properties of a man fitted for wrath p. 314. 415. Fitting grace for Heaven hath its meanes season p. 320. A double fitnesse for Heaven p. 325. The highest mercies are Communicable p. 329. How mans highest felicity is communicable p. 339. 340. Multitudes demonstrated to have no heart to goe to Heaven p. 347. 348. c. Jnterest in Heaven should comfort against all losses p. 351. The greatest favours come most immediate p. 356. Hope should not fall respecting great things when externall meanes fall p. 364. Heaven the inheritance of Saints p. 375. Demonstrations of profane holinesse p. 379. 380. c. The birth of Sanctity p. 386. 387. Heaven resembled by light p. 392. 393. God doth lively shadow out to man here what will be his condition hereafter p. 414. FINIS USEFULL INSTRVCTIONS FOR THESE Evill Times COLOSS. 1.11 Strengthened with all might according to his glorious power unto all patience and long suffering with joyfulnesse PRayer in this Verse is still continued and still suited to present and imminent distresse The state of these Christians was a suffering state and like to be more as our state now is and therfore Prayer is made for answerable reliefe for divine strengthening forbearing and suffering grace for shoulders suitable to every burden Strenthened with all might according to his glorious power unto all patience and long suffering with joyfulnesse The termes of this Text are very weighty I shall therefore deale with them one after another their difficulty lies Et in materia in voce both in matter and word yet one hand on which we leane will carry us thorough both to Gods glory and mans edification I begin with the first word Strengthened 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Kóbur animi innuit c. It points principally at the spirit of man which is the bearer up of all a man is what he is from the fortitude of his inward man according to this scope and sense the Apostle explains himselfe using the same word to the Ephesians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. And applying it to the inner man That he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man Doct. God exerciseth a relieving power in a Christian As he doth exercise a creating power whereby he doth make a Christian so he doth a strengthening and relieving power whereby he doth maintaine a Christian who are kept by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the power of God 1 Pet. 1.5 'T is the same word with this in my Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 strengthned with all might c. Divine power makes and then it upholds it makes Esse and then it makes porrò esse it brings forth and breed's up it travells in birth once and againe My little children of whom I travell in birth againe This travaling in birth againe Gal. 4.19 is strengthening and relieving power to maintaine and finish the first birth the same that is here spoken of in my Text. Strengthened c. Divine power as it works towards a Christian hath its peculiar properties Proprietates potentiae Divinae as it workes towards a Christian it works tenderly such a power working about the soule works and works againe it makes lambes and then it makes armes to carry lambes to preserve them to be sheepe for the fold of Christ He shall gather the Lambes with his Armes and carry them in his Bosome and gently leading those that are with young Isa 40.11 As there is a carring and a leading power exercised about

bought heaven and earth too of exact Justice not for yeares or for lives but the fee simple for all eternity We receive as God gives God gives as Christ merits and mediates heaven comes out of Christs wounds to Us Heaven comes out of hell to fallen man Christs descension to hell makes our ascension to heaven we are partakers of glory by his shame and misery By his stripes we are healed c. By his hell we are heaven'd We inherit not hereditarily but made heires and so partake Our participation of glory is a made participation made out of merit merit is vast therefore is our participation so vast as heaven partakers of the inheritance Vse Is' t a time of losse 't is a time of reception equivalent God is more giving then taking away is not heaven more then you have lost upon earth heaven is communicable and yet you complaine what shall you do for house what shall you do for land for enough for you and yours all is gone What is heaven gon then all is gone indeed God shuts one hand that we may looke to the other which is open with greater and better things Mens eyes are not opened by the dealings of God men learne not instruction though God whips to teach that 's your undoing not what you have lost though never so much for heaven would make up that well enough God takes away in earthly things that we may consider and see wherein he is a greater giver do yee make this use of your losse a man loses much when he loseth a state on Earth and loseth with it a heart to looke after a state in Heaven when losses and crosses kil affection Heavenward all is gone indeed gone without hope of recovery Do not the stroaks of God make you looke to him Why then you will be smitten againe Jobs messengers shall come one after another and tell you of the losse of all to see if that will save all Divine rods are order'd to second one another till the soule be as high as it should be or as low as it must be as high as Heaven or as low as hell I would sinners did consider the scope of Gods dealings now and what is before them Heaven and hell is before you now you may be partakers of which you will Heaven is communicable hell is communicable one in one hand of God 'tother is in ' tother Which way any great mans veine lies you observe him Gods veine lies in giving of great things great mercy or great misery he gives no lesse then heaven or hell to every man he makes every man partake of one or ' tother Sinners as you love your soules consider this Wrath workes as love is abused Communicatio plena justice riseth high when high favors are sleighted All is communicable 't will breake the neck of all which make not use of this mans spirit must worke as Gods does when one is open to give 'tother must be to receive Bounty presupposes a ready receiver who is back-ward to take great things and yet who is not back-ward to goe to Heaven Heaven is wholly communicable and yet sinners are wholly carelesse of it Not a peny in Heaven but 't may be yours and yet what heapes of treasure are there Ah Lord what wealthy persons might sinners be and will not Onely their will keepes them poore Paul yours Apollo yours all yours all is communicable Heaven and Earth the Earth and the fulnesse of it so Heaven and the fulnesse of it not a roome not a walke in Heaven but 't is in common for all the inhabitants Not a dish but every ones hand is in it together many hands in a dish is all the feeding above Not a delightfull tune above but every ones heart is set to it not a beame in the Sun above but every ones eye is fixed upon 't not a floure in Christs bosome but all smell to it not a secret but revealed to all All that hath laine hid for this many thousand yeares almost from all here below there 't is knowne to all they above know as they are knowne such great mercy such full mercy rejected what great misery what full misery will it make Justice swells as sinners kick mercy such a heaven sleighted makes such a hell Hell 't is but Justice working suitable to the abuse of so much mercy as may be had in heaven and the soule would not Communicatio libera Heaven is freely communicable and yet sinners have no heart to it Heaven may be had for nothing neither for money nor money worth onely for making fit for it and this too wholly at anothers paines and cost and yet sinners have no heart to it Christ gives much but takes nothing mercy is all mercy mercy is all free as 't is layd out all in an inheritance and lies all round together above 't is all free Love in its utmost dimensions in its heights and depths as it passes knowledge as it makes a heaven yet it keepes its owne essentiall property 't is love and but love heaven is nothing else but a bed of love all delights free There is nothing in heaven bought nor payd for by us of all the costly things that are there There are Jewells about the inhabitants necks such as the World never saw and yet not one bought by the wearer and owner all given freely You have not seene such an inheritance for nothing as Heaven is There be things which cost infinite deare and yet done away for nothing A man may see that which eye never saw and heare that which Eare never heard for nothing God lays out much but looks for no returne his greatest favours goe for acceptation Participation of purchase is pay for purchase an m●n will but go to Heaven the place shall cost them nothing though fit for a Prince All Gods motion is free his blessed motion for a time free his blessed motion for eternity free As God makes Heaven he workes for nothing as he makes fit for Heaven he workes for nothing for his greatest layings out hee sets downe nothing at Heaven doore hee sets no bill what rent and fine though there be not such a house of state again in the World God keepes open house below and above too the best dainties and yet no reckoning brought in nothing to be paid no nothing expected There is no thought of heart what this dish might have yielded and what that precious odour might have been sold for Heaven goes freely free gratissimè gratum Heaven given and not a thought against it all the riches of a God layd downe at mans foot and all the heart of God too with it and all the panting above is O that all may not be trod upon Ah sinners what a damnation will this make to set one foote upon heaven and 'tother foot upon Gods heart To trample all his yea and all him too in the dirt heaven and his heart too to