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A44502	The reward of the wise: and the fruitful Christians future blessedness Opened at the late funeral of that piously wise and faithful, fruitful servant of God and our Lord Jesus, Mr. Thomas Moore of Whittlesey, interred at the church in Coleman-Street July 8. 1672. By John Horne of Lin-Regis in the County of Norfolk.	Horn, John, 1614-1676.	1672 (1672)	Wing H2807B; ESTC R217009	105,848	247

Lord call upon or proclaim his Name make known not yours but His deeds among the people Sing unto him Sing Psalms unto him Talk ye all of his wondrous works Glory ye in his holy name And again Sing unto the Lord all ye earth Shew forth from day to day his salvation Declare his glo●…y his Son the brightness of his glory among the Heathens his marvellous works among all Nations For great is the Lord and greatly ●…o be praised He also is to be feared above all Gods 1 Chron. 16.8 9 10 23 24 25. Psal 96.1 2 3. 105.1 2 3. And so it was fore-prophecyed One generation shall waise thy works to another and shall declare ●…hy mighty Acts. I will speak of the glorious ho●…our of thy Majesty and of thy wondrous works things or words they others ●…hall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness and shall sing of thy righteousness The Lord is gracious full of compassion slow ●…o anger and great of mercy The Lord is good 〈◊〉 all and his tender mercy over or upon all ●…is works Psal 145 4-10 And surely Christ ●…eing made to us of God wisdome righteous●…ess c. The way to make men wife and righteous is to turn them to him that they may be made in him which though it be the work of God yet it 's a work that he doth by his Law or Doctrine that goeth forth from Sion the preaching of the Gospel Acts 26.18 or confessing his name which He therefore hath made known unto men and put into their hearts that they might thereby be made instruments of converting others to him as he hath also chosen them to put his name upon them and to declare it that the residue of men might thereby be moved and have advantage to seek after God Acts 15.16 17. With Gods Law o●… Doctrine then which is perfect converting the soul such as know it and have fitness in any measure for it are to endeavour to convert others to God by Jesus Christ setting him forth to and before all and every man as they have opportunity and capacity as the only righteousness are salvation of God prepared for them a●… and every one Luke 2.30 31. Isa 49.6 Rom. 3.21 22. the righteousness of God 〈◊〉 or for all and upon all that believe An●… so declare his mighty works to that purpose t●… them which he hath done for all and ever one as the holy Apostle did who tells u●… He dyed for all and gave himself a ransom fo●… all and tasted death by the grace of God for ever very one so as through his one righteousness the free gift is to or for its all men to justification of life that he is the propitiation for our sins even for ours who have him our Advocate to make good our cause with God as He is and doth for all that believe on him but not ours only but also for the whole worlds 2 Cor. 4.44 15. 1 Tim. 2.6 Heb. 2.9 1 John 2.1 2. and this without such Ifs or corrupt additions as are the product of mens ignorance or unbelief of Gods Testimonie and dependance upon one anothers Wisdome seeking honor one of onother or loving the praise of men more than the praise that comes from God only viz. those glosses and additions of all the Elect every one of the believers and the world of the Elect c. Whereas the Scriptures every where distinguish the Elect from the world and do not call them by the name of the world Alas how should men be turned unto righteousness unless they see that there is a perfect righteousness that is worthy to be turned to made ready for them and to be turned to by them a righteousness wherein and wherewith they may be righteous or which comes to the same how shall men be made righteous if not made in Christ or brought in to believe on and submit to him there being no other way to righteousness for them that that is of or after the Law as attained to or attainable by sinful fallen man being rejected of God! And how shall men be made in Christ if they see no excellency and preciousness in him and preparation of him for them if they be borne in hand that God sent him but for here and there one they know not who and they must infallibly be brought in yea they cannot hinder themselves of it and if not so they must perish notwithstanding all endeavours after salvation who that hath and useth the exercise of his reason will look after him upon such motives as that Doctrine contains and not rather take his course till he cannnt choose but come into him as thinking otherwise or till then all his labor will be needless in vain And what abouts are men fain to go courses take they to bring men to righteousness through their not knowing or believing Christ to be the Saviour of the world the Saviour of all men and especially of them that believe while they put them upon the Law and legal humblings and works and opperations preceding the knowledge of Christ and the good foundation laid in him to be as evidences or grounds of conceiving and believing that they are of the Elect for whom only they imagine and say that Christ died and oh what wretched mistakes are those men guilty of and how destitute are they of the truth that durst call the very manifest expressions of the Holy Apostles Errours and Blasphemies But Gods way of holding forth light to men to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Sathan to God ●…s to preach Gospel to them to let them know that they being all Sinners against God and lyable to his wrath ungodly and enemies He in the greatness of his mercy to keep them from perdition sent his own and only begotten Son into the world to be their Saviour and that he might be so He delivered him up to Death for their offences that were upon them and raised him again for their justification and hath exalted and glorified him and filled him with all His fulness that they inlistening to and obeying him might be saved and made happy by him To such purpose is that Word of reconciliation put into the Apostles or committed to them 2 Cor. 5.18 19-21 That God was in Christ reconciing the world to himself not imputing their trespasses to them but made him that knew no sin to be sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him wherewith agrees the Doctrine preached by our Saviour to Nicodemus to regenerate him viz. That as Moses lifted up the Serpent in the Wilderness so must the Son of man be lifted up that whosoever believeth on Him might not perish but have eternal life For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on him might not perish but have everlasting life For God sent not his Son into

a teacher of babes which has the form of knowledge and of the truth in the Law Thou therefore that teachest another teachest thou not thy self thou that preachest a man should not steal dost thou steal thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery dost thou commit adultery thou that abhorrest Idols dost thou commit Sacriledge thou that makest thy boast of the Law through breaking the Law dishonorest thou Gods for the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you as it is written Let us take heed we be not such lights or such vain boasters and talkers of light and truth and of the Gospel of Christ but yeild we up our selves to the grace of God and its teachings and walk we in the spirit in all goodness righteousness and truth and so let us endeavour where God hath given any furniture and fitness for it according to what God hath given us to seek and promote the good of others With both these forementioned particulars adding and joyning earnest and faithful and fervent prayers and supplications to God that He would be merciful to us and bless us and make his face ●…o shine upon us that so his way may be known upon earth and his saving health among all Nations c. Psal 67.1 2. as knowing that all our success in all our work and service for him and endeavours with men depends upon his grace and blessing without which they that labour to build the house of God convert souls to Righteousness will be ●…ut labor in vain Ps 127.1 Thus we find Christ ●…ur Lord rising early and going apart to pray ●…o God before he went to teach the people Mark 1.35 38. and so let us endeavour to ●…o make others wise and to turn many to ●…ighteousness considering also that it is ●…ere farther implyed and that this may serve Vse 4. 2. To inform us That this the ●…nd of Gods giving the knowledge of himself and grace in Christ to us with any gifts more or less for usefulness that we should live to him therein and seek his honor glory and interest in endeavouring the good of others not living to our selves or minding our own thing only no not only the good of our own souls much less inferior worldly advantages but that we should look upon others and seek their good also No saying to our brethren as Cain to Abel●… Am I my Brothers keeper but letting the sam●… mind be in us that was in Christ Jesus wh●… being in the form of God and thinking it no robbery to be equal with him yet so looked up on our needs and miseries as to abase and empty himself and take upon himself the form of a servant and the fashion of a man yea and therein also to humble himself and become o●… bedient to the death the death of the Cros●… that he might ransome and redeem us from the death and judgment that was upon us and become our Saviour that He might lif●… the poor out of the dust and take the needy from the dunghil and set them upon the Throne with Princes even the Princes of his people Phil. 2.5 6 7 8. Psal 113.6 7 8. especially those that are stronger and more gifted And mo●● especially yet if also called to Office and Ministry among others ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and look after that tha●… is lost not pleasing themselves but every one seek his Neighbours good and how to please him for his edification and salvation seeking first the Kingdom of God and his Righteousness both that they may be more and more subject to his Kingdom and Government and filled with the fruits and benefits of it and to that purpose with his righteousness without which there is no inheriting his his Kingdom As also to promote his Kingdom enlarge his Church bring in more souls and souls more and more into it And to that purpose shew forth and seek the manifestations and discoveries of his righteousness both in word and conversation as is before noted Not first to seek our selves no not necessaries for our life food and raiment much less great matters in this world honors and preferments riches pleasures and the like Rom. 15.1 2 3. Mat. 6.22.23 Luke 12.30 31 32. Yea they that have but one Talent we may see it 's Gods mind and Christs that they trade for him with it in seeking to bring an increase to him that 's evidently declared to be his mind in the judgment awarded upon him that neglected to improve his one Talent And that it is pleasing to God that we endeavour the good of others and their salvation with our own is in this also plainly made manifest in that they that instruct and make wise others and turn many to righteousness shall receive such honor at the hands of God as to shine as the brightness of the firmament and as the stars for ever and ever Yea this also may serve Vse 5.3 To inform us what is the right use and improvement that we should make of those advantages and means of grace that God affords us in sending wise men and prophets and holy men among us who instruct us and hold forth the light of the knowledge of God and of his ways among us in word or conversation or both As also when his grace therein is received effectually to purpose and not in vain by us Viz. That that is the end of God in such vouchsafements to us and the use and improvement which we are to make thereof that we be made wise and righteous thereby And so far is the grace of God received to purpose by us as it hath that effect in us and we become thereby wise and righteous are turned from our iniquities and brought into and made partakers of the divine nature and virtues of Christ Jesus Therefore we are not to rest content that we have Gods servants words and ordinances with and among us or that we get by them some light into our understandings so far as to fill us with notions of truth and to make us able to talk and make profession of it There is great difference between such a knowing as may but puff us up and make us proud and true wisdome and righteousness the more we have of opportunities and means of knowledg yea and the more knowledg we get thereby of what is good and true and what is Gods will concerning us and the more profession we make thereof the more or greater fools are we if we be not brought into subjection to Christ and his gracious government thereby and if we be not made just and righteous therethrough Yea the more unrighteous are we towards God and men and our own souls if having more of such means and knowledg we are not yet therethrough brought into subjection and obedience to Christ so as to love Him above all and denying our selves with all ungodliness and worldly lusts to ●…ive soberly righteously and godly and ●…o