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A63826	A good day vvell improved, or Five sermons upon Acts 9. 31 Two of which were preached at Pauls, and ordered to be printed. To which is annexed a sermon on 2 Tim. 1. 13. Preached at St. Maries in Cambridge, on the Commencement Sabbath, June 30. 1650. By Anthony Tuckney D.D. and Master of St Johns College in Cambridge.	Tuckney, Anthony, 1599-1670.	1656 (1656)	Wing T3216A; ESTC R222406	116,693	318

A GOOD DAY VVell Improved OR FIVE SERMONS Upon Acts 9. 31. Two of which were Preached at Pauls and Ordered to be Printed To which is annexed a Sermon on 2 Tim. 1. 13. Preached at St. Maries in Cambridge on the Commencement Sabbath June 30. 1650. By ANTHONY TUCKNEY D. D. and Master of St Johns College in Cambridge The land had rest and he had no war in those years because the Lord had given him rest Therefore he said unto Judah Let us build c. So they built and prospered 2 Chron. 14. 6 7. LONDON Printed by J. F. for I. Rothwell 1656. To the Right Honorable Sr CHRISTOPHER PACK Knight Lord Major together with the Honourable Court of Aldermen of the Famous City of LONDON Ever Honored THe ordinary excuse which many usually make for publishing their Writings by laying the fault upon the importunity of friends is grown so threed-bare that it is now almost past wearing and yet such is my poverty that I have nothing else wherewith to cover my nakedness in the putting forth of this poor piece now presented to you It containes a few Sermons all first preached in the Universitie but two of them afterwards at Pauls before You and the rest of that Honorable Audience which by the Order of your Court sent to me I was desired to Print how unwillingly I best know who should best know my own weaknesse and what course I took to avoid it My Lord you can very wel witness But seeing by your Honours Command they must come forth be pleased to understand that He who hath Naomies field must Ruth 4. 5. have Ruth also Those two which you are pleased to call for had their Fellows which they cannot part with And therefore as when Gehazi asked one talent of Naaman he bad him 1 King 5. 22 23. be content and take two So when you ask but for two I am more liberall and desire you to be content to take five or six not to patronize the Truth in them that is Gods which He will own and maintain but to expresse the sense of those obligations which your Honour hath by many favours laid upon me which have forcibly drawn me to this from which otherwise I had a very great aversation and if by the blessing of God hereby any further service may be done to him or his Church it will be the rejoicing of Your servant in the Work of the Gospel ANTHONY TUCKNEY Cambridge Oct. 10. 1655. A GOOD DAY WELL IMPROVED Act. 9. 31. Then had the Churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria and were edified and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the holy Ghost were multiplied IT is accounted to be a bad 1. Sermon preached in Pauls July 16. 1654. sign if the sick man grow more sick after sleep but if better there are then some hopes of his recovery So here The Churches of Christ as to outward respects had been brought to a very low weak and sick condition by that Calenture or fiery tryall which had dispatch'd Steven Chap. 7. and afterward brake out and spread further to the persecution and scattering of the whole Church at Jerusalem Chap. 8. 1. And Saul still breathing out threatnings and slaughter did blow the coal to carry the flame as far as Damascus in the beginning of this Chapter but his Spirit was happily cooled in the sequele of it and with it the heat of that persecution and now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the like are called Chap. 3. 19. cooling refreshing times came from the presence of the Lord and so we finde the heat of the fever abated and the sick spouse fallen to her rest Then had the Churches rest and then if He sleep the Disciples concluded he would do well especially if upon it all proved better John 11. 12. as here it did for when they had rest they were edified and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the holy Ghost were multiplied And so in the Text we may observe these three particulars 1. The formerly afflicted and wearied Churches rest Then had the Churches rest c. 2. This crowned with two most happy Concomitants or consequents They were edified they were multiplied 3 Both these set out by two as happy means and causes of them viz. Their walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the holy Ghost Blessed flocks of Christs sheep that thus come up Cant. 4. 2. from the washing in the waters of affliction None barren whilest they are thus multiplied and all bearing twins in these two lovely pares walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the holy Ghost and so were both edified and multiplied And happy we if we could go in the footsteps of those flocks that Cant. 1. 8. seeing God in mercy hath begun to give us as he did them rest or as the word is Peace this peace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may not make us proud and petulant but that with them we may now more then ever walk in Gods fear and that fear not dis-spirit us but may be sweetned and animated with the comforts of the holy Spirit that so in stead of those many ruines and pullings down in our former blusters now in this fair weather we may begin to think of building up and edifying our selves and others in faith and love and whereas in our former wars men have been minished and sins and factions and furies have swarmed the true Churches of Christ and true Saints in those Churches and true Graces in those Saints may be now increased and multiplied This indeed would be even an heaven upon earth a new Rev. 21. 2. Jerusalem the vision of peace coming down from heaven A blessed remembrance of what was in those best and primitive Churches in the beginning of the Gospel and a more happy first fruits and pledge of what is now hastning on in the most glorious Churches in the end of it yea of what shall never be ended but perfected in glory I begin with the first blessing in those first words Then had the Churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria which need not much explication Then or therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Calvin Beza Piscato● Tyndal Numero plurativo quòd tum c. Erasm The Churches which some read Congregations in the plural number the Church in the first verse of this Chap. which was at Jerusalem upon the dispersion there mentioned became Churches one multiplying into many Had rest the Greek is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Grotius in locum de jure belli c. lib. 1● cap. 2. Peace for so they called the rest they then had from persecution as the Psalmist phraseth it rest from the dayes of adversity Psal 94. 13. Throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria That is throughout the whole compasse of Israels inheritance and

But mean while in those sad commotions and concussions the State came to have as little Rest as the Church when Country was destroyed of Country and City of City and one Neighbour of another so that there was no peace to him that went out or came in 1 Chron. 15. 5 6. but great vexation was upon all the inhabitants of the land Which also proved a catching fire and spread abroad and was blown over to other lands with such an heat as all the waters in the Seas between us could not quench but they were all on a flame so that we were encompassed not only as before by God and Nature we were with a wall of water but of fire too and this not as in the Scripture promise for our defence but Zech. 2. 5. threatning our ruine I need not tell you of the vastness of the expence of it to a Nation so much exhausted by former wars nor of the stoppage and loss of Trade which should have helped to have born that expence nor of those many other dangers and mischiefs which would have accompanied and followed the continuance of those wars so unnaturall as against our own bowels and so unchristian whilest with Brethren of the same Religion it was little rest which we then had and should in that way have had less But the God of peace hath in mercy at last quenched those flames and so calmed those storms that what was said of Asa's times is in some measure applicable to ours the land had rest and he had no war in those years because the Lord had given him rest 2 Chron. 14. 6. Which we are all with humble thankfulness to take notice of as His gift for it is He that maketh wars to cease He breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear asunder and He burneth the Charrets in the fire as the Psalmist speaketh Psal 49. 9. And therefore calleth upon enemies v. 10. and saith Vacate videte Be still and know that I am God as before he had done on his own people Come and behold the works of the Lord v. 8. it is his work and his mercy and therefore calles upon us for our duty which is 1. To eye and own and acknowledge God in all Vacate videte now that he hath in any measure given us rest that we may be vacant for God at leisure to consider of his doings and to see that in the still calme Sun-shine day which we could not so well discern through the storm and tempest For otherwise we shall be ready to be as Calvin noteth on that Psalm ignavi maligni in consider and is ejus operibus Either stupid carelesse and senslesse to take notice of any thing of God or perverse or malignant in making a false construction of all that what weaknesse folly and injustice of men which we have discovered in the late troubles we shall impute to God in which an humble and wary eye of Faith will plainly see divine power wisdome and righteousnesse And on the other side we shal be prone to ascribe this begun peace either to blinde Fortune or to the wisdom and policy of quick-sighted men which hath been spyed out for us by a more gracious all-seeing eye of God But a watchfull Christian will have a more wakeing eye than when God hath given him rest then to close it but will look up to heaven and say Deus nobis haec otia 2. And this with all thankfulness This Tertullus thought was little Acts 24. 2. enough for Felix because that by him they injoyed great quietnesse and that very worthy deeds were done to their Nation by his providence and how doth he flourish in his complement 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we accept it alwayes and in all places most noble Felix how doth he flaunt it with his universals and superlatives with Felix who at most was but an inferior instrument of all that good to them if it had been true that he ascribes to him for Historians write the Josephus Antiqu lib. 20. cap. 6. quite contrary and his trembling whilest Paul reasoned of righteousnesse C. Tacitus Annal. 12. Ant. Felix per omnem saevitiam ac libidinem jus regium servili ingenio exercuit and temperance and judgement v. 25. plainly argueth that he was in his own conscience very guilty It was therefore most likely the Orators fawning flattery which gave him the thanks and praise of what he never deserved But without such fained glozing with what humble zeal and affectionate thankfulnesse should we receive from the hand of God who ever have been the instruments this so universall and superlative a mercy that for the present we injoy so great a quietnesse and that by his Providence all these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such most worthy deeds and atchievements never to be forgotten but to be had in everlasting remembrance have been and to this day are done to this Nation A mercy 1. So great 2. Vouchsafed to a Nation so unworthy 1. How great the mercy is you may the better conceive if you will but think what a quiet harbour is in comparison of a troubled sea a calm after a storm to the mariner at sea and a quiet Psal 107. 29 30. Job 7. 2. Isa 32. 2. repose and rest in the cool shade to a tyred labourer or a sweltred travellour in a weary land which whosoever is carelesly senslesse of deserves with murmuring Israel to be brought back from Kadesh to the Red Sea again from a Canaans rest to be again ingulfed in a Red sea of warre and blood that so as God saith of 2 Chron. 12. 8. Israel they might know his service and the service of the kingdomes of the countries So if we know not the benefit and blessing of peace by our injoyment of it Judg. 8. 16. as Gideon taught the men of Succoth with the thorns and bryars of the wildernesse we may be made to know it by its contrary what health is by sicknesse and what the mercy and blessing of peace is by the misery of a continued or renewed warre What that may be we might by this time have learned by what in part for our shares we have felt too much and yet blessed be God that it hath been no more we as well as others have found it a Colluvies of all evill both of sin and misery 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if they call it the father of all you may wel ad mischief to make up the ense the Mat. 24. 15. with Luke 21. 20. very abomination of desolation abominable for the outrages committed in it and making desolate in the sad and woful effects of it And therefore by so much the greater is this our blessing of peace in that if we would let it it will bring all the contrary good with it the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Text which importeth an uniting and knitting together and so the Apostle calleth it

exercises and so it may be with the latter days of particular Churches or Christians for outward matters the last of their way may prove the foulest and deepest yea in which some of them have met with greatest exercises of the inward man as well as the outward much variety herein is in Gods severall dispensations with his p●rticular servants but in the generall we may conclude That it is in the grave where the weary Isa 57. 2. are for altogether at rest Job 3. 17. and in Heaven only which was typed out by Canaans rest that a perfect and everlasting Sabbatisme or rest remaineth for the people of God Heb. 4. 9. Ruth Ruth 1. 9. was to find rest in her husbands house and so must the spouse of Christ onely in her husbands and that 's heaven where onely it is that we shall never be troubled more The world to come is the world say the Rabbines where all is well There then the Churches once for all shall have rest and therefore take we not up our rest till we get thither and meanwhile in this our distance and absence let this be the frequently reiterated wish and voice of every one of our Souls Vtinam domi essem as it is in the proverb although through Gods mercy sometimes here I may not be very ill at ease yet I would that I were at home though I am sure I shall there be perfectly well in mine everlasting rest here sometimes wee See Z ' ne by in loucium may be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. 2. 28. less sorrowfull then at some other times we are but never altogether 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wholly without all touch of grief and disquiet and therefore to that man who takes up his rest on earth me thinks Drexelius propounds a very fit question An coelum desperasti Ho●olog p●●t t. 2. in Epilogo vain man but dost thou wholly despair of heaven that thou takest up thy statiō here on earth for shame up and be stirring look and walk pant and breath after heaven what ever outward rest God sendeth thee let it only refresh and inable thee to unwearied restless motions towards thy best home where thou mayest rest in thy dearest Fathers and Husbands warm bosoms never more to be disturbed or disquieted Long for heaven that is the first And be looking long after some Vse 2 better days of peace and rest which God hath promised his Church even in this world yet expected but not as yet come It is true that after the ceasing of the primitive persecutions the Churches of Christ under Constantine and other Christian Emperors enjoyed many joyfull Sabbaths of rest but yet they have not been without their soar working days Pope and Turk and other enemies have proved such cruel Talkmasters that the Church hath too sad occasion to take up again the old Lamentation Our necks are under persecution Lam. 5. 5. we labour and have no rest and that other Woe is me Jer. 4. 31. now for my soul is wearied because of murderers But yet after all this God promiseth a time when his people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation and in quiet resting places Isa 32. 17 18. when the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of Finch in locum righteousness quietness and assurance for ever And after that both the Beast and false Prophet and Gog and Revel 19. 20. 20. 9 10. Magog and together with them the Devil that deceived them shall be cast into the lake of fire we read of a new heaven and a Revel 22. 1 2. 4. new earth and of a new Jerusalem a vision of peace that shall come down from God out of Heaven and therefore is to be on earth when God shall wipe away all teares from his peoples eyes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 out of their Brightman very eyes so to dry up the spring that as there shall be no outward occasion so no inward ability of weeping and there shall be no death neither sorrow nor crying nor any more pain all such former things being passed away This indeed the Scripture Dan. 12. 1 2. seemeth to express may be ushered in with greatest troubles as usually greatest births of Gods bounty are wont to be and should those happier times as some are ready to think be now nearer and faster coming on our present days and tempers or distempers are such as may make a very sad preface to so happy a work but yet this dark stormy night shall not hinder Sun-rise and that clear morning and bright day in which the Churches shall injoy more rest then hitherto they have attained But what I have thus said I desire may not be so understood and interpreted as though 1. Either I hereby intend with many now adays to cry up a fifth Monarchy to introduce confusion and Anarchy for even in those happy days the Prophet speaks of Kings that shall be nursing Fathers and of Queens as nursing Mothers to the Church of God Isa 49. 23. 2. Or that I either think or wish that what David saith of Dan. 7. 22. the Saints possessing the kingdome should be the lot of many such as in our days have monopolized the Title of Saints which is made of late a term of Art and a very juggle and assumed by Quakers Ranters Adamites and other most abominable Sectaries Saints per Antiphrasin As the unnaturall Sodomites in the old Testament are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which word signifieth Saints or holy ones they were Saint Sodomites and ours are Saint Ranters which hath made the very name of a Saint and much more the persons of those that are truely such to profane Souls odious Should such Saints as these are once have the rule it is to be feared the Churches would have little of this rest which the Text speaketh of However their frenzies should not prejudice the truth of God w th sober-spirited Christians who upon their best thoughts shall in the Scripture especially in the Prophets finde many promises of such peaceable days not as yet fully accomplished which therefore it is our duty to look and pray and prepare for as the sweet close of the Churches troubles in this world and a most joyfull both pledge and praeludium of the Saints everlasting rest in heaven Mean while in the last place Vse 3 let it minde us of this Nation both of Gods mercy and our duty in reference to his present dispensations Some years since it was but little rest and peace which the Churches and servants of Christ among us had either of conscience or outward man through some mens restlesness That quarrell of Gods Covenant when those Disturbers sat still and were at Zech. 1. 11. rest he undertook in the late wars that he might at the last as the prophet speaketh give rest Jer. 50. 34. to the land and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon