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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

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

ever therefore we would according to the square of the word edify the Church we must take care to build up our selves in our most holy faith as Iude exhorteth us v. 20. that by faith coming to Christ the living stone we also as lively stones may be built up a Spiritual house an holy Priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Iesus Christ 1 Pet. 2. 4 5. Otherwise we may gather Churches as many now do and build material Churches as in and after Constantines time both He and many others did and yet for all this the Church of God may be but a very little edified They do very ill who cry down all Formes although of Gods own making and institution and they do little better who make them indeed but bare Formes like painted Churches in a Lantskip So the Iewes of old made a charme of the Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord Ier. 7. 4. as before they made the Ark of God a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a bug-bear to fright enemies which they themselves so long played with that at last both They and It were carried away captive 1 Sam. 4. 3 4 5. It is not the crying up Holy Church with Papists or Reformed Churches in the most refined Formes of them with Protestants these rested in are but Names and Notions Names indeed of God by which in our walking answerable to them he is known but horribly taken in vain whilest rested in and will do us no more good then Gehezies laying the staff on the dead 2 King 4. 31. 1 King 1. 1. child could bring life into it or Davids cloathes warmth to his spent body nay we shall prove worse by them as they say the Cypress tree the more it 's watred the more barren it groweth worst men have often been found under best Ordinances So in Penuel which signifieth the face and presence of God we meet with scornfull Neuters Iudg. 8. 8. and in Bethel the house of God with scoffing Idolaters 2 King 2. 23. Bethel proveth Beth-aven Hos 10. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Circumcision the Concision Philip. 3. 2. and the nearer we are to the Church the further from God and nearer to a curse and our end is to be burnt when after all shoures and Sunshines we bring forth onely bryars and thornes Heb. 6. 7. 8. The Church is indeed then built when the members of it are truely and savingly edified and are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Pet. 2. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as lively or living stones which do not onely lye in the wall but grow in the building When inward grace thrives according to outward meanes and when our communication and whole conversation is good to the use of edifying as the Apostle speaketh Eph. 4. 29. When a good life is built upon good Doctrine then is the Church indeed edified But so as in the last place that we labour to do as much for others as that last mentioned place intimateth That we edifie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one another Singuli singulos 1 Thes 5. 11. and this mutually 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 14. 19. that by our miscarriages we do not edifie them in sin for such 1 Cor. 8. 10 a kinde of untoward edifying the Scripture somewhere speaks of but by pious admonitions and holy examples and all other good meanes we endevour to bring men to Christ the foundation and that then they may be settled upon him and grow up in him and this also is held out unto us in that former expression of living stones which do not onely live and grow our selves but are also lively and active to draw on others to the building such a care the Apostles had of any where they found any hopes or beginnings and therefore as soon as ever they heard that Samaria had received the word of God they presently sent unto them Peter and John further to bring them on and build them up Acts 8. 14 15. which is excellently set down in that place of the Canticles where Chap. 8. 9. we see what tender care the elder Churches had of their little sister in this holy Oecodomy If she were a wall they would build upon her a palace of silver If a door they would inclose her with boards of cedar If a door that See Merce in locum had opened to Christ their inclosing her with boards or barres of Cedar which never rotteth expresseth what care they had in confirming and strengthning her If a wall i. e. more confirmed and settled their building upon her a palace of silver holds forth their further endevour for her continued growth ornament and perfection and these two take up what before I said was generally contained in this duty of edification and in particular 1. When Christ as the foundation is first laid 2. His Ordinances are set up and setled according to his Word 3. We in the injoyment of them established and grow in grace our selves 4. And are means and instruments busily imployed for the effecting of the like in others then in the sense of the Text and other Scriptures the Church is edified Which should the more earnestly be desired and endevoured by us 1. As knowing the time as the Apostle speaketh Rom. 13. 11. Motive 1. for it is a duty very much incumbent on us in these last Ages to be indevoured because it is on Gods part a mercy frequently promised to these latter dayes If you look into the severall books of the Isa 58. 12. 61. 4. Ier. 31. 4 Ezech. 36. 36. Prophets in the end of many if not of most of them you shall finde many gracious and glorious promises made of the then building of the Church In this respect it is the work of the day and therefore I hope we will not stand all the day idle but that it may be our happinesse that these Prophesies and promises may be most happily fulfilled not onely upon us but also by us whilest we thus diligently act for their accomplishments But in two other respects it is the work of this our day in England according to the two readings of the Text which I before mentioned Either they then had rest and thereupon were edified Or they were edified and thereupon had rest and accordingly we have two strong arguments yet further to presse this duty We have already through Gods mercy some rest and therefore there is all reason that we should now be edified according to the first reading And again we have need to be edified that so we may have our rest confirmed and our begun peace continued according to the second reading We have with them attained Motive 2 to some rest and therefore in point of ingenuous gratitude and that we may answer Gods gracious providence we are now in so fit a season to endevour that we may be edified For

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

possession these three as Geographers tell Mr. Moore alii us making up that whole Countrey Hence the Doctrinall observation is That after the persecutions and Doct. wearisome troubles of the Church God hath his times for their peace and rest It is Chrysostomes observation upon the Text. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Post nubila Phoebus Sunshine after showers a calme after a storme and a Canaans rest after a tedious wandring in the wildernesse So we read that after Moses his tiresome conduct Israel at last came to their rest Deut. 12. 13. and after his successor Joshuahs many conflicts it 's added that the land had rest from war Josh 14. ●5 But this with some difference both of the foregoing trouble and following rest For the foregoing trouble 1. Sometimes it 's but short before rest cometh but a short cold blast and then a long fair summers day Anger but for a moment nay sometimes but for a very little moment Isa 54. 7. and weeping but for a night and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that no long winter night neither and joy cometh in the morning Ps 30. 5. like Julian a black pitchy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cloud but soon blown over Or like a Summers shower great and violent for the present but fair weather again presently 2 But sometimes it 's a long Winter storme and yet at last a calme in the close Health after an Hectick Israel cometh at last out of Egypt but it was not till they had continued two hundred and fifteen years in that iron furnace and Judah afterward returneth home from Babylon but after seventy years captivity when those long since dead and now dry Ezek. 37 2. 3. bones lived again of which some expound that in Cant. 2. 11 12 13. The winter is past the rain is over and gone the flowers appear on the earth and the time of the singing of birds is come And after the tedious winter of our former too long war such a Spring both in a naturall and politick sense God hath pleased to send us this year for which we are to be humbly and heartily thankfull For the following Rest 1. After longer or shorter foregoing troubles sometimes it is more firm and lasting as a setled consistency of health after a former sickness after the 215. years bondage in Egypt were above 900 years before Jerusalem was destroyed and for after times when God in a little wrath had hid his face from them for a moment he promiseth with ever lasting loving kindness to have mercy on them Isa 54. 8. And after 300. years of the Primitive Churches hottest persecutions at last the man child Constantine was born who setled Reyel 12. 5. the Church upon firm foundations of peace which might have continued unshaken much longer then they did if their sins had not undermined them 2. But sometimes this restored peace rest of the Church looketh liker a Truce then a Peace Some short lucida intervalla as the Sun in a rainy day looking out now and then a little but then presently again overclouded as Solomon saith clouds returning Eccles 12. 8. after rain or like an aguish mans well-day after a former ill-day which an after and it may be worse fit treadeth on the heel of Thus up and down in the dayes of Israels Judges and Judahs Kings so that these short abatements or recoveries are but short breathing times onely to recruit in against 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aeschyl 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tertul. Apolog. Eusebii Chronic. another bout but refreshing bates by the way presently after which we are it may be to set upon the worst part of our journey both for weather and way yet behinde Such was this rest or peace of the Church here in the Text as Calvin observeth for although Tiberius his better thoughts of Christ for that time might a little cool the rage of enemies against Christians to which Corn. à lapide I cannot say how fitly reserreth this rest and quiet of the Church yet it was not long before this fire brake out more fiercely in Nero's first generall persecution and before that Paul who had with the first blown up this fire being now converted is himself together with the rest of of the Church sufficiently scorched with it in Judea before he was sent bound to Rome So that these Halcyon dayes lasted not long before a storme came But this premised however whether either the foregoing trouble or following rest be long or short both which God in wisdom and faithfulnesse so ordereth as shall be for his own glory and peoples good yet it is his mercy and indulgence that in his own time and way he is pleased to give some respit and an issue 1 Cor. 10. 13. with the temptation that we may be able to bear it that we have not right out in this respect an hell upon earth That as naturally we are evil and onely evill and that continually Gen. 6. 5. so we are not answerably miserable that we are not onely miserable and that continually It 's best that with the Church it will be best at last that notwithstanding all the troubles of this life the last article of the Christian Creed is life everlasting That 's best but this is well that in this life our Sun doth not set in a cloud but that Lamech at last begets a Noah of whom he can say This same shall comfort us concerning the work Gen. 5. 28 29. and toyle of our hands as it may do us that although it be very ill with us for the present yet it shall not be so for ever in another world no nor it may be so alwayes in this world After wearisome troubles and persecutions God hath his times for his peoples rest and peace Then or therefore had the Churches rest But you will ask When and Quest wherefore is it that God pleaseth it should so be In answer to which Queree I Answer shall onely touch upon such particulars as the instance in the Text will afford me And first for the first question 1. When. When. 1. Then it was say some when Tiberius grew more favourable to Christ and so still when Princes prove friends enemies will not prove enemies as when Mordecai was advanced Esth 8. 17 or their enmity will not prove hurtfull though they do as when Ezra and Nehemiah were in place of government If they who are called the Shields of the earth will Psal 47. 9 protect the Church the Archers either dare not shoot or cannot hurt when Constantine that man-childe Rev. 12. 5. 5. before mentioned was born and caught up to the throne of God although the Dragon casts out floods to drown all the earth will help the woman when kings and Queens prove nursing Fathers and nursing mothers of the Church the Rev. 12. 16. Isa 49. 23. happy Nursing then takes its rest and sleeps sweetly in such strong arms and