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A86456	A Christian looking-glasse or, A glimps of Christs unchangably everlasting love. Discovered in several sermons, in the parish-church of Sutton-Valence. Kanc. By Hezekiah Holland anglo-hibernus, minister of the gospel at Sutton de Valentiâ.	Holland, Hezekiah, fl. 1638-1661.	1649 (1649)	Wing H2425; Thomason E1376_2; ESTC R209245	59,021	132

〈…〉 carry his crosse quire along Simon Cirenaeus helped Compare the Gospels greater love then this has no man that one should lay down his life for his friends so calle in respect of election and Christs deat foreseen and consequently reconciliation nature at his death put on mourning apparel the earth trembled to bear a dying Saviour the rocks rent because mans heart was so hard and a stranger to Israel cryed out seeing such an Eclips Vel Deus naturae patitur vel hic mundus dissolvitur So much Christ by dying has done for his that no Latine word can expresse his salvation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 uno vocabulo Latino non potest exprimi sayes Tully fere his verbis Servator comes short of it Christ may be said to be Servator daemonum as preserving them from relapsing to nothing Salvator doth not expresse it he was Salvator angelorum keeping them safe from fall but restored man to all lost priviledges and farre better foelix lapsus qui talem meruit Servatorem Some would have the Greek rendred by Sospitator sospitantur enim ea quaefuerunt perdita Laurent in 2 Pet 1.1 Servantur vero salvantur ea quaenon fuerunt perdi●a But Antigonus for liberty restored to the Lacedemonians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Were we lost in Adam and are we not found 〈◊〉 Christ we were sons by creation ●o are the wicked even Dives heires we were of an earthly Paradise not comparable in any thing to Heaven we had life should have never died mors à morsu But by Christ we are sons of God adopted more are we beholding for being restored to immunities once lost then the Angels that were only preserved from fall magis gratis datur says Aqui. Christ left the 99 good Angels to seek man that was lost as well as the 99. Proud Pharisees who seem and think to need no Saviour but some temporal deliverer no repentance by Christ we are heirs of that Paradise of which Adam's but a Type and have eternal life through death Adam though great Clerks are against it should never have died not been happy and glorious but through sin and Christ yet with the phites we worship not the Serpent but God who brought good out of evill Question Why then was heaven made before the fall Solu Because God foresaw it Should all men have lived on earth for ever and still begat children the world could not have contained them which God foreknew let Christ be only our Saviour let us have neither other saviours intercessours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Pope has he saies the over-plus of other Saints good works to dispose of thus the Saints in that opiniō so derogatory from Christ save themselves and others but remember the good Angels and Saints have as wise Virgins Mat. 25. little oyle enough for themselves God can charge his Angels Saints with folly The Virgin Mary had sin as Scotus proved for she rejoyced in a Saviour the Apostles were bid to say forgive us our trespasses and those that will not God forgive them now where sin is there no merits are saies judicious Calvin Peter sinned after Christ prayed for him thus the Pope his successor not only in denying his Lord and Master but continually the Apostle Paul speaking of sinners affirms himself cheif 1 Tim. 1.15 and advises the Saints instead of censuring others and preferring themselves to think better or esteeme other better then themselvs 2 Phil. ver 3. Corne the richer in the eare the more it hangs the head the more a man is in Christ the more sensible he is of his natural misery and the more humble pray only to Christ we have one only Mediator 1 Tim. 2.5 and know and acknowledge no other Intercessor unlesse prayers of Saints on earth so understand Job 5. for I am perswaded for particulars Abraham knowes us not and Israel is ignorant of us I say 63.16 and know not our particular wants but thou O Lord art our Redeemer give not his glory to another God is a jealous God Christ saves wo to them that imitate the Devil in striving to destroy and to make men sin if such out of love mercy and Christs example will not forbeare yet let me desire them to be as charitable to themselves and others as Dives I have five brethren to omit that explanation of Moses 5 Books send to them lest they come to this place of torment saies he what charity in hel Aquinas tels us there be no good thoghts there for they were to no purpose but whether a parable or no thus much gather Dives knew his bad example and life had made his brethren sin and therefore concluded he should have the greater damnation to prevent which he would have them by Lazarus admonished Go and do likewise Nothing but blood could redeem I doubt me Zipporah spake more out of passion then faith when she said thou art an husband of blood to Moses Exod. 4.25 yet it may thus be rendred thou art a husband to me preserved by blood The Creation to this was an easie work dictum factum the first but the second cost Christs hearts blood Christ was mastred and over●ome by sinful men he wrastled with Jacob and was overcome to prelude to his passion being then as man prevailed over consider his willingnesse I lay down my life yet the occasion ours nihil iste nec potuit mea fraus consider the deformity of sin how did Christ look appearing cloathed with sin deformity of mankind before divine justice God even absents himself from him scarce acknowledging him it was his love to lie in a grave to sweeten it to his people two dayes part of the third the Sabbath was a Type of it together with resting from sin and eternall rest now 't is the Lords day in memorial of his glorious * On the Lords day our first day of the week five things we read done only as the work of the day 1. Being in the spirit or spiritual meditations 2. Preaching ex 20. Actorum Adde in the third place prayer 4 Breaking Bread or Sacraments 5. Distribution to the Saints the Apostle ordained or commanded thus the Church of Gal●●ia Dr. Prideaux To worship being the Moral part of the command is kept Resurrection and Ascension let no man therefore judge you in respect of holy dayes the Iewish especially or the new Moon or the Sabbath being shadows Colos 2.16.17 consider his love unto man in giving him his reward out of mercy not merit As soon as dead thou shalt be with me this day in Paradise Luke 23.43 and Lazarus dyed and was immediately carried by the Angels to Abrahams bosome that is heaven where note since Christs death the glory of the Saints is greater then before but no Limbus Christ ascending no doubt gave some more honour to the Saints in heaven as well as his spirit on earth the head is more honourable then the bosome the glory of the S

A Christian LOOKING-GLASSE OR A glimps of Christs unchangably everlasting love Discovered in several SERMONS In the Parish-Church of Sutton-Valence Kanc. By Hezekiah Holland Anglo-Hibernus Minister of the Gospel at Sutton de Valentiâ Deus sum non mutor Mal. 3.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 John 4 8. I have loved thee with an everlasting love Jerem. 31.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 John 13.1 London Printed by T.R. E.M. for George Calvert at the Half-moon in Watling-street neer Pauls stump 1649. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL The Deputy Lieutenants of the County of KENT In particular to the Right Worshipful Richard Beal and Lambert Godfrey Esq AS all Rivers pay tribute to the Ocean from whence they receive their water so I remembring my many wayes engagements to the Honourable the Commons of England for countenance and maintenance coming a stranger a kind of a banished man out of Ireland knowing ingratitude to be the worst badge of a Christian have been bold to present yee with these lines Worthy and Worshipful Gentlemen Yee who are a representative of the Honourable the House of Commons in this County Yee usually receive their debts for them Here and give them a just account Be pleased to accept of this mite which though no way answerable to my engagements to them yet who payes least is more out of debt then he that payes nothing at all Pardon me Gentlemen if since I had occasion to make my thoughts legible I have coveted your Worships to shrine them being worthy to be Sanctuaries to greater offenders In these lines yee may in parr see how I spend my Lords Dayes in Sutton in which if any word have but the face of an enemy against Church or State though every Minister cannot be at present satisfied with every conclusion in them remember they are the words of a quiet man in whom never was found any true ground of jealousie or feare of disaffection no not when the grand rising in Kent was carried on even with a generall applause when pardon my boldnesse some of your selves began to play with the bait I never smelt at it scarce swam in the River though I had more reason then some others to wish his Majesty well being a Pensioner of his in the Irish-universitie many years And truly 't is beleeved that the often rising of those who only Christen themselves by the name of his Majesties friends were the occasion of his sudden death By the preceding lines you know my Countrey to be Ireland a Countrey like Joves where no creature is poysonous unlesse you object that much experience shewes poyson to be lodg'd in the heart of the Natives Truly Gentlemen I understand not the mystery of that Rebellion perchance the Spanish King had factors there surely if a Crowne were the the prize of the game 't were no wonder to see foule play among the gamesters Yet my thinks if the Irish did not bear some good will towards the English we might have had worse carding of late when they had almost the whole game in their hands doubtlesse tyrants sinnes call for bloud their bodies seldome have any other enbalming forbearance is no acquittance I fear me should they pay the old debt easily they would be apt to run too soon upon our score again And I pray God the life given to it by the late peace be not as life given by some Physitian to a wounded man only for some few groans the longer In fine the chief cause of our misery there was our sin de te destructiotua it runne over which made God fill up his Viols to the brim how sugared soever it was God has justly soured it for her Iniquity but I take my leave of that Kingdom for the present the Lord look upon them and blesse the forces he has intended for them Five years ago I came out of that Kingdom into this how sorry was I to see English men the subject of English mens valour as if yee had scorned any should conquer ye but your selves Vt nemo Ajacem possit superare nisi Ajax When your Supernumeraries were spent my thought I saw ye spend of the main stock half of which would have restored Ireland and to spare But that troubled me much as a Minister to see such dissentions in Religion I am afraid of Hereticks who seem to confute God truth but as their parents at last they will befoole themselves the snuffing of a light seldom puts it out but makes it burn the brighter Yee have here unparalleld Ministers t is true but Hereticks are miracle-proof words in them make little impression Errours of smaller bulk till God shall reveal may be better tolerated Sed haec libertas in vitium ruat A green errour if no care taken may fester to an old soar of Heresie But being a stranger I forbear pardon me Gentlemen I have been bold as a traveller to give you some account of my travels He that made yee save yee The Lord blesse yee all from Dan to Beersheba From my Vicaridge-house in Sutton-Valence Iuly 10. 1649. So prayes your most humble servant HEZEK-HOLLAND Anglo-Hib To the truly vertuous and religious Gentlewoman M rs HELLEN TOMSON Alias WOODGREEN Increase of Grace and Eternall Glory WHen I considered your constant reading Meditations Prayers Christian charity tears your much sequestring your self from the world when I looked upon your deare Sister Elizabeth whose practice is Christ whose study is Divinity whose whole work is Religion My thought your religious courses invited as well as deserved my pains much endeared Aunts indeed I have not with a little joy taken notice how oft by me when have been accidentally at your house you have sent your charity to the door not knowing to whom 't was enough they were poor People not desiring your left hand should know what your right hand did also how oft you have chid with your servants for calling the poor beggars in contempt because perchance we are all such We all say Give us this day our daily bread Also since the same hand which made them such can lay our honour in the dust Indeed the time spent in Gods service is the most choice time the only days of comfort for is not one houre spent with Christ more precious joyous comfortable then all the rest of our days how do these end in mirth those in mourning I wonder not to heare Moses from a Courtier to become a fellow-sufferer with Israel since his recompence as well here as hereafter was so great He left a tyrant King for a mercifull God a Court of pleasure for a Kingdome of grace Attendants for Angels Courtiers for Saints Dainties for Graces a kind of Sonship for true Adoption a Kingdome of Trouble for a Heaven of Ioy. How insipid are things below to a Christian in respect of Christ how like the white of an egge in Job without tast how empty is the Creature to the Creator what delight is there