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A69196	Foure sermons viz. 1. The blessednesse of peace-makers. 2. The aduancement of Gods children. Preached before the King. 3. The sinne against the holy Ghost. Preached at Pauls Crosse. 4. The Christian petitioner. Preached at Oxford on the Act Sunday. By Iohn Denison Doctor of Diuinity, and one of his Maiesties Chaplaynes.	Denison, John, d. 1629.; Denison, John, d. 1629. Beati pacifici.; Denison, John, d. 1629. Sinne against the holy ghost plainly described.; Denison, John, d. 1629. Christian petitioner. Shewing how we must sue for reward and remission.	1620 (1620)	STC 6587; ESTC S120377	95,129	308

Loe thus shall the man be blest whom God will fauour Secundum specialem cultum In respect of their especiall homage and religious seruice they doe to God August Retract lib. 1. cap. 13. For Religio as Saint Augustine after Lactantius retracting his owne etymon saith is a religando because it is the bond of that mutuall league betwixt God and Man I will be their God Ierem. 31.1 and they shall be my people In this sence God is called the God of Abraham and the God of Israel God chooseth to himselfe the man that is godly As for the wicked Psal 4.3 and workers of iniquity who make their chests their Temples their backs their Altars their bellies their Gods that they may sacrifice vnto the same their Pride their Couetousnesse and Luxury the Lord will professe concerning them Mat. 7.23 Depart from me I know ye not Secundum speciale praemium In respect of his especiall reward for so he saith to Abraham of whom he had made an especiall choyse Ego sum merces tua admodum ampla Genes 15.1 I am thy exceeding great reward Well might the Lord call his reward multam valdè multam Chrysost in Gen. hom 36. exceeding much and many as Chrysostome saith Psal 34.10 For they that feare God want nothing that is good Whether it be Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the World or Life or Death Whether it be things present 1 Cor. 3.22.23 or things to come they are all yours because you are Christs and Christ is Gods Seeing then that God is the God of the faithfull in these especiall respects let euery faithfull Christian in especiall manner apply God to himselfe and say with Thomas in the twentieth of Iohn Iohn 20.28 My Lord and my God This particular application the Romanists cannot abide they count it vaine presumption and why because men of all sorts though very different in conuersation will appropriate God to themselues when some of them must needes be deceiued Their argument is like this Fooles and mad men may be deceiued in apparant truths therefore wise and iudicious may The Frantique Athenian was ready to arrest for his owne euery ship that arriued therfore no sober minded Merchant knew his owne If our expectation of reward were grounded vpon merits as the Papists is we might iustly stagger as they doe Nemo absque reuelatione certò scire potest se habere vera merita Bellar. de Iustific lib. 5. cap. 7. for Bellarmine confesseth that no man without especiall reuelation can be sure that he hath true merits but for as much as our hope hath her dependance vpon Gods mercy and Christs merits we may without wauering approach before the throne of grace Rom. 8. and cry Abba Father Surely I should the lesse meruaile at this Romish doctrine Bellarm de Purgat lib. 2. cap. 4. if Bellarmine and other Papists did not teach that the soules in Purgatory haue an infallible certainty of their saluation Rhem. Annot. in Apoc. 14. For admitting a Purgatory no probable no possible reason can be giuen how they should come by this certainty except they be more beholding for the same to the infernall spirits then they haue beene to their wretched teachers But leauing them to their vanities let vs finde by a diligent scrutiny that we haue the spirit of God witnessing with our spirits Rom. 8.16 that we are the sonnes of God as the Apostle speaketh For then may we say with Saint Augustine Augustin Psal 32. Dicat anima mea Deus meus es tu qui dicit animae meae salus tua sum Seeing that God saith to my soule I am thy saluation let my soule reflect vpon God againe and say thou art my God Seeing that Christ hath made vs a plaster of his precious bloud let vs apply the same to our wounded soules seeing he hath procured our pardon let vs get it vnder the great seale of his blessed Spirit This is his will who hauing giuen vs the legacy of eternall life by his last Testament would haue the same seuerally transcribed by the preaching of the word and particularly sealed to vs by the blessed Sacrament Beleeue me my brethren It is no confused apprehension of Gods mercy that can yeelde any sound comfort But as when Elizeus applyed his eyes to the childes eyes his hands to his hands 2 Reg. 4. and his mouth to his mouth then the childe reuiued So the particular application of Christs merits hath life in it it reuiueth our dead soules and relieueth our daunted spirits Hence we haue the benefits of protection of benediction of consolation Christ Iesus sendeth that message to vs Goe to my brethren and say vnto them Ioh. 20.17 I send to my Father and to your Father to my God and to your God We make our boast of God all the day long Psal 44.9 Yea hence it is that wee approach with boldnesse into his glorious presence calling for the reward of our obedience with Nehemiah Remember me O my God concerning this The Motiue COncerning this That is in the hypothesis concerning the obseruation and sanctification of the Sabbath a matter of singular moment a duetie of great necessitie The foure Commandements of the first Table are most diuine like the foure streames in Paradise whereof this is the last but not the least like Ioseph who being the youngest prouided for his elder brethren For so is this present fourth Commandement a meanes of the better obseruation of the three precedent It standeth betweene the two tables like the sensus communis betweene the externall and internall senses and is seruiceable to both I may truely say that where the Sabbath is not sanctified there is neither a sound Religion nor a Christian conuersation to be expected How God esteemeth the strict sanctification of the Sabbath may appeare by the exact deliuery of the Commandement For he hath fenced it about like mount Sinai Exod. 19.12 with her markes and bounds at the deliuery of the law that no prophanenesse might approach neare vnto it First by his watch-word Remember Secondly by his bountie Sixe dayes thou shalt labour and doe all that thou hast to doe Thirdly by his soueraignety It is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God Fourthly by the latitude Thou thy Sonne thy Daughter thy Man-seruant thy Maide-seruant the Stranger that is within thy gates must sanctifie it Fiftly by his example The Lord rested the seauenth day Lastly by his benediction He blessed and sanctified it The sixe markes are like the sixe water-pots in the second of Iohn Fill them vp to the brimme with a holy obseruation then draw out and carry to the Master of the Feast euen to Iesus Christ the Lord of the new Sabbath Remember I say to sanctifie the Lords Sabbath and then may you say with confidence Remember me O my God concerning this Yea the same shall be vnto you a pledge of the eternall Sabbath in the Kingdome of heauen which shall be a day without euening and shall yeelde you rest without