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A04157	Dauids pastorall poeme: or sheepeheards song Seuen sermons, on the 23. Psalme of Dauid, whereof the last was preached at Ashford in Kent, the day whereon our gracious King was there proclaimed. By Thomas Iackson preacher of Gods word at Wie in Kent.	Jackson, Thomas, d. 1646.; Swan, John, student in divinity.	1603 (1603)	STC 14299; ESTC S107441	134,253	302

rest with God and who first turned my feet towards Gods Kingdome Your Worships were my first encouragement to the study of Diuinitie and that with no small hindrance to your childrens proceeding in learning whom I taught by your meanes did I first enter into this office and was called vnto this place where I do now exercise and from you and yours haue I receiued manifold encouragements in my ministrie the Lord register them in his Booke that they may be remembred and come in your good accounts at the glorious day of his sonne and be requited seauen-fold into your bosomes wherefore hauing none other thing that I may not be vnthankfull In gratum si dixeris omnia dixeric which of all other sinnes euen amongst the heathen hath euer been reputed most vile odious whatsoeuer respects others haue onely to avoide the note of ingratitude doe I prefume to dedicate to your Worships these first fruits of my labours in this kind that as you heard the first Sermon that euer I preached your Sonne was the first child that euer I baptised your daughter the first that euer I maried so you would vouchsafe to patronize these few Sermons being the first that euer I published let then this poore Infant which knoweth not whither to flie but vnto you as you haue giuen cōfort vnto his Father find some shadow vnder your roofe till the stormes of virulent tongues bee ouerpast Accept of this small testimonie of my great good will according to your wonted curtesie and surely if I shall heare that it is fauourably entertained of you and curteously accepted of the brethren I shall not onely greatly reioyce but also shall hereby be stirred vp and pricked forward to the publishing hereafter of other things with more time better aduice exacter diligence mature deliberation and sounder iudgement Non in principiis perficta quaeruntur sed de paruis principiis ad ea quae perfecta sunt perueniture Ambros thorough the grace of God increasing his guifts in me The Lord for his mercies sake graunt that these my first labours may bee accepted of the Saints and tend to the glorie of God And I hartely beseech the Lord God of all grace the Fountaine of all goodnesse and giuer of all spirituall blessings both for your selues your sonnes daughters brethren sisters and kinsfolks and your whole religious Stocke and Familie and specially for that reuerent religious Matron your deere mother whom God hath many waies honoured and after many great storms sweetly refreshed to her euerlasting consolation in Christ to endue all your foules with heauenly knowledge faith zeale and loue to God his truth and Saints and bestowed great worldly blessings of wealth wisedome and reputatation so it would please him to preferue and keepe you all in pure Religion perfect peace feruent loue vnfayned faith reuerent feare and true holynesse all the daies of your liues that the course of this miserable wretchednesse finished you may receiue the happie fruit of the glorious Gospell with all the Saints and bee crowned with immortall glorie in his purchased Kingdome wherevnto he speedily bring vs for his mercies sake in Christ Amen From Wye in Kent the last of September 1603. Your Worships in all Christian dutie to commaund THOMAS IACKSON TO THE GODLIE DISposed Reader and specially to his Countreymen Kinsfolkes and friends in Lancashire GRace mercie and peace with increase of all godlinesse and pietie from God the Father of all mercie thorough the inualluable merites of Iesus Christ our onely all-sufficient Redeemer by the working of the most mightie and liuely spirit the elects comforter for euer be multiplyed Amen Although it hath pleased God who hath the starres euen all the Angels or Ministers of the Churches in his right hand a Reu 1. 16 to fixe me in these Southerne parts to giue light vnto his people b Mat 5. 14 and not suffer me according to my hearts desire to fasten the cords of my remoouing Tabernacle among est you yet no distance of place or continuance of time can alienate or estrange mine affections from you S. Paule wished himselfe accursed and seperate from Christ for the good of them that were his kinsfolkes according to the flesh c Rom. 9. 3. And surely my heart were harder that flint if I should not haue speciall affection to my natiue soyle where I haue so many louing brethren and a sister deere kinsfolkes and faithfull friends yea my heartie desire and prayer vnto God is that you may come to the knowledge of the trueth and be saued d Ro. 10. 1. 2 Tim. 3. 7 2. Pet. 3. 9 that as nature hath bound vs together wee my also be tyed in a straiter and neerer bond of Religion being borne againe after a spirituall birth e Gal. 4. 19. Iam. 1. 18. 1. Pet. 1. 28 Iohn 1. 13. speaking all the language of Canaan f Esay 19. 18 For your sakes therefore deere Countreymen kinsfolkes and friends and specially so many as loue the Lord Iesus Christ and his Gospell dwelling in Bromley Colne Mersden or thereabouts haue I specially beene drawne to the penning of these few Lectures and to you do I commend them as all equitie and reason would that I should returne the first fruits of my labours thither from whence I came and where I had my first being and bringing vp accept therefore at my hands this poore mite as a token and pledge of one that loueth you vnfainedly in the Lord that whereas by the far distance of place and the great charge committed vnto me to bee attended vppon I am letted from cōming vnto you in regard of bodily presence that I might be comforted together with you thorough our mutuall faith both yours and mine g ●o 1. 12. Yet by this means the same might be in some measure supplyed on my behalfe I hope you will acknowlede it as a flower of your owne Garden that with greater delight you may smell vnto it and the fruit of your owne field and euen in that respect more willingly eat of it cheerefully digest it to the increase of that stature and strength whereunto you haue alreadie attained in Christ Oh what a ioy it was the last time that I was amongest you to obserue euen a generall and most blessed change that whereas heretofore nothing but blind and superstitious deuotion raigned men generally being like old vessels which could not bee seasoned from retayning the sent of their first liquor whereof many dregs remained that so they might be fit to receiue the pure liquor of the Gospell h Mat. 9. 17. Nay alas where were they that should haue seasoned them the word of God being much more precious than in the daies of Elie i 1. Sa. 3. 1. scarce one Sermon within many miles once a yeere to bee heard Now it hath pleased God to send vnto you many most godly and learned Preachers Againe in the people what a

all go to one place and all was of the dust al shal returne to the dust who knoweth whether the spirit of man ascend vpward and the spirit of the beast descend downeward to the earth ſ Ecclc. 3. 19 20 21. q. d. No man is able by his carnall reason and iudgement M. Perkins in his treatise of dying well to put difference betwixt man and beast for the eie cannot iudge otherwise of a man being dead thē of a beast which is dead yet by the word of God and eie of faith wee learne and see a wonderfull difference both in regard of the bodies and soules * The great difference betwixt the bodies of man and beast both being dead For first in regard of the bodie though it returne vnto dust and see corruption as the bodie of a bruit beast yet whereas the bodies of beasts returne into their first matter and shall neuer bee remembred and so perish in this valley and neuer go through it yet the bodie of man and specially of the elect shall goe through this valley and be raised againe the same for substance but perfected in qualities as Christ himselfe hath affirmed in the Gospel and that with great asseueration Verely verely the houre shall come in the which all that are in the graues shall heare his voyce and they shal come forth that haue don good vnto the resurrectiō of life but they that haue done euill to the resurrection of condemnation t Ioh. 5. 28 Which Article of faith Iob beleeued as hee hath witnessed in his booke saying I am sure that my Redeemer liueth and though wormes destroy this bodie yet shall I see God in my flesh whom I my selfe shall see and mine eies shall behold and none other for me u Iob 19. 25. 26. 27 which Article of faith is euery where taught vs in the holy Scriptures both of the old and new Testament w Exo. 3. 15 Esa 26. 19 1. Cor. 15 1. Thes 4. 16 Reu. 20. 21 and in all ages confirmed both by the taking vp of Henoch before the law x Gen. 5. 24 by the raising vp of the widowes sonne of Zareptha by Eliah y 1. Kin. 17 22 and of the Shunamites sonne by Elisha z 2. King 4 34. 35 in the time of the law and the raising of the Rulers daughter being newly dead a Mat. 9. 18 and of the widow of Naims sonne being longer dead and carying towards the graue b Luk. 7. 11 and of Lazarus being both dead and buried and hauing lien 4. dayes in the graue c Ioh. 11. 39 were raised by Christ also of Dorcas raised by Saint Peter d Act. 9. 40 and of Eutichus by Saint Paule e Act. 20. 10 in the time of the Gospel Yea here is wrapped vp a most comfortable mysterie to be vnfolded viz. that the bodies of Gods Saints euen in their greatest corruption rotting in the graue drowned in the Sea or burned to Ashes yet remaine truly vnited vnto Christ and are euē then no lesse his mēbers then before for the whole mā is vnited spiritually to whole Christ death cānot dissolue a spiritual vnion f Ro. 8. 38. but as Christ his body soule being seuered each frō other as far as Paradise g Lu. 23. 43 the hart of the earth h Mat. 12. 40 yet neither of them were euer seuered frō the Godhead of the son so though our bodies and soules for a time be seuered by death yet neuer cā either be disioined frō Christ vnto whō they are both of them indissolubly vnited by vertue wherof the body at the last day shal rise againe to eternall life * The great difference betwixt the soules or spirits of man and beast being dead Secondly wheras the life or as the Philosophers call it the soule and the wise man the spirit i Eccl. 3. 19 of the beast being but a naturall vigor or qualitie arising from the temperature of the bodie * Sunte substantia ipsorum corporū Zanch. de operibus dei 3. part-li 2 c. 1. fol. 62● and hauing no being of it selfe but wholy dependeth vpon the bodie and therefore dieth with the bodie vanisheth away like smoake in the aire the soule of man being a spirituall substance created and infused “ Beza in quaest fo 5. 2 Zanch. de ope fol. 762 Hieronim Theodoret. aswell subsisting forth of it as in it when the bodie returneth to the dust it returneth to God that gaue it k Eccl. 12 7 Now let vs briefly view the titles which Dauid here vseth and whereby he describeth death calling it a darke or shadowie valley not but that death is most lightsome and comfortable vnto Gods Saints no doubt but in the verie moment and instant of death though the outward mā perish the bodily eie grow dimme Gods Saints do see such glorious sights l Acts. 7. 55 as heart cannot conceiue their eies being then lightned as at noone day to see God as he is vvho dwelleth in that light which no mortall eie can pierce into m 1. Tim. 6. 16 But Dauid in this place of purpose bending himselfe to describe the terrors of death to the end that his Christian courage and fortitude in the contempt therof might more liuely appeare speaketh of it as of a dark way then which there is nothing more fearefull vnto nature n Psa 91. 5 oh then see the power of a liuely faith which maketh men not afrayd to goe through places most fearefull Q. But did not Christ passe through this valley and taste of death for vs why then doth it yet remaine A. It remaineth not as it was threatned and is still inflicted vpon the reprobate viz. a punishment for sin for then were God iniust to punish sinne twice But by Christ his death though it remaine for triall and exercise of our faith courage patience c. the nature of it is changed to his elect to become a blessed freeing of them from sinne for the sting being taken away it cannot hurt * Adest sed non obest but is rather a blessing that whereas sinne brought forth death death will bee the bane and destruction of sinne it was sayd to Adam and Euah If you sinne you shall die o Gen. 2. 17 But now it is said to all Gods elect You must die that you may cease to sinne * Dictum fuit homini morieris si peccaueris a nunc dicitur morere ne pecces Aug. Ciuit. dei 13. 4. No man then truly wearied with the burthen of sinne but as the wearied traueller desireth the shadow so will he desire to be dissolued p Phi. 1. 23 to passe through this valley that he may dwell at rest with Christ freed from all sin vpon mount Sion for euer It followeth THE FIFTH SERMON vpon the 23. Psalme I will feare no euill I Will

there is righteousnesse and peace and ioy in the holy Ghost k Rom. 14. 17. Yea wee shall bee filled with all sweet ioyes and of this supper shall bee none end If any man yet further desire to know where this royall Feast is kept 2. By whom 3. Who are the guests and lastly what is their cheere let him read and consider what the Prophet Esay sayth And in this mountaine shall the Lord of hoasts make vnto all people a Feast of fat thinges euen a feast of fined wines and of fat thinges full of m●rrow of wines fined and purified l Esa 25. 6. The place then is Gods holy mountaine euen the Church of God here on earth * Montis nomine Ecclesia per totum orbem terrarum sparsa intelligitur Moll in Ps fol. 212. where this feast is begun the faithfull do tast the sweetnes of such good things as eie hath not seene nor eare heard m 1. Cor. 2 9. but it shall be perfected on the mountain of Gods holynes where the faithful shal haue their soules satisfied with the fulnesse of ioyes which are in the presence of God for euermore n Ps 16. 11. Secondly he that maketh this Feast and prepareth this Table is the Lord of hoasts whose is the earth with all that is therein o Ps 24. 1. whose are the foules of the aire and fishes of the sea cattell vpon a thousand hils p Ps 50. 10. 11 Thirdly the guests are not only such as are inuited forth of an hundred seauen and twentie Prouinces as the guests of that mightie Monarch Ahashuerosh q Hest 1. 1. but all people euen all beleeuers of what age sex qualitie or condition in what place or what time soeuer they liued the poore and afflicted shall be as welcome guests as the rich yea the poore shall eate and be satisfied r Ps 22. 26. Lastly for cheere there are no dainties there wanting there are Oxen and fatlings ſ Mat. 22. 4 yea a Feast of wines fined and purified and of fat thinges full of marrow sayth the Prophet whereby are signified the sweete graces of God conuayed vnto faithfull soules by the ministrie of the word and Sacraments as the remission of sinnes and assurance of Gods loue and fauour and full conquest ouer sinne Sathan death and hell which are farre sweeter than most fined purified wines t Cant. 1. 1 Yea than honie and the honie combe and wherein they reioyce with ioy vnspeakable and glorious u 1. Pe. 1. 8 Oh that we could truely hunger and thirst after this heauenly banquet and follow the counsaile of our Sauiour Christ not labour so earnestly for the meat that perisheth but for that meat which endureth to eternall life w Ioh. 6. 27 It followeth Doubtlesse kindnesse and mercie shall follow me all the daies of my life and I shall remaine a long season in the house of the Lord. The Prophet Dauid hauing as we haue heard expressed the singuler fauor loue and prouidence of God towardes him and his people by two pleasant and familier metaphors now he commeth in this last verse to shew the vse thereof viz That hereby his faith was confirmed and setled in the prouidence of God whereby to be preserued vnto the end The Summe whereof The summe of this vers is thus much in effect q. d. Seeing I haue had such great experience of Gods fauour and loue I am perswaded that he will continue the course thereof vnto mee euen vnto the end that now hauing passed thorough so many dangers and peaceably obtained the Kingdom I may now spend all the rest of my daies in the seruice and worship of God and sound forth the Lords praise in the house of my God And this verse consisteth of two principall parts The diuision of this verse first what hee doubted not to receiue kindnesse and mercie shall follow me all the daies of my life Secondly what vse he would make thereof euen dwell a long season The subdiuision of the first part in the house of the Lord. The first part may be subdiuided againe into these members or branches first what he looked for to receiue kindnesse and mercie Secondly how to receiue it it should follow him Thirdly how long in this manner these things should be bestowed vppon him euen all the daies of my life These things doe affoord verie profitable obseruatiōs if I could so insist vpon them but time hath preuented me and I am desirous to make an end of this Psalme because it so well fitteth the present occasiō wherefore that I may not bee tedious I will but point out the cheefe matter and leaue the rest to your Christian meditations Doubtlesse kindnesse 1. part and mercie When Dauid purposed to build God an house saying vnto Nathan the Prophet of God Behold I dwell in an house of Cedar trees the Arke of God remaineth within the curtaines x 2. Sa. 7. 2 Nathan before hee had asked counsaile of God approoued therof and said Goe and doe all that is in thine heart for God is with thee 3. But Dauid being a man of blood 4. was not fit for such a work and therefore the same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan 12. he should tell Dauid hee was not the man that should build Gods house but his sonne that should proceed out of his loynes concerning whom the Lord thus promised I will be his Father 14. and hee shall be my Sonne and if he sinne I will chasten him with the rod of men 15. and with the plagues of the children of men but my mercie shall neuer depart away from him Surely neuer was this promise more truely fulfilled vnto Salomon than it was to Dauid himselfe God was his Father and therefore when Dauid sinned both committing whoredome and murther y 2. Sa. 11. 4. 17. the Lord sharpely corrected and chastised him many waies as by the death of the child which was begotten in Adulterie z 2. Sa. 12. 18. by his sonne Amnons incest defiling his owne sister Thama● a 2. Sa. 13. 14 by Absoloms killing of Amnon b 2. Sa. 13. 29. by Absoloms treasonable practises persecuting him and seeking to get the Kingdome from him c 2. Sa. 15. 2. 14. by Shimeis cursing of him to his face d 2. Sa. 16. 7. by Absoloms abusing of his Fathers Concubines e 2. Sa. 16. 22. by the fearefull death of Absolom being hanged in an Oake f 2. Sa. 18. 9 yea in a woord the hand of God was still stretched out against him all the daies of his life yet did God neuer take away his mercy from him so that hee might say with the Apostles I haue been persecuted but not forsaken g 2. Cor. 4. 8 9. and so to the like effect heere hee saith doubtlesse kindnesse and mercie c. He saith not 〈◊〉