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A43844	Two sermons preached before the judges of assize 1. At Reading, on Cant: 7.4, 2. At Abingdon, on Ps. 82.1 : with two other sermons preached at St. Maries on Oxford, 1. On I Cor. 15.10, 2. On Psalm 58.11 / by John Hinckley ...	Hinckley, John, 1617?-1695.	1657 (1657)	Wing H2049; ESTC R37864	133,129	357

as had remarkable blemishes might not serve in the Sanctuary that 's a sad text Cant. 5.7 The watchmen and keepers of the wall themselves smote and wounded the Church and tooks away her vaile the badge of modesty and subjection as if she had been a strumpet or the subject of reproach Gen. 24.65 1 Cor. 11.10 Eze. 23.25.26 Farre be it from me to speak in the behalfe of eyes blinded with ignorance as blind as beetles Seeres per Antiphr●sin eyes that are bl●er●yed nay blood shotten with Heresie and blasphemy eyes full of adultery covetousnesse or any uncleanesse that have in them not only the motes but whole beames of sin eyes like those of Basiliskes charming and bewitching eyes red with wine and distorted with envy sparkling with anger better my tongue should cleave to the roofe of my mouth or my eyes start out of my owne head then be an advocate for such eyes as these where ministers are bad they are like Origen when he wrote amisse none worse Jer. 24.3 or like the basket of naughty figges in Jeremiahs vision very naughty Yet as I will not be their proctour so I need not be their prosecutour They have their vigilant Judges also tiding their Circuits Mal. 3.5 who are swift witnesses against them like the flying role Zach. 5 to out off such rotten members from the sanctuary of the Lord that with Hymenaeus and Alexander they may learne not to blaspheme Onely I pray that such as act in that Authority may be actod themselves with a spirit of moderation lest the sound and rotten Sarah and Hagar Rachell and Leah should suffer together lest Sion and the High places be cover'd with mourning and the sonnes of Levi instead of purgeing and purifying should be Confounded I have but one thing more to leave with you Judges my Lords 1. viz. where you find eyes qualified as these in the text for Gods sake for the Churches sake * Tunica cornea Chri●●allina palpebrae supercilium Nyssen for your owne soules sake be gentle and tender towards them Imitate Nature it selfe which hath wrapt the Eyes in severall Covers set skulls lids and browes to shelter and guard them from injuries Indeed I do not wonder in these times that men do so bandy against the ministers of the Gospell their deeds are very evill and therefore they hate the light they are deformed and so care not for the glasse of the word they are light and chaffy and so loath to be fann'd and winnowed nay rotten and loathsome and therefore they startle at this two edged sword of the spirit lest they should be dissected and bleed under reproofes whereas they are setled on their lees and hate to be reformed Sin is almost full and come to its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 growen ripe and calls for the sickle of Gods judgment Adulta vitia Omne in praecipiti vitium to cut us downe The Master of the house is call'd Beelz●bub Christ is robb'd of his due and cloath'd with reproach and shall his meniall servants go free when persecution begins at the house of God nay le ts comfort our selves Magnificentissimum cum Deo periclitari Nazians Si nos ruimus ruet Christus Luther that we are imbark't upon the same bottome and are fellow sufferers with Christ himselfe I say againe let 's praise our God who hath set bankes to the fury of men to restraine it seeing they are so wrathfully displeased against us cursed be their wrath for t is feirce and their rage for t is cruell This has bin Satans stratagem in all ages as of the Philistims towards Sampsons and the wolves in Demosthenes towards the sheep first to demand their dogges and then make a covenant with them or as the fowle which carries dust into the aire in her clawes and then lets it downe with the wind that it may fall into the eyes of that beast whereon shee desires to prey so Satan presumes he can more easily captivate and worry the soules of men when their seers and leaders are taken out of the way Though I do not wonder at this yet I should wonder that Christian Magistrates should stand by Davenant Quaest 17. and stand still to see those eyes pull'd forth seeing the next stroak is most like to be at their throates if Jesuited Papists according to their principles cannot be good subjects to Protestant princes I leave it with knowing men whether Lèyden and Munster may not send forth as dangerous Emissaries to governors as Rhenes and Doway As for you right worshipfull Justices of the peace Justices t was the saying of a King of this Nation K. James his speech in the starre Chamber that he did respect a good Justice of the peace as he did those next his person as much as a privy counsellor I am sure good lawes are but dead ordinances a bell without a clapper except you put life unto them they are but notionall and in the Theory 〈◊〉 if you do not execute them and reduce them unto practise and act the Acts of Parliament I am not come to blame your backwardnesse herein I know your zeale I speak of those I know against Ale-houses sabboth breakers swearers revells in our parrishes when by complaint we addresse our selves unto you you dare owne and countenance the ministers of the Gospell Even in this very age you are ready to compose and umpire differences in these contentious daies Go on still as you need not doubt of incouragement from the honorable Judges here so may you lesse feare to be rewarded by the judge of heaven and earth quick and dead hereafter I hope you of the honorable profession of the Law Lawyers will save me a labour Mihi tam familiare est omnes cogitationes meas tecum cō municandas i●sdēque te vol praeceptis vel exemplis monere quibus ipse me moneo Plinius Epist lib. 4. Epist 24. your owne hearts cannot but dictate unto you what mine has suggested unto me viz. to be so much the more cautious and circumspect by how much the world is more clamorous and querulous against us this is the best way to confute the calumnies of men even by our integrity I say our integrity because you are call'd sacerdotes justitiae the priests of justice and so you will come under the compasse of my text and must be as the fish-pooles in H●shbon It was a grievous complaint in Cyprians time Innocence was not Innocentia non est ubi defenditur In Epis ad Donatum where t' was pretended to be defended and men were lawlesse amidst the lawes whilst they pleaded the law of men they brake the law of God Solomon long before had observ'd the like Eccle. 3. 16. I saw under the Sun the place of judgment and unrighteousnesse was there I saw the place of righteousnesse and lo iniquity was there now that it may not be so amongst you let me give

of Gods spirit diffused and shed abroad into the soule whereby the ruines of gods image imprinted in it at the first are in some measure repaired all our faculties innobled and elevated above their naturall picth reason refin'd our understandings inlightened to see what is good our wills and affections inabled to imbrace and love it and the whole man to practise it where there is this sweet Harmony sure there is the grace of God This is called by diverse names in scripture as light life wisedome love obedience as it do's exercise its vertue upon the understanding will memory affections the inward or outward man now that we may see that this grace is all in all with a Christian and makes us all in all with God lets first take a view of our state and Condition what we are without grace then we shall better discerne how all our spirituall excellencies in thoughts and actions inward and outward do flow from this spring and principle of grace 1. Negatively There is an utter a vid. Doctor Field on the ch● in his Appendix to the third book pag. 252. indisposition and disability in our naturall estate to think or do any thing that is truly good and acceptable to God I say in our naturall estate for the power of mans will varies according to the severall states Epoche's and circumstances of time wherein it is considered 10. There was a time when man had power and liberty not to have sinned but this lasted not long no longer then Adam stay'd in innocency which by all Computation was not long this was a state of integrity 20. There shall be a time when we shall be so strong that we shall not be able to sin our wills shall no way be inclined to evill we shall be beyond the Gun-shot of Satan His flouds of temptations shall not reach us nay were this bold intruder admitted againe into Paradise He should find nothing in us no tinder or Gunpowder to catch the sparkes of his fiery darts This shall be a state of glory or glorious state 30. There is a time when man is partly inclined to evill partly to good as the spirit drawes him one way and the flesh dragges him another When there is a Civill warre a motion of trepidation within us the regenerate part mounts towards heaven sed trahit ●invitum nova vis but our indwelling corruption like Anselmes boy or the plummets of a Cork pull us downe againe to the earth this is a state of regeneration 40. There is a time when mans will is wholly inclin'd to what is evill and that continually before our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our new birth before Christ come into our soules by grace seasoning and taking possession of them to himselfe by breaking the barres and locks of our native opposition and subduing that enmity which is in us against his Kingdome and Scepter mellowing and melting our hearts into a willingnesse to receive him as our Lord and King by submitting to his yoke and rules of government Now whil'st the Amorites of sinne are in their ruffe of pride within us unbroken and unconquer'd and we at their beck and Command this is a state of corruption wherein a man can neither think or do what is spiritually good For this we have the authority of Christs owne word without me ye can do nothing Jo. 15.5 except we are ingrafted and incorporated into him by faith and so drawing Sappe Life and vertue from him Alas we are impotent helplesse Creatures stark lame not able to move one foot or go one steppe towards Heaven unlesse he take us in his armes we are blind untill he open our eyes deafe untill he peirce our eares with an Ephat a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vid. Mr. Sam. Ward de usu magne●is of power nay dead in trespasses and sins untill he raise us up untill he overshadow us put his mouth on our mouth and his eyes on our eyes as Elisha on the Shunamites child 2 King 4. 34. that as the iron do's not point towards the North untill it be toucht with the loadstone from whence say some there flowes some spirituall Emanations which seizing on the iron turnes it about So are we acted and moved by the spirit of God at our conversion there went vertue out of Christ to cure the Woman of her bloudy issue and if we are the living members of Christ and not onely nominall and aequivocall as so many wooden leggs contiguously fastened and patcht unto him I say if we are true members we receive vitall spirits through the arteries of faith from him our head That as the Philosophers say of sublunary bodies that they could not move were it not for the motions of the Heavens if they should stand-still so we could have no tendency to what is good but by vertue of that influence and cherishing warmth of grace which we derive from the God of heaven did not he renew right spirits in us and put his feare into our hearts for a D. Tho. Taylor on the parable of the sower p. 215. no ground so stony as our hearts no soyle so full of thornes as they no such Antipathy and aversness in one creature towards another as there is in us against the power of religion our hearts nauseat it they rise and swell and startle at it as much as at a toade or the sudden pranseing of an enemies horses though our mouthes may draw neere unto God yet our hearts are farre from him No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the spirit Jo. 3.6 we can neither confesse praise him pray unto his name or obey him by faith without the speciall gift of grace We are all evill trees now an evill tree cannot bring forth good Fruite it will bring forth sower wildings to the worlds end unlesse the property be altered and the naturall sappe sweetened and changed by letting into it some buds or grafts from a better stocke so it is wi●h us we are un savory and crabbish like trees of the Forrest untill we be transplanted and inoculated into the root of Jesse into the Branch Jesus Christ and be watered with the comfortable dewes and moysture of his spirit even as Egypt was made fruitfull by the inundation of Nilus untill then we shall bring forth sowre grapes the grapes of Sodome I meane brattes like our selves deformed loathsome the pictures of death Moses took away the bitternesse of the waters of Marah by casting in a y Exod. 15.25 tree into them and Elisha healed the unwholsome x 2 King 4.41 waters of Jericho by casting in z 2 King 2.21 salt into the spring head He cast meale also into the pot and took the poyson out of it this grace of God in the text is as the tree or this salt and meale to take away the bitternesse poyson and brackishnesse of our soules that is the aversenesse and stubbornesse which is upon our