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A87562	A sermon preached at Mary Aldermanbury, on the 5. day of November, 1651. Being a day set apart in remembrance of that great deliverance from the gunpowder treason. By William Jenkins, sometimes minister of Christ-Church London, and late prisoner in the Tower. Being the first sermon he preached since his releasement. Published by speciall authority.	Jenkyn, William, 1613-1685.	1651 (1651)	Wing J651; Thomason E791_2; ESTC R207325	10,674	8

A SERMON Preached at MARY ALDERMANBURY ON The 5. Day of NOVEMBER 1651. Being a Day set apart in remembrance of that Great Deliverance from the Gunpowder Treason By WILLIAM JENKINS sometimes Minister of Christ-Church London and late Prisoner in the Tower Being the first Sermon he Preached since his Releasement Phil. 2.21 For me to live is Christ and to dye is gain 1 Cor. 6.20 For yee are bought with a price therefore glorifie God in your body and in your spirit which are Gods S. Chris Homil. 5. in Ep. ad Rom. In having nothing I have all things because I have Christ having therefore all things in him I seek no other Reward for he is the Vniversal Reward Published by speciall Authority London Printed by R. Wood for G. Horton 1651. A Sermon preached by Mr. JENKINS at Mary Aldermanbury being the first Sermon he preached since his Releasement from the Tower of London DEUT. 32. VERS 10. Later part of the Verse He found him in a desart Land and in the waste howling Wilderness he led him about he instructed him he kept him as the apple of his eye MOses that man of God being about to leave the World bestows his Legacies on his friends that were about him and it is a blessed thing indeed when we come to die to have that liberty of Heart and Spirit that we may be benefactors to others and not to have Oyl onely for our own Lamps but to have some also for our friends The Song that Moses here made was for to ingage the people of God more strongly and firmly unto God for those men that are unprofitable persons they dye whilest they live but the children of God that live to God live when they dye nay they live after Death There are in this Text three things considerable First The great proness and readiness of the people of God to apostatize from him on all occasions as you may see at large in the six first verses of this Chapter Secondly By way of ingageing them to stedfastness to God he not onely tells them of the proness of their hearts to fall away from God but shews them also the goodness of God in keeping and preserving them from apostatizing from him in the next nine verses Deut. 32.7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15. Thirdly He also layes down the Denunciation of the Judgments of God against those that do apostatize from him in the following part of the Chapter I shall speak of the second thing and that is the goodness of God to his Israel which he sets out several wayes but more especially in the Text which is two wayes First His directing 〈…〉 Secondly His protecting Goodness to his people 1 His directing Goodness he hedgeth them about he keepeth them and instructeth them saith the spirit of God 't is most properly understood Gods hedging them about in all their journeys and occasions he is a Cloud by Day and a Pillar of Fire by night to guide them he is their God and Guide 2 God instructed them and that two wayes First he taught them to see the wickedness of their own hearts by the goodness of his wayes he watred them and gave them water out of the Rook and gave them bread from Heaven Secondly He instructed them in the Laws of God in the Wilderness as it is said There was none like Jacob who had all the Statutes of God Thirdly The Spirit of God doth not set out his goodness to his people by directing them onely but by protecting them also as in the later part of the Text which I shall principally insist on at this time First for explication out of which I shall draw some proper inferences for your own benefit 1 He kept them as the apple of his eye Here you may see the great love and goodness of God in preserving his people as you may see in that devouring Wilderness which the Israelites were in where the red Sea was before them and Pharoah with an Army behind them and so many furious Beasts in the Wilderness round about them ready to devour them yet their God preserved them and kept them as tender as the Apple of his eye Now for application there are three things First Why the Church of God may be compared to the Apple of his eye Secondly Why doth the care of God extend it self to Israel as the care of the Apple of the eye 3 God will express his care to Israel as men do express care to the Apple of their eye First The Church of God may be compared to the Apple of the eye First Because of its meanness and small esteem it hath in the World so the Apple of the eye is the smallest part and of as little esteem as any part of the whole body What the Apple of the eye that 's a very mean part indeed and the Apple of the eye by reason of its smallness is called in the Hebrew the little man in the eye Secondly The Church of God is final in its own account it accounts of it self but lowly for there is no high self-advancing soule enters into the Kingdom of God 1. T is small and low in the account of wicked men nay of the godly men themselves t is small also in comparison of the few that go to Heaven and the number that run headlong to Hell there goes but here one and there one but one of a Family and two of a Tribe but there are many that run into the Gulf of everlasting perdition 2. T is mean in regard of its blackness for it is continually in mourning and it is black and black all over with natural corruption and black with original impurity and black with actual Rebellion against God and black with the adversity of its condition here as well as in regard of its disposition by reason of persecution this is the perpetual habit and condition of the Church of God as long as it is on this side Christ it is called Nigerrimus occulus sicculus as long as she is without her Saviour she is defiled with much corruption and will never lay off her mourning apparel till she arrives at the beauty of Eternity Thirdly the apple of the eye t is mean by reason of the hiding of it felf t is not alwayes seen so the Church of God is not alwayes visible by reason of its external condition or prosperity as the goodness of God to his enemies is no token of their being a true Church so neither are the corrections of God to his people any token of Gods anger against his Church And the people of God are resembled to the Apple of the eye 1. In regard of their not appearing in themselves to others their life is hid in God but when he who is their life shall appear then shall they also appear with him in glory they are separated from the world as the grane is separated from the chaffe Secondly there is a resemblance between

the Apple of the eye and the Church in regard of the receptivity of light for the whole Body the light of the body is the eye it directs the whole man it keeps him from stumbling and falling and by that he sees to do the work which he hath The Church of God is the Lanthorn and Candle of Gods Ordinances it s the pillar of truth as it is there called because it holds forth a pillar whereon God is pleased to hang on the Proclamation of his truth in which he sheweth his word unto Jacob his Statutes and his Judgements to Israel All the world beside sits in darkness and therefore may well be filled with violence Thirdly in regard of its tendernesse and weaknesse what more tender then the Apple of the eye do but touch it and it hurts it yet you see such things as are most tender are most fruitfull sheep are very weak let but one Wolf in amongst them and he will devour many yet they are very fruitfull so worms are very weak and contemptible Creatures though there be thousands of them killed yet still there are abundance though they are contemptible and weak yet they are increasing creatures So the people of God though they are weak and undervalued yet they are an increasing people and shall not be destroyed because all their strength is in another Fourthly There is a resemblance between the Apple of the eye and the People of God in regard of the dearnesse and care a man hath of the Apple of his eye there is no part of the body so dear to a man as that he had rather lose any limb of the body then sustain one prick with a pin in the eye And indeed so are the Churches of God dear and precious in the sight of Christ he hath a great care over them further saith he Of all those thou hast given me I have not lost one The People of God are very dear to him Sampson when he lost his eyes it made him desire God that he might be avenged of the Philistines And Sampson called unto the Lord and said O Lord God remember me I pray thee and strengthen me only this once O God that I may be once avenged of the Philistines for my two eys God will not suffer his people to be wronged 2 Wherein is Gods care to his Church exprest as men expresse care to the Apple of their eyes in these following Considerations First His Cura protectionis his care of protecting them is manifested to his Church and People as the care of mans protection to the Apple of his eye He watcheth and keepeth Israel which neither slumbers nor sleepeth There is a two fold Gift that God bestoweth on the eye which likewise may be said he bestoweth on his Church First Inward protection Secondly Outward protection and more Formal First Inward protection God bestows on the eye which are of divers sorts and do much preserve the eye So God bestows inward protection which is strength of heart to bear their afflictions I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me saith the Apostle and again Strengthened with all might according to his glorious power unto all patience and long suffering with joyfulness this is inward protection when being weak we are made strong Secondly God gives the eye Outward protection which may be also said to be given to his people and that in several respects First In regard of the Eye lid and the hairs of it which defends it and keeps it from danger Secondly Eye brow so also there 's a kind of Trench to take in the water that it may not offend it Thirdly The Armes to be lifted up to defend it and to apply a remedy to it So first Sometimes God is as the eye lid to the eye he warns his people of dangers to come that so they touch not his Church or people Secondly When dangers do fall on his Church he protects them so that they do not break them in pieces it may be they bruise them a little as the eye brow is black and blew but it touches not the Apple of the eye Thirdly Sometimes God gives his people Hands and Arms to defend them against the enemies of his Church Secondly In regard of his care of protecting his people and compassion to them he is as tender of them as a mother is of her sucking child Can a woman forget her sucking child that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb yea she may forget yet will I not forget thee saith the Lord and again In all their afflictions he was afflicted and the Angel of his presence saved them in his love and in his pity he redeemed them and he bare them and he carried them all the days of old It is between God and his Church as between two Lute strings that are tuned one to another no sooner one is struck but the other trembles Such a Sympathy there is between Christ and his people Saul Saul why persecutest thou me saith our Saviour and the children of God will be so when their brethen are persecuted and affli●●●… Thirdly In regard of a Senative and healing care God hath of people whereby he labours to heal the wounds of his people Come let us return unto the Lord for he hath torn and he will heal he hath smitten and he wil bind us up If there lie any wounds in thy body or in thy estate or in thy name or in thy spirit God wil pour Oyl into thy wounds and will heal and recover thee 4 There is a vindicating care in God to his people he will wound those that wound his Church As in the old Law there was taken an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth so now God will have a retalliation of punishment And although he forbear long yet he will avenge himself on the enemies of his Church and the longer he stays the more use he requires For he that toucheth you toucheth the Apple of his eye as if he should have said he that toucheth my people had as good put out his own eye he doth but make a halter for his own neck he doth not onely that which is a vain thing but he shoots up arrows against heaven and they fall down upon his own head Thirdly Why GOD expresseth such great care to his people as men express care to the Apple of their eye here is three things to be considered First Consider what the Apple of the eye is in it self Secondly Consider what other things are to the Apple of the eye Thirdly Consider what the Apple of the eye is to God 1 What is it in it self it is an exceeding weak and low thing not able to endure a blow 't is very tender So the people of God are in themselves very weak and low and when none are able to do good for them then God arises and appears to help them When God sees the Oppression of the