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A04156	The conuerts happines· A comfortable sermon preached at S. Maries Spittle in London, in Easter-weeke, the 19. April. 1609. By Thomas Iackson, Bachelour of Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word, at Wye in Kent.	Jackson, Thomas, d. 1646.	1609 (1609)	STC 14298; ESTC S107440	42,495	61

whereof the holy Ghost pronounced Blessed are they that are called to the Lambes Supper these wordes of God are true Oh blessed then and an hundred times blessed are ye that are now called if ye come to this Supper wherefore I beseech you let vs dallie and excuse the matter no longer but this day that he knocketh let vs heare his voice and obey least deferring to repent he cease to knocke any longer and in stead of sealing vs vp vnto the day of redemption he seare vs with an hotte Iron to the day of destruction Oh therefore that I knew what to say or what to doe to obtaine this of you or rather of God for you Yea if vvith Salomon I might hane my wish I would neither desire of God long life nor riches nor any such earthly vanity but this onely needfull grace to my selfe and al that haue heard me this day that effectually opening the doores of our harts vnto Christ he might come in and sup with vs and we with him for euer To conclude this yeere is a great yeere of triall temptation especially to the poore and I beseech you that haue this worlds goods to heare and open vnto them when they call and knocke at your gates knowing that what yee giue to the poore seruants of Christ in his Name yee giue vnto him and hee will reward it Oh to giue liberally and chearefully to the poore is the gainefullest trade in the world for that is true of this kinde of pietie which Saint Paul speaketh of godlinesse in generall it is profitable vnto all things hauing the promise of this life and of that which is to come it is both our iourneying prouision in this our wearisome Pilgrimage in earth and a neuer fayling treasure reserued in heauen for vs and therefore though you haue neuer so many children to care for Yet let Christ in his poore members be reputed one and cared for the rest shall fare the better For if you Suppe him hee will Suppe you Fie then that we should spend vpon pride and brauery loosenes and prodigality ryot and luxurie surfetting and gluttony pleasure and sensuality on parasites and flatterers rymers and iesters dicers and dancers players and pypers roysters and swaggerers yea on dogs and hawkes that which we should giue to the poore and to detaine from them or diuert to other vses is a sinne of crying sacriledge But here as duetie bindeth me let me to the glorie of God the shame of our enemies our own comfort the good encouragement of others giue true testimony to Londons liberality Oh London London excellent things are spoken of thee thou city of God it is spoken of thee that thou louest the truth reuerencest Religion and honourest the Ministers of Christ more then any part of the Realm besides it is spoken of thee that by meanes of worthy magistrates thou art a Sanctuary to the good a snare to the bad the mirrour of good gouernement and onely thy Suburbes Skirts and out-bounds the sobbe and sinke of sinne and Cage for all vncleane birds to roost in it is spoken of thee that none are more true and obedient to highest powers nor readier with bodie and goods to defend the State then thou art And lastly whereas our blacke-mouthed aduersaries exclaime against vs that we preach nothing but sola fides sola fides and whereas their Bona opera haue built many goodly Colledges and Hospitals our Sola fides hath plucked them down againe No no the world doth knowe since it hath pleased God to enlighten our Church with the purity of the Gospel there haue bin moe Colledges founded Hospitals erected Schooles builded poore Schollers maintained Orphants and Impotents relieued and charitable deedes exercised generally in this land then in any if not in many ages vnder Poperie and superstition but London London vve make our boast of thee as able to remoue so slaunderous an imputation it is vvell seene hovv thou employest a great part of thy vvealth to relieue a great number of poore Schollers poore Souldiers and poore Orphants I am compassed vvith a cloude of vvitnesses this day there being of poore children souldiers and impotent people that this last yeare haue beene maintained cured and relieued in the Hospitals of Christ Saint Bartholmew S. Thomas and Bridewell to the number of tvvo thousand fiue hundred eightie tvvo besids your liberality tovvards Colledges and Schooles of learning in maintaining poore Schollers and good exercises of Learning and besides your liberality tovvards poore prisoners and others from your purses and your doores Oh let God haue the glorie our enemies shame and our selues comfort from these things and all together proclaime great is the truth and preuaileth And mine humble and hearty prayer vnto God is that long and long may this renowmed Citie florish and abound in peace plenty honour vvealth and prosperity that long and long she may be rich and abound in all manner of good vvorkes to the comfort of thousands and tenne thousands of his poore Saints vvhich God graunt for his beloued sonnes sake Iesus Christ to vvhom vvith the father and the holy Spirite three persons in glorious Trinity one onely immortall inuisible and vvise God in Vnity be rendred and ascribed all glory vvisedome maiesty praise povver thanks and dominion both novv and for euermore AMEN FINIS a 2. Thess 1. 8. b Reue. 3. 16. Sermon at Pauls Crosse on New-yeres day last Summe of the Text. Coherence c Iohn 13. 23. “ Fasciculut temporum Abdias d Reue. 1. 9. * Euseb Eccle. Hist li. 3. ca. 18. e Gene. 22. 12. f Gene. 28. 11. g Exod. 3. 2. h Iere. 38. 6. i Dan. 2. 23. k Act. 10. 11. ❀ Titulus libri frontispicie adscriptus E●casm lo. Fox pag. 1. “ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 () 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Rhem. annot in cap. 1. sect 2. ❀ De●●iuitat dei lib. 20. cap. 7. ❀ Irenaus lib. 4. cap 43. l Dan. 12. 4. * FVLKE ‡ Scribit ad Asiaticas non Iudatca● Ecclesias vt sic ostenderet regnum Christi●am etiam peru●●i●●e ad gente● B●lling Conc 3. fol. ● ●ag 2. * ●●he 2. 14. “ S●r●bo lib. 1 16. fol. 365. 510. * Vrbi erat celeberima in Asia Ecphras Pet. Bulleng Trecons in Apoealips ❀ Plin. lib. 5. cap. 29. ‡ Vt refer● Bulleng in Ecph. fol 110. () His videtur Paul●s predicauisse Euangelium Hen. Bulleng in Apoc fol. 27. n Coloss 4. 16. “ M. Cudworth Comment on Gall. 6. pag. 657 o Coloss 2. 1. * Socrates Eusebius Alexandrinus Anatolius Stephanu● Theodore Euseb Pamph. lib. 7. cap. 32. † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Populus Iustus Generall Diuision “ Necplane hostes nec vere amicised neutrales Particular Diuision Sub-diuision 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Part. 1. VSE p Iohn

small and weake measure thou maiest bee of good comfort that thou hast opened vnto Christ and hee doth raigne and keepe Court in thine heart c. But if on the other-side thou hast nothing to stand vpon but thou hast been thus and thus long an Hearer of the word Receiuer of the Sacraments Professor of Religion but thine heart is set vpon the vanities pleasures and delights of the flesh as occasion serueth thou abusest thy tongue to lying slaundering swearing and blaspheming thine heart is set vpon couetousnesse whoredome thy life stayned with pride drunkennesse thou hast no true loue nor zeale of God and his trueth but makest Religion so indifferent and light a matter as thou art neyther cold nor hot or if thou hast reformed some things yet thou hast some one beloued sinne or other which thou canst not endure to heare reprooued If this be thine estate as vpon due triall I feare it would be found to be of many of vs thou mayest be well perswaded of thy selfe but in trueth the neerest that Christ is vnto thee is Hee standeth at the Doore c. The third and last Praedicate declareth the Action of Christ at the doore viz. he knocketh yea the Originall signifieth to knocke with great power and force as to strike or knocke with the horne it being a Metaphor taken from the Oxe or some strong necked Beast which giue a great Blow when they runne against any thing with the Horne Where my good Brethren as the carkasse of Amasa lying in the way caused the people that marched after Ioah to stand still so me thinketh this word calleth vpon vs to stand still a while and march no furder in this text til we haue thankfully wondred at and considered the infinite loue and goodnesse of Christ towards his poore Church and the members thereof that finding the doores of their hearts barred against him yet doth not passe by with a soft and still voyce as he came to Eliah but doth beate and bounse at the doore offering mercy when they refuse it that so he may be found of them that neuer sought him No sooner had Adam and Euah sinned but God commeth to seeke them out and knocketh at the doore Adam where art thou which was rather an Increpation then an Interogation that Adam might consider not in what place but in what state he was now No sooner was Peter fallen asleepe but Christ knocked at his doore and wakened him with the crowing of the Cocke Oh what infinite mercy is this that he should so earnestly seeke our repentance and saluation onely for our owne good Now I pray you let vs proceede to consider what wayes and meanes Christ vseth whereby to knocke at the doores of our hearts and they are principally these foure The first is by the ministery of his word which is a worde of power and a word of life mighty through God to cast downe Holdes and to bring into Captiuity euery thought to the obedience of Christ Peter preached and he did so mightily knocke at the hearts of his Hearers that they came running to him and the other Apostles and cried men and brethren what shall we doe Paul preached and disputed of righteousnes temperance and iudgement and did so mightily knocke at the Portall of Felix his conscience that he did tremble to heare him Yea assuredly Demosthenes and Cicer● with all their eloquence Plato and Aristotle with all their learning Alexander and Pompey with al their power could neuer so shake the doore and foundation of a sinners heart as the meanest Minister of Christ being quallified with competent Graces of God and preaching the word with plaine euidence of the spirit and of power can doe yea therefore is the Ministry of the word to be reputed as the greatest blessing of God for that by it he knocketh at the doores of our sinfull hearts and frameth vs to obedience to open vnto him that we may be saued Secondly he knocketh by his mercies blessings and fauours whereof the Lord himselfe thus speaketh I ledde them with cords of a man euen with bands of loue what these bands of loue were Moses declareth where speaking of Israel he saith God found him in the land of the wildernesse in a wast and roaring wildernesse he carried him vp to the high places of the earth that he might eate the fruits of the field and hee caused him to sucke hony out of the stone and oyle out of the hard rocke butter of Kine and milke of Sheepe with fatte of the Lambes and Ram●nes fedde in Bashan with the fatte of the graines of wheate and the liquor of the grape hast thou drunke And elsewhere he telleth them they should find great and goodly Cities which they builded not houses stored with all manner of goods which they filled not welles which they digged not vineyards and Oliues which they planted not c. The consideration whereof made Dauid proclaime Hee hath not dealt so with euery Nation Thirdly when neither word nor mercies can preuaile but the one is contemned the other are abused then thirdly he knocketh by his corrections as tempestuous and vnseafonable weather strange apparitions vnknowne Comets quaking of earth ouerflowing of waters famine pestilence rumours of warres Diuelish conspiracies sickenesse losse of goods and innumerable such like miseries which being sanctified of God though vnpleasant and distastefull to delicate flesh and blood yet are most wholsome meanes and mightie knocking 's to awaken the drowsie sinner as we haue examples in Dauid who penned his sweetest Psalmes in his bitterest afflictions and in Ionah who then prayed most heartily when he came into the Fishes belly Oh wondefull thing that hee should bee awake in the Fish that snorted in the Shippe that he should pray vnto God out of the deepe Sea that fled from God vpon the drie land so good and profitable a thing correction is therefore Christ telleth his Church in the verse immediatly going before my Text So many as I loue I rebuke which is chiefely to be referred vnto words chasten which is chiefely to bereferredvnto the rod sharpenes of Discipline therfore be zealous and amend and our Sauiour Christ saith euery branch in the spirituall Vine that beareth not fruit as it ought his Father the Husbandman will purge it and what is his pruning knife wherewith he loppeth and pareth many superfluities but tribulations and afflictions The fourth and last meanes whereby he prepareth vnto regeneration regenerateth the prepared and doeth helpe the regenerate vnto the end is the sweete and powerfull working instinct inspirations and motions of his good spirit without which all other knocking 's are ineffectuall to cause the smner to open vnto him for though we be neuer so much called vpon by the ministry of the word yet without the working