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A87498	The best fee-simple, set forth in a sermon at St Peters in Cornhil, before the gentlemen and citizens born in the county of Nottingham, the 18. day of February, 1657. Being the day of their publique feast. By Marmaduke James, minister of Watton at Stone, in the county of Hertford.	James, Marmaduke.	1658 (1658)	Wing J432; Thomason E955_2*; ESTC R207614	34,420	74

Corinthians that God hath all things well that 's true you know that Christ is Gods Son and Heir and therefore he hath all things well that is true also and you are Christs spouse and therefore for your good you have all things The third and last thing is Those Comforts that flow from their Union with Christ As a woman that loves her Husband receives more joy from the personall fellowship and acquaintance with him then from all his Estate besides so great are the Comforts that are received from Christ which must needs be inexpressible seeing the union from whence they flow is so great that the most gracious and learned men in the world do not fully understand it in this life which appears by that speech of Christ to his people Matth. 25.34 35. Come ye blessed of my father for I was an hungry and ye gave me meat I was naked and you cloathed me I was sick and you visited me Then shall the righteous answer when did we see thee hungry naked or sick and visited thee As if they should say we confess Lord that we have seen thy poor people hungry naked and sick and we relieved them but did we do it to thee to very thee Yes saith Christ you did it to me to very me you have not yet understood the near relation that is betwixt them and me for in that you have visited them you visited me c. To conclude all as the Love and Care of a friend or Father sheweth it selfe most towards death so we find the heart of Christ how it stood towards his people in that famous prayer before his death That they all may be one John 17.21 22 23. as thou father art in me and I in thee and the glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one even as we are one I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one that the World may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me See here what variety of expressions is used thou in them and I in them and thou in me and I in thee backward and forward as if no one expression was able to set forth this Union Me think this is like the speech of some young Heir that having taken a wife against his fathers consent brings her in his hand to him and saies Sir I confess this woman is below me in birth breeding portion c. But I have set my heart upon her and have taken her for my wife now good Sir as ever you hope to have comfort of your Son that you will own her as your Daughter else what good will my life do me That the same lodging diet respect attendance may be given to her that is given to me and that she may as truly in all respects be taken for your Daughter as you have taken me for your Son and that not privately onely but that all the Servants of the House and all the Tenants may see that you have loved her as you have loved me that all the World saith Christ may see that thou hast loved them as thou hast loved me I have done the Lord give a blessing FINIS The Everlasting Covenant As it was Delivered in a Sermon at St Paul's before the Gentlemen and Citizens of Nottinghamshire upon the 2d of December 1658. Being the Day of their Yearly Feast By Marmaduke James Minister of Watton at Stone in the County of Hertford 1 COR. 2.7 But we speak the Wisdom of God in a Mysterie even the hidden Mysterie which God ordained before the world unto our glory LONDON Printed by J. M. for J. Martin J. Allestry T. Dicas and sold at their Shop at the Signe of the Bell in St Paul's Churchyard 1659. To all my very much Honored Friends and Countrymen the Respective NATIVES of the County of NOTTINGHAM More especially To those of the two late Solemn Meetings And in particular To the Right Honourable Sir John Ireton Lord Mayor of the City of London John Lewes Esq and the r●st of the worthy Stewards for the two last Festivals held in the Years 1657. and 1658. My Lords and Gentlemen THe first of these Sermons being Copied out the last Year for the Press after serious perusal the Request for publication seemed to flow rather from a good opinion of then any real worth I found therein and further being discouraged by this foolish and Voluminous Age wherein every man almost abounding in his own sense if the product of his thoughts amount but to the worth of an Egg is restless till he cackles it to the Press the abhorrency from which practise did make abortive that Intention Yet afterwards being wearied with the many Why-nots both of City and Countrey Acquaintance I almost repented the retracted purpose and beginning to reflect upon the Mode of the Times found my self in an errour if the Directions of that Wise Man of France to his Scholar be true Charron to wit That 't is a great point of Wisdom most precisely to obey the Customs of the place and age wherein we live to prevent misprision and popular disdain however irrational they may seem to us And truly Gentlemen if you could read that honour I bear You in my heart You would easily believe your Entreaty to have the force of a Command upon me though it were to much inconvenience yet in the circumstance give me leave ingeniously to tell you that I chuse much more gladly to embrace the motion of the Press then to endure the shock of another years Interrogatories and the rather because I have not found either since the revival of your late Meetings or in times before their adjournment by unhappy War any thing extant from our Country of this nature which presumes the Virtues and Beauties thereof are not ordinary in that that comly Dame and keeper of the virtues Modesty I mean hath hitherto been so strangely prevalent For the last my notice through failed expectation being small and secular diversions then upon me great gave but one free day to recollect my self and I trust a good interpretation will be admitted in that this Gospel-Text seeing Necessity hath no Law at that pinch was ready otherwise a Text calculated for all the Countries under heaven Plainly as it was Preached you have it Printed without any alteration save only the particulars in the Analogie of the seed which was then named but the prosecution nipped off by the coldness of the season Wherein you have as from the Father the highest contrivance of heaven to be at peace with man so from the Son an example of eternal admiration in the acts and sufferings of his love to effectuate that Design for you There seems to remain nothing more but that you in a double sence Brethren after the exemplar of this love may learn to love one another and to the end that the great acts of this love

both of the Father and the Son may be sealed to your souls by his holy Spirit Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice and be ye kind one to another tender hearted forgiving one another even as God for Christ sake hath forgiven you That ye may be united and carried together in the bonds and arms of that last-born 1 Cor. 13.13 but never dying Grace to your heavenly Country where her twin-sisters Faith and Hope shall cease but that of Love abide for ever Which is the hearty Prayer of him that is your most humble and faithful Servant and Countryman in the work of the Gospel M. I. PSALM 119.111 Thy Testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever for they are the rejoycing of my heart THis Psalm is the most excellent Psalm of David excellent for the length of it consisting of so many Octonaries or parts as there are letters in the Hebrew Alphabet excellent for the matter of it all the parts of verses thereof conspiring with one consent to set out the dignity of the Law of God And indeed there seems to have been all divine frames upon Davids heart when he writ this Psalm Sometimes we find him in such raptures as if he was already set down in glory sometimes prostrate upon the earth in humble and penitential confessions of sin and deprecations against them sometimes wee finde him upon his legs looking backward and forward forward telling us what hee would do for time to come Having sworn I will perform it Psal 119.106 that I will keep thy righteous Judgments backward telling us what hee had done in times past to which this verse is to be referred Thy Testimonies have I taken c. These words contain Davids profession of that high esteem hee had of Gods testimonies and the reason thereof the profession in the former part of the verse Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever the reason in the latter part of the verse for they are the rejoycing of my heart The first of these which is Davids profession my purpose is to open to you as the doctrinal part the other in the application of our discourse The first which is Davids profession is one intire proposition in which wee have as in every proposition these two things considerable First the subject or matter treated of which is in the word Testimonies set forth by their relation unto God Thy Testimonies The second is the predicate or that which is spoken of that subject that is the word Heritage set forth by its duration An heritage for ever And first of the first This word Testimonies is that that is sometimes called The Word of the Lord The Way of the Lord Psal 139.9 The Will of the Lord sometimes Psal 143.10 Psal 119.1 The Law of the Lord The Commandements of the Lord sometimes The Fear of the Lord The Statutes of the Lord Psal 119.6 Psal 19.9 The Judgments of the Lord sometimes Psal 119.8 The Testimonies of the Lord. And it is observable Psal 119.13 that though there be an hundred threescore and sixteen verses in this Psalm yet there is not above two of them wherein one of these nine words is not named Some one may say Object What 's the reason that David should use so many words to express one and the same thing Frustrà fit per plura quod fieri potest per pauciora saith the Philosopher Truly Sirs I know not what better answer to give Answ than that it is the property of Love to give several Epithets to the object beloved thus when Christ was in love with his Spouse Thou art Cant. 5.2 saith hee my fair One my Love my Dove my undefiled Cant. 6.1 10. terrible as an Army with banners Thou art my fair One I but what if shee be fair if shee be not chast Thou art my undefiled but what if shee be fair and chast if shee be a scold a vexsome I but thou art my Dove without all gall without all bitterness but what if she be a Dove if she have never so much meekness if that arise only from flegmacy and baseness of temper that shee is sola socordia innocens no shee is full of spirit life and majesty shee is terrible as an Army with banners Thus as Christ delights himself with various titles to set forth the several excellencies of his Church so it is with David his heart is so in love with these Testimonies that hee knowes not what to call them Statutes Lawes Commandements Judgments c. Sometimes when hee considers of them in regard of the Author the great God from whence they came thus hee calls them The Word of the Lord The Way of the Lord The Will of the Lord when hee considers the divine soveraignty that they have over all Gods rational Creatures Angels and Men thus hee calls them The Law of the Lord the Commandements of the Lord when hee considers that great respect and reverence that a gracious heart yields unto them thus hee calls them The fear of the Lord when hee considers their stability and duration as those things which God hath ratified for ever thus they are called The Statutes of the Lord when hee considers that great decision and determination that they shall make at the last day concerning the quick and the dead thus hee calls them The Judgments of the Lord and last of all considering that testification that these make concerning God and man as I shall shew you by and by thus they are called The Testimonies of the Lord Thy Testimonies have I taken c. It is observable that David delights more in this word than in any of the rest and by these Testimonies is meant the Word of God at large but more strictly the Moral Law or the Law of the Ten Commandements You know when God gave the Law he writ it upon two Tables of stone and those two Tables are called Exod. 31.18 The Tables of the Testimony Then God took those Tables of stone and put them into an Ark Exod. 25.22 and that was called The Ark of the Testimony Then God took that Ark and put that Ark into a Tabernacle Num. 1.50 and that Tabernacle was called The Tabernacle of the Testimony so that this was so famous a Testimony that it calls every thing Testimony that toucheth it and gives a denomination to every thing that comes nigh unto it and it may be well called a Testimony Because it was delivered with a Witness when God came down upon Mount Sinai Exod 20.29 the mountain smoked and the earth trembled and there was great thundering and lightening and the sound of the trumpet and hundred of thousands of people that fled from it saying Let us not come near him lest wee die It may well be called the Testimonie Because as it testifies the perfection