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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02460	A sermon preached at Nevvport-Paignell in the Countie of Buckingham. By R.H.	Hacket, Roger, 1559-1621.	1628 (1628)	STC 12590; ESTC S119751	27,838	60

of grace since now to his endlesse comfort he feeleth that Christ hath borne the punishment of his sinne that hee might enioy the fruite of Christes righteousnes which is all grace in this world and hereafter euerlasting life Out of this short explication of the Apostles wordes light touch of this most wounderful doctrine we may for our better instruction obserue first who are to be reconciled that is God and man secondly by whom they are to be reconciled that is by Iesus Christ thirdly by what meanes Christ reconcileth man vnto God which is by taking away from man that which is mans that is his sinne and by giuing vnto man that which is not mans but Gods euen the righteousnesse of God in him Then first the chiefe partie that is to be reconciled is God and he sent his seruaunts earely and late to recall his people from their sinnes and although they were euill entreated and put to shame yet in the aboundance of his loue he protesteth that he would not the death of a sinner but with great griefe demaundeth of his people Israell why they would die nay after his seruants he sendeth his sonne who weepeth would haue gathered them as the henne gathereth her chickens but they would not heare nor know the thinges that made for there peace but killed the heyre of the vineyard and persequuted such which beleeued in his name Yet for all this God full of mercy and ready to forgiue giueth in commaund to his Apostles and to other successors the pastors and teachers in the Church not to commaund but to pray not in there owne name but in his that yet at the length they would be reconciled vnto him Behold O carelesse fleshe the wonder of the world that the almighty who by the breath of his nostrels could destroy al flesh and can raise out of stones sonnes vnto Abraham make of Moses a mighty nation should so far stoope as it were vnto man and beseech him that he would be reconciled vnto him It is he O man that is iniured he hath not iniured nor wronged thee testifie against him if thou canst yet he which beareth thy rebukes and whose wrath if thou weart armed with the powers of heauen and earth thou couldest not susteyne is not onely ready to forgiue but beggeth at thy hands that thou wouldest be forgiuen and reconciled vnto him Thy enmitie can do him no hurt thy friendship no good Yet when thou art dumbe nay scornest his helpe that is thine owne health he for thy good not for his entreateth beseecheth that thou wouldest be reconciled vnto him O Lord great in patience and of much mercy that thou shouldest so friendly deale with sin full flesh I would that we could so deale with our brethren as thou O Lord hast dealt with vs. But alas our fleshly mindes and malice feeding stomackes are so sharpened to reuenge and to bandie backe an ill turne with a worse that if any hath but once trespassed vs we are ready forthwith to haue him by the throate We are so farre from entreating his loue that wee disdaine to speake to him nay cannot abide that any should speake of him to vs. But O man looke on thy maker he hath not dealt in this sort with thee thou hast not trespassed him once but often and that not after a light but most grieuous manner yet before that thou art sorie for thy fault or once desirest to haue his mercy he is not onely cōtent to speake but as one that hath written thy iniuries in the dust desireth thee to be recōciled vnto him O blessed sauiour whilest yet thy handes and feete were bleeding thy mouth tasted of the gall and vineger whilest yet thy eies saw there vilenes and thy eares heard the reproch with which they reproched thee thou criedst forgiue them father forgiue them they know not what they do And thy faithfull Stephen whilest yet he sighed vnder the violence of the stones he called for no fier from heauen neither did his bloud call for vengeance from the earth but seeking to do good to them of whom he had receyued euill O Lord lay not this sin to there charge True it is that which the Disciples spake of another matter so sinful flesh speaketh of this this is an harde saying who may abide it Insomuch that if fleshe and bloud aske counsaile of it self he wil haue a tooth for a tooth and yet not content he will neuer rest till he hath set his feete on the neck of him that hath offended and his eies see him a dispised creature trampeled in the dirte For if Haman see that Mardoche shall not arise and make obeysaunce vnto him so mightily rageth malice in his hart that he will not onely prepare a gibbet to hange him but yet not satisfying his reuenging soule he will labour to destroy with him his whole nation If once the women shall ascribe to Dauid more glorie then to Saule although Dauid vētured for Saules defence and this fault if so be a fault is in other not in him yet Saules soule so burneth with reuenge that it can not be cooled by intreatie of friendes or any whit aswaged by the merites of his seruant nor yet quenched although he knoweth all this to be the onely worke of God Thus doth malice reuenge beare rule in fleshly minded men Neyther doth this furious passion onely reigne in fleshly minded men and such which haue no feeling of God but euen this taketh hold sometimes of the children of God and so mastereth the good spirit that is in them that in the furie of their affection they seeke reuenge and the spoyle of him whom their humor doth not like This may be seene in Elysha who cursed the children because they mocked him this in the Patriarkes which forgate nature and sould their brother this in Lot who snuffes at Abraham for the quarell of his men this in the Apostles who wished for fier to come downe from heauen this in Dauid who rashly vowed that hee would not leaue in Nabels house one to make water against the wall and this also in many Gods seruants who now liue in the flesh too much yeelding to their fleshe Vnto whom what should wee say but that they would walke after the spirit not after the fleshe that they would leaue to liue vnto themselues and suffer Christ to liue in them That they would say of Shemei cursing as Dauid did to the sonnes of Seruiah suffer him to curse for the Lord hath biddē him or that they would answere not onely with wordes but teares of kindnes as Ioseph did to his brethren which acknowledged their faulte all is for good feare ye not am not I vnder God And not only let them acknowledge that it is God