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A42555 Wisdom justified of her children, or, Two sermons sometime preached in Cockshutt Chappel, in the county of Salop, and lately at Brightling in Sussex, on Matth. XI. XIX. and now at the request of friends enlarged, and published / by William Gearing ... Gearing, William. 1668 (1668) Wing G439; ESTC R16127 41,501 72

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and derided at him The Jews made him a King but it was in mockery when they put upon him a purple robe and a reed into his hand neither would they throw down their righteousness before him thinking Christ not worthy of their tribute So unto this day all impenitent sinners do rebel against the Crown and Dignity of Jesus Christ they will not Subject themselves to Christ's Scepter and the Government of his Spirit according to his word they will be lawless and live as they list they will not vouchsafe to throw down the weapons of Sin Pride Drunkenness Uncleanness c. and their stubborn wills and unruly affections Jesus Christ in the judgement of an ungodly world is not worthy of these things so all ungodly men do deny to justifie Christ the King of Kings The Centurions Servants justifie and acknowledged him their Lord by their willing obedience to his quick commands when he said come they come go they go do this and they do it So the Children of wisdom do justifie Christ in yielding cheerful obed●ence to him in all his commands when he saith do this or that duty they do it when he saith Abstain from this or that sin no temptation can easily withdraw them Thus the Spirit of Christ is the intelligentia movens as Aristotle speaks of Angels whirling about the Sphere of their daily conversation When we obey Christ we put a Kingly Crown upon his head in suffering him to rule us to subdue our hearts unto him and do not cherish any contrary motions to his Spirit when we will not go against his Spirit and his Word as Balaam said to Balak Though he would give me his house full of silver and gold I cannot go beyond the Commandment of my God to do less or more CHAP. V. II. Let us consider Wisd●m in another acception understanding there●y Holiness Religion the truths and Ordinances of Christ and so the Children of Wisdom do justisie Wisdom 1 WHen their love to Religion Truth and Holiness brings them out of love with the world when their embracement of these things divorceth their hearts from all outward things for Christ and for his Truth and Religion sake By our Self-denial we justifie wisdom to be the principal thing to be more worth than all the world to be better than Riches Honours the Favours of great Persons Pleasures and all worldly preferments that Christ is the only gain accounting all these things below to be but dross and dung When the Children of Wisdom can willingly suffer the loss of Riches Liberty Preserment Life and all they have for Religion for Christ for a good cause and a good conscience then do they justifie to all the world that these things are dearer to them than their own sives our sufferings for Religion is our Magnifying of it to be condemned for righteousness sake is to justifie righteousness suffering Christians are the Honour of Religion and the glory of Christ Thus Moses justified wisdom he parted with the best things that Egypt could give and contented himself with the worst condition of the Israelites this sheweth that he justified Christ to be better yea the sufferings and reproaches of Christ to be better than all the treasures of Egypt The Pharisees would not thus justifie Christ self-denial and their popular outward Pharisaical holiness could not stand together it is said of them that they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God and so would not be Disciples of Christ as if it had been dishonourable for them as Salvian in his time complained long agone Siquis ex nobilitate converti ad deum coeperit statim honorem nobilitatis amitteret Religion makes men ignoble and base in the worlds eye So again it is spoken of the Pharisees that they durst not openly to profess Christ lest they were cast out of the Synagogue they durst not justifie Christ So still in all generations too many earthly men do justifie and have applauded the world above Religion and Holiness but yet still wisdom ha●h been justified of all her Children 2. When we stick to Religion to the Worship and Service of God then do we justifie wisdom when we resolve to serve God in his own way let all commands and threats affront us yet then will we stick to Gods testimonies and to the pure worship of God Thus Daniel stuck to Gods Service against the decree of the King that contained a moneths Atheism in it Dan. 6.7 He had rather be torn asunder with a whole Den of Lions than be drawn to worship a man in stead of God he would pray three times in a day to his God though the King whose Favourite he was would cast him out of favour and all the Princes and Presidents soug●● thereby to ensnare him Though the wicked mock such as hear the word pray and perform all the parts of Gods worship more frequently than themselves yet the Children of wisdom will justifie ●t rejoycing as the Psalmist speaks of the Sun to run their course daily of Gods Service the children of wisdom are not like some Seamen that boast they can sail with all winds they can do nothing against the truth they like wisdom best though it doth not always se●ve their own ends and occasions they hold on in the way of Religion as a Traveller riding in earnest business that must go on in his way whether fair or foul in company or alone go they must yea run whom Christ draweth and in that way they fear no Lions nor to be slain in the Streets because they hold it needful that they go not needful that they live and when the Children of this world are resolved to be nothing but what they are ready not to be that they may be fitter for those in high places whose persons they have in admiration for advantage sake the Children of wisdom do abhor all inconstancy in Religion or any thing which may argue the least unfaithfulness to the Lord Jesus Christ the Prince and Captain of their Salvation Religion is as a garment which covereth them and for a girdle wherewith they are girded continually To the Children of the world Religion is as the Philacteries upon the skirts of their garments but far from their heart but to the Children of Wisdom it is as the Corinthians to Paul In the heart to live and die together 3. We justifie wisdom when as the Children of Wisdom do just fie one another by loving one another for their graces and holiness by standing for them when the wicked by opposition or disgrace do labour to beat them down when we make much of them when the world trampleth upon them and looketh upon them as the filth and off-scouring of the world we justifie wisdom they are beloved of us because they are beloved of Christ we honour them because they honour God we stick to them because they stick to God we rejoyce in them because of the graces of God in their