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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77990	Jacobs seed or The generation of seekers. And Davids delight : or The excellent on earth. / By the late reverend preacher of the Gospel Jeremiah Burrough.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1648 (1648)	Wing B6090; Thomason E1162_1; ESTC R210094	70,993	190

way that it is so it appears by the Psalme that Christ especially is meant the text saith I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the middest of the congregation will I praise thee It is the promise of Christ to declare the name of his father to his Church and people and in the middest of the congregation he shall praise God Mark it in Heb. 2.12 the Apostle applies it to the saints joyned together saying I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the middest of the Church will I sing praise unto thee This was after Christ had been in the flesh yet the Apostle applies this to the Church in the middest of the Church will I sing praise unto thee This they gather hence that Christ he delights in being with his people when they are joyntly together because of the solemne worship of God that is tendered to God by them and he joynes with them in it as a delightfull work as they are together to praise God Christ is praising him as they worship Christ is worshiping Now every saint of God hath the spirit of Christ in him and so he delights in the society of the saints on this ground because there is worshiping of God and God is praised solemnly among them If there be any in the world wherein God hath solemne worship it cannot but grieve a gracious heart that he is not with them his heart is with them he delights to be with them especially in such a work as that it grieves him that he cannot be there It is a note of an Interpreter that I have met with upon Isaiah 6. where the Angles cry Holy holy holy Lord of Hosts the Prophet cryes Woe unto me for I am undone c. saith he upon this ground because he could not joyn with those blessed creatures and so magnifie and praise and worship God that he through his sinfulnesse was not able to joyn with them he cryes Woe is me I am undone So when any gracious heart doth but hear that there is a people in the world that are precious ones the excellent on earth that joyn in the worship of God and honour God in his own way and enjoy communion with God and I cannot joyn with them woe to me that there should be any let or hinderance that I cannot come and joyn with them for my heart is there my delight is in the saints when they are joyntly together because Gods solemne worship is there But thirdly my delight is in the saints joyntly in regard of the wonderfull delight God hath in them A gracious heart must needs delight in them because God himself takes so much delight in them but especially when they are joyntly together There are speciall expressions in Scripture of Gods taking delight in the sains joyntly as in Zephany Zeph. 3.17 the Lord thy God in the middest of thee is mighty he will save he will rejoyce over thee with joy he will rest in his love he will joy over thee with singing What expressions are here of Gods delighting in his people The Lord thy God will rejoyce he will rejoyce over thee with joy he will love he will rest in his love and joy and joy over thee with singing And in Isaiah you shall find that the Church is called Hephzebah Gods delight it is a wondrous delight that God hath in his saints There are wonderfull expressions in Scripture for the manifesting of Gods delight even to admiration especially in the Church joyntly together They are such expressions as we could not think or invent as namely that he calls his people his portion his pleasant portion Deut. 32.9 God calls them his inheritance the lot of his inheritance Jer. 12.7 he calls them the dearly beloved of his soul Exod. 19.5 he calls them his peculiar treasure God hath treasures in the world the creatures that are called the good treasures of the Lord Deut. 28. but this people are called his peculiar treasure there is a particularity There is another kind of excellency in the people of Gods delight then in all other creatures they are his common treasure but his people are his peculiar treasure God calls them his glory The house of his glory Isa 46.13 The crown of his glory Isa 60.7 he calls them the Throne of his glory Isa 62.3 in severall places that I cannot stand on His glory the House of his glory the Crown of his glory the Throne of his glory He calls them the royall Diadem he calls them his ornament an ornament set in Majesty and glory There are these expressions and more I might name of Gods delighting in his people Therefore if God delight in them and finde satisfaction much more ' should we Christ speaks of his Church O my sister my spouse my heart is ravished with thee It is a strange expression for Christ himself to be ravished with his people It is an expression beseeming the Church to have said so to Christ but for Christ to say so to the Church it is wonderfull And again My love my dove my undefiled one Cant. 2. and at that very time when the Church was in a state of security that Christ should call her his love his dove his undefiled all to expresse the abundance of delight in his people Well if God have such delight in them much more should the saints Again if we consider further the presence of God among his people it is another argument why the saints of God should take so much delight in other saints especially when they are joyned together because God is present there The Lord is here is the name of all their assemblies The Lord dwells and hath his tabernacle in Sion It is a strange expression concerning the presence of God in that he makes his people his habitation As the people of God call God their habitation so God calls his Church his habitation God dwels in Sion Ps 90. Would you not delight to keep house with God Where Gods people are God keeps house and we should long to have it our own house and not come as strangers A man may come as a stranger and take a bit and be refreshed in a family but it is not his house But now Gods people when they go tootthers of the saints they see God there and they have that house for their house It is called as I told you the house of his glory that house that God desires to dwell in he hath a mighty love to that house to dwell among his people In Psal 132. there are many great and excellent expressions For the Lord hath chosen Zion he hath desired it for his habitation Psal 132.13 14. God desires Zion what is Zion but onely his saints and people joyned together Zion was a type of the Church so now all the saints of God together are Zion Now God hath a desire to this habitation God dwels in the high and holy place the highest heaven is Gods habitation

Jacob as it was upon his father And dost thou walk in the fear of God Hast thou not a bold spirit that goes in slight presumptuous bold base wayes This is not like Jacob he looked on Gods presence as terrible Thirdly Jacobs heart was disingaged from the creature a little of the creature would serve his turn Ge. 28. Lord saith he if thou wilt give me meat to eat and raiment to put on He looked no further he minded no great matters Therefore in Psalm 24. there the generation of Jacob is set out and one thing is he that hath not lift up his soul to vanity The men of the world have great things in their eyes they are vanity in Gods eye though they be great in theirs and they lift up their hearts to them Now the sonnes of Jacob do not lift up their hearts to vanity though the things of the world be present their hearts stirre not they rise not but if God and Christ and heavenly things be presented their hearts are lifted up If thy heart be lifted up to vanity if thy heart be as iron and the vanities of the world come and draw it up thou art not a sonne of Jacob a little would serve Jacob though he were a great heir He was a plain man and dwelt in tents Gen. 25. and had a plain spirit he did not look after great things whereas Esau looked after great things abroad Again he was one of a tender spirit therefore where it is said he prevailed with the Angel it is said he wept and made supplication unto him he found him in Bethel and there he spake with us That story of Jacob concerns us how God dealt with our Father If now thou have a tender spirit as he had if when thou goest into the presence of God thou find thy spirit yield and melt and relent thou art one like thy father Jacob. Again further Jacob did in the time of his streights repair to the covenant that was a great satisfaction to his heart he looked to the covenant he fastned on that and there he held as the main support of his spirit Gen. 32.9 And Jacob said O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac the Lord which said'st unto me return unto thy countrey and to thy kindred and I will deal well with thee c. He heard that Esau was coming against him with a great many and what doth Jacob he gets him to God O God of my father Abraham and of my father Isaac the Lord which said unto me return into thy countrey c. He repairs to the Covenant Remember thy Covenant with Abraham and Isaac and with me too I went on thy word Here was the guise of Jacob canst thou in a straight get thee too a word and a promise and brood thy soul over it and clasp it close say this is the promise that must and will do me good Again Jacob was of an humble spirit I am not worthy of the least of thy mercies He admired at the mercy of God that he had any thing and Gods mercies made him more humble this is an excellent disposition we are many times humble and lowly when we are under the hand of God in affliction but when mercies make us humble that the more God is gracious the more vile we are in our own eyes this is excellent And he looked back to his former condition he looked upon his poor beginning and gives God the glory I passed over this Jordan with my staffe Many of you came with your staff and God hath given you two bands you are grown great are you willing to think of it and to acknowledge the poor estate that once you were in and to give God the glory I was thus and thus of poore parentage and see how God hath dealt with me Another thing remarkable is that Jacob contented himself with God alone he accounted that he had enough in God alone though all were taken from him he did not look upon himself as undone but he had that that might make him for ever In Gen. 33. compare the 9. and 11. verses you shall find a notable difference between Esau and Jacob yet the word in our books is the same but this Scripture is much wronged by the translation In v. 8. Esau when he comes to Jacob when Jacob would have given him his present saith he what meanest thou by all these droves which I met he said these are to find grace in the sight of my lord and Esau said I have enough my brother It was a strange speech of Esau A covetous wretch that is alway pyning and murmuring for having no more and thinks he shall want before he dye he doth not come so farre as Esau and Esau could say I have enough are there not many of you that never say you have enough I pray thee take my present saith Jacob for I have all things nay saith Esau I have enough The one saith I have enough the other saith I have all things for so the word is Col Esau had enough he did not want he had meat and drink and he saw none to interrupt him he was satisfied with his estate as his portion he had enough he cared for nothing more they might talk of other things but that was enough to him Jacob comes and saith I have enough but this was another manner of enough Esaus enough is his estate but Jacobs enough is God for he saith I have all Jacob was meaner for his outward condition then Esau for he had nothing but what he had gotten in hard servitude Now Esau saith I have enough Jacob saith I have all that is God is enough in the want of all if Esau should strip him of all he had yet he had all in God Now one that is of the seed of Jacob in the time of want as some of you may be plundered and then all is gone you say no if thou be of the seed of Jacob if thou have God thou hast all There is such a promise He that overcometh shall inherit all things How is that and I will be his God Revel 21.7 Therefore whatsoever thou wantest if God be thine if thou be Gods child thou hast all Further one of the seed of Jacob is one of the Church of God for all Jacobs posterity was so therefore the blessing in Ruth is The Lord blesse thee like Rachel and Leah which two did build up the house of Israel Why is it not the Lord blesse thee as Rebeccah or Sarah but as Rachel and Leah It was a blessing upon a marriage condition the reason is because from Rachel and Leah came onely those that were of the Church that were members of the Church of God but there came others from Rebeccah and of Sarah came onely Isaac but Abrahams posterity was otherwise And that Church that was then was but a type of that which should be after that is of a company