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A94505	Christ knocking at the doore, or, The substance of a sermon intended to be preached in Pauls upon the Sabbath day which fell upon the fifteenth day of April last: but not preached, by reason of a suddain obstruction of that liberty which was promised him, being indeed unworthy to be the servant of Jesus Christ in any such ministration for ever. / Published by the authour Philip Tanny commonly Tandy.	Tanny, Philip.	1655 (1655)	Wing T149; Thomason E1485_4; ESTC R208765	25,450	49

be a strange thing for us to patterne such a patience yet 't is not a strange thing for Christ to set us such a copy this is the Lords doing and 't is marvellous in our eyes that he is so good so gracious so patient so that we must needs looke a little upon this word Behold in this sense of wonder and truely wonderfull it is if either you consider 1. Who it is that declares himselfe 't is I saith Christ 2. What he declares himselfe to doe he stands Non dicit venio sed sto saith an honest Expositor He doth not say I come and I sit but I stand 3. But where stands he looke and wonder I beseech you he stands at the doore Cur non aperit saith Mr. Brightman Why doth he not open the doores nay Cur non effringat fores Why doth he not breake open doores say I he can if he will but he doth not but there he stands But is the doore open no the more wicked they we all 't is shut yet he will not be gone for my Text saith he seeks for entrance fairely he knocks He knocks saith my ●ext but if you looke into the following words in this very same verse you shall finde he calls too for 't is said If any man heare my voice and open the doore c. Surely a voice a call could not be heard nor supposed to be heard unlesse there were a call unlesse there were a voice both then must be yeelded he knockt he calld he did so to them it may be he doth so to us Let me onely put you in minde before I come to closer examination that it may be we shall finde this true that pulsando vocat vocando pulsat imo demum effringit fores that by knocking he calls and by calling he knocks nay at length breakes open the doores You know what Christ saith to this purpose if we rightly understand it The houre is come and now is when the dead shall heare the voice of the Sonne of man and those that heare shall live The first point of Admiration lyes in the Consideration of the party who declares himselfe 't is I Behold I stand at the doore and knock I Who is that ver 14. tells us Ver. 14. These things saith the Amen the saithfull and true witnesse the beginning of the creation of God He is called the Amen in the Greeke 't is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ille Amen that Amen and who is that Amen the next words tell us 't is the faithfull and true witnesse And who is this fairhfull and true witnesse let the Scripture tell you plainly Rev. 1.6 Grace be unto you and peace from him who is and was and is to come and from the seven spirits whih are before his throne and from Jesus Christ who is the faithfull witnesse described after to be him that loved us and hath washed us from our sinnes by his owne bloud Anselme hath a very usefull note upon this very word quia dicturus erat scilicet Christus rem mirabilem quod tepidi excommunicandi de ore suo projiciendi essent qui ab hominibus boni credebantur subaudi nec tamen essent ideo promittit se veracem esse ut in his fibi credendum esse videatur ideo dicitur ille Amen or to this purpose and very neere these words Because saith he Jesus Christ was to speake of a wonderfull thing viz. that lukewarme persons were to be excommunicated by Christ and that these were to spued out of his mouth who were of men beleeved to be good and yet were not so he premiseth therefore that he is a teller of truth and that in these things it might appear that he ought to be beleeved therefore he cals himself the Amen or that Amen as much as to say My words shall be found to be true I warrant you Heaven and Earth shall passe away but one jot of my words shall not passe away When therefore you hear Jesus Christ by his Spirit in his Servants and Ministers threatning to spue you out of his mouth for your lukewarmnesse for do not your consciences tell you to your faces that you are neither hot nor cold nay are many of you of any Religion at all do not think that when your consciences are told of these things Christ dallies with you or that he will suffer himself to be dallied with for ever or that it is nothing to be spued out of Christs mouth or to take his Candlestick from you in case you think you have it Beleeve it eleeve it Gentlemen If Christ finde you in such a condition and course of sinfulnesse as to do this to you Evemere ex ere to spue you out of his mouth I must be bold to tell you that it were better for you that you had never been born or that so soon as you had been born you had every one of you a milstone tied about his neck and that you had been cast into the midst of the Sea You will finde these things true at the length for he that testifies these things which I have spoken of is the Amenille Amen that Amen not only in whom omnes promissiones as one observeth upon the place All the Promises are yea and Amen but from whom you will finde likewise Omnes comminationes all the threatnings of Christ will be yea and Amen to those that are out of him to those that have no part nor portion in him or whom he shall spue out of his mouth You see then who it is that stood at the doors in my Text 't is Christ and truly this consideration might be improved a little the better to fix upon our affections if we remember 1. The greatnesse and Majesty of Christ 2. That he is the party offended 3. The great concernment of souls that Jesus Christ is pleased to stand at the doore of any of us 1. If we consider the greatnesse and majesty of Christ In that place of the Psalmes which I quoted to you before he is termed the King of glory In the Vision which was presented to St John Rev 1. you finde amongst many other majesticall expressions that he is described having eyes as a flaming fite his feet were said to be like fine brasse as if they burned in a furnace in his right hand he is said to have the seven Stars the Churches implying he could protect them or do with them what he would he could throw them away if he pleased Out of his mouth it is said there went a sharp two edged Sword that could cut as fast as it spoke nay Heb. 4.12 Christ who is there called the Word of God is said to be quick and powerfull and sharper then any two-edged Sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughter and intents of the hearts My Masters do you think to deceive him you

CHRIST KNOCKING AT THE DOORE OR The Substance of a SERMON Intended to be Preached in PAULS upon the Sabbath Day which fell upon the Fifteenth Day of April last But not Preached by reason of a suddain Obstruction of that Liberty which was promised him being indeed unworthy to be the Servant of Jesus Christ in any such ministration for ever Published by the Authour PHILIP TANNY commonly TANDY London Printed by A.M. and are to be sold by Giles Calvert at the Black Spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls and Simon Miller at the Signe of the Starre 1655. To his Highnesse OLIVER Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland May it please your Highness IT is now almost nine years since I appeared in a Pulpit except once only at London-stone where I thank God through his blessing I did not wholy lose my labour I did endeavour before that to have preached at Pauls upon a Sabbath day in the afternoon in Dr Burgess his substitutes room but he being surprised on a sudden with some strange relations touching me wherein it may please God at length to vindicate me to the shame of all my enemies for I account my professed friends by reason of their injurious actions towards me little lesse on a sudden when I came with intention to goe into the Pulpit to deliver the substance of what is herewith printed with some enlargements as my affections should have dictated I was to the wonder I think of many I am sure of divers who came to hear me with honest affections I doubt not denied the liberty which was very civily promised me May it please your Highness I thank God I can say truly and my heart and conscience bears me witnesse to my own integrity in saying so that I can be content to become a spectacle to God Angels and men since he hath been pleased most strangely and unexpectedly to finde out a way to shew compassion to such a sinner as I am of which I was so hopelesse for a long time together though I must confesse at the beginning of my despair I received the greatest support by your Highnesse speaking to me that ever I had from any man living that I must needs say that for almost if not full out nine years together I never clearly hoped for the reconciled face of a loving God againe For this reason I say once again I can be content through the goodness of God to become a spectacle to God Angels and men for Jesus Christs sake who I trust hath had mercy on my soul and hath pardoned my transgressions there having been never such a sinner in the world as I have been Such a compassion being shewed to such a sinner the like I say again was never yet in the world it hath begotten in me a suitable and I hope I may say a Christianlike resolution to passe by such wrongs and injurious transactions used towards me as I may truly affirm that all circumstances considered there were yet never the like of them in the world done to any private man in a peaceable government God continue this government upon your Highness shoulders and make them strong for their service which is very great nay greater then you are aware of if I know any thing of God or of Jesus Christ aright The reason why I have troubled the Press with my affectionate meditations upon the action of Christ knocking at the doores of our hearts for the entertaining of his mercies is because 1. By this I shall revive in my memory the many transactions which Christ in his patience hath used toward my self and be humbled for my own disobedience and rebellion 2. That it might appear to all that I am no sower of sedition there being nothing more affectionately springing in my soul then my longing desire to see this poor Nation wherein I was born and have lived I thank God honestly towards man though sinfully towards God the larger half of my days in humane reason setled and established in truth righteousnes and peace I put truth first for if our intellectuals be not better principled touching many differences that are amongst us I am certain we cannot be stablished in righteousnesse and if we be not stablished in righteousnesse I am as sure and certaine that we cannot be stablished in any true and truly comfortable peace I am not without hope notwithstanding all difficulties yet to see such a peace And indeed to speak truth one reason of my hope is that I see generally in all mens expectations so little hope of it For do not mens hearts say within themselves How can these things be shall a Nation be born in a day It may be it will for when the Lord returns the captivity of his people shall they not be like them that dreame Who knows what a day may bring forth We have long looked for a day generally heretofore but of late men have laboured in the very fire and yet expected no good but to live and not to be slaves Bear up yet a little longer O England it may be thy Saviour will yet pity thy longings thou seest no help 't is the more likely that help is nigh at hand me thinks I see a little which though appearing but like the palme of a hand may yet increase to a great cloud which shall overspread the heavens and bring forth rain to refresh the earth In this Expectation I do with much comfort of heart assure my Soul your Highnesse hath a great part to act a great Stage to act upon you know not how large Be pleased to look to your station in Jesus Christ strongly and suddenly if your feet shall be fixt upon that rock and your goings stablished in him this Nation will have reason to blesse God for you but if your Highness falter too much if you consult with flesh and bloud too long if your affections to Jesus Christ and his poor ones cool or grow indifferent or that you look too much upon principles of Policy which are an Aegyptian Reed and will deceive you and all the Princes in the world You may expect a sudden hand of Gods vengeance and displeasure that shall overturn your Counsels and bring them to foolishnes and God shall bring deliverance another way and restore comforts to his Mourners by another hand I beseech your Highness pardon my plain dealing I dare not but speak the things which in some little measure I see I have spoken herein words of sobernesse and honest affection to your Highness and to this Nation wherein I live God Almighty give you understanding in all things which concern the publike and your private peace I am Your Highness most truly affectionate and thankefully humble Servant PHILIP TANNY vulgò TANDY CHRIST KNOCKING AT THE DOORE REV. 3. Ver. 20th Behold I stand at the doore and knock IF we take this whole Booke of the Revelations and looke upon it in a more generall view it