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A46995	An exact collection of the works of Doctor Jackson ... such as were not published before : Christ exercising his everlasting priesthood ... or, a treatise of that knowledge of Christ which consists in the true estimate or experimental valuation of his death, resurrection, and exercise of his everlasting sacerdotal function ... : this estimate cannot rightly be made without a right understanding of the primeval state of Adam ...; Works. Selections. 1654	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.; Oley, Barnabas, 1602-1686.	1654 (1654)	Wing J89; ESTC R33614	442,514	358

Professors have in his Name mistaught their Auditors in our dayes If once ye * If any say It is not True Beliefe if it fade or fail They may be Told That if they put Perseverance into the Definition of True Faith they null the Question and make it whether Faith that cannot fail may fail Believe in me ye cannot fall away from me But Thus he taught them Expresly If ye continue in My Word then are ye my Disciples ' 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So that it is One thing to Believe in Christ Another to be Truly his Disciples One Businesse to Believe his Doctrine Another to Continue in his word that is To persevere in true Faith and maintenance of his Doctrine unto the End Nor is it perhaps all one To be made Free by the Truth and To be set Free indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which I take it includes somewhat more then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Realitie or soliditie of Truth All these Gradations are Litterally and Emphatically implied in the plain Grammatical Sense and meaning of our Saviours Speech from verse 30 to the words of my Text and more apparently in the next verse following I know that ye are Abrahams seed but ye seek to kill me because my word hath no place in you These words were not directed to the altogether Vnbelieving or Contradicting Jews with whom he had disputed from verse 12. to the 29. They necessarily referr unto those Jews which had Believed in Part and afforded the Assent of the Braine unto his Doctrine but left no place for his word in their Hearts These being full stuft with corrupt Affections as with Pride Ambition and Hopes of Earthly Pomps and Dignities from their expected Messias When he saith Because my word hath no place in you We are to understand No place of Residence or Permanent Habitation although it had found some Entrance into their Fancies Or will ye have a further Reason why His Word that is The Fundamental Point or Mystery of Faith which he had lately taught had No Place in them Take it in his own words I speak That saith our Saviour which I have seen with my Father and ye do that which ye have seen with your Father verse 38. He had granted them before to be Abrahams seed but now expresseth his Meaning to be that they were a kind of Abortivate or ill thriven Seed no true Sons or children of Abraham But as yet they did not fully understand whom he meant by His Father or whom by Their Father And for this Reason they only resume the same Reply which they had made before verse 33 Abraham is our Father say They verse 39. without adding any Gall unto it But our Saviours Rejoynder is not altogether the same but somewhat more smart and full Before he had granted them to be Abrahams Seed but now he denies them to be Abrahams sons in the later part of the same 39 verse If ye were Abrahams sons ye would do the works of Abraham But now verse 40. ye seek to kill me a man that have told you the truth This did not Abraham And again verse 41. he intimates unto them who was their True Father that was neither God nor Abraham Who then was their True Father or whose children were they indeed This he tels them plainly verse 44. Ye are of your Father the Devil and the lusts of your father ye will do He w●● a murtherer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him That is by not abiding in the Truth or that Image of God wherein he was created he lost all Seeds of Truth and became a meer Lyar and the Father of Lyes And so these Jews were in the Truth whilest they Believed on Him who was the True Son of God yet did not Abide in it after he had told them The truth should make them Free And out of this swelling Pride of Heart they enter Odious Comparisons that they were Sons of God in an equal or better manner then he was And in Conclusion after he had told them that they were as yet sons of the Devil that is men of murtherous minds and envious to the Truth they answer him boldly and glory in their Answer too Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a Devil verse 48. And if a Samaritan then no Son of God but rather a Conjurer or servant of the Devil 7. Thus you have heard to what height of Contradiction To the Truth to the Son of God who is The Truth and The Life of the world and to their own Profession Men in Part Believers may be drawn by Indulgence to their own Corrupt Affections specially of Pride Ambition and Covetousnesse all which ought to be and must be renounced before they can be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 True Disciples of Christ And here I cannot but wonder why men Conversant in Scriptures or Experienced in their own or others Affections Conditions should move any Question whether those which thus unmannerly contested with our Saviour throughout the later part of this Chapter were the same men which in the 30 th verse are said To have Believed on Him And I wonder the more because every serious Reader much more the Learned Interpreters of this Chapter might have observed many like Animadversions or Observations of this our Apostle and Evangelist concerning the disposition of the Jews which in Part or upon fair Occasions Believed on Christ. I shall for the present Instance only in Two like places of which The One is a Parallel Two Instances of the like or worse Recoyls and Revolts of the Jews the Other more then a Parallel to the Revolt or back-sliding of these Believing Jews verse 31. The One place is an Overture or Presage The Other contains the Fulfilling or Accomplishment of our Saviours Prophesie or Prediction of those mens Disposition which entertained him with the often fore-mentioned Dispute from verse 31. to the end of this Chapter The Overture or Parallel we have John 2. verse 23 c. Now when he was at Jerusalem at the Passeover on the Feast day many Believed in his Name when they saw the Miracles which he did May we hence Conclude or safely Collect that these men were ' 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Truly his Disciples or Believers Indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Although it be unquestionably True for the Evangelist affirms it That they did Believe in his Name If we should make this Construction of the Evangelists meaning in That Place that is that Those Men were Truly Disciples Believers indeed his words immediately following would irrefragably Confute us For although They did Believe in his Name yet He did not Believe Them or to use the Apostles words verse 24. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is as our English renders it He did not commit himself unto them And why would he not commit himself unto their Trust seeing They Believed

on him The Evangelist Resolves us in the next words Because he knew all men and needed not that any should testifie of man for he knew what was in man And knowing all men he knew the Disposition of these men to be such that although they did for the present Believe in his name upon presentation of Discontent or denyal of satisfying their desires or hopes of Earthly Dignities they would revile him as the Believers in my Text did and maliciously Contradict his Doctrine or if Opportunity served Betray him into his enemies hands or at least offer him such violence as was offered him in the last verse of this 8 th Chapter Then took they up stones to cast at him ' 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is He made Himself Invisible to their sight and went out of the Temple going through the midst of them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and so avoided their attempted Violence because the hour was not yet come wherein he was willing to suffer Violence 8. But this dangerous disease of the Jewish Nation The Second Instance of Jewish Revolt from Christ or rather Turning clean Counter or the particular indisposition of such as in the second and eight chapters of this Gospel are said to Believe in him did not come to so Perfect A Crisis that others besides Christ himself who knew What was in man could take Notice of it until that Passeover wherein he was betrayed by Judas At the beginning of this Great Feast most of the seed or Progeny of Abraham by Isaac not Inhabitants of Judaea only but wheresoever Scattered through other Nations or Provinces did Believe in his name after a better manner and exprest their Belief and Observance to him in far higher Terms then those men to whom my Text refers or those mentioned by S. John Chap. 2. or any other Ordinary Assemblies had done before And this they did without Contradiction of any save of the Scribes and Pharisees Priests and Elders Scarce any King or Emperour whether Christian or Heathenish since the world began was entertained with such lofty Gratulations from so many mouths and hands at once as our Saviour some three or four dayes before he was Betrayed The Triumphant Salutations which had been tendred to David by Judah and Israel at his Coronation were but a Model of the loud Echoes of Hosanna to the Son of David Hosanna in the Highest Blessed be the Son of David that cometh in the name of the Lord and other Expressions of this peoples Joy when our Saviour according to the Prophecy came into Jerusalem What was the reason of their Vnparallel'd Exultation only Their Belief of the late Miracles which he had wrought upon Lazarus and some other Private Men and their hopes that he would do Greater Wonders then these for their Good and for the Glory of their Nation As First to deliver them from the present Roman yoke and afterward to make them Lords of the Nations through which they were scattered But after he had by his Fathers appointment rendred himself to the High Priest and Elders without a Blow Given beside that which Peter gave to Malchus and submitted himself to the Roman Deputy without Resistance They begun to cast doubts in their minds and thought that he who could not or would not defend himself from such violence was not able or would not be willing to protect much lesse to advance them unto Greater Dignities And so by Degrees within a short space the very same Parties of Exultant Believers in Him became Cruel Persecutors of Him Changing their late joyful Hymns of Hosanna to the Son of David into sad Madrigals of Crucifige Crucifige Let him be crucified Let him be crucified like a Slave And thus the whole Nation almost did remarkably fulfil our Saviours Prediction of these Jews mentioned verse 44. of this Chapter Ye are of your father the Devil and the lusts of your father ye will do He was a murtherer from the beginning and he abode not in the truth Hereby we may know them to have been the Devils own sons in that when Pilate had proposed unto them Him whom they had lately confessed to be the Son of David with Barabbas a notable thief and a murtherer they importunately solicite with open mouth The deliverance of Barabbas by Interpretation the son of their Father and the Execution of Jesus their Saviour and chang'd their late Belief and Allegiance professed to Christ who is Truth it Self and son of God unto the service of the Father of Lyes 9. The Resultance of that which hath been said or if you will the main Stem unto which all the fore-mentioned scattered Seeds of Truth afforde Nutriment is This That Men in part Believers or to their own apprehension zealous and sound professors of Christian Faith may be as yet Servants to sin and by such Service Slaves to Satan The useful Branches springing from this Stem are These First To know the Nature Condition or Proprieties of our Natural Lord and Master to wit Sin Original whether Hereditary meerly or as by us improved The Second To know our own Condition or Estate or wherein our Servitude to sin doth properly consist Thirdly The Degrees or Manner how we are or may be made Free indeed by the Son of God But with these Branches I dare not meddle for the present the best use which can be made of this short Remnant of time will be to Reflect by way of Use or Application upon that which hath been said 10. The Application Were this Question proposed to this present or any other Congregation throughout This ‖ This Sermon is supposed to have been preached at Oxford in A Time of Gods Visitation by the Plague of Pestilence City Punctually in these Terms Whether do ye Love God and his Anointed Christ with all your hearts and with all your souls we should find but a very few if any at all which would not as willingly subscribe unto This as unto that solemn Covenant made by them or by others for them to this Effect at their Baptism Nor will Christian charity permit us to Suspect much lesse to Deny that they did make this Recognition heartily and unfainedly according to their present Apprehensions or Perswasions of their Belief specially if they made it in the calm of their unprovoked Affections But if we should cast in that Counterpoise which our Saviour himself hath given us for the due Examining of our Apprehensions or Perswasions of our Love and Loyalty towards Him most of us might justly dread lest that Hand-writing against Belshazzar Mene Mene Tekel might as well be Appliable to our selves as it was to him Fear we might lest our Apprehensions or Perswasion of our Belief of our Love and Loyalty towards Christ would prove a great deal too Light if we should weigh them as we ought by the True Scale of the Sanctuary One Counterpoise there is which would quickly recal or check our forward