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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34165	A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.; Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.; Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.; Nalton, James, 1600-1662.; Lye, Thomas, 1621-1684.; Ashe, Simeon, d. 1662.	1663 (1663)	Wing C5638; ESTC R8646	623,694	660

he gave a free and full account of the Doctrine of his Father and of his glorious person before Pontius Pilate a bloudy Persecutor It was not by saying to his Disciples Fight nor by saying My Kingdom is not of this World but he gave a glorious confession before the face of Pilate of the righteousness of his Truth Doctrine Gospel and of his Person Fear to ensnare the freedom of the Truth with your own Liberty do not ensnare it to your own lusts nor to the will of any man Oh! that we could study and improve these Scriptures more it would make us fear God more and man less This is that that would make us to say as holy David did Psal 119.161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause but my heart standeth in awe of thy word for he that hath the most fear on you and upon you you will be more afraid to fall into his hands It is a childish thing for a Christian to tread down the belief of any Doctrine or practise any Worship for fear of man who hath no more power to hurt us than we give him our selves by our fear Fear not him that can kill the body c. It was the way of Gods people formerly that they came to divide between duty commanded by God and commanded by Man You may read in all the dayes of Antichrists persecution from the beginning they came to divide in matter of obedience to God and his truth and worship and obedience to Man Christians nothing but a suffering spirit will help you to this for there is no other way of Obedience in this case to Authority but to suffer under it meekly patiently as Lambs This made the three children to divide between the command of the King and the command of God What sayes Nebuchadnezzar Every knee that bowes not shall be cast into the Furnace Very well As for that matter say they O King we are not careful to answer thee for we will not bow down c. What will they not obey him Yes they will obey him by suffering as becomes Christians and is the example of Christ as if they should say Truely we are terrified with the burning Furnace but we are terrified with Hell too We are terrified by the threats of the great King but we are likewise terrified with the threats of the great God He is able to deliver us our of your torments you are not able to deliver us from his torments so in the case of Daniel Arm your selves with this Resolution of suffering and lying down patiently and meekly under those things that you cannot do so that God may be honoured by your holy resolution upon this account for truly you never do contend successfully for the faith of the Gospel till you contend by suffering for it is said They overcome by the blood of the Lamb You never make Religion your business till the world see you can let such great things go as Life Estate Liberty to keep it then wisdom is justified of her Children You never glorifie the truths of God so much by practice or writing as by suffering for them Those glorious truths against Popish justification mixing of works with faith Transubstantiation Purgatory Idol-worship against all those things that were superadded contrary to God's Institution there is such a glory upon the truths that is hard for the Popish power ever to darken them again because we see them written in the honourable and blessed scars of the witnesses and burnings of those glorious Martyrs If you would take one another by the hand when God takes away our faithful Guides and say Brethren Sisters Friends come let us hold together there 's no way in the world to hold on together like suffering for the Gospel really would get more advantage by the holy humble sufferings of one gracious Saint meerly for the Word of Righteousness than by ten thousand Ar●uments used against Hereticks and false Worship Compare Phil. 1 12 13 14. with the 27 28 and 29. verses How are Pauls bonds a furtherance of the Gospel Paul no doubt was called an evil doer that sowed Heresie and was hated every where saith he Many of the Brethren of the Lord waxed confident by my bounds and were much more bold to speak the Word without fear Here 's the great encouragement and that 's in the 27. verse and he speaks it as one that was leaving of them Only let your Conversation he as becometh the Gospel of Christ that you may stand fast in one spirit with one mind striving together for the faith of the Gospel and in nothing terrified by your Adversaries for unto you it is given not only to believe but also to suffer c. It is given to you as a duty given to you as a priviledge O that you would confirm one another and in slippery times hold up one another by the hand do it in going after Gods call and in this way suffering for those truths you cannot otherwise hold and maintain Truly Christians you had need be armed with Resolution for the world is always counting the things Gods people have suffered for very little and they count it prudence not to meddle therein Those men that have easie soft terms to comply that they have a latitude to do any thing I believe some Christians are of that opinion that they would even think the Saints of God were ill-advised to venture their All upon those truths they see others dyed and suffered for It is a sad thing many Christians study to draw out the lines of obedience as far as the honesty of the times will give them leave but no farther that they would go on with the Lord Jesus to the High Priest's Hall and there deny him or that would be willing to do any thing for Christ but are willing to suffer nothing for Christ you do very little honour Jesus Christ in this and you will very little honour your selves at the last It is upon this account that Christians if they see even against plain conviction of Conscience and the Word that there are super-instituted things broken in as in conscience they cannot submit to yet they cannot comply why they may be used lawfuly though not superstitiously But saith the Apostle Paul Do I yet strive to please men Gal. 1.10 Am I then the Servant of Christ You cannot be the Servants of Christ if you strive to please men Wo be to you that please men and displease God He that would be my Disciple let him deny himself and take up his Cross c. What 's that deny Wife Children Relations Comforts he must be willing to go out of all Those duties the Lord Jesus Christ is most glorified in they are either those our floathful hearts are most unwilling to do or that our fearful hearts are most unwilling to suffer for Therefore arm your selves with resolutions to suffer I intended to have taken up four Appearances and Coverings that Saints usually

the strongest combate or duel that ever was fought wherein you have the Prince of Peace and the Prince of darkness the Lion of the Tribe of Judah and the roaring Lion that seeks how to devour both of them putting forth their utmost strength and endeavouring to overcome each other Now I say in this combate the Father did not leave Christ but he helps him for he sends an Angel to minister unto him Mat. 4.11 So in Christs bitter Agony in the Garden just before his bitter Passion and death upon the Cross the Father did not leave him alone for he sent an Angel unto him to strengthen him Luk. 22.43 and so in several other places and in several other things I might instance but I shall pass this by I but now why did the Father thus stand by Christ he gives you the reason of it in the Text because he always did the things that pleased him This I shall open in a double respect First Christs undertaking of the work of our Redemption it was very well pleasing unto his Father that poor lost undone sinners should be brought back again unto God and restored unto his love and favour I say the Father was infinitely well pleased with Christ in this undertaking Isa 35.10 The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand the pleasure of the Lord that is the work of our Redemption wherein God the Father took great pleasure or delight therefore when Christ was publickly in the eye of the world to enter upon this great work the Father sends him out with this witness This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased He speaks not of this well-pleasing only to his person but also of his well-pleasing as unto his undertaking Secondly as the work it self was well pleasing unto God so Christ managing of this work was all along pleasing unto his Father that doth appear in this that Christ in all things kept to his Fathers Commission and to his Fathers Command I say in all things he kept to his Fathers Commission he did nothing here upon earth but what was within the compass of his Commission for saith he in the verse before the Text I do nothing of my self but as my Father bids me So also he acted in conformity to his Fathers will that was the rule and square by which Christ ordered all his actions his eye was still upon his Fathers will whatever he willed him to do that he did whatever he willed him to suffer that he suffered and thus he always did the things that were pleasing to his Father but I do not intend further upon the words in this reference for my design is to bring down the words unto our selves to those that are the Members of Christ for there is the same disposition of heart in all Believers to please God In all things to please God this was the frame and temper and carriage of Christ so it is the frame temper of every true believer and this is a part of our likeness unto Christ as you know there is a blessed resemblance similitude between Christ and his Members they have the same Spirit that Christ had only in a different proportion for he had it without measure they have the same Grace as Christ had for substance though not for degree Of his fulness we all have received grace for grace that is as many interpret it Grace answerable unto grace As the print in the wax answers to the print in the Seal as face answers to face so grace in believers answers unto that grace that was in Christ they are to shew forth the vertues of Christ 1 Pet. 2.11 Now this was the grace and vertue and holiness of Christ that he always did the things that pleased his Father Why this is in all believers only with this difference it was actual performance in the one it is but endeavour in the other it was perfect in the one it is sincere but imperfect in the other Christ always did things that pleased God a Believer endeavours always to do the things that please God he doth not always do so witness David in the case of his uncleanness when he displeased the Lord as it is in 2 Sam. 11. The Observation I intend to speak to shall be this They that please God and endeavour always to do the things that please God such God will be with such the Father will not leave alone especially in times of suffering and trouble for I will bring it that at case Indeed God will not leave such at any time for that promise is exceeding full Heb. 13.5 I will never leave thee nor forsake thee I do not know any one promise in all the Bible that is exprest with such an Emphasis as that promise is such a multiplication of Negatives in the Original But especially God will not leave such in an afflicted and suffering condition In the prosecution of this I will speak to four things First I will shew you when a man may be said to do the things that please God 2. I will confirm the truth of the doctrine 3. I will shew you in what respects God will be with them that desire to please him in a suffering condition 4. I will give you the grounds and reasons of it and then I shall come to an Application For the first We please God in what we do when we act 1. In a suitableness to Gods nature And 2. In subjection to Gods Law For pleasing of God lies in these two things As that pleases a man which is suitable to his disposition and is correspondent with his command We do the things that please God when we do the things that God doth and when we do that which God commands when we hate sin as God hates sin when we are holy as God is holy You shall find it in Col. 1.10 That you may walk worthy of God unto all well pleasing Observe This walking worthy of God is walking suitably or walking answerably to God Mat. 3.8 Bring forth fruit worthy of Repentance or bring forth fruit answerable to Repentance So to walk worthy of God is to walk suitable to God to his nature Now then observe what follows that you might walk worthy of God to all well-pleasing then we please God when we walk suitably unto God So also when we act in a blessed conformity to God to his law for nothing can please the good God but what is good Now the Law being the measure and standard of all goodness nothing can be good but what bears conformity to this Law which is the will of God God is wel-pleased when his will is observed As you know you that are Masters your servants please you when they do your will That inference of the Apostle for this is very opposite Rom. 8.8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God What is this same inference grounded upon because the carnal mind is enmity