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B12377 The sinners acquittance. A checke to curiositie. The safest seruice Deliuered in three sermons at the court. By Iohn Denison Doctor of Diuinity, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines then in attendance. Denison, John, d. 1629. 1624 (1624) STC 6594; ESTC S114588 46,645 163

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Israel to consider the great things the Lord hath done for them As 1. Sam. 12.24 when Elias had cast his mantle ouer Elizeus he followed him so should we follow our blessed Sauiour who hath couered our iniquiries with the mantle of his merits Thus Marie Magdelen hauing receiued by him the pardon of her sinnes and comfort to her soule followed him to his Crosse to his graue and neuer left him till he left the world 2 The second motiue is à periculo For the neglect of this is full of preiudice and danger The Lord threatened the Israelites 1. Reg. 9.6 1. Reg. 9.6 That if they turned away from him he would cast them out of that Land he had giuen them As appeareth Cap. 11. The wofull accomplishment whereof they found by experience And no meruaile that such a mans case is dangerous for he is like the Souldier that flies from his Captaine into the Campe of the Enemie He exposeth himselfe to a double miserie First he is in the hands of Satan a deadly Enemie And albeit he may for a time be entertained kindly into his Campe Iudg. 4.18.21 as Sisera was into Iaels Tent yet let him looke for a hammer a naile which will fasten him to a wofull condition Againe as such a reuolting Souldier by his flying looseth the protection of his Captaine So this poore Soule by his flinching is depriued of that comfortable protection which he should haue by Iesus Christ according to the words of Azariah 2 Chro. 15.2 The Lord is with you whilest you are with him but if you forsake him he will forsake you Yea he not onely looseth that comfortable protection but incurres also Christs heauie indignation As it was with the Israelites when they reuolted so will it be with him Whither soeuer they went Iudg. 2.15 the hand of the Lord was against them 3 The third motiue is à beneficio From the benefit we shall receiue by following Christ in these pathes of holinesse and righteousnesse 1 And first these pathes are comfortable This Peter knew well For when our Sauiour seeing many of his followers become flinchers said to the twelue Disciples Iohn 6.68 Will you also goe away Peter answered Master to whom should we goe Thou hast the words of eternall Life As if he should say God forbid we should forsake thee for then we may say farewell to all our hope of eternall happines Yea this following of Christ yeelds comfort both in health and sicknes in life and death Iob 23.11 Thus did Iob comfort himselfe in the middest of all his afflictions My foot hath followed his steps his way haue I kept and not declined 2 Reg. 20.3 And so did Hezechiah on his sicke bed Remember I beseech thee O Lord that I haue walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart haue done that which is good in thy sight Thus when all other comforts faile Conscientia bene actae vitae This shall be the only comfort of euerie good Christian that hee hath beene a fathfull follower of Christ Iesus Secondly As these pathes are comfortable so are they honourable De Aduent Dom. serm 6. Non erit tibi indignum sequi auctorem tuum saith Bernard yea It shall be thy happinesse to follow thy founder and Maker If wee esteeme it our honour to be the followers of mightie Princes how much more to follow Christ Reu. 19.16 The King of Kings If the Queene of Sheba pronounced them happie 1 Reg. 10.8 who attended vpon Solomon a prudent and a potent King how much more are we blessed in waiting vpon Christ Iesus who is Omnipotent Math. 28.18 and In whom are hid all the treasures of wisedome and knowledge Col. 2.3 Eccl. 23.28 It is great glorie saith the Son of Syrach to follow the Lord. Math. 11.30 August de temp ser 182. Christ tels vs that his yoke is easie Iugum eius merito est suaue cui scruire est regnare saith S. Austin His yoke is light and sweet indeed whom to serue is to raign as Kings And for our comfort and incouragement in following of Christ behold the Saints of God who as a cloud of witnesses are gon before vs. Heb. 12. We haue their worthy examples for our direction wee haue their prayers for our safe conuoye and their expectation for our happie arriuall Againe these pathes are the pathes of safetie A good way and a good guid are great comforts to a traueller and this is our comfort in following Christ Ioh. 14.6 For he himselfe is our way and our guid He is the way Iohn 8.12 the truth and the life He is the light of the world he that followeth him shall not walke in darkenesse but shall haue the light of life Prou. 14.12 There is a way saith Solomon that seemes good to a man in his owne eyes but the issue thereof is death But these pathes are the pathes of life Prou. 12.28 We say that hee which walkes in the kings high way walkes safely for he is vnder the Kings protection And such is his case that followes Christ in these pathes of holinesse and righteousnesse he is in the high way to Heauen and hath a Diuine protection as it is written in the 91. Psalme Ps 91.11 He shall giue his Angels charge ouer thec to keepe thee in all thy waies that thou dash not thy foot against a stone It is verie obserueable throughout the sacred Story of the Euangelists Marke 8.2 Et passim that our Sauiour had a continuall care that none who followed him should want Yea he that at the time of his apprehension had not a word of defence for himselfe had a Sinite hos abire for his Disciples Let these depart Ioh. 18.8 And it was his great glorie that hee could say Iohn 17.12 Those that thou hast giuen me I haue kept none of them is lost but the child of perdition And hee was that trecherous Souldier I spake of 4 Lastly as these pathes are the pathes of safetie so are they the pathes of felicitie The Lord takes it verie kindly at the hands of the Israelites as wee see in the second of Ieremie Ier. 2.2 I remember the kindnesse of thy youth and the loue of thy mariage when thou wentest after me in the wildernesse Bernard Eius reminisci est remunerari His kind remembrance imports a recompence saith Bernard And no maruaile for Masters that are of a noble and generous disposition will not suffer their seruants to be vnrewarded much lesse will Christ Iesus The Lord said of Caleb that to him he would giue the Land of Canaan Deut. 1.36 because he had constantly followed the Lord. And so shall those who are constant followers of Christ possesse the celestial Canaan the Kingdome of Heauen As Henoch walked with God Heb. 11.5 and was translated that he should