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Baulme for bleeding England and Ireland, or, Seasonable instructions for persecuted Christians delivered in severall sermons / by Nicholas Lockyer.
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Lockyer, Nicholas, 1611-1685.
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easily mounts Heaven-ward when God lifts it As sorrow is Gods casting downe the soule Why art thou cast downe O my soule c. And then the soule is fit for no duty disadvantage is so strong upon it so joy 't is Gods lifting up the soule upon this advantage it can doe any thing goe up hil with ease mount to heaven facilly Joy 't is Gods giving winges to the soule to fly after him A soule winged by God will mount as high as God as high as the highest Heaven where God is 't will after God from favour to favour from bush to bush as young Birds doe after the old one when they are by the warmth of the old one fledg'd and can flee as soone as the old one hath featherd and winged them by warmth they after him from twig to twig from Tree to Tree and hang about him So doth the soule as soone as warm'd and winged with joy from God make after him to Heaven with praise let disadvantages bee what they will You cannot keepe young ones in the nest when once feather'd and winged no more can you keepe the soule from ascending to Heaven when warm'd by God with Joy As the soule is in divine strength so it ascends Smoaking flax goes up to the lower region flameing flax goes higher and is far more mounting joy 't is flameing flax 't is the soule in a blaze a great blaze ascends very strong and very high as high as Heaven into the very presence Chamber of the King Things mount as they are in spirits joy 't is a soule full of the holy Ghost one spirit in the bosome of another a soule captivated in Christ cannot but goe where 't is carried every heart Christ takes hee carries home to his Father with joy magnifying love revealed with joy giving thankes to the father c. As the soule gets oâ—â—od so it ascenâ—â— to him when it gets most of him it ascends most and best to him Joy 't is Gods comming downe and filling the house as you reade of the Devils comming downe that expression notes his extraordinary working in and by the children of disobedience so notoriously as if he were in person present here and had no other residence but in their hearts no dwelling but here as if he had removed his shop above in the Aire and brought all his tooles and black family downe upon Earth so joy 't is Gods comming downe I cannot borrow a fuller expression 't is God extraordinarily present and working in the hearts of his people as if he did make Heaven it selfe descend and bring down all the glory that is above and set it in the midst of man God thus working in man such workes worke out work up very high Ordinary workes may be vail'd and hid extraordinary cannot they will breake out ascend and publish themselves in the Eares of the Author these are workes so wrought as made alive and with Legs to goe home again and acknowledge their Father so are all graces when divine joy takes them made alive and ascending home to acknowledge their Father with joyfulnesse giving thankes to the Father c. I have said something for the soule I wil say something for graces to hold out the truth of this point to you That joy makes a very ascending frame of heart As graces grow to maturity so they make home Joy 't is grace growen up grace growne tall to mans estate to maturity of knowledge to maturity of expression Joy knowes her father which no child else in the soule doth can owne her father Joy is strong she can she doth necessarily extoll and lift up her Father With joy giving thankes to the Father c. Finally for I will name no more things of this nature As things are in puâ—â—ty so they ascend Nothing so pure as divine joy 't is the meere reflection of Sun beames the resplendency of Gods smiling Face Sun rayes and beames goe forth and then reflect backe againe warme the Earth and then back to Heaven againe so doe the beames of Gods Countenance warme the cold heart of man with joy and then these and the soule too back to God againe with joyfulnesse giving thankes to the Father c. Vse You see the nature of divine joy it makes a very ascending frame of heart it sets the soule upon wing for Heaven it makes Cripples leape and praise God What is the nature of your joy Doth it make you flee up or flee out Does your joy make you wantons or Puritans 'T is a pastime to fooles to doe wickedly many are worst when merry'st Ah Lord what basenesse doe many belch forth when their hearts are upon a merry pin how proudly how uncleanly how loosely doe they speake and doe If there be any joy in Hell 't is this certainly the divel liftes up that heart that thus joyes that in joying lifts up it selfe against God Cursed is that joy that makes God sad Cursed is that joy that leades to weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth in a time of joy as you make it I am come to speake of joy 't is a good hand of providence so to order our way I wish I could so handle this point of joy in this time of joy as to make you all to looke wel to your joy Time wil not suffer me to say much It fell-out to be an eclipse that day this Sermon was preached Christmasse eclipsed Sunday 't was very sad to behold to tender hearts I can onely say this watch your hearts a loose time is come 't wil suite wel with loose soules you wil see many damnably merry Carnall creatures wil leape out of their skin out of their soules into Hell when their bellies be ful Belly-gods set a knife to your throates have a care of your soules as you love your soules looke to your joy eate and drinke and rise up to play and not rise up to pray and praise God and your Table wil be your snare your death Your brethren have too little wil you eate too much your brethren fast will yee feast your brethren bleed wil yee wantonly sport they are kill'd with griefe wil yee kil your selves with joy What a strange Kingdome shal we render our selves to be in the sight of God some bleeding and groaning and some surfetting and chambering some reeling and falling with deady bullets in their sides and others reeling and falling with too much drinke in their bellies some wallowing in the field in bloud and others wallowing in the streets in vomit Ah Lord will not this make vengeance smoake against England Christians and sinners I am affraid of these prophane dayes Jobs feare respecting his children when they were going a feasting is strongly seis'd upon me lest you pull your houses about your eares by carnall and unseasonable joy I charge you al by the dreadfull comming of the Lord Jesus whose bloudy sword is drawne in the Land and set at your breasts that
you looke to your joy in this sensuall season and make it divine Let your laughter be turned into weeping as the Apostle speakes if ever that were seasonable 't is now Some can smile and weepe 't is a comly countenance now if you can so joy now doe Remember God when your hearts are cheer'd remember the afflictions of Joseph in your bowles what a wonder is it that this cup of beere is not a cup of bloud thus lay your hand on your breast In your chiefe joy forget not your selves forget not your brethren Forget not God lest God write up your wickednesse on the walles in your consciences as hee did belluine Beltshazzars and make your soules ring of your unseasonable joy to the day of your death Germani'es wicked feasting 't is deadly cured their great drinking is turned into great bleeding their great feasting into famine Be instructed England be instructed so else wil be the deadly cure of thy excesse You observe dayes and good times as you call them I am affraid of you observe your soules observe your joy how holy it keepes these holy dayes These holy dayes are betraying dayes they are the divels snare to thousands how many thousands have more wrong'd their soules in these few dayes then in al the dayes of the yeare besides and yet this soule-undoing time must be call'd a blessed time Our wickednesse upon this blessed time hath brought many a curse our evil joy much griefe if we shal yet continue it when shall our griefe end The devil hath many snares for the poore soule of man but they are worst which are wrapt up in joy least discerned but catch most and kil deadliest Slips in mirth and in joy are pleaded for the divel hath enough now the man does the divels worke the divel may keepe Christmas holy-day too now if he wil his work is done for him I am led to brand a bad joy I am commanded by this point in hand to stigmatize al joy that is not divine that makes not an ascending frame of heart I will doe this in three or foure things briefly Bad joy hath this grand evil in it It strips God of all No evil carries the heart so totally from God as evil joy it carries away the heart and every heart string The soule and all that is within as that ful expression of Davids is the soule and all within the body and al without every sinew and nerve are set intensely awry when joy is awry A man is very heartily wicked very totally wicked every faculty every sinew stretch themselves to sinne when sinfull in joy There be many sacrificers to the divel but none sacrifices so bountifully to the divel as joy doth when corrupt she sacrifices totum universale totum particulare al in generall al in particular al the man al the joints nerves and sinews of the man to the utmost All the bloud all the spirits in the bloud al the spirits generaly throughout the whole state doth bad joy set a dancing after the devill so that God hath nothing left him in this man A merry divel jostles Christ out of all Bad joy hath this ground evill in it 't is stiffnecked hardest of any to returne to be reclaimed A mans joy commands all and is all and wil be all to the heart A man is most hardely brought to part with his joy What is so deare to a man as his joy let it be what it wil 't is his Heaven the soule and Heaven are inseparable they are so identified so one in another above al other things Joy and the soule are more identified more one in another then the soule and any other passion or thing whatsoever 'T is almost impossible to separate things which are so neere onely the power of a God which can doe any thing can doe it Hence 't is that t' is so hard to bring a man to leave sinne when his soule hath found out joy in it when the sinner can make musicke to himselfe in his sinnes when the sinner by art hath made an instrument of his sinne a Lute to play upon and delight his senses withall Joy 't is a fragrancy made from many flowers with much picking choosing and composing of flowers t is honey gather'd with much art from much variety the soule is not easily brought to put that by which it hath so spent it selfe for and so laid out its utmost art and skil after Bad joy 't is the soule in the armes of the divell hee holds fast 't is the soule in the bosom of the devil two evil spirits deare each to other making their felicity in and of each other evil spirits endear'd are harder to part then evil bodies Bad joy 't 'as this grand evil in it 'T is the completion of evill 't is wickednesse ful sinne growne old out liv'd al vertue yea out liv'd all conscience for till conscience was quite dead bad joy could not live Bad joy is an evil that hath conquer'd vertue truth conscience God and triumphs in this victory all the tone now is hang sorrow and yet hell now gapes for the man and never so wide as now Sinne may be growne old when the man is young 't is many a young mans case the Lord knowes nothing mature in them but sinne as you may see by their joy and triumph in it fit for hel ere they come to age to be fit for their patrimony Bad joy hath this grand evil in it It sets the Soule very neere wrath at the gates of hel knocking to goe in Evil joy 't is a Malefactor upon the gallowes there is but a step betweene him and turning off The triumphing of the wicked is short Job 20.5 when once a sinner beginnes to triumph he has but a little time to live Seest thou a sinner laughing stay a little the next change of countenance will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of Teeth You say of some notorious persons that the gallowes groanes for them when you see a man notoriously wicked joying and triumphing in sinne Ah Lord hel groanes for this man hel opens for this man in a moment he will goe down to the pit We leave him there and conclude FINIS USEFULL INSTRVCTIONS FOR THESE Evill Times COLOSS. 1.12 Giving thanks to the Father c. Defin. THanksgiving according to the sense of this and other Texts is a divine returne of divine love 'T is a Sea going forth into al the veines of the Earth and returned againe to its selfe by Rivers and Streames God is infinitly out here below and yet all upon finite man man is to make a returne of al and in Gods own coyne love for love to make Gods owne doings and dealings acknowledge him and own him al love to the Creature respecting body and soule in prosperity and adversity to cal him Father giving thankes to the Father Man is the mouth of the Creation to make all the workes of God speake and