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The pourtraiture of the primitive saints in their actings and sufferings according to Saint Paul's canon and catalogue, Heb. 11. By J.S. Presb. Angl.
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Shaw, John, 1614-1689.
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it is will worshipped in Spirit and Truth that is even to take the mââ restrained Interpretation he is a spirituall nature and requââ spirituall service but who denyes this but yet even this inââ pretation is to be understood fundamentally not exclusively for the context will not endure any other sense because ãâã was a spirit from all eternity and ever since the Creation required spirituall worship even before that present houre spoken verse 23. and as spirituall worship was not then exclusive bodily worship so neither are they incompatible and inconââ stent since that houre came or at this present houre now it ãâã man ever yet presumed that bodily worship was a duty unless offered with a true heart if it stood alone it was a meer mockery a perfect piece of hypocrisie and therefore those words ãâã not set in opposition to bodily worship but as to any obseââ is evident from the context to the appropriating of it to fâââ fingalar place Jerusalem or that Mountaine now the time ãâã that every City is a Jerusalem every Oratory a Temple eveâ separated Place a Mount Sion and every Land a lewry ãâã therefore he wills as afterwards the Apostle 1 Tim. 2.8 ãâã âen pray every where lifting up pure handt and this is a bodily exercise or posture which the Genevah note thus glosseth as âestimonies of a pure heart and conscience The naturall then ãâã single meaning of these words is this God is to be worshipâed in spirit that is heartily and devoutly and it excludes hypocrisie and indifferency in truth that is elearely and solely not by lying vanities phantastick representations false guises such as the sacrificing in mans blood and offering festivall lustâ and uncleannesses in the solemne offices of Religion to the former the extreame is to worship God carelesly and negligently and so not in spirit To the second it is to mix impieties in Gods worship to worship him with a lye and so not in truth this no way proves that when we adore that 's bow we worship âât in spirit and truth for even bodily worship is in this sense spirituall if it arise from accompany and follow the devotion of the heart this is to glorifie God both in bodies and spirits âor they are Gods And so let us Pray The third Part. O Most holy Father God of infinite wercies of tender and never failing conpassions of great and unspeakeable goodnesse We blesse magnifie and gloâfie thee and blessed be God even âhe Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath blessed us with all âirituall blessings in high places in Christ for that unwaluable âlessing in giving thy well-beloved Sonne to take our nature upon âim c in and through him adopting us to be thy Sent Heere 's âf the blessing of an happy Eternity O blesse us with thy saving âaces that we may by a regular constant course of holy living atâaine to that most blessed end and sanctisie all thy blessings unto ãâã that we be comented with thy allowances and blessings that ãâã never murmure at or envie thy blessings upon others but that ãâã patience we expect our portion in Heaven and so blessed Lord ãâã our hearts with the sense of the glories and perfections and ãâã fading nothingnesse and emptinessâ of the creatures that with âââcere and ardent affections of obedience and love we may obey ãâã serve and worship thee with reverence and godly feare O let ãâã in our addresses and approaches to thy glorious Majesty seriously ineditate on thy presence glories and soveraigutly on ãâã merciet and goodnesse and not dare rudely and undecently to ãâã into the presence of the Lord of the whole Earth Then art ãâã Lord both of our soules and bodies to thee we offer both ãâã dies expect a portion and share in the rewards and blessing ãâã Religion with our soules O let them be yoked and joyned ãâã ther in the exercises and offices of Religion let us here live ãâã the unity of thy Catholique Church in the commantem of Saââ worshipping thee in spirit and truth with an holy service in ãâã beauty of holinesse glorifying thee both in our bodies and soulââ that when both shall be glorified with thee we may to all Eternity with the Heavenly Quire of Angels and blessed Spirits ãâã that Psame of blessing Glory Prayse Honour and Power ãâã unto him that sitteth on the Throne and to the Lambe ãâã ever and ever Amen IOSEPHS Memorandum's Heb. 11.22 By Faith Joseph when he dyed made mention of ãâã departing of the Children of Israel and gave commandment concerning his bones IOseph closeth up the Catalogue of the Patriarkes he is the last mentioned of them and the History of him conclude the first and choisest Monument of Antiquity the Booke ãâã Genesis the prime and principall Record of antient Church story This Joseph was famous and honourable for many excellent and eminent vertues as we reade at large in that Booke the most principall are those some summed up by Ambrâââ lib. 1. Off cap. 17. Humilis fuit usque ad servitutens verecundus usque ad fugam patiens usque ad carcerem remissor injuriae usque ad remunerationem his Humility Chastity Patience and Charity to which we may adde his singular Piety towards God Fidelity to his Prince though one that knew not God his Clemency towards his Brethren His Chastity was so rare and is so famously known that all that know that History must acknowledge that never any escaped so great temptations with so much Innocency For his Piety it was sufficiently proved in every circustance of his life he depending on God for all receiving all from him referring all unto him and in all magnifying and celebrating his name as Gen. 39.9 Gen. 40.8.41.16 and 50 51.42.18.45.7 And for his Clemency pitty and goodnesse to his Brethren no example can match him and which was the crowne and complement of all he was faithfull to the end as he begun so he continued so he ended Qualis vita as he lived so he dyed living he exercised his Faith in the works of Naturall and Morall Religion and at his dying he manifested it by his fore-knowledge of the Israelites departure out of Egypt and his Precept to bury his bones in Canaan For. By Faith Joseph c. The first Part. 1. How was this memoriall an act of Faith Did not Joseph take it upon trust from his Fathers relation or was his Faith in this instance any better then an implicite Faith or founded on a humane testimony for that Jacob fore-told his Children what Joseph here mentions and brings to their remembrance is plain from expresse Scripture Gen. 48.21 But to this the answer is obvious that though Jacob did deliver this prediction before Joseph and his Brethren yet the same Spirit which dictated that revelation to Jacob might still reside with Joseph and perhaps did discover more to him then to his Father for in this particular Josephs Prophesie seems more cleare
rash praesumptuous fancy but a sober and advised meditationâ that God was able c. It is the wise mans advice and counselâ In time of prosperity rejoyce in time of adversity consider Eccleâ 7.16 consider Gods Almighty greatnesse infinite wisedomeâ absolute power inexpressable goodnesse and undisputable truthâ and thou shalt never fall thou mayest be tossed but shalt noâ sinke thou mayest be shaken but not removed thou mayest be afflicted yet not in distresse Persecuted but not forsaken cast downe but not destroyed 2 Cor. 4.8.9 this was the confidence and reliefe of Saint Pauls sadnesses and afflictions Eveâ to trust in God which raiseth the dead who delivered us c. 2 Cor. 1.9.10 this was his perswasion That neither life nor death nor Angels c. Rom. 8.38.39 O that we were wise to consider these excellencies these resolutions and understand the loving kindnesse of the Lord that we would consider and remember that he brought light out of darknesse order out of confusion all being from nothing and he is the same God still in Power in Wisedom in Goodnesse his Eare is not heavie nor his hands shortned unlesse our sins cause him to hide his face from us that he will not heare And lastly consider Abraham to be like this your Father in the resolutions and endeavours of obedience both Active and Passive Isay 51.1.2 Consider Abraham your Father c. and remember that God blessed and encreased him he considered God was able c. and so he received c. which affords another Observation 8. He received him It is Gods mercies that we are not consumed Lamt 3.22 God gave him unto Abraham the second time he will alwayes have his Church to remaine and though for a time she be over-clouded with Heresies Persecutions and Interests yet Magna est Veritas c. the gates of Hell shall not prevaile against her she will be most Christian in her most persecuted and afflicted condition and many times God delivers her from her Persecutors making her darkenesse to be âight and bringing againe the Captivity of Sion as in a Dreame And as it fares with the Church so with its severall Members they are many times brought out of the deep Waters and the stiffe mire light springing up to them that are true of heart as it is said Light came to the Jewes Ester 8.16 upon the discovery and disappointment of Hamans cruelty 9. Abraham offered his Sonne and saved him he received with an addition a Lambe and with a blessing and assurance of blessing In thy Seed c. to give to God what he demandeth is a great act of justice because he demands we give him nothing but what is first his and it s the best policy the surest way both to preserve and improve his gift we never offer any thing to God but we are gainers by it we receive either an hundreth sold for the present or Eternall Life Give our Persons our Soules and Bodies to him to serve and worship him in feare and though upon that score the Soule be seperated and the Body crucified we shall receive both againe with inexpressible advantages give your substance and goods to the necessitated members of Christs body and though we spend much this way we shall save much more decima divet este we shall gainâ and raise an estate He hath distributed and given to the poore his righteousnesse remaineth c. that one was of improvement his horne shall be exalted with honour that 's a second way both certain Psal 112.9 and so this kinde of distribution is a way of provision for the future and therefore called a laying up a stake of a good foundation 1 Tim. 6.19 a Treasury a Magazine 10. He received him in a figure ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã though Faith received not the expected reward and effect which it apprehendeth as being inexpedient either for the present or future condition of the Beleever yet it receives what God awards the hope of the righteous shall not perish and they that put their trust in him shall not be confounded but many times before beliefe comes we are at the last experience the Altar is prepared Isaac bound and is layd upon it and Abraham takes the knife in hand ready to give the fatall stroke but then and ââtill then not before did the Angel step in for a rescue anâ dilivered Isaac from death and so Abraham received him byâ resemblance of the Resurrection and thus Christ delivereth hiâ Church when overwhelmed with oppressors reviveth her when she is in the dust when she is but a company of dead men appointed as sheep to be slaine and numbred for destruction when she is dry bones and her hopes cleane off he will put breatâ and life into them These and such like are the similitudeâ oâ parables which the holy Spirit useth to expresse the affliction and deliverance of his Church Isay 26.19 Ezek. 37.5.6.7 c. And having gone thus far I might a while stay on the mysticall and parabolicall signification of those Texts for so somâ Interprets these words he received him in a figure that 's in reference to Christ whose Death and Resurrection were here prââ figured And Augustine tells us That this action of Abrahams was both factum prophetia an History and a Prophesie but I intend not to vary much from my resolved Method and ãâã for a conclusion shall onely observe the two commendatory ãâã of Abrahams Faith which is noted to be 1. Obedientiall working acting Faith be offered and this was the working of the Faith Iames 2.21 The former propoââ salls and calls of God to Abraham were for the tryalls of his âaith in that particular and instance of beleeving his Promises âut this was a new tryall of his Faith in another expression and determination even that of obedience to his commands God sometimes tryeth our Faith by Promises of incredible things whether then we will depend on him sometimes by commands âf harsh unpleasant services or duties whether we will submit to him and obey him now when God puts us to it to evidence our Faith either by patience or obedience if we doe not we are not the sons of Abraham not the friends of God For true Faith will still approve it selfe so by faithfull actions no temptations of the world or the Devill to the contrary shall make us suspect or disbeleeve what he hath promised no invitations of sin or lust shall lay us off from the practise of what âe commands where fire is there is heate and light where âaith there holinesse and obedience 2. Rationall it was not a rash precipitate or temerarious deâgne but a wise sober deliberate proceeding of his understanding will and affection for all his spirituall faculties were imployed in this consideration of Faith ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã he pondered ând weighed with himselfe secum perpendens in one Translation âatiocinatus in another his understanding considered Gods Truth Power c. and upon