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B02276	The spouses hidden glory, and faithfull leaning upon her wellbeloved. Wherein is laid down the soules glory in Christ, and the way by which the soule comes to Christ. Delivered in two lecture sermons in St. Andrewes church in Norwich. / By Iohn Collings Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word in Saviours parish in Norwich.	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.	1646 (1646)	Wing C5340A; ESTC R174086	70,368	91

may cast a covering over the man that hee shall not see the Sun But not over the body of the sunne to hide day-light To whom is she hidden therefore and to whom not hidden What of her is uncovered and what is covered First She is not hidden to God Elijah thought all the saints had beere both dead and buried when hee complained that he was left alone but God saw seven thousand in Israel that had not bowed their knee to Baal Ezechiel saw no mourners but God sent him to mark out such a precious tribe from the tribes of Israel he saw their private drops God need not say concerning the most retired saint Who is this that commeth up Secondly To her selfe she is not hidden She hath her conscience bearing her witnesse the manifestation of Gods love in her owne soule the prints of his foot-steps Gods Spirit bearing witnesse with their own Spirits Christ is written in great letters in their hearts she hath her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 her marks to know her selfe by By this we know 1 Iohn 2.3 and by this again we know vers 5. 3. She is unknowne and hidden to the world to the saints of the world her brethren know her not and to the men of the world to the one lesse to the other more the saints know her not infallibly It was a true saying of him When any of us come in heaven we shall see some faces there that we never thought had beene there and misse some others that we had verily thought to have found there But yet many wayes may the Saints discerne by the fruits betwixt light and darknesse yet not any that I know so certaine to our duskish eyes that by it I can positively and infallibly say of any This or that is a Saint of God though in charity I ought to judge so of many yet Samuel may bee deceived in Eliab Gods eyes see not as man sees Therefore I have sometimes wondred with what face any man that professeth himselfe a servant of Iesus Christ dare for a fee at a funerall lift a moralist to heaven that possibly burnes in hell that houre I should feare to speak it positively of him that in my deceivable eyes seems a pious Christian They are Hidden ones How many that shine in heaven at this day a glorious constellation that went out of the world clouded and with what face shall a minister of Iesus Christ say more of me then I dare say of my self How comes his assurance if I want mine I know charity in this case is pleaded But I conceive charity is enough shewen to say I hope or we hope if the tree may be judged by the fruits declare the probabilities and leave the soule to God But I am not amongst an indocible kinde of creatures that will tell me they are too old to be taught and I too young to teach them To return therefore whence I digrest and to tell you what of the Christian cannot be hidden and what of them is hidden 1. The acts of his graces cannot bee hidden A Christian must shew his love to God though God clouds himself to him If they have any habit of love in them it will act For Love is strong as the grave and jealousie burnes like fire Cant. 8.6 7. Many waters cannot quench love Their zeale cannot bee hidde no not from the world he cannot heare a wretch sweare see him drunk profaning Gods sabbaths nay abusing his Christs blood but he must speake The zeale of Gods house hath eaten up the Christian as well as his master The hypocrite learns that politick paradox to see and not to see to see and winke Eliah must be zealous for the Lord God of hosts The hypocrite will tell you of discretion O that idoll of discretion said hee and very well that drives the power of Godlinesse out of the Kingdome Discretion indeed is commendable The prudent man ordereth his affairs with discretion but not with discretion as now impleaded The Magistrate must be zealous in his place these tell him he must bee moderate Summum jus est summa injuria he must not anger his rich neighbour to levy the penaltie for swearing or blaspheming nor make the poore men his enemies by executing the Statutes for tipling and drunkennesse he must keepe his oath with discretion and punish sin with discret●on and damne his owne soule with discretion too The ministers they must act by the hypocriticall Newters luke-warme principles of discretion too they must not reprove faction till they see how it will be favoured above see what government will be settled and then speak against those that oppose it See the truth of Christ rent in peeces his precious robe of truth torne from top to bottome his church rent limb from limb cut in more peeces then the Levites concubine yet must they say nothing It were indiscretion want of moderation bitter Presbyterianisme what not to speak against these butchers wait and see what will bee done above and so indeed it may be salvation may bee brought to the church another way but we must know then assuredly that wee and our houses and our fathers houses shall perish The word of God was in Ieremiahs heart as a burning fire shut up in his bones Ier. 20.9 Grace commands a Christian Magistrate and a Christian Minister sometimes beyond what the world judgeth discretion witnesse that though an extraordinary case of Phineas for Zimri and Cosbi But alas where is this zeale we have more Discreeter as the world calls them then Gracious zealous preachers by one half meer Gallioes that can see a Church rent in peeces soules perverted truth torne and they care for none of these things And we have more moderate Magistrates then Godly more that the world calls honest then God will thank for their honesty another day It was never before our dayes the Commendation of a Magistrate to be last in action to do nothing against blasphemers Hereticks c. Where ●s these pretended Christians graces O away with these Cyphers on Benches act for God or the Devill When God calls as in these dayes Who is on my side who why do ye hide your heads in holes were there a dramme of grace in your hearts it could not be but we should see a little flame The acts of Christians graces cannot be hidden No one must say of them in that sence Who is this Secondly Their gracious and holy life cannot be hidden They must walk as it becomes children of the light they cannot be saints here and Devils there their company be it good or bad shall be the better for them It was a shrewd failing of Peter to be a Iew amongst the Iewes and a Gentile amongst the Gentiles Paul reproved him to his face for it Thus they are not hidden if they be Gods coine they will have his image and superscription upon them How then are they hidden from the world that they may say who is

THE SPOUSES Hidden Glory AND Faithfull Leaning upon her Welbeloved Wherein is laid down the Soules Glory in Christ and the way by which the Soule comes to Christ Delivered in two Lecture SERMONS in St Andrewes Church in Norwich By IOHN COLLINGS Master of Arts and Preacher of Gods word in Saviours parish in Norwich 1 Iohn 3.1 The world knowes us not Isaiah 43.1 Feare not I have redeemed thee I have called thee by thy name thou art mine 2 When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee when thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burnt neither shall the flame kindle upon thee LONDON Printed for William Franckling and are to bee sold at his Shop near the signe of the George in Norwich 1646. TO The Right worshipfull and truly honoured Patriot of his Countrey Sir IOHN HOBART Knight and Baronet one of the Members of the Honourable House of COMMONS Honoured Sir GOodnesse is the Honour of Greatnesse and Grace is the Beauty of Goodnesse Greatnesse without Goodnesse is like a grossy body with a sluggards spirit too heavy to beare its owne burthen and Goodnesse without some Authoritative Greatnesse is like a soule in separation happy in it selfe but it wants an organ to move in terrestrials But he to whom God hath given gracious Greatnesse is one that hath ten Talents one upon whom opportunities wait to do his God Honour And it is the greatest happinesse can betide a creature to have an opportunity to throw his two mites his little all into the Treasury of the Lords Glory Our actuated habit of Love to Gods Church and Spouse is the greatest way of honouring our God The Bridegroom honours those that he makes his Brides Vshers And it is the most endearing service wee can doe our Master to have a care of his Lambs Simon Peter lovest thou me feed my Lambs his Lambs in the Fold which are his Church Sir God hath called you to this Honour though not to feed yet to provide their Shepheards a Crook Alas what shall wee doe our Saviours Lambs stray and wander in dangerous pastures and wee have no Crook to reduce them we can only feed them when they please to eat we have no hedge of Government to keep them in their pastures nor Crook to reduce the wanderers here is our misery God hath made us watchmen wee may give good counsell to the unlawfull straglers but wee want our watch-bill to stay them if they will goe Blessed be the God of heaven that hath not only made you Honourable in the sight of men but more in his owne sight because zealous for his Bride Christs Spouse in this Kingdome is in the wildernesse and woe unto us that we can imagine the heart of any so hard as to contribute a vote to keep her there much more to hedge up her way with thornes that she cannot get out At whose hands will the blood of those the wolves destroy be required Blessed be the God of heaven that hath given you an heart to wash not only your hands but tongue also of the blood of those that perish in this Kingdome for want of Government I have here presented your Worship with a member of Christs Church endeavouring to limn out the Spouse in her Hidden Glory if she wants expected beauty t is the Limners fault she is truly Glorious in her selfe and her Bridegrooms eyes but her glory is hidden to the world Is it not pity so glorious a creature as this Spouse is in the perfection of her members should want Order in her House and bee prostituted to every one that hath wickednesse enough to defloure her May the number of those encrease thar are the friends of Sion and the generation of those perish that make it their designe to lay yet more waste the City of God already neare to bury her selfe in her owne ruines It is alas too true Sir and unhappy too that God hath put weaknesse into your hands though your heart longs to bee at Temple-work Your selfe are in a wildernesse of Affliction whiles you should and would gladly bee lending your hand and votes to help the Spouse in England out Gods will must bee done though wee bee patients The Lord prosper the Nehemiahs that are at the work and lessen the number of the Sanballats that hinder it and in Elijahs absence double his spirit upon his Elishaes and the Lord grant that in your wildernesse of Affliction you may lean upon you Beloved and the Bridegroom grant such an happinesse to his Spouse as to spare her friends life that you may come out of your wildernesse of Afflictions leaning upon your Beloved and do your God more service by living to his glory and contributing your dying Votes to the happinesse of his Bride which is Sir the daily prayer of Your Worships devoted servant IOHN COLLINGS TO The Right Honourable and truly Noble the Lady Francis Hobart encrease of all happinesse c. Madam I Must ingenuously confesse it was my owne ease was the first inducement to me to offer these unpolished meditations to the censure of the world whom I hear already saying is Saul also among the Prophets having promised more coppies then I was willing to transcribe But when that had raked the embers something else blew the coales I well knew that the Presse was so tainted it would be a suspition of faction to be seene under it and if ever now was the time to be a Foole in print But when I considered the vanitie of my former and the incertaintie of my latter days I thought it was time to redeem the time not only because my days were evil but because my span might be almost measured out And I thought if these meditations might not have the happinesse to shew some soule the way out of the wildernesse Leaning upon its Beloved yet they could not be denyed so small a blessing as to keepe some Bookish eyes from dirtying themselves with po●ring in the excrements of Factious brains and pens which present themselves in our unhappy dayes upon every shop-board to Athenian gazers by busying them in these papers a little After these thoughts had wrested my notes out of my hands which at the first composure I had thought like a dying infant should only have lookt upon the world misliked it and gone out again My neere relation to your Honours house told me it would be no good manners to speak of a wedding and not invite your Ladyship especially being one of the Children of the Bride-chamber to it The truths here may appeale to your Honour for a confirmation and I doubt not but you will and can signe them from precious experience having already Set to your Seale that God is true Nay I dare be further bold to say that the marriage of the Lamb could not be consummate without you And I was loth to present a Bride lame to so glorious a