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A87510	A mixture of scholasticall divinity, with practicall, in severall tractates: vvherein some of the most difficult knots in divinity are untied, many darke places of Scripture cleared, sundry heresies, and errours, refuted, / by Henry Ieanes, minister of God's Word at Chedzoy in Sommerset-shire.; Mixture of scholasticall divinity, with practicall. Part 1	Jeanes, Henry, 1611-1662.	1656 (1656)	Wing J507; Thomason E872_3; Thomason E873_1; ESTC R202616	347,399	402

his from his father He sends them and his father him As my father hath sent me even so send I you Joh. 20.21 If then we slight wrong or violence them both he and his father may justly interpret it as done unto themselves 2. Here is an use of terrour unto all the enemies of Christ whether open and professed or secret and dissembled Can there be a point of greater folly then for impotent dust and ashes to be against him that hath all power in heaven and earth all judgment committed unto him authority to sentence all his enemies unto eternall flames and torments All opposition of him is like the dashing of an earthen vessel against a great stone or rock for he is the head of the corner and whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken but on whomsoever it shall fall it will grind him to powder Math. 21.44 All his enemies all unregenerate and unbelieving persons whatsoever may be said to fall on him Vnto them he is a stone of stumbling rock of offence 1 Pet. 2.8 And they shall all of them be broken either to their conversion or destruction But now as for reprobates such as die in finall unbeliefe and impenitency Christ is an enemy unto them he falleth on them as a great stone from an high place and therefore he shall grind them to powder they shall utterly and irrecoverably be destroyed What King saith our saviour going to make war against another King sitteth not down first and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand or else while the other is yet a great way off he sendeth an Embassage and desireth conditions of peace Luk. 14.31,32 These foolish soules that wage warre against Christ the King of Kings and Lord of Lords if they would consult their owne safety so farre as to consider how unable such poore wormes as they are to cope and encounter with him that hath all the hostes of the Lord under his command They would speedily lay aside all farther thoughts of hostility and send their teares and prayers as Embassadours and desire conditions of peace upon Christs own termes It was a vaine bragge of * Plutarch Pompey that as oft as he did but stampe with his foot upon the ground of Italy he should bring men enough out of every corner both footmen and horsemen But much more may truly be averred of Christ he hath heaven earth and hell at a beck and can whensoever he please arme the whole creation against all that oppose him or his But indeed his justice doth not goe alwaies in the same path or pace His patience many times grants a reprive unto his greatest enemies during their lives here on earth Latter ages have hardly afforded a more bloudy and cruell adversary unto the Church of Christ then the Duke of Alva and yet Christ suffered his hoare head to goe downe to the grave in peace But there will come a day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God and Christ And then Christ will put all his enemies under his feete His father will make them all his footstoole Then the stoutest and proudest of his enemies shall be sufficiently sensible of their Impotency and when it is too late repent their mad and successelesse assaults of his kingdome And the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chiefe captaines and the mighty men and every bond-man and every free-man shall hide themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains and shall say to the mountaines and rocks fall on us and hide us from the face of him that setteth on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb Rev 16.15,16 How will the boares out of the wood that have wasted the vineyard of the Lord and the wild beasts of the field that have devoured it Psal 80.13 The Foxes the little Foxes that spoile the vines the tender grapes how I say will they be filled with despaire and confusion when they shall come to be censured for this by the Lord of the vine-yard How will they be able to look in the face the Lord of the harvest whose chiefe designe hath been to hinder the sending of labourers into the harvest to obstruct their worke and labour there in how will those Tobiak's and Sandallat's c. be confounded who have used all their interest and power in the world to oppose the building repairing and reforming of the house the Church of God when for this they shall be called unto an account by the sonne that is Lord of the house When those that have all their lives long been obstinate profaners and impugners of the sabbath and all other ordinances when they shall see their judge the Lord of the Sabbath and all other ordinances how unspeakable will their horror and amazement be One great part of the torments of those that have waged warre against the saints will be that the doome of the everlasting state of their soules is to proceed out of the mouth of the King of Saints No tongue can decypher no heart imagine the terrours that will overwhelme those wolves that have worried the sheepe of Christ when they shall see themselves drag'd unto the tribunall of the great shepherd of the sheepe At that last day the lot of all Christs enemies will be fatall and dismall and Christ himselfe giveth so comprehensive a character of his enemies as takes in all that in the Church visible are not active for his cause and glory all that concurre not with him in promoting the salvation of mens soules all that endeavour not according to their callings to gather in unto his Church He that is not with me saith he is against me and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad Math. 12.30 But now the condition of none of Christ's enemies will be so unsupportable as that of those who are visibly subjects and yet cordially enemies who professe service and subjection and yet practise nothing but enmity It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sydon for the land of Sodom for infidels Turkes and Pagans then for such because they adde unto their hostility falsehood treachery and mockery They deale with Christ as the souldiers that said unto him Haile King of the Jewes but it was in a way of scorne for they crowned him with thornes smote him with their hands Joh. 19.2,3 How bitterly did Christ himselfe expostulate with such hypocrites Why call ye me Lord Lord and doe not the things which I say Luk. 6.46 If men were but duely sensible of Christs soveraigne authority they would tremble at their hypocrisy in professing that Christ is their King when in the meane while they are wholly swayed by the worst of his enemies the basest of their lusts As for those citizens of Christ the members of his Church visible that hated him and sent a message after him saying we

will not have this man to reigne over us how solemne and dreadfull is their execution Those mine enemies which would not that I should reigne over them bring hither and slay them before me Luk. 19.14,27 But now Christ will handle none of his enemies with more rigour then those that take a commission from him If the builders reject the head of the corner the chiefe corner stone what can they expect but either to fall on this stone or to have this stone fall on them and so to be broken in pieces unto perdition to be ground unto powder to perish utterly by the highest degrees of punishment What Prince or state but would most severely punish the perfidiousnesse of such Embassadours as being sent to pacify a rebellion should underhand animate unto it Oh what doth more encourage and harden men in their rebellion against Christ then the disobedience of those whose office it is to take them off from it Rebels against Christ are unmeete orators to perswade unto loyalty submission unto him because altogether unlikely to prevaile We are Embassadours for Christ as though God did beseech you by us we pray you in Christs stead be ye reconciled to God 2 Cor. 5.20 But the Rhetorick of our Pulpits will never wooe men hereunto when our lives speake a contradictory language It is altogether improbable that we should perswade men to be reconciled unto Christ when they see us our selves unreconciled and in defiance of him what more treasonable almost in warre then for commission-officers to give assistance unto the enemy Our ministery is a warfare 1 Cor. 9.7 and is it not high treason then for ministers by their doctrine or example to give succour unto or to cooperate with the enemies of Christ Jesus the sins and errours of their people For a captaine to exhort his souldiers to fight valiantly and presently to run over unto the enemy will adde scorne and derision unto his treason and we may say as much concerning ministers exhortations of their people unto a spirituall warfare if when they come downe from their pulpits they runne over unto the tents of sin Satan and the World and march under their colours I shall conclude this use with Math. 24. vers 48 c. unto the end Where we have the Character and the punishment of a wicked minister 1. the Character his sinne against Christ his fellow ministers and his flock or people 1. His sin against Christ is unbeliefe of his judiciary power one branch of his soveraignty that evill servant shall say in his heart my Lord delayeth his coming vers 48. 2 We have his malignity against such of his fellow ministers as are pious and painfull and shall begin to smite his fellow servants vers 49. 3 We have his participation of and fellowship with the sins of his people And to eate and drinke with the drunken vers 49. Lastly we have Christs punishment of him for this The Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him and in an houre that he is not ware of and shall cut him asunder and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth v. 50 51. Vse 2. of Consolation A second use is of Consolation A great comfort it was to Josephs Brethren when once they were reconciled unto him that their brother was the second person in the Kingdome and governour of Egypt and all the house of Pharaoh So it is an unspeakable consolation unto all that are reconciled unto Christ that the very humanity of Christ their elder brother is second in authority unto the all powerfull Trinity and that for these two following reasons because they are assured 1. of communion in it and 2. benefit by it 1. They are assured of communion with Christ in it by way of analogy and resemblance To sit at the right hand of God is Christs incommunicable priviledge Heb. 1.13 To which of the Angels said he at any time sit on my right hand c. But yet the Church sits at Christs right hand Vpon thy right hand doth stand the Queene in Gold of Ophir Psalm 45.9 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne even as I also overcame and am set downe with my Father in his throne Rev. 3.21 And he that overcometh and keepeth my workes unto the end to him will I give power over the nations he shall rule them with a rod of iron as the vessels of a petter shall they be broken to shivers even as I received of my Father Revel 2.26,27 The words are to be understood of the faithfull sitting with Christ in judgment over the nations at the last day as asessors assenting unto and approving of his sentence against them Jesus said unto his disciples verily I say unto you that ye which have followed me in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel Math. 19.28 Luk. 22.30 Do you not know saith Paul that the Saints shall judge the World 1 Corinth 6.2 2. They may be assured of benefits by Christs universall jurisdiction over all Creatures in heaven and earth and that 1. Negative nothing shall hinder their Salvation 2. Positive all things if need be shall be serviceable unto their salvation 1. Then if Christ as mediatour hath all power given unto him in heaven and earth his members then may be confident that nothing shall hinder their salvation not sinne nor Satan nor wicked men 1. From Christ's authority they may be comforted against sinne against the guilt and power of sinne 1. Against the guilt of sinne The father would never have thus highly advanced him given him such a vast and boundlesse dominion if he had not fully satisfied his justice and cleared the debts of all his members We reade in the relation of the proceedings against Sr Walter Rawleigh at the Kings bench barre at Westminster 1618. October 28 that when he was demanded why execution should not be done upon him according to the judgment pronounced at Winchester against him His answer was that he was told by his counsell that in regard his majesty since the said judgment had been pleased to employ him in his service as by commission he had done it made void the said judgment and was a verification unto him and gave him as it were a new life and vigor This plea though just and agreeable unto reason and unto law too as I have been informed by those that are very well skild in the lawes of the land yet could not save the life of this worthy Gentleman with his partiall and prejudiced Judges Yet this we are sure of the commission which God hath given unto Christ over all creatures in heaven and earth may secure all true believers from the curse and condemnation of the law for it was a reall acquittance