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A89411	Several works of Mr. Iohn Murcot, that eminent and godly preacher of the Word, lately of a Church of Christ at Dublin in Ireland. Containing, I. Circumspect walking, on Eph. 5.15,16. II. The parable of the ten virgins, on Mat. 25. from ver. 1. to ver. 14. III. The sun of righteousness hath healing in his wings for sinners, on Mal. 4.2. IV. Christs willingness to receive humble sinners, on John 6.37. Together with his life and death. Published by Mr. Winter, Mr. Chambers, Mr. Eaton, Mr. Carryl, and Mr. Manton. With alphabetical tables, and a table of the Scriptures explained throughout the whole.	Murcot, John, 1625-1654.; Winter, Samuel, 1596?-1665.; Chambers, Robert, minister in Dublin.; Eaton, Samuel, 1506?-1665.; Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.; Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.; J. G.	1657 (1657)	Wing M3083; Thomason E911_1; ESTC R202939	754,107	852

again in the Resurrection a pledge and an earnest whereof they have in heaven not onely Christ the head his glorious body but Enoch and Elias Now there may be much desire happily for this coming of Christ that this may be made up but as the Apostle saith in another case God hath provided a better thing for us that they without us should not be made perfect so they without the rest the fulness of Christ should not be made so compleatly perfect Well then the fulness of Christ must come in that day shall not come until there be not one soul more to come in which belongs to his fulness that is the fourth This reason indeed onely concerneth the great day of Christ his coming 5. To give time and space to men to repent and to work out their salvation in I gave her space to repent saith the Lord to that woman and she repented not Whether we understand this of a mans particular day or the great and general day it is true Why is not Sentence speedily executed upon sinners Why is it that they might repent despisest thou saith the Apostle the riches of his goodness and long-suffering to thee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not knowing the goodness of God his long-suffering hath his tendency in it to lead to repentance being given for that end Mora sponsi poenitentiae tempus est Hilar can 27. So our Annot. So that this will leave sinners without any excuse If there had not been such a delay they had had no time to repent and they might have said so for themselves but now they have no pretence they shall be all of them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 condemned of themselves And for the Saints and people of God it is that they might have time and space to work out their salvation with fear and trembling to work it out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Alas they must be converted and become as little children or else they cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven now there is much industry and pains required to bring the heart to this meetness for heaven and therefore he delays his coming As for instance If a Bride-groom too soon come upon his spouse that he knoweth hath a house full of filthiness and nasty places to trim and make handsom and her self to trim and deck and adorn he will stay a while give her time to make all pure and clean and fit for him and then he cometh and this is another 6. That the measure of sin and sinners may be filled up there is a fulness of Satan as well as of Christ a fulness of sin as well as of holiness you know he would not give Canaan a type of heaven to his people Israel because the iniquity of the Amorites was not yet full he could not give them Canaan but he must destroy them and therefore he would first have their measure full their Ephah full and then sink them with a talent of lead So here there is a fulness of Satans kingdom a fulness of sin upon which when he cometh he will come to pour out the fulness of his wrath and to tread them down in his fury for ever therefore he stays a while until they have filled up their measure He did not cast the Jews out of sight until they had filled up their measure by persecuting of the truth and the Saints which is a wonderfully filling sin indeed that quickly fills the bag to the mouth and then it is sealed they persecuted the truth that they might fill up the measure of their sins always and then you see he came against them Now when all the vessels of wrath are formed and they are fitted to destruction then he cometh as to receive his bride so to slay his enemies with a flaming sword and furious indignation that would not close with him This another 7. That the promises may be fulfilled which are many of them yet to come and to be fulfilled as the prophecy of Babylons falling the tenth part of the City even Rome which some judicious compute to be just the tenth part of what formerly it was The ruine of Antichrist the bringing in of the Jews the seed of Abraham his friend from all corners of the world whether they are driven through his displeasure and the fulfilling those many glorious things which are spoken of the City of God the new Jerusalem which cometh down from heaven which many of the Saints do expect yet to be fulfilled when Satan shall be bound for a thousand years surely a tittle of this word shall not fall to the ground not the word of promise heaven and earth may fall but this word of God cannot fall it must be fulfilled The Lord Jesus will be contented to be without his fulness until then and the glory of that fulness until then and therefore for this cause his coming shall be delayed he came once out of heaven with much readiness Lo I come I come though to dye to lose his life his peace his comfort the savour of his father rather then the prophesies should not be fulfilled as we have it often that it might be fulfilled c. He will be without his bride in fulness for a time and they must be without him in fulness for a time until the rest of the prophesies be fulfilled O how he glorifieth his word above all his Name 8. Lastly Happily to edge our desires after the day you know the withholding of a desirable thing for a time doth much draw out the desires as the drawing away the bait from the fish draweth it after it and truly all the ways the Lord takes with us are little enough to put us on to desire that day But so much for the confirmation of the Doctrine before it was said therefore it seemed long because we desired it importunately Now therefore we desire it because it seemeth long and so our desires after his appearing do feed themselves by adding this oyl to the flame even the length of the tarrying which doth partly arise from themselves so some things are mutually causes one of another as the Ice resolveth it self into water and again the water into Ice the vapours ascending into Clowds and the Clowds into vapours again after they are emptyed upon the earth So The Use of the Doctrine shall be first by way of reproof to convince us of sin in abusing this truth which nothing is more ordinary among men they dare not utter it with their mouths but this they speak in their hearts the Lord delays his coming and therefore they begin to eat and drink with the drunken to beat their fellow-servants they will neither work themselves nor let others work that would Mark how the Evangelist brands such a man calling him an evil servant or an hypocrite and indeed brethren It is not as if there were any thing in the nature of a delay to work such

whose hearts began betimes to be knit unto him and here likewise the Lord was pleased to water his labours with the dew of his blessing But me thinks I see a black cloud arising this bright star who shined full clearly and comfortably unto others is now himself eclipsed and He who was a skilful Pilot to direct others through the splitting Rocks and swallowing Gulphs is now himself plunged into the great deep the Lord persecutes him with his tempest and makes him afraid with his storm all his waves and his billows go over him But what might be the occasion of so sad a desertion 1. The folly and the vanity of his youth though not stained wi●h irruptions into grosser evils 2. His too far yielding at Oxford with those impositions which grate upon conscience and scourge it with severe remorse 3 The Lord would hereby ripen him and make him the more fi● for himself and service He must be frost-bitten that so he may be the more mellow and his fruit of a more delicious taste There are no Preachers so experimental spiritual powerful couragious awakening convincing converting compassionate comforting as those who have passed through the Pikes and have been sorely bat●ered with showers of Hail-stones There are none so expert at binding up the broken bones as those who have been broken upon the wheel and made to roar out by reason of the disquietness of their hearts They know how to speak a word in season unto him that is weary who have themselves been weary and heavy laden sighing full sadly and groaning full heavily under the cold hill clouding and cutting expressions of Gods displeasure They know how to speak peace unto distressed consciences who have themselves been soundly frighted with the sounding of the Trumpet and the Alarm of War There are no Trees so firmly rooted as those that have been sorely shaken and made to bow and bend with the stormy wind and tempest of the wrath of the Almighty The scales many times stick so close even unto the Seers eyes that they will not be rub'd off but with a rough hand and a sharp file But will the Lord contend for ever will he be alwaies wroth Surely no and that lest the spirits should fail before him and the souls that he hath made There is a lifting up after a casting down The Lord turns for him his mourning into dancing gives unto him beauty for ashes and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness and with a soft hand wipes away the tears from his swoln eyes The instrumental means of scattering the darkness and distress that lay upon him and of restoring the former beams of light with which he was wont to be refreshed were the reading of Mr Tho. Goodwins Child of Light walking in darkness and other of his Treatises So that now we have the Lord shining on him in a way of consolation as he on others in a way of instruction and information About the 25. year of his age being resolved to change his condition and discoursing with a friend about it there was proposed unto him Hester the daughter of Mr. Ralph Marsden Minister of West-kerby of note and useful in his generation whom he afterwards took to him to be the companion of his life But before the consummation of the marriage the people of West-kerby Mr. Marsden departing this life gave him a call which upon examination and supplication being found to be of God was complied with The seed of Gospel counsels being sown with a diligent hand did not long lie buried under the clods but sprang up and put forth it self in visible fruit wh●ch was a farther clearing of the ●all and chearing of the heart of this pains-taking Husband-man It s no new thing for external and bitter afflictions to accompany the sweet honey of Gospel-consolations How often do dashing showers fall upon mellifluous Hives and the fairest flowers that grow in Gods Garden How often are the labouring bees assaulted with a tempest whilest abroad and bringing home provisions against the ensuing winter What more usual then Sun-shines mixed with blustring winds and wetting rains Two Villages of the Parish of West-kerby are sorely visited with the Pestilence and the Lord scatters abroad the black tokens of his displeasure the product of which was many fasts tears prayers importunate requests that the Lord would shew unto his people why he thus contended with them Mr. Murcot hath his ears opened to instruction This thundering Providence awakens him to a more exact scrutinie and narrower search into his heart and waies and is now perswaded that he had been too lax and general in the administration of the sealing-Ordinances so that he resolves to forbear and draw back his hand unless the known godly will combine which occasioned many Fasts Conferences Debates However he perseveres in preaching work and waits on Providence to see how the Lord will dispose and encline the peoples hearts An Irish Lord quartering at West-kerby being bound for Ireland was observed to be a prodigious swearer belching out most horrid Oaths in great abundance Tidings are brought to Mr. Murcot in the morning as he is going to celebrate a solemn Fast The work of the day being over Mr. Murcot being lately with God in the Mount and now grown warm in his cause and quarrel is impatient of brooking these high dishonours that were done unto his Majesty Wherefore taking with him a friend he rides the same night six miles to a Magistrate procures a Warrant the trembling Constables at first are astonished to think of approaching in such a way to guilty greatness but being animated by Mr. Murcot they serve their Warrant which provoked a new rage to the multiplying of fresh oaths even without number to the great amazement of the standers by Notwithstanding the boisterous menaces and outrage of this great man his horses were seized on and kept till he paid 20 which was employed as a stock for the poor of the Parish so wickedly liberal was this Lord unto them This exemplary Act of Justice procured and prosecuted by Mr. Murcol's active zeal so danted and overawed his Lordship that during his abode there he held his mouth and tongue as it were with bit and bridle The prsence of a si● punishing Magistrate hath in it a co-ercive and restraining vertue so that the most debanched and profligate sons of Belial are afraid and confined with n some bounds of moderation who if remote and at a distance they lift up their heads with a mighty confidence and finding the reins lye loose upon their shoulders rush into all manner of wickedness as the Horse rusheth ●nto the battle Mr. Murcot wanted the advantage of a Magstrate upon the place had no other sword to fight withal save that of the Spirit yet such was his Integrity Gravity Austerity and his Activity in informing and exciting Magstrates to punish Offenders impartially that the people round about him had

that is to say without any tedious sickness such as Job had and therefore they encourage themselves in their evil ways they say what profit is there if we should pray unto him we prosper as well as any who is the Almighty that we should serve him Let him depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of his ways whereas a Job a Paul that are upright fearing God eschewing evil exercising themselves to keep a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men they shall be plagued every morning God shall take them by the neck and shake them to pieces and pour out their gall upon the ground and break them with breach upon breach Now brethren if Sinners were not reserved to a day of judgement and destruction that they should he brought forth to the day of wrath how would the Lord be righteous and just it is a righteous thing with God to render tribulation to them that trouble you ●but to you that are troubled rest with us Again Thirdly Remember this Thou despis 〈…〉 the riohes and long suffering of God not knowing that this goodness leads thee to repentance It hath a tendency thereto God is not slack but is long-suffering to us not willing any should perish he waits to be gracious Sinners he giveth you space to repent though he tell you not how long that space shall continue that while it is called to day you might hearken to his voice Now instead of turning to the Lord you despise this his patience let him wait upon whom he pleaseth you desire him not to wait upon you but let the day of the Lord come that you may see it because you prosper and your brests are full of milk and your bones watered with marrow as it is in the Original you make a scoff at the judgements of God and mock at all his terrors as if nothing concerning you What is this but not only to break the yoke of Christ and his Cords of obeisance but the Cords of a man and of love wherewith he draweth sinners towards Repentance it followeth in the text that such men treasure up wrath against the day of wrath after their own hardness and impenitent heart let them put off the day of judgement as well as they can they do treasure up wrath against the day of wrath treasures of wrath are abundance he stores up treasures as we do sin God seals up such mens sins among his treasures indeed you fill up many bags and apace as a few great stones will fill a bag over little stones will do nothing heightens your sins more then this the despising the goodness and patience and forbearance of God riches and treasures of goodness and long-suffering abused and perverted to a wrong end to encourage your hearts to strengthen your hands to sin Swell the treasures of the displeasure which hangs over your heads every moment Ah dear friends that God would give some poor hard-hearted Sinner a trembling heart at this word I doubt it is some of our cases do you know what you do Sinners you heap up sin they are gon over your head I that is not al you treasure up wrath against the day of wrath that day when all the treasures shall be broken open the Sluces opened and the tyde of streaming vengeance shall carry away poor sinners to that bottomless gulf O who may abide this day No Nor do not think You shall have worse then other men and you hope not so bad you never yet sinned as some others have done you bless God you are no Drunkards nor Extortioners you never sinned as Sodom nor as Gomorrhah suppose so Yet it may be more tolerable for them then for many of us who shall despise this long-suffering of God and the riches of his goodness to us The Lord of that servant that encourageth himself to sin upon his Lord his delaying his coming he will come in a day when he looks not for him and he will divide him asunder Either rend his soul from his body whether he will or no this night shall thy soul be taken from thee Sinners are not willing to part with the●r souls and no marvel when they behold hell from beneath moved for them Or else he will separate them from himself and the Congregation of his people for ever they shall not stand in the Congregation of his people though here they were mixed together Or else he will bring upon him the most exquisite tormenting evils as men sawn asunder or as Agag or as they Dan. 3. 29. So in the Evangelist And give him his portion with Hypocrites as some gloss it they are the free-holders of hell the lowest place they have for simulata sanctitas duplex iniquitas and therefore they shall receive double even according to their deeds See brethren we may be his servants in name and profession and he may commit to us the Stewards office also and if this be our own end a sad word for us as well as for you for loose and contentious and ungodly Ministers and yet notwistanding perish with deepest destruction if we despise this long-suffering toward us 3. Again It reproveth such as of prophaness of their spirits upon every slight occasion will be calling upon God to judge them appealing to him nothing more ordinary in prophane mens mouths then this the Lord judge them Yea more fearful indeed so fearful that I hardly think the Devil himself would so speak for they believe and tremble that God would damn them calling for that day upon every little vexation when men suspect them or censure them for any thing they would clear themselves and to that end use such fearful imprecations as these Ah wo be to them that say let the day of the Lord come what if the Lord should take such men at their word and put an end to his long-suffering and say Well judge thee I will this hour thy soul shall be taken from thee would they not be in an other Note you need not call for it it will come fast enough 4. It reproveth such as out of a conceit they have of their own innocency they will be calling for that day Job himself was blame-worthy that he presseth so much upon this O that I might come to him where I might find him that I might come even to his seat I would order my cause before him and fill my mouth with arguments I would hear the words which he would answer me and understand what he would say unto me And so again Chap. 13. Withdraw thine hand far from me and let not thy dread make me afraid then call thou and I will answer thee charge upon me what thou canst of wickedness or prophaness and I will clear my self or let me speak and answer thou me let me be the Plaintiff saying out the sad condition of my soul and do thou answer me justifie thy

is a Sun in a special manner O Brethren have you not experience of it where and how come in your warmings on your spirits is it not in the Ordinances of Christ doth he not breath there and feed there with his people if a man should be so peevish as that he would not have the Suns influence except he did shine in his chamber did move there or shine on the earth or move there were he not most justly deprived of them Here Brethren here in the Word preached and heard in the Seals and Prayer and all the Ordinances of Christ he will be found of his people and above others in private be much in maditation of the sweetness the riches of his love to poor Sinners such as thou art this is to set our faces Brethren towards the Sun O how will this clear the eyes of an Eagle indeed one that is gloriously born of heaven though Owls are blinded by it How will this Brethren darken the beauty and glory of all things here You complain of earthliness and you are fast glewed to the world O beg of God that he would turn your eyes toward himself toward the Lord Jesus behold this Sun in his strength and glory and see if this do not make all things else dull to you to have no excellence in them in comparison of Christ that you shall cry out none but Christ none but Christ O Brethren this would make us sparkle like Diamonds lying under the influence of the Sun it s for want of this that Christians are like Diamonds in the dirt this will make us sparkle as Moses face did shine this Brethren is the way to contract the beams as in a burning glass and set the heart on fire with love to Jesus Christ then our affections will flame then shall we be a zealous people of good works otherwise not Fourteenthly Arise then and shine thou poor fearing soul that liest in the dust be inlightned lift up thy eyes thou that languishest and thy spirit is ready to faint within thee thou art even dying and couldst with fears of thy condition Oh thy light is come is not the Sun in the Firmament though he may be clouded from thee what though there be much darkness in thee of ignorance of discomfort thou walkest in darkness and seest no light the Sun may be up though it appear not it may be day with thee poor soul and thou a child of light and of the day though thou beholdest not the Sun nor the b●●ms from the Sun if thou hast not the light of the Sun the light of his countenance thou mayst have the influence of the Sun notwithstanding that reacheth the parts where the light cometh not And be not discouraged at the enemies of Christ what though the clouds of ignorance errour prophaness and idolatry gather together and seem to threaten the Sun Alas how soon can he dispel them consume them with the brightness of his glorious appearance what if the Dogs do bark at the Moon the Church or at Christ the Sun will that hinder him in his course what though the People when they are scorched with the heat of the Sun as some Pagans are do curse the Sun can they hinder his course O no as a strong man he will run his race and who shall hinder it and those that will not be made fruitful he will burn up and consume therefore be not discouraged and thou that hast much deadness and coldness and hardness be not discouraged there is influence enough in Christ go to him labour to act faith on him set thy self under his influence wait on him in his Ordinances and see if it come not into thee to warm to melt to make fruitful in the work of the Lord. Now for the second which is that Jesus Christ is the Sun of righteousness But lest I should dwell too long on the Text if I should at large handle every part therefore I will rather sum up several things in one Observation and its this Vnto them that fear the Name of the Lord the Sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings or d●th arise with healing in his wings Wherein I will labour to unfold several things and then come to the Application of all to our selves First then What is meant by them that fear the Lord here in this place of the Prophet I conceive by the coherence of the Text that hereby are meant such as when the Prophet had denounced the fearful threatnings of Judgement The day of the Lord to be as a fire oven to consume the stubble c. they were afraid they feared the Lord and his judgements they were apt to be too much dismayed at it but he tels them that to them it should be a day of healing and liberty and light and refreshing to his people The people of God may and ought to be afraid of the judgements of God when they hang bound up in a black cloud but yet in the womb of a threatning and so Josiah was afraid and rent his clothes and humbled himself his heart was tender and he did tremble at this fearful word the judgement threatned against Hierusalem A stout stubborn brawny hard heart never melts nor moveth but such as those are afraid or else if judgement do break out and the decree bring forth the clouds pour out upon Sinners then they are afraid So David was afraid of the judgement of God executed on Vzzah and afraid of the Angel of the Lord. Now to such as these the Lord promiseth a Sun of righteousness shall arise with healing such fear hath torment in it and anguish and therefore hath need of healing but is this to be restrained either to their persons or to their conditions surely no the prophesies are Divine they are of the nature of the author with whom 1000 years are but as one day therefore we are to allow to them a greater latitude such as is agreeable to them they are not fulfilled punctually at once but have springing accomplishment and germinant throughout many ages though the height or fulness of them may refer them to some age and of all other prophesies it is most true of that of Christ with respect to the saving vertues of his blood to his people therefore for persons we must not confine it to them no nor for things to that sort of fear which seemeth to be meant by the series of the context but this as all other promises of God are applyable to any condition of poor creatures to which its suitable As that of Joshuah I will never leave thee is applyed to want in outward things and to encourage them to walk without covetousness Therefore Secondly Fearing of God may be meant such as God hath begun to work on hath convinced them of sin and of wrath by reason of sin there is a fear wrought in such an heart as the poor Jaylour came

sins pardoned and healed were back-slidings only thou must be content to endure something for the healing of those fearful wounds thou hast made in upon thy soul for there is no wound cured in a moment nor without any anguish and all that he laies upon thee is nothing the smart is nothing though the plaister lie long upon thee before it be healed to draw the sore to a head to break it to draw it to heal it there will be some time but he will heal thee poor sinner if he have made thee weary of this sin desirous of healing indeed And for you that are crying out of broken bones it may be there are some whose condition this is that do fear the Lord and obey the voice of his servants it is the greatest fear of thy soul to displease the Lord to grieve him happy soul with whom it is thus but thou art over-cast thou art clouded thou seest no light thy bones are broken thy spirit is wounded O who can bear a wounded spirit Be of good chear man remember this hath he not promised it that he will arise upon them that fear the Lord with healing in his wings he will heal those broken bones and the flesh wherein there is no soundness by reason of thy sins he will heal it and he is doing of it though thou art not sensible of it he pittyeth thee and knoweth how to pitty thee for himself was ecclipsed though the Son of righteousness that he might know how to pitty them that suffer in the like kind for the time to come he knoweth thy frame what thou canst bear and he will not let thee sink O thou of little faith● though he may fright thee as he did his Disciples the cloud will be over again only thou must wait for him he knoweth what it is to be without the light of his Fathers countenance as well as thou and he knoweth what thou canst bear therefore be not discouraged man and beside thou hast his promise for it only look to it that thou fear him that thou put not forth thy hand to iniquity that thou say not with that wicked King Why should I wait for the Lord any longer he that shall come will come in the best season When the mercy will be most sweet and seasonable himself may have most glory by it and thy soul most refreshing O but saith another I am not healed I doubt then for alas I find though haply I break not out as before to uncleanness actually yet I have eyes full of adultery still I find the dispositions and inclinations and yieldings of my heart strong to mine own iniquity still some to one and some to another ●or answer to this Is this thy burthen thy grief that it is so dost thou loath thy ●elf for it dost thou hate it wouldst thou fain have it rooted up thou art healed in the greatest part there is the core fetched up from the bottom though the wound be not altogether healed up it is the work of longer time then haply God hath been dealing with thy soul but be of good chear man lay thy self under the Sun of righteousness labour to improve the Covenant of grace wherein he shines most gloriously he hath promised he will circumcise thine heart and thou shalt be able to love the Lord with all thine heart and that he will subdue all iniquity for thee and see if he be not as good as his word in his own time which is the best time We have already endeavoured to open the main promise in this bundle and apply it with what advantage the Lord and your own hearts can tell you have heard at large that Jesus Christ is a Sun of righteousness and that he will ari●e with healing in his wings upon them that fear him So that there is Christ promised light and heat and healing reviving and quickning promised and through him And now we are come to speak to the liberty which is promised with Christ which is none of the least considerable Appendices of our justification through his blood and though you have not long since heard somewhat upon this subject however if you hear but the same things the Spirit of the Lord may breath where and when it pleaseth we may meet with him sometimes in hearing the same things that at another time he hath not been found in And ye shall go forth This is principally as I told you spoken to the Jew to the Jew first but also to the Gentile as all the Gospel promises they were first preached to the children of the Kingdom when the Gentiles were strangers from the Covenant of promises but now the Lord hath made them nigh in the blood of his Son that were afar off in Christ all the promises are Yea and Amen to them as well as to the Jews I told you at the first that we are not to confine promises made to times and persons except by unavoidable nece●sity where the matter promised is such and the promise such as can agree to no other time or person no persons or peoples condition can become like to theirs to whom the promise is made or are not capable of the thing promised as the promise of the Messiah to come of David and that in Abrahams seed all the Nations of the earth should be blessed c. therefore this is a promise concerning all the people of God as their conditions become alike yea all that fear the Lord in any of these senses we have already spoken to By going forth here some understand a going forth of this life or a going out of the grave which is a prison indeed to some though not properly so to the Saints but a place of repose until the appearing of Jesus Christ So Alap citing Tert. and Jer. the reason is because they took that which is spoken of the day of the Lord in the foregoing verse of the day of Judgement That day which should burn as an Oven but I do rather conceive that it is not meant of the day of the last Judgement but the day of the fearfull desolations of Jerusalem out of which yet the Lord did deliver and save his own people and the rather I conceive so because of the growing up like Calves of the Stall promised afterward now if that be the day there is no room then to grow any higher to spread any further but as the tree is cut down so it lies there is then in the words a promise of an inlargement from under restraint wherewith their spirits were bound up as I may say and were imprisoned and this we shall see I hope is very great only take here the note of observation from the words The Lord Jesus rising upon a soul brings inlargement to that soul or people ye shall go forth For the prosecution of this I shall propose this Method First give you the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the quod that it

them when they are come Or Thirdly From the evil of them the pinching and wringing and galling of the yoke First In respect of the fear of them They shall go forth he speaks here plainly to the believing Jews they were afraid of the judgments of God in the threatning while they did but hang over their heads and they were in a kind of prison or bondage by reason of this fear Well saith the Lord Fear not you shall go forth the Sun of righteousness shall arise upon you Job was afraid of his sorrows take and compare Job the none-such in the East a most eminent Saint and Paul in the New Testament and the one you find he is afraid of his sorrows Paul he glories in his tribulations you never hear him complaining of his sufferings no nor feared them he knew that bonds and imprisonments did abide him in every City but he cared not for any of these things he had a richer discovrey of the Grace of God in Christ then Job had and clearer it is like and therefore this set him free in a great measure from them and indeed his soul that knoweth the things that are freely given him in Christ knoweth now that he is his Father and what ever shall befall him it shall turn to his good what need he much to fear Secondly They shall go out from the presence of them this the Lord doth many times for his people what though the day of the Lord burn like an oven and burn up the chaff and stubble and devour them root and branch I will be an hiding place to you saith the Lord You that fear my name indeed and tremble at my word O the Sun of righteousness shall arise upon you and by vertue of his death ye shall be delivered as the Jews were in Egypt By the sprinkling of the blood of the Passover upon the Posts of the Doors which did represent and typifie the blood of Jesus Christ and in that place of Z●ch Mark you saith the Lord concerning his peoples Deliverance out of Babylon a type of spiritual deliverance and freedom of his people as for thee also by the blood of the Covenant I have sent forth thy Prisoners out of the Pit wherein there is no water this is done by vertue of the Covenant of Grace whereby this freedom and going forth is made out to Believers therefore you may observe when the Lord cometh to deliver Israel out of Egypt he ushers it in thus I remember my Covenant the difference between the deliverances of Israel and other people are the one is a Covenant mercy the other a common mercy meerly Well now saith the Lord ye shall go forth of the burning even as the children in the Furnace it burned but they escaped the Lord Jesus was with them so shall ye go forth and the Lord did provide a little Zoar for his people in the destruction of Jerusalem many of them escaped to Pella as the story goeth a little Town beyond Jordan and so the Lord doth seal the 144000. before he brings those bloody calamities upon the earth the persecuting world and those in the ninth of Ezekiel O who would not be in Covenant with God! they shall go forth Or thirdly They shall be freed from the destroying evil the hardening evil of affliction which is a bondage and a sore one too being bound in affliction and iron and so Job in the 13. ch ver 27. God writeth bitter things against him and puts his feet in the stocks and all his affliction together is called Jobs captivity he was as I may say resigned up to the pleasure of Satan for a while who led him from one affliction to another but the Lord brought him out and brought him off without the evil the Devil expected that he should curse him and dye curse him to his face now I say the Lord maketh his people go forth brings them through and not only so but without any of the hurt seizing upon them Sinners are the harder for being in the fire but they are melted as very a stone as Pharaoh was he began to burn in the fire and be hot and a man would have thought his heart had given but it was a stone still but his people came out melted refined with this Epiphonema to all their afflictions O it was good for me I could not have been without it much of my dross is gone by it and thus the Lord maketh his people go forth ●e shall go forth Twelfthly There is one more and that is the yoak of Ceremonies traditions of men I will put them both together the Ceremonies were a yoak you know circumcision was a hard service to draw blood of their children at eight daies old their journeys to their feasts at Jerusalem their offerings and oblations they were very chargeable insomuch that they grew weary of them and snuffed at them c. And for the Traditions of men they are a grievous burthen where their Doctrines are taught and received the Apostle comprehends both-under that word the rudiments of the world whereunto he would not have them be brought in bondage again the difference of meats and drinks c. the Lord Jesus hath let us loose from those observations and therefore it is a desperate doctrine a doctrine of Devils or at least of them that speak lies in hypocrisie to forbid to marry and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving and blessed be his name that by the rising of the Sun of righteousness among us he hath brought us out from this bondage generally and if he would be pleased to shine among the poor ignorant Papists that they might but come to the knowledge of his will doubtless this would be quickly shakt off with them also but you have the parts of this liberty For the degrees of it we must know this that it is not in the same degree to every believer you have already heard how that before Christ's coming it was not in such power as since Ye shall go forth hath been accomplished in many respects since the appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and the more faith and the clearer sight we have of Jesus Christ with the greater power and splendor and glory he shines upon us the more of the riches of his grace we come to apprehend the more fully and perfectly to rest upon that grace the more shall we find that all these bondages shall be broken we have been speaking to but thus much for the two things which is what this liberty is Which are the arguments for the further confirmation of the Doctrine Where the Lord Jesus ariseth upon a soul there is liberty and enlargement First from the very nature of that gift of grace the arising of the Sun of righteousness upon them what is this but the giving of himself unto a soul