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A77605	Cases considered and resolved. Wherein all the tender godly conscientious ministers in England (whether for a Congregationall, or a Presbyteriall way) are concerned. Or pills to purge malignants. And all prophane, ignorant, and scandalous persons. (But more particularly calculated for the meridian of Margarets Fishstreet-hill) from those grosse conceits that they have of their childrens right to baptisme; and of their owne right to the Supper of the Lord, &c. Also good councell to bad men. Or friendly advise (in severall particulars) to unfriendly neighbours. By Thomas Brooks, a willing servant unto God, and the faith of his people, in the glorious Gospel of Christ, at Margarets Fishstreet-hill.	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1653 (1653)	Wing B4938; Thomason E684_28; ESTC R207067	29,466	37

defect in my preaching The word preached did not profit them not being mixed with faith in them that heard it Heb. 4.2 Faith and the word meeting make a happy mixture a precious confection When faith and the word is mingled together then the word will be a word of power and life then 't wil be a healing word a quickning word a comforting word a saving word Faith makes the soul fruitful As Luther saith of prayer so I may say of saith it hath a kind of Omnipotency in it 't is able to do all things Est quaedam omnipotentia precum Tantum possumus quantum credimus faith hath Rachels eye and Leahs womb Where faith is wanting mens souls will be like the Cypress the more it is watered the more it is withered However that tree that is not for fruit is for the fire Heb. 6.8 Some say of King Midas not true but fabulous that he had obtained of the gods that whatsoever he touched should be turned into gold I may truly say in a spiritual sense what ever faith touches it turnes it into gold into our good A Bee can suck hony out of a flower so cannot a Flie do Faith will extract abundance of comfort out of the word and gather one contrary out of another honey out of the rock Deut. 32.36 3. I quere whether their not finding comfort by my ministry did not rather spring from a judicial act of God When she in Seneca was stricken with sudden blindnesse she cryed out of the light So when God strikes prophane men with spiritual blindnesse then they cry out of the Minister Psal 119.70 rather then from any thing in my ministry God many times punishes mens neglect of the means and their dispising the means and their barrenness under the means c. by giving them up to a spirit of slumber by shutting their eyes and closing up their hearts as you may see in that Isa 6.9 10. and he said Go and tell this people hear ye indeed but understand not and see ye indeed but perceive not Make the heart of this people fat and make their ears heavy and shut their eyes lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and convert and be healed A fat heart is a fearful plague a fat heart is a most brutish and blockish heart a heart fitted and prepared for wrath These four keyes say the Rabbins God keeps under his own girdle 1. The key of the womb 2. The key of the grave 3. The key of the rain 4. The key of the heart He openeth and no man shutteth and he shutteth and no man openeth 4. I Queere whether their not finding of comfort did not spring from the wickedness and basenesse of their own hearts Isa 29.13 14. Ezek. 33 30. ult Mat. 15.4 10. The Patient in Plutarch complained to his Physitian of his Finger when his Liver was rotten So many complain of the Minister when their hearts are rotten they complainthey can finde no comfort when the fault lyes in the basenesse of their hearts When men bring pride and prejudice and refolvednesse to walk after the waies of their own hearts let the minister say what he will as they in Jeremiah 44.15 ult which I desire you will turn too and read t is no wonder that they can finde no comfort in the word This is just as if the Patient should cry out of the Physician Oh he can finde no comfort in any thing he prescribes him when he is resolved before hand that he will rather dye then follow his prescriptions May not every one of these mens hearts say to him as the heart of Apollodorus in the Kettle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 't is I have been the cause of this I judge they may and if they will not now acknowledg it to their humiliation they will at last be forc'd to acknowledg it to their confusion and destruction in that day wherein the great searcher of hearts shall judge the souls of men 5. I Quere whether all the godly conscientious Ministers of one judgement or another in all England would not be outed and routed if this plea of prophane ignorant malignant 1 King 22 8.-29 and scandalous persons that they cannot finde no profit nor no comfort by their ministry be admitted as a thing that has worth or weight in it Without doubt if this would carry the day against a godly ministry 2 Chron. 36.16 we should hear a cry from all parts of the Nation where such men are Oh! what shall we do with such Preachers as these be Isa 30.8 9 10 11. we can finde no comfort nor no profit by their ministry we will have none of these but we will have such as will preach pleasing things Lam. 2.14 we will have Common-prayer-book men and such that will administer Sacraments to us as in former good dayes wherein their was no such difference put between men and men but all that would bring their two-pences might come and be as welcome to the Parson if not more as any Puritan or Round-head of them all 6. I Quere whether your not finding of comfort and profit by the word did not spring from Satans blinding your eyes and from his catching away the good seed out of your hearts If our Gospel be hid 2 Cor. 4.3 4. Satan is like the picture of the Goddesse that was so contrived that she frown'd on men as they went into the Temple and smil'd as they came out Math. 13.19 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rapio He took it or snatch't it by force or violence saith the Apostle it is hid to them that are lost Whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the image of God should shine unto them Is it any wonder that prophane ignorant scandalous persons can finde no comfort by the word when as the Devil hath shut their eyes with his black hand When he hath put a covering upon their eyes that they can't see any beauty excellency or glory in it Gospel droppings have richly fallen among many and yet like Gideons fleece they are dry because Satan has blinded them and catched away the good seed that was sowen upon them When any one heareth the word of the Kingdom and understandeth it not then cometh the wicked one and catches away that which was sowen in his heart or rather upon his heart this is he which received seed by the way side 7. I Quere whether your want of profit and comfort by the word did not spring from your want of interest in Gospel-consolations 'T is interest in a pardon a Crown an inheritance that comforts and not the talking of them So here The very Heathen could not have comfort nor quiet when they were under the rage of sinful lusts therefore when they knew not how to bridle them

they offered violence to nature pulling out their own eyes because they could not look upon a woman without lusting after her Oh 't is not the hearing of Gospel-consolations that comforts but the knowledg of a mans interest in them that cheers up the heart Ah where is that word to be found in all the Book of God that does evidence comfort which is childrens bread to be of right belonging to prophane ignorant malignant and scandalous persons as you can't but know your selves to be if conscience be in the least measure awakned God hath all along in the Scripture made a seperation between sin and comfort and how then can you expect comfort who hold on in sinful wayes though love and wrath life and death heaven and hell be often set before you God is not prodigal of Gospel-consolations they are the best and strongest Wines in Gods Cellar and reserved onely for his best and dearest friends Isa 40.1.2 Comfort ye comfort ye my people saith your God speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished that her iniquity is pardoned c. The Hebrew word that is here rendred comfort signifies first to repent and then to comfort And certainly the sweetest joy is from the sowrest teares Tears are the Breeders of spiritual joy When Hannah had wept she went away and was no more sad The Bee gathers the best honey of the bitterest hearbs Christ made the best wine of water The purest the strongest and most excellent joy is made of the waters of Repentance Ah lay your hands upon your hearts and tell me whether you can look God in the face and say Lord we are thine First by Purchase Secondly we are thine by Choice Thirdly we are thine by Conquest Fourthly we are thine by Covenant Fifthly we are thine by Marriage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nahhamu nuhhamu from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nahham which signifies first to repent 1 Sam. 15.35 and then to comfort because true comfort belongs only to the penitent Divine comfort is a delicate thing and it is not given to him that admits any other saith Bernard Nulla verior miseria quam falsa loetitia Bernard There is no truer misery then false joy Nil nisi sanctum a sancto Spiritu prodire potest Neh. 8.10 There have been those that have died under the strength and power of their joy Valde protestatus sum me nolle sic satiari ab eo Luther I said statly that God should not put me off with these low things I have read of one who cried out with a loud voice to Flavius Vespasianus vuspem pilum mutare non mores that the Wolfe might change his hair but not his qualities You know how to apply it Isai 49.4 5. Ah if you are not the Lords in these respects what Minister on earth hath a commission to comfort you their commission is to read other Lectures to prophane ignorant scandalous persons c. then those of comfort and joy as you may see in these Scriptures if you will but take the pains to read them Psal 7.11 Psal 9.17 Psal 11.5 6. Psal 37.10 20. compared with Psal 75.8 Psal 145.20 Job 21.30 Prov. 11.5 21 31. compared Prov. 12.2 Prov. 14.19 Prov. 15.29 Prov. 21.18 27. Eccles 8.13 Isa 11.4 Isa 13.11 Jer. 25.31 Ezek. 3.18 19. Nah. 1.3 Mal. 4.3 Deut. 28.15 ult Levit. 26.14 ult Ah did you but wisely consider the excellency of Gospel-comforts above all other comforts in the world you would not wonder at Ministers giving them forth so sparingly to prophane ignorant malignant and scandalous persons For first Gospel-comforts are unutterable comforts 1 Pet. 1.8 Phil. 4.4 Secondly they are real Joh. 14.27 all others are but seeming comforts but painted comforts Thirdly they are holy comforts Isa 64.5 Psal 138.5 they flow from a holy Spirit and nothing can come from the Holy Spirit but that which is holy Fourthly they are the greatest and strongest comforts Ephes 6.17 few heads and hearts are able to bear them as few heads are able to bear strong wines Fifthly they reach to the inward man to the soul 2 Thess 2.17 the noble part of man My soul rejoyceth in God my Saviour Our other comforts onely reach the face they sinck not so deep as the heart Sixtly they are the most soul-filling and soul-satisfying comforts Psal 16. ult Can. 2.3 other comforts cannot reach the soul and therefore they can't fill nor satisfie the soul Seventhly they comfort in saddest distresses in the darkest night and in the most stormie day Psal 94.19 Hab. 3.17 18. verses Eightly they are everlasting 2 Thess 2.16 The joy of the wicked is but as a glass bright and brittle and evermore in danger of breaking but the joy of the Saints is lasting Aeterna erit exultatio quae bono laetatur aeterno Their joy lasts for ever whose object remains for ever 8. I Quaere whether you and men of your stamp remaining under the power of your lusts will ever say that you can finde any comfort at all in any mans ministry that is not a Common-prayer-book man or one that will give you and yours the Sacraments and lash at the power of godlinesse and at the State in preaching and praying c. doubtlesse under such a mans ministry were he never so ignorant scandalous or prophane you would plead that you found much comfort to your souls and that he was a man indeed for your money c. Well if you have found no comfort under my ministry yet my comfort is that my reward is with the Lord and my work with my God my comfort is that there are many hundreds in this City that have and that do finde comfort by the blessing and breathings of God upon my weak endeavours Further in their Petition they say that I am not so qualified to their understandings as to remain any longer with them To this I say First 't is my joy and crown that I am not so qualified as to please and content ignorant prophane malignant scandalous persons in their formality and impiety Remembring that he is the best Preacher * Non qui aures tetigerit sed qui cer pupigerit Male de me loquuntur sed mali saith Seneca not that tickles the ear but that breaks the heart 'T is a comfort to me that I am no neerer that woe Luk. 6.26 Woe be to you when all men speak well of you When one told Aristides that he had every mans good word saith he what evil have I done that I should have every mans good word 'T is sometimes more a shame then an honour to have the good word of prophane ignorant scandalous persons Latymer in his last Sermon before King Edward saith That he was glad when any objected indiscretion against him in his Sermons for by that he knew the matter was good else they would soon have condemned that 'T was a notable saying of Salvian * Mirum esset