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A96523	Three decads of sermons lately preached to the Vniversity at St Mary's Church in Oxford: by Henry Wilkinson D.D. principall of Magdalen Hall.	Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.	1660 (1660)	Wing W2239; Thomason E1039_1; ESTC R204083	607,468	685

Conscience worketh by love and labour for more accession of it and God will accept the quality for the quantity pence for pounds the will for the deed We read Heb. 11. 17. By faith Abraham when he was tried offered up Isaac The faithfull intentions of Abraham was accepted in the accompt of God as a reall performance Let 's all labour to be sincere and upright hearted and this perfection of parts i. e. sincerity will be accepted instead of perfection of degrees which is an absolute perfection without spot or wrinkle which cannot be attained on earth by Militant Saints who are Viatores but only by such who are Comprehensores glorified Saints in Heaven JOY IN THE LORD AS A STRONG GROUND OF COMFORT AGAINST ALL DISCOMFORTS Unfolded from Hab. 3. 18. Yet I will rejoyce in the Lord I will joy in the God of my salvation MY Text is an apposite close of a devout Prophets Sermon 9. Preached at St. Marye's Oxon. Jan 8. 1659 60. Prayer composed of two excellent ingredients faith and fervency for in the time of Jacobs troubles when sad tidings were renewed every moment and each relation like Jobs disconsolate messengers aggravated the miseries and made them exceeding miserable then my Prophet Habakkuk could discerne a Sun of righteousnesse with healing wings dissipating all Mal. 4. 2. the clouds of sorrowes and miseries I say amidst all these diastrous occurrences this spirituall man by the eye of faith could see a Believer and apprehend his Jesus the God of his salvation this is an evidence of the strength of faith and where faith is it sets the affections a working it 's never idle but alwaies operative as soone as faith gives thee an insight into the beauty and excellency of thy God how sweet and amiable will he be unto thy soule thy affections will be transported with my Prophet I will rejoyce I will joy his expressions were too short they cannot reach his heart and therefore he iterates his resolution hee 's a true lover indeed who delights to discourse of his beloved odject and make frequent repetitions of his love this is an argument of his fervency So then you see as I before intimated that faith and fervency are the essentiall parts of this accurate prayer The words read are promissory and by way of covenant or you may call them a comfortable conclusion drawne from sad and dolefull premissesse Upon perusall of the precedent words you will find matter of terrour and astonishment enough to make you quake and tremble Before him went the Pestilence and burning coles went forth at his feet vers 5. The earth is measured and the Nations are drove a sunder and the everlasting mountaines were scattered and the perpetuall hills did bow vers 6. Unheard of miracles earthquakes against the course of nature the mountaines tremble there 's a great inundation of waters the Sun and the Moon cease from their motion vers 10. 11. And as before there went out pestilence and burning coles or burning diseases so now to adde a complement to the judgment here are arrowes by day which wound as much as the other in the night the speares glitters and the Lord marcheth on in his indignation the heathen feele the sore brunt of it vers 12. Thou didst thresh the heathen in anger Yet out of all these bitter hearbs Gods people can suck sweetnesse For God is good to his Israel Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people vers 13. It 's worthy of your notice that amidst greatest extremities God extends his speciall eye of care and providence unto his owne people he never failes to be their Protector It followeth Thou woundest the head of the house of the wicked by discovering the foundation unto the neck i. e. God will pluck these up by the roots that they shall never grow againe By this Me●aphor of a foundation according to * Intelligit quicquid erat stabilitatis in ipsis hostibus hoc fuisse evulsumusque ad collum Calv. in loc Calvins interpretation I understand Whatsoever strength and stability they seem'd to have was quite overthrowne from the top to the bottome The weapons God useth are described vers 4. Thou didst strike through with his staves i. e. God gives them over to themselves and they proove their own executioners and every mans hand was against his fellow Their particular sinnes are mentioned They came out as a whirlewind to scatter me their rejoycing was to devoure ●he poore secretly Behold their insolent rage and precipitant fury Their motions are too violent to hold their rage was against God like unto Senacherib but their tumult came up unto his eares and they fare alike I will saith the Lord put a bridle in thy lipps and a hook in thy nostrills Isa 37. 29. And thus God abaseth the sons of pride but yet their malice ceaseth not their doggish nature discovers it selfe they rejoyce and devoure the poore and that secretly one way or other they are a working if not by open hostility yet by secret plots and underminings so as they may contrive their ruine But view further Gods power and method which he useth for the preservation of his people Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses through the heapes of great waters this is an Allusion to that wonderfull passage over the red sea Hence learne that in the greatest dangers God makes away for his servants escape And now le ts see how all these wonders affect the Prophet you may guesse at his disease by these symptomes trembling in his belly quivering in his lipps rottennesse in his bones here 's a man of the right stamp you may discerne of what currant mettall he is by his sympathy and fellow feeling of the afflictions of others It 's the duty of a good man to be alike affected with others calamities and miseries as if they were his own To draw downe the Context unto the Text my Prophet is no idle Spectator but he with Mary keepes all these things and ponders them in his heart he makes a soveraingne Compound of bitter Ingredients and with the Laborious Bee he suckes sweetnesse out of the sowrest herbes and with Sampson findes a honey comb in a Lions mouth I meane he makes a dungeon a paradise an abounding misery a superabundant comfort by a wise and spirituall application for come what will come his resolution is inviolably fixt upon a principle of faith that although the figg tree shall not blossome neither shall fruit be in the Vines the labour of the Olive shall faile and the fields shall yeeld no meate the flock shall be cut off from the fold and there shall be no herd in the stalles yet I will rejoyce in the Lord I will joy in the God of my salvation Here is an enumeration of the choysest comforts such as are of highest estimation amongst men The Fig-tree hath much sweetnesse and brings forth good fruit the fruit of the Vine makes

begotten of the Father full of grace and truth And this is the great mystery of Godlinesse mentioned 1 Tim. 3. 16. And without controversy great is the mistery of godlinesse God was manifest in the flesh justified in the spirit seen of Angells preached unto the Gentiles believed on in the world received up into glory Christ was God from all Eternity Joh. 8. 58. Jesus said unto them Verily verily I say unto you before Abraham was I am There he speaks of his Godhead A further proofe we have Phil. 2. 6. Who being in the forme of God thought it not robbery to be equall with God Compare this with Zech. 13. 7. Awake O sword against my shepheard and against the man that is my fellow saith the Lord of hosts smite the shepheard and the sheep shall be scattered and I will turne mine hand upon the little ones This is love unparrelleld unexpressible 4. Christ himselfe voluntarily undertook this great work of Proposit 4. Christ voluntarily undertook the worke of our Redemption our redemption he laid down his own life freely And because the Godhead could not suffer death he united our nature unto himselfe and took flesh upon him There are two words setting forth his humiliation Phil. 2. 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he made himselfe of no reputation c. Joh. 1. 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and he dwelt among us c. He took the man hood as if he should unite a clodde of dust unto himselfe who was God from all Eternity As if the Antient of daies should become the infant of daies the Eternall God become a Child As if he that the heaven of heavens could not containe should be inclosed nine months in the wombe of a Virgin Thus it was in respect of his humane nature he was born of Virgin wrapt in swadling cloathes laid in a manger He who had heaven and earth at his command was laid in a manger Herein appeares the singular love of Christ in condescending to take mans nature to take a body that he might accomplish the great work of our redemption by suffering upon the crosse Heb. 10. 5 6 7. Wherefore when he cometh into the world he saith sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not but a body hast thou prepared me In burnt offerings and sacrifice for sinne thou hast had no pleasure Then said I loe I come in the volumne of the book it is written of me to do thy will O God 5. Christ by his active and passive obedience made full compleate Proposit 5. Christ by his obedience hath made full satisfaction and absolute satisfaction to his Fathers Justice for all those that were given him by the Father Rom. 3. 25. Whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousnesse for the remission of sinnes that are past through the forbearance of God To the same effect the Apostle speaks Eph. 2. 13. But now in Christ Jesus yee who sometimes were farre off are made nigh by the blood of Christ Col. 1. 20. And having made peace through the blood of his Crosse by him to reconcile all things unto himselfe by him I say whether they be things in earth or in heaven Christ gave himselfe a sacrifice to expiate for sinne He trod the winepresse of his Fathers sury By his stripes we are healed who his owne selfe bare our sinnes in his owne body on the tree that we 1 Pet. 2. 24. being dead to sinne should live unto righteousnesse by whose stripes we are healed He is the reconciler Col. 1. 20. The price of our redemption 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 6. 20. For yee are bought with a price Matth. 20. 28. Even as the Son of man came not to be ministred unto but to minister and to give his life a ransome for many See Christ's great end of coming into the world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to give his life a ransome for many Christ is the high Priest that entred into the holy of holiest and offered up himselfe a sacrifice Thereby as a surety he paid our debt satisfied his Fathers justice to the utmost Isai 53. 5 11. But he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed He shall see of the travell of his soule and be satisfied by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many for he shall beare their iniquities And this is a thorough satisfaction 2 Cor. 5. 21. For he hath made him to be sinne for us who knew no sinne that we might be made the righteousnesse of God in him Tit. 2. 14. Who gave himselfe for us that he might redeeme us from all iniquity and purify unto himselfe a peculiar people zealous of good workes Hereby we are justified Rom. 5. 9. Much more being now justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him Hereby we are sanctified Rev. 1. 5. And from Jesus Christ who is the faithfull witnesse and the first begotten of the dead and the Prince of the Kings of the earth unto him that loved us and washed us from our sinnes in his owne blood Feare not we are now made nigh Eph. 2. 13. But now in Christ Jesus yee who were farre of are made nigh by the blood of Christ By him we are reconciled Col. 1. 20. And having made peace through the blood of his Crosse by him to reconcile all things unto himselfe by him I say whether they be things in earth or in heaven By Christ we are blessed Gal. 3. 13 14. Christ hath redeemed us from the Curse of the law being made a Curse for us for it is written Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree that the blessing of Abraham might come upon us And that Christ doth fully satisfy is evident because he continually interceds for his people and pleads the vertue and benefit of his perfit satisfactionion Heb. 7. 25. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the utmost that come unto God through him seeing he ever liveth make intercession for them And what was the motive that moved him to do all this for his people to be incarnate to live on earth amongst sinners to suffer reproaches contempts and infamies what moved him to drinke that bitter Cup to poure his blood out of his side and become obedient unto the death of the Crosse Nothing moved him but his love his good will his compassion moved him to heale bodily diseases and his compassion love and mercy moved him to heale soule diseases 6. This love of Christ is a distinguishing speciall love for a peculiar Proposit 6. The Love of Christ is a distinguishing Love sort of people He sweat drops of blood in the garden he was afflicted smitten wounded but all this he endured for the transgression of his own people Isai 53. 8. He was taken from prison and from judgment and who