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A12814	Three sermons tvvo of them appointed for the Spittle, preached in St. Pauls Church, by John Squier, vicar of St. Leonards Shoredich in Middlesex: and John Lynch, parson of Herietsham in Kent.	Squire, John, ca. 1588-1653.; Lynch, John, 1590 or 91-1680. aut	1637 (1637)	STC 23120; ESTC S117834	61,921	114

saith every Creature Tu loquere ut te videam Shew it by thy works saith Christ to us Christians and we Christians should answer our Christ as the Israelites did Moses All that the Lord hath spoken will wee doe Exod. 19.8 7 But our consciences mille testes a great cloud of witnesses complaine to Us of Us that wee have not returned those thanks nor imbraced that love nor expressed that obedience to our blessed Creator It standeth us then in hand to repent us of those notorious Omissions But what is repentance onely mortification and vivification a putting off the old man and a putting on the new man Ephes 4.22 24. that is the eschewing of evill workes and the insuing of good workes We say we repent how doe we shew it It is possible that all our gestures postures sighs prayers and profession may be but Domestici testes partiall false witnesses or vaine-glorious Pseudo-Martyrs Deus testis that we doe truely repent if wee be not rotten hypocrites our good workes before God and man will witnesse it 8 Next no repentance no faith These twinnes like those of Hippocrates will thrive or pine together These 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Day starres will rise and set in the same minute Like Ruth and Naomi they will live and die together A carnall neglect of good workes will kill them both But for faith a wording professour as the Harlot used her Infant 1 King 3.16 doth smother it and take away the breath of it For as the bodie without breath is dead so faith without works is dead also James 2.26 9 If our faith faile it is fit that we should fall to our prayers Lord increase our faith Luk. 17.5 Our prayers are heavie like Moses hand wee cannot hold them up against braving Amalek against our bold temptations our goods workes are Hur and Aaron to support them Our prayers are Sagittae Salutis 2 King 13.17 the arrowes of salvation goods works are our Elisha to teach us to shoote Good workes are the feathers to those arrowes which make them flie as high as heaven and like Jonathans Bow never to turn back emptie but ever to bring a blessing with them A voice was heard from Heaven saying Thy prayers and thine almes are come up for a memoriall before God Act. 10.4 10 Yea good works are not onely helps of prayers but they are prayers also I conceive prayers to bee vocall sacrifices and sacrifices to bee reall prayers Now good works are sacrifices therefore prayers I dispute not the distinctions whether good workes be sacrificia propitiatoria sacrifices to asswage Gods vengeance for our transgressions by our pietie for our sacriledge or by our charitie for our avarice whether goods works bee sacrificia impetrantia to beg a blessing upon our King and kingdome upon our families and persons or whether they be onely sacri ficia Eucharistica the tribute of our thankfulnes But this I know our good workes are sacrifices true sacrifices sacrifices wherewith God is pleased yea well pleased For S. Paul saith To do good and to communicate forget not for with such sacrifices is God well pleased Heb. 13.16 11 Hereunto will I be bold to annex a transcendent goodnesse of good workes I must speake it truely you must heare it cautelously Good workes doe purge us from our sins I transgresse little from the phrase nothing from the sense of S. Pet. 1. Pet. 1.22 We purifie our selves in obeying the truth Indeed this property of purging sinnes properly by way of redemption is peculiar to the prerogative of Christ the blood of Jesus Christ doth cleanse us from all our sins saith S. Joh. 1. Joh. 1.7 but instrumentally and by way of mortification and repressing our concupiscence as it is mentioned by S. Paul to Col. 3.5 we may ascribe this good worke to good workes By mercy and truth iniquitie is purged Pro. 16.6 I will therefore presume to the best man under this roofe under heaven to come neer and say Father goe to Jordan wash and be cleane Cleanse your selves by good workes and a godly conversation 12 We are Gods servants do our fraile appetites invite us be hirelings will mercinarie motives make us to be good to do good our good works shall produce a good reward a double reward yea a treble temporall spirituall and eternall 1 Tim. 4.8 Doe not censure nor suspect this doctrine for Popish and implying merites no out of my judgement not affection I abhorre all Popery and of all Popery I abhorre this Heresie that proud presumptuous point of Merits But that good workes shall have their remard it is Saint Pauls doctrine Hebr. 11.6 and wee have Saint Pauls distinction to cleere it from Popery Rom. 4.4 our reward shall be of Grace not of Debt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith S. Basil and S. Ambrose seemeth to speake the same sentence in Latine Donum liberalitatis non stipendium virtutis a reward proceeding from the benignity of the rewarder not from the dignity of the rewarded hee can be no way meritorious I have heard that power belongeth unto God and that thou Lord art mercifull for thou rewardest every man according to his worke Psal 62.12 13 Moreover the good workes of good Christians shall have a reward according to the proportion of their goodnesse He which soweth sparingly shall reap sparingly and hee which soweth bountifully shall reap bountifully 2. Cor. 9.6 They that be wise shall shine as the brightnesse of the firmament but they that turne many to righteousnesse as the starres for ever and ever Dan. 12.3 The patient Innocents which start not and shrinke not at the groundlesse and endlesse barking of black-mouth'd slaunderers They are blessed and commanded joyfully to expect the augmentation of their blessings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a reward even a great reward in the Kingdome of Heaven Math. 5.11.12 14 These many points are so many stems springing from one stalke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the love of our selves to our selves There remaine two maine motives whereof the one is comparable to any of these the other superlative to all of these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our love to our brethren on earth and our love to our Father in heaven to edifie them and to glorifie him both in the Text. To draw men to Christ is Gods rovall Prerogative John 6.44 therefore to communicate this to Us must be a rare priviledge for such mortall miserable creatures But exempla trahunt mores exemplary good workes are an adamant very attractive and they are not iron of a heavie disposition who will not follow them Good workes doe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 draw men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they make nolentem volentem such as are backward to religion to become forward in religion Thus homo generat hominem one good worke doth produce another Good workes are necessary to bee done by good men that by their example they may edifie their brethren 15 These many

it was a sacrifice offered in remembrance of that same passage in the truth of the thing done Israels first-borne you see were preserved in figure of that same truth a certaine Lamb you see was slain Yea but in the meane while where is nostrum you will say Where is that same Passeover which I said was Ours For all this while have we been only in Israel you know and what is Israels I am sure is nought to us True it is not I must confesse but yet for all this have but patience I beseech you for a little time and I nothing doubt but with Gods assistance to repay with interest what erst I promised and to make it cleare unto you how that as well as Israel even we Christians also have a Passeover a passage over from as great an evill a passage over to as great a good For proofe hereof I pray tell me what think you I beseech you of our soule Is not that a thing we must needs grant every whit as deere unto us as our first borne Yea a thing in truth for whose salvation for whose safe passage I meane from hence to Heaven there is no man I thinke so devoid of reason that will not give both first borne and all hee hath too Againe what think you I beseech you of Gods vengeance continually hovering over us for our sinnes and every houre every moment ready to powre us downe to hell Is not that a thing as much to bee dreaded by us as that destroying Angell was by the Israelites yea and by so much the more too by how much wee are to feare eternall death more than temporall But now when by reason of Adams sinne we were all liable to condemnation expecting hourely when Gods justice should have ceazed upon our soules that God in mercy was then pleased not to destroy us with the Egyptians that is as S. Paul phraseth it not to condemn us with the world but to passe over us to spare us as he did his own children some times the Israelites not suffering the Exterminator to have any power at all upon us that thus it was what is more plaine I beseech you throughout the whole body of the New Testament Where read wee not if you have observed it in many places of our being delivered from wrath 1 Thess 1.10 Of our being freed from the Law Rom. 8.2 Gal. 3.13 Ephes 2.5 Of our being redeemed from the Curse Of being saved by Grace And in the fift of St. John the 24. vers where wee have both the terminos of this happy passage of ours reade we not expresly how that each true beleever is already passed from death to life Well then that a Passeover we have that is most certaine you see even we Christians as well as the Jewes yea and that such a Passeover in truth if wee well examine it as wherewith the Jewish Passeover must not compare No neither in respects of that evill which in either Passeover was avoyded the evill in theirs being only a bodily danger wheras it was a spirituall danger you see that wee escaped in ours nor yet in respect of that good which in either Passeover was effected the good in theirs being only a temporall deliverance whereas it was an eternall deliverance you see that was wrought in ours What will you say now unto the meanes ordained by God in either Passeover for the effecting of this good for the avoiding of this evill for the working of this deliverance for the escaping of this danger Even in this respect too is not their Passeover far inferiour alas to ours even as farre as the earth is inferiour unto the heavens even as farre as the creature is inferiour to the Creator Yes for whereas the meanes in theirs was only agnus as saith Saint Ambrose irrationabilis naturae behold in ours it was agnus divinae potentiae whereas the meanes in theirs was only a lamb that was taken by them out of the fould behold in ours it was that Lambe that descended for us downe from heaven even that very Lamb which both S. Peter speakes of and S. John the Baptist points at namely Christ Pascha nostrum Christus est 1 Pet. 1.19 our Passeover saith my text is Christ 2 And the truth is if wee well consider with our selves what was to be done for us in our Passeover what the state we were to passe from what the state wee were to passe unto wee must needs grant how that in all reason none could have been our Passeover save onely Christ alone none the meanes of our passage from the state of wrath to the state of grace none the meanes of our passage from the state of death to the state of glory save onely that Lambe qui tollit peccata mundi even that Lamb of God Joh. 1.36 qui in sinu Patris est that most holy immaculate Lambe Christ For alas alas in the case wee were in could any other lamb have served the turne think you could a lamb out of the stock have beene a sufficient ransome for a mans soule for that which is of more worth than all the lambs in the whole world are yea in truth than the whole World it selfe is or a whole world of worlds besides Why 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Proclus of Constantinople 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the redemption of a soule is a greater purchase than either the wealthiest Saint could have compassed or the mightiest Angell how much lesse then could a common lamb trow you have a considerable recompense and counterprice I say not for all the soules in this or that onely particular Kingdome but even for all the soules of all the people in all the Kingdomes under Heaven But now such a Lambe it was that wee wanted such a Lambe that we stood in need of even a Lambe by whose meanes and merit the destroying Angell might bee made passe over not the soules onely of some few Israelites in our little Angle only of the Land of Egypt but over all the soules of all mankinde that either are or have beene since the world began Why and blessed be God and we have cause to feast for it I think such a Paschal Lambe it is that we now have God in mercy having so provided for us that even his onely Son you see should be our Lambe for Pascha nostrum Christus est our Passeover saith my text is Christ Christ I say and in very deed such a true Paschal Lamb is Christ such a perfect Passeover our Passeover such a compleat Passeover ours as that to ours the Jewish Passeover was but as the shadow unto the substance the Jewish Lambe to ours but as the type unto the truth For proofe hereof doe but see the Parallels I beseech you betwixt their Passeover and ours betwixt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as they call it and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 betwixt our crucifigible Passeover and their legall one and I