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A63826	A good day vvell improved, or Five sermons upon Acts 9. 31 Two of which were preached at Pauls, and ordered to be printed. To which is annexed a sermon on 2 Tim. 1. 13. Preached at St. Maries in Cambridge, on the Commencement Sabbath, June 30. 1650. By Anthony Tuckney D.D. and Master of St Johns College in Cambridge.	Tuckney, Anthony, 1599-1670.	1656 (1656)	Wing T3216A; ESTC R222406	116,693	318

exercises and so it may be with the latter days of particular Churches or Christians for outward matters the last of their way may prove the foulest and deepest yea in which some of them have met with greatest exercises of the inward man as well as the outward much variety herein is in Gods severall dispensations with his p●rticular servants but in the generall we may conclude That it is in the grave where the weary Isa 57. 2. are for altogether at rest Job 3. 17. and in Heaven only which was typed out by Canaans rest that a perfect and everlasting Sabbatisme or rest remaineth for the people of God Heb. 4. 9. Ruth Ruth 1. 9. was to find rest in her husbands house and so must the spouse of Christ onely in her husbands and that 's heaven where onely it is that we shall never be troubled more The world to come is the world say the Rabbines where all is well There then the Churches once for all shall have rest and therefore take we not up our rest till we get thither and meanwhile in this our distance and absence let this be the frequently reiterated wish and voice of every one of our Souls Vtinam domi essem as it is in the proverb although through Gods mercy sometimes here I may not be very ill at ease yet I would that I were at home though I am sure I shall there be perfectly well in mine everlasting rest here sometimes wee See Z ' ne by in loucium may be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. 2. 28. less sorrowfull then at some other times we are but never altogether 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wholly without all touch of grief and disquiet and therefore to that man who takes up his rest on earth me thinks Drexelius propounds a very fit question An coelum desperasti Ho●olog p●●t t. 2. in Epilogo vain man but dost thou wholly despair of heaven that thou takest up thy statiō here on earth for shame up and be stirring look and walk pant and breath after heaven what ever outward rest God sendeth thee let it only refresh and inable thee to unwearied restless motions towards thy best home where thou mayest rest in thy dearest Fathers and Husbands warm bosoms never more to be disturbed or disquieted Long for heaven that is the first And be looking long after some Vse 2 better days of peace and rest which God hath promised his Church even in this world yet expected but not as yet come It is true that after the ceasing of the primitive persecutions the Churches of Christ under Constantine and other Christian Emperors enjoyed many joyfull Sabbaths of rest but yet they have not been without their soar working days Pope and Turk and other enemies have proved such cruel Talkmasters that the Church hath too sad occasion to take up again the old Lamentation Our necks are under persecution Lam. 5. 5. we labour and have no rest and that other Woe is me Jer. 4. 31. now for my soul is wearied because of murderers But yet after all this God promiseth a time when his people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation and in quiet resting places Isa 32. 17 18. when the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of Finch in locum righteousness quietness and assurance for ever And after that both the Beast and false Prophet and Gog and Revel 19. 20. 20. 9 10. Magog and together with them the Devil that deceived them shall be cast into the lake of fire we read of a new heaven and a Revel 22. 1 2. 4. new earth and of a new Jerusalem a vision of peace that shall come down from God out of Heaven and therefore is to be on earth when God shall wipe away all teares from his peoples eyes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 out of their Brightman very eyes so to dry up the spring that as there shall be no outward occasion so no inward ability of weeping and there shall be no death neither sorrow nor crying nor any more pain all such former things being passed away This indeed the Scripture Dan. 12. 1 2. seemeth to express may be ushered in with greatest troubles as usually greatest births of Gods bounty are wont to be and should those happier times as some are ready to think be now nearer and faster coming on our present days and tempers or distempers are such as may make a very sad preface to so happy a work but yet this dark stormy night shall not hinder Sun-rise and that clear morning and bright day in which the Churches shall injoy more rest then hitherto they have attained But what I have thus said I desire may not be so understood and interpreted as though 1. Either I hereby intend with many now adays to cry up a fifth Monarchy to introduce confusion and Anarchy for even in those happy days the Prophet speaks of Kings that shall be nursing Fathers and of Queens as nursing Mothers to the Church of God Isa 49. 23. 2. Or that I either think or wish that what David saith of Dan. 7. 22. the Saints possessing the kingdome should be the lot of many such as in our days have monopolized the Title of Saints which is made of late a term of Art and a very juggle and assumed by Quakers Ranters Adamites and other most abominable Sectaries Saints per Antiphrasin As the unnaturall Sodomites in the old Testament are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which word signifieth Saints or holy ones they were Saint Sodomites and ours are Saint Ranters which hath made the very name of a Saint and much more the persons of those that are truely such to profane Souls odious Should such Saints as these are once have the rule it is to be feared the Churches would have little of this rest which the Text speaketh of However their frenzies should not prejudice the truth of God w th sober-spirited Christians who upon their best thoughts shall in the Scripture especially in the Prophets finde many promises of such peaceable days not as yet fully accomplished which therefore it is our duty to look and pray and prepare for as the sweet close of the Churches troubles in this world and a most joyfull both pledge and praeludium of the Saints everlasting rest in heaven Mean while in the last place Vse 3 let it minde us of this Nation both of Gods mercy and our duty in reference to his present dispensations Some years since it was but little rest and peace which the Churches and servants of Christ among us had either of conscience or outward man through some mens restlesness That quarrell of Gods Covenant when those Disturbers sat still and were at Zech. 1. 11. rest he undertook in the late wars that he might at the last as the prophet speaketh give rest Jer. 50. 34. to the land and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon

1. 22. 28. Crescite multiplicamini at the first Creation 9. 1. 7. 2. And promised as such in the Gen. 22. 17. Gen. 26. 4. Covenant of grace to Abraham Isaac and Jacob and so all along that their seed should be as the stars of heaven for multitude 28. 3. 3. A blessing to a Family When the wife is as the fruitfull vine by the house side and the children like olive plants round about the table Psal 128. 3. 4. And a blessing to the State For in the multitude of the people is the Kings honour but in the want of people is the destruction of the Prince Prov. 14. 28. 5. And why not as great or rather a greater blessing in the house of God and the Common-wealth of Israel As such it hath been desired and prayed for by the people of God Let Reuben live and not die and let not his men be few Deut. 33. 6. and as such it hath been promised by God to his people I will multiply them and they shall not be few I will also glorifie them and they shall not be small Jer. 30. 19. The contrary to it hath been frequently threatned on Gods part as a very heavy affliction that whereas they had been as the stars of heaven for multitude they should be left few in number Deut. 28. 62. when the glory of Jacob is made thin and the fatnesse of his flesh waxed lean and they left as the shaking of an olive-tree Levit. 26. 22. Deut. 4. 27 two or three berries on the top of the uppermost branch Isa 17. 4. 6. or yet more lonesome and solitary As a single Beacon on the top of a mountain or as an ensign upon an hill as the same Prophet elegantly expresseth it Isa 30 17. And on his peoples part as sadly bemoaned and groaned under as under a very heavy burden So David mournfully complaineth that the godly man ceaseth and that the faithfull failed Psal 12. 1. and the wasted consumed Church piteously cryeth out My leannesse my leannesse Isaiah 24. 16. This truth the devill is convinced of and therefore well knowing that the inlargement of Christs kingdom is the lessening of his by himself and his instruments he laboureth to hinder it Come on let us deal wisely with them lest they mult plie saith Pharaoh Exod. 1. 10 And therefore God on the contrary promoteth and advanceth it when he intends to give his people a signall evidence of his favour and love Whether in worse dayes as a pledge and meanes of their after deliverance as in that remarkable place Exo. 2. 7. where speaking of Israel in Egypt You have six words or expressions in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. They were fruitfull 2. And increased abundantly 3. And multiplied 4. And waxed mighty and that 5. 6. in two words See Muis in his varia sacra in Exod. 1 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Valde valde exceedingly so that the land was filled with them Not to expresse that the Hebrew women bare six children at a time as Baal Haturim vainly Cabalizeth quo nihil nugacius but onely to express a most wonderfull prosperous increase The 1st word signifying that none of them was barren 2. That they brought forth diverse at once more reptilium as the 2d word signifieth Gen. 1. 20. And 3. those not short-lived For else they had not multiplied as the 3d word word saith they did 4. Nor weak and feeble but strong and mighty and all this doubled as the words are and that to a superlative degree as the word there used in that language signifieth thus then to the Church in that time of their bondage as to the Christian Church in their first uprising whilest yet under Acts 2. 6. 4. 32. 8. 2. 14. 1. 17. 4. 21. 22. persecution How oft do you read in the Acts of the Apostles of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the multitude of Believers When 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. When the word of God increased and the number of Disciples multiplied greatly and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith Acts 6. 7. in that day of Gods power from the womb of the morning he had the dew of his youth Psal 110. 3. i. e. The world was overspread with Believers and Churches as the drops of dew in a morning cover Tertul. Apologet cap. 37. the face of the earth then they could say Vestra omnia implevimus urbes insulas castilla c. In those first best dayes though under persecution their numbers filled all places As we hope and believe in the last best dayes they will fill the world as is fully and magnificently expressed Isa 60. when multitudes of Believers shall not be as at first like drops of dew that cover the earth but as the everflowing waters that cover the sea Isa 11. 9. Then will the Churches of Christ have rest and be edified and multiplied All great blessings and such as with which God useth to crown the best times And in particular this blessing of the multiplication of true Saints and Churches is very great As by which Reas 1 1. A great deal of good is more easily done much work by many hands and great assistance by many helpers He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battell which was against me for there were many with me Psal 55. 18. Not that God stands in need of multitudes to have his work done or his people preserved for there is no restraint with him to 1 Sam. 14. 6. 2. Chron. 14. 11. save by many or by few One God self-sufficient in himself and All-sufficient to all his people in their straits and want of all other help is more then All My God and I are good company was the Dr. Sibbs saying of a very good man But yet as in ordinary course he works by means so his work is often retarded through the f●wness of workmen 2 Chron. 29. 34. and on the contrary is better carried on by many hands How was the very place shaken where the multitudes of Beleevers were met together and lift up their voices 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 4. 24. 31. 32. The publick prayers of many met together in the Church are the more prevalent how much more joint the suffrages of many Churches that way evry way the more good men there are the more good is done 2. And the more mischief prevented or repelled Many theeves are not so ready or hardy to set upon so many honest men or may be better resisted by a greater number if they do a Isa 31. 4. multitude of shepherds called forth is able to withstand the Lion roaring on his prey And so when the godly prove numerous and potent true enemies prove seeming friends as it 's said Esther 8. 17. many of the people of the land in that case became Jewes or if they will still appear enemies the Church

forth and grow as calves of the stall and Mal. 4. ● they are planted in the house of the Lord who flourish in the Courts Psal 92. 13 14. of our God and still bring forth fruit even in old age and are fat and flourishing As on the contrary it is but bad soile in which good plants are starved or cankered Is it likely to be wholesome diet which men otherwise well and healthfull do not thrive on But it is no other then heavens shine and showers that make the plants of righteousness grow and bud and flourish and bring forth fruit for I cannot in this respect assent to the Remonstrants dictates Ex fructibus aestimandi sunt homines non semper doctrina it 's a good tree our Saviour Mat. 7. 17. tells us which bringeth forth good fruit and the same may be said of good doctrin too and al though by the corruption of mens hearts good doctrine may not al wayes bring forth good fruit in their lives yet it 's bad doctrine which naturally bringeth forth what is bad and and abominable But wholsome food even the bread of life let us ever esteem that by which the man of God liveth and thriveth cheerfully doth and suffereth Gods will and constantly holdeth on in Gods way and in the strength of it with Elijah 1 King 19. 8. walketh 40. days and 40. nights through the wilderness of this world till he come to the mount of God In a word that is sound doctrine which a sound heart relisheth and thrives by But because man liveth not by bread only Matth. 4. 4. but by every word that cometh out of the mouth of God it is not sufficient that these sound words have mans approbation if not withall Gods institution that as they are acceptable words so also words of truth words of the wise Eccles 12. 10 11. but withall given by one Shepheard Which leads to the 3d. particular 3. Which thou hast heard of me in the Text viz. the Speaker by whom they were delivered in those words which thou hast heard of me Non à quocunque magistro as Lombard and Espencaeus paraphrase it not from every dogmatizing Master but from an Apostle of Christ infallibly directed by the Spirit of Christ Such truths as have been delivered to us by Christ himself the Prophets and Apostles immediately inspired by the Spirit of God and now recorded in the Scriptures of truth either expressed in them or plainly and directly by good and strong consequence drawn from them these are those words and formes of sound words which we are to hold fast and abide by as a light to our feet Psal 119. 105. 2 Pet. 1 19. the rule of our faith and life Gal. 6. 16. and therefore called Canonical the Foundation on which we are to build Ephes 2. 20. that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that mould of doctrine into which we are to be cast Rom. 6. 17. that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Form of knowledge and truth by which we are to be informed No other fallible Land-mark but the holy Scriptures Card and Compass and Pole-star which we are to steer our course by if we would not make shipwrack of faith and a good conscience These these onely are the words of this life Act. 5. 20. what ever therefore either they expressely affirm or is from them soundly and directly gathered and commended to us whether by whole Churches or particular Persons although they be not expressed wholly in Scripture words yet if according to the Analogy of faith for the further clearing of Scripture sense and the better discovering of errors and heresies as they arise we willingly accept and carefully hold fast But what ever Creeds Canons Confessions Constitutions Catechismes c. either of private men or of whole Churches yea of that Church which now nameth it self Catholick shall obtrude upon us any thing directly or by good consequence contrary to the Scripture in any thing yea or but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 besides what the Gal. 1. 9. 10. Scripture teacheth us in the parts and essentials of Gods worship or in any thing in doctrine or practise pretended as necessary to salvation eadem facilitate contemnitur Hieronym in Matth. qua probatur we stick not easily to reject it and being backed with the Apostles authority to pronounce him whether man or Angel Anathema who shall teach and impose it and in hoc sensu we particularly especially reject 1. All humane unwritten Traditions 2. All feigned Divine Revelations For humane unwritten Traditions Bellarmine indeed applieth Traditions De verbo Dei non scripto cap. 5. to them this Text and maketh them at least a part of that Depositum in the following verse nor can I deny but that Chrysostom upon the Text and other Greek Interpreters after their manner following him run their descant upon the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which thou hast heard as relating to what Paul had delivered to Timothy by word of mouth from which Canus loc com lib. 3. Corn. à Lapide Estius Alii in Textum Popish writers take a rise to cry up their unwritten Traditions which being the strongest stake in their rotten hedge they most highly cry up and most earnestly contend for In their Elogiums which they give them they are their Homericum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their Antidote against all infections Lydius Lapis by which they will try all doctrines Sacrum Thesei filum safely to guide you in all Labyrinths and Meanders Gladius Goliath non est similis ei the sword of their Goliah Pope to offend and strike down all opposors Ajacis Clypeus to defend them and to ward off all blows from eheir enemies Nay Fidei fundamentum the very foundation of their Popish faith and the onely foundation of it so far as Popish which if overturned their Babel cometh down and take but away what partly we hold with them agreeable to Scripture and what they maintain only by Tradition and what is besides left of Popery would be a poor thin nothing and therefore here they fight tanquam pro aris focis or if you will we may leave out the tanquam Elabor andum est ut hic locus quàm diligentissimè Loc. com lib. 3. cap 6 ad fiuem explicaretur muniretur saith Canus and good reason when he had before cap. 3. said Traditiones majorem vim habere ad Haereticos refellendos quàm Scripturas good reason that they should so earnestly fight for Traditions because by them they can better confute us whom they call Hereticks then by Scriptures We kindly thank him for this fair acknowledgement they are not so much the Scriptures as their Traditions which they must knock us poor Hereticks down with By which they rather appear to be the Hereticks for of such Tertullian of old said Lib. de Resur carni nec stare se posse si de solis