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A04157	Dauids pastorall poeme: or sheepeheards song Seuen sermons, on the 23. Psalme of Dauid, whereof the last was preached at Ashford in Kent, the day whereon our gracious King was there proclaimed. By Thomas Iackson preacher of Gods word at Wie in Kent.	Jackson, Thomas, d. 1646.; Swan, John, student in divinity.	1603 (1603)	STC 14299; ESTC S107441	134,253	302

he might be found in Christ not hauing his owne righteousnesse which is of the law but the righteousnesse which is of God through faith p Phil. 3. 9. And this may bee called the righteousnesse of imputation for as Christ was made sinne for vs not by infusion of sinne into his person but by imputation of our sinnes vnto him q 2. Cor. 5. 21 Delicta nostra sua delicta fecit vt iustitiam suam nostrā iustitiam faceret so are wee made righteuos before God not by infusion of righteousnesse into our persons for that serueth for many other vses but by imputation of Christ his righteousnesse vnto vs VVhatsoeuer he did for vs if we beleeue being made ours August in Psal 21. as if we had performed the same in our owne persons r 1. Cor. 1. 30 Secondly there is a righteousnesse of sanctification VVhat is the righteousnes of sanctificatiō and the vse thereof which followeth as a fruit vpon the former when as by the sanctifying spirit of God the minde is inlightned the heart mollified the will rectified and the whole course of the life reformed no more to loue and liue in sinne but to hate and abhorre it and to delight in godlines and vertue whereof Saint Paul speaketh saying this is the will of God euen our sanctification ſ 1. Thes 4. 3 And vnto Titus he sayth The grace of God which bringeth saluation vnto all men hath appeared and teacheth vs that we should denie vngodlinesse and worldly lusts and that we should liue soberly righteously and godly in this present world t Tit. 2. 11. Sobrie quo ad nos iuste quo ad proximum pie quo ad deū And Saint Iohn sayth He that doth righteousnes is righteous but he that committeth sinne is of the Diuell u 1. Iohn 3 7. 8. The vses whereof are manifold but specially it serueth for to iustifie vs before mē and to make faith which is hidden in the hart seen of God to become visible apparāt vnto men Wherof S. Iames speaketh saying Abraham Rahab were iustified by their works w Iam. 2. 21. 25 Now the Lord leadeth his sheepe into the pathes of both those Righteousnesses giuing vs a true and liuely faith whereby wee are ingraffed into Christ and made partakers of all his benefits x Rom. 6. 5 6 7 also sanctifying vs through out with his holy spirit y 1. Thes 5. 23 to become new creatures z 2. Cor. 5. 17 and to offer vp our selues a liuing holy and acceptable sacrifice vnto him a Ro. 12. 1 But of the latter the Prophet in this place most properly speaketh and therefore our lesson is That all those sheepe whose saluation the great shepheard hath bought purchased with his blood they shall in time be called b Ro. 8. 30 Doctrine from walking in the sinfull pathes of vncleane Goates to walke in the pathes of righteousnesse and holinesse they shal cease to walke as the Gentiles in vanitie of mind c Eph. 4. 17 and blind hypocrisie and shall become followers of God as deare children d Ephe. 5. 1 striuing to bee holy as he is holy in all manner of conuersation e 1. Pet. 1. 15 In these pathes the Lord hath led all the flockes of his sheepe as the Author to the Hebrews hath traced many of them out by their steppes f Heb. 11. 4 5. 6. 7 which paths are straite narrow rugged and vnpleasant to daintie and tender flesh and blood g Mat. 7. 13. as requiring so soone as euer wee set foote therein How blessed and gainfull a thing it is to follow Christ in the pathes of righteousnesse a deniall of our selues and continuall taking vp of the crosse h Mat. 16. 24 but most pleasant and ioyfull to the inner man as Ieremie declareth saying Stand and enquire for the old way which is the good way and walke therein and you shall finde rest vnto your soules i Iere. 6. 16 The truth whereof we and all the Saints of God that euer walked therein haue experienced that as agreed Dauid as foreman may say for vs I haue had as great delight in the way of thy testimonies as in all maner of riches k Ps 119. 14 And yet is not this al for besides the inward and spiritual ioy of the soule the Lord will also bestow all good things vpon them yea so gainfull is godlinesse that it hath a promise both of this life and that which is to come l 1. Tim. 6. 6 they shall want nothing that is good m Ps 34. 10 they shall eate their bread in plenteousnesse be fed with the fat of the graine of wheate and pure liquor of the Grape he will bow downe the backes of their enemies they shall lend and not borrow be the head and not the taile n Deut. 28. 12. 13. Now I beseech you let vs make application of these things vnto our selues Application̄ The true cause of all the miseries that haue fallen vpon vs or are further threatned there is nothing more common then to heare men euerie where complaine of the great dearth wee haue sustained or the pestilence botch of Egypt hot burning feauers consumptions and grieuous diseases of the bodie wet and vnseasonable weather and so forth and some lay the cause here and some there some complaine of this and others of that but few see or regard the true cause indeed to set to hand to remoue it the verie cause of all euils is for that we haue not hearkned to the voice and whistle of our shepherd calling vs to follow him in the pathes of righteousnesse but rather wee haue troden the pathes of death and our footeste●ppes haue caught holde of hell as if we were at a league and couenant with both o Esa 28. 15 wee haue added drunkennesse vnto thirst p Deut. 29. 19 we haue not zealously and fruitfully entertained his word For if we had marke what God saith Oh that Israell had walked in my wayes I would soone haue humbled their enemies and haue fed them with the flower of weate and honie out of the rocke q Psa 81. 13 14 What is the reason then I pray you of all these euils and farre greater if we repent not who is so blind that seeth not VVe haue refused to bee taught and instructed in Gods word r Iere. 9. 6. despised his wholesome counsels and admonitions abused his patience and long sufferance to presumption which should haue led vs to repentance ſ Rom. 2. 4 the more he hath corrected vs for our amendment the more haue we fallen away from him t Esay 1. 5. hardning our faces as Brasse against his feare u Iere. 5. 3. and dealing most frowardly with him in his couenaunt that neuer might hee more iustly complaine of the Iewes than of vs All

DAVIDS Pastorall Poeme OR Sheepeheards Song SEVEN SERmons on the 23. Psalme of Dauid whereof the last was preached at Ashford in Kent the day whereon our gracious King was there proclaimed By THOMAS IACKSON Preacher of Gods word at Wie in Kent LONDON Printed by Thomas Purfoot and are to bee sold by Edmund Weauer at his shop at the great North doore of Paules Church 1603. To the right worshipful Robert Honnywood Esquire of Hoggesdon neare London and to the vertuous and zealous Gentlewoman Elizabeth Honnywood his wife my Christian deare friends in the Lord Thomas Iackson Preacher of Christes Gospell wisheth an happie increase of all spirituall graces with health and prosperitie in this life and eternall happinesse in the life to come SIr it hath pleased God that for some certaine yeares there hath bin a Lecture holden by fiue others of my reuerend brethrē and my selfe euerie Saturday being the Market day at Ashford in Kent where wee haue a worshipfull and Christian auditorie where as my turne came about I haue handled diuerse portions of Scripture and now lastly in seuen Sermons gone ouer the 23. Psalme of Dauid and by Gods prouidence it so came to passe that my course was to teach on Saturday the 26. of March 1603. for which I had also prepared my selfe but hauing certaine intelligence ouer night both of the death of her Maiestie and also that the high and mightie Prince Iames was proclaimed for our king with generall applause in London whom God in mercy long preserue The consideration of these sudden and great accidents and also hearing what a great auditorie there would be both of Knights and Gentlemen to proclaime the king there and also of others desirous to heare and see did somewhat astonish me But cōsidering first gods merciful dealing towards this land in this euill day which wee haue so long feared making our comfort suddenly to appeare as a flash of lightning which breaketh out of a darke cloude and secondly his prouidence towards me who calling mee on the sudden to so great and waightie a dutie yet eased me of halfe the paines by fitting it so as my ordinarie text and premeditations with some small chaunge of phrases or stile did better agree with the present occasion then many others which might haue beene purposely and curiously chosen I was much encouraged and by Gods mercie to the comfort of my selfe and others discharged that dutie his name for euer bee praised who is alwayes at the right hand of his vnworthie seruants to helpe them in time of neede since which time I haue beene very earnestly solicited by diuerse worshipfull and Christian good friends to publish those my Lectures in print that the benefite thereof redounding vnto many by many thankes might bee giuen vnto God whose request for a time I verie resolutely gainsayd as meeting with many and those verie waightie discouragements Solet acceptior esse sermo viuus quam scriptus Ber. epi. 66. first the great difference betwixt preaching and reading euen the same matter whereof one saith verie well The liuely voyce is more acceptable than written wordes * Habet nescio quid latentis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 viua vox And another saith Liuely voice hath a kinde of secret force and powrefull sound And Aschines when he had read the oration which Demosthenes had made against him and perceiued the people to wonder at the excellencie of it he answered What would you haue thought if you had heard him pronounce it himselfe Quid si ipsum audissetis sua verba resonantem And therefore I was loath to chaunge my tongue into a penne and laying aside the gesture and countenance of a liuing man to burie my selfe in a dead letter of farre lesse effectuall perswasion Secondly the wise Preacher hath long since said There is none end of making of bookes and much reading is a wearines of the flesh Eccles 12. 12. which is most true in this bookish age wherein as one saith It would require a mans whole life Vix tota vita indices but to read ouer the titles or inscriptions for now is the old Poets saying verified Scribimus indocti doctique Poemata passim Learned and vnlearned euerie one setteth pen to Paper And hereby it commeth to passe that the world is ouerladen and the Presses oppressed with an innumerable companie of friuolous Pamphlets the fruits of idle braines sauouring of nothing but vngodlinesse and carnall vanitie and tend to none other end but the nourishment of all maner vice and prophanesse oh that there were amongst vs some zealous Ephesians that bookes of so great vanitie might be burned vp Acts. 19 29. Yea there are many verie excellent Bookes Treatises Sermons and Catechismes but if there wanted any there are many both in regard of their abilitie and leasure farre fitter to employ themselues this way then my selfe Thirdly I feared both the graue and wise censure of the godly learned diuines to whom my spirit is subiect And also the curious reprehensions of those Momi and malignant sinister spirits who say they would haue nothing printed if diuinitie but that which wadeth into the depth thereof and containeth the marrow and quintessence of learning such as doe profoundly handle deepe poynts and subtill quiddities of controuersies publishing that which was neuer heard or knowne before And if humanitie then nothing but that which is excellent for wit singular for learning rare for knowledge and pollished with all the ornaments of eloquence but in truth there can be nothing so well learnedly or godly done in either but these men as it were pining away with enuie at other mens good doe either bitterly backebite reproachfully slaunder vndeseruedly reproue or maliciously defame What is it then to publish any thing in print but for a man to make himselfe a common by-word a But for euery man to shoot his arrow at euen bitter words yea to offer himselfe to bee stung and torne with the sharpe and venemous teeth and tongue of euerie reproachfull slaunderer Lastly it is no small discouragement to consider the vanitie of Readers in these dayes which is not the least cause of so many idle and vaine bookes who as if they were possessed with the Athenian humour Poscimus indocti doctique to delight in nothing but either to tell Act. 17. 21 Quid noui or heare some newes the first question at euery Stacioners shoppe is what new thing and if it smell of the presse and haue a goodly title be the matter neuer so base and vnprofitable it is a booke for the nonce but be it neuer so good if once the Calender be chaunged that it beare the date of the former yeare it is neuer enquired after it may serue for couers to euerie immodest Poeme girding Satyre or ridiculous fable and thus most men esteem of vaine books more then of those that are profitable but none almost esteeme of the best but as