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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07537	Wisdome crying out to sinners to returne from their evill wayes contained in three pious and learned treatises, viz. I. Of Christs fervent love to bloudy Jerusalem. II. Of Gods just hardening of Pharaoh, when he had filled up the measure of his iniquity. III. Of mans timely remembering of his creator. Heretofore communicated to some friends in written copies: but now published for the generall good.; Sapientia clamitans, wisdome crying out to sinners to returne from their evill wayes	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.; Donne, John, 1572-1631. aut; Milbourne, William, b. 1598 or 9.	1639 (1639)	STC 17919; ESTC S101127	68,892	346

to suffer the punishment due to our ●innes than to suffer sinne still to raigne in us whom he loved more dearely than his owne life If then we shall continue in sinne after the manifestation of his love the hainousnesse of our offence is truly infinite in so much as wee doe that continually which is more distastfull to our gracious God than any torments can be to us So doing we build up the workes of Satan which hee came purposely to destroy For of this I would no● have you ignorant that albeit the end of his death was to redeeme sinners yet the onely meanes pr●destinated by him for our redemption is destruction of the workes of Satan and renovation of his Fathers Image in our Soules For us then to reedifie the workes of Satan or abett his faction is still more offensive to this our God then was his Agonie or bloudy sweat For taking a fuller measure of our sinnes let us hereunto adde his patient expectation of his enemies conversion after the resurrection If the sonne of Zaleucus before mentioned should have pardoned any as deeply guilty as himselfe had beene of that offence for which hee lost one of his eyes and his father another the world would have taxed him either of unjust follie or too much facilitie rather than commended him for true justice or clemencie But that we may know how farre Gods mercy doth over-beare his Majestie he proceeds not straightway to execute vengeance upon those Jewes which wrecked their malice upon his deare and onely Sonne which had committed nothing worthy of blame much lesse of death Here was matter of wrath and indignation so just as would have moved the most mercifull man on Earth to have taken speedy revenge upon these spillers of innocent blood especially the law of God permitting thus much But Gods mercy is above his law above his justice These did exact the very abolition of these sinners in the very first act of sinne committed against God made man for their redemption yet hee patiently expects their repentance which with unrelenting fury had plotted his destruction Forty yeares long had hee beene grieved with this generation after the first Passeover celebrated in signe of their deliverance from AEgyptian bondage and for their stubbornnesse Hee swore they should not enter into his rest And now their posterity after a more glorious deliverance from the powers of darknesse have forty yeares allotted them for repentance before they bee rooted out of the land of Rest or Promise Yet hath not the Lord given them hearts to perceive eyes to see or eares to heare unto this day because seeing they would not see nor hearing would not heare but hardened their hearts against the Spirit of grace Lord give us what thou didst not give them hearts of flesh that may melt at thy threats eares to heare the admonirions of our peace and eyes to foresee the day of our visitation that so when thy wrath shall be revealed against sinne and sinners wee may bee sheltered from flames of fire and brimstone under the shadow of thy wings so long stretched out in mercie for us Often Oh Lord wouldst thou have gathered us and wee would not but let there be we beseech thee an end of our stubbornnesse and ingratitude towards thee no end of thy mercies and loving kindnesses towards us Amen GODS IVST HARDNING OF PHARAOH When he had filled up the measure of his iniquitie OR AN EXPOSITION OF ROM 9. 18 19. Therefore he hath mercie on whom he will have mercie and whom he will he hardneth Thou wilt say then unto me Why doth be yet find fault For who hath resisted his will LONDON Printed by JOHN HAVILAND for ROBERT MILBOURNE 1638. Gods just hardning of Pharaoh when he had filled up the measure of his iniquitie Or An Exposition of ROM 9. 18 19. Therefore hath he mercie on whom he will have mercie and whom hee will hee hardneth Thou wilt say then unto me Why doth he yet finde fault For who hath resisted his will THe former part of this proposition here inferred by way of conclusion was avouched before by our Apostle as an undoubted Maxime ratified by Gods owne voyce to Moses For he said to Moses I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will have compasion on whom I will have compassion Exod. 33. 19. The true sense and meaning of which place I have before declared in unfolding the 16. verse of this chapter so that the later part of this eighteenth verse Whom he will hee hardneth must be the principall subject of my present discourse The Antecedent inferring this part of this conclusion is Gods speech to Pharaoh Exod. 9. 18. Even for this purpose have I raised thee up that I may shew my power in thee and that my name may be declared throughout all the Earth The inference is plaine seeing Gods powre was to be manifested in hardening Pharaoh The points of inquiry whose full discussion will open an easie passage to the difficulties concerning Rebrobation and Election and bring all the contentious controversies concerning the meaning of this chapter to a breefe prospicuous issue are especially foure 1. The Manner how God doth harden 2. The pertinencie of the Objection why doth hee yet finde fault for who hath resisted his will and the validitie of the Apostles answer 3. The Logicall determination of this proposition Whom hee will hee hardeneth what is the proper object of Gods will in hardening 4. What manner of division this is Hee will have compassion on whom hee will have compassion and whom hee will hee hardeneth For the right opening of all these foure difficulties the explication of the single term●s with their divers acceptions s●rves as a key The termes briefly to be explicated are three 1. Gods will 2. Induration or Hardening 3. Irresistible The principall difficultie or transcendent question is in what sense Gods will or Induration may be said to be irresistible whom hee will hee hardeneth Not to trouble you with any curious distinctions concerning Gods will this is a string which in m●st meditations we were inforced to touch Albeit Gods will be most truly and indivisibly one and in indivisible unitie most truly infinite and immutable yet is it immutably free omnipotent able to produce pluralitie as well as unitie mutabilitie as well as immutabilitie weaknesse as well as strength in his creatures By this one infinite immutable will hee ordaines that some things shall be necessarie or that this shall be at this time and no other And such particulars hee is said by an extrinsecall denomination from the object to will by his irresistible will The meaning is the production of the object so willed cannot be resisted because it is Gods will that it shall come to passe notwithstanding any resistance that is or can bee made against it If any particular so willed should not come to passe his will might be resisted being set only on this By

with him in the arke as the word contrarie to this Forgetting is also used for the affection contrary to it Neglecting Can a woman forget her childe and not have compassion on the sonne of her wombe But here wee take not Remembring so largely but restraine it to the affection of that one facultie the Memorie For it is Stomachus animae The Stomack of the soule that receives and digests and turnes to good blood all the benefits formerly exhibited to us in particular and the whole Church of God in generall Present that which belongs ●o the understanding to that fa●ultie and the understanding is ●ot presently setled in it Pre●ent any of the Prophecies made in the Captivitie and a ●ewes understanding will take ●hem for a diliverance from ●hat bondage and a Christians ●●derstanding will take them for ●● spirituall deliverance from ●●nne and death by the Messi●● Iesus Christ. Present but the ●ame of a Bishop or an Elder out ●f the Acts of the Apostles or out ●f the Epistles and other men will take it for a name of paritie of equalitie and wee for a name of office and distinction in the Hierarchie of Gods Church Thus it is in the understanding that is often perplexed Consider the other facultie the will of man and thereby those bitternesses betweene th● Iesuites and the Dominicans in the Romane Church even to th● imputation of the crime of he● res●e upon one another in que●stions concerning the Will o● man and how that concurre●● with the Grace of God particu●larly Whether the same proporti●on of Grace being offered by God●● two men equally disposed towar●● him before must not necessaril● worke equally in those two An● by those bitternesses among●● persons nearest us even to th● drawing of swords in questions of the same kinde particularly Whether that proportion of Grace which doth effectually convert a particular man might not have been resisted by the perversenesse of that mans will Whether that grace were irr●sistible or no By all th●se and in●inite such difficulties wee may see how untractable and untameable a facultie the will of man is But leave the Vnderstanding and the Will and come to the Memorie not with matter of ●aw but with matter of Fact Let God make his wond●rful works to be had in remembrance as Davi● speak●●h present the hi 〈…〉 God 's protection o● his children in the Arke in the wildernesse in the Captivities in infinite other dangers present this to the Memorie and howsoever the Vnderstanding be clouded or the Will perverted yet both Iew and Christian Papist and Protestant Refractarie and Conformitant are affected with a thankfull acknowledgement of his former mercies and benefits this issue of the facultie of the Memorie is alike in them all And therefore God in giving the Law works upon no other facultie but this I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the Land of AEgypt c. Hee onely presents to their Memorie what hee had done for them And so in delivering the Gospell one principall Seale thereof the participation of his Bodie and Blood in the Sacrament hee proceeds so too hee recommends it to their Memorie Doe this in remembrance of mee This is the facultie that God desires to worke upon And therefore if thine understanding be too narrow to comprehend or reconcile all differences in all Churches as what understanding is large enough to doe so If thy will bee too scrupulous to submit it selfe to the Ordinances of thine owne Church which sometimes a Zeale though not perverse yet indigested may worke yet hav● recou●se to thine owne memorie For as Saint Bernard cals that The stomack of the soule so wee may bee ●old ●o call it The gallerie of the soule hung with so many and so lively pictures of the goodnesse and mercies of thy God to thee as that every one of them may be a sufficient Catechisme to instruct thee in all thy particular duties to God for those mercies And then as a well made and a w●ll placed picture lookes alwayes upon him that lookes upon it so shall thy God looke upon thee whose memorie is thus contemplating him and he shall shine upon thine understanding and recti●ie thy will too If thy memorie cannot comprehend his mercie at large as it hath beene shewed to his whole Church as it is an incomprehensible thing to consider that in a few yeares God hath made us even in number and temporall strength to our adversaries of the Roman Church If thy memorie have not received and held that great picture of our generall deliverance from that invincible navie if that mercie be written in the Waters and in the Sands where it was acted and not in thy memorie if thou remember not our later but greater deliverance from that artificiall hell that vault of powder in which the Devils instruments lost their plot they did not blow it up yet every man hath a pocket-picture about him a manuall a bosome booke and if hee will but turne over one leafe of that booke but remember what God hath done for him even since yesterday hee shall finde by a little branch a navigable river to saile into that great and endlesse sea of the mercies of God towards him from the beginning of his being Doe but remember then Remember now saith the text Of his owne will he begat us with the word of truth that wee should be Primitiae the first fruits of his creatures that as we consecrate all his creatures to him in a sober and religious use of them so as the first fruits of all wee should principally consecrate our selves to his service betimes Now there were three payments of first fruits appointed by God to the Jewes The first were Primitiae spicarum The first fruits of their eares of corne and this was only about Easter The second were Primitiae panum the first fruits of loaves after the corne was converted to that use and this though it were not so soone yet it was early too about Whitsuntide The third were Primitiae frugum of all their latter fruits in generall and this was very late in Autumne in the Fall about September In the two first of these three in those that were offered early God had his part he had his part in the corne and in the loaves but in the latter fruits he had no portion Offer thy selfe to God then as Primiti●● spicarum whether thou gleanest in the world or bindest up by whole sheaves whether thine increas● b● by little and little or thou be rich at once by the devolution of a rich inheritance and patrimony unto thee Offer this in an acknowledgement that this proceeds from the treasure of his goodnesse and not from thine industrie And offer thy selfe againe as Primitia● panum when thou hast kneaded up riches and honour and favour in a setled and established fortune offer that to God in an acknowledgement that hee can scatter and moulder away that estate