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A30579	Gospel-conversation: wherein is shewed, I. How the conversation of believers must be above what could be by the light of nature. II. Beyond those that lived under the law. III. And suitable to what truths the Gospel holds forth. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to Stepney and Criplegate, London. Being the third book published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simpson, Philip Nye, William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1650 (1650)	Wing B6076A; ESTC R213106	221,498	277

be joy there they would account it acceptable news indeed Now then Those that do beleeve this Gospel or do profess it that they have entertain'd this Gospel this glad Tydings they must be careful to walk in their Conversation so as it becomes this Gospel as becomes such glorious glad Tydings as are sent unto them from Heaven As becomes The word signifies Worthy of the Gospel that that is translated in your books become it signifies worthy of the Gospel But this cannot be meant as if so be that our Conversation should be such as deserves al the good that there is in the Gospel No but Worthy that is as much as Beseeming the Gospel as meet for the Gospel or as it is translated in your books Becoming the Gospel as he that eats and drinks unworthily eats and drinks his own damnation Can one eat and drink so as to be worthy of the Body and Blood of Christ No but he that eats and drinks so carries himself so in that Ordinance of the Sacrament as is unbeseeming the Body and Blood of Christ that he comes to receive and on the other side those that do eat and drink so as to sanctifie Gods Name in that Ordinance as you have heard they do it worthily for so the same word is here Worthy of the Gospel of Christ And so bring forth fruit worthy of repentance saith John to those that came to him that is meet sit for repentance such fruit as may manifest your repentance as is sutable unto such men or women that do profess their repentance for their sins Further I find that the word that is here translated Becoming in another place is translated Convenient and meet and can be understood in no other sense as in 1 Cor. 16. 4. If it be meet that I shall go also the word that is translated there meet it is in the Greek worthy the same word that we have here translated Becoming if it be a comly thing or a meet or convenient thing then I 'le go so then it 's cleer that this word that we have here is meet convenient sutable or becoming the Gospel Let your Conversation be such as it meet for or becoming the Gospel You will say What Conversation is that which is meet for or becoming the Gospel To that I answer First a Conversation raised to a higher degree than the light of Nature or than the Law can raise one to it must be that certainly it is not a Conversation becoming the Gospel except it be a Conversation raised higher than the light of Nature or than the Law can raise one to it becomes not the Gospel else Secondly A Conversation sutable and answerable to those many blessed and glorious truths that are revealed in the Gospel there is much of the mind of God revealed in the Gospel glorious truths are there presented to us that is a Conversation becoming the Gospel that is sutable and answerable unto these blessed and glorious truths that are revealed in the Gospel Thirdly A Conversation manifesting the power of the Gospel Fourthly A Conversation that is sutable unto al the Ordinances of the Gospel agreeable unto whatsoever there is in any Ordinance of the Gospel And then fiftly A Conversation holding forth the beauty excellency and glory of the Gospel before those with whom we do converse here 's a Conversation becoming the Gospel when those that are Christians professing that the Lord hath revealed the Gospel unto them and that in some measure they have been brought to beleeve in the Gospel when as now their Conversation is beyond that which any man can attain unto by the light of Nature when it is beyond that that any man by the Law can be raised unto when it 's answerable to the many blessed and glorious truths that are revealed in the Gospel when it manifests a power of the Gospel in him when it 's answerable unto the blessed Ordinances that he doth enjoy in the Gospel and when his Life and Conversation holds forth the beauty excellency and glory of the Gospel before the world here is a Conversation becoming the Gospel and this is that which the Apostle here exhorts unto Only let your Conversation be such as becomes the Gospel of Christ Thus you have had the words opened Now for the Doctrinal Points in the words only these two the first is but to make way to the second 1. Doct. The first is this That those that profess the Gospel must have a great care of their Conversations 2. Secondly This Conversation of theirs must be such as becomes as beseems the Gospel These are the two main Points in the Text. I shall this morning but make way to the second Point which is the great Point in the Text. First That Christians that do profess the Gospel must have a great care of their Conversations to look to them They must not satisfie themselves with what is inward in their minds or in their affections but look to their Conversations You think or hope at least that through the Gospel there hath been conversion wrought in you After the Lord hath wrought conversion he doth expect that you be careful of your Conversations before men you have knowledge you can speak well you have some stirrings of heart that you have felt in hearing of the Word preaching of the Gospel but now look to your Conversations and know there is a bond laid upon you more than ever was to look to your Conversations in James 3. see the exhortation of the Apostle there at the 13. verse Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among yeu mark let him shew out of a good Conversation his works with meekness of wisdom It is a very sweet and excellent Scripture Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you What should he do Let him shew out of a good Conversation his works with meekness of wisdom here is wise and knowledge and wisdom again If you would manifest that God hath wrought any true saving knowledge any wisdom in you to save your souls why know that God requires that you should show your good Conversation that with meekness and wisdom your Conversations you must have a care of them both in respect of men and in respect of God In respect of men 1 Pet. 2. 12. Having your Conversation honest among the Gentils And the latter part wee shall speak to by and by so that Christians they must look to their Conversations in respect of men And then in respect of God In 1 Pet. 1. 15. But as be who hath called you is Holy so be ye holy in all manner of Conversation There you have Honest Conversation and in this scripture holy in all manner of conversation so that you are to have regard to your Conversations both in respect of men and in respect of God and upon these grounds First in general First in regard of God more generally that God may be

But that we shall come more fully to when we speak how our Conversations should be becoming the Gospel of Christ But I speak this in this point as a preparation to that especiallie to young Professors that have been wrought upon by the Word within these few yeers since there hath bin more freedom of preaching the Gospel and I verily beleeve that divers of you in this Congregation do know many young ones and others that have been wrought upon by the Ministrie of the Word that for the first yeer were verie exact and verie careful of their lives and verie punctual in every thing but you now see them begin to grow loose and wanton and vain in their Conversations Oh this is a sad and an evil thing If you would be careful of your Conversations observe this seventh Rule Be not onlie careful at the first work of God upon you when you begin to be enlightened but in the constant course of your lives Oh give me a professor of Religion that was wrought upon when he was a Youth or a young Maid and yet continues till they be old disciples in a constant way of holiness and strictness Oh! They are the most beautiful objects that are in the world to behold the Sun in the firmament is not so glorious as an ancient professor of Religion that hath continued constant in the waies of godliness from his youth that can say as good Obadiah once said 1 King 18. 12. I have feared the Lord from my youth and my conscience though it tell me of many failings and weaknesses yet my conscience excuseth me in this that I have endeavored with a good conscience to walk with God and without offence to man and not given way to my self in any way of loosness since God made known Himself to me Oh such may have an abundance entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven and die with abundance of comfort But thus much for this first point That Christians ought to be careful of their Conversations We come now to the second and that is the main point in the Text. Let your Conversation be as becometh the Gospel of Christ 2. Doct. Every kind of Conversation of professors is not enough it must rise to that height as must be sutable to the Gospel of Christ meet for the Gospel that they do profess That 's our point Now we shall come to the Particulars what Conversation it is that is meet for the Gospel of Christ I gave you the Heads in the opening of it But now I shall speak to them First That Conversation that is meet and becomes the Gospel of Christ must be a Conversation raised to a higher degree than the light of Nature will raise it That Conversation that is no higher than possibly may be raised by the light of Nature certainly that 's not a Conversation becoming the Gospel of Christ that 's beneath not fit for the Gospel of Christ As thus Suppose a man in his Boat here in the Thames rows very exactly I but this is not a work sutable to shew the skill of a Navigator of one that professes the art of Navigation it 's beneath that Why so To live exactly according to the light of Nature it is beneath the Conversation that becomes the Gospel of Christ if so be that a man should make his boast that he hath great skill in the art of Navigation And how will he shew this skill he will go into a Boat and there he will row over the Thames and by that you may see what a mighty Navigator he is this would be ridiculous to any man And so if one that professes the Gospel of Christ would manifest that he is a good Christian What doth he do the life that he lives it is no other than a man by the light of Nature may be enabled to this is even as ridiculous as the other 1. As now for instance The light of Nature that will teach this That we are to worship God the Heathens have worshiped God in their way 2. Yea the light of Nature will teach That we must live justly among men yea and that we must do as we would be done to This the light of Nature will teach Many of the Heathens have had that principle to be just with men to do as we would be done by The light of Nature condemns grosse sins of Drunkenness Adulterie Swearing c. I could give you many instances in the Laws of Heathens punishing those sins very severely and some of them with death 3. Yea the light of Nature will rise thus high That a man should be consciencious should make conscience of secret sins of sins that none in the world could know of or are ever like to know of As I remember sometimes I have told you of one of the Heathens that did but owe for a pair of shoos to a Shoo maker and no body knew it but only the Shoo-maker himselfe the Shoo-maker dies no body could challenge this of him yet his conscience would never let him be at quiet until he ran and threw the money into the shop and said Though he be dead to others yet he is not dead to me whereas he had a temptation to have kept it because no body could challeng it he knew it was not his he knew it was either the Childrens or Executors and so he restortd it Many particulars might be named to shew how far we might go by the light of Nature but now I only bring it in to this end to shew that if we would have our Conversations such as becomes the Gospel of Christ we must go beyond what ever anie have done by the light of Nature and yet Oh Lord how short do manie Professors of Religion come of this How manie that will profess they hope to be sav'd by Christ I suppose there is not anie one in this Congregation or if I should go to everie ones house that belongs to the Parish they would say they hope to be saved by Jesus Christ and yet what worship of God is there And what justice is there among men to do as they would be done by Nay this is a Rule that will examin manie professors of Religion and their consciences would tell them that in such and such things they would be loth to be dealt with as they deal with others And for gross sins manie Professors of Religion break out into them also for all are a kind of Professors of the Gospel at large Drunkards and Adulterers and Blasphemers and yet they will come and make profession of Religion and think it very much if they should be denied the Sacrament of the Bodie and Blood of Christ Why are they not Christians and their children Christians and yet must they not be Baptized And yet they are beneath Heathens Heathens will rise in Judgment against them And for conscienciousness in secret I appeal to everie one of your consciences are there no sins that

He that will follow me let him deny himself you never read of such a precept in all the old Testament though no question the people of God did deny themselves then but in expresse terms so fully you have not such a thing there and there 's no such rules among the Heathens for a man to deny himself Let him deny himself those that know the Original know that the word is not only to Deny but there is that joyned to it that doth encrease the signification let them deny themselves throughly there is a Preposition put to the word to shew that those that will come to Christ must deny themselves and that throughly it is a proper lesson of the Gospel and the first lesson Oh when our Lord and Master hath thus denied himself and emptied himself for good to us what is beseeming this Gospel but that all that are professors of it should deny themselves It is very unbeseeming the glorious Gospel for a Christian to be selvish to have his self-ends and self-waies and interests in every thing as generally almost al men in the world they are acted by self some self-ends or self-excellency carries them on in their actions or else they have no heart to do any thing this is unbecoming the Gospel But now I say one that would live as becomes the Gospel must be wholly emptied of himself whatsoever parts estate credit or honor he hath in the world must be melted into the glory of God Jesus Christ for the glory of His Father was content infinitly to deny Himself more than we can For what have we to deny our selves of Do you or I live as becomes the Gospel when I say all that we apprehend to have any excellency in we have it all swallowed up in the glory of God when we can dedicate and consecrate our lives honors liberties estates comforts and all to the glory of God and be as nothing to our selves and let God be all in all to us Ministers may bring many reasons why we should deny our selves but all these reasons comes to nothing till the soul comes to behold the cleer light of the Gospel and there beholds the Son of God by faith how he did empty Himself nay then saith a beleeving soul if the Son of God did deny Himself was emptied thus for me Oh then let me be wholly taken off from my self and venture wholly upon God I must not live in my self nor live for my self nor live to my self but wholly live in God and for God and to God and upon God Oh this is that which becomes the Gospel of Jesus Christ SERMON VI. PHIL. 1. 27. Only let your Conversation be as becomes the Gospel of Christ THE Ninth thing that the Gospel holds forth is this That our Conversation should be sutable to spiritual worship the spiritual worshiping of God The worship that there was in the time of the Law it was carnal in comparison of what there is in the time of the Gospel And therefore a great part of the worship of God is called a carnal commandement and rudiments of the world and beggerly things If you reade the 2 d of Colossians there you have strange expressions about that which was even the worship of God and so in the Hebrews divers times But now you know what Christ saith in John 4. to the woman of Samaria The hour cometh when ye shall neither in this Mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father But the hour cometh when the true worshipers shal worship the Father in spirit and in truth for such the Father seeks to worship him We must not think to worship God in such carnal waies as before I beseech you consider this one thing Certainly God wil have as much worship in the time of the Gospel as ever He had But where we have one external thing to worship God in now in the time of the Law there was an hundred an hundred to one of external things yet now this worship of God must be made up some way we are not cal'd to those outward worshipings offerings sacrifices and costly things as they were in the time of the Law now how should this be made up but in spiritual sacrifices in presenting our bodies and souls to God as a living sacrifice therefore such men and women as altogether are for the out-side of things in the worship of God and because God hath appointed but a few things in his worship we have use of no other creature in the worshipping of God but meerly the Bread and Wine and Water only these elements and the Man to speak to us to be either Gods mouth to us or our mouth to God there 's all we have appointed in the Gospel for the worship of God therefore it is expected if we would have our Conversation be as becoms the Gospel to be very spiritual in our worship and therefore to take heed of thinking to make up Gods worship with external things of our own that 's exceedingly unbeseeming the Gospel Many thought in former times they did honor God much by adding to His Worship ceremonies external things and peoples hearts are set most upon them because they are from man they are humane I 'le give you but one-Scripture to shew how we should for ever take heed of traditions of men and of mixtures in the Worship of God because that the Gospel points at spiritual worship That place in 1 Pet. 1. 18. Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from what from your vain Conversations received by traditions from your fathers but with the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot See what an argument the Apostle uses here unto those he writ to saith he There was a time that you worshiped God in an external way and in a superstitious manner according to the traditions and fancies of your fathers this was before you knew Jesus Christ but saith he now you come to know Jesus Christ know it was the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed to redeem you from this vain Conversation that you received by tradition from your forefathers I do not know any one Scripture hath more power in it to take off mens hearts from all false and superstitious worship from all old customs that they had from their forefathers as people are mightily set upon old customs to worship God according to them what a stir and do had we to get off men from their late Service-Book the great Diana of England which was made up of the ends and shreds of the Romish Mass-Book only printed in an English letter and reading and babling over Burials and such kind of trumperies Oh how were those old Samaritan customs setled in the hearts of men as coming up to the Communion Table and there to kneel down at Rails like so many Beads-men to the Pope Votaries to Rome Mens hearts are

mightily set upon such foolish things as these are But now this text tels you that if you know what it is to be redeemed by the blood of Christ you must know that the blood of Christ was shed for to take you off from your vain conversation received by tradition from your forefathers Christ shed his blood that he might deliver you from all such traditional things that so you might worship God in spirit and in truth this becomes the Gospel And at your leasure do but reade over that second Chapter of the Epistle to the Colossians speaking of men that in a voluntary humility worshiped Angels intruding into those things which they have not seen and vainly puft up by their fleshly mind And then in the 16. verse Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink not that you may not eat flesh at such and such times in the year or in respect of an holy day or of the new moon or of the Sabbath daies the Jewish Sabbath day let no man judg you saith the Apostle in regard of these things which are a shadow of things to come Then in the 19. vers And not holding the head Those that stood upon such things as these are they are here charged for not holding the head that is they did not hold Christ as if the Apostle should say If so be that you hold Christ and profess Christ you would not stand upon these things upon these kind of superstitious waies in the worship of God And you shall find in the Epistle to the Galatians the Apostle telling of the GALATIANS about such kind of waies of continuing and holding of the worship of the Law saith he in Gal. 4. 10. Ye observe daies and months and times and years What then I am afraid of you lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain As if the Apostle should say I profess I see you stand upon such old things and worshiping of God in an external way I am afraid of you lest I have bestowed all my labor in vain This is so opposite to the Gospel as makes me think and am afraid that all my preaching of the Gospel to you is in vain and yet mark my Brethren what were these daies and months and times and yeers they were such as God heretofore had appointed but now they were ceased after Christ came out of date and yet they sticking to them after the death of Christ saith the Apostle I profess I am afraid of you that all my preaching in vain to you Now my brethren what shall we say to those that stick upon these things that God had never appointed but were of Popish ordination As keeping one time more holy than another and thinking thereby to tender up service to God Why should we not keep the memory of such and such times Now as to keep them so as to think that they shall sanctifie any time is a dangerous thing a sign that they understand the Gospel but little to think that any men upon any reason whatsoever should be able to sanctifie a time to make that time to be holy I say that 's unbeseeming the Gospel no man can make a holy day under the Gospel Obj. But you will say We keep daies of fasting and thanksgiving Ans But there 's a great deal of difference between them and these times that here the Apostle speaks of Now the keeping of holy daies is this We account the time holy and the very duty is more acceptable because it is performed at that time as now on the Sabbath day there may be a Sermon on the week day but certainly it 's a more holy worship of God to hear upon the Sabbath than on the week day and we sanctifie Gods Name more on the Sabbath than on the week why Because the time doth sanctifie the duty being set apart by God As in the Temple the duty was more acceptable than in any other place why because it was set apart by God but we cannot make any place holy and so no time holy so that our daies of fasting thansgiving are only thus that we wil spend that time in holy duties to humble our selves or to bless God but not to make this time holy so that the duty should be holy because it 's on this day rather than on another day that 's the superstition of it when a duty should be holy rather on this day than on another as now some they think it 's a more holy thing to receive the Lords Supper on an Ester day than on another day this is superstition to think the duty is more holy by any holiness that men put upon a thing that 's unbeseeming the Gospel and we are redeemed from such vain Conversations by the blood of Christ and while men stick upon these things and say let them do what they will me thinks these things are good and right it 's very evil Thus it was with the Galatians they had more seeming reason to think that those things that they stuck upon were according to God than you yet saith the Apostle I am afraid of you lest I have spent all my labor in vain lest I have been a burning and shining lamp to no purpose and truly there 's no people of which there can be less hope that the Ministry of the Word should work sayingly upon than those people that are set upon old customs in the worship of God as wines upon their lees and till the Lord be pleased to take off your hearts from old customs in the service and worship of God there 's a plain demonstration that the preaching of the Gospel hath not prevailed with your hearts for you do not live as becomes the Gospel That which becomes the Gospel it is worshiping God only in a spiritual way the consecrating of your souls and bodies and all you have to the worship of God in making them to be an holy sacrifice to God and that according to the rules of the Gospel which is your reasonable service And that 's another particular that the Gospel teaches And therefore to live as becomes the Gospel is to worship God in spirit and in truth The tenth thing that I shall further add of what the Gospel holds forth to us and that is of such consequence that I shall a little insist upon it that is The near relation that we are in to God and Christ and spiritual union with him This is opened in the Gospel more fully than ever it was before The relation to God First God as a Father and Beleevers as Children yea and as Children of age for though in the Law it 's true we find that God was there a Father and Ephraim was his deer son But you shall find in the 3. of Galatians That now we are as Children of age whereas Beleevers in the time of the Law were under age Now you know any of your children when they come to be of age