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A57373	Believers evidences for eternall life collected out of the first epistle of John which is catholique : explained and confirmed by very many subservient signes, or undernotes grounded upon Scriptures and illustrated by testimonies both of ancient fathers and modern writers whereby persons truly regenerate may divers wayes discover their present state of grace and title unto glory / by Francis Roberts.	Roberts, Francis, 1609-1675.	1655 (1655)	Wing R1579; ESTC R29322	150,624	294

25. 1 Cor. 2. 8 11. Nor knowes it the children of God and what priviledges comforts and happinesse belongs unto them and that even in this life in the state of grace 1 Cor. 2. 9. 2. Sometimes an act also of the will or a joynt act of the minde and will regarding favourably respecting loving affecting approving things known Psal. 101. 4. Thus God is said to know●… the way of the righteous Psal. 1. 6. Christ know●… his sheep Job 10. 27. and so not to love no●… to approve is not to know Acts 7. 18. Matth. 7. 23. and 25. 12. In this sense the carn●… world knowes not God nor Christ i. e. lov●… them not cares not for them but rathe●… hates them Exod. 5. 2. Ier. 5. 4. And th●… also the world knowes not the children of God i. e. loves them not cares not for them but hates them persecutes them c. because such Iohn 15. 18 19. 1 Iohn 3. 12. So that the more the world hates us for Gods sake Christs sake as Christians the more encouragement we may have that we are not of the world but chosen out of the world into Gods family 1 Pet 4. 16 17. True believing that Iesus is the Christ evidenceth that we are borne of God Whosoever believeth that Iesus is the Christ is born of God 1 John 5. 1. For clearing this evidence of Regeneration Consider these two Questions 1. What is meant here by believing that Iesus is the Christ 2. Whence it may be evinced that whosoever does truly thus believe is borne of God Quest. 1. What is it to believe that Iesus is the Christ Answ. Faith or believing as it relates to Christ hath especially two primary and most remarkable acts viz Assenting and Applying 1. The Assenting act of faith is that whereby faith assents to Gods whole Scripture-Record touching Jesus Christ as true 1 Iohn 5. 10 11. viz. That this Jesus which is revealed so fully to us in the New Testament both in his Person and Offices is no other then the Christ the true Messiah or anointed of God that was fore-promised fore-prophesied of and prefigured under all periods of the Old Testament from the fall of the first Adam to the fulnesse of time for the incarnation of the second Adam to be the only Mediatour betwixt God and man and Saviour of the world This some call Dogmaticall faith some Historical faith because it barely and precisely entertaines the Doctrine and History of Scripture as Truth without any particular appropriation of any thing of Christ to them that so believe Now this bare naked assenting act of faith cannot be a character of Regeneration nor the faith here intended For 1. Hypocrites may assent to the truth of the Record which God hath given touching Christ. For we read often of the faith of such as Luk. 8. 13. Acts 8 13. which believing of theirs was at least an Assent for Assent to truth revealed is the least and lowest act of faith 2. Devils may assent to this truth Dogmatically That Iesus is the Christ yea they have assented to it and known it to be so See Mar. 1. 24. Luke 4. 34 41. Yet nor Hypocrites nor devils are regenerate 2. The Applying act of faith is that whereby faith having assented to the truth of all Gods Record touching Christ proceeds to apply and appropriate all particularly to a mans self as did Paul Who loved me and gave himself for me Gal. 2. 20. and Thomas My Lord and my God John 20. 28. This appropriating act of faith is sometimes called believing on the Son of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. into the Son of God 1John 5. 10. believing on his Name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. into his Name 1 John 5. 13. John 1. 12. coming to him John 6. 35. receiving him John 1. 11 12. having the Son 1 John 5. 12. tasting him 1 Pet. 2. 3. eating him eating his flesh and drinking his blood John 6. 53 54 56 57. compared with ver 47. all which expressions denote faith's appropriating of Christ unto the particular individual believing soul as his Christ Priest Prophet and King as his Jesus his Saviour c. from whom he expects and looks for Redemption Righteousnesse Pardon Holinesse Adoption Peace Comfort Grace Glory and every thing that is promised or is to be expected from the Messiah as Calvin well observes To believe that Iesus is Christ is to hope for all those things from him which were promised of the Messiah This is true justifying faith Rom. 5. 1. now this is the faith here meant this is the true believing that Jesus is the Christ. Discoveries or Characters of this true faith are many Take these seven which gradually depend one upon another viz. 1. The habit of this faith is infused into the soul by God in Regeneration Eph. 2. 8. Iohn 1. 12 13. 2. This habit infused is brought into act by the Fathers drawing the soul to Christ. Iohn 6. 44. This drawing is effected 1. By discovering the necessity of Christ to salvation Acts 4. 11 12. 2. By displaying the sufficiency and alluring Excellency of Christ for salvation Heb. 7. 25. Cant. 5. 10. to the end 3. By manifesting the possibility of obtaining Christ and salvation by him 1 Tim. 1. 16. 4. By propounding the willingnesse and readinesse of God and Christ to entertain poor sinners Matth. 11. 28 29. Iohn 7. 37. Isaiah 55. 1. Iohn 6. 37. Luke 15. 20. to the end 5. By disclosing the invaluable happinesse in gaining Christ 1 Iohn 5. 12. Iohn 3. 16 18 36. And 6. By stirring up ardent strong desires in the heart after Christ that the soul is restlessely thirsting till he be obtained Isa. 55. 1. Iohn 7. 37. 3. Faith thus infused and acted is perswaded to accept Christ upon his own termes viz. self-denyal bearing the Crosse and following Christ and actually accepts him Luk. 9. 23. Iohn 1. 12. 4. Faith having received Christ tastes such sweetnesse and pleasantnesse in him that Christ is most precious to the soule 1 Peter 2. 3 7. and all things in the world are but losse and dung unto him Phil. 3. 8. Oh how is the soul filled with joy and peace in believing Rom. 15. 13. and 5. 1. and so it sits down under Christs shadow with great delight and his fruit is sweet unto its taste Cant. 2. 3. 5. Faith having thus taken and tasted Christ notably enlivens and quickens the soule that not so much the Believer lives as Christ by faith lives in the Believer Gal. 2. 20. Rom. 1. 17. Hab. 2. 4. Christ principally knows wills loves prayes and in a word performes all spiritual motions in him Oh that 's a sweet life indeed whereof Christ is both Authour to give it and Pilot to guide it 6. Faith having enlivened the soul by Christ it notably puts forth it self in vital operations from Christ. For true living faith is a working and fruit-bearing faith as Iames

c. Mat. 5. 10 11 12. Rejoyce in as much as ye are partakers of Christs sufferings If you be reproached for the Name of Christ happy are you c. 1 Pet. 4. 13 14. Upon this consideration when the Apostles were beaten by the Councel for preaching Christ They departed from the presence of the Councel rejoycing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his Name Acts 5. 40 41. And what but Faith can ●…d priviledge happinesse and matter of joy in sufferings for Christ How happy did Cyprian judge their Church That it was made illustrious in his time with the glorious blood of Martyrs it was saith he formerly white with the Brethrens works but now its purple with the Martyrs blood Among its flowers are wanting neither Lilies nor Roses Let all now strive for the ample dignity of this double honour that they may receive either white crownes for well-doing or purple crownes for well-suffering 5. By suggesting to the Soul the spiritual benefit of distresses Faith makes the heart not only overcome them but even glory in them Being justified by faith we glory in tribulations knowing that tribulation worketh patience and patience experience and experience hope and hope maketh not ashamed c. Rom. 5. 1 2 3 4 5. For which cause we faint not but though our outward man perish yet the inward man is renewed day by day For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternall weight of glory 2 Cor. 4. 16 17. Faith saith Let me be reproached poor imprisoned or any way afflicted so I may be weaned from the world purged from sin increased in grace or any way spiritually advantaged And this is very victorious Ignatius said I am Gods wheat let me be ground by the teeth of wilde beasts that I may be found the pure bread of God 6. By acting love invincibly Faith acts or works by love Gal. 5. 6. And love truly and lively acted towards Christ by faith proves an army invincible flame unquenchable You may kill the lover of Christ but cannot kill the love of Christ. Set me as a seal upon thine heart as a seal upon thine arme saith the Church to Christ For love is strong as death jealousie cruel as the grave the coals thereof coals of fire a most vehement flame Many waters cannot quench love neither can the floods drown it Cant. 8. 6 7. No waters of affliction no floods of persecution can drown it like oyle it swims above the top of deepest waters Such love not their lives unto the death Rev. 12. 11. Here 's the victory of the Saints 7. By eying the invisible and invincible God The worlds punishment said Cyprian cannot more cast down then Gods protection lift up Faith meets with many difficulties and rubs in the way to heaven but fixing upon the Omnipotent God and casting the soul in greatest straits and plunges with a sweet recumbency upon the power of God overcomes them and triumphs over them all Thus Moses by faith overcame the wrath of Pharaoh for he endured as seeing him who is invisible Heb. 11. 27. Thus the three renowned Jewes by faith overcame the fury threats and fiery furnace of King Nebuchadnezzar heated seven times hotter then usual How victoriously do they express themselves O Nebuchadnezzar we are not careful to answer thee in this matter If it be so our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of thy hand O King But if not be it known unto thee O King that we will not serve thy gods nor worship the golden Image which thou hast set up Dan. 3. 16 17 18 8. By improving Christs strength and assistance All Sampsons strength lay in his head so all a Christians strength is in his Head Christ. Christ is so potent and victorious that he hath already overcome the world John 16. ult He hath overcome the world in his own person that he might overcome it in his members Now faith makes out to Christ engages his strength as the Vine makes it self strong by embracing the Elm the Ivy by clasping the Oake Christs strength being engaged what cannot a Christian do or endure He can in every state be content Contentment is a mighty victory over the world let the world do its worst nothing can come amisse to a contented man I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and suffer need I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me Phil. 4. 11 12 13. And elsewhere Paul hangs out the flag of defiance against all the terrours of the world Who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or distresse or persecution or famine or nakednesse or perill or sword As it is written For thy sake we are killed all the day long we are accounted as sheep to the slaughter Now in all these things we are more then conquerours through him that loved us Rom. 8. 35 36 37. When in Christs might Christians go out against the world they go but to encounter with a conquered adversary they go not so much to Fight as to Triumph and take the spoile 9. Finally Faith in the Regenerate wonderfully conquers the frownes of the world by fixing a steady eye upon that eternall joy set before them upon that great recompence of reward Reckoning that the afflictions of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us Rom. 8. 18. The heaviest affliction is but light the longest affliction here is but for a moment and what 's that to glory to the weight of glory to the eternal weight of glory to the far more exceeding and eternall weight ef glory 2 Cor. 4. 17. Faith therefore having respect to the recompence of reward behaves it self exceeding victoriously against all the tribulations of the world For 1. Hence Faith under deepest sorrowes keeps up the heart and spirits of Gods children from fainting 2 Cor. 4. 16 17 18. 2. Hence Faith enables to undergo not ordinary troubles but extraordinary tortures and yet not to accept deliverance Heb. 11. 35. 3. Hence Faith instructs them to judge Christs reproaches greater riches then any earthly treasures And the afflictions of Christians farre sweeter then the pleasures of sin which can but be for a season Heb. 11. 26. Whereupon notably Ignatius The confines of the world and kingdomes of the earth delight not me at all It is better for me to die for Iesus Christ then to reigne over the ends of the earth For Iesus is the life of Believers Be not unwilling to have me die It s a death to live without Christ c. Upon like ground blessed Cyprian writing to certaine valiant and faithful witnesses of Christ that had endured