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A02762	The burning bush not consumed wherein (either vnder all deepe sense of wrath; or hardnesse of heart, one may iudge, whether he be the childe of God, or not, &c. Chiefly receyuing satisfaction concerning the sinne against the Holy Ghost. Perused by I.D. and diuers other diuines.	Hart, John, D.D.; Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639, attributed name.	1616 (1616)	STC 12891; ESTC S103842	61,708	194

hath a Reprobate when he is thus wakened Minist Light feeling perswasion Schol. What light seeth he Minist First all his sinnes accusing conuicting condemning and tormenting him 2. The great God a consuming fire to deuoure him 3. Eternitie of paine prepared for him and to be giuen ouer by the iudge to be tormented for euer with the diuell and his Angels Schol. What feeleth the Reprobate being thus wakened Minister First that sinne is bitter 2. That there is an euerlasting wrath prepared for impenitent sinners 3. That the conscience howsoeuer for a while asleepe in hardnesse of heart is capable of wrath 4. That it is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the liuing God And lastly that hell-torments doe take away all peace and comforts bringing nothing but sorrow and vnquietnes yea that a little looke of hell for one euill thought is more fearefull and terrible then all the torments in the earth Schol. Whereof is the Reprobate perswaded when he is thus wakened Minister First that God neuer elected him nor yet Iesus Christ hath redeemed him and that hee was neuer renued by the Spirit of grace 2. That hee shall neuer haue comfort in heauen or earth 3. That there is an euerlasting wrath prepared for him and that hee shall neuer come foorth of that prison and torment Lastly that GOD and his creatures visiible and inuisible Elect and Reprobate shall all bee his enemies helping to aggrauate his torments Schol. What be the degrees by which a Reprobate is brought vnto this torment Minist First Prophanenesse 2. Impenitencie 3. Infidelity 4. Senselesnesse and dead security 5. A wakening by a sensible wrath Lastly a reiection of him into euerlasting torments Scholler What difference is there betwixt the Elect and the Reprobate in the sense and feeling of the wrath of GOD Minister First the Reprobate hee feeleth and fretteth at the same Next his torment paineth him so that hee would gladly bee rid of the paine but neuer truely repenteth him of the sinne 3. The waight of his torment proceeding from a guilty conscience and the sight of God the Iudge maketh him to despaire cast off mercy turne his backe vpon God and his free promises in Christ Iesus so plunging himselfe without recouerie in the wrath of God Schol. How doth the childe of God behaue himselfe in the feeling of the wrath of God Min. Being wakened out of the dead sleepe of sinfull security First torment maketh him to lament and sorrowe that hee should haue prouoked his GOD thus to deale with him Next he thirsteth for reconciliation with God through Iesus Christ Further he draweth neere laying sure hold vpon the promises of the word of GOD desiring to feele them by experience Yea more hee seeth no saluation for him out of Christ crucified and therefore renounceth himselfe and all that is in him cleauing onely to Gods free mercie and loue in the Lord Iesus Lastly hee giueth not ouer but constantly waiteth hanging still on Gods free loue and the trueth of his promises reuealed in his word Schol. Yet shew vnto me further how neere the childe of God may come vnto the wicked in the sense and feeling of the wrath of God Minister First Gods childe will feele all his impediments standing vp betwixt God and him 2. He may haue no kind of feeling either of the loue of God or of his mercie election redemption or of the Spirit of sanctification 3. Gods childe will feele for his sinnes in Gods absence in his conscience burning wrath vnquietnesse and torment 4. When hee thinketh of God hee may be troubled Eternitie will dash him the conscience of him also at that time may beare such witnesse against him that altogether hee may doubt of his saluation easily then hee may be perswaded to despaire and if at such a time it were giuen vnto the sense of his owne conscience to iudge hee would willingly subscribe his owne condemnation Scholler Declare then what is that manner of working by which God vseth to heale a soule being thus diseased Minist Hee hath a secret working for that present vnfelt by the Patient yet afterwards fully reuealed Scholler But in such a narrow pinch howe may wee iudge of that secret working Minister First by that griefe wee haue for grieuing of our God 2. By that desire wee haue to bee reconciled with God for still the more grieuous that the torment is so much the greater will desire of reconciliation bee and the hatred to sinne 3. By that hope wee haue aboue hope against our feeling looking vnto Gods free promises with assurance that hee will come with this resolution that though hee delayed his comming vntill our last breath yet for all this that wee would waite for him Schol. When Gods children cannot feele should they measure their estate according to their feeling beleeuing that God so accounteth of them as for the present their conscience witnesseth Minist No. Schol. Why so Minister Because none may measure the fauour of God by their present tentations seeing feeling is a false Iudge Scholler Yet when one hauing sufficient knowledge walketh in all the means so much as may be and can for all this haue no assurance or feeling of remission of sinnes is not this lamentable Minister It may bee so for a while but it is with such as with those who haue a bad stomacke who though they cannot make vse of their prouisions of knowledge for the present yet when their appetites returne they find better vse of it then euer before Schol. God we know promiseth to giue those who delight in him their hearts desire Yet we see they haue it not alwaies in spirituall things as true ioy feeling assurance of his loue c. How doth he then fulfill his promise Minister It is most certaine the breach is alwayes on our part for such looke aside on other worldly matters and not directly vppon GOD making him their sole delight suffering their corruptions beare sway and then it is iust with God to take away for a time their feeling for hee seeth if such had not sometimes a dead heart they would haue a proud heart which is worst of all therefore hee leaueth them for a time Schol. But they gladly would be freed from both Minist Our hearts yet are so deceitfull that God sees we could not escape the latter but by vndergoing the former Schol. What then should such thinke of themselues who for some yeeres together find lesse feeling in prayer ioy in all good duties c. Then in the former times although they vse the meanes Minister Such thinke too hardly of themselues oftentimes without cause razing the ground-worke of their Election And calling all the pledges of Gods former fauours into question which indeede they should not doe but rather gather so many more as they can For though

they thinke that they had better feelings at their first conuersion yet it is not so if for the present they stick close vnto all Gods meanes for their first feelings were in a great part rather suddaine passions then grounded comforts but after they come to haue any true conflicts with their soules the mud of the flesh is more purged away and all things are more sound then at the first Scholler Yet you know it is written that the righteous in their olde age shall be fat and flourishing bringing forth fruit what shall some say then or thinke of themselues when they find a decay in their memories c. Deadnesse in their affections c. Though they may not call their election in question may they not feare some strange iudgement Min. No surely for perhaps then they may flourish most of all in humility holinesse patience experience and such like graces when they want those stirring and hote affections Neither ought we to looke for such strength of memory and liuely operatiue actions of grace in age in sicknesse in great sorrowes and tentations as at other times in yong yeeres free from such assaults Neuerthelesse in such times God giues graces most fit for those times as in age grauity ability to giue good counsell to speake from experience c. So that though the aged Christians haue not alwayes most life and feeling and stirring grace yet are they better seasoned then young souldiers as the Prophet speaketh Giue thy strength vnto day seruant so haue they a great deale more of Gods strength to walke with yea the greatest measure thereof at their most neede which if wee should attaine vnto too soone it would make vs proud and secure to say with the rich man Soule take thy rest thou hast enough for many yeeres And therefore as Hounds doe hunt best when they followe the sent not the sight for then they runne a madding ready like to breake their neckes so aged Christians though they follow by faith and haue lesse feeling in sense yet doe they goe on more strongly to heauen then such who runne all vpon their sense Schol. How commeth it then to passe that Gods children are so addicted vnto feeling so mourning when they haue lost the same yea so troubled that they imagine all is gone for euer Minister Iust as a pricke of a pin or some other distemper in one part of the body doth so vexe vs that wee for the present are so grieued with the same that wee forget that strength and health which is in the rest of the body so the feeling and sense of Gods loue being for a while lost doth so dampe with the sorrowe thereof all other graces in the soule that for the present wee can discerne none and so imagine all to bee lost for euer Schol. What maketh Gods children so to relye vpon feeling Minister Certainly as I thinke because they remember not that it is written we walke by faith and not by sight and so their faith being weake by reason they are not well clothed with their spirituall armour hauing forgot their consolation no maruaile they stagger and reele to and fro hauing lost the touch of that hand which had wont to guide them So that I say it must bee want of faith the strength whereof appeareth most in the least measure of feeling Schol. Wherefore then doth God giue vnto his children such a measure of feeling at their first conuersion yet afterwards withdraweth the same Minist Euen as we see we may lead a little child when he is young whither we will with apples and such like toyes so are wee being babes in Christ led by feeling at our first conuersion then we are altogether for rewards at which time if GOD made vs not better offers then the world we would forsake him and cleaue vnto the same But with the woman of Canaan to hold out in repulses without feeling to gather strong arguments to mooue GOD againe and againe argues a strong Faith Againe Christians haue ordinarily more feeling at first because then euery thing is new vnto them receiuing more from God then they looked for Neither are our prayers then so much vnderpropt with arguments as with feelings then we come with simple sutes thinking God loues me and therefore hee will heare me As little children vse to come to their Parents they bring no forcible reasons but I pray you Father c. Giue me such a thing neither doe their Parents expect any but are well content yea glad to heare them aske at first But when processe of time makes those feelings by vse not to seeme so new and so not so sensible God hiding his face and feeling decaying then doe they beginne to lay about them with their knowledge to labour for strong reasons in their prayers to seeke how to mooue God best by his nature promises and former mercies And then indeede whatsoeuer wee thinke is the best growth in faith and al goodnes which after the storme is past Gods children can see and reioyce at yea and liue vpon the store a good while after hauing those prayers which they made in their deepest anguish as the best pillars of their assurance of Gods loue Schol. Why doth God for the most part so long delay to giue comfort and feeling vnto his children Minister Not like vnto some Physicians and Surgeons who with needlesse delayes put their Patients to extraordinarie paines but for their good to make them spend prayers whereby they are alway gayners the paines whereof is but the crossing of the flesh which the more it is tamed the better it is for them Schol. What then should one doe when hee hath long attended without any comfort or feeling Mini. When the soule would most willingly despaire because of the sense of sinne terrour of conscience and Gods absence then beleeue most lay surer hold then euer vpon the promises of the mercy of God in Christ Schol. How can one say that he beleeueth not finding in him the fruits of Faith which are prayer comfort peace and holinesse Minister Faith and lacke of feeling may well stand together yea and great doubting and hee who beleeueth most and feeleth least is hee who glorifieth God most for when we feele wee possesse as it were a beginning of that which shall be in heauen we liue now by faith and hope not by sight and feeling Schol. But how should the conscience in the meane time rest since feeling is no competent Iudge Mini. Build vpon that rocke against which the gates of hell cannot preuaile Schol. What is that Minist To sticke close vnto Christ and vnto the vertue of his death and resurrection remembring the iustifying blood of Christ the satisfying blood of Christ the meritorious blood of Christ the comfortable resurrection of Christ Iesus And that hee came not to call the righteous but the sinners

vnto repentance that he came for the sicke and not for the whole that he biddeth all laden and weary sinners come vnto him yea and all such who are a thirst to come vnto the waters and drinke freely assuring them that though their sinnes were red as scarlet yet that hee will make them white as the Snow as also he himselfe hath sworne that as he liueth hee desires not the death of a sinner but rather that hee should turne from his wickednesse and liue promising that he will neither breake the bruised reed nor quench the smoking flaxe but will bind vp that which is broken with the comforts of his Spirit will make whole that which is wounded with the plaister of his precious blood and bring home the lost sheepe reioycing also at the returne of the forlorne sonne His loue also couers both the multitude of sinnes and the sinner with his owne shining righteousnesse he also quickneth and raiseth vp the dead soule that is stinking in the graue of sinne And to be short he saith He who beleeueth shall neuer be ashamed but shall be raised in that great day with a glorious body like vnto the most beautifull body of Christ Iesus and shall neuer be condemned but haue euerlasting life This is the rocke I spake of and on this rocke must the soule anchor when it is tossed betwixt the strong winds and deepe waues of sinne and euerlasting wrath For blessed is he who beleeueth though he neuer saw Iesus with his eyes Yea suppose one neuer had any feeling of him still waiting in hope and languor and resting vpon the loue and mercy of Christ Iesus reuealed in the word this is a sure ground to rely vpon that as God is trueth it selfe so he will most certainly performe all his promises in his owne good time being both mercifull and powerfull to performe whatsoeuer he promiseth Scholler Yet why may not one who doubteth of his Election reply It is certaine God is mercifull true and powerfull but what is that vnto me seeing that I cannot perceiue in particular that hee hath made a promise vnto me Minist First I would haue such a party to assure himselfe that this is but a iugling deluding Sophistrie of the diuell to make any to prie into the decree of God to see whether his name be written there or not before he vse the meanes for then this followeth that because I cannot see Gods decree therefore I will vse no meanes all are in vaine which temptation if the Deuill can once settle keeping such parties from the meanes then he knoweth they be sure his owne Next I would wish them to remember that the Lord is so aboundantly mercifull in making of his promises that hee excludeth no sorts of persons neither Iewe nor Grecian bonde or free high nor low rich or poore but the righteousnesse of God through Iesus Christ is in all and vpon all who beleeue That there is no exception of persons for all haue sinned and are depriued of the glory of God and are iustified freely by his grace through the redemption made in Christ Iesus yea that Christ Iesus came into the world to saue sinners whosoeuer they bee excluding no sort nor degree from laying holde on life much lesse any particular person Rather then must one gather the quite contrary arguments against the Deuill and carnall reason And thus returne their arguments All Gods children for the most part who in former times haue beene called and enlightned when they were dead in sinnes and trespasses at their departure from Sodom were not so curious as at first to prie into Gods decree to knowe whether their names were written in the booke of life before they would vse the meanes but they reiecting sense and carnall reason did by degrees vse the meanes to their power and so by the constant vse of the same and Gods blessing therewith by little and little at length found their eyes opened their hearts softned the whole man in part sanctified so attaining vnto the knowledge of his decree therefore I will also vse the meanes rather obeying God then the diuell which though by and by they proue not effectually yet I will waite Gods good time who knoweth but at length I may speed as well as others And so againe though I find not my name in the free Couenant of mercy yet since it excludeth none by name I will hope still though I bee most sinfull yet Christ he came into the world to saue sinners he iustifieth all those who beleeue in him how miserable soeuer they be yet his righteousnes apprehended couers all their infirmities But so it is I am a vile sinner laden and burdened with iniquities Therefore I will beleeue and my Lord will iustifie me and I will draw neere vnto God and he will ease me I will apprehend and cleaue close vnto his righteousnesse how vile and naked soeuer I be of my selfe and thus I shall escape in the middest of all tempests For God if I be penitent is more powerfull to foregiue and heale my rebellions then I am able to prouoke his anger Now the ground of this consolation is the reuealed trueth of God which is as sure as if we did see him in an extraordinary manner both feeling and hearing him speake vnto the heart and eare or rauishing vs in visions as he did to Adam Abraham Isaack Iaacob Moses the Prophets and Apostles or as vnto Paul out of heauen for heauen and earth shall passe away before any title of his word shall fall vnto the ground And hee who resteth vpon this word out and beyond his feeling he resteth vpon the arme of God and as God is true shall vndoubtedly find deliuerance but he who measures the promises of God by his feeling and thinkes that hee beleeueth not but when he feeleth he sinneth grieuously for hee compareth all vndoubted veritie grounded vpon God which shall be performed in Gods good time as certainly as God is truth it selfe with an vncertaine and vanishing feeling which may faile vs but the promises of God cannot Hee therefore who measureth his faith by his feeling deceiueth himselfe because neither is it permanent neither haue we any warrant of the measure time or continuance thereof seeing the Lord commeth when hee will and as he will as he seeth to be most for his glory and our good euen in our most need And as for the chiefe grounds of faith there is no neede to goe vp vnto heauen to seeke for them neither to digge downe vnto hell to find them out for as Moses speaketh the word of truth is neere into vs our eyes see it continually our hands handle it our eyes see it our eares haue the same read and preached vnto vs. And hee that beleeueth in his heart as the Scripture speaketh that Iesus Christ is dead

whole man both soule and body 3. It is a finall defection a defection without recouerie such an Apostasie as Heb. 6. is called a falling away so that whosoeuer falleth truly into this sin falleth away without recouery yet men doe not come vnto this vniuersall Apostasie all at once but by little and little and processe of time for first they chase away and banish their whole light they waft make shipwracke of conscience they desperately harden their whole hearts vntill they become as it were incarnate diuels Sathanized in a wonderfull manner vntill they match Beelzebub himselfe in their desperate despite and malice so that there is no sinne which maketh a man so spitefully to detest Christ as this sinne yea with such extreame hatred that although he might hee will receiue no benefit of his Propitiatorie and Expiatorie sacrifice Scho. What is the cause that this sinne is so seuerely punished Mini. Amongst other causes because it is so free of infirmity suddaine fits and passions which other sins are not free of and so full of desperate malitious well-aduised malice scraping forth all light banishing all conscience fighting against the heauens so farre that because it cannot attaine vnto Christ who now in Heauen sitteth at the right hand of the Father in all glory it vndertaketh to bee reuenged vppon his true members the militant Church vpon earth which so farre as it can it persecuteth oppresseth and by all meanes rooteth out so that it is iust with God in his righteous iudgement to haue decreed neuer to giue repentance vnto the same Schol. By what steppes or degrees doeth this sinne ascend to the height of impiety Min. By foure steps it ascendes or rather descends towards Hell 1. It maketh a man doe actions against knowledge and conscience and that without infirmity vsuall in other sinnes falling from the Faith of Christ Next it maketh them to goe on forward in the same continually vntill they make their partiall defection a Totall their particular a generall and their generall a finall Apostasie Then further it maketh a man diuellish malicious despitefull to grow in malice against Christ and his members more and more Lastly if neere finished it bee the sinne against the Holy-Ghost indeede It maketh a man violently breake foorth in all sorts or fearefull and terrible persecutions in all kinde of blasphemies and grosse visible actuall sinnes all murthers burnings oppressions Witcherafts Sorceries Exterpations finally and what not to that end onely that it may resist oppose and despight and fight against the power effect graces and conuincing light of the Spirit Scholler May not one who in GODS sight and decree is chosen vnto life seeme to beginne to fall into this sinne and yet bee called backe both from preceeding therein and finishing the same Minister As I take it he may for wee know Manasseh the Sonne of good Hezekiah King of Iuday ruling in Ierusalem the place of Gods glory and worship in the midst of a glorious Priesthood many hundred yeeres olde whereof he could not be ignorant did notwithstanding abhominably sinne and seeme to goe on in the finishing of this sinne for a long time ouerturning and extinguishing to his power Gods worship building againe those high places which his Father had cast downe and abolished making a Groue and worshipping the whole hoast of heauen building Altars contrarie to Gods commandement in the house of the Lord and in the two vtter Courts thereof for the whole hoast of heauen causing his Sonnes to passe through the fire giuing himselfe to witchcraft and sorcerie to vse familiar Spirits and Southsayers setting vp the Image of his Groue in the house of the Lord filling and causing Ierusalem to swimme from corner to corner with innocent blood finally exceeding those exceedings sinnes of the Amorites yet no cast-away but at length proued to be the child of GOD for all this Iosephus also thus writeth of him Hee was so impudent that hee spared not to pollute the very Temple of God the Citie and the whole Countrey for making his entry in despite of God he slew afterwards all those who were vertuous men amongst the Hebrewes and though hee had no want of Prophets yet so it is that he killed euery day some so that Ierusalem was ouerflowne with blood c. Thus farre wee see one went and was by the mercy of GOD called backe againe Wherefore no poore Christian howsoeuer sinfull not comming neere the sinnes of Manasseh ought not to thinke hee hath committed this sinne yet is it good for all to flye all sinnes chiefely those done with deliberation against light knowledge and conscience for wee know the further that euen Peter himselfe went in Caiaphas Hall hee swore and forswore denying Christ so much the more but it was a great mercy to be called backe againe for which let all in their feares wish and pray Schol. What in the meane time must comfort vphold poore fearefull soules who imagine to haue committed this sin therefore forsaking all meanes Minist In my iudgement a better information of their iudgements is of great consequence to helpe to sustaine them for though wee yeeld for a while to all they affirme yet if they say that they could wish that they had not so sinned certainely then they haue not thus sinned or if they feare to bee or fall into this sinne they shall surely neuer commit this sinne Further such persons must bee demaunded of whether they be come vnto that despite against Christ that they would trample vpon his blood vs vpon the blood of a dogge whether their impious blasphemie be such that with the Pharisies they doe call him Belzebub whether those forgoing propertie of this sinne haue beene in them viz. a touched heart a taste of the powers of the word of trueth a taste of the powers of the world to come to bee partaker of the Spirit whence all such who affirme that their former actions and seeming graces haue onely bin hypocriticall lip-labor are excluded from possibility to haue committed this sinne whether they haue fallen quite away from their religion whether they haue renounced their faith in Christ Whether they haue impugned oppressed the knowne trueth yet persisting therein with resolution still to goe on therein Whether they haue fallen against knowledge and conscience whether there bee no infirmitie in their falls what long time it is since they haue so sinned whether or not as yet they may bee reclaimed Whether now they obstinately persecute Christ in all his members so farre as they are able Whether they runne not with a high hand in all manner of grosse actuall sinnes and rebellions Whether their wickednes be such that vnto their power they draw others into the same excesse of riot with them Whether their disease hath bin and is onely in blasphemies of the minde and then it is not nor so long can bee this great sinne which bursteth forth as is prooued in