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A30289	Three questions resolved briefly and plainly, viz. What conceptions ought we to have of the blessed God? What are those truths, whereof the knowledge appeareth most indispensibly necessary unto our salvation; and (therefore) to be first and most learnt by us? What is the change wrought in a man by God's H. Word and spirit, before he can safely conclude himself pass'd from death to life? Being the summ of three sermons. By Daniel Burgess.	Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.	1688 (1688)	Wing B5718A; ESTC R213037	36,052	94

Order And Desire them in this Order Let the Shame be on me if thou lose by this Use If God preserve us not in Being we are then incapable of Doing and Receiving any good Being we therefore first pray for If God Pardon not our Sins our Being is a cursed one and worse than none at all For we cannot avoid his Wrath which is the Hell of Hell. Pardon therefore we pray for in the second place If God deliver us not from sinful Temptation's prevalence our Being and past Pardon are very sorry things For Sin after Pardon is worse Sin and 't will kindle a worse Wrath of God. And what then becomes of us Deliverance from it we therefore Pray for in the third place We content us not to Pray but for the two former We Pray for all these and in this natural Method that our dear Redeemer teaches 5. High and honourable Thoughts of God must 〈◊〉 in all that Pray unto Him. And must be expressed in the entrance of their Prayer The Preface of the Lord's Prayer so teacheth us Father signifies Creator Ruler Benefactor These words Art in Heaven do not speak God's place for He is every where and is Place it self They signifie God's eternally being of such Perfections as neare above our minds as the Heavens are above the Earth Our Father also speaks much Our doth express Him to be the whole Church and World's Father I and so Loveful a Father that He has bound●●s Children every one to Love and Pray for all 6. Kingdom Power and Glory are the three steps by which our Minds rise in the Praise of God. Kingdom signifies his just Right to govern all things Power signifies his perfect Strength wherewith to do it Glory signifies his forth-shining Excellency which does and will for ever be in it The Excellency I mean of all his Perfections We do or should conceive of God as a Ruler most rightful and powerful and amiable or beautiful 7. Praise that is the highest of all Worship must not be sparingly used in Prayer The Preface and Conclusion of the Lord's Prayer are an Heaven if all of the Stars of Praise And no wonder for Greatness and Goodness are comprehensive of all God's Perfections Thanksgiving it self which is a Worship more noble than that which is more on the receiving hand it confiders but the Divine Goodness Yea and that it self but little more than as it derives and streams unto us But Praise considers and exalts God both as Great and as Good. In Himself and to us Good. Praising God can never be enough Prais'd or Practised by Us Psa 50. penult 8. Prayer is as necessarily to be Ended with Amen as to be Begun with Our Father My meaning is it must be concluded by all means with Desire Faith and Hope Amen signifies all Listlesness Vnbelief and Want of waiting and looking for Prayers returns do make Prayers as no Prayers Without the Heart's actual Amen after Prayer you interpretatively say Lord my mind 's already altered I now am indifferent whether Thou dost grant or deny me I believe Thou wilt Deny And I will not wait or look for thy Grant. Without an Amen with the mouth uttered some do suppose the Congregation injured 'T is certain where holy Amen's be not found Prayers be lost Commandment Truths twelve 1. The Object unto whom all supreme worship is to be paid is God Only To Him it must be paid by all Souls in all times with all strength And unto no other 'T is Treason to pay a penny Tribute to a rebellious Vsurper Or to worship with divine worship any tempting Creature If Jesus Christ were not God by Eternal nature I would not be Baptized into his name Or Pray unto Him any more than unto a Star. 2. 'T is as necessary that God be the Author as the Object of all religious worship We must give Him no worship but such as is prescribed by his Word His Worship must suit his blessed Nature and Will. And who can Know them but by his Word Idolatry is officious foolery Will-worship a like Phrenzy 3. 'T is not enough to worship the true God by the true Will of God for the Matter of it but the Manner also must be far from Prophane It must be with holy Reverence and humble Complacence and hearty Truth 4. 'T is not enough to worship the true God by the true Rule in the true and right Manner unless we also keep holy unto Him all such Time as He demands from us Such portions of every Day time and such of every Weeks time For the Lords-day against Judaizers read Mr. Ben Dr. Owen Mr. Baxter Holy Observance of the Lords day and of hour● of Worship on our own days is the Practi●● and Pleasure of men sincere 5. Obedience to all the former Commands sufficeth not without Duty unto Men. Especially Superiors Principally Honor of Parents natural The which are our Governors in time before Kings On a deeper foundation than that of Contract even of very Nature To them are we most Obliged and by them most Loved Well is the 5th Command called the hinge of both Tables I am sure this being broke all are broke And would Children and Parents but do their Duties toward each other it would make a sweet change of our English familys But hereof elsewhere Parents and Rulers are God's Vicegerents over us and next unto God should be Honored by us Loaded with honor as the Hebrew word is 6. As of our Duty toward man preservation of just Honor is the first Preservation of his Life is the next Death takes away time of Repentance and Earthly mercies all Look how near you come unjustly to Kill a man so near you come to the Devil's first service From the beginning he was a Murderer And so near come you to deprive him of all the good of this World and if he be not already Converted to throw him into Hell. If you do Murder a man you rob God the King and the Countrey of a Servant in this world 7. The third Kind of duty towards Man-kind is preservation of Chastity in our selves and others To defile is next to Kill one Obscene thoughts words and deeds be next unto Murderous ones Lascivious Goats and bloody Wolves be much like odious in God's eyes 8. The fourth part of our Duty towards man is preservation of his Estate To Contemn to Kill or to Defile is worse but to Rob and Injure in ever so little a matter is a Sin that God will not let go unrevenged Of how great infamy among men is the name of a Thief O that Thieves knew but God's thoughts of them 9. The fifth sort of duty to Man is preservation of them in their Causes and Suits of Law. By bearing true witness when called and abhorring all false All that tends to pervert publick Justice Lyars be Satan's Pictures 10. The sixth duty toward man is such Love of him as we bear unto our selves Such

was a Murderer from the beginning He slew Adam by the first sin And slew all mankind in that first Adam Spiritually considered we are all Dead born Dead in sin and Dead for it Dead in respect of Corruption Dead in respect of Condemnation Condemnation to the Prison of Hell to the Torment of Fire to the Duration of Eternity But God hath so loved the World that he hath given his only begotten Son to redeem us from so great a Death John 3.16 He desires not our Death to be Continued and Ruin to be Compleated He reveals Jesus Christ the way from Death to Life He Commands and He even Beseeches us to take Him for our Way thereto If you ask by what Steps I have told you in my Call to Sinners by three Steps Namely by Conviction by Compunction or Humiliation and by Vnion unto Christ Which Steps if you take aright I am content to Lose Heaven if you do not Find it Indeed unassistedly no man can take them Whatever is a Creature hath no Power but what is Given from God and Kept by Him. But Man a faln Creature until he be by grace raised again is without strength unto that we speak of Rom. 5.6 Knowledge Will and Power hereto are all the Gifts of God's Love and the Purchases of his Son's Blood and the Works of his Holy Spirits Almightiness That Holy Spirit who constantly worketh by the Holy Word Who wrought not Christ's victory over Satan without the use of the Word And will not without it work our Victory over him Mat. 4. Possible it is And Necessary it is for all that take this way to Life aforesaid to Ensure their so doing 2 Pet. 1.10 Psal 50. ult c. Uncertainty about it is the Effect of sin God doth not ordinarily if ever with-hold Assurance from his Children but upon Provocation To wit by Indulged Lusts by Unexercised Graces by Omitted Duties by Slighted Ordinances And to be sure Uncertainty is then it self a sin when 't is meritoriously procured by sin The eyes are very blind that see not how fruitful a Cause of sin it is And as hard are the hearts that dread it not as a sin an Effect of sin and a Cause of sin I grant that all Assurance attainable on Earth is Imperfect But by the Romanists leave that which is attainable is both True Proper and Powerful True and Proper as built upon proper and eternally true Grounds for it Powerful as operative of Peace and Joy in our selves and Holiness and Thanksgiving unto God. Nevertheless 't is very long before most of God's Children know their Father And cease from tormenting fear that Satan is he In the first Conversion of the Gentile world unto Christ it was not so The Holy Spirit did then for the most part Witness grace wheresoever He did work it in any Nay to go no farther back Our old English Puritans of sweetest Memory had Assurance more plenty among them than 't is seen in our day Nor wanted they our Light so much as we want their Heat Horresco referens Unacquaintedness with the Covenant of grace breeds every where groundless Hopes and as unreasonable Fears I speak as I find With some of our people every shadow of Turning goes for substantial Conversion And with others that which is right substantial Conversion goes for but a shadow of Turning Of Turning from Death to Life With fear and trembling I assay therefore to resolve this Question Plainly that I may be understood Briefly that I may be remembred Fully that my End may be attained in making Sinners ashamed of their Peace and Good men ashamed of their Trouble If my Method be new my Doctrine is not I do go forth by the foot-steps of Christ's flock praying that this Paper be made successful by his Holy Spirit That Change after which we enquire appears a five-fold one Namely of Spirit Covenant Qualities Conversation and Company C. 1. Of SPIRIT Man is an Embodied Spirit His Body is we know not how Indwelt and Actuated by his Spirit His Spirit tho' it be a Free Agent is in as unaccountable a way Indwelt and Influenced by some other Spirit In our Created state the Holy Spirit was in us and swayed us Now in our Corrupted state 't is Satan that is in us and leads us 'T is certain that by the First Transgression we forfeited and lost the foresaid Sanctifier And deserved to be given up and were given up to the last named Tempter Satan is now called the God of this World. And He that is in the World 1 John 4.4 The Prince that works in the Children of Disobedience Ephes 2.3 * Works energetically And like as Fire in Iron worketh converting it into a huge likeness unto its own Nature And such Children are named persons not having the Spirit to wit the Holy One Jude ver 19. But in our Renewed state there 's a change of the Actuating Spirit Satan is deposed and cast out Acts 26.18 2 Tim. 2.26 The Holy Spirit is Sent Given Administred Put into us Poured out on us Comes on us Rests on us Leads us Is said to be He that is in Believers 1 Joh. 4.4 Yea and to be great in them That is in them to be mighty and victorious over the assaulting impure Spirit Looks he then like a Soul passed from Death to Life in whom there 's no such change of the ruling Spirit I trow not Nor can it be said because these Spirits forenamed be both Invisible therefore the change of them is hardly Discernable Let these plain things be considered They are infinitely Vnlike ones Yea perfectly Contrary unto each other They are also most Active both of them Satan always worketh to the utmost of his Power the Holy Spirit works according to his Will and Pleasure But both do work continually and strongly Nor are their Natures so Invisible but that their Operations are as much Sensible Satan carries unto evil and so does the H. Ghost carry unto good Of all things Satan averteth and turns away Souls from Jesus Christ from his Person and Gospel And of all things the Holy Ghost carrieth Souls unto the Study and Acceptation of both His great work is to Receive of Christ's and shew it unto us John 16.14 His first work is to convince as of Sin in general so principally of the Sin of Vnbelief on Christ Of its being the only Sin that does keep men in all Sin. To convince us also of the Righteousness of Christ its Perfection in it self its Communicableness unto us and its Acceptableness with God. Of its being the only that God will accept whatever men conceit of Natural Righteousness or of Legal To convince likewise of the Conquest of Christ over all his and our Enemies His having Subjugated Satan as well as Satisfied God Joh. 16.9 10 11. But I forbear See his twelve Convictions in my Call unto Sinners together with his Humiliation-work and Vnion-work Having United us unto Christ

Father 'T is another Covenant that Christ is Mediator of Heb. 8.6 If I am under this Covenant the least sin tho' I shed a Sea of bloody tears for it is as unpardonable as the very sin against the Holy Ghost Yea and my Service should I keep all the whole Law save in one point would be utterly contemned And all this justly too Because if under this Covenant I abide 't is of my Ignorance my Pride and Enmity unto God and Christ that I do abide so Rom. 10.3 I am Taught better in the Gospel the Righteousness of God is Revealed I am offered better the Gospel invites me from under the Law to Grace From the Covenant that works wrath to that which is all Salvation And my being under the deadly Covenant is by my own very Desire Gal. 4.21 The Fruits must shew it if I am under it And they are plainly these Bondage and Fear in ones spirit a Fear keeping out the Love of God and the very desire to Love Him. Outsideness in Religious Duties Care abundance about the outside of the Platter none or next to none about the purity of the inner man and the Intentions of the heart Vndependency on Jesus Christ in things pertaining unto God. For both Assistance by his Spirit and Acceptance thro' his Blood a fatal Undependency Servility souring and embittering all Duty Rendring Religion a task and burthen and all God's homage as arrant Brick and Bondage Do these grapes of Sodom cover my Tree The Axe of vengeance is then near my root If on the other hand I am not under the Law but Grace If with me God hath made the better Covenant what then the blessing of Abraham is come upon me Gal. 3.14 Reconciliation Justification Adoption are my own I am interested in all the Blessings of this best Covenant as well as bound unto all the Duties God is then my Reconciled God and Engaged by Promise to exert for my good all his Perfections I will be unto them a God Heb. 8.10 Joyntly All and distinctly Every of the three Divine Persons have thus Engaged So proves the form of Baptism into the name of All and Each of them as also the Communion which God's New-Covenant Servants do hold with All and Each Person Pardoning Grace and Purifying are expresly made over to me Heb. 12.8 10. So is the Crown of Glory 2 Tim. 4.8 So is Food and Rayment 1 Tim. 4.8 So are Blessings for my Children Gen. 17.7 I and I have this hyperbolically kind and sweetest Word of God to live on sc Luke 15.31 ALL THAT I HAVE IS THINE A word which if I once prove my interest in let them be poor and sad that can I cannot But still I remember they are Fruits that make known Roots And the fruits of Souls that have so much for the better changed Covenants are these They Remember their slavery It runs in their minds how the Covenant of Works since the Fall made them Vassals How they were Adam's Children as soon as their Souls Bodies were united in the womb And no sooner Adam's Children but under Adam's Covenant Nor sooner under his Covenant but under his Curse too They consider much their Translation out of it Their Eye and their Heart is upon the Father that said to Son and Spirit Come let us redeem Man Upon the Son that said Lo I come to do thy Will Upon the Glorious Spirit that said unto their most unwilling Souls once Kiss this Son Bid them yea and Made them willing Upon the sweet Change also that followed that willingness and actual Marriage-Union to Christ God no more looking on a poor Soul as the first but as the second Adam's Child No more Condemning however Chastising No more Abhorring his Services notwithstanding millions of unallowed and lamented Imperfections c. They joy in the Lord and rejoyce in the God of their Salvation Or Labour so to do and Lament that they cannot If no other they sing blessed Gataker's Song I Thirst for Thirstiness I weep for Tears Well-pleas'd I am to be Displeased thus The only thing I Fear is want of Fears Suspecting I am not suspitious I cannot chuse but Live because I Die And when I am not Dead how glad am I Yet when I am thus glad for sense of Pain And careful am lest Careless I should be Then do I grieve for being glad again And fear lest Carelesness take Care from me Amidst these restless thoughts this rest I find For those that Rest not here ther 's Rest behind Their highest ambition is to Rejoyce in Christ Jesus To Glory in Him. They Love God's Law and Trust his Son. They Love his Law and have respect to every Command and strive after Perfection and abound in all Duty But they Trust not in any works of their own Doing all they cry for Christ's Spirit for Strength Having done all they cry for Christ's Blood for making it Acceptable They still know themselves Servants unprofitable Is it thus with thee O my Soul then Return to thy rest for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee If thou wear any Phylactery let this be the Scripture All the paths of the Lord are Mercy and Truth to such as keep his COVENANT Psal 25. C. 3. Of QUALITIES Look as where the Spirit is Changed the Covenant must needs be Changed so where the Covenant is Chang'd the Qualities of a Man must also be Changed These are mysterious things And by many names men go about to explain them But they are most if not only made known by their Effects Conceive we of them as the Springs Seeds and Roots of our Thoughts Words and Works And the things by which we are therefore denominated Holy or Sinful They be the Treasure that 's in a Soul. A Treasure for abundance and for belovedness Every man hath abundance of Moral Qualities and all are dear unto him precious in his Eyes And as this Treasure is good or evil our Saviour denominates the man good of evil Matth. 12.35 In our first Creation the concreated Qualities were surely good and entirely so God endued all our Natural Powers with all good and towardly Qualifications Qualities and Dispositions for prompt and constant Duty were inlaid in our Mind Will yea and Sensitive part Our several Powers and Faculties do depend much on each other for action The Practick upon the Affective Powers and they on the Intellectual ones or our Understanding Powers But all were made Vpright that is with springs of goodness in them apt to move as they ought towards each other within and toward Objects without Eccles 7.29 But the first Sin brake those Springs expelled those good Qualities introduced contrary ones In a Subject capable of two contraries as of Light and Darkness there will be one Man is capable of holy Qualities and sinful The Sin that drave out the first therefore could not but bring in the latter And set springs of evil in us apt to make motions