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hand_n	body_n	soul_n	spirit_n	5,254	5	5.2345	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85987	A pleasant walk to heaven, through the new and living way, which the Lord Jesus consecrated for us, and his sacred Word reveals unto us. Published by Claudius Gilbert, B.D. minister of the Gospel at Limrick.	Gilbert, Claudius, d. 1696?	1658 (1658)	Wing G703; Thomason E939_2; ESTC R202211	58,214	83

yet but a bare profession Sinners of all sorts come under this rank Oh What pitty what shame to affront and slight such an eminent Call as the Gospel sends to you Do you bear Christs name only for a shew and for fashion-sake Shall your profession serve as a Pandor to your filthy lusts and as a Patron to your Libertinism Doth not this aggravate your sins eminently that you thereby oppose such an eminent favour What can the swearing and lying the tipling and gluttonous Christian have to say for himself What pretense shall the ignorant and lazy the proud and wanton the covetous and passionate sinner plead in this case What shall the Formalist and self-justiciary pretend for excuse What will the Notionist and self-perfectionist cloak himself withall What excuses shall the Scorner and Derider make Will not their conscience convince all such of the reign of sin by their Love and subjection thereto Do they not thereby stop their ears and turn their back against Christs Call If Conscience be silent now being stifled bribed and seared so much the worse It will awaken at last with a witness with a vengeance It will shew light enough to hasten to Hell though it had not enough to guide toward Heaven Oh The folly and the misery of every sinner that thus slights Christs Call to hearken to Satans How few heartily hearken unto Gods Invitation to the marriage-feast of Christ 2. Real Christians should be convinced also of their neglects contempts and mistakes about their eminent Vocation Should not our hearts bleed at the sight and sense of so much disgrace we have cast thereon Should it not humble us deeply that we have so long deafned our ears hardened our hearts and pulled away the shoulder against such a Call Is it not a burning shame that any Creature should prevail more with our spirits by their Syren-charms then the voice of Christ himself calling on us still by his Spirit Word and Providence It is our sin let it be our sorrow that we so readily hearken to self sin and Satan are so deaf so dull and dead to the cals of God Le ts heartily grieve that our souls prove still such drie tinder to so many Temptations of the common enemy and such green wood to the sparks of Heaven We are as soft wax to the Tempters impressions which easily touch and take but cold and stiff to the renewed expressions of the Lords Spirit Vse 3. Should we not hence be put upon an Inquest to trie our Title to this eminent Calling The deceit is frequent facile and pernicious which should quicken our industrious search The most find flaws in their evidences when duly reviewed Very much base coin passes for currant till duly tryed Most Christians rest upon an external Profession which will prove to them but a broken reed To dream of Heaven in the broad way to Hell will be found dreadfull mistake The best find most need of self-examining and are still earnest with God to do it for them distrusting their own heart Mans heart by the Lords Verdict is both deceitfull and desperately wicked so far as unrenewed Many carnal Hypocrites exceed the most gracious in outward shews Many foolish Virgins have their Lamps better trimmed then the wise though they want gracious oyl in the Vessels of their hearts Nature refined by the sublimations of Formality and Morality makes a specious shew with a deal of Varnish though the inside be often but rotten stuff Multitudes prove like the Popish Pictures and Pagan Idols curiously garnished to ensnare silly souls Many a fair Profession will be found much like Apothecaries Boxes finely painted yet filled often with poysonous drugs and like the Pharisees painted Sepulchers that are within full of dead mens bones All then are concerned to look to their Vocation whether it be of good alloy and of the right stamp such as will pass in the court of Heaven Quest How may it be discerned Answ. By three signal things viz. The Antecedents the Concomitants and the Subsequents thereof 1. The Antecedents foregoing it are considerable The Spirit of Christ convinces of sin still and of righteousness when he is about this effectual call He awakens the conscience to listen after his voice though not in all alike He deals with men in a rational and orderly method suited to their various conditions Hath the Lord so dealt with thee boring thine ear and rowzing thy conscience to see thy self a forlorn sinfull Wretch Hast thou felt the pangs of the new Birth Hath the Spirit of Bondage made thee sensible of thy sinfull slavery in Satans drudgery Hast thou found thy self lost in the wilderness of sin and sorrow like a poor Traveller that is bewildred in the woods and bogs among cruel Tories listening still and looking round about for help in his distress Hath the Lord allured thee into the wilderness that he might there speak unto thy heart Hath he been busied with his spade and Ax about the breaking up and dressing of thy soul to kill the weeds and prepare his ground Hath he opened thine eyes that he might turn thee from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God Hast thou sensibly viewed thy unworthiness and insufficiency as of all things else that thou mightst be wholly beaten off from all selfish shifts creature-refuges Hast thou perceived the absolute need of hearkening fully of Christs terms for Wisdom and Righteousness for Sanctification and Redemption Hast thou been like a poor Wretch sinking every moment under the raging waves of corruptions and temptations listening and looking after a saving arm that might reach them forth Hast thou felt thy self like a dying Patient ready to perish and as a Malefactor condemned on the Ladder-top upon turning off Hath this contrition and compunct on of heart made the voice of Christ most desirable to thee to be preferred before all the shrill calls of self sin and Satan Hast thou so heard his Call as Paul and the Jailor The 3000 in Acts 2 as Lydea at least opening thy heart to hearken to his efficacious Call 2. The Concomitants attending this eminent Vocation are also to be observed Christ and his Spirit never come alone into any soul but are still attended with a gracious Train conquering the whole man into a gracious subjection Hath he so come to thee as a mighty Conqueror gaining thy heart to yield up thy self upon his terms at his mercy without reserves or capitulations Hast thou surrendred all the powers and parts of soul and body with chearfull submission into his own hands Are the black Regiments of sin and Satan cast out with violence that the Lords own spirit might garrison thee with his gracious forces Hath thine Understanding Reason and Conscience so harken'd to his voice that thy Will and Affections do readily close with his Will and Pleasure above all things else

as others Is it not very sinfully wofull to leave Christs walk for the Devils company Are not all the Allurements of sin so many ignes fatui and mis-guiding Meteors made use of still by evil Spirits to ensnare Travellers in the misty night of Ignorance and Error into dangerous Plunges and Precipices by drawing them out of Christs high way Will you still pretend to be Christs Souldiers whilst you are marching after his desperate Enemy under the conduct of sin Satan and self Is it not pitty that any of Christs friends should be so unfriendly to him and walk so unworthy of his Vocation as to be found walking in the crooked By-paths of Error and Sin Should not Gods Children be ashamed of such an Ignoble and base Demeanor raking the Channels and embracing Dung-hils among the beggerly Drudges of Satan Should not his servants be deeply humbled for their shamefull neglect of his work whilst they are so unworthily busied and stirring about the Devils own Work Should it not grieve Christs Spouse at the very heart that sinfull Embraces and Communion with the flesh and world are at any time preferred before Communion with the Lord of Glory Is it not baseness of the vilest rank to be found walking so unworthily of Christs High Holy and Heavenly Calling Vse 3. Examination we are called to by this Point also All are concerned to trie their State and Acts by this golden Rod of the Sanctuary Doth any profess to be a true Christian Let this Touch-stone give a Test thereof Dost thou walk worthy of thy Profession in every Relaon towards God and Man in thy general and particular Calling 1. TOwards God in thy general Calling Is it thy desire and delight design and endeavour to honor and enjoy him as thy Soveraign Lord and chief good in Christ through his Spirit in every Ordinance and Providence Are thy thoughts words and works so regulated by his Will and directed to his Glory so principled by his Grace and supported by his strength that he is the Center and Source the Scope and Substance of thy happiness Dost thou Love and fear him dost thou seek and trust him universally constantly peculiarly eminently above all Is his Presence and Blessing the Life and Comfort of all thy Life and Comforts Are all the Powers and parts of Soul and Body resigned up into his own hands that thou mayst walk with him in all his ways Are all things else made subordinate and subservient thereto Dost thou so acknowledge him in all thy ways for the directing of thy paths Is it thy greatest trouble and sorrow that thou canst not walk so humbly and holily so sincerely and self-denyingly as thou shouldst and wouldst Is it thy cordial Joy to see any other walking orderly and diligently in his service wayes Art thou zealous of those things wherein thy Christian walk may truly honor him against whatever appears to reflect any disgrace on him Art thou so convinced of thy former mistakes and mis-carriages that thou studiously labourest to vindicate his name and redeem the time mis●pent by a more close and vigilant walking with thy God Dost thou not willingly neglect any thing he requires of thee either for the matter and means or for the manner and solemn Time of his Worship Doth his Covenant-mercy still direct excite and enable thee to reciprocall Duty according to the terms of his gracious Covenant Is thy motion from every sin of thine to every Grace of his carried on still progressively by the help of all his gracious appointments towards his Glory Dost thou so walk worthy of his Name and Truth of his Word and Grace of his Son and Spirit of his Service and Sabbath as becomes a loyal Spouse an ingenuous Child a faithfull servant a cordial friend a dutifull Subject a generous Souldier in each Relation towards him according to thy Respective occasions and Condition Dost thou thus diligently serve and observe his Spirit Word and Providence in the right use of all sutable means resting on him alone for Wisdom and Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption through Christ in all the turns of thy Christian walk Secondly In thy particular Calling towards man Dost thou walk worthy of thy high holy heavenly Vocation Doth thy supream Love due to thy God move thy heart effectually to love thy Neighbour as thy self in subordination thereto Dost thou therefore study all his Divine Rules of Justice and Equity Mercy and Charity that thou mayst fulfill the same through his Grace answerably to thy several Stations and motions towards Superiors Inferiors and Equals Art thou observant of that orderly Priority and Superiority which his Providence constitutes and governs below in giving to every one his due above thee about thee beneath thee Dost thou mind and promote the safety and Purity the Propriety and Verity of others as if they were thy own not willingly doing to another what thou wouldst not should be done to thee in the like case Dost thou take so much contentment in that condition wherein the hand of Heaven hath settled thee that thou enviest not what any other enjoyeth but rejoycest in his good grieving for his evil as if it were thy own Is it thy Purpose Joy and longing to labor still after such a frame of Spirit and demonstrate it in the best way of actual evidence by thy speech and actions Art thou therefore often reviewing thy heart and life to observe thy progress and to mend all faults by the Lords gracious Help Doth the sense of thy Unworthiness and Insufficiency still drive thee to Christ out of self and sin for Guidance Assistance and Acceptance that thou mayst still be found walking with him whilst thou walkest with man Dost thou give him thus honor preheminence in a sutable and comely behavior towards all sorts in promoting good and eschewing evil Hast thou learnt to put on Christ by faith that thou mayst follow his magnanimous Spirit as Caleb did against all discouragements from Earth and Hell into all generous resolutions and couragious Executions for good against evil Dost thou thus walk worthy of thy Vocation in each Relation Domestical Political and Ecclesiastical with Christian Prudence and Patience Diligence and Zeal Meekness and Love Fidelity and Conscionableness sutable to each Condition and Occasion Thus mayst thou take a scantling of thy progress in Christianity Vse 4. CHoise Consolation flows from this Truth to all faithful Christians walking orderly as becomes their eminent Vocation The blessing of God will surely attend his Institutions carefully observed The Lord is a Sun and a shield to give Grace and Glory and with-hold no good thing from them that walk uprightly Blessed are all the undefiled in their ways whose chief Exercise is to walk with God They shall walk with Christ in white for they are worthy who have been diligent Followers of him through black and red in all variations He counts them most