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A77514	Two treatises: I. The saints communion with Jesus Christ, sacramental, spiritual, and celestial; wherein ministers and Christian are excited to a conscientious administration, and participation of that, of late-time, in many places, too much neglected ordinance, the sacrament of the Lords Supper; wherein that great controversie of a free admission is debated. II. Acquaintance with God; the nature of it opened, the practice perswaded, encouraged, directed, cautioned. / As it was lately delivered to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth, by John Brinsley, minister of the Gospel there.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1653 (1653)	Wing B4735; Thomason E1547_1; ESTC R209457	66,672	237

with him This I look upon as a weakness in Moses himself God having been familiar with him Speaking unto him face to face as a man speaketh to his friend as it is expressed Exod. 33.11 that is more plainly and familiarly then with others hereupon Moses takes the boldness to desire to see his face his glory And he said I beseech thee shew me thy glory Vers 18. i. e. A full manifestation of his Majesty which as the Lord there tells him was more then he or any other mortal Creature was capable of Thou canst not see my face for there shall no man see me and live Vers 20. Take we heed of the like presumption Is it so that God hath acquainted himself in a more familiar way with us then with others take heed of being over-bold with him of advancing too far in our enquiries concerning him concerning his Nature Counsels Will Works For his Nature let it be enough that God maketh his goodness to pass before us and that he giveth us a sight of his back-parts For his Counsels dive we not too far into them but standing afar off admire and adore what we cannot comprehend crying out with the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O the depth Rom. 11.33 For his Will content we our selves with that part of it which is revealed Remembring that secret things belong unto the Lord but revealed things to us and to our children Deut. 29. last Let us not dare to look into Gods Ark to pry into the Cabinet of his secret Counsel Here remember we that of the Apostle Rom. 12.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Not to be wise above that we ought to be wise but to be wise unto sobriety And for his works be not too inquisitive after a reason of them Let it be enough to us The Lord hath done it in whom there can be no improvidence or unrighteousness Thus keep our distance come not too near unto God in enquiring too far after him 2. And so secondly in our observing of him keep our distance come not too near It is no good manners for a servant to follow his master so close as to tread upon his heels Thus do they follow God who pretending to a more then ordinary acquaintance with him will take upon them to make a sudden and peremptory construction and interpretation of all his Providences of his proceedings and dealings with themselves and others Collecting and concluding that which the Preacher saith No man can know Eccles 9.1 Love or hatred from that which is before them Concluding Gods love to themselves from his blessing and prospering of them in outward things his hatred of others from his correcting and afflicting of them This the Psalmist however by many cross-providences he was tempted to it yet upon second and serious thoughts he durst not do it as he tells us Psal 73.15 If I say I will speak thus saith he behold I should offend against the generation of thy children Should he judge of men by Gods outward dispensations and dealings with them he might easily wrong both him and them in censuring godly men to be Hypocrites because it may be they are most acquainted with affliction That was the mistake as of the rest of Jobs friends so of Eliphaz here who looked upon Job as a man that had no acquaintance with God because the hand of God lay so heavy upon him Take we heed of making the like constructions of Gods providential dispensations This is to be too familiar with God to follow him too close And so is it when men shall make Providence their guide to follow their Compass to stear by their Rule to walk by not expecting any further manifestation of Gods will and pleasure from his Word 3. Keep our distance in conversing with him Thus do inferiors in the civil intercourse which they have with their superiors though acquainted with them yet they observe their distance not being too familiar with them but shewing such respects to them in their language and deportment as their eminency requireth And the like do we in our spiritual entercourse and communion with God in speaking to him in hearing or receiving from him take heed of being too familiar with him So was that proud Pharisee when he came into the Temple in that bold and consident way instead of confessing his sins presenting unto God a catalogue of his good works God I thank thee I am not as other men c. I fast twice in the week I give tithes of all that I possess Luke 18.11 12. Thus doth he as it were take and challenge acquaintance with God upon the account of his own demerits Far be the like presumption from every of us Coming unto God be it in publick or in private come we with all humility and reverence So cometh the poor Publican there in the verse following He observes his distance he standeth afar off in some remote part of the first Court of the Temple not so much as lifting up his eyes to Heaven so taking unto himself shame and confusion of face but smiting upon his brest in token of true and hearty contrition he saith God be merciful to me a sinner And so coming the sequel tells us that he went away justified rather then the other Acquitted and accepted Do we desire to finde the like respects from God let all our addresses unto him be in the like manner with an humble and awful reverence of his Majesty Here take heed of being too familiar with him That is the caveat which the Preacher giveth to those who make any publick address unto God Eccles 5.1 Keep thy foot when thou goest into the house of God alluding as some conceived to that of God to Moses when appearing to him in the bush he bids him Put off thy shooes from thy feet Exod. 3.5 in token of reverence or as others to that ordinary custom of the Priests who were to wash their feet when they came to officiate before the Lord Exod. 30.19 21. Thus he requireth all who come before the Lord to offer up any spiritual sacrifice unto him to take heed to their feet as to their outward gestures so specially to their inward affections Keep thy foot when thou goest into the house of God and be more ready to hear then to offer the sacrifice of fools Be not rash with thy mouth and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God for God is in Heaven and thou art upon Earth therefore let thy words be few Thus come we before God in publick reverencing his sanctuary as the Lord requires Levit. 19.30 26.2 And thus come we to him in private with all due reverence and obeisance Remembring that they who would serve God acceptably must serve him with reverence and godly fear Heb. 12.28 In both so take acquaintance of God as yet observing and keeping our distance 4. And lastly In our walking before him See that we so walk before him as that yet we walk after him So Moses requires the people to do Deut. 13.4 Ye shall walk after the Lord your God So do servants walk after their masters and mean personages after their superiors And so do we after our God Not running before him So did those false Prophets of old of whom the Lord complains that they ran before they were sent Jere. 23.21 And so do they who thrust themselves into any publick services and employments which God hath not called them to They herein go before God For us herein know we and keep we our distance following after him If the Lord be God follow him saith Eliah to the people 1 King 18.21 Desire to see God go before us in all our ways taking our directions from him Not presenting unto him such services as we think sitting but such as himself requireth Withal walking humbly with him He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require from thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God saith the Prophet Micah 6.8 Thus walk we with him humbly humbling our selves to walk with him as the Hebrew hath it So walking with him here we shall live with him hereafter enjoying a blessed communion with him unto all eternity Amen FINIS

Applica ∣ tion which I shall direct onely two wayes by way of Consolation Exhortation Use 1. Use 1 By way of Consolation Consolation to such as have communion with Christ upon earth So our Saviour himselfe here intends what he saith to his Apostles that it might be as a Cordiall first to himselfe then to them To himselfe to strengthen his approaching Passion to them to comfort them concerning his departing from them And both these waies let it bee usefull unto us I mean such and onely such as have communion with Jesus Christ In respect of themselves a Cordial against present sufferings or fears Being in our measure such now take this 1 As a Cordiall against present and imminent felt or feared Tentations In this case let Christians look beyond the present their present sufferings or feares setting before them this cup this cup of new wine prepared in heaven for them after they have finished their suffering worke So did our blessed Saviour here apprehending that bitter cup coming towards him which he was to drink in his passion he sets before him this cup this sweet cup which he should drinke of in his exaltation This is that which the Apostle tels us Heb. 12.2 where speaking of Christ and his exemplary patience in his sufferings he saith that for the joy which was set before him he indured the crosse and despised the shame c. Thus did he drown all his sorrowes and fears in this cup of new wine in the apprehension of that heavenly glory which waited for him after his suffering worke was over In this way it was as is most probably conjectured that the Angell of God is said to have strengthened him in his Agony Luk. 22.43 And there appeared unto him an Angell from heaven strengthning him This he did not by infusing or communicating to him any power or vertue Christus enim destitutus Divinitatis in se habitantis virtute humanaeque naturae relictus ac proinde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 opus habuit Angelorum solatio Gro. Annot. in Lu. 22.43 New wine for heavy hearts but by presenting unto his humanity his divinity being for the present asleep and the influence of it for the time suspended as Grotius there ingeniously explains it the certain assurance of a speedy victory and insuing glory And in the like way let me as an Angell and Minister of Christ strengthen your hearts against what ever tentations and sufferings yee are subject unto viz. by setting this new wine before you So Salomon or rather Bathsheba for he learned that lesson from his Mother as in the first verse of the Chapter he acknowledgeth adviseth in the place forenamed Prov. 31.6 7. Give strong drink to him that is ready to perish and wine to those that bee of heavy hearts let him drinke and forget his poverty and remember his misery no more And this counsell shall I here lay hold upon making use of it in a spirituall way giving this new wine to those that are of heavy hearts presenting unto dejected spirits in their disconsolate condition this cup of consolation which I shal desire all such not only to tast but to drink of and that a hearty draught to sit at it So doe Wine bibbers use to doe at their wine against whom the Prophet denounceth that woe which I shall desire all such Good-fellowes to take notice of Isa 5.11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink that continue till night till wine inflame them Christians to sit at this wine They sit at the wine the like let Christians do at this wine in the drinking whereof there is no fear of excess sit at it continue by it I mean by Divine meditation and serious contemplation often setting before them the joy and glory of Heaven which God hath prepared for his Saints and servants after that they have suffered a while Here it may be they meet with many a bitter draught they have their affliction and their misery their wormwood and their gall as the Church describes her sad condition in Babylon Lam. 3.19 But let them remember there is wine new wine laid up in Heaven for them A Cordial for such as suffer for Christ And how should the thought hereof comfort and strengthen the hearts of all the sons and daughters of Sion in the midst of what ever sufferings especially if they be sufferings for Christ Now let them know that drinking of his Cup here they shall drink of it hereafter Drinking of his bitter cup they shall drink of his sweet cup drinking of his Vinegar his old and sowre wine here they shall drink with him of his new and sweet wine another day Having thus communion with him in his sufferings upon earth they shall have communion with him in his glory and happiness in Heaven Ye are they saith our Saviour to his Apostles who have continued with me in my temptations Therefore I appoint unto you a Kingdom as my Father hath appointed me that ye may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom Luke 22.28 29. Thus being sharers with Christ in his Cross they shall be also in his Crown If we suffer with him we shall also be glorified with him reign with him Rom. 8.17 2 Tim. 2.12 Christians Christians to have an eye to the recompence of reward Be ye more in the thought of this feeling your hearts oppressed with the weight of temporal sufferings do but cast the glory of Heaven into the contrary ballance against them So did Moses of whom the Apostle tells us Heb. 11.26 That he esteemed the reproach of Christ for Christs sake greater riches then the treasures of Egypt for he had an eye to the recompence of reward not onely to the earthly Canaan as Grotius would have it but to the heavenly and to the glory thereof This is the Christians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of which the same Apostle speaketh in the Chapter foregoing Vers 35. Cast not away your confidence which hath great recompence of reward not onely temporal but eternal And this it was which Moses there had an eye at the reward of eternal life This it was that he put in the scale against all his sufferings the like do we which doing we shall finde this infinitely preponderating and weighing down the other So it did at Pauls beam I reckon saith he that the sufferings of this present life are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us So it is The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the sufferings the Martyrdoms of this present life be hey never so many never so great yet they are not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they hold no proportion with the recompence of reward the glory of Heaven The one being comparatively light the other ponderous the one momentany the other eternal So the Apostle weighing them in the ballance of the Sanctuary sets his Tekel upon the former