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heart_n	bear_v	child_n	spirit_n	2,031	5	5.1129	4	false

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A18605	The summe of all, (namely) Gods service, and mans salvation And a briefe of mans dutie to God concerning both: which is, seeking to serve God while hee lives, and to be saved, when hee dyes. By William Chibald, rector of S. Nic. Col. Abby in Old Fishstreete.	Chibald, William, 1575-1641.	1630 (1630)	STC 5133; ESTC S116462	49,654	304

faith or beleefe in Christ is good whē it works in us by love to God and our neighbour Gal 5.6 and is shewed by good workes Tit 3.8 Iam 2.18 and when it stirres us up to sincere obedience to Gods commandements Hebr 11.8 4. Our feare of God is right when we feare him as much for his mercy as for his justice Psal 130.2 and feare more to sinne against him than to be punished by him Psal 4.4 Gen 39.9 5. Our love of God is good when it stirres us up to keepe his Commandements Iohn 14.15.23 when wee love him for those excellent perfections of wisedome and goodnesse that are in him as well as for the benefits that come from him and when it stirres us up to hate evill and sinne Psal 97.9 10. 6. Our hope in God namely for the resurrection to eternall life and for Christs second comming is right when being grounded on the Scriptures Rom 15.4 wee comfort our selves in our afflictions with it 1 Thess 4.13.18 when wee patiently waite Gods leisure for the obtaining of things promised 1 Thess 1.3 Rom 8.23 and when it purifies our hearts 1 Iohn 3.3 and makes us deny all ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to live righteously and godlily and soberly in this present world Titus 2.12 13. P. Good Sir I humbly acknowledge my selfe beholden to you for your care over me and paines with mee I hope I shall never forget it but endeavour to shew my selfe thankefull The Lord requite your labour of love to me in private by a greater blessing upon your ministery in publike and by prolonging your life health and strength for Gods glorie and the good of his Church in Iesus Christ. The Lord bee with you Sir and with your studies FINIS A PRAYER FOR GRACE TO Seeke to serve God and bee saved MOst glorious Lord God and heavenly Father Reu 4 11 who art worthy of all honour and service Iam 4 12 and who art able to save and destroy Luk 17 10 Thy unprofitable servant unworthy of salvation Acts 13 46 doth desire to humble himselfe before thee freely acknowledging that howsoever I am convinced in my judgement that nothing in this world doth so neerely concerne me to looke unto as thy service and mine owne salvation yet my heart tells and smites me that I have minded nothing lesse then these and that I have with much greedinesse sought after health and wealth worldly pleasures and treasures which only belong to the body this present life as if they only were worth my seeking and were more able to afford me true content than thy service and my salvation Thou hast brought me into the world and made me a member of thy Christian Church chiefly for to get grace into my heart that I might serve thee and live in thy feare and also to get peace into my conscience that I might dye in thy favour and be eternally saved 2 Cor 6 2 for now is the accepted time now is the day of salvation But I have neglected the prerogative of thy service Rom 9 2 Hebr 2 4 and so great salvation and have spent my precious time and thoughts in the pursuite of carthly things which I should have counted but as losse and dung Phil 3 8 in comparison of winning Christ and with him salvation as if I had beene borne to no other end but to serve the world sinne and Satan and to make provision f●r the flesh Rom 13 14 to fulfill the lusts thereof O Lord God when I call to minde and consider my vanity and folly yea ungracious wickednesse in trampling under my feete such precious pearles as are thy service Hebr 10 29 and my salvation I am confounded in my selfe wondcring at thy patiencc that couldst so long endure such an ungratefull wretch to live in thy Church yea I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee because this mine iniquity is increased over my head Ezra 9 6 and my wickednesse is growne up unto heaven crying for vengeance upon such contempt of thy grace Iohn 3 19 it being condemnation to love darknesse more than light earth more than heaven and the world more than thee or mine owne soule But thy mercy O Lord God is over all thy workes Psal 145 9 138 8. and endures for ever It is as great as thy Majesty and thy goodnesse is as much as thy greatnesse and the blood of Iesus Christ is able to wash mee so cleane from my sinnes Reuel 1 5 that I shall be holy Eph 5 27 and without blemish before thee therefore there is hope in Israel concerning this thing Ezra 10 2 And therefore upon the bended knees of my heavy laden soule I most humbly cry thee mercy most mercifull Father for this and all other my sinnes originall and actuall committed against the Law and the Gospell and with all the powers of my soule most earnestly beseech thee for the Lords sake Dan 9 17 Isay 53 11 Acts 3 14. Mat 3 17 thy righteous servant the holy One and the just in whom thou art well pleased to forgive me to be reconciled unto me and to shed thy love into my heart by thy holy Spirit Rom 5 5 which may beare witnesse to my Spirit c. 8 16. that I am thy Childe beloved in thy holy Childe Iesus Acts 4 27 Let thy mercy move thee to looke upon his righteousnesse to justify me when thy justice would make thee looke upon my sinnes to condemne me Accept of him for my surety Hebr. 7.22 and of the price of his blood for my ransome 1 Pet 1 23 Thou hast said O blessed God that whosoever comes Mat 11 28 unto thy Sonne Iesus Christ Ioh 6 35. and beleeves in him with an heavie laden soule wearie of their former wickednesse thou wilt ease and forgive them 1 Iohn 1 9 Oh be just and faithfull to make good this promise unto me to ease and to save me I desire to honour thy infinite mercy and thy Sonnes unvaluable merits by seeking to them onely and trusting in them alone for salvation O be thou pleased also to magnifie them upon me for I have as much need of them as any 1 Tim 1 ●5 being the chiefe of sinners and the saving vertues of them shall be magnified in the cure of my soule as well as of any other It hath pleased thee heavenly Father to give unto me in some measure a sight and sense of my sins particularly of my neglect and contempt of thy service and my salvation Oh be pleased I beseech thee yet more and more to discover unto me the folly and foulnesse of this and all my sinnes that my heart may be so broken with godly remorse and sorrow for them that I may leave them and live no longer in them but cleave unto thee to serve thee in new obedience for what will it profit

faithfulnes of God in performing the promise of salvation to them to whom it belongs and is intended Rom 4.21 Heb 11.19 1 Iohn 1.9 P. Oh good Sir it may bee that salvation may in it selfe and in the event be sure to the faithfull but may they themselves be sure of it M. Yea they they may being truely faithfull at one time or other before they dye in one measure or other of assurance namely such as shall be sutable to their trialls and sufficient to comfort them in their afflictions 2 Cor 1.5 but all have not like assurance of salvation neither hath any one the like assurance alwayes nor in the same degree free from doubting P. How may it be proved M. By these two reasons 1. Because it is witnessed to their spirit by Gods Spirit who shedds Gods love abroad in their hearts Rom 5.5 that they are Gods children and consequently that they shall be saved for none are saved but onely Gods children Romans 8.16 And they may bee sure of that which Gods Spirit doth witnesse unto them because he is the Spirit of truth 1 Ioh 5.6 2. Because true beleevers in Christ are sealed with the Spirit of promise and receive an earnest of their inheritance Eph 1.13 14. Now an earnest penny it gives assurance of the bargain and a seale confirmes assures a writing to which it is put 3. Because the Apostles were assured of it for Paul was perswaded assured that nothing should separate them from the love of God in Christ Rom 8 38. Iohn knew the love of God to him 1 Ioh 4.16 5.19 Now the Apostles had not this perswasiō knowledge or assurance as they were Apostles but as they were Christians because they were not saved as Apostles but as Christians P. Oh but how can they be sure to be saved when they cānot be sure to persevere to the end for they onely are saved that persevere to the end M. They that onely professe to have grace and faith in Christ but have it not indeed can never be sure to bee saved because they cannot bee sure to persevere for they cannot persevere in that which they have not But for all this they that have grace indeed and are truely regenerate may be sure to persevere 1. because God loves thē to whom hee gives saving grace 2 Cor 13.13 And whom hee loves once hee loves to the end Iohn 13.1 And therefore they persevere in grace to the end that they may be loved in the end and therefore are they loved to the end that they may persevere to the end Iohn 13.1 2 They may bee sure to persevere because the Lord hath promised that the peace of God shall keepe their hearts and mindes in Iesus Christ Phil 4.7 3 They may be sure to persevere because the Spirit of God so assists them that by the motion and efficacy thereof they that are truely indeed borne of God and begotten of him and not Sacramentally onely they doe keepe themselves and that wicked one toucheth them not 1 Iohn 5.18 For they building up themselves in their most holy faith and praying in the holy Ghost for continuall assistance they keepe themselves in the loue of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Iesus Christ unto eternall life Iude v 20.21 4 They may bee sure to persevere in grace if the Annoynting which they have received abide in them and if his seede remaine in them and this hath God promised to the truly regenerate 1 Iohn 2.27 3.9 For though in respect of some things in themselves whereof you have heard in the point of Preservation by the Spirit and as of themselves they could not persevere nor be sure to persevere but fall away yet in other respects they doe as hath beene shewed P. Sir I am much beholden to you for your great paines in the teaching me the second point of seeking to be saved and ●n all the branches thereof I pray you now in the last place shew me the last point which is seeking to get salvation M. You must get salvation Seeking to get saluation by performing some actions which God requires on your part to be performed for the attaining thereof P. Me thinks it seemes strange to mee how man can get and attaine salvation by any action of his which he doth himselfe M. When I speake of some actions of men whereby they attaine unto salvation I would have you to consider two things 1. That I doe not meane that man doth these actions by any absolute activity or efficiency that is in and of himselfe or the power and dominion hee hath over his owne will for he doth them by Gods will and by his effectuall grace disposing and enabling him thereunto who workes in him to will and to doe of his owne good pleasure Phil 2.13 But I meane that these actions are done by their own understanding and will for they are not ignorant of what they doe nor are they compelled to the doing of them Mans supernaturall and godly actions are Gods as hee moves him thereunto by his grace and procures him actually to consent to the motion of grace but they are mans owne actions as hee is the next and immediate doer of them and as they proceede from him as a vitall and reasonable creature And therefore it is said that the just shall live by faith Hab 2.4 And therefore the actions of beleeving are applyed to men in all the three persons I beleeve Acts 8.37 Thou beleevest Rom 10.9 Hee beleeves Marke 16.16 2. When I say man gets and attaines unto salvation by some actions of his owne I doe not meane that there is any merit or worth in these his actions to procure or deserve salvation in the least measure or degree as they come from man But that God hath appointed such actions of men to bee conditions to bee performed on their part to make their persons capable of salvation and that these actions have this efficacy to this end not as they be done by them but as they are appointed by God for them and as he enables them to doe them according to his appointment P. Sir I am fully satisfied But I pray you what bee those actions of men appointed by God as conditions on their part to bee performed for the attaining of salvation M. They bee of three kindes whereof the first prepare them to get it the second give them title and interest to claime it and receive it and the third give them assurance of it P. What be the actions that prepare them to get salvation M. They are these First they must know and acknowledg their sinne and misery they must beleeve and feele the guilt and punishment of their sins Acts 2.37 For this will make them to feele their neede of salvation and their unability to save themselves Mat 9.13 and that they neede to repent and cry God mercy Luke 15.9 And this is wrought by the preaching