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A96684	God a Christian's choice, compleated by particular covenanting with God Together with an appendix, containing propositions, tending to clear up the lawfulness, and expediency of transacting with God in that way. In pursuit of a design proposed by Mr. R.A. in his book entituled, The vindication of Godliness. And by Mr. Tho. Vincent, in his book, called Words whereby we may be saved. To which is added, a brief discovery of the nearness of such a people unto God, on Psal. 148. 14. By Samuel VVinney, sometimes minister of the gospel at Glaston in Somersetshire.	Winney, Samuel.	1675 (1675)	Wing W3034; ESTC R231145	79,544	241

and the more resolvedly chuse him III. Choice of God doth also imply a desire after and a love to God this is apparent in nature a man will never chuse that against which he hath an enmity or an Antipathy a man will not chuse that meat that he hath Antipathy against Now there is never an one of us but are naturally enemies to God and are haters of God Rom. 5.10 with Rom. 1.30 This people cannot endure to hear of and will hardly believe but so it is Gods Word tells you so God's ministers tell you so that you were born enemies in your mind by wicked works and this is the great Command of God's Law to love the Lord our God with all our heart c. Mat. 22 and they that do not will not chuse him to be theirs chusing of God and loving of God go together Isa 56.4 with 6. Thus saith the Lord to the Eunuchs that keep my Sabbaths and chuse the things that please me c. ver 6. also the sons of the stranger that join themselves to the Lord to love the name of the Lord c. what the heart is most of all set upon with desire and love that it doth chuse Affection always goeth before Election and Election is the issue of Affection The heart must be set upon that which a man takes to himself to be his Isa 26.9 with 13. With my Soul have I desired thee in the night c. 13. other Lords have had dominion over us but by thee only will we make mention of thy name c. If there be the l●ast disgust of the heart against and loathing of any thing never do we make choice of that to be ours That we are so far from chusing that we cannot endure it the affections are the ground or beginning of the choice when the heart is drawn up in love toward God and enamoured with desire after him then it will chuse him The choice is of the Heart if that be alienated their 's no closure with nor choice of any thing● so nor of God if the heart be still alienated from him if we love him we chuse him These three things are antecedaneous to the choice of God do go before it now there be two other things wherein the very essence of the Act consists and they are Election and Appropriation IV. The first of these or the fourth in order to the former is the Election and preference of God above all so that now all other things are neglected and undervalued in Comparison with God thus David said Psal 73.25 Whom have I in heaven but thee and there is none upon the earth that I desire in Comparison of thee David chose God because he had God an Esteem above all the World q. d. Take all in heaven and Earth yea Heaven and Earth themselves whosoever will so as I may have God to be mine Now doth thy Soul say so so when Jesus Christ is chosen by a Soul all things else are but dross and dung in Comparison of the Excellency of the knowledg of Jesus Christ Phil. 3.8 9. It is a Christians chief duty and disposition eminently to prefer God and Christ above all Remember that God is a Christian's all and his all is in God And a Soul that is in such a frame chuseth God a right V. But the Second thing wherein the Souls actual choice consisteth is Appropriation of God to a mans self a taking God to be his own when we lay claim to God as our peculiar portion as though there was no one that had interest in nor relation to God but our self only So the Church Psal 67.6 And God even our own God shall bless us I do not know any such expression through the Scripture as here implying such special Appropriation When the Soul takes hold on God receiveth him and embraceth him as his own peculiar as if he was his own and none's else beside The Church seems so to speak as if it was her peculiar priviledg and her 's alone to appropriate and claim God to her self When a man can come to say God is my own God then he hath chosen God indeed So David Psal 18.1 2. I will love thee O Lord my strength the Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer my God my strength in whom I will trust my buckler and the horn of my Salvation and my High Tower How many My's be there no less than eight or nine which the Prophet as so many terms of interest doth there use to express propriety and as the Church saith elsewhere My beloved is mine and I am his Song 2.6 VI. ●husing of God consisteth as the issue of all this in the rejection o● all others besides God when once God is chosen then all other god's be cast away this is according to what God himself doth call for and require Hos 3.3 And I said unto thee thou shalt abide for me many days thou shalt not play the Harlot thou shalt not be for another so will I also be for thee as God can't endure the soul should have any god besides him but doth command the contrary so neither will the Soul endure it Just as a Virgin that hath many Suit●rs when once her affections are set on the person whom she makes choice of then away with all the rest she will not converse with them any more so it is here if there be an indifferency in the affections to divers things it 's a sign the choice is not yet made for the choice being once made all other things are overlooked and refused but ther 's an indifferency still remaining where more than one is entertained Psal 81.9 10. O Israel if thou wilt hearken unto me there shall no strange god be in thee neither shalt thou worship any strange god I am the Lord thy God They that have or will have God for theirs must have no other to themselves but 〈◊〉 thus we see wherein the chusing of God consisteth CHAP. III. The second thing opened viz. Why we are to chuse God to be ours HAving dispatched and cleared the first thing in the Explication we go on to the second viz. Why it is the highest Duty of Christianity to chuse God to be ours In general this is the only reason because God is only Good and this I shall branch out into these three particulars 1. God is the chiefest Good 2. God is a communicative Good 3. God is the only satisfying Good Summum Bonum First God is the chiefest and best Good that can be an undoubted Maxim God is all Good and all Good is in God nothing is Good without God and there 〈◊〉 thing Good to be found ou● 〈◊〉 he is infinitely good and no person or thing is good but God Luk. 18.19 and this we know to be true in nature that good is the proper object of the choice Nothing is chosen but as far as it is Good or appears to

nigh unto all them that call upon him The like passage in Psal 34.18 The Lord is nigh to them that are of a broken heart and saveth such as be of a Contrite Spirit This then is the first regard wherein Gods People are said to be Near to him viz. God's Nearness unto them 2. In regard of Affection to them he is and is said to be Near to them Lord help us to believe it God's People sometimes can't hardly believe it you know these People whom we by love account dear we account also to be very Near to us Dearness and Nearness are here Convertible Now God's People are the dearly beloved of his Soul Jer. 12.7 in Original but one word I have given the dearly beloved of my Soul Heb. the love into the hands of her enemies And that is one of the titles Christ gives his Church throughout the whole Song of Solomon My Love my Dove c. So near to him the Church desireth to be that Song 8.6 she prays Set me as a Seal on thy heart What is the meaning of that in short love me dearly and love makes as strong an impression on the heart as a Seal doth upon any thing to which it is applyed she desires to be near the heart of Christ and that his Love towards her may have deep impressions there as the names of the twelve Tribes of Israel had on the brest-plate of Judgment which Aaron did bear on his heart when he went in into the Holy-place Exod. 28.21 29. Further she prays there as a Seal upon thine arm for love is as strong as death in which she desires also his Compassion and Affection The Lord expresseth the same thing in a like phrase to his Church saying Behold I have graven thee on the palms of my hands Isa 49.16 I remember the Lord makes use of one expression more to set it forth by the signet on the right hand and that is near in place and affection too Jer. 22.24 where the Lord speaks of Coniah one of the Kings of Judah and saith to this purpose As I live saith the Lord though Coniah the Son of Jehojakim King of Judah were their Signet on my right hand yet would I pluck thee thence c. A Man's Signet that he wears on his right hand what an esteem and love hath he for that yet saith God though he was as the Signet on my right hand would I pluck thee thence Sin will make a separation between a person or people though near to him And that is the second thing God's People are his dearly beloved and so they are near upon the account of Affection 3. In regard of Relation to God they are nearly related to God there is a Spiritual kin and alliance between God and his people you shall find nearness and kin are Convertible in the Scripture Lev. 21.2 But for his kin that is near unto him that is for his Mother and Father and for his Son and for his Daughter and for his Brother and ver 3. and for his Sister That is nigh unto him c. So that Kin and Nearness are joyned together words of the same import Now there is a twofold Relation betwen God and his People which makes the Kin to be so Near. 1. By Regeneration and the new-birth 2. By the Marriage-Covenant and blessed are the people that are in such a Nearness unto God! First by Regeneration and the new-birth that is one way the kin comes in if I may so speak and therefore you shall find throughout the Scripture that they are said to be born of God and born again and hence is it that all that are regenerate are called the Sons and Daughters of the living God and who are nearer to us than our Children these are the Children of God being born of him Joh. 1.12 As many as believed to them gave he power to become the Sons of God How came they to be the Sons of God ver 13. shews which were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God So in the Epistle of John throughout are they said to be born of God Now how near is the Father and Son I need not tell you that are Pa●ents So near is the relation between God and his People 2 Cor. 6.18 I will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters saith the Lord Almighty What a Promise is this he will receive them to be as near unto him as he will receive his own Son that serveth him And what a deal of Nearness of Affection as well as Relation is there in this case Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of God 1 Joh. 3.1 You that are parents think on this when you see your Children in the streets or any where about you Oh how are your hearts drawn out after them learn hence to be affected with the nearness both of Relation and Affection that is between God and his People you cannot love your Children though your hearts run out after them as God loves his Children all the affection of all the parents in the World to their Children is but the drops of a bucket in Comparison of God's love to his people and his Children 2. By Marriage-Covenant are they Near to God And this is so near a Relation that all other kin are to be left for this Relation they that are married as to their Relation in the flesh are become one flesh so near they are Mat. 19.5 Just as Adam said of the woman when God brought her to him this is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh Gen. 2.23 Beloved Gods people are his married people and they are his espoused people full of this is the Scripture in many places 2 Cor. 11.2 I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you a chast Virgin to Christ Hos 2.19 20. I will betroth thee unto me for ever yea I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness and in judgment and in loving kindness and in mercies I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness c. Jer. 3.14 turn Oh backsliding Children saith the Lord for I am married unto you Isa 54.5 For thy Maker is thine husband the Lord of hosts is his name Oh what an husband is this Every woman is apt to admire her own husband but what an husband is this of Souls Mark how the Apostle doth improve this natural marriage to a Spiritual use 1 Cor. 6.16 17. What know ye not that he that is joyned to an Harlot is one body for he saith ye shall be one flesh ver 17. but he that is joyned to the Lord is one Spirit The Apostles design is to take off people from Fornication and the argument is taken from the design of God in Marriage God made Marriage that there might be an union betwixt the Man and the

you that you should be made nigh to God when many thousands are yet so far off from him I cannot tell you why it should be so only it is Gods good-will towards you because he will do it therefore he doth it There are thousands and ten thousands in the World that have not this liberty to come near to God they are in the same state that ever they were and enjoy not such a Priviledg as this is therefore should we seriously consider it Mark what the Holy Ghost speaks Deut. 6.7 8. Thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God the Lord hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all people that are upon the Face of the earth The Lord did not set his love upon you or chuse you because ye were more in number than any people for ye were the fewest of all people but because the Lord loved you and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto our Forefathers c. and say within your hearts why should God deal so with me to bring me so near to him and leave others in the same state wherein they were born let your heart be mightily affected with this Love of God and kindness of God Methinks I could dwell on the perswasion of people to this duty that they would be much more taken with the Consideration of Gods special and distinguishing Kindness towards them 4. Lastly be sure to be humble and keep low and that upon a double reason 1. Because that though you are a people nigh to God of his free Grace yet there is a great distance and disproportion between God and you for though you are brought so near God yet you are but Creatures whereas God is the great Creatour you are but dust and ashes God is the infinite holy Majesty of Heaven and Earth Now the distance that is between God and you should dwell upon your hearts and make you keep in a lowly frame still and should Create self-abasing thoughts in you so much the more The Consideration of our Priviledges the Consideration of God's great distance from us should increase our self abasement 2. And then upon the account of our own sinfulness we should be humble before God Micah 6.8 What doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to do justly and love mercy and walk humbly with thy God See to it that you do walk more lowly and self-absingly considering what you are on both these accounts although God hath so dignified you Amen FINIS Book 's Sold by Thomas Cockeril at the Atlas in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange THE Morning Exercise at Cripple-gate or several Cases of Conscience Practically Resolved by Sundry Ministers in Quarto The Supplement to the Morning Exercise at Cripple-gate or several more Cases of Conscience Practically resolved by sundry Ministers in Quarto Pretious Faith or a discourse of its Nature Growth and Effect by Edward Polehil of Burwash in Sussex Esquire in Octavo The Nature Power Deceit and Prevalency of the Remainder of Indwelling sin in believers Together with the ways of Its working and Means of Prevention by John Owen D. D. in Octavo An Antidote against Distractions or An Endeavour to serve the Church in the Daily Case of wandrings in the Worship of God by Richard Steel M. A. in Octavo The Reuniting Christianity or the Manner how to rejoyn all Christians under one Confession of Faith in Octavo God a Christian's Choice Compleated by Particular Covenanting with God c. in Pursuit of a Design Proposed by Mr. R. A. in his Book entitled the Vindication of Godliness and by Mr. Thomas Vincent in his Book Called Words whereby we may be saved in Twelves

expecteth to be received of thee that he should not * 2 Cor. 6.17 touch the unclean thing I do here in thy presence abhorring my self for all my past vileness sinfulness and unprofitableness resolve Covenant and promise in thy name and by thy strength to forsake the Devil World and Flesh 2 Cor. 4.1 and do renounce all the hidden works of darkness and dishonesty and before the Lord * Isa 30.22 say to every Idol in heart and Life get thee hence purposing in my heart never to * Rom. 6.13 yield my body or Soul nor the members and faculties of them as the members of unrighteousness to sin nor suffer for time to come as heretofore through thine assisting grace * v. 12. sin to reign in my mortal body nor immortal Soul that I should obey it in the lusts thereof that I will keep constant strict watch against all the advantages snares and temptations of all mine and and thine Enemies earnestly intreating and imploring thine * 2. Cor. 12.9 Allsufficient Grace to make me † 1 Pet. 5.8 9. Sober and Vigilant that my adversary the Devil though he goes about like a roaring Lyon seeking whom he may devour may not by any of * 2 Cor. 2.11 his devices take any advantage against me but that I may resist him stedfastly in the faith thy grace assisting thereto keeping my Heart Tongue and way from that which is displeasing unto thee And sith I know and am convinced † Isa 64.6 that my righteousness is as filthy rags and no possibility of Salvation by it I do renounce it and loath my self for the imperfections of it being a lost perishing and damnable wretch without thy pardoning and saving Grace And * Tit. 3.4 because the kindness and love of God towards man hath so exceedingly appeared as that thou hast freely offered and promised to make an † Jer. 32.40 Everlasting Covenant that thou wilt never turn away from them to do them good but wilt ever be their God that do * Isa 56.6 lay hold on thy Covenant I desire heartily to take thee O God Father Son and Holy Ghost to be my God to be my Father Saviour and Comforter to be my portion and happiness here and hereafter beseeching thee that thou wouldest † 1 Cron. 29.18 keep this purpose in my heart and continue to communicate this power to my Soul that I may ever cleave to the my Lord and God that I may become wholly and only thine for ever and ever sticking unto thy testimonies chusing the way of thy Commandements all my daies for now the * Psal 56.12 vows of God are upon me yea I have † Psal 119.106 sworn and will perform it that I will keep thy righteous Judgments And forasmuch as there is no Coming to the Father but by Christ who is the * Joh. 14.6 way truth and life who is freely offered in the Gospel † Mat. 3.17 in whom alone thou art well pleased and I can only be accepted I heartily and thankfully desire * Col. 2.6 to receive Jesus Christ and to walk in him To take him to be my † 1 Cor. 1.30 Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption to espouse my Soul to him this day and * Isa 56.6 joyn my self to him in a Covenant that can never be broken off or forgotten My dear Saviour who hast made † Heb. 10.19 a new and living way to the Father for me I do here solemnly and freely * Psal 24.7 9. open the everlasting doors of my heart to thee that thou the King of glory mayst come in that so thou mayst † Eph. 3.17 dwell in my heart by faith that being lost without thee yet * Phil. 3.9 found in thee I may be saved thine I desire to be though I deserve no such priviledg at all being a filthy stinking sinner † Eph. 2.1 dead in trespasses and Sins * 2 Tim. 3.6 Laden with hellish lusts pressed down even to Hell it self but it hath pleased thee to † Hos 2.18 espouse me to thy self in Righteousness and Mercy and Faithfulness I do with my whole Soul embrace and lay hold on thee and do take thee the * Rev. 15.4 King of Saints to be my only Lord and Head and Husband my only King and Commander and willingly † Mat. 11.29 taking thy easy yoke upon me I present my self unto thee resolving to * Hos 3.3 continue not only many but all my daies with thee † Rom. 12.1 yielding up my self body and Soul as an holy living acceptable sacrifice to thee who hast offered up thy self as a * Eph. 5.2 Sacrifice to the Father for my poor lost Soul engaging through thy Grace that I will stoop to thy Scepter fulfil thy will and † Rev. 14.4 follow thee the Lamb of God whithersoever thou goest to be disposed of by thee in every condition that neither poverty nor riches nor * Rom. 〈◊〉 38 3● life nor death shall separate between me and thee Moreover si●h this † Eph. 〈◊〉 12. access is by one Spirit unto the Father through Christ I do here most blessed Spirit take thee to be my only God also to be my Guide and * J●●● 18 9● Comforter beseeching thee that thou wouldest * Eph. 〈◊〉 30. Seal me up unto the day of redemption That thou wouldest be in me a † Jo●● 〈◊〉 38. Fountain of living Water springing up to life eternal That so I may notwithstanding all difficulties * Job 17.9 hold on my way and grow stronger and stronger vowing to be † Gal. 5.18 led by no other Spirit but thy self * Rom. 8.1 walking after the Spirit for time to come and not after the flesh Also because thou requirest every one that expecteth to † Rev. 22.14 enter by the Gate into the City to keep thy Commandments and having now entred into and renewed the bond of the Covenant so to do as one of thy people to which end thou hast graciously promised that thou wilt * Jer. 32.40 put thy fear into my heart that I shall not depart from thee I here as thy Covenant-servant engage solemnly to become wholly thine that I will be for no other † Psal 116.15 O Lord truely I am thy Servant I am thy Servant * Psal 119.38 devoted to thy Fear Love and Service Praying that thou wouldest keep thy promise to enable me to walk in thy statutes and through the never-failing influence of thy Heavenly power * Psal 119.8 I will keep thy statutes † v. 48. my hands also will I lift up to thy Commandements which I love Oh forsake me not utterly yea I will * Isa 30.1 follow no counsel but of thy Spirit and Word from henceforth all the days of my life Though Satan tempt the World allures and the †