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A36019 Prove all things, hold fast that which is good, I Thess. 5.21 handled in two sermons at S. Maries in Cambridge, the first on the Commencement-Sabbath, July 1, 1655, the other since / by William Dillingham. Dillingham, William, 1617?-1689. 1656 (1656) Wing D1486; ESTC R19188 41,854 64

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ashamed to professe it if we be Christ will be ashamed of us another day Mark 8. 38. Whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinfull generation of him also shall the Sonne of man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels And whosoever shall deny him before men him will he also deny before his Father which is in heaven Matth. 10.33 Christ will have his truth owned by his followers The devil indeed will allow men to professe truth while they harbour errour in their hearts but Christ will not allow of such discord between heart and tongue Corde creditur adjustitiam With the heart man believeth unto righteousnesse and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation Rom. 10. 10 11. for the Scripture saith He that believeth on him shall not be ashamed Profession is the badge of truth and a fealty due to the God of truth By constant profession of and bearing witnesse to the truth the truth it self is propagated and God's glory is advanced and other Professours of truth are much encouraged And when was there ever greater need of bearing witnesse to the truth than at this day when errour does on every side so much abound When the unclean spirits like froggs bred of the slime of the earth come out of the mouth of the dragon then blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garment Rev. 16. 15. Wherefore {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Let us hold fast the profession of our faith unmoved without wavering Heb. 10. 23. for beloved we count them happy which endure James 5. 11. and our Saviour assures us more than once that they that endure to the end shall be saved Matth. 24. 13. Mark 13. 13. Nay himself encourages us from heaven Rev. 2. 10. Bethou faithfull unto the death and I will give thee a crown of life again Hold that thou hast let no man take thy crown Rev. 3. 11. That 's a fifth way of holding fast that which is good by the constant profession of it Sixthly the sixth and last way that I shall name is by contending for it earnestly Indeed so long as a man can enjoy his house by an undisturbed possession he need not contend about it but when thieves shall attempt to break it open when a robber shall set upon him for his purse striving by violence to take it from him then he must resolve to contend for it if he mean to keep it Now such is the condition of truth in this world it 's in a state militant continually surrounded and beset with enemies whose ring-leader is Satan the father of lies who layes continuall siege to truth not that he desires to have it himself but that he may dispossesse others of it and slight it when he ha's done 'T was but needfull then that the Apostle should exhort us to contend earnestly for the faith which was once delivered unto the Saints Judo 3. They were betrusted with it as with a fort or castle and it would be treachery or cowardise not to defend it to the last And Paul's exhortation may be of singular use to us for our encouragement 1 Cor. 16. 13. Watch ye stand fast in the faith quit your selves like men and be strong A gallant speech of a tried souldier who had fought a good fight himself and was now ready to receive his crown Now though it be the duty of every Christian to contend for truth and that earnestly yet every one in his own rank and order for a man is not crowned except he strive lawfully Private Christians they must strive by earnest prayer to God that his truth may have a free passage and be victorious while others whom God hath given commission and abilities must also contend for it by preaching disputing and writing in defence of it all by suffering for it yea and dying in witnesse to it if God in his providence should call them forth to it Beloved ye have not yet resisted unto bloud but ye know not what times may come the clouds gather apace and some begin to fear a storm it concerns us in wisdome however to provide for the worst to be well-settled in the faith to buckle on our harnesse and to fortifie our selves in holy resolutions to stand to our arms having our loyns girt about with truth and we had need have truth girt close about us else we may chance to have a lap of it cut off and we never the wiser as Saul's skirt was by David while he slept and perceived it not Or else in time of persecution we may deal with it as the young man in the Gospel did by his linen cloth when souldiers laid hold of him he left the linen cloth and fled from them naked Mark 14. 51 52. Some it may be may think it but a nicety that some of the Primitive Christians sthood upon when they chose to sacrifice their own lives rather than sprinkle a little frankincense upon an idol's censer Some may imagine perhaps that the Martyrs of later years were too straight-laced many of them suffering upon the article of Transubstantiation but died Abner as a fool did those Worthyes foolishly and needlesly cast away their lives No surely they understood well enough that to deny the truth was to deny Christ and worshipping the bread was no lesse than grosse idolatry both grievous sinns had they been lesse they might not they durst not have committed them though to save their lives But as people and Ministers must contend for the truth so Magistrates are not excused from it What an abatement was it in the coats of divers of the Kings of Judah and those good Kings otherwaies that idol-worship was tolerated and winkt at in the high-places and not utterly rooted out O beloved God is a jealous God he will not endure his worship to be corrupted and do we think he will suffer his truth to be adulterated Will he not suffer the worship of devils but will he permit doctrines of devils Is not his truth precious to him and is he not jealous over that God will not endure those that worship another God besides him nor those who tempt others to it reade over Deut. 13. especially 6 7 8 9 verses and is Christ contented that they should be tolerated who openly declaim against his Godhead No certainly Our blessed Saviour blames the Church in Thyatira for suffering Jezabel to seduce his servants Rev. 2.20 and he professes that he hates the doctrine of the Nicolaitans and layes it heavily to the charge of the Church in Pergamos that she suffered those that taught it Rev. 2. 14 15. Thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam and the doctrine of the Nicolaitans which thing I hate Repent or I will come quickly and fight against them with the sword of my mouth The Church it self was for the genetall and the Governours of it orthodox
even unto obstinacy though brayed in a mortar they will not part with them It is said of the Pharisees and their traditions Mark 7.4 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} they received them to hold them fast they took them with a resolution not to let them go for better for worse Zeal is good in a good matter but this their holding fast is to their own mischief as a sinking man holds fast the weeds that help to drown him 3. This reproves those that hold and it is good which they hold but they do not hold it fast all wavering and inconstant persons But these also I have already spoken something to in the aforegoing part of my discourse Use 2. I will therefore conclude all with a word of exhortation which yet I perceive is nothing else than what I have been doing all this while I will adde onely to what hath been said a motive or two and a few means or directions 1. Motive 1 The first motive let be the consideration of our own concernment how much it is our interest to hold fast that which is good Truth is our treasure and a wise man doth not use to be over easily perswaded to part with that 'T is our possession a man will sue hard before he will suffer himself to be ejected out of his inheritance 'T is our evidence our evidence for a Kingdome and shall we not look carefully to it It is our fortresse while we keep that that will preserve us like Ulysses his mast tie our selves fast to it and we shall be safe yea 't is our life as Solomon of wisdome keep her for she is thy life our eternal salvation depends upon our holding of it If we give over believing he that believes not shall be damned If we grow weary of well-doing without holinesse no man shall see God If any love not Christ and his truth let him be anathema If any man deny them before men him will Christ deny before his Father which is in heaven It is abundantly then our manifold interest to hold fast that which is good 2. Hold truth fast considering the danger we are in of loosing it in respect of deceivers who would cheat us of it and juggle it from us in respect of open enemies that would by force wrest it from us The Devil goes about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devoure And as at all times we had need to hold fast the truth so especially in times of seduction and apostasie in times of temptation and in time of persecution we had need to double our guards when the Enemy is at hand But of this before 3. Let us consider how the Lord Jesus Christ stands affected towards his truth and such as adhere unto it We may see both in his speech to the Church in Pergamos Rev. 2.13 Thou holdest fast my name and hast not denied my faith Even in those dayes when Antipas was my faithfull martyr who was slain among you where Satan dwelleth Observe how he doth aggrandise and amplisie their faithfulnesse to him and his truth from the consideration of time and place they adhered to him in times of persecution and in a most dangerous place where Satan dwelleth He that was wont to go about like a roaring lion and to go to and fro up and down the earth had now it seems taken up in Pergamos resolving to make that the seat of his tyranny where he would display the bloudy ensignes of his rage and cruelty and yet in this very place there were not wanting those who under his nose and to his very teeth did professe themselves the sworn servants of Christ and truth and his utter enemies What an honour was this to christ who maintained himself a Church in Satans own Imperial city and how kindly doth he take it from those who at such a time and in such a place did stick so close unto him and to his truth Which he calls my faith and my name he can as soon forget his own name and neglect his own glory as his truth But then how feelingly how pathetically doth he remember and even by name make mention of Antipas In those dayes when Antipas was my faithfull martyr c. In those dayes he keeps an exact account of the time and makes Antipas his death the Epocha to compute other things by when Antipas he had kept Christ's name and you see Christ keeps his he had born witnesse and set his seal unto Christ's truth and Christ wears him as a signet upon his right hand and engraves him upon the palms of his hands he is neare and deare unto him Christ knows him and calls him by name Antipas my faithfull martyr O what a pang of affection was there Sirs I am not able to conceive it much lesse expresse it I beseech you assist me with your thoughts and supply by your meditations what my expression cannot reach Antipas my faithfull martyr Pretious in the sight of the Lord is the death of all his Saints and blessed are they that die in the Lord but much much more pretious is their death and thrice happy are all they whom the Lord calls forth and inables to die for his sake and to lay down their lives in witnesse-bearing to his truth I wonder no longer that the Primitive Christians were so ambitious of martyrdome who would not be martyr many times over to have such a testimoniall such an affectionate commemoration from his blessed Saviour which will afterwards be seconded with an {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} well fought My sonne and with that Euge bone serve fidelis well done good and faithfull servant enter thou into thy masters joy So much for motive now a few directions which I will but name leaving them to be enlarged by your own private meditations 1. That thou maist be sure to hold fast take thy hold on that rock of diamonds the holy Scriptures for sand will crumble and wash away 2. Make sure of heaven and then sufferings will be light Facile est quidvis suadere persuasis mori Let me say paratis mori They will not fear shipwrack who have sent their souls before and ensured them in heaven that man need not fear death whose life is hid with Christ in God 3. Turn all traitours out of thy heart which else will betray both truth and thee Such are lusts hypocrisie by-respects curiositie carelesnesse Get thy self cured of thy natural levity and slipperinesse it is good that the heart be established with grace 4. Hold not too fast your own prejudicate opinions if you mean to hold truth fast or indeed to entertain it For then non persuaseris etiamsi persuaseris They do but pretend to be suitours unto truth who are before wedded to their own opinions 5. Fifthly and lastly grasp not the world too hard for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and is seldome a friend to sometimes incompetible with that which is good Catch not at honour applause profit or interest in your holding of truth these will winnow from truth sometime or other and then the dog will hunt no longer in the roade when the hare hath left it but Demas will take his leave of truth and embrace the present world I will end all in those words of the Apostle 2 Thess. 2. and the later end Therefore brethren stand fast and hold the faith which ye have been taught which ye have believed Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God even our Father which hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace Comfort your hearts and stablish you in every good word and work CUI LAUS IN SECULA FINIS Doctr. Reas. 1. Object Answ. Reas. 2. Consid. 1. Consid 2. 1. Requisite A faculty 1. Reasonable 2. Enlightened 2● 2● q. 8 art 4. 3. sanctified 2. Requisite A Rule 1 Not Reason 2. Antiquity 3. Councels and Fathers Praefat. in Pentat 4. Church 5. Teachers But Scriptures Mark 1. Mark 2. Mark 3. Object 1 Answ. Object 2 Answ. Object 3 Answ. 1. Part of the text considered 1 Relatively As a caution A means An end 2. Absolutely 2. Dectr Six wayes to hold fast truth 1. Believing 2. Loving 1. Remembring 4. Practising 5. Professing 6. Contending Asa 1 Kings 15. 14. So Jehoash Amasia Azari● Jotham Jehoshaphal Use 1. Use 2. Direction