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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86358	The right separation incouraged; in a sermon preached to the Right Honorable the House of Lords, in the Abbey-Church at Westminster, on Wednesday, Novem. 27. 1644. being the day of the monethly publick fast. By Thomas Hill, B.D. pastor of Tychmersh in Northamptonshire, and one of the members of the Assembly of Divines.	Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.	1645 (1645)	Wing H2026; Thomason E23_1; ESTC R369	31,606	44

ver. 21. The lips of the righteous feed many Shun such acquaintance where you can expect no good and can hardly escape without receiving some hurt David made this one Character of a Citizen of Sion Psal. 15. 4. In whose eyes a vile person is contemned but hee honoureth them that feare God Fifthly Keepe pure affections in the use of lawfull comforts It is not enough for Saints to have a lawfull use of temporall blessings unlesse they gain an holy use of them that they may bee spiritualized unto them Col. 3. 1 2. Saints should proportion their carriage to their hopes Seek high things if you bee highly born If you would bee great persons indeed minde the great things which are above Sixthly Maintain pure aimes in all your undertakings The last end hath a great Influence upon mens actions Such men are as their ends are Doe not look asquint at carnall selfe that will mis-leade you into uncleane wayes looke at the sanctifying of Gods name the comming of his Kingdom the doing of his will with a single eye It kept Paul very even and gave him much occasion of glorying that his aimes were so pure so full of simplicity and godly sincerity that hee could with confidence appeale to a threefold Tribunall In 2 Cor. 1. 12. There was the Throne of his owne Conscience and in ver. 13. The Throne of the Corinthians knowledge and then ver. 14. The highest Throne of all in the day of the Lord Jesus Having thus dispatched the Adhortation let us now look into the second generall part of the words and see what incouragement wee can thence gather to ingage you in a separation from all uncleannesse The Lord Almighty will undoubtedly as a Father receive all those who are such Right Separatists indeed that they renounce communion with any impurity The pollution of sinne made the first breach betwixt God and man leaving him unfit for communion with so glorious a Majesty there is no recovering fellowship with the Lord unlesse the great obstruction bee removed unlesse wee renounce sinne which provoked him to withdraw from us Indeed when once the soule bethinks it selfe and beginnes to looke after God hee is r●ady to meet her with deale imbraces Luk. 15. 20. But when hee was yet a great way off his Father saw him and had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him Yea this whole 15. Chapter of Luke is spent in three incouraging Parables to this purpose discovering that no Shepherd is more desirous to seek his lost sheep no woman more inquisiti●● after her lost groat no Father more carefull of the returne of his 〈…〉 then the Lord into entertain such as unfainedly disclaim all impurity Here you have two particulars fit to bee considered in the prosecuting of this observation First Gods readinesse to receive them Secondly the kinde entertainment hee gives them Hee receives them as a Father Two Arguments may bee produced which will evidence Gods readinesse to receive all such as separate from uncleannesse 1. The first is drawn from the gracious ●●sposition and inclination of our good God He saith Isa. 30 〈◊〉 professed that hee waites 〈…〉 also pronounceth them 〈…〉 for him You can not 〈◊〉 more ready to forsake sinne then hee is ready 〈…〉 Isa. 55. 7. Let the wicked forsake his way and 〈…〉 thoughts and let him return 〈…〉 the Lord 〈…〉 him and to our God for hee will abundantly pardon as in the Hebrew Hee knows how to multiply pardons as 〈◊〉 multiply sin● Though thou bee a man of iniquity as it is in the Heb. v. 7. 〈…〉 2. The second Argument is taken from the Lords ingagement to all 〈◊〉 as come to him renouncing all their impurity Hee hath condescended to make himselfe their debton by his unchangeable promises Matth. 5. 3. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God and the more purity of heart they have the more they shall see in God and injoy the more of God Christ ingages himselfe to the uncleane Laodiceans that if they will heare his voyce and open the doore Rev. 3. 20. Hee will come in and sup with them and they with him whatever lukewarmnesse they have been stained with before yet now upon such termes hee promises they shall enjoy a sweet and intimate communion with him Yea here lies a threefold ingagement First this is suitable to the Tenour of the Covenant of Gods Free Grace Ezek. 36. 25. Whom hee cleanses hee owns as his people Secondly this is agreeable to the intention of Christs death who laid down his life that hee might purifie a peculiar people unto himselfe Tit. 2. 14. And Thirdly this is the method of the Spirit of God in the execution of his eternall Counsels for the salvation of our Soules it is in a way of Sanctification and cleansing us from the filth of fin 2 Thess. 2. 13. that so wee may bee meet to bee partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light And as for the Lords entertaining such as separate themselves from all uncleannesse it is most like a tender Father First Hee welcomes them at their first return home to his house with joyfull imbraces Luk. 15. 23. There is great triumph in Heaven at the recovery of a lost sinner Secondly Hee will kindly own them and with candid interpretation accept of weak prayers and small endevours from them Mal. 3. 16 17. The lisping the stammering of a childe is pleasing to the love of a Father Thirdly Hee can indulgently overlook great weaknesses in them Psal. 103. 13. forbearing their frowardnesse their evill manners expecting no more from children then their strength will beare Fourthly Hee takes care to secure them in time of dangers and troubles If hee bee provoked to send a deluge of calamities yet hee will provide an Arke for them against a storme as for his Noah Gen. 6. 18. Fifthly Hee will helpe them at plunges carrying them through difficult services A father will when his children come to a slippery bridge or a dangerous stile lead them over by his own hand As in Deut. 32. 10 11 12. Sixthly Hee will bee sure to make rich provision for their spirituall temporall and eternall welfare Hee knows what they have need of and what is best for them Matth. 6. 31. 32. Having given them Christ hee will withhold no good thing else from them Rom. 8. 32. Yea being children of God they shall bee joynt heires with Christ himselfe Rom. 8. 17. Thus honourably doth the Lord receive all them who come unto him upon his own termes leaving their impurity behinde them they shall understand and taste the loving kindnesse of the Lord If the Lord bee pleased so farre to ingage himselfe as a Father to receive all such as make a Right separation from uncleannesse Then when God still denies to receive our requests and suspends his Fatherly compassions in our extremity wee have great reason to