like manner Had I more then all other imaginable excellent qualities and dignities Did I excell in wisdome and understanding not onely those renowned Heathen Philosophers but even their fained Apollo and our Divine Salomon Had I the tongue of Angels and a body as beautifull as the Sunne Had I a Soveraigne command over men and all other inferiour creatures Could I enjoy the sweetest contentments of the most mellodious musicke richest robes costly cates Had I the full fruition of all the richest treasures in the whole world yet without Christ Iesus without redemption I had nothing Am I therefore partaker of that comfortable worke of redemption where justice and mercy met together whereby I am saved from the curse of the law the power of darknesse the divell the wrath to come the guilt guerdon due desert and punishment of sinne Was I redeemed not with corruptible things as silver and gold but with the pretious bloud of Christ as of a lambe without blemish and without spot Was I redeemed that I might serve him in holinesse c. Luke 1. 74. 75. that I should honour him Then surely I will not be so unmindfull of such a mercy nor unthankfull to such a benefactour but will honour him who hath thus honoured mee Gods honour ought to be the end of all our actions 1. Pet. 4. The end of all 4. 11. If any man speake if any man minister that God in all things may bee glorified 1. Cor. 10. 31. whether you eate or drinke or whatsoever you doe c. doe all to the glorie of God Doe we desire our owne advancement and benefit The 5. A meanes to be honoured way is not turke and popishlike like cruell Abimelech to build our deemed safeties upon the ruines and bloud of others or like faire tongu'd Absaloms by insinuating flatteries or like couzening Zebaâ—s by lies and falsehoods or by any such like Machivelian policies For could we such hopes such happinesses would proove like spiders webs But the onely meanes is by honouring the Lord 1. Sam. 2. 30. those that honour me will I honour saith the Lord. If none of these will prevaile yet let feare of punishment due to such which dishonour and deny honour to the Lord 6. Want dangerous perswade Why was Pharoah scourged with a tenfold plague was it not for dishonouring God Why was Herod eaten with wormes save because he gave not God his glory Acts 11. 23. Yea why was an entrance denyed to Moses and Aaron into the land of promise was it not because they sanctified him not in the midst of the children of Israel Deut. 32. 51. Wherefore did the Lord smite Davids childe with death save for dishonouring him 2. Sam. 12. 14. Were your strength as sinewes of iron your wisedome and policy as exact as is possibly attaineable by mortall men your friends and fauorites many and mighty Had you the swaying of earthly scepters yet neither these nor any such like can possibly secure you from the irefull revenging hand of God if you either dishonour or deny him honour Witnesse these forenamed who were kings or as kings Witnesse that saying of the Prophet to Ely 1. Sam. 2. 30. Those that honour mee those that despise me will I despise or shall be lightly esteemed i. e. accounted vile in Gods sight Doe not thinke to avoid the judgement if you will not be perswaded To deny the truth of Scripture is blasphemy To thinke he will not doe what he hath said he being faithfull and so to make him a lyar or that he cannot punish although hee hath threatned hee being omnipotent is much more blasphemous CHAP. VI. Duty 5. Saints must doe Gods will IF God is our Father we ought to doe his will The doing Duty 5. whereof allieth men to Christ Iesus Mat. 12. 50. Makes men like Christ Ioh 6. 38. Is a meanes for man to prosper Ioh. 9. 31. Is the direct rode and pathway to heaven and happinesse 1. Ioh. 2. 17. Many men alas looke for heaven who never shall enjoy it Ignorant men because they meane no harme although the Lord will come in flaming fire against such 2. Thess 1. 8. Civill honest men because they doe no hurt and render to all their dues although they want holinesse without which none can see God Heb. 12. 14. Pharisees because in diverse things they excell other men although they want the pith and marrow of Christianity These such like hope for heaven But they being asleepe in sinne dreame of fulnesse but will arise empty of plenty awake poore of heaven finde nothing lesse Heaven is promised but not to all 1. Ioh. 2. 25. It is reserved but not for all 1. Pet. 1. 4. There is a broad way leading to death traced by the most There is a straight and narrow way leading to heaven not knowne of all and found onely by few Mat. 7. 13. 14. even of those who doe the will of God Mat. 7. 21. would we know who shall goe to heaven Aske not the ignorant man his cloudy and darke understanding cannot tell he onely hopes well that 's the vtmost of his skill Aske not the carnall man he is not able to discerne such things 1. Cor. 1. 14. no more then the blinde can judge of colours Aske not the civill man he walkes in a way which seemes good to himselfe but it is not right enough to bring him to heaven Aske not the Pharisee his golden shewes are too too weake our righteousnesse must exceed his But aske of Christ who is the Truth and cannot deceive us the Light void of ignorance and the Way it selfe leading to heaven by his example by his merits and by his doctrine and he will tell us we must doe the will of his father which is in heaven Mat. 7. 21. Thinke not O thou painted sepulchre with thy lording tongue and divelish heart Thinke not O thou carnall christian with thy Lord Lord living in iniquity to have the prerogatives of Gods sonnes but shew thy faith by thy workes thy profession by thy practise Ioyne with Lord Lord doing of Gods will so shalt thou declare thy selfe to be the childe of God so shalt thou obtaine the proper priviledge of Gods children the kingdome of heaven 1. Let the worldling doe the will of his god Mammon therefore as moles blinded in the earth or as the horse without understanding who knowes no greater felicity then plenty of hay and provender onely tune this note who will shew us any good whereas all his wished contentments bring him no true content being never able to satiate his soule witnesse Ahab 1. King 21. 5. he had a kingdome yet still hee needs something a garden of hearbes witnesse the rich man Luke 12. 17. who had so much that he could not tell what to doe yet still hee is in a pecke of troubles for having plenty hee wants roome he knowes not what to do yet for these unprofitable things which cannot add
7. 38. 4. Shall wicked men who are obsequious to base Lords 4. Wicked men strive to make others bad serve with all dutifull observance first the world whose service is vaine Eccl. 2. 10. Hard bringing carking cares Eccl. 1. 14. Dangerous unfitting for the service of God 1 Ioh. 2. 16 Deceitfull offering with Iabin milke with the one hand a naile with the other exchanging for advantage copper for gold Secondly sinne whose service is base it being baser then the most fastidious creatures and exceeding tyrannicall recompencing its best and most dutifull observants with everlasting death Rom. 6. 23. Thirdly Sathan a grand enemie to mankind powerfull onely to punish promising liberty yet in hellish bondage joying at their destruction Shall these strive with tooth and naile and imploy their utmost endevors to hale and drag and use all fraudulent guiles and fawning glozes to win others to their pernicious and damnable society although hereby they aggravte their owne damnation And shall not we who serve the Lord of life whose service is as unlike to theirs as light to darknesse heaven to hell glory to shame Whose service is first most honourable in regard of our Lord who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords of whose kingdome there is no end In regard of our fellow-servants who are not the risse rabble of wicked men but those renowned Patriarchs as Abraham heroicall Kings as David magnanimous Prophets as Eliah blessed Apostles as Paul and all the company of glorious Angels and happy Saints in heaven triumphant and on earth militant Secondly most pleasant and delectable in regard of our Lord and Master who is no churlish Nabal oppressing Pharaoh or hard-dealing Laban But such whose words are full of delectation he calling us not onely servants but sonnes Exod. 4. 22 23. and friends and his deeds correspondent In regard of our taske his commandements being pleasant and not grievous And most gainefull bringing advantage by life and death sicknesse and health here and hereafter Shall not we I say imploy our utmost indeavours to conglutinate others into tâ—â—s so sweet society Seeing that by this means we do not diminish our own store as by parting with wordly substance nor keep our own without impaiâ—ing or augmenting it But hereby we increase graces here and glory hereafter 5. There is no meanes possible whereby we can benefit one another so much as by correcting our brethren as by Imparting grace to others the best benefit to them inlightening them with our knowledge imparting Gods graces to them and working grace in them For could we by our endeavours raise them to the highest pitch of honour mount them aloft into Hamans place of fauour and command So that their smiling countenances might make glad soâ—e their angry frownes strike dread into the hearts of others Could we ascertaine them of the full fruition of all the golden mountaines and fruitfull Ilands under the whole heavens Could we procure for the satisfying of their appetites the greatest satiety of all mellifluous Nectars and delicious aliments that earth ayre and water can affoord of all exquisite and resplendent garments curiously wrought and embroidered by the art of man finely perfum'd with the most odoriferous Myrrhe Aloes and Cassia and garnished with varietie of gemmes and belliments so that they are clothed in purple and fine linnen and fare deliciously every day Yet all these without grace are but so many silken manicles and golden fetters of a miserable wretch haled to wofull execution On the contrary Let a man be furnished with the last measure of those heavenly endowments of saving grace although he be the drunkards song a by-word to fooleâ— the anvile of all dunghill scorne and disdaine a monster amidst men Psal 71. 3. Zach. 3. 8. such an object of commiseration that may melt an Adamantine heart into pitifull compassion of his extreamest miseries Yet in this man the beloved of the Lord his rich inheritance peculiar portion rich jewell apple of his eye an heire of heaven a judge of the world Christs beautifull spouse never wanting a sweet comforter a never-failing friend who will not leave him untill it hath set an eternall crowne of glory upon his head Psal 84. 10. Poise these in an even ballance and we shall see grace as farre surmounting all these golden vanities as heaven doth earth the peerelesse Sunne a pinking candle and a golden mountaine a heape of dust 1. Grace is peculiar to the soule It s not the backe or belley but mans immortall soule which is the place wherein grace is resident 2. Grace is proper to the Saints Those who walke in the cursed wayes of damnation are strangers to Gods graces But those other thingâ— are common both to good and bad Absolon of an amiable beauty aswell as Ioseph Goliah matchlesse in power and prowesse aswell as Sampson Haman a Kings greatest favourite as well as Mordecaâ— Dives abounding in wealth aswell as Abraham 3. Grace of as long continuance as heaven it selfe and those crownes of immortality In regard of it selfe as love joy peace which shall extend even to eternity never ending Or in regard of its fruits the fruits of faith hope patience prayer c. being endlesse Those other are of so limber and brittle nature that there can be no assurance of their continuance Riches often mount aloft on Eagles wings leaving their owners in extreame scarcenesse Beauty is oft blasted by cares sorrowes discontents sicknesse and made disdainefull Strength many times is enfeebled by inlenesse gluttony drunkenesse adultery diseases c. Honourable advancement is often turned into scornefull contempt and hatefull obloquie Howsoever at the bed of death they must shake hands for ever 4. Grace is a most sweet refreshing comforter in all extremities This did revive David in his distresse This made Iob blesse God for taking away This made the Apostles rejoyce in afflictions And the Martyrs to contemne the utmost rage of hellish persecutors Those other have no more power to comfort in the needfull time of dread then congeal'd ice to give warmth to a starveling body tart vinegar to supple a smarting wound or smoothering smoke to comfort a tender eye Witnesse Achitophel who for all his great esteeme hangs himselfe Ahab who being but denied Naboths vineyard is sicke with griefe 6. Lastly considering that gaine is of such efficacy that it makes the martiall man to abandon all fearefull cowardise forsake the delight of his eyes and his tender children disregard his owne life and with heroicall prowesse encounter his formidable bloud-thirsty enemy What drives the ventrous mariner through so many perillous hazards and dangerous pericliations save onely hope of gaine Yea what doth edge the keene appetites of cursed and cruell inclosers oppressing landlords hellish usurers to grinde the faces of the poore purchase Gods displeasure and damne their soules save onely gaine This therefore being so prevalent let me use it as a spurre to pricke you forward to this so sacred
resolutely August Epist 137. concludes All these professours and puritans are starke naught None so cruell none so unconscionable as they whereas no men breathing have more tender consciences yea such that they dread as much to adde riches of iniquity unto their substance as to cast wild fire amidst their thacâ—e Mistake me not I pray I do not by naming puritans apologize for that damned hereticall sect denying repentance to such as fell although through infirmity condemning second August Tom. 6. lib ad quod vult deum Heres 38. pag. 18. marriages glorying in their workes and deeming themselves without sinne which sprung up in the third hundreth yeare after Christ Neither do I justifie fanaticall Separatists So were the Albigentes called 55. Christopher Sibthorp pag. 340. Nor pleade for factious fellowes whose aime is contention not sanctification But by puritans I meane practising Protestants such men who daily reade the Scriptures pray with their families teach them the way to heaven eschue lying swearing vsury oppression time-selling defrauding and all knowne sinnes spend the Lords daies holily in hearing Gods Word prayer meditation conference singing of Psalmes meditation of the creatures are mercifull to the poore deligent in their particular Callings frame their lives according to Gods will revealed in his Word c. And what Protestant will condemne any of these actions although many doe the men tearming them Saints on Sunday divels all the weeke after Saint-seeming bible-bearing hypocriticall puritans Seeing therefore by spreading abroad any fault of any of Gods children thou wrongest thy selfe and all thy fellowes be intreated to practise this so vrgent duty And give not the world the least occasion to blaspheme the sweet society of Saints but shew thy selfe a friend whose property as one saith well is to carry his heart on the backe of his hand to disclose his mind his tongue in the palme to close-his mouth to true good fellowes Before I leave this duty give me leave to digresse a little to examine and answer the worldlings argument which sillogistically must runne thus Some professours are cruell covetous hypocriticall starke naught c. But all such fellowes are some professours Therefore they all are covetous cruell hypocriticall starke naught Answ 1 This is in substance your common kind of reasoning O you worldlings against the people of God 1. Take notice of your fond arguing from particulars in the like Something which glisters is brasse copper tinne and such sordid metall But all gold is something which doth glister Therefore all gold is brasse copper c. Something which shines is called foolish fire a vanishing meteor But the Sunne Moone and Starres are some things which do shine Therefore they are foolish fire and vanishing meteors 2. O you censorious judges how dare you take upon you Gods royall Prerogative to enter into the secrets of mens hearts in accusing them of hypocrisie covetousnesse and such like for no other cause but because some who make profession as they doe are so and so In thus doing you exceed the wickednesse of your forefathers the Pharisees they not burdening Peter and the rest with Iudas his treason nor the Disciples with Ananias his sacriledge nor Saint Paul with Demas his earthly-mindednesse 3. Learne hence forward to argue from generals as thus Whosoever are unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdome of heaven they so continuing 1. Cor. 6. 9 10. But I that am a fornicator adulterâ—r effeminate person a theefe covetous drunkard c. am an unrighteous person 1. Cor. 6. 9 10. Therfore I so continuing cannot inherit the Kingdome of heaven Or thus Whosoever wants holinesse shall not see God Heb. 12. 14. But I who am onely a civill honest man at the best want holinesse Therefore I shall not see God Or thus Whosoever goes to heaven must be a doer of Gods will Mat. 7. 22. But I who live in swearing lying scorning of goodnesse c. am not a doer of the will God Therefore I shall not goe to heaven 4. If your reasoning be good see into what a gulfe of misery inevitably it would throw you Some who are no professors are common drunkards whoremongers swearers yea die impenitent persons and are damned But all such who are not of this society as yet are some persons who are no professours Therefore all such are common swearers c. die impenitently and are damned This kind of reasoning is false and uncharitable 5. Whosoever professe themselves not to be Pagans Papists c. To forsake the divell and all his workes therefore swearing lying drunkennesse and all other damnable deeds of darknesse To beleeve in God and serve him consequently to repent obey his will pray and performe other such services he doth enioyne To heare Sermons and call upon others to do the same to follow the example of our Saviour Christ and to be made like unto him in all things to die from sinne and rise againe to righteousnesse to mortifie continually all their evill and carnall affections to proceed daily in all vertue and godlinesse of living to confesse the faith of Christ crucified and manfully to fight under his banner against sinne the world and the divell and continue Christs faithfull souldiers and servants to their lives end professe as much as the forwardest professour in England But all these blattering beasts and brawling Belials who bawle and bark against professours and profession professe all this is is evident not openly by their owne confident confession but also by the latter end of the rubricke of Baptisme Baptisme doth represent unto us our profession which is c. From which premises I may soundly and certainely inferre 1. Therefore if all who make profession of Religion are naught themselves so doing are likewise naught 2. Therefore profession and shew of Religion are onely colâ—urable and pretended practise of that which themselves professe to practise the prime and principall if not the sole cause of their implacable and inveterate hatred and of their immoderate and impetuous bitter taunts and reprochfull railings against professours and profession CHAP. VIII Vse 6. The Saints must reprove and be reproved Vse 6 COnceale not onely but with the heavenly balme of Christian reproofe bind up the sores of thy fâ—llow members In performing of this important duty be carefull 1. To beginne at home Mat. 7. 3. Bee not like Lamia eagle ey'd abroad starke blind at home least it be said to thee out of thine owne mouth will I condemne thee Rom. 2. 21. least like fullers earth thou purge others and be a cast-away thy selfe Zeale is best which begins at home Be thine owne physition A man faulty may reprove first least thou quench fire upon other mens houses and suffer thine owne to perish I do not thinke that a man may not reprove another himselfe being faulty For if none should reprove but those who themselves are in-offensive none must reprove Iam. 5. 17. But if that a man be faulty by
images represent the shape thus pictures are images of men Some agree with the thing in nature so children are images of fathers having the same specificall essence Some the very individuum So Christ is onely the image of the Father Christ Iesus is onely the perfect and consubstantiall image of God Col. 1. 15. Heb. 1. 3. The godly are the imperfect image of God Eph. 4. 24. Col. 3. 10. We having a resemblance of his nature may be called his image for although this is daily corrupted by sinne yet it is againe renewed by Christ Iesus Col. 3. 10. 6. Man is father to man in regard of adoption Moyses thus the sonne of Pharaohs daughter Mordecas thus a father to Ester Est 2. 7. Thus is the Lord our Father Rom. 8. 14 15 16. 9. 16 Gal. 3. 26. 4. 5. c. Therefore he is a Father to the Saints or these goodfellowes all or most of those wayes whereby man is father unto man He who performeth more freely and willingly then all other all offices and duties of a father to these goodfellowes must needs be their Father But the Lord of heaven and earth performeth more freely and willingly then all other fathers all offices and duties of a father to these goodfellowes Therefore he is their Father The latter proposition I thus prove He who doth beget feed cloth correct provide inheritance and mariage for these goodfellowes more freely c. doth performe all offices and duties of a father c. But the Lord of heaven and earth doth thus viz. passing by temporall respects 1. The Lord doth beget us spiritually by his Word 1 Pet. 1. The Lord Begets 23. Raising us when we were dead in sinnes and trespasses Eph. 2. 1 2. Therefore we are said to have Gods seed abiding in us and to be borne of God 1 Ioh. 3. 9. 2. Parents do not onely beget but provide for the sustentation Feeds of their child begotten Should parents forsake their children begotten and borne birth which is the greatest good they receive in the world would prove a great evill yea such that better were it not to be then being to want meanes whereby this being may be preserved The Lord in this respect is a Father feeding the soule he hath begotten so That were it possible to extract the carefull providence of all the most tender parents under the Fabrick of the heavens and replant it in one man were it possible for this more then ordinary man to provide for his so tenderly affected children the greatest varieties of all mellifluous aliments that earth aire and water could affoord Could be feed them with the marrow fatnesse and quintessence of the most delicious cates of natures simples or mixtures of skilfull artists could he satisfie their thirst and delight their appetites with the fained Nectars and Ambrosia's of those forged gods yet all this and a thousand times more if so much could be is as nothing in comparison of the Lords fatherly care in providing for his children What are these in regard of his sacred Word that sweet refreshing milke 1 Pet. 2. 1. 2. Free from all mixture of errour heresie or tradition therefore called sincere That substantiall bread of the soule preserving its life health and strength Iob 23. 13. That purest wheate Ier. 23. 28. That strong refreshing meate Heb. 5. 13. Sweeter then honey and the hony combe Psal 19. 10. Those green pastures and waters of comfort Psalme 23. 2. That heavenly refreshing wine Can. 2. 4. Which Pellican calleth hony milke Nectar Ambrosia In Ezek 34. 14. the food of justice and truth alwayes fatting the soules of the faithfull What are these to the grace of Gods Spirit that necessary milke to an heavenly life Isa 55. 1. And that sweet delightfull wine What are these to that celestiall and spirituall bread Christ Iesus which came downe from heaven Iohn 6. 50. That food truly effectuall to the faithfull soule our blessed Saviour who is meate indeed Ioh. 6. 55. That rejoycing wine the bloud of the immaculate Lambe slaine from the beginning Mat. 26. 28. 3. Parents also cloath their naked children and in this respect 3. Cloaths the Lords care farre surpasseth all fathers he clothing us with the robes of Christ his righteousnesse which is such a vesture that who so wanteth is farre more yea without all comparison polluted subject to evill and unlovely then any new borne babe naked and unwasht and in the bloud And of such worth is this garment that were it possible the cunning of all skilfull Artists could concurre to the fashioning of some one garment made of the excellencies of silks precious stones resplendent pearles and costly gold Could they convey the quintessence of all odoriserous perfumes into the same Were it possible tobe clad more excellently then the Lillies of the field farre surpassing Salomon in all his glory Yea imagine a man to be as richly trim'd as that glorious runner in the firmament comming out of his Tabernacle to run his race Psal 19. Or as that transcendent canopy of the heavens deckt with innumerable varieties of resplendent stars Yet all these are as nothing in comparison of the rich robes of Christs righteousnesse wherewith the Lord doth cloath his children Which is a garment whereby the nakednesse of the soule is covered 2. Cor. 5. 2 3. Rev. 3. 18. is comforted and kept warme defended from the fiery darts of sinne and Sathan Ephes 6. 11. deck'd beautified and adorned Isa 61. 10. This garment being pleasant sweete and dainty perfum'd with odoriferous powders of Mirrh Alloes and Cassia Psal 45. 8. pretious and costly ver 9. resembled to the gold of Ophir Curious and costly compared to the needle-worke of a skilfull embroyderer ver 14. This garment ravishing the heart of Christ Iesus Cant. 4. 9. the smell of these ointments farre surpassing the savour of all spices ver 10. and the smell of this garment being like that of Lebanon ver 11. 4. Parents correct their children for their amendment 4. Correct So the Lord chasteneth his Saints Heb. 12. 7. yet in love verse 6. more tenderly then the fathers of our flesh ver 9. and more profitably they many times for their pleasure he to make us partaker of his holinesse ver 10. to prevent sinne 2 Cor. 12. to renne decaying grace Hos 5. 15. to weane from the world and to trie our graces yea and with such fatherly compassion that he is grieved as it were when he smiles Oh Ierusalem c. Oh that there had been such an heart in my people c. 5. Parents provide inheritance for children The Lords 5. Inheritance provident care in t is is imparaleld For were it possible for a father to bequeath to his child Europe Asia Affricke the incognitameta and Antarticks portion Could he leave him the full fruition of all the populous cities fertile countries earthly paradises golden mines yea all the wealth within the circle of
creature Instance we in what we can Be it for proportion ilfavoured beyond all imagination be it more pestiferous then the eye-slaying Basilisk and hideous Gorgon Let it have all the concurring ingredients of misery and contempt being the subject of extreame wretchednesse and an object of hatred to men and other creatures Yet man not beloved of God is beyond all comparison more wretched death being a period to its calamities and an entrance to the others unsufferable and never ending torments But let a man be beloved of God although he be table talke for hypocriticall mockers at feasts a by-word to men vilâ—r then the earth the drunkards song and trampled under foot by every stigmaticall varlâ—t yet is he as honourable as an heire of heaven a member of Christ and a child of God Do we then as we do if we are in our right wits desire God to love us and shall not we love him againe Reason therefore thus with thy selfe O man Are there so many profitable advantages accomâ—dating true love to God and shall I neglect them Hath true love to God such beneficiall effects and wilt thou despise them The want thereof such dangerous execrations and wilt thou incurre them Is love to God that great and first commandement and wilt thou transgresse it Dost thou thinke to have the love of God without which thou art most miserable and thou not loving him Is it fit for children not to love their father No no if other men will hate yet I am resolved henceforth to love God Yea and expresse the same by hating what is evill Obedience to Gods commandements A conscionable discharge of the duties of my calling Conformity to God Not loving the world Entirely loving the Saints Often thinking on God as my chiefest treasure And loving the comming of Christ to judgement CHAP. III. Duty 2. Saints must shunne sinne IS God our Father Then ought we to consider advisedly Duty 2. of our noble parentage and with all circumspect consideration take heed we disgrace it not nor distaine our Fathers houshold And imploy our endeavours to the utmost to honour and glorifie our Father and grace his faithfull family by our vertuous conversations It is not seemly for a Kings son to defile himselfe with contaminating dung and such like sordid filth it 's not for them to consort with fellowes of base inordinate and immorigerous ranks How much more unfit is it for Gods sonnes children to a King truly really whose kingdome is of such large extension that heaven hell earth and all places are within his royall government and of such commanding power that all created beings whether ruling Kings or potent Emperours whether Coelestiall Angels or infernall Divels stand his subjects to do him homage and that not for a moment or some small time of continuance but through all eternity to pollute themselves with sinne and impiety more loathsome then any thing whatsoever e. g. Be it that a man from top to toe is soyled with the most noysome excrements that are imaginable to be upon the face of the earth yet with a small quantity of water and a little industry of man it 's easy to have him cleansed Suppose a man to be as it were clad with boyles and botches from the sole of the foot to the crowne of the head yet it is possible that good diet wholsome ayre the helpe of skilfull Phisitians should restore him to perfect sanity But all the water in Abana Parphar Iordan nor the whole Oâ—ean is of force to wash off nor the most excellent diet wholsome ayre drugges and pearles of price hornes of Vâ—icornes stones of Bezar ordered by the exactest skill of men and Angels is availeable to purge away sinne It is onely the bloud of Christ which cleanseth from sin 1 Ioh. 1. 7. What made those forâ—orne Apostate fiends of glorious Angels to become damned Divels detested of God Angels and men Sure I am not their Creation it being excellent but their depravation their sinne Whence is it that the Lord doth hate his owne Ordinances New Moones Sabbaths and prayers Isa 1. 15 What occasioneth the Lord to turne a fruitfull land into barrennesâ—e save the iniquity of those that dwell therein Psal 107. 37. Why did the Lord drowne the whole world with an overflowing deluge overturne those pleasant and fertile cities even as the Garden of God Gen. 13. 10. with fire and brimstone save onely because of their sinnes By which particulars it is most perspicuous that nothing whatsoever so filthily polluteth as sinne and therefore such persons whose father is the great King ought not to pollute themselves therewith What els meane those Scriptures 2 Tim. 2. 19. Let every one who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity 1 Ioh. 3. 8. He who commits sinne is of the Divell Ver. 9. Whosoever is borne of God sinneth not And againe Hee cannot sinne because hee is borne of God 1 Ioh. 2. 1. These things have I written that you sinne not 1. Mistake me not I pray I intend not the least allowance of Donatists Pelagians Catharists and Familists who glory of perfect purity yea to be as pure as Christ in heaven of freedome from all sinne the Scriptures telling me that in many things we offend all Iam. 3. 2. I seeing the Publican whose prayer was accepted saying God be mercifull to me a sinner Luke 18. 13. Saint Paul complaining to be of sinners the chiefe 1 Tim. 1. 15. And our Saviours owne Apostles commanded to pray forgive us our trespasses not for modesty sake as Pellagians affirme but of consciousnesse of humane frâ—ilty as saith Saint Hierome He who commanded to sinne no more Ioh. 5. 14. Commanded also to pray daily for forgivenesse He who said whosoever is borne of God sinneth not 1 Ioh. â— 6. Said also If we say we have no sinne we deceive our selves and the truth iâ— not in us 1 Ioh. 1. 8. We make God a lyar and his word is not in us verse 10. Although we know God heareth not sinners Ioh. 9. 31. Yet we know also that Christ came to call sinners to repentance The same God who directed Balaams tongue to say God hath beheld no iniquity in Iacob nor seene perversenesse in Israel Num. 23. 21. Directed the tongâ—e of Moyses the man of God to say Thou settest our sins before thee our secret sinnes in the light of thy countenance Psal â—0 8. What then is there contradiction in the Scripture No such matter both the one and the other are the undeniable sacred truths of God God seeth no sinne in his people sc with a revenging eye as to condemne his people for their sinnes That mandate sinne no more is a comparative speech whereby the cured is exhorted to strive that his sinnes be not such nor so many as they had beene but that their force might be weakned their number lessened and occasions avoided God heareth not sinners i. such who make a trade of sinning suffering
persons pacifie their guilty consciences justly galled for their wretched and irreligious actions like those wicked justiciaries Math. 7. 23. Who perswaded themselves but they were deceived being rejected for their workes of iniquity Verse 23. that by their prophecyings and such other good duties they should make amends for their foule enormities and procure for themselves an easie passage into the blissefull possession of the Lord of glory What and if diverse others deeme themselves and are so esteem'd by their neighbours the onely men under the Sunne because they do no hurt which alas is a poore commendation for a Christian man Yet happy would it be with our Kingdome if all Christians might be said justly to do no hurt for then it would be empty of all cut-throat usurers mercilesse depopulatours and an innumbred swarme of such like devourers for was this a sufficient commendation Why was the unprofitable servant cast into utter darknesse Why was the fruitlesse fig-tree withered Might not they have pleaded aswell destroy us not we do no hurt Might not those cursed goates Mat. 25. reply aswell although we did thee no good by relieving thy distressed members yet we did thee no hurt by impoverishing afflicting grieving oppressing Yet sure I am it is the property of Gods children to depart from evill and do good Psal 34. 14. Psal 1. 1 2. Iob 1. 8. Zach. 7. 9. He being a converted man He being of God He labouring for heaven Conforming himselfe to the precept of God and godly men Follow we therefore these shining Lamps in declining all evill and endeavouring to practise all good duties there being no mediocrity betweene well doing and evill doing For he who doth not good doth evil committing a sin of omission that so doing we may glorifie and honour our Father this other way sc in our conversations I having thus briefly and concisely declared how we are to honour our father I will now propound sixe inducements to perswade you to give our Heavenly Father his due and deserved honour both with your thoughts words and actions You will as you ought to render to all their dues tribute Mot. 1. Honour due to God to whom tribute is due custome to whom custome feare to whom feare honour to whom honour Rom. 12. 7. give to every one their right will you not Will you give unto Caesar the things which are Caesars and not to God the things which are Gods Shall Maisters servants husbands wives neighbours and strangers have that which is their due and shall not God Yea shall the Divell have his due for that I take it is no unwonted proverbe and must the Lord onely be patchingly dealt withall God forbid Glory and honour are the Lords through all eternity Rom. 11. 36. 1 Tim. 1. 17. Could you declare the glory of God not onely like those glittering heavens dockt with innumerable varieties of resplendent stars or that canopy-like firmament reaching all the world over and every where to be seen continuing from the creation without wearing fretting renting or tearing Or that swiftest runner whose Tabernacle is in the heavens of such swift celerity that in one day and night he whirles about the whole world 240000. Germane miles in one houre and whose glorious brightnesse is such that nothing can hide it from the heate thereof But with those foure beasts Rev 4. 8 9. whether the Angels of God which is most likely or such Ecclesiasticall persons the servants of God who have faithfully laboured to deliver to the Church the truth of Doctrine I will not stand to dispute also continually give glory and honour to him that sitteth on the Throne who liveth for ever and ever Yet could you not give to God more then his due for all honour and glory is due to him through all eternitie For what cause thinke you do you enjoy abundance of 2. We made to honour God unspeakable mercies from the bountifull hands of your mercifull Father Doe you imagine that you might spend your time in sportfull vanities seemingly delightfull as if you were placed upon the earth as Leviathan in the waters to play therein Deeme you the end of your noble creation to be to congregate heapes of droâ—â—ie dunghill and transitorie trash of earthly treasures No such matter Or doe you think you are sent into this world to devoure your poore brethren by cursed and cruell inclosure cut-throat usury or ravenous extortion Nothing lesse For the end of your creation yea of all created beings whether glorified Angels or infernall Divels whether magnificent starrie bodies or contemptible terrestriall wormes whether indued with reason or deprived of sense is the honour and glory of God The Lord hath made all things for himselfe Prov. 16. 4. I have created him for my glory Ezek. 43. 7. Thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory and honour and power for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created Rev. 4. 9. 10. Must those splendent ornaments of the world Sunne Moone and Stars of light because he commanded and they were created Psal 148. 3. 5. Must hideous Dragons a terrour to men and other creatures inhabiting solitarie desarts Must fire haile stormy wind sNow and vapours Must mountaines and hils fruitfull trees and all Cedars Must beasts and cattell creeping things and slying fowles praise and honour God for their creation Much more ought mankind whether Kings of the earth or people Princes or Iudges of the earth whether yong men or maidens old men or childreÌ„ Ps 148. 11 12. For imagine we a creature compos'd of the very excellency of all creatures graunt it the best qualities of the rarest beasts and birds which excell in feature strength gesture swiftnesse voice or otherwise Give it the quintessence of the earths fecundity as the chiefest vertues of plants trees flowers and herbes good for meat and medicine the worth and value of pearles and precious stones the richnes of all the refined'st gold and chiefest treasure Infuse into the same the most odoriserous smell of all the sweetest perfumes decke it with the glory and brightnesse of the starres yet wanting an humane soule it would come farre short of the meanest reasonable creature It having a soule capable of those peerelesse graces of Gods Spirit interest in those unvaluable merits of the immaculate Lambe Christ Iesus and those immortall crownes of unspeakable glory Reason therefore thus Shall all the creatures inferiour and serviceable to me honour the Lord Am I made a creature so noble and excellent for this end Then surely I will honour the Lord my mercifull maker The glory of God is the end of your redemption 1 Cor. 6. 3. Redeemed to honour God 20. For you are bought with a price therefore glorifie God in your body and in your spirit which are Gods Have you any interest in that painefull and unconceiveable redemption of Gods Elect which I hope you have then stirre up your selves after this or the
remission of sinnes how and by whom wherein every sincere Christian may behold clearely the unparalel'd love of Christ Iesus freeing him by his owne painefull passion from the guilt and guerdon the due desert and dominion the power and punishment of his sinnes 5. Let it be upon the inheritance which is incorruptible undefiled not fading away reserved in the heavens c. And I think it wil be granted without contradiction that such like meditations make the godly soule to leape for joy 6. Let it be upon dismall death and mouldring mortality even this will comfort the heavenly minded soule loving the appearing of Christ longing after the same with the Bride in the Revelation certifying him that these miseries are but momentany and that this miserable mortality shal be swallowed up of glorious immortality 7. Let it be of the judgements of God denounced or inflicted upon others or upon himselfe even these contemplations want not matter of consolation to that soule which considereth Gods infinite love sending no greater he deserving the extreamest enabling him to make a good use of them and to beare them christianly This I suppose is a commodious and profitable necessary and warrantable Christian not Iewish resolution to abstaine from those worldly and wanton words workes and thoughts and to be wholly imployed and that delightfully in those holy and heavenly contemplations communications and actions And that I may stirre you up to put in practice this so laudable sweet and profitable resolution to those former reasons and motives I have intermingled in my former passages give me leave to adde these following reasonings and pious arguings 1. Is the Lords Day the queene of dayes yea the Lords market day for our soules wherein we are to buy Isa 55. 2. without money or mony worth the heavenly and celestiall bread water wine and milk of Gods sacred Word and saving graces the golden gifts and precious merits of Christ to inrich our faith Rev. 3. 18. The eye-salve of true wisdome and the Spirit of light to illuminate our spirituall blindnesse and the white raiment of Christs righteousnesse that we may be clothed and that the shame of our nakednesse do not appeare and shall we passe it away in wanton delights in fruitlesse and hurtfull discourses in distrustfull and distracting musings or in needlesse and dunghill actions And not rather spend this Day in buying such peerelesse traffique not onely in the publique assemblies but also before and after the same by Divine contemplations heavenly communications fervent and faithfull prayer and other such like pious Lords Dayes practices 2. Is this the Lords Day not mine his Holy Day no common or prophane one therefore to be sanctified therefore to be kept holy and shall we shew such intolerable ingratitude as to deny so small use of time to him that gives to us so much and so large use of time 3. Is it a matter of duty and not of curtesie of charge and not of choice of allegiance and not of liberty of necessity and not of indifferency not permitted but commanded to sanctifie the Lords Day and keepe it as holy as we can and shall not wee use our utmost endeavour to doe the same 4. Do those who conscionably sanctifie the Lords Day imitate the prime and purest examples walking in those paths which have beene traced out by David Nehemiah and such like ones by Iesus Christ such a Sonne such a Saviour by the Lord Iehovah who rested the seventh Day from his worke of creation although as easie to him as to speake and cause it to be created And shall we be drawne into unwarranted courses or omit necessary pious duties upon Gods Day because many who are great Schollers good Preachers great men the wealthiest in our parish and many honest men make no bones of worldly discoursings unneedful actions nor are very forward in those other substantiall duties Learning they may have wisdome greatnesse yea goodnesse yet may their example be erroneous no sufficient patterne for imitation in many things we offend all yea and good St. Paul would be followed no otherwise then he followed Christ 1 Cor. 11. 1. Be it they be wise or wealthy honourable or honest who give or take liberty yet sure we are we take the surest and safest course yea the most commodious and comfortable having Gods precept for our warrant and his example for our encouragement Powerfull they may be but he is omnipotent wise they may be but he is wisdome it selfe honest they may be he goodnesse it selfe 5. Since the Lords Day is a blessed Day so called either 1. Because it is instituted to Gods service 2. Or because the Lord gave it a singular priviledge to be a Day of rest and holinesse a Day of delight and heavenly feasting to the world 3. Or because the Lord doth blesse more effectually all such who conscionably keepe it holy on that Day then any other so that then they enjoy after an extraordinary manner this transcendently sweet and lovely fellowship with the Father We for our parts will alienate and estrange our soules tongues and bodies so farre forth as in us lieth from such workes such words and thoughts which withdraw the mind from God and endeavour to spend those little parcels of time which remaine to us exempt from the publique assemblies of the Saints and the doing of some few necessary actions in Divine contemplations Christian communications such pious and holy actions that so the Lord may suppe with us and we with him Rev. 3. 20. We feasting him with the fruit of our true repentance 2. With our faith beleeving and applying the Word and promises of God 3. By serving God faithfully giving up our soules and bodies holy and acceptable sacrifices to him he feasting us in his Word and Sacraments That so he may dwell in us and we in him and to conclude that we may obtaine if still we want communion with God or get if already we have a more perfect and full assurance of our fellowship with the Father CHAP. XIII The eight Meanes and Duty Chusing the things which please God What those things be Diverse chusers Which are best HAve we or desire we fellowship with the Father Shew 8. Meanes Duty it and seeke it by chusing the thing which pleaseth the Lord This chusing being both a marke and meanes of mans communion with the Father Isa 56. 4. Where and who is he that would not be a chuser might the choice tend to his reall and seeming contentment With what greedy graspings would some possesse mountaines of gold silver pearles and precious stones and worlds of wealth With what enraged bloudy and implacable cruelty would some bathe their hands and glad their hearts in the last groanings and effusion of the most warme and in most hearts bloud of their enemies How would some ingrosse kingdome after kingdome yea one world after another How would some plunge themselves into a bottomlesse Ocean of voluptuous delights
66. last Then we and all they shall see they were but in a fooles paradise and a deluding dreame 4. No peace No not with Gods creatures base or glorious these being ready prest to harme and hurt them if the Lord command or permit God being against them who can have peace with them Rom. 8. 31. 5. No peace Much lesse with the Lord For as Iehâ— could have no peace with Ioram so long as the whoredomes c. 2 Reg. 9. 22. What peace can they have with God so long as their impieties are so many As out of this society there is no peace so in this there is perfect peace Isa 26. 3. Peace they have with Father Sonne and Holy Ghost Rom. 5. 1. With glorious Angels these being their guard with good men Marc. 9. 50. Yea oft with enemies Prov. 16. 7. With heaven earth creatures crosses and their owne consciences What though they have afflictions in the world yet have they peace in Christ Ioh. 16. 33. And be it they not onely have trouble without but temptations within yet are they free from the force power and poyson of them which workes damnation in the wicked These things being so me thinkes all of you should use your best and utmost endeavours to have part and interest in this goodfellowship it being of all societies the sweetest surest most glorious most rich most joyfull and peacefull so that we may say of this as the Psalmist doth of the City of God Psal 8â— 3. Glorious things are spoken of thee O blessed society Yea such glorious wealth beauty victories prophesies presence promises and performances that being advisedly apprehended are of force to instigate and induce each soule enlivened by the Spirit of Grace to applaud with an holy admiration Psal 84. 1. this blissefull association and say How amiable are thy Tabernacles O Lord Christ Iesus To desire with earnest ardency wish for with unsatiable longings and say Psal 84. 2. My soule longeth yea even fainteth for the courts of the Lord my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God and with the same sweet singing Psalmist magnifie the sumptuous magnificence of this assembly saying Blessed are they that dwell in this house Verse 4. One day in these courts is better then a thousand I had rather be a doorekeeper in this society then to dwell in the tents of wickednesse Ver. 10. CHAP. V. Vse 4. Of Consolation to such who have fellowship with Christ. ALL you who are stubborne refractary and inexorable bedlam Belials who will not have this man raigne Vse 4. Consolation over you who will not be inoculated and inserted into this society of such ineffable glory unspeakable beauty and other inestimable transcendent excellencies stand by behold and view with admiration the glory and magnificence of this society and as Titus when he had seene the remainder of the Sanctum Sanctorum said Now I well perceive that this is none other then the house of God and the dwelling of the God of heaven Neither was it for nought that the Iewes stood so earnestly in the defence thereof For great is the glory of this Temple So when you have seene the splendent glory and transcendent beatitudes of this unparalel'd society do you speake out and say we well perceive that this connexion is no other then the communion with God the dwelling of the God of heaven neither is it for nought that such precise practising Protestants stand so earnestly in defence of it for great is the glory of this conjunction But do not presume to meddle with or lay hold upon it so as to apply it to your selves so long as you proceed in your exorbitant disorders This holy thing is not to be given to dogs these pearles are not to be cast before swine neither must any Cananite enter into this fellowship with the Lord Iesus But all you who already are annexed to and you who desire with unchangeable longings and laborious endeavours to conglutinate your selves to the Lord Iesus draw neare with attentive harkening That I may edge and keene your obtuse and blunt endeavours to cleave more closely to and pursue more eagerly this desireable society that I may hearten and incourage you against the many oppositions you are to encounter with in this your warring pilgrimage that I may make gladsome your soules and spirits I have words of comfort and consolation to speake unto you We have fellowship with Gods Sonne Iesus Christ and he is Wonderfull to save us Counsellour to advise us Mighty God to deliver us Everlasting Father to care and provide for us A Prince of peace to quiet our consciences and Governour for our defence Isa 9. 6. 1. Be it you are infirme and weake yet have you fellowship with Iesus Christ such a Child which will make you strong 2. Be it you are servants yet have you fellowship with Iesus Christ a Sonne to make and keepe you free 1. Are you confounded in conscience beholding the grim and ghastly lookes of your many bloudy and crimson sinnes formerly acted or intended Consolate your selves with this you have fellowship with him who is wonderfull to quiet all 2. Are you at your wits end being void of counsell Behold how you have fellowship with Christ Iesus a present Counsellour to advise and direct you 3. Are you feeble yea ready to despaire in regard of your inability and lack of strength to withstand the fierie darts and fierce assaults of Sathan that authour of evill to undergo the many great and grievous pressures of disgracefull ignominious reproches slaunderous calumniations and other malicious usages you meet with in this world animate your drooping and dismaid spirits with this you have fellowship with Christ a Mighty God so that you shal be able to do all things through Christ which strengtheneth you 4. Are you fearefull of death that dismall parter of soules and bodies Comfort your selves with this you have fellowship with Christ an everlasting Father who hath provided so graciously for you that your death is not a perishing but a parting for a time yea such that although there be a painefull parting betweene your soules and bodies yet there shal be a most gladsome and joyfull meeting 5. Are you afraid of Gods judgements Behold your fellowship with Gods Sonne the Prince of peace 6. Are you dismaid with any evill Consider how you have fellowship with him who is Governour of all for your defence Feare not therefore What Not God not his judgements not man not sinne I say not so 1. Gods judgements and threatnings are to be feared 2 Cor. 5. 11. Knowing therefore the terrour of the Lord such who feared Gods judgements were comforted Isa 66. 5. Yea the very Aegyptians who feared the threats escaped them Exod. 9. 20. They are to be feared therefore although not so as to think to be overwhelmed by them or that God doth not love us 2. Man is to be feared although not simply for himselfe
fellowship 219 c. Grace how like 4. Its spreading nature and excellencie 19 c How it may be lost how not 118 c. We must labour to worke it in others and why 19 c. We must grow in grace if we wil be like Christ 262 263. H HAte sinners and how 10. Sinne and why 39 Hearing of Gods Word needfull and excellent 142 c. Obiections against it answered 143 How to heare and faulty hearers 14â— c. How we must heare and why 172. 181. Heaven hoped for in vaine by many 88. Holinesse See sanctification How the Saints are holy Honour due to God How God is honoured Why with soule and body both Why with the soule especially How with the tongue and life 72 c. Motives to honour God 84 c. Honour of the Saints 198. And of their communion See glory Hope of Saints its excellency 236. Hosts are Gods 122. Husbands duty 203. Saints husband transcendent 46 203. Hypocrites how hurtfull 26 55. I IGnorance hurtfull its fruits 97 273. Inheritance of Saints unparalel'd 45. Inhabitation in Christ See Christ Whence it is 270 271. Ingrossers of corne censured 67. Imitation of God wherein 138 c. Of Christ wherein and why 257. Of men wherein 262. Imprecations to be shunned though Saints have imprecated and why 76. Imputation of Christs righteousnesse 235. Ioy of the Saints 129 192 224. Why they reioyce 239. Iustice of God by whom abused Obiections against it answered 77. Iustification handled with its causes and fruits 233 c. Whence it is how it differs from sanctification 237. How once iustified are alwayes 240. K KNowledge saving honoureth God 73. It is needfull to do Gods will 97. and necessary to enioy Gods Spirit 272. L LAbour in lawfull callings commendable 24. When not to be taxed of covetousnesse 68 103. Labour on the Lords Day See workes Lords Day why so called 150. Duties of the Lords Day See Sabbath Law how it is kept by the Saints 187. It binds How Christians are under the Law how not 184 192. How free from the Law 243 c. Liberalitie See mercy It s excellency 224. Liberty of Christians frees not them from Gods service 192. Not from authority gives not liberty to sinne Frees not from sinne 243. Not from the obedience of the Morall Law 243 c. Wherein Christian liberty consists and its excellency 248 c. Life godly honoureth God 83. Love of God to us how great Gods lovelinesse 49 c. We ought to love God Who truly love him 46 c. Their paucity 47 c. Love to God greatly rewarded the first and great commandement and how 49 c. It honoureth God 74. By it we cleave to God 190 The rule of love 194 c. What the Saints do love 239. Motives to love God 49 c. Love all men why and how all Saints and how 9 c. Love of Saints whence M MAn an excellent creature 85. Serves himselfe sinfully served sinfully how Disswasives Meditation for the Lords Day 165. Delightfull meditations 173. See thoughts Mercy of God what 79 60. To whom it belongs no incouragement to sinne 60 79. By whom it is abused 79. Mercifull workes of diverse sorts Their excellency 170 c. Who must give when how much of what how 13 c. N NEw creatures How Saints have all parts new 238 c. O OAths haÌ„dled by creatures 81. Rashnes Disswasives 81. Excuses answered 82. See swearing Obedience to Gods Law part of the Covenant of mans part 182. P PEace of Saints excellent with them necessary 34 c. What we must yeeld to for peace 36. It s excellency 235. Wicked have no peace 226 c Perfection how Saints perfect how not 139 242. Obiections answered 55. Persecutors of good men wofull 126 c. 209 c. Pharisees what who like them in these dayes 56. Piety a cause of persecution 212. Please God what pleaseth God that is to be chosen 177. Poore of two sorts 68. They must depend upon God 68. Be content 109. Poverty not to be feared 123. Christs poverty 222. Prayerlesse persons woefull 140. What prayers are fruitlesse 140. What kind of prayer is prevailing 141. It is a duty for the Lords Day 170. Yea delightfull 172. It is part of the covenant 182. Needfull 272. Whence it is 270. To pray for earthly things lawfull 103. Preachers are builders 207. Their faults may not keepe us from hearing 143 c. Priviledges of the Saints 218 c. Prophanest people usually the greatest persecutours 212 Profession is good though some Professors are bad 29 c. Providence good and lawfull 68 103. See depend on Gods providence Pure how Saints are pure 141 242. Puritanes what meant 29 212 No Pharisees 56. Not covetous 69. Not of wicked life 214. Scarce any of them begge 70. Or come to the gallowes 113. R REading Scripture and good Bookes a Sabbath duty and how to read 169. Recreation for the Lords Day 171. What is unlawfull 160. Redemption for Gods honour 80 86. It s excellency 86. Regeneration whence 270. It s necessity Danger of its want â— 72. Reliefe See mercy Remission of sinnes a great favour to whom it belongs 224. See forgivenesse Repentance late very dangerous 61 c. Reproofs how to be used who faulty Why we should reprove 32 c. Restitution 17 39. Riotous persons usually covetous 66. Revenge a great sinne 39. Reproches for Christ should not discontent 110. Not to be feared 123. Riches uncertainty 105. Vanity 106. Of the Saints 222 c. S SAbbath Day to be kept holy the name is Morall it s many names Motives to keep it holy and what then lawfull and unlawfull 149 c. Sacraments of the Iewes and ours how the same how differ Excellency of ours 181 c. Saints fellowship See fellowship Their excellency 127. Their portion to be afflicted 126 210 Sanctification handled with its fruits how it differs from iustification 237 c. It is necessary 272. Whence it is 270. Sathan not to be feared 124. His obiections against perseverance answered 119. Scripture though alledged by Hereticks decides controversies 2â—6 Seeking of God a needfull duty what it is manner and meanes of seeking and motives to seeke God 146 c. Servants of God who who not Services of God and of others How to serve God and why bad Masters hindering this service of God 191 c. Sicke persons duty 170 Visiting them a Sabbath duty 170. How to visit who faulty in visiting 170. Sincerity needfull 92 272. Its signes 93. 〈…〉 a Sabbath 〈…〉 ing 〈…〉 Sinnes 〈◊〉 be concealed 23. And why 28. Sinne 〈◊〉 shunned 53. Yea secret sinnes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 57 9â— Least degrees of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all sinne and why sweet sinner 9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sins of Saints and wicked men 57 c. How good men sinne ibid. What they do having sinned 59. How they are free from sinne 124 245. Their sinnes no incouragements to sin 62 c. 〈◊〉 encouragements answered 60 c. Disswasives from sinne 63 136 c. Sinne must be shunned if we imitate Christ 262. How sinne is infinite 78. God no author of sinne 77. It is an evill master by whom it is served disswasives from serving it 198. Sinnes of former times â—s great as now 254 255. Why seeme greater now 255. Sheepe of Christ their duty 276. Sonnes of God who 201. Their duty See Father Society See fellowship Soule is to honour God and first 73. Sparing how commendable 25. Spirit of God dwels in Saints Its fruits in them their miserie who want and scorne this co-habitation 270 271. Who falsly boast of the Spirit Who have who want the Spirit 272 273. Duties of both 274. How the Spirit is grieved how quenched how gotten how kept 275. Sports whether lawfull on the Lords Day Reasons Disswasives 160 c. Strength Spirituall whence 207. Swearing now an honour to God 80 Anabaptists confuted Disswasives from all evill kinds of swearing 80 c. Excuses answered 81 c. Sorrow of Saints 239. Sufferings See afflictions T TOngue is to honour God 74. Many wayes 74 c. Thoughts unlawfull on Gods Day 164. Time-serving hurtfull 93. V VIsiting the sicke a Sabbath duty How who faulty 170 Vsury a filthy sinne 92 100. W VVAnts temporall how supplied to the Saints 123. Will of God must be done 88. It s reward 88. It must be done totally 90 Faithfully 92. Timely 93. Continually 95. Meanes motives let removed 96 c. Mans will contrary to Gods 97. Word of God a Word of faith grace salvation reconciliation life 142. It s excellency 75 172. It is to be talked of 74. Not to be iested with 75. No to defend vice nor disâ—hearten vertue 75. Not to be used in charmes 76. Words not fit for the Lords Day 163. What then commendable 167 c. Workes of God for his glory mans good 165. Workes unlawfull for the Lords Day with disswasives 157. World by whom served disswasives from serving it 197. Wrath a great sinne 39. Wicked men are fooles 128. Their society to be shunned and why 6 c. 135 c. Y YOung people should do Gods will and why 93.