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A61104	Chrysomeson, a golden meane, or, A middle way for Christians to walk by wherein all seekers of truth and shakers in the faith may find the true religion independing upon mans invention, and be established therein : intended as a key to Christianity, as a touchstone for a traveller, as a probe for a Protestant, as a sea-mark for a sailor : in a Christian dialogue between Philalethes and his friend Mathetes, seeking satisfaction / by Benjamin Spencer ...; Way to everlasting happinesse	Spencer, Benjamin, b. 1595?	1659 (1659)	Wing S4944; ESTC R13439	363,024	312

because he would not have them all to perish by a sudden surprize but that Jew and Gentile might have a time to be called to salvation and then it shall come suddenly as a thiefe Secondly there must be such a day because judgement is not fully executed in this world for oftentimes the best men are here oppressed and the worst are exalted but a time must be when God will reward every man according to his works Judgement begins in this world with the house of God but it will end with the wicked 1 Pet. 4.17 So that this day will declare the justice of God which now lyeth hidden Rom. 2.5 and is himselfe censured by men but then he shal overcome in judgement which in part he hath shewed by the fiering of Sodom and will compleat it by being revenged upon the sins of all men as well as theirs Mathe. When shall this day be Phila. As some have thought it would never be so others have been too bold to set the time and so have made people carelesse of their calling and some seeing it did not come to fall away from Religion of these St Paul warneth to take heed 2 Thes 2.1 2 3. and saith that the Kingdome of Antichrist must first come and be destroied also whereas it seemed some thought it would be in the Apostles age by mistaking some Scriptures as Iohn 21.21 that St Iohn should tarry till Christ came Others thought it would be 400. some 500. some 1000 years after Christs Ascension Others have thought 2000 years after Christs Nativity because they say the world was 2000 years before the Law and 2000 under the Law and 2000 years under the Gospell but for the elect sake those daies shall be shortned But the account is false for before the Law was more then 2000 years from the Creation and lesse then so under the Law and therefore who can beleeve what they set down for the future As for the shortning those daies for the elects sake that is spoken of the troubles that fell upon Jerusalem by the Roman army in Vespasian and Titus their time But that there shall be such a day the Scripture tels us Acts 17.31 and God will have it known by preaching of it Acts 10.42 both for the consolation of his people in all their troubles and to leave the wicked without excuse that they had no warning And that this day shall be the last day of the last times wherein men shall depart from the faith 1 Tim. 4.1 Which last times are not they spoken of Heb. 1.1 2 for they were the last times of the fourth and last Monarchy foreseen by Daniel wherein the stone i. Christ should crush to dust all those Monarchies and set a Gospell Kingdome But these last times are the latter times of the Gospell profession wherein men shall give heed to spirits of error and doctrines of devils such as popish heathenisme in worshipping Images Saints and Angels which is nothing else but the renewing of their old superstitions under the colour of Christian Religion But it may be that some may wonder why God should defer the day of Judgement so long after the death of so many faithfull Patriarchs and Prophets and holy Martyrs But they consider not that God hath respect to his own glory in raising and altering things in the world as the Monarchies thereof and the rising and fall of Antichrist the rejection and calling of the Jewes the full comming in of the Gentiles to Gospell profession the gathering of the elect by the means of Gospell-preaching who must have a time to be born and live and hear instruction and perform the works of righteousnesse Nor do they consider that the deferring thereof is for the triall of the elects faith patience and devotion in prayer like the Saints crying under the Altar Rev. 6.10 How long Lord holy and true dost thou defer thy judgement Others it may be will object that seeing that God hath determined this day why will he hide it from us The reason is no doubt because he would have us watch and be prepared like the wise virgins with oile in our lamps and like him that expects a theefe to come suddenly as Christ tels us Mat. 24.43 But some will say it is no wonder that we know it not being that Christ himselfe saith he knew it not Mark 13.32 To which it may be answered that he knew it not so as to make us to know it as God is said to prove Israel that he may know that is that he may make them to know Deut. 13.3 for God knew before what they would do or that he knew it not as he was man in the estate of his humiliation or that he knew it not without revelation from his divinity but now he is glorified he as man knoweth the day and hour But it may be some will be so curious to ask where shall this judgement be Some think in the vallie of Iehosophat from Ioel 3.2 but that place hath only relation to those nations that afflicted Israel and so is but an allusion to this great assizes at the judgement day yet it is probable that Christ may judge where he was judged but we have no certaine proofe from Scripture where it shall be but that he will come in the clouds and every eie shall see him and those that have pierced him and thither the elect shal be caught up to meet him 1 Thes 4.17 even in the aire where the devill now ruleth Eph. 2.2 as a Prince but shall then be judged with the rest of his crue to hell to which place they are not as yet committed Mathe. What may be the signs of his comming to judgement Phila. Some take the preaching of the Gospell to all nations but this was done in the Apostles daies Col. 1.6 Others say the security of men Mat. 24. but that is no sign that hath no distinction for men have ever been so and ever will be so Others say the want of faith love wars and plagues and the rising of false Christs and Prophets but these appeared before the destruction of Jerusalem whatsoever may hereafter for Mat. 24.34 it is said that before that generation passe all these things shall be fulfilled But in the succession of ages there hath been alwaies severall monitory signs of that day ever since the Apostles daies As first the rising up of many Antichrists 1 John 2.18 2 Thes 23. Then a generall apostasie of men from the truth of Religion as in the time of Arrius who denied Christ to be begotten of the substance of the Father and that there was a time wherein the Son was not which heresie was generally received and abetted by Bishops and some Emperors Socrat. l. 2. c. 18 few or none opposing it more openly than good Athanasius excepting the Councill of Nice The next sign is the discovery of Antichrist 2 Thes 2.4 by Gods witnesses namely the Scriptures or some faithfull

the works of mortification till we have crucified the old man and even wounded sin to death by becomming to us the spirit of judgement and burning Esa 4.4 both to condemn our selves and to consume our drosse therefore it continually lusteth against the flesh and makes our hearts to rise against sin Gal. 3. as it doth against any thing we hate and if at any time we yeeld to the flesh this good spirit becomes like a voice behind calling to us that we are out of the way Esa 30.21 by daily good motions and checks of conscience and by baptizing us with fire Mat. 3.11 inflaming our hearts with an holy revenge upon sin and with a love to all goodnesse righteousnesse and truth Then next he doth infuse divine graces into the heart which are like so many letters commendatory of us to God as faith to beleeve above reason naturall as Abraham did Rom. 4.17 and without any visible means Heb. 11.1 so also he worketh in us love to God by which we tender the pleasure of God above all things in doing and suffering of which we are never ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by this holy spirit which he hath given us Rom. 5.5 and makes us wait by hope for the righteousnesse to be revealed Gal. 5.5 with longing and sighing Rom. 8.23 and praying by the spirit of supplication poured by him upon us Zac. 12.11 and never leaves till he hath made us partakers of the divine nature resembling God in selfe-contentment though we be shut out of the worlds society and in being in love with good men that are begotten of God 1 John 5.1 therefore he is called the spirit of love Rom. 15.30 and in wisedome Mar. 13.11 whereby the elect discern those mysteries which none knoweth but God and they for they are not discerned by others 1 Cor. 2.14 and also in transforming them into the practise of those things they hear and beleeve by this spirit from one glorious grace to another 2 Cor. 3.18 and this through the sanctification of obedience 1 Pet. 1.2 by which he gives us comfort by giving us peace of conscience and joy in assurance of remission and freedome from the guilt of sin in which respect he is called the comforter John 16.7 and so he is but especially in the times of affliction wherein he gives them such tastes of heavenly glory as makes them to contemn all earthly things and rejoice in tribulations Rom. 5.4 because this spirit of glory resteth upon them 1 Pet. 4.14 Thus he goeth alwaies with the elect working in them a spirituall strength to persevere though sometimes they be like smoking flax almost choked in their sad melancholy fumes or like bruised reeds that have no strength then doth he establish the inward man Eph. 3.16 by nourishing the seeds of grace sown in our drie ground by his sweet dew from above Esa 44.3 and by his secret and powerfull assistance in the times of triall 2 Cor. 12.9 bearing witnesse to them that they are the sons of God for all their crosses in this world Rom. 8.15 which he sealeth to them by the promises beleeved concerning Christ and himselfe Eph. 1.13 All which considered we should make much of this spirit and not grieve it nor quench it Not grieve it by acting without it by our own sensuall desires and separating our selves from the societies where he doth affoord his gracious dispensations Jud. 19. or do not acknowledge his power in giving them skill and abilities to perform their severall places and callings nor asking counsell of him or direction from him Esa 30.1 but rather despise it even in his ordinances 1 Thes 4.8 and turn their ear from it as Neh. 9.20 30. and harden their hearts against it Zac. 7.12 and rebell against his doctrine and so grieve him in his ministers Esa 63.10 and Acts 7.51 as St Stephen told the Jewes yea to tempt him by venturing to try whether he will punish them or no as Ananias and Saphira did Acts 5.9 by all which they shew that whatsoever portion of the spirit they have received yet it is in vain Also we must not quench it as some do fire by casting on water or withdrawing that which should feed it ● Tim. 1.6 or lose it as we do springs for want of endeavor to draw or pump them And this men do when after they have had some taste of heavenly gifts in remorse for sin or some joifull apprehensions of Gods promises yet they fall away and having begun in the spirit yet end in the flesh Gal. 3. So when they fall into grosse sins after calling to grace they cause the Holy one to cease from them in his operation for a time and so lose the joy which formerly they found in Gods service So do they discourage the spirit of their Teachers so that they cannot do their work with joy but griefe Heb. 13.17 Thus by living in known sins they sad the spirit which would seale them to the day of redemption Eph. 4.30 which may possibly conduce to the unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost if these be not repented of Mathe. I pray declare to me that sin as plain as you can Phila. It is a wilfull and totall falling away from the grounds and true beginnings of Christ and from that spirituall fellowship which one hath had with the people of God therein after ones illumination and outward sanctification contemning the Gospell and despighting the methods and operations of the Holy Ghost without repentance even to death All this may be gathered from Heb. 6.4 5 6. and Heb. 10.25 26 27. But this must be rightly understood As first that he must be one inlightned with some competent knowledge in true religion and sanctified by outward calling at least to the covenant of grace Heb. 10.29 and the seals thereof though not sanctified by saving grace which shewes it selfe by true repentance from all sin and by relying on Christ by faith for his salvation So next he must wilfully apostate Heb. 10.26 as it were without temptation not as David by lust or Peter by feare yea it must be a totall falling from all parts of truth which may possibly over-power his nature by the terrors of the law Also he must despise the Gospell and even loath the way of salvation by Christ and scorne the Gospel which is the meanes of sanctification and hath in some manner worked formerly upon himselfe some change of mind and manners Besides he must offer some despight by blasphemie and persecution and that not of ignorance as Paul did but of desperate malice and that not only to the person of the holy as many have done to the person of the Father and Son by many presumptuous sins but to the work of grace and operating power of the Holy Ghost in us by which God commeth more neer to us then in other things or to his power shewed outwardly for approving