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A68954	A three-fold treatise containing the saints sure and perpetuall guide. Selfe-enriching examination. Soule-fatting fasting. Or, meditations, concerning the word, the sacrament of the Lords Supper, and fasting. By the labours of that late Reverend, and learned divine, Master Robert Bolton ...	Bolton, Robert, 1572-1631.	1634 (1634)	STC 3255; ESTC S106789	149,468	268

many visions the true fore-telling of things to come the inward lively and effectuall workings upon the soules of the elect and many other singular and sacred markes characters of divinity stamped upon it doth plainly shew that it is the alone holy invention of Gods divine pure and infinite understanding and revealed to the world for the inlarging of Gods glory and the salvation of many a thousand soules for the confusion of the kingdome of Satan and just condemnation of the children of hell Take heed then in the name of God that you give not entrance or entertainment to any such fearefull blasphemous temptation whereby the love and zeale to Gods Word may be cooled or you grow lesse carefull in purchasing and practising the knowledge and power of it This let layes hold onely upon men of a reprobate sense and those that are already marked out for certaine damnation A second let and hinderance from hearing the Word of God is recusancie the cozenage and imposture of Popery For such is the wickednesse and cruelty of that superstition and mystery of iniquity that it labours might and maine to keepe all the world close prisoners in the dungeon of darknesse and ignorance and for ever to deprive them of the light of the Gospell The prophane professors of this bloudy Religion hold ignorance to be the mother of devotion and a very dangerous thing for simple people to pry into the Booke of God And so they doe more safely and securely feed their followers with their owne damnable principles of treason rebellion disloyalty and disobedience to lawfull Kings So they lead ignorant people which way and as farre as they will in the kingdome of darknesse even to beleeve that blowing up of whole states and killing of Kings are very glorious acts and merit the brightest crowne of immortality and the highest seat in heaven I hope in the Lord there is none of you but with all his heart hates and detests this bloudy murtherous and Idolatrous generation and will by no meanes suffer his right eye of knowledge in Gods Word to be put out by these cursed Ammonites Adde here another let which is Separatisme See Ta. pag. 79. A third let and hinderance is the height of hardnesse of heart and most damned desperatenesse in sinning when men are become so greedy of fulfilling their sinfull pleasures that they drinke up sensuall delights like water draw on iniquity like cords of vanitie and sinne as with cart-ropes For then they beginne to say with themselves even to God himselfe with them in ●ob 21. 14 15. Depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes Who is the Almighty that we should serve him and what profit should we have if we should pray unto him And with those to whom Isaiah in his fifth Chapter denounceth a fearefull woe Let him make speed let him hasten his worke that we may see it and let the counsell of the Holy one of Israel draw neare and come that wee may know it Men that are possessed with such a rebellious and scornfull spirit as this neither much care for God or his Wor● threats or promises judgements or mercies heaven or hell No marvell then though they set light by Gods ministers and seeke not for instruction in holy knowledge and heavenly wisdome That wee may be preserved from this horrible and desperate case and so fearefully hardning our hearts against the Word of life and salvation we must be very carefull and watchfull that wee give not way passage and entertainment to wicked thoughts and the first sinfull motions for in this manner a man proceedes to the height of sinne and a reprobate sense There first ariseth in his Heart an idle and wandering thought of some unlawfull thing as of Lust Covetousnesse Pride Malice prophaning the Sabbath Cozening and circumventing his Brother and such like Secondly it begins to allure entice and conferre with the Will Thirdly the Will doth as it were take it by the hand and is tickled pleased and delighted with it Then followes Consent Consent sets the affections on foot and plots the accomplishment and practice of it and sinne practised with pleasure brings Custome Custome sharpens a mans wit and makes him looke about how to excuse it From excusing sinne hee growes to defend it Defence of sinne makes him obstinate and resolved to continue in it Obstinatenesse begets boasting and glorying in it And if a man once become impudent and take a pride in sinning there presently follows a brazen Brow and whorish fore-head an yron sinew in the necke a heart as hard as the nether Milstone a seared Conscience and a reprobate sense These are the steps by which a man riseth into the Seat of the scornefull And upon the top of these stayres Sinne sits in the greatest triumph and soveraigntie and banisheth out of a mans heart all feare of God love to his Ministers and zeale unto his Word A fourth Let and hinderance from hearing Gods Word and yeelding entire obedience unto it is a very pestilent and politike conceit which possesseth the hearts of very many whereby they are perswaded That Lawes divine are but like humane or mens constitutions As these execute none but chiefe Malefactors so these Decrees of God will at last condemne none but infamous and notorious sinners And therefore if they be but pettie Offendors or onely maintaine but one sweet sinne in themselves if they be not of the worst sort though they be not so forward hearers of Sermons so Scripture-wise or hold such a strict course of holinesse in their conversation yet they thinke with themselves their case is good enough and that it will goe well enough with them at last Hence it is that they are cold and carelesse in esteeming of hearing and conforming themselves to the Ministerie of the Word But let no man deceive himselfe The destruction of the negligent hearer of the Word of God and the disobedient to the Gospel of Christ Iesus shall be as the destruction of * Sodome and farre more grievous He that lyes and delights in any one knowne sinne of which his Conscience is convicted is in a fearefull case Without faith it is impossible to please God and Without holinesse no man shall see the face of the Lord. And none hath either faith or holinesse without saving knowledge out of Gods Booke Without the New-birth and continuance in grace unto the end no man shall be saved And sincere obedience to a constant and conscionable Ministerie of the Word is a meanes both to beget nourish and continue saving grace And let mens conceits be what they will as sure it is as God is in Heaven not one jot or tittle of all the Plagues and Curses registred in Gods Law but shall be severely executed upon all ignorant and unrepentant sinners and poured

selfe-conceitedly to gaze upon that little sparke of holinesse hee findes in himselfe let him presently turne backe the edge and eye of this dangerous speculation upon the infinite puritie and endlesse perfection of God Almightie before whom the Cherubins and Seraphins the Crowne of Gods workemanship and the glory of creatures doe hide and cover their faces as not able to behold and endure the perfect brightnesse of his most pure and undefiled Majestie In whose sight the unstained splendour of the Heavens and the glorious beautie of the Starres are uncleane and foule darkenesse and deformitie The Sunne the fairest Body in the World made all of beautie and brightnesse if it were put neere unto that unaccessible and incomprehensible Light which encompasseth the Lord of Heaven it would vanish away as a darkesome Moat and Lumpe of Vanitie Nay in respect of God those divine and heavenly creatures the blessed Angels pure and immateriall spirits are chargeable with folly and vanitie Behold he found no stedfastnesse in his Saints yea the Heavens are not cleare in his sight How much more is man abominable and filthie which drinketh iniquitie like water Iob 15. 15 16. What art thou then wretched man that carriest about thee a Body of death Shall not his excellencie make thee afraid and his feare fall upon thee Behold saith Iob he will give no light unto the Moone and the Starres are uncleane in his sight How much more man a Worme even the sonne of a man which is but a Worme Behold he found no stedfastnesse in his servants and laid folly upon his Angels How much more in them that dwell in Houses of Clay whose foundation is in the Dust which shall be destroyed before the Moth These considerations are able to confound and cast downe below the Earth and Dust the greatest admirer and applauder of himselfe for his graces good actions and spirituall perfections When the Christian is tempted to a proud conceit of his spirituall sufficiencies let him compare himselfe with other Saints of God which perhaps having beene lesse sinners than himselfe in the time of their unregeneration and having lesse meanes parts occasions and encouragements to glorifie God yet excell him in zeale sanctification and the service of God Paul that great Doctor of the Gentiles and glorious Angell upon Earth for all his spirituall blessings and incomparable graces cryes out Rom. 7. 24. Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death David a man after Gods owne heart and a speciall royall Mirror for varietie of spirituall excellencies is so farre from being proud of his graces that hee is every where complaining of the burthen of his sinnes spirituall povertie and want and the miseries of his soule There is no health in my flesh saith he because of thy displeasure neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sinne for my wickednesses are gone over my head and are like a sore burthen too heavie for me to beare For his reputation in the World he tells us that he was a Worme and no man a very scorne of men and out-cast of the people In all times the best Christians have ever beene most sensible of the weight of their sinnes and corruption of their nature and from thence entertained a lowly conceit of themselves Where there is the greatest measure of sanctification there is ever the greatest humilitie If those then that be indeed in the highest favour with God lesser sinners than our selves and most sanctified be of an humble and lowly minde of a meeke and quiet spirit which is before God a thing much set by 1 Pet. 3. 4. let us take heed how we be proud of those graces which if we looke for Gods blessing upon them and comfort from them must bring forth in us humilitie and thankefulnesse Let him compare and examine and measure himselfe his wayes and workes by the Law of God and hee shall there finde much matter of humiliation repentance feare and trembling with continuall supply in abundance ministred unto him so that there shall be no roome left for any proud and over-weening conceit of any good thing in him That elect Vessell and great Apostle after he was regenerate for the unregenerate feele no such strife found such a vast and wide distance betweene the Law and his owne affections and best workes that for horror thereof he cryed out Oh miserable man that I am What spirituall good then is there in any of us miserable wretches wherein we should glory Let our best workes be as glorious as we can imagine let them be performed with never so great integritie and resolution cover them with grace derive them from the Holy-Ghost dippe and dye them deepe in the bloud of Christ put upon them all the rich attire and Papall magnificence with which the Church of Rome hath invested them yet to the purest eyes of God and in the cleare Crystall of his undefiled Law they appeare to be foule and spotted impure and like a menstruous clout The measuring then of our selves by the Law and Word of God is a notable meanes to keepe us in humilitie and to make us worke out our salvation with feare and trembling Let him consider what a foule and wretched what a damned and an accursed creature hee had beene had not his gracious God out of the unsearchable depth of his infinite goodnesse and mercie singled him out to be his servant upon Earth and a Saint in Heaven It was onely Gods free mercie that before all eternitie by the great Decree of his eternall election marked him out for Heaven and endlesse joyes from amidst the huge masse of all mankind It was the same that after caused him to send his owne and onely Sonne out of his owne Bosome and height of Majesty that with his dearest and precious bloud hee might redeeme his Soule from the snares of Hell into which hee was fallen by Adams fall which in due time by the inward speciall and effectuall power of his unspotted Spirit called him into his Kingdome of Grace washed him justified and sanctified him in the Name of the Lord Iesus Else otherwise had not these everlasting and unconceivable Blessings beene cast upon him by Gods free meere mercie without all cause or motive from man or any other created thing out of his infinite Selfe his case had beene unspeakably wofull For he should have lived in this Vale of Teares without God without Grace without Comfort without Conscience in Sinne in Darkenesse in Prophanenesse in all Spirituall Miseries And after the closure and period of these few and evill dayes he should have beene endlessely divided and abandoned from the joyes and comforts of Gods presence inchained without all redemption to despaire and horror and the hatefull fellowship of the Devill and his Angels and that which is the extremitie and upshot of all hellish miserie hee