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A93277	Two books of Mr Sydrach Simpson, late master of Pembroke-Hall in Cambridg; and preacher of the Gospel in London. Viz. I. Of unbelief; or the want of readiness to lay hold on the comfort given by Christ. II. Not going to Christ for life and salvation is an exceeding great sin, yet it is pardonable. In the first book is shewed (besides many other things) 1 What unbelief it is that is here spoken of ... 7 Helps to attain readiness in beleeving. In the second book is shewed, 1 That unbelief is a great sin, and exceeding provoking unto God ... 7 God hath pardoned unbelief, and wil pardon it.	Simpson, Sidrach, 1600?-1655.; Nye, Philip, 1596?-1672.; Loder, John, 1625 or 6-1673.	1658 (1658)	Wing S3827; Thomason E962_1-2; ESTC R203574	187,195	298

and did beleeve that then God would bless them How many then would give that precious time strength and Spirit which now runs out to the world unto the service of God USE III. If every one that would attain to eternall life must take heed of Covetousness Then let all your care be for eternall life to be rich in God as Christ saith in verse 21. Be rich in God that is in the things of God and in the things that are for Gods Glory God doth not call you from the world to put you upon a loss but to turn your affections upon the right Object It 's not to undo you but to make you in better things As Parents when they would wean the Child from the Nurse unto themselves they make the nurses breast black and they fear the Child So saith Christ take heed and look to your selves when he hath no other end in it but that he may have your love and you have his at length Many will say saith David in Psal 4.7.8 Who will shew us any good but saith he Thou hast put more gladness into my heart than when Corn and Wine increase As if he should have said when the Devill sees men inquiring after happiness and salvation he does shew them good he presently meets them as Abraham did the Gibeonites wih Corn and Wine the things of this life and takes off their hearts from happiness And it is so prevailing a means Math. 4.9 that he betook himself to that alone when he tempted Christ All this will I give thee When he had shewed him all the Glory of the world that is when he had made the world as glorious as possible it could be to the mind of Christ He did not do unto Christ as unto us deceive our fancies but he put the greatest Glory upon Riches that could be and then he thought that Jesus Christ would bow down to him If the Devil cannot make a man as prophane and as loose as he desires then he will make a man Religious but mingle Covetousness with it He will stir up a man as it is reported by one that writes of the walkings and apparisions of the Devill The Devil came to many a man in Luthers time and provoked them to stand for Justication and lay aside popish Religion but he told them also they should get so much by the bargain And when he mingled this Poyson with that Wine he did bring them to as much formality as they were in before in their ignorance They were as bad as before because of only their Covetousness When he hath once got a man under his power he wil make him to grind at this mil as they did Sampson Therefore the Love of the world is called in 1. Tim. 6.9 The Devils snare and bond And it is the sin of the Jews by which they were and are kept from embracing Christ They did look after an earthly Kingdom Be not hindred of true happiness by those things Barter not away your souls for an abundance of the things of this life Let not your minds run out after what you see or what is to be had besides grace and holiness and communion with God Our Lord Jesus Christ is moved to see one got into good Company here in this Chapter at the 13. verse seeming to have an inheritance here to neglect to get Salvation and Grace Grace and the favor of God are true riches and al other things are not so They are but shadows of riches and therefore called a fancy Agrippa his po●… and Glory is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 25. Acts 23. Though a man seem to be blessed of God when he hath this world yet it is but seemingly so And therefore the scripture calls it a fashion 1. Cor. 7.31 Rom. 12.2 The fashion of this world But there is no true goodness in riches In Luke 2.21 Saith Christ a man that treasures up for himself is not rich in God That treasures up for himself That is Riches are but a particular good that may serve a mans self but that is all it can do It makes a man leave God who is a universal good That only is true Riches which doth procure to a man all good and that nothing can do but what comes from God which is Grace USE IV. You shal have al the things of this life if you wil look after Grace Al that is needful Godliness hath the promise of this life It gives content 1 Tim. 6.6 That is as much as a man doth either need or desire if his desires be rational and spiritual It gives content The word that the Apostleuseth for content is a word that is used among Common wealths that have al things in themselves and need not other Countries Religion needs not be beholden to any estate and condition or any thing in this world for any thing that belongs to this life Godly men do never want but when they cannot be content to be at Gods dispose He wants not that is content He hath content whose wil is conformable unto God There are at the least twenty several sences of that in Psal 37.25 I never saw the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread But that which is most probable from the Context and scope of the Psalme is I never saw A righteous man 〈◊〉 it is a righteous man that doth not fret at th●… prosperity of wicked men Not begging bread that is in want Let any be of a liberal spirit willing to part with what God gives him when God doth cal and that man never wants Men that have dogs appetites are never satisfied When meat feeds humors then parents deny their children meat So doth God when he sees what he gives doth not work conformity to his wil. Do you mind your work and God wil care for your maintenance And you shal have spiritual things at a better rate and on easier terms then you have earthly things The paines you take for heaven shal bring you in communion with God which cannot be got by your indeavors God wil not put you to more nor so much in working for him as you put your selves to in getting the world Wicked men have been at death convinced of this Had I saith one been as good a servant to God as to the King I had been happy Yea those that know better what it is to prepare for Heaven than others do complain that they are not so carefull for spirituall things as they are for the things of this life When they go about Riches or the things that concerns Riches they are buried in the business and there their thoughts are intent but at prayer and Hearing their Thoughts are divided and their Hearts are wandering and yet still they grow in Grace Psal 127.2 It 's in vain to go to bed late or rise up early so he gives his Beloved sleep that is without this carking care he gives them sleep that sleep is a Lying in

there is an acounting of it but that accounting of it serves only to take it into possession So it is here also There is somthing the soul doth in receiving but it tends only to this end that it may be possessed of Jesus Christ and of his merits Secondly As there is a passiveness in Receiving to be noted So in receiving there is a meanness and and lowness of condition It was an Apotheg●e or usuall speech of our Lord as it seems by the Apostle To say It is better to give than to receive Acts 20.35 That is better more honorable more commendable He that gives the least gift hath more honor than he that receives the greatest kindness And as I shall shew you afterward In regard of the profit of beleeving it is very great but in regard of the manner of beleeving it is an abasement unto man A denial even of his reason for the testimony sake of Christ But those are not the things which I intend principally Thirdly in Receiving there is a taking to ones self that which before he had not As a man receives mony which before was out of his hands by being received it comes into his possession and is his own And in this sense you shal find the word Received used in the Scripture in Heb. 11.39 All these having obtained their good report through Faith received not the promise Received it not that is they saw not they were not made actually partakers of the benefits of Christ being in the flesh Although that they had the advantage and profit of his undertaking for them with the Father They Received it not that is they were not actually partakers Fourthly Receiving notes the taking a thing with joy and gladness of heart As the Text saith in Heb. 13.2 There was some that did receive Angels unawares It being you know a phrase that is taken from those men that do bid welcome their guests or friends Acts 7.59 And so Stephen prays in that language Lord Jesus saith he receive my Spirit He doth by his faith apprehend Jesus Christ standing in the door of Heaven as Abraham stood in the door of the Tent and praies him to be pleased and not pass him by but to receive him that he may sit down and eat and drink in the kingdom of God These two latter things are those which principally I intend to speak unto in this point And if you look into the words of my Text you shal find First that the persons that are Receivers are Beleevers For as many saith the Text as received him to them he gave power to become the Sons of God even to as many as beleeve on his name All they that received him beleeved on him and all they that beleeved received Christ They and none else They are the same persons Doct Secondly you may observe which is the main thing I intend that Beleevers and Receivers are not only one and the same persons But to beleeve is to receive and to receive Christ is beleeve on his name What in the beginning of the Text is called receiving of him in the end of the Text is called beleeving on his name the same persons in the same act that in the beginning of the verse are said to receive are in the latter end of the verse said to beleeve on his name They must of necessity be but divers expressions of the same Act for this reason Because otherwise if you make them two distinct acts a man may receive Christ and yet not beleeve and a man may beleeve on Christ yet not receive him It is impossible that Christ should be received but by Faith and it is impossible a man should beleeve on the name of Christ and not receive him The manner of speech is supposed to be a Caldeisme or a propriety among the Caldees who make it all one to beleeve and to trust And upon this now shall I fasten a little while Faith I say it is a receiving of Christ As many as received him There is somthing to be received for beleeving In 1 Pet. 1.9 Receiving the end of your Faith the salvation of your Souls A man shal be saved for his faith as well as rewarded for his sufferings or any other act of obedience and observance unto God a man shal be as well rewarded at the last because he hath much of God as because he hath done much for God indeed he doth most for God that receivs most from God He that goes on trust with Christ and receivs any thing of him shall be rewarded for his receiving rewarded for his gain and for his getting Of his fulness have we received Grace for Grace John 1.16 For Grace that is because we have one Grace we shall have another until we come to be full That word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 translated for is as much in the Scripture as Because in Eph. 5.31 For this cause 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall a man leave his Father and Mother and shall be joyned unto his Wife The same word may be rendred For this cause Because God hath given us one degree he will give us another Because he hath shewed us one kindness he will with-hold nothing that is good from us Among men he that takes upon trust binds himself to make return and to pay again But he that trusts God makes God a Debtor to him It may be that thou accountest it a presumption that thou beleevest But God accompts it service And of all services it shall not be unrewarded but have the fullest and largest measure because of all services it is that which is most humbling and self-denying of the Creature But of that by the way As there is a receiving somthing for beleeving so there is a receiving in beleeving Faith it self is a receiving as eating is a taking of what may nourish And buying or possession is a receiving an inheritance So you shall find that Faith is compared in John 6.53 to eating and drinking And to buying in Esa 55.1 Somtimes it s an hand that laies hold and wil not let go the thing which it hath and to the being possessed of an inheritance Christ receives all from the Father and Faith receives all from Christ All comes from the Father into Christ as into a Fountain and Faith fetchech all from that Fountain into us as into lesser measures or cisterns Jesus Christ is the Treasury and Faith tels out of him what the Soul hath need of as Christ is made between us and God so faith is given to this end that Christ may be made whatsoever he is unto us That the thing I aim at may yet be more fully and plainly known to you Faith indeed in the Scripture is somtimes expressed by Working but the Text saith It works by love Gal. 5.6 that is It doth set love on a flame and makes a man to have an indeared esteem of God and an undervaluing of himself and every thing which he

the world almost There are but few Receivers of Jesus Christ Many to whom he is offered but few that give him entertainment by Faith And those that have given him entertainment have not done according to the Law of that duty in receiving him with that kindness which he should have been entertained with I shal put both these sorts together because they are both under one reproof though not both under the same danger First I say this Point discovers many to be under unbelief and so not to be the Sons of God but the wrath of God to abide upon them And that even many of those who do live under the Gospel have beleeved received Christ but not received him with love As the Apostle saith in another case you have not so learned Christ So may I say they have not so received Christ They have received him but not as a friend and not as a guest and not as one that loves him But even as somtimes a poor Child is taken to keeping because they are compelled thereunto by Law and they cannot rid themselves of that charge So men are compelled by their light and conviction to beleeve that there is no way for salvation but by Jesus Christ Their Understanding is forced to receive in this truth because it shines so cleerly As the light that opens the sleeping mans eyes that lies against it but they do not love him In John 3.19 They loved darkness rather than light because their works were evill Loved darkness more than light Jesus Christ is that light and Faith is that sight whereby we see that light and they love darkness that is they love even the most uncomfortable estate that they could be in the world better then they love the way of Jesus Christ darkness in the Scripture is referred to uncomfortableness Whether you refer it to the darkness of the shadow under the Law Or to the darkness of heaviness and grief of Spirit wherein men are put when they apprehend what they have done to the destruction of their Souls Men love any thing darkness rather than Jesus Christ I shall have occasion to open that again and therefore I pass it over shortly Out of the mouths of Babes and Sucklings thou hast ordained praise that thou maiest still the avenger and the enemy Psal 8.2 And who is the Enemy and the Avenger It is only the naturall man For in the Hebrews you shall find that the eighth Psalme is only a Prophecy of Jesus Christ under whose feet God puts all things Jesus Christ was the praise of God the Father because he was as unfit to have undertaken and perfected the work of our salvation in the eyes of the world as a Child is unfit to do the service of a man Or as the language of a Child is insignificant and is not able to express it self Now why will God take such a course That he may still he Enemy and the Avenger That I would have you note That there is in men an enmity and a rage against Jesus Christ and the way of salvation by him If there were any thing he would destroy and if there were any wall he would pluck down and if there were any truth he would deny namely salvation by Jesus Christ He came to his own and his own received him not His own that is those that were separated from the rest of the world As we call that a mans own wherein a man hath a particular interest title and possession If they were Christs own then they had in some measure owned him as wel as he had owned them They had owned him by profession and yet they received him not because they received him not with love 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word signifies properly a receiving kindly and respectively and gladly So they received him not The Jews they thought they had received the Messiah when they refused the Messiah They thought that he that should be the Messiah should be such a one and because Christ came not cloathed like unto him therefore they rejected him So Christians are apt to a great mistake about Jesus Christ preached and born in the Gospell as I may say as the Jews were about him when that he came in the Flesh I shall instance only in one They do not love beleeving nor receive Jesus Christ with love who beleeve him not to be such a one as he is who receive him not according to the greatness and glory with which he is invested and which belonges unto him Suppose a Noble man should come unto a mans house and be regarded but as an ordinary man Let his entertainment be otherwise what it wil be he is not used kindly but you do degrade him and level him to an ordinary mans condition when as he is a person of Honor Kind usage of one lyes in the shewing him that respect and esteem which belongs unto him He is an unkind man to his wife who respects her but as his Father and Mother when as he must leave Father and Mother in his affections in comparison of her So now he useth Christ unkindly and he doth not shew his love by beleeving on him who doth not by faith receive him as he is God and Man One in whose hands al power is may do what he pleaseth viz. Give the spirit from the father And one who is holy and harmless and separate from sinners I say unless you beleeve upon him as such a one and receive him as such a one and love him as such a one then you do not beleeve In 1 Rom. 21. They Glorifyed him not as God and therefore God gave them up to vile affections They Glorified God he confesseth But not as God and therefore they were punished Wherein lay that that they glorified him not as God It lay in this God had put forth his power and wisdom in the things that he had made and they set up things which they made in the memorial of that God but they praised him not as a God of infinite power They looked after no more then was in the creation and therefore not giving infinite power to him they Glorified him not as God So I say here They do not love Jesus Christ as Christ who do not acknowledg him to be what indeed he is and to be such a one as he is revealed I shall speak more plainly thus The Jews did stumble at the meaness of Christs out-side because they looked by him to have a temporall kingdome There are as false as erronious apprehensions of Christ in the minds of men now The dealings of Christ with the Souls of men are as contrary and as unanswerable unto mens expectations and presumptions as the mean coming of Jesus Christ into the world was contrary unto the expectation of the Jews Mark it Christs dealings with the Spirits of men are as unanswerable as his coming in the Flesh was unanswerable to what the Jews expected When