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A51266	The grand inquiry who is the righteous man: or, The character of a true beleever in his approaches towards heaven. Whereunto is added The resolution of a case of separation betwixt man and wife, propounded to the author by a party much concerned. By William Moore rector at Whalley in Lancashire.	Moore, William, rector of Whalley, Lancashire.	1658 (1658)	Wing M2612; ESTC R214225	54,012	181

your own souls that cousen and defraud your brethren that grinde and oppresse your poor neighbours that make shipwrack of faith and a good conscience because you will be rich what needs all this adoe Why will ye go to the Devil for it He may shew you indeed as he did our Saviour All the Kingdomes of the word and the glory of them so doubtlesse he will flatter you with hopes All these will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me Alas he doth but feed you with the winde He can bestow nothing without Gods permission They are none of his to give However this is but about Here is the way a ready a compendious way Mat. 6.33 First seek the Kingdom of heaven and the righteousnesse thereof and all other things shall be added unto you O ye that are greatly beloved ye are in this way so ye injoy contentment knowing that if more were better for you God would bestow it on you so far as may be for your good all things are yours And if others rejoyce when their corn and wine and oyle increaseth how much more may ye that enjoy this fulnesse Rejoyce ye righteous 4. Whilest we look within us Though we have lesse abroad yet we have enough at home We have God within us 1 Cor. 14.25 God is in you of a truth We have Christ within us 2 Cor. 13 5. Know ye not that Jesus Christ is in you except ye be reprobates We have the Spirit within us 2 Tim. 1.14 That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the holy Ghost which dwelleth in us And is not here matter of rejoycing How can that soul but be very merry if not a stranger to its own happinesse that entertains such Guests But further take we notice of the manner of Gods dwelling in us It is not according to his Essence only for so he is in all places Do not I fill heaven and earth saith the Lord Nor yet according to his Power for so he is in all his creatures In him we live and move and have our being But God is in us according to the working of his grace and favour informing reforming transforming us into his own likenesse Consider that treasure of gifts which he hath bestowed upon us those unsearchable riches of his grace those fruits of the Spirit love joy peace long-suffering gentlenesse goodnesse faith meeknesse temperance saith our Saviour to his Disciples In patience possesse your souls Though you have little else yet ye have patience in you and when things are at the worst yet in that ye may still possesse and injoy your selves Besides you have faith within you and that is a good portion a sufficient living of it self Hab. 2.4 The just man shall live by his faith But above all remember you have the love of God within you Rom. 5.5 The love of God shed abroad in your hearts And is not that joy enough Cant. 1.2 Let him kisse me with the kisses of his mouth for thy love is better then wine O ye that are the Favourites of the King of Saints cheer up your spirits you have that within you sufficient to make you happy were you as poor as Job upon the dunghill Oh do not live besides your wealth Others may flatter themselves with their abundance as the Angel of the Church of Laodicea Thou sayest I am rich and increased with goods and stand in need of nothing and knowest not that thou art poor and miserable and blinde and naked and hast nothing Alas poor miserable blinde deceived creatures lean empty and poor starved souls But these have it Ye have that within you which crowns you the happy men Felices nimium bona si sua nôrint did ye but know your own happinesse And are not your spirits as yet up Why what is it that still troubles you Alas my sins But love covers all Jer. 50.20 In those dates shall the iniquity of Israel be sought for and there shall be none and the sins of Judah and they shall not be found for I will pardon them whom I reserve There shall be none God himself findes none not that God is blinde that he sees not what we see but he gives you the meaning in the latter clause he sees none unpardoned none that shall be imputed none that shall be laid unto our charge Rom. 5.11 We joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have received the atonement The cloud 's now removed can you yet see your wealth I shall give you heaven in a word Luk. 17.20 The Kingdome of heaven is in you And what 's that Rom. 14.17 The Kingdome of heaven is righteousnesse peace and joy in the holy Ghost O do not rob your selves of any part of your own happinesse but as you have a righteousnesse within you so adde to your righteousnesse peace and to your peace joy Rejoyce ye Righteous 5. Whilest we look upon the right hand Whilest we sit under the sunshine of Gods favours and that all things go well with us Whilest we look upon the mercies God bestowed upon us be they lesse or more We see the men of the world how glad they are when their corn and wine and oyl increaseth The righteous live as merrily as they do and have better reason for rejoycing then they have more solid and true joy in the least mercy they receive then others in a great abundance Psal 37.16 A little that a righteous man hath is better then the riches of many wicked Their little is better then anothers much better then their riches then the riches not of one but many nay put all together Though their fare be not so delicate nor their cloathes so gay nor their bed so soft yet they eat their bread with more delight and take their sleeps with more sweet refreshment and enjoy the mercies God bestowes upon them with more comfort and content then others can And the reason 's evident 1. Because they draw their wealth from the head of the well the spring Dulcius ex ipso fonte and there the water drinks more sweetly Whilest others drink only in the channell receive their blessings from the hand of fortune or perhaps they sacrifice to their own net as if by them their portion were made fat these they receive them from the hand of God the fountain of mercies As once Jacob to his brother Esau These are the children which God hath graciously given to thy servant 2. Because they receive these mercies as pledges of Gods love and kindnesse towards them Whilest others feed upon the husk satisfie themselves in those poor injoyments and look no further then the creature these feed upon the kernell they feast themselves upon God in the holy injoyments they see his mercy and goodnesse in thus providing for them And this affords a sweet refreshment to their souls infinitely beyond all their creature-comforts whilest thus they injoy God in the creatures and receive

THE GRAND INQUIRY WHO IS THE Righteous Man OR The Character of a true Beleever in his approaches towards Heaven Whereunto is added The Resolution of a Case of Separation betwixt Man and Wife Propounded to the Author by a party much concerned By William Moore Rector at Whalley in Lancashire London Printed by E. Cotes for Henry Eversden at the Gray-hound in Pauls Church-yard 1658. To the Honourable Sir RALPH ASHTON Baronet SIR YOur request is a command I have transcribed these notes and as near as I could to a very syllable as they were delivered in the Pulpit Not that I judge them worthy your further view but because I judge you worthy to command any thing which is called mine And it is an honour to me that you do accept of this poor mite If in the least a furtherance to the joy of Faith it will more then recompense That you take heed to the better part searching the Scriptures whether these things be so bespeaks you a Berean and of more noble spirit But second thoughts I presume will correct your motion for the Presse We live in a bold age indeed Scribimus indocti doctique And Jeremie's Figs have their applause both those that are extremely good and those that are extremely bad but this you 'l finde in neither basket The Subject I confesse is worthy to be seen abroad and now perhaps more necessary then at other times We see how the Jesuit hath exchang'd his poyson and the generation of vipers multiply Oh how they rend the bowels of their Mother And the Church of England once the most glorious Church in the Christian world now fled into the Wildernesse Yet Eliah hath some Thousands and a John in Patmos companions in tribulation and in the Kingdome and patience of Jesus Christ The Lord put it into the hands and hearts of our Nehemiahs to reedifie Jerusalem The chief stone in the foundation is here laid But I could wish a Bezaleel in the work a more skilful builder Mihi curta supellex It holds good with me in more senses then in one Besides you know my constant task and it fals out with me as with the man that hath many children the younger still robs the elder nor have I done the double service of one day but another is stil calling on me Both shoulders have their burden Yet such as it is both my self and it lie prostrate at your Honours feet I am Sir Your devoted Servant in the Lord William Moore THE GRAND INQUIRY WHO IS THE Righteous Man PSAL. 32.11 Rejoyce ye Righteous BEloved we live in dismal and sad times as that day of Joel A day of darknesse and of gloominesse a day of clouds and of thick darknesse And now if ever Isa 22.12 the Lord oals to weeping This Text then may seem unseasonable at this time As the rain in harvest so is musick in the day of mourning Be not mistaken There 's a sorrow in rejoycing I said of laughter it is mad and there 's a joy in sorrowing As sorrowing saith S. Paul yet alwaies rejoycing How miserable is mans condition upon earth whilest his joy and sorrow meet so close together that tears expresse both Habet gaudium suas lachrymas habent lachrymae suum gaudium Joy hath its tears and tears hath their joy I speak not now of that frothy flashy foolish mirth of the world Oh miseri quorum gaudia crimen habet Miserable we that cannot be merry without sin But of that solid serious severe mirth Mihi crede res severa est verum gaudium saith Seneca Believe me true joy it is a severe thing true spiritual and reall joy And let me tell you further that sorrow is sometimes unseasonable but this joy never This may seem a paradox but so the Apostle cals upon you and with a duplication also Phil. 4.4 Rejoyce in the Lord alwaies and again I say rejoyce And when ever was the word more seasonable then whilest the Saints are weeping to behold those sad rents and schisms of their mother the Church the wounds she receives in the house of her friends It is Solomons counsel Prov. 31.6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts Let him drink and forget his poverty and remember his misery no more Therefore is it that I call upon you Rejoyce ye righteous Rejoyce ye righteous In handling of these words I shall first shew you who this Righteous man is and then what reason he hath of rejoycing The resolving of this is a work of difficulty Certain I am that all men are sinners Prov. 20.9 Who can say I have made my heart clean I am pure from my sin The affirmative interrogation implies a more vehement negation that indeed none can say it and say truly And if none can say that he hath made his heart clean if none can say that he is pure from his sin then who can say that he is righteous How righteous and yet a sinner and this before God too who sees all things as they are This is indeed the darkest riddle in Divinity one of the greatest mysteries in the Gospel Nor is it to be resolved with the help of Reason but of Faith The more we seek for it in the strength of our own brain the further we are carried from it and it seems impossible But God hath revealed it to his Saints To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdome And as it is a work of difficulty so of great necessity for till this be done we do but build without foundation What is it to tell you of a seed-time of light here and a harvest of joy hereafter we see the strain of the Scriptures full indeed of precious and sweet promises but these only to the Righteous Whilest every man therefore is conscious to himself of his own guilt that he is a sinner who shall presume to put in his sickle or to lay hold upon those joyes When they brought before him the woman that was taken in adultery saith our Saviour to her accusers He that is without sin cast the first stone at her And they all went out one by one every man left her That indeed was our Saviours purpose for they came to intangle him So here whilest the Psalmist cals upon the righteous only seeing there is no man without sin what is it but as if he should say Let no man rejoyce This word is as the Cherubims at the gates of Paradise to exclude all hope that none might enter in at those everlasting doors Till therefore we understand this Riddle How a man may have sin and yet be without sin how a man may be a sinner and yet righteous we do but preach as V. Beda to a heap of stones there is none to hear us This then is the foundation of all our Evangelical comfort The understanding of this is that upon which depends all our joy