Satan under every one of your feet Be not troubled for want of Assurance This is your Assurance That you believe in the Son of God I demonstrate comfort Thus 1. God is Faithful that hath Promised he can never fail 2. Christ is faithful in whom and to whom the Promises are made and he can never fail for the Promise is sure to all the Seed 3. The Holy Ghost is faithful that Seals the Promises of God to our Souls and he can never fail The Spirit of promise to all the Seed 4. Therefore the faithful that receive and rely upon these Promises shall never fail for they are in Christ the Promised Seed As for flesh and blood though that be weak and afflictions very grievous to it yet let the spirit be but honest and willing and then fear nothing For to him that hath though never so little true faith shall be given full measure pressed down and running over shall God give into his bosome To him that is never wanting to himself God will never be wanting Do but desire and God will help do but seek and thou shalt find ask and have knock and it shall be opened unto thee If we that are evil know how to give good things to our Children how much more shall our heavenly father give good things to them that ask him And hath he not promised that whatsoever we shall ask of him in the Name of his Son he will give it us and having given us Christ how shall he not with him also give us all things that he in his wisdome and goodness knows to be necessary for us And having our Portion let us therewith be content Look therefore Sin Misery and Death in the face and Trust in God still Look only upon Sin and Misery and Death and Hell with the Eye of Sense and dye for fear and despair but look with the Eye of Faith beyond all these at the glory that shall be revealed and live for evermore Consult not with flesh and blood for if you do you will droop and fall but consult with the Spirit by Faith in Gods Promises and he shall strengthen thine heart I have nothing to comfort and satisfy me and assure me in life or Death but my honest and faithful desires If I be a Hypocrite I can have no comfort but if I be true and upright to God to the World and to my own soul and do all I can to please God and to keep my Conscience void of offence towards God and towards men though I am clothed with innumerable frailties and imperfections yet I am sure God will pardon all for Christ his sake only let me be valiant and of a good courage And though I see no comfort coming to me in this life or very little let me not be disheartened for this nor judge of Gods favour by what I see or feel but by what I believe and hope for for the things which are seen or felt are but Temporal but the things which are not seen nor felt here are Eternal And what I see not and enjoy not now by sense I do see and enjoy by Faith and shall see and enjoy by sight And till then I content my self with the sight and fruition which I have which is to me an Evidence and full Assurance of what I shall have Therefore Deerly beloved Brethren be ye stedfast and unmoveable alwaies abounding in the work of the Lord for as much as ye know that your labour shall never be in vain in the Lord for faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen Amen GAL. 3.6 Abraham believed in God and it was accounted to him for Righteousness EXPLICATION THis Apostle saith Righteousness cometh not of the Law Gal. 2.21 Gal. 3.18 And the Inheritance is not of the Law but by Promise and faith in that Promise Both these sayings carry the same sense that is The right of an Inheritance which is the best Right cometh not of the Law but of Faith And both these sayings carry the same Reason because they argue the same Conclusion viz. That a man is not Justified by the Law but by Faith For if a man be Justified by the Law or if his Right of Inheritance be by the Law Ro◠4.14 then Faith is made void and the Promise void But being justified by his Grace Tit. 3.7 we are made heirs to the hope of Eternal Life So that to be justified by Faith and to be made an heir of God are all one in effect or the latter is but the property or consequent of the former In like manner to be counted Righteous or as in the Text for Faith to be counted for Righteousness is all one as to be justified For St. Paul alledgeth these words to prove the Doctrine of Justification by Faith and to have Right accounted to any person is to justify that Person Rom. 4.6 Gal. 2.16 Therefore this great saying That Abraham believed in God and it was accounted to him for Righteousness is to this effect That Abraham was justified by his Faith The Subject is Justification The Points 1. God 2. Account 3. Thing 4. End God the Cause of Justification Chap. 1. God justifi s. Rom. 8.33 Gen. 15.6 It is God that justifieth so the Hebrew Text Abraham believed in God and he imputed it to him for Righteousness God was the Agent that imputed Faith to Abraham for Righteousness St. Paul follows the Septuagint but the sense is all one For if actually God imputed Abrahams Faith unto him for Righteousness then it must needs follow passively that Abrahams Faith was imputed to him for Righteousness 2. The Account Cap. 2. Accounting The Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is rendred reasoning concluding numbring reckoning imputing The great Arts of counting are Logick and Logistick 1. Logick is the counting of Sayings according to their rations or reasons as they are composed into their Conclusions and resolved into their Principles 2. Logistick is the counting of Numbers according to their rations or rates as they are composed into their Powers and resolved into their Roots And as in Logick the Conclusion is the effect of two Sayings rightly figured when one of those Sayings is the cause of that effect and the other Saying is the reason or mean between the Cause and the Effect So in Logistick The Power is the Product of two Numbers rightly multiplyed when one of those two Numbers is the Root of that Power and the other is the Rate between the Root and the Power Both these Countings or Reckonings or Reasonings do manifest the ration or Rate of a Saying to a Saying and of a Number to a Number So that to Account is to conclude by Reasoning or Numbring by arguing to find the Conclusion by addition to find the Total by Multiplication the Product by Division the Quotient The Word is used thus in several places Rom. 6.11 Reckon your selves to be
as present and visible then she believes and hopes For hope that is seen is not hope Rom. 8.24 25. for what a man seeth why doth he yet hope for But if we hope for that we see not then do we with patience wait for it A great Argument to Patience by having an Eye to the Recompence of the Reward and to the Price of the high Calling which is layd up for us in Christ which causeth us to endure the Crosse and despise the Shame A great Argument to live by Faith as if the Things were sensibly present and seen yea by Faith they are made present and seen for Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of Things not seen Where therefore these Two Principles and Arguments are they do necessarily inferre true Faith and they do shew the excellency thereof by the great effects of Patience and Courage which were wrought in the hearts of those famous Worthies whereby they obtained so good a Report from God who highly favoured them and rewarded them for all their sufferings The several Instances are very remarkable Chap. 2. of Examples of Faith Ver. 3. The World framed by Gods Word Things seen made of Things that do not appear but are understood by Faith By the Things now seen we have a sight of things unseen done long before our times The Scripture makes Faith of it Let there be light Gen. 1.3 Ps 33.6 and there was light c. By the Word of the Lord were the Heavens made c. He spake the word and it was done We now see Trees of Trees Living Creatures from Living Creatures Men from Men but these first Trees Creatures and Men had not their beginning from these we now see Wisd 11.17 but from the Chaos or Deep without Form Ver. 4. Abel offered a more excellent Sacrifice than Cain by Faith he leaves out Adam for his Sin Abels Sacrifice was not more valuable than Cains but more acceptable for his Faith The other was the Sacrifice of a Fool i.e. a sinner this of a wise man i. e. just Vers 5. Enoch was translated by Faith Gen. 5.21 for he walked with God and so pleased God how but by Faith for without Faith it is impossible to please God Vers 7. Noah prepared an Arke by Faith i. e. in hope of Gods promises He had a sight of Things unseen i.e. of the Floud yet to come a Subsistence of Things hoped for i. e. safely from the Universal Deluge Vers 8. Abraham sojourned and looked for a City to come by Faith Vers 27. and offered up Isaac the Child of Faith in the Promise not Nature Vers 11. Sarah by Faith conceived in her old Age above the strength of Nature Vers 20. Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come in the Promised Land Vers 21. Jacob dying in Faith and worshipping blessed his Sons to the Promised Land Vers 22. Joseph by Faith gave Commandement concerning his bones to be buried in Canaan Vers 23. Moses by Faith was saved from drowning and refused to be called the Son of Pharaohs Daughter choosing rather to suffer affliction with the People of God than to enjoy the Pleasure of sin for a season Vers 30. The Walls of Jericho fell down by Faith Vers 31. Rahab by Faith perished not with the Unbelievers So Gideon Barak Sampson Jephthah and David Samuel and the Prophets who by Faith subdued Kingdoms and wrought Righteousness obtained the Promises endured tortures stopped the mouths of Lyons quenched the violence of Fire waxed valiant in fight 2 Mace women received their dead raised to life again c. Heb. 11.35 All this Faith arose not from any cleer Promise of a Resurrection Chap. 3. Acts of Faith but hoping in Gods Power and Goodness beyond this Life they endured all things here patiently Much more may we that have a full and open Promise and Example of the Resurrection by him that first brought Life and Immortality to light through the Gospel and is the first born from the Dead and the first fruits of them that slept Thus the Things that are absent from us and do subsist in themselves are made to subsist to us by our Faith As Christs Birth Life Miracles Suffering Death Resurrection Ascension Glory all real in themselves subsisting though before our times yet are made present by Faith So our Resurrection Ascension and Glory Eternal not yet come nor seen but are made present and visible by Faith anticipating their being to us before they be For we live by Faith here and not by Sense And blessed are those that have seen Christ in the Flesh and the works that he did and heard his words yea but much rather blessed are they that have never seen nor heard him or his Works or Doctrine and yet have believed And this is truly to know Christ and by this knowledg of Faith Christ is in us and we in Christ For we know not Christ now after the Flesh but after the Spirit i.e. as he is spiritually present with us by Faith and will be eternally present with us by sight For although we had lived in his time and known him after the flesh or been his Natural Mother Sisters or Brethren yet from henceforth by our Faith we should have known him no more in that state of weakness and Mortality of Flesh but in a farre better state of Eternal Glory and Power in the Spirit And in the Union and Communion with him by Faith And so we do know him and by the hearing and believing of his Word we are made one with him and he with us are flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone are his spiritual Mother Sisters and Brethren Having fellowship already with the Father and with the Son by the Spirit of the Father and the Son and are already in heavenly places in Christ Jesus For Faith is the Substance of things hoped for and the Evidence of things not seen Doctrine 1. The Subject of this Text is Faith 2. The Circumstances are two 1. The Substance of things hoped for 2. Chap. 4. Of the fruits of Faith The Evidence of things not seen 3. The Reason is Because Faith obtains a present Right to a future Blessing and an earnest and assutance thereof and an Expectation of the full Possession 4. The Reason of this Reason is from the Nature of Faith which is not only an Assent to the Truth of Gods Promises with a Reliance and Dependency upon God for the performance of them but an acceptation and embracing them upon the condition of Holiness that they are offered unto us which Faith is therefore accounted unto us for Righteousness That is whereby we have a true Right Interest Title and Claim to the Inheritance of the Kingdom of Heaven which is the Thing promised unto us This Description of Faith is thus illustrated unto us Chap.
Right and expected the future blessing by faith and Hope And so the faithful accept the present Right and expect the future Blessing by Jesus Christ and have it by Faith and Hope And though we dye before we possess it yet we dye in faith and lye down in hope to rise again to the possession of Eternal Glory For so the faithful are said to be perswaded of Gods promises having seen them a far off and imbraced them All these dyed in faith Heb. 11.13 having not yet received the full fruition of the Promises and their flesh rested in hope to put on a glorious and blessed Immortality Therefore my Deerly beloved Brethren be ye stedfast and unmoveable allwayes abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. For Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen Coroll This faith is a Passive Act of mans Will receiving and embracing that state or condition into which Gods love puts us to have a present Right to a future Reward Thus in making faith the Action is on Gods part and in taking faith the Action is on Mans part And this is noble and free in God to promise and perswade and in Man to be perswaded and to receive what God gives What can be more easy and reasonable then to say Amen to Gods Promises only this Fiat quod dicitur Lord here I am to do whatsoever thou wilt have me to do Thus the Blessed Virgin answered Be it unto me even as thou hast said Give Lord for thy servant is ready to receive And that with a glad heart too to obtain such rich Grace from the God of all Grace This is Gods drawing of us with the Cords of a Man which makes his Yoke easy and his Burden light and all that refuse to be perswaded are left without all excuse For how often hath God stood at their door and knockt how often would he have gathered them together into his congregation to be partakers of his Benefits with his faithfull People but they would not therefore these things are justly hid from their Eyes Chap. 10. Of both Covenants This is to be in Covenant with God When Gods Sponsions are Double Acts of his Will devising a present Right to a future Blessing and Mans Responsions are Double Acts of mans Will accepting this present Right to a future Glory And so our will becomes agreeable to Gods will touching one thing to be had of God which makes a perfect Covenant of Grace justly so called because God was moved to make that Covenant meerly by his Grace and because the Matter of it is very gracious So Gods Commands are Double Acts of his Will for a present obligation to a future duty and mans yeeldings are double Acts of his Will to a present Band to a future duty So our Will becomes agreeable to Gods Will touching one Thing to be done of man which makes a perfect Covenant of Works justly so called because mans duty is a work and the matter of it is Labour For God Covenanted with Abraham that he should walk before God and be upright and that every male of his should be Circumcised And God covenants with us That we should be poor in Spirit mourn Matth. 5. hunger and thirst after Righteousness be pure in heart merciful meek c. which is laborious Concl. Therefore Gods Promise is a Covenant of Grace and Gods Precept is a Covenant of works and Gods Judgment is a Covenant of Curses which we unwillingly enter into but the two former willingly Therefore a full Right Interest Claim or Title of an Inheritance to come together with an earnest penny given and received is the substance and evidence of that inheritance to the Heir thereof and he is as sure if he hold his Right given as if he actually enjoyed it Therefore the Scripture saith Eph. 1.3 We are already in heavenly places in Christ Jesus And God hath raised us up together and made us to set in heavenly places in Christ He that Believeth hath everlasting life Eph. 2.6 and I will raise him up at the last day Christ is the first fruits of them that sleep Now if the first fruits be holy then the whole Lump is holy If Christ be the first fruits of the Resurrection to Glory then all that are Christs even the whole Harvest of the Faithful shall rise to the same Glory And therefore Christ is called the First Born from the Dead our Elder Brother the first Born among many Brethren and if the first Born be risen then shall the second and third Born and all the Brethren that are born of the same God rise from the Dead and be partakers of the same Inheritance of Glory with Christ their Elder Brother in whom and by whom they have right to be the sons of God by the Grace of Adoption and Regeneration as he had by Nature and Generation If Christ be the Head then the Faithfull are the Body And if the Head be risen the Body shall follow after For our Flesh is in Heaven already And as sure as Christ is in Heaven so sure shall we be also For where he is there we shall also be and Christ is gone before to prepare a place for us that where he is there we might also be And in his Fathers house there are many Mansions and Portions for all his Children And where the Carcass is thither will the Eagles be gathered together Application Chap. 12. Of Comfort For Comfort and satisfaction to all Godliness hath the Promise of this life and of that which is to come Things to come are made Present and things unseen are made to be seen by Faith God will have us to walk here by Faith and hereafter by sight Here we believe and see a farre off hereafter we shall enjoy and see cleerly Here we know and see darkly as in a Glass there we shall see Face to Face and know even as we our selves are known We are sure we are now the Sons of God we know not yet what we shall be but this we know that when Christ shall appear we shall appear also with him in Glory Chap. 12. Of Priviledges by Faith For look what Right Christ hath by Nature to the Love of his Father who hath made him Heir of all things The same in kind though not in degree have we by Grace in and through Jesus Christ to be the Heirs of God and Coheirs with Christ Jesus and consequently as younger brothers to Tast of the same Inheritance By Faith we see and feel these absent and invisible things of God and know the heighth and length and depth and breadth of the Love of God in Christ Jesus which otherwise passeth all knowledge For neither Eye hath seen nor Ear hath heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive what things God hath
justified to Salvation it is not Gods fault but our own because we do not believe God hath graciously promised but man hath ungraciously refused and rejected Gods kindness and man hath nothing to say for himself Let God be true but let every man be a Lye Our destruction is from our selves but in God is our help 2 Cor. 4.4 But if our Gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost In whom the God of this World hath blinded the minds of men which believe not least the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the Image of God should shine unto them FINIS 2 COR. 5.7 For we walk by Faith not by sight INTRODUCTION FAith that is the evidence of things not seen abstracts the Soul from sense Therefore as that Faith that is so abstracted from sense is counted to us for Righteousness or doth justifie us to Eternal life So the same Faith kept by works upholds us in our Justification and makes us to walk before God in the Practise of a spiritual life abstracted from all carnal and sensual wayes which is our Sanctification For as the end is Spiritual that we aime at and not Carnal So the means whereby we attain to this End are Spiritual and not Carnal that is Faith and the life of Faith not of Sight For the Just man lives by his Faith and not by his sight or sense and does not make hast but waits patiently for the Hope of Glory that shall be revealed Still looking beyond this life and forgetting these things which are here behind reacheth out and presseth hard to the mark of the High Calling which is laid up for him in Christ Jesus Rom. 1.17 Rom. 8.24 25. For we are saved by Hope but hope that is seen is not Hope for what a man seeth why doth he yet hope for but if we hope for that we see not then do we with patience wait for it Heb. 11.1 Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen When I was a Child I spake as a Child I understood as a Child I thought as a Child but when I became a man I put away childish things 1 Co◠13.10 11. For we now see through a glass darkly but then face to face Now I know in part but then shall know even as also I am known The Subject is Walking or Living The Parts are Faith Sight or a Spiritual and a Carnal Life The Doctrine Chap. 1. Life A Christians Life is Spiritual Life is 1. Of Nature Pure Harmless as of other living Creatures 2. Of sense irregular sinful brutish irrational Earthly 3. Moral by practise of Virtue 4. Civil in Society Justice under Laws 5. Spiritual Self-denying above Laws 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christians by their Spiritual lives Gal. 2.19 come up higher then the Laws Wherefore then serveth the Law it was added because of Transgressions 'till the seed should come to whom the Promise was made 1 Cor. 2.15 The spiritual man judgeth all things but he himself is judged of no man The Law is good if a man use it lawfully 1 Tim. 8 9 10 11. Knowing this that the Law is not made for a Righteous man but for the Lawless and Disobedient for the ungodly and sinners for wholy and profane for murderers of fathers and murderes of mothers for man-slayers for whoremongers for them that defile themselves with mankind for men-stealers for liars for perjured persons and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound Doctrine according to the glorious Gospel of the blessed God committed to my trust This life Sanctifies and spiritualizeth Nature Sense Manners and Laws For though we walk after the flesh 1 Cor. 10.3 c. we do not war after the flesh For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God for the pulling down of strong holds casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth its self against the knowledg of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ We are delivered from the Law Rom. 7.6 that being dead wherein we were held that we should serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter Let not sin reign therefore in your mortal bodies Rom. 6.12.13 that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof Neither yeild ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin but yield your selves to God as those that are alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God for sin shall not have dominion over you for ye are not under the Law but under Grace Knowing this Rom. 6.6 that our old man is Crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that from henceforth we should not serve sin I am Crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh Gal. 2.10 I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me So that this life is High 1. Above all natural sensual pleasures profits Honors Arts Powers Glories Liberties Beauties Friends Health Strength Peace Orders c. 2. Above all natural sensual Pains Wants Shames Ignorances Weaknesses Disgraces Deformities Enemies Diseases Warres Slaveries Confusions c. So that I value the Pleasures of God and the profit of Eternal Life and the honour of being the child of God and the knowledge of Christ Jesus and the Power of God and the Glory of Heaven and the Liberty of the Gospel and the Beauty of Grace and the Friendship of God and of Saints and Angels and the Health and Peace of my Soul infinitely above all the Pleasures Profits Honors Arts Powers Glories and all the Pains and Wants the Shames Ignorances and weaknesses and all the miseries of this life I glory in tribulations and chuse rather to suffer afflictions with the people of God then to enjoy the Pleasures of sin which are but for a season For whosoever is born of God overcometh the World 1 Joh. 5.4 5. and this is the victory that overcometh the World even our Faith who is he that overcometh the World but he hath believeth that Jesus Christ is the Son of God 1 Joh. 3.9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God 3. This life regulates all Passions Love Hatred Joy Grief Hope Despair Boldness Fear Anger Revenge c. and raises them to Coelestial Objects 4. This Life sublimates all Faculties Understanding Will Memory Conscience 5. This Life attains to true Wisdome and Tranquility of Spirit By Exemption from vulgar Errors Chap. 2. Vulgar Errors Vices and Passions Lata est ad mortem via Alienis perimus exemplis Odi profanum vulgus arceo Broad is the way that leadeth to Death We perish if we follow
Faith but made shipwrack of it by their evil deeds and therefore could not enter into the Temporal Rest provided for them because of their unbelief Heb. 3. ult Let us therefore draw neer with a true heart in full assurance of Faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil Conscience and our bodies washed with pure water Heb. 10.22 23 24. Let us hold fast the Profession of our Faith without wavering for he is faithful that hath promised And let us consider one another and provoke one another unto Love and good works c. 4. For comfort Why should Believers quarrel Chap. 14. Peace 1. We have all the same Cause of Right which is Gods Promise 2. We have all the same Right the effect of Gods Promise Justification 3. We have all the same means reason or Title whereby the same cause becomes effectual for the obtaining of that Right which is Faith Therefore we all agree in the main and may and ought to be comforted thereby How vain then and sinful are those questions and doubts about the manner of Gods Promise and our Right thereby and the means of Faith for the conveyance of that Right unto us Brethren and fellow-heirs of the same Promise have no Reason to fall out about the way and manner how they come by them it is sufficient that they are sure of them and God be thanked for that Let them love one another Unjustly therefore do we hate and separate one from another seeing we all trust in one God for the same common Salvation And why should we be disheartned Chap. 15. Courage or doubt any more of the Truth which is so evident God is Faithful which hath promised our Right is sure which is promised the Means to joyn both these together and give us this right is sure even our Faith Therefore do but believe do not dispute All things are possible to him that believeth Do but accept and ye shall have Take what is offered unto you An easy Yoke A light Burden A noble way A rational way to be drawn by the cords of a Man by Love for Love To suffer our selves to be wrought upon and perswaded by Love To believe that God is That he is a Rewarder of all such as fear him That all that will accept of this Reward shall have it upon this reasonable and easy condition of Faith and Repentance That a new Life and Holiness is a most pleasant thing of its self if there were no other Reward That if there be another Reward it ought in reason being so great as Eternal Life to be enjoyed by them only that believe it and that labour for it That if there be no Reward yet it is more just and comfortable to hope well and live well then to despair and do all wickedness to the present hurt of our own Peace and the Disturbance and Ruine of others for which they will Curse us even in this World And if there be a Reward as most certainly there is then these men shall be sure to miss it but the Faithful cannot fail to have it Because that reward is promised upon the Condition of Faith and none other As sure as there is a God in Heaven so sure shall there be a Reward in Heaven And as sure as there is a Christ so sure shall all they be rewarded that are in Christ As sure as Christ is born the Son of God by nature and the spirit so sure are the faithful born the Sons of God by Grace and the Spirit As sure as Christ was the promised Seed so sure are the Faithful the Promised Seed in him and by him As sure as Christ is the Heir of all things in himself by the means of his Birth-right so sure are the Faithful the heirs of God by the means of their Birth-right As sure as God hath promised and sworn to Christ so sure hath God promised and sworn to the Faithful This is Gospel God is a Spiritual Father The Faithful are a Spiritual Seed Spiritual Heirs of a Spiritual Inheritance 5. For Distinction of Reckoners true and false and of such as do not Reckon at all 1. Some make no accompt Chap. 15. Kinds of reckoning being without God in the World and having no Hope strangers to the Covenant of Promise dead while they live 2. Some make a false accompt reckoning without Faith Boasting of a Right to an estate when they have no grounds for it Living highly and making a great show to the World of a portion in Heaven when as they have nothing to trust unto being Hypocrites whose hope shall perish and be cut off before God Luc. 13.25 c. Angels and men They shall knock at the door saying Lord Lord open unto us then shall the Master of the house answer and say unto them I know you not whence you are Then shall they begin to say We have eaten and drank in thy presence and thou hast also taught in our streets but he shall say I tell you I know you not whence you are Depart from me ye workers of Iniquity Matth. 7.21 c. Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdome of Heaven but he that doth the will of my Father which is in heaven Many shall say unto me in that day Lord Lord have we not Prophecied in thy Name and in thy Name cast out Divels and in thy name done many wonderful works And then will I profess unto them I never knew you Depart from me ye workers of Iniquity 3. Some have a true accompt made by God for them but cannot make a true accompt for themselves but are hindred and puzled being weak and put out of their reckoning 1. By school distinctions without difference and coyned niceties oppositions of Sciences falsly so called 2. By Pulpit marks signs the fancies of idle Brains and multiplication of Words without knowledge 3. By private scornes and Reproaches of Reprobation and Damnation without Wit or Charity But let all such poor true hearted wretches be of good cheer They that cannot reckon for themselves God shall reckon for them and help them to make it out The Spirit within them shall cry Abba Father for them and help them in all their infirmities with sighes and groans which they cannot utter Christ doth plead for their Right in Heaven which he hath obtained for them and knows how to have compassion upon the ignorant and them that are out of the way for that he himself also was one compassed with infirmities As a faithful and kind Steward will reckon to a poor servant his dues to a farthing Heb. 5.2 when he cannot reckon for himself So will Christ do for these poor Creatures and all that are Christs faithful Messengers and dispensers of the mysteries of Salvation The fault is in the false Teachers that fright poor Souls with Hell and Damnation Physicians of no value miserable Comforters such as