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life_n	believe_v	love_v	perish_v	4,249	5	7.8268	4	false

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A87170	Topica sacra: spiritual logick: some brief hints and helps to faith, meditation, and prayer, comfort and holiness. / Communicated at Christ-Church, Dublin, in Ireland. By T.H. minister of the Gospel.	Harrison, Thomas, 1619-1682.	1658 (1658)	Wing H917; Thomason E1769_2; ESTC R202373	72,620	183

out by him Tenthly After the Father whose motion and project this was had wrought of the Son to undertake it did not he then engage to stand by him and to supply him with all necessaries a body to suffer in and a spirit to that body without measure and to bring those into him in time by retail whom he had given to him in the Lump before time was he doth more then invite as saith Arminius he doth effectually draw by an omnipotent sweetness Christ must not scruple to entertain the most Leprous loathsome sinner whom the Father is pleased to bring unto him Ay and the Father must help to keep them also whom he hath brought in Ioh. 10.28 29. a pretious Cordial in Apostatizing times and all this being done according to an antient complot and agreement Socinus cannot from these supplies or dependencies infer the Sons inferiority to the Father and the poor believing sinner may press him with all these engagements 11. Over and aboye all this Did he not put forth his paternal Authority and lay his Commands upon his Son to engage in this great service John 10.18 and 12.9 20. as Pharoah to express a Pleonasm of Love commands Joseph to be kind to his nearest and dearest Relations which one would think little needed Gen. 45.19 Go look God in the face and say as David doth Psal. 71.3 Thou hast given Commandment to save me And to whom To Man or Angels No to me says Christ This Commandment have I received of my Father If Christ fail there is not only breach of Articles but Disobedience too Thou canst not believe that Christ loves thee so well as to lay down his Life for thee But canst thou believe he loves the Father tha 's easie there 's no doubt of that Why says Christ when he was going to die that the world may know how I love the Father as the Father hath given me Commandment even so do I John 14.31 12. Yet again to make all sure least the humane nature of Christ upon its affumption should shrink at the approach of sufferings Doth not the Father engage to reward him plentifully to give him a Royal and an Everlasting Priesthood a name above every Name appoints unto him a Kingdom Luke 22.29 and above all assures him of the Salvation of those he died for according to this agrement Isa. 53. 11. without which nothing could ever have satisfied him so that as the assumption of the humane nature is the highest instance of free mercy so is the rewarding thereof in its state of exaltation the highest instance of remunerative Justice All this needed not to engage Christ to the work so much as to engage us to believe that the Father was first in willing as he is in subsisting the Son second to him therein but not in heartiness of good Will for therein they are both equal they must needs be one in Will who are so in Nature and Being but still the Father is first in Love Joh. 3.16 For God so love the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting Life and 1 John 4. 9 10. In this was manifested the love of God towards us because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him here in is Love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the Propitiation for our sins and therefore love is laid at his door by the Apostle 2 Cor. ult. The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all The Grace of christ makes way for our enjoying the love of God but we had never known the Grace of Christ had it not been first for the love of God who therefore is called our Saviour 1 Tim. 1.1 13. And as ifas all this were not enough Did not the Father seal his Son a Comission to give life to lost sinners John 6.27 and therefore Christ so often mentions the Father as sending him and furnishing him with miracles his letters Credential where ever he came 14. Nay more If suffering for our sakes be a sign of Love as who can deny or doubt it to speak after the manner of men Had not the Father his share of sufferings as well as the Son Was it nothing for him to part with his Son such a Son an only Son the delight of his heart and eyes and that not amongst friends but enemies Who would seek and suck his blood in this sense to spare him and yet in another not to spare him but to bruise him an take pleasure in so doing Is all this nothing He may seem indeed to have an easie part to sit in Heaven and receive satis faction but you see it cost him something too nay more He denies himself and disappears and gives up the immediate management of all affairs into the hands of his Son That part the Son took was sharper but shorter lasted not much above three and thirty years but from the time of Christs resurrection 'T is along aevum before that God come again to be all in all 1 Cor. 15.24 and 28. and he in a manner remains hid till the day of Judgement now Christ is all in all Col. 3.12 The Son transacts all by the Spirit till the last day and the Father worketh now only in and through the Son Thus you see the Father veiling and eclipsing his Glory to make it shine the more hereafter and in the mean time his love that shines forth herein gloriously 15. Hath not the Father as well as Christ an hand in sending the Holy Ghost to make a discovery and application of all these things yea he is called the Promise of the Father which Christ had often hinted to his Disciples as the best news he could bring them from heaven Act. 1.4 which saith he ye have heard of me 16. Lastly Was it not he that wrapt up all this in a glorious Covenant a Covenant of Grace Life and Peace of which I may say as John of the Commandment of Love 1 Ioh. 2.7 8. 'T is both the New and Old Covenant the first and last and everlasting Covenant cal'd a Promise lest the word Covenant should scare us and make us think there 's more required of us by way of restipulation then we can reach unto Tit. 1.2 1 Ioh. 2.25 Covenants of Promise Eph. 2.12 and while we are altogether strangers thereunto we are without Hope The other Covenant was contrived and given forth chiefly to make way and welcome for this and 't is this Covennant the precious things whereof are sealed up unto us in the Sacraments This is that secret of the Lord which is with them that fear him Psal. 25.13 to make them know the Covenant he is ever mindfull of it and therefore sent

naughtiness and he can tell where there are super-aboundings over-flowings of Grace and Mercy and if he will draw up the sluces thou shalt not only honour him by believing but be encouraged to look for more then ordinary favours from him even because sin hath so abounded And is not this the faith that should come or must thou look for another or if this be it why then is not thy heart purified heart and life sactified by it Why is it not unto his servant according to his word Act. 15.9 26.18 Plead and press this hard upon him and my soul for thine he will not deny thee he will not say thee nay you may take not mine but the Apostle Peters word for it that this is the true Grace of God wherein ye stand 1 Pet. 5.12 But there is a damp upon thy Spirit a great discouragement which takes off thy boldness before him thou fearest that though thou dost as thou thinkest believe and rejoyce for a season in the Grace believed yet 't is not likely to last alwayes thou shalt not be able to hold the rejoycing of thy confidence firm unto the end thou shalt prove but a temporary a dung-hill covered with snow which will melt away thou findest so much hypocrisie in whatever thou goest about thou hast done much evil without the mixture of any good but never any good without the mixture of much evil and the hypocrite is justly hated of God and man the world hates him because he seems good and God abhors him because he only seems and is not truly such and this sometimes thou fearest will be thy portion and canst not discover the bottom of thy misery to any flesh living and this ere long will put an end to thy pleading thou fearest that both the Gift and Grace and spirit of Prayer if ever thou hadst it will leave thee according to that in Iob 27.8.9 10. For what is the hope of the hypocrite though he hath gained when God taketh away his soul will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him will he delight himself in the Almighty will he alwayes call upon God Well go to God in this case however Go order thy cause before him and fill thy mouth with Arguments I. Tell him He and He alone knows whether thou aymest not at entireness of heart before him both as to the subject the whole heart which thou wouldst have kept even from thine iniquity and as to the object all his Commandments thou knowest not one of them which thy spirit balks or boggles at but the more pure his word is the more thy soul loveth it And also as to the means of Grace they are all dear and pretious to thee and thou wouldst be found in the use of all his appointments bid him name that thing which he requires which thou knowingly and purposely declinest and is this the guise or way of an hypocrite only be sure thy heart reproach thee not Secondly He knows that is the secret end of thy living why thou art desirous or so much as content to continue in this world not to share in the pleasures or profits or honors thereof the worlds Trinity which it adores serves and sacrificeth it self unto but to be receiving or doing some good in thy station and generation and can it be thus with an hypocrite Thirdly He knows that thou chusest rather to be sickly or poor or disgraced and to walk close with him then in health wealth or honour to wander from him or to lie out at a great distance from communion with him yea rather to be following hard after Him though thou shouldst never enjoy his glorious ravishing transporting presence while thou livest then to swim in abundance of carnal enjoyments and to have a heart careless of him estranged from him and is it thus with any hypocrite in the world Fourthly Tell him thou hadst rather he should know all thy secret sinnings against him then that he should not know all thy secret sighings and lamentations after him the world hath seen and stumbled at many of thy miscarriages but hath not seen nor recovered by thy secret mournings but he seeth in secret and therefore tell him Fifthly It will not be for his honour to reject thee for all must out all thy secret sobbings and pantings and pursuings after him must be know one day and what would Angels and men think to see such a mourner in secret cast off to all eternity Lastly Appeal unto him He knows thou hast been usually as earnest with him for Holiness in time of prosperity as in time of straits and adversity and is this the manner of hypocrites Surely no Vzziah was marvellously helped till he was strong but when he was strong his heart was lifted up to his destruction for he transgressed against the Lord his God 2 Chr. 4 5. 14.15 It was not so with Iehosaphat he sought the Lord God of his Fathers and walked in his Commandements and not after the doings of backsliding Israel Therefore the Lord stablishied the Kingdom in his hand and all Judah brought him Presents and he had riches and honour in abundance And his heart was lifted up in the wayes of the Lord Piety procures a settlement and that brings off the people to an acknowledgement of their Magistrate and to a love unto Him and that ushers in plenty and abundance and an honest heart in the midst of it all is carried higher and nearer to God as the waters bear up the Ark and lifted it nearer Heaven If it be thus with thee in thy measure there may be and will be some Leaven of hypocrisie which may somewhat four thy performances which yet upon thy humiliaton shall be pardoned and thy Judge himself and his Deputy in thine own bosom will pronounce that thou art no hypocrite Peradventure thou mayest reply though I may prove no hypocrite yet I shall prove little better then a slave I fear I am awed and acted only by a spirit of fear and this is far from a Gospel-spirit from a spirit of Adoption they are set as adversaries and Antipodies one against another and if there were not a dread of God upon my spirit if destruction from God were not a terrour unto me I know not what would become of me nor whether Satan and my corruptions would hurry me Well yet go and order thy cause before him and fill thy mouth with Arguments Ask him if He have not observed ordinarily thy spirit to be more melted and humbled when he hath filled thy heart with joy and thy mouth with Prayses then by any evil felt or feared then by the sense or approach of any evil whatsoever and is this the frame of a slave or of a child Secondly Tell him 't is true thou fearest him and so do all the Saints and Angels in Heaven but 't is with such a fear as enlargeth thy heart