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A96951	The only sovereign salve for the wounded spirit: approved by the author in himself Delivered by him in several sermons after his recovery: and now, published for the glory of his most gracious restorer, and for the comfort and settlement of any afflicted soul, that doth, or may labour under that weighty burden. By Richard Wortley, minister of Christ in his church, in Edworth in Bedfordshire.	Wortley, Richard, d. 1680.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3642A; ESTC R231974	144,585	300

delivered from the wrath to come 1 Thessal 1. 9 10. Reas 1. They are justified and so at peace with God Rom. 5. 1. 2. They are true lovers of God and there â—s no fear in Love 1 John 4. 18. 3. They are partakers of the first Resurrection and so assured that the second death shall have no power over them Rev. 20. 6. Use 1. Sin being forgiven the punishment is removed Jer. 31. 34. Pardon is a not imputing the fault unto punishment 2. Get assurance that thou art justified Two principal grounds of this Assurance are Peace in the Soul Rom. 5. 1. An holy Life Rom. 6. 22. 3. Be sure that thou truly lovest God 1 John 2. 5. 4. Beware of security Fear Gods Temporal wrath Heb. 12. 28 29. Resol Being freed from all fear arising from the Spirit of Bondage and having received the spirit of Adoption which beareth witness with my spirit that I am thy Son I will confidently yet with humble reverencâ— come unto thy Throne of Grace and cry Abba Father Rom. 8. 15 16. Ejac. My Love is yet but weak Lord so perfect it that all fear being cast ouâ— I may here without fear serve thee in holiness and righteousness and may have boldness in the Day of Judgment 1 John 4. 17 18. Paral. XI Circ I cast mine eye to the Top of the Tower Obs The effectually-Called are to set their Affections upon Heavenly things THE Lord washeth away the silth of the Daughter of Zion by the Spirit of Judgment and by the Spirit of burning At and from the Prison until set in the Tower the Spirit of Judgment wrought At the Prison gate I was made sensible what I had deserved and was liable unto The sense of my danger begat fear in me Fear putting me on to seek out for a means to escape brought me to Humiliation Humiliation with Fear and Faith brought me to Christ the Foundation of the Building Being now in him the Spirit of Burning began to work in the Tower For having Removed the Love of the world that my heart might be free to the love of Heavenly things And Banished my Fear that with Confidence and Chearfulness I might affect them By its heat it sweetly warmed and enflamed my heart with a sense and love of and desire after them By its light having first by the reward encouraged and quickned me to all diligence in the way to attain them It directed me to and in that way It discovered unto me those secret way layers whom I was to keep a watchful eye over Faith the soul's eye beholding these things though but darkly saith there are precious things laid up above Heb. 11. 1. Hope the souls Ankor as yet but weakly fastned upon the Promises of these things saith they are laid up for me Heb. 6. 18 19. Love the yet feeble feet of the Soul longing for them saith I run that I may obtain them Phil. 3. 14. The Souls eye is cleared by abounding in Grace 2 Pet. 1. 9. Her Ankor becomes more sure and stedfast by being fixed upon the immutability of Gods Counsel and his Oath Heb. 6. 17. Her feeble knee are strengthened and she is quickned in her pace by assurance that in those precious things she shall have Fulness of satisfaction and Perpetuity of enjoyment Which two things although the ancient Philosophers in their diligent search after the chief good could never find them in any worldly thing Yet they are to be had in God and in the enjoyment of him In his Presence is fulness of joy at his right hand pleasures for evermore Psal 16. 11. God then is to be the principal Object of our Love which For the manner of it must be A love of good will we must love him for himself Mat. 22. 37. A love of Union longing for the enjoyment of him Psal 42. 1. A love of delight taking pleasure In his Service Psal 122. 1. In his Children Psal 16. 3. For the measure of it it must be with all the heart soul mind strength Luke 10. 27. The utmost power of the whole soul must be employed in it We must do what we are able with a Will to do more if we were able His Greatness Psal 113 6. Our Meanness Rom. 9. 11. His preventing us with his love 1 John 4. 10. The greatness of it John 3. 13. It s Freeness Eph 2. 4 5. Our Unworthiness Rom. 5. 10. should quicken us thereunto And we may then assure our selves that we do love him when We are obedient unto his Will John 14. 23. And when We beat his rod with Patience 1 Cor. 13. 4. Obs The effectually Called are to set their Affections upon heavenly things Texts Phil. 3. 20. Our Conversation is in Heaven from whence we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ Col. 3. 1 2. If ye be risen with Christ seek those things which are above Set your affections on things above and not on things on the earth Iâ—st Aâ—raham looked for a City which hath Foundations whose Builder and Maker is God Heb. 11. 10. David longing after God saith Whom have I in Heaven but thee and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee Psal 73. 25. Reas 1. They alone are satisfying and lasting Psalm 16. 11. 2. Thou art risen with Christ and so endued with a power to affect them Col. 3. 1. 3. Christ thine Head is above sitting at the right hand of God Col. 3. 2. Where should the Members be but with their Head Use 1. First seek the Kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof Mat. 6. 33. 2. Put thy power in execution wherewith by vertue of Christ's Resurrection thou art endued Rom. 6. 4. 3. Imitate Christ he being risen ascended into Heaven Rom. 6. 5. 4. Long to be with him thine Head Psal 1. 23. Resol My Treasure is in Heaven there shall my heart be Mat. 6. 21. There my Conversation Phil. 3. 20. Ejac. As the Hart panteth after the Water-Brook so panteth my soul after thee O God Psalm 42 1. Paral. XII Circ I cast mine eye up to the Top of the Tower where my sight was limited by a Cloudy Resemblance Obs God hath an invisible Paradise to reward his Servants which in his Service they may have a respect unto GOD is immense and cannot be consined to place 1 Kings 8. 27. However his chief residence is in Heaven above the Clouds above the stars Job 22. 12. Where he holdeth back the face of his Throne by spreading his Cloud upon it Job 26. 9. The semi-Atheist though denying the workings of his Providence over man yet acknowledgeth this Job 22. 13 14. And thither the Disciples knew and by the Angels were assured Acts 1. 11. that Christ was ascended though by reason of the intercepting cloud they could follow him no further with the eye Acts 1. 9 10 11. The heart of the effectually-Called being taken off from the world and freed from the fear of Hell is now

to represent unto the eye of my soul the horrible nature Of a by sin-darkned understanding the condition of Satan and of all his Subjects Eph 4. 18. Of the works of darkness in a wicked life Eph. 5. 11. Of the blackness of utter darkness their reward Jude 13. my then guilt and just desert That there are Angels though it be denied by Atheists and Sadduces Acts 23. 18. is evident Psal 104. 4. Col. 1 16. and in many other places That they are intellectual Substances endued with most excellent knowledge in a great measure is clear otherwise they could not perform the Offices to which they are assigned Psal 91. 11. Heb. 1. 14. They were all created with a possibility of falling but the elect ones 1 Tim. 5. 21. fell not and are now confirmed by Christ which is their Redemption and reconciliation Col. 1. 20. The Reprobate Angels fell among whom Lucifer their Chief was full of wisdom and perfect in beauty perfect in his waies from the day that he was created till iniquity was found in him Ezek. 28 12 15. But his heart being lifted up because of his beauty hâ— pride affecting no less then a likeness to God Is 14. 1â— his wisdom was corrupted and he cast as prophane oâ— of the Mountain of God Ezek. 28. 16 17. His wisdom was but corrupted he was not wholly deprived of it For so He would not have known his own Misery which would be a lessening of his punishment Yea The Integrity of his Nature must necessarily have been dissolved He yet retains a proportion of knowledge which by reason of the excellency of his nature and of his long and indefatigable experience must needs be great He is very subtil 2 Cor. 11. 3. which he could not be without it He knows God his eternal Power and Godhead Man doth so by the works of Creation Rom. 1. 20. Much more he He hath a speculative knowledge of Divine things he believes and trembles Jam. 2. 19. But in many things which he ought to know and which as to his intellectual Nature he might know he is utterly ignorant To let pass his Ignorance Of Future Contingencies Isa 41. 23. Of the thoughts of mans heart Jer. 17. 10. Of the Mysteries of Grace Eph. 3. 10. Of the Number of the Elect 2 Tim. 2. 19. Of the Day of Judgment Mat. 24 36. All of them unknown to the good Angels and alone proper unto God He hath no knowledge of God that is productive of love 1 John 2. 3. 4. 5. He knows not who serves God sincerely Job 1 9. 2 4 5. He knows not the success of his Temptations which such is his pride that he would not attempt any with them did he know they would be in vain Matth. 4. 11. He knew not that his Kingdom should be destroyed by the death of Christ 1 Cor. 2. 8. And as thus in himself he is especially deprived of the light of Grace so as the God of this world he blinds mens mind that the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ should not shine unto them 2 Cor. 2. 4. By a strong fascination casting as it were mists before their eyes that they should not discern and obey the truth Gal. 3. 1. Stirring up mingling and ordering of the Phantasms in the Fancy and Working upon the Passions in the sensitive Appetite as in Judas John 13. 2. in Ananias Acts 5. 3. So darkning their foolish hearts Rom. 1. 21. That he may alienate them from the life of God by that ignorance which is in them by reason of their darkned understandings Eph. 4. 18. Thus of an Angel of light he is now become the Prince of the power of the Air Eph. 2. 2. the Ruler of the darkness of this world Eph. 6. 12. Being condemned unto eternal darkness to which under the Chains of darkness he is reserved Jude 6. How art thou fallen from Heaven O Lucifer Son of the Morning How art thou brought down to Hell to the sides of the Pit Isa 14. 12 15. Obs Satan is the Prince of darkness In respect of Himself His Subjects Of himself Texts Luke 22. 53. This is your hour and the power of darkness Col. 1. 13. Who hath delivered us from the power of Darkness Inst He knew not whether Job were a true Servant of God or not Job 1. 9. He knew not that his Kingdom should be destroyed by the death of Christ 1 Cor. 2. 8. Which assoon as he had a glimmering of he endeavoured by Pilates Wives dream to prevent it Mat. 27. 19. Of his Subjects whom he blinds In their Understanding Practise In their Understanding Texts 2 Cor. 4. 4. The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not 1 Cor. 2. 14. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit for they are foolishnesse to him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned Inst The foolish heart of the Gentiles was darkned Rom. 1. 21. The Ephesians were somtimes darkness Eph. 5. 8. In their Practise Texts John 3. 19. Men loved darkness more then Light 1 John 1. 6. If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lie and do not the truth Inst The Gentiles were alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that was in them Eph. 4. 18. The Ephesians in time past walked according to the course of this world according to the Prince of the power of the Air Eph. 2. 2. Reas His sin of Pride Thou hast said in thy heart I will ascend into Heaven c. I will be like the most High Isa 14. 13 14 15. Use 1. Blesse God who hath made thee meet to be partaker of the Inheritance of the Saints in light Col. 1. 12. 2. Have no Fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness Eph. 5. 11. 3. Walk as a Child of Light Eph. 5. 8. Resol I as are all the Sons of Adam was born in the Umbrage of his Gloomy Dominions Eph. 2. 2. and lived long a Subject under his Tyranny but now being translated out of them by him in whom there is no darkness at all I do and alwaies will submit my self to the right Scepter of his Kingdom Psal 45. 6. Ejâ—c Blesse and praise him my soul who hath called me out of darkness into his marvellous Light 1 Pet. 2. 9. After the Discourses concerning the Prison and Jaylor I conceive this the proper place for inserting of these three following Parallels though otherwise relating only to my Prayer for settlement as touching those missed secular Preferments Paral. VI. Circ The Prison was like unto that House wherein I had lived c. the Jaylor stood at the entrance of the Chief Prison-House as Master of the House Obs A seeming godly House may be Satans Habitation THE Honourable Governour with all or most of the then Members of that Family are in their graves and having been before Christs impartial Tribunal know their doom Of the dead or

so it is utterly to be condemned Filial fear is a reverential fear of Gods Majesty and Power Gen 28. 17. A trembling at his Judgments Psal 119 120. This fear hath a special regard unto the offence as sin by its guilt separates from God Isa 59. 2. This is enjoyned Psal 3â— 9. and Blessings promised to it Psal 25. Psal 112 c. as necessary to a Christian through his whole life and to continue in Heaven as to the act of our reverence of God arising from the consideration of the excellency of his Nature and Justice in his punishment of the damned Psal 19. 9. Initial fear is a middle fear between these two causing man to abstain from sin to do good with a respect partly to the punishment and partly to the offence However it proceeds not from the first but is the beginning of Reverential or Filial Fear and arising from Love upon effectual Calling begun in the soul and there shewing it self as the working of Faith as yet but in a weak measure Which Fear as Faith and Love gather strength is by degrees expelled 1 John 4. 18. This way by fear the Lord at the beginning took with Adam First he had wrought in him an apprehension of fear of the Curse threatned against him upon his disobedience Gen. 3. 10. And then after followed the Promise of the Seed of the Woman who should break the Serpents head v. 15. This way he still continues First Moses must be believed then Christ John 5. 45. First there must be an apprehension of Gods Justice and then of his Mercy in his Son sweetned by the foregoing severity of the sharp Schoolmaster of the Law Gal. 3. 24. Upon this account it is that the Ministers of the Gospel do yet preach the Law We preach it to the Regenerate as a Rule of life Jam 1. 25. and to stir them up to thankfulness for their freedom from its Curse obtained by Christ Gal. 3. 13. To the Unregenerate as a Rule of Life likewise Luke 10. 28. And that by its Terrours they may be brought unto Christ Gal. 3. 24. Thus the Commandment is ordained unto Life Rom. 7 10. And this life is alone to be had in Christ Acts 4. 12. Obs Upon effectual Calling the fear of Hell is a principal Means to bring the Soul un to Christ Texts Deut. 5. 28 29. I have heard the voice of the words of this people c. They have well said all that they have spoken O that there were such an heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my Commandements alwayes c. Gal. 3. 24. The Law was our Schoolmaster to bring us to Christ that we might be justified by Faith â—ast Paul upon the great Light shining about him and the Voice from Heaven trembling and astonished said Lord What wilt thou have me to do Acts 9. 6. The Jaylor came trembling and fell down before Paul and Silas and said Sirs What must I do to be saved Acts 16. 29 30. Reas 1. It restrains from sin Prov. 3. 7. 2. It prepares the way for perfect Love 1 John 4. 18. Use 1. The Law is to be taught Jam. 1. 25. 2. Beware of worldly fear Rev. 21. 8. Ostâ—nd not God for fear of man Mat. 10. 28. 3. Take heed of hardning thine heart Prov. 28. 14. 4. Get assurance that thou hast the spirit of Adoption Rom. 8. 15. Resol I will take heed how I offend knowing that it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 10. 31. Ejac. Enter not into judgment with thy Servant O Lord For in thy sight shall no man living be justified The enemy hath persecuted my soul O deliver me for I flee unto thee to hide me Psal 143. 2 3 9. Paral. V. Circ Being perswaded that in that Building I might secure my self from my Pursuer I gat down into it Obs Upon Effectual Calling Faith is necessarily required as the only Instrumental Means to unite the Soul unto Christ SIN sets and keeps up a Partition-wall between God and the Soul Isa 59. 2. Fear is a means to break it down Prov. 3. 7. My fear made me hasten down the stairs upon which being entered I plainly saw the Building whereon they set me and had a perswasion in me that there I might secure my self from my Pursuer which Perswasion was my Faith I had not nor could I have such thoughts until I saw the Building that I saw not until I entred upon the stairs Faith and Repenrance are begotten in the Soul at the same time and in the order of Nature repentance follows Faith But Repentance is first discovered and afterwards Faith A sinner cannot perswade himself that he shall obtain Salvation by Christ which is the act of Faith until he find in himself an hearty turning from sin which is the act of Repentance First there must be a forsaking of sin and then follows assurance of Pardon Prov. 28. 13. Heb. 6. 1. The Priviledges of Gods Children are many They are received into his Family Eph. 2. 19. They have his Name put upon them Rev. 3. 12. They receive the Spirit of Adoption Rom. 8. 15. They have accesse with boldness to the Throne of Grace Eph. 3. 12. They are enabled to cry Abba Father Gal. 4. 6. God their Father pities them Psal 103. 13. Protects them Prov. 14. 26. Provides for them Mat. 6 30 32. Corrects them for their good Heb. 12. 6. 10. They are sealed to the day of Redemption Eph. 4. 30. They inherit the Promises Heb. 6. 12. They are heirs of Salvation Heb. 1. 14. With many other Behold what manner of Love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of God! 1 John 3. 1. To this Love and these Priviledges the certain effects and discoveries thereof although God from all eternity hath predestinated some in Christ for the praise of the Glory of his Grace Eph. 1. 5 6. Yet they are not made partakers of them until they partake of that redemption which Christ hath wrought for them Gal. 4. 5. Of this Redemption none can be partakers until by the Spirit it be actually applyed unto them Tit. 3. 4 5 6 7. Which Application is then wrought when we are united unto Christ Eph. 1. 7. We are united unto Christ upon effectual Calling When receiving of him we are admitted to that high Priviledge to be the Sons of God John 1. 12. Christ is received by Faith John 1. 12. Which Faith though it hath a general respect unto the Word upon the authority of the Author thereof believing to be true what therein is revealed 1 Thes 2. 13. And thereupon Yielding Obedience to his Commands therein Rom. 16. 26. Trembling at the Threatnings Isa 66. 2. Embracing the Promises Heb. 11. 13. Yet it hath a special eye unto Christ in those Promises relying upon him alone for salvation Acts 4. 12. Faith thus relying upon Christ is a certain

set upon God and the most certain Evidence of its love towards him being an holy life in a ready obedience unto his Will John 14. 23. to which by the Scaffolds as in the next I was directed the Lord was pleased first to encourage me to a forward chearful constancy therein by that glorious reward prepared for me above whereof by this cloudy resemblance I was now put in mind Are the blind able to discourse of Light How much less is man able to speak of that Glory of which we have him who saw it testifying that it is unutterable 2 Cor. 12. 4. inconceivable 1 Cor. 2. 9. The Holy Spirit is pleased notwithstanding in part to withdraw this Cloud in the Word by affording a weak glimpse of this Glory in the holy Jerusalem described Rev. 21. from v. 10. to 24. in assuring the faithful Citizens thereof who are written in the Lambs Book of life that they shall be adorned with white Robes of Glory Rev. 7. 9. 14. as to their souls and bodies As to their Souls Their Faith whereby here they see but as through a Glass darkly shall be changed into a manifest Vision of God whom they shall see face to face 1 Cor. 13. 12. Their Hope whereby here they patiently wait for this reward Rom. 8. 25. shall be changed into Fruition into the perfect enjoyment of him who shall fully satisfie their longing desires and wipe away all tears from their eyes Rev. 7. 16 17. Their imperfect love of God here shall be heightned to such a perfection as shall be incapable of enlargement 1 Cor. 13. 8. Thus that which is perfect as to all these being come that which is imperfect shall be done away 1 Cor. 13. 10 Their Bodies though sown in dishonour shall be raised in Glory 1 Cor. 15. 43. Which Glory shall consist In Clearness and Brightness they shall shine as the Sun Mat. 13. 43. In Impassibility and Freedom from Corruption this corruptible shall put on incorruption this mortal immortality 1 Cor. 15. 53. In swiftness of motion they shall be like the Angels Mat. 22. 30. In a word they shall be changed that they may be fashioned like unto the glorious body of Christ Philip. 3. 21. This Glory they shall enjoy in all fulness and to all Eternity which is set forth by the figure of a Crown Rev. 2. 10. Which is circular a circle being a Figure of the largest capacity and without end Whatsoever we perform in our obedience unto Gods Will He worketh it for us Phil. 2. 13. He is not benefitted by it Psal 16. 2. It is our duty Luke 17. 10. It is most disproportionable to this Glorious Reward Isa 64. 6. and therefore far from deserving of it Which however that in Gods Service it may be eyed We have God enjoyning of it Mat. 6. 33. We have the Saints Practise for it Heb. 11. 26 c. It is one end why Godliness hath the Promises of it 1 Tim. 4. 8. Obs God hath an invisible Paradise to reward his Servants which in his Service they may have a respect unto He hath an invisible Paradise for them Texts 1 Cor. 2. 9. Eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither have entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 John 3. 2. Now are we the Sons of God and it doth not yet appear what we shall bâ— but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is Inst. Paul being caught up into Paradise heard unspeakable words which it is not lawful or possible for a man to utter 2 Cor. 12. 4. The Holy Jerusalem described Rev. 21. 10 c. They may have a respect to this reward Texts Psal 119. 12. I have enclined my heart to perform thy Statutes alway even unto the end or for the reward Col. 1. 5. Since we heard of your Faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which ye have to all the Saints for the hope which is laid up for you in Heaven Inst Moses had respect unto the recompence of the reward Heb. 11. 26. Paul pressed toward the Mark for the price of the high Calling of God in Christ Jesus Phil. 3. 14. Reas For thâ— invisible reward 1. To shew the riches of his Bounty Mat 25. 23. 2. To encourage us to serve him with Chearfulness 1 Tim. 48. 3. To encourage us to bear the Cross with Patience Rom. 8. 18. 4. That we may patiently wait for it Rom. 8. 25. Reas For having a respect unto the reward 1. The Example of the Saints Heb. 11. 26. Phil. 3. 14. 2. It is Gods Command Mat. 6. 33. 3. It is the end of our Faith 1 Pet. 1. 9. Use 1. Be chearful in Gods service and stedfast therein thy labour shall not be in vain 1 Cor. 15. 58. 2. Bear afflictions patiently If thou suffer with Christ thou shalt reign with him Rom. 8. 17. 3. Attribute no merit to thy self the reward is his free gift Rom. 6. 23. 4. Cleanse thy soul from sin He that hath this hope purifieth himself 1 John 3. 3. Resol I will fight the good fight I will finish my course I will keep the Faith and so doing I am assured there is laid up for me a Crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge will give unto me 2 Tim. 4. 7 8. Ejâ—c O how great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee Psal 31. 19. Paral. XIII Circ Round about the Tower were Scaffolds equi-distant one above another Obs The effectually-Called are to grow in all Grace by degrees and to persevere therein THE Heart set upon God will manifest its love by Obedience John 14. 23. To Obedience are required The Knowledge of Gods Will Eph. 5. 17. The doing or practising of his Will John 13. 17. Gods Will is put in practise in the exercise of holy Graces 1 Thes 4. 3. Wherein there must be an universal gradual constant Improvement 2 Pet. 3. 18. To an improvement in all Grace the Ascent of the Scaffolds directs To an Improvement in Grace the Scaffolds round about To an improvement by degrees the equi-distance of each step from other Constancy or perseverance to which the closing Parallel likewise gives direction is implied in the improvement which ceaseth if we hold not out unto the end 1 Cor. 15. 58. Improvement in Grace St. Peter compares to the growth of an Infant 1 Pet. 2. 2. To the Souls growth in Grace is required Food This Food is the Word 1 Cor. 3. 2. Which must be wholsom 1 Tim. 6. 3. Sincere Milk 1 Pet. 2. 2. Not sweetned by affected Eloquence 1 Cor. 2. 4. Not corrupted with humane Inventions Mark 7. 7. Not poysoned with wrested Interpretations 2 Pet. 3. 16. Proportionable seasonable Luke 12. 42. Administred by a lawful Nurse 1 Thes 2. 7. Or Steward appointed to

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