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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85987	A pleasant walk to heaven, through the new and living way, which the Lord Jesus consecrated for us, and his sacred Word reveals unto us. Published by Claudius Gilbert, B.D. minister of the Gospel at Limrick.	Gilbert, Claudius, d. 1696?	1658 (1658)	Wing G703; Thomason E939_2; ESTC R202211	58,214	83

against the time to come This is so needfull a duty that they who have nothing but their own labor are bid and bound to spare out of that for those who cannot work Christ accounts all to be lent to himself which is given to his poor members He is slighted when they are slighted The rich are entrusted with their own and the poors porti●n also that they may be bountifull and others gratefull and that God may be honoured both waies Christ became poor to enrich us that we might be able and willing to Relieve the poor It must be our wisdom not to feed others lusts whilst we labour to supply their wants and to prevent their becoming poor if we can by all due means regularly appointed by Divine and humane Laws To do good and to communicate forget we not for with such sacrifices God is well pleased whilst we destribute to the necessities of the Saints being given to hospitality Therefore let your gift be ready as a matter of bounty not covetousness He that sows sparingly shall reap sparingly Let every one give not grudgingly or of necessity for God loves a chearfull Giver Paul presses this at large in the eight and ninth chapter to the Corinthians and appointed the first day of the week as the fit season for it being the christian Sabbath well known and observed in all christian Churches according to Christs Prediction and Institution ratified still by the Apostolical celebration thereof Who so hath this worlds goods saith the beloved Apostle and sees his brother have need and shuts out his bowels of compassion from him How dwells the Love of God in him My little Children let us not love in word nor in tongue but in Deed and in Truth This was Gods statute Law if thy brother be waxen poor or fallen into decay then thou shalt relieve him Christ blesses those and welcomes them his Fathers Kingdom who have been carefull to visit and refresh him in his little ones under troubles and wants A nigardly religion is no good Religion When God hath opened the heart the hand will not be shut up What a shame it is that any Christian should wantonnize in superfluitites and yet be sparing in the supplying of others Necessities Christ bids us make friends of the Mammon of iniquity which may receive us into eternal dwellings All our abilities should be so improved as that we may thereby comfortably walk in the way to Heaven through the Grace of Christ That Faith which is destitute of Good Works is but a dead faith True Faith works still by love to God and to man upon Gods account Good works are owned by the Truth and friends of Christ to be via regni though not causa regnandi we cannot be saved without them nor yet by them Christians should be ashamed to be out-stript by Turks and Pagans Jews and Papists in justice and Charity 10. Impartial administration of Ordinances Censures and Christian helps to all concerned in a regular way so that the meanest may be condescended to not slighted by any partiality in what their case requires In ecclesiastical as in civil judgment Gods forbids all partial respectings of persons that bring in neglect of justice due to any one This excludes not civil respect due to any person not confounding the proportion and distance which Providence hath settled among men in their subordinate relations In religious matters it is Grace that makes the difference between man and man They who have the least degree thereof have their common share in Christs family of portion and priviledge as all the members in the body natural to the meanest of them have their common Interest in the whole God would not have spiritual matters carried on by any selfish byasses but would have Christians to stoop one to onother to be of the same mind one towards another not minding high things but condescending to men of low estate and not being wise in their own conceit Christ himself taught his Disciples so by his own practise washing their feet stooping to them teaching them to submit to the lowest office of Love and help for each others good after his Pattern seeing the servant is not greater then his Lord You shall not Lord it one over another saith the Lord himself but who soever will be great among you let him be your Minister and who soever will be chief among you let him be your servant This humble way of mutual condescension and serviceableness is the most honourable conformity to the King of Saints the fountain of Honour and the best means of gaining Repute among wise men When it began to be neglected in the Primitive Churches the Apostles were forced to quicken them by cogent arguments to this choice Duty to convince them of the contrary evil My brethren saith James have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ with respect of persons c. Grace indeed teaches good manners and makes every Christian respectfull to others according to their rank giving honor and obedience to whom it is due according to Gods Word Yet doth it also teach condescension that the poorest may not be disregarded nor defrauded of such meet helps and provisions as the Lord hath ordered for them in his Kingdom and Family All societies require such an orderly care of all their members in Politicals as in Spirituals and whilst every one is labouring with prudent submission to give respect to others as sweet harmony and mutual compliance arise from thence and afford the choice fruits of credit and profit pleasure and preservation 11. Stedfast continuation in all the wayes of Christ abiding in him and keeping close to his people in every Ordinance and Providence not yielding to the least beginning of Apostacy from God and his service Herein Christians should be mutually helpful in corroborating and strengthening each other that they may be further rooted and grounded in Christ to walk in him as they first Received him Christ gives a warning to all by the Parable of the stony ground soon withering away for want of Root Though such for a time rejoyce in the Word yet they endure but for a while and are soon offended Paul is fain to press the Hebrews very hard about this very point shewing the danger of Revolt the excellency of perseverance their need of mutual helpfulness thereto assuring the Lords assistance Grace and Reward and comforting against all discouragements Demas is mentioned with a brand of Infamy that all may beware of making Shipwrack of faith and a good conscience as also Himenaeus Alexander Philetus and others in forsaking Christ to embrace this present world Backsliding from the Lord will be found as woful as it is sinful We must therefore beware of the least beginnings and appearances thereof Nemo derepentè fit pessimus Sin gets force by degrees coming on like a Tide

Hast thou found thy self drawn so effectually by the cords of his love as by the Bands of man that thou couldst not resist any longer Hast thou heard the voice of thy Beloved so attentively and affectionately so submissively and applicatively that conjugal consent hath followed on thy part to be wholly and constantly his Hath his pardoning and renewing Grace sounded so powerfully in his Word and Ordinances that thy soul could not but eccho and resound a believing penitential Return Hath the effusion of his gracious Spirit so melted and mollified thy heart that it could not but pour forth it self into a Spirit of supplications Did the sight of him whom thou didst behold as crucified by thee and for thee pierce through thy very heart to the killing of sin and quickning of thy soul that thou couldst not but mourn bitterly at the sense thereof Hath that voice of his broken the Cedars and cleft the mountains of thy corruptions whilst Gods servants in his house were speaking of his Glory Hast thou felt his word sharper within thee then any two-edged sword piercing deeply discovering all and dividing energetically between sin and self by a spiritual Anatomy Hath his knock and voice wrought upon thee as they did on the Spouse to call thee away from thy secure bed and sluggish slumber into a diligent Inquiry after him pursued incessantly till thy Beloved be found Hast thou given Christ eminent entertainment in some proportion to his eminent Vocation as Matthew and Zachaeus did being called by him 3. The Consequents following this Call are likewise eminent His called Ones are his faithfull ones following him fully in an obedience of faith and love Hath he thus effectually prevailed with us to make us faithfull loving and obedient according to his Articles of marriage in every Relation condition and occasion Is our obedience cordial and constant universal and perpetual at least in our purpose and endeavours Is there no Duty we would willingly neglect no sin we would leave unmortified no mercy of his that we would not fruitfully improve Is his Will our Rule his Glory our End his Grace our Principle his Spirit our strength whether in superior or inferior places in every Ordinance and Providence Doth our faith work by love to him and all his peculiarly fervently orderly and continually Is it our desire and delight design and labor to follow him through fair and foul through the Cross to the Crown through many tribulations into his Kingdom of Grace and Glory Have we none in Heaven but him none upon Earth in comparison of him If thy Vocation be a saving one it s an eminent One in the exercise of every Grace in the crucifying of every Lust in the resisting of every Temptation in the bearing of every Affliction upon his account Art thou as willing to take up his yoak and to learn practically of him meekness and lowliness as thou art desirous of his Rest Dost thou as chearfully studiously obey every Precept as thou delighest in every Promise of his gracious Covenant Is it thy trouble and grief that thy self and others do so dishonour and disobey him Is it thy chief joy to see him honoured obeyed by any of his Doth the sense of thy sinfulness still conflicting within make thee to cry out against thy wretched self Doth the sight of his Grace any way made good to thee melt thy soul into gratefull acknowledgements and sutable Returns as it did in Paul David and the rest of his called ones Dost thou eminently improve that calling thus eminently vouchsafed unto thee consider it well Vse 4. This speaks comfort to the Lords chosen faithfull called Ones Your Vocation is most eminent so is the Cordial that flows from it against sin and sorrow the flesh and the world self and Satan He hath called you to Glory and Vertue through Glory and Vertue who is faithfull and will also do it Whom he did fore-know them he did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son that he might be the first born among many Brethren Moreover whom he did predestinate them he called whom he called them he justified whom he justified them he glorified Therefore shall all things work together for good to them that love God who are the called according to his purpose Is not this golden chain of your salvation a Soveraign Antidote against all fears from within and without to be carefully laid up and laid out as the Apostle did Thou trembling soul whose heart is tender that wouldst fain love Christ and loth sin above all that thou mayest follow his call is not this thy priviledge Shouldst not thou join with him in casting the Gantlet and biding Defiance to sin and Satan to self and the world as he instructs thee in the following Context Who shall separate us from the Love of God Shall Tribulation c. Nay in all these we are more then Conquerors through him that loved us Mayst thou not through his name confidently resolve with him also and be perswaded that neither Life nor Death nor any other creature shall be able to separate thee from the Love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord Thou hast his Word and Oath his Hand and Seal his Purpose and Promise his Purchase and Covenant his Grace and Glory yea himself with his al-sufficiency engaged to thee for it what canst thou look more for The more unworthy and insufficient thou art in thy own eyes the more is thy right cleared to his Worthiness and sufficiency His Gifts and Calling are without Repentance being carried on in this saving manner though his common Gifts and external Calling admit often of a change as appear'd in Saul Judas and the Like temporary Believers Though thy hand be weak yet his is strong enough thy strength and stay lies in him alone and not in thy self Though thou often break yet doth he not break who cals his sheep by name to eternal Life Thy Vocation is eminently divine for freeness and fulness sureness and singularness to sense thy Soul against all enemies and discouragements Whom doth he seek and save but that which was lost in a perishing state Vse 5. This should finally excite every One to look in earnest after such an eminent Vocation that the same may be faithfully Improved The whole world is cast into two Ranks of uncalled and called Persons both are to be effectually dealt with 1. UNcalled sinners that never gave yet hearty Obedience to the Call of Christ These are of various sorts abounding every where to be spoken to as their case requires Some are most ruled by one Lust some by another some openly others more closely whilst they all follow the call of sin and reject Christs Call Should not all such be vigorously pressed to listen to his voice before it be too

shining lights in the Doctrine of their lips and life adorned still with his Vrim and Thummim Lights and Perfections as was prefigured by the holy Garments designed by the Lord for the vesture of his Church-officers It concerns all Gods people to look carefully to the trimming and feeding of those Lamps and to walk in their Light as becomes the Children of the Light and as God himself is in the Light that their mutual communion may be truly owned a fellowship with God by the Spirit of his Son else he threatens hard the removal of his Candle-stick when people grow wanton playing by their Light blowing at it abusing of it throwing water thereon and following false Lights in stead thereof The Lord would have them attended and obeyed in every Ordinance according to his Word as his Messengers and Heraulds his Stewards and Embassadors his Officers and Ministers authorized by special power qualifying them and Authority comissioning them to every part of his service He that hears them and receives them hears and receives him He that slights and rejects them slights and rejects him and the Father that sent him as he sends them in his name The slight and abuse of his spiritual Officers he hath in all ages dreadfully punished after many warnings He would not have them indeed lord it over the faith of Believers nor act as Lords of his Heritage but perform their office with Love and tenderness humility and self-denial yet with all Authority in his name and strength This Treasure they have in earthen vessels that the excellency of the Power may be of God and not of man and are to be received as an Angel of God even as Jesus Christ as the Galathians did for which Paul commends them They should be quickned to their work as need requires and diligently attended therein in all orderly meetings whether fixed or occasional every Christian should carefully prepare for and seasonably repair to the place at the time appointed as they did still in Primitive days though then in much danger that all may be ready as before God to perform their duty with affectionate attention and submissive application with fervent zeal and holy self-denial for future Improvement To be first at a feast and last at Church early with the world and late with God ardent in fleshly things and cold in Spirituals active in worldly trifles and trifling in Divine affiairs vigilant about earth and dormant about heaven shews a great measure of carnality too prevailing in our days even among Gods people The Lord quicken all your hearts that we may more effectually stir up our selves and others by the diligent improvement of all due means through his blessing to this eminent duty of Walking Worthy of our Vocation for his Glory and our eternal Welfare To every one that walks according to this Rule Peace shall be and Mercy upon the Israel of God FINIS Psal. 73. 28. 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