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A19284	The Christians daily sacrifice containing a daily direction for a setled course of sanctification. Expressing the scope of the seuen treatises of Master Rogers, as also the summe of Master Greenham his spirituall obseruations, with some further increase tending to perfection. By Tho. Cooper.	Cooper, Thomas, fl. 1626.; Rogers, Richard, 1550?-1618.; Greenham, Richard.	1608 (1608)	STC 5694; ESTC S122295	78,674	272

To make them more able to winne and hold others Rom. 14. 1. 3 To acquaint them with the deepenes of Satan Apoc. 2. 24. 4 To prepare them to greater glory Dan. 12. 3. 5 To humble them in the sense of their extraordinary graces 2. Cor. 12. Thirdly it is fit for men in prosperity and that 1 To preuent security Esai 5. 12. 2 To humble them in regard of those temporall things Luc. 12. 48. 3 To teach them how to vse them to Gods glorie their owne and their neighbours good 1. Tim. 6. 17. 4 That they may part with them willingly Pil. 4. 12. 5 That all may be counted as dung in respect of heauen Philip 3. 8. Fourthly this practice also will be very necessary in the time of affliction And that 1 To prepare vs thereunto Pro 28. 14. Iob 3. 25. 2 To qualifie the sharpenes of it 3 To be conquerors in our troubles and ouer them Rom. 8. 4 To be deliuered finally from them Psal. 34. And therefore though doe what wee can some corruptions shall still remaine yet this labour is not vnprofitable 1 Because God accepts herein the purpose of our hearts 2. Corrinth 8 12. 2 The Lord will haue some infirmities still left in vs to humble 〈◊〉 withall ● Cor. 12. 3 Our hatred of sinne shall bee perfited hereby though it remain● in vs. 4 The strength of sinne shal also much be abated in vs. 5 Our edge to eternall happines shall be still sharpened and ou● desire enflamed to fit vs thereto Rom. 7. Neither is this labour vncomfortable For 1 We encrease hereby an assurance of our saluation 2. Peter 1. 9. 10. 2 Wee grow more setled and resolued in godlinesse and get the masterie of inconstancie Ephes. 3. 18. 19. 3 We performe holy duties more easily Ps. 119. 32. Ioh. 4. 34. Mat. 11. 24. 4 We haue more neere sweete fellowship with our blessed God and his holy spirit 1. Tim 4 10. Mat. 10. 30. Ps. 1. 3. Rom. 8. 31. Ps. 2. 12. 5 We preuent many noysome lusts which otherwise would fasten on vs. Psalme 119. 10. 11. Iohn 15. 15. Exod. 19. 5. Pro. 19. 23. 6 We are freed from many temporall iudgements which vnstaied soules are subiect to Psalme 91. 11. Psal. 32. 10. 11. 7 Our score shall be the lesse and our reckoning more easie at the day of iudgement 8 Hereby wee shall haue our conuersation in heauen Philip. 3. 21. 9 Our heart and the inordinate lusts thereof shall be keept at a bay 10 We shall be armed against all temptations and secured in the midst of them Ephes. 6. 13. 11 We shall be weaned from the loue of this wretched world 12 Yea led forward constantly to obtaine the end of our faith which is the saluation of our soules Ephes. 6. 2. Tim. 4. 13 We shall approue our selues not to be of the world by our contrary fashion to it Rom. 12. 14 We shall recouer our first Image in being holy as God is holy 1. Pet. 1. 15 And readie to meete our Sauiour whensoeuer hee shall come Ephes. 6. Math. 24 25. c. 16 We shall see our daily weaknesse and inability to serue God and so acknowledge vnfainedly our vnworthines of the least mercies and so happily preuent spirituall pride 17 We gaine hereby a certaine knowledge of our estate in grace and by the light hereof we know whither we walke 1. Iohn 3. 1. 18 Wee shall be raised vp from our fals into sinne 1. Ioh. 2. 2. 19 Wee shall vse prosperity aright Iob 3. 1. 24. Ier. 8. 4. 6. 20 And ouercome all troubles Rom. 8. 36. 21 Yea we shall be fitter to win others Gal. 6. 1. 22 And so grow forward to perfection Col. 1. 9. Ioh. 7. 52. 23 And happily be continued to the end CHAP. V. IT being now apparent that there is a daily sacrifice of obedience to be performed vnto God And that it is neither impossible nor vnprofitable but very necessary fit and behoosefull vnto vs let vs consider further these two points 1 What duties we are necessarily bound in conscience to performe daily 2 How we are to entertaine the seuerall occasions of the day as vsually they fall out in this holy and constant manner CHAP. VI. That which we are necessarily bound to doe daily is FIrst to bee humbled before the Lord in the sense of our owne or others sinnes by true and vnfained repentance And that because 1 The best seruice we shall doe must be sanctified by repentance 2 Hereby we giue glorie vnto God and offer a daily sacrifice acceptable vnto him Psal. 51. 18. 3 Hereby wee deny our selues and daily take vp our crosse Math. 16. 4 We approue our right and estate in Christ Iesus in that we confesse our selues to be sinners and such as haue daily neede of his mercie and so daily fit our selues vnto the same Math. 11 28. 5 Wee iustifie the truth of our religion against all the imaginarie per●ection of Popery and securitie of Libertines and Atheists whomsoeuer and so do daily giue an account of our faith 1. Pet. 3. 15. Now this dutie is conscionably performed First By taking a strict view and account of them by the glasse of the law Psal. 19. 11. Secondly by mourning before the Lord in the sense of them not so much for feare of the punishment as that we haue offended so good a God Luke 15. 21. Thirdly by acknowledging our sinnes vnto the Lord. Prou 28. 13. and that 1 From the fountaine originall sinne Psal. 51. 5. 2 From the streames both our thoughts so far●e as we may our idle words and prophane actions Psal. 19. 12. 13. And here both 1 What good we haue omitted 2 What ●uil we haue cōmitted 3 How we haue sinned of ignorance Psal. 73 22. 4 How of knowledge we haue transgres●ed c. Especially and more particularly we must acknowledge 1 The sinnes we haue bin subiect to Psalme 51. 14. 2 Those which for the presen● we grone vnder 3 Those which we feare most Psal. 19. 13. 4 The sinnes of our fathers Nehem 9. 5 The sinnes of the Land and State among whom we liue Daniel 9. 6 Yea such as in particular wee knowe not we are notwithstanding to yeeld vp to bee searched by the Lord and by his mercie either to be brought to our remembrance or to be gratiously passed ouer Psal. 19. 12. Fourthly Sinne being thus acknowledged wee must further proceede to a detestation thereof Iob 42. and of our selues for the same Fiftly Then we must feele them a burthen which wee are not able to beare Act. 2. 37. Psal. 8. 4. Lastly Wee must flie vnto Iesus Christ by faith to be eased of this burthen Matth. 11 28. Helpes hereunto are 1 The due contemplation of the Maiesty of God whom we haue so highly offended Psalme 51. 4. 2 The vilenes and abiectnes of man that durst commit such wickednes against God 3 The danger

what we suspect or know behind his backe Psal. 50. 20. 2 Adding to or changing the thing said or done Mat. 26. 60 61. 3 Open traducing and reuiling to his face 2. Sam. 16. 4 Telling that was neuer done Ierem. 37. 13. 5 Colouring their reports with pretences of griefe or necessity or publick profit inioyning secrecy by the party to whom he tels it c. 6 Rash censuring before euident knowledge Therefore here we are 1 To interrupt such talke 2 To giue no heede to it 3 Not to beleeue it 4 To reproue it The seuenth and last grace of speech is slownes and briefenesse Slownes is seene either in First Prouoking or Secondly Answering Herein obserue 1 That it is better to be prouoked to speech then prouoke especially if we be inferiour 2 Not to take a tale out of ones mouth but to heare it thorowly 3 To consider whither it be to be answered or no. 4 To ponder on it before wee answere what answere is to bee made thereto 5 To answere to the points omitting partiall respects 6 To cut off idle interruptions and vaine cauils Here is to be auoyded 1 Pride to heare a mans selfe speake 2 The fruit thereof namely First Obscurity Secondly Affectation 2 We must auoyd tempting speeches whereby wee may fift and vndermine others 4 As also that spirit of contradiction whereby thwarting others and contradicting euery man heresie and Atheisme is bredde and maintained 5 We must also refraine bitternes and captious taking vp of our brother a fault incident to briefenes of speech 6 As also wee must beware of sottishnes and inconsequence of speech while happily we thinke to shew our skill in breuitie Hitherto appertaine 1 Restrayning of our passion by interrupting our selues if by course of speech we grow into an heate 2 Correcting our selues by silence wherein we haue missaid 3 Contracting our matter into the briefest forme of words 4 Disposing it methodically to the best capacity of the hearer Generall rules to be obserued herein 1 That what is here spoken of speech is to bee vnderstood also of writing in which all these graces are to be practised and vices to bee auoyded 2 That in all kind of speech as well Latine as English c. exemplarie as wherin though the phrases of other tongues may leade vs to prophanenes yet we must auoyde them c. Hitherto of speech Now because we cannot speake well vnlesse we know also how to hold our peace wee are therefore in the second place to consider of silene Here obseru 1 That the ruleof silence must be Gods word 2 Matter of silence concernes God our neighbour our silnes 3 Persons before whom 4 The end which is Gods glorie ours and others good Things concerning God are 1 His secrets which we knowe not and therefore are to admire them in silence Deut. 29. 29. 2 His strange and extraordinary works which we may not speake boldly of but rather in silence wonder at Iob 36. 37. Leuit. 10. 3. 3 We are to conceale the mercies of God from obstinate sinners Matth. 7. 6. 4 We are to conceale his iudgements from humbled sinners Esay 40. 1. 5 We are to be silent at his corrections Psal. 39. hereby shewing our submission to his will 6 We are to yeeld to the known truth in silence to glorifie God Act. 11. 18. Touchi●g our neighbour obserue 2 That we may conceale some truth from him not being demanded yea being questioned we may conceale either the whole or part Prouided that it 1 Hinder Gods glorie 2 Or my neighbours good Truth in the whole is to be concealed 1 When the speaking of the least word is hurtfull as for example the father son lieth sicke at once the son dieth first the father asketh whether the son be dead or no if it be said No an vntruth is told if yea the fathers life is endangered therefore silence is best 2. Sam. 12. 2 When the reuealing thereof endangers the life of the innocent and therefore I am not to reueale my brethren in affliction nor to be compelled thereto by oath Prouided first that the authoritie requiring this be vnlawfull 2 The thing I conceale not in it selfe euill but so mistaken 3 That in the cōcealing of it I prefer not a priuate before a publicke good Truth in part is to concealed when I speake a part of the truth but not the whole 1. Sam. 16. 1. 23. Ier. 38. 24. Exod. 5. Act. 23. 6. Q. When I am demaunded may I answere in part Yea so 1. I purpose not to deceiue 2 Cōtēt the mind of the answerer Secondly I am to conceale the infirmities of my neighbour vnlesse as before we be called of God to speake Prou. 17. 14. Pro. 19. 11. 3 All vnseemely matters 4 Such as concerne vs not 5 And such as are aboue our reach are to be buried in silence 3 Ministers must conceale the infirmities of their people 4 Magistrates secrets of state left the enemy know of them Concerning my selfe I am 1 To conceale mine owne secrets Iud. 14. or else if neede be tell those that are faithfull 2 That which thou wouldst haue no man know tell no man As for the persons before whom we must keepe silence they are 1 The malicious enemies of religion Mat. 7. 6. Mat. 27. 14. 2 Before Magistrates in open courts Act. 24. 10. til we be bidden 3 In the presence of our elders and betters Iob 32. 8. 4 Fools pratlers are to be hūbled cōuicted with filēce Pr. 26. Thus farre concerning the guidance of the tongue The sixt and last part of this Girdle of truth containes the fitting and conforming of our outward actions to the will of God which is performed 1 When they proceed from a true ground 2 And are performed by true meanes and a holy manner 3 When they aime at a right end The ground of all good actions is faith in Iesus Christ. Rom. 14. Heb. 11. 6. 1 Assuring vs that our persons are accepted of God so our actions Heb. 11. 4. 2 Enabling vs to performe the worke acceptably vnto God in knowledge wisdome season Psa. 1. 3 Comforting vs that the imperfection of the action shal not be laid to our charge 2. Cor. 8. 12. 4 Applying vnto vs the righteousnesse of Iesus Christ to couer the same Psal. 32. 5 Strengthing vs to go forward in well doing and so to attaine perfection so the iust liueth by faith Heb. 10. 38. In the manner of weldoing obserue these notes 1 That we principally performe the actions of the first table and then of the second Act. 4. 19. 2 That our obedience to the second table bee included and deriued from our obedience to the first Math. 22. 39. Ephes. 6. 1. 3 That in regard of the truth necessity of wel-doing we haue equall respect vnto all Gods commandements Psal. 119. 9. 4 That we at all times and to al times