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Divine love: or The willingness of Jesus Christ to save sinners discovered in three divine dialogues, between 1. Christ and a publican. 2. Christ and a Pharisee. 3. Christ and a doubting Christian. With several other brief tracts. By V.P.
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Powell, Vavasor, 1617-1670.
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examination and yet a Christian will find himself most backward thereto and soonest weary therein 49. Seasonable and unexpected mercys are very sweet and acceptable 50. The more a soul is exercised in spiritual meditation the less with carnal Temptation and the more frequent and powerful in private prayer the more free from and the more potent against Corruptions 51. Sin was condemned by Christ to save the sinner Rom. 8.3 Oh! then let not the sinner seek to save the sin to wound Christ again 52. Quick onsets and Endeavours to reform are far better then many purposes and Resolutions 53. Small sins yielded to make way for greater and one sin for another 54. Be sure to praise God when you receive power against sin and Temptation and you shall be sure to find God ready to give you power another time when you want it 55. When and where wickedness is most then and there the godly should strive to be most godly It is a sign of sincerity to be good in bad times and in bad places and among bad persons as Noah Lot and Joseph were 56. At the day of death but especially at the day of Judgment a Christian will wish he had sinned less served God and suffered for him more 57. If Christians were not sometimes afflicted they would forget both themselves and others for affliction works humiliation in men themselves and compassion toward others 58. It is a hard thing for a profane man to attain the Shaddow of Religion or for a careless though true Christian to attain the substance And it is hard for a true Christian that hath the substance to keep up the sence and savour either of the excellency of Jesus or the evil of sin always in his heart 59. Oh! what time do Christians mispend what duties do they neglect what mercies do they slight what corruptions do they embrace what Temptations do they lie under what corrections do they undervalue Oh! what heart qualms and fleshly weaknesses cry out upon us to make ready and yet how unready how unripe how unwilling how unmindful and unthoughtful are we of our latter end and this is because we are unassured of Christ unweaned from the world unweary of sin unbroken from self and unapprehensive of the glory to be revealed and enjoyed hereafter 60. Fear thy friends more then thy foes thy sins more then thy sufferings and liberty more then bondage 61. Christians should not give offence carelesly nor take offence causlesly 62. Bad times well Improved are far better then good times not redeemed or mispent 63. It is and shall be the care of a Christian not to suffer for sin nor to sin in suffering 64. There is no real bondage but what is either from sin or for sin 65. Affections parts or applause from the world or from Christians are very dangerous and not to be trusted in 66. I never trusted Christ but I found him faithful nor my own heart but I found it false 67. Shut thy eyes from beholding thy ears from hearing and thy heart from entertaining sin 68. Take heed of reproving or upbraiding another in passion or to provoke them thereto for 't is better be silent then sin in speaking 't is better to keep thy light under a bushel then to put it into the hand of him that will blow it out or tread it under his feet 69. Self-loathing destroys self-love and the more we loath our selves the better we love others 70. Christians should not envy the patience of God toward their enemies for it is nothing in comparison of what grace he shows to them 71. Of all men a Christian may be freer to lose or to part with any thing then another man for he loses nothing but what is hurtful to him to wit his sins or what he shall regain and recover of a better sort and in a more abundant degree As if he lose a small Temporal Estate he hath in reversion an Eternal inheritance If he lays down a body that is full of Corruption he shall have another free from corruption and therefore he may say better then the Heathen could what I keep I lose and what I give or lay out I save 72. Sins best is before but its worst is behind and the sting and Tayl of it is longer then it self where sin is not killed it will kill 73. A Christians conversation should keep from the shew of sin and his conscience from the guilt of it 74. The power and strength of corruption is but seldome known to wit when Temptations Opportunities and Occasions of Tryal come 75. The best way to keep from Sin is to set God in his power Purity and Glory still before our eyes to fear our selves to keep near Christ to fast and pray privately to engage other Christians for our help to cherish the holy spirit to keep up constant practice of holiness to provide contrary means against it to resolve strongly to withstand it to eye Gods promises commands and threatnings to withstand the first occasions of sin to reason it off at a distance to believe it away when it comes near to avoid all occasions thereof and to keep on still the Armour of God 76. Christians are often apt to be most weary of that condition that doth them most good like Peter not understanding what Christ did in washing his feet Joh. 13.1.9 77. Christians in and under afflictions should be growing holy and through their afflictions should be going on toward happiness affliction is part of the way of sanctification leading to salvation and it is like an up-hil leading to an house that is on the top of an hill for so is heaven and the greatest hardship is nearest the end of the journey 78. They have but a slight profession whose profession doth not lead them out of sin and through sufferings he that is worse under affliction as Ahar may well fuspect his own sincerity 79. Christ will soon be sensible of those Christians afflictions that are sensible of their own sins 80. It ought to be a great part of a Christians trouble that he can be no time what he should be that is sinless and servicable that he is not at all times what he is sometimes that is slighting sin Judging himself Loving Christ and dispising the world greatly 81. It is strange and a very bad sign to see Christians look more upon the sins of the wicked to ripen them for misery then to mind self-humiliation and holiness to ripen and fit themselves for mercy 82. He loves not a reprover not values his reproof never profits thereby but is more his sins then his souls Friend 83. 'T is a sign of a hard heart to desire the Eternal destruction of the wicked for obtaining of their own Temporal and Corporal liberty safety or honour as if one should desire to have another cast into the fire and be burnt that himself may be warmed thereby 84. In the midst of earthly businesses the
of the Law to do them Deut. 27.26 Ph. Yes that is whosoever breaks the Law is accursed unless he repents for it J. The Law doth not say unless men repent for breaking it they are accursed but it says absolutely they are cursed and I say whosoever keepeth the whole law and yet offendeth in one point he is guilty of all Gal. 3.10 Jam. 2.10 Mat. 5.19 Ph. I say so too that except men keep the Law of Moses they a cannot be saved and whosoever b know not and keep not the Law they are accursed Acts 15.1.24 Joh. 7.49 J. Doest thou know the Law Ph. Yes I know the Law for I am instructed daily out of the Law by our c Doctors of the Law and holy Priests c Zeph. 3.4 J. The Priests have done violence to the Law and they that d handle the Law know not the Lord d Jer. 2.8 Ph. Jehovah hath said that the Law shall not perish from the Priests for the Priests lips is to keep knowledg and we are to seek the Law at his mouth Jer. 18 18. Mal. 2.7 J God hath said also that the Law shall c perish from the Priests and that they f shall not every man teach his neighbour any more for all shall know the Lord from the least to the greatest Jer. 31.4 Ph. I perceive thou goest about to destroy the Law J. Think not so for I am not come to destroy the Law but to fulfil it Mat. 5.17 Luke 16.17 Ph. I Sir I like that that we should fulfil the Law that we should perform it J. Yes Moses gave you the Law but a none of you keepeth it but b you have been partial in the Law c Ye pay tithe of Mint Annis and Cumming and have omitted the weightier matters of the Law Judgment Mercy and Faith Joh. 7.19 Mal. 2.9 Mat. 23.23 P. It is true we may come shore in some things but he that keepeth the Law happy is he J. Thou that d restest in the Law and makest thy boast of the Law through breaking the Law thou doest dishonour God and causest many to f stumble at the Law verily I say unto thee thou g shalt be judged by the Law Rom. 2.17 ver 23. Mal. 2.8 Rom. 2.12 Ph. No I hope rather to be justified then to be judged by the Law J. Verily verily I say unto thee by the deeds of the Law there shall no flesh be justified in God sight Rom. 3 20â— Gal. 3.11 Ph. How then shall I be justified J. The righteousness of God without the Law is manifest being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets Rom. 3.21 Ph. What Righteousness is that J. Not a mans h own righteousness which is called the i righteousness of the Law but the k righteousness which is of God by faith h Phil. 3.9 i Ro. 2.26 k Ro. 4.13 Ph. What difference is there between the righteousness of the Law and the righteousness of faith J. Moses describeth the righteousness of the Law thus that the man which doth those things which the Law requireth shall live by them but the righteousness of faith saith whosoever believeth on me shall be saved Rom. 10.5.6 11. Ph. How can men be saved by believing in thee for thou art but one J. As by one l mans offence death reigned by one mucâ— mâ—â—â— they which receive abundance of grace and of the giâ—◠〈◊〉 righteousness shall reign in life by me Who am the m Son of righteousness n and made by God my Father to be righteousness unto men l Rom. 5.7 m Mal. 4.2 n 1 Cor. 1.30 Ph. Thou bearest record of thy self Joh. 8.13 J. o Though I bear record of my self yet my record is true p My Father also beareth witness of me and this is his witness that he hath given life and this life is in me his Son o Joh. 8.14 p 1 Joh. 5.11 Ph. But what say'st thou how was our Father Abraham and his seed who lived before thee justified and saved J. q Your Father Abraham rejoyced to see my day and he saw it and was glad for l I was before Abraham and he and his spiritual seed were justified and saved by faith in me r Rom. 4.3.11 13 16. Gal. 3.14.18.20 Ph. But was not Abraham justified by works J. If Abraham were justified by works be hath whereof to glory but not before God for what saith the Scripture It is true Abrahams faith was accompanied with works Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for Righteousness Rom. 4.2.3 Ph. If I be not justified by my good works to what end should I perform them J. Though thy good works cannot justifie thee before God yet they may glorifie God and be prafitable unto men Mat. 5.16 Tit. 3.8 Ph. Well then I am glad my good works be good for something J. Yes thy good works would be good for something if thy faith like Abrahams did work with thy works but thou doest not believe and all thy good works thou doest to be seen of men Jam. 2.22 Mat. 23.5 Ph. No I do not do my good works to be seen of men but to please God J. I tell thee that without faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11.6 Ph. But God hath said if a man do well he shall be accepted J. It is not for their well-doing that men are accepted with my Father but they are made acceptable in me and their works are accepted for my sake Eph. 1.6 1 Pet. 2.6 Ph. But am I no nearer Heaven that perform good works than this finfull and ungodly Publican J. Thou Hypocrite that justifiest thy self and judgest another I tell thee that Publicans and Harlots shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven before such as thou art Mat. 7.5 and 21 31. Ph. Oh untrue and false doctrine to say that those cursed men who know not the Law should be saved before us who are the children of Abraham Joh. 7.49 8.33 J. Thou blind and self-conceited Pharisee understandest thou not the Scripture I will have mercy and not sacrifice for I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance And I say unto thee unless thou doest believe in mee thou art not the child of Abraham Mat. 9.13 Gal. 3.26 Ph. I believe in the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob whose child and servant I am J. If thou didst believe in God thou wouldest also believe in me but thou art the child of the Devil and in bondage to this day Joh. 8.44 Gal. 4.25 Ph. How am I in bondage J. Thou art under the curse of the Law and under the power of sin and Sathan and canst never be made free unless I make thee free Joh. 8.34 35 36. Ph. How doest thou free men J. By my a death and sufferings I satisfie the Law by the b power of my resurrection I overcome death and by my Spirit I m cast out Sathan and n subdue sin a Gal. 3.13 b 1 Cor. 15.55.57 m Mat 12.28