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A09674	The triall of a Christians sincere loue vnto Christ. By Mr William Pinke, Mr of Arts late fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford	Pinke, William, 1599?-1629.; Lyford, William, 1598-1653.; Pinke, William, 1599?-1629. Tryall of our sincere love to Christ. aut	1636 (1636)	STC 19944; ESTC S114275	71,570	262

of those who vnderstand what a wofull thing it is to bee a stranger vnto Christ to be yet vnreconciled vnto God by him is that they would with yerning bowels commiserate the lamentable condition of their poore ignorant brethren which they shall meet with every where especially in most country Villages I haue obserued vpon occasions much table merriment which hath beene made by tales which passe about of such absurd senselesse answers as silly Christians haue given being demanded a reason of their faith perhaps vpon their death-beds or at their comming to the Lords table Let such vnnaturall mirth be farre from those who are to striue to haue the same minde in them which was in Christ Iesus You who by the blessed change wrought in your soules haue passed from death vnto life consider with a thankefull reflexion vpon the Father of lights that had not he vouchsafed you a more ingenuous education fairer opportunities to grow acquainted with the mysteries of grace more distinct call of his fanctifying spirit and more illuminated apprehensions to discerne them you might haue groped and stumbled in a thicker mist of stupidity then now befooles your vnnurturd brethren you might haue dishonoured that blessed name by which you are called by as wild misco●●●its and horrid follies as any come from them and whatsoever is ridiculous in them might haue bin more prodigoius in you you know what price to set vpon your owne soules You know the soule of the meanest idiot is of equall value with yours and that it cost the redeemer of the World as many stripes and wounds as yours O then pitty thy brethren so likely to perish for whom Christ died yea the rather because they being stuffed with sottish conceipts will be ready to laugh at those who shall pitty them Take all opportunities to doe them some spirituall good as occasion shall be offered conferring with them and praying for them and let Christian sympathies bee the least you can afford them you know what you meane when you pray daily that Gods kingdome may come remember you pray not in earnest vnlesse you doe your faithfull endenuour to helpe it forward as in your owne hearts so in the hearts of your brethren with which at any time you converse Consider I beseech you what a dismall fogge of Popery doth yet darken this Iland Popery which few thinkes of I meane that blind absurd implicite faith of beleeuing as the Church beleeues For there is not a pin to choose betweene him that beleeues in grosse what the Church of England beleeues and him that beleeues as that synagogue of Satan the Church of Rome beleeues it neither knowes any thing explicitly what either Church beleeues Meditate on this and what zeale what conrage what indignation you feele in your breasts against the Antichristian impostures of Rome let them fly I beseech you vpon all occasions against this Protestant Popery But I see no hope but that the Colliars faith will haue the greatest number of professors whilst accurate Catechizing of all sorts of people which did so much good in the primitiue Church is in ours so generally neglected But I conclude bespeaking you in the words of S. Iude But yee beloued building vp your selues on your most holy faith praying in the holy Ghost Keepe your selues in the loue of God looking for the mercies of our Lord Iesus Christ vnto eternall life And of some haue compassion making a difference And others saue with feare pulling them out of the fire hating even the garment spotted by the flesh O thou father of mercies and God of all consolations looke downe from thy throne of eternity and take notice of vs thy poore servants who doe now desire to muster vp all the faculties which thou hast given vs and to employ thē in an acceptable thankesgiuing vnto thee O Lord wee desire to spend our best spirits even to exhale our dearest soules in thankefull ejaculations vnto thee for that most incomprehensibly admirable contrivance of our salvation by the death of the sonne of thy loue O Lord we desire to be transported with a holy amazement as often as wee thinke of this mystery of mysteries and even to empty our hearts of their secrets in halleluiahs and voices of exultation Most holy Lord wee praise thee for the marvelous light of thy Gospell which hath acquainsed vs with those wonders of mercy which thy Christ hath performed for our soules for those comfortable evidences of our justification by him with which our bruised consciences haue beene most gratiously revived Wee praise thee likewise for those wounders of a new creation which thy blessed spirit hath begunne in our hearts for that it hath begunne to weaken and wast the body of sinne to crucify those corruptiōs which heretofore hath beene most insolent in vs to weane vs frō those vanities which heretofore haue beene our chiefe comforts and to make vs more willing to bee kept within a holy compasse O Lord we desire wee desire with most enlarged hearts to blesse thy infinite goodnesse for all those ravishing irradiations and glorious Prefaces of our blessed immortality by which thy cōforting spirit hath so often encouraged vs to patient continuance in well doing Wee blesse thee for all the heavenly thoughts affections desires resolutions which thou hast put into vs at any time wee praise thee for that portiou of thy good word which thou hast afforded vs at this time O thou that delightest to pardon abundantly pardon all the errours imperfections which haue come either from me in delivering or any of thy people in entertaining thy message Let it not bee a savour of death vnto death vnto any mā who hath beene within the sound of it but let it some way or other bee beneficiall vnto him in respect of thy kingdome And now oh thou that dwellest in vnapprochable splendor quite out of the ken of mortality seeing thou hast suffered dust and ashes to approch so neere to thee in thy ordinances dismisse not any one of vs wee beseech thee without a blessing send not any one of vs without a comfortable beame of thy countenance shining into his heart Thou art the fountaine of holinesse send vs not therefore out of thy presence without some more cleerenesse in our apprehensions of thy saving mysteries and heavenlinesse in our affections vnto them Send vs not from thy throne of grace but with a heavenly calme in our soules or with such tempests of repentance as may prepare vs for an everlasting serenity O Lord send vs not away but either with that joy which passeth all vnderstanding or that godly sorrow which may prepare vs for it To thee O Father with thy beloued Sonne and blessed Spirit three most glorious Persons one infinite Deity be ascribed all Honour Power Praise Might Majestie and Dominion by vs poore sinners here militant on earth and all the glorified companies triumphant in Heaven from this time forth for evermore Amen Amen

are written in the booke of the Law to doe them O then how infinitely accursed are all of vs naturally who on the contrary haue continued in the violation of all things which are written in it I am perswaded howsoeuer some proud heretiques of these times haue prated that there is no man so stupid or senselesse of the misery of being tried by the Law with out any appeale vnto the Gospell but in his serious moodes when God shall in some measure awak his cōscience he will confesse it had beene better for him neuer to haue been borne then that God without the mediation of his Sonne should call him to a punctuall account for the most harmelesse and vnoffensiue day of his whole life Now what can a man haue to comfort and secure his soule in these sad meditations but this that God is superabundantly mercifull in so much that hee sent his owne Sonne to redeeme vs from the curse of the law and to bee made a curse for vs Galat 3. 13. These indeed are heauenly consolations and such as neuer faile those who are rightly qualified for them But now they appertaine not to such as loue not Christ Iesus to such as know not how to value and worthily esteeme the glorious purchases of his passion It 's true God is mercifull infinitely aboue all finite conceit but so is hee iust too Magnifie his mercy as long as thou wilt thou canst neuer doe it enough but when all is done thou maist say as much for his iustice as S. Paul Rom. 11. 22. equally admires the goodnesse and seuerity of God Whosoeuer he be then who lookes for mercy from God without Christ who only hath satisfied his iustice dreames not so much to finde God mercifull as to finde him vniust Now to come neerer to the point can any man bee so sottish or impudently presumptuous as to hope to fare the better for Christ who sees nothing desirable in him Who is so far from counting all things dung that hee may winne him as S. Paul did Phil. 3. 8. that hee euen prefers dung the basest trash and vanities of the world before him Is it likely that hee should haue any reliefe from the Gospell who is so farre from counting all things losse for the excellency of the knowledge contained in it as Saint Paul did that he can tast no such excellency in it that he should loose one farthing forbeare one pleasure forgoe one vanity for it Our Sauiour himselfe Mat. 10. 37. expresly tels vs He that loueth Father or Mother more thē me is not worthy of mee that is whosoeuer loues what he hath best reason to loue in this life more thē his Sauiour is not worthy to haue any benefit by him to haue any share in his merits What then thinke wee can they expect from him who are so coldly affected towards him that they preferre euery trifle before him All the promises of God saith the Apostle 2. Cor. 1. 20. in him in Christ Iesus are yea and in him Amen that is sure and infallible But still in Christ Iesus And what 's this to any man if hee himselfe bee not in him And how can hee bee in him but by louing him The accursed estate of the false-hearted Christian who presumes much vpon CHRIST whom indeed he hath nothing to doe with will more affright him if hee would but consider it in other men Who is there amongst vs but will much pitty and bemoane the lamentable condition of the poore Indians and other Sauages of the vnchristian world whose soules are ouer clouded with the blackest mists of irreligion that the Prince of darkenes can possibly inwrap them who come into the world knowing not wherefore and goe out of it dreaming not whither but liue here a while without God in the world and then goe to the generation of their fathers where they shall neuer see the light to vse the words of the Psalmist Psal 49. 19. A heauy case indeed beyond all expression of a Tragedy and which cannot bee sufficiently bewailed with an ocean of teares of blood But now whosoeuer hee bee within the Paradise of the Christian Church who hath nothing to distinguish him from these miscreants but his outward conformity to the lawes and customes of the place where hee liues who hath nothing to proue himselfe a Christian but outward formalities the charity of other men and his owne sleight imaginations whosoeuer hee bee that hath not as yet espied something in Christ Iesus so amiable as that in earnest it may challenge his whole heart before all the pompe and pleasure in the world I say that man whosoeuer hee bee may keepe his moanes and teares for himselfe it 's his owne case for for the present vntill the spirit of grace shall startle him vnto more sense of the mercies of Christ hee is in as bad a case as the silliest Indian I meane in respect of the world to come for for in this life the most dissembling Christian is partaker of many sweer blessings which the Gospell vses to carry about with it frō countrey to countrey by which it ciuillizeth and pollisheth the most rude and barbarous nations But for the ioyes of eternity what better clayme can hee lay vnto them then the wild American Hee hath no more to doe with Christ then the other Hee hath liued indeed where hee hath heard much talke of Christ of redemption and the glorious liberty of the Sonnes of God but what 's all this to him who could neuer rellish any of these things who neuer tooke them to heart neuer could find any sweetnesse in them but passed them ouer like some vncouth mysticall fables Beloued we must not thinke that liuing within the ayre of the Gospell amongst Churches and Bibles can distinguish vs from Infidels exempt vs from the rigour of the law and entitle vs to Christ No such matter Christ came vnto his own but his owne receaued him not saith S. Iohn● were his own then euer the better for him Not a whit Our Sauiour whilst hee was talking with the Iewes Ioh. 3. 40. tells them Yee will not come vnto mee that yee might haue life Hee was come vnto them but they would not come vnto him Albeit then Christ visit vs neuer so frequently if wee welcome him not with that ioy with which Zacheus once did though hee passe neuer so often by our hearts if wee inuite him not in and get him to sup and lodge with vs wee must looke to get no more by him then those vnhappy mis●reants who neuer heard of his name It 's considerable to this purpose which S. Paul hath Gal. 5. 6. In Christ Iesus neither circumcision nor vncircumcision auaileth any thing but faith which worketh by loue that is outward markes or priuiledges aduantage a man nothing in Christ Iesus vnlesse hee bee so sensibly perswaded of those miracles of compassion which Christ hath performed for his soule