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A29488	A bundle of soul-convincing, directing, and comforting truths clearly deduced from diverse select texts of Holy Scripture, and practically improven, both for conviction and consolation : being a brief summary of several sermons preached at large / by ... M. Roger Breirly ...	Brereley, Roger, 1586-1637.	1677 (1677)	Wing B4659; ESTC R1288	256,743	378

I wish men warie in Lest ought neglected should become a sin See how God dealt with Moses when he brake Through zeal the Tables which himself did make And at the Rock again how unbelief A sin scarce nam'd did bring so wondrous grief I● fine let Christians labour to be wise And Paul the Apostle counsel not despise The best gifts still desiring untill they Attain unto the more excellenter way The which when any shall attain unto Th'anointing will direct them what to do But still in sp'ritual things fly we extortion Bearing our selves but after saiths proportion For we are yet as little children here And do our selves but like to children bear How er'e ●●ts eye the main chance look to that Lest that the leaner kin● devour the fat Thus I let pass the bodies sl●cknesse too Such duties as Gods Spirit wills it do Since where that is and cherisht Satans seed I● sowen temptations and illusions breed And say men may the soul in some good plight Drawing the body after wi●h delight Have this last dish not all in order get Or if it be not so observed yet Through a desire to voyde what Paul so fears Th'observing dayes and times and mouths and years Since outward exercise small good doth bring But Godliness is good for every thing Believing that this outward mans own dying Is inwards greater comfort and reviving As where è contra th' inward man decayes Th' outward it self into its room conveyes Some may think thus I say and that withall The constant use of outward things let fall Through a perswasion that such strict observance Is not a course becoming sons but servants By outward things note still I mean such duties As may be call'd the Churches outward beauties As thinking thus the more the bodies bound To these the more the Soul 's in darknesse drown'd For still Gods spirit is of aspiring nature Seeking the clearest view of Gods bright feature And gladly here would finde it but alace Things are not yet com'd to that happie passe For till it be refin'd this house of clay Weighs overmuch to soar with quit away I speak not here with purpose or intent To give true zeal the least discouragement Which on the wings of faith doth mount and hye And takes no resting underneath the skie But wish men jealous of such freedom found Which leave at large the outward man unbound For though in such transcendent state as this God so upholds men go not oft amisse Yet is it possible for one to stray Wherein our nature weaknesse doth bewray Whereof this an occasion but no cause May be as are of briberie wholesome Laws But say some for that time with merrie gale Float on their sail cloaths puffing up withal Yet may it prove e're they shall touch the shore They 'l be constrain'd perforce to ply the ore How confident are some in this estate That there then comfort never shall abate Still having in their month this cheerful song They ne're shall move their hill is made so strong That no temptation ever shall prevail To cause their faith to faint much less to quail But all like clouds before the summer Sun Shall fade and vanish till they quite be done That they unshaken still may make aboad Like a strong pillar in the house of God What may one say to this then bid God speed them Or else with Joshua challenge and forbid them I neither blame nor this do justifie But if men thus believe so do not I. I mean It is no sound Axiome general But who holds so under reproof do fall Only I say it may be some mens case Particularly God's mercies thus to trace And if it be an errour or a sin Then it 's the same that David once was in And I say more it 's ordinarie too Most of Gods Saints in this state thus to do Which from what Spirit it doth or may arise I leave to better judgements to advise And thus conclude what is to me if short God cut their dayes and mean while fitt them for 't By letting them within his bosom ly To rest them in his lapp untill they dye So many tho As make this general As I have said under reproof do fall For that Gods Word alwayes remaineth true God's Church shall wain and strength again renew And like the Moon still have its time and turns Yet with the bush consumes not though it burns But to return this sense of graces slacking Satan then vantage of mens tempers taking Sets in the brain what in the heart should ly To make them wise above sobriety Inciting them through latcheate felt of grace The Stock of liberty to spend apace An still to hold on in their former course Then which to men thus fitted none is worse As though one of five hundred pounds revenue Should after a thousand speed and keep retinue Or like the younger son of some Esquier Who brought up with such dyet and attyr As fits his Fathers house after keeps State On a poor farm and lives at former rate Forgetting his Annuitie but run Maintain a farmer not a gentleman Some men are thus deceiv'd for finding grace In the first prime thereof put forth apace Much like those trees which digg'd and drest will do Beare more that year than afterwards in two Or the young child which at the first doth thrive More in one year then afterwards in five The humour radical being at that time In its full vigor in the very pryme Grace with the corn of Hezekiahs growing The first and second year without their sowing They think that soil the third year also will By Gods sole blessing bring a harvest still And so forbear to plow again and sow And ply their works as other neighbours do But times will tell them thus they ' l little win And find their gain but slowly coming in I do not speak against it though that we Should in this prime estate industrious be But labour then I count it is but small I scarce know if I should it labour call Since Gods true service is to such a blesse Yea to the holiest most delightful is Provided that it much much spiritual be For such with that estate will best agree Yea all things to the spiritual men they do Are holy grace doth alter nature so I mean as far as they regenerate been In which respect it s said they cannot sin And so far too as th' act it self● not ill Repugnant so to Gods revealed will I say Christs yoke is then no such great toyl When th' hearts fresh noynted with the spirits oyl As afterwards when th' old man stronger grows Which as he wins ground still the new doth loose And thus I count the worse the new man speeds More industrie and labour still there needs The Prophet saith I 'le wise and warrie be In perfect way until thou come to me The ground when barren must have greater toyl For lesser gain then in a

else the outward action little gains Which blessing yet I cannot look to finde Unless my self closs to the means I binde Yea when I feel my heart most backward bent Then most of all it needeth sore constraint As 〈◊〉 hardened 〈◊〉 and much unfittnesse In stocking duties bear me woeful witnesse F●r things in me are not yet brought about That th'inner man can bear the other out But still need unto all good means to presse As freely to Gods glorie I confesse But if that any as it may be some Conceives he is to such perfection come As that his life a holy Sabbath is Though he task work and time set dutie miss Yet mid'st of all his worldly vocation His heart is up in pray'r and meditation And that good thoughts in ordinary greet him Upon occassions still as any meet him So that his actions yea his thoughts and words Glory to God and good to men affords As in some measure novices in grace On others God may banquet for a space I say in measure for I do not hold Perfection here as I before have told I envy not his case happie man he Let him rejoyce in God and pittie me And were it not that men are bound to fear And reverence to Gods ordinance bear And might a Christian dangerlesse dispence With other Christians welfare or offence For ought I see I should go nere it I To think himself he might so edifie And with set times and duties to be bold And by his inward strength firm footing hold But seeing as aforesaid flesh is frail And cannot look at Heaven but through a vail Gods brightnesse being clearer than the light Which seen in strength would quite put out the sight That Rudiments much like our bonnets brim Will help our eye-sight though themselves be dim I dare not for a world of gold advise Men to forbear the least least exercise That any help or furtherance may afford To God-word and hath warrand from his Word No though they lived in the clearest light That ever yet enjoyed earthlie wight For were there no cause else Gods ordinance tho Neglect thereof no man could answer to The simplenesse whereof none may despise Since by those foolish things God daunts the wise There may be in Gods child I grant sometimes As in the top-branch of his first love-primes Feeling himself deep in Gods graces dyed His Soul in Gods pure streams well satisfied Through much conversing in that spiritual businesse In Bodyly lesse care and more remissness I call this Bodily the Churches order In things that Christian libertie afford her Set forms of duties yea the outward Letter Time person place all Rudiments the better There 's difference twixt bare actions as to live Or well or ill which form to actions give I only mean herein I do professe That very form which men call outwardnesse An accident which to the Subject clings And not the solid substance of the things Nor outwardness as 't is Hypocrisie For so it is an evil qualitie And everie act so qualified is sin Which I would no man should be fostered in But I mean that for which in every nature Its Subject doth receive its form and feature Which is the baser portion of the two That in Gods service here on earth we do Herein if any misse themselves shall finde it When deadnesse after shall give breath to mind it Which here I 'le not condemn nor commend it Let them who stir the controversie end it Only I say as I have said before Were we spiritual wholly then no more But instantlie these Rudiments withal Would of themselves even by their nature fall The Soul then from these outward things be freer Whereby it might enjoy its God th'nigher For to the Soul things earthly are a let Made Rudiments to serve our weaknesse yet This may be cause why in our spiritual home Our bodies too shall spiritual ones become Now of Gods presence what 's obtain'd below I take not on me to expresse it no. And whether or how far one may remit Or what in each degree is meet and fit Yet this I say if I in some man see Shew of more grace then e're was yet in me Whose life and carriage I cannot detect The same apparently to contradict For I 'le not plead for all who do professe By goodly words their own much holiness So be 't he climb no more but what the Word Saith God to his both may and do afford Do others as they please I dar not I That this their shew may be in truth deny For though Hypocrisie oft spins a threed Good corn can hardly be descern'd from weed Yet mark what way a man his cariage bends 'T will give good light whether his journey tends Captains love Camps Schollers attend the Schools Husbands the ground bab●es please babes fools This world was but King Alexanders walk Kingdoms and Crowns the subject of his talk Niggards do love to talk of niggardize And liberal men of liberal things devise Weak archers shoot but at a litle length For as the man's so likewise is his strength God hath his Davids from whose breast there springs Thoughts of great hearts like the sons of kings Of whom let this a special token be That their own worths they least of all do see I undertake not here to know or name Particular examples of the same Though whiles I see my self quite overrun VVith sundrie novices but new begun And thinks by them what more 't is like there be VVell grounded ones and of antiquity VVhereof some samples not to me unknown Have been who now do reap what they have sown VVhose testimony I dare well believe VVhich by occasion I have heard them give That they some late years of their h●r● abode Sweet comfort joy and fellowship with God Did constantly or for the most part keep Wherewith I doubt not but they fell asleep Of whose both life and death to testifie Let all who knew them speak as well as I. I say whiles that some such as these I knew I finde good cause to hope there are ●n●●gh But who of this thing would yet further know Gen. 5.22 Luke 4.6 Let him to Gods word and experience goe More yet I say who makes the King a feast And seeds him with the dish he loveth best Though in the mean time somewhat serviceable Be through that care neglected in the stable It shall not be so blam'd if blam'd at all As if it toucht the presence or the hall And Ordinances so in themselves accord That each to others time and turn afford Now 't may well be the spiritual mouth doth rest From chewing whilest the stomack doth digest Nature in man corrupt and finite too Cannot with all things have at once to do As for example hear and read and pray One me suffice to bear the mind away Since there is still as saith the wisest King A seasonable time for every thing The use whereof