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A03342	CVIII lectures vpon the fourth of Iohn Preached at Ashby-Delazouch in Leicester-shire. By that late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ. Arthur Hildersam.; Lectures upon the fourth of John	Hildersam, Arthur, 1563-1632.; Cotton, John, 1584-1652.	1632 (1632)	STC 13462; ESTC S119430	700,546	622

loued much better When a man will pretend a desire to be saued and yet will not leaue his whoring drunkennesse swearing prophaning the Sabbath but hates to be reformed in these and such like things shall we say he doth vnfainedly desire it No no they that seeke him with their whole heart will worke none iniquity but walke in his wayes saith Dauid Psal 119. 2 3. Contrarily the godlies desire is earnest Ye shall seeke me and find me saith the Lord Ier. 29. 13. when ye shall search for me with all your heart 2. They desire it not vnfainedly because they desire it not constantly but as by fits of an ague and flashes of lightning All their goodnesse is as the Prophet speaketh Hos. 6. 4. as a morning cloud and as the early dew it goeth away Contrarily the godlies desire is constant My soule breaketh saith David Psal. 119. 20. for the longing that it hath to thy iudgements at all times 3. They desire it not vnfainedly because they desire it not seasonably but put it off till the day of saluation and time God hath set for their conuersion be past when the Master of the house is risen vp and hath shut to the doore as our Sauiour speaketh Luk. 13. 25. Whereas that which a man desireth vnfainedly and earnestly he will seeke presently and without delay He whose soule thirsteth after God will seeke him early as Dauid speakes Psal. 63. 1. The Kingdome of God must be sought in the first place Mat. 6. 33. 4. They desire it not vnfainedly because they desire it onely out of the slauish feare of God and of his wrath When their feare commeth as a desolation and their destruction like a Whirlewind saith Salomon Pro. 1. 27. 28. then they call vpon God but he will not answer them they seeke him early but find him not Whereas the godly desire it out of loue to God and his grace principally as Dauid did so earnestly desire to dwell in Gods house that he might behold the beauty of the Lord Psal. 27. 4. And out of the loue he bare to him for his goodnesse 5. They desire mercy but not grace and freedome from their misery which is the fruit of their sinne rather then from their sinne which is the root of their misery They chuse iniquity rather then affliction as Elihu speaks Iob 36. 21. Whereas the godly desires as well grace and power to repent and to be deliuered from the power of sinne as mercy and fauour for the pardon of his sinne So did Dauid Psal. 51. 10. Create in me a cleane heart O God and renew a right Spirit within me Hearken vnto me saith the Prophet Esa. 51. 1. Ye that follow after righteousnesse Ye that seeke the Lord. No man seekes the Lord and his fauour aright but he onely that followeth after that is doth earnestly and with his whole endeauour seeke and desire to lead a godly life Lecture the third Feb. 14. 1608. IOHN IIII. X. FOlloweth now the third part of the Text viz. what the reason was she begged not of Christ this water of life She knew not that gift of God and who it was that said vnto her giue me drinke By that gift of God he meaneth himselfe as shall appeare in the Doctrine and the words following are an explication of these words As if he should say If thou knewest that gift of God that is if thou knewest who it is that saith vnto thee giue me drinke if thou knewest me thou wouldest haue asked c. In the words three things are to be obserued 1. That he calleth himselfe that gift of God 2. That he saith the cause why she asked not the water of life of him was for that she knew him not 3. That he saith if she had knowne him she would haue asked it of him First then in that our Sauiour cals himselfe that gift of God we learne That Christ is a gift of God yea the chiefe the greatest gift the principall fruit of his fauour that euer God gaue vnto men Many other excellent gifts he hath bestowed on men A wonderfull token of Gods loue to man it is that he made all the creatures whereof many are farre more glorious and excellent then himselfe for his vse This Dauid when he considered it wondered at Psal. 8. 1. 9. So the comfortable vse of his creatures and that gladnesse of heart he giueth vs in the enioying of them filling our hearts with food and gladnesse as the Apostle speakes Acts 14. 17. Is also a great gift of God and so Salomon cals it Eccl. 5. 18. And yet a greater gift then these it is that he makes vs partakers of the diuine nature and giues vs his spirit The Apostle cals this an vnspeakable gift that the Corinthians were able to yeeld a voluntary submission to the Gospell and to giue chearefully for the reliefe of the poore Saints 2 Cor. 9. 15. And Dauid when he saw how willingly the people had offered to the building of the Temple wonders at this grace and gift of God bestowed on them 1. Chro. 29. 14. Who am I saith he and what is my people that we should be able to offer willingly after this sort In a word the gifts of God vpon man and the tokens of his fauor to him are so many and so great as no man is able to expresse them Psal 40. 5. O Lord my God saith Dauid thou hast made thy wonderfull works so many that none can count in order to thee thy thoughts towards vs I would declare and speake of them but they are more then I am able to expresse Yet are none of them worthy to be named in comparison of this gift the giuing of his owne Sonne to vs is a farre more excellent gift and token of his loue then all the rest When the Prophet had spoken of the great ioy of Gods people Esa. 9 3. They haue reioyced before thee according to the ioy of haruest as men reioyce when they diuide a spoile He giues the reason of this ioy Verse 6. For to vs a Child is borne to vs a Sonne is giuen So the Apostle comparing Christ and the benefits we receiue by him with Adam and the dammage we sustaine by him Rom. 5. Calleth Christ oft the gift of God Verse 15. The gift is not so as the offence for if through the offence of one many be dead much more that grace of God and the gift by grace which is by one man Iesus Christ hath abounded vnto many And Verse 17. For if through the offence of one death raigned through one c. So our Sauiour himselfe speakes of this as of the greatest loue that euer God shewed or could shew vnto man Ioh. 3. 16. God so loued the world that he gaue his onely begotten Sonne And the Apostle Iohn 1 Ioh. 4. 9. In this appeared the loue of God towards vs because God sent his onely begotten Sonne into the world that we might