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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80090	Christian-experiences from Scripture evidences under this variety, or several heads: viz. 1. Comfort for believers against their fears and dismayings. 2. Comfort for believers from their spiritual incomes. 3. Mans fruitlesness without saving faith, being a parallel between the belief of most, and the belief of devils. 4. Councel unto saints as sojourners and strangers. 5. Mans folly in determining by present evens [sic] or state of things. By Richard Coler, preacher of the word at Broughton in Hampshire.	Coler, Richard.	1652 (1652)	Wing C5062; Thomason E1331_2; ESTC R209105	103,933	255

fears must be removed as well as outward favors must be remembred not by sword but by shines the Fathers saying I am with thee Now the Lord himself make you victorious over all dismayings and lead you and your Precious Pious and Elect Consort into the Chambers of his own Special Presence where you may enjoy the Full Fruition of the Sweetest Promises the Richest Graces the Noblest Hopes and the Highest Priviledges Which are the unfained wishes of him who is the meanest in the things of Christ Rich. Coler To the Christian Inhabitants in the Parish of Broughton in the county of Southampton and to the godly professors of the Gospel of Christ in some of the places adjacent Grace and Peace be Multiplyed c. Friends I Could not chuse but make mention of you in the front of this Discourse and that for these two Reasons amongst many others First Because most of you did sympathize with me in my late sorrows and were very willing and freely active for my enlargement Secondly Because most of you at sundry times either publiquely or privately have been partakers in hearing of what is here presented unto your reading And because most have want of memory especially to retain spiritual and heavenly truths I have put forth this for your hands that through the grace of Christ every one may put home unto their hearts according as every one hath need But to be as quick as my intent I shall cast what I have to say to you and those whom it most concerns into two or three words as followeth 1. A Word or two by way of Account 2. A word by way of Caution 3. But a word and that by way of Councel First By way of Account To testifie that about six moneths since a Thanksgiving Sermon for that great deliverance at Worcester was published under my name intituled Goodness and works of wonder which Sermon I own and doubt not but that it is both Orthodox and Consonant to the Doctrine of the Scripture and the harmony of the late reformed Churches And this I testifie against any such scandal of Recantation or Satisfaction knowing nothing therein for substance but what is agreeable to the word of God And if any can prove or make appear the contrary namely any error or untruth worthy recantation or any thing of wrong which meriteth satisfaction Let such an offence be worthily pickt out and as publiquely stated and let not any doubt but a ready Account shall chearfully be acknowledged But to give satisfaction where no wrong appears and a recantation where no error is found were to injure truth and stablish error But interdictum esse jure naturae As for any expressions of tartness if they be but words and not untruths why should I be made an offender or any man to be offended for a word words have their weight but it is matter makes an Accusation and my wish is since no man nominally is accused by me that none as from me would accuse themselves And though some have a faculty to take every thing in the worst who have a minde to make things odious I say though such can extract poyson out of any expression yet conscientious hearts will not And as for others let them know I was not light but serious in the similitude And most know that comparisons are not conclusions they are to set off yet they do not conclude Verba in definitionibus posita non actum sed potentiam significant And this is no strange rule amongst Logicians That words used in definition do not signifie the very act indeed but the power aptness or the inclination thereunto And if in definitions why not in illustrations Secondly In way of Account Having been about two years upon the exposition of the 5 6 7 Chapters of Matthews Gospel I delivered for Doctrine from the scope of the 9 Ver. in the 6. Chapter That the Lords Prayer improperly though vulgarly counted and called so was but part of Christs Sermon and none of Christs Prayer For Christ could not pray for pardon of sin in a proper sense who was without sin neither guile found in his mouth This I thought good to assert in this Epistle to silence if not for the satisfaction of such who think I should be ashamed to publish preach and own such Doctrine because they will wilfully and ignorantly wrangle against the clear truth of the Gospel Thirdly By way of Account which is the least of all yet something therein as a motive unto my self to publish these notes namely to silence such tongues which are too too apt for any Accusation charging me that I preach nothing but other mens labors But to testifie that I do not steal but study and according to my poor mite labor in the Word and Doctrine not what I have received from men but what I have received from the Lord that I have delivered unto you comparing spiritual things with spiritual studying the Scriptures against mens distempers that if by any means I might be a manuductor to draw any out of the fire of their sins into the saving knowledge of the love of the Lord Jesus This in way of Account Secondly By way of Caution Take heed of a prejudiced spirit in any of you against truth though it comes unto you in never so plain a stile yet if truth esteem of it though it come unto you in an earthen vessel though the person be despised yet let not the endeavor It is a great fault of some who are very ready and apt to represent the dark part of things but will over look the light All the good endeavored shall not once be mentioned but if but a seeming fault that shall be aggravated and heightned This hath been hitherto my lot and portion and therefore I must give it by way of caution Thirdly and lastly by way of Councel These are evil times wherein too too many depart from the faith which was given to the Saints that trifle and slight the precious truths of the Lord Jesus But O do you keep close with God and to your Christian principles let none take your Crown from you be not ashamed of the Gospel nor a shame to the Gospel hold fast your profession with a holy conversation be burning and shining lights in your generation Fighting the good fight of faith and persevering unto the end that through mercy you may have an entrance into everlasting glory Two things let me intreat 1. Read and consider for it is with Sermons as with a playster Let the playster be never so soveraign yet if not applied unto the soar it profiteth nothing So if Sermons be never so soveraign spread with promises never so precious and threatnings never so searching yet if not applied no comfort is perswaded to a poor perplexed and sick fearing soul nor no malady asswaged or removed from the brawny and sin-festered souls therefore meditate and consider And then 2. Read and resolve as you have

Christian-Experiences FROM Scripture-Evidences UNDER This Variety or several Heads Viz. 1. Comfort for Believers against their fears and dismayings 2. Comfort for Believers from their spiritual Incomes 3. Mans fruitlesness without saving faith being a parallel between the belief of most and the belief of Devils 4. Councel unto Saints as sojourners and strangers 5. Mans folly in determining by present evens or state of things By Richard Coler Preacher of the word at Broughton in Hampshire PSAL. 31. 24. Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart all ye that hope in the Lord. London Printed for Tho. Brewste● and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of three Bibles near the West end of Pauls 1652. To the Right Honorable Col Richard Norton OF Southwick in the County of Southampton a Member of the High Court of Parliament Grace and Peace be multiplied c. Honored Sir DId not the Title page bespeak your Condescension I durst not thus presume this Dedication But I am thus bold because harmless free from flattery though not from fear But knowing that the Lord whom you serve who being so Great and Glorious yet is so Good and Gracious as not to despise the day of small things nay such is his Goodness Zech. 4. 10. that he accepteth succoureth and supporteth it not breaking the bruised reed or quenching the smoaking flax yea the poor mite with a free and Mark 12. 43. willing heart is accepted as a Treasure in Christs Treasury And then shall not Christians O that name Christian not the titular but the real Christian that Prayeth in Prosperity and Praiseth in Adversity that is indeed a Peice of that Master-peice of the New Creation in the Mat. 10. 39. Lord Jesus Christ that findeth life by loosing of it and self by throwing it away that is watchful in every thing but careful for nothing who feasts with Divine favour and companies with sweet fear living in highest hope Christ in him the hope of glory who being above all in advancement is the lowest of all in abasement Thus was the nature of our Lord Jesus he humbled Phil. 2. 5 7 8 9. himself to behold things below Let the same minde be also in you own truth though in the plainest stile the lowest form the least appearance the meanest person like not the face for the dress sake but the dress for the face sake Truth is lovely and to be Beloved not for the habit and notion but for the Nature and Naked Primitive purity truths union with the soul or rather with the Soul of our soul the truth as it is in Jesus This I have endeavoured after in this little Tract and I doubt nothing material shall be found therein but what is consonant to Scripture and the experience of the Saints I confess it is but a diminitive not suiting the greatness of your person nor the excellency of your endowments but to testifie what I would do and what I could wish some attainment worthy your owning and receiving the which having not I do beseech you to accept of what I have it is indeed but a little little yet it is what I have received not from men or of men but of the Lord A few Christian Experiences with Scripture Evidences And so far I doubt not but you will Patronize the Lord having taught you the truth of Text and Title in the field to admiration Who taught your hands to War and your fingers to fight through Isa 41. 10. many and great Transactions many and great Atchievements many and emminent Victories was it not the Lord saying Fear not I am with you be not dismayed I am thy God helping upholding you against number power policy What speaks experience in the streets of Havant Downs of Chereton the Siege of Basing may not you truly say That special providence and special presence was not once or twice but imminently about your person and prospering your affairs owning the day of small things sometimes but as a worm amidst an host of Isa 41. 14. adversaries giving you resolution strength courage to pass through many strengths yea many Troops to the astonishment of spectators and the calling forth of the highest acts of Temporary faith for the present and future ages But I shall say no more such things being so well known amongst the godly in the Countrey who were your friends and followers Onely Right Honorable as the day of small things may not be dispised so those days of great things must not be forgotten Remember O Remember in this forgetful age the mercies of old the Lord hath vouchsafed unto you My hearts desire is that you might live in deliverances and successes in time of peace that you experimentally have been partaker of in time of war And that God who was with you over you and made you instrumental doing wonders in the field would also still be with you and make you as savingly successful in your Councels The Chariot wheels of Through-Reformation drive on heavily and I do not wonder because great bodies move slowly yet if sure to Gospel terms it will bring comfort in the end to answer all your Pains Patience and expence In the interim were but the life of those Ordinances put into life which are against Sabbath-breaking Swearing Blasphemy Drunkenness and Rioting c. certainly a further blessing might attend this Common-wealth but I fear the want will cause woe Oh that Vnder-Officers might exercise their duty conscionably and carefully against such as these and not be such as these themselves The Lords day and Gospel Ordinances under Christian Magistracy ought not to be so slighted by any plea whatsoever where Christian Liberty is granted away with Licentious Liberty no conscience consciencious but wil confess the Commandment is holy just and Rom. 7. 12. good But if any such object That the Magistrate hath not to do in such cases as some cry out Penalty is Persecution to such an Objector I shall onely say Non est persecutor vester sed persecutor persecutoris vestri id est erroris vestri the Magistrate is not your persecutor but a persecutor of your persecutor that is your error What evil is it to put restraint unto Licentiousness What evil to put constraint on that that makes for holiness But what good would be manifest if penalty on either certainly a stop to sin and an advance of profession if not of piety and I am sure a discharge of duty But I must return submitting and beseeching you to pass by my failings and to accept of these few lines part of which you once granted the hearing of in a Family-exercise which is now presented unto your reading but before you pass into it receive that which is most intended something of comfort and spiritual incomes the Lord being about believers they are surrounded with a Gracious Gloriousness and a Glorious Graciousness you have experienced it abroad now within In bread