I. Speedily II. With Assiduity and Diligence III. With Resoluteness 1. They put their well chosen means of thriving in Execution speedily They stay for nothing but make the most of their good contrivance as soon as they can If they have put themselves in readiness against a good Market without more ado they take it If they have laid in for a good Bargain without any delay they are for making an end of it Where they have prepared an advantage they are for the first opportunity of taking Possession of it So that they lose nothing by delays or by slipping their times and seasons But earnestly desiring to accomplish their Ends they are still in a readiness hastily to accomplish any wise means which will make them Masters of it Now in this they should be followed by the Children of Light For it is not for them after once they are wisely and well resolved upon their Duty either a good Life at large or the Amendment and Improvement of some particular part thereof to use delays and put it off from one Duty to another They must not be on and off in this great work as men who are uncertain nor slow as men who are unwilling Delays shew nothing but the inability or insincerity of their own Purposes and are a loud call for themselves to renew and make them better But they must execute their wise Purposes of holy Living without more ado They must lose no time but be eager of growing more perfect in it the next day than they were the day foregoing they must make no stops but still earnestly push on and not cease till they have made themselves Masters of the Grace or good Improvements which they had propos'd to themselves And this we are call'd to in the Holy Scriptures when 't is said To day if ye will hear his voice Psal. 95.7 8. and I made hast and delayed not to keep thy commandments Psal. 119.60 work whilst it is day for the night cometh when no man can work Joh. 9.4 And in this great and most important business no day is to be neglected because no man knows but it may be his last 2. They put their well chosen ways of thriving in Execution with Assiduity and Diligence The Tradesman will stick to his Shop from morning till night And men of other Occupations will be constantly attending and ready to take all advantages in the way of their business And this they do with Good-will with great Diligence and Vigour of Application They will spare no pains they will miss no advantages they are not slothful but push on with all their might and shew how they can bestir themselves to gain their Purposes And this 't is extremely fit the Children of Light should learn from them 'T is not for them to be negligent or slothful in the work and service of the Lord. It is their one thing necessary the chief Point they have or profess to mind and therefore they must constantly attend upon it and stand ever ready to perform a Duty or avoid a Sin as any Affairs or Accidents of Life shall give them occasion for the same And this they must do heartily and earnestly diligently laying out themselves upon it and putting what strength they have to it which can never be better employ'd nor laid out in any thing for which it shall in any comparable degree be so happily and infinitely rewarded And this the Holy Scripture requires of us when it calls us to be always upon our watch Mar. 13.35 37. to attend this as the one thing necessary Luk. 10.42 To give all diligence in it 2 Pet. 1.5 10. and to serve the Lord with all our mind and with all our strength Mar. 12.30 and the like 3. They put these well chosen means in Execution with resoluteness they are not discouraged by occurrent Difficulties nor driven back by the Labour or Pains or by the length and tediousness of their business They are not weary of their work but overlook troubles and bear Self-denials and go on with Zeal and without Faintness till they have accomplish'd their desired Purpose All labour is easie to them that accomplishes their desire and they will not cease labouring till they have done their utmost to gain what they seek for And this also should be imitated by the Children of Light If they want Zeal and good Resolution they are not like to do much nor are sure to be constant in the work of good Living But they must go on without Fear or Slackness they must think no Pains too dear to perfect themselves in any Duties They must be ready and willing to part with any thing else rather than wittingly transgress their Duty in any particular or fall short of eternal Happiness That is the pearl of price which they must sell all to purchase Mat. 13.44 46. they must shun no troubles or fly from any losses which will surely be repaid with such an inestimable recompence Nay instead of shunning them they have the truest cause to give thanks and rejoyce therein And this the Holy Scripture requires when it calls us to be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Ephes. 6.10 to be terrified in nothing by our adversaries Phil. 1.28 Not to put on the spirit of fear but of love to God of power or Courage and of a sound mind 2 Tim. 1.7 and to be always stedfast and unmoveable in the work of the Lord 1 Cor. 15.58 To deny ourselves and to take up the Cross and bear it after Christ if we would be his disciples Mat. 16.24 and ch 10.38 2. Another instance of their forecast and provision for Futurities is that having studied and labour'd thus to compass their end they are careful to secure their Claim and Title to it But more especially careful to sift and inquire into it and to take all ways they can to make it good when a Tryal is like to be brought upon it If it be a Tryal for Estate or much more for Life how forecasting and busie are they in inquiring into the merit of their cause in collecting and clearing up Evidences in preparing Witnesses consulting Counsel and making their Case as good as it can be made against the Great Assize Now the Children of Light are absolutely inexcusable if they learn not this Point of Wisdom from them For the Interest which they have to secure is not like that of worldly men vain transitory and fading which may soon be taken from them or which they shall surely be soon taken from But it is an eternal life Mar. 10.30 A crown of glory that fadeth not away 1 Pet. 5.4 a State where they need no sun to light them where all tears are wip'd away from their eyes and there shall be no more crying nor sorrow nor pain Rev. 21.4 and 23. Now all this most happy State depends upon our perfecting our Obedience to all the Laws of our Blessed Saviour whilst we are
as I have observ'd to use their own endeavours because God that made them will not also save them without themselves And these endeavours must be in wise ways since we must not expect God should give effects to unsuitable means and be at the expence of Miracles to supply for our Follies And when we endeavour thus wisely we must do it also vigorously and incessantly Obedience being a work of time and Pains that requires both the earnestness and the continuance of our Applications These things are required on our part and if we take care to perform that the Grace of Christ will make up the rest and most certainly enable us as he did St. Paul to do all things which he indispensibly requires of us he will give us some strength at first and as we employ that according to that great Rule of Gospel Distribution To him that hath shall be given Matt. 25.29 he will add more till at last we perform as much as is indispensibly required i· e. as ◠noted either not sinning wilfully or sincerely repenting and amending whensoever we do If they are thus careful I say in their own endeavours this strength all Christians shall surely receive from the Grace of Christ to these performances as the Apostle in the Text declares of himself I can do c. Now that every wise earnest and incessant Endeavourer shall be thus enabled to perform all Duties will appear from these three things First Because God indispensibly requires and passionately exhorts us to this performance Secondly Because he has promised this Ability and Obedience to all who are so qualified and prepared for the same Thirdly Because all good men heretofore and at this present time do themselves find and experience it 1. That they shall be thus enabled to perform all Duties appears because God indispensibly requires and passionately exhorts us to this performance He indispensibly requires it For now as St. Paul says God commandeth all men every where to repent Acts 17.30 And that of all sins they being all lyable to the same Punishment The wrath of God being revealed against all unrighteousness Rom. 1.18 And he that offends in one point being guilty of all Jam. 2.10 And this he requires under the strictest condition as ever they hope to avoid the wrath to come or to obtain everlasting Salvation If the wicked turn from all his sins and keep all my Statutes then says God by Ezekiel but not before he shall surely live Ezek. 18.21 And they only that do his commandments have right to the tree of life saith Christ Rev. 22.14 Now since God thus requires us to obey all his Laws it must needs be possible for us to obey them for God never requires an impossible thing what he Commands he both desires and expects should be performed and therefore calls men to the performance of it to be not only hearers but doers of the Law Rom. 2.13 And 't is certain they may perform it since he is too wise either to desire or expect what is not to be had Nay he doth not only indispensibly require this Obedience but Friendly and passionately exhorts us to it Repent and turn your selves from all your transgressions so iniquity shall not be your ruine Cast away from you all your transgressions and Thus have we an assurance that God will give us all so much Grace and Strength as will suffice to make us good if we diligently and discreetly apply our selves to become so This God engages and he doth not only permit but expect that we should believe him and take his word in this as well as in all other Promises He would not only have us to have faith in his mercy for the pardon of any Sins when we repent of them but likewise to have faith in his power and spirit enabling us to overcome our sins when we seriously strive against them When St. Paul bids us work out our own Salvation he gives God's working in us as the reason plainly directing us to work in that Expectation Phil. 2.11 12. And we are kept to Salvation by the power of God thro' faith i. e. thro' Faith in the Power saith St. Peter 1 Pet. 1.5 God has promised his Spirit to strengthen us against sin as well as his mercy to pardon and forgive sin And since he has promised both our Duty is to believe both and not distrust him in either of them And since we both may and ought to have this Confidence in God's Grace that will perfectly answer the main Objection against the possibility of this performance which is taken from ourselves and the reigning Power of our own Lusts. For our Lusts are not too strong for God tho' they be too strong for us Tho' there be great Might in corrupt Nature yet the Grace of Christ is mightier And therefore having that on our side we shall certainly be empowered to please God let our own sinful Lusts and the Temptations of the World oppose themselves never so much against it Greater is he that is in us says St. John Than he that is in the world 1 Joh. 4.4 And tho' we be able to do nothing of our selves as of our selves yet having the same Promise we shall all be enabled as St. Paul was To do all things thro' Christ that strengthens us And as this possibility of keeping the Commandments thro' our own Care and Pains appears because God indispensibly requires and exhorts to it and has promised his Holy Spirit and Grace to enable all who duely labour after the same So doth it yet farther 3. Because good men heretofore and at this present time do themselves find and experience it Whensoever they wisely and earnestly endeavour'd and did not grow weary or faint they always succeeded and were enabled to have such regard to their whole Duty as God required the true Servants of God in all Ages have been endow'd with so much strength as made them intire with God and able to perform all that he would exact of them Caleb and Joshua followed the Lord wholly Numb 32.12 David kept my commandments saith God and followed me with all his heart 1 Kin. 14.8 Zachariah and Elizabeth were both righteous before God walking in all the ordinances and commandments of the Lord blameless saith St. Luke Luk. 1.6 And what is so expresly said of all these is by plain Intimation implyed of all others They that are Christ's saith St. Paul have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Gal. 5.24 If Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin i. e. Sin must have no more Service from it than one would expect from a dead man but the spirit is life because of righteousness i. e. lives in righteous ways Rom. 8.10 They who do no iniquity walk in his ways Psal. 119.3 Thus is it a constant thing in Scripture account and Relations and so it was and is still in all following Ages for God's faithful
as good as his word and not only willing but forward to give all Nay more than he has promised if we would but take care to ask as he requires But all the hindrance lies in our own selves We do not ask like men who would obtain we do not sue for Pardon as he will bestow it nor pray for Grace as if we desired it or had a mind to make any use of it and therefore after all our Prayers for God's Supplies we are still as indigent as we were before Ye ask and receive not says St. James Ye desire and cannot obtain because you ask amiss Jam. 4.2 3. Whereas would we ask things in such wise as God has promised to grant them and seek them upon such terms as he has offer'd to bestow them Would we ask for Pardon of our sins only in repenting of them and forsaking them and for Grace and Vertue in the use of good and wise Endeavours after them t is certain we should not go without them Ask says our Saviour it shall be given you for every one that asketh in this wise receiveth To make my Discourse upon this subject as useful as I can I shall enquire into these two things First Upon what terms we are to pray for any of God's mercies And when that is secured Secondly In what manner we ought to pray for them 1. I shall inquire upon what terms we are to pray for any of God's mercies and under what Conditions we must hope to receive them God's Promises run upon Conditions he engages to bestow Benefits when we perform Duties and offers the reward after we have done the Service And now what God promises only conditionally we must not ask absolutely we must not expect that he will give till we come duly qualified and fitted to receive we must seek his Mercies on his own terms and ask them only in such wise as he has undertaken to bestow them And this is that rule which St. John prescribes to us which he makes the great Condition of our Prayers and the measure of our Expectations This says he is the confidence which we have in him that if we ask any thing according to his will he heareth us 1 Joh. 5.14 To know then when we ask any thing upon God's own terms and sue for Mercies in such sort as he has promised to bestow them we must enquire what his Will is concerning any thing which we ask for or upon what terms he will give them and on what Conditions the Gospel bids us hope to receive them and if we come duely prepared therewith we may be sure upon our Prayers to receive them Now that Condition whereupon God has promised to forgive us any wilful Sin i. e. any Sin against our own knowledge or against the Checks and Warnings of our own Minds and Consciences is our sincere Repentance of it and Care to amend and forsake it And that Condition whereupon he has promis'd to bestow upon us any Vertue is our own serious and diligent seeking and endeavouring after it And that Condition whereupon he has promised to confer upon us any gracious Assistances of his Holy Spirit is so far forth as we are honestly prepared to use them and carefully co-operate our selves and concurr therewith and that Condition whereupon he has engaged to give us health or ease or safety or any outward Blessings when we seek and labour after them is so far forth as in the Wisdom of his All-seeing Providence he sees them fitting for us or conducing to the advantage of the World and the benefits of others Upon these terms God has promised to bestow these Mercies and if we have them to shew when we pray our Prayers shall certainly procure them but if we are void of them our Prayers can have no such effect but after all we shall still be unrelieved and go without them We ask what God is resolved not to grant and seek what he has declared we shall never find and such Petitions can never take effect but must needs be unsuccessful If we ask his Pardon for any Sin whilst we impenitently go on therein and continue to repeat the same he tells us plainly if we will believe him that we shall not be pardon'd but that except we repent we shall surely perish If we beg his Grace whilst we never use it nor endeavour after those Vertues which we pray for he assures us that we shall be so far from being intrusted with more Grace that we shall lose what we have received already and that from him that hath not shall be taken even that which he hath these Prayers being altogether against his Will and contrary to the Declarations of his Gospel they cannot be heard unless God should change his mind and give us a new Religion and other ways of obtaining his favour than those which we have received already But in Matters of this moment to be more particular 1. As for pardon of our Sins God will not grant that till we repent of them and forsake them so that whensoever we ask Pardon of them we must for ever renounce them and bid adieu to them or else according to those terms of Mercy Christ has purchased for us we cannot hope to be forgiven When the wicked man forsakes his way says God by Ezekiel and turns from the wickedness he hath committed and doth that which is lawful and right he shall save his soul alive he shall surely live and not die Ezek. 18.27 28. Repent says St. Peter and be converted that your sins may be blotted out Act. 3.19 But except you repent says our Saviour you shall all perish Luk. 13.3 Thus is sincere Repentance and forsaking sin made the great Condition of the Forgiveness of it And therefore if any man would pray for the Pardon of his sins according as the same is promised by God and is to be expected by us he must first renounce the Sin which he desires God to pardon and pray for the Forgiveness of it with true penitential Purposes and Engagements and change of mind and practice he must not lye labouring at the Throne of Grace and think to weary God with importunate intreaties to pardon him without more ado and to forgive him his Sin whilst he continues unreclaimed from it He must not pray against a dreadful Punishment whilst he continues in a wicked Practice and seek to appease God before he has reform'd himself No he must fit himself for the favour before he ask it he must first repent and amend and then let him in his Prayers profess he doth and upon these Petitions he shall be pardon'd And upon these terms we are taught to beg pardon in our publick Prayers concerning which I must profess from my own Experience that the more I understand of my Religion and the further I consider them the more cause I see as for the Body of them most thankfully to admire and approve of them And in
them when we are exhorted to confess our sins to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same we are taught to do it with a penitent and obedient heart and again when after the Confession of our faults we come to sue for favour we do it only in confidence of this Profession of Repentance desiring God that he would restore them that are penitent And when afterwards we come to hear the comfortable words of God in the absolution of the Minister we are told only of his absolving those that truly repent and of his pardoning such as turn away from Sin This I have noted for this end that we may understand our own Devotions and come to them prepared with that full Purpose of reforming and change of heart which is absolutely necessary for the acceptance of them And when we pray thus and with penitent hearts ask for God's Pardon he will be sure to grant it and we shall not miss of the Mercy and Forgiveness which we pray for 2. As for the Assistance of God's Holy Spirit he has no where promised to grant it nor have we any ground to expect it unless we are honestly prepar'd to make a good use of it and carefully to co-operate our selves and concurr with it And as for any gracious Tempers and virtuous Dispositions he has not promised to give nor must we hope to receive them unless we our selves do seriously and diligently seek and endeavour after them So that whensoever we ask for the help of God's Grace or for any holy Dispositions or Vertues it must be in the honest use of our own Industry and good Endeavours God will not bestow new Grace upon us till he sees that we have made a good use of what he has bestowed already and we must improve the Talents which formerly were intrusted with us before he will think us duly qualified to receive more as we are told in the Parable of those who had received the Talents Matt. 25. For this is the rule of God's Dispensation unto every one that hath i. e. hath made good use and improvement of what he had committed to him as the good Servant had done Ver. 20.22 shall more be given and he shall have abundance but from him that hath not i. e. hath not been careful to use and improve the same as the wicked servant had not done who went and hid it Ver. 25. from him shall be taken even that which he hath Ver. 29. As for those Prayers then which God will answer if they be for pardon of Sins or for Grace and vertuous Dispositions they must be sincerely penitent and industrious God has promised no Pardon but upon true Repentance nor any saving helps and assistances of his Spirit or vertuous Tempers but upon our honest Industry and good Endeavours And therefore if we would ask these Mercies as God has promised to grant them and as the Gospel bids us hope to receive them we must pray for Forgiveness with true Repentance and for God's Grace with sincere Purposes to make good use thereof and for any vertuous Tempers with a Preparation to take pains for them and seriously and carefully to endeavour afterwards to acquire the Vertue which we have prayed to God for An impenitent mans Prayer for the pardon of his Sins will be of no avail with God for he will not forgive us our Sins whilst we go on in them And an idle unworking persons Prayer for any particular Grace or Vertue is offensive to him The only Prayers which he hears for these things are the Prayers of sincerely penitent and industrious and if our Prayers are qualified thus they are such as he will own and as he has bound himself in Truth and Faithfulness he will most certainly answer and reward them And then Thirdly As for the Third sort of things which men are wont to pray for viz. Health or Sustenance or Safety or any other outward Blessings God expects in his Gift of these as I have shew'd he does in his Gifts of Grace and Holy and vertuous Dispositions that they themselves should labour after them and be diligent in the use of wise and due means to attain them it not being his way to heal or feed or secure men by Miracle but only by Blessing their own care and pains in pursuit of these Mercies And much more doth he expect both in spiritual and temporal Blessings that they should not take any Courses which are directly contrary to them When they pray for Deliverance from any Sin they must not put themselves in the way of Temptations which are still apt to make them to fall into it when they pray to God for Health they must not put it away from themselves by Intemperance or by any gross neglects or abuse of their own Bodies When they pray to him to secure the Church or our Holy Religion they must not put a stop to their own Prayers by seeking a security from Sin or by an unwise Compliance with any other methods which are liker to destroy than to secure the same If we expect that he should hear and further our Prayers we must shew first that we are in earnest with him by furthering them ourselves and not falling to such Courses as directly overthrow our own Petitions And when we do thus wisely endeavour after any outward things God has no where promised to grant them nor may we hope to receive them further than in the Wisdom of his All-seeing Providence he sees them fit for us and conducing to the benefit and advantage of the World and the good of others So that whensoever we ask them it must be with this reserve if in his Wisdom he sees it fitting In spiritual Mercies we are sure of the Grace or Vertue we desire if we come duly prepared to receive them But in temporal the having or not having of what we ask is uncertain and always depends on this if God in his Wisdom sees it fit we should have them Sometimes outward Blessings whether of Health or Ease or Plenty are not fit for us but would turn in the end by far more to our hurt than to our advantage They would carnalize our Souls and render us sensual and earthly minded proud and insolent they would make us forget God and sleight his Service affront those who are placed above and oppress such as he has set below us Prosperity is a state of great danger to mens Souls it exposes them to many Vices and puts them under a number of Temptations to several instances of Disobedience and 't is for the Concern of every one who has pious Wisdom and prudent Care enough to avoid being insnared by it The prosperity of fools say Solomon instead of being a Blessing to them doth destroy them Prov. 1.32 When Jesuron waxed fat saith Moses he kicked against him who made him so when he was grown thick and covered with fatness then he forsook God that made him and lightly
God's favour is faith or believing we shall receive when we ask according to his Promise which our Saviour makes a necessary Qualification to our being heard Matt. 21.22 Whatsoever you shall ask in prayer believing you shall receive and if any man lack Wisdom let him ask in faith saith St. James nothing wavering and it shall be given him Jam. 1.5 6. and the true meaning of this is easily understood from what I have already said concerning the Terms whereupon God will grant us any of his Mercies For then we are to believe we shall receive them when we have perform'd those Conditions whereupon he has promised to bestow them So that then we must hope to obtain Pardon for our Sins when we forsake them and ask it with true Repentance and Reformation And then we must believe that we shall receive some Virtuous Endowments when we are careful to attain and industriously seek after them And then we must expect to enjoy the Assistance of God's Grace and Holy Spirit when we are careful to concurr with and make a good use of it And then we must expect upon our Endeavours after the same to be heard for Health or Ease or any prosperous turns of Providence and outward things when God in his Wisdom sees them fitting for us and consistent either with our own good or with the greater benefit of others It is these Promises of God which must guide our Expectations and then we must hope to receive any of these Mercies from him asking them in Christ's Name when we come qualified with these Conditions whereupon he has engaged to bestow them to believe that he will grant what we ask of him when we seek it not upon these Terms 't is not Faith but Infidelity to expect that we should receive these Mercies any otherwise that we should be pardoned without Repentance and made Vertuous without our own Care and good Endeavours is not hope but Presumption We must seek things in God's own way and then but not before we shall be sure to find them And that we may always come thus prepared to our Prayers that so we may obtain the Blessings which we seek for God of his infinite Mercy Grant c. 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