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water_n	drink_v	let_v	wine_n	5,229	5	7.7272	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63270	The saints declining state under gospel administrations, or, The case of desertion briefly stated in a few considerations by William Troughton ...	Troughton, William, 1614?-1677?	1652 (1652)	Wing T2318; ESTC R6248	32,617	114

point of assurance then the righteousnesse of Christ which is the Queene and mistris of them all this were to give more honour to Hagar the handmaide then to Sarah her mistris If you should doe thus in outward things it would bee counted one of the greatest incivilities how much more intolerable is it in heavenly and spirituall things Faith and love are but hand-maides should be subservient to Christ who maintaines the court and is at all the cost and charge therefore for you to aply your selves to these and neglect Christ which is a course that many poore soules take shewes you to be but young Courtiers in the pallace of heaven and to have little familiarity with the King of glory Againe this may be another Symptome of your declining in spiritualls if you rest in a few teares 13 Symptome If ye rest in your complaints sorrowes and complaints which some falsly conceive to be true sorrow and repentance for sin we have many professors that will be proud in complaining of their pride hipocrisie and hardnesse of heart and yet they adore and worship this under the notion of true humilitie and selfe denyall and ground and bottome their peace and happinesse upon it having made their complaints and expressed a few sorrowfull words that they want faith and have hard hearts c. they repose themselves on this rotten staff and have continuall recourse to it as an evidence of their good estate but what saith our Saviour not every one that saith Lord Lord (a) Mat. 7.21 22. I am so and so I have a hard heart a hypocriticall heart a proude heart shall enter into the Kingdome of heaven but he that doth the will of my father that is he that beleeveth in God through Christ for that is the greate Commandement and to beleeve in God is to do the will of God and worke the workes of God b Ioh. 6.29 If you have tasted of the love and bountie of the father and of his dainty dishes and soule satisfying delights and can now feede on these low things I meane a few teares and complants it s a Symptome ye are run behinde hand in Spiritualls A begger that hath had good cheeare at a gentlemans house will not sit downe satisfied with a few empty words and bare complements but he must have bread and bread he will have before he departs The promise is not made to him that compla neth but to him that commeth a Ioh. 6.37 nor is it sufficient to thirst after the water of life and to complaine and cry for it as Esaw cryed for the blessing and sought it with teares but ye must come and drink of it if ye wil be refreshed and satisfied b Ioh. 6.35 Ho every one that thirsteth Let him come and buy wine and milke without money and without price c Isa 55.1 14 When you are exceeding strange 14 Symptome If ye be strange reserved to Christ your spiritual husband and reserved and have not that enlargednesse of heart towards Christ your husband and bridgroome which you formerly had the time hath beene you have layen in his bosome and had sweete embraces from him and have been kissed with the kisses of his mouth and refreshed with the flagons of his wine d Cant. 1.2 and not onely so but you have been open hearted towards him and communicated all the secrets of your hearts to him yee kept nothing from him that might serve to expresse the reality of your love and the vehemency of your affections to him but behold now yee are growne strange and sly and take state upon you and are not free to unbosome your selves to your husband this intimates you have other lovers besides that you dally with and impart your mindes unto if I may so speake and withall it apeares that you trad not much with your spirituall husband Yee know if a wife be reserved to her husband and yet familior with other men it may well bee thought that shee hath but cold affections to him and it is as true in this case Christ hath espoused you to himselfe hee hath purchaced you by his blood and you are united to him by his spirit and will you let out your hearts after other lovers and give them the best entertainement you have whilst hee stands at the doore and cannot be admitted this carriage as it doth not become the spouse of Christ so it shewes that shee is declined in her affections and respects to Christ and so it was with the spouse in the Canticles a Cant. 5.3 when shee put off her husband who came to visite her in love with idle excuses shee was halfe a sleepe and halfe waking and therefore did not tainde the worth of him that came to give her a visit and waited to be gracious to her but when shee was perfectly out of her sleepe and knew it was the voice of her beloved shee runs after him and inquires of all the persons shee mett with where her beloved was that she might goe to him And you that are now asleepe if the Lord awaken you and move your affectiōs by putting in the finger of his spirit at the hole of the doore b Cant. 5.4 will be as restlesse as shee was to renew your acquaintance and communion with your beloved 15 Symptome If yee yeeld to fullennesse of spirit and refuse comfort Lastly if there be such a doggednesse and sullennesse of spirit in you that you will not be comforted like Rachell in her impatient moode or like little children which Christ alludes to c Mat. 11.16 17. who are so sullen and pettish that whether you pipe or mourne to them how ever you deale with them whether by faire or by fowle meanes they will continue wrangleing if they have not every toy they would have perhaps God deals with you by afflictions and deprives you of creature injoyments which were a great block in your way this doth not please you but you grow impatient and repine at this dispensation and if he abound to you in outward things and afford you much outward peace and prosperity ye wax wanton also under this dispensation no condition neither that which you are in nor that which you long after will keepe your harts in an even and equall frame truly if it be thus with you it argues you have a loathing stomack and are inclinable to a surfit there is a superfluity of naughtinesse in your harts which must be purged out such as will wrangle and quarrell with every dispensation of God and make improvement of none as it is the case of some soules that are in fullen fits it seemes to me they want the light of Gods countenance which being bid from them makes them impatient and sullen as the spouse is distempered with the absence of her husband who by his prefence puts her into a plesant moode and contented frame Haveing layed downe