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A74995	A glass of justification, or The vvork of faith with povver. Wherein the apostles doctrine touching justification without the deeds of the law, is opened; and the sence in which gospel-obedience, as well as faith, is necessary to justification, is stated. Wherein also the nature of that dead faith is detected, by which multitudes that hope for salvation are (as is to be feared) deceived; and the true nature and distinguishing properties of the faith of Gods elect, is handled. Finally, the doctrine of the imputation of faith for righteousness is herein also briefly discussed; and the great wisdom and folly of men about the proof of their faith, touched ... By William Allen, a poor servant to the Lord Jesus.	Allen, William, d. 1686.	1658 (1658)	Wing A1065; Thomason E948_7; ESTC R207578	191,802	230

the Christian Religion and possibly Dispute for them too yea which is more possibly may be able to speak many things in the Theory and by Hear-say touching the Work of the new Creature and these spiritual supplies of which I now speak and yet all the while void of any true sense of the power of them upon his own heart But on the other hand the living Faith being the heaven-born principle of the new creature which is it self born from above does still dispose and encline it to look up to God the same fountain of grace for dayly supplies from which it at first received it 's new and spiritual being As God hath placed in Nature a certain instinct among the Creatures by which as soon as they are brought forth they do with a kind of dependance seek their nourishment from their Dams so hath he likewise placed a spiritual instinct in the new Creature which enclines and guides it to himself as soon as it is born from above to seek its food from God Sect. 10 And the main Reason I conceive why many Persons who have flourished like a green Bay-tree in the Christian Profession for a time have yet afterwards shamefully miscarried and fallen away of which this age affords too many sad instances hath been this they have not been close in their dependance upon God for supplie of strength to encounter the motions of the flesh and temptation from spiritual enemies they have not had or have lost the sense of their own weakness and what Children they are in the hands of their spiritual enemies if God should but a little with-draw and leave them but having received it may be many spiritual gifts and many favours from God they have grown confident bold and presuming upon the stock they have already received and being a little spiritually intoxicated with drinking too deeply of their own cup and fallen too much in love with themselves by viewing their beauty in their own Glass have forgotten themselves and their own weakness and forgotten God their strength and so have come down wonderfully God taking no pleasure in them but leaving them to fall and to be an admonition and warning to those that yet stand to take heed lest they also fall Sect. 11 Whereas others again that have been but poor and low and exceeding weak in parts and gifts yet alwayes bearing about them the sense of their own meanness and weakness and withal retaining a good perswasion of Gods supporting grace and good-will towards them and in the sense of both depending upon him to be upheld kept and maintained in grace have hereupon retained their spiritual verdure when others have withered have been holpen with a little strength and sate safely under the shadow of the Almighty when many tall Cedars in the Mountains have fallen in the stormy day These poor Souls being jealous of themselves and of their own strength dare not trust themselves with themselves or at any distance from God but follow him close begging him to help and to uphold them and to keep them from falling who in that case is willing to be intreated Psal 63.8 My soul followeth hard after thee And what of that thy right hand upholdeth me If the Soul follow him for it in good earnest it shall have it They are kept by the power of God saith the Apostle through Faith unto Salvation 1 Pet. 1.5 Mark it They are kept by the power of God and yet through Faith Why is Faith joyned with the power of God Alas it's but a poor weak feeble thing of it self but it 's happiness is it lives in the strength of another it carries the Soul out of its own shelter and leads it unto a Rock that is higher than it it takes hold of Gods almighty strength and interesseth it self and the poor creature in that and the power of God is well content that Faith should be busie with it and as confident of it and of it's improvement for such a Souls good as if it were in it's own possession and under it's own disposal Though it is the power of God by which the Soul is kept yet it is the power of God leaned upon through Faith which is the leaning and depending grace The power of God could uphold all but it is not it's pleasure so to do but only those that through Faith hold by it And as by how much the more men live out of themselves and depend upon the Lord by so much the safer are they and at the greater distance from falling so likewise by how much the more entire and close mens dependance is upon God for spiritual supplies for a spiritual frame of mind for God to write his Law in the heart and to maintain a good Savour in the Soul of God and all good things for a spiritual liberty and enlargement of Soul in Gods wayes for to be strengthened with all might by his Spirit in the inner man and the like by so much the more does the Lord give forth of these and like good things unto such The closer they lie and the more they draw at those spiritual breasts the more they receive the more they thrive Blessed is the man said he that trusteth in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is for he shall be as a tree planted by the waters and that spreadeth out the roots by the River and shall not see when heat cometh but her leaf shall be green and shall not be careful in the year of drought neither shall cease from yielding fruit Where we clearly see That Faith trust dependance on God puts a man under a like capacity for the flourishing estate of his Soul in respect of spiritual loveliness beauty and fruitfulness as a Tree is of the utmost prosperity such a creature is capable of by being planted by Waters and Rivers in those dry Countryes And as the more men thus depend on God for supplies the more they receive and the more spiritual they grow so on the other hand too the more spiritual and the more strong in the Lord men grow the more sensible do they grow of their own frailty and weakness and the more emptied of all self-confidence and their thoughts runing more upon the grace of God and strength of Christ and presence of the Spirit and the necessity of these prizing these more desiring these more following God more for them depending on him more to receive them at his hands And so proportionably are they the more ready and the more enlarged to attribute and ascribe all spiritual in-comes all spiritual endowments all operations of grace all strength and ability of acting and doing in the Lords work unto the Lord from whom all comes and to say with him 1 Chro. 29 14. But who am I that I should be able to offer so willingly after this sort for all things come of thee O Lord and of thine own have we given thee Sect. 12 And however God hath as I

had built a Wall of partion about them viz. his Ordinances to distinguish them from the Nations of the Gentiles and to make them as a Garden enclosed and had also set a Hedge of his special Providence and Protection about them and had watered them with Rain from Heaven in the Doctrine of the Law and Prophets whose Doctrine did drop as the Rain and whose speech did distil as the dew and then according to his cost looking for the good Grapes of Judgement and Righteousness yet instead thereof meeting with the unsavoury and wilde Grapes of Oppression and Crying what does he do with his Vineyard in this case What He commands the Clouds that they rain no rain upon it Isa 5.6 So that the Complaint was The Law is no more her Prophets also find no Vision from the Lord Lam. 2.9 Whereupon followed a Famine not of Bread nor thirst for Water but of Hearing the Words of the Lord Amos 8.11 The partition Wall also to wit the Law of Commandements contained in Ordinances Ephes 2.14 15. he brake down upon which this Lamentation was taken up saying He hath violently taken away his Tabernacle as if it were of a Garden he hath destroyed his places of the Assembly the Lord hath caused the solemne Feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the King and the Priest The Lord hath cast off his Altar he hath abhorred his Sanctuary c. Lam. 2.6 7. Finally The Lord pluckt up and brake down the Hedge of his Protection which had been a Defence to them in their enjoyment and solemnization of his Publick worship exposed them unto the grievous molestation and oppression of the enemy upon which followed that doleful Complaint Psal 80.12 13. Why hast thou broken down her Hedges so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her The Boar out of the Wood doth waste it and the wilde Beast of the Field doth devour it Behold here you have a taste of Gods sore displeasure against his own and only Vineyard of old when unfruitful after sufficient cost and care bestowed on it to make it fertile And if God spared not the natural Branches take heed lest he also spare not thee was the Watch-word of the great Apostle of the Gentiles to a Gentile Church at Rome Rom. 11.21 And I beseech you Brethren let his Admonition sink down into your ears and take warning betimes For where are now I pray you those once famous and flourishing Churches of Corinth Galatia Philippi Colosse Thessalonica the seven Churches of Asia yea and of Rome it self which were planted and watered too by the Apostles themselves Are not those golden Candlesticks removed out of their place Are not those Vineyards laid waste Are not those Fig-trees cut down as cumbering the ground And what 's the reason of all this Of a truth unfruitfulness hath been the cause of all and the true reason why the Lord hath let forth his Vineyard to other Husbandmen to see if they will render him fruits in their season Matth. 21.41 And you my Friends among others are those other Husbandmen unto whom the Lord hath how for the present let forth his Vineyards expecting that Fruit from you which those other Churches now desolate with-held from him He is now proving you by frequent dressings prunings waterings rainings upon and watchings over to see if you will bring him forth fruits meet for Repentance and worthy amendment of life And if not remember that word And now also is the Ax laid to the root of the trees Every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewen down and cast into the fire Matth. 3.10 And again Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away Joh. 15.2 And a third time also Luke 13.7 Then said he unto the Dresser of his Vineyard Behold these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree and find none cut it down why cumbereth it the ground Upon how many Churches have these words taken hold since they first came forth from the Lord And the edge of them is not at all blunted with cutting down so many but is as keen and as ready to do execution now as at the first and will first or last cut down all unfruitful Churches and take away all unfruitful branches And therefore it exceeding nearly concerns you my dearly beloved and so it does all the Churches to take special care that you bring forth fruit and that your fruit may remain according to Christs word John 15.16 Sect. 7 For it is not enough if you have run well hitherto and brought forth fruits until now except your fruit remain except you be as a tree planted by the waters which shall not cease from yielding fruit Jer. 17.8 For how did the Apostles many times glory over those first Churches that were planted by them because of the first fruits of their Faith love and patience wherein they did for a time richly abound Rom. 1.8 2 Cor. 9.2 2 Thes 1.4 and yet how soon was the glory departed especially from among some of them as if their goodness like Ephraims had been but as a morning cloud or as an early dew that goeth away Hos 6.4 And the Apostles even while they were yet among them had too much cause to change their voice concerning them Gal. 4.20 For many there were then while the Apostles had the dressing of them who lead the way of that dreadful decay first and apostacy after in which the Churches themselves as the event gives cause to fear following in time came to utter desolation They were as Jude describes them Trees whose fruit withered without fruit twice dead plucked up by the roots Jude 12. The foundation of their utter eradication and final desolation was laid we see in the withering of their fruit first I I pray you observe it and fear It should seem at the first they were not altogether without fruit but their misery was they fell into spiritual decayes their Fruit withered grew harsh and unkindly thin shriveled and blasted And that which in a short time followed this was their total barrenness being without fruit by which it being manifest they were stark dead and so no hope left of their bearing Fruit any more the sad conclusion was plucking up by the roots There were at the first excellent good things found in the Church of Ephesus for which Christ commended her Rev. 2.2 3. but having lost her first love and fallen into some decay he threatens her that except she were made sensible of her sinking condition remembred from whence she was fallen and so repented and did her first works and recovered her self again he would come unto her quickly and remove her Candlestick out of its place which since hath come to pass Behold then my Brethren and be astonished and fear lest you at any time expose your selves to like danger by like declinings Look to your selves