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A19474	A hand of fellovvship, to helpe keepe out sinne and Antichrist In certaine sermons preached vpon seuerall occasions: by Robert Abbot ...	Abbot, Robert, 1588?-1662?	1623 (1623)	STC 59; ESTC S100379	198,722	312

shoot in diuine spirits and infuse holinesse into his members But saith the beleeuer I haue beleeued in Christ yet I finde not my bloudy issue of sinne to be staied with this touch Listen therefore a while It is possible for vs to haue spirituall life and not to discerne it And if yet further thou doe inquire how this our communion with Christ may so be aduanced that we may finde life deriued into our soules from our spirituall touch of Christ I answer In the vse of three ordinarie meanes of saluation First in prayer Aske and I will giue If the spirit of supplication commeth once then as it bindeth Gods hands as when God said Now Moses let me alone so it openeth Gods hands as Elias did when he obtained showres yea and openeth all the passages betwixt Christ our head and vs his members whereby spirituall life is deriued into vs. Which of Gods children haue not felt sinne stabbed and dying in this dutie and Christ liuing to controll sinne and to comfort vs against all discouragements Secondly in the word of God preached Heare and your soules shall liue Where is he who hath heard of conscience and not of custome who hath not found Christ in this dutie lashing the seared conscience quickning the dead affections inclining the rebellious will and drawing out resolutions from the whole man to follow Christ Thirdly in the Sacrament the bread and cup is the spirituall communion of the bodie and bloud of Christ What faithfull man hath not felt Christ cast an inward shame vpon the soule for entertaining him into so foule an house Yea and how easie is it in that seale of Gods fauour to finde him pricking the soule for sinne past and strengthning the weake hands of faith against sin to come As thou wouldst haue comfort to thy soule mark● how Christ deriueth holinesse in these meanes of saluation that thou maist finde it drop by experience that so thou perceiuing him to be such a fountaine opened to the house of Dauid for sinne and for vncleannesse maist runne vnto him for cleannesse and follow after for comfort and stabilitie in all thy courses Thus we haue considered our miserie to lament it and our deliuerance to worke in vs thankfull hearts As therefore the Iewes vowed If I forget thee ô Ierusalem let my right hand forget her cunning so with an humble resolution depending vpon the power of Christ for performance let vs determine to write Christ in red letters in the tables of our hearts and neuer forget him to be the well-spring of life and holinesse that all things may be losse and dung vnto vs in respect of that treasure which is in him to our endlesse ioy Soli Deo gloria THE TRIAL OF True Religion VPON IAMES 1.27 By ROBERT ABBOT LONDON Printed by John Haviland for Nathaniel Butter 1623. TO HIS MVCH RESPECTED FRIENDS Master PETER CVRTHOPE Gentleman and Mistresse IANE his most deare and beloued Wife Grace in this world and glory in the world to come through Christ our common SAVIOVR My right worthy friends HOW can I be vnmindfull of you who finde you still mindfull both of me and mine My studies are much refreshed by you both if then amid my studies I acknowledging others kindnesses should be forgetfull of yours my thankfulnesse would bee neere a wracke Receiue therefore this my poore Prese●t and if I cannot shew my selfe in what I would I hope you will accept of what I can Bookes were neuer more plentifull as knowledge they doe abound as waters of the Sea yet there was neuer more need of good ones as being one speciall meanes to pull downe sinne and Antichrist I cannot commend mine to be such yet as Gods gifts I can commend my desires to be forward as I am able to doe God seruice both by tongue and pen. I see the iustice of God giuing ouer some who had no loue to the truth to beleeue the lies of the Man of Sinne. And God hauing made me a poore Watchman in his Church I would willingly warne mine owne sheepe of the danger both by word and writing yet before it goeth to others it doth come vnto you both acknowledging your furtherances of it and crauing your fauours both to entertaine and vse it as your owne We poore Schollers doe wearie our bodies many waies by writing amongst the rest But a valiant man will not stand vpon the breach of his weapon so he may get the victorie nor we vpon the wearying and wearing of our bodies if we may gaine what we fight for to wit the acceptance of our labours by them to whom wee doe intend them together with the saluation of their soules How-euer the successe may be my hope shall lift vp my head amid all my faintings Neither doe I feare but that good people will giue approbation to what I haue rather laboured to doe than done My aime is but to striue for Religion and for that Religion which will giue vs comfort before God I haue considered many times the danger of Idolatrie as first that Idolaters are a sottish people who through Gods iust iudgement Esay 46.6 7 8. Esay 54.9 c. withhold the truth in vnrighteousnesse and will not walke in the light of reason Secondly that they are a cruell people Dan 3. like Nebuchadnezzar who garded his Idoll with a fiery fornace and heat it seuen times hotter for the true worshippers of God and like the ancient persecutors vnder the Romane Emperours who put Christians vpon crosses and stakes who did teare and scratch their sides with nailes and clawes who cast them vnto beasts and burnt and broyled them with fire and the like Thirdly that they are an alluring people who haue their vermilion Images like those that tempted Ierushalem and their great rewards like the Deuill Matth. 4. All this will I giue thee saith he to Christ if thou wilt fall downe and worship mee In which respects as Images or Idols are called Louers so Idolaters Whore-mongers who will spare for no cost or paine to satisfie their lusts like Nebuchadnezzar who made his Image of gold Dan. 3. and countenanced it with varietie of musicke to wooe the minds of the simple and to stirre vp superstitious affections And hauing laid vp these things with my selfe and seeing withall that Poperie cannot with all its subtill euasions wash it selfe from deepe staine in this kinde equalling if not exceeding euen Heathenisme it selfe in varietie of Idolatrous louers as we may see by comparing the multiplicitie of heathenish and Romish Idols When I haue considered I say Vide Wolfgang Muscul in Psal 16. Episc Der. in diat de Antichr cap. 7. l. b. 3. cum multis alijs that as the Heathens had protecting Idols for Nations as Belus for the Babylonians Isis and Osyris for the Aegygtians Neptune for the Africanes the Sunne for Rhodes Iuno for Samos Venus for Paphos Apollo for Delphos Quirinus for Rome Minerua for Athens and

in his ordinances We sinne against Christ in his owne person either when we expect the forgiuenesse of sinnes and iustification from God for the workes of righteousnesse whi●h we haue done through the assistance of Go●s grace for by how much we fl●● to any thing o t of Christ by so much wee derogate from the worth o● Christ or when wee doe no● learne to know him in his natures and offices and worke as God hath set him forth to be a reconciliation through faith in his bloud Rom 3.25 Hebr. 2.3 to d●clare his righteousnesse c. for what is this but to neglect so great saluation or else when we returne to the lusts of our former ignorance as Peter speaketh 1 Pet. 1.14 18 19. for as this is to sinne that the merits of Christ may abound so in a manner wee doe account the bloud of Christ an impure thing and therefore doe rather cleaue to sinne than to it which is alone able to purge our consciences from dead workes to serue the liuing God Secondly wee may sinne against Christ himselfe in his ordinances both in the Word and Sacrament We sinne against Christ in his word either when we despise the ministerie thereof as a poore powerlesse and beggarly means to bring vs to saluation whereof Christ speaketh He that despiseth you despiseth me or when we apply not the promises to our owne soules in particular For what is this but to say that Christ came in vaine In vaine should ●he clouds drop fatnesse if the showres that be sent by God should not be applied vnto the earth so in vaine should our Christ be giuen if he should not be applied to euery soule by it selfe to whom he is giuen I know that Christ ha●h not spoken vnto me by name but if when a man doth bequeath legacies to all the sonnes of my father I will come in for a share though I am not named how then can I doe lesse than sinne against the will and new testament of Iesus if I that am a sonne of my Father in heauen to whose sonnes all things are giuen doe not come in for a childes part for my selfe in particular Lastly wee sinne against Christ in the Sacrament when we doe receiue it with a prophane and vnworthy heart Yee know the words of the Apostle 1 Cor. 21.27 Whosoeuer shall eat this bread and drinke the cup of the Lord vnworthily shall be guilty of the bodie and bloud of the Lord. If therefore we receiue bare signes of bread and wine and doe not discerne the Lords bodie yea and receiue it according to the spi●ituall manner of perceiuing and receiuing wherein God doth offer him and communicate him vnto vs or if wee doe denie the truth of these signes by transubstantiation whereby it is childishly faigned that the substance of bread and wine doth passe away and the very bodie and bloud of Iesus Christ doe come in the roome whereto besides the word of God euen our very senses doe giue the lie or if we come to eat this Lambe but without the herbes of godly sorrow or lastly if we by sealing Christ vnto vs when he belongeth not to vs doe betray him into the hands of an impenitent and vnbeleeuing heart then doe we sinne against our blessed Sauiour in the Sacrament Loe thus my brethren beloued Philip. 4.1 and longed for haue I shewed you in part how we may be said to sinne against Christ that so we may auoid the danger God stirre vs vp and sanct●fie our hearts and minds wisely to consider these things How miserable are we if we are not in Christ yet to be in Christ is impossible if we sinne against him Alas Lord what then can we doe to helpe our selues Plow vp we humbly beseech thee ô thou Creator of cleane hearts the fallow ground of our hearts cut vs off from the old Adam by that circumcision which is made without hands glew vs vnto thy selfe in thine only Sonne Iesus Christ by a true and a liuing faith out of his fulnesse let vs all receiue grace for grace open from him a fountaine for vs the house of Dauid for sinne and for vncleannesse that wee hauing abilitie and power of not sinning willingly either against thee our God or against him our Sauiour either in his members or in his owne person either in his ordinances or in himselfe we may doe accordingly that so we assuring our hearts that we are in Christ and new creatures we may liue like Christians and by power from on high prepare our selues for that new estate in heauen which thou at the last wilt bring vs vnto to thy eternall glory and our eternall comfort Euen so Amen A PREVENTER OF SECVRITIE VPON 1 PETER 4.7 By ROBERT ABBOT LONDON Printed by John Haviland for Nathaniel Butter 1623. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL SIR THOMAS HENDLEY Knight and to the Lady ELIZABETH his dearely beloued Wife Life Health and Saluation through Christ Iesus our Lord. RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL I DOE not know whether those that doe aduenture to publish bookes in these woefull times wherein we liue doe goe too fast or too slow I remember it was fained of old that Aeolus hauing bestowed a bottle vpon Vlysses wherein all the windes were inclosed his seruants let them out when hee was asleepe to their owne hurt so many times it falleth out that wee doe emptie our owne poore withered bottles by the Presse to our owne preiudice Howsoeuer it proues for mine owne particular I doe humbly commit the successe to God who only knoweth with what heart I doe it and being drawne out by little and little to appeare in publike I being sensible of the many fauours which aboue my expectation or desert I haue reaped both from you and yours can doe no lesse than make you publikely to appeare also together with me your Pastour who ioy in your loue and shall more ioy in the increasing of your graces and the further fitting of your soules and bodies for heauen and happinesse I know not what benefit this poore Sermon can bring vnto you yet so farre as I can be mine owne carner thus much I resolue that whatsoeuer good shal arise by it either to your selues or others it shall beare your Worships names in the forehead of it and thereby speake thus much that the world should neuer haue seene it if the loue of God together with your kindnesses had not drawne out from me who can shew little other such a kinde of fruit and acknowledgement as this is I thought it was enough for me to preach vnto my owne and now and then to lend the best dugge I had to a neighbours childe abroad I well knew mine owne weaknesse and the weight of a presses burthen Yet considering how apt the weake mud-wals of my poore house are euery yeere to fall and withall that it is not altogether impossible that I should doe some small good vnto my good people euen when I am dead