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A26714	Instructions about heart-work what is to be done on Gods part, and ours, for the cure and keeping of the heart, that we may live in the exercise and growth of grace here, and have a comfortable assurance of glory to eternity / by that eminent Gospel-Minister Mr. Richard Allein, author of Vindiciæ pietatis.	R. A. (Richard Alleine), 1611-1681.	1681 (1681)	Wing A994; ESTC R19556	262,157	306

ye are mine and I am Gods Thus Christs love to Christians causeth him to say to them I am yours and all that I have so Christians love to Christ helps them to say Lord we are thine and all we have are thine not only our sins are thine our infirmities are thine but our Parts and our Possessions our Graces and our Duties yea our Houses and our Lands and our Possessions all are thine Christians we have been call'd together this day to a Communion of Loves and thereby to an Espousal of Interests betwixt Christ and us we have received the Pledges of his love his Bread and his Wine he hath given us to Eat and to Drink as the tokens he hath sent us down from Heaven of his Love I have brought you tokens every one of you from the Lord this day tokens of his love we have received the Pledges of his love and we have returned the Pledges of our love to him our very accepting of Christ's Tokens hath been our returning of our tokens Your communion together to Eat of Christ's Bread and Drink of his Cup provided it hath been in sincerity a Spiritual Eating and a Spiritual Drinking your Eating and Drinking his Body and Blood Christ hath accepted as a token of your loves and this communion of love hath been an Espousal of Interests Christ hath hereby told you Because I love you I will be yours and all that I have in Heaven and Earth you may henceforth call your own I am your own Jesus my Father is your own Father and my God is your own God and mine Inheritance is your own Inheritance and you have said if you have sincerely accepted of Christ we are thine own thine own Flock thine own Inheritance thy Ransom'd ones thy Redeemed ones and thy peculiar People this hath been the up-shot of the Transaction betwixt Christ and you this day the Sealing to this word I am my Beloveds and my Beloved is mine And as there hath been an interchangeable communion of loves and Espousal of Interest betwixt Christ and Christians so also betwixt Christians and Christians as we have said to our Lord I am thine so we have therein said one to another I am yours and must therefore walk in that tenderness of love in that dearness of affection one to another in that mutual care of each others good in that mutual Sense of each others afflictions in that mutual delight in each others Societies in that mutual helping and counselling and comforting one another and hearty seeking and rejoicing in each others good studying to please each other for his good to Edification fearing to grieve or offend or wrong or fall out with or quarrel one with another counting the Interest of every Christian to be the common Interest of the whole Body that we hereby may prove that we love one another not in Word and in Tongue but Indeed and in Truth This now is the Nature and these are the Fruits of Divine Love it will unite Hearts and unite Interests this will be the Interest of Christians which will flow from the love of Christ that Christ's Interest prosper in the World that the Name of Christ be exalted and be honourable both in themselves and in the World that Christ be loved that Christ be praised that the Word of Christ the Worship of Christ his Sabbaths his Ordinances be exalted in the World that the Glory and Holy Image of Christ his Humility Meekness Lowliness Heavenliness Righteousness Mercy may shine forth in our Faces and in the Faces and Wayes of all his Saints that we may in our particulars and jointly shew forth the Spirit and Life of serious and poweful Religion and Godliness in all manner of Holy Conversation this we should account our Interest with respect to Christ that he may be thus Honour'd and Obeyed and this will be the Interest of Christians with respect to Christians that we may see one another the whole Vineyard flourishing in the Power of Holiness as living and lively Instances of the Grace of God and as far as the Lord see it good may see one another prospering in this World even as our Souls do prosper O Christians espouse this common Interest and do what you can to promote this Interest in the World Love Christ and lift up the Name of Christ love Christ and shew forth the Image of Christ love Christ and Consecrate your Life to Christ determine to know nothing to value nothing to rejoice in nothing but Jesus Christ and him Crucified And then love one another and study to please one another to profit one another for their good to Edification to cast in your Lot together to rejoice together with them that rejoice to grieve with them that suffer to live together in love forbearing one another forgiving one another comforting one another even as you your selves would be Loved forgiven and comforted of God This now is the nature and the fruit of Divine Love it unites Interests but Self-love sinful Self-love divides Interests and so those that seek the things of Self their carual things seek not the things of Christ 3. Sinful Self-love hath a root remaining in the best Hearts even of the regenerate though in Conversion Self hath lost the Domlnion and be cast down from the Throne yet is there a secret Tabernacle a corner in the Heart where it fortifies it Self and is still aspiring to recover the Throne it hath lost the Dominion yet it retains in some degree an Interest in the affection and by this affection it hath the advantage of us and often recovers too great a Command again How great a Power sinful Self-love hath still in us the experience of Chistians sadly proves for the clearing whereof consider yet again more distinctly that there is as hath been already hinted a threefold Self-love and accordingly a threefold Self-seeking 1. There is a loving or seeking our selves in conjunction with God and in subordination to him This is a loving or seeking Self spiritually a loving or seeking of Self as Christians as the Servants of God and Members of Christ as cloathed with the Image and devoted to the service and aspiring to the Salvation of God This Self-loving and Self-seeking is our duty and our excellency the Interest of Self spiritual and the Interest of God are a conjunct Interest only the Interest of Self is lower and subordinate to the Interest of God When we thus seek our selves our Spiritual and Eternal good we are therein most effectually seeking God we cannot more effectually seek God than in seeking our own Salvation Those that seek Glory Honour and Immortality for themselves do therein seek the Glory and Honour of the Immortal God thereby declaring that they prize and value the Lord as their chief nay the only good He that neglecting these lower things doth seeek God as his onely happiness doth therein take the Crown off the head of all his Idols and set it where it

in Number than the Sands of the Sea Thy Thoughts that is either Gods Thoughts towards him or his Thoughts of God and these Observe 1. The gratefulness or acceptableness of such Thoughts how precious how dear are they to me It was a pleasant thing to him to think of God 2. The Multitude of his Thoughts of God how great is the Summ of them God hath many Thoughts of his Saints and Saints have many Thoughts of God 3. A special Season of his thinking of God when I awake these are my Morning Thoughts no sooner am I awake but my Heart is in Heaven and Psal 119.97 O how I love thy Law it is my Meditation all the day where see 1. The matter of his Thoughts the Law of God or those blessed matters those wonderful things contained in this Law to be thinking of the Word of God is to be thinking of God of Christ of Holiness of Heaven of the way to Heaven and the like things that are written in the Word these are the matter of his Thoughts 2. The Seasons of his Meditations and these are every Season he is constantly thus exercised all the day his Morning thoughts are his continual Thoughts 3. The Motive or Spring of his Meditations O how I love thy Law What we love we shall easily be thinking of if we love God we shall be thinking of God if we love our Souls love Holiness love the Word and wayes of God our Thoughts will be upon them Dost thou not think on God and the Law of God 'T is a sign thou lovest them not well this is the right governing our Thoughts and which will prevent the wandrings and straglings and unruliness of them the holding them thus well exercised 3. In holding our Affections and Passions to their proper Objects and within their due Bounds so as that we love only what we should love and as much and no more than we should love it to fear what we should fear and as much and no more than we should fear it to desire what we should desire and as much and no more than we should desire it to be angry with what we should be angry and no more than we should I shall instance only in these Six Passions Our Love Our Desire Our Joy Our Grief Our Fear Our Anger 1. For our Love this is then well Ordered when we love only what we should love and as much and no more than we should love it The Object of Love is good and only good nothing can be loved but that which is good or apprehended so to be and nothing ought to be loved but that which is good God is good the chief and Supream good the Fountain of all goodness infinitely good Good is the Lord Exod. 34.6 Abundant in goodness and truth Our danger here is not of over-loving but of under-loving God is to be loved with all the Heart and with all the Might there is no danger here of erring in the excess our beings are good our Souls and Bodies we are Gods Workmanship and of all Gods works 't is said Gen. 1. he saw that they were good Our well-being and prosperity and happiness is good not only the Prosperity of our Souls our prospering in Grace and Holiness our growing rich unto God but the Prosperity of our Bodies and outward man our Health and our Estates is good Joh. 3. I wish that thou maiest prosper and be in Health even as thy Soul prospereth The Creatures are good our Bread and our Cloaths and our Houses which are for the comfort of our Bodies every Creature of God is good being sanctified by the Word and Prayer 1 Tim. 4.4 The Prosperity of our Neighbours especially those of the houshold of Faith this also is a good that we should love Touching our Souls our danger is that we do not love these according to the price and worth of a Soul which is more than all the World Mat. 16. or else that we do not love them aright so as to seek their good Touching our Bodies and the Creatures that are for the Health and prosperity of our Bodies the great danger is of over-loving them of loving them more than we should and more than they are worth This is the order that should be in well-govern'd Hearts we should love the Creatures for our Bodies we should love our Bodies for our Souls we should love them all and our Neighbours good also for God and we should love love God for himself And this ought to be the Measure of our Love we should love God with all our might we should love our Souls as far forth as serves to the Honour of God we should love our Bodies our Health and bodily Prosperity as far as they are serviceable to our Souls and we should love the Creatures our Houses our Money our Estates as far forth as they may be useful to our Bodies in the Service of our Souls and to our Bodies and Souls in the Service of God and we should love our Neighbour as our selves An Heart that is set right in its love is a well governed Heart this is the orginal of the disorder that is in our lives the disorder of our love Why is it that these Bodies and our Bodily Prosperity is sought more than our Souls why do we seek Riches and Pleasure and Ease and Money more than we seek Grace and Holiness O we love the Creature too much and we love God and our Souls too little O it were well with the sinful World better than it is if they loved God and their Souls as well as they love their Bodies and Estates but Sinner for thy part thou dost not so thou sayest thou lovest God thou sayest thou lovest thy Soul thou sayest these are the gteat things thine Heart is upon no thou dost not love God as thou lovest that Carkass of thine thou doest not love God as well as thou lovest thy Money or thy Pleasures or thy Health thy very Lusts thy Carnal Sports and Merriments thy vile Companions and thy Sins thou art such a vile Brute that thou lovest these more than thou lovest God or thy Soul thou art better pleased thou art better satisfied when the Corn and the Wine increaseth when thou Prosperest in this World than with any hopes thou hast towards God for thy Soul What is the Pleasure of thine Heart When art thou most merry and best contented When is it with thee as thou wouldst have it but when thou art in Health and Prosperest in these outward things God is dishonoured and neglected by thee God is angry with thee and yet thou art well enough contented thy Soul languisheth it is a blind and ignorant Soul it is a sinful and guilty Soul it is a stupid and hardned Soul it is a perishing and dying Soul thy Soul is in the hands of the Devil thy Soul is a dead Soul even dropping into Hell and yet for all this thou sittest there at

have little of your Hearts of so great consequence is the bounding and abating of your Worldly desires that if ever you would love or desire or seeek God more than you do you must strike Sail and drive on more moderately and more mortifiedly towards the World Love this World less and you will desire it less desire it less and you will seek it less seek the World less and you are like to be in good earnest Seekers of God Quench your thirst Friends quench your thirst after these stollen Waters drink deep Draughts of the Water of Life and you will no longer thirst so after these puddle Waters Joh. 4.14 Whosoever drinketh of the Water that I shall give him shall never thirst that is after these Carnal Things You who have such thirsty Souls after the Waters of your own Cisterns 't is a sign that you are little at the Fountain of Living Waters Thou hast not drank of the Rock of the Wilderness who so lustest after the Rivers of Egypt Christians dwell more at the Spring-head drink of the Fountain let out your desires more after God Taste more of the sweetness of Christ let down your Pitchers into the Wells of Salvation fetch in more of that Living-Water lye more at the Breasts desire more the sincere Milk of the Word and suck in that Milk Drink more of the Wine that is prepared in the Kingdom of God my meaning is live more with God feed upon Christ delight your selves more in God solace and satisfie your selves more in Communion with God acquaint your selves more inwardly and experimentally with the sweetness of Religion and this will be the best way to quench your thirst and abate your desires after these Carnal Things Desire them still you may and you will as far forth as they are good for you and as far as your Heavenly Father sees them needful for you but there will be an end of your greedy and ravenous and insatiable desires if you desire God as much as you should you will desire the World no more than you should 3. Crush your desires after the evil and hurtful things below so as not to desire them at all The Pleasures of Sin and the Pomps and Pride of this Life and the Gains of Unrighteousness desire them not at all These can never be good for you and therefore are not to be desired It cannot be good to grow Rich by Fraud or Oppression they are cursed Gains that come in that way the Pompous Pride of the World and the sinful Sports and Pleasures of the World these are the Bane and Poyson of Souls a Cup of Poyson is not more Mortal to the Body than these Cups of Fornication or sinful Pleasures are to the Soul and therefore desires after these must not be limited or moderated but be crushed and crucified I told you before of two Instruments of Government a Spur and a Curb and the needfulness and use of these in the Government of your Desires you have seen in the two former Directions the need of a Spur to quicken our desires after God and his Grace of a Curb to restrain and limit our Desires after the good things of the World and now I shall tell you of a Third Instrument of Government and that is a Cross or a Gibbet to Execute and Crucifie our Desires after the Evils of the World what Government can be without Laws And what are Laws without Penalties And what are Penalties if there be no Execution There must be Gallows and Gibbets set up to cut off Malefactors or there 's like to be but poor Government The desires after these Evil things of the World are Malefactors that must be cut off and Crucified Gal. 6.14 I am Crucified to the World by the Cross of Christ that is my sinful Love of the World my lusting after the World those three Worldly Lusts in special the Lusts of the Flesh the Lusts of the Eye and the Pride of Life these are all Crucified by the Cross of Christ Moderate your Desires after these good things of the World but kill your desires after these Evil things Dost thou desire the sinful Pleasures of the World Art thou for a wanton or voluptuous Life Dost thou desire the Gain of Unrighteousness that comes in by Fraud or Oppression by shortning or detaining the Hire of thy poor Labourers Art thou for growing Rich by straitening or starving or ruining thy poor Workmen Dost thou affect a Proud or a Pompous Life O Kill and Crucifie all such Desires Nail them to the Cross hang up these Malefactors let there not be a Lust left in thee after these wickednesses but bring it forth to Execution let there be no such Desires found alive in your Hearts Leave it to the Epicures and Fornicators of the World to be Sons of Pleasure leave it to the Horse-leaches of the Earth to be Blood-Suckers to thirst after such Gain as is wrung out of the Bowels of the Poor leave it to the Butterflies and Wantons of the World to affect Mimical and Pompous Gaudry let Christians know no such Desires much less allow them and foster them where they feel them working and rising And as I hinted to you but now know that the two last Directions Curb and Crush will be easiest to be Observed if the first quicken Desires after God and Grace be diligently prosecuted And therefore here I in special exhort you to give all diligence enlarge and whet your Appetites after God and the things above Remember what I told you but now acquaint your selves with God live more in the Contemplation of God live more in Communion with God get you into the inside of Religion keep you close by God keep you near to Christ let your desire be to your Father let your desire be to your Husband be able to say with the Church Isa 26.8 9. The desire of my Soul is to thy Name and to the remembrance of thee with my Soul have I desired thee in the Night yea with my Spirit within me will I seek thee early desire the Lord till you can delight in the Lord delight your selves in the Lord and then you will despise those desires of small things that take up the Hearts of Worldlings Shall I forsake my Fatness saith the Olive-Tree Shall I forsake my sweetness saith the Fig-Tree and become King over the Trees Judges 9.9 11. Shall I forsake the Fatness of the Olive the sweetness of the Fig-Tree and feed my Soul on these Brambles and wild Vines which are the Lusts of Foolish Worldlings He that hath drank Old Wine will not desire the New for he saith the Old is better God hath better things for you to desire better Wine better Pleasures better Inheritances for you O live so with God live so upon Christ that you may get you a Taste of his better Wine a Taste of his sweeter Pleasures a Taste of the Fatness of Heaven and then you will the more despise