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A48758	Pneumat-apologia. Or, An apology for the power & liberty of the Spirit as at first to give a being to, so still to give a blessing by his ordinances. In three sermons preacht at Great Budworth, to some persons of honour, and several of the clergy then present to communicate in reference to the late act. By James Livesey, A.M. & vicar of Budworth.	Livesey, James, 1625-1682.	1674 (1674)	Wing L2595; ESTC R213711	65,921	192

ever thus I may in no wise maintain He is a great King and Soveraignty would and should be waited on It is good for a man to attend and wait on God in all his appointments Increase of grace strength and power against sin assurance of his love come too soon to that man who thinks Gods time of sending them is too long or late I will shut up this Discourse with that memorable passage of the Prophet Isaiah ch 30.18 Therefore will the Lord wait that he may be gracious unto you and therefore will he be exalted that he may have mercy upon you for the Lord is a God of Judgment Blessed are all they that wait for him And that of Habakkuk The vision is yet for an appointed time but at the end it shall speak and not lie though it tarry wait for it because it will surely came it will not tarry So say I the Sacrament is for an appointed time but in due time the Spirit of the Lord will speak peace though he tarry wait for him because he will surely come and give in more life and light and grace and peace yea joy without measure and joy without mixture Now to God the Father c. The End of the second Sermon The Third SERMON On Micah 2.7 Is the Spirit of the Lord straitned July the 27th 1673 Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly T was excellent Counsel which an eminent German Divine once hinted to a young Preacher Luther Cum vides populum attentissime andientem conclude eo alacriores redibunt When you observe the people hearing most attentively conclude your discourse quickly and they will return with more alacrity This numerous Assembly gives in evidence enough thereof The Logical resolution of these words you heard before and the observations thence deduced The Propositions under debate cleared and several Queries resolved we are now upon the Sixth 'T is this Q. 6. What course shall a Christian take that he may have the Spirit of the Lord to do him good by this Ordinance of the Supper The Directions are many we have dispatcht four and now proceed to the fifth in order which is this Fifthly Be thankful to God for what good you have any time got by this precious Ordinance For Gratiarum actio est ad plus dandum invitatio He who can cordially praise him for a little life and strength and grace and peace shall soon have more than a little to thank him for the most expeditious way to get what at any time we want is to be grateful for that we already have others have only the shell you have had the kernel they nothing but bones and you the marrow Have you had any quicknings any refreshings from the Spirit of the Lord at this Table then say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bless the Lord O my Soul A Sacrament in its full extent compriseth two things A visible and an invisible part the Schools call that Sacramentum this rem Sacramenti Excuse this short digression pray upon this occasion If they of the Romish Church will stand their ground and be true to their own Principles it will appear to every vulgar capacity that they have none of this Sacrament amongst ' em For before they take and eat the visible part is gone both being converted into the Body and Blood of Christ for thus their Council or rather their Conspiracy at Trent or if you will that transcendent thing call'd Pope defines Transubstantiation 'T is a change of the whole substance of the Bread into the whole substance of the Body of Christ and of the Wine into his Blood Sess 13. Can. 2 and this change is wrought ere any take or eat This is a novel opinion a new Article of the Romish Creed of the same date with Pius the fourth without any basis or foundation in the Holy Scripture Vide Alanum de Euch. lib. 1 cap. 34. pag. 419. See that unanswerable piece of Bishop Morton in 8. Books against the Romish Mass as their own Scotus and Cameracensis and Cajetan confess Nay Bellarmine himself says Non tam ex Evangelio quam ex Ecclesiae authoritate constat But to return When this change is made where is that outward and visible part which their School-Divines call Sacramentum But have my Beloved by a lively faith fed on and been strengthned by this Heavenly Manna then take heed of unthankfulness 2. Chron. 32.25 O remember that But But Hezekiah remembred not to render unto the Lord according to the benefit done unto him O what a blot was that But in that good Kings scutcheon When you come next to the Lords Table bring Harps in your hands they are emblems of praise Heb. 5.8 The Spirit of the Lord will not I had almost said he cannot but do you good if humble and thankful for what good he hath done you already Sixthly Grieve not the Spirit of the Lord if you would have him to do you good by this Ordinance He is a delicate person if you grieve him he may nay will grieve you Has he begun in love to melt and mollifie your flinty hearts to increase your graces to speak peace unto your Souls if you now distaste him he may withdraw and leave the work at a sad and long stand you may hear no more of him of many days nay months or years Grieve not the holy Spirit of God why Paul gives his Ephesian Converts a cogent reason why they should not Ephes 4.30 thereby ye are sea led to the day of redemption if you do you may be the first will rue it you shall be without the witnessings and sealings of the Spirit for a longer time than you are aware of But how or when is the Spirit of the Lord grieved I answer briefly When his Ordinances are not attended his commands are not obeyed his comforts are not prized his graces are not acted and improved his assistance in duties is not desired his motions are not regarded In a word if you will not have the Spirit for your Counsellor you cannot expect him long to be your Comforter lay not a bar in his way and he still will do you good by this holy Ordinance Seventhly Heighten your hopes and expectations when you are about this Ordinance if you would have the Spirit of the Lord to do you good by it There is much good laid up for you come on then Sirs and quicken your hopes great expectations from God greatly honour the greatness of God and wonderfully advantage you 'T is as displeasing to him and as prejudicial to you when you believe little as when you do little Open your mouths and hearts wide you have not only Gods power for it but his promise too to fill you One reason why you receive so little good at it is because you look for so little good by it when your faith is very weak and your expectations are very low you do

us if so you will of God if so you dare of his Decrees Ordinances this or that but assure your selves he can as soon cease to be God as cease to be good or just he will lay the fault where you will not like it whence you shall never be able to remove it even at your own doors Therefore be advised 1. Cherish not any longer such undervaluing thoughts of this mysterious holy and precious Ordinance Judg not rashly nor falsly of the things of God I am speaking for God and for his Institutions and though it be an easie matter to slight me your Minister yet I fear it will be no easie province to answer your Maker for the contempt you do to his sacred Ordinances 2. Break off your Sins by repentance and that speedily though a late repentance may be a true repentance yet you will find that a late repentance will prove an hard repentance a disease the longer it grows upon a man the harder it is to be cured Be quick in this duty lest God be quick in judgment Rev. 2.3 Repent or else I will come unto thee quickly Mark that quickly Lament and weep over your Souls for the loss of all that good you might ere this day have got by this Ordinance Now get your persons clothed with his Righteousness your natures cleansed by his Spirit your sins pardoned in his blood and doubt not if then you come but the Spirit of the Lord will do you good by this Ordinance The good Lord follow this work of Conviction with a work of Conversion And make this word effectual to confirm the doubtful to quicken the slotful to encourage the fearful Go to God though you cannot go in Faith yet go for Faith though you cannot yet he can reform your lifes and put you into a right frame for communion with him in this Ordinance We are now arrived at the last Enquiry Q. 8. What soul-reviving comforts doth this truth afford to the people of God who care take and conscience make of walking uprightly Resp I will not presume too far upon your patience and therefore shall not launch out into this vast Ocean take an account of them in these ten particulars and these ten rather in Figures than in words at length Is the spirit of the Lord at liberty and has he a sufficiency of power to enlighten and strengthen and comfort and to do you good by this Sacrament Here is comfort for you in ten cases or respects 1. As to the weakness of these Sacramental Elements alas what is a little morsel of bread or a sip of Wine and a few words spoken over them no Transubstantiating words we abhor all thoughts of that Doctrine which is so contrary to our Senses to Reason to the Scriptures to the comfort of the Saints to the honour of Christs glorious Body all which is abundantly evinced by our Divines True it is indeed they are poor and weak things in themselves but you must remember they are of divine Institution this is an Ordinance of the great God who hath own'd it and can and will bless it Though these outward Elements be weak yet the Spirit of the Lord is strong he delights to do great things by weak means What is the word if abstractly considered but a dead letter yet 't is the power of God unto Salvation to them that believe 't is mighty through God it transforms the heart reforms the life by it the dead in sin are quickened sinners are turned from darkness unto light and this is a greater work to turn the Soul from a state of Sin to Grace than from Grace to Glory By it Lepers are cleansed afflicted Consciences comforted c. What is a little water in Baptism to a tender Infant 't is in it self but a mean thing but water-baptism is of divine sanction and institution Joh. 1.33 He that sent me to Baptize with water and Infant-Baptism is so too Mat. 28.19 Go disciple ye all Nations Posito toto generali pars ejus negari non debet How Baptizing them c. and the Spirit of the Lord can do us good by it yea our tender Infants too even in their Minority much more when they arrive at years of Discretion He can and hath made his Elect who were baptized at ten days as careful to repent to believe and obey the Gospel as those ever were who were twenty years of age ere they were dipped Say men what they will of it or against it that it is a sign or shadow this or that if God set us a shadow a brazen Serpent it shall not be in vain to look up unto it Do not less prize or use the institution being well assur'd of the Lords Benediction I told you but even now That the meanness of the Element adds more to the honour and wonder of the Sacrament And that it derives its being and value from its Author I refer you for more of this to St. Ambrose his fourth Book de Sacr. chap. 4. Tom. 4. pag. 173. And to Bishop Reynolds his Meditations on the Holy Sacraments chap. 4. 2ly Here is comfort for you in case of bitter taunts and Satyrical or Sarcastical speeches which you may meet with from ignorant sensual and secure Sinners because of your constant and conscientious attendance upon God in this Sacred Ordinance Nazianzen said long since 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In all Ages the most serious holy men are represented as the most vicious wicked men have no favour from God and good men shall have no favour from them whilst they have virulent Tongues or violent hands If the Son of God was crown'd with thorns let not the Saints of God expect a crown of Roses As the Lilly amongst the Thorns as the lamb amongst the Wolves so is the Spouse amongst the Daughters They will do by you as Stunica did by Erasmus observe and review all your works and pick and cull out only what they conceive is worst but those perhaps as did his may prove your greatest truths and vertues However solace your selves in this The Spirit of the Lord is doing you good and never the less for their saying or doing you evil what though you hear ill whilst you fare well their reproaches shall hurt you no more than the Dog does the Moon which he cannot bite though he bark all night at it Apol. pro Christianis Antonin Virtus nihil est imminuta propter existimationem vulgi Nobis temerariae quorundam calumniae sanctioris vitae institutum non obscurant nec per eas gloriae nostrae coram Deo aliquid decedit as Athenagoras told Antoninus and Commodus in his Apology for the Christians a Diamond sparkles never the less nor is it any whit the less precious because an ignorant or a blind man disparageth it 't is so in this case their reproachings tend to your greater glory they will wish but perhaps when 't is too late they had been fitted