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A03695	Life and death Foure sermons. The first two, of our preparation to death; and expectation of death. The last two, of place, and the iudgement after death. Also points of instruction for the ignorant, with an examination before our comming to the Lords table, and a short direction for spending of time well. By Robert Horne. Auspice Christo.	Horne, Robert, 1565-1640.; Horne, Robert, 1565-1640. Points of instruction for the ignorant. aut	1613 (1613)	STC 13822.5; ESTC S118515	156,767	464

daies long continue wherein charity is waxen so cold and faith so scant In men there is not the mercy that hath beene No man almost will speake in a good cause without a fee and without a gift in the hand there is no hearing for it Sinne ranckleth in the bosome and ratleth in the bones of the inueterate adulterer The aged drunkard pleadeth vnto and prescribeth for his sinne wrong sentence is good iudgement in some earthly courts And men hold their peace of these things but will God doe so will not he speake will he keepe silence for euer will he not by the writ of his last great sessions remoue all these matters to his owne court of audience shortly Let vs not therefore too much presume or thinke that God is like vs because he holdeth his tongue while we doe such things for he will reproue vs and set them in order before vs. Ps 50.21 But must a iudgement bee Vse 3 Let vs then while we are here vse all good meanes for abating the edge and seueritie of this iudgement toward our selues And that we may not enter vpon the sharpe of it it shall bee good to practise that lesson of the Apostle where hee telleth vs that if wee would iudge our selues we should not be iudged 1. Cor. 11.31 As if he should haue said if we would examine our selues of our sinnes confesse them before God the Iudge giue sentence against them or as a iudge vpon the bench condemn them and our selues for them wee should not come into condemnation Or if we would iudge our selues God would not iudge vs and if wee would condemne our selues God would deliuer vs. For wee shall not receiue a double iudgement nor double sentence from him that iudgeth righteously When Dauid iudged himselfe God forgaue him 2. Sa. 12.13 When Iob confessed against himselfe God accepted him Iob. 42.6.8 and when the lost sonne came vnto himselfe the father presently receiued him Luk. 15.17.18.19 20. So shall it be with vs in the day of Christ if we will accordingly humble our selues in our day With earthly Iudges the more is confessed by a malefactor the worse it may be for him but so is it not with Christ the Iudge For the more wee aggrauate our faults the more will he lessen them the more wee lay vpon them the more will hee take from them the more wee mislike them the lesse will hee iudge them Let vs learne then to auoide the common fashion and errour of the world in lessening hiding excusing and iustifying of our faults because wee would not bee shamed nor condemned here For here we must be ashamed if hereafter wee would not take shame and here we must be condemned if hereafter we would not bee condemned of the Lord. And better now suffer a little that is in this life then after it suffer with sinners in torments and woe endlesse So much for the certaintie of the iudgement it followeth to shew with how great a traine and solemnitie it shall be performed With thousands of Saints c. Or with his holy thousands These thousands of Christ are the royall hoast of his Angels and the glorious company of his Saints all which shall attend their Lord vnto iudgement The meaning is that Christ shall bee brought with great glorie and attendance to the throne of his last Sessions The doctrine is Doctr. The second comming of Christ shall be manifest and will bee glorious Daniel the Prophet hath a singular place for this purpose where speaking of God the Father Christ his Sonne and of their state and magnificence which was that they sate in thrones shining bright like the flame of a fornace and therefore called thrones of fire the wheeles of which were as burning fire Dan. 7.9 He saith that the ancient of daies meaning Christ who is the same and his yeares shall not faile Heb. 1.12 sate on his throne where thousand thousands ministred vnto him and ten thousand thousands stood before him or attended vpon him ver 10. al which is spoken to shew with what a Court of attendance and traine of glorie Christ shall as it were bee brought to the hall and iudgement place at the last great day And further to make manifest so solemne a Session it is added that the bookes shall be opened meaning chiefely by these bookes as Saint Iohn doth Apoc. 20.12 the booke of Life which is the booke of the law written and the booke of conscience in euery mans heart The booke of the law sheweth what we should haue done and the booke of conscience what we haue done And against these there is no exception For the booke of the law is a booke of commandements that are all holy and righteous Psal 19.9 And the booke of conscience a booke of euidence that cannot lie He that is iudged by it is iudged by a booke that was euer in his owne keeping and is written with his own hand and how can that bee falsified For God will iudge no man by another mans conscience but by his own So manifest and glorious shall Christs comming be Saint Paul speaking of this second comming of Christ sheweth that it shall be manifest For hee saith it shall be with a shout 1. Thes 4.16 Meaning by it aloud and vehement crie such as Mariners nake who doing some businesse in the ship make a very strong and common shout And this is further shewed by that which followeth of the trumpet the shrillest and lowedest of all musicall instruments The Euangelists speaking of the same comming of Christ vnto iudgement say it shall bee glorious There words are The Sonne of Man shall come in his glorie and all the holy Angels with him Mat. 25.31 Mar. 8.38 Mat. 16 27. Or the Sonne of Man shall come in a cloud with power great glorie Luk. 21.27 Their meaning is that as at the setting forth of his Gospell all the hoast of heauen did assist him so comming to reuenge and visit for the contempt of that same Gospell all his Saints Angels and seruants shall attend vpon him As therfore earthly Iudges are brought with great pompe and terrour to the hall or place of sitting the Sheriffe the Iustices and many other gentlemen attending them to the court and the halbards going before So here the sonne of God the great Iudge is said to come with his holy thousands whose Sheriffe is powers principalities thrones and dominions whose followers are the Patriarkes and Prophets with the twelue Apostles and with Disciples innumerable whose guard are the Angels and not a few bil-men whose troupes are the blessed Martyrs the fourtie and foure thousand who haue his fathers name written in their forheads Apoc. 14.1 Whose throne is of fire and seate of burning Iasper whose garments are not of scarlet but of vengeance whose head is like wooll and feete like vnto sine brasse and voice as the sound of many waters Apoc. 1.13.14 15. Thus shall his comming be manifest and thus

haue appeared to the world and are manifest to vs why should wee arraigne the Lord of any slacknesse or make question of the day that is so farre spent alreadie in the signes that wee haue spoken off But these matters are further opened in the Sermons that follow to which I humbly pray you and the Christian Reader in you to haue duerespect Not for want of better treatises in this kind for there are many after some of which I haue gleaned with poore Ruth in this small worke as after the men whose hands were full Ruth 2.15 but because they containe nothing in perswading to the power of godlinesse but what is written and what the word which is written doth teach for instruction to a godly life Accept therefore I pray you what is here offered by you vnto many and take in good part my endeuour therein So with many vnfained praiers for your true and full welfare which I vnfainedlie wish to you your yoke-fellow and all yours in the world and in the Lord I rest Your worships poore Nephew humbly at commandement for all christian duties ROBERT HORNE THE FIRST SERMON ECCLES chap. 12. vers 1. Remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth before the euill dayes come and yeares approach wherein thou shalt say I haue no pleasure in them THis Booke of Ecclesiastes was written by Salomon after hee was fallen from the good way of vertue to the high way of sinne and prophanenesse forgetting his God and forsaken of Wisedom whereof hee had great gifts when he was young and when hee followed the wisedome which is of God And he calleth it the Booke of the Preacher as if he should haue called it the Booke of his Retractations His end of writing it was That it might remaine in the Librarie of the holie Ghost as a testimonie vnder his owne hand of his turning from God by errour of life and of his returning to him by repentance where hee sheweth hauing seene all things in his wisedome that men can neuer bee happie in or for these things wherein the men of the earth repose chiefe happinesse And this hee teacheth by his owne deere-bought experience for hauing tried all things as mirth and wiues buildings and beautie and riches and honour and the like he confesseth that as a Horse in a mill after he had gone in his long circuit or blind maze of twentie yeares prouing conclusions and trying nouelties hee found himselfe to be where he was at first and further from God and goodnesse at the end of his wearie course than at the beginning wherein he had proceeded to destruction if God by his mercifull arrest had not stayed him Therefore returning into the fauour of God and wearied with the errours of his foolish way he concludeth in this Book that all is vanitie vnder the Sun More specially in this Chapter hauing in the former disswaded his young man from that follie that had almost vndone him and raigneth in young yeares wishing him not onely to flee the concupiscences of youth and all habit of mind in them but to giue no way to his corruptsenses lest they proue baits to catch him and hookes to choke him being taken with present destruction and certaine death he here sheweth him the meane by which this young man and all men may escape so great daunger and that is a carefull walking in the sight of God and obedience to God in the sight of men furthered by remembrance For as the forgetfulnesse of God is a great attractiue to sinne so they sinne not so commonly nor greedily that remember their Maker So much in general for the occasion and author of this worthie Booke and subiect of this Chapter So I come to the words now read And they containe an exhortation and the reasons by which it is amplified The exhortation is to remember wherein two things may be considered the person to bee remembred and the time of remembring him The reasons are likewise two the first is taken from the impediments that old age giueth to Gods seruice the other from the incommodities of mans last sickenesse The exhortation standeth thus If thou wilt constantly doe the works of holinesse to God neuer let it slip out of the meditation of thy heart that God doth require of thee by right of creation that thou godlily serue Him all the daies of thy life And the doctrine from hence is Doctr. 1 The remembrance of God that is the hauing of Him alway before vs in His infinite holines wisdome goodnes power truth is a speciall meane for religion and His true feare in our waies Thus Dauid reasoned I haue set the Lord alwaies before me that is God was euer in my mind to serue Him and feare Him therefore I shall not slide that is God hath set my feet vpon a rocke and in the slipperie waies of such as forget God I shall not be moued He considereth that at all times and in all places God was present with Him both as a Lord to surnay His waies left he should slip grosely and as a Father to comfort Him when He slipt of infirmitie therefore Hee kept his heart in continuall awe preparing it for the Lords presence The Lord all sufficient requireth of Abraham that He would walke before Him Gen. 17.1 that is that He would make Him the Arbiter of His thoughts the Interpreter of His words the Lord of His waies and commit all His doings to Him and then will Abraham without all question make the Lord His feare and doe all His workes in His name In Micah this is the Question wherewith shall I come before the Lord and bowe my selfe before the high God Mic. 6.6 that is how shall I please God in my waies and rest on His will and the answere is made by Micah or rather the Lord by Him Hee hath shewed thee O man what is good and that is to humble thy selfe to walke with thy God verse 8 the meaning is that thou shouldst alway set Him in thy sight beleeuing that He doth guide and gouerne thee And surely when wee behold the Lord in His promises of reconciliation that He is at peace with vs of sanctification that He will renew vs and of prouidence and safetie that for our good He will watch ouer vs being at our right hand by His Angels and at our left by His creatures we cannot chuse but reuerence and loue Him at least feare to sinne against Him because of His infinite goodnes and power In the 116. Psalm the Prophet Dauid after some notable cause of thankfulnes for His deliuerance from death so neere by Sauls pursuit because He would remember by obedience what God did for Him in that wofull houre doth promise to walke before the Lord that is diligently to attend do His cōmandemēts in the Land of the Liuing that is alwaies on Earth specially in His temple It is euident therefore that this hauing of God in our sight

Scripture speaketh of such an one crucified at the right hand of the Sonne of God who crauing with faith mercy to saluation receiued this answer To day shalt thou be with me in Paradise But it speaketh but of one that was so saued And it speaketh of another in that very place and at that very time that was damned And here a Father saith Wee reade of one that no man should despaire and but of one that no man should presume This example therefore is a medicine against desperation no cloake for sinne Let vs therefore passe the time of our dwelling here in feare seeing wee are redeemed from our vaine conuersation not with corruptible things as with gold and siluer but with the precious bloud of Christ as of a Lambe vndefiled and without spot 1. Pet. 1.17 To whom with the Father and Holy-ghost be all glory for euer Amen The end of the first Sermon THE SECOND SERMON IOB Chap. 14. Vers 14. All the daies of my appointed time I would waite till my change were come THese words were spoken by Iob of whose patience and prouocations to impatiencie this whole booke and the testimonie of Saint Iames are liuely proofes Iam. 5.11 In the thirteene verse of this chapter Iob hauing as it seemed to him beheld Gods anger in the chastisements that his soule felt wherein as hee said the Lord wrote bitter things against him desiring to bee hid in some secret place of the earth till the Lords face were changed toward him and till hee might see those frownes to goe out of his countenance that had cast such knots vpon his soule In this verse he professeth that if he could perperswade himselfe of any hope yet behinde God shewing himselfe to be an enemie and setting him vp as a marke for all his arrowes he would wait for it euen till death And this I take to bee the occasion of these words of Iob in this Scripture Where it may be thought a strange thing that a man commended for such patience should so distemperately plead the cause of his affliction with God But no man meerely man and clothed with the garment of mortalitie could euer so wait vpon God as not to be led aside from his attendance for a season when he saw the Lord to fasten in him his sharpe arrowes and to let him vp as a Butt to shoote at And in this respect it is that this glorious patterne of patience could not beare his griefe in a minde so battered with sorrowes For the bodie of sinne which in our weakest times and estate thrusteth into the motions of our minde diuers carnall distrusts and fleshly feares will neuer cease to molest keep vs downe so long as we liue here and a wounded spirit who can beare Pro. 18.14 Neuerthelesse Iob stil waited on God for a good end in these matters and lost not his hope as appeareth by the last chapter of this booke where hee receaueth the crowne of his patience and is exceedingly blessed in his person and children And therefore though in the storme he spake with some distemper yet his meaning was that he did and would wait for Gods help and deliuerance though it should bee deferred till hee must put off this tabernacle and change mortalitie for immortall Where let vs consider the attendance spoken of and the terme or continuance The terme is expressed by the mid-times or extremitie of naturall life The mid times are called largely daies and with limitation the appointed daies The extreame point of this is called a change The attendance is in respect of the season wherein hee attended or of the attendance it selfe The attendance was in a time of trouble and much anguish which he quietly endured Doctr. Which doth teach vs in euery hard estate patiently to beare what commeth relying on God and waiting for his word The Prophet was in great miserie who praying to God said My soule fainteth for thy saluation Psal 119.81 His affliction was great and through the infirmitie of the flesh he fainted yet he waited on Gods promise for deliuerance and beleeued his word by which he was deliuered Dauid opened not his mouth in great troubles to any impatience because God had sent them Ps 39.9 The same Prophet Psal 37.5.7 exhorteth others to a like silence and yeelding in trouble because God hath done it and therefore saith Commit thy way to God and trust in him And againe Wayt patiently on the Lord and hope in him His meaning is reason not in your affliction with God but in patience possesse them vnder his mighty hand seeing you haue sinned against him then shall you see your hope and God will surely bring your soule out of aduersitie Also the speech of Moses to the Israelites at the red sea and when they had the sea before them the Egyptians their enemies behind them and steepe mountaines and high hils on euery hand side of them was Stand still and you shall see the saluation of God Exod. 14.13 As if he had said Go not backe by despaire nor forward by presumption and though you see nothing but death in men and destruction in creatures you shall see life in God and the saluation of God for life to euery one of you in your present helpe and deliuerance if you faint not The reasons further prouing this doctrine are first we haue deserued the paines of Hell by our sinnes much more the sharpest paine temporall Now if God inflict a light chastisement and we deserue the chaines of hell if he punish for a short time we deserue for euer to be afflicted haue we cause to complaine though the arrowes of the Almighty sticke in our flesh and his hand lie heauy vpon vs Psal 38.1.2 c. Secondly it is the Lord and we must patiently attend his worke He doth not deuise and leaue the execution to another but whatsoeuer is done he doth it himselfe in the point of correction and sense of paine his head and hand goe together Act. 4.28.2 Sam. 16.10 Thirdly we must be followers of Christ in affection to Gods will Now Christ seeing his father had so appointed desirously entred into his bath and passions for our sakes yea thought the time long and was greeued till he fell into his last agonie and cold sweat in the which he was couered after a sort with clodded blood that ran abundantly from his face downe to the ground Luc. 12.50 22.44 and shall a little so trouble vs who as the theefe said to his fellow receaue things worthie of that we haue done where Christ suffered innocently and so much for vs Luc. 23 41. or shall we see the sonne of God all in goare blood and all in a sweat though no man touched him though no man came neere him and in a cold night when he lay out in the open aire and vpon the cold earth to sweat so plentifully not a thin faint sweat but a sweat of great droppes and those

him but deale kindly with him nor run from him but towards him to bid him welcome not to bid him be gone Luc. 15.11 c. His very miserie was sufficient matter to worke vpon his fathers heart would not this ouercome a man the Lord is kinder to vs and how can we setting him before vs in so great loue but breake of the course of sinne and with a yeeding heart returne to our father Fourthly we must set the Lord before vs in his prouidence not onely generall to all but particular to vs which being well considered must needs doe something with vs for a better course For who will not seeke to please him or her vpon whom he must rely for al the turnes of life Seeing then wee depend on God for all things and that our life is at his only pleasure who breath in the aire of his mercies how can we thinke of this and thinke indeed and earnestly thereof and not striue to obey him in his word of whose prouidence we moue and haue beeing Acts 17.28 Fiftly and lastly for it were infinite to speake of all we must set the Lord before vs in Christ in whom he so loued vs not then friends but enemies Ro. 5.8.10 that he gaue his Son to death for vs Ioh. 3.10 Now what enemie will not bee reconciled and dearely loue him who shall but offer to die for him Christ died and made not an offer onely to die for vs and is not this sufficient beeing well and deepely thought of to reconcile vs to God by submission to Christ by spirituall life By all this wee may easily iudge why God is so little regarded among vs. Vse For we set him seldome before vs and as seldom we appeare before him rather we say Depart from vs wee desire not the knowledge of thy waies Iob. 21.14 So did Dauids enemies of whom hee maketh complaint in diuers Psalmes For he saith they sought not God and which made them more securely to doe euill they thought there was no God And after he giueth this for a reason of their so desperate and bold madnesse The iudgements of God were high aboue their sight that is they set them so farre off that they neuer looked after them nor did remember them Ps 10.4.5 Further speaking of strangers that rose vp against him and of tyrants that sought his life that which made them so cruell as he saith was they set not God before them Ps 54.3 86.14 God was not in their thoughts nor the feare of God before their eies therefore they kept no measure in sinning Let vs for our selues remember this who haue the Lord set before vs in the preaching of the Gospell euerie sabbath day Let vs remember him in his Sonne and not forget him in his iudgements specially in his last iudgement The end of our daies and the beginning of that draweth on the Sun is long since past the meredian line and death we know will not be answered with an I pray thee haue mee excused Luc. 14.19 Let vs not therefore put off till the flood come not of waters but of insufferable fire or till the Lord come with deuouring fire and with his tempest of the last iudgement to kindle it Let vs rather frame that course for our selues now that hereafter may proue in our dying houre or at this worlds last houre an arke for our bodies and a tabernacle for our soules If we would set the word before vs or God in it we should see our dangerous waies and by so cleare a light better direct our steppes Ps 119.105 If we would well remember Gods prouidence ouer vs and care for vs we should not doe as we haue done we would beare euils more patiently and doe euill more vnwillingly seeing whatsoeuer commeth to vs commeth by his appointment and whatsoeuer euill is done against him by vs is done against his bounties and loue And if we would set him before vs in Christ how could we sinne against the sacrifice of such a Redeemer or if we wold set Christ before vs in that day wherein this world that must be destroied shall crackle about our cares being all on fire and the large Ierusalem of the earth be brought downe by him who will send forth his voice and that a mighty voice Ps 50.3.4 how little would we regard the short and deare-prized pleasures of this our momentany and fading life But because God is so farre out of our sight and so late in our hearts therefore doe offenders so multiplie among vs and sinne so abound that the regions begin to grow white and we cannot but thinke that the Angell will shortly thrust in his sicle Men are at no paines and bestow no care in Gods seruice Men are mercilesse without naturall affection false accusers and despisers of them which are good 2. Tim. 3.3 Men want faith and some goe cleane against it both in word and in bookes written Sin is full ripe now which in our fathers daies was but greene in the eare and iniquitie that then stroue with righteousnesse hath now gotten the vpper hand what doe all these shew but that God is forgotten and that the fearefull God is cast behind vs in this age of so great liberty and fulnes of sinne The Lord giue vs the due consideration of these things pardon our great sinnes for his owne great names sake to whom be praise and glory for euer The end of the third sermon THE FOVRTH SERMON IVDES Epistle verses 14.15 Vers 14 Behold the Lord commeth with thousands of Saints Vers 15. Togiue iudgment vpon all men and to rebuke all the vngodly among them of all their wicked deeds which they haue vngodlily committed and of all their cruell speakings which wicked sinners haue spoken against him THis prophecy was ancient for he to whom this testimonie is ascribed was the seuenth from ADAM And it is like it either passed as Enocks from hand to hand by tradition or was found in the daies of the Apostles extant in some booke bearing Enochs name For the Iewes had some vnwritten truths which were profitable and good for instruction and yet were not made articles or rules of faith to saluation This prophecie of Enochs and testimonie of Iudes might bee one yet was it as common water till it passed through the sanctuarie Ezech. 47.1 Till the Apostle Iude or the holy Ghost by him set it down in scripture it was to be receiued but as other truths which are to haue their allowance from the booke of faith But now that the Lord hath brought it into his treasurie among the other golden plates which beare for letters of credence the stampe of his Spirit wee must take it for his owne coine and sacred metall distinguishing it from baser metall that hath receiued but common impression and is marked with the finger of man That which the Apostle would proue by this testimoni● is that those seducers of Gods people of whom he had spoken

helper Let vs reuerence the godly and honour the Lord and we shall stand inuincible in all oppositions or as mount Sion that cannot bee remoued but remaineth for euer Psal 125 1. Our death shall bee comfortable and our iudgement without rebuke wee shall benefit Christs church haue praise of God to whom Father Sonne and holy Ghost three persons and one immortall and onely wise God be rendred all glorie power and thanksgiuing now and euer Amen All glorie to God FINIS POINTS of instuction for the ignorant With An examination before our comming to the LORDS TABLE And A short direction for spending of time well LONDON Printed by William Hall for Francis Burton and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Church-yeard at the signe of the Greene Dragon 1613. TO THE Christian Reader the sauing knowledge of that truth which is according to godlinesse Tit. 1.1 * ⁎ * CHristian Reader this short Catechisme thus gathered and set downe for the helpe of the ignorant cannot bee called new but renewed for their sakes For I may say in thi● case as Salomon in his Ecclesiastes said in a like case What is that that hath beene that that shall be Eccles 1.9 And what is that that hath beene done that that shall be done and there is no new thing vnder the Sunne The portion of meate which is heere offered to the tasle of the simple is no other then that which he hath already tasted of if he haue tasted any thing of the things of God and it is but the substance of other Catechismes set before him in another kinde of seruice that is with some difference of Cookery and dressing which considering our too great distaste with one kinde of meate though neuer so wholsome if wee be continuallie fedde withit without diuersitie may not be without some good vse at least for some short time For the affections of men stand no lesse diuersly affected towards the variety of Gods gifts in deliuering one and the same matter then doth the stomacke towards the dressing of one and the same kinde of meate in a diuers maner by some alteration of forme and manner of doing it And yet it is no part of my meaning to hold vp the market of nouelty by any schey-seruice as tendeth rather to tikle the eare then to satisfie the sounder iudgement or to say any thing for those who make books like to the apparell which they weare and fashions that they are weary of when a newer comes Onlie hauing taught these Principles most of them to a few priuately and finding it more easie to print them then to write them for the surer keeping of them in their memories who had learned them and the good of some abroad that desired them I was not vnwilling thus to giue them content by the benefit of the Presse and of Printing Neither haue I done this far any want for there is store of Catechismes abroad to which this worme of mine is no way comparable and God hath dealt mercifully with our age for the meanes of knowledge but we famish spiritually at the full measure of these meanes either by not vsing them at all or not as wee should This mite of instructions I could haue made much larger but that I considered in my Cruse of store the vessels that I had to fill King 4.4.6 which could not well receiue more and so left pouring as I perceiued their filling Accept therefore Reader what is heere offered to thy gentlenesse and take it in as good part as it is meant vnto thee And so I command thee and thy grouth in godlinesse to the grace and assistance of Al-mighty God and rest Thine in all Christian good will ROBERT HORN POINTS of instuction for the ignorant WHat is true happinesse To know God Ioh. 17.3 Ier. 9.24 Luk 15.17 and to know my selfe Can you knowe God Not so plainely and fully heere as wee shall heereafter by face Exod 33.20 1. Cor. 13.12 but as hee hath reuealed himselfe vnto vs. How is that By his workes without vs and within vs Rom. 1.20 1.19 and by some description of his nature and effects in his word How doth the word describe him Generally thus ●xo 3.14 Ioh. 4.24 ●xo 34 6. Psa 90. 〈◊〉 1. Tim. 1 17. Isa 5.5 Psal 103 8 ●m 4.13 1 Pet. ● 19 Psal 99 1 2 ● Heb. 1 3 Act. 17 25 26 1 Iob. 5.7 Mat. 〈◊〉 16.17 2. Cor. 13 13. He is what he is And more particular thus a Spirit euery way infinite goodnesse it selfe Creatour Preseruer and Ruler of all things distinguished into three persons Father Sonne and holy Ghost So much for the knowledge of God What say you of the knowledge of your selfe It may bee considered before the fall or since What are you by creation in Adam before the fall A reasonable Creature Mat. 10.28 Ge. 1.27 Col 3 10 Ephes 4.24 consisting of soule and body made after the image of God in knowledge righteousnesse and true holinesse What are you since by Adams fall A sinner Rom. 3 9 10 Iob 14.4 Rom. 6 23 5.18.19 Gal. 3.10 and by sinne subiect to all kind of misery and punishments as to the death of my body and the death of my soule which is endlesse damnation What are your sinnes A guiltinesse in Adams first offence that is Rom. 5.12.18 7.18 Ier. 17.9 Gen. 6.5 Matth. 15.19 Rom. 7.5 a depriuation of all good thereby and a disposition of my whole heart to euery thing that is against the Lawe of God with innumerable corrupt fruits thereof in thought word and deede What doe you consider in Man thus falling His recouery to saluation and duty for it What say you of his recouery It may bee considered in the worker thereof or the meane of apprehending it What say you of the worker The worker or substance of it is Christ Iesus the Sonne of God 1. Iohn 2.1.2 Ioh. 1.14 Iohn 3.16 Philip 2.7.8 Galat. 4.4.2 Cor. 5.21 Iohn 1.12 who in Mans nature which hee tooke in the wombe suffered the death of the Crosse and fulfilled the Lawe for all that receiue him What is the meane wherby Christ is apprehended Faith Galat. 2.20 Acts 6.31 which is a speciall perswasion of Gods fauour in his word Ioh. 1.12 Luk. 2.29 Ephes 3.17 1. Cor. 1.30 Ioh 20.28 2. Tim. 1.12 wrought in my heart by the holy Ghost whereby I doe truely and in particular beleeue that Christ is made vnto me wisdome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption When doth this faith beginne to breede and take place in your heart When by Gods grace I begin to be touched in conscience for my sinnes Psal 51.17 Isa 55.15 Math. 5.6 Phil. 3.7.8 Math. 15.25.27 Mark 9.24 to hunger and thirst after Christ and his merits aboue al things in the world and against all doubtings doe begin to beleeue By what meanes is this wrought It is begunne ordinarily