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A87170	Topica sacra: spiritual logick: some brief hints and helps to faith, meditation, and prayer, comfort and holiness. / Communicated at Christ-Church, Dublin, in Ireland. By T.H. minister of the Gospel.	Harrison, Thomas, 1619-1682.	1658 (1658)	Wing H917; Thomason E1769_2; ESTC R202373	72,620	183

he comes to get an inkling of it that he was then minded what me Lord Didst thou then think of me and dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one Iob. 14.3 Fourthyly Was it not He who then picked and chose out of Angels and men whom he would have confirmed amongst the Angels called called therefore the Elect Angels 1 Tim. 5.21 and though they were never out of favour yet they are said to be reconciled Col. 1.20 confirmation being that to them which Reconciliation is to us and they had it by renouncing their standing upon their own single bottom and running under the wing of Christ accepting and owning him as their Head Col. 2.10 God would not keep an Angel in Heaven that would not be beholding to his Son for it And amongst men he chose whom he would have recovered Rom. 9.11 13. Ask how thou mayest make thy calling and election sure and never turn this Grace into wantonness for to abuse this Doctrine is one of the blackest badges and saddest signs of Reprobation Iude v. 4. Fifthly Was it not He who ratified his choyse by a solemn Decree called the Purpose of God according to Election Rom. 9.11 The Mystery of his Will according to the good pleasure which he had purposed in himself Ephes. 1.9 the Eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord Eph. 3.11 And yet there is no unrighteousness with God which Paul foresaw some would charge him with Rom. 9. 14. No cruelty no Dissimulation no Tyranny and if the Lord hath purposed who shall dissanul its Isa. 14.24 ver. 27. Sixthly Was it not He who called for the Books and caused all the Resolves to be entered Heb. 10.5 even to the very names written in the Lambs Book of Life Rev. 13.8 21.27 with the Golden Letters of Love with indellible Characters in his blood we read of no black Book of Death and therefore I meddle not with it but hadst thou ever any help to read thy name written in Heaven this is matter of more joy then if thou coldst cast our Devils and work wonders Luke 10.20 if not yet all in good time go to the Father and he will help thee to spell thy name there by his Spirit of Adoption who was and is a member of this Councel and well acquainted with all that passed there Seventhly Was it not He who then ordered all other things in a way of subordination and subserviency to the Sanctification and Salvation of the Elect good works then received his Seal Ephes. 2.10 Evil ones by a just Analogy a Brand He then drew up the Ordinances of Heaven Passed a Decree for the Sea and for the Rain and for the opening of the Eye-lids of the morning to cause the day-spring to know its place and the Sun his going down unless forbidden as in the dayes of Joshua He then appointed natural Agents to act necessarily the Sun to shine the fire to burn the Sea to run in its course yet be set them not a going with such an irresistable swing but that be can stop them at his pleasure Free Agents to act freely the will of man to be alwayes free in all its acts if not Quoad speeificationem to do good or evil at his pleasure yet quoad exercitium he need never do evil unless he pleaseth so that he is lest without excuse And all other things were ordered as scaffolds to this building now who but a mad man would lay his bed on the scaffold and say that 's accommodation good enough and so take up with that no matter for the building beg that he would never leave thee to that mandness but lead thee to things spiritual and eternal by all externals and that all things may work together for thy good according to this ancient appointment Eighthly Was it not by an Agreement between his Son and him that he should sit as Creditor in heaven and the Son come down to be responsible to Justice otherwise there was love enough in his heart to have let the Son sit Creditor in Heaven and to have come down himself as Debtor and dyed for thee and therefore saith Christ though I should not pray for you the Father himself loveth you Iohn 16.27 Nay he loves you so well that he doth therefore love me because I lay down my life for you Iohn 10.17 what a strange expression of love is this Ninthly Did not He draw up all the Sons Articles and Instructions as 1. That he must begin his work in deepest humiliation and abasement 2. That he must pawn his Glory to go through-stich with it which he Redeems and Redemands upon his performance Ioh. 17.4 5. 3. That he must run the Gauntlop in that nature he would Redeem and be content that every one should have a fling at him 't is Hillaries allusion nature nostra contumelias transcurrit 4. That his Godhead must be eclipsed and vail'd and he made like unto his Brethren in their natural necessities sinless infirmities live by faith get every thing by prayer not do his own will but his that sent him and so fulfill all Righteousness and why was he thus conformed unto us but that we might be made conformable unto him Fifthly That he must in they days of his flesh orally and personally declare his Fathers Name and love unto his Brethren and afterwards depute and substitute some to do it to the end of the world and so long as his Leiger Embassadors reside in any place uncalled home not sent for away the Treaty of Peace holds and continues and their work is not only to declare Christ but the Father also and this was the sweetest promise that Christ could chear up his Disciples with Ioh. 16.25 The time cometh when I shall no more speak unto you in Proverbs but I shall shew you plainly of the Father and that 's a most sweet and satisfying object Iohn 14.8 Lord shew us the Father and it sufficeth us Sixthly That he must dye a bloody painful shameful accuresed death to pay the debts of his people and then rise again from the dead and bring up his blood with him into the Holiest of Holies and there exercise and execute the office of his everlasting I riesthood if he would have his death which was of infinite value in it self to be of infinite vertue efficacy unto others and is not all this performed exactly and hath he not herein commended his love unto us with a witness Rom. 58 c. Seventhly That whatever was given him he must presently give of the same to his members to fit them for that glorious fellowship whereunto they are ordained what he receives with one hand he must give with the other and we see what David cals receiving Psalm 68.18 Paul cals Giving Eph. 4.12 as if these were one and the same thing with Christ and thou desirest no more of Christ then what the Father hath ordered

the Apostle calls them Ephes. 2.12 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} without any inward appretiative acquaintance with God without any powerfull experimentall practicall knowledg at all When shall the day dawn wherein the deaf shall hear the words of the book and the eyes of the blind see out of obscurity and out of darkness when will the Lord again make bare his holy arm and spread forth his hands in the midst of our Congregations to pull in souls unto himself as he that swimeth stretcheth forth his hands to swim When will He smell in our assemblies a savour of rest and take pleasure in our solemn meetings as in the dayes of old how long shall all his poor Ministers complain that Conversion work hath a stop put on it every wheren 9. Deal earnestly with Him about the compounding and comprimising of our differences distances and divisions which have given such a wound to Religion opened such a gap to Satan which every one complains of and yet helps to widen begge that all the children of light may walk more in the light as he is in the light and then shall we have fellowship one with another I Foh 1.7 Beg He would put it into the hearts of all His People to imitate that good pattern Fudg 1.1 2 c. which doubtless waits for a spirituall accomplishment as well as all other things which happened to them in figure Judah hath the priority given him Jure divino by an oracle from Heaven Judah should go up first Behold I have delivered the land into his hand and yet hereupon he despiseth not the aid and assistance of his brethren but invites Simion his brother to engage with him against the common adversary and promiseth the like assistance unto him and speeds never a whit thy worse for it but the better God is so farre from being offended with this practise that he blesseth it exceedingly and delivered up the common enemy into their hands thus would he deal by us as to our spirituall enemies could we unite to engage against them and leave our pickeerings and carnall contendings to overtop and supplant and impose upon one another 10. Lastly Preferre one bill of complaint more in a case which few think of notwithstanding all our boastings and pretensions to a through reformation and that 's this Few men now adaies do honour the Lord with their substances few look at this as a duty to consecrate any part of their gain unto the Lord or of their substance to the Lord of the whole earth but carry it as if they were turn'd Independents indeed and did not depend no not upon God Himself or as it God Himself had lost his propriety and there were now not rent-penny no acknowledgment due unto him save such an one as costs us nothing Surely God from the beginning reserved and claimed a part due to himself who gave the whole and whatever there was besides this also was in the Sacrifices of Cain and Abel an acknowledgment that God hath a right in every mans goods afterwards he publisht and put in his claim more peremptorily Exod. 22.29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits and of thy liquors the first born of thy sonnes shalt thou give unto me Non tardabis Thou shalt not delay this no new thing but a Law of confirmation and yet this was before the Levitical institution Lev. 27.30 And all the tythe of the land whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree is the Lords it is holy unto the Lord It is the Lords it is his alreadly and had been so from the beginning of the world and he now appoints the Levite the stranger the widow and the fatherless to be his rent-gatherers or receivers generall Deut. 26.12 13. When thou hast made an end of tything all the tythes of thine increase the third yeere which is the yeere of tything and hast given it unto the Levite the stranger the fatherless and the widow that they may eat within thy gates and be filled Then thou shalt say before the Lord thy God I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house and also have given them unto the Levite and unto the stranger to the fatherless and to the widow according to all thy Commandements which thou hast commanded me I have not transgressed thy Commandements neither have I forgotten them 'T is due to Him quasi regale vertigal as a royall revenue and he doth proprio jure credere saith Calvin when he thus disposeth of it But where 's the defect the default may some say where's the irregularity to be complained of I wish triall were made whether it may not be proved if the point were well studied but I shall only hint it that the tenth part or other proportion of every mans increase acquisitions improvements and incoms is due unto the Lord even to this day I am farre from thinking or saying that it is due unto the Ministry or to any sort of men but that it is due and ought to be dedicated to God and to the everlasting Priesthood of our Lord Jesus Christ by way of thankfull acknowledgement to God for the same a tenth which even the Ministers and the Glebe it self ought to pay and so ought to be expended in the supporting of publick worship in the relieving of the poore at home and abroad under the rage of persecution in other Countries and in the education of poore Children the advancement of Learning that inestimable Jewell and other pious uses and would every man that abounds make such a purse and account it depositum pietatis as a sacred treasury or Corban not to be opened but for pious uses how many necessitous parents perishing orphans poore aged people persons ruined by fire shipwrack or the like might speedily be releived there is no pious person but judges something due this way and the holy Ghost calls even a mans charity due debt Prov. 3.27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due when it is in the power of thine hand to do it Say not unto thy neighbour Go and come again and to morrow I will give when thou hast it by thee verse 28. What we call giving God calls paying what we call charity He counts due debt all the question is about the quantum how much ought thus to be dedicated to God and to fix it upon the tenth part is neither Popish nor Legall or Jewish but a known truth or duty long before the oldest of these was heard of in the world this was no naturall but an adoptive Child of Moses nor was it a Type or Ceremony as sacrificing was which was also before the Law for then there must be some spirituall substance tiped out by it but it was practised by the light of nature and law of reason morall Law and Law of Nations every where Why else did Abraham