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book_n	fear_v	lord_n	remembrance_n	1,962	5	9.9520	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B16717	Advice from a Catholick to his Protestant friend, touching the doctrine of purgatory ...		1687 (1687)	Wing A632; ESTC R7268	153,167	378

to inform them where their strength lies that their eyes might be alwayes thitherward And now in some measure I behold the needfulness to that Joh. 5. 28. saying Paul useth to the Ephes saying Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil As if he should say you being Christians are not therefore to think you are safe that you have no enemy to fear for you being but now to have an enemy he that before was your bosome-friend Mat. 10. 23. is now become your enemie that he may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil the Devil now is become your adversary therefore now you must be a Souldier you must learn to keep watch to stand centinal and not only so but you must be armed too Mat. 26. 14. your enemy is one who is so strong as you are not able to withstand him except you be armed And 't is not any armour will serve you neither it must be armour of proof put on the whole armour of God it is not a piece of Gods armour will serve thee for thy adversary is such a cunning warrier that if then hast never so little a place left naked and unarmed he will be sure to shoot all his darts there and wound thee there therefore put on the whole armour of God Never think thou art safe till then nay you must not sleep nor ly still then neither but must when you have put it on expect to fight for we fight not c. Therefore let us not sleep for those that 1 Thes 5. 6 7 1. sleep sleep in the night c. for we are Children of the day therefore let us watch and be sober But to return The next thing in the Parable is he calls for the fatted Calf to be brought in and killed to make merry In regard this is partly included in what went before it being only an illustration of the height depth bredth and length of the love of God in Christ unbosomed and freely held forth unto the worst of sin I shall say no more of it but this That such hath been the goodness of God to me as that he hath been pleased to bring forth and bestow on me his great rich love by which notwithstanding I was fallen from and become a rebel to it was gone so far from him into such a far Country even to the very brink of Hell was dead nay twice dead dead before I was his son and dead again afterwards he recovered me brought me back raised me from this death my son was dead and is alive was lost is found notwithstanding the darkness I was in was such thick Isa 44. 21. darkness as I was lost in the midst thereof yet such was his love as there he found me and from thence brought me forth into the light and made merry with the musick of his sweet love O! I want an enlarged heart to admire it and the Tongue and Pen of Men and Angels to set it forth Lastly His eldest brother was in the field and as he came and drew nigh to the house he heard Musick and Dauncing and he called one of his Servants and asked what these things meant and he said thy brother is come and thy father hath killed the fatted calf because he had received him safe and sound And he was angery and would not go in c. 'T is not much I have experience of this last part of the parable having not as yet been entertained again by the society and people or house of God from which I went but whether the reason was because my eldest brother murmured at my Father for killing the fatted calf for me who had wasted his Estate with harlots who notwithanding he had manifected his love in Christ to me I say had given me this portion I spent it all sinned against this his mercy my eldest brother did question whether my Father had dealt justly in that he notwithstanding all this my wickedness rather then I should be lost that he might receive me safe and sound doth not spare but kill his fatted calf manifest to me vile wretch such a piece of love as he never discovered to his eldest son who had alwaies been with him kept close to all his commands and ordinances whether the reason why they rather concluded or at lest some of them I had sinned the sin against the Holy Ghost and so 't was not possible for me to be recovered by and into the love of God and so did not believe what I said but at present refused both it and me and not only so but that as ever I heard they never so much as inquired after me since though I have been shut up in prison and could not go to them whether I say it did not flow from my eldest Brother murmuring I leave to them whom it concerns to judge waiting and longing to re-injoy likewise that mercy as to have again fellowship and communion with the Saints knowing it to be the place where two or three are gathered together Mat. 18. 19 in his name that he will be in and that in the midst of them and likewise finding by sad experience that so backward Heb. 10. 24 and drous●e is man as he had not need let any thing be wanting that may provoke him to love and good works it being likewise that which as God commands it so he takes special notice of his people that observe so to do as we may find Mal. 3. 16. Then they that fear the Lord speak often one to another and the Lord harkned and heard it and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord and thought upon his name And they shall be mine saith the Lord of hosts in that day when I gather up my jewels and I will spare them as a man spareth his only son that serveth him What doth the Lord take notice of poor wretched man that fears him that is tender of every command of his though he but stammer before him because he knows 't is his pleasure Yea he will be sought unto I the Lord take great notice he harkned and heard it and not only so but a book of remembrance was written before him such is the infinite love of God towards his poor despised people that though the world frown upon them and not think them worthy their taking notice of yet the Lord he takes such notice of them as that they cannot meet together but he will cause a Book of Remembrance to be write and that before him that so he might be sure not to go or do any thing but that he might behold them that they might be his choice ones at that day when he gathers up his jewels Doth God take such care for his poor people that when he brings forth and gathers together his rich choice mercies out of his treasury gathers