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A85464 Gospel grovnds; or Christ declared to be the onely treasury of all good, and the fulnesse of all, before God the Father, for true beleevers. 1644 (1644) Wing G1313; Thomason E1189_6; ESTC R208280 8,547 24

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GOSPEL GROVNDS OR CHRIST Declared to be the onely Treasury of all Good AND THE FULNESSE OF All before God the Father For true Beleevers Coloss 1.19 For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulnesse dwell Printed at London To the READER IN honour of the glorious Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and to vindicate the truth of it from the false and base aspersions which upstart errors and abominable blasphemies and as diabolicall practises as well idolatrous as prophane have cast upon it These few Gospel grounds which are humbly presented to every honest spirituall eye That it may appeare that Gospel knowledge is not obscure uncertaine difficult or any more cause of liberty that is wickedly taken up then wine is of drunkennesse or cloathes of pride or meat of gluttony Neither is it to be withheld or minced or club'd down by any least it should be perverted as it were madnesse to go naked least we should be proud or destroy vines least any be drunke and to make no provision for food least we should be gluttonous they are partly Antydotes against errours or Cordials for the comfort of such as are cast down In which the defects call for supply and the redundancies for pruning by some learned Scribe onely let no advantage be taken from any misquoted or misprinted Scripture If they be good for nothing else they may be profitable for young people that are to be drawn on with delight or to such as want leisure to read larger bookes or such as are of shallow capacity to conceive a large tract or for old folke whose braines are dryed up and so of fraile memories one sentence may be easily learned in one day and the proofes in two more and so in as many dayes as there be conclusions all may be gotten and the proofes in twice as many more The Lord blesse them as they are intended to do good to all that are his Amen The Gospell Grounds ALmightinesse in God and the Creatures emptinesse in and of themselves are the only subjects of all the holy Scriptures Exod. 6.3 Gen. 17.1 28.3.43.14 Psal 68.34.35 2 Cor. 6.18 2 All the holy Scriptures do joyntly witnesse Christ Gods arm to save and tend to make men perfect by faith in Christ Isa 40.10 11. 52.10 53.1 Joh. 5.39 2 Tim. 3.16 17. 3 All things are to be rejected as losse and dung for the excellency of the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus Luk. 14.26 Phil. 3.8 9. Mat. 19.21 Mat. 10.37 4 All that professe Gods free and supreame will a sure ground of beleeving confesse the same revealed will a safe rule for their living Rom. 9.11.20.21 1 Pet. 1.2 2.15 16. Rom. 12.2 5 All true beleevers are in a perfect and everlasting union with God in Christ and one with another Joh. 14.20 Joh. 17.21 23. Eph. 4.16 5.30 1 Cor. 6.17 6 All that are actually perfect in Christ do by faith rest quietly on him and look out for no other perfection Heb. 4.3 Rom. 5.1 2. Phil. 4.7 14.17 7 All mans worthinesse is Gods esteem of Christs worthinesse imputed to them and of what he himself worketh by his Word and Spirit Rev. 5.9 3.4 1 Thess 2.12 2 Thess 1.14 8 All faithfull prayers prophecies and precepts of and to beleevers are as so many plain promises made unto them Joh. 17. Psal 3. Eph. 4.4 Mat. 6.9 Ezek. 36.25 37. Rom. 12.1 2. 9 A beleever is alwaies perfect before God in Christ not so to conscience by faith much lesse by works to men Heb. 13.8 Dan. 9.24 Rom. 14.1 12. Lam. 3.2 10 A beleevers perfection is not absolute by renovation but only by imputation of Christs perfection 2 Cor. 4.16 Phil. 3.12 13. 2 Cor. 5.21 1 Cor. 1 30. Rom. 4.7 8. 11 A beleevers stay is upon Gods Almightinesse in Christ in the greatest straights of the sorest darknesse Isa 26.3 Hab. 3.17 Isa 50.10 Mich. 7.8 9. Psal 42.11 12 A beleevers strength in dangerous straights is to be still and the more knowledge of God the more quietnesse in any triall Psal 46.10 Isa 30.7 15. Exod. 14.13 2 Chron. 20.17 13 A beleevers estate is very happy glorious and unchangeable yet nothing to that it shall be at the last day Prov. 3.13 Psal 1.1 1 Joh. 3.1 2. 1 Pet. 1.3 4 5. Heb. 13.5 8. 14 A beleevers liberty is so limitlesse in prayer that he cannot make over bold with God for things agreeable to his will 2 Cor. 4.17 Heb. 4.16 10 22. Isa 49.11 1 Joh. 5.14 15. 15 As happy as every beleever is were it onely in this life none could be found more miserable 2 Cor. 4.17 18. 1 Cor. 15.19 Heb. 11.26 16 A beleevers joy is no fleshly feeble or fading joy but a spirituall full and flowing joy Phil. 3.3 2 Cor. 5.12 Job 20.5 Isa 66.10 11 12. 17 A beleever can accuse himself of more sin then any yet can excuse himself of all sin before God himself 1 Cor. 2.11 Psa 51.1 2 3. Isa 38.14 17. Psa 103.12 18 A beleever having put off himself and put on the Lord Jesus Christ is as absolutely perfect before God as Christ can make him Gal. 2.19 20. Gal. 3.25 26. 1 Joh. 4.17 Isa 61.10 19 A beleever is so far from the love of any sin that for sin he abhors his best workes and himself 1 Cor. 13.6 Isa 64.6 Job 42.6 Eze. 36.31 20 A beleever receiveth the doctrine of renovation as readily to glorifie God as that of justification whereby God glorifies him Rom. 6.1 2 3 4. Tit. 2.12 13 14. 2 Cor. 7.1 1 Pet. 2.9 10. 21 Beleevers are saved already though salvation appeare not as it is till the last and great day Eph. 2.8 2 Tim. 1.9 1 Pet. 1.9 22 Beleevers though simple weak and nothing to themselves or others are the wisest strongest and most excellent persons in the world 1 Cor. 1.26 27 28. 2 Cor. 12.10 Pro. 12.26 Psal 16.3 23 Beleevers and their sins are not one thing but sin in them is far distant from them to faith Rom. 7.17.21 Psal 103.12 24 Beleevers do not any evils they seem to do but sin with them only doth all that is so done Rom. 7.20 31. 1 Joh. 3.6 7 9. 25 Beleevers how ever it seem do alwaies grow in faith and love and answerable fruits Psal 92.12 Job 17.9 Psal 22.1 Judg. 5.31 26 Beleevers are not exhorted to duties because they can do more then others but God worketh so in them not in others Tit. 3.8 Phil. 2.12 13. Isa 26.12 2 Cor. 3.5 27 Beleevers persons are pleasing to God in Christs only person their works as they are Gods pleasure done in them Mat. 3.17 Heb. 13.21 2 Thes 1.11 Psal 135.6 28 Beleevers are most made and built up when they do apprehend themselves in themselves most cast down and undone Isa 6.5 6. Job 40.4 5. 42.5 6. Luke 5.8 29 Beleevers cannot loath themselves nor love Christ enough in themselves all their dayes Ezek. 6.9 10.