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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42544	A caveat to the standing Christian, and to him that thinketh he standeth by William Gearing ...	Gearing, William.	1666 (1666)	Wing G433; ESTC R14121	41,281	62

the world many years and betook himself to a Monastery having received a packet of Letters from his father and mother and divers of his dear friends he durst not look upon them but threw them all into the fire with these words Ite cogitationes patriae pariter concremamini nè me ulterius ad illa quae fugi vocare tentetis Be gone ye thoughts of my Country and burn for company for fear lest ye tempt me to look again toward the things which I have forsaken He feared saith the story lest by the reading of their lines and the sight of their names he should have been enticed to warp toward their company and the world again The eye before the fall of Adam was the window to let in good instructions into the soul but since the fall it is Proxeneta peccati the Broker that goes betwixt the heart and the object to make up the sinful bargain CHAP. VII I Now come to the second point of Doctrine and note from my Text Observ That it concerns all who profess godliness to take heed to themselves lest they fall away from their profession The Apostle principally aimeth at Professors in this his Caution He that thinketh he standeth that is 1. He that conceiteth himself to be in the state of grace 2. He that conceiteth he shall persevere to the end that thinks within himself he shall as David speaks of the Sun rejoyce like a giant to run the course of Christianity For explication observe these distinctions there is a twofold falling away Partial Total Distin 1 1. Partial when a Professor falls from degrees of his holy profession there is love in him still but there is not his first love there is zeal in him still but there is not the first zeal he takes more liberty then formerly walks in a broader way removeth the ancient bounds of godliness I shall speak of this in the last Doctrine 2. Total falling away and this is when a man casteth off the yoke of Christ and puts his neck under the yoke of Belial shakes hands with his profession and embraceth profaneness or as Demas shook hands with Christ and embraced this present world or falls from the shew of godliness into an open shew of profaneness takes no delight to sit with Mary at the feet of Christ but loveth to fit in the seat of the scornful Distin 2 Total falling away is twofold Temporary Final 1. Temporary for a time when men depart from God and Christ as Noah's Dove went from the Ark who having tyred her self abroad and finding no resting place for the soles of her feet returned again to the Ark Thus many a Professor falls off from God and his ways flutters up and down in the world but finds no peace in conscience no content in the ways of sin returns to God again Such was the falling away of Solomon who did for a while cast off God fall into the fond and inordinate love of women and insatiably too of many women he had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines 1 Reg. 11.1.3 and that which was worse into the love of strange women idolaters of whom the Lord had given a charge to Israel Ye shall not go in unto them neither shall they go in to you and to outward incontinency he added spiritual adultery his wives turned away his heart from God ver 4. he fell to idolatry and followed after strange gods erected Temples to the Idols which his wives adored set up Altars Ornaments Priests and all upon Mount Olivet before the face of the Lord in his Temple 2 Kings 23.13 he gave himself to all pleasures and vanities under the Sun as appeareth by his book of Ecclesiastes which he wrote after his return but could find no contentment in all nor in any thing under the Sun therefore see what he saith Eccles 12.13 here is the summa totalis totum officii totum conatus totum faelicitatis the whole duty the whole endeavour the whole happiness of man This was Israels revolt Hos 2.7 and some Divines conceive that Demas thus fell away for a time and returned again 2. Final falling to fall irrecoverably to cast off God and his ways for ever when men go from God and his ways as Noah's Raven went from the Ark that fled away and never return'd again The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 frequently used in Scripture signifieth to depart from that which we formerly stood to it is a military word for among Souldiers such a one was anciently called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 transfuga qui ordinem suum locum in acie datum turpiter deseruit that basely deserted his place and rank assigned him in the battel vel qui ad hostes transfugit who fled away to the Enemy Such a one then is an Apostate who falls away and departs from that faith he formerly stood to and maintained and becometh the servant of sin and the vassal of Satan This is called in Scripture a turning away from following the Lord Psal 125.5 Sound Christians like Caleb follow the Lord fully but the unsound Christian turneth away from following of him It is likewise called a leaving the paths of righteousness Prov. 2.13 a going backwards and not forwards Jerem. 7.14 it is called a departing from the faith 1 Tim. 4.1 when a man doth despight to the Spirit of grace flings away the strictness of holy walking casts off the yoke of Christ and turneth the grace of God into lasciviousness this is a woful apostacy this is that which the Apostle meant in Heb. 6.6 where he useth the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth the falling of reprobates as learned Zanchy Zanch. in Heb. 6 6. noteth such who stumble and fall and never rise more who never stay till they fall headlong into everlasting destruction This was the fall of Hymeneus and Alexander of whom the Apostle saith they made shipwrack of their faith and of a good conscience it is impossible to recover a Ship once dasht into pieces running upon a rock and the Apostle saith of such it is impossible for them to repent Distin 3 This total and final Apostacy is twofold 1. Open and notorious a falling from open profession into open profaneness a falling from open profession into open opposition of the ways of God Thus Alexander the Copper-smith fell away and opposed Paul's preaching which was worse then to withstand his person doctrinal opposition is far worse then personal Great was the Apostacy of Bols●cus whom the Papists afterward hired to write Calvin's Life where so many lines so many lies Baldwin another Apostate changed his Religion at least 3 or 4 times for advantage Petrus Carolus was also an odious Apostate and troubler of the Church What a notorious Turn-coat was Ecebolius who under the Emperour Constans was a zealous Christian under Julian again a bitter Pagan but when Julian was dead and Christianity restored he returns