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A80090 Christian-experiences from Scripture evidences under this variety, or several heads: viz. 1. Comfort for believers against their fears and dismayings. 2. Comfort for believers from their spiritual incomes. 3. Mans fruitlesness without saving faith, being a parallel between the belief of most, and the belief of devils. 4. Councel unto saints as sojourners and strangers. 5. Mans folly in determining by present evens [sic] or state of things. By Richard Coler, preacher of the word at Broughton in Hampshire. Coler, Richard. 1652 (1652) Wing C5062; Thomason E1331_2; ESTC R209105 103,933 255

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Christ do mind the things of Christ Rom. 8. 5. They that are after the Spirit do mind the things of the Spirit that is All their thoughts words works projects and contrivances do habitually fix and center in Christ Try therefore which way thy thoughts thy projects run If they meet in Christ then from these and such like Evidences drink down thy spiritual comforts for from our union with Christ flow such spiritual incomes even benefits enough to hold up the heart in the worst of outward crosses losses persecution trial troubles whatsoever Mark therefore CHAP. III. Sheweth the precious Incomes by being one Spirit in Christ FIrst All the precious Promises are yours 1 Tim. 4 8. Godliness is profitable unto all things having the promise of this life that now is and of that which is to come True Godliness cannot be without union with Christ and poor Creatures it is very certain that this life will not make thee happy But now if another will if a Jesus and Eternal Glory will you have this riches promised in that life that is to come This life that now is is indeed to make you gracious and in it you have a rich promise of comfort Joh 4. 18. I will not leave you comfortless I will be with you to the end of the world A precious Jesus in a precious promise is enough to bear up the soul in all temptations What though thou art poor personally if Christ be one with thee spiritually thou hast a plenty in the midst of all thy poverty The Lord is a sun and a shield Ps 84. 11. yea he will give grace and glory and no good thing will he withhold from them that are Believers What saith the Apostle for the chearing of thy spirit 2 Pet. 1. 4. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises What wilt thou desire more If promises that are precious if promises that are great if exceeding great and precious promises will do thee good they are all thine if thou hast union with Christ 2. All the richest Graces are ours from the least of Faith to the fulness of Assurance Gods graciousness is the richest and supereminentest grace And it may be for the present thou hast but a grain or a drop of that Ocean but know the whole Sea of love is all thine It may be thou goest weeping notwithstanding thou bearest Ps 126. 6. precious seed yet know thy spiritual comfort is sheafs of joy yea joy unspeakable and full of glory At present thou hast by union with Christ no less then Riches of grace and Gracious riches nay but Exceeding riches of Grace is all yours if you be Christs Ephes 2. 7. 3. All the sweetest Comforts are yours if you have union with Christ I cannot say all earthly Comforts but rather Crosses the sweetest and heavenly Comforts are yours and the very thought of this should swallow up ten thousand Crosses how much more the possession Yet this is the fault of Christians one little trouble or Affliction swallows up abundance of Enjoyment whereas one thought of Christ and one enjoyment from him should swallow up abundance of afflictions What will not peace of Conscience bring which is a continual feast unto the soul by Christ being thine And if Joy in the Holy Ghost may comfort thee that is thine If wine refined if wine and milk if water of life if the Spring of all comfort may comfort thee it is yours if you be married to Christ 2 Cor. 1. 3 4. Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of mercies and God of all comfort And lest the soul should think to have him thus only in Heaven he adds that he is a God of comfort for you on Earth to comfort you in all your tribulation that we may be able to succour support and comfort others by the comforts wherewith he comforteth us And what a precious Income is this to have by Christ all heavenly sweet and precious comforts 4. By union with Christ all the highest Priviledges are yours If it was a priviledge to be called the Son of Pharaohs daughter what a high priviledge is it to be sons and daughters of the most high God and thus thou art by being united unto Jesus Christ 1. What a priviledge is it to be born an Heir unto some Great man on earth What honour and homage will men give to Heirs upon this account But by this union with Christ thou art an Heir to God and Coheir with Christ 'T is true thou wast not born to it but every Believer was bought into this eminent high and noble priviledge And if we do but consider the price it may suffice to set forth this priviledge 1 Pet. 1. 19. Ye were not redeemed with silver or gold but with the precious blood of Iesus Christ 2. It may be thou art poor and therefore Great men upon Earth will scorn to cal thee Friend Brother Sister Son Daughter many are so proud that in thy poverty they wil be ashamed to own thee But thou hast this priviledge in being joyned to Christ that the Lord of all is not ashamed to call you Brethren Sons Daughters Friends nay you that are joyned to Christ are Gods jewels Joh. 1. 12. To as many as Mal. 3. 17. believed to them he gave power to become the sons of God And saith the Apostle Heb. 2. 11. For this cause he is not ashamed to call us Brethren For what cause The verse before tels you because of union thou hast this priviledge He that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are both one for this cause he is not ashamed to call us brethren 3 What a priviledge is it counted to be free of some Corporations as to be a Freeman of London and such like Cities And Paul tels you it was his priviledge to be free-born But now the Saints of God by being united unto Christ are made free of that new Ierusalem which is Heaven it self Christ hath inroll'd his Saints in the book of life all your names are written and enrolled in Heaven and you are Citizens by vertue of your union Eph. 2. 19. 4. What a priviledge is it to be freed from all Arrests Mens persons count this a great priviledge But what is it to have the soul free and to have it so free that it shall be free indeed Such a priviledge have Saints by Christ he by marrying them unto himself hath made them free free indeed from all arrests No condemnation to them that are in Christ It would be well if wicked men that have no interest in Christ could bribe Satan Death and Hell and at the great day of Judgment come off from their arrests but that is impossible but if they could Conscience will rise in judgment against them and issue out a greater Writ then that of Belshazar upon the wall But now Believers are free by vertue of Christ having this priviledge that none shall lay
Amalekites at their heels biting and bawling out scorning and reproaching against them This hath been and will be your portion in life or in death But Saints and Travellers do not be dismayed but like the Traveller still journey on holding up your staffe though you never strike the Gen. 32. 9 10. Lord Iesus in both your hands of faith and patience for The Seed of the woman shall break the Serpents head and Christ will be unto his Travellers both in life and death advantage And thus much by way of trial whether we be strangers in the earth or not CHAP. V. Perswading souls to be sojourners and strangers 1. By way of Negation IF the Saints be strangers in the earth then be dehorted and perswaded from this worlds friendship Become strangers though it be your present detriment it is but yet a little while and you will be at home Though here you have many a weary step one stride over death and you are present with the Lord though here you have many a frown and momentary affliction yet then you shall have an everlasting favour and an everlasting Father and an everlasting fruition 1. In the Negative be dehorted not to imbrace this present world and that in three respects First in regard of the evil of it 1 Ioh. 2. 16. All that is in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life Here 's lust and lust and flesh and filth evil in all and all in evil The whole world lyeth in wickedness or in 1 John 5. 19. that wicked one which next unto the Devil is the corrupt Heart of man saith the Preacher in his book of the Creatures Eccles 3. 11. He hath set the world in their hearts Mans heart contains a world the Microcosmus in the Cosmus The little world Man in the great world Nature hath a world of evil and a world of pride Oh but for the Evil sake Christians be estranged and do not imbrace this present world it is a world of evil It is too too much it is in our hearts but it is too too woful if our hearts be in that Secondly in regard of the danger of it danger of this and danger of that but remark the danger as Ioh 1. 2. 15. The Father the love of the Father is not in you What 's that why estrangement from the Lord. Demas hath forsaken us saith the Apostle He speaks it bewailingly as sensible of the greatest danger in embracing the present world He was a stranger to the Faith a stranger to the Church a staggering to the Saints and to be feared a stranger to the Lord. And this danger comes by being an imbracer of the world O Professors Professors look to your footing and take heed of faltering take heed of being Demas in forsaking the Lord and clasping of the world forsaking the fountain and the stream God and his Ordinances and closing with broken cisterns this worlds Cruel courtesies that are Jer. 2. 13. no sooner in but out they are broken cisterns that can hold no water Hang about the worlds neck and kiss it and imbrace it never so much yet it will prove a Iudas to thee it will kiss thee again but it will kill thee at last And then thus forsaking Christ who can save thee Were it not a madness for a poor Seaman after he is lancht out into the deep that he upon some wandering thoughts should then go out of the ship into the midst of the Sea to go unto the shore might not all the Mariners think there was little hope of his life Truly the danger is greater unto every poor soul that is in the Church by profession and yet had rather yea like Demas doth go out unto the world for its embraces All the Mariners I mean the Saints in the ship the Church of Christ may cry out it is a thousand to one he is saved so great is the danger And then thirdly Do not be an imbracer of this world but be a stranger in regard of the certain uncertainty and the uncertain certainty There is no more hold of the world or the things thereof then on a fishes tail Life and goods and all the face of things are fading and perishing uncertain and slippery Our life is but a vapour and all pertaining to life is but meat that perisheth saith the Apostle Meat for the belly and the belly for meat but the Lord shall destroy both it and them 1 Cor. 6. 13. The best of all this worlds imbraces take the glory and comforts of them as Riches Honours gold and silver c. they are but as silver-knives that will cut as well as glitter wound as well as comfort a●ponds of sweet water wherein the body may bathe but the soul drown wherewith life is sweetned but not secured Comforts take wings and Man dies and where 's the world and where is he Non reminiscimur post mortem 2. If Gods people are strangers in the earth do not let us expect to be always standards on the earth Our houses with mending and patching and thatching serve many generations but yet in time down they will this great house of this World will also down and all the strong posts of it and in it must to the dust Now Christians should take up Iobs resolution Iob 14. 14. All my appointed time will I wait till my Expectabo donec veniat mutatio change comes or rather I shall expect my change coming Alluding to the Souldier that stands Sentinel expecting of relief as it were and so longs and listens and listens and longs but still waits knowing that his time is limited and his hour is certain So Christians must wait and pray and watch and pray for the stoutest must down to dust Therefore be ye wise and lean only upon the Rock and not on the reeds of this Earths fabrick Gods people must not be Atlas Supporters of the world but Sojourners not Standards in the earth but Strangers in the earth Labour therefore to be stablished in the Faith but look not to be stablished in the World We have no continuing Life no continuing Riches no continuing Comfort or comforts no continuing City house or home therefore let us be strangers expecting one to come where Christ sits at the right hand of God Every thing else is but as yesterday yea we and ours may be gone to morrow as this our Friend to day And happy is that soul whose Evidence is clear For we must not be long stayers nor standards but strangers that on Christ we may both stay and trust who is yesterday and to Heb. 13. 8. day and the same for ever 3. As positive to exhort you to be Strangers in the Earth take these three things and the Lord perswade our hearts into the truth of each according to his will First from former Example secondly from present Experience and thirdly from future Expectation CHAP. VI.