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A45329	The beauty of holiness, or, A description of the excellency, amiablenes, comfort, and content which is to be found in wayes of purity and holinesse where you have that glorious attribute of Gods holinesse exactly setforth : together with the absolute necessity of our resembling him therein ... / by Tho. Hall.	Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing H426A; ESTC R28056	111,380	240

the devil who is called by way of Eminency The unclean spirit Math. 10. 1. 26. 12. 43. as being in himself most foul and unclean and making it his chief delight to provoke and stirre up others to uncleannesse so is directly opposite to the most holy and pure God 3. Consider That whilst thou livest in thy wickednesse there is no hope of heaven God hath expressely told thee that no unrighteous person shall inherit his Kingdom no fornicators idolaters adulterers drunkards coveteous c. 1 Cor. 6. 9 10 11. Ephes. 5. 5. no unclean person can come there Rev. 21. 8 27. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there 's a double negative they shall in no wise enter Heaven is an inheritance undefiled 1 Pet. 1. 4. It is Gods holy mountain where he doth more especially manifest his presence and glory such a pure place and presence will not brook an impure sinner Most men would have happinesse but they regard not holinesse they would be glorified Saints in heaven but not mortified Saints on earth Like Balaam they would dye the death of the righteous Numb 23. 10. but not live their lives They would go to heaven with their sins but if no unclean beast might come near the Mount lest it died and if a King will not suffer such as have the plague runing on them to come nigh his Court-Royal where then will those beasts appear that have the plague of sin runing on them and reigning in them Who ever hopes for heaven and happinesse Non est via ad regnum sine primitiis reg●… nec sperare potest coeleste regnum cui neque super propriam datur regnare concupiscenti●…m Bernard must tread the path of holinesse or he will never come there 1 Iohn 3. 2 3. He that hath this hope viz. of attaining glory with Christ hereafter must first resemble Christ in purity here as Christ died for sin so he must dye unto sin for if we be in the flesh we cannot please God Rom. 8. 8. and if flesh and blood i. the weaknesse of our nature cannot inherit glory 1 Cor. 15. 50. how much lesse can corrupt nature Obi. Though our lives be wicked yet we have as good hearts and as good mindes and meanings as the purest of them all Ans. The emptiest barrels sound loudest Saul boasts that he had kept the commandments of the Lord when he had broke them Thy wicked life See M. Ant. Burgess Ser. 92. pag. 543. c. shews clearly the wickednesse of thy heart thy evil fruit shews that thy root is evil for a good tree cannot but bring forth good fruit and if thy heart were so good thy life would be better where the fountain is sweet the streams cannot be bitter therefore deceive not thy self for if thy life be wicked thy heart is a thousand times more wicked and if thy actions be naught thy spirit is worse Obi. If the Lord be angry we must bear it as well as we can we hope yet to escape for he is mercifull c. Ans. Bear it Alas there is no enduring Gods wrath it rends the rocks melts the mountains makes the devils tremble and roar like the sea and shrike for fear Hence the Lord tels his people Ezek. 22. 14. that their hearts could not endure nor their hands be strong in the day when he should bring his judgements on them If we cannot bear the V. Baxter Saints Rest part 2. ch 4. sect 10. pangs of a rotten tooth or a broken bone how shall we endure the terrors of the Lord when they shall seize on all the powers both of body and soul 2. Presume not of Gods mercy for See more Harsnet on Repent p. 318 c. Brooks his Remedies against Satans d●…vices p. 52 c. as he is mercifull to them that fear him so he is just in punishing those that rebell against him and hath said he will not be mercifull to such as offend of malicious wickednesse Psal. 59. 5. though Burgess Ser. 59. he be gracious to the penitent yet he will by no means acquit the wicked Nihil est deterius quam pacem sperare ●…ul 〈◊〉 bellum gerimus cum Deo illum promittere nobisquietum quem lacess●… mus peccato Calv. Exod. 34. 6 7. Dreadfull is that place none like it in all the book of God against all impenitent presumptuous sinners that cry Peace peace and blesse themselves in their wickednesse adding drunkennesse to thirst and sin to sin What will the Lord do to such a one Deut. God cannot satisfie himself in threatning this heynous sin as if the very naming of it had enraged his jealousie Trap. in loc 29. 19 20 21. 1. The Lord will not spare him 2. His anger and jealousie shall smoak against him 3. All the curses which are written in this Book shall lie upon him 4. Yet more God shall blot out his name from under heaven 5. The Lord shall separate him unto evil A second sort of wicked unholy persons Second sort See D. Preston on 2 Tim. 3. 5. are formall professors meer outside Christians who have a form of godlinesse but are strangers to the life and power of it they have fine words but filthy deeds like Pharaoh King of Egypt ox prae●…erea nihil Nihil prodest nomen sanctum sine moribus q. vita a professione discordans ab roga●… illustris tituli honorem Salv. who is said to be a Noise i. nothing but words he promiseth much but performs nothing Jer. 46. 17. Like the prophane Jews they cry The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord yet for all that they will steal murder commit adultery swear fasly and bow for an advantage to any Baal Jer. 7. 9 10. They make great shews and come to hear the Prophets of the Lord when it is only to Hear but they will not Do with their mouths they praise but their heart goeth after their covetousnesse Ezek. 33. 31. These Buts spoil all It is said of Naaman that he was a valiant man But he was a leper so many are men of fine Parts But they are proud But they are covetous But they are censorious alwaies prying into the lives of others Domi talpae ●…ris oculati neglecting their own c. These walk as if they had been trained up in Machiavells School who tels men they need not much care for vertue it self but for the appearence only in the eyes of the world because the fame and credit of vertue is an help but the practice of it is a cumber But sure if the shadow be so good the substance is better if the very name of piety be a praise how Si bonum est bonum apparere melius est bonum esse Chrys. Nihil t●…m provocat Deum qui est sanctitas ad abominationē peccantis sicut hypocrisis quae est simulatio sanctitatis Wickli●… great is the praise of real holinesse Counterfeit

35. p. 5. 10 20. Acts 26. 24. 1 King 18. 17. 2 Kings 9. 11. Amos 7 10. Iohn 19. 12. Acts 17 6 7. 24. 5. Ier. 18. 18. 37. 13 14 15. 38. 4. Thus they dealt with the Primitive Christians if any calamity fel on the land presently they cried Away w●…th the Christians to the Lions they are the cause of all this misery 2. These must know that it is not Religion but the want of it which breeds uproars and tumults in the nations It is not the godly but the ungodly the swearer the drunkard the Sabbath-prophaner the covetous Achan Idolatrous Ieroboam wicked Ahab unclean Zimri and Cozbi these these are they that trouble Israel that bring plagues calamities on a Land these are those Ps. 1. 1. Rashang homos inquietus turbulentu V. Leigh Crit. Reshagnaims those turbulent ones which disquiet the places where they come As for the godly they are of those that are peaceable in our Israel they are endued with the wisdom that is frome above which is first pure and then peaceable James 3. 17. They are peaceable in themselves and labour to make and preserve peace amongst others See Bur. Gracious Spi. p. 137 c They are the pillars of a Land the equites cataphracti the chariots and horsmen the strength and glory of a Land As Sampsons strength lay in his hair so the Governours of Judah shall one day say In the inhabitants of Ierusalem is our strength Zech. 12. 5. They are a blessing to families Cities and Nations God blessed the house of Pharaoh for Iosephs sake he spared Israel at the prayers of one Moses ten righteous persons had preserved Sodom Paul hath all the souls given him which were in the ship Acts 27. 24. yea one holy man may be a means to save a whole Iland fromdestruction Iob 22. ult It is ignorance and wickedness that makes people rude and rebellious but where Religion comes in the powe●… of it and men obey not for fear but for conscience sake no better subjects then those in the world none more faithful to their trust none pray more for their Superiors nor pay their just dues more freely fully to them these are those that wil venture their lives and estates for their honour when such as serve them for their own ends wil leave them and forsake them And though for the present the righteous may be condemned as traitors and the wicked exalted to the Throne yet in Gods due time he will clear the innocency of his servants as the light there shal be a resurrection of their Names as wel as of Bodies Then David shal appear to be innocent David and Saul a bloody man then shall we clearly discern between the righteous and the wicked between him that fear●…th the Lord and him that feareth him not Those that would see any more Cavils raised against sanctity by the world the flesh and the devil fully answered let them peruse two excellent Books which I shall commend to the serious study of ●…ll young Divines viz. Dyke o●… the 〈◊〉 of mans Heart and M. Downha●…s warfar especially p. 287 c. and Mr. Timothy Rogers his good news from Heaven Since I finisht this Tract there came to my hands an excellent piece stiled Precious Remedies against Satans devices by M. Brooks where you have many more Cavils fully and learnedly answered As also those Elaborate and Soul-searching Sermons of M. Anthony Burgess Ser. 44. p. 270. CHAP. VIII I Am come now unto the Motives There is a great indisposition in ou●… natures to purity and therefore we had need of all incitements that possibly may be to quicken us to it 1. The first Motive is drawn from the necessity of it Holinesse is absolutely 1. Motive necessary to salvation a man may be saved without riches honour c. Bu●… no man can be saved without holiness 2. It is necessary Necessitate praecepti it is no indifferent thing it is not actu●… elicitus sed imperatus it is no free and voluntary action of our own but a duty commanded and enjoyned by Go●… under severest penalties and therefor●… we are necessarily bound to the ●…ractice of it This is the will of God even our sanctification 1 Thess. 4. 3. It is his will Iacienda sunt nobis quaecunq●… Deus praecipit etsi non statim videamus quorsum ●…vasura sunt clausis tamen oculis debemus eum ducem sequi Roll. in Ioh. emphatically i. it is that which God doth more especially require of us and therefore it must be done intuitae voluntatis simply because he commands it we must not stand questioning Gods commands but obey them when once we understand what is that acceptable will of God we must presently do it This is motive sufficient to a gratious soul if there were no more as the Lord said to Ioshua 1. 9 Be strong of good courage h●…ve not I commanded thee q. d. This is ground sufficient to make thee couragious because I have commanded thee to be so so this is sufficient to make us f●…y sin study purity because our God commands that it should be so 2. Necessitate medii Holinesse is the way to happinesse it is via ad regnum the way to the Kingdom though not V●…a caelo v●…a sanctitatis Isa. ●…5 8. the cause of reigning it 's necessary as a qualification though not as a meritorious cause of heaven No unclean thing Licet non si●… causa merito 〈◊〉 gloriae est tamen causa dispositiva qu â idoneiredd imur ad gloriam recipiendam Alsted can come there If the earth groan under prophane wretches and the Land be ready to spue them out Levit. 18. 28 〈◊〉 Iob thought the wicked unfit to sit with the dogs of his flock if God See Harsnet on Rep. p. 42. to 50. p. 308. c. abhorre their persons prayers and praises here can we think that he will receive such into his Kingdom and if the Virgins that stood before the Persian Monarchs must first be perfumed and prepared before they come into their presence Hest. 5. 1. surely then the Kings daughter must be gloriously arraied before she be brought into the presence of the King of Kings Psal. 45 13. 14. Such as wait on Princes must be arraied accordingly Mat. 11. 8. else they disparage their Master when they follow him with loathsome rags How oft hath the Lord told us that there is no enjoying the beatificall vision of his face in glory without this See D. Preston on the New Covenant Ser. 20. p 313. Deus Se ip●…um vidend●… 〈◊〉 in verbo s●…o in ●…c vita et visio●…e gloriasâ i●… futura Rivet Psal. 24. 3. 4. Matth. 5. 8. Heb. 12. 14. without holinesse no man shal see God to his comfort Sinne draws a vail over our hearts and eyes so that we cannot see God in his word nor see him in his