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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93751	A sermon on Phil. IV., 11, 12. For I have learned in whatsoever state I am in therewith to be content I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound; every where, and in all things, I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1698 (1698)	Wing S5131A; ESTC R230357	23,094	32

hereby he serves the great Ends of his Kingdom of Darkness in beating People off from God and good things But to answer them in their own familiar way of speaking All is well that ends well It is the same old thredbare Imagination of the People of former Generations which is come down amongst us also and dwells in the Hearts of many People of the present Generation Ye have said it is vain to serve God and what profit is it that we have kept his Ordinances and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of Hosts Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another and the Lord hearkened and heard it and a Book of Remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord and that thought upon his Name And they shall be mine saith the Lord of Hosts in the day when I make up my Jewels and I will spare them as a Man spareth his own Son that serveth him Then shall ye return and discern between the Righteous and the Wicked between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not Mal. 3. 14 16 17 18. So we refer our Objectors and Unbelievers those ignorant and ungodly Persons that think thus in their Minds over unto the day of Death and of Judgment when they shall see that twofold Distribution of things that is to be made in the after State True indeed the End and Event is to prove all things But whoso suspends his Faith until then his Condition will be without Remedy Then shall they return that is to the proper Understanding of Men and discern what before they might have believed for it was declared and told unto them over and over that there should be a diversity made of Happiness to the one and Misery to the other between the Righteous and the Wicked between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not As to that great doubt and surmise which is in the Thoughts of the Heart of almost every one How that all things happen alike to all and that there is one and the same Event to Godly or Ungodly Righteous or Wicked I have in a printed Sermon on Deut. 8. 2. opened and explained that Mystery wherein I have shewed and assigned the very Reason thereof Why God ordained it so to be Namely That it is to prove the Children of Men To know what is in their Heart whether they will keep his Commandments or no. Indeed if People were not still puzzled and perplexed if they did not alway err in their Heart Heb. 3. 10. whereat his Soul is grieved they would never imagine and talk after that manner That it was the same thing whether they heard or received into their Knowledge words of Comfort or Contentment or not for they may yea and they do think and say the same as to the other words of Grace and Salvation al●o I would ask such vain Imaginers and foolish Reasoners Is it the same thing as to natural ●…ife Whether they do eat and drink or they do not No here they will say It is not for except we eat and drink we must famish and dye Even so it is here in the like manner though they can be hardly made to apprehend this for the natural Man discerneth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolish●ess unto him neither can he know them bec●us● they are spiritually discerned As Simeon waited for the Consolation of Israel so the Soul cannot be comforted without the words of Consolation The Soul cannot possibly be saved and happy without the words of Salvation and Happiness As the Body would die for want of Sustenance so the Soul may be indeed held in suspence a little longer time even all the days it is in the Body whereas that cannot be much longer without Food then fourteen days So without the words of Knowledge and Salvation the Soul would die Eternally and fall down into Misery Send Men to Joppa and call for Simon whose Surname is Peter who shall tell thee words whereby thou and thy House shall be saved Acts 11. 13 14. Even so God hath sent unto us Men and Women the reasonable Inhabitants of this Earth Moses and the Prophets Christ and the Apostles who have and do tell us words whereby we and all such as receive and obey the same words shall be saved Christ in an emphatical manner is called the Word John 1. 1. and the word of God For all the words which God made known through Moses and the Prophets the Evangelists and Apostles do all relate unto and meet in him as lines in their Centre And all things were made by him the Word and without him was not any thing made that was made Here the Evangelist hath reference unto John 1. 1. Psal 33. 6. So the certain consequence is That all Men and Women will be saved by him the Word that shall ever be saved For there is no other way under Heaven given unto Men whereby we must be saved And as Moses of old time had even so at this day Christ hath those that Preach him every Sabbath day Therefore see that ye refuse not him that speaketh for if they escaped not who refused him that spake on Earth much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from Heaven Heb. 12. 25. For though Christ is long since ascended on high and sits at the right Hand of God yet he speaks to us even now by his Word and by his Ministers He that rejecteth me and receiveth not my Words hath one that jud●eth him the Word that I have spoken the same shall judge him at the last day John 12. 48. And if we will not hear that Word nor yet his Ministers neither would we be perswaded if Christ should come once again into the World after the same manner as he did But his next coming is unto Judgment I have often mentioned these and the like things to the froward Inhabitants of this my Country and Generation who are Non-Hearers or Non-Readers of the Word where-ever it is faithfully and truly Preached or made known I have warned them often and I do hereby warn them again and I could almost tell them weeping for my Soul hath Grief and Indignation at them for their stubbornness and refusal herein That since that his Word is every Sabbath day or Week day purely truly and faithfully Preached or made known God will require it of them and impute it as Sin to them severally for as often as they have neglected to come to hear it Hereby also may be seen and perceived How much this Ordinance of Preaching the Word doth further and is absolutely necessary unto the Salvation of Mankind and how that such Men and Women who would indeed have their Souls be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus ought and must attend continually upon the Ministry and hearing thereof for this same Preaching of the Word which doth lead direct and help