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cause_n	apostle_n	speak_v	word_n	1,386	5	3.9429	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66997	Law-power, or, The law of relation written in the heart of ministers and people by the finger of God, is mighty through Him, to prevaile with both : to live as a people separated to their God, and from the world, specially at the Lord's Table.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3496; ESTC R25194	60,431	76

Sixthly While you are delivering forth unto them sound doctrine take this in with it which shall argue its soundnesse and you sound also That your peoples hearts are very unsound and their eares uncircumcised notwithstanding with their eare they must attend for therefore they have an eare and the very male of their flocke they must lay out this way all their strength else Math. 1. deceivers they are and they are accursed But this is not all you tell them you will make them know as ye can That there is an intus prohibens that stands within like an armed man and till it be remooved or subdued will oppose all that is good keepe it from entring the soule viz The enmities that are there against God and the word of His grace They come James 1. 21. 1 Pet. 2. 1. to heare and cast it out they cannot nor is it possible with them as their case is so to doe yet are they commanded to doe it nor is the command in vaine They must endeavour to doe it looking up to Him and spreading it before Him and attending the meanes whereby it is done we meane whereby this enmity for that one word containes all is discovered to us and slaine in us by sound doctrine soundly preached This is the point you must insist upon as did your Lord before you The absolute necessitie of regeneration or of being begot and borne againe doe not sooth up your Disciples with that vaine title and lying vanitie They were borne and baptized such It is notoriously false and knowne so to be in all the earth We are borne more like Devills than Saints at the best we beare the Image of the earthly Indeed you must tell them so they are while they are as they were borne into the world and best pleased to be what they are so far from being Beleevers Disciples Saints that they are as was said wolves dogs swine and much worse because a beast in the shape of a man is the worst beast Ye have heard or read what that excellent man Mr Bolton said to his deare Children when he was departing from them He verily beleeved that none of them durst thinke to meet him at that great Tribunall in an unregenerate state And was he not well assured of what he spake from his Lords owne mouth Except Joh 3. 3. a man be borne againe he cannot see the kingdome of God And he gives the reason at the sixth verse we borrough that Learned Dr. K. Preface pag 4. mans words for that which is borne of flesh is flesh and is as uncapable of seeing the mysteries of the kingdome of God as fleshly eyes are of seeing Spirits Ye must preach this sound Doctrine to their eares soundly and till it sound unto their hearts and is taking there what ever they are in your eyes they are as vile as the vilest in the Lords eyes and in the eyes of His people for they are not washed from their dung * Pro. 30. 12. Isa 4. 4. and accordingly they must be dealt with thrust away from partaking in sacred things as you would heapes of dung out of the chiefest roomes When ye are at this point dealing soundly with them ye will see cause to pray and the godly with you as the Primitive Saints for th' Apostles of Christ Grant unto Acts 4. 29. 5. 20. thy servants that with all boldnesse they may speake thy word all the words of this life that He commands you for if all must be heard all must be spoken and spoken it must be as the Oracles of Acts 10. 33. God and not teach onely but command with all authority that so ye may commend your selves to every man's conscience in the sight of God as he did who felt the law of his Relation written in his heart Your people shall know if ye know the law of your Relation That ye are the Lord's Ambassadours ye speake in the person of Christ and in the vertue of His Spirit and must speake as if Christ by you spake unto them that is as having power and authority committed to you for the edification of the Church And be sure ye begin right Assuring them they were not borne with a Christ in their hearts but enemies to Him that they stand at an infinite distance from Him and are wilfully set on it to have no acquaintance with Him therefore they are but false conceits and presumptions of their being in Him before the Word and Spirit hath been praevailing with them Assure them they by nature hate the Lard of life and holiness by Him more than they hate that their soule most loatheth and they love Prov. 8. 36. death and a curse in the procureing cause of it as a father loveth his dearest Child These things ye must speake to them with all boldnesse for these things are most profitable for them to know first This our hurt is not to be healed with pleasing words But now ye shall be dealt hatefully with dealing faithfully with them as was told you We cannot endure wholesome words But the law of your Relation will helpe you to swallow that and more and ye can remember what the Lord and Master found from His hearers and all His faithfull servants ever since This may comfort you too you shall have no hurt from them though they doe their worst And if you gaine any of them unto Christ they will be your deare Friends to their death because you told them the truth And for them that persist in their hatred you know it is not a simple hatred with which we hate most hurtfull creatures for it is mixed with feare and dread of you speaking to them as men that know the law of your Relation they hate you but they feare you too as a man so that learned man Dr Reynolds hateth a Lyon or as a Malefactour hateth the Judge as a theife hateth the light For just reason we have been longer at this point we leave it upon your thoughts and so hasten to the practise of a Godly Minister to see what that will be before his people when he feeles the law of this Relation written upon his heart by the finger of God But first we would for you and our Instruction from these premisses draw these conclusions and then we will proceed to shew what a Godly Mans practise is we meane his who feeles the law of his Relation written in his heart § 2 First That the same finger of God which doth write the law of this Relation upon Ministers hearts sheweth them the ordinances 1 Tim. 3. 16. of their Lords house how they ought to behave themselves there all the formers thereof and all the lawes thereof writeth Exek 43. 11. he in their sight as in former times so now that they may keepe the whole forme thereof and all the ordinances thereof and doe them But this the Spirit of God never doth before He hath made