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A87170	Topica sacra: spiritual logick: some brief hints and helps to faith, meditation, and prayer, comfort and holiness. / Communicated at Christ-Church, Dublin, in Ireland. By T.H. minister of the Gospel.	Harrison, Thomas, 1619-1682.	1658 (1658)	Wing H917; Thomason E1769_2; ESTC R202373	72,620	183

Redemption unto his People He hath commanded this Covenant for ever Holy and Reverend is his Name Psal. 111.5 9. c. and t is this will afford Death-bed Comfort 2 Sam. 23.5 Although my house be so not with God yet he hath made with me an everlasting Covenant ordered in all things and sure for this is all my salvation and all my desire although he make it not to grow Now then though all these things are phrased in the Language of men yet not without warrant from the Holy Ghost who condescends thus to lisp out the misteries of Salvation else we could not understand or take in any thing of them and though they are all but one act in God as all his Attributes are but one Divine Excellency and Glory the Divine Essence it self but this is too big to come in all at once into our narrow hearts therefore God lets out himself by degrees by drops beams as we may bear it 't is so in the discovery of himself and 't is so in the discovery of his Councill and operations concerning us in Christ Jesus And though the operations ad extra are undivided but according to an ancient agreement between them the operation is attributed to that person the manner of whose subsisting appears most in it beginning work to the Father carrying on to the Son finishing to the Holy Ghost Yea though many disown and dislike these things yet now go and put them home to God and if he will own them and bear his witness to them and seal them upon thy heart it will be sufficient for thee to shame thee for all thy hard thoughts of him and to secure thee from the like tormenting fears for time to come and I know it he will work wonders if thy Spirit be stirred up to put him to it rather then be wanting in his witness to so great a Truth as this and so shalt thou be as Iob speaks delivered for ever from thy Judge from all frightfull Ideas and Apprehensions of him as an angry severe Judge and enabled to walk with him all thy days as with a most indulgent and tender hearted Father But what is all this to me may a poor soul say though I assent unto it and think I believe it if my Faith prove a false blaze of Fancy Presumption vain Hope and thou hast cause to fear and suspect it because it hath not the vertue and operation of that plant of Paradise The Faith of the operation of God the Faith of Gods Elect Is this thy case many times go order thy cause before him fill thy mouth with Arguments go bow thy knees unto the God Father of our Lord Jesus And 1. Tell him he knows how thy heart is carried forth towards him only according to the terms tenour of a Covenant of Grace and not of works thou canst not by any means away with that that he should deal and do by thee as thou dost by him no thou canst not find the life of thine hand as 't is said of some Isa. 57.10 thine hands are not sufficient for thee as 't is said of Iudah Deut. 33.7 And will he trample upon worm that would fain creep towards him only in that way which he himself hath chalked out and is so pleasing to him Secondly He knows that the sole ground of thy confidence is the precious and plentious Grace of the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ which tels thee that Christ dyed for sinners enemies ungodly impotent ones and ask him if he have ever a soul with him in Glory that was not once such an one that many are ransomed and pardoned by Christ but not how many Why maist not thou be one of those many That Salvation is neither of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God that sheweth mercy Rom. 9.16 even to the prisoners of unbelief Rom. 11.32 these and a thousand such like precious things the Gospel uttereth Ask him now if thou must be ashamed of the Gospel as thou hast been of the Law of thy looking for life by it and if he will reject this confidence also so that thou must not prosper in it Thirdly Ask him if there be not a double reconciliation plainly taught in the Doctrine of the Gospel the one actually purchased by the death of Jesus Christ and acknowledged by God at that time the other at the conversion of a sinner when he lays down his arms and enmities and the knowledge of the one is the means to the other Hath God then stirred up all his wrath again and will not suffer a poor soul to come near him who would fain receive the attonement and be made friends with him Fourthly Ask him wherefore hath this Gospel been brought to thine ears to thine heart but that thou shouldest trust in it and that perfectly {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} even to the end 1 Pet. 1.13 Did he not call thee to Repentance and will he now repent of his Calling that cannot be for his gifts and calling are without Repentance Rom. 11.29 Did he not bid thee come unto him upon those waters of the Sanctuary And must thou now sink and perish to allude to that of Peter Mat. 14.30 Fifthly Tell him he knows how fully how thankfully thy soul submits to that Righteousness which is revealed of offered in the Gospel and none perish in unbelief but they who are ignorant thereof or submit not thereunto Rom. 10.3 Once indeed thou wert proud of thine own poor polluted Rags but hast now cast them all away and said unto them with detestation get ye hence and wilt never gather them together again but blessest him with all thy heart and soul for that better provision made in the Gospel and wouldst fain appear daily continually before him cloathed with that righteousness which Christ came on purpose to bring into the world Dan. 9.24 Sixthly He knows thy heart closeth with Christ for sanctification as well as Righteousness to justifie thy Faith as that must justifie thy person it closeth with the whole Gospel with whole Christ in all his offices and that there is nothing more desireable to thine eye then that holiness which the Gospel requireth promiseth and promoteth How fain would thy soul be his Glass wherein he might view all his own Gloties Vertues Beauties Graces by reflection And will he break this glass in pieces Seventhly and lastly Ask him if he will but stand to that one good word spoken in his name by his servant Rom 5.20 where sin abounded Grace did much more abound this is not the spawn or spume of thy fancy nor hast thou met with this saying in some good book whose Author might be mistaken but if God will make it good as thou thinkest him bound to do even for the Glory of his Grace Wisdom and Truth thou canst tell where there are superfluities of

TOPICA SACRA SPIRITUAL LOGICK Some brief Hints and Helps to Faith Meditation and Prayer Comfort and Holiness Communicated at CHRIST-Church Dublin in Ireland BY T. H. Minister of the Gospel LONDON Printed for Francis Titon and are to be sold at the sign of the three Daggers in Fleet-street 1658. TO HIS EXCELLENCY The Lord Henry Cromwel the Lord Deputy of Ireland May it please your Excellency THe reason why I suffer this Discourse to go abroad and not some others though urged by friends yea commanded thereunto by your Excellency and the Council is partly to beg pardon for that Disobedience partly to evidence that it was no defect in my Will but in my notes and manner of writing that hindred me from paying that observance which now I yield But especially because the Spirit of God for mine own or a worse neither could or would ever have done any such good office for me I say therefore undoubtedly the Spirit of God by these and the like injections and intimations helping me to plead and press them and to hold them up before the Lord and to spread them before Him as Hezekiah did the Letter hath many a time sustained and cheared mine own heart and so renewed the face of that earth after much Winter weather after many trials troubles and tremblings for when God speaks where are the Lips that will not quiver at His voice into whose bones will not rottenness enter and happy they and they only who now tremble in themselves that they may rest in the day of trouble This not to mention any other ground gives me some small glimmering of hope that the same Powerful Spirit may be pleased also further to manage and improve the same Medium to the relief and advantage of others and I can say it it is usefulness and service that I have aimed at in this enterprize Amongst all the Helps to Devotion that I have seen I mean Books so intitled commonly containing some forms of Prayers I remember not any thing at all of kin to this Undertaking which tends to help the Gift not to stint the Spirit of Prayer and only layes a few sticks together pointing to the Wood where more may be had which by His own breath He may be pleased to kindle Whatever strangers either in place or affection may imagine I know your Excellency to be a Pleader and I hope a Prevailer with God daily I therefore offer this poor Essay unto you not so much by way of Assistance as of Acknowledgement that under God You have been and are the Instrumental cause of my enjoying a fulness of opportunities of doing some service in my Generation the value whereof I desire daily to renew upon my heart above all the things that this world can afford or brittle mortality enjoy As it hath been Your Lordships mercy that hitherto you have had help from on High to know and Love the Lord His Name and Image where ever you discern it and to walk acceptably with Your God and usefully to His People for which you have your Record on High your witness amongst men and in your own Bosom So it is now become your Obligation and only Interest still to be found in the same wayes of Righteousness wherein that you may persevere unto the End and that your Path may be as the shining Light which shineth out more and more unto the perfect day That you your most precious Consort and hopeful Children may prove an inestimate Blessing in this world and eternally Blessed in that to come is and shall be the daily prayer of My Lord Your Excellencies worthless but most willing Servant Tho. Harrison Lemmata Casuum Arguments in Case of 1. UNacquaintedness with the Lord page 28 2. Sence of more then ordinary unworthiness ever to be acquainted savingly with God P. 34 3. Iealousie as to the love of Christ P. 42 4. Iealousie concerning God the Father p. 45 5. Fear of unbelief p. 66 6. Fear of Hypocrisie p. 71 7. Fear of being acted only by a slavish spirit of fear p. 76 8. Sence of fearful back-slidings p. 79 9. Sence of strong corruptions p. 84 10. Fear of great Afflictions p. 88 11. Sence of extremity of Pain p. 92 12. Desertion felt or feared p. 99 13. Exercise in Friends Relations Name or estate p. 103 14. Suddian disquietment from cloudy Providences p. 108 15. Dread of spiritual judgements hardness of heart unprofitableness under means of Grace p. 112 16. Fear that prayer is not heard p. 120 17. Fear that God can never take any special delight in such a polluted piece p. 128 18. Fear of ejectment or unserviceableness p. 134 19. Fear of being cast off at last p. 141 20. Intercession for others with Complaints concerning many things that are amiss in our times p. 146 ERRATA Page 6. line 4. read out and l. 12. r our p. 7. l. 9. r. own p. 23. l. 18. r. may p. 24. l. 25. r. of God p. 60. l. 16. r. loved p 67. l. 9. r. a worm p. 82. l. 4. r. them p. 95. l. 9. r. of Iob. p. 146. l. 23. r. in p. 158. l. 26. r. vectigal p. 164. l. 15. r. in the and l. 23. r. of p. 167. l. 26. r. many times Topica Sacra Spiritual Logick JOB 23.3 4. O That I knew where I might find him that I might come even to his seat I would order my cause before him and fill my mouth with Arguments HOly Iob poor now even to a Proverb and miserable to a Prodigy perceiving his friends Discourses were fuller of Reproaches then Consolations neglects to answer them resolves to get him to God the only Support and Refuge of the miserable And thus he entertains himself in the second verse even to day after all that hath been said Exasperatio est querelae meae the bitterness of my complaint is rather increased then allayed wherefore no wonder my mouth is alwaies open to breath out complaints and the more I complain the more I suffer from you so some or rather from God himself whose hand I acknowledge in all these stroaks and let me complain as long as I will my tongue is not so eloquent in complaining as his hand is heavy that strikes me my stroak is heavier then my groaning And yet for all this verse 3. he sighes after a Treaty after a nearer access and approach unto him that smites him he quits his seeming friends to make after his seeming Enemy and is willing to make this Enemy his Iudge and to refer all to him And then verse 4. he thinks with himself how he would manage his matters how he would bestir himself and not lose his cause for want of pleading could he but get a day of hearing I would order my cause before him and fill my mouth with Arguments Some think he wishes for a Guide a Friend to help him to such an opportunity Quis det nossem saith Drusius