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A91948	A faithfull friend true to the soul or The soules self-examination, preparing it self for the great triall of life or death eternall in the other world, in 86. quæries. Whereunto is added, the Christian jewell of faith, or the ready way to beleeve and be saved. By Timothy Rogers, minister of the church at Chappell in Essex.	Rogers, Timothy, 1598-1650?.	1653 (1653)	Wing R1854; Wing R1853; Thomason E1390_1; Thomason E1390_2; ESTC R209369	33,600	195

THE CHRISTIANS JEWELL OF FAITH OR The ready way to Beleeve and be saved Wherein is the * Mysterie of Faith laid open * 1 Tim. 3.9 By Timothy Rogers Minister of the Church at Chappell in Essex Mark 5.36 Be not affraid but beleeve Luke 7.50 Thy Faith hath saved thee goe in peace LONDON Printed for E. Brewster and G. Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill 1653. The Contents of the severall Chapters contained in this Book Saving Belief What it is Chap. 1 Saving Belief How it is called Chap. 2 Saving Belief How the Law workes toward it Cha. 3 Saving Belief How the Gospell works to bring to it Cha. 4 Saving Belief Questions resolved about the Gospels working of it Cha. 5 Saving Belief The true Grounds of it Cha. 6 Saving Belief Objections answered that hold back one throughly humbled from it Cha. 7 Saving Belief The main Lets to the getting of it Chap. 8 Saving Belief Helps for distressed soules to it Chap. 9 Saving Belief The seat or subject of it Chap. 10 Saving Belief The immediat effects following it Chap. 11 Saving Belief The Excellencie of it Chap. 12 Saving Belief The Necessity of it Chap. 13 Saving Belief 14. Sorts of professors that want it Cha. 14 Saving Belief Generall notes of triall whereby to know it Chap. 15 Saving Belief More speciall notes whereby it may be tryed and known Chap. 16 Saving Belief The degrees of it Chap. 17 Saving Belief What we must doe with it when we have it Chap. 18 Saving Belief What we must do when we want it and more of it desired Chap. 19 Christian Reader THe same author hath another work entituled The righteou● mans Evidence for heaven Or 〈◊〉 treatise shewing how every one while he lives here may certainly know what shall become of him after his departure out of this life TO THE Right Worshipfull Mr JOHN EDEN OF Ballindon Hall in Essex Esquire my godly Patrone Right Worshipfull HAVING this small Treatise lying dead by me or at least asleep and being provoked to give it more roome and some breath that it might be awakened by the Presse and Printers hand to come to light I could not bethinke my selfe to make Dedication of it as the use is to any one more fitly then your selfe and that for these reasons First you have been a good Disciple in the schoole of Piety from your very non-age and education by that pious Lady your ancient Mother whom I much honour with the rest of that vertuous brood some of whom it was my lot to seale up in their sepulchres besides some of your owne Secondly you have been a constant hearer of these and other my Collations when you have been in these parts Thirdly you are my loving Patrone by whose meanes and instigation according to the desire of the Congregation I was some yeares since brought to this place Fourthly I therefore am peculiarly ingaged unto you and love not to live or dye wholly in debt I look to lay downe my tabernacle daily accept I pray this small Testimony of Gratitude I must say as Peter Act. 3.6 Silver and gold have I not but such as I have give I you a little plaine fruit of my owne grafting I therefore dedicate it unto your selfe and by you to my well-affected friends my constant conscionable and profitable hearers Never more need of Faith and living by it then in this terrible tempest the blessing of the Lord goe with it Yours faithfully obliged in the Lord Timothy Rogers Imprimatur JA. CRANFORD August 12. 1644. SAVING-BELIEF OR The Ready and Right way to beleeve and be saved CHAP 1. What it is and the Definition of it explained THat every one must beleeve that would be saved is a truth out of question confessed by all that professe Christ but yet every kind of Beleeving is not saving Generall and common faith for the Devills beleeve Iam 2.19 and Simon Magus beleeved Acts. 8.13 and was baptized and yet St Peter saith he was in the gall of bitternes and bond of iniquity now then what kind of Beliefe it is that will save and that onely this Treatise shewes not therefore to meddle with historicall temporarie or miraculous faith which are not saving Saving beliefe The definition of it What is true saving Beliefe A right applying of Christ to ones selfe viz. by an hearty accepting of him and a true perswasion of our Soules wellfare by him 1 For better understanding whereof 1 I say it 's an applying of Christ for as Manna did no good unlesse it were fetcht home and fed upon nor Physick doth good without applying no more doth Christ unlesse he be applyed to the soule 2 It 's an applying to ones selfe for to apply Christ to another as when you are perswaded of such a ones Salvation by him will no more save thy soule then another bodies feeding will nourish thee or preserve thy life 3 It 's a right applying for if it be wrong it saves not Q. How may one know whether it be a right applying of Christ A. If it set an impression of the likenesse of Christ on the soule so as Christ is a Gal. 4.19 formed in it and it becomes like unto him in holynesse and true righteousnesse as a seale being rightly set and applyed to the wax leaves the right print of it selfe behind it 2 If it apply not a bare Christ but Christ with his benefits and one of them as well as another holinesse and mortification Rom. 6.4 as well as pardon of sinnes and mercy 3 If it make us let goe our hould of sinne as a full hand must first open and let goe what is in it before it can take hould of a better thing And this is the definition of true faith but I further add for Explanation by an hearty accepting of him and a true perswasion of our soules welfare by him because an hearty and unfained accepting of Christ is the true conception of faith and a true perswasion is the birth of it as shall be further shewed Chap. 5. I say also a true perswasion for in a Temporarie Hypocrite is found a particular perswasion or applying to himselfe but it 's not true Q. Is not true beleeving a resting upon Christ A. Yes for a perswasion includes a resting on him and a resting on him implyes some at least implicite perswasion CHAP. 2. How it is called and the working causes thereof SAving beliefe to difference it from that beleeving that will not save is called by peculiar names setting out the dignity of it as saith of Gods elect Tit. 1.1 the faith of Saints Rev. 13.10 the faith of Iesus Rev. 14.12 most holy faith Iude. 20. worke of faith with power 2 Thess 1.11 faith unfained 1. Tim. 1.5 Precious faith 2. Pet. 1.1 No other faith can be properly so called The working causes there of are either principall or in strumentall the principall is God himselfe Faith of the operation of God Col. 2.12

and therefore the blessed work of Father Son and Holy Ghost Loe how goodly a thing it is as a rare peece of a famous Artist The instrumentall causes are Gods Ministers with the word preached in their mouthes Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God Rom. 10.17 and how shall they heare without a Preacher verse 14. for though God could work faith in men without this yet he will not as he could if it pleased him preserve our life without food but we doe not therefore expect hee will doe it and so refuse our food because he can do it but rather consider what he will doe There are two parts of Gods Word Lawe and Gospell they both conduce to the work of faith and goe to the making up of saving beliefe the Law begins the worke the Gospell finisheth it the Law makes way for Christ and therefore is called our schoolemaster to bring us to Christ Gal. 3.24 the Gospell brings him into the soule and brings the soule into saving acquaintance with him Q. May not one beleeve rightly without the working of the Law first A. No 1. Because no part of Gods Word is in vaine but serves to speciall use to bring men to salvation 2. This were to have the work finished before it be begun for the Law begins the work and Christ is the end of the law Rom. 10.4 3. They that beleeve by the Gospell without the working of the Law first doe but as one that is full fed having a dainty morsell offered him takes it indeed but layes it by or puts it in his pocket not receiving it into the Stomack to nourish him CHAP. 3. How the Law workes towards the bringing us to beleeve 1. The Law first enlightens us and makes us see our misery Rom. 3.20 2. It wounds us and makes us feelingly affected with our misery and therefore is said to slay us Rom. 7.9 11. by both these it is said to humble us Q. Must one needs be wounded and humbled distressed in soule for his sinne and misery A. Yes there cannot be healing before there be a wound nor a cure wrought till the patient be willing to put himselfe into the Phisitions hands to use his skill he cannot be willing till he see and feele his danger of death To see our misery is to be lost in our selves to feele it is to be sick Christ came to seeke and save them that are lost Luke 19.10 and to be a physitian to those that are sick of their sins Mark 2.17 and to heale the broken hearted and bruised ones Luke 4.18 and none els 2. Morever it is a condition which God requireth Humble your selves in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up Iam. 4.10 and verse 9. Be afflicted and mourne and weepe c. 3. It is the way to have a pardon as a condemned subject or leud child must first humble themselves before they be taken to favour 4. It makes us willing that Christ should take us up and beare us or doe any thing with us as Saul Acts. 9.6 Lord what wilt thou have me to doe As a wearied Traveller ready to sinke under his burden is willing and thankefull to be taken up and carried whereas a fresh and lusty Gentleman that walkes upon his pleasure scornes to be carried on a porters back therefore of necessity we must be first humbled before there can be any good done on us for beleeving to Salvation The law I say by inlightning and wounding the soule is said to humble us of which legall humiliation are divers steps and degrees for the law makes us see and certainly beleeve 1. That we are unbeleevers for none will seeke after beleeving that thinkes he hath it already 2. Our wofull case and danger therfore for he that beleeveth not shall be damned Mark 16.16 yea is condemned already Iohn 3.18 3. That we are nothing but sinne and vilenesse Tit. 1.15 16. all we have or ever have done being without faith and therefore no better then * Splendida peccata matter of damnation displeasing God Heb. 11.6 4. It makes us abhorre and loath our selves therfore Ezek. 20.43 5. Bitterly to lament for our lost miserable soule as Zach. 12.10 6. To be weary of our sinnes and therefore would be ridd of them and weary of our selves and therefore cannot indure in that estate wherein we are Math. 11.28 You that are weary come to me saith Christ 7. To be willing to forgoe our sinnes and doe any thing God shall bid us Acts. 9.6 yet not out of true hatred of sin or love to God that the law workes not but out of meere terrour and feare of hell 8. To despaire of our selves or as * Homil. Falling from God First part touching any hope that may be in our selves or any possibility to helpe our selves but that all we can doe rather increaseth Gods wrath against us being still without faith But note that this despairing of ourselves is not the despairing of the grace of God which faith comming in upon it prevents and keepes all those from in whom it succeedeth for the Law now hath brought the soule to the mouth of the gulfe of despaire ready to be swallowed up but here comes in faith in his proper place to doe the soule good in all such as attaine it who els would wholy despaire as Iudas 1. Ob. You named in the 4. and 7. places an abhorring our selves for our sinnes and a willingnes to forgoe them c. how may these be before faith Answ There is a kind of abhorring of our selves and our sinnes and a willingnes to be rid of them before faith wrought but not out of love to God or hatred of sinne as it is sinne and unrighteousnes contrary to the pure nature of God but as it is our torment as a rare delicious confection that exceedingly delighteth the tast yet hath a malignant quality and being eaten torments extreamely and burnes the bowells the party tormented therewith abhorres to see or thinke of it and cryes away with it fling it into the fire and yet it it as pleasant to his tast as it was before and as it was with Iudas his thirty peeces when his conscience was tormented 2 Ob. You speake of seeing and feeling our misery must there needs be both these will not seeing alone serve turne Answ No. Our seeing of our soules misery is the Lawes inlightning us Our feeling it is the wound it gives us as Peters hearers were pricked in their hearts Acts. 2.37 Many onely seeing their misery but their hearts not wounded with a sense of it go on still in their naturall state and come not to the honour to be true beleevers in Christ as one may see his dangerous soare and Vlcer hazarding his life and the Chirurgion comming to him with his lancing knife but yet unlesse he indure the launcing and feele the smart he cannot be cured Thus the Law having done its