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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04269	A seasonable discourse of spirituall stedfastnesse wherein, 1. it, and a relapse, with the heads, members. and degrees of both, are exactly defined. 2. The subiects, causes, and symptomes of the fearfull sinne of apostasie cleerely expressed. As also directions, incentiues, to recouer, re-inkindle the old-cold-declining zelot. Together with arguments, motiues, that the young, or strong standing convert may be in grace firmely established. By I.B. preacher of the word.	Barlow, John, b. 1580 or 81.	1627 (1627)	STC 1439.5; ESTC S120873	89,672	290

lance foorth and saile to Tarshish his soule hath tooke a spirituall nappe They who grow busie-bodies in oth●r mens matters and overlooke their own are turned backward Idle censorious Christians either never had good stocke or they haue diminished their store For a diligent hand maketh rich as well in spirituall as corporall things Vnthrifts and Loyterers alwaies dye beggers 4. When we feebly perfourme holy actions or fearefully omit them He who preacheth without power prayeth but not fervently singeth Psalmes without ravishings of the spirit and approacheth into Gods presence without trembling serious preparation is in a spirituall consumption That man who speakes fainly walkes limpingly and workes laz●ly is either a Laisht a Gibeoxit or an Ephramite idle luskish or a counterfeite if his naturall habits and abilities be not decayed I may affirme the same of the other From this ground Col. 4.17 Paul might be occasioned to put Archippus in mind to looke to his ministerie 5. A fift symptome is a quiet concoction of what heretofore we haue distasted 1. Sam. 24.5 spued out holding the same as then for loathsome meates Take David in his right temper 2. Sam. 11.25 touch but Sauls lap and his heart smites him if disordered sheath his sword in the bowels of Vriah it will not checke him Men digest that being a sleepe which were they waking would cause them vomit A soule in her best plight as she abhors the greatest So hates the least knowne evill 6. Finally When men offend 2. Chro 16 10. and wil not endure reproofe If Asa imprison the Prophet Ionah Ion. 4 9. tell God he doth well to be angrie And Iob challenge him the schooles Iob. 13.3 they all three are gone downe the winde He who enters into his lodging bolts the doore shuts the window stretcheth himselfe on his bed and drawes the curtaines is certainely inclined to sleepe if he storme cast the stau●s about being awaked you may safely conclude he hath no will to worke You haue heard that Spirituall stedfastnes may be fallen from what it is with the kindes causes and Symptomes of it And now from all the particulars specified and our method propounded we proceede to application Vse .1 And from the foregoing groundes we first conclude against our adversaries that saving grace once obtained cannot totally be consumed destroyed Gaine say we doe not dare not that the acts may not be for a season suspended or the very habit from which they flow Rom. 11.29 weakened But this we denie that the tree with all her fruits may vniversally and finally be blasted Ioh. 11.42 withered For are not the gifts and calling of God without repentance Heb. 4 14. Doth not the Son intercede for vs Will the Father denie him any thing Shall the spirit permit his worke to be abolished 1. Cor. 3.16 Is it equall that the New-man suffer for the Old-mans offence Phil. 1.6 For all that is borne of God sinneth not 1. Io. 3.9 If one member perish would not the bodie of Christ be imperfect Should one finally fall by the same cause why not all And then might not Christ dye in vaine Were not his end at the least in part made frustrate What fearefull and to be abhorred consequents are these What if corruption like a land-flood gather head Grow bigge Overflow the bankes And seeme to drowne all the good graine in the nether groundes Yet in a trice shall it not be dried vp Vanish as if it never had bin When as grace like a little river keepes the chanell runnes continually though shee haue no such boyleings Swellings But we leave them to drinke vp puddle who dislike to tast spring water Vse 2 Learn we hence to avoide the over-forward censuring of backe-sliders lest we condemne the generation of the righteous What if Some who haue made a great profession giue backe Will it follow that they are finally Totally fallen Haue made an apostasie Doe we not reade of many of the Lords worthies who fell in some degree from grace obtained Shall we thence conclude they made shipwracke of all Never recouered In no sort Did not David decline Runne out of the road-way when he returned to murder dissimulation adultery Y●t held he not the habit of grace in some measure sound 1. King 11.5 What did his sonne Salomon also In his yonger yeeres tooke he not many out landish women In his ripe age went he not after Astoreth the Goddesse of the Zidonians And Milcom the abhomination of the Amorits Build an high place for Chemosh and Molech the abhomination of Moab 2 Chro. 16.10 and Ammon Was not Asa wroth with the Seer Put him in the prison house And at the same time oppresse many of the people What should I relate Noahs drunkennesse Lots incest Abrahams equivocation Moses his staggering Ionahs anger Or Peters deniall of his master Lying Swearing Cursing He who had seene these might he not haue bin swayed to haue past a round censure vpon them And in so doing had he not gone beyond his last Pluckt vp plants of righteousnesse What if the Sunne stand still Goe backe many degrees May it not returne to its former motion Runne its course as in the daies of old Christians in this oft get it mist step too farre It s a soule Symptom of a declining soule to passe a rash censure of his failing brethren Yea these many times runne out of the way when they are complaining of others wandrings When a tree le ts fal her fruit casts her leaues lookes dead is it dead No the spring is not farre off the Sunne is in his regresse and then shall shee bloome beare in abundance Wherefore lay thine hand vpon thy mouth be not rash to vtter this thing but rather be swift to heare Iam. 1.19 slow to censure Vse 3 And what we haue in the doctrine prooved may teach a declining Christian a two-fold lesson The former when he discernes his spirituall decay to repent Smite his hand vpon his thigh and be ashamed that with Ephraim Ier. 31.19 he hath mispent the time of his youth as the Prodigall runne from his father Luk. 15.13 wasted his stocke and lost part of his portion The latter is when he conceiues that he cannot finally fall his store totally be consumed to gather heart and be of good comfort For there is life in the roote nature is not wholly destroyed Isa 65.8 the cluster of grapes is sound and there is a blessing in it What if the water ebbe Shall it never flow The babe not spring Is it dead in the wombe The sunne eclipsed His bodie consumed Israel once or twise flee Will it follow they shall never returne Fight Win the field I tell thee grace is not like Ionah's gourd Ion. 4.8 that springs in a morning withers in a moment neither the Lillies which flourish this day the next cast into the Ouen and burned We may not