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A25247	Prima the first things, in reference to the middle and last things: or, the doctrine of regeneration, the new birth, the very beginning of a godly life. Delivered by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire.; Prima, media, & ultima. Prima.	Ambrose, Isaac, 1604-1664.	1650 (1650)	Wing A2964; ESTC R213988	65,629	80

woful are you considering this bar in heavens door to keep out the unregenerate Except Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God Thus far of the Exception we now come to the Person that is a Nisi prius in the front Except This is the party that must prosecute the cause a man A man ANd this man is every man and every part of man It implyes all men for all are bound to it and all man for all the parts of his body and all the powers of his soul are to be renewed or he cannot be saved The word then is general whether we respect genera singulorum the kindes all men or singula generum the Individuums all man or all the parts of man body and soul We will first begin with the kindes Doct. 1 All men or all mankinde must be regenerated before they be saved not one of all the sons of Adam that shall ever go to heaven except he be born again may your contemplations guided by Gods word go into that Paradise above there walk the streets behold the towers view the subjects from the one end of heaven to another and whom finde you there Not one that lives and dyes in sin there is not in it nor shall enter into it any thing that defileth Rev. 21.27 neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lye Revel 21.27 yet if such repent them of their sins the gates shall not be shut against them all the Saints that now walk in the light of it were sinners but first they were purged by the Lamb and sanctified by the Spirit first they were regenerated and so they were saved You may object If all men that go to heaven must be new born what shall become of infants that dye ere they be born Can a man enter the second time into his mothers womb and be born said Nicodemus But can a man enter into the second birth in his mothers womb say you and be born again before he is once born I answer to be born again supposeth to be once born indeed therefore according to the letter our Savior speaketh of a man already born into the world that he must be born again But if we seek out the sense to be born again as our Savior interprets is to be born of water and of the Spirit and so may Infants not born into the world be born again Ierem. 1.5 Thus we read of Jeremy The word of the Lord came unto him saying Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee Jer. 1.5 And thus we read of John the Baptist the Angel of the Lord saying of him that He should be filled with the Holy Ghost Luk. 1.15 even from his mothers womb Luk. 1.15 By these examples we see what the Lord can do yea what he doth indeed although we know not how nor can it be observed by us You may yet object to be born again is saith our Savior to be born of water and of the Spirit now water is the outward Baptism and the Spirit is the inward grace thus * Quindecem patres proposuit Bellarminus Tomo secundo lib. 2. de effectu Sacramentorum cap. 3. Hook Eccles Polit. l. 5. sect 59. all Ancients have construed this text saith Hooker but children not born howsoever they are sanctified by the Spirit they cannot be baptized with water and therefore they cannot see the Kingdom of God I answer In cases of extremity or impossibility if actual Baptism be wanting vocal is enough and thus far some of our adversaries grant us Aquin. 3. part quaest 68. art 2. Though it be wanting indeed saith Aquinas yet Baptism in desire is sufficient to salvation And to this end he cites Austin saying Sanctification may be without Baptism and Baptism without Sanctification if Sanctification be though Baptism be not it avails to salvation but if Baptism be and Sanctification be not it avails nothing at all Our conclusion is this All men or all mankinde yong men and maidens old men and children Psal 148.12 all must be regenerated or they can never see the Kingdom of God Secondly Doct. 2 as all men so all man all the members of his body all the faculties of his soul Sanctification if saving must be perfect and entire though not in respect of degrees yet in respect of parts every part and power of body and soul must have its part of sanctification though no part his full perfection before the dissolution of our earthly tabernacles Hence say Divines there is a regeneration or sanctification it is all one inchoata and consummata inchoata begun in this life consummata perfected in that other and of this saith our Savior Matth. 19.28 Verily I say unto you Matth. 19.28 that ye which have followed me in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel we speak not of this Regeneration but of that which brings to this for we must be regenerated here or have no part there with God in his glory And should we consider man in his parts every part must bear a part in this birth his body must be regenerated his soul must be renewed we will begin with the body As you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity Rom. 6.19 even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness Rom. 6.19 As every member of the old man is full of sin so every member of the new born man is to be renewed by grace To instance in some of them The heart Matth. 15.19 that in the old man is full of evil thoughts murthers adulteries fornications thefts false witness blasphemies in the new man it is the member that must first be renewed here grace first seats it self and after is dispersed over all as in natural generation the heart is first framed so in spiritual regeneration the heart is first reformed Some call it the first mover of all mens actions for as the first mover carrieth all the sphaeres of heaven with it so doth the heart carry all the members of the body with it and therefore it is that the new man begins first with his heart for if that fountain be right all the streams of his desires purposes affections speeches actions conversations run sweet and clear and pleasant Again the eye that in the old man is the Broaker that goes between the heart and the object to make up the sinful bargain Matt. 6.23 2 Pet. 1.14 Iob. 31.1 that which our Savior calls an evil eye S. Peter an adulterous eye in the new man it must be exercised on other objects I made a covenant with mine eye saith Job why then should I think upon a maid I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills saith David from

7. Sins against the sixth Commandment IT is the sixth Commandment Thou shalt do no murther For the duties here required Say 1. Hast thou ever desired and studied by all means lawful to preserve thine own person and the person of thy neighbor Or for the sins here forbidden Say 1 Hast thou not sometimes envied others for their wealth Gen 26.14 Numb 11.29 Gen. 37.11 Iob 16 9 or for their gifts or for their respects with others 2. Hast thou not offended others in gestures gnashing on them with thy teeth or sharpening thine eyes on them 3. Hast thou not fended others in words by censuring or reviling 1 Pet. 3.9 Psal 37.12 or rendring evil for evil or railing for railing 4. Hast thou not offended others in deeds plotting against the just Matth. 5.22 Amos 2.11 or doing evil to any man 5. Hast thou not been angry with thy brother without cause or continued long in anger keeping thy wrath as it were for ever 6. Hast thou not rejoyced at others fall Pro. 24.17 Iob 31.30 or wished a curse to their souls 7. Hast thou not done evil to thy self by inordinate fretting or grieving or drinking or surfetting Numb 14.2 Pro. 6.14 or saying in thy passions Would God I were dead 8. Hast thou not been a sower of discord or some way or other a just occasion of the discomfort or of the death of thy neighbor If in any of these thou hast transgressed thou hast then broken this Commandment Thou shalt do no murther Sect. 8. Sins against the seventh Commandment IT is the seventh Commandment Thou shalt not commit adultery For the duties here required Say Hast thou ever kept thy self pure in soul and body both towards thy self and others Or for the sins here forbidden Say Hast thou not sometimes been defiled with buggery Sodomitry incest whoredom adultery Polygamy Rom. 1.26 self-pollution or with changing the natural use into that which is against nature 2. Hast thou not offended in the occasions of uncleanness as in idleness gluttony drunkenness wanton company whorish attire or perfumes 3. Pro. 7.16 17. Col. 3.8 Hast thou not sinned in thy senses or gestures or words by filthy communication proceeding out of thy mouth 4. Hast thou not harbored in thy heart burning lusts impure thoughts inordinate affections 5. Matth. 5.28 Hast thou not behaved thy self immodestly unsoberly Col. 3.5 or shamelesly abusing thy body or using some maner of dalliance and wantonness If in any of these thou hast transgressed then hast thou broken this Commandment Thou shalt not commit adultery Sect. 9. Sins against the eighth Commandment IT is the eighth Commandment Thou shalt not steal For the duties here required Say Hast thou ever by all good means furthered the outward estate of thy self and of thy neighbor Or for the sins here forbidden Say First Hast thou not sometimes got thy living by an unlawful calling Secondly hast thou not impoverisht thy self by idleness luxurious or unnecessary expences Thirdly hast thou not withheld from thy self or others that which should have been expended Fourthly hast thou not gotten or kept thy neighbors goods by falshood or force and made no restitution Fifthly hast thou not stollen by usury or oppression or fraud in buying or selling an abomination unto the Lord Sixthly hast thou not robbed God of his tythes and offerings by sacriledge or symony Deut. 25.16 Malac. 3.8 Seventhly hast thou not some way or other impaired thy neighbors state If in any of these thou hast transgressed then hast thou broken this Commandment Thou shalt not steal Sect. 10. Sins against the ninth Commandment IT is the ninth Commandment Thou shalt not bear false witness For the duties here required Say Hast thou ever by all means sought to maintain thy own and thy neighbors good name according to truth and a good conscience Or for the sins here forbidden Say Rev. 22.15 First hast thou not sometimes loved or made a lye Secondly Ier. 20.10 Mat. 7.3 Prov. 24.24 hast thou not raised a false report to the defaming of many Thirdly hast thou not censured or judged others yet never considered the beam that is in thy own eye Fourthly hast thou not flattered thy self and others saying unto the wicked Thou art righteous Fifthly hast thou not condemned some without witness or forborn to witness for others when thou knewest the truth Sixthly hast thou not been uncharitably suspitious or a despiser of thy neighbor Seventhly hast thou not told a lye whether jestingly or officiously or perniciously If in any of these thou hast transgressed then hast thou broke this Commandment Thou shalt not bear false witness Sect. 11. Sins against the last Commandment IT is the last Commandment Thou shalt not covet For the duties here required Say First hast thou ever been truly contented with thy own outward condition Secondly hast thou rejoyced at others good and loved thy neighbor as thy self Matth. 19.19 Or for the sins here forbidden Say First Matth. 15.19 hast thou not sometimes conceived evil thoughts in thy heart Secondly hast thou not delighted in the inward contemplations of evil Thirdly hast thou not been full of discontent with thy own condition and state Fourthly hast thou not felt another law of thy members warring against the law of thy minde Fifthly Rom. 7.29 hast thou not coveted after something or other that was thy neighbors either with will or by actual concupiscence If in any of these thou hast transgressed then hast thou broke this Commandment Thou shalt not covet CHAP. III. The second means to get into the new birth AFter examination which may well serve thee for one days work or two the next duty is Confession Now then take the Catalogue of those sins or if thy awaked conscience can tell thee of any other which thou knowest thou hast committed and noted either in this book or on some other paper and kneeling on thy knees spread thy Catalogue before the Lord I say spread thy Catalogue before the Lord 2 King 19.14 as Hezekiah did his letter there read thou seriously and particularly saying O Lord I confess I have committed this sin and the other sin as they are before thee in order of all these sins I am guilty especially of those sins wherein I delighted my darlings my minions my bosom-sins take notice of them and confess them again of all these sins I am guilty And now O Lord standing as it were at the bar of thy tribunal I arraign my self and accuse my self and judge my self worthy of the utmost of thy wrath and indignation for one sin thou cast Adam out of paradise for one sin thou cast the Angels out of heaven for one sin thou destroyedst a world of men and what then shall become of me that have committed a world of sins here pause a while and meditate on thy unworthiness O that I should be so foolish so bruitish so mad to commit these sins