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B20532	Five lessons for a Christian to learne, or, The summe of severall sermons setting out 1. the state of the elect by nature, 2. the way of their restauration and redemption by Jesus Christ, 3. the great duty of the saints, to leane upon Christ by faith in every condition, 4. the saints duty of self-denyall, or the way to desirable beauty, 5. the right way to true peace, discovering where the troubled Christian may find peace, and the nature of true peace / by John Collings ...	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.	1650 (1650)	Wing C5317; ESTC R23459	197,792	578

the Apostle told the beleeving Ephesians that they were Children of wrath by nature even as others Eph. 2. 3. Besides that Christ useth not to pay any debts by halves it were as good as nothing for Iesus Christ to pardon a reprobates Originall sin to whom he never intends to pardon all sinne yea Originall sinne doth not only remaine upon elected ones as an offence to God and laying upon them an obligation to death since Christ dyed untill their Iustification but even after Iustification there is a body of death it hath lost its condemning power and its raigning power but it yet cleaves to our flesh as Ivy to the tree so deep an impression it hath upon all our natures But this openeth a way to another question whether originall sin remaines in any of the elect after Justification the affirmative is truth but in regard that my text strikes not directly against the errour I shall passe it by and refer you to those that have defended the truth in it as Zanchi c. and leaving this first use shall proceed to some further application which shall be more Particular 1. By way of Instruction 2. By way of Examination and Tryall 3. By way of Exhortation 4. By way of Consolation Of all these in their order By way of Instruction We may hence learne first what a sad condition the most men of the world are in Ah! Lord how few are they whom thou hast chosen ever to obtaine eternall life and yet these are children of wrath by nature as well as others Poore creatures my heart trembles to thinke of you How many in this Congregation yet lye in a condition low enough and the Lord knowes whether ever to be raised yea or no. If a child should be borne with some naturall weaknesse in its armes or leggs and it should live six or ten or twenty years and yet not be able to use its limbs you would say it would be a very great hazard if ever that child did recover its limbs so as to have the strength and exercise of it it would be almost a miracle It was such a miracle that in the ninth of John when Jesus Christ had restored sight to one that was borne blind the Jewes would not beleeve it possible and ver 32. we find a positive determination upon the question Since the world began it was never heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was borne blind How many poore wretches that are come here into the presence of the Lord that were all borne blind deafe dead and have lived some ten some twenty some thirty yeares some more and all this time have continually had all the meanes that could be applyed to them for recovery and yet are in the same lost undone condition Ah my friends what can you neither stretch out hand nor foot nor tongue nor any member notwithstanding all the meanes of grace astoorded you for quickning Let me tell you it is ten thousand to one if you doe not perish for ever My friends It is a miracle a great miracle of mercy that any one poore wretch considering in what condition it is borne should ever come out of it The Jewes would hardly beleeve the report therefore they say Joh. 9. 19. Is this your sonne that was borne blind how then doth he now see We may say so concerning every one that hath any thing of God in him Was not this poore creature borne blind how doth he now see was not he borne lost How is he now raised but for those that in stead of growing better are growne ten times worse that have hardened their hearts and gone on in riot and wantonnesse and are yet in their bloud it is ten to one if ever the Lord say to them live they are growne to such a shamelesse impudence in wickednesse I dare not say there is no hope But let me sadly say there is small hope that ever the Lord should raise such wretches And if he doth not better ten thousand times better sinner had it been for thy soule that thou hadst never seen the light of the morning nor heard the voice of the Gospell in thine eares This is your condition the Lord awaken you Secondly From hence we may be instructed Whom we have cause to thanke that any of us are this day out of hell Who art thou O man that boasts thou art of good parentage or of a great birth harke in what language my Text speaks thy birth Thou wert borne under the Apple-tree there thy mother brought thee forth there she brought thee forth that bare thee If thy heavenly Father doth no more for thee than thy earthly mother woe to thee that ever thou wert borne What a boasting we have of pedegrees and great descents What a great word it is in the world I was better borne than you My father was such a Gentleman so great so rich c. My mother was of such or such an ancient Family O vanity vanity of vanities Poore creature thy mother brought thee forth under an Apple-tree The very heathen out of a meere rationall principle could scoffe at such brags Genus proavos quae non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voco Tully could retort to the Roman bragging of his descent Domus mea à me incipiet tua verò in te desinet My house shall have its Originall from me my Nobility and worth thy Noble Family shall have an end in thy Basenesse Christian what is thy birth consider it but in a spirituall notion the poorest wretch in the world is borne in as good a condition as thou art and thou in no better an estate towards God than he Suppose a man were borne of some great parentage and had no Lands no estate left him but could only boast of fumos nomina vana Catonum his fathers name and the smoake of his chimney Possibly he hath some gorgeous suit of apparell left him this he weares and glisters in for a while yet a little while and these teare and then he hath not a rag left him nor a penny to buy one to cover his nakednesse how contemptible would such a poore wretch be in every mans eyes And is not this the condition of the most of the great men gallants of the world they glister with an outside a little in the world their names are great their persons admired yet a little while and these weare out the men dye and lye downe in hell Ah! that those that glory would glory in this that God is their Father and Jesus Christ their portion Thus your Houses would have a beginning of Glory from you and their Glory should not end with you 2. Nor is the boasting of those much better that can boast of their Religious Parents I confesse it is the better of the two an heire of Glory being farre more noble than the greatest worldling and in regard that the Election of God runs much in a

trouble under every crosse whence is it then that their spirits are sometimes so much down so much sunk whence is it that assoone as ever a Saint is troubled he doth not presently without any more adoe runne to Christ and secure himselfe and be at rest but wee heare day after day that the Spirit of the Saint is under the same burthens overwhelmed in the same manner as if there were no balme in Gilead no Physician there Truly there may bee many causes possibly there may be a sullennesse in the soule that it will not out of the cave it is angry with God and will refuse comfort Possibly God may please to deny a present application of a comfort by the hand of the spirit which can alone make a plaster stick upon a wounded spirit bee it never so well made and spread But I perswade my selfe two great and very usuall causes yea most usuall are Ignorance and negligence Either the soule is a stranger to the Rock or else it doth not put forth its legges in running to it 1. A Christian may have a great interest in Christ a great portion in the rock of ages and yet be in a great manner ignorant of him and this partiall ignorance though it shall not hinder their finall salvation for our high-priest hath compassion on the ignorant saith the Apostle to the Hebrewes yet it may hinder their present comfort It may be the soule is not so acquainted with the word of God that when it is in trouble it can turne to a promise presently that shall relate to its condition it may be it may not bee so acquainted with all the corners of Christs gracious heart that it can presently consider Christ in a sutable notion to comfort it under its present burthen Now this very ignorance and not being acquainted with Jesus Christ may a great deale hinder the soules comfort and make him go with a sad heart a great deale longer than that soule that is more growne in the knowledge of Christ more acquainted with every piece of his nature more experienced in his wayes Indeed secondly a great cause may be the soules negligence a knowledge may lie dormant in the soule a man may have legges and not use them so a Christian may have a sufficient acquaintance with Christ in his words of promise and wayes of mercy and yet for all this if it will sit still in an houre of trouble and never set it selfe to meditate upon these things never put forth it selfe to trie if it can close with the promise that it knowes never trie whether its faith will efficaciously worke upon the mercifull nature of Jesus Christ though it knowes it A soule may walk troubled long enough but this I have nothing to doe with here Christians ah you that feare the Lord in the dayes of your peace be every day gaining more and more knowledge of God in his wayes of mercy be every day gaining more and more knowledge of God in his precious promises learne to know every hole of the rock that so you may readily flie to it in an houre of straits readily run to it in an houre of trouble That your spirits may no sooner be troubled but you shall being so acquainted with the book of God presently turne to a good word of promise that shall make it better or presently fix your eye upon Christ and consider him in some sutable notion of love or other from which your soules shall gather peace This shall be your wisdome Br. 3 Lastly you that are believers have you heard that there is peace laid up for the Saints against the dayes of trouble Then learne if ever you meet with trouble in the world whether outward or inward Not only to look after peace and a quietment and settling of your spirits againe but look to draw your peace from the Lord Jesus Christ in the day of trouble to quiet your spirits in him and to heale your spirits with something drawne from him some word of his some meditation concerning him c. Fetch out your peace and quietment in all troubles from the bosome of the Lord Jesus Christ Let mee for this exhortation onely give you some few directions and then I shall conclude with two or three motives I know every child of God is listning after this and apprehends a great deale of sweetnesse in this fully conceiving that it would be a very sweet thing if he could bring this about that his soule should come out of every disturbance Walking upon Christs hand you cannot but say this would be a sweet comming off indeed Ah but will some say how should this bee what course should we take to worke this about what would you advise a poore creature to doe that it might come out of troubles on this fashion To this I shall answer in a few directions and that briefely Dir. 1 First Let it be thy first work when thou art overwhelmed with a rrouble be it from what cause it will to sit downe and think what is now a bitter dispensation that doth not please mee I am troubled at it but let me think is there nothing of God in this dispensation commeth this affliction out of the dust see if thou canst see nothing of Gods power or soveraignty wisdome or justice providence love and goodnesse c. I dare say there is scarce any affliction befals thee but if thou studiest it well thou wilt see all of these yea more of God than these come to in it thou wilt be brought at last to conclude surely God was in this crosse in this losse of a friend in this losse of estate and I was not aware of it surely it is the will of the Lord concerning me and shall I not submit God might doe what he hath done he is my Lord and soveraigne why then doth my spirit rise up in armes against him this is the ordering of a wise Providence If what I would have had had come to passe then surely I could not have mended it it would have been worse for me surely here is love in this dispensation for that God is all love that measured it out to mee Thus by understanding what of God there is in thy triall thou wilt gaine a true peace The truth is it is the usuall course of men and women holy men and women as well as others if a trouble come upon them to sit downe and conceit what of man there is in it and say This was such a ones malice to mee now hee hath done me an ill turne c. whereas this instead of bringing the soule off trouble in a sanctified manner doth nothing else but involve the soule in an inextricable Labyrinth of afflictions and if ever it comes out it is at the back-doore too Dir. 2 When thou hast considered what there is of God in it then mediate a little what there is in God to mend it Sit downe and think with thy selfe is

Heaven and live in a state of life on this side of glory be it what it will yet if it be in this world if there way be here they shall meet with rubs In the world they shall have trouble But what troubles That 's the next thing to bee enquired into What are those troubles which Saints must look to meet with in the world The word translated Troubles is 1. What troubles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it will helpe us to understand what troubles the Saints shall meet with et in specie et in gradu both in the kind and in the degree For the Kind first The word doth generally signifie all kinds of troubles bee they upon our soules or bodies in respect of our estaies or relations Acts 14. 22. Wee must through much tribulation enter into the Kingdome of God the word there used is the same and it were easie to prove by an induction of particular instances that the word comprehends all troubles of all sorts 1. It is taken for bodily sorrow and pangs like the pangs of a woman in travaile Joh. 16. 21. 2. For outward crosses and afflictions that men meet with from others and relate to their outward estate and take away their prosperity and happinesse Acts 7. 10 11. 3. For spirit-troubles and burthens in that sense the Apostle useth the word 2 Cor. 2. 4. where hee tells them that hee wrote to them in much affliction and anguish of heart c. So then for the kind of them it is plain that they must meet with all sorts of troubles afflictions in their body crosses in their estates relations in all their outward enjoyments and contentments Adversity on all hands yea and they shall meet with anguish of heart too spirit-burthens and troubles and vexations Now if you enquire into the degree of them The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will help you to 2. What degree find out that too Criticks tells us it comes either from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies to teare and oppresse and weare out or from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies to break Saints must look for troubles on all hands both without and within from friends and foes in bodies and soules and estates and they shall not be light ones neither but such as shall even weigh downe their spirit and weare out their strength and break their heart in pieces breaking-troubles and heart-rending and oppressing-troubles such degrees of heavinesse as shall make the heart to stoop as the wise man speaks such as shall make their hearts groane and their backs break againe such troubles such afflictions are meant so much the word imports But may some say whence shall this trouble this affliction arise to the Saints shall it come out of the dust from what root of causes shall these branches of bitter fruit spring forth That is the third thing which I propounded 3. What are the causes of the Saints trouble and shall now speak to I conceive first and last they may spring from a three-fold cause from God from themselves and from the world 1. First of all the cause may lie in God and it doth so originally and primarily God may bee the cause of it 1. In respect of his just ordination God hath determined that all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution 1 Tim. 3. 3. The Apostle saith wee are appointed thereto 1 Thes 3. 3. The Apostle layes our suffring here upon the will of God 1 Pet. 3. 17. It is better if the will of God be so that you should suffer and so againe 1 Pet. 4. 19. Let them that suffer according to the will of God Marlorate sayes Meminerimus nos sub hac conditione esse Christianos c. Wee may remember wee are Christians upon this condition He that will be my disciple let him deny himselfe and take up the crosse and follow mee No following of Christ without a crosse on our back Frustrà conamur Christum a cruce disjungere saith Mr. Calvin It is a lost labour to think to part Christ and the crosse they are nailed together Me thinks it is worth the taking notice of our crosses and afflictions come to us from the same hand the same cause that heaven and glory and happinesse come Christ saith feare not little flock it is your fathers will to give you a Kingdome Wee hold that from Gods will and he also saith It is your fathers will to give you a crosse it is the will of God that you should suffer surely then hee wills us the first as the end the second as the meanes the first ultimately the crosse mediately The cause may lie yea and doth lie in Gods ordination 2. It may lie nearer in Gods wise providence hee sees it best for his Saints either to purge them according to that I will purely purge away thy drosse and take away thy trim and that Is 27. By this shall the Iniquitie of Jacob be purged and all the fruit shall be to take away his sinne or else to trie them I will melt them and trie them saith the Lord so the Apostle saith that their afflictions and temptations were that the truth of their faith might appeare more precious than that of gold which perisheth or else 3. to weane them them from the world therefore are the bigs of it rubd with wormewood Ideo saith the father Deus terrenis foelicitatibus amaritudinem miscet ut alia quaratur foelicitas cujus dulcedo non est fallax God therefore here puts gal into our sweetnesse and imbittreth our happinesse that we might look after another happinesse whose sweetnesse is not deceitfull Thus God is the cause of the Saints troubles while they are in the world But secondly 2. Themselves may be a great cause yea and are 1. Through the infirmity of their natures and that 's the reason I conceive why outward crosses and trials and afflictions are called our infirmities as because they doe infirmos reddere make us weak by 1 Cor. 12. 5. bowing downe the soule and drinking up the spirits or enervating the body before they leave us So also because through the weaknesse of our natures they are troubles to us Saints have flesh and bloud in them and that is not able to beare such a crosse such a triall the losse of such a friend of such a neere and deare relation but it must even break them in peeces and oppresse them This is through their weaknesse You know that the tendernesse of the skin and body will double every lash so the weaknesse of our nature makes every crosse a double trouble and of a double weight to a Christian and so he is in a great measure through the meer weaknesse and inability of his nature a cause of his owne trouble Secondly Wee may be yea and are the proximate causes of them through the sinfulnesse of our soules wee are here full of sinne and it is but

31 32. Sweetnesse of Christ to the soule that tasts him p. 1. p. 48. T TEmptations a Saints wildernesse why p. 3. p. 10. How the soule in them leanes and comes out of them leaning on Christ p. 3. p. 54 55. Thankfulnesse how highly the duty of Saints p. 1. p. 71 72 73. Motives to it p. 2. p. 68 69. Traditionall faith nothing p. 1. p. 64 65. Trial of our selvs whether we be in the state of nature or grace how it may be made p. 1. p. 43 44. Notes of Triall whether we be raised or no. p. 2. p. 57 58. Whether we be the Spouses of Christ or no. p. 3. p. 76 77 78 79 80 81. V VNbeleevers sad condition opened p. 3. p. 83 84. They are exhorted to look out for a part in Christ p. 3. p. 93. 94 95. W WEaknesse of the soule how helpt by Christ p. 2. p. 43. Wearinesse in the soule that will leane on Christ p. 3. p. 27 28. Wellbeloved of the soule who p. 3. p. 26. Will of man doth not first stir in the soule for God p. 3. p. 71 72. Wildernesse what it meanes what manner of place it is opened in six particulars p. 3. p. 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. 76 77. Saints may dwell in a sixfold Wildernesse p. 3. p. 5 6 7 8. Wildernesse company what it is p. 3. p. 78. How sad a condition it is to be in the wildernesse p. 3. p. 84. Willingnesse how and when in us p. 3. p. 17 18 19. willingnes in the soul that comes to Christ how p. 3. p. 21. An Index of the severall Contents of each Sermon in the following Treatise In the first Sermon and Part. THe words considered Relatively Absolutely p. 4 5. Severall senses of the words given by Expositors declared and rejected with reasons for the rejection p. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16. The true sense given according to the Authors judgement with his reasons for it p. 16 17 18 19. The words analysed 19 20. 3 Doctrines propounded to be insisted upon 21. 1. Doct. The best of Gods Saints by nature were borne in a lost condition 22 23. The doctrine proved by Scripture ibid. 24. Adams sin how it goes over all and how all are Originally defiled ib. 25 26. How Christ came to be free of this guilt 29. Saints beget not Saints why 28 29. St. Austines and Mr. Perkins his opinion 28 29. Mr. Perkins his counsell to such as are inquisitive to know how Originall sin came to bee propagated 29 30. 1. Use of the Doctrine to discover the errors of Pelagians Manichees Anabaptists and Universalists 30 31 32. Christ by his death hath not taken Originall sinne out of our nature 32. Christ payeth no debts by halves for any 33. Christ useth not to do things to no purpose 33. 2 Use for Instruction 34. 1. What a sad condition most men and women are in 34. It is a miracle if withered sinners be saved 34. 2. Whom we have cause to thank that wee are this day out of hell 36. Not our Noble Parentage there is a great deale of bragging of that in the world to little purpose 36 37. Vain-glorying will have an end in hell 37 38. Religious Parentage best most noble most to be gloryed in 38 39. but not enough 39. It was the Jewes brag 39 40. Parents faith wants a way of conveyance to save our soules 40. This made plain by a familiar instance 40. 3. Br. From hence we may be instructed what a soule-cheating-Principle it is of Libertanisme to say we have no need of Repentance c. If we be elected we shall be saved if not damned 41. 3. Use Let us try our selves whether wee bee not yet in a state of disunion to Christ 4● 43. 4. Notes of Triall 43 44. 1 Note If none have done more for us than our Mother hath done we are yet in the state of Nature 43. Mothers convey Nature 43. Nature is either corrupted or refined neither enough 45 46. 2. Note If we have not tasted of the fruit of the Apple-tree we are yet but under it 47. Christ is the Apple-tree ib. 1. The Apple if tasted is sweet 48. Christ sweet to Saints 48 49. High thoughts of Christ argue a spirituall tast of him ib. 2. The tasted Apple is cordiall 50. 1 In taste 2. In smell ib. Christ how cordial to swooning Saints ib. No Cordiall to unbeleevers ib. 50 51 52. 3. Tasted Apples are nutritive 53. Soules that have tasted Christ will from him draw nourishment 54. 4. The tasted Apple is diffusive of its vertue 54 55. 3. Note of Triall If thou hast pluckt the fruit of the Apple-tree thou hast a hand to do it 56. Faith is the hand 57. This hand must be 1 True 2 Perfect 3 Lively 58 59. Painted hands pluck no fruit ib. Faith how perfect is necessary 58 59. Dead hands pluck nothing 59 60. Faith is lively Internally Externally 60. It must be given us from above 62. Perswasions various Natural Moral Traditionall Diabolicall c. 63 64 65. All these good for nothing ib. Nature's Legacy of faith 63. Natures faith is sickly ib. Morall perswasions nothing 64. Legacies of faith from Parents will not bring heaven and Christ 65. Most men believe there is a God and Christ c. because their Father taught them so and their Mother so learnt them their Catechisme 65. This was the good womans Religion 65. Most believe as their Fathers believed 65 66. True faith is the gift of God 68. it is grounded upon divine perswasion What that is c. 68 69. Use 4. Exhortation in severall Branches 70 71 72 73 74. 1 Br. To perswade Saints to thankfull hearts what cause they have 71 72. 2 Br. Put on Bowells of mercy to other lost undone soules 73 74. We pitty bodies but not souls 74 75 76 3 Br. The consideration of this Doctrine cals to Saints for humble hearts 77 78 79. Use 5. It may bee applyed to give us a ground 1 of Consolation 2 of Hope 80 81 82. Hope for those yet in the state of Nature 81. Hope for Saints concerning their friends yet in the state of Nature 82 83. An Index of the severall things contained in the second part 2 Doct. It is the Lord Jesus Christ that helps his redeemed ones out of their lost condition 4. The Doctrine inlarged in five particulars 4 5 6 7 8 c. 1. Christ was assigned to doe it 5 6 7 8 c. The Covenant of Grace was made betwixt the Father and Christ personally and us representatively in him 6. God in laying our Redemption on Christs shoulders laid help on one that was mighty 7 8. 2. Christ alone was able to goe through with the work of our Redemption 8 9. Reason for it ib. Angels Creatures man could not do it 9 10. Foure things necessary to accomplish our Redemption which alone could be found in Christ page 12. 1. One that could

They are exhorted to forget it 78. The exhortation urged by 6 motives 79 80 81 82 83. Consider 1. How will you live when your fathers house failes 79. 2. The great joyes of a married life to Christ 79 80 81. 3. There is nothing in our fathers house but is more eminently in Christ 81 8● 4. Christ left his fathers house for us 82. 5. It is the way to be beautifull 83. 6. It shall make you desirably beautifull to the King 84. 4. Directions for such people to help them in that hard work 84 85 86. 1. With a serious eye look upon your fathers house and see what in it can be desirable 84 85. 2. While you enjoy the things of the world let not your hearts out to them 85 86. 3. Learn to live from home betimes 86 87. 4. Cry to God to part you 86. 2. Br. Of the exhortation to Saints They are exhorted more and more to forget their fathers house 87. Three directions propounded 87. 1. Direct Study the vanity of the Creature more 87. 2. Direct Converse little with your Fathers house 87. 3. Direct Be more acquainted with Jesus Christ 87. One motive urged 88. Viz. Because the King hath desired your beauty 89. In the second Sermon upon that Text John 16. 33. The Chapter and text analysed and opened p. 1 2 3 4 5. 5. Doctrines noted out of the words 5. The doctrine insisted upon propounded viz. That though in the world the true disciples of Christ must look for trouble yet Jesus Christ hath taken such order that in the midst of their troubles in him they may have peace 5 6. The method of handling it propounded 6. 5. Things to be done in order to the explication of it 6 7. 1. Br. To open what is meant by the tearme world 7. It is taken chiefely in three senses 1. For the men of the world and that either 1. largely or 2. restrictively severall waies 7 8. For 1. Many of all sorts 8 9. 2. The unregenerate only 3. The reprobates only 4. The elect only 2. It is taken For the things of the world Sometimes 1. For the whole fabric of the creation 9. 2. For the earth only 9. 3. For the vanities of the world 10. 4. For the trafique of it 10. 3. For our present state of life in the world 10. In what sense it is taken in the doctrine 10. 11. 2. Br. Of the explication What is meant by troubles and what troubles Saints must meet with 11 12. What the word signifies 11. For the kind 1. Bodily sorrowes 12. 2. Outward crosses 12. 3. Inward troubles 12. For the degree the word signifies wearing breaking crosses 13. 3. Br. From what causes do Saints troubles arise A threefold head of causes assign'd 1● 1. From God two waies God may be the cause 1. In his just ordination 14. 2. In Gods wise providence may lie hid a cause he may bring them upon his people To 1. Try them 15. 2. Purge 3. Weane 2. Themselves may be a great cause of their own troubles 16. 1. Through the infirmities of their natures 16. 2. Through the sinfulnesse of their soules 17 18. 3. The world may be a cause of the Saints troubles 18 1. In respect of the incertainty of its comforts 18 19. 2. In respect of the malice and ill nature of it inhabitants 19. 4. Br. What is peace what is Christs peace why is it call'd his how is it laid up in him how may Saints draw it from him what paines hath he taken about it What peace of every sort is 20. What peace with God is 22. What Christs Peace is 22. What the peace of our Justification is 22. What peace of conscience is 23. Saints have peace with the whole Trinity 24. It is called Christs peace because he is the meritorious cause of it 24. What peace with the Saints is how that is Christs peace 25. Peace is laid up for the Saints in the 1. Blood of Christ 26 27. 2. Words 3. Spirit 3. Wayes by which a Christian may draw forth this peace from Christ 27 28. 1. By meditation of him 27. 2. By a beleeving application of what Christ hath spoke and done 28 29. 3. A close walking with Christ 29. Now to gaine this peace Christ hath taken great paines Hee hath 1. Died upon the Crosse for it 30. 2. Given us many precious promises ib. 3. Sent us his Spirit ib The Application of the Doctrine ● p. 31. ad finem 1. For instruction in severall branches 1. Br. Learne hence what we are to expect from the world 31. 2. Br. Learne what is the peculiar lot of the Saints while they live here below 32 33. 3. Br. What a miserable condition poor creatures are in that are out of Christ 33 34 35 36 37 38. 4 s Br. What an happy condition are those in that have a part in Christ 39 40. 5. Br. Learn hence the onely way to find true peace in a day of trouble 40 41. 3. False wayes of peace discovered by which men use to come out of trouble 41 42 43. 1. Some let Nature worke out peace 41. 2. Some drink a way trouble 42. 3. Some dispute themselves out 43. 2. Use For Reprehension Of such Christians as have a part in Christ yet walk heavily 44 4. 3. Use For Consolation to such as have an interest in Christ 46 47. 4 Use For Triall Br. 1. Whether we bee Christs Disciples or no. 47 Six Gospell Notes to know that by 47 48. 49 50. 1. If you have effectually heard Christ 48. 2. If you continue in Christs Word 48 49. 3. If you beare much fruit 49. 4. If you be humble self-denying self hating meek creatures 49 50. 5. If you beare the crosse aright 50. 6. If you love one another 50 51. 2. Branch of the Use of Triall How we may know if the peace our spirits come off a trouble with be Christs peace or no 51 52 53 54 55. It is a true peace if N. 1. If it be drawne from some Word of God 51 52. N. 2. If it ariseth from a due consideration and true application of something in the nature of God commanding it silence 53 54. 3. Things in Gods nature which considered may still a spirit troubled 1 His Will 2 His Goodnesse 3 His Faithfulnesse 53 54. How to improve each of them accordingly 53 54 55. N. 3. If it ariseth from a due meditation and application of what Christ hath done for us 57. N. 4. If it be concluded upon some former experiences 59 60. N. 5. If faith be a Commissioner in making the peace 60 61. N. 6. If it be a peace after prayer 61 62. Any Temple-peace is true 62 63. 5. Use For Exhortation 1. To such as are strangers to Christ to get an interest in him 63. 2. Motives to perswade it 63 c. Consider Your peace is 1. A false peace 63. 2. An unconstant peace 64 65. 2. Branch of Exhortation to those that have a portion in Christ 66 67 c. 1. Be not disquieted with worldly troubles 66. To this end Consider 1. Christ hath overcome the world 66. 2. Christ by your troubles is a great loser by you In his 1. Bloud 67. 2. Breath 3. Victory 68. 2. Exhortation Live much with Christ 68 69. Causes of Saints trouble notwithstanding the peace laid up in Christ for them 69 70. 1. Ignorance 69 70. 2. Negligence 70 71. 3 Exhortation to Saints Learn in all your troubles to look to draw peace from Christ 72 73 c. 8 Directions given to Christians in this case 73 74 75 76 c. 1 Dir. In the beginning of a trouble sit dow● and think what there is of God in it 73. 2 Dir. Then consider what there is in God to helpe thee 75. 3 Dir. Consider what promises God hath made to his Saints under such troubles 75. 4 Dir. Weigh Gods mercies against his frowns 77. 5 Dir. Study how far Christ hath overcome the world 77. 6 Dir. Consider the dayes of old 78. 7 Dir. Let Reason sleep and set faith on work 78. 8 Dir. Pray unto God to settle thy soule in peace 79. Motives to perswade Christians to look for such a peace 80 81. Consider this peace will be 1. A true peace 80. 2. A sweet peace 80. 3. A lasting peace 81. FINIS A Note of the chief Errata's of the Presse in the two last Sermons PAge 18. for mand●rs read manners P. 19. for nundinalitia r. nundinatitia P. 42. for cour● r. covet P. 57. for dilectis Deo r. dilecti Deo P. 58. for they received r. he received P. 63. for quest r. quit P. 64. for intent r. extent In the last Sermon P. 28. for rather r. gather peace P. 32. for peace or lot r. peculiar lot P. 33. for ratifie r. rectifie your error P. 42. for wiled r. veiled