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cause_n	effect_n	nature_n	reason_n	3,109	5	5.1421	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86581	Zion's birth-register unfolded in a sermon to the native-citizens of London. In their solemn assembly at Pauls on Thursday the VIII. of May, A.D. M.DC.LVI. / By Thomas Horton D.D.	Horton, Thomas, d. 1673.	1656 (1656)	Wing H2885; Thomason E490_6; ESTC R202559	47,020	75

argues to the beleeving Hebrewes Heb. 10.34 and so of the rest Ye have an Unction from the holy one and ye know all things sayes the Apostle John 1 Joh. 2.29 And again the anointing which ye have received of him teacheth you c. and it is Truth and is no lie what 's this Unction and Anointing Even Regeneration and the sanctifying work of the Spirit the work of the new creature in them this abiding in them it taught them c. And this by the way gives us an account of the contrary Errors and false Doctrines and opinions which are abroad in the world why there are so many strange Tenents and conclusions which are broach'd and divulged not only in lighter matters and such as are of smaller concernment wherein every one hath liberty to abound in his own sense so he disturbs not the common peace of the Church but in the very substantials and fundamentals of Religion the truth of it plainly is this because there is so great a defect as to the work of Grace Therefore we have so many Hereticks because we have so many Hypocrites if men had better hearts they would have better heads and if they were better Christians they would be better Divines But because they fail in the one therefore they prove defective in the other That man that has a gracious spirit he cannot easily have a corrupt Judgement in those things which are of the Essence of godlinesse because his experience will set him right and prevent such corruptions in him Indeed it does not hold reciprocally and è converso A man may be orthodox in his judgement and yet but barren in his heart as not receiving the Truth in the love of it But he cannot be savoury in his spirit and rotten and unfound in his Judgement in a spiritual Truth at least so as long to abide and continue in it what ever he may for a fit and in a Temptation be subject unto as in any vice or enormity of practise yet to abide in it that he will not no more then he will in the other No if he be right in Affection he will accordingly be right in Opinion and if he be not he will not but then he will recover himself again These distempers they lye not in the Brain so much as in the Heart in the Heart originally and in the Brain only symptomatically By sympathy and complication you know as concernes the workings of the soul in a natural way there may be sometimes strange fancies and conceits arising from some lighter melancholy and distemper of body But where there are contradictions of reason and common sense it argues laesa principia some distraction or phrenetical humour Even so here in these spiritual improvements men may perchance erre in lighter matters through ignorance or non-attendency but to erre in fundamentals is an argument of some substantiall defect as to the work of Grace it self There are two Reasons especially why those which are of false hearts should be of false judgements in Religion The one is direct and immediate from the nature of the thing it self as the effect flowing from its proper and univocall cause And the other occasional and consequential as proceeding from the just Judgement of God who because they receive not the love of the Truth that they might be saved therfore sends them strong delusions that they should believe lies And thus ye see as an improvement of this point what great cause we every one have to make this work sure to our selves That we are indeed such persons as in this sense are born in Sion Now further where we prove to be so we have great cause likewise to acknowledge it and to blesse and praise God for it and the opportunities of it as who hath pleased to deal so graciously with us as herein he hath done When all 's done this is the great mercy of all and there 's none like unto it It is the original and fundamental Mercy and which layes the ground for all the rest Look as it is in the world all the consequent comforts of it they depend upon our Birth into it If we be stifled in the Birth there 's a period to all our worldly expectations or the hopes of our Parents for us Even so it is also in Religion as to the comforts and accommodations of that If we be not regenerate and born again there 's no hope for us at all If we be so we are then made for ever This Regeneration it brings in many other comforts with it Ability to serve God Benefit of the Ordinances improvement of all passages of Providence the peace of conscience and joy of the Holy Ghost and Heaven and salvation at last If we have any of these consequent priviledges belonging to us as Christians it does depend upon this primitive mercy that we are the children of God adopted and regenerated by Him Therefore let us blesse God for this above any thing else and for all the means which have been tending and conducing to this gracious work in us Let us think our selves so far born in Sion not only as we are born in it locally within the pales of the visible Church which I spake of before but also as we are born in it mystically that is as Members of the Church which is invisible and have the true and genuine work of saving Grace wrought in our hearts This is to be born in Sion and this is to be born in London indeed to be born in it thus They are not only born in London which are born within the Wals and Suburbs and Liberties within the Freedome and compasse of the City and here breath their first natural Breath No but which being born abroad though in remote and forein Countreys and Nations are here partakers of the Efficacy of the Ordinances and of the Power of the Gospel upon their hearts And they have cause for ever to bless God for such a mercy vouchsafed unto them these are the priviledges of the City indeed more then any thing else Whosoever he be that God has been pleased to make this City in which we now are to be an occasion of his Regeneration and Conversion to himself This City is the true place of his Nativity though the place of his Birth into the world were perhaps many hundred miles off though in Italy in Turky in India though in the farthest and remotest places of all the earth I will make mention of Rahab Babylon among them that know me They which were born at the lands end they were born in the very Heart of the City if it was thus with them This to the praise of Gods grace and to their own everlasting comfort is and still will be the condition of many an one at this time and in this very place There 's many a poor youth which comes up hither to the City from the furthest parts of the Nation and from the blindest