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cause_n	esteem_v	young_a	youth_n	22	3	7.4258	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10010	The saints qualification: or A treatise I. Of humiliation, in tenne sermons. II. Of sanctification, in nine sermons whereunto is added a treatise of communion with Christ in the sacrament, in three sermons. Preached, by the late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston, Doctor in Divinitie, chaplaine in ordinary to his Majestie, Master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometime preacher of Lincolnes Inne.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.; Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.; Davenport, John, 1597-1670.	1633 (1633)	STC 20262; ESTC S115180	353,805	720

imputed to us such a necessitie is there that men be humbled Now that you may a little better understand this point you must know that there are but two things that keepe men off from comming to Christ. One is unbeleefe when they do not beleeve that he is the Messiah or that they are to be saved by him This was the great hinderance in the Apostles time and that is the reason that you have faith in the Messiah pressed so much to beleeve that that was he But that is not the thing to be pressed so much in these Times But as you see in the Old Testament when the Prophets spake to a Church to confirme it in the truth they do not presse so much to beleeve there is a God and that hee is One God and that a God of Truth but to trust in God and to make use of their knowledge So must we doe There is therefore another thing that hinders from Christ and that is Negligence Men care not for Christ they are not affected with him and this is two-fold Totall or Partiall Totall is that which they were guiltie of that were bidden to the Feast and excused themselves and had bought a yoke of oxen another had married a wife another had taken a farme and therefore they could not come They were perswaded there was a Feast of fatlings provided but they minded other things for they were not hungry and therefore cared not for it And in this kind the greatest part of men of your common Protestants neglect the Gospell Tell them of Remission of sinnes and Iustification they minde it not Secondly there is a Partiall neglect And so many professe Christ do many things for him but regard him not And in this the second and third Ground failed the second did much but not so far regarded him as to endure persecution The third did respect him more but not so as to forgoe their lusts for him this is a partiall neglect And that that helpeth this double neglect is Humiliation Now to give a Reason or two of this point and so we will make use of it and come to the other which is the maine and that I most intend God will have it thus for these two Reasons First with reference to our Iustification he will justifie none till hee hath brought him to acknowledge both his Iustice and his Mercy he will have men know what he doth to them before he justifies them and receives them to favour I say he will have a man acknowledge his Iustice that is confesse himselfe to be a sinner to be ashamed of his sins to acknowledge himselfe worthy to be destroyed As in Ezek. 36. there you shall find how God justifies men and washes them with cleane water from their sinnes Then when I doe this whensoever I shall justifie any man then you shall remember your deeds that were not good and shall acknowledge your selves worthy to bee destroyed God will have this honour given him he will have men know that it is not done for any thing in themselves he will have the glory of his Iustice and Righteousnesse and that is the summe of the fourth verse of the one and fiftieth Psalme Against thee only have I sinned c. that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest and be cleare when thou judgest that glory may bee given to God and shame taken to himselfe This God will have done As in the worke of Redemption his Iustice and Mercy are both satisfied so in the application of it in taking hold of this Redemption God will have a worke wrought wherein his Iustice shall bee acknowledged Secondly hee will have his Mercy acknowledged as Princes when they will make a condemned man bee sensible of their mercy they will bring him to the uttermost they will bring his necke to the blocke then he will know that he was saved he shall have more sense of his pardon And so God in the worke of Humiliation humbles a man exceedingly and when that is done then Hee is seene in the Mount He is not seene till men be in extremitie that is he will have them on their knees and so be sensible of that mercy of his which otherwise they would not prize The end of all is Christ he will have Christ esteemed and knowne and this men will never doe till they be throughly humbled Secondly God will have it so with reference to Sanctification that is the second Reason and that for these Causes First because otherwise mens thoughts would never bee drawne inward men would never withdraw themselves from Covetousnesse and from regarding vanity but lusts of youth in them that be young and businesse and correspondencie in matters of State and one thing or other would take up the mindes of them that be old and would so occupie their thoughts that we might speake long enough but mens mindes would goe after an hundred severall vanities as the Psalmist saith God is not in all the thoughts of a wicked man before hee be humbled that is God is not there to any purpose nor the things belonging to the kingdome of God but vanity is in their thoughts and that raises such a Tumult and noise within that they attend not to what we say but locke up the doores of their heart that what we say can have no entrance We shall see it in 2 Chro. 33. when Manasses had corrupted himselfe with monstrous abominations there set down the Lord spake to him but hee regarded it not till hee was humbled but when being led into captivitie and bound in fetters he was humbled then hee besought God who was intreated of him In the fifteenth of Luke you shall find this phrase The Prodigall sonne came to himselfe It is Parable shewing every mans naturall condition he was not himselfe before hee was a drunken man or a mad man and that is the case of every man before hee be humbled hee is as a drunken man now come and speake to a drunken man as long as you will so long as he is in his drunkennesse and madnesse he heares not it is only this Humiliation that brings a man to himselfe In 2 Chron. 6.37 you shall finde this phrase If they shall turne with all their hearts in their captivitie and repent for their transgressions then doe thou heare in heaven c. I name it for the phrase if they shall turne with their heart which they will not doe till they be humbled till then they be busied about pleasures or profits or something else but they looke not into their hearts The phrase imports so much suppose a man be instant in some sport and recreation and one come and tell him in the midst of his sport there is an officer without ready to take you and carry you to prison such a message will turne to his heart and make him consider what he hath done and what a miserable