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A91927	Collections, or brief notes gathered out of Mr Daniel Rogers's practical catechism for private use : and how hereby communicated to som private friends, towards the building of them up in their holie faith. / By R.P.	D. R. (Daniel Rogers), 1573-1652.; R. P.	1648 (1648)	Wing R1795; Thomason E1138_1; ESTC R210078	131,966	329

faith with cleaving to it for salvation is a doctrine of presumption But wee answer that as their doctrine of Justification is the true doctrine of presumption of their own works so their doctrine of Faith is a meer idol and fancie Vse II. Instruction to all that have beleeved the promise of Grace once and seem caus to cleav to it nakedly to use the same method in recoverie out of their particular falls Vse III. Admonition to avoid all lets such are these 1. Resting in devout complaints of the want of Faith Good complaints made in season to such as can eas us from the depth of a broken heart are good friends to faith but counterfeit complaints are the greatest lets thereof Therefore instead of complaints do as Ester did shee complained of her weakness but rested not in that but went to the King saying If I perish I perish and so found the golden scepter held out to her 2. Sloath and eas dallying is dangerous It is the Divel's may-game to see men shipwrack't in the haven Our nature is to seek grace most when it is most out of season But that is God's season to denie 3. Worldliness Overmuch filling our hands with the delights of this earth as lawful liberties pleasures wealth credit farmes oxen wife posteritie These are the seaeatings of the banks down and destroying all It is as if a man a drowing should hold his gold so fast that hee cannot take hold of a pole to save his life or as if ones hand could not receiv a pearl being full of nut-shels 4. A root of bitternes Go not to the doctrine of Reconciliation with a surfeit of any privie lust which thou wouldest not gladly know and forego for the promise for this will so defile thee that whatsoever cometh in the way thereof will bee defiled Nothing mar's God's bargain so much at the presage that it will cut off our lusts This bitter Root is discovered two waies First it is naturallest of all vices Secondly the oft return of the same sin after the seeming departure of it 5. Carnal reason or els rooted cavils ariseing from an unbelieving heart disputeing against the promise 6. Vnwillingness to submit to God's way of believing Men look God should wait upon us and fill us with goodness while wee are idle But learn to know God's way and yeeld humbly to it in the use of means and bee not your own carvers Submit with an innocent heart to bee led as the Lord will have thee coveting the best measure but resting in God's measure Peter was readie at Christ's command to let down his net against his own experience The Lord deal's out to the poor soul as once a wise friend deal't with an acquaintance of his hee sent her three tokens a brass farthing a mill-sixpence and a piece of gold bidding the messenger first to give her the farthing if shee took it thankfully then the other Vse IV. Exhortation 1. To self-deniall and renouncing all other waies of cleaving to a deliverance save this of faith counting them all even self and self-love as dung and dross unto it No relique in our nature can comprehend a way of recoverie it must bee onely naked faith given for the nonce to embrace the Lord Jesus by a promise Wee have no preparation of our selvs neither preventing nor assisting nor perfecting Wee cannot co-operate with any grace of God and although wee could yet the common grace of the spirit is not able to reach the work of conversion It com's infinitely short of it There must bee a special spirit infused to apprehend it not onely by supernatural but by spiritual and peculiar grace Grace exclude's all els viz. 1. Common gifts 2. Natural or artificial endowments of learning wit reading memorie judgment strength of parts c. 3. Education and moral virtues 4. Religious performances 5. No self in any kinde 6. Priviledges Onely the Lord Jesus in the merit of his satisfacton of his offer and promise assisted by his Advocateship for the breeding of faith can bring this work to pass Christ by his spirit take's upon him the effecting and perfecting of this work as well as the meriting of it by his death Oh! that this could caus to rest in God offering Christ meriting the Spirit persuadeing by a promise which hath all the fulness of God in it Let us cast our bread upon the waters and forsake our own abilities believing that God can creäte in us of nothing or wors then nothing the grace of faith the priviledg of sonship and adoption that all our happiness may stand in believing as the sea is made all of water 2. To receiv this Offer to esteem and embrace Christ as this all-sufficient store-hous of mercie in grace Remember the issue of Christ's inquirie will bee for faith Luk. 18. 8. Those that have it the Lord will bee admired in them that day 2 These 1. 7. And wo bee to them that want it Better to bee a drunkard a thief though verie damnable then to want faith to give God the lie and to sin against the remedie 3. To bee earnest with God never to lin persuadeing the soul by the promise and the good things of Christ till his persuasion becom forcible and unresistable by an holie necessitie with us There is no power in thy soul to fasten upon this promise except God draw it and make the persuasive of it irresistably and by over-powering it Beseech the Lord not to bee offended with thy long dalliances half-persuasions as not to strive with thee any longer but to draw thee still with uncontrouled power makeing a way in thy spirit and as Jeremie speak's Jer-31 31. causing thee by an inward motive to bee unable to resist When thou findest this work then faith must follow for it is the work which the compelling spirt leav's behinde it causing it in the mid'st of all her contrarieties of dissuasion yet upon due consultation to obey and yeeld I see here I perish but there I may bee happie I will venture therefore if I perish I perish Now for the better drawing of us to so difficult and main a dutie let mee use one motive which I am persuaded will prevail with the most if God vouchsafe to bee with it to set it home that is That our free naked cleaving to a promise will carrie down all thy distempers at once and drown them in as in a sea For whereas thou fearest perhaps thou shalt die or ever thou believ the promise will tell thee if the Lord may bee trusted for the grace it self much more may hee bee so for a time a thousand yeers with him being as one day Thou alleadgest there is nothing at all wrought in thee towards believing But why then darest thou not turn thy back upon God and return to follie Becaus thou hast not what thou wouldst all is nothing unto thee But from what save from free mercie is this that I say not thou

men together to have had one father to have lyen in one womb to have dwelt in one town to have fed at one board to have been brought up in one familie or nurserie are bands of fellowship how much more all these spiritual ties in one 2. As begetters and nourishers of Communion First as for the Word preached how many thousands did one Sermon of Peter gain to this Communion And it no less preserveth and holdeth the faithful therein For eieher it finde's them staggering in this Communion and then it restore's them or sad and heavie and then it encourage's and comfort 's them or ignorant and then it enlighten's them or unruly and then it admonishe's them or standing and then it establishe's them So that it doth all offices of communion Secondly so the censures duly administred and the like Thirdly so the sacrament of the Supper how active an instrument it is to reconcile them that bee at odds and unite them more who are brethren Fourthly Prayer what office is there which it hath not don the Church what was the means of converting Paul what delivered Peter out of Herod's prison c. Fifthly Fasting joined with it what good thing hath it not don a key to open the treasure of heaven and to bring upon the bodies and souls of the faithful plentie in famin victorie in war protection in dangers eas in distress III. In duties and service These are of two sorts Som concern the bodie viz. Charitie Som the soul viz. Holie example savorie instruction admonition reproof correction of errors exhortation and quickning to holiness comfort in heaviness sickness and distress and in each spiritual respect wherein member may bee usefull to member Vse I. Warp from the Communion of all Popish prophane and excommunicate ones from this fellowship complie not with them turn from all inordinate malitious scandalous revolting and prophane ones true communion abhor's such Vse II. It 's Admonition to all of God's houshold to beware least any bitter root rise up in them to defile this communion When there were not above four or five in the Church how did Satan pollute them as Cain against Abel Ismael against Isaac Esau against Jacob to overthrow communion so doth hee still Again Let it admonish God's people also that if by any occasion Satan hath cast in any bone to divide them and to provoke them to wrath heart-burning distemper that they presently cast it out and repent least the breach grow greater And let the falling out of such bee the renewing of love Let them so much the more narrowly look to themselvs after to prevent the like that so they may nourish the communion of Saints in the bands of peace Vse III. Exhortation to couch in this building of communion to practice it to impart to each one his gift to the use of edifying the bodie let not this dead world cool grace in us ARTIC VII That every Soul make this deliverance his own in special Whosoever by the former part hath been convinced by that of his sin and been kindely pinched and prick't thereby by each of those Articles so let everie such soul be now also convinced of righteousness and believ himself to bee the partie to whom this deliverance of Christ belong's by each of these five Articles promised Quest What is it to believ this Answ To believ this is the Work of the Spirit of GOD by vertue of which a Soul under the condition of Faith doth cast it self and relie upon the offer of God for pardon of sin and for Eternal life The condition of Faith is such a qualification as God require's of one who may believ the promise of reconciliation to belong to him That which God aim'es at in offering mercie is the magnifying of his Attributes of Mercie Justice Wisdom and the rest which hee will have more to appear in man's Redemption then they could in Adam's Integritie Hee will have the eternall doors open themselvs as hee saith Psal 24. ult not that our own ends forgiveness and happiness but the King of glorie might enter in even as hee ordained our Lord JESUS not to obey and suffer for any ends of his own but meerly the Fathers to whom hee was subject as wee see in Rom. 15. 3. and therefore he would have him lose all glorie and emptie himself that hee might fulfill the ends of him that sent him The Lord usually proceed's by these step 's 1. Where the Lord will work kindely hee will so present the glorie of his grace to the soul in distress that whereas before it was under confused despair First it shall see a crevis of light and an hope a far off of a possible deliverance which hope shall melt and dissolv the heart into a spirit of mourning and breaking not so much for fear of hell as for the Lord himself See it in Jona 3. compare ver 9. with ver 6 7 8. when once hope began to spring up secretly who can tell whether God will repent him of his fierce anger that wee perish not Lo they melt into tears they fast put on sack-cloth on themselvs and their beasts and make a rufull spectacle So doth the soul here leav takeing thought for it self and take thought for the Lord saying O wofull man that I am whom the Lord should bee found of when I sought him not who had care of my happiness when I cared neither for him nor for my self 2. The Soul rest's not here but break 's out into desire that it might live to glorifie his grace and partake of it that it might magnifie it before all the world and give witness to it against all despisers of it 3. The Soul set's an high price upon this salvation and recount's the severals of it that it may see the unvaluableness of this pearl Matth. 12. 44. haveing spied the pearl withdrawe's it self hide 's it ponder's the worth of it viewe's the particulars of it as one would do of a purchase and by so museing of it set's the whole man a fire with it in the esteem and value thereof 4. It lastly emptie's the soul of herself Even as the Queen of Sheba beholding the glorie and wisdom of Solomon had no spirit left in her but was ashamed of her own silliness and as Peter Luk. 5. beholding the glorious power of Christ in bringing so many fishes into the net when hee could catch nothing was amazed so doth the Lord in this case Hee cause 's that loathness and resistance of that proud heart that savor's no grace or faith to quail and fail utterly take's away the corrupt self and self-love which is offended at his grace Especially it turn's away the soul from her own ends in seeking salvation shee dare's not now ascribe to her own duties hearings praiers affections preparations but cast's them into the sea that life may bee preserved Shee feel's the great ends of God's glorie to work all these in her but no way as