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A04269	A seasonable discourse of spirituall stedfastnesse wherein, 1. it, and a relapse, with the heads, members. and degrees of both, are exactly defined. 2. The subiects, causes, and symptomes of the fearfull sinne of apostasie cleerely expressed. As also directions, incentiues, to recouer, re-inkindle the old-cold-declining zelot. Together with arguments, motiues, that the young, or strong standing convert may be in grace firmely established. By I.B. preacher of the word.	Barlow, John, b. 1580 or 81.	1627 (1627)	STC 1439.5; ESTC S120873	89,672	290

they taynted with originall corruption and actuall transgression 4. He was consecrate with an oath so were not they 5. He was of the commandement of the spirit they of the law of the flesh 6. He offered vp himselfe once as a full sacrifice to purge a way mans sinnes they other oblations whereby it was impossible that iniquitie should be taken away 7. He put an end to the priesthood they made but way to it 8. Lastly he was a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek theirs was often chāged For as Iohn was the lest of all Prophets so Christ of all Priests that is there was no continuation of personall succession after him reade Heb. 7. per totum 2. The second is his Propheticall office Therefore the Scriptures giue him severall names importing so much As of Teacher Speaker yea the verie Prophet For he was to instruct them in the truth whom he had reconciled to his Father See Mat. 23.10 Dan. 8.13 Acts 3.22 3. And Christ had a kingly offlce that he might conserue and governe those whom as Prophet he had taught as Priest he had reconciled subduing his and their enemies and to preserue them to his heauenly kingdome Hence it is written A child shall be borne and a sonne giuen vs vpon whose shoulder the Dominion shall lye Behold a king shall raigne in righteousnesse And againe they shall serue the Lord their God and David their king whom I will raise vp vnto them These places and many more are spoken of Christ Iesus Consult Esay 9.6 Ierem. 23.5 30.9 Psal 2.6 Acts 2.36 4. Fourthly and finally we may mention his Mediator-ship although as some will the forenamed offices be all comprehended in it however the holy letters speake distinctly of it Mala. 3.1 calling Christ Heb. 12.24 the Angell of the covenant the Mediator of the new Testament Obserue here that Christ is Med●ator according to both natures For the manhood without the Godhead would profit nothing Obiect But it is written there is one mediator between God and man the man Christ Iesus 1 Tim. 2.5 Resol 1. I answere that our Apostle vseth Christs owne phrase who ordinarily stileth himselfe the son of man for he gloried not in swelling titles 2. It is a kinde of tropicall speech wherefore by a communication of properties Acts. 20.28 we are said to be purchased with the blood of God 3. Paul so speakes to comfort the feeble minded for when a man is wounded in spirit by the stroake of God the verie bare naming of God will make a sinner in the painefull panges of regeneration to quake to tremble and fall backward But hearing of a mediator who is man as he is God Heb. 4 25.16 and 5.1.2 which is touched with the feeling of our infirmities and in all points tempted as we are yet without sinne we shall lift vp our weake mindes goe boldly to the throne of Grace and find mercie in the time of neede 4. And the truth is our mediator is to communicate of both natures for he must be inferiror to God as touching his manhood And superior to man as concerning his Godhead And this is that intellectuall knowledge of Christs person offices that Christians are to get and grow in The Experimentall followeth wherof we will speake but a very little to avoide preplexitie This knowledge differs from the former in divers particulars 1. In the instrument of apprehension For that is effected with the rationall facultie this with the sensible 2. That is actiue this rather passiue falling within the fathom of our feeling 3. That without this profiteth a Christian nothing 4. The former borroweth helpe from the latter not the contrarie For Experimentall knowledge sealeth Intelectuall that it is true Philosophie teacheth me that fire will burne but if I put my finger into it the truth is infallible For I haue felt what I heard And hence growes our English proverb that Seeing is beleeving Ioh. 20.25 This was verified in Thomas when he put his fingers into the wounds of Iesus And this Experimetnall knowledge of Christ 1 Thes 1.5 may be in respect of our selus or others When we feele a change wrought in our selues by the Gosp●ll preached when it hath not bin in word only but in the powerfull operation of the holy Ghost inlightning our dark mindes dissolving the cursed worke of Sathan in vs and renewing vs according to the imag● of our maker this is knowledge Experimentall Paul knew this well felt by experience Rom. 1.17 that the Gospell of Christ was the strong arme of God to salvation He could say with sence I live and Christ lives in me He rules as a king and I by his power can doe all things Col. 1. vlt. He is set in heauenly places And I am raised together with him He found the death of Christ to kill sinne in him Eph. 2.6 the efficacie of his resurrection raysing him vp to newnesse of life his Spirit leading him into all truth And what petitions he preferred to God the Father in his name never returned emptie This was that excellent knowledge of Christ he so much gloried in 1. Cor. 2.2 longed after and by all meanes sought to increase And thus to know Christ is to be somewhat ●om●body And there is an experimentall knowledge in regard of others Heb 4.2 The Author of the H●b●ewes saw that the Gosp●ll preached to other by them Gal. 2 8. was without profit in th m who heard it because it was not mixed with faith Paul sensibly perceiu●d that Peter was mightie in Circumcision as he himself was in the vncircumci●ion 1 Thes 1.9 And he observed what a great entrance he had amonge the Thessalonians He also giueth God thankes 2 Cor. 2.14 which caused them to triumph in Christ and made manifest the savour of his knowledge by them in every place And thus you haue demonstrated what is that knowledge both intellectuall and experimentall Christians are to encrease in The application followeth Vse 1 From all which particulars we may confute many hereticall opinions about the Person Offices of Christ Iesus And First that of the Patro passians who mainetained how that God the Father tooke our flesh and suffered But is it not said that in the fulnesse of time God sent his Sonne made of a woman and made vnder the Law Gal. 4.4 Obiect It will be obiected that Christ is called Father Isa 9.6 It is true Resol that Christ in many respects may be called Father 1. Because he created all things For it is vsuall with the Hebrews to stile that whether person or thing a Father which is the cause or ground thereof Gen. 4.21 Hence Iubal is said to be the Father of all such as handle the Harpe and Organ And in Iob shafts and bullets are called the Sonnes of the bow as if it were their Father 2. Heb. 10.13 Christ is

thy gracious stocke never once dreame of enough nor of being rich for that is the high way to bancke to loose all Came not Christ to lay the hilles equall And to raise vp the vallies Luk 3.5 To make the crooked pathes streight And to fill the emptie vessells was not the Church in an error which said shee was incr●ast Had all things Rev. 3.17 Nay was shee not poore 1. Cor. 5.7 Naked Blinde Miserable And wanted all things O that we could purge out the old leaven abstaine from all actuall sinnes be conversant in the vse of all Gods holy ordinances 1 Thes 5.22 entertaine all the motions of his spirit And be poore in our owne apprehension Then would grace grow Luk. 1.53 the new-man flourish And the old receiue his deaths-wound be pierced thorow his sides and broken in peeces Then then should we be rare Saints on earth shining lights in this darke world Phil. 2.15 leade our liues in righteousnesse Luk. 1.75 holinesse And doe more than gracelesse men imagine can be done by any created nature Wherefore when thou feelest thy soule to mourne thy Spirit to faint thy heart melancholy dumpish all a mort then looke vp to heaven rouse thy selfe fall to meditation minde the daies of old And call vpon thy God Cry Lord helpe me quicken me a wake my soule So shalt thou like the dead child neese seuen times 2 King 4.34.35 c. waxe warme and returne to thy former life and strength This course if thou constantly obserue the power feeling comfort and all the effects of grace in a short time by little and little will strangely grow wonderfully thriue vntill thou come to that period full perfection the Lord hath appointed for thee and promised to thee in Christ Iesus Incentiues to grow in grace And as no meanes are to be omitted neglected So all motiues inducing to this growth must be minded remembred thus therefore expostulate with thy selfe What Doe not plants grow Animats thriue And are the covetous or ambitious ever satisfied Will not Citizens aime at the most honorable place Merchants venture for the choicest commodities And all tradesmen desire the greatest gaine Shall not a Christian then striue for perfection Let theirs yea Pauls resolution be emulated imitated of thee Phil. 3.11 who if possible would haue attained to the resurrection of the dead As some will to haue bin as perfect as the glorified persons in the day of iudgement In the estate of nature wast thou not insatiable Did sinne ever giue thee full satisfaction I tell thee that champions of Sathan must be champions of Christ Such as haue bin full of corruption Eph. 5.18 must be filled with the Spirit And the more we grow in grace will not corruption the lesse burden vs Shall we not with the more ease if not wholly cast it off beare it The bird which hath the most feathers mounteth highest conserues her bodie from many brusings So surely by this increase we should soare vp to heaven be freed from innumerable heart-breakings Why haue we inioyed so great meanes Seene so many good dayes But to grow strong And grace Why should not thy excellencies allure all men to affect thee Procure thee What Art thou not of a soule-curing qualitie care in this present world And onely to be found in the vessels of honour Where thou pitchest thy Tent like a Pri●ce thou art attended with royall companions as Wisdome Faith Hope Loue and what not As in the absence and presence of the planets all elementarie bodies heate and coole lighten and darken reviue and dye So by thy contrarie motion doth every christian Thou art as the spring and oyle which turne all the wheeles of soule and body to run the pathes of Gods precepts Rev. 22.2 the vine which beareth all kindes of fruits Thy branches feed the tender Roes being cropped thy iuyce wil heale all diseases when once applied Where thou fallest like the showers in May the barren fields grow fruitfull bring foorth in great abundance And multiplie the seed of the word to an hundred fold Never was covetouse chuffe when his garners were full of good graine more glad the Grasier having his lands stockt with the choicest cattell more merrie Nor the Prodigall with his purse extended with pieces more iocunde than the man is whose heart is replenished with grace O grace glorie is thy vnseparable companion as shame the inevitable consequence of sinne Where thou openest the eye all the divine attributes of God as his omniscience omnipresence omnipotence yea his very iustice smile vpon it are delectable vnto it For if grace be with vs who or what can be against vs Grace in thy soule will assure thee of mercie in Christ And if thou be secured of that what needest thou to feare What can be terrible or dreadfull vnto thee The more Wi●e Iust Potent thy friend 〈◊〉 will it not the more comfort ●hee Reioyce thee And is not El-shaddai the Lord of earth and heaven thy fast friend Thy everlasting Father Let them then feare who haue cause For thou hast none Grow in grace and thou maist goe thorow the world as a man whose minde is in a deepe studie Like Ahimahaz who had speciall hast of a waightie businesse gaze on nothing heare nothing 1. Cor. 7.30 31. vse it all things in it as though thou vsedst them not Thy conversation shall be in heaven thy thoughts on him who is invisible Phil. 3.20 that never man saw and lived And having as Peter past the first and second watch thou shalt come to thy selfe in the presence of God Acts. 12.10.11 where is fulnesse of ioy Psal 16.11 al variety of pleasures at his right hand for evermore O thou who readest hearest these lines binde them to thee thinke often on them And till thou be stron● in Grace which is in Christ Iesu● let them never depart from the● Now if all that we haue said ca● not allure thee I say no more vnto thee but wish when it is too late thy carelesse neglect of graces increase may not repent thee Whereas our Apostle exhorts to grow in grace vers 5.6 more is included then mentioned For what in the first chapter in particulars he named Gen. 3.2 and 4.20 here in the bulke are comprehended And as a tree is for trees cha●et for charets Psal 78.2 parable for parables So is Grace put for al the gifts of the spirit Mat. 13.35 Whence it will follow that Doct. 3 An increase of all graces is required of Gods children Name what grace you will and an augmentation is required vrged Rom. 1.17 1 Thes 4.10 Eph. 4.15 Are not the Romanes incited to grow in faith The Thessalonians in loue And the Ephesians in all things Paul in other places calls for it prayes for it Iude. 2. So doe his fellow-Apostles in their Epistles Reas 1 For is there