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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31097	A reviving cordial for a sin-sick despairing soul in the time of temptation the same being an extract of the unworthy authors experience of the particular following ... / by Ja. Barry ...	Barry, James.	1699 (1699)	Wing B971; ESTC R16318	57,560	144

7. Jo. 16. 14. Jo. 17. 6. Ephes 1. 17. Fifthly He Interrogated or Queried of my Soul as follows 1. Art thou become truly and thoroughly sensible and convinced that thou art by Departing from and Sinning against God an undone miserable and guilty Creature having lost his Blessed Image stamped on thee in Adam thy Natural and Faederal Head in the First Creation And being now become obnoxious to God's Curse and the Wrath to come and Partaker of such a Spiritual Impotency as Renders thee utterly uncapable of doing any thing whereby thou mayst be Delivered out of thy present folorn condition Art thou Conviuced that this thy Misery is of thy own bringing upon thee Sinner Answers O thou Most Holy Just and Tremenduous God! By the Light now Sprung from thee the Fountain of all Light into my Dungeon-like Soul I plainly see what a wretch I am become no way like what thou at first made me in Adam I am likewise fully Convinced that this my Misery was brought on me by my every way voluntary Defection and Apostacy when in Adam's Loins I first yielded to the Motion of the Tempter 2. Art thou Convinced of what the real Desert and Merit of thy Sinning against a Holy and Righteous God is What canst thou say against Gods Casting thee into Hell for that Hellish Rebelon of thine against his Holy and Righteous Law Sin Ans O thou Most Holy and Everlastingly Righteous God who canst not possibly Act amiss in any thing thou dost with thy Creatures I am by the Convincing Power of thy Holy Spirit made Sensible that by my Departing from and Rebelling against thy Majesty I have forfeited that Right I had in Adam to all Good Spiritual and Temporal And shouldst thou Cast me into Hell and Assign me my Portion with the Apostate Angels whose Conduct and wretched Example I followed when I turned my Back on thee thou art and wilt for ever be and remain a Just a Holy and a Most Righteous God my Misery is of my own Procurement and so far am I from reflecting on thee as unjust shouldst thou throw me from thee for ever that I am amaz'd and astonished to think I should be so long out of Hell The Place where I sometimes evenlong'd to be to try whether there was any specifical Difference between the Torments and Miseries of that Place and what I felt in my self while shut up in thy Laws Prison under the sharp and killing Pedagogie thereof 3. Hast thou Viewed and taken notice of that Mediator which I have proposed and discovered to thee in the Gospel Dost thou think or canst thou be perswaded that he can do thy Work for thee viz. Save thee from Curse and Wrath to come and not only so but to Restore thee and bring thee back again to the Favour and Fellowship of God Dost thou see in him an Adequate suitableness to Answer all thy Necessities Sinner Answers O Lord My Eyes are so intent and fix'd on that Mediator that I can have no leisure or spare time to look on any other object in Heaven or Earth never did neither can Men or Angels behold or see such an object except himself The Angels and all the Glory of the whole Creation are but Darkness and Deformity when compared to his Surpassing and Incomparable Amiableness and Loveliness since I had the first glimps of him as held forth and discovered by thy Divine and Efficacious Manifestation I have forgotten my Misery and the fearful Thoughts of Hell and Damnation are swallowed up of the Thoughts and Apprehensions I have of his suitableness to Answer the necessitous Condition of such a Sinner as I am 4. Hast thou Viewed and Observed him so as to like him and choose him for thy Reconciler and Saviour What sayest thou Poor Sinner Wilt thou have him for thine own 'T is Personal Propriety in him that makes the Thoughts and Sight of him Ravishing and Enriching for ever Sinner Answers O Tremendous and Astonishing Mystery of Divine Grace in sending forth from the Father and the Son that Holy Spirit of Promise that by his Illuminating Virtue and quickening Power I might have such a saving Sight of Christ the Saviour as should both beget in me a likeing to his Person and likewise cause in me a burning desire to be Vnited and Married to him I am indeed sick of Love to him and filled with such desires after him as nothing short of a Mystical Vnion to his Most Holy and Glorious Person can satisfy my thirsting Soul 5. Art thou willing that this Mediator shall have the whole Honour of Saving thee by his own Mediatorial Righteousness For As no Righteousness of a meer Creature can stand before the Bar of Gods Infinite and Incomprehensible Holiness and to abide such a Tryal as to be Judged fit and sufficient to Justifie a Sinner before God seeing that the Righteousness to which such Honour is Reserved and Assigned must be the Righteousness of God And also the Righteousness of a sinless Man so this Mediator will become a Saviour to none who will mix or join any thing of their own or other Creatures with his Immaculate and All-sufficient Righteousness The whole and entire Work of Reconciling and Saving Sinners is Devolv'd on him alone He will admit of no Competitor in this Work to which the Father hath Called and Anointed him And the which he himself as Vademony and Surety for God's Elect hath undertaken to go through and Perform What sayest thou Sinner Art thou willing to this Sin Ans O thou Holy of Holy's I see and find so little need of joyning any Righteousness of my own or other Creatures to the Compleat and Perfect Righteousness of this Mediator that I am resolved to look no where else for a Righteousness whereby to be Justified and Saved I am fully Convinced that as he needs no Coadjutor to help him out in this Work of Saving Sinners seeing he is the Holy and Almighty one of God able to Save to the uttermost So I see nothing like a Legal Righteousness which can Answer the Demand of the strict and Righteous Law of God either in my self or any other meer Creature whatsoever Whatever therefore is or can be Suggested or Objected by the Devil or Carnal Reason against this Righteousness of his as Insufficient to Save I am by Strength from above fixedly Resolved to cast my Weary Bleeding Soul thereon come Life come Death 6. There is a thing called the Cross which thou must expect and look to meet with if thou resolve to Live and Reign with Christ in Heaven hereafter Thou must look to Part with all that in this World is Near and Dear to thee for his sake and the Gospels Thou must Sacrifice thy Reputation and Credit among Men. Thou must become willing to be accounted a Fool a Madman a Turbulent Fellow an Enemy to Caesar a Separatist from the Church Thou must not think or look to be advanced to Worldly Wealth and

lump of Ice before the warm Sun By the Sense and Perception I had of the Love of God vouchsafed to such a base and deformed Sinner as God knows I was and still am I felt the Servile and Mercenary Frame and Disposition of my Spirit take Wing and that Filial Child like Frame and Disposition of Spirit which is suited to a Gospel Dispensation Succeed in its Room And looking up to Heaven with the Tears flowing from me so extreamly fast that I heard them drop drop upon drop on the Floor where I stood continuing so long that I sensibly felt my Cheeks to Burn and Scald me My Soul in a strange Extasy running over those Particulars which the Holy Ghost had assured me of Here 's the Second Rapture of Joy What Joy like to this I now feel Who can possibly Relate or express it What! Hath God Elected me even me Sinful and Vile me And hath he done it before time And notwithstanding he perfectly knew what I should prove in time Oh! Wonderful Love Why me Lord Why me And not one of the Reprobates in Hell who never Sinned against thee to that Degree that I have And hath God laid mine Iniquities even all my Iniquities on the Back of Christ and Charged them to his Score as my Surety Oh! Amazing Mistery of Divine Love and Grace Who is able to know whether the Father or the Son Loves me Most The Father in Laying my Sins on his own and only Son tho Innocent and Harmless Or the Son in Condescending to Bear them as his own Sins And are all those Sins of mine Discharg'd and satisfied for by the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ my Surety who hath kept the Law for me Oh! Wonderful Condescention both of Father and Son Is it so as I feel it is That God the Father is fully Satisfi'd with that his Sons Obedience And that I am now Justifi'd in his Sight by the Virtue thereof Oh my Soul What Cause hast thou to Rejoyce and Adore God for ever And was the Love of God set on me Even when in a State of Vnregeneracy Who but a Mercenary Legalist will not be hence Convinced of the Orthodoxy and Soundness of that Distinction Which differenceth between the Person of an Elect Sinner and the Sinful Pravity of Nature which Cleaves to him Surely my Soul If God had really hated thee and had he been Wrath with thee as he is with all the wicked Reprobates who have no share in the Redemption of his Son Even then when thou wast un-called he might have sent thee to Hell Who could have hindred him And were the Reasons wherefore he handled thee so roughly by the Spirit of Bondage as have been discovered by the Holy Ghost And not because he hated thee or any way design'd to satisfy his Vindicative Justice for thy Sins What Cause hast thou to Reflect on and Abhor thy self for all thy hard Thoughts and unbecoming Apprehensions which were lodg'd in thee of God and his Dealing with thee And is it certain as most certainly it is seeing God cannot Lye That I Poor Sinful I shall be made to Persevere and hold out in a State of Grace and continue in Gods Favour for ever Oh! What unspeakable cause hast thou to Adore Love and Praise Jehovah to all Eternity And what little Reason hast thou to be discouraged to think of what the Powers of Darkness can do to hinder thy Perseverance And will the Eye of Divine Providence be on me and the Right Hand of God's Righteousness kept under me to Secure me for ever from finally Miscarrying or Perishing How great Encouragement is this to thee my Soul to have the Eye of Faith and Hope Dependingly fixt on the Faithfulness and Almightiness of God seeing the End and the Means are ever Inseparable And hath God that cannot Lye Promised and Engaged that the very Being of Indwelling Corruption with all the Out-breaking thereof in my Conversation As also the many Afflictions attending the same shall infallibly Work for my Eternal Good What Reason have I to Cry out and say with astonishment of Soul Who is a God like unto thee who Pardonest Iniquity and Passeth by the Trasgression of the Remnant of thine Heritage Who out of Darkness producest Light and out of the greatest Evil canst bring the greatest Good And is it so That notwithstanding the many and great Oppositions and Tribulations I am to meet with in the World I shall through Christ accompanying and strengthening me be brought through them and made a Compleat Conqueror in the End How greatly Zealous ought I to be in Loving and Lauding the True and Living God Father Son and Holy Ghost whose Tremendous and Glorious Name is Infinitely Transcending all Praises which Saints or Angels are Capable of giving And seeing that from henceforth till I come to Heaven the special Providence of God will be with me in every Change of Condition so as nothing shall be able to do me Harm What unspeakable Cause have I to fear with a Reverential Holy and Filial Fear the Glorious Name and Infinite Majesty of the Great God And how unbecoming me for whom God hath done so many and wonderful things will it be to Fear either Devils or Men who set themselves against God and his Sons Interest O my Soul Rejoyce now in God who is become thy Salvation and Fear nothing but what may any way grieve his Holy and Tender Spirit Marvelous and unutterable were those Manifestations of Gods Love let out upon me his poor nothing Creature in that Moment of his Spirits Sealing me in Believing and by the Sense whereof the Holy Ghost fill'd up those Vallys and Bottoms in my Soul and Conscience occasioned by the sharp and terrible Workings of the Spirit of Bondage And as the Manifestations but now Mentioned were in themselves Marvelous and Astonishing so were also the Sensible Effects they Produced in me Wonderful and Ravishing Those Effects I Reduce for Orders sake to Six Heads First The Horrour and Guilt of my Conscience was gon which was Succeeded by the Answer of a good Conscience towards God which did inwardly Suggest and Dictate to me That my State and Condition Godward is truely Safe and most Happy Secondly The Spiritual Vail which Covered my Heart and Mind and which kept me from seeing into the Mistery of the Gospel was taken off like Scales or a Web off the Eyes of a Blind Man Whereon I was enabled to See and Behold who and what Jesus held forth in the Gospel is to me Thirdly The Affrighting Distractions and Overwhelming Hurricanes of my Despairing Soul occasioned by my continual expectation of being sent to Hell were turned into an unexpected and Soul surprizing Calm and Sedate Frame of Spirit Fourthly The Spirit of Slavish Fear which on every occasion Tormented and Rackt me vanisht and the Spirit of Power of Love and of a sound Mind was given me Fifthly The Joy and Comforts of the Holy Ghost