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B15559	A practicall catechisme: or, A view of those principall truths according to godlinesse, which are contayned in the catechisme diuided into three parts: and seruing for the vse, (as of all, so) especially of those that first heard them. By D.R. B. of Divin, minister of the Gospell.	D. R. (Daniel Rogers), 1573-1652.	1632 (1632)	STC 21166; ESTC S116040	309,840	430

by faith in me Note the phrase Iustification is much ascribed to faith As Act. 13.38 Rom. 5.1 Rom. 3.25 but heere sanctification also So Act. 15. Hauing purified their hearts by faith 1. Pet. 1.22 And Saint Peter Hauing purified your harts by faith to the obedience of the Gospell Yea the Apostle Paul Ephes 1.13 seems to make faith to bee the instrument of the spirit sealing the soule After ye had beleeued ye were sealed by the spirit of promise faith attending the Spirit in beleeuing the promise it selfe doth further attend also the seale of it and applies both to the soule The reason is because although the seale is aboue a word yet it 's by a word and with it and not else Q But here it a great scruple how faith should be the apprehender of both these at once viz forgiuenesse of sinne and renuing of the soule For who sees not how wide a difference there is betweene receauing a thing without vs as imputation of righteousnesse and a thing really inherent in our natures as the image of God and renouation A. I grant the point needeth due consideration yet as the Lord shall guide me I will endeauour to answer it And seeing the truth hereof is as cleere in the Scrip●ure as any one therefore the manner thereof wil the better be found out To this end note that faith being the instrument of the spirit in both the acts of regeneration I meane reconciling and renuing doth of necessity attend the worke of the spirit in both If then it be true which I sayd that the spirit reades a lecture of the Couenant to the Soule according to the whole purpose thereof then needes must faith do likewise euen follow the direction of the spirit in applying them equally to her selfe for faith is as the eye of the handmaid to the Mistres that is do that which the spirit suggesteth and takes all which the Lord offers her euen the Lord Iesus at once and wholly If the spirit say take Christ both for pardon and sanctification lo it takes him for both together of the former there is no doubt Let vs see for the latter Eph. 1.18 the Apostle prayes that the eyes of the mindes being enlightned by faith they might ver 19 20. see the exceeding powerfull and mighty worke of the Lord Iesus in them that beleeue that is wha● hee can doe by the power of his death and resurrection So in Eph. 3. end he praies that they might haue Christ dwel in their harts by faith that so they might comprehend his length and depth that is take him as hee is to the soule and haue the knowledge of him that passeth all knowledge beeing filled with his fulnesse So that faith takes the Lord Iesus in his fulnesse that shee might bee compleate in him both for mercy and sanctification So if we looke Ioh. 17. vlt. As thou O Father art in mee and I in thee so thy loue may be in them and I in them Marke Christ is not onely offred to the elect to be for them in pardon but to be in them to dwell to rule to comand to exercise power ouercorruption and for gouernment to bee as a soule in the body to act guide and beare sway in them as the branches in the vine out of which they wither so that the promise offers Christ both for vnion of reconciliation and also Communion and influence of grace In both which she takes him for he is not diuided a pearle is little worth being broken Now then looke how the hand of the Prophet was vpon the Kings in shoo●ing so is the hand of the Spirit vpon the soule in beleeuing and as the hand of the writer vpon the learner to frame it his way so is the spirit vpon faiths hand And as the wax takes all the who●e print of the seale so doth faith of the promise by the hand of the spirit So that although its certaine that nothing is more vnlike than the things themselues which faith applies in the manner of apllication the one taking a grace onely imputed and resting onely in the act of God casting forgiuenesse vpon the soule without any addition of inherent goodnesse to it the other taking Christ as infused and dwelling in the powers of the soule yet this puts no difference vpon the apprehension of faith seeing with one hand and one act both the Lord offers them the Spirit ioynes them the soule beleeues them The spirit is that which doth order these two benefits and settles them vpon the soule and in the soule but faith with one hand and act doth receiue them according to the seuerall vse and seruice as the spirit pleases to apply them It pleases the law to conveigh a Copy-hold by Court roll and a free hold by other conveyance of writing seale deliuery and possession but the same hand takes the copy and receaues the liuery and season So heere Q. What doth faith in the application of this Gift of Reneuation or the new creature A. Two things It workes the heart to be renued by an argumentation See 2. Cor. 5.14 For the loue of Christ constraineth vs because wee thus iudge c. Marke faith iudges the matter aright and passes a sound verduict vpon it If Christ haue so loued vs how should our soules earne toward him in all conformity to his blessed nature faith is in this as in all other respects a deepe Logician shee argues for God strongly shee brings euidence vnanswerable for him that as a she carries about her the marke of a diuine cause beeing the most Divine worke of God that ever hee did since the Creation above all the gifts of Adam and ayming at a better end so she carryes also strong reason to move the soule to bee like to her workeman and to resemble his holy nature The word constreine vs signifies such an hemming in as of the beast in a Pound or Pinfold that is put into it and c●nnot get out by any euasion so doth faith controll the heart that it cannot wind out must needs yeeld to bee as hee who hath imputed his righteousnesse to forgiue her that is righteous and holy The very savour and instinct of faith tends to holinesse she serves to abandon nature to set vp holines in the soule As she settles an imputed holinesse to iustifie from Christ so she cannot rest till she her selfe partake it within Such things as are alway lying among sweets cannot chuse but resemble and sauour thereof Faith comes from the divine breath of God and is his gift therefore cannot degenerate but as riuers flow from the sea and runne thither so doth faith come from God and returnes to him shee sins not till shee haue so pleaded for God that she haue drawne the heart to sauor him in his holinesse And secondly by infusion She is the Tunnel of the spirit to convey the renuing of the holy Ghost into the soule As the hand of the workman is that liuely cause of cutting the ●imber but yet the saw or axe is the toole which this handworks by So here Take a similitude A mā buyes a pretious root of a rare flower that grows in few gardens giues it into the hand of the Gardner to set it in his garden The gardiner thrusts the root an pitches it into the earth giues it good mouldes waters and keepes it charily Euen so heere The spirit of

indeed and so of the rest therefore I conclude the whole Article thus All these publike and priuate helpes serue to further and ripen a beleeuer in an holy conuersation all and euery one of them But if I be asked Dost thou finde each part of thy Conuersation to be holpen and thy selfe bettered by each of them Answer thus I am poore in grace and dead-hearted but yet for all that I beleeue it to bee so for God hath said it And this for the fourth Article and his branches be spoken The fifth Article Q. VVHat is the fifth Article of this third part A. That the New Creatures whole life within and without is beset with manifold lets and encombrances which doe threaten to set him backe and hinder him in the course of Christianity See Texts Heb. 12.1 Cast off euery weight and clogge 1 Pet. 5.8 1 Ioh. 2.16 As it was with Christ after his baptisme and annoynting instantly Satan set upon him Mat. 4.1 So here formerly wee haue set forth the Church of Christ as his Spouse in all her abiliments and costly Bride-attire that she may be amiable in her Bridegroomes eye we haue described her by all the Iewels which Christ hath sent her as Loue tokens by all her outward Ordinances and all her inward priuileges on the right hand and the left within and without to bring her to heauen now wee change her habit and bring her in with the mourning weed of her Widdow-hood and in her Souldiers or Trauellers habit with her Trewell in one hand the Sword in her other as the bed of sweet violets beset with nettles the Lillies and Roses with thornes The best part wee haue seene or shall in Article 6 now wee must behold her at her worst that we may know it before-hand and if wee will be new creatures then resolue vpon it the next newes will bee lets enemies shreud turnes and yet the Rose is the Rose still for all these And as it was with the Israelites the rebellion of their spirit made a iourney of forty dayes to be of forty yeares The Lord would not carry them to that good land with ease through the Philistims land but the Wildernesse full of wild beasts hunger thirst toyle and travell So is it here our vnrenued part causes much woe to vs and fils our life with sorrow which though our good God meanes to doe vs good by at length and to make vs partakers of his righteousnesse and more than Conquerours yet the whilest a yoke will be a yoke and pinch and lets will be lets and the deuill like to himselfe there is no remedy of it the remedy is in our being armed against them and the members of the Militant Church Q. But may not this seeme to trench vpon the Prouidence of our God and the merit of Christ might not he euen here quit vs of all these and set vs in a state of freedome A. We say not that in all these he leaues vs as Orfans no hee diets vs physicks vs and exercises his graces in vs and at length will deale by vs as by Iob Iob 14.18 whom indeed hee was content Satan should smite but his ayme was to make his last dayes better than his best This Sun-shine of crosses and army of lets and enemies may sullie her face and eclipse her beauty but never diuorce her from her husband temptations and afflictions are lets but they are not the losse of Gods favour grace or heauen but make for our victory and Gods glory 2 Thessal 1.6 And for the obiection I answere The Lord cannot bee dishonoured in the way of his owne honour As for vs we are not capable of any other state heere For first our abode here in an earthly Paradise is turned by the bounty of God to an heauenly abode with God and therefore wee are not to expect our iourney should be like our home and our sea-faring as our hauen Besides what derogation were this to our head that he Act. 1. must suffer first and so enter into his glory and we his members put off our harnesse surely if hee while he was heere was burdened with all our sinnes and sorrowes enemies and opposition till his death onely by this way Phil. 2. hee was exalted farre aboue all Angels why should we heere as pilgrims looke for better measure It suffiseth that our full redemption in heauen shall pay for all Q. Are all these lets equally threatning hurt to vs A. No for the chiefe of all these are our owne lets within vs we carry about vs our owne bane of soules as in our bodies of death The lets without vs are nothing to those within vs that corruption of our owne is the fewell to all other fire both the Diuels and the Worlds but for this they could not come at vs as our Sauiour said The Prince of this World commeth but he hath found nothing in mee Wee shall finde them all to bee lets and that great howbeit the chiefe enemy is from within vs. Q. Of how many sorts are these lets A. Of three sorts and they are Sin Satan and the World Q. In how many respects is sin a let vnto vs. A. Two wayes either in respect of it selfe or in respect of the penalties thereof Q. How in it selfe A. Either in respect of our natiue corruption or of our actuall lusts within and actuall euils without Q. How is our sinne in it selfe a let A. First in our corrupt vnrenewed nature abiding still That is a wofull clogge and back-byas retarding our motion to heauen and slowing of our race Heb. 12.1 read it Also a most tedious contrariety in vs and perpetuall enemy Gal. 5.17 lusts against the spirit as a continuall dropping In the former respect I might liken it to that vnnaturall setting of the Sunne tenne degrees backe in the second to that Peninna 1 Sam. 1.7 which vexed Hanna day by day and vpbrayded her as her enemy or those daughters of Heth to Rebecca that were eye fores that shee could neuer bee quiet for them her life was made wearisome to her Moreouer this causes a most bitter mixture with the good graces of the Spirit darkening blemishing them yea defiling them as Salomon Eccles 10.1 Dead flies cause the oyntment of the Apothecary to stinke so this causes grace to be vnsauory One pang of pride how doth it distast much grace how much more then that spirit in vs which lusts to no other Iam. 4.3.4 And to conclude as the furnace sends out infinite sparkles so doth this corruption minister fewell to all our course what wofull deadnesse distemper distast wearinesse loggishnesse doth it bring vpon our course how doth it cast wild-fire into the thoughts and affections and the spirit of a man so that this sinne is not onely a let and away but a let in the nature of a principle Q. How else A. In respect of our inward actuall lusts and passions which as Saint Iames saith fight in