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A41135	A treatise of the affections, or, The souls pulse whereby a Christian may know whether he be living or dying : together with a lively description of their nature, signs, and symptomes : as also directing men to the right use and ordering of them / by that Reverend and faithfull minister of Gods word, M. William Fenner ... finished by himself.	Fenner, William, 1600-1640.	1650 (1650)	Wing F708; ESTC R9229	161,998	208

sin Secondly It may so draw up ones affections to God as to make one vomit up a dear sinne ones self and be sorry that others too should commit it he may be vext to see other men drunk vext to see them break the Sabbath vext to see how slack they come to Gods house vext to hear any body swear or curse or take on he may be driven to make restitution himself Thus it was with Micah he had stolen a 11. hundred Shekels of silver from his Mother well this man as it appears hears his Mother curse and swear and take on she had lost so much silver some body had stolen it from her when he heard his Mother curse and ban on this fashion he was so deeply moved to hear it that he could not abide it nay it made him be willing to confesse he had stolen it from her and to make restitution of all yea so far as his mother did think O what a blessed convert was her son he was now converted to be of so honest a minde Blessed be thou of the Lord my son saies his Mother He said unto his Mother The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee about which thou cursedst and spakest of also in mine ears behold the silver is with me I took it and his Mother said Blessed be thou of the Lord my son Jud. 17. 2. He had stolen the silver from his Mother and yet when he heard his Mother curse and swear and take on in that wise it should seem his affections did burn him What shall I hear my Mother curse in this sort and rather then he would let her stand swearing and cursing he would vomit up his sweet gettings Nay she thought him so religious as passes because he did so Blessed be thou of the Lord my son but she was deceived for he was a wretched Idolater the Lord cals him an Idolater vers 5. Beloved this is a strange thing indeed yet thus far may a Carnalist go he may be zealous against other mens sins and grieved to hear others transgress and vext to see others offend When David would sin and number the people it vexed the soul of Ioab to see it O my Lord the King why wilt thou be a cause of trespasse to Israel 1 Chron. 21. 3. So thou mayst be vexed to see others offended and yet notwithstanding no better then a Carnalist Thirdly It may so raise up his affections to God and to be so set against sin as to be willing to lose hopes of getting housefuls of silver and gold to lose the favour of Kings and of Princes to lose preferment and all then venture on a sinne This was Balaams case If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold I cannot go beyond the commandment of God to doe lesse or more Numb 24. 13. He durst not go beyond the commandment of God a jot no not for a house full of money which is more then a thousand can say that will go beyond it and beside it and against the commandment of God for a handful of Barley yet he though a Reprobate durst not go beyond the commandment of God to doe good or bad of his own minde not for a house full of coyn Knowest thou not saies King Balak unto him knowest thou not that I can promote thee to honour yea he knew it well enough and yet for all that Balaam would not yeeld to him Balaam if he would have hearkned to carnal arguments he might have found many The Israelites are a people of another Nation I am a Moabite and they are of another generation and what though they be better people then they yet I am a Subject to the King of Moab and I must be true to my Soveraign and count them mine enemies which are the enemies of my Countrey and are come to lick up the land If I do obey my King I may have money by housefuls I may have preferment as much and more then I can wish Thus flesh and bloud might have reasoned but see how his affections were better rectifyed then thus he durst not doe it upon any terms because it was against the commandment of God Thou thinkest thy cause to be happy O thou caust be willing to passe by the wages of sin though thou couldest get by a sin yet thou darest not commit it thou thinkest certainly mine affections are to God and to grace I might get this and I might get that if I would but goe against my conscience a little but I will not for money nor favour nor any thing Well said yet better then millions can say but this thou mayst doe and yet be a Carnalist Fourthly It may elevate his affections so high as to be so forward in religion and godlinesse so strict in his waies as to be persecuted too for the truths sake and for Christs sake he may endure persecution a good while indeed if it go too far he will warp but persecuted he may be and suffer a good while he may and yet be a carnal man This you may see in the stony-ground hearer He heareth the Word and receives it with joy Mat. 13. 20. Mark his affections are raised he receives the Word and the Gospel with joy he is affected with the Word nay saies our Saviour he endureth a while and persecution arises against him then he is offended ver 21. It s true he is offended at this that he should suffer persecution he would be glad to be a professour of the Word so he might professe it in a whole skin as we say he does and he will warp then that 's certain that 's all one neverthelesse ye may observe in the mean time what a great way he goes in religion he trades so farre in it that others will persecute him for it and yet but a carnal man for all that Now of the good ground Fifthly It may lift up his affections so high as to ravish him and enamour him with joys of the Spirit He may be in some extasies of spiritual joy as many examples might be named Were not the Galathians enamoured with the Gospel that would have pluckt out their eyes and given them to Paul were not the people over-joyed when they cryed out in the open Congregation Lord evermore give us this bread O then set your affections c. The III. Sermon Colos 3. 2. Set your affections on things that are above c. THe last thing that I told you was what a great way a carnal man may goe in this point His affections may be wrought on exceedingly I promised to shew you that this was no argument that his affections are set upon God The Apostle does not say let the things that are above work on your affections for so they may do and ye be carnal for all that but he saies Set your affections on things which are above There be four reasons to prove though a

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One just man is better then a thousand others Though he be a beggar in the world he is better then a thousand wicked though they be all Lords and Nobles Because he is one of Christs redeemed and so thou wilt love him and affect him Thou wilt love him if thou beest zealous to Godwards I say thou wilt love a childe of God albeit in a leathern-coat more then father and mother wife and children friend or patron so they be not Saints I mean with more spirituall love then thou lovest them all And therefore much more the Churches of the Saints The seventh is If thou beest zealous for God then thou wilt be most zealous when the Lord threatens to be going away If ever men will buy any thing at the Fair they 'l buy when they are all breaking up standings taking up their wares and packing away If ever they 'l be forward to buy then they will God is now perchance shutting up shop-doors is now packing up his commodities and his graces to be gone The doors of his Sanctuary have been open a long time and the Shop-windows of Heaven have stood broad ope this many a year And we see plainly the dead of the market is come no body buyes almost How long hath he preached and scarse any converted How many Sermons and Market-daies have we had we can hardly see one drunkard converted one adulterer converted one worldling converted one unprofitable professour converted O that we could see it but alas we cannot our commodities stick upon our hands we can have no vent for grace nor Gospel nor Christ nor mercy nor any thing The dead the dead of the market beloved the market is dead God is now shutting up to be gone and as we may justly fear to remove away his Candlestick to take away the power of his Ordinances and to withdraw his Spirit from striving any more with us our stubbornnesse is so great We are grown to despise his reproofs to be incorrigible under his word to be malicious against his rebukes what encouragement hath he to stay Now if ever ye will be zealous now ye will now ye will come in and be wrought on or never now your proud hearts will stoop or never Now ye'l cry hard and pray hard and beg hard or never 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It 's grievous to come a day after the Fair as we say I mean now is the last pinch in all probability it is so either now let us look to it or never It will be grievous to come a day after grace No man can repent without grace of God and therefore if he come a day after grace he cannot repent vid. Eze. 24. 13. The XII Sermon Col. 3. 2. Set your affections on things that are above c. IT may be demanded what means may we use to make us to be zealous I answer briefly First Frequent meditation Meditate of the infinite misery thou art in by nature and by reason of sinne and this will make thee zealously humbled Meditate of thy grievous iniquities whereby thou hast dishonoured God meditate of the unutterable mercy of God that hath not consumed thee meditate of the admirable patience of God that hath spared thee thus long and not damned thee in hell meditate of the inconceivable goodnes of God in Christ that he should give up his own Sonne unto death rather then that thou shouldest perish for ever these truths are all fiery truths While David was meditating I cannot tell now what truths they were that he meditated of but it seems they were all fiery truths they set his soul all afire as he mused and meditated My heart was hot within me and while I was musing the fire kindled Psa 39. 3. The very sight of a fire will warm a man a little Let thy heart look upon God and his waies let his commandments be ever in sight they will heat thee whensoever thou prayest meditate with thy self if I pray lukewarmly God will spue me out of his mouth Whensoever thou hearest the Word meditate with thy self I must take heed how I hear otherwise my hearing is abominable Whensoever the Sabbath is coming meditate with thy self O I must call it my delight and spend it in Gods worship publike and private or else God will consume thee While I was musing the fire kindled saith the Psalmist what 's the reason thou art so lukewarm in good duties as thou art the reason is plain thou usest not to meditate thou canst be content to hear the Word at a Sermon and let the Minister warm thee for an hour thou canst talk of the Word but when thou art alone thou dost not meditate of the Word if thou wouldest put the Law of God in thy thoughts and meditate of it when thou art solitary it is a fiery law From his right hand went a fiery Law Deut. 33. 2. Gods law is a fiery Law and his Gospell too is a fiery Gospel were it often in thy thoughts it would heat thee Know it for a certain we can never have a jot of saving grace or of zeal if we be not frequent in this duty thou makest a Christ of the world if that can have more room in thy thoughts then Gods word thou canst never be zealous nor gracious at all if thou beest not used to meditation thou art carnal and earthly why because thy thoughts are of that sort the thoughts are incentiva vitiorum sayes Hierom they are the incentives and igni●les and the bellows to kindle sin in thy heart whereas were they heavenly they would kindle zeal in thy soul The second means is a constant practise of godlinesse Motus est causa caloris saies the Philosopher Motion is the cause of heat Be ever in action if thou wouldest be zealous be alwaies stirring in the works of religion and godlinesse you shall see men labour and toil naked in their shirts in frost and cold and be hot for all that Labour stirs up the spirits and heateth the bloud labour will not suffer a man to be cold if Peter had been rowing in his boat when he stood still in the High-Priests Hall by the chimney-corner he had had little need of that fire to have heated him and therefore if thou desirest to be zealous labour in reading of the Scriptures labour in hearing and applying the Word to thy heart labour in examining thy conscience and repenting of thy sins and labour in praying and calling upon God this will kindle the heat of zeal in thee Ask and ye shall receive that your ioy may be full Joh. 16. 24. mark that your joy may be full your comfort may be full your love may be full and your hope may be full that is that it may be zealous for zeal is the fulnesse of every affections in its kinde O sayes one I am so dull and so dead I pray indeed but my prayers are dead and I hear