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A mystery which the angels desired to look into. 1 Pet. 1. 11. 12.
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St. James esteemes the wisdom strength layed out upon these to be earthly sensuall divellish Of the same speaks St. John 1 Ioh 2.15 16 saying Love not the world nor the things that are in the world For all that is in the world the lusts of the flesh the lusts of the eyes Gal 1.4 and the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world And our Lord dyed to deliver us from this present evill world from which S. James saith Iam. â— 27 he that is religious keeps himself unspotted Every offence that in this world is committed is either for a beastly pleasure a trifling commodity or for some vain estimation with man And as in a glasse face answers face so do these three kinds of transgressions to those three qualities of the forbidden fruit Gen. 3. And therefore it is that the Christian in Baptisme promises to renounce these three the world the flesh and the devill and to follow our Lord under the Crosse the performance of which through Christ is that which saveth called by the Apostle not the washing away the silth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience And this is that spirituall and fiery Baptisme of Christ namely a Baptisme into his death unto which whosoever subscribes stands ingaged to a crucifixion and daily death for a good conscience 1 Cor. 15. and is in jeopardy to dye every houre As it is written if the dead rise not why are we baptized for the dead and why stand we in jeopardy every houre I protest saith the Apostle by our rejoycing which I have in Christ Jesus I dye daily therefore it is that the Lord Christ to the baptized is a Captain a Leader and every such that hath resigned up himself to be his Souldier and to follow the Lambe where-ever he goeth this his skilfull Captain will lead through crooked paths and bring fear and dread upon him Ecclu 4.11 18. and torment him by discipline but after will comfort him and shew him secrets Therefore saith the Apostle After ye have suffered a while 1 Pet. 5 10. he shall stablish strengthen settle you This is the Lords way to save the sons of men And as Eiihu said these things God worketh thrice yea often with man to bring back his soul from the pit to be enlightned with the light of the living Iob 23. That man whom God intends to dignifie he visits every morning and tryes him every moment Iob 7. Hebr. 12. and chastiseth him for his profit that so he may be made partaker of Gods holinesse indeed be regenerated made one with the Father and the Son as our Lord said Verily ye which have followed me in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit upon the throne of his glory ye shall sit upon twelve thrones judging the Tribes of Israel Every one that hath forsaken houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my Names sake shall receive an hundred fold and shall inberit everlasting life This in our Lords opinion is the very means of mans regeneration namely Isa 51.2 3. Ps 1 44. Iob 34.7 Isa 50.6 a patient following him through all afflictions to be as a lambe dumbe before the shearers to lay the body as the ground and as the street to them that passe over patiently bearing reproaches and drinking down scorning like water to give the back to the smiters the face to the spitters and the checks to them that pluck off the hair But this doctrine to flesh and blood seems strange that the Scripture saith Lord who hath beleeved our report 1 Cor. 1 23. To the Jews it is a stumbling block to the Greeks foolishnesse Hab. 2.10 and 5.9 but to the Christian beleever it is the power of God to salvation For by means of the Crosse the Christian is made like his Master fitted for heaven and perfected as he was perfected Hab 1. â—0 59. and he that endureth most for him in this life that comes neerest to him in suilerings shall come neerest to him in glory in the next Therfore let us not think afflictions when God sendeth them so strange a thing Job 7.17 11. but rather with holy Job in secret admiring that God should take such care for to make us partakers of his holinesse say Heb. 12.10 Lord what is man that thou shouldst dignifie him that thou shouldst set thy heart upon him that thou shou'dst visit him every morning and try him every moment But Lord what may be thought of those men that take up the sword against the Cresse Those that have caused so great effusion of Christian blood for liberty Iesuites and heady Sectariâ—s yea liberty to the flesh which must be crucified that so they mayserve God as themselves please and that without any trouble in this world How are these ignorant and also Enemies of the Crosse of Christ The holy Apostle wept to think that there should be any such among Christians Phil. 3.19 telling the Philippians that such made their belly their God their glory their shame earthly minded men their end was destruction Alas alas what shall become of those among Christians that for this end because they may not have liberty speak evill of Dignities and despise Dominions following the foot-steps of Cain Corab Dathan and Abiram and will not be warned by their judgements Which examples as standing Pillars of Salt remain to all generations Wo is them wo is them for them in especiall saith St. Jude is reserved blacknesse and darknesse for ever Jude 8.13 Did the blessed Trinity in their wisdom finde out this onely means for the restauration of lost mankinde Did the holy Apostles rejoyce in it the Angels admire it the universall Church imbrace it and do we fight to make it void The very thoughts thereof cause my knees to tremble my lips to quiver and rottennesse to enter into my bones For God with vengeance will come with thousands of his Saints as Enoch prophesied to execute judgement on all belly gods that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him These Iude 19. saith that Apostle are those that separate themselves sensuall Ier 7.29 not having the Spirit O Lord what have we done that thou shouldst suffer us to stray and in knowing times to be so strangely deluded By what degrees of sins have we ascended to such unmatchable wickednesse O! the Christian Religion how it is disgraced Cut off thy hair Ier. 7.29 O Christian and cast it from thee and take up a lamentation in all thy publick places and say O Lord if it be possible open our eyes Deuâ— 19.18 Act 1.23 and remove this bitter Gall forgive this great iniquitie When Israel had sinned in making the golden Calf thou shewedst mercy upon thousands To Manasses which