fellowship 219 c. Grace how like 4. Its spreading nature and excellencie 19 c How it may be lost how not 118 c. We must labour to worke it in others and why 19 c. We must grow in grace if we wil be like Christ 262 263. H HAte sinners and how 10. Sinne and why 39 Hearing of Gods Word needfull and excellent 142 c. Obiections against it answered 143 How to heare and faulty hearers 14â— c. How we must heare and why 172. 181. Heaven hoped for in vaine by many 88. Holinesse See sanctification How the Saints are holy Honour due to God How God is honoured Why with soule and body both Why with the soule especially How with the tongue and life 72 c. Motives to honour God 84 c. Honour of the Saints 198. And of their communion See glory Hope of Saints its excellency 236. Hosts are Gods 122. Husbands duty 203. Saints husband transcendent 46 203. Hypocrites how hurtfull 26 55. I IGnorance hurtfull its fruits 97 273. Inheritance of Saints unparalel'd 45. Inhabitation in Christ See Christ Whence it is 270 271. Ingrossers of corne censured 67. Imitation of God wherein 138 c. Of Christ wherein and why 257. Of men wherein 262. Imprecations to be shunned though Saints have imprecated and why 76. Imputation of Christs righteousnesse 235. Ioy of the Saints 129 192 224. Why they reioyce 239. Iustice of God by whom abused Obiections against it answered 77. Iustification handled with its causes and fruits 233 c. Whence it is how it differs from sanctification 237. How once iustified are alwayes 240. K KNowledge saving honoureth God 73. It is needfull to do Gods will 97. and necessary to enioy Gods Spirit 272. L LAbour in lawfull callings commendable 24. When not to be taxed of covetousnesse 68 103. Labour on the Lords Day See workes Lords Day why so called 150. Duties of the Lords Day See Sabbath Law how it is kept by the Saints 187. It binds How Christians are under the Law how not 184 192. How free from the Law 243 c. Liberalitie See mercy It s excellency 224. Liberty of Christians frees not them from Gods service 192. Not from authority gives not liberty to sinne Frees not from sinne 243. Not from the obedience of the Morall Law 243 c. Wherein Christian liberty consists and its excellency 248 c. Life godly honoureth God 83. Love of God to us how great Gods lovelinesse 49 c. We ought to love God Who truly love him 46 c. Their paucity 47 c. Love to God greatly rewarded the first and great commandement and how 49 c. It honoureth God 74. By it we cleave to God 190 The rule of love 194 c. What the Saints do love 239. Motives to love God 49 c. Love all men why and how all Saints and how 9 c. Love of Saints whence M MAn an excellent creature 85. Serves himselfe sinfully served sinfully how Disswasives Meditation for the Lords Day 165. Delightfull meditations 173. See thoughts Mercy of God what 79 60. To whom it belongs no incouragement to sinne 60 79. By whom it is abused 79. Mercifull workes of diverse sorts Their excellency 170 c. Who must give when how much of what how 13 c. N NEw creatures How Saints have all parts new 238 c. O OAths haÌ„dled by creatures 81. Rashnes Disswasives 81. Excuses answered 82. See swearing Obedience to Gods Law part of the Covenant of mans part 182. P PEace of Saints excellent with them necessary 34 c. What we must yeeld to for peace 36. It s excellency 235. Wicked have no peace 226 c Perfection how Saints perfect how not 139 242. Obiections answered 55. Persecutors of good men wofull 126 c. 209 c. Pharisees what who like them in these dayes 56. Piety a cause of persecution 212. Please God what pleaseth God that is to be chosen 177. Poore of two sorts 68. They must depend upon God 68. Be content 109. Poverty not to be feared 123. Christs poverty 222. Prayerlesse persons woefull 140. What prayers are fruitlesse 140. What kind of prayer is prevailing 141. It is a duty for the Lords Day 170. Yea delightfull 172. It is part of the covenant 182. Needfull 272. Whence it is 270. To pray for earthly things lawfull 103. Preachers are builders 207. Their faults may not keepe us from hearing 143 c. Priviledges of the Saints 218 c. Prophanest people usually the greatest persecutours 212 Profession is good though some Professors are bad 29 c. Providence good and lawfull 68 103. See depend on Gods providence Pure how Saints are pure 141 242. Puritanes what meant 29 212 No Pharisees 56. Not covetous 69. Not of wicked life 214. Scarce any of them begge 70. Or come to the gallowes 113. R REading Scripture and good Bookes a Sabbath duty and how to read 169. Recreation for the Lords Day 171. What is unlawfull 160. Redemption for Gods honour 80 86. It s excellency 86. Regeneration whence 270. It s necessity Danger of its want â— 72. Reliefe See mercy Remission of sinnes a great favour to whom it belongs 224. See forgivenesse Repentance late very dangerous 61 c. Reproofs how to be used who faulty Why we should reprove 32 c. Restitution 17 39. Riotous persons usually covetous 66. Revenge a great sinne 39. Reproches for Christ should not discontent 110. Not to be feared 123. Riches uncertainty 105. Vanity 106. Of the Saints 222 c. S SAbbath Day to be kept holy the name is Morall it s many names Motives to keep it holy and what then lawfull and unlawfull 149 c. Sacraments of the Iewes and ours how the same how differ Excellency of ours 181 c. Saints fellowship See fellowship Their excellency 127. Their portion to be afflicted 126 210 Sanctification handled with its fruits how it differs from iustification 237 c. It is necessary 272. Whence it is 270. Sathan not to be feared 124. His obiections against perseverance answered 119. Scripture though alledged by Hereticks decides controversies 2â—6 Seeking of God a needfull duty what it is manner and meanes of seeking and motives to seeke God 146 c. Servants of God who who not Services of God and of others How to serve God and why bad Masters hindering this service of God 191 c. Sicke persons duty 170 Visiting them a Sabbath duty 170. How to visit who faulty in visiting 170. Sincerity needfull 92 272. Its signes 93. 〈…〉 a Sabbath 〈…〉 ing 〈…〉 Sinnes 〈◊〉 be concealed 23. And why 28. Sinne 〈◊〉 shunned 53. Yea secret sinnes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 57 9â— Least degrees of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all sinne and why sweet sinner 9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sins of Saints and wicked men 57 c. How good men sinne ibid. What they do having sinned 59. How they are free from sinne 124 245. Their sinnes no incouragements to sin 62 c. 〈◊〉 encouragements answered 60 c. Disswasives from sinne 63 136 c. Sinne must be shunned if we imitate Christ 262. How sinne is infinite 78. God no author of sinne 77. It is an evill master by whom it is served disswasives from serving it 198. Sinnes of former times â—s great as now 254 255. Why seeme greater now 255. Sheepe of Christ their duty 276. Sonnes of God who 201. Their duty See Father Society See fellowship Soule is to honour God and first 73. Sparing how commendable 25. Spirit of God dwels in Saints Its fruits in them their miserie who want and scorne this co-habitation 270 271. Who falsly boast of the Spirit Who have who want the Spirit 272 273. Duties of both 274. How the Spirit is grieved how quenched how gotten how kept 275. Sports whether lawfull on the Lords Day Reasons Disswasives 160 c. Strength Spirituall whence 207. Swearing now an honour to God 80 Anabaptists confuted Disswasives from all evill kinds of swearing 80 c. Excuses answered 81 c. Sorrow of Saints 239. Sufferings See afflictions T TOngue is to honour God 74. Many wayes 74 c. Thoughts unlawfull on Gods Day 164. Time-serving hurtfull 93. V VIsiting the sicke a Sabbath duty How who faulty 170 Vsury a filthy sinne 92 100. W VVAnts temporall how supplied to the Saints 123. Will of God must be done 88. It s reward 88. It must be done totally 90 Faithfully 92. Timely 93. Continually 95. Meanes motives let removed 96 c. Mans will contrary to Gods 97. Word of God a Word of faith grace salvation reconciliation life 142. It s excellency 75 172. It is to be talked of 74. Not to be iested with 75. No to defend vice nor disâ—hearten vertue 75. Not to be used in charmes 76. Words not fit for the Lords Day 163. What then commendable 167 c. Workes of God for his glory mans good 165. Workes unlawfull for the Lords Day with disswasives 157. World by whom served disswasives from serving it 197. Wrath a great sinne 39. Wicked men are fooles 128. Their society to be shunned and why 6 c. 135 c. Y YOung people should do Gods will and why 93.
of imployment The latter of livelyhood pulling it almost wholly out of their reach Yet all you who are not onely poore but Gods poore also there are poore and Gods poore Psal 72. 2. judge thy poore such are Gods poore who are godly and poore religiously worshipping God committing themselves wholly to his protection and which are poore in spirit Math. 5. 2. and so have him to be your Father Be you perswaded for it being a harder matter to depend upon God when outward meanes are wanting then when they are enjoyed I therefore direct the drift of this exhortation although to all Gods children in generall especially to you notwithstanding these maine obstacles to have a firme dependance upon the gracious providence of your heavenly Father But do not thinke that I intend to disswade you from prayer for daily bread Christian providence and painefull industry in your lawfull callings Do not imagine that I advise you profusely to spend that God may send according to that wicked proverbe Or to have you through your negligence lose the worst of your substance For a godly man must pray labour provide shunne wastfulnesse and preserve from losse the meanest of his substance and may do all these things and yet be neither covetous nor distrustfull Although for these causes Gods children are esteem'd of all men most avaricious Yet for a man I hope 1. To labour in a lawfull calling painefully and diligently is not covetousnesse If it be done in obedience to Gods commandement without the least inordinate desire unto or love of money and for a supply of present necessities For this did St. Paul yet was not covetous yea he proves by thus doing that he was not so Acts 20. 33 34. 2. To provide carefully for a mans family is not covetousnesse so it be not immoderate neglecting the poore and distrusting the providence of God for thus did Iacob and Saint Paul and warrantably 1. Tim. 5. 8. 3. To save from losse the basest of a mans substance is not covetousnesse except we will taxe our Saviour Christ Iesus for saving of fragments 4. Neither is every desire of wordly things covetousnesse no more then every desire of drinke is drunkennesse of meate gluttony for then sowing wee could not safely desire a harvest It is an inordinate desire of meate which makes a glutton of drinke which makes a drunkard so of money which makes a covetous man scil desire of more then needfull then that which will do a man good we may safely aske bread and desire what we labour for The world therefore doth good men a great deale of wrong taxing them for these particulars with covetousnesse They desiring not the least mite of other mens goods defrauding no man of a pinne not desiring wealth above or before all things but Gods kingdome grace c. not loving money for did they how could they sanctifie Sabbaths dayes of humiliation and fasting and their families daily by christian exercises But in Saint Pauls sense 1. Cor. 12. 31. they are I confesse of all men exceeding covetous They earnestly desiring and greedily thirsting after spirituall blessings and heavenly glory Now give me leave to vse foure motives to perswade you to rely upon your heavenly father to live by faith Art thou a father having children few or many then be Mot. 1. thine owne judge if thou deem'st not thy selfe disparaged if thy children misdoubt thy want of willingnes to provide for them to the vtmost of thine ability nay doe they not solely depend on thee and seeke for foode raiment and such like necessaries at thy hands And dar'st thou having the blessed testimony of Gods spirit Rom. 8. 16. the spirit of prayer Rom. 8. 15. being a follower of God as a deare childe being borne of God and so having a comfortable assurance that thou art Gods childe by adoption dishonour thy heavenly father distrusting provision Doth he not beare as tender affectionatenesse towards his children as thou dost towards thine God forbid that any such villanous thought should seaze upon thy heart He loving his children greatly Ephes 2. 4. everlastingly Ier. 31. 3. tenderly Zach. 2. 8. more then any mortall father Mat. 7. 11. or the most pitifull mother her sucking infant Isa 49. 15. Is he not as able to sustaine his children as thou art to maintaine thine Who and what is he who dares suffer his heart to nourish any such hellish blasphemy The earth being the Lords and the fulnesse thereof every beast of the forrest being his the cattell upon a thousand hills the foules of the mountaines and the wild beasts of the field Cast thine eye upon such comfortable promises recorded in the sacred Scriptures Psal 34. 9. there is no want to them that feare him ver 10. the lyons do lack suffer hunger but they that feare the Lord shall want no good thing Mat. 6. 33. all these shall be added to you Psal 33. 19. He will deliver their soule from death keepe them alike in the time of famine Sure I am the promises of God as they are sweet and pretious so they are yea and Amen 2 Cor. 1. 20. Rom. 4. 16. for he cannot lie Numb 23. 19. Ioh. 1. 2. and the Lord is unchangeable If therefore thou fearest God first seeke his kingdome and the righteousnesse thereof and if the enjoyment of these things be for thy good misdoubt not the fruition of them Consider seriously that thy heavenly father hath graciously provided for his charge of children in their greatest extremities and oft times unlook'd for provision Gen. 42. 1. Why looke you c. the Lord made sufficient provision for them He gave them bread in a desolate wildernesse Exod. 16. 15. 35. He gives Sampson water out of Lehi Iudg. 15. 19. He feedeth Eliah by a widow and ravens 1. King 17. 4. 9. with a cake and cruse of water 19. 5. 6. an hundred Prophets by the bountifull Saints extremities are Gods opportunities hand of a good courtier 1. King 18. 13. David speakes nobly to this purpose Psal 37. 25. I have bene young never saw the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread And I verily think although the number of beggars doth daily increase let a man diligently view over a whole country and he shall hardly finde one whom the world cals puritanes so forsaken of God as to begge his bread but either the Lord doth stirre up the hearts of some good Obadiahs to relieve them in secret or doth contrary to all expectation sustaine them or makes their little as effectuall like the widowes meale 1 King 19. or as if they had great abundance and more available then great revenews of wicked men ps 37. 16 Take notice of the extraordinary bountifulnesse of thy Father Giving food to all flesh Psal 136. 25. Satisfying the desire of every living thing Psal 145. 16. Filling all with his good Psal 104. 28. hence it is that the eyes of all waite upon him Psal
and that concisely point at some of the Lords daies duties I handling them now onely by way of use to another doctrine That we may keepe the Sabbath or the Lords day we must observantly take notice of the negative and affirmative precepts Negative precisely prohibiting the doing of any manner of works 1. Servile wherein we serve our selves not God therefore all sinfull actions of body and soule for although these are strictly forbidden euery day yet it is a greater sin to do them upon this day it offering fewer vrging or alluring provocations and affording more helps and Per voceâ—â—pus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non intelliguntur directè opera hominum vitiosa quia ea nunquam conceduntur sed opera servilia a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 servirâ— per qua scilicet â—â—â—squisque pro ratione vocationis suae victum exâ—rcet c. Wallaeus de 4. precep pag. 7. meanes against them 2. All workes of minde or body needlesse or unnecessary By the word Thou shalt doe no manner of worke are not understood the vitious workes of men because they are never permitted but servile workes of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying to serve by which every one by reason of his vocation doth pursue his living saith Wallaeus But least I should wander in so wide and spacious a field I will therefore shew you what others which I have read say and then give mine answer onely to some questions Omnis Christi amator Dominicum celebret Diem Diem resurrectioni consecratum Dominicae Reginam Principem Dierum omnium in quà vita c. Epist 3. ad Magnefianos Die vero qui Dominicus vocatur quem Hebraei primum vocant Graeci autem Soli distribuunt qui ante septimum est sancivit a judicijs alijsque causis universos habere vacationem in eo tantum orationibus occupari Honorabat sc Constantinus autem Dominicum Diem quia in eo Christus resurrexit à mortuis Sozomen Histor Eccl. Tripart lib. 1. Cap. 10. pag. 275. Dominicum ergò Diem Apostoli Apostolici viri ideò religiosâ solemnitate habendum sanxerunt quià in eodem Redemptor noster à mortuis resurrexit quique ideò Dominicus appellatur ut in eo à terrenis operibus vel mundi illecebris abstinentes tantuÌ„ Diviniâ— cultibus sErviamus ipse est primus dies seculi in ipso formatasuÌ„t elementa muÌ„di in ipso creati sunt Angeli in ipso quoque resurrexit à mortuis Christus c. Serm. 251. dâ— tempore Videâ—mus ne sed diâ—i dominici sequestrati a rurali opere ab omni negotio soli divinâ— cultui vacemus Ibid. Neque venatione se occupet diabolico mancipetur officio cirumvagando campos sylvas clamorem cachinnum ore exaltans Ibid. Tunc ipsi foris aut causas dicere aut diversis student calumnijs impugnare aut videlicet in alea vel in jocis inutilibus insidiari quatenus unus punctus diâ—i ad dei officium reliquum diurnum spatium cum nocte simul ad eorum deputetur vâ—luptates Idem Ibid. Melius vtique toto die foderent quam toto die saltarent Con. 1. part 1. in Psal 32. Melius enim arare quam saltare in Sabbato illi ab opere bono vacant opere nugatorio non vacant in titul Psal 91. Non hoc autem solum ratione aptum est tempus ad benignitatem prompto alacri animo exercendam sed quod habet quietem remissionem immunitatemque vacationem a laboribus Chrys Tom. 4. pag. 545. in 1. Cor. Homil. 45. Primo die qui dominicus appellatur celebres Magistri ac doctores Sancti patres nostri nobis canendum Psallendum centesimum decimum octanum Psalmum tradiderunt T. 1. Pag. 1055. Ignatius that ancient Bishop of Antioch in his 3. Epistle which is none of his 5. counterfeit Epistles saith Let every one that loveth Christ keep the Lords Day which is the Queene of dayes in which death is overcome and life is sprung up in Christ Renowned Constantine ordained as followeth That day which is called the Lords Day which the Hebrewes call the first day which the Grecians attribute to the Sun which is before the 7. day he ordained that all should cease from suits and other businesses and to be only occupied in prayers upon it and indeed hee did honour the Lords Day because in it Christ rose from the dead St. Augustine saith the Lords Day the Apostles and Apostolicall men have ordained with religious holinesse to be kept because in the same our Redeemer rose from the dead and therefore is called the Dominicall or Lords Day that in it we may onely attend on the Divine Service this is the first Day of the world in it were created the elements and the Angels upon this Day Christ rose and the holy Ghost was given Manna first descended from heaven upon this day And againe Being sequestred from all rusticall works and businesse wee give our selves wholly to the worship of God Neither let him busie himselfe in hunting and enthrall himself in any devillish work in wandering about the fields and woods making a loud noise and laughter c. And in the same Sermon reprooving certaine disorders on the Lords day hee saith Then scil in the time of the publique worship of God without doores they tel tales or study to fight against others by slanders or to take great paines at dice or other unprofitable sports as if one period of the day was set apart to the service of God and the rest of the day and the night to their own pleasures The same father saith thus in one place They might better digge all the day then dance all the day And in another place It is better to plow then to dance upon the Sabbath they rest from a good worke rest not from a vaine and triffing work And S. Chrysostome speaking of the fitnesse of this day for workes of mercy saith It is a fit time to practise liberality with a ready and willing mind not only in this regard but also because it hath rest ceasing freedome and vacation from labours And in another place he saith Our reverend teachers and instructers our holy fathers have given us the 118. Psalme to sing the first day which is called the Lords day Leo the first commanded Sunday to bee kept holy And that all Christians should behave themselves godly and vertuously all the day long in preaching hearing and remembring the Word of God visiting the sicke and poore and comforting the comfortlesse Leo the third at a Counsell in Ments decreed that Sundaies should be kept holy with all reverence and that all men should abstaine those daies from all servile worke and worldy businesse and that there should be no faires markets or any buying or selling on the Sundaies I have read that in a Counsell at Nice order
countrie for they alwayes thinke of the earth talke of the earth and savour earthly things After him * About 400. Aug 119. ad Ianuaâ—â—m Saint Augustine complaines of his times often After him St. Chrysostome saith of his time d Aut tales aut peiores fâ—cti sunt Christiani quales sunt heretici aut Gentiles adhuc autem maior continentia apud illos invenitur quam vis in schismate sint quam apud Christianos Tom 2. Hom. 49. super Mat. p 859 About 500. Christians are now made such or worse as Heretickes or Gentiles as yet there is greater continence found amongst those although they are in schisme then amongst Christians Moderne Writers complaine of their times Gualter saith e Adulteria hodiè vix peccati loâ—o censentur â— plerâ—que cum risâ— exciâ—i solent Guâ—lter in Hos 7. Ver 4. Adulteries are scarce accounted sinnes in thâ—se dayes and are made matter of laughter with many The Church of God it self which in all ought to be a pacifier of God what is it else save a griever of God What other thing almost is all the Assembly of Christians then a sinke of vices You shall more easily find guilty of all evils then of not all more easily of all greater crimes then of lesse And learned Bradwardine speaking of his times saith f Salvianus who lâ—ved 480. saith of his times Ipsa Dei Ecclesiâ— quae in omnibut essâ— dâ—bâ—t plaâ—atrix Dâ—i quid est aliud quam exacerbatrix Dei quid est aliud penè omnis coetus Christianorum quam sentina vâ—tiorum fâ—cilius â—nvenâ—as reoâ— maloruâ— omnium quaâ— non omnium sacilius matorum criminum quam minorum c. Lib. 3. de Gub. Dei pag. 8â— â— Tetus enim penè mundus post Pelagium abijt in errorem Prafat In Lib. de causa Dei Almost all the world is gone after Pelagius into errour Sinnes are not onely they seeme worse in this age then in former times to some 1. By meanes of want of wisdome in them which so think and speake 2. Ignorance or forgetfulnesse of sinnes committed in former times 3. By meanes of the light of these glorious noone shine dayes compared with the darknesse and mistinesse of former ages And 4. The watchfull observation of mens evill actions under the Gospel to scandalize the same and its Professours But to returne Since as the harlots pleaded hard 1 Reg. 1. 3. The living is mine the dead thine So these and all other Demychristians Antichristians and false Christians cry out Christ is ours but none of yours It is good therfore to resort for determination to the sacred Scriptures which although they are falsely urged by Hereticks as Tertullian saith De Carne Christi pag. 25. Therefore the same learned man brings the Lord thus speaking * 〈◊〉 un de 〈◊〉 quid in meo agitu non mes quo denique ture Marcion silvanâ— meam 〈◊〉 qua licentia Valentine fontes meos transvertu qua potestate Apelles limtees meos commoves mea est possessio quid hic caeteri ad voluntatem vestra seminatis paseâ—tu Advers haeres pag 109. How and from whence doe you come What do you which are not mine in mine By what right O Marcion dost thou cut my wood By what license O Valentinus dost thou turn away my fountains By what authority ô Apelles dost thou turn away my land-marks The possession is mine why do you O others at your pleasure sow and feed here are the rule to trie truth from falshood * Dei est Scriptura Dei est Natura Dei est Disciplina quâ—â—quid est 〈◊〉 contrarium Dei non est Idem de veland Virgin pag. 500. Scripture is of God Nature is of God Discipline is of God Whatsoever is contrary to these is not of God said the same Tertullian I appeale therefore to this Heavenly Oracle for resolution and direction that hence both I and you may know truly who have fellowship with Christ and what they ought to doe who desire to have or already enjoy communion with the Sonne of God CHAP. VIII The first Marke and Duty Such must imitate Christ who have fellowship with him WHosoever hath or desireth to have fellowship with 1. Marke Duty Iesus Christ must be a strict imitatour of Christ Iesus 1 Ioh. 1. 7. If we walke in the light as he c. 2. 6. He that saith he abideth in him ought himselfe also to walke even as he walked He must frame his life according to his example And Saint Paul charged the Corinthians to be followers of him as he was of Christ 1 Cor. 11. 1. This imitation of Christ hath its appointed limitation how farre it extends For in all things wee are not to imitate our Sauiour 1. His Divine and miraculous actions such as were his commanding the tempestuous winds tumultuous waves and raging spirits giving life to the dead sight to the blind health to the incurably sicke with his word forgiving sinnes and giving heaven to the penitent petitioner upon the Crosse by his Soveraigne authority are not recorded to this end that we should endeavour to do the like 1. We having no warrant hereunto from precept or practice or promise 2. Neither is there any possibility for us to expresse them 3. An endeavour to follow our Saviour in these is impious He putting difference by such wondrous workes twixt himselfe and all other men 2. His workes of Mediatour-ship as he was God-man or Man-god making reconciliation and peace betwixt God and Elect sinners are not for our imitation He alone is Mediatour both of redemption and intercession 1 Tim. 2. 4. One Mediatour betweene God and man Verse 5. There is one God and one Mediatour which is Christ alone For he onely hath made peace for us and doth perpetually mainetaine it 3. But the Christian mans imitation of Christ is and ought to be First Active following his godly and pious actions done not as God or Man-god but as man made under the Law which Morall actions are these and the like 1. Obedience Phil. 2. 5. Let the same mind be in you which was also in Christ Iesus 7. Servant c. He obeyed his heavenly and earthly parents Luc. 2. 57. 2. Innocency Isa 52. 9. No deceipt found in his mouth Which of you convinceth me of sinne said our Saviour Ioh. 8. 46. I find no fault in this man said Pilate Luke 23. 4. He hath done nothing amisse said the pious thiefe Luc. 23. 41. He a Lambe without spot and blemish saith the Holy Ghost 1 Pet. 1. 19. 20. 3. Humility Math. 11. 29. Learne of me for I am meek and lowly in spirit Ioh. 13. 12 13 14 15. 4. Love Rom. 5. 8. He commended his love in that when we were sinners he died for us He forgave his mercilesse enemies He made intercession for his bloudy persecutors Luc. 23. 34. And did good to all 1 Ioh. 3. 16. He c.