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conscience_n	blood_n	soul_n	sprinkle_v	1,209	5	10.9438	5	false

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A80739	Divine drops distilled from the fountain of Holy Scriptures: delivered in several exercises before sermons, upon twenty and three texts of Scripture. By that worthy gospel preacher Gualter Cradock, late preacher at All-Hallows Great in London.	Cradock, Walter, 1606?-1659.	1649 (1649)	Wing C6757; Thomason E585_8; ESTC R206263	151,866	263

freely and fully to the Lord. The other cannot but he is hardened and startles at every thing as a man going among wilde Beasts Thirdly It appears to me that your faith is not come to be right by the defilements you have from the creatures Your faith is not according to the Gospel When men are defiled with lawful things Nay so much that some men cannot eat or go to bed one while they must eat of one dish and not of two though sobriety be a Gospel grace And one while they must eat one meal a day another while one meal in two days I have known one eat but one meal in a week and let them eat little or much they defile their consciences One while they must go so in their apparel with lace and after that lace damneth them Though sobriety be good in cloaths and diet yet this shews that they are defiled for to a good man every thing is pure but to others every thing is impure because his conscience is impure that is His conscience is defiled and so he is taken prisoner his conscience is not sprinkled and washed through the blood of Christ therefore in these things he is tangled endlesly Now if ever you will have comfort in your souls that is true and solid for there may be comforts according to the Law but they will not last they will be out upon the least breach but if the Lord frame your faith according to the Gospel your comfort will be solid and lasting Im ∣ pediment Second The second thing is having faith according to the Gospel labor to live by faith Many of you have a little faith and true Gospel faith but you do not live by it you live by sence It is a proverb in Scripture The just shall live by faith I shall have occasion to open that when I have more time and therefore I proceed Im ∣ pediment Third A third thing that makes your comfort short is the slow coming of grace into your souls You finde grace come in but slowly you believe and labor to believe according to the Gospel and yet grace comes but slowly and poorly you have been so many yeers and have scarce any grace For your comfort this is one thing thou that hast but little grace coming in so many yeers I tell thee God saith that grace is like the springing of the sea or the springing of the yeer Now in the springing of the sea when men would have a tide for their passage a man is glad to see a little turning of the water first it is so much the nearer then he observes and is glad to see the Sea rise and cover a few stones or marks though it be little but stay till it be almost full Sea when it is high tide then every thing almost is covered on a sudden the tide over-runs all Take it in the spring of the yeer for we should learn something from the creatures about February you are glad to see the buds of Haw thorn you look a week together and it grows a little and you see no other it is a signe that Summer is coming In the beginning of March it may be there are two or three things more and they come slowly and you are glad to see them and look on them every day In Aprill or May the Gardens are full of Flowers and the fields full of grass you know not what to observe So it is in experience in the beginning the Lord makes a Saint glad of a Primrose of a little turning of the water that the blood that the stream is turned if he begin to hear the word that hated it and to rejoyce in the company of good neighbours that hated it two or three little Primroses But grace comes as the tide stay a while and thou shalt see such a flowing of grace in thy soul that thou knowest not where to look such a tide of love and joy and knowledge such innumerable lessons that thou knowest not where to look Therefore wait upon the Lord thou shalt see grace come in as the tide impedi ∣ ment Last Lastly thou dost not it may be make use of the experiences thou hast had of God Thou hast had abundance of experience of the Lord and we are apt to forget As Christ saith do you not remember the loaves the other day and do you now doubt whether you have bread O yea of little faith Truly the very creatures will rise in judgement against us that having had so many experiments of God we are so shie of trusting God and thinking well of God Didst thou ever see a Dog let me instance in that vile creature for God would have us learn from the creatures and God hath cast them so that they should not be onely for our use but every thing in reference to his Gospel that we may not only occasionally draw such things that hap hazzard fall out but to observe their nature and qualities and learn somewhat from them you see in a Dog when he hath abused you it may be against his will and it may be you have beat him he runs away or he comes with fear and is very shie and will hardly come to you but take him in your arms and stroak him and all his fear it gone when you smile he thinks you mean him no hurt he hath no thought of your former anger So we come many times to the Lord and are shie and tremble and fear and think he means to hurt us and what are his thoughts How oft hath God taken us in his arms and stroaked us and laid us down again and yet we fear again and are worse in many respects then the bruit creatures When the Master hath the Dog he may kill him if he will but he stroaks him and the Dog thinks his master means well to him so many times God might kill us and throw us into Hell and catch us at advantage yet in stead of that he loves us and imbraceth us and layes us down again and yet we are so shie we fear and distrust him We have not that plainnesse of heart as that old Martyr said I have lived eighty yeers and he never did me any hurt So God many times hath had advantage to have thrown us into hell yet he hath kissed and stroaked us Why should we be so fearfull when afflictions and troubles come upon us These things procure sadnesse because we do not trust in that God that in our extremity hath been friendly and fatherly to us The Lord help you to lay up these few broken words in your hearts Expositions and Observations on ISAIAH 65. 5. I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people which walketh in a way that was not good after their own thoughts c. Which say Stand by thy self come not near to me for I am holier then thou these are a smoak in my nose a fire that burneth all the