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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60521	The character of a weaned Christian, or, The evangelical art of promoting self-denial being an essay, alluding to the severities and advantages of infant-weaning, both pleasant and profitable / by S. S., ...	Smith, Samuel, 1620-1698.	1675 (1675)	Wing S4164; ESTC R19902	63,054	160

Old Man because it is the Festival of their Spiritual Liberty in their Conformity to Christ's Death and Resurrection therefore get a good Opinion of the Work and it will succeed accordingly For the Rod as Aarons often Blossoms and brings forth the precious Fruits of Righteousness Is not this more Eligible than for tasting only a little Hony in any unlawful delight without the allowance of your Heavenly Father as Jonathan to incur the Penalty of Death it self Therefore in the next place shut fast the Cinque-port of your Senses and clear up the Eye of your Faith to take a view of the Creatures Vanity in order to admiring God in Christ Watch your hearts if you would get them weaned Keep them with all Diligence Sobriety and Watchfulness must be conjoyned in Christs Nursery as well as in the Discipline of his Camp Labour to be well read in the Anatomy of your deceitful hearts to understand your Constitution Inclination and Disposition For Satan hath Snares of all sorts and sizes to suit and please the several humours of sensual Sinners He is a cunning Angler do not you nibble at his Temptations lest as those Fish which Frisk and Play in the fresh Waters of Jordan you unawares stream down into the dead Sea of Worldly corrupt examples 10. Take heed of the occasions of sin The Rechabites would not chew the Husk of a dry Grape lest they should be inticed to drink Wine Pray as St. Augustine that when thou hast a heart to sin thou mayest want a Temptation and when a Temptation is presented thou mayest want a heart to comply with it This is the very Dialect of the Devils Sophistry you may come within the smell of sin and yet not be infected but you cannot play on the hole of the Asp or Cockatrice and yet be safe or secure If Satan like Archimedes can but have so much scope in thy heart as to place there his Engine of temptation he will soon shake and dissolve the whole Frame of thy Integrity if it be meerly Moral Besides to venture on the occasion shews that there is a secret liking of that sin it leads to though we conceit our selves to be weaned from it Nor will the Lord ordinarily keep us from the sin if we keep not our selves from the temptation and then we are sure to fall 11. Let this weaning design be your daily work upon which you are most intent It 's dissicult and not rid off with lazy wishes Augustine while he prayed to be weaned from his youthful incontinency secretly wisht he might yet be spared in his vain excesses We say of every darling Lust let Reuben Live and not dye Indulge not therefore your flesh though it cry out in a render delicacy that you would pitty and indulge it You must not desist from the severity of this work for your hearts sullenness and frowardness That Parent who spares to correct the Child for its crying hardens and confirms it in its Rebellion Thus it proves the future grief and shame of the Parent as well as the present disquietment of the Family Be not slight and remiss in weaning-attempts If so you must begin again as the Nazarite who had transgrest against the strict Law of his scparation The work will prove more difficult uncertain and hazardous as to its happy Issue Carry thorow this weaning design begin not in the Spirit to end in the Flesh If a Man omit a stroke in swimming he is soon carried down the Stream 12. Improve the Christian Sabbath especially to promote this Design As 't is the fittest season so Satan most watches to render it unsuccesful He then uses the same stratagem which the Benjamites did Judg. 21.19 20 21. to snatch them up Wives from among the Daughters of Israel to inlarge their almost extinguished Tribe When Christians come forth in Spiritual Dances to celebrate this holy Festival to the Lord then Satan lies in Ambuscado behind the Vineyards of Worldly profits and pleasures Thence he sallies out with his Temptations to commit a Rape upon the Virgin-purity of our Souls which should be espoused only to the Lord. But do not drive on this Task of weaning only during the Sabbath-space How should Lusts which have been rooting all the Week nay possibly our Life-long be pluckt up in one hours formal attendance on the Ordinances 13. Therefore begin this weaning task betimes in Youth before you and your Lusts be grown into a strict familiarity hardly to be shaken off David complained that the Sons of Zerviah were too hard for him while he was newly entred on his regal power But do you execute your Lusts as the Jews did Christ early in the Morning You will otherwise by indulgence and connivence give them greater advantage against you It 's dissicult to pull up Weeds when the Garden is overgrown and they have spread their Roots by long neglect to clear the Ground So is it to break off a setled long confirmed habit in Vice Do not accustom your selves to lie soaking at the Breasts of Lusts and the World especially being prompted to it by a Natural Instinct Our corrupt Nature is not as green Wood which needs much help of Art to make it burn but as Touch-wood the least spark of Temptation which lights on us fires all that train of Corruption yea the Magazine of Hell which is stored up in our degenerate and wicked hearts Therefore improve the soaking Showres of Divine Mercy and Goodness to soften your hard hearts that you may more easily root up your Lusts Maintain also the Love of Christ shed abroad in your Souls This as a more intense Divine flame will overpower and extinguish the Fire-Balls of Lust and Temptations which Satan darts into your Spirits 14. Again go not out in the strength of your own Resolutions and Covenantings to Reform these without renewing Grace cannot work any estrangement from your Lusts Rather look up by Faith to a pierced crucifyed Jesus Fetch Life from his Death Be so sixt to his Cross by Meditation that if a Temptation pass by before you bow the head and Court you you may not be at leisure to observe it much less to descend and imbrace it Say as Nehemiah to Sanhallat Why should this Work of the Lord slack while I parle with Satan to neglect the Building up of my Soul in Holiness More earnestly implore the confirming Aid of Christ's Mortifying Spirit to superaded his anointing Grace to thy Baptismal Vow that thou mayest beincouraged to conflict more resolutely against the Temptations of Sin Statan and the World While the Lock of your Faith is growing and spreads in Prayer your strength to resist and Conquer your Philistin-Lusts will renew and not suffer you to be defeated of your Hopes of Triumph 15. Despise those Reproaches which sensual Sinners cast upon a weaned Frame It 's no more than you were forewarned of and fore-armed against when you first entred upon the Christian state They think

But the power of Renewing Grace lays him level with the Dust Before he walkt in a vain show strutting and applauding himself in the tinkling of his own imaginary excellencies yet by Converting Grace the Top-Gallant of his self-deifying Pride is laid prostrate at the foot of Christ in admiring only the Riches of free Grace and the imputed Righteousness of a Saviour 2. Weanlings express more of Contentation than of Contention or discontent All frowardness of Spirit flows from Pride But you may deal with a weaned Child as you please Turn it upside down strip it of its Ornaments it submits it doth not revile nor spurn So a weaned Saint complies with yea reverences welcomes and imbraces every change and turn of Providence He expostulates not with the Supream Lord and absolute Potter who hath an uncontrouled Dominion over his Person State and Condition in the World Thus Aaron repined not to strip himself of his Priestly Robes and invest Eleazar with them though it were solemnized with his own immediate dissolution His ambition was subdued and his affections mortified to the Pride of Life Thus Moses dyed at the Mouth of the Lord at the Word of his Command being satisfyed only with a Prospect of Canaan as the reward of his Faithful tedious conduct of that mutinous People even to the Borders of the pleasant Land Therefore the Lord kist his soul out of his Body as the Rabbins speak He put more signal honour on him in translating him to the superlative effusions of his choicest Love because he so readily went up to the Mount and dyed How was David weaned to a wonderment as if he were at a point whether he died in persuit of his Rebellious Absolom or returned in Triumph as a Conquerer 2 Sam. 15.25 26. If I shall find favour c. Thus Hezekiah said Good is the Word and Work of the Lord though Isaiah threatned that his Kingly dignity should be ecclipst in the future Captivity of his Nation and that the Babylonians should possess all his Treasures which had been the occasion of his Pride 3. A weaned Child may bemoan its loss of its wonted delight in applying to the Brest those pleasant Conduits of Nature yet at last it yields to the Mothers Act with silence and a quiet Frame So Saints do not expect to be alway indulged in their Childish will and Appetite only here is the difference A Saint out of a judicious consideration chearfully submits in preferring a weaned State before the highest injoyments of the Creature He chooses for his happiness to behold the Face of God in Righteousness and is satisfied with the Image of Christ upon his Soul Even in his first Conversion he hath a high estimation of Christ and the things of Eternity yet because the Scale is but a little turned by a few grains of Faith and Love he doth not so readily draw off his Affections from the inchanting Objects of this present Life But having attained to a more Masculine State in Christianity he espyes at last a Soul-satisfying fulness-even in a weaned Frame it self Thus Paul being filled with the Spirit had the comprehension of all happiness furnisht out unto him from the Treasury of Christ's alsufficiency this weaned him to contentment with any thing or nothing of the Creature so that he could glory in all Distresses and truly aver that he needed not any Gift from the World for said he I am full I abound I have all His Bonds were as Bridal Ornaments and his very nakedness and stock of sufferings were preferred before the Wardrobe and Treasuries of all the Kings of Judah 4. A weaned Child repines not though it exchange Brest-Milk which is pleasant easie of digestion for harsher and meaner Food Because it is not wise enough to provide for it self therefore of necessity it lives at the finding and disposal of the Parent So a Saint submits his Will to the Wisdom of Divine Providence to order and guide his affections and affairs to over-rule and controul his inordinate Appetite He knows that among the variety of Estates in the World he might mistake Henbane for wholsome Food a Stone for Bread-Corn c. He is afraid when his Desires grow Feaverish and voracious lest he should suck Vanity and vexation of Spirit from Worldly Peace Plenty and Prosperity Therefore he counts it safest to refer himself to Divine Wisdom who only knows what nourishment he can best digest what State of Life he can best manage and improve By self-Abasement he puts no confidence in his own Wit or Strength He wholly depends on the Lord's care and Favour He lives by Faith upon the Promise and is content with his allotted Portion in the World He counts himself unworthy of the least of mercies yea to be quickned up to his Duty by the Rod of God His Will and desires are circumscribed limited by the Wisdom and Sovereignty of the Lord. He can rejoyce when reduced to a state of emptiness and abasement He doth not prescribe to the Lord how he shall dispose of him in his Person and Relations Comforts or Tryals But is sutably moulded by a ready and chearful compliance to be cast into any form or Condition of Life Divine Providence shall see fit This doth prove our humble and weaned Frame to be sincere for the change of our Condition and the external Garb of our Profession doth not promote the real Work of Mortification The setled Disease of Pride and inordinacy of Affection to the Creature must be carried off by sound Repentance Faith in the Purgation of Christ's Blood by a Sympathetical Conformity to his Death and Resurrection in a Conquest over our selves and the irregularities of our hearts as well as by a profest contemptuous renouncing of all alluring lying Vanities 5. The weaned Child is not in so great danger to be overlaid Thus the World in its distrusting Cares and distracting Fears is a strange ponderous Incubus or Night-Hag which over-rides and presses its Paramors unto death Sensual Lusts a Load of Worldly Contrivances to be Rich and Great yea pleasing hopes and Sensual Joys those very Comforts and Delights which promise as Foster-Parents to batten us by their flatteries these even these betray us by stifling the Seed-Royal of Gracious Dispositions and Affections in the Soul But a weaned mortified Christian can vigorously cast off those pressures of Temptation the suffocating foul humors of Lusting which like an Incubus shorten and obstruct the free breathings of the Spirit of Grace and supplication He can strongly cry out Abba Father succor me by thy preventing assisting-Grace that I may not be overlaid nor prest to Death by secular Cares Comforts or Delights 6. It 's a very difficult task to wean off a Child from hankring after the Brest So 't is very tedious and painful to corrupt Flesh and Blood which remains in part unsubdued in the best of Saints to have so great a change made in their unruly Appetite that what