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A51788	Præparatio evangelica, or, A plain and practical discourse concerning the soul's preparation for a blessed eternity being the substance of several sermons preach'd at Leeds / by Timothy Manlove ...	Manlove, Timothy, d. 1699.	1698 (1698)	Wing M455; ESTC R6789	123,238	196

Cries will avail them nothing Inser 2. Learn from hence the Reasonableness and Equity yea the wonderful Grace and Benignity of the Divine Government over fall'n Man See what a Connexion there is between our Duty and Interest All the Precepts which God hath given us may justly he esteemed as so many Directions which have a natural Tendency to our own Welfare 'T is true they have the nature of Laws being enforced by the Divin● Command But is that any Injury to us that the mo●● blessed glorious God has by his Soveraign Righ●●● Authority over us obliged us to be happy Put us under such a Law that we cannot be innocently miserable if we perish it shall be our own fault that we do so●●● Well may it be called a Paternal Government God i● pleased to deal with us in a way sutable to that Tid● which he has condescended to take unto himself vi●● The Father of Spirits Behold how tenderly and ge●●ly he deals with his Off-spring even the rational Sou●● that issued from him His Love invites them h●● Authority enjoys them to be happy he reasons th● Case with them why will ye die Yea he beseeched them in the most earnest moving manner as tho G●● did beseech you by us 2 Cor 5.20 They are impo●cuned from time to time in his Name to lay aside the●●● Frowardness and Enmity against him who alone 〈◊〉 make them compleatly blessed And thus he waits 〈◊〉 be gracious to them How little do we deserve to 〈◊〉 thus treated methinks this should make us even to 〈◊〉 ashamed and blush to consider our unworthy 〈◊〉 disingenuous Carriage towards him and convio●us at length how much better it is to be under 〈◊〉 Government than to be left to our own Conduct His Commandments are not grievous The first a●● principal of them is this Thou shalt love the Lord 〈◊〉 God with all thine Heart c. What but the despert●●● Wickedness of our depraved sinful Natures can ma●● this seem an hard Saying Whom should we love not him who is infinitely Good in himself and th● most sutable Good for us The Author of all the Ble●sings that we ever enjoyed upon whom both 〈◊〉 Beings and Well-beings do entirely depend Ye 〈◊〉 he doth not put us off with Trifles but offers him●●● 〈◊〉 to be the Object of our Love And promiseth all tho●●● Returns of Kindness and Benignity which can ra●●onally be desired to make us happy And can ye y●● refuse to love O what is the cause of your so migh● an Aversion from him What Iniquity have ye ever found in him Jer. 2.5 Lord into how great Confusion and Distraction are we fallen by forsaking him and sinking into our own wretched selves Alas that our Hearts should be so averse from closing with the infinite universal all comprehending Good He hath made our Capacities such as none but himself can fill and satisfy Therefore we must needs be uneasy or restless while we keep at a distance from him Surely then no Precept can tend more directly to our own Felicity than this of loving God with all our Hearts And to this all the rest are reduced for 't is the fulfilling of the Law and surely the Obedience of Love will be pleasant if thy Mind be once brought up to this holy Love the work is done thy Cavils against any other Commands will then be at an end Thou wilt ever justify the Divine Law and humble thy self that in so many things thou fallest short Thou wilt then see reason to convince thee that even those things which thou wast wont to look upon as over great Severities in Religion were nothing but what the nature of thy Case made necessary in order to thy Cure That no needless Restraints are laid upon thee that the most exact Watchfulness the greatest Mortification and Self-denial are all little enough to keep so froward a Nature within its due Bounds In a word thou wilt see that God hath restrained thee from nothing which was truly good for thee but only denied thee the liberty of Self undoing and therefore that his ways are equal how unequal soever thine own ways have been Infer 3. Learn from hence what woful work Sin hath made in human Nature forasmuch as so great a Power of Divine Grace is necessary to refit and qualify ●it for its proper Use and End All our Faculties and Powers are exceedingly depraved and enfeebled by the Fall In us that is in our Flesh there dwells no good ●●ing When we would do good evil is present with us Rom. 7.18 21. They that are in the Flesh that is all unregenerate Persons cannot please God Chap. 8.8 Some indeed there are who deny Original Sin and would perswade us that 't is only by imitation that we become wicked But the Scripture is full and clear in the Case Psal 51.5 Behold I was shapen in Iniquity and in Sin did my Mother couceive me Even the best of Men were by nature Children of Wrath as well as others Ephes 2.3 Hence our Saviour shews us the necessity of Regeneration Joh. ● 5 6. That which is bore of the Flesh is Flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit Vers 7. Marvel not that I said into thee 〈◊〉 must ●e born again Is not Death the wages of Sin Do not Infants die even before they are capable of actual Sin therefore they have original Sin And why are they washed with Water in the Name of the Father Son and Holy-Ghost if they have no sinful Defilement upon them and whence is it that Corruption doth so early discover it self in them but because they brought it into the World with them True it is that our first Parents were created in a holy and happy State endued with the Knowledg and Love of God fitted for Communion with him and perfect Obedience to him c. This Man once was lad to say was and is not Our Gold is become Dress the Crown is fallen from our Head Wo unto us for w● have sinned How are the Mighty fallen The Distempers of our Souls are now past numbering The Understanding and Will which were made to govern the inferiour Faoulties the one by guidance the other by command are themselves enslaved to Lust and Appetite So that Man is born like a wild As●s Colt Folly and Vanity it bound up in his Heart from h● very Child-hood Being departed from God the Center in which a● our Faculties should unite and for whom they ought to be improved and employ'd we are become at variance with one another and each Man with himself Not to mention the bitter Strifes and Envyings the bloody VVars and Contentions whereby Nations and Kingdoms yea and lesser Societies too rise up one against another it may not be amiss to consider how strangely inconsistent even with themselves ungodly Men are One would think they were made up of Contradictions and Absurdities The sensitive part is against the rational The VVill against

Holiness lead is unspeakably glorious Lastly if the best of us did more clearly apprehend and frequently consider the Blessedness of a future State and the necessary Connexion or near Alliance between Holiness and Happiness this would put Life into all our Motions and Tendencies Heaven-ward and would give a most refreshing relish and savour to all our Duties These and many more such advantages would accrue to us from a right understanding of our way and our end compared with each other But I must not make too large a Preface to so small a Book Nor will I stay to apologize as the manner of some is for the Weakness and Imperfections of the ensuing Treatise Only I tell thee I have studied that both as to the Matter Method and Stile it might be plain practical and profitable for the use of vulgar Readers not to gratify the capricious wanton humors of those who have itching Ears but to edify honest upright Hearts I hope I can truly say in some measure that as to the applause of Men desii curare I have done regarding it VVith me it is a very small Matter to be judged of Man's Judgment 1 Cor. 4.3 Therefore to conclude if thou wilt read deliberatly what I have written and consider it impartially and carry it home to thine own Heart and Conscience by that prudent Self-application which the nature of thy Case shall require I hope thou wilt get real advantage by it and when thou hast so done forget not to pray for him Who is a very unworthy Servant of the best and greatest Master Timothy Manlove Leeds Sept. 8. 1698. THE CONTENTS CHAP. I. THE Dependance of the Words upon what goes before Their Literal and Real Importance The Point of Doctrine to be insisted upon The Method wherein it is to be handled Page 1. CHAP. II. Some general Account of the Heavenly Felicity to which are subjoyned some short Hints how unfit we are by Nature for that blessed State and how we came to be so 9. CHAP. III. A further Enquiry into the Nature of that great Change whereby the Souls of Believers are wrought and prepared for Heaven 22. CHAP. IV. Of the several Steps whereby this blessed Work is begun carried on and perfected in the Soul 38. CHAP. V. Plain Proof from Scripture and the nature of the thing that none can come to Heaven till they be wrought or prepared for it by Divine Grace 48. CHAP. VI. Several Inferences of Truth drawn from the foregoing Discourse 61. CHAP. VII Reproof to those Persons who wrong their own Souls by presumptuous hopes of Heaven while they are utter Strangers to this great work of Grace whereby they should be prepared for it Shewing how vain sinful dangerous and unnatural it is for them thus to deceive themselves 72. CHAP. VIII How much it concerns us to examin our selves whether we be wrought for Heaven or no. Sundry Motives to excite us to this necessary Duty 82. CHAP. IX Directions for the more successful management of this great Duty of Self-Examination 90. CHAP. X. Sundry Questions proposed by which to examin the State of our Souls 98. CHAP. XI The Exhortation in several Branches 1. To those who are not yet wrought for Heaven directing them what Methods to take in order to their Conversion 117. CHAP. XII Directions to those who have attained to greater degrees of Assurance and Comfort 158. 2 COR. 5.5 Now he that hath wrought us for the self-same thing is GOD. CHAP. I. The Dependance of the Words upon what goes before Their Literal and Real Importance The Point of Doctrine to be insisted upon The Method wherein it is to be handled IN the foregoing Chapter we have an account of the many sufferings and dangers to which the Apostle himself and his Fellow-labourers in the Work of the Gospel were exposed Vers 8 9. c. Troubled on every side perplexed persecuted cast down Always bearing about in the Body the dying of the Lord Jesus i. e. by suffering for his sake and in conformity to him As it follows vers 11. Alway delivered unto Death for Jesus sake Moreover he tells us what it was that bore up their Spirits and kept them from fainting under all these Pressures namely a believing prospect of future Glory whereof Christ's Resurrection was a certain Argument and Pledg vers 13 14. We also believe and therefore speak Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus vers 16. For which cause we faint not c. He then proceeds to make a Comparison between their present Troubles and the Joy that was set before them As for the former he speaks as tho he accounted them scarce worth naming but of the latter as if no words could be found great enough to express it vers 17. For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal w●ight of Glory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one Hyperbole upon another and yet all little enough to signify the deep sense which he had of the transcendent worth and excellency of that weighty Glory concerning which he speaks Thus Rom. 8.18 For ●●eckon that the Sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the Glory which shall be revealed is us This he did upon due deli●eration well weighing the Point 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 expendo as Grotius observes some of the Ancients render it Thus ye see whence it was that they fetch 't their Supports amidst all the conflicts and difficulties they met with in this World What they look't or aimed at 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 viz. The things not seen which are eternal vers 18. This was the Prize they ran for and which they expected at length to obtain And now that none might think that their hopes were wavering uncertain or ill-grounded he goes on in this Chapter wherein the Text is to declare how full and satisfying their Assurance was in this matter and why it was so Vers 1. For we know that if our Earthly House of this Tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God c. Note ●ere that Faith is a certain infallible sort of Knowledg we know So Joh. 6.69 We believe and ar● sure Rom. 8.28 We know that all things work together for good to them that love God 1 Cor. 15.58 Y●● know that your Labour is not in vain in the Lord. Nor were their Desires after this blessed State less earnest than their Belief and Hopes were firm and steady vers 2.3 4. We groan earnestly desiring to be cloathed upon with our house which is from Heaven that Mortality might be swallowed up of Life And thus we are brought to the Text in which the Apostle lays down some further grounds of this their Confidence viz. They were wrought for the Heavenly Glory and that by God himself Who also had given unto them the earnest of the Spirit as it immediately follows and therefore says