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A81485	A sincere believer, comforted, and encouraged. Or; a practical treatise, discovering the goodness of God to a sinful soul, in the enjoyment of Christ With the great benefit and comfort he hath thereby. Whereby as through a prospective, a true Christian may plainly see how to fit and prepare himself in such a manner, as his endeavours may not be in vaine. By R.D.M.A. and minister of the gospel in the Isle of Wight. Recommended to the serious perusal of all true Christians. By Thomas Goodwin, D.D. and Will Strong, M.A. deceased.	Dingley, Robert, 1619-1660.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Strong, William, d. 1654.	1656 (1656)	Wing D1500; ESTC R230249	203,361	369

on mens affections they are bewitch as Gal. 3.1 O foolish Galatians who hath bewitch you that you should not obey the truth before whose eyes Christ hath been evidently set forth and crucified q. d. Christ crucified hath been described and set out to the life in our Sermons for that generation saw not his crucifixion on the crosse Now to this is requisite much f Quintilian would have his Orator wel nigh omniscient and surely Ministers should be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies being able as well as willing to teach knowledge A man must be well furnished before he can perswade exhort insinuate and winde into the hearts of people Rom. 15.14 To utter seasonable and suitable things fitly closely and describe things to the life requires much knowledge 2. Fulnesse of affections He that goes to work upon another must be brim full of affections himselfe saith Quintilian Acts 17.34 you see Paul did so move the peoples affections that they clave to him beleeved How came he to do this See vers 16. His spirit was stirred in him i. e. Paul was greatly affected himselfe and so came to affect others One candle being lighted 2 Cor. 2.4 will light many So 2 Cor. 2.4 I wrote unto you with many tears g Non tam atramento quā lachrymis chartas illevit Lorinus Pene quot syllabas tot lachrymas saith one he shed as many tears as he wrote syllables he could hardly write for teares O that we who are Gods Ministers could be thus affected The Lord lay it not to our charge that we are not 3. Godlinesse h Gregory saith of Athanasius that his life was a continuall Sermon and wooing men for Christ of life Aristotle require this in an Orator That he be a good man We must speak feelingly and experimentally as 2 Cor. 4.13 We also beleeve and therefore speak Paul exhorts Titus to shew himselfe a pattern in all things viz. Such must lead convincing lives this is more winning then words See 1 Pet. 3.1 When Elies sons were wicked 't is said the people abhorred the offering of the Lord 1 Sam. 2.17 Finally even the voyce and gesture have some stroke in this 1. A due carriage of the voyce which saith Austin sends an occult influence into the affections of men Phil. 3.18 Of whom I have told you before and now tell you weeping they are enemies to the crosse of Christ The Apostle speakes to them with a weeping voyce Let not this be the main thing you look for It is a brand on the Jewes that they were affected with i Ezek. 33.32 Ezekiels pleasant voyce and little else And even a rare and worthy Moses may be defective herein But the meanest voyce hath some hidden grace in it 2. A decent k Quintilian Gerardus Iohannes Vossius Orator Instit lib. 6. cap. 11. p. 511. Vide Ar. Montan lib 8. Antiq Jud. ubi varias g●stuum significatine● è sacris sedulo colligit action so not over-affected will work upon the hearers Ezekiel is bid to stamp with the feet And John Baptist was totus vox all voyce Matth. 3 3. The voyce of a cryer in the wildernesse He was all voyce that is saith one his eyes spake and his hands spake and his body spake The Prophets stretched out their armes to the people in fulnesse of affection It is said Paul set his eyes on Elimas that wicked Sorcerer Acts 13.9 saying O thou child of the Devill and enemy of all righteousnesse wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord His eyes spake as well as his tongue you see how a man may work on the affections of others First then Vse 1 this may serve to warn men of our Calling especially Persuasioni humanae opponit ostensionē spiritus quae vim quādam supra modū efficacē ad persuadendū animos habet Meyer in 1 Cor. 2.4 to be zealous in dispensing the word Our Sermons must not be onely informing but inflaming Sermons We must not rub itching eares but shake drowzy hearts not preach to please them with novelties or puzzle them with nicities but fire them with love to the truth and care of sincere obedience In a word not to set forth our selves but Jesus Christ in his lovelinesse to poore sinners that they may be sick of love to him and languish with desires after him This must be our designe our delight Secondly Vse 2 it followes likewise that people must so heare as that they may be rouzed and melted under the word This is done six wayes First by due preparation before hand this softens the Wax that it may take the impression c. Many leap out of their nests into the Assemblies without seeking God or perfuming their spirits before they come and that is the reason they sit like images unconcerned under the Word Preparation tunes the heart oyles the wheeles whets your zeale and kindles your affections Secondly by l Matth. 11.15 Christus electos Dei hortatur quibus perforatae sunt aures ut attenti sint ad considerandum Dei arcana ne obsurdescant cum incredulis Calvin attention listning to the matter as well as sound of words else you be no more affected then the Whelps or Birds that hear a sound as well as you David saith I will listen what God will speake Christ saith He that hath eares to heare let him heare q. d. Let him with intention and greedinesse of spirit receive the Word 'T is said Luke 2.20 The peoples eyes were fastened on Christ when he taught them A good help against distraction and an argument of their attention Thirdly submission and stooping to God that your hearts may come under the hammer of the Word come with broken and bleeding spirits and as it were with Ropes about your neckes That you may m Jam. 1.21 receive with meeknesse the ingrafted word Say with Paul Lord what wilt thou have me to do Fourthly representation Conceive you saw those things with your bodily eyes which we set out by Metaphora As when we tell you sin is a plague-soare imagine you were shut up and had running soares upon you 1 Reg. 8.38 and saw the passengers baulk you and stop their noses c. How would you then skream and cry out with Paul O n Rom. 7.24 who shall deliver me from this body of death And so here when we pray you to taste divine sweetnesse conceive you were at a rich feast to which men come with edg'd appetites and eat the fat and drinke the sweet c. This would work much on the affections Fifthly ejaculation Cast up desires after God o Psal 84.2 and 42.1 breath after the enjoyments of Christ fling up divine ejaculations O that this truth might transform me and worke with power Now when all wish the same thing what can hinder the work We say as in the Text O taste and see O be perswaded to heare God

diffusive fulnesse the influences of his grace and the rayes of his glory Oh this makes a Saint say with David My soule breakes for the longing it hath after thee with the Spouse Make haste my beloved c Cant. 8.14 as the swift Roe on the mountaines of Spices with Paul I desire to be d Heathens that knew not Christ have had strong grounds of comfort against the fear of death Tull. in Tusc Seneca passim in Epistolis Couradus Vorstius Com. in Phil. 1.23 Vide introductionem Lypsii in Stoicam Philos●p●iam dissolved and be with Christ and with John O come Lord Jesu come quickly When the childe hath tasted of the breast it thirsts with most greedinesse to be filled and when the soule hath got a taste a glympse of God it longs to be satisfied to smell to every flower in Christs bosome to view God face to face when sorrow shall take wings and flye away when corruption and temptation shall bee no more but Grace shall be swallowed up of Glory and you shal shine as the Sun in the Firmament Truly my brethren the manner of Gods dispensation here which you see is but in tastes of his goodnesse must needs raise up in beleevers continuall breathings and thirstings and inflamed desires after God Alexander the Great sailing in a boysterous Sea discovered before the rest of his companions the happy land of Arabia by the smell of those sweet odors which the winde conveyed to him whereupon himselfe and his fellow-souldiers took encouragement and knew they had not farre to goe What is grace but a smell of heaven before-hand to encourage poor sinners sailing in this Aegean Sea to glory how should this make us long to land there and kisse the ground of our native Countrey which is heaven And then 4. And lastly Reas 4 this will sweeten heaven to those that taste here A haven is most welcome after a storme a palace is most glorious to him that comes out of a dungeon a feast to the hungry is most welcome and robes to the naked our fears our sweat e Afflictiones sunt tanquam grata condimenta quibus desideria nostra incenduntur promissiones divinae redduntur dulci●●s Basil our combat here will exceedingly sweeten and as foyles set of our rest our joy our crowne there Who think you will most admire heaven the Angels that have been there from the beginning or forlorn captives and poore pilgrimes that come in a manner out of hell into heaven Christ and heaven shall be admired in all them that f 2 Thess 1.10 beleeve c. For these Reasons we may guesse positively we know not why God will give us but a taste of his goodnesse here g Rom. 11.33 Indeed his wayes are past finding out these are but conjectures Well the Reasons of these things shall bee fully cleared up to you in the clouds when all the workings of God which you see now peece-meale shall bee laid in a frame together and you shall all be forc'd to fall down and cry h Rev. 4.8.11 Holy Holy Holy Thou art just and righteous in all thy dealings with the children of men Great is thy wisdom and thou doest what thou pleasest and when I come now to the improvement of the poynt 3ly Qui● And first this meets with the wild fancies of some that dream of a fulnesse and perfection here and stick not to call themselves Perfectionists whereas you see we do but taste God here and to be kindly sensible of our imperfections is the highest pitch of perfection attainable in this life as Hierome i Haec hominibus sola perfectio si imperfectos se esse noverint Hieron lib. ● adversus Pelag. speaks But let us heare their Arguments First how often say they is it said beleevers are filled in this life Ob. 1 Open your mouthes wide saith God and I will fill them with good things See Luke 1.53 Romans 15.13 Ephefians 5.18 Now is tasting a little of God and being fille with his goodnesse all one I answer First the Saints are said to be filled in this life Sol. 1 because they receive according to their present capacity you may suppose a glasse to be so small that a drop will fill it we are straitned in our bowels 2 Cor. 6.12 and are of slender and shallow capacities in the things of heaven and so a small drop of grace fills us and yet 't is but a taste for our hearts are widened and enlarged to take in much more above 2. We may be said to be filled because every faculty hath divine infusions by that taste See 1 Thess 5.23 3. The soul hath more reall satisfaction by that taste then all the worlds abundance When the belly is filled with the hidden treasure of the earth the heart may still be void of contentment Ecclesiast 1.2 But the least taste of GOD fills and refreshes and delights the Soule Psalm 116.7 2. Ob. You read often of the Saints perfection here Ob. 2 as Genes 17.1 Walk before me and bee perfect So Matth. 5.48 Philip. 3.15 There is a perfection in substance or parts Sol. and there is a perfection in measure or degrees The first Saints attaine in this life they have sincerity and grace in all parts and faculties as you heard and they have respect unto all Gods commands as David and Paul see Luke 1.6 k Ex quo factum est virtutem quae nunc est in homine justo perfectam hactenus nominari ut ad ejus perfectionem pertineat etiam ipsius imperfectionis in veritate cognitio in humilitate confessio Aug. lib. 3. contra duas Epistolas Pelag. cap. 7. they are deeply sensible of their imperfections mourn for their failings they have the foundation and seeds of perfection but for perfection in measure or degrees that is in heaven 3. Ob. But he that is born of God sinneth not Ob. 3 1 John 3.9 therefore what should hinder perfection of grace within True Such an one sinneth not willingly customarily impenitently Sinne is a burthen to him and he makes not a trade of sinne But if men will say they have no sinne conscience will accuse them and experience will judge them for making God a lyar who saith In many things we sin all l William Pemble of Justification sect 3. cap. 1. pag. 181. Where is that man or how is he named that can say he finds no rebellion nor distemper in his affections nor disorder in any motion of the soule all within is sweetly tuned to obedience without jarre or discord from corruption c. Certainly Pauls confession will make such ashamed m Rom. 7.21 and 24. when I would d ee well evill is present with me O who shall deliver me from this body of death 4. Ob. All the workes of God are perfect Ob. 4 Deut. 32.4 But grace is the work of God Phil. 2.13 Ergo grace

to multiply among themselves according to the Law of creation Gen. 1. For'tis said that without all conjunction it begets and reseminates it selfe 3. It 's unity is repugnant to sacred Scripture which plainly affirmes there went of every sort two at least into Noahs Arke Gen. 7.9.14 15. Every fowle after his kinde every bird of every sort went into the Arke two and two of all flesh wherein there is the breath of life h If the curious Reader would be farther satisfied in this poynt let him reade that excellent Critick Thomas Browne Dr of Physick in his Pseudodoxia Epidemica or enquiries into commonly received Truths Book 3 Ch. 12. P. 131. Thus you see the first exposition that by wing is meant a different metaphor from the Sunne and the fancy of Cornelius a Lapide that likens Christ to the Bird of the Sunne calling him the true Phenix that arises on us with healing in his wings 2. I rather thinke with learned i Sam. Torshell on the Text Pag. 84. Torshell and k Jun. Trem. in Locum Tremelius that 't is the same metaphor followed and poetically enlarged For as Christ is compared to the Sun so the Beames of the Sunne are called wings l Sanitas in pennis hoc est in radiis quia Sol spargit expandit radios suos ut Psalm 139. Hine Aegyptij solē pinxerunt quasi Avem longas spargentē pennas circumquâque Musc on the Text. Vide Pierium in Hierog l. 20 cap. 2. Pa. 239. and that partly because of the Sunnes motion which is exceeding swift Psal 19.5 And he suddenly disparkles out his Beames when he peeps from behinde the Curtaines of a Cloud and partly because the Sunne spreads his light in its rifing as a Bird his wings so the Scripture speaks Joel 2.2 The morning spread upon the mountaines and Psal 139.9 If I take the wings of the morning viz. In regard of expansion and dissipation therefore are the Beames of the Sun called wings Now all this is true of Christ He ariseth with healing in his wings viz. his sweet beames of Grace his celestiall influence are his wings and these wings carried him to Heaven to prepare a place for us Christs motions are swift and he sheds his Beames of joy suddenly Againe he spreads his influences both in the soule and world 1. In the soule over all the faculties minde will memory and affections 1 Thes 5.23 The least true Grace is diffused over all the faculties 2. In the world over Jewes and Gentiles the Church lies dispersed all the world over and of his fulnesse wee all receive Grace for Grace Secondly The point proved 1. Argument By this time you see what is meant by healing in his wings Now 2. wee will cleare up the point to you that when Christ ariseth he comes with healing in his wings The Arguments shall be two Christ is a most skilfull carefull and faithfull Physician and then he cures Corporally Spiritually and Politically First Christ is a most skilfull carefull and faithfull Physician m Sanitas in pēnis ejus quia ipse solaturmaerentes recreat afflictos confirmat labantes jacentes excitat ixatos mitigat omnibusque denique omnia praestat officia amicitiae charit at is Musculus in Mal. 4.2 1. He is most skilfull to know the state of his patients with the cause and cure of the malady He feeles the pulse of the soule and knows what is in man Joh. 2. He is Cardiognostes and cannot be deceived Psal 103.3 He can cure all diseases n Omaipotenti medico nullum vulnus insanabile Bernard 2. He is carefull and dilignent in visiting his Patients Luk. 1.68 He hath visited and redeemed his people Nay by his Spirit the Comforter is with us alwayes to the end of the world 3. He is faithfull and sinners may venture their soules in his hands Heb. 10.23 He is faithfull that hath promised When sinners aske a fish he will not give them a Serpent he never deceives their expectations that cast themselves on him He will give you o Pharmaca insuavia sunt nō tamen abborremus eo quod utilitatem ad ferant So afflictions and mortifying the flesh though unpleasant are good for us Adā Sasbout Homil. 3. in Gen. 3.19 pag. 579. bitter Pills and in very faithfulnesse he must afflict you but you may safely trust him he will not give you poyson instead of Physicke feare him not Secondly Christ cures Corporally Spiritually and Politically Argument 2 Ergo He bath healing in his wings 1. He heales corporally He many times comes with healing in his wings to groaning bodies that lie at the Gates of Death p Duo itaque faciebat Christus praedicabat Evangelium sanabat aegros Prioribeneficio non admodum movebantur plerique posteriori vero quam plurimi Musculus in Mat. 5.24 Mat. 8.16 He healed all that were sicke And thus God healed Abimileck Job and Hezekiah with many others mentioned in the Word When he hath farther worke for you he easily rebukes your diseases and plasters up your Tabernacle of clay He brings downe to the dust and raises up againe How often hath Christ set us upon our legs to give us more time of repentance He hath shak't us over the Grave and then numb●ed us againe among the living by q Vita non est vivere sed valere Seneca restoring health to us Behold his power his patience his goodnesse to us Oh let us return according to these mercies received When thou art sick trust not in Physicians but Christ for when they leave thee r Novit Dominus mutaresententiā si tu nov●ris emendare vitam August in Psal 50. Christ can cure thee But above all make a ſ Mo●bus est utilis quaedā institutio quae docet caduca asporaere et coelestia spirare Naz. ad Philag spirituall improvement of such visitations that the t So farre went the Religion of Heathens that Ipsi Reges Perüanorū libent●ssime amplexabantur aegritudines Nuncios Coeli illas vocabant quabus se dicebant ad Deos acciri Euseb Nieremberg Histor Nat. lib. 8. cap. 13. Pag. 138. sicknes of thy body may be the health of thy soule You see Christ is the best Physician of the body the whole Colledge of Physicians must put him before them and in all their un lertakings say this will help if Christ our great Dr. please Christ heales spiritually he comes with healing in his wings to diseased soules that lie at the Gates of H●ll u Mille mali species mille salutis erunt He forgives and subdues their sinnes w Mat. 9.12 revives and comforts their soules Luk. 4.18 The Spirit of the Lord is upoa mee and he hath anointed mee to preach the G●spel to the poore he hath sent mee to heale the broken-hearted and preach deliverance to the captives and set at liberty those that are bruised See Jer. 35.6 8. Behold