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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25248	Redeeming the time a sermon preached at Preston in Lancashire, January 4th, 1657 at the funeral of the honourable lady, the Lady Margaret Houghton / by Isaac Ambrose.	Ambrose, Isaac, 1604-1664.; Houghton, Margaret, Lady, d. 1657.	1674 (1674)	Wing A2969; ESTC R29590	26,695	20

on him in the night-watches And Paul's charge to Timothy was to meditate upon spiritual things and to give himself wholly to them Or if you 'l have another proof for the evening-season not only was it Isaac's time but David's time Mine eyes prevent the night-watches that I might meditate in thy word Psal 119.148 3. The evening is a season for self-examination This is another glorious ordinance which many Christians use occasionally and against some good time but to set some time apart for this every evening and that in conscience as they do for reading the word and Prayer where is the Christian almost to be found I am sure it was David's charge Commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still And agreeable to this was his practice Psal 4.4 I call to remembrance my song in the night I commune with my own heart and my spirit made diligent search Chrysostom on these words of David Psal 77.6 What means this saith he commune with your own hearts upon your bed Post doenam Chrysost Expos in Psa 4.4 thus answers himself after supper-time when ye are going to sleep and are ready to ly down on bed and have great quiet and silence without the presence or disturbance of any then erect a tribunal for the conscience And when neither friend disturbs you Docuerant nos saepe patres nostri c. Dovoth tom 1. nor servants provoke you nor multitudes of business do press upon you then take an account of your life what you have done in the day-time before And Dorotheus layes it down as a rule which the Christians of his time had learned of their fore-fathers that in the evening they should question themselves how they had passed the day Biblioth Pot● p. 14. Oh that Christians now would Sum up their accounts at the foot of every page I mean that they would call themselves to scrutiny every evening when they are ready to compose themselves to sleep as to the little Images of Death 4. The evening is a season to consider my Priviledges in Christ Psal 48. When David was ready for his Bed I will lay me down in peace and sleep saith he for thou Lord only makest me dwell in safety See how he speaks of peace and rest and sleep and safety all these were Priviledges Me thinks it is a sweet conclusion of a good dayes work and a blessed farewel to the World if this evening were my last and that immediately I must go to God to consider of some of those glorious Priviledges in God and Christ I might instance in my peace and rest and sleep and safety by vertue of a promise or covenant of Grace or I might instance in my Election Redemption Reconciliation Adoption Sanctification Glorification But because these are commonly handled and our communion with God and Christ and the spirit of Christ is the most ravishing Priviledge in this World my soul carries me out for the present to pitch on this * Dr. Owens communion God the Father Son and Holy Ghost One of our Worthies hath writ eminenly on it and for a taste of his excellent work the sweeting of my last thoughts with such an excellent subject I shall contract it thus 1. I would consider my communion with God the Father in love This the Father peculiarly fixes upon the Saints and this they are immediately to eye him in God is love Christians walk of times with exceeding troubled hearts concerning the thoughts of the Father towards them they are well perswaded of the Lord Christ and his good will the difficulty lies in what is their acceptance with the Father what is his heart towards them Now here is the work of the Gospel to discover the love of the Father this is the will of God that he may alwayes be eyed as being kind tender loving yea as the Fountain and Spring of all gracious Communications and fruits of love and when Christians apprehend this that God is love and so rest upon him and delight in him as such then have they communion with the Father in love Now for the exercise of my soul in this blessed communion the directions are such as these 1. I must eye the Father as Love I must not look on him as one that is alwayes angry but as one most kind and tender in himself and as one that hath had thoughts of kindness towards his Saints from everlasting 2. I must so eye the love of the Father as to receive it by faith I must believe this love of God as for my self Certainly his love is not mine nor will it be mine in the sweetness of it untill it be so received Either I must know it assent to it embrace it and have all my affections filled with it or it will be in vain as to my Communion with God the Father 3. This love must have its proper fruit and efficacy upon my heart in a return of love to him again To this purpose God loves that he may be beloved this is the return that he demands Pro. 23.26 My son give me thy heart thy affections thy love O the Priviledge of Saints they have meat to eat that the World knows not of they have close communion and fellowship with the Father they deal with him in the interchange of love so that every one of them may say If I have hatred in the World I will goe where I am sure of love though all others are hard to me yet my Father is tender and full of compassion I will goe to him and satisfie my self in him 4. I would consider of my communion with God the Son in grace So the Apostle speaking of our communion with him as Mediator concludes his Epistles 1 Cor. 6.23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all Not to mention any other grace Gal 6.18 but his perchased grace of justification or acceptation with God the directions for this Communion are such as these Ephes 6.24 I must eye Christ's doings and sufferings not as for himself but for his Saints Phil. 4.23 and for their Righteousness He was made under the Law Gal. 4.4 5. that we might receive the adoption of Sons And he bare our sins in his body on the Tree 1 Thess 5.28 This was the end of Christ's life and death to work out a compleat Righteousness for believers 2 Thess 3.18 Gal. 4.2 as to a perfect acceptation before God 1 Pet. 2 24. I must approve of this Righteousness of Christ as that alone which is absolutely compleat and able to make me acceptable before God Of this I am convinced that if I die this night there is a necessity of a Righteousness wherewith I must appear before God and if I have nothing to commend me unto God but my own Righteousness oh how should I appear before his glory there is no other name but Christ