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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42429	A description of the unregenerate and the truly Christian temper or state in a sermon preach'd before the University of Cambridge, on commencement Sunday, in the forenoon, June 30, 1700 / by John Gaskarth ...	Gaskarth, John, d. 1732.	1700 (1700)	Wing G286; ESTC R10111	23,817	34

the Deity whatsoever his sufferings may at any time be who has such dark Apprehensions thereof no grounds of a sure Faith in God so as to enjoy the mighty supports that even the notion of an infinite Being of such Moral Perfections affords Mankind and who is also under such opposite Habits so quite contrarily dispos'd to him that he can no ways partake of him in his blisful Emanations that so freely descend on every Individual of the reasonable World where they are not repuls'd or where a right temper and frame of Spirit can receive them These are the Miseries that accompany an Unregenerate State if they were not rather to be felt than describ'd even in this World But the dismal Scene commences after here are some intervals of a pleasurable Entertainment such as the sensual Faculties afford and compensate Men withal in this state where their alluring Objects are and they can exert their proper Acts tho' these Pleasures be of an inferiour kind below the great Enjoyments belonging to Men and engage such Fatigues in the purchase of them and ever defeat our Promises from them and are so short liv'd at the best But when we come into the spiritual World where the Objects are of a refined Nature and require such Faculties and tasts in us the sensitive Scene being over and finish'd with its whole delights we must then be capable of enjoying God and living upon him in the pure Exercises that refer to him or else we must needs be miserable for ever But it must be by a habit of rectify'd Reason thro' the privileges of the Gospel a spiritual Sensation advanc'd in our Minds by a due Observance of all the parts of a Christian Vertue that these viz. our Minds can be able to exert their own Powers and follow the Tendences that are born in them perceive and relish abstractedly and freely from the infection of Body 't is this alone that can render us qualify'd and truly prepare us for that great Imployment our utmost felicity of Conversing with God and his dwelling in us or we in him 1 John 3.24.4.12 13. But this Principle is dead in profligate Sinners the contrary temper a sensual Habit not slain in the opportunity allow'd for that purpose possessing their Souls and therefore unless this can be mortify'd and the other reviv'd in our after Mansions which the Scriptures afford us no hopes of they being only alive to the things of sense and this World as they went off hence must ever be coveting quite unattainable Satisfactions there with bitter Resentments eager Remorses among vain Desires and shall be able to partake of no blisful Entertainments even when they are in the proper Region where these chiefly are This is the spiritual Death or Death of Sin when the first Propension of the Soul towards God is diverted and lost thro' Foreign Desires promoted in it from its Commerce with this gross Body its habitual pursuance of the Delights of Sense and its Communion intercepted with that only true beatifying Object that it cannot imploy it self upon him in a pure Contemplation of his boundless Attributes which is one part of the great Happiness of Intelligent Creatures nor admit his gracious Influences into it but standing quite in another Inclination to a sensual State now dismiss'd and gone that only had its Reason for our Probation a little while it will ever be hankering after these poor Vanities like the Israelites when they were remov'd from Egypt except as was intimated before its present habit can be chang'd even here in this second Life which is a Dependance altogether groundless nay which has the greatest Argument against it when People have neglected the accepted Time the Day of Salvation graciously offer'd them or except God in the effect of his infinite Goodness would render us happy as it were forcibly without our selves which is impossible the nature of Happiness being such that it must ever proceed from a voluntary Spring and free Actions in a reasonable Being tho' God declaring even his infinite Goodness in other particulars all with relation to this World and our attainment of Holiness here we may be well satisfy'd that such a forcible change of Mens Tempers if it could be would be no proper Instance of his goodness and that no Reserves thereof are to be expected afterwards This is the sad dismal State with the Infelicities that attend Mankind in both Worlds without the Benefits of a Redeemer and being Born again or Renew'd in the Spirit of their Minds thro' him What positive Punishment and to what degree may be poured forth on such Rebels to their Maker nay who have not only contemn'd his Authority but insulted his Mercy in Christ Jesus trodden under foot the Son of God and the Ransom he purchas'd with his own Blood we cannot define however we may be certain from the Expressions of Scripture whether literally taken or to denote Sufferings by Metaphorical Language that these shall be very grievous ones tho' if they should be our own Portion we must confess such Offenders deserve Let us now see how our Redeemer has deliver'd us out of this State and what we must contribute towards our complete our entire Deliverance from our selves as likewise how the Redeemed viz. true Christians will behave themselves and what their Happiness redounding thence must be And as to the Benefits we partake of from Christ we are fully assur'd that he Mediated for us who were in a State of Enmity with God by his own Blood offer'd himself a Propitiation and Sacrifice on our behalf the Dignity of whose Person he being as far exalted above all the Orders or Degrees of Angels as the Creator of them is and the voluntariness of the Oblation entring into the Atonement and adding an infinite Merit to it he not only procur'd us the Favour of God Remission our Pardon of all our Offences on the only possible Term of our Happiness a true Repentance but likewise obtain'd such Communications of the Spirit to be even a preventing Influence and conferr'd upon us without any Preparedness in our Tempers for them as the first Graces are so conferred according to the manifold Testimonies of Scripture Phil. 2.13 Eph. 2.3 4. 2 Tim. 1.9 Tit. 3.5 John 15.16 or else we could never be partakers of them in our fallen State And we may even demonstrate these from Experience we often find such workings in our Minds as could not probably proceed from them in the use of their own Faculties as Checks of Conscience then pursuing us while we are just about engaging in any unwarrantable Act and the Animal Affections being afloat overcome Consideration and will not admit of any sober Thought as likewise immediate Instantaneous Enlightnings sudden Admonitions cast into us concerning some important Duty or Behaviour whereas the progress of Reason is in a Chain of Things by Deductions or Inferences and the Lessons it teaches in the just and due Exercise of it self not as