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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08852	Mount Sion, or, The priviledge and practice of the saints opened and applied by that faithful dispenser of the mysteries of Christ, Walter Cradock.	Cradock, Walter, 1606?-1659.	1673 (1673)	Wing C6763A; ESTC R174372	123,568	246

and led with fleshly reasonings and spiritual men with spiritual reasonings And this is the most distinguishing Character that I know in the Book of God between a Christian and another m●n And as the Lord presents it unto me I shall a little open unto you these terms Reasoning Spiritual reasoning and Fleshly reasoning That you may understand these you must conceive that there are three sorts of mindes in the world and therefore there be three sorts of reasonings for our reasonings are according as the minde is There is first a corrupt minde as you have it Ephes 4. The old man that is corrupt that is to speak in your language or according to your thoughts a sinful minde a minde that is exercised about sinful things when a mans minde is an evil one simply evil Secondly there is a natural minde 1 Cor. 2. at the latter end it is called there the natural man where I would have you observe by the by that the minde is called the man there the natural man that is the natural minde The natural man knoweth not the things of God that is the natural minde for a man is denominated by his excellentest part which is his minde as I told you before And thirdly there is also the spiritual minde which is called there the spiritual man The spiritual man judgeth all things that is the spiritual minde judgeth all things for it is the minde properly that doth judge and the man is said to judge because he hath the minde or the minde is in the man According to these three sorts of mindes flow forth three sorts of reasonings 1. One is corrupt reasoning and that is when men do reason meerly sinfully according to that in 1 Cor. 15. the Apostle useth their carnal phrase Let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall die Now here was a kinde of reasoning in this here was an Argument to morrow we expect to die that is shortly therefore let us eat and drink and feed our lusts c. Here was a reasoning but it was corrupt And so in Mat. 21. when they had killed the Servants that came to gather the rents now say they the heir is come come let us kill and then the Land will be ours Here was reasoning but it was corrupt reasoning So in Luke 9. 44. there the Disciples did reason who should be greatest in the kingdome of God there are such reasonings in our hearts for man is called a rational man and though some men be called unreasonable men as I shall shew by and by yet there is no man but hath reasonings in him either corrupt or natural or spiritual There is no act that a man doth but there is such a nimbleness in the understanding that it presently draws some Arguments and Reason for it a man never doth any thing but he hath some kinde of reason for it be it what it will be Secondly there is a natural reasoning and that we oft finde in the Scriptures as in Mark 3. 6. Christ had there told a Leper that he had forgiven him his sins the Scribes sitting there reason in their hearts Why doth this man speak blasphemy who can forgive sins but God This was not properly corrupt reasoning but true reasoning Who can forgive sins but God This man forgives sins therefore it is blasphemy they reasoned right and true so far as natural light could go but here is the difference between natural and spiritual light natural light comes too short they did not see that he was God None can forgive sins but God but they saw him not to be God This was natural reasoning Why because it was true according to their principle had he been but a meer man they had reasoned very well but it was natural because it was lame and low and did not rise up so high as to see that that man was God and could forgive sins So Peters reasoning was rather natural then corrupt Master spare thy self it was natural and not corrupt reasoning because it is good for a Servant to give good counsel to his Master But this was but natural because though it were honest in a natural way yet it was lame it wanted a principle that was spiritual to see that it was needful and necessary that Christ should die according to the Counsel of God rather then that all the Elect should perish Thirdly there are spirituall reasonings As there is a spirituall minde so I say there are spirituall reasonings in all godliness For all godliness and every peice of it as I shall shew is carried upon reason only it is spiritual reason Look upon the whole bulk of godliness you may divide it into three parts It consists Either in believing and doing or in obedience and doing Or in suffering and doing All a Christians life is spent either in believing or in doing or in suffering Now in all these three you shall see in Scripture that a Saint doth not all these hand over head as being led by a fancie of them but clearly upon reason and the best reason in the World as I shall shew you anon First for beleiving look to Abraham who is our patterne our coppie In Heb. 11. 19. By faith Abraham when he was tried offered up Isaac and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotton son of whom it was said that in Isaac shall thy seed be called accounting that God was able to raise him up from the dead c. Accounting or as the Greek word is reasoning that God was able to rayse him from the dead from whence he received him in a figure It is said that by faith Abraham offered Isaac his only son he that had received the promise God had made the promise to Isaac In Isaac shall thy seed be called Isaac was his son and a son that he had in strong way by an ancient Woman and his only son and a son of whom the Messias should come Now there must be a great deale of reason to perswade such a godly Father to kill such a hopefull child to put him to death to whom God had given the promise of all blessings to all Nations Surely there must be a great deale of reasoning before he could be perswaded to do this and yet he did reason that God was able to raise him from the dead This word reasoning in the Greek is a word taken from Arithmeti●ians that take two or three sums and put them together and tell you this is the result of them so he did reason this is my son and all my hopes lie in him and I received him when I was as a dead man and for me to go and kill him will dash all the hopes of my salvation But on the other side spiritual reason comes in and saith that God that gave him me in a figure from the dead that is as it were from a dead woman and when I was an old man that God is able of his ashes

is nothing but a transforming them from one lust another Saith Peter you must not do so but as obedient children if God have justified you if Christ have fulfilled the law perfectly for you that you dare Sin and Hell and Satan and tread all under feet doth it become you to fashion your hearts and lives to your lusts Is that a good rule no you must not do so 2. Another Rule is this world Rom. 12. 2. Be not conformed to this world It is the Copy of many men the Looking-glass that they dress themselves by every day how to square it in the world how to keep their port with their Neighbours and Gentlemen they converse with and with great men that have command of them and with their fellow-Officers c. And so women how they may go brave as their Neighbours do and get credit in their eyes So most people their main Rule is they care not whether it please God and conform them to his Son at all so they can keep correspondency with the world now you must not do so for they are yet in their sins poor wretches therefore let them conform to their lusts and they that are of the world let them conform to it but 3. Since God hath redeemed you from the wicked world by the blood of his Son and hath brought you to this condition and bestowed glorious and unspeakable Priviledges on you you should conform your selves to the Image and Example of Jesus Christ and to the Rules of Jesus Christ in the New Testament in all your actions and wayes You cannot write without looking on your Copie the best Saint cannot write one line without viewing and looking on his Copy for every letter For all your actions you are to have two things in your eye that you may do the action right and carry your selves right 1. Either eye Jesus Christ and his Example how would Christ have done if he had been here what did Christ do in the like case in the Gospel So by eying that there will be a power as in Jacobs sheep by beholding the rods the Spirit of God will convey a power looking upon the picture that is before us that is Jesus Christ to transform us into his likeness Or 2. Think of the Rules of Jesus Christ the Rules of the New Testament this blessed Word Have frequent recourse to the Spiritual Rules of the New Testament that should be your Copy When any case comes follow not your lusts and act not according to the wisdome of the flesh to say this or that I will do but consider what is your Rule you walk by another Rule What have I to do what such a man and such a man doth but what is my Rule how must I carry my self As for instance when you come among people that rejoice for any mercy what is the Rule Rejoice with them that rejoice and weep with them that weep It may be a man hath received great unkindness and is wrong'd by him that he hath been most kinde to of all the men of the world and yet he proves most ungrateful if a man should go to flesh and blood he would hate and abhor him and not indure him man in his best naturals would not bear it he would not bear ungratefulness and wrong but labour to requite it But what is the Rule The Lord is good to the wicked and unthankeful therefore Lend freely looking for nothing again Presently God will bring a Spiritual Rule to your minde and God will give you power to do it And so suppose a man should charge and challenge you with a debt and would you pay such a debt you perhaps know no such thing and are perswaded of the contrary What now You know what most men think I will never pay him I were a fool if I should give away my estate and be a beggar when I have done but what is the rule If thine enemy sue thee at the law and take away thy cloke give him thy coat also A Christian comes to this law he consults not with flesh and blood when a case comes but he thinks what is the rule in this case But all the misery is you will be fingering with justification which you should leave alone upon Christs death and refurrection you should be working out your holiness every day that should be your way God will bring it in So when a woman is putting on her clothes and making her fine clothes and thinks to be as fine as her neighbours she should think but what is my Rule Not to conform my self to others in embroidered hair and fine apparel and gold but with the ornament of a meek spirit So you have the New Testament full for every case there is something that will direct and lead you that thereby you may conform to Jesus Christ I give you but general instances if God open your eyes to see your glorious condition in the New Testament you must resolve on this to walk according to the copy and the rules of it that in any case you may ask What is my rule as I am a Christian as I am a free man one with God that I may walk by it Now I exhort you to this because if a thousand Devils should preach in stead of men and tell you what the Torments of Hell are all would not be so great a motive by half to walk holily as to tell you that the righteousness of the law is fulfilled by Christ that you are righteous and just and all your sins are done away by Christ Therefore O love him and live to him comform to your copy Let your Neighbours conform to their copy to the World and others conform to their lusts as too many do but do you conform to Jesus Christ Think what would Christ do if he had my opportunity what would he have taken in hand And whatever occasion you have with God or man ask What is my rule in the New Testament and conform to that Blessed is the man or woman to whom God gives a heart so to do There remains one word more of this and the third Lesson which is the principal thing the description of those persons that have this Priviledge They walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit But because the time is gone and my strength also I shall leave that till God give another opportunity SERMON III. Rom. 8. 4. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit THere were three Lessons that we may learn from these words The first is implied namely That the righteousness of the law must be fulfilled by every man Or Every man is bound to fulfill the law of God And Secondly That the Law of God is perfectly fulfilled in all true Believers And Thirdly That true Believers are they who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit We were the last time