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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30959	Three ministers communicating their collections and notions. The first year touching several texts of Scripture ... wherein the Law and Gospel ... in short, the substance of Christianity is set forth ...	Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.	1675 (1675)	Wing B809; ESTC R35315	78,431	223

the not suffering him so long to continue depriv'd of life as that this body should see corruption i. e. above the space of three days which term consisting of 72. hours is the space required for the revolution of humors after which Physicians observe the body that continues so long dead naturally putrifies III. John 16. 8. H shall convince the world of sin of righteousness and of judgment For 1. The very coming of the spirit shall prove their crime in not receiving Christ thus testified and demonstrated to be the true Prophet 2. He shall convince the World that Christ was a most Righteous person and most unjustly crucified by his assumption into Heaven 3. He shall convince the World by an Argument from the Judgement shewed upon Satan to be turn'd out of his Kingdome his Oracles silenc'd and Heathenish Idolatry overthrown C. I. Matth. 28. 19. Baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost The meaning is First in respect of the Minister that what he doth he doth not of himself but by Commission from the blessed Trinity Secondly And more especially in respect of the person baptiz'd that he acknowledges those three that he delivers himself to them as the Authors of Christian Religion that he gives himself up to be ruled by them II. 1 Tim. 5. 8. But if any widow provide not for her own The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies to rule and govern or to educate and instruct Among the rest of the qualities required of a widow in the Church an office of some rule and oe●onomy at that time she must be one that hath ru●ed and instructed her own family well This differs much from the notion that some worldly phantasies affix to this place thinking themselves obliged with much thoughtfulness or secular fore-casti●g to provide estates and riches for their Children III. Tit. 1. 15. To the pure all things are pure i. e. All things of that nature which are there spoken of in themselves indifferent may lawfully be used by them which are rightly instructed But they that are misled by Jewish fables whether they abstain superstitiously when they are not bound by God to abstain sin by being subject to ordinances Col. 2. 20. or whether they abstain not when they are perswaded they ought to abstain sin against conscience The Fift Meeting A. 1. MAtth. 12. 31. But the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men This blasphemy against the Holy Ghost is not any one act no nor ha●it of sin particularly not that speaking ●gainst Christ here mentioned but a final ●olding out against and resisting the whole ●ffice of the Holy Ghost and all those gracious methods conscquert to it II. 1. Kings 15. 5. David turned not aside save only in the matter of Uriah Wherein it appears he continued neer the space of a year from before the conception till after the birth of the Child as is proved by the time of Nathans coming to him 2 Sam. 1● ●1 David we know had been guilty of several acts of sin markt and censured in the word of God but continued not with indulgence in any of them This sin made another manner of separation between God and David Contracted a greater guilt wasted the conscience more than any of those more speedily retracted it was the only remarkable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 drawing back or turning aside from obedience to God the only grand defection shaking of Gods yoke and so the only s●hism in his regenerate estate III. Deut. 30. 11. The Commandment which I command this day is not hidden from thee The seventy not two heavy for t●ee and elsewhere not impossible 1 Joh. 5. His commands are not greivieus the word signifies heavy Christ himself saith his yoke is casie and S. Paul that he can do all things through Christ not sufficient of himself to do any thing B. I. LUke 17. 37. Wheresoever the body is thither will the Eagles be gathered together Here are noted the Roman Armies whose ensign was the Eagle which found out the rebellious Jews and destroyed them as the Eagle seeks the prey Job 39. 29. wheresoever they dispersed themselves II. Matth. 24. 34. This generation shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled They shall come to pass in this age or within the life of some present as Matth. 16. 28. There be some standing here that shall not tast of death till they see the Son of man coming in his Kingdom Which is interpreted of this matter his illustrious coming to destroy his enemies the Jewes So Joh. 21. 22. If I will that he tarry till I come c. is spoken of this coming of Christ which S. John lived to see IIl Gal. 5. 19. Adultery fornication uncle anness c. Emulation wrath strife c. Here is an enumeration of Sins unreconcilable with a good conscience And the same with some variation and addition 1 Cor. 6. 9. and Eph. 5. 5. Every one of these at the very Commission deliberately have the nature of peecata sauciantia wounding the sinner to the heart and weakning the habit of Christian Vertue and if they be not strait retracted by repentance proceed further to wast the conscience and betray us even to desperation and withdrawing of Grace and delivering us up to our own lusts C. ● I. JOh. 5. 16. He shall give him life for them that sin not unto death Here ●ot unto death is to be taken not from the ●atter of the sin but from the disposition ●f the sinner namely from his desiring and abouring to get out of it which supposes ●ome remainder of exciteing grace while he other goes on without any care or desire ●f reformation It is clear that this privi●edge belongs to the prayers of the Faithful or such a more moderate degree of relaps'd ●●reformed sinners Upon their request God ●ill give life to such i. e. such a degree of ●race as may enable them to recover As for ●e secure Impenitent the Christian brother ● not here obliged to pray for him and yet seems he is not forbidden neither II. Matth. 18. 6. He that shall offend on● of those little ones That is He that shall occasion their falling off into any sin or whic● the place especially imports shall by comtempt discourage them from the study of piety For so on the other side to receive them v. ● is by S. Mark 9. 41. said to consist in doin● them kindness and encourageing them in th● way of God III. Joh. 6. 61. Jesus said unto them doth this offend you They were offended his words of eating his fl●sh carnally understood discouraged from following hi● So Gal. 5. 11. persecution is call'd the sca●dal of the Cross that upon which so ma● are discouraged from professing the crucifi● Saviour and so in the parable of the sow Matt. 13. 21. The sixth Meeting A. I. MAtth. 16. 23. Thou a●t an offe● unto me i. e. By

the beam in his own eye and is patient and glad to be reproved because himself hath cast the first stone at himself and therefore wonders not that others are of his mind II. Joh. 13. 15. I have given you an example His whole life was a great continued example of humility a vast descent from the glorious bosome of his Father to the swomb of a poor Maiden to the form of a ervant to the miseries of a sinner to a life of labour to a state of poverty to a death of malefactors to the grave of death and to the intolerable calamities which we deserved and it were a good design and yet but reasonable that we should be as humble in the midst of our greatest imperfections and basest sins as Christ was in the midst of his fulness of the spirit great wisdome perfect life and most admirable Virtues III. Phil. 4. 8. Be a curious observer of all those things which are of good report and are parts of publick honesty publick same and the sentence of prudent and publick persons is the measure of good and evil in things indifferent C. I. JAm 3. 2. The due managery of this unruly and slippery member the tongue may rightly be esteemed one of the greatest mysteries of Wisdome and Virtue If any man offend not in word the same is a perfect man c. The story of Pambo a Primitive Christian is here to be remembred II. Matth. 12. 37. Tho in our depraved estimate the ●loquence of language is more regarded then the innocence tho we think our words vanish with the breath that utters them yet they become records in Gods Court are laid up in his Archives as witnesses either for or against us for he who is truth it self hath told us that by thy Words shalt thou be justified and by thy Words thou shalt he condemned III. Matth. 18. 7. As in all civil insurrections the Ringleader is lookt on with a particular severity so doubtless in private quarrels the first provoker has by his seniority a double portion of the guilt and may consequently expect of the punishment according to the doctrine of our Saviour Woe be to that man by whom the offence cometh The two and Forrtieth Meeting A I. JOh. 8. 44. False accusation is of all other sins the most diabolical being a conjunction of two of Satans most essential properties malice and lying T is his peculiar title The accuser of the brethren and when we transcribe his copy we also assume his nature entitle our selves to a descent from him Ye are of your Father the Divel II. Revel 2. We find the Love of a lye ranked in an equal form with the maker And surely he must be presumed to love it that can descend to be the broker to it help it to pass currant in the World III. 2 Tim. 2. 25. With meekness instruct the contrary minded Each Sect or Opinion represents its Antagonist as odious as it can and whilst they contend for speculative truth they by mutual calumnies forfeit the practice a sad thing that those who all pretend to the same Christianity should onely be unanimous in the violating that truth and charity it prescribes B. I. MAtth. 22. 20. There is nothing do's more secure Satan's title to us than ●●e vice of Calumny it bearing his proper impress and figure and we may fear Christ will one day make the same Judgment of persons as he did of Coin and award them to him whose Image and Superscription they bear II. 1 Cor. 13. 5. Charity whose property it is not to seek her own will prompt me to prefer a greater concern of my neighbours before a slight one of my own but in equal circumstances I am sure at liberty to be kind first to my self If I will recede even from that I may but that is then to be accounted among the heroick Hights of Charity not her binding and indispensible laws III. 1 King 18. 44. To an envious person every little infirmity or passion lookt on through his opticks appears a mountainous guilt He can improve the least speck or freckle into a leprosie which shall overspread the whole man and a cloud no bigger than a mans hand like that of Elisha may in an instant with the help of prejudice grow to the utter darkning of the brightest reputation and fill the whole horizon with tempest and horror C. I. MAtth. 5. Is it not a great shame that that evangelical precept doing as we would be done to which met with so much reverence even from heathens that Severus the Emperour preferred it to all the maxims of Philosophers should be thus comtemned and violated by Cbristians II. Matth. 7. 1. Private Judgements are superseded by our great Lawgiver in that express prohibition Judge not and that backt with a severe penalty that ye be not judged As God hath appropriated vengeance to himself so has he judicature also and t is an invasion of his peculiar for any but his delegates the lawful Magistrates to pretend to either III. 1 Cor. 13. Love is patient and content with any thing so it be together with its Beloved Love is also impatient of any thing that may displease the beloved person hating all sin as the enemy of its friend The three and Fortieth Meeting A. I. GAl. 6. 15. In Christ Jesus neither circumcision c. i. e. In the Gospel and Religion of Christ nothing is of any value to recommend us to the favour of God but a new nature a holy and Virtous life The Law preferred circumcision before uncircumcision but the Gospel of Christ makes no such distinction but instead of these external signes requires the inward purity of the heart II. Eph. 4. 20 21. But ye have not so learned Christ if so be c. What can learning Christ signifie but learning the Gospel of Christ And how could the Ephesians who never saw Christ in the flesh be said to hear him in any other sense then as they heard his Gospel preached to them And to be instructed in him as the truth is in Jesus for so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies must be expounded of his Religion in its genuine and primitive simplicity so as Christ taught his disciples I. I. 2 Cor. 5. 17. If any man be in Christ he is a new Creature i. e. Every sincere Christian is a new Creature or Whosoever professeth the Faith of Christ and lives in the Society of the Christian Church hath obliged himself to live a new life B. I. 1 TIm 2. 4. God would have all men to be saved We cannot imagine why he should lay a narrower design of Love in the Redemption than in the Creation of Mankind that when in the first Creation he designed all men for happiness in the new and second Creation he should design and intend the happiness onely of some few which is to make him less Good in Redeeming than in Creating Mankind tho Creation cost him no more than