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A02741	Tvvo treatises I. The purchase of Grace, shewing the excellency of Christ, and the graces of his spirit. II. The soules delight in Gods tabernacles, shewing the excellency of time, spent in duties of God's solemne service. Instances in the chiefe, viz. prayer, word, and sacraments. Motives and directions for right performance. Lastly, the chiefe usurpers of time discovered, with apt remedies against each of them. The contents of the booke are methodically exprest in the margent, which to the diligent reader may serve instead of a table. By William Harrison, Mr. of Arts, and minister of the Gospell at Canwicke neare Lincolne.	Harrison, William, minister at Canwick.	1639 (1639)	STC 12871; ESTC S103879	208,196	400

Sacrament is meant the very Body and Bloud of Christ which are verily and indeed taken and received of the faithfull in the Lords Supper And for the proofe of this we have the expresse words of our Saviour Take eate this is my Body So that herein Christ Iesus with all the merits of his Body and Bloud are offered unto us and bestowed really and effectually on all worthy receivers 2. By receiving of this Sacrament we joyntly professe our common interest in Christ and our communion with him and one with another and hereupon this Sacrament is fitly called the communion 1 Cor. 10. 16. 3. Hereby the promises of God and the merits of Christ are sealed up unto us So that hereby we come to have both Gods Hand Seale to assure us of the pardon of our sins and of eternall happinesse in which respect the Sacraments are called the Seales of righteousnesse Rom. 4. 11. Fourthly Hereby our corruptions are mortified and the graces of Gods Spirit greately augmented and confirmed in us These Ordinances through the speciall blessing of God doe nourish and feede our soules unto life eternall So that most true we shall finde that speech of our Saviour Ioh. 6. 55. For my Flesh is meate indeed and my Bloud is drinke indeed Yea ver 51. I am the living Bread which came downe from heaven if any man eat of this bread hee shall live for ever and the bread which I will give is my Flesh which I will give for the life of the world Only remember that all this must bee understood of spirituall eating as our Saviour Himselfe in the same place giveth us expresly to understand for when his grosse hearers made that carnall question saying How can this Man give us his flesh to eate verse 52. Our Saviour doth earnestly confirme it still ver 53. Except ye eate the Flesh of the Sonne of Man and drinke his Bloud you have no life in you c. Yea when many of the Disciples were offended and murmured at it see how he giveth them satisfaction ver 63. It is the Spirit that quickneth the flesh profiteth nothing the words which I speake unto you they are Spirit and they are life to shew that all this must be spiritually understood for the foode is spirituall and so of necessitie the eating and drinking must needs be So that this is enough to perswade us to value and highly to esteeme this Ordinance because therein Christ Iesus is verily and indeed taken and received to the eternall benefit and comfort of all worthy receivers an argument sufficient not only to perswade us to take all opportunities of receiving this Sacrament our selves but also to perswade others hereunto in regard of the great benefits that are here offered and exhibited to the soules of all worthy receivers Fifthly Hereby we have the commemoration of Christs death most lively and effectually represented unto us So that we may in this case use the benefit of our eyes to see the Bread broken and the Wine powred out to signifie the death of Christ and the shedding of his Bloud so that our hands do as it were handle the Word of life Christ as 1 Iohn 1. 1. The Word foundeth in our eare but in the Sacrament the same is most lively represented unto our eyes sc. the death of Christ So that as often as wee eate that bread and drinke that cup we shew the Lords death till he come faith the Apostle 1 Cor. 11. 26. Yea and this is a speciall end for which this Sacrament was ordained at the first Doe this in remembrance of me saith our Saviour Matth. 26. Yea the Sacraments are most lively representations of the sufferings of Christ as if therein Christ was really againe crucified before our eyes according to that speech of the Apostle to the Galathians chap. 3. 1. O foolish Galatians Who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth before whose eyes Iesus Christ was evidently set forth even crucified amongst you How was he crucified among them but only in the Word and Sacraments So that where the Word is faithfully preached and the Sacraments duly celebrated there is Iesus Christ so evidently set forth as if he was even crucified among that people Oh how this also should perswade us not only to serve God our selves but also to doe our best to perswade others to spend time in Gods service especially if we remember the Doctrine which is the ground of this whole discourse namely this that time spent in the duties of Gods service is absolutely and incomparably the best spent time then certainely we would easily be perswaded not only to spend much time in Gods service our selves but also earnestly to doe our best endeavour to cause others to doe the like especially 〈◊〉 ●amilies and those which are more especially committed unto our charge that so we may not only save our selves but also them that belong unto us 1 Tim. 4. 16. FINIS The context and coherence Division parts of the Text. Explication 3. Doct. 1. Doct. 2. Doct. 3. Doct. Doctrine 1. That Christ and the saving graces of his Spirit are fitly compared unto Gold tried in the fire Reason Precious like gold 2. Reason Fit to pay debts or keepe out of prison 3. Reason Because pure like gold 4. Reason Because fit for purchase 5. Reason In respect of beautie and ornament 6. Reason Of sweet smell Dulcis odor lu●●●●e re qualibet 7. Reason Vses 1. Instruction The worth and excellency of true grace Grace better then gold 1. Gold is fading and perishing but grace is permanent and lasting 2. Grace is able to help in the day of wrath Grace leadeth to glory 2. Instruct. Gracious Religious people most excellent 1. They come of excellent parentage The wicked children of wrath Are borne to a most excellent inheritance A most rare and excellent portion Have most excellent attendance 3. Instruct. To justifie the care paine to get grace Diligence to get true grace Be not discouraged by the opposition of wicked men Grace will bring joy comfort in death Vse 2. For Reprehension of such as neglect and despise the meanes to get grace Folly of such as neglect to get grace 2 Cor. 4. 3. Contempt of the means of grace a fearefull signe of perdition or reprobation 3. Vse Examination whether wee have true grace yea or no. Motive 1. Toperswade us to examine whether we have true grace sc. the difficulty All sorts of men apt to be deceived in judging in this case The wicked deceived Godly deceived in thinking he hath no grace when indeed hee hath Grace a Treasure hid in the field Much counterfeit grace in the world Melting the chiefe meanes to discerne which is the true gold Some kinde of Innocency without true grace 2. Motive The danger of being mistaken 3. Motive The possibilitie of prevailing notwithstanding the difficultie Reason Of the possibility of being assured that wee have true

every Nation not he that is rich and full of gold and silver but he that feareth God and worketh righteousnesse is accepted with him See here that righteousnesse and the true feare of God are farre better then gold and silver in this respect Indeed among men riches prevaile much gold and silver are in great esteeme for men looke onely upon the outward appearance but the Lord seeth not as man seeth but beholdeth the heart if that be well qualified there is hope of acceptance with God but otherwise all the gold and silver in the world will not doe it 1 Sam. 16. 6. 7. Lastly A man may have great store of gold and silver and yet perish eternally and loose his soule for ever but so cannot he doe that hath true saving grace as faith and such like and persevereth therein unto the end He that beleeveth shall never perish but have everlasting life Ioh. 3. 16. As he that beleeveth not is condemned alreadie so he that truely beleeveth shall never be condemned but hath alreadie passed from death to life Oh the precious excellency of saving grace in this regard it saveth the soule Heb. 10. last We are not of them that draw backe to perdition but of them that beleeve to the saving of the soule What were a man better if he had all the gold and silver in the world if he loose his soule according to that of our Saviour Mat. 16. 26. What is a man profited if he should gaine the whole world and loose his own soule as the rich Glutton Luk. 16. and the Churle Luk. 12. 19 20. but God sayd unto him Thou foole this night shall they fetch away thy soule and then what art thou the better for all thy gold and silver c But rather giving all diligence adde to thy faith vertue and to thy vertue knowledge c. for so an entrance shall be made unto thee exceeding abundantly into the everlasting kingdome of Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 1. 5. with v. 11. Grace therefore is farre better then gold also in this respect it is able to save a soule from death and cover a multitude of sinnes Jam. 5. 20. Secondly Is true saving grace so fitly resembled unto gold This sheweth the worth and excellency of all true Christians such as have store of true saving grace they are the excellent upon earth Psal. 16. 3. In a word they are golden persons they weare cloth of gold for their apparell their cloathing is of wrought gold Psal. 45. 13. they are even golden persons Job 23. 10. He knoweth the way that I take and when he hath tryed me I shall come forth like gold golden Job So that in these cases most true is that of Salomon Prov 12. 26. The righteous is more excellent then his neighbour I tell you there is as much difference as betweene gold and drosse Psal. 119. 119. Thou shalt cast away the wicked like drosse Drosse is scarce good enough for the dunghill when the gold is layd up in the chest So that in this case it is evident that every godly poore man is better then any ungodly rich man whatsoever See upon what ground and warrant I speake it Pro. 28. 6. Better is the poore that walketh in his integritie then he that is perverse in his wayes although he be rich there is as much difference betweene them as betweene the chaffe and the wheat Psal. 1. 3. and what is the chaffe to the wheat sayth the Prophet Ier. 23. 20. Yea as betweene gold tryed in the fire and drosse golden David though in the poore barren wildernesse but drossie Nabal though in rich and plenteous Carmel drossie Dives but golden because godly Lazarus By this we see who are the noblest and richest persons in the world even they that are most godly and religious Grace ma●eth a man more precious then gold even more precious then the golden wedge of Ophir Isa. 13. 12. Gods people are precious persons they are even the Lords jewels Mal. 3. 17. And they shall be mine sayth the Lord in the day that I make up my Jewels Seest thou a man that feareth God that hath true saving grace thou mayest say oh there goeth a jewell of God a golden person there is a soule worth gold yea farre more precious So that the estate of Gods people is farre more glorious if well considered then the estate of the wicked how full of pompe and bravery soever they may seeme to be Give me leave to shew you this briefly in foure particulars 1. They come of farre more glorious and golden parentage they have the God of heaven and earth for their Father Matth. 6. 9. they can truely say as Isa. 63. 16. Doubtlesse th●u art our Father though Abraham know us not and Israel be ignorant of us yet thou art our Father But as for the wicked it is not so with them they come of base and unworthy parentage their Father is an Amorite and their mother is an Hittite yea worse then so they are children of wrath yea children of Sathan the Devill is their father see how expresly Christ himselfe doth avouch this to the Jewes Ioh. 8. 44. Ye are of your father the Devill and the lusts of your father ye will doe But oh the golden parentage of such as are religious and beleeve in Christ To them he giveth power to become the Sonnes of God which are borne not of flesh and blood nor of the will of man but of God Joh. 1. 11 12 13. Even Christ himselfe and all true beleevers have all but one Father the father of our Lord Iesus Christ is also the father of all true beleevers Marke that sweet speech of our Saviour immediately before his ascension But goe and tell my brethren behold I ascend unto my Father and your Father and unto my God and your God Ioh. 20. 17. So that Gods people are most noble persons because they come of most noble parentage 2. They are borne to a farre better inheritance then any ungodly person whatsoever they have a golden inheritance they are the members of Christ and children of God and inheritours of the kingdome of heaven whereas all ungodly persons they have but worldly and earthly houses and inheritances unlesse they repent they can never inherite the kingdome of God 1 Cor. 6. 9. But oh the blessed inheritance that is reserved for such as are godly and religious they inherite no lesse then a kingdome Luk. 12. 32. Feare not little flocke for it is my Fathers pleasure to give you a kingdome yea a kingdome which they have by inheritance as being the co-heires with Christ Mat. 25. 34. Come ye blessed children of my Father inherite the kingdome which was prepared for you from the beginning of the world It is a most excellent inheritance 1 Pet. 1. 3. 4. Blessed be God c. which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us againe unto a lively hope c.