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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67750	An experimental index of the heart in which (as in a looking-glass) both profane and civil men may see enough, to make them in love with religion, being a most happie and providential conference between two friends (after the ones heart was changed) the which may both provoke and incourage all sorts of sinners to read the same, that (in the least) love themselves : drawn up and published for the good of all / by R. Younge ... ; add this as a second part to those three fundamental principles of Christian religion, intituled, A short and sure way to grace and salvation.	Younge, Richard.	1658 (1658)	Wing Y154; ESTC R7768	18,705	18

woman that is forced though she cries out and strives and an alluring Adulteress Again the thoughts of the godly are godly of the wicked worldly and by these good and evil men are best and truliest differenced one from another Would we know our own hearts and whether they be changed by a new birth examine we our thoughts words actions passions especially our thoughts will inform us for these cannot be subject to hypocrisie as words and deeds are Sect. XXXIX Then by way of caution know that a child may as soon create it self as a man in he state of Nature regenerate himself We cannot act in the least unlesse God bestowes upon us daily privative grace to defend us from evil and daily positive grace inabling us to do good And those that are of Christs teaching know both from the word and by experience that of themselvs they are not onely weak but even dead to what is good moving no more then they are moved that their best works are faulty all their sins deadly all their natures corrupted originally You hath he quickned that were dead in trespass●s and sins Ephes. 2. 1. Yea we are altogether so dead in sin that we cannot stir the least joint no not so much as feel our own deadness nor desire life except God be pleased to raise and restore our souls from the death of sin and grave of long custom to the life of grace Apt we are to all evil but reprobate and indisposed to all grace and goodness yea to all the means thereof My powers are all corrupt corrupt my will Marble to good but wax to what is ill Insomuch that we are not sufficient of our selves to think much lesse to speak least of all to do that which is good 2 Cor. 3. 5. Joh. 15. 4 5. If we have power to choose or refuse the object to do these well we have no power We have abilitie we have will enough to undo our selvs scope enough hell-ward but neither motion nor will to do good that must be put into us by him that gives both power and will and power to will Finally each sanctified heart feels this but no words are able sufficiently to expresse what impotent wretches we are when we are not sustained So that we have no merit but the mercy of God to save us nothing but the blood of Christ and his mediation to cleanse and redeem us nothing but his obedience to enrich us As for our good works we are altogether beholding to God for them not God to us nor we to our selvs because they are onely his works in us Whatsoever thou art thou owest to him that made thee what ever thou hast thou owest to him that Redeemed thee Therefore if wee do any thing amiss let us accuse our selvs if any thing well let us give all the praise to God And indeed this is the test of a true or false Religion that which teacheth us to exalt God most and most to depresse our selves is the true that which doth most prank up our selvs and detract from God is the false As Bonaventure well notes Sect. XL Now to winde up with a word of exhortation if thou beest convinced and resolvest upon a new course let thy resolution be peremptory and constant and take heed you harden not again as Pharaoh the Philistins the young man in the Gospel Pilate and Judas did resemble not the iron which is no longer soft then it is in the fire for that good saith Gregory will do us no good which is not made good by persevarance If with these premonitions the Spirit hath vouchsa●ed to stir up in thine heart any good motions and holy purposes to obey God in letting thy sins go quench not grieve not the Spirit 1 Thes. 5. 19. Return not with the Dog to thy vomit least thy latter end prove seven-fold worse then thy beginning Matth. 12. 43 45. O it is a fearful thing to receive the grace of God in vain and a desperate thing being warned of a rock wilfully to cast our selves upon it Neither let Satan perswade you to defer your repentance no not an hour least your resolution proves as a false conception which never comes to bearing Besides death may be sudden even the least of a thousand things can kill you and give you no leisure to be sick Thirdly if thou wilt be safe from evil works avoid the occasions have no fellowship with the workers of iniquity neither fear their scoff for this be sure of if your person and waies please God the world will be displeased with both If God be your friend men will be your enemies if they exercise their malice it is where he shews mercy But take heed of losing God's favour to keep theirs B●da tells of a great man that was admonished by his friends in his sicknesse to repent who answered He would not yet for that if he should recover his friends and companions would laugh at him but growing sicker and sicker they again prest him but then his answer was that it was now too late for I am judged and condemned already A man cannot be a Nathanaël in whose heart there is no guile but the world cou●ts him a fool But Christ saies Verily except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not en●er into the Kingdome of Heaven Mat. 18. 3. Again Satan and your deceitfull heart will suggest unto you that a Religious life is a dumpish and mellancholly life but holy David will tell you that light is sown to the righteous and joy to the upright Psal. 97. 11. Isa. 65. 14. And experience tells that earthly and bodily joyes are but the body or rather the dregs of that joy which Gods people feel and are ravished with As O the calm and quietness of a good conscience the assura●ce of the pardon of sin and joy of the Holy Ghost the honesty of a virtuous and holy life how sweet they are Yea even Plato an Heathen could say that if wisdome and virtue could but represent it self to the eies it would set the heart on fire with the love of it And the like of a sinners sadness as hear what Seneca sayes if there were no God to punish him no Divell to torment him no Hell to burn him no man to see him yet would hee not sin for the ugliness and filthiness of sin and the guilt and sadness of his conscience But experience is the best informer wherefore take the councell of holy David Psalm 34. 8. O tast and seek that the Lord is good blessed is the man that trusteth in him To which accordeth that of holy Bernard Good art thou O Lord to the soul that seeks thee what art thou then to the soul that finds thee As I may apeal to any mans conscience that hath been softned with the unction of grace and truly tasted of the powers of the world to come to him that hath the love of God shed abroad in his