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A04269	A seasonable discourse of spirituall stedfastnesse wherein, 1. it, and a relapse, with the heads, members. and degrees of both, are exactly defined. 2. The subiects, causes, and symptomes of the fearfull sinne of apostasie cleerely expressed. As also directions, incentiues, to recouer, re-inkindle the old-cold-declining zelot. Together with arguments, motiues, that the young, or strong standing convert may be in grace firmely established. By I.B. preacher of the word.	Barlow, John, b. 1580 or 81.	1627 (1627)	STC 1439.5; ESTC S120873	89,672	290

light I walked thorow darknesse 3. And if thou rouze not vp thy spirit be assured that thou shalt be awaked For fearefull dreames may fall vpon thee strange visions in the night present themselues vnto thee and crosses thicke and threefold follow thee close vntill thou returne to thy former tast For shall God lose his labour And his child his soule May not the Lord shut thy wombe Slay thy posteritie Call for a famine Send the sword to wound thee The Pestilence to kill thee Grant thou escapest all these may not a worse arrest thee What if he correct thy sin with sinne That the Church cast thee off Excommunicate thee What pleasure canst thou take in all thy priviledges Maist thou not rather suspect every moment to be swallowed vp of overmuch heavinesse 2. Cor. 2.7 4. But let it be admitted all these might be avoided Yet will not Sathan tempt thee Bend the strong bow of his malice feather his firie darts Set them in the nocke loosse them from the finger of envie strike thee to the hart Hast thou bin his but in the months past When thy eye was first opened And thy corrections sealed Then let the bitternes thou at that day feltest cause thee to awake Eph. 5.14 and stand vp from the dead Suppose in this declining condition thy soule should be taken from thee However it might land safe yet would not the passage be fearefull What flesh but will tremble to die in a sleepe To awake on the suddaine at its everlasting home And to depart in a spirituall decay what is it else Mat. 25.5 but the foresaid evill Wherefore O thou declining Christian Present these obiects to the eie of thy minde take a strict view of them meditate thereon continually and let them never slip out of thy remembrance When they would wander call them backe tye them to thee binde them fast And that with the coards of a solemn Promise Vow Oath vntill they haue wrought thy perfect cure recovered thy wonted health let them never leaue thee forsake thee If thy eie as its apt enough be once off them say to it Gen. 3.9 as God to Adam where art thou In what be thy thoughts imploied Is not ●his one thing necessarie Thinke and thinke often how thy companions begin to whisper thy God to g● beyond the vail thine enemies to insult Sathan to arme himselfe and be thou awaked Consider that the sword is in varnishing the palgue descending famine approching Iob. 28.14 and death the king of feare hasting to kil thy body carrie away thy soule Say at the morning in thy setled thoughts why may not my life set before the Sun When thou liest down my bed be my graue And my sleepe my death Let this cry still sound in thine eares that a declining estate is woefull fearefull and the extreamest of all extremiti●s to a beleeuer Doe this and thus then shalt thou returne from the Chambers of hell thy spirit lift vp the wing mount on high and soare aboue all the swelling waters of iniquitie Thy brethren say vnto thee the Lord is with thee Iudg. 6.12 thou valiant man and blessed art thou among many Thine adversaries shut their black mouths spit their venom in vaine And wish that their last end might be like vnto thine Numb 23.20 Yea thy God shall descend from heaven scatter the black cloudes breake thorow them all and smile in thy face say well done my servant my sonne giue his Angels a second charge over thee put his spirit with more power into thee And as with David be with thee whithersoever thou goest 2. Sam. 8.6 Thou shalt tread on the adder and yong Dragon Psal 19.12.13 walke in the valley of death feare no evill nor tremble at the m●st terrible tydings But as astately ship vnder saile having a fresh gale her colours spred swiftly and yet securely hast to the shore and cast anchor at the road of eternall rest And that when back-sliding professo●s shall either shipwrack their consciences split all a pieces sinke the fraight of their soules in the bottomlesse gulfe or like a distressed barke which hath spent her maine maste sprung a plank cut her tackling and cast it over boord with great hazard and terror put in and saue themselues Vse 5 Here let him who standeth take heed lest he fall For a spirituall stedfastnes 1 Cor. 10.12 we see in some degree may be fallen from decayed And then why should it not cleaue vnto thee What priviledge hast thou to avoide it Aboue thy brethren Haue not the tallest Ceders in Gods Sanctuarie been shaken The strongest sometime staggered And is this any new thing in the world Wherefore take thou heed to thy standing eye well thy foot steps keepe a strict watch ouer all thy waies that this evill doe not overtake thee ceize vpon thee And to prevent it practise these subsequent particulars as remedies 1. Be humble in thine owne eie Haue a low conceipt of thine owne worthines Helpes to support him who standeth When men like leaven begin to swell or as the Pharisee to boast set the best side out such without controversie are not farre from a fall Was not this the fore-runner of Peters deniall Pro. 16.18 And good Ezekiahs backsliding So true is it that pride goeth before a slip Luk. 1.53 and an high minde leads to destruction God giueth grace to the poore in Spirit but sendeth the conceited-rich emptie away Low growing trees escape the storme stand vp right when such as shoot vp mount a loft with a small gust are often shaken sometimes overturned Carrie a meane saile and never feare shipwracke of grace and faith For so long God sits at the helme 2. Rather question thy selfe suspect thy standing Feare is a bad getter yet a sure keeper And who sooner catch a fall than they that runne without regard Many haue bank't at vnawares when good-take-heed was not their factor The best Physition our kingdome had D. Butler dyed say some of a consumption And being demanded why he did not prevent it his answere was he never feared it Our proverb is that death comes oft at vnawares And retchlesse people dye poore Sure I am graces decay may be sudden the soules exchequor well neere emptie Pro. 10.4 when treasurer providence takes a nap a wakes to play A diligent hand maketh rich an evill fore seene is halfe avoyded Wherfore alwaies feare to fall but chiefly when the meanes of standing are neglected 3. Shunne the rash censure of weake and declining brethren The Iew was neerest to apstatize when he the most scorned the Gentile The dog which daily licketh others sores soonest sometimes catcheth a surfeit He who without pittie visits the poore may perhaps fall into the like disease and himselfe become a patient Those who reiected Iphtah not long after were his sutors Iudg. 11.7 1. Cor. 12.21 and made him Iudge Say

soule descend not into their secret mine honor Gen. 49.6 be not thou vnited to them Make Christ thy wisdome righteousnesse 1 Cor. 1.30 sanctification and redemption Put him on with the eye of knowledge and the hand of faith by application Rom. 13.14 imitation Let him be all in all His word thy card his example thy compasse to saile the troubled and raging seas of thy spirituall voiage vnto the land of everlasting life Where thou wantest skill begge his Spirit obey his motion So shalt thou avoide the hazard of all shelues and sands Art thou in doubt Fearest thou ship-wracke Ioh. 16.13 Put him in minde of his promise and he will lead thee into all truth and at the last land thee safe where the stormes never arise waters swell or the windes blow The shops of error And here let me exhort you of this famous Citie to beware of the shops of all errour and prophanenesse But you will say which be they My answer is A playhouse A dicing-house A brothell-house and A tipling-house I had almost said of all these Gen. 20.11 as Abraham of Abimelechs the feare of God is not in them Rev 2.13 Or as Iohn writes of the Church of Pergamus I know their workes and their dwelling place even where Sathans throne is For what is a Play-house but the cheating Exchang where the sacred Scriptures are abused the glorious name of God blaspheamed lies and fables set to sale And all kindes of obscenitie scurrillitie bought and sould for readie silver Is it not the Devils forge where the bellowes blow the hammer beats on the bodyes of corruption vntill lust be enkindled smoake and burne to the bottome of hell And for the Dicing-house how should I describe it Paint it foorth in its propper colours It s the Common hall where Thieues and Robbers Gentlemen and Beggers meete together Sweare and lye Cozen and cheate Deceive and are deceived So that povertie arrests them or that which is worse often comes to passe a Ty-burne tippet with one cross-cast sends them to their longhome But what Will such reply are not lotts in recreation lawfull cautions being vsed we hope Cards and Dice are harmelesse creatures can murder no man I tell thee vpon such tearmes I may play with a Beare For cannot I pull out his eyes Dash foorth his teeth Cut off his clawes Muzzell his mouth Chaine him fast to a stake And keepe me a loofe Farre from his reach And then will he doe any man harme Prodigall know this that wise persons digge not pits wherein people may perish thinke they are excused when they forewarne men of the danger Nor feed on that dish having varietie of sound meates which will cause death if but mist in the dressing Goe thou and doe likewise lest a worse thing follow Now for a Brothel-house it s the Synagogue of Sathan the very suburbes of hell Or if you will the noysome Pest house of the Devill For such as tread her steps enter within her doores haue received the sentence of death not one of a thousand Pro. 2.19 that ever returnes againe For shall not God take vengeance of all those who burne in lust prostrate themselues to an whore And offer soule and body a living and acceptable sacrifice to the Devill I tell such in the Apostles owne words 1 Cor. 6.9.10 that they shal neuer inherit the Kingdome of heaven For whoremongers and adulterers the Lord will iudge And as for a Tipl●●g-house its Nabals Inne whither fooles flocke and resort to drink smoak kindle quench shout roare as if Devils were come from hell in the shape and similitude of men A Tap-house now in England is like Purgatorie at Rom● There when men haue lead a lewd and loose life that they may escape a worse evill pardons are procured and they be sent to Purgatorie Here when Prodigalls haue mispent their portion shipwrackt their substance to a-voyde beggerie we grant them a Licence to sell ●le And if one god●y Iosiah pull them down we haue two gracelesse Iehoiachims to reare them vp againe lest the full tale of drunkards should be diminished But O yee men of God flee these things Set a crosse on all these doores step not over the thresh-houlds Psal 139.22 hate them as David the Lords enemies with a perfect hatred When the spirits of these Butteries intise thee consent thou not Say vnto them with indignation I will none of your waies Can men tread on Serpents and not be stunge Carrie coales in their bosomes and not be burnt Live amonge the infected and escape the contagion Swallow poyson and not dye the death Without controversie the fore-named places And the sinnes ascending from them haue infected the aire provoked heaven drawne downe the late great devouring Pestilence Are not some sparkes of this consuming fire yet smoaking in the corners of your Citie And if you by these abhomiations still incense the Lord Ier. 22.19.20 may not the bellowes of his iustice reinkindle them to burne you and your habitations to dust and ashes Is it not the mercie of God that you who heare me this day are left a live How comes it to passe that you fell not when so many thousands gaue vp the Ghost Are you not compounded of the same principles Formed in the same mould Did you not breath in the same aire Feed on the same foode To be plaine haue you not committed the same if not greater sinnes Let then the long suffering of God lead you to repentance Rom. 2.4 And diswade you from the least appearance of evill You haue heard what error is where it lodgeth 1 Thess 5.22 And being discovered how it is to be avoyded Now blessed are they and none but they who vnderstand the truth and keepe it VERS 18. But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ The Logicall resolution THe Apostle in the precedent words having admonished the people to take heede or a double evill the former that they should not be led away with the errour of the wicked the latter nor fall from their owne stedfastnesse he in this verse now prescribeth a two fold remedie to prevent both The one is groweth in grace for that wil support them the other increase of knowledge for it will direct them Now because the most errours and heresies which shall spring vp and spread in the latter dayes may be and are about Christ Iesus he maketh mention of him Consider the words in themselves The Theologicall resolution and they containe a single act Grow And a double subiect Grace and Knowledge which knowledg is amplified by its obiect Iesus Christ And he described by a twofold relation Lord Saviour Grow This word is a metaphor and comprehends in it motion and augmentation the former as we see in the starres and planets may be without the latter but the second

thorow everie one of his conduits then vse all for who can tell what the least may bring foor●h 4 Entertaine every good motion open the gates let them in bid them well-come feede them cherish them as the best guests that ever came to thy soule Many sparkes make a fire sundry drops Isa 30.21 fill the bankes Hearest thou this voyce whispering in thine eare Acts. 5.9 This is the good way Listen to it Heb. 10.29 vnderstand its errand and doe what and as it inioynes thee Acts 7.51 Know that resisting makes way to grieving 1 Thess 5.19 grieving to despiting And despiting to quenching the little sparke of grace within vs And if that goe out we are vndon Should I enlarge the time would be too short therefore we will winde vp all according to the Spirituall condition of everie person in a round particular exhortation 1. And first I will begin with thee who hast not reaped any the least fruits of the spirit Ier. 4.3 in the soyle of whose soule this seed was never scattered I say to all such plow vp your fallow grounds sow not among thornes For it s now high time to seeke this graine What 's the man without grace but a dead dog A verie Devill And firebrand of hell Never was any blessed without it Cursed who did possesse it What shall I or can I say of it It s the water of life which raiseth the dead the honie that opens each Ionathans eyes the tree which makes the bitter rivers sweete whose leaues heale all wounded spirits This oyle will make him see clearely who was borne blinde to speak the language of Canaan distinctly being dumbe from his mothers wombe It boareth the deafe eare to heare what the spirit speaketh to the Churches setteth an hungrie appetite on the stomacke of the soule seasoneth its palate And giues a pleasant rellish to all heavenly nourishment It stops the bloudie issue of sinne dries vp that fountaine which all the Physitians in the world could never cure And looseth the anklebones of the aged creeple to stand leape and runne with ioy the paths of Gods commands O grace What shall I say of thee How should I commend thee Thou art a wonder-worker in this present world strange things bringest thou to passe everie day And O ye sons of earthie Adam how should I intreat you a graine of this mettall is worth a million of gold a stemme of this tree all the Cedars in Lebanon And a drop of this water all the baulme in Gilead Yea were the hugest hils the choycest pearles the mightiest rockes the most pretious stones And the vnfathomde Globe a shining Chrysolite yet one corne of this sand more than the Sunne a Candle in brightnesse and goodnesse exceeds them all As the wise man of money I say of it that bread nourisheth wine refresheth but grace is all in all Wouldest thou purchase Plant Build Why grace will doe it It will make thee a glorious temple of Gods sacred Spirit the adopted child of God the father And a coheire with the Lord Iesus of earth of heaven In trouble it will comfort thee in bondage free thee and being faint put valour into thee Yea when the gracelesse man shall tremble at a paper-Canon quake at the wagging of a leafe lagge like a starcht ruffe in a showre of raine And wish he had never bin born● Then shall the gracious man hoyse vp his saile lance into the deepe cut the swelling waues passe by al shelues and sands salute death the King of terrors with an holy scorne and put in safe at the key of Canaan the land of everlasting life II. And now let me turne my speech to thee who hast laid the foundation of grace begunne to build goe thou on perfect the worke of thy Sanctification faine would I adde to thy mite and winde thee vp a pegge higher Haue I not told thee that graces increase is commendable Profitable for all things Men of great stocke trade to the east Indies when they of lesse store but barter with their doore neighbours a candle inlightneth a narrow roome the Sunne a whole world A single coat keepes backe a weake shot a double one the most fierie piercing bullet A child shrinkes vnder a cushion and a feeble bodie stumbles at a straw Want of water makes the Mill to stand a sparke sets not the pot a boyling And a drop of wine refresheth not the Spirits Our greene har●s are not easily inflamed our stiffe wills bent to action And our frozen affectiōs need much blowing Our sacrifices are but offered vp with smoake our corruptions are not quite licked vp and the cursed worke of Sathan is not thorowly dissolved in vs. Wherefore wouldest thou not revolt Shrinke backe And fall from thy former stedfastnes Why grow in grace Wouldest thou with ease performe holy actions With patience beare all kindes of crosses Doe much good Haue fullnesse of ioy And be a shining light A burning candle Then let grace haue her perfect growth Strong men stand fastest long-winged Hawkes fly swiftest larg-sailed ships runne speediest great Planets shine brightest full purses make merriest And big-boned bodies beare easiest Grace to a Christian is as mettall to the horse mainner to the earth And the Moons to the tyde As feathers to the fowle wheeles to the charriot And the soule to the body So that want grace and we are but feeble liuelesse creatures bring forth no crop beare lanke eares if any and that very seldome Many complaine that they are in good duties cold in prayer slow to heare empty of cōfort stagger in faith question their salvation impatient in troubles And shrug at the remembrance of death But where lies the fault Who is blamworthy Any except thy selfe Knowing thou hast a present help A speedy remedy to redresse all but striues not for it What a shame is it that we living in so good daies In a land which floweth with milk hony Levits in most corners on 't The kingdom of heaven come to our doores And māna falling with in our tents morning evening should complaine of feeblenes Weakenes Had we cruel wars garmēts tumbling in bloud our Cities sackt besieged as Samaria that we were constrained to eate the fruit of our loynes to preserue our natural liues Or had we a Ieroboham to rule over vs who would repaire the high places make Priests of the basest people consecrat to Baall pull downe Bethel build Babel and cause all the Lords Prophets to fall on the sword why then to complaine to be a yong plant an Infant in grace were somewhat more tollerable Me thinkes I like Ionah doe well to be angrie when I consider how long how wonderfully we haue enioyed great means to be strong men and women in the Lord and we can hardly keepe soule and body together We looke like spirits pinde sterved And not living fresh growne Christians I may in respect of spirituall food fitly

minded quencheth Sathans fierie darts ouercomes the world It bringeth good tydings from God to man vniteth the creatures to the Creator and saveth the sinner What is faith but the choicest Grape in Canaan The prime fruite of the spirit The essentiall forme of a Christian And the p●r●e which purchaseth heaven It s like the poole of Bethesda which cureth the cripples 1 Sam. 2.22 the sword of Saul that never came emptie And the bow of Ionathan which never bended backe from the blood of the slaine the fat of the mightie For crosses faith will assure thee that the Lord sends them their burden shall not exceed thy abilitie and that like a thunder clap they rattle more than hurt That they are the cognisance of Christ the Physitian of the soule shall handle thee gently stay but a very little whil● and at their departure leaue a blessing behind them This baulme heales all diseases helpes at a dead lift and cures when nothing can And what shall I more say For the time would be too short for me to tell of Gedeon Barak Heb. 11.32 c. and of Sampson of Iephtah David Samuel and of the Prophets who thorow faith subdued kingdomes wrought righteousnes obtained promises stopped the mouthes of Lyons quenched the violence of f●re escaped the edge of the sword of weake were made strong waxed valiant in battell resolute in warre and put to flight whole armies of their enemies For when reason presents these things vnto thee as so many shee bearer roaring Canons implacable Divells And the promises of God the acts of divine providence And the kingdom of heavē no better than fate destinie broken notio●s at the best but like some ruinated and forraged Countrie th●n will faith giue them luster make them shine And as it were with open face appeare and stand foorth in a most glorious forme and order Grow in faith and thou shalt be able to breake a bow of steele lift vp the wing soare on high sleight temptations defie the devill and bid death doe his worst A great faith will fill thy soule with ioy thy life with good works and the whole world with prayses Faith if big and strong will make thee a noble warriour in the Lambes campe one of a thousand A man as David according to Gods owne heart It will ascend to heaven lay hold on thy suretie satisfie thy creditor And bring thee a quittance for an vniversall an everlasting discharge of all thy debts originall actuall past and to come But I must confesse that what I presse is hard to practise For Sathan daily desires doth winnow it When its seed is first sowne in the soyle of our soules faine would he rend it vp by the roots but finding that a matter impossible because it is of Gods planting then will he by his subtile suggestions tempt vs to question the truth of its obiects And when this wil not serue his turne neither that we may proue graine for his garner then with his sieve he will tosse tumble vs vp and down to prevent faiths act separate it from its proper obiect and keepe vs in a continuall intercourse of doubting staggering Beloved of all the strings which be on the instrument of my soule I finde none more to iarre than this of faith O how hardly is it turned How suddenly out of temper It will proue a pretie peece of service in the time of tryall day of temptation to rely on God to cast all our care on him However yet there is hope for the Lord hath blessed Faith once And it shall be blest for ever the elder shall serue the yonger And in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Having finished the first thing wherein we are to grow we proceede to the second From the which we are instructed that Doct. 4 Christiās are to grow in the knowledge of Christ Iesus Who better acquainted with Christ than Paul th'apostle yet did he not striue to increase his knowledge of him His desire was among the Corinths to know nothing but Christ Iesus 1. Cor. 2.2 and him crucified No time would he omit meanes neglect that he might apprehend him Phil. 3.12 of whom he was apprehended The charge he gaue his sonne Timotheus may serue further to confirme the proposition Doth he not command him 1. Tim 4.13 to attend vnto reading Doctrine Exhortation And may not reason inforce it Reas 1 For is not Christ the Being of Beings The naturall Sonne of God the Father The brightnesse of his glorie Heb. 1.3 And the ingraven forme of his person Are not all the treasures of Wisdome and Holinesse Col. 2 3. hid in him Doth not the fulnesse of the God-head dwell in him bodilie Is he not coeternall Coessentiall And coequall with the most high Will you heare his owne testamonie I Ioh. 10.30 and the Father are one The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his waies before his workes of old Pro. 8.22 c. when there were no depths I was brought forth no fountaines abounding with waters yere the mountaines were setled or the hills created while as yet he had not made the earth nor the fields neither raised the highest part of the dust of the world When he prepared the heavens set a cōpasse vpon the face of the deep And established the clouds aboue I was there When he gaue the Sea his decree commanded the proud waues should not passe their boundes and when he appointed the foundations of the earth then was I by him as one brought vp with him and I was daily his delight reioycing alwayes before him And this being thus Phil. 2.6 is it any robbery for Christ to be equall with God Was not the Word made flesh 1 Ioh. 1.1.2 Dwelt amongst vs And did we not behold his glory as the glorie of the onely begotten of the Father Ioh. 1.14 full of grace and truth What obiect more wonderfull Better deserues our knowledge Did not the Angels desire to peepe into this mysterie 1 Pet. 1.12 And shall not we Then are we blame worthie Reas 2 Consider also what he hath done for vs. Hath he not elected vs Ioh. 15.16 before the world was In these good daies created vs of nothing Beautified vs in a comely manner Iob. 10.10 Imprinted his owne image vpon vs Psal 8.6 And we by sinne having spoiled our selues with no lesse price than the shedding of his sacred bloud 1 Pet. 1.19 redeemed vs Recovered the great damage we lost in Adam our father And restored vs to a farre better condition Psal 103.1.2 than was allotted to vs at our first creation It is he who pardoneth all our sinnes healeth all our infirmities delivers our soules from hell And from whom all the good we inioy we haue receiued Are not all things from him Ioh. 1.3 For without him was not made Ioh. 5.17 any thing that was

they taynted with originall corruption and actuall transgression 4. He was consecrate with an oath so were not they 5. He was of the commandement of the spirit they of the law of the flesh 6. He offered vp himselfe once as a full sacrifice to purge a way mans sinnes they other oblations whereby it was impossible that iniquitie should be taken away 7. He put an end to the priesthood they made but way to it 8. Lastly he was a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek theirs was often chāged For as Iohn was the lest of all Prophets so Christ of all Priests that is there was no continuation of personall succession after him reade Heb. 7. per totum 2. The second is his Propheticall office Therefore the Scriptures giue him severall names importing so much As of Teacher Speaker yea the verie Prophet For he was to instruct them in the truth whom he had reconciled to his Father See Mat. 23.10 Dan. 8.13 Acts 3.22 3. And Christ had a kingly offlce that he might conserue and governe those whom as Prophet he had taught as Priest he had reconciled subduing his and their enemies and to preserue them to his heauenly kingdome Hence it is written A child shall be borne and a sonne giuen vs vpon whose shoulder the Dominion shall lye Behold a king shall raigne in righteousnesse And againe they shall serue the Lord their God and David their king whom I will raise vp vnto them These places and many more are spoken of Christ Iesus Consult Esay 9.6 Ierem. 23.5 30.9 Psal 2.6 Acts 2.36 4. Fourthly and finally we may mention his Mediator-ship although as some will the forenamed offices be all comprehended in it however the holy letters speake distinctly of it Mala. 3.1 calling Christ Heb. 12.24 the Angell of the covenant the Mediator of the new Testament Obserue here that Christ is Med●ator according to both natures For the manhood without the Godhead would profit nothing Obiect But it is written there is one mediator between God and man the man Christ Iesus 1 Tim. 2.5 Resol 1. I answere that our Apostle vseth Christs owne phrase who ordinarily stileth himselfe the son of man for he gloried not in swelling titles 2. It is a kinde of tropicall speech wherefore by a communication of properties Acts. 20.28 we are said to be purchased with the blood of God 3. Paul so speakes to comfort the feeble minded for when a man is wounded in spirit by the stroake of God the verie bare naming of God will make a sinner in the painefull panges of regeneration to quake to tremble and fall backward But hearing of a mediator who is man as he is God Heb. 4 25.16 and 5.1.2 which is touched with the feeling of our infirmities and in all points tempted as we are yet without sinne we shall lift vp our weake mindes goe boldly to the throne of Grace and find mercie in the time of neede 4. And the truth is our mediator is to communicate of both natures for he must be inferiror to God as touching his manhood And superior to man as concerning his Godhead And this is that intellectuall knowledge of Christs person offices that Christians are to get and grow in The Experimentall followeth wherof we will speake but a very little to avoide preplexitie This knowledge differs from the former in divers particulars 1. In the instrument of apprehension For that is effected with the rationall facultie this with the sensible 2. That is actiue this rather passiue falling within the fathom of our feeling 3. That without this profiteth a Christian nothing 4. The former borroweth helpe from the latter not the contrarie For Experimentall knowledge sealeth Intelectuall that it is true Philosophie teacheth me that fire will burne but if I put my finger into it the truth is infallible For I haue felt what I heard And hence growes our English proverb that Seeing is beleeving Ioh. 20.25 This was verified in Thomas when he put his fingers into the wounds of Iesus And this Experimetnall knowledge of Christ 1 Thes 1.5 may be in respect of our selus or others When we feele a change wrought in our selues by the Gosp●ll preached when it hath not bin in word only but in the powerfull operation of the holy Ghost inlightning our dark mindes dissolving the cursed worke of Sathan in vs and renewing vs according to the imag● of our maker this is knowledge Experimentall Paul knew this well felt by experience Rom. 1.17 that the Gospell of Christ was the strong arme of God to salvation He could say with sence I live and Christ lives in me He rules as a king and I by his power can doe all things Col. 1. vlt. He is set in heauenly places And I am raised together with him He found the death of Christ to kill sinne in him Eph. 2.6 the efficacie of his resurrection raysing him vp to newnesse of life his Spirit leading him into all truth And what petitions he preferred to God the Father in his name never returned emptie This was that excellent knowledge of Christ he so much gloried in 1. Cor. 2.2 longed after and by all meanes sought to increase And thus to know Christ is to be somewhat ●om●body And there is an experimentall knowledge in regard of others Heb 4.2 The Author of the H●b●ewes saw that the Gosp●ll preached to other by them Gal. 2 8. was without profit in th m who heard it because it was not mixed with faith Paul sensibly perceiu●d that Peter was mightie in Circumcision as he himself was in the vncircumci●ion 1 Thes 1.9 And he observed what a great entrance he had amonge the Thessalonians He also giueth God thankes 2 Cor. 2.14 which caused them to triumph in Christ and made manifest the savour of his knowledge by them in every place And thus you haue demonstrated what is that knowledge both intellectuall and experimentall Christians are to encrease in The application followeth Vse 1 From all which particulars we may confute many hereticall opinions about the Person Offices of Christ Iesus And First that of the Patro passians who mainetained how that God the Father tooke our flesh and suffered But is it not said that in the fulnesse of time God sent his Sonne made of a woman and made vnder the Law Gal. 4.4 Obiect It will be obiected that Christ is called Father Isa 9.6 It is true Resol that Christ in many respects may be called Father 1. Because he created all things For it is vsuall with the Hebrews to stile that whether person or thing a Father which is the cause or ground thereof Gen. 4.21 Hence Iubal is said to be the Father of all such as handle the Harpe and Organ And in Iob shafts and bullets are called the Sonnes of the bow as if it were their Father 2. Heb. 10.13 Christ is

consisteth in Doing Suffering The Law after mans fall exacted a double debt the one in that it was not obserued the other for that it was transgressed Wherfore Christ our Saviour must not onely by his actiue obedience discharge the principall but by his passiue giue satisfation also for the forfeiture And hath he not wrought this great worke for vs Is not his Sufficiencie brought into act For Iesus is dead risen againe 1 Thes 4.14 hath fulfilled all righteousnesse and fitteth at the right hand of God to make intercession for vs. 1 Ioh. 2.1 When he sayd it was finished it immediatly was finished For the debt is discharged the paiment accepted the bond cancelled and the Quittance receiued May we not then conclude that Christ Iesus is mans Saviour Man 's I say not the Angels Vse 1 The which serveth first to confute that ancient error of Origen who defēded that after fifty yeeres of Iubilees the Divels should through Christ be saved But are they not reiected of God Is not their finall doome denounced Where haue they any promise made to them in the holy letters Were the Prophets and Apostles sent to preach to the Apostat Angels And do they not in that saying Mat. 8 29. art thou come to torment vs before the time manifest despaire condemne themselues Some affirme that this was a Godly error but the least abberration from the truth is a sin And why should any man seeme more mercifull than his maker Vse 2 This also checketh the infidelity of the Iew who denieth Christ Iesus expects another Saviour But where is the tribe of Iudah out of which he should spring The family of David of whose seed he should come Bethlehem wherein he should be borne Ierusalem into which it was Prophecied he shold ride on an Asses foale The second temple in the which he was to be seene Or the Arke of the Covenant that was a reall type of him And what people can those be whom the Prophet hath foretold that for many daies shall be without a King a Prince Hos 3.4 a Sacrifice an Im●ge an Ephod and a Teraphim if not the Iewes For of them and none other nation vnder heaven at this season can it be verified They cryed crucifi● crucifie h m and let his blood be vpon vs our posteritie and doth not the curse follow them as they wished Who so ignorant but may see it Or incredulous doth not beleeue it Certainely the fell opposition of the Gospell the successe not withstanding it hath and the great portion of the Spirit which is powred on the common people had we no other arguments may seale this truth vnto vs that Christ Iesus is alre●dy come 2. Cor. 3.16 and is our onely Lord and Saviour Pray we therefore for this dispersed and despised generation that the vaile may be taken from their eyes and they turned to the Lord. Let vs againe and againe petition the God of all spirits to open their dark minds that they may see him whom they haue pierced mourne as Hadadrimon in the valley of Megiddo returne to their maker that there may be one sheepe and one sheepheard The time was when we were without God without Christ and they remembred vs then in the depth of this their misery let not vs be vnmindfull of them but wish vnfeinedly and continually that Iudah may dwell in the Tents of Iaphet Vse 4 And if Christ Iesus be mans Saviour Let vs all be acquainted with him loue him praise him And place our whole confidence in him Who would be ignorant of such a friend Not affect him of whom he is so much affected Blesse him from whom we receiue all good things And relie on him who is all-sufficient to relieue them that seeke vnto him For whom doest thou keepe the prime of thy affecti ns Is any more worthie of them In whom darest thou fixe thy faith Man Or Angell Who des rues the glorie of this great worke Any but Christ who trode the wine-presse alone And that this doctrin might the more mo●e thee to ex●cute all obedience due to the Lord Iesus cons●der wi h thy selfe what it is to be saued In the Scriptures Salvation hath a sweet sounde it like the nomination of a King carrieth a great Maiestie with it the one other rings a pleasant peale to the soule as Aarons bells did to the eare in the Sanctuarie Marke I pray thee Is it a small matter to be sonne in law to a King Naball made a feast like a King The Corinths did reigne as Kings vnder this word King what is not to be desired comprehended Shall we not heare as much of that we haue now in hand Heare my beloued brethren Lord Thou art my s●rength and my Salvation Behold I bring you glad-tydings of Salva●ion Let me now goe hence in peace for mine eyes haue seene thy Salvation Restore me to the form●r ioy of thy Salvation But because many h●are it f●w vnd●rstand it we wil insist a little to vnfould it Salvation strictly taken Salvation defined is a preseruation from evi l. God first createth then conserveth for a thing must haue a being before it can be saved Non Ens is not incident to perdition damnation For accidents cleaue to reall subiects as the Art of Logicke truly teacheth Conserva●ion immediatly succeedeth Creation and gub●rnation conseruation For when a thing is it may be conserued And being so governed Now be it person or thing if kept from evill it may be said to be saved Psal 36.6 In this sence the Lord saueth m●n beast all cr●ated things the which are not consumed annihilat●d Consider that the evill from the which he saveth is or sinne or punishment And the former is the cause o● the latter The evill of sin ●s two-fold ●riginall and actuall both of which Christ hath freed vs from For our depraued nature thorow the powerfull operation of his Spirit by degrees shall be repaired And our actual transgr●ssions shall be remitted never laid to our charge Now for the evill of punishment it is manifold some whereof we will mention 1. The principall is the wrath and revenging iustice of God the Father Heb 10 31 into whose angrie hands it is a fearefull thing to fall For his frowning countenance like a pinching frost the tender grasse causeth the whole glorie of man to dye to wither Rom 5.20 But thorow the death of Christ of enemies we are made loving friends 2. A second is the rigour and cruell heavie threat of the m●rall law Acts 15.10 a burd●n that we nor our fathers were able to beare but being imposed presse vs downe into the lowest depth of the bottomlesse pit Now Christ hath tooke this yoake from off our shoulder Mat. 3.15 by fulfilling all righteousnesse so making peace 3. Another is the rage and implacable malice of the Deuill For our Captaine Christ Gen. 3.15 hath loosed his strong