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death_n	eternal_a	life_n	soul_n	14,602	5	5.1897	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10038	The godly mans inquisition lately deliuered in two sermons before the right honourable Henry, Lord Montague, late lord high treasurer, priuie counsellor, &c. other gentlemen of worship, at Kimolton on their annuall feast day. By R. Preston, Preacher of Gods word.	Preston, Richard, d. ca. 1624.	1622 (1622)	STC 20285; ESTC S111971	37,702	74

thy Master to stand before his face and not to shrinke from his presence Thus much of the Supposition Now of the Position Seeke the Lord Hauing laid downe how that by sinne we are out of Gods fauour and lose his presence of grace it remaineth to speake of the meanes to finde the Lord and to get into his fauour and that is here said to be Seeking whether it be by prayer Repentance obedience or hearing of the word daily and diligently c. Doct. 1. God being lost by sin must be sought by all holy meanes And the Point is this that hauing lost the Lord by iniquitie we are to seeke him againe by all godly helpes and meanes we must not stand vpon arguments but resolue present diligence to seeke when God seemes to leaue the Cabin of our hearts and begins to write bitter things against vs. The seruant put out of his Masters seruice knowing the profit by it will not stand vpon his termes My master did me wrong why did he thus but he seekes all meanes to procure his masters wonted loue and affection neither doth it become vs Gods seruants to argue vpon points without ground but rather we should seeke Gods face when he calleth vpon vs to that purpose saying Psal 27.8 Hos 5.3 Seeke ye my face Thus did the men of Israel they sought the Lord and he was fauourable gracious vnto them God sends not his workmen away without wages nor those that seeke him by Repentance in faith c. without a reward Dauid saith Psal 34.4 I sought the Lord and he heard me He did not so much vse his bodily feete to runne after the Lord as the good temper of his affections to take delight in the Lord. Neither did he say I prayed and was heard but I sought and was heard 2 Chron. 20.3 and thus Iehosaphat fearing God set himselfe to seeke the Lord And why are all the Elect of God called a Generation of seekers but in respect of their enquiries after Gods fauour Psal 24.6 according as it is the brand of the vngodly that they seeke not God And surely Reason if either the comforts and ioy we may reape by Gods presence or the necessitie thereof may be of force to perswade inquirie and to stirre vp our care neither of them is wanting in this so weightie a matter for comforts and ioy what thoughts are able to reach to the excellency of them Eye hath not seene nor eare heard 1 Cor. 2.9 nor heart conceiued the multitude and worth thereof the presence of great men will astonish and amaze their inferiours it will make them fearefull to behold their faces Math. 5.8 but such is not Gods presence his face and countenance is delectable and at his right hand is pleasure for euermore Psal 16.11 and the more we can behold it the lesse is our feare and the greater our reioycing 1 Sam. 6.13 when the Arke was restored the men of Bethshemesh exceedingly reioyced when the publicke teaching of the Law which had a long time beene discontinued was againe established Nehem. 8.12 the people of Ierusalem were much comforted But how much more will the Children of the marriage Chamber reioyce Math. 9.15 when the Bridegroome is among them This ioy arising from Gods presence concerneth either the qualification of the Conscience or the fruition of Gods fauour in the estate of glory for the conscience when after many skirmishes and secret terrors it begins to gather heart as we say and to feele euidences of grace then there is much ioy yea such ioy 1 Pet. 1.8 as Peter calls it glorious and vnspeakeable Touching this Ioy looke vpon Dauid boasting in the ioy of heart which was giuen him by the Lords lifting vp of his countenance vpon him Psal 4.7 Looke vpon the Eunuch going on in his way reioycing Act. 8.39 because he felt how faith in Christ was wrought in his soule and that was Maries Ioy reioycing in spirit Luk. 1.46 that she knew God in Christ was become her Sauiour For the fruition of the state of glory hereafter it may well lift vp the beleeuers heart with comfort Reu. who shall stand before the lambe accompanied with 24. Elders singing and reioycing he shall be where God is for euer Ioh. 14.16.17 1 Cor. 13.12 and shall see him face to face If this glimmering light of heauenly knowledge when we see but as in a glasse darkely be so delightfull what shall it be to see and know the Lord as he is If the communion we haue here with Christ in his word and Sacraments be so ioyous what shall it be to enioy the immediate presence of God our Father Christ our Redeemer the holy Ghost our Comforter Now shall not such excellent comforts springing from the enioyment of Gods presence be reputed worthie our inquiries What doe many vulgar people oftentimes to see the Kings face or at least his person Strange things are done out of the desire thereof As earnest should we be to get a sight of God Thus I haue briefely pointed you to the ioy of the Saints in their apprehensions of God and the beholding of his bright countenance Now let me shew you the necessitie too the necessitie in a word is such that without God and the presence of his grace there is no possibilitie of admittance into heauen for vpon all those that are without the pale of his fauour shall be executed that sentence passed vpon the man without the wedding garment Mat. 22.13 Binde them hand and foote and cast them into vtter darknesse where shal be neither comfort nor light nor yet hope of either To be in a darke Dungeon where is no penetration of light nor any consolation is great paine and misery 2 Thes 1.9 but to be excluded from the presence of the Lord and from the glorie of his power is euen to be punished with euerlasting destruction As is the world without a Sunne a pining child without a Mother a distressed land without a gouernour euen so is the soule and body without the blessed and glorious presence of God nay they are in a thousand times worse taking for their exemption shall be perpetuall and easelesse their eye-sight shall onely be of Gods wrath and his eternall furie They shall feed his Iustice while they are burning in fire and brimstone Reu. 21.8 which is the second death Looke then of what necessitie saluation and happinesse and life eternall is of the same is the fauour and louing countenance of the Lord. If it be necessary for a man to seeke to be saued it is necessary to seeke the present and future good of his soule by seeking a conioyning to the Lord by meanes of his grace What can deserue the very best and as it were the very quintessence of our care if not this Ob But it will be sayd Ob Why neede we seeke God