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A78621	Faith in Gods promises, the saints best weapon: or, The great use and availableness of faith, both for the support and growth of saints in times most perilous. Plainly discovering that the want of faith in the way of Gods promises, is the great cause of the want of Gods presence. With several considerations for the encrease of faith, tha[t] henceforth the saints may by faith so draw nigh unto God, and in faith so wait upon God, as with certainty of receiving from him. Whereunto is added something concerning the great errour and mistake of many men concerning the true Christ, and how he is said to be in his people; with other things very necessary to be known in order to saints resisting the temptation of the present times. / Set forth as (useful for all people, but) especially intended for the good of such as are returned to the good old way of the Lord, by Matthew Caffyn ...	Caffyn, Matthew, 1628-1714.	1660 (1660)	Wing C207; ESTC R170345	46,339	55

lusts and also living possibly among a people that are ready to reprove such fashions Hereupon is led forth by the hand of the old corrupt man to search for some reasonable account that may be given both to himself a little troubled through the Word bearing testimony against it and also unto others and while searching with this corrupt mind Satan being not wanting he findes that in some respect this new fashion may be profitable whereat he is glad and so hastily casts out all former questions and so procures it though it cost him a great deal more than at any time he is willing to bestow on the poor and then with a loud voice and much carnal disputings he stands to plead for it for saith he 't is thus and thus profitable which possibly may be true in some small sense But alas he considers not how the lust first conceived in him by his assent with love and delight thereunto He considers not that though there be some small profit therein that 't was not that which lead him to get it for 't was the love and heart-delight which he had to it as being a fashion pleasing the eye of flesh and whereby he might seem to others to be thus and thus that first moved him thereunto The worldly man will say that he must spend much time and take a great deal of care to get this Worlds goods that he may have somewhat considerably to give to the poor but he lies in his heart before God and men Neither think to say within your selves Because you sometimes distribute something to the poor Saints that therefore Gods Promises reaches you for alas sometimes that may be onely a matter of constraint and not willingly and so not rewardable I mean by constraint so as that you may rather than you will publickly oppose such and such works of Charity whereby you may think that people will speak hardly of you and you thereby come to have an ill name rather than this you may be constrained to give something though little or no heart to it otherwise and sometimes upon the account that conscience with such a loud voyce calls for works of Charity you may be perswaded to part with something to quiet conscience having all that while but little real and hearty love and compassion on the poor Saints as appears among some First by their being quieted and altogether satisfied in that they have distributed something never considering whether they have done what is their duties to do whether the poor Saints have food and raiment sufficient yea or nay Secondly As appears by their much more diligent eye over such as are poor than over others whereby to find some kind of flaw or other in their walkings that so they may quiet conscience thereby while they administer not to them this savours of much carnality where ever it is for should you not be merciful even as your Heavenly Father is merciful Neither think to say within your selves some of you Because you are more kind milde and more meek than others that therefore the Promises of God reaches you For although these things be good qualifications yet may be no certain testimony to you of your striving and labouring in the grace of God whereby these qualifications in you may be truly said to be the fruits of the Spirit though they being found in others may be so yet I say not in you because it is but the same which was alwayes in you naturally and you in the mean while may be far from it and a great stranger unto any experiences of Conquest and victory through Divine help over those other Passions that have reigned in you to the great dishonour of God Oh that you would remember Christs words as thus Every Branch in me that beareth not fruit God taketh away Neither think to say within your selves some of you Because you are able to preach and to dispute for Truth that therefore you have ground to believe the Promises of God reaches you for all this may you do as some of the Jews that were become Teachers of others but were not taught themselves and yet at last may be inexcusable as they were while the life of Godliness preached to others is not lived up to by your selves For alas what availeth it men to Preach unto others that they must be new Creatures if in the mean while they themselves have not put off the old Man with his Deeds And with what comfort or boldness can men Preach to others that they should Repent Believe and be Baptized for the Remission of sins and so shall receive the gift of the holy Spirit if in the mean while they know not their own sins remitted nor the gift of the holy Spirit received Or with what comfort can any Preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of Christ to others if they in the mean while know not themselves out of the Kingdom of Darkness and so have themselves by faith interest in the Kingdom of Christ What men talk talk of life and eternal glory and in the mean while do the works that leads unavoidably to eternal death Oh horrible blindness Oh what a lamentable condition is this How great is the disproportion betwixt it and the condition of the Gospel-Preachers in dayes of old who perswaded others to have fellowship with them saying Truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Iesus Christ 1 John 1.3 And so were such as were able to tell others what the Lord had done for their souls how God had comforted them in all their tribulations and so were made able to comfort them which were in any trouble by the comfort wherewith themselves were comforted of God 2 Cor. 1.4 These things write I unto you not because I slight you under what name or Title soever you are on whom these words may take hold neither for your destruction do I thus speak but rather desire you and with the holy Spirit speaking to the Churches do I hereby exhort you O Laodiceans timely to repent and be zealous that so Gods Promises may reach you as well as any other for the Lord is not willing that any of you should perish and that so his people may with all freeness have fellowship with you The great Errour and mistake of the Quakers concerning the true Christ and how he is said to be in his People And concerning the Rule of Man-kind MOreover Since 't is not the Talker nor ready Disputer nor the Busie Preacher of this World but the single-hearted doer of what is Preached Disputed or Talked of that shall enter into the Kingdom It remains a work very great for every Professing Soul to abide very circumspect and watchful together with a constant trusting in and dependance upon the Lord who waits to be gracious that thereby they may be more and more wrought up unto a well-pleasing the Lord in all things But lest any soul should be deceived by the

FAITH IN GODS PROMISES THE Saints best Weapon OR The great Use and Availableness of Faith both for the support and growth of Saints in times most perilous Plainly discovering that the want of Faith in the way of Gods Promises is the great cause of the want of Gods Presence With several Considerations for the encrease of Faith that henceforth the Saints may by Faith so draw nigh unto God and in Faith so wait upon God as with certainty of receiving from him Whereunto is added something concerning the great Errour and Mistake of many men concerning the True Christ and how he is said to be in his People with other things very necessary to be known in order to Saints resisting the Temptation of the present Times Set forth as useful for all People but especially intended for the good of such as are returned to the Good Old Way of the Lord By MATTHEW CAFFYN of Horsham in Sussex And it is of Faith that it might be by Grace Rom. 4.16 LONDON Printed by S. Dover for F. Smith at the Eleph●nt and Castle without Temple-Bar THE EPISTLE TO THE READER Christian Reader FOrasmuch as there are many among the number of Professors that have somewhat considerably laid out themselves in a Holy pursuit after the more excellent degrees of Christianity hoth frequently and fervently seeking the Lord in order thereunto who nevertheless yet remain short thereof and much below the desired estate to their great dissatisfaction even sometimes tending to the begetting such temptations as are of a very dangerous consequence These things therefore write I unto you whereby you may as some already have come to see that there is one thing yet much lacking even Faith to believe that God is a gracious Rewarder of them that seek him without which 't is impossible to please God For though it be true that men have alwayes spoken of and readily acknowledged Faith to be that which greatly engages Gods grace and goodness for their help yet Oh! how far have men been from living by Faith indeed so as to esteem Gods Promises their ALL in every condition and at all times Whereupon these also are to direct you unto such enlargednesse of heart in believing Gods Promises as may with certainty reach the prayed-for Blessings from God that so having sweet experience of Gods Faithfulness to your Souls you may be encouraged for the future and made able to say with the Saints of old I love the Lord because he hath heard my Supplications therefore will I call upon him as long as I live Psal 116.1,2 But as there are some who have diligently sought the Lord that for want of believing him to be a faithful Rewarder of such have notwithstanding been much without the things sought for so also there are some yea very many that are apt to say with Israel of old that no evil shall come unto them and very confident that the Lord is among them that have indeed no real ground to depend upon the Lord such and so great are their miscarriages to God-ward as that their seeming Faith and Confidence is rendred thereby to be meer imaginations groundless perswasions and so they found such as think themselves to be what they are not and so are deceived These are therefore also to discover and lay open their great miscarriages and corruptions even in such performances of theirs as are supposed by them to be the best of their actions that henceforth they may upon better terms draw nigh unto God even so as that they may enjoy Gods drawing nigh unto them which is the onely real cause of Soul-satisfaction True it is that the dayes wherein we live are perilous and much more may be yet sure may you be that no condition may possibly befal you wherein you may not by Faith so lay hold of Gods Promises as nevertheless to be greatly supported and inwardly comforted Wherefore above all things take the shield of Faith and in every condition let the gracious Promises of God be the ground of your hopes and no longer visible things that the presence of the invisible God may be with all certainty experienced by your Souls Which that you may is and shall be the Prayers of Your Brother in the Lord MATTHEW CAFFYN FAITH IN GODS PROMISES The Saints best Weapon IN the beginning when God made the Heavens and the Earth it seemed good in his sight to make and ordain Mankind to be head over all other his Creatures to whom he freely gave the glory of Paradise a present possession of happiness which he during his innocency enjoyed not as an inheritance first obtained upon conditional terms but as a free gift given him of God without any condition required of him in order to his first entrance thereinto Gen. 2.8,15,16 Which possession when he had lost by his tra●…gression and thereby made himself and all his posterity sub●… the first death such was the Fathers love as that he freely gave his Son in due time to dye for the world that is for every man Heb. 2.9 By means whereof was procured a Resurrection of all men from the first death with the gift of Eternal life and glory 1 Cor. 15.22 Mat. 19.14 Which gift of eternal and more excellent life was as freely given to Mankind now since his fall as was that first life of happiness in Paradise before his fall not upon terms or conditions nor any fore-seen Faith in or works of Righteousness done by the Creature but meerly and alone the goodness and richness of grace dwelling in God himself moving him thereunto which life of glory all mankind have right to and are in sure capacity thereof during their infancy wherefore of such saith Christ Mat. 19.14 is the Kingdom of God till by their own personal transgressions they procure to themselves the severity of Gods wrath that is the second death which is Eternal John 3.19 Rev. 20.14 Under the desert of which death all persons quickly come all goes out of the way following the lusts and desires of the flesh which draws and vehemently inclines to its first estate of present pleasure ease and delight which mankind enjoyed while he stood in his first created estate without those many bodily miseries which now attends them which flesh and blood would fain be freed from and so it comes to pass that in all men in one measure or other according to every mans experience there ariseth such natural lusts and desires in the flesh as greatly provokes them to follow after these present things and too too often prevails with them to break the known Laws of God that something like to their first enjoyments might be attained but to follow the present glory of this life so as to delight in and love the same though once lawful for Adam in Paradise who undoubtedly might then as well love delight and take pleasure therein as Saints may take pleasure and delight in the heavenly glory when in the real possession

as descended from that fleshly birth-priviledged Seed of Abraham Therefore saith he If any man be in Christ he is a New Creature the Seed of Abraham according to the Faith of Abraham either Jews or Gentiles In like manner as there was a time when Christ was esteemed and known upon the account or because of his being born of the Tribe of Judah and of the birth-priviledged Seed of Abraham yet now henceforth saith the Apostle know we him so no more that is as to esteem him upon that account or for that reason meritoriously the Saviour of the world but rather upon the account of his coming down from Heaven his being the Son of God reconciling the world unto himself in the body of his flesh through death Object The first man Adam was made a living Soul the last Adam was made a quickning Spirit Answ True it is that the Apostle thus speaketh but consider how he is or can be called the last Adam or the second Man as afterwards he is called if Christ be so a quickning Spirit considered as he was before the world was for if the Spirit as Spirit be the last or second Adam then it follows that the first man Adam who was of the earth earthy was first and before the Eternal quickning Spirit which were very absurd to think and therefore Christ of necessity must be understood to be the last Adam upon the account of his being become visible man a condition that he was not alwayes in but since the creation and fall of the first man Adam and so is truly and very properly the last or second man made a quickning Spirit yet not so a spirit in the Apostles sence but that he is also spiritual ver 46. and also the man by whom came the Resurrection from the dead ver 21. and also the Christ that died was buried and rose again ver 3 4. and therefore not so a quickning Spirit as in the Quakers sence for the Spirit considered as from Eternity was not man and so was never dead and so not buried and so not raised again all which Paul testifies in that very Chapter concerning him whom he calls a quickning Spirit in reference to his now being a spiritual glorified man which considered it remains that all the House of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom the Jews Crucified both Lord and Christ Moreover as the Quaker holds That the Spirit which was in the visible man and not the man was the Christ So also he holds and indeed it leads him to hold that the second coming of Christ is in men and not otherwise and therefore Humphrey Smith in his Book entituled A true and everlasting Rule pag. 19 20. compares such who look after the body of Christ to those young men that sought in vain the body of Elijah and plainly saith that such whom he calls wandring stars shall never find the body they look so much after he also speaking of Christ pag. 30. saith That he is come whom we long waited for and we do not look for any other who now saith he appears the second time without sin to the saving that which was lost and so saith he we confess Christ come in the flesh and do not look for another pag. 32. Now as their perswasions concerning Christ being a Spirit and not man leads them to expect the coming of Christ in them so contrariwise our Faith and full perswasions that Christ is a visible glorified man leads us to expect his second coming as a distinct appearance from and not in his People whereupon I forbear to urge those many Scripture-grounds which with all plainness ane loudness of voice reproves these mens swelling words of vanity and shall onely speak something touching those Scriptures which speaks of Christs being in his People whereat some for want of understanding may possibly stumble True it is That the Apostle tells the Church of the Colossians that Crist was in them the hope of Glory Col. 1.27 Yet not so in them but that he could also say and that at the same time to the same Church that when Christ who is our Life shall appear then ye shall appear with him in Glory even in the possession of that Glory which then they had hopes of ver 3 4. The Apostle also declares Christ to be in the Corinthians except they were Reprobates Yet not so in them but that they were also waiting for the coming of Christ 1 Cor. 1.7 Yea at that time when they were sanctified in Christ ver 2. and in every thing enriched by him coming behind in no gift ver 5 7. Paul also testifies concerning himself That Christ lived in him yet not so but that he looked also for the appearing of Christ Tit. 2.13 Yea and at that time when he had finished his course and the time of his departure at hand he speaks to Timothy of a Crown of Righteousness which the Righteous Judge saith he shall give me at that day even at his appearing 2 Tim. 4.1,6,7,8 The Apostle John saith Christ is come that is the first time which John might well say for he had seen him with his eyes and handled him with his hands 1 John 1.1 But Christ afterwards ascended from whom John received great things yea much of the special presence of Gods Spirit mightily working with him yet did he not say that Christ was come the second time for himself after those many Visions and Revelations we read of was discovered to him readily prayed even so come Lord Iesus Rev. 22.20 Stephen a man full of the Spirit yet looking up into Heaven testified that he saw in Heaven Jesus Christ standing at the right hand of God and the truth of this he sealed with his blood Act. 7.55,56,58 Moreover as Paul bears witness of Christs dwelling in the Saints so also he declares that the Saints were in him even as it is meet saith he for me to think this of you all because I have you in my heart Phil. 1.7 And elsewhere saith that you are in our hearts to dye and live with you 2 Cor. 7.3 Now 't is out of question that the several persons of the Churches were not in the Apostles heart but onely they were deep in his affections and much in the Thoughts and Meditations of his heart even so as to dye and live with them he believing them to be the beloved of God So the Saints having Christ deep in their affections much and often in their Thoughts and Meditations believing him to be their most precious Redeemer Who is gone into Heaven to prepare a place for them John 14.2 So I say Christ dwelleth in his People or in the hearts of his People by Faith And this kind of Language is both proper and common to this day for persons that are deep in each others affections in their personal absence one from another to say that such are in their hearts or that such are often