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A57938	Joshua's resolution to serve the Lord Containing the resolution of every true Christian, fully and wholly to cleave unto the Lord, and to dedicate himself to the Lord and his service. Wherein is shewed, what the resolution of a Christian is. And the reasons of the necessity of this resolution with a word of exhortation both to private, and family worship. To which is added, a prayer for a family. By Robert Russel in Sussex. Licensed according to order.	Russel, Robert, fl. 1692.	1694 (1694)	Wing R2347F; ESTC R221582	13,384	27

comes and he Apostatize and falls away and so his latter end be worse than is beginning What man saith our Saviour intending to build a Tower settech not down first and counteth the cost whether he have sufficient to finish it lest happily after he has laid the Foundation and is not able to finish it all that behold him begin to mock him Luk. 14.28.29 So whosoever saith he forsaketh not all that he hath cannot be my Desciples vers 33. Many have gone far with Christ So far their intrest lay with the intrest of Christ but when the intrest of Christ and their own Intrest crost then they have Apostatized and fell away But on the contrary a wise Christian before he enters upon a new Life he first sets down and counts the cost he considers upon Peter how sadly he fest when Christ had left him unto himself notwithstanding his strong Resolution saying If all should deny thee yet wist not I therefore he dares not purpose and resolve in his own strength for he knows himself to be very weak and cannot move one step towards Heaven without Divine Assistance therefore he is night and day in earnest prayer to God for strength from Heaven and so in the strength of Christ he is resolved to take him for better and for worse he is resolved to run all hazards with him he is resolved to venture all for him to venture the loss of a good name the loss of liberty and the loss of life it self as he expects to Reign with Christ so he resolves to choose him with all his Offices as a Prophet to instruct him as a King to Reign over him and Rule in him as a Saviour to save him from sin as well as from punishment he is resolved to oft with his Right-hand sins and out with his Right-Eye sins he is resolved to spare no sin but to strive against it watch against it and fight against it with all his might He is resolved to take Christ as he is offered upon self denying terms he is resolved to give up himself body and soul to Christ to walk with him to suffer with him and to dye with him if he be called thereunto he is resolved to forsake all for him that stands in competion with him and so to live by faith and rest fully and wholly upon his word and promise for Eternal Salvation he is resolved to follow Christ thorow all difficulties and dangers thorow sufferings and perfrentions thorow life and death until he comes to Reign with Christ in Glory Thus have I done with the first thing considerable what the Resolution of a Christian is I must be very brief in what follows Secondly the reason of the necessity of this Resolution Now for a Christian to make a settle firm Resolution is very necessary First Because that until a man sets a firm and full Resolution to turn to God He is in a ready way to fall by every temptation he is and to put off and delay his repentance from time to time he is still lyable to give himself more and more liberty to all kind of Wickedness to let the Bridle loose to his Lust nay until a man comes unto a full and settle resolution he lyes in the reade road to open Prophaness and to the Neglect of God and Holy Duties And when he performs Duties it is with such Coldness and Formality as if he cared not whether he performed them or no. But when a man comes to a resolved Point when the whole frame and bent of his heart is set toward Christ and Holyness then there will appear earnest endeavors after the Thing resolved upon when once a Sinner comes to be fully resolved then he delays no longer but immediatly sets about the Work of Conversion then he is upon his Watch and puts on the Whole Armor of God and strive and sight against Sin and Spiritual Wickedness This was the Resolution of Job Job 31.1 I made a Covenant with mine Eyes why then should I think upon a Maid as if he had said I have Resolved and made a Covenant with my self as much as in me lyes to avoid all temptation to sin why then should I run my self into temptation This also was the Resolution of David Psalm 39.1 I said I will take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue I will keep my mouth with a Bridle And this is the Resolution of every true Christian a settle firm and sincere Resolution is a great Enemy to Sin and Satan Secondly This Settle and firm Resolution is necessary to Repentance because it is the first step to Repentance A man may do many things in order to a work of Conversion yet if be hade not a settle and firm Resolution to turn to God he were as good do nothing But when once a man comes to set up a Settle Firm and Sincere Hearty Resolution to cleave fully and wholly to the Lord and to resi●e up all the faculties of his soul to him then the work is more than half done All the other Duties of Christianity will seem easy and pleasant David he resolved and swore and therefore he would perform I have sworn saith he and therefore will perform that I will keep thy Statures Psalm 119.106 Thus much for the Doctrinal Part I shall be very short in the Application There is but one Vse that I shall make of this point and that shall be a Vse of Exhortation Is it so that whatever the People of Israel did Joshua was resolved that he and his House will serve the Lord why Beloved Friends let me Exhort you nay let me intreat you all to enter upon a full stem present and settle deliberate Resolution that you and your Family will serve the Lord. In the first place make a Firm resolution to give up your own selves to the Lord and his Service let the Men of this World do what they please if they will not be reformed let them take their Course if they are so in love with Hell and Tamnation so that they will run head-long thither let them take their course But my Dear Friends into whose hands this little Book shall come do you sincerely resolve to give up your selves to the Lord and his service if others will be for Hell do you resolve to be for Heaven whatever it dost you resolve to cleave close to the Lord in opposition to the Malice of the Devil the Inticements of the Flesh and the Temptations of this Wicked World If wicked Men should intice and seek to draw you into Sin with them do not yield but rather answer them as Joseph did his Mistress How can I do this great Wickedness and sin against God ●…en 39.9 If at any time any of your old sinful Companions do intice perswade and intrude you to go with them to Drinking Gaming or any other Vile Exercise resolve with your selves never to yield to none of their perswading Arguments

JOSHUA's Resolution TO Serve the Lord. CONTAINING The Resolution of every True Christian fully and wholly to Cleave unto the Lord and to Dedicate himself to the Lord and his Service Wherein is Shewed What the Resolution of a Christian is And the Reasons of the Necessity of this Resolution With a Word of Exhortation both to Private and Family Worship To which is Added A Prayer for a Family By Robert Russel in Sussex Jer 10.25 Pour out thy Fury upon the Heathen that know thee not and upon the Family that call not upon thy Name Licensed according to Order Printed for ● Blare at the D●●●…ing glass on London-Bridge 1694. Joshua's Resolution c. Joshua 24. part of vers 15. But as for me and my house we will serve the Lord. THese are the words of Joshua to the Tribes of Israel for ●●ving in this chapter declared unto them the many benefits which God of his mercy hath bestowed on them as particular in vers 15. in ●●at he hath given them a Land they laboured nor for and Cities which they bui●●●ot and Vineyards and Oliveyards to ●…at of wh●●… they planted not Joshua having thus laid before their 〈◊〉 God's benefits he in verse 14. Exhorts them to offer unto God a thankful and obedient heart for those benefits which he hath bestowed upon them Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in truth And put away the gods which your Fathers served serve ye the Lord. And so I fall immediatly upon the 〈◊〉 of the Text wherein we have these two things conaderable First The freedom which Joshua seems to give the Tribes of Israel in case they refuse to serve the Lord that they should chuse who they will serve Secondly His Reselution concerning himself and his family As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. Now in this small Book I shall joyn these two together into this one Observation that is How ever the Men of this world live what ever they do what ways soever they follow a Child of God is fully bent and resolved to cleave to the Lord to cake care that his family and all under his charge walk in the ways of Holyness and Piety Now for my funderstandling of this Subject I shall praceed after this manner First I shall shew you what the Resolution of a Christian is Secondly the Reasons of this Resolution And lastly the Application First to shew you what the Resolution of a christian is First it is a full and firm Resolution Secondly it is a present resolution Thirdly it is a settle and deliberate revolution First the resolution of a Christian is a full and firm resolution the men of this world they naturally chuse Sin Death and Hell they chuse death and damnation before life and salvation they resolutely run on in the ways of Luxery Wantonness Drinking Gaming and all manner of lewd and loose Practices and tho' they are told and told again both by the Messengers of God's word and their godly friends whether these ungodly ways will lead them yet they will run on still and take their own course as if they were in love with their own ruin and destruction But a true Christian after all his Reproofs and Admonitions when he finds that they will not be reclaimed he as it were hids them take their course and chuse whom they will serve as Joshua did the people of Israel But for his part he resolved with full bent and purpose of heart to give himself up to the Lord and choose him for his portion and to yield up himself soul and body as instrument for his service Now the resolution of a christian is not a sick bed promise but a full bent and purpose of heart to lead a new life there are many that fa●●ly promise but few resolve every weak promise is not a full resolution Alas how many are there who under a sharp fit of sickness or under some judgment ready to ●efal them they will promise fair what a now Creature they will become what new lives they will lead how holy and how purely they will live but if it please God to spare them give them a time of respire then how soon are these vows and promises forgot thus the Children of Israel how fairly did they promise Deut. 5.27 All that the Lord our God shall speak we will hear and do But tho' they had a tongue to promise yet they had no heart to perform as you may see vers 29. O that then such an heart in them that they would fear me and keep my commandments that it may be well with them But as for a sincere returning sinner he not only promises but resolves to yield up himself body and soul to be the Lord's yea the whole frame of his heart is bent that way as an unconverted wicked sinner goes on in sin with a full purpose of heart even so a returning sinner who is a coming to Iesus Christ serves him with full Purpose and resolution of heart And as a wicked resolute sinner neither Mercies nor Iudgments neither Reproofs nor Admonitions neither Perswading nor Intreating by Ministers nor Friends will stop him in his sinful Course so on the other side a returning sinner that is resolved for Christ and Holiness will not be drawn back neither by promises nor threatnings neither by frowns nor flatteries let his sinful Companions ●ntice him by never so many orguments he will not consent but he is full ben● and resolved for Heaven and Happiness whatever it cost him and therefore seeing the weakness of his own flesh and his natural inclination to be overcome by the least temptation therefore he plys the chrone of Grace and there he pours out earnest prayers and supplications for the assistance of divine grace to streng then him in the inner man he daxes not trust to his own strength he considers how soon Peter was overcome notwithstanding his Resolution to stand saying If I should dye with thee I will not deny thee and yet because he was to consident of his own strength it pleased Bod for his tryal to leave him to himself how soon he denyed and forswore his Lord and Saviour he began to curse and swear that he knew him not Mat. 26. Now I say a returning sinner considering this he dares not resolve in his own strength but Labours and orders in the use of all means to get strength from Heaven and in the strength of Christ he strides and labours to go on towards the Heavenly mark he aims at he rests not in any certain attainments but truly resolves by the help of Divine Grace towards the mortification of the whole body of sin and for the attainment of Grace and Holiness unto perfection And after he had done his best yet still he feels Lust to be strong in him and grace weak therefore he is more and more outragious against his natural inclinations and his earnest de●●ce and