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A41124	The riches of grace a treatise shewing the value and excellency of a gracious spirit by comparing it with the nature and spirits of wicked and ungodly men, which desire not the wayes of the Lord Jesus / by that reverend and faithfull minister of Gods word, William Fenner ...	Fenner, William, 1600-1640.	1641 (1641)	Wing F697; ESTC R6526	27,782	148

or any other thing and therefore he prayes Oh when wilt thou comfort me but alas men suffer themselves to be filled with this and that lust with some corruptions or other Now when a mans purse is full of stones there is no roome for silver so when the heart is full of sinne there is no roome for grace Joh. 8. 37. My Words saith Christ to the Jewes have no place in you As a great Inne filled with guests all the roome is taken up so as there is no roome for others and by reason of the noyse they cannot heare what others call for so it is when the soule is filled with sinne continually bawling for tendance and accomplishment there is no roome for the Word of God to enter all the roomes are taken up there are guests in every corner all the faculties are filled Therefore the Apostle James Jam. 1. 21. exhorts them Wherefore lay aside all malice and superfluity of naughtinesse and receive with meekenesse the ingrafted Word which is able to save your soules all superfluity of wickednesse sinne and evill though it be never so small or little it is superfluity and therefore if ever you would take physick take it fasting if you desire it should doe you most good so there is no taking of the Word of God or any meanes of Salvation to have any profit by them upon a full stomach as when the heart is filled with sinne with pride envy malice hypocrisie earthlinesse deadnesse untowardnesse to godly duties If thou wouldst desire grace consider the want of it wert thou never so gracelesse yet if thou didst but know the want of it thou wouldst desire it without grace thou art childe of hell a brat of the devill and an heire to the curse of the great God better had it beene for thee that thou hadst beene borne a dogge or a toade a serpent or any thing else than to be borne to live and dye without Grace Art thou proud and hast not grace to bee humbled know God will know thee a farre off and then woe woe damnation is thy end Livest thou in any sinne and hast not grace to mortifie and in time to kill it better had it beene for thee that thy cradle had beene thy Coffin and thy mothers womb thy grave than that thou shouldst live to sinne and dye without repentance O cursed art thou there are not so many letters in Gods booke as thou hast curses for thy portion it would burst thy heart with griefe if it were sensible of the 100000. part of that woefull griefe My heart breaketh for the longing for thy judgement the Prophet considering what a fearefull thing it was to bee without the comfort of Gods word it breakes his very soule True desire of grace is sensible of the want of it I say not therefore that it is without grace for there is difference betweene being in want of a thing and being without a thing a man may be in want of full health and strength and yet not without health and strength so a Christian seeing in himselfe not to have attained to the full degree of grace desiring after it is sensible of the want of it A dead man yee may carry to London or whither you will he never desires to baite in the way hee feeles no hunger nor thirst whereas a living man cannot travaile long but necessity of nature calls for refreshment a fearefull signe that men are dead in sinne and in the state of eternall death seeing they can travaile up and downe their whole lives and yet feele no want of grace Answ 5 Lastly feare to offend God the feare of evill is the desire of good feare to transgresse against Gods Commandements feare to pray coldly feare to have a by thought at any of the Ordinances of God feare to bee proud feare to carry malice and thoughts of revenge feare to do any evill to displease thy heavenly Father This feare is a marke of true repentance 2 Cor. 7. 11. Where there is most feare there is most desire What is the reason that women are most subject to desire but because they are most fearfull What is the reason that Stags and Harts as King James excellently noteth are so thirsty after revenge but because they are timerous and fearefull by nature Who desire most to be exalted to this and that honour place and office of credit and preferment but such as feare they shall never have honour enough Who are more covetous than they that feare they shall never have riches enough Would I urge you to the desire of grace I thinke I can bring such motives out of the Word of God as will either leave you in the gall of bitternesse or else make you to desire grace Mot. 1 Grace is like the poore man Solomon speakes of in Eccles. 9. 15. who when a King had besieged a City yet he by his wisdome delivered it but no man remembred this poore man though they had beene all dead men had not he by his wisdome delivered them yet no man accounted or esteemed of him So it is with grace were it not for grace we should all be damned and albeit that grace doth bring Salvation among us yet where is the man that truely accounts of it even so as to desire it Mot. 2 Consider that there is no good indeede good to thee but onely in grace What is it that men desire is it not good Psal. 4. Many say who will shew us any good some good or other all seeme to ayme at but it is a wonder what wide aymes men take some think it is in pleasure and therefore ayme onely how they may spend the time merrily in eating and drinking in hawking and hunting in carding and dicing and the like some thinke it in honour and some in riches some in learning some in one thing and some in another but alas thou mayst eate and drinke and yet be damned when thou hast done thou mayst desire much gold and silver and yet perish in hell after thou hast got it thou mayst desire honour and promotion and yet bee damned when thou hast attained it these are true but vaine goods outward and temporary good onely in reference to a further good so that if a man should rest on them he should lose all his good Our Saviour Christ puts a base Pronoune upon them calling them these things as if they were not worthy the naming Mat. 6. 33. Seeke first the Kingdome of God and the righteousnesse thereof and all these things shall be added unto you Where our Saviour forbids his Disciples the seeking of earthly things In the first place talke not of these things neither let your thoughts bee troubled about them for they are not what they seeme or as many judge them to be but if you would have the true good first secke the Kingdome of heaven So in James 5. 1 2 3. Goe too now ye rich men weepe and howle for the

THE RICHES OF GRACE A TREATISE Shewing the value and Excellency of a gracious Spirit by comparing it with the Nature and Spirits of wicked and ungodly men which desire not the wayes of the Lord Jesus By that Reverend and faithfull Minister of Gods Word WILLIAM FENNER B. D. sometimes fellow of Pembrook Hall in Cambridge and late of Rochford in Essex finished by himselfe LONDON Printed by R. Cotes for I. Sweeting at the Angell in Popes head Ally 1641. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER GRACE MERCY AND PEACE THere was never any age or time Christian Reader since the beginning of the world how corrupt soever that was comparable to this our thrice unhappy age in all kindes of corruption wickednesse and sinne with griefe of Conscience I speake it with weeping I behold it and with sorrowfull heart I lament it and therefore seeing wickednesse doth so abound the Lord lest his Children frozen in the dregs of their sinnes should perish with the wicked raiseth up in his mercy good men as we see the Author of this Treatise a man of Rare parts to plucke off the Visard of sinne from their faces and to lay it open to the view of the whole world to the end that every one may see the vilenesse of his wicked wayes and the filthy dregs of sinne throwne in their face may blush at the same be ashamed repent amend and turne to the Lord Jesus and so eternally be saved In this Treatise is drawne to the life the sinnes and wickednesse of Ungodly men which desire not the way of the Lord Jesus together with the Excellencies riches great value of a blessed and gracious spirit The Author of this Treatise was a man of a Pretious spirit as may appeare by this and other workes of his in Print A Reverent and worthy Divine gives this Testimony in his Commendations that he was a Minister very Conscientious one that had a great ability given him of God to Preach Unto and worke Upon the hearts and consciences of men to awaken the sleepie to informe the erronious to settle the doubtfull to confirme the wounded also that he was a worthy Divine both in regard of his unwearisome paines in Preaching consuming his owne body to save the soules of others as also of his learning and Exemplary Piety They that knew him did love and reverence him and if any did dis-esteeme him it was because they did not fully know him He is now a shining star in the firmament of heaven also that there were hundreds of people that will blesse God to all Eternity for his paines he needs not our prayses but our imitation It is true that this birth is Posthumum opus and commeth out after the death of the Author but I hope it will be the more pleasing to revive the memory of him whose life and labours were deservedly pretious in the esteeme of Gods people This Treatise is one of the Sparkes of the zealous dead yet living Author finished by himselfe which might have laine covered in the ashes of forgetfulnesse had it not beene blowne up by one well minded which received it from the Authors owne hand it hath beene viewed by a Reverend Divine to prevent Errours and to make it compleate for the Presse which is here presented to thy view Therefore Christian Reader let me obtaine this much at thy hand as to except of his labours as precious well-wishing towards the truth and the professour thereof The subject of this ensuing discourse is published for thy benefit reade it the Lord give thee understanding to conserve and practice it in thy life and Conversation Amen THE RICHES OF GRACE JOB 21. 14. Therefore say they unto God Depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes JObs Friends disputing against Job that he was a wicked man because the wrath of God in so grievous a manner lay so long upon him Job returnes answer againe If this be true Doctrine you speake that God scourgeth none but wicked men how is it then that wicked men so oft and so much prosper in the world abounding in all worldly pleasures and delights Now Job shewes that wicked men may prosper in five things First in life and health as the Raven may live five times longer than cleaner birds verse 7. Secondly In their multitude of Children verse 8. A foule Sow hath more young than an Ewe hath Lambes Thirdly In Tranquillity and safety verse 9. Fourthly In successe and increase of their substance verse 10. as the wicked men have a Proverb the worse man the better lucke Fifth In wealth security and pleasure Hearts ease say they is the best flower in the garden vers. 11. 12. 13. The Job sets down two things First the sinne in the verse read unto you They say unto God depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes The punishment in the 13. verse In a moment they goe downe into the grave and verse 〈◊〉 The wicked are reserved for the day of destruction every wicked man God hath layd up and purposed him to hell hee gives him of prosperity to fat him up that his damnation may bee greater The verse read containes in it three things First wicked mens contempt of grace in these words We desire not the knowledge of thy wayes Secondly Their contempt of the meanes of grace in these words Depart from us they could be content that the Lord should depart from them in his Ordinance if no Preaching no praying no Sabbath no signe of God amongst them they would not much care not much lay it to heart nay they also desire it they say unto God Depart from us Thirdly the prophanenesse of their lives They say unto God Depart from us though few say so with their mouthes yet by their lives so they live so they behave themselves From the first of these viz. a wicked mans contempt of grace wee observe this Doctrine That a wicked man doth not so much as desire saving grace For the clearing of the point wee will define the true desire of grace A true desire of grace is a super-naturall appetite to grace not had for the goodnesse of it There are foure things in the true desire of grace First it is an appetite of the soule to grace when the heart doth even goe out of it selfe for the attaining of grace there are words in the 107. Psalme 3. v. which sets it downe expresly by the longing soule the word signifieth a running soule a soule that not onely goes to grace and the meanes of grace but runnes to it with an eager desire and speede An hungry appetite which signifies an hunger unfained which is First Unsupportable without meate so that he that truely desires grace cannot bee without grace As one sayd Take away heaven and you take away all from me so it is with the poore soule take away grace if it be out of hope of grace it can never rest it can never beare the