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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97271	A touch-stone to try (by our knowledge, belief, and life) whether we be Christians in name onely, or Christians in deed. Or, The character of a true beleever, that walks in some measure answerable to the gospell, his Christian profession, and the millions of mercies he hath received. / By R.Y. of Roxwell in Essex.	Younge, Richard.	1648 (1648)	Wing Y193B; Thomason E1150_4; ESTC R208624	54,772	52

many thousand of the Children of Israel upon Hammon and Balaam Saul and Doeg Absalon and Achittophel Ahab and Jezabell Senacharib and Nebuchadnezzar the two Captaines and their fifties Herod and Judas Annanias and Saphira with a world of others yea how severely hath he dealt with his owne children when they finned against him viz. with Moses and Aaron and Ely who were in singular favour with him yea with David a man after Gods owne heart and that after his sinne was remitted and lastly with his owne Sonne that no finne might goe unpunished which may make all impenitent persons tremble for if God was so just and severe to his owne Sonne that nothing would appease him but his death on the Crosse how can the wicked his enemies looke to be spared and if Gods owne Servants who are as deare and neare to him as the apple of his own eye or as the signet on his right hand suffer so many and grievous afflictions here what shall his adversaries suffer in Hell But because thou shalt have nothing to object Wilt thou beleeve Christ himselfe whom thou thinkest came to save all indifferently if thou wilt turne but to Matth. 25. and he will tell thee that at his comming to Judgement he will as well say to the disobedient Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire which is prepared for the Devill and his Angels as to the obedient Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdome of heaven prepared for you from the foundation of the world ver 34.41 Againe least any should be over consident he tells all men plainly that the gate of heaven is so straight that few shall finde it Matth. 7.13 14. and that many shall seeke to enter thereat and shall not be able Luke 13.24 And that many are called viz. by the outward ministry of the Word but few chosen Matth. 20.16 22.14 sad predictions for such as apply Christs Passion as a warrant for their lisentiousnesse not as a remedy and take his Death as a license to sinne his Crosse as a Letters Patent to doe mischiefe O that men would seriously thinke upon these Scriptures together with that 2 Thess 1.7 8 9. where the Apostle tells us that the Lord Jesus shall come the second time in flaming fire to render vengeance unto them that know him not and that obey not his Gospell 1 Pet. 4.18 where the Holy Ghost tells us that even the righteous shall scarcely be saved And Deut. 29.19 to 29. where God tells us expresly that he will not be mercifull unto such as flatter themselves in an evill way but that his wrath and sealousie shall smoke against them c. and that if we will not regard nor hearken unto him when he calls upon us for repentance he will not heare nor regard us when in our distresse and anguish we shall call upon him for mercy but even laugh at our destruction and mock when our feare cometh Prov. 1.24 to 33. and that he will recompence every man according to his workes be they good or evill Revel 20.13 22.12 Rom 2.6 Ezek. 7.4.8.9 9.10 11.21 16.43 but this is the misery and a just plague upon our so much formality and prophanesse under our so much meanes of grace there be very few men that make not the whole Bible and all the Sermons they heare yea the checks of their owne consciences and the motions of Gods Spirit utterly ineffectuall for want of wit and grace to apply the same to themselves but to goe on Â§ 83 Secondly we shall finde that though Christ in the Gospel hath made many large and precious promises yet there are none so generall which are not limited with the condition of saith and the fruit thereof unfained repentance and each of them are so tyed and entayled that none can lay claime to them but true Beleevers which repent and turne from all their sinnes to serve him in holinesse without which no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12.14 5.9 Marke 16.16 John 3.36 Isay 59.20 Neither was it ever heard that any ascended into Heaven without going up the stayers of obedience and good workes that any have attained unto everlasting life without faith repentance and sanctification for even the Thiefe upon the Crosse whom you ignorantly alleadge beleeved in Christ and shewed the fruites of his faith in acknowledging his owne sinne reproving his fellow and confessing our Saviour Christ even then when his Apostles denied and forsooke him in calling upon his name desiring and confidently trusting by his meanes and merits to have everlasting life And indeed the very end of Gods electing and of Christs redeeming us was That we might be holy Eph. 1.4 Mat. 19.17 and therefore he bindes it with an oath That whomsoever he redeemeth out of the hands of their spirituall enemies they shall worship him in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of their lives Luke 1.70 to 76. 1 Pet. 2.24 they therefore that never came to be holy were never chosen never redeemed other Scriptures to this purpose are many see onely Tit. 2.12.14 1 Pet. 2.24 Matth. 19.17 nor ought any indeed to call upon Christ or once to name him with their mouthes except they depart from iniquity 2 Tim. 2.19 Neither doth the Thiefes example make any whit for the comfort of procrastinators for First we read not that ever he was outwardly called untill this very houre Secondly though there was one saved at the last houre that none might dispaire yet there was but one that none should presume and millions who had lesse iniquity have found lesse mercy Thirdly the Thiefes conversion was one of the Miracles with the glory whereof our Saviour would honour the ignominy of his Crosse Againe Fourthly the Thiefe was saved at the very instant of time when our Saviour triumphed on the Crosse tooke his leave of the world and entred into his glory Now it is usuall with Princes to save some hainous Malefactors at their Coronation when they enter upon their Kingdomes in triumph which they are never knowne to doe afterwards which circumstances being rightly considered together with the wonderfull change so suddenly wrought in him as I shewed before his example will yeeld little encouragement to men of thy condition nor was his suddaine conversion ever intended in Gods purpose for a temptation and yet by Satans policy working upon wicked mens depraved judgements and corrupt hearts in wresting this Scripture it hath proved by accident the losse of many thousand soules and take heed it prove not thy case to which end let not Satan any longer bewitch you so to thinke upon Gods mercy as in the meane time to forget that he is also just and true and so much for answer to those two objections which Satan findes more prevalent then all the rest he is able to invent Â§ 84. Now to winde up all with a word of exhortation if thou beest convinst and resolvest upon a new course let thy

winnow him as he would have done Peter it is that he may not be exalted his malice shall prove the occasion of much good to him as it did to the incestious Corinthian or if God lets him loose upon him as he did upon Job it shall but advance the glory of God manifest this Beleevets patience occasion his owne shame c. so the Devill shall be over-shot in his owne Bow and wounded with his owne Weapon And so it is that to all whom God hath any interest in this Scorpion shall prove a Medecine against the sting of the Scorpion For though he ayme at despaire and destruction yet God aymes at humiliation and conversion yea at consolation and salvation and when the Sinner is sufficiently humbled Satan shall be cashiered that Horse-leach shall be taken off when he hath sufficiently abated the viscous and superfluous blood so that he shall be healed by wounding exalted by humbling Satan shall helpe him to the destruction of his flesh his corruption and the edification of his soule 23. Â§ Eleventhly Death the last and strongest enemy of all shall doe him the greatest good of all He may be killed but he cannot be hurt nor conquered for even Death that Fiend is to him a friend like the Red Sea to the Israelites that put them over to the Land of Promise whiles it drowned their enemies It is his bridge from woe to glory for dying he sleepes and sleeping he rests from all the travailes of a toylesome life to live in joy and blisse for evermore It is to him the end of all sorrowes and the beginning of his everlasting joyes The cessation of all trouble a supersedias for all diseases the extinction of sinne the deliverance from enemies a rescue from Satan the quiet rest of the body and infranchisement of the soule 24. Â§ Thus as the unbeleever and disobedient is cursed in every thing and where ever he goes and in whatsoever he does cursed in the City and cursed also in the Field cursed in the fruit of his body and in the fruit of his ground and in the fruit of his Cattell cursed when he commeth in and cursed also when he goeth out cursed in this life and cursed in the life to come as is at large exprest Deut. 28. So the Beleever that obeyes the voyce of the Lord shall be blessed in every thing he does where ever he goes and in whatsoever befalls him As God promiseth in the former part of the same Chapter and as I have proved in the eleaven foregoing Sections Yea God will blesse all that belong unto him for his Children and posterity yea many generations after him shall fare the better for his sake yea the very place where he dwells perhaps the whole Kingdome he lives in Where as many yea multitudes even an whole Army yea his Childrens Children unto the third and fourth generation farre the worse for a wicked man and an unbeleever Besides his prayers shall profit many for he is more prevalent with God to take away a Judgement from a People or a Nation then a thousand others And he counts it a sinne to cease praying for his greatest and most malitious enemies though they like fooles would if they durst or were permitted cut him off and all the race of Gods people which is as if one with his hatchet should cut off the bough of a Tree upon which he standeth For they are beholding to Beleevers for their very lives yea it is for their sakes and because the number of Christs Church is not yet accomplisht that they are out of Hell But to goe on as all things viz. poverty imprisonment slander persecution sicknesse death temporall Judgements spirituall dissertions yea even sinne and Satan himselfe shall turne together for the best unto those that love God as you have seene So all things shall turne together for the worst unto them that hate God as all unbeleevers doe Rom. 1.30 John 15.18 even the mercy of God and the meanes of grace shall prove their bane and inhance their damnation yea Christ himselfe that only summum bonum who is a Saviour to all beleevers shall be a just revenger to all unbeleevers and bid the one Depart yee cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devill and his Angells while he shall say unto the other Come yee blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome c. Which being so how doth it concerne all to see that they are Beleevers Wouldest thou then have it fare so with thee Wouldest thou have thy very poysons turned into cordialls thy terrors changed into pleasures and thy greatest evills made beneficiall unto thee Wouldest thou be loosed from the chaines of thy sinnes and delivered from the chaines of plagues Wouldest thou have the same Corist with his precious Blood to free thee that shall with his word sentence others As who would not except Satan hath strangely bewitcht him If thou wouldest I say then learne of this Beleever imitate him in what hath been declared and what I shall further rehearse touching his knowledge beleefe and life for I have onely brake the thread of my Discourse to let in this use in way of a Parenthasis which otherwise comming too late must have been left out and now I returne to finish or compleat the fore-going Character for thereunto may be added as followeth 25. Â§ He loves and feares and beleeves and serves the Lord and seekes his glory and the good of others in every thing at least he desires and endeavours so to doe He will omit no opportunity of doing good nor doe evill though he hath opportunity He remembers his vow in Baptisme and is carefull to performe what he then promised and so farre as he comes short of his duty so farre forth he will be humbled He tempteth not to evill but draweth all he can to goodnesse He will behave himselfe honestly and unblameably before those among whom he lives that he may not dishonour God nor offend either those that are within or those that are without He will never suffer base thoughts of God to finde harbour in his heart deale he never so harshly with him being more prone to complaine of his sinne then of his punishment for he will turne his eyes inward and read his sinne in his punishment and instead of murmuring for the few things he wants be thankfull for the many things he enjoyes Whereas others that are unbeleevers will doe something for God when it makes for their owne ends he will suffer for him and hold out in his workes where Satan dwells and keeps his throne And what they doe for feare of the Law he does for love of the Gospell As who are Beleever indeed is onely knowne where the power of godlinesse is in contempt where a Christian in name onely will scoffe at a Christian indeed for in such times many will superstitiously adore the Crucifix that are enemies to the Crosse of Christ and worship the dead

resolution be peremptory and constant and take heed thou harden not againe as Pharaoh the Philistines the young man in the Gospell Pilate and Judas did Resemble not the Iron which is no longer soft then it is in the fire be not like those that are Sea-sick who are much troubled while they are on Shipboard but presently well againe when they are come to shore for that good saith Gregory will doe us no good which is not made good by perseverance If with these premonisions the Spirit shall vouchsafe to stir up in thine heart any good motions and holy purposes to obey God in letting thy sins goe quench not grieve not the Spirit 1 Thess 5.19 returne not with the Dogge to thy vomit least thy latter end prove seven fold worse then thy beginning Matth. 12.43.45 As it fared with Julian the Apostate and Judas the traytor O it is a fearefull thing to receive the grace of God in vaine and a desperate thing being warned of a Rock wilfully to cast our selves upon it Neither let Satan perswade you to deferre your repentance no not an houre least your resolution proves as a false conception which never comes to bearing for as ill Debtors put off their Creditors first one weeke then another till at last they are able to pay nothing so deale delayers with God Besides death may be suddaine even the least of a thousand things can kill thee and give thee no leasure to be sick Â§ 85. Secondly or if death be not suddaine repentance is no such easie worke as to be put off to sicknesse and though true repentance be never too late yet late repentance is seldome true and indeed there is small hope of repentance at the houre of death where there was no regard of honesty in the time of life and Millions are now in Hell who thought they would repent hereafter not being wise enough to consider that it is with sinne in the heart as with a tree planted in the ground which the longer it groweth the harder it is to be pluckt up or a nayle in a post which is made faster by every stroke of the Hammer As what saith the Holy Ghost Can the Blacke Moore change his skin or the Leopard his spots then may ye also doe good that are accustomed to doe evill Jer. 13.23 Â§ 86. Thirdly or suppose after many yeares spent in the service of sinne and Satan thou art willing to relinquish thy lusts and offer to God thy service and best devotions at the last gaspe will he accept of them No he hath expresly told us the contrary Prov. 1.24 to 32. yea is it likely that God will accept of thy dry bones when Satan hath suckt out all the marrow That he will give his heavenly and spirituall graces at the houre of death to those who have contemned them all their life Yea is it not most just and equall if God will not be found of those that were content to loose him If he shut his eare against their prayers calling to him for pardon that stopt their eares against his Voyce calling upon them for repentance The Lord hath made a promise to late repentance not of late repentance if thou convertest to morrow thou art sure of grace but thou art not sure of to morrowes conversion if in any reasonable time we pray he will heare us if we repent he will pardon us if we amend our lives he will save us but for want of this timely consideration Dives prayed but was not heard Esau wept but was not pittied the foolish Virgins knockt but were denied and so thousands have cried unto God at the houre of death and found no repentance but they dyed as they lived and went from dispaire unto destruction Wherefore as you tender the good of your owne soule set upon the work presently provide with Joseph for the dearth to come and with Noah in the dayes of thine health build the Arke of a good Conscience against the flouds of sicknesse imitate the Ant who provides her meat in Summer for the Winter following yea doe it while the yerning bowels the bleeding wounds and compassionute arms of Jesus Christ lyes open to receive you whiles ye have health and life and meanes and time to repent and make your peace with God As you tender I say the everlasting happinesse and welfare of your almost lost and drowned soule as you expect or hope for grace or mercy for joy and comfort for Heaven and salvation for endlesse blisse and glory at the last as you would escape the direfull Wrath of God the bitter Sentence and Docme of Christ the never dying sting and worme of Conscience the tormenting and soulescorching flames of Hell and everlasting separation from Gods blisfull presence abjure and utterly renounce all wilfull and affected evill To which end Â§ 87. In the next place be diligent to heare Gods Word powerfully preached which is the sword of the Spirit that killeth our corruptions and that unresistable Cannon-shot which beateth and battereth downe all the strong holds of sinne and Satan Â§ 88. Thirdly ponder and meditate seriously on Gods inestimable love towards us who hath nor spared to give his onely beloved Sonne out of his bosome to dye for us and to purchase thereby every good thing we doe enjoy either for soule or body even to the least bit of bread we eat and this will make thee if thou hast any ingenuity to direct all thy thoughts speeches and actions to his glory as he hath directed thy eternall salvation thereunto and often force thee to breake out into this or the like expression What shall I render unto thee O Lord for all thy benefits but love thee my Creator and become a new creature Â§ 89. Fourthly consider that the Lord beholdeth thee in all places and in every thing thou dost even as the eyes of a well drawne Picture are fastened on thee which way soever thou turnest yea consider him as a just Judge who will not let sinne goe unpunished and this will make thee keep a narrower watch over thy very thoughts then any other can doe over thine actions Â§ 90. Fifthly if thou wilt be safe from evill workes avoyd the occasions at least if thou wilt keep thy selfe from iniquity have no fellowship with the workers of iniquity for it is not more hard to finde vertue in evill company then to misse vice They were mingled among the Heathen saith the Psalmist and what followes they learned their workes Psal 106.35 yea how soone was Peter changed with but comming into the High Priests Hall and the like with David and Salomon which made David to say so soone as he had considered it Depart from me all ye workers of iniquity for I will keepe the Commandements of my God Psal 119.115 knowing that he could not doe the one without the other And indeed the choise of a mans company is one of the most weighty actions of our lives for our future well or ill being depends on that election and many a man had been good that is not if he had but kept good company Â§ 91. Sixthly and lastly but chiefly and principally omit not to pray for the assistance of Gods spirit otherwise thy strength is small yea except God give thee repentance and removes all impediments that may hinder thou canst no more turne thy selfe then thou couldest at first make thy selfe We are not sufficient of our selves to thinke much lesse to speake least of all to doe that which is good 2 Cor. 3.5 John 15.4 5. we are swift to all evill but to any good immoveable wherefore beg of God that he will give you a' new heart and when the heart is changed all the members will follow after it as the rest of the Creatures after the Sunne when it ariseth importune him for grace that thou mayest firmely resolve speedily begin and continually persevere in doing and suffering his holy Will desire him to informe and reforme thee so that thou mayest neither misbeleeve nor mis-live to regenerate thy heart change and purifie thy nature subdue thy reason rectifie thy judgement reforme and strengthen thy will renew thy affections and beat downe in thee whatsoever stands in opposition to the Scepter of Jesus Christ not forgetting that prayer is the key of Heaven as Ambrose calls it And now for conclusion if thou receivest any power against thy corruptions forget not to be thankfull and when God hath the fruit of his mercies he will not spare to sow much where he reapes much Consider what I say and the Lord give you understanding to strive after those graces wherewith a true Beleever is quallified and whereof I have given you a Copy in the fore going Character FINIS Adde this Character of A true Beleever as an appendix to The Cure of Misprision

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