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A88578	A Christians duty and safety in evill times Delivered in severall sermons, upon four texts of scripture, viz. Christ's prayer the saints support, on Iohn 17 15[.] A divine ballance to weigh all doctrines by, on 1 Thes.5. 21[.] A Christians great enquiry, on Acts 16.30, 31[.] A description of true blessedness, on Luke 11. 28[.] By that faithfull messenger of Jesus Christ, Mr Christopher Love, late minister of Laurence-jury, London. Whereunto is annexed The saints rest, or Their happy sleep in death. As it was delivered in a sermon at Aldermanbury, London. Aug. 24. 1651. By Edmund Calalmy. B. D.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.; Calamy, Edumnd, 1600-1666. Saints rest.	1653 (1653)	Wing L3147; Thomason E1434_3-4; ESTC R209589	82,542	242

But saith he God hath given thee but one Soul and if thou losest that thou losest all O that the consideration hereof would cause you to make this Enquiry what must I doe to save my Soul I now come to make some Usefull Application If it be so 1 Vse for rebuke of 3 sorts of men that above all things in the world you should make this your great Enquirie what must I doe to bee saved Then this is for Rebuke to those that make assiduous Enquirie about matters of lesser moment First those that enquire only after Notionall Questions but never make Enquirie a bout matters of Salvation There are a multitude of men in this age that puzzle themselves and trouble their mindes with Notions and Criticall Questions but never put this Question to their Soules Lord what must I doe to be saved O how justly blame-worthy are they that study curious and nice Questions about Christianity which serve only to obscure the clear Truth of the Gospell and in the mean time minde not this great and necessary Question What I must doe to get to Heaven Truly we live in an age full of criticall Questions wherein all the Dogmaticall Points of Religion are called into Question But if God prevent it not these triviall Questions will joustle out this necessary Question What must I doe to be saved Of all Questions there are two Questions most necessary for a people to aske and most comfortable for a Minister to resolve them in The one is What shall I doe to bee saved The other How shall I know that I shall obtain Salvation Of all Questions these are the greatest and as Christ said speaking of our Love to God and our Love to our Neighbours This is the first and greatest Commandement And the next is like to this So say I This is the first and great Question What shall I do to be saved And the next is like to this How shall I know that I shall bee saved The first is the foundation of all our happinesse and the second of all our comfort 2. Those that Enquire after earthly things only It is for Rebuke to those that make Enquiry after the body and things pertaining to its welfare but never make Enquirie after Salvation There bee many men in the World who in the language of those sensual men Psal 4.6 cry out Lord Psal 4.6 who will shew us any good but they never make Enquirie how they themselves may become good These men are like him that came to the Physician enquiring how he might cure the whitlaw on his finger but never asked how he might cure the Consumption of his lungs Many men make Enquirie after trivial things of the World but they Enquire not how they may get an intrest in Jesus Christ how they may escape Hell Quae siultitia de iis solicitum esse quae habebis nonsolicitus de iis non quae non nisi solicitus and get to Heaven Now what folly and madnesse is it for a man to bee solicitously careful for those things which hee shall have without this carking care and to be negligent and carelesse about those things which he hath no promise to obtain without assiduous carefullnesse for grace and glory are not to bee expected without seeking Mat. 6.33 dilligent seeking Math. 6.33 But outward things shall be cast in upon seeking heavenly things 3. 3 Those that Enquire how to damne themselvs It is for rebuke to those that make Enquirie how to damn themselves but Enquire not how to save themselves The Drunkard enquires where Wine and strong Beare is to be had The Adulterer as Solomon saith enquires where the house of the Harlot is Thus many men Enquire how they may undo their souls but oh how few are there that cry out with this poor Jaylor Sirs What must I doe to be saved The next Use shall be by way of tryal 2. Vse For examination whether you are in an estate of Salvation to put you upon search whether ye have put this Question out of question whether yee have resolved this Question to your soules that God indeed hath brought you into an estate of Salvation Now that you may know this consider these particulars First Hath God taken those Methods with your souls This may be known first by the Methods God takes with such souls that he takes with those whom hee intends to save But you will say what are those Methods that God takes with a sinner whom hee intends to save I Answer First God enlightens that mans mind 1 Method that God takes so as that he makes him see his sins to be exceeding sinful and himselfe to be exceeding miserable Iob 33.27 28 29.30 you have an admirable Text for this Job 33.27 29 30. He looketh upon men and if any man say I have sinned and perverted that which was right and it profited me not Hee will deliver his soul from going into the Pit and his life shall see the light Loe all these things worketh God oftentimes with man to bring back his soul from the Pit to bee Enlightned with the light of the liveing It is Gods usual way in bringing a sinner from Hell to represent his sins unto him in the glasse of the Law so as to cause him to see them to be exceeding sinful to cause him to confesse his sinfulnesse how that hee hath perverted that which was right Paul said he was alive without the Law but when the Law came then he saw his sin to be exceeding sinful Rom. 7.13 Rom. 7.13 Was that which is good made death unto me God forbid but sin that it might appear sin working death in me by that which is good that sin by the Commandement might become exceeding sinful Sin in its own nature is so exceeding evil that it cannot have a worse name given unto it then it s own sinful sin Beloved if the Lord hath dealt thus with you so as to make you see your sins to be exceeding sinfull and your selves to bee exceeding miscrable know this is the method that he takes with that soul which hee intends to bring to Heaven A second Method that God takes with a sinner to save his soule is this 2 method that God takes God puts him into a condition of Spiritual astonishment so as to see himselfe an undone creature altogether unable to save himselfe neither doth hee know who will undertake that work for him this is plain in the Text Sirs What must I doe to be saved a Question full of astonishment and perplexity of mind When God once casts a man out of selfe-sufficiency selfe-righteousnesse and selfe-ability this is a good step towards Heaven A third Method that God takes with a sinner is this 3 method that God takes God doth present Jesus Christ to his soule as the most desirable object in all the world He sees sin to be exceeding

Enquirie after Heaven then how few in the World shall come to Heaven Vse 2 Secondly from the Resolve that the Apostle gives to the Jaylors Question Believe on the Lord Iesus Christ rest on Christ for thy Salvation on his Merits on his Blood and on his Righteousnesse Hence learn what a great benefit and priviledge the children of men have by liveing under a Covenant of Grace for although they cannot be saved by what they can doe themselves yet they may be saved by what Iesus Christ hath done for them Thou canst not bee saved by all thy doing but thou maist be saved by believing by resting and relying on Jesus Christ expecting salvation by what hee hath done and suffered in thy stead in thy behalfe Had wee layn under a Covenant of Works then it had been Doe this and live but a Covenant of Grace saith Believe and live The condition of the Covenant of Workes is That we should give an exact and perfect Righteousnesse of our own unto God the Righteousnesse of another will not serve the turn And in this Covenant little will not be accepted for much the will for the deed the Sentence of Absolution shall be pronounced if ye be found without spot or blemish compleatly righteous but the Sentence of Condemnation if ye be found unrighteous in the least tittle This Covenant speaks not one word of Hope or Help Mercy or Peace to the poore lost sinner but pronounceth him accursed for the least transgression for the least deviation from the righteous Law of God and there is no place left for Repentance no place left for Mercy upon the breach of the Covenant Adam by one sin made all his posterity miserable and the Apostle saith Gal. 3.10 Gal. 3.10 Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law to doe them So that there is no possibility of life by the Covenant of Workes because in our lapsed estate in our estate of corruption the Covenant of Workes is impossible to bee fulfilled by us since the day that sin came into the world that Adam eat the forbidden fruit never did any man fulfill the Covenant of Workes for there is no man that sineth not 1 Kings 8.46 2 Chron 6 36 2 Chron 6.36 There is not a just man upon the Earth that doth good and sineth not Eccle. 7.21 Eccl. 7.20 In many things we off end all Iames 3.2 Iames 3.2 O then what cause have we to admire the infinite unspeakable mercy goodnesse of God in makeing this Covenant of Grace with man a sinner this new Covenant when the former was violated which is as it were a plank after a ship-wrack that when man had voluntarily transgressed the righteous Law of God and thereby justly deprived both himselfe and his posterity of that life and blessednesse which was promised in that Covenant and was fallen under the Death and Curse which God had threatned for the breaking and transgressing of that Covenant yet notwithstanding that such should bee the infinite Mercy of God that he should not insist upon the forfeiture that he should not binde us up to the Covenant of Workes but take us out of the hand of his justice and put us into the hand of his Mercy not dealing with us according to our deserts but according to the exceeding riches of his Grace in his unsearchable Wisdom when Men and Angels were at a losse finding out a Remedy to help and relieve a poore forlorn lost sinner that is cast by the Covenant of Works not sparing his only begotten Sonne Jesus Christ the righteous the Mediator of the New Covenant Heb. 12.29 Heb. 12.24 who hath satisfied Gods justice slain that enmity which was betwixt God and us and made peace for us For in this Covenant of Grace the righteousnesse of Christ and satisfaction made by Christ is held forth and tendred unto the justice of God the Surety is punished and the Debtor is spared Esa 53.6.5 Esaiah 53.6.3 the Lord hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquity the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes wee are healed And the Apostle saith 1 Iohn 2.1.2 1 Iohn 2 1.2 If any man sin wee have an Advocate with the Father Iesus Christ the righteous he is the propitiation for our sins So that here mercy may be found to help and relieve a poore sinner which is lost in the Covenant of Workes ●in this Covenant of Grace God accepts of the Will for the Deed hee doth not stand so strictly upon it as to cast the sinner out of favour for every transgression but as a father pittieth his children so the Lord pittieth them that feare him Psa 103.13 Psal 103.13 that is those that are faithfull with God in Covenant those that strive to doe the Will of the Lord and flie to his grace for pardon and acceptance those that repent of their transgressions and promise and perform upright obedience For in this Covenant here is place for Repentance and mercy for the penitent Acts 3.19 Acts 3.19 repent that your sinnes may bee blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. And Proverbs 28.13 Prov 28.13 whoso confesseth and forsaketh his sinnes shall have mercy But under a Covenant of Workes there is no place left for Repentance nor mercy for the penitent Here then wee see the inestimable the unspeakable benefit wee have by a Covenant of Grace for now by laying hold on Jesus Christ by a true and lively faith by resting and relying on what hee hath done and suffered in our stead and in our behalfe we may lay a rightfull and infallible claim unto the Kingdom of Heaven Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved FINIS A DESCRIPTION OF True Blessednesse Text. Luke 11.28 But hee said yea rather blessed are they which bear the Word of God and keep it IN the obscure humanity of Jesus Christ there did break forth such a glorious lustre of his Divinity that though as to his person he was deemed despicable and contemptible yet the words that he spake and the works that he did declared him to bee no lesse then the Son of God The words hee spake declared it his enemies themselves being judges John 7.46 Iohn 7.46 The Officers answered never man spake like this man And for the workes he did the miracles he wrought of them it is said That it was never done thus from the begining of the World As upon his healing of the man born blinde say they Iohn 9.32 It was never heard that a man born blind could afterwards see His miracles wrought admiration in the hearts even of those men The coherence of the words in whom it wrought envy The miracle he wrought in this chapter which was the disposessing of the