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A86525	The danger of desertion or, A farvvell sermon of Mr. Thomas Hooker, sometimes minister of Gods Word at Chainsford in Essex; but now of New England. Preached immediately before his departure out of England. Together with ten particular rules to be practised every day by converted Christians.	Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.	1641 (1641)	Wing H2645; Thomason E171_3; ESTC R1512	16,119	33

First by daily renewing thy faith in Christ especially that act of faith by which thy soule knits or tyes it selfe on Christ for salvation cause thy soule every day in solemne manner to act that part put forth this primitive act of faith in the whole part of thy soule The daily exercise of this will increase and strengthen the divine habit of faith in the soule and make the soule sensible of every act of it By frequent beleeving thou shalt feele at thy very heart root that thou doest beleeve so shalt thou have witnesse in thy self that thou art in Christ 1 Ioh. 5.16 Secondly by examining thy heart on what grounds thou takest Christ to be thine as first are thy grounds of taking Christ a sight and sense of thy sinnes of the guilt power and punishment of them and of thy misery by them Mat. 19.13 Secondly are thy grounds of taking Christ the want of Christ seene and felt at thy very heart to justifie sanctifie redeeme and save thee else thou art utterly undone for ever and lost everlastingly Luk. 9.10 Thirdly is thy ground of taking Christ Gods free mercy generall offer of him to any that will take him by faith Ioh. 3.16 Manifold promises to this purpose the ground of all these offers donations of Christ being free grace rich mercy undeserved love Eph. 2.4 7. Titus 3.4 5 6 7. Fifthly is thy ground of taking Christ his sweet and gracious invitation of such to come to him as are weary and heavy laden Mat. 11.28 Buy of him as have no money Isa 55.1 No worthinesse at all or desert in our selves Fifthly are thy grounds of taking Christ thus that as sinfull wretches as thou art have been sought of Christ and found of him 1 Cor. 9.10 Then why may not you the more cleare thou desirest Christ the more cleare will be thy title to him 3. In what manner thou desirest Christ to be thine 1. Whether thou doest renounce wholly all opinion and conceit of thy owne righteousnesse and desert Phil. 3.7 8 9 10. So that thou commest to Christ empty of thy selfe very vile yea nothing in thy owne eyes unworthy to receive him 2. Whether thou layest hold on Christ alone with the empty hand of faith joyning nothing at all with Christ in matters of salvation 3. Whether thou finde God the Father drawing thy heart after him Ioh. 6.44 By hungring and panting desires which will never be satisfied without him so that the streames both of thy judgement 3 Phil. 18. also of thy affections 1 Cor. 2.2 Gal. 6.14 4. If thou takest as a Lord to rule thee as well as a Iesus to save thee Col. 2.6 one which is all to thee thy wisedome thy righteousnesse thy salvation thy redemption 1 Cor. 1.3 thy speciall food Ioh. 5.6 thy rayment Rom. 13.14 thy strength Phil. 4.13 Gal. 2.20 5. Whether thou seeke and wait for Christ out of the sense of thy spirituall want and penury in every ordinance publicke and private Word Sacraments Prayer Meditation Conference not as ones own works of sanctification but as they are Gods Ordinances appointed of very purpose for the manifestation and communication of Christ to the soule The third part of the rule of the new Creature 4. Labour to draw and derive from Christ by the pulling attractive force of faith speciall ability sufficient for the day First to performe all duties secondly to exercise all grace in the day thirdly to resist and overcome all temptations and corruptions which shall befall thee in the day make thy provision of grace and strength from Christ every morning fetch so much as you shall have occasion to use all the day long yea and in all occasions that shall fall out on the day Goe to Christ still for the wisedome that must direct thee for the holinesse which must carry thee and characterise thee for the shoulder that must beare thee If they be crosses for the strength that must sustaine them If they be temptations performe them If they be duties act thy faith daily on the promises of grace and strength as Iohn 1.16 Ezek. 36.27 Isa 44.3 Zach. 10.12 These are securities given thee from God that thou shal● receive grace through the Ordinancer which are the conduit-pipes or instruments of conveying the same into the soule from Christ This is to doe all in the strength of Christ and to take forth a great deale of Christ into the soule every day that not thou but Christ may be in thee Gal. 2.20 The fourth part of the new Creature performe daily duties both in family and in closet especially prayer meditation conference reading with intention of affection with diligence and delight Ier. 48.10 Mal. 1.4 1 Cor. 21.24 To this end watch to these duties keep thy heart in a good frame for them Eph. 6.18 undefiled with sinne● untainted with the world 2. Take fit time for the performance of all when tho art dull and sluggish begin the day with the thoughts of God 3. Be substantiall with God in all these duties endeavour to feele every duty at the very heart enlarging and inflaming thy affections These be duties of very great consequence which bring the greatest comfort to thy soule because they aime at they soules good The fifth rule of the new Creature First fortifie thy selfe very morning against those speciall insts to which by nature thou art most prone and often tempted as pride passion inordinate affections covetousnesse by argumenting and reasoning within thy selfe drawne from the sad effects of it as disprofit discomfort disgrace c. Labour to see the unreasonablenesse of thy sinnes discovered unto thee and make thy soule ashamed of them for examine and ponder with thy selfe shall I be proud then I am sure to have a fall for pride goes before a fall and God accounts me as his enemy for he resists the proud Shall I be angry If I let passion in I shall not keep Satan our Eph. 4.26 I shall grieve the holy Spirit of God Eph. 4.30 Shall I be covetous I cannot but be very sinfull for the love of money is the root of all evill 1. Tim. 6.10 2. By pondring in thy mind the precepts in Gods book threatnings against thy sinnes and judgments of God upon others as on Herod for pride Dives for voluptuousnesse Nabal for churlishnesse 3. By applying promises of mortification to thy heart as a plaister to thy soule for subduing of thy corruptions daily as Micah 9.10 Rom. 6.14 4. By drawing vertue from Christs death to thy soule which hath in it a killing force of sin Phil. 3.10 Num. 6.5 The sixth part of the rule of the new Creature Let thy heart be strongly fixed on God by trusting on him Ps 112.7 submitting thy selfe to him 2 Sam. 15.26 1 Sam. 3.8 against thy feares cares tryals troubles afflictions of every day for sufficient to the day is the evill thereof Mat. 6.31 to the end 1. To foresee prudently thy personall trials and troubles

England ripe is not she weary of God nay she is fed fat for the slaughter It was not so with the Saints and people of God in former times Psal 34.4 It was Davids great and grand desire that he might dwell in the house of the Lord Psal 42.4 his soule panted after Gods ordinances The point teacheth us thus much That the Saints are wondrous importunate to keep God in his ordinances But what if a man want preaching Ob. may not he want it and yet goe to Heaven The arguments are cleare Ans the Saints maintaine God in his ordinances the want of which is under the penalty of death and condemnation Gold cannot feed a hungry man but bread he would have because that he hath need of so the Saints of God are marvellous importunate to keep God in his Ordinances so that though they weare a ragged coat or be pinched with hunger yet he wants God more then these either food or rayment David in the 37. Psalme fretteth at the prosperity of the wicked but at the last breaks off and marke what a conclusion he makes and comes to whom have I in heaven but thee as if he should have said Let them have what they will I have nothing but thee Why so Thou art the strength of my heart and my portion for ever Thou art the strength of the heart Shewing that all things in the world cannot help the heart without God A man were as good offer yron to a hungry man to refresh him or ayre to feed him as to say riches ease and honour will help thy distressed soule These will never establish a man he may hope to have comfort in them but his soule shall be gravelled and troubled It must be the God of peace that must speak peace to a troubled soul It must be the God of salvation that can comfort a damned soule that kindnesse will comfort that is the strength of the heart and portion for ever and then no marvell the soule call for God The soule cares not though happily the purse be filled for it cryes and sighs I am damned Happily the pallate may be pleased but the poore soule cryes I may goe to hell and to the Devill Now God comes and he supplyes all for where he comes there is every good gift If once a man hath God he hath all good things with him God blessed Obadiahs house for the Arkes sake Now the Arke was a type of Christ where he comes all good things follow When God comes we are married unto him Hos 2.19 As when a wife is married her husband is hers so God all is thine what wouldst thou have more He speaks to the raine and it heares the corne and wine and that heares Israell Hell and Death are thy servants but now you that have outward things profits and prosperity c. you have them with a curse unlesse you have God with them Get God therefore if he forsakes a man all miseries befall him and then woe beto him Hos 9.13 Ah! it is true indeed woe beto that heart which God is departed from When God who is the God of mercy is gone away from him who wil pitty that soul that will not submit to Gods peace consolation and salvation When God departeth all miseries follow on amaine when the banks are broken downe the Sea breaks forth so when God departs all miseries come for that man that makes no conscience of outfacing God in his Ordinances marke what the Text saith Deut. 31. 37. I will forsake them and many miseries shall befall them If God be gone the Floud-gates are drawne dry and in comes all misery You will say are not all these things against us seeing God is not with us If we would avoid woe and sorrow and killing and slaying one another Would the women be glad to see their husbands killed before their tender eyes the men to see the women taken out of the world by the hands of wicked men If not then leave not God but hold him fast then all evill will depart and so holding God he will keep us from misery Vse To condemne 2 sorts of people Vse If the Saints be marvellous importunate to have God with them what shall we thinke of those that are weary of the Almighty who say to him depart from us But you will say such are to be chronicled we have none such among us Thou that art a servant and rejectest thy Masters command thou rejectest God Why should a man say that they be so long and so long in prayer and say what man knowes not what he sayes he speaks this because that he is weary of the Ordinances and would be freed from them and God will doe it one day Alas poore soule thou couldest pitty thy condition thou art weary of Gods Ordinances weary of Gods mercies weary of his patience presence Thou shalt one day be deprived of his presence and shut up with the haters of God and goodnesse in the blacke Tophet where the worme never dyes nor the fire never goes out then thy crying will doe thee no good God will be God in thy destruction he will spurne thousands and ten thousands such as thou art downe to hell where thou shalt be an everlasting object of his never dying wrath though thou couldest scale the heavens with thy teares and shrill voice Though thou couldest be heard to cry out of the dungeon yet thy help is never the nearer thy God is gone I admonish thee what to doe lay thee downe and patiently endure his deserved wrath Nay marke what I say a hundred hels thou hast deserved and in those hels to lye a hundred yeares nay for ever Hold thy selfe contented with thy condition for thou hast chosen death rather then life Ier. 31.8 God should wrong himselfe and thee if that he did not give thee thy chusing Will not these things move you my brethren that you may be so happily wise as to chuse life rather than death Lord grant it for he delights not in your destruction One word more to leave impression in your hearts I desire your soules health though my meat seeme bitter yet it is the mind of God it should be so and therefore thou man or woman whosoever thou art that canst not abide preaching but standest on thornes to have the Sermon done that sayest too much of one thing is good for nothing Thou doest as good as say what need have we of that a little of that and more of pleasure here is thy delight and desire Know this whosoever thou art that hast ill-will to the Ordinances of God thou wouldst have no such Gospell thou shalt have thy desire when the Trumpet shall blow thy eares shall tingle with that sentence Depart from me Thou that art weary of God get thee downe to hell I say God will set his teeth at thee and stamp thee downe to hell with thy base lusts Then will God say I