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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86421	A garden inclosed, and Wisdom justified only of her children. Being two exercises, discovering the glory, beauty and perfection of the love of God to saints that are so comprehended, and in such a glorious inclosure: and also the sweet reflections in, and from saints, in iustifying wisdom: which were delivered at New-port Pagnell, about a yeare and a half since: for declaration whereof, the authour was then imprisoned, and since accused, for delivering of blasphemie. by Paul Hobson.	Hobson, Paul.	1647 (1647)	Wing H2274; Thomason E1188_3; ESTC R208251	44,598	118

Thou art unto them as one that can sing well and they delight to hear thee While he was new he was matter of joy and so was Iohn to the Jews Now then herein is a great deceit in the heart of men Iohn 5.35 they may be wrapt up and ravished with not onely the largenest of their apprehensions but the newness of the thing apprehended and yet both false But a saints refreshment flows from the excellency and glory of what he apprehendeth and that is the cause why a saint never grows weary of viewing and never flaggs in his delight and joy in his Beholding but runs more sure at last then at first like a bowl that is cast out of a mans hand though it runs violently at first yet afterwards more soberly and a great deal more sure So saints may be carryed on with a great deal of violence at first because they are carryed on as from the excellency of the Nature of so from the Newness of the Object apprehended but the apprehension of the Nevvness in a sense doth cease but the excellencie of the Nature of the thing apprehended and enjoyed doth not cease but encrease daily Now therefore consider dear friends Have ye refreshings and soul revivings are they false or true are they such as are proper onely to saints or to men that are yet unacquainted with Jesus Christ Consider doth not your Joy flow from one of these three things either the sutableness apprehended betwixt an Act and a Rule or the largeness of your apprehensions and not the thing apprehended Or from the newness of the Object and not the glorious nature of it If it do it will one day fail But if it be purely from Christ leading out your soul in all conformity to live above all upon Christ it will never cease If you ask me what signes or symptomes there may be to discover this pure and true in-comes of Christ which is the cause of refreshments in saints from all other I answer These in-comes where they are try all things and cannot be made manifest by any thing without it self though it doth shew it self in things yet those things doth not manifest it to us or to the spirit where it dwells though it self manifests it self by those things to others But to us it doth manifest the truth of it self and the truth of those things that flow from it though its true that all souls that enjoy such in-comes are alwaies carried out to lie low before God with sweet heart endeerings to God and with a sweet upright walking before God yet they do not know these in-comes by first knowing the truth of these effects but they know the truth of both from it self In a word whosoever enjoyes these refreshings finds this thing that I now speak of wheresoever Christ comes in self goes out though self appears more then ever and stirs with more motion then ever yet the soul is confounded in himself for being selfish and lies low in that understanding before God All filling refreshments empties the soul of all self fulness But I say no more Onely the Lord give us to understand this That souls possest with Christ onely live by influences of Christ The Vse is to inform us of the folly of men Vse who stand and wonder that saints live so cheerfully before God though they undergo so much oppression for God Remember they have bread that you knovv not of Remember that Christ communicates light and life in a hidden way There are secret distillings of Christs love that is full of power which produceth more life then your threatnings and scorns can produce death Their bottle of oyl and their barrel of meal in the use of it increases dayly endeavour ye o men to detract from it it 's Christs way to communicate to it If you endeavour to empty and Christ fill who think you will bee weary first and betwixt both who is he that gaines It 's a poore soule that lives by Christ nay lives in Christ Col. 3.3 he is one with Christ Rom. 8.33.34 and cannot be destroyed if Christ be maintained And so much of that Consectary In the last place the Consectary is drawn from the last particular Consect 5. It looks like him Adam begot a sonne like unto himselfe The Vnction and Spirit in Saints is of Christ It s one with Christ It lives by Christ It lookes like Christ And that is the cause why Saints love to behold Christ and Christ loves to behold them The soul cries out Cant. 5. Where is hee whom my soul loves and Christ calls out Cant. 2. Let mee hear thy voice Let me see thy Countenance for sweet is thy voice Vse and thy countenance comly If this be so then consider the condition of Saints Cant. 2.14 6.13 and the condition of the world The condition of Saints Christ loves to behold them and they love to behold Christ They are like each other The condition of the world who think one day to delight in the beholdings of Christ and are now oppressed in the beholdings holdings of Saints doth the beams oppresse you and will the body refresh you Is the streams a scorn and shall the fountain be a delight It 's a strange thing Iohn saith 1 Ioh. 4.20 Hee that loveth not his brother vvhom he hath seen hovv can hee love God vvhom he hath not seen But I say no more I should now draw something from the reasons and also make use of the point in generall But I shall say onely thus much Wisedome is justified of her Children Let Saints expect that Christ should bee justified by no other Let them not think it strange ● Pet. 4.12 if they be condemned by all others The Pharisees cannot owne Truth neither in Iohn nor in Christ Do you think the world should now affect Truth It 's also impossible Therefore for Conclusion of all remember that Wisdom is justified of her Children FINIS

sufficient ground to admit one into Church fellowship But a bare beleeving of Christ without may be in the men of the world and therefore that is not a sufficient ground to admit one into Church-fellowship The major is clear And for the minor I prove thus That which the Divel may do a man of the world may do in matter of beleeving But the Devils did believe and know a Christ without Jam. 2.19 and yet did not enjoy a Christ within Therefore a wicked man or a man of the world may do the same And therefore that is not a sufficient ground to admit one into Church-fellowship Fifthly As the Apostles owned men Reason 5 so ought we to owne men But the Apostles knew no man after the flesh 2 Cor 5.16 that is as I conceive by flesh he meaneth all external acts of righteousnesse which he calleth flesh in Phil. 3.4 Therefore I conceive the Apostle meaneth they know no man after the flesh that is according to their external actings but according to their internal enjoyments And so ought we Sixthly Reason 6 That which is the onely way to bring distractions into the Church of Christ that ought not to be practised by the Church of Christ but the admitting of members upon so slight a ground as a bare believing of a Christ without when they do not know and enjoy a Christ within is the cause of distractions in the Church of Christ and therefore ought not to be practised If you aske me Quest. What are the distractions it may or doth produce I Answer Ansvv The distractions are such as these First Distract 1. A continued fear that men will or may fall off from them For if men hold themselves in the profession of Truth 1 Ioh. 2.19 and are not held in by the power of Truth then they will at first or last fall off from Truth Secondly Distract 2. This is that which openeth the mouths of some that are not yet in external fellowship not onely to speak against it but it maketh them also afraid to submit to it because they fear that we center and put too much in outward Ordinances and too little in inward enjoyments This maketh them fear that they shall not enjoy that amongst them that professe outward Ordinances which they do enjoy amongst others Thirdly It is a grief and trouble Distract 3. and sadnesse to the spirits of them that are already in fellowship For insteed of being built up with the exchanges of experiences they meeting many times with some who are admitted upon confession and profession of a Christ without when they do not so enjoy Christ within as to see an interest in him and have a sensible communion with him insteed of the exchanges of experiences that may refresh the souls of each other they give out nothing but external declarations about external administrations which is so far from refreshing that it doth exceedingly damp the heart of a soul that liveth with God And it is no better then pouring cold water upon a warmed spirit For though external Ordinances are very good in reference to the will of God yet it is not an outward Ordinance but God in the Ordinance that is the life of a Saint Seventhly Reason 7 That which is held out in the Gospel for men to believe that ought to appear in men when they do professe themselves to believe before they are admitted into Church-fellowship But that which the Gospel holdeth out for men to believe is not a bare believing of Christ presented to them but to believe an interest in Christ Ioh. ● 15.14.6 so as to enjoy life by him Gal. 2.20 1 Ioh. 1.7 And untill men can declare that they see an interest in Christ and sensibly enjoy Christ there is no ground for us to believe that they do so believe as to admit them into Church-fellowship And so much concerning the first consectarie That the Church of Christ are believers in Christ The second consectary is Consect 2. That the Church of Christ are such as are sweetly overcome and fetch'd in to Christ by the commings in of Christ By those expressions my meaning is First That that heart that is truly possessed with Christ is sweetly overcome by the sweet love and lovelynesse of Christ so that he hath nothing to say against him or any thing that is required by him but doth sweetly submit to him Secondly He is fetch'd in by that I mean not onely a fetching into an external Ordinance but to the enjoyment of an internal glory he is not barely fetch'd in from a seeming power of death to live under the shadow of life but he is really fetch'd from the power of death into the glory of life In a word he is fetch'd into the bosome of God to live in him so that he is sweetly wrapt up in the mysterie of that glory which is involved in the bosome of God And so much for that consectarie The third consectarie is Consect 3. That the Church of Christ must worship Christ And that this is their duty is cleer from these Scriptures 2 Kings 17.36 1 Chron. 16.29 Psal 29.2 and 96.9 John 4.23 24. Acts 24.14 Rom. 12.1 Phil. 3.3 And had I time I should speak somthing of the word Worship for Worship in Scripture is taken either for Moral or Instituted Worship but I shall say nothing of that Onely in a word the people of God are to acknowledge God in all things both external and internal that are required of them by God But I shall not at this time speak any more of this consectary The fourth consectary is Consect 4. That the word of Christ is the Rule of the worship of Christ Esai 8.20 Every King must and doth rule by a Law sutable to himself Kings that govern and rule in civill things are to govern and rule by a civil Law but Christ who is a King spiritual ruleth and regulateth his Church by a spiritual Law civil Lawes cannot reach Christs government Neither hath Christ centred any power in the civil authority to regulate mens spirits in the worship of Christ Gen. 49.10 though that was formerly in the Church of the Jewes which was a type of Christ it is now ended by Christ and all power in matter of worship is called home to him Esa 9.6.7 and resides in him Mat. 11.27 and those men that indevour by the power of a civil Law to constrain men to a spiritual worship Ioh. 3.35 they take upon them the authority and prerogative of Jesus Christ Nay in a word they in that act deny Christ come in the flesh and it is not onely sinful but poor and beggarly for they would have all men see with their eyes and all mens spirits in nature and measure sutable to their Law and if they see more they must be fetched back by the power of it and if they see lesse the must be fetched up to