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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

keep company in the paths of sinne what is this his proffer what are the tearmes no harder what then should I doe but bid sinne adieu would you have God to be your God and will you not keep out of sinne If not he will not be your God But now let every soule forsake his uncleannesse and God will come to that soule and therefore that place is marvellous sweet Isa 58.8 You shall call and God shall say here I am if that you will forsake your evill courses Thus you see you have as faire an offer as faire a warning as God can propound 2. As you must prepare roome for God so you must give him content let him have his will Where the King comes there he will have all according to his minde so it is with God if he may have his owne worship you please him well you must dresse his dish according to his tooth but when you put poison into his meat you discontent him then you doe not give him his mind you must lay aside all superstition and errours then you please his tooth above all when your soules submit to his truth At the name of Iesus every knee shall bow This is not meant of the word Iesus to give a bow with the knee and a stab at the heart If so why do we not bow at the word Iehovah as at the word Iesus but the bowing at the word the syllable is Idolatry And here we doe not give him his minde but the meaning of it is that we should worship him in spirit and truth 3. As we give him his minde so we must give him welcome also and entertainment If you look lowring towards him and grudge at him and his truth no wonder but he goe away This is the sinne of England We beare an ill will to God and his word God hath done much for us of this land What could he have done more for his vineyard Isa 5. 4. but it brought forth fruit contrary to his expectation and therefore marke what he saith I will take away the hedge thereof it shall be troden downe so will it be with us Are we better then the old world the same sinnes that were found in them are found in us Sodome and Gomorrah on whom God rained fire and brimstone are not our sinnes as great and are there not as great sinnes in us as were in Ierusalem that was carried away captive are we better then other Churches then our brethren that have drunk so deeply of the cup of Gods wrath what are we I will tell you we are a burthen to God he cannot beare us he will thinke his paines well over when he hath destroyed us You know all men are glad when their paines are over so it is with God we are a paine and a trouble to him and why should God goe continually in paine and trouble with us who are worthy to be destroyed If his decree once come forth then shall England seeke peace and shall not finde it God will not pitty us as in Isa 7.25 Ah! Brethren what a heavy case is it when a mercifull God doth shew himselfe unmercifull when a patient God will be impatient O beloved there is a hard time befalling us of England yet we consider it not lamentable is our time God wept over Jerusalem a long time Oh that thou hadst known in this thy day the things that belong to thy peace but now they are hid from thy eyes So may I say to England their Lord hath wept over it in mercy and patience a long time but it hath not been taken notice of God hath hid it from our eyes what shall we doe when his mercy is turned into fury and his patience into frowning what shall we doe when we have leasure to consider what once we did enjoy we can never prize Gods patience till that we finde the great want of it Thus then the poore soule will say There was a time when we might have been at peace with this patient God but now it is hid from our eyes I might have had mercy but now the gate is shut and not onely shut but locked and barred too Thus when people refuse mercy he sends the contrary judgement and then it will grieve and wound our soules to thinke what once we did enjoy but that man that will bid God welcome to his heart may goe singing to his grave 4. You must be importunate with him to stay and to continue and count it a great favour that he will yet be intreated Isa 37. Iacob wrestled with God and thus must we doe if we meane to keep him You that live under the means and will not walk in them what great condemnation wil be to you over to them that have not the meanes as it is said of Capernaum Mat. 18. so say Ito England Thou England which wast lifted up to heaven with meanes shalt be abased and brought downe to hell for if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in India or Turky they would have repented ere this therefore Capernaums place is Englands place which is the most insufferablest torment of all and marke what I say the poore native Turks and Infidels shall have a cooler summer parlour in hell then you for we stand at a high rate we were highly exalted therefore shall our torments be the more to beare The Lord write these things in our hearts with the finger of his owne Spirit for his Christs sake under whom we are all covered FINIS THE RVLE OF THE NEW CREATVRE GAL. 6.16 And as many as walke according to this rule peace be on them and mercy and upon the Israel of God THe rule of the new Creature which is to be practised every day by all beleevers consisting of these ten particulars First be sensible of thy originall sin corruption daily know how it enticeth thee to all evil indisposeth thee to all good groan under it and bewayle it as Paul did 7. Rom. 14. O wretched man that I-am who shall deliver me from this body of death Also take notice especially of thy actuall sinnes or daily infirmities in thought word and deed endeavour to make thy peace with thy God for them before thou goest to thy bed by repenting and confessing of them to thy God worke thy heart to grieve for them by some melting considerations of Gods mercies towards thee 1 Iohn 1.9 by beleeving or casting thy selfe wholly on Christs righteousnesse for removall of thy sinne and reconciliation with thy God 3 Rom. 22 23 24 25. Cleave to Gods promises of pardon and peace Isa 43.25 Rom. 5.1 waiting till the Lord shall speake peace to thy soule Psal 85.6 The second rule of the new Creature is get thy union with Christ and interest in Christ cleare and confirmed unto thee daily more and more that thou art a branchin that vine a member in that body 2 Cor. 13.3 this may be done three wayes

whatsoever they are like to be Prov. 22.3 2. Goe hide and lay upthy selfe in God run unto his name for God is a rocke of salvation whereunto a poore soule may continually resort God will give command to save us Psal 71.3 3. Especially commit that very thing to God put it into his hands whatsoever thou desirest to keep or fearest to lose 2 Tim 1.12 be it life liberty name or friends maintenance whatsoever you would have resolved of a doubt Psal 37.5 or supply if it be want removed if it be a crosse Psal 50.15 together with all other things cast all thy cares sorrowes troubles feares on the Lord wholly Mat. 6.31 1 Pet. 5.7 Psal 55.22 4. Renew thy faith on those promises every day which most concernethy present state As for the promises of supply if thou beest in want as Psal 34.3 Psal 84.11 of direction if in doubt of deliverance if in trouble of a sanctified use of all Deut. 8.16 I am 5. 11. Rom. 8.28 Heb. 12.10 5. Labour to see Gods hand in every thing Psal 34.9 beleeve his love Heb 11.6 6. Resignethy selfe to him Mat 26.39 The seventh part of the rule of the new Creature Get a savoury rellish of thy Christian priviledges with which thou art invested as thou art a new creatrue in Christ 1. Of thy dignity being the Son of God the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ 2. Of thy liberty being freed out of all thy enemies hands 3. Of the victory that thou hast in Christ to overcome the world 1 Iohn 5.4 thou hast victory over the evil of temptation and persecutions Rom. 8.35 37. by thy faith 4. Thou hast an hedge of providence about thee a guard of Angels Psal 91.11 an inclosure of mercies Psal 32.10 Gods promises are yet of protection Heb. 13.5 6. 5. Of thy riches Heb. 10.14 1 Pet. 2.6 6. Of the joyes which are precious for kinde plentifull for measure Psal 16.11 they are thy Masters Ioy. Meditate on these seriously every day and oppose thy pleasures profits honours which thou hast by Christ against the profit pleasure honors of the world The eighth rule of the new Creature sanctifie God in thy heart daily 1 Pet. 3.15 get into thy heart the feare of God Isa 8.13 delight in God Psal 37.34 1. Have serious thoughts of God in his nature it is this will nourish the divine nature in thee 2. Labour to admire God in his works to tast his love in them Psal 34.8 take notice of Gods anger in his judgements Psal 119.120 Heb. 3.16 3. Pray for a heart of flesh and apply the promises for that very end The ninth part of the rule of the new Creature Get a publicke Spirit to minde the things of Christ Phil. 2.20 21. 1. Mourne for the sins of the time call thy comforts Icabods 1 Sam. 4.21 2. Remember the afflictions of Ioseph Psal 137.6 7. Simpathise with them pray to God for them 3. Minde signes of the times as the commonest signes contempt of Gods Ordinances departure of his glory from his ordinances 4. Incorrigiblenesse under former judgements as errours in opinion declining from the truth of God these precede temporall judgements Isa 6.10 11. The tenth rule of directions 1. Get thy heart more and more weaned from the Creature the Creature is empty it s not able to satisfie thee fully nor make thee happy 2. It cannot save thee from judgements from death 3. It s of a perishing nature 4. The wicked of the world have the greatest part of these earthly blessings These ten rules are to be practised by Christians every day FINIS