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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61262	A little handful of cordial comforts scattered thorowout several answers, to sixteen questions, and objections following : intended chiefly for the good of those that walk mournfully before God ... / by Richard Standfast ...	Standfast, Richard, 1608?-1684.	1665 (1665)	Wing S5210; ESTC R33851	22,608	84

abundantly sufficient for the sins of the whole World yet the benefit of that Death of his is bestow'd on none but upon such conditions as God himself pleaseth which conditions for such as be of years are Faith and Repentance which if we want we shall be sure to perish in our sins not out of any defect in Christ but onely because we want those conditions whereby we come to have interest in him and to be partakers of his Merits Now that we may the better know whether we have this Faith in us yea or no and so neither be deceiv'd with vain hopes nor yet discomforted with false fears consider this which follows and see what Answer you can make to these several demands Are you sensib●e of the misery wherein you are by reason of your sins And do you finde that you need a Saviour Do you know who is the Saviour of the World Do you know in some good measure who Christ is and what he hath done for us and what the benefits that are to be had by him Do you know what a necessity there is of having of him and what a misery it is to be without him and what we must do if we would have any benefit by him And do you verily believe that Christ Iesus and none but he is the Saviour of the World and that he hath both done and suffered as the Scriptures Testifie of him Do you verily believe that there is no way to Heaven but Christ that there is no way to get Christ but Faith and that there is no part to be had in him but by renouncing all other Lords and all other Saviours and by adhering wholly unto him for all our Consolation and Salvation And do you now Desire from the heart to be made partaker of Christ and do you sincerely endeavour to accept of him and to embrace him And can you be content for his sake to forsake all things and to undergo any misery rather then to part with him Can you be content to take him as we say for better for worse and not onely for your Iesus to save you from your sins but also for your Lord to command and dispose of you at his pleasure And is it your care to know his Will And is it your endeavour to yield him an Universal Obedience And is it your practise in obedience unto him to exercise your self to keep a Conscience void of offence both toward God and toward Men and constantly and conscionably to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live godly and righteously and soberly in this present world Do you thus Accept of Christ and Submit unto him Nay is it your hearty desire and unfained endeavour so to do Then you may be sure that you have some degrees of True Faith in Iesus Christ and therefore that Christ is yours that God is yours that All is yours For this is such a qualification as hath the promise both of the Life that now is and also of that that is to come By the Questions we may examine our condition For after this manner is Faith wrought in us Such are the preparatives such is the nature and such are the effects of a True Faith as are implyed in these questions So that if we can in some good measure make understanding and affectionate answers to them all Then we may be sure that we have a True Faith in Christ But if either we know him not or desire not to accept of him or care not to obey him we have then cause to think that we do not believe in him and if we think otherwise we do but deceive our souls Now if upon examination had we finde that we want Faith we must be diligent in using the means whereby to get it which is by reading and hearing of the Word of God and conferring about it For Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word If we finde that we have this Faith we must be careful to keep it and to increase it by the Word by the Sacraments and by Prayer The Third Question UPon this that hath been spoken another question may be raised to this purpose I do in some measure know who Christ is and I do believe that he is a Saviour All-sufficient and that there is no other way to Salvation but Him and that whosoever believeth in him shall not Perish and I my self would fain believe in him But how may I know that I have right to believe in him and that the invitations to Faith do concern me How may I know whether I should be welcome or not if I should be so bold as to come unto him Answer For our encouragement herein and that we may come the more boldly unto the Throne of Grace we must know that Christ is a Common Saviour he is the Saviour of the World and in regard of the All-sufficiency of his merits there is not one of those whose nature he took unto whom his merits are not communicable neither is there any one who in that respect may not truly be said to be savable The Promise is made to You and to your Children and to all that be afar off even as many as the Lord our God shall call Acts 2 39. Now if you desire to know whether you be one of those whom he doth call to believe in him consider then whether or no you be sensible of your misery and burdened with your sins whether your desire be to be eased of your sins and to be partaker of Christ and of those benefits and comforts that be in him For if we be thus qualified we may be confident that we are of the number of those whom he doth seriously invite to come unto him and to depend upon him And hereof you have a witness in your self and Gods own hand to shew for it to your greater comfort For these are his own words Come unto me all ye that labour and be heavy laden and I will give you rest Mat. 11.28 And again If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink Iohn 7.37 Unto such thirsty souls was Christ sent he came to speak peace to such as are weary and broken-hearted and to set at liberty such as are bruised So that if we finding what a misery it is to be in sin and to want a Saviour have thereupon an earnest desire to be delivered from this misery we may be as sure that he calls upon us to come unto him as if our very Names were specified in these invitations Being thus qualified we may come boldly and upon our coming shall be sure to finde Rest But without this badge we have no warrant at all to expect a welcome They that do thus hunger and thirst after Righteousness shall be filled but they that be rich in their own conceits and are not sensible of any wants these he sends empty away The Fourth Question BUt if I finde that I want this sorrow what course

the heinousness of his sins hath any just cause to despair of mercy For though our sins be many yet the mercies of God are more though they be great yet his mercies are above them He is rich in mercy yea his mercy is infinite so that though he have spent much mercy already upon our Fore-Fathers yet he hath mercy enough in store for us also with him there is plenty of forgiveness and his mercy endureth for ever And the merits of Christ are of the same nature for he is Mighty to save and he is the same for ever and through the riches of these merits of Christ there is a way set open even for the worst sinners to become partakers of the riches of the mercies of God Now if any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins c. 1 John 2.1 2. And though the time of his abode upon Earth in the day of his flesh were but short though his sufferings were but for a season yet such was and is the dignity of his person being the Eternal Son of God that his Sufferings and Obedience are infinitely meritorious and his blood is able to clense us from all unrighteousness So that we may well say with the Apostle Who is he that condemneth It is Christ that dyed or rather who is risen again and now maketh Intercession for us Rom. 8.33 34. But let no man turn this doctrine of comfort to a liberty of sinning against the greatest sins there is hopes in Christ for penitent Believers But because there is mercy with God shall we therefore go on in sin God forbid there is mercy with him and therefore he must be feared But if any man shall presume to sin because there is mercy with God through Jesus Christ instead of mercy that man is like to meet with nothing but Justice For as mercifull as God is and as all-sufficient as the Death of Christ is there is no mercy for such as go on still in their wickedness And thus you see that Christ is mighty enough to save us from all our sins and to reconcile us unto God Now that we may have benefit by this sufficiency of Christ we must lay hold upon it by a lively faith This is that which unites us unto Christ and makes us one with him This is that which gives us interest in him and makes us partakers of his merits This makes the death and obedience of Christ as verily our own and as effectual for the pardon of our sins and the salvation of our souls as if they had been performed by our very selves So that if we do truly Believe in the Lord Jesus then is God well pleased with us for his sake and by virtue of his merits being made ours by faith our sins are all pardoned and our souls and bodies shall be Eternally saved And so much the Scripture doth plainly testifie in several places As John 3.16 God so loved the World that he gave his onely begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have Life Everlasting And again Acts 10.43 Through his Name whosoever believeth in him shall receive Remission of Sins be they never so many never so heinous And again Acts 13.38 39. Be it known unto you that through this Man is Preached unto you the Forgiveness of Sins And by him all that believe are justified from all those things from which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses By the Law of Moses we could never have been acquitted either from the Guiltiness of Sin or from the Wrath of God But we are delivered from both by Faith in Christ for by it we obtain the forgiveness of our sins and the salvation of our souls And thus it is manifest That Christ is the Way by which we are to obtain the pardon of sin and peace with God and that Faith is the way whereby we are made partakers of the merits of Christ for our Justification and Salvation Proceed we now in a word to shew that nothing but Christ can reconcile us unto God and that nothing but Faith can make us partakers of Christ for our Reconciliation There is no way whereby to come unto God but onely Christ It is onely in Christ that God is well pleased neither is there salvation in any other For there is no other Name under the Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved Acts 4.12 Neither is there any other means on our part whereby to receive Christ but onely Faith And yet unless we do receive him we get no benefit by him and therefore unless we do believe in him we shall perish in our sins And to this purpose speaks our Saviour John 3.36 He that believeth on the Son hath Everlasting Life and he that believeth not the Son shall not see Life but the Wrath of God abideth on him See the summ of all this in that place of St. John 1 Epist 5. Chap. 11 12 and 13 Verses God hath given to us Eternal Life and this Life is in his Son He that hath the Son hath Life and he that hath not the Son hath not Life These things have I written to you that believe in the Name of the Son of God that ye may know that ye have Eternal Life and that ye may believe in the Name of the Son of God By which place it is plain that there is a way to Life that Christ is the way to it that Life is so in him that it is in no other but him that it is so in him that by believing in him we obtain Life and that it is so in him that without believing in him we get no benefit at all by him And thus you have the truth of the former Answer Enlarged and Confirmed according to it 's severall Branches by which it is manifest That Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and nothing else but onely Faith in him can help us to the pardon of sin the Love of God and the Salvation of our Souls Hereupon it may be thus replyed The Second Question IF I cannot obtain the pardon of my sins and the Favour of God without Faith in Christ I doubt my condition is woful and that I am yet in my sins and liable unto wrath For I fear that I have not this Faith in Christ and that I do not as yet believe in him Shew me therefore I pray you how I may be comforted against this fear and how I may know whether I do believe in Christ Yea or No Answer Doutless if we do not believe in Christ our condition is woful For there is no salvation in any other and without Faith in him we get no benefit by him but we are in our sins and the obligation unto wrath is in full power and force against us For though the ransome which Christ paid by his Death upon the Cross be a ransome