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A04269	A seasonable discourse of spirituall stedfastnesse wherein, 1. it, and a relapse, with the heads, members. and degrees of both, are exactly defined. 2. The subiects, causes, and symptomes of the fearfull sinne of apostasie cleerely expressed. As also directions, incentiues, to recouer, re-inkindle the old-cold-declining zelot. Together with arguments, motiues, that the young, or strong standing convert may be in grace firmely established. By I.B. preacher of the word.	Barlow, John, b. 1580 or 81.	1627 (1627)	STC 1439.5; ESTC S120873	89,672	290

minded quencheth Sathans fierie darts ouercomes the world It bringeth good tydings from God to man vniteth the creatures to the Creator and saveth the sinner What is faith but the choicest Grape in Canaan The prime fruite of the spirit The essentiall forme of a Christian And the p●r●e which purchaseth heaven It s like the poole of Bethesda which cureth the cripples 1 Sam. 2.22 the sword of Saul that never came emptie And the bow of Ionathan which never bended backe from the blood of the slaine the fat of the mightie For crosses faith will assure thee that the Lord sends them their burden shall not exceed thy abilitie and that like a thunder clap they rattle more than hurt That they are the cognisance of Christ the Physitian of the soule shall handle thee gently stay but a very little whil● and at their departure leaue a blessing behind them This baulme heales all diseases helpes at a dead lift and cures when nothing can And what shall I more say For the time would be too short for me to tell of Gedeon Barak Heb. 11.32 c. and of Sampson of Iephtah David Samuel and of the Prophets who thorow faith subdued kingdomes wrought righteousnes obtained promises stopped the mouthes of Lyons quenched the violence of f●re escaped the edge of the sword of weake were made strong waxed valiant in battell resolute in warre and put to flight whole armies of their enemies For when reason presents these things vnto thee as so many shee bearer roaring Canons implacable Divells And the promises of God the acts of divine providence And the kingdom of heavē no better than fate destinie broken notio●s at the best but like some ruinated and forraged Countrie th●n will faith giue them luster make them shine And as it were with open face appeare and stand foorth in a most glorious forme and order Grow in faith and thou shalt be able to breake a bow of steele lift vp the wing soare on high sleight temptations defie the devill and bid death doe his worst A great faith will fill thy soule with ioy thy life with good works and the whole world with prayses Faith if big and strong will make thee a noble warriour in the Lambes campe one of a thousand A man as David according to Gods owne heart It will ascend to heaven lay hold on thy suretie satisfie thy creditor And bring thee a quittance for an vniversall an everlasting discharge of all thy debts originall actuall past and to come But I must confesse that what I presse is hard to practise For Sathan daily desires doth winnow it When its seed is first sowne in the soyle of our soules faine would he rend it vp by the roots but finding that a matter impossible because it is of Gods planting then will he by his subtile suggestions tempt vs to question the truth of its obiects And when this wil not serue his turne neither that we may proue graine for his garner then with his sieve he will tosse tumble vs vp and down to prevent faiths act separate it from its proper obiect and keepe vs in a continuall intercourse of doubting staggering Beloved of all the strings which be on the instrument of my soule I finde none more to iarre than this of faith O how hardly is it turned How suddenly out of temper It will proue a pretie peece of service in the time of tryall day of temptation to rely on God to cast all our care on him However yet there is hope for the Lord hath blessed Faith once And it shall be blest for ever the elder shall serue the yonger And in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Having finished the first thing wherein we are to grow we proceede to the second From the which we are instructed that Doct. 4 Christiās are to grow in the knowledge of Christ Iesus Who better acquainted with Christ than Paul th'apostle yet did he not striue to increase his knowledge of him His desire was among the Corinths to know nothing but Christ Iesus 1. Cor. 2.2 and him crucified No time would he omit meanes neglect that he might apprehend him Phil. 3.12 of whom he was apprehended The charge he gaue his sonne Timotheus may serue further to confirme the proposition Doth he not command him 1. Tim 4.13 to attend vnto reading Doctrine Exhortation And may not reason inforce it Reas 1 For is not Christ the Being of Beings The naturall Sonne of God the Father The brightnesse of his glorie Heb. 1.3 And the ingraven forme of his person Are not all the treasures of Wisdome and Holinesse Col. 2 3. hid in him Doth not the fulnesse of the God-head dwell in him bodilie Is he not coeternall Coessentiall And coequall with the most high Will you heare his owne testamonie I Ioh. 10.30 and the Father are one The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his waies before his workes of old Pro. 8.22 c. when there were no depths I was brought forth no fountaines abounding with waters yere the mountaines were setled or the hills created while as yet he had not made the earth nor the fields neither raised the highest part of the dust of the world When he prepared the heavens set a cōpasse vpon the face of the deep And established the clouds aboue I was there When he gaue the Sea his decree commanded the proud waues should not passe their boundes and when he appointed the foundations of the earth then was I by him as one brought vp with him and I was daily his delight reioycing alwayes before him And this being thus Phil. 2.6 is it any robbery for Christ to be equall with God Was not the Word made flesh 1 Ioh. 1.1.2 Dwelt amongst vs And did we not behold his glory as the glorie of the onely begotten of the Father Ioh. 1.14 full of grace and truth What obiect more wonderfull Better deserues our knowledge Did not the Angels desire to peepe into this mysterie 1 Pet. 1.12 And shall not we Then are we blame worthie Reas 2 Consider also what he hath done for vs. Hath he not elected vs Ioh. 15.16 before the world was In these good daies created vs of nothing Beautified vs in a comely manner Iob. 10.10 Imprinted his owne image vpon vs Psal 8.6 And we by sinne having spoiled our selues with no lesse price than the shedding of his sacred bloud 1 Pet. 1.19 redeemed vs Recovered the great damage we lost in Adam our father And restored vs to a farre better condition Psal 103.1.2 than was allotted to vs at our first creation It is he who pardoneth all our sinnes healeth all our infirmities delivers our soules from hell And from whom all the good we inioy we haue receiued Are not all things from him Ioh. 1.3 For without him was not made Ioh. 5.17 any thing that was

the Garner as lead in the Cannons belly Who built the Iewes a Synagogue Made coates for the poore Refreshed Paul in bands Were they not persons furnished filled with the hot actiue mightie working powder of grace Consult and see Wherefore thou Embrio Thou Neo-phyt Who art formed in the Churches wombe graffed into the true oliue tree and now beginst to bud to flourish be not content with a meane stature an ordinarie growth but be thou enlarged And O thou Prodigall Luk. 15.13 Whose portion in part is spent come to thy selfe confesse thy fault returne to thy father be thou reconciled So shalt thou like that valiant Nazarit Iudg 16.22 29 recover thy decaied strength binde the wedding garment faster to thee lay hold on the pillers of promise pull downe Sathans throne and cast the gates of hell from off her hinges And thou growne● Christian I must raise thee to an higher pitch wind thee to the greatest period if possible of sanctification For thou art not to rest at an ordinarie degree of grace but to encrease like Noahs floud vntill all the vacuities of thy emptie channels be filled the tops of the aspiring hills mountaines be covered And the depth be vnmeasurable not to be sounded It were to be wished that every Christian could giue the like testimonie of himselfe Iob. 32.18.19 as doth Elihu I am full of matter my bellie is as wine which hath no vent it is readie to burst like new bottels Grow we should not onely in quantity of grace but also in the qualitie of it Our gifts are to be of a more ●ure and defecate nature When an apple comes to it bignesse we see it growes in colour taste and proceedes to a better rellish a more delectable temper and so it should must be with vs Christians Wherefore let no meanes be omitted which may further thee nor incentiues vnthought on that may provoke thee And first make it thy chiefest care daily imployment to crucifie the old-man with all his lusts Gal. 5.24 Smite him on the face none shall revile thee beate him blacke blew it s no breach of law Bray this foole in a morter stampe him to powder burne him into ashes and bereaue him of his life Or deale with him as it was done to the Levits concubine Iudg 19. force him to death cut him in twelue peeces send them into the coasts of Golg●tha And if no man will God shall commend thee reward thee for it But because when thou hast done thy best and worst some palme of this cursed Iezabell will remaine 2 King 9. some part of his skull vndevoured And some drops of his bloud not lapped vp yet for all this be not out of hart waxe not fainte in this quarrell but lay on load play the man stil As the Philistines by Sampson Iudg 16. plucke out his eyes shaue of his haire cause him to grinde in the mill of mortification and take away his strength Inioyne him to keepe a perpetuall fast creepe on his brest or with the serpent licke vp the dust and so fall into a sensible incurable consumption Stop his cares as Stevens auditors with David curbe him by a bit And like Agabus with the girdle of the word binde him hand and foote Suffer him not to kicke to spraule or moue a very finger to peepe listen or whisper For if he doe he will recouer renew his vigour and buffet the new-man Strangle all his ill motions at the conception burie them in the wombe Let not one of them haue a timely birth And if for all this as it is like enough he will be medling not brought to subiection then make him a Mendicant grant him a passe to beg Or if not so liue like the Monke in the order of idlenesse lazines may it please you consecrate him to Baal permit him to be his Priest that he may lash his scurvie skin lance his putrified flesh And at the last with Iudas become his owne executioner Doe thus for none but Sathan will mourne at his death seeke to raise him vp againe When this Saul is slaine then shall little David grow stronger and stronger fiercer and fiercer 2 Take further advise and be a companion to those who feare God haue all thy delight Psal 119 63. and 16.3 in the most excellent Christians The better the obiect is the more content it giues to the senses And is not the best of all things most to be desired When Christ talked with his Disciples Luk. 24.32 their hearts grew hot within them When Paul met Sylas Acts 18.5 he burned in spirit Will not the greenest billet fire with the drie And one flaming bavin kindle a thousand One who is strong in the grace of God by a secret operation conveieth as the loadstone into iron power and vigour into all who touch him His praiers conference gestures and whole carriage is it not like a costly banquet which calle●h foorth the fainting Spirits armes them with a fresh infused power as if a man had bin at the wine Doubtlesse the more we apprehend the worke of grace in any the more will it reviue the new-m●n in vs curb the old And by an over-ruling command binde all his lawlesse members to the peace Yong plants thriue not vnder dropping trees weake Christians grow not in lewd company such a fire warmes the hands cooles the heart kindleth the flesh quencheth the Spirit 3. And if by serious examination thou finde in thy selfe some raging corruption for as Abraham his beloued sonne each convert hath his darl ng sinne then vp with it by the rootes aboue all other To it with the mattocke of the law downe with it to the ground for such a weede vnmortified will nourish all the rest about it Want of wit in this kind of husbandrie makes the good graine of grace to grow slowlie looke lancke and leane When men would haue a rough field fitted for the plow will they not first rid vp the strongest trees And then fall to the weaker Therefore set vpon thy vnruliest lust fight not with small or great in the entrance of this battell but with the Prince onely Giue him not a blow and be gone But hack and hew vntill he fall on the ground 1 Sam. 17.51 For when this Giant is dead all the armie will faint be put to flight And with the turning of an hand be conquered overcome 4. Adde to all private and frequent prayer Secret meales make a fat body Closet-duties a w●ll-liking minde Will not the tender dew that falls in the silent night more refresh and cause the herbes to flourish than a great showre of wet in the stirring day For the one is lesse mingled with the sunne and winde of hypocrisie than the other And God like man giues the choicest richest gifts in secret Iam. 4.6 When thou hast this and thus done be humble in thine owne eye haue a low conceit of