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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31008	Preparatory-grace in conversion briefly stated and examined / by Thomas Barnes.	Barnes, Thomas.	1699 (1699)	Wing B873; ESTC R25265	8,796	26

know not how Men celebrated in their day have made sowr complaints of an unsuspected Declension by taking a middle course even in this self same Calvinism L' Blank Th. 1. p. 429. However if it be possible for me to keep up a good Correspondence with your Judicious Moderators I shall freely referr my self to one whom unfeignedly I value and I comfort my self I have his sense in all that I have said Nay Cath Theol. Book 2.151 for once Mr. Baxter shall be my shield and what he says will go far with many all good Dispositions says that good Man who gave the world which he little liked many a loud Warning he was no Antinomian is from God so that it seems a Man may avouch this and yet inforce the use of means I appeal to all who have any concern in Religion whether of these two do most inforce Duty To say Never expect O Man thy Conversion but in a due use of God's appointed means Or to say Never expect thy Conversion till thou hast past thro' thy course of Preparation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Here is a rare disciplinary-silence for your Catechumeni your Pythagorick Probationers Why How long must Men be preparing When come these Preparations to their Compleatment Will the Fox by all his apish tricks attain the reason of a Man and by degrees become a Senator Impossible Oh! God forbid I conjure you of New-castle be not so Devil-ridden by Craft as to stand at play with Notions in the way of your Salvation With such measure of Preaching Gifts as by Prayer some measure of honest Diligence as I can get a bad heart forward and copying after my betters I can attain to I admonish you to beg of Christ to save you because you cannot save your selves This is the work of Ministers And the Serpent never show'd himself more a Serpent than in incumbring the simplicity of this Truth We say there is no true Holiness but what is a fruit of Faith and therefore as ever we would have Men cloathed we would have them repair to God's Wardrobe And what of all this Why then we are not sound then we are not Orthodox then we are Antinomians and all that Nonsense Wickedness and ill breeding can suggest If those be your Wise Middle Siz'd-Divinity-Men it is a piece of effronted impudence in them to insinuate such Innuendo's as that our way leaves no room for Duties They Father upon us some base-born Conclusions of their own and then raise a creeking Triumph that they have killed a Monster No How of Blessedness no practical Holiness as a grave Man says upon a grave Subject is God's reflected or imprest image on his Saints and is an essential part of Gospel-Redemption This Undermining the Doctrine of the grace of God rendred the reformation deprest and unsuccessful in Poland by this did the Learned Amyraldus shatter the Protestant Churches of France And this design is a Party a Peace-making Party if you will believe them carrying on in England to the utter ruin of Peace and the Power of Godliness amongst us And now good Reader thou hast that difcourse separated from the rest which gave offence And having taken the trouble to read these few leaves Pray tell me what Heresie thou canst spie in all this Is there any cause given why a poor beginner in his Master's Vineyard should meet with so much Treachery so much Blindness and Contempt Little Souls are full of Self-advancement upon very slender Grounds But Man's day is so short-liv'd a thing it is never worth too many thoughts about it Our grievances are Coram Rege and there is a Judge stands at the Door in whose Eyes the least in the kingdom of Heaven is greater than old John the Baptist FINIS