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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31961	An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy's sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe's funeral and Dr. Horton's and Mr. Nalton's funeral.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1662 (1662)	Wing C241; ESTC R1910	251,365	374

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I shall leave with you twenty Directions and as many as there are there are not more then you must practise and take them as if they were the last Directions I should give you and take them as practicals not as notionals that you must live upon as long as you live First See that the foundation be soundly laid in your head and heart in matters of your Religion In your head i. e. that you well understand what Religion is what the Christian Religion is what God is what it is for God to be yours in his Attributes and Relations unto you what he is and will be unto you what you are and must be unto him what sin is how odious wherein its evil consists what is sin and what not what sin hath done in the world and what state it hath brought transgressors into what Christ is what he hath done for man's recovery and redemption what he hath wrought gives and offers to the world The end and design of God in the work of mans redemption The tender of the Gospel-Covenant of grace freeness largeness and excellency of the grace of this Covenant The end of our Religion the everlasting glory that is revealed in the Gospel what it is how sure and how great When you understand these things get a sound and radicated belief concerning the Truths of the holy Scripture revealing all these things And think it not enough that the Scripture is true or that you are resolved so to believe but get the best grounds for your belief be well established on those grounds Read the Scripture much till you are acquainted with and relish the matter and language and feel the power until all be delightful to your souls in reading And be not ashamed to understand the Fundamentals look to your Catechisms The Fundamentals of Religion you must understand and receive And when you have got them into your head be sure you get them into your heart and never think any truth received as it ought till it hath done some special work on your heart till you believe that God is Almighty Just Holy c. and all the Attributes of God have made their holy impression on your heart that the sanctifying knowledge of God hath warmed your affections captivated your souls that God be inthron'd in your hearts by the belief and knowledge of your minds Know your selves so as to be humble know Christ so as he may be sweet unto you and exalted by you set up Christ in your souls nearest to your hearts know sin so as to hate it c. 'T is the entertainment of the good things of the Gospel by the Will that is the principal part of your Religion 'T is a matter of lamentable consequence in all your lives when there is not a sound work at the heart how little life will there be from any truth in reading or hearing The Fundamentals of Religion must be so received as not only to have an old heart mended but a new heart made Thus understand believe and give up thy heart to that thou believest and understandest 2. Know and remember the work of your Salvation must be as long as you live and that you have never done till you have done living I give this direction because I find something in Christianity the remainds of Carnality is apt to hinder c. and some Professors when converted they are reconciled to God and safe c. but there 's a great deal to be done after c. 3. Understand well Wherein it is your confirmation stability rootedness and growth in Religion doth consist The chief part of your growth in Grace is not to know more things then you knew before but to grow in the knowledge belief entertainment and improvement of the same truths that at first you did receive not that you may not or should not know more for the clear knowledge of the Fundamentals guide you unavoidably to the sight of many other truths which a darker knowledge of those Fundamentals will not discover to you 'T is not an addition to your former knowledge but the clearer knowing sounder believing heartier entertaining and improving of the truths you knew at first as the health of a man consists not in having every day variety of food but in the partaking and digestion of the same food that 's fittest for him get but a more perfect conviction or concoction of what you knew before and this is your growth You may grow in the knowledge of Gods attributes by knowing them more clearly orderly distinctly satisfactorily and believingly then before There is a world of difference in the manner of knowledge between a dark and a clear knowing of things Grow in greater love to them and greater skill in entertainment improvement and practise of them 4. Grow downward in humility and inward in the knowledge of your selves and above all maintain a constant abhorrence and jealousie of the sin of Pride grow in humility and fly from Pride keep a constant apprehension of your unworthiness and weakness of the odiousness and danger of the sin of spiritual pride so called because exercised about spiritual things of being pufft up with pride of any thing in your selves of being too confident in your selves Below in own and expect not nor desire others good thoughts of you Humility lies not in humility of opinion speech garb or carriage but in opposition to high thoughts of our own parts gifts godliness when we think of these above their worth still remember Psal. 25. Prov. 26. 19. Isai. 57. 15. Ioh. 22. 29. As ever you would grow in grace and be confirmed Christians keep a low esteem of your selves be mean in your own eyes be content to be mean in others and hearken not to secret flatterers that would puff you up Take heed of any thing that would puff you up c. 5. You must understand that you are Disciples in Christs School where Ministers are his teachers and guides the Ordinances his means for his peoples good and the Scripture the Book you must learn therefore keep in this order keep under these Guides commit your souls to those that are faithful and fit for souls to be intrusted with And when you have done with humble submissiveness to their teaching keep in this School under those officers in their Discipline and dwell in the Catholick Church and Communion of Saints and understand the duty of Pastors and People Heb. 13. 17 18. 1 Thes. 5. 12. Obey them that have the Rule over you If God had seen the poor Christians sufficient to support themselves he would never have made it the duty of all to be marshalled and rank'd in several Schools Ranks Orders and all to walk in this Order to Heaven If you withdraw from under Christ's Officers and Ordinances you are in danger of being snatcht up as straglers Quest. What shall we do Whom shall we take for our guides