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A13014	A forme of wholsome words, or, An introduction to the body of divinity in three sermons on 2 Timothy, I.13 / preached by John Stoughton ...	Stoughton, John, 1593-1639.; Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1640 (1640)	STC 23307.5; STC 23307A_PARTIAL; ESTC S100140	52,852	122

man be ashamed of another that suffers for that thing of which he rather hath cause to glory than be ashamed Nay he addes I am perswaded and beleeve that he viz. God is able to keep that which I have committed to him that was his soul though it is not expressed yet it is supposed intimating his belief that God would keep his depositum his soul which he had committed to him against that day now in such a case as this as the saying was it is a wrong to a martyr to pity him or to weep for him I will not say as some adde to pray for him It is a wrong to a martyr to be ashamed of him or to mourn for him especially when the martyr himself is couragious and glorious in his cause and God hath so mightily supported his spirits and set them so high that he can feel nothing but bear all easily I say when God hath exalted his spirits and elevated them thus it is an incongruous thing for others to be cast down there is no congruity in it And this is the first of that double precept of Paul verse 2 the Negative precept wherein he commandeth Timothy not to be ashamed which the Apostle propounds in the first place least that should be a rub in the way least the consideration that he was in prison in disgrace in bonds and afflictions might make Timothy cold and shrink away from him 2. He addes another to that and that is an Affirmative one in the verses which I have read and this precept too is double hold fast in verse 13 and keep in the 14 verse In a generality only I shall expresse those things now and reserve particularity till I came to my point But now in the generality either of them both these three things are observable 1. There is the act that is injoyned in one verse hold fast in the other keep the same properly though expressed variously 2. There is the object expressed in one vers a form of wholsome words expressed in the other that good depositum or that worthy thing which was committed to thee which was the very same thing that same form of wholsome Words which was deposited unto him 3. And there is the manner of performance of both these in the former intimated hold fast in faith and love which is in Christ Iesus though I confesse and shall touch afterward that it may admit of another interpretation and that in a very good sence yet I thinke that is part of the Apostles meaning to expresse the manner how he should hold fast a form of sound and wholsome Words verse 2 in faith and love which is in Christ Iesus they are the two hold fasts and the latter is expressed but more deeper and from a higher ground and stronger head and that is by the spirit of God which dwelleth in us he must keep those things that were committed to him by the spirit of God and indeed that is the spring and root our grace doth immediatly lay fast hold on these things that are committed to us from the word of God but it is the spirit of God that breaths in us that grace whereby we lay hold and which supports us and enables us continually and it must be his strength that must enable us to hold stedfast and constant in any good thing There remains now but one thing and so I shall dismisse the generall delineation of the chapter you have heard the double Admomonition there is likewise in the latter end of the chapter from those verses that I have read to the end of the chapter 2. A double provocation by which the Apostle Paul doth labour to presse and inforce Timothy upon this duty and both of them taken from Examples There are 1. Evill Examples and 2. Good Examples By both which the Apostle spurs Timothy on and provokes him to this duty by the indignation of the evill and by the emulation of the good 1. The evill Examples are of inconstant Desertors expressed in the 15 verse Thou knowest saith Paul that all that are in Asia have deserted me declined me turned away from me which is no new thing for a man that comes to suffer for the cause of God though he do it never so discreetly though he do it with never so much constancie nay though he do it never so honorifically for the publike good and the publike cause I say it is no new thing to have many turn their backs upon them then to count a man for a fool and so to leave him it was Pauls case he did meet with such all that were in Asia turned from him and forsook him as they that it may be cryed Hosanna before were ready now to cry out Crucifige crucifie him Now he was under a cloud and under a storm they were afraid of him and now they would not look on him they shrink back from him and the Apostle presseth this consideration on Timothy not to dishearten him or to put him in the same course but to oblige him so much the more to stick close to him in the cause of Christ because of the neglect of it There be so many that fall off from the servants of God when they are in their afflictions that those who are sincere they had need to perform their duty so much the more closely and sweetly to keep to them and recompence all the discomforts and discouragements vvhich they do meet withall from false friends and false professours There is a great necessity and so a great obligation lieth upon godly persons on those that are truely such out of the consideration of the treachery and perfidiousnesse and cowardise of the wicked so much the more to shew themselves to stand by and comfort the Saints of God in their sufferings 2. The good examples are of constant Adhaerers and there is one thing in it which I shall note by the way viz. the great difference of the Apostles propounding of the one example and of the other he propounds the bad example with a meere bare mention all have forsaken me without any passion without any bitter harshnesse or railing against these men he forbears this and passeth by all that and covers it but he cannot forbear when he propounds the good example but doth it with a great mixture of affection and it is very emphaticall home and full omitting no circumstance that might adde any commendation or set any beauty or glosse upon it The good example is that though there were many that forsaked Paul deserted him even all that were in Asia yet there was one that durst own him when all the rest left him and that was Onesiphorus and this example of Onesiphorus he propounds very emphatically 1. With a mixture of prayers to God for him and by way of recompence as it were having ingaged God to be his pay-master 2. With a mixture of praise and commendation in an ingenuous acknowledgment of his fidelity and

vertues to rule the heart and affections Secondly vertues regulating a mans words and actions Wee must seeke how to governe these in a way of duty and vertue But then againe for our severall conditions I shall name two more which will comprehend all that I desire First vertues to regulate every age and sex the particulars are men and women young and old every sex and age Secondly vertues for the ordering of every state and condition rich or poore learned or unlearned and in proportion to order us in every severall state and condition in affliction and prosperitie And these are the second branch of the first of those specials that are recommended two speciall vertues required in respect of our severall conditions as there were two before in respect of our severall parts But now in regard of our severall states and relations in which men are there be foure more The first two of which are to order us in a more private way The second two to regulate us in a more publique way As wee are single persons living in a solitary life there are morall ethicall vertues which must order our conversation suitable to the rule of dutie And then as we are publique persons in a family these are oeconomicall vertues to order families in the particular relations thereof husband wife parents children masters servants guests and hoasts There be ethicall vertues and oeconomicall vertues for the ordering of a more private way And when we come more publique to bee parts of a greater community there must bee vertues for that Now there may bee a double community which we may live in and in which we should have vertues to carry our selves as we ought to doe in such places There is a community Ecclesiasticall a Church society and body And there is a community Politicall and Civill and there are suitable vertues required to carry our selves as members of these bodies either Ecclesiasticall or Politicall There remaines now only the second branch of things to be done and practised viz. the helpes We have gone through the duties generall and particular I shall in a word recommend in the last place those things that I comprehended under the name of helps to the performance of duty And they are either More generall and publique or More particular and private The more publique helpes are the due and conscientious use of the ordinances of God appointed as First hearing of the word And second receiving of the sacrament And the due observation of times instituted by God and constituted by him First the observation of the Lords day in its continuall course Secondly of Fasts in a Christian way These are the more publique helpes and yet there may be some relation to privatenesse in these But now more privately as a mans face is towards God or As a mans face is towards the world there are helpes for those duties As we must labour to converse with God or as we must converse with men which way soever we turne our faces there may be and are helps for the ordering of our life in both Now the helpe in private in regard of a mans converse with God are First diligent reading and meditation upon the Word of God and divine truths Secondly another part of our communion with God is the continuall exercise of prayer and thanksgiving Then as wee stand in relation towards the world and are conversant in the world there be two other helpes First the conscientious use and improvement of the communion of Saints Second our fidelity and conscientious cariage in our particular vocations where there will be many other things But in all those the maine will be how all these may be done that they may be most usefull in the advancing of a most christian course in the use of the Word and Sacrament and Sabbaths and fastings and reading and meditation and prayer and thanksgiving and the communion of Saints and the conscientiousnesse in a mans vocation I say how wee may doe all these so as they may be most usefull to further us in the way of duty These are the more generall helps There are some more particular according to the particular cases of men I will propound but foure maine cases to which I will reduce all the rest First some things to helpe a man in the ingresse into the way of Religion I am faine to make a word or two for memories sake Secondly in the aggresse Thirdly in the congresse Fourthly in the progresse You shall see more plainly what I meane by and by There be helpes to bring a man that is not yet in a way of godlinesse to come into it Wherein the principall thing will be the due examination of what is the right way and a mans owne estate whether he be in that way or no and that being made cleare we must consider the helps that will put a man on to resolve on the entry into that way and to use the helpes that may set him upon it to enter it which is the ingresse or entrance Secondly in the aggresse or setting upon a Christian course there will come in helpes and directions how to lead a holy life and dye a holy death how to order a mans time and mannage his dayes and houres in Christian and holy courses so that he may both in life and death carry himselfe as becomes a Christian and be in such a state as a Christian may be that is for the aggresse or setting upon the worke Then thirdly in the congresse wherein is to be treated of our spirituall warfare helps to direct us to carry our selves in time of distresse of conscience and in matter of Satans temptations which every Christian more or lesse will have and meet withall Lastly in the progresse helpe for perseverance how to hold out in daily proficiency and perpetuall perseverance to the end These are all the heads whereof There are foure in the porch and frontispice and foure times twelve in the pile and edifice the rest of the building Twelve generals concerning things to bee knowne and beleeved of God and man in generall And twelve concerning God and man in particular according to their particular states And twelve for matters of life duties to be performed And twelve helps that are to be used to help us in the performance of those duties And thus you have the whole building and according to the words of our text an {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or a forme of sound and wholsome words FINIS SER. I. Doctrine The Object Generally propounded Words Sound and wholsome Words For the Substance of matter Soundnesse of Vse Soundnesse of manner A form of sound words The matter intirely collected Method aptly digested The speciall circumscription of the Object Divine truths Fundamentall truths The summe of them is Christ The parts are faith and love Summe of all is Christ Parts are Faith apprehensive Love active SERM. II. Act Have them The copy of them Written Printed The originall laid up in the Understanding Memory Affection Keepe them Patronize thē with Best abilities couragiously Authority cautiously Practise them sincerely fruitfully and constantly Propagate them seriously by planting watering Manner as A sacred Depositum A choice treasure The Persons Paul Timothy Every Christian Proofe By Scripture Examples Testimonies Reason Necessity Utility A Band of Verity Vnity Vnanimity Heresie To crontroversies A key of understanding A locke of memory A helpe of use to Profit by others To be profitable to others Application Generall Iustification of observers of this rule Persons whether Paul Timothy or the Church Manner whetherby Publik Creeds Confessions Private writings for Vnlearned in Catechismes Learned in a Body of Divinity Reprehension of Perfidiousnesse Negligence Folly Exhortation to The Church To take care For learners Children Youngmen Fathers Caution Let it be Choyce Close Charitable Changeable Ministers to Expound Expectation Dogmaticall Historicall truths Private Christians Force to duty Fear no difficulty SER. III Premise Generalls Nothing Perfect For matter Or Method But in away Prudentially Any forme is Tolerable though Indifferent this is Different Comprehensive Not pleasant Frontispice Happinesse True Religion True Church Scriptures Edifice Things to be knowne and beleeved Concerning God His nature Unity of essence Trinity of persons Works of God Kindes and species of them Creation Providence Objects of them Reasonable creature Angels Good Bad. Man Immortality of soule Conscience Things fundamentally premised Covenant Seales of them Law Sanctions Things formally considered Principles of human actions Grace of God· Our free will The fruits that grow from these Good workes Sins or evill workes Things particularly to be knowne concerning God and man In regard of the different states of men Substantially different State of innocency Of the fall Circumstantially different State of grace Under the old Testament Under the new Severall acts of God Perfecting our salvation From the state of sin to grace by acts Fundamentall by purpose Predestination Reprobation Redemption By purchase Formall Vocation effectuall Iustification actuall From grace to glory Incoate Sanctification priviledges Gubernation exercises Consummate Resurrection Iudgement Glorification Condemnation Life to be done and practised Duties to be performed by the strength of grace Generall Primary and predominant in duties to God and man Vertues Theologicall Philadelphicall Secondary and concomitant vertues Cardinall Circumstantiall Speciall Regulating our lives in the Parts Heart Affections Words Actions Conditions in respect of Sex Age Estate Condition States and relations More private In a single and solitary life Vertuess Ethicall More publique in a family Oeconomicall In a greater community Ecclesiasticall Politicall Helps to be used in Universall conversation Publique meanes Hearing the word Receiving the Sacrament Times Sabbath Fasting Private towards God Contemplative Reading Meditation Prayer Thanksgiving Towards man Active Communion of Saints Particular vocation Particular condition In the ingresse Examination Resolution Aggresse Holy life Death Congresse Spirituall warfare Progresse Perseverance