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A81485	A sincere believer, comforted, and encouraged. Or; a practical treatise, discovering the goodness of God to a sinful soul, in the enjoyment of Christ With the great benefit and comfort he hath thereby. Whereby as through a prospective, a true Christian may plainly see how to fit and prepare himself in such a manner, as his endeavours may not be in vaine. By R.D.M.A. and minister of the gospel in the Isle of Wight. Recommended to the serious perusal of all true Christians. By Thomas Goodwin, D.D. and Will Strong, M.A. deceased.	Dingley, Robert, 1619-1660.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Strong, William, d. 1654.	1656 (1656)	Wing D1500; ESTC R230249	203,361	369

communicatur Id. ibid. pag. 58. 64. And it is said of Beleevers They shall feare the Lord and his goodnesse in the latter dayes Hos 3.5 6. See and examine if the Lord be good to you in this peculiar manner Vse 6 enquire whether you have interest in this God and all his goodnesse whether on good grounds you can say with David My f 0200 0524 V 3 goodnesse g Nostra plus aliis placent P. Syr. my fortresse my deliverer Psa 144.2 1. Art thou purged from thy defilements and art thou pure in heart Then God is peculiarly good to thee Psal 73.1 Truly God is good to Israel even such as are of a clean heart Except thou art clean he cannot with honour love thee and did not he love thee first thou couldst not be made clean 2. Dost thou continually feare him and walk as under his piercing eye 'T was a true saying of Bernard h Soli silii irae iram non sentiunt Bern. in Ep. 256. Onely the sonnes of wrath feare not wrath Psal 31.19 O how great is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that feare thee God is to be feared i Timendus ne timeatur Greg in Evang. 26. saith Gregory that he may not be feared and they that feare God saith Origen feare nothing else k Timor timore ut clavus clavo pellitur saith one Quit timet Deum timet nihil praeter eum Origen in Levit 16. 3. Are all the stakes of thy trust and confidence pitcht in God Dost thou run to him in distresse and poure out thy complaints in his bosome See Psal 31.19 How great is thy goodnesse which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee The just shall live by faith their continuall dependance is on God Nay 4. Dost thou but long and thirst after him and vehemently wish thou hadst interest in him and all his goodnesse certainly God is thine Psal 107.9 Hee satisfies the longing soule and fills the hungry soule with goodnes When a woman longs for dainties she hears of 't is a sign saith one she is breeding and if qualms of sicknesse come on her it argues she is w th child and so if thou long'st after Christ and grace comfort and if thou art sick of love be assured that Christ is formed in you l Traps Expos of Mat. 5.6 True desires are the breathings of a broken heart which God will not despise There may be saint wishings and wouldings in the worst thus Balaam desired to dye the death of the righteous but cared not to live their life and Pilate desired to know what was truth but staid not to heare it m Carnales nō curant quevere quae tamen desiderāt invenire cupientes consequi sed non sequi Bernard But our desires as they must be ardent and violent so also impatient and laborious seconded with endeavours after the thing desired Now if you find in your selves these foure things Purity Feare Trust and Desire conclude with David God is your goodnesse 7. This should perswade sinners that are ignorant of divine sweetnesse Vse 7 to try God and his wayes this is the main duty that is urged in the Text Taste and see how good the Lord is that is take delight in his Word venture upon him yeeld up your selves to his service and turne your feet into his Testimonies n Ab illis qui gustarunt mira cum dulcedine percipitur nova vita Vobis itaque optimi fratres novum hoc videri non debet siquidem gustastis quam benignus sit Deus Masculus you will soone get bidden Manna and have morsels to eat the world knowes not of you will quickly relish Divine sweetnesse and blame your selves you tasted it no sooner As o Annot. on the Bible printed 1645. and Sa Moore in his Christians heart drawn out to Christ pag. 17. Paul lookt upon himselfe as one born out of due time because he was converted no sooner 1 Cor. 15 8. Thou wilt smite on the thigh and say Ah wretch that I am what have I done and where have I been all this while Why have I been such a stranger to God hitherto O that I could heare you thus chiding and rating your selves in this respect 8. Let beleevers be thankfull for all this goodnesse Vse 8 O give unto the Lord the honour due unto his Name and worship him withholy worship You can sing those new Songs which none can learn but the redeemed from the earth Every one cannot finger Davids Harp the upright in heart shall glory the nightingale is welcom into your gardens but not the Skreech owle 'T is Angels work and should bee our delight p Ascensus gratiarnm est descensus gratiae Bernard Surely you will lose nothing by lifting up God in your praises and praise is comely for the upright 't is all the rent you pay to God for his goodnesse q Amnem sequatur qui viam vult ad mare Plau●us Origo fontium omnium mare bonorum omnium Deus Bern. in Cant have you not cause of thankfulnesse What greater felicity then to be the object of Divine love God hath given you Christ and with him all things Oh therefore know well your happinesse that so your sleep may be pleasant to you your hearts may be filled with joy and your mouthes with praises 9. Imitate God in goodnesse Vse 9 and be yee followers of God as deare children strive to be holy as he is holy perfect as he is perfect mercifull as he is mercifull good as he is good Be good and doe good as to all men so especially to the houshold of saith r Summa religiouis est imitari quem colis August strive to imitate so sacred a nature and though you must needs come infinitly short yet delight to write after so fair a Copie James bids us be easily intreated full of mercy and good workes and Paul saith Be kinde one to another courteous tender-hearted forgiving one another as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you ſ Misericordiam qui non praestat alteri tollia sihi Chrysologus in Serm. 43. lest God repent of all his goodnesse to you 10. Esteeme nothing sweet or good any further then you can finde or enjoy God in it Vse 10 for all goodnesse is derived from him and without him is nothing good that is good Austin loved to read Tully before his conversion but not so much afterwards quia nomen Jesu non crat ibi he could not find Christ named there Tully was unacquainted with God t Dr Stoughton in his love sick Spouse p. 133. The Jewes say the Rabbins throw the Book of Ester to the ground ere they read it because the name of God is not once there The thing I aim at is this Look how much of God you can find in any creature in any mercy in any duty and so much of reall comfort

to satisfi● thee all commers When all the Elect which are a numberlesse number Rev. 5.12 shall have tasted divine sweetnesse here and drunk their fill of those Crystall Rivers in glory 't were blasphemy to think there should be the lesse in God still in Christ fulnesse dwels The Sunne hath not the lesse for filling all the lesser vessels of the Starres with light So here c. 2. The best way to draw more abundantly out of this well is to communicate to others the o Though both armes grow yet that which a man useth is the stronger and bigger so is it with our gifts and graces Trap. on Mat. 25.16 pag. 567. Scien●iarum ea vis est natura ut quo plus doceas eo ditior ac doctior fias Bodin more you improve and impart talents the more talents shall be given you but to bury one in the ea●th is the way to have that taken from you Besides as when others feed with you this doth encrease your appetice and draw down that which you would not have eaten alone so at this heavenly banquet the more the merrier nay the better cheare Much is to be gotten by communion with Saints And a Saint cannot convince and reclaime another but he betters himselfe and exercises his graces and gifts and as a needle or a Weavers shuttle are the better for using so are our graces c. 8. True grace and envie cannot sleepe in one bed nor rest in one soule Reas 8 There is no envie in spiritualls allowable Hypocrisie and envie may be twins but if thou hast true grace thou wilt not envie grace and gifts in others but cherish those sparks and encrease them as much as may be Heare Moses Numb 11.29 Would all the Lords people were Prophets John he must increase John 3.30 but I must decrease See how well contented he was One member doth not envy another for what it is hath or weares p 1 Cor. 12. We are all one body anothers grace will not darken thine but all together make one constellation 9 Beleevers cannot but delight to make joy in heaven Reas 9 to make Christ the q Si angeli sibi invicem in coelo gratulantur dum vidēt restitui ingregem suum quod diffluxerat nos etiam ejusdem gaudij socios esse decet Calv. Angels and all the glorified Saints to break out into singing and rejoycing Why this is the work of Heaven at the conviction and conversion of one sinner A coy sinner cannot stoop and sip of this nectar but there is shouting in heaven and loud musick amongst the Angells as you see Luk 15.10 If at the making of the world as Job 38.7 then much more at the conversion of a sinner which is the greater wonder at the making of new heavens and a new earth wherein dwells righteousnesse 2 Pet. 3.13 Lastly Reas 10 by consequence r Nihil praestantius aut magis optabile quam animam eripere e morte aeternâ Calvin in Jacob. 5.20 nothing finds such acceptance and recompence with God as this No usury so gainfull as the winning of soules James 5.20 He that converts his brother hath saved a soule from death and shall hide a multitude of sinnes God will mention it to their praise and comfort another day For if the workes of mercy towards the bodies of others which are vessells of dung and breathing lumps of clay shall yet be mentioned that day as Mat. 25.35 then much more such as aimed at the good of others soules which are Jewels of such price that one soule is more worth then the world Surely this will hide a multitude of other failings and this may bring many temporall comforts and blessings along with it To winde up this bottome in a word here is matter of reproofe and duty 1. Of reproofe to two sorts of men Vse 1 1. To such as are negligent in this duty All minde their ſ Quaerere quae sua sūt est privat am utilitatem gloriā quaerere et negligere communem utilitatem et gloriā Christi seu evangelii Erasmus Sarcerius in Psal 1.21 own things few the things of Christ and the soules of others Every one takes up that wicked speech of Cain Am I my brothers keeper 2. To such as allure men to sinne earthlinesse and vanity They say not with David taste c. but as children of the Devill they imitate their father and are tempters to evill saying O taste and see how sweet sin is how good the creature is These are of the forlorne hope that march undauntedly upon the mouth of hell these shall be damn'd with a witnesse Here above others comes in the ring-leader in intemperance every Town almost hath a king of drunkards These perswade and force men not onely to taste but drink deep of that cup of devils these carry the sins of others to Gods tribunall The hottest seats in hell are kept for these t God hath plagued our drunkennesse with immoderate raine which hath spoyled much corn and is like to produce scarcity The Lord hath turned our summer into winter and whereas Christ said The harvest is great and the labourers are few wee may say the labourers are many the harvest is little Famine is a most fearfull judgement Lam. 4.9 10. Ocyus torquet lentius tabefacit sensim occidit Basil Ser. 3. contra div avaros Two sins chiefly produce this great raine and waters that have faln 1. Our Starre gazing and Prognostications which foretell these things God suffers it to come to passe as a judgement on the Land for suffering such things to harden people in the belief of them some beleeving the Almanacks have carried their corn wet into the barne fearing more raine and there it grows See Perkins touching yearly Prognostications third Volum pag. 653 to 667. 2. Our gluttony and swinish drunkennesse wee have fought against God with his blessings and now he begins to disarm us For this floud of drinke within are come flouds of water without this sweeping raine as Solomon calls it Pro. 28.3 Let Magistrates therefore scatter our innumerable Conventicles of drunkards let Ministers stand in the gap and say Spare thy people O Lord and let us all humble our selves under his mighty hand Wee have deserved showres of fire and brimstone from heaven God is now plaguing the land for these sins Now they health it on their knees a sacrifice to the devill and force others to drink as those that thrust the bottle to the nose Habak 2.15 But the time is at hand when they shall beg upon their knees for one drop of water when they shall be fed with fire and brimstone for ever The very heathen shall rise up in judgement against them see Ester 1.8 Vse 2 2. Of exhortation to all men to evidence the truth of their own conversion by alluring others to Christ perswading them to taste how good God is

eyes or vinegar to the teeth but their expectations are our exultations Acts 13.33 And wee declare unto you glad tydings how that the Promise ●hat was made unto the Fathers God hath fullfilled the same unto us their children l Christus qui vitae aeternae hono●ū om●ium su●slantia est illas tantum promissus crat eum tanquam procul absentem expetchant nobis datus ●st Praesentem obtinemus Calvin 3. By Indulgence for the Jewes had a burthensome and chargeable service in the Ceremoniall Law but that now is abolisht by Christ Act. 15.10 A yoke which neither wee nor our Fathers were able to be●re But now wee are invited to come and take of Christ a yoke that is easie and a burthen that is light m Erat quidem dura laboriosa veteris paedagogiae servitus sed de solis ceremoniis cum non loqui facile colligitur idem Portare legem est legi morali satisfacere ad justitiam Erasmus Sarcerius in Acts 15.10 Mat. 11.28 4. In Extention and Apprehension by beleevers in all Countryes Before 't was confined to the Jewes and in Jewry onely was God known n Hoc novū speciale habuit Christi adventus quòd dirutâ maceriâ Deus promiscuè totū mundum amplexus est Calvin in Acts 10.35 but now the Partition wall is broken downe and the Gospel is commanded to be preach't unto every creature Gentiles as well as Jewes Rom. 1.16 3.29 And the Grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men Tit. 2.11 And now in every Nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousnesse is accepted with him Act. 10.39 Good newes for us Gentiles The Wildernesse is become as a watered garden 5. In Perfection and wonderfull growth of Faith and Grace in the hearts of ordinary beleevers above them by reason of the o Erat in Prophetis spiritus sanctus etsi donum hoc contractū erat et in Apostolis ante crucē sed non sic ut post assumptionem largus scilicet ac copiosus it a ut fluminibus comparari debuerit Theophylact in Joan. 7.39 Plentifull effusions of the Spirit since Christs ascension Joh. 7.39 The Holy Ghost was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified i. e. Not so much given 'T is true some particular Saint as Abraham might have a greater measure of the Spirit then ordinary beleevers have under the Gospel But now the bulk of Beleevers have the Spirit of glory resting on them and shining in them Joel 2.28 I will poure out my Spirit on all flesh Beleevers then for the generality of them had but little of the Spirit hence it is said * Heb. 10.1 The Law was but a shadow of good things to come not the Image and Truth it selfe viz. It had a rude and dark delineation of good things to come as a draug● made by a Painter with a cole but the Gospel exhibits the picture it selfe in the flourish and Beauty saith Taylor p Dr. Taylor in his Types that is the Truth and Being the Glory and Perfection thereof Let 's see our happinesse in these five respects 2. Let us know our Duty 2. Let 's not onely see our happinesse but consider our duty Let me name five particulars 1. Admire God and the Scriptures when you see the Prophecies so punctually fullfilled for if Ptolome was astonished at the 72 Interpreters because being placed in sundry Roomes and never conferring not seeing one another they did notwithstanding write the same not onely for sence of matter but sound of words upon the selfe same Text as q Justin Martyr in Admonitorio Justin Martyr and r Augustin de Civit. Dei lib. 18. cap. 42. Galatin de Arcanis lib. 1. cap. 2. others report then how should wee admire God in that divine concordance between the Prophets and Apostles who writing the word of God in divers places at divers times and upon divers occasions doe notwithstanding so harmoniously agree that they seeme not saith ſ Bellarmin de verbo Dei lib. 1. cap. 2. Bellarmin divers Penmen but onely divers pens of one and the same Writer 2. Beleeve the fullfilling of the Prophecies Indeed the Apostles and Disciples saw and heard those things that many Prophets and righteous men desired to see and heare but could not Mat. 13.17 But for us that live sixteene hundred yeares since the accomplishment wee have as much need of Faith to beleeve these things are done as they before Christ had to beleeve they should be done and yet to beleeve the History onely is nothing the very Devills doe that unlesse wee can say with * 1 Tim. 1.15 Galat. 2.20 Paul He dyed for us and gave himselfe for us and that be came into the world to save sinners whereof wee are the chiefe c. 3. Pittie the Incredulous even obstinate Jewes that say the Prophecies are not fullfilled but still expect the Messiah They pittied us Gentiles when they said wee have a little Sister hath no breasts let us mourn for the Jewes and say Wee have an elder Sister hath no eyes God hath promised to restore them t Zach. 12.10 Jer. 20.21 Mat. 23.39 1 Cor. 3.16 Rom. 11.24 to 27. Note And God hath miraculously preserved them for that end For whereas sundry very auncient People and famous as Persians Chaldeans Assyrians Trojanes Vandales Lombards Goths Saxons Picts c. are either quite distinct or destroyed or else being severed scattered have not so held their own as to keep still their own Ordinances and preserve themselves for their civill life and Religion unmixt with other people whither they came yet behold a strange thing and remarkable saith Beza the Jews only notwithstanding their great and long dispertions and calamities doe yet not onely remaine in innumerable multitudes but keep their Tribes distinct and unconfounded and injoy all their Ordinances except sacrificing of Beasts and will shew you their pedigree and descent from Abraham and doubtlesse saith Calvin they are thus miraculously preserved against the time of their conversion which now will be visible to all u Aquinas Pareus and Pet. Martyr Others of the learned concurre with Calvin herein O therefore let us with Beza be importunate with God to hasten their conversion c. 4. Wait for the full accomplishment of all the prophecies touching Christ and his kingdome Much is foretold in the Psalmes Daniel and the Revelation which is not yet fulfilled as w Mat. 24.14 2 Thes 2.8 Rom. 11.25 1 Tim. 4.1 Acts 3.19 Isa 65.17 The Preaching of the Gospel to all Nations the coming down of Antichrist the coming in of Jewes and Gentiles in the fullnesse under the Standard of Christ His giving a time of refreshing to the Church towards the end of all things when there shall be new Heavens and new Earth in which shall dwell righteousnesse spirituall halcyon glorious times indeed and finally his second