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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04641	The gales of grace; or, the spirituall vvinde wherein the mysterie of sanctification is opened and handled. By Thomas Barnes ...	Barnes, Thomas, Minister of St. Margaret's, New Fish Street, London.	1622 (1622)	STC 1476; ESTC S101226	81,318	222

reade out of the Word they haue gotten a few smacks of knowledge and haue attained to an ability to discourse of the poynts of Religion and because with Iudas for gaine with Iehu for glory with the Pharises for praise they do some dueties which true Christians doe pray peraduenture sometimes with their family giue almes of their substance to the poore affoord perhappes some countenance to the Ministers of the Word and Professors of the Gospel because I say for by-respects they do these things therefore they argue that they must needes be sound Christians But how much they deceiue themselues God knoweth and this poynt sheweth For alas what are hast perhappes a knowledge of the doctrine of faith and therin of the obiect of faith Christ Iesus but where is thy experience of the power of this faith first in leading thee to Christ for reconciliation secondly in accheering thy heart vpon the finding of the Messiah thirdly in purifying thy heart from the filthinesse of the flesh and fourthly in prouoking thee to lament as the Church did in the Canticles when thou hast lost the sight of him Againe thou hast it may be by attendance vpon the ordinance of God gotten some skill to discourse of the point of loue to God and his Children of hatred of sinne c. but doest thou feele thy heart set on fire with a desire of being obedient to God in all his Commandements resoluing to m 1 Kin 15.5 turne from nothing that hee enioyneth thee all the dayes of thy life and purposing with Iob n Iob 9.4 to be content to receiue euill at Gods hands as well as good Art thou enflamed with a loue to all good things as well as one and to all the Saints as well as one though I deny not that the neernes or the worthines of the person loued may occasion differing degrees in thy loue nay findest thou a readinesse to forgiue and loue thine enemies feelest thou in thy selfe a dislike of sinne in all persons as well as in those that are neere vnto thee as in neighbours that haue no alliance with thee Are thy affections thus moued Is thy inner man thus affected No no thou hypocrite wilt thou dare then to encroach vpon the prerogatiue of Gods beloued ones and lay challenge to the portion of sauing grace take heed what thou dost The Diuell is subtile thine owne heart is deceitfull Either get some sure testimony to proue the sense of grace in some sound maner to affect thy heart or else I must tell thee as I told the profane and ciuill person before thee that thou hast no grounds that the gales of Grace haue sauingly blowne vppon thee when-as this must needes bee granted for a trueth that in the Soule of the regenerate there is a feeling of the spirits working as well as in the eare of a man a sound of the wind when it bloweth in the ayre And thus Christian Reader haue I had a cast at this vaine conceit of hauing grace altogether without the sense of grace which is all one as if the Sunne and light life and feeling fire and heate should be separated and I haue to my power bent the edge of this doctrine against it And if in that which I haue spoken I haue seemed too harsh I must craue pardon for pitty to the soules of such deluded creatures hath stirred mee vp thereunto And to speake trueth neuer had Dion more cause of offering sacrifice to the gods after the paganish manner of the Heathens when hee freed the Syracusians from the tyranny of Dionysius Diod. Sic. libr. 16. then I shall haue of praising the God of heauen if through the meanes of this vse of confutation but one profane ciuil or hypocriticall person may be freed and deliuered from the bondage and slauery of so vaine and erroneous an opinion Sect. 5. Vse 2. Comfort to the tender-hearted Now lest the children of the Bride-chamber should through the malice of Satan abuse themselues so much as to place themselues in the ranke of such selfe-deceiuers so cast downe themselues without cause by that which hath beene spoken I must bring in as wel I may from the point in hand a word of comfort for them Is it so then that where the holy Ghost infuseth grace there is a spirituall sense in the powers of that soule then what singular cause of reioycing hath that Christian that hath this sense and feeling for hee hath euen the witnesse in himselfe that Christ is his grace is his and the Spirit of the Almightie dwelleth in him When therefore the word of GOD doth reueale vnto thee the minde of God either in the sounds of Iudgement or the Songs of Mercie out of the Lawe and the Gospel feelest thou thy heart affected accordingly sometimes with reuerence feare and trembling somtimes with rauishment comfort and reioycing Art thou sensible of those impure thoughts that swarme in thy heart of idle speeches that oft issue foorth thy mouth and Text yet I dare say it is not violently forced against the minde of the holie Ghost For seeing it hath pleased our Sauiour to compare the sense of the Spirits working to the sound of the winds blowing I may safely inferre thus much heerupon If the sound of the winde be not alwayes alike in the eare of the same man but sometimes louder sometimes lower then the feeling which grace effecteth in a Christian must needs be sometimes more sometimes lesse and not at all times alike Very euidently doeth that same o Psal 51.12 prayer of Dauid make this poynt good Restore vnto me the ioy of thy saluation as intimating vnto vs that the spirituall ioy which hee was wont to feele was in a manner quite gone yea so gone that hee craues the restoring of it againe Doe wee thinke that the feeling of the burthen of his two sins Murther and Adultery was so great and vehement before Nathan came vnto him as it was after he had beene with him Certainely no the Booke of the Psalmes is plentifull in proofes of this kinde Had Peter thinke we who was a beloued Disciple of Christ alwayes the same feeling of the Spirits working When he stood vpon his owne p Mat. 16. ver 33.35 strength and denied his Master when hee vanted before Christ Though all men forsake thee I will not hee had not that feeling of his owne weakenesse which hee had when hee went out and r Mat. 26.75 wept bitterly after his fall neither did his soule heare the Lawe telling him how feeble he was in himselfe at the one time so strongly as he heard it at the other He had not such a taste of the loue of Christ towards his soule when hee was Å¿ Mat. 26.72.73 denying of him as he had when he made that good confession of his faith We know thou hast the words of eternall life t Mat. 16.16 Lu 9 20. thou art the Christ the Sonne