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A77309	Trading spiritualized Or, certain heads, points, or positions, on which tradesmen (and others) may (O that they would!) enlarge in their meditations. By W. Bagshaw. Minister of the gospel.	Bagshawe, William, 1628-1702.	1694 (1694)	Wing B434; ESTC R229446	69,426	169

that Sin 3. Were not the Rubs and Impediments which appear as lying in the way between God and fallen Man and so interrupting and hindring their Converse very great ones Doth not this appear 1. If we look up to God Was not Injury offered to him See acute Here 's Tripo● as considered in all his Perfections Two of them are especially instanced in 1. Exod. 34.6 His Justice Is not Justice essential to God though in the Exercise thereof his Wisdom is with his Will exercised Is it not a righteous thing with God to take vengeance on such a great and wilful Transgressour Psal 11. ult See the excellent Burgess on this as Man became Was not Justice if not receiving Satisfaction to have had its full course on him 2 The Holiness of God was also highly affronted So Dr. Arrowsmith Is it not from comparing Scripture with Scripture concluded that God is Holiness it self Is he not in his Nature an Enemy to Sin Shall Sin or the Persons that will live in it Psal 5. dwell with him 2. If we look down to Man in his lapsed State there was what obstructed his Communion with God 1. Was not Guilt on him Was he not by and for his Sin bound over to suffer the unsufferable Wrath of God Heb. 12. ult And doth not a Malefactor affect can he well endure the sight of the Judg 2. Was not Filth in him yea was it not in him as a Fountain Could he then delight in him who is most pure yea Purity it self Seeing to him he had the greatest unsutableness Psal 51.5 And now I First Infer There 's all Reason the fallen Man should fall on his knees in a way of Humiliation on account of Sin especially of the first Sin Hath not Sin done that to and against him which no Suffering or other Enemy can do even separate betwixt him and his God 1. Deicidium Doth not Sin in general strike at the Glory yea at the being of God Have not some called it God-Slaughter 2. Was not the first Sin a compre hensive one a very compound of Sins Disobedience with a Witness Rom. 5.19 Vide Baxteri Methodum Witness what England's great Divine wrote of the many Evils bound up in that Volume The 2d Inference Persons of ripe years are in an ill Case and State that know not what it is to be weary of and heavy laden for Sin Should not this be written for a Lamentation Man hath lost as his Conformity so his Communion with God The last Inference Heb. 10.19 20. It 's the Wonder of Wonders that a new and living way is opened betwixt Heaven and Earth for the dispersing of Mercy and acceptance of Duty and that through the Blood of Jesus The 10th Position Through the damage which Man's Fall hath done to his Vnderstanding his Communion with God is no little hindred 1. Eph. 4.18 Is he not alienated and estranged from the Divine Life through the Ignorance that is in him 2. Prov. 19.2 Can the Mind that is without Knowledge and so not good lead any in the right way of honouring God 3. Will God admit the wilfully or willingly ignorant to the peculiar enjoyment of him I add 1. Do not some who are sufficiently Arminianized grant that Man's Mind is maimed through the Fall 2. Tit. 1.15 See renowned Burgess on this 1 Cor. 2.14 Hath not the Scripture written defilement on it Doth it not labour under Frailty and Falshood As to Frailty 1. Can the mere natural Man discern spiritual things in a spiritual manner I am aware that some new Methodists in the Text referred to understand the Sensualist alone in whom the Beast rules the Man Dr. Gl. c. his Mind being wholly inslaved to his Lusts But poor I am loath to leave the Road especially where there is so little Reason for it They are Worthies that construe it of the soully Man Vide Leigh Crit. Sac. the Man whose Soul is most refined having natural and moral Accomplishments Though there be light enough in the Air of Scripture to one that wants sight or an enlightened Eye Spirituals appear not As to revealed Truths the Naturalist discovers not 1. The inside and Glory nor 2. The Scope and Tendency of 'em which is to free Persons 1. from the Reign of Sin 2. for the inwards of Grace And as to Truth essential without a Spirit of Revelation the Knowledge which Persons have of Christ is not 1. Clear 2. Fixed 3. Satisfying or 4. Transforming Again Is not the Falshood of fallen Man's Understanding proved 1. From its pretending to gnide Persons when really it self is misguided by its Lusts and Passion 2. From its spending so many Thoughts on Vanities and Curiosities 3. From its representing things wrongfully variously and partially 4. From the Faultiness that is in its Assent to Divine Truths which alas is rather 1. Slightly then Serious 2. Traditional then Spiritual Hence I First Infer We have all Reason to reason against those Remonstrants that said Men may understand Divine Mysteries without Divine Illumination and against that Pluralist that wrote Eph. 5.8 Vide Examen Arminiapismi that he who exerciseth his Reason may as easily understand the Laws of God as those of his Prince The 2d Inference Their Hearts are not what we would have them whose Hearts do not wish that their heads were as Waters and their Eyes as Fountains of Tears that Trading with and into Heaven is so hindred through want and weakness of Knowledge Doth not this hinder Mens laying out their Love on God and his communicating the Tokens and Testifications of his Love to them Are any Hypocrites duly humbled on this score The 3d. Inference They are most likely and fit to drive the Heavenly Trade to the best Advantage who most wait for the Spirit 's Enlightnings Being 1. Humble Gen. 32.10 making account they are less than the least of God's Mercies how much then below so high a Mercy as this 2. True to the Light they have Eph. 5.8 making it a Light to their Feet joining the Tree of Life to that of Knowledge The 11th Position Through Man's Fall his Memory is so broken that he is rendred unmeet for Trading into Heaven and with the God of Heaven 1. Surely all thinking Men have this Thought that if a Person hath received many clear Notions of God upon the total Failure of his Memory he cannot serve him 2. Without doubt the Solace of a Soul from God dependeth no little upon remembring him as to what he hath said done and received in a way of Satisfaction at his Son's Hands I will not affirm that Knowledge is nothing but Remembrance Eccles 12.1 but doth not the Scripture call for the whole Religion under the notion of remembring I ask 1. Are not the Precepts for remembring Divine things many 2. Are not the Scriptures delivered in a Method tending to