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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25478	A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers; Morning-exercise at Cripplegate. Supplement.	Annesley, Samuel, 1620?-1696.	1676 (1676)	Wing A3240; ESTC R13100	974,140	814

the Course of this World after the Prince of the power of the Air the Spirit that works now in the children of disobedience among whom also we had our conversation in the lusts of the flesh fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind There all our Enemies appear abreast the Devil as the Grand deceiver and principal of all wickedness the World with its Pleasures Honours and Profits as the Bait by which it doth deceive us and steal away our hearts from God and pervert and divert us that we should not look after the one thing necessary the Flesh is that Corrupt Inclination in us which entertains and closeth with these Temptations to the neglect of God and the wrong of our own Souls this is very importtnate to be pleased and is the proper internal cause of all our mischief for James 1.14 Every man is inticed and drawn away by his own lust These must be renounced before we can return to God for till we put away our Idols we cannot incline our hearts to the true God Josuah 24.23 And these are the great Idols by which our hearts are estranged from him When God is laid aside self interposeth as the next Heir and that which we count self is the flesh Many wrong their own Souls but never any man hated his own flesh That which feeds the flesh is the World and the Devil by proposing the Bait irritateth and stirreth up our affections Therefore we must be turned from Satan to God we must be delivered from the present evil World we must abstain from fleshly Lusts for God will have no Co-partners and Competitors in our hearts 2. A devoting and giving up our selves to God Father Son and Holy Ghost as our God 2 Cor. 8.3 and Rom. 6.13 As our owner by Creation Psal 100.3 And by Redemption 1 Cor. 6.19 20. As our Soveraign Lord Jer. 24.8 Isa 26.13 Other Lords besides thee have had dominion over us c. As the fountain of our life and blessedness Psal 31.14 I trusted in the Lord I said thou art my God Lam. 3.24 The Lord is my portion saith my Soul therefore will I hope in him Psal 119.57 I have said thou art my Potion therefore I will keep thy Precepts II. As to our Progress and Perseverance which is our walking in the narrow way and shews the sincerity and heartiness of our consent in making the Covenant And besides this is not the work of a Day but of our whole Lives we have continual need of coming to God by Christ Here three things are required 1. As to the Enemies of God and our Souls there must be a forsaking as well as a renouncing the Devil must be forsaken we must be no more of his party and confederacy we must resist stand out against all his batteries and assaults 1 Pet. 5.8 9. the World must be overcome 1 John 5.4 5. and the flesh must be subdued and mortified Gal. 5.24 that we be no more governed by the desires thereof and if we be sometimes foiled we must not go back again but renew our Resolutions and the drift of our lives must still be for God and Heaven 2. As to God to whom we have devoted our selves we must love and please and serve him all our days Luke 1.75 we must make it our work to love him and count it our happiness to be beloved by him and carefully apply our selves to seek his favour and cherish a fresh sense of it upon our hearts and continue with patience in well-doing Rom. 2.7 till we come to the complete sight and love of him in Heaven 1 John 3.2 3. You must always live in the hope of the coming of Christ and everlasting glory Tit. 2.3 looking for the blessed hope and Jude v. 21. looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus unto eternal life As we did at first thankfully accept of our recovery by Christ and at first consent to renounce the Devil the World and the Flesh and resolve to follow God's counsel and direction we must still persevere in this mind and use his appointed means in order to our final happiness The sum then of our Christianity is that we should by true Repentance and Faith forsake the World the Flesh and the Devil and give up our selves to God Father Son and Holy Ghost that he may take us for his reconciled Children and for Christ's sake forgive all our sins and by his Spirit give us grace to persevere in those Resolutions till our full and final happiness come in hand Seventhly This Covenant consisting of such Duties and Priviledges God hath confirmed by certain visible Ordinances commonly called Sacraments as Baptism and the Lord's Supper both which but in a different manner respect the whole tenour of the Covenant For as the Covenant bindeth mutually on God's part and ours so these Duties have a mutual Aspect or Respect to what God does and what we must do on God's part they are a Sign and a Seal on our part they are a Badge and a Bond. 1. On God's part they are sealing or confirming Signs as Circumcision is called a sign or seal of the righteousness which is by faith Rom. 4.11 that is of the grace offered to us in Christ so is Baptism which came in the Room of Circumcision Col. 2.11 12. In whom ye are circumcised buried with him in Baptism Surely the Gospel-Ordinances signifie as much grace as the Ordinances of the legal Covenant if Circumcision was a Sign and Seal of the Righteousness which is by Faith a or pledge of God's good will to us in Christ so is Baptism so is the Lord's Supper they are a Sign to signifie and a Seal to confirm to represent the Grace and assure the grant of Pardon and Life As for instance Baptism signifies Pardon and Life so does the Lord's Supper Matth. 26.28 29. That for our growth and nourishment this for our imitation Baptism is under our consideration at present that it hath respect to remission of Sins the Text is clear for it and so are many other Scriptures It was Ananias his Advice to Paul Acts 22.16 Arise and be Baptized and wash away thy sins and call on the Name of the Lord. So Ephes 5.26 That he might sanctifie and cleanse us by the washing of water through the Word The washing represents the washing away the guilt and filth of sin it signifies also our Resurrection to a blessed and eternal Life Baptism saveth by the Resurrection of Christ 1 Pet. 3.21 Well then it is a sealing Sign When God promised longer life to Hezekiah 2 Kings 20.8 he said What shall he the sign that the Lord will heal me So when he promiseth pardon and life to us What shall be the sign that the Lord will do this for us Baptism is this sign a witness between us and God Gen. 31.48 This heap is a witness between thee and me 2. On our part they are a Badge and a Bond to oblige us to the

and imitate whatsoever is good commendable and vertuous in our Parents This the Wise man gave his Son in charge that he should with all his heart set his eyes to observe his wayes (i) Prov. 23.26 i. e. take him for his pattern in all those practises which were consonant to the pleasure of his Heavenly Father we should follow them as they do our Lord and Master (k) 1 Cor. 11.1 But not in their errors and miscarriages for fear of Jeroboam's dreadful entail which some choose rather than leave the crooked paths of their Progenitors (l) 1 King 22.58 2 Kings 3.3 2 Chron. 22.4 as the idolatrous Jews of old (m) Jer. 44.17 and the Papists at this day For Marc Antonine the Emperour as the learned Gataker expounds him * Mr Anton. l. 4. Sect. 46. id quod Origen adv Cels. l. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 could teach us that we should not be so childish as to do any thing without consideration 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon the mere account of tradition as we had it from our Parents When Frederick IV. Elector Palatine of the Rhine was by a certain Prince advised to follow the example of his Father Lewis he answered well † In Religione non paren●um non majorum exempla sequendo sed tantum voluntatem Dei In the business of Religion we must not follow the examples of Parents and Ancestors but only as they are agreeable to the will of God God himself stated this case to the Jewish Children in the wilderness by the Prophet Ezekiel (n) Ezek. 20.18 19. and the Apostle Peter sheweth Christian Children should behave themselves as those who are redeemed from a vain conversation (o) 1 Pet. 1.18 But the good carriage of Parents in their piety towards God righteousness and charity towards man should have a great influence upon those that descend from them Solomon is commended for his dutifulness so far as he walked in the good wayes of David his Father (p) 1 Kings 3.3 expressing the like good qualities and actions in that which was right (q) 2 Kings 23.2 and so Asa (r) 1 Kings 15.11 raising up monuments of David's piety honesty and vertue 'T is reported Justin Martyr became Christian by following the good examples of the primitive Fathers † Euseb l. 4. c. 4. The famous Emperour but now praised determined when in the Empire not to follow the Caesarian mode which then obtain'd at the imperial Court but to do all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as a disciple of pious Antonine * Gatak in lib. 4. Sect. 30. to be dress'd by his Fathers glass as Julius Capitolinus notes to act and speak and think as his Father did or as he tells us himself to imitate his constant tenour in things well managed his evenness of temper in all things the chearfulness of his countenance his courteousness contempt of vain-glory and studiousness to find out things He had set before himself the virtues of both his Parents and Pro-parents yea his adoptive Father and copied out the most singular things in them all ‖ l. 1. c. 1. Sect. 1. 2 16. Which may the more incite us Christians as Paul did Timothy from the remembrance of the Faith in his Grand-mother Lois and Mother Eunice (s) 2 Tim. 1.5 to learn that Parents good actions should make impressions on their Children as the Seal upon the wax that they may represent them both while living and dead These cannot be a better resemblance of a Child to a good Father than in this observance (t) Prov. 27.11 which I have touch'd on in these four Particulars hastning to the next Duty viz. 3 Pious regards Christian Children owe their Parents both in respect of their benevolence and indigence from a real desire of humble thankfulness if it were possible to make some kind of compensation unto them by whom under God they subsist 1. With respect to their benevolence a grateful resentment of their kindnesses which ought to be manifested in an affectionate acknowledgment of their Parental love and care This is so good and acceptable unto God that to requite our Parents in Paul's language is to shew piety and kindness at home (u) 1 Tim. 5.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when by way of commutation we are solicitous to take our turn as it were in a sort of retaliation to make some kind of retribution to those who begat us either immediately or mediately This ingenuous skill the Apostle would have learn'd as a commendable Christian Art by an exercise in such grateful offices as may prove Children do delight to be much in those services (w) Mal. 3 17. with Phil. 2.22 which express the esteem they have of their Parents good will to them Hence we should with great complacence entertain all our Parens favours as ingenuous Servants waiting to express the sense of our love readily and heartily (x) Eph. 6.7 Col. 3.23 sith our most pathetick acknowledgments of Parental love and care are but easie returns for their unvaluable kindnesses so that without this resentment Children cannot indeed be pious For as Cicero † C m omnibus virtutibus me affectum esse cupiam tum nihil est quod malim c. Quid est pietas nisi voluntas grata in parentes c. pro Cn. Plancio in an Oration argues When I shall desire that I may be affected with all the vertues then there is nothing I more wish than that I may be thankful and seem to be so for this one vertue is not only the greatest but the mother of all the rest What is Piety but a grateful will towards our Parents c. who of us saith he is liberally educated but thinks of our Educators c. with a thankful remembrance which may be by treasuring up their good speeches and wise sayings of remark (y) Job 15.18 Psal 44.1 2. 78.3 rehearsing with delight their praise-worthy acts (z) Prov. 31.28 expounding all they do candidly as Ruth did Naomi's carriage honouring all that was honourable in her choosing her Religion and admiring all her vertues Thy God shall be my God said she and thy people my people (a) Ruth 1.16 comforting them under every Providence (b) 4 15. Gen 5.29 and providing as much as may be for them (c) Jos 2.13 Hence 2. with respect to their indigence be it what it will either in regard to internal or external defects natural moral or providential both living and dead Children are to shew themselves concern'd by covering or bearing their infirmities supplying their necessities defending their persons and honour against the rude and injurious attaques of those who vvould disparage and defame them Noah and Lot Isaac and Jacob had their infirmities under temptations and their Children covered them (d) Gen. 9.21 23. 27.12 28.5 37.10 so did Jonathan his Father Saul's (e) 1 Sam. 31.2 Mary was