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A05967	A caueat for cold Christians. In a sermon preached by Mr. Paul Bayne ... Wherein the common disease of Christians, with the remedie, is plainly and excellently set downe for all that will vse it	Baynes, Paul, d. 1617.	1618 (1618)	STC 1628; ESTC S101118	16,065	32

attention and for a close makes a most comfortable promise to such who should ouercome outwrestling by repentance such tentation as accompanies these declinings viz. that they should haue further reuelation of Christ made in them and further communion for the present by grace with him and hereafter the blessed fruition of him in glory The summe of the words The summe of these words to be handled is this though many good things be found with thee yet thy first loue is left the flame of thy loue which reached to heauen wasted all inordinate concupiscence and was fruitfull in good workes this is sunke downe and quenched therefore aduise with thy selfe and well consider how thou art fallen as it were from heauen to earth iudge this thine owne iniquitie turning from it returne to God in the waies of righteousnesse bringing forth the same fruits of liuely loue which heretofore haue been discerned in thee Thus we may fitly come to the considerations which may directly be deduced from these words for our further instruction First Obseru 1 The disease that these Ephesians are chalenged to haue left their first loue wee see what is the condition of Christians come to some good state they are ready to decline when now they haue made great proceeding in loue they are ready to coole againe Euen as it is in the body when it is in the most excellent temperature the durance thereof is not long so it is in the soule also when it is in the best taking euen then it is subiect to alteration So the Galathians the Israelites how soone did the one fall from the Gospell and the other from their ioy in that God which had deliuered them Such is our frailty and such are Satans enterprises against vs. But for more full opening of this point The first opened two things shall be vnfolded first what it is the true Christians fall from when they leaue their loue 2. whence it comes the being so wel proceeded they decline To the first let that it is not the transitorie flashing the sweetnesse the delight or gladnesse in heart which wee feele in our first loue For this which comes not so much from the things of our peace as from the nouelty of them from this that the light of them doth first shine vnto vs this which by reason of such circumstance is in vs may bee lost and left without sinne the Angels loue workes somewhat in them touching the conuersion of a sinner when now he is first conuerted which constantly abides not with them as for example the ioy there mentioned Luk. 15. Secondly I say it was not that diuine quality of loue which the spirit of God bringeth forth in regenerating of vs for this could not bee lost it being part of our new birth which abideth according to that Hee who is borne of God sinneth not for the seede of God abideth him and Cor. 1.13 Loue faileth not not onely because for the kind it abides in heauen but because the selfe same in number which by the spirit is brought forth in vs shall neuer haue end it being such a diuine fier which no waters of tentation can quench and extinguish It remaines then that they are said to haue left their first loue in regard that their outward works which are as conspicuous fruits growing out of this tree of loue in regard I say that these were decayed and impaired they are said to haue left their first loue These are all of them things subiect to alteration though the diuine quality of Christ remaine with vs the Scripture makes this to be rooted in loue a distinct thing from hauing loue Paul therefore asking in the third of the Ephesians in behalfe of them that they might bee rooted in loue and so made able to apprehend more perfectly the loue of God to them in Christ aimes at some singular degree of affection For as plants are not when presently set first deeply rooted so these diuine graces faith loue c grow vp in vs to such a rooted firmenesse and setlednesse that wee are not easily moued and troubled in the practice of them A man loues truly at first yet lesse groundedly Whence it is that little enticements allure him and withdraw him into naps of spirituall forgetfulnesse little snibs dismay him and make him shrinke in little things make him doubt of Gods loue to him yea of his owne perseuering in loue to God but being better acquainted by experience with the Lords fidelity mercy patience c he takes rooting more and more in this holy affection Now it is so that the loue of these Ephesians began to hang more loose in them then somtime it was wont For looke as any thing that now stands stedy may come to bee loosened yet remaine the thing it was before though not firme as before so it is in loue so ioynts that are loosened yet remaine ioynts Secondly the operation the feruent mouing of loue was growne remisse For looke as in materiall fiers the feruent heate may slake and fier still abide as in the body the powers of hearing and seeing are safe as in sleepe though the exercise of them bee ceased and bound for a time euen so our loue which like a fier groweth further and further kindled in vs for a time may be by some occasions abated in regard of the feruor and heate when yet the being of it is still continued Thirdly in regard of works which the operation of their loue produced in their soules inwardly and toward God and man outwardly in this regard they were declined In their soules the light of the Lord did not discusse the clouds of selfe and earthly lustings as it had done formerly nor were their duties such now as sometime they had been toward God and man Looke as in the Sunne the essentiall brightnes remaining the same the effect neuerthelesse of it in dispersing clouds and in lightening the ayre is somtime diminished sometime quite eclipsed so here the diuine nature or light of loue remaining yet the effect thereof in their soules both in clearing them from earthly desires false loues as also in making them fruitfull in good duties this effect of it was nothing for measure such as once might haue been obserued in them Reason 1 Now if you aske whence it comes to passe that a man hauing made good proceedings should decay in his loue I answere First from a secret sloth which makes vs wearie of well doing A dull Asses trot will not last long such wee are of our selues there being a spirituall sluggishnesse hanging about our bones which is still ready to returne on vs. For this it is that the Scripture calleth on vs Bee not slothfull Hebr. 6. Secondly the longer wee are occupied in any thing the more wee are taken with a satiety of it This we see proues true euen in the delights of nature no wonder then if Manna grow no meate with vs if heauenly