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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25299	The saints security against seducing spirits, or, The anointing from the Holy One the best teaching : delivered in a sermon at Pauls before the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and commonalty of the city of London, upon the fifth of November, 1651 / by William Ames ...	Ames, William, d. 1689.	1652 (1652)	Wing A3009; ESTC R11	27,575	47

yea and a regenerate heart doth by an holy Sympathy entertaine with infinite delight these precious and holy Truths Arguments and Syllogismes doe make a great noise in the world mee thinke they are not unlike to that appearance in Horeb unto the Prophet Elijah when the great and strong winde rept the mountaines and brake in pieces the Rocks but it is said the Lord was not in the winde nor in the earthquake nor in the fire but he was in the still small voice Lux spiritus sancti est lenis lux perfundens se mentibus The Holy spirit doth gently hover over the soule and brood upon it Heavenly Doctrine falleth downe upon the spirits of men not like a mighty violent raine but like a showre of oyle like a sweet honey-dew Fifthly The inward sense of a regenerate minde doth easily judge between Christ and Antichrist Such holy soules are well resolved about the things of God they do not halt between God and Baal arguing themselves out of all Religion and modesty but they have a naturall tendency towards these things and they feel a magnetick vertue secretly over-power them This is the naturall working of the new Creature whereby the soule doth inwardly savour and rellish difference and distinguish between the Doctrines of Christ and the Impostures of Antichrist Jesus Christ tells us in Iohn 10. That his Sheep do hear his voice but they will not follow a stranger for they know not the voice of strangers Whereby he would have us to understand That all his Disciples who are truly taught of him doe carry within themselves the Lapis Lydius the Touch-stone of Truth and such is the present Touch or Taste that some things do make upon their spirits that they doe easily discerne from whence they come although they doe not bring them to an externall Judicatory The Divine nature whereof we are made partakers doth put a difference between that which is really and truly heavenly and that which is onely counterfeit stuffe as the Touchstone doth between Gold and Copper It is worthy of our observation That every life doth attract and concoct that which is suitable to its nature and the most inferiour life hath such a faculty The Plants of the earth do draw unto themselves that sap and juice which is proper for them and do digest it into nourishment The Beasts of the field doe naturally move towards those things which will maintaine their lives and turne aside from that which is poysonous and destructive to them and what is by them received they turne in succum sanguinem into food and nourishment and doe grow thereby The rationall life in a naturall man doth by observation argument and dispute gather up naturall Truths whereby the man becomes well polished in his understanding and may deserve the name of an instructed Philosopher so doth that spirituall and heavenly life which we call the new Creature and Divine nature in a Christian it being indued with such an attractive and digestive faculty doth know what is suitable or unsuitable to it selfe and doth accordingly affect or dis-rellish it The Needle touched with a Loadstone doth not more naturally move towards the Pole then a soule touched with a Divine Spirit doth move towards and freely embrace the truths of Christ it cannot rest at any point in the compass untill it be centered there Men in whom the spirit of this world lives and is praedominant do naturally affect worldly things the lusts of the flesh the lusts of the eye and the pride of life He that loveth profit is wholly taken up in getting wealth He that loveth honour and popular applause doth set himselfe to please men Hee that loveth pleasures studieth excess riot wantonness and dalliance and all these do finde their spirits move with a kinde of naturalness towards such things and take wonderfull contentment in them so that as the Apostle speakes These men are {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Lovers of pleasure lovers of mony rather then lovers of God The spirit of Iesus Christ in the hearts of holy men doth with savour and rellish entertain the things of God whilst other men that have but common spirits cannot take any delight or complacency in them Such was the hearty sincere affection of Timothy towards the Philippians that Saint Paul saith there was none like him who did {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} naturally take care of their affaires And it is much more true of a regenerate heart for none attaine to such a discretion in heavenly Truths as it selfe attaineth unto for unto a man void of such a life those precious truths are like the white of an egge without any savour Sixthly The true knowledge of heavenly things encreaseth according to the measure of Sanctification I doe not speak of knowledge falsly so called as the Apostle some where termes it but of true knowledge that is inward experimentall understanding and this grows up as holines doth enlarge it self in the soule The clearer the Glass the more perfect is the Reflection that it makes The more pure and spotless the soul is the better doth it receive and judge of heavenly things If it be but Day-break or a dim and duskie twilight we have a more doubtfull appearance of things that are before us but if it growes to a morning-light and once encreaseth into a noon-day brightness then have we a more exact and judicious vision of them When the soul begins at first to turn unto God it hath some taste or smattering of these spirituall dainties and it is like that taste which new-borne babes have of the milk which they suck from the Brests but when the Christian follows on to know the Lord whose going forth is prepared as the morning and when he doth resolvedly and strongly carry on the work of sanctification in his heart and life then doth he come to a more mature and ripened judgement of these things Hee was a child before but now he is grown up to a strong man in Christ The great Apostle tells us When he was a child he thought as a child Hee understood as a child but when he became a man hee put away childish things His apprehensions of truth were but low and weak because his capacity was not great but now he looks upon the brighter face of truth with greater complacency then he did before Our Lord Jesus tells us in Iohn 7. 17. If any man will doe his will hee shall know of the Doctrine whether it be of God The best way to know assuredly and impregnably the truth of those things which God speaketh in his word is to observe and obey those things which God enjoynes The Holy Ghost which is the best witnes of Jesus Christ his Doctrine is given to them that obey him Act. 5. 32. and these men do sweetly rest in an assurance of the truth whilst others who are of impure spirits do quarrell and