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friend_n	abraham_n	call_v	faith_n	883	5	5.7042	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86499	God, a rich supply of all good Setting forth, I. The beleevers interest in it. II. The riches of it in quantity. III. The gloriousnesse of it in quality. IV. The meanes of sealing up all: namely, Christ. All illustrated, with many wonderfull and remarkable spirituall experiences, not onely of former, but of later Christians. By Doctor Nathanael Homes.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2565; Thomason E1341_3; ESTC R209144	14,400	31

stand off at a difference with Christ totally holding off or stand off at a distance from Christ as in a degree strange fearing to come neer and close to Christ in doubt whether to throw themselves into Christs armes fully to trust themselves with him Come saith this Doctrine come in come neer own God in Christ and rejoyce in him as thine own that thou maist come up to this priviledge viz. with assurance of faith to say My God shall supply all wants Mine and thine in temporals set all the world together by the ears Kings say that is mine nay say Parliaments that is mine nay say the people that is mine But in spirituals they set all in tune Therefore of all things learne to MINE the Lord to cry by faith thou art mine as Thomas My Lord and my God and as Mary My God and my Saviour You may as they but more spiritually rely on him for you have him held forth to you not onely as borne but as crucified for you before your eyes Gal. 3.1 That is in the preaching of the Gospel which continually beseecheth us to receive Christ 2 Cor. 5. Why therefore do not men come in and come up closer to Christ Jesus through whom God will be such a rich supply And therefore if ye be poore like Laodicea it is because ye do not com on through profession of Christ close to Christ himselfe If ye be rich yet ye are not rich indeed if ye close not with Christ If ye be honourable yet ye are not right honourable unlesse ye put on Christ Come therefore come come to God in Christ Hear those glorious invitations Isa 55.1 to the end of the Chapter And Revel 22.17 turn to them reade them weigh them they wooe thee imphatically and pathetically and answer all scruples Come therefore to Christ The promise is to you for it is to all the Lord shall call that is to all that obey his Call Act. 2.39 He dyed for the ungodly Rom. 5. And he came with an intent not to condemne the world but that the world might be saved Joh. 3. Oh therefore close with Christ throw your selves into his armes Let thine heart say he is mine by faith mine in hope I love him I give up my selfe to him I will lye in his armes lean on his bosome live in and upon his heart of love there I will expect all incomes from God Close with God in Christ for here in the Text and Doctrine he doth as it were call to you in the marker place of wisdome come see what ye lack see what ye want do ye want riches honour comfort any thing all things See what ye want come buy and buy without money or moneys worth Isa 55.1 Revel 22.27 And in the Text. He will supply all your wants Do ye want a comfortable habitation Ps 90.1 Lord thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations Do ye want riches Solomon tells you The blessing of the Lord maketh rich And Paul tells you that Godlinesse is great gaine And so we might run over all things His power shall be your chambers to hide in Isa 26.20 His love and union shall be your chamber your Bride chamber to rejoyce in Cant. 1.4 Do ye want peace The Apostle calls God the God of peace And he promiseth Isa 26.3 He will keep them in perfect peace whose mindes are stayd on him Do ye want friends By Faith Abraham was called the friend of God that is passively God was a friend to him for God justified him by faith Jam. 2.25 And by obedience flowing from faith we manifest we are Christs friends Joh. 15.24 Do ye want wisedome And what to do To bear afflictions that perhapps arise from wants If any man lack wisedome and for such a purpose let him ask it of God who gives it liberally Jam. 1. If any man out of a willingnesse to follow Christ looseth all he shall finde all with addition above that he lost Matth. 19.28 29. Object For spirituals God doth easily supply them by immediate infusion But how can he supply temporal when they are not in being Answ This is our fault God provided Manna But say they can he provide flesh in the Wildernesse Sure saith that great man 2 Kin. 7.2 he cannot send plenty into besieged Samaria by to morrow if the windows of heaven should rain down bread This or the like is the language of our unbeleeving hearts and the censures we passe upon divine providence as if we would provoke God to do nothing for us Why God hath and can do strange things so that they seem to be done by creation How wonderfully did he lead his people from Egypt into Canaan And he will create Hierusalem a sad City into joy He will create peace Come therefore yee disputers attend upon the words of his mouth rely on him by faith he will be true he must be true to you according to this Text To supply all your wants according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus Can ye finde a want a need of spirituals Do ye feele your need Seek first the Kingdome of God and the righteousnesse of him and all other things shall be added unto you Go close with Christ and then go to God and aske and have any thing that you truly need that may do you good By this you shall know whether your outward wants be a true and right need by what and how ye dare aske them of God in prayer That is not a true need which you dare not ask boldly of God in prayer And so much is not needful which you dare not confidently begge of God in prayer And that way or manner or meanes of attaining any thing is not needful for which you dare not with a free heart petition to God for his blessing on the same When God hath a minde to bend his eare he will prepare the heart to pray Psal 10.17 Therefore go to God by faith make your addresses to him by prayer in faith for a supply of whatsoever ye need Say here it is here it is to be had I wil go no further then this doore here I wil stay and begg till I receive The Devil and sin wil tel us they wil supply our need so they told the Angels that fel and Adam Belzebub seduced the rest and one of them seduced Adam The politick world wil bear us in hand that they wil supply all our need Do but come say they over to us go our way come plot in our Plot co-operate and comply in our designe and ye are made we wil make you men for ever And the creatures with their beautiful looks wil smilingly seeme to promise much And our owne corrupt hearts and carnal reasons wil tell us many faire tales But whom and with what wil these supply onely our senses with sensible things and leave our inward man to faint and faile or they wil supply our lusts with impure objects which are