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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63270	The saints declining state under gospel administrations, or, The case of desertion briefly stated in a few considerations by William Troughton ...	Troughton, William, 1614?-1677?	1652 (1652)	Wing T2318; ESTC R6248	32,617	114

these 15 Symptomes wherin I have beene some what large because they are sutable to these deserting times I shall now give you three grounde or reasons why there are such eclipses or cloudings of Gods countenance First because the spirit of God which is a spirit of wisdom 1 Ground The Spirit of God is free worker and revelation a spirit of life and light a spirit of love and of a sound minde a Eph. 1.17 is a free and arbitray agent he workes when 2 Tim. 1.7 and where and in what measure he pleaseth as the wind bloweth where it listeth so the spirit workes where and how he pleaseth b John 3.8 to some he reveales more to some lesse of the minde of God none are perfect in there faith love joy while they remaine heere as he is free to give the soule comfort and speake peace to it so he may as freely withdraw his divine influence from it at least in some measure and degree and who can blame him for so doing since he acts freely and every dram of peace and comfort which any poore soule hath is meerely of grace and benevolence if you have more communion with God then your brethren and a bound in the comforts of the holy Ghost whilst they morne under sad discouregments you have so much the morecause to magnifie the grace of God for what have you which you have not received as the sun is free in shining on your outward man so the spirit of God is also free in casting his beames upon your inward man * Donum spiritus liberum est nulli merito alligatum Musc Secondly the Lord in his infinit wisdome layes you low 2 Ground Saìnts are brought low that they may sympathize with their brethren that you may pittie others that are in a sad conditon over whome you would otherwise insult and triumph such as have knowne the terrors of God and have beene in the depths of sorrow and affliction themselves will Sympathize with there afflicted brethern experience makes a compassionate and tender hearted Christian if ye be wounded your selves you would be sensible of others if you be exercised in the spirituall warfare your selves you will pitty those that by groaning under the burthen of corruption by exercise wee come to be expert souldiers in the Campe of Christ indeed the speculative part of religion is not comparable to the practicall our Saviour himself was tempted that he might be a compassionate high preist and know how to helpe others that are tempted a Heb. 4.15 you are apt to grow proud and wanton when you have much comfort and greate raptures you are puffed up with your inlargments and looke at your poore wounded afflicted brethren at a great distance the Lord it may be will take away your comforts and put you into the same capacity with them that you may be sensible of their sorrowes no temptation hath taken others but it may also surprize you yee may ere long for ought I know mourne after your beloved as the Spouze did in the Canticles though you have the bridgrooms presence now with you it may be shortly taken frō you and then your countenances wil be sad and your harts be filled with sorrow you ought therefore to be so far from censuring your disconsolate brethren as that you should morne with them and helpe to beare their burthens so fulfill the law of Christ which is a law of love Thirdly because God will put a differēce in the measure 3 Ground God will have Saints know they have not a full poffession of heaven here of the Saints enjoyments here and in glory here they live by faith there by sence and vision here their comforts ebbe flow but there they have an uninterrupted communion with God a fulnesse of joy in the beatificall vision of the Lord of glory 't is true the saints in this world have experience of that joy which is unspeakable and glorious but they have but a tast of it some times they are so carried up in the spirit as that the most excellent things in the world are as nothing unto them but these raptures are not of long continuance there is as great if not a greater difference betweene the Saints here and the Saints in glory in the measure of there joyes as betweene the Saints that lived under the old administration those that have liv'd since Christs ascention when he distributed great portions of his spirit to the sonnes of men a Eph. 4.8 as princes use to give great gifts at the time of their coronation the Apostle cleares this excellently in the 1. Cor. 13 12. now wee see darkly through a glasse or medium now wee have but a Darke sight of the glory of God but then namely when the vaile is rent and corruption swallowed up wee shall see face to face now wee know but in part but then wee shall know even as wee are knowne the failings and imperfections of the most spirituall Saints do sufficiently confesse the vaine interpretation which some give on this place namely that the perfect vision of God is to be referred to the Saints there which cannot be obtained without a change of the outward man this mortality must put on immortality and this corruption incorruption at the glorious appearance of the sonne of God when the Kingdome shal be delivered up to the father and the father shal be all in all b 1 Cor. 15. now we are the sons of God it doth not appeare what we shal be but wee know when he doth appeare we shall be like him for wee shall see him as hee is b 1 John 3.2 hee shall change our vild bodies that they may be fashioned like his glorious body c Phil. 3.1 21 and this is that which the Saints long after as the great marriage feast the complement of their joy and happinesse praying continually come Lord Jesus come quickly Vse 1 Spurne not at this Doctrine as too low and carnall for you let not such a thought enter into your hearts but examine your selves strictly concerning it that at length if it be the will of God yee may be sensible of your great losse for a man to be wounded and not know it aggravates his afflictions to be miserable yet to be ignorant of it adds to his inisery the time was when you had tender consciences broken and contrite hearts and were sensible of the stratagems of Satan and the deceitfulnesse of your owne spirits yee have also seene the out-goings of God and your mouthes have beene filled with mirth and singing as the bird in a summers morning oh how pleasant and delightfull have the truths of God and Saints of God beene to you but now behold and oh that you were sensible of it yee walke in a desart and wildernesse where there is no water darknesse is your habitation you feed on chaff and windy notions in which