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grace_n	covenant_n	promise_n	seal_n	4,049	5	9.6971	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15847	Sinne stigmatizd: or, The art to know savingly, believe rightly, live religiously taught both by similitude and contrariety from a serious scrutiny or survey of the profound humanist, cunning polititian, cauterized drunkard, experimentall Christian: wherein the beauties of all Christian graces are illustrated by the blacknesse of their opposite vices. Also, that enmity which God proclaimed in Paradise betweene the seed of the Serpent and the seed of the woman, unvailed and anatomized. Whereunto is annexed, compleat armor against evill society ... By R. Junius.; Drunkard's character	Younge, Richard.	1639 (1639)	STC 26112; ESTC S122987	364,483	938

enter into life must keepe the Commandements viz. so farre forth as hee can And Titus 2.12 The grace of God which bringeth salvation teacheth us that we should deny ungodlines and worldly lusts and that we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world By all which it is plain that as Christ's blood is a Charter of pardon so withall it is a covenant of direction and hee that refuseth to live as that covenant prescribes may perish as a malefactor that is hanged with his pardon about his necke And yet every drunken dissolute and deboyshed person doubts not to fare well while they feare not to doe ill § 148. BUt secondly One part of the covenant of grace is that we●e wil forsake the Divell and all his workes constantly believe c. what else did thy vow in Baptisme which is a seale of the covenant import but that there are Articles and conditions viz. certaine duties on thy part to be performed aswell as promises on Gods part to be fulfilled A Sacrament is the sealing of a League with Covenants betweene party and party saith Pareus Now as God hath covenanted and bound himselfe by his Word and Seale to remit thee thy sinnes adopt thee his child by regeneration and give thee the Kingdome of heaven and everlasting life by and for his Sonnes sake so thou didest for thy part bind thy selfe by covenant promise and vow that thou wouldest forsake the Divel and all his workes constantly believe Gods holy Word Mark 61.16 and obediently keep his Commandements the better thereby to expresse thy thankfulnesse towards him for so great a benefi 1 Pet. 3.21 Ps 116.12.13.14 And we know that in Covenants and Indentures if the conditions be not kept the Obligation is not in force whereby many even Magus-like after the water of Baptisme goe to the fire of Hell Yea except wee repent and believe the Gospell that holy Sacrament together with the offer of grace instead of sealing to us our salvation will bee an obligation under our owne hand and seale against us and so prove a seale of our greater condemnation § 149. BUt for ought thou knowest Object thou art regenerate hast repented What it is to be born againe and doest believe in Christ as well as the best Indeed Answ some will not believe they have the Plague till they see the Tokens but to put this out of question know that to be regenerate is to bee begotten and borne anew Iohn 1.13 by the ministery of the Word Iames 1.18.21 and the Spirits powerfull working with it Ioh. 3.3.5.8 and of the children of wrath and bondslaves of Sathan by nature to be made by grace through faith in Christ the Sonnes of God Titus 3.3 to 9. and that they which are thus borne have Christ formed in them Galathians 4.19 are led by the Spirit of God Rom. 8.14 and live uprightly 1 Iohn 3.9 and exercrse righteousnesse ver 10. Regeneration will alwayes manifest it selfe by a just and holy life by the innocency of our actions and the sobriety of our speeches God's children are known by this marke they walke not after the flesh but after the Spirit Rom. 8.1 they are translated from the raigne of sin to the raigne of grace they confesse him ore with the mouth professe him opere with the life love him corde with the heart for these are the three objects of a Christians care the devotion of his heart the profession of his mouth and the conversation of his life It is the summ of all Religion to imitate him we adore he that follows Christ's example is a true Christian hee that squares his life according to the rule of Gods Word is godly and none else for otherwise if we be drunkards and swearers wel may we boast that wee are the Sonnes of God as the Spanyards did to the West Indians when they came first amongst them but he that knowes any hing will certainly conclude with those poore Salvages that hee cannot bee a good God who hath such evill Sonnes well may he be the god of this world as the Divell is called 2 Cor. 4.4 If Christ be formed in any he destroyeth the Divells power which formerly he had in them Heb. 2.14.15 and his wicked works 1 Ioh. 3.8 he is not subject to the dominion of sin sinne doth not raign in him Psa 19.13 wherefore be resolved against transgression as you would be resolved of your regeneration and salvation True conversion workes a manifest change the old man changeth with the new man worldly wisdome with heavenly wisdome carnall love for spirituall love servile feare for Christian and filiall feare idle thoughts for holy thoughts vaine words for holy and wholsome words fleshly workes for workes of righteousnesse c. as if a man were cast into a new mould Otherwise if godlinesse hath not made us good what power hath it wrought A feeble godlines it is that is ineffectual if it hath not wrought us to bee devout to God just to men sober and temperate in the use of Gods creatures humble in our selves charitable to others where is the godlinesse where is the power When the heart is changed and set towards God all the members will follow after it as the rest of the creatures after the Sunne when it ariseth the tongue will praise him the foot will follow him the eare will attend him the hand will serve him nothing will stay after the heart but every one goes like hand-maides after their Mistresse which makes David presenting himself before God summon his thoughts speeches actions c. saying all that is within me praise his holy name Psal 103.1 Prov. 23.26 so that it is a true rule he that hath not in him all Christian graces in their measure hath none and he that hath any one truly hath all For as in the first birth the whole person is borne and not some peeces so it is in the second the whole person is borne againe though not wholly how much the regenerate man is changed from what hee was wont to be may be seene 1 Corinth 6.9.10.11 Tit. 3.3 to 8. Rom. 6.4 to 23. and here upon Christ is compared to purging fire and Fullers Sope to signifie how hee should fine and purg purifie and cleanse his people Mal 3.2.3 God never adopteth any his children but he bestowes love tokens upon them which are the earnest of his Spirits in their hearts 2 Cor. 1.22 and his saving graces as an earnest and for a signe that they shal overcome their Ghostly enemies and live everlastingly with him in heaven as he gave Hezekiah the going backe of the Sunne tenne degrees for a signe that hee should be delivered out of the hands of the King of Ashur and have added to his dayes fifteene yeares 2 Kings 20.6.8.11 Alasse though there bee scarce a man on earth but he thinks to goe to heaven yet heaven is not for every one but for the Saints would any

Asse that feares he is not loved unlesse he be lose and scattering that strives so to be like a god in bounty that he throwes himselfe into the lowest estate of man He that gives to and spends upon all abundantly which is for none to doe but him that hath all he that had rather keepe company with the dregs of men then not be the best man he that ravells out a spacious fortune upon flatterers he that out of vaine glory will be worship't and kneed to the spending of a faire inheritance and then ends his dayes in lewdnesse and contempt as what is it that ambition will not practise rather then let her port decline he is a foolish Steward that thus showers away in one yeare what his ancestors have beene gathering twenty yea he is a mad man that makes his kindnesse to others prove cruelty to himselfe and all his posterity Ob. Againe others are all for mirth they keepe company at the Taverne with none but curious and quaint wits eloquent Poets and Orators now aske them as Manoah did Sampson Is there never a companion for thee among thy Brethren the people of God that thou must associate thy selfe with these of uncircumcised hearts and tongues They will answer Give me only these for my companions for they please me Answ Can none please thee but such as displease God dost thou not know that who so will be a friend to such makes himselfe the enemy of God Iames 4.4 or art thou ignorant that pleasant wits viciated in accustomed lewdnesse with sweete tunes entise men to destruction as is morald in that fiction of the Sirens they delight the sense but slay the soule and will any man poyson his body to please his taste or goe into an infected house to fetch out a rich suite or put his finger into a firie Crusible to take out gold It 's true like Iugglers and such as play trickes of Legerdimaine they will deceive us with a kinde of pleasure and delight but is it any priviledge for a man to be tickled to death that so he may dye laughing Their discourse may be resembled to the fruite that undid us all which was faire in sight smooth in handling sweet in taste but deadly in effect or to the Clarian water which made men eloquent but withall short liv'd or the gifts which those Elfes called Lamiae used to present unto children which made so many as accepted of them loose their comlinesse for ever after And he that much affects their company being an honest man is just like that free Citizen that so doted on a female slave that he would needs marry her though by that match he were sure by the Law to become a slave with her He overvalues the drunken and reeling love of these men that buyes it with the ruine of himselfe his estate and family Wherfore as in Meates we doe not only stand upon pleasantnesse but wholesomenesse so let us regard wholesomenesse as well as pleasantnesse in our discourse and company A good man can lend nothing to the increase of mirth in wicked company and he that will not lend let him take heede of borrowing And so much for defence against what they doe which may be avoided If you would have as much against what they say which must be endured Reade a late Treatise called THE VICTORY OF PATIENCE In the meane time thinke what account you shall give of that you have read FINIS THE TABLE A ADmonition admonitions and corrections the chiefe offices of friendship 826. no admonishing a drunkard 52. he is incapable of good counsell 106. drunkards and swearers contemne it 98. admonition to sellers of drinke Officers c. 711. Adultery looke drunkennesse Agents some for Christ some for Sathan 714. Sathans agents have many advantages above Gods servants in winning soules 714. and keeping 727. and improving them 734. Aggravation the drunkards sin aggravated by eleven circumstances 465. Atheisme drunkards and al vicious men Atheists in heart 229. 558. 590. B BElieve drunkards will believe nothing except their senses say Amen to it 623. they have no faith in the Scriptures 229. few men believe the whole written Word 590. they seeme to believe the promises but really and indeed believe no part 558. Bitter why so bitter and tart 9. Blessings no blessings without God blesse them to us 658. C CEnsure 347. of it foure reasons 349. Chide them sharply when they pray for them heartily 848. Children wel born children are touched to the quick with the injuries of their parents 824. wicked men children of the divel and partake of his nature 407. those whom they hate traduce c. children of God and partake of his nature 407. each must do the works of their father 402. Combine wicked men combine against the godly 391. and lay divellish plots to destroy them ibid. Company evill a maine cause of drunkennesse 286. exhortation to avoid evill company 856. and keepe good company 858. that it is lawful to shun their company and how 776. five reasons why 781. 1 that they may look into themselves 782. 2 that we may not be infected by them 787. 3 that we may not be infeoffed in their punishments 805. 4 because their company wil bereave us of much comfort 811. 5 that we may be at peace 821 many objections about leaving their society answered 796. excuses for keeping company taken away 860. drunkards would have our company in sinne 382. and likewise in torment 436. they think it will be some ease to have company 448. but it will prove contrary 449 Confident why worldlings are so jocund and confident 109. Consideration want of it the cause of all impiety 490. Consciences of wicked men will be awakned when perhaps the gate of mercy will be shut 488. Constancy and inconstancy 840. change in the vicious as rare a vertue as constancy in the vertuous ibid. Contempt of religion the greatest rub in the way to heaven 532 Corruption will mix with our purest devotions 574. Covenant that we will forsake the divel and all his works constantly believe c. one part of the covenant of grace ●64 Covetousnesse a cause of drunkennesse 275. covetous men fooles 613. in 6. main particulars made good 621 Cowardlinesse one speciall cause of drunkennesse 282. it will not suffer a man to doe well 749. but this is base blood 753. a coward pot-valiant will kill and slay 48. Counsell we should go to counsell and advise with others 668. wicked men give divellish counsell to others against the godly 392. Custome of sin takes away the sense of sin 427. D DEath as men live so commonly they dye 236. defering repentance til death 579. death may be sudden and give a man no leave to be sicke 580. or if it be not repentance is no easie work 581. and late repentance is seldome true ibid. death in a good cause shall pleasure not hurt us 769. which hath made many preferre it before profit pleasure