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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29523	The Christians cabala, or, Sure tradition necessary to be known and believed by all that will be saved : a doctrine holding forth good tidings of great joy, to the greatest of penitent sinners : with a character of one that is by John Brinsley ...	Brinsley, John, fl. 1581-1624.	1662 (1662)	Wing B4710; ESTC R3986	117,145	225

truth hereof so receiving this Truth into our Iudgments looking upon it as a Faithful Saying yielding a full and firm assent and consent unto it Not entertaining any doubtful hesitations concerning it All which our Apostle here maketh it his design to expectorate and drive out of the hearts of Christians holding forth this unto them as a most infallible Doctrine laying it as a sure foundation which they may safely build upon And so do we taking this for an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Principle of our Religion the truth whereof is not to be questioned Every of us labour thus to get our hearts established in the belief hereof 3. Thus receiving it into our Understandings and Iudgments Receive we it also into our Memories lodging and laying it up there as a most precious Treasure of inestimable value and singular use Remember it and make use of it as occasion shall be offered Holding it forth as a Buckler for the repelling of those fiery Darts those Satanical Temptations which he is ready to inject for the disquieting and troubling the Souls of poor sinners with the apprehension of their sins The Quantitie and Qualitie the Multitude and Magnitude the Number and Nature of them which being let into the Soul without a Divine support may be enough to sinck it into the Gulph of Desperation Against all these oppose we this faithful Saying Remember the Consolation it holdeth forth That Iesus Christ came into the world to save sinners A true Catholicon a Soveraign Cordial proper for what ever Faintings the Soul may be subject to 4. Thus lodging it in our Memories Receive we it also into our Wills and Affections imbracing it resting upon it rejoycing in it and being thankful for it 1. Imbracing it as the most acceptable the most welcome Tidings that ever were brought unto the world Had not Iesus Christ come into the world better we had never come into it Were it not for the Sun what were the world but a Dungeon And were it not for this Sun of Righteousness which is risen upon earth we must have sate in darkness to all Eternitie His coming is our reviving Even as the coming of the Sun in the Spring time is unto Hearbs and Plants which before were seemingly dead such is the coming of Jesus Christ unto us who without Him were in a state of Death really dead How welcome then should the tidings hereof be unto us How ready should we receive this Doctrine O were this Doctrine to be Preached to the Spirits in Prison to the Divels and Damned Souls in Hell That Jesus Christ was come to save them how welcome would it be unto them And why not unto us who were it not for this Coming should erelong be in their condition 2. And thus imbracing it now rest upon it making it the sheat-Anchor of our Souls hope riding by it in all storms flying unto Iesus Christ receiving him as our Saviour clasping him in the arms of our Faith resting upon him for Salvation This is true justifying saving faith not barely to believe him to believe that Christ is come into the world but to believe in Him and on Him God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on him should not perish Joh. 3. 16. He that believeth on him is not condemned Vers. 18. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life Vers. 36. Still 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in eum in him on him As for believing him this is no more than the Divels do I know thee who thou art the Holy one of God saith that unclean Spirit Mark 1. 24. Will we have any benefit by him see that we believe on him receiving him as our Saviour casting our Souls upon the all sufficiency of his Merit there resting for the pardon of all our sins and the Salvation of our Souls 3. And thus resting upon him now rejoyce in him in this his Coming Rejoyce greatly O Daughter of Sion shout for Ioy O Daughter of Ierusalem behold thy King cometh unto th●… he is Iust and having Salvation saith the Prophet Zacharie to the Church Zach. 9. 9. This coming of Christ in the Flesh is a matter of great Joy as you have heard And so let it be entertained by us Rejoyce we in this our King and Saviour Rejoycing not with a carnal and sensual joy such as that joy is wherewith the memory of this great benefit is by some and too many celebrated at this Season of the year but a spiritual joy sutable to the benefit which he came to procure for us which is spiritual and eternal Salvation In the apprehension hereof let all true Believers who have received Christ into their hearts exsult and rejoyce rejoycing in this their God and Saviour as Mary saith she did Luke 1. 47. joyning in consort with that multitude which attending upon him in his Coming to Ierusalem cryed saying Hosannah to the Son of David Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord Hosannah in the Highest Mat. 21. 9. 4. And thus rejoycing in it Be we thankful for it really thankful studying how to express our gratitude for so great a Favour Not by letting loose the raines to all kind of licentiousness which hath been and I fear still is the practice of too many who at this Season of the year take greater liberty to abuse the Creatures of God and to waste and mis-spend their precious time in vain if not sinful Recreation●… and Disports than at any other times as if the end of Christs coming had been not to bind Satan but to let him loose not to save sinners from their sins but to indulge them in them Not so but by endeavouring to walk answerably to so great a favour so as becometh the redeemed of the Lord. All of us taking out and practising that Lesson which our Apostle telleth us this Grace of God teacheth us Tit. 2. 11. The Grace of God which bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all men this saving Grace of God in sending his Son upon this Errand which hath now under the Gospel appeared to all men not only Jews but Gentiles teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world To this end it was as you have heard That Christ came into the world to save sinners to save them from their sins from the power as well as from the guilt of them to redeem them from all iniquity Who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works as we have it Tit. 2. 14. that being delivered out of the hands of all our enemies our Spiritual enemies Sin Satan Hell Death we might serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all the dayes of our life as Zacharias hath it in his Song Luk. 1. 74 75. And thus

you remember your sins Looking back upon them not as Lot's Wife did upon her Sodom which she may be conceived to have left against her will sorrowing that she and it were parted and that she might not return to it again for which cause she was turned into a Pillar of Salt made a Monument to all posterity as the Story tells us Gen. 19. 26. Thus do aged sinners sometimes look back upon their sins their sins of youth which they have left or rather which have left them not being ashamed of them or sorrowing for them but pleasing themselves in the remembrance of them sorrowing rather that they have been forced to part with them Thus do they remember their sins as they do their friends being dead mourning over their Graves lamenting their death sorry that they could live no longer with them Now as for such a Remembrance far be it from every of you Would you have God to forget your sins see that you remember them with sorrow and shame loathing and abhorring them and your selves for them So look upon them as a sick Patient doth upon his Vomit which his stomack being disburdened of the very sight or smell of it is loathsome to him Remembring them be ashamed of them and confounded in your selves for them Taking notice which let it serve for a second Motive that this is the onely way to prevent everlasting Confusion at the last and great Day Those that will not remember their sins here shall remember them there those that will not remember them with shame here shall behold them with shame there those that will not be confounded for them here shall be confounded for them at that day They shall then be ashamed and also confounded all of them they shall go to confusion as the Prophet saith of the makers of Idols Isa. 45. 16. O then Be awakened and stir up your selves to such a serious remembrance of your sins And this do you speedily Not deferring the remembring of them as too many do who as long as health and strength are continued to them they go on securely not willing to trouble themselves with the thought of their sins No when the evil day cometh then it will be soon enough to do this In time of sickness at the hour of death this is the time which they have designed to this work A time of all other most improper for it So many a one hath found it and so let them make account to do who ever they are who shall put off the remembrance of their sins till then Haply at that time 1st thou mayest want power to do this not having the use of memorie Or 2dly having power thou mayest want a will though thou hast a head thou mayest want a heart God often yea for the most part denying his Grace at that time to those that have slighted the former offers of it But 3dly though thou hast both power and will yet how sad and terrible will the remembrance of thy sins be then unto thee when thou shalt come to look death in the face and be under the Arrest of that grim Sergeant thy body ready to be carried to the prison of the Grave and thy Soul without infinite Mercy to the prison of Hell there to make satisfaction for those sins which thou hast committed but not repented of O sad remembrance of sin when being thus arrested and called to give up thy accompt thou shalt remember thy sins but canst not remember thy repentance canst remember thy Debts but cannot shew thy Acquittance shalt remember how thou hast provoked God by a continual course of sin and so made thy self justly obnoxious to his everlasting Wrath and Vengeance but canst not remember that ever thou suedst out thy pardon this will be a sad Remembrance To prevent the horror and terror hereof then Remember your sins now Now whilest health and strength last now whilest you have time for the suing out your Pardon Now remember them Which that you may do for Direction briefly Begg it of God that he would open your eyes that he would in a kindly way set your sins in order before you bringing them to your remembrance causing you to know them This is that which Iob desireth from his God in his Passion Job 13. 23. Lord saith he make me to know my transgression and my sin And the like do you upon serious thoughts begg it of God that he would make a full discovery of your sins to you So it is unless He be pleased to do this for you you will never behold them as they are nor remember them as you ought And therefore be earnest in begging this Mercy A Mercy which maketh way for all saving Mercies for pardoning Mercie healing Mercie that the Lord would be pleased to discover your sins unto you making you acquainted with your Selves with the sinfulness of you Natures Hearts and Lives Which that he may do Wait upon him in the use of such means as whereby he ordinarily effecteth this work The chief whereof is the publick Ministry of his Word Hereby doth God open the eyes of poor sinners Paul was sent by God unto the Gentiles upon this Errand To open their eyes to turn them from darkness to light from the power of Satan unto God that they might receive forgiveness of sins c. as the Lord tells him Act. 26. 18. And how was he to do this Why by his Preaching his Preaching of the Word to them Herein are God's Ministers his Instruments as he was in doing of this work in giving sight to the blind in making men to see and know their sins This is the work which the Lord putteth his Prophet Ezekiel upon cap. 16. 2. Son of man saith he cause Ierusalem to know her Abominations And this is the work of God's Ministers his Interpreters as to shew unto man his uprightness of which Elihu speaks Iob 33. 23 so to convince him of his sinfulness And therefore that you may come to see and feel this attend upon this Ordinance of God and that with care and Conscience that you may hear what God will say to you by his Ministers Not being offended at them when they come to touch upon your sins as Ahab was with Michaiah Herod with Iohn the Baptist and Foelix with Paul of whom I spake before but Be willing to hear of them that so you may be convinced of them and brought to remember them in a truly penitential way This for the former sort such as never yet knew what it was to remember their sins aright In the second place for them who have remembered them and seriously repented of them let them also be excited frequently to reflect upon them It is a mistake if any shall think what our Antinomians of late time did that when once a man hath repented of his sins and sued out his pardon for them he should then cast them behind his back