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A76814 Living truths in dying times: Some meditations (upon Luk. 21.30. [sic]) occasioned by the present judgement of the plague. / By Thomas Blake. Blake, Thomas. 1665 (1665) Wing B3146A; ESTC R223024 90,620 229

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the Description I told you the soul is renewed Old things must pass away Christ must be sanctification as well as Righteousness John 3.3 Except a man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God There must be a new Birth a new work of God must pass upon the soul that renewing work it is in all the powers and faculties of the soul The old Nature it is in some measure weakened in all the faculties of the soul though not wholly driven out of any of them There is something of God spread over the whole soul but yet not so but that there is room for the soul to complain as Paul did Rom. 7.3 Who shall deliver me from this body of death The soul it is brought to thoughts of God that once it had not and thoughts of sin that once it had not it is a real though but an imperfect work it is a work really begun upon the soul really wrought upon the heart though not presently perfected It is an earnest and pledge of that that shall be wrought out and compleated in the season thereof Now here is the question you are to put to your hearts What beginnings of this Work have you upon your souls H●ve you thoughts of God you had not and thoughts of sin you had not and thoughts of holiness that you were once utter strangers unto 4. This is in the description the soul is made to be for Christ Titus 2.13 14. Who gave himself for us that he might purifie to himself a peculiar people c. Christ did purchase a people to himself Time was thou wert all for sin and Sathan but now thou art for Christ thy Vote is on his side though sometimes sin and Sathan may carry it against thee 5. The bent of the heart is for God the ship that is bound for the Indies a long voyage it meets with many cross winds and is often driven back but yet being bound for the same place it still sets out with the first fair wind and makes forward as much as it can It is thus with the soul that shall stand with Christ it is bound for God for heaven it meets with many cross winds the winds makes the waves of the sea boisterous and the soul is brought back again to as bad or it may be to its own apprehension a worse condition then at first when it set out for God yet bound for God it is and therefore it improves all its opportunities for God that is the bent and frame of such a soul Isa 26.8 The desires of our soul are toward thee c. 6. It is desirous to be found in the whole will of God not that it is always found in the will of God but yet the desires are after it that is the inclination of the heart to be found in the whole will of God in one part as well as another Caleb was a type of them that shall stand before Christ Num. 14.24 But my servant Caleb because he had another spirit and had followed the Lord fully c. He was to go to Canaan and he was a type of all that shall inhabit the heavenly Canaan that shall sit down in the land of rest they are persons of such spirits that they are willing to follow the Lord fully to be found in the whole will of God in the duties of the first Table in the worship of God with his people in their family Psal 4.3 Therefore called the godly man They are for the second Table-duties to do the duty of their places and relations towards God and all men therefore Tit. 2.11 The grace of God teacheth to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts c. Now see how is it with thee thou hast corruptions remaining sin dwelling in thee and thou art found but little in the way and work of God but which way is the bent of thy heart which way do the strongest desires of thy heart run 7. It is willing not onely to do but to suffer for God to be true to his name his honor and glory whatever it may cost him to submit his life liberty estate honor or whatever he hath to the will of Christ if the Lord wills me to suffer I will undergo it if I may but any way further and promote his glory that is the requirement of Christ in Mark 8.38 Whoever shall be ashamed of me c. he that will not own Christ and his way and work in the face of the utmost hazard that he can run he shall not be owned of Christ when he shall come so Rev. 2. Fear none of those things be faithful to death c. So consider and commune with your spirits in this matter are you willing to do his will and suffer his will is it the design of your spirits to stand perfect in the whole will of God It is good if so and such as I have here described shall be sure to stand before Christ whoever be rejected in that day And this brings me to the fifth thing to shew you what is the best frame that the soul should be most ambitious of and that will best fit it to stand before the Son of m●n What is the best frame ●o stand before Christ in the day of Christ There are these five things necessary if you would be able to meet Christ without any consternation of spi●it if you would be able to meet him with setled confidence boldness besides what I have already laid down Five things are needful 1. To have the love of God in Christ witnessed and sealed up to the soul It is a great mercy to have an interest in Christ to have taken hold on his righteousness but it is a further and greater mercy to have the love of God in Christ witnessed and manifested and sealed up to the soul by the Spirit of Christ souls this is that mercy which the Saints have been breathing after Psal 4.6 Lift up the light of thy countenance upon us this is that mercy which the Saints have prized above the dearest and best of all the mercies of this life Psal 163.3 Because thy loving kindness is better then life c. life is better then any other thing in this world but the love of God manifested to the soul that is better then life this is that that the Saints of God have travelled for and for which they are travelling for which they are waiting upon the Lord from time to time and from duty to duty this is that that their souls are set upon Psal 77.4 One thing have I desired of the Lord and that will I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord to behold his face c. Psal 63.1 O God thou art my God early will I seek thee c. This is that the soul of the Psalmist was seeking after this is that that carries the soul couragiously and comfortably through the most rugged and unpleasing paths