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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09963	An elegant and lively description of spirituall life and death Delivered in divers sermons in Lincolnes-Inne, November the 9.th, M.DCXXIII. vpon Iohn, 5.25. By Iohn Preston then Bachellor of Divinitie, and chaplaine in ordinarie to the Prince his Highnesse.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.	1632 (1632)	STC 20221.5; ESTC S115172	68,183	135

5.6 In Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but faith which worketh by love with Gal. 6.15 In Christ Iesus neither Circumcision availes any thing neither uncircumcision but a new creature all not proceeding from a new heart and from faith which worketh by love is nothing this is the roote of all when all our actions come from faith which workes by love else though they are never so pretious they are but dead works It is no matter whether yee pray or not whether yee recive the Sacrament keepe the Sabbaths or not they helpe not a jot unlesse they come from the principle of life a new creature Secondly consider the manner of their working they will bee done with quicknesse and vivacity Men do them as living actions with all propensnesse and readinesse with much connaturalnesse with much fervency and zeale when they are done in a perfunctory manner they are dead workes Thirdly yee may know them by their end looke yee to Christ doe yee all in sincerity to him or no or to your selves if yee doe then they are gracious workes and proceed from grace they are living actions and not dead they issue from a right principle ayming at God and not at your selves Hosea 10.1 Israel is an empty vine he bringeth forth fruite to himselfe If you bring forth â—ruits to your selves and not to God yee are but empty Vines God accepts you not Fourthly this life is discovered by your behaviour to the meanes of life when they are brought unto you when there is no sound or no voyce there is no distinction twixt a deafe and a hearing man so where there is no light there is no difference twixt a seeing man a blind but the light differs them So when as the light of the Gospel shines then men are tryed In times of ignorance God regards not men so much but now in time of the Gospel see if it be powerfull and whether you set your selves about holy duties Matth. 3.10 Now is the Axe laid to the roote of the tree that is since Iohns comming there is a distinguishment twixt living and dead trees A tree is not discovered to bee dead till it wither no man will cut downe a tree in winter because he knowes not then whether it be dead or no the Spring distinguisheth the dead and living trees in the winter they are all alike The Spring is the powerfull preaching of the word if men spring not then if they come not in they are dead Those whose education hath beene good those who live under a powerfull Ministry now is the Axe laid to the roote of the tree with them it is a signe they are dead if they profit not by it Fiftly yee may know whether yee have this life by the food it is fed with severall lives are fed with severall foode Now the food of this new life of grace is double first the word secondly good workes First the word 1 Pet. 2.25 As new borne babes desire the sincere milke of the word that yee may grow thereby if so bee that you have tasted that the Lord is gracious that is if yee are alive as you professe your selves to bee you shall know it by your behaviour to that which doth nourish your life First yee will long after the word as the child doth after the Teate If the child be hungry neyther apples nor rattles nor any thing else can quiet him but the Teate So nothing can quiet these but the word Others may have excuses they will have none Eyther they will live where the word is or they will bring it home to them they will bring themselves to it or it to them Secondly they desire the sincere milke of the word many things may be mingled with the word that doe please the wit yet those who live the life of grace desire the sincere word the pure word without any mixture Thirdly they desire it that they may grow thereby many desire it to know it onely if ye desire it as new borne babes it will make you better better many heare but as men having an Atrophy in their bodies they grow not no fruite comes thereby Fourthly they taste a sweetnesse in the word above others the second ground received the word with joy and Herod heard Iohn Baptist with gladnesse but where there is true grace they goe farther they delight in the word it is sweeter to them than the hony few can say so in good earnest that the pure word is sweeter to them than Hony or the Hony Combe Iob hee esteemed the word more than his appointed food Iob. 23.12 The second food of this life is good workes Ioh. 4.32.33.34 is the place out of which I collect this where Christ being asked of his Disciples to eate said that hee had other meate that they knew not of then said they hath any man brought him ought to eate Hee saith unto them My meate is to doe the will of him that sent me and to finish his worke Doe you good workes with such a desire as men eate and drinke doe you hunger and thirst after them desiring for to doe them Then yee are alive Hypocrites may doe much but it is not their meate and drinke to doe it examine therefore your selves by these signes whether you are alive or dead This is the preaching of the law to shew you the narrow differences of life and death The first step to life is to know that yee are in a state of death the Law must goe before the Gospel Iohn Baptest before Christ yee must bee brought to their case in the 2 Act. 37. who were pricked at the hearts yee must bee brought unto the case of the Iaylor and of Paul to the case of the Prodigall that you may know your estate then yee come home Our end is to preach life and comfort to you not damnation Rom. 15.4 All Scripture is written for our comfort now there are many things in the Scripture that tend to discomfort and terrors yet their end is comfort as Physicke is sharpe for the time yet the end is health Wee desire not to exclude any but to bring you in whilst you have time the market is then hard to make when yee lye on your death beds labour to know it in time your death is a time of spending not of getting it was too late for the foolish Virgins to buy oyle when they were to attend the bride-groome We desire not to affright you with false feares but to admonish you that you be not deceived I finde this sentence Be not deceived prefixed before many places of Scripture where Gods judgement are denounced as 1 Cor. 6.9 Be not deceived neither fornicators Idolaters Adulterers c. shall inherit the kingdome of God and Eph. 5.6 Be not deceived with vaine words for because of these things commeth the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience to shew that men are apt to deceive themselves

living man but by conjunction betwixt God and the soule God is to the soule as the soule is to the body he puts life into it and is conjoyned to it by his word when it is thus received The Word comming as from God wee doe that which is commanded us because God will have us doe it and then wee doe it simply and sincerely so that God accepts it Wee receive it as the word of God it breeds life within us when we receive it with faith with full Assurance then it comes from God then it comes in power and in the holy Ghost and makes us become followers of Christ 1 Thess. 1.5 when we receive the Word of God it workes effectually in us 1 Thess. 2.13 when we receive it as from God with full assurance it begetteth life in us To live is to have sence and motion to be acting the receiving of the word with full assurance makes us active the beleeving of it sets men on worke 2 Chron. 25.5.6 10. When as Amasiah beleeved that God would not be with him unlesse hee sent away the Israelites then he sent them away and not before Caleb and Iosuah did beleeve therefore they followed God constantly Abraham offered up his sonne Isaack because he beleeved God that he could give him another sonne or raise him out of ashes againe Let a man be perswaded that such a thing will hurt him or that such a thing will doe him good he doth the one and leaves the other Receive therefore the Word with full assurance consider what is delivered if it be the Word or no consider that it which yee heare is eyther the Word or not the Word it belongs to me or not Men take things overly and are not rooted and grounded in faith and that makes them heare unprofitably See then if your particular actions agree with the Word so yee shall be rooted in faith this makes the Word a Word of life The third rule and meanes to heare with profit is that which is set downe of the fourth ground in the parable of the seed in the eight of Luke the 15. verse that is to receive the Word with honest and good hearts having heard the Word to keepe it and to bring forth fruite with patience Heare the Word with honest hearts this is done when as a man is resolved to practise whatsoever God will reveale when he hath no reservations or exceptions to himselfe when hee is resolved to practise what he heares with an humble heart being humbled wee will doe this and not before The fourth ground was humbled men will not heare this because they are proud now pride is an evill disposition in the creature whereby it exalts its selfe above its measure There is this fault in men they will picke and chuse in the wayes of God The last ground will onely part with all for Christ. Act. 9. When as Paul was humbled hee then cried out Lord what wilt thou have me to doe I will doe or suffer any thing for thee and he was as good as his word So Act. 2.32 the Iewes being humbled cried out Men and brethren what shall wee doe wee will doe any thing to bee saved So Act. 16.30 The jaylor being humbled demanded of Paul what he should doe to be saved when as a man is thus disposed God will teach him Psal. 25. God teacheth the humble his wayes man himselfe will doe so if he see one willing to learne he will teach him The secrets of the Lord are revealed to those that feare fearâ— him to those that stand in awe of him and dare doe nothing against him hee reveales his peculiar truths in a peculiar manner to men those things that are effectuall to their salvation bring therefore humble hearts ready to obey But you will say we doe obey and practise what we doe heare I answer that yee may be deceived as they in the fift of Deut. they said they would obey but God saw that there was another heart in them than what they said therefore God said O that there were such an heart in them that they would feare me and keepe my commandements alwayes that it might goe well with them and their children for ever So Iohanan and the other Captaines Ier. 42.20 desires Ieremia to goe to God to know his will and they would doe whatsoever he should say whether it were good or evill But Ieremiah tels them that they did but dissemble in their hearts he knew they would not do it Looke to this in the acts and the effects what have you done when the Word crosseth you in your aymes estates names friends if you have disobeyed it then Eze. 14.4 the word is made a stumbling blocke and your iniquities before your face and the Lord will answer you according to the multitude of your Idols God will answer such men according to their comming as they come with false hearts they shall be dealt withall accordingly Come then with hearts resolved to practise whatsoever is spoken and desire God to make it effectuall to savation The fourth meanes to heare the Word and the voyce of Christ profitably is to lay up what you heare let it abide with you and continew with you This rule is prescribed by Christ himselfe Ioh. 15.7 If yee abide in me and my words abide in you yee shall aske what yee will and it shall be done unto you When yee attend to the Word if yee are affected with it but for the time it is nothing except it continue with you it will not profit you you must doe as Mary did shee layed up all the sayings that shee heard of Christ and pondered them in her heart Luke 2.51 The Disciples often questioned of Christ which proves that they pondered his words in their hearts So the nobles of Berea they searched the Scripture so Iacob he noted the saying of Ioseph and laid it up yee doe not heare thus if you doe but lend your eares for the time if yee worke it not upon your affections yee profit not The reason why there is so much preaching and so little profit is for want of this There are two kinds of ill hearers the first are such as heare as Swine and trample all they heare under feete the second such as heare as Dogs snarling at the doctrine if yee offend in eyther of these yee heare amisse Of all the foure grounds that was worst which received not the Word When men heare the Word there is more than a naturall forgetfulnesse in them the Divell helpes it Iam. 1.23.29 He that heares the Word and recals it not or practiseth it not is like one that beholdeth his face in a glasse for hee beholdeth himselfe and goeth away and straight way forgetteth what manner of man he was yee must recall it before yee can practise it else yee will be like to those that behold their face in a glasse and wipe not away their spots Be not therefore

forgetfull hearers and for this first recall and repeate what yee have heard when yee are gone Secondly practise it afterwards there is a blessing promised to mindfull hearers there is a curse denounced against those that are forgetfull Ioh. 13.15 If yee know these things happy are yee if you doe them but there is a curse for you if you doe not profit God will make you to heare and will not give you his Spirit Regard to prize the word if yee will not be forgetfull Rom. 1.28 those that did not like to reteine God in their knowledge those that did heare the Word and not regard it God gave them up to a reprobate sence to an Injudiciousnesse to doe those things that were not convenient not being able to profit by it The ancient Fathers much professed the repetition of Sermons and one of them used this similitude A man that comes into a pleasant garden he will not content himselfe with the present sent onely but he will carry some of the flowers home with him So in a cold day a man will not be content to heate himselfe at another mans fire but he will carry some fire home with him to keepe him hot at home So doe yee when yee come to heare the Word carry home some flowers of it with you carry some fire home with you to heate and warme your hearts God regards not flashes and moods and such negligence in performing of holy duties as will not warme their hearts Men are like a Sive in the water it is full whiles it is in the water but being taken out of it it hath nothing it is not the hearing of the Word of God or the doing of it negligently that will profit if yee heare it onely pro forma and negligently it doth then no good but it brings Gods curse upon you Gods curse is on many they grow not in knowledge or grace for want of diligence wherefore in the 2 Pet. 3.17 the Apostle bids us beware least being led away with the error of the wicked we fall from our owne stedfastnesse to prevent this grow in grace and for this purpose grow in knowledge for then yee grow in grace The fift meanes to heare profitably is to prize the Word and the voyce of Christ speaking to the heart pray earnestly for it that yee may seeke it earnestly at Gods hands beseech him to speake to your hearts your hearing is nothing without this it is the great sheapheard of the flocke that must feede you It is his Spirit that must teach you Therefore when as you come to heare pray earnestly to God to speake unto you by his Spirit It is the Spirit that quickneth Ioh. 6.63 the Word is spirituall and wee are carnall therefore wee must pray for the Spirit to helpe us for to heare the Spirit is not bestowed without prayer Actes 1.14.15 God promised to give his Spirit to his Apostles yet they continued long in prayers ere he gave it them Luk. 11.13 God gives not his Spirit but to such as aske it to such as continue praying asking and knocking David prayes to God to open his eyes that he might see the wonders of his Law Men may heare the Word yet God opens not their eyes without seeking to him God speakes unto you by his Ministers Paul and Apollos are yours wee are the Ministers of God for your sakes for your service if God open the dore of utterance it is not for our sakes but yours that you might seeke the Wâ—ord at our mouthes and beleeve Acts 14.1 a ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ company of Iewes and Gentiles beleeved by hâ—â—â—ing the Word preached and receiving of it The world receives not the Spirit because they seeke it not Iohn 14.17 We in preaching can doe nothing it is the Spirit that must doe it 2 Cor. 3.18 wee can shew you the Image of God but it is nothing to you if yee be not transformed into the same image from glory to glory and it is the Spirit that must thus transforme you Conclude therefore with God in prayer let not him deny you one word from him is more then a thousand from us God fastning his Word upon your hearts it changeth you without him we preach in vayne The sixt meanes to heare profitably is to come with vacuity of minde free from all things that hinder else we sow but amongst thornes Ier. 4.4 we speak to men prepossessed the seed fals on fallow ground we speake to men whose hearts are full of lust they have a noyse of businesse within them and so they heare us not because their hearts are fore possessed The arrowes head being in the wound it is in vaine to lay plaisters upon it therefore Iam. 1.24 when as wee came to heare the Word we are commanded to lay aside all superfluity of naughtinesse and to receive with meeknesse the ingrafted word which is able to save our soules Doe in hearing the Word as men doe in grafting cut off all superfluous branches come with empty minds attend to the matters of grace Men who have full stomacks God feeds not He feeds the hungry others are sent empty away they are alwayes hearing but never profiting I should speake now to Ministers and people to Ministers that they speake in the voyce of Christ that they speake as he did not in wisedome of words but in the evidence of the Spirit To the people that they must heare them by whom Christ speakes those who have livings to bestow ought to bestow them on such as speake the words of Christ they that want his voyce ought to procure such Now if ye will not be at cost for a good Minister it is a signe you loâ—e your profit above Christ. Those that dwell where Christs voyce is not let them remove for they sit in darkenesse and in the shaddow of death Esay 9.2 If your dwelling be pleasant if you have bitter waters or no waters at all you will remove Have not your dwellings then where the water of life is not If the voyce of Christ be the onely meanes to beget life let men come to it It is a great fault men come not to this voyce hee thaâ— came not to the Sacrament must be cut off What shall be done to him that comes not to the Word Want of the Word preached is a great misery therefore David complaineth much of his case when he was not able to come to the Word O that I am constrained to dwel in Mesech and to have my habitation amongst the tents of Keder The daily sacrifice being taken away it was the greatest desolation that could be and can men live there with comfort where the Word is wanting Is it a duty to come to heare the Word or it is Arbitrary to come or not to come if it be arbitrary then yee performe but a will-worship when yee heare it if a duty then yee must heare it constantly and enquire where it is to be had But you have excuses To this I answer see how yee can excuse your selves to God How angry was Christ with those that came not to the marriage that is principally meant of comming to heare the Gospell It is a despysing of God and his ordinances not to come it is a contempt which brings sorth a curse which brings a judgement that is like the sinne Those that despise you despise me saith Christ the word is the power of God to salvation there is no salvation without faith and there is no faith but by hearing Faith comes by hearing He that heares not you heares not me saith Christ. Therefore if you heare not this voyce of the Sonne of God take heed lest he heare not you at last FINIS Doct. 1. Ob. Answ. The kinds of Spirituall death The Symptomes of true death Ob. Answ. Ob. Answ. The degrees of Spirituall death Object Answ. 1. Answ. 2. Ob. Ans. Ob. Ans. Ob. Answ. Ob. Ans. Ob. An. Ob. Answ. Vse 1. Quest. Answ. The characters of those that are spiritually dead Quest. Ans. The markes and signes of those who are spiritually dead Object Answ. Objest Answ. Object Ans. Vse 2. Vse 3. Vse 4. * The Sacrament is administred twice every Terme and sometimes thrice Doct. 2. Quest. Ans. Quest. Answ. Esay 53. Quest. Answ. Object Ans. Vse Vse 2. Quest. Answer Vse 3. Signes of spirituall life Object Answ. Object Answ. Object Answ. Object Answ. Luke 15.13 to 20. Iohn 3.7.8 The meanes to get this spirituall life Object Answ. Object Answ. Object Answ. Object 3. Answ. Object 1 Cor. 15 45. to 50. Ioh. 1.16.17 Iohn 15.1 2 3 4. 1 Sam. 10.10 11 12. Heb. 13.20 Ioh 11.43.44 Quest. Answ. Matth. 11.15 Doct. 3. Gen. 9.27 Reasons of the point Ioh. 5.21 Rom. 9.15 Gen. 1.3 1 King 19 19.20 Quest. Ans. Gen. 1.1 Ioh. 1.1 Mark 16.15.16 Gen. 5.24 Ioh. 10. â— Gen. 3. Object Answ. Object Answ. Vse 1. Iohn 10.3.4 2 Cor. 4.3.4 Act. 17.30 The means how to heare profitablie Object Answ. Ob. Aâ—s

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