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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26810	Spiritual perfection, unfolded and enforced from 2 Cor. VII, 1 having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God / by William Bates ...	Bates, William, 1625-1699.	1699 (1699)	Wing B1128; ESTC R4307	200,199	485

Persons He is stil'd Love and Light Love signifies his communicative Goodness the inclination of his Nature and Will to make his people happy and his complacency in their Happiness He will give grace and glory he will rejoyce over them with singing Now God being an Infinite Good and of Infinite Goodness we are sure his Will and Power are correspondent in making them happy God is stil'd Light which implies his most clear and perfect Knowledge for Light discovers all things His unspotted Holiness for Light can never be stain'd or sullied by shining on a Dunghil His Sovereign Joy for Light joyn'd with Vital Heat inspires universal Nature with Joy In Heaven God inlightens the Understandings of the Saints with the knowledge of his Glorious Nature of his Wise Counsels that are now seal'd in his Eternal Mind and of his admirable Works wherein the clear impressions of his Perfections appear He draws his Image upon them in all the Coelestial Colours that give final Perfection to it And from hence results that Joy that is unspeakable and glorious and is eternally exuberant in high and solemn praises of God Blessed are those who are in thy House they are always praising thee Now can an unholy Soul delight in these Emanations of the divine Presence and the exercise of the Saints above Can those who feed without fear and revel without restraint of their brutish Lusts Taste how good the Lord is Suppose the Soveraignty of God should dispense with Obedience to his Law and by an Act of Power an un-renewed Person were translated to Heaven can the place make him happy You may as reasonably imagine that a Swine whose inseparable quality is to love wallowing in the Mire can delight in a clean Room adorn'd with beautiful Pictures If the Tongue be depraved with a foul humour and the Disease is the Taster the most relishing Food is insipid till the Palate be cleansed and recover its true Temper it cannot judge aright 'T is equally impossible that an unholy Creature can enjoy Communion with the Holy God Till we are purified in our Minds and Affections the Divine Presence cannot be Heaven to us The Truth is Carnal Men do not love and desire the Heaven reveal'd in the Gospel but fear the Hell threaten'd because Fire and Brimstone are Terrible to Sense 2. The hope of Heaven purifies us from the Condition of the Promises that are clear and explicit in requiring Holiness in all that shall possess it Blessed are the pure in heart they shall see God follow holiness without which no man can see God The Promise is infallible to those who are qualified and the Exclusion is peremptory and universal of those who are unprepar'd These are not Conditions prescrib'd by Ministers of a preciser strain but by the Saviour of the World who with great Solemnity declares Verily verily I say unto you unless a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God The Soveraign dispenser of his own Favours may by his un-accountable Will appoint what terms he pleases in bestowing them to which 't is our Duty to Consent with humble Thankfulness but the Vital Qualifications requir'd in order to our admission into the Glory of Heaven are not a meer arbitrary Constitution but founded in the unchangable Nature of God If there were any defect and irregularity in the Architecture of the visible World in the Frame and order of its Parts it were less dishonourable than if there were no Connexion between a Holy Life and Blessedness for the first would only reflect upon his Wisdom and Power but the other would asperse his Holiness and Justice the most Divine Perfections of the Deity 3. Christian Hope purifies by the frequent and serious thoughts of the heavenly Glory The Object of Hope fills the Mind and Memory and gives Order and Vigor to our Endeavours If Riches or Honour be the Object of our Expectation the Soul will entertain it self with the pleasant thoughts of them and contriving how to obtain them Love and Hope are fix'd upon the same Objects and have the same Efficacy they transport the Soul to their distant Objects and transform them into their likeness The Object is Spiritual and Divine and the frequent Contemplation of it has a warm Influence into the Affections purifies and raises them from the Earth When our Thoughts are often Conversant upon the State of future Glory we feel its attractive force more strongly working in us as in a Chase if there be a cold Scent 't is but coldly pursued but when the Game is in view 't is eagerly prosecuted When Heaven is seldom thought of our desires and endeavours are cool'd towards it but when 't is in the view of our Understandings and near us our inclinations and endeavours are more fervent and zealous The Apostle saith Our Conversation is in Heaven from whence we look for the Lord Jesus 4. The hope of Heaven purifies us from a Principle of Thankfulness to God who is Donor of it St. John breaks into an extasie of wonder Behold what manner of Love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be call'd the Sons of God! The Angels those comprehensive Spirits are astonish'd that worthless Rebels should be taken into a Relation so high and near to God who deserveto be irrevocably banish'd from his Kingdom The Apostle observes the various degrees of this Happiness Now we are the Sons of God but it does not appear what we shall be Now we are adopted but the heigth of our Felicity when we shall be crown'd is a secret but we are assured we shall be like the Son of God the glorious Original of all Perfection Now the confirm'd Hope of this transcendent Happiness inflames a Believer with sincere and supream Love to God that will make us zealous to please him by entire Obedience to his Precepts and a likeness to his Nature 3. The Purity of a Christian consists in a conformity to Christ. The Son of God incarnate is both the Author of our Holiness and the Pattern of it As the Sun is the first Fountain of Light and a Christal Globe fill'd with Light may be a secondary Fountain transmitting the Beams unto us So the Deity is the original cause of all created Holiness but 't is transmitted through the Mediator In his Life on Earth there was a Globe of Precepts a perfect Model of Holiness All the active and suffering Graces appear'd in their exaltation in his practice Our Relation to him inferrs our likeness For whom he did foreknow he did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son that he might be the first-born among many Brethren The Image in Nebuchadnezzar's Dream had the Head of fine Gold the Breast and the Arms of Silver the Belly and Thighs of Brass the Legs of Iron the Feet part of Iron part of Clay But Christ united to his Church are not such an irregular composition As the Head is holy so are all