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A03599	The Christians tvvo chiefe lessons viz. selfe-deniall, and selfe-tryall. As also the priviledge of adoption and triall thereof. In three treatises on the texts following: viz. Matt. 16.24. 2 Cor. 13.5. Iohn 1.12,13. By T.H.	Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.; Symmes, Zachariah, 1599-1671.	1640 (1640)	STC 13724; ESTC S104191	125,257	252

in the end prove as those Brookes that Iob speakes of that faile men when they have most need of water 2 The Lord doth of all other services reject this formall righteousnesse Psalme 50.8 Psal 50.8 Isa 1.14 Isa 1.14 My soule hates your new Moones and your appointed feast● they are a burthen to me I am weary of them verse 13. Incense is an abhomination to mee c. Who will then goe about to make his heart beleeve that the outward usage of Gods ordinances will commend a man to God 3 It is among the sinnes of these times prophesied 2 Tim. 3.1.5 2 Sam. 3.1.5 that in the latter daies shall come men having a forme of godlinesse but not the power Now wee ought to be so much the more carefull to avoid it as we are more subject to it in regard of the prevailing of it in the age wherin we live 4 We must know that the end of all Gods ordinances is the renuing of Gods image in us the making of us new creatures the fashioning of our hearts to his will therefore we heare pray receive the Sacraments that wee may have the graces of faith and repentance stamped in our soules Now then when wee attaine not this benefit by them we lose all our duties the ordinances become as a dead letter the very sacrifice of fooles The third Harbour wherein the soule of man rests it selfe is Temporary Righteousnesse such a service of God as carries a goodly shew for the time but after vanisheth away Consider 1. What it is 2. The grounds of it 3. The deceits of it 4. The discovery 1. Temporary Righteousnesse is a work of the spirit whereby a man being enlightned to see the priviledges that are in Christ for a time rejoyceth in them yeeldeth some obedience to them yet afterward he utterly falls away It is a work of the spirit Heb. 6.4 Heb. 6.4 they that have it are said to bee partakers of the Holy Ghost Whereby a man is illightned to see the priviledges that are in Christ and rejoyceth in them Luke 8.13 Luke 8.13 the stony ground which represents the temporary professour receives the word with joy yeelds a measure of obedience Matth. 12 43. Matth. 12.43 the uncleane spirit is said to go out of a man for a time wherein the temporary Christian is understood now in the time wherein he departs the temporary Christian out of whom he goes yeelds some measure of obedience yet so as afterwards he falls away So the righteousnesse of temporaries is compared to the morning dew that vanisheth away with the Sunne and that this is his estate to fall away is insinuated Hebr. 6. Examples of this estate two more eminently known Saul of whom in the begin●ing of his raign we heare of many good actions his wisdom in his patient bearing with those wicked men that murmured against him 1 Sam. 10.27 1 Sam. 10.27 his humility in refusing to take the estate of a King upon him ver 22. his mercy in succouring the men of Iabesh Gilead Chap. 11. 1 Sam 11. his Iustice in pu●ting downe the witches 1 Sam. 28.3 1 Sam. 28.3 and yet afterwards fearefully did hee fall away from God The other is the example of that famous hypocrite Iehu how zealous did he carry himselfe in rooting out the posterity of Ahab and how did he in all pretend the worke of the Lord how did he put to death all the Priests of Baal and brake all the Images yet dyes with this brand that he departed not from the sins of Ieroboam 2. Grounds 1. That these men were never truly engrafted into the Vine Christ Iesus they were never truly sodered and united into Christ as parts of his mysticall body whereof hee is the head and accordingly being never truly conjoyned unto him no marvell if in time they be drawn dry and become as branches unprofitable that which they doe is by a common influence of the spirit of God enabling them unto some duties wherby hee pleaseth to glorifie his name and as that whereby wee continue and persevere in the state of grace is our union and society with the Lord Iesus whereby we become one with him and none shall take us out of his hands so that which makes the fruit of the spirit to wither and come to nothing in us after a time is the want of this conjunction with Christ because the seed of God is not in us such are nourished not from the power which diffuseth it selfe from the head to the members but from some externall cause and worke of the spirit but out of the mysticall body of Christ 2. There is a d●fferent manner of receiving the word some receive it into the uppermost face of their hearts others so receive it that it sinkes more deepely into the soule takes a firme rooting with some their knowledge swimmes in their braine casts a reflexion upon the affections from the light that is in the understanding o hers are changed into their knowledge their knowledge doth exe●cise a commanding power over the faculties of soule and body Now this different manner of receiving of the word makes a difference betweene Professours of whom some hold out others fall away this is the difference betwixt the stony ground and the good earth Mat. 13. So that the reason why this righteousnesse fades and comes to nothing is that because it not being stamped deepe enough into the soule when temptations make an assault it is not of ability to resist 3 Deceits 1. He imagines himselfe in good case for that he can rejoyce in the word when he heares it Answer There is a threefold difference betwixt the joy of the temporary and the Elect in hearing the word The temporary rejoyceth in hearing of the glorious priviledges of the Christian estate being convicted of the goodnesse and excellency of them like as a man is affected with joy to behold with his eyes a Vine plentifully ●aden with grapes or a field of corne that is goodly to see to in regard of the large and plentifull crop though he have no part in it even such may be the joy of the temporary caused not from any perswasion of propriety and interest in the things but only from the glorious hiew and beauty of the things themselves But as for the elect of God their joy ariseth from an evidence of that assurance they have of their interest in them that they are peculiar to them and that they are within the promises 2. The joy of the temporary is a joy that ariseth from a slight taste that he hath of Gods mercies and the Christian prerogatives whereas the joy of the true converts springs from that good they finde even from a perfect nourishment that they receive finding themselves justified and sanctified by vertue of that they have gotten in the ministry of the word The Apostle in the words last spoken of the temporary professour Heb. 6. gives occasion of

this carryes with it the destruction of soule and body for ever Matth. 7.23 Matth. 7.23 Such as counted themselves jolly fellowes while they lived they thought themselves great professours yet being deceived in this kind the reward of their errour is I know you not depart from me If a man lay all his estate on a purchase he will looke that the title be good examine his evidences advise with his learned counsell and all for that if it should prove naught he is utterly overthrowne Why are we not as wise for our soules that seeing our whole estate of future happines depends upon the truth of grace wrought in this life in our hearts we be carefull to sift and examine our selves Fourthly Consider that in our naturall wisedome which in all things in this life will not trust to any thing but what we have tryed a man usually will not use a weapon to fight withall but he will try it not willingly take a piece of mony but try it not entertaine a servant but try him nothing almost that we deale withall but we desire tryall and yet how is it that we can rest in a faith a repentance and never try them examine them according to those rules that the Scripture hath given in that kinde shall we be so scrupulous in the gew-gawes of this life and for the heavenly graces of the spirit not make the same inquiry Fifthly Is it not a maine end of that time which the Lord allowes us here that we should gaine the assurance of another life possesse our soules with a sound faith godly forrow true change sincere obedience doe we not then misse of the maine end of our life when we rest in the counterfeit appearance of these graces Let us therfore in the name of the Lord be exhorted that in the consideration of these premises wee doe carefully set apart some solemne times when we may use our best endeavours to prove our selves whether we be in the faith THE PRIVILEDGE OF ADOPTION And Tryall thereof by REGENERATION Iohn 1.12 13. But as many as received him to them gave hee power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his Name Which were borne not of bloud nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God THe blessed Evangelist Saint Iohn in the entrance into this Gospell discoursing of the admirable mystery of mans Redemption describes first the Authour of it Christ the Son of GOD and that according to his two-fold Nature 1. His deity or God head in the first verse 〈…〉 all are 〈…〉 2. His H●●anity or Man hood in the 14. ver in time assumed unto him Secondly in the midst betweene both hee describes the benefit which hereby redounds to all the faithfull partly by their adoption in the 12. verse partly by their Regeneration in the 13. verse For the former there is First The persons to whom this benefit doth accrew and they are such as entertaine Christ not outwardly but inwardly not into their houses but into their hearts 2. He shewes what manner of entertainement it must bee not corporall but spirituall by trusting in Christ or believing in his name which are in effect both 〈◊〉 For the other the benefit it selfe that doth accrue unto them that is described 1. In generall it is a priviledge or prerogative 2. More particularly they are said to be the adopted sons of God Now because this Adoption may be hid with God and so may not be knowne unto themselves who are adopted There followes therfore hereupon a reall change in them which change is described in the 13. verse 〈…〉 the manner of it that is a new casting moulding 〈…〉 and partly by the Authour 〈◊〉 whereby it is wrought laid downe First Negatively not a bloudy or fleshly breeding according to naturall concupiscence as it is in part described Ezechiel 16. Secondly Positively or affirmatively that is of the spirit as our Saviour saith unlesse a man be borne againe of water and of the Holy Ghost he cannot enter into the kingdome of God Iohn 3.5 Iohn 3.5 yea the words of Peter may bee a comment on my Text 1 Peter 1.23 1 Pet. 1.23 where he saith being borne a new not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever And so much for the summe or substance of these words with their severall branches Not to stand upon the nature of faith at this time because wee have had occasion to speake of it formerly and may likewise have hereafter as also to passe by divers instructions that may be from hence observed I will pitch only at this time upon two which the Evangelist mainely intends in this place First That all the faithfull are the adopted children of God Secondly None are the children of God by adoption but only such as are so by Regeneration The former being the summe of the 12. ver the latter of the 13. ver Doct. 1. All the faithfull are the adopted children of God There are saith one who goes under the name of Gregory Nazianzene three sorts of sonnes of God 1. By Generation 2. By Creation 3. By Adoption 1. By Generation and so is Christ alone Luke 3. Iob 1.6 Gal. 3.26 2. By Creation so Adam Luke 3. and the Angels Iob 1.6 3. By Adoption and so are all the faithfull Gal. 3.26 This point will more fully appeare if we consider the ground and end of our Adoption First The ground of it which is our union to Christ the naturall Sonne of God We are alive saith the Apostle to God in Iesus Christ our Lord Rom. 6.11 Rom. 6.11 Rom. 11.23 1 Cor. 12.27 Being grafted in him Rom. 11.23 and so we become one with Christ 1 Cor. 12.27 as therefore a sienne taken out of one stock and so inoculated into another or as a child taken out of one family and translated into another even so we are taken out of the houshold of Sathan and inserted into the family of God yea into the mysticall body of Christ for the head and the body make but one Christ Gal. 3.16 Gal. 3 16. he saith not to the feeds as speaking of many but unto thy seed as of one which is Christ and so he and the faithfull make but one Christ 1 Cor. 12.12 1 Cor. 12.12 This was the end of his Incarnation to make us the sons of God The Son of God became the sonne of man that wee sons of men might become the sons of God Gal. 4. 4 5. Gal. 4 4 5. Secondly Consider we the end of our Adoption that we might have a right and interest unto our heavenly inheritance The end of Christs Incarnation is our adoption and the end of our Adoption is our right and title to that inheritance without the which wee could not have had it that therefore which is called Adoption Rom. 8.15 Rom. 8.15 Is called the