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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32179	A glimpse of eternity very useful to awaken sinners and to comfort saints : profitable to be read in families / by A.C.	A. C. (Abraham Caley)	1679 (1679)	Wing C290A; ESTC R31283	161,448	236

shut up the doors of our hearts it is but just that he should give over and never knock more Again He is not onely said to knock but Call behold I stand at the door and knock if any man hear my voice though he doth not speak by an audible voyce yet he doth by words spoken inwardly to the mind (d) Verbis mentalibus occultâ inspiratione by a secret inspiration as Austin saith he felt something within him but what it was he could not tell for it was neither a voyce to be heard by the Ear nor any colour to be discerned by the Eye nor any scent to be perceived by the smell it was neither hard nor soft that it might be felt yet there was something God did which he easily felt but was not able to express As when the Lightning saith Cyprian breaketh through the Cloud the sudden splendour of it doth not so much enlighten as dazzle the Eyes so thou sometimes feelest thy self touched but dost not see him that toucheth thee thou hearest words spoken inwardly to thy Soul but doest not perceive him that speaketh to thee by such a Voyce God often speaketh to men a Voyce sweetly acquainting us with Gods will (e) Vox blandè leniter divinam insinuans voluntatem such a Voyce as is spoken of Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee saying this is the way walk in it (f) Isa 30. 21. and if when God thus speaketh we be ready to hear if when he saith seek my face our hearts eccho thy face Lord will we seek when he saith let him that hath an ear to hear our hearts answer speak Lord for thy Servants hear when he saith Return ye back-sliding Children our hearts answer Behold we come unto thee for thou art the Lord our God (g) Jer. 3. 22. If when he cryes Lift up your heads Oh ye Gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting Doors that the King of Glory may come in we forthwith hear his voyce and open the door he is most ready to come in and sup with us and to give us to sup with him But here is the great misery God speaketh once yea twice yet man perceiveth it not (h) Job 33. 14 and when we turn a deaf ear to Gods Call we hereby provoke him to take up that peremptory resolution Because I called and ye refused I will also laugh at your Calamity then shall they call upon me and I will not answer they shall seek me early but shall not find me Sometimes he is said to strive with men and this he doth in such manner that it is no easie thing to out-strive these wrestlings and contendings of Gods Spirit he doth so follow men with the Exhortations Admonitions Counsels of his Word so hedge them in with Mercie● on the one hand and Corrections on the other so besiege them by inward Enlightnings Convictions Perswasions Impulses that men shall confess another day that they were forced to strive and strive hard to elude these workings of Gods Spirit but this he will not do always My Spirit shall not always strive with man (i) Gen. 6. 3. Oh then take heed of withstanding these strivings of the Spirit Woe be to him that striveth with his Maker (k) Isa 45. 9. If all striving with God be woful certainly this is most desperate when he shall strive to do us good and we shall strive to suppress and put off these contendings of the Spirit when he shall strive to save us and we shall strive for our own Damnation woe to him that thus striveth with his Maker if we have hitherto thus striven against God take we heed of striving any longer lest God resolve My Spirit shall not always strive with man for that he is flesh Sometimes the Spirit is said to draw (l) Cant. 1. 4. Hos 11. 4. There are in Nature four ways by which one thing may be said to draw another by Sympathy so they say the Herb Aproxis through a natural correspondence with the fire though at a distance from it draweth the flame and begins to burn by heat so the Sun draweth up the Vapours by motion so the Horse draweth the Coach and by secret attraction so Amber draweth the Straw and the Loadstone Iron the blessed Spirit maketh use of all these four ways of attraction he draweth by Sympathy when he worketh in the heart any kind of willingness to yield to his call by heat when he warmeth the heart by good motions by motion when he seeketh to work upon men by the pious examples of other Christians and lastly by secret attraction when in a Dream a Vision of the Night or any other secret way he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their Instruction that he may withdraw man from his purpose and hide Pride from man (m) Job 33. 16 17 29. And as El●hu adds Loe all these things worketh God oftentimes with man These several ways he seeketh to draw him to himself and when the Spirit doth thus we should resolve with the Church Draw me we will run after thee (n) Cant. 1. 4. whereas if when the Spirit draws on we draw off when he draws forward toward Heaven we draw backward toward perdition Let us remember that dreadful commination If any man draw back my Soul shall have no pleasure in him (o) Heb. 9 3 8. By all this it appeareth of what grand import it is to observe the motions and comply with the workings of the Spirit We read when the Cloud the testimony of Gods presence abode upon the Tabernacle whether it were two days or a month or a year the Children of Israel abode in their Tents and journyed not but when the Cloud was taken up whether it were by Day or by Night they journyed (p) Numb 9. 17. when the Spirit of God is present with us and offereth its assistance now is our time to set out for Heaven whereas to neglect this season and to think to do it afterward is as if the Mariner should lye still when the Wind is favourable the Ship rigged the Sails spread and all accommodations provided and should put forth when he were deprived of all these Advantages Or as if the Smith should lay aside the Iron when it is hot and malleable and begin to strike when it is grown cold When David enquired of God whether he should go out against the Philistines he had this Answer from God When thou hearest the sound of a Going in the tops of the Mulberry-trees then thou shalt bestir thy self for then shall the Lord go out before thee (q) 2 Cor. 5. 24. When we hear as it were a voice within us exciting us to this work we should then set upon it that being the time when the holy Spirit goeth before us 5. We should conscionably perform those Duties 〈◊〉 God hath appointed as means and helps to obtain Eternal happiness As 1. We should