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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79165	A glimpse of eternity Very useful to awaken sinners, and to comfort saints. Profitable to be read in families, and given at funerals. By Abr. Caley.	Caley, Abraham, d. 1672.	1683 (1683)	Wing C291; ESTC R226192	159,519	230

silence Conscience by running to worldly diversions or snatch at comfort before Humiliation hath had its perfect work and by this default all comes to nothing with Ephraim they flee like a Bird from the birth and from the womb and from the conception and possibly never recover the like advantage Infinitely therefore doth it concern us when we have so fair a gale for Heaven to improve this opportunity to the best advantage which cannot be neglected without great hazard of losing Eternal happiness 4. We should be careful to cherish the good motions of Gods Spirit exciting us to this work As the best way to overcome sin is to resist the first motions of it upon that in Gen. 3. The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head Austin saith What is the Serpents head but the beginning of Sin Resist that and thou breakest the Serpents head so the best way of working out our Salvation is to cherish those good motions the holy Spirit breatheth into the Soul if thou blowest a spark says the Wise man thou shalt have fire if thou spit upon it it will go out and both out of one and the same mouth The Spirit of God is compared to Fire in Scripture as that phrase of quenching the Spirit implieth there is no man but sometimes hath a spark of this fire warming his heart if we be careful to blow this spark we may have fire to light our feet into the ways of peace if we quench or neglect to cherish it we make our selves fitter Fuel for everlasting burnings The Spirits working is compared to the blowing of the Wind (z) Cant. 4.16 John 3.8 Mariners when they have a fair wind use to put forth but if they neglect that opportunity may stay some time before they have another wind and perhaps may lose their intended Voyage when the North South wind of Gods Spirit bloweth upon the Garden of our Souls then is our time to set out for heaven if we neglect these sweet gales we must know the Spirit bloweth where when it lifteth we cannot expect it should blow at our pleasure It is said of the Ostrich That she leaveth her Eggs in the Earth and warmeth them in the dust and forgetteth that the foot may crush them or the wild beast break them (a) Job 39. Some Naturalists say when she thus leaveth her Eggs she doth it with an intent to return to them again and for that purpose usually takes her mark by the seven stars but having staid some time in seeking her food and the seven Stars being removed from the place where they were she in vain looketh for her Eggs and so they are either broken or miscarry for want of brooding Many men have good motions put into their hearts many purposes to set about that great work of their Salvation but at present they lay them aside thinking they may re assume them when they please but neglecting at present to prosecute those good motions the Spirit being grieved withdraws it self and when the Spirit withdraws its assistance it will be in vain to think to effect this work by their own strength when therefore the blessed Spirit of God warmeth our hearts with good motions it should be our care to follow good motions with good purposes and purposes with promises and promises with endeavors and endeavors with performance and performance with perseverance whereas if we quench these motions and stifle these births of the Holy Ghost in our Souls it will be just with God to withdraw his Spirit so God threatneth Be instructed oh Jerusalem lest my Soul departeth from thee and wo to them when I shall depart from them saith God (b Jer. 6.8 Hos 9.12 But to press this further Behold saith Christ I stand at the door and knock (c) Rev. 3.20 this knocking is chiefly by the motions of his Spirit Knocking is first a vehement motion men knock hard when they desire to come in so doth the blessed Spirit Secondly It is an iterated motion men knock and if they be not heard knock again so the Spirit Thirdly It is a gradual motion men knock first more gently then with a louder noise so likewise it is with the Spirit But then fourthly Knocking is a finite motion men will not always continue knocking we have a saying if a man knock three times and none answereth it is manners to be gone and when the Spirit of God knocketh time after time if we shut up the doors of our hearts it is but just that he should give over and never knock more Again He is not only 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 voice yet he doth by words spoken inwardly to the mind 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 somthing 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 dazzel 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 dost not perceive him that speaketh to thee by such a Voice God often speaketh to men a Voyce sweetly acquanting us with Gods will 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 backsliding Children our hearts answer Behold we come unto thee for thou art the Lord our God (g) Jer. 3.22 If when he cryes List 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 Somtimes he is said to strive with men and this he doth in such manner that it