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A88701	The attributes of God unfolded, and applied. Wherein are handled the 1 Life 2 Perfection 3 Holiness 4 Benignitie 5 Mercy 6 Truth 7 Wisdome 8 Power 9 Justice of God. 10 Love 11 Hatred 12 Anger 13 Independencie 14 Simplicitie 15 Eternitie 16 Infiniteness 17 Immutability 18 Immensity of God. / Delivered in sundry sermons, at Tavistocke in Devon: By Thomas Larkham, preacher of the word of God, and pastour of the congregation there. Divided into three parts.	Larkham, Thomas, 1602-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing L441; Thomason E867_1; Thomason E867_2; Thomason E867_3; ESTC R207649	158,169	180

bore witnesse from heaven against falsehood The story is obvious It is also storied of the ancient Romans that they were very conscientious in observing their leagues covenants and oathes And such as violated them saith mine author were held for damned and cursed creatures and accounted worthy to live in humane society Be carefull of your promises and covenants that ye make with men God is a God of truth do ye be men of truth It is a communicable attribute it is to be had and this must now be spoken of in the second place c. Ye know we have done in handling the other attributes this is the second proposition That truth is a communicable attribute For God did communicate it to Adam in his innocency it was a part of that uprightnesse mentioned Eccles 7.29 And it is again vouchsafed and communicated in the worke of regeneration for God maketh such to be as he requireth they should be Rev. 2.10 to be faithfull to the death And he saith his people will not ly Isaiah 63 8. For God lookes and causeth the conversation of his servants to be answerable to their vocation he maketh them to be men of truth and faithfulnes And such as are otherwise be of the devill John 8.44 Who abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him Such are not for Sion nor heaven Psalm 15. For they speake the truth from their heart that shall abide in Gods tabernacle and dwell in his holy hill and verse 4. He that sweareth to his own heart and changeth not By all which places and passages and many more that might be named and observed we see that truth and faithfullnes is communicated by God unto men which is the point that we have in hand to make good unto you Object But it may be objected out of Rom. 3.4 Let God be true and every man a lyer and out of the 13. verse With their tongues they have used deceit Sol. In both which places all men without exception are spoken off For answer ye must know that the first place shews the certainty of Gods truth in opposition to all men that doubt thereof Gods faithfulnes and truth is alwaies accompanied with stedfastnes and assurance Calvin on Isa 22.23 And for that cause as Mr. Calvin notes the Hebrewes take truth for a thing sure and certaine Wherefore this being the scope of the former verse that God will be as good as his word and true and faithfull in all his sayings it maketh nothing against the point we have in hand And for the other passage in the 13. verse of the same chapter It shewes as well as the former mans naturall inclination until he be regenerated But it may be further objected Truth may be found among heathens that were no christians Object To which I Answer It is true of a vertue but not of a grace Sol. and therefore not acceptable to God and sometimes turned into a vice when ill circumstantiated and alwaies a sinne because not acted upon a good principle nor to a good end viz. Gods glory And therefore we must take the extent of this communicated attribute or property and we shall find that no man hath it since the fall of Adam in every respect in its extent but only such as are regenerated For it signifieth and comprehendeth three things Sinceritie a due proportion of a thing and stability and firmenesse In hoc genere tria potissimum hujus vocabuli significata esse videri que aut alias enim significat animum ejusque cogitationes actiones sinceras minique fucatas alias plenae seu justae cujusdam quantitatis alias denique certas ratas ac permanentes Flac Illyric Clav. Script 1575. So God doth not only do what he saith but loveth the truth and hateth hypocrisie God is truly and sincerely and constantly all that he is in his excellencies Now it is impossible for the compleatest morall man in the world that hath not the work of the new birth to walke before God in truth in this sence This is proper to Saints such as Hezekiah Isaiah 38.3 Remember O Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart And so much for that objection And now for Application The fault is not in God that men are so Vse 1 false and faithlesse that they deale trecherously that a brother will deceive a brother This contrary propertie is to be had from God if men had a mind to it And it is an evident signe that there is but little true religion going because there is so little truth and honesty going But where there is deceitfull dealing and want of truth and honesty men may take it for a truth that they have no religion and that they have not sought to God from whom this good gift and all others come Vse 2 And therefore in the next place ye must learne to seeke for this qualitie at the hand of God by prayer as in the former attributes ye have been directed And to that end that ye may be stirred up the more to pray for it do but consider how ill it becomes christians to be more false then heathens and to be like to the devill and to overthrow humane society what in them lyeth and to procure inevitable wrath upon themselves As we have two famous examples in scripture The first of Saul mentioned in the 2 Sam. 21.2 Who sought to slay the Gibeonites in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah and so to violate the oath which the children of Israel had sworne to them Ye see God was angry a famine of three yeares came upon the people and an attonement must be made by the hanging up of seven of Sauls sonnes unto the Lord in Gibeah of Saul ver 6. And the other place is Ezekiel 17.15 16. Where grievously doth the Lord threaten the rebellious house as he calls Jerusalem and their king for falsenes and covenant breaking We have touched upon this before Vse 3 now and therefore shall say the lesse of it now The third and last use to be made is That honest men may take comfort though they be thought too honest to live in the world and have not the trick of dishonest false and unfaithfull dealing whereby so many get estates for their posterity to ruffle in while they lye in H●ll yet they shall be no looser by it at last God will blesse the house and seed of such as are like unto him Men of truth hating coveteousnesse and dealing truly are Gods delight for such fear God whereas knaves and false men are odious both to God and men And so much briefly for the second Proposition that truth is a communicable attribute 3. Propos The third comes in hand that God in this as in the rest is infinite and incomprehensible His faithfullnes reacheth to the clouds Psal 36.5 He never broke with any in his life

none that understandeth there is none that seeketh after God Rom. 3.10.11 Holines you see by nature Every man saith one is borne with his face to sin and his backe to holines And yet this holines is of absolute necessitie Riches life health freinds are good things But yet they are not of no such necessity but holines is Without it no man shall see the Lord Heb 12 14. A man may see the Lord without peace with out wealth but not without holines be sure of that No holines no heaven Rev. 21.27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth Those that are without holines must abide without heaven Heaven Gates are shut against all unholy persons They that do looke for salvation must be holy must be washed as saith the Prophet Jer 4. cap. 14. O Jerusalem wash thine heart from wickednes that thou maist be saved This is the second motive to move us with earnestnes to seeke after holines considering the absolute necessitie of it The third motive is an encouraging one to wit that holines is to be had if you will but take pain for it I do not presse you upon impossibilities It is true holines is an attribute of God and some of his attributes be incommunicable but this is communicable to man And so I come unto the next to wit the second proposition to be spoken of in this attribute according to my methode observed in dispatching all the other that have formerly beene handled and it is That holines is communicable to mankind Doct. that it is a communicable atribute But that I be not mistaken or misunderstood you must know that I mean not holines or any other attribute is communicated as it is an attribute of God For God cannot part with any thing that is essentially his or rather himselfe as all Gods attributes are But this is it that I mean that here is something like holines in God which God communicateth That like dispositions are to be found in men and Angels that are in God That as God is said to be holy so there is a holines in men But whereas in men holines is finite imperfect mutable neither that nor any other attribute is such in God who is one most simple essence and not made up of several ingredients There is nothing in God which is not God His wisdome power goodnesse holines is one and the same most simple infinite and immutable essence But to returne whence I digressed Holines is a communicable attribute it doth not so abide in God as for man to have no such propertie Reasons It is communicated as may be seen first in the creation of both Angels and men When God made Adam he was a holy man And therefore we may well argue that holines is to be had Ab esse ad posse valet argumentum because it hath been had Secondly God hath likewise communicated it in regeneration Ephes 4.24 And that ye put on the new man which after God is created in righteousnes and true holines So then if God made man holy at first and make many holy again daily by renewing them in the spirit of their minds Ephes 4.23 Then it stands for an unquestionable truth in both these respects that holines is to be had Vse that it is a communicable thing And therefore we may hence conclude the true cause that so many men do want holines to be in themselves and not in God What is the reason that so many are altogether destitute of this grace that they have not so much as one graine of it in their hearts or the least signe of it in their lives Surely it is because people do not give themselves to use the meanes to obtaine it they will not walke in those waies in which it is to be had The fault is not in God but in themselves Soules God call's you to be holy and sends his messengers to invite you to come to him that ye may be holy he calls upon you to turn from your evill waies he sometimes allures he would you should be holy but ye will not God hath done his part He may say of you as once he did of Israel Isaiah 5.4 What could be done more to my Vineyard that I have not done in it There hath been nothing wanting in God and yet insteed of the sweete and pleasant grapes of holines he hath had nothing else but wilde grapes from us insteed of holines profanesse and wickednes And that which is sad to consider the more God calls men to holines the further do they run from him into all sin and wickednes Of what punishment suppose ye shall such be thought worthy that tread under-foot the Son of God and count the blood of the covenant an unholy thing and do despite unto the spirit of grace Heb. 10 29. How will men be able to answer this before our God who is a consuming fire How do ye thinke to stand in the judgment O yee sinners and in the congregation of the righteous in that day How can ye ever expect to rest in Gods holy hill and continue in unholines What desperate madnes is this Surely Christ will come and he will separate between the sheep and the goates he will devide the holy from the unholy you shall answer for your prophanes and base carriage towards the Lord and his people This is the first use the fault is not in God that people are not holy but the fault is in themselves If now ye be damned ye may thank your selves your destruction will be of your selves For God would have you holy he stands at the doore and knocks The Lord grant that this may be thought on that hath been said So much for the first use Secondly it teacheth us for our everlasting comfort that such as do desire holines may have it from the hands of God Vse If ye will be holy ye may If ye will say each one of ye Lord if thou wilt thou canst make me holy as it is written of the Leaper Mat. 8.2 Lord if thou wilt thou canst make me clean That Jesus put forth his hand and touched him saying I will be thou clean v. 3. So will he put forth his hand and say I will be thou holy Ye cannot be more willing nor so much neither to have holines as God is to give it We reade of Paul 2 Cor. 12 89. How be sought the Lord when the thorne in the flesh was sent him and what answer he had viz. to wit that God's grace was sufficient for him Now have you bad natures bad hearts remember God is both able and willing to give you new natures and to creat in you cleane hearts If you will cry unto him and complaine of your stony hearts he can take away these hearts of stone and give you hearts of flesh If you groane under sinne with a desire to be rid of it know this for your eternal