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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90965	Honey out of the rock, or, Gods method in giving the sweetest comforts in sharpest combates. Chiefly intended, as spirituall plunder for plundered beleevers.	Price, John, Citizen of London.	1644 (1644)	Wing P3343; Thomason E46_14; ESTC R22911	32,070	38

the disproportion between one condition and the other here is affliction there is glory here light affliction there is weight of glory here is momentany afflictions there is eternity of glory But that that is chiefly for our purpose in this text is the influence that these afflictions have towards this glory in the word worketh knowing that these afflictions c. worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternall weight of glory the suffering of Christ hath wrought it for us but our own suffering worketh us for it namely by the sweet growing of grace and subduing of sin through these afflictions And the Apostle saith that by afflictions that is through the kind working of afflictions we are made partakers of his holinesse Hebr. 12.10 the Apostle vindicates a necessitie of afflictions to this purpose Now for a season if need be you are in afflictions through manifold temptations if need be that is if the glorie of God and your good doth require it For so saith the context that the triall of your faith being much more precious then gold that perisheth though it be tried with fire might be found unto praise and honour and glory of God at the appearing of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1.7 8. Let me appeal unto the experiences of the Saints whether they do not find and feel the quiet fruit of righteousnesse the fruits of sufferings do not corruptions weaken the sweet influence of divine joy dependance patience hope meeknesse contentednesse humilitie and love to God increase more and more when they are under the crosse Thus the Spirit convinceth that God as a Father chastiseth in measure in love and to fit them thereby for that glorie whereunto he hath appointed them That is the second particular the Spirit convinceth and comforteth by convincing that God afflicteth as a Father tender and loving in Jesus Christ Thirdly the Spirit of Jesus Christ comforteth Beleevers in evill times by opening unfolding and breaking up the exceeding rich and precious promises of the Gospel and applying the same unto the soule the word of God is that River the streams whereof shall make glad the Citie of God Psal 46.4 and these waters breakes out in the wildernesse and these streams in the desart Esay 35.6 When poor Hagar was in the wildernesse with her child and her accomodations gone she casts her thirstie infant under a shrub and not able to heare the pittifull cryes of her bemoaning babe then doth the Angel of the Lord shew her a Well at hand which was there before though not discerned Gen. 21.16.19 just so when outward comforts are gone and spent and the poore soule at a losse not knowing what to doe but to lift up the eye towards God and weepe why then doth the Lord by his Spirit shew them the sweetnesse and fulnesse of such and such promises which before were not regarded Tell me you plundered beleevers that are driven as Hagar out of house and home did you ever feel the sweetnesse of the promises in that measure as you now feele them have not these breasts of Consolation been sweet and luscious unto your tasts Psal 119.50 saith David This is my comfort in my affliction thy word hath quickned me and many such passages as these I had fainted had it not been for thy word I rejoyce at thy word as one that findeth great spoiles 162. verse Hath not this been your case have you not found those treasures in the promises the spoiles of the victories of Jesus Christ for you which you never looked for hath not the word of promise been more precious then gold and sweeter then the honey yea and the honey comb have you ever seene your rich and glorious estate in Christ so cleare and evident as of late hath not the Lord fince he separated you from your comforts relations estates and employments brought you as once he did Peter and James and John to the Mount and transfigured himselfe before you shewed himselfe in such fulnesse of glory and satisfaction that you have said it is good for us to be here hath not this time of trouble compared with the rest of your former time of your lives been like Gideons fleece most sweetly filled with the fatning dew of inward joy and peace and comfort did not many of the sweet promises of the Gospel before lye by you as uselesse did you ever know the meaning of them as of late Experience is the best knowledge and now have you not experience of the fulnesse and truth of such promises as these In ill never leave thee nor forsake thee I will be with thee when th●u art in the fire it shall not burn thee and in the water it shall not drown thee I will be thy God all-sufficient Have you not seen the truth of this great promise Trust in the Lord and do good so shalt thou dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed Psal 37.3 Can you not read the truth of the promises in your experiences as you did before the letter of them in your Bibles Have you been a looser by your sufferings Would you sell if it were possible your experiences for your former injoyments Can you not say with Solomon Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth 2 Chron. 6.4 That is the third way whereby the Spirit comforteth in evill times by opening the treasures of the promises and by staying and chearing the heart with the comforts thereof Fourthly the Spirit of Jesus Christ comforteth beleevers in evill times by translating or carrying away the soul above out of the reach of all present troubles and sorrows so that as I may allude unto that of Philip in Act. 8.39 the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip from the Eunuch and he could see him no more but he was found at Azotus just so when troubles and sorrows arise the Spirit of the Lord catcheth away the heart and soul of beleevers and these cannot find them Isa 33.16 it is said of a beleever that he shall dwell on high his place of defence shall be a munition of rocks And in Cant. 2.14 the Church is said to dwell in the clefts of the rocks that is in the wounds of Christ for securitie from the guilt of sin in the attributes of God for his securitie in respect of the power and reach of sin and sorrow having all the attributes of God as so many mightie Rocks for his safetie and in or among the promises of the Cospel for his inward chear and spirituall consolation and here she dwels it is the place of her habitation and constant abode that no trouble or sorrow can come at her nor touch her at any time Revel 12.1 she is said to have the Moon under her feet So that it is as easie for men yea more casie for men to hit the Moon and pluck her out of the firmament then it is to come at the

up by the eternall Spirit which was as it were the Altar sanctifying the gift and offering So no means in the world qualifications duties promises ordinances can satisfie a sin-seeing conscience but the blood of Christ and that also must be tendred unto it by the Spirit of Christ The truth is nothing can satisfie an enlightned conscience but that that did satisfie God himself which is Christ discovered in the excellencie of his merits and this is by the tendring the same through the Spirit by which Christ is thus discovered Rom. 8.1 Secondly the death of Christ hath another influence and consimilitude in the soul and that is the crucifying of the body of sin and that first by way of a holy revenge for the shedding of Christs blood Sin persued Christ even unto the Crosse the Spirit persues sin even to the Crosse also Galat. 5.24 They that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts thereof And again Rom. 8.13 If ye through the Spirit mortifie the deeds of the flesh ye shall live Secondly there is conveighed a certain secret ennergettical power and derived in a sweet spirituall manner from the death of Christ viz. by serious contemplation and belief thereof to kill and mortifie sin Rom. 6.6 Our old man was crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed And Paul saith Galat. 2.20 I am crucified with Christ Thirdly the blood of Christ is as it were a secret and yet sensible bath wherein the soul is healed and cured and cleansed steeped and rinsed from the filth and guilt of sin This blood is that fountain opened for sin and for uncleannesse to wash in Zach. 13.1 wherein the Saints are washed 1 Cor. 6.11 and this purgeth their consciences from dead works to serve the living God Hebr. 9.14 Lastly the blood of Christ is the life of the soul that is the provision for the life of the soul His flesh is meat indeed and his blood is drink indeed Joh. 6.55 indeed that is in respect of everlasting nourishment that flows from it for saith he he that eateth me shall live by me vers 57. He that drinketh my blood shall never thirst Joh. 4.14 because Christ died we live viz. in respect of Justification and because he liveth we shall live in respect of sanctification Joh. 14.19 Thus in many particulars the death of Christ hath a blessed influence in the hearts of the Saints which is the fifth Consideration concerning Christ in the soul in respect of his sufferings Sixthly consider Christ in respect as of death so of his buriall the very grave of Christ hath an operation in the heart We are buried with him Gal. 6.4 Colos 2.12 The old man doth by little and little moulder away as it were in the grave of Christ Seventhly the resurrection of Christ hath likewise an influence in the soul viz. to raise it up to a new spirituall and holy life We are said to be raised up together with Christ Ephes 2.6 He that raised up Christ from the dead shall quicken your mortall bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you Rom. 8.11 The truth is there are most glorious and various operations and influences of the resurrection of Christ in the heart which would be too large now to insist upon Eightly the ascention of Christ is seen also in its operation in the soul viz. to draw up our hearts and desires and expectations heaven-wards Col. 1.2 this is by the Spirit Ninthly and lastly the very session of Christ at the right hand of God and his interceding there for us is felt in the soul the Spirit of God leading it into the presence of God and setting it as it were at the right hand of the Father among the sheep not among goats Matth. 25. giving it all boldnesse even as a right hand favourite and there making intercession with sighs and groans that cannot be expressed Rom. 8.16 Thus you see the first generall Answer to this third generall Question viz. how might we know the Spirit of Christ in the soul from the spirit of delusion Answer The Spirit of Christ in the soul is Christ spiritually in the soul viz. in the sence before spoken of Secondly The Spirit of Christ in the soul doth alwayes act and bias the soul towards Christ by this means the intrincicall bent and frame of the heart is toward Christ the Spirit having a most strong and effectuall work upon the will in answer unto that great defection of the will through Adams fin in the Commission of sin That which I do saith Paul I allow not Rom. 7.15 And in the 19. verse The good I would do I do not the evill which I would not do that I do Will you see the reason of both why vers 22 23. I delight in the Law of God after the inner man but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members Sin was his sicknesse his complaint his captivitie goodnesse his desire his delight his endeavour the ground of both was the law of God in the inner man viz. the Spirit of life by Christ Jesus Rom. 8.2 This did still bias the soul contrary to that principle of corruption of nature So that look how naturall instincts do act and work in severall subjects here below as in elements the fire to ascend upwards the earth to fall downwards c. or in all vegitatives to yeeld fruit according to its kind whatsoever Or in all sensitives to forbear that which it knows hurtfull and to feed upon that which is proper for its particular nourishment The little kid to suck his mothers milk c. as the holy Ghost termes it Exod. 23.19 Or in rationals to preserve it self from known evill and to seek after known good Even so an holy spirituall instinct is in the heart of beleevers to do with delight that which is holy just and good and to be very heedfull of that which is sinfull and wicked and its interruption in both is its sorrow its complaint and its pain as it were It is too true that the best of Gods people are obnoxious unto many disturbances and hindrances in the inward man but it is as true that these are their complaint unto God and their indeavour for cure The Spirit in Scripture is compared to anointing oyl 1 Joh. 2.27 oyl we know hath a naturall property to be uppermost if it be put into any liquids whether they be hot or cold yet the oyl will alwayes ascend and though there might be some interruption while you powre water upon the oyl yet stay but a while and you shall see it settle again and keep all under it Just so the Spirit of Christ doth as it were raise up the heart above all in the soul and though interruptions may be through violent temptations and strong passions and corruptions yet at last all will