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A34992	A practical and polemical commentary or exposition on the whole fifteenth Psalm wherein the text is learnedly and fruitfully explained, some controversies discussed, sundry cases of conscience are cleared, more especially that of usurie : many common places succinctly handled ... / by Christopher Cartwright ... ; the life of the reverend and learned author is prefixed.	Cartwright, Christopher, 1602-1658.; Bolton, John, 1599-1679. Life of the author.	1658 (1658)	Wing C693; ESTC R18318	282,330	382

which we must learne Gods will because in his word it is that he hath revealed his will unto us In his word it is that he hath shewed us what is good and what he doth require of us Mic. 6.8 Therefore let us take heede lest he complaine of us as he did of some I have written unto them the great things of my law but they were counted as a strange thing Hos 8.12 Let us take heede lest he upbraide us as he doth the wicked saying Thou hatest instruction and castest my words behinde thee Psal 50.17 3. We must pray unto God for his Spirit to inable us to worke righteousness It is God that must worke all our works in us Isai 26.12 We are not sufficient of our selves to thinke any thing as of our selves but all our sufficiencie is of God 2 Cor. 3.5 It is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure Phil. 2.13 And God hath promised to worke that in his people which he doth require of them This is one part of the new covenant I will put my law saith he in their inward parts and write it in their hearts Jer. 31.33 A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stonie heart out of your flesh and will give you an heart of flesh And I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walke in my statutes and ye shall keepe my judgments and doe them Ezek. 36.26 27. We must therefore pray as David doth Create in me a cleane heart O Lord and renew a right spirit within me Psal 51.10 Teach me O Lord the way of thy statutes and I will keepe it unto the end Give me understanding and I shall keepe thy law Yea I shall keepe it with my whole heart Make me to goe in the path of thy commandments for therein doe I delight Incline my heart unto thy testimonies and not unto covetousness Turne away mine eyes from beholding vanity and quicken thou me in thy way Psal 119.33 34 35 36 37. But againe may some say how must we worke righteousness Quest I answer 1. We must do it sincerely Answ but this hath been insisted on before in the handling of those words How to worke righteousness He that walketh uprightly 2. It must be done entirely and universally as well in one point as in another Thus it becometh us to follow all righteousness said our Saviour to John Baptist Mat. 3.15 So it behoveth us to follow all righteousness diligently to follow every good worke 1 Tim. 5.10 To walke worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing being fruitful in every good worke Col. 1.10 3. Willingly and chearfully God will meete him that rejoyceth and worketh righteousness Isai 64.5 If I doe it willingly I have a reward 1 Cor. 9.17 If there be first a willing minde it is accepted according to what a man hath and not according to what a man hath not 2 Corinth 8.12 Evil by how much it is done the more willingly is so much the more evil It was an aggravation of the sin of Ephraim that he willingly walked after the commandment to wit of Jeroboam who set up the golden calves to be worshipped Hos 5.11 So good by how much it is done the more willingly by so much it is the more good As for me said David unto God in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things Nemo invitus benè facit etiamsi bonum sit quod facit Aug. and now have I seen with joy thy people that are present here to offer willingly unto thee 1 Chro. 29.17 And vers 14. But who am I and what is my people that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort 4. Humbly We must take heede lest we be proud and puffed up because of any thing that we doe When we have done all things that are commanded us we must say we are unprofitable servants we have done but what our duty waas to doe Luke 17.10 We must take heed of resting in what we have done and of thinking to merit by it Not by workes of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us c. Tit. 3.5 Good workes are the way to heaven Via regni non causa regnandi Bern. but not the cause why we come to the enjoyment of it The meritorious and deserving cause they are not because 1. It is God that doth inable us to do good works as hath been shewed before And 2. We fail and come short in the best things that we doe so that if God should contend with us we could not answer to one of a thousand Job 9.3 Nehemiah therefore having spoken of a good worke that he had done saith Remember me O Lord concerning this and not reward me according to the greatness of my merit but spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy Neh 13.22 5. Constantly He that is righteous let him be righteous still and he that is holy let him be holy still Revel 22.11 Hold that fast which thou hast that no man take thy crowne Revel 3.11 Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee the crowne of life Revel 2.10 But if any man draw backe my soule shall have no pleasure in him Heb. 10.38 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness and committeth iniquity and dieth in them for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die Ezek. 18.26 It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness then after they have known it to turne from the holy commandment delivered unto them 2 Pet. 2.21 In the last place here is comfort for all that truely set Use 5 themselves to worke righteousness Though they be exposed for their well doing unto scorne and derision unto obloquie and reproach unto hatred and persecution in the world yet they may eate their bread with joy and drinke their wine with a merry heart for God now accepteth their workes Eccles 9.7 Who is he that will harme you if ye be followers of that which is good but and if ye suffer for righteousness sake happy are ye and be not afraid of their terrour neither be ye troubled But sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts and be ready alwayes to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and feare Having a good conscience that whereas they speake evil of you as of evill doers they may be ashamed that falsly accuse your good conversation in Christ For it is better if the will of God be so that ye suffer for well doing then for evil doing 1 Pet. 3.13 17. Blessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness sake for their's is the kingdome of heaven Matth. 5.10 But let none of you suffer as a murderer or as a thief or as an evil

filiis Israel melior illo si non erat hic verè justus nullus tunc fuisset in universo populo Dei verè justus Quod falsum esse certum est cum adhuc viveret Samuel c. Bell. de Justif lib. 3. cap. 14. Similiter Bertius de Apost Sanct. pag. 28. should shew himself so childish and so ridiculous as to endeavour to prove that Saul was once truly righteous because it is said of him that he was a choyce young man and a goodly and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person then he from his shoulders and upward he was higher then any of the people 1 Sam. 9.2 Hence Bellarmine infers that if Saul were not truly righteous then among all God's people there was none truly righteous whereas Samuel was then alive and so other Godly persons But what is this else but to dally with the Scripture There is nothing spoken of Sauls righteousness but only of the goodliness of his person and the talness of his stature as the words alledged do make manifest Bellarmine was ready to take hold on the vulgar Latine Translation Gen. 6.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pulchrae Sic explicat Kimchi in Rad. atque addit ita accipi vocem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Sam. 9.2 exponit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pulcher aspectu ac notat Chaldaeum Paraphrasten similiter interpretari 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which hath bonus good and melior better but he was not ignorant that the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tob is not only good but also goodly fair tall and the like and so it must needs there be taken as is clear by those words from his shoulders and upward he was higher then any of the people which words are added exegetically to shew the meaning of that which went before to wit that Saul was a choyce young man and a goodly and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person then he For David and Salomon they fell indeed fearfully Bell. ubi supra but neither finally nor totally Bellarmine urgeth also the example of Peter as if he also fell from Grace when he denyed Christ and that with Oathes and Execrations Yet he himself elswhere lest Peters fall might seem to make against the Popes infallibility saith that Peter denyed Christ with his mouth Addo praetereà Christum à Petro negatum fuisse ore non corde proinde perdidisse Petrum confessionem fidei non ipsam fidem Bell. de Pontif. lib. 4. cap. 8. but not with his heart so that he lost the confession of Faith but not Faith it self And so it is true of David and Salomon they lost the exercise of Grace but not Grace it self SERM. XXXIV Psal 15.5 He that doth these things shall never be moved THe point concerning the perseverance of the Godly who shall never be moved so as to fall from that state of Grace whch they are in I have already proved and for the vindicating of the truth and the confuting of those that do oppose it I have answered one Objection that is made against it There are yet many other Objections Obj. 2 which it is meer to answer Secondly Therefore the Adversaries of this Doctrine object that some are compared to the stonie ground to wit such as hear the Word and anon with joy receive it Yet have they no root in themselves but endure only for a while for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the Word by and by they are offended Mat. 13.20 21. For a while they believe and in time of temptation they fall away Luk. 8.13 But all Believers are not such as we speak of to wit such as are engrafted into Christ by a living and justifying Faith Answ Simon Magus was in some sense a Believer Act. 8.13 but not such a Believer vers 21. 23. So neither are they such Believers who are compared to the stonie ground for they are distinguished from those who with an honest and good heart receive the Word Luk. 8.15 The same also appears by this that they are said to have no root that argues that their Faith is but superficial it is not rooted in the heart as true justifying Faith is Object 3 Bert. de Apostas Sanct. Again it is objected that Gods Covenant is not such that he will simply and absolutely save but that he will save those that Believe and obey and that so as to persevere in Faith and obedience to the end By which also ye are saved if ye keep in memory or as the Margent hath it if ye hold fast what I preached unto you unless ye have believed in vain 1 Cor 15.2 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality God will render eternal life Rom. 2.7 Shall he prosper that doth such things Shall he break the Covenant and be delivered Ezek. 17.15 When I shall say to the righteous that he shall surely live if he trust to his own righteousness and commit iniquity all his righteousness shall not be remembred but for his iniquity that he hath committed he shall dye for it Ezek. 33.13 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness and committeth iniquity he shall even dye thereby vers 18. The just shall live by Faith but if any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him Heb. 10.38 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away Joh. 15.2 It is impossible for those who were once enlightned and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were partakers of the holy Ghost And have tasted the good Word of God and the powers of the World to come If they shall fall away to renew them again unto repentance c. Heb 6.4 5 6. For Answer to this Objection Answ 1. Gods Covenant is not only to save those that believe and obey but also to make his Elect so to believe and obey that they shall be saved I will put my Law in their inward part and write it in their hearts Jer. 31.33 A new heart will I give unto you and a new Spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stonie heart out of your flesh and will give you a heart of flesh And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my Statutes c. Ezek. 36.26 27. I will put my fear into their hearts that they shall not depart from me Jer. 32.40 2. The places objected do not prove that any Belivers and such as are regenerate can fall away That in Ezek. 17.15 is concerning the King of Judah who brake his covenant with the King of Babylon to whom he had sworn to be subject yet afterward he rebelled against him What is this to the purpose Doth this argue that one who is in the state of Grace and salvation may fall from it These places 1 Cor. 15.2 Rom. 2.7

affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a farre more exceeding and eternall weight of glory Whiles we looke not at the things which are seene but at the things which are not seene for the things that are seene are temporal but the things which are not seene are eternal 1 Cor. 4.16 17 18. By faith Moses when he was come to yeares refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter Chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches then the treasures in Egypt for he had respect to the recompence of reward Heb. 11.24 25 26. So our Saviour himselfe for the joy that was set before him endured the Crosse despising the shame and is set downe at the right hand of God And we are required to looke unto him who is the author and finisher of our faith and so after his example to run with patience the race that is set before us Heb. 12.1 2. For if we be dead with him we shall also live with him If wee suffer we shall also reigne with him 2 Tim. 2.11 12. To him that overcometh saith he will I grant to sit with me in my throne even as I also overcame and am set downe with my Father in his throne Revel 3.21 Therefore my beloved brethren be stedfast and unmoveable alwaies abounding in the worke of the Lord knowing that your labour shall not be in vaine in the Lord 1 Cor. 15.58 SERM. 4 SERM. IIII. Psal 15.2 Vers 2. He that walketh uprightly c. HEre now followes the answer to the question before propounded and it is continued unto the end of the Psalme It containeth in it 1. the qualification of the person inquired about vers 2 3 4. and part of 5. And 12. the happiness of the person so qualified in the end of v. 5. He that doth these things shall never be moved The qualification of the person is set downe 1. more generally He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness 2. More particularly in the words following The more general description of the person spoken of is 1. in respect of inward affection He that walketh uprightly 2. in respect of outward action and worketh righteousness He that walketh * The word in the Hebrew is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which usually is rendred perfect but that is as much as upright or sincere uprightly To walke is a much as to order the life and conversation Walke in love Ephes 5.2 that is Live in love Let all your things be done in love 1 Cor. 16.14 To walke after the flesh Rom. 8.1 is expressed vers 12. and 13. To live after the flesh To walke uprightly is to walke so as in all things to have respect unto God to doe all in obedience unto his will and for his glorie I know also my God saith David that thou triest the heart and hast pleasure in uprightness as for me in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things 1 Chro. 29.17 So that uprightness doth respect the heart that is the affection and intention wherewith a thing is done The Doctrine hence to be observed is this That it is the propertie of all those that shall be saved Doct. to be of a sincere and upright heart Thus here in the very first place is he described who shall abide in Gods tabernacle and dwell in his holy hill So Psal 24.3 4. the question being asked Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord and who shall stand in his holie hill The answer is given He that hath cleane hands and a pure heart The puritie sinceritie and uprightness of heart as well as cleanness of hands that is holiness of life and conversation is requisite and necessarie unto salvation So elsewhere David having said The Lord will give grace and glorie he addes immediately no good thing will he withhold from them that walke uprightly Psal 84.11 And againe Blessed are the undefiled in the way saith he Psal 119.1 Where the word rendred undefiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the same with that in the Text which is rendred upright only this in the Text is in the singular and the other in the plural number Thus also our Saviour shewes who they are to whom belongeth true happiness saying Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Matth. 5.8 And the Prophet Jeremie cries O Jerusalem wash thine heart from wickedness that thou maiest be saved Jer. 4.14 Not thy face or hands only but thine heart also Reason Reas Thus they must needs be qualified who shall be saved Why only the upright shall be saved because God is the author of salvation It is the salvation of God Psal 50.23 Therefore they that obtaine salvation must be such as please God and approve themselves in his sight Enoch walked with God Gen. 5.22 He pleased God Heb. 11.5 Zacharias and Elizabeth were righteous before God Luke 1.6 that is they were truely and sincerely righteous Walk before me said God to Abraham and be thou perfect that is as the Margent readeth it upright or sincere it is the same word in the original with that which in the Text is rendred upright A counterfeit shew of holiness may serve in respect of men but not so in respect of God The Lord seeth not as man seeth for man beholdeth the outward appearance but the Lord beholdeth the heart Vt aures nostrae ad voces nostras sic aures Dei ad cogitationes nostras Prosp in Sent. ex Aug. Sent. 81. Thales interrogatus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 verè respondit Lips de Const l. 2. c. 16. Sic cogitandum tanquam aliquis in pectus intimum inspicere Possit potest Quid enim prodest ab homine aliquid esse secretum Deo nihil clusum est interest animis nostris cogitationibus m●diis int●uerit Sen. Epist 83. 1 Sam. 16.7 My Son saith God give me thine heart Prov. 23.26 He loveth truth in the inward parts Psal 51.6 He hath pleasure in uprightness 1 Chron. 29.17 The Psalmist having said God is good to Israel that we may know who this Israel is to whom God is good he addes even to them that are of a pure heart Psal 73.1 So the Apostle James having said Draw nigh unto God and he will draw nigh unto you to let us know how we must draw nigh unto God that so he may draw nigh unto us he adds Cleanse your hands your sinners and purifie your hearts you double minded Jam. 4.8 The use of this point is first for Examination to try our Use 1 selves whether we be thus qualified as they must be that shall inherit salvation that is whether we be upright Now we must know that hypocrisie which is opposite to uprightness is twofold 1. There is a grosse hypocrisie There is a twofold hypocrisie when one purposely doth play the