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heart_n	love_n	love_v	shed_v	3,733	5	10.1521	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64243	The true light shining in darkness and dispelling the mists of errour arising from the darkness of man's heart, &c. promoted by the prince of darkness against the truth of God; in the matter of our justification: shewing, that by the deeds of the law, or mans own righteousness, no flesh can or shall be justified in the sight of God. The first part. By Tho. Taylor, the meanest and unworthiest of the servants and ministers of Jesus Christ; and now pastor to a small congregational church in Cambridge.	Taylor, Thomas, 1618-1682.	1693 (1693)	Wing T559; ESTC R219692	113,014	241

thou beest cloathed with change of Raiment i. e. the perfect Righteousness of Jesus Christ Which unless thou puttest on by Faith neither thy person nor service can be accepted of him For as there is no salvation out of Christ so also out of Christ and his Righteousness there is no acceptation to any person under Heaven And that thou Oh man mayest yet be more fully convinced that thou canst not stand before God in the best of thine own Righteousness but only and alone in this Righteousness of God which is by the Faith of Christ unto all and upon all them that believe Consi-that thou canst not stand before thine own Conscience in the best of thine own Righteousness And if thy Conscience be an awakened and enlightened Conscience it will witness against thee yea it will judge and condemn thee in the best of thy Inherent Righteousness of inward qual●ficat●ons and external performances We will suppose and thou mayest say thou hast Faith but hast thou not unbe●ief as well as Faith And is not thy unbelief more than thy Faith And many times dost thou not act at least in some case● as if thou hadst no Faith And doth not thy Conscience reprove and judge as Christ doth his Disciples Mat. 4.40 Thou wilt say also thou dost repent and thou hatest tha● which is evil well but dost thou not find also impenitency and hardness of Heart at least some times and in some cases Dost thou not find thy Heart sometimes to be without all tenderness And to be even hardened from Gods fear so that neither the Word of God nor yet the Rod of God do make impression upon thee Isa. 63.17 Yea neither the Mercies nor the Judgments of God dost thou lay to Heart as thou oughtest to do Isa. 42.24 25. Thou wilt say thou art Humble but is there not Pride also in thy Heart And doth not Pride prevail many times in thy Heart as it did in Hezekiah 2 Chron. 32.25 And doth not thy Conscience reprove thee for thy Pride as his did verse 26 Thou wilt say also that thou dost Love God but dost thou love him withall thy Heart and all thy Soul and all thy Strength Dost not thou love thy Carnal Self also and the Creature more than God at least sometimes and in some particular cases And doth not the love of thy Self and of the Creature prevail above all the love of God in thy Heart And so of the rest of all thy Inherent Qualifications And then for thy external performances thou wilt say that thou prayest and callest upon God in thy Close● in thy Family in and with the Congreation of the People of God And thou hearest the word and that with joy and delight thou receivest the seals of Gods Covenant and thou joynest fasting with thy Prayers and chastenest thy Soul therewith Well but Oh Man doth not sin mix it self with thy best duties and iniquity creep into all thy holy things And doth not thine own Conscience tell thee and reprove thee for these things And thou art put to it after all to cry out Lord be merciful to me a Sinner a Wretch an unclean thing Now if this be true and these things be so that thou canst not stand before thine own enlightened and awakened Conscience in the best of thine own Righteousness either of inherent qualifications or external duties How canst thou think to stand before God who is greater than thy Heart or Conscience and knoweth all things as 1 Joh. 3.20 Yea he knoweth more evil by thee and seeth more sin and iniquity in thee and in thy holy things than ever thou didst or canst do Psal. 19.12 Jer. 17.9 10. Therefore he is greater than thy Heart and knoweth all things as thine own Heart condemns thee in all those things he will condemn thee also for thou canst not stand before him in these rags in these filthy rags Is it not therefore Oh man whoever thou art that hearest the word of God this day I say is it not thy duty and thy interest also to comply with and submit unto this Righteousness of God and seek a better Righteousness out of thy self by Faith in his Son Is not this Righteousness better than thy own Are not the royal robes better than filthy rags Canst thou stand before the great King of Heaven and Earth in filthy garments And will he accept thee Will not his Wrath burn against thee and Say friend how camest thou in hither not having on the wedding garment and will not he say Take him hence bind him hand and foot and cast him into outer darkness There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth And wilt not thou be left speechless and without excuse as Mat. 22.11 12 13 14. Oh therefore put on this wedding garment and wear i● always when thou comest before the King and treadest in his Courts be sure thou beest in it having it on and never dare to look God in the Face without it as Phil. 3.9 But be found in it whilst thou livest when thou comest to die and at the Day of Judgment That the shame of thy nakedness do not appear to thy everlasting confusion Infer 5. But then again fifthly Hence we may also Infer and A●gue how greatly it is the duty and work and as well the interest also of every Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to be himself well instructed in the knowledge of this Righteousness of God and understandingly faithfully and clearly to Preach and declare this Righteousness of God which is by the Faith of Christ unto all and upon all them that believe And that it is your Duty and Interest to understand and know this Righteousness of God and to be well instructed in and acquainted with this Mistery of Faith and to Hold it in a pure Conscience as the Apostle doth command 1 Tim. 3.9 will appear by the Considerations following 1 Consid. This Righteousness of God by Faith in his Son Jesus Christ is the great foundation truth of the Gospel and as it concerns every wise and skilful builder to look well to his foundation upon which the whole building and his success therein and also his reputation as a workman doth depend So it doth greatly concern every Gospel Minister that he may be a skilful builder in the Church of God to look well to the foundation of the Faith and Hope not only of himself but also of the whole Church of Gods Elect For other foundation can no man lay than what is already laid which is Jesus Christ the same yesterday and to day and for ever as 2 Cor. 3.11 If a Minister lay his foundation in the works of the Law and mans Righteousness it will never hold whatever hope or confidence he builds upon this foundation in himself or others will certainly fall when his work shall come to be tryed and himself and all those that hear him and whom he builds upon this foundation will certainly perish unless

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved What is nearer than that which is in thy heart and in thy mouth Well so near is Christ unto every Man unto whom the Gospel is Preached Christ that came down from Heaven into the Humane Nature the Word that was made flesh and dwelt amongst us and did in the flesh of Humane Nature bear our sins and die for us is risen again from the dead received up into Glory I say this blessed Jesus is brought near to us in the Gospel that if we believe in him we shall be saved in him i. e. even Jesus who hath delivered us from the Wrath to come 1 Thes. 1.10 And as Christ who is our Refuge is near so the Way is prepared the Vallies are ex●lted and the Hills are laid low the Stumbling blocks are gathered up long ago Isa. 40.3 4 5. compared with Luke 3.4 5 6. So that Sinner here is now no Valley whose depth should affright thee no Mountai● whose height should discourage thee no Stumbling-block left to hinder thee in this flying for Refuge unto Christ therefore Sinner take courage and fly to Christ and lay hold upon the Hope set before us and as God hath levelled all that was betwixt Jew and Gentile and prepared his way that every guilty Sinner both of the Jew and of the Gentile might have free access unto and acceptance with his Son Jesus Christ lay no Stumbling-blocks and put no difficulties in your own way when God puts none but fly for Refuge unto him and be safe be happy for ever But take along with thee these three Directions Direct 1. First of all Be speedy in your flight make no delay tarry not delays are dangerous and opportunities blessed opportunities are many times thereby lost To day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts as Heb. 3.15 And again To day while it is called to day Heb. 3.13 And again Now is the accepted time this is the day of Salvation 2 Cor. 6.2 And again saith the Voice of God by his own Son to Jerusalem Oh that thou hadst known at least in this thy day the things that belong to thy peace but now they are hid from thine Eyes Luk. 19.41 42. Commonly men fly in haste and take hold of the present opportunity to avoid the danger feared so must thou do Sinner if thou art upon thy flight to Christ for Refuge take hold of the present opportunity which if lost may perhaps never be recalled or recovered you know what folly it was in him who said call Time again no Time past cannot be recalled The motion of Time is not retrograde like the Wheels in Ezekiels Vision which Went straight forward and turned not as they went So doth Time Vestigia nulla retrorsum Well Sinner thou hast a Day now a Blessed Time now a Day of Grace a Time when Light shineth into thy Heart Convictions are upon thy Conscience thou hast a sense of Sin and feeling of thy Guilt tremblest under awakened Apprehensions of the Wrath of God justly due to thy Sin seest thy Refuge to be only in Christ hast some kindlings of Divine Love and Affection some warm Desires unto and Breathings after Christ and Grace Oh Sinner make use of this Blessed Time and lay hold of this Pretious Season and now or never take thy flight and speed thee away to Jesus Christ who calleth thee And let thy Heart answer Behold I come unto thee for thou art the Lord my God Lose this Season and lose all lose this Season and lose thy Soul lose this Season and thou art Lost for eve● for ought thou knowest Thou canst not assure thy self nor can any Man under the Heavens assure thee of another Day of a Morrow No no To Day if you will hear his voice there is no Morrow mentioned in all the word of God in this case there is no m●rrow in the Promise therefore thou canst not expect it no Morrow in the command therefore thou canst not work in it Thou mayest repen●● and believe the Gospel whilst it is called to Day but if thou staiest till to Morrow it may be it will be too late there is but a Day of Grace and there is no Morrow to succeed Jerusalem had her Day and Esau had his Day but no Morrow no afterward No no then it was too late read Luke 19.4 Heb. 12.17 Direct 2. Be steady in thy flight and persist in thy course hold on thy way till thou arrivest at and beest got into the City of Refuge The guilty Man-slayer was not safe till he got to the City of Refuge he was as lyable to fall and perish by the hand of the Pursuer and Avenger of Blood at the Borders of the City of his Refuge as he was when further off 'T is not his being not far off that would do Thou art not far from the Kingdom of God saith Christ to the Lawyer that answered well but he was not in the Kingdom of God for all that And whether he ever went on and got in afterward we do not find You know who said unto Paul Thou almost persuadest me to be a Christian but we find not that he ever became an altogether Christian. 'T is not thy making some progress toward Christ that will secure thee but they getting into Christ and they being in Christ 1 John 5.20 Rom. 8.1 They that were near the Ark perished in the Waters of the Flood as well as they that were further off none were saved but they that entred in Multitudes there are that seem not far off from Christ yea many that seem near unto him but none can be saved but such as are in him Direct 3. Those that fled to the City of Refuge were to abide therein and not to venture out of it at least till the death of the High Priest for if the Avenger of Blood found him afterward wandring abroad he might fall upon him and slay him Numb 35.25 26 27. Even so Sinner thou must not only refuge thy self in Christ for a time and then wander away after thy own lusts worldly interests or thine own righteousness afterward but thou must abide in Christ all the days of thy life and never draw back through an evil heart of unbelief as Heb. 3.12 And thou must persevere in thy Faith and in thy course of Holiness and hold fast the rejoycing of thy hope unto the end or else thou must lose all at last Heb. 10.38 39. 'T is a dangerous thing when thou hast put thy hand to the Plough to look back and remember Lot's Wife who escaped out of Sodom and yet afterward looking back was turned into a Pillar of Salt 'T is ill for them that begin in the Spirit and do afterward end in the Flesh 'T is dangerous turning back from Christ and tacking about again to

contempt of that which is or may be supposed or pretended to be his own Righteousness 4 Head And then Fourthly It is called the Righteousness of God as it is that Righteousness which only is and can be accepted of God in the matter of our Justification i. e. that Righteousness by which and upon the account whereof only a man may be Righteous and Justified in his sight For there is no other Righteousness by which a man may or can possibly be Justified in the sight of God Or that God accepts of and is well pleased with but this as the matter of our Justification as hath been already proved So that this only is the Righteousness of God as his Heart doth rest in it is well pleased with it and doth always accept it by Faith in his Son Jesus Christ and is not nor can be well-pleased without it And as a broken Heart is called the Sacrifice of God Psal. 51.17 The Sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit a broken and a contrite Heart O God thou wilt not despise Properly or in propriety of Speech a broken Heart or Spirit is no Sacrifice but it was that God expected with all the Sacrifices which the People offered according to Gods appointment For the Sacrifices for Sin were always slain and so were offered up to God by Death and shedding of their Blood The Holy Ghost hereby signifying that as the wages of Sin is Death so every person that sacrificed and brought his offering for Sin did deserve Death And therefore though this Death was transferred and laid upon the Sacrifices which Typically did look unto Christ and so required Faith in Christ the Lamb or Sacrifice of God Which taketh away the Sin of the World as John 1.29 Yet the very Nature and Import of all the Sacrifices did plainly declare and imply that Sin was a bitter and a very evil thing that could not be expiated with less than Death And whosoever did present his Sacrifice to be slain and offered up for Sin did ipso facto acknowledge himself a Sinner to have deserved Death and to be Consumed in the Fire of Hell as the Sacrifices were either wholly or in part burnt and consumed in the Fire after they were slain And so were offered up not by Death only but by Fire also till they were consumed Now for a man to bring his Sacrifice to be slain and burnt in the Fire and salted with Salt and yet to have no inward sense and feeling of his Sin no feeling of the wrath of God due to Sin and so no inward Repentance towards God This was most hateful and abominable in the sight of God and so the Sacrifice of that Person was not accepted but despised of God as a piece of meer Hypocrisie and outward Formality for in this Man there is neither Faith in Christ nor Repentance towards God And therefore all the Sacrifices that Men did or could offer signified nothing as to Divine acceptation without this inward sense of sin and brokenness of heart This one thing a broken heart did signifie more than all Sacrifices without it and so it is put for and by the Holy Ghost preferred to all Sacrifices whatsoever the Sacrifices of God are a broken spirit and why was a broken spirit more than all Sacrifices and alone is called in the plural number not Sacrifice but Sacrifices the Sacrifices yea the Sacrifices of God but because of the Divine acceptation because God doth always accept this broken heart this contrite spirit A broken and a contrite heart O God thou wilt not despise The words are a holy Meiosis there is more implied than is exprest thou wilt not despise i. e. thou wilt certainly accept thou wilt graciously accept and be well pleased with Now therefore the Mystery is opened the meaning of this expression The Sacrifices of God are a broken spirit is abundantly made clear and plain It is in this respect that a broken heart alone is called the Sacrifices of God that or upon the account thereof God is well pleased yea more pleased than with all outward Sacrifices without it Even so this Righteousness which is by the Faith of Christ unto all and upon all them that believe is called The Righteousness of God because that this Righteousness only and above all others is that which carrieth the glory of the Divine acceptation God will not despise but will certainly will graciously accept this Righteousness whenever it is presented unto him upon the Faith of a repenting believing Sinner upon the Faith of him that worketh not i. e. that hath no Works or Righteousness of his own which he dares to offer or bring unto God but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly as Rom. 4.5 His Faith is counted to him for Righteousness and God is well pleased with this Man for this Righteousness sake which is alone by Faith in his Son Jesus Christ. Now that God is well pleased with this Righteousness of his Son Jesus Christ is most clearly testified by the Voice from Heaven Mat. 3. ult This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased which Voice from Heaven was heard by John when Christ was baptized of him in Jordan and was now entred upon his work of fulfilling all Righteousness as v. 15. Then cometh this Voice from Heaven c. And again when Christ was transfigured upon the Mount a little before his Death and Translation into Heaven Now when he was about to finish his Obedience and whole Righteousness of the Law for us I say then again comes this Voice from Heaven Mat. 17.5 This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased and this Voice was heard from the most excellent glory by Peter James and John as 2 Pet. 1.18 Which Voice from Heaven we heard when we were with him upon the holy Mount Yea this is also testified by the su●e Word of Prophecy Isa. 42.21 The Lord is well pleased for his Righteousness sake meaning Christ as is manifest verse 1 2 3 4 6 7. of that chap. And it is not Christ alone or as a single Person but Christ considered as the Head and Root of the whole Church and so Jehovah is well pleased for his Righteousness sake with all them that believe and do bear and present this Righteousness of Christ in the hand of their Faith before the Father as that wherein only they desire to be found and stand before him Now that God is well pleased with all such and doth graciously accept them as just and righteous before him upon the account of this Righteousness is also as clearly testified unto by the holy Scriptures Act. 13.39 And by him that is Christ all that believe are justified and accepted as such as Rom. 5.19 For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners or became sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous or become righteous in his sight And again Ephes. 1.6 To the praise of the