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A46733	A cluster of sweetest grapes for saints, brought from the heavenly Canaan. Or, The saints assurance gotten, and to be had in this life, by the several means specified in this tract upon I Pet. 1.9. And fifteen soul-solacing conferences with Christ, touching sins and the world's conquest; according to the high and noble art of fighting the great fight of Faith, I Tim.6.12. Fitted for all such gracious souls as do most heartily desire to see the death of their strong and mighty corruptions, & a thorow [sic] victory gotten over this vile and troublesome world. By Christopher Jelinger M. A.	Jelinger, Christopher.	1664 (1664)	Wing J541; ESTC R217025	71,784	235

in this life For the better managing of which Use I shall tender to you 1. Directives or Mediums 2. Incentives 1. Directives to wit these 1 Directives 1. Labour to be born again if ye are not 1 Direct for so were those blessed Saints here who were so assured of their salvation as you may see v. 3. Hath begotten us again Give me leave therefore to insist upon Regeneration a little while And 1. Let me intrat you to imbibe receive and take inwardly the word of Regeneration whereby we are born again as it is written 1 Pet. 1.23 Being born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever where note that this Regenerating word of God is partly Law partly Gospel 1. As Law and so it doth three things 1. It discovereth unregeneracie and unregenerate men and shewes what manner of men they are like a glass Jam. 1.23 as for example by that famous place ●●m 3.10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18. where it describeth them what throats mouths tongues feet they have I pray you read the place It is storied of Luther that a certain Jew would have poysoned him but was discovered by his picture sent to Luther by a faithful friend warning him to beware of such a man when he did see him such a faithful friend is the law which so discovers unregeneracie which would kill us by such a portracture that we may escape it and live 2. It puts life into sin as you may read Rom. 7.8 9. I was alive without the law once but when the commandement came sin revived and I dyed this is a notable place I pray you let me open it a little sin revived that is it began to stir to tear Nitimur in vetitum semper cupimusque negata to irrit to exite to do what is forbidden and to affright withall as some understand the place so that I felt it Before the law comes home close sin is as it were dead like a dead adder or Lion and so quiet but when the law comes it is like an adder which is alive so it bites and * 1 Cor. 15.56 stings and like a living Lion so it roars and so it terrifieth and makes men afraid to ‖ Deducit enim talis metus ad poenitentiam Clem. Alex. strom l. 2. p. 58. bring them to repentance and Regeneration 3. It killeth according to the fore-alledged place Rom. 7.9 Sin revived and I died that is I felt and saw that I was dead and damned by the law whereas before I was alive that is I thought as sure that I should be saved as any man alive Thus the law kills men and makes them sensible of the miserable sad and damnable condition wherein they are whilest they are in the state of unregeneracie according to that dreadful place John 3.3 Read it 2. As Gospel so the regenerating word of God holds forth one sweet precious promise or other like an orient pearl to revive the dying drooping spirits of men when the law hath brought them as it were to deaths door as for example That most refulgent and reviving promise in Ezek. 36.26 And 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 I will give you an heart of flesh Thus the Gospel opens a † Hos 2.15 door of hope for poor creatures condemned by the law that though they are and must be prisoners and condemned prisoners yet they may be prisoners of hope Zac. 9.12 that is may not be without some hopes of mercy and of a gracious deliverance Thus the law kills but the Gospel saves The law cometh bringing Damnation but the Gospel comes bringing salvation the law cometh with a dagger to stab those that are alive but the Gospel cometh with a plaister to cure those that are stab'd and lie for dead as Christ himself came to save those that were lost so the Gospel cometh to bring men to Christ that they may not be lost for when souls come to Christ being born again by the word of Christ Christ comes to them and when he comes salvation comes for he cometh bringing Salvation Zach. 9.9 Read the place that those which were under the sentence of Damnation may attain to the state of Salvation even the Salvation of their souls according to my text Now this regenerating word of God you must take and apply every one of you and not put it off or let it lie as dead saying Am not I such an unregenerate man now have not I such filthy hands which have touched the unclean thing Such a throat such feet such a mouth and such a tongue which hath talked so filthily c. But yet may not I hope that the Lord will shew me mercy and regenerate me also as well as others Giving me a new heart c. 3. Betake your selves to your * Matth. 6.6 and I allude to Esa 26.20 Chamber and spend at least one day as a day of ‖ Jejuniis orationibus vacato Ignatius fasting I have done the same upon the same account if you think that the time of your regeneration is near come as I hope it is and that the pangs of the new birth are at the door and shut your door and there and then see your selves convert according to Psal 4.4 thus rendered in your English meetre And in your Chamber quietly See you your selves convert 4. Begin to be in pain there as a woman in travel for the pangs of Child-birth must go before the Child's-birth and you must make this † Dr. Preston on Gods Alsuff account that if you never yet received the spirit of bondage you also never received the spirit of Adoption Rom. 8.15 and many there are who because they have withstood the troubles of their mindes and the terrors of the spirit of bondage have withstood their Salvation wherefore let me intreat you to take the pains to be in pains for a little season that you may be at ease to an endless duration and for a small moment to be in heaviness through some necessary perturbations that for ever you may be in joy and gladness through unspeakable consolations O let even all your joy be turned into sorrow now and your * Esto sicut Rex in corde tuo sublimis risui jubens vade ut vadat dic tu fletui veni ut veniat Clim Grad 15. laughter into grief that all your grief and sorrow had for sin now may be turned into laughter hereafter For blessed are ye that weep now for you shall laugh saith Christ Luke 6.21 5. Then cry out and 1. For Anguish 2. For and to the spirit 1. For Anguish as a * I allude to that famous place in Esa 26.17 Like as a Woman with child that draweth neer the time of her

delivery is in pain and cryeth out in her pangs so have we been in thy sight O Lord. woman when her time is near and her pangs begin to come upon her or as a child cryeth as soon as it is born so you before you be new born as thus what will become of our poor souls for they are yet unregenerate and therefore cannot in any wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven unlesse extraordinary mercy be shewn them by the God of Heaven or thus as the Egyptians once cryed out when there was not an house in all Egypt where there was not one dead saying We be all dead men Exod. 12.30 33. And there was a great cry in Egypt See the place So let there be a great cry among you in every house and family For I believe that there is scarce an house where there is not one or more unregenerate and dead and in your several chambers 〈…〉 unto which you have according to my premised advice betaken your selves and let your cry be the same that was in Egypt O● we are all dead men we that are unregenerate men for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it That except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God John 3.3 Not all the art and wit of man Not all the ●he●orick of the eloquent'st Orator Not all the in●rea●ies of Saints and Angels can therefore or will perswade God to take one that is a drunkard or Whoremaster or Usurer or Lyar or Thief or covetous man and such have been some of us into his Kingdom 〈…〉 even as not all the perswasions of the men of this Country are or will be able to prevail with any one of us to take but one toad or snake into his bosome Thus cry out for anguish 2. Cry out for and to the spirit of Regeneration for by the spirit also a man must be born again according to that famous saying of our Saviour John 3.5 where note that the Spirit doth three things to regenerate souls 1. He convinceth them John 16.8 9. 2. He injects the feed of Regeneration into them according to that of Saint John His seed remains in them 1 John 3.9 3. He delivers them and makes them free 2 Cor. 3.17 helping them to come forth out of the dark womb of nature into his marvelous light that by him as by a * Irenaeus adv haeres bal. l. 3. c. 40. Ladder they may ascend into * John 3.35 Heaven to our Father which is in Heaven so that unto him you must cry and say O blessed spirit of Regeneration Regenerate our souls O our poor souls that they may live O convince them of their unregeneracy O inject the feed of Regeneration into them from above Oh help them to come forth Oh let a new heart be given to us O let us have flexible and tender hearts like the heart of a little child for we also must be like little children Oh come blessed spirit come and help us Oh come quickly come presently and deliver us 〈◊〉 come now whilest we are in this Room waiting for thee as thou comest upon the Apostles in that house wherein they were sitting Acts 3.2 3. O let this be the time of our regeneration that we also may be sure of our Salvation here be earnest and cry mightily Nay if need be and thou canst not be heard in that day cry in the night too and so come to the Spirit at this time as Nicodemus came to Christ in old time even by night and so cry day and night and then it will not be long before thou shalt be delivered being regenerated for as Christ said once Luk. 18.7 8. And shall not God hear his elect which cry unto him day and night though he bear long with them I tell you that he will avenge them speedily So I shall not the spirit of God hear his elect which cry unto him day and night I tell you that he will hear them and deliver them speedily For ask and you shall have saith Christ Luk. 11.9 It is no more but ask and have ask therefore the spirit and you shall have * How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him Luke 11.13 him ask Regeneration of the spirit understand in the manner aforesaid and you shall have it and it will not be long before you shall hear the spirit cry Abba Father Rom. 8.15 even most emphatically For therefore to the * Abba from the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jun. Tremel in Marc. 14.14 Syriack word Abba is added Father if you shall so cry day and night for the spirit to the Father Beloved there is no crying which the Father of mercies loves better and the Father of lies likes worse than this crying and therefore use it 6. Strive to come forth For as endeavour without God cannot so God without endeavors will not help us See Phil. 2.12 13. and therefore as Christ said once strive to enter so I strive to come out Luk. 13.24 for ye will find a very hard bout before ye will be able to come out therefore I say again strive and strive as other children do when they come to their birth or thus strive as once * Gen. 38.29 Pharez and Zarah in Tamars womb nay as Pharez so strove as that he made a breach and was therefore called Pharez from that breach so do you make a breach as it were and tear away from Natures womb and tear away from your beds of ease and sin and tear away especially from your lusts your pride of life your vile affections your violent passions your vain and filthy conversations your usury your atheism polytheism and abominable epicurism and whatsoever else is contrary to the holy Law of God thus strive to come out I pray you pardon my boldness which I took by this digression which carried me so far in this Sea of matter concerning our Regeneration and be pleased to impute it unto the vehemency of my love which made me thus to forget and to lose my self that you might not lose your selves which God in mercy grant 2. Labour to believe 2 Direct or Medium for so did those holy ones who according to my Text were so assured of their salvation v. 8. and besides if a man do believe and be sure of it that he doth he must needs be assured also that he shall be saved For so God loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life John 3.16 Mark He * Nay he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life Joh. 3.36 which much more and plainly demonstrates that a believing soul must needs be assured of its salvation because it hath it shall have it saith Christ as if he should say he may be sure of it for the mouth of truth hath spoken it