I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I 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 keep my judgments and doe them Cap. 12. Of Prayer Q. IS prayer a meanes to obtaine these spirituall blessings at God's hands A. Psal 51.10 Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me Ezek. 36.37 Thus saith the Lord God I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel to doe it for them Q. May we call upon an unregenerate man to repent and pray A. Act. 8.22 23. Repent therefore of this thy wickednesse and pray God if perhaps the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitternesse and in the bond of iniquity Q. Is there any hopes that God will heare the prayer of an unregenerate man can you give an instance in Scripture of God's hearing an unregenerate man's prayer A. 2 King 13.2 4. And he did that which was evill in the sight of the Lord and followed the sinnes of Jeroboam the Son of Nebat which made Israel to sin he departed not therefrom And Jehoahaz besought the Lord and the Lord hearkened unto him For he saw the oppression of Israel because the King of Syria oppressed them Q. What means then John 9.31 A. By a sinner may here be understood a grievous Sinner such as an Impostor and open Sabbath-breaker compare that text with Luk. 7.37 39. If a man be an Atheisticall notorious profane wretch or an Impostor and goe on to sinne presumtuously saying God is with him God useth not to heare such an one so as to worke miracles at his prayer or intreaty so as to cure one that was born blind But yet he that heareth the cry of the young Ravens is found of those men sometimes that seek him not may if he please and sometimes doth hear and answer the prayer of an unregenerate person I no where read that 't is an abominatioÌ„ to God for an unregenerate man to pray for Grace the sacrifice of the wicked is said indeed to be an abomination to the Lord as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but if God put it into a man's heart if he prepare his heart to pray for peace with God and sanctifying or regenerating grace from God I think 't is not impossible he should prepare his eare to heare he hath not said he would not heare 't is not necessary he should stop his eares to such prayers And as for Prov. 28.9 I say it proves God wil not ordinarily hear profane obstinate presumtuous Sinners when they are in necessity or distresse but yet he may notwithstanding heare the prayer of an Unregenerate Person when he prayes to have his law written in his heart he may not hear one that hath no grace when he prayes for gold but yet may heare him when he prayes for Grace Chap. 13. Of Marriage Q. ARE the Lawes formerly delivered by Moses concerning Marriage so abolished that now a man may marry to his neer kindred A. Mat. 14.3 4. For Herod had laid hold on John and bound him and put him in prison for Herodias sake his brother Philip's wife For John said unto him It is not lawfull for thee to have her Q. In what case is divorce lawfull A. Mat. 5.32 Whosoever shall put away his wife saving for the cause of Fornication causeth her to commit Adultery Rom. 7.2 For the woman which hath an Husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth Q. Are second Marriages lawfull A. Rom. 7.3 But if her Husband be dead she is free from that Law so that she is no Adulteresse though she be married to another man Chap. 14. Of Mothers nursing their own children Q. DID good women of old time nurse their own children A. Psal 131.2 Surely I have behaved and quieted my selfe as a child that is weaned of his Mother Gen. 21.7 And he said who would have said unto Abraham that Sarah should have given children suck Q. Did ever any Queen or Noble person nurse her own child A. Can. 8.1 compared with chap. 1.1 The song of songs which is Solomons O that thou wert as my Brother â—â—â—at sucked the brests of my mother 1 Kin. 11.20 And the Sister of Tahpenes bare him Jenubath his Son whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house Gen. 23.6 compared with 21.7 Heare us my Lord thou art a mighty Prince amongst us And he said who would have said unto Abraham that Sarah should have given children suck Q. Was it reputed a curse or punishment for women to have dry brests A. Hosea 9.14 Give them O Lord what wilt thou give give them a miscarrying womb and dry brests Q. Shall a mother who is a nurse be dispensed with all from some outward acts of piety from doing of which she is hindred by that means or occasion A. 1 Sam. 1.21 22 23. And the man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer unto the Lord the early sacrifice and his vow But Hanah went not up for she said unto her husband I will not goe up untill the child be weaned and then I will bring him that he may appeare before the Lord and there abide for ever And Elkanah her husband said unto her Doe what seemeth thee good tarry untill thou have weaned him only the Lord establish his word so the woman abode and gave her Son suck untill she weaned him Chap. 15. Of Womens painting themselves Q. IS the face the cheif part by which we are commonly known one to another A. Galath 1.22 And was unknown by face unto the Churches of Judea which were in Christ Q. Is the face one of our comely parts which hath no need as others of any superadded honour A. 1 Cor. 12.23 24. And those members of the body which we think to be lesse honourable upon these we bestow more abundant honour our uncomely parts have more abundant comelinesse For our comely parts have no need but God hath tempered the body together having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked Q. Did lewd Women use to paint A. Ezek. 23.40 And furthermore that ye have sent for men to come from far unto whom a messenger was sent and loe they came for whom thou didst wash thy selfe paintedst thy eyes and deckedst thy selfe with ornaments Q. Was that Queen a good or a wicked Woman who stood in a window painting her selfe when Jehu came to Jezreel A. 2 Kings 9.30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel Jezebel heard of it and she painted her face and tired her head and looked out at a window Q. Were the daughters of men in the old world really faire that the Sons of God were so taken with their beauty or did they paint and so only seem
of Scripture only I would not be thought to endeavour to set the Scriptures together by the eares but to compare them to bring them together face to face and by a friendly enterview and conference to reconcile them though when they are asunder they seem to be at odds and difference yet when they are brought together and we heare both speak they may easily be reconciled They seeme obscure perhaps single but set together they give light to each other So true is that Rule Scripture is the best Interpreter of Scripture And Farther as the seed of the Serpent the Generation of Vipers Heretickes and seducers have learn't of the Divel that old Serpent to urge Scripture against Scripture that is the letter of Scripture against the true sense scope and meaning of it So may the children of Abraham learne of Christ the seed of the Woman to answer Scripture with Scripture and therefore when they plead and object as the Divel did It is written we may answer or reply as our Saviour did It is written againe Math. 4 6 7. Sr Amongst other Errours that I contest withall both ancient and moderne at home and abroad there is one I hope you will not censure me for ingaging against because in my own defence and that is the Error of those who would extirpate Ministry root and branch that say of such men and their maintenance wherefore is this losse when they cry out upon us as Priests of Baal 't is high time for us to prove our selves the Ministers of Christ when they say of us or to us as Pharaoh to the Israelites ye are idle ye are idle t is but our duty to busy our selvs with both hands to build with the one and strive with the other to hold a sword in one hand a trowel in the other Ne. 4.17 18. Can builders Souldiers husband-men labourers in harvest workers Fellow workers together with God be justly taxed and censured for idle Persons or men of no calling And yet such are the Ministers of the Gospel a lazie Monk may indeed have good cause to abandon his profession because if his Cowle doe not his calling will not or is not like to make him sweat Yet that Preacher who puts his hand to God's plough and followes it hard therewith to break up the fallow ground of his own and others hard hearts will make furrowes in his own face I know the pretence and practise is to undermine the maintenance but the plot is to blow up the Ministry The glorious lamps of our Tabernacles are not like to burn long if the golden oyle be presently taken away I know we may say that the hand of Joab is in all this and 't is this wicked Haman which hath done it the Divell or the Pope is the Father of this Monster They know that the Ministers are the Chariots and horsemen of Israel and that if these be discomfited the Infantry are in danger to be scattered Oh that men were so wise as to consider the designes of these enemies The Popish Emissaries would exclude us that you might affect them would diet or starve us that they might fill if not surfet themselves The Devill would allow the false Prophet Balaam to ride with his two men and yet would force the true Prophets to goe afoot Antichrist would have his own Priests many of them Princes but the Ministers of Christ all of them the meanest and lowest of the people But what godly heart should without sorrow see Christs witnesses prophesy in sackcloth when the Priests of Anti-Christ russell and rant it in sattin a In Italy besides the temporall estate of the Popes of Rome the Clergy are conceived to have in some places a third part of the whole but in most a moyetie In Spaine the certaine rents of the Arch-Bishoprick of Toledo are said to be no lesse than 300000 crownes per annum which is far more than all the Bishops Deanes and Prebendaries doe possesse in England Treleinie of tythes pag. 12.13 In France the Ecclesiasticks alone possesse one third part of the total Revenue of the Kingdom v. State of France pag. 69. The Nobles and Commons Assembled in Parliament signifyed to King Henry the fourth that the temporal possessions of Abbots Priors c. would suffice to find and sustaine 150 Earles 1500 Knights 6200 Esquires 100 Hospitals more than there were Ful. Ch. History lib. 6. pag. 302. For my own part I would much rather chuse if my heart deceive me not to live and dye a poore Minister than a rich man or Grandee whose ayme and endeavour should be to make the Ministry poore Be not deceived God is not mocked If they that Ministred under Moses Law were feasted b Such and so many Allowances had the Priests and Levites that setting by the tithes of their corne and cattell of all manner of increase their maintenance had far exceeded that of the English Clergy and adding unto these the Tithes of all Creatures tithable it doth more than double it Treleinie of tythes pag. 4. 5. If a Husband-man amongst the Jewes had 6000 bushels growing in a yeer when all sorts of tythes and dues were paid there remained to him but 4779. vid. Weems Christian Synag pag. 154. ex Scalig. opusc he would not have the Preachers of his Sons Gospell famished If David took it so ill that his Embassadors were evill intreated by Hanun 2 Sam. 10.4 when their garments were cut off by the halves God will not take it well to have his Ministers his Embassadors of peace cut short of their maintenance And now Sr if I should for want of other matter be indited and arraigned for want of an exact Artificiall method my hope is that either every ordinary Jurie will not be able to find me guilty or if I be found that an Ingenious Judge perhaps may procure my pardon when he considers that it is in part confessed already and againe that such an exact and curious chaine of method might possibly more credit the Author then profit the ordinary Reader or be a greater ornament than advantage to the book and yet painfull to the Compiler And wise men may consider that pearles are pearles although they be not curiously strung or made up into bracelets and chaines and that gold in the oare or coine is not to be thrown away because 't is not formed into a chaine of so many curious and equall linkes And Sr As for this present Addresse unto you those who know and consider what a friend you have been to Religion what a Father to your Country what a Patron to Ministers what a Benefactor to Scholars and to my selfe in particular may rather wonder that I did it no sooner than that I have done it now And my hope is that you will not think your selfe slighted or disparaged to have your name inscribed or prefixed to a book of this nature I am perswaded Sr you preferre old
beautifull A. Gen. 6.2 The Sons of God saw the Daughters of men that they were faire and they took them wives c. Q. Were Job's three Daughters naturally faire or were they painted so A. Job 42.15 And in all the land were no women found so faire as the Daughters of Job Q. Was it usuall for the Blackamore to chang his skin by painting it white any more than for the Leopard to chang his spots or was it usuall for men to change their haire white or black from it's naturall colour A. Jerem. 13.23 Can the Ethyopian change his skin or the Leopard his spots Mat. 5.36 Neither shalt thou sweare by thy head because thou canst not make one haire white or black Q. Is it probable that Christ was naturally of a beautifull countenance that the Son of David was like David yea fairer then the children of men A. Psal 45.2 Thou art fairer than the children of men grace is powred into thy lips Cant. 5.10 My beloved is white and ruddy the chiefest among ten thousand Q. Was our Saviour's countenance much marred by reason of sorrowes and sufferings that he seemed older than he was and not so lovely as he was before A. Isa 53.2 He hath no forme nor comelinesse and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him Q. When Christ's countenance was so marred did he recover his complexion and beauty by art or when our Saviour's countenance was transfigured and made outwardly glorious was it done by any art of man did that brightnesse of his countenance continue A. Mat. 17.1 2 9. And after six dayes Jesus taketh Peter James and John his brother and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart and was transfigured before them and his face did shine as the sun and his raiment was white as the light And as they came down from the mountaine Jesus charged them saying tell the vision to no man untill c. Q. Doe we find Vermilion or the paint amongst all the store and furniture for ornament and bravery which the delicate dames of Judah had in the dayes of the Prophet Isaiah A. No Isa 3.18 to the 24. In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their trinckling ornaments about their feet and their cauls and their round tires like the moon the chaines and the bracelets and the mufflers the bonnets the ornaments of the legges and the head-bands and the tablets and the ear-rings the rings and nose-jewels the changeable suits of apparrel and the mantles and the wimples and the crisping pins the glasses and the fine linnen and the hoods and the vailes Q. How did religious women of old time adorne or beautify themselves did they paint to gaine or keep the affections of their husbands A. 1 Pet. 3.3 4 5. Whose adorning let it not be the outward adorning of plaiting the haire and of wearing of gold or of putting on of apparell but let it be the hidden man of the heart For after this manner in old time the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves Q. Is it probable that Christian women to whom the Apostle Peter wrote or concerning whom the Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy did use painting as well as gold and silver and plaiting the haire A. 1 Pet. 3.3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the haire and of wearing of gold or of putting on of apparrell 1 Timoth. 2.9 In like manner also that women adorne themselves in modest apparell with shamefastnesse and sobriety not with broided hair or gold or pearles or costly array If painting had been used then by Christian women that had been lyable to have been abused too and if so 't is not improbable that the Apostles would have mentioned it as well as other things wherein were excesse Q. Would it be better for a religious Woman to come into the Congregation vailed or painted A. 1 Corinth 11.5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head for that is even all one as if she were shaven Q. Is it expedient for a religious woman to paint A. Philip. 4.8 Finally brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any vertue and if there be any praise think on these things Q. Were common Harlots usually known or distinguished from sober and modest women by their cloathes or outward Garbe A. Prov. 7.10 And behold there met him a woman with the attire of an Harlot and subtill of heart Q. In case religious women should not be disswaded from painting would it not be expedient that they should doe it either with other colours or in some other manner then lewd women use to doe that so they might be known to be honest and modest women A. Rom. 12.2 And be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind c. Q. Will painting or auxiliary beauty certainly and continually win or conquer others affections A. See Jerem. 4.30 And when thou art spoiled what wilt thou doe though thou clothest thy selfe with crimson though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold though thou rentest thy face with painting in vaine shalt thou make thy selfe faire thy Lovers will despise thee they will seek thy life Q. What is the best meanes for a woman to have and hold her husbands affections is not the feare of God and meek discreet carriage towards her husband A. Prov. 31.30 Favour is deceitfull and beauty is vaine but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised 1 Pet. 3.1 3 4. Likewise ye wives be in subjection to your own husbands that if any obey not the word they also may without the word be won by the conversatiō of the wives whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the haire of wearing of gold or of putting on of apparrell but let it be the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible even the ornament of a meek quiet spirit Pr. 11.22 Q. Had the Virgins who were prepared for and presented to Ahasuerus any paint as well as perfumes allowed them A. Esther 2.12 Now when every Maids turne was come to goe into King Ahasuerus after that she had been 12 moneths 6 moneths with oyle of myrrhe and six moneths with sweet odours and with other things for the purifying of the women Q. But doth not the Scripture say Psal 104.15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man and oile to make his face to shine And Eccles 9.8 Let thy garments be alwaies white and let thy head lack no oyntment A. In those Easterne hot countryes they did use oile frequently to anoint themselves withall possibly to make their skin smooth and cleare free from beeing too much dried and parched and so wrinkled before ' its time
and to make them have a chearfull countenance they took oile perhaps inwardly and they used it outwardly anointing their heads and perhaps their faces too for the purposes aforesaid it may be too to perfume themselves and this was the practise of men and of good men too 2 Sam. 12.20 Of David And we read that one powred out a box of precious ointment on our Saviour and was commended for it This use of oile was common to men but who ever heard of a man's face laid in oile colours of such a picture of a man you may have heard The Picts I suppose painted their whole bodyes see Camdē If of naturall surely of auxiliary beauty we may take up that saying favour is deceitfull and beauty is vaine c. Prov. 31.30 Q. Should Christians doe well to conforme themselves to the modest fashions of good people where they dwell A. See 1 Cor. 11.16 But if any man seem to be contentious we haue no such custome neither the Churches of God 1 Pe. 3.3 4 5. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair and of wearing of gold or of putting on of apparrell But let it be the hidden man of the heart For after this manner in old time the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves Q. Is it not fitting by any art to paint or counterfeit the fruit of repentance or to hide or hinder the evidence of it in our countenance Is it then expedient to paint our faces A. Ezrah 9.5 6. And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heavinesse and having rent my garment and my mantle I fell upon my knees and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God and said O! my God I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee my God Jer. 6.15 and chap. 8.12 Q If a woman have no evill intention or designe in painting her face or in going with naked brests doth that certainly free her from all fault blame and punishment for her so doing in case this be an occasion of sin and fall to others that behold her A. 1 Cor. 8.13 If meat make my Brother to offend I will eate no flesh while the world standeth Exod. 21.33 Chap. 16. Of Children with respect to holy things Q. DID ever God make a Covenant with Parents and their children so as that the children being yet Infants were involved and interested in the covenant with their parents A. Gen. 17.7 8. And I will establish my Covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting Covenant to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee And I will give unto thee and to thy seed after thee the land wherein thou art a stranger all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession and I will be their God Q. Did God ever ordaine any seales of his Covenant and that the children so in Covenant whilst Infants should be sealed with the seale of the Covenant A. Gen. 17.10 11 12. This is my Covenant which ye shall keep between me and you and thy seed after thee every man-child among you shall be circumcised And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin and it shall be a token of the Covenant betwixt me and you And he that is 8 dayes old shall be circumcised among you every man-child in your generations c. Q. Is there by Christ's appointment any other new seale now to be administred in place of the old And is Baptisme now to be administred in the room of circumcision A. Gal. 5.2 Behold I Paul say unto you that if ye be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing Mat. 28.19 Goe ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Col. 2.11 12. In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands in putting off the body of the sinnes of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ Buried with him in Baptisme wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God Q. Are any now to be admitted to any seale of the Covenant who were formerly excluded A. Act. 8.12 But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the Kingdome of God and the name of Jesus Christ they were baptized both men and women Q. Hath Christ any where excluded Infants under the Gospell either from the Covenant or the signs and seales of it or hath our Lord expressed good will and Affections to them declaring his will to have little ones brought to him A. Mat. 19.13 14 15. Then there were brought unto him little children that he should put his hands on them and pray and the disciples rebuked them But Jesus said suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto me for of such is the Kingdome of heaven And he layd his hands on them and departed thence Mar. 10.16 And he took them up in his armes put his hands upon them and blessed them Q. Are believing Gentiles concerned in the Covenant and promises made to the Patriarks Abraham Isaack and Jacob and David A. Gal. 3.7 8 9 13 14. Know ye therefore that they which are of Faith the same are the children of Abraham And the Scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith preached before the Gospel unto Abraham saying In thee shall all nations be blessed So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithfull Abraham Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law c. that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ that we might receive the promise of the spirit through Faith Q. Doe Believers Jewes and Gentiles make up one Church and one body whereof Christ is Saviour and head A. Eph. 2.13 14. But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were farre off are made nigh by the blood of Christ For he is our peace who hath made both one and hath broken downe the middle wall of partition between us chap. 4.4 There is one body and one spirit even as ye are called in one hope of your calling Q. Are believing Gentiles ingrafted into the same olive out of which the unbelieving Jewes were cut off A. Rom. 11.17 18 24. And if some of the branches be broken off and thou being a wild olive tree wert grafted in amongst them and with them partakest of the root and fatnesse of the Olive tree Boast not against the branches For if thou wert cut out of the Olive tree which is wild by nature and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good Olive tree how much more shall these which be the naturall branches be grafted into their own Olive tree Q. Were Infants with their Parents ever so much as figuratively baptized A. 1 Cor. 10.1 2. All our Fathers were under the cloud and all passed thorow the Sea And were all baptized unto Moses in the
ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest chap. 7.7 Aske and it shall be given you seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you Is 55.1 3. Ho! every one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and he that hath no money come ye buy and eate yea come buy wine and milke without money and without price Incline your eare and come unto me hear and your soule shall live and I will make an everlasting Covenant with you even the sure mercies of David Deut. 4.29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God thou shalt find him if thou seek him with all thine heart and with all thy soul Rev. 22.17 and the Spirit and the bride say come and let him that heareth say come and let him that is a thirst come and whosoever will let him take of the water of life freely Q. May we pore upon predestination and look to see our names written in the book of life before we set our faces and hearts to look after a Saviour the Lord Christ A. Deut. 29.29 The secret things belong unto the Lord our God but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever that we may doe all the words of this Law 1 Joh. 3.23 And this is his commandement that we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ Q. Is there any ground to stay the soul upon if it seek after the true knowledge and feare of God that it shall find it A. Prov. 2.3 4.5 Yea if thou cryest after knowledge and liftest up thy voice for understanding If thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasures Then shalt thou understand the feare of the Lord and find the knowledge of God Q. If Judas had repented and believed should he have been saved A. Joh. 3.16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Q. If Peter had never repented and believed should he have been saved A. Joh. 3.18 But he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God vers 36. He that believeth not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him Q. What if a man had a revelation from heaven that he should be saved might we say that Except he believed and repented and walked holily he could not be saved what saith the Scripture A. Act. 27.31 Except these abide in the ship ye cannot be saved compared with vers 23 24. There stood by me this night the Angell of God saying fear not Paul thou must be brought before Caesar and lo God hath given thee all them that sail with thee Q. What if a Prophet should come and tell thee yet 10 or 20 or 40 dayes and thou shouldest dye and be damned if thou shouldest thereupon turne unto the Lord with all thy heart and believe in the Lord Christ shouldest thou be saved A. Jer. 18.7 8. At what instant I shall speak concerning a Nation and concerning a Kingdome to pluck up and pull down and to destroy it If that nation against whom I have pronounced turne from their evill I will repent of the evill that I thought to doe unto them Matth. 11.23 If the mighty workes that have been done in thee had been done in Sodome it would have remained untill this day Is 38.1 2 5. Thus saith the Lord Set thine house in order for thou shalt dye and not live Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall and prayed unto the Lord Goe and say to Hezekiah thus saith the Lord the God of David thy Father I have heard thy prayer I have seen thy teares Behold I will adde unto thy dayes 15 yeers Jonah 3.4 10. Q. Shall any man be condemned at the last day because he could not or because he would not come unto Christ but put the Gospel away from him A. Mat. 23.37 O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou that killest the Prophets and stonest them which are sent unto thee how often would I have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and ye would not Joh. 5.40 And ye will not come to me that ye might have life Q. May a man be fully assured of his Salvation A. 2 Cor. 5.1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with hands eternall in the Heavens Q. Will Assurance make Saints Libertines in their lives A. Luk. 7.47 Her sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much but to whom little is forgiven the same loveth little 2 Cor. 5.14 15. Q. Is Assurance inconsistent with a filiall reverentiall obedientiall feare of the divine majesty A. Phil. 2.12 Worke out your own salvation with feare and trembling Psal 2.11 Serve the Lord with feare and rejoyce with trembling Q. What is the true meaning of that place 1 Joh. 4.18 A. Either perfect love casteth out all slavish base feare or if we love Christ in sincerity and with all our soules we shall not through feare deny him but confesse him before men although they persecute us for his names sake Q. May true Faith consist with some doubting A. Mat. 14.31 O thou of little Faith wherefore did'st thou doubt Q. Ought not Christians so to rejoyce alwaies in God as yet to be sorry for their sinnes and to weep with them that weep Are these things inconsistent Sorrow and Joy A. 2 Cor. 6.10 As sorrowfull yet alway rejoycing So chap. 7.9 Now I rejoyce not that ye were made sorry but that ye sorrowed to Repentance for ye were made sorry after a godly manner Rom. 12.15 Rejoyce with them that doe rejoyce and weep with them that weep Q. Shall men who live in grosse sins without Repentance Reformation ever come to heaven A. 1 Cor. 6.9 11. Know ye not that the unrighteous shal not inherit the Kingdome of God c. And such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God Q. Are we commanded to make us a new heart and a new Spirit A. Ezek. 18.31 32. Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby ye have transgressed and make you a new heart and a new spirit for why will ye dye O house of Israel for I have no pleasure in the death of him that dyeth saith the Lord God wherefore turne your selves and live yee Q. Hath God any where promised that he will doe this for us A. Jer. 24.7 And I will give them an heart to know me that I am the Lord and they shall be my people and I will be their God For they shall returne unto me with their whole heart Ezek. 36.26 27. A new heart also will