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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

it be able to indure those * everlasting burnings When he thinks upon his soul he saith O my poor * Isa 33.14 trembling soul whether wilt thou go when thou goest hence to Heaven or Hell I know not God knows or thus * As that great Emperor Animula Vagula Blandula anxiviously I have lived doubtfully shall I die not knowing whether I shall go as Aristotle said that great Philosopher or as David that great King of Israel 2 Sam. 18.15 said of Absalom his Son once so saith he of his soul with a little change O my soul would to God I did know what would become of thee after me but I know it not and therefore O sad man that I am and O sad soul that thou art Oh! my soul my soul Oh! how should this prick ye on therefore like a Spur to the getting of that here required Assurance of the salvation of your souls 2. Some Incentives I shall deduce from the good that will come 2 Sort of Incentives if you will come to labour for this Assurance as 1. Look as they that are sure of their vocation and election so they that are sure of their salvation by a necessary consequence shall not be barren in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in 2 Pet. 1.8 knowledge a man may have though no assurance of his salvation he have As good a Logician he may be as ever was Austin * Augustinus à petitiono vocabatur dialecticus who for it was called the Dialectick speak he may diverse tongues as Hebrew Greek Latine c. nay as many as Genusbrey Sultan Solyman's Interpreter 15 Languages or as Mithridates 22 as the French Academy hath it An Oxford of learning a walking Library an ocean of wit he may be abilities he may have to wade into the Abyss of the Oracles of God and to interpret mysteries a dexterity he may have with the piercing key of his most excellent knowledge to unlock the golden cabinet of Gospel secrets parts he may have with the far seeing eie of his large understanding to penetrate the occult qualities of nature able he may be to discover what is in the bowels of the earth in the bottom of the seas in the heights of mountains nay he may with the wings of his profound learning even sore up to that flaming hill above where the stars are yea beyond the Castiopeia it self and be able to discourse of the altitude magnitude natures influences of those glorious lights which are in that spangled skie even to admiration but as barren he will be for want of godliness and goodness if he want the the Assurance of his election of salvation as the mountain of Gilboa 2 Sam. 1.21 Contrarily if he be sure of that then oh how fruitful will he be then in all manner of holiness and godly conversation and how oh how will that even fill his sails with life with motion with action and make him navigate even with expansed sails through seas of duties For what oh what will not a man do for God when once he is certain of the favour of God Oh! how he will pray fast read meditate love when once he is perswaded of his love and therefore who is there among all this people that fain would grow in grace and not be barren in knowledge let him labour for the assurance of his salvation and he shall have his hearts desire O my God fulfil thou the desire of that soul I humbly desire and beseech thee with my very soul 2. You shall never fall 1 Pet. 1.10 nor look back like Lot's wife which for it was turned into a Pillar of Salt yet to be seen saith Tertullian to season such as fall Now you do nothing almost but fall as being in darkness Isa 50.10 now into the sin of pride then of passion then of luxurie now ye are too jovial then too fantastical in your gates cloaths now too light then too melancholick now ye talk too much then too little now ye sell too dear then ye use false weight or mix your wares bad with good some of you now ye are too strange then too familiar too wanton some of ye now as high as Lucifer for pride then as low as Demas for worldliness for even in our time are * Tertul. in Sodom Carm. p. 646. * Aug. in Ps 77. p. 830. many Demases The world is now as it was formerly there was none then but there hath been or is some one now that parallels him and is as it were his revived self But let a man get the Assurance of his salvation let him sun himself in the light of God's countenance let him be crowned with the certain hope of glorie let him be refresh'd once with the over-flowing streams of divine consolations Let God's Spirit once speak peace to his spirit and he will say O I would not be as I have been nor do as I have done no not for a thousand worlds I was proud passionate envious lascivious covetous as others are but I would not be so again if one would give me all the wealth of England Oh! how much sweeter is the assurance of my salvation than all the pleasures of sin for a season or thus as Joseph said to his Mistress being enticed by her Gen. 39.9 My Master hath kept nothing from me but thee because thou art his Wife How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God so saith he when he is enticed by sin My Lord Jesus Christ hath kept nothing from me but his glory which he saith he will give to none other Isa 42.8 He hath put such joy in my heart such light into my mind such assurance into my soul as that I am even ravished with him in my soul and therefore how can I commit this wickedness and sin against my God Oh! I will not do it for the whole world 3. You will thereby enter Heaven this also follows by a consequence from the ensuring of our calling and election for he that is sure of the one must needs be sure of the other also as I shewed * From Rom. 8.29 30. formerly Now what saith Peter Give diligence to make your calling and election sure 2 ch 1.10 and then v. 11. For so an entrance shall be ministred unto abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ which words may be understood not only of an entrance to be ministred hereafter but also ministred now when we are made sure of Heaven as Rom. 8.16 when we are saved by hope when namely Jesus Christ is pleas'd to shine upon us with the light of his countenance beaming into our hearts Quae est luae quae irradiat cor meum Aug. in Med. when our hearts do leap for joy when joy triumphs over sorrow when sorrow is turned into singing when rivers of comfort are shed and showred down from the Throne