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heart_n	put_v	spirit_n	stony_a	3,973	5	11.7036	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97271	A touch-stone to try (by our knowledge, belief, and life) whether we be Christians in name onely, or Christians in deed. Or, The character of a true beleever, that walks in some measure answerable to the gospell, his Christian profession, and the millions of mercies he hath received. / By R.Y. of Roxwell in Essex.	Younge, Richard.	1648 (1648)	Wing Y193B; Thomason E1150_4; ESTC R208624	54,772	52

A Touch-Stone To try by our knowledge belief and life whether we be Christians in name onely or Christians in deed OR The Character of a true Beleever that walks in some measure answerable to the Gospell his Christian profession and the millions of mercies he hath received By R. Y. of Roxwell in Essex 2 Cor. 13.5 Examine your selves whether ye be in the faith prove your owne selves Know ye not your owne selves how that Jesus Christ is in you except ye be reprobates Printed at London and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke at the signe of the Greene Dragon in Pauls Church-yard 1648. I Have perused this Treatise and approving it to be very pithy pious and profitable I allow it to be printed and published Iohn Downame THe Reader may think it strange that the Proofes are not alleadged but they were found to be so many in number that the very pointing to them would have taken up neere as much roome as the matter it selfe and so have doubled the charge which in that they are mostly to be given away could not be afforded Besides few use to turn to every Scripture and every sanctified heart is a Comment upon all that is herein delivered The CHARACTER of a true Beleever c. in reading whereof reflect upon your selves and see what comparison there is between that you are and what you should be and then with blessing from above it will much further you in your way to Heaven for therefore are we Christians in name onely because we think our selves Christians indeed and already good enough § 1. A True Beleever is one that God of his free grace and good pleasure hath chosen and elected to eternall life before the foundation of the World and whom Christ hath redeemed with his precious bloud § 2. He is effectually called and become a new Creature by regeneration being both begotten and borne a new of God by the immortall seed of the Word and the Spirits powerfull working with it And without this new Birth there is no being saved as our Saviour himselfe affirmes John 3.5 § 3. He is industrious after the meanes of Grace loves to heare Christs voyce and delights in it as finding a sweet relish therein is able to know when he speaketh and when the tempter he receives the Word not as the word of men but as it is in deed the Word of God with all readinesse for he resists not as the wicked doe but obeyes Christs call which worketh in him mightily for he findes it by experience quick and powerfull and sharper then any two edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soule and spirit and of the joynts and marrow and to the discerning of the very thoughts and the most secret intents of the heart § 4. His heart is circumcised or rather God takes away the stony heart out of his flesh and gives him a new heart in which he writes his Law and puts a new spirit into him even his owne Spirit causing him to walke in his statutes and keep his ordinances so as to doe them § 5. He sheds his love abroad in his heart by the Holy Ghost who witnesseth to his conscience that he is become the childe of God whereby he hath union and communion with Christ partakes of the Divine Nature and becomes like God in holinesse § 6. He is brought out of darknesse into marvellous light hath his eyes opened to see the wonders of Gods Law and that vayle or curtaine which before was drawne over his heart 2 Cor. 3.15 16. taken away and is turned from the power of Satan unto God § 7. He is ashamed of his former conversation bewayles and mournes bitterly for all his sins actuall and originall of omission and commission secret as well as knowne lesser as well as greater yea as well for the evill which cleaves to his best workes as for his evill workes being more grieved for offending so good a God then for that it doth or might bring him shame or punishment in this life or in Hell § 8. He now findes that the Law is spirituall binding the heart as well as the hands to which holy and just rule he brings all his thoughts words and actions and so sees himselfe out of measure sinfull as being guilty of all manner of concupiscence having broken every one of those righteous precepts Exodus 20 more times and wayes then he hath haires on his head not being able of himselfe to thinke a good thought for that all the powers of his soule and members of his body are wholly and originally corrupted § 9. He sees himselfe as guilty of Adams sinne being in his loynes as any Heire is liable to his Fathers debt and esteemes it the Mother and Nurse of all finding it like the great wheele in a Clocke that sets all the wheeles on moving while it seemes to move slowest and therefore hates and bewailes it as the most soule hatefull secret deceitfull and powerfull evill § 10. Whereupon finding himselfe in a lost condition and confessing that he hath deserved all the plagues of this life and of that which is to come and groaning under the burthen of sinne utterly dispairing of all helpe in himselfe he is solicitously carefull in the use of the meanes to attaine faith in the promise of Gods mercy made in Christ finding no rest untill he get some assurance vehemently hungering and thirsting after and earnestly praying for the pardon of sinne waiting on the Lord with patience § 11. He humbly unfainedly and freely confesseth all his sins so farre as he is able with the severall circumstances which aggravate the same to his owne shame and Gods glory § 12. He will take an holy revenge on himselfe even to the denying of his owne reason and affections his credit carnall friends profits pleasures and whatever else might hinder and by restoring goods or monies evill gotten though it were long since and when he was a servant in case he be able § 13. He unfainedly desires to forsake all sinne as being in some measure dead to it Christ by his Spirit having freed him from the power and dominion thereof and in part abolished it at least he so parts from all iniquity and hates every false way that no one sinne doth raigne in him for when he doth commit any evill it is full sore against his will as being led captive to it by the strength of Satans temptations and his owne corruptions for he never commits it freely and willingly and with full consent he allowes not of the evill he does no he will not premeditately and in times not utterly deserted doe the least evill that the greatest good may come of it neither is there any sinne he knowes by himselfe were it formerly never so pleasing to him but he desires as heartily that he might never commit it as that God should never impute it He likewise hates sinne throughly and universally and therefore is truly