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A85987	A pleasant walk to heaven, through the new and living way, which the Lord Jesus consecrated for us, and his sacred Word reveals unto us. Published by Claudius Gilbert, B.D. minister of the Gospel at Limrick.	Gilbert, Claudius, d. 1696?	1658 (1658)	Wing G703; Thomason E939_2; ESTC R202211	58,214	83

slight esteem and neglect of prayer publike and private A Christian so disarmed is nakedly exposed to the malice of his raging enemies to be captivated into errour and sin at Satans pleasure All the great wonders of the latter dayes are to be carried on by prayer The spirit of the living creatures that moves in all the wheels of Providence turns this grand wheel of fervent prayer to make all the rest work energetically and effectually Christians should speak to God often for each other 4. Seasonable Exhortation for mutual Instruction and quickning to the further knowledge and practice of Gods will This is a choyce help often pressed unto which the best do need Let 's saith the Apostle consider one another to provoke one another to love and good works not forsaking the assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as you see the day approaching Upon all occasions of Christian conference either more private or more solemn our speech should be stil seasoned with the salt of Grace that we may know how to answer and edifie every man No corrupt communication should proceed out of our mouth but that which is good to the use of edifying that it may administer grace to the hearers No filthiness nor foolish talking nor jesting which are not convenient but rather giving of thanks should proceed from us Exhort one another daily whilst it is called to day least any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin and ed●fie one another as ye also do building up your selves in your most holy faith for the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withall Thus Paul in all his visits made it his work to strengthen the Disciples teaching all how to improve their abilities and opportunities with care and prudence faithfulness and diligence modesty and humility Thus he directs the due ordering of solemn conferences among the Corinthians and others The sense of our former neglect and loss of much precious time should deeply humble us and strongly quicken us to redouble all possible industry and solicitous labour to Redeem the remainder of our Life in such an excellent way of mutual helpfulness Contribution doth the Lord require from every person towards the building of his Tabernacle and repairing of his Temple The poor mans Rams-skins and the Widows mite are as acceptable coming with good will as the rich mans silks gold and Jewels Thus Aquila and Priscilla helped Apollos taking him unto them and expounding to him the way of God more perfectly Is not this much better then worldly talks and telling of stories or carrying of tales in daily visits 5. Faithful admonition for conviction of and help against what evil appears in another This is expresly enjoyned by the Lord thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sin upon him Yet then account him not as an enemy but admonish him as a brother We should to that end make straight paths for our feet least that which is lame be turned out of the way but rather let it be healed Looking diligently least any man fail of the Grace of God lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and thereby many be defiled Lest there be any spiritual or corporal fornicator or profane person among you like Esau who for one morsel of bread sold his birth-right Take heed therefore brethren least there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God but exhort one another c. Christ himself gives us a sure Rule to be carefully observed if thy brother shall trespass against thee go and tell him his fault between thee and him if he shall hear thee thou hast gained thy brother But if he will not hear then take with thee one or two more that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established And if he will not hear them tell it to the Church The Primitive Christians were eminent for this I my self saith Paul am perswaded of you my brethren that ye also are full of goodness filled with all knowledge able also to admonish one another Brethren saith James if any of you do err from the faith and one convert him let him know that he which converts a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall hide a multitude of sins This choyse help should be as willingly received as given He that being often reproved stiffens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without Remedy This Fraternal act of true Love distinct from the Rulers Authoritative acts whether Doctrinal or Disciplinary requires much caution and wariness tenderness and wisdom meekness and fidelity with mutual watchfulness Christians should not curiously pry into anothers failings nor maliciously search into doubtful unknown matters to trouble or disgrace him True Love thinks no evil but covers a multitude of faults We should be moved with sincere respects to Gods honour to our neighbours good that his faults may be dressed and healed confessed and amended by the right use of this Divine Medicine orderly applyed Christians therefore should look well first to themselves to pluck every beam out of their own eye and proceed by the sure Rule of Gods own word herein not upon their own conceptions attending all circumstances of time person place and manner so prudently that good and no evil may be done thereby In personal injuries that concern our selves much of pardoning ingenuity is still expedient that we may still manifest this Duty to proceed from our obedience to Christ and zeal for his Name as from tenderness to our Neighbours comfort and credit Much sugar is needful to sweeten this Pil which of it self is very harsh and bitter unto flesh and blood It s an Ordinance of chief worth and use eminently appointed and blessed from the God of Heaven to the healing of all distempers infesting his people This spiritual bone-setting and Chirurgical dressing is no bunglers work but challenges all due skil and care from Christians hearts as from their eyes and hands 6. Chearfull Condonation in freely pardoning all injuries done us by others mistakes Christ expresly requires though it be to seventy times seven from day to day Rancor and Revenge he abominates though the sweetest morsel to a carnal heart When you stand praying saith Christ forgive if you have ought against any that your Father which is also in heaven may forgive you your trespasses and if you do not forgive neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive you your Trespasses Be ye kind one to another saith Paul tender-hearted forgiving one another even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you Put on therefore as the Elect of

A Pleasant WALK TO HEAVEN Through the New and Living Way which the Lord Jesus consecrated for us and his sacred Word reveals unto us Published by CLAUDIUS GILBERT B. D. Minister of the Gospel at Limrick Prov. 3. 17. The waies of Wisdom are waies of pleasantness and all her paths are Peace Psal. 119. 1. Blessed are the undefiled in the way who walk in the Law of the Lord Act. 9. 31. Then had the Churches rest throughout all Judea and Samaria and were edified and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the Comfort of the Holy Ghost were multiplied Hos. 14. 9. The waies of the Lord are right the just shall walk in them but the Transgressors shall fall therein Jer. 6. 16. Thus saith the Lord stand in the waies and see and ask for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein and you shall find rest for your souls But they said we will not walk therein Eph. 5. 15 16. See that ye walk circumspectly not as Fools but as Wise redeeming the Time because the daies are evil Gen. 5. 24. And Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him Phil. 3. 18 19 20. Many walk of whom I tell you weeping c. But our Conversation is in HEAVEN LONDON Printed for Francis Titon and are to be sold at the sign of the three Daggers in Fleet-street 1658. To my Highly honoured Vncle Colonel Henry Markham a Member of the Parliament AND To my worthily Honoured Aunt Mis Esther Markham his Endeared Consort Dearly Honoured and Beloved in the Lord IT is good for man to draw near to God whose fellowship is the cheifest good the Fountain of all Good The Psalmist found still the choice experience of that Divine Oracle and therefore commended it so highly to others The very beginnings of spiritual acquaintance with Christ are so savory to a sanctified heart that this precious Wine cannot but cause his lips to magnifie the sweetness thereof Grace is the lively Image of the living God resembling him still in activeness of communication and Holiness of Conversation They that have tasted how good the Lord is in his Word and waies cannot but be moved by the strong Impulse of such experiences to incourage still themselves and others to such a heavenly Communion with their God and faithfulness to him The best good is still most communicative diffusing its streams and displaying its Rayes to all round about The Followers of the Lamb have their reason and all other Powers of the Internal and external Man Spiritually ennobled and sublimed to discern all things by a Divine Light and make choice of Christ for their All in All incomparably before all things else Having once found him whom their souls do unfeignedly love their desire is still to keep close to him and walk worthy of him as far as his Grace is enabled through his Spirit that dwels in them to rule there for him They cannot but find strong Endearments obliging ther hearts to be soliciting still others with themselves to this Divine Exercise It hath pleased that Father of Spirits to make such an Impress thereof upon my Conscience that it engages me to judge my self deeply for former neglects and binds me forcibly to more diligent care for future occasions This small Piece now presented to you will speak my ressentments more expresly about this Subject It comes out in a very plain dress and without trimming the matter thereof being sufficient to commend its own worth to candid Christians and intended for the lowest forms of Christs school as well as for his Graduates It is my serious purpose with the Apostle not to know any thing ministerially and practically save Iesus Christ and him crucified in the efficacy of his Resurrection and in the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable to his death It s not therefore the inticing words of mans wisdom I would delight in and labour for but the demonstration of his Spirit and Power Herein I would studiously design through his Grace to imitate Paul as he followed Christ None but Cbrist none but Christ was the Motto of a famous Martyr I would make it my desire and joy my Resolve and endeavour through the supplies of his Al-sufficient Spirit Your Acquaintance with him is best known to him and to his friends that have had acquaintance with your selves If this poor Tract may be found any way serviceable to the improvement thereof my heart shall rejoyce and bless God for it Your zeal for him and his cannot be forgotten of him nor of them Your labor of Love cannot pass unrewarded from God whatever construction or retribution it meets with from man The Lord is with you whilst you be with him The various experiences of his Word and Rod Spirit and Providence formerly dispensed and lately renewed toward you will be still of singular use and help being duly remembred and improved Walk still before him in the perfect waies of his uprightsness as Abraham and his faithful Worthies were directed by him so shall you be sure of his covenant-mercy in the performance of your covenant-duty His grace will be still sufficient for you and his strength gradually perfected in your weakness Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might for the promoting of his Interest in your respective stations and motions against all spiritual enemies The good Will of him who dwelt in the Bush rest upon you both and all your Relations near and farther off for Direction Assistance and Blessing In him I delight to be known demonstratively as occasion serves Your cordially endeared and obliged Nephew to serve you upon the best accompt Claudius Gilbert From my Study in Limrick May 19. 1657. To all the Friends of Christ called to be Saints Christian Friends MAns Life is a short Walk towards Eternity A Race wherein Mortals continually move nearer to their endless unchangeable State whether of Weal or Wo. The great God who is Al-sufficiently blessed in himself was pleased to give Man a Being capable of Eternal Communion with Himself The Councils of his heart absolutely purposed before time he fulfils in time by the works of his hand that he might glorifie himself in all his Divine Excellencies He at first made man after his own Image having made all the world for his service His rational soul that Divine Extract that Work-manship of Heaven received as much perfection from God as such a finite Creature could manage in conformity to his infinite Creator His Blessedness consisted then in walking with God in that glorious state wherein all Creatures were at his command as so many steps leading him to that God whom they did so clearly represent to him Satan soon envied mans felicity having desperately cast away himself from the like condition He sets on the woman finding

her withdrawn from her husbands company that should have been her guide and stay and walking toward the forhidden Tree Her gazing thereon gives him advantage to insinuate with falacious Queries and to infect her with his serpentine Breath Adam quickly felt the direfull Touch of that sinfull contagion and turned form his God to follow the charms of that subtile enemy toward his own Ruin Thus man tasted the fruit of that deadly Tree which gave him the Knowledge both of good and evil by sinfull privation and wofull probation to the utter undoing of his whole Posterity Our whole nature was so totally and universally poisoned thereby that like the spawn of venomous creatures all men draw from him through the●e parents loins the cursed Principles of sin and sorrow Ignorance Error Atheism Unbelief with all the rest of that Serpents feed do brood in mans heart still to draw him further from God and Bliss towards Earth and Hell till Grace enterpose God suffers all this evil to bring a greater good out of it by his over-ruling of all men and devils to his glorious ends in a holy manner The eternal thoughts of his gracions Love toward his Elect in Christ doth he in due time effectually demonstrate promising Christ to them giving him for them and through his Spirit bestowing him on them in drawing them to him that they may walk with him and worthy of him His Gospel is the word of Reconciliation which offers and gives his Tearms of mercy to be treated upon between him and them By that voice from Heaven he calls them off from their sinfull march and stops them in the midst of their wofull career wherein they follow the Prince of darkness toward destruction Mans sinfull life is a wretched walk in Satans company through the inchanted allies of a conceited Paradise of seeming pleasures profits and preferments All men please themselves in such Illusions and delusions till the Spirit of Christ takes away that inchanted vail from their eyes to shew them convincingly both their folly and their misery That Gospel-voice of Christ which sounds in the ears of all sorts promiscuously is carried into the very hearts of his peculiar People by distinguishing Grace to turn them efficaciously from darkness to Light and from the power of Satan to God Through his glorious vertue he cals them to Glory and Vertue whom he did foreknow and predestinate them he thus called justified and glorified This effectual Vocation makes the great difference between men and men the most remaining still strangers thereunto Many never hear the least hint thereof many do openly reject it and many are found to profess owning thereof that never come up to the full terms of it This miscarying mistake being so facile and frequent so pleasing and pernicious it concerns all to review with care all their evidences to saving purpose Whilst so many walk so unworthily we have all most need to take cognizance of our case and course Most men walk in Lies and few are found walking in the Truth Self is the grand Idol of this back sliding degenerating Age The best are too subject to walk after the Lusts of their own eyes and to chuse their own waies when left to themselves The purest state of Primitive Christians need frequent and mutual quicknings much more do our daies Our Christian Vocation is so eminent that our unworthy walking of the same cannot but cast on all a proportionable meameasure of Reflection 'T is our choice honour and happiness to honour God and enjoy him in Christ walking before him as heroical Saints have done in all Ages places and Relations Our holy Vocation doth much resemble that lovely Eden that Garden of Pleasure planted by the Lords hand for mans delight and exercise in his friendly state of Communion with God Christ himself is our Tree of Life standing in the midst of the Paradise of God whose leaves and fruits abound with soveraign vertue for the healing and strength of the Nations Variety of spiritual Ordinances and temporal Comforts he affords herein most liberally for Pleasure and help Sin is the only Tree forbidden unto us which may not be fed on without danger of death natural and civil spiritual and eternal His own society God himself is pleased to assure and vouchsafe there also by the sweet breathings of his gracious Spirit in every Institution of his appointing His Presence and Blessing still do come along with that fresh Gale in the cool of the day to solemnize the match between Heaven and Earth in the Spring of his Grace and ripen all things towards the fulness of his glorious Harvest Idleness therein he cannot endure but allots to every one his Task that all may work for him and like him in converse with him The Father works hitherto said the Son and I work so doth the Spirit work in all his People to direct excite and enable them to this Heavenly Work How curiously gallant is such a Walk as this with such a company and in such an Eden wherein all things conspire to render Christs friends most holy and happy Should not this prevail with Rational Souls to prefer Christs waies before all the Worlds bewitching Braveries Should not carnal Hearts be eflectually drawn to admire and embrace the Beauties of Holiness upon Christs own Terms of conjugal Consent Should not Spiritual Hearts be quickned thereby to walk worthy of such a Vocation wherewith they are called Should it not oblige them to utmost Diligence in the best Improvement of all effectual means to the mutual quickning of each other in order thereto The lively Resentments thereof obliged my thoughts and engaged my Resolutions of pressing my self with my christian Auditory more vigorously to this choice Duty and noble Exercise The substance of those five Sermons which were publiquely delivered on this theme is here contracted in a plain Essay which some friends have conceived might be of further use by such a publication as this The blessing of heaven go along with it that this small Tract may prove an open door into the Lords Garden wherein his Spirit may lead you by the hand to your chief good to your God in Christ from grace to grace from strength to strength I shall leave you with him in such a blessed walk that you may not be longer interrupted from passing through the varieties thereof but may feed all your spiritual senses most deliciously in his Paradise walking before him and worthy of him in your fellowship with him If you reap benefit from this poor contribution bless God for it and rememember him at the Throne of Grace who cordially desires to be serviceable to God and his People though he finds still cause to acknowledge