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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26694	Remaines of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection of sundry directions, sermons, sacrament-speeches, and letters, not heretofore published ...; Selections. 1674	Alleine, Joseph, 1634-1668.; R. A. (Richard Alleine), 1611-1681.	1674 (1674)	Wing A976; ESTC R22421	168,509	338

difficult And hast thou a careless spirit the more need there is that thou shouldst set upon this work that thou mightest bring it into a better government Secondly Wouldst thou neglect this duty because it is painful upon the same account thou mayst cast of other duties Thou can't not pray nor hear as thou shouldest without pain Give way to this objection and for ought I know in a little time thou mayst bid farwel to all thy Religion thou mayst cast off every duty Thou canst not imagine what a plague it may be to thee if thou shouldest give way to this objection Give Satan an inch and he will take an ell forbear one duty because of difficulty and he will easily perswade men to forbear others Thirdly Consider who it is that buzzes this in thine ear Certainly it is the devil the grand enemy of thy soul. God says Commune with thy own heart Satan says no it is too painful VVhy who wilt thou be ruled by God or Satan thy best friend or thy worst enemy Christian in these outward concernments thou wilt not advise with thy mortal enemy in things that concern thy life And why wilt thou be such a fool in the matters of thy soul Fourthly What dost thou cry out of pain It is thy very calling and profession to t●…ke pain What mean those expressions in Scripture else whereby the life of a Christian is set forth by striving wrestling fighting pressing toward the mark To take pain is essential to Christianity and without this thou canst not be a Christian. To leave any duty because it is painful is a contradiction to thy profession thou dost herein deny thy self to be a Christian ●…ifthly The more difficult the work is the more profitable thou wilt find it That duty that cost's us nothing will yeild us nothing and that duty that cost's us much pain will yeild us much peace and comfort Sixthly Consider is not grace worth the taking pains for What wilt thou take pain for if not for grace Look about in the world see how the men of the world run and ride sweat and tire themselves for toyes and trisles What pains then shouldst thou take for grace one dram of which is more worth than a world By this means thou mayst grow in grace more in one moneth than in some years before And let me tell thee I have not Charity enough to think thee a Christian indeed if thou dost not think grace worth any labor or pain that thou canst possible be at in the getting of it Seventhly Consider Christian what pain Christ did take and what misery he did undergo for thee Thy soul was dearer to him than his own glory and thy salvation than his own life and blood And shall not his glory his commands be dearer to thee Christian than a little carnal ease Think upon it if thou hast any spark of ingenuity this consideration will prevail upon thee to set about this work I come now to propound some motives to stir up those that have not begun this work to set about it And those that have begun to go on in this work First Consider it is the command of God It is not the voyce of man but of God It is God that speaks to thee Commune with thy own hearts Examine thy self Christian I urge the command of God upon thy Conscience wilt thou obey or w●…lt thou not darest thou to set thy self against God! and set thy will above the will of God! O think upon it Secondly Consider the time when and the manner how you consented to set to the performance of this duty It was in a time of love at a feast of love and after a Song of love Consider what a rich mercy God hath bestowed upon you in giving you liberty to draw nigh to him in such an ordinance as you lately sate under It was but a little while ago beloved that you thought that you should drink no more of the fruit of the vine till you drank it in your fathers kingdome And behold contrary to your expectations the King hath sent to you saying come and sup with me come and sit at my table Hath God dealt so with any people He hath feasted you in a time of famine and spread a table for you in a howling wild●…rness Doth not this extraordinary providence think you call upon you for some extraordinary duty And do not you think in your consciences that it is this duty Why else hath God propounded it to you and urged it upon you in such a time as this is If you neglect it it may cause God to take away the Cor●… and wine from you and to break the stasf of 〈◊〉 Thirdly What do you know but God put it into the heart of his servant to press this duty at that time to try whether you were real in that love and loyalty which you did then prosess to him I suppose you all understand the transactions that passed there between God and you that God did put his seal to the Covenant that he would make good all the mercy promised and that you did put your seal thereby binding your selves to the performance of all the duties required Fourthly Consider when another such opportunity is offered to you how will you be able to look God in the face Methinks that man should not dare to come to the Sacrament and again put his seal to the Covenant that hath knowingly and willingly broken his last engagement Fifthly Doth not your own looseness and the enemies profaneness and the present dispensations that you are under call upon you for more than ordinary strictness in your lives and conversations The Lord have mercy upon us what prejudice have we brought to the Gospel by our carnal careless conversations VVhat pitch of profaneness are the enemies of God risen to They are not afraid to bid him defiance at his face In what a doleful case are many of our brethren abroad in the world and how sad is it like to be with us The glory of God is gone from the publick to your houses and are you not afraid I am sure there is reason enough to think that it will take its flight from thence too And doth not all this call upon us aloud in the language of the prophet Lam. 3. 40. Let us search and try our ways and turn unto the Lord. If we look behind us and see what we have been If about us and see how devilish men are And above us to see the black clouds that hang over our heads we cannot but see that it is time to take another course to live more like Christians And what course so likely to effect this as daily self-examination serious consideration is the best way to sound and thorough reformation Sixthly Consider the excellent advantages that will come to thee by taking this course Christian wouldst thou have peace of conscience The sence of Gods love shed abroad upon thy

you and walk in you this is the honor that God doth put upon you The Apostle tels you that you are Gods hou●…e Heb. 3. And God sayes of you his spiritual house as he did of the Typical house for the sence belongs more to the thing typified then to the house 1 Kings 9. 3. God says of every believer as of that house I have hallowed this house to put my name there for ever And mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually Thus doth God for th●…e believer that art his house Or as it is in 2 Kings 21. 7. In this house and in Jerusalem which I have chosen out of all the Tribes of Israel will I put my name for ever That was but a typical Temple you are the real Temples of the holy Ghost 1 Cor. 6. 19. What know you not that your body is the Temple of the holy Ghost which is in you which ye have of God and ye are not your own every believer is a real Temple wherein God is especially present so 1 Cor. 3. 16. Know you not that you are the Temple of God and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you Brethren if you indeed believe methinks this priviledge should be matter of unspeakable Joy to you What! art thou of no meaner use then this to be a habitation of God through the spirit What! art thou a Temple for God to dwell in will God make of this Soul a Temple where all manner of lusts have dwelt and say of thy soul here will I dwell for ever this is my rest for I have desired it Oh adore the riches of Gods condescending grace others are the vessels of uncleanness the coffins of rottenness in whom Satan hath set up his throne 't is true of every wicked man what God sayes of Coniah Jer. 22. 28. He is a vessel wherein is no pleasure He is a vessel of the most noisome filthyness in the world Fifthly You are the trumpets of his praise when others are the instruments of unrighteousness O what base use are the others put too in their bonds of wickedness to the worst of drudgery They are the vessels of sin and slaves of Satan Rom. 6. 16. a miserable service this is a miserable Master indeed none have such miserable lives as those who have the work of sin to do●… Why would it not pity ones heart to see a company of poor Creatures laboring and toyling for their own ruine to see them tugging and sweating hard at it were to carry together faggots for their own burning This is that the wicked are doing they are but treasuring up the wrath of God against themselves at the last day they are but carrying together faggots and fewel for their own burning They labor and sweat all their days to pile up faggots and fewel pile upon pile to fill Tophet for their own burning But you are not of this use you are to be the Trumpets of Gods praise Oh blessed employment your work is the work of Angels whiles others are doing the work of Devils Isaiah 61. 3. That they might be called trees of renown the planting of the Lord that he might be glorified And so in another place this people have I formed for myself that they may be for my praise Isa. 43. 7. I have created him for my glory I have formed him yea I have made him When others shall be venting their malice and blasphemy against God you shall be the silver Trumpets that shall be ever sounding forth the praises of the Lord. Sixthly You are the men of his Counsel when others are strangers and aliens You are no more foreigners and strangers but fellow Citizens and of the houshold of God You are the attendants of his person you are of his privy Counsel You are the friends of God This was Abrahams priviledge Jam. 2. That he was called the friend of God Brethren all the long and magnificent titles of all the Monarchs of the Earth do not signifie half so much as this that I am speaking to you Now this is your prerogative Henceforth I call you not servants but friends and why so because you are the men of his Counsel The servant knoweth not what his Lord doth but whatsoever I have heard of the Father that have I declared unto you Herein Christ hath put a marvellous distinction between you and the men of the world I may say of you as Christ of them blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him So Psa. 147. He sheweth his word unto Jacob his statutes unto Israel He hath not dealt so with any Nation Seventhly You are the Jewels of his Crown when others are but the drosse and lumber And they shall be mine saith the Lord of hosts in the day when I make up my Jewels Mal. 3. 17. Beloved you that are beleivers you are the very glory of Christ. Every believer is as a pearl put into the Crown of Jesus Christ. The Apostle speaks of beleevers of his converts that they were a great Crown to him He calls them his Joy and Crown of rejoycing Phil. 4. 1. But this is but little that you should be your Ministers Crown I tell you you are Christ's Crown and glory Isa. 62. 3. Thou shalt also be a Crown of glory in the hand of the Lord and a Royal diadem in the hand of thy God Eightly You are the inheritors of the Kingdome when others are the sons of perdition Luk. 12. 32. Fear not little flock 't is your Fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdom So come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you Who can utter the sweetness of that promise 't is our Saviors parting promise to his disciples at his last supper Luke 22. 28. 29 30. You are they which have continued with me in my Temptations and I appoint unto you a Kingdome as my Father hath appointed unto me that you may eat and drink at my Table in my Kingdom and sit upon thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel Oh how sweet are these words Lay the mouth of Faith at these promises and suck the sweetness of them Look upon it as a reality that God prepared for you a Kingdome 't is so why should God go to deceive you and you may lay your claim to it boldly God delights to see your humble boldness The spirit beareth witness with our spirits that we are the sons of God and if Sons then heirs joynt heirs with Christ Heirs of his Kingdom Fourthly If you look upon your selves as prisoners and so God hath done more for you then he hath for others Ah Christians this is the meaning of this day that you might celebrate the kindness of God to you in prison O remember and forget not how signally God hath owned you Brethren 't is your priviledge and mercy that God hath given you hearts to own him in times