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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64472	The new birth, or, Birth from above presented in foure sermons in Margarets Westminister, December 25 and January 15, 1653 and June 11, 1654 / by Edward Tharpe.	Tharpe, Edward.	1655 (1655)	Wing T838A; ESTC R26290	66,373	88

the Jews at Peters first Sermon and Lydia and the Gaoler at Pauls Acts 16. Some cost their spiritual Parents a great deal more pain and labour as the Galathians Paul My little children cryes he of whom I travel in childbed again untill Christ be framed in you Gal. 4. 19. and the Prophet Jeremiah considering and grieving at the obstinacy and rebellion of Gods people cries out Ah my belly my belly how am I pained which complaint signified nothing else but the extream sorrow and heart-breaking which the Prophet suffered to reduce and bring the disobedient Jews into the Fold of Christ to regenerate and convert them 5. In our first birth there commonly goes an espousage and contract before the marriage to make the issue and act legitimate and lawfull So Christ to make himself a lawfull seed marries himself first unto the Church Conglutinabo or desponsabo te mihi fide I will marry thee unto me in faith faith is as it were the marriage-ring and that is the reason I think after the covenant and contract that the Ring was given in marriage Now being thus married unto Christ we are no more two but one flesh Gen. 2. 24. and never did any man hate his own flesh Ephes 5. 29. 6. In our first birth we grow and are framed in our mothers wombe by degrees first the heart for that is primum vivens then the brain then other arteries and members untill we come to be a perfect and entire birth Thus it is in our second birth as Nature in forming so grace in reforming begins at the heart that is first reformed and renewed and then all the parts of the body and faculties of the soul will be amended and reformed David therefore though polluted and defiled throughout yet he praies for the sanctifying and purging of no part but his heart Create in me c. Purge my heart and I am clean all over As therefore Jehu said in his travel to Jonadab when he met him in the way est ubi cor rectum is thy heart right as mine is The same in effect God speaks in truth est vobis cor novum Is your heart good is it renewed Then come up into my Chariot come ye blessed children of my Father c. For the new heavens nor the new name the name of Filiation and Sonship are for none but new creatures 7. Lastly in our first birth we are born babes and ●ot men It were a monstrous thing to see a new borne child at his full grouth the first day or week Thus it is in our second birth we are born babes and not men Babes and need the sincere milk of the word and then come to be stronger men by degeees and to have need of stronger meat N●mo nascitur artifex No man is his Craftsmaster the first day This I note against the sudden grouth of many who boast of their soon acquired grace and goodness and think they are at the height of religion before they know the foundation or have learned the Principles There were steps and staires to Solomons Throne and so there are to Gods to heaven No man can step thither at one stride we come to heaven per gradum non per saltum by degrees not by leaps How comes it to passe then that many think they are at the highest pitch of grace when they have scarce made one motion or step towards it Certainly many that are such Saints on a sudden that think they are so high above others are carried up or rather hurried by their own fancy and imagination For neither holinesse nor heaven are got but by gradual and orderly walking Gods Statutes being a way continually leading to some glorious end There is an orderly going up the starrs in Jacobs Ladder a leisurely going forward by degrees a daily profitting and proceeding in grace and goodnesse as the young babe growes daily and hourly towards his full pitch and grouth see 2 Pet 2. 6 7 8. Adde to your faith vertue to your vertue knowledge to your knowledge temperance to your temperance patience to your patience godlinesse to your godlinesse brotherly kindnesse to your brotherly kindnesse love Sudden growthes are ever suspicious Remember Jonas's gourd what came up in a night withered in a day Come but a little persecution for righteousnesse lake and this forward seed is scorched this hasty corn is blasted they have no root as our Saviour spe●ks Mat. 13. or as Saint Paul They are not rooted in knowledge nor well principled and therefore can never come to perfection As Isaac therefore demanded of Jacob in another sense How is it you found it so quickly my son Gen. 28. 20. So may I say of these forward ones which like young lapwings run into the world with the shell on their heads how is it you found grace so quickly that you are so good and heavenly so suddenly that you know more in a day than your Teachers in all theirs Heaven is a penny and it must be wrought for he must endure the heat of the day that will have the wages at evening It is a Pearl that must be digged for he must sweat and take pains that will find it it is a Garland that must be run for a Crown that must be fought for it must be got sudore not sapore by sweat not by sloath superantibus dabitur To them and none but to them that overcome shall this Crowne of life be given Be thou constant or faithfull unto death and c. None but conquerors over sin and Satan shall ever wear this Crown And this fight is not easie or short we must resist unto bloud There is the Law of sin in the members rebelling c. Christianity as I told you is called the difficult work of faith and a working out our salvation with fear and trembling It is no easie thing to believe but so hard that when the Son of man comes he shall hardly find faith upon earth From this that hath been spoken an usefull Doctrine presents it self Namely That there must be a grouth in grace a proceeding and going forward in holynesse and righteousnesse For children and babes grow in stature as they doe in years so must Christians It were a wonder nay a miracle almost for any to see a young child born to day at the same growth and pitch seven years hence And very lamentable I am sure it is to see many aged men and men well stricken in years going out of the world before they knew why they came in to die before they knew how to live to see elementarium sem●n an old man in his A. B. C. young old men Gray before they are good as we say a man well gone in years not at all improved in grace The Prophet Esaiah speaks in his time of children of an 100. years old 65. 20. We may apply his Prophecy to our times And Seneca that divine Heathen tels us That it is a shame