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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93343	Symptomes of growth & decay to godlinesse in LX. signs of a living and dying Christian. With the causes of decay, and remedies for recovery. / By Francis Smith.	Smith, Francis, fl. 1657-1689.	1660 (1660)	Wing S4030; Thomason E2114_2; ESTC R212664	107,653	255

call And as these hath more or less force upon the heart they may be more or less read in the life the worst of men whose consciences are not seared will be found under some awakenings by but reflecting here now and then so forceable are they where in the lowest sense but believed Now that persons not being conversant about these mighty matters prepares way to spiritual senselesness is very evident and therefore when God complains of his peoples unequal walking he either assigns it to their negligence here as the cause they so walk or seeks to possess them with remembrance here as a most quickning remedy Deut. 8. 5. Thou shalt also consider in thine heart that as a man chastneth his Son so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee and the reason of this is given by God himself as an argument most strong vers 26. I fed thee with Manna in the Wilderness which thy Fathers knew not that I might humble thee and prove thee to do thee good at thy latter end mark that at thy latter end Chap. 32. 15. But Jesurun waxed fat and kicked then he forsook God which made him and lightly esteemed the Rock of his Salvation you see here Israel set not a value on making God his safety but waxed wanton and forgot who had formed him now the most reduceable means we find urged is vers 29. thus O that they were wise that they understand this and would consider their latter end God bemoaneth them with desire they would look before them intimating that would they but look upon hereafter they would live after another rate here pertinent to this is that Prov. 5. 11 12 13. And thou mourn at last when thy flesh and thy body are consumed and thou say how have I hated instruction and my heart despised reproof and obeyed not the voyce of my teachers nor incline my ear to them that instructed me because there is wrath beware lest he take thee away with the stroak and then a great ransome cannot deliver thee Job 36 18. Doth not all these Scriptures show the miserable state of such as are not conversant about things to come and how impossible it is to be reformed while they remain strangers to these great considerations now on the contrary what more contributes to a spiritual growth than hourly Communion about these mighty matters no considerations being of a more mortifying force than Grave considerations 2 Cor. 5. 10. For we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether good or bad knowing therefore the Terror of the Lord we perswade men This holy Apostle no sooner treats of Judgment as his Doctrine but to awaken and perswade from its terror is his Application also Jesus Christ to deter men from evil and to compose them to good gives such awakning Items as these If thy right hand offend part with it rather than be cast into Hell fire where the worm never dies and the fire is never quenched Three times together doth he in that 9. Chapter of Mark labour to rivet upon the hearers what misery is to come and by the worm and fires being notes certainty and by the worms gnawing and fires burning notes its misery and by the worms not dying and the fires not being quenced notes its eternity Who would not at this cry out with David Oh God my flesh trembleth because of thee for I am affraid of thy Judgments Christ Jesus three fold repetition seems plainly to show us what great aptness there is in every body to lose the Spiritual force of such mighty matters they being the proper object only of a lively faith that looks at things to come with such estimation as procures an inward trembling before God to take one step aside from God But alas alas how many be there that stop the mouth of conscience all they can from speaking of this State to come and will not endure to hear of the Grave or Judgment Salvation or Damnation though such as will not endure the bitter of these things here cannot enjoy the best of them hereafter It is living now in a holy awe of them here that will make us live above the fear of them hereafter content not your selves then for a thousand Worlds at any distance from daily communion with the things to come talk with them face to face as a man talks with his friend and go aside often from all other business into your closet or garden field or wilderness nay into any solitary place on purpose to talk with the Grave how shortly you must put off your cloaths or outward garments and never more put them on saying with Job My foundation is in the dust if I wait the graves my house I have made my bed in the darkness and said to corruption thou art my Father and to the worm thou art my Mother and my Sister Job 17. 13. 14. CHAP. XXX Shewing the miserable estate of such as after longer acquaintance with Christ are less in love to him with six Causes of this Decay SIGN XXX WHen increase of time in Christs acquaintance worketh decrease of Affection to Christs Company Is this the case of any or rather is it not the case of many that began well and promised fair for holding on well as though all the world with its allurements should not hinder them from ending well that in their early or first love were so pleasantly affected with Christs acquaintance that their meat and their drink was to be with him at his feet hearing his word and if he walked in the Garden they must be there if in the Mount of Olives they must be there if in a solitary place they must be with him in no condition disliked with his company content with him in fulness and in scarcity content with him in favours and in frowns still happy while leaning on Jesus breast some leaving father mother to come to him others leaving hous and land to come to him their trade of Tent-making fishing nay having found such a pearl sell all to buy this field and what shall we have or how be filled with enjoyment of thee We have forsaken all to follow thee Mat. 19. 27. But what things were gain to me those I counted loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do count them but dung that I may win Christ and be found in him c. Phil. 3. 7 8 9. Now I go away to him that sent me and because I tell ye these things sorrow hath filled your hearts They were so dearly affected with Christs company they could not bear to hear of his personal with-drawing though he tels them it is best for them they should be for a little time without him yet at this sorrow fills their heart John 16. By this giving any to understand