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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46733	A cluster of sweetest grapes for saints, brought from the heavenly Canaan. Or, The saints assurance gotten, and to be had in this life, by the several means specified in this tract upon I Pet. 1.9. And fifteen soul-solacing conferences with Christ, touching sins and the world's conquest; according to the high and noble art of fighting the great fight of Faith, I Tim.6.12. Fitted for all such gracious souls as do most heartily desire to see the death of their strong and mighty corruptions, & a thorow [sic] victory gotten over this vile and troublesome world. By Christopher Jelinger M. A.	Jelinger, Christopher.	1664 (1664)	Wing J541; ESTC R217025	71,784	235

voice heard in the night Sin within will destroy all So when we have built Castles in the air and by our fair and specious performances have gotten some Assurance confidence towards God but afterward give way to one sin or other we shall hear one time or other a voice from within Sin within will destroy all our own consciences * Rom. 2.15 accusing us yea condemning us for the same and ‖ So the Prophet Jonah lost his confidence by his disobedience Dr. King on Jonah 1.6 taking away our Assurance from us for sin allowed by us Let us fall therefore upon sin and destroy it that sins punishment may not fall upon us and destroy us and our confidence with us Oh that this people were wise Oh that they would so strive against sin and against every sin Oh that they would unreservedly cleanse their hands Oh that they would thorowly purifie their hearts Jam. 4.8 and cleanse them from lust even every lust Oh that I could help them Oh that I could even pull them away from their beloved sins for then they should not live or lodge in and with any of them one day or one night longer well you must do this work with God's help therefore go every one of you and kill every one of them spare none no not the least Oh save none alive to be assured that God will save you alive else you cannot be so perswaded as long as any one sin is by you allowed thus labour to purifie your selves and to destroy sin and when you have so done labour to keep your selves so and if the Tempter re-assault you do you also re-encounter him and that with the Word for that is a Christians sword tell him as the Spouse told Christ in another sence I have washed my feet how shall I defile then● Cant. 5.3 Oh● I cannot Oh! I will not by God's help When Satan came to Christ he found nothing in him but when he comes to you he finds much in you even much corruption but do you resist him in the faith I say * 1 Pet. 5.9 as Peter that that which he findes in you may not be found to be yours but his because you do not own it but resist it to be assured as then you * Damasc Error de Perser may be that you shall be saved Nay crie to God to keep you for it is not as Damascene and others teach in the power of man to hold out no no we are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation 1 Pet. 1.5 and therefore you must beg this power of God 〈◊〉 and that very much and often yea continually for then Satan will not be able to harm you It is storied of a malicious woman that she gave her self to the Devil provided he would do a mischief to such a Neighbour whom she deadly hated the Devil went once and again to do his work but at last returns and tels her that he could not hurt him because he found him alwaies praying or reading do you likewise pray so alwaies and you will also speed as he did especially then when Satan tempts you to make you fall then do you fall to your prayers and say Lord this is the power and hour of darknesse now therefore keep me in this hour of temptation that I may keep up the Assurance of my Salvation 4. Make your calling and election sure 4 Medium for then you also make Heaven sure 2 Pet. 1 5 6. giving all diligence add to your faith vertue c. And then v. 11. so an entrance shall be administred unto you abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I pay you observe your work you must become good Arithmeticians according to the perfect Rule of Addition to be certain of your everlasting salvation And therefore go and add vertue to vertue and still say But do I not mis-reckon Am I in the right Do I not miss temperance though I have knowledge And do I not want patience though I have temperance Is not godlinesswanting-though patience be not Is not brotherly kindness forgotten by me though godliness be not Have I not left out Charitie though I do not miss Brotherly kindness Are all the Graces of Gods Spirit here and if any be wanting go and reckon again and make a farther Addition more especially if Patience be wanting in thy reckoning Go and write I should say add patience the like may be said of all the rest and so labour to be compleat in Grace having in you every Grace and striving still to have more Grace even more of every Grace for though if we believe in Christ we are sanctified in every part yet are we sanctified but in part even as we * 1 Cor. 13 1● know but in part so that we shall need still to add somewhat to every part if in the Saints Assurance we would have our part Nay had need to give all diligence as the Apostle tels us v. 5. by our continual additions to make our calling and election and salvation sure and to live an extraordinarie holy strict and Seraphical life to attain to it I knew a most eminent holy walker once his name was Ignatius Jourdan a Justice of the Peace who was after his conversion alwaies assur'd of his salvation as he told me but the course that he took was this he would every morning rise at 3 of the Clock as I was told and spend his time in prayer reading and meditation till 7 and then do justice to all that came to him Again he would punish any for swearing and other offences if he were never so great and I never heard a vain or evil word come out of his mouth but he would be alwaies talking of Heaven do you live such an holy and heavenly life too and give all diligence thereunto and you will be sure also as he was of Heaven 5. Ger the pardon of your sins sealed 5 Medium for what is remission of sin but justification from sin Now whom he justifieth he also glorifleth Rom. 8.30 Again what is it but a covering of sin and what saith David of that Blessed is he whose sin is covered in Ps 32.1 so that if I can but know that my sins are forgiven me I may know also that Heaven will be given me Wherefore be earnest even importunately earnest with God to have thy sins forgiven thee by God Dan. 9.19 you may see how earnest and eager he was in this thing saying O Lord O Lord forgive O Lord hearken and do Never was a condemned Malefactor so earnest for a pardon with his King Never was a poor Mendicant so importunate for a piece of bread or for an Alms with his rich Neighbor as he for a pardon with his God and King and so must you be and therefore even press into the presence of God for thy pardon to be sealed by God

it be able to indure those * everlasting burnings When he thinks upon his soul he saith O my poor * Isa 33.14 trembling soul whether wilt thou go when thou goest hence to Heaven or Hell I know not God knows or thus * As that great Emperor Animula Vagula Blandula anxiviously I have lived doubtfully shall I die not knowing whether I shall go as Aristotle said that great Philosopher or as David that great King of Israel 2 Sam. 18.15 said of Absalom his Son once so saith he of his soul with a little change O my soul would to God I did know what would become of thee after me but I know it not and therefore O sad man that I am and O sad soul that thou art Oh! my soul my soul Oh! how should this prick ye on therefore like a Spur to the getting of that here required Assurance of the salvation of your souls 2. Some Incentives I shall deduce from the good that will come 2 Sort of Incentives if you will come to labour for this Assurance as 1. Look as they that are sure of their vocation and election so they that are sure of their salvation by a necessary consequence shall not be barren in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in 2 Pet. 1.8 knowledge a man may have though no assurance of his salvation he have As good a Logician he may be as ever was Austin * Augustinus à petitiono vocabatur dialecticus who for it was called the Dialectick speak he may diverse tongues as Hebrew Greek Latine c. nay as many as Genusbrey Sultan Solyman's Interpreter 15 Languages or as Mithridates 22 as the French Academy hath it An Oxford of learning a walking Library an ocean of wit he may be abilities he may have to wade into the Abyss of the Oracles of God and to interpret mysteries a dexterity he may have with the piercing key of his most excellent knowledge to unlock the golden cabinet of Gospel secrets parts he may have with the far seeing eie of his large understanding to penetrate the occult qualities of nature able he may be to discover what is in the bowels of the earth in the bottom of the seas in the heights of mountains nay he may with the wings of his profound learning even sore up to that flaming hill above where the stars are yea beyond the Castiopeia it self and be able to discourse of the altitude magnitude natures influences of those glorious lights which are in that spangled skie even to admiration but as barren he will be for want of godliness and goodness if he want the the Assurance of his election of salvation as the mountain of Gilboa 2 Sam. 1.21 Contrarily if he be sure of that then oh how fruitful will he be then in all manner of holiness and godly conversation and how oh how will that even fill his sails with life with motion with action and make him navigate even with expansed sails through seas of duties For what oh what will not a man do for God when once he is certain of the favour of God Oh! how he will pray fast read meditate love when once he is perswaded of his love and therefore who is there among all this people that fain would grow in grace and not be barren in knowledge let him labour for the assurance of his salvation and he shall have his hearts desire O my God fulfil thou the desire of that soul I humbly desire and beseech thee with my very soul 2. You shall never fall 1 Pet. 1.10 nor look back like Lot's wife which for it was turned into a Pillar of Salt yet to be seen saith Tertullian to season such as fall Now you do nothing almost but fall as being in darkness Isa 50.10 now into the sin of pride then of passion then of luxurie now ye are too jovial then too fantastical in your gates cloaths now too light then too melancholick now ye talk too much then too little now ye sell too dear then ye use false weight or mix your wares bad with good some of you now ye are too strange then too familiar too wanton some of ye now as high as Lucifer for pride then as low as Demas for worldliness for even in our time are * Tertul. in Sodom Carm. p. 646. * Aug. in Ps 77. p. 830. many Demases The world is now as it was formerly there was none then but there hath been or is some one now that parallels him and is as it were his revived self But let a man get the Assurance of his salvation let him sun himself in the light of God's countenance let him be crowned with the certain hope of glorie let him be refresh'd once with the over-flowing streams of divine consolations Let God's Spirit once speak peace to his spirit and he will say O I would not be as I have been nor do as I have done no not for a thousand worlds I was proud passionate envious lascivious covetous as others are but I would not be so again if one would give me all the wealth of England Oh! how much sweeter is the assurance of my salvation than all the pleasures of sin for a season or thus as Joseph said to his Mistress being enticed by her Gen. 39.9 My Master hath kept nothing from me but thee because thou art his Wife How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God so saith he when he is enticed by sin My Lord Jesus Christ hath kept nothing from me but his glory which he saith he will give to none other Isa 42.8 He hath put such joy in my heart such light into my mind such assurance into my soul as that I am even ravished with him in my soul and therefore how can I commit this wickedness and sin against my God Oh! I will not do it for the whole world 3. You will thereby enter Heaven this also follows by a consequence from the ensuring of our calling and election for he that is sure of the one must needs be sure of the other also as I shewed * From Rom. 8.29 30. formerly Now what saith Peter Give diligence to make your calling and election sure 2 ch 1.10 and then v. 11. For so an entrance shall be ministred unto abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ which words may be understood not only of an entrance to be ministred hereafter but also ministred now when we are made sure of Heaven as Rom. 8.16 when we are saved by hope when namely Jesus Christ is pleas'd to shine upon us with the light of his countenance beaming into our hearts Quae est luae quae irradiat cor meum Aug. in Med. when our hearts do leap for joy when joy triumphs over sorrow when sorrow is turned into singing when rivers of comfort are shed and showred down from the Throne