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knowledge_n	jesus_n	patience_n	temperance_n	1,484	5	11.2902	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49242	The dejected soules cure tending to support poor drooping sinners. With rules, comforts, and cautions in severall cases. In divers sermons, by Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of Laurence Jury. To which is added, I. The ministry of the angels to the heirs of salvation. II. Gods omnipresence. III. The sinners legacy to their posterity.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.	1657 (1657)	Wing L3151; ESTC R215529	168,974	219

glutted with the creature to have your hearts filled with the world if you be thus you wil never enjoy a comfortable certainty of Gods love A man that is a worldly-minded man he can never be strong in assurance if you keep your eye at a due distance from the earth you can see far but if you put your eye to the ground you can see but little Beloved keep your hearts at a due distance from the world you may see far into the sense of Gods favour but let your eye I mean the soul be too neer the world you see nothing you will not perceive the sense of Gods love if you have worldly mindednesse predominant in you Put a candle above the ground and it will burn clear and bright but put the same candle under the ground and it burns but dim the damp of the ground hinders the light thereof Beloved keep you hearts above the ground and here your candle may burn bright but if you are buried in the world I mean your hearts your candle will burn dim you will not have so clear a light and sense of Gods love Philosophers say the reason the Sun is eclipsed is by the interposition or putting between of the Moon I may aptly apply it the Scripture makes the Moon to be an Emblem of the world Rev. 12. 1. And there appeared a great wonder in Heaven a woman clothed with the Sun and the Moon under her feet and upon her head a crown of twelve Stars This Moon it doth eclipse the Sun Beloved if the world be at full between you and spiritual things that they are neerer to your hearts then Christ is then grace is then heaven is this Moon of the world will eclipse the shining beams of the Sun of Righteousnesse These are the eight particulars that must be removed in case you do expect to regain a comfortable certainty and assurance of the love of God The next thing is something to be done 2. There are eight or nine Rules What must be done by a Christian in case he would not be cast down under a continued suspension of Gods love 1. The first is this If so be you would regain a comfortable assurance of Gods love take this rule Keep a holy and a consciencious care to act grace throughout the course of your lives let it be the chiefest of your care to act grace and my soul for yours it will not be long before that you have comfort 2 Pet. 1. 5 c. And besides this giving all diligence add to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness to brotherly kindness and charity for if these things be in you and abound they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ but he that lacketh these things is behind and cannot see afar off and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins wherefore the rather Brethren give all diligence to make your calling and election sure for if you do these things you shall never fall All the verses tell you how to get assurance of election add grace to grace and that is the way to come to your assurance of caling and election let it be your care to act grace and it shall be Gods work to give you comfort God will multiply thy peace if thou dost increase thy grace you have Gods promise for it Isa 32. 17. And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousnesse quietnesse and assurance for ever Here is the way to gain comfort do thou the work of righteousnesse and comfort shall follow after Psal 119. 165. Great peace have they that love thy Law and nothing shall offend them or they shall have no stumbling block A notable clause which is worthy your notice Job 13. 18. Behold now I have ordered my cause I know that I shall be justified I have ordered my cause that is I have taken care to my life I have made conscience of my wayes I have laboured to act grace in all my whole cause what follows Now I know I shall be justified I have now an evidence and a sense of justification O beloved the actings of grace are the in-lets to inward peace many men say that we know we shall be justified but never make conscience of their wayes never order their cause some are as confident as confidence it self yet as ignorant as ignorance it self as prosane as profannesle it self as proud as pride it self O beloved if you will have a due sense of the knowledge of Justification order your cause well order your lives well To him that orders his Conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God Psal 50. 23. Beloved if God doth but incline your hearts to order your cause aright and your course aright then you may and you shall be justified It is a great fault of Christians that when they want assurance they spend more time in complaining they want comfort then they spend time in acting of grace 2. Keep conscience pure and clear and that is the way to keep conscience pacified guilt on the conscience conceal'd and indulged it contracts a horror and doth cause a hell to arise here this rule the Scripture gives if you would labour to have assurance Job 11. 15. If iniquity be in thy hand put it far away and let not wickednesse dwell in thy Tahernacle for then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot then you shall be stedfast and not fear That is if sin be on thy conscience put it far away what follows Thou shalt not then be under fear and under suspension of Gods love but shalt lift up thy face and be stedfast therefore if ever thou wouldst regain a comfortable certainty of Gods love keep thy conscience pure and clean that thou dost not indulge the guilt of any allowed sin within thee 3. Call to mind the former experiences in the days of old that thou hast had of Gods love the remembrance of past goodnesse is very helpful for present encouragement this rule David took Psal 42. 6. O my God my soul is cast down within me wherefore will I remember thee from the Land of Jordan c. It is remarkable what course the Psalmist took to regain comfort he would remember three experiments of his goodness the Land of Jordan the Land of the Hermonites and the Hill Missar First I will remember the Land Jordan that is I wil remember the great goodnesse of God in drying up the River Jordan that so the Tribes of Israel might pass over to the promised Land why God that hath been good will be good Then I will remember the Land of the Hermonites in that Land was Sihon King of the Amorites and Og King of Bashan defeated that you read of in Joshua 12. 1 2. Now