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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29932	Dwelling with God, the interest and duty of believers in opposition to the complemental, heartless, and reserved religion of the hypocrite / opened in eight sermons by John Bryan ...	Bryan, John, d. 1676.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1670 (1670)	Wing B5243; ESTC R31994	149,472	465

of sound words Let us hold fast our profession of Christian Faith and Religion in words and deeds That which ye have already hold fast till I come Especially this grace and gift of assurance which is a Jewel of the greatest worth in the World For as the happiness of having it so the misery of wanting it is unspeakable We cannot love God heartily when we doubt whether he loves us We can have little heart to pray our spiritual fight will be uncomfortable our peace unsetled our patience heartless all heat to holy duties will be utterly dampt in us This is made an effect of lively Faith and an assured mark of those who are living Members of Christ namely to hold fast that degree of assurance Christ was faithful as a Son over his own House whose House are we If we hold fast the confidence and the rejoycing of the hope firm unto the end See an example of this fast holding and keeping this Pearl of Price in the Spouse of Christ how servent her desires were how forcible her endeavours to make his singular presence with her familiar with her alwayes It was but a little that I passed from the Watchmen great worldly wise Men but I found him whom my Soul loveth I held him and would not let him go We are as oft exhorted to add unto those good things which we have and hold to increase our spiritual store to grow in all Graces Besides this giving all diligence add to your Faith Virtue to Virtue Knowledge to Knowledge Temperance and to Temperance Patience to Patience Godliness and to Godliness brotherly Kindness and to brotherly Kindness Charity Grow in Grace We beseech you brethren and exhort you by the Lord Jesus that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God So ye would abound more and more That ye would increase more and more with the increase of God Grow up into him in all things which is the Head even Christ This will be both for our comfort and credit profit Lord thy Pound hath gained other Five Pounds be thou over Five Cities Especially we should desire and add degrees to our Faith as of adherence so of experience and evidence make it our Prayer Lord increase our Faith and this will bind others praises of God on our behalf We are bound to thank God alwayes for you Brethren as it is meet because that your Faith groweth exceedingly The great benefit and necessity of this knowledge of assurance may be motive sufficient to perswade you to give all diligence in the use of all means to preserve and increase it You will be sure to meet with temptations to doubt of your interest in God of your being in him to question whether you are Children of this Family Christ himself was thus assaulted though dwelling in the bosome of his Father If thou be the Son of God You must all dye shortly you may presently For what is your life it is even a Vapour which appeareth for a little Moment and vanisheth away Now if you be without assurance that you dwell in this heavenly House when Death drives you out of your Earthly How full of Horror and Torment must your Hearts needs be not knowing whether Heaven or Hell must be your dwelling place to all Eternity Whereas if you knew you were in the same House with Christ this would quiet your heart from all fear As soon as Christ was come into the Ship wherein the Disciples were tossed the Wind presently ceased God through Christ being your Habitation your Light and Salvation whom or what should you fear while you live and when you die God is our refuge therefore we will not fear And this and this only is able to make and keep your hearts lightsome in every condition Yea knowledge of your abiding in God will give a sweet relish as to every comfort So to every cross I have lost a dear Husband Wife Child Friend a comfortable dwelling but not my dear God And the more assurance the less fearful and more chearful Now the means to preserve and increase assurance are the same wherby you gained it The outward are those Ordinances of God and exercises of his holy Religion which he hath sanctified to this end to bring us unto and into himself and to work in us a comfortable assurance thereof especially the Word Sacrament and Prayer The more inward and spiritual are care to keep a good Conscience Diligent observation of your own ways Consideration of the experiments you have had of God's favour towards you renouncing your selves Resting only upon the free Grace of God in performance of the conditions required on our part looking oft over your evidences and holding the Conclusion To learn by heart and put in practice all those duties that are incumbent upon all those to whom the Lord even the most High vouchsafeth this high Prerogative of admission to and possession of his blessed Self to be your proper Habitation The general duty is to walk worthy of the Lord who hath effectually called you out of the World and out of your selves into himself and hath justified you and partly glorified you with glorious priviledges graces and comforts For whom he called them he also justified and whom he justified them he also glorified This the Apostle Paul frequently presseth I beseech you that you walk worthy of the Vocation wherewith ye are called You know how we exhorted and charged every one of you that ye would walk worthy of God who hath called you into his Kingdom of Glory Of God whose Livery you wear whose Image you bear of whose Houshold you are To walk worthy of your Vocation is to walk holily for the general Vocation of all Christians is to be holy as God is holy unto whom they are called in Jesus Christ As he which hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation And as he presseth them to this worthy walking So he presseth God by Prayer for them that they might by his grace be enabled to walk declaring withall sundry Ingredients and Concurrents that make these paces and steps they take regular and graceful and the end of the course joyful We cease not to pray for you and to desire that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdome and spiritual understanding that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all well-pleasing being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God strengthned with all might according to his glorious power unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness Let knowledge shew you the wayes you should walk and sanctification carry you on an end therein and patience uphold you till you come to the end of your Journey when you shall receive the end of your Faith even the salvation of your Souls The

to draw them from Perdition without any vain respects or considerations as Men draw things out of the Fire in any fashion or what way they can First Them that you finde grosly ignorant instruct in Fundamental Truths without the distinct knowledge whereof no Man can have any entrance into this House Especially you that have Children and Servants take pains in Catechising them till they be as able and ready to render a reason of their Faith as to answer to their Names These words which I command thee this Day shall be in thy heart and thou shalt teach them diligently to thy Children and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy House and when thou walkest by the way and when thou lyest down and when thou risest up and ye Fathers bring up your Children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. But you must not neglect to instruct strangers also even Beggars that come to your Doors they have precious immortal Souls which you should be as willing to relieve as your Bodies You that are godly Women as well as Men must perform this duty We finde Women not only teaching their Husbands Manoah's Wife said unto her husband concluding the Death of himself and her If the Lord were pleased to kill us he would not have received a burnt-offering and a meat-offering at our hands neither would he have shewed us all these things nor would at this time have told us such things as these and their Children and Servants What my Son and what the Son of my Womb and what the Son of my vow give not thy strength unto Women nor thy wayes unto that which destroyeth Kings She openeth her Mouth in wisdome among her Maidens and in her Tongue is the Law of Kindness sweet and gracious speeches sounding to edification in knowledge and holinesse but expounding the way of God to others also Aquila and Priscilla took Apollos to them and expounded to him the way of God more perfectly Seeing godly Women may and should be private patterns and may have a gift of expounding Scripture and much more private Men and use that gift in the presence of Ministers for the edification of others yea of Ministers themselves 2. Those you finde led away with the Errour of the wicked holding any points in Religion contrary to sound Doctrine denying directly or by consequence any Fundamental Verity Such was that of Hymoeneus and Philetus and that false Doctrine which the Galatians held namely that to be justified before God it was necessary together with faith in Christ strictly to observe the Mosaical Ceremonies as a part of Man's righteousness and holiness appointed by the Law and that of the Nicolaitans who permitted the community of Women held it a thing indifferent to commit Adultry and eating Meats sacrificed to Idols and Popish and Pelagian Errours when ever you have occasion to converse with any such as these or that hold any point not consonant to Scripture though having less filth and danger do your endeavour to recover them by soft words and hard Arguments So you are taught by the Apostle James's Practice who calls a damnable blasphemy by the gentle name of errour and useth a loving compellation Do not erre my beloved brethren But observe what powerful Arguments he useth both before and after his dehortation and by the Apostle Paul's precept In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the Devil Two things especially should move you to endeavour to convert souls from errour especially if Fundamental The one from the nature of such an errour it is like a Canker or Gangreen a Malady so contagious that it presently spreads it self into the next Members and so by degrees destroyes the whole Body being once admitted into the soul it will glide into it to the total extinguishing of the spiritual life thereof And having possessed it self in one of the Members of the Church will spread over all the Body of it if it be not withstood in time Another is the great reward promised to this endeavour if it prove successful if not the will as it is accepted so it shall be equally rewarded 3. Such as are prophane Persons the shew of whose Countenance doth witness against them and declare their sin as Sodom and hide it not that draw iniquity with Cords of Vanity and sin as it were with a Cart-rope and that live in the neglect and contempt of divine Ordinances and religious exercises publick domestick or secret professing by their practice that they are the Children of Belial and rank Atheists If you finde that any of these have not as yet commenced Dogs and Swine but are as yet Undergraduates and in the Devil's Academy and that you shall not provoke them to Blasphemie nor aggravate their rage against you thereby allure them to go with you into Divine Herbert's Church Porch and then sprinkle them with his Holy Water-stick Beware of Lust it doth pollute and fowle Whom God in Baptisme washt with his own blood Drink not the third Glass which thou canst not tame When once it is within thee Take not his name who made thy mouth in vain It gets thee nothing and hath no excuse Lye not but let thy heart be true to God Thy Mouth to it thy actions to them both Flie idleness which yet thou canst not flie By dressing Mistrissing and Complement Look at thy Mouth Diseases enter there Slight those who say among thy sickly health Thou livest by rule Be thrifty but not covetous Play not for gain but sport Be sweet to all Catch not at Quarrels Laugh not too much Pick out of mirth Prophaneness filthiness abusiveness Be useful where thou livest Restore to God his due in tith and time Resort to Sermons Sum up at Night what thou hast done by Day And in the Morning what thou hast to do Take heed lest through fear or too much respect towards any whom you hear speaking or see acting prophanely you become by your connivance or silence guilty of want of Zeal towards God's glory and of Charity towards your Neighbours Souls and Salvation Thou shalt not hate thy Brother in thy heart thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy Neighbour and not suffer sin upon him Not but regard must be had to Person time and place and the manner of reproving which sometimes may be by discountenancing as well as by discourse and alway so that the party reproved may see it proceeds from love 4. Them that are civil have a care to keep their good word deal justly with all that are meek merciful ready to help such as stand in need of them when you meet and converse with such commend these and all other good things in them as being such as God loves and will reward but labour to convince them that