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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77762	The great doctrines of the gospel of Christ owned, believed and asserted in several declarations or sermons preached in London, by sundry servants of Christ of the society of Christian Quakers.	Budd, Thomas, 1648-1699.	1694 (1694)	Wing B5358A; ESTC R227790	110,751	214

when thou hast fought the good fight and the Battle is over and Victory obtained thou shalt find a Song of praise to God as Israel of Old upon the Banks of Salvation when Pharoah and his Host were drowned in the Red-Sea Thou art discouraged and cast down and thy Soul is disquieted within thee because thou art affraid thou hast committed the unpardonable sin the sin against the Holy Ghost ●any of the Israelites were bitten they did look up to the Brazen Serpent a Type of Christ and they were immediately healed if the Devil the old Serpent hath bitten thee and wounded thy Heel look up to Christ by an eye of Faith and thou shalt be healed As Moses lifted up the Serpent in the Wilderness even so must the Son of man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Dost thou think thy sin like that of Demas that embraced this present World Or like those Rom. 1.21 who were without excuse because that when they knew God they glorifyed him not as God neither were they thankful but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish Heart was darkened Is thy sin like theirs who turned the grace of God into lasciviousness Is thy sin like theirs that made Shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience Is thy sin like the sin of them that blasphemed Christ when he wrought mighty wonders and miracles opened the eyes of the blind raised the Dead and cast out Devils and said he cast them out through Belzebub the Prince of the Devils Look up unto Jesus the author and finisher of our Faith look up unto him who was Crucified and lifted up upon the Cross raised from the Dead and is now Ascended into Heaven and is on the Right-Hand of God making intercession for us And the Apostle James giveth encouragement and direction to us James 5.14 Is any man sick among you Let him call for the elders of the Church and let them pray over him anointing him with Oil in the Name of the Lord And the Prayer of Faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him up and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven him The effectual fervent Prayer of a righteous man availeth much These are the helps that God afforded to believers in that Day and time and he hath given us ground of hope in our time and Day that our iniquities and transgressions shall be pardoned and blotted out upon Confession and deep humiliation and turning from sin to God It may be thou canst say I did not sin willfully against the Lord and with an high Hand I did not say as they of old after a mighty deliverance wrought for them let us make us a Captain and go back again to Egypt I have not so presumptuously sinned yet I have been tempted and overcome the enemy the Old Serpent hath snapt me by the Heel and bit and wounded me then look up to Christ as they to the Brazen Serpent and that look of Faith will heal thee If any man sin we have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous believe in him and then Add to your Faith vertue and to your vertue knowledg and to knowledg temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godlyness and to godlyness brotherly-brotherly-kindness and to brotherlykindness charity for if these things be in you and abound they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledg of our Lord Jesus Christ It may be another Poor dejected sorrowful Soul may say I have met with many Trials Troubles and Exercises and I have been ready to sink under my burden I have been made a Spectacle to God Angels and Men and another may say what is like to this I want the assurance of my Salvation the enjoyment of all other things is inconstant and uncertain We have heard of terrible Earthquakes wherewith many have been suddenly swallowed up and ruined and we hear of Wars whereby the Blood of many thousands hath been shed and their Lives extinguished O the Joy of Gods Salvation they that have the lively hopes of this may say with the Apostle 2 Cor. 5.1 For we know that if our earthly House of this Tabernacle were dissolved we have a Building of God an House not made with Hands Eternal in the Heavens As you come to enjoy this blessed Priviledg and have a prospect of a happy End you will not be much concerned about any Troubles or Exercises in the way to it The Devil your Adversary goes about continually like a Roaring Lion seeking whom he may devour He will assault and tempt us as he did our Saviour and hit us in those places where he is most like to wound us He taketh our Saviour up into the Holy City and setteth him on the Pinacle of the Temple and then said unto him if thou be the Son of God cast thy self down It is written He shall give his Angels charge concerning thee and in their Hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a Stone And then he took him up into an exceeding high Mountain and shewed him all the Kingdoms of the World and the glory of them and said All these things will I give thee If thou wilt fall down and worship me Then said Jesus to him get thee hence Satan for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve Then the Devil left him and behold Angels came and Ministred to him In his first Temptation when he came to our Saviour and said If thou be the Son of God Command that these Stones be made Bread Our Saviour repelled the force of that Temptation and said Man liveth not by Bread only but by every word that proceedeth out of the Mouth of God Resist the Devil as our Saviour did and he will fly from thee and look unto Jesus the Captain of our Salvation and he will enable thee by Faith to quench his Fiery Darts and he will be a Saviour to save thee from thy Sins and also from the wrath to come I have opened the Poinr I propounded to insist on How we may know whether we belong to Christ if we are his he will save us from our Sins and if we belong to him we are under the drawings of the Father For none can come unto me saith Christ except my Father which hath sent me draw him And I have given you several other Marks and Tokens whereby you may examine your selves and know whether you be of Christs little Flock for whom he hath prepared a Kingdom When I come out of the Country unto this great City among a People that hear the Great Rabbies the learned Doctors the Silver-tongued Men and the admired Preachers and great Wits of the Age I cannot but observe how easy it is for People to be bewildred and imposed on and take things on trust from those they

die when-ever the Lord shall be pleased to call for me out of the World Am I prepared for my latter end Who are they that are prepared for a dying hour But those that know Evangelical repentance for Sin and Faith in Christ Jesus Now what is Repentance 1. Wherein doth it consist In a Knowledge of Sin Contrition and Sorrow for it and a Hatred of it There is first a Knowledg of Sin we must know that we are Sinners that we have sinned against the Lord. This is but a common thing all can come so far as to say we are Sinners and have gone astray like lost Sheep 2. But there is something more in true Repentance There must be a Godly Sorrow for Sin as it was with those to whom the Apostle Peter preached Acts 2.37 Let all the House of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have Crucified both Lord and Christ Now when they heard this they were pricked in their Hearts and said unto Peter and unto the rest of the Apostles Men and Brethren what shall we do We are troubled and distressed we know not what to do What shall we do to he saved And thus in a deep sense of sin David cryes out against thee thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightst be justifyed when thou speakest and clear when thou judgest When he was awakened to a sorrow for his Sin he came to a good condition after he had cryed to the Lord in the beginning of that Penitential Psalm Have mercy upon me O God according to thy loving kindness according unto the multitude of thy tender mercyes blot out my transgressions wash me throughly from ●ine Iniquity and cleanse me from my Sin for acknowledg my transgressions and my Sin is ●er before me 2. There must not only be a knowledge of ●n and a sorrow for it but a forsaking of 〈◊〉 and a Hatred of it that we may not re●rn unto folly Every one of us that hope 〈◊〉 Salvation must be sensible of the evil of ●in be sorry for it and then depart from 〈◊〉 happy are you that are come so far as to ●e convinced of your Sin and pricked at the ●eart and to whom the Lord hath been so ●erciful as to give you hope of Pardon and ●emission This is the happy state of a Poor ●eking Soul that is come so far as to have ●s Sins washed and blotted out and when ●n is done away there is no more Living there● Then as the Apostle saith Hebr. 12.1 ●e shall lay aside every weight and the Sin ●hich doth so easily beset us Some have one ●●n and some another that is near to them ●hich the Apostle here calls that Sin that doth ●asily beset thee Persons may part with many ●ins and yet keep this one Sin This is a ●ate and condition wherein Men may fall short ●f Mercy therefore we must be purged from ●ll Sin redeemed from all Iniquity This should make every Man and Woman ●ake warning and be always watchful and ●ake heed lest there should be some Bosom ●in which like a Snake or Viper may sting 〈◊〉 and Destroy us If any Sin prevail over ●s there is great cause of shame trouble and ●rrow But there is a great difference between sinning willfully and falling into Sin throug● weakness and infirmity Heb. 10.26 If 〈◊〉 Sin willfully after we have received the kno●ledge of the Truth there remains no more S●crifice for Sins but a certain fearful looki● for of Judgment and fiery Indignation which sh● devour the Adversary Thus it will be if we give our selves to Sin when we know it is a Sin and yet will do it this is sinning willfully and presumptuously as some Persons Sin willfully so others do Sin through weakness and infirmity and ar● surprized by a Temptation This was the case of Peter who was Zealous for his Lord and Master Christ Jesus and said If all shoul● forsake him yet he would not Yet when i● came to the tryal he was overcome with the Temptation and he denyed his Lord Luke 22.56 c. A certain Maid beheld Peter as he sat by the Fire and earnestly looked upon him and said this Man was also with Jesus and h● denyed him saying Woman I know him not And after a little while another saw him and said thou art also of them And Peter said Man I am not And about the space of an hour after another confidently affirmed saying of a Truth this fellow also was with him for he 〈◊〉 a Galilean and Peter said Man I know not what thou sayest and Immediately while he yet spake the Cock Crew and the Lord turned and looked upon Peter and Peter remembred th● Word of the Lord how he had said unto him Before the Cock Crow thou shalt deny me thrice And Peter went out and wept bitterly In the 20th Chapter of John we read how ●hrist did reason with Peter and brought his ●in to his remembrance he had denyed Christ his Lord three times and our Saviour did ●hree times put the Question to him Simon ●on of Jonas lovest thou me more than these He saith unto him Yea Lord thou knowest ●hat I love thee he saith unto him Feed my ●ambs And put the same Question to him a ●econd time Lovest thou me And he also said ●nto him the third time Simon Son of Jonas ●●vest thou me Peter was grieved because he ●●id unto him the third time lovest thou me And he said unto him Lord thou knowest all ●hings thou knowest that I love thee Jesus saith unto him Feed my Sheep Peter began ●o be troubled and exceeding sorrowful when he remembred what large Promises he had made to his Lord and Master that he would not deny him or forsake him Our Saviour ●old him of it before-hand and said to him I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not ●nd when thou art converted strengthen thy ●rethren There must be a dependance upon the Lord Jesus Christ who ever lives to make Intercession for us If any Man sin saith the Apostle we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous and he is the Propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but ●lso for the sins of the whole World if they will ●elieve in him If the Righteous be scarcely sa●ed saith the Apostle where shall the Sinner ●ppear There is no safety nor shelter out of Christ it is he that appears in the presenc● of God for us that is for all that lay hold 〈◊〉 him and make it their care to live to hi● and to live according to what he hath mad● known to us Christ hath loved us dost thou love him again Wherein consists our love to him b● in keeping his Commandments As the F●ther hath loved me so I have loved you co●tinue ye in my love Christ hath loved us an● laid down his Life for us he hath taste● Death for every Man the Lord