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A03758	A Christian enchiridion wherein are briefly handled these three points following; 1. That aboue all things in the world, man should bee most carefull of his saluation. 2. That in this life a man bee assured of his saluation. 3. The way how, or meanes whereby a man may come to bee assured of his saluation. By Thomas Hovves, preacher of the word at Kings-Linne in Norfolke.	Howes, Thomas, preacher at King's Lynn.	1615 (1615)	STC 13877; ESTC S116219	94,375	247

stirred and prouoked to desire and long after that inheritance which is immortall vndefiled and fadeth not away but is reserued in the heauens for vs it should not be a fruitles labour to shew how we may trie the soundnes of this our desire after the paradise of God a place of all delite and pleasure yea where the Saints enioy fulnes of pleasures at Gods right hand To which end be assured that if this desire to be in the Lords ioy with filled thy heart these worthy fruites of it will manifest themselues through thy life It will moderate the eager cares of this life and will not suffer men to become drudges or slaues to the earth for he that taketh himselfe to be an heire of heauen Rom. 8.17 is well enough prouided and cared for alreadie till his patrimony fall We know that great heires in their minority are well and honestly maintained their fathers being rich and kind will not suffer them to want things fit for them and if they be any way scanted for the present they shall afterward find it with much aduantage In any want thou being thy fathers heire mayst boldly repaire to thy father with good hope to speed in any request which he seeth fit for thee and making for thy good and he will bee so far from sending thee away empty that it wil be his ioy that thou canst and wilt make request for things good for thee yea if thy beleeuing soule do bin once conceiue of Christ it will be a most effectuall reason to draw thee from minding earthly things as Paul teacheth Phil. 3.20 for exhorting them not to set their hearts vpon the things of this world he noteth this as a most effectuall argument because from heauen they looked for a Sauiour who would change their vile body and make it like his owne glorious body It will content the mind with any present condition Thus was Abraham contented Isaac and Iacob with their continuall pilgrimage vpon earth because they looked for a better citie Heb. 11.8.9 when as once this tooke vp their hearts they could cheerefully set themselues downe in their Tents they could dwell in strange countries contentedly they could receiue the promise a far off thankfully they could goe on in obedience to God what way soeuer he called readily and in all this they did not for the present desire a better outward condition but thought it the best portion which their heauenly father alotted out vnto them so we see men expecting reuersions are content for the time to liue barely and goe neere the wind and swallow vp their present wants in hope of that to which they are heires they thinke the time for their further enlargment is not far off and this helpeth wel to put off the present condition yea it doth not only giue contentment of minde because we shall haue an inheritance but rather in this that we cannot loose this inheritance Thou maist loose thy libertie thy friends thy life but thine inheritance is reserued in the heauens when others by death loose all thou shalt by it be in thy full estate This expectation of a durable substance caused the Saints to endure the spoyling of their goods with ioy Heb. 10.34 Thirdly it will strengthen the heart in enduring chastisements and corrections vnder Gods hand or from mans as Moses esteemed highly of the rebuke of Christ for he had respect vnto the recompence of reward Heb. 11.26 the faithfull know they are heires indeed but as yet in their minoritie and for the time must be put vnder tutors and the rod as well as others but the time commeth which will bring their landes into their owne hands and then they shal be at their owne commaund and haue libertie enough and herewith may the children of God raise their hearts from vnder the heauiest afflictions that are The Apostle counted that the afflictions of this present time are not worthie of the glory which shal be shewed vnto vs Rom. 8.18 for our light affliction which is but for a moment causeth vnto vs a far more excellent and an eternall weight of glory 2. Cor. 4.17 In the enduring therfore of affliction comfort thy selfe herein thy father may frowne chide buffer and scourge thee but he wil neuer disinherite thee other fathers somtimes out of their owne displeasure and sometimes out of their sonnes misdemeanours do disinherite their heires but the Lord cannot grow into such displeasure with his children as euer to cast them out whom in his Christ he hath once admitted into his house If his sonnes sin against him he will visit their sinnes and scourge them with the rods of men but his mercie and truth will he neuer take from them Psal 89.32.33 Lastly this desire of eternall life once wrought in our heart easily bringeth men to the deniall of themselues in stripping themselues of pleasures profits aduancements friends father wife libertie yea life it selfe Set this treasure before the eies of the wise merchant he will fell all for it Mat. 13.44 Tel a man of an earthly kingdome and let him throughly digest the conceit of obtaining it it will bee such a commander as he willingly both vndertaketh and deuoureth any trauell for it To Iacob it was a sufficient reason to neglect his stuffe in the land of Canaan because king Pharaoh promised him the best things of Egypt Gen. 45.20 So let the beleeuing heart once bee possessed with assurance of raigning with Christ it will easily bee brought to hate father and mother and wife and children brethren and sisters yea and his owne life Luk. 14.26 The disciples desirous to know what recompence their Lord would make them for leauing all to follow him Christ presently telleth them of twelue seates on which they shall fit and iudge the twelue tribes of Israel at the appearance of the Sonne of man well knowing that if this promise were once wel digested it would so feede their hearts as they should not after thinke themselues as ouershot in leauing all things for his sake Matth. 19.28 So then set thy heart vpon this inheritance A man that hath any possibilitie to befall him cannot keepe his minde but it will be running after it in so much as many wicked children in regard of their patrimony will enquire into their fathers yeares and grow sicke of their Mothers and it is ordinary that such as looke for windefals by decease of others will bee feeding their hearts with vnnaturall hopes so should it be with vs who may without iniurie to our father long after our inheritance in heauen And as we see men take no content in any part of the earth no nor in the whole comparable to that peice or portion which is their owne euen so should we not suffer our hearts so to wander after earth or earthly things as that wee should settle our contentment any where but where our owne inheritance and treasure is beeing assured that there is laid vp for vs the

good way wherein if we walke wee shall finde rest for our soules Ier. 6.16 and euerie man of God ought to teach vs this good and right way 1. Sam. 12.23 for this way the Lord approoueth Psal 1.6 being the way of the righteous The other way is the way of our owne hearts Eccles 11.9 If we minde to come to paradise we must leaue this way Ier. 18.11 beeing the way of sinners Psa 1.1 which is the way of darkenesse Prou. 2.13 And this way will lead vs vnto iudgement Eccl. 11.9 for the way of the wicked shall perish Psal 1.6 In walking in the right way it behooueth vs to practise two things First we must vse all meanes of goodnesse not one or two of the meanes but euerie one of them in their places For otherwise if we refuse all of them or any of them it is a righteous iudgement of God that wee should liue and die in our sinnes If a man say hee desireth heauen and yet will neuer frequent sermons nor good companie where he may be instructed nor vse any priuate or publike exercises of religion whereby he may be edified he is no more to be regarded then a sluggard that pretendeth that he meanes to haue a crop and yet will neither plowe nor fowe the ground but when others are labouring he is sleeping as no man will euer looke that the one should haue a plentifull haruest of corne so will no wise man beleeue that hee should obtaine a plentifull croppe either of grace here or of glorie hereafter For it is as possible for men to make staires to climbe vp vnto the skie as for vs without these meanes to ascend vnto heauen by any deuise of our owne framings Therefore let vs with great care and conscience heare the Gospel preached frequent sermons receiue the holy Sacraments performe all religious exercises and resort to Gods house that as the poore creeple at the poole Bethesda waited for the moouing of the water by the Angel that his impotencie might be cured Ioh. 5.7 so ought we to wait for the first moouing of the spirituall waters of life that our spirituall impotencie may be helped For the ministerie of the Gospel is the golden pipe whereby and where-through the water of life all the sweetnesse of Christ and all heauenly graces whatsoeuer are deriued vnto vs. Therefore if we desire to be saued we may not neglect the meanes of saluation And here two things are to be known First that the word of God is that light that shineth in darkenesse to shew vs the way and lighten our eyes to walke in the path that leadeth to life 2. Pet. 1.19 Psal 119.105 To the law and the testimony if men speake not according to this word it is because there is no light in them Isa 8.20 In stead of this light wee haue a false light that is the thought of our owne hearts now the thoughts of our owne hearts are said to bee the deuils souldiers and to warre against the soule 1. Pet. 2.11 they follow their captaine and we follow them in so doing we may easily know whether we go Secondly that the guide gone before vs is Christ Iesus vpon whom we must looke and whom we are to followe Hebr. 12.2 looking saith the spirit vnto Iesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the ioy that was set before him endured the crosse and despised the shame and is set at the right hand of the throne of God And as touching the holy Fathers Prophets and Martyrs which through faith and patience inherite the promises we are exhorted Heb. 6.12 to bee followers of them as they were of God 1. Cor. 11.1 In stead of these there bee false guides that is the steps and wayes of our forefathers which we say we will follow Ier. 44.17 but God faith no Ezech. 20.18 forbidding to walke in the ordinances of the fathers and to obserue their manners and straitly charging to walke in his statutes and to keepe his iudgements The other thing to be practised of vs in walking in the right way is that wee vse this world and all things therein as not abusing them 1. Cor. 7.31 and herein we are to resemble a pilgrime who so long as his staffe is an helpe and stay for him in his iourney he is content to carrie it in his hand but so soon as it beginneth to trouble him hee casteth it away So all Gods Saints that are gone before vs in comparison of heauenly things haue contemned the worldly vanities for no sooner were they made partakers of the gifts graces of Gods holy spirit had but some little tast of the heauenly happinesse but presently they contemned the world and the vanities thereof they were ready to leaue all and to follow Christ and euen to lay down their liues for the profession of the Gospel Abraham at Gods commandement left his owne countrie and contemned all the profits pleasures and preferments which it might haue yeelded vnto him in comparison of the land of promise though hee dwelt there but as a stranger and had little ioy and comfort in it but only as it was a type of the heauenly Canaan Heb. 11.9.10 So Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter and chose rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God then to enioy the pleasures of sinne for a season esteeming the rebuke of Christ greater riches then the treasures of Egypt for hee had respect vnto the recompence of the reward Chap. 11.23.24 And if it were a sufficient reason to mooue Iacob Gen. 45.20 to neglect his stuffe in the land of Canaan because King Pharaoh promised him the best things of Egypt when he came into his kingdom how much more should it bee auaileable to perswade vs vnto the contempt of these worldly and worthlesse vanities seeing wee haue the assured promise of God himselfe that we shall enioy the best things of his heauenly kingdome when wee come vnto him But alas these earthly things though they be small and contemptible doe hide these superexceeding ioies of gods kingdome from the eyes of those who spend their thoughts vpon their worldly affaires For as a small dish beeing held neere the eyes hideth from our sight a great mountaine so these earthly trifles beeing placed neere our sight doe so shadow and ouercloud these great and shining excellencies that wee cannot truely behold them not rightly iudge of their greatnesse Therefore let vs remooue them further from vs and then they will seeme small and smally to be regarded in comparison of the incomparable ioyes in heauen Furthermore that our care and desire after saluation be not weakened and wee faint in the mid way wee must beware of three points First that wee turne not backe againe by offending of God and transgressing his Commandements for as in walking after his word in his feare we goe to God and euerlasting life so by sinning in stead of going forward wee