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A90965	Honey out of the rock, or, Gods method in giving the sweetest comforts in sharpest combates. Chiefly intended, as spirituall plunder for plundered beleevers.	Price, John, Citizen of London.	1644 (1644)	Wing P3343; Thomason E46_14; ESTC R22911	32,070	38

up by the eternall Spirit which was as it were the Altar sanctifying the gift and offering So no means in the world qualifications duties promises ordinances can satisfie a sin-seeing conscience but the blood of Christ and that also must be tendred unto it by the Spirit of Christ The truth is nothing can satisfie an enlightned conscience but that that did satisfie God himself which is Christ discovered in the excellencie of his merits and this is by the tendring the same through the Spirit by which Christ is thus discovered Rom. 8.1 Secondly the death of Christ hath another influence and consimilitude in the soul and that is the crucifying of the body of sin and that first by way of a holy revenge for the shedding of Christs blood Sin persued Christ even unto the Crosse the Spirit persues sin even to the Crosse also Galat. 5.24 They that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts thereof And again Rom. 8.13 If ye through the Spirit mortifie the deeds of the flesh ye shall live Secondly there is conveighed a certain secret ennergettical power and derived in a sweet spirituall manner from the death of Christ viz. by serious contemplation and belief thereof to kill and mortifie sin Rom. 6.6 Our old man was crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed And Paul saith Galat. 2.20 I am crucified with Christ Thirdly the blood of Christ is as it were a secret and yet sensible bath wherein the soul is healed and cured and cleansed steeped and rinsed from the filth and guilt of sin This blood is that fountain opened for sin and for uncleannesse to wash in Zach. 13.1 wherein the Saints are washed 1 Cor. 6.11 and this purgeth their consciences from dead works to serve the living God Hebr. 9.14 Lastly the blood of Christ is the life of the soul that is the provision for the life of the soul His flesh is meat indeed and his blood is drink indeed Joh. 6.55 indeed that is in respect of everlasting nourishment that flows from it for saith he he that eateth me shall live by me vers 57. He that drinketh my blood shall never thirst Joh. 4.14 because Christ died we live viz. in respect of Justification and because he liveth we shall live in respect of sanctification Joh. 14.19 Thus in many particulars the death of Christ hath a blessed influence in the hearts of the Saints which is the fifth Consideration concerning Christ in the soul in respect of his sufferings Sixthly consider Christ in respect as of death so of his buriall the very grave of Christ hath an operation in the heart We are buried with him Gal. 6.4 Colos 2.12 The old man doth by little and little moulder away as it were in the grave of Christ Seventhly the resurrection of Christ hath likewise an influence in the soul viz. to raise it up to a new spirituall and holy life We are said to be raised up together with Christ Ephes 2.6 He that raised up Christ from the dead shall quicken your mortall bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you Rom. 8.11 The truth is there are most glorious and various operations and influences of the resurrection of Christ in the heart which would be too large now to insist upon Eightly the ascention of Christ is seen also in its operation in the soul viz. to draw up our hearts and desires and expectations heaven-wards Col. 1.2 this is by the Spirit Ninthly and lastly the very session of Christ at the right hand of God and his interceding there for us is felt in the soul the Spirit of God leading it into the presence of God and setting it as it were at the right hand of the Father among the sheep not among goats Matth. 25. giving it all boldnesse even as a right hand favourite and there making intercession with sighs and groans that cannot be expressed Rom. 8.16 Thus you see the first generall Answer to this third generall Question viz. how might we know the Spirit of Christ in the soul from the spirit of delusion Answer The Spirit of Christ in the soul is Christ spiritually in the soul viz. in the sence before spoken of Secondly The Spirit of Christ in the soul doth alwayes act and bias the soul towards Christ by this means the intrincicall bent and frame of the heart is toward Christ the Spirit having a most strong and effectuall work upon the will in answer unto that great defection of the will through Adams fin in the Commission of sin That which I do saith Paul I allow not Rom. 7.15 And in the 19. verse The good I would do I do not the evill which I would not do that I do Will you see the reason of both why vers 22 23. I delight in the Law of God after the inner man but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members Sin was his sicknesse his complaint his captivitie goodnesse his desire his delight his endeavour the ground of both was the law of God in the inner man viz. the Spirit of life by Christ Jesus Rom. 8.2 This did still bias the soul contrary to that principle of corruption of nature So that look how naturall instincts do act and work in severall subjects here below as in elements the fire to ascend upwards the earth to fall downwards c. or in all vegitatives to yeeld fruit according to its kind whatsoever Or in all sensitives to forbear that which it knows hurtfull and to feed upon that which is proper for its particular nourishment The little kid to suck his mothers milk c. as the holy Ghost termes it Exod. 23.19 Or in rationals to preserve it self from known evill and to seek after known good Even so an holy spirituall instinct is in the heart of beleevers to do with delight that which is holy just and good and to be very heedfull of that which is sinfull and wicked and its interruption in both is its sorrow its complaint and its pain as it were It is too true that the best of Gods people are obnoxious unto many disturbances and hindrances in the inward man but it is as true that these are their complaint unto God and their indeavour for cure The Spirit in Scripture is compared to anointing oyl 1 Joh. 2.27 oyl we know hath a naturall property to be uppermost if it be put into any liquids whether they be hot or cold yet the oyl will alwayes ascend and though there might be some interruption while you powre water upon the oyl yet stay but a while and you shall see it settle again and keep all under it Just so the Spirit of Christ doth as it were raise up the heart above all in the soul and though interruptions may be through violent temptations and strong passions and corruptions yet at last all will

though little children yet able to grapple with and overcome the whole world how so because they are of God viz. of his antient love and the birth of his Gospel Secondly because God is in them viz. by his Spirit and greater is he that is in them viz. to support to comfort to incourage to preserve then he viz. Satan the prince of the power of the aire the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience Ephes 2.2 that is in the world viz. carnall and wicked men to cast down to grieve to discourage to destroy We have another Scripture for this in the third to the Ephes 4.16 I how my knee to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man this our God grants unto beleevers first because he is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and in him their Father and so interressed in the same power by which he was strengthened in the inner man in the daies of his flesh and sufferings upon earth Secondly because it is according to or falling in with the riches of his glory viz. the glory of his grace by which he hath the revenews of his glorie coming in even in the highest degree Luke 2.14 and whereof there are riches even treasures wherein he hath abounded towards them Ephes 1.8 Thirdly because this is the joynt request of all the Saints in each others behalf I viz. Paul how my knee viz. in prayer unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ that he would grant you c. the person of the Lord Jesus Christ intercedes in heaven for all his Saints Hebr. 7.25 and the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ intercedes in the earth for the same Saints Rom. 8.27 and the Father heareth him who did his will interceding both by his blood and Spirit in heaven and earth Joh. 9.31 this is that divine nature 2 Pet. 1.4 and that power of God 1 Pet. 1.5 whereby the Saints are kept against all their discouragements even unto salvation this is that whereby the Saints are comforted in all their tribulation 2 Cor. 1.4 and whereby their consolations do abound in them beyond the abounding of their afflictions vers 5. it is the Spirit of comfort called the Comforter Joh. 14.16 which shall be as a continuall streame or waters of life in the bowels of the Saints to refresh and chear them in all their losses and troubles of this life the comforts whereof the Spouse of Christ prayeth for Cant. 2.5 Stay me with flaggons and comfort me with apples for I am sick of love all the troubles sorrows and afflictions of the Saints are sicknesses of love as they are from God they proceed from love are steered by love love is the root and rule and end of all as they proceed from man they are because of their love to God therefore in all their afflictions they may be said to be sick of love What is her prayer why stay me with thy flagons and comfort me with thy apples with thy flagons viz. of wine which cheareth the heart Prov. 31.6 Comfort me with thy apples viz. the glorious fruits of Jesus Christ the tree of life under whose shadow the Saints do sit with great delight and whose fruit is pleasant unto their taste vers 2. what are all these expressions but the setting forth of those sweet Consolations of the Spirit of Jesus Christ supporting their hearts in evill times This is that whereof the Church reports Cant. 2.6 His left hand is under my head and his right hand doth embrace me See here the Churches posture in the time of her trouble is lying in the bosome of her beloved grasping her like a tender husband between his arms Jesus Christ hath bosome consolations for his sick Saints watens of life for fainting fits Manna is reserved for the wildernesse and the best wine when all is spent when all forsake the Lord stands by he is light in darbuesse Psal 112.4 Act. 12.7 and mans casting into dungeons is but Christ bringing into his banqueting house where his banner over them is love his left hand is under them and his right handimbraceth them Christ hath left hand mercies viz. the comforts of this lift which though they be contracted within a small bulk even into a little oyl in a cruce 2 King 4.2 five barley leaves and two fishes for five thousand Joh. 6.9 that is a poore something next to nothing to support and maintain a great charge why this is Christs left hand and yet this shall be sufficient if he puts but the effecacie of even his left hand it shall be enough but his right hand mercies are most high and spirituall and when the Lord doth any thing with his right hand he doth it most dextereously even unto perfection as appears if you look Psal 60.5 That thy beloved may be delivered save with thy right hand And so Psal 20.6 45.4 c. So when God imbraceth or comforteth with his right hand he doth it so as none can discourage when all secondarie means of comfort are gone the Lord Jesus doth then comfort most immediately and therefore most perfectly for whatsoever God doth without secondary causes alwayes are without imperfection When he made all things at first coming immediately from between his hands behold all were very good so it is in his immediate consolations Hence it is we read of joy unspeakable and glorious 1 Pet. 1.8 even in the time of heavinesse through many temptations vers 6. thus Jesus Christ viz. by his Spirit becomes a hiding place from the wind and a refuge from the tempest as rivers of water in a dry place and the shadow of a great rock in a wearie land Isa 32.2 Jesus Christ is a sutable good unto all his people and what he is he makes good unto his people by his Spirit So that as Eliiah stretched himself upon the dead child 1 King 17.21 and the soul of the child came unto him again and he revived so when the Saints are as it were kill'd and slain at the first encounter with troubles and persecutions and losses of all their comforts why then doth the Lord Jesus Christ by his Spirit as it were stretch forth himself over them and then their life and joy and peace returns again yea like unto that of the resurrection after death in that perfection that the weak flesh is scarce able to bear it Comforts indeed sutable unto glorified Saints Thus the Spirit chears and comforts the hearts of the Saints by his naturall genuine and proper strength and influence the Spirit of God being in it self a Spirit of comfort Secondly the Spirit chears the hearts of beleevers in evill times by presenting God in Jesus Christ as a deare and loving Father unto them a most sweet and glorious vision and assurance whereof for the most part he vouchsafeth unto them in the dayes

every one of these premises and cautions may be clearly argued out both from manifest Scriptures and Reasons and Demonstrations which will if prosecuted accordingly be a too great digression from the thing intended and besides much conviction in them all is extant in the Labours of many godly and holy mens writings There is a great deale of difference in the judgements of some godly men whether a mans Justification may bee knowne by his Sanctification and by the markes and fignes of Sanctification It were to bee wisht that both the one partie and the other yea the whole generation of holy ones the Sonnes of unitie would studie unitie among themselves and make conscience of that Apostolicall Injunction so far as in them lieth 1. Thess 4.11 Studie to be quiet and 1. Pet. 3.8 Be ye all of one minde having compassion one of another love as brethren Surely if we had compassion one of another especially in these times when our divisions are both the studie and advantages of our bloody enemies we would be all of one minde at least so far as we reveale our selves to the world it is very sad to see men even holy doubtlesse and godly to be so farre from studying to be quiet that they study to oppose and to differ and it is a very acceptable thing unto them to differ from their brethren and to blaze the same I would not be mistaken a tender conscience an inquiring and searching Spirit after the things of Jesus Christ is very commendable but yet with speciall respects to the Community of Christ and all his Churches and the truth is we suffer much disadvantage by our neglect this way But to returne to the businesse in hand this I think will be granted that for a man to know his interest in God and the truth of the Spirit in his heart is a part of Sanctification whether it be by the testimony of the Spirit or any other way and therefore at least in some sence it is to be granted that the knowledge of our Justification is by the knowledge of our Sanctification Againe this I thinke will be likewise granted that no man can be assured of his Justification and not be sanctified that hee cannot know his Justification without Sanctification it is very true that it is a very hard and difficult thing to finde out the truth of holines and supernaturall worke of Gods Spirit in the soule the heart of man being so deceitfull above all things and there being so many counterfeit quallifications and common gifts and it is to be granted also that many deluded hypocrites think great matters of their conceited holinesse from such and such quallisications wrought within them and such and such things done by them and many also whose hearts are most upright with their God yet through ignorance of Jesus Christ and consciousnesse of their owne guilt misjudge of their owne happie estate and so erre on the other hand yet this I thinke is not to be denyed viz. that the meanest Saints have peculiar and fingular workes of the Spirit in their very worst condition of soule which the most glorious hypocrites in the world never had in their best condition and greatest inlargements in their hearts These considerations being premised the result herein will be this that as inward quallifications are to be heeded I meane in using them as satisfactory markes of an undoubted condition ☞ sound and good in Jesus Christ so on the other hand they are not altogether to be neglected as uselesse for such a purpose for doubtlesse if men will take that paines with their spirits as they may doe they may in a very probable if not certaine way have much satisfaction in respect of the state of their soules otherwise I know not how to use and improve that place of the Apostle John 13.20.21 If our hearts condemne us God is greater then our hearts if our hearts condemne us not then have wee confidence before God So in Pet. 1.10 2. Cor. 13.5 and many such like places and therefore I take leave to give my answer to the question in hand with a very speciall respect to what the Spirit of God worketh in the soul To the question therefore how a man may know the truth of the Spirit in his heart I answer First The Spirit of Christ in the heart is Christ spiritually in the heart that is Consider Christ in every respect and there is an answerablenesse thereof in the heart of the beleever Christ is considerable in his Natures Conception Birth Life Death Buriall Resurrection Ascention and Intercession at the right hand of God the Father and in his Offices and there is a certaine consimilitude of every particuler in the heart of a spirituall man First for the Natures of Christ he was God and Man 1. Cor. 15.47 Heb. 1.10 So beleevers as they are true men so likewise are they partakers of the divine Nature so farre as Communicable God himselfe dwelling in them viz. by his Spirit 2. Pet. 1.4 John 14.17 Secondly For the Conception of Christ hee was Conceived by the holy Ghost not by any meanes of the Virgin yet not against or without her Luke 1.35 Even so Christ in a beleever is Conceived Not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God John 1.13 Thirdly Consider Christ in his Birth elected before the world by the Father but borne in fulnesse of time Gal. 4.4 even so beleevers according to the good pleasure of God which he purposed in himselfe in fulnes of time are gathered together as the Apostle hath it Ephes 1.9 10. Fourthly Looke upon the Life of Christ from first to last hee did and suffered all things and that with all delight and complacency with reference to his Fathers will John 4.33 John 5.30 Luke 22.42 Even so the Spirit of Christ frameth the whole of man so farre as he is spirituall to do and suffer all and that with delight in reference unto the will of God Ephes 6.6 Galat. 4.12 c. And as the Law of God was written in the heart of Christ which made him naturally content and willing to do the will of God Hebr. 10.7 Even so the Law of God is written in the heart of beleevers which makes them willing and chearfull in doing the will of God Hebr. 8.10 11. Fifthly Look upon the sufferings of Christ that hath a manifold influence and operation in the soul as first to pacifie and quiet the heart Christ by his eternall Spirit tendreth his blood to pacifie God sitting in the throne of Justice in the seat of glory Hebr. 9.14 And the Spirit of Christ tendreth as it were the same blood unto the conscience Gods vice-gerent to the satisfaction and pacification therof All the oblations in the world though they had been ten thousand rivers of oyl could not have satisfied Divine Justice nothing but the blood of Christ nor that too had it not been offered