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A61850	A treatise shewing the subordination of the will of man unto the will of God by that eminently godly, able, and faithfull minister of Christ, William Strong, lately of the Abbey at Westminster ; the greatest part printed with his own marginal quotations in his life time, and now published by Mr. Rowe, Master Manton, and Master Griffith.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1657 (1657)	Wing S6008; ESTC R17435	173,191	368

that thou art engaged in Magna silentii laus est quo confessus est Aron justo Dei judicio extinctos esse ita se cohibitum fuisse ut cum Deo rixari non auderet Ad animum enim refertur ut Psal 39.3 Psal 62.1 Calv. in loc Ephes 2.12 Qui extra foedus est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 est sine Deo à se culto à se amato eoque propitio nonbabet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 jus sibi vendicandi postulandi possidendi quod est filiorum Dei Coc. de foeder Testamento Dei. Thes 1. §. 7. prevail not let not thy heart rise against it Aaron had a great tryal Levit. 10.13 He lost two Sons by an immediate stroke of Gods hand in an act of sin and yet Aaron held his peace A higher tryal had Abraham O that Ishmael might live in thy sight The Lord answers my Covenant will I establish with Isaac Abraham knew that there was no salvation out of Covenant and that this Covenant should not be established with Ishmael and yet he sits down in silence under the hand of God If once the will of God be manifested the soul ought to acknowledge it It is the Lord let him do what seems him good This was the blessed temper of Ely when he heard of the miseries that should come upon his house I will cut off thine arm and the arm of thy fathers house and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever 1 Sam. 2.31 Brachium ipsa materia cogit ut de fortitudine vitali sermonem esse intelligamus Cajet Descriptio est eripiendi sacerdotii quod illius familiae robur erat firmamentum dignitatem authoritatem tuam Pontificiam auseram c. P. Martyr A Lap. Se tantis opibus spoliatos prae dolore deficiant propter excitati animi dignitatem invidia contabescant and he that is left in thy house shall be to consume thy eyes and to greive thy heart yet he answers it is the Lord. 3. Exercise a weaned heart towards thy present enjoyments It may be thou hast lost an estate thy freinds fail thy hopes are faln God hath blown upon all the projects that thy heart did fancy to thy self for thy own advancement thy heart ought to be as a weaned * Significat se nullius rei esse sollicitū infantis instar quem mater lacte alere desut ille tamen à matris cura pendet sic se omnem eventum Deo committere c. Muis in loc child Psa 131.2 It s spoken in reference to his dependencies that as children look only to their mother they have no projects for themselves so it is with me I wait only upon God look unto him only Homines quā par est sapere providi esse appetunt Calv. Men are prudent and provident creatures but my heart is taken off from the dug of all my former comforts my dependencies are upon an immediate providence for supply I project nothing for my self The poor leaves himself with thee Psal 10.14 So much the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth fignifie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Est ita quempiam relinquere ut eum juvare aut tueri prorsus dimisit Psa 22.1 Job 39.14 Ezech. 8 12. His verbis signific dandum esse tempus Providentiae ut pii homines curas in Dei finum rejiciant Deo igitur relinquit quisquis in ejus fidem se ita consert ut fidele depositorium esse persuasus maturum redemptionis tempus placide expectet Cal. a man puts himself out of his own protection into the hands of God with an exclusive resolution I will seek no farther I am willing to be in that condition in which he will set me take the provision the Lord will make for me If he will make me a Shepherd or a King my heart is ready Vis me pastorem ovium vis me Regem populorum ecce paratum est cor meum as Bernard brings in David so speaking of himself 4. Accept the punishment That is the expression Levit. 26.41 If their uncircumcised heart be humbled and they * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Significat consentit Psa 50.18 acceptavit Eccles 9.7 hinc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 derivatur Avernar A Sept. reddit per 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 significat etiam placavit expiavit Esay 40.1 inde sensus est ad poenam tanquam meritam consentire ut propitiam utilem aequo grato animo ferre Videtur etiam subjicere studium placandi Deo alludit enim ad sacrificia quibus se Deo reconciliabant Calv. Esay 39.8 Lam. 3.22 Gen. 32.10 accept the punishment the word signifies to be well pleased with it to acknowledge it to be less then their iniquities deserve Ezra 9.13 As when the Lord threatned a grievous punishment upon the house of Hezechiah He accepts the punishment saying good is the Word of the Lord that there shall be truth and peace in my dayes And when they were in Babylon they acknowledge it is the Lords mercy that we are not consumed And if a man should accept it for himself I conceive it also a Duty to accept the punishment for others and not to have his spirit to rise with impatient frettings as if the Lord had dealt with others in a way of rigour and paid them beyond their deserts Surely there ought to be a complacency of soul in all the dealings of God towards our selves or others An humble heart is less then the least of all Gods mercies And a man should bless God that he is not brought into the lowest condition of men that he sees any creature below him As when the two Cardinals were riding to the a Luther in tertium praeceptum Ecce hanc bestiam bufonem intuitus tam eximiam creaturā fecit ●e Deus nunquam gratias egi quod me quoque tam deformem bufonem non fecerit hoc est quod amarè fleo Councel of Constance they heard a man in the way weeping and wailing greatly asking him what he alled they found him looking upon an ugly Toad and his heart was melted with the consideration of this mercy that God had not made him such a creature who was made of the same clay with it Which made one of them cry out well said the Father Surgunt indocti rapiunt coelum nos cum doctrinis nostris volutamur in carne sanguine Aug. 5. Judge it to be best now the will of God is manifested or else thou dost prefer thy will above Gods will Blush at such an unworthy thought that when God hath declared what his will is thou shouldst think that if it had been thus it had been better for herein thou dost make thy will the Rule of goodness and dost prefer it unto the will of God Surely The b Psal 24.1 principes non cogitent se dominos esse terrarum

the Spirit Gen. 9.27 The allurements of the Spirit Hos 2.14 The word in both places is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies to perswade or intice or blandiendo decipere to deceive one by fair words It is used sometimes in a good sometimes in an evil sence Sometimes for the allurements of Satan in ways of temptation though he doth meet with the will of man wholly determined by a principle of evil as it is in all unregenerate men yet to act this will he hath his perswasions and enticements Job 31.27 If my heart hath been secretly enticed Besides the determination of a mans will to sin there are allurements of Satan which act this will with more chearfulness and delight So it is with the Spirit of Christ he hath his secret perswasions and allurements which facilitate the work of the will which is in a great measure determined to good before hand Cant. 6.12 Or ever I was aware my soul set me in the Chariots of my willing people For so much the word that we render Amminadib doth signifie when the heart is caught up and stoln away after Christ fully and freely we know not how This is a further way that the Lord useth to make his people willing in the day of his power 4. By giving a man an experimental taste of the comfort peace sweetness and security that is in holiness and the ways thereof Therefore we read in Scripture of spiritual senses of the Saints They are said to have their senses exercised 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quid est isle sensus spiritualis est spiritualis rerum divinarum expe rientia qua in nobis ipsis per gratiam Dei sentimus gustamus in corde nostro bonitatem amorem Dei ex qua quam vera certaque sit tota divina sapientia experimur Zanch. in Philip. Heb. 5.14 And the Apostle prays Phil. 1.9 That they may abound in all knowledge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in all sence Experience is nothing else but the bringing of things to sence and thereby tryng the truth and goodness of them Therefore what we have brought to sense we call an experiment Spiritual experience therefore is a bringing of things to a spiritual sense And this is a very glorious work of the Spirit thereby bringing on the will to chuse the things of God and to go out to them more abundantly in which it hath formerly found so much sweetness and contentment And though there be a taste that unregenerate men have let into the soul by the common works of the Spirit tasting the good Word of God and the powers of the world to come Heb. 6.4 Yet this taste is but of the good things that come by them not of the goodness that is in them Now there is nothing in the world doth carry the bent of the will towards an object with greater eagerness then this that it hath tasted and knows what is in it and that the man is not deceived It is so in the ways of sin an experimental taste of the sweetness of it doth draw out the heart and engage the will much more then the bare notion and contemplation could do As Plutarch reports of the Gauls when they had once tasted the sweet Wine of Italy they were never satisfied till they had conquered Vini olei liquaminis exportatio lege Imperiali interdicta est ne Barbari gustu illecti promptiùs invaderent fines Romanorum Leg. 1. Cod. quae res exportari non debeant and possessed that Land where such excellent Vines grew And for that cause the Lord sent searchers before into the Land of Canaan that the people tasting the precious fruits of that good Land of which they had such clear and manifold promises they might be the more encouraged and quickned at the command of God to enter what hardships or oppositions soever they met withall in that enterprize The Historian therefore hath observed of the Inhabitants of Chyna Exteri in loca regni interiora non admittuntur Boterus in Catalogo Imperiorum tantum in oris maritimis conceditur commericum They admitted none to Trade in the heart of the Kingdom but onely upon their Borders and in maritine Towns least the goodness and riches of their Land being discovered should stir up in the Neighbour Nations a desire to invade them It is therefore generally made by Interpreters an impolitike vain-glory in Hezekiah to shew his Treasures unto the Embassadors of the King of Babylon 2 King 20.12.13 thereby to inflame their desires to become Masters and Owners both of his Land and of his Treasures which shortly after they did Whosoever he be whose heart doth rise against the Law of God and whose will doth not submit thereunto look up unto the Spirit of Christ for the putting forth of these acts upon the soul For the more or less the Spirit doth exercise these the more or less is the will brought into a conformity unto the will of Christ And this is the main ground of the differing degrees of Grace in the Saints which doth consist in a conformity of our will unto the will of God Quest Quest 2. It may be further said that there remains corruption in the best men and that in the will as well as in any of the other faculties The Law of the members comes forth from the will as well as the law of the minde A godly man finds in himself a twofold will that he cannot do the things he would Gal. 5.17 Godly men may sin presumptuously therefore David prays against it Psal 19.13 The word in the original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies à superbis so that presumptuous sins are made up of two things 1. They are sins against knowledge in which the will is engaged 't is sinning wilfully not ignorantly 2. When the Law of God opposes a man in this way of sinning and his heart doth rise against it through pride and contempt of the Authority of God And the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 keep back notes a proness thereunto in the best men if if they be not restrained by Grace They may sin with deliberation consent delight How then should a man know whether he doth sin with the whole consent of will How should a man discern that there is Grace in the will when there are constant risings and oppositions against the will of God How should a man be able to say my whole heart is not in it though I sleep yet my heart wakes how should a man be able to discern Grace in the will even then when there are the strongest actings of the will for sin Answ Answ It is true while we live here there will be a mixture of corruption in the will as well as in any other faculty For Grace and sin are mixed in the same soul as wine and water in the same cup there is no part of it perfect wine or perfect water Hereafter indeed the will

is as well King of Nations as King of Saints and his glory is as well seen in his providential as in his spiritual administrations So do the Saints see him with a spiritual eye even then when he doth arise to shake terribly the Earth Hab. 3.3 4. It s spoken of the Lords going forth for his people in their deliverance and for the destruction of their Enemies Manus pro actionibus quae manibus ut plurimū perficiuntur 2 Sam. 22.17 Esay 20.2 Hag. 1.1 Glass Rhet. Sacr. p. 9. Cornu significat 1. Robur potentiam ita Calv. in hunc locum potentiam Metaphoricè per cornua designat sc splendorem hunc cum potentia conjunctum fuisse 2. Radium cornui sunilem rutilantem cornua radii sunt quales emittere solent cornua spendentia Drus Tarnov His brightness was as the light and he had horns coming out of his hands there was the hiding of his power By these hands of the Lord is meant his administrations dispensations and actions in the world the hand being the instrument of action therefore all things below are called the work of his hands Psal 8.6 The horns that come out of his hand are interpreted to be radii or splendores raies or beams of light which were as it were horns The same word is used of Moses Exod. Dicit potentiam ejus absconditam esse quia nolebat Deus promiscuè per totum orbem virtutem suā palam facere sed peculiariter populo suo Quemadmodum dicitur Ps 31.19 magnitudinem bonitatis ejus absconditam esse solis fidelibus qui eum timent reverentur Calv. 34.29 His face did shine the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies horns and so the vulgar renders it quod cornuta esset facies ejus So that the Lord in all his dispensations was glorious His works had a lustre beams a brightness that went with them and yet there was the hiding of his power That is he doth so work by instruments and second causes that his hand is not seen but by a spiritual eye yet to him that hath such an eye the hand of the Lord is exceeding glorious There are horns come out of it but there is a latibulum potentiae in all the dispensations of God towards the men of the world Now to see horns in the hand of Christ to see him glorious in his administations even when his power is hid from the rest of the world under instruments and second causes this is the duty of all the Saints So doth the Church Isaiah 63.1 2. * Non agit de Christo patiente iram Dei placante sed de Christo Rege suos potentissime ab hostibus externis liberante contra cos defendente c. Tarnov exercit Bibli p 418. c. Who is he that comes from Edom with garments died from Bosrah glorious in his apparel c. To see the Lord cloathed with a Vesture dipt in blood and his name called the word of God Revel 19.13 His name was the Word of God * Antealudibrio pene habuit verbum Dei acsi tantum essent magnifica verba sed sub phiala septima mysterium Dei consummatū erit tunc maximè florebit Divini verbi authoritas cōstantissima ejus veritate in singulis perspecta Brig in loc from the beginning but then he was the Word revealing and discovering the promises and the truths of God but now he is the Word of God fulfilling and accomplishing of them A place parallel to it is Exod. 6.3 By the name Jehovah I was not known to them The Lord was known by the name Jehovah when he did give a being to the promises so Christ was then called the Word of God but then he did manifest himself to be Jehovah when he did fulfil these promises To see the Lord glorious in his administrations however they be cloathed by instruments and second causes to rejoyce in all appearances of Christ is our duty though they be terrible to the rest of the World Whatsoever † Amictus quidam gloriae Dei in ultione adversus hostes Metaphorâ ab Heröe armis induto in arenam adversus hostes descendente desumptâ Glass Rhet. Sacr. p. 160. Esay 63.1 apparrel he goes forth in he is infinitly glorious 9. When the will of God is manifested the soul should keep it self from all disquieting passions all unpleasingness of spirit whatsoever When I once see it is the will of God I will not grudge at it I will not mourn under it as if I would have it otherwise only I will mourn for my sin that hath been the cause of it This was Davids case for his child his heart was set upon him 2 Sam. 12.20.21 David acquiescit sententiae quā definitivam facto ipso intellexit agnita voluntate Dei acquicscunt sancti Lavit se David ut ingrederetur Templum D●mini ille percusserat non tamen eū habuit pro hoste suo sed acced●t eum adorat supplex c. Petr. Martyr and he prayed earnestly for him with fasting yet the child must die and assoon as he saw the will of the Lord was manifested he mourns no more but with a submissive spirit stoops under it A man should not continue the disquiet of his spirit when the will of God is manifested but with all meekness acknowledge his wisdom and submit to his will It is an evil that the Lord reproves in Samuel 1 Sam. 16.1 How long wilt thou mourn for Saul seeing I have rejected him that he should not raign over Israel The sentence of Sauls rejection was gone forth from the Lord and made manifest unto Samuel V●detur quod illicitus fuit iste planctus nisi Samuel ignorasset reprobationem Saulis Pro hoc lug●h●t Sam●●l quia defini●●at Deus eum ab●icere noluiss●t tamen Samuel qu●d 〈◊〉 Saul Lititus tamen fuit quia lagebat solum ex quadam compassione ut patet de poenis damnatorum aeternaliter quia nulli licet pro ●is orare ●●●tum autem est pro illis dolere nihil orando Tostat in 1 Sam. 15.9.41 though he was not as yet removed from the Government of the Kingdom no not in many years after Now Samuel mourned for him because he was rejected of God but when the will of God was made manifest for him to disquiet and trouble himself therein as if all the future happiness of Israel depended upon this one man and that he did not rather look out Audiverat Samuel Domini sentenam de Saule exauctorando tamen non potest primo intuitu quinam id fiat animadvertere Agnoscens unctum Samuel Dei mandato non potest repentè reverentiam illi abjicere Non satis in peculiari hoc facto animadvertit quid à se Deus postuinret sc Deum ut agnosceret velle Saulis abrogare imperium quod dederat quia ipsius voci non obtemperasset Calv. homil in