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A81218	The present duty and endeavour of the saints. Opened in a sermon at Pauls upon the Lords day December, 14th. 1645. / By Joseph Caryl, minister of the Gospell at Magnus neere London-Bridge.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1646 (1646)	Wing C786; Thomason E323_1; ESTC R200589	24,220	46

himselfe according to his humane nature was not a thirst for a bitter cup but prayed thrice Father if it be possible let this cup passe from me Only that which satisfied CHRIST satisfies them Not our will but thy will be done And upon that title they thinke all men should be of their mind and are resolved to be of that mind though all men are against them Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more then unto God judge yee we beleeve you are of our mind However we resolve to be of that mind though you vote against it for that 's our duty We ought to obey God rather then men Chap. 5. 29. Then let the strength of your endeavours run out in seeking and doing what is acceptable to the Lord. Pray continually Lord let us have Grace whereby wee may serve thee acceptably Let nothing be acceptable to us which is not to the Lord. Let us reckon all our walkings wandrings which are not in pathes pleasing to him Resolve to live unacceptably to all rather then unacceptably to One. As we should say let God be true and All men Lyars So let God be pleased and all men displeased Who art thou dares any man appeare and shew his head upon this challenge that thou shouldest be affraid of a man that shall dye and of the Sonne of man that shall be made as the grasse and forgettest to please the Lord thy Maker that stretched forth the heavens and layd the foundations of the earth c. Isa 51. 12 13. Consider First it is a great honour to Christ when all study to please him It is the glory of Princes that so many strive to be accepted with them and to find favour in their eyes We cannot but esteeme or at least pretend to esteeme him much whom we labour to please much And such as we esteeme highly of we are ready not only to please but to humour Christ should have this honour from all the Saints an affectarion to please him is their duty Yea with reverence be it received it is their duty to humour him Not that there is any imaginable humour in Christ all whose commands are bottom'd upon infinit reason But my meaning is only this our care to please Christ should bee exact and curious and that then we honour him most when we not only doe those things which cary the light of a cleare necessity or the great things of the Gospell but those also which most looke upon but as Minucia's small matters the tything of Mint and Cummin formes circumstances and as it were curiosities in Religion To prove and practise what is acceptable to the Lord in the least things gives greatest honour to the Lord. Our obedience is the more where the duty is lesse Secondly it is a great priviledge to be accepted with Christ The Lord appointed Aaron to weare a Golden plate upon his Mitre with this inscription HOLINES TO THE LORD And this must be upon Aarons forehead that hee might beare the iniquity of the Holy things which the Children of Israel should hallow in all their holy guifts And the reason given was this That they might be accepted before the Lord. As if the Lord had said This shall be Israels honour above all the Nations of the earth They shall be accepted before the Lord Exod. 28. 36. This was Moses Prayer for the Tribe of Levi. Blesse Lord his substance and accept the worke of his hands Deut. 33. 11. When wrath was growne highest and hottest against Jerusalem this Charter was recalled When they Past I will not heare their cry and when they offer burnt offerings and an oblation I will not accept them Ier. 14. 12. They sacrifice Flesh for the sacrifice of mine offerings and eate it but the Lord accepteth it not Hos 8. 13. They may fill themselves and make merry with their Sacrifices but the Lord will not tast a bit or give them a Thanke for all the cost they bestow upon his holy Feasts To what purpose is the multitude of your Sacrifices unto me saith the Lord I am full of the burnt offerings of Rams and of the fat of fed beasts Isa 1. 11. The Lord was full not as a man is full with feeding plentifully upon meat he likes but full as a man is cloyed with the very sight of meat he loathes so the next words expound it I delight not in the blood of Bullocks or of Rams When God sayth to a People to what purpose are your Prayers your humblings your fastings I am full of them It is an argument he accepts none of them Thirdly the comfort which arises from the sence of our acceptation with Christ is unspeakable Iacob was much comforted in a probability that his Brother Esau would accept him I will saith he appease him with the present that goeth before me and afterward I will see his face peradventure he will accept of me Gen. 32. 20. It was some comfort to him to have but a ground of hope that the clouds which had bin so long gathered in the brow of Esau would shortly dissolve and that he might enjoy the shine of a pleased looke from his angry revengefull Brother How earnestly doth the Apostle Paul bespeake yea beg Prayers that the service which he had for Hierusalem might be accepted with the Saints Rom. 15. 31. It is no small comfort to have a place in the hearts of the Saints The good word and approbation of one Good man weighed more with Paul then the commendation of all the world which was not such There is a Testimony from a third hand which is a richer treasure then this Paul found it so and he could not conceale it 2 Cor. 1. 12. Our rejoycing is this the testimony of our Conscience c. Acceptance with the men of the world while we keepe a good Conscience is a great mercy But as to be accepted with the Saints is more desirable then with all other men So to be accepted in our own Consciences is more desirable then with all the Saints To please and heare well with the Saint within us is better then to please and heare well with the Saints without us Yet the Point in hand shewes us a higher consolation then these For as the testimony of God against us is more terrible then that of our own hearts 1 Ioh. 3. 20. If our heart condemne us God is greater then our hearts and knoweth all things and therefore knoweth more evill by us and every evill more then our own hearts doe So the testimony of God for us is more comfortable then that of our own hearts If our hearts acquit and accept of us God is greater then our hearts and knowing all things He knoweth more good by us and every good more then our owne hearts doe Who can expresse how sweet it is to heare well with God and to receive this Testimony that wee please him When Conscience speakes us faire we

never scrupled with which their consciences never closed I will leave but two words with this Generation First they who doe good things which they approve not shall never be approved by God for doing them Secondly God will ranke and reckon them among evil-doers who have done good which they approved not 3. ly they fall under the reproof of this point who will not Practise what or who practise contrary to what their understandings have proved or tried their consciences have approved or liked Not to doe the good we see and allow or to doe crosse to what we see and allow are both abominations to the Lord. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against their unrighteousnesse who thus hold the truth in unrighteousnesse Rom. 1. 18. Truth is not only free but it makes those who receive it free Woe to those who make bonds for truth who imprison and enslave it who violently hold downe truth lest it should exercise due dominion and command over their actions Such is their case who smother the light of cleare Principles received and know better then they dare or have a will to appeare and doe Thou knowest his will so the same Apostle chides them too and approvest the things that that are more excellent being instructed out of the law Rom. 2. 18. Thou therefore that teachest another teachest thou not thy selfe c. As that man is happie who condemneth not himselfe in that thing which hee alloweth by a scandalous practise of it Rom. 14. 22. So happie is that man who condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth by a scandalous neglect of it As some Hereticks so this sort of hypocrites are Self-condemners While a Heretick would logically justifie his false opinion and while these hypocrites will not practically follow their true opinion they both really though neither of them intentionally condemne their own persons The fourth sort which this Point deales with faile in the object of their acceptation Their care is not to prove and find out what is acceptable to God but what is acceptable to men Men-pleasers they are not God-pleasers they study what is like to take with the world not what is given as the mind of CHRIST The greatest number would faine please those who are great in Dignity and sometime they who are great in dignity will industriously please the greatest Number When Herod had killed Iames the Brother of the Lord with the Sword because he saw it pleased the Iewes he proceeded further to take Peter also Act. 12. 3. He cares not to spill the blood of an innocent so he may please the humour of the multitude The sinne is neere of the same stature whether Great men sinne to please many or many sin to please those who are Great The Apostle Paul I grant pleased all men in all things 1 Cor. 10. 33. and concludes Rom. 15. 2. Let every one of us please his neighbour It is our duty to doe so but take the limitation which followes for his good to Edification We may please men to edifie them but not to flatter them to do them good not to make our selves Great or rich So the holy Apostle explaines his Noble Parasitisme I please all men in all things not seeking mine owne profit but the profit of many that they may be saved All man-pleasing but that whereby we profit those we please is displeasing unto God And the profit he meanes is not either in filling or saving their purses but in saving their Soules Any other man-pleasing he disclaimes as having no allowance at all from God 1 Thes 2. 3 4. Our exhoration was not of deceit c but as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospell not as pleasing men but God who tryeth the hearts Nor at any time used we flattering words as ye know you must have heard them had we used them nor a cloake of Covetousnesse that I confesse is beyond your sight Covetousnesse is a close sinne and the intendment of it closer but God is witnesse nor of men sought we glory c. Glory or gaine profit or praise are the usuall provocations to such flattery He that is above the bayt shall not fall into the snare I have foure things to say to these First they who sinfully endeavour acceptation with men shall not long be accepted with men Men-pleasers run into greatest displeasure with men None find such unwelcome conclusions as they who have condiscended in speech or action to the lowest complyances When Cardinall Wolsey saw himself deserted by that King hee sayd If I had laboured to please and serve God as I have done to serve and please my Prince I had not bin thus cast off and forsaken Many such wrackt and weather-beaten wretches will complaine at last that they too much sought and pleased themselves with the Faire-weather and warme Sun-shine of the world Secondly such usually prove unacceptable to themselves After Achitophel had sinfully ingratiated himself with Absolom to betray David and Iudas with the Scribes and Pharisies to betray CHRIST they both fell out with themselves and ended their lives under the disfavour of their own Consciences How many having to regaine their lost reputation with men renounced the truth have presently bin renounced by their own hearts and could never get a good word or a good looke from them againe And they who have not found that quarrell endlesse have taken soare revenges upon Themselves and could not recover their peace till they had acknowledged and bewayled their owne cowardise Cranmer puts his right-hand into the fire which had subscribed his Recantation And Iewel mournes in Germany for a subscription he made in England to the Popish Inquisitors The hypocrites hope shall be cut off saith Bildad Iob 8. 14. the word signifies also extreame Loathing and Abominating which implyes his hope shall be so cut off that hee shall be a Loathing to himselfe It is an affliction and in some cases a very great one to be Loathed by other men but it is a farre greater for a man to be loathed by his owne Soule There is a twofold Self-loathing First of Repentance secondly of Desperation this latter is there portion And that 's as black as the suburbs of hell and lyes but one step from the regions of everlasting darknesse Thirdly such displease Christ so much that hee discards them his service Gal. 1. 10. Doe I now perswade men or God Paul preached of God not to God God is above mans Rhetorick or perswasions why then doth he say Doe I perswade men or God His meaning is doe I perswade the things of men or of God doe I perswade you to heare and obey Men or God Or as our late Annotators doe we make faith to men or seeke to endeare our selves to men The next words of the Text give us this glosse doe I seeke to please men Why Paul what danger or dammage if thou hadst yes very great For