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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41974	A short discourse. Or, serious reflections and meditations on some particular texts of scripture Being the substance of several sermons preached in a country congregation. Wherein is shewed, first, the blessedness of those that keep Gods Commandments. And secondly, the happiness of such as mind their creator betimes, very briefly and succinctly handled. Written by F.G. master of arts, and chaplain to the right honourable Robert Earl of Scarsdale.	Gallimore, Francis, 1628 or 9-1698.	1694 (1694)	Wing G180A; ESTC R223628	18,093	31

this City Heaven is often said to have a gate Mat. 7.13 strive to enter in at the strait gate saith Christ Solomon made two doors for the entering the Oracle they were made of Olive Trees and wrought upon with the Carvings of Cherubims 1 King 6.32 the Olives promising fatness and plenty of blessings the Cherubims holiness and eternity these are holy gates Let every one pray with the Royal Prophet Open to me the gates of righteousness I will go into them and I will praise the Lord this is the gate of the Lord into which the righteous shall enter In brief we may distinguish the gates leading to this City into two Adoption and Sanctification both these meet in Christ who is the only gate or door whereby we enter heaven I am the door saith our Saviour Jo. 10.9 Janua vitae the gate of life by me if any enter in he shall be saved Adoption is the first gate the inheritance of glory can't be given to the Children of Disobedience they must first be converted and adopted Heirs in Christ Adoption saith Seneca is a most sacred thing containing in it an imitation of Nature civilly giving them Sons whom Nature hath left childless or as the Jurist define it a legal supply of a natural defect whereby they that can beget no Children yet make Heirs to propagate their names to posterity But spiritual Adoption differs far from it for it 's a lawful act not imitating but transcending nature found out by the Lord himself not for the comfort of a Father that wants Children but for the comfort of Children that wants a Father we being by nature miserable Orphans having no Father to provide for us it pleased the Lord our God to become our Father in Christ and to make us by Adoption his Sons and Daughters not for any benefit he receives of us for nothing can accress by means of any creature to that most high and all sufficient Majesty sed ut haberet in quem sua beneficia collicaret but that he might have some upon whom he may bestow his benefits for the declaration of the glory of his mercy If by the grace of adoption God make us his Sons by the grace of regeneration he shall make us new creatures all the Sons of God are partakers of the divine nature take heed therefore unto your lives and conversations For if ye go on to spend the remainder of your days after the inordinate lusts of the flesh and walk on in gluttony and drunkenness in chambering and wantonness in adultery covetousness and such other works of uncleanness we must say unto you that ye have not God for your Father but ye are of your Father the Devil because you do his works except we see in you the image and superscription of God and that you have insculpt and graven in your conversation as Aaron had upon his frontlet holiness unto the Lord Exod. 28.36 we cannot bless you in the name of the Lord nor acknowledge you for such as are his by Adoption Again Sanctification is the second gate except a man be born again he cannot see God Jo. 3.3 holiness is the way to happiness grace is the gate of glory without holiness no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12.14 and what is man before he is new born but a deformed creature conceived of an unclean seed wormed in a sinful womb and in his birth no less stained and polluted with sin than in his blood how needful now is a new birth to man in this case Can he enter into heaven that savors all of earth will those precious gates of Gold and Pearls open to a sinner a vile obdurate obstinate sinner No he must first be new moulded and model'd and sanctified or he is excepted except a man be new born and this man is every man and every part of man Sanctification if saving must be perfect and entire tho not in respect of degrees yet in respect of parts every part and power both of body and soul must have its part of sanctification tho no part his full perfection until the dissolution of our earthly tabernacles And as the School distinguisheth it must be communiter in toto universaliter in singulis partibus but not totaliter perfectè this sanctification must be communicated to the whole man and universally propagated to every part tho it hath in no place of man a total perfection Hence say Divines there is sanctification inchoate and consummate begun here in this life of grace and perfected in the life of glory hereafter No sin is to be cherished in hope of mercy but we must strive for every grace we have not and for the increase of every grace we have let us make much therefore of that we possess and still seek for more striving to the mark Phil. 3.14 and yet when all is done think nor that thou mayest catch the Crown of Life by rightful desert That thou art not able to perform wert thou as righteous as Noah as obedient as Abraham as holy as Job as faithful as David as clear as the Sun as pure as the Stars in Heaven yet thou must sigh with a better soul than thine own who said and sighed for the impurity of all flesh Lord be merciful to me a sinner and enter not into judgment with us Now since this gate stands in our own heart I shall thus describe it and that briefly by its properties and parts The properties are two it is low and it is little and therefore we must contract our large extensions if we will fit our selves for that narrow way and little gate they must stoop that will enter in here He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away the rich in their own conceits and proud of their own worth shall be sent empty from this gate The first praecipice or downfal to hell both in Angel and Man was by Pride therefore humility must needs be the first step to heaven He that means to build high must lay his Foundation low all those precious and resplendent stones reckoned up in the Apocalyps cap. 21.19 were placed in the foundation of the heavenly city to teach us that all christian vertues are grounded in humility If a Vessel be full it will receive no more liquor be it never so sovereign and precious the proud and high minded man is full of his of his grown gifts and perfections and therefore letteth not into his soul the wholesom dew of Gods grace Holy Austin confesseth with tears that his swelling greatness and tumor of pride would not suffer him for a long time to enter in at the narrow gate that leadeth unto life in whose tears many of our gallant Sparks and high Spirits may read the cause why they are so usually poor and naked and blind in the inward man and tho oft-times nearest to the Court of Princes yet farthest off from the Kingdom of God The