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A disswasive from conformity to the world as also God's severity against impenitent sinners : with a farewel sermon lately preached to a congregation in London / by Henry Stubs.
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Stubbes, Henry, 1606?-1678.
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in sickness and in health in peace and in trouble in all Adversity and in all Prosperity The Lord be with you with all kind of Aids Helps and Assistances variety of Aids and Assistances we need This is the sence and meaning of this vale dictory Prayer the Lord be with you all The observation that I shall commend to you is this Doct. God with us is a priviledge greatly to be desired and much to be prayed for The Apostle makes this Prayer for the Thessalonians whom he dearly loved who were his hope and joy and Crown of Rejoycing 1 Thes. 2. 19. Could he have thought of a greater mercy he would have wisht it to them In speaking to this great Truth I shall shew 1. That there is a presence of God with his people 2. That this presence of God is a great priviledge 3. That this great priviledge is much to be desired and prayed for 4. The reasons of it 5. And after this apply it 1. There is a presence of God with his people I speak not of the general presence of God whereby he is not far from every one of us Act. 17. 27. For in him we live move and have our being v. 28. not only as we had our being from him at first but we have our being in him as the Beam has its Being in the Sun Of this presence of God you read Psal. 139. from which there is no fleeing v. 7. he is every where v. 8 9 I fill Heaven and Earth saith the Lord Jer. 23. 24. and Isa. 66. 1. Thus saith the Lord Heaven is my Throne and the Earth my foot stool This general presence of God if seriously considered and believingly apprehended would be of great use But 't is the special presence of God that I am to speak to his favourable and gracious presence such as that wished and desired by Aaron and his Sons of old Num. 6. 24 25 26. The Lord bless thee and keep thee the Lord make his face shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee the Lord lift up his Countenance upon thee and give thee peace This blessing is saith Ainsworth expounded by the Apostle 2 Cor. 13. 14. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all Thus the first branch of the blessing v. 24. The Lord bless thee and keep thee implieth the love of the Father The second branch v. 25. The Lord make his face shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee implieth the grace of the Son And the third branch The Lord lift up his Countenance upon thee and give thee peace implieth the communion with the Holy Ghost Now this Loving Gracious Communicative presence of Jehovah Father Son a 〈…〉 Holy Ghost is that Presence of the Lord which is so great a priviledge and so much to be desired The Lords presence with us to bless us with all Spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. Eph. 1. 3. And to keep us from evil Joh. 17. 15. And to make his face shine upon us that we may be saved Psal. 80. 3. 7 19. And to be gracious to us through Christ Jesus Eph. 2. 7. And to lift up his countenance upon us that Gladness may be in our hearts Psal. 4. 8. And to give us peace that peace which passeth all understanding and that which may guard our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus Phil. 4. 7. This this is the presence of God which is so desireable and of which I am to treat That there is such a presence of God with his people appears thus 1. God Asserts it 2. Promises it 3. Hath evidenced it 4. Gods people have acknowledged it 1. God Asserts that there is such a presence of His with his people Isa. 41. 10. Fear thou not saith God for I am with thee And Ezek. 48. 35. The name of the City from that day shall be The Lord is there 2. God hath promised it Ezek. 26. 11 12. I will set my Tabernacle among you and my Soul shall not abhor you And I will walk among you and will be your God and ye shall be my people 3. God hath evidenced it by Preservations Assistances Deliverances and Suâ—cesses vouchsafed to his people What a mighty Gracious pardoning presence oâ— God was with Moses and the Children of Israel in bringing them out of Egypt through the Red Sea and through the Wilderness into Canaan Read the story of it in the Book of Exodus especially the Song of Moses Exod. 15. What a presence of God was with David Spiâ—iting Prospering and Preserving him when hunted like a Partridge upon the Mountains Whence was it that he was not Caught there were Skilful Hunters yet he escaped the Snare for the Lord was with him What a mighty presence of God was there with Daniel He will pray that he will though he be torn in pieces for it He will not cease to make his Supplications to God three times a day though there were a Law made against it Daniel would not fail to be with God and God would not fail to be with Daniel VVhat would Daniel be with God to the Hazard of his life Yes And was not God with him for his Preservation Daniel is cast into the Den of Lions Was he torn or hurt by them No The Lions were muzled their Mouths were shut God shut them Dan. 6. 22. My God saith Daniel hath sent his Angel and hath shut the Lions mouthes that they shall not hurt me Though men will not be obedient yet Lions will touch not my Servant Daniel saith God to the Lions and they are as quiet as Lambs Touch not mine anointed saith God to men and do my Prophets no harm yet men will not obey What a presence of God was there with those three noble Jews when threatned if they would not bow they should burn They will bow to none but God Dan 3. 17 18. They will not loose their interest in God to gain an Interest in the greatest Then the King commanded that they should be bound and cast into the Fiery Furnace v. 20. being cast into it the Fire burned their executioners and the bonds wherewith they were bound but had no Power on their Bodies nor was there a Hair of their Head singed neither were their Coats changed nor had the smell of Fire passed on them Dan. 3. 27. and how came this to pass God was with them What a presence of God had Paul with him At my first Answer saith he no man stood with me but all men forsook me I pray God that it may not be laid to their Charge notwithstanding the Lord stood with me and strengthened me and I was delivered out of the mouth of the Lion 2 Tim. 4. 16 17. What a presence of God was there with those that had trial of cruel Mockings and Scourgings of Bonds and Imprisonments of Stoning and Sawing asunder of wandering Wants Afflictions and Torments
35. A living sacrifice dead indeed unto sin but alive to God Rom. 6. 11. being quickned by his spirit that we might not live to our selves but to him who died for us 2 Cor. 5. 15. Holy not regarding but hating iniquity in our hearts for if iniquity be regarded we cannot be accepted Psalm 66. 18. Acceptable to God well pleasing to him through Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 2. 5. through faith in him without which we cannot please God Heb. 11. 6. Which is your reasonable service 1. Your service of God which consists not in the offering up of unreasonable Beasts as heretofore but in the offering up of your reasonable selves Or Your service which is agreeable to the Rules of true Reason And be not conformed 1. Take not upon you the form or fashion of this wicked world make not the Manners and Pleasures of worldly men your rule to walk by But be ye transformed changed altered 1. More and more By the renewing of your mind understanding will and affections That ye may prove 1. Discern understand 2. Approve 3. Give proof by a Godly life that you do understand and approve That good acceptable and perfect will of God 1. Good which teacheth and leadeth to that which is good and makes good 2. Acceptable nothing being acceptable to God but what is according to his will 3. Perfect comprehending all things necessary to salvation 2 Tim. 3. 16. These words And be not conformed to this world are a Dehortation Wherein 1. The Persons Dehorting Paul a servant of Jesus Christ called to be an Apostle one that well understood the mind of his Lord and Master and would give nothing in charge but what he had received 1 Cor. 11. 23. 2. The Persons Dehorted The believing Romans beloved of God called to be Saints Rom. 1. 7. Yea eminent Saints Rom. 1. 18. Such as had obeyed from the heart Rom. 6. 17. 3. The thing they are Dehorted from viz. Conformity to this world which you who are Saints and called to the Kingdom and Glory of God should look upon with contempt and trample under foot 4. The Mode of the Dehortation t is in a beseeching way I beseech you 5. The Motive By the mercies of God Doct. 'T is the will of the most holy God that they who are called to be Saints should not conform to sinners They that are called out of the world must not be conformed to this world I shall shew you 1. What is meant by the World 2. What meant by conformed 3. What of the World must not be conformed unto 4. That it is so 5. Why. 6. The Use. First What is meant by the World By the world understand The Men of the world Psal. 17. 14. Worldly minded Men and Women who have their hearts inheritance and happiness here their portion in this life The wicked of the world Joh. 14. 17. These are called the World 1. Because they are ruled by the God of this world 2 Cor. 4. 4. Eph. 2. 2. 2. Because they have received onely the spirit of the world that spirit which teacheth worldly things and placeth its happiness in worldly things 1 Cor. 2. 12. 3. Because they are satisfied and contented with the things of this world Psal. 4. 6. 17. 14. Phil. 3. 19. 4. Because they are the major part of world Secondly What meant by Conformed By conforming to the world understand fashioning our selves according to it resembling the world and being like to it making the men of the world our Pattern our Example and Copy to write after When we approve imitate and follow the sinful fashions and practices of this world then we conform to it Now not to be Conformed to this world is not to approve not to imitate not to follow the sinful vain foolish fashions and practices of this world Not to put on their form and shape in our behaviour Thirdly What of the world it is wherein we must not be conformed unto it 1. Not in that wickedness the world lies in 1 Joh. 5. 19. Not in that unrighteousness it is filled with a Catalogue whereof is set down Rom. 1. 29 30 31. Not in those works of darkness it delights in Rom. 13. 12 13. Not in those works of the flesh set down Gal. 5. 19 20 21. Not in the walk of the Gentiles Ephes. 4. 17 18 19. 1 Pet. 4. 3. Not in its lustings 1 Joh. 2. 16. We must not be conformed 〈…〉 in it s sinful Customs Dispositions Practices We must not be conformed to the practice of worldly men in Natural Civil and Religious actions We must not eat and drink as they do for they feed themselves without fear Jude 12. We must not buy and sell as they do for therein they walk not by that rule Mat. 7. 12. We must not carry our selves in Religious matters as they do We must not hear as they do for they hear without preparation before hearing Attention at hearing Affection at hearing Application at hearing Practice after hearing See Ezek. 33. 31. We must not pray as they do For 1. They make light of Prayer Job 21. 15. 2. They Pray with the lip onely and not with the heart Isa. 29. 13. Mat. 15. 18. 3. They continue not in Prayer they grow weary 4. They think to be heard for their much speaking Matth. 6. 7. 5. They turn away their ear from heari◠〈…〉 whom they Pray Prov. 28. 9. 6. They aim amiss in Prayer Jam. 4. 3. We must not come to the Lords Table as they do for they come unpreparedly Nor observe Sabbaths as they do for they trifle them away Nor sing Psalms as they do for they sing not with the heart but voice onely Nor fast as they do for they abstain onely from food not from sin Fourthly That it is so That Saints must not conform to sinners Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil Exod. 23. 2. After the doing of the Land of Egypt and Canaan shall ye not do neither shall ye walk in their ordinances Levit. 18. 3. Thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of the Nations Deut. 18. 9. Walk not in the way of sinners refrain thy foot from their path Prov. 1. 15. Enter not into the path of the wicked go not in the way of evil men Avoid it pass not by it turn from it and pass away Prov. 4. 14 15. If sinners entice thee consent thou not Prov. 1. 10. Thus saith the Lord Learn not the way of the Heathen Jer. 10. 2. Though Israel play the Harlot yet let not Judah offend Hos. 4. 15. This I say therefore and testifie in the Lord that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind Ephes. 4. 17. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them Ephes. 5. 11. Ye are children of the light and of the day not of the night nor of darkness Therefore let us not sleep as do others but let us