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A87170	Topica sacra: spiritual logick: some brief hints and helps to faith, meditation, and prayer, comfort and holiness. / Communicated at Christ-Church, Dublin, in Ireland. By T.H. minister of the Gospel.	Harrison, Thomas, 1619-1682.	1658 (1658)	Wing H917; Thomason E1769_2; ESTC R202373	72,620	183

head fall to the ground for he hath wrought with God this day 1 Sam. 14.4 so doth every good Warriour every good Magistrate and that 's his greatest comfort glory and safety that he works with God and God with them So Paul speaks of himself and his fellow-labourers in the Ministry we then as workers together with him 2 Cor. 6.1 But I fear I must never have the honour of that Title whatever my calling or capacity be for it was not only his way in the Old Testament in the old Temple but 't is threatned in that Gospell-vision Ezek. 44.10 11 12 c. That they who have strayed far from him in times of temptation and epidemicall apostacy shall bear their iniquity their shame and their abominations that is some sad reward and remembrancer thereof and though admitted to the injoyment of many precious priviledges yet must be banished from the nearest approaches and highest services 't is exprest in the strain and stile of the Old Testament but is intended and calculated for the Meridian of the new and reaches not only Ministers but all Professors all those who are now the royall Priesthood 1 Pet. 2.5 9. Rev. 1.5 and even amongst good people where is the man that is able to beare being laid aside and cast off at the end of the stage and to see fresh instruments chosen what is it else imbitters so many spirits and how shouldst thou be able to bear such a tryall either to fall from thy standing or do no good though continued in it which of the two is the worst by farre if ever this be thy case go order thy cause before him and fill thy mouth with Arguments Though guilty of many strayings from him 1. Tell Him thou perceivest it is not his will to destroy thee if the Lord were pleased to kill thee he would not have accepted an offring at thine hand neither would he have shewed thee all these things which he locks up from so many thousands and yet hath acquainted thee with them thou canst look him in the face and say with the Prophet Hab. 1.12 Art not thou from everlasting O Lord my God mine holy one I shall not die Thou art the King eternall and swayed not by time-accidents but by eternal conside-rations thou changest not and therefore I am not I shall not be consumed Now then 2. Plead upon this ground and tell him it is not so much for his honour only to keep thee alive and make no use of thee to preserve thy soul only as salt to preserve the body but do no service and if thou hadst help to do all that is commanded or can be expected of thee in thy place is not thy soul prepared to say thou art but an unprofitable servant Luk. 17.10 and never open thy mouth more by way of boasting 3. Minde him that through his grace some sad sinners have proved most shining Saints as in Scripture the children of women long barren have proved most eminent instruments in Church and Commonwealth of Sarah Isaac of Rachel Joseph of Hannah Samuel of Manoahs wife Sampson of Elizabeth John the Baptist so amongst sinners some that came in late into the vineyard have plied their hands and laboured more abundantly then they who were admitted before them Ahimaaz out-runs Cushi though he set out after him and comes to David before him and if ever soul had need to redeem the time and fetch up what hath been lost thou much more and it will be to the praise of the glory of his grace if he will help thee so to do 4. He knows that thou art now in a way of purgation and purification and therefore it will be no dishonour to him now to use and imploy thee nay he hath published it by the pen of his Apostle that if a man purge himself from these from the pollutions wherewith he hath been defiled he shall be a vessel unto honour sanctified and made meet for the masters use and prepared unto every good work and thou askest no more 2 Tim. 2.21 They who will not be reduced and made better are often against their wills reduced and made lower if not utterly cashiered and dismissed from further service but he that can plead the former may scape the later as having now through grace prevented the Lord and saved him a labour 5. Ask him if he did not call thee and lead thee to thy present station and will he now leave thee to wither like a bulrush in the mire and to vanish away in utter unserviceableness Who in a way of God can take unto himself the honour of Magistracy or Ministry or any other way of usefullness but he that is called of God thereunto as was Aaron Heb. 5.4 and yet thou desirest to be prepared to justifie him though he proceed with thee as with Eli's house 1 Sam. 2.30 Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith I said indeed that thy house and the house of thy fathers should walk before me but now the Lord saith be it farre from me for them that honour me I will honour and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed and thou hast been too too often guilty of despising him 6. Ask if he remember not how thou didst often beg him never to trust thee with advantages with opportunities unless withall he would give thee an heart to be faithfull and fruitfull in the improvement of them Hast thou not prayed upon these termes even against power and riches lest thou shouldst be full and deny him and say who is the Lord hast thou not been in this regard more afraid of riches honour greatness then their contraries yea sometimes more afraid to live then to die fearing lest thou shouldst not live unto him and to his service loath therefore hast thou been to launch into the world again after thou hast been laid up by some sickness 7. How often hast thou desired since thou camest into the road of opportunities in sence and fear of unanswerableness rather to be removed then to fill up a room and cumber the ground and keep out others that might be more usefull and will he neither remove thee nor improve thee niether cut thee down nor make thee fruitfull Lastly Tell him plainly that passage in Rom. 5.20 Where sin abounded grace did much more abound makes thee being now found of him in away of faith and repentance not only not to fear extraordinary judgments but even to look for extraordinary favours more love unto him more humility more holiness more watchfulness and by these more then ordinary usefullness and serviceableness in thy generation let him put or place thee where he pleaseth it is not his disposition to upbraid Jam. 1.5 and therefore thou expectest he should give liberally of that wisdome to thee which may make thee serviceable in thy station After all this there may yet be a secret Achan in the Camp which will be fingring the

accursed thing unbelief a Jonah in the ship which will be raising new tempests and that is a fear lest God at last should turn his back upon thee and thou be found amongst those that are deceivers of their own souls being turned into hell when it seems their looks though nothing else were towards Heaven if ever this be thy case hye thee to God presently go fill thy mouth with Arguments 1. Complain against thine own heart so farre as there is any mixture of unbelief in this fear confess that as to God it is an unworthy jealousie and thou hast need with Gideon to cry him mercy to pray that his anger may not wax hot against thee for asking him so many signs considering how often the fleece hath been wet and the floor dry already to give thee satisfaction Yet when thou lookest downward there is misery enough and matter enough to justifie all thy fears and to move him to pardon yea to sanctifie them unto thee especially considering that thy All is at the stake and that it is Eternity Eternity Eternity that is before thee that vast gulf of eternity and if thou art mistaken in thy confidence thou art lost irrecoverably to all eternity this may move him to pity rather then to anger and to say to them that are of a fearfull heart be strong fear not behold your God will come and save you Isa. 35.4 2. For thy further establishment ask him if he have not made all as sure as grace can make it yea it is therefore all of grace that the promise might be sure to all the seed Rom. 4.16 as sure as infinite love infinite wisdome infinite power can make it and thou dreadest it as thou dost Hell it self to make the God of all Grace and Truth a Liar 1 Io. 5.10 to add to all thy other evils that grand abomination of unbelief which puts more affronts and scorn upon him then all other sins whatsoever 3. Ask if all the spirits of just men now made perfect will not confess the mercies of Christ to be sure mercies and that he as Boaz saith of Ruth shewed them more kindness in the latter end then at the beginning and that having loved his own which were in the world he loved them to the end and reserved the best wine for the last the last grapes especially in Chrifts vineyard yeild the sweetest wine David makes it obvious to any mans observation Psal. 37.37 Mark the perfect man and behold the upright he goes current for a perfect man for the end of that man is peace And even a Balaam is forced to acknowledg it and there is a desirableness in the death in the later end of the righous Numb. 23.10 Let me dye the death of the Righteous and let my later end be like his 4. If yet thou fearest as to thine own particular ask if the holy Ghost who makes it his trade to help infirmities and hath helped thee in thine all thy life long ask if he will not then help thee when thou art most infirm nothing but a lump of infirmity and weakness surely then in thy greatest need he will not fail thee Lastly Tell him he knows why thou wouldst so fain be with him in his Heaven not because thou fanciest it a Turkish Paradise or a Paganish Elisium abounding with carnal or corporal pleasures not only because thou wouldst escape everlasting burnings though he himself cannot blame thee for ayming at this seeing he commands thee by all means possible to endeavour it But thy soul longs incessantly to go to Heaven because Heaven is the Land of Hallelujahs and thou wouldst fain be thankfull really thankfull Heaven is the Land of Love and thou wouldst fain take thy fill of love in loving and being beloved in loving as thou art loved without intermission without interruption enternally and so be ever with Christ which is by much farre better Phil. 1.23 All these meet daily with a thousand hindrances and incumbrances which make thee sick of earth and sigh for Heaven groaning within thy self with that blessed Apostle who had once been there 2 Cor. 5.2 For in this we groan earnestly desiring to be cloathed upon with our house which is from Heaven Hinderances and Imcombrances which make a Hell above ground not to be endured by any honest heart and how much more intollerable then is the nethermost Hell for there is never a nooke never a corner in it where a poore sinner might weep eternally without blaspheming without hearing blasphemies without hating of God without sinning against him He knows how often thou hast told him if there were how much more quietly thou couldst accept of the punishment of thine iniquity there and there justifie him and there bewaile thy folly and madness and lament the loss of him for evermore But to lose him and all love to him and to be sinning agaist him eternally this cannot be consented to but by a Creature damned already though above ground nothing therefore short of Heaven can satisfie thee or ought so to do and if upon these terms thou canst not be admitted into his rest sure he will have but little who went thither to prepare a place for thee This hope then we have as an Anchor of the soul both sure and stedfast and which entreth into that within the vaile whither the fore-runner is for us entred even Jesus made an High Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedee Heb. 6.19 20. thus building up your selves on your most holy faith and praying in the holy Ghost keep your selves in the Love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternall life , Jude 20 21. ver. But hast thou not a good mind before parting to speak a good word for others also this hath been constantly the way of the spirit of adoption when David came before the Lord upon the saddest occasion that ever his soul was acquainted with when he was most full of his own concernments and had most cause of fear that his appearing for others might do harm rather then good yet then he ventures to frop a word for Sion and remembers Jerusalem amidst his greatest grief as well as he prefers her before his chiefest joy do good in thy good pleasure unto Sion build thou the walls of Jeresalem What his sinnes had weakened and attempted to ruine he endeavours to strengthen and repair by his prayers and seldome do ye see him rise from of his knees before he had pleaded the Churches cause and oftentimes he makes that his only errand as you may find by severall Psalms pend for no other purpose Nay many times the best pleaders feel not their hearts warm in the work till they come out of the narrow circle of their own personall concernments and launch into the business of the body of Christ and then are their hearts fixed 06 by the spirit of grace and