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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74995	A glass of justification, or The vvork of faith with povver. Wherein the apostles doctrine touching justification without the deeds of the law, is opened; and the sence in which gospel-obedience, as well as faith, is necessary to justification, is stated. Wherein also the nature of that dead faith is detected, by which multitudes that hope for salvation are (as is to be feared) deceived; and the true nature and distinguishing properties of the faith of Gods elect, is handled. Finally, the doctrine of the imputation of faith for righteousness is herein also briefly discussed; and the great wisdom and folly of men about the proof of their faith, touched ... By William Allen, a poor servant to the Lord Jesus.	Allen, William, d. 1686.	1658 (1658)	Wing A1065; Thomason E948_7; ESTC R207578	191,802	230

had built a Wall of partion about them viz. his Ordinances to distinguish them from the Nations of the Gentiles and to make them as a Garden enclosed and had also set a Hedge of his special Providence and Protection about them and had watered them with Rain from Heaven in the Doctrine of the Law and Prophets whose Doctrine did drop as the Rain and whose speech did distil as the dew and then according to his cost looking for the good Grapes of Judgement and Righteousness yet instead thereof meeting with the unsavoury and wilde Grapes of Oppression and Crying what does he do with his Vineyard in this case What He commands the Clouds that they rain no rain upon it Isa 5.6 So that the Complaint was The Law is no more her Prophets also find no Vision from the Lord Lam. 2.9 Whereupon followed a Famine not of Bread nor thirst for Water but of Hearing the Words of the Lord Amos 8.11 The partition Wall also to wit the Law of Commandements contained in Ordinances Ephes 2.14 15. he brake down upon which this Lamentation was taken up saying He hath violently taken away his Tabernacle as if it were of a Garden he hath destroyed his places of the Assembly the Lord hath caused the solemne Feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the King and the Priest The Lord hath cast off his Altar he hath abhorred his Sanctuary c. Lam. 2.6 7. Finally The Lord pluckt up and brake down the Hedge of his Protection which had been a Defence to them in their enjoyment and solemnization of his Publick worship exposed them unto the grievous molestation and oppression of the enemy upon which followed that doleful Complaint Psal 80.12 13. Why hast thou broken down her Hedges so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her The Boar out of the Wood doth waste it and the wilde Beast of the Field doth devour it Behold here you have a taste of Gods sore displeasure against his own and only Vineyard of old when unfruitful after sufficient cost and care bestowed on it to make it fertile And if God spared not the natural Branches take heed lest he also spare not thee was the Watch-word of the great Apostle of the Gentiles to a Gentile Church at Rome Rom. 11.21 And I beseech you Brethren let his Admonition sink down into your ears and take warning betimes For where are now I pray you those once famous and flourishing Churches of Corinth Galatia Philippi Colosse Thessalonica the seven Churches of Asia yea and of Rome it self which were planted and watered too by the Apostles themselves Are not those golden Candlesticks removed out of their place Are not those Vineyards laid waste Are not those Fig-trees cut down as cumbering the ground And what 's the reason of all this Of a truth unfruitfulness hath been the cause of all and the true reason why the Lord hath let forth his Vineyard to other Husbandmen to see if they will render him fruits in their season Matth. 21.41 And you my Friends among others are those other Husbandmen unto whom the Lord hath how for the present let forth his Vineyards expecting that Fruit from you which those other Churches now desolate with-held from him He is now proving you by frequent dressings prunings waterings rainings upon and watchings over to see if you will bring him forth fruits meet for Repentance and worthy amendment of life And if not remember that word And now also is the Ax laid to the root of the trees Every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewen down and cast into the fire Matth. 3.10 And again Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away Joh. 15.2 And a third time also Luke 13.7 Then said he unto the Dresser of his Vineyard Behold these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree and find none cut it down why cumbereth it the ground Upon how many Churches have these words taken hold since they first came forth from the Lord And the edge of them is not at all blunted with cutting down so many but is as keen and as ready to do execution now as at the first and will first or last cut down all unfruitful Churches and take away all unfruitful branches And therefore it exceeding nearly concerns you my dearly beloved and so it does all the Churches to take special care that you bring forth fruit and that your fruit may remain according to Christs word John 15.16 Sect. 7 For it is not enough if you have run well hitherto and brought forth fruits until now except your fruit remain except you be as a tree planted by the waters which shall not cease from yielding fruit Jer. 17.8 For how did the Apostles many times glory over those first Churches that were planted by them because of the first fruits of their Faith love and patience wherein they did for a time richly abound Rom. 1.8 2 Cor. 9.2 2 Thes 1.4 and yet how soon was the glory departed especially from among some of them as if their goodness like Ephraims had been but as a morning cloud or as an early dew that goeth away Hos 6.4 And the Apostles even while they were yet among them had too much cause to change their voice concerning them Gal. 4.20 For many there were then while the Apostles had the dressing of them who lead the way of that dreadful decay first and apostacy after in which the Churches themselves as the event gives cause to fear following in time came to utter desolation They were as Jude describes them Trees whose fruit withered without fruit twice dead plucked up by the roots Jude 12. The foundation of their utter eradication and final desolation was laid we see in the withering of their fruit first I I pray you observe it and fear It should seem at the first they were not altogether without fruit but their misery was they fell into spiritual decayes their Fruit withered grew harsh and unkindly thin shriveled and blasted And that which in a short time followed this was their total barrenness being without fruit by which it being manifest they were stark dead and so no hope left of their bearing Fruit any more the sad conclusion was plucking up by the roots There were at the first excellent good things found in the Church of Ephesus for which Christ commended her Rev. 2.2 3. but having lost her first love and fallen into some decay he threatens her that except she were made sensible of her sinking condition remembred from whence she was fallen and so repented and did her first works and recovered her self again he would come unto her quickly and remove her Candlestick out of its place which since hath come to pass Behold then my Brethren and be astonished and fear lest you at any time expose your selves to like danger by like declinings Look to your selves