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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32900	The Christians way to heaven, or, What he must do to be saved by a divine of the Church of England.	Divine of the Church of England.	1700 (1700)	Wing C3962; ESTC R23847	11,729	21

by Hearing Rom. 10.17 And therefore you ought not to flight this great means of your Salvation Neither must you indulge your selves in silly Fancies in liking or not liking your Ministers Phrase or Action but you ought chiefly to mind the Substance of 〈…〉 meanest Minister of the Gospel if you hear him with that soberness you ought for let me tell you the fault of your not profiting does not so much lie in unedifying Ministers as in unpractising Congregations Nor must you run about gadding to other Churches to hear others you are better pleased with for besides the great fault you commit in discouraging your own Ministers endeavours you cannot expect that God should afford the same Blessing to the hearing of the Word out of the Method he has prescribed and from those to whom he has not given Charge of your Souls You must likewise be constant in Reading Gods Word Reading the Holy Scriptures Mat. 22.29 Joh. 5.39 Acts 17.11 or getting it read to you for this is the most considerable Motive you can make use of to a good Life Because then you here God Almighty himself speaking to your Consciences whose Authority will prevail much more with you than our Preaching and besides by this you may examine the Doctrine which we Teach and see that we do not impose upon you but Preach to you what is agreeable to that excellent Rule You must furthermore as frequently as conveniently you may Frequent Receiving the Lords Supper Receive the Holy Sacrament of our Lords Body and Blood for whilst you Live in a constant neglect of this you have little pretence to be Christians because our blessed Lord has commanded all his Followers to do this in remembrance of him and if you will not thus remember him and shew this Token your Communion with him and his Church you do in effect deny your Baptismal Vow and turn Renegoado's to the Religion of Christ This is the Oath of Fidelity to your heavenly Prince which he has required of you frequently to renew which if you refuse you cast of all Allegiance and Subjection to him and turn Rebels to his Administration Whilst you neglect this you deprive your selves of the Grace of God's Holy Spirit which is plentifully conveyed by a due receiving this Holy Sacrament you leave your Souls defenceless against all the Assaults of the World the Flesh and the Devil which may attack them and defraud your selves of the Seal of Gods Pardon for Sin which is fully given to all worthy Receivers You must also religiously observe all the Feasts and Fasts of the Church Religious observing Sundays and Holidays not only by coming to Church on Sundays Fast-days and Holidays but by dedicating besides some considerable part of them to your Religious Exercises in Private You must lastly take Care to bring your Children as soon as may be Bringing Children to Publick Baptism to partake of the Holy Sacrament of Baptism not at Home as is the vain and irreligious Fashion of some but to Church where the Sacrament may be more solemnly administred and where your Children may partake of the ●oynt Prayers of the Congregation of God's People And when you have done so you must see them well instructed in the Principles of the Christian Religion and that they come to take their Religion upon themselves which their Sureties in Baptism promised they should Catechism and Confirmation when the Bishop does administer the Sacred Ordinance of Confirmation VI. Lastly in order to Salvation VI. Condition To Watch against all Temptations and Failures you must take Care to Exercise another Duty which is particularly recommended by our Saviour as a guard to all the rest and that is Watchfulness Mat. 24.42 and 25.14 Acts 20.31 Though you have truly repented of your Sins and got into a Habit of Virtue and a Religious Course of Life yet if you have not a great guard upon your selves you will insensibly relapse again into your former Condition For you must needs think that the Devil will use the utmost of his spight and cunning and will play his main Batteries upon those who have forsaken his Cause and are obedient to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ The Holy Scripture informs you that he goes about like a roaring Lyon seeking whom he may devour 1 Pet. 5.8 And you may reasonably suppose that he will devour none so easily as those Christians who live off of their Guard Therefore when you have forsaken a Course of Sin and are arrived at a tolerable Perfection of Virtue and Godliness don't sit down secure as if there was nothing more to be done for in your Christian Warfare there is Work enough to go forwards in as long as you live It requires ● great deal of Diligence and Circumspection to keep all Temptations and to maintain your Integrity in a vitious Age when Wickedness is ofttimes applauded and Vertue meets with so great discouragements But there is hardly any standing at a stay in a Religious Course you will either go forwards or backwards and therefore be watchful that you do not move the wrong Way and this you cannot be sure of unless as long as you live you be improving in Vertue I do not doubt but many Christians are in a salvable State that are subject to many Imperfections and Failures but as they live on they must still go forwards in the Conquest of these A sincere Penitent who is just come out of a flagitious Course of Life has enough to do to fence against the gross Sins he has so much been accustom'd to but God expects from one who has been long habituated to a Course of Godliness that he should be very watchful against all human Imperfections whatsoever Such a one must not think so easily to be excused from Sins of Ignorance when after a long Exercise in hearing and reading God's Word he might have better informed himself of his Duty he cannot so well plead Sins of Infirmity when his Nature has very considerably lost its byass to Sin by a long Course of Vertue Therefore good Christians must be going forwards in a State of Virtue as long as they live they must be still bettering and improving their Natures more and more informing their Understandings in Religious Truths and rectifying their Wills they will find Work enough to watch against all imprudent and offensive Actions against idle Words against sudden Anger against coldness and some involuntary Excursions in Devotion And for an incouragement to this Progress God Almighty will not only Reward them with a bare saving their Souls but will liberally bestow on such the Ten Talents Luke 19.24 He will advance them according to their Improvement in Piety to one of the highest Thrones in the Heavenly Kingdom For one Star differeth fr●m another Star in Glory 1 Cor 15.41 And now let me speak a Word or two by way of Exhortation and Inference from what has been said First Let me apply