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A39813	A fathers testament. Written long since for the benefit of the particular relations of the authour, Phin. Fletcher; sometime Minister of the Gospel at Hillgay in Norfolk. And now made publick at the desire of friends.	Fletcher, Phineas, 1582-1650.	1670 (1670)	Wing F1355; ESTC R201787	98,546	240

great dutie Consider why you love any creature why more one than another why you should love the world riches pleasures as God a drop as the fountain It is even here too true Love descends Get your hearts baptized with fire and the holy Ghost buried with Christ into his death and raised in his resurrection that your affections may be set and settled on things not on earth but on things above even on him who is infinitly above all things who is blessed for ever and your eternal blessedness 2. Secondly the outward worship consists either in his speaking to us or our speaking to him He speaks to us either to our ears in his word or to our eyes in his Sacraments we to him either in prayers or vows Hearing is a chief part of Gods service Eccl. 5.1 The special gate whereby the Wisdom of God all knowledg and life enters Prov. 2.2 3. 1.5 Isa. 55.3 An hearing ear is Gods special gift to us Prov. 20.12 and our acceptable gift and sacrifice to him Psal. 40.6 1 Sam. 15.22 An obedient ear is a graceful and precious ornament Prov. 1.8 9. The ear the most happy factour of the soul whereby it seeks and gets Prov. 18.15 that rich merchandise which is better than silver and fine gold Prov. 3.14 But he who hath a disobedient ear or careless refusing to hear is good for nothing Jer. 13.10 and an itching ear hath certainly a rotten heart Isa. 30.9 10 11. The word of God preached is the seed in the hand of the Sower Mar. 4.14 taken out of the Granarie of the scriptures and cast into the furrows of the heart by Gods Spirit an incorruptible seed of a life incorruptible 1 Pet. 1.23 by which we are begotten unto God Jam. 1.18 And as it is the seed whereby we are born so is it the food also whereby we are nourished in that life of God as well m●●k for babes as strong meat for the strong 1 Pet. 2.2 Heb. 5.12 c. It is an heavenly treasure in earthen vessels 2 Cor. 4.7 a rich Mart of all spiritual commodities where our Lord sells and we buy without mony all heavenly riches Be swift therefore to hear Jam. 1.19 value it above thousands of gold and silver Psal. 119.72 Sell all you have to purchase it Matth. 13.44 Buy the truth at any price sell it at none Pro. 23.23 Neither hear only but read it we cannot use too many ways in trading with this rich commoditie Had we as many distractions as Princes they can yield us no exemption from this dutie Deut. 17.18 Iosh. 1.8 Our frequent conversing with it and meditating in it will not take so much from our time as it will add to our opportunities Morning and evening day and night exercise your selves in it so shall ye be like ● fruitful tree planted by the rivers of water so shall ye make your may prosperous so shall ye have good success Psal. 1.1 2 3. Josh. 1.8 Nulla dies sine linea Think the day lost wherein you have mist this market 2. The Sacraments are visibile verbum Christs sermons to our eyes passion-sermons ●ou know that verse More dully stirs the mind what through th' ear passes Than what is view'd to life in the eyes true glasses They are not only teaching signs printing in our eyes and hearts the death of the Lord Iesus but assuring seals presenting and conveying unto us the grace which they represent There are many large and learned volumes printed concerning them and in every Catechise you may meet with pious instructions in this subject I will only therefore advise you concerning the Lords Supper 1. That you neglect no opportunitie so far as may be of comming to the Lords Table For is it not our communion with Christ 1 Cor. 10.16 Look as wholesome meats are the means whereby spirits are renewed strength increased union between body and soul maintained so the Supper of the Lord is his Ordinance whereby our everlasting life is confirmed our dull spirits revived and our union with the Lord Iesus Christ much strengthned Certainly the frequent use of it was the special means whereby the Primitive Churches so far excelled us in Christian fortitude resolution and every spiritual gift Above all other take heed of that carnal or rather divelish plea of hellish persons namely that they are not in charitie whereby they plainly discover how much they prefer their revenge be●ore their salvation and that hellish Murtherer before the heavenly Saviour Surely he that will rather nourish his malice by abstinence from the Lords Table than his fainting soul by that Bread of Heaven deserves and surely dos in his hellish fast to eat and drink his own damnation 2. Come prepared in some good measure and for that end set apart some day in that week for humiliation to afflict your souls by fasting to seek a right way Ezra 8.21 And because one especial end of this ordinance is the remembrance of our Saviour and shewing forth his death Luk. 22.19 1 Cor. 11. vers 25 26. spend much of that time in meditating upon it and principally the causes of it 1. The abhorred filthiness and dreadful na●ure of sin which could not be expiated or purged but by the blood of God 2. The fierce wrath of God and terrible severitie of his justice which exacted even of his most beloved Son undertaking for us the uttermost farthing even to make him Sin who knew no sin and a curse who was God blessed for ever 3. The infinite mercy of our gracious Father who gave his beloved Son to reconcile such hateful enemies and 4. The incomprehensible love of the Lord Iesus who vouchsafed to purchase our redemption at such a rate And leave not your soul till you find it abhorring it self in dust and ashes bleeding with Christ on his Cross sick of your sin and of his love and swelling with the fruit of the lips the sacrifice of praise 3. Prayer is the mouth of faith whereby it utters holy desires to God Many think they pray when they do but houl Hos. 7.14 or babble Matth. 6.7 we neither know what nor how to pray till we be instructed neither can any doctour inform us but that Spirit of adoption who teacheth us to cry Abbae Father Rom. 8.14 Gal. 4.6 He will instruct you to go unto God 1. As to a Father and therefore with all reverence and ●ubmission and 2. With all assurance and confidence 2. He is the Spirit of the Son and therefore will carry you to the Father by the Son to God by Christ. He will not suffer you to make your addresses by your selves or any creature but by that only Mediatour and Advocate Sacrifice must be brought to the Temple to the dore of the Tabernacle offered only upon Gods chosen Altar and by none but the Priest Christ is that Temple Ioh. 2.21 He the dore Ioh. 10.9 he the Altar Heb. 13.10 which sanctifies all our gifts and the ●igh Priest

But wherein consists this seeking of God In all seeking 1. The heart seeks in the desires and longings of it 2. That sets it self and the whole man on work constantly and diligently to use all means whereby we may attain what we may desire and seek The root is in the heart that blades in the desire mark 2 Chron. 15.12 15. ears and grows fruitful in the actions and earnest endeavours David seeks God How 1. His soul thirsted his flesh longed for God 2. He follows hard after him Psal. 63.1 8. so those Saints Isa. 26.8 9. in the night desire him with their soul seek him early in the morning waiting for him in the way of his judgements Again that which we seek must be the end of our seeking whatsoever we seek not for it self but for some other we seek not it indeed but that other for which we desire and seek it God must be sought for himself we must not in seeking him look to any thing beyond him when we seek our Lord as the Iews sought Christ not b●●ause of the miracle but because they had eaten and were filled we seek not our God but our bellies But what are the mean● wherein we seek and find The Lord hath given us blessed means 1. Holy Ordinances the way of hi● judgements prayer the Word Sacraments See Isa. 26.8 2. A powerful Mediatour and prevalent Intercessour with God for man God and Man the Lord Iesus Christ he the only Door Joh. 10.9 the only Way by which we come to God Ioh. 14.6 His blood hath scored out our path to the Holiest a new and living way through the Veil of ●is flesh Heb. 10.19 20. 3. Faith which effectually applies both unto us The Ordinances not mingled with faith profit not Heb. 4.2 Prayer without faith God accounts howling Hos. 7.14 the word men who have no faith count babbling Act. 17.18 Christ is ours and dwells in our hearts by faith Ephes. 3.17 but without faith we are still under the curse Iob. 3.36 He then that thirsteth for God looks to Christ in every Ordinance not to serve himself of God but to serve him in all faithfulness this man seeks God Many there are which deceive themselve● and suppose they are not now to begin that work they have long ●ince they hope both sought and found him But have they prep●red their heart have th●y put aw●y iniquity far from them do they not suffer wickedness to dwell in their Tabernacles Job 11.13 14. How should men seek and find God in the wayes of ungodliness the righteous Lord in all unrighteousness Can God be found in Atheism In such wayes they find God as Balaam his Angel with a drawn sword in his hand not as a Father but a Iudge and Avenger Indeed if we rejoice to work righteousness remember him in his wayes he will surely meet us in his mercy Isa. 64.5 But if we seek him after our own devices and though we walk after the imagination of our own wicked hearts yet dream we shall have peace Deut. 29.19 he will meet us not as a man Isa. 47.3 but as a Lion to tear us in pieces where none can deliver Psal. 50.22 And yet further that we deceive not our selves in a matter of such consequence we must know that this seeking of God may be considered in divers periods of it 1. When being without God in the World we seek to be initiated into his service see Act. 17.27 2. After some breach when by our misbehaviour we have caused him to withdraw his favour and to hide himself from us as Cant. 5.6 3. Even when we are in peace and amity we must still seek him labouring to get more union and communion with him in a continual waiting upon him and looking unto him Psal. 105. 4. Some perhaps will think All this is needless what necessity of seeking him when he first seeks us Luk. 15.4 8. nay finds us before we seek him Isa. 65.1 God indeed loveth us first 1 Ioh. 4.19 and in his love draws us Jer. 31.3 In infinite love he gives us his Son Joh. 3.16 Thus he seeks us lost Creatures as that Woman her lost Groat Luk. 15.8 He lights up the Gospel and sends in with it that great light offers him and in him offers us grace and happiness so he seeks and finds us as Keepers their strayed De●r he sends in Hunters and they hunt us from every Mountain and every hill and from holes of Rocks he sends those Apostolical Fishers and they shall spread their Nets Ezek. 47.10 and fish them Ier. 16.16 Till which time we do but as thos● blind Heathens feel after him Act. 17.27 we sit in darkness he sends in his Word and calls us ●orth unto his marvelous Light 1 Pet. 2.9 we are enemies he beseeches us to be reconciled and offers us peace in Christ but further gives his chosen an heart to know him Jer. 24.7 an heart to fear him Jer. 32.39 an heart to walk in his wayes Ezek. 36.27 He circumciseth their hearts to love him Deut. 30.6 opens the heart for Christ Act. 16.14 and brings in the Lord Jesus to dwell there Eph●s 3.17 so he first seeks us in calling us seek ye my f●ce and then we when he hath given us that new heart seek him when we answer Lord thy face will I seek Psal. 27.8 He first waits to be gracious to us then we wait on him and ar● blessed Isa. 30.18 Let me shut up this Chapter with that Princely Preacher and Prophetical Poet in this Paraphrase in Verse upon his Ecclesiast 2. I. Oh I am tir'd I faint I swoon I dye I travel all the world to find a station Where weary soul● may sa●e and happy lye I search for rest feel but vexation I grope for substance grasp but vanity I seek for life and health find death damnation I meet approaching death death to eschew Toyl'd with vain sweat I wax old to renew My weary life so spend and hate what I pursue II. To Pleasures house I fail'd and safe arriv'd I lookt for Joy but ●ound a Bedlam there Into rich Mammons baggs and Chest● I div'd But saw them fill'd with grief with care and ●ear The Crown was but a Skep where swarms are hiv'd Of stinging thoughts it wears me w●ich I wear Has man no good is 't lost or a●● blind Who who will point the way or cleer my mind To find what I should seek to seek that I may find III. Look as th' industrious Bee from flowr to flow● Jumps lightly vi●its all but dwells in none Or as a sickly taste tries sweet and sowre Runs through a World of dishes finds not o●● To please his curious Pal●te● has no power To relish what it likes this bit that bone Long'd ●or and loath'd● thus my unquiet brea●● In Earth S●●● Ayer Heav'● vainly 〈◊〉 But serving them is curst and serv'd by them not blest IV. Can rivers seek find re●● in res●less Seas Can Ayer in