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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96881	An appeal to the churches of Christ for their righteous judgement in the matters of Christ, the concernments of all His glory, over whom there is a defence. Whether the way of Christ with His people be not paved-forth as a cause-way before them in His scriptures, and to be traced by the footsteps of all His neare-ones. Here you have the epistles only. The first to the churches, giving them some short account of their matters. The second unto the minister who enjoyned that work. The second unto the minister who enjoyned that work. The third to some neighbour-ministers for their judgement therein. The fourth to the Christian reader.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3478; Thomason E868_6; ESTC R207694	25,432	43

creature the divine nature the image of holinesse rooted in the heart and fruited in the life he is as the whole Church and every part is the habitation of Eph. 2 22. God by the Spirit He is godly in Christ Jesus the power of godlinesse is in him and with him his whole conversation is a meere mortification a very hell to flesh Perpelua na● violentia and blood he is still offering a sacred violence thereunto he prayes and in prayer prayes earnestly he heares and he heares in hearing he heares as for his life in desire and indeavour that he may heare and live There is no duty he performes but it putteth him to cost a meere outside Christian not so he will heare and pray but all this he can doe with little or no trouble all his care is for this that his flesh be put to no cost he would rather performe an hundred thousand Religious dutyes than to put himselfe to the torment of crucifying one lust pleasant or profitable Once more This Christian indeed speakes of the Sacraments as the holy Scripture doth contemptibly of them when these are rested upon and gloried in as they are by the outside-man this Christian in name onely Circumcision is nothing and availeth nothing Baptisme as little and availeth as little The Passeover is nothing and availeth nothing Receiving at the Lords Table is as little and availeth as little The new creature is all and doth all and receiveth all the Lord Christ and all our Passeover sacrificed for us Thus contemptibly as the sacred Scripture doth he speaketh of the Sacraments when as aforesaid But when the Institution is observed together with the proper use of them and blessed intendment the Lord Christ had in the instituting of them then as the Scripture doth so doth he speake gloriously of them And so we come to the fourth 4. The fourth mistake as great and deadly as any of the former How thou camest to thy Christianity or how thou waste made a Christian The common conceite is and a meere conceite it is That to be sprinkled on the face with water makes us Christians This was our conceite and we are sure t is thine if thou art not truely a Christian Thou wast baptized and ever since in thine owne account and others a Christian Thou art not wholly or alltogether mistaken herein yet such a mistake there may he that may procure thee desperate sorrow at the end of thy dayes when thou art launching forth into the wide Ocean of Eternity where thou must continue for ever eyther everlastingly blessed or vnspeakably miserable for ever and ever Outward Baptisme gave thee thy name Christian but there is a worke wrought within by the Spirit and the Word on Gods part and faith on thine that gives with the Name the thing and the name without the thing is nothing and renders thee worse than nothing a meere vanity a thing of nothing All holy actions come from within first and thence to the outward man A Christian within first then sure enough he is one without Therefore to remove this grand errour or to doe what we can observe well what was hinted before and we can but repeat it now It is the voice of Christ in the Ministry of His Gospel heard obeyed and beleived that makes us true Christians All the Angells in Heaven much lesse all the waters in the Sea are not able to turne one sinner upon earth and make him cleane that is make him truely Christian but the Word in the Spirits hand having the Lords seale of Institution upon it that onely can doe it Now put this to thy heart as thou canst Hast thou heard God speaking his Word unto thee that is hath the Spirit spoke the Word to thy spirit which the Minister spake to thy eare as farre as he could possibly carry it to the eare and so farre when time was his hand bare the water to the face Hath thy heart heard the Word has thy soule been listod up to it And in making answer hereunto the Lord God chargeth thee not to hearken what thy owne heart sayth the most notorious deceiver the veriest jugglar in the world no nor what the Minister sayth if he speakes his owne words which are but his dreames and not the words of his God being as his mouth and standing in his stead Hearken what the Lord sayth in his Word That thou art not made Christian if the Word in the Spirits hand hath not made a thorow change in thee as well of thy nature as of thy actions This is the onely meanes where and when God gives them whereby we are translated from darknesse to light from death to life life and mortality is brought to light to the soule by the Gospels voyce or the voyce of Christ in the Gospel which alone quickeneth the dead awakeneth the sleeper bids him stand-up for his light is come Put it then to the question Hast thou heard this voyce Thou hast Then thou art a Christian indeed Thou haste not heard this voyce Then thou art as was said worse than an Infidel in the remoatest parts of the world being but a washed heathen and doest slightingly passe over the meanes whereby thou mightest understand thy case and the way to better it And now if thou wilt seale the Stone upon thy graves mouth and make thy condition irrecoverable which we would be as loath Thou shouldest doe as that thou shouldest thrust thy selfe upon the mouth of a Cannon charged against thy breast with a Bullet of a tallent weight yet if thou art resolved to undoe thy soule for ever hasten so Sathan and thy foolish heart will advise thereto and thy Minister will admit thee together with the heards and droves of men in thy case unto the Lords Table to receive Christ there whom thou haste rejected in the Gospel This will doe it and nothing more certainly than this for there thou shalt eate and drinke damnation to thy selfe not discerning the Lords body Therefore desire of the Lord He would make thee serious in this matter Hath the Word been prevailing in thy soule to make thee a childe a sonne or a daughter Then thou haste the heart of a Childe to thy heavenly Father Thou wilt breake his Commandements as willingly and studiously as thou wilt thy bones and offend Him with full consent of will when with the same will thou offendest the apple of thine eye And now thou mayest be assured He hath the heart of a Father towards thee Thou haste the priviledge of a Childe a warranted right to all Church Communions here thou art instated-in and possessed-off being new borne all thy soule can desire open the mouth of it never so wide Onely we repeate againe make it thy worke and thy very buisnesse to make this sure to thy owne soule thou art borne againe It s meere presumptionesse as holy Bolton sayd to his deare Children when he was dying To thinke that God

will receive our soules to heaven whom He hath not renued here on earth This being a grounded truth for a man to be alwayes the same he was from the womb borne a childe under wrath and in that state dying is certaine and irricoverable death Oh! this undoes many even all that are undone are undone by it As they never dreame of a change which death will one day make upon them so they never desire a change that grace in this present life should worke on them Therefore heare the Counsell that worthy man Master Burgesse gives thee As Job sayd of the change by death He would every day waite till his change come Job 14. 14. Doe thou say of this change by grace I will every day pray heare reade meditate mourne and roare out before God every day and all the day long till this spirituall change come And doe not accept of the Ministers invitation to the Lords Table though thou findest him very gentile and courteous this way before this change be wrought or in a way of working for heare what that worthy Man sayth Heathens Fornicatours Idolaters Adulterers Theeves Covetous Drunkards Revilers Extortioners became washed and cleansed by the Word but washed Fornicatours Idolaters c. we meane Baptized Drunkards Theeves Covetous These sit under the Word and reforme nothing but make a scorne of it What may be the reason Why They live in the practise of knowne sinnes and in the neglect of knowne dutyes under the dayly exercise of the Word and yet frequent the Lords Table which hath provoked a spirituall Censure and sorest judgement now wholly inflicted upon them whence it is as the Clay under the Sunne so these become more obdurate under the Word from which judgement the Lord deliver thee and us all But beware of this as thou tenderest thy life therefore we caution thee againe That thou dost not goe to the Lords Table in a conceite presumption rather thou shalt receive Christ Jesus the Lord there whom thou haste not received in the Ministry of the Gospel Remember and forget not The rocke shall not be removed out of his place as was spoken by Job that is God will not change the course which He hath setled as firmely as the Rockes or as the Earth He will not alter His method nor goe out of the way He hath prescribed His Word shall profit thee first before any thing else shall or can thou must keepe close to His way if thou lookest to attaine His end We intended more to thee so dearly we love thee as to minde thee well there are but two Masters that can be served and to which of these thou art an obedient servant the Apostle will tell thee Rom. 6. 16 17 18. 2 And as there are but two rankes or sorts of people whereof before so also but two wayes the roade way of the world the broad way the roade way of the Lords redeemed ones the way of holinesse where the uncleane cannot passe nor any Lion can be nor ravenous Beasts being a straight and a narrow way which these cannot indure And thou must certainly know in what way thy foote walketh for suppose it the narrow way and thou wilt finde thy flesh pinched if not tormented 3 And that there are but two Mansion houses where thy soule anon and thy body anon after must dwell that long day or night of eternity the narrow way tendeth to the one the broad way to the other If now thou wilt conferre with flesh and blood we know what way thou wilt choose the broad way and hell to be thy Mansion house for ever for though thou mayst have as the wicked may have a Velliety a faint will for Heaven to dye the death of the righteous and that thy last end may be like his yet walking in that broad way the strength of thy will carryeth thee hell-ward that horrid place of darknesse Therefore give-up thy hand to God having fixed thy eye upon His Word and say Lord plucke me into the way and leade me in it and suffer me not to decline from it In all this we intended to be more large And to touch lightly upon other things also the subject matter of the following discourse but this well digested and pondered-on may suffice And it will be sufficient though thou readest not one word of the Booke for suppose thou art made a Disciple indeed a Christian in truth thou wilt seperate from the world at the Lords Table nor wilt thou eate that is familiarly converse with the men of the world unlesse necessarily as a Physitian with the sick having thy warrant for it thou mayst convey good unto them and thine owne affaires may require it And 2 Thou canst no more observe the day the men of the world call Christmas than thou canst prophane the Lords day for thou mayst have heard that one being asked whether he did observe the Lords day keeping it holy Yes sayd be for I am a Christian And doe you observe Christmas day to keepe it holy No said he for then I were no Christian unlesse in name and that is nothing indeed A true Christian flees from Idolatry for what hath he any more to doe with Idols And be will not put up his Petitions in anothers words he praiseth God for what he hath received he prayeth to God for what he would receive he confesseth the sinnes he hath committed all this with his owne mouth He used set formes of Prayer when time was hee was a Christian in name onely but now that he is through grace a Christion indeed he remembers heartily that a prayer by the Booke left him as cold as it found him it had no more heate in it than hath cold Iron or frost and had he not layd them aside he had proved a Christian when an Ape prooves a man he bares himselfe-up as formerly upon the crutches then as others now doe and he was as well in his owne conceite as others now are bare formes never put the flesh to any paine But to feele no paine Comes we know from the rottennesse of the flesh as well as soundnesse A dead Christian such as he that hath but a name that he liveth feeles no paine hee presumes all is well with him and presumption being a sinne of mans-selfe flattering-heart meets with no trouble though he be desperately wicked that is deadly sick unto death yet aske him how he doth and he sayes well for he was baptized when time was and dealt with as a Saint he thankes his good Minister ever since he grew up to the yeares of understanding But little doth he know how hardly that disease is curable that is so like to health Ille morbus vix sanabitur qui sanitatem vinitatur one sayth seldome or never and he addeth None are more desperate than those that are least despairing in their owne selves through not of the grace of God presumers therefore are in the more desperate condition by how much they are the lesse despairing But what a sad thing is it that men should presume they are rich and want nothing when they are miserably poore and want all things we will pitty those deluded mad men who are perswaded they are such great persons and have such large estates when in the meane time they lye miserable and wretched bound up in chaines in a darke dungeon such a spirituall madnesse is upon most and this renders them more mad if more can be they were baptized and upon that Infant priviledge have free admission to the Lords Table without making the least profession of faith and repentance wherein it comes to passe that as they live like mad men so they are like to ciye being strongly perswaded still upon principles of Infant Baptisme That they are Disciples and Saints while they are Drunkards and Devills they are sheepe and lambs when they are dogges and swine And call themselves grapes and figges when they are thornes and thistles to use and so to end with that Learned Mr Burgesse his words Love that spares no cost nor feeleth any burthen hath drawne us-out thus farre consider what hath been sayd meditate upon it be wholly in it and so doing whoever fareth ill thou shalt fare well FINIS