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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