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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B11881	The signes of the wicked man Together with directions that shew how the seuerall gifts and graces of Gods spirit may be attained. Needfull for such as want those graces, and for such as desire to increase in them. By N. Bifield, preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex.	Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622.	1619 (1619)	STC 4235.5; ESTC S120630	24,700	134

let him feele any ioy in the time of prayer or that he finde his heart in any degree to melt hee should bee wonderfull thankefull if he can get but one teare in prayer or that he find his heart in any degree to melt and this obseruation of Gods goodnesse letting him know that hee regards his particular requests will melt his heart indeed further and perhaps set him all on a flame in desires to praise God and to abase himselfe euen to the dust before the Lord Hosh 3. 5. 1. Thess 5. 4. That Rule of the 4. Acknowlege thy faults to others Apostle Iames is sometimes of singular vse in this case of breeding softnesse of heart and that is acknowledging your sinnes one to another when in secret we make our moanes to wise mercifull Christians and shame our selues for our speciall offences it many times hath melting of heart ioyned with it so as that heart that before seemed hardened and dry now easily dissolues into teares Iam. 5. 5. To go into the house 5. Go into the house of mourning of mourning may bee in this case profitable resort to such as be in sorrow for the hand of GOD vpon them especially such as mourne through the affliction of their Spirits Conuerse with humble tender-hearted Christians Eccles 7. 6. In all the seruices of 6. Take heed of distraction in Gods seruice God be sure to draw neere to God and keep thy minde from distraction and hypocrisie The Sunne cannot haue such force to melt the waxe as the beames of Gods presence haue to melt the heart Iam. 4. 6 7. 7. The Apostle Paul being 7. Studie the tenth Commandement a sturdy Pharise had his heart beaten to powder with the feare of the tenth Commandement that told him hee must not lust The knowledge and consideration of the aboundance of sinne-guiltinesse hee had drawne vpon himselfe by the inward fruits of his euill nature kil'd him out-right brake his pride and mortified him as hee at large repeates Rom. 7. 8. Remember the Passion 8. Remember the sorrowes of Christ for thy sin of thy Sauiour the pouerty banishment ignominy temptations the apprehension forsaking arraignement condemning and cruell death which hee suffered for thy sinnes Looke vpon him that was pierced for thy sake Zach. 12. 12. 9. If of thy selfe thou 9. Get others to pray for thee canst not yet attaine vnto sorrow for thy sinnes get some godly Christian that is endued with the gift of prayer to ioyne with thee in priuate that so the Lord may bee pleased to grant in heauen what we of him doe aske on earth 10. Lastly If al other means 10. Vse fasting faile then set a day apart by fasting for the day of a fast was called the day of afflicting or humbling the soule Leu. 16. both because it was the maine duety to bee striuen after on that day and besides because the Lord vsually did blesse his owne Ordinance so as he gaue an humbled heart to those that sought it of him CHAP. VII Shewing how the Spirit of Adoption may bee attained and also how the seuerall gifts of the Spirit may be framed in vs. THus of humiliation It followeth that I shew how hee may attaine to the other sacred gifts which are markes of a godly man as in the first sort of gifts how hee may attaine to the loue of the Word the gift of Prayer the feare of God the loue of his enemies and the desire of the comming of Christ But before I enter vpon these it is necessarie to shew him how hee may attain the Spirit of Adoption which is necessarie for these and all other graces Quest And concerning the How the Spirit of Adoption may bee had Spirit of Adoption if any aske how it may be obtained Or rather how it may bee stirred vp in vs that we may feele his working in vs Ans I answer that hee is had 1. He must pray for it and stirred vp by inuocation God is pleased to declare himselfe willing and ready to bestow his holy Spirit vpon men if they aske him of him by hearty prayer Hee that hath giuen vs his Sonne will not deny vs the Spirit of his Sonne to be giuen into our hearts Gal. 4. 7. And this our Sauiour Christ assures vnto vs in the Parable Luke 11. 9. And I say vnto you Aske and it shall be giuen you Seeke and yee shall finde Knock and it shall be opened vnto you 10. For euery one that asketh receiueth and he that seeketh findeth and to him that knocketh it shall be opened 11. If a sonne shall aske bread of any of you that is a father will hee giue him a stone Or if hee aske a fish will hee for a fish giue him a Serpent 12. Or if hee aske an Egge will hee giue him a Scorpion 13. If yee then which are euill can giue good gifts vnto your children how much more shall your heauenly Father giue the Holy Ghost to them that desire him 2. We must waite vpon 2. Waite vpō Preaching the preaching of the Gospell where the Holy Ghost vsually falls vpon the hearts of men 3. When wee feele the 3. Cherish the motions of the Spirit motions of the Spirit knocking at our hearts or any way surprising vs wee must with all readinesse open the doores of our hearts that the King of Glory by his Spirit may enter into vs. Quest The next question is How wee may get a loue to the Word then what we should do to get and preserue in vs the constant loue to the VVord Ans 1. The answer is first 1. Settie vnder a powerfull Ministery that we should seeke to settle our selues vnder the powerful preaching of the Word euen such a Ministery as doth set out the glory of the Truth and of the Kingdome of Iesus Christ 2. Wee must make a 2. Pray God to quicken thee conscience of it to pray vnto God to quicken vs and inflame our hearts to the loue of his Lawes as Dauid often did Psal 119. 3. Take heed of excessiue 3. Take heed of worldly cares cares and the ouerteaching of thy desires in the imployments of the world or the immoderate vse of worldly delights for those choake the seed of the Word and alienate the affections from it and so doth any grosse or beloued sinne Heb. 3. Math. 13. 4. Take heed also of 4. And of personall discord with such as feare God personall discord with such as feare God especially with thy Teachers for this doth by secret degrees make the heart carelesse and negligent and in some things wilfull and if it bee not looked to in time will bring men from the liking of the Word as they haue beene drawne from the liking of such as loue the Word 5. Take heed of vngodly 5. And of vngodly company company For in such company is quenched the sparkles of liking when they