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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81174	The white stone: or, A learned and choice treatise of assurance very usefull for all, but especially weak believers. By Nathanael Culverwel, master of arts, and lately fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge.	Culverwel, Nathanael, d. 1651?	1654 (1654)	Wing C7573A; ESTC R231750	66,496	141

love be When God had brought that great sickness upon Hezekiah and thus had dissolved and softned his heart he presently prints his love upon it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thou hast loved my soul from the Grave God does then most expresse his love when they have most need of it The white Stone sparkles most oriently in the darkest condition O how gloriously does God shine in upon the prisons of Martyrs what frequent visits does he give them it might even make men ambitious of their sufferings that they might have some such expressions of his love towards them 6. Times of Victory and Conquests over lusts and temptations are sealing times God after such victories will give his people a triumph This is exprest in that text of the Revelation Rev. 2.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden Mannah c. Thus when Saint Paul was wrastling with and conquering that great temptation whatever it was that is mentioned in 2 Corinthians 12. God then gives to eat of the hidden Mannah and strengthens him with this my grace is sufficient for thee He gives him the white Stone with that Motto graven in it my grace c. Thus that noble Christian and famous Convert of Italy Galeacius Caracciolus when he had scorned the pomp and lustre of the world and had trampled upon all relations for the love of a Saviour when Satan that cunning Angler of souls had spent all his baits upon him and he had refused them all O then what a deal of precious sweetnesse slides into his soul what rushings in of glorious joy he had never such joy at Naples as he had at Geneva You may hear him pronouncing an Anathema to all such as shall prefer all the gold and silver in the world before one dayes sweet Communion with Jesus Christ As none have more dregs of wrath then relapsing and apostatizing spirits Remember but Spira's case so none have sweeter and choicer mercy then the faithful Servants of the Lord Jesus that follow him in the houre of temptation Apostates are sealed up to a day of vengeance but these are sealed up to a day of Redemption Thus the mourners in Ezekiel that would not yield to the abominations of the times must have a seal set upon them Thus that Virgin-Company in the Reveiation that would not prostitute their souls to Antichristian folly have the seal of God in their foreheads This is the happiness of a Christian that he has a sweet satisfaction in self-denyal in denying sin in repulsing lust in conquering temptation in pulling out his right eye in cutting off his right hand in mortifyiug the body of death he has a sweet satisfaction in all these And thus you have seen those special sealing times when Christians have this high plerophory these riches of assurance we come now to speak of them in a more Applicatory way 1. Times of assurance they should be times of humility and dependance upon God When Moses had been so long in the Mount and had a lustre upon him by conversing with God himself presently at the foot of the Mount he meets with matter of humiliation The Israelites have made them a golden Calfe Thy people sayes God to Moses they have done this And the Apostle Paul when he had been rapt up into the third Heaven and had heard there some of Arcana Coeli things that neither could nor might be uttered for both are implyed in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there then comes a Messenger of Satan to buffet him he must be put in minde of himself by a thorn in the flesh and that least he should be exalted above measure with abundance of Revelations A creature can't 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a little thing will puffe up a bubble a small happiness will swell up the Sons of men Pride as it twines about the choicest graces so it devoures the sweetest comforts But yet there is nothing tends more to the soul-abasement and self-exinanition then the beholding of Gods face then the seeing of his glory this will make the soul abhorre it self in dust and ashes The more God reveals himself unto the soul the more will the soul see that huge disproportion that is between it self and a Deity There 's none here below that ever saw more of Gods face then Moses and Paul had done and there were none that ever had lower apprehensions of themselves They knew well enough what the Sun-shine of his presence was what a glorious sight it was to behold his face and yet they had rather part with this then he should part with his glory They are like men amazed with the vastness and spaciousness of the Ocean and make nothing of a little inconsiderable drop of Being They that know not these treasures of love and sweetnesse those heaps of excellencies that are stored up in God these are the grand admirers of themselves But when the soul comes to have a prospect of Heaven and fixes its eye upon an object of the first magnitude the creature disappears self vanishes and loses it self in the fulness of God And if God do assure thee of this his love thou canst not but wonder at the greatness of his goodness especially when tho shalt recollect thy self and think upon thine own unworthiness Thou that didst not deserve a beam of his face what does he give thee a full Sun-shine Thou that couldst not look for the least taste of his love what does he give thee a whole cluster of Canaan Thou that didst not deserve the least crumb of the hidden Mannah does he fill thee an Omer full of it Nay yet higher Thou that didst deserve a brand from his Justice does he give thee a seal of his love he might have given thee gall and vinegar to drink and does he flow in upon thee with milk and hony he might have given thee the first flashes of Hell and does he give thee the first fruits of Heauen what couldst thou have lookt for but an eternal frown an ddost thou meet with so gracious a smile O then fall down and adore his goodness and let all that is within thee blesse his holy name Tell me now i● there any ground for pride in such a soul doe● not assurance bespeak humility and speak a meer dependance 2. Times of Assurance they should be time● of trampling upon the creature and scorning of things below Dost thou now take care for corn and wine and oil when God lifts up the light of his countenance upon thee is this same Angels food this same hidden Mannah i● it too light meat for thee Now thou art within the Land of promise feeding upon the grapes and pomegranates of the Land dost thou now long for the garlick and onions of Egypt Now thou art within thy Fathers house and the fatted Calf is slain wilt thou now still feed upon husks Art thou clothed with the Sun and canst not thou trample the