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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79993	The sect every where spoken against or, the reproached doctrine of Ely. As it was held forth in several sermons in the year, MDCLI. By Christopher Cob, lay-man, minister of an united people in Ely. Collected and analized for a private use, by Hampden Reeve, Master of Arts, one of that Society, and a constant hearer. Now published by the assent of the whole Society (as a short character, at present, of them and their way, till an opportunity of a farther and fuller discovery) for satisfaction in general.	Cob, Christopher.; Reeve, Hampden.	1651 (1651)	Wing C4769; Thomason E1251_1; ESTC R209173	234,596	386

thy seed be blessed Ishmael though he may live in the House yet He must not be Heir with Isaac There are many flourishing Plants in the world that grow and thrive apace I but every Plant that my Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up The King will overlook all his guests and then Friend how camest thou hither will light on all that have not the wedding garment on However we may strive to pull in Husbands and children and other relations according to our selfish wills yet alass That will not stand That will not make any who are not to be this chosen Generation It is not whom man approves but whom the Lord approves It was once so That all lay in the confused Chaos together in one lump like the Potters clay and then there was no difference at all none could say This is accepted or this rejected this is Jacob or this Esau this a vessel of honor That of dishonor till the Potter hath separated and distinguished his clay to several purposes and then was the Portion of the Nations divided and then the Lords People became his portion Then this chosen Generation had their first Being and were both from the womb of the morning Now in choosing these several things are considerable 1. Before a man chooseth any thing he weighs well and considers and overlooks it in his minde He weighs all the flaws and all the perfections in it that he may know what he chooseth and not do it hoodwinked So the Lord was pleased to weigh all his creatures When he divided to the Nations their Inheritance and separated the sons of Adam then he said Jacob is my portion He knew what he did how he would prove as God says I knew thou wouldst have iron sinews and a brazen brow He throughly considered what he did took in all faults and provocations that should ever spring from them and yet he pitches on this chosen generation and yet Jacob is the lot of his Inheritance Hence it is there are no repentings in God because the thing was throughly weighed We often repent because of our heady rushing upon this and the other but God is not as man He made his choyce with full advice and counsel Hence it is The gifts and calling of God are without repentance And In him is no variableness nor shadow of change because all his works were done in counsel therefore they stand fast for ever and ever And therefore saith David Walk about Zion Mark well her Towers c. Consider her strength the sure unmovable Rock she stands upon For this God is our God for ever and ever He will be our Guide unto Death This God is Zions God that hath done things at a certainty not at hazard that will be a Guide unto Death that will never leave nor forsake The bottom and ground is certain and 't is expressed thus in the Proverbs That I may make thee understand the words of Certainty This choyce of God is a certain unfailable unchangeable choyce This will seem wonderful when you shall come to consider it and the thing sink to your hearts Wert thou once in the same lump with the reprobate silver Was Esau Jacobs Brother and Jacob loved and Esau hated How comes this thing about What means this favor What manner of Love is this O Lord if it did but sink into your Souls what a thing is it to be chosen of God! Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom nor the strong man in his strength nor the rich man in his riches This is not the thing which puts the difference And so Christ to his Disciples Rejoyce not that Devils are subject to you That is not your Happiness No but that your names are written in Heaven that you are of this chosen generation that God pitched upon you what ever you are rejoyce in that Samuel he looks upon Eliah because of his stature and goodly personage as if sure he was the Lords anointed No but saith God not He but it is the stripling the little youth in the field the youngest and unthought of David he is the man He saves not the whole the honorable and learned the Scribes and Pharisees but Ought not this Daughter of Abraham to be loosed whom Satan hath bound lo these eighteen years She must be loosed because a Daughter of Abraham of that stock how ever mean and base in the eyes of man for God sees not as man seeth He picks where he pleaseth one of a City and two of a Tribe Though Israel be as the sand of the Sea yet but a remnant shall be saved Though there be threescore Queens and fourscore Concubines yet My Beloved is but one c. That he should let thousands and ten thousands go and yet pitch on me this will be wonderful to us when we shall see into it 2. A man affects the thing he chooseth his heart goes after it more then that which he lets alone And therefore Moses said to Israel The Lord chose you not because you were better or more in number then other people but because He favored you and set his Love upon you And in Jeremy he says I have loved thee of old with an everlasting Love and when thou wast in thy blood one would think that a strange time to love in yet then was thy time the time of Love Though there was no cause yet he loves Even so O Father saith Christ for so it pleased thee Two in a womb two in a mill two in the same condition and the one taken and the other left To be left is enough there is need of no more reprobation then that If a man be but left and not dayly maintained kept up and preserved he will corrupt of himself and run naturally to destruction There is no need of a cursing or destroying any Creature but he is pleased to leave some and that is enough They naturally tend and fall into the curse and bring it on their own heads if a preventer step not in and therefore that is not first concluded in God concerning any This is a damned wretch whom I hate and detest No his damnation is of himself he procures his own curse and if he be but left if not held up and hedged in and kept alive he cannot but dye No man can keep alive his own Soul The Branch if it be left without Sap from the root must needs dye If the Lord hath not chosen nor set his love upon any that is destruction enough that creature will sure enough run thither therefore see how Esau first sells his birth-right then loses his Blessing and one misery follows another till he be quite ruined and therefore the choosing the setting his heart upon any that is the thing which saves If God say as Sampson did concerning Delilah Give me her for she pleaseth me be she what she will yet she pleaseth me so Christ saith of the Spouse Thou hast

cleanse me from my blood guiltiness The Father is sensible how the Soul stands trembling therefore Make haste bring the best robe make haste to cover his nakedness saith the Father because our guilt is upon us How do we pull charging of sin upon our selves when God charges not and hide our sin when God would charge us but the best robe clears all it intimates the Father had others It 's said of Elkanah he gave portions to all his wives but to Hannah he gave a worthy portion because he loved her I have loved thee with an everlasting Love saith God therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee That where sin abounded Grace might superabound for yet in the worst day the Soul is made to say but my wisdom remained with me The Prodigal in the worst day retained his sonship still though when he returns he is made to confess the thing as it is But first he arises and that 's beyond all that howl upon their beds In their sickness-time and straits they will cry out Oh what a wretch am I but their iniquities are still upon their backs they arise not they dare not approach before God But the Prodigal though he comes bowing and blushing yet he comes knowing and hoping and he never says that word Father I have sinned but the Father saith presently Bring the best robe But 2. I told you this was considerable the Father saith And put a Ring on his hand Do you consider what Rings are used for They are not put on to strengthen the hands but to adorn them But what is the hand for It 's for work O prosper thou the work of our hands saith David Now what must the hand the work be adorned with There are these three ornaments for it 1. The Prodigal must be adorned with Skill as it 's said of David concerning Israel He fed them in the integrity of his heart and guided them with the skilfulness of his hand Psal 78.72 It has taught the Prodigal skill indeed he can say now as David Come ●y Brethren and I can tell you what God has done for my Soul how he delivered me and instructed me now I am made able to divide the word aright There 's great need of skill to know when to speak how to speak to what to speak for what purpose to speak either for edification or destruction All the while before he had no heart to pity strangers till he was fallen amongst thieves c. and now after his coming home he is able to instruct and teach others If there be a messenger one of a thousand to shew unto man his righteousness c. Now he has learnt expereince by his wandering But all the while we were in the house we were Novices we had learn'd no skill how to instruct others for we had learn'd none our selves But now the burnt child dreads the fire when we have run our rounds tryed what is in madness and folly it brings forth skill And who are fit to bring up a people in the wisdom and fear of the Lord but such as have gone down to the deeps as Joseph did First he had been proved and tryed himself he was separated from his brethren as Christ said of Peter Satan hath desired to sift thee and he shall c. but when thou art converted then strengthen thy brethren But 2. The second thing the hand is to be adorned with is Diligence being now once brought from his prodigality he will redeem the time and be more watchful and diligent then ever Be you vigilant for your Enemy the Devil goes about like a roaring Lion seeking whom he may devour It 's an ornament to the work when it goes on with diligence not sleepingly we say of such a man sure the work is never like to come to perfection The Lord expects a diligent hand in all your services and that beautifies the work but to beautifie a slothful hand is like to the putting a Ring in a swines snout He will not reward the slothful hand but the diligent he rewardeth The Soul that is diligent night and day how to further the work of the Lord therefore Be you always abounding in the work of the Lord saith Paul knowing that your labor is not in vain c. But alass while we are in the Land of Harlots we are ashamed of our work A man that has no meat to eat nor clothes to put on nor a friend to go to to impart his grief what a miserable case is he in such a Land are you in where there 's no growing of any thing that good is nothing but leanness and ill-favoredness because you have outed your selves of all friends But when you shall be brought home then will you say Well I will be diligent Then will you set an high price upon the Truth and say as David O what shall I render to the Lord c. I know how many precious days and seasons you have troden under foot but the time will come that you will be glad to glean them up again and say I will be more diligent to hear and lay up every word and Look The least smile of Truth will be layd up every Mercy will you be made to prize There will be no more a claiming as the Prodigal Give me my portion and saying to me You are bound to preach and look after me and give me this and th' other No there will be a diligent hand prizing and improving to the utmost the least mercy But 3. A third Ring that adorns his hand is the weightiness of employment when the hand shall be employed in things of great concernment When we pass and see a man at work in carving some curious piece and not busied upon baubles and trifles like children that make dirt-pyes we stand and prize the work This will adorn the hand when it shall be employed about things that profit to be about a work which shall abide for ever Let all your words be full of grace seasoned with salt To be employed about such a work which neither fire nor water can hurt this adorns the hand indeed But alass what a little of our work will endure the fire but we shall know the difference I shrink to think what I shall say But must you all go a prodigalling Will you all see your hearts by desperate venturings Indeed Travellers learn experience but they pay dear for it None will know how to distinguish between works and works but they that have traded through them When I was a child saith Paul I did as a child and spoke as a child but when I became a man I put away childish things The Prodigal did foolishly in forsaking his Fathers house and going to Harlots c. but God shall say to him at his return Be not grieved that you sold me c. He has lost nothing by it he is made now to love him the more When God shall say 'T was

and garnishings and curious works all was to express what a life is to be attained a life of Glory and Freedom and Peace a life free from all snares and bonds of World or Devil 2. God will have a House built that there may be a certain set way of worship a place whither the Tribes may go up the Tribes of the Lord that every man go not on rudely in a conceited preposterous way according to the thoughts of his own heart Thou shalt not worship in every place which thine eyes shall see but in the place which the Lord shall choose to place his Name therein As there is but one God and one Truth and one Hope so he hath appointed but one way set down one order and rule for all and not left men rudely to the rangings and rovings of their own vain thoughts and conceivings as all the world now take up ways of Religion according to their own imaginations but he hath a Zion a House of prayer a Temple where Brethren live in unity joyn with one heart and soul in offering spiritual sacrifices and there will he be found There he hath commanded the blessing and life for evermore Why could not David worship God as well in the wilderness Was not God there As many now plead Why is not God every where and may not we serve him where ever we will But David cries out and is at a great strait to see the glory of God in the Temple no other place would serve him And why was all Israel once every year to come to this temple to worship What was the meaning of it think you You 'l say perhaps the Law is gone and abrogated Well but what was the end and substance of the Law That stands still Christ came not to destroy the Law but fulfil it to bring about the End of God the thing typed out by the Law Now as 't is said of Israel That the vail was upon their hearts that they could not see to the end of the Law when Moses was read So this hidden end none can reach but to whom God shall open the Parable but this was the end the Temple pointed to to shew that God then had and ever would have an orderly and quiet and sober way of worship in a people joyned together and made up into one heart and one soul and they to worship in spirit and in truth according to his ordering and appointment as that unction received shall teach and not according to mans conceits thoughts and imaginations 3. He will have a House built to be a spectacle and standing witness to condemn the world by For now who will not say that God is to be worshipped I but they worship after their own heart and devices according to the number of their Cities so are their gods as every one conceives and makes a shape of worship in his own thoughts But who knows the minde of God in all their worship Who joyns in to this Body of Christ the true Temples where the Holy Ghost dwells and spiritual services are performed to God It is said in the Acts Of the rest durst none joyn but they magnified the people the way was too strict I it is the greatest Circumcision in the world to mans will to joyn in here to be a member of this building it calls for a whole giving up of a mans own wisdom his own will his own interests no stone in this House must lie loose from another no Soul live apart to it self and for it self but all in love to serve one another and this will condemn all the ways and joynings of men in the worship of God for they all live as Lords love and seek themselves in what ever they do they cannot endure to come up to such a joyning and such an order where no Self may live Though many enter into Church-orders and Church-fellowship yet alass there is no true life nor spirit in it they still live loose as Lords and Rulers one over another there 's no walking in love and meekness and patience to serve others and deny themselves But in this building there is a mutual help and supply in love every member says to another I have need of thee The foundation lies lowest I but it bears up the whole building and what would the foundation be but lost rubbage if not built upon and joyned to the rest of the House All minister and help receive and give honor to other and say For they are worthy O the peaceable Life that is to be attained But we are far short of it at a great distance from that uniting from that supporting that serving that prizing and seeing the need each of other We are brought together indeed but live like loose stones scattered and alone and prize not the mercy given us nor make use of it and this is the reason we prosper not but a blast follows in all we sow much and reap little we labor and strive and tug again and again but nothing comes of it we cannot nor shall ever be able of our selves to withstand the Devil and lusts and entanglements till we are brought to be a one people to receive help from one another this is the way and ordinance of God and here he hath commanded the blessing If we were but once made naked and open-hearted to one another in our tryals and temptations Oh how wonderfully might we be strengthened against the Enemy and helped on in our way and this would clearly condemn the world who in their own Consciences know they are not built up into a one-hearted people singly and truly and heartily to serve one another in love and peace not seeking themselves in all But how we linger and the building of this House is neglected I remember the motioning and stirring to this work was up in some hearts at least twenty years since but the Bishops they got up and crushed all the tender buddings that the work ceased and since this Parliament the Lord hath graciously procured Liberty to be proclaimed a door open for this work and many have begun to build but they prove Houses of their own invention and contrivances not the Lord House but we that are surely called and invited to it and that of God both from stirings within and a call without we make no use of the opportunity offered but plead It is not time to build the Lords House because we have no heart to the work c. Thus I have shewed the Reasons why God will have a House built 1. That there may be a standing place of Worship whither the Tribes may go up where all may meet and agree together in one heart and way Daniel though he be in Babylon yet opens his window and looks towards Jerusalem in his prayers and when they sat by the rivers of Babylon they wept and remembred Zion they called to minde the worship the services the solemn assemblies where God had

fair he should soon be delivered and get thorow the Battel and see an end of sorrow I but he little thought of this day as Job cries out He hath given me over into the hand of the ungodly when the devil has power given to try and afflict and torment to let in what beasts he will to destroy the vineyard O wo indeed when a Leopard is set to watch over the city when the Devil is suffered to keep watch and guard that nothing can stir nor pass in or out without his leave Power is given him he hath a time to lead into captivity at his will But the day will come when he that led into captivity shall be led into captivity himself He that spoiled and wasted and cried Down with it down with it to the very ground A turn will come and then Blessed shall he be that serveth thee as thou hast served us But Oh what havock doth this murtherer make when it is his day How doth he make the earth utterly waste and empty and not a stirring of Truth may live If you minde it we cannot sometimes speak a word nor breathe a groan towards God but he flaps on the mouth presently so cruel is he when the power is put into his hand But now saith Job now I am their song they mock at me the rascal and vile rout whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock every base lowe unworthy trifling lust can now lord it over the soul and make their song on it Oh this is a woful day indeed when the enemy has power to serve himself of the soul without any controuler when he can carry captive at his will this Christ cries out against If it be possible let THIS CVP pass And here David cries out Oh let not the pit shut her mouth upon me 4. Another Wo lies in this he keeps the houe he is in possession ' The spirit that rules in the HEARTS of the children of disobedience There is a rotten and tainted sore within that is seated in the soul and sends forth such an unsavoury stink if it were possible to choak all that is good The Devil hath got the dwelling-place in the heart is in possession it is his house and therefore whence hear you of all your enemies whence come your troubles and perplexities and wars and fightings Come they not from your lusts saith Saint James Is not all the mischief from within Out of the heart come adulteries and murders and thefts an evil eye c. all comes out of the heart Whence come all the pesters and torments out of the air or from another as we often put it off No the taint is within Look not without thee for the enemy nor for the devil no but within IN THE HEART there 's the seat that 's his palace A time indeed is to be of his casting out but at present he keeps the house and therefore neither good can come in nor good come out not a breathing of Truth stir but he presently cries Get you to your tasks to your tasks that 's the word that stops all He would not let a groan live and this brings the soul into great bitterness that neither good can come into it nor a groan go out from it but presently the Devil flaps Christ on the mouth some base taint or guilt comes in and stops the rise and liberty of Truth Alas to have the Devil dwell so neer a man in his bosom this is a misery indeed Here the soul cries out Wo is me that I am constrained to dwell with them that hate peace This is the present day and time with some of you your enemies sit chief and Zion is in the dust I beseech you let the Word sink into your hearts for it will have a time to sink upon you all Consider where you are under what rule and government If under the Mans reign still then no marvel indeed you can live loose and free and gird your selves and go whither you will But a time will surely come when you shall know and feel this reign of the enemy For till this Day be over you can never indeed come under the reign of Christ the Day of Christ will not be till there be a falling away first from the Mans reigning and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God this is the time of the devils reign And until this wicked one be revealed whom the Lord Christ shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming till this you will never see that day of Christ nor come under his time of reigning 5. A fifth great Wo is this He hath goods in us his goods are in peace the Prince of this world comes and findes of his own in us though he did not in Christ And that he hath goods in us appears by that unsavoury smoak that always is coming up out of the bottomless pit their throat is an open sepulchre saith David a continual ill savour and stink comes forth As the Church is described to be full of sweets her garments smelling of myrrhe aloes and cassia and all sweet perfumes so in this condition the soul is clothed with nothing but stinking rags and polluted garments The soul that is indeed awake and sensible knows not how to endure its own stinking smell it is almost choaked and overcome with an ill savour which comes from that abundance of rottenness those goods of the Devil and wares of Hell that lie up in the heart so that the poor man knows not how to speak a word sometimes nor think a thought but an evil taint gets in first or last that spoileth all all the thoughts and inwards are so poisoned by the devil Here David cries out My wounds stink and are corrupt In mars heart is that soul sepulchre of dead mens bones full of loathsome rottenness Do you know this have you felt and seen it in your selves There is that cage of unclean birds there is the Bittern the Screech-owl the Satyr there all the beasts of the Forest creep forth there is the Lions den and all the bones he hath gnawn and scattered Our bones are scattered at the pits brink saith the Psalmist All is corrupt and become abominable there are the goods of hell packt together there he lays up envie and wrath and stubbornness and deceit and lyes Now who will believe this report Who thinks his soul and heart to be the devils shop the ware-house of hell But they that feel it feel it and they that know know and the day will surely come to finde out every man How fair soever we may speak and mince the matter and wipe our mouthes yet the fruit will discover the root Samuel will ask What mean the bleatings Though we would hide and cover the Devil never so close and paint