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A57386 The true way to the tree of life, or, The natural man directed unto Christ by Fran. Roberts ... Roberts, Francis, 1609-1675. 1673 (1673) Wing R1596; ESTC R31779 75,604 190

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in his word hath directed you to walk Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts even all Sins against the first and second Table living soberly towards yourselves righteously towards man and godly towards the Lord in this present world Observe and keep all his Commandements Yield and present your selves both Souls and Bodies living Sacrifices unto him Whether you live live unto the Lord or whether you dye dye unto the Lord that whether you live or dye you may be the Lords So live and walk also as Christ hath given you an Example Walk as Christ walked Walk in love as Christ hath loved us and hath given himself for us a Sacrifice an offering unto God for a sweet smelling Savour Walk in Love towards Iesus Christ as to love him beyond Father Mother Sister Brother or your own dearest lives For he hath loved us and washed us from our Sins in his own blood Walk in all well doing as Christ went about doing good every where and imitate him also in innocent and patient suffering for well doing commit●ing your selves and your Cause to him that judgeth righteously for herein he hath left us an Example that we should follow his steps 7. Remember the Lords-day-Sabbath the first day of the week unto which the seventh-day-Sabbath was translated by the Authority of Christ as appears by the after observation of that day by the Apostles and Apostolical Churches to keep it holy This is the Princess and Queen of all dayes This is the Glory of all the week For As on this day our blessed Saviour Rose from the dead triumphing victoriously over Death Grave Sin and all our Spiritual Enemies and thereby assured us of our Spiritual and Corporeal Resurrection by him As on this day our Saviour vouchsafed many of his apparitions to his Disciples instructing them and giving them commandements concerning the Kingdom of God On this day the Holy Ghost was most miraculously poured forth upon the Apostles On this day the Apostles and primitive Churches held their solemn Assemblies for the publick worship of God This is the solemn Mart and Market day for furnishing our Souls with all manner of Spiritual and Heavenly Provisions This is that Solemn Season and sweet opportunity which Christ hath afforded and ordained for acquainting us with Himself and the Mysteries of his Kingdom for maintaining our Communion with him in his Ordinances for edifying and perfecting of us in all Spirituals And as in the time of the Old Testament The Sacrifices of the Sabbath-day were to be double to those on the week day So our Spiritual Sacrifices on the Lords-days are to be twice so much as on any other day of the week Especially in Prayer and thanksgiving in Reading the Scriptures in Hearing the word preached in Partaking the Lords Supper in Catechizing in Shewing Mercy to the poor c. that so the sacred tincture and impressions of this day may remain fresh and lively upon your hearts all the week following 8. Let every day of the week be managed by you in a Christian sort To that End Be sure to present unto the Lord your Morning and Evening-Sacrifice of prayer and praise to God continually as God of Old appointed a Morning and Evening Sacrifice for every day in the week Holy David and Daniel Prayed thrice in a day Every day open with God in the morning and shut with God in the Evening by some religious ejaculation or savourly meditation Read daily some portion of Holy Scripture to keep up your acquaintance with God with Iesus Christ and his Spirit and the mysteries of true Religion And then follow the lawful affairs of your honest particular Calling diligently and righteously 9. Do ye Remember your Creator in the days of your youth while the evil dayes of old age come not nor the years draw nigh when ye shall say we have no pleasure in them Gods Eminent Saints have sought the Lord betimes and addicted themselves unto Godliness while they were young As David that man after Gods own heart while he was but a Youth Josiah that Phaenix King of Iudah while he was yet young but sixteen years old began to seek after the God of David And Timothy so highly commended by the Apostle Paul knew the Holy Scriptures from a Child Gr. from his insancy God in the time of the Law called for the first ripe fruits of the field and the firstlings of the flock to be offered unto him to teach his people how acceptable the first-fruits of our youth and life are to God O how happy are they that bear the yoke of Christ in their youth Hereby the flower of their age is best improved Hereby thousands and ten-thousands of sins are prevented Hereby they gain the longer time for walking with God for growing in grace for doing of good for increasing of Spiritual Experiences for treasuring up of Evidences and assurances of their Salvation and of preparing themselves for Heaven and eternal Glory 10. Herein alwaies exercise your selves to have a Conscience void of offence both towards God and Man That so living in all good conscience before God This may be matter of singular comfort and rejoycing to you in your greatest afflictions and distresses the Testimony of your Consciences that in simplicity and godly sincerity you have had your Conversation in the world 11. Imploy and improve to the utmost all the Times and Talents wherewith the Lord hath intrusted you to his Glory your own or others Benefit That when the time of reckoning shall come he may both command you and richly reward you and not condemn and punish you with that wicked sloathful and improfitable Servant 12. Hold fast the Platt-form of Sound words in Faith and Love which is in Christ Jesus That so you may not be carryed aside with every wind of false doctrine but may be the Children of the Truth And to this End constantly retain in your Memories the Catechisme wherein you have been trayned up now a long time together For this is an excellent Brevial or Sum of the true Christian Religion very useful to direct you both in the Faith and Practice in the right wayes of God against error and iniquity 13. Stand not at a stay much less go backward in the affairs of Religion But still grown in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Take heed of backsliding Having put your hand to Christs plow Look not back For then you will be unfit for the Kingdome of God Be stedfast unmoveable alwayes abounding in the work of the Lord for as much as ye know that your labour shall not be in vain in the Lord Be faithful to the death and christ will give you a Crown of Life 14. Love God Father son and Holy Ghost over
Gods Contriving of lapsed mans Recovery is rendered a Divine favour so much the more eminent and singularly illustrious in that God would not vouchsafe the like favour to the lapsed Angels though by Nature they were far more Noble and Excellent Creatures Compare Psal. 8. 4 5. with Heb. 2. 16. Angels fell from their happy state by their own free will without other seducement and found no mercy Man fell through the malicious and subtile Seducement of that old Serpent the Devil and found mercy 5. Our ever blessed God hath immediately upon the fall of man and afterwards from age to age in diverse remarkable periods of time revealed in his precious Promises and second Covenant the Covenant of Faith enlarged more and more till it came to be most compleat in his New Covenant his most Gracious purpose and pleasure of Restoring lapsed man again from his state of Sin and misery As these and like Scriptures do abundantly testifie viz. with Adam Gen 3. 15. Noah Gen. 6. 18. 22. with Heb. 11. 7. Abram Gen. 12. 2 3. with 15. 9. to the end and 17. 1. to 15. and 22. 15 16 17 18. Israel Deut. 5. 2. to 22. with Exod. 20. 1 2. c. and 24 4. to 9. David 2 Sam. 7. 11. to 17. and 23. 5. with Psal. 89 3. c. and 132. 11. c. with the Jews captived in Babylon Ezek. 34. 20. 23 24 25. and 36. 24. to the end and 37. 1. 21. to the End Ier. 32. 1. 2. 3. 36. to the end Finally in the New Covenant in Christ exhibited the height and top Turret of all Gods Covenant-Expressures with his people Ier. 31. 31. to 35. with Heb. 8. 6. to the end of the chapter All which Covenant-Expressures I have elsewhere at large explained which the diligent Reader may peruse 6. Our most gracious God revealing his good pleasure in his second Covenant the Covenant of Faith for lapsed man's restauration hath opened a door of hope of life and salvation for him who before was in an hopeless desperate dead and damnable condition For such was the condition of Adam and of all mankind in him after his Fall until the seed of the woman was promised to bruise the Serpents head Compare Gen. 2. 16 17. with Gen. 3. 6 7. and 15. Rom. 5. 12. And until Natural man lay hold upon this promise and this seed of the woman which is our hope 1 Tim. 1. 1. by believing he remains hopeless still Eph. 2. 12. 7. Gods mysterious contrivance of lapsed mans recovery from his sinful and wretched state of Nature brought upon mankind by the breach of the Covenant of works Gen. 2. 16 17. Rom. 5. 12. and 6. 23. And revealing this his recovery in a gratuitous Covenant of Faith which Faith he promiseth by his Spirit to work in them Rom. 3. 27. Ezek. 36. 26 27. Luk. 11. 13. Eph. 2. 8. Gal. 5. 22. is a mercy of mercies utterly beyond all blessing and praise that the creature can present unto the LORD IX Direction JEsus Christ the alone eternal Son of God who in the fulness of time became perfect man is the only meritorious mean and way by whom lapsed man can be recovered and redeemed out of his Natural state of sin and misery into a supernatural state of grace and glory Compare Act. 18. 28. Ioh. 1. 41 45. Mat. 16. 16. Gal. 4. 4 8. Mat. 1. 20 21. with Luk. 2. 10. 1 Tim. 1. 15. Iob. 3. 16 17. Rom. 5. 6 8 9 10. and with Act. 4. 11 12. 1 Tim. 1. 5. Consider here 1. Who and what the Recoverer of lapsed man is 2. That this Jesus Christ is the meritorious mean of lapsed man's recovery 3. That this Jesus Christ is the only meritorious mean of lapsed man's recovery I. Who and what the Recoverer of lapsed man is He is Jesus Christ the alone eternal Son of God who in the fulness of time became perfect man Here note 1. The Names 2. The Natures of Christ in one Person His Names point out 1. His Office Iesus denotes a Saviour 2. His qualification for this Office Christ signifies Annointed Psal. 45. 7. His Natures Divine and Humane declare both his matchless suitableness and sufficiency for the effectual discharge of his Office 1. His Names here expressed are two Iesus Christ. The first is a Hebrew Name The second Greek He came to redeem and save both Iews and Greeks Jews and Gentiles 1 Iesus He was so called at his Circumcision on the eighth day Luk. 2. 21. He was so named by the Angel before he was conceived in the womb Luk. 2. 21. Mat 1. 21 25. Iesus i. e. A Saviour That 's his Office A most sweet and acceptable Office Reasons why he was called Iesus a Saviour and in what sort he saves I have elsewhere explained There see 2. CHRIST i. e. Annointed This Greek name is of the same signification with the Hebrew name Messiah Act. 4. 26. from Psal. 2. 2. The New Testament appropriates this Name to him Luk. 2. 26. Ioh. 4. 25. Mat. 1. 1 16 18. and 16. 16 20. He was so called because he was annointed with the Holy Ghost that oyl of gladnest above all his fellows and thereby designed and qualified for his Office as I have elsewhere showed As also That this Jesus is the true CHRIST the promised Messiah by ten Arguments 2. His Natures in one Person are two viz. 1. Divine and 2. Humane 1. He is God the alone eternal Son of God Mat. 16. 15 16. Ioh. 1. 14 18. and 3. 16 18. 1 Ioh. 4. 9. Heb. 1. 2 3. The Names Attributes works and worship which peculiarly belong to God are ascribed to him as elsewhere I have manifested 2. He is man The man Christ Iesus 1 Tim. 1. 5. The Son of man Joh. 6. 27. The Son of David the Son of Abraham Mat. 1. 1. The Son of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the House and linage of David Luk. 1. 27 c. and 3. 23 24 c. and 2. 4 5 6 7 c. 21. And this Jesus Christ is God and Man in one Person Ioh. 1. 14. Gal. 4. 4. 1 Tim 3. 16. Of 1. His fitness to become Man 2. The Union betwixt his two Natures 3. The Oneness of his Person 4. And why it was necessary he should be God and Man 5. The Similitudes illustrating this Union And 6. The effects or consequents resulting from it Of all these see what I have at large laid down elsewhere II. That this IESVS CHRIST God-man is the meritorious Mean of lapsed man's Recovery This will be evidenced abundantly many wayes viz. 1. By the many Promises of Christ under the Old Testament as the Restorer and Recoverer of lapsed sinners As Gen. 3. 15. Gen. 12. 3. and 26. 4. with Gal. 3. 16. Psal. 110. 1 c. Isa. 9. 6 7. and 11. 1. to 10. and 42. 1. to 10. and 53. 4. to the end and 55. 1 2 3 4. and 61.