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A09674	The triall of a Christians sincere loue vnto Christ. By Mr William Pinke, Mr of Arts late fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford	Pinke, William, 1599?-1629.; Lyford, William, 1598-1653.; Pinke, William, 1599?-1629. Tryall of our sincere love to Christ. aut	1636 (1636)	STC 19944; ESTC S114275	71,570	262

THE TRIALL OF A CHRISTIANS SINCERE LOVE VNTO CHRIST By M r WILLIAM PINKE M r of Arts late Fellow of Magdalen Colledge in OXFORD 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ignat. Ep. ad Rom. THE THIRD EDITION AT OXFORD Printed by LEONARD LICHFIELD for EDWARD FORREST Anno Dom. 1636. TO THE HONOVRABLE AND TRVLY Noble Lord the Lord GEORGE DIGBY Sonne and Heire of the Right Honourable the Earle of BRISTOLL Right Honourable and my very Good Lord THAT I haue presumed to present to your Lordships Patronage these few Sermons of a deceased worthy friend it is not so much the acknowledgment of those great favours and noble respects wherewith you were pleased to grace Him and since his death haue vouchsafed to extend to mee your vnworthy servant as a due consideration if in Dedicatiōs matchablenesse be to be regarded how properly and peculiarly they doe belong to your Lordship both in respect of the Authour and the Argument The Authour was one whom for his singular dexterity in the Arts depth of iudgement sharpnesse of wit and especially his skill in languages Hebrew Greeke Arabicke you were pleased to make choice of for one of your Readers during your abode at Magdalen Colledge in Oxon in which time you so obliged him by the abundant testimonies of your good affection to him that He oft professed to mee how great iust an interest your merits claimed in all his studies and labours This which you here see is but an Essay to some master-peece which you might haue expected if he had liued to finish what he attempted in the Greek Antiquities obseruations on the Hebrew Text. For the matter it being a Theame of the weightiest businesse in Christianity the ground-worke of all which if it bee not first rooted in the heart all other our conclusions and speculations in Diuinity will bee but like the building a Castle in the ayre and may giue the soule content perhaps of a rare speculation but cannot of a powerfull experimentall soule-quickning and soule sauing Religion The Argument I say being such as I could not harden my selfe against the requests of some who desired the publishing thereof for the good many soules might reape by it so neither could I thinke any fitter to Patronage a Theam of piety than one who shewed himselfe amongst vs both a Patron an example of it I would be as farre from flattery as you are from the want of it and I would not you should looke your selfe in a false Glasse ouerweening in any man is a thing that exposeth to secret contempt whensoeuer the weaknesse shall be espied but Great men so much the more by how much they are the more obserued and haue occasion oftner to come vpon the stage You remēber what manner of man he was serious in his studies deuout strict in an holy conuersation the things you loued in him and imitated A singular O men when Noble mē begin betimes to be countenancers of goodnes and good men so perseuere to doe like a good Obadiah the Church shall blesse you and God shall honour you For those that honour him he will honour and them that despise him hee will couer with shame either by bringing on them some notable judgement or by giuing them vp to such headlong courses and filthy vices whereby their honour shall be stained their estates wasted themselues and their posterity ruined it being not vnusuall with God to punish men by their owne deuices and sinnes wherein they delight And so doth your Lordship perseuere to doe I will not load your modesty with a slender report of your owne worth What perhaps I ought to say your Lordship may guesse by what the people doe say of you and what I should commend vnto you if I were able or worthy by what the world expects from you I know there is nothing more vaine then to liue by opinion by what men say or expect opinion is but an ill rule and gouernesse of our liues and actions another mans measure being too long or too short for me yet this vse we may make of it when men begin to applaud and take notice of that which our selues haue the greatest reason to study affect it may serue to raise our vertues to an higher pitch than our own priuity could lightly bring them the loue practise of any good increasing with the acceptance it findes abroad But I forget what I haue in hand I close all with apprecatiō of all happinesse to your Lordship the God of Ioseph double vpon you the blessings of Ioseph Blessed let him make you for the precious things of Heauen and of the deep that coucheth beneath for the precious things of the Earth the fulnesse thereof but especially for the good will of him that dwelt in the Bush Doe worthily in Ephratah and bee you famous in our Isreal The seeds of Vertue and pious education wherewith your tender yeeres haue beene seasoned let them budde and yeeld their pleasant wholsome fruit in their seasons I still trespasse Moneo quod facis Spondes digna tuis ingentibus omnia coeptis Shirburn Iul. 7. 1630. Your Lordships humble and deuoted seruant WILLIAM LYFORD To the Reader COurteous Reader I here present thee with some peeces fragments of an intire and iust discourse intended by the Author concerning that vsefull worthy Argument the sincerity and triall of a Christians loue to Christ It was the glory of the last age that among other miracles God blessed it with the resurrection of Leraning it being being a time wherein liued and flourished men famous for learning and piety who sent abroad into the world many large volumes for the vindicating of Gods true Religion and worship from Barbarisme Errour and Superstition And 't is a part of the happinesse of this our Age that beside the same truth still maintained it hath sent forth many famous Treatises concerning the nature of faith the power and practise of Religion Amongst which this would not haue beene of the least note if the Author himselfe had liued to finish it A continuation and perfecting whereof I cannot hope for from others much lesse dare I presume to attempt it my selfe as euer loathing that soloecisme Hor. Art Poet. vt turpitèr atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa supernè Take therfore these Sermons as they were deliuered and left by him What is done in them I had rather should appeare to thy iudgement in the serious reading then from my opinion of them onely let mee intreate thee to read them with the same spirit they were written for that 's the way to profit by other mens works and content not thy selfe to trifle away some odde houre in thē but reserue them to some of thy most retired thoughts and seuerest meditations so maist thou by Gods blessing finde something to strengthen the assurances of thy hopes by Christ and to encrease thy future care and loue to sincerity In which

of those who vnderstand what a wofull thing it is to bee a stranger vnto Christ to be yet vnreconciled vnto God by him is that they would with yerning bowels commiserate the lamentable condition of their poore ignorant brethren which they shall meet with every where especially in most country Villages I haue obserued vpon occasions much table merriment which hath beene made by tales which passe about of such absurd senselesse answers as silly Christians haue given being demanded a reason of their faith perhaps vpon their death-beds or at their comming to the Lords table Let such vnnaturall mirth be farre from those who are to striue to haue the same minde in them which was in Christ Iesus You who by the blessed change wrought in your soules haue passed from death vnto life consider with a thankefull reflexion vpon the Father of lights that had not he vouchsafed you a more ingenuous education fairer opportunities to grow acquainted with the mysteries of grace more distinct call of his fanctifying spirit and more illuminated apprehensions to discerne them you might haue groped and stumbled in a thicker mist of stupidity then now befooles your vnnurturd brethren you might haue dishonoured that blessed name by which you are called by as wild misco●●●its and horrid follies as any come from them and whatsoever is ridiculous in them might haue bin more prodigoius in you you know what price to set vpon your owne soules You know the soule of the meanest idiot is of equall value with yours and that it cost the redeemer of the World as many stripes and wounds as yours O then pitty thy brethren so likely to perish for whom Christ died yea the rather because they being stuffed with sottish conceipts will be ready to laugh at those who shall pitty them Take all opportunities to doe them some spirituall good as occasion shall be offered conferring with them and praying for them and let Christian sympathies bee the least you can afford them you know what you meane when you pray daily that Gods kingdome may come remember you pray not in earnest vnlesse you doe your faithfull endenuour to helpe it forward as in your owne hearts so in the hearts of your brethren with which at any time you converse Consider I beseech you what a dismall fogge of Popery doth yet darken this Iland Popery which few thinkes of I meane that blind absurd implicite faith of beleeuing as the Church beleeues For there is not a pin to choose betweene him that beleeues in grosse what the Church of England beleeues and him that beleeues as that synagogue of Satan the Church of Rome beleeues it neither knowes any thing explicitly what either Church beleeues Meditate on this and what zeale what conrage what indignation you feele in your breasts against the Antichristian impostures of Rome let them fly I beseech you vpon all occasions against this Protestant Popery But I see no hope but that the Colliars faith will haue the greatest number of professors whilst accurate Catechizing of all sorts of people which did so much good in the primitiue Church is in ours so generally neglected But I conclude bespeaking you in the words of S. Iude But yee beloued building vp your selues on your most holy faith praying in the holy Ghost Keepe your selues in the loue of God looking for the mercies of our Lord Iesus Christ vnto eternall life And of some haue compassion making a difference And others saue with feare pulling them out of the fire hating even the garment spotted by the flesh O thou father of mercies and God of all consolations looke downe from thy throne of eternity and take notice of vs thy poore servants who doe now desire to muster vp all the faculties which thou hast given vs and to employ thē in an acceptable thankesgiuing vnto thee O Lord wee desire to spend our best spirits even to exhale our dearest soules in thankefull ejaculations vnto thee for that most incomprehensibly admirable contrivance of our salvation by the death of the sonne of thy loue O Lord we desire to be transported with a holy amazement as often as wee thinke of this mystery of mysteries and even to empty our hearts of their secrets in halleluiahs and voices of exultation Most holy Lord wee praise thee for the marvelous light of thy Gospell which hath acquainsed vs with those wonders of mercy which thy Christ hath performed for our soules for those comfortable evidences of our justification by him with which our bruised consciences haue beene most gratiously revived Wee praise thee likewise for those wounders of a new creation which thy blessed spirit hath begunne in our hearts for that it hath begunne to weaken and wast the body of sinne to crucify those corruptiōs which heretofore hath beene most insolent in vs to weane vs frō those vanities which heretofore haue beene our chiefe comforts and to make vs more willing to bee kept within a holy compasse O Lord we desire wee desire with most enlarged hearts to blesse thy infinite goodnesse for all those ravishing irradiations and glorious Prefaces of our blessed immortality by which thy cōforting spirit hath so often encouraged vs to patient continuance in well doing Wee blesse thee for all the heavenly thoughts affections desires resolutions which thou hast put into vs at any time wee praise thee for that portiou of thy good word which thou hast afforded vs at this time O thou that delightest to pardon abundantly pardon all the errours imperfections which haue come either from me in delivering or any of thy people in entertaining thy message Let it not bee a savour of death vnto death vnto any mā who hath beene within the sound of it but let it some way or other bee beneficiall vnto him in respect of thy kingdome And now oh thou that dwellest in vnapprochable splendor quite out of the ken of mortality seeing thou hast suffered dust and ashes to approch so neere to thee in thy ordinances dismisse not any one of vs wee beseech thee without a blessing send not any one of vs without a comfortable beame of thy countenance shining into his heart Thou art the fountaine of holinesse send vs not therefore out of thy presence without some more cleerenesse in our apprehensions of thy saving mysteries and heavenlinesse in our affections vnto them Send vs not from thy throne of grace but with a heavenly calme in our soules or with such tempests of repentance as may prepare vs for an everlasting serenity O Lord send vs not away but either with that joy which passeth all vnderstanding or that godly sorrow which may prepare vs for it To thee O Father with thy beloued Sonne and blessed Spirit three most glorious Persons one infinite Deity be ascribed all Honour Power Praise Might Majestie and Dominion by vs poore sinners here militant on earth and all the glorified companies triumphant in Heaven from this time forth for evermore Amen Amen