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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86356	The good old vvay, Gods vvay, to sovle-refreshing rest: discovered in a sermon preached to the Right Honorable the Lord Maior and court of aldermen of the citie of London, at their anniversary meeting on Wednesday in Easter weeke at Christ-Church, Apr. 24. 1644 being the day of the monethly publike fast. By Thomas Hill B.D. Pastor of Tychmersh in Northampton shire. Imprimatur, Charles Herle.	Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.	1644 (1644)	Wing H2023; Thomason E48_4; ESTC R11496	52,548	61

afford you a good word go mourne over them and if it bee possible by a contribution of prayers recover their sinking soules this is to bee Christians indeed adde to your brotherly love charity lay not out all your love to the Saints there is a love due to them as members but when you delight in the people of God the household of faith yet withall pity them that goe astray and bee charitable to them and trie all conclusions how you may winne them on and ingage them in the good way Christianity is sometimes called a way it is other times called a race Heb. 12. 1. Let us runne with patience the race that is set before us a Christian should move so fast that hee should be running making swift progresse that were walking to purpose The Lord knoweth how many even among those that would bee accounted good Christians are still dwarfes in Religion still novices children tossed to and fro with every wind and many that thinke their penny good silver yet it appeares they are but dead creatures they are but hypocrites in that they doe not grow as a Picture though never so lively drawne it groweth not it stands at a stay so many that are formall professors they shew indeed they are but pictures they doe not increase not out-grow corruptions nor over-grow their wonted passions nor grow above common temptations If you would approve your selves good travellers in the way to Sion you must bee walking it were an excellent thing that now as wee have monethly Sacraments and monethly dayes of humiliation to be drawing pictures of your selves compare your selves with yourselves observe how much more humble and broken hearted you are how much more weaned from the world you are and what fruitfull walking you expresse after so many heavenly showers falling upon you Thousands in England would bee glad of the very crummes of your Gospel comforts The more sad will your account bee if when the Lord shall reckon with you for so many yeares soule-quickning-liberties it shall appeare that neither Sabbath nor Sacrament-opportunities nor dayes of Humiliation nor dayes of Thanksgivings have engaged your hearts to walke on in this good way The Lord perswade your spirits that in an holy revenge of your former negligence you may now mend your pace and double your diligence in Sion way yea and quicken not onely your selves but one another as they in Jer. 50. 5. Come and let us joyne our selves to the Lord in a perpetuall Covenant that shall not bee forgotten Let us endeavour as those that have a minde to dwell in heaven together hand in hand to make constant progresse in this good way Quest Is there but one good way to soul-refreshing rest must all travellers towards Sion come into the very same way Answ. Without doubt Jesus Christ is the one way Joh. 14. 6. by his blood that one new and living way is opened Heb. 10. 20. there is one way of repentance for our sinnes of faith in Gods promises of obedience to his commands in which all Christians should walke as being the onely way that leades to communion with Jesus Christ and to an heavenly rest by him It concernes all Christians of all rankes of all sorts to come into this one way and with onenesse of heart to walke herein In it selfe it is a mercy very desirable that w●e might injoy the blessed fruit and accomplishment of that promise in the full extent of it Jer. 32. 39. I will give you one heart and one way This being part of the Covenant you should have it in your eyes make it the matter of your Prayer and the object of your indeavour The happy conjunction of purity and unity Zeph. 3. 9. was an argument that God was making a restauration of his Israel Then I will turn to the people a pure language that they may call on the name of the Lord to serve him with one consent In the Hebrew pure lip and one shoulder This is most lovely to see the people of God having a pure lip in his Worship and one shoulder in doing his Worke This promoted Temple worke not a little after the return from the Captivity when the people gathered themselves together as one man to Hierusalem Ezra 3. 1. This was the beauty of the Primitive Church that there was such an Harmony of spirits amongst the Christians of those times Act. 2. 1. It is an observation of a Learned Divine from that passage in 1 Kin. 6. 7. while the Temple was in building there was neither hammer nor axe nor any toole of iron heard in the house that thence wee should learn in Church affaires in matters of Religion to manage all with sweet peace and unanimity That no noise of contentions and schismes saith hee might be heard O that God would grant this mercy that in his house wee might all thinke and speake the same thing But it was a great blemish to the Church of Corinth that the Church which should have preserved unity within it selfe broke into divers parties into severall little Corporations some crying up Paul others Apollo others adhering to Cephas 1 Cor. 1. 12. notwithstanding those strong reasons against divisions mentioned ver. 13. Is Christ divided was Paul crucified for you or were yee baptized in the name of Paul how uncomely then are such divisions amongst you Paul was very serious and affectionate Rom. 16. 17 18. I beseech you Brethren marke them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which yee have learned and avoyd them for they are such as serve not our Lord Jesus Christ but their owne belly and by good words and faire speeches deceive the hearts of the simple Church divisions doe both weaken friends and strengthen enemies and so much disparage Religion that they discourage commers on to it and make some candidates some probationers fly off Yea too many are ready to resolve to bee of no Religion because they see so many Religions in England It were worth rivers of teares could wee obtaine that mercy from God that these differences amongst us might bee reconciled that all you in London who inquire after the good way might once come into the same way Quest Though unity joyned with purity bee very desirable yet what if there should bee a toleration of divers ways in a Church in a Kingdom why not Answ. First Here wee must wisely distinguish betwixt opinions and practices It cannot bee expected that all good men should ever come to bee of the same opinion in every thing Neither indeed doe all Truths equally concern us There are severall degrees of necessity about matters of Religion which will admit variety of opinions in some of them 1. Some things are alwaies and simply necessary as necessary meanes and causes by which wee must bee saved Thus faith in the Trinity 2. Other things are necessary as requisite conditions without which a man cannot bee saved Thus conversion from sin to God