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A45572	A guide to heaven from the Word, or, Good counsell how to close savingly with Christ with some short but serious questions to ask our hearts every morning and evening, whether we walk closely with him : and especially, rules for the strict and due observation of the Lords day.	Hardy, Samuel, 1636-1691.	1664 (1664)	Wing H753A; ESTC R34934	16,854	113

the cries of my self and all my friends the strength of the Angels the riches of all the world it would be as nothing to make up this woful breach Christ alone can do it 12. Believe it that Christ came to seek and to save such as we that were lost That he is not only able but willing and ready to give forth his rich grace What made him leave his Fathers bosome put off the Majestick Robes of his glory but love to poor souls What made him drink the dreadful cup of his Fathers wrath make such loud calls such rich proffers wait and send be rejected and wait cry earnestly and wait long but love to sinners Joh. 6.35 37. 'T was love to souls made him give up his body to be broken that precious box of oyntment which fills both heaven and earth with its sweet savour and pleasant perfumes Having throughly weighed and believed these foregoing propositions then come to Christ these 13 ways Directions how to close savingly with Christ 1. COme to Christ a poor lost and undone wretch hopeless and helpless as to an onely able and merciful Saviour Cry out as one sinking under the Waves and boisterous tempests of sin Master save or else I perish If thou wilt thou canst Heb. 7.25 Say with Thomas My Lord and my God my Christ and my Saviour put the hand of thy Faith into Christs pierced and bleeding sides Joh. 20.27 28. Say as they Joh. 6.68 Whither should I go but unto such a Saviour thou hast eternal life Thou canst help me out of the deep and miery ditch of my sins and over the fiery and fearful gulph of Gods wrath and canst bring me into the blessed presence yea into the gracious arms bosome and embraces of the God of glory I stretch out the weak arms of my Faith to thee O stretch out the strong arm of thy power and mercy and come and save me 2. Come as an humble broken and relenting sinner to an offended Majesty Come trembling with tears in your eyes and deep sorrow in your heart Come as one vile in the sight of God your self men and Angels As the poor Publican not worthy to look up to heaven smite on thy wicked heart As the Centurion say I am not worthy thou shouldest come under the roof of my heart As the Prodigal I have sinned against Heaven and am not worthy to be an hired servant Yet there is mercy enough in my Fathers heart and thy merits Isa 61.1 I have let flie many poysonous bullets and bitter arrows of sin against thee I have by sin fetcht as it were blood from thy precious heart afresh though it ran so freely and abundantly for my sake but now a sight of thy pierced side breaks my heart with sobs and sighs My sins are now as so many pricks in my side thorns at my heart and ropes about my neck 3. Come as a filthy polluted loathsome creature to a cleansing Fountain of Grace Lazarus in all his sores or Job on the dunghil with his scabs and botches were not so filthy and abominable in the eye of man as I am through the running sores and plagues of my heart and life in the sight of an holy and pure God I am more vile then the Toad then the stinking carrion in the ditch How doth this filth stream through every duty and mercy I drop the filthiness of sin whereever I go Oh wash cleanse and purifie in thy blood Iob 15. 16 42. Unclean unclean Thy body was broken to let out thy blood for my sake and shall not my heart be broken to let out the filth and gore of my sin 4. Come as a bond-slave drudge and vassal to Christ as to a Redeemer Complain of the Devils cruel usage and Sins tyrannizing Say Lord thou hast paid a price sufficient Thou hast redeemed me by thy precious blood that is more worth then ten thousand worlds Knock off these iron fetters rescue me out of this hellish Dungeon of sin I have now no command of my head or heart of my tongue or passions How do lusts domineere Luke 4.18 Heb. 2.14 15. Rom. 12 13 14. Here I lie staked down to the earth by a carnal heart 5. Come as a sin-sick-soul to Christ as to the only able Physitian As sick persons crying out of an aking head or griping bowels So complain Oh the plague of an hard heart The galls and gripes of a wounded conscience the wounds and stabs I have given my soul by sin Here I am sick to the very heart fainting and perishing Oh a drop of thy blood that is a cordial indeed the soveraign Balm of Gilead These many years yea all my life have I been diseased with the bloody issue of sin and all others are Physitians of no value but if I may but touch the hem of thy righteous Garment I shall be whole Matth. 9.20 21 22. I come to thee with mine Ulcers and Imposthumes to be lanced that the rotten members of my body of sin may be cut off 6. Come weary and heavy laden with your sins to Christ for rest and ease Mat. 11 28 29. Good Paul groaning under the weight of sin makes many heavy heart-burning complaints Rom. 7.18 19 and 24 but yet in the 25. v. he triumphs in Christ Holy David restless and disquiet roars under sin Psal 38.1 to 9. Those sins that were as jewels in your eye yea as your right hand or eye are they now as milstones and loads to your soul 7. Come as a poor needy and naked creature to Christ as the poor to the rich mans door for alms Come quite stript naked of your own righteousness Rev. 3.17 18. Cry out of your spiritual poverty Lord not one penny of grace to help my self Never a poorer wretch came to thee for mercy Grace I want if I perish it shall be at thy feet begging and praying I will not be thrust away from thy door Behold want of Faith Patience Love c. Not able to think or speak to do or suffer Oh let the sweet gales of thy spirit bring thy rich promises fraught with incomparable grace and comfort to unlade their heavenly treasure into my bosome Give me the key of Faith that I may unlock thy rich Store-house and fetch what I want 8. Come as an hunger-starv'd soul for bread of life thirsting and panting for soul-refreshing grace Isa 55. Beg cry out Bread Bread In some Countries through great want they cry Give and cut me holding out their arm give and kill me Cry Give Lord and strike me Give me heavenly food and do what thou wilt with me Say Lord if but as a Dog I may receive crumbs that fall from thy full Table of Grace Thirst and behold in every bleeding deep wound of Christ a fountain of rich flowing mercy Each heavenly promise steept in that sweet blood of Christ by faith can afford a full satisfying meal of joy and comfort to thy pining hunger-bitten Soul Apply

A Guide to Heaven FROM THE WORD OR GOOD COUNSEL How to close savingly with CHRIST WITH Some short but serious Questions to ask our hearts every Morning and Evening whether we walk closely with Him And especially Rules for the strict and due observation of the Lords Day Joh. 5.39 Search the Scriptures London Printed by E. C. for H. Brome at the Gún in Ivy lane 1664. To the READER Courteous Reader HAd the Author of these Rules and Enquiries intended them for the Press thou mightest have found them set off with greater advantage to please a curious Pallat but being drawn out only for a plain people they come close to the Conscience in a familiar vulgar stile Read them with care and consideration and you will find every line almost heart-searching Keep this Book alway at your Beds-head and let not a day pass over your head without taking it into your hand and pondering the things in your heart The first Rules are of singular use to bring you unto Christ The Questions to keep you close in your walk with him everyday And the last Rules are to help you especially on Gods Day Never more need of Counsel about our souls The Lord help us to improve all to Gods glory and our own good and comfort Farewel A Guide to Heaven FROM THE WORD OR Good Counsel how to close savingly with Christ c. Twelve Rules to prepare you for closing with Christ 1. WOrk your hearts into a thorow and unseigned belief of the Articles of your Faith Believe certainly and firmly without the least doubt that there is a great and glorious God that Jesus Christ is his only Son and the alone Saviour That the Bible is the true Word of God That undoubtedly there is such a place as Heaven and Hell Heb. 11. 6. 2. Really believe that you carry within your brests precious and immortal souls which must be adjudged by this God to one of those two places there to be for ever and ever Mat. 16.26 c. 3. Assure your selves that the last Sentence will be past according to your well or ill behaving your selves in this life Every man shall be rewarded according to his works 2 Cor. 5.10 Isa 3.10 11. Eccles 8.11 12 13. 4. Account upon it that it 's very difficult to come to that Heaven and that the way to destruction is broad and easie Remember still you have deceitful hearts within you a wicked Devil nigh you and snares and hinderances about and before you Mat. 7.13 14. Luke 13.24 Say my time is short my work is great and my strength is small 5. Certainly believe it that Heaven is so glorious that it 's worth all your care and pains be it never so much and that Hell is so dreadful that you may reasonably fly from it with all diligence earnestness and speed that it 's better you never had been born if you should die in your sins and perish everlastingly what a direful screetch will your soul give if it goes out of your body into unquenchable burnings Heb. 11.14 16 26.1 ●e● 1.4.2 Cor. 4.17 18.2 Cor. 5.11 6. Reckon that all the troubles of this world can't make a man going to that Heaven in ways of Righteousness miserable and wretched How sweet will it be to pass though out of a poor tottering Cottage into a glorious Palace Out of a Sea of troubles and dangers into an Haven of Peace Rest and Plenty Nor can all the Riches Honours and Pleasures here make a man going to that Hell happy What a terrible Hell will Hell be to great ones that have spent all their days in pleasure It 's much to change a Palace for the dark silent Grave Jewels and Deckings for worms and rottenness But what is it to have sweet singings turned into bitter howlings Deckt and glittering rooms pleasant walks rich attire delicious fare into dark Dungeons unquenchable lakes of fire and brimstone Mal. 3.15 to 18. Luke 12.16 to 21. 7. Seriously think I may yet get to this Heaven and avoid the fearful plagues and terrours of Hell If I shall come to glory what a God shall I enjoy for ever and ever into what blessed arms and bosome shall I cast my soul and if I should go to Hell at last can I bear up under the weight of Gods vengeance Well yet there is hope Gods heart the door of Grace and the Gate of Heaven yet stand open How would the damned in Hell give thousands of worlds if they had them for my may be Heaven Grace and Christ are offered and dare I refuse all Can I venture the loss of soul and body for ever and ever Heb. 10.30 31. 8. If I miss of glory 't will be mine own fault my damnation will lie at my own door God can clear himself of my blood his profers of grace are free and frequent earnest and real and shall I murder mine own soul Ezek. 18.32 Joh. 5.40 It may be written over my Grave Here is one that destroyed himself that would go to Hell thorow mercies judgments and warnings 9. Debate the case with your soul solemnly What is there in sin that I so much dote on What are my greatest designs and projects in the World Can I dig the pearl of happiness out of this dunghil World Can I get the Houses Lands Honours Friends that I aim at and if I should what are they Certainly conclude the greatest wisdom is to be wise to salvation and my best work is to work it out with fear and trembling lest I lose it Prov. 3.13 14. c. 10. Then search and try your hearts whether you are in the Faith and your hearts sound in Gods Statutes Ask seriously Have I the love that is sincere the Faith that is sound soul-saving and sin-killing and life-reforming Am I sure my face and heart are really set Sion-ward and Heaven-ward 2 Cor. 13.5 To this end Query 1. Did I ever see sin odious black and hellish Defiling and damning Have I seen it in the glass of the Law bloody and killing but in Christs blood exceeding and above me asure sinful Rom. 7.13 2. Do I see in Jesus Christ a beauty and excellency a fulness and all-sufficiency Is he the chiefest of ten thousands altogether lovely in mine eye Can I say Oh! thousand of gold if I had it for an interest in Christs blood that cleansing healing Pea e-speaking blood None but Christ All is but dung that I may win him Phil. 3.7 8. 11. Take it for granted that there is no name under heaven whereby you can be saved but Jesus Christs All grace and mercy for this life and that to come must come to you thorow the channel of Christs blood Acts 16.30 31. Acts 4.10 11 12. Say By sin I have shut Heaven gate and hardned Gods heart against me I have laid my self open to all the wrath of God all the curses inn the Bible and all the torments of Hell and if I could bring all

and dross for Christ 1 Joh. 5.4 5. 23 Have I really set death before me My life as a vapour a shadow if I should die dayly what preparation have I made for it Am I sure but this is my last night If God should shut mine eyes by death how is it like to be with my soul Dare I lie down with the guilt or filth of any one sin Is there any returning from the Grave to amend No certainly 2 Cor. 4.14 16. I Cor. 15.54 c. Prov. 27. 1. 24 Can I tell how great the day of Judgment will be how glorious and terrible And dare I meet Christ coming in flaming fire with ten thousand of my sins to take vengeance Can I hold up my head Are my graces sound and of the right kind All is not gold that glisters Have I this day searcht judg'd and condemn'd my self 1 Cor. 11.31 2 Cor. 5.10 11.2 Thess 1.8.9 10. 25 Do I believe Hell torments dreadful and eternal Its flames unspeakably scorching It s misery endless and easeless And do I not fly from this wrath to come Rev. 14.10 11. 26. Have I ascended in the triumphant Chariot of Faith this day and beheld the new Jerusalem Gods glorious Palace Did I live love think and talk as an Heir of this kingdom Eph. 1.18 19. 27 Have I not in all I have done minded man more then God Have I not minded only the clean-sing the outside Eph. 6.5 6. 28 Dare I lie down this night without praying earnestly to God for the pardon of my sins the blessings of the night and the salvation of my soul Directions for the strict observation of the Lords Day For Preparation 1 ORder all your week business so wisely before hand that you may have no unnecessary work on Gods day that your hands may be as free as possible from worldly work and your heads from worldly cares and thoughts Exod. 20.8 9 10 11. 2 Think seriously What a weighty work am I going about My week-affairs are but Toys and Trifles to this What are Sheep Oxen or Shops to Grace Christ or Heaven Can I be too careful and serious in Gods Work in Soul-salvation work Surely no. How holy should my thoughts be how heavenly my discourse how earnest mine endeavours all the day long Isa 58.13 14. 3 Therefore prepare with all your might search your hearts and lives 1 Chron. 29.1 2.1 Find out what your sins are to confess mourn over and pray against Lam. 3.20.2 What the Mercies are you want for soul or body for your Friends Families and Nation account this a Market day for your souls Rev. 3.17 18.3 What blessings received and what thanks to be returned Psal 116.12 4 Think with your self What good did I get by former yea by the last Sabbath Was my heart then broken or warm'd with love to God and the like What did I then learn and how have I practised it in the Week Have I fully digested by meditation firmly believed and faithfully obeyed the truths were last taught me Isa 1.11 c. 5 Beg earnestly of God that he would help you to sanctifie a Sabbath that this may be the best Sabbath you ever kept That your heart may be more tender humble and heavenly that the out-goings of your soul may be more free strong and fixed and the incomes of Heavenly grace and comfort more abundant that God may reap more glory and you receive more good then ever heretofore That the holy keeping of this Sabbath may be an earnest to you of keeping a never never-ending Sabbath with God in glory To this end pray especially for these four things 1 That God may prepare a suitable word for your soul that the Ministers mouth may be opened and his heart enlarged and his message full of goodness That it may be the pure plain and powerful Word of God Ephes 6.18 19. 2 That God would fill his own Ordinances with his own presence and blessing that he would touch your heart when man speaks to the ear Drop yea stream down h eavenly grace through these Conduit Pipes Isa 48.17 Luke 16.14 3 That you may have the hearing Ear the seeing Eye and the understanding Heart that you may be teachable willing to learn and apt to receive what God delivers Jam. 1.21 22. Psal 110.3 4 That your souls enemies may be kept off at least resisted and kept down That your hearts may not deceive you the Devil divert you nor the World distract or disturb you Having thus in some measure prepared your hearts for the Solemn work of this great Day observe and practice these following directions as ever you hope to have the blessing of the Sabbath 1 As soon as you awake fix your hearts and eyes heaven-ward bless God that you see the light of one day more especially Gods day wherein you may labour to have your sins pardoned and purged and your souls furnisht with grace and so fitted for glory Call the Sabbath your delight Psal 118.23 24 Psal 59.16 2 Beg heartily of God that he would strengthen you by his grace to do what he requires as he would have it done that he would pardon your unpreparation bear with your infirmities accept of your poor services and Crown all with his blessing 2 Chron. 30.18 19 20. 3 That you be fitted for the holy and heavenly work of the day affect your heart with some or all of these Ten following things 1 With the Majesty of that God whom you are to wait upon Psal 95.2 3 c. 2 With the vileness of sin and of your selves because of sin 3 With the sweetness of Christ and the greatness of his Love and Mercie 4 With the excellency of that heavenly work you are going about and the gain of godliness 5 With the vanity of the world and all things therein 6 With the worth and high value of your immortal souls 7 With the rage subtilty and diligence of your souls enemies 8 Especially with the deceitfulness of your own hearts 9 With the Terrour and Torment of Hell 10 With the unspeakable and everlasting glory of Heaven 4 Carefully and conscienciously perform Family Duties Josh 24. 15. 1 See that your Servants and Children of age waste not away the Morning in sleep or idleness 2 Cause them to joyn together in Prayer Reading or any other Godly Exercise Gen. 18.19 3 If you have time you may Catechise them or discourse to them of any of those former Ten things Deut. 6.6 7. 1 Inform your selves and them what a great and glorious Majesty and Master you are to serve Mal. 1.14 2 What a blessed and heavenly work you go about that it's heart work Joh. 4.24 and therefore hard and difficult work and yet that its pleasant and excellent Prov. 3.17 Chap. 8.34 35. Oh the fatness of Gods house and the beauties of holiness 3 What an abundant and unspeakable reward attends the well-doing even life everlasting Rom 6.22 and how fearful a thing it is