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A68954	A three-fold treatise containing the saints sure and perpetuall guide. Selfe-enriching examination. Soule-fatting fasting. Or, meditations, concerning the word, the sacrament of the Lords Supper, and fasting. By the labours of that late Reverend, and learned divine, Master Robert Bolton ...	Bolton, Robert, 1572-1631.	1634 (1634)	STC 3255; ESTC S106789	149,468	268

and secret judgement to suffer some of our fore-fathers to live and die under the tyranny and darknesse of Antichrist how much are we bound to blesse God that we are borne and brought up in the light of the Gospell and what heavie plagues and great damnation doe wee bring upon our selves if wee neglect or despise so great salvation I but yet further will some say wee have lived some of us fortie some thirtie some twenty yeares without so much preaching and yet have holden good credit and reputation in the world and prospered in our wayes would you now have us so forward in running to Sermons Strange it is to see how wise the simplest are in matters of the world about their temporall state but how simple and blinde the wisest worldlings are in the affaires of Heaven and about their greatest spirituall and eternall good Let us suppose a man to have lived long in a poore Cottage and now at length to have some great and rich Lordship befallen him doe you thinke hee would reason thus Why I have lived some thirtie or fortie yeer●● now alreadie in this low estate with good conte●●●ent and credit amongst my neighbours and therefore here I will rest the rest of my dayes I am too old now to change my former estate Would such a foole as this be found in a whole Countrey And yet many Countries are full of such fooles in respect of spirituall advancement and the salvation of their soules Me thinkes those that have long lived in ignorance and blindnesse should rather conclude thus Have I thus long and so fearefully lived without God in the World without knowledge of his Truth faith in Christ and Conscience of my wayes Oh then it is more than high time now at length to awake out of sleepe and to open mine eyes and to imbrace this glorious Sun-shine of the Gospel which the Lord of his great mercy hath brought unto me that so I may be enlightened to eternall life As for prospering in the World that is no marke of a good soule nay it is commonly the Let of the wicked not to be plagued like other men but to bring their enterprises to passe Psalme 73. Nay yet further There is no greater Curse can befall any man than to prosper in the World and be out of the way to Heaven I but will others say to the attaining of eternall life what needs so much adoe so much preaching catechising expounding conferring meditating teaching and praying with our families which are so much and so often urged upon us When all comes to all this is the summe and end of all To feare God and keepe his Comm●●dements That we love God above all and our neigh●●● as our selves And we hope we can doe this without all this adoe To feare God and keepe his Commandements which is the whole dutie of man as the Preacher speakes in his last chapter and to love God above all and our neighbors as our selves upon which hangeth the whole Law and the Prophets as Christ tells us Math. 22. are indeed soone spoken but not so easily truly learned and most hardly sincerely practised Is it enough thinke you to make a man a good Carpenter or Mason to say That that is soone learned and I know as much as the best workman can teach or tell me To build an House is nothing but to lay the foundation to reare the walls and cover it with a Roose Is it enough to make a good Husbandman to say I know as much as the best Husbandman can teach me for Husbandry is nothing else but to sowe and reape Is it enough to make a good Preacher to say It is no such great matter to make a Sermon I know as much in that point as the best Scholler amongst them can tell me To preach is nothing else but to expound the Text gather Doctrines and make use and application to the hearts consciences of the hearers But it would be long before these idle and emptie vaunts would build Houses fill Barnes or save Soules There is farre more required to these businesses than so There is to be undergone much toile and labour much care trouble expence and exercise before any of these workes can be rightly accomplished It is even so in the great worke of salvation and the attainment of Heaven The state of grace and trade of Christianitie is not so easily purchased practised There goes more to saving of a soule than bold ignorant brags than to say If that be all I hope I can quickly and easily learne to love God above all my neighbor as my selfe For before these there goes many things as knowledge of Gods will and Word a thorow view of our owne misery corruptions in the glasse of the Law strange agonies and sore pangs in the new-birth and sorrow for sinne refreshings and coolings by the mercies of God and merits of Christ faith repentance sanctification a blessed holy change in the whole man both body soule and spirit And then follows new obedience which consists in the uprightnesse and sinceritie of our owne hearts a conscionable and charitable carriage towards our neighbors and a zealous constancy in all religious duties and right service of God which must be universall in respect of the object that is we must walk in all his Commandements totall in respect of the subject that is we must serve him in all the powers of our soule and parts of our body in our thoughts words and actions In all which things and holy courses if a man be not particularly instructed experienced practised his love of God and his neighbour is but in word and tongue not in deed and truth A man if he be disposed may quickly perceive and discerne the truth or hollownesse of his heart in this point God hath straitly commanded an entire sanctification and keeping holy of the Sabbath Let a man then consider if he suffer himselfe to be drawne away from holy Exercise on that day by pleasures profit pastime companie ease idlenesse or other worldly occasions why then he preferres meere vanities and the desires of his owne heart before the glory and honour of God and so doth not love God above all The true love of a mans selfe doth chiefly principally consist in furnishing himselfe with saving knowledge sinceritie of heart godlinesse of life a good Conscience and spirituall comfort against hee come to Iudgement Now if hee love his neighbour as himselfe he is not still talking with him of worldly matters but especially labours with him for his conversion entertainment of grace and encrease in godlinesse If these be not his cares both for himselfe and his neighbour he truly loves neither Thus may a man examine himselfe through all the Commandements in particular and see whether it be so easie to love his neighbour as himselfe and God

frequent in praying and praysing The other not The Reason 5 Vers 109 110. He will lose his life for God A temporarie is offended Mat. 13. 21. 6 Vers 111 112. A Child of God counts the Word his greatest Treasure * Vers 162. * Vers 72. The Reason A Christian man hath such assurance in the good things of the world to come that he can easily moderate his affections as touching earthly and transitorie things It is otherwise with an Hypocrite And why 2 Cor. 13. 5. Vers 105. explained The Word is taken three wayes 1 For the substantial Word The written and sounding Word The effectuall Word Rom. 1. 16. 2 What is m●ant by Light John 1. 4. Mat. 5. 14. Phil. 2. 15 16. Prov. 4. 18. 1 Christ originally Mal. 4. 2. 2 Ministers ministerially R●vel 1. 20. Act. 16. 18. The Word instrumentally The faithfull are the subjects of this Light Phil. 2. 15. 3 What is meant by Feet 4 What by Paths The meaning of the Verse Doct. 1. Doct. 2. Doct. 1. Reason 1. No other meanes can bring us to Heaven Not humane Learning Eph. 2. 12. Rom. 1. 22. 1 Cor. 1. 20. Iere. 10. 14. Not worldly wisedome The wisedome of Gods Book mans brain stand at oddes with an everlasting opposition Rom. 8. 7. * 1 Cor. 1. 19. 2 Sam. 16. 23. 2 Sam. 17. 23. Not good meanings 2 Sam. 6. 6. Luk. 9. 54 55. 1 Sam. 15. Ioh. 13. 8. Not will-worship Col. 2. 23. 1 King 18. 28. Deut. 32. 17. Not the Word it selfe in the Letter without the meaning Ioh. 3. 10. Vers 4. Reason 2. The Word workes regeneration without which no salvation What regeneration is 1 Pet. 1. 23. Act. 13. 26. Act. 14. 3. Phil. 2. 16. Rom. 1. 16. * See Dearing pag. 325. 1 Cor 4. 15. Iam. 1. 18. Reason 3. The Word is able to sanctifie the whole man 2 Cor. 10. 4. Heb. 4. 12. opened The Word is said to be lively in three regards It quickens It lasts for ever Psal 119. 89. It disperseth it selfe and searcheth into every part of the soule Jer. 23. 29. Vse 1. Confutation● of Papists who keepe the Word in an unknowne Tongue Psal 19. 7 8. Joh. 5. 39. Prov. ● 4. Act. 17. 11. ● Pet. 1. 19. * Be● de Verb. Dei 2. cap. 15. At Catholica Ecclesia c. * Sess 22. ca. 8. Can. 9. Obiect The Scriptures are ready to be abused by the ignorant to error heresie c. Answ So may Meat be abused and the Aire infected yet they are not to be taken away Rev. 18. Vse 2. Of terror to them that delight not in Gods Word I Iob. 5. 19. Act. 26. 18. Eph. 5. 8. 1 Pet. 2. 9. The state of those that are in Darkenesse He is in feare * Gen. 15. 12. Rom. 2. 5. He knowes not whither he goes Ioh. 12. 35. The state of ignorant men Simile Eph. 2. 12. Joh. 3. 18. Rom. 10. 14. Eph. 4. 17 18 19. The fruits of ignorance 1 Ioh. 2. 16. 2 Thess 1. 7 8 9. 1 Cor. 2. 9. 2 Cor. 4. 3 4. Ephes 4. 18. Ephes 5. 8. Prov. 4. 19. Coloss 1. 13. Zeph. 1. 15. Vse 3. Admonition to take the Word for our guide 1 Pet. 2. 2. Prov. 4. 18. Mal. 4. 2. Eph. 4. 13. Phil. 2. 15. Dan. 12. 3. Isai 38. 8. Iosh 10. 12. Math. 25. 10. Psal 19. 4 5. Vse 4. Instruction See Chrysoft in Math. pag. 76. Motives ● The Word is a Love-Letter from God Quid est autem Scriptura sacra nisi quaedam Epistola Omnipotentis Dei ad creaturam suam Greg. Epist lib. 4. Epist 48. 1 Tim. 3. 15. Simile 2 The matter contained in it is excellent and precious Heb. 2. 14. 1 Pet. 1. 23. Psal 141. 3. Iob 31. 1. 3 We must be judged by the Word Ioh. 12. 47 48. Conscience what it is Psal 19. 7. Hos 12. 8. Eccles 5. 1. 2 Cor. 2. 16. Heb. 4. 12. Isa 55. 11. 4 A fearefull judgement shall befall the not hearers and practisers of the Word Math. 10. 14 15. Simile Deut 28. 49. Hinderances from profiting by the Word Let 1. Atheisme Some thinke the Word to be but a humane policie A removing of this * It may bee discerned by a proper naturall and inherent Majestie from all humane writings and imitatory delusions and impostures of Satan such as is the Alcaron Let 2. Recusancie Let 3. Hardnesse of heart and desperatenesse in sinning Iob 21. 14 15. Isa 5. 19. A preservative against this The degrees in sinne 1 A motion to sinne 2 The Will inticed 3 Delight 4 Consent 5 Practice 6 Pleasure 7 Custome 8 Excusing 9 Defending 10 Continuance 11 Boasting 12 A reprobate sense Let 4. A conceit that Gods Law like mens Lawes takes hold of and will condemne onely notorious sinners This Let is removed Mat. 11. 23 24. Heb. 11. 6. Heb. 12. 14. Psal 88. 21. Let 5. An eager pursuit of a mans sweet sinne * What is meant by a sweet sinne Quemadmodum nemo tam perditus aut flagitiosus invenitur quin ab aliquo vitio magis quàm caeteris abhorreat sic nemo tantae sanctitatis est quin ad unum aliquod peccatum quam ad caetera propenstor sit Cart. p. 1262. Math. 22. Luke 14. The Parable of the great Supper let out by 3. circumstances 1 2 3 What is meant by it Hos 2. 19. Luke 14. 18. 19. 20. Math. 22. 5. Psal 63. 5. A counter-poyson against this 1 Gods House is the Presence Chamber of the King of Glory 2 Christ is there Math. 18. 20. Rev. 1. 12. 3 The Spirit is there 4 The Angels are there 1 Cor. 11. 10. 1 Pet. 1. 12. 5 The Saints are there Psal 16. 3. 6 The effect of the Word to the unconverted 2 Cor. 5. 18. Eph. 6. 15. Act. 14. 3. 20. 32. The benefit of it to Converts 1 It encreaseth their knowledge 2 Their faith 3 It preserves them from luke-warmenesse 4 It prevents relapses 5 It recovers them being fallen 6 It will ●uide them aright in all their wayes Let 6. Carnall conceits and objections Object May we not be saved without hearing the Word preached Answ No more than wee can reape without sowing or live without food Simile Eph 4. 11 12. Obiect 2. Frequent preaching is not so necessary Answ It is a signe of a gracelessè heart to loath the heavenly Manna Simile Psal 84. Object 3. Our fore-fathers had no preaching yet are saved Answ Their condemnation shall be easier 2 Cor 43 4. 2 We are bound to blesse God who hath dealt more graciously with us Object 4. Answ Object 5. What needs so much adoe The whole dutie of man is soone learned Answ It is soone said not so soone done Eccles 12. 13. Math. 22. 40. Simile Simile Simile Things required before a man can love God or man How our service to God must be qualified A triall of our love to God A triall of our love to our neighbour Object 6.