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Divine love: or The willingness of Jesus Christ to save sinners discovered in three divine dialogues, between 1. Christ and a publican. 2. Christ and a Pharisee. 3. Christ and a doubting Christian. With several other brief tracts. By V.P.
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Powell, Vavasor, 1617-1670.
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and Family are without good overseers and by this means your goods are diminished poverty will approach and it may be more dangers also as loss of life c. These you will say are no Benefits but disadvantages and those no mean ones neither so that you would be glad truly to know what benefit can come to you by this Cross which seemeth rather to bring you very great loss and damage To these things I answer that it is true indeed as you say of your bodies families children substance poverty life c. But if you would consider a while with inward eyes as you now behold them with outward then perhaps you would find more ease Do you not now by your inward sense perceive that you must part from all these things as well as with other worldly benesits Tell me then have you not this benefit by your Cross to learn to loath and leave the world and to long for and desire another world where is perpetuity and eternal happiness You ought of your own mind and free will to have forsaken the world and all earthly things using this world as though you used it not and having your hearts only set upon your treasures in Heaaven or else you can never be Christ true Disciple that is to be saved and to be where he is And think you my dear hearts in the Lord think you that this is no benefit to be compelled to do thus by this cross that so you may assuredly enjoy enless glory with the Lord. How doth God now as it were fatherly correct you to remember you of your former offences concerning these things and all other your miscarriages that your repentance and remission might ensue thereupon How doth God now compel you to call upon him and to be earnest in prayer Are these no benefits doth not the Scripture say that God doth correct us in this world because we should not be damned with the world That God chastneth every one whom he loveth that the end of this his correction shall be joy and holiness doth not the Scripture say that they are happy that suffer for righteousness sake as ye do that the glory and spirit of God resteth upon them that as you are now made like unto Christ insuffering so you shall be made like unto him in reigning doth not the Scripture say you are now going the high-way and right way to Heaven My dearly beloved what greater benefit then this can a godly heart desire The Lord open our hearts to see and feel this indeed then shall we think the Cross and afflictions which are the means to bring us to this to be very advantagious Then shall we thank God that he would chastise us And that we may do this indeed my dearly beloved Let us still remember that our Cross comes from God and that they come from God as a Father for our profit and benefit and therefore that we ought to call to mind our sins and to ask pardon for them and to look certainly for help at Gods hand in his good time such help as shall make most for Gods glory and for the comfort and benefit of our souls eternally Now if we do throughly believe and sensibly conceive these things then there will issue out from us hearty thanksgiving which God requireth as a most precious sacrifice And that we may all be thus thankful through Christ let us use earnest prayer to our God and dear Father begging of him to bless us keep us and comfort us under his sweet Cross for ever and ever Amen Amen To Mr. Laurence Sanders By Mr. John Bradford Martyr AH good brother that I could alwaies have God his majesty mercy Heaven and Hell before me then should I indure as Moses as seeing him that is invisible Blessed are they that die in the Lord then how much more they that die for the Lord. All here therefore God be praised do willingly pledg our Captain Christ of his Cup even when he will or how he will Let us rejoice in the straight way which few find and fewer walk therein but fewest of all continue therein unto the end Doubting of Gods favour is the very Dungeon of dispair Who live soberly but such as are holy Once accepted and beloved of God in Christ and ever beloved for whom he loveth he loveth to the end Repentance and justification is the Gramar School wherein we must first be conversant and learned before we go to the University of Gods most holy predestination The pattern which we must follow is Christ himself and not the multitude nor custome In all things we must avoid the seeking of our selves as well in doing as in learning things undone Long did the Lord linger and tarry to have shewed mercy upon us but we were ever the longer the worse He that will not have Gods blessing it shall be taken from him Bishop Ridly In a Letter to the dispersed brethren WE never had a better or more just cause either to continue our life or shed our blood we cannot take in hand a more certain clear and manifest Truth For it is not any ceremony for which we contend but it toucheth the very substance of our whole Religion yea even Christ himself What can all their cruelty do against us but make our Crowns more glorious yea beautify and multiply the same I esteem nothing available for me which will not further the glory of God Whosoever knowingly neglecteth and regardeth not to keep a good conscience he cannot have peace with God nor a lively Faith in his mercy If our Doctrine were once the truth of Gods word do you think that the alteration and change of the times can ever make it an untruth Let us joyn hands together in Christ and if we cannot overthrow yet over power and as much as in us lies let us shake those strong holds not with carnal but with spiritual weapons It is not the slanderers evil Tongue but a mans own evil deed that can defile him before God Yours by Gods grace in our Master Christs cause unto the Stake and thenceforth without all dangeror peril for ever and ever Doctor Taylor In a Letter to Bishop Cranmer GOD be praised again and again for this your excellent promotion which you are called unto at this present in that you are counted worthy to be allowed among the number of Christs Records and witnesses England hath had but a few learned Bishops that would stick to Christ so as to burn for his cause For Gods sake pray for us for we fail not daily to pray for you we are strongter and stronger in the Lord his name be praised and we doubt not but ye be so also in Christ sweet School Heaven is all and wholly on our side Rejoice therefore in the Lord and again I say rejoyce Pray for me I will pray for you God be praised since my condemnation I was never afraid to die Bishop Hooper In a Letter to
faith and stretch forth his hand of mercy over us for his dear Son Christ his sake take not away all thy true Preachers out of this Realm O Lord but leave us a seed least England be made as Sodom and Gomorrah when thy true Lots are removed and gone But why go I about to mingle your mirth with my mourning your just joy with my deserved sorrow if I loved you as I pretended I should surely rejoice with you most hartily and praise God from the very bottom of my heart I should praise God night and day for your excellent Election in and through his great mercy I should give him most humble thanks for your vocation by his Gospel and your true knowledg in the same I should earnestly praise him for your sweet justification whereof you are most certain by Gods grace and spirit I should earnestly pray to him for your Glorification which shall shortly ensue I should rejoice and be glad to see you dignified by the Crown of Martyrdome and to be appointed to that honour to testifie his truth and to seal it with your blood I should highly extol the Lord who hath given you a glorious victory over all your Enemies visible and invisible and hath given you grace and strength to finish your Course as you have begun Oh that the time were now come that I might put off this frail Tabernacle of the flesh in this heavenly security quietness of conscience in Jesus Christ Yours for ever in the Lord Jesus John Careless living in hope against hope Mr. John Careless to Mr. Philpot. MY dearly beloved brother God hath brought you into a straight place out of your pinching and painful seat in prison you have plentifully poured upon me your precious Oyntment the sweet Savour whereof hath greatly refreshed my faint and tired soul Ah good Jeremiah hath Pashur put thee in the Stocks why now thou hast the reward of a Prophet thy glory never began to appear until now Oh good Mr. Philpot which art a principle Pot indeed filled with most precious liquor as appeareth by thy plenteous pouring out of the same O Pot most happy ordained to honour by the high Potter thou dost contain heavenly treasure in thy earthen vessel Oh Pot thrice happy in whom Christ hath wrought a great miracle altering thy nature and turning water into Wine and that of the best out of whom the Master of the Feast hath filled my cup so full that I am even overcome in joy of the spirit through the same Be not offended dear heart at my Metaphorical speech for I am disposed to be merry and with David to dance before the Ark of the Lord and though you play on a painful pair of Organs the Stocks not very comly nor easie to the flesh yet the sweet sound that came from thence to me from you causeth me thus to speak Oh that I were with you in the body as I am present in spirit that I might sing all care away in Christ Jesus our blessed Saviour and Redeemer from all trouble for now the time of comfort is come Mr. Laurence Sanders In a Letter to the true Professors of the Gospel MY dear friends in the Lord the times are perilous and dangerous we must therefore be circumspect and not solace delight our selves in carnal security but with a joyful and contented mind we must now venture into the ship of Christs Cross and afflictions and now let us seriously weigh and consider all the perils dangers and hazards that we must expect to meet in our journey to our heavenly Countrey yet let us account it comfort enough in this dangerous Voyage that we have the company and fellowship of such an adventurer as our blessed Lord Jesus to go along with us when he was once in the ship with his Disciples with his word he did asswage the swelling of the dangerous Seas and he hath not left us alone in this ship either to sink or to swim but will be awaked if he be call'd upon by importunate prayer Holy Breathings OR A Divine Dialogue between Jesus and the Soul With other Poems Mat. 11.28 Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest Soul COme unto me what voice is this I here Iesus It is the sweet voice of thy Saviour dear He calleth labouring sinners to him flee He calleth laden sinners such as thee He calleth sinners bids them come away He calleth all Oh why then shouldst thou stay He calleth such as by sin are undone He calleth thee therefore unto him run Soul But how I should come to thee Blessed Lord Sin is the only thing by thee abhord And I am nothing else but sin and thou Wilt not of sin of the least sin allow Besides thou art in heaven and how shall I Reach unto thee thou art above the sky And I poor creature grovling on the earth The mold from which at first I came by birth Iesus Remember soul my blessed word that saith That coming to me is alone by Faith Soul Thou Lord that puttest faith into mans heart Bestow on me that gift to me impart Such other graces as may let me see My want of Christ that I may come to thee My sins thou know'st a heavy burden are A load that is too big for me to bear No slave that 's under Turkish Tyranny Is under such sad bondage as am I. But it is unto thee O Christ I come Believing in thee Oh make me a Room Within thy Arms take me into thy heart And since my Faith is weak strong Faith impart Iesus Poor Soul take comfort though thy Faith be small A grain of mustard seed's smallest of all Yet I of mustard seeds of Faith allow So that thy Soul unto my Scepter bow Nay of one grain a wonder let it be To thy poor soul that such love is in me That I accept of Faith even of the least That I receive so poor so vile a guest As wretched man who nothing hath to bring To make him acceptable but his sin Soul O blessed Jesus mount me on the wing Of Holy Faith let me not feel the sting Of conscience but let me answer all That I believed and went at Christ his call My Saviour call'd and I unto him went He gave me Faith and helpt me to repent I come with sorrow that I sinned have I come with Faith that thou my soul wilt save It is but weak O Lord I must confess It is a feeble hand yet ne're the less It is the hand of Faith and it is true It lays holds on thee claiming but its due And that is Rest which thou hast promised me And my poor soul is restless till with thee Rest is that good all creatures do desire Rest is that good to which all Saints aspire If th' bodies resting after labour be So sweet so pleasant as we know and see Then what is it to have the soul to rest In