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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51810	Catholick religion: or, The just test or character of every person that in any nation is accepted with God discovered, in an explication of the nature of the true fear of God, and working of righteousness, with which the same is connected. In some discourses upon Acts 10. 35, 36. Wherein several important doctrinal truths, more immediately influential upon practise, are plainly opened, and vindicated from their too common misunderstanding. By William Manning.	Manning, William, 1633?-1711.	1686 (1686)	Wing M491; ESTC R217102	67,577	173

with God Mal. 1.6 But ye say wherein have we despised thy Name Wherein have we polluted thee v. 7. The Lord regardeth not the Offering any more Yet ye say wherefore Ch. 2.14 ye have wearied the Lord with your words yet ye say wherein have we wearied him When ye say Every one that doth evil is good in the sight of the Lord and he delighteth in them or where is the God of judgment v. 17. Look to it before it be too late and God answers you with a witness Chap. 3.5 16 18. and don't set down in the bare Notion or hearing of these things or be like the man that beholds his natural Face in a Glass and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was Paralogizing or with fallacious reasonings putting a cheat on your own Souls as we have it Jam. 1.22 Whilst the word is not ingrafted there v. 21. or nothing comes of it the stock is not changed nor yet the fruit take heed that Conviction be not blasted and come to no issue 3. By way of Consolation and Establishment Is it of a Truth That in every Nation he that feareth God and worketh Righteousness is accepted with him Is the voice of the Gospel of God and our Saviour Then whoever upon the trial can witness within themselves that they are of that number they may with good warrant assume the comfort thereof and conclude themselves justified in the sight of God and in favour with him Art thou one concerned about the evidence of thy everlasting Estate and it may be dubious about it Why here thou hast the just Character of a saved Person if it may please God to help thee to discern how it is with thee Thou art one that believest the Scriptures and assentest to the Record of God concerning his Son 1 John 5.11 and hast betaken thy self to it not only as a Revelation worthy of Credit but also worthy of all Acceptation 1 Tim. 1.15 Thou trusteth in Christ Eph. 1.13 and in God the Father through him this thou doest so far at least as to conclude Christ Jesus a Saviour alsufficient for thee and to look to him and to no other Name for Salvation save unto his alone without which thou art not of the Christian Religion and it 's to no purpose to enquire any further for thee with us he that is no Christian can be no pious man to be sure else a bar is already put in against thee Joh. 3.36 But moreover hast thou counted the cost Luke 14.28 And considered the terms of thy Salvation by Christ and the Tenor of the Grant thereof that not Faith only But Godliness also hath the promise of the life which is to come 1 Tim 4.8 as Death is threatned to the contrary Heb. 12.14 hast thou accounted this also a faithful saying as the same Apostle affirms it to be v. 9 which is more hardly believed for that the flesh is unwilling to have it true or accounted it worthy of all Acceptation as the Apostle subjoyns How ungrateful soever to corrupt Nature and where the pinch with us lieth this comes home to the business yet further art thou one that truly feareth God Is his fear in thy heart Doest thou walk in it A Sinner thou art thou darest not abide by a strict Tryal according to the Original Law of Innocency thou art sensible of thy need of pardoning Mercy but art thou a righteous Person not Wicked i. e. upright to the Standard of the new Law or Gospel Doth the fear of God influence thee unto a universal and undeserved Resignation of thy self up unto his Will and Commands Hath it changed the habitual Frame and Disposition of thy Soul Is it become the governing Principle of thy Life Doth thy Conscience witness it so to be in the ordinary course and tract of thy Conversation Preserving thee from those Wickednesses which would intrench upon Sincerity and keeping thee steady in some prevalent measure in thy walk more immediately with God and in all the Duties of thy Place and Calling in the Station wherein lie hath set thee as becometh the Profession of Godliness accordingly as hath been before opened and I hope shall not need here again to be repeated If I say this be thy case whatever thy circumstances otherwaies be or may have been how heinous soever thy former Guilt how dark or doubtful soever thy present Condition may remain to thee Of a truth I am assured that thou art accepted with God thou hast the condition unto which the Promise is made and hast Gods warrant to assume therefrom and to conclude thy happy estate and God is faithful and can't deny himself his Truth his Word and he would have thee to take the comfort of it his Attributes as hath been shewed he hath laid at Stake for thy security it 's a righteous thing with God that it should so be Are men said to believe unto the saving of their Souls so are they said to repent unto Salvation 2 Cor. 7.10 and unto life in the case of Cornelius and his houshold Acts 11.18 and by patient continuance in well-doing to seek for it Rom. 2.7 and true Piety hath the promise of it If now the messenger the interpreter one among a thousand shall shew unto thee thy uprightness as Elihu speaks Job 33.23 tho thou tookest thy self for lost v. 22. Yet will God be gracious to thee for he hath found a ransom v. 24. Lift up thy hands which hang down and thy feeble knees He will be favourable to thee and thou shalt see his save with joy for he will render unto thee thy righteousness v. 26. Thou shalt behold his face in it Ps 17.15 and thou mayest trust to it in its place Ezek. 33.13 How full is the Scripture for thy encouragment The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him and he will shew them his covenant Psal 25.14 Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him Ps 33.18 like as a father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth them that fear him Ps 103.13 His mercy is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him v. 17. To such as keep his Covenant and to those that remember his commandments to do them v. 18. when they walk in darkness and have no light let them trust in the name of the Lord Is 50.10 The sun of righteousness shall arise unto them with healing in his wings Mal. 4.2 When the day of the Lord shall burn as an Oven against all the proud and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble v. 1. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord that delighteth greatly in his commandments Ps 112.1 The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance v. 6. He shall not be afraid of evil tidings his heart is fixed trusting in the Lord v. 7. Say to the righteous it shall be well with him Isa 5.10 The work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness

Forgiveness with God or that he is a rewarder thereof The entrance of sin had laid man under the curse and so unhinged all Adam and his wife hid themselves to no purpose neither from the presence of the Lord God Gen. 3.8 It was the revelation of pardoning Mercy that retrieved and brought back again the fear of God or his worship into the world Take away the assurance of that namely that God is placable and there is no foundation of hope or encouraging motive left for service or obedience for the future If any of the sons of men were left as remediless as the Devils why then God would not expect this fear from them the belief of the contrary is the very first notion that God requireth our assent unto next to his Being in all our Addresses unto him Heb. 11.6 If the Lord were pleased to kill us be would not have received a burnt-offering at our hands Judg. 13.23 It was a good Argument the very prescription of worship to fallen man is a most sure Indication that he will deal with him upon new terms of Mercy This was the Faith of Cornelius and that which induced him unto the fear of God whilst as yet he little understood that without the Blood of God there is no remission Heb. 9.22 Or that the Offering of Christ at Jerusalem was the only way to it And are not they near as wide from the truth of the Gospel who admitting the Death of Christ to enter the Covenant Grant of Forgiveness would limit his Sacrifice only to the Elect saying that he obtained not remission for any more on any terms VVhat hath been said carrieth in it a demonstration to the contrary and reflects light into the extent of the Death of Christ It 's most certain that God hath prescrited his fear unto every sinner and as certain it is that he expects no love fear or new Obedience from them who antecedently thereunto can have no particular assurance that there is any forgiveness or acceptance with God for them much less would he exact of them to believe it if it were not so or thereupon to bottom their service or to return unto him on that supposition Either then Christ by the grace of God did taste death for every man Heb. 2.9 pro singulis generum or there is not forgiveness with God for them which yet was the Faith of Cornelius as short as it was that he might be feared or we must say that there is forgiveness with him for some men without respect to Christ or a Conditional Covenant grant thereof unto them never Ratified by or Founded in his Blood which is not the Christian Belief This then is the first sense to be understood of the fear of God it 's to pay Worship and Homage unto him nor can the fear of God be without it 2. It imports further an awe and reverence of his Divine Majesty reaching the mind and affections Sanctify the Lord of Hosts himself and let him be your fear and let him be your dread Isa 8.13 Fear ye not me saith the Lord will ye not tremble at my presence Jer. 5.22 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of his Saints and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him Psal 89.7 let all the earth fear the Lord and let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him Psal 33.8 stand in awe and sin not meaneth not a bare dread of his wrath a meer passion or fright or anguish of conscience respecting the guilt or danger of some atrocious sin or wickedness This may serve to restrain or to impel to some partial acknowledgment of God but serves not to any heart-change They feared the Lord and served their own Gods 2 King 17.33 unto this day they fear not the Lord v. 34. that is aright No! they were none of those that tremble at the commandment of God as it 's said Ezra 10.3 It imports a tenderness of Heart Because thy Heart was tender 2 Chr. 34.27 How shall I do this thing and sin against God saith Joseph It 's an habit of mind and Soul disposing to an aweful regard unto God aversation unto sin and jealousy of offending him The affections are the Wings and Feet of the Soul and have need to be ballanced with the awe of God in order to its flight from sin They shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days Hos 3.5 In a Pious Soul this fear hath in it a Contemperation of Love It 's no Bondage-fear 2 Tim. 1.7 It 's Conjugal without amazement So far as Love is perfected it casts out tormenting fear 1 Joh. 4.18 it brings into the liberty of the Gospel Rom. 8.15 And Moses said unto the people fear not for God is come to prove you and that his fear may be before your faces that ye sin not Exod. 20.20 Fear not yet fear and love him Deut. 10.12 Neither yet doth this filial fear of God Exclude the fear of everlasting Destruction from him in case or on the supposition of a Covenant breach or presumptuous finning against him Fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell saith our Saviour to his Disciples Mat. 10.28 Let us serve him with reverence and Godly fear for our God is a consuming fire Heb. 12.29 Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you If any man defile the Temple of God him shall God destroy 1 Cor. 3.16 17. the flesh lusteth against the spirit Gal. 5.17 now the works of the flesh are manifest of which he gives a Catalogue v. 19. of the which saith he I tell you before as I have told you also in time past that they that do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God v. 21. nor of Christ Eph. 5.5 To be sure what ever God threats it behoveth every Pious Man to fear Be not high minded but fear Rom. 11.20 let him that standeth do so 1 Cor. 10.12 Obj. But it 's here Objected by many That all this is the voice of the Law of Works that such threats belong not to believers only that of Fatherly chastisement in case they sin If his children forsake my law c. I will visit their transgression with the rod my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him Psal 89.30 how then can the fear of Destruction in such case belong to a Believer or enter the Character of a true Fearer of God Ans The Objection lies deep and involveth in it a mistake in the whole Tenour of the Covenant of Life as it is the Instrument of Gods Government over Mankind one and other It proceeds upon these following false suppositions Namely 1. That Faith alone enters the condition of the New Covenant the Covenant which God hath Enjoyned unto us as the Apostle Phraseth it Heb. 9.20 contrary to Gen. 17.1 2. Psal 103.17 18. Exod. 24.7 8 c.

refreshment Zech. 9.11 Yet a Prisoner of hope through the blood of the covenant v. 12. Christ died for thee and God is propitious towards thee on his score he can with safety to his Honour and the repute of his law be just and righteous and yet pardon thee and receive thee to favour Rom. 3.25 26. on the terms proposed to thee so runs the preamble of our Ministerial Commission and that which in the first place we are to declare To wit that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself not imputing their trespasses unto them 2 Cor. 5.19 that is as to the Impetration thereof doing what belonged to him as to so much as concerned the sufficiency of the ransom toward an actual Reconciliation whereupon our Embassage is bottomed v. 20. I don't say that thou art immediately to believe thy sins to be forgiven thee for that may be a lye and is so if thou fearest not God Nor do I say that thou art bound only to believe that there is forgiveness with God for them that do or shall fear him for they are then actually forgiven but that there is forgiveness with him for thee i. e. a readiness to pardon antecedently to thy fear of him as the motive to it whether thou finally acceptest or refusest it or the terms of it trampling under foot the Son of God and despising the blood of the covenant Heb. 10.29 Defeating thy self of its advantage still there was forgiveness with him for thee otherwise he would not have sent to thee an Embassage of Reconciliation or therein have prescribed his fear unto thee in order to it that stumbling-stone is therefore removed out of thy way Yea moreover so sure it is that the belief of the Atonement made for thee by the Sacrifice of Christ so far as to render God appeasable towards thee Joh. 3.16 as also the belief of thy actual acceptance with him on the same score Eph. 1.6 So soon as thou shalt entertain the terms or receive and embrace the atonement Rom. 5.11 Is now become the leading condition of the Gospel and indispensibly necessary to life first to be admitted as true and worthy of all acceptation before any farther treaty with thee can be had touching thy acceptance with God it behoveth thee therefore to mind it The fear of God and working righteousness compriseth all the rest that God doth require of thee We pray you in Christs stead be ye reconciled to God 2 Cor. 5.2 Thy sins may have been as scarlet and crimson of a dye or tincture on the account of some aggravating circumstances greatly inhauncing their nature and demerit but come now saith the Lord for all that and let us reason together Isa 11.18 Say not wherewith shall I come before the Lord Will he be pleased with thousands of rams or with ten thousands of Rivers of Oil Shall I give my first-born for my transgression Mic. 6.7 No God has found a ransom He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth he require of thee but to do justly to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God v. 8. to fear him and obey him First then if thou wouldest begin at the right end look to get thy Heart and Soul possessed with the fear of God that is the very beginning of Wisdom as it imports a thorough change habitually determining the whole man toward God and Holiness Here lies the root of the matter without it nothing can be referred to God or be truly Religious some partial and superficial Change or Reformation may be had or attained unto and something effected or done more than formerly but nothing without it that may denominate thee a righteous Person Nay it 's ten to one but that at one time or other thou wilt get loose again from thy convictions and restraint whilst thou rowest against the stream and tide of thy native inclination tugged on by a kind of force from without thee destitute of the Spirit without the new Nature or any holy disposition or tendency towards God Thy goodness will be but as a morning cloud and as the early dew will it go away Hos 6.4 and in the mean while thou livest not to God as the Apostle expresseth it Rom. 6.11 In the next place look to thy walk thy fruits That they be the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God Phil. 1.11 The wicked must forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and return unto the Lord or there is no mercy for him Isa 55.7 Be exhorted then in the fear of God that thou puttest off concerning thy former conversation the old man with its deceitful lusts and let thy conversation witness thee to have put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness Eph. 4.22 24. Talk not of thy heart or good meanings towards God whilst the Flesh the World and the Devil bave thy service Know ye not that to whom ye yield your selves servants to obey his servants ye are to whom ye obey Rom. 6.16 Herein the children of God are manifest and the children of the Devil whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God 1 John 3.10 For a motive or argument enforcing the word of Exhortation take that of the Text. Thy acceptance with God or eternal Rejection by him is immediately suspended thereon be not deceived in this point See I have set before thee this day life and good and death and evil in that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments Deut. 30.15 16. The word is very nigh unto thee in thy mouth and in thy heart that thou mayest do it v. 14. this was the voice of the Gospel to lapsed man Rom. 10.6 8. The Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed to love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart and with all thy Soul that thou mayest live v. 6. The two Tables of the Law did ever enter the Covenant of Life struck with fallen man termed thence the Tables of the Testament or Covenant Chap. 9.11 made with Israel in the Blood of Christ in the Type Exod. 24.7 Psal 103.17 18. Thou art inexcusable who ever thou art if ever thou didst read in the Bible or hear the sound of the Gospel and hast taken no notice of this That Godliness hath the promise of the Life to come and that without it no man shall see the Lord or find Acceptance with him It 's then a matter of no small moment unto thee whether thou obeyest the call of God this day unto thee or not Thy Soul lies at stake on it thou hast the promise of God on the one hand to invite and encourage thee if but thy own Life eternal Life may bear any weight with thee till thou beest capable of seeing something higher Is Gods favour not worthy acceptance