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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30579	Gospel-conversation: wherein is shewed, I. How the conversation of believers must be above what could be by the light of nature. II. Beyond those that lived under the law. III. And suitable to what truths the Gospel holds forth. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to Stepney and Criplegate, London. Being the third book published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simpson, Philip Nye, William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1650 (1650)	Wing B6076A; ESTC R213106	221,498	277

bitterness that original corruption and this makes me cry out Oh wretched man Oh wretched woman who shall deliver me from this body of death and Oh that I could find this mortified in me this is that that is the strength and endeavor of my soul to get this bodie of sin to be mortified I this is as becomes the Gospel so to live in your Conversations as it may appear that you are not content meerly to keep from actual sins though in secret but it is your great care and endeavour to mortifie this verie bodie of death that is within you and by this a great manie of your Civil men and meer moral men will or at least may be convinced that their Conversations comes short of that that becomes the Gospel of Jesus Christ for they are not acquainted with this Lastly If you would have your Conversations such as becomes the Gospel of Christ you must not only think to make conscience of secret sins but that which you do you must manifest that it doth proceed out of Love not only that you do obey but that you love the Commandement that you do obey Now this neither any hypocrit or meer moral man doth if you take it universallie one Commandement as well as another Obj. You will say Love is a secret thing Ans But as you may know in your family the difference between your childrens obedience to you and your servants so there may appear a difference between the obedience of one that is meerly moral or doth it out of conscience and the other that doth it out of love therefore you must know that you do not rise beyond the light of Nature except that you do love the Command as well as obey the Command and so carrie things in your Conversations as you may make it appear that all those waie of God that you make conscience of that you likewise have a love unto them and do them out of a principle of love and thus you come beyond the light of Nature and in some measure it is as becomes the Gospel of Christ And that 's the first thing how we should walk in our Conversations as becomes the Gospel of Christ But now this is the lowest of all The second is That our Conversations must be such as is beyond such as live under the Law for the Law of God goes higher than the light of Nature for there 's more reveal'd there than in the light of Nature It 's true that that you call the moral Law the light of Nature if it be cleer it is sutable to it to the most part of it only there is some part that is positive but most part is but sutable to the principles of Nature if they were cleer and pure but now because since the fall of Man the light of Nature is darkned and the principles of Nature are much corrupted therefore God hath given His Law that is as it were a glass of His Will that is the cleer glass of what was written in the heart of man in Innocencie that 's the Law Only there is that of the limitation of the seventh Day particularly from the Creation that hath somewhat positive in it but take all the other and I say it is nothing but as a glass of what was written in the heart of man in the time of Innocency There was written in mans heart to keep some solemn time for the worship of God only the specification was by revelation but the substance of all those ten Commandements I say is the glass of what was written in the heart of man in Innocency And because God saw that this writing was so much blotted out almost all obliterated therefore God wrote it in Tables of stone whereas it was written in the Table of mans heart at first But now when He comes to bring men to the Gospel there He writes over that Law again in the Tables of their hearts At first it was written in the heart of Adam but he falling doth blot it out in a great measure then God writes it over fair again but how He writes it over in a fair Copie but it is in Tables of stone but when God receives any soul in the Gospel He writes it over again in the Tables of their hearts Now this gives you a little hint of the difference between the Law and the Gospel between the Conversations of men that were meerly Legal and the Conversation that is Evangelical but the opening of it to shew the difference between the Law and the Gospel in reference to this and to shew how low the Conversation was that was meerly Legal and how high raised the Conversation of a Christian ought to be if he would make it Evangelical such as becomes the Gospel of Christ would ask more time and therefore we must defer that to the next day SERMON III. PHIL. 1. 27. Only let your Conversation be as becomes the Gospel of Christ A Conversation becoming the Gospel of Christ it must be beyond what the Law can inable one to attain to or else it doth not become the Gospel I have shewed you already what the Gospel of Christ is But now we are upon the point of Conversation That it must be higher than can be by the Law those that live under the Gospel must live in a higher way of holiness than those that lived under the Law Now for this we are to consider of the Law under these two considerations First As it is a Covenant of works for life so it was made at first to Adam It was a Covenant of works for eternal life to Adam and so to man kind in him Secondly We are to consider the Law as in the Ministration of it by Moses Take it either of these two waies Those that live under the Gospel and profess the Gospel must live in a more holy Conversation or aim or endeavour at least after a more holy Conversation than that Conversation could be that was under the Law As now I say thus the Law as the Covenant of life to Adam But what was his Conversation First It was obedience to God meerly as Creator no further Adam in innocency he lookt upon God as Creator of al things as the First being of all and so Adam tendered up his service to God meerly as the Creator and First-being That was his obedience Secondly The Law to Adam had promise only of natural things of a natural life to be continued We do not reade of Gods promising Adam to live in Heaven if he had obeyed but Do this and live that was the Tenour of the Covenant with him that is he should have continued in Paradise and so have lived a natural life but yet continued eternally God would have upheld that natural life of his that 's all we reade of that ever God promised to Adam if he had stood by vertue of that Covenant of the Law That 's the second thing considerable in

2. may prove to be your portion it is spoken of Doeg This is the man saith the Psalmist that did not make God his trust but trusted in his great riches this is the man So you may be pointed out one day This is the man Doeg was a great Courtier and because he was an Officer of King Sauls and because he had his favour he trusted in the favour of the King and in his riches and what did he care for David Yea by the Text it appears he was one that made some shew of Religion too in the 1 of Sam. 21. 7. He was detained before the Lord Tremelius thinks either out of some Religious vow or to keep the Sabbath or somewhat concerning the Law he was detained before the Lord and yet he was a vile Malignant against David and all because he trusted in the great countenance he had at Court Now this is the man that made not God his trust but that trusted in his great riches the Lord forbid this Scripture should be made true of any of you I leave this Text with you that are rich men take heed you trust not in your great riches I leave this Text with you that are in places of dignity and honor take heed you have not your portion in this world I leave this Text to Voluptuous men given up to pleasures take heed you hear not one day this Son remember in thy life-time thou hadst thy pleasure I leave this with those that dare not trust God for a portion to come And above all I leave this with all Hypocrites let them take heed it be not said to them Here is your reward Consider what hath been said and the Lord give you understanding in all things FINIS THE ALPHABETICAL TABLE A ABuse see Body Adam First Adam what he was and what he should have been had he stood Page 43 The state of Adam compared with the state of the Saints 44 Admiration Admiration of Saints and Angels 90 Adrian Adrian the Pope his wofull death 339 Alexanders rebuke 349 Angels Angels are the Saints keepers 155 Angels see Love Honor Anger Anger must be avoided 38 Arbitrary Arbitrary Government and the differences of it 324 Antichrist Antichrists great design 49 Argument see Gospel B Beginning Beginings of sin to be feared 83 Beleevers Beleevers draw strength from Christ 45 Beleevers should manifest Christ in their actions Ibid Beleevers cannot fall away 46 Beleevers are not without mixture of evil ib. Beleevers under the Law were as children under age 100 Beleevers under the Gospel are children of full age ib Beleevers must not be of earthly hearts and why 270 Beleeve The manner how to beleeve 76 Bishops see Prelats Blood The Blood of Christ takes us off from vain conversations 98 Body The body of sin must be mortified 39 The body of sin is unknown to Nature 40 Abuse not your bodies and why 92 Boldness see Saints Boniface Boniface his answer 288 Bowels Bowels of mercy beseem the Gospel 71 Branch see Christ C Canaan The Land of Canaan a type of Heaven 47 Carelesness see Profession Christians Carnal Carnal worship opposeth the soul of godliness 49 Carnal see Weapons Heart Ceremonies Ceremonies condemned and why 97 Chastisement Chastisements for sin what they are 148 Children see Beleevers Christ Christs love known in the Gospel 69 Christ is the mercy of all mercies 70 Christs kept the Law and why 78 Christs self denial 93 Christ is the Root and we are the Branches 103 Christs is a great King 116 Christ God-man governs all things and why 136 Christs Rule 139 Christs Law ibid See Dependance Subjects and Peace Christians Christians must be carefull of their families 19 Christians should eye those whose Conversations are above them 29 Christians subject to grow careless by degrees 31 Church Church of God as a City 3 Circumvent We must not circumvent one another 275 Citizen A Citizen's wretch'd speech 320 Civil Civil mens worship of God 35 Companions see Tribulation Compulsion see Persecution Conscience Liberty of Conscience the way to procure it 22 Contentment Motives to contentment 349 Conversation The meaning of this word CONVERSATION 3 What Conversation becomes the Gospel 5 Our Conversation must be looked to after conversion 7 Conversation becoming the Gospel 57 How our Conversation should be manifested 350 What Conversation becomes the Gospel 115 See Image Wanton Cook Cook his opinion of the Martyrs 308 Covetousness Covetousness unbeseeming a Saint 270 Customs Old Customs an hindrance to spiritual worship 100 D Daies Difference between daies of fasting and thanksgiving and holy daies 99 See Observing Danger see Help Deceivers Self Deceivers how 13 Dependance No dependance between the Kingdom of Christ and this world 284 Design see Gospel Despair The reason of despair 75 Despise Despise not the meanest of men 92 Difference Difference which the Gospel makes 122 Difference betwen Saints and worldly men 312 Divisions Divisions whence they come 105 Duty see Time Dying Dying one for another becomes the Gospel 58 E Elevation Elevation of spirit upon what ground 91 Enmity How enmity against God is kept up 15 Epistle The Saints should be the Epistles of Christ 113 Eternal life Little mention of Eternal life in the Old Testament 110 Excellency The Excellency of a Saints portion wherein it consists 354 Eyes The eyes of all are upon Professors 23 What the eyes of a Christian should be set upon 354 F Faith Faith acts upon Christ as a King aswell as a Savior 135 Necessity of living by faith 285 Fleshly-lusts Fleshly lusts unsutable to the Gospel 102 G Gentils see Partition German The speech of a German Divine 137 God Gods willingnesse to be at peace with man 63 See Hatred Love Glory People Mercy God is full of goodness 64 How the utmost of Gods glory is manifested 90 Godly Why godly men are willing to live 2 Gospel What the Gospel is 3 Gospel-Conversation what it is 38 Gospel Obedience proceeds from love 40 Difference between the Law of Adam and the Gospel 41 Those that live under the Gospel must live in an higher way of holiness than those that lived under the Law 42 The great Design of the Gospel 54 The Gospel cals for love 58 Gospel-arguments are the strongest arguments 69 Difference between the Gospel the light of Nature 73 See Law Mallice Christ Conversation Dying Bowels Wanton Worship Beleevers Power Government see Arbitrary Great ones see Religion H Hard-hearted see Monster Hatred Gods hatred of sin how to know it 81 Heart Carnal hearts will not trust God 351 Help Helps against the danger of the times 24 Holy Ghost The Holy Ghost dwells in our bodies 90 Honor How the honor of Religion is kept up 15 More honor put upon Men than upon Angels 89 I Jewes The error of the Jews about Christs Kingdom 117 See Partition Image How man holds out the Image of God Injustice A remedy against Injustice 77 Institution Whereon institution of Worship depends