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A04269	A seasonable discourse of spirituall stedfastnesse wherein, 1. it, and a relapse, with the heads, members. and degrees of both, are exactly defined. 2. The subiects, causes, and symptomes of the fearfull sinne of apostasie cleerely expressed. As also directions, incentiues, to recouer, re-inkindle the old-cold-declining zelot. Together with arguments, motiues, that the young, or strong standing convert may be in grace firmely established. By I.B. preacher of the word.	Barlow, John, b. 1580 or 81.	1627 (1627)	STC 1439.5; ESTC S120873	89,672	290

made And by him For the father worketh hither to and he worketh And for him Thou art worthie O Lord Rev. 4.11 to receiue honor and glorie and power For thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are Eccle. 12.1 and were created Haue we not a command to remember him who formed vs Psal 147.9 Doe not the Ravens looke vp vnto him The windes and Sea obey him And shall we Christians then be ignorant of him Certainely Mar. 4.41 this were a sinne Iob. 31.12 would eate vp all our increase a fire would devoure to destruction Reas 3 And what to be desired effects will this knowledge worke 1 Pet. 1.8 For who ever knew Christ but was infl●med with the loue of him Acts 9.6 Stood in great awe of him Psal 116.7 Humbled himselfe before him Put his confidence in him And said Soule returne vnto thy rest The Oxe Isa 1.3 knoweth his owner the Asse his masters cribbe and shall not man be acquainted with his Lord Is it not eternall life Io. 17.3 to know Christ Iesus Everlasting death to be ignorant of him Tell me What was the Gentiles mis●ry but that they were strangers from him Eph 4.18 The Athenians sinne but that all their devotion was do e to an vnknowne God Acts. 17.23 The Lepers ingratefulnesse Luk. 17.17 except that they returned not thankes vnto him And what sets foorth Pauls praise more Phil. 3.9 than his earnest desire to know the Lord Iesus and to be found in him Reas 4 To conclude haue we not time and meanes to illighten our eyes that we might see Christ in open vision For doth not the Spirit thorow the whole Bible set him foorth in pl●ine phrases Shining prophecies In tipes ●arables And similitudes What are the Scriptures but the subiect matter of him In each storie page verse may we not haue some hint some glympse of him Beloved all the lines in the holy letters meete in Christ as their proper Center And such as come short of that point are profitable for nothing He is the Alpha and Omega α. ω. Rev. 1.18 the beginning and end of all famous h stories noble acts and renowned persons the which are good before God Shall we then with the want root in the earth And haue no care to know Christ Iesus What if we know him a little Will that serue our turnes No no our eye spirituall is like his corporall who was borne blinde Mar. 8.24.25 but opened by degrees This obiect is profound deepe And the better we vnderstand it the more powerfully profitably will it produce the forenamed gracious eff cts Therefore as get so grow we must in the knowledge of Christ Iesus The knowledge of Christ distributed And here it is to be obserued that the knowledge of Christ is either intellectuall or experimentall When we doe with the act of our vnderstanding apprehend a thing be it what you will it is intellectuall knowledge But we purpose not to exceed our bounds We will confine our selues within the limits of our present Obiect Christ Iesus Now this intellectuall knowledge of Christ is of his person or offices For the former we are to consider these foure following particulars 1. In Christ we are to note his two natures the Divine and Humane both which concur and are hypostatically vnited to make one individuall Person Ioh. 1.14 Heb. 2.16 The word was made flesh he tooke not on him Mat. 1.23 the nature of Angels but he tooke on him the seed of Abraham Whence it is that he is called Emanuel Heb. 10.5 which being interpreted is God with vs. So that in the Person of Christ 1 Ioh. 5.20 was perfect manhood a body thou hast fitted me And perfect God-head this is the very God and eternall life 2. And in the manhood of Christ obserue a soule a body Luk. 23.46 A soule Father into thine hands I commend my Spirit And a body Behold my hands and my feet Luk. 24.39 that it is I my selfe handle me and see For a spirit hath not flesh bones as you see me haue Where note by the way Mat. 26.39 that Christ had a twofold will one from his Deitie another flowing from his Humanitie Therefore praying he sayd O my Father if it be possible let this cup passe from me neverthelesse not as I will but as thou wilt As he was God the will of the father and his were the same 3. Thirdly He was borne of a Virgin his mother knew not man Luk. 2.35 for the Holy-ghost came vpon her the power of the most high over-shadowed her And thus it must be For if he had proceeded by naturall pro●agation Psal 51.5 he in his conception had bin polluted with orriginall corruption And then he cou●d not haue bin a meet mediator and holy sacrificer to haue made an ato●ement for the sinnes of the people For such an high Priest it behoved vs to haue Heb. 7.26 as was holy harmelesse vndefiled separat from sinners and made higher than the heavens in truth Christs originall puritie is to equall Adams at his Crea●ion that the roote being holy all the bra●ches may in like maner Heb. 7.3 Christ as man had no Father as God no mother And ther●fore the true Melchizedek without father with●ut mother 4. The last thing is that in the very instant of Christ● conception the two natures were inseparably knit together and in substance and actions ever remained distinct either from other conserving their proper qualities from all mixture or confusion And as the soule and body being vnited make one intire man so the two natures conioyned constitute but one individuall person For marke this Christ did not assume to his Deitie the person but the nature of man neither did the humani●ie for a moment subsist by it selfe but in the very act of its conception was vnited to the Godhead so alwaies continued for ever after yea when Christs soule and body at his death were separated yet neither of them from the Deitie This vnion as it is wonderfull so is it eternally indissoluble Thus much of the intelectual knowledge of Christs person his Offices are now to be handled in order 1. And we will begin with his Priesthood Heb. 7.11 Levit. 10 2.3 Heb. 5.1.2 that Christ was a Priest the Scripture in many places speaketh evidently And who was shadowed out by Aaron and his succ●ssors but the high Priest of our soules Christ Iesus For he was to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sinnes to haue compassion vpon the ignorant and to make a reconciliation for them who were out of the way And here we may note the differences betwixt the Priest-hood of Christ and that of others 1. He was of the tribe of Iudah they were all of Levi. 2. He was God-man but they meere men 3. He was without sin

brethren is there yet a Prophet gone out to declare when these things shall have an end But because this dolefull obiect is more remote therefore though it should not the lesse lamented Let vs draw neerer home And take a view of our owne Nation Hath not Death cruell death haunted the Court Citie Countrey Killed our King Slaine our Nobles And turned into small dust sixtie-six-thausand of the common subiects Call for the aged and let them if they can tell when so many in so short a revolution of time haue vealed the head And given vp the Ghost But what effect hath followed this dreadfull mortalitie Is not England London especially as proud covetous prophaine And secure as ever I doubt not but that some have laid these iudgements to heart brought foorth fruite worthie amendment of life Math 3.8 But as the Disciples sayd of the five loaves and two fishes what are they amonge so many Alas Alas The dead carkesses of neighbours kindred friends like rotten dung spread on the earth have caused the seeds of wickednesse in the lives of a huge multitude but to shoot vp grow the faster What then shall we can we expect without a change to be the end For will not God take vengeance on such a people as this Zeph. 2.2 You therefore before the decree come foorth Who make profession like Moses stand in the gappe pitition the Father of mercie And the God of all consolation not to enter into iudgement with this sinfull generation but to put the evill day farre from vs. Pray for the life of our King the peace of our Land And the continuance of the Gospell to vs and our posteritie from generation to generation Cry in the eares of the Lord of hoasts to powre downe the Spirit of wisdome and resolution vpon his own annointed that he may guide the great people committed to his charge in the way of truth be the ioy of all his chosen and a terror to all his enemies That the Sun of that morning may never rise or that day numbred to the Monthes of the yeere when it shall be sayd the Adversary hath invaded the land the Arke of God is gone from our English Israel If we sit secure take heede of a Spanish whip a Catholike scourge For what priviledge have we Iudah Ierusalem And our Neighbour kingdom●s have not inioyed Why then may we not feare the like correction Chiefly if we lye in the same sinnes Now that you may be prevented of or prepared for the invasion of Foes fiering of Beacons roaring of Cannons sacking of Cities ravishing of wives deflouring of virgins tossing infants on Pikes rending of members a sunder and resisting vnto bloud Heb. 11.37 Consider what I have sayd And write in this short succeeding Tractat. Heb. 11.37 Better Counsell to vndergoe the harshest torments to flesh and bloud than I have in these few lines I cannot give thee Read them for thy selfe Pray for me And the rather in that thou little knowest how short a time thou hast Thine in the Lord Iesus Iohn Barlow February 23. 1626. The particulars in this tractat prosecuted are in this Table related Doctrine 1. A Spirituall stedfastnesse may be obtained Pag. 6. Spirituall stedfastnesse defined Pag. Distributed into Habituall Vnderstanding Wil afections Pag. 12. Practicall Internall Externall Pag. 15. Doct. 2. Spiriuall stedfastnes may be fallen from Pag. 30. And it is Described Divided into Habit Totall Partiall Pag. 31. Acts Inward Outward Pag. 35 Causes of Apostasie Within vs. Without vs. Pag. 37 Symptomes of declining Pag. 55. Helpes to recover the de●lined Pag. 70. How to support him who standeth Pag. 78. Rules for yong Converts Pag. 85. Doct. 3. Error leadeth from stedfastnes Pag 89. Error defined in Generall Speciall Legall Evangelicall Pag. 90. And either may be in Iudgement Vniversal Partiall Pag. 93. Practise Weakenesse Willfulnesse Pag. 69. Doct. 4. The way of error is the way of the wicked Pag. 104. Doct. 5. By one error many may be seduced Pag. 108. Doct. 6. Error discovered to be avoided P. 114. The shops of error and prophanenesse Verse 18. Doct. 1. Admonition to be seconded with direction Pag. 131. Doct. 2. Growth in grace required of a Christian Pag. 146. 1. If grace be of a growing nature Pag. 138. 2. May he who hath it increase it Pag. 139. 3. Doth everie Christian grow Pag. 139. 4. Can its habit be decreased Pag. 141. 5. Is it possible to stand at a stay Pag. 144. 6. Or be augmented and not discerned Pag. 145 Doct. 3. All graces to be increased Pag. 195. May one grow and not another Pag. 198. An obiection removed Pag. 169. Doct. 4. Christians are to grow in the knowledge of Christ Iesus Pag. 208. This knowledge is Intellectuall Of his person Offices Pag. 214. Experimētal To our selves To others Pag. 222. Severall hereticall opinions concerning Christs Person and Offices confuted Pag. 224 Divers texts of Scripture perverted are cleared Pag 225 Doct. 5. Christ Iesus mans Saviour Pag. 24● And that in respect of his two Natures Divine Humane Pag. 244 Obedience Actiue Passiue Pag 248 Salvation Defined Explicated Pag. 253 Obiections produced refelled Pag. 258 A forcible exhortation in the conclusion Pag. 260. A SEASONABLE DISCOVRSE OF Spirituall stedfastnes 2. Pet. 3.17 Ye therefore beloved seeing ye know these things before take heede lest ye also being led away with the errour of the wicked fall from your owne stedfastnesse THE Apostle Peter The Logicall resolution having the Spirit of prophecy in the beginning of this Chapter foretelleth that in the last dayes shall come Scoffers walking after their owne lusts saying where is the promise of Christs appearing for are not all things as they were since the Creation The which hereticall opinion hee by many strong arguments confuteth And so with severall admonitions and exhortations concludeth this his Epistle Wherefore to speake as the thing is in these verses are contained both an admonition and a direction and in the admonition these following particulars may be considered observed First the persons to whom it is directed next the ground and thirdly the matter of it For the Persons they are layd downe Collectiuely Yee or by an adjunct tytle beloved The ground is implyed in the word therefore and expressed in this sentence Seing ye know these things And the matter hath a twofold branch ignorance and backesliding both which properly adhere to the wicked yet by occasion may cleaue to the godly Lest ye also being led away with the errour of these Mockers fall from your owne stedfastnes Ye my Countrymen beleeving Iewes The Theologicall exposition and all succeeding Churches and grounded Christians Beloved the object of my affection I being an agent but you patients Therefore in this word is closely implyed the ground of this admonition it being a word of relation Seeing you know these things here is plainely expressed the full foundation of the admonition for the

thy gracious stocke never once dreame of enough nor of being rich for that is the high way to bancke to loose all Came not Christ to lay the hilles equall And to raise vp the vallies Luk 3.5 To make the crooked pathes streight And to fill the emptie vessells was not the Church in an error which said shee was incr●ast Had all things Rev. 3.17 Nay was shee not poore 1. Cor. 5.7 Naked Blinde Miserable And wanted all things O that we could purge out the old leaven abstaine from all actuall sinnes be conversant in the vse of all Gods holy ordinances 1 Thes 5.22 entertaine all the motions of his spirit And be poore in our owne apprehension Then would grace grow Luk. 1.53 the new-man flourish And the old receiue his deaths-wound be pierced thorow his sides and broken in peeces Then then should we be rare Saints on earth shining lights in this darke world Phil. 2.15 leade our liues in righteousnesse Luk. 1.75 holinesse And doe more than gracelesse men imagine can be done by any created nature Wherefore when thou feelest thy soule to mourne thy Spirit to faint thy heart melancholy dumpish all a mort then looke vp to heaven rouse thy selfe fall to meditation minde the daies of old And call vpon thy God Cry Lord helpe me quicken me a wake my soule So shalt thou like the dead child neese seuen times 2 King 4.34.35 c. waxe warme and returne to thy former life and strength This course if thou constantly obserue the power feeling comfort and all the effects of grace in a short time by little and little will strangely grow wonderfully thriue vntill thou come to that period full perfection the Lord hath appointed for thee and promised to thee in Christ Iesus Incentiues to grow in grace And as no meanes are to be omitted neglected So all motiues inducing to this growth must be minded remembred thus therefore expostulate with thy selfe What Doe not plants grow Animats thriue And are the covetous or ambitious ever satisfied Will not Citizens aime at the most honorable place Merchants venture for the choicest commodities And all tradesmen desire the greatest gaine Shall not a Christian then striue for perfection Let theirs yea Pauls resolution be emulated imitated of thee Phil. 3.11 who if possible would haue attained to the resurrection of the dead As some will to haue bin as perfect as the glorified persons in the day of iudgement In the estate of nature wast thou not insatiable Did sinne ever giue thee full satisfaction I tell thee that champions of Sathan must be champions of Christ Such as haue bin full of corruption Eph. 5.18 must be filled with the Spirit And the more we grow in grace will not corruption the lesse burden vs Shall we not with the more ease if not wholly cast it off beare it The bird which hath the most feathers mounteth highest conserues her bodie from many brusings So surely by this increase we should soare vp to heaven be freed from innumerable heart-breakings Why haue we inioyed so great meanes Seene so many good dayes But to grow strong And grace Why should not thy excellencies allure all men to affect thee Procure thee What Art thou not of a soule-curing qualitie care in this present world And onely to be found in the vessels of honour Where thou pitchest thy Tent like a Pri●ce thou art attended with royall companions as Wisdome Faith Hope Loue and what not As in the absence and presence of the planets all elementarie bodies heate and coole lighten and darken reviue and dye So by thy contrarie motion doth every christian Thou art as the spring and oyle which turne all the wheeles of soule and body to run the pathes of Gods precepts Rev. 22.2 the vine which beareth all kindes of fruits Thy branches feed the tender Roes being cropped thy iuyce wil heale all diseases when once applied Where thou fallest like the showers in May the barren fields grow fruitfull bring foorth in great abundance And multiplie the seed of the word to an hundred fold Never was covetouse chuffe when his garners were full of good graine more glad the Grasier having his lands stockt with the choicest cattell more merrie Nor the Prodigall with his purse extended with pieces more iocunde than the man is whose heart is replenished with grace O grace glorie is thy vnseparable companion as shame the inevitable consequence of sinne Where thou openest the eye all the divine attributes of God as his omniscience omnipresence omnipotence yea his very iustice smile vpon it are delectable vnto it For if grace be with vs who or what can be against vs Grace in thy soule will assure thee of mercie in Christ And if thou be secured of that what needest thou to feare What can be terrible or dreadfull vnto thee The more Wi●e Iust Potent thy friend 〈◊〉 will it not the more comfort ●hee Reioyce thee And is not El-shaddai the Lord of earth and heaven thy fast friend Thy everlasting Father Let them then feare who haue cause For thou hast none Grow in grace and thou maist goe thorow the world as a man whose minde is in a deepe studie Like Ahimahaz who had speciall hast of a waightie businesse gaze on nothing heare nothing 1. Cor. 7.30 31. vse it all things in it as though thou vsedst them not Thy conversation shall be in heaven thy thoughts on him who is invisible Phil. 3.20 that never man saw and lived And having as Peter past the first and second watch thou shalt come to thy selfe in the presence of God Acts. 12.10.11 where is fulnesse of ioy Psal 16.11 al variety of pleasures at his right hand for evermore O thou who readest hearest these lines binde them to thee thinke often on them And till thou be stron● in Grace which is in Christ Iesu● let them never depart from the● Now if all that we haue said ca● not allure thee I say no more vnto thee but wish when it is too late thy carelesse neglect of graces increase may not repent thee Whereas our Apostle exhorts to grow in grace vers 5.6 more is included then mentioned For what in the first chapter in particulars he named Gen. 3.2 and 4.20 here in the bulke are comprehended And as a tree is for trees cha●et for charets Psal 78.2 parable for parables So is Grace put for al the gifts of the spirit Mat. 13.35 Whence it will follow that Doct. 3 An increase of all graces is required of Gods children Name what grace you will and an augmentation is required vrged Rom. 1.17 1 Thes 4.10 Eph. 4.15 Are not the Romanes incited to grow in faith The Thessalonians in loue And the Ephesians in all things Paul in other places calls for it prayes for it Iude. 2. So doe his fellow-Apostles in their Epistles Reas 1 For is there