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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26689	Divers practical cases of conscience satisfactorily resolved ... to which are added some counsels & cordials / by Joseph Alleine ...	Alleine, Joseph, 1634-1668.	1672 (1672)	Wing A969; ESTC R170093	56,044	102

you not only how you must fast but how you must eat to wit with watchfulness and temperance not as those who have nothing to do but to fill their paunches but with an eye to his glory as those that are feeding and relieving the servants of Jesus Christ. He hath shewed you not only how you should rest on the Lords Day but how you must follow your Calling on the rest to wit with diligence and discretion minding him as your end as those that herein serve the Lord Christ. He hath told you how you must manage your dealings with equity and charity doing the very same to others that your consciences tell you you would have them in the like case to do unto you how you must sleep even as those that know he compasseth your path and your lying down and how you must wake to wit so as to be still with him Fourthly God hath given you special helps to this end You have the mind of Christ 1 Cor. 2. 16. and you have the Spirit of Christ 1 Cor. 2. 12. Indeed they that are in the flesh cannot please God but you are not in the flesh but in the spirit Rom. 8. 8 9. You that are Believers have not the Law only in your Bibles but in your hearts Heb. 8. 10. II. It is very profitable Glorious advantages shall you have by this course First this is the most speedy and certain way to assurance for want of which many of you complain but henceforth you must complain no more For either you will follow this course and then you will have it or you will not and then cease your hypocritical complaints when it is through your own wilful disobedience that you are without it When once you are habituated to this course and do find it to be the chief of your care and that which your very hearts are set upon above all things else to glorifie and please God and approve your selves in his sight you cannot want assurance unless through your own ignorance For this is the most undoubted evidence in the world that you are the children of God whatever unallowed failings you may be guilty of Secondly Hereby you shall be certain of Gods gracious and favourable presence always with you See the Text He that sent me is with me for I do always those things that please him Thirdly By this means you shall be always laying up a Treasure in Heaven Brethren what are you for Are you men for Eternity or are you for present things Is your design for Glory Honour and Immortality Are you for riches in the other world or of dunghil spirits preferring your part in Paris before a part in Paradise If you are for true riches here is your way By this you shall be daily and hourly encreasing the stock of your own glory my vehemency is only that fruit may abound to your account that all you do might meet you in Heaven and Christ may shew your good works another day as the Widows did Dorcas her Garments Acts 9. 39. CHAP. III. A Fourth Case of Conscience WHat weariness in and unwillingness to duties may stand with grace and what not For the resolving this some Distinctions must be premised and then some Conclusions elicited Distinct. This weariness and unwillingness must be distinguished 1. According to the degrees of it and so it is either partial and gradual or else prevalent and plenary 2. According to the subject of it and so this weariness is either of the Members or else of the mind 3. According to the prevalency of it and so it is either transient and occasional or else setled and habitual 4. According to the sense we have of it and so it is either matter of Allowance to us or matter of annoyance 5. According to the cause of it and so it is either from a fixed dislike of the food or else from an Accidental distemper of the stomach 6. According to the effects of it for either it is victorious and makes us give over duties or else abhorred and repulsed by grace the Christian still holding on in the way of Duty Conclu 1. Where the weariness is only in the Members or at least chiefly but there is still a willingness of the mind this is no matter of questioning our Estates where the mind out-goes and out-does the body and the appetite to duties continues in vigour though there be a languishing of the natural strength and weariness of the bodily organs this is not our sin but affliction But too commonly the body hath so much influence upon the mind and causeth a listlesness and sluggishness there and makes it negligent in its office Yet when this doth proceed from the failing of the spirits tired with bodily labour and exercise and from the distemper of the parts our most pitiful Father considers our frame and remembers we are but dust and our merciful High Priest that is not untouched with the sense of our infirmities is ready to frame our excuse that the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak 2. Where our weariness in and unwillingness to duties is only gradual and partial not plenary and prevalent it is not sufficient to conclude our selves graceless While the twins are together in the womb and two Nations within our bowels there will be contrary inclinations The flesh will never say Amen to a good motion as such but will be lusting against the spirit and will hang back when the spirit puts forwards and pull down when the spirit bends upwards So that while corruption remaineth there will be always a dissenting party and continual conflicts from whence it is no wonder there should arise some weariness yet the spirit is the prevailing interest and though oft-times fayled yet hath mostly the mastery in the combate and carries it against the flesh though not without much resistance and reluctancy from the rebel opponent 3. Where this weariness is only transient during the present temptation or defection which assoon as the tired soul can get out of it returns to its former temper and pleasure in holy duties there is only matter of humiliation But when it is the setled permanent and babitual frame of the mind it is matter of questioning our conditions The holy Psalmist under a dissertion was even almost perswaded to give over with Religion but when he is himself nothing is so sweet nothing so lovely and desirable to him as the duties of holiness But for them who have in their ordinary setled course and frame no mind to duties but are halled to them by conscience or engaged by company or custom or the like their case is fearful in that measure that duty is unpleasing and not loved 4. Where this weariness of and unwillingness to Duties is paniful and grievous as a sore in the eye as a sickness in the heart the state is good But where it is naturally allowed and meets with little or no resistance it is a black mark