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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29523	The Christians cabala, or, Sure tradition necessary to be known and believed by all that will be saved : a doctrine holding forth good tidings of great joy, to the greatest of penitent sinners : with a character of one that is by John Brinsley ...	Brinsley, John, fl. 1581-1624.	1662 (1662)	Wing B4710; ESTC R3986	117,145	225

THE CHRISTIANS CABALA OR SURE TRADITION Necessary to be KNOWN and BELIEVED By all that will be SAVED A Doctrine holding forth Good Tidings of Great Joy to the greatest of PENITENT SINNERS With a CHARACTER of one that is truly Such As it was lately held forth to the CHURCH of GOD at Great YARMOUTH By Iohn Brinsley Minister of the Gospel there LONDON Printed for George Sawbridge at the Sign of the Bible on Ludgate-Hill 1662. To all that Love The Lord JESUS CHRIST in Sinceritie Within the Town of GREAT YARMOUTH Grace and Peace Much esteemed in the Lord IT is now Thirty seven years since I was by a Divine Providence sent to exercise my Ministeriall Function among you my first entrance within your Walls being upon the same day that your late Dread Soveraign KING CHARLES the First was there with great Solemnitie and with the Universal Acclamation and Joy of all that were present Proclaimed And of this my entrance I hope I may without boasting say unto you what Paul doth of his unto his Thessalonians 1 Thes. 2. 1. that it hath not been altogether in vain It having been my desire to follow his steps in making what improvement I might of such liberty and opportunity as the same providence hath been pleased to put into my hand in speaking to you the Gospel of God And that these my poor labours might be the more effectual not dying in the ●…are not perishing in the hearing I have adventured to expose some of them to a publick view that so by this Sacrifice offered up unto God and his Church being dead I might yet speak and preach being silent And upon the same account it is that I do now send these Meditations after them Wherein you shall meet with a Subject which if you will believe your Apostle is worthy of all acceptation Such I am sure is the matter here held forth what ever the manner of handling it be it containing in it the sum and substance of the Gospel which being brought home as here it is by this chosen Vessell by a particular Application it cannot but bring abundant Consolation to the Soul of every truly penitent sinner Such experience had this our Apostle of it and so have many others after him Among whom I meet with a memorable instance in that renowned Martyr of Christ Mr. Thomas Bilney who in a Letter of his to Cu●…bert Tonstall Bishop of London as Mr. Fox in his Martyrology hath Related it giveth this account of the manner and means of his own Conversion Hearing saith ●…e of the New Testament which was first set forth by Erasmus and understanding it to be eloquently done by him being allured rather for the Latin then for the word of God for at that time I knew not what it meant I ●…ought it even by the good providence of God as I do now well understand and perceive And at the first read●…ng as I remember I chanced upon ●…his Sentence O most sweet and comfortable Sentence to my Soul the first Epistle to Timothy the first Chapter It is a true saying and worthy of all men to be embraced that Christ Iesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am the chief This one sentence through God's instruction and inward working which I did not then perceive did so exhilarate my heart being before wounded with the guilt of my sins and being almost in despaire that immediately I felt a marvellous comfort and quietness insomuch that my bruised bones leaped for joy Thus have you a Probatum est affixed to this Receipt which being taken in and rightly digested I doubt not but it will be found a Soveraign Cordial to whoever it is that shall make use of it Onely take heed that your Souls be duly prepared for it by a true sight and sense of sin that so you may see and feel the need you have of Iesus Christ and be excited willingly to receive him not only as a Saviour but also as a Soveraign to be Ruled and governed as well as Saved by him Being thus disposed now let me invite you to come and suck this Breast of Consolation which you have here held forth unto you receiving and lodging this Divine truth in your hearts remembring it meditating of it believing it applying it to your selves and practising what you are here directed and excited to which whilest you do let my prayers go along with my poor endeavours that through the concurrence of grace they may be made effectual unto you and who ever else shall make use of them for that end for which they have been designed In the assured hope whereof I rest YARMOUTH March 30. 1662. Your Servant in the Work of the Lord JOHN BRINSLEY READER THere is lately Printed a Learned Pious and Practical Commentary upon the whole Gospel of St. Mark wherein the Text is Logically Analysed The meaning of the Holy Spirit clearly and soundly Opened Doctrins naturally Raised All seeming differences between this and the other Evangelists Reconciled And many important Cases of Conscience Resolved By Mr. George Petter Published at the desire of above 200. Learned Divines Signified under their Hands Also An Exposition of the whole Epistle to the Hebrews wherein the Text is cleared Theopolitica improved The Socinian Comment Examined By Mr. George Lawson Rector of More in the County of Salop. Also The Running of the Christian Race with Patience By Mr. Iohn Brinsley Prayer and Praise A twofold Tribute to be paid by all Loyal Subjects to their Supream and Subordinate Soveraign By Mr. Iohn Brinsley The Rich Fool Being an Exposition of that Parable Luke 12 16. 22. By Nehemiah Rogers Minister of the Gospel of Christ. A Posing Question Put by the wise Man viz. SOLOMON to the wisest of Men concerning making a Judgment of Temporal Conditions By Benjamin Baxter late Minister of the Gospel in Worcester All to be sold by George Sawbridge at the Signe of the Bible on Ludgate-Hill THE CHRISTIANS CABALA OR SURE TRADITION Necessary to be KNOWN BELIEVED by all that will be SAVED 1 Tim. 1. 15. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Iesus came into the world to sa●…e sinners of whom I am chief THis Portion of Scripture as I remember and so I presume do some if not many of you about twenty years since I took up and spent some time upon in this place I now reassume and take it up again which I am induced to do not so much by the Season as by the Subject that being such as cannot be too much or too often spoken of A word never out of season containing in it that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spoken of by the Angel Luke 2. 10. that joyful News good tidings of great joy to all people even to the greatest of penitent sinners So this chosen Vessel the blessed Apostle the great Doctor of the Gentiles looked upon it who here mindeth his Timothy and all