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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09674	The triall of a Christians sincere loue vnto Christ. By Mr William Pinke, Mr of Arts late fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford	Pinke, William, 1599?-1629.; Lyford, William, 1598-1653.; Pinke, William, 1599?-1629. Tryall of our sincere love to Christ. aut	1636 (1636)	STC 19944; ESTC S114275	71,570	262

doubled vnto her what is thy beloued more then a beloued 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mahdodek middod what is thy beloved more then a beloued that is what transcendencies what singularities of alluring perfections are so peculiarly remarkable in that Saviour of them on whom thou art so strangely enamoured as if there were nothing louely besides him But what hath the soule nothing now to commend in her Saviour but what might bee paraleld in some other Yea from that verse to the end of the Chapter shee runnes on in a description of his rarities a description so stuffed with the choicest delicacies of expression that I am perswaded it cannot be matched out of any of those Poets which haue flowen highest in amorous inventions I cannot stand to vnfold them vnto you that which makes most to my purpose in it is the superlatiue preeminence which shee giues him v. 10. Hee is the chiefest or as it is more elegantly in the originall Hee is an ensigne bearer amongst ten thousand for so the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dagull properly signifies v. 16. He is altogether louely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cullo machamaddim he is all entire he is all composed of loues wherevpō she cōcludes with a triūphant Epiphonema This is my beloved and this is my friend ô yee daughters of Ierusalem A second memorable place is Phil. 1. v. 9. 10. S. Paul speakes thus And this I pray that your loue to wit to Christ and his Gospell may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all iudgement that you may approue things that are excellent that yee may bee syncere and without offence till the day of Christ The Apostle praying for the confirmation of their loue vnto the Gospell and as an especiall meanes of that he praies they may abound in all judgement by which they may bee able vpon good grounds to approue the reall excellencies of truth before the plausibilities of errour that so they may be syncere in their loue vnto it to which purpose also he praies for the Ephesians that they may bee rooted and grounded in loue Ephes 3. 17. A third cousiderable place is 1. Cor. 12. 3. Wherefore I giue you to vnderstand that no man speaking by the spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed and that no man can say that Iesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost that is no man can with the fiduciall assent of his heart acknowledge Christ to bee the only Lord which he is to worship by the same impulsions by which another curses and blaspheames him but by such peculiar motiues as are suggested and revealed vnto him by the Holy Ghost There is no man in this assembly but would thinke it very strange if one should tell him seriously he could not say no not so much as thinke that Iesus is the Lord. But if hee thinke and say him to be Anathema his saying will doe him no good though he make it his only worke to reveale it as long as hee liues The last place shall bee that eminent one in S. Peter 1. 3. 15. But sanctify the Lord in your hearts and bee ready alwaies to giue an answere to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you What reason Such a one as may bee retorted by those who question vs Such a one as may perhaps make more against vs then for vs Such a generall one as might bee giuen for any presumption in the world No a reason from a cleere distinct knowledge of the peculiar grounds and experimentall sense of those encouraging foretasts of our incorruptible hopes by the Gospell which though it cannot convince such Hereticks and Infidells as examine vs because the God of this world hath closed their eyes yet it may strengthen vs to possesse our soules in patience and to hold fast our confidence which hath such great recompences of reward in spight of all the terrours of Men or Divels Vse 1. To admonish every man here present with all speed and diligence to commune with his owne heart to examine whether he bee as yet come out of his customary loue vnto Christ into a spirituall or no. Beloued we are all confident that we loue Christ Iesus and if one should in earnest tell vs wee did not loue him we should take it as ill and interpret it as if he told vs wee were damned Seeing then all our glorious hopes of a better life are built vpon this supposition that wee are the true disciples of Christ as wee would not be called to after-reckonings at that solemne day of accounts or haue a flaw found in our evidence which should eternally dash our expectation even then when wee should take possession as wee would not haue our hopes to vanish in amazement and confusion at that terrible day when it shall bee too late to recall or rectify any thing which hath beene formerly amisse as wee would not haue our confident conceipts of Christs loue vnto vs and ours vnto him giue vs the s●ippe at the houre of death when wee should haue most vse of them and leaue vs to a fearefull expectation of judgement Let vs I say if wee haue any regard of sense of these things deale ingenuously with our owne soules and impartially examine what better ground wee haue for that supposition which vpholds all our well fare then such as I haue demonstrated to bee miserably insufficient Christians we are all by education by country custome by conformity vnto lawes and fashions but is this all haue wee proceeded no farther why this will advantage vs no more for heauen then that wee are Englishmen All this is but the outside of Christianity Christianity thrust vpon vs by our naturall birth before wee were aware of it and setled on faster by custome and as it were rivited in while we perhaps never thought of it What saith the Apostle 2. Romans 28. Hee is not a Iew which is one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in that which appeares outwardly What not he a Iew which is borne and bred a Iew yea hee is a Iew in all outward visible respects whatsoever But all these will giue him no title to those everlasting promises which are made vnto Abraham and his seed according to the faith He is no Iew in respect of them In like manner he is no Christian who is but outwardly one who slides insensibly to himselfe into the visible garbe of Christianity by naturall generation He only is a Iew who is one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the secrets of his heart and he only is a Christian who hath bin made one by a second birth of his soule invisible to others but admirably sensible vnto himselfe being borne not of bloud nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God as S. Iohn fully expresseth it c. 1. v. 13 Well thē if thou wouldst not be mistaken in thy selfe if thou wouldst be ascertained whither or no