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soul_n	lord_n	wait_v	watch_v	3,962	5	11.2347	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85704	A treatise touching falling from grace. Or Thirteen arguments tending to prove that believers cannot fall from grace, as they were laid down at a conference at Yalding in Kent, examined and answered, with many absurdities of that doctrine shewed. Whereunto is added thirteen reasons to prove that believers may fall totally and finally from grace, and many profitable uses flowing from that doctrine. By John Griffith.	Griffith, John, 1622?-1700.	1653 (1653)	Wing G2006; Thomason E690_17; ESTC R202323	40,736	75

branches in the Vine may be taken away viz. men united to Christ as the branches are to the Vine may be taken away or disunited because they die or bear no fruit I am the vine saith Christ and my father is the husbandman every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away therefore saith he continue in my love and least they should not know how he saith if ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love even as I have kept my fathers commandments and abide in his love therefore believers in Christ may fall away be cut off die bear no fruit c. Reason 11 The eleventh Reason is because they that have obtained like precious faith must give diligence to make their calling and election sure it followes then that believers may fall even such as have precious faith and that their calling and election is not sure without their giving dilligence to make it so therefore believers in Christ may fall away The twelfth Reason is because Believers chosen Reason 12 persons are exhorted to put on the whole armour of God that they may be able to stand against the wiles of the Divel Now we know that when men arme themselves it is because of some enemy yea and such an enemy as may overcome them slay them spoile them vanquish them c. therefore they must stand fast quit themselves like men be strong now if believers cannot fall from the faith nor be overcome they have no need of armour if the Divels wiles cannot prevail they need not arm themselves but they must take to them the whole armour of God therefore believers in Christ may fall away The thirteenth reason is because men that have their names written in the book of life and their Reason 13 part in the holy City which none but believers have may by transgression have their names blotted out and their part taken away out of the City For I testifie unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book if any man shall adde unto these things God shall adde the plagues that are written in this book and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this Prophesie God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy City and from the things that are written in this book thus men whose names are written in the book of life may have their name blotted out and their part taken out of the holy City that do sin wilfully but those that overcome Christ will not blot their names out of the book of life but will confesse them before his father and before his Angels therefore believers may fall away I leave these Reasons to the serious and unbiased Reader to weigh in the ballance of the sanctuary I shal now come to shew the use and profitablenesse of this doctrine of perseverance or the possibility that Saints stand in to be deceived and so fall if they do not take heed use the means strive and labour after the obtaining the Crown which they cannot have if they do not fight the good fight and finish their course keep the faith to the end as saith the spirit be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee the Crown of life which God will give unto all them that so do and love his appearing The profitable uses that flow from this doctrine that t is possible for the Saints to fall finally if they take not heed IT teacheth the Saints to be watchfull over Vse 1 themselves their words thoughts and actions least they should be over taken this duty is much urged in Scripture watch therefore for you know not the day nor the hour wherein the son of man cometh watch and pray that you fall not into temptation watch ye stand fast in the faith be strong Therefore let us not sleep as do others but watch and be sober So Paul exhorteth Timothy but watch thou in all things indure affliction in this duty were the Saints much exercised the Prophet Habakkuk saith I will stand upon my watch and set me upon the tower and will watch to see what he will say unto me and what I shall answer when I am reproved So was that gracious soul the Prophet David exercised when he said My soul waiteth for the Lord more then they that watch for the morning I say more then they that watch for the morning there is a blessedness annexed to this duty of watchfulness they are reckoned amongst the blessed ones that shall inherit the earth Behold I come as a theef blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he walk naked and they see his shame but in the neglect of this duty there may be great losse Be watchfull and strengthen the things that remain that are ready to die c. If therefore thou wilt not watch I will come on thee as a theef and thou shalt not know what houre I will come upon thee by this we may see how necessary this duty is and likewise how it flowes from the aforesaid doctrine as a streame from the fountain for we must watch because we have an adversarie that seeks to devour us be sober be vigilent because your adversary the devil as a roaring Lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour Le ts consider what need the servants of Christ have to watch to take heed and to beware their enemies are many and great as the devil a potent adversarie and his baits very deceiving as the world and the pleasures thereof when he tempted Christ our beloved Lord what was his baits why the world all this will I give thee saith he if thou wilt fall down and worship me If I should inquire into the experience of the Servants of Christ they would tell me that the adversary of their peace layeth this bait before them also suggesting unto them and setting before them the glory riches greatnesse and honor of the world saying if thou forsake this way of Religion thou art in which thou mayest do and yet go to heaven * saith he then friends will cleave to thee the world will love thee whereas now they despise thee then wilt thou be in the way of profiting thy self by thy trade and make the best of it though by lying and dissembling a little saying to the Selller it is nought but when he is gone thou praiseth it and by this means mayest thou become rich and so have many friends and be in repute and in the way of preferment and come to places of honour in the world and be called of men Rabby thou art a fool to dote upon this dispised way of Religion thus as thou doest and be made a scorn and a derision of all do not so thou maiest delight thy self in pleasures and fleshly lusts too and spend thy time merily while thou art here c. 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people giving all dilligence to add to their faith vertue and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godlinesse and to godlinesse brotherly kindnesse and to brotherly kindnesse charity thus doing ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitfull in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ but he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see a far off and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins But let the servants of the Lord do so and they shall never fall viz. give diligence to make their calling and election sure by giving dilligence to add these to their faith c. It teacheth them to esteem highly of the ministry Vse 5 of Christ and so consequently of his ministers who are set over them as their feeders knowing that without they are fed they may pine and and so die this is a duty that the Lord doth enjoin his people to do and we beseech you brethren to know them which labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you and esteem them very highly in love for their works sake c. this it teaches Saints to do and joyfully to receive from them that food that is appointed for their spiritual nourishment and growth and not to slight their profitable admonitions which tend to the taking away any infection that may arise in them which if not prevented in time may grow to a consumption and so instead of thriving under the ministry they pine and wast and so at last die not for want of food but because of an infection that may hinder the concoction and so the food become unprofitable unto them which may be occasioned by their slighting them that are over them in the Lord viz. by slighting their labour and admonitions and therefore the Hebrew Saints were put upon this duty remember them which have the rule over you who have spoke unto you the word of God whose faith follow considering the end of their conversation and again obey them that have the rule over you and submit your selves for they watch for your souls as they that must give an account that they may do it with joy and not with grief for that is unprofitable for you c. Vse 6 It teacheth the servants of the Lord to set a high estimation on the word of God they knowing that to be sincere milk by which they must be fed and grow the good servant of the Lord the Prophet David did highly esteem of the word of the Lord saith he princes have persecuted me without cause but my heart standeth in awe of thy word I rejoice at thy word as one that findeth great spoil again mine eyes prevent the night watches that I might meditate in thy word so likewise the Prophet Jeremiah thy words were found and I did eat them and thy words were unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart c. to this duty the Apostle of our Lord doth presse believers wherefore laie apart all filthinesse and superfluity of naughtinesse and receive with meeknesse the ingraffed word which is able to save your souls how sweet are thy words unto my tast saith David thus to do doth this truth teach us because whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed but he that feareth the commandements shall be rawarded and again wherefore thus saith the holy one of Israel because ye have dispised this word and trust in oppression and perversenesse and stay thereon therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall swelling out in a high wall whose breaking commeth suddenly at an instant for all those things hath mine hand made and all those things have been saith the Lord but to this man will I look even to him that is pure and of a contrite spirit and trembleth at my word the Lord is pleased to make gracious promises to such as highly esteem of his word but if we despise it we shall be destroyed oh how precious is the word of the Lord how should it then be disgested and received into our very hearts as our food our councel our light our lanthorn lest it be despised so we pine starve dy and be destroyed It teacheth the servants of Christ to esteem Vse 7 highly of Gospel ordinances of the precious institutions of their precious lord because they know that they are the conveyances in which God is pleased to convey himself unto them and because without their obedience unto and faithfull walking in them they are in unspeakable danger of falling to destruction therefore saith the Apostle John whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God he that abideth in the doctrine of Christ hath both the father and the son again Christ saith if ye keep my commandements ye shall abide in my love c. he that hath my commandments and keepeth them he it is that loveth me he that keepeth my sayings c. the servants of Christ then must highly esteem of Christs sayings doctrines commandements c. for so did they of old the proud have forged a ly against me but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart their heart is as fat as grease but I delight in thy law the law of thy mouth is better to me then thousonds of gold and silver and again O how thy commandements have made me wiser then al my teachers for thy testimonies are my meditations I understand more then the antients because I keep thy precepts here may we see how this servant of the lord did esteem of the precepts of the lord and likewise what profit he received by his so doing what a sad estate and condition are they in that set light by ordinances that cast them behind them and break the commandements of the Lord and teach men so to do the lord Christ will make as little account of them one day for he saith why call you me lord lord and do not the things that I say as if Christ should say you call me lord but why do you so how am I your lord and you keep not my sayings If I were your lord you would keep my words my commandements you would set an high esteem of my ordinances and the like how many is there at this day that call Christ lord and yet have no love to his testimonies how many that have owned Christ in his institutions and yet have transgressed and abide not in his doctrine but slight his ordinances saying they are low things as if they were too high to submit to them or having submitted to them were grown too high to continue in them and yet they call him Lord the Apostle Paul prais'd the Corinthians for keeping the ordinances as he had delivered them unto them let this use be made therefore of this truth seeing if we transgresse and abide not