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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12974	An exposition vpon the CXII. Psalme The high way to euerlasting blessednesse. Written for the benefit of Gods church, by T.S.	Stint, Thomas.	1621 (1621)	STC 23269; ESTC S107442	67,502	220

holy ministry of Gods word longing and thirsting after it Psal 42.1.2 with Dauid As the Hart panteth after the water brookes so panteth my soule after thee O God Thus euery good Christian must whet the appetite of his soule to delight in Gods law by conference meditation hearing reading praying preaching and dayly frequenting of holy assemblyes Psal 122.1 I was glad when they sayd vnto mee let vs goe into the house of the Lord. So was it prophesied of the christian church that many people should go and say Mich. 4.1 Esa 2.3 Esa 60.7 Come let vs goe vp to the mountaine of the Lord to the house of the God of Iacob and he will teach vs his wayes and we shal walke in his paths who are these that flie like a cloude and as Doues to their windoes Noting not onely the greatnesse of the number but diligence and zeale of such as should come to Christ and receiue his doctrine and Christ sayd Mat. 11.12 that from the time of Iohn Baptist hitherto the kingdome of heauen suffereth violence and the violent take it by force Thus the zeale of Gods house should eate vs vp The least danger or weaknesse doth put of such as are backward in Gods seruice Secondly this serueth to confute and reproue all such as are backeward and carelesse in this necessary duty being idle and vaine in their excuses or reasons to hinder their zeale and loue to the word any feare the least danger Prou. 22.13 Psa 119.51 62.7.11.12 Luk. 14.18.19.20.23.23 and worldly businesse doth put them off There is a Lion in the way Some haue their oxen to prooue their Farme to see their wife to marry all these yet are inuited to come to the Feast though vnworthy of the same therefore God will fill his house with any others then with such euen those that sit in the high way and vnder hedges the most basest and vilest of men shall enter before them and bee saued Mat. 21.31.32 euen whores and harlots shall sooner be receiued then those that seeme children of the kingdome God will raise vp to Abraham sonnes of stones rather then these viperous serpents shall haue the name of his seed Mat. 3.9 Others there are that thinke if we should make conscience of religion begin to read the word to frequent sermons to haue prayer in our families and the like this would make vs to bee scoffed and mocked at but let such heare what the word saith that pronounces them blessed that delight in the law of the Lord Psalme 1. and meditate therein day and night and that seeke him with their whole hearts yea albeit they should meet with some disgrace and opposition in the world Psal 119. Math. 5. Blessed are yee saith Christ when men reuile you and persecute you and speake all manner of euill against you falsly for my names sakt Reioyce and be glad for great is your reward in heauen is it not better to endure a little mocking from men for a time and that for well doing then to vndergoe the wrath of God for euer for ill doing Let vs consider in particular what benefit we may reape by the ministry of the Gospel Isai 5.3 Heare saith the Prophet Isaiah Iam. 1.21 thy soule shal liue receiue the word with meekenes saith Iames which is able to saue your soules Reu. 1.3 blessed is he that reades heares the words of this Prophesie saith the spirit in the Reuelation And on the other side Prou. 28.9 he that turneth away his eare from hearing the law his prayer shall bee abomination saith Salomon and againe the wisedome of God speaks thus because I haue called and ye refused Prou 1.24.25.26 I haue stretched out my hand none would regard but yee haue despised all my counsell and would none of my correction I will also laugh at your destruction and mocke when your feare commeth These and the like places if wee could throughly consider of they would worke more powerfully with vs to cause vs to desire the word and to retaine and keepe our hearts still in loue and liking of it then all the reproches and persecutions in the world could to withdraw our affections from it God is to be heard before any Therefore they that come to receiue benefit by the ministery must not harken what reasons flesh and bloud can yeeld them against it but what reasons God can giue them for it for the diuell will haue much to say against goodnesse and our owne fleshly wisdome will haue haue as much the world will be as great a pulbacke vnto vs if we will giue it the hearing but if we can bend an attentiue eare vnto the Lord wee shall finde that hee will bring better arguments to perswade vs to goodnesse then all those our enemies can to disswade vs from it therefore it is that men are so often and so grossely deceiued because they heare what the one side can say to discourage and hinder them in actions of piety and godlinesse but not what the other can say to harten and draw them onward in good wayes for if they did bring a spirituall eare to receiue the proofes that are brought from the word they would be more forceable to bring them to God then al other means could be to allure them to forsake God Eph. 4.30 If wee cherrish in vs the gifts of Gods holy spirit it assures vs of deliuerance from the wrath to come and to embrace or hearken to the allurements of this present world therefore Paul writing to the Ephesians he saith thus grieue not the holy spirit of God nor that holy delight in the commandements he brings a forcible reason wherby you are sealed vnto the day of redemption This is the onely euidence wee haue of freedome from condemnation this is Gods marke and character set on vs and seizing vs for his owne this is like the blood that was stricken vpon the doore posts Exo. 12.22 which shall make the Lord to passe ouer vs and not suffer the destroyer to come neare vs when he goeth to smite the Egyptians By this wee are assured that the day of iudgement shall bee to vs no day of wrath but a day of redemption so then thus wee may take the Apostles meaning as you desire to retaine assurance of your deliuerance from the wrath to come and that the Lord should take notise of you for his in the day of that dreadfull separation so see that by all meaanes you cherish in you the gifts and operation of Gods holy spirit grieue it not by strangling and choaking of those holy motions and operations but let them be cherished and preserued without any the least abatement Thirdly Let vs beware of quēching the motions of the spirit for the sin is fearefull this serueth to condemne such as nip the bud so soon as euer it

peepeth foorth and quench euery sparke that at any time appeareth yea wilfully set themselues to repell all good motions hasting to their cursed company to chase away those sweet inspirements of Gods holy spirit Oh the cursed vnthankefulnesse of these men what vnkind ingrateful discourteous dealing is here with the spirit of grace thus shutting him out so soone as euer he begins to enter Reuel 3.20 wouldest thou deale so vnkindly with thy friend who commeth to thy doore why dealest thou then so vncourteously with Christ Iesus and his holy spirit Reuel 3.20 who standeth at the doore and dayly knockes but can get no entertainement Act. 7.15 beware of this resisting the holy Ghost the sinne is fearfull and discomfortable for hereby thy heart may grow more obdurat and thy life more brutish and abhominable Fourthly let euery one of vs beware how wee suffer that blessed heate to slacke This delight must shew it selfe by encreasing in spirituall graces which by Gods grace beginneth to bee inkindled in our hearts Suffer not that coale that holy motion which the Lord hath cast into thy bosome to die within thee but blow it vp lay on more fuell adde dayly more and more matter to it and tremble to lose the least measure of Gods gracious gift be frequent in spirituall exercises as in hearing reading meditation Christian conference prayer and the like Let no meanes be neglected that God hath ordained for the working of establishment And as thou layest on fuell so see thou giuest this holy Fire vent exercise and put these holy motions into practise much Wood piled on a Cole if vent be wanting doth soone smother it put it out see thē thou exercise the graces which God hath giuen thee Therefore when the Lord shall put any good motion into our hearts Good motions are-not to bee qvenched but cherished we are to nourish and cherrsh the same to one good motion wee must adde a second and to that a third and so fall to blowing and giue not ouer vntill at length they breake forth into a comfortable flame of godly practises 1. Thes 5.19 Quench not the Spirit saith Paul nor the gifts and motions of the holy Ghost hee vsed a Metaphor borrowed from fire whose heate and light when it is put out is said to bee quenched Thus also hee exhorts Timothy to stir vp the graces of God which bee in him 2. Tim. 1.6 Thus it is with them that liue the life of Grace there is a dayly seeking after foode for the preseruing of it Psal 1.2 a dayly vsing of the meanes as Prayer Reading Meditation and thus it is said of the blessed man In Gods Law hee doth exercise himselfe both day and night Many examples might bee brought for proofe of this Iob rose vp early to offer sacrifice this did Iob continually Iob. 1.5 and it was Daniels practise to pray three times a day and Dauids Euening Dan. 6.10 Psal 55.17 Psa 119.164 Gen. 24.63 Morning and Noone-tide will I pray vnto thee Yea we may heare him speaking of seuen times a day praysing of the Lord And Isaac went into the Field to pray and meditate in the Euening Let vs examine our selues in this duty how we perform it in our practises Therefore let euery Christian man and woman try and examine themselues in this duty For it is certainely true and cannot deceiue vs that our prayers are proportionable to our faith For hee that prayeth seldome hath but a weake faith he that prayes often hath a strong Faith and he that prayes not at all hath no faith For Rom. 10.10 with the heart man beleeueth vnto righteousnesse and with the mouth confession is made vnto saluation Let this be well considered of such as heare and reade and pray by fits and starts now and then as it were vpon rainy dayes Alas thousands there are in the World who reade not pray not from Sabbath to Sabbath nay nor then neither haue these any life of grace in them Sure I am naturall life must be dayly fed and shal be too and is there not as much neede for the spirituall be it therfore knowne vnto thee and certified to thy soule We should let no day passe without examination nor suffer our eyes to slumber nor our head to take any rest tell we haue made peace with our God that thou deceiuest thy selfe in thinking thou liuest the life of a Christian when there is no care had to a dayly performance of the excercise belonging to a Christian therefore let no day passe ouer without examination let vs call to mind what euils hath beene committed what good duties omitted which God hath required suffer not thy eyes to slumber nor the temples of thy head to take any rest till this taske bee performed Would Christians keepe this course and well consider of their carriages the day past they would soone find the excellent commodities of it to the vnspeakeable comfort of their soules for euermore Lastly Phil. 3.13 let this admonish euery one to grow in grace let vs forget that which is behinde and endeuour to that which is before let vs presse hard towards the marke for the prise of the high calling of God let vs not bee euermore as smoaking flaxe or bruised reeds or as new set Plants but let vs abound more and more Thes 4.1 At a stay we cannot stand iudge what wee will not to goe forward is to go backward not to encrease is to decrease like as the Sunne we are euermore in motion and as the Sea Gen. 19 26. Psal 114.3 Eccle. 1. ebbing or flowing and as the Angell on Iacobs Ladder ascending or descending therefore we must not looke backeward with Lots Wife but forward with Lot himselfe nor start backe as Iordan did but runne forward as other Riuers doe and trauell towards Canaan with Caleb and Iosua so that still we must profit in the way of godlinesse there must bee no growing downeward but growing vpward Luke 2.52 the Child Iesus grew not downeward but vpward in grace wisedome and stature they which will haue their growth in Christ and towards his Kingdome must grow vpward Psal 84.7 Let vs therefore proceede in sanctfication and goe from strength to strength Rom. 15.14 and labour euery day to abound more and more in all wisedome and in goodnesse If wee prayed once a day in priuate and that somewhat coldly at the first we must afterward pray twice or thrice or oftner in a day as occasion is offered and that more feruently and feelingly then wee did in the beginning if we did heare and meditate more seldome and with greater weakenesse and distraction at our first entrance into profession in our proceeding we must vse those exercises more frequently We must grow in grace and neuer rest vntill we come to perfection and performe them more seriously cheerefully So that if you bee in