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A12071	Reasons most humbly offered to the honourable House of Commons in Parliament, by Sr Robert Sharpeigh, Knight, and Alexander Haitley, Esquire patentees for survey of sea-coales at Newcastle, &c. by nomination of the late Duke of Richmond and Lennox, proving the grant and patent thereof to be necessary and profitable to the common-wealth, the fee to be but competent and proportionable to the charge, and no imposition but a meere wages, or quid pro quo, voluntarily, offered to be payd for the service.	Sharpeigh, Robert, Sir.; Haitley, Alexander.	1624 (1624)	STC 22379.5; ESTC S2878	274,966	3

in themselves want of grace and comfort surely they will goe out of themselves they will goe to Gods market they will attend upon the meanes He that is like to be arrested for debt and hath nothing at home it is time for him to seeke abroad for supply so when a man is poore spiritually ready to bee snared and catched in every thing for want of spirituall grace he will labour for strength in the use of all means Therefore those that are of a Laodicean stamp that thinke there is too much preaching and too much hearing and too much reading and what need all this adoe Alas they were never humbled they were never sensible of their state by nature nor are not yet in the state of grace for the soule of a true Christian is alway in the state of spirituall poverty as that it relisheth spirituall meanes and is not fed with husks A soule that is spiritually poore will d●scerne in the use of means this is flourishing this is for the eare this is conceits alas it comes for food for supply A poore soule that findes the want of grace and strength and comfort it judgeth of the meanes by what it findes there will be a use of all meanes and likewise some ability to taste where there is true poverty of spirit Againe where this inward poverty of spirit is it will make Gods children wondrous thankfull and thankful for a little grace A poore man that is sensible of his poverty will be more thankfull for a penny then another man for a pound that hath money of his owne A soule that sees the want of grace and withall sees the excellency of grace is thankfull to God that hee will worke any thing in such a poore defiled soule as hee is that hee will worke any good motions any good affections any degree of faith that he will give him any assurance of salvation Oh hee thinkes what a good God is this Hee breakes out with the Apostles Peter and Paul that had both beene sinners themselves and found grace oh they were much in thankefulnesse Blessed be God the father of our Lord Iesus Christ c. A thankfull soule is a poore soule and a poore soule is alway a thankfull soule Hee that is poore hee knowes hee hath little and deserves little therefore knowing that hee deserves nothing he is thankfull for and content with any thing a humble man is alway thankfull and that is the reason that GOD may have his glory from him hee is forced sometimes to humble and abase him hee should have no sacrifice from him else A proud man a conceited man so dotes upon his owne worth hee forgets the giver he makes himselfe an idoll to him therefore such they are usurpers of what they have they enter upon GODS blessings not considering from whom they have them nor for what end they have them They deny God his tribute of thankfulnesse because they are proud but a man that is poore in spirit he enters upon all by title of gift and receives all from God in the forme of a poore man therefore whatsoever hee hath hee returnes thankes for it againe An unthankfull soule therefore is a proud soule a thankfull soule is an humble abased soule alway and the more humble and empty the soule is the more thankfull it is for every degree of grace and comfort Againe a soule that is thus disposed that is poore in spirit it is willing to resigne it selfe to Christs governement with selfe-denyall of any thing it is able to doe of it selfe it is ready to say Lord I have neither wit of mine owne to governe my selfe nor any strength and ability of mine own therefore I put my selfe upon thy government I desire to follow thy light and to goe on in thy strength There is alway a resignation to Christs government and that in feare and trembling for whom we resigne our selves unto surely wee will have a care not to displease them A dependant life is alway an awfull life for when a man hath resigned himselfe to the governement of another and knowes hee must depend upon him hee will have a care not to displease such an one for hee thinkes if I displease him hee will withdraw his maintenance and countenance from me and then what am I so the soule that thinkes it hath all from God and from the spirit of Christ it resignes it selfe to the spirit of Christ and withall it is wondrous fearefull not to grieve and displease the Spirit for hee thinkes with himselfe my life is but a dependant life my graces are but dependant let God but withdraw the beames of his Spirit and I sinke let him withdraw his comfort and his strength what am I nothing but darkenesse and deadnesse and confusion Those therefore that give not themselves up to Christs governement but are governed by rules of policy by the example of others and have base dependance upon others they know not what spirituall poverty is they see there is a sufficiency in themselves to rule and governe themselves as if Christs wisedome were not sufficient they are not so disposed as the Apostle requires they worke not out their salvation with feare and trembling because God gives the will and the deed The meaning is this wee should worke out our salvation with a holy feare and trembling a jealous feare a sonne-like feare lest we displease God why he gives both the will and the deed hee gives both the will to doe good and when he hath done that he gives the ability of the deed it selfe We cannot doe any thing therefore we had need to walke in an awfull condition and not displease him in any thing lest he withdraw the assistance of his Spirit and leave us to our selves and then we shall fall to his dishonour to the discredit of religion to the wasting of our own comfort and the advantage of Sathan This is the temper of a man that is poore in spirit he gives himselfe up to Christs government and depends upon it and thereupon he is wondrous fearefull to displease him in any thing There are a company that know not what belong to this that hope to be saved by Christ and yet they will grieve the Spirit they will venture into any place upon any sight into any company but if ever they had beene acquainted with the government of Christs Spirit they would know what it was to grieve the Spirit and the Spirit would grieve them too it is a signe they have not the Spirit of God because he doth not check them when they have done Therefore your adventurous carelesse persons that are indifferent for all things for all companies and places that do not watch over themselves and over their words and carriages they have not this poverty of spirit for then they would know what it were to displease God in any thing to walke and to speak loosely because hereby they grieve the spirit and

of all her children Let us justifie our Religion and profession by maintaining it and standing for it and expresse in our lives and conversations the power of it How shall this be The Text sayth by the Spirit For as Christ justified himselfe that is declared himselfe to be as he was by his Spirit so every Christian hath the Spirit of Christ or else he is none of his and by this Spirit of Christ he is able to justifie his profession not onely to justifie Christ to be the true Head c. but all things he doth must be done by the Spirit or not at all For as Christ when he became man and was in the World he did all by the direction of the Spirit He was led into the Wildernesse by the Spirit he taught by the Spirit the Spirit that sanctified him in the Wombe guided him in all his life so a Christian is guided by the Spirit God doth all to him by the Spirit he is comforted and directed and strengthned by the Spirit and he againe doth all to God by the Spirit he prayes in the Spirit and sighes and groanes to God in the Spirit he walkes in the Spirit he doth all by the Spirit Therefore by the Spirit let us justifie and declare our selves what we are that there is somewhat in us above nature that we have love above carnall men and patience and meekenesse above the abilitie and capacitie of other men We justifie our profession when we do somewhat more then nature or when we doe common ordinarie things in a spirituall holy manner Religion is not a matter of forme but of Spirit Let us not shew our Religion onely by word but by the fruits of the Spirit by love and mercie and meekenesse and zeale when occasion serves The whole life of a Christian as farre as he is a Christian it gives evidence that he is a Christian the whole life of a carnall formall man evidences that he is not a Christian because he hath nothing in him above other men as our Saviour Christ sayth What peculiar thing doe ye to distinguish your selves from other men So let us aske our selves We professe our selves to be the children of God the Heires of Heaven What peculiar thing doe we How doe we justifie our selves A true Christian can answer I can justifie it by the Spirit I finde I doe things from other Principles and motives and inducements then the World doth who onely respect tearmes of Civilitie and aymes of the World or to content the clamour of conscience but I finde I doe things out of assurance that I am the child of God and in obedience to him Let us see what peculiar thing we doe Alas I cannot but lament the poore profession of many How doe they justifie their profession How doe they make good that they have the Spirit of God raysing them above other men when they live no be●ter then Pagans nay not so well under the profession of the Gospel and Religion Would Pagans live as many men doe Did they not keepe their words better Were they so loose in their lives and conversations and so licentious Would they sweare by their gods idly Most of our ordinarie people are worse then Pagans Where is the justifying of Religion If Turks and Heathens should see them they would say You talke of Religion but where is the power of it If you had the power of it you would expresse it more in your fidelitie and honestie and mercie and love and sobrietie The Kingdome of God that is the manifestation of the Government of Christ it is not in word but in power Therefore let us labour to justifie that we are subjects of that Kingdome by the power of it Meere civill persons the Apostle sayth of them 2 Tim. 3. they are such as have a forme of Godlinesse but denie the power of it All that rabblement that he names there they have a forme A forme is easie but the power of it is not so easie Therefore let us justifie our Religion by our conversation Let us justifie the Ordinances of God the preaching and hearing of the Word of God by reverence in hearing it as the Word of God and labour to expresse it in our lives and conversations or else we thinke it nothing but the speech of man Let us justifie the Sacrament to be the Scale of God by comming reverently to it and by finding our Faith strengthened by it So labour to justifie everie Ordinance of God from some sweet comforts that wee feele by them and then we shew that wee are true members of CHRIST that we are like CHRIST who justified himselfe in the Spirit Beloved it is a great Power that must make a true Christian no lesse then the Power of the Spirit that raysed Christ from the dead as it is Ephes. 1. Saint Paul prayes that they might f●ele the Power that raysed Christ from the dead It is no lesse power for Christ to shine in our darke hearts then to make light to shine out of darknesse Now what power is in the lives of most men The power that raysed Christ from the dead Certainely no. What power is there in hearing the Word when many are so full of prophanenesse that they altogether neglect it What power is there now and then to speake a good word or now and then to doe a slight action Is this the power that raysed Christ from the dead when by the strength of nature men can doe it There must be somewhat above nature to justifie a sound spirituall Christian We must have something to shew that we have our spirits raysed up by the Spirit of Christ to justifie our profession in all estates In prosperitie to shew that we have a Spirit above prosperitie that we are not proud of it Then in adversitie then we justifie that we are Christians by a Spirit that is above adversitie that we doe not sinke under it as a meere naturall man would doe when we have learned Saint Pauls Lesson in all estates to be content In temptation we justifie our Christian profession by arming our selves with a Spirit of Faith to beat backe the fierie darts of Satan When all things seeme contrarie let us cast our selves by a Spirit of Faith upon Christ that argues a powerfull worke of the Spirit when we can in contraries beleeve contraries Thus let us shew that we are Christians that we have somewhat in us above nature that when the course of nature seemes to be contrary yet we can looke with the eye of Faith through all discouragements and clouds and can see God reconciled in Christ that will justifie us to be sound Christians Therefore let us labour not onely for slight outward performances that are easie for any to doe but by an inward frame of soule and by a carriage and conversation becomming our Profession that we may walke worthy of our Profession fruitfully

happie for his former happinesse makes his present unhappinesse more sensible When God had prepared him thorowly then he raised him up with the promised seed God deales as he dealt with Eliah first hee casts him downe with earthquakes and stormes and then he comes in a stiller voice It is for that end that Iohn Baptist comes before Christ to levell all to cast downe the Mountaines and fill up the valleyes for all must bee laid flat to Christ we must lay our selves at his feet and be content to be disposed of by him before we know what belongs to being in Christ there must be poverty of spirit antecedent therefore We see this lively set out in the Prodigall sonne that while he had any thing in the world to content him he never lookes homeward but when he saw such an emptinesse in all things he met with that he could not be satisfied with husks then he began to think of going home and that there was some hope he had a father that would receive him I will be short in this because the other is mainely intended If we would know and discerne by some evidences whether we have beene poore in spirit in this preparative poverty or no. Let us consider what we have judged of our condition by nature whether ever we have beene convinced of the ill condition we are in for if there be not conviction of sinne there will not be conviction of righteousnesse as you have it Iohn 16. There are three workes of the Spirit to convince of sin of righteousnesse and of judgment of spirituall government The Spirit before it convinceth us that we have the righteousnesse of Christ and convinceth us of the necessity of government and holy life in Christ which is called there Iudgement he convinceth of sin which is an antecedent worke Let us examine our selves whether the Spirit have had such a worke or no. Where this conviction and poverty is a man sees an emptinesse and vanity in all things in the world whatsoever but in Christ. And there is a desire of the grace and favour of God above all things Aske a poore man what he would have he would haue that that may supply his poverty and want Aske a man that is spiritually poore before he be in Christ what would you have Oh mercy and pardon offer him any thing else in the world it contents him not but that will content him the sense and perswasion of Gods love and mercy in Christ Iesus Where this poverty of spirit is there will be a wondrous earnestnesse after pardon and mercy and after grace to be in an other condition a man will labour even as for life If you come to a poore man that labours for his living and aske him why doe you labour so he will wonder at your idle question I may starve else he will say A man that is spiritually poore and sees what a state he is in he labours in the use of meanes to have an inward sense of Gods love to finde some beginnings of the new creature to finde a change to be otherwise then he is he sees he must perish else there is a prizing and estimation in him of mercy and pardon above all things in the world and a making after it It is alway joyned likewise with a wondrous abasing of himselfe he thinks himselfe not worth the ground he goes on till God hath mercy on him in Iesus Christ. This is not so sensible in those that are brought up in the Church or that have religious thoughts put into them continually in both kindes both concerning their owne estate by nature and withall concerning grace and mercy in Christ. Therefore grace is instilled into them by little and little and the change is not so sensible But where the conversion is anything sudden from an ill course of life to a better God workes such a poverty of spirit before he bring a man to Christ. In Mat. 5. it is the beginning of all happinesse the blessednesse that leads to the rest Blessed are the poore in spirit for theirs is the kingdome of Heaven And indeed those that are poore in spirit are blessed though they have not yet the sense of Gods love so much as they desire for this drawes on all the rest as I shall shew afterwards To be poore in spirit therefore is to see that we have no good in our selves that we are beggers and bankrupts and have no meanes to pay or satisfie and this stirs up desire and the use of meanes and all the qualifications that follow there Hungring and thirsting after righteousnesse and mourning and meeknesse For this will follow a man that is poore in spirit say what you will to him he is so tractable and meeke let God doe what he will with him so he give him grace if he will cast him downe so be it What shall we doe to be saved Implying a plyablenesse to take any course he is willing to do or to suffer anything And indeed there must be such a poverty of spirit before we can beleeve in Christ whereby we may be convinced of our debts and of our unability to pay those debts and our misery that we are in danger to be cast into eternall bondage for them there must be this before for else we will never repaire to Christ nor Gods mercy in him The full stomack despiseth an hony combe we will not relish Christ nor value him as we should Then againe without this we will not be thankfull to God as we should be who is thankfull to God but he that sees before what need he stands in of mercy and of every drop of the blood of Christ And then we will not be fruitfull for who is so fruitfull a Christian as hee that is thankfull and this depends upon the other A Christian that was never truly cast downe and laid low by the spirit of bondage he is a barren Christian the other having tasted of the love of God in Christ the very love of Christ constraines him and he studies to be abundant in the worke of the Lord as S. Paul saith and every way to shew forth the vertues of him that hath ca●led him out of darkenesse into marvellous light Againe this is the ground when men are not sufficiently humbled before that they fal away dangerously it is the ground of apostacy because they did not feele the smart of sin He that hath smarted for his estate before knowes what it is to be in such a condition he will be loth ever to come into the prison againe Therefore the ground of carefull walking is a sense of our unworthinesse and misery the more we are donvinced of this the more carefull and watchfull wee will bee that we never come into that cursed condition againe And indeed it is an errour in the foundation which is not mended in the

Fabrick as we say when there is an errour in poverty of spirit at the first when the work of humiliation is not kindly wrought hence is the defect in all the whole carriage of a Christian. The foundation of Gods building lies low he digs deepe God layes his foundation oft times as low as Hell it selfe in a manner He brings his children to see that that hee meanes they shall never feele to see his wrath against fin that so he may build upon this foundation For Christianity it is an excellent frame it is a frame for eternity a building for ever therefore it must have a sure foundation which must be laid in humiliation and poverty of spirit An errour in the first digestion is not amended in the second if that be not good the rest are naught if there be not sound humiliation nothing will bee sound afterward Therefore we should desire that God by his spirit would helpe us more and more to know what we are in our selves that we may get to be what we are in Christ. But there is a continuall frame and disposition of soule which is a poverty in spirit that accompanies Gods children all the dayes of their life till they be in heaven till they enjoy that riches that is laid up there for them and that is especially here meant And indeed it is an ingredient into all the passages of salvation For in justification there must be a poverty of spirit to make us see that there is no righteousnesse in our selves or that can come from us that is able to stand against the Law and against the justice of God all is defiled and spotted and unanswerable And upon this poverty and apprehension of what is detective in our selves comes an admiration of that righteousnesse of God in Christ for it is of Gods devising and of Gods approving and of Gods working Christ being God and man to force us every day to renew our right i● the righteousnesse of Christ and to be found in him There is such a poverty of spirit as to account all losse and drosse and nothing to bee willing to part withall to bee found in Christ not having our owne righteousnesse but that which is of God in Christ as Paul divinely speakes Phil. 3. So it is necessary in that maine passage of justification to bee poore in spirit that is to see a de●ect●in our owne righteousnesse to stand oppos●●e to Gods justice who is a consuming fi●e● it is re●●isite in regard of our daily living by saith injustification In the whole course of sanctification there must of necessity bee poverty of spirit that is a sense that wee have no sanctifying grace of our selves but wee must fetch it from the fulnesse of Christ whose fulnesse is for us of his fuln●sse wee receive grace for grace The ground of this is that now in the covenant of grace al is of grace both in justification and sanctification all is of grace nothing but grace God hath set himselfe to get the glory of his free grace and mercy now in Iesus Christ. Therefore as our salvation is wrought out of us altogether by our surety the second Adam Christ so our righteousnesse is altogether out of our selves whereby wee appeare righteous before God It is his and given to us by marriage being one with him his righteousnesse is ours And likewise in him wee have the principle of all grace he is the principle of our life the root and foundation of spirituall life and sanctification Without mee you can doe nothing So that in Christ we have all that concernes our spirituall life in sanctification and justification because it is a state of grace Adam had it in himselfe though God at the first clothed him with his image yet not withstanding he had not such a necessity as we have to goe to Christ for all but now in the second Adam Christ we must fetch grace for every thing from him Therefore there must be poverty in regard of out knowledge we have no spirituall knowledge of our selves and poverty in regard of our affections wee have no joy no peace no comfort of our selves no delight in good things nor no strength to them we have all from Christ. By grace saith the Apostle I am what I am as if grace had given him his being his forme as we say Indeed so it doth grace gives a Christian his forme and being his worke and his working for all working is from the inward being and form of things By grace wee are what we are in justification and worke what we work in sanctification it is by what we have freely from Christ therfore in that respect there must be poverty of spirit Nay I say more in every notion when wee are in the state of grace and have had the beginnings of the new creature in us there needs poverty of spirit in regard of our owne inability to performe every action For even as it is in our forme the life and soule there is a need of it in every moving and stirring so there is a need of the spirit of grace which is as the forme and life and being of a Christian to every holy action In him we live and move and have our being saith the Apostle In him that is in God reconciled to Christ we have not only our being that is our forme but in him we live and move to every particular act We are no wiser in particular things then God makes us on the sudden the wi●est man will be a foole if God leave him to his owne wit We are no stronger in every particular act that needs strength then God supplies us with spirituall strength We are no holier then God by his Spirit shines on us and raiseth our soules in particular actions So that it is not only necessary that we have grace at the first to make us Christians but we must have a perpetuall regiment of the Spirit from whence we must have an influence to every particular act Though we have grace yet we cannot bring forth that grace to act without new grace Even as trees though they be fitted to beare fruit as the Vine c. yet without the influence of the Heavens they cannot put forth that fitnesse in fruit so though we be fitted by the Spirit of God yet we cannot put it forth to particular acts when occasion serves without the influence of Heaven to promote and further that grace and applying our spirits to every holy action by removing the impediments that would hinder it adding new supply and strength to helpe grace If the temptations bee too strong as sometimes they are former grace will not serve without a new supply of strength As he that may carry a lesser burthen cannot carry a greater without new strength so in every temptation there is required more strength then the former and in every new action there is required

not only a continuance of grace but a fresh supply of stronger grace And for want of this the best of Gods Saints have fallen foulely Though they have had grace in them yet notwithstanding the Spirit hath left them to themselves in regard of new supply because they have beene conceited they have not beene poore enough in spirit As Peter he was conceited of his owne strength Though all men for●ake thee yet I will not This conceit moved God ●n mercy as well as in justice to leave him to ●imselfe that by his fall he might learne to stand another time and not trust his owne strength The ●est of us all I say when there is any thing to bee done we had need of a fresh influence of grace and a fresh light to shine upon us It should force perpetuall poverty of spirit to see the want that is in our selves and the supply that is out of our selves and to make use of that by going out of our selves and making towards him in whom is all our supply In all our communion wee have with God which is the happinesse of our estate this frame and disposition of soule to bee poore in spirit it is necessary in every act Even in our very prayers for grace we are so void of it that wee want ability to call for what we want We must have that from the Spirit not only grace but that disposition of soule which carries us to God a spirit fitting us to pray that must bee also given us wee know not what to call for Wee of our selves are so poore that wee not only want grace and ability to action but we have not ability to aske but Gods spirit must dictate our prayers and give us motions and make us sensible of our wants and must inable our faith to cherish those graces and make us goe out of our selves even in our very prayers What a state is this then Had wee not need to bee poore in spirit all our life time that have not so much as ability to goe out of our selves for supply from another but that must come from Christ too As S. Augustin who was a great advancer of the grace of GOD and an abaser of man he had indeed S. Pauls spirit saith hee wee should boast and glory of nothing because nothing is ours We have need of this poverty of spirit in the whole tenure of our Christian life Againe in the actions of this life how pitifully doe wee miscarry because we thinke wee have wit and strength enough and set upon things in our owne wit and strength we speed ●nd have successe answerable Where the beginning is confidence the end is shame of any businesse even of this life What is the reason that oft times the great and weighty businesses of this life have not answerable successe Many times it falsout so as one said of generall Councels they seldome were successefull because men come with confidence and wit for victory rather then truth Certainly there is lesse successe in great matters because men come with selfe confidence Therefore it is a good signe that God meanes to blesse great businesses when hee puts it into the hearts of those that are agents in them to seeke him in the affaires of this life We must bee poore in spirit to see that the carriage and successe comes from him Well so it is i● suffering likewise wee cannot suffer the least crosse of our selves but with murmuring and repining without strength from him When Moses came to the waters of strife Moses spirit was discovered hee could not endure the harshnesse and rebellion of the people A Christian comes sometimes to such opposition that his spirit is moved and he discovers much corruption It is so with the best men even Moses a meek man when he had such temptations and provocations it moved him Wee must labour to get a greater spirit then our owne to have the spirit of God to work this spirituall poverty in us This poverty of spirit as we call it is spirituale vacuum spirituall emptinesse You know in Philosophy there is nothing empty in the world but it is filled either with aire or some kind of body and to avoide the enemy of nature emptinesse things will change their seat heavie things will goe upward and things that are above will com● below to avoid emptinesse that is contrary to ●●ture there being a fulnesse of things with one bodie or other so I say spirituall poverty it is a● emptying of the soule which of force alway brings better things in Wheresoever this emptying of the soule is this making of our selves poore it is upon good ground by this course it is alwaies such a vacuum and emptinesse of one thing as brings in another better The soule can never be altogether empty when winde and vaine stuffe is out then comes better things in which S. Paul cals the fulnesse of God he prayes and wishes that they might be filled with the fulnesse of God then comes fulnesse of knowledge and understanding and fulnesse of affection and fulnesse of contentment and complacency in the will and all the soule hath an answerable fulnesse to the proportion of the emptying it selfe of it selfe In the next place let us come to discover this disposition of poverty of spirit where it is And then shew some helpes to it First to discover where this blessed frame of soule is Surely those that are thus poore in spirit they are full of prayer The poore man speakes supplications as the Wiseman saith that is his dialect The poore man is much in prayer he that is poore in spirit is much in supplication for prayers they are the Ambassadours of the poore soule to God to supply it with the riches of his grace Therefore where there is no prayer there is no sense of poverty but there is a Laodicean temper as if they were rich enough You have a company of men they say they cannot pray privately their spirits are barren They intimate much pride of spirit for if a man be sensible of his wants you need not supply him with words If a poore tenant come to a Land-lord and find he hath a hard bargaine let him alone for telling his tale I warrant you he will lay open the state of his wife and children and the ill yeare he hath had he will be eloquent enough Take any man that is sensible of his wants and you shall not need to dictate words to him There is no man that hath a humble and broken heart though he be never so illiterate but he will have a large heart to God in this kinde Againe there is a care of using all meanes Where poverty is there will bee a making out of our selves unto places where GOD bestowes any riches They that are poore and have no victuals at home they will goe to market rather than they will starve and those that find