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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30289	Three questions resolved briefly and plainly, viz. What conceptions ought we to have of the blessed God? What are those truths, whereof the knowledge appeareth most indispensibly necessary unto our salvation; and (therefore) to be first and most learnt by us? What is the change wrought in a man by God's H. Word and spirit, before he can safely conclude himself pass'd from death to life? Being the summ of three sermons. By Daniel Burgess.	Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.	1688 (1688)	Wing B5718A; ESTC R213037	36,052	94

evil of all kinds The Holy Scripture testifieth that it did so and that not obscurely in the very Text forecited Plainly in others Gen. 6.5 Rom. 8.7 Faln Man is by some compared to a disorder'd Clock that strikes false every minute and has not one true motion before the Maker mend it Now can a Holy God delight in a Creature thus Qualified One disposed to no real good but to all evil and that continually If God ever Recall such unto Himself He will new Create them Make them quite other Creatures Instruments moved with New Springs Trees of other Roots The Old Qualities must away and all be New. The Evil Treasure must be took out tho' it be bound up in the heart a Good must be Laid in and be a-like seated Holy Qualities must be Infused Accordingly we find every where in the Scripture God denouncing Wrath against all men of unrenewed Natures Not Renewed that is and Regenerated in the Qualities of the same for the Nature it self abideth still the same in Converted as in Unconverted men John 3.5 And on the other hand God's Reconciled Servants are named such as have Put off the Old Man. Crucified the Flesh with its Affections and Lusts Mortified their Members which are upon Earth with much like All which phrases express their Parting with their inward Roots of Sin their Dispositions and their Inclinations unto evil They are likewise said to Put on the New Man. To be born again from Heaven To be men of another Heart and Spirit and New Creatures c. That is to be now of Dispositions quite contrary unto what they were before Inclined now to things that Please God as before unto things Offending Him. Now to Duty as before unto Folly. Feeling excuseth Words It need not be said how hard the parting from Old Qualities is Things glued together use not to come asunder without tearing Until an Heart be Rent there is no coming apart from its Lust But the Necessity of the separation is open to every Eye For Gratia non perdit Naturam God's hatred of sin is his very Nature and even Gospel Grace cannot destroy his Eternal Nature It implies the greatest of contradictions that He who is Holiness it fell should Cease to hate men of settled aversion from it And bent unto Ungodliness And it were blackest Blasphemy for any to conceit that Christ came to save us in our sinful Qualities and not from them A Wise man would therefore know his Qualities before he made his Judgment of his Condition toward God. Determining that as the Qualities are that be predominant and reign in him so is the Judgment of God on him That this latter is Absolving or Condemning according as the former be Holy or the contrary It is true contrary Qualities may possess together the same Heart In low degrees they may and do In high degrees they cannot Grace and Lust are both of 'em in every the best Soul. But they can no more Reign together than Water can Boil and Freeze together * A Lust Reigns when 't is Yielded unto Sin and Satan be Conquered as long as they are sincerely and industriously Resisted Grace doth Reign in the Soul while 't is in like manner Warred and Fought for by the Soul Rom. 7. The Apostle speaks of himself as Regenerated I doubt not So that my Enquiry must be What are those Qualities that have the Throne in me That sway my Understanding my Affections and my Practick Powers The Sinful Qualities that bend all these unto evil are the Corruption of Nature and Original Sin. The Holy Ones that bend all these unto good are Grace and the very New Nature in us Whether of them do prevail in me is my great Question Commonly and I think justly we count four Properties of a Quality or Disposition 's Prevalency Namely its causing to act Readily and without much ado Pleasantly and without disgust Vniversally without exclusion of any proper Object And Constantly without intermissions Now if Original Sin carry me thus unto Actual Sin I am far from the Kingdom of God! If Grace thus carry me unto gracious actions the Kingdom of God is within me To be a little more particular Holy Qualities the Principal are three the Instrumental are eight The former are Evangelical Faith Hope and Love. The latter be Prudence Justice Temperance Courage Sincerity Humility Zeal and Constancy Methinks whether these or the contraries of these do as aforesaid act me should be of easie discovery Inward Feelings and outward Fruits one would think should not admit it into any doubt at all But I am aware Mixtures do obscure things And in whom are not Mixtures found Again Moles must not be expected to be as Visible as Mountains 'T is Greatness that makes conspicuous And where Grace's Victory is little which is next to none I must not wonder if it be as little discernable Nor dare I desire God to change the Nature of things for me Rather must I Labour to grow in Grace And that it may be more Visible blow up my spark to a flame Heaven and Hell are unexpressibly different states And I must believe that God will have them to be very differently Qualified Creatures whom He placeth in the one and other My Interest carries me i' th' first place to see I have the Principle and nextly that I have Proficience in Grace Without the Principle I have no Qualification for Heaven And without the Proficience I shall ever doubt the truth of my Principle A strict Eye unto both will I have before I conclude the name to Live to be my due C. 4. Of CONVERSATION A good Spirit brings into a good Covenant And according thereto infuseth good Qualities But doth He then leave them idle and dormant No He doth not All Being is for Action And the best Nature for the best Action Besides Man is a creature that cannot be out of Action Grace only carries him to act well Corruption to act ill but his very Nature 't is to act much Man Created did exercise his Powers and exert his holy Qualities most amiably no doubt Formed his behaviour towards God the Father the Son and the Spirit towards himself and the Angels above him and sublunary Creatures below him most congruously and harmoniously Faln Man's Conversation toward all is in the World seen what in the Bible 't is read What is said of his Thoughts which are his inward Converses may be said of his outward ones also They are evil only evil and continually Toward God Regardless toward Holy Angels and Spirits above as Mindless towards himself Idolatrous towards his Superiours Envious towards Inferiors Contemptuous towards Equals Jealous Renewed Man we read and we see it hath another Carriage toward all foresaid A Walk after the Spirit That is according to the will and motion of the Holy Spirit the worker of Grace and according to the gracious Quality and Nature of his in-working Hereof is a necessity