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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64004	The art of salvation preached first at Saint Maries in Oxford, and now published by Thomas Tvvittee ...	Twittee, Thomas, b. 1596.	1643 (1643)	Wing T3426; ESTC R32884	17,921	26

who not onely restores the sight of the body but also imparts unto him that true inward illumination of the spirit and of a persecuting Rabbi doth baptize him into a professing Christian Saint Austen reports of himselfe in the 8. of his confessions and the 12. that by a voyce from heaven Tolle lege Tolle lege Take up and read Take up and read he was directed to that place in the 13. to the Romans and the last Not in chambering and wantonnesse not in rioting and drunkennesse not in strife and envying but put ye on the Lord Iesus Christ and make noe provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof and so he became a most illuminate Doctor of a most effeminate Youngster Justin Martyr witnesseth in his Apologie to Antoninus that when he saw the patient suffering of the innocent Christians how they rejoyced to bleed nay to dye for the Testimony of the Gospell it occasioned in him a change of Religion whence we had the opproved truth of that seeming Paradox Sanguis Martyrum semen Ecclesiae the bloud of the Martyrs was the seminary of the Church Euschins in the 4 of his Ecclesiasticall story at the 8. maketh mention of a certaine Courtier called Eustatius in the time of Trajane the Emperour who as he was hunting saw a Hart with a Red Crosse in his forehead and this engraven in Letters of Gold Quid me persequeris why doest thou persecute mee and so refusing to accompany the Emperour in his Idolatrous sacrifice to Iupiter immediately received the blessed Crowne of Martyrdome So that I say though the Word be now the ordinary means of mans conversion yet hath the Lord had divers sundry wayes in reclaiming men from Atheisme Idolatry and Superstition and directing them into the knowledge and use of the meanes some by dreames some by apparitions some by miracles some one way and some another some doe snatch the Kingdome of heaven as those whom our Saviour mentioneth Math 8. Regnum Coelorum c. The Kingdome of heaven suffereth violence c. and some againe are compelled by externall violence as those extravagant Loyterers Cogite intrare Compell them to come in Luke 14. some doe willingly imbrace the word of faith and some againe are brought even to despaire before they rellish the doctrine of happinesse and by the gates of hell come to the knowledge of the wayes to heaven as this perplexed Jaylour who but now with drawne sword was spilling his body but here with bended knees enquires how to save his soul Sirs What must I doe c. Observe we hence our first position which is this that perplexity of Conscience inward terrours yea almost dispairing feares are great and forcible means to drive men to God and make them solicitous of Salvation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ye have not received the spirit of bondage to feare any more but ye have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father Rom. 8.16 Where I note three acts or rather indeed three degres of operation of the spirit of God First it is a spirit of Bondage Secondly a spirit of adoption Thirdly a spirit of intercession teaching us to make request to God and to cry in the true language of Canaan Abba Father But first it is a spirit of feare and bondage working in us perplexed doubtings terrours of conscience yea almost dispairing feares before it give any comfort or assurance St. Chrisostome upon the 114 Psalm expresseth this truth by this familiar comparison as Mothers do use to fright their unruly children with Vizzards and Bugbears to make them fly to their lapp not willing to hurt the Infants but to make them sit the closer to them so God being a true lover of us desiring to joyn us fast to himselfe doth oft times permit us to be brought to such necessity and finding us playing so neare the pits brinke so neare the hole of the serpent he takes us as it were by the heels shewes us the very mouth of Hell makes us beleive that he will plunge us therein that so we may take heede how we wander and indeavour not only to approach and draw neare but constantly to adhere unto him as the Psalmist hath it hereupon the Fathers compare this servile feare to the ●eedle and true filiall feare to the thread as the needle makes way and passage for the thread so is this terrifying and perplexing feare the way to a filiall affiance and therefore what the Psalmist concludes of outward disgrace is true of inward distresse Imple facies corum ignominiâ quaerent nomen tuum Psalm 83. Make their faces ashamed and they will seeke thy name so say I. Fill their mindes with piercing and almost despairing perplexities open the mouth of the sleepie Conscience and awake the soule from her sinfull lethargie with one touch of this thy terrifying needle and then the effect will be Quaerent nomen tuum They will seeke thy name That distresse should open a doore to devotion is a conclusion both harsh and strange to repyning flesh and blood which ever desires to be at ease and in jollitie and to trace vias dealbatiores saeculi the milkie pathes of pleasures and preferments as St. Austin saith but unto the Christian it is a principle of sound truth who can acknowledge with Kingly David Bonum mihi quod humiliatus sum It is good for me that I have beene afflicted and before I was troubled I went astray but now I kept thy words Psal 119. It were easie to expatiate in a point so pregnant but I affect not prolixitie only an instance or two and then the arguments that serve for further confirmation And if you reflect but on the Text you shall se it apparent in this particular he that before was obdurate and settled upon the Lees of the Roman superstition whose heart or eares the Doctrine of the Gospell could not pierce but rejected it as a thing altogether unlawfull he being thus amazed and perplexed becomes truly compassionate unto the persecuted Apostles pious and solicitous of his owne Salvation hence judicious Calvin noteth hic apparet quam vtile sit hominibus dejici ut se Deo subjicere discant hence it appeares how profitable it is for men sometimes to be dejected and distressed that they may learne how to seeke unto God and also to be subject unto him and in the 7 to the Rom vers 24. We have an instance hereof in this our Apostle who being terrifyed with the sence and guilt of inseperable corruptions and amazed at the apparent impossibility of fulfilling the Law or doing the least good breakes out into this dolefull exclamation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death but hereby he cometh to lay hold on Christ for so it follows in the next words I thanke God by Jesus Christ our Lord and we our selves have knowne many by daily experience who in their