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spirit_n	adoption_n	cry_v	father_n	9,732	5	5.0154	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86586	An exercitation concerning the nature of forgivenesse of sin. Very necessary (as the author humbly conceiveth) to a right informaion [sic], and well grounded decision of sundry controversal points in divinity now depending. Directly intended as an antidote for preventing the danger of antinomian doctrine. And consequently subservient for promoting the true faith of Christ and fear of God, in a godly righteous, and sober life. / By Thomas Hotchkis, Master of Arts of C.C.C.C. and minister of Gods word at Stanton by Highworth in the county of Wilts. To which is prefixed Mr. Richard Baxters preface.	Hotchkis, Thomas.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1654 (1654)	Wing H2891; Thomason E1518_1; Thomason E1632_1; ESTC R208563	133,342	405

safety and defence from all enemies whatsoever so long as we keep to or continue in the wayes of his service God having said Who is he that will harm you if ye be followers of that which is good 1 Pet. 3.13 This I say is that fear our deliverance from which is the scope or one part of our redemption by Jesus Christ but Christ did not intend to deliver his Saints in this life from the latter kind of fear they being so long as they live on earth to fear hell and damnation upon supposition of their not continuing in his service as was afore said and proved As Saint Paul sayes to the believing Romans with respect to the power wrath and vengeance of Gods Vicegerent the Magistrate so may I say unto the best among the Saints on earth with respect to the power wrath and vengeance of God himselfe Wilt thou not be afraid do that which is good for in so doing thou hast cause to serve God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 boldly and without fear but If thou dost evil bee afraid Rom. 13.3 4. Briefly Albeit Believers serving God or in their service of God they are to serve him without fear yet they are to fear if they do not serve him or not persist in his service Object 8. Ye have not received the Spirit of bondage to fear again but ye have received the Spirit of Adoption whereby we cry Abba Father Rom. 8.15 Answ I have already said that the fear of hell as that which a man is actually obliged to suffer upon the consideration of his present estate and condition is the effect of the spirit of bondage and that indeed which subjects a man unto bondage But as for that fear of hell which is only upon supposition of a Saints Apostasie 1. It is in no sort contrary unto but it is altogether consistent with the spirit of Adoption For 1. The adopted children of God are commanded in such sort to fear hell as was before proved 2. This kind of fear poth not in any sort hinder the Saints from crying Abba Father The whole family of the Saints on earth notwithstanding this their fear can cal God their Father no lesse then the family of the Saints in heaven 2 This is more especially to be observed for the satisfaction and right information of those who because they are exercised with doubts and fears and do want assurance of their salvation are apt to conclude from thence but unwarrantably that they have not the Spirit of Adoption 2. This fear is not only consistent with the Spirit of Adoption but it is moreover from the Spirit of Adoption for the Spirit of God which is in them the Spirit of Adoption doth dictate to them and doth dictate in them this very fear And when I say that this fear is not only with the Spirit but also from the Spirit of Adoption I would have it the rather to be observed for this reason viz. Because there may be and sometimes actually there is a fear with the Spirit of Adoption that is not from the said Spirit of Adoption E.G. Gods Adopted ones for want of Assurance and through a mis-apprehension of their state and condition to God ward may possibly and oft-times do actually fear hell and damnation even with that kind of fear which we commonly stile legal or slavish i.e. they fear hell as that which they think they are actually obliged to suffer but this fear in them is not from the Spirit of Adoption by vertue of which they should cast off or cast away that fear it being for the slaves of Satan and not for the sons and daughters of the living God to fear hell in such sort Having been so large in proving and cleering this Confectary I shall be briefer in the next I shall conclude this Confectary with the saying of Bernard as I have seen him quoted who writing to one whom he thought not to be sufficiently solicitous about the Judgments of God in steed of wishing him according to the usual form of salutation Salutem plurimam much health said Timorem plurimum much fear So shall I wish to all the Saints and servants of God not only much joy but also as in the sense before explicated much fear And if any one shall object against me That I do not as becomes a Gospel Minister endeavour to help forward the joy of the Saints I have these two things to answer 1. I do conceive That the great work of a Minister and the grand bent of his preaching and that which he should chiefly and directly have an eye upon in all his preaching ought to be the future and eternal safety of people rather then their present ravishments and comforts in the way 2. Whatsoever I have written in this or in any other part of this Exercitation doth most directly tend unto and make for the safety of the Saints and if for their safety then consequently and necessarily for their comfort both in this world and in the world to come Yea I am perswaded that no Doctrine is indeed and in a Scripture sense comfortable Doctrine but that which doth of its own nature minister to the safety of the Saints and to their preservation in the state of grace And if I be not herein mistaken I would to God that people would make use of that saying whereby to judg what manner of Preachers are the most comfortable Preachers and what Doctrines are the most comfortable Doctrines CHAP. XXVII That a Minister of the Gospel hath no warrant so to absolve a Believer as in the name of God to tell him That his sins are as absolutely pardoned and that he is as absolutely sure of heaven as if he were already in heaven CONSECT XX. 20. IT followes That a Minister hath no warrant to tell a Believer how that he may assure himself for his comfort that his sins are as absolutely pardoned and that he shall as absolutely be saved as if he were already in the bosom of Abraham and actually translated with Enoch and Elias The obligation of a sinner as to eternal condemnation being taken off not absolutely but conditionally for what is to come or as to the actual enjoyment of what mercy is to come for what dismission soever God doth vouchsafe to a sinner in this life we must suppose the sinner to be dismissed of God no otherwise then with such an Item or admonition which Christ giveth to the restored Cripple Sin no more lest the same thing or a worse thing come unto thee John 5.14 My meaning in this Confectary is plainly this as I have before expressed it and which I desire to be remembred viz. That though the obligation of a sinner to eternal condemnation be actually taken off so soon as he is converted neverthelesse the continuance of that mercy is not absolute but conditional God not having intended and Christ not having intended and Christ not having purchased full and final pardon