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A86053	Refreshing drops, and scorching vials; severally distributed to their proper subjects, according to the wisdom given that precious servant of the Lord, Mr. Christopher Goad. Sometimes Fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge, and Batchelor in Divinity, as men speak: but before his translation, became a disciple and learner again, sitting at the feet of Christ and his Spirit, where he took a higher degree, and now sits with Christ in heaven.	Goad, Christopher, 1601-1652.; Sprigg, Joshua, 1618-1684.; Worsley, C.; J. N.	1653 (1653)	Wing G896; Thomason E698_12; ESTC R207013	170,841	273

and here he is in drudgery hunger and thirst have I not a father saith he I 'le go home to my Father He came to himself This is the quickning and awaking of the Spiritual Seed the new man the new creature in us that is born of God knows God and can never be at quiet as long as flesh and sin do raign It lusts against the flesh This mourning brings in power from God whereby to discharge it self from the evil that oppresses it Godly sorrow saith the Apostle works repentance unto Salvation never to be repented of In spiritual mourning there is a kind of dying of flesh and denying of flesh an owning and honouring of God The man goes out of himself I am undone He goes out to God Crying My destruction is from my self but in thee is my help I am not able to deal with these enemies with Sin Hell and Death Now help me Lord. This is the travail of the Soul with Christ until he be formed in us Spititual mourning Godly mourning it is the mourning of the Spirit in us with sighs and groans not to be expressed There is worldly mourning and there is Godly mourning There is fleshes mourning and Spirits mourning Fleshes mourning is for Affliction for trouble Take away this plague saith Pharoah The Spirits mourning is for sin I have done foolishly take away my sin saith David Fleshes mourning is sins mourning it would be delivered it would not be plagued The Spirits mourning is against sin take away the plague of the heart Spiritual mourning is to lament after the Lord. 'T is said of the children of Israel They mourned after the Lord 1 Sam. 7. towards the end of the chap. This is what the new man doth the Spiritual man the heavenly man in us the new creature when he is awakened when he is quickned which indeed is the conversion of a sinner the awakning the new man in him and this new man being the seed of God cannot endure to abide in filth in the dark but is making out making from whence it came making to his Father making unto God in mourning in a deep sense of its wretched condition in darkness in weakness in the power of lusts O miserable man who shall deliver me from this body of death I thank God through Jesus Christ Here was a mighty proof of the Corinthians delivering their own hearts and delivering this person that the Devil had much power over I had an intent to have enlarged this further but I will rather break off and may goe on at another time SERMON II. 1 COR. 5. 1 2 3 4 5. It is reported commonly c. HEre is a great and foul sin that doth veil a dear Saint a sin not named amongst the Gentiles such a sin as the Gentiles are ashamed of is found in a Congregation of Saints It is there and they do not see it nor take notice of it they are all asleep the whore hath put her cup to their mouths and they are all drunken with the world and pride Ye are puft up and have not rather mourned That is it we were upon in the morning That security and spiritual drunkenness may befall Saints The devil may get in among them in the basest practises and they not take notice of it but dream of righteousness and glory This Church were all asleep Saint Paul he awakens them he mourns and awakens them he comes to them in the spirit and sets them a mourning and so they go forth together in the power of the Lord Jesus and quit themselves and this poor deluded soul among them from the snare of the devil The Apostle before he brings them to judge this incestuous person he judges the whole Church and brings them to judge themselves and that is it that must be first we must be judged before we can sit in judgement Before we come forth in the judgement of the Lord against others we must be brought before the Tribunal of the Lord. The Apostle charges the whole Church with sin and delivers them first to Satan and then with them delivers this person from Satan He shews them that they are in the snare of the devil This is to be delivered unto Satan and this was the delivery of this incestuous person unto Satan A spiritual discovery that he was in Satans hands He was in Satans hands before but now the spirit of God came forth unto him by Paul and the Church to discover it to him and so he was delivered unto Satan and after he delivers the whole Church to Satan and after delivers them from Satan and then goes to work with them to deliver up this person to save him They were all partakers of his sin in that they were not sensible of it but were puft up He tells them what did rather become them what concerned them and that was to mourn ye have not mourned rather this is that you should be found in spiritual mourning Through spiritual mourning the power of God comes upon the Saints to discharge their own hearts and their Congregations from sin and wickedness This kinde saith Christ goes not forth but by fasting and prayer He speaks of a child possessed of the devil The Disciples could not cast him out and they ask Christ the Reason This kinde saith he goes not forth but by fasting and prayer By spiritual mourning by earnest contending with God by the power of the spirit in mourning and wrastling with God as Jacob did who had power with God we shall obtain power against sin Hos 12. He wept and he made supplication c. You will never have power against sin unless you have power over God You will never overcome the wicked one unless you first overcome God and God is overcome no way but by his own power in mourning and supplication 't is his power made out when flesh is denyed and he is owned 'T is by his own power his hands are bound Let me go saith God I will not let thee go saith Jacob until thou bless me He wept and he made supplication as you may see in that fourth of Hosea This same mourning out of which God comes forth in power against sin it is the spirits mourning the spirit in the Saints in Sighs and Groans It is the reviving and quickning of the new man that lay dead in the flesh who seeing himself thus besmeared thus imprisoned thus captivated with sin and Satan he is breaking out of it he cannot have rest in that state he sees he is not at home Whither am I carryed from my Fathers house saith the Prodigal when he came to himself It is the travel of the spiritual man as Christ expresses it Joh. 16. 20. in which the man-childe is brought forth the spirit as it was here in Paul and in the Saints which being brought forth was able to deal with Satan and with hell to send Satan to Satan and hell to hell What doth hell

not how this can be the Spirit teaches those that are born of him how it can and may be They that are born of him if they do not understand they shall understand God will reveal the same to them When God is all in all to us and we see God in all his love in all his power in all then we shall praise him in all we shall give thanks in all we shall do all we do to the Lord we shall dye to the Lord and live to the Lord Whether we live or dye we are the Lords we shall work to the Lord we shall sleep to the Lord we shall awake to the Lord Holiness will be written upon the bells of the horses upon all our imployments all will be a sacrifice of praise in all we shall give up our selves to the Lord. This is that the Apostle saith elsewhere 1 Thess 5. Rejoyce evermore pray without ceasing in all things give thanks In all things what in affliction in troubles in sufferings in reproaches why what saith the Text Let us go forth to him without the gate bearing his reproach and by him let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually Count it all joy saith James when you fall into divers temptations but what will you make of us you will say should we be stocks and stones would not you have us sensible of afflictions and temptations of burthens and reproaches that lie upon us see what the Apostle saith to this As sorrowful yet always rejoycing The spiritual man hath a sense of afflictions and reproaches and a deep sense too he sees all that is in the cup but he sees through it he sees joy surpassing all sorrow Christ he saw through the cup he saw the shame and was sensible of it but there was joy that was set before him there was that that swallowed up all that that lifted him up above all there was a cup of wine that made him forget his sorrow Give wine to him that is sad in heart When our hearts are full of sorrow God comes in with a cup of wine God sheds abroad his love in our hearts and we joy in tribulation as saith the Apostle so here is the sacrifice of praise in affliction in trouble in necessity in reproaches being persecuted we suffer patiently being defamed we bless and a spirit of glory rests upon us We see God in all we see a good hand in all God will do me good for his cursing saith David The flesh cannot praise at all no not in all peace in all abundance all its sacrifice is to its own net but the Spirit praises in the midst of tribulation Paul and Silas sing in the Prison the Apostle commends to the Collos●ians long-suffering with joyfulness and he tells the Corinthians that as afflictions do abound for Christ so consolations do abound through Christ God comes in to his people in the saddest afflictions and tells them these are yours all is yours things present and things to come life is yours death is yours afflictions are yours they are all your servants he shews us that we are Lords and Masters and Conquerors he sets us above these Christ triumphed in the Cross as the Apostle saith and here is the triumph of a Christian over necessities afflictions reproaches yea over death it self not to be delivered from death but to be set above death to be conquerours of death We are more then Conquerors through him that loved us T is a poor expectation from Christ to expect by Christ to be delivered and defended from reproach from afflictions from necessities from sufferings Christ came to call us into these to set us above these and make us more then Conquerors over these He that will be my disciple saith he let him take up his cross and follow me Let us go forth to him without the gate and by him let us offer c. T is a strange thing this to praise in afflictions to be in continual praise but this is by him When we know the fellowship of his sufferings the vertue and power of his Resurrection this will be no strange thing to us and then we shall go forth willingly without the gate we shall go to his reproach chearfully Let us by him c. There is that in every Saint that seed of God that that is born of God that same holy one that is in continual praises The noise of flesh oftentimes and for a long time drowns this voyce but it shall be heard when flesh shall be put to silence When the Lord arises into his holy habitation you that see him sometimes and feel him sometimes shall see and feel him always and you shall say with the Apostle the life was manifest we have seen it we have handled it and our eyes have looked upon it You that say you live because he lives must needs see you live for ever for he never dies and you shall never dye you have a life that shall never be taken away I am the Resurrection and the life and he that believes in me shall never dye and this life is nothing but praise nothing but thanksgiving he is all in all doth all in us and for us works all our works and so far forth as we see him doing all as we shall see him perfectly when we walk in the light as he is in the light then we shall praise him in all t is his faith his sap his vertue his life his power to him be glory when he acts us and leads us by his Spirit whither can we go from him we must needs go to him we must go to praise we must go to glory he destroys the works of the Devil in us he destroys all that goes forth to the world to the creature at last he will destroy all there shall be no going forth but to him nothing but praise t is he that delivers us from other Lords Other Lords have had rule over us c. we have been praising the creature our own wisdom our own righteousness we have been offering up to our lusts Other Lords have had dominion over us now by thee only we will make mention of thy name you that mention the Lord keep not silence God doth bring and will manifestly bring all his true born people his own begotten children in Jesus Christ I say he will bring them into continual praise Some of these it may be do not know yet what it means the world shall never know it It may be yet we know no other praise but an expression of words we shall know that praise is giving up our selves to God We do not know that we pray but only when we set our selves apart and make this Preface Come let us pray perhaps twice or thrice a day c. T is far from me to condemn any one that is in the use of these hours and forms let them be in God in the Spirit and he will be with them but

sweet here 's a sacrifice indeed be fill'd with the spirit singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord. That same Praise and fruit of the lips that hath not a root in the heart continues not but what saith the Text Let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually There is a seed in the stony ground that comes up fast There are that speak good words and goodly words Let the Lord be glorified Your brethren that hate you said let the Lord be glorified yet no continual sacrifice this fruit will be quickly blasted He that is a Lyar wants a good Memory Nothing that is violent is perpetual No worship of God continues but that which is made natural to us We may come forth and act parts but there will be discovery of what is in the bottom and though we hold forth God sometimes to others the devil will shew his head James met with such Can a fountain send forth sweet water and bitter Can a fig-tree bear figs ●nd thorns Can there be blessing and cursing Every one that pretends to Christ let them look what they have by Christ By him let us offer c. If you are sanctified by him you are made willing to go forth to him in his reproach If you are made willing to go forth to him in his reproach you will be no reproachers If you be made willing to bear the strife of tongues and filth of tongues and dirt of tongues you will keep your tongues from casting dirt or filth on any When the Grace of Christ is manifested to a soul there is a discovery of all the filth it lay in and out of which it is recovered And there is a sense of it goes along with it such a one was I foolish disobedient Now I le speak evil of no man There is nothing these times call for more in way of admonition then that which concerns the tongue Look to your tongues they are slippery members in slippery places and he is a perfect man that doth not offend in his tongue If we will judge of our selves there is as much evidence will come in by the tongue as by any thing By thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned Look how we carry our tongues If the Law of God be in our hearts there will be wisdom in our tongues Nothing will bewray us and discover us like our speech There is nothing that we need to be warned of and call'd out of more then strife of tongues If our tongues were set to love as they are to foment hatred and division we should have more peace then we have Who is it that looks upon himself as call'd to inherit a blessing Refrain thy tongue from evil saith Peter Therefore when you are reproached reproach not again when you are defamed do you bless this is the Law of God If you will profess Christ hold forth the Law of Christ and wait for this Law in the spirit of life Wait for Christ to come forth in your tongues to be the salt to season your hearts and so from your hearts to season every part of you to make your tongue the glory of God To make it your Lute and Harp to set forth his praises Look when God will restore a pure language O that God would set our hearts to learn a pure language How shall we learn a pure language Come into love come into Christ and be learning to bear evil language whisperings and backbitings and surmisings and evil reports and defamations and take up all the dirt and filth that men will throw upon you and do not thou throw any spot upon any but bless and love and overcome evil with good and heap coales of fire upon their heads This is the spirit of the Gospel And let us at last begin to live Gospel We have talked of Gospel a long while let us once see it where is it let us labour to bring it forth to be as Christ he made no noise his voice was not heard he went about doing good saving healing with humble comforting words Doing good Let us learn this let us wait for his spirit the spirit of the Gospel and that is the spirit of light The Gospell-Believers motion from Mount SINAI to Mount SION HEB. 12. 18. to the end of the chapter For ye are not come unto the Mount that might be touched and that which burned with fire nor unto blackness and darkness and tempest And the sound of a trumpet and the voice of a word which they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more But ye are come to Mount Sion and unto the City of the living God the Heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels To the general Assembly and the Church of the first-born which are written in Heaven and to God the judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect And to Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things then that of Abel See that ye refuse not him that speaketh c. THe Apostle in this Epistle shews that all Legal administrations were but a passage things that God did lead his people through and which they shall leave behind them being but shadows of good things to come and not the very image And then he shews where these things do land us whether they do deliver us up where we set foot when we are passed through them We are come unto Mount-Sion For we are not come unto the Mount that might be touched and that burned with fire nor unto blackness and darkness but ye are come to Mount-Sion c. The former administration hath brought us hither It was a School-master unto Christ Now we by the spirit do wait for the hope of righteousness by Faith In ver 12. The Apostle is calling Christians unto cheerfulness Lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees by shewing that we are not under a weak administration but under one that is strong and mighty Ye are no more servants but sons Ye are come to Mount-Sion to the City of the living God to the joy and strength of God The joy of the Lord shall be your strength therefore lift up the hands that hang down No more weakness now ye are come to a kingdom that cannot be moved So this piece of Scripture sets before us a true Gospel-state would you know a true Gospel-state what it is why here it is set down negatively and affirmatively It is not that but it is this 1. First it s set down Negatively ver 18. Ye are not come to the Mount that might be touched This is not the Gospel-state this administration is terror fear and bondage 2 Secondly it s set down affirmatively ver 28. But ye are come to Mount-Sion Not to that but to this Not to Mount-Sinai but to Mount-Sion But ye are come

when the people undertook to obey it the Lord pittied them O that there were such an heart in this people that they would obey me It was a manifestation to discover sinfulness and weakness death and the curse and so to usher in a manifestation of life and power But now ye are come to the Gospel state ye are come to Mount-Sion ye are come where God dwells ye are come into a comforting and chearing presence ye are come to the Mount that may be touched without fear or terror It may be touched There are spiritual senses as 1 Joh. 1. 1. That which we have heard which we hame seen which our hands have handled of the word of life that declare we unto you that you may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the father and with his son Jesus Christ and so it s the Mount that may be touched We are come to the City of the living God We are come where God dwells we are come to communion with God and one with another in the spirit we are come where God is in the midst of his people He hath quickned us who were dead in sins and set us down in heavenly places in the heavenly Jerusalem If we are come to the heavenly Jerusalem we are past the wilderness we are come to our rest There remaineth a rest to the people of God and that 's the heavenly Jerusalem of which the earthly Jerusalem and Canaan were but a Type This heavenly Jerusalem is the mother of us all And to an innumerable company of Angels Not onely to be administred unto by Angels as under the legal dispensation but to administer unto Angels for to them is made known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God And to the general Assembly and the Church of the first-born We are come to the General Assembly we are above particular Churches though we walk in them yet we are not bound to them nor bound in them We are come to the Church of the first-born who are written in Heaven We are come to those that are in Christ that partake of the divine nature in which God lives and acts and whom God fills who are born of the spirit who are sons and heirs together with Christ Who are written in Heaven There was a first-born written in earth in the letter in flesh Let Israel my son go for he is my first-born said God to Pharoah but this was after the flesh We are come to God the Judge of all We have boldness towards God We are above the judgement of men yea above the judgement of our own Consciences It is a very small thing to me saith the Apostle to the Corinthians to be judged by you or of mans judgement yea I judge not mine own self 1 Cor. 4. 3. We are passed from death to life and we are come to God the Judge of all we can stand before God the Iudge of all We are come to the spirits of just men made perfect We are come to see and to acknowledge the spiritual and divine nature whereof through exceeding great and precious promises we are made partakers we are come to see and to be the spiritual man the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness we are come to the holy one born of the Holy Ghost to Christ formed in us who is not tainted with any pollution who sinneth not nor can he commit sin Though he dwell among devils and death yet he partakes not of their filth and guilt but shall overcome and destroy them all And to Iesus the Mediator of the new Covenant We are come to Iesus to the truth as it is in Iesus to the power and wisdom of God which is Iesus we have the Law written in our hearts We are come to Iesus instead of Moses who is the Mediator of a better Covenant If we be Christians indeed we are not come to a Law that hath onely a sound of words written on stone but we are come to a Law written in our hearts we are come to Iesus the Mediator of the new Covenant We are come to the efficacy of his mediation And to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things then that of Abel The blood of sprinkling It is an allusion taken from those sprinklings under the Law all which pointed to this We are not come ●● corruptible blood we are come to the blood of sprinkling that is incorruptible That speaks better things c. It speaks and what doth it say It makes intercession for us it makes intercession in us and the Lord he is with us by a word of power speaking and commanding sin and death Satan and Hell out of our souls This is the Doctrine The glorious state which is the true Gospel state it is the state of every true Believer though it may be many do not know it it is a state in the spirit and it is revealed by the spirit This is the Gospel state and therefore if you profess the Gospel do not sit down below it Let us all be making to it let us not stay at Mount-Sinai but let us pass on to Mount Sion Let every one of us look whereabouts we are whether we be under a spirit of fear if we be this is Mount-Sinai or whether we be under a spirit of love of power and of a sound minde if we be this is Mount-Sion Are we in earthly or in heavenly places Take notice that there are three states 1. One is in Egypt under the bondage of sin Satan death and hell 2. Another is leading out of Egypt in the wilderness at Mount-Sinai leading up to Adams perfection to a perfection in nature but there is no resting here This is but a shadow Christ in the flesh came in this natural perfection but he dyed to it and in it and rose again to the life of God 3. A third state is the spirits of just men made perfect Here is rest and stability Here is the kingdom of God do not sit down below this for if you do you sit down at best in natural Reason in a shadow in a lye Some sit down in the filth of nature but do not ye sit down no not in the excellency and perfection of nature Look to the high calling of God in Christ Iesus unto which ye are called But I pass over from the Doctrine and come to the Vse which the Apostle makes in ver 25. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh for if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven God speaks once and twice and we hear him not God is continually speaking He speaks in every creature he speaks in every providence he speaks in every administration do you know his voice He speaks on earth and he speaks from heaven See that ye refuse not him that speaketh God speaks from

even from within from your lusts and then he discovers the pitiful condition that the power of these lusts puts them into it makes them war and fight and kill and yet they cannot be satisfied Ye lust in the second Verse and have not ye kill and desire to have yet cannot obtain ye fight and war yet ye have not because ye ask not And so here Lust puts them upon tryal of every thing to satisfie it self it will try heaven and try hell it will pray and it will fight and it will kill and gets as much by fighting and killing as by praying and as much by praying as by the other for lust shall never attain any thing by prayer Ye ask and ye receive not in the third verse because ye ask amiss to consume it upon your lusts and then he shews what these lusts are in the fourth Verse Worldliness earnest going forth after the creature we must have this and we must have that Give me children saith Rachel or else I dye Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God where he discovers what these lusts are and what this lust makes them Enemies to God Adulterers and Adulteresses pretending Religion and Friendship with God yet look to the world make after the things thereof and then he mindes them of the Scripture that discovers these evils in all mens hearts in the fifth verse Do you think that the Scripture saith in vain The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy All this rashness comes from your lusts and the Scripture hath told us that there is this evil in our hearts when he hath discovered the evil then he is giving direction what to do in the sixth verse and so on there 's the power whereby to act He gives more grace the Scripture saith The spirit lusts to envy we are all carried to envy Then to what purpose is it to endeavor any thing that is good might some say Why he gives more grace and therefore what is to be done submit your selves to God and leave lusting leave desiring put your selves into the dispose of God say Here we are do with us what thou wilt make us rich or make us poor teach us to be hungry and teach us to be full Do thou feed us with food convenient we will not be our own carvers Submit your selves to God he will be careful of us when we submit our selves to him Resist the Devil and he will flee from you The Devil is in Lust and so long as you serve lust you serve the Devil submit your selves to God and then God will be for you and you shall have power over the Devil you shall be no more captives to him Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you So long as lust preys and strives for its own satisfaction here is no comfort to you all that is the friendship of lust but draw near to God bring clean hands and pure hearts Now ye are double-eyed you look to God and you look to the world you make a fair shew to God but your hearts are set upon the creature purifie your hearts and purifie your hands this is Jame's plain dealing with his own kindred the Jews We will run over some of these particulars as the time shall give leave and as we shall conceive to be most profitable Ver. 1. Wars fightings contentions brawling quarrelling This was a piece of the evil that did work among the Jews the Jews were scattered afflicted yet so many as lived together could not live in peace All the world was against them and their own hands were against one another Their afflictions could not reconcile them one to another nor make them friends oft-times an enemy abroad makes peace at home and we then fall to quarrels and divisions among our selves when we are secured from abroad But we see outward affliction doth nothing upon a man but discover and bring forth what is within even as a Tempest at sea it discovers what is at the bottom there is mud and filth and then the sea foams it up If there be good in the heart affliction brings it up if there be evil it draws out that afflictions and troubles in carnal hearts work nothing but baseness and make discoveries of what evil is within working murmuring quarrelling in bitter spirits When we are wroth and angry then we fall one upon another and he that is weakest he shall bear most This same people of the Jews were the people of Gods curse there was but a little remnant that should be saved but a remnant that were spiritual The Apostle in 1 Thess 2. 15. thus describes them they neither pleased God and they were contrary to all men T is James his work here as it was Pauls if it were possible to save some of them and to pull them out of the fire wars and fightings quarrellings among brethren and that under strangers and enemies oppressing them and they professed servants of God and owning the royal Law of Love Thou shalt love the Lord thy God and thy neighbor as thy self this was very foul The design of God in that people choosing them and dealing with them heaping blessings upon them chastening them with afflictions instructing them from heaven his special design was besides gathering out his Elect from among them to shew the nature of man how stubborn how rebellious how incorrigible his neck like an iron sinew his brow of brass altogether irreconcileable carrying Leopards spots that will not be washed off the Blackamoors tan that will not be scour'd God he suffered them till there was no remedy as you see 2 Chro. latter end In Isa 5. he asks What he should do or what he could do more to his vineyard that he had not done His design therefore was to discover unto us what our nature is to discover that evil spirit that the Scripture says is in every man that the Scripture may not say it in vain as else it should And therefore let none of us boast against the branches as the Apostle hath it There is the same envy in us the same evil the same rebellion though it may not be altogether so discovered If there be any good in any of us it comes from God Every good and perfect gift is from above that that is truly good it comes by our being born of him by partaking of the sap and the fatness of Christ Wars and fightings Quarrellings they do not become Saints profest Saints they do not become those that own the Spirit of God The Spirit is unity The unity of the Spirit saith the Apostle Eph. 3. 3. Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit There is one Lord one Faith and this Spirit it keeps us in unity though it trains us up in different Administrations it keeps us in unity by causing us to do that is set down in Ephes 2. 4. With all lowliness meekness and long-suffering