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The marriners card and compass. Or The best way to attain heaven amidst a sinfull and crooked generation. By William Harvey, minister of the Word
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Harvey, William, fl. 1657-1705.
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capiunt volucres In cap. 9. Eccl. St. Hierom thus discribs the heretiques Their affable speeches fair tongue are a gin and snare wherewith they catch the poor birds and fishes But of these the people of God are admonished to take heed Beware of false prophets saith our Saviour himself Matth. 7.15 And in another place Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadduces chapt 16.6 and that 24.25 and 26. vers read the words And the disciple follows his Master Beloved believe not every Spirit but try the Spirits whether they are of God and he giveth the reason because many false prophets are gone out into the world 1 Epistle of John 4. chapt v. 1. Thus should every Christian do if they would not be seduced Should a Goldsmith hand over head take all moneys without trying I believe he would receive much adulterated coine To prevent which he brings all to the touchstone If Solomon had not been wise he could never known the true Mother for the harlots were both aâ— their pro and con Heresis Aocta est mentiri non tantum lingua sed vita si fidem imerroges whil bristtanius si conversactonem nihil irreprehensibilius Bernd and in one tale 1. Kin. 3.23 c. Wherefore the best way to find out the false play of these juglers is to bring them to the touchstone of Gods word For all is not gold that glisters The property of Heresie is to lye not in tongue onely but in Life If thou questions his faith not better Christian if his Conversation none more irreprehensible saith Benard And Ireneus of false prophets goes on thus They speak to us the same things Similia nobiscum loquuntur dissimilta vero sentiunt lib. 1. epist 59. but think the contrary And truly had we not recourse to the sacred springs of holy Writ the whole world would go after them You know who said it My sheep hear my voice and again The sheep follow him for they know his voice And a stranger will they not follow but will flee from him For they know not the voice of strangers John 10.4.5 It was a voice from heaven which said hear him Matthew 5.16 And he that came from Heaven the Son of man who is in Heaven said of those hypocrites Mittite eos Let them alone they be blind leaders of the blind c. Matth. 15. â—4 In the next place If Christ be the truth then by consequent his word is truth and we ought to subscribe to it without dispute Ipse dixit was sufficient a Scholar of Pythagoras If their Master once said it it carried as much weight with it as delivered from an Oracle Me thinks the word of God should be of more credit with us If that once speakes we should presently lay our hands upon our mounths and by silence express our consent I am with you unto the end of the world that is by his Spirit Grace word c. Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God John 3.5 There are three that bear record in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one 1 John 5.7 and verse the 20. St. John speaking of our Saviour saith This is the true God and Eternal life And according to St. Paul God blessed for ever Rom. 9.5 These and whatsover we find recorded in the word we must believe without Cavelling seem they never so contrary to naturall reason This condemns the foul Heresie of the Photinians who deny the Divinity and Godhead of Christ upon this account onely because their blind reasons cannot comprehend it as if our faith were pinn'd upon reasons sleeve I have read of one who was in his dumps and deep contemplation to define fully what God was and this he would do forsooth by Phylosophy and reason In this his brown study by the sea-side he seeth a Child go often to the sea and bringing from thence water in a shell and then to put it in a little hole which was hard by The Philosopher asked the Child why he did so The Child replyed because I will bring all the Sea and put it into this hole That is impossible said the other again So it is as impossible saith the Child again for thee by reason to define what God is Worthy is that of Cassianus Doest thou ask me a reason of the Word I do not tell thee God hath said it his word is all the reason The person of him alone that speakes it is sufficient for my belief What need I enquire how that is true that God hath spoken when I must not doubt because it is true because God hath spoken it If this course were taken it would not only prevent blasphemy and mistakes of Scripture but be a great obstruction to sin and wickedness Did our Anapabtist but steer this way they would not cavill so much at the Baptisme of Infants What though their baptisme be not positive or demonstrative yet it is deductive deduced from Scripture as plain as a mans nose on his face Will they play the thieves and rob a poor Child of the Sacrament upon this fond cavill What good doth it doe them And they have no faith which is more then they can prove for they have Sacamentall faith and the Seed of faith And further they urge that Children are not capable of teaching and so ought not to be baptized As if that text had relation to the adulted Men and Women of ripe years and not to Children They make themselves simple Logitians for they understand not a distinction If they ask what good it doth them Aqua corpus absoluitur Spiritu animae delicta mundantur Saint Ambrose will tell them The body is cleansed by the Element Water the spots sins of the Soul by the Spirit I will end this with that of Crysost meaning Tertullians works Da mihi Magistrum da mihi Magistrum Give me my Master give me my Master So say I and so let us all say of the word of God da nobis Magistrum c. Give us our Master give us our Master Thus Christ is the truth Thirdly as he is the way and the truth so he is the life and that in three respects Creando Conservando Regenerando Sanctificando Resuscitando Glorificando By Creating and Conserving us By Regenerating and Sanctifying us By Raising again and Glorifying us First he is said to be the Life not so much in relation to his essence in which respect he is life eternall 1 John 5.20 but in relation to us in that he hath creared us and kept us ever since by the hand of providence So David Psalm 100.3 Know ye that the Lord he is God it is he that hath made us and not we our selves we are his people and the sheep of his pasture And the Apostle In him we live move and have
our being Acts 17.28 Secondly he is life and that especially by Regenerating and by Conserving us because by the Sacraments and words he workes and as I may so speak begets in us a Spirituall life According to that of S. John Jesus answered verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdome of God and so forward John 35. And in the 6. chap. and 33. v. c. For the Bread of God is he which cometh down from Heaven c. And John 10.10 I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly St. Paul hath this expression to the Galathians I am Crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me Gal. 2.20 And in his Epistle to the Romans he saith How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death Rom. 6.2 and v. 4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptisme into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the Glory of the Father even so we also should walk in newness of life Read Rom. 8.12 13. Thirdly and Lastly Christ is the life Resuscitando Glorificando by raising us again and by glorifying us This is the will of him that sent me that every one which seeth the Son and believeth on him may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day John 6.40 And again I am the Resurrection and the Life he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never dye John 11.25.26 St. Paul saith whom he justifyed them he also glorifyed Rom. 8.30 And which is more Who shall change our vile bodie that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body c. Philipians 3.21 The fruit which we may gather from hence is this If Christ be the life we should seek it in and through him only without whom we shall never obtain it And we should not so much mind this present life which we have in common with beasts reprobates and as Eurip. saith Non vita sed calamitas est It is not a life in comparison but a calamity and differs nothing from death if we believe the Phylosopher a life that is as brittle as Glass frail and Momentany Vt hora sic vita It is a life which passeth away as an hour upon the Diall insensibly But mind we that spirituall life of regeneration and sanctification which is the life properly and by which we live to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. A life wherein sin doth not reign in our mortall body that we should obey it in the lusts thereof neither yield we our members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin Rom. 6.12 13. When the Emperour Nero had finished his house which he called Domum Aureum the golden house he said now I begin to live like a man But this is most true we never begin to live like Christian men till we live the life of Regeneration and Sanctification And now if Christ be our life death will be to us advantage As St. Paul hath it When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in glory Coloss 3.4 And that true and eternall life which we here possess by faith and hope We shall at length have the full fruition of it in Heaven That of the Apostle is worthy of all acceptation For whether we live we live unto the Lord and whether we dy we dy unto the Lord whether we live therefore of dy we are the Lords Rom. 14.8 Who is he then that will not from his heart breath forth and say O my Lord Jesus Christ thou art truly the way because no man cometh unto the Father nisi per te but by thee thou art the truth because no man knoweth the Father nisi per te but by the Thou art the life because no man liveth nisi per te but by thee Be thou to me the way by which I may come to thee and the Father Be thou to me the truth by which I may know thee and the Father be thou to me the life by which I may here live in thee by faith in believing and there in heaven by fruition Let this ever sound fresh in our ears Ambularevis ego sum via fallinonvis ego sum veritas Morinoâ— vis Ego sum vita Hoc dicit salvator tuus non est quo eas nisi ad me non est quo cas nisi per me Aug. Tract 22 Johannum Wilt thou walk I am the way Wilt thou not be deceived I am the truth Wouldst thou not dye I am the life This thy Saviour saith thou hast not where to go unless unto me nor how to go but by me Secondly if Christ be the life then it follows there is a resurection of the body at the last day From this flower may the Bee suck honey the Spider poyson Now in the first place may the people of God with the Eunuch depart home rejoycing with much harmony in their Souls Cura thymo pleno their thighs are now laden with sweetness O the rare contentment of a child of God in the privation and want of all external comforts With Jacob he may well truly say few and evill have the dayes of my life been As for this world he doth but breath in it that is all Yet prithy erect thy self banish thy sad thoughts no violence is perpetuall a storm lasts not alwayes The poor Ship that 's long tossed too and fro with a tempest gaines the wished Port at last The Ark that was hurried on the flood hath a Dove with an Olive branch in her mouth to imitate the falling of the waters Haec non durabunt aetatem as that learned Bishop Jewell said of the Marian persecution These things will not last an age Chear up sweat heart Gods rod is but a love kiss and our afflictions are but tokens of his indulgency Look back to former Ages and the Church is often in a cloud her throws like a woman in Travell have been thick and painfull Sicut unda sequitur undam and have followed as one wave upon the neck of another Yet mark the result of all her end is peace at the last Wait then with patience and thou shalt see the salvation of God who ever trusted in him and was confounded Behold a most ample compensation For thy light afflictions thou shalt have an exceeding an eternall weight of glory in another World Forget not the Text I am the life c. A day therefore will come when thy sorrows will have an end and breath out their