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A16506	The true vvay of a Christian, to the nevv Ierusalem Or, a three-folde demonstration: first, of the excellencie of the true and sauing knowledge of Christ; and the meanes to attaine it: with the antiquitie, necesitie, and benefit of catechisme. Secondly, of our vnion and communion with Christ, and his Church. Thirdly, of our new creation in Christ, by the blessed Spirit. With diuers questions, and cases of conscience, most comfortable for a Christian. Deliuered first in briefe, in a sermon preached at Paules-Crosse, the first Sunday in the new yeere, 1617. And newly reuised and enlarged by Immanuel Bourne ...	Bourne, Immanuel, 1590-1672.	1622 (1622)	STC 3419; ESTC S106545	102,817	130

when it shall please God to call them either at the first or third or ninth or eleuenth houre either in their youth or middle age or olde age and to send them into his vineyard Matth. 20. Math. 20.1 2 3. A comfort to those who finde but the beginnings of this grace in them it is the gift of God a signe of their Election and God will in time perfect it for the gifs and calling of God are without repentance Rom. 11.29 Phil. 1.6 And He that hath begun a good worke will perfect it in his children saith the blessed Apostle Yea whom God loueth he loueth to the end as Christ himselfe witnesseth Ioh. 13.1 So that our regeneration being the worke of God the Father in Christ by the holy Spirit as he hath begun so at the last he will wholly conforme vs to the image of Christ in whom wee haue obtained an inheritance being predestinated according to the good purpose of him who worketh all things after the Counsell of his owne will Ephes 1.11 If any man be in Christ or those that are in Christ they are or shall be wholly new creatures Ques t. 2 But secondly what is this new creation of the elect or what is it to be a new creature Answere What is our new creation Ioel 2.12 Our new creation is a new resurrection for as Christ after his death did rise againe vnto a new life so a Christian being buried with Christ in Baptisme being washed from his sinnes by the blood of Christ being watered with the teares of a true and vnfeined repentance doth rise againe to newnesse of life and this is our new creation For as the death of Christ was an image of our spirituall death vnto sinne so was his resurrection a type of our spirituall rising againe to newnesse of life Thus S. Augustine in his Enchiridion S. August Enchiridion cap. 53. Whatsoeuer is done in the crosse of Christ in the buriall of Christ in his ascension in his session at the right of his Father it was so done that in these things there might be signified the life of a Christian which is acted vpon the earth To manifest this further S. August de Tempore the same Father obserues a three-fold Natiuitie The first of Adam when he was created of the dust of the earth the second of Eue when she was made of the ribbe of Adam the third of Christ when he was borne of the blessed Virgin all different one from the other And to these I may adde a fourth kinde which is as much different as the rest and this is the spirituall new birth both of soule and body of which our Sauiour speaketh Iohn 3.7 Maruaile not that I said ye must be borne againe in your first birth you were polluted by sinne in your second therefore you must be purified by grace your first birth was of the flesh in which you were dead in sinne your second birth must be of the spirit in which you are made aliue vnto God through Iesus Christ our Lord. And Except ye be borne of water and the Spirit ye cannot enter into the kingdome of heauen Ioh. 3.5 Our new creation then is a certaine spirituall change or new birth of our vnderstandings of our wils of our affections and of all our actions for in this our vnderstandings are inlightened our wils are rectified our affections sanctified and all our actions directed to the will and command of God The whole man is regenerated not his soule alone nor his body alone but both soule and body together For all was polluted by sinne in Adam and all must be renued by grace in Christ Create in mee a cleane heart Eph. 4.23 A totall regeneration required in vs. Psal 52.23 Rom. 2.24 Psal 39.1 Iam. 3.10 Ma●th 5.34 Psal 59 7 8. Luk. 9.5 Iam. 1.18 19. Iam. 1.22 2. Pet. 2.14 Psal 119.37 Matth. 5.28 Iob 31.1 Ioshua 7.25 Eph. 4.28 Prou. 6.17 Deut. 27.26 Prou. 6.18 Psal 1.1 Psal 119.32 Math. 15 19. Tit●s 2.12 Iam. 1 15. O God and renue a right spirit saith Dauid Psal 51.10 And be renued in the spirit of your minde saith the Apostle Heart and minde body and spirit all must be new created if we be in Christ This perfect regeneration then is to be laboured for we must be changed outwardly in our tongues that they speake not wickedly by blasphemie towards God nor euill towards our neighbour In our eares that they be not hardened to good and delighted with euill but swift to heare the word of truth to practise it that the life of grace may be preserued in vs In our eyes that they be not full of adulterie and to preuent this that they behold not vanitie to lust after it wee should make a couenant with our eyes as Iob did least they bring vs to miserie like Achan and his family In our Hands that they steale not that they shed not innocent blood that they worke no iniquitie least the reward of wickednesse light vpon vs. In our Feete that they make not haste to euill that they walke not in the way of the wicked but be ready to runne the waies of Gods commandements We must be changed inwardly in our hearts least impietie slow from them yea in our affections and desires least lust when it is conceiued bring forth sinne and sinne when it is finished bringeth forth death This is the change that is required and that not in part but totall As the essentiall parts of man must bee changed his soule and body so his integrall parts his seuerall members not part of them the eye alone nor the hand alone nor the foote alone but altogether euery one in particular And so not some part of the heart but the whole heart all the affections all the desires of the soule Prou. 23.26 My sonne giue me thy heart For turne vnto me with all thy heart is the Plat-forme of this new creation giuen by the Prophet Ioel 2.1.12 This should all labour for and that in perfection that they may bee truly conformed to the image of Christ To be content with halfe newnes is worthy reproofe Heb. 3.12 And yet some yea too many there are who liue in the Church and thinke themselues to be in Christ and yet harbour in them an euill heart to depart away from the liuing God imagining that God requireth not this perfection this totall regeneration to be in them they thinke if their hands bee pure their feete may lawfully be defiled with sinne But if Christ wash not their feete also Ioh. 13.8 they shall haue no part in him if they striue not for this totall new birth they cannot enter into the kingdome of heauen They will be contented with wicked Saul and the disobedient Israelites to performe part of Gods commandements so they may let part of them alone this totall obedience they cannot endure They can bee contented to destroy the common people of

let his constancy confirme thy zeale in constancy vnto the end Thus shalt thou shew thy selfe to bee a Christian and rightly enioy the Name of Christ And thus hauing pricked the Vine who is Christ and sucked out some iuyce to cleare the eyes of our vnderstandings and refresh our spirits Let vs now come to presse the grapes that from them we may receiue a draught of sweet comfort to strengthen vs in our pilgrimage through the wildernesse of this world to the Canaan of heauen These grapes are the fruite of the Vine to be found in our new Creation Jf any man be in Christ he is a new creature This is a great mystery and therefore to speake of this my request vnto you shal be that 3. Branch S. Bern. serm 36. ●n Cant. which S. Bernard sometime made to his Auditors Juuate me orationibus vestris vt semper possim loqui quae oportet opere implere quae loquor Helpe me with your prayers that I may be able to speake those things which I ought and to practise that which I speake Thus I speaking you vnderstandding and both of vs practising Beza Annotat in 2 Cor. 5. Aquinas in ●phes cap 4.23 Aquinas in in 2 Cor. 5. Regen●ration a new Creation wee shall receiue the Crowne of glory in the end In the Originall it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A new Creation that is as it were a thing newly Created of God as Beza soundly For we are re-created in our new Creation that we might be righteous as Aquinas So that our regeneration or renouation in Christ is a new Creation For Creation is a motion ex nihilo ad esse from nothing vnto something from no being vnto a being And there is a two-fold being the first of nature the second of grace the first was in the first Creation when the Creatures were produc●d by God of nothing in esse naturae into the being of nature and then the creature was new but since it became old by sinne And therfore it was needfull that there should be a new Creation in esse gratiae into the being of grace And this was creatio ex nihilo a creation of nothing also for those that are depriued of grace are nothing and those who are polluted with sinne are as nothing Sinne doth so obliterate and blot out the image of God in them August Peccatum nihil est nihil fiunt homines cum peccant Bellar. in Psal 51.10 2 No newnesse to man but in and by Christ that it makes them of no abilitie to doe good of no account in the eyes of God for sinne is nothing and men when they sinne are made as nothing yea worse then nothing as S. Augustine speakes If then man be as nothing by sinne If as Bellarmine against himselfe confesseth when God was to new make man and the heart of man he could find nothing in man of which he might make him new but was as it were constrained Creare to Create that is ex nihilo aliquid facere to make something of nothing from which saith Bellarmine it is euident that man cannot merit being iustified freely by grace If I say this be the state of man before he be new created Tollet in Iohan 15. Then how can that Pelagian or semi-Pelagian Doctrine be iustified the one affirming that although the grace of Christ was necessary that we might doe good more easily yet it was not simply needfull but that the free will of man was able of it selfe to doe workes acceptable to God B●za Annot. in Text. Augustin The other teaching that we are assisted onely by the first grace to rise from sinne whereas not onely the faculty of willing but also the volition or willing it selfe is this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this new Creation since they are both old by sinne and both made new by God in Christ Jt is God that worketh in vs both the will and the deed Philip. 2.13 Yea both in the faculty and act of willing we are dead by nature and in both we are made aliue by grace We were dead in trespasses and in sinnes Ephes 2.5 And our Sauiour did not say without me can ye not doe any thing easily or ye can do no great worke but simply Without me can ye do neither small nor great neither easie nor difficult No manner of way are you able of your selues to doe any good worke acceptable to God Without me can yee doe nothing saith Christ Iohn 15.5 Augustin lib. 1. de gratia Christi contra Celestin Pellag cap. 29. August lib. 2. contra 2. Epist Pelagianas caep 9. And thus S. Augustine applyeth that place And the same Father in his second Booke against the two Epistles of Pelagius Bonum propositum quidem adiuuat subsequens gratia sed nec ipsum esset nisi praecederet gratia True it is saith he that the subsequent grace of Christ doth helpe our good purpose or desire to doe good but neither would this good purpuse be except there went a precedent grace before There is a preuenting Grace and an assisting Grace and qui praeuenit nolentem vt velit August in Luc 24. subsequitur volentem ne frustra velit Hee that preuenteth the vnwilling with his grace that hee might will assisteth him also with his grace that he might not will in vaine August de gratia lib●ro arbitrio c. 2. And therefore he concludeth in his booke of Grace and Free will True it is that our will is required to doe good but we haue not that will of our owne strength but God worketh in vs both the will and the deed according to the Apostle Philip. 2 13. And the same Father againe The will of the regenerate is kindled and stirred vp by the blessed Spirit August de corrupti●ne g●atia That therefore they are able to do good because they will and desire and therefore they so will because God worketh in them that they might will So that as a Lanthorne cannot giue light of it selfe except it haue a Candle lighted therein or as the branches cannot beare fruit except they abide in the Vine and the life of the Vine abide in them No more can we doe good except Ch●ist dw●ll in vs by his Spirit giuing life and light vnto vs and wee dwell in Christ by Faith If any man bee in Christ hee is a new Creatures Againe man in his state of nature being brought as it were to nothing and worse then nothing by sinne Hence it is euident that our second Creation was a greater worke then our first 2. Our second Creation a greater worke then our first For in our first Creation there was nothing to hinder the worke of God Dixit facti sumus God did but speake the word and wee were created but in our second Creation Ponitur obex there is a resisting peruersnesse in our will striuing to hinder the worke

and counsell that he may apply somewhat vnto thee to cure thy disease so must thou doe in this sicknesse of thy soule Thou must flye to the Minister of God whom he hath appointed for thy helpe herein The Priests lippes must preserue knowledge Malac. 2.7 and thou must seeke the Law at his mouth To him thou must open the wounds of thy soule Iam. 5.16 the causes and occasions of thy feare whether they be thy sinnes if any trouble thy conscience or thy temptations to sinne thy weakenesse of faith and holinesse or the like that hee vpon sight of thy estate and arguments of thy faith and repentance though they be weake may apply the promises of mercy the refreshing oyle of the Gospel vnto thy soule Thou must confesse thy sinnes and weaknesse as that reuerend Diuine Mr. Perkins Perkins Cases of Conscience lib. 1. cap. 1. sect 1. well obserueth that the Minister of God may pronounce the sentence of absolution of thy free remission and reconciliation with God in Christ vnto thee that hence thy hope and confidence in God may be confirmed which he may truly doe if by thy confession he finde in thee the grounds and signes of faith and repentance of which thou mayest finde many signes in this Treatise and no doubt but some in thy selfe if thou be called brought to repentance and faith in Christ I will here put you in minde A most comfortable ground of assurance that our sinnes are pardoned in Christ but of one ground of comfort for many And this is that A desire to repent and beleeue in a touched heart and conscience is faith and repentance it selfe though not in nature yet in Gods acceptation by Christ This is euident in Scripture First because If there be a willing minde it is accepted not according to that a man hath not but according to that he hath 2. Corinthians 8. verse 12. Againe God doth not onely call all that thirst and desire to the waters of life and offers them freely Esay 55. verse 1.2 but if they doe but desire and thirst for it he promiseth to giue it them freely Reuel 21.6 Reu. 22.17 And he will be as good as his word to thee thou shalt be sure to receiue and taste of these waters of comfort if thou wilt pray for it and desire it and expect with patience and tarry the Lords leisure for it Thou art blessed in the desire of it Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousnesse for first or last they shall be satisfied Matth. 5.6 and then blessed shalt thou be in the happie possession of it A bruised reede will he not breake and smoaking flaxe will he not quench that is the least sparkes of grace but kindle them to thy comfort Matth. 12.20 The Lord saith Dauid heareth the desires of the poore the poore in Spirit especially who are blessed though they be poore in their owne eyes seeing but little or no faith or holinesse in themselues yet they are rich in Christ in whom God accepteth them for theirs is the kingdome of heauen Matth. 5 3. If thou confessest that thou hast but this desire in thee as thou thy selfe mayest apply to thy selfe with the help of thine own co●science spirituall vnderstanding so may the minister also boldly and certainly apply the promises of grace and mercy to thy soule M. Perkins Cases of Conscience lib. 1. cap. 7. sect 5. And that with this or the like argument He that hath an vnfained desire to repent and b●leeue in Christ hath remission of sinnes and life euerlasting But thou hast an earnest desire to repent and beleeue in Christ as thy owne conscience cannot choose but tell thee and as thou confessest vnto him and therefore as thou mayest apply and conclude so if thou canst not he may certainly conclude to thee and for thee That remission of sinnes and life euerlasting belongs to thee and therefore he may assuredly and boldly for to procure thy peace the better pronounce vnto thee that excellent sentence of Absolution The Booke of Common Prayer in the visitation of the sicke appointed by our Church for the comfort of sicke and distressed soules Our Lord Iesus Christ who hath left power to his Church to absolue all sinners which truly repent and beleeue in him of his great mercy forgiue thee thine offences And by his authoritie committed to me I absolue thee from all thy sinnes in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost Amen And if thou be as thou oughtest to be perswaded of the power of this absolution thou mayest after this possesse thy soule in peace with assurance that thou art iustified freely in Christ and labouring to increase in holinesse thou needest not doubt of happinesse in the end For this is one end why Christ hath giuen that power of binding and loosing vnto his Ministers those keyes of the kingdome of heauen That whatsoeuer they doe binde on earth Math. 16.19 should be bound in heauen and whatsoeuer they should loose on earth should be loosed in heauen And withall gaue them the holy Ghost to direct and guide them Receiue yee the holy Ghost saith Christ whose soeuer sinnes yee remit they are remitted vnto them and whose soeuer sinnes yee retaine they are retained Ioh. 20. verse 22 23. And this power though it be not absolute but ministeriall Christ absoluing by his ministers yet as no water could cure Naamans leprosie but the waters of Iordan 2. King 5. because God had giuen a speciall gift vnto them So the same words of absolution being pronounced by any other cannot haue that power to worke on the conscience or to perswade to peace as when they are pronounced by him that hath this ministeriall office because the promise only is giuen to Gods Ministers who are sent forth to this end Ioh. 20.12.13 And being pronounced by them in this forme and manner Christ doth as certainly loose thee from the bonds of thy sinnes by his Ministers as he did loose Lazarus by his disciples from the bonds with which he was tyed when he had raised him to life Iohn 11.44 Be at peace therfore quiet thy conscience with diuine Answ 3 Hope and confidence in Christ and the God of peace shall be with thee 2. Cor. 13.11 And yet further thirdly for thy decay in grace Quench not the spirit saith the Apostle to the Christian Thessalonians Against decay in grace 1. Thes 5.19 in whom no doubt the grace of Gods Spirit was in good measure The Spirit therefore may bee quenched and Gods dearest children may lose grace for a time though not finally and totally because God in his mercy doth in due time renue the vigour and strength of his graces in them Thou must not conclude then by thy decay in grace for a time or want of holinesse that thou art excluded from the fauor of God in Christ The best wheate hath

Cantico nouo What are these things which are passed away what are those things which are become new The answer is the old Law 1 How the old law is passed Exod. 31.18 which was written in tables of stone This is passed first in respect of our iustification by it for by the workes of the Law shall no flesh liuing be iustified Rom. 3.20 And secondly in respect of the cōdemnation curse of it Deu. 27.26 For there is no condemnation to thē that are in Christ Rom. 8.1 Because Christ hath satisfied the Law for them and though by their owne weakenesse or the violence of Satans temptations they haue fallen into sinne yet vpon true repentance and turning to God they haue an aduocate with the Father Iesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for their sinnes 1 Iohn 2.1 There is a new Law written in our hearts and this is lex Fidei the Law of Faith true liuely and operatiue by which we are iustified in the sight of God Rom. 5.1 Againe the ceremonies of the old Law the Priesthood the old Sacrifices these are all passed in Christ for in that hee saith Heb. 7.12 Heb. 8.13 Galat. 3.24 a new Testament he hath abrogated the old The Law was but our Schoolemaster to bring vs vnto Christ And Christ is the end and fulfilling of the Law Ro. 10.4 And therefore in the transfiguration of Christ there appeared Moses and Elias 2 The Iewish oldnesse is now erronious the Law and the Prophets to shew that Christ was the end of them both Wicked then are the old Heresies first of the Iewes who doe violently retaine the Ceremonies of Moses Law as much as in them lyeth amongst the Gentiles 2 The Papists oldnesse ceremonious vainely expecting a Messiah to come Secondly of the Papists Qui 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quadam impulsi who being driuen by a kind of euil zeale do also keepe amongst them many Iewish Ceremonies mingling the shadow with the substance Thirdly of the Anabaptists 3 The Anabaptists oldnesse curious who would binde vs to liue according to the Iewes politickes as if the Gospell did not permit euery Christian to liue according to the honest and iust Lawes of his owne Prince and countrey Lastly of that new sort of old Schismatikes 4 Our new Iewes new schismaticks amongst vs who would tye vs againe to the strict Ceremonies of Moses Law to shadowes which are long since passed infringing thereby our Christian liberty and laying heauy burdens vpon the tender consciences of their weake brethren which nor we nor our fathers were able to beare We must not runne againe into these beggerly rudiments as the Apostle calleth them Galat. 4.9 Because old things are passed away and behold all things are become new Old things are passed that is the old Adam or the olde man in whom there is a threefold oldnesse Corde ore opere in the heart in the mouth in the hand 2 Oldnesse of heart and mouth and hand passed away in a Christian in which we sinne after a threefold manner in thought in word and in deed all these are passed away vnto that man who is a new man in Christ Old things are passed the olde yeere is gone and the new yeare is come the Autumne is past yea the Winter passing and the Spring time 2. The Spring time of my Text. approcheth and therefore I will leaue the Autumne and passe to the Spring Behold all things are be come new The Apostle describing the Autumne in my Text the abrogating of old things enters into it without any stay as if it were a matter not to be stayed at but to be passed away with the bare recitall remembrance only But cōming to bring newes of the Spring he begins his stile with Ecce Behold as it were a glorious portall before some stately Palace or a Harbinger sent before to prepare an honourable expectation of his Lord. Behold all things are become new There is many an Ecce The godly mans guide to gaine heauen a sermon on Iam. 4.13 a behold noted in the Scripture which I might here set downe But I haue shewed them already in another Treatise and I will onely giue you this of my Text. And this is an Ecce excellentiae nouitatis a Behold of new excellency and of excellent newnesse Behold all things are become new To note out the excellency of the new aboue the old the Gospell aboue the Law 1 The excellency of the Gospel aboue the Law the second Adam aboue the first For when the blood of buls and goats could not take away sinne Christ by his owne blood entred in once into the holy place and hath obtained an eternall redemption for vs Heb. 9.12 When that flesh and blood could not inherit the kingdome of God Christ hath recreated vs and made vs new men in him so that being now spirituall in him by the worke of his Spirit Rom. 8.17 we are fellow heires with him of the kingdome of glory O then how highly should we esteeme and earnestly labour to be made partakers of this new Creation For to vs in Christ old things are passed away and behold all things are become new Quest 2 But what are those things that are become new shall we expect a new heauen and a new earth these shal come saith Peter 2 Pet. 3.13 but not till the day of iudgement Shall we expect a new glory of the Sunne of the Moone or of the Starres If you look to them they keep their old beauty without any change What then are those things that shal be made new If we looke to the beasts of the earth the dayes of the yere or generations of men wee may conclude of all these with the Preacher There is no new thing vnder the Sunne Eccle. 1.10 Seeing then all these things remaine without change and our Apostle here speaketh of a change we may iustly demaund the question What are these things that are passed away what are those things that are become new Wee must not thinke of any such alteration as Pelagius 3. The errour of Pelagius Chemnitius de discrimine veteris noui Testam did who falsly imagined that at euery change of time there was a new way of saluation that before Moses men were saued by the Law of nature after Moses by the Law of Moses and since Christ by the Gospel this is contrary to the Scriptures for there is no other name by which we can be saued but by the name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth Act. 4.12 who is the way the truth and the life Ioh. 14.6 This is the same way that was preached to Adam in Paradise The seede of the woman shall breake the head of the Serpent Gen. 3.15 This is that which was from the beginning 1. Ioh. 1.1 and therefore this is not that newnesse of which our Apostle speaketh What then are those things