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A92783 A dying fathers living legacy, to his loving son or, lively rules from the rule of life, to bee lived by every mothers childe. / By F.S. Gent. F. S. 1660 (1660) Wing S22; Thomason E2105_2; ESTC R210143 23,056 152

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Covenant applies this promise and rests upon Christ for justification Therefore of faith that it might bee by grace therefore of faith to the end the promise might bee sure to all the seed Faith is the root of a Christians conversation and a Christians conversation is the fruit of faith Many measure their faith by perswasion but I had rather measure my faith by the power of mortification so much as it sanctifies so much it is faith cannot conduce to the act of redemption but faith conduces to our justification You are to act faith upon God that the promise may bee returned Wherefore do I believe because God hath promised Wherefore do I hope because faith believes Wherefore do I wait because hope expects An easie faith is always a false faith Hee that never found it hard to believe never believed A fruitless faith is alwaies a false faith It is not the work faith nor the works of faith but faith with her proper work by which wee are justified By faith the person is justified and by works the faith is justified Though faith alone doth justifie yet not that faith which is alone Christians should not onely labour to be justified by faith but they should labour to justifie their faith Shew mee thy invisible faith by thy visible life God doth justifie a man by his faith hee doth not justifie him for his faith Faith is the Engine by which wee do all by which wee prevail with God and overcome the world it must not onely live in us but wee must live by it Faith it grows in the exercise Do what you can for faith though your doing will not come up to believing and say not that you cannot believe for if you go not thus far to do what you can your unbelief is not from your cannot but from your will not Go and put forth that faith thou art able to put forth and in the end God will make it a spiritual believing As the water Christ commanded to bee poured out was turned into wine by the pouring of it out so deal with Christ Jesus for believing and in the end God will turn thy faith which is but water into wine Thou wilt believe thy self into believing You ought to believe till you bee perswaded that you do believe for the more you do believe the more you shall bee perswaded to believe By frequency of believing you shall feel at your very heart that you do believe 1 Joh. 5.10 If repentance accompany faith it is no presumption to believe but it is presumption to look for mercy in a way of unbelief Beware of unbelief for it is a shelter to sin all your life As faith is the shield of the new man so unbelief is the shield of the old man As the shield of faith doth quench the fiery darts of the Devill so unbelief doth quench the fiery darts of God This unbelief removes all the blocks that lie in the way of sin as belief removes all the blocks that lie in the way of holiness Unbelief it robs God the Father at once of all his Attributes it robs God the Son of the Glory of his triumph over Sin Death and Hell it robs God the Holy-Ghost of his seals to thy evidence of pardon The Spirit seals to thy soul the pardon of thy sins and unbelief comes and tears thy evidences and breaks the seals Labour as much for faith in the threatnings as for faith in the promises And remember this though other sins merit hell yet it is this sin of unbelief onely that puts you into damnation AS great sins are not easily to bee reformed so great mercies are not soon obtained When the stream of thankfulness is not returned the tide of mercy stops Although God looks for nothing in us to bestow his love upon us nor for nothing from us as the ground of the continuance of his love to us yet wee are to bee highly thankful for any little the Lord gives and to be humble and judge our selves worthy of nothing when the Lord denies Mercy is not the purchase of the creature but the gift of God Follow God close with your praises that goes before you in his mercies As praises are the seasonable fruit under mercies so humiliation and prayers are the seasonable fruit under troubles Sinners may speak good words of God it is only comly for the upright to praise God Thanksgiving it is the proper work of Christians and the natural work of Angels A little makes a thankful man admire much Oh how big are a thankful mans mercies and how little hee Bee careful for nothing but by prayer and supplication make your requests known to God with thanksgiving Daies of thanksgiving and prayer are helps to the duties God requires from us they are not our onely business When wee pray and give thanks it is not the onely business of the day but these are helps to us that wee may persevere and improve our obedience Though our goodness reaches not to God yet it should to the Saints If God be rich in mercy unto us it is that we should be rich in good works unto others It is good to receive a mercy from God it is better to improve a mercy Great and renewed receivings from God should beget fresh quick and strong resolutions of obedience unto God The more holy fire there is in the service the more pleasing the service When ever you serve God it must bee with fear when ever you praise God it must bee with trembling Though I cannot praise God sufficiently yet Christ can ALl have a call of inexcusableness few have a call of effectualness Grace is not denied to the wicked but it is onely given to the weary By grace is meant the love and favour of God within himself and is the spring and fountain of all that good which hee doth give out unto his children As grace is communicative so it is called goodness As it is with delight so it is called love as it is given out to man in state of misery so it is called mercy as it is dispensed freely so it is called grace When the Spirit works a man for salvation then doth the Spirit pour forth those graces and exercises those operations without which you cannot live grace Notwithstanding Christ hath paid the price of salvation yet you shall not bee saved without the Spirits application The Spirit is the executor of that will of which Christ is the Testator Christ gives the Legacies but the Spirit paies them Christ is the Mediator of the new Covenant and the Spirit is the Administrator of that Covenant You can no more expect to be renewed without the Spirit than to bee saved without the Son As you cannot bee saved unredeemed so you cannot bee saved unrenewed A graceless man shall never inherit heaven A graceless man is a cruel man to his own soul As sinners are given up to sin so those that have really profited by
purposes but by his promises The impulsive cause of Gods making promises was his love the meriting cause Christ They are purging healing raising up only as Christ is folded up in them The promises are the plaisters upon which the blood of Christ is spread the blood of Christ gives virtue to the promise They are all made in Christ and performed in Christ purchased by his blood and executed by his power The Saints are therefore heirs of promise because members of Jesus Christ Promises have a being because of Christ After the breach of the first Covenant God had never declared his good will to man in a second Covenant but for the sake of Jesus Christ and it is by our being in him that wee lay claim to those promises All promises are made for him and in him unto us so far as we are incorporated into him and are members of Jesus Christ All the promises are yea and amen in Christ Thy interest in one promise is worth all thy interests Gods promises which could not bee too dearly bought yet they are freely given Gods promises are free in respect of the making of them yet they are conditional in respect of the performance of them The promises are tendered without exception but not without condition Though they are made out of free mercy yet they are performed in relation to our subservient duty God never promised life absolutely but upon condition In the first Covenant Do and live In the second Covenant Believe and live Now faith is so poor a condition as puts no worth in us to receive and therefore justified freely of his grace You are saved of grace but through faith and it is therefore of faith that it might bee of grace If God made a promise to thee when thou wast wallowing in thy blood then certainly God will make it good By promising God hath made himself a debtor to himself God hath made promises of pardon consider not thy own weaknes so much as the strength of Gods promise look not to thy unworthiness but upon the truth worth and excellency of the promise GOds outward proceedings of providence do sometimes seem to contradict the truth of his promises Gods promises speak healing when Gods providences seem to speak trouble yet the position holds true that it is Gods purpose under all the pressures and troubles of his Church to deliver them There are two things that may bee written upon the Church of Christ Holiness and Victory Whatsoever the difference is betwixt the enemies of the Church and the Church Christs party shall overcome This should make us live by faith and not by sense If you look upon things necessary or contingent in both these providence rules There is a special providence over every hair of a childe of God all his hairs are numbred If a hair cannot fall from the head without providence the head shall not fall from the body without providence Troubles are the issues of neglected providences Labour to relieve thy self in thy greatest straights in Covenant-promises Hard throws have been made advantages to the birth of sweet mercies Though trouble may bee thy condition yet rest shall bee thy portion Though affliction may bee thy exercise yet deliverance shall bee thy inheritance providence orders all actions and agents to her own end Actions may move very strangely in our view and yet very orderly to the greatest good as their supernatural end Give not way then to sinkings and despondencies of spirit in any trouble in the lowest conditions and greatest sufferings there is yet ground of hope When vain is the hope of man then comes the salvation of God When the morning is darkest then comes the day When troubles are at the highest then deliverance is at the nearest Things wonderful to us are yet easie with God marvellous in our eyes and yet familiar with him Awaken thy heart to pray Nothing shall bee too hard for him to do whose heart God carries forth and holds up to beleeve and pray unto him Nothing hath been done without it nothing can bee done against it Providence GOds Providence is an act of infinite power and wisdome whereby hee preserves and governs all things in order to his glorious Mercy and Justice Gods will being immutable in its determination his Providence must needs bee infallible in its administrations Gods Providence is not limited by means therefore trust Providence when you see no means Let nothing puzzle you that doth not puzzle God When God makes use of means it is not from the deficiency of his Power but from the riches of his Goodness To establish the means and deny the providence of God determining the end is a part of Atheism to establish the providence of God determining the end and despise the means is great prophaneness Use means yet withall trust and attend Gods providence for the obtaining of the end True faith sets God highest in means sees God out of means and waits upon him in the opposition of means Endeavours are appointed by God not to alter his will but perform it and in what wee obtain not our desires wee testifie our obedience Use means as if there wereno God trust in God as if there were no means Bee not over-perswaded of particular means The water-man thinks his boat will save him but perhaps it is a twig To neglect helps is to tempt God to trust in them when we have them is to commit Idolatry with them WHen you come to pray look to what God hath promised and in prayer look into the promise When you pray labour to avoid two things calling upon God in your own strength and expecting an answer from God in your own worth You may direct your prayer to Father Son and holy Spirit but not as one separated from the other When you go to pray you give God a visit frequency of worship doth maintain a respect between God and you It is then very seasonable to attend upon and apply our selves to the work or duty of prayer when the working or grace of the Holy Ghost doth beget a disposition in us to pray When grace doth offer a seasonableness to pray you shall find it affords a sufficiency of strength for prayer Seasons of grace last not alwaies it is not at our command to have the Spirit of God moving in us when you know the motions of the Spirit act accordingly to them Keep heavenly things as thou wouldest keep heaven it self Strive for spiritual life A dead man and a dying Christian are two sad sights A dead prayer leaves a dead Spirit behinde it A dull Spirit is the fruit of a dead prayer A dead heart argues a dying soul God is coming into that soul with comfort who is mighty in duty Consolation and supplication go together When wee do our present duty God will not remember our former sin Pray unto God for a better praying heart there will nothing prevail with God if prayer will not The
heart is then most fit to pour out a prayer to God when it is lowest in the apprehensions of misery When you hear David praying for mercy it is a sign he is in misery There is no want so great but prayer will help Prayer is the most efficacious Engine a man can work by for what is in the power of God the same is in man by prayer Prayer is a calling upon God Prayer AS Christs prayer was not so ours must not be a bare manifestation of our mindes unto God but a holy arguing with God No natural man can pray he is muzzled You may be able to word it in prayer but you cannot have a prayer in the sight of God as well as in the sight of man without the Spirit of prayer Do not judge of your having the Spirit of prayer by your freedome of utterance in prayer by your constant performance of prayer nor by your extraordinary inlargements under prayer but by the inward reaching of your heart after God It is the panting soul that is the praying soul Watch unto prayer not onely to keep off drowsiness but to eye providence To pray and do nothing else is in effect to do nothing less Let not your practice bee a confutation of your prayers lest the day of supplication prove a day of provocation Remember this If you regard iniquity in your heart God will not hear your prayers Then is a good prayer when God doth not onely confirm thy hopes in prayer but conform thy life to prayer In duties wee can do nothing with God as they are our duties but God will do something in us If stoln waters bee sweet to wicked men begged meat is much more sweet to godly men Wee are too ready after wee have done well to lye down and catch cold When wee have pleased the Lord in lawful duties to please our selves in unlawful liberties ASk thy self often what sin have I left It is not the converting but the converted sinner that is the true penitent All that are converted shall bee saved but all that shall bee saved are not converted Hee that confesseth his sin and turns to it again repents of his repentance Hee that repents provides for after repentings God gives heaven to a man that is fit for heaven there is no aptness in a sinner for heaven that repenteth not Repentance REpentance is an universal turning from all sin even unto God Though repentance and turning from sin doth not deserve heaven yet it fits us for mercy and pardon It is against the Justice of God to give pardon without repentance though repentance doth not profit God yet repentance pleaseth God Such as are kinde and merciful to their sins that love not their sins should bee spoken against never repented Health and freedome from sickness is a great mercy pardon of sin is a greater for this is the ground of the other Take heed of sinning lest you teach God to punish you When you see a man sinning at a high rate do not sensure him but say Why am I so low in grace To delight in mens sins is the sport of Devils Recovery from those sins is the joy of Angels The eye of the Lord is more upon the root of sin than upon the act of sin Nature makes a soul sensible of the act of sin the Spirit of the root of sin Nature presents to us the painfulness of sin the Spirit the sinfulness of sin Nature makes sensible of gross sins the Spirit of the least sin as well as the greatest The Spirit teaches to measure every sin by the greatness of God and so no sin is little If you would keep from the act of sin avoid the occasion of sin They that confess and forsake not are onely dog-sick when they have disgorged their stomachs they will return to their vomit Every sin a beleever commits deserves damnation but no sin shall condemn but the living and continuing in it As it is not the falling into the water that drowns but lying in it so it is not the falling into sin that damns but dying in it Neither good nor bad at the last day shall bee judged by every one of his actions but by all not according to his steps but according to his wayes There will bee every dayes pollution let there bee every dayes purifying The Devil will bee at his work bee you at your work To him that knoweth to do good and doth it not to him it is sin It is not the body that sins it is the soul that sins A Christian should alwayes have this care that the iniquity of his hands may bee cleansed and the filthiness of his heart purged The Spirit of God loves clean hands and the holiness of God loves a pure heart To bee alwayes suffering and never repenting is the property of infernal spirits Wise men that set themselves against God they very wittily go to hell Could you but think what bitter pains your sweet sins will cost you would bee provident you durst not but bee innocent Sin drives a man from himself and from God Conversion it brings a man to himself and unto God when the Prodigal was come to himself hee returned to his Father Wee never go below our selves but when wee sin Wee do not go below our selves when wee suffer Holiness hath a silent excellency in it Sin hath a secret deformity No person in the world that sin doth so much defile as a childe of God and no person in the world that sin doth so ill with as a childe of God It is a spotting time let the Saints take heed The eclipse of the Sun is more observed than the shining of the Sun Sin becomes no man more ill becomes a wise man Finde out your sins before Gods judgements find you out It is good to bee beforehand with God If you are inclined to intemperance take heed of ill company When drunkenness sayes Come say No I have got a new acquaintance Wee must consider our own wayes before wee can turn our feet to Gods testimonies The house of God is the worst place to sin in The Lord is in the middest of his people there must bee no hypocrite there The City where God dwells must bee a holy City and the Mountain a holy Mountain Holiness becommeth thy house O Lord for ever There is nothing that the Law can call sin but the Gospel can pardon Do your sins reach as high as Heaven Christ is above them Christ hath as much compassion as thou hast iniquity Christ is sensible of a sinners condition every sin-labouring soul is a welcome guest to Christ But remember this sin cannot bee killed without the death of Christ nor mortified without the Spirit of Christ Conversion is your first work then mortification However Christ makes intercession in heaven for his own people hee doth not speak a word for the wicked AS the thread followeth the needle so death followeth sin Man had never fallen
into the grave if hee had not fallen into transgression Man dyed not because his nature was subject to corruption but because sin had corrupted his nature Man was wholly a stranger to death till acquainted with sin There is no man that lives that shall not see death Death will finde every man and connive at no man The glorious end wee should aim at in life is not to study how wee might injoy the comforts of life but how wee may overcome the discouragements of death Death is alwayes drawing nearer and nearer whether you improve your time or throw away your time Men ordinarily leave the earth when they are most busie about it Those must dye that shall not bee damned It is a good minde in a man to bee content to dye and willing to live but to bee willing to dye and content live is the minde of a strong Christian To labour not to dye is labour in vain to live without fear of death is to dye liveing The comforts of life are no rational comforts till you bee freed from the terrours of death What comforts of life can bee sweet when a man is afraid of death and uncertain of life Seldome doth hee dye well that lives ill They are fools that give away their souls for nothing Prevention is better than confusion Hee lives twice that bestows the fore part of his time well That man that lives to dye shall dye to live The way to dye well is to dye often often and seriously think of dying and then sin if thou canst A dram of grace will bee more worth to you when you come to dye than a sea of gifts A man may live by a form hee cannot dye by a form Remember this the bellows of death will blow the spark of sincerity into a flame and the blaze of formality into nothing Hee neither fears nor feels death that hath his hopes in heaven Though death bee terrible yet innocency is bold Christ by death in death delivers us from death If hee dyed that you might live with him do not desire to live long from him 1 If you would live well take heed where you live even the place of pleasure is dangerous 2 In learning to live study how to dye hee loses all his time that knows not how to end his time 3 Dye you must bee active for God whilst you live You that must dye shortly had need to live strictly The way to have great confidence when you dye is to get and keep a good conscience whilst you live Mans life may bee very short it cannot bee long the time of man is a long death but it is but a short life Mens principles speak the shortness of life but their practises speak the eternity of life Time is but short but eternity is long If a wicked man would bee happy hee must make time long and eternity short As time is the measure of his sin so eternity is the measure of his punishment Prepare for an enemy that is alwayes getting ground of you not only the approaches of death are perpetual but insensible Make sure of death that you bee not miserable in death and after death When I was a young man saith Seneca my care was to live well and when age came I studied how to dye well The right way to dye well is to live well and the right way to live well is to dye betimes to sin the world and self You must dye make sure of an interest in the death of the Lord Jesus Christ Christ will do you good when you come to die so will the power of godliness AFter death comes Judgement At that day the wicked shall know Gods forbearance is no acquittance Wicked men are surely ordained to punishment as godly men are ordained to deliverance Though the Saints may bee losers for Gods word yet they shall lose nothing by God It cannot bee long before the worlds Funerals and the birth day of Judgement Though wee sleep in sin judgement slumbers not The Lord Jesus Christ hee is judge not onely of the fact but of the heart Make the Judge your friend Get him that is your Judge to bee your Advocate It is not the varnish of profession Christ will respect at that day unless hee see the workmanship of the Holy Ghost in the heart The wicked may drink a sea of wrath but they shall not sip one drop of injustice The sinner beeing self-condemned shall clear the Judge Christs first coming was to unite his second coming shall bee to separate That heart that would not break with sorrow for sin shall now bee rent thorow with despair They that would not weep for their sins shall now barn for their sins To bear this will bee intollerable to avoid this will bee impossible Sinners they must come to the Bar and they are sure to bee cast at the Bar. If you have not a part in the blood of the Lamb you shall bee sure to have a part in the wrath of the Lamb. But if thou hast no sins of allowance thou shalt have grains of allowance One dram of grace is too good to go to hell ALL that will expect to bee saved must wait upon the foolishness of preaching The creature as a creature is indispensibly bound to serve God Pray privately hear publickly God never comes so nigh to the soul as when hee enters into the ear It is preaching that brings hearing and hearing that brings faith and faith salvation As God will bee worshipped in Spirit so in truth not onely in opposition to the Ceremonial Law but in opposition to the hypocrisie of the heart That man never received the word in the power of it that never received it in the perpetuity of it Instability is alwayes a sure note of insincerity God looks more at the manner of the duty than the matter it is not what you do but how you do not how much but how well As God will have you holy because hee is holy so you must worship him in spirit because hee is a Spirit What is the reason that men sleep so securely after so many Sermons they say with Samuel It is onely mans voice The outward teachings of man is of no power without the inward teachings of Gods Spirit Christ revealed to us differenceth us from Pagans Christ revealed in us severeth us from Reprobates It is not thy hearing of mans voice but thy subjection to Gods voice that begets thee anew to God As hee sins that gives not God the hearing so hee sins that only gives God the hearing The word is never spoken in vain though it may bee often heard in vain it either purifies or consumes Gospel-ordinances you will finde either ripen your graces or ripen your corruptions The word of God is an enemy to none but them that are enemies to themselves No worship is a breach of the first Commandement false worship is a breach of the second Commandement Will-worship is alwayes false
worship All things that I command you in matters of practise and in matters of worship that do and no more You must worship God with your will oh but take heed of Will worship When the heart goes not along with the duty that is hypocrisie when the heart is not stirred up in the duty to lively and vigorous acts that is formality As God will have the heart in prayer so in hearing hee is a Spirit and hee will bee worshipped in Truth The Lord whose Name is Jealous is a jealous God Take heed of the false worship of the heart if thou are not guilty of Idolatry thou mayest bee guilty of Hypocrisie Take heed of the Idolatry of the heart Bee spiritual in what you do A jealous eye is a watchful eye When ever you come to worship look to your thoughts Look to your conceptions of God when you worship how you represent God in worship There is as much danger of imaginations within as there is of Images without That which makes us successeless in duty is undue thoughts of God Make spiritual growth the end of coming to the word That Spirit that sayes Hear my Law sayes My Son forget not my Law A holy life is the infusion of holy truth Truth shall never dye who ever dye or live Charge thy self with that which is the end of the word that is Live well ASk thy heart every night what hath been thy darling to day who hath been most in thy thoughts to day The actions of mens lives are the wayes of their thoughts Secret thoughts will ingender gross transgressions secret sins will bring to open shame if you do not shame your self before God for them Sins of act are like arrows that flye by day Sins of thought are the pestilence that lurks in darkness It is not what thoughts are injected into thee but what thoughts are maintained by thee Thoughts are sins of the highest part of a man for they are the sins of his heart Thoughts are the first-born of original corruption if it bee the first born it must needs bee the strongest as Jacob said to Ruben A man many times doth not what hee would but hee alwaies thinks as hee will If thy heart bee heavenly thy thoughts will bee holy God thinks on you when you forget him If God should withdraw his thoughts from us as we do ours from him what would become of us Think on that Thoughts are called the counsels of a mans heart if thy thoughts bee not counselled thoughts such as thou dost determine to think on they are not good thoughts The souls part of fin is the greatest part of sin therefore thoughts are the greatest part of sin yet sins in deed are in regard of progress the worse because thoughts are included in them This is that which undoes many a man let it not bee thy undoing to have good thoughts of God and good thoughts of themselves too THere is no soul hath more high thoughts of God than that soul that hath low thoughts of it self The foul that lives lowest hath the highest objects before it The lower the soul lyes the higher the things are it aims at The lower the ebbe the higher the tyde The lower the foundation of vertue is laid the higher shall the roof of glory bee overlaid They that are risen with Christ that seek the power of Christ risen seek things above An humble spirit may bee busied in low things but not taken up with them If Saints bee sad it is because they are too busie here below The more low wee are the more comfort wee have of God When wee are nothing in our own eyes then are wee something in Gods If thou wouldest bee all in God learn to empty thy self not by taking notice so much of thy graces as thy wants The more wee can empty our selves the more wee shall bee filled with God A Christians emptiness is his fulness and his fulness is his emptiness God is in that man that is not in himself If I will bee any thing in my self as of my self I must look to bee no creature of Gods making Whatsoever a Christian is for grace or glory it is out of himself hee hath nothing in himself as of himself all that hee hath hee hath in Christ Wee altogether shine in the beams of our husband Follow Christs example his whole life and death was an absolute denial of himself It unburdens a man of himself this self-denial If a man le ts go his fleshh ec shall advance his spirit A self-seeker is a clod of earth that sucks the sap of his soul onely to himself Deny thy self wholly if there bee not thorow self-denial ere long there will bee God-denial Whosoever is not poor in himself hee will never go our of himself for hee hath some other supply Those that have full conceits of themselves can never thirst after Christ When man makes an Idol of self hee wants now and then some to come and worship him Those that have least knowledge of themselves are apt to dote on themselves Hee that knows himself best loves himself least Those that have most light have lowest thoughts they trust not to the grace in their own hearts but to the grace in the Covenant Pride is a conceit of self-sufficiency THou canst never act freely and cheerfully in Gods wayes until the divine nature bee communicated Where divine power works not creatingly it works not relievingly hence it is that one that is not a Christian in deed holds not out alwayes to bee a Christian in shew As vital principles and spiritual habits are infused by God so they owe their permanency and stability to God It is his work to perfect holiness in his fear The judgement of sense ought to bee regulated by reason and the judgement of reason ought to bee corrected by faith Though I must not nor cannot give a reason of every thing I beleeve yet I must give a reason of my faith There is the life of faith the living of faith and the liveliness of faith the first is the habit the second is the act the third is the grace Faith doth not justifie as a grace in us or as a work not as an active condition contributing any thing to its own worth but as a passive condition or qualification whereby wee receive Jesus Christ the Lord and it is for his merits and not for our faith though by our faith wee are justified It is the application of Christs righteousness not our apprehending it By faith alone wee are justified but the faith by which wee are justified is not alone As wee cannot get it of our selves so wee cannot act it of our selves Faith is not our righteousness yet it makes the righteousness of Christ to bee ours Abraham beleeved and it was imputed to him for righteousness Christ in our nature hath fulfilled all righteousness this God hath promised shall bee ours for justification now faith closes with this