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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25247	Prima the first things, in reference to the middle and last things: or, the doctrine of regeneration, the new birth, the very beginning of a godly life. Delivered by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire.; Prima, media, & ultima. Prima.	Ambrose, Isaac, 1604-1664.	1650 (1650)	Wing A2964; ESTC R213988	65,629	80

high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones The condition is to be of a contrite and humble spirit and if thou art thus God is true who hath said it he dwels in thee to revive thy spirit and to revive thy heart Isa 61.1 The Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek he hath sent me to binde up the broken hearted The condition is to be meek and broken hearted and if this be thy case then good tidings belong to thee and Christ is sent to binde up thy broken heart in the bundle of peace Jerem. 31.19 20. Surely after that I was turned I repented saith Ephraim and after that I was instructed I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed yea even confounded because I did bear the reproach of my youth Therefore saith God my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy upon him saith the Lord. The condition is to repent to be ashamed confounded for sin and if thy case be like Ephraims God is the same to thee his bowels yearn for thee he will surely have mercy on thee Matth. 5.6 Blessed are they which hunger and thirst after righteousness The condition is to hunger and thirst after the righteousness of Christ and this if thou dost then art thou blessed from the mouth of our Savior Matth. 11.28 Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest The condition is to labor and be heavy laden with sin and if thou art thus Gods Word is sure thou shalt have rest spiritual and eternal Revel 21.6 I will give unto him that is athirst of the water of life freely The condition is to thirst after the heavenly streams of Gods favor and Christs soveraign blood and this if thou dost then hast thou part in the fountain of the water of life that proceeds out of the throne of God Revel 22.1 and of the Lamb Revel 22.1 All these are so full of comfort that if thou but crush them with the hand of faith they cannot but yield some juyce of sweetness to thy afflicted soul Sect. 7. The means to apply the said promises I Said before it was enough for me to prepare the medicine it is thou must apply it yet if thou feelest a backwardness to perform thy part I shall tell thee of some means to incite thee and help thee onward to the performance of this duty Take then the promises and carry them as thou didst the Catalogue of thy sins into the presence of the Lord and faln down on thy knees beseech God for thy Saviors sake to encline thine heart to believe those promises If thou hast the repulse pray again and again yea resolve never to make prayer but to use this petition that the Lord would please to let thee have some feeling of the life of those promises Some soul may object I have no heart or spirit to pray yet use thy indeavor and in thy indeavors God may come in and whensoever thou feelest any of them to be spirit and life to thee whensoever thou feelest by a certain taste the joys of the Holy Ghost to fall upon thee O happy man that ever thou wast born then art thou to thy own knowledge new born indeed then hast thou without doubt done this most glorious exercise of passing thorow the new birth and then hast thou cause as thou canst not choose to sing and praise God day and night world without end Matth. 5.4 So true is that of Christ Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted Amen Sect. 8. The Conclusion HEre is an end and to you to whom I have dedicated this work my conclusion is this The year hath now run his round since I first came amongst you and how the Lord hath wrought by me you your selves know best for my part if I did but know one poor soul amongst you truly converted by such a weak unworthy instrument I would ever think my self most happy in that soul and richly payed for my pains I know it neither Paul nor Apollo can do this except God give the increase howsoever I must tell you with Paul my desires have been this way I have since my coming travelled of you and travelled again that Christ might be formed in you Gal. 4.19 And what 's the issue once could the Lord say Shall I bring to the birth Isa 66.9 and not cause to bring forth and to joyn issue with you have I travelled of you in birth and not one of you brought forth the Lord forbid I confess beloved I have received from you many kindenesses of love now for the Lords sake do me this one kindeness more give me at least one soul among you that I may give it unto God O what a kindeness would you then do me not all the wealth in your Town nor all the increase of your state nor all you have or ever shall have would do me so much good in the day of my Lord Jesus as this one boon I ask then could I say Lord I have not lost the fruits of my labor in this Town see here the soul now shining in glory which I converted by thy power see here the soul of such a one and such a one which through thy grace and my ministery were converted unto thee If this were thus why then beloved you would bless me for ever and I should bless you for ever and we should all bless God for ever for this so gracious and so blessed a work Now the Lord of his goodness give you a sight of your sins and a true sorrow for sin and if not afore now yet now this day the Lord this day set his print and seal upon you The time draws on and I have but a minute a little time to speak to you for a farewel then let these last words take a deeper impression in your hearts if you would do all I would have you do I could wish no more but that to this humiliation or repentance you would adde charity or love the first you owe to God and the second to your neighbor by the first you might become new creatures by the second true Christians like them in the Churches infancy of one minde one heart and one soul sure it is not possible that we should have forgiveness of sins but that we must be of the communion of Saints A thousand pities it is to hear of the many factions in our Church and Kingdoms and Towns and Families O pray for the peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love it and let us pray as need we have too for our own peace one with another You cannot come to a Communion but you hear this lesson in the invitation You that do truly and earnestly repent you of your sins and be in love and charity with your neighbors c. Here 's both repentance to God and Charity nay more then charity as we use the word commonly even love of your neighbors For my part I wish that my very heart-blood could cement the divisions of Reuben for which are great thoughts of heart in this Town Iudg. 5.15 in this Church in these Kingdoms 2 Cor. 13.11 I will say no more but conclude with those words of the Apostle Finally brethren fare ye well be perfect be of good comfort be of one minde live in peace and the God of love and peace be with you for ever and ever FINIS

ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest Or if invitation will not fit without proclamation hear him proclaim Joh. 7.37 Jesus stood and cryed saying If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink he that believeth on me out of his belly shall flow rivers of water Or least thou shouldest think thou must come to thy cost and bring somewhat in thy hand hear how he doubles and trebbles his cry to the contrary Isa 55.1 Ho every one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and he that hath no money come ye buy and eat yea come buy wine and milk without money and without price And yet lest thou say I am so far from bringing any thing in my hand that I bring a world of wickedness in my heart and my sins I fear will hinder my acceptation no saith he again Isa 55.7 Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and this is thy desire thy case and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon Or if all this will not do without a more solemn invitation see then how the Lord of heaven sends forth his Embassadors to move thee and entreat thee to come in 2 Cor. 5.20 Now then we are Embassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you by us we pray you in Christs stead be ye reconciled unto God Or if he cannot woo thee lo he commands thee 1 Ioh. 3.23 And this is the Commandment that we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ Or yet to drive thee to Christ he not onely commands but threatens Heb. 3.18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest but to them that believed not And what can he do more unto his Vineyard First to bid thee welcom he keeps open house secondly he invites thirdly he proclaims fourthly he calls thee sans-fee without money or moneyworth fifthly he apologizeth sixthly he sendeth seventhly he commandeth eighthly he threatneth Hear what mine Author concludes from these premises How cruel then is that man to his own wounded conscience who in his extreme spiritual thirst will not be drawn by this eight-fold merciful cord to drink his fill of the fountain of the water of life to cast himself with confidence and comfort into the arms of the Lord Iesus Yea how is it possible but that all or some of these should bring in every broken heart to believe and every one that is weary of his sins to relye upon the Lord of life for everlasting welfare Sect. 5. The promises procuring obedience to Christ ANd yet thou mayest say I have cast my self on Christ is this all I must do no there is yet another step he is not onely to be thy Savior but thy husband thou must love him and serve him and honor him and obey him thou must endeavor not onely for pardon of sin and salvation from hell but for purity new obedience ability to do or suffer any thing for Christ And to provoke thee to this duty consider of these texts Matth. 7.21 Not every one that saith Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of heaven but he that doth the will of my Father which is in heaven Matth. 11.29 Take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall finde rest unto your souls Matth. 16.24 If any man will follow me let him take up his cross and follow me 2 Cor. 5.15 He dyed for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselvs but unto him which dyed for them 2 Cor. 5.17 If any man be in Christ let him be a new creature old things are passed behold all things are become new 1 Joh. 1.6 7. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lye and do not the truth But if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin 1 Joh. 2.5 6. He that keepeth his word in him verily is the love of God perfected hereby know we that we are in him He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk even as he walked 1 Joh. 3.6 9. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God 1 Joh. 3.24 He that keepeth his Commandments dwelleth in him and hereby we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit which he hath given us 1 Joh. 5.18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself and that wicked one toucheth him not All these may invite thee to enter into the holy path and to fight under Christs banner against the world the flesh and the Devil unto thy lives end Sect. 6. The promises procuring comfort in Christ ONce more thou mayest say I have been truly humbled with the sense of sin and sense of misery and sorrow for sin yea I have seen and thirsted and relyed and purposed universal obedience to my Savior and yet no comfort comes it may be so but hast thou praised God for this work of wonder the new birth wrought in thee If so then is there another duty expected from thee right precious and pleasing unto God and that is waiting yet I could wish thee address thy self to these precious promises settle thy soul on them with fixed meditation and fervent prayer and where thou perceivest the condition of the promises to be by Gods grace formed in thee thou mayest safely assure thy soul of so much favor as is expresly contained in the promises Levit. 26.40 41 42 44. If they shall confess their iniquity If their uncircumcised hearts be humbled Then will I remember my Covenant that I might be their God I am the Lord the condition is to confess and be humbled and this if thou dost the Covenant is sure the Lord is thy God Job 33.27 28. If any say I have sinned and perverted that which is right and it profited me not he will deliver his soul from going into the pit and his life shall see the light The condition is If any say I have sinned if thy heart say thus in sincerity and truth the promise is sure God will deliver thy soul from hell and thou shalt see the light of heaven Psal 51.17 A broken and a contrite heart O God thou wilt not despise The condition is a broken and a contrite heart for sin and if thy heart be thus be sure God will not despise it Prov. 28.13 Whosoever confesseth and forsaketh his sins shall have mercy The condition is to confess and forsake sin and this if thou dost as sure as God is God thou shalt have mercy Isa 57.17 I dwell in the