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A10018	Sermons preached before his Maiestie; and vpon other speciall occasions viz. 1 The pillar and ground of truth. 2 The new life. 3 A sensible demonstration of the Deity. 4 Exact walking. 5 Samuels support of sorrowfull sinners. By the late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston Dr. in Diuinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Maiesty, master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Ball, Thomas, 1589 or 90-1659.	1630 (1630)	STC 20270; ESTC S120145	80,456	162

assurance of forgiuenesse The Lord as he washeth away the guilt so he healeth the staine and giues a new Spirit for this is his Couenant Ierem. 31. Ezech. 36. I will forgiue their sinnes and what then and giue them new hearts We are all deceiued in this that we thinke when as we take a purpose with our selues against a sinne that all is then done but it is not so as a man that hath a running issue in his body it is not enough for him to say I will not haue it thus I desire it should not bee I purpose it shall not but hee must vse meanes to heale it To conclude when any haue fallen into sinne I say vnto them as Samuel here Continue yee to serue the Lord doe you thinke to mend the matter when you are out of the way by going on or standing still but returne rather and serue the Lord for hee is the same Lord still and there is the same bond still that binds you to serue him And againe what will you doe goe some whither else for you must haue a being will you goe to the creatures to get rest from them they are vaine they will not profit you nor deliuer you but you will say whither then why to the Lord but what hope is there that hee should accept vs why the Lord will not forsake his people He is still the same God hee will not forsake his owne as a father will not forsake his child and secondly hee will not for his Names sake Lastly obserue hence that The sins which we commit make no change in the Lord. No substantiall change they may make him angry as a father may be with his son and that so as they may feele the effects of it but yet he is the same God still for First It is not the slipping into great sinnes that breakes the couenant or makes it void there is nothing that makes a bill of diuorce but an vtter turning away from God Againe secondly God is the same and you are the same your hearts are the same to him the same bent of minde the same frame of heart remaining in you still ye are his seruants still and he is the same vpon the same grounds that he chose you first he loues you still sinnes worke no substantiall alteration he chose you freely because he would and therefore as there is a transient act of sinne passed from you so a transient act of punishment may passe from God for as your hearts are the same for substance to him as before so is Gods to you The vse is that you would not thinke when you haue sinned that the Lord will reiect you Our Sauiour Christ shewes the same by the parable of the Prodigall they in the house did not thinke that such a sonne should haue had such entertainment when he had spent so much that his father would haue giuen him such an answer to fall vpon his necke to bee so glad of him by that our Sauiour expresseth how willing God is to receiue sinners Dauid had no sooner said I haue sinned but God said I haue put away thy sinne and so Peter after his deniall Christ looked on him with the same familiaritie as he did before Onely doe not thinke that God will hold the wicked innocent if ye haue false hearts then ye shall not be forgiuen If the Lord be so ready to receiue men after they haue offended him consider how worthy of vtter destruction they are that will not turne to him if God should say to any man here Thouhast committed this sin against me yet come in there shall be no hinderance of my part vnlesse the stubbornnesse of thine owne will hinder thee who would not say that he that should refuse were worthy to be condemned Christ is said to come to render vengeance to those that obey not the Gospell and therefore Samuel addes this in the end of all if they would for sake the Lord know that you and your King shall perish FINIS Obiect Ans. Obiect 1. Answ. Obiect 2. Answ. 1. Answ. 2. Answ. 3. Quest. Answ. 2 3 1 2 3. Signe Simile Simile Simile 2 3. 4 Quest. Answ. Vse 1. Quest. Answ. Quest. 2. Answer 1. Answer 2. Answer 3. Answer 4. Vse 2. Vse 3. 1 2 Obiect Answer 1 2 4 Coherence 1 Diuision 2 3 Simile Why sins are most taken notice of in Gods children Simile Vse 1. Vse 2. Consideration necessary to exact walking Consideration what Three things in consideration 1 The mind dwels on the action 2 To compare it with the rule Prou. 4. 26. Pondering what 3 To resolue vpon the practice of it Motiues to consideration 1 It is an excellency proper to man Simile 2 It perfects the soule Vse Inconsideration the cause of errors in our liues Simile Simile The vnder-faculties stubborne to spirituall things Simile The best study what Simile Simile Generall considerations Deut. 29. 4. Mark 6. 52. 2 Tim. 2. 6. Quest. Answ. We need not to consider euery particular action in our way Simile Simile Too much consideration of outward things Prou. 31. Madnesse what Luk. 15. Doct. It is a Christians duty to walke exactly To walke exactly what Simile Precisenesse commended by the Apostle condemned by the world Simile Three things in exactnesse 1 Looke to the whole rule 2 Goe to the vtmost of euery command Matth. 5. 3 Do it at all times Exactnesse required in three respects 1 In regard of the person 2 Pet. 1. Image of God what Cant. 4. 7. Simile Simile 2 In regard of the actions Circumstances must be good in a good action 3 In regard of others Iames 1. vlt. Quest. Answ. How this precept of exactnesse is to bee kept Reasons why Christians should walke exactly Reason 1. Else there will be a breach betwixt God and vs. Simile Simile Reason 2. Else what a man doth is for himselfe and not for the Lord. Reason 3. Else it argues a man is not in Christ. Gal. 5. Simile To be ouercome what Simile Reason 4. Else no meanes can be profitable Simile Vse To labour for this exactnesse In keeping the Sabbath In Prayer In receiuing the Sacrament In our particular calling In Recreations The power of Religion what Iam. 2. Simile Simile Instances of exact walking Instances of those that walked not exactly It is wisdome to walke exactly Simile The properties of wisdome 1 To direct all actions to an vniuersall end Note The cause of errours Errour about the end the greatest 2 To put a man vpon practice Difference betweene prudence and other arts How men are to be esteemed 3 To looke to euery part of his businesse 4 To looke on the inside of things Simile Simile Obiect Answ. Obiect Answ. Obiect Answ. Doct. Reason 1. Vse Quest. Answ. Quest. Answ. Quest. Answ. Quest. Answ. Simile Simile Doct. 2. Reason 1. Reason 2. Reason 3. Reason 4. Vse Doct. 3. Reason 1. Reason 2. Reason 3. Vse 2 3 1 Iohn 3. 20. Doct. 4. Reason 1. Reason 2. Reason 3. Reason 4. Doct. 5. 1 2 Reason 1. Quest. Answ. Doct. 6. Reason 1. Reason 2. 2 Chron. 16. Reason 3. Reason 4. Ob. Answ. Ob. Answ. Answ. 2. Ob. 2. Answ. Doct. 7. Reason 1. Reason 2. Vse Vse 2. 2 Thes. 1.

built it was no longer lawfull to offer sacrifice in any other place Now when Almighty God shall bee so curious have such a quicke and iealous eye upon so small an over-sight as this how sensible will he bee when matters much worse are tolerated permitted Iude 3. the faith once given to the Saints It was but once given therefore if lost or any way corrupted it will not be given again for it was given once for all is not to be revealed a second time and therefore he exhorts them to contend earnestly for the same For our selves wee have cause to magnifie Gods mercie in our present condition under the government of his gracious Maiestie and to remember this day which is the birth day of his Maiestie seeing under his shadow wee enjoy the publicke profession and practice of Religion and may live not only a quiet but an honest life a blessing that we cannot prize too much and should therefore much inlarge our hearts with thankefulnesse to God and love to our Princes to bestow on them not only outward obedience but also inward to assist them and bee subiect to them not by constraint but willingly to pray for them not formally but heartily as for the instruments and conduit-pipes of so great blessings notwithstanding we the Ministers of God have been bold to deliver from the mighty God of heaven and earth to conscience his vicegerent this impartiall and inflexible rule not fashioned and bended by the hand of man but moulded by the holy Ghost that thereby we may discouer where in we have fallen short and bee carefull to amend it wherein we have done well and be encouraged to doe it more and more that is to make freer passage for the truth and dam up the current of errours whether Popish or Arminian or of what kinde else soever for it 's the Lords businesse and blessed is the man that doth it diligently for as any walked more perfectly with God so they had more perfect peace and where unevenesse was found in their obedience there was it also found in Gods blessing on them Though wickednesse and crooked wayes may get the advantage for a start yet by it shall no man bee established Prou. 12. 3. And againe though uprightnesse bee sometimes overwhelmed yet like a corke at last it will arise from under water the prosperitie of wicked men like a watrie sun-shine may for a while continue but the late evening will bring a storme that never shall blow over he may flourish for a time like a greene bay tree but at last shall surely wither Those that are perfect with their God may have a winters season but shall at last be sure to flourish For if God be governour of the world disposer of the things therein according to his will if good and evill are done by him alone then certainely it must bee well with those that feare him and ill with those that sinne against him for it will be alwaies found a true and certaine rule That uprightnesse and holinesse is the cause of all our happinesse and obliquitie and sinne the cause of all our miserie THE NEVV LIFE 1. IOHN 5. 12. Hee that hath the Sonne hath life and hee that hath not the Sonne hath not life THe Apostles scope here is to shew us what great priviledges wee have by Iesus Christ among which this is one of the chiefest that hee that hath the Sonne hath life that is hee hath the life of grace for the present and shall have the life of glory for ever which he sets out by the opposite and that is hee that hath not the Sonne hath not life So that this point lies evidently before us that whosoever hath not a spirituall life for the present he is not in Christ and whosoever hath it is in Christ and shall live for ever where these two things are to be observed First that every man by nature is a dead man dead that is in trespasses and sins Secondly that yet there is a life to bee had that is contrary to this death First I say every man by nature is a dead man for life you see here is from the Sonne now there is no man borne a member of the new Adam but every man is borne a member of the old Adam and therefore in that sense he is borne a dead man though otherwise indued with a naturall life For if the roote be dead as the old Adam is all the branches that rise from the roote must needes be dead also Againe spirituall life is nothing else but a conjunction of the soule with the Spirit of God even as the naturall life is a conjunction of the body with the soule now as the soule leaveth the bodie so the holy Ghost withdrawes itselfe from the soule when it is disjointed distempered and made vnfit for vse for even as a man dwels in a house while it is habitable plaies on a musicall instrument while it is fit useth a vessel while it is whole and sound but when the house growes ruinous and inhabitable hee departs from it when the instrument is unstrung hee laies it aside when the vessell is broken or boared thorow he casts it away and leaves it even so doth the soule depart from the body when it growes ruinous when it is made inhabitable through mortal disease it laies it aside as an out-worn garment and after the same manner the holy Spirit withdrawes it self from the soule of a man when it is broken ruinated distempered through the mortall disease of sin and of naturall corruption And this is the case of every naturall man whatsoever till he be renewed by the infusion of a new life and yet it is the common opinion of naturall men that if a man live in the Church and be baptized and pray heare the word and imbrace the true religion and practise the outward duties of it that he is out of doubt in the state of this spirituall life and therfore I think it would bee an houre well spent to discover dead men to themselves to perswade men that except they be made new creatures except they be borne again they are in a state of death and cannot bee saved in that condition for you see he that hath not life hath not the Son and he that hath not the Son shall die the wrath of God abides upon him for ever Ioh. 3. ult Now it is said Eph. 4. 18. that men are strangers front this life through the ignorance that is in them and through the hardnesse of their hearts Marke it they are strangers from this life Partly through Ignorance because they are ignorant of this worke of life and regeneration they thinke there is a greater latitude in religion than there is within which compasse if they come they are safe that is though they be not so strict and so zealous though they goe not so fast to heaven as others yet they shall doe as