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spirit_n	eternal_a	life_n	soul_n	7,461	5	5.0564	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01135	The true Israelite, or, The sincere Christian distinguished from the hypocrite. By Master William Andrewes, late minister of the word of God.	Andrewes, William, minister of the word of God.	1638 (1638)	STC 630.5; ESTC S124182	38,395	238

these but words of course if thy heart beleeves this doctrine Deceive not thy selfe by secure presumption Marke what the Apostle addeth and such were some of you but ye are washed ye are sanctified ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Iesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God he doth not say and such are some of you and yet ye are justified but such were some of you giving us to understand that such sinnes cannot stand with the grace of Iustification and Sanctification of the Spirit I but yet such a person may bee elect saith one We doe not now dispute what he may be or what Gods purpose is to worke in him hereafter but this wee are bound to teach and the people beleeve that men so long as they continue in such sinnes are not in the state of salvation and if they dye without repentance they are certainly damned Neither must men deceive themselves with a conceit of hidden grace and presence of the Spirit during the continuance of such sins for these sinnes being contrary to the Holy Ghost doth so quench the divine motions and so pollute the soule that Saint Iohn speaking of one of such sinnes affirmes flatly 1 Ioh. 3.15 Wee know that no man-slaier hath eternall life abiding in him He doth not deny but that a man-slaier repenting may have eternall life but he concludes against this fraud of presumption maintaining that such an one during his sinne without repentance hath not eternall life abiding in him but by his sinne hee hath lost the Spirit of GOD and the comfort of salvation by Christ untill he be againe renewed by repentance And therfore men that continue in such sinnes ought to bee so farre from beleeving that they in Gods favour are safe they that are bound to beleeve by the word of God that they shall never inherit the kingdome of Christ I but saith this deceiver doth not the scripture say Blessed is the man whose unrighteousnesse is forgiven Psal 32.1 and whose sinnes is covered if covered saith he then continuance in sin cannot hurt a beleever But the godly which know the comfortable sence of these words admits not this deceivers glosse All our former sins by repentance and faith in Christ are forgiven and so covered that they shall not appeare to our confusion but then we know also that repentance imports not onely a verball confession and acknowledgement that we sin but also a reall and true forsaking of such sins as are committed against consciēce The grace of Christ then covers our infirmities as a cloath to hide them because they continue so long as wee live but it covers our impieties crimes as a plaister that draweth out the filth and healeth the sore We must not thinke that the Name and merits of Christ are a cloake for villanies or a covert for iniquities but as by the grace of Christ our weaknes is covered so our wickednes is cured so that a wicked man and a Christian are directly contrary 3. Fraus impia the wiced fraud in profession of Religion VVE have observed alreadie that fraud of Iniustice deceiving others that fraud of folly deceiving themselves now let us see that impious fraud in the profession of Religion deceiving the LORD of which we may briefly observe six kinds The FRAUD 1. Of Formall and Politicke 2. Of Faint and Negligent 3. Of Fained Counterfeit 4. Of Forced and Servile 5. Of Forged and Arbitrary 6. Of Flattering and Carnal RELIGION 1. Of Formall POliticke Religion admits no more of Gods service than may stand with the state serve the time and please men a ranke of men there are that so turn themselves to serve GOD that yet they have alwayes an eye therin to serve their own turne Aug. de civi dei ca. 20. l. 2. Hence come the principles of polititians Tantùm stet tantùm floreat copijs referta victorijs gloriosa pace secura Respublica et quid ad nos caetera Let but the state of the common wealth stand and flourish abundant with plenty glorious with victory secure with peace and we looke after no more Hence come their positions Conservatio Reip. status prior ac antiquior esse debet quam religionis causa B●lloy pag. 2. The preservation of the Common-wealth ought to be more precious and more to bee respected than the matter of Religion Antiquisart p. 124. Hence comes this their brutish conclusion Virorum fortium hic scopus hoc studium haec cura primaria esse debet vitam laetam ac affluentem ducere This ought to be the drift the study and prime care of a generous man to live a jocund and delicious life Of which beasts yet Iob hath fearefully concluded Iob 21.13 They passe their dayes in pleasure and in a moment goe down to hell O how this polititian smiles to observe the true Israelites following their profession in earnest counting them therefore God Almighties fooles But well answered the Lady Paula the Polititians of her time nos stulti propter Christum sed stultum Dei sapientius est hominibus We are fooles for Christs sake but the foolishnes of God is wiser than men Inertiaese et otio dante c. saith Ierome whilst these Mammonists give themselves to idlenes and sloth they count those which seriously meditate in the Law of God day and night tanquam garrulos et inutiles as vaine and scripture-men Psal 14.6 and as David saith They have made a mocke at the Councell of the poore because the Lord is his trust This formalist is in the Church as a sword in the heart as a serpent in the bosome as a poyson in the stomack as a theefe in the house by him the righteous soule is grieved the plaine Israelite circumvented the weake infected the Church robbed From this fraud the true Israelites exempted who first seeks the Kingdome of God and his righteousnesse serves not the time but the Lord and their prime care is to worke their salvation with feare and trembling 2. The fraud of faint Religion THe second fraud in profession is Negligence when the professour is not inflamed with zeale and the love of God but with a remissnes and carelesnesse creeps about the workes of godlines This fraud the holy Ghost espied in the Angel of the Church of Laodicêa Reu. 3.15 saying I know thy workes that thou art neither cold nor hot and of this guile speaks the Scripture fearfully Ier. 48.10 Cursed is every one that worketh the worke of God negligently Free from this guile are all true Israelites Psa 42.2 So David that said my soule is a thirst for God 1 King 19.10 So Elias that protested saying I am zealous for the Lord God of Hostes though many times they which are at ease in Syon count Elias his zeale the maine disturbance of Israel T' is a fearefull commination of the Lord against neutralls these luke-warme professors in the Prophecy of