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A44285	A sermon preached afore Thomas Andrews Lord Maior and the aldermen, sheriffs &c. of the honorable corporation of the citie of London in which discourse is held forth I. The order, method, and succession of times and things both good and evil ... as an explanation of his former sermon before the said honorable assembly upon Octob. 8, 1650. 2. A touch upon the two witnesses. 3. An iconism or picture of the present apostacie in England. 4. A systeme of symptomes of them that will have the spiritual falling - sickness to depart from the faith / by Nathanael Homes.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2575; ESTC R29231	23,573	34

fall away whiles his forbearance of sin is not from inward divine principles and disputed in Prayer and back'd by Faith in the death and resurrection of Christ which was the Art of Paul Rom. 7. and Phil. 3. If men do not mainly by such inward principles so mann'd and managed depart from sin but do it so far as they do it by policie looking at outward respects they have the tokens of this Faling-sickness 3. When a man acts good with self-ends 3 Symptom and beyond that he doth not act as Jehn Judas and Magus he hath the signes he will fall away as the did Jehn onely acted to remove that which stood in his way viz. That which did impede his access to the Crown and his peaceable enjoyment of it but not the Idol and evils of his predecessor Magus professed his belief and was baptized that he might obtain the admired gifts Indas the longest lasting false ground lasted as long as his gain lasted no longer Hos 7.14 When ye howled as alluding to dogs crying for love of their meat not of their master for corn and wine and oil did ye fast unto me even to me And Hos 10.1 Israel is an empty vine bringing forth fruit unto himself He onely clothed himself gay with green leaves unless he brought a few berries to seminate its kinde not to serve the end of the Husbandman that planted it 4. ●ymptom Be the fruit never so fair or full if it be not from a right cause root and stock he will fall off as a dead branch Ioh. 15.2 Point it right thus Every branch put the comma there in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away and as 't is in vers 6. is cast forth AS A BRANCH That is a man will fall off and become a tarquam-Branch a thing that is but an AS IT WERE in Religion unless he be fruitful and brings forth that fruit from a Physical union as 2 Pet. 1.4 intimates from a partaking of the divine nature from a communication as Gal. 2.20 of the life of Christ from a serious frequent application of Christ to that very end 5. ●ymptom The last Symptome of the spiritual falling-sickness is the want of that Antidote of Antidotes oil in the vessel as Christ calls it Mat. 25.4 For as 't is there in the parable the foolish virgins went very far were in the Heaven of ordinances companiors to the wise had lamps of much brain knowledg of divine things with a fair moral conversation had an expectation of Christ coming therefore took lamps and waited had some awakenings of conscience at the noise of Christs coming yet for all this because they had no oil in the vessel that is no infused habit of divine grace in the heart no inward change no complexion of holiness they fail and fall at last Therefore Christians if these five tokens of the spiritual falling sickness be upon us our work of salvation lies yet undone 〈◊〉 matter and ●…ner of Rege●…tion and Sal●…on 't is yet to be done A new foundation is to be layd in floods of godly sorrow for sin and in particular for past hypocrisie New applications of Christ by faith in Gospel promises offering him are to be made with strong cries of prayer that God would give our hearts and souls to Christ that we may be joyned to the Lord 1 Cor. 7 as one spirit and so really close with him with mutual taking him to us and we giving up our selves to him Cant. 2.16 My beloved is mine and I am his adding to all an earnest begging of God as was the manner of sincere ones Iob David and Pauls advice to the Corinthians 2 Cor. 13. to search and try us that we be not deceived And still to stick to this work in attendance on ordinances and duties with Meditations ejaculations and spiritual contestations between God and us and us and our own souls as Psal 42. Ps 43. till the soul come to an experimental knowledge of the inward mystery and power of godliness in the heart having all the spiritual sences touched affected exercised with the delightful presentation of their commensurated objects thus * The inwa●… mystery and power of G●…ness in the 〈◊〉 described 1. The heart hears the voyce of Christ in the language of a spiritual lover as in Cant. 2.8 The voice of my Beloved The ellipsis and imperfect expression intimateth a suddain spiritual passion of the heart leaping with joy at the found thereof Of this inward voice the Prophet speaks Thou shalt hear a voice behinde thee saying This is the way walk in it And Psal 35.3 Say unto my soul Thou art my salvation And Psal 27. Thou saidst Seek my face thy face Lord will I seek That Text intimates a voice making an Eccho in the heart Should seem by this last place and the rest that this voice is not a Scriptureless dreamed Revelation or Enthusiasm but the voice of God's written Word carried from the ear to the heart by applications ond impressions of the Spirit 2. The heart sees the glory of the exellency of Christ Visions of faith and raptures of admiration and adoration of him Cant. oft And 1 Cor. 2. Eye hath not seen c. But God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit And Phil. 3. I count all dung to the excellency of the knowledge of Christ 3. The heart feels the operations of the Spirit of Christ as mortifying sin so quickening raising and enlivening the soul in spiritual actings Rom. 8. much And Cant. 5.6 While he spake my soul failed Heb. my soul went forth through wonderful affectionate apprehensions 4. The heart tastes the sweetness of Christ's love shed or poured upon the spiritual palat Rom. 5.5 2 Cor. 5.14 5. And lastly the heart smells the fragrant pleasant acceptable communications of Christ to the soul Cant. 1.12 While the King sitteth at the table my spikenard viz. by communication from him sendeth forth the smell thereof for so it follows in the next verse A bundle of myrrhe is my Beloved unto me And v. 14. My Beloved is to me a cluster of camphire So the soul speaks of Christ Psal 45.8 All thy garments smell of myrrhe aloes and cassia Iacob is sweet but not of himself but in the garments of his elder brother by that means he smells as a field of flowers whom the Lord hath blessed Gen. 27. And thus Christians we be or must be if right The third thing to be done in relation to the Minatory Prognosticks of evil to come ●nvention is to raise our Faith to believe in God through Christ that as the Prophet saith Say to the righteous It shall be well with them it shall be well with us that believe This our Apostle hints in the Context when he exhorts the Thessalonians not to be shaken in minde As we flee to Prayer for succour against such storms so Faith is the hand of Prayer to lay hold and climb up into God's lap And to cherish our Faith and comfort thereby the Apostle tells us in the Text and Context that if do the good party what they can Apostacie and Antichristian impletie rise yet higher and higher come the worst that can come it shall not be long after ere Christ come Acerbissima pati possumus modo brevissima We may endure sharp things if short If nothing else can take down the high appearance of Apostates and Antichrists Christs appearance shall Then is their total ruine and our perpetual restauration and to triumph on earth for a time afore the Ultimate Glory as we have it elsewhere That as when nothing would restrain several rebellions of the Israelites about to stone Moses Aaron and other good men among them The glory of the Lord appeared upon the Tabernacle and aw'd and husht all so shall it be in this Therefore with Faith and Hope and personal purity wait Cannot we watch with Christ one hour Blessed are all they that stand ready waiting for him with their loyns girt Amen FINIS