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A49466	Remedy against trouble in a discourse on John XIV, 1 : wherein something is also briefly attempted for clearing the nature of faith, of justification, of the covenant of grace, assurance, the witness, seal and earnest of the spirit, and preparation for conversion, or the necessity of holiness / by H. Lukin.	Lukin, H. (Henry), 1628-1719.	1694 (1694)	Wing L3481; ESTC R13639	76,819	257

therefore he will shew his displeasure against it But it is so likewise in Spiritual blessings we read of great things ascribed to Faith Acts 15.9 as purifying the heart overcoming the World quenching all the fiery darts of the wicked 1 Jo. 5.4 Eph. 6.17 Now it doth not all these things in a moral way as Moses overcame by looking to the recompence of the reward but we are thereby strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Heb. 11.26 Ephes 6.10 2 Tim 2.1 1 Peter 1.5 Col. 1.11 or in the grace that is in Christ Jesus and we are kept by the power of God through Faith to Salvation It is the Divine Power that keeps us and we are strengthned thereby or according thereto and not only morally by his word as men may strengthen each other Job 43.4 Ezek. 13.22 but it is Faith that takes in this aid or assistance of Grace or the supplies of the Spirit of Jesus Christ Phil. 1.9 which are communicated from him to the several Members of his Mystical Body as the Spirits are from the Head in the Natural Body and as Christ dwells in the heart by faith Ephes 3.17 so we derive Spiritual Life and Virtue from him in the daily Exercise of Faith he leaving those usually to themselves that trust to their own strength as Youth and Young men are ready to do when those that wait on the Lord and look to him for supplies of Grace shall surmount all difficulties and persevere in well-doing without weariness or fainting Isaiah 40.30 31. Psalm 27.14 He will strengthen the heart of those that wait on him and give Grace to such humble Souls as distrusting themselves rely upon him for strength and assistance CHAP. IX THere is yet one way more whereby Faith becomes such an effectual Remedy against Touble and that is as we thereby have a view or prospect of the other World or of the Future state We thereby look to the things that are not seen which are eternal And if any shall say 2 Cor. 4.18 the word there used doth not imply that he saw them or had a view of them but only that he made them his scope or aim I answer The word sometimes signifies to mark or observe as well as to consider or have respect to Rom. 16.17 Phil. 3.17 Heb. 11.27 And we do in a sort see the things which we aim at Moses is said to endure as seeing him that is visible which implies not the manner of his enduring but the ground of it not as if he had seen him that is invisible but because he saw him that is invisible or like one that saw the invisible God John 1.14 So as the glory of the only begotten Son of God is a glory becoming such an one And if it be said there is a Contradiction in the terms to see him that is Invisible I answer It is an Elegancy used frequently in Scriptures where a word in the same place is taken in different senses as to believe in hope Rom. 4.18 1 Tim. 5.6 against hope And she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she lives She lives Naturally but is dead Spiritually So God is invisible to our bodily Eyes but we see him by faith which is the evidence of things not seen Heb. 11.1 And if it be further objected that Faith and Sight are opposed in Scripture as We walk by faith and not by sight And in whom 2 Cor. 5.7 1 Pet. 1.8 tho now ye see him not yet believing ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory For this latter place distinguish of seeing as before and the sense is plain and for the former place Faith is there opposed either to the Vision of God which we shall have in the Future state or to present sense implying that we should govern our lives not by Sense or what we see but by what we belive or hereafter hope for And the Apostle when he would set forth the virtue of Faith and of what excellent use it is to support Christians under Trials and Sufferings he grounds it upon this Heb. 11.1 that it is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen It gives as it were a real and present subsistence to things that are yet but future and so hoped for and giveth us as full satisfaction concerning those things which we do not see as if we saw them clearly before our eyes And these two things make that which is future to affect us more and work more effectually upon us We say indeed among men that seeing is believing And they have Proverbial Speeches in other Nations like this of our own There is so much deceit and falshood to be found among men that persons will hardly believe till they see or have sufficient ground for it and so will not venture much on uncertain hopes But when we have to do with God that cannot lie believing is seeing that is when we have his Word to ground our Faith upon we are as sure as if we saw with our eyes or as if things were proved to us by a Mathematical Demonstration that is by such clear evidence as nothing can be objected against But tho we look upon things as certain they do not much affect us if we look upon them as at a great distance of time therefore wicked men relieve themselves against the fear of future Evils by looking upon them as at a great distance Ezek. 12.27 Amos 6.3 or putting far away the evil day We are likewise encouraged to patience by the near approach of the recompense of reward because he that shall come will come and will not tarry Heb. 10.37 James 5.8 9. Luke 21.28 The coming of the Lord draws nigh The judge stands before the door And our Saviour bids his Disciples lift up their heads when their redemption draws nigh If persons were going to some places and tired with the tediousness of their Journey and discouraged with the Difficulties and Dangers that they meet with in their way questioning whether they should find the way to it or hold out till they come at it should come to the top of an Hill and before they are aware see the place that they are going to a little before them what Courage and Life would it presently put into them As Columbus that first discovered the West Indies when his men were ready to Mutiny having been wearied with a Voyage of Sixty days over the Ocean he perceiving the Clouds to look clearer concluded that they were not far from Land and so promised them to return if they did not within three days discover Land which they did before the end of the third day So if we could get a sight of the other World as Moses did of the Land of Cannan on the top of Pisgah Deut. 3.27 What Vigour and Life would it add to us when we

A REMEDY AGAINST TROUBLE IN A DISCOURSE ON JOHN XIV I Wherein something is also briefly attempted for clearing the Nature of Faith Of Justification Of the Covenant of Grace Assurance the Witness Seal and Earnest of the Spirit And Preparation for Conversion or the Necessity of Holiness By H. LUKIN LONDON Printed for Thomas Cockerill at the Three Legs in the Poultrey over-against the Stocks-Market 1694. TO THE READER THE ensuing Treatise is the Substance of some Sermons which I transcribed at the desire of a Friend I designed chiefly a Practical Discourse and if I have sometimes fallen upon controverted Points it is not from any delight that I take therein I am not of Abner's Temper 2 Sam. 2 14. to make a sport of Digladiations amongst Brethren neither should I with Alipius have been tempted to be a Spectator of the Gladiators among the Romans As in passing through the Streets in London I would not plod on without minding my way or resolve to go on in a direct Line turning every one out of the way without giving the least place to them but chuse my way to escape the Dirt so far as I could and turn my self so as to pass with the least trouble to my self or offence to others so in passing through the World I would not despise my way walking at random or at adventures nor rudely check all that I meet with or that stand in my way Prov. 19.16 Levit. 26.21 Psalm 39.1 Prov. 4.26 James 1.27 2 Peter 2.20 Rom. 12.18 1 Cor. 10.32 1 Thes 3.12 13. but take heed to my way ponder the paths of my feet that I may so far as I can keep my self unspotted of the world and escape the pollutions of it and that I may if it be possible live peaceably with all men giving none offence neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles nor to the Church of God neither exasperating others nor giving others occasion to exasperate my self Sharp Humours discompose the Soul as well as the Body and hinder the thriving thereof Therefore the Apostle prays for the Thessalonians That the Lord would make them to increase and abound in love one towards another and towards all men to the end he might establish their hearts unblameable in holiness A Charitable frame of spirit tending much to the promoting thereof Yet we cannot wholly avoid treating of things that are disputable and it is an happy work if any could thereby allay the Heats that are amongst Christians and set them right in their thoughts about those things that are controvered both to maintain a good Understanding and Accord among themselves and to direct them in their Addresses and Applications to God I have endeavoured to bring Water not Oyl to the Fire I know Water will make unquenched Lime burn but I hope I shall not meet with any of that Temper Prov. 20.18 We should with good advice make war We should consider whether we are able to deal with those that we undertake a War against But tho we think that we are so we should consider whether we have any just Cause to begin a War There were great Preparations against the Two Tribes and an half on the other side of Jordan the rest of the Tribes fearing that they would bring wrath upon the whole Congregation of Israel Joshua 22.18 c. but when matters came to be examined they were pleased with the account that the Two Tribes and an half gave of what they had done So many are ready to undertake a Religious War or Dispute against their Brethren as if they were subverting the Christian Religion or undermining the Foundation thereof but when they come to examine matters they find there is no cause of such heats or emotions of spirit but those things which they are offended at are either the private Opinions or at least the rash and unadvised Expressions of some particular Persons which the rest of those that are supposed to be of their Party do disown This is very ordinary amongst all sorts of persons and I know no sort of persons that will vouch every thing which is spoken by all that rank themselves among them let every one bear their own burthen and let not others answer any further for what they say than they have given their consent thereto But sometimes we may mistake Persons and impute such things to them as they do not believe Many do not read mens own Works but judge of their Opinions by what they read in those that write against them who often chuse out such passages as may give them most advantage against them or which they can most easily answer or will represent them as most blame-worthy to others and justify their rough treatment of them It is rare to find in Polemical Writings such Candour and Clearness as is observed in a late Writer Mr. Le Blanc who in stating many of the Differences betwixt us and the Papists renders himself suspected by some on both sides some Protestants thinking he is too favourable to the Papists in representing their Opinions And some Papists have thought that he hath been partial in the account that he gives of the Doctrine of the Protestants and yet both Papists and Protestants acquit him from wronging them in setting down their own Opinions Now it is a great disadvantage to any to have some Periods or Sentences taken out of their Writings when we do not see on what occasion they write such things nor what they write in other places which may allay or qualify such harsh Expressions I have seen a Letter which was so written that if it were read at length every Line of it did import one thing but if it were so folded or turned down as to hide the end of every Line it was of a quite different tenor or signification So a partial representation of mens minds may subject them to great mistakes or misconstructions yea we may mistake men many times tho we read their Writings our selves we may say of the most Learned Writers as is said of the Egyptians They are men and not God Isaiah 31.3 they cannot see all things at one single view and when men are intent on one thing they will call in the service of some Hypothesis which may be for their present turn and disown it at another time when they see that it will not well agree with some other Opinion which they would confirm This is a weakness that I have observed in some of the most Learned men that I have read especially when they write much and forget at one time what they have written at another and it may be have given an Interpretation of Scripture at one time when it might serve an Hypothesis which they have answered themselves on another occasion when some other Point which they have been treating of would not bear their former Interpretation There must be an allowance made in such cases for mens over-sights and infirmities Sometimes

cautious of charging every one with rebelling against the light Job 24.13 Tit. 3.11 or as being condemned of himself that hath means which we think sufficient to convince him We can hardly imagine what influence the course of mens studies the company that they converse with their prejudices and interest have upon their judgments Who knows the power of Interest A gift blinds the wise Exod. 23.8 Prov. 18.16 and perverts the words of the righteous It is more to blind the eyes than to pervert the Will or sway the Affections But it first commends a man to the favour of another and then it determines his mind to the study or consideration of such things as do unawares beguile him into a good opinion of his Cause so as he pronounces sentence in favour of him So Interest sways mens studies and chuses their company and these insensibly determine their judgments Again it should not seem strange to us if we do not see all men rise up to some Learned men which we think have so clearly demonstrated things that nothing can be further objected against them nor any further doubt made of them For there are many that are not easily determined in their judgements by the Writings of Learned men while they consider that such persons may be and often are influenced by their Interest and Affections which do easily beguiie their judgments to say what they can and can say almost what they please Simon Churmay at Paris 1201. As one that had made a Learned Discourse about the Trinity for which he was much commended and admired said he had much confirmed and advanced the truth of Christ but if he were minded to deal crosly he knew how with stronger Reasons and Arguments to confute the same And a very Learned man known to many that are yet living told one who related it to me that he could write a Book as big as Suarez his Metaphysicks to prove a Deity and then write another as big to refute it These things considered would incline us to more mutual forbearance and Charity Many that we look upon as erroneous if we did rightly understand them might perhaps be found to be of our mind and to think the same things with our selves Others that do err yet as one said will not be Hereticks that is will not persist in their error if they be convinced of it which it is not so easy a matter as many imagine to be as Augustin said to the Manichees They rage against you that know not with how great labour the truth is found out and with how great difficulty errors are avoided God hath left many things in his word clear and plain wherein most Christians do consent but other things for the exercise of our diligence and mutual forbearance in this state of Imperfection wherein we see but in part THE CONTENTS CHAP. I. THE Introduction and Explication of the words CHAP. II. What 't is to believe in God and Christ why we are to believe in Christ as well as in God That Faith is the most Effectual Remedy against Troubles because 't is the means of obtaining Pardon CHAP. III. What pardon of sin is How 't is obtained by Faith Reasons why Justification and Salvation are suspended on believing The benefit of pardon of sin CHAP. IV. What Assurance we have of pardon of sin by Faith how far Faith is attended with Assurance and how it may be sometimes without it How Assuranc is lost Objections against getting and maintaining it by marks answer'd Why so rare a thing now Not easy to be had nor impossible Of the Immediate Testimony of the Spirit The Spirits witnessing with or to our spirits what Of the sealing and earnest of the Spirit CHAP. V. General Observations to help men in the trial of their spiritual State Harder for some to know it than for others Men may at some times seem better or worse than they are respect must be had to natural temper and to men's Circumstances CHAP. VI. How Christians that are sincere may be known from others tho they have their sinful infirmities CHAP. VII Some Characters whereby to know our spiritual state CHAP. VIII Faith an Effectual Remedy against Troubles because thereby we have the Comfort and Benefit of the Promises How we have it by Faith CHAP. IX Faith an Effectual Remedy against Troubles because it gives us a view of the future state CHAP. X. What is required in order to believing Nothing that may commend us to Christ for his acceptance Nothing to make the Grace of God effectual yet something is necessary and what is so Whether Preparations are in our our own power What God doth towards Conversion Of being rightly and sufficiently and long enough humbled CHAP. XI Of the necessity of Holiness on many accounts ERRATA PAg. 2. l. 12. for as r. us p 23. l. 1. blot out the 2 d. and p 42. for pleaded r. placed p. 73. l 8. blot out and. p. 77. l. 25. for and r. so p. 83. l. 28. r. Doctis p. 89. l. 29. r Politian p. 94. l 25. blot out he p. 117. l. 4. for extasy r. excess p. 119. l. 12. r. nearer l. 28. for helps r. hope p. 125. l. 16. for were r. are There are some other literal faults which the Reader may easily see to be the mistake of the Printer Books Printed for and Sold by Thomas Cockerill at the Three Legs in the Poultrey near Stocks Market A Seasonable Discourse wherein is examined what is lawful during the Confusions and Revolutions of Government Stitch. 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that we must find out the certainty and sincerity of our Faith and Obedience by Self-examination before we can have a well-grounded Assurance that we are in a state of Grace and Salvation already and that such an Assurance belongs to the reflect Act of Faith and is not of the Essence of that Faith whereby we are justified and saved But if by believing we mean coming to God by Jesus Christ Psal 119.60 1 John 3.23 Esther 2.12 we should make haste and not delay to keep this command as well as others We are not to think that as the Queens of Persia were to be prepared Six months with oyl of myrrh and six months with sweet odours and other things before they might be admitted to the King so we must continue such a time under Humiliation and so long under Contrition before we may presume to come to Christ For tho it is true we should count the cost of being his Disciples Luke 14.28 Matth. 13.21 for want of which many as it is in the Parable of the Sower are forward to hear the word with joy and believe for a time but afterwards fall away yet it is not necessary that we suspend our believing till we have throughly weighed every thing It is not in this case as in ordinary Marriages where Persons should inform themselves well of every particular before they engage because when once engaged it will be too late to repent or to make a better choice But it is herein as if a Person had one propounded to her that she must Marry or be undone and one who they know will put her upon nothing or require nothing of her which she can justly except against in whom there is nothing that she can dislike there can be no danger or inconvenience in finishing such a Match without further delay So if there were any other Name whereby we could be saved if Christ did put us upon any thing or require any thing of us which Heaven will not countervail or if he would not have us yet come to him we might defer our believing And tho something is to be done as I have said to make us willing to come to Christ yet there is no long time required for the Soul to continue in a State of Preparation the whole Work hath been done at once Acts 2. Acts 9. Acts 16. Vol. 2. 148. as we see in those that were converted at Peter's Sermons in Paul in the Jaylor As Mr. Charnock doth ingeniously illustrate it The preparation of the Subject is necessary but this preparation may be at the same time with the conveyance of the Divine Nature As a warm Seal may both prepare the hard Wax and convey the Image to it by one and the same touch CHAP. XI I Will finish all with a few words about the Necessity of Holiness both for the allaying of those heats that are amongst some about it and for preventing or removing the Prejudices of Men against it There is no need of distinguishing betwixt the Necessity of Holiness or Obedience to the beginning of our Justification and to the Continuation of it among those that according to the Doctrine of the Church of England believe the Perseverance of the Saints and that there is no Intercision of Justification But there is a Necessity of Holiness in those that are justified for tho we may be justified at first by such a Faith as is only in tendency to obedience but wants time and opportunity to put it self forth yet where Faith is unfeigned and only such Faith justifies it will as there is occasion and opportunity work by love so Gal. 5.6 1 Cor. 6.11 Heb. 12.14 that whom God doth justify in the name of Christ he doth also sanctify by his spirit therefore without holiness none shall see God Yet we are not to think that Holiness is required on the same account with Faith much less in co-ordination with the righteousness of Christ I doubt it is a piece of ordinary Christian's Divinity that the righteousness of Christ serves only as grains of allowance to make our righteousness currant where it is too light But as Christ hath no sharers in his Mediation so neither is there any thing needful to be added to his satisfaction but we are acquitted only upon the account thereof and whatever we do serves not for so much as grains of allowance to make his satisfaction currant with God for us But yet it is necessary upon other accounts not only because God will insist on it as a thing condecent to his Holiness who is of purer eyes than to behold evil Heb. 1.13 but there is a natural necessity of it as a means to our chief end which is to glorify God and enjoy him As when Nebuchadnezzar chose some of the Captivity to serve under him Dan. 1.3 c. he would not only have them well-favoured and fed with the King's Meat and Wine that they might appear sightly before the King but had such chosen as had good Natural Abilities and had them taught the Learning and Language of the Caldeans that they might be fit to do him Service So God doth not only delight in Holiness but indeed without that we are not fit to serve him we are naturally reprobate to every good work Tit. 1.16 and we must be God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus to those good Works which he hath before ordained that we should walk in them But it is likewise necessary that we may enjoy that happiness which he hath prepared for us He brings in the Highways and Hedges Luke 14.23 the meanest and most unworthy to partake of his Glory But if a King should invite those that are Sick and that of some loathsome Disease to eat at his Table if he would of his Bounty and Goodness dispense with the smell and loathsomeness of their Disease it would be no favour to them in the Condition wherein they are to sit at the King's Table while their Sickness makes them nauseate every thing there and the smell of Meat to be offensive to them But it would be a favour indeed to be first recovered from their Disease that they might not be ashamed to appear in such a place and that they might be able to relish their Meat and Drink This is our case as we are unfit to appear before God in the state wherein we are to whom our inner-man is as naked and open as our outward-man is to men like our selves So we are alogether uncapable of that Comfort and Happiness which is to be found in the Presence of God or of the foretasts of it which he gives his People in this Life Whatever Excellency there is in any thing we must have a Sense or Faculty correspondent therewith or else we cannot understand or enjoy any thing of it There is a Beauty in a Rose and in other Flowers which those that have their sight may enjoy the