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A10976	The righteous mans euidences for heauen, or, A treatise shewing how euery one, while hee liues heere, may certainely know what shall become of him after his departure out of this life	Rogers, Timothy, 1589-1650?	1624 (1624)	STC 21245; ESTC S953	57,847	316

and distressed in conscience neuer had true peace 2 My peace of conscience 3 Notes of true peace of conscience makes mee carefull to keepe a good conscience as it made the Apostle t Hebr. 13.18 desiring to liue honestly and to haue u 2 Cor. 1.12 my conuersation in godly purenesse 3. This true peace makes my Conscience not afraid to view it self whereas the euill conscience is like the Elephant which being guilty of his deformity cannot abide to looke on his owne face in the water but seekes muddy chanells and fowle puddles Min. Let mee heare you name some other signe from whence you gather assurance of your saluation Con. Mine Adoption is a sign hereof for wheras I was by nature a base-born of Satan no child so like his father as I was like him the Lord of his free grace fauour hath adopted me his childe to traine mee vp vnto eternall life that I may inherit with his own Son Iesus by meanes whereof I haue right also * 1. Cor. 3.22.23 to the creatures heere in this world as being my fathers goods and the miseries of this life x Rom. 8.28 become mercies to me and the glorious y Heb. 1.14 Angells become attenders on mee O high fauours O rich mercy O instimable dignity to bee the childe of God! Thus I trust I am one of the number of Gods children The fourth signe of saluation taken out of Rom. 8.17 Now none of them can possibly be depriued of an euerlasting inheritance for if we be children then are wee also heyres of God ioyntheyrs with Christ Seeing then I am one of them I know I shall inherit together with them yea with Christ Min. It is a common thing with men yea with lewd and gracelesse persons to say they are the children of God as the wicked Iewes z Ioh. 8.41 44. said to our Sauiour but hee tels them they ar of their father the Deuill how know you then that you are a true childe of God Con. 1. Because I am regenerate that is borne againe a Ioh. 1.13 5 Notes of a true child of God not of bloud as by a second naturall generation nor of the will of the flesh as by any naturall strength or actiō nor of the will of man as by any mans endeuour or operation but of God born of the spirit b Ioh. 3.5 as water through spirituall c T it 3.5 washing and ablution being begotten by the incorruptible seed of his word they which are thus begotten and borne of God must needs be his children that I am thus borne of the spirit and so become a new creature I haue shewed before in that I am conuerted Secondly looke what naturall affections are in a childe toward his father such spirituall affections are in mee towards God if he frowne I mourne if he threaten I tremble if he smite I stoop if he smile I am right glad if hee speake comfortablie I reioyce hartily I delight in nothing so much as the fauour of God feare nothing so much as the losse of it hauing found it oh how faine would I keepe it hauing lost it I cannot be at quiet till I recouer it I can be content to want all things so I haue it and can finde contentment in nothing if I want it my heauenly fathers fauour is more to mee then all the world Thirdly I know my adoption by the spirit of adoption which is within mee and casts out of me daily more and more the d Rom. 8.15 spirit of bondage a terrifying tormenting conscience and it makes me with some comfortable confidence and a true heart vnfainedly to call vpon God and to cal him my Father without either flattery or dissembling Fourthly e Rom. 8.14 As many as are led by the spirit of God they are the sons of God by his holy spirit am I led and willinglie doe I submit my selfe and vnfainedly desire to bee wholly gouerned thereby I desire not to follow the blinde guide carnall reason nor the deceitfull guide my own corrupt heart but I set the Lord alwaies before mee as a guide to direct mee in all things by that rule whereby hee leades into al truth euen his holie word it is my delight to say with the Prophet Dauid f Ps 25.5 Leade mee in thy truth O Lord and teach mee for thou art the God of my saluation Fiftly whereas all the children of God do resemble him their father for howsoeuer a man may haue a childe nothing like him yet God hath neuer a childe but is in some measure like him hereby I also know that I am his childe because I doe in some sort resemble him my heauenly Father As hee is g 1 Pet. 1.15 holy h Luk. 6.36 mercifull good i Ma. 5.48 perfect so doe I endeuour to conforme vnto him hauing his blessed image imprinted in mee and being renewed vnto that k Ge. 1.26 likenesse wherein the Lord created man in the beginning abhorring to bee of the number of them who though they professe themselues to bee Gods children yet are as Nabal so prophane and wicked that a man cannot speake vnto them and surely blasphemie it were to thinke that there is any likenesse betweene God and them he such a pure spirit and they such impure swine Min. Proceed vnto some other signe of your saluation Con. The Lord will bestow an euerlasting inheritance vpon all them that are sanctified The fift signe of saluation taken out of Act. 20.32 such a one am I the Lord hath sanctified mee by his holy spirit that is hath made mee holy whereas I was before most vile filthy vnclean wholly sinfull Neither yet am I now quite and cleane freed from all sinne or perfectly holy for alas l Ro. 7.23 I see another law in my members rebelling against the law of my minde and bringing me into captiuity of the law of sinne but I am freed from the bondage and dominion of sinne And looke as in the twi-light or day-breake some little glimmering light there is ouer-sprea●ing the skie yet mixed with much darknesse euen so there is in mee the admixture of sinne and much corruption accompanying the light of sanctifying grace in euery part of me yet this is my comfort That the day-starre is risen and the morning-light now shineth in mee and as for high-noone perfection of holinesse I wait for it and looke to enioy it in the highest heauen for the m Pr. 4.18 path of the iust is as the shining light that shineth more more vnto the perfect day Min. There are not a few who though they can talke of sanctification a●● notwithstanding very prophane yea leaprous persons hauing the vncleane issues of sin like plague-sores running on them going vp and downe with the leapers crie in their mouth n Leui. 13.45 vncleane vncleane therefore how know you that you are

carnall ioy is which causeth men to reioyce onely or chiefly in their corne and their wine their wealth and their honours their pleasures and their profits this nature affords vnto them But I finde in me a supernaturall ioy in things diuine and spirituall which corrupt nature can take no liking of much lesse delight therein therefore it hath been wrought in me by a power diuine that is the fruit of Gods holy spirit 5. Whereas the ioy of the wicked is slight and short a flash and away no better then the chirping of birds in a sunne-shine day mine is firme and durable not like summer-fruit which holds good but for a time for the summer-season of prosperity but my ioy is lasting fruit which still holds good yea euen in the hardest winter of greatest aduersity Ro. 5.3 I can ioy in tribulations 6. It is a victorious ioy for when as griefe like lead lies heauy on my heart pressing it downe then doth this ioy lift vp my heart in faith together with my hands eyes and voyce vpward to the heauens aboue the mountaines from whence my helpe commeth wherby appeares it ouercommeth griefe and getteth victorie ouer tentation thus I haue that which is the very life of life true ioy for life without this is hardly worthy the name of life Min. This pawne of heauen which the Lord hath put into your heart I may not nor cannot except against therefore proceed vnto another signe of your salution Con. Patience vnder the crosse may not bee left out nor forgotten no more then it may bee cast off or forgone well it deserues a roome among this good company of witnesses all which giue in euidence that heauen is mine The thirteenth sine of saluation taken out of Iam. 1.12 That this is a sure signe of saluation S. Iames proues it when he saith Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tryed hee shall receiue the crowne of life and that it is in me my conscience proues it therefore I am blessed but more blessed shall I bee when I receiue the crowne Minist Well may the crowne indeed be set vpon the head of patience so noble and so conquering a grace for christian * Nobile vincēdi genus est patientia vincit qui patitur suffring is a noble kinde of conquering and hee that so suffereth no lesse than conquereth And if you haue also found this gemme in you happy are you prouided alwaies that it be true patience how prooue you that Con. 1. 5. Notes of true patience Because I doe not onely finde out but also finde fault with any inclination or disposition toward impatiency I check and controul my selfe for it when it begins to stirre I begin to stifle it before it gather strength or get to head 2. I doe not goe about to prescribe to GOD the measure of afflicting me nor yet the manner meanes or time of helping easing and deliuering mee I can bee content with the grace of God in the forgiuenesse of my sinne and sanctification of his Spirit tho I want other things and can receiue the loue of God with good contentment though it come alone or attended with the crosse 3. I more feare to doe the euill of sinne than to suffer the euill of punishment for sinne * Malum parti malū non est malū facere malum est for to suffer affliction is not euill but to commit sinne is euill and I can be content still to beare the punishment so that the sinne may bee taken away oh I would not for any thing that the rod of God should be remoued before the Cure bee throughly wrought 4. My patience goes accompanied with a profiting vnder the correcting hand of God for first it brings forth e Rom. 5.4 experience both of the care and loue and gracious dealing of God towards me as also of my owne estate and cariage toward him and thus I come to haue better acquaintance with God with my selfe it also increaseth my loue toward him makes me cleaue and cling faster to him as a childe doth to his parent when hee turneth away from it and maketh as though he would goe away and leaue it to the wolfe it strengtheneth my faith and causeth me to relie more stedfastly on God in distresses for time to come and a dram of tried faith is better then a pound of vntried Lastly it worketh in me reformation I am not like wicked AhaZ f 2 Chr. 28 22. who in the time of his distresse did yet trespasse more and more against the Lord. For I can truely say with the holy Prophet g Ps 119.67 Before I was afflicted I went astray but now haue I kept thy word ô God Thus by patience I reforme my self and thus in patience I possesse my soule therefore it is true patience Min. By what other certain signe are you perswaded of your euerlasting saluation Con. They which haue receiued the Earnest of the Spirit in their hearts The fourth signe of saluation taken out of 2. Cor. 1.22 Eph. 4.30 Ro. 8.16.17 are thereby sealed vnto the day of redemption this haue I receiued to wit the infallible testimony of GOD's holy spirit which beareth witnesse with my spirit that I am the child of God and so an heyre of glory seeing God who cannot lye tels me by his spirit I shall be saued I hold it as I am bound for a necessary and a most vndoubted truth Min. Thousands of vngodly ones haue a perswasion that they shall be saued and none seeme more confident than they and yet it is but presumption and the illusion of the deuill in them for they haue no more true right to saluation than dogges to the childrens bread yea and though they sweare to it too as that they are ready enough to doe yet you neede not credit them vnlesse you will and if you doe it is but a lye as if a woman that had a child should swear she were a maid or one that had a plague-sore on him should sweare that hee were cleere would you beleeue either of them for all their facing of the matter sure you would not how know you then that yours is the testimony of Gods Spirit and not presumption which is nothing else but the lying spirit of Sathan in the mouth●s and hearts of all his children Conuer 5. Notes of the true testimony Gods of spirit First I proue it by the birth of it for it hath been wrought and planted in me contrary to nature by the word of God heard read meditated vpon and the like good meanes whereas presumption like a stinking weed growes of it owne accord out of the ranke soyle of Nature 2. As Iacob may bee knowne by Iacobs voyce from Esau so may this be knowne by its voice for it doth not barely tell mee I shall be saued but proues it to me and perswades mee by all these former signes which