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Christianity in short or The way to be a good Christian· Recommended to the use of such as want either time or capacity for reading longer and learneder discourses. By C. Ellis author of the Gentile-sinner.
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Ellis, Clement, 1630-1700.
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without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work pass the time of your sojourning here in fear 1 Pet. 1.17 God will render to every man according to his deeds to them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory honour and immortality Eternal Life But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness indignation and wrath Romans 2.6 7 8. Work out your own Salvation with fear and trembling Phil. 2.12 Give diligence to make your calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1.10 The heart of this people is waxed gross and their ears are dull of hearing and their eyes have they closed least they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and should be converted and I should heal them Act. 28.27 Save your selves from this untoward Generation Act. 2.40 Repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out Act. 3.19 Except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Matthew 18.3 Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Luk. 13.3 5. Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God Joh. 3.3 Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. Heb. 12.14 Neither is there Salvation in any other but Christ for there is none other name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved Act. 4.12 He that believeth on him is not conlemned but he that believeth not is condemned already Joh. 3.18 There is no condemnation to them â—â—at are in Christ Jesus who walk not â—fter the flesh but after the Spirit â—om 8.1 To be carnally minded is death â—â—t to be spiritually minded is Life and â—eace Ver. 6. If ye live after the â—esh ye shall dye but if ye by the â—pirit do mortifie the deeds of the Body ye shall live Ver. 13. Now the works of the Flesh are manifest which are these Adulteries Fornication Uncleanness Lasciviousness Idolatry Witchcraft Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strife Seditions Heresies Envyings Murders Drunkenness Revellings and such like They which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Gal. 5.19 c. If any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Romans 8.9 If any man be in Christ he is a new creature 2 Cor. 5.17 They that are Christ's have Crucified the Flesh with the affections and lusts Gal. 5. Love not the world nor the things that are in the world For if any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world 1 Joh. 5.4 Let him that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity 2 Tim. 11.19 By this the children of God are manifest and the children of the Devil whosoever doth not Righteousness is not of God neither he that loveth not his brother 1 Joh. Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envying But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the Flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof Rom. 13.13 14. If any man come to me and hate not his Father and Mother and Wife and Children and Brethren and Sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my Disciple Luk. 14.26 If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his Cross and follow me Matthew 16.24 For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own Soul Or what shall a man give in Exchange for his Soul Ver. 26. The Grace of God which bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly Righteously and Godly in this present world Looking for that blessed hope and the Glorious appearance of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works Tit. 2.11 12. c. Ye are all the children of the light and the children of the day we are not of the night nor of darkness Therefore let us not sleep as do others but let us watch and be sober 1 Thes 5.5 6. How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation Hebrews 2.3 If the Righteous scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly and the finner appear 1 Pet. 4.18 The Tryal of a Christian's State IT highly concerns me to examine and try whether I be in a State of Sin or in a State of Grace that if I be in the former I may hasten out of it to escape damnation and if in the later I may bless God for his goodness and go on to Salvation Now thus I must try my self If I understand so much of GOD as that I do really esteem and value Him his grace and love above all the world and am heartily willing to take Him alone for my portion counting him enough though for him I should lose all the world besides If my care and delight be to do his Will and my chief rejoycing be in his love and my heart's desire and longing be to enjoy him more fully in Heaven If to this end I apply my self to Jesus Christ trusting in him alone for Eternal Life in the presence of God and giving my self intirely to be governed by him willing to obey his Laws whatsoever it shall cost me though it be with the loss of all worldly advantages and earthly pleasures and even Life it self If I can for his sake love enemies bear wrongs forbear revenge mortifie lusts and passions bridle my appetite disregard my own will and pleasure endure shame and reproach lose wealth friends and liberty yea and life too If I watch as narrowly over my heart affections and thoughts as over my outward actions and earnestly desire more than any worldly treasure to be throughly renewed and cleansed by the Holy Spirit from all inward corruptions If I hate every sin in my self and strive all I can against it and am restless till I conquer it and troubled at my heart at my own imperfections longing to be freed from them If I really delight and find pleasure in the worship and service of God and do not come forcedly and constrainedly to it as rather willing to do otherwise if I durst if I find holiness and obedience sweet and pleasant and no burden or wearisomness to me If I can and do heartily resign my self to God not minding what I naturally would have or do nor what any thing else would perswade me to but meerly what is the will of God and going on cheerfully to do his will pray fervently for his assistance and cast my self confidently on his mercy through Jesus Christ for Salvation If I find this in my self my state is comfortable and good But on the contrary If I yet
what he is the same for ever God is Almighty able to do all things Omniscient knowing all things infinitely Wise in ordering all things God is Infinitely good and the Fountain of all goodness Holy and Just and Merciful God is self-sufficient perfectly blessed and happy in himself alone needing nothing but Infinite in all perfections The Father begetting the Son the Son begotten of the Father the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son are Three Persons but one uncompounded undivided GOD blessed for ever God is the Maker or Creator of all things the Preserver and Vpholder of all things God is the absolute Owner and Lord of all things God is our Soveraign King Supream Law-giver and Righteous Judge God is our chief good and loving Father and bountiful Benefactor All Life and Power and Wisdom come from God and our final rest and perfect happiness is in Him alone God is a most free Agent and doth what and when and how he will In the Beginning by his Word of his own good pleasure he made the World and all things in six dayes when before there was nothing but Himself All that God made was very good God by his Providence preserveth ruleth and ordereth all things great and small There is no goodness in any thing but what God giveth nothing can come to pass but as God permitteth it God may justly do what he will with every thing he can do no wrong to any thing he ordereth the whole course of the World wisely and for the best God made an innumerable company of Angels or pure Spirits A great multitude of these Angels continue holy and happy in loving praising and enjoying God doing his Commandments and serving him in such Ministries as he pleaseth to employ them in for the good of his people Many of the Angels did sin and were cast down to Hell into Everlasting torments These are Devils under Beelzebub the Prince of Devils the Old Serpent and Satan The Devil is the Spirit that worketh in the children of Disobedience the Father of Evil-doers going about like a roaring Lyon seeking whom he may devour God made Adam the first man of the Dust of the Earth and the first woman Eve of a Rib of Adam Man hath two parts a Body of Flesh and Bones and a Soul which is a Spirit God made Man after his own Image he gave him an Immortal soul endued with understanding a free will and a power to do good and authority to rule and use the creatures for such ends as God designed them God made not man a Lawless creature to live as it should list him but God made him for himself and to serve him in Holy Love and perfect Obedience Man understood God's Will and that Will understood was the Law in his heart whereby he was to live Knowing God to be his Owner and Governour and chief good he was bound to resign himself to his disposal submit himself to his command and to delight himself in him above all If Man had done thus he should never have dyed but have lived for ever happy in the love and enjoyment of God God having placed man in the garden of Eden gave him free leave to eat of all the Trees thereof only excepting the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil which upon pain of death he charged him not to eat of But the Devil in a Serpent Tempted Eve and by her he tempted Adam to eat thereof and so sin against God in breaking his command By breaking God's Law they lost their Holiness and became Mortal under the curse of Death hearkening to the Devil they fell under his power loving their own pleasure more than God they lost their Happiness Thus they who were made Wise and Powerful and Happy made themselves foolish and weak and miserable We are all the children of sinful Adam and of unholy Parents are born unholy ignorant of God our duty and our happiness dead to goodness forward to evil easily conquered by the temptations of the Devil the World and the Flesh and if left to our selves must perish Everlastingly If God had punished Adam according to his sin with death He had cut off Mankind from the Earth But he was graciously pleased to shew mercy God suffered man to live for a time upon Earth but so as he might be sensible of the great evil he had brought upon himself by breaking God's Commandment The creatures are accursed to bring forth for him vanity and trouble and vexation hard labour pains and sicknesses come upon his body he becomes ashamed of himself and is filled with terrors of Conscience and having struggled through many evils and difficulties must at last dye and return to dust Yet God opened unto him a new way to Eternal happiness after death in such a way as to magnifie his Love and Mercy to Mankind and manifest his hatred of sin and Zeal for the keeping of his Laws that he might at once shew grace to the Offender and secure the honour of his just government God did graciously promise that a man should be born of a woman who should conquer the Devil and deliver man from his Tyranny and give such satisfaction unto God's Justice that for his sake all they should be Eternally happy that would accept of him for their Saviour Accordingly God so loved the world that he gave his only Begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have Everlasting Life God the Son took to himself our humane nature Soul and Body and was made truly man yet ceased not to be truly God but is both God and Man in one Person God manifested in the Flesh He was wonderfully made Man by being Born without all stain of sin of a pure Virgin called Mary who conceived him by the Divine power of the Holy Ghost when she had never known man An Angel from Heaven revealed his conception to the Blessed Virgin and commanded his name to be called Jesus because he was to save his people from their sins Being Born and Circumcised according to the Law he lived many years upon earth in an humble and low condition gave us an example to imitate in his Life doing the whole will of God and conquering all the temptations of the Devil and the World This is that Messia whom many Prophets had foretold the very CHRIST or anointed of the Lord to be a Prophet a Priest and a King and in this Threefold Office the Mediator of a New Covenant between God and Men. As a Prophet he hath in his Gospel and by his Apostles made known unto us all his Fathers will concerning our salvation and the way to it As a Priest he was Crucified and dyed under Pontius Pilate so offering himself once for all a perfect and sufficient sacrifice for the forgiveness of our sins in consideration whereof God hath granted pardon and Life to all true Believers Being dead he was buried and wentiamong the dead