of candle to any all equally enjoy Eternity there is one lease and term-day to the lowest inhabitant of glory as to the highest and that is Eternity There is common to all one City the streets whereof are transparent gold that the poorest inhabitants of a place do all walk on streets of gold of Ophir is a great commendation of a City 'T is common to them all that they shall never sigh never be sad never be sick never be old never die all feel the smell of the fairest rose that ever men or Angels heard of or can imagine the flower the glory the joy of Heaven the Lord Jesus Christ. All walk in white and can sin no more all have eternal life fulness of joy and pleasures for evermore So Christ is a publick gift all that truly believe may receive him may keep him may use him though there be many thousands of souls that are receiving from Christ yet he is full enough to supply thy wants though millions of souls employ him in the world yet he is at leisure to do thy work too if thou employ him All his offices and benefits are for thy use most properly he is made ordained appointed and fitted unto us of God Wisdom righteousness sanctification and redemption 1 Cor. 1.30 Is not a Redeemer of use for captives a Saviour for sinners a Priest for offenders a Prophet for the ignorant a King to deliver such as are in bondage and to conquer and subdue oppressors What is a Physician for but for sick persons Look on Christ in all his undertakings from first to last he is for use As particularly 1. Wherefore did Christ empty himself and come into the world was it not for sinners and will such cast him off and pass him by as useless Did he rent the heavens and come down to thâ— earth on purpose to seek and save lost sinners Luk. 19.20 and 1 Tim. 1.15 and will ye noâ— now make use of him 2. Wherefore was he made a Sacrifice and laid down his life and spilt his most precious blood was it not for us Messias was to be cut off but not for himself not for Angels but for us and did God give his Son to die for no use and purpose is not he the good shepherd that giveth his life for his sheep that they may have life and have it more abundantly Ioh. 10.10 He died that by his death he might reconcile us to God when we were enemies Rom. 5.10 His blood was spilt to justifie us Rom. 5.9 He was delivered for our offences Rom. 4.25 He paid a ransome for us and made satisfaction to divine justice in our nature and stead He gave himself for his Church Ephes. 5.25 26. that he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water by his word that he might present it to himself a glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle that it might be holy and without blemish He died that he might kill sin which would be our death and crucifie the old man and to establish a new Covenant and open a way to Heaven and shall all this be in vain did Christ die as a fool dieth 3. Wherefore did he rise again from the dead was it not for our use and benefit Rom. 4.25 He rose again for our justification that is God did declare by raising him from the dead that he hath accepted the death of his Son as of a sufficient ranâ—ome for our sins and he being our true pledg and surety therefore having satisfied for us by his death and returning again to life gives us a clear evidence and firm argument that God was fully reconcil'd and life purchased for us which assurance we could not have had if Christ our pledg had remained under the power of death and shall not we make use of Christs Resurrection to confirm our faith that God is satisfied for us He rose again that he might quicken us to a new life and shall we lye dead rather than improve 4. What was the end of Christs Ascension was not that also for us and our use and benefit that then he might lead captivity captive and give gifts to men Ephes. 4.8 either passively that Christ might take away from Satan death and hell and all their captives and make them his happy captives and shall such a Redemption be refused Or actively that he might captivate the world flesh devil death and hell which in several kinds had captivated mankind and shall not we make use of him for conquering such enemies He ascended that he might give his Spirit and confer the gifts of the Holy Ghost Act. 2.16 17. and that he might prepare a place for us And shall these great benefits be neglected 5. Once more Wherefore is he an Advocate but to plead for us when we dare not cannot come to speak for our selves What a strange piece of folly were it for a man that has a friend in the Court who is appointed purposely to plead his cause or present his petition and yet he make no use of him when the success of his business concerns his whole estate or life when we have sinned and offended God we have Christ our advocate with the Father to interpose betwixt the blow of Justice and our guilty souls and shall this priviledg be neglected 1 Ioh. 2.1 If we want any thing that God hath laid up for us he is ready to make intercession for us who cannot be denied Heb 7.25 He must perfume all our Sacrifices or they are not accepted offer up all our Prayers or they are not answered What need had we then to make use of him It is only by the blood of Christ that we have boldness or liberty to enter into the holy of holies Heb. 10.19 And by him is a new and living way consecrated for us that we may draw near with true hearts and full assurance of faith Heb. 10.20 22. And none can come unto the Father but by him O then make use of this only name and way and be often walking in it to God and his Throne of Grace Object O but I am a wretched sinner a worthless worm and captive what have I to do with such a precious Saviour with so glorious a Lord Answ. But pray tell me wherefore is Christ a Saviour is he not for sinners Wherefore is he a Redeemer is it that he should lye by God as useless was he not a Redeemer for Captives Hath not God fitted and dressed Christ as I may so speak for sinners use and advantage what if all the world should say so Christ should be a Saviour and save none a Redeemer and ransome none at all an Advocate and plead for none for all are sinners all are captives all are at enmity with God naturally We have the more need to use him because such Now for Direction how we must make use of Christ 1. As for the manner 2. The particular cases wherein 1. How or in what
and Master to guide and govern your hearts and thoughts and lives by his Laws and Statutes and is it your ordinary purpose desire and endeavour to obey him even when he commands the hardest duties and those which most cross the desire and interest of the flesh and 't is your sorrow when you break your resolutions herein then Christ is yours But if you are only content to be saved by him from Hell when you dye in the mean time he shall command you no further than will stand with your credit or pleasure or worldly estate and ends and did never heartily consent that he should rule over you nor resign up your souls and bodies to be governed and disposed by him nor took his Word for a Law and Rule of your thoughts and actions but if he would give you leave you had rather live after the world and flesh than after the Word and Spirit he is not yet yours though you may in words call him Lord and Master yet in your works you deny him He is his Friend and Disciple that keeps his commandments Iohn 15.7 14 but they that would not hearken to his voice would none of him he gave them up to their own hearts lusts Psal. 8.11 3. Have you received the Spirit of Christ The Apostle makes the former and this characters of such as have received Christ. 1 Joh. 3.24 He that keepeth his commandments dwells in him and Christ in him hereby we know that he abideth in us by the spirit which he hath given us Well then do ye obey the Laws of Christ and walk in his ways conform to his example and live the life of Jesus He that doth not thus may say he abides in Christ but he doth but say so 't is not so in truth and reallity 1 Joh. 2.6 He that saith he abides in Christ ought to walk as he walked Further Let me ask you the question the Apostle asked the Disciples at Ephesus Acts. 19.2 Whether have you received the Holy Ghost If God have given Christ to you Christ hath given you his holy Spirit For if any man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his Rom. 8.9 1 John 4.13 Hereby we know that we dwell in him and he in us because he hath given us of his spirit The Spirit not as residing in Christ but as given to us is an evidence that we have received Christ. Well then let every one of you be now inquisitive and put such interrogatories as these to himself Have I the Spirit is he given to me doth he dwell in my soul have I the spirit of illumination and revelation Eph. 1.17 Do I see such things as I never saw before as the inexpressible vileness and loathsomness of sin the greatest beauty in holiness c. Have I the spirit of life in Christ Jesus to quicken me and raise me up from the dead Rom. 8.2 2 Cor. 3.6 Have I felt the spirit of conviction to convince me of sin righteousness and judgment Iohn 16.8 The spirit of grace and supplication stirring up to and assisting in that heavenly duty of Prayer Zech. 12.10 The spirit of holyness to sanctifie me 1 Pet. 1.2 to mortifie my sins and corruptions Rom. 8.13 and work up my heart to all holy obedience Ezek. 36.27 Am I renewed in the spirit of my mind is Gods Image repaired in me am I transformed into the same image from glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Lord Am I growing in grace perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord Do I walk in all Gods Ways and Statutes freely regularly constantly Am I willing to sacrifice an Isaac a Benjamin an Absolom a Delilah Herodias and hew with Samuel delicate Agag in pieces or with David keep my self from mine own iniquity Is the old man dead the flesh with all its cursed retinue mortified do I detest and loath every sin in thought word and deed and that not so much for its effects as for its nature and hate it rather as Hell than for Hell Enquire what do you find of these high and gracious operations oâ— the spirit in your selves he is always an active working Spirit is he so in you Doth he raise your hearts to heavenly things and draw forth your souls to Christ O deal faithfully with your own souls let the search be deep and thorow go to the bottom of your deceitful hâ—arts bring things to an issue be sure that you be not mistaken 4. If Christ be received there will be a more earnest intent desire and breathing of soul after him he that hath once tasted the sweetness of his grace and seen the splendor of his beauty will be so far from being satisfied that he will still more and more thirst after him the more excellency the soul apprehends in him the more vehement and restless are his desires towards him Thus it was with the Spouse Cant. 2.3 4 5 â—he had a glance of him and cries out As the Apple-tree among the trees of the wood so is my beloved among the sons Here the Spouse seems to be strongly moved with affection and before her beloved had well ended his speech breaks out into an affectionate Elogy of him which she is not able to express but conquered with her own passion she sits down and breathes for comfort I sate down under his shadow with great delight and his fruit was sweet to my taste Here the soul receives and applys Christ with sweet rellish to her palate comfort to her heart He brought me to the banqueting house and his banner over me was love she still tasts more of the riches of his Grace and what was the effect of this did she surfeit with eating his fruit and banquetting no she is more ravisht with desire Stay me with flagons comfort me with apples for I am sick of love I am wounded nay slain as some Interpreters with love which by the sweet vehemency and insatiability of it makes the heart to burn and weep groan and sigh to forget all and drive away all but him on whom alone she fixeth and would rest but cannot center till she enjoy him in glory till then she is sick and weary and lives not in her self but in him in whom her life is hid As Plato defines love an ardour or flame of a soul dead in its own body and living in another One thus writes to his friend I have for the present a sick life much pain and love-sickness for Christ. O what would I give to have a bed made to my wearied soul in his bosom O when shall we meet O how long is it to the dawning of the marriage-day O sweet Lord Iesus take wide steps O my beloved come leaping over the mountains of separation O that he would fold the heavens together like an old cloak and shovel time and days out of the way and come away Well have you pain and sick-nights for Christ do your thoughts continually run on
understand what the Father hath given us in him and what good things he himself offereth to us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Water in several places hath different significations Here and in the Apocalypst saith Grotius I doubt not but that it signifies the Evangelical Doctrine as it contains those things which are necessary and sufficient to obtain eternal life And many of the Fathers differ not much from this who take it to mean the water of Baptism as it is a solemn profession of that Doctrine Piscator and others take it to be meant of the holy Spirit as appears by the 14 vers A well of water springing up to eternal life Joh. 7.39 So Cyril saith it signifies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a quickening gift of the Spirit But with Hammond I conceive it denotes the Grace of God exhibited in Christ. So Theophylact 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the grace of the holy Spirit And Calvin all the whole Grace of renovation aqua viva not metonymically as quickning water but metaphorically saith Piscator because 't is ever springing never failing not like standing or dead water One general Doctrine ariseth from the whole Text as it stands related to the Context That Iesus Christ is meek and gracious slow to anger and full of compassion bearing with the ignorance and folly perverseness and resistance of them he intends to save How often did this woman provoke him how long did she withstand him what feminine artifices doth she use to elude breaking jests making captious fallacies as one disposed to slight and jeer whatever he spake c. yet he would take no denial from her but presented his gracious design as one that heard not O the unutterable treasure of Grace in Christ which all her provocations could not overcome In all this discourse we may read our stiffness and stubbornness Christs gentleness and goodness 1. Doct. Christ is the gift of God 2. Doct. One great reason why men refuse Christ and their own salvation is because they know him not Ignorance is the cause of rejecting Christ and his Grace this keeps souls from him Christ and holiness have no enemies but the ignorant did men know what Christ is and what the love of God was in giving him they must have iron-hearts indeed if they could despise and resist him If thou knewest c. 3 Doct. The blessed Son of God made himself very poor stooped exceeding low for the good of sinners And who it is that saith unto thee give me to drink He was Lord of Heaven and Earth the world was his and the fulness thereof the fowls of the mountains the beasts of the forrest and the cattel upon a thousand hills yet he begs a little cold water of a poor woman to quench his thirst O astonishing condescension deep humiliation Blessed Jesus whither did thy love to sinners carry thee 4. Doct. Knowledg in the mind makes way for a spontaneous motion of the will and affections the understanding is to the will as the needle to the thread If thou knewest thou wouldest When the understanding is enlightned with eye-salve and hath clear apprehensions of Christ as transcendently excellent then the Will puts forth it self in its strongest desires after him as the eye transmits the beauty it beholds to the heart so when there is an assent to the things revealed of Christ in the Word when we do with open face behold as in a glass the glory of the Lord in the Gospel then we are ready to accept of him and his Grace with suitable affections this is plain in the connexion in the Text and from the latter sweet connexion Thou wouldest have asked I would have given c. 5. Doct. If we can but rightly ask Christ will readily give ask and have is the language of the Gospel The Grace of God is free but it must be begged He will be inquired of and sought unto for that he intends and promises to give though this woman was a Samaritan yet he would not deny her living water had she desired it of him We must be touched with the knowledg and sense of our maladies and poverty before we will seek the remedy Therefore the Lord inviteth not the drunken but the dry not the full but the hungry that they may eat and drink To what end should Christ be sent unto us with the fulness of the spirit unless we were empty and 't is not enough to feel our wants so as to see our need of help from another unless the hope of present or near help be added thereunto because if we only see and feel our wants we should do nothing else but groan under our miseries and pine away with sorrow but this is true and profitable knowledg of the Grace of God when we know that the same is offered to us in Christ and that it is reached unto us by his hand and so our hearts are inflamed with vehement propassions and desires after it 6. Doct. Grace is the gift of Christ he is the fountain whence this water flows I would have given thee living water Christ gives grace to them that ask it of him as we should ask spiritual blessings ardently and importunately so he gives them most freely and liberally Ioh. 6.27 7. Doct. True Grace never fails those that once have it shall never lose it whoever drinks of this water of life which Christ gives shall never perish 'T is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 denoting the perpetuity everlastingness of it Grace is sure and the priviledges of it are sure this is the advantage of spiritual comforts that they do not only satisfie our desires but secure us against our fears Once in Christ and for ever preserved in Christ. This certainty of Grace the comfort of a Christian is not respectu rei but Dei One of the Fathers brings in the flesh saying Ego deficiam I will surely fail and miscarry and the world Ego decipiam I will intice and deceive them and Satan Ego eripiam I will snatch and carry them away But God saith Ego custodiam I will keep them there lyes our safety and security he hath said I will never leave them nor forsake them 1. Doct. Christ is the gift of God Christ in a peculiar and eminent manner is termed Gods gift It is the common mode and fashion of great persons to give rich and magnificent gifts suitable to their state and quality regarding more what becomes them to give than their petitioners to ask or receive The great Alexander could tell his suitors whom he had more astonished than relieved with his bounty and favour That though the thing might be too great for them to receive yet it was not too great for Alexander to give If dust and asâ—es can speak and think at this rate O how large is the heart of God! The great and glorious God out of his infinitely overflowâ—ing love and unsearchable riches of Grace hath conferred upon poor lost self destroying
3.26 Who could repair the Image of God in us and restore the life of Grace when we were dead but Christ by his Spirit How could we ever put off the old man and put on the new die to sin and live unto God were it not for Christs death and resurrection Had not he sanctified himself for our sakes we had never been holy had he not born the punishment we deserved we had never been happy was not he given that whosoever believed on him might not perish but have everlasting life Tell me you that think Christ is a person that may be well spared c. who could ever have opened the eyes of the blind the ears of the deaf or healed a wounded spirit Who could have bound up a broken heart opened the Prison-dores broken off the chains of bondage and proclaimed liberty to the captives Who could have satisfied infinite justice born the weight of Gods Wrath removed the curse of the Law made reconciliation for iniquity and brought in everlasting righteousness certainly none but Christ. 8. Christ is a most gainful gift He is absolute and universal gain Christ is the most profitable gift to the soul that can be injoyed yea that can be imagined nothing more commodious nothing more enriching than Christ is to them that have him There is no man rich without Christ neither is there any poor that have him a man without Christ is a beggarly bankrupt but one that hath Christ is a wealthy King He that hath Christ hath all he that hath not him hath nothing Christ is not gain as worldly things are profitable in relation to their ends as wealth is good to supply want food to maintain life clothes to keep off cold air a bed to rest weary limbs but Christ is a rich and inestimable treasure to the soul without reference to any further end than himself he is to be desired even for himself his merchandise is better than silver and his gain than fine gold Prov. 3.14 Man knows not the price of wisdom of this wisdom Prov. 8.18 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir with the precious Onyx and Saphire there is no talking nor bidding in this Market so precious is this corner-stone No mention shall be made of corral or of pearls for the price of wisdom is above rubies The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it neither shall it be valued with pure gold c. Job 28.18 19. What the Apostle saith of godliness is very true of Christ he is profitable for all things and he is gainful at all times and to all persons both for soul and body for the life that now is and the life that is to come and for ever The salvation of the soul is better than the gaining of a whole world What is a man profited if he gain the world and lose his soul How much more gain then is he by whom a world of souls are saved 9. Christ is a most suitable gift He suits all persons and all conditions whether a man be poor or rich young or old noble or ignoble learned or unlearned bond or free high or low the richest have need of him as well as the poorest and the meanest may have him as well as the greatest be in what condition or relation soever he is suitable to all And O! how suitable is Christ to the lost condition of all men by nature man is an enemy to God Christ is the Peace-maker he is a Captive Christ is a Redeemer he is lost Christ a Saviour he is sick Christ a Physician he is dead Christ gives life he is poor Christ gives riches he is weak Christ is strength he is guilty Christ hath righteousness he is filthy Christ hath blood to wash him in he is naked Christ hath a Garment to cloath him he is hungry Christ is the Bread of Life he is thirsty Christ gives living waters O! how suitable how acceptable is Christ to poor sinners He that hath Christ may say here 's strength to support me Wisdom to direct me Power to protect me Gold to inrich me Cordial to comfort me and Fulness to supply all my wants He is made all things to all men eyes to the blind feet to the lame and a Father to the poor Christ is for every turn and fitted for every condition be it what it will or can he hath a sufficiency relative and suitable to it there 's no disease but this Physician can cure it no Case but this Counsellor can resolve it no Enemy but this Champion can conquer no difficulty but this mighty Saviour can overcome 10. Christ is a most seasonable gift Every thing is beautiful in its season all other things have their several seasons as food is good but 't is when a man is hungry so cloaths when a man is naked Physick when a man is not well Musick when a man is merry now Christ is never out of season A gift bestowed in the nick of time is most valued Bis dat qui cito dat 't is a double favour when done in time the right timing of things is a high point of practical wisdom and puts a beauty and value upon all things Now considering the state of man as lapsed Christ was the most seasonable gift that ever the world heard of This is set forth in the Parable Luk. 10.30 A certain man went down from Ierusalem to Iericho and fell among thieves which stripped him wounded him and left him half dead c. The man that travelled was our first Parent Adam the Thieves were the Divels who deprived him of all wounded him and left him not half but wholly dead the Priest and Levite came by and looked on but passed away neither would nor could help him but the good Samaritan so esteemed by the Iews Christ he comes had compassion on him went to him bound up his wounds with his own soft hands poured in Wine and Oyl and brought him to an Inn and took care for him that he should want nothing towards his recovery takes the whole charge of it to himself What can be imagined more seasonable than for such a compassionate Physitian to come by look on and undertake when a man lyes bleeding and dying in the high way Ezekiel 16 beginning doth excellently express the seasonableness of his coming to us Christ is sent to us when we are at an utter loss can neither help our selves nor all the world do us any good give the least relief When he comes into the world it is said Heb. 10.5 Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hadst no pleasure all the world was at a loss to please God What shall man do and whither will he fly for help Then even then said I lo I come in the volume of thy book it is written of me to do thy will O God Christ comes in the very nick of time when all mankind was ready to perish
dyeth to himself For whether we live we live to the Lord and whether we 〈◊〉 we die unto the Lord whether we regard 〈…〉 or not it must be to the Lord. Whether we eat or not it must be to the Lord make him the end of your conversation Iesus Christ the same yesterday and to day and for ever Heb 1â— 7 8. 2. In all things seek to 〈◊〉 him 1 Cor 7.32 Care for the things that belong to the Lord how you may please the Lord. And labour whether present or absent to be accepted of him 2 Cor. 5.9 Have none to please but Christ and for Christ. 3. Be ever found doing his work Mat. 24.46 Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing never cease working till you die life and labour must end together he gives us no time to be idle in 4. Go by his rule in all your ways let all your actions and proceedings be regulated by his law whatsoever ye do in word or in deed do all in the Name of the Lord Iesus Col. 3.17 As when Pharaoh had lifted up Ioseph and made him ruler over the Land of Egypt and they cryed before him bow the knee Pharaoh said unto Joseph I am Pharaoh and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all Egypt Gen. 41.44 So 5. Employ all you are have and can for him His word is Luke 19.13 Occupy till I come all your Talents he requires the service of thoughts 2 Cor. 10.5 of words Eph. 4.29 of works 1 Cor. 10.31 of body and Spirit 1 Thes. 5.23 6. Highly esteem what ever is his His Day Ordinances Servants Ministers and his holy Word let the feet of his Embassadors be beautiful both for their Master and their message-sake they are the Servants of Christ. Our delight should be in those excellent ones who bear the image and wear the badge of our Lord the world now thinks that of all callings this of the Ministry can best be spared but let us not think so basely of them who are Christs servants not only to do his business but to wait on his person ye to represent his person 1 Cor. 4.1 7. Study to approve your selves in all things to him 2 Thes. 1.11 12. Pray always that God would count you worthy of this calling and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you and you in him according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. In a word let none but Christ be your end Serve him not to serve your own turns but let every interest be subservient to Christ learn to perish that the glory of Christ may live make not Religion a design let Christ be sweet for himself in serving him let nothing else be your scope and then nothing will divert you aim not at profit so gain will not allure you nor at pleasure so ease will not corrupt you nor at friends so favour will not seduce you Be all unto Christ and let Christ be all unto you Be all or nothing 2. Means 1. Redemption from other opposite Masters Luk. 1.74 That he would grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies might serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life 2. Enmity in us must be subdued all that exalts it self against the knowledg of God strong holds pull'd down imaginations and high things cast down and every thought be brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ 2 Cor. 10.4 5. 3. Receive instruction from him we must be taught in this service and that by him we must learn Christ Ephes. 4.20 21. If so be that ye have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Iesus Col. 3.16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom Phil. 4.12 In all things I am instructed 4. You must also be furnished by him with graces and strength 2 Tim. 3.17 Throughly furnished to all good works And 2 Tim. 2.21 Prepared unto every good work and have his strength or you can do nothing Ioh. 15.5 5. Practise self-denial If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me Mat. 16 24. Either you must deny your self or you will deny Christ that man that sets much by himself will never reckon much of a Saviour He who hath not learned self denial when Christ and self come in competition meet on a narrow bridge will endeavour to make Christ go back he that doth not account himself nothing will soon esteem Christ so 6. Clear your selves from all worldly distractions lay aside the world as much as may be that you may attend upon the Lord without distraction 1 Cor. 7.35 Let not this be your rule to Christ and holiness so far as you may without any prejudice to your worldly interests but this follow the world so far only as you may without being false and unfaithful to Christ and his service do not say to duty as Prayer Hearing Meditation stand aside I have such a worldly business to look after but rather say world stand aside Be sure that you are gotten clear of the world and that Christ have the preheminence in you be not ye the worlds prisoners but Christs free men 7. Remember the last account and judgment 2 Cor. 5.9 10. Wherefore we labour that whether present or absent we may be accepted of him for we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad None so diligent and faithful in the service of this Lord as those that with Ierome have still sounding in their ears that terrible voice Surgite mâ—rtui venite ad judicium Our Lord is gone but will come again to take an account how matters have been managed during his absence now sincce we look for such things what manner of persons ought we to be 3. For manner Christ be served in a right manner 1. Heartily freely cheerfully the heart is the marrow of the performance Col. 3.23 Whatsoever ye do do it heartily as to the Lord Ephes. 6.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not with eye service as men pleasers but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart Serve him in the spirit doing service with good-will and gladness making it our meat and drink to do his will quod cor non facit non sit 2. Humbly reverently when we have done all we can all those things that are commanded say we are unprofitable servants we have done that which was our duty to do Luk. 17.9 10. In bearing when he corrects content with our allowance not doing what we please but what pleases him coming at every call and obeying
sundry Sermons preached at St. Iames Dukes-place by Zech. Crofton The life and death of Edmund Stanton D. D. To which is added a Treatise of Christian-conference and a Dialogue between a Minister and a Stranger Sin the Plague of plagues or sinful sin the worst of Evils by Ralph Venning M. A. Cases of Conscience practically resolved by I. Norman The faithfulness of God conâ—idered and cleared in the great Events of his Word or a second part of the fulfilling of the Scripture The immortality of the Soul explained and proved by Scripture and Reason to which is added Faiths-triumph over the fears of death by Tho. Wadsworth A Treatise of the incomparableness of God in his Being Attributes Works and Word by George Swinnock M. A. A discourse of the original c. of the Cossacks The generation of Seekers or the right manner of the Saints addresses to the throne of Grace with an Exposition on the Lords-Prayer The administration of Cardinal Ximones A discourse of Family-instruction by Owen Stockton with directions for those that have suffered by the Fire An Essay to facilltate the Education of Youth by bringing down the rudiments of Grammar to the sense of seeing which ought to be improved by Syncresis by M. Lewis of Totenham An Artificial Vestibulum wherein the sense of Ianua Linguarum is contained compiled into plain and short sentences in English for the great â—ase of Masters and Expeditious progress of Scholars by M. Lewis Speculum Sherlockianum oâ— a Looking glass in which the admirers of Mr. Sherlock may behold the man as to his Acuracy Judgment Orthodoxy A discourse of Sins of Omission wherein is discovered their Nature Causes and Cure by George Swinnock Mr. Baxter's Reformed Pastor His Majesties Propriety in the British Seas vindicated Quakerism no Christianity or a through-Quaker no Christian proved by their Principles and confirmed by Scripture by I. Faldo Differences about Water-baptism no bar to Communion by Io. Bunian The Dutch-dispensatory shewing the vertues qualities and properties of Simples the vertue and use of Compounds whereto is added the Compleat Herbalist Judg Dodaridge's laws of Nobility and Peerage Dinglys Spiritual Fast. Solitude improved by Divine Meditation by Matth. Ranew A Murderer punished and pardoned or Tho. Savage his life and death with his Funeral sermon Small 8 vo A defence against the fear of death by Zach. Crofton Gods Soveraignty displayed by William Gearing The godly mans Ark or a City of Refuge in the day of his distress in five Sermons with Mrs. Moors evidences for Heaven by Edmund Calamy The Almost-Christian discovered or the false-Professor tried and cast by M. Mead. The true bounds of Christian-freedom or a discourse shewing the extent and restraints of Christian-liberty by S. Bolton D. D. The sinfulness of Sin and fulness of Christ in two Sermons by Will. Bridg. A Plea for the godly or the Righteous mans Excellency The holy Eucharist or the Sacrament of the Lords Supper A Treatise of Self-denial All three by Tho. Watson The life and death of Tho. Wilson of Miâ—dstone in Kent The life and death of Doctor Samuel Winter A Covert from the Storm or the fearful encouraged in the day of Trouble Worthy-walking press'd upon all that have heard the Call of the Gospel The Spirit of Prayer All three by Nath. Vincent The inseparable union between Christ and a Believer by Tho. Peck A discoâ—rse of Excuses setting forth the variety and vanity of them the sin and misery brought in by them by Iohn Sheffield Invisible reality demonstrated in the holy life and triumphant death of Mr. I. Ianeway The Saints encouragement to diligence in Christs service both by Mr. Iames Ianeway A discourse concerning the Education of Children Convivium Coeleâ—te a plain and familiar discourse concerning the Lords Supper both by R. Kidder The Saints perseverance asserted in its Positive-ground against Mr. Ives by Tho. Danson A Wedding ring fit for the Finger by Will. Secker The Young-mans Call and Duty by Nich. Lockyer An Explanation of the shorter-Catechism of the Assembly of Divines by Tho. Lye The Childs Delight with Pictures by Tho. Lye The life and death of Tho Hall A Plea for the Non-Conformists tending to vindicate them from Schism by a Doctor in Divinity The flat opposition of Popery to Scripture by I. N. Chaplain to a Person of Honour The Weavers Pocket-book or Weaving spiritualiz'd by I. C. D. D Two disputations of Original-sin by Richard Baxter The History of Moderation The welcome Communicant The ready way to prevent sin by William Bagshaw The Little-peace-maker discovering foolish Pride the Make-baâ—e Philadelphia or a Treatise of Brotherly-love by Mr. Gearing Reformation or Ruine being certain Sermons on Levit. 26 2â— 24. by Tho. Hotchkis The Riches of Grace displayed to which is added the priviledg of Passive Obedience and 52 proposals in order to help on Heart-humiliation by Will. Bagshaw The parable of the great Supper opened in 17 Sermons by Io. Crump A present for Teeming-women by I. Oliver Non-conformity without Controversie by Benj. Baxter The Christians daily Monitor by Iosh. Church A Treatise of Closeâ—-prayer by Richard Mayo The Religious Family by Philip Lamb. A sober inquiry or Christs Reign with Saints a thousand years A discourse of the prodigious Abstinence of Martha Taylor A Memento to young and old by Iohn Maynard The priviledg of the Saints on Earth above those in Heaven by William Hook Index biblicus multijugus or a Table of the holy Scripture wherein each of its Books Chapters and particular matters are distinguished and Epitomized The day of Grace with the conversion of a Sinner by Nath. Vencent The Greek Testament in 8 vo An easie and useful Grammar for the learning of the French tongue by Mr. Gosthead Gentleman Mr. Raworths work and reward of a Christian. The Miners Monitor or advice to those that are employed about the Mines A Protestant Catechism for little Children A Scripture Catechism by Samuel Petto A Catechism according to the Church of England Grotius Catechism Brief of the Bibles-History The Fountain sealed by Dr. Sibbs Nero Tragidea Cottons None but Christ. Cornelianum dolium The Christians earnest longing for Christs appearing preached at the Funeral of Mr. Noah Webb by Dan. Burgess Wilsons Catechism Elenchus motuum nuperorum in Anglia Cocains Poems Poor Robins Jesâ—s Croftons Foelix Sâ—elus or Prospering prophaneness provoking holy conference by Zech. Crofton Gramaticus Analyticus by the same Author Alexanders advice to his Son Artificial Embelishments H. Excellency of Christ set forth Gods Soveraignty displayed by Mr. William Gearing In small 12 s. The duty of Parents towards their Children A little Book for little Children A method and instruction for the Art of divinâ— Meditation All three by Tho. White The considerations of Drexelius on Eternity The shadow of the Tree of Life by M. M. The Psalms of David newly translated more plain smooth and agreeable to the Text than any heretofore The Prisoners Prayers Mr. Henry Lukin's Life of Faith Awakening Call to Sinners Câ—umbs of Comfort or the Lord Bacons Prayer FINIS