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spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	receive_v	18,187	5	5.7163	4	true

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A86501	The nevv world, or, the nevv reformed church. Discovered out of the second epistle of Peter the third chap verse 13. First opened briefly, and some points pourtrayed and propounded before some of the nobilitie and others in the country. Afterwards more fully delineated, and prosecuted before the Honorable House of Parliament; May 30. An. Dom. 1641. And upon the request of some of them, desiring coppies, was limbed up for the presse, according to the maine parts then, and there delivered. / By Nath. Homes Dr. in D.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1641 (1641)	Wing H2570; Thomason E171_4; ESTC R8246	64,684	86

and 40 verses together it well easily appeare Zech. 13.1 Gen. 4. Heb. 11. but as they finde and center upon Christ And it is common with the most of men to build their false righteousnesse where the nest may easily bee pulled downe Vpon some non causes some meere probables or some peeces or fragments of obedience some care of the second Table with neglect of the first or contrariwise To seeke righteousnesse or put righteousnesse in any of all these is as vaine as to seeke waters in the Mill-streame when they are exactly pind up in the Mill-pond If the fountain of Christs righteousnesse be not opened upon the uncleannesse of men how shall they be washed righteous in person nature And if not righteous in person nature how shall they practise any righteousnes towards men as a righteousnesse much lesse can they doe any performances of religion so rightly as to make of them any small peece of righteousnes Abell by faith i. e. in Christ offered an acceptable sacrifice First Christ is made to us righteousnesse 1 Cor. 1. two last before wee can make or doe any thing so as we may glory in God or take comfort in him and not in our selves 2. Negligent of righteousnesse when men know of the fountaine Christ of the Scriptures the promises the cocke to let goe that fountaine of faith the only hand to turne it yet are of a sluggish nature and practise strive not to be eminent in righteousnesse eminent in the assurance and application of Christs righteousnesse and in the insurance and warranting that application by the evidence of a conversation of righteousnesse as a Christian I say this sort at most Heb. 10 22.23 Ephes 5.15 strive not to be eminent to beleeue confidently to wake accuratly lye along as contented to live as bed-ridden Chrstians from hand to mouth No good suit to their backs of Christs righteousnesse by application No good glasse upon that suite or profession of Christ of more holy and innocent conversation No good warmth by putting on of Christ as by the spirits infusion of abundance of grace This Spittle or Hospitall of pittifull Christians these impotent professors grant they be true improve not their stock And so at every turne of great expence of much faith and hope and prayer in a sickly time of feares and afflictions they are found to bee exceeding poore A defection or declining from righteousnesse more and more appeares oft in this old Heaven As when people and Ministers the starres and the starers after them erre from the right doctrine and doctrine of righteousnesse when they dislike the puritie power and plenty of it what neede thinke they such grinding the edge of the sword of the spirit the word so thinne what neede such nice and close dividings by it Heb. 4.12 And lesse of any preaching will serve once a day enough of conscience i. e. of their conscience and enemy to the rule of conscience lesse profession is enough 2 Tim. 4.1 unlesse men will be too forward They like a mixture that may abate the acrimonie of sound truth as not induring truth in the simple Therefore the ingredients these men give and take in the mixture are smokey distinctions popish evasions carnall pretences pharisaicall collusions human rules and traditions fleshly formes of worship seeming pretences of flattering devotions by all which to blinde the eyes and puddle the streames of the Scriptures sibires non se rebus submittere For they make the Scrptures by violence to justifie these not to try these just by the Scriptures This pack or heard of men are like horses that first pounce or plunge with their feet and mudde the water and then drinke They put in their corrupt ingredients to the word or doctrine and then give it and take it to drinke Thirdly the want of righteousnesse in the old heaven appeares by a frequent disaffection to righteousnesse to deale and to unrighteously doe set against and abuse righteousnesse to bee unrighteous both against God and man First against God Father Sonne and Holy Ghost The world will smite God by oathes cursings imprecations blasphemies God never wronged them he that is wronged by them was the maker of them Acts 17.28 Jn him they live and move c. against whom they move and live so wickedly they debase and vilifie God to his face They preferre every creature yea every sinne they have a minde to commit above God himselfe To commit spirituall adultry idolaterie in preferring the first and witchcraft to love and put confidence in the devill in preferring the second is nothing with them Psal 11 9. God is good and doth good to them And they are evill and doe evill against him as a meet requital As for Christ if they do not sweare by his precious wounds passion body death sacramentall bread they will be sure to slight his merits Heb. 10.29 his sufferings as things of no necessitie or use to them His Gospel to them a pack of fables no more faith and credit to speake of effectuall faith doe they give to it As once a Bishop one of the Popes said how great a gaine have we made of this fable of the Gospell They live as if they should never dye and die as if after that they should never live As another of the Roman Bishops a Pope was unresolved at his last dying pillow Saying now I shall saith he be resolved of three things 1 Whether there be a God 2. Whether the soule bee immortall 3. Whether there bee an Heaven and Hell And for the Holy Ghost they will jeare and scoffe at that holinesse that is wrought in mens spirits by that holy spirit yea hating and opposing all holy profession and conversation Secondly they are unrighteous against men both themselves and others They will put out both their own eyes to put out one of their godly neighbours like the Philistins that stopped Isaacks * A fountaine and an eye in Hebrew called by the same name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wells to their owne hurt as well as his They reproach religion as fast as they can wherein they doe as the Roman that cut off the bridge he stood on although hee must needs fall into the river himselfe so as hee might drowne his enemies Religion and profession is the bridge to carry them over the lake of hell to heaven yet it s no matter they will cut it off by sharpe sarcasmes and derisions that by their good will there should bee no such conscience-troubling profession upon earth Therefore they let flee freely at others that seeme to have any thing of God in them These worldlings these earth Ier. ●ar●● ●●●th as the Prophet speakes all dirt will bedaub the Saints most odiously They will smite them as I●r●miah with the tongue Name-blast them They will smite them in the body Acts as Saint Paul on the mouth yea on the back● Yea they will

instruction upon the doctrine is this that the Church hopes for that shee yet hath not Saint Peter so long since Christ and the Church still so long since Saint Peter sees more in the promise Hope that is seene is no hope Rom. 8. all is not yet shaken into the lappe of the Church She hath in the Apostles time and in all times of true conversion some newnesse Ephes 4.23 Collos 3.10 i. e. some personall new qualities some particular new dispositions and actions Againe she hath some righteousnesse 1. Cor. 1.30.31 Tit. 2.11.12 i. e. Relatively righteous in Christ applied by faith and imputed by God personally in her particular members righteous with qualities and actions But these are nothing to that shee shall have Bee yee Ephe. 4.23 Heaven and Earth Renewed Eph. 4.23 Col. 3.10 Saint Peter putts a difference how a few members severally then all the body of the Church joyntly through the whole Habitable of the Church now in qualities and actions then as it were in the very substance Now in the Concret But then in the abstract shall the Church be new and righteous All the word of the Church so New Revel 21. Greated as a new substance Isa 65.17 made righteousnesse in the abstract Revel 19.8 Righteously Tit. 2.12 All her newnesse now is but as the new-moone to a sevenfold sun-shine All her righteousnesse is but as a glaring Diamond ring on one finger Isa 30.26 to a whole suit of cloth of gold of sun-beames nay of the sunne nay of the sunne of righteousnesse Mal. 4.2 Rev. 12.1 And in this glory and state shall righteousnesse dwell as Master of the house of the Church and command in every roome and corner But as yet hitherto the Church hath beene withheld from this eminent condition partly by the opposition of the old world mixing the old things of ceremonious Iudaisme Mat. 9.16 and Gentilisme which spoyle the newnesse of the Church Hindring and withholding righteousnesse Rom. 1. verse verse 18.32 And partly by the indisposition of the old infirmitie of the Church to be darke sighted and stiffe in her limbs spiritually to see and move for that of her dowry behind Shee hath beene examinated unsouled and exoculated So that as Christ said to the Disciples Iohn 16.12 and Saint Paul to the Hebrewes she was unfit to heare of and see a better condition Heb. 5.11.12 She hath beene beaten with unrighteousnesse and bound from righteousnesse that she could not preach speake dispute or practise righteousnesse Psal 125. Psal 37.6 Mat. 13.43.12.20 till shee was black and blew with her bonds and blowes and looked old with sorrow yet hath beene flattered to bee the most knowing and righteous Church But these to come when new Vse of examination 1. Who are the true godly 2. What the new heavens c. promised by God First EXAMINATION who godly In generall they are persons of an excellent hope of an hearty heavenly heroick hope They looke and expect for what ever God hath promised to them singly to their persons or collectively to them in their relation to the Church We our selves saith the Apostle groane within our selves waiting for the adoption Rom. 8.23.24 there demption of our bodies For wee are saved by hope But hope that is seene is no hope But if we hope for that we see not then doe we with patience waite for it or expect it As sure as Elijah hoping for raine from heaven to refresh him and the whole kingdome looked for it sent his man to view the clouds So hope mentally lookes for the mercies it hopes for from heaven for himselfe and the Church Hope is the eye to faith as in the face is the eye to reason to looke after what we beleeve or know shall come to passe And therefore the Saints from time to time in the Scriptures marke it you that think ye beleeve as they professed their faith Ezra 10.2 Iob 5.16 Psal 42.11 Psal 43.5 Psal 119.49 Pro. 10.28 Ier. 17.7 Act. 26.6.7 so solemnly they professed their hope To teach us no doubt what a barren faith that is which breedes no hope what an helpelesse faith that will prove that is an hopelesse faith Let the wicked and ungodly therefore take this as their character to have no true hope Ephes 2.12 For they are the men that are but the imagery the imaginary of Christianitie that seeming to have an eye of hope but cannot turne it this way or that way after that they professe they believe In particular the hope of the true godly man is notable for its Resolution Distinction Foundation Dimension Gradation That is its Setlednesse and courage Difference from false Buildings on the promise Looking to the Church too Expectance of yet more newnesse and righteousnesse All which shew the bravenesse of the godly mans spirit 1 Cor. 2 1● above them that have received onely the spirit of the world The resolution or setldnesse of his hope shewes the godly mans patient spirit patient through courage Rom. 8.24 The distinction the betternesse of his spirit like Calebs Numb 14.24 Psal 119.80 2 Tim. 1.7 Phil. 1.20.21 Heb. 11.24.25 Like the Bereans Acts 17.11 The foundation shewes thee soundnesse of his spirit The Dimension or width shewes his publike spirit And the gradation his sublime and heroick spirit Resolution The godly mans hope is an hardy hope For though as the Doctrine intimates his hope shall bee put to it and that with so much and more as breakes or melts away the worlds hope And although in all ages especially hitherto there is somewhat still behind even of this promise that is hoped for and so the man is never fully pertaker of his hope and although the day of judgement comes apace that cuts off all hope and the scoffing of the unbelievers hasten it yet the godly mans hope comes in with a Neverthelesse what ever the world hope however his hope be put to it yet he will hope Hope in the Motion is an expectation of future happinesse of this life and that to come Spes in motu grace and glory in the inchoation augmentation and consummation So that in regard of thus much of its nature hope must be nay is an holding hope Spes in virtute If it be not alwaies of a like bignesse and strength yet it is a long and lasting hope Hope in the vertue is a boldnesse of minde conceived upon Gods promised bounty by which through the use of the meanes to attaine to all the degrees of happinesse So that is not ashamed it is groundedly confident Rom. 5. though it bee not demonstratively sure like the certainty of reason as it is not so contingently certaine as the certainty of bare opinion yet relatively in relation to the promise and by the relation of the promise informing for certaine what God will do it hath an infallible mentall spirituall certaintie of Narration