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A23634 Man's self-reflection is the special means to further his recovery from his apostasy from God Allen, James, 1632-1710. 1699 (1699) Wing A1027; ESTC W1278 13,768 34

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repentance Psal 147.19 20. He sheweth his word unto Jacob his statutes and his judgments unto Israel He hath not dealt so with every nation Which hath the promise of the Spirit in the right dispensation of it Isa 30.20 21. Their eyes shall see their Teachers and shall hear a voice behind saying this is the way walk in it and the success of it depends thereon 1. There is a further outward light and discovery of Sin in the sinful and penal evil of it the written Law of God makes discovery of the evil nature of it in that original pravity of our natures since the Fall and of all our evil practices Rom. 3.20 By the Law is the knowledge of Sin and by the Gospel of the Remedy verse 23 24. all have sinned and come short of the glory of God Being justified freely by his grace through the Redemption that is in Jesus Christ The Law strips you naked and lets you see sin and misery And the Gospel discovers the way out of it Rev. 3.17 18. and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked Buy of me gold tried in the fire that thou mayest be rich and white raiment that thou mayest be clothed and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve that thou mayest see 2. There are common gifts of the Spirit which much heightens the light of nature in thus seeing Sin and the Remedy and sometimes powerful Convictions and Awakenings of Conscience thereby Acts 2.37 They were pricked in their hearts and said Men and Brethren what shall we do to be saved to stir up Enquiry after the Remedy 3. There are saving illuminations of the Spirit in the Dispensation of the Word whereby man Fallen is Restored to a true though not a perfect knowledge of God and himself so of the evil of Sin and good of Obedience 2 Cor. 4.6 which is necessary to a right judgment of our ways to a saving turning to him Acts 26.18 called a turning from darkness to light and the power of Sin and Satan to God a sanctifying all the powers of the Soul and begins with this in giving a spiritual eye fit to discern a spiritual object 1 Cor. 2.15 The spiritual man discerneth all things 1. This is the knowledge to be sought and waited for in the Reading the Word Dispensation of it Mat. 20.32 33. for Christs opening them as to the blind men he did Joh. 5.39 2. It is to be exercised in the knowledge of your ways or actions Prov. 8.34 Wait at Wisdoms gates both inward and outward by seeing them in the glass of the word Jam. 1.25 Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty and continueth therein will be a doer of it and blessed therein 3. Making a through search into your hearts and trial of your ways thereby especially under Afflictive Dispensations for sin an allusion to Judicial Proceedings that is in Lam. 3.40 Search and try your ways and turn to the Lord. Find out the sin and all the aggravations of it by searching and trying your ways or Examining And there is need of Calling in Gods search Psal 139.23 24. Search me O God and know my heart try me and know my thoughts And see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting To avoid deceits of our sinful and deceitful hearts Jer. 17.7 10. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it I the Lord search the heart I try the reins The second operation of the Rational Soul to be exercised is the Memory whereby things known are kept and recalled when actually forgotten and is of special use in turning to God and in fixing the thought upon our ways This is helped in the first operation of it retaining things to be thought on First By the right clear and practical knowledge of them A good memory depends on the good Understanding Those that have the clearest understandings have the happiest memories especially where it is practical about sin and duty when under the powerful Convictions by the Word and Spirit to a deep sense of sin in its sinfulness and penal evil of it to stir up to a Concernedness for deliverance see Act. 2.37 As they were at Peters Sermon that were pricked at the heart The Apostle James tells us Jam. 2.25 That such an Hearer of the Word that looks into the Law of God that is his Word that Reveals the whole mind of God for Salvation as the Angels do into the Mysteries of mans Redemption revealed 2 Pet. 1.12 where is the same word exerciseth his understanding to know it enquires after it and hath impressions of the worth and weight of it he is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of it It is a proverb concerning old men Quod curant senes meminerunt What old men love they will remember in old age when memory fails them in other things Answerable to that Counsel of Solomon Prov. 22.6 Train up a Child in the way he should go and he will not depart from it when he is old The Experience of Christians testifie to it those that most complain of their weak memories yet words they have understood and had impression of on their hearts they never forget David had such a Remembrance of it that he puts God in mind of it Psal 119.49 Remember the word upon which thou hast caused me to hope And encourageth his own faith in him about it endeavour after such a knowledge 2 Pet. 3.18 But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as the way to the Remembrance of them 2. Conscience Records all a mans actions in the memory good and bad together with Gods Dispensations to him by his Word and Providences It is the Recorder and Memory is the Book where they are written in order to Gods judgment of them finally and for our judgment to prevent his Condemning judgment Jer. 17.1 It is written with a pen of iron and with the point of a Diamond Hence 2. The second act of memory is needful and useful to the cure of Apostasy which is recalling to mind that which is actually forgotten concerning Gods Law his Ordinances and Providences and our own sins 1. This God helps in by his Word written by frequent requiring it in his people to Remember his word Prov. 4.4 5. Let thine heart retain my words keep my Commandments and live Get wisdom get understanding forget it not His works Exod. 13.3 Remember this day in which you came out of Egypt both merciful and afflictive also Deut. 24.9 So their own sins Deut. 9.7 Remember and forget not how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the Wilderness So by the Ministry of it it is one great use of it to put thee in remembrance 2 Pet. 1.13 I think it meet so long as I am in this Tabernacle to put you in