such a creature as man is or compell him by a strong hand of power without gaining in his will and affection thereunto to receive and own him for his God Nay secondly the truth is though God be of an omnipotent and irresistible power yet can he not compell any creature whatsoever indued with understanding and will to receive and owne him against their will because it is by an act of the Will that he is and must be received and so long as there remaineth an unwillingnesse in a man to receive or owne him for his God impossible it is that he should be received or owned by him So that now God must finde out a sutable and fitting meanes to worke the heart or will of his creature to a desire or willingnesse of receiving him Thirdly and lastly there was no other way or meanes conceivable at least none so con-naturall proper and sweet for such a purpose but only to propound and offer himselfe in a free and gracious Covenant unto it And so in pleading his owne infinite worth and excellency incomparably above the emptinesse and vanity of other things to fall in with the effectuall working of his Spirit and hereby to awaken quicken raise and strengthen the heart and soule of his creature to a willingnesse of embracing and accepting his offer that is himselfe Thus you see another Ground or Reason of the point The gracious Covenant of God The fourth and last Ground we shall now insist upon is the performance of the condition required in this Covenant by the Church and People of God namely Their faith in God or dependance upon him which is nothing else but their acceptance of him according to his offer for their God This is another thing that makes him theirs in that full and compleate manner that he is He requires upon the matter nothing else of men to make himselfe theirs or to give them the entire propriety we speake of in himselfe but barely that without which it is simply absolutely impossible that he should be theirs God cannot be the God of any man but his that is willing to take him and have him for his God Dagon could not possibly have been the God of the Philistims nor Chemosh the God of the Ammonites c. except they had been willing to acknowledge and have them for their gods All violence and compulsion in the world exercised upon them could not have made these Idols or false gods theirs had they not been willing and consented to have acknowledged and owned them in that relation Now then this willingnesse in men to take owne and acknowledge the true God for their God without which it is simply impossible as hath been said that God should be theirs is all that is required to make him theirs or to give them this speciall and peculiar propriety in him To believe in Christ or rather in God through Christ 1 Pet. 1.21 Iohn 12.44 is nothing else being interpreted but by the meanes or encouragement of the Lord Christ given unto them really and unfainedly to take and acknowledge the great God of heaven and earth for our God and to addresse our selves unto him accordingly as well inwardly with Love Feare Reverence Dependance c. as outwardly in all manner of conversatiō sutable hereunto And all this in the roote and first spring of it in the soule is nothing else but a willingnesse of minde to take and owne him for our God or to trust him and make our dependance upon him This disposition being truly begotten and effectually raised in the soul containes all those other things mentioned in the loines of it Begotten and raised it is by the meanes of Jesus Christ and the word of salvation through him preached unto us which word the Holy Ghost taking as it were in his hand and managing it upon the soule overcommeth the evill of the heart with the goodnesse thereof and smiting the crooked spirit of unbeliefe which is the grand indisposition of the soule to accept of God for our God with the glorious brightnesse and power of the truth of it createth a right spirit of Faith in the stead which is nothing else in the first breaking of it in the soul but an aptnesse and willingnesse to believe that is to accept and entertaine the true God for our God For before there can be a distinct and compleat act of Faith or of accepting God for our God put forth in the soule there must be in the order of Nature an inclination or willingness to such an act going before Otherwise God should forsake his usuall method of proceeding à minus perfectis ad perfectiora from lesse perfection to greater Now as the first and weakest act of Faith or accepting God for our God being a reall performance of the condition required in the Covenant whilest it is yet secret in the hidden man of the heart gives a right and propriety in God according to the tenour thereof so doth the second act or outward testifying to the world a mans faith or dependance upon God draw out the particular and speciall benefits and advantages of this their interest in God This sets God on work to expresse himself freely unto them he cares not now if all the world know that he is theirs This faith of theirs in him openly manifested makes them fit and meet to be beloved I meane openly in the sight of heaven and earth and hell True God loves his Church and People as was said before they believe or else they could never come to believe Thine they were saith Christ and thou hast given them unto me Joh. 17.6 But till they come to believe in him other expressions of affection to them are but ordinary as to other men Though they bee his in some sense yet he will not owne them openly till they be worthy to be reputed his that is make their dependance upon him The first differencing expression of himselfe to be theirs and they his is the giving of faith unto them and when this is given and begins to worke and be active in them he cares not then what or how great blessings he gives them afterward The stumbling block is now removed out of the worlds way all the world cannot but confesse it just and equall that God should bee theirs that trust in him He was but a Heathen man that said it is right and equall that men should come to those gods for help whom they serve And so the Scripture still gives the reason of those speciall and extraordinary favours vouchsafed by God unto his Church to be their faith or dependance upon him Esay 26.3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is staid on thee because hee trusteth in thee And Chap. 57.13 The winde shall carry them all away vanity shall take them but he that putteth his trust in me shall possesse the Land and shall inherite my holy Mountaine See Joh. 14.21 and Gen. 22.16 17.
THE SAINTS INTEREST IN GOD Opened IN SEVERALL Sermons Preached Anniversarily upon the fifth of NOVEMBER BY JOHN GOODWIN Pastor of S. Stephens Coleman-street JOHN 20.17 I ascend unto my Father and your Father and to my God and to your God Ligaeum halent Sancti Deum Bernard LONDON Printed by M. F. for Henry Overton and are to be sold at his Shop at the entring into Popes Head Alley out of Lumbard Street 1640. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL Mr. Isaac Pennington Alderman of the City of London with the rest of my loving Parishioners and deare friends the Inhabitants of Saint Stephens Colemanstreete London part and fellowship in the great businesse of Jesus Christ with all Saints c. RIght Worshipful and deare in the Lord right deare and precious are the bands of that relation wherein a People and Pastor meeting together are made one especially when the lawes and termes of this relation are with all good conscience and soundnesse and intirenesse of affection managed and observed on both sides If it were put upon the file I conceive it would bee none of the easiest questions now on foot and under dispute in the world to determine whether it be matter of greater satisfaction to men of spirituall consideration and advisement either to lead or to be led to that perfect happinesse which stands in the full fruition of God in Christ That both the one and the other are of very high and excellent contentment to the mindes of men so composed is a Position which needes cost a man little in study or thoughts to beleeve Doubtlesse there is no such combination of actives and passives under Heaven betweene which the mutuall penetration is mutually more gratefull and acceptable or wherein there is more satisfaction given and received on both sides then betweene them He that is not himselfe called to the place or office of a Minister in the Church of Christ cannot with wisdome but put it in head or front of his desires to eat of the labours march towards Heaven under the conduct of such a Minister of whom he hath this precious assurāce that his heart is with his soule and that he travailes in birth wich him till Christ bee framed in him that is willing to doe and suffer all things to make him partaker of the Gospell with himselfe And for him whom God hath separated to serve him in the Gospell of his deare Son and for the worke of the Ministery if he be capable of his owne greatest comfort and glory the greatest joy and strength of his desire must needs be to help to replenish and fill those many Mansions in Heaven with a generation of his owne to goe before such a people that is willing to follow him roundly and close up in all the waies of life whose resolutions ingagements for that great piece of immortality laugh all the glory pleasures and contentments of the world in the face to scorne and are too great and deep to suffer them to be cast behinde hand in the things of their peace with running out of the way for the East-winde What hath been said concerning the sheep is too innocent a saying to finde enmity or contradiction from any man To desire the greatest faithfulnesse and the dearest tendernesse of affection in him to whom under God a man chuseth to commit that invaluable treasure of his soule is no such profound or master-piece of wisdome but that it may well be conceived to be incident to men that have but the first fruits of the first fruits of the Spirit or that have but begun to be a little jealous and thoughtfull that they have soules indeed which will not doe well in hell Wherefore to leave this assertion to shift for it selfe without taking any further care of plea or proofe for it what hath been said concerning the Shepheard seemes to admit more question or dispute If Timothy may save his owne soule is he not well for one whether hee saves others or no or what great addition can it be to a Minister who otherwise approves himselfe unto God and makes for the great Port of Heavē with a streight course both in Life and Doctrine to carry a traine or retinue of his people with him will it make any breach in his glory in heaven that hee comes thither alone Will not his Crowne of righteousnesse flourish upon his head except it be watered with the salvation of others Whether it be of any concernment or resentment or no to a faithfull Minister being once entred into his Masters joy and fully possest of that condition wherein mortality shall be swallowed up of life whether he hath stretched forth the hand of his Ministery either to a gainsaying or to an obedient or willing people whether he hath saved many or few or none at all certaine it is that whilest he is upon his Pilgrimage clothed with flesh yea and as it seemes Heb. 13.17 1 Thes 2.19 somewhat further even to the very gates and entring in to that compleat immortality whereinto there is no entrance till after the resurrection from the dead and the sentence of Absolution passed from the mouth of the great Judge it is a matter of great thoughts and workings of heart either on the right hand or on the left hand unto him Obey them saith the Apostle in the former Scripture that have the rule over you and submit your selves for they watch for your soules as they that must give accompt that they may doe it with Ioy and not with Griefe c. And in the latter thus For what is our hope or joy or crown of rejoycing Are not even yee in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his comming For yee are our glory and joy So that a teachable wise and tractable people that know what to doe with the words of eternall life besides giving them the hearing are not only choice matter of hope for the future and of joy yea and of a Crowne of rejoycing i. e. matter of the most weighty and solemne rejoycing unto their faithfull Minister for the present whilest his dwelling is with flesh but even after he hath laid aside this earthly Tabernacle resumed it againe in the Resurrection at the comming and in the presence of Jesus Christ they will be a glory and crowne of rejoycing an annointing with the Oyle of joy and gladnesse unto him above his fellowes As on the contrary a froward foolish carelesse stubborne flock as they are a great abasement and sorrow of heart to a good Shepheard for the present 2 Cor. 2.1 3 7.12.21 So will they be an occasion of the last griefe and heavinesse unto him yea of such a griefe and heavinesse that cannot it seemes by the expression of the holy Ghost be cured neither by the richest and most fearlesse and unquestionable assurance nor by the nearest and most immediate approach but only by the actuall compleate enjoyment of the joy and glory of
saith the Lord of Hosts Implying that he that worshippeth or serveth God in a low sparing loose and perfunctory manner is an enemy to his greatnesse and glory of his Majesty and goeth about as it were to perswade the world that God is not the God which indeed he is so great and terrible and so deceiveth it This for the fifth branch of instruction And lastly this Hony-Combe will yet drop once more This peculiar interest of the Church in God is a sure ground of a most certaine and infallible presage what will be the end of all the enemies thereof and what the issue of all the attempts of those that shall seeke to doe it evill Frustration will undoubtedly be the end of all such attempts and confusion the end of all their enemies The servants and people of God have been yet are and still will be too hard for all the world to deale with there is no medling with them but only in a way of love and kindnesse and so they are the profitablest men under heaven to converse and deale withall He that is the Sanctuary will be a stumbling stone and as a Rock to fall upon and as a snare to all the Inhabitants of the earth that shall either lift up a tongue or stretch forth a hand against them Esay 8.14 It is true The People of God seem to be of all men Opportuni injuriis as he said Men that if any man had a minde to doe mischiefe good cheape were for his turne because their arme of flesh for the most part is but weake and contemptible Neither doth the world love them so well as to provide them any guard of their strength to defend them But they have one alwaies standing by them who is indeed a man of Warre Exod. 15.3 But shewes not himselfe appeares not till the day of Battell but then he breakes out like a Lion out of the thicket as the Prophet speakes and teares all in pieces and devours This for the second use of Instruction CAP. VI. Wherein the Doctrine is further drawne out in an use of Encouragement or Consolation SEcondly the Doctrine propounded affords matter of comfort and encouragement those of the fullest and largest proportions to the Church of God and those that are members thereof If God be yours you Church and Children of God if you have this speciall interest in him then up with those hands that hang downe and let those knees that are feeble take strength to themselves and those hearts that are smitten within you and wither like the grasse let them flourish againe like the green herb If God be yours why do you feare or why do you take care who or how many they be that are against you Will you prophane the Sanctuary of your strēgth by your feares and pollute that blessed Name that is called upon you and by you Will you unsanctifie the holy One Will you proclaime it in the hearing of the world shall Gath and Ashkelon have information from you that his arme is shortened that he is now become as man and no longer a God that his horse are flesh and not spirit What do you else my Brethren that cast away your hope and confidence which your enemies gather up as fast as they perceive you to scatter and make hope and confidence of it for themselves and give the cause and state of the Church of God and Religion amongst you as good as lost which is yet more worth then many worlds Sampsons courage was above his strength Iudg. 16.20 because saith the Text He knew not that the Lord was departed from him and therefore when he went forth thinking to doe as he did at other times he was taken of his enemies But your strength is a great deale more then your courage because God is not departed from you Nay he hath bound himselfe unto you whilest you continue his Church and People with bands which he cannot breake It is like you will say Ah! but we cannot discerne any signes of his presence if God be with us or on our side why is it thus Let me reason a few things with you to allay the bitternesse of these complaints and feares Doe yee thinke or believe in good earnest that you are now in greater danger nearer ruine and destruction then you were at that time when he that is your God stepped in between the Match and the Powder and kept them from comming the one at the other Only now it may be you see and apprehend more but the danger is not the greater but the lesser by that When the Disciples not long after the Miracle of the Loaves began to question their provision of Victualls how sharply doth our Saviour rebuke them as fooles and without understanding Mar. 8.17 18. Why reason ye thus because ye have no Bread perceive ye not yet neither understand have ye your heart yet hardened having eyes see you not and having eares heare you not and doe ye not remember When I brake the five Loaves among five thousand how many Baskets full of fragments tooke you up They said unto him Twelve And when the seven among foure thousand how many Baskets full of fragments tooke yee up And they said Seven And he said unto them how is it that ye doe not understand As if he should say it is the most unworthy and unsavoury thought and conceit in the world to lodge in you who have so lately and that againe and againe and so apparently seene and had experience both of the tendernesse of my care and mightinesse of my power in making provision of Bread for you to suspect or feare inconvenience that way that ever you should suffer hunger or be affamished Have we not had as cleare as mighty a demonstration in the deliverance we now celebrate with many other of the care providence and protection of God over us for the preservation of our lives liberties goods Religion and shall we suffer such an unworthy and sacrilegious apprehension to tyrannize over us as this that God will now deliver us up to the will of our enemies because his time and our time for deliverance are not yet met our time for ease comfort and deliverance being alwaies but Gods time many times not yet Let me ask you how many barrels of Gunpowder tooke ye up out of the Vault how many barres of Iron and Billets and Faggots took ye up how many Traitors hanged ye up Doe ye not yet perceive neither understand what all this meaneth Again in Eighty eight how many Ships did ye batter spoile and sinke how many did you take for your selfe how plentifull and royall a feast did you prepare for the fish of the Sea with the flesh of your enemies and the blood of the mighty David hath such an expression concerning the Providence of God towards his People in the destruction of Pharaoh as this Ps 74.14 Thou brakest the head of Leviathan in pieces and gavest him to be
immortality it selfe Though I have no ground of confidence to put any such great question unto you as Paul did and well might unto the Galatians to aske you What hath your felicity been since my comming and preaching the Gospell unto you yet this I cannot but professe and testifie to the world to the exaltation and praise of the grace of God that hath been given you by my dispensation of the Gospell towards you let the tree of interpretatiō fall which way it will whether to the North or to the South it shall neither hurt me nor you by the fall that you have rejoyced in my light and have been ready many of you if not to pluck out and give your eyes unto me yet in the best and readiest way of Christian expression to signifie and seale the truth life and power which you have seen tasted and felt in my Ministery And that which I know not how to draw aside to any other construction but only to make a demōstration and proofe of the naturalnesse of your affection towards me and towards the truth it self delivered by me though the iniquity of many hath abounded against both yet your love to neither hath waxed cold which crowne of praise I could willingly enrich yet seven times more and set it upon your heads when I had done if I knew how to worke upon it without seeming at least to soile others by way of complaint and to make men offenders for personall wrongs which is a straine of too much effeminatenesse in a Christian and little lesse then either an acknowledgement of the strength of other mens weaknesse or of the weaknesse of a mans owne strength Howsoever my silence whether upon this or other consideration will be found no treason either against the life or dignity of your Christian and worthy deportment therein there is one greater then all the world besides that will see that righteousness of yours fully rendred unto you in due time Truth is honest in her deepest poverty and distresse and whatsoever she borroweth or taketh of any man for her support or reliefe in prison she will pay double and treble when she recovers her liberty and entreth againe into her glory And feare not he that would not leave the soule of his Sonne in hell nor suffer his holy One to see corruption will be as mindfull of tender over his daughter Truth and will give her beauty for ashes in due season You I confesse have the advantage of me in opportunities many wayes for expressing your selves in point of affection The giving of carnall and outward things is both easier of interpretation and lesse liable to sinister construction then the dispensing of spirituall things is Ministers are oftentimes suspected to preach the Gospell out of envy or other pretences that are not good but no man gives either silver or gold but is presumed to doe it of good will Besides the work and labour of a Minister is looked upon by the most but as of a matter of course and that which he is bound to doe and no great thanke conceived to belong to it but the bestowing of a small matter where men are conceived to be free the rule of which freedome is generally made the silence of the Lawes of Land and State is no lesse then matter of admiration unto many and two mites cast into a Ministers treasury of free gift signifieth in the vulgar Dialect of men twenty thousands in affection Yea the diligence and faithfulnesse of good Ministers themselves successively who have abounded in this worke may well be conceived to have abated the esteeme of it with many and have caused it to seem now rather a 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 then commendation Whereas on the other hand the generall basenesse and empty handednesse of men towards their Teachers sets off a slender liberality with much lustre and beauty as the scarcity of comforts and refreshings in hell make a drop of water to coole his tongue seem a great boone to the rich man Neverthelesse my trust and confidence is concerning you that are spirituall that you by the light partly of my labours and paines amongst you having served you now in the things of Jesus Christ well neare the terme of seven yeares partly of my Doctrine partly of my manner of life and conversation otherwise can plainly and perfectly reade it written in the Tables of my heart how deare you are unto me and how high and glorious my contentments and comforts are in such amongst you whose faces are set towards heaven and are resolved to take nothing in exchange for your soules I will not be further importune with you in pleading the cause of my indearments to you upon this occasion I had rather give you an accompt of my heart towards you in deeds then in words in power then profession Neither shall I ever be troublesome unto you for any greater measure of esteeme or approbation with you then what my carriage shall be reasonably valued at betweene a Pastor and his People If you will please to interpret this Dedication as a recommendation and testimony of mine especiall love care and respects unto you the burden and weight I conceive of what you doe herein shall not need to lie more upon your affections then your judgements and those actions ever come of with best contentment and satisfaction to sober men that are so divided If you had not been the first of my care and affections these first fruits it is most like had not fallen to your portion There is little in what is here presented to your view but that which your eares have tasted already some yeares since You may by a fresh perusall of these things besides the direct benefit of the knowledge reaped from them be occasioned better to understand and consider the state and condition as well of your hearts as memories and to compare them together so as to finde out whether you be stronger in the one or in the other or in both strong or in both weake alike If you finde the sinewes strength and substance of these things in your inner man so that whilst you reade you seem to see the lineaments of the face of your owne soule as in a Glasse to reade the naturall history of your owne spirits this is a pregnant and precious signe unto you that your hearts are sound and their digestion of spirituall nourishment of the best If you meet with little here but what you were able before or without your reading to have uttered and given an accompt of this argues faithfulnesse in your memories also If you lie under the power of these things but have little or no command of the letter this demonstrates a defectivenesse or weaknesse in memory but soundnesse of heart which is the great praise glory and comfort of a Christian if the words passages and expressions remaine for the most part whole with you but the marrow and fatnesse the spirit and life of
them are not incorporated with your soules and spirits you doe not finde that such notions and apprehensions as are fire in your bones and make your consciences spring and worke lively when they doe but touch and come neare them the interpretation of this signe is that you have more of that which is lesse and lesse of that which is more that you have memories that would doe worthily indeed with better hearts and soules that would escape better with worse memories But I hope the best things of you The great and mighty God of Heaven and Earth who must teach you and all the world besides to profit whether by the eye or by the eare as well by writing as speaking by reading as hearing in the knowledge of himselfe and of the great things of your peace make these meditations as a Cloud of the latter raine unto you to drop fatnesse upon your soules and command them to give out their strength fully and freely unto you that they may be felt by your selves in the renewing and strengthening your inner man be seen upon you by others in an unstained excellencie of life and conversation amongst men and found also in your accounts and reckonings at the great day as having cōtributed their share toward that joy and lifting up of your heads for ever which is the promised reward of all those that know God to be the only true God and him whom he hath sent Jesus Christ Which Crowne of blessednesse there is not a man of you but shall most assuredly obtaine if you be as true to your selves and the things of your owne glorie and will runne for your selves with as much faithfulnesse as he is readie to runne for you night and day who here in the presence of Heaven and Earth subscribeth and giveth it under his hand that he is Your loving truly affectionate Pastor Iohn Goodwin From my Study in Coleman streete London this August 7. 1640. To the Reader Good Reader WHether hee hath done wel or ill whoever he was be it my selfe or some other who was the principall of making more Presse-worke of these Sermons I conceive it is not worth the lightest exercise of thy thoughts to consider judge or determine If he hath done ill doubtlesse it cannot bee much things that are weake though otherwise unusefull yet will they serve for foile to set off that which is strong with more grace and acceptation as the Thistle in Lebanon commends the stature and beauty of the Cedar in Lebanon And the truth is that many Bookes of worth and value indeed had need of some further recommendation in one kinde or other unto men then their owne worth they suffer obscurity and neglect at the hands of men this notwithstanding Impertinencies would be of great consequence if they could bring things of consequence into request If he hath done well thou thy selfe wilt easily be perswaded to say that this cannot be much howsoever in this point thou and I shall not much differ Now then in matters where the difference is very small and almost imperceptible a man may soone be out more in deliberation then it is possible for him ever to recover or get in againe by any resolution As in suing at Law for a trifle the victory or conquest with all the advantages will not defray the one halfe of the cost and charge of the Warre I would gladly therefore save thee thy time and thoughts touching the premisses Yet two things there are which have their plea in their mouthes such as they are for loosing their prisoners and setting them at liberty in the world The one is the occasion of their Preaching the other their argument or Subject For the first it was the Anniversary remembrance of that great battle fought between Hell and Heaven about the peace and safety of our Nation on Novemb. 5. 1605. wherein Hell was overthrowne and Heaven and We rejoyced together I have not to my present remembrance met with any thing published of late of any speciall influence or tendency to maintain the life and spirit of the solemnity joy of that day and deliverance And pity it is that such a Plant of Paradise should wither or languish for want of watering Such a deliverance may through the Mercy and Goodnesse of God prove a breeder and become a joyfull Mother of many Children like unto her selfe if the hearts of our Nation did converse with her more frequently and more affectionately The Argument or Subject discoursed in these Sermons is the true Church her Interest in God with all her members A Subject I confesse that hath passed through many hands and gained much of many But the depth and weightinesse of it is such that it still calleth upon the greatest abilities of men to be further sought and inquired into I assume nothing unto my selfe beyond the discoveries of other men if thou meetest with any thing that may excuse or qualifie the Printing of the whole remember him that said concerning a sinfull City Gen. 18.32 I will not destroy it for ten righteous mens sake If thou either desirest or fearest the sight of any thing more of mine thou maist make thine owne bargaine herein by handling this piece accordingly For as for me I am not conscious to my selfe either of forwardnesse or backwardnesse of being made publique the tongues and judgements of men if they could agree may easily over-rule me either way It argues some distemper of spirit to be importune upon the world with a mans private conceptions neither is it the best posture to put the world upon importunity with us to purchase them if they have a minde to them Pardon me thus far and that which remaineth I shall pray for thee that thou maist with the Church have Interest in God and that this Interest may be established and confirmed unto thee by the reading this piece untill through fulnesse thou breakest out with David saying The Lord is my Light and my Salvation Whom shall I feare Psa 27.1 And by this time when thou knowest not whom or what to feare I hope thou wilt be at good leisure and in case to pray for him who resteth Thine in the Lord alwaies I. G. Colemonstreet Lond. Aug. 7. 1640. The Contents of the CHAPTERS CAP. I. WHerein the Coherence together with the sense and meaning of the words are cleared and Doctrines raised Fol. 1 CAP. II. Wherein the nature and importance of that propriety or interest which the Church hath in God is declared Fol. 23 CAP. III. Containing proofes from Scripture of the Churches propriety or interest in God Fol. 44 CAP. IV. Wherein foure severall Grounds or Reasons of the Churches propriety in God are laid downe and opened Fol. 54 CAP. V. Containing the first Vse of Instruction in six particulars Fol. 102 CAP. VI. Wherein the Doctrine is further drawne out in an use of Encouragement or Consolation Fol. 155 CAP. VII Wherein the two first branches of the third Use