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A53307	The race set before us, shewing the necessity laid upon gospel-believers, to run with diligence thorow all gospel-duties. A sermon preached in London, May 11. 1665. at Mercers-Chappel, unto that most eminent company, the Company of the Mercers. By Giles Oldisworth, Master of Arts, and rector of Burton on the Hill, in Gloucester-shire.	Oldisworth, Giles, 1619-1678.	1666 (1666)	Wing O254; ESTC R214468	20,280	47

wherein he is called therein abide with God Rom. 12 He that ministreth let him wait on his ministring he that teacheth on teaching and he that ruleth let him rule with diligence Bear with me Of late there is too great a want of this diligence in rulers Profaneness threatneth if not the cheif City yet many cheif places within this Kingdome It evil becometh a Christian Magistrate to bear the sword of his God in vain Instruction 2 Secondly If we would obtain that for which we run let every one of us mind the present duty Friends As every promise to us made implyeth a duty requisite from us so every place every moment requireth from us a present duty too Mat. 11.25 At that time Jesus answered and said Object No body spake to him Answ Iesus answered the then present opportunity viz. Unto every instant of time there is an answer due I doe not answer my duty now except I so speak as for edification and that too as from the Lord neither doe yee now answer your duties except ye now hear as persons desirous to inform awaken and strengthen your souls You of this Eminent Societie you the Honorable Company of Mercers will answer Your duties if you this day shew your selves faithful stewards of those blessings in behalf of pious and charitale uses wherewith the liberal hand of your God hath entrusted you you will this day answer your duties if your Feasting this day be among you an occasion not unto disorder and gluttony but unto love unfained and unto a rejoycing in the Lord I trust you will this day unite your hearts not only to delight in one another but to fear the Lord and his goodness Right Worshipful You are the chief and most eminent of the chosen Companies of this most famous City wherefore if at all times ye would answer your duties as your God hath placed you the first in order so endeavour ye I beseech you to lead and go before others in good examples in good works In a word every one of us then answereth present duty when he considerately endeavoreth to perform that at every present season wherein he may at every present season best glorifie his God We must do good and Gal. 6.10 good we must do as we have opportunity 1 Sam. 10.7 Do as occasion shall serve a good runner mindeth every step he will not lose no not one footing Whether mud or sands whether hills or meadows limit their banks toward their Sea rivers run they run and run continually and John 4.14 living Waters are ever springing upward We Christians throughout our Spiritual race must be like Soldiers ever upon duty This is my second instruction Instruction 3 Thirdly If we would so run that we may obtain what duty soever we do let us do it heartily as unto the Lord Then the diligent hand maketh rich when it maketh Religion its business Acts 11.23 We must cleave unto the Lord with a full purpose of heart Lev. 11.42 Whatsoever multiplieth feet is an abomination Why Answ It can but creep It is then a sign that we run well when we breath and pant viz. when we breath after holiness and when we pant after God Lovers have a language of their own their feet talk their hands talk their eyes talk so thou when by-standers when worldlings are not aware of it have a foot for thy God a hand for thy God an eye for thy God Psal 16.8 They that would not greatly fall do set the Lord alway before them much more they that would run well Then we run our best when the desire of our soul is toward the name of our God Instruction 4 Fourthly If obtain ye would Duly frequent Ordinances It is good being there where Princes scatter gifts It is good being there where the power of the Lord is present to heal Esa 64.5 Thou meetest them who remember thee in thy ways Quest. Where are the ways of God Answ Psal 77.13 Thy way O Lord is in the Sanctuary Gospel-blessings accompany Gospel-Ordinances Joh 5.4 While the good Angel moveth the waters of Life we should not absent our selves from the Pools of Bethesda John 13.30 When Judas forsook the disciples of Christ he left Christ as well as them but John 20 28. When Thomas was assembled with the rest of the Disciples he was then no longer faithless but believing Unto this hour Jesus Christ teacheth daily in the Temple though not by himself yet by his chosen Ministers That is then a fourth Instruction Let us not forsake the assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is Instruction 5 Fifthly If ye will so run that ye may obtain In the use of all Gospel-Ordinances wait for the Spirit accompanying those Ordinances Jer 10.23 It is not in Man that walketh much less in man that runneth to direct his own steps but Esa 58.11 The Lord he shall guide us continually Psal 143.3 Our soul is like a barren and dry land it is God that Esa 58.11 maketh us like a watered garden Psal 143.10 Lead me but lead me with thy good spirit now this spirit is given Luk 11.13 to them who thorow very hunger ask for it If in every exercise of godliness we thirst after a communion with our God a communion we shall partake for our God hath told us Esa 44.3 I will pour water upon him that is thirsty Matth. 7.7 Seek grace and finde grace Of old time they who ran races did first anoint themselves with oyl and we in this spiritual race should 1 John 2.27 use the ointment of the Holy Ghost 1 Sam. 10.9 When Saul was anointed God gave Saul another Spirit Beloved as Royal Vnction so Holy Vnction not onely declareth a right but enableth for duty Cant 1.4 We will run after thee Qu How so Answ v. 3 Thy name is as oyntment powred forth Once get the Ointment of the Holy One you will then so run that ye may obtain Instruction 6 Lastly Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Among other Excellencies in our English Liturgy this is not the least That almost every Prayer concludeth in Jesus Christ his name Jesus Christ he is as well the Omega as the Alpha he is the Amen Beloved the graces of Gods spirit are living-waters but Zech. 13.1 Jesus Christ is that Fountain from which these waters of life are drawn 1 Pet. 1.11 The Spirit which was in the holy Men of God was the Spirit of Christ Col. 3.3 Our life is hid in God but with Christ 2 Tim. 2.1 Be strong in grace Qu. In what grace Answ In that grace which is in Christ Jesus Micah 5.5 That Man shall be the peace Qu. What Man Answ 1 Tim. 2.5 The Man Christ Jesus Ye obtain Salvation Qu. What salvation Answ 2 Tim. 2.10 The salvation which is in Christ Jesus Ephes 6.10 If ye would be strong to run this race be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might lean upon

false way to lay aside every sin and to deny all ungodliness yea and blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ that we are allowed to exercise our selves unto godliness and to imitate and resemble the Image of Gods glorious Holiness Godliness is great gain if we accompt all A new life is a new creation and a new creation is a recreation The wit of Man can not contrive a sort of life more desirable then is this which the Wisdom of the onely Wise God hath chalked out unto us For although the flesh be indeed infirm yet it rejoyceth in hope and as for the Spirit that is willing and obedient Verily new obedience is not onely profitable but pleasant if it be a yoke it is an easie one and the blessing of the Lord resteth upon it To seek holiness is to exchange curses for blessedness death for life shame for glory guilt for peace darkness for light and vexation for joy However Why ah why should Gods Commandements be grievous unto him who hath a love for his God As for the wicked if righteousness be an abomination unto him it is because he knoweth no better Of it self Esa 64.5 it is all one to work righteousness and to rejoyce A godly conversation is Phil. 3.20 a heavenly conversation No such liberty as is the Gospel liberty and if the Son and Heir of all things maketh us free then are we free indeed John 3.36 This is our third comfort Consolation 4 Our fourth comfort groweth in the place wherein this race is set before us even in this present evil world For be it that this world is a seducing world be it that it is a world of wickedness yet within this world the Church of Jesus Christ is the pillar and ground of truth Be it that this world is a wilderness in this wilderness Hos 2.14 God will allure us Christ as he is the way so he setteth up way-marks he Psal 5.8 will make his way straight before us Rather then we should conform unto the evil of the world wherein we live this Apostle of us Gentiles calleth upon us cap. 11.1 Be ye followers of me yea Christ himself hath given us an example Wherefore not a man among us but may say with David Psal 31.8 Thou hast set my feot in a large place even Esa 18.7 in the place of the name of the Lordof hosts Beloved wheresoever the glory of Christ his Gospel shineth there upon all that glory is a defence Secondly Go out of the Church into the world Iesus Christ he hath overcome the world for us Thirdly The more dis-advantageous the ground the greater praise unto him that runneth well To be holy in heaven is no thanks to us to be righteous in Sodom to be Saints in Nero's Court this is praise-worthy It was 2 Sam. 15.21 the commendation of Ittai that he would accompany his Prince in a strait he was resolved to follow David as well in death as in life To be then on Gods side when all the world sideth against God this is Loyaltie Fourthly The more wickedness aboundeth in the world the more easily may Gods children learn to detest it to abstain from sweet wines is no easie matter but even he who is given to his appetite may soon be disswaded to desist from quaffing off full draughts of Vinegar doth Naturally beget in us a detestation Again If the whole world lieth in wickedness it is now worthy our while to watch against this enemie this will be not a light skirmish but a pitched Battail we have now some hopes of growing victorious Faith will find some pleasure if it may encounter with a world so dangerous as is this wherein we live To conclude this The more wicked the world is the more honour have all those Saints which keep themselves unspotted of it Phil. 2.15 We then behave our selves like the sons of God when in the midst of a crooked and perverss generation we abide blameless and harmless Therefore so farr is the world from making against us that it maketh for us This is then our fourth comfort Consolation 5 Your Fift Consolation is That the time wherein we run is but short Although the spirit be willing I wiss flesh and blood is weak and although the commandement is good corrupt nature fancieth it greivous allow this never the less can we not watch with Jesus one hour Chear up beleivers this world shall not last alwaies Esa 57 The righteous are taken away from that which is evil If compared to the everlastingness of the prize all that we doe or can suffer is but for a moment Yet a little while and we shall rest from our labours yet a little while and the race will be ended Know ye not that we are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Know ye not that what race we run is but stadium is at most but a furlong in lenght Sirs if the race here set before us be in length but one furlong how easily may we hold out This is therefore a Fift Comfort Consolation 6 Our next Consolation springeth from a sense of our natural insufficiency And here a threefold Cord strengtheneth us For First God accepteth the will for the deed Rom. 8.34 Who is he that condemneth It is Christ who died and died for us As Christ the head Esa 50.8 so every member of Christ may safely say He is nere that justifieth me Secondly Psal 94.18 When I said my foot slippeth thy mercies O Lord held me up Prov. 2.8 The Lord preserveth the way of his Saints He Psal 21.3 preventeth thee with his goodness He Psal 58.13 sets thee in the way of his steps Prov. 3.23 Thy foot shall not stumble or if it doth He Psal 19.11 shall bear thee up He Prov. 3.23 will hold up thy steps in thy wayes nay Micah 7.8 When I fall I shall arise Thirdly Not I but grace So long as the child can not goe at all the nursing-father carrieth him in his bosome Of our selves we can doe nothing to any purpose therefore doth Christ strengthen us to do all things that he expecteth from us That God might teach Israel to goe He Hos 11.3 took him by the armes Jesus Christ he knoweth that we are altogether unable to fulfill his good pleasure wherefore he giveth us a helping hand he performeth our work for us Christ he knoweth that we are altogether desicient that we are altogether unprofitable therefore he putteth to his own strength and reputeth his strength ours Jesus Christ hath stored up grace yea and the spirit of grace too against the times of our need Now that we are to run this race he furnishes us with ointment The wind which bloweth where it listeth listeth to set in our backs and to blow us forward Holy Angels they are made our ministring spirits and the spirit of the Lord he leadeth he draweth us on When the spirit of the Lord came upon Elijah Elijah ran farr What shall we

him trust in him make him your stay your strength and your good speed Yet this ye cannot do until ye first stir up your selves to lay hold on him I exhort therefore Exhortation 1 Since we should so run that we may obtain Let your loins be girt Every one of us have at the best bin ill-advised we have started too late we have run too slowly we have fallen too often Yet yet the prize abideth before us as yet the Crown is within veiw Oh while we have yet day-light let us work-out our salvation let us not fail of obtaining let us lay hold of eternal life even of that salvation which is in Christ Jesus Let every one of us redeem the time let us all run and so run as knowing the terrors of the Lord If we press not forward to apprehend that for which also we are apprehend the terrors of the Lord they set themselves in array against us For Terrour 1 First It is a Duty incumbent upon us that we run this race Other races are left unto the spectators liberty spare the prize and spare to run This not so This so run is not a permission but a command We are brought into this world not to be by-standers not to be gazers or lookers on that is the the Angels lot that but to be runners We are enjoyned we are commanded to run Terrour 2 Next Were there no command yet there is a necessity laid upon us Of them that doe run others if they so run that they doe not obtain they have their labour for their pains or if suffer they doe yet is it at most but some small loss some corruptible crown some little shame which will soon over With us not so To turn back is death behind us is hell to stand still is death beneath us is hell If we will not lay it to heart to give glory to Gods name Mal. 2.3 God will even bring a curse upon us Heb. 2.3 It is not how shall we obtain but how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation It is with us as 1 Sam. 14.13 it was with Ionathan climbing the rock with his hands if we get not up we fall and perish if we reach not the height of Sion we are cast out into the Valley of Hinnom It is with us as with pretenders unto supremacy if not a Throne a Scaffold if not a Crown a block if we obtain not the salvation which is in Christ Iesus we shall everlastingly abide under the condemnation of the Devil Terrour 3 Thirdly Consider the quality of the race here set before us It is another kind of task to run thorow all Gospel-duties then it was to run over the race at Isthmos 2 Pet. 3.11 What manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness So much adoe to cleanse from vain thoughts from evil intaginations from all filthiness of the Spirit To watch against every idle word which we sure to answer for to lay aside every sin to put away the evil of our doings to purge our selves from dead works to put off the old man For a mind naturally alienated from God to acquaint it self spiritually with God to bring every thought into the captivity of Jesus Christ to be renewed in the spirit of our mind to have our speech seasoned with Salt good for edifying setting forth the praises of our God! To bring forth much fruit not to lose our first love to grow in grace to be perfect as our heavenly father is perfect multū fecitque tulitque Horat. sudavit alsit who is sufficient for these things To make what is for continuance a walk for swiftness a race to walk with God to follow God fully nay to run after him till we overtake him hic labor hoc opus est He that would at all times deny himself and at all times exercise himself in godliness must strive more vehemently then they strive who run a race Terrour 4 Fourthly View the trouble some place wherein we run Other races are run upon chosen hills upon champian plains upon carpetground but this is run Gal. 1.4 in this present evil world Whether we regard prosperity or adversity we have little good turfe here Every one of us as well as Magor-missabib Ier. 20.3 may be named Fearround-about If adversity make the world go heavy with us we are then apt to slip and fall like Abraham who Gen. 20.2 stumbled and equivocated like David who 1 Sam. 21.5 stumbled and lyed down-rightly like Iob Iob 3.1 stumbled and fell a cursing If prosperity heap worldly blessings though blessings they be they cumber the new man Hezekiah stuck presently when 2 Chro. 32.25 the world went well with him when Dives fared deliciously every day Luke 16 Dives forgot that there was a hell In stead of making friends by it many stumble at Mammon and Prov. 30.9 deny God Most how uncertain soever riches are set their hearts more upon wealth then upon their God who gave it In short dust would to dust and the more it is watered the more dirt it maketh Now to tread well in ill ground to run among thorns and not tear the feet to run wayes of holiness in a world of wickedness In disadvantagions groung to run at all yea so to run as to obtain this is more difficult then to run a race Terrour 5 Fiftly Cast up how small a pittance of time is here allowed us for the obtaining of this prize To one running for a prize what space of time is allotted Answ Not a minut to spare Span the length of our daies 60 70 80 years are soon passed over yea none can assure to himself so many houres of life no not so many minutes and yet if during life obtain we can well after death there is no further running Look we for and hasten to the prize what we are able if if we run not the faster our grave preventeth us Sirs were Methusalem now alive to work out his salvation were a project which would cost him every hour of his long life As for many of us we have scarcely found time enough to set our houses in order much less our hearts To perfect holiness is a task for Paul the aged David as he was full of grace so was he full of daies but none among us can boast himself of to morrow Up let us be running the day is farr spent Terrour 6 Sixthly Examine well thine insufficiencies and thou mayest be a terrour to thy self In other trials the racers singled out are men naturally agile and active men breathed and exercised men as light of foot as a wild Roe but we like Mephibosheth are lame of both our feet Psal 19.5 It is for a strong man to run a race but we are weak our souls are aguish made up of infirmities Impar congressus Our performances are as nothing if compared with our duties Look on the things behind on that part of