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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30282	Mans whole duty and Gods wonderful intreaty of him thereunto set forth from 2 Cor. 5, 20, and published at the request of some hearers / by Daniel Burgess.	Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.	1690 (1690)	Wing B5709; ESTC R23833	54,814	178

they receive additional strength to walk more serviceably Now as more is given to them proportionably more is required from them more than from other Converts that are not yet assured of their Peace with God Luk. 12.48 Every Israelite owed God much but the Nazarite owed him much more If I were asked Who of all the living were deepest Debtors unto God and had most work set them to do I would say assured Christians Yea and I verily think that next unto Saints Glorified none are so painful and so humble as the assured True it is in many things they themselves do offend And 't is not in Perfection attained but expected that the best of them dare to glory Wherefore their Eye is at least it ought to be ever kept upon the last particular concerning our Reconciliation unto God And that is 7. The Judgment days publication and perfection of it Acts. 3.19 Sins shall be in open Court blotted out when that day of refreshment cometh from the presence of the Lord. Reconciliation shall be published to purpose when in the audience of Men and Angels God the Judge of all shall pronounce it with his Mouth And so that he will be admired in his Saints and all that believe To wit for the heights whereto he exalteth them 2 Thess 1.10 Hear but one Apostle more 1 Joh. 3.2 When he shall appear we shall be like him That is when God displays his own Glory in the Son of his Love who comes at the last day in the Glory of his Father we shall be as like him as shall be fit for Children to be like a Father There shall be no sign of any variance ever being betwixt us But all the Blessedness possible shall speak his perfect Reconciliation to us and all the Holiness possible shall speak our like Reconciliation unto him Whether the sins of Believers shall be all of them published in the general Judgment is a Question Learned Alting brings five Reasons for the Affirmative and as many for the Negative But it is most undoubted that the blessed Friendship betwixt God and them shall be then shewn abroad through the whole Creation and be exalted beyond the reach of our present words or thoughts St. Austins Mother hearing a Sermon of Heaven is reported to have cryed out O what do I here in this World Methinks Reader thou shouldst imitate her And here exclaim O what have I to do all my days but provide for this Judgment-day Wouldst thou know what course to take for this provision I beseech thee attend unto the fifth and last Position that I offer for explicating my Doctrine Pos 5. Mans business touching his Reconciliation unto God falls into three particular exercises Attention Reader Attention give here thy best Attention and the greatest thou ever gavest to the things that best deserve it These Exercises must be thine if ever the war between God and thee do come to an end The war lies in this which of you shall have their will Fain thou wouldst have thy own will as bad an one as it is As mad a Mind as 't is led by I mean as void as 't is of Truth and as possessed as 't is with Error Self-will is the sin of sin It lives longest and dyes last in every sinner Fain wouldst thou live as thou listest Think speak and act as thou pleasest have thy Thoughts and Works also free Fain wouldst thou be thy own Man yea and God too Making to thy self no God but thy self and observing no Law but thy Lust I and after this done thou wouldst not be undone Thou wouldst gain this in the World and not lose thy Soul take the Hell in sin and miss the Hell prepared for it Thou wouldst Temporally and Eternally disjoyn the evil of Suffering from the evil of Doing And escape that though thy Life be spent to the last breath of it in this But God saith thee nay and sends forth Proclamations to the contrary From him I have Commission to tell thee and I do by these Presents give thee to know God will tear Heaven and Earth in pieces and if it could be he would himself dye in the fight rather than thou shouldst have that will of thine Rather then thou thy self shouldst escape the misery of Divels if thou wilt hold their enmity and keep unreconciled as they Yea and rather than he will ever afford thee Reconciliation in any way but that of his Gospel-Revelation If therefore thou learn'st not and fallest not unto these Gospel-Exercises that I am commending thou plainly thus speakest To Hell my Soul get thee going to Hell O extremity of torment I will venture thee O eternity of anguish I fear thee not O Worm that ever livest and O Fire that never dyest I will bear you both And O you exercises that are the Chariots of Grace and Eternal Glory I tell you all three I scorn you Frightful words and not to be heard without amazement and a quaking Heart Reader were I to beg but one Blessing for my own Soul and for those that are dearest unto me it should be this That we might happily begin and hold on these three Exercises Whereof I shall treat as plainly and fully though as briefly as I am able Take them together first thus They are 1. Of Believing and Considering Reconciliation in respect to the three first particulars That is as purposed as purchased and as proved to be so 2. Of praying and labouring for Reconciliation in respect to the three next particulars That is as possessed as perswaded or assured of and as practically improved 3. Of hoping for Reconciliation and rejoycing in it in respect to the last particular That is as published and perfected And here observe thou well how far it is from brick and bondage whereto thou art called Idleness is of the worst wracks that an Humane Soul can be set on and thou art called to employment right honourable Thy Labour is not desired till admirable encouragements unto it are known and well considered first by thee No nor till superabundant aids from Heaven are invoked Thou art not set to Labour but in Hope and for or with Joy unspeakable and full of glory The World deals quite contrary with its Vassals In the ways of sin Men know not whither they go and are not suffered to consider what they are like to have for their Labour And indeed their Labour is to sow in much pain what they reap in Eternal Torment In their Lives and Labours as in their Deaths they have no Hope or what is worse than none They are far from Joy the Spirit of God assures us there is no Peace to them And their Mirth is nothing in the world but light-headedness Their going to Play-houses is but sending themselves to Bedlam Come on then and learn the way and enter into the joy of the Lord. The Lord that sends me to invite thee and thus direct thee First Thou must believe and

and declared so to be For you are told He that hath the Son of God hath Life 1 Joh. 5.12 There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus Rom. 8.1 And being justified by Faith you have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ Rom. 5.1 Come Reader come take Eternal Life from these Lines Hold thy self not a minute longer in Hell-fire for Gods wrath is not a jod less Down with my Book and down fall thou on thy Knees and utter the few words which will make God and thy Soul everlasting Friends No longer dare to live Damned Venture to strike the Gospel-Covenant and be saved Say to Jesus Christ Lord I will stay no longer I am thine upon thy Gospel-terms for ever From this instant to Eternity I will be thine Say to thy self Heart bid an eternal adieu unto Vnrighteousness and unto trust in self-righteousness as satisfactory or meritory Say unto vain Company Sirs I take my leave of you I must travel no farther with you that are not for the strait gate and narrow way If you will not be Reconciled to God with me I will not any longer sight against God with you But whither do I break Be it known unto every Reader this is Gospel God is not Reconciled to us FOR our Repentance and Faith The most penitent Believers are but unprofitable servants unto him But he is never to be Reconciled WITHOVT Repentance and Faith Both are as necessary as tho' they were Meritory though they are infinitely far from it Yea and upon the first penitent and faithful consenting to the Gospel-Covenant God and Sinners become as true Friends as God and Holy Angels And as Eternally inseparable ones Rom. 8.38 39. 'T is not to be denyed or concealed The grant of Peace is one thing and the sense of it is another And these two are separable God may be Reconciled to a Covenant-servant of his for months and years and the servant be in fear and doubt of it Those sins that hinder not Gods grant of Peace to us do often hinder our sense and assurance of it Wherefore we are to consider another particular concerning Reconciliation To wit 5. The Believers perswasion of it For though Reconciliation be the greatest good though it be Eternally purposed for me and by Christs Death purchased for me and be by the Holy Spirit proved to me that it is for some Purposed and Purchased Yea though through Grace I am possessed of it what then Until I know that I am possessed of it I am but like a Child in the Womb Living indeed in a bag of water but not knowing my own Life I have a Life that is only in degree inferiour to the Life of Angels But yet I live in doubts and fears that I am like unto Divels and that I shall lodge for ever in their unquenchable fire Now be it carefully heeded The Holy Spirit who is given to work Grace in us he is also given to witness Grace unto us and to make us know the things that are freely given to us of God 1 Cor. 2.12 He is a free and soveraign Agent indeed and he works and witnesses in them in whom he worketh as he pleaseth He giveth assurance of Peace with God as much as he pleaseth and as soon and no more and no sooner than he pleaseth 1 Cor. 12.11 At the first Plantation of the Gospel-Church he used together to convert Souls and to assure them of their Reconciliation unto God But now we see he doth not ordinarily so do And as commanded 2 Pet. 2.10 most Converts do give great diligence before their Election and Reconciliation are made sure I contemn the Roman Synagogue that measures all Cloth by its own Ell and denyeth the attainableness of that assurance which they neither duly seek or ever attain Our Divines have confuted and shamed them so much that there needs not any thing to be said unto their blasphemous Dreams Let the desirous Reader see but that one most excellent Sermon of Mr. Samuel Fairclough on 2 Pet. 1.10 in the Morning Lectures against Popery The Churches of Christ do believe and teach that the blessed Spirit doth ordinarily sooner or later witness unto true Converts their Reconciliation And seal them to the day of Redemption And this either mediately or immediately Immediately by a sort of spiritual words Such as pass between God and the Blessed Spirits above By these the Holy Ghost testifieth unto humble diligent Believers that they are Gods Reconciled and Adopted Children And when he doth so he doth it with a clearness and sweetness that carry their own evidence with them For there is no Rule beyond it by which it may be tryed as there is no other visible besides the Light it self whereby you may try it Rom. 8.16 He is said therefore to witness with our Spirits that we are the Children of God And Eph. 1.13 with Eph. 4.30 He is said to seal us But how so Unless he doth set some print and stamp upon us distinguishing our state and Relation Again mediately the Spirit perswadeth us also of our Reconciliation To wit by enabling us to see our Graces truth and sincerity and from thence to infer our certain Reconciliation Both wayes he is ordinarily the Comforter of sound Believers I have read of a Woman that would say she had born eight or nine Children and with as much pain as other Women used to undergo But she would be content to bear all that pain over again for this comfort of the Spirit O that the same mind were in all that profess a value of it But well what if you had sought and found it too There 's another very material particular concerning Reconciliation to God that would ask for your thoughts and cares To wit 6. The practical improvement of it I mean of his Reconciliation and of his perswasion or assurance of it Hear the Apostle 2 Cor. 7.2 Having these promises to wit of Reconciliation and all Grace chap. 6. latter end what use are we to make of them Why Let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of Flesh and Spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of God q. d. Let us live as far as we can without sin Let us do Gods will on Earth as 't is done in Heaven unto our utmost ability Let us do all we are able to make our Reconciliation more honourable to God then our Damnation would have been Assurance is a special priviledge Scarce any Childs portion at all times And 't is possible that some of Gods Children may live and dye without it However when it is bestow'd extraordinary Aids of Grace and Advantages for Duty are bestowed with it The helps which School-Men call necessary are given to all that are Converted But those which they call liberal are given but to them that are Assured In Conversion all Gods Children do receive strength sufficient to walk acceptably with him But when they are sealed by the Holy Spirit