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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94343	A cluster of Canaans grapes. Being severall experimented truths received through private communion with God by his Spirit, grounded on Scripture, and presented to open view for publique edification. / By Col. Robert Tichbourn. Decemb. 25. 1648. Imprimatur Joseph Caryll.	Tichborne, Robert, Sir, d. 1682.	1649 (1649)	Wing T1148; Thomason E543_5; ESTC R203789	224,783	259

Governors and governed seeke Gods wil and not their owne both they and the Land would soone be at peace in the righteous wil of God If men did truly enquire after Gods wil that they might loose their owne wils in his the contending for our owne wils would be at an end true rest and peace would come into our soules and this Nation for this is only true rest to rest in God and his wil. But then how excellent is this in that soule which doth in the Spirit of God truly apply it and close with it that hath indeed its wil only in the wil of God and desires nothing to be done for it but the wil of God nor in it but Gods wil nor to it but Gods wil that desires to thinke speake nor doe nothing but Gods wil that hath but this one single object to looke after the wil of God and finding that hath found its joy hope peace riches glory aimes and ends with all the good can be named to that the soule can joy in the Lord alwayes have this hope alwayes lively his peace continually within him his riches constantly by him his glory certaine because above himselfe in the wil of his God and his aimes and ends certainly accomplished because he hath all these in God his wil being only in the wil of God The workings God in the World which perplexes other men satisfies this man because the wil of God is done in them and by them this is indeed the very top-branch of Christianity this was Christs lesson when he was going out of the World and that soule which learns this lesson is going with Christ out of the World I meane not bodily but spiritually not the flesh dying in the World but his spirit dead to the World as Paul crucified to the World and the World to him both agreed hee had as little spirit for the World as the World had satisfaction for his spirit his spirit was bound up in God and that must needes make an excellent soule which hath its all in God and from God its wil so in God that it can wil nothing to be done but the will of God Not my will but thy will be done CHAP. XII No man exceeds another in excelency but by received mercies 1 Cor. Chap. 4. part of the 7th vers For who maketh to differ from another and what hast thou that thou didst not receive THis Scripture is to my understanding one of the most humbling pieces to the flesh and fleshly pride of all men and women that the whole Booke of God affords humility is the generall scope of the Apostle in it and he hath very fitly suited his arguments to his end the Apostle both argues and proves his Argument in this Scripture by way of question This Scripture may fitly be called a paire of questions or a twofold question and it speaks most properly to a paire of grand lusts and sinnes that are in the hearts of all men women by nature Namely pride and peevish repining Now to the finding out and answering of these two in the Apostles language I shall bend my medications And first the proud heart Now if you aske me a definition of a proud heart I shall first answer in generall the tree is knowne by the fruit and the fruits are so many that they cannot be gathered all into so narrow a compasse but so farre as God doth enable mee I shall give light into it by these words following namely A proud heart is a heart lifted up in it selfe despising all that are below it and envying all that are above it Pharoah is a full testimony of this truth Exod. 5.2 when Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh Thus saith the Lord God of Israel let my people goe that they may hold a feast with me in the Wildernesse Mark his answer And Pharoah said who is the Lord that I should obey his voyce to let Israel goe As if hee had said doe you tell mee of the Lord is there any above me that should require this people out of my hands Here is an exact embleme of a man lifted up in himself and despising of all below him and above him too But when God by his judgements had forced him to let his people goe in which God and his people were above Pharaoh see then how full of envy this proud man is to God and his people that hee musters up all his strength to hinder God in his designe and to destroy his people so that Pharaoh is a full proofe to all these particulars of a proud heart That poore wretch Herod was also lifted up in himselfe who when he had made his Oration and the people cryed out the voyce of God and not of man he tooke it to himselfe for that was his end to lift up himself this is the foundation principally of all proud hearts So Nebuchadnezar in Dan. 8.15 when he had threatned Shadrach Meshech and Abednego what hee would doe to them if they should not at his command fall downe and worship the golden Image which he had set up that he would cast them into the fiery fornace And who is that God that shall deliver you out of my bands This is indeed superlative pride the man in his owne thoughts had set up himselfe above God So he that builded Babell tels us his designe that he might say in the conclusion Is not this great Babel that I have built His proud heart was lifted up in himself and that made his worke sutable to his heart to lift up his own name so as he might call Babel which hee had built These also are the proper characters of proud Haman he was so lifted up in himself that if poore Mordecai bow not his knee the man is restlesse despiseth him plots his ruine and with him all the Nation of the Jewes yea even Esther the Queen that was above him The proud man to set up selfe despises and envies all below him and above him a proud heart is boundlesse in seeking to set up it selfe So proud Goliah despised little David thought him fit for nothing but to trample upon These proofes of Scripture with the spirituall discoveries of this sinne in our selves and others hearts and lives wil be testimony enough to prove the definition of a proud heart That a proud heart is a heart lifted up in it selfe despising all below it and envying all above it It wil wel become humble Saints to consider how fully the holy Ghost by the Apostle doth answer and silence this proud flesh and spirit in every part of it and that by way of questions which can receive no answer but in the plucking up of pride by the roots As if the Apostle should say you that are lifted up in your selves and make your boasts of your owne wisdome riches strength power and greatnesse above others come you forth and answer me this question Who maketh thee to differ from

for us we are free from all wrath and condemnation And thus are we freed and delivered from a first part of the state of nature the wrath of God Christ satisfies God justifies as the Apostle expresseth it in Rom. 8. latter end Who shall condemn sayes he Christ hath dyed and is risen and God justifies So that there he makes a challenge Who shall condemne He saw this his compleatnesse in Christ and glories in it The second thing in a state of nature is vassalage to Sathan to which in opposition I proposed our sanctification by Christ as a second part of our compleatnesse in him For proofe of this take that known place where the holy Ghost sayes Christ is made unto us wisdome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption where Christ is made by God our satisfaction he is filled for us and we filled of his fulnesse as that oyntment which fell from Aarons head down to the skirts of his garment so doth the spirit of God descend from Christ to us dwelling plentifully in us and so becomes our sanctification As in that 14th of John's Gospel The Spirit shall lead into all truth not only discover truth but lead into truth So the 6th and 7th verses of Coloss 2. rooted built up and walking in Christ The Apostle in another place acknowledging his owne insufficiency to any good worke yet sayes he through Christ that strengthens me I can doe all things Coloss 1.10 11. There is fruitfulness in every good work as we are strengthned according to the mighty power of Christ Christ the Vine and we the branches a Saint bears fruit as he is in Christ Without me you can doe nothing sayes Christ A Saint hath life to live up to the will of God only as hee lyes in the bosome of Christ and suckes life from him as being one with Christ so as the branches doe from the Vine Col. 3.3 A dead man cannot walk no more can any man out of Christ walke in the wayes of God but the Saints life is hid with Christ in God and therefore sayes the Apostle It is not I that live but Christ in mee I might abundantly enlarge in this but I forbeare for I well know that the Spirit of God in our soules is more then ten thousand witnesses besides Thus is Christ the Saints compleatnesse in point of sanctification the which I hold out in opposition to that vassalage that a natural man lyes in under Sathan The third thing that makes up the naturall mans bondage is be is dead in sins and trespasses To which I hold forth as our compleatnesse in Christ the Saints life and that a life of glory to prove this looke into Col. 3.4 there is Christ held out plainly as our life saith the Text at his appearing we shall appeare with him in glory There is life in Christ and glory in Christ Christ our life and his glory our glory which agrees with that of our Saviour because I live you shall live also and where I am you shall be As if the Lord had said my beloved Saints you are as safe as I am our lives and our glory bound up in one I laid downe my life to take up yours and now I have laid up your life as sure as my owne both in my father and your fathers bosome I in the Father and you in me My love my faire one my undefiled you are where I am this truth sealed on Pauls spirit by the spirit of Christ made him triumph in this glorious inheritance and trample upon all glory below it 2 Cor. 5.1 He knew his interest in an eternall house a building of God in heaven and in another place the same Apostle Hence forth is laid up for me a more exceeding and eternall weight of glory Rom. 8.30 There is all these three branches proved and this glory in the end of all but it selfe without end etarnall glory This point needeth no more proofe it is so cleare a truth both in word and spirit proving this I conceive the other is proved also That as a Saint is in Christ so he stands compleate before God I shall now give you some reasons of that which is gone before First were there any compleatnesse for a believing soule but in Christ and not a full compleatnes for a believing soul in Christ then God could not be a just God which is blasphemy to imagine for God having made Christ to beare our sins and wounded him that we might be healed this being the decree of God if there were any redemption but in Christ God could not be just to Christ And Secondly if in his bloud there were not a full R●demption God could not be just either to Christ that suffered or us for whome he suffered I come to doe thy will O Father saith Christ Now Christ having performed every tittle of his Fathers will God in justice must make all redemption to come through him and to be to us a compleate redemption A Third Reason If it were not thus then grace were not free-grace nor full grace If there be any compleatnesse out of Christ then it must be our own than grace is not free-grace and if that we have in Christ be not compleat and doth not make us compleat before God then Grace is not full now truly a hard thought of God in either of these must run against the whole current of the word of God and the experience of the Saints In the Spirit Saints may improve these truths by way of direction if God by his Spirit shew us our owne naturall deformity O then flie to Gods owne treasury for perfection and compleatnesse Namely to Christ In whom is all the fulnesse of the Godhead bodily and to this very end that Saints might be compleat in him it is Satan's light that leads us to our duties for compleatnesse for the Holy Chost leaves it upon record that compleatnesse is only in Christ and surely if that lead the soule it shall be led to Christ for compleatnesse Did we believe this Scripture we must needes believe in Gods compleatnesse namely Jesus Christ The Apostle de●●res to know nothing but Christ and him crucified for he saw compleatnesse in him never to want compleatnesse in the eyes of God is to goe to him in that compleatnesse that is God Namely Christ for he is our compleatnesse as the fulnesse of the God-head is in him Secondly having pirched on Christ for our compleatnesse let us beleeve strongly be established fully in him not doubting in the least for our compleatnesse is a compleat God God makes us compleat in himselfe God must be displeased with his owne pe●●●●tion if with a Saint in Christ for a Saints perfection is Christ and Christ is the sulnesse of the God-head If we summon in Satan Law Divine justice Conscience remainder of the old Adam within us and what ever can be thought on yet here is a full answer to all Christ is ascended into Heaven