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truth_n	apostle_n	church_n	spirit_n	3,973	5	5.1707	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66095	Divine meditations. Written by an honourable person. Whereto is adjoyned, a determination of the question, whether men ought to kneele at the receipt of the Holy Communion. And an essay of friendship	Wake, Isaac, Sir, 1580?-1632.	1641 (1641)	Wing W226B; ESTC R219891	35,999	169

intreated to open their eyes mollisie their hearts and give them a quicke sense of their sins and of the danger whereinto they have cast them These Remedies appl'd may by the assistance of the Holy Spirit awake them out of that spirituall slumber and reduce them to the fold of that good shepheard who rejoyceth more for finding one lost sheepe thē 99. which went not astray When they are once reclaimd salva res est Mar. 18.13 For when they feele their burthen they wil be induc'd to cast it off as too heavy and addresse themselves by invocation and repentance to our Lord Iesus confessing their sins aggravating every circumstance of them and Imploring Hi● GRACE and Mercy till they obtain both Heb. 4.16 Lastly they will set their hearts to seeke God and with the Spouse in Solomons song never leave seeking their LORD and Saviour till they have happily found him The next Symptome observable in carnall Gospellers was a dull stupidity and drowzinesse in Gods service which though not so dangerous as the Vertigo praemention'd yet shewes their disposition to a Lethargy And although their chiefe Errand to the Church bee to gaze or sleepe or serve God pro forma yet as many followed Christ more for Curiosity to see his Miracles then for any devotion to His Doctrine and yet at last some of them became His Disciples so there may be some hope conceav'd of these Superficialists that if one Sermon rowze them not another * Therefore M. Latimer wisht such to come to Church though they came a napping may and that they may meet with such a Chapter or such a Psalm as may touch them to the quicke Thus one Sermon of Saint Peters converted three thousand * Acts 2.41 who came about him to heare onely what hee would say whereas in these dayes three thousand Sermons can scarce convert One. Thus Augustine comming to heare Saint Ambrose at Milan out of an impression of his Eloquence was caught unawares and of one Hereticall Manichee became the greatest light of Christianity that the Church enjoyd since the Apostles times These faint and formall Christians must remember and consider that God is a Spirit and will be worshipt in Spirit and truth In truth that is in sincerity of heart and not hypocritically for fashions sake In Spirit that is with Zeale and Fervour not coldly and drowzily Awake then thou that sleepest supinely and dreame not * Read Zechar 7.6 11 12 13. that God will protect thee or deliver thee from danger if thou offer him the Sacrifice of fooles and demeane thy selfe so profanely * Profaners of Gods Worship encrease their owne condemnation See 1 Cor. 11.29 and irreverentlie in the house of Prayer Eccles 5.1 What though Ahab purchasd a temporall blessing with a formall shew and Vizor of Repentance it profited not his Soule and the Vengeance denounc'd against him fell heavie on his Posterity So may the cold Formalist and profane Varlet prosper a while upon Earth and though He goe to the grave in peace his children may be hewd in peeces with Calamities for those sinnes of his whereof he had no feeling Wherefore when thou seest the Clouds of Gods Iudgments gather and some blacke Disaster threaten thee for thy sins thou must imitate the Prophet Eliah who when the storme approcht girt up his Loines and ranne before Ahab to Iezreel 1 King 18.45 46. If thou rowze thy selfe in that sort to runne the way of Gods Commandements then maist thou safely shelter thy selfe under his protection Eliah's Translation to Heaven in a fiery Chariot is an Emblem of that inflamed Zeale which must mount us to Heaven The Kingdome of Heaven saith our Saviour suffers violence and the Violent take it Thus Iacob wrestled with GOD for a blessing and prevailed T is quoque fac simile Doe thou so likewise thou dull drowzie Christian Such Laodiceans are but halfe baked as Hosea's cake was Hose 7.8 They imagin a greater latitude in Religion then there is so that they need not to bee zealous nor make such post-hast to Heaven that servest God betwixt sleeping and wakeing and remember what befell Eutychus who was taken up dead for sleeping at Saint Pauls Sermon Acts 20.9 The third marke of this spirituall Lethargy like a Scorpion carries about her both her Poyson and Antidote For when wee perceave our sinnes of Omission and the dangerous Sequele thereof wee cannot but know that the Reformation must needs bee advantageous to us Seeing therefore that wee are in continuall Danger of our sworne and deadly enemies the Devill and his Angels it concerns us to be armd at all points and stil to stand upon our guard least being disarmd we be suddenly surprized Gen. 14. Abraham having armd 318. of his own Family and assisted with Aner Eshcol and Mamre overcame 4. Kings whom he surprised by night when questionles they were disarmd ' and thought themselves secure From this victory of Abraham some derive the first original of the order of Knight-hood affirming that he Knighted Aner Eshcol and Mamre for their good service in that expedition Originall of Knight-Hood However we may thence conclude that a handfull of men may defeate great Armies by the like stratagem And seeing our spirituall enemies are innumerable of Devils which are not only exceeding potent but ever vigilant and ful of stratagems it concernes us to put on the whole Panoply or Armour of God and to be sober and vigilant like good Christian Souldiers resisting the Devill with the sword of the Spirit and retorting his fiery Darts with the shield of Faith The same reason may induce us likewise to carry about us still our spirituall Antidotes for as long as wee live wee shall have need of Prayer and Penitence which are the Cordials of the Soule Wee came soule-sicke into this World of Originall sinne which being daily reenforc'd with Actuall transgressions will in time grow to a Pestilentiall Disease and bring us to utter Perdition if wee take not that Physicke which God the Physitian of our soules hath prescrib'd in his Divine dispensatory beseeching him daily on our bended knees to wash and purge us in the sacred bloud of his onely Sonne and our only Saviour But thou wilt say thou art of a temperate disposition and findest thy selfe so well as that thou hast no need of Physicke Be not deceav'd Parum distat ab agroto qui tantum sanus est Hee is neere being sicke that is but well Strength and Vigour are requir'd likewise which are oft wanting in those that feele not their owne Indisposition Againe there are many secret diseases of the Soule which thou seest not as Selfe-love spirituall pride vaine thoughts stragling inordinate-desires Uncharitable * Charitie ever interprets doubtfull things favourably Conceits and the like which are so much the more dangerous to bee cured being so difficultly discern'd Distrust therefore thy owne Iudgement of thy selfe remembring that Prudentiae