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A91948	A faithfull friend true to the soul or The soules self-examination, preparing it self for the great triall of life or death eternall in the other world, in 86. quæries. Whereunto is added, the Christian jewell of faith, or the ready way to beleeve and be saved. By Timothy Rogers, minister of the church at Chappell in Essex.	Rogers, Timothy, 1598-1650?.	1653 (1653)	Wing R1854; Wing R1853; Thomason E1390_1; Thomason E1390_2; ESTC R209369	33,600	195

had of Gods dealing with you Psal 77.5 6. 4. Examples of others that have beleeved and how well they have sped must be much thought on Our fathers trusted in thee saith David and thou deliveredst them Psal 22.4 5. Yea the weak Beleeving of some and how they have overcome it may hearten us much this way One saith THOMAS his doubting hath done me more good then MARIES ready beleeving Plus mihi prosuit dubitatio Thomae quàm credulitas Mariae Gre. Mag. 5. Keepe a good Conscience which is a great nourisher of Faith and Nurse unto it 1 Tim. 1.19 CHAP. 19. What we must doe when it is wanting and more of it desired with Exhortation to all 1. LET every one for himselfe apply himselfe unto the meanes and manner of working thereof shewed in the beginning of this Treatise with a yeeldable heart especially attend upon Gods Ordinance the Ministery of the Word 1. Acknowledge Gods * 1 Cor. 3.4 Ministers his Instruments for it yea being well perswaded they are the parties God hath appointed especially your owne faithfull Pastour purposely to work Faith or more of it in you 2. Acquaint them how it is with you for beleeving as Act. 8.37 3. ● Cor. 16.16 Put your selfe into their hands to be ordered by them having more skill then your selfe concerning your Beleeving and how to doe therein as a sick patient puts himselfe into his Physicians hands for his body And thus lye waiting at the poole of Bethesda for the stirring of the water by divine power 2. Let every one endevour the bringing of others also to beleeve Ioh. 4.29 and Joy therein Act. 15.3 We account it a good and blessed worke to helpe one into this though a miserable sinfull world and therefore every one thinkes himselfe beholding to the Midwife how much better work is it to help one into that other most happie and blessed world by beleeving To conclude let my Counsell be acceptable to three sorts of people 1. To those that were never humbled Consider if your breath were but gone you were in Hell Be content therefore to suffer the paine of a broken heart and to be cut to the heart as Act. 2.37 now rather then torment in hell for ever as we see some are perswaded to be cut for the Stone or searched of a wound which else will cost them their life and will not you be perswaded to endure this for your Soule 2. To those that are or have been rightly humbled I say to beleeve is to betake our selves to a safe place as the usuall * Chasab Hebrew word signifies and as David did Psal 57.1 Therefore fly with all speed to Christ as the Citie of Refuge to get into him For if death the Avenger of bloud overtake you first you are undone for ever And know that when the distressed Soule seeing its selfe pursued with sinne and spirituall dangers feares and flies out of its selfe to Christ desiring to be sheltered under him it is sure and safe Object But will not he refuse it Ans No. Ioh. 6.37 Psal 9.9 10. figured by the Citie of Refuge to which the man-slayer flying for safetie could not be kept out 2 Object May not an Hypocrite do so much Ans No he onely dreames of comming to Christ but doth not so indeed or else makes some flourish of comming but comes not home to Christ 3. To those that beleeve in truth I say Cast not away your confidence which hath great recompence of reward Heb. 10.35 Holy Confidence is like a Garment which the Soule wraps it selfe in the flesh and world goe about subtilly to steale it from us but the devill with his terrible blasts of Temptation to make us let goe or loosen our hold at least but God bids us hold fast for else the poore Soule will be naked and destitute Hold fast therefore what you have Rev. 3.11 Goe on in this your Strength you Saints of God and the Lord be with you and send you good speed to Heaven FINIS

THE CHRISTIANS JEWELL OF FAITH OR The ready way to Beleeve and be saved Wherein is the * Mysterie of Faith laid open * 1 Tim. 3.9 By Timothy Rogers Minister of the Church at Chappell in Essex Mark 5.36 Be not affraid but beleeve Luke 7.50 Thy Faith hath saved thee goe in peace LONDON Printed for E. Brewster and G. Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill 1653. The Contents of the severall Chapters contained in this Book Saving Belief What it is Chap. 1 Saving Belief How it is called Chap. 2 Saving Belief How the Law workes toward it Cha. 3 Saving Belief How the Gospell works to bring to it Cha. 4 Saving Belief Questions resolved about the Gospels working of it Cha. 5 Saving Belief The true Grounds of it Cha. 6 Saving Belief Objections answered that hold back one throughly humbled from it Cha. 7 Saving Belief The main Lets to the getting of it Chap. 8 Saving Belief Helps for distressed soules to it Chap. 9 Saving Belief The seat or subject of it Chap. 10 Saving Belief The immediat effects following it Chap. 11 Saving Belief The Excellencie of it Chap. 12 Saving Belief The Necessity of it Chap. 13 Saving Belief 14. Sorts of professors that want it Cha. 14 Saving Belief Generall notes of triall whereby to know it Chap. 15 Saving Belief More speciall notes whereby it may be tryed and known Chap. 16 Saving Belief The degrees of it Chap. 17 Saving Belief What we must doe with it when we have it Chap. 18 Saving Belief What we must do when we want it and more of it desired Chap. 19 Christian Reader THe same author hath another work entituled The righteou● mans Evidence for heaven Or 〈◊〉 treatise shewing how every one while he lives here may certainly know what shall become of him after his departure out of this life TO THE Right Worshipfull Mr JOHN EDEN OF Ballindon Hall in Essex Esquire my godly Patrone Right Worshipfull HAVING this small Treatise lying dead by me or at least asleep and being provoked to give it more roome and some breath that it might be awakened by the Presse and Printers hand to come to light I could not bethinke my selfe to make Dedication of it as the use is to any one more fitly then your selfe and that for these reasons First you have been a good Disciple in the schoole of Piety from your very non-age and education by that pious Lady your ancient Mother whom I much honour with the rest of that vertuous brood some of whom it was my lot to seale up in their sepulchres besides some of your owne Secondly you have been a constant hearer of these and other my Collations when you have been in these parts Thirdly you are my loving Patrone by whose meanes and instigation according to the desire of the Congregation I was some yeares since brought to this place Fourthly I therefore am peculiarly ingaged unto you and love not to live or dye wholly in debt I look to lay downe my tabernacle daily accept I pray this small Testimony of Gratitude I must say as Peter Act. 3.6 Silver and gold have I not but such as I have give I you a little plaine fruit of my owne grafting I therefore dedicate it unto your selfe and by you to my well-affected friends my constant conscionable and profitable hearers Never more need of Faith and living by it then in this terrible tempest the blessing of the Lord goe with it Yours faithfully obliged in the Lord Timothy Rogers Imprimatur JA. CRANFORD August 12. 1644. SAVING-BELIEF OR The Ready and Right way to beleeve and be saved CHAP 1. What it is and the Definition of it explained THat every one must beleeve that would be saved is a truth out of question confessed by all that professe Christ but yet every kind of Beleeving is not saving Generall and common faith for the Devills beleeve Iam 2.19 and Simon Magus beleeved Acts. 8.13 and was baptized and yet St Peter saith he was in the gall of bitternes and bond of iniquity now then what kind of Beliefe it is that will save and that onely this Treatise shewes not therefore to meddle with historicall temporarie or miraculous faith which are not saving Saving beliefe The definition of it What is true saving Beliefe A right applying of Christ to ones selfe viz. by an hearty accepting of him and a true perswasion of our Soules wellfare by him 1 For better understanding whereof 1 I say it 's an applying of Christ for as Manna did no good unlesse it were fetcht home and fed upon nor Physick doth good without applying no more doth Christ unlesse he be applyed to the soule 2 It 's an applying to ones selfe for to apply Christ to another as when you are perswaded of such a ones Salvation by him will no more save thy soule then another bodies feeding will nourish thee or preserve thy life 3 It 's a right applying for if it be wrong it saves not Q. How may one know whether it be a right applying of Christ A. If it set an impression of the likenesse of Christ on the soule so as Christ is a Gal. 4.19 formed in it and it becomes like unto him in holynesse and true righteousnesse as a seale being rightly set and applyed to the wax leaves the right print of it selfe behind it 2 If it apply not a bare Christ but Christ with his benefits and one of them as well as another holinesse and mortification Rom. 6.4 as well as pardon of sinnes and mercy 3 If it make us let goe our hould of sinne as a full hand must first open and let goe what is in it before it can take hould of a better thing And this is the definition of true faith but I further add for Explanation by an hearty accepting of him and a true perswasion of our soules welfare by him because an hearty and unfained accepting of Christ is the true conception of faith and a true perswasion is the birth of it as shall be further shewed Chap. 5. I say also a true perswasion for in a Temporarie Hypocrite is found a particular perswasion or applying to himselfe but it 's not true Q. Is not true beleeving a resting upon Christ A. Yes for a perswasion includes a resting on him and a resting on him implyes some at least implicite perswasion CHAP. 2. How it is called and the working causes thereof SAving beliefe to difference it from that beleeving that will not save is called by peculiar names setting out the dignity of it as saith of Gods elect Tit. 1.1 the faith of Saints Rev. 13.10 the faith of Iesus Rev. 14.12 most holy faith Iude. 20. worke of faith with power 2 Thess 1.11 faith unfained 1. Tim. 1.5 Precious faith 2. Pet. 1.1 No other faith can be properly so called The working causes there of are either principall or in strumentall the principall is God himselfe Faith of the operation of God Col. 2.12