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truth_n	believe_v	know_v	world_n	2,804	5	4.6103	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33725	The old apostolical way of preaching, or, Peters last legacy to all his true successors in the ministry and faith of the Gospel being an awakening word from a dying-preacher to his dying-hearers in a sermon preached on the death of Mr. Edward West, late minister of the gospel in London / by Thomas Cole ...	Cole, Thomas, 1627?-1697.	1676 (1676)	Wing C5032; ESTC R43106	10,675	23

unto you the Power and coming of our Lord Iesus Christ but were eye-witnesses of his Majesty The Effect of this Sermon made deep Impression upon Peter he was greatly affected with it he never forgot it to his dying-day and being now going out of the World he would fain preach over that Sermon again putting them in Remembrance again and again he mentions it thrice over Vers. 12 13 15 q. d. Remember Remember Remember the things that I have told you concerning the Power and Coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and for all humane Inventions and cunningly devised Fables and Stories of I know not what that Men may tell you in the Pulpit to set out themselves and their own Parts and Learning away with them If ever you be Converted it must be from that Testimony the Spirit gives in your Hearts to those Fundamental Truths of the Gospel concerning Jesus Christ and hence do's certainly arise the Conversion of all the Sinners that are ever brought home to Christ. You may think that the Doctrine of the miserable state of Man by Nature of the only way of Redemption by Christ the Doctrine of Faith Repentance and Self-denyal are all of them but common things which you have heard over again and again and are cloy'd with the very sound of them I say these and such like Truths are the only converting Truths and we must hold Men to them till God doth work by them upon their Hearts they are indeed easy Words but they are hard things to receive and practise When God brings our Souls under the Power of these Truths how wonderful are they then how full of matter those who are Converted do admire those Truths most which before they looked upon as common and ordinary but now they think they can never hear too much of the way of believing in Christ and laying hold upon him as their Righteousness and life these Truths do find them work enough now though before they were unconcerned in them and these are the things which we must insist upon You see the old Apostolick way of Preaching was in all plainness and simplicity to propound Gospel-Truths in the name of God to the People and to Commend them to their belief upon the bear Credit of Divine Testimony till Faith came by Hearing they knew the Word had all its weight from that stamp of Divine Authority that is upon it and from the Efficacy of the Spirit accompanying it to the Hearts of Believers these things they often inculcated and kept in their Remembrance telling them what was to be done upon the belief of such Principles and this was the Application they made and here is scope enough for Exhortation to the People but now a-days too too many do lay aside their best Argument which is to ground the Truth of the written Word upon Divine Testimony and the whole efficacy of the Word Preached upon the promises of a Divine Concurrence which God has made to this Ordinance here lieth the Strength and Vertue of this Ordinance it would signifie nothing without this Go says Christ teach all Nations Lo I am with you alway even unto the end of the World We that are Ministers should take this promise up into our Pulpits every time we preach and leave the whole matter with God who works as he pleases by our Ministry but instead of this Men take up these Weapons of our Spiritual-Warfare Which are mighty only through God into the Hand of Carnal Reason and think to set a further Edge upon them that way What hath Man to do to give his reasons of Gospel-Mysteries since there is no other way of knowing them but by believing comparing Scripture with Scripture till we are satisfied that Things are so set down in the Bible as they are reported to us out of the Pulpit Act. 17.11 Naked Truth is far more venerable in its own Simplicity than in that Artificial Dress which the Self-admirers of this Age to please themselves and to delude and amuse others have put upon the Back of abused Truth that labours greatly even almost under a total Eclipse by the Interposition of such gross terrene matter between the Heavenly Light of the Gospel and this sinful World upon whom this Sun is risen and would shine out in more Brightness were these Clouds and Mists the empty Vapours of a human Brain more throughly scattered The further we go in our own reasonings about Spiritual Things the less we discern them 't is not in our own Light but in his that we see Light yet how do many please themselves with a meer humane Knowledg of Divine Things disputing all things rather than believing any thing heaping up Distinctions and Terms of Art and all by way of Explication as if the Subtilties of Logick and Metaphysicks were of the essence of saving Faith and that a proficiency even to the Highest Form in the Schools of humane Literature were as absolutely necessary to make a Christian as a Divine though something else is required to both Thus they would engross all Religion to the Gown leaving nothing to those of a lower capacity but a blind implicit Faith as if Gospel-Principles were unintelligible to all but Scholars when God who causes the foolish Things of this World to confound the wise hath declared to the Contrary Logick alone may speak Natural Reason but seldom good Divinity Therefore after all Disputes about the Polemical part of Divinity give me the sincere unlearned Mans Religion who hath no more in his Head than he hath in his Heart whose Reason doth not out-run his Faith and Experience he lives in what he believes and knows more of the Nature of Faith by one Act of Faith than others do by reading of an hundred Books and Discourses of Men about it A down-right plain-hearted Christian who hath but one Notion of things I mean of any one Truth but that is a right one he keeps to it without any variation in his Conceptions about it and walks evenly and uprightly with God all his days according to his Light What a great place in Heaven will such a one have who is faithful over a little and is what he is by the Grace of God Whereas others of larger Heads abounding too much in their own sense keep not their Hearts so close to the plain Fundamentals of the Gospel their Reason out-runs their Faith and insensibly winds them off from the power of the Gospel into many Labyrinths of Error or at least into empty airy Speculations Thus losing themselves in their own thoughts they become vain in their Imaginations and framing some curious Notions in their Heads they presently grow fond of them and must find some place in Religion for them They go back to their Faith to justifie their Reason in its late rare Inventions and if that cannot be rather than fail they will offer Violence to their first received Principles and shape the very Fundamentals