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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86659	Sermo secularis. Or, A sermon to bring to remembrance the dealings of Jehovah with this kingdom of England, and our ingratitude and dis-loyalty to him, in this last century of years. Ab anno nativitatis Christi, 1547. usque ad præsentem annum, 1647. The time of the ruine of Rome, is herein according to Gods Word modestly pointed at. With sundry uses seasonable and sutable for all degrees and sorts of people. / Preached at Belstead, neer Ipswich, July 4, 1647. By Benjamin Hubbard, preacher of the Word of God at Copdock in Suffolke.	Hubbard, Benjamin.	1648 (1648)	Wing H3207; Thomason E422_15; ESTC R202479	43,832	60

premises Well then the soule being thus built upon Christ cannot be removed Matth. 16.18 for the Text saith The gates of hell shall not prevail against it The gates of Cities in those dayes were both places of Fortification Godwin Antiq. as also of their great Consultations so that it shews that neither Hells power nor policy shall prevail against the soule that doth close kindly with Christ The just not onely doth Hab. 2.4 but shall live by his own faith And what is the life of faith but Christ living in the soule Gal. 2.20 For the Apostle Paul makes these Phrases equivalent and convertible saying I am crucified with Christ Neverthelesse I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himselfe for me Now the soule being by God the Father given to Christ John 6.39 John 10.28 Rom. 8.35.37 none can pluck it out of his hand It may therefore triumph in the words of the same Apostle who shall separate are us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or distresse or persecution or famine or nakednesse or perill or sword Nay in all these things we are more then conquerours thorugh him that hath loved us Therefore I beseech you Psal 4.4 let every one of us Commune with his own heart upon his bed in his most secret thoughts and most retired from the world Examine we our own hearts how it is with our poore soules If you desire so to do then try your selves by these two rules following and be well assured All those persons are too too light that are not bottomed upon Christ the rock of our salvation Psal 89.26 Luke 13.3 Luke 18.11 12 Matth. 5.20 Except they repent they shall all perish It is not a refraining from many sinnes and performing many duties as did the Pharisees that will carry one to heaven alas here was their overthrow Rom. 10.3 Col. 2.7 Revel 3.18 1 Cor. 1.30 they had no root in Christ as every true Christian hath And therefore Christ Counselleth all to come to him for all spirituall riches For he is made of God to us wisdome because we are ignorant and foolish Righteousnesse because we are sinfull Sanctification because we have the remnants of Corruption still hanging about us and Redemption to recover us out of the snares of sin and Satan So Paul did earnestly desire to be found in Christ his righteousnesse Philip. 3.8 9 10. therein to be accepted before God which is Justification And also the power of his resurrection which is Sanctification 2 Cor. 5.17 to be made conformable unto Christ for He that is in Christ is a new creature All those persons are too light who are caried away with every wind of Doctrine every fond conceit and erroneous opinion Quot homines tot opiniones of which the world I think is now fuller then ever it was for now adayes how many men so many mindes For the godly Psal 44.13 14 15 16. Psal 44.17 they stick unto Christ in persecution even in reproach and derision and when confusion was before them then they say All this is come upon us yet have we not forgotten thee neither have we dealt falsly in thy Covenant And when the Church found him whom her soule loved she held him and would not let him go Solomons Song 3.4 Now there is a threefold levitie in men To be carried away from the Doctrine of wholsome truth even as children tossed to and fro Ephes 4.14 and carried about with every winde of doctrine by the sleight of men and cunning craftinesse whereby they lye in wait to deceive saith the Apostle Paul Therefore the Apostle Peter gives to all Christians this Caveat 2 Pet. 3.17 Beloved seeing ye know these things before beware lest ye also being led away with the errour of the wicked fall from your own stedfastnesse To be carried away from the practise of the wayes of God in our generall or particular callings as in forsaking the assembling of our selves together Heb. 10.25 as the manner of some is Whereas we should exhort one another and so much the more as we see the day approaching 2 Tim. 3.1 5 6 7 For these are the last days perillous times Men having a forme of godlinesse and denying the power of it Of this sort saith the holy Apostle are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins led away with diverse lusts ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth Titus 1.11 Whose mouthes must be stopped who subvers whole houses Then such houses or housholds who are led by them are subverted For the sacred Scripture calleth the attending upon Gods holy ordinances an approaching to God Isa 58.2 Psal 73.27 Heb. 10.39 And therefore the withdrawing from them is drawing back from God and tendeth to perdition of the soule And those that are carried away into sinfull wayes as into fornication 1 Cor. 6.9 10 11. idolatry adultery theft covetousnesse drunkennesse reviling or extortion shall not inherit the Kingdom of God except they be washed by the blood of Christ and sanctified by his Spirit For the gracious soule that hath had good assurance of Gods love in Christ upon good grounds to be carryed away from the sweet comforts that are of God in Christ Psal 42 5. and for the soule to be cast down and disquieted upon every trouble it meets withall is also an infirmity Job 15.11 Psal 73.2 7 8 9 10 11 12 Are the consolations of God small with thee or in thy estimation Indeed a gracious soul may somtimes refuse to be comforted but it is through his own infirmity Psal 34.8 The experience of T.H. and forgetfulnesse of the most sweet taste of the Lords infinite goodnesse to his soule in his calamity and his adequate fulnesse to supply his soules necessities for he hath somtime found by good experience that it is better trusting in God naked then in any creature how richly soever clothed And therefore the Apostle sayth Phil. 4.4 Rejoyce in the Lord alwayes and again I say Rejoyce Most true it is that the truly godly may be carryed away in any of these three Deviations in some measure for a time but the Lord will certainly bring them and any other that belong unto salvation back again unto himselfe Matth 26.70 72 74 75 by true humiliation for their wanderings from him and his wayes for the Apostle Paul sayth 2 Cor. 7.11 Phil 3.15 Let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded God shall reveal even this unto you let us walke by the same rule and he means the rule of Gods Word out of which the fore-going directions are taken Use 3 The third Use of this