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truth_n	church_n	ground_n	pillar_n	16,417	5	10.6783	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53307	The race set before us, shewing the necessity laid upon gospel-believers, to run with diligence thorow all gospel-duties. A sermon preached in London, May 11. 1665. at Mercers-Chappel, unto that most eminent company, the Company of the Mercers. By Giles Oldisworth, Master of Arts, and rector of Burton on the Hill, in Gloucester-shire.	Oldisworth, Giles, 1619-1678.	1666 (1666)	Wing O254; ESTC R214468	20,280	47

false way to lay aside every sin and to deny all ungodliness yea and blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ that we are allowed to exercise our selves unto godliness and to imitate and resemble the Image of Gods glorious Holiness Godliness is great gain if we accompt all A new life is a new creation and a new creation is a recreation The wit of Man can not contrive a sort of life more desirable then is this which the Wisdom of the onely Wise God hath chalked out unto us For although the flesh be indeed infirm yet it rejoyceth in hope and as for the Spirit that is willing and obedient Verily new obedience is not onely profitable but pleasant if it be a yoke it is an easie one and the blessing of the Lord resteth upon it To seek holiness is to exchange curses for blessedness death for life shame for glory guilt for peace darkness for light and vexation for joy However Why ah why should Gods Commandements be grievous unto him who hath a love for his God As for the wicked if righteousness be an abomination unto him it is because he knoweth no better Of it self Esa 64.5 it is all one to work righteousness and to rejoyce A godly conversation is Phil. 3.20 a heavenly conversation No such liberty as is the Gospel liberty and if the Son and Heir of all things maketh us free then are we free indeed John 3.36 This is our third comfort Consolation 4 Our fourth comfort groweth in the place wherein this race is set before us even in this present evil world For be it that this world is a seducing world be it that it is a world of wickedness yet within this world the Church of Jesus Christ is the pillar and ground of truth Be it that this world is a wilderness in this wilderness Hos 2.14 God will allure us Christ as he is the way so he setteth up way-marks he Psal 5.8 will make his way straight before us Rather then we should conform unto the evil of the world wherein we live this Apostle of us Gentiles calleth upon us cap. 11.1 Be ye followers of me yea Christ himself hath given us an example Wherefore not a man among us but may say with David Psal 31.8 Thou hast set my feot in a large place even Esa 18.7 in the place of the name of the Lordof hosts Beloved wheresoever the glory of Christ his Gospel shineth there upon all that glory is a defence Secondly Go out of the Church into the world Iesus Christ he hath overcome the world for us Thirdly The more dis-advantageous the ground the greater praise unto him that runneth well To be holy in heaven is no thanks to us to be righteous in Sodom to be Saints in Nero's Court this is praise-worthy It was 2 Sam. 15.21 the commendation of Ittai that he would accompany his Prince in a strait he was resolved to follow David as well in death as in life To be then on Gods side when all the world sideth against God this is Loyaltie Fourthly The more wickedness aboundeth in the world the more easily may Gods children learn to detest it to abstain from sweet wines is no easie matter but even he who is given to his appetite may soon be disswaded to desist from quaffing off full draughts of Vinegar doth Naturally beget in us a detestation Again If the whole world lieth in wickedness it is now worthy our while to watch against this enemie this will be not a light skirmish but a pitched Battail we have now some hopes of growing victorious Faith will find some pleasure if it may encounter with a world so dangerous as is this wherein we live To conclude this The more wicked the world is the more honour have all those Saints which keep themselves unspotted of it Phil. 2.15 We then behave our selves like the sons of God when in the midst of a crooked and perverss generation we abide blameless and harmless Therefore so farr is the world from making against us that it maketh for us This is then our fourth comfort Consolation 5 Your Fift Consolation is That the time wherein we run is but short Although the spirit be willing I wiss flesh and blood is weak and although the commandement is good corrupt nature fancieth it greivous allow this never the less can we not watch with Jesus one hour Chear up beleivers this world shall not last alwaies Esa 57 The righteous are taken away from that which is evil If compared to the everlastingness of the prize all that we doe or can suffer is but for a moment Yet a little while and we shall rest from our labours yet a little while and the race will be ended Know ye not that we are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Know ye not that what race we run is but stadium is at most but a furlong in lenght Sirs if the race here set before us be in length but one furlong how easily may we hold out This is therefore a Fift Comfort Consolation 6 Our next Consolation springeth from a sense of our natural insufficiency And here a threefold Cord strengtheneth us For First God accepteth the will for the deed Rom. 8.34 Who is he that condemneth It is Christ who died and died for us As Christ the head Esa 50.8 so every member of Christ may safely say He is nere that justifieth me Secondly Psal 94.18 When I said my foot slippeth thy mercies O Lord held me up Prov. 2.8 The Lord preserveth the way of his Saints He Psal 21.3 preventeth thee with his goodness He Psal 58.13 sets thee in the way of his steps Prov. 3.23 Thy foot shall not stumble or if it doth He Psal 19.11 shall bear thee up He Prov. 3.23 will hold up thy steps in thy wayes nay Micah 7.8 When I fall I shall arise Thirdly Not I but grace So long as the child can not goe at all the nursing-father carrieth him in his bosome Of our selves we can doe nothing to any purpose therefore doth Christ strengthen us to do all things that he expecteth from us That God might teach Israel to goe He Hos 11.3 took him by the armes Jesus Christ he knoweth that we are altogether unable to fulfill his good pleasure wherefore he giveth us a helping hand he performeth our work for us Christ he knoweth that we are altogether desicient that we are altogether unprofitable therefore he putteth to his own strength and reputeth his strength ours Jesus Christ hath stored up grace yea and the spirit of grace too against the times of our need Now that we are to run this race he furnishes us with ointment The wind which bloweth where it listeth listeth to set in our backs and to blow us forward Holy Angels they are made our ministring spirits and the spirit of the Lord he leadeth he draweth us on When the spirit of the Lord came upon Elijah Elijah ran farr What shall we