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truth_n	commandment_n	know_v	liar_n	1,903	5	11.5902	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34757	The country-parson's advice to his parishioners in two parts ...		1680 (1680)	Wing C6566; ESTC R15994	99,699	230

do with a God that knows thy frailty and abounds in Mercy and Compassion towards thee and as long as thou do'st not withdraw thy heart from him nor slack thy Endeavours to make good thy Resolutions and Vowes thou may'st rest thy self assured that thou shalt not want the choicest Tokens of his Love I mean a dayly Supply of Grace and strength to obey and please him Thou may'st feel thy self at first to be weak as a little Child but be not dismayed at it for thou wilt find in a little time that That Spirit which first breathed into thee this new life will preserve and cherish it and make thee to grow up to a perfect man unto the measure of the Stature of the fulness of Christ Ephes 4.13 Thus have I shewed thee my dear Brother how thou may'st become a real Christian i.e. in the Language of the Scripture a new Creature in Christ Jesus 2. Corin. 5.17 And let me tell thee for thy Comfort that when these things are done thou may'st safely account thy self to be one and all those Privileges which the Holy Scripures assure thee do belong to real Christians thou may'st justly challenge as belonging to thy self Are they one with Christ so art thou Have they the Spirit of Christ so hast thou Have they fellowship with the Father and the Son so hast thou Are they the Children of God Heirs of God and Coheirs with Christ so art thou This is an happy and Honourable Estate no ambitious Soul can aim at any thing higher no heart can desire any thing better It is that to which all that call themselves Christians do pretend but they and they only that have thus resigned themselves to God have attained to it But now I must tell thee that by how much the greater thy happiness is in this Estate by so much the more thou art concerned to take Care that thou fall not away from it and to use all diligence to keep thy self in a firm possession of it remembring that thou art not yet in Heaven where there is no Falling away from God but in a place of Manifold Temptations where many do draw back and after they have known the way of Righteousness do turn from it 1 Pet. 2.21 for which purpose I must proceed to give thee some further Directions but contracting my thoughts as much as may be that I may not burden thee with too big a Book CHAP. IV. Sect. 1. Containing the Fourth Advice To grow in the Knowledge of God and of the things of God Sect. 2. Countaining several Directions how to improve in all Divine Knowledge § 1. THou must endeavour dayly to grow in the Knowledge of God and to get more clear distinct firm well-setled apprehensions of the things of God The Reason of this Advice is very plain viz. That the more thou knowest of God and the more clear they apprehensions of Divine things are the better thou wilt love God and the more closely will thy heart cleave unto him There are some things indeed of such a nature that the less men know them the more they esteem and love them whil'st they look upon them at a distanced and know them but imperfectly they seem great and good worthy of their Esteem and Love but when they come to handle them and know them throughly they are convinced that they deserve neither But now the things of God are of another Sort such is the Perfection of their Nature that the more they are unfolded to us the more we admire them and the more strongly do they draw our Souls towards them and if there by any men that do not value them or are not in Lore with them we may be confident that they do not know them Is it I that speak this or doth not the Scripture also speak the same Why then doth it so often tell us of wicked men That they know not God that they know not the way of the Lord nor the Judgments of their God Jerem. 5.5 and cap. 9.4 v. And what is it that St. John means when he tells us That by this we know that we know him if we keep his Commandements he that saith he knoweth him and keepeth not his Commandements is a Lyar and the truth is not in him 1 John 2.3 4. Doth not this imply plainly that they who know God truly will obey him and that the Reason why they do not love and obey him is their Ignorance of him or the Imperfection of their Knowledge either they know not God at all or their Knowledge is so weak so sleight so Imperfect that it makes little or no Impression upon their hearts their Conceptions of God are like those Conceipts which we have of some things in our sleep which either affect us not at all or are forgotten by us as soon as we awake We believe and we believe rightly That the Saints in Heaven shall never fall from God but will love and serve him for ever without the least Failing or Imperfection and what is the Reason of it Surely it is because they know his as they are known of him 1 Corinth 13.12 Or as St. John speaks they see him as he is 1 John 3.2 i.e. they have the clearest firmest the most full and comprehensive Knowledge of him that Creatures can have by which they are transformed into his Image and made like unto him He that does know God truly does also know himself and he that does know God and himself truly cannot but keep himself in a State of Resignation and Subjection to God continually He will feel those Impressions upon himself which holy Job did when God had made himself a little better known unto him than he was before See Job 38.39 and will say from the very bottom of his heart as holy Job did Behold I am vile chap. 40.4 v. he will know that it is not for a Worm to contend with the Creator of all things not for him that was born like a wild Asses Colt as one of Job's Friends speaks to presume to find out the Almighty to perfection He will feel the truth of what the Psalmist saies Psal 9.10 They that know thy Name will put their Trust in thee and will heartily assent to that Saying of a great man That the more we reject our selves Mich. de Montaign and commit our selves to God the better it is for us He will say as a devout man once did What art Thou O Lord and what am I He will be continually admiring his Sovereign Greatness andwill be no less sensible of his own worthlesness and nothingness He that knows God truly will also know the World and he that knows God and the World aright will never be drawn from God by any of the World's Allurements he will know that the World is nothing of it self And will he set his heart upon that which is not He will know that without God it can contribute no more to his happiness than it