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A95964	Calebs integrity in following the Lord fully, in a sermon preached at St. Margarets Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, at their late solemne and publick fast, Novemb: 30th. 1642. By Richard Vines, Mr. of Arts of Magd. Colledge in Camb: and minister of the gospell at Weddington in the county of Warr	Vines, Richard, 1600?-1656.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing V546; Thomason E130_4; ESTC R22161	22,669	42

is one of the principles of naturall generation so is self-denyall and the whole sale of all for Christ it is the first lesson howsoever it be last that is well learned being the onely removens prohibens that which removes all impediments of our fulfilling after Christ And as the times of Christ opposite to the institution of the Gospell did require the inculcation of this Point so ours opposite to the restitution of Gods worship to it's native simplicity doe bespeake the same being such In quibus animum firmare oportet constantibus exemplis as he in Tacitus For the opening of this Point we shall consider 1. What ground-worke is requisite to be laid in a man that he may fulfill after the Lord. 2. What it is to fulfill after him 3. Why we should fulfill after him For the first of the three I shall acquit it in foure things of which the second will rise out of the first the third out of the second the fourth out of the third 1. The first and indeed the root of all the rest is this that there be in a man a principle of saving faith closing with Christ to secure the present and finall estate of the soule or the ground-worke of sound Regeneration and conversion to God there may be many workings or gifts of the Spirit of God in and unto men in whom there is not a spirit uniting to Christ and there is a dogmaticall faith of holding the truth in opinion and assent which is not justifying of the person by reception of Christ now there must be such a spirit and such a faith as may carry the soule out of it selfe for subsistence and above it selfe in operation and working so that God may be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from whom and unto whom the soule doth act and then it will follow that he that hath cast his soule on Christ by faith securing the maine estate thereof shall the more easily cast away his life estate c. in a particular cause for him He that through all the pangs and struglings of the new-birth discouragements at the weight and height of his sinnes oppositions of reasonings delusions and flatteries of self-righteousnesse violence of hell it selfe hath shot the maine gulfe and hath landed in Christ shall with more facility lay aside his lesser his outward interests for him for it is a terrible thing for the stoutest heart alive to looke such a danger in the face as for ought he knowes may at one blow kill him and damne him or in a moment send him both to his grave and hell it makes a man follow the Lord fully when he obeyes the Commandement by the same faith whereby he receives the saving promise and offers up Isaac by the same faith whereby hee got him that is to obey and suffer by a justifying faith as they Heb. 11. whose acts there expressed were not most of them justifying acts yet done by a saving and justifying faith for so it is the same hand which shuts and closes upon the gift and opens it self to work And yet I must needs preoccupate an Objection and grant that Abraham who beleeved the maine promise without staggering shewed some trepidation when he conceived himselfe in danger of his life They will kill me saith he but that is Gon. 12. 12. but the encountring of sence with faith which sence fights sore against faith when it is upon it's owne dung-hill I meane in a sensible danger natures retraction of itselfe from a visible feare may causethe pulse of a Christian which beats truely and strongly in the maine point the state of the soule to intermit and faulter at such a time but the needle will returne to the true point againe upon self-recollection That godlinesse hath the Promises that belong to this life and the life to come as for such men whose hearts are not ballast with grace no marvell if they ride uncertainly and are up and downe in rough water for though in faire and easie weather they may keepe tune and time yet it will be no wonder if they ring their bels backward whenthings begin to bee on fire Religio religat Godlinesse bindes fast 2. The second is That a man affect God himselfe and account him his great reward and this is the immediate effect of saving grace and faith to bring the soule into the esteeme and acceptance of God himselfe for our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or chiefest good it is true those Promises I will call for the corne and increase it and will multiply the fruit of the Tree and of the Field are blessings and benefits of his Covenant Ezek. 36. 29. And blessed are the people that are in such a case Psal 144. 15. but the maine Promise of the Covenant is I will be their God and they shall be my people and then saith the Psalmist Ibid. Yea blessed are the people whose God is the Lord That which we call amor amicitie or conjugalis closes with the person and not onely with benefits The first Commandement shewes that this is the most naturall order first to have God for our God and then and thence to performe other duties Servility when one is awed from sinne or driven to duties by the whip and mercenarines when one is drawne by meere benefit or reward are the bane of following the Lord fully He that parts with sinne as a slave parts with it and loves it and will in the calme gather up againe that which hee cast over-board in the storme and hee will performe duties and hate them He that followes God as a mercenary will no longer uti Deo then he can frui mund● He will use him while he can serve himselfe of him Duties and sufferings are irkesome things without that suave condimentum the love of God himselfe I know the opinion of merit with God or men sweetens sharpe duties and sufferings to some palats but that is but dulce venenum a sweet poyson to all wee doe it frustrates our very Fasts Did yee at all Fast Zach. 7. 5 unto me even unto me Was it not an argument of an excellent spirit in Moses when God offered him the benefit without himselfe or his presence Exod. 33. 2. I will send an Angell before thee and I will drive out the Canaanites c. but I will not goe up in the midst of thee and this was the reason I shall but consume thee if I do what a fair offer was this and what a reason of Gods denyall of his owne presence was that and yet Moses could not be content with it For if thy presence goe not with Exod. 33. 25. me then carry us not up hence Let us be here in the Wildernes under thy Cloud rather then possesse a Canaan without thee 3. The third is To value Gods interests in any businesse under our hand more then our owne his Gospell his cause his glory and this rises out of the former for he that

Die Mercurij 30 Novemb 1642. IT is this Day Ordered by the Commons now Assembled in Parliament that M. Vines shall be desired from this House to print the Sermon hee preached before this House at St. Margarets Westminster this Day at the publike Fast And it is further Ordered that he shall have the usuall privledges as others formerly have had that none shall Print or reprint his Sermon but those whom he shall appoint Hen Elsyng Cler. Parl. D. Com. I Appoint Abel Roper to Print this Sermon Richard Vines CALEBS INTEGRITY In following the LORD fully IN A Sermon Preached at St. Margarets Westminster Before the Honourable House of COMMONS at their late solemne and publick Fast Novemb 30th 1642. By RICHARD VINES Mr. of Arts of Magd. Colledge in Camb and Minister of the Gospell at WEDDINGTON in the County of WARR Et facere pati fortia Christianum est LONDON Printed by G. M. for Abel Roper at the Signe of of the Sun against St. Dunstans Church in Fleete-streete M. DC XLII HONOR ATISSIMO GRAVISSIMOQVE SENATVI PARL DOM. COM. HANC SUAM QUALEMCUNQUE CONCIONEM HABITAM APVD EVNDEM IN ECCLESIA SANCTAE MARGARETAE APVD WESTMONASTERIVM SOLENNI MENSTRUORUM JEJUNIORUM DIE NOVEMB ULTIMO ANNO 1642. EX OMNIBVS QUI SACRIS OPERANTUR IN AGRO WARWICENSI MINIMUS D. D. D. RICHARDVS VINES CALEBS INTEGRITY In following the LORD fully OR The Patterne of a godly Man going upon a dangerous service or at a desperate point NUMBERS XIV-XXIV But my servant Caleb because he had another Spirit with him or in him and hath followed me fully Hebr. hath fulfilled after me him will I bring into the Land whereinto he went and his seed shall possesse it THE History whereof this Text Vers 2. 9. 11. ●● is part is a narrative of one of the murmurings of the Israelites which famous sinne of theirs is exprest in some variety of stile being elsewhere called Temptation of God or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 provocation or imbittering of God and sometime rebellion which is a sinne incident to a people that are under promife or in expectation of good from God and yet withall so incountred with temptations and obstructions of their hopes wave after wave that they cannot unto themselves by faith reconcile the promise or tendernesse of God with his present providence and dispensation towards them his foot-steps being cloudy and his hand heavy whereupon their spirits are even by his probationary scourges imbittered against him as if he neither regarded his own truth nor their sufferings And God againe is imbittered against them for their unbeliefe in him their jealousie of him their discontents thought or vented against him for God would not have the people of his Covenant because they are in straits to question his respect to them no though they be betweene Pharaoh and the Sea at point of perishing But if his present hand make them cry Alas for the day is great It is even the time of Jacobs trouble I●r 30. 7. and who will not shrinke at the first putting his feete into cold water yet to over-beleeve sence and adde withall but he shall be saved out of it This murmuring was the Tenth the greatest and of the heaviest consequence The Tenth so God himselfe numbers it who as he keepes a Booke of every mans particular sins as the phrase of blotting out imports and whereof every mans conscience is a counter part so it appeares hence that he keepes an exact account of our Nationall rebellions and provocations Ver. 22. They have tempted me now these ten times The greatest for besides that it is after nine and the repetition of a sinne makes the latter eo nomine the greater Ezra 9. 14. Should we againe breake thy Commandements I say absque ho● their other murmurings arose upon their want of flesh bread water or some dislikes of some particular occonomy of God over them This strikes at the roote at Chap. 12 16. Deut. 1. 20. the throate of all for now being in Paran or at the Mountaine of the Amorites in the very borders of the Land of their rest ready to put in their sickle to reape the promise made to Abraham so many hundred yeares before They so undervalue and dishonour Gods rest made over by deede of promise unto them long agone and now ready to be given by livery and seisin into their hand that they prefer a slavish life nay a grave in Egypt before such an adventure would God that we had died in Egypt Ver. 2. Or would God wee had dyed in the wildernesse any grave would serve their indignation rather then they would put on for this inheritance and haply they thought as we sometimes doe in like case that this Land being in promise it should have dropt into their mouthes even without their opening them and not have beene a Land of conquest as well as promise for so we fancy that promises must fulfill themselves even though we be not in capacity of them or contribute not to serve Gods command or providence in the way of reaping them And what was the consequence God was provoked and in his wrath swore an oath exclusive of this people led them off the borders of the Land a 40. years march in the wildernesse untill all the mutineers all above twenty yeares old at their going forth of Egipt fell therein Upon which account not a man of that great people except Caleb and Ioshuah of much above 60. yeares of age came into Canaan Now if these things be our ensamples 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 10. 6. then it is but laying the scene among our selves and the result of it will be this That if after all our other Nationall provocations of God for which wee have long deserved that the hand should write upon the wall that God hath numbred our Kingdome and finisht it We should be brought to the borders of that long prayed for rest from our yoakes and burdens in Church and State and then prove as I may so say run-awayes from Edge Hil and stumble at the threshold despising the offer cancelling our former prayers scandalizing our selves saying The time is not come the time the Lords house should Hag. 1. 2. be built and so wish for Captaines that we may returne into Egipt as this people Vers 4. Might wee not feare such another oath of God against us and such another pilgrimage of our selves in the wildernesse of our own misery untill our carcasses were all fallen as theirs The occasion of this mutiny was Twelve Princes or heads of the Tribes were sent out to discover the Land they went returned and reported but these Twelve were not all agreed of their verdict they were ten to two The ten spoke their carnall feares nothing but walled Townes warlike people sons of Anak the Land indeed is good but like the garden of the Hesperides Dragons keepe it not a word or sillable of