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A61876 A disswasive from conformity to the world as also God's severity against impenitent sinners : with a farewel sermon lately preached to a congregation in London / by Henry Stubs. Stubbes, Henry, 1606?-1678. 1675 (1675) Wing S6042; ESTC R26265 80,293 238

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derided by them about you Psal. 44. 13. Tears may be given you to drink in great measure Psal. 80. 5. Vile accounted c. Lam. 3. 45. Even as a scum 1 Cor. 4. 13. Wild beasts and boars out of the wood may waste you c. Psal. 80. 13. Seeing this is so will you take the course prescribed that if possible none of these things may come upon you or if they should that your eternal estate may be secured First What can you object against it 1. Is it not the course that God hath prescribed That it is has been proved before therefore you can't object 't is not required you cannot say Who hath required this for you have heard that God does 2. Is there any unreasonableness or unrighteousness in the prescribing of it Can you object against it as being unreasonable and unrighteous nay is it not most reasonable and righteous that having sinned and provoked God you should consider confess humble c. 3. Is it not that course that others with success have used as Nineveh and 2 Chron. 12. 7 12. Can you object and say others have taken this course to no purpose Ahabs external humiliation was not without some success The judgment was deferred upon it 1 King 21. 29. 4. Have not others perished for want of taking this course See 2 Chron. 36. 12. of Zed●ki● to 18. Dan. 5. 22 to 29. of Bel●hazar Can you now object and say others have neglected this course and done well enough Thus you see you cannot object against this course Secondly Can you think of a better a safer course Can you or you or you c. speak if you can by your silence I take it for granted that you cannot Thirdly If you cannot are you resolved upon this To consider confess c. Fourthly If you be not resolved on this course as yet must I dismiss you unresolved and desperate as they Jer. 44. will you say as they ver 16. 18. 12. FINIS GODS Gracious Presence THE SAINTS Great Priviledge 2 Thes. 3. 16. Now the Lord of Peace himself give you Peace alwayes by all means The Lord be with you all YOU have Peace Blessed be God long may it last it is not like to be long-lived unless God work wonderfully Application therefore should be made to him that he who is the God of Peace would be pleased to give it alwayes and by all means The close of the Verse is that which I intend to say something unto as the Lord shall enable me The Lord be with you All. This is Pauls Valediction to the Thessalonians and shall be mine to you In this Valediction you have 1. Pauls wish and desire the Lord be with you 2. The extent of it The Lord be with you All. He leaves out none of them he wisheth well to them all and that which he wisheth is the Presence of the Lord with them All their welfare standing therein The Lord God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost we must not leave out any of the Three for we cannot be without the Presence of any one of them nor can you have the Presence of the one without the Presence of the other for these three are one and where One is All are Of the Fathers and of the Sons and of the Holy Ghosts coming to be with his People You read Joh. 14. Jesus said if a man love me he will keep my words and my Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him O for faith to believe this that the Father and the Son will come and make their abode with such Whosoever goes from you you may be sure the Father and Son will come if you love him and keep his words See verse 23. And for the coming of the Holy Ghost See Joh. 15. 16. I will pray the Father saith Christ Here 's a praying friend and praying friends we use to say are our best friends and he shall give you another Comforter that he may abide with you for ever even the Spirit of Truth verse 17. That he may abide with you for ever mark that when he comes he will not be like a wayfaring man that comes for a night and then is gon but he will abide for ever when I came down from Heaven I came with a purpose to return again when I had done my work here but this Comforter my Spirit shall abide with you for ever Well then the Lord be with you the Father Son and Holy Spirit be with you the eternal Jehovah who hath his being of himself and gives being to all things else even the being of performance to his promises This Lord be with you Be with your whole man This Lord be with your Bodies This Lord be with your Souls This Lord be with every part of your Bodies and with every Power of your Souls The Apostle in his former epistle praying for these Thessalonians 1 Thes. 5. 23. Prayes thus The very God of Peace sanctify you wholly and I pray God your whole Spirit and Soul and Body be preserved blameless unto the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. So then the Apostle would have the Lord ●o be with their whole man not with a part of it not with their Souls and Spirits only or Bodies only but with their Spirit Soul and Body and the same Apostle praying for Timothy prayes The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy Spirit 2 Tim. 4. 22. It matters not who are absent so Christ be present his presence is more then the presence of the nearest and dearest relations The Lord be with you all not only with a part of you I know not which of you to leave out of my Prayers For you all have need of Gods presence whether you be Saints or Sinners If Sinners you have need of the Lord to be with you to convince you and convert you And as for those that are Saints I know none that have so much grace that they need no more the Lord therefore be with them to establish confirm and encrease grace in them the Lord be with you at all times If God be absent at any time we know not what to do Some of you have had experience that when God hath withdrawn never so little your case hath been bad enough The Lord be with you in all places We can be secure and safe in no place without his presence The Lord be with you in all conditions in all estates for if you be in the most prosperous estate you cannot tell how to be without God Jehosaphat thought so 2. Chron. 20. 12. In the fulness of a mans sufficiency he may be in straights Job 20. 22. You cannot be any where in any estate a minute without him You believe it to be a Truth that in him you live move and have your being Act. 17. 28. not naturally only but spiritually too The Lord therefore be with you at all times in all conditions
procuring causes thereof these are the persons that please God so that he takes double care of them in evil times Ezek. 9. 4 6 and pronounces them blessed and promises that they shall be comforted Mat. 5. 4. Dir. 8. Walk uprightly order your conversation aright without guile and hypocrisie in simplicity and godly sincerity have your conversations doing all your duties to please God and not for by-respects With this God will be so well pleased that he will be to you a Sun and a Shield that he will give you Grace and Glory that he will with-hold no good thing from you Psal. 84. 11. Prov. 2. 7. He will shew you his salvation Psal. 50. 23. God will give him a prospect of heaven here and hereafter a full fruition of it and no w●●der for you are his delight Prov. 11. 20. Such as are upright in their way are his delight and what will not a man do for such in whom he delights Read Esther 6. 6. Dir. 9. Make the Christian Sabbath your delight be glad and rejoyce in it This will so please the Lord that he will cause you to ride upon the high places of the earth yea upon the heights of heaven where thou shalt keep an everlasting Sabbath and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your Father not only with the good things of the earthly Canaan but with the good things of the heavenly of which the earthly was a type with heavenly Manna such food as eye hath not seen ear heard or mouth of natural man ever tasted This you may build upon for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Isa. 58. 13 14. If you keep the Sabbath and chuse the things that please God Isa. 56. 4. God will be so well pleased as to give you 1. A place in his House v. 5. And a door-keepers place in Gods house is worth the having Psal. 84. 10. A place in Gods house is that one thing which David was so earnest for Psal. 27. 4. 2. A Name better then of sons and daughters of Princes even prerogative royal that heavenly honour to be the sons and daughters of God 2 Cor. 6. 18. John 1. 12. And so to be called 1 John 3 1. To have both the comfort and the credit of it for if sons then heirs Rom. 8. 16 17. 3. And make them joyful in his house of Prayer ver 7. By their free access unto him and good success in all their suits 4. And accept their sacrifices ver 7. Their sacrifices of Prayer Praise Alms and Obedience shall be accepted through Christ who is the true Altar that sanctifieth all that is offered on it Heb. 13. 10 15. Rev. 3. 4. Dir. 10. Watch at Wisdoms gates daily wait at the posts of her doors Prov. 8. 34 35. And there you shall find life Isa. 55. 3. And obtain the favour of God which is better then life There the Lord will meet you and bless you Exod. 20. 24. There he will teach you Isa. 2. 3. And there he will accept you Ezek. 20. 40. There you give him your loves Cant. 7. 12. And there he will give you his Loves If he sup with you you shall sup with him Rev. 3. 20. There you may get Faith more precious then Gold Rom. 10. 17. There you may have a call to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ 2 Thes. 2. 14. Dir. 11. Pray continually This pleases God The prayer of the upright is his delight Prov. 15. 8. 'T is sweet unto him Cant. 2. 14. He will be nigh to them that call upon him in truth Psal. 145. 18. Daniel's praying pleased God as appears by the event Prayers come up for a me norial before God Acts 10. 4. God is so well pleased with prayer that he will never turn it away Psal. 66. 20. Dir. 12. Meditate on Gods Law day and night Shew thy love to God and it thereby as David did Psal. 119. 97. O how I love thy Law it is my meditation all the day Let it be yours also and God will make you like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season and whose leaf shall not wither and whatsoever you do shall prosper Psal. 1. 2 3. Dir. 13. Worship God in spirit and in truth Sure this is pleasing to him for the Father seeketh such to worship him Joh 4. 23. He is greatly delighted with such worship God loveth the gates of Zion more then all the dwellings of Jacob Psal. 87. 2. The gates of Zion the place of his worship which he had chosen to dwell in more then all the Towns and Cities else which he had given Jacob to dwell in 'T is not all worship that God is so delighted with some worship is an abomination to him God complains of those that draw nigh to him with their mouths when their hearts are far from him Isa. 29. 13. Mat. 15. 8. 'T is the heart God calls for Prov. 23. 26. and truth in the inward parts that God desires Psal. 51. 6. 'T is worship in spirit and truth that pleases God Dir. 14. Love God heartily and seek him early God loves them that love him Prov. 8. 17. and will shew it John 14. 21 23. He that hath my Commandments and keepeth them he it is that loveth me and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father and I will love him and will manifest my self to him and we will come and make our abode with him Obedience to this first and great command of loving God is more then all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices Mark 12. 33. Therefore for certain it pleases God Delight thy self in the Lord and he will give thee the desires of thy heart Psal. 37. 4. And let the desire of thy soul be to his name and to the remembrance of him With thy spirit seek him early Isa. 26. 8 9. and he will be found of thee Jer. 29. 13. Dir. 15. Fear God greatly as Obadiah did 1 Kings 18. 3. On such the Sun of righteousness will shine Mal. 4. 2. The Lord will fulfil the desires of them that fear him he also will hear their cry and will save them Psal. 145. 19. Dir. 16. Chuse to suffer rather then to sin This was Moses's choice Heb. 11. 25. rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season This pleaseth God highly Those three servants of the most high God Dan. 3. who did chuse to burn to ashes rather then to bow to an Image God was so well pleased with that he restrained the fire from burning of them Daniel chuses to be torn to pieces rather then not to pray Dan. 6. and God was so well pleased with his choice that he shuts the mouths of the Lions that they hurt him not v. 22. God also was so well ' pleased with the Martyrs choyce of sufferings rather then of sinning that he so wrought for many