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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39365	The quiet soule, or, The peace, and tranquillity of a Christians estate set forth in two sermons / by Edmund Elys ...	Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1659 (1659)	Wing E686; ESTC R41122	22,691	47

I say to the Heart of any such man and be Try'd by Him whether I do not speak Truth surely he knowes it by Woefull Experience Whenever thou hast Offended Thy GOD to satisfie the Importunity of any of thy Impetuous Lusts hath not thy Conscience Dampt thy Flaming Spirit Cool'd thy Courage as we use to speak telling thee that thou hast done Foolishly telling thee of HELL and DEATH and so Mixing thy Wine with Wormwood turning thy Delight into Vexation of Spirit Having thus briefly discovered unto you the Black and Dismall Condition of the Soules of the Wicked which Sit in Darknesse and in the Shadow of Death I shall now endeavour to discover unto you the Pleasant and Comfortable Estate of those that are truly GODLY who have the Day-star arising in their Hearts who through Faith in CHRIST walke in the Light of GODS Countenance enjoy his Favour who is KING of KINGS and LORD of LORDS The Father of Mercies and GOD of all Comfort That I may give you a more clear and manifest Discovery of this Happinesse of a True CHRISTIAN I shall Point as it were as those men use to do that Shew you some Excellent Sight to make your Notice the more accurate at the Principall Parts of it Opening and Demonstrating unto you this Proposition or Doctrine True Faith enables a man c. in these three Particulars First True Faith in CHRIST inables a man to draw Comfort 1 From the Remembrance of what he hath been of the Condition he hath formerly been in 2. From the Apprehension of that which He is in at present 3. From the Expectation of what He may be in for the future Now these Three things What a man hath been What he is and What he expects to be are the Principall and most Usuall Objects of our Thoughts therefore if I shall be able to shew you how a True Faithfull CHRISTIAN may draw Matter of Comfort from all These I suppose you will easily apprehend how He may Comfort himselfe also in the Notice he takes of other things as of all the Workes of PROVIDENCE which he Sees in the Affaires of the World or the like therefore I shall not extend my Discourse to any of them Each of the Particulars which I have propounded unto my selfe to be insisted upon as the Subject and Ground-worke of my Discourse consists of Two Parts our Condition being Two-fold viz. of the Inner and Outward Man or as the common words are Spirituall and Temporall At present I shall speak only of the Temper and Disposition of a CHRISTIANS Spirit in reference to his Spirituall Condition Past Present and to Come As for his Temporall Condition or the Estate of his Outward Man I shall defer my Discourse of That 'till some other Opportunity The First thing that I am to Shew you is That a True CHRISTIAN one that hath taken CHRIST's Yoke upon him c. can take Comfort Find Rest unto his Soule in the Remembrance of his Life Past whether it have been Sinfull or Holy But here probably some of you may presently Object within your selves against what I say thus How Can a True CHRISTIAN take Comfort in the Remembrance of his Sinfull Estate why what then is meant by Poenitence or Godly Sorrow is not that the Sorrow which we conceive by the Remembrance of our Sins In removing this Objection I doubt not but by Gods Assistance I shall give you a full discovery of this Truth That a CHRISTIAN can Comfort Himselfe through the Help of GODS Spirit even in the Remembrance of his Sinfull Estate We grant that when He thinks of His Sinfull Estate as Sinfull to wit as it relates to GOD as that Course of Life wherein He did so often Dishonour the Name of the GOD that Made him of JESUS that Redeem'd him and Griev'd the HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD that Now Sanctifies Him I say my Brethren when a CHRISTIAN does This way look back upon his Sinfull Life He cannot chuse through Indignation against Himselfe but Rent his Heart vex his Spirit cherish and foment his own Sorrow saying with David * I will be sorry for my Sin But let us Observe that This kind of Sorrowing is but as the taking of Physick 't is not any Disease or Settled Distemper of the Soul I say when We are thus Prickt with the Sharp sense and feeling of our SINS we are not Wounded but Let Blood and this Spirituall Phlebotomy is that which Cures us of our present and Prevents future Maladies To speak more plainly This Godly Sorrow as the * Apostle saies worketh Repentance {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} worketh a Change of the Mind Alters the Temper and Constitution of the Inward Man Confirmes a man in Holinesse which is the Health and Strength of the Soule that hath formerly been Wicked that is to say that hath abounded with all manner of Infirmities with all manner of Lusts and Burnings and inordinate Affections which are as it were the Feavers and Agues and Swellings and Tumours of the Soule And thus My Brethren though the Sorrow which a True Christian a Faithfull Servant of the Living GOD conceives by the Remembrance of his Sinfull Life Past be in it selfe very Painfull and Grievous yet it worketh for him the greatest Ease and Comfort It only Roots out of the Heart all Carnall Joy all False Fading worldly Comfort to Plant in it Ioy Unspeakable The Comfort of the Holy Ghost To fix this Truth in your minds to Confirme you in the Apprehension of it I shall recite unto you that Saying of Our SAVIOUR * Blessed are they that Mourn for they shall be Comforted All that I have here said may be briefly summ'd up thus the Thoughts which a GODLY Man has in the Remembrance of His Unregenerate Estate though they do not Directly yet they doe By Consequent Continually Afford Him abundance of Comfort to wit as in effect I said but now by Fitting and Preparing His Heart to Entertain the Holy Ghost the only True COMFORTER The more a man Sorrowes after a Godly sort as the * Apostles expression is the more Entertainment He gives to the Spirit of GOD and receives the more Comfort from Him As often this way as â CHRISTIANS Spitits faile him GOD gives him a Cordiall to Revive and to Delight his Soule Having thus spoken of the Temper and Disposition of a CHRISTIANS Spirit in the Remembrance of His Sinfull Estate in relation to GOD that is as that Course of Life wherin He did so often Dishonour the Name of the GOD that Made Him c. I shall now shew you how His Spirit is Affected what kind of thoughts He hath in the Remēbrance of it as it relates to Himselfe as an Estate of Trouble of which he is Eas'd and of Danger which he hath Escaped Now my Brethren that a Sinfull Estate is Troublesome and Unquiet I have shewne you from these words There is no peace c.

my selfe Necessitated as it were to set his Faith on Worke to procure Comfort for him whilst Without he finds nothing but Poverty and Distresse what Spirituall Delight and Sweetnesse such a man may Suck out of these Brests of Consolations as the Scripture expression is thinke you who are true Believers Joy in the Holy Ghost in which as in effect I said but now commonly those Christians most abound who possesse least of the Things of the World No man can ever fully expresse and none but such as you can in any measure rightly conceive I come now to shew you that Sicknesse also affords matter of Comfort to any true Believer This truth I might easily make appeare unto you many wayes but because I shall hasten to the Application wherein I shall spend more time then ordinary I shall onely mention one Reason of it Sicknesse you know naturally puts a man in mind of Death and what can be more Comfortable to a Syncere Christian then the thoughts of that What can be more Comfortable to a Child of GOD then the thoughts of that happy time when he shall Goe Home to his Father when he shall fully enjoy his Maker and his Redeemer To speake more at large A Syncere Christian whose thoughts his Heart being as it were Set on Fire with Love to God continually Fly upward as Sparkes towards Heaven Usually when he Feeles any Paine presently considers the Naturall Frailty and Mortality of his Body thereupon his Soule Rejoyces in this Hope that shortly when a Few * Dayes are past She shall cast it off from her as that which so Clogs and Hinders her and deprives her of that Vigour and Quicknesse which she desires in her Spirituall Operations in the Service of her Maker which she is mainly yea wholly intent upon Now Beloved if Death be so Desirable to a true Christian Judge yee what Comfort his Sicknesse affords him which continually supplies him with fresh thoughts and strong Apprehensions of Mortality And thus I have briefly demonstrated unto you that a Christians Faith is able to extract Comfort out of those two things which are so terrible to the generality of Men Poverty and Sicknesse I am now to shew you how this Victorious Grace by which we Overcome the World softens unto us also that other Hard Thing DISGRACE or the Losse of our Good-Name and Esteem amongst men making the Sowernesse of the Worlds carriage towards us serve us as it were for Sauce at the Feast of our Good Conscience The heavyest Disgrace or Infamy which in this life a Child of GOD lyes under is occasioned by these or the like meanes A Report that he hath beene guilty of some notorious Basenesse and Impiety or a Misconceit of his good Actions which proceeding from such Principles as Carnall men who are by farre the greatest part of the World are in no wise able to Apprehend cannot but be Misconstrued Hence it is that they Nick-Name all his Vertues endeavour to render him most Odious and Contemptible for those Actions by which he knows himselfe chiefly to deserve Love and Respect from all those that are truly Noble and Heavenly-minded Thus when a Christian shewes himselfe Humble how do the men of the World mistake him for a Sneaking mean-spirited fellow when Magnanimous for Proud and selfe-conceited If the Infamy a Christian suffers be occasioned by such a Report as I mentioned but now if it be true he Comforts himselfe in it upon this account that it is unto him a continuall Memento to Repent and Bemoane himselfe for the Commission of that Sin and to Rejoyce in GOD by whose Spirit he is perswaded that his Sins are forgiven him If the Report be false the Abused Christian greatly Rejoyces in the Thoughts of that Grace which Restrained him from that Action of which hee is supposed to be Guilty into which if he had been left to himselfe he might have Rushed * As the Horse Rusheth into the Battell being Naturally prone to every thing that is Evill Another Ground of the Comfort a Godly man takes in such a Case is that he finds himselfe often Stirr'd up to Pray unto GOD saying with Holy DAVID Hold up my goings in thy paths * that my Footsteps slip not upon this consideration that there are so many that would Rejoyce over him if he should but Fall These and a thousand other occasions of Comfort do the Godly apprehend to Lighten their hearts to delight their Soules whensoever they reflect upon those heavy Censures Calumnies and Revilings with which they are continually Loaden The more the World hates them the stronger apprehensions they have of the Favour of GOD He is their * Covert from storme and from raine In him they Rest secure from the Stormy Wind of all those Ill Reports Calumnies and Reproaches they heare continually raised against them with such a kind of Delight as a man hath when he lyes Warme in his Bed and hearkens to a Tempest But now as for that Misconceit which all the World hath of the Good Actions of Pious men as for that Shame which they must expect as they are Christians constantly to suffer for discovering their Zeale for GOD and their Fiery indignation against any Allowed wickednesse amongst those with whom they converse being usually accounted Phreneticke Hot-headed fellowes for contemning the things of the World Childish and Imprudent for Disdaining to be guided by mere Example in any Course they take Proud and Haughty for separating themselves from Vaine Conversation Singular and Self-conceited As for this I say it is so farre from troubling those that are Christians indeed that they exceedingly Rejoyce in it Remembring those words of their Saviour * Blessed are yee when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evill against you falsly for my sake Rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in Heaven for so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you I shall now conclude this point that a true Christian takes Comfort in the Apprehension of his Present Estate shewing you to confirme you in the Apprehension of this most Usefull Truth the Generall Cause and Well-head of all those streames of Consolation which continually flow into his Soule whensoever he reflects upon the condition he is in here it is he is assur'd through Faith that The Great GOD the Author and Disposer of all things Loves him and will love him for ever and hereupon he assumes this confidence that the condition he is in is that which at This Time is Best for Him As for the last Proposition that I promised to demonstrate unto you that a true Christian through Faith takes Comfort in the Expectation of any condition he may be in for the Future I shall not need to spend many words on it it appeares so plaine in what hath been already delivered Expectation being a kind of Apprehension as I said in the beginning of