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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25854	Mr. John Arndt (that famous German divine) his book of Scripture declaring that every child of God ought and must 1. daily die to the old Adam, but to Christ live daily, 2. and be renewed to the image of God day by day, 3. and in the new-birth live the life of the new creature / translated out of the Latine copie by Radulphus Castrensis Antimachivalensis.; Wahres Christenthum. 1. Buch. English	Arndt, Johann, 1555-1621.; Antimachivalensis, Radulphus Castrensis.	1646 (1646)	Wing A3731; ESTC R16074	180,338	440

fire of revenge because they broke the commandement of the Lord which zeal of the most just God those likewise provoke against themselves which out of their own invention and singular devotion and presumption of religious sanctity doe invent a new and uncommanded kind of worship not of God commanded Into which indignation of the divine Godhead lest perhaps we The punishmēt of it should fall into it also it remaineth to see wherein the true worship of God consisteth for the punishment of the temporary fire which in the old Testament is remembred against feigned worship standeth as an argument that God will doe the like in the new Testament for false religions both with eternal fire and warres and devastations of the lawes then which I know not whether any fire can be more terrible if he so avenge it is most sharp And the nature The true worship of God of the true divine worship and the reason wil easily appeare to us by the comparison of both the covenants together that which God required in the old Testament it was externall and typicall full of figures and shadowes of the Messias and full of ceremonies which that nation was bound to observe strictly and according to the letter In which rites and images the faithfull of the Jewes did as it were behold the Messias by faith in him are saved through the compact and promise divine which God in the new Testament did fulfill This consisteth not in externall Figures Ceremonies Rites Statutes and Lawes but is altogether inward and drawn into Spirit and Truth consisting of faith in Christ be●ause by him the Temple the Altar Sacrifices the Ark and Priesthood with all the Morall and Ceremoniall Law are fulfilled whereby consequently we are graffed into Christian liberty free from the maledicti-of the Law Gal. 3. and Jewish ceremonies Gal. 5. So that with a free heart and holy spirit dwelling in us we might serve God Jer. 31. Rom. 8. And our faith and consciences are bound to no traditions of men The truē worship of God consisteth in 3 things Moreover three chiefe things are requisite to a true spirituall internall and Christian worship that is to say The true knowledge of God Then of Sinne and Repentance Thirdly of Grace and remission of sinnes And these three are one no otherwise then God himselfe is one in Trinity for in the knowledge eternall of God is contained both repentance and remission of sinnes and that consisteth in faith which taketh hold of Christ and in him and through him acknowledgeth God his omnipotence love mercy righteousnesse verity wisdome of God all which is God himselfe and Christ and the holy Ghost And that not absolutely alone and by his What i● God own nature but respectively also and beholding of me by his gracious wil in Christ by which means he is God omnipotent to me mercifull to me eternall righteousnesse to me by grace and remission of sinnes and to me eternall truth and wisdome Nor there is no other way with Christ who is become unto me eternall omnipotency omnipotent Head and Prince of life my most mercifull Saviour perpetuall love justice and righteousnesse immoveable according The true knowledge of God to that 1 Cor. 1. Christ is become our wisdome from God and righteousnesse and sanctification and redemption All which and every one of them also are spoken in like manner of the holy Ghost And this is the true knowledge of God which consisteth in faith and it is not a meer knowledge but a joyfull living and powerfull trust by which I sweetly feele in me the beams and infusion of the divine omnipotencie of God so as I am held and carried by it to live in it and perceive my selfe to be moved and to be so In a word that I may feele and apprehend the riches of his goodnesse and mercy in me for can can there be greater charity thought upon then that which God the Father Sonne and holy Ghost have shewed unto us all most abundantly What righteousnesse more perfect and ample then that whereby he draweth us from sinne death hell and the Devill Or what can bee added to that Faith is the vertue and power of God heavenly and infallible truth and wisdome of his This then is the true and solid faith consisting in lively and effectuall trust and not only in words or the noyse of words or externall sounds In which knowledg of God or faith it behoveth us all the sons of God daily more and more to profit be perfected Whereupon blessed Paul hath sufficient for us to wish for Ephes 3. That we may know the love of Christ exceeding all knowledge as who should say all the study of our whole life if it were imployed to know the love of Christ it would not be sufficient to learn the exceeding largenesse thereof Neither doth onely knowing define this knowledge be not deceived but thus much more he wil that we The lively knowledge of God participate tast and have triall of the sweetnesse well-pleasingnesse vertue and lively infusion in our hearts inword and in faith of his divine love so great and immense without expression For shall we say he knew the love of Christ which never tasted it never proved it according to that of the Hebrewes chap. 6. Who have tasted the heavenly gifts and the good word of God and the power of the world to come which in faith is obtained through the word Neither is any other the effusion of the love of God into our hearts by the holy Ghost Rom. 4. wherein consisteth the fruit and efficacie of the divine word And to shut up all this is the true knowledge of God arising from tast and experience and consisting in living and solid faith which therefore the Epistle to the Hebrewes calleth Hypostasin and most certain eviction Furthermore this knowledge of God which consisteth in living faith is a part of the eternall and spirituall divine worship What faith is as in like manner faith it selfe is a spirituall gift living and heavenly as also the light The true knowledge of God doth change the heart brings forth vertue and vertue of God Therefore when this knowledge goeth before by which God doth as it were drinke to our souls to tast and relish it according to Psalm 34. Tast and see how sweet the Lord is it cannot be but serious repentance will follow that is the renewing of the mind and amendment of life For from the perceiving solid knowledge of the omnipotency of God there followeth withall humility seeing that it is not possible under the powerfull hand of God not to be made crooked nor to make himselfe straight From the tast of the divine mercy proceedeth love towards his neighbour for no man is or can be childish or can deny his neighbour any thing who is experienced of the divine love and shall remember that God out of his meer mercy hath given him

created that being enlightned with spirituall light by the inward eyes of the soul he might contemplate the presence of God and his most sincere love towards him might live with Man was born to a spirituall life him and depend on his beck and call throughout all his life And of this spirituall light in the Kingdome of heaven the naturall man hath not the least spark and he must needs abide in this hereditary and in-bred blindnesse unlesse hee bee divinely Naturall blindnesse enlightned To which I would to God that naturall blindnesse did not adjoyn it selfe nor that the perversity of man were Man is nothing without Christ so great as to put out that small light of nature whereby morall vertues and externall honesty of life is governed There is great infirmity in the sons of God Which when it cometh to passe then truly all the soul is blind and cannot be set free from such great blindnesse unlesse it be enlightned by Christ regenerated by his spirit renewed after the Image of God and be made a new creature or to speak more truly in this fraile life it onely beginne to be For if every one of us that are in the new creature by the holy Ghost doe consider it will appeare in truth that the Image of God is lightly ingraven in us or rather shadowed onely faith hope charity and the feare of God these are onely in the beginning little humility but on the contrary diffidency pride and impatience much greater prayer weak and faint and cold and love to our neighbour as weak Moreover very small sparkes of spirirituall chastity on the contrary flames of carnall pleasures as also selfe-love the desire of private profit and honour and the heat of concupiscence will bee found in our hearts Whereupon it followeth that to Inward strife the last gasp of our life we are to fight and wrastle with old Adam and the image of the Devil by the spirit of God neither ought we to have a greater care and to lay it to heart then to pray mourn sigh to ask to seek and knock that the holy Ghost may be given us who as our Captain may daily abolish in us the image of the Devil and also renew us after the Image of God Whereby we are to understand that we are not to trust to our selves but to the divine grace and that is it which doth all things in us all things are to bee sought desired and intreated for of Christ by faith Divine knowledge and wisdome against our blindnesse the righteousnesse of Christ against all our sins Christ his sanctification against our impurity Christ his redemption virtue victory and fortitude against The use of this chapter Death Hell and the Devill pardon of all sins against the kingdom of sin Satan eternal blessednesse against all spirituall and corporall miseries and last of all in Christ alone to obtain life eternall Of which I shall say more in the second Book CHAP. XLII Wherein the reason of the order of the first Book is set down and therewith is taught that spiritual pride is to be eschewed and herewithal that no true and celestiall gifts can be obtained without prayer 1 Corinth 4. What hast thou that thou hast not received And if thou hast received it why dost thou boast as if thou hadst not received it BEfore I put an end to this Book I thought good to understand and foresee that the Reader be admonished of two ●hings rather two Chapters The first is that through all this book is by penitence with all his fruits as by renovation in Christ by mortification of the flesh deniall of our selves contempt of the world and exercise of charity so copiously and dive●sly described that was not without cause nor rashly done by me For first of all repentance is the beginning and foundation Repentance is the beginning of Christianity of Christianity of a holy life and our blessednesse through faith secondly true and solid consolation in the mind of man cannot be felt to effect by him that doth not not exactly understand the nature of originall sinne never to bee sufficiently deplored fruits and what kind of horrible pestilent deadly and diabolicall poyson and seed it is when we have studied what we can which unlesse it be done and a man before all things doe well know his owne miseries and so the terrible corruption of our originall sin in vain and of no account are all the books of spirituall and Evangelicall consolation whereby it is given to understand how preposterous and choyce our nature is and how it rejoyceth in flatteries because most men about this foundation and the fore-cited things of our sins of our in-bred corruption and inborn wickednesse wee onely please our selves Which way of reasoning the holy Scripture is just contrary whose saying is that a medicine is to bee prepared for the sick and not for the sound and healthy seeing that Christ is the true Physitian altogether unseasonable consolation of our souls yet the crown of his merit with all vulgar consolations is of no worth nor use where the knowledgement of the disease went not before so the whole Christian life is nothing else but a continuall A Christian life and daily crucifying and mortifying of the flesh Neither can any man this to be said again and again belong to Christ who composeth himselfe and his life otherwise but those that are so those are never Orphans and without sincere joy nor lastly without celestial comfort and consolation Seeing this which wee speak of our proper misery the knowledge of our corruption and infirmity by the holy Ghost and meditation of the holy Scripture and Gospel doth bring forth most true consolation of it selfe and the own nature bringeth us to Christ which seeing it is so to bee advised by mee Let no man of corrupt judgement deceive thee and perswade thee that these bookes are of little regard Perswade thy self these are a blind Foolish iudgement of this book kind of men and that with the most ignorant of men they take knowledge of the misery of their nature both what Adam and Christ is how Adam is to die in us and how Christ ought to live in us let not this be held for a dream understand it not so And whosoever disdaineth this notice it is certaine that he hath his mind stuffed with the darknesse of ignorance neither doth he understand what repentance what faith what new birth what regeneration is and in what chapters the whole course of living Christianty is contained And this is the first I desire thee my Reader And the second that thou be mindfull of spirituall pride After that Almighty God Three sorts of spiritual pride shal begin by his grace to work in thee spirituall gifts new virtues and new knowledge in thee ascribe none of these to thine own strength but wholly to divine grace even the beginning of a

most noble is that man in whom Christ is all and doth all whose noble thoughts mind words are the will of Christ the thoughts of Christ and the mind of Christ according to that of Paul * 1 Cor. 2. We have the mind of Christ Lastly whose words are Christs And so it needs to be indeed because the life of Christ is that new and another life in man neither is the new man any other thing then he who liveth in Christ according to the Spirit whose life I say courtesie patience and humility is no other then that of Christ And this the new creature and the life of Christ in us according to that of Paul to the Galatians G●l 2. I live but not I but Christ in me liveth this also is to follow Christ truly and truly to repent for by this method the old man is destroyed and the carnall life declineth the new spirituall and heavenly life ariseth and breaketh out of the clouds This who ever doth he truly is a Christian not in title only but in work and truth a true son of God begotten of God and Christ renewed in Christ and quickened by faith and so long as the inward man dwelleth in flesh and blood we may wish so much perfection rather then attain unto it but it is as meet and necessary to indeavour and to aspire thereunto and study the same and to wish it from our inward minde and to strive that the life and kingdom The strife daily fighting with corrupt nature of Christ may be in us and not the life of Satan let all our counsels respect this all our cares and inward groans be sent this way and let this be our only strife and warfare that we may mortifie the old man by daily repentance For how much every one dieth to himself so much doth Christ live in him how much corruption How the man is daily renewed departeth from our nature by the Holy Ghost so much divine grace cometh in how much the flesh is crucified so much is the spirit quickened so much of the work of darknesse as is destroyed so much is the man illuminated by how much the exterior man is lessened and wasted so much the inward is renewed 2 Cor. 4. so much as you lose of your vaine affections and carnall life and are wasted as self-love ambition wr●th covetousnesse and voluptuousnesse so much Christ liveth in you the further a mans heart is set from the world from concupiscence of the eyes flesh and pride of life so much more of God Christ and the Holy Spirit doth flow into him Last of all the more nature flesh darknesse and the world do bear rule in man so much lesse grace spirit of light God and Christ is found in him Moreover this new kind of living is to the flesh The new life is the crosse of the flesh an enemy and bitter crosse because it is that by which it is subjugated and brought under and crucified with all the desires and concupiscences thereof but yet is that wherein the whole power and fruit of penitency consisteth This is the inward desire of the flesh and blood that it had rather lead a free life dissolute according to its own will and among pleasures and all kind of voluptuousnesse for it only knows this to be sweet and pleasant as contrariwise the life of Christ to the flesh and the old man is a heavie crosse but to the new man and him that is spirituall it is an easie yoak a light burden and a most quiet Sabbath truly the true rest is sought for in vain else were they in the fai●h of Christ and in his sweetness humility patience and love of Christ whereupon it is said Mat. 11. You shall find rest for your souls Truly he that loveth Christ will not think it bitter to suffer death it self for him This therefore is that sweet yoak of Christ which we are commanded to take upon us that our soules might be refreshed and come into his rest which command if we determine to obey and mean to put on Christ his life and yoak then we must shake off the yoak of the Devill our way of carnall life wicked and dissolute nor must we suffer the flesh as a Lady to insult and disquiet the spirit but all things are to be brought under the Law obedience and yoak of Christ will I say reason understanding and all carnall What the yoak of Christ is appetites which the concupiscence of Adam and this flesh of ours is well pleased to be honoured worshipped and to be praised of men to abound in riches and pleasures to bring all which on the other side under the yoak of Christ and his discipline nothing regarding his ignominy contempt and poverty to think himself unworthy all things that the world gapeth What the life of Christ is after and for which other men do contend that truth is the crosse of Christ wherewith the flesh is delighted I say that extreme humility of Christ and his most noble life which to the spirit is a most easie yoak and a most easie burden for what other was the whole life of Christ then holy poverty extreme contempt and vile persecution who came not into the world to be attended on but to serve us himself and spend his life and shed his dearest blood to redeem our offences It is the property of The naturall man the spirituall the naturall man to seek after honours and hunt after great things The spirituall on the other side loved the humility of Christ and desireth to become nothing And whereas most men do desire to go before or excell others scarce one coveteth to be reputed as nothing of whom the one belongeth to the square or rule of life of the old Adam the other to the rule of Christ The carnall man and he who hath not yet learned what Christ is that is to say meer humility courtesie and love accounteth it folly to live as Christ liveth and thinketh those onely wise that live after their owne The false true light will delicately and easily not knowing that then he chiefly liveth in the Devill when most foolishly he applaudeth himselfe and esteemeth his own life as the best and most pleasing which most miserable men being fast bound in the lust of their own carnall wisdome doe inforce others to follow the like errours contrariwise those whom the true and eternall light hath inlightned those are touched at the heart when they doe see the pomp and disdaine pride pleasure wrath revenge and such kind of fruit of the carnall life which causeth them to sigh from the bottome of their hearts saying How farre is this from Christ and his knowledge from true repentance from genuine Christianity and lastly from the fruits of the new birth of the sonnes of God for he liveth yet in Adam in the old creature and in the Devill himselfe for to offend