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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66073	Characters of a sincere heart and the comforts thereof collected out of the Word of God by Hen. Wilkinson.	Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.	1674 (1674)	Wing W2229; ESTC R27587	61,872	145

Sardis write these things saith he 〈◊〉 3. 1. 2. that hath the seaven spirits of God and the seaven Stars I know thy works that thou hast a name that livest and art dead Be watchful and strengthen the things that are ready to dye 〈◊〉 I have not found thy works perfect before God Many there are who rest satisfied with a bare form and deny the power of godliness But the Apostles command is Having a form of godliness 2 Tim. 3. 5. but denying the power thereof from such turn away The Sincerity of the Heart is that which God requires Behold thou desireth truth in the inward parts Psal 51. 6. Josh 34. 14. Ioh. 4. 24. God must be feared and served in sincerity and in truth God is a spirit and his worship must be a spiritual worship So saith our Saviour God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth The fruits of the spirit are reck●n●d up by the Apostle to be in all goodness righteousness and truth Goodness may Eph. 5. 9. be reckoned to the duties of the first Table and righteousness to the duties of the second Table but Truth i e. Sincerity refers to both Tables respectively Sincerity is the ground of rejoycing For saith the Apostle Our rejoycing is this the Testimony Cor. 1. 12. of our Conscience that in simplicity and godly sincerity not with fleshly wisdome but by the grace of God we have had our conversation and more abundantly to you ward And the same Apostle prayes for the Philippians That Phil. 1. 10. ye may approve things that are excellent that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ And although he is sensible of his own and of his Brethrens insufficiency for the great work of the Ministry as may appear by that Question which he propounds And who is sufficient for these things 2 Cor. 2. 16. Yet he makes this profession of his own and his brethrens sincerity For saith he we are not as many v. 17. which corrupt the word of God but as of sincerity but as of God in the fight of God speak we in Christ To draw to a close of this Epistle It is the sincerity of the Heart which both to Ministers and people is a great ground of consolation The grand design which I only drive at in this small Treatise is to stir up my self and others that every one in good earnest may Chatechise his own heart and propound this great needful Question Is my heart sincere with God For answer to this question I have by way of Character according to the Rule of the word of God endeavoured to declare in several particulars wherein the sincerity of the heart consists This Treatise I preached as to the substantials thereof which sinc● I have unlarged in the publick Congre●ation at Cosfield in Essex T● you much Honoured Madam I offer ●his Mite or Testimony of my graceful acknowledgment of these many signal favours which both my self and my nearest Relations have recieved from you both in our sickness and health God hath made you a worthy instrument to do good to many and I hope you will fare the better for their prayers That Bread which you have cast upon the waters you shall find after many daies May the Lord lengthen out your daies for the glory of God and for your own good and the good of many others And may you be one of those of whom the Psalmist makes mention Those that be planted in Psal 92. 13. the house of the Lord shall flourish in the Courts of God They shall still bring forth fruit in old age They shall be fat and flourishing I commend your self and all your Relations to the Gracious Providence of God beseeching him to guide you by his counsell till he bring you to glory I remain Sible Henningham in Essex Jan. 1. 1674. Madame Your Servant for Christ sake HEN. WILKINSON CHARACTERS OF A SINCERE HEART CHAP. I. Of Spiritual Poverty THE first Character of a Sincere Charact. 1. Spiritual Poverty Heart is Spiritual Poverty And Spiritual Poverty consists in emptying of the Heart to the utmost of all and every thing whatever is Self as self-love self-righteousness self-opinion self-sufficiency self-reasonings and disputings with flesh and blood and self-confidence and self-conceit and all manner of self-ends self-aims and self-designs So that when a Christian is wholly emptied of himself and he hath learned that great and excellent Gospel-Lesson of Self-denyal and he comprehends himself as he is in himself only nothing and less then no thing and is vile in his own eyes and h● magnifies the riches of Gods mercy and ascribes all honour and glory to God such a one is Sincere upright hearted towards God Jacob whom the Holy Ghost stiles a plain man i. e. as * Taatum dicit suisse simplicem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quidem pro integro sincero at plurimū accipitur Calv. Jacob viz. integer simplex Graeci 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 alienus ab omni fraude dolo callidatate Mercer in Lo● some Gen. 25. 27. interpret a sincere and single hearted man was a man of an humble spirit witness his confession I am not worthy o● the least of all thy mercies and of all the truth which thou hast shewed unto thy servant Gen. 32. 10. David was poo● in spirit endowed with that excellen● grace of Humilitie For he was so vil● in his own eyes as he accounted himsel● a worm and no man Psal 22. 6. and when the Lord sent Nathan the Prophet to tell what great things God had and would do for him as to take him from 2 Sam. 7. 8. and that he had cut off all his the Sheep Coat to be ruler over Israel enemies and made him a great name ver 9. and that he would fix the children of Israel that they may dwell in ● place of their own and ●●ve no more and that the Lord would make David an house how David received these messages from the Prophet is apparent by the humility and thankfulness whereof he gave a large testimony 2 Sam. 7. 18. 19. Then went King David in and sate before the Lord and he said who am I O Lord God and what is my house that thou hast brought me hitherto And this was yet a small thing in thy sight O Lord God but thou hast spoken also of thy servants house for a great while to come and is this the manner of man O Lord God Agur was a wise man and the more wise because the more humble and the more esteem'd of by God by how much the more vile he was in his own opinion His Qui s●i vilis est Deo charus est Born Prov. 30. 2. acknowledging himself to be more brutish then any man and not to have the understanding of a man plainly declares the lowliness and poverty of his spirit