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A77219	The afflicted and retired mans meditations, concerning the excellency of the spirit With a discovery of the twofold-mind; the danger of the one, the comfort and safety of the other. First, here is observed, what it is for to be carnally minded. Secondly, means to suppress a carnal frame of spirit. Thirdly, the dreadful state of a carnal minded man. Fourthly, how the spirit is a Christians help. Fifthly, means to obtain the spirit. Sixthly, the characters of a spiritualized Christian. Seventhly, the glorious priviledges of a spiritual minded man. And a few meditations by way of observation: with a dialogue between Christ and a sinner; Christ and a Christian; Christ and the afflicted person: as also, a word to the remnant of the womans seed: with a loud call to all saints, to love one another upon the account of son-ship, and not onely upon the account of fellowship. Written by Samuel Bradley, who hath love for all that love the Lord Jesus in sincerity, who prayes for Zions unity.	Bradley, Samuel.	1663 (1663)	Wing B4125B; ESTC R230878	75,596	102

The AFFLICTED and RETIRED Mans Meditations Concerning the EXCELLENCY of the SPIRIT With a Discovery of the Twofold-Mind the Danger of the one the Comfort and safety of the other First Here is observed what it is for to be Carnally minded Secondly Means to suppress a Carnal frame of Spirit Thirdly The dreadful state of a Carnal minded Man Fourthly How the Spirit is a Christians Help Fifthly Means to obtain the Spirit Sixthly The Characters of a Spiritualized Christian Seventhly The glorious Priviledges of a Spiritual minded Man And a few Meditations by way of Observation With a Dialogue between Christ and a Sinner Christ and a Christian Christ and the Afflicted Person As also a Word to the Remnant of the Womans Seed With a Loud Call to all Saints to Love one another upon the account of Son-ship and not onely upon the account of Fellowship Written by SAMUEL BRADLEY who hath Love for all that love the Lord Jesus in sincerity who prayes for Zions Unity Rom. 8.13 For if ye live after the Flesh ye shall die but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the Body ye shall live For as many as are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God John 13.35 By this shall all men know that ye are my Disciples if ye Love one another Printed for the Author in the year 1663. TO THE Impartial Reader READER FOr the satisfaction of many or any who desire to follow the Lord Jesus in sincerity I am here engaged to write a small Epistle to the furtherance propagating and owning of this following Treatise wherein is contained and couched many glorious Truths which did concern all persons to look after in former Ages of the World but now more especially we that live in this last Age wherein Errors do abound and great Mistakes do arise in many whom I desire the Lord would be pleased to help to understand between Truth and Error by his own Spirit Mat. 22.29 which is the best Teacher in the world though at this day it is much slighted and little looked after by the sons of men Christian Reader my desire is that thou wouldest be pleased carefully to read and seriously consider this following Treatise with a single heart and eye 1 Chron. 12.33 Acts 2.46 and impartial affections then doubtless in the conclusion thou wilt not think thy time ill spent I do further desire that thou mayest daily search the Scripture and bring the things contained in the ensuing Treatise to the Touchstone of God's Word to the end thou mayest with the noble Bereans of old Acts 17 11. be enabled to discern between Truth and Error between Life and Death to know wherein thy Life lieth yea wherein it doth consist 1 Thes 5.21 and labour to be obedient unto that command Try all things and hold fast that which is good And also remember my dear Friend that the Bereans were counted more noble than them of Thessalonica they hearing the words of Paul which were cried up for strange Doctrine yea Heresie at that day they searched the Scriptures daily to see whether those things Paul asserted and preached were truth or not Even so although many things herein contained may be counted rediculous or erroneous Yet courteous Reader let me desire thee to prove thy self a Berean in this matter Search the Scripture and see whether it be so or not Further my desire is that the Message may not be slighted by reason of the meanness of the Messenger but rather look upon him that sends this Message into the World observe when the great Men of the world have a Token to send unto a Friend they do not alwayes make use of rich great or noble Men to conveigh it but many times employ the meanest Servant of the family in that service to give out the token though it be never so rich a gift or pretious a jewel Rev. 17 14. 1 Tim. 6.15 Rev. 19 16. Heb. 12 25. So many times it is with the great God of Heaven and Earth who is the King of kings and Lord of lords he hath in this little Cabinet a token of his choice love for to present to you his friends nay further it is presented to you that are yet Enemies if you will but imbrace it the imbracing of it tends to Life the rejecting of it tends unto Death though sent by a mean servant and think it not strange if it be refused slighted or counted erroneous And you my Friend the Messenger be not discouraged in your labour for consider the best Doctrine the truest Doctrine the gloriest Tidings and rarest Sermon that ever was preached by the mouth of our dear Lord Jesus himself was by the Scribes and Pharisees rejected and also questioned where he had his Doctrine and said He had a Devil and was Mad. The blessed Apostle Paul was also counted and called a Pestilent fellow a teacher of strange Doctrines a Ringleader of Sectaries a Turner of the World upside down Acts 17 6. vers 18 Acts 24 14. and what not yet after that way which they called Heresy did this blessed Apostle worship the God of his Fathers believing all that was written Reader if in this little Treatise you meet with any thing doth not agree with the Word of God and the doctrine according to godliness after diligent search and due enquiry into the Scripture the pretious word of God renounce it as not worthy the owning or imbracing I shall speak by way of allusion to the noble Apostle in another case I do judge the Author hath the Spirit of God by which this ensuing Discource was penned I speak the truth of God I lie not Though true it is the dearest of Gods children are subject to miscarry yea many failings and temptations doth attend them and the Lord did formerly suffer the Author hereof in measure to fall yet through mercy not totally nor finally but he is recovered out of the horrible pit and out of the miry clay and the Lord hath set him upon a rock Psal 40 2 3. and established his goings and put a new song into his mouth in making of him since instrumental in turning many souls to righteousness notwithstanding those foul Jer. 20.10 false and scandalous reports are gone forth concerning him yea many hard speeches thoughts have arisen not only from the world but from many who I hope Job 19.2 vers 3. vers 4. are the pretious Sons of Sion This one thing as one who doth tender the Cause of Christ and much honour the pretious Sons and Daughters of Sion do I beg of you Let no hard thoughts or evil reports any more take place in your affections without good enquiry of the same This I urge the more for that tender love I bear unto Christ and his Truths Cause Kingdom and People and I dare not speak or write more then I do know or can affirm concerning the Author Mark since

Mind are under the Sentence of Death For the clearing of this Truth we shall endeavour to prove three Things First What it is to be Carnally Minded Secondly Lay down Helps to prevent our Carnal Mindedness Thirdly We shall also endeavour to lay down the Danger ●hat those Persons are in that are Carnally Minded The first Discription of the Carnal Mind First To be Carnally Minded is to have our Affections or our Heart setled on things that are below Such a Carnal Minded man was the rich man we read of in the Gospel Luk. 12 18 19 20. who said This will I do I will pull down my Barns and build greater and there will I bestow all my goods and will say unto my soul thou hast much goods laid up for many years Take thy ease eat drink and be merry But carnal minded persons may do well for to hearken a little to what God shall say in the midst of their Cups and carnal Jollatry Oh! shall not such a word as this from God strike thee into astonishment when he shall say unto thee in the midst of all thy carnal pleasure thou must be gone and leave all Luk. 12 20. Thou fool this night thy soul shall be required of thee What wilt thou do then when in the midst of thy merriment thou shalt hear of Imprisonment and in the midst of thy present joy thou must have thy joy turned into perpetual sorrow Mat. 8.12 where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth for evermore when God shall say unto thee for thy Carnallity Thou shalt perish to all Eternity This may teach us for to beware of a carnal frame of heart The second Discription of the Carnal Mind Secondly To be Carnally Minded is to have our Minds running out unto that which tends unto the Dishonour of God Of such the noble Apostle speaks of with great sorrow of heart Phil. 3.18 19. yea with bitter tears For many walk of whom I have told you often and now must tell you weeping that they are enemies unto the Cross of Christ whose end is Destruction whose God is their Belly whose glory is their shame who mind earthly things So that which may be gathered from hence is That a carnal frame of Heart is not only a God-dishonouring but a Soul-destroying frame and it doth not only tend unto the great dishonour of God Jer. 5.25 but it is that which is also prejudicial unto a Christians good The carnal Mind is a means for to enlarge our love to the creature and so thereby weakens our love to the Creator it is that which weakens our Affections to the things above and strengthens our Affections to the carnal things that are below Objection But if it be Objected That it may be proved that the best of Saints have been and still are guilty of the Carnal Mind Answer To this I Answer It is not that which is commended but rather condemned yea though it be found in a dear child of God Something to the purpose you may observe in David though without doubt he was a good man yet interrupted by a bad mind which did not onely prove destructive unto David's Communion but also dishonourable unto David's God namely Psal 51 9. ver 10. ver 11. Psa 51.7 8 9. in the matter of Uriah But note a word by the way When once the man comes to have a true sence of the evil he witnesses a heart truly broken with bitter sighs and tears for the same that so his mind is altered and the man is changed The third Discovery of the Carnal Mind Thirdly To the Carnal Minded is to have our eyes fixed upon Carnal Objects which doth wholly take off the Mind from God The Carnal Object is that which satisfieth the lust of the eyes or that by which the Carnal Mind is fed and kept alive and for to fulfil the lust of the flesh is for to fulfil the Carnal Mind which mind is of the world and while persons are in such a state let them profess what they will of Christ they are wholly ignorant of him and witness not his Power but do still live in the Carnal Mind in the lust of the flesh and are of the World Of this the Blessed Apostle treats very plainly saying All that is in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes 1 John 2.16 and the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world Therefore in truth if we would not be counted those that are of the world though in the world we must then learn to get above the world and no longer live in the Carnal Mind but fix our eye upon Objects far beyond what the world can afford and the more we get into a Spiritual Frame of Heart the more we shall be out of love with the Carnal Mind and by experience shall feelingly say with the Apostle Rom. 7.28 That in my mind I serve the Law of God Oh then and not till then will Carnal Objects prove thy burden and not thy delight The fourth Discovery of a Carnal Mind Fourthly To be Carnally minded is for to have the Mind exercised upon sinful concernments so the Life thereby proves vain and Carnal That so if you take the Carnal man into examination you shall find that he has not so much as a thought for God What David speaks of the Wicked Psal 10 4 may in this case be applyed The Wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seek after God and the best character he can give of him is this God is not in all his thoughts We may conclude upon it that man may be truly counted Carnal that hath not a thought for God in all his wayes Therefore miserably Carnal may we conclude that soul to be that doth at no time or season set his Mind on the things of God The Apostle doth further speak in this case Tit. 1.15 saying That unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing Pure but even the Mind and Conscience is defiled and being left in the Carnal Nature it comes to pass that they reject the Truth and become opposers of it to this day Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses 2 Tim. 3.8 so do these also reject the Truth men of corrupt minds reprobate or may be read of no judgement concerning the Faith That you see it is clear and evident that the Carnal man doth place his thoughts upon Carnal concernments The fifth Discovery of a Carnal Mind Fifthly In a word to be Carnally minded is to walk in that Path which is attended with sin which leads to the Chambers of Death James 1 15. For when lust is conceived in the Mind it brings forth sin in the life and when sin is finished it brings forth Death That let the Carnal minded man go where he will he cannot take one step but in much danger and the farther he goes in