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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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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