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A87170	Topica sacra: spiritual logick: some brief hints and helps to faith, meditation, and prayer, comfort and holiness. / Communicated at Christ-Church, Dublin, in Ireland. By T.H. minister of the Gospel.	Harrison, Thomas, 1619-1682.	1658 (1658)	Wing H917; Thomason E1769_2; ESTC R202373	72,620	183

thee and put mettle into thee this is lobs consideration in the sixth verse Will he plead against me with his great and absolute Power by which he may do what he pleaseth with his poor Creatures Will he serve me so No but he would put strength in me thus he dealt with Daiel chap. 10.19 Thirdly There the Righteous may plead and dispute with him even at the Bar of Equity and Justice yea and the Judge cannot but pronounce and pass sentence in their favour tha 's his encouragement verse 7. there the Righteous may plead with him and so shall I be delivered for ever from my Judge never more dread him as a Judge but so as withal to love him and live with him as a Father There righteous Ieremy pleads with him Ier. 12.1 c. Righteous art thou O Lord when I plead with thee there 's no question to be made of that that admits of no dispute yet let me talk with thee of thy Judgements There he invites his people to come and plead freely Isa. 43.26 put me in remembrance let us plead together declare thou that thou mayest be justified if thou hast any thing to say for thy self say on Nay even Idolaters shall have this fair play permission to plead for themselves and for their dumb Idols too if they have any thing to say for them Isa. 41.21 Produce your cause saith the Lord bring forth your strong Reasons saith the King of Iacob Have Idolaters this Liberty and not the true Worshippers that worship in Spirit and Truth The Wicked shall they have it and not the Righteous Yes doubtless this is that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} translated boldness of speech 2. Cor. 7.4 mentioned as the great priviledge of the Saints especially now under the New Testament Heb. 10.19 c. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} having therefore boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus a Right and Freedom to enter in our persons hereafter and now by our prayers let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of Faith Object 1 But may some say There the righteous indeed may plead with him and not be cast in their suit But where are those righteous Ones And who are they for it is not so with me God be mercifull to me a grievour sinner I dare not be so bold with him Iniquity must stip her mouth Answ I answer Every one that hath a share in yea a sincere desire after the rightteousness of Christ is righteous before him and may in that righteousness plead and prevail and as a Prince have Power with God for this is his own Righteousness of his own contrivance and appointment The Righteousness which is of God by Faith Phil. 3.8 9. A Righteousness spun and woven out of his own bowels the obedience of his dear Son a better then ever came upon the back of Angels for which the personal and legal Righteousness of a Paul of an Angel is to be abandoned Evangelical being far better then angelical Righteousness 'T is said when Pilate appeared in Christs Garment which he had got from the Soldiers Caesar could never be angry with him 't is certain thou canst not miss a Blessing in hi garments who is not ashamed to be called thine elder Brother who came to change cloaths places with thee and to take all upon himself that thou mightest esape The Father cannot but be well pleased with the smell of his Sons raiment and he sits too upon a seat of Indgement and must do thee right and Justice it self which will not be twice paid is as much for thee as much thy freind as Mercy Rom. 3 26. He is just and yet nay therefore a justifier of him that believeth on Iesus So that if thou art not utterly shut up in unbelief if there be but the least spark of true faith alive in thy heart thou maist plead and prosper Object 2 But I have nothing to say for my self my heart is dryed up like a Potseard and withered like grass I have sind away all arguments and must never open my mouth any more before him Answ 1 True not to boast but to plead thou mayest And hast thou nothing to offer not a sigh not the groanings of thy soul this was Iobs preface ver. 2. my stroke is heavier then my groaning O that I knew where I might find him where the heart is full as Iobs was you may perceive it by his sighing the mouth will not be empty a full heart will fill the mouth some way or other if the heart be full of affection the mouth will be full of arguments they deceive their own souls who say their hearts are as good as the best they thank God though they make no shew when neither OGd nor men can hear ought that 's good come from them Psal. 37.30 The mouth of the Righteous speaketh Wisdom and his Tongue talketh of Judgement why so ver. 31. The Law of his God is in his heart that sets his tongue a going the right way and on the contrary some mens stinking breath bewraies their inward parts to be very rottenness they have not so much sweet breath as to make a sigh of if the want of words were all it were a small matter that inarticulate Language of sighs and groans is powerfull Rhetorique Let the sighing of the Prisoners come before thee saith David Psal. 79.11 according to the Greatness of thy Power preserve thou them that are appointed to die and for the oppression of the poor and for the sighing of the needy now will I axise saith the Lord himself Psal. 12.5 I will ser him in safety from him that puffeth at him we own help from the Spirit when we are enlarged Paul saith he helps us even when we are streightned likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought no not Paul and the Apostles but the Spirit it self maketh Intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered Rom. 8.26 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} with unutterable straitnings our enlargements may be but the flowings of the Gifts of the Spirit but our inward pinchings and coarctations may be the Intercession of the Spirit it self the more immediate operations of the Spirit And we forget that their is such a Prompter hebind the hangings such an Interpreter as his Title signifies as well as Comforter yea therefore a Comforter because an Interpreter to make known the mind of God to us and ours to him and as he betrales the secrets of God to the Saint so he rips up their hearts before God without doing any wrong either in the one or other and t is he who fills their mouths not only with windy words but weighty Arguments Hast thou nothing to complain of to thy Iudge no Sin no Devil no Diabolical Temptations no superdiabolical corruption no spititual Plunderers no

Redemption unto his People He hath commanded this Covenant for ever Holy and Reverend is his Name Psal. 111.5 9. c. and t is this will afford Death-bed Comfort 2 Sam. 23.5 Although my house be so not with God yet he hath made with me an everlasting Covenant ordered in all things and sure for this is all my salvation and all my desire although he make it not to grow Now then though all these things are phrased in the Language of men yet not without warrant from the Holy Ghost who condescends thus to lisp out the misteries of Salvation else we could not understand or take in any thing of them and though they are all but one act in God as all his Attributes are but one Divine Excellency and Glory the Divine Essence it self but this is too big to come in all at once into our narrow hearts therefore God lets out himself by degrees by drops beams as we may bear it 't is so in the discovery of himself and 't is so in the discovery of his Councill and operations concerning us in Christ Jesus And though the operations ad extra are undivided but according to an ancient agreement between them the operation is attributed to that person the manner of whose subsisting appears most in it beginning work to the Father carrying on to the Son finishing to the Holy Ghost Yea though many disown and dislike these things yet now go and put them home to God and if he will own them and bear his witness to them and seal them upon thy heart it will be sufficient for thee to shame thee for all thy hard thoughts of him and to secure thee from the like tormenting fears for time to come and I know it he will work wonders if thy Spirit be stirred up to put him to it rather then be wanting in his witness to so great a Truth as this and so shalt thou be as Iob speaks delivered for ever from thy Judge from all frightfull Ideas and Apprehensions of him as an angry severe Judge and enabled to walk with him all thy days as with a most indulgent and tender hearted Father But what is all this to me may a poor soul say though I assent unto it and think I believe it if my Faith prove a false blaze of Fancy Presumption vain Hope and thou hast cause to fear and suspect it because it hath not the vertue and operation of that plant of Paradise The Faith of the operation of God the Faith of Gods Elect Is this thy case many times go order thy cause before him fill thy mouth with Arguments go bow thy knees unto the God Father of our Lord Jesus And 1. Tell him he knows how thy heart is carried forth towards him only according to the terms tenour of a Covenant of Grace and not of works thou canst not by any means away with that that he should deal and do by thee as thou dost by him no thou canst not find the life of thine hand as 't is said of some Isa. 57.10 thine hands are not sufficient for thee as 't is said of Iudah Deut. 33.7 And will he trample upon worm that would fain creep towards him only in that way which he himself hath chalked out and is so pleasing to him Secondly He knows that the sole ground of thy confidence is the precious and plentious Grace of the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ which tels thee that Christ dyed for sinners enemies ungodly impotent ones and ask him if he have ever a soul with him in Glory that was not once such an one that many are ransomed and pardoned by Christ but not how many Why maist not thou be one of those many That Salvation is neither of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God that sheweth mercy Rom. 9.16 even to the prisoners of unbelief Rom. 11.32 these and a thousand such like precious things the Gospel uttereth Ask him now if thou must be ashamed of the Gospel as thou hast been of the Law of thy looking for life by it and if he will reject this confidence also so that thou must not prosper in it Thirdly Ask him if there be not a double reconciliation plainly taught in the Doctrine of the Gospel the one actually purchased by the death of Jesus Christ and acknowledged by God at that time the other at the conversion of a sinner when he lays down his arms and enmities and the knowledge of the one is the means to the other Hath God then stirred up all his wrath again and will not suffer a poor soul to come near him who would fain receive the attonement and be made friends with him Fourthly Ask him wherefore hath this Gospel been brought to thine ears to thine heart but that thou shouldest trust in it and that perfectly {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} even to the end 1 Pet. 1.13 Did he not call thee to Repentance and will he now repent of his Calling that cannot be for his gifts and calling are without Repentance Rom. 11.29 Did he not bid thee come unto him upon those waters of the Sanctuary And must thou now sink and perish to allude to that of Peter Mat. 14.30 Fifthly Tell him he knows how fully how thankfully thy soul submits to that Righteousness which is revealed of offered in the Gospel and none perish in unbelief but they who are ignorant thereof or submit not thereunto Rom. 10.3 Once indeed thou wert proud of thine own poor polluted Rags but hast now cast them all away and said unto them with detestation get ye hence and wilt never gather them together again but blessest him with all thy heart and soul for that better provision made in the Gospel and wouldst fain appear daily continually before him cloathed with that righteousness which Christ came on purpose to bring into the world Dan. 9.24 Sixthly He knows thy heart closeth with Christ for sanctification as well as Righteousness to justifie thy Faith as that must justifie thy person it closeth with the whole Gospel with whole Christ in all his offices and that there is nothing more desireable to thine eye then that holiness which the Gospel requireth promiseth and promoteth How fain would thy soul be his Glass wherein he might view all his own Gloties Vertues Beauties Graces by reflection And will he break this glass in pieces Seventhly and lastly Ask him if he will but stand to that one good word spoken in his name by his servant Rom 5.20 where sin abounded Grace did much more abound this is not the spawn or spume of thy fancy nor hast thou met with this saying in some good book whose Author might be mistaken but if God will make it good as thou thinkest him bound to do even for the Glory of his Grace Wisdom and Truth thou canst tell where there are superfluities of