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A15144	The vvay to the celestiall paradise Declaring how a sinner may be saued, and come to life euerlasting. Contained in three bookes.The first second third sheweth that a sinner may be saued, & come to life euerlasting. By faith, apprehending Christ for his iustification, & applying to himselfe the promises of the Gospell made in Iesus Christ. Repentance, hauing his sins washed away in the bloud of the lambe Iesus Christ. Prayer, calling vpon God in the name of Iesus Christ. By Robert Whittell, minister of the Gospell.	Whittle, Robert, d. 1638.	1620 (1620)	STC 25441; ESTC S120396	338,769	458

it * 1. P●t 3. 15. Be ready alwayes saith S. Peter to giue an answer to euery man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you wee haue examples heereof S. 1 God requireth it Paul was not ashamed of the preaching of the Gospell for to the Romanes he saith c Rom. 1. 16. I am not ashamed of the Gospell of Christ The Romane-beleeuers in S. Pauls time were not ashamed of the profession of the Gospell for of them hee saith d Rom. 1. 8. Your faith is spoken of thorowout the wh●le world And the beleeuers among the Thessalonians were not ashamed of the profession of their faith for of them also S. Paul saith e 1. Thes 1. 8. In euery place your faith to God ward is spred abroad Secondly to confesse Christ before men hath a promise 2 A promise to them that confesse Christ and to deny Christ hath a threatning annexed vnto it f Mat. 10. 32. 33 Whosoeuer saith our Sauiour shall confesse mee before men him will I confesse also before my father which is in heauen But whosoeuer shall deny me before men him will I also deny before my father which is in heauen For thus will Christ the righteous Iudge say vnto his Father at the day of the Resurrection These ô Father on my right hand are they which haue confessed mee before men they were not ashamed of mee I acknowledge them for mine g Mat. 25 34. Come yee blessed of my F●ther inherit the Kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world But as for these on my left hand ô Father these are they that denied me before men they were ashamed of mee they would not stand vnto their faith and profession I acknowledge them not h Mat. 25. 12. I know you not i Ver. 41. Depart from me yee cursed into euerlasting fire prepared for the Deuill and his Angels This is the first kinde of confessing Christ before men in the time of peace The second is to bee constant in our profession to 2 To be constant in our profession and to stand vnto the truth stand vnto the truth which wee professe not to shrinke backe not to be wauering minded but to hold fast the truth to speake for it and defend it S. Paul giues vs this worthy exhortation k 1 Cor. 16. 13. Watch ye stand fast in the Faith quit you like men be strong Thus are we to make confession of Christ before men in the time of peace The consideration whereof serues to reproue Vse First those who faint and are discouraged eyther to 1 Against those that are fearfull to professe the Gospel by reason of some disgrace-full speeches vniustly cast vpon them that professe the Gospell enter vpon or to hold on the profession of godlinesse by reason of the disgracefull speeches which some ill minded men doe cast vpon the professours of religion there are diuers who hearing the Gospell preached conceiue a good liking of it and hearing moreouer and vnderstanding that the professours of religion are carefull to worship God publikely and priuately that they are carefull to sanctifie the Sabboth to frequent the house of God to heare Sermon● c. Furthermore perceiuing that the best and most sincere professours doe endeuour to liue a godly a righteous and a sober life and as much as in them lies labour to liue blamelesse they cannot but acknowledge that all this is good and worthy their imitation and gladly they would imitate them and be like vnto them but that they feare they should be mocked pointed at and branded with the name of Precisian Puritane Sectarist c. Such fearfull and faint-hearted Christians are herein like to l Io● 3. 1. 2. Nicodemus who came to Iesus by night And like to m Ioh. 19. 38. Ioseph of Arimathea who was a Disciple of Iesus but secretly for feare of the Iewes But consider I beseech you all ye that are thus fearefull to make an open profession of Christ what though the world hate you and speake euill of you and persecute you is it not a religious cause is it not for the name of Christ and will you be ashamed of Christ Nay you ought not to faint nor be discouraged in the profession of godlinesse nor yet to be afraid to confesse Christ before men though you suffer for the name of Christ for this is the portion of the righteous in this life to be afflicted persecuted and troubled and concerning this I say with S. Peter n 1. Pet. 4. 16. If any man suffer as a Christian let him not be ashamed but let him glorifie God on this behalfe A seruant that attends vpon a great man of place is not ashamed to weare his cognisance and to be knowne to belong vnto him but esteemes it his credite and accounts it his honour to be knowne and noted that he is seruant to such a worthie Gentleman or that he belongs to such an honorable person so euery Christian ought much more to reioyce and glory in this that he is the seruant of Iesus Christ Now that which makes a Christian knowne to bee the seruant of Iesus Christ is not to be ashamed of the Gospell of Christ it is his constant confession of Christ and the open manifest profession of his Faith and Religion before men ioyning thereunto a godly life hauing his conuersation as it becommeth the Gospell of Christ And a Christian ought to be so farre from being ashamed of the profession of the Gospell that he ought to glorie therein and count it his greatest honour that he is seruant to so great a Lord as the Lord Iesus 2 Against those who are still doubtfull and not setled in iudgement for the truth of Religion Secondly this reproues those who are doubtfull inconstant and wauering in matters of religion not setled in iudgement for the truth of religion being neyther good Protestants nor right Papists holding something of both and holding constantly to neither To such I may say as Elijah the Prophet said to the seduced Israelites in the dayes of King Ahab o 1 Kin. 18. 21. How long halt yee betweene two opinions If the Lord be God follow him but if Baal then follow him How long halt ye betweene two religions of Protestants and Papist● If the Lord be God follow him and worship him in spirit and truth as hee hath commaunded but if Baal be God if to worship Saints and to bow downe before Images be the true worship of God then follow them For if a man haue faith its necessarie that he also confesse the truth of his faith with his mouth and professe the same in his life Thirdly seeing that a Christian is to giue testimonie of his faith by outward profession then what faith hath 3 Against luke-warme professours the luke-warme Christian which is neither hote nor cold Some are so indifferent for matters of religion

a Phil. 1 27. the Gospell of Christ And this of the first generall knowledge of God CHAP. VIII Shewing that there is one onely true GOD against Idolatry THe second generall knowledge of God is to 2 To know that there is one onely true God Acknowledging the Vnity of the Godhead and Trinity of persons know and acknowledge that there is one God and three persons in the God-head to acknowledge the vnity of the God-head and the Trinity of persons the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost and that euery one of these three persons is God to know and acknowledge that God the Father is of himselfe from euerlasting that the Sonne is begotten of the Father by eternall generation and that the Holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne to beleeue that God the Father created the world that God the Sonne redeemed mankinde and that God the Holy Ghost sanctifieth the Elect. This is the generall knowledge of the one onely true God And this generall knowledge of the true God is attained vnto not by the l●ght of Nature nor by the works of the Creation but by the Scriptures The knowledge of the true God commeth by the knowledge of the Scriptures for the Scriptures doe shew vnto vs both the Vnity of the God-head and the Trinity of persons That there is one God Moses sheweth saying a Deut. 6. 4. Heare ô Israel the Lord our God is one Lord. Dauid also speakes thus b 1 Chro. 17. 20 O Lord there is none like thee neither is there any God besides thee And S. Paul saith c 1 Cor. 8. 4. Wee know that an Idoll is nothing in the world and that there is none other God but one And concerning the Trinity of persons S. Iohn saith d 1 Ioh. 5. 7. There are three that beare record in Heauen the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one The consideration of this generall knowledge of Vse God to know the one onely true God serues to reprooue Against Idolatry the Worshippers of Idols who though they know and acknowledge that there is a God yet doe not either know the true God or knowing the true God doe not worship him aright but worship false Gods and giue vnto creatures the worship which belongeth to the Creator Wherefore Chrysostome vpon those words of our Sauiour Christ e Joh. 17. 3. This is life eternall to know thee the onely true God Hath these words f Solum verum Deum ad eorum qui Dij non sunt d●fferentiam inquit Chrys in Joh. Hom. 79. Two-fold He saith the only true God to put a difference betweene the one onely true God and those which are no Gods Let vs take a view of the kindes of Idolatry and then wee shall see plainely who are heere iustly to be reprooued Idolatry is twofold The one externall The other internall Externall or outward Idolatry is also two-fold 1 Outward Idolatry Two-fold The one is that open manifest and grosse Idolatry of the Gentiles of Heathen men which knew not God and therefore worshipped Idols false gods instead of 1 Open plaine Idolatry the true God For rather then any Nation would be altogether without a God they would worship those which were no Gods as S. Paul describes the Idolatry of the Gentiles g Rom. 1. 23. And changed the glory of the vncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man and to birds and foure-footed beasts and creeping things And a-againe he saith h Verse 25. Who changed the truth of God into a lie worshipped and serued the creature more then the Creator who is blessed foreuer Whether the Gentiles did worship false gods or the image of their false gods or any similitude or image of the true God all was Idolatry Of the false gods of the Heathen Dauid saith i Psal 96. 5. All the gods of the Nations are Idols but the Lord made the Heauens And of all the images of the false Gods Dauid also saith k Psal 115 4 5 6 7 8. The Idols are siluer and gold the worke of mens hands they haue mouths but they speake not eyes haue they but they see not They haue eares but they heare not noses haue they but they smell not c. They that make them are like vnto them so is euery one that trusteth in them And as for the making of any image or picture of the true God it is plainely forbidden for Moses straightly chargeth the children of Israel that they make no similitude of God l Deut. 4. 15 16. Take good heede vnto your selues for yee saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake vnto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire lest yee corrupt your selues and make you a grauen image the similitude of any figure c. The other kinde of externall or outward Idolatry is 2 Close Idolatry a more close and couered Idolatry pretending the worship of God this is the Idolatry of the Church of Rome the Idolatry of Papists who although they know and acknowledge the true God and worship the true God yet because they do not worship him after a right manner but otherwise then God hath appointed in his Word they commit Idolatry The truth of this I confirme by the consideration of the manner of Gods worship apointed vs both in generall and particular Touching the first The Rule of Gods worship prescribed vnto vs in generall is that m Ioh. 4 23 24. The true Worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth But the Romish Church howsoeuer it may pretend the true worship of God in spirit truth yet they of that Church haue deuised strange worship no where commanded in Gods Word neuer approoued of God and that is to bow downe before an Image made for religious vse which is a plain breach of the second Commandement And it helpes them nothing to say that they worship Obiect not the Image but God in the Image for this was the Idolatry of the Heathen they worshipped their Heathen Answ gods and their Images but the Heathen were not so foolish as to thinke that the Image of Iupiter was Iupiter himselfe but they worshipped Iupiter their god in his Image so the Israelites who had learned Idolatry of the Gentiles worshipped God euen the true God in the image of the golden Calfe for they sayd n Exod. 32 4. These be thy gods ● Israel which brought thee vp out of the land of Aegypt Now the Israelites were not so voyd of vnderstanding to thinke that the golden calfe which Aaron had made was the God of Israel but they worshipped God in the golden calfe The truth is there 's little difference of Idolatry whether wee worship the Idoll or God

Pet. 2. 20. 21. 22. If after they haue escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ they are againe intangled therein and ouer come the latter end is worse with them then the beginning For it had beene better for them not to haue knowne the way of righteousnesse then after they haue knowne it to turne from the holy Commaundement deliuered vnto them But it is happened vnto them according vnto the true prouerbe the dog is turned to his owne vomit againe and the Sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire This is a very dangerous falling away but yet heare and consider of a more dangerous backsliding and a more fearfull falling away The second vniuersall falling away is when a man 2 By sinning against the holy Ghost What it is to sinne against the holy Ghost hauing beene inlighted by the holy Ghost with the knowledge of God and his Sonne Iesus Christ and hauing made a profession of Christ doth afterwards deny the truth against his owne knowledge and conscience doth maliciously oppose himselfe against the knowne truth and euen persecute those that professe the truth This is properly called the sinne against the holy Sinne against the holy Ghost why so called Ghost not because sinne can be so committed against the holy Ghost but it is also against the Father and the Sonne and when the holy Ghost is offended the Father is offended and the Sonne is offended for the Godhead is one But it is called the sinne against the holy Ghost because this sinne is committed against the proper and immedrate working of the holy Ghost which is to inlighten the minds and vnderstandings of men with the true knowledge of God and his Sonne Iesus Christ Now when the holy Ghost hath inlightned any one with the true knowledge of Iesus Christ and afterwards he so fall away from the truth that he deny Iesus Christ and malicously persecute the knowne truth this is to sinne against God and against Iesus Christ but properly and after a speciall manner it is to sinne against the holy Ghost inasmuch as he sinneth against the immediate inlightning of the holy Ghost Of this sinne against the holy Ghost with the fearfull state of those which fall into this sinne the Scripture euidently speakes the Apostle to the Hebrewes saith i Heb. 6. 4. 5. 6. It is impossible for those who were once inlightned and haue tasted of the heauenly gift and were made partakers of the holy Ghost and haue tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come if they shall fall away to renue them againe vnto repentance seeing they crucifie to themselues the Sonne of God afresh and put him to an open shame Againe he saith k Heb. 10. 26. 27. 28. 29. If we sinne wilfully after that we haue receiued the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sinnes But a certaine fearfull looking for of iudgement and fieric indignation which shall deuoure the aduersaries He that despised Moses law died without mercie vnder two or three witnesses Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who hath troden vnder-foote the Sonne of God and hath counted the bloud of the couenant wherewith he was sanctified an vnholy thing and hath done despite vnto the Spirit of Grace From which words of the Apostle two things may be gathered Two things herein to be considered The one is the nature and quality of the sinne against the holy Ghost The other is the punishment due to the same First the nature and qualitie of this sinne is set forth by sixe things 1 The nature qualitie of the sinne against the holy Ghost shewed in sixe things They that sinne against the holy Ghost are 1 First inlightned with the knowledge of the truth 2 Secondly they haue a taste of the heauenly gift 3 Thirdly they are made partakers of the holy Ghost 4 Fourthly they haue had a taste of the good word of God 5 Fiftly they haue had a taste of the powers of the world to come 6 Sixtly after all this they so fall away that they crucifie the Sonne of God afresh they trample and tread vnder foote the bloud of the Couenant and count it an vnholy thing and doe despite vnto the Spirit of Grace Heer 's the Sinne. The second thing is the punishment which vsually 2 The punishment of them that sinne against the holy Ghost befals those that sinne against the holy Ghost and that 's three-fold The first is finall impenitencie they that sinne against the holy Ghost are stricken with a marueilous hardnes of heart so that they cannot repent they are past repentance 1 Finall impenitencie wherefore the Apostle saith l Heb. 6. 4. 5. 6. it is impossible for those who were once inlightned c if they shall fall away to renue them againe vnto repentance The second is neuer to be forgiuen they that sinne against the holy Ghost can haue no remission no forgiuenesse 2 Neuer forgiuen of sinnes they can haue no mercie shewed them m Mat. 12. 31. 32. All manner of sinne and blasphemie shall be forgiuen vnto men saith our Sauiour but the blasphemy against the holy Ghost shall not be forgiuen vnto men And whosoeuer speaketh a word against the sonne of man it shall be forgiuen him but whosoeuer speaketh against the holy Ghost it shall not be forgiuen him nether in this world nor in the world to come And in St Marke it s said n Mar. 3. 29. he that shall blaspheme against the holy Ghost hath neuer forgiuenesse This second punishment followeth vpon the first one is the cause of the other they that sinne against the holy Ghost shall neuer haue forgiuenesse because they haue not grace to repent true it is the mercie of God is great aboue all our transgressions and God denieth mercie to no sinner that doth truly repent and therefore if a sinner whosoeuer or whatsoeuer he be haue grace to repent him truly of his sinnes to beleeue the remission of his sinnes and to call and cry to God for mercy he may haue mercie but he that sinneth against the holy Ghost his heart is so hardned that he cannot repent but dies without repentance and therefore cuts himselfe off from mercie and forgiuenesse and so is the cause of his own damnation The third is a miserable and fearfull end They that 3 A fearfull end sinne against the holy Ghost vsually die a fearfull and shamefull death We haue two memorable examples hereof the one is of Iudas Iscariot one of the twelue who was inlightned with the knowledge of Iesus Christ he was the Disciple of Christ he preached Christ and wrought myracles in the name of Christ and yet afterwards fell away and that fearefully for he betrayed Christ for money but what was his end He came to a shamefull end for when