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A30289	Three questions resolved briefly and plainly, viz. What conceptions ought we to have of the blessed God? What are those truths, whereof the knowledge appeareth most indispensibly necessary unto our salvation; and (therefore) to be first and most learnt by us? What is the change wrought in a man by God's H. Word and spirit, before he can safely conclude himself pass'd from death to life? Being the summ of three sermons. By Daniel Burgess.	Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.	1688 (1688)	Wing B5718A; ESTC R213037	36,052	94

Order And Desire them in this Order Let the Shame be on me if thou lose by this Use If God preserve us not in Being we are then incapable of Doing and Receiving any good Being we therefore first pray for If God Pardon not our Sins our Being is a cursed one and worse than none at all For we cannot avoid his Wrath which is the Hell of Hell. Pardon therefore we pray for in the second place If God deliver us not from sinful Temptation's prevalence our Being and past Pardon are very sorry things For Sin after Pardon is worse Sin and 't will kindle a worse Wrath of God. And what then becomes of us Deliverance from it we therefore Pray for in the third place We content us not to Pray but for the two former We Pray for all these and in this natural Method that our dear Redeemer teaches 5. High and honourable Thoughts of God must 〈◊〉 in all that Pray unto Him. And must be expressed in the entrance of their Prayer The Preface of the Lord's Prayer so teacheth us Father signifies Creator Ruler Benefactor These words Art in Heaven do not speak God's place for He is every where and is Place it self They signifie God's eternally being of such Perfections as neare above our minds as the Heavens are above the Earth Our Father also speaks much Our doth express Him to be the whole Church and World's Father I and so Loveful a Father that He has bound●●s Children every one to Love and Pray for all 6. Kingdom Power and Glory are the three steps by which our Minds rise in the Praise of God. Kingdom signifies his just Right to govern all things Power signifies his perfect Strength wherewith to do it Glory signifies his forth-shining Excellency which does and will for ever be in it The Excellency I mean of all his Perfections We do or should conceive of God as a Ruler most rightful and powerful and amiable or beautiful 7. Praise that is the highest of all Worship must not be sparingly used in Prayer The Preface and Conclusion of the Lord's Prayer are an Heaven if all of the Stars of Praise And no wonder for Greatness and Goodness are comprehensive of all God's Perfections Thanksgiving it self which is a Worship more noble than that which is more on the receiving hand it confiders but the Divine Goodness Yea and that it self but little more than as it derives and streams unto us But Praise considers and exalts God both as Great and as Good. In Himself and to us Good. Praising God can never be enough Prais'd or Practised by Us Psa 50. penult 8. Prayer is as necessarily to be Ended with Amen as to be Begun with Our Father My meaning is it must be concluded by all means with Desire Faith and Hope Amen signifies all Listlesness Vnbelief and Want of waiting and looking for Prayers returns do make Prayers as no Prayers Without the Heart's actual Amen after Prayer you interpretatively say Lord my mind 's already altered I now am indifferent whether Thou dost grant or deny me I believe Thou wilt Deny And I will not wait or look for thy Grant. Without an Amen with the mouth uttered some do suppose the Congregation injured 'T is certain where holy Amen's be not found Prayers be lost Commandment Truths twelve 1. The Object unto whom all supreme worship is to be paid is God Only To Him it must be paid by all Souls in all times with all strength And unto no other 'T is Treason to pay a penny Tribute to a rebellious Vsurper Or to worship with divine worship any tempting Creature If Jesus Christ were not God by Eternal nature I would not be Baptized into his name Or Pray unto Him any more than unto a Star. 2. 'T is as necessary that God be the Author as the Object of all religious worship We must give Him no worship but such as is prescribed by his Word His Worship must suit his blessed Nature and Will. And who can Know them but by his Word Idolatry is officious foolery will-Will-worship a like Phrenzy 3. 'T is not enough to worship the true God by the true Will of God for the Matter of it but the Manner also must be far from Prophane It must be with holy Reverence and humble Complacence and hearty Truth 4. 'T is not enough to worship the true God by the true Rule in the true and right Manner unless we also keep holy unto Him all such Time as He demands from us Such portions of every Day time and such of every Weeks time For the Lords-day against Judaizers read Mr. Ben Dr. Owen Mr. Baxter Holy Observance of the Lords day and of hour● of Worship on our own days is the Practi●● and Pleasure of men sincere 5. Obedience to all the former Commands sufficeth not without Duty unto Men. Especially Superiors Principally Honor of Parents natural The which are our Governors in time before Kings On a deeper foundation than that of Contract even of very Nature To them are we most Obliged and by them most Loved Well is the 5th Command called the hinge of both Tables I am sure this being broke all are broke And would Children and Parents but do their Duties toward each other it would make a sweet change of our English familys But hereof elsewhere Parents and Rulers are God's Vicegerents over us and next unto God should be Honored by us Loaded with honor as the Hebrew word is 6. As of our Duty toward man preservation of just Honor is the first Preservation of his Life is the next Death takes away time of Repentance and Earthly mercies all Look how near you come unjustly to Kill a man so near you come to the Devil's first service From the beginning he was a Murderer And so near come you to deprive him of all the good of this World and if he be not already Converted to throw him into Hell. If you do Murder a man you rob God the King and the Countrey of a Servant in this world 7. The third Kind of duty towards Man-kind is preservation of Chastity in our selves and others To defile is next to Kill one Obscene thoughts words and deeds be next unto Murderous ones Lascivious Goats and bloody Wolves be much like odious in God's eyes 8. The fourth part of our Duty towards man is preservation of his Estate To Contemn to Kill or to Defile is worse but to Rob and Injure in ever so little a matter is a Sin that God will not let go unrevenged Of how great infamy among men is the name of a Thief O that Thieves knew but God's thoughts of them 9. The fifth sort of duty to Man is preservation of them in their Causes and Suits of Law. By bearing true witness when called and abhorring all false All that tends to pervert publick Justice Lyars be Satan's Pictures 10. The sixth duty toward man is such Love of him as we bear unto our selves Such

THREE QUESTIONS Resolved briefly and plainly VIZ. What Conceptions ought we to have of the blessed God What are those Truths whereof the Knowledge appeareth most indispensibly necessary unto our Salvation and therefore to be first and most Learnt by us What is the Change wrought in a Man by God's H. Word and Spirit before he can safely conclude himself pass'd from Death to Life Being the Summ of three Sermons By Daniel Burgess John 21.15 Jesus saith unto him Feed my Lambs i. e. Souls even the Lowest 1 Cor. 3.2 I have fed you with Milk and not with Meat i. e. Doctrine fit for weaklings not folk of strong understanding LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside and Robert Gibbs at the Golden Ball in Chancery-Lane 1688. TO THE Congregation under my Care. IT is said my Brethren that whatever Affections be in the Middle they have two sharp Ends. Our first Love has been as Zealous as our first Knowledge was Wondrous I am persuaded also that when we shall be Parted it will be no less Ardent And our separation will be as that of our Limbs from each other would be May it be our Care that whiles we are Kept together by good Providence we admit no chill in that sweet and useful Grace but shew it to be a godly Love by having it like the Love of God That is Vnchangeable I have nothing for you Great but my Love. Next unto it is my Labour But as my Talent is slender that it self is shorter than my Desire Without your very great Affection I can expect little success of my Preaching or Writing Thereby I am encouraged unto both and in both as yet It is that which hath given the Imprimatur unto these Notes For tho' of the Truths of God in them I study to think most honourably yet as to any thing that is mine in them I praise God I do think very despicably And am prepared to hear it undisturbedly if others shall think so too Neither do I purpose to put you off with these Fragments But pay the whole that I am Debtor of by Promise unto you if the Lord will and I live I must beg your Patience indeed for some time Nor need I say for what Reasons being all that know me know them also You think as I do tho' on a different reason my Days on Earth will be few Be they more or less the greatest part of them shall be spent in Pains and Prayers for your Persons and Families While I am capable of either You more than any others shall have them Even Self-love bids you Pray for me and I know you have other Motives Therefore I Expect it and not Intreat it I am An Affectionate Servant of your Faith Obedience and Joy D. Burgess Q 1. What Conceptions ought we to have of God OF all Truths it is the most evident that there is a God. And of all things Knowable it is most necessary that we Know what He is This to Know perfectly is impossible An Oyster-shell cannot contain the Ocean nor a finite Mind comprehend an infinite Object 'T is only God himself can fully Know himself But He made our Minds to Know Him with a Knowledge sufficient to serve and enjoy Him. Of this we are Capable For this He vouchsafeth us means Plentiful And without this every Mother's Child must be everlastingly miserable Our Thoughts of Him are the Seed of all our Affections Words and Conversation toward Him. I and towards one another too If these be corrupt nothing is sound of all that is in us or comes from us Nor can these be Good but when they are True and agreeable unto their Rule Powerful and Answerable unto their End. The Rule of them is God's own Word in the Books of Nature and Scripture published The End of them is the Exaltation of God's Name the Subjection of us to his Authority the Actuation of us unto Obedience to his Law. When they follow this Rule and obtain this End our Conceptions of God are what they ought to be Indeed Revelation is the Measure of Faith God requires for Degree according to what He gives He giveth some an hundred-fold more advantages for Knowing Him than he bestoweth on others And He will accept an hundred-fold less from some men than others Let Ministers Rich men and such as sit under the best Ministry of the Word remember this and tremble Let the Unlearned the Poor and those that live necessitously under the worst Ministry think of this and in hope get all they are able Nevertheless be it considered by all We all have the great Volume of the World that the Heathens had and Moses and the Prophets that the Jews had and Christ and his Apostles and the Gospel-Light that they had not Yea and such Displays of it in England as the very Churches beyond the Seas have not And I wish it better observed what London has that most Countrey parts are destitute of Much is given to England very much to London And the Thoughts of Himself that God will require from us English-men and specially Londoners must be presumed to extend unto these sixteen Particulars Seven concerning his Essence Three concerning his Relations common unto all his Creatures And six concerning his Relations special unto our selves If any one seem Excusable I pray the Reader to give me his reason for that appearance If all do seem Impossible to be gotten and held in Memory I desire that it be thought as true as I can make it appear viz. that I find Children of ten years old that can perfectly and pleasantly get and retain them in their Memories And if grown people cannot so do they must take what follows such their reprobate Mind Read on ye who have Will and Power Concerning God's Essence or Nature to wit that by which He is what He is and is differenced from all other things it is to be born in Mind that 1. He is an Vncaused or Vnmade Being A Creature is a thing contrived by God's Wisdom and made out of nothing by his Power and this freely of his own Will and Choice But God is a Being that never came out of Not-being Was never Contrived by his own or any other Wisdom Never Made by his own or any other Power and Will. For a thing to be the Cause of it self is confessed by all the World to be Impossible And for a Creature or second Being to be the Cause of its God or first Being is such an absurdity as no unbewitched Mind can swallow That which is Nothing can do nothing If there was a time when God was Nothing surely at that time he could do Nothing And if so He could not make Himself As for other Causes I ask as the Apostle in another case Who hath first given to Him and it shall be recompensed Rom. 35.11 2. He is an Eternal Being A Creature is a thing that