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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66029	A discourse concerning the gift of prayer shewing what it is, wherein it consists, and how far it is attainable by industry, with divers useful and proper directions to that purpose, both in respect of matter, method, and expression / by John Wilkins, D.D. ; whereunto may be added Ecclesiastes, or, A discourse concerning the gift of preaching by the same authour.	Wilkins, John, 1614-1672.	1653 (1653)	Wing W2180; ESTC R7133	129,988	242

meet for repentance Labouring to draw nigh unto God by cleansing our hands and purifying our hearts 2. For faith that God would discover to us the great need of a Saviour and since he hath set forth his Son to be a Propitiation through faith in his blood and hath made him the authour of eternal salvation to all that obey him That he would win over our souls to an earnest endeavour of acquaintance with him and high esteem of him That God who commanded the light to shine out of darknesse would shine into our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ That he would make us more especially inquisitive after the saving experimental knowledge of him in whom are laid up the treasures of wisdome and knowledge whom to know is perfect wisdome and eternal life That he would count us worthy of his holy calling and fulfill in us all the good pleasure of his goodnesse and the work of faith with power that the name of the Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in us and we in him That Christ may dwell in our hearts by faith that we being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge that we may be filled with all the fulnesse of God That we may truly value the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindnesse towards us through Christ Jesus Glorying in his Gospel as being the power of God to salvation Counting all things but losse and dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus that we may win him and he found in him not having our own righteousnesse which is of the Law but that which is through the faith of Christ. That in all estates and conditions we may learn to live by faith 1. In regard of our temporal life with all the various uncertainties of it whether Prosperity that by this grace of faith we may keep our hearts in an holy frame of humility meeknesse dis-ingagement from the world and all outward confidences or Adversity wherein this grace may serve to sweeten our afflictions to support us under them teaching us to profit by them to bear them meekly to triumph over them assuring the heart that nothing befals us but by the disposal of Gods Providence who is infinitely wise and merciful and faithfull 2. In regard of Spiritual life both for our Justification that we may not expect it from our own services or graces Not having our own righteousnesse but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousnesse which is of God by faith And so for the life of Sanctification that we may not live unto our selves but unto him who died for us and rose again That our conversation may be as becometh the Gospel of Christ standing fast in one spirit with one minde striving together for the faith of the Gospel Alwayes remembring that we are not our own but bought with a price and therefore should make it our businesse to glorifie Christ with our bodies and spirits which are his That he would work in us such a lively faith as may make us rich in good works that we may demean our selves as becomes our professed subjection to the Gospel of Christ walking worthy of that vocation wherewith we are called as becomes children of the light Being holy in all manner of conversation Putting on the Lord Jesus Christ Exercising our selves unto godlinesse Walking uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel Diligently following every good work Shewing out of a good conversation our works with meeknesse and wisdome That we may adorne the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things Considering that we are created in Christ Jesus unto good works that we should walk in them Having our conversation in heaven walking worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing being fruitfull in all good works That every one of us who professeth the name of Christ may depart from iniquity Because for this reason was the Gospel preached to those that are dead in sin that they might live according to God in the Spirit That we may give all diligence to adde to our faith vertue and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godlinesse and to godlinesse brotherly kindnesse and to brotherly kindnesse charity that these things being in us and abounding we may not be barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ but may hereby clear up unto our selves the evidences of our calling and election That we may deny all ungodlinesse and worldly lusts living soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope and that glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works Considering that he shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire to take vengeance on those that obey not his Gospel who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power when he shall come to be glorified in his Saints and to be admired of all them that believe in that day For if he that despised Moses law died without mercy under two or three witnesses of how much sorer punishment shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden under foot the Son of God and hath counted the blood of the Covenant an unholy thing and hath done despight to the Spirit of grace That the God of all grace who hath called us into his eternal glory by Christ Jesus would make us perfect stablish strengthen settle us That we may continue in the faith grounded and setled and not be moved away from the hope of the Gospel being rooted and built up and stablished in the faith Laying aside every weight and the sin that doth so easily beset us and running with patience the race that is set before us Holding fast our profession without wavering that we may abide in Christ and his words may abide in us Continuing in the things which we have learned Being faithful unto the death that then he may bestow upon us a crown of life That the Word of Christ may dwell in us richly in all wisdome That we may grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Being filled with the fruits of righteousnesse which are by Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God That we may be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus That having fought a good fight and finished our course and kept the faith we may receive that

not persecute us with his tempests and make us afraid with his stormes nor sweep us away with a generall deluge as he did the old world 2. For visiting the earth and watering it and greatly enriching it with the river of God providing for the corn setling the furrows thereof and making it soft with showers and blessing the springing thereof so that the pastures are cloathed with flocks and the vallies are covered over with corn for that he hath sent us a plentiful rain whereby he hath confirmed and refreshed his inheritance when it was weary 3. For healthful seasons that he hath delivered us from the noysome Pestilence that walketh in darkness and from the destruction that walketh at noon-day so that no evil doth befall us nor any plague come nigh our dwellings but hath satisfied us with long life and shewed us his salvation That he hath not made the Land to spue out her inhabitants CHAP. XXVIII Of the kindes of spiritual mercies to be enumerated THese Temporal favours which we ought thus to enumerate though they are very excellent in themselves and far beyond our deserts yet are common with us to Hypocrites and such as shall hereafter be damned and therefore 't is requisite that we should after a more especial manner magnifie his glorious name for those spiritual mercies that concern our eternity Chiefly for the Lord Jesus Christ the author and finisher of our faith the fountain of all the other mercies which we enjoy For his Birth Incarnation Sufferings Death Resurrection Ascension Intercession with all those unspeakable benefits that we receive by them for blessing us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. More particularly for those remarkable effects of his love and merits in our 1. Election For that God hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself accordng to the good pleasure of his will to the praise of the glory of his grace whereby he hath made us accepted in the beloved and hath from the beginning chosen us to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and beliefe of the truth He might have designed us for vessels of wrath as he did the fallen Angels and then we had been eternally undone without all possible remedy There was nothing to move him in us when we lay altogether in the general heap of mankind It was his own free grace and bounty that made him to take delight in us to chuse us out from the rest and to sever us from those many thousands in the world who shall perish everlastingly 2. Redemption For that incomprehensible miracle of his wisdome and mercy in the contrivance of our redemption by the death of Christ. For he hath redeemed us by the precious blood of his dear Son who is the Image of the invisible God the first-born of every creature who gave himself a ransome for all 3. Vocation That he hath called us by the Gospel to the obtaining of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ And that with an holy calling not according to our own works but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began 4. Justification For pardoning our sins the least of which would have been enough to have undone us to all eternity For that he hath forgiven our trespasses blotting out the hand-writing of Ordinances that was against us which was contrary to us and took it out of the way nailing it to the crosse For the remission of our sins through the blood of Christ according to the riches of his grace wherein he hath abounded towards us in all wisdome and prudence 5. Sanctification For renuing upon our souls in any measure the blessed Image of the Lord Jesus Christ the least glimpse whereof is infinitely more worth then the whole world For that he hath changed our vile natures and made us partakers of the divine nature Of strangers and forreigners raising us up to be fellow-Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God Making us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light delivering us from the power of darknesse and translating us into the Kingdom of his dear Son And because our Sanctification is considerable both according to the Parts Means of it therefore it may be further amplified from each of these 1. For the Parts of it both in respect of our Judgements Affections Conversations 1. For our Judgements that he hath not given us over to blindnesse of minde a reprobate sense to wilde and desperate errors by which we see so many others deluded but hath in some measure revealed unto us those mysteries of godliness which are hid from many wise and great ones of the world and hath according to his divine power given us all things pertaining to life and godlinesse through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and vertue 2. For our Affections That he hath not given us over to hardnesse of heart slightnesse of spirit that he hath in any measure weaned our souls from looking after solid contentment in the creatures and raised them up to any love of holiness any desire of a neerer communion with himself 3. For our Conversations That he hath in any measure enabled us to do him service to renounce the hidden things of dishonesty to walk in some degree as becomes children of light Having no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darknesse not allowing our selves in any course which we know to be unlawful The Means of our Sanctification are principally these five 1. His Spirit to convince direct assist comfort us to prevēt follow us with his grace to support us in afflictions to strengthen us in tēptations to quicken us to duty to seal us up unto the day of redēption 2. His Word so powerful in discerning the thoughts intents of the heart able to make us wise unto salvation being profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousnesse that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good work for his holy and righteous Law for the many gracious invitations and promises in his Gospel 3. The Sacraments That he hath not left us as strangers without the Covenāt of promise but hath ordained visible signes and seals to represent that to our senses w ch we ought to apprehend by our faith 4. The Sabbaths and publike Ordinances that we have liberty to behold the face of God in his sanctuary and to enquire in his Temple that amidst some outward troubles the bread of adversity and the water of affliction yet our Teachers are not removed into corners but our eyes may see them That vision does not fail in our days that we are not punished with a famine of the Word that the Sun does not go down upon our Prophets 5. The Communion of Saints