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A57581	Saving-beliefe: or, The ready and right vvay to beleeve and be saved Wherein is the * mysterie of faith laid open * I Tim. 3. 9. By Timothy Rogers, minister of the Gospel (twixt Essex and Suffolke) in Sudbury.	Rogers, Timothy, 1598-1650?.	1644 (1644)	Wing R1857; ESTC R219742	33,435	192

according to that he hath not 2 Cor. 8.12 2. Object But it is not in Faith he praies thus seeing Faith is not yet brought forth till after his praying for it Ans It is not void of all Faith as is shewed in the Chap. following CHAP. 5. Questions resolved concerning the manner of the Gospels working of Saving Beliefe Quest HAd this humbled sinner saving Beliefe till now that he is come to this true perswasion of mercie by Christ Ans Yes now it is brought forth but it was conceived and in breeding before namely in his * Act. 11.21 23. resolving and earnest desiring it the 5. and 6. points of the Gospels working mentioned before then it was in him more unsensibly and in conception but when he comes to be truly persuaded this is the birth of it now it is in him more sensibly now he sees that he beleeves as a woman hath a child in her womb before it be brought forth and she hold it in her armes and look upon it Quest. How can you prove that there was saving Faith begun in him then Ans 1. Because in his resolving upon and earnest desiring of Christ Gods Remedie he gave his heart and will to Christ for what wee greatly desire that hath our heart 2. The Promise is made to this kind of desiring Matth. 5.6 3. He then yeelds to Gods demand and condition which is willingly to accept and make choice of Christ as God is willing to bestow him the Soul in this desiring him saith Yea I make choice of him above all 4. This resolving on and accepting of Christ Gods Remedie is to beleeve for the Soule saith to Gods proffer I will and consents thereto as in Marriage Wilt thou have this man to thy wedded Husband I will This makes the match so between Christ and the Soul God by his Proffer asketh the humbled soul by resolving and desiring it answers yea and consents thereto Plainly thus the sinner rightly humbled by the Law and being also convinced in Conscience by the Gospels enlightning of Gods free proffer of the Remedie to him as well as to any other doth by his resolving on it and fervent desiring it shew his good liking thereof yea accepts thereof as if he should say yea let me have it this accepting is weak implicite beleeving the very beginning of it but to be perswaded is stronger beleeving the making up of it but right applying of Christ the definition of Faith Ch. 1. comprehends both Quest But what if this desire and resolution be not sound and unfained Answ Then it doth no good neither is it saving Beliefe but only a counterfeit of it but I speak all this while of that which is true and unfained Quest. How may it be knowne Ans 1. It is a desiring of Christ above any other thing that can be thought or named as one readie to die for thirst desires water above any thing else 2. It is very earnest proceeding from the very Agonie of Conscience and will have no Nay as Rachel Give me Children or else I dye it cannot be satisfied nor endure without him whatsoever else it hath 3. It desires the Remedy not by haves but as God hath provided it whole Christ as well for a sanctifying Remedie as a saving else it is not a true desire nor a right accepting of him such an one doth not apply the true Christ but an halfe Christ or an Idol-Christ of his owne making viz. to save without sanctifying which is not the Christ that God hath appointed for a Remedie And for as much as our first coupling and uniting unto Christ consisteth in this point we must be so much the more carefull of it that it be well done for by Humiliation we are pluckt out of the old Stocke by beleeving we are set into the new that is Christ there must bee great Care had that we be rightly joynted in as the Science well set into the Stock at first thrives more in one yeere then another will doe in foure if it grow at all 1. First then we must desirously and resolvedly accept of whole Christ this is to be rightly joynted into him that is a Sanctifier as well as a Saver of us to make us holy as well as to make us whole as a * Act. 2.36 Lord to have the whole command of us and we to be ruled by him to follow him and doe as he would have us we must be joyned to him as our * Eph. 4.15 16. Head to infuse spirituall life and power of Grace into us to vanquish corruption and to delight in God and to glorisie him in holinesse else we shall be as it were ingraffed into a dead or saplesse Stocke Can such a Science grow or prosper Therefore we must take the whole Remedie not a Jesus onely but a Christ too and that not partly viz. a Priest to die for us but a King also to rule over us and a Prophet to teach us 2. We must be wholly joynted into him not partly into our selves and partly into him as to thinke that though we have need of Christ yet that * Non intelligit beneficia divina qui se tantummodò à Deo juvari putat Lac. li. 1. c. 11. Divi. Inst there is some goodnesse in our selves 3. To an holy end viz. Not to take libertie to sin more but with a Covenant in our hearts to sinne no more that is what we know to be sin not willingly to give our selves leave to do it for a world That humbled sinner that by unfained desire and Resolution thus accepteth of Christ is rightly joynted into him and a true Beleever Quest But can such be in danger of beleeving wrong that have beene rightly humbled A. Not so but they that are not thus rightly joynted into Christ have not beene rightly humbled but only in part to wit to see themselvs in danger of damnation by sin which therefore they would have forgiven but not to abhorre their sins and be wearie of them willing to be rid of them and to doe any thing that God shall bid them or would have them do which are parts of sound Humiliation as CHAP. 3. was shewed thus as they are humbled onely in part so they apply Christ onely in part for one cannot desire or accept of Christ any further then he is sensible of his own necessitie this is to divide him therefore a false affection of desire to him as the false mother 1 King 3.26 would have the child divided Quest Whether are the Promises to be applyed to one truly humbled by the Law and enlightened by the Gospel c. touching the Remedie proffered to him though not yet ressolved to rest perswaded thereof but puts it from himselfe because of unworthinesse Ans Apply the Promises to him we may not because they doe not belong to him till he * Gal. 3.22 beleeve but the precept of Beleeving ought to be applyed to him that

not use Physicke to preserve his life these are like Sisera fast asleep and secure Judg. 4.21 when Jael was ready to pierce his braines 5. Carnall Confidence and trusting to their outward prosperitie because they thrive and fare well in the world in bodie and in outward Estate therefore are confident their soules doe so too as if a Traitour in hold finding good keeping should be confident of a pardon 6. Sloth and a lazie humour whiles men had rather be without it than to take paines for the getting of it and to remove such logges out of the way as hinder them towards it as one in a swoune that had rather go away then be rubb'd and struggled with for the saving of his life 7. Delay as men putting off so long the getting of a pardon which they might have that they are hanged before it come thus many an one looseth the land of promise by lingring so long in the wildernesse of sin as the old Israelites 8. Presumption which is not saving but deceiving Beliefe false beleeving where with Faiths roome is taken up that there is no Roome for it to enter these are they that were never made so much as capeable of beleeving by getting a broken heart and yet beleeve and apply Christ to themselves after their owne fashion without any ground or warrant from God nay against his Word They doe not take Christ the Remedie 1. in Gods order by being humbled first nor yet 2. upon Gods termes viz. to be rid of their sins by him as Act. 3.26 They that thus by presumption have falsly laid hold on Christ it 's an harder matter farre to make them loosen and so take true and good hold of him then those that have beene ever fearing and doubting and never yet apprehended at all As one at point of being drowned having taken fast hold of a Bulrush in the water it 's harder his Senses being stonied to make him let goe and take hold on a strong pole reacht to him then if he had taken hold on nothing at all Carnall people are even shackled fettered with these fore-named hinderances and as it were with strong Chaines held in which if they get not loose from they are bondmen to Satan still no freemen of Christ to wit true Beleevers for all their smooth and civill behaviour wronging no body paying every one their owne keeping their Church and professing true Religion CHAP. 9. Helps to saving Beliefe for distressed Soules THese helps are onely meant for the afflicted Conscience and for weake wavering ones for to offer helpe to a dead man is lost labour but to a weake man is a benefit they are therefore for those humbled sinners in whom Faith is to be conceived or is conceived as CHAP. 5. and come to the birth but there is no power to bring forth in a sensible persuasion which yet their soules long for more then any woman for her deliverie O say they that I had this assurance that I could be so perswaded yea some with many teares thus expressing their desires to whom I say consider 1. God hath provided Christ a Remedie effectuall for every poore distressed soule that seeing and feeling it's necessitie is truly willing and * As Chap. 5. Q. 4. desirous to receive him Isai 55.1 Beleevest thou this yes Then also you see your soule is such a soule yes Therefore of necessitie you must yeeld that God hath provided him such a Remedie for your Soule what say you to this Ans I am not able to contradict it Go to then now then you are perswaded that God hath provided the Remedie to be effectuall even for your Soul in particular and for the Salvation thereof which is to beleeve yea the birth thereof 2. Are you unfainedly desirous of Grace the favour of God and Salvation by Christ Lord thou knowest I desire it with my heart Well then know that God is a thousand-fold more defirous of it Ezek. 33.11 For thy defire is finite his infinite and if God be willing and you to what should hinder God and you are agreed upon it therefore so it shall be Object The doubt is of his willingnesse for I find willingnesse in my selfe to it Ans Doe you beleeve you have deserved hell because Gods Word saith so yes Why then doe you not beleeve that Gods will and desire is to save you seeing his Word saith so to if it be true in one thing it 's true in another Remember If we with humble and upright hearts confesse our sinnes he is faithfull and just to forgive us 1 Joh. 1.8 so then he is willing to shew you mercy and that he can you cānot doubt if you thinke him Almightie and seeing he both can and will you must be perswaded so it shall be 3. Further consider that in a yeelding Resolution of an humbled Soule to Gods proffer and in an heartie desire is faith conceived though not brought forth as was shewed CHAP. 5. Thus it is with you therefore Faith is in you though not seen nor sensibly discerned of you and seeing it is in you needs must you thinke that Christ is yours and that you shall be saved by him 4. To studie much often upon Christ is a good help and meanes to bring us to come to partake of him by Faith for what our minde thinkes much on it is by degrees transformed into if of worldly things into worldlinesse if of heavenly into heavenly-mindednesse if of Christ very much into Christ at last as that which lies soaking in fresh water growes fresh but if in salt water it will grow brackish We must not thinke to catch Christ swimming aloft by superficiall and sleight thinking of him now and then but must dive deepe in serious studie and deep meditation of him as Eph. 3.18 19. 5. You must bargaine for Christ and so you shall be assured that he is your owne the * Mat. 13.46 Pearle must be bought doe then as the Buyer 1. See you want the Commoditie 2. That it is to be had 3. What a pleasure it would doe you and what a benefit to you to have it 4. Thereupon take liking to it to desire it 5. Consider on what Termes and at what Rate it is to be had for there is no having of Christ but at Gods Rate you must so take him or let him alone 6. Consent thereto to give God his asking and demands viz. to give him your heart to be all for him to renounce your sins and sinfull lusts c. If thus you consent to it with good liking the bargain is stricken up Christ is yours yea though the whole be not performed in present but an earnest laid down in true part of payment for you must be in good earnest and the Remainder from time to time continually afterward viz. daily to part with sin and your corruptions more and to grow more holy to give the Lord your heart in loving and delighting more