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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39929	Eternal glorification begun in regeneration, or, A discourse of regeneration intended for the profit of all, both regenerate and unregenerate persons / by Stephen Ford.	Ford, Stephen, d. 1694.	1675 (1675)	Wing F1508; ESTC R27370	134,202	259

so at the best their sight and knowledge is an uncertain weak and unedifying knowledge Their sight and knowledge of these matters profit them not It lies idle and useless in the head but is of no advantage to the heart It brings them not to the things they see to close up with them and make them their choice to apply and rightly to appropriate them unto themselves No but they still lay at a distance from their hearts and their hearts from them They see no transcendent worth and excellency in them to cause them indeed to desire them and with self-denial to make them their own But they are enabled by Regeneration to see and understand Spiritual things spiritually 1 Cor. 2.13.14 They have now Eyes to see withal Ephes 1.18 and a new light to see by namely The Sun of Righteousness Mal. 4.2 The Glory of the Lord is risen upon them Isa 60.1 But before they saw with their old eyes though it may be they were a little anointed with some common spiritual Light still yet they were but their old natural Eyes or sense of seeing and they had only Candle light to see spiritual things by But Regenerate persons are called out of darkness into marvellous light 1 Pet. 2.9 The light of the knowledge of the Glory of God shines into their hearts 2 Cor. 4.6 enabling them with a measure of clear discerning what they are by Nature and what they are made by the Grace of Christ how they ought to live in this world and what their duties are the workings of their own lusts and the Temptations of the Devil and World the proneness and inclination of the heart to sin and close up with Temptations and the continual need they have of Divine assistance and protection what need they have of the Mercy of God and of the Blood and Righteousness of Christ Moreover their new light directs and leads them to Jesus Christ to own receive and accept him for their Lord and Saviour for their King Priest and Prophet for their Head and Ruler their Teacher and Lawgiver and it is powerful to lead and perswade them out of themselves to take up in Christ only Col. 2.6 Joh. 1.12 Psal 73.25 26. Phil. 3.7.8 and it is powerful to take off their hearts and hands from sin self-righteousness and self-ability from self-boasting or glorying in self and from the enticing objects of this world This new Divine Spiritual Light sees such a transcendent and singular beauty excellency and loveliness in the person love and Grace of Christ as to draw the Mind Affections and whole Soul to him to lodge them in him take up with him greatly to love him and cleave unto him to desire him and his Grace and to chuse and apply it to themselves To adore and admire him to honour and exalt him to live and dye with him and for him to live to him and make it their work and business to please him to speak well of him and to commend him his Love and Grace to the acceptance and admiration of others Cant. 5.9 ult so likewise they see a desirable excellency and loveliness in the wills and commands of Christ in their duty and Gospel obedience to him so as to fall in love with them and it so as to observe and do what he commands and that because it is his holy Will Gracious and Soveraign Pleasure and Appointment that they should so do yea and they can in measure discern when they please him and when they do not Heb. 11.5 Besides Regenerate persons have an experimental knowledge they taste feel and enjoy a part of the Heavenly matters which they see they have the earnest and first Fruits of them in their hands they have a part in possession namely of Christ his Grace Spirit Truth and Heaven and they begin to see those things more distinctly and particularly they can discern one thing from another and more and more look into the nature property use and end of them and how to use and improve them to the glory and praise of God and to the comfort and edification of their own Souls Secondly another of these new spiritual senses is Tasting The natural Man hath the senses of seeing and tasting things that are suitable to him so hath the spiritual man or new creature O taste and see that the Lord is gracious Psal 34.8 And if you have tasted that the Lord is gracious 1 Pet. 2.3 It is a spiritual sense or taste and they are spiritual things that it can taste and relish I shall briefly name some of them to help you in your tryal or in the proving and examining your state and conditions by them 1. The word of God Gospel Precepts and Promises The one declaring what God and Christ the Mediator and holy Ghost hath and will do for us the other what is our Duty and what we should do for God These words of God are exceeding sweet and pleasant to the spiritual taste of new Creatures Psal 19.10 They are says David sweeter than the honey or honey Comb. So in the 119. Psal And Jeremy tells us the same Chap. 15.16 Thy words were found and I did eat them and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoycing of my heart So is the word of God to thee if thou art a new Creature especially at sometimes but it is not so to others Christ calls his Fathers will his food My Meat says he is to do the will of him that sent me and man liveth not by bread onely but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God Matth. 4. Well what canst thou say of and to this for thy self 2. The good Counsels Exhortations Admonitions and Reproofs of Christian friends and Resolutions are sweet to thy taste also 1 Sam. 25.32 33. verses compared with the foregoing verses And David said blessed be thou of the Lord and blessed be thy advice Oh! how sweet was a Womans Counsel and Admonition unto David although he was much her Superiour It is the same in measure with thee if thou art a Regenerate person Oh! thou wilt receive relish and eat such friendly words of Counsel and Advice and bless God for them and not quarrel and censure thy friends for what they do but receive and eat it as sweet and wholesome food for thy Soul and give God and them thanks 3. Ordinances The Gospel Ordinances and holy Appointments of Christ will be and are indeed sweeter to thy Taste than any worldly thing The Ordinances of Preaching and hearing the Gospel are as the Gospel to thee sweeter than hony to thy mouth Psal 119.103 So are the other Ordinances to the Lords Supper Baptism Prayer singing of Psalms and Church-Fellow-ship The Order and Discipline of Christ in the Church and all other his Gospel appointments 4. The Lord Jesus Christ is most Sweet unto their Tasts As he is the fairest of ten Thousands and altogether Lovely Cant. 5.10 ult so he is the