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A55491 The character of a formall professor in religion preached in two sermons at St. Chads Church in Salop, Jan. 11, 1661, on 2 Tim. 3, 5 / by Tho. Porter ... Porter, Thomas, d. 1667. 1661 (1661) Wing P2989; ESTC R12187 26,346 43

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asking what thou wouldest have Oh poor sinner return this answer Not the Form only but the power of godliness also As Luther protested God should not put him off with any thing on this side himself So let it be thy Resolution not to be put off with any thing on this side the power of godliness To quicken you hereunto consider these Motives 1. The Disesteem your meer shews have with God as Psal 73. 20. When thou awakest thou shalt despise their Image All the pomp and glory of the World is but as an Image or fancy in a dream When the Lord awakes to Judgment he will contemn the bravery of the World So he will despise and disrespect thy Form of Godliness Is 1. 11. To what purpose is the multitude of your Sacrifices to me said God to the formal Jews I delight not in the blood of Bulls or of Lambs or of he-Goats v. 12. When ye come to appear before me who required this at your hands to tread my Courts when yet he himself required it v. 13. Bring no more vain oblations to me incense is an abomination to me the New-moons and Sabbaths the calling of Assemblies I cannot away with it is iniquity even the solemn meeting and yet these things were expresly prescribed them by the Lord. But now for sincere hearts Psal 102. 17. He will regad the prayer of the destitute of poor shrubs as the word signifies he will not despise their prayer whose hearts are honest though never so weak for Psal 51. 17. The Sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart O God thou wilt not despise Mark a broken heart is not a Sacrifie only but Sacrifices i. e. instead of all Sacrifices and that of God i. e. not only of Gods appointment but approbation and acceptance also Therefore he saith Is 66. 2. To this man will I look q. d. He that made heaven and earth seems to overlook all other things and persons and casts a loving look on him that is poor that hath the power of Godliness 2. The Dammage you will sustain Luke 8. 18. from him shall be taken that which he seemeth to have a counterfeit complexion will not last long That is a strange word 2 John 8. Take heed you lose not those things ye have wrought If thou hast but a Form of godliness thou art in danger to lose all thy praings hearings fastings receivings of the Lords Supper c. All the Prayers thou hast said all the Sermons thou hast heard all the Chapters thou hast read all the Fasts thou hast kept all the Sacraments thou hast received c. And what an unutterable and intolerable loss will this be I may say and allude to Psal 39. 6. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew so most men live in a vain form of Religion or I may say on better grounds and I hope with a better heart Matth. 26. 8. To what purpose is all this waste The Swan was in the Law rejected for Sacrifice because it had a black skin under white feathers 3. The Damnation you are obnoxious unto Luke 20. 47. Who for a shew make long Prayers the same shall receive greater damnation with Matth. 23. 14. for a pretence make long Prayer therefore ye shall receive greater damnation Observe by the way long Prayers are not condemned as simply unlawful in themselves for Solomon made a long Prayer at the Dedication of the Temple and so did they in a solemn day of humiliation spending the fourth part of the day in confession and supplication c. and our Saviour Christ himself continued all night in Prayer to God Luke 6. 12. but great Devotion was pretended when grievous Destruction was intended when they did colour their foul sins with fair shews the strength of their iniquities with the length of Prayer These formal Pharisees did palliate their covetousness and cruelty with seeming Piety devouring whole houses there was their covetousness and of widdows which could not relieve themselves there is their cruelty All which was the worse in endeavouring to make the holy and pure God the Author or at least fautour of their impiety Such mens condemnation shall be greater for dissembled Sanctity is double Iniquity I shall now propound to you some Directions 1. Give credit to the Doctrine delivered and that meer profession will not bring a Soul to Salvation Matth. 7. 21. Not every one that saith Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven yea though he prayes with a seeming zeal as the doubling of the word Lord Lord seems to import Judas gave a kiss to Christ yet is gone to his own place i. e. to Hell Acts 1. 25. For I do not think that the clause of that vers is to be referred to Matthias as some would have it for then the words foregoing must be put in a Parenthesis which is uncouch and that by place is understood his Province office or Ministry suits not with the stream of Expositors nor with the language of the Scripture elsewhere and Scripture must expound Scripture A kiss then of Profession may be attended with damnation in Hell None are kept out of Heaven for lamented badness but for supposed goodness A Ship ca'ld the Safeguard or Good-speed have been shipwrackt This Historical Faith hath been the beginning of conversion to some as the needle for the thread 2. Get Christ and union with him Let him be formed in thy heart Gal. 4. 15. Be in Christ and be a new creature 2 Cor. 5. 17. See Ephes 2. 12. To be without Christ is the Van and to be without God is the Rear of all Misery There may be saith Austin a visible form of a branch without the Vine but it cannot have the life of the invisible root except it be in the Vine 3. Go to the publick Ministry of the Word wear the threshold of the Sanctuary wait on God in that Ordinance As Christ said to his Disciples Luke 24. 49. Tarry ye in Jerusalem until ye be indued with power from on high indued or cloathed this word answers that Hebrew word in Judg. 6. 34. which the Septuagint translate cloathed At Jerusalem the Gospel began to be preached v. 47. according to that Gospel-Prophet Is c. 2. 3. Out of Zion shall go forth the Law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem Therefore say I miss not a Sermon Without the power of Religion the poor Soul is in a naked condition and here is the Wardrop whence this cloathing may be had Grieve and groan that thou hast lived so long in a Form of Devotion without the power and pray as well as thou canst for the Spirit of power 2 Tim. 1. 7. We cannot pray without the Spirit and yet we are allowed to pray for the Spirit and God hath promised to give the Spirit to them that pray Luke 11. 13. Much more shall the Heavenly Father give