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A44489	The best exercise for Christians in the worst times in order to their security against prophaness and apostacy : good and useful to be consider'd ... / proposed to consideration by J.H. ...	Horn, John, 1614-1676.	1671 (1671)	Wing H2793; ESTC R34470	179,378	328

defection from God and Christ either to avoid the difficulties and troubles in and to the flesh that he endeavours to fill them with and which God for the tryal of their faith in him and love and obedience to him exercises him with or permits and orders to come upon him or else to gain the sweetness and profit of other carnal or worldly injoyments set before him therefore that he take and make use of all those weapons of defence those Arguments of the Gospel and observe those wayes and rules appointed him therein with watchfulness thereunto and against the wiles and workings of the Adversary with which God hath furnished him and unto which he hath directed him in Jesus Christ taking heed of listening to and being moved by any of those subtle Arguments brought by the Adversary to him to disswade him from his stedfastness in the faith and constancy of his profession whether from the dangers threatened him should he hold fast his purpose and way or the insufficiency either in himself or in God and Christ to defend him from them or from the many sweet and pleasant injoyments to the flesh or spirit in some other wayes to be obtained by him but minding what answers thereto and there against the Word and Testimony of God doth afford him diligently to take heed to them and oppose them there against and so to take heed of walking in any such ways as in which the Adversary may find him out of Gods protection and naked and open to his temptations To this purpose are those many counsels to Watch and stand fast quit themselves like men and be strong 1 Cor. 16.13 To take heed to themselves and put on the whole Armour of God and therein to resist Satan and yet still to stand to walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise c. Unto which things God having in his favour abundandantly furnished them expects and requires their care and diligence and exercise of their powers and faculties for their own defence and that because 1. God hath not called us to Christ to be idle and do nothing but to be active and obedient he hath called us not to glory only so as Christ should without us necessitate us to it but also to vertue that we might in the strength of Christ given us travel in his wayes toward the injoyment of it and with his spiritual Weapons fight manfully and valiantly against all those Adversaries that would spoil us or cheat us of it We are Gods workmanship created in Christ Jesus to good works fore-ordained by him that we might walk in them and as trees of righteousness that we might bear and bring forth the fruits of righteousness unto his glory and be a peculiar people for him zealous of good works And therefore he expecteth from us and requireth of us in the strength vertue and power that he gives us to walk and war to do good bring forth fruits abound in good works c. And if being so furnished by him with his Grace as that we may do and abound in these things we do fail his expectation and desire sit still instead of marching on toward the heavenly Canaan or draw back again towards Egypt fling down our Weapons or like Ephraim being harnessed turn our backs upon our enemies in the day of battel and so yield up our selves to the power of their temptations not exercising our selves to good works nor bringing forth good fruits but the contrary How can the most holy and pure Majesty that hates iniquity slothfulness and cowardliness approve or own us especially if through our sloth and cowardliness we yield our selves to his and our enemies and let them do what they will with us and so take part with them against him who hath done so much for us and put so great ingagements to him upon us For 2. He hath called us to glory also that we may be a glorious honourable people to him and he have glory by us that we might be for a name and for a praise to him by our vertuousness fruitfulness strength courage wisdom and well doing in the power of his Grace now he should be dishonoured and disparaged by us and we be an inglorious shameful people our selves if being so fortified and furnished for resistance against our enemies we should yet do nothing against them but be alwayes meerly passives as those that are alwayes Babes and Children that have received from Christ nothing of manhood and courage in us that must have all done meerly for us without us and we do nothing in and by Christ in which he may have glory by us Herein is God glorified that we bring forth much fruit and so that we by the help of his right hand do valiantly quitting our selves like men and being strong behaving our selves wisely and not doing as fools to be frighted from our station by every or any bugbear or allured to part with our safety or happiness for the desire after some gew-gaw or trifle that looks somewhat bravely therefore having so every way furnished us he expects something therein from us and puts something in the vertue thereof upon us Working in us of good pleasure to will and to do He wills us to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling and to do all things without murmuring or disputing that we might be blameless and harmless the Sons of God without rebuke and blame in a crooked generation Phil. 2.12 13 14 15 16. That the courage wisdom power vertues of God appearing in us no Momus or Carper might find any just ground of reviling us as being saved of God but wholly destitute of the vertues of God and unserviceable to God as having nothing but a righteousness imputed to us without any power or life of God working in us or wrought forth by us Yea and 3 Otherwise the gifts and furniture of God his spiritual weapons provided for us and brought to our hands should be in vain if he should so do all for us as to leave us wholly idle and put nothing upon us in his strength and power and by his Weapons of righteousness to be done by us Sure God gives the manifestations of his Spirit to his people to profit with 1 Cor. 12.7 He gives us not his Armour Shield and Sword to lye and rust by us but to be put on and used by us yea he gives us life and bread to nourish our life and strength with our life and wisdom with our strength to the end that we might use them in his way work and service for our own defence and the defence of his Truth against his its and our enemies He gives us not talents to hury up in the earth but to trade with for his honour and advantage He lights not a candle to put it under a bed of sloth or hide it under a bushel by some scanty limiting it to some few but to be set upon a Candlestick that it may

love of and goodness of God to all even to sinners and enemies that overcomes any whiles sinners and enemies to turn to God trust and hope in him and in his mercy for their salvation The sight and perception of the goodness of God to believers as such may make a man to wish himself to be such and more diligently to listen to what may make him such that he may partake of that choice goodness and it is very useful also to be propounded in the hearing of others as our Saviour did propound the blessed state of his Disciples to them in the hearing of the multitude Matth. 5.1 2. with Luk 6.20 21 but it is the sight knowledge or perception of God's graciousness to sinners in his being upon the account of Christ and his sacrifice and mediation ready and willing to accept any poor sinner turning to him forgiving his sins and not retaining his trespasses against him to barr him out from his favour that draws and perswades a sinner and ungodly one to turn unto him and hope and believe in him yea and it is the flesh of Christ given for the life of the world that the believer also feeds on Now all men are not in this sense in the General love goodness and gratiousness of God they do not see perceive and believe it much less are their hearts taken with it and living in it sucking in vertue and power from it to trust in God and to renew them into his image and unto his obedience But the believers are in this sense in it too in the words and Doctrine of Christ John 8.31 32. feeding upon it even upon the flesh of Christ given for the life of the world John 6.51 Christ given to be the ransome for all and there-through the Saviour of the world is the root spring and foundation of their hope and faith towards God and then 2. They are also there-through in the special love of God The love wherewith he loves Christ comes upon them and they are in it included in it and inclosed with it because through the discovery of Christ and the Grace of God in him for all men they are brought into Christ Being baptized into him they have put him on as Gal. 3.26 27. and are lookt upon of God as in him as his Branches John 15.1 4 5 his Members Ephes 5.30 and so they are reckoned after him according to their new-Birth of and into him 2 Cor. 5.16 17 Being in Christ they are no more known after the flesh After what they were in Adam and derived from him to be disowned of God by reason thereof but they are new Creatures old things are passed away and all things are become new they are now in another a new State and condition from what other men are in out of Christ that from what themselves were in before they were in Christ or believed in him they were amongst others in the state and fellowship of the world Branches of the same Wild-Olive as it were with them ungodly sinners children of wrath such as deserved wrath and were obnoxious to it as well as the rest but now through the blood of Christ and by faith in him they are made partakers of Christ the second Adam the root of righteousness the plant of renown the Son of God and his dearly beloved One and so they are 1. Justified acquitted from all their former sins and trespasses none of them remain upon them as imputed to them there is not only righteousness in Christ for them as for all Rom. 3.22 but it is also come upon them so as they are in it By Christ all that believe are justified acquitted and set free from the charge and imputation of all things wherefrom they could not be justified by the Law of Moses Act. 13.38 39. even from such sins as the Law of Moses provided or allowed no Sacrifices for as Murther Adultery c. what ever they were before they are now justified sanctified washed or made clean therefrom in the sight of God in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of God 1 Cor. 6.9 10 11. and they are now reputed and reckoned righteous in Christ and so stiled and spoken of by the Spirit of God in the Scriptures 2. They are now also owned and accepted of God into a nearer relation and station to him they are now in Christ become his not only his in a common sense as all the earth are but his in a more special and peculiar sense not only his because his Creatures in Adam and so he their Soveraign Lord to rule over and dispose of them as he pleases but also his because his new Creatures Created as his workmanship in Christ Jesus unto good works which he hath ordained for them to walk in his people his Subjects his purchased ones not only as generally ransomed from under the power and tyrannous jurisdiction of Sathan and Sentence of curse to be under Christs Lordship and dispose as all are but also as through his love therein testified and made known they are purchased and procured to a voluntary subjection of themselves to his Government to own him for their Lord and themselves to be his Subjects and and Servants and so are translated out of the Kingdom and jurisdiction of Sathan and the power of darkness as to their living therein and obeying thereofi nto the Kingdome and gracious Government of his Dear Son Exod. 19.5 6. Eph. 2.10 1 Pet. 2 9. Col. 1.11 12 13. Yea they are made of his family and houshold in the choice sense Fellow Citizens with the Saints of the Heavenly Jerusalem the City of God c. 3. Yea God so loves these that he adopts them to himself for Sons being in Christ his Son and made members of him whereas before were they others Servants servants of sin and heirs of death To them that received him he that is Christ gave this liberty freedome or dignity to become the Sons of God even to them that believe in his Name being begotten and born thereto not of bloods or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man but of God whose work it is to bring a man to and make him in Christ by and through the word of truth declared to men and listened to by them John 1.12 13. Jam. 1.18 thence that also ye are all the Sons of God by faith in Jesus Christ for as many as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ Gal. 3.26 27. It is a fruit and consequent of mens being in Christ a priviledge resulting from Christ the Son of God by nature and generation that any obtain this Grace and favour to be reputed and owned of God as his Children and therefore also it is common to all believers that are truly such without difference or respect of persons it is nothing that the carnal parentage or natural blood or birth of better or worse parents or that the desires