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A41838	Directions and instigations to the duty of prayer how, and why the heart is to be kept with diligence. Pressing arguments and directions for hearing the voice of the rod. Being the sum and substance of nine sermons (not heretofore printed,) by Mr. Andrew Gray, late minister of the Gospel at Glasgow.	Gray, Andrew, 1633-1656.	1669 (1669)	Wing G1607A; ESTC R224166	127,013	196

last time when he will keep his heart will be when he is called to som● publick holy work as if he were called to pra● amongst Christians O then he will keep h 〈…〉 heart diligently and if he be in a Minister● sight he will keep the Sabbath day but 〈◊〉 these men doth not remember that a grea 〈…〉 one than a Minister sees them even God th● Lord. A Hypocrite will keep his outward 〈◊〉 but not his inward man he will not swea● but in his heart he will curse God he will kee● his feet outwardly but inwardly he will commit adultery in his heart If ye would be sincere ye must mortifie your invisible idols 〈◊〉 well as your visible idols The second thing that I would say is this 〈◊〉 ye keep your hearts and not resign them freely to God although ye were to live eigh 〈…〉 years and if ye would pray the one fourty 〈◊〉 weep the other fourty of these years if suc● a thing could be possible yet all that p 〈…〉 should be for nought if ye do not freely fi 〈…〉 give him your heart for you shall get that fearfull sentence pronounced upon you Depar● from me you cursed I knew you never O the 〈…〉 fore while it is called to day give God your ●arts Psal. 78. 56. Yet they tempted and pro 〈…〉 ked the most high God and kept not his testi 〈…〉 nies Psal 34. 16. The face of the Lord is 〈…〉 ainst them that do evil to cut off the remem 〈…〉 ance of them from the Earth If ye had the 〈…〉 ogue of an Angel to speak and pray yet if ye 〈◊〉 him not your hearts all your prayers shall 〈◊〉 back empty to you The third thing which I would say to you 〈…〉 his the heart of man is a thing which ye will 〈◊〉 a great difficulty to keep and this is a proof 〈◊〉 that a Christian will even sometimes 〈…〉 nge in prayer He will sometimes change 〈◊〉 times First When he begins he will be 〈◊〉 flame of love to God And secondly He 〈◊〉 fall secure And thirdly He will have 〈…〉 ible thoughts of God And lastly ere he 〈…〉 e done he will speak to God as to his com 〈…〉 ion and I would pose all of you that are 〈…〉 e if ye have not been in all or most part of 〈…〉 se frames when you have been praying 〈◊〉 I would charge you as ye will answer Christ one day that ye would give him your 〈◊〉 there is two words which I would say you and O that ye would consider upon 〈◊〉 Christ comes and sayes to us first Take 〈…〉 y Crosse and deny thy self and follow me 〈◊〉 is Christs first word unto a Believer and 〈…〉 ut that be a great mystery to flesh and 〈…〉 d. And the Devil comes and sayes the se 〈…〉 d word which is Fall down and worship 〈◊〉 and I will give thee a Kingdom The first 〈…〉 d of the Devil is ay the fairest word that 〈…〉 all get and the first of Christs is the sharp 〈…〉 Now which of these two offers will ye chuse I would only say these two words 〈◊〉 you First Think yee not shame to refu 〈…〉 Christ so openly as ye do Secondly That th 〈…〉 answer which ye give him is not the answ 〈…〉 which he seeks I say one day ye shall be broug 〈…〉 before his throne waiting for your condemn●tion if you give not precious Christ yo 〈…〉 hearts ye shall stand before his Tribunal to receive your last and fearful doome O man and O woman with what face wilt thou st 〈…〉 and what wilt thou have to say when tho 〈…〉 stands before him I remember the word of 〈◊〉 cursed Emperor who had made defection fro● Christ he was forced to breath out his l 〈…〉 words thus sadly Thou hast overcome me 〈◊〉 last O Galilean So he is too strong a pa 〈…〉 to thee to contend with and at length he w 〈…〉 overcome thee Now the last thing that I would say unto y 〈…〉 is if you do not give him your hearts I as 〈◊〉 Ambassador of Christ declare to you 〈◊〉 Christ and you shall fight together Put 〈◊〉 your harness put on your Steel coat s 〈…〉 Christ will be ready for you and boast wh 〈…〉 ye put off again And I would say this unto yo 〈…〉 that it is impossible for you to take Christ 〈…〉 cept ye get a sight of Christ and his beauty 〈◊〉 if you saw him in his beauty ye would 〈◊〉 I 'le take him although I get not a Kingdo 〈…〉 O the Angels and glorified Spirits of just 〈◊〉 now made perfect may wonder at us why 〈◊〉 stand out so long Oh! Will you give to 〈…〉 ther your hearts and not to precious Chr 〈…〉 who hath given you his heart and who worthy of all your hearts Can you look up 〈…〉 that noble Plant of renown and not give 〈◊〉 your hearts who had a hole made in his side ●hrough which ye may see his heart Oh man ●nd Oh woman Why will ye not give Christ ●our hearts what shall ye say when Christ shall say first to you why would ye not sincere●y give me one day in your life time Secondly Why would you not give me your hearts 〈◊〉 will tell you three things which will be very terrible for you O atheists In that day when ●ou shall appear before Gods Tribunal First 〈…〉 e hearing of the Gospel Secondly Which 〈◊〉 more terrible the Resurrection of Christ ●astly Which is terriblest of all when that ●earfull sentence shall be pronounced against ●ou Depart Depart O then you shall curse ●he day that ever ye were born in Glasgow o● 〈◊〉 Scotland Now O you inhabitants of this ●lace I charge you as ye shall answer one day 〈◊〉 God that ye would give him your hearts in ●eeping and in so doing ye shall have life e●ernal O therefore Kiss the Son by the way 〈…〉 st his anger break out and you perish for ever 〈…〉 ow to him who can perswade your hearts to ●mbrace him we desire to give praise SERMON VII ●ov 4. 23. Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life THere is a great and vaste difference betwixt the heart of a Christian while he is on earth here below travelling in 〈…〉 ese Tents of mortality and the heart of a ●hristian when he shall be above taking up his Eternal possession in those blessed and everla 〈…〉 ing Tents of immortality And O! is it 〈◊〉 mystery for you to beleive that such a day is 〈…〉 proaching when those hearts of yours wh 〈…〉 have been so unstedfast in the wayes of go 〈…〉 ness that they shall once be made as pill ar 〈…〉 the house of your God no more to go out We 〈◊〉 compare the heart of a Christian while 〈◊〉 here below unto Reuben it is unstable as 〈…〉 ter which doth marre its excellencie For a C 〈…〉 stian while he is here

prophanity of a people is come to a wonderful height when they can sin agai 〈…〉 light and knowledge Now in speaking of th 〈…〉 more fully I shall speak to some aggravatio● of the sin of slighting known duties The first Aggravation is when a perso● slights duty after the sinfulness of that sin hat● been discovered unto him and engrven on hi 〈…〉 conscience O that is a mighty aggravation o 〈…〉 that sin This is clear Hos. 5. 2. And the revolters are profound to make slaughter though I hav● been a rebuker of them all Nehem. 9. 29. an● have testified against them yet they dealt proudly and hearkned not to thy commandments but sinne● against thy judgments I confesse sinning against convictions of conscience especially when they are sharp is a greater sin than to sin against light this is indeed to sin with a lifted up hand and not to blush nor be ashamed nor yet to be afraid to commit iniquity Know now therefore there are many here that slight known duties notwithstanding of light and the convictions of conscience which they have had for doing so I would only say to that person be afraid and stand in awe lest the day may be approaching when God shall cease to be a reprover unto you and the reinyies shall be laid on your own neek and you shall be as a wild Asse snuffing up the wind The second Aggravation of slighting known duties is when a person slights known duties after God hath been discovering discontent with another person for that sin when we see the justice of God overtaking another person for slighting of a known duty and yet the person which stands beside is not afraid to persist in the same sin This is clear Jer. 3. 8. And I saw when for all these causes whereby back-sliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away and give her a bill of divorce yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not but went and played the Harlot also As if he had said though Judah have beheld what I have done to Israel for her whoorish carriage yet notwithstanding of this she went and played the harlot also I confesse this is a greater aggravation than the former and it speaks that such a sinner in a manner hath given a de●iance to the justice of God and hath cryed out in a manner I care not what God will do I will do my pleasure The third Aggravation of the sin of flighting known duties is when persons flights known duties after God hath begun to contend with them for so doing this is a mighty aggravation of sin as is clear Isa. 57. 17. For the iniquity of his covetousnesse was I wroth and smot● him I hid me and was wroth and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart After a person hath had the Rod shaken over his head and hath drunk something of the justice of God for ●●●ighting such a duty yet to persist in it O that is a scarlet and mighty transgression and yet are there not many here who are such The fourth Aggravation of flighting known duties is when a person slights known duties upon very smal temptations is not this certain a word of a temptation the half of a word yea the very nod of a temptation will put us from the doing of known duties Yea sometimes we will be glad of a temptation to divert us from the exercise of duties yea sometimes it is known when temptations are not present to divert us from the exercise of known duties we will go forth and seek a temptation I confesse the devil needs not to be at much pains i 〈…〉 these dayes there is many which gives the devil work and imployment yea and if he see 〈…〉 not them they will seek him The fifth Aggravation of the sin of slighting known duties is when persons does not so much as set about well doing of them that is 〈◊〉 great aggravation this is clear Luke 12. 47. He that knowes his masters will and doth it not neither doth prepare himself to do it is worthy of double stripes He will not take pains to prepare his heart for duty that is a mighty aggravation Some they are content to be under their setters as though they were bound of God some they are content to live under their convictions as though it were impossible for them to answer them and they say there is no hope The sixth Aggravation of slighting known duties is when a person slights duties after God hath commended the beauty and excellency of such duties that is no doubt a great aggravation as when God doth commend prayer and discovers the beauty thereof to a Christian O then it is a sad and lamentable thing for that person to sit down and slight his duty that is as it were to slight prayer when it hath on all its ornaments A seventh Aggravation is of slighting known duties is when persons slight duties after they have been convinced of the advantage which waits upon the doing of them Are there not some that slight prayer notwithstanding they have been convinced that prayer hath been unto them a mount tabor in which they have seen Christ transfigured some they will slight prayer after they have been convinced that prayer hath been the trysting-place betwixt Christ and them and after they have been convinced that prayer hath been as the top of mount Pisgah on which they have gotten a view of the promised land O that is a notable aggravation of slighting of known duties when the person hath this to say Now I am slighting my own advantage There is this last Aggravation when a person slights known duties yet with very little resentment and grief of heart Are there not many that have slighted their morning prayer here to day and yet not have convictions therefore And are there not many persons here to day that oftentimes goeth to bed without saying their prayers and yet have as much peace of conscience as if they had done it I think a person hath gone a great length in hardness of heart when he can slight known duties and yet not be grieved yea and it is a token that they have not only to do with a hardned conscience but with a hardned will Are there not many persons that notwithstanding of the slighting of known duties yet never had a broken heart therefore Doth not the misbeliever slight the commandement of faith and yet not weep for it Doth not the secure Christian slight the commandement of prayer and yet not be grieved therefore Doth not the presumptuous sinner slight self examination and yet is not much grieved And doth not the dissolute sinner that is under the power of his idols slight the commandement of mor●ification and yet not have a sore heart for it Now the second thing which I shall speak from the scope is I shall propose some considerations to presse you to the exercise of all known duties The first Consideration it is the Christian