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A51788	Præparatio evangelica, or, A plain and practical discourse concerning the soul's preparation for a blessed eternity being the substance of several sermons preach'd at Leeds / by Timothy Manlove ...	Manlove, Timothy, d. 1699.	1698 (1698)	Wing M455; ESTC R6789	123,238	196

the Judgment their Practice gives the Lie to their Profession They say and do not or they say one thing and do the quite contrary They are like the troubled Sea when it cannot rest whose Waters cast up Mire and Dire Isa 57.20 The Body which was made to be a Servant is become their Ruler and this is one of those things which the Earth cannot bear Prov. 30.21 22. A thing greatly to be lamented Lam. 5.8 From hence it is that these Convulsions and Disorders do proceed Professing to be Wise they are become Fools and that more especially as to those things wherein they are most concerned to have their VVits about them Wise to do Evil but to do Good they have no Knowledg Tit. 1.16 They profess that they know God but in Works they deny him being abominable disobedient and unto every good work reprobate With their Mouths they shew much Love but their Hearts go out after their Idols They would be happy but cannot endure the thoughts of that which alone can make them so They enquire the way to Zion but set their Faces quite contrary They pretend to believe the Evil and Danger of Sin but will not be perswaded to leave it They oft complain of the Vanity of this VVorld and of the Crosses and Disappointments they met with in it but will not be prevailed with to set their Hearts upon a better Yea many of them are sondest of these present Enjoyments when they grow old and cannot but know that they must quickly leave them Yea some of thein hate and revile others for living in some measure up to the Rules of that Religion which they themselves profess The time would fail me to mention the thousandth part of that Nonsense whereof they are continually guilty So besotted a thing is a carnal Heart As if their Lusts had not only bereaved them of all due Sense of Religion but of their Wits too both together Thus the Case stands with unregenerate Persons till the Grace of God rectify these disorders and bring their Souls into a better Frame And O how great a work is this See what the Apostle speaks of it Ephes 1.19 And what is the exceeding 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 transcendant Hyperbolical greatness of his Power to us ward who believe according to the working Energy of his Mighty Power 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Might of his Power c. Therefore Sirs lay the Ax to the Root of the Tree consider thorowly and bewail deeply your original Corruption Pray hard for renewing Grace it will signify little for you to empty some of the Streams while the Fountain is disregarded which will fill up all again Corruption lies deep in you and will take a great deal of pains to master it and root it out nor can ye expect that God will do it without the concurrence of your own Endeavours with and under his Grace Phil. 2.12 13. Infer 4. Learn also from hence the Weakness Wickedness or both of those Persons who go about to deny or obscure the Doctrine of special Grace Their Weakness I say in disowning a thing so manifest both by Scripture and Experience Their Wickedness in attempting to rob God of the Glory which is due to him on this account They cry up the natural Freedom of Man's Will but consider not its moral Impotency or Indisposition to that which is God it's cursed Aversion from God and Holiness which will never be overcome but by the Power of Free Grace I know indeed that if Men were truly willing then the work were done and therefore the Obstinacy of their Wills makes them inexcusable John 5.40 Ye will not come to me that ye might have Life But I also know that if ever they be made willing it must be in the Day of God's Power Psal 110.3 No Man can come to me except the Father which hath sent me draw him That is their Wills are so corrupt that they cannot find in their Hearts to renounce their Lusts and give up themselves to the obedience of the Gospel They affect a distance from God care not for coming near him They are dead in Trespasses and Sins Tho still they have natural Faculties intellective and elective Powers else we might as well preach to Walls as Men yet when all 's done 't is Grace that must sanctify and heal these Faculties and determine them God-ward or else they are lost for ever That some are thus wrought upon is plain Matter of Fact ye need go no further then the Text for Proof thereof And 't is as plain that others are left under the Power of their own willful Enmity and Alienation from God In short that any are sanctified and saved is to be ascribed to special Grace that the rest perish is their own doing not strictly and properly because they could not but because they would not do otherwise The Destruction which falls upon them is of their own chusing in that they will not be perswaded to forsake the way that leads to it Prov. 8.36 He that sinneth against me wrongeth his own Soul All they that hate me love Death The Law of Grace is establish'd ordered in all things and sure The Terms of Salvation are unalterably settled and God will judg Men accordingly without respect of Persons and so shall the Sentence of Judgment be executed too Moreover God gives unto all Men such degrees of Grace and Help as is meet for him to give and more by far than they duly improve And if they would rightly use what they have so far as they are able they have great encouragement to expect more therefore his proceedings with them for their willful Neglects are beyond all just exception Again if over and above all this he give to some Persons as 't is certain he doth yet greater Proportions of Grace even so much as shall effectually work upon them and fit them for Heaven who can say unto him what dost thou May he not do what he will with his own Is there any Injustice in all this What say ye Are not some Persons saved Are they not saved by Grace Is not this Grace the Gift of God Doth God give it in time and did he not decree to give it from Eternity Where then are your Cavils against Election and special Grace Surely you will not deny but that Multitudes perish by their own wilful final Impenitency through the Righteous Judgment of God because they hated him and would not that he should reign over them Infer 5. Lastly Ye may learn from hence how exceeding dangerous it is to resist and quench the Spirit of Grace Ye have heard it fully proved that there is a great work which must be done upon your Souls or ye are undone for ever And dare ye neglect the offered Help of the Spirit Do ye not yet know that by a commoner sort of Grace he usually prepares Men for special Grace And can ye expect the latter while ye despise or

up th● measure of their Sins and so making themselves rip● for Ruin Treasuring up Wrath against the Day of VVrat●● Rom. 25. So God by his Grace qualifies and prepare● his People for Heaven enabling and habitnating the●● to those spiritual Desires and Endeavours which ar●●● suted thereto Vers 9. Wherefore we labour th●● whether present or absent we may be accepted of him Phil. 2.13 He worketh in them both to will and to 〈◊〉 of his good Pleasure A Work so great that it emula●● even Creation it self insomuch that the Persons th●● wrought upon are new Creatures as vers 17. of th●● Chapter If any Man be in Christ he is a new Creatur●● not in point of Essence or Faculties but of new Qual●ties and Dispositions wherewith they are endued An● thus we must be wrought for this self same thing Hence Believers as such are called God's Workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good Works Ephes 2.10 His Building raised and framed by him for an habitation of God through the Spirit Vers 22. His Husbandry 1 Cor. 3.9 Being cultivated by him to bring forth that Fruit unto Holiness the end whereof is Everlasting Life Rom. 6.22 Thus they are the work of his Hands Trees of Righteousness the planting of the Lord that he might be glorified Isa 60.21 Ch. 61.3 So these Vessels of Mercy are prepared for Glory Rom. 8.23 Made meet to be Partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light Col. 1.12 Well set or rightly dispos●d for the Kingdom of God As the word signifies Luke 9.62 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And this it is which the Text principally aims at wherein you may observe several things 1. That great work whereof the Apostle here speaks as a thing already done He that hath wrought c. 2. The Author of this Work viz. The Blessed God himself 3. The Subjects or Persons upon whom it was wrought Namely the Apostle himself and other Gospel-Ministers Vs yet not so as to exclude any other Persons who had obtained like precious Faith with them 2 Pet. 1.1 Or that had believed through their Word Joh. 17.20 See the foregoing Chapter vers 14. as also Chap. 1.21 us with you 4. The end and design of this great Work namely to fit them for Heaven giving them a Temper suted thereto and causing them to long after it 5. The necessity of this great Work as may be gathered from the Relation which these words bear to the Context And more especially by the word now or bur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which connects this Verse with the fore-going q. d. we know that the Heavenly Inheritance shall be ours And we earnestly desire to be there vers 1 2. c. But then it must be remembred that we are wrought for this self-same thing otherwise our Hopes were presumptuous our Confidence meer self-deceit According to which plain Exposition this little Particle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is big enough to exclude all from Heaven who are not in some measure thus wrought for it And now 't is obvious that many points of Doctrine might easily be drawn from these words thus opened and divided But I will mention no more than one which I design to insist upon and to it all the rest may be reduced Doct. There 's no coming to Heaven till we be wrought or prepared for it by the Power of Divine Grace In handling this Point three things must be distinctly spoken to I. The Explication of it or what it means II. The Proof of it or how it appears III. The Use and Improvement of it or what may be deduced from it either to inform our Judgments or to direct and regulate our Practice As to the first of these I shall proceed as follows 1. To give you some general Account of the Heavenly Felicity for which we must be prepared 2. Set before you a more distinct and large Explication of that great Work of Grace whereby the Souls of Believers are fitted for Glory Without some competent Knowledg of the End we are not like to understand the Means And except we enquire into yea and chuse the Way we shall never come to enjoy the blessed End CHAP. II. Some general Account of the Heavenly Felicity to which are subjoyned some short Hints how unfit we are by Nature for that blessed State and how we came to be so 'T IS not to be thought strange that our Conceptions fall exceeding short and our Expressions yet shorter when we come to discourse concerning that Glory which is within the Vail Who can at this distance give any other than a very imperfect Account of that fulness of Joy which is in the Presence of God and those everlasting Pleasures which are at his Right Hand Psal 16.11 Yet are we not left wholly in the dark neither somewhat of Heaven may be known and therefore should diligently be enquired after while we are here on Earth all cannot till we come thither At present we have some Revelation of it both objective and subjective viz. so far as is sutable to our present State 'T is revealed to us Life and Immortality are brought to light by the Gospel 2 Tim. 1.10 'T is revealed in us true Believers have the foretasts of it in those Exercises of Grace which lead to it Tho it doth not yet fully appear what we shall be yet in part it doth For we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 1 Joh. 3.2 Tho out Life is hid with Christ in God Col. 3.3 Yet nor so as if nothing of it could be known but rather that it might be more earnestly searched after Even as in him are bid all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledg Chap. 2.3 compared with Prov. 2.2 3 4. See also 1 Cor. 2.9 10. Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard c. but God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit vers 12. that we might know th● things that are freely given to us of God Well then it is a great advantage that we have ● Map of the Holy Land a Description of the New J●rusalem set before us in the Sacred Records And ye● greater if we taste the Sweetness and feel the Power of those Gospel Discoveries in our own Spirits But then those that do so can hardly make others understand these grateful Relishes The Joys of Believen are such as Strangers intermeddle not with cannot be rightly apprehended but by inward vital Sense and Experience known only to them that have them Word● can but saintly exp●ess them for they are unspeak able 1 Pet. 1.8 How much more inexpressible must those Pleasures be which in Heaven are grown up to fui● perfection Therefore as to what is unrevealed let us wait●● while it cannot be long time runs fast on Eternity is almost upon us The Concerns of our Souls are in safe Hands Our Eyes as one observes are in our glorified Head Jesu Christ He knows for us what