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Principles and rules of the Gospel offer'd for the help of all who desire to live disciples of Jesus Christ.
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Gother, John, d. 1704.
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coarse Apparel is commended in the Baptist a Modest Dress is recommended to Women accompanied with Shamefacedness Sobriety and a Meek Spirit Outward Adorning with Gold Pearls or Costly Apparel is reprov'd Inward Adorning with Virtue is requir'd All that is suggested in Dressing by Vanity Pride Envy or for pleasing the World is forbid All that is Immoderate whether as to the Expence of Time or Money is not allow'd In this it is very easie to discern what is the Spirit of the Gospel And if it be discern'd then all those who desire in Truth to be the Followers of Christ know what they are to do They must approve only that which their Rule approves and as for all whatever Inclination or the World recommends beyond that they must shut their hearts against it and say the Gospel is our Rule and this only we must follow CHAP. VI. Of Eating and Drinking Q. WHAT direction do's the Gospel give as to Eating and Drinking A. There is enough mention'd to serve for a Christian's Rule First Gluttony and Drunkenness are positively Forbid Take heed to your selves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with Surfeiting and Drunkenness Luk. 21. 34. Let us walk honestly as in the day not in Rioting and Drunkenness Rom. 13. 13. Wo unto you that are full for ye shall hunger Luk. 6. 25. Drunkards shall not inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6. 10. The Works of the Flesh are manifest Drunkenness Revellings of the which I tell you that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God Gal. 5. 19 21. Be not Drunk with wine wherein is excess but be fill'd with the Spirit Eph. 5. 18. Secondly It is particularly observ'd in the Rich Glutton that he Fared sumptuously every day Luk. 16. 19. It is a good thing that the heart be establish'd with Grace not with Meats which have not profitted them that have been occupied therein Heb. 13. 9. The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink but righteousness and peace Rom. 14. 17. Many walk of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping that they are the enemies of the Cross of Christ whose end is destruction whose God is their Belly and whose Glory is their Shame Phil. 3. 18 19. Thirdly Temperance and Sobriety are recommended Teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Tit. 2. 12. Wherefore gird up your loins be sober and hope to the end 1 Pet. 1. 13. Be sober be vigilant 1 Pet. 5. 8. Let your Moderation be known to all men Phil. 4. 5. He shall be great in the sight of the Lord and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink Luk. 1. 15. His Meat was Locusts and wild Honey Mat. 3. 4. Let us not sleep as do others but let us watch and be sober Let us who are of the day be sober 1 Thess 5. 6 8. Whether ye eat or drink or whatsoever ye do do all to the Glory of God 1 Cor. 10. 31. Having Food and Raiment let us be therewith content 1 Tim. 6. 8. Fourthly Fasting is commanded Jesus Fasted Forty Days and Forty Nights Mat. 4. 2. Anna departed not from the Temple but served God with Fastings and Prayer Night and Day Luk. 2. 37. This kind of Devil can come forth by nothing but by Prayer and Fasting Mar. 19. 29. The Days will come when the Bridegroom shall be taken away from them and then shall they fast in those Days Luk. â— 35. They administred to the Lord and fasted And when they had fasted and pray'd and laid their Hands on them they sent them away Acts 13. 2 3. When they had ordain'd them Elders in every Church and had prayed with fasting they commended them to the Lord Act. 14. 23. In this may be discern'd the Spirit of the Gospel in this Point that while it approves Eating and Drinking for the Support of Nature it requires that this be done Soberly and with Moderation and to the Glory of God It commends Abstinence and Fasting It reproves Faring Sumptuously It condemns the Solicitude of pleasing the Appetite and making the Belly a God It declares Surfeiting Rioting Revelling and Drunkenness to be such Crimes that their Guilt excludes from Heaven If these be the Dictates of the Christian's Rule then it is very easie to observe how far the Gospel allows as to Eating and Drinking and how far it disapproves And hence it is obvious what they are to do who follow the Gospel They are to think nothing allowable but as it is here approv'd and must not by deceitful Constructions pretend to justifie that which is here condemn'd Especially where the Sentence is so positive and the Guilt shall live For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God Rom. 8. 13 14. Put off concerning the former Conversation the old Man which is corrupt according to the deceitful Lusts Eph. 4. 22. I beseech you as Strangers and Pilgrims abstain from fleshly Lusts which war against the Soul 1 Pet. 2. 11. If any Man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his Cross and follow me For whosoever will save his Life shall lose it and whosoever will lose his Life for my sake shall find it For what is a Man profitted if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own Soul Or what shall a Man give in Exchange for his Soul Mat. 16. 24 25 26. He that loveth his Life shall lose it and he that hateth his Life in this World shall keep it unto Life eternal If any Man serve me let him follow me Jo. 12. 25 26. By this shall all Men know that ye are my Disciples if ye have love one to another Jo. 13. 35. I say unto you love your Enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitely use you and persecute you Mat. 5. 44. Love not the world neither the things that are in the world 1 Jo. 2. 15. Put on as the elect of God holy and beloved Bowels of mercies Kindnesses Humbleness of mind Meekness Long-suffering Forbearing one another and Forgiving one another if any man have a quarrel against any even as Christ forgave you so also do ye And above all things put on Charity which is the bond of perfectness and let the peace of God rule in your hearts And be ye thankful Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all Wisdom and whatever ye do in word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Col. 3. 12 13 14 15 16 17. What things were gain to me those I counted loss for Christ Yea doubtless and I do count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord For whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do count them but dung that I may win Christ and be found in
Rom. 8. 12. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ Shall tribulation or distress or persecution Nay in all these things we are more than conquerors thro' him that loved us Rom. 8. 35. If we have been planted together in the likeness of his death we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection Knowing this that our Old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sin Now if we be dead with Christ we believe that we shall also live with him Rom. 6. 5 8. I beseech you brethren by the mercies of God that ye present your bodies a living Sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service and be not conformed to this world But be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God Rom. 12. 1. Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things Now they do it to obtain a corruptible Crown but we an incorruptible I therefore so run not as uncertainly so fight I not as one that beateth the air But I keep unto my body and bring it under subjection lest that by any means when I have preached to others I my self should be a cast-away 1 Cor. 9. 25. Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus Christ that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body 2 Cor. 4. 10. He died for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him which died for them and rose again Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature old things are past away behold all things are become new 2 Cor. 5. 15 17. I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me And the life which I now live in the Flesh I live by the Faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me Gal. 2. 20. Walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh If we live in the Spirit let us also walk in the spirit They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Gal. 5. 16 24. Henceforth let no man trouble me for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus Gal. 6. 17. I do count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do count them but dung that I may win Christ That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead Phil. 3. 8. Put off concerning the former conversation the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts and be renewed in the spirit of your mind and that ye put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness Eph. 4. 22. The Grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Tit. 2. 12. Mortifie therefore your members which are upon the earth Fornication Vncleanness inordinate Affection in the which ye also walked some time when ye lived in them But now you also put off all these and have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him Col. 3. 5. Flee also youthful lusts But follow righteousness Faith Charity Peace 2 Tim. 2. 22. Thus speaks the Rule whence it is plain above all dispute that those who follow their Inclinations do not follow this Rule We have all an inheritance of Corruption which bends us to sin this is entail'd on us from Adam and is call'd the Old Man this the Gospel commands us to put off all such then as strictly examin their Inclinations Affections and Desires and resolutely stand against those which they perceive to be sinful or can suspect as leading to sin are the Persons who live by the Rule which they profess and if they study to improve those better Impressions which are the effects of Grace it cannot be question'd but they will be cloath'd with the New Man and while in the Flesh even live by the Spirit But this cannot be their Character who being subject to great variety of Worldly and Sensual Inclinations who finding no Relish in their Souls but of what is in favor of their Pride Vanity Idleness and of Self-love in all its Shapes are so far from using due means for suppressing them that their whole Life is an Obedience to their demands for certainly these have no regard to what the Gospel prescribes their Life is a Contradiction to its Rules they indulge their Corruption which God commands them to resist and therefore being found under the Subjecti of the old Man can never expect while under this Slavery to come to the Liberty of the Children of God Either do what the Gospel requires or else look for no other Portion but with Unbelievers CHAP. XIX Of Suffering Affliction or Persecution Q. WHAT Directions do's the Gospel give as to these Points A. It speaks very largely of them and shews with what Spirit a Christian ought to submit Blessed are they which are persecuted for Righteousness sake for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Blessed are ye when Men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake Rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is your Reward in Heaven For so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you Mat. 5. 10. Ye have heard that it hath been said an Eye for an Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth but I say unto you that ye resist not Evil but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right Cheek turn him the other also Mat. 5. 38. He that taketh not his Cross and followeth after me is not worthy of me He that findeth his Life shall lose it and he that loseth his Life for my sake shall find it Fear not them which kill the Body but are not able to kill the Soul but rather fear him which is able to destroy both Soul and Body in Hell Are not two Sparrows Sold for a Farthing And one of them shall not fall on the Ground without your Father But the very Hairs of your Head are all number'd Fear ye not therefore ye are of more Value than many Sparrows Whosoever therefore shall confess me before Men him will I confess also before my Father which is in Heaven Think not that I am come to send Peace on Earth I came not to send Peace but a Sword Mat. 10. 38 28. Behold I send you forth as Sheep