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A18605 The summe of all, (namely) Gods service, and mans salvation And a briefe of mans dutie to God concerning both: which is, seeking to serve God while hee lives, and to be saved, when hee dyes. By William Chibald, rector of S. Nic. Col. Abby in Old Fishstreete. Chibald, William, 1575-1641. 1630 (1630) STC 5133; ESTC S116462 49,654 304

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faith or beleefe in Christ is good whē it works in us by love to God and our neighbour Gal 5.6 and is shewed by good workes Tit 3.8 Iam 2.18 and when it stirres us up to sincere obedience to Gods commandements Hebr 11.8 4. Our feare of God is right when we feare him as much for his mercy as for his justice Psal 130.2 and feare more to sinne against him than to be punished by him Psal 4.4 Gen 39.9 5. Our love of God is good when it stirres us up to keepe his Commandements Iohn 14.15.23 when wee love him for those excellent perfections of wisedome and goodnesse that are in him as well as for the benefits that come from him and when it stirres us up to hate evill and sinne Psal 97.9 10. 6. Our hope in God namely for the resurrection to eternall life and for Christs second comming is right when being grounded on the Scriptures Rom 15.4 wee comfort our selves in our afflictions with it 1 Thess 4.13.18 when wee patiently waite Gods leisure for the obtaining of things promised 1 Thess 1.3 Rom 8.23 and when it purifies our hearts 1 Iohn 3.3 and makes us deny all ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to live righteously and godlily and soberly in this present world Titus 2.12 13. P. Good Sir I humbly acknowledge my selfe beholden to you for your care over me and paines with mee I hope I shall never forget it but endeavour to shew my selfe thankefull The Lord requite your labour of love to me in private by a greater blessing upon your ministery in publike and by prolonging your life health and strength for Gods glorie and the good of his Church in Iesus Christ. The Lord bee with you Sir and with your studies FINIS A PRAYER FOR GRACE TO Seeke to serve God and bee saved MOst glorious Lord God and heavenly Father Reu 4 11 who art worthy of all honour and service Iam 4 12 and who art able to save and destroy Luk 17 10 Thy unprofitable servant unworthy of salvation Acts 13 46 doth desire to humble himselfe before thee freely acknowledging that howsoever I am convinced in my judgement that nothing in this world doth so neerely concerne me to looke unto as thy service and mine owne salvation yet my heart tells and smites me that I have minded nothing lesse then these and that I have with much greedinesse sought after health and wealth worldly pleasures and treasures which only belong to the body this present life as if they only were worth my seeking and were more able to afford me true content than thy service and my salvation Thou hast brought me into the world and made me a member of thy Christian Church chiefly for to get grace into my heart that I might serve thee and live in thy feare and also to get peace into my conscience that I might dye in thy favour and be eternally saved 2 Cor 6 2 for now is the accepted time now is the day of salvation But I have neglected the prerogative of thy service Rom 9 2 Hebr 2 4 and so great salvation and have spent my precious time and thoughts in the pursuite of carthly things which I should have counted but as losse and dung Phil 3 8 in comparison of winning Christ and with him salvation as if I had beene borne to no other end but to serve the world sinne and Satan and to make provision f●r the flesh Rom 13 14 to fulfill the lusts thereof O Lord God when I call to minde and consider my vanity and folly yea ungracious wickednesse in trampling under my feete such precious pearles as are thy service Hebr 10 29 and my salvation I am confounded in my selfe wondcring at thy patiencc that couldst so long endure such an ungratefull wretch to live in thy Church yea I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee because this mine iniquity is increased over my head Ezra 9 6 and my wickednesse is growne up unto heaven crying for vengeance upon such contempt of thy grace Iohn 3 19 it being condemnation to love darknesse more than light earth more than heaven and the world more than thee or mine owne soule But thy mercy O Lord God is over all thy workes Psal 145 9 138 8. and endures for ever It is as great as thy Majesty and thy goodnesse is as much as thy greatnesse and the blood of Iesus Christ is able to wash mee so cleane from my sinnes Reuel 1 5 that I shall be holy Eph 5 27 and without blemish before thee therefore there is hope in Israel concerning this thing Ezra 10 2 And therefore upon the bended knees of my heavy laden soule I most humbly cry thee mercy most mercifull Father for this and all other my sinnes originall and actuall committed against the Law and the Gospell and with all the powers of my soule most earnestly beseech thee for the Lords sake Dan 9 17 Isay 53 11 Acts 3 14. Mat 3 17 thy righteous servant the holy One and the just in whom thou art well pleased to forgive me to be reconciled unto me and to shed thy love into my heart by thy holy Spirit Rom 5 5 which may beare witnesse to my Spirit c. 8 16. that I am thy Childe beloved in thy holy Childe Iesus Acts 4 27 Let thy mercy move thee to looke upon his righteousnesse to justify me when thy justice would make thee looke upon my sinnes to condemne me Accept of him for my surety Hebr. 7.22 and of the price of his blood for my ransome 1 Pet 1 23 Thou hast said O blessed God that whosoever comes Mat 11 28 unto thy Sonne Iesus Christ Ioh 6 35. and beleeves in him with an heavie laden soule wearie of their former wickednesse thou wilt ease and forgive them 1 Iohn 1 9 Oh be just and faithfull to make good this promise unto me to ease and to save me I desire to honour thy infinite mercy and thy Sonnes unvaluable merits by seeking to them onely and trusting in them alone for salvation O be thou pleased also to magnifie them upon me for I have as much need of them as any 1 Tim 1 ●5 being the chiefe of sinners and the saving vertues of them shall be magnified in the cure of my soule as well as of any other It hath pleased thee heavenly Father to give unto me in some measure a sight and sense of my sins particularly of my neglect and contempt of thy service and my salvation Oh be pleased I beseech thee yet more and more to discover unto me the folly and foulnesse of this and all my sinnes that my heart may be so broken with godly remorse and sorrow for them that I may leave them and live no longer in them but cleave unto thee to serve thee in new obedience for what will it profit
respect of all afflictions on our brethren wee must 1. have a fellow-feeling of the same upon them as if they were on our selves Rom. 12.15 Heb. 13.5 1 Pet. 3.8 2. We must pray for them for their ease remedy and deliverance if it bee Gods will or a sanctified use of them Iam. 5.14 Psal 35.13 3. We must helpe to releeve them in the same as we are able and to deliver them out of the same Matth. 14.14 Iob 31.20 Thirdly in respect of some temptations and afflictions that have beene sanctified to us or our bretheren so that wee have received from them through Gods good grace some holy fruit of righteousnesse wee must 1. acknowledg Gods goodnesse in them Psal 73.1 119.69.71 2. We must blesse God for them Iob 1.21 3. We must rejoyce and comfort our selves in them Iam. 1.2 3. because 1. they are not Gods vengeance but chastisement Hebr. 12.5 2. They come from God not as an enemy but as a father reconciled in Christ 2 Sam. 7.14 Hebr 12.5 3. God is moved to send them in love Rev. 3.9 and that they shall not separate us frō the love of God in Christ Rom. 8.38 39. 4. God aymed in these afflictions at some spirituall good Hebr. 12.10 Phil. 3.10 5. The event of them shall be their and our furtherance in grace Psal 119.71 37.37 unto salvation Phil. 1.19.28 P. Sir you have beene very large and long to your great paines in teaching mee how to serve God with duties that have respect to himselfe in consideration of his divine Attributes that bee in him and also of his Ordinances and workes proceeding from him I pray you proceede to my duties unto my Neighbour M. They are of 2. kindes 1. such as are common to all and every one 2. such as are peculiar to some P. What are those duties that are cōmon to all M. They are 1. generall namely 1. to love our neighbour as our selves Matth. 22.39 2. to doe unto him as we being guided by true reason would have him to doe to us Math. 7.12 2. special which are five P. Which are they M. The first is to maintaine his place and authority office and preheminence in common-wealth Church or family Exod. 20.12 which is the 5. Commandement The second is to preserve his life health and bodily strength Exod. 20.13 which is the 6. Commandement The third is to cherish the chastity of our neighbour and neither by lookes or gestures words or actions to assault or violate the same Exod. 20.14 which is the 7. Commandement The fourth is to further the profit and lawfull gaine of our neighbour and in nothing of the least worth to seeke his losse and dammage Exod. 20.15 which is the 8. Commandement The fifth is to uphold his credit and good name and not to disgrace him by word or action in the least manner or measure Exod. 20.16 which is the 9. Commandement P. What are those duties that are peculiar to some of our Neighbours M. 1. Such as are due to godly and sincere Christians as namely 1. brotherly love and religious affection Hebr. 13.1 when wee therefore love them not because they are men or our kindred or beneficiall to us but because of their graces and Christian vertues eminent in them 2. Patience to beare with their weaknesses and cover their infirmities Gal. 6.2 1 Pet. 4.8 2. Such as are due to some namely as they are tyed to us by any bond of nature or law as husbands and wives parents or children Masters or Servants or the like of which duties you may reade at large in a booke made by D. Gouge D Gouge of Houshold duties who hath written fully and to excellent purpose thereof P. Sir my desire is to know and doe the whole revealed will of God and therefore as you have instructed mee in my dutie 1. in respect of God and 2. in respect of my Neighbour so I beseech you also to tell mee in the third place what is my dutie of service unto God in respect of my selfe M. I will and because you consist both of a body and of a soule Duties in respect of our selves and have a double calling to live in namely a civill calling and a Christian calling therefore will I briefly shew you the summe of your dutie in respect of all foure P. Sir I thanke you I pray you then shew me my duty in respect of my bodie M. It is this to possesse your vessel in holinesse and honour that is in chastity temperance and sobriety without pride or luxury chambering or wantonnesse continually restraining the senses parts and members thereof from being weapons and instruments to let in or let out sinne and withholding them from the occasions and opportunities of doing evill 1 Thess 4.4 5. Tit. 2.12 Rom. 13.13 P. What is my dutie in respect of my soule M. To be watchfull over it and over all the powers and faculties thereof that you grow not loose or secure in sinne yea to bee circumspect in all your wayes that you be not deceived by your own deceitfull heart the worlds vanities and Satans subtleties Prov. 4.23 2 Tim. 4.5 Eph. 5.17 6.13 to 19. P. What duties appertaine to me in my Christian calling M. These seven chiefly 1. To bee zealous and discreete humble and sincere in the profession of Christian religion Revel 3.19 Rom. 12.3 Iam. 3.17 Tit. 1.16 2. Daily to repent of our sinnes and to cry God mercie by faith in Christ as wee sinne daily Matth. 6.12 3. So to live as those that looke to die and to rise unto judgement at the second comming of Christ Acts 17.30 31. 24.17 18. Deut. 32.29 4. To mortifie our sinfull and corrupt nature 1. by applying to our selves the commandements promises and threatnings of the word Col 3.5 and 2 by denying to our selves all occasions meanes and opportunities of sinne Matth. 5.29 30. 5. To moderate our desires to the profits pleasures and honours of the world considering the vanity of them Eccles 1.2 and not to be discontent with our present state nor to covet our neighbours Hebr 13.5 Tit 2.12 Exod 12.17 Rom 7.7 6. To make sure unto our selves our calling election and salvation by growing in the number and measure of Christian graces 2 Pet 1.5 10. 7. To strive and endeavour to continue and persevere in well-doing and patient suffering for conscience sake Matth 10.22 Iam 1.25 Rev 2.25 2 Tim. 4.7 8. P. And I pray you good Sir what duties appertaine to mee in my civill calling course and trade of life M. These seven principally 1. Diligence painfulnesse without idlenesse 2. Thess 3.7 8. 2. Cheerefulnes and joyfulnes without being weary of well-doing Deut 12.7.2 Thess 2.13 3. Moderation without plodding and moyling carking and caring through distrust to the neglect of our bodily health and salvation Hebr. 13.5 Matth 6.33 4. Honesty and righteousnesse without wronging others or deceiving them 1 Thes 4.6.12 5. Charity in