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A37065 The earnest breathings of forreign Protestants, divines & others, to the ministers and other able Christians of these three nations for a compleat body of practicall divinity ... and an essay of a modell of the said body of divinity / by J.D. ... ; together with an expedient tendered for the entertainment of strangers who are Protestants, and by their means to advance the Gospel unto their several nations and quarters ... Dury, John, 1596-1680. 1658 (1658) Wing D2855; ESTC R3545 75,860 66

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Covenant and for this use the Imposition of the hands of the Presbyterie is appointed viz. to give lawful authority to those that are Publick persons in the Profession of the Covenant Concerning the Second We believe First That the Faithfull are bound to make use of these Signes for the Ends for which God hath given them by taking them up and applying them to those to whom he hath ordained them as Evidences of their dependance upon him and of their owning of his Covenant and of their Profession thereof before the World Secondly We believe that the Sign of Baptism is to be applyed unto all whom God hath received into his Covenant and belong unto his houshold that the Sign of the Lords Supper is to be applyed unto all that have embraced and do entertain professedly the Covenant And that the Sign of the Imposition of hands is to be applyed unto all that are called and to be set apart for any Publick Office in the Church Hitherto We have reckoned up the Heads of the Principles of the life of Godliness as they rise from and relate to the Covenant which is the ground of all Spiritual Relations between God and Us. Now followeth that which is to be known concerning the substance of that life which God doth work in Us by the Covenant Concerning the Substantials of the Life of Godliness THe Substantials of the life of Godliness are nothing else but the power practice of that state and life whereby we are made one with God and walking with Christ in the Covenant we enjoy God in him both outwardly and inwardly The enjoyment of God in the Inward man is by the New creature and his life of communion with God Concerning the New creature these things should be known 1. What that change is whereby a man becometh from an Old a New creature and is born again 2. How that change is wrought in the Soul by the knowledge of Christ in the Covenant and how the conscience is quickned therein by him and raised to a new life 3. How that change is discerned to be real and sincere and the deceitfulness of a pretended or imaginary change discovered Concerning the Life of inward communion with God these things should be acknowledged 1. What it is to know and worship God in Spirit and truth 2. How the Spiritual man doth walk with God by faith by hope by love according to the Covenant 3. What that vertue is whereby he is enabled to have God alwayes before his eyes and to do all things in the name of Jesus Christ giving glory to God the Father through him 4. What Tentations are opposite unto this Life both from the corruption of our nature and from Satan and how they are resisted The enjoyment of God in the Outward man is by the open profession and practice of Obedience unto the will and wayes of God in all things which hath two chief parts The first is To deny the practice and profession of ungodliness and of all worldly Lusts Tit. 2. 11 12. The second is To offer up our bodies as a living sacrifice unto God by our reasonable serving of him in the Covenant Rom. 12. 1. Concerning the denying of ungodliness and worldly Lusts these things should be known 1. What the Practice and Profession of Impiety is as it proceedeth First from Natural Atheism Secondly from vain Philosophy the Traditions of men and the Rudiments of the World Thirdly from the strong Delusions and the deceitfullness of unrighteousness which Satan is permitted to make use of in the end of the World 2. How the Consciences of Natural men are to be dealt withal and convicted concerning the wickedness of their Practices in this kind 3. What the nature and the original is of Actual sins and how they proceed from the power of inbred Lust 4. How the motions of Actual sins are to be resisted not only by the inward purification of the heart but also by the outward exercises of a Mortified life wherein the body is kept under and brought into subjection 1 Cor. 9. 27. Concerning the offering our bo●ies a living Sacrifice unto God by the Covenant Three things must be known for the ordering of our conversation aright in respect of our selves in respect of our Neighbour and in respect of God for hereunto the Apostle Tit. 2. 12. doth referre all mens vertuous actions in this World by Sobriety Justice and Religiousness Sobriety doth comprehend all the way of our conversation with our selves Justice all our conversation with our Neighbour and Religiousnes all our conversation towards God And these Heads of our outward conversation ought to be handled and taken up in this order because the duties of the First kind are such a ground-work for the Second and Third that without Sobriety in respect of our selves nothing can be done rightly towards God or Man And the Duties of the Second kind are in Gods own esteem preferred to the Duties of the Third because he doth require Mercy of us and not Sacrifice that is the Works of Justice and Mat. 5. 23. Mat. 12. 7 8. Isa 1. 11. to 19. Charity towards our Neighbour more then the Works of outward Worship towards himself Of the Ordering our way toward our selves by Sobriety TO be able to order our selves and all our wayes in Sobriety we must know 1. What the nature of Sobriety is as it is a Rule of restraint to moderate our selves in all our Undertakings as they are ours 2. What the nature of our Intemperance and inclination to Excess is and whence it cometh viz. from Self-love where we must know what Self-love and self pleasing is and how all manner of Excess proceedeth from thence 3. How Sobriety doth proceed from the Grace of Self-denial accompanied with Contentation Meekness and Lowliness which Christ upon the Ground of the Covenant and Promise of Rest doth invite us to learn of himself Mat. 11. 29. 4. What the proper work of Sobriety is in reference to the natural acts of Affections where is to be noted that our natural affections may be two wayes vitious either as they discompose and wrong us within our-selves or as they tend to discompose and wrong our Neighbour In the first Respect they are to be regulated by Sobriety in the second by Justice so that the proper work of Sobriety will be to keep the acts of our natural Affections within the bounds of that lawful and necessary use whereunto God hath appointed them And to discover these bounds the natural Desires and Actions of Christ in the flesh as he did subordinate them unto the life of God in the Spirit according to the Covenant are to be taken notice of as a Rule 5. What the Rules of Sobriety are in particular in respect of the lusts of the flesh as meat and drink ease and softness the conjugal bed and all other delightful actions inherent to the body 6. What the Rules of Sobriety are in respect of the lusts