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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44826	The benefit of a well-ordered conversation as it was delivered in a sermon preached June 24th. 1682. On a day of publick humiliation. As also a funeral discourse upon the three first verses of the third chapter of Isaiah; occasioned by the death of the worshipful Major General Denison; who deceased at Ipswich, Sept. 20. 1682. By Mr. William Hubbard. To which is annexed an Irenicon or a salve for New-England's sore: penned by the said major general; and left behind him as his farewell and last advice to his friends of the Massachusets.	Hubbard, William, 1621 or 2-1704.; Denison, Daniel, 1613-1682. Irenicon.	1684 (1684)	Wing H3208; ESTC W9576	81,919	262

concerning the good thing which he ought to do in order unto life If thou wilt enter into life keep the Commandments now this we must take into our thoughts that there are Evangelical Commandments as well as legal there is a Command to believe as well as to obey And that is the great command of the Gospel The great work of God which we must do if we would see Gods Salvation to believe in him whom he hath sent into the World to give Salvation to all that obey him Before the Fall it was to do of our selves by our own strength since the Fall it is to begin with Faith which worketh by love and which is the fulfilling the whole Law Under that of the Commandments of God are contained all the Duties of Religious Worship whether natural or instituted as well as those of righteousness toward men And when we read in the Gospel that men are called to Faith and Repentance in order unto Salvation that is not to exclude moral Obedience but to shew us what course we are to take to be put into a way of Salvation viz. to study and put in practice Repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ that thereby being reconciled unto God by the merit of his Son we may be enabled to work out our Salvation in the performance of all such duties of holy Obedience as God in his Word requires of us See then if there be any Duty of Gods Worship which we wilfully omit or any duty of Righteousness which we presumptuously transgress and we shall find it impossible to see God Salvation for he that in this manner breaketh any one command of God it guilty of the breach of all as the Apostle James speaketh Jam. 2.10 though he keepeth the whole Law in all other points The Apostle Paul in Gal. 6.15 16 verses tells us of the new Creature If any man be in Christ he is a new creature in the next verse he shows us the rule of the new creature As many as walk according to this rule peace be on them and mercy upon the Israel of God What is that Rule The rule of the Gospel which requires them that believe to be careful to maintain good works And in Gal. 5.6 t is said Neither Circumcision nor uncircumcision availes any thing to salvation but Faith which worketh by love and love is the fulfilling the whole Law An able Divine and worthy Minister of the Gospel in England Mr. Edward Reyner of Lincoln not long since wrote a Book which he stileth Precepts for Christian Practice or the Rule of the New Creature wherein he hath reduced the duty of Christianity unto ten heads which he therein largely insists upon and at the last closeth with a discourse about the government of the thoughts and affections Solomon sums up all in one general Rule Pro. 4.23 Above all keepings keep the heart for out of it are the issues of life the heart is the primum mobile in the little world of man the great wheel in that active Engine of our nature the fountain out of which flows the stream that drives the Mill of all our motions the root out of which springs the fruits of our whole life the well governing of that will keep our whole conversation aright both our thoughts and our words our affections and actions Naturallists tell us there are two great veins that arise out of the heart the one called Vena porta the other Vena cava which carry forth out of the heart the spirits that quicken all the whole body so spiritually the heart purified by Faith by those two great issues of Religion and Righteousness maintains the whole frame of obedience in the new-creature teaching us to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world They that so do are infallibly in the way of Salvation 3. With Resolution and Holy Courage continue in the pursuit of all those means to the end and we shall surely be made to see Gods Salvation we shall tast the first fruits of it here and come to the full fruition of it at last It is true many times in the experience of real and sincere Christians that though they may through Grace sometimes will yet they know not how to perform If we be sound sincere in our endeavours our Saviour Christ will put the best construction upon our wayes He is the best Judge of sincerity for he tells us at least speaks for all his genuine and true Disciples that the Spirit is willing though the Flesh be weak Who would not do all they can for so good a Master that they may be accepted of him at the last We should do well to wind up our hearts to the highest pitch of Resolution which in this state of imperfection we are capable of Let every one say for himself in his own particular Whatever become of others as Joshua said of old I and my Family will serve the Lord. And then we may with comfort conclude in the Words of the Psalmist That whatever troubles befall us in the way that yet at the end we shall be made to see the Salvation of God FINIS Soli Deo Gloria A FUNERAL MEDITATION From those Words of the Prophet Isaiah Chap. 3.1 2 3 verses Occasioned by the Interrment of Major DANIEL DENISON On September 22. 1682. THe Words of the Text are added as a reason of the Words foregoing Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils For behold the Lord the Lord of Hosts doth take away c. The time which they seem to refer unto was under the Reign of Ahaz King of Judah when the state of that Kingdom was low and broken by forreign Invasions as well as intestine troubles for we read 2 Chron. 28.6 8. that in his dayes Pekah the Son of Remaliah slew an 120000. in one day all valiant men besides near double that number which were carried Captive both Sons and Daughters neither do any other times appear so calumitous since the Death of Jeroboam to which these words could so fitly be applied when God was taking away from Jerusalem and Judah the whole staffe of bread and the whole stay of water c. when he would give children to be their Princes and Babes should rule over them i. e. when he would withdraw all means one and another whereby as with a staff mans life is susteined and a state supported by the removing of the first each mans life was in danger by the latter being the prime persons for Martial Civil or Ecclesiastical affairs and not only the chief Ornaments but the very Pillars and Props of the body politick both of Church and State when these are removed the ruin of both must needs ensue as of an house when the principal Studs are pull'd away that bear it up so it befel the Temple of the Philistines when Samson pull'd down the Pillars that did