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The Christian directed in his race to heaven, or, A short account of that knowledge and practice that leads thither by James Forbs.
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J. F. (James Forbs), 1629?-1712.
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lowliness of Mind let each esteem other better than themselves Rom. 12.16 Mind not high things but condescend to Men of low Estate 5. If any difference in Principles or Practices fall out among you persue after Peace notwithstanding thereof especially if it be not in fundamentals of Faith and if it be visible that what the parties that differ from you do is from a Principle of Conscience and are in all other things conscientious Rom. 4.2 3. One believeth that he may eat all things another who is weak eateth Herbs Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not v. 17 18 19. The Kingdom of God is not Meat and Drink but Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost for he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God and approved of Men Let us therefore follow after the things which make for Peace and things wherewith one may edifie another Phil. 3.15 16. Let as many as be perfect be thus minded and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded God shall reveal even this unto you Nevertheless whereto we have already attained let us walk by the same Rule let usmind the same thing Ephes 4.3 4 5 6. 6. Harbour not suspicious thoughts of one anothers Hypocrisy Rom 14.4 Who art thou that judgest another Man's Servant To his own Master he standeth or falleth yea he shall be holden up v. 10. Why dost thou judge thy Brother We shall all stand before the Judgment-seat of Christ Jam. 4.11 12. Speak not evil one of another Brethren he that speaketh evil of his Brother and judgeth his Brother speaketh evil of the Law and judgeth the Law but if thou judge the Law thou art not a Doer of the Law but a Judge There is one Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy Who art thou that judgest another Matth. 7.1 2. Judge not that ye be not Judged for with what Judgment ye Judge ye shall be Judged and with what Measure meet it shall be Measured to you again 7. Be very tender of doing any thing that may give just cause of offence to your Spiritual Relations especially in matters indifferent Rom. 14.13 14. Let no Man put a stumbling-Block or an occasion to fall in his Brother's way I know and am perswaded by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of it self i. e. none of those Meats which were unclean under the Law are so now made under the Gospel but to him that esteemeth any thing unclean to him it is unclean If thy Brother is destroyed with thy Meat thou walkest not charitably destroy not him with thy Meat for whom Christ Dyed 1 Cor. 9.10 11 12 13. Take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling Block to them that are Weak For if any Man see thee which hast knowledge sit at Meat in the Idols Temple Shall not the Conscience of him that is weak be emboldned to eat those things which are offered to Idols And through thy knowledge shall the weak Brother perish for whom Christ Died But when ye sin so against the weak Brethren and wound their weak Conscience ye sin against Christ wherefore if Meat make my weak Brother to offend I will eat no Flesh while the World standeth lest I make my weak Brother to offend 1 Cor. 10.23 24. All things are Lawful for me but all things are not expedient all things are Lawful for me but all things edifie not let no Man seek his own but every Man another Wealth v. 32.33 Give none offence neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles nor to the Church of God even as I please all Men in all things not seeking mine own profit but the profit of many that they may be saved Matth. 18.6 7. Gal. 5.13 1 Pet. 2.16 8. Visit one another as frequently as your occasions will give leave and let your Visits be as Acts of Charity When you come together spend not your time in talking of News Trifles or against others but fall upon some Soul-edifying discourse Mal. 3.16 They that feared the Lord spake often to another and the Lord hearkned and heard it and a Book of Remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord and thought upon his Name and they shall be mine saith the Lord of Hosts in that Day when I make up my Jewels Ephes 4.29 Let no corrupt Communication proceed out of your Mouth but that which is good to the use of edifying that it may Minister Grace to the hearers Col. 4.6 Let your Speech be always with Grace seasoned with Salt 9. Pray one for another Ephes 6.18 Praying always with all Prayer and Supplication in the Spirit watching thereunto with all Perseverance and Supplication for all Saints 10. Shew a tender Sympathy with each other in your several conditions 1 Pet. 3.8 Have compassion one of another and be pitiful 1 Cor. 12.26 If one of the Members do suffer all the Members should suffer with it If one Member be Honoured all the Members should rejoyce with it Gal. 6.2 Bear one anothers Burdens and so fulfill the Law of Christ 11. Confess your faults one to another and forgive one another even where there has been not only supposed but real injuries Jam. 5.16 Col. 3.12 13. Put on as the elect of God Holy and Beloved Bowels of Mercies Kindness Humbleness of Mind Meekness Longsuffering forbearing one another and forgiving one another even as Christ forgave you so also do ye Matth. 5.23 If thou bring thy gift to the Altar and there remembrest that thy Brother hath ought against thee leave there thy gift before the Altar and go thy way first be reconciled to thy Brother and then come and offer thy gift 12. If there are such among you as are really Poor Sick Aged and Infirm not able to work for themselves or impoverished by the Hand of Providence contribute to their necessities out of that which God has lent you 1 John 3.17 Who so hath this World's Good and seeth his Brother need and shutteth up his Bowels of compassion from him how dwelleth the Love of God in him Read the whole Eighth Ch. of the 2 Epistle to the Corinthians Where the Apostle exhorts them unto a liberal distrubition to the poor Saints at Jerusalem from the example of the Macedonians from the commendation of their former forwardness from the example of Christ and the Spiritual profit that would redound to themselves thereby Moreover Brethren we do you to wit of the Grace of God bestowed on the Churches of Macedonia how that in a great tryal of Affliction the abundance of their Joy and their deep Poverty abounded unto the Riches of their liberality For to their Power I bear record yea and beyond their Power they were willing of themselves praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift and take upon us the fellowship of Ministring to the Saints Therefore as ye abound in every thing in Faith in Utterance in
as you shall have no occasion afterwards to overturn In these two consists the whole of Gospel Conversion therefore you had the more need see that both be of the right stamp When you set about the work of Repentance and closing with Christ by Faith do it with all your might that you may have no cause to repent of your Repentance or to say Ah! it is a great question whether ever to this day I have truly repented or believed if my Repentance had been real I had not relapsed into such and such Sins I have been but a meer Hypocrite and I must begin anew again as if I had never known or profess'd any thing of God at all Let your Repentance be such that you may say these five things of it 1. There 's no known Sin that ever I have been guilty of but it hath cost me some Tears and my Heart has been even like to break with Sorrow for it Oh! wo is me for what I have brought from the Womb into the World with me and wo is me for what I have added to it since O! what cause of Self-abhorrency is there that I am born with inbred Principles of Enmity and Rebellion against the most High The Seeds and Spawn of all Sins are in my Soul and accordingly what Sin is it but either I have actually committed or would have committed if left to my self and not under some restraint 2. There 's no Sin but I have forsaken at least in Affection and Endeavour the Lord knows there 's no Sin which I love but I do hate every false way it s my Soul's desire to be rid of every thing that offends and my strivings in the stnength of Christ are in some measure suitable to my desires 3. It s Love to the Lord Jesus makes me thus to mourn for Sin and to study Reformation of what is amiss Oh! there 's an infiniteness of Evil in Sin it strikes against the very being of Divine Majesty it robs him of the Glory of all his Attributes it s the transgression of the righteous Law of a great and good God that has loved me so as to send his Son to dye for me Oh! its Sin that crucified the Lord of Glory Zech. 12.10 therefore I cannot any longer continue in it for a thousand Worlds Ah and alass that I have acted so disingenuously against a God of so great Mercies Love Long-suffering and Patience I would not do as I have done if it were to do again for ever so much if there were no Hell to punish Sin nor Heaven to reward Holiness I would forsake the one and follow after the other 4. This Sorrow for and forsaking of Sin is not for a flash when the hand of God is upon me in Sickness or otherwise but it is a continual lasting soaking sorrow Psal 51.2 Mine iniquity is always before me God is the same still and therefore there is reason for me to be a repenting still for Sins committed twenty years ago as if they had been committed but last Hour 5. There 's no Sin but I can freely confess and acknowledge either openly if it has been a publick Sin 1 Tim. 1.13 or secretly to God if it has been only a secret Sin Psal 32.5 1 John 1.9 or to particular Persons if I have injur'd them I am willing to make restitution and reparation for the wrong done Luke 19.8 I am not ashamed to take shame to my self when God's Glory and the Edification of others calls for any such thing at my Hands James 5.16 Josh 7.19 And so for your Faith see that you may say these five things of it 1. It s a Faith of God's working Col. 2.12 it s that that never grew in Nature's Garden it s a thing I was not born with Time was when I had it not but was an Unbeliever it s the gift of God Ephes 2.8 Phil. 1.29 2. This Faith of mine gives a cordial assent unto and compliance with the whole will of God so so far as it is revealed to me in the Word I close with Divine Precepts to be found in the Practice thereof Psalm 119.66 with threatnings to tremble thereat Isa 66.5 as well as Promises to taste the sweetness and comfort thereof 2 Peter 1.4 Heb. 11.13 3. This Faith of mine closes with Christ in all his Offices I am a poor Ignoramus in the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven I do therefore enter my self a Scholar in Christ's School to be taught and instructed by him who is anointed with an unmeasurable measure of the Spirit to open the Eyes of the Blind and unstop the Ears of the Deaf Isa 61.1 Ps 45.7 this is to close with him in his prophetical Office Sin has caus'd such an estrangement between God and Me that if all the Angels in Heaven and Creatures on Earth would offer up themselves as a Sacrifice for my Sin they could never satisfie Divine Justice nor work Reconciliation for me but there 's virtue enough in the Lamb's Blood for effecting the same this is to close with him in his priestly Office Hitherto my Heart has been greatly at Enmity against Holiness but am now through Grace made willing to submit to the Scepter of Christ's Government and to acknowledge him for my King Lord and Law-giver Isa 26.13 Other Lords besides thee have had dominion over us but by thee we will make mention of thy Name this is to close with him in his Kingly Office 4. this Faith of mine is operative and working Gal. 5.6 fruitful James 2.14 I am not a Solifidian but would have Faith and Works go together a Heart-purifying and Soul-sanctifying Acts 15.9 as well as a justifying Faith a Soul-humbling Faith Habak 2.4 Conquering and Victorious 1 John 5.5 a Faith that in some measure fits me for doing and suffering what Christ and his cause calls for See the whole Eleventh Chapter to the Hebrews 5. This Faith of mine is that which highly calls and sublimates my Spirit far beyond what Nature improved to the utmost could ever do that through it I cannot only rejoyce in the hope of Glory but also glory in Tribulation as knowing that Tribulation worketh Patience and Patience Experience and Experience Hope and Hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in my Heart by the Holy Ghost which is given me Rom. 5. begin 1. Pet. 1.8 whom having not seen ye love in whom though now ye see him not yet believing ye rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of Glory Rom. 15.13 Now the God of hope fill you with all Joy and Peace in believing that ye may abound in Hope through the power of the Holy Ghost 6. When once you are clear in this Soul-concerning Business of the soundess of your Conversion and solidity of the Foundation which you have laid let it be your great care ever after to demean your self in all things as it becometh one that 's dignified with so high and holy