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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66075	Counsels and comforts for troubled consciences contained in a letter, lately written to a friend / by Henry Wilkinson ...	Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.	1679 (1679)	Wing W2234; ESTC R34095	48,680	121

should have been a Watchman slept upon his watch a Commander slew him saying I found him dead Mortuum inveni mortutum reliqui Mat. 2 5. 13. Mark 13. 36 37. and left him dead There 's a necessity that you should stand upon your watch Our Saviour frequently presseth this duty of Watchfulness and the Apostle Paul presseth watchfulness Watch ye stand fast in the faith quit you like men be strong And the Apostle Peter lays a special charge Be sober be vigilant because 1 Cor. 16. 13. 1 Pet. 5. 8. your adversary the Devil as a roaring Lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour More particularly watch over your thoughts the thoughts may be compared to Reuben the first-born yet as he was so are thoughts they are unstable as water We must Gen. 49. 3 4. not give any lodging to vain thoughts Though they are apt to croud in upon us yet we must not give any entertainment to nor approbation of them you must likewise watch over your words and labour to reduce Davids resolution into practice I said I will Psal 39. 1. i. e. That I sin not or miss not By a Bridle the untamedness of the tongue is noted which must by force and watchfulness be restrained Ainsw Phil. 1. 27. 1 Thes 2. 12. take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me And you must watch over your whole life and conversation and labour to walk as becomes the Gospel and to walk worthy of God 2. Be furnished with spiritual 2. Be furnished with spiritual Armour Armour you had need be well provided and appointed with every piece of that Divine Panoply mentioned by the Apostle And in an especial manner the shield of faith is a defensive weapon to ward off Satans fiery darts for so saith the Apostle Above all taking the shield of faith Eph. 6. 16. wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked And the same Apostle chargeth us to put Eph. 6. 11. on the whole armour of God that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil Faith is a principal piece of this spiritual Armour and if we be stedfast in the faith we take a ready course to resist him Whom resist stedfast 1 Pet. 5. 9. in the faith knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world Themistocles when a Battel was lost askt Whether his Buckler was safe Faith is both a Shield and a Buckler for defence Amidst variety of losses if we keep Faith for our Shield and Bucklar there 's strong encouragement left notwithstanding other losses 3. Another Preparative against 3. Resist the first onset and assault of Satan Satans Temptations is to be careful to resist the first onset and assault of Satan We say in Proverbs Nip bad fruit in the very bud and crush the cockatrice in the egg And Physicians Obsta Principiis say Resist beginnings In an especial manner let 's resist this old Serpent Satan in his first attempts As a Serpent if he can get in his head he will soon wind in his whole body so Satan if he be admitted at the first and be not repulsed in his first motions he will proceed more and more to do greater mischiefs Wherefore when Satan injects wandring vain and unbelieving thoughts resist them presently and hold no compliance with Satan nor carnal reasonings but as the the Apostle 2 Cor. 10. 5. exhorts Casting down * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Intelligit de consilio ratiocinationis humanae non sincerae sed corruptae Musc imaginations and every high thing that exalteth it self against the knowledg of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ Sect. 11. 2. Imped 2. A misrepresentation by a false glass A second Impediment to be removed is a misrepresentation of your self by a false glass and so making a judgment upon your self according to your own misrepresentations your own fancies conjectures and imaginations are all as so many false glasses for you to look in You may peradventure think that you have no faith at all because you want feeling whereas feeling is an afterthing In whom saith the Apostle Eph. 1. 13. ye also trusted after that ye heard the word of truth the Gospel of your Salvation In whom also after that ye believed ye were sealed with that holy spirit of promise It 's the saying of Reverend Mr. Greenham That we Greenham's Works hold Christ by faith and not by feeling Likewise you may imagine that you have no faith at all because you have not so strong a faith as some other Christians have But you must know that there are good Christians and good Scholars in Christs School who all are not of the same form some may be higher and some may be lower and yet Christ may own them for his Disciples Abraham had a faith hardly to be parallel'd He staggered not at the promise of Rom. c. 20. God through unbelief but was strong in faith giving glory to God He had full assurance of faith But the man in the Gospel partly between saith and doubting crys out Lord I believe Mark 9. 24. help thou mine unbelief Yet this man had a true faith A little piece of Gold may be precious Gold though as to the quantity less than many others But he that hath a little saith if this be true labours for a farther augmentation of it as not satisfied with what he hath attain'd unto Take heed then as on one hand of judging too well so on the other hand of judging too ill of your self Your grand duty is to give up your self to the rule and guidance of the Word of God and to relye and depend on Christ alone Who is the true light which lighteth Joh. 1. 9. every man that cometh into the world No light shines clear and directs aright save that only which is inlightned by the Lamp of the Sanctuary which is the Word of God Sect. 12. Object Object To come nearer to your particular case your complaints are often repeated That you cannot pray and that you hear and read the Word of God and yet you cannot profit and that Exhortations are lost upon you and that your memory cannot retain what you have either heard or read hence you conclude that the Promises belong not to you Answ Answ For answer to these surmises of your misgiving heart I ask you Whether you do not love the duty of Prayer and whether you do not desire the Grace as well as the gift of Prayer And whether it be not the desire of your soul to pour out your heart before the Lord And doth not your soul pant and breathe after God And do not you sigh and mourn for every sin And are not you sorry that you can