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Christianity in short or The way to be a good Christian· Recommended to the use of such as want either time or capacity for reading longer and learneder discourses. By C. Ellis author of the Gentile-sinner.
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Ellis, Clement, 1630-1700.
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without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work pass the time of your sojourning here in fear 1 Pet. 1.17 God will render to every man according to his deeds to them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory honour and immortality Eternal Life But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness indignation and wrath Romans 2.6 7 8. Work out your own Salvation with fear and trembling Phil. 2.12 Give diligence to make your calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1.10 The heart of this people is waxed gross and their ears are dull of hearing and their eyes have they closed least they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and should be converted and I should heal them Act. 28.27 Save your selves from this untoward Generation Act. 2.40 Repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out Act. 3.19 Except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Matthew 18.3 Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Luk. 13.3 5. Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God Joh. 3.3 Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. Heb. 12.14 Neither is there Salvation in any other but Christ for there is none other name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved Act. 4.12 He that believeth on him is not conlemned but he that believeth not is condemned already Joh. 3.18 There is no condemnation to them â—â—at are in Christ Jesus who walk not â—fter the flesh but after the Spirit â—om 8.1 To be carnally minded is death â—â—t to be spiritually minded is Life and â—eace Ver. 6. If ye live after the â—esh ye shall dye but if ye by the â—pirit do mortifie the deeds of the Body ye shall live Ver. 13. Now the works of the Flesh are manifest which are these Adulteries Fornication Uncleanness Lasciviousness Idolatry Witchcraft Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strife Seditions Heresies Envyings Murders Drunkenness Revellings and such like They which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Gal. 5.19 c. If any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Romans 8.9 If any man be in Christ he is a new creature 2 Cor. 5.17 They that are Christ's have Crucified the Flesh with the affections and lusts Gal. 5. Love not the world nor the things that are in the world For if any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world 1 Joh. 5.4 Let him that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity 2 Tim. 11.19 By this the children of God are manifest and the children of the Devil whosoever doth not Righteousness is not of God neither he that loveth not his brother 1 Joh. Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envying But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the Flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof Rom. 13.13 14. If any man come to me and hate not his Father and Mother and Wife and Children and Brethren and Sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my Disciple Luk. 14.26 If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his Cross and follow me Matthew 16.24 For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own Soul Or what shall a man give in Exchange for his Soul Ver. 26. The Grace of God which bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly Righteously and Godly in this present world Looking for that blessed hope and the Glorious appearance of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works Tit. 2.11 12. c. Ye are all the children of the light and the children of the day we are not of the night nor of darkness Therefore let us not sleep as do others but let us watch and be sober 1 Thes 5.5 6. How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation Hebrews 2.3 If the Righteous scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly and the finner appear 1 Pet. 4.18 The Tryal of a Christian's State IT highly concerns me to examine and try whether I be in a State of Sin or in a State of Grace that if I be in the former I may hasten out of it to escape damnation and if in the later I may bless God for his goodness and go on to Salvation Now thus I must try my self If I understand so much of GOD as that I do really esteem and value Him his grace and love above all the world and am heartily willing to take Him alone for my portion counting him enough though for him I should lose all the world besides If my care and delight be to do his Will and my chief rejoycing be in his love and my heart's desire and longing be to enjoy him more fully in Heaven If to this end I apply my self to Jesus Christ trusting in him alone for Eternal Life in the presence of God and giving my self intirely to be governed by him willing to obey his Laws whatsoever it shall cost me though it be with the loss of all worldly advantages and earthly pleasures and even Life it self If I can for his sake love enemies bear wrongs forbear revenge mortifie lusts and passions bridle my appetite disregard my own will and pleasure endure shame and reproach lose wealth friends and liberty yea and life too If I watch as narrowly over my heart affections and thoughts as over my outward actions and earnestly desire more than any worldly treasure to be throughly renewed and cleansed by the Holy Spirit from all inward corruptions If I hate every sin in my self and strive all I can against it and am restless till I conquer it and troubled at my heart at my own imperfections longing to be freed from them If I really delight and find pleasure in the worship and service of God and do not come forcedly and constrainedly to it as rather willing to do otherwise if I durst if I find holiness and obedience sweet and pleasant and no burden or wearisomness to me If I can and do heartily resign my self to God not minding what I naturally would have or do nor what any thing else would perswade me to but meerly what is the will of God and going on cheerfully to do his will pray fervently for his assistance and cast my self confidently on his mercy through Jesus Christ for Salvation If I find this in my self my state is comfortable and good But on the contrary If I yet
love this world and mind Earthly things most and prefer not God his grace and Heaven before all earthly joyes and pleasures If I dare not trust in Christ alone nor forsake all for him nor am willing to obey his Lawes how hard soever they seem or what cost or loss soever they put me to If my heart and life be not throughly changed but I yet must have my own will and please my own appetite and senses and cannot want my own desires or cross my own inclinations If I keep any known sin unmortified and not cast off if I do not watch against all temptations and pray heartily and frequently for grace to conquer all sin If I delight not in God's Word and in all Holy duties and esteem it not my greatest priviledge to serve him If my greatest care be not to please him and if his command prevail not more with me than all the world besides If I cannot content my self with him alone nor suffer any the greatest evil for him If I have not resolvedly given my self up to be wholly at his disposal and to be made in all things conformable to his will If the case be thus with me I am in a state of sin and death and cannot be saved till I be converted and made a new man The Christian's Confession of his Faith with a full Resignation of himself to God and binding himself in Covenant with GOD. I Believe Lord help thou my unbelief I do most freely and heartily own and with humble admiration and reverence I do adore the great and dreadful and incomprehensibly Glorious Majesty of Heaven and Earth Most joyfully do I accept of thee O Father Son and Holy Ghost for my only God Thou and thou alone art the inexhaustible Fountain of all Being Life Power and Goodness I acknowledge my total dependance upon thee for my Being Life Motion Vnderstanding and all things and it will be my happiness to enjoy thy love and blessing Thou O God art an Infinite Eternal and Immortal Spirit and the God and Father of Spirits who though unseen art every where present about me and within me by thy infinite power quickning upholding and protecting me by thine Infinite Wisdom providing for me ordering and directing me and by thy goodness blessing me To thee one Glorious God in Three Persons Blessed for ever do I freely and wholly give my self cheerfully dedicating and resigning my Soul and Body with all the powers and faculties of both to be wholly disposed of by thee in the service of thee O Blessed Trinity in Vnity Eternal Life Light and Love Power Wisdom and Holiness the Author of my preservation Sanctification and Salvation Thou in a wonder of condescending love offerest thy self as a gracious Father in Jesus Christ to all Believers Thou art the Maker of me and all the World I am nothing I have nothing I can do nothing I hope for nothing but from thy power wisdom and goodness to thee alone be the honour and praise of all I will more study my self and other creatures that I may learn to know admire and love thee more I can be proud of nothing glory in nothing but in thee in whom I live and move and have my being I am not my own I and all things are thine and unto thee I freely resign my self and all my concerns to use and dispose of me and them as it pleaseth thee Whatever thou dost with me thou canst do me no wrong no creature without thee can do me any good 'T is my perfection and happiness to know and love thee and delight in thee Thee alone I chuse for my portion and thou alone shalt ever be enough for me To thee as the Almighty Ruler of the World I heartily submit my self accepting thy Divine Will for my only Law by which my thoughts words and actions are to be all governed All thy Lawes I consent to as most holy just and good and most thankfully acknowledge that nothing can be better than to rest in thy will I will study thy will diligently do it heartily cheerfully submit unto it be well contented with and joyfully praise thee in whatsoever thou doest I will readily obey thy commands patiently bear thy chastisements and wholly confide in thy blessing and protection I confess Lord that I am born a corrupt thing and have added a thousand times more to that corruption I am fallen from that knowledge power and uprightness wherein thou madest Adam and am exceeding ignorant weak and wicked averse from truth and goodness inclined mightily to falshood and evil all this I sadly feel in my self it is an heavy burden unto me Except I be born again of thy Spirit be converted by thy word made a new man and a real change wrought both in my heart and life I must remain under thy wrath and curse Everlastingly wretched Our misery lying in our fall from thee our Creator to the creature and in our desire to please our selves more than thee our God our due portion is to perish by our own wretched choice and having chosen to sin with devils 't is but just we share with devils in Everlasting torments Having wilfully broken thy Laws we cannot hope for impunity from thee the just Governour of the World except some satisfaction be made unto thy Justice O the wonder even ravishing and astonishing wonder of thy rich mercy How should I ever be able to acknowedge thy unspeakable goodness in thy compassion to sinful men Early and freely didst thou promise us a Redeemer and a Saviour and I do very feelingly own thy faithfulness and truth in performing to the full that gracious promise How do I admire and adore thy wonderful wisdom in the rare contrivance of our rescue by sending thine own Eternal and only begotten Son to tender himself unto us for a Saviour and make us new and easie termes of peace and reconciliation Lord on the bended knees of my Soul I do accept thy mercy offering thy self again unto me as a reconciled Father desiring to love honour and obey thee for ever and humbly beseeching thee to own me amongst thy adopted children I do humbly admire and joyfully imbrace thine infinite love O blessed JESUS who being the great God blessed for ever yet humbledst thy self to be cloathed in our weak and frail nature to be born of a woman made under the Law to live a mean life in a wicked world to expose thy self to the temptations of Satan to suffer all indignities from sinners to shed thy precious blood upon a cursed tree and lie in a grave and undergo the condition of the dead for us sinful wretches Lord I am fully satisfied by thy rising again to life the third day that thou hast overcome the devil and death and given satisfaction to thy Father's Justice and finished the great work of our Redemption I know thou art now triumphant in Heaven invested with all power and glory on the Right-hand of thy