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A29932	Dwelling with God, the interest and duty of believers in opposition to the complemental, heartless, and reserved religion of the hypocrite / opened in eight sermons by John Bryan ...	Bryan, John, d. 1676.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1670 (1670)	Wing B5243; ESTC R31994	149,472	465

all their Moral parts and actions till they be members of Christ will yield them no true comfort by being in him they are brought to dwell in God This you may easily prove unto them by the example of sundry Persons who though endowed with many civil Virtues yet are branded by the Holy Ghost for most unhappy Men. Esau was a dutiful Childe to his Father careful to please him fearful to offend him of a bountifull disposition and free from covetousness Ahab a kind-hearted Man pittiful towards an insolent inveterate Enemy The Pharisee that went up into the Temple to pray could thank God that he was not as other Men were Extortioners Unjust Adulterers that he payed his Tythes duly And what Man in the World could live a more unblameable life than that young Ruler did And so Paul before his Conversion If any Man think he hath whereof he might trust in the Flesh I more touching the righteousness which is in the Law blameless Yet without Faith in Christ and a real change wrought in the heart all this and much more is nothing he being the Fountain of all true goodness The civil Devil carries Men to Hell as well as the prophane Devil though somewhat more about 5. Those whom you discern to be Hypocrites by living and allowing themselves in some one known sin of Omission or Commission Thus Jehu discovered himself to be an Hypocrite He took no heed to walk in the way of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam which made Israel to sin When you have occasion to confer with these acknowledge the good that is in them much more than in Moral Men as having a prime respect to the first Table affecting the Ministry of the Word giving themselves to Prayer and Fasting abstaining from petty as well as bloody Oathes strictly observing the Lord's Day loving the pure worship of God and hating will-worship commend them for these things but labour to fright and Fire them out of their Hypocrisie by pressing that of St. James upon them Whosoever shall keep the whole Law and yet offend in one point he is guilty of all that breaketh one Commandement Habitual sincere obedience is Universal extending to the compass of the whole Law evangelically And as one Leak in a Ship let alone will sink it as well as many and one Mortal Wound destroy the Body So any one sin wilfully continued in will drown and destroy the Soul and finally how more intolerable their torment shall be in Hell than any other sinners 6. In like manner deal with them who are haters and Persecutors of the People of God pretending that it is for their Hypocrisie that they cannot away with them perswade them that their pretence is false for if they hated them as Hypocrites they would hate them as sinners and so they would hate all sinners and the greatest sinners most as he that hates a Toad because of his poyson the greater the Toad is the more he would hate it But these Men know themselves and are known to love well enough Drunkards Whoremasters Swearers and practical Atheists and therefore the true reason why they hate strict Professors is for their godliness which condemns their irreligious and loose living as Noah by building the Ark condemned the World So Cain slew his Brother because his own works were evil and his Brothers righteous Saul Saul why persecutest thou me His Conversion presently followed his Conviction They that dwell in God dwell in love Your love to poor Souls that are out of God expressed thus by making essayes to draw them unto God will both evidence to your selves and others that he is your habitation Make this therefore your work every day do as Lot did by the two Angels Turn in I pray you into your Servants House no but we will abide in the Street and he pressed them greatly and they turned in unto him and they entred into his house What know you but you may prevail as he did and if so you will make Men Angels for this is their highest happiness Alway to behold the Face of God Let love constrain you not only that which I have now pressed you owe love to every Man are bound to love them as your selves and to seek their welfare as your own and there is no love in any Man to his Neighbour that loveth not his Soul But the love of Christ should more constrain you to put the whole strain of your strength to this work God having declared his desire to have his House filled and his Sons Kingdome enlarged and there being joy in Heaven at the Conversion of every sinner Yea love to your selves should force this It being the best meanes to increase your graces and comforts the more you draw to knowledge and faith and holiness the more will these graces increase in you and the comfort of them As a Man casting forth of his Seed brings it him back again with great increase Nor will any work you can do have the like recompense which was hinted before They that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the Stars for ever and ever Nor can you be ignorant that this is the end why God hath bestowed his graces upon you whereby you were made meet to be partakers of this Inheritance not that you should keep them to your selves but that you should benefit others by them The manifestation of the Spirit that is those gifts of grace whereby it is manifested that they dwell in God is given to every Man to profit withall Finally The Lord hath strictly commanded that no Man should content himself to know and believe aright himself to repent of his own prophaneness and to be religious and righteous but that he should seek also to cause others to be and do so that they may be as well housed as he as happy as himself Cause others to return that you and they may live together under the same Roof and the more the merrier and better cheer to Obj. There is no hope of doing good upon many that we meet with scarce upon any Answ If with all your pains taken all the Days of your Life you can win but one Soul it 's as much as the gaining of the whole World Yea one Soul is more worth than the whole World 2. Despair of none how wicked so ever as bad as bad can be have been reduced and brought in Manasseh for example and three thousand at once 3. If assaying three or four or five or six times prevail not the 7th may Go up now look towards the Sea Master there is nothing go again seven times and it came to pass at the seventh time that he said behold there ariseth a little Cloud out of the Sea like a Mans hand 4. Suppose when you have done all you can all your

they that have goodly Houses with superfluity how they may yet have more wealth and honour The mind of Man being like the Hors-leech which hath two Daughters crying give give the two Forks in the Tongue of that blood-sucker setting forth the two passions in the mind of Man the one a burning desire of getting beyond measure the other an unquietness through sense of want when more than enough is gotten and like those four things that are never satisfyed the Grave a barren Womb the Earth that is not filled with Water and the Fire and they that are building are apt to be in earnest expectation that they shall be well and warm in those new Nests I think this one consideration needful to be suggested to them all namely what power God's grace useth to have in all them that dwell in him to take off their hearts from minding earthly things in that manner they used to do before they were in God namely though not to forsake the World quite and give over worldly business and spend their whole time in private Devotions nor having found this House and Treasure to cast away their wordly Goods For Religion bindeth Men and Women to be good Husbands to seek to preserve and encrease their estates that God hath given them yet to make them willing to part with Houses and Lands and whatsoever is dearest to them in the World if they cannot hold them with Gods favour To lose all things and count them but dung in comparison of it This made God's people in the Ten Tribes to leave their dwellings and possessions and to come to Hierusalem where God was purely worshipped This made Moses to leave Pharaoh's Court and to joyn himself to God's afflicted despised Church and to moderate their affections to use them with more sobriety and indifferency It being all one to them whether they had little or much I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content I know both how to be abased and how to abound every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and suffer need Yea so to take up their hearts as to be more careless and forgetful of these things than they were formerly For they having found a better House and a better Treasure There their hearts must needs be most if not altogether Nor can the heart be divided between the love of God and the World But one of them will and must have all No Man can serve two Masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other Ye cannot serve God and Mammon Love not the World neither the things that are in the World If any Man love the World the love of the Father is not in him THE FIFTH SERMON THe second Sort of Spiritual duties incumbent upon you who have assurance that the Lord is your Habitation is in reference to Persons 1. Those who were the efficient cause of this your superlative Happiness both principle and instrumental The principle are the three sacred Persons of the glorious Deity the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost 1. Admire the goodness of God in electing you to this happiness Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath chosen us in Him before the Foundation of the World and in conferring upon you by the grace of Adoption the right of inheriting his Light here and hereafter Giving thanks unto the Father who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of God 2. The love of God the Son which passeth knowledge who purchased for us this dwelling place with the price of his blood The blood of God Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor that ye through his poverty might be rich When he was in the possession of a perfect Happiness and Glory in his Divine Nature that he might bring you into the same possession He took upon him your Nature with all its miseries wants and obligements to gain you the Treasures of God's Grace Righteousness and Eternal Life in Him here and with Him hereafter He would be without a House where to lay his head and without any civil propriety of Earthly Goods and without any peace or rest in the World that you might have a resting place in God and a spiritual right to all this and actual enjoyment of as much as needs and is good for you 3. The powerful Operation of the Holy Ghost in imprinting upon your Souls those Divine Graces which are certain signs and tokens of your real interest in and present possession of this super-coelestial Mansion and witnessing with your spirits that you are truly Gods Children and being such shall abide in the House for ever for so Sons do To provoke and quicken you the more to thanksgiving for this inestimiable happiness Consider how infinitely you are bound to these Three Persons above innumerable others whom God the Father did not choose to have their dwelling in him and whom the Holy Ghost never wrought upon to accept this as he hath upon you There are who would perswade you otherwise that is that God the Father hath in his decree of Election done no more for you than he hath for other Men whom he from Eternity choose to be partakers of his happiness conditionally that is if they would as you have done accept it offered to them as it was to you because he fore-saw that you would receive Christ into your hearts by faith he therfore determined to receive you into himself to make you eternally happy because he fore-saw others would not he therefore passed them by and rejected them and decreed to damn them for he loves all Men equally desires and wills the Conversion and Salvation of every Man alike unfeignedly and earnestly that God the Son manifested in the World who came in the World to save sinners dyed for all without difference intended to give himself a ransom for all and every one equally that the efficacy of the Holy Ghost and his Cooperation accompanying the Word calling Men out of the state of nature into the state of Grace is only by moral perswasion and that it is in the power of every Mans free-will to accept or reject this grace These are plausible but pernicious Errors against which I shall bring a few Scriptures to antidote and fortifie your judgments and establish them in the contrary truths 1. Touching the Decrees of God the Father's predestination the Scripture makes it absolute definite and irrevocable So as the number of the Elect can neither be increased or diminished The Foundation of the Lord standeth sure