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world_n	pomp_n	renounce_v	vanity_n	3,174	5	10.1762	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76282	Metamorphosis Christiana: or, The old man changed into the new. An occasional discourse.	Beare, Nicholas.	1679 (1679)	Wing B1563A; ESTC R172674	33,570	43

be offended with a blind man for taking the wall of me or of a deaf man because he doth not hear me or of an Ideot because I cannot by reason perswade him The Ancients allowed not the liberty of Passion or at least no extravagancy thereof to vertuous men and indeed it implies no less than a contradiction that Reason should sit as supreme in that Breast where Anger Malice Pride and such like bear sway These are to be handled as Beasts of great strength and violence to be reserved in chains and kept within due bounds for exspatiating they will become destructive As thou art a Being endowed with Understanding thou shouldest be careful to preserve a Calm as knowing that Winds and Storms will expose thy Vessel at present to strange motions and disorders and to shipwrack in the conclusion And as the Ship bound for Tarsis by reason of the Fugitive was overtaken with a storm not to be appeased with any expedients the Mariners could think on but onely by throwing the rebellious Prophet over-board So here as long as the old sinner sways within we can expect no Quiet this must succeed his being committed to the deep This Reason doth suggest And if it be not fully convincing have we recourse to the infallible directions of our Religion Hear how the Angel does bespeak the devout Women He is not here he is risen why seek ye the living among the dead Upon our admission to Discipleship we are to forsake the Tombs and to shake off the condition of filth and rottenness Listen to the Doctrine of our Saviour 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 he cannot serve God and Mammon As in Baptism those that were to be dip'd upon their return from the Water did change their Cloaths and put on clean attire so must every Christian in a Spiritual Sense I make this Comparison the rather because the Learned Grotius doth assure us that the Phrases of Putting off and Putting on have reference to the aforesaid Custome as also because I find this to be the Subject of our Baptismal Vow as in our Church-Catechism is excellently expressed That I should renounce the Devil and all his Works the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked World and all the sinful Lusts of the Flesh that I should keep God's Holy Will and Commandments and walk in the same all the days of my Life If then we design to embrace this Religion and really to be what we profess we must not only swear but procure the destruction of these Disorderly Passions the Sinner must be driven out that the Saint may be brought into possession the Old Man must die that the New Creature may grow and prosper which brings me to my second Part. But a New Creature FOr the true meaning of which let us as before consider those parallel expressions whereby 't is set forth in Scripture sometimes under the notion of Regeneration as in our Saviour's discourse with Nicodemus sometimes by the Phrase of the New Man elsewhere by the Armour of Light the whole Armour of God The putting on of Christ Jesus the Fruits of the Spirit c. In short then this is one of those Scripture-Phrases Crell Ech. Chris lib. 2. cap 3. in by which Piety in its most comprehensive sense is set forth for which there is undeniable Evidence to be produced because the Spirit in Scripture in the Description of the New Creature or New Man in many places mentions those Duties which we owe to God our selves and one another as parts or effects thereof Now because this comprises the whole of our Religion it may not be expected that I should run through every particular and because I find in the parallel place instead of a New Creature Faith which worketh by Love ch 5.6 and because our Love to our Brother is the best Argument and Expression of our Love towards God as St. John in his Epistles excellently reasons And forasmuch as Col. 3.12 13. I find some more particularly mentioned Put on therefore Bowels of Mercies Kindness Humbleness of Mind Meekness Long-suffering Forbearing and Forgiving one another if any have a Quarrel at any and above all put on Charity I shall touch at these laying down this as a sure Foundation That the best Evidence we make a Conscience of our Duties towards God and our selves that we engage in publick Duties out of a true Principle and are not wanting in our closest Devotions is ourrstving in the due Discharge of those we owe to one another the si●● whereof is Bowels of Mercies By which we are to understand no mean or common Affection no Superficial Outside-love but that of the Bottom of the Heart as appears from the frequent Use of the Word Job 38.36 ch 5.10 Jer. 3.31 being put for our Heart the Seat of our Love and Affection so that the Apostle requires here Mercifulness in its highest and most intense degree such a Carriage toward our Fellow-Creatures as is of the Lord in the Parable Mat. 18. to his Servant he uses no Methods of extream rigour he does not take him by the Throat and hale him to Prison to the ruine of himself and Family but being affected with his Poverty forgives him the Debt Nor such a regardless carriage as the Priest and Levite shewed to the robbed and wounded Way-faring-man touched with no pity at the sight of an Object able to have moved an Heart of Stone But like that of the good Samaritan who no sooner sees him but melts towards him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 10.33 as it clearly appears by what he does for him binds up his Wounds pours Wine and Oyl puts him upon his own Horse carries him to an Inn entertain'd him during his abode there and makes Provision for him after his departure The most genuine effects of this Vertue And to add one Instance more like that of the Father to his Prodigal Son Luke 15.20 he had Compassion on him the same Word He was affected with his Misery his Words Tears and Poverty constrained him to Pity and Relief how lovingly doth he receive him he ran fell on his Neck and kissed him how nobly does he entertain him Calls for the best Garment for a Ring Shoes the Fatted Calf is slain and there is Feasting Musick and Dancing 2. Kindness whereby I understand that Vertue which does direct us in our Conversation a sweetness and pleasantness in our Discourse and Behaviour not to carry Frowns in our Countenance not to be bitter in our Words nor morose in our Actions in Company to betray no ill Humour not to mourn in an House of Feasting nor to laugh in one of Mourning but in things Lawful Civil and Convenient to be Conformable this our Humanity as well as our Religion doth require So that they are much mistaken who conceive that Christianity doth oblige us to the