A soveraign antidote against sinful errors, the epidemical plague of these latter dayes. Extracted out of divine records, the dispensatory of Christianity: for the prevention and cure of our spiritual distempers. By Claudius Gilbert, B.D. and minister of the Gospel at Limrick in Ireland.
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- A soveraign antidote against sinful errors, the epidemical plague of these latter dayes. Extracted out of divine records, the dispensatory of Christianity: for the prevention and cure of our spiritual distempers. By Claudius Gilbert, B.D. and minister of the Gospel at Limrick in Ireland.
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- Gilbert, Claudius, d. 1696?
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- London :: printed by R.W. for Francis Titon, and are to be sold at the sign of the three Daggers in Fleetstreet,
- 1658.
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- Heresies, Christian -- Early works to 1800.
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"A soveraign antidote against sinful errors, the epidemical plague of these latter dayes. Extracted out of divine records, the dispensatory of Christianity: for the prevention and cure of our spiritual distempers. By Claudius Gilbert, B.D. and minister of the Gospel at Limrick in Ireland." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A85988.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- To the Honourable Colonell Henry Ingoldesby, Governour of the Pre∣cinct of Limrick and Clare, and to the Inhabitants of the City of Limrick.
- PREFACE.
- The Contents.
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A
Soveraign Antidote against
sinfull Errors:
The Epidemical Plague of the latter
Dayes.
- Three parts are therein observable, the Prologue, Discourse and Epilogue.
- III. This Epilogue or close, sums up all in an Emphatical Ex∣hortation, by a pressing Disuasive from evil, v. 17. and a preg∣nant persuasive to good, ver. 18.
- Doctrine 1. Lawless wicked Persons are exceeding subject to be carried away with destructive Errours. The Godly may accidentally fall into them: but the ungodly are peculiarly, totally and finally carried away therewith.
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Doctrine 2. Error will endanger Christians stedfastness
The verb , is Emphatically to fall out, as a man out of a window, as Eutiches; or as a member out of joynt. - Doct. 3. All Christians, even the best, need still warning to keep themselves from Error and Apostacy.
- Consect. 1.
- Ʋse 2.
- Doctrine 4. The Grace and Knowledge of Christ is a singular Jewel.
- The Knowledge of Christ is taken also in a sense more large or more strict.
- Grace and Knowlede in the Text may be understood. 1. Distin∣ctly, Conjunctly.
- 1. The Person of Christ is a noble Paragon considered, as God, as Man, as God-man.
- Thus is Christs Person, the Amiable Object of our Knowledge.
- Thirdly, Christ in his Progress is considerable, under a double state of Humiliation and Exaltation.
- 4. Christ is most considerable in his purchase also made for all his People, which hath both value and vertue in it.
- Reason 2.
- Reason 3. The cause of this Gracious Knowledge doth as won∣derfully magnifie the same, considerable in the Efficient, for∣mal and final.
- Thus the glorious God works graciously in and by all Means of his appointing, to the creating, encrease and perfecting of his singular Jewel.
- 3. The final cause of this gracious Knowledge adds very much to the choyiceness thereof. We may consider it both as Su∣pream and subordinate.
- 2. The subordinate and proxime End of it is mans Good; both Personal and Relative.
- Reason 4. The Nature of this gracious Knowledge doth fur∣ther demonstrate its Excellency. There are three special parts that do make it up, being the choice Ingredients thereof, Apprehension, Assent, and Application.
- Reason 5. The Properties of this Knowledge do much com∣mend its excellency also. They are expressed by a pregnant word, full of sense and vertue, being called a gracious know∣ledge.
- Reason 6.
- Ʋse.
- Second Ʋse is for reprehension, both to the Graceless and to Gracious souls.
- 1. A Vegetative Life is for Nutrition, Augmentation and Pro∣pagation.
- 2. A sensitive Life is for Sense, Motion and Appetite; so it our spiritual Life: Doth Christ do so to us spiritually?
- 2. The Internal sense receives from those Cinque Ports and Gates, all sorts of Objects to be orderly view'd and compar'd, laid up and improved by the faculties called Common sense, Phantasie, and Memory. Are we thus spiritually sensible through this gracions Knowledge?
- 2. Sensitive Life acts by way of motion, upward and downward, to the right and left, forward and backward, in Pulsation and Respiration. Do we move thus spiritually?
- 3. Sensitive Life acts by Appetite. Doth spiritual Life act so within us, both Concupiscibly and Irascibly?
- 2. The sensitive Appetite moves irascibly against all difficulties by the Affections of Hope and Despair, Fear, Confidence, and Indignation. Doth this knowledge of Christ act thus within us?
- III. Natural Life appears in the Rational faculties, by the se∣veral Acts of the Mind and Judgement, Conscience and Will, Memory and Affections; doth our spiritual Life appear there∣in also?
- Ʋse 4.
- Ʋse 5.
- Two sorts are specially invited hereto, the Nominal and real Christian.
- Thus nominal Christians should be perswaded to make sure of Christ in closing with him upon his own terms, to make them real Partakers of Christ and Possessors as well as Pro∣fessors.
- 1. In thy generrl Calling look for him, attend him in every Ordinance, The Charets and Walks of Communication be∣tween him and his.
- Doctrine 5. Growing in the Gracious Knowledge of Christ is a special Gospel-Duty. It becomes Christians to be still growing in that gracious Knowledge. The Apostle sums all up in this, as the great work of every Christian, from which none are exempted. Improvement of that singular Mercy, must needs be a singular Duty.
- Reason 1.
- Reason 2.
- Reason 3.
- Ʋse 1.
- Ʋse 2.
- Ʋse 3.
- Ʋse 4.
- Doctrine VI. Spiritual Growth is a Soveraign Antidote against Error and Apostacy. This clearly appears from the respective Aspect of this Text upon the Context, as is im∣plyed in the particle But.
- Reason 1.
- Reason 2.
- Reason 3.
- Ʋse 1.
- Ʋse 2.
- Ʋse 3.
- Ʋse 4.