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A29101	The excellency of the Christian revelation, as it promiseth assistance, and compleat salvation to sinners a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, November the 6th, 1699, being the eighth, for this year, of the lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. / by Samuel Bradford ...	Bradford, Samuel, 1652-1731.	1699 (1699)	Wing B4111; ESTC R19744	15,243	31

were design'd And if we will yet farther look into the design of them we shall find that they are moreover appointed by our Lord as means of deriving and conveying the Grace of his Holy Spirit to our Souls Thus Matth. 28.19 20. when our Lord commission'd his Apostles to make Disciples out of all Nations baptizing them and teaching them to observe all things whatsoever he had commanded them he immediately subjoyns And lo I am with you always even unto the end of the World which can import no less than his assisting and blessing them and their Successors in the faithful discharge of their Ministry He else-where declares in general Matth. 18.20 that where two or three are gathered together in his Name there is he in the midst of them viz. by the presence and assistance of his Holy Spirit As to the Sacrament of Baptism St. Peter is very express in the place before cited where exhorting his Hearers to Repent and be Baptized Acts 2.38 39. he encourages them by proposing the Benefits which they should receive thereby namely remission of Sins and the Gift of the Holy Ghost the promise of which he says was not to that Generation only but to their Children and to all that were afar off even as many as God should call John 3.5 For which reason our Saviour himself in his discourse with Nicodemus joyn'd together Regeneration by Water and by the Spirit and St. Paul speaking of the same Rite says that Christians were sav'd Tit. 3.5 6. according to the Mercy of God by the laver of Regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost which was shed upon them abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour implying that Baptism with Water was the way of entitling Christians to that Divine Gift and a means of conveying it to them And so likewise as to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper it is intended not only to exhibit to Christians the Elements of Bread and Wine in Memory of our Saviour's Passion 1 Cor. 10.16 but according to St. Paul's Expression the Cup of Blessing then blessed is the Communion of the Blood of Christ the Bread then broken is the Communion of the Body of Christ viz. a Communion or Participation of all the Benefits purchas'd by breaking the Body and shedding the Blood of Jesus of which a principal one is the Grace of the Divine Spirit to strengthen our Souls To conclude this particular The Gospel is styl'd Rom. 8.2 as I before observ'd the Law of the Spirit of Life 2 Cor. 3.6 the Ministers of the New Testament are said to be Ministers not of the Letter but of the Spirit When they perform the Offices of their Function one is said to Plant and another to Water 1 Cor. 3.5 6. whilst God giveth the increase viz. by the Operation of his Holy Spirit accompanying these external Ministrations and finally the Church is said to be the Temple of God forasmuch as the Spirit of God dwelleth amongst and in the Members of it all which passages do evidently import that the external Ministrations of Religion in the Christian Church are design'd as so many means of deriving the internal Grace of the good Spirit to those who faithfully make use of them And as to this I may presume that it will not be pretended that any other institution of Religion hath afforded the like means The Jews indeed abounded in external Ordinances which they were commanded to observe as the Prophets themselves intimate and the Apostles more fully assure us not as good in themselves but as suited to their temper and present circumstances which to free and generous Minds were indeed unpleasant and burdensome Nor were they attended with that Promise of internal Grace and Assistance which is annexed to the Christian Institutions For as the Author to the Hebrews at large Discourses Heb. 9.10 The Jewish service stood only in Meats and Drinks and divers Washings and carnal Ordinances impos'd on them until the time of Reformation all which were only Examples and Shadows of heavenly things ch 8.5.6.10 But Jesus hath obtain'd a more excellent Ministry by how much also he is the Mediator of a better Covenant which was establish'd upon better Promises viz. such as these that God would put his Laws into their Mind and write them in their Hearts and that he would be to them a God and they should be to him a People Every other Profession of Religion had likewise its external Rites and Ordinances belonging to it but I think I may fairly leave it to the Judgment of any serious Deist whether the Christian Institutions already mentioned are not much more rational decent easy and every way better adapted to the ends for which they are design'd than those of any other Religion and consequently whether in this instance also our Blessed Saviour hath not made the best Provision for us There remains yet one farther Difficulty which fallen Men lay under which I am to consider in the last place and to shew that our Lord hath in that instance likewise made due Provision for us viz. Fourthly An incapacity of removing those other evil and mischievous consequences to which their Sins had expos'd them and of obtaining for themselves that compleat Salvation which they stood in need of The remaining Consequences of our Apostacy from God which I took notice of in a former Lecture Lect. ij p. 21 22. are all the Calamities of this present life concluded at last with a Seperation of Soul and Body by Death and followed in a future state with all those Evils to which an immortal Soul seperated from its Body is there liable which are more than we are able to enumerate or so much as to conceive in the state in which we now are That Men were of themselves altogether unable either to avoid these Evils or to deliver themselves from them is evident No humane Wit or Power as Experience proves can ward off abundance of those Calamities to which all Men are obnoxious from the present state of things in this lower World nor can the wealth of the richest Man upon Earth purchase an Exemption from them The wise Man must die as certainly as the Fool the Prince as the Peasant and the Rich Man as the Beggar Nor have any of these the least power to dispose of their Souls when they are dismis'd into the World of Spirits Much less are they able to obtain for themselves that Salvation which will compleat their Happiness All that is done for us in this life even by our Blessed Saviour himself is but the beginning of our Salvation we are by him put into a sttate of Salvation and guided in the way which leads directly and surely to the completion of it But we cannot be said to be saved till every evil disposition be perfectly rooted out of our Souls till our Spirits are restor'd to their perfect Health and all the Habits of Piety and