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A51705 The inseparable communion of a believer with God in his love being the substance of several sermons preached on Rom. VIII 38, 39 / by ... Mr. Thomas Mallery ... Mallery, Thomas, fl. 1662. 1674 (1674) Wing M337; ESTC R32046 52,543 166

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from the Sun so by these spiritual Eclipses and Desertions we know our whole state in grace and comfort depends wholly on the free-grace of God when you first believed after you had laboured under the apprehensions of sin and wrath and the souls pinching wants of Gods love and favour then you could readily cry up the praise of free-grace by the returns of the like apprehensions in ●oul-desertions after you have believed and have had sweet experiences of love in Communion with God he will have you know that free grace continues your state as it began it and that as the Foundation stone was laid with the shoutings of grace to it so the Headstone is to be brought with shoutings of grace grace to it also After you have believed and loved God and had done something for him you think God is beholding to you but he will hide his face and tell you he can set you for all this where he found you that you may know you are beholding to him not he to you 3. Use For comfort to believers in their Depths they shall not be able to separate For Direction First rebuke the dejections of your soul through unbelief as David Psal 42. Why art thou cast down say as he Psal 77. This is my infirmity not the unfaithfulness of Gods love Secondly resolve to believe in hope against hope as Job though he flay me o● cam● me I le trust him as Jonah I said I am cast out of thy sight but I will look Thirdly do not restrain Prayer waiting for the return of divine mercy but prevent it be fore-hand with God and put him to the utmost try him what he can do whether he can do more then ever yet he hath done Psal 88.9 13. Fourthly hold fast still your interest in God as Christ My God my God and as Cltrist gives the same direction to others Isa 50. Let him trust in the Name of his God ROM 8.39 Nor any other Creature WE are come to the last Rank or Regiment of enemies which may be supposed to endanger a separation between God and a believer in sweet Communion in which the Apostle in the name of all believers comes off with victory Let us consider what is meant by this expression First Nor any other creature The Apostle having reckoned up all known Adversaries in this cause by name he riseth higher and speaks by way of supposition If there be yet any other creature besides what I have mentioned if any know any other adversary then what I have named I fear not to encounter I doubt not but to overcome it Secondly Nor any other creatures By creature here saith a learned Author we are to understand all things that are done in the world Gry●●● whether good or bad and all the thoughts words actions employments councels contrivances of men Angels Devils with all other creatures within the Compass of the whole Citation of God Thirdly Nor any other creature the word rendred Creature is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which often signifies the Creation the whole Creation The Apostle had hitherto encountred the enemy in Parties and single Regiments but now he encounters the whole body he musters up all the enemies he had before spoken of into one body he fears not to encounter the united strength and combined power and rage of the whole Creation If all creatures should rise up together with one hand and one heart to endeavor to separate They shall not be able Doct. Not the Concurring Power of the whole Creation of God if they were in one Confederacy can be able to separate This I shall prove 1. The concurrent power and endeavour of the whole Creation cannot make God to be against his people who are in Communion with him Balak hired Balaam to do this work to separate God from his people Balaam used all means to this end he offered sacrifices he used inchantments and divinations but nothing could prevail Numb 23.19 God is not as man see ver 23. Hence the Apostle speaks as a man astonisht fill'd with abundance of evidence and assurance in this point Rom. 8.31 If God befor us Such as have Emanuel God with them God in Communion with them have also God for them and what can the concurrent power of the creature do against them Secondly that that love of God which hath gathered believers into this blessed Communion with God and still embraceth them in the loftest Armes of Peace it is everlasting as God is Ier. 31.3 It takes hold on both Eternities that which is past and that which is to come This Love runs Parallel with the Life of God from Eternity to Eternity Can the concurrent wrath rage and malice of the whole Creature bring God out of love with them whom he loved from everlasting Is there more power in the wrath of the Creature then in the love of God Can the poor Creature make that not to be which God hath made to be from Eternity to be for Eternity Thirdly the golden Chain of salvation cannot be broken Rom. 8.29 30. The two extreme links in this Chain are Election and Glorification the two middle links are Vocation and Justification This seems to be the Chain which so much ravisht the heart of Christ about the neck of his Spouse Cant. 4.9 The two ends of this Chain God keeps in his own hands in Heaven the two middle links are those God lets down from Heaven and so draws us up to himself and linketh us fast to himself for ever What Confederacy or Combination of the creature can pull the Son out of Heaven Further can they pluck any end of this Chain out of Gods Hand Can they rise up and blot out the book of life and rase out the names that are written in Heaven Can Creatures some whereof are in Chains of darknesse all in iron Chains of divine Providence break that golden Chain of grace in which believers are kept close in Communion with God Can the concurrent Power of the creature rise up and cancel the great Charter of salvation whose records are kept in Heaven Fourthly the concurrent power and malice of all creatures cannot separate them from Christ in whom they have this Communion with God in love I. They are said to be in the Hand of Christ which Hand gives them eternal life and they shall never perish John 10.28 what creature can pluck them out II. They are said to be engraven on the Palmes of his hand Isa 49.16 what is engraven cannot be taken out without mangling the Hand of Christ If you could suppose they could be taken out of Christs Hand as loose things yet they cannot as engraven things will Christ suffer his Hand to be maculated or cut off III. They are said to be in the Armes of Christ Cant. 8.6 They are sealed on the ●●rm of Christ with the indelible characters and impressions of divine love If the Arm of Christ cannot be separated from him then cannot