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A87554	An exposition of the Epistle of Jude, together with many large and useful deductions. Lately delivered in XL lectures in Christ-Church London, by William Jenkyn, Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The first part.	Jenkyn, William, 1613-1685.	1652 (1652)	Wing J639; Thomason E695_1; ESTC R37933	518,527	654

that Preservation flowes from the decree of Election Quod datur ex efficaci intentione infallibiliter servandi illam personam cui donatur illud ex decreto dilectionis dimanare manifestum est Suffr Br. p. 197. is most manifest in regard it s given with a previous intention of infallible bringing him to salvation to whom it is given for what is election but to ordain infallibly to obtain salvation And this immutable purpose the all-powerfull and faithfull God backs with infallible promises The mountains shall depart but the covenant of his peace shall not Isa 54.10 I will put my fear into their hearts that they shall not depart from me Jer. 32.40 My sheep shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand Joh. 10.29 I will betroth thee unto me for ever Hos 2.19 Christ shall confirm you to the end 1 Cor. 1.8 Nay this stablenesse of his Councel he shews by an oath also which was Luc. 1.75 That we being delivered c. might worship him without fear in holiness and righteousness all the dayes of our life This purpose and these promises God even in this life backs with such performances as prove Perseverance infallibly to follow he bestows upon his people an inward continuing principle of holinesse the seed of God remaining in Gods people which makes them that they cannot sin 1 Joh. 3.9 A well of water springing up unto everlasting life Joh. 4.14 An annointing abiding in them 1 Joh. 2.27 The Spirit abiding for ever Joh. 14.26 The fear of God in their hearts not suffering to depart from God Jer. 32.40 Gifts without repentance Rom. 11.29 Upon these performances of God 1 Joh. 5.13 Heb. 3.6 2 Pet. 1.10 beleevers have been assured and are commanded to labour for the assurance of their salvation A priviledge not to be attained if assurance of perseverance were impossible for without perseverance there is no salvation 3. The third and fullest preservation is Eternal which shall be perfectly from every enemy that may hurt in a way of sin and misery truly called foelix securitas secura foelicitas happy safety and safe happinesse when the people of God shall neither offend nor be offended when there shall be neither a sin in the soul nor a sinner in their society when Satan shall no more solicite when the faithfull shall not onely be exempted from foyls but even from fighting when in stead of swords they shall only have palms in their hands Oh blessed condition to have rest on every side fulnesse of grace perfection of peace to be freed from all fears to be lodg'd in the bosom and lock'd up in the embraces of God to eternity to be in our haven our center our fathers house O my soul 't is a heaven to hope it what then is it to have it And this for the explication of the nature of this Preservation the second kinde of priviledge bestowed upon the faithfull The Observations follow 1. Obs 1. Sanctified persons have many enemies 'T is true none are safe but such and yet none so much solicited as such What need this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this carefull preservation this garison of Gods power if there were none feared to give and take the possession of thy soul from God Is there not a false party within The best-govern'd City hath some traytors and so hath the best-govern'd heart nay is not the better party in the soul far the lesser and how oft doth the disaffected conspire to let in the enemy without which they had long agoe done and destroy'd the good party too Perfectiones sibi relictae sunt pondera ad ruinam Gers for Grace left to it self falls had it not been for Gods power The great designe of Satan is to surprize Sanctity the thief gotten into the house presently enquires where the jewels and money are laid up the Divel had rather catch one fish then a hundred frogs he is sure already he thinks of his own Besides they do not much credit his cause but could he bring over to himself one sanctified person he would boast in such an addition to his Kingdom It s the tree that bears fruit which is pluck'd and cudgel'd under other trees which have onely leaves men sit and walk indeed but they pluck them not And of all trees which bear fruit those which bear the best are pull'd and beaten most It s the richly laden ship that is most endangered by the Pirates the soul enrich'd with holinesse for which Satan lyes most in wait There are as many miracles wrought as a Saint is preserved minutes Let us neither be secure nor discouraged Not secure we live in the midst of enemies He that will be alway safe must never be secure we cannot trust God too much nor our own hearts too little the former is our keeper the later is our traytor there 's no Christian his own keeper we can neither stand not rise alone all we can do alone is to fall Not discouraged thy many robbers shew thou hast something worth the taking from thee thy enemies though they endanger thy holinesse yet grant it in opposing thee they speak thee none of theirs nay they engage Jesus Christ to oppose them who will lose none of his Cadit mundus sed non cadit Christianus quia non cadit Christus Aug Obs 2. to pity thee who will not suffer thee to be tempted above thy power Let the world fall yet a Christian falls not as long as Christ stands 2. Then God keeps most graciously when he keeps us from sin then he keeps us as his own people He keeps from sicknesse or poverty by way of a generall providence but from sin by way of peculiar preservation what-ever other preservation he bestows without this 't is but a reservation to eternall ruine Christ that loveth all his members most tenderly never desired of his Father to keep them free from outward troubles he prayeth not that he should take his disciples out of the world Joh. 17.15 but keep them from the evill Not that they should be exempted from suffrings but preserved from sin the evill that they might never side with the times against God that they might never apostatize or forsake the truth Every one seeks safety but who desires this true safety this soul-safety Worldly policy would that a man sleep in a whole skin but true wisdom puts a man upon preserving a whole conscience A whole skin countervails not for a wounded conscience And yet this is the study of the times every one labours to save one to fall upon his feet to keep from being plundred c. but who study to be kept from offending God If thou couldst as easily keep thy self from Gods wrath as from mans by all thy projects thy policy would be a good pattern gain in the chist and loss in the conscience is but a bad exchange he that will save his life when he should

conveigh from Christ those supplyes of grace it wants esteeming of Prayer Word Sacraments without Christ but as a vial without a cordiall a plaister without salve a pipe without water This for the explication of the second particular in the second Branch In whom they were preserved In Jesus Christ The Observations follow 1. Every one out of Christ lyes open to all danger Obs 1. his temporall preservation is at best but by common providence but its cursed as well as common 2 Tim. 4.18 he is reserved to the day of wrath not preserved to that everlasting kingdom of which Paul speaks Kept he is but as a prisoner whose provisions do but strengthen him to go to execution he hath no guard from wrath because no shelter from sin Sinner thy security is not from want of danger but discerning and didst thou know it thou wouldst no more rest one hour without labouring for Christ then a man would securely go to bed when his house is on fire about his ears Is' t not a curse for thy soul to be Satans for egress and regress For God to let thee lye as a Common without an hedge to wander as a lamb in a large place without a shepherd without a fold a prey to every beast of prey Thou wilt not let God be a hedg to keep thee from straying and he will not be a hedg to preserve thee from devouring How dreadfull is it to be at the cruell courtesie of every Divel every tentation Thou labourest to keep thy treasure safe nay thou hast a hole to hide thy swine in but thy poor soul hath not where to hide its head What is' t to have the protection of a State for thy goods and body to have the benefit of the Law and to be without the protection of God in Christ and to want the benefit of every promise in the Bible Was it dangerous to be shut out of the Ark when the waters swell'd to be shut out of a City of refuge when the avenger of blood pursued to want blood upon the door-posts when the Angel was destroying and it is not dangerous to be without a Jesus to deliver thee from the wrath to come You that will not be preserved from Satan as a seducer in your life shall not be preserved from him as a destroyer at your death Christ will then be a shelter worth the having get into him while you live The drowned world call'd to Noah too late for admission when the waters were come to the top of the mountains The heavens are black the times gloomy the storms swift and sweeping oh let not thy approaches to thy shelter be delayed Run to thy tower not the paper-tower of thine own merits Lock up thy self in the wounds of Christ there 's nothing else can profit in the day of wrath The storm will go thorow every other refuge 2. Obs 2. Hypocrites will not be stedfast One out of Christ cannot be preserved be persevering They who are not built on the Rock Munimur quatenus unimur cannot stand in the fury of floods Vnion to Christ is the cause of permanency The hope of the hypocrite is as the spiders web nor is his holinesse more permanent 'T is not a union by profession but by reall implantation that makes thee persevere A stake thrust into the ground may easily be pluck'd up 't is the rooted tree that will stand A painted profession will never hold out fire and water never be endur'd by it if the heart be not set aright the spirit will not be stedfast with God Psal 78.8 There are many end in apostacy the reason is they never begun in sincerity How few reall Saints are there in suffering times An unsound body discovers it self in a cold season a rotten apple in a windy day Never think to stand long if thou standest loose from Christ Loose things that lye close upon the land will be parted in the water so will Christ and an Hypocrite in sufferings He that hath no strength from Christ will prove too weak to bear burdens He that beleeves not will never be establish'd A poor humble dependent soul will stand when he fears he shall fall a proud Hypocrite will fall when he thinks he stands 3. Obs 3. In all dangers it s our wisdom to have recourse to Christ and improve our interest in him It s not enough to have unlesse we use Christ and fly to this tower in which we have a propriety that we may obtain preservation It s the grand designe of Satan to encourage a presuming sinner to make use of Christ and to discourage an humble beleever from approaching toward him to suffer the multitudes boldly to throng about Christ but to dismay a poor trembling woman to touch the hem of his garment he emboldening theeves to possesse what is anothers but disheartning owners from using what is theirs he labouring because he cannot destroy a beleevers grace to disturb a beleevers peace But if fear of wrath assault the conscience there 's preservation from that in Christ There 's room enough in his wounds to hold and readinesse enough in his heart to receive all that fly unto him Christ is a shadow against the heats of justice a City of refuge against the pursuits of wrath an Ark against the flood of vengeance a passover in neernesse of destructions He is able to the full to save those that come unto him And if any come unto him he will in no wise cast him out In the solicitations of sin improve the death of Christ beg of him lend thee the quenching power or his blood when lust is kindling In the feeblenesse of thy graces the deadnesse of thy heart the faintness of thy faith the gasping of thy gifts Psal 51. the decayes of fervour beseech him not to take away his Spirit but to strengthen thee in the inward man with supplyes of spiritual life influences of his grace In sufferings from the world go to him for strength that hath overcome the world Joh. 16. uit to make thee finde thy enemies conquered and thy self more then a conquerour that his comforts may be reall and the sufferings from the world but appearing 4. How fearfull should we be of that which weakens our union to Christ Obs 4. There 's nothing but sin that endangers the souls preservation because nothing but that endangers Christs departure and so puts it out of Christs protection Sin obstructs supplyes of strength from Christ and so stops the spouts of mercy Sin cuts off the locks and makes beleevers a prey to Philistims Christ and preservation sin and unsafenesse are undivided couples The faithfull enjoying Christ are quiet and confident in the midst of all their troubles but letting in sin they are fearful and unsafe in the midst of all their pleasures A child at play complains not of the dust in which it rouls and tumbles but if the least dust get