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cause_n	church_n	faith_n	good_a	1,446	5	3.4167	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43821	The spring of strengthning grace in the Rock of Ages, Jesus Christ demonstrated in a plain and short sermon / preached at Twickenham in Middlesex, near Hampton-Court, April 16, 1648, by Thomas Hill ...	Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.	1648 (1648)	Wing H2029; ESTC R25713	49,510	59

THE SPRING OF Strengthning Grace In the ROCK of AGES CHRIST JESVS DEMONSTRATED In a plain and short SERMON Preached at Twickenham in Middlesex near Hampton-Court April 16. 1648. By Thomas Hill D.D. Master of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge PHIL. 2. 12 13. Work out your own Salvation with fear and trembling for God worketh in you both to will and to do of his own good pleasure De ipsis hominum voluntatibus facit quod vult quando vult habens humanorum cordium quo voluerit inclinandorum omnipotentissimam potestatem Aug. de corrept Grat. cap. 14. Christus meus omnia London Printed for Peter Cole at the Printing-Press in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1648. TRVTH and LOVE Happily Married in the SAINTS And in the Churches of Christ. Ephesians 4.15 But speaking the truth in love may grow up into him in all things which is the head even Christ. PAuls chains and tears have had a prevailing rethorique he hath wept as well as swet over his hearers with good success when he was to preach to Felix though a Prisoner though with a Chain he made him tremble and here in the first Verse he comes as a Prisoner for their sakes to beseech them and a further and special Emphasis he comes to perswade them to that which is most pleasing namely To Vnity to which purpose he uses four several Arguments First There is a common engagement of all Saints to Vnity I beseech you walk worthy of your Vocation whereunto you are called with all lowliness and meekness forbearing one another in love there is one body one spirit even as you are all called in one hope of your calling one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all here is a whole bundle of Arguments in this first consider your Vocation those Priviledges to which you are advanced thereby and they leave a very great obligation upon you as Saints to study Vnity Secondly There is an Argument from the Equity of the thing in the 7. Verse Vnto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ unto every one of us every one hath some gift as it pleases Iesus Christ to proportion out such a measure to this Saint and such a measure to that Saint the little finger in the mystical body so much as is fit for him in the hand so much as is fit for him and this with a common respect that there might be a mutual use of all those with subserviency to the whole in reference to the mystical body of Christ there is an equity in it Thirdly There is a very great congruity and that argument you shall finde in the 8 9 and 11 Verses Jesus Christ when he did ascend he gave gifts to men all the gifts that are in the Churches and graces they are derived from the same efficient cause and therefore it is most incongruous that they should be distracted and divided so as to reflect dishonorably upon him that is the sole efficient cause of them and that with common intents and purposes for good of the mystical body But then fourthly and lastly You have here another Argument from the necessity of it till we all come to the Vnity of Faith and that we be no more tossed to and fro as children and carried up and down with every wind of Doctrine but that we speak the truth in love and so grow up into Jesus Christ in all things who is the head here is the necessity of it you 'l never grow up to intimate communion and fellowship with Jesus Christ you 'l never make a wise improvement of him as members of the mystical body unless you learn this heavenly skill namely How to advance Vnity and so I come to shew you what propositions this last Argument drawn from the necessity of the thing will afford us in the 15. Verse which by Gods assistance according as the weak measure of strength I have will bear I shall insist upon at this time But speaking or following the Truth in Love grow up into Christ in all things which is the head where first its clear Jesus Christ is the head of Saints the head of the Church 2. The Lord Jesus Christ when he ascended and gave gifts to men did intend did expect that there should be such an entertainment of the gospel that we should grow up into Christ in all things who is the head 3. Thinking speaking following the truth in love is the Gospel method to our Spiritual welfare I 'le begin with the first Christ is the head of particular Saints the head of the Church In the state of innocency Adam was the head of the great family of the world when he forfeited his headship and all that he did enjoy by eating the forbidden fruit that family was dissolved he was turn'd out of Paradice all was scattered abroad and we with him were then cast into a desperate condition unless God would be pleased to finde out a second Head and to that purpose out of the riches of his Grace and the infiniteness of his Wisdom that which Angels could not reach which men had not so much as any thoughts of or desires after God pitched upon namely Christ and designed him the Head of the Corporation of his Church of a certain number given unto him in his eternal Counsel for whom he should undertake and this learned Expositors conceive to be the meaning of that place where he speaks of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there in Ephesians 1.10 That he might gather together all things that all things might be headed under one headed under Jesus Christ Now before the fall all were headed under the old Adam now when they were in a shatter'd condition they should be reconciled and collected headed under Jesus Christ for the better opening of this you may be pleased to take notice of three particulars First Here is the Headship it self Secondly Here is the Appropriation of this Headship to whom he is a Head Thirdly Here is the Title to this Headship First For the Headship it self he is a Head 1. In regard of his preheminence it is an expression in 1 Col. 17.18 In all things having the preheminence he is the Head every member in the mystical body hath a Dignity and is advanced to an excellency to some degree of it but he that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that hath the preheminency he is the Head that is Christ but this is not all if you look upon a Picture there the head of a man hath a preheminence therefore we must have more then this He is head 2. In regard of Direction and in regard of Power being a wise head able to advice and guide and govern the body as the Apostle Peter speaks of him in 1 Pet 3.22 Who is gone into