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A86549	Salvation from sinne by Jesus Christ: or, The doctrine of sanctification (which is the greater part of our salvation) founded upon Christ, who is both the meritorious, and and efficient cause of sanctifying grace, purchasing it for, working & perfecting it in his people. Applied (as it was specially intended) for the better information of our judgements, and quickning of our affections in holiness, wherein our everlasting our everlasting happiness chiefly consisteth. / Preached in the weekly lecture at Evesham in the county of Worcester, by George Hopkins, M.A. minister of the Gospel there.; Salvation from sinne by Jesus Christ	Hopkins, George, 1620-1666.	1655 (1655)	Wing H2743; Thomason E1608_1; ESTC R208454	135,124	325

1. Against the fear of falling away Psal 34.19 Many indeed are the troubles and temptations of the righteous but the Lord will deliver them out of them all Satan his Instruments are very powerfull they do and shall deceive many especially in such times as these But the Elect of God and such onely are effectually called shall not be deceived For saith our Saviour Christ Mat. 24.24 There shall arise false Christs and false Prophets and shall shew great signes and wonders insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very Elect. The Elect may be long deceived before their conversion they may after their conversion also be brought off for a time from some of the sound principles they have professed and from much of the practice of Christianity wherein they were forward as I am perswaded many are in these dayes whom God will cause in his good time to remember from whence they are fallen and repent and do their first Works And the most faithfull of Gods Elect are deceived all their dayes in lesser matters both in judgment and practise But the Elect of God shall not be utterly deceived in those things that are essentially necessary to be known and done Whosoever then thou art that sincerely fearest God rejoyce in thy firme and setled condition The Love wherewith the Lord hath loved thee is everlasting love Jer. 33.3 his mercy he will keep for thee for evermore Psal 89.28 the kindnesse of thy Redeemer is everlasting kindnesse Isa 54.8 The Covenant that God hath entred with thee is an everlasting Covenant Isa 55.3 Heb. 8. 8 9. c 13.20 The spirit i Scriptura non uno loco inculcat Spiritū S. electis datum inhabitare corundem corda Si autem inbabitat igitur domicilium fixamque sedem ibi deligit neq zimaginabimur cum excurrere vagari redire quod malum spiritum facere consucvisse Christus Mat. 12. testatur Zanch. Epist l. 1. Datur electis Spiritus S. ut arrbabo haereditatis coelestis Eph. 1. Nemo autem qui promissis pactisve vult stare arrbabonem reposcit quin potius in hoc totus est ut promissa sive pacta praestet ne tum quidem ubi illa praestiterit arrhabonem repetiturus Consequitur ergo Spiritum S. apud cum cui semel datus est relinqui Quod eo quoque comprobatur quod Eph. 4. dicuntur credentes per Sp. Sanctum in diem redemptionis obsignari Zanch. ibid. of Sanctification already given thee is the earnest of thy Inheritance Eph. 1.14 Thou art sealed by it to the day of redemption Eph. 4.30 It is sent unto thee not as a wayfaring man to tarry but for a night but to abide with thee for ever Joh. 14.16 The seed of grace is an incorruptible seed 1. Pet. 1.23 The life of grace is everlasting life For he that truely believeth hath everlasting life Joh 3.36 Ch. 5.24 Thou believest the record that God hath given of his Son and this is the record that God hath given us eternal life and this life is in his Son He that hath the Son hath life 1 Joh 5.11 12 Everlasting life is already begun in thy soule and the Lord is faithfull who will establish thee to the end 2. Thes 3.3 Satan indeed desireth to have thee that he may sist thee as wheat but Christ hath prayed for thee that thy faith may not faile Luke 22. 31 32. The powers that are against thee are great but the power that is for thee is k Nemo fallit redemptorem tuum nemo circumvenit nemo premit Aug. in Psal 103. v. 3. greater Thou shalt be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation 1 Pet. 1.5 The Lord that hath already rescued thee out of the jawes of Satan that was ready to devour thee as David rescued the Lamb out of the mouth of the Lion will carefully watch over thee that thou maist no more become a prey He that keepeth thee will not slumber Behold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep The Lord is thy keeper the Lord is thy shade upon the right hand The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil he shall preserve thy soule the Lord shall preserve thy going out and coming in from this time forth and for evermore Hear how Christ the great Sheepherd of thy Soul speaks for thy comfort John 10.27 28 29 30. My sheep hear my voice I know them and they follow me and I give unto them eternall life and they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand My Father which gave them me is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out of my fathers hand I and my Father are one And how confidently doth Paul triumph against all opposition Rom. 8.35 37 38 39. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or distresse or persecution or famine or nakednesse or perill or sword Nay in all these things we are more than conquerours through him that loved us For I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Thou hast cause indeed to feare Satans and the Worlds temptations and thine own inbred corruption with a feare begetting care for the prevention of the evil but let not thy feare cause thee to cast away thy confidence in Christ thy Saviour but in assurance of his help and protection fly unto him at all seasons and say as David did in another case Psal 66.3 What time I am afraid I will trust in thee Forsake not him and he will not forsake thee In this case I may say as Azariah said to Asa and all Judah and Benjamin The Lord is with you while ye be with him yea the Lord hath said I will not faile thee nor forsake thee A repetition of the same thing in Scripture is like Pharaoh's doubled dream which sheweth that the thing shall certainly come to passe which is foretold or promised Now we have here the Lord doubling his promise I will not faile thee nor forsake thee Note also that whereas two negatives in the Greek Language deny the more strongly we have here no lesse than five negatives two in the former and three in the latter clause of this promise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If we should translate the words literally it would be thus I will not not faile thee neither will I not not forsake thee Enemies indeed thou hast and the worst are in thine own house I meane which is worse in thine own heart Feare with a cautious but not with an incredulous feare Remember thou art here a member of the Church-militant among many Enemies warre thou must and adventure hazards and difficulties yet be not dismayed l Eisi diabolus peccatum

of their sin before they be also condemned to the same pit of hellish howling CHAP. V. FIrst let me exhort you in generall to get your hearts deeply possessed with the consideration of this truth 1. Use of Exhortation That the great work of Christ our Saviour is the saving of his people from their sinnes This will be of great concernment to the glory of God and the good of your own and others soules as will more fully appeare in the following discourse The not understanding and want of consideration of this is the cause of great contentednesse in sinne among profane and earnall persons They look onely upon judgement as the great evill they are liable unto as for their sinnes they love and delight in them as if there were no evil in them So little do most consider of the evill of sinne that were it not for fear of the judgement annexed to the Law and denounced against sinners they would have no thoughts of ever-leaving their sins the Language of many poore carnall soules declares as much Tell a profane person of his evill courses so as to convince him of his sinne he will answer he hopes he may repent hereafter and God may have mercy on him at the last The example of the Thief on the Crosse much takes with him but for present reformation he hath no minde to it Tell me plainly thou that livest in known sinnes being convinced in conscience of the evill of them and that yet there is no saving work wrought upon thy heart Tell me I say and let Conscience answer when thou hast had good motions upon thy heart from the Spirit of God in thy solitary seasons or when thou hast been plainly shewed by some powerfull Sermon what thy state is how sinfull and damnable Hath not thy deceitfull heart wedded to corruption silenced the voice and quieted the workings of conscience by telling it this work of turning to God and seeking his grace is indeed necessary to salvation but this is a work that may be done hereafter and so it be done any time t is well enough though in sickness or old age And doth not this plainly shew that thine ey is only upon the evil of suffring for sin not upon sin it self for were sin accounted a greter or as great an evil as suffering yea were it accounted an evil of any moment at all there would be no pleading for a little more slumber a litle more folding of the hands to sleep in sin Were sinners as sensible of the evill of sin as of the pain of scorching flames oh how would they awake and rouze up themselves plead no longer for the flesh to delight it self in sensual pleasures Is it not ignorance in this point that is the cause why so many in these times will not account a Sermon of repentance or holinesse worth the hearing and that the Preacher that spends much time upon such subjects is esteemed no better than ignorant of the mysteries of the Gospel Is not ignorance of this doctrine the cause why so many self-conceited self-sending teachers meddle so little with the propheticall and kingly office of Christ and insist almost wholly upon his Priestly office and handle that but by the halves too They are much upon the satisfaction which Christ hath made to God for sinne by his fulfilling the Law and suffering for us but the purchase of sanctifying grace is little taken notice of Verily every office of Christ is very necessary to the saving of his people His Propheticall office is necessary to their teaching and enlightning in the waies of holinesse his Kingly office is necessary for the subduing of rebellious lusts and affections for the conducting of them and leading them on in the paths of righteousnesse and his purchase as he is our Priest of sanctifying grace is as necessary as his obtaining pardoning grace for us The not laying of this to heart is surely the cause of so much slightnesse and remissnesse even in many of the children of God themselves in their whole spirituall course Tell me truly thou that fearest God and dissemble no longer to thy own injury and Gods dishonour Hast thou not many times said thus in thy heart I am verily perswaded my estate is good before God that I have true grace and an interest in the precious merits of Jesus Christ and though I be not so carefull watchfull and spirituall as I might be though I give way to such and such lesser evils and neglect such and such smaller duties yet having an interest in Christ who is able to save me to the uttermost all these will be pardoned and done away in the day of account and being not under a covenant of works but of free-grace for the remission of sinnes I need not be so very scrupulous Whence now comes such evill and carnall reasonings in thy heart but from hence that thou little considerest that the great work and care of Christ is to save thee from thy sinnes Thou lookest upon suffering as the greatest evil and upon sinne as little in comparison of it thou thinkest free-grace is chiefly yea almost wholly if not onely to be admired in the remission of sinnes and magnified in the justification of Gods Elect diminishing his grace in their sanctification O how exceedingly is God dishonoured not onely by wicked men but even by his own children also for want of rightly considering wherein their salvation lies O learn now if thou hast not hitherto considered it that it is the great work of Christ to save his people from their sinnes And to that end weigh well the arguments confirming the Doctrine And to the end thou maist be further helped in thy understanding of this truth of so great importance study againe and consider better very many Scriptures that speak of the work of salvation by Christ and see whether thou hast not exceedingly straitned the sense and meaning of them by conceiving them to speak of salvation from the fruits of sin onely when they specially intend salvation from sinne onely Did not these words in the text He shall save his people from their sinnes and these words Behold the lambe of God which taketh away the sinnes of the world seem to thee to be meant onely of the guilt and punishment of sinne O learn now more clearly and fully to understand the sense of Scripture concerning Gospel-grace and know that Christs saving his people by sanctifying them as well as justifying them is the very stream both of the old and new Testament And here that I may help your understanding a little I shall instance 1. In the Sacraments and Types 2. In the Promises 3. In the Prophesies of the old Testament 4. In the Sacraments of the new Testament 5. In the Gospel-invitations together with some other texts of Scripture Sacraments ordinary 1. For the Sacraments which were ordinary in the old Testament Circumcision of the flesh signified circumcising that