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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42057	Christ a Christian's life: Or, a practical discourse of a believer's life derived from Christ, and resolved into Christ. Being the substance of several sermons preach'd by the author upon his recovery from a fit of sickenss, and now extorted from him by the importunity of friends. By John Gammon, minister of the gospel, and pastor of a congregation in White-Chappel.	Gammon, John.	1691 (1691)	Wing G190; ESTC R216433	173,217	426

Promises they shall hear the Voice of the Son of God and live It is called a Vivification We are by Nature dead in Trespasses and Sins in our deliverance from them we are said to be quickened Eph. 5.5 Though dead we hear the voice of the Son of God and live being made alive unto God through Jesus Christ Rom. 6.11 Now no such Works can he wrought in us but by an effectual Communication of a Principle of Spiritual Life and nothing will deliver us Some think to evade the power of this Argument by saying that all these Expressions are metaphorical and arguing from them are but fulsom Metaphors and it is well if the whole Gospel be not a Metaphor to them But if there be not an Impotency in us by Nature unto all Acts of Spiritual Life like that which is in a dead Man unto the Act of Life natural if there be not a like power of God required unto our Deliverance from their condition and they work in us a Principle of Spiritual Obedience as it is required unto the raising of him that is dead They may as well say that the Scripture speaks not truly as that it speaks metaphorically and that the almighty Power the exceeding Greatness of God's Power that is put forth are exercised herein Eph. 1.18 Col. 2.12 13. 2 Thess 1.11 2 Pet. 1.3 And what do these Men intend by this quickning this raising from the Dead by the power of God A perswasion of our minds by rational motives taken from the Word and the things contained in it But was there ever heard of such a monstrous Expression If there be nothing else in it what could the Holy Writers intend by calling such a Work as this a quickning of them who were dead in trespasses and sins through the mighty power of God unless it were by a noise and insignificant Words to draw us off from a right understanding of what is intended Dr. Owen on the Spirit p. 279. Sect. 49. and it is well if some are not of that mind Do you hear the Voice of Christ continually in the Word preached but you must hear another Voice or you are undone for ever If the Voice of the Ministration of the Word without the Power of the Spirit would awaken Men there would be fewer in Hell and more in Heaven than there are This is the external means but yet there must be the pouring out of the Spirit or else this will do no good And here I shall shew how the Spirit of God works on the Heart First The Spirit of God works effectually that is the Voice of the Son of God How long may we preach the Resurrection of the Dead to a dead Man before he rises but that Resurrection that is preached when Christ comes with the Sound of the Trumpet and saith Ye dead arise presently the Dead arise We may come and sound the Trumpet in the Ears of Sinners but they will not hearken till Christ come by the effectual working of his Holy Spirit then it works indeed Acts 16.14 speaking of Lydia whose Heart the Lord opened and then she attended to the things of the Kingdom of God And a certain Woman named Lydia a Seller of Purple of the City Thyatira which worshipped God heard us whose Heart the Lord opened that she attended unto the things that were spoken of Paul She attended as one whose Heart was opened and was sick for Christ and rejoyced to hear Christ preached Secondly The Spirit of God comes and perswades the Heart to close with Christ Saith a sick person I am perswaded if I could but have such a Physician I should be cured healed of my sickness So poor Souls lie complaining but not in Despair they are sick unto Death but yet shall not die they see themselves lost without Christ yet shall not die for want of Christ The Spirit perswades them to embrace Christ John 6.45 It is written they shall be taught of God every man therefore that hath heard and learn'd of the Father cometh unto me It is written in the Prophet they shall be all taught of God Is this to leave off all teaching No they shall be all taught of God How Why God shall teach them by the Power of his Spirit in the Word And how then Every Man therefore that hath heard and learned of the Father cometh to me God teacheth them by the World and the Spirit perswades them there is Life in Christ The Soul is perswaded to close with Christ for the Soul that is sick for Christ shall never die Saith Christ He that believeth on me shall never die But the sick Sinner is perswaded that Christ can heal him and will heal him he groans but not in Despair he sighs but not as a Person that is out of hopes but does believe that Jesus Christ will be his Salvation and is his Life he shall hear the Voice of the Son of God The preaching of the Word is the means but it must be the Spirit of God that must work and make it effectual and then the Soul makes no delay no consideration of this or that but closes with Jesus Christ as a dying person closes with a Medicine that may cure him Thirdly The Voice of Christ is a Voice that engrafts it self with power in the Heart The Apostle saith Jam. 1.21 Receive with meekness the engraffed word which is able to save your Souls They are peswaded that Jesus Christ is their Life the Promises of Christ are become theirs though they are sick of Love to Christ they shall not die for want of Christ Ask Believers what it is they want they will tell you they want more strength from Christ more knowledge of Christ more Communion with Christ Now they that have not had these Symptoms of Life lie yet in the Grave of sin and the Worm of Conscience feeds on them and they feel it not Millions feel not the Worm of Conscience till they come to Hell Saith Christ I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance The whole need no Physician but they that are sick The Second Character of such that never made Christ their Lise are those that never see themselves poor and undone without Christ Thou sayest thou art high and increased in Goods and hast need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked Rev. 3.17 What without Christ and not cry out thou art poor miserable and undone They that never see themselves poor miserable and undone are yet without Christ What without Christ and well enough What hath enrich'd you Need of nothing What are you well enough without Christ Thou sayest I am encreased What can you patch up with any Duties with any Hopes with any thing below Christ But saith Christ thou art poor and wretched and miserable and blind and naked 3ly They never made Christ their Life that never prized that glorious Gospel that brings them Tidings

foolish said to the wise give us of your Oyl Have you no Oyl to spare us No none All the Angels in Heaven nor Saints in Heaven cannot help a poor sinner that hath not made Christ his Life He that hath most of Christ cannot part with any of Christ he that hath most Grace cannot part with any when he comes to die O saith the graceless Soul when he comes to die give me of your Oyl have not you some to spare The ungodly Husband will wish himself in the condition of the Godly Wife the Ungodly Parent of their Godly Child the Ungodly Children in the condition of the godly Parent If the ungodly Child should cry to the Godly Parent Oh for some of your Grace Oh spare me some of your Grace The Answer will be No no we have little enough for our selves would we had more Grace pray go and buy for your selves But alas 't is too late we trifled with Christ and with Grace I could go home after I heard a Sermon and be content and thought it was well enough though I never minded it any more I was told if I had not Christ I was undone It was preach'd to me if I had not Christ's Righteousness I should be found naked but I did not mind it nor regard it but now it is too late I indeed performed some Duties because I was afraid of Hell and because Conscience would not let me alone I kept to hearing and praying but to make Christ my Life that I was ignorant of Whatever was preach'd to me of him to make him my Life whatever was preach'd to me of him to make sure of him for my own I thought I could spare him well enough I thought I could live on my own Duties Alas you may be full of Duties and yet have an Heart empty of Christ You may keep a Sabbath outwardly and yet have no enjoyment of God inwardly you may perform Duty but if you have not Christ your Life you will survive all you have you will live to spend all An Hypocrite may go very far his Profession may carry him very far and yet fall short at last God doth not pluck away the Vizard at first but letteth them proceed The foolish Virgins took their Lamps and went boldly out to meet Christ along with the Wise More then will be perswaded too that will hardly now stir a Foot for Christ they continued so until the Bridegroom tarried so long beyond their expectation that they fell asleep What a dreadful thing is it for Professors to have nothing but what they may live to spend and be undone when they come to die Your Immortal Souls will survive all your Prayers and all your Sabbaths and if Christ is not your Life you are undone for ever This was the case of those fooolish Virgins The Fool in the Gospel provides for many years to come and lives but a short time And the other they pretended to get something for their Souls and lived to spend all You may be undone for living on your Profession as well as those who are Enemies to it Many will say they have not time to look after the things of another World no time to mind Christ nor seriously to think of their latter end Alas it is not being on your Knees in a morning and remember the Lord no more all the Day then to go hurrying on in the World never minding Christ nor your precious Souls On the other hand there are foolish Professors that make their own Duties their Righteousness and so think they have no need of Christ The one laies up more for himself than he lives to spend The other is so foolish he lays up so little not having Christ that he spends all and so is miserable but let us have a care we are not those Fools You that are Professors have a care you do not die poor that you do not live upon your Duties and not get Christ for your Souls to live upon The foolish said to the wise Give us of your Oyl But the wise answered and said Not so lest there be not enough for us and you but go rather to them that sell and buy for your selves Ah! how fain would every one of you have a Christ when you come to die How fain would every one of you have Grace when you come to die You will go home it may be this day and a few days more and set quietly at your Tables without Christ but when you come to die you will cry out O that I had a Christ It is hard venturing your Immortal Souls on this Line of time thinking it will reach out longer and you do not know how soon this thred of your Life may be cut asunder and when you come to die and are without Christ you will wish O that I had closed with Christ when I was perswaded to do it You are always ready that know Christ but never ready whatever you do without Christ if you have performed ten thousand Duties and keep a thousand Fasts without Christ you are undone And when they came the door was shut the Door of the Kingdom the Door of Grace the Door of Mercy the Door of Happiness of Comfort What the Door shut What the Door of Heaven shut against me O where shall I go Those persons that will not in time come to Christ for Grace they will knock when it is too late for entrance into glory What shall I do I am shut out without the Kingdom without God without Christ in everlasting Burnings Afterwards came also the other Virgins saying Lord Lord open to us Thus ready will they be to call Christ Lord that never took him to be their Husband Lord Lord open to us we are come we are come we knock now O how earnestly do they knock now You that coldly desire Christ now that indifferently seek after Christ now you will at last knock and call earnestly when it is too late There are three dreadful Outcries in this World but there will be three dreadfuller Cries which a Person that dies without Christ will send forth in the other World The first dreadful Cry in this World is a Malefactor that is sensible of his Misery when he is condemned What an Outcry when it is said Thou must die O how doth he cry out for mercy The second dreadful Outcry is When a Ship suffers Shipwrack and the Mariners or Passengers are sinking into the Sea then what a dreadful Outcry is there with them that before were cursing and swearing The third dreadful Outcry is When Soldiers or Rebels besiege a City and put Men Women and Children to the Sword but a Person that lives and dies without Christ there are three dreadfuller Cries First A Soul that is awakened departing this Life takes a view of his miserable state in the other World when Conscience drags him before God's Tribunal and there is condemned by the Law of God the Soul cries