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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

is the sanctifying of the heart Circumcision Deut. 30.6 And the Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart and the heart of thy seed to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soule that thou maist live Rom. 2.29 He is a Jew which is one inwardly and circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit and not in the letter whose praise is not of men but of God Consider the foregoing verses On the contrary evil and unsactified hearts are called uncircumcised in Scripture Lev. 26.41 If then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled Jer. 9.25 26. Behold the daies come saith the Lord that I will punish them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised Egypt and Iudah and Edom and the children of Ammon and Moab and all that are in the utmost corners that dwell in the wildernesse for all these nations are uncircumcised and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart Acts 7.51 Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and eares ye doe alwaies resist the holy Ghost as your fathers did so doe ye Circumcision then as you see was not onely a seale of the righteousnesse of faith The Passover The Passeover or Paschall Lamb Exod. 12. was a Type of Christ the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world as it hath been explained before The sprinkling of the blood upon the doore-posts signified the sprinkling of the blood of Christ upon the heart and soule for removing of the filth as well as the guilt of sin which was also signified by other sprinklings and washings of the Law as I shall shew you anon Sacraments extraordinary The Baptism in the cloud and in the red Sea figured the same which is now signified by our Baptism under the Gospel of which I shall speak in its due place The Manna in the wildernesse was a type of Christ who is the bread of Life upon whom whosoever feedeth by faith hath a spirituall life in Christ he dwelling in Christ and Christ in him to wit by the graces of his spirit Christ himself thus expounded what the Manna signified as you may read at large Ioh. 6.48 to 59. Types The Brazen serpent Numb 21.9 with Iohn 3.14 15. was a type of Christ restoring spirituall life as well as delivering from the death of condemnation As Moses lifted up the Serpent in the wildernesse even so must the Son of Man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life And this is life eternall that they might know thee the onely true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent John 17.3 The Laver Exod. 30.17 typified our sanctification by the Blood of Jesus Christ Eph. 5 25 26. Even as Christ also loved the Church and gave himselfe for it that he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word We read of the Laver of regeneration Tit. 3.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 According to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renuing of the holy Ghost The blood of the Sacrifices sprinkled signified the blood of Christ in its sanctifying vertue Heb. 9 1● 14. For if the blood of Bulls and of Goats and the ashes of an Heighfer sprinkling the uncleane sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternall spirit offered himselfe without spot to God purge your conscience from dead workes to serve the living God! chap. 10.22 Let us draw neer with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water The Promises 2. Let us consider the Promises even of the covenant of promise Jer. 31.33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those daies saith the Lord I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and will be their God and they shall be my people Ezek. 36.26 27. A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh And will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgements and do them Here you see how large a part of this Covenant consisteth in the promises of sanctifying grace Prophecies 3. Let us consider the Prophesies Zach. 13.1 In that day there shall be a fountaine opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleannesse It is the uncleannesse of sin that is washed away by this Fountain of Grace Isa 61.1 2 3. The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek he hath sent me to binde up the broken hearted to proclaime liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound c. This freedom here spoken of is from a state of thraldome in sin from the bondage of corruption as well as from the obligation to punishment for it is said ver 3. the latter part That they might be called trees of righteousnes the planting of the Lord that he might be glorified The like we have chap. 42. 6 7. I the Lord have called thee in righteousnesse and will hold thine hand and will keep thee and give thee for a covenant of the people for a light of the Gentiles to open the blind eyes and bring out the prisoners from the prison them that sit in darknes out of the prison-house Here we see that the opening of blinde eyes is spoken of and what is that but the grace of saving knowledge and what the prison is you may gather out of my foregoing words upon the former text Mal. 3.2 3. He to wit Christ is like refiners fire and like fullers sope And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver and he shall purifie the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver that they may offer to the Lord an offering in righteousnesse Sacraments of the N.T. 4. The Sacraments of the New Testament signifie the same sanctifying grace Rom. 6.4 We are buried with him by baptisme into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the father even so also we should walk in newnesse of life 1 Cor. 6.11 But ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified Here you see the washing of Baptism signifies the sanctifying as well as the justifying vertue of the blood of Christ John 1.35 He that sent me to baptise with water the same said unto me Vpon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and remain on him the same is he which baptiseth with the holy Ghost See also chap. 5.3 Except a man be born of water and of the

intima quadam mirabu● operatione regenerat quafi de novo ereat infundendo spiritum vivificantem omnes animae facultates novis qualicatibus imbuendo Christ in saving of a Soule from sinne workes powerfully and irresistibly overcoming all opposition whatsoever whether within or without us 3. i Thes 2. Ad hoc ipsum opus regenerationis habet se homo passivè neque est in potestate voluntatis humana impedire Deum sic immediatè regenerantem In Christs first worke of Grace upon the Soule the Soule is passive 4. k De Conversione qua denetat actionem bominis c. Pradictam conversionem sequitur haec nostra conversio actualis Deo proliciente ipsum actum credendi convertendi ex mutata voluntate quae acta à Deo agit et ipsa convertendo se ad Deum et credendo hoc est actum suum vitalem eliciendo Man by his fall into a State of sin hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spirituall good accompanying Salvation So as a naturall man being altogether averse from that good and dead in sin is not able by his own strength to convert himself or prepare himselfe thereunto When God converts a sinner and translates him into a state of grace he freeth him from his naturall bondage under sin and by his grace alone enables him freely to will and to doe that which is spiritually good Conf. of Faith by the late Assemb at Westminster cap. 9. Yet no man is converted or sanctified against his will but Christ worketh upon the soul by inclining the will of unwilling making it willing Ps 110.3 5. When Christ drawes effectually the Soule comes presently and infallibly yet not by compulsion but willingly Cant. 1.4 Draw me we will run after thee 6. Drawing is Christs word coming is the Soules act done in the power of Christ effectually moving Obj. If man be meerly passive in the work of conversion and no man be able in the use of any meanes to convert himselfe but Grace is of the Lords immediate infusing to what purpose is it to heare the Word or use any other meanes to attaine Grace more than to sit still and doe nothing at all And to what purpose doe Ministers preach the Word Answ 1. The preaching of the Word is Gods ordinary meanes for the converting of Soules Psal 19.7 The Law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul Rom. 10.17 Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God And God who hath ordained the meanes hath bound us to the use of them for as the Word and Mans indeavours can availe nothing without the Spirit so the Spirit will not worke where the Means is rejected It is God onely that gives the increase but his Pauls and Apollo's must be planting and watering Concerning the sowing the seed of the Word we may say as Solomon in another case Eccles 11.6 In the morning sow thy seed and in the evening withhold not thy hand for thou knowest not whether shall prosper either this or that or whether they both shall be alike good Ministers are Gods Husbandmen and People are Gods Husbandry or as the field in which this seed is sown 1 Cor. 3.9 it is the Ministers worke to sow and Gods to make the ground fruitfull Ans 2. The lesse able we are to work grace in our own souls the more careful we should be to wait upon the Lord of grace in the use of the meanes of grace The blind and deaf and dumb in the Gospell waited the more diligently upon Christ for help because they could not have help any otherwise than by his speciall divine power they waited in the way that Christ came and so must the soul that would have spirituall help wait upon Christ in the way that he comes which is the way of his Ordinances Obj. But is not the outward teaching to be layd aside Is it not said Jer. 31.33 34. This is the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those dayes saith the Lord I will put my law in their inward paths And they shall teach no more And doth not the Author to the Hebrewes interpret it of the dayes of the Gospel and say expressely they shall not teach Heb. 8.10 11. Must we not then wait only for the inward and immediate teaching of the Spirit of God Answ 1. The Lord intended not the laying aside of outward teaching for Christ himselfe went up and downe preaching the Gospel before his passion he taught his Disciples also after his resurrection as appears Ma. 28.18 Mar. 16.14 ad 19. Luk. 24.36 to 51. He gave a new Commission to his Disciples to goe teach all Nations Mat. 28.19 20. and promiseth to be with them and with those that should succeed them in the work of the Ministery to the end of the world And he who is the chiefe Sheepherd committed the feeding of his flock to them John 21.15 16 17. The fruit of his Ascention was the giving of Apostles Prophets Evangelists Pastors Eph. 4.11 12. and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministry And we must not be so absurd as to thinke that Christ by his owne practise and commssion to others contradicted the Prophesies I came not to destroy the Law or the Prophets but to fulfill saith Christ Mat 5.17 Answ 2. The teaching of this Doctrine is a self confutation to the Teachers for if no man must teach another then they that are of this opinion must not teach it others but must leave God to teach them that as well as other things Answ 3. But to inquire more strictly into the sense and meaning of the place we must note that the Author of this Epistle comparing Moses and Christ together preferres Christ in all things above him and comparing the internall efficacy of Christ with the external administrations of the Law shews that Christ was the substance of those shadowes in the Ceremoniall Law and that from Christ onely was Grace derived to obey sincerely the Moral Law according to those words Ioh. 1.16 17. Of his fulnesse have all we received and Grace for Grace For the Law was given by Moses but Grace Truth came by Iesus Christ Which being well understood would be a good Commentary upon a great part of the Epistle to the Hebrews The great error of the Jews was their resting in themselves and the Letter of the Law They had the Ceremonial Law and resting in those types and shadows looked not with an eye of Faith to Christ the Antitipe who was the end and scope of the Law and alone able to take away sinne as pertaining to the Conscience They had also the Morall Law written in tables of stone and rested in their own strength according to the Letter of the Law and thought to expiate their defects by those carnall offerings as Paul plainly and largely declares if we compare Rom. 9.31 32 33. with the