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death_n	bring_v	lust_n	sin_n	9,234	5	6.5125	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35171	Caleb's spirit parallel'd in a sermon preach'd at the funeral of the late Mrs. Constancy Ward of East-Smithfield, London, at the meeting-house in Devonshire Square, April 7, 1697 / by Walter Cross ...	Cross, Walter, M.A.	1697 (1697)	Wing C7257; ESTC R22527	45,737	48

is so weak it appears at a great Distance and therefore little In short my Use is this We are more obliged to be full in our following God than Caleb was from his temporal Portion Estate Church-State Politick State 1st It 's the Substance that is in our Expectation the Shadow and Type was immediately in his 2ly Forty Years was he to wander in the Wilderness before he set one Foot upon the Land I could never see from the true Canons of Chronology Scripture or Providence any Ground to countenance the Prophecy of 1697 indeed this is truly 1699 but yet I cannot think we shall continue 40 Years in the Wilderness 3ly Our present Circumstances are full of Straits Want of Trade Money full of Fears assaulted with a powerful Enemy no Appearance of Victory Distress in our Naon abounding Sin and Judgments but I. R. was it worse than theirs in the Wilderness All second Causes against them and their Pilgrimage under the Commination of God to destroy them all before these Years were at an End or they see the Land of Promise 4ly Compare their Means of Salvation with ours their Light and Hope of Salvation with ours and our Condition is not only better than their Wilderness-Condition but better than their State under a triumphant David or a peaceful Solomon for 1. We have the Exhibition and the History of that Perfect Righteousness that Everlasting Righteousness that Eternal and Plentiful Redemption that they could only look at in a Prophecy and it may be understand as little as we do of his glorious Reign when he shall appear the second Time without Sin 2. We have a full Remission of Sin their Remission was a kind of Pretermission or Preterition of Sin which Rom. 3.25 is called the Forbearance of God The Difference seems to lie in these things 1st The Price was not yet paid 2ly The same Sins for which they had offered Sacrifice were brought to their Remembrance again by new Sacrifices implying their not being in a constant State of Favour with God hence their Consciences did perpetually accuse them Heb. 10.2 and their Fears torment them 3ly They were under a Typical Curse for non-observance of some Ceremonial Law which was almost impossible to observe but under the New Testament there is no kind of Condemnation to them that are in Christ there is no more Sacrifice for Sin which imports Divine Justice to be fully satisfied Divine Wrath fully appeased all things are ready and we are invited to the Marriage-Feast Remission in this full Emphatick Sense is promised as the Due of the New Testament Jer. 31.34 and historised as its Privilege Col. 1.14 Heb. 9.22 Christ to us is a full Surety an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fidejussor Expromissor hence Believers under the New Testament who grow in Grace and Knowledg enjoy a more perfected tranquil secure and peaceable Conscience though thro Backslidings they sometimes doubt if they be the Men but doubt not about the Validity and Acceptableness of the Sacrifice 4ly Our Light is much more clear our Vail is thinner and our Stile more familiar the Contrivance of Divine Wisdom in the Salvation of Man is more perspicuously declared since he who was from Eternity in the Bosom of the Father is become a Preacher of it I will declare thy Name unto my Brethren I have made known thy Name unto them A 5th Advantage is the Manner of teaching by Effusion of the Holy Spirit on the Hearts of Men to convince of Sin Righteousness and Judgment this is the Gospel's Glory this makes Believers Christ's Epistles this makes our Subjection to all his Ordinances a willing Obedience We see a Reason for it as well as Authority for it which renders all our Service a reasonable Service even the severest bearing of the Cross The Difference is so great that our State eminently is called the State of Faith Gal. 3.23 After that Faith is come and before that Faith was Their State is a State of Hope By Hope we are saved for Christ who was the Hope of Israel and whom they looked at as future and to come is present to our Faith we hope for eternal Life through him but we believe in him as already having given Satisfaction and now sitting at the right Hand of God our Intercessor It may be on this account we are called perfect they Children in Christ A 6th Advantage is the Difference between their Church-State and ours I do humbly conceive that in many places where two Covenants are mentioned the difference is not between the Covenant of Works under the first Adam and the Covenant of Grace but between the Church-Covenant under the Law and under the Gospel by the former all that were of Israel were of the Church they came in by Generation and Birth the second Covenant-Constitution requires Regeneration the former filled the Church with profane Persons and therefore required a rigid Yoak severe Discipline frequent Ejections the other is more holy and Heaven-like Church-Members are more like Sons having a Spirit and Air of Liberty they had Fathers of their Flesh who chastised them at pleasure we own no Pastour to have paternal Authority that is to chastise at Pleasure Call no Man your Father upon Earth for one is your Father which is in Heaven and one your Master even Christ hence frequently Christ forbids to imitate the Gentile Lordship in his Kingdom and the Apostles to exercise Lordship over God's Inheritance How powerful should these Motives be to undertake his light Burden and easy Yoak to follow him fully in every Ordinance of his Institution to follow the Lamb whithersoever he leads us to bear whatever Cross his Providence imposes But yet the 2d thing is the more native Subject of this part of the Text the Correspondency Proportion or Identity between the Work and Reward what he ventured for he shall enjoy Solomon makes the true Moral of it The Backslider in Heart shall be filled with his own ways and a good Man shall be satisfied from himself If there be not a heavenliness in a Man's Temper before he die his Hope may deceive him in expecting it then They that plough Iniquity and sow Wickedness reap the same but the Righteous shall eat the Fruit of his Doings Sin and Hell Holiness and Heaven agree like Conception and Birth When Lust hath conceived it bringeth forth Sin and Sin when 't is finished brings forth Death as hatred to God unfits for obedience to God so it incapacitates to enjoy God Can he that has Enmity of God in his Heart take pleasure in the Fruition of his Company Is not the Place of Darkness most sutable to them that love Darkness rather than Light Is it a cruel Sentence for God to say Depart from me to them whose Souls say to God Depart from us When Christ has long importuned us to use him as our Advocate and Reconciler is it harsh to say I will not speak a word for you If the