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B05829	Certain select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that we may comfortably walk with God in our general and particular callings. / By Thomas Shephard, sometimes of Emanuel College in Cambridge; now preacher of Gods word in New-England.	Shephard, Thomas, 1605-1649.	1695 (1695)	Wing S3105A; ESTC R227738	42,314	125

rationally wrapt up in the Covenant of grace Indeed gross scandalous sins nay infirmities when they are given way to and not resisted may keep the soul from the fruition for a time of Gods Covenant but never from the eternal jus and right unto it for as the habit of Faith or Grace gives a man a constant right to the promise and Covenant which seed ever remains which habit ever lasts Jer. 3. 9. so the act of Faith or Grace gives a man fruition of the Covenant and the benefit of the promise and hence by the acting and venting of some sins wherein there is included the neglect of the exercise of grace He that is really in covenant with God may be deprived of the fruition of it yet seeing the seed of God and the habit of grace ever remains he cannot by any sin break his covenant for the covenant of grace is absolute wherein the Lord doth not only promise the good but to begin perfect fulfil the condition absolutly without respect of sin ex parte creaturae Indeed if Gods covenant of Grace did as that of works depend upon man to fulfil the condition having sufficient grace to fulfil it then gross sin might well break the Covenant but seeing God hath undertaken to fulfil the Covenant absolutely not withstanding all the evils and sins of the soul no sin can possibly break that knot and covenant which so firm and resolute love hath once knit And therefore if this be a good argument Infirmities cannot break covenant What cause have I to be humbled for them so as to say It is thy mercy Lord that I am not consumed for them as you write you may upon the same ground say so If the Lord should desert you or you for Take the Lord and so fall into the foulest sin which I suppose corrupt conscience dares not be so bold as to think or allow of 2. Secondly I say the least sins or infirmities do break the first covenant of works and hence you do not only deserve but are under the sentence of death and curse of God immediatly after the least hairs-breadth swarving from the Law by the smallest sin and most involuntary accidental infirmity According to the Tenor of the Law the soul that sinneth shall die and cursed is he that continueth not in all things of the Law Gal. 3. 10. The least sin being ex parte objecti in respect of God against whom it is committed as horrible and as great as the greatest For it being an infinite wrong being the dishonour of an infinite Majesty there can be no greater wrong than an infinite one unless you can imagin a thing greater than that which is insinite and therefore in this respect there is as much venom and mischief done against God in the least as in the greatest sin And therefore it and whosoever commit it deserve death for it as if they had committed the foulest sin in the world and therefore after the least and smallest infirmities you may from hence see what cause you have freely to be humbled and to confess for them how worthy you are to be destroyed yea even to look upon your self as lying under the sentence of the Law and death immediately after the commission of them and so to mourn bitterly for them Object But you will say a Christian that is under the Covenant of Grace is not within the Covenant of Works that Bond is cancelled the last will must stand and therefore he being out of that Covenant no sins of his can be said to break the Covenant for no man can be said to break that Law under which he is not and which he is not bound to keep Answ I answer every Believer has a double being or standing and so there may be put upon him a double respect 1. First he may be considered as united to and having a spiritual being on Christ and so it is true he is under Grace and the Covenant of Grace and not under the Law nor the Covenant of works and hence not being under the Law nor bound to keep it as a covenant of life tho' it be a rule of life no sin can condemn him there being no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus Rom. 8. 1. But as Christ is above condemnation and law and death and curse so is he And this truly understood is the foundation of a Christians joy and peace and glory every day yet so as tho' sin doth not condemn him yet he has good reason to say it is mercy and meer mercy Lord that I am not consumed that I am condemned For sin is the same nay grace and Gods love aggravates sin for to sin against the law deserves death without recovery but to sin when grace has received me and loved me when the blood of Christ has been shed abundantly to deliver me from sin Oh this makes the most secret silent sin a crying one So that if you do consider this well you may see what little cause there is to have your heart rising against the deepest humilation for the least sin tho' you be in Christ and under grace For as Daniel when he was put into the Lions den had not the cause to wonder that he was not torn in pieces by them and why because it was not from any defect on their parts to tear him in pieces but from the omnipotent power and mercy and grace of his God that muzzell'd their mouths so tho' no Lion can ●ear tho' no sins can hurt or condemn a Christian as he is considered in Christ yet has not he cause to confess and wonder and say Lord it is thy meer grace and mercy that it is not so which is the act of humilation your letter saith you can hardly come unto and why not because Gods grace puts any less evil in sin but because it is meerly grace that keeps it from spitting that venom which otherwise it would Secondly A Christian may be considered in respect of his natural being in hi●●elf and thus he is ever under the Law and as oft as he sinneth under the sentence of death and as the Apostle speaks by na●ure even we justified quickned are the children of wrath as well as others And thus after the least involuntary accidental sin you may easily see what cause you have to lie down deeply humbled mourning under the sentence of death and Gods eternal curse as a condemned man going to execution to feel that fire that shall never go out looking upon your self as you are in your self a forlorn cast-away every moment and this truly understood is the foundation of a Christians sorrow shame and confusion of face self-loathing self-forgetting self-forsaking and condemning every day and believe it Sir it is no small Piece of a Christians skill and work to put a difference between himself and himself himself as he is in Christ and so to joy and triumph and himself as he is growing on

for the procuring and meriting of life and this is called his Active Obedience Heb. 7. 26. Q. What follows Christs Humiliation A. His Exaltation which is his glorious victory and open Triumph over all his and our enemies sin Satan and death in the several degrees of it Luk. 24. 26. Phil. 2. 8 9. 1 Cor. 15. 5 7. A. What is the first degree of Christs Exaltation A. His Resurrection the third day whereby his Soul body by the power of the God-head were brought together again and so rose again from death appearing to his Disciples for the space of 40 days 1 Cor. 15. 4. Ioh. 2. 19. Act. 1. 3. Q. What is the second degree of Christs Exaltation A. His Ascension into Heaven which was the going up of the Manhood into the third heaven by the power of the God-head from Mount Olives in the sight of his Disciples Act. 1. 11 12. Q What is the third degree of his Exaltation A. His sitting at the right hand of God whereby he being advanced to the fulness of all glory in both natures governeth and ruleth all things together with the Father as Lord over all for the good of his people Mark 16. 9. Psal 110. 1. 1 Cor. 15. 25. Eph. 1. 20 21 22. 1 Pet. 3. 22. Q. What is the fourth and last degree of his Exaltation A. His return to Judgment which is his second coming into this world with great glory and Majesty to judge the quick and the dead to the confusion of all them that would not have him rule over them and to the unspeakable good of his people Mat. 19. 28. 2 Tim. 4. 1. Acts 17. 31. 2 Thes 1. 7 8 9. Q. Thus much of Redemption the first part of his Recovery What is application A. Whereby the Spirit by the Word and Ministry thereof makes all that which Christ as Mediator hath done for the Church efficacious to the Church as her own Ioh. 16. 14. Tit. 3. 5 6 7. Ioh. 10 16. Rom. 10. 14 17. Eph. 5 25 26. Q. What is the Church A. The number of Gods Elect. Heb. 12. 23 Ioh. 17. 9. 10 11. Ioh. 10. 16. Ep. 1. 22 23. Q. How doth the Spirit make application to the Church A. 1. By union of the Soul to Christ Phil. 3. 9 10. 2. By Commnnion of the benefits of Christ to the Soul Q. What is this Union A. Whereby the Lord joyning the Soul to Christ makes it one Spirit with Christ and so gives it possession of Christ and right unto all the benefits and blessings of Christ 1 Cor. 6. 17. Ioh. 17. 21. Rom. 8. 32. 1 Ioh. 5. 12. Q. How doth the Spirit make this Union A. Two ways first By cutting off the Soul from the old Adam or the wild Olive Tree in the work of preparation Rom. 11. 23 24. 2. By putting or ingrafting the Soul into the second Adam Christ Jesus by the work of vocation Act 26. 18. Q. VVhat are the parts of the preparation of the Soul for Christ A. They are two 1. Contrition whereby the Spirit immediatly cuts off the Soul from its security in sin by making it to mourn for it and separating the Soul from it as the greatest evil Isa 61. 1 3. Jer. 4. 3 4. Mat. 11. 20 28. 2. Humiliation whereby the Spirit cuts the Soul off from self-confidence in any good it hath or doth Especially by making it to feel its want unworthiness of Christ and hence submitteth to be disposed of as God pleaseth Phil. 3. 7 8. Luk. 16. 9. Luk. 15. 17 18 19. Q. VVhat are the parts of vocation of the Soul to Christ A. 1. The Lords call and invitation of the Soul to come to Christ in the Revelation and offer of Christ and his rich Grace 2 Cor. 5. 10. 2. The receiving of Christ or the coming of the whole Soul out of it self unto Christ for Christ by virtue of the irresistable power of the Spirit in the call and this is Faith Jer. 3. 22. Ioh. 6. 44 45. Ioh. 10. 16. Esa 55. 5. Q. Thus much of our Union VVhat is the communion of Christs benefits unto the Soul A. Whereby the Soul possessed with Christ and right unto him hath by the same Spirit fruition of him and all his benefits Ioh. 4. 10. 14. Q. VVhat is the first of those benefits we do enjoy from Christ A. Justification which is the Gracious Sentence of God the Father whereby for the satisfaction of Christ apprehended by Faith imputed to the faithful he absolves them from the guilt condemnation of all sins accepts them as perfectly righteous to eternal life Rom. 3. 24 25. Rom. 4. 6 7 8. Rom. 8. 33 34. Q. VVhat difference is there between Justification and Sanctification A 1. Justification is by Christs righteousness inherent in Christ only Sanctification is by a righteousness from Christ inherent in our selves 2. Cor. 5. 21. Phil. 3. 9. 2. Justification is perfected at once and admits of no degrees because it is by Christ his perfect righteousness Sanctification is imperfect being begun in this life Rev. 12 1. Phil. 3. 11. Q. What is the second benefit next in order to Justification which the faithful receive from Christ A. Reconciliation whereby a Christian justified is actually reconciled at peace with God Rom. 5. 1. Ioh. 2. 12. hence follows his peace with all creatures Q. VVhat is the third benefit next unto Reconciliation A. Adoption whereby the Lord accounts the faithful his Sons crowns them with priviledges of Sons gives them the Spirit of Adoption the same spirit which is in his only begotten Son Ioh. 3. 2. Rom. 8. 11 14 15 16 17. Q. VVhat is the fourth benefit next to Adoption A. Sanctification whereby the sons of God are renewed in the whole man unto the Image of their heavenly Father in Christ Jesus by Mortification or their daily dying to sin by virtue of Christs death and by Vivification their daily rising to newness of life by Christs resurrection 1 Thes 5. 23 Eph. 4. 24. Jer. 31. 32. Rom. 6. 7 8. Q. VVhat follows from this Mortification and Vivification A. A continual war combat between the renewed part assisted by Father Son and Holy Ghost the unrenewed part assisted by Satan this evil world Rom. 7. 21 22 23. Q. VVhat is the fifth and last benefit next unto Sanctification A. Glorification which hath two degrees The one in this life and the other in the world to come Q. VVhat is the first degree of Glorification in this life A. Lively expectation of Glory from the assurance and shedding abroad Gods love in our hearts working joy unspeakable Rom. 5. 2 5. Tit. 2. 13. Q. VVhat is the second degree in the world to come A. Full fruition of Glory whereby being made compleat and perfect in Holiness and Happiness we enjoy all that good eye hath not seen nor ear hath heard in our Immediate and Eternal Communion with God in Christ Heb. 12. 23. 1 Cor.