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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47587	Four sermons publickly delivered at several times in Ecclesfeild Church in Yorke-shire By Immanuel Knutton preacher of Gods word there.	Knutton, Immanuel, d. 1655.	1655 (1655)	Wing K743; ESTC R221976	59,329	142

and trespasses as the other sort be if there were as many people upon earth naturally dead as there be spiritually dead it would be very sad fearful and doleful you may hear them wish for grace but they take no paines for it their hearts rise against such as are gracious when they be in health though in sickness they desire to die the death of the righteous it s very sad to see how long many have lived graceless under excellent meanes of grace if a man fall into a swound and we pour Aqua vitae into him we rub him and use meanes to recover him but we perceive in him no heat sense nor motion we conclude he is dead the like we may say of very many who have been long rubb'd and stirred by powerful preaching but there appears in them no motion towards holiness no warmth of love to Christ and his image no sense of grace but coldness in their hearts and lives doubtless these men are dead having no life of God in them 5. I told you in the fift place that Christ washeth us by gentle corrections and trials sanctified to us This Use still serves to reprove such as be nothing bettered by afflictions many crosses hath God laid upon them to humble and reform them but they like wicked King Ahaz sin more in their affliction 2 Chron. 28.22 Jerem. 5.3 he complains of the Jews for their perverseness O Lord are not thine eyes upon the truth thou hast stricken them but they have not greived thou hast consumed them but they have refused to receive correction they have made their faces harder than a rock they have refused to return In Amos the fourth chapter God by him complained of the Jewes how he had many wayes afflicted them Yet ye have not returned unto me saith the Lord To many plunge themselves deeper into wickedness when Gods hand is upon them they are incorrigible and grow more obstinate proud prophane worldly minded and malitious against the truth to such lesser crosses will prove the beginning of sorrows thou canst complain of bitter troubles and smarting miseries thou hast suffered but what change have they wrought in thy heart and life have they made thee more fearful to offend God and more studious and careful to please him then thou art in a blessed condition if it be so but if thou beest more hardened in sin by afflictions then know to thy terrour that the worst is behind Hosea 5.12 God threatens to be unto Ephraim as a moth and to the house of Judah as rottenness that is he would try them with lesser afflictions and wast them by degrees but if those did them no good he threatens verse 14. For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion and as a young lion to the house of Judah I even I will tear and go away I will take away and none shall rescue him that is he would come with more fearfull and terrible judgements to destroy them forbearance is no forgiveness though God have leadē heels yet he hath iron hands easie warnings neglected ever end in destruction you that have been oftentimes crusht and prest with heavy crosses yet you are nothing better but wax worse and worse your judgement lingers not your damnation slumbers not Vse 2. For comfort I told you in the first place that Christ washeth us with the Sacrament of Baptisme This Use serves for singular consolation to all that be thus washed you are happy and have cause to rejoyce for 1. First you were baptized into Christ his death Rom. 6.3 4. you are buried with Christ by baptisme into death your old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth you should not serve sin now his death will destroy your corruptions as Irish earth kils venomeous creatures applied to it sin may dwell in you but it shall not have dominion over you it troubles you like a tyrant but it shall never be laid to your charge you by faith applying Christs death to your soules shall find your corruptions weaker and your hearts rising against them as Davids house waxed stronger and Sauls house weaker so shall grace grow stronger and sin weaker in you 2. You are planted together with Christ in the likeness of his resurrection that ye may walk in newness of life you live above others in a farre more excellent way than they do blessed are you that ever you were born but chiefly that you were born again you are more excellent than your carnal neighbours you are such of whom the world is not worthy you are precious in the eyes of Jehovah and he will honour you for ever your life is gracious and your death shall be glorious 3. You shall have the answer of a good conscience toward God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 3.21 The like figure whereunto even baptisme doth also now save us not the putting away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience c. Here Peter hath respect to that custome which was used in the baptisme of those who were of age the person baptizing asked the person to be baptized Whether he beleived and he answered I beleive c. hence by the answer of a good conscience we may understand that unfained faith whereof they made confession at their baptisme and whereby their consciences were purified and whereby they received remission of their sinnes testified by Christs resurrection from the dead also we may understand that covenant whereinto they entred at their baptisme the embracing whereof they testified by their unfained confession of their faith this benefit you shall receive by baptisme by applying unto your soules the power of Christs resurrection your consciences shall be both quieted and assured of pardon and favour and is thereupon enabled to treat for and expect mercy from God and reconciliation with him and so the faithful soul in the confidence hereof boldly questioneth with God about his favour reconciled unto him by Christs death and testified by his resurrection saying hath not Christ reconciled thy favour unto us by his death to endure for ever certainly it is so for his resurrection doth testifie it seeing that unless he had made a perfect expiation of our sins by his death and reconciled thy favour unto us he could not have risen again to life and heavenly glory 2. I told you in the second place that Christ washeth us with his sacred Word This Use still serves to comfort all such as are washed it by these benefits thou shalt enjoy by it 1. You shall ask what you will if it be according to Gods will and for his glory and it shall be done unto you John 15.7 which is an high priviledge prayer is the wing of the soul wherewith it flies up to heaven to Christ it peirceth the clouds it is a corner of heaven to a gracious soul it hath a kind of omnipotency in it it is the key

not we have no part with him 1 Corinth 6.10 11. Nor theeves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God and such were some of you but ye are washed c. implying that such wicked persons for want of this washing are like to be damned Reas Because no filthy unclean thing can come into heaven for God is of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look on iniquity now such as be not washt with Christs bloud are very filthy heaven is a place of infinite purity and holiness on earth unclean persons are suffered to dwell but into heaven they shall never enter 2. Because if Christ wash us not we have no peace with God for all true peace with God ariseth from Christ his washing us Rom. 5.1 Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ Justification is Gods gratious sentence whereby for Christ apprehended by faith he absolves a beleiver from sin and death and reputes him just to life for in justification Christs bloud by its merit washeth away sin which provokes God to anger but when that is removed we have peace with God but such as have no peace with God are never like to have part with Christ 3. Because if he wash us not we shall never enjoy the precious benefits of his death resurrection ascention and intercession Ephes 5.25 26. As Christ loved the Church and gave himself viz. to death for it that he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word that is by baptismal water and his word taught for whom he washeth they enjoy the spiritual benefit of his death resurrection c. and as Paul proves at large Rom. 6.3 4 5 6. Colos 3.1 2. yea this washing is a sure sign of his love to us Revel 1.5 unto him who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own bloud but such as have no right to the death resurrection ascention and intercession of Christ cannot be saved Next I shall teach you how to use this point The Uses I shall draw out of those five wayes mentioned whereby Christ washeth us Vse I told you that Christ washeth us by the Sacrament of Baptisme This Use still serves to reprove all such as were never washt inwardly as never felt the spiritual fruit of baptisme in their hearts and lives they content themselves with the bare outward washing and would be accounted Christians but no life of Christ appears in their lives such as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ Galat. 3.27 but these never put on Christ they go to hell with a Trumpet before them proclaiming their leudness openly they declare their sin as Sodom they hide it not they have not crucified their old man nor destroyed the body of sin neither do they walk in newness of life Simon Magus was baptized yet was in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity so are these they shew themselves to be servants of sin and their end is like to be according to their works 2. I told you in the second place that Christ washeth us by his sacred word This Use still serves to reprove such as never felt the lively vertue and working power of the Word upon their own soule the Word preached to them was like water poured upon a Rock God would have purged but they would not be purged therefore they shall not be purged any more till he cause his fury to rest upon them the Word they heard did not profit them because they did not beleive it it seemed as a fable to them had they regarded it they would have reformed their lives by it more than they did but they are so wedded to their wicked wayes that Gods Word hath no place in them but they are like a Smiths Anvil more hardened by many blowes so be they by frequent preaching they please themselves in that they can sometimes weep under a cross but stone wals can sweat against rain and yet be hard within so are their hearts as hard and their lives as wicked as any heathen Christ may say to them as he did to Jerusalem Jerem. 13.27 Woe to thee wilt thou not be made clean when shall it once be Object But many such will say They hope to do as well as the best for God is mercifull Answ Will ye live in swearing whoredome drunkenness sabbath-breaking contempts of godliness blaspheming Gods people lying and deceit and yet say you hope for mercy are these the wayes to find mercy with God if you look no better about you then thus but live and die in these sins you are as sure to damned as you are to die John 8 24. there Christ threatned the Pharisees that they should die in their sins which is the most fearful kind of death that can be we account hanging a dogs death pining a most painful death or to die in a stinking dungeon a miserable death and so they be yet one may die any of these wayes and his soul be saved but they that die in their sins cannot be saved for they die out of Gods favour they die enemies to God 3. I told you in the third place that Christ washeth us with the merit of his precious bloud This Use still serves to reprove such as never seek to have themselves washt with it but still lie under the guilt of sin they content themselves with a little overly knowledge of Christ and with a bare historical faith but they never apply Christs merits to their soules for justification their consciences are extreamly defiled they are more full of filthy lusts than a Serpent is of poyson the Papists teach that a Christiā may merit heaven by good works so they offer horrible indignity to Christ precious merits and many carnal Protestants follow them thinking they can addle heaven by their good deeds and good meaning but all this while they endeavour not to be found in Christ that they may be clothed with his righteousness at their death and at the end of the world they will find their sins the heaviest burthen they ever bare and then for ever will they be ashamed of their ugly lusts and filthy sins which were never washt away with Christs bloud 4. I told you in the fourth place that Christ washeth us with the saving graces of his holy Spirit This Use still serves to reprove such as were never thus washed too many loose and prophane people who have not so much as a form of godliness these hate and deride holiness they beleive not those places Psalm 9.17 The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the Nations that forget God Hebr. 12.14 Without holiness no man shall see the Lord but they shall find these places true when they find these judgements threatned executed upon them too many be there who rest in bare civil honesty and in some outward form of holiness but are as dead in sins