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A65694	Eighteen sermons preached upon several texts of Scripture by William Whittaker, late minister of Magdalen Bermondsey, Southwark ; to which is added his funeral sermon preached by Sam. Annesley.	Whittaker, William, 1629-1672.; Annesley, Samuel, 1620?-1696.	1674 (1674)	Wing W1718; ESTC R29271	230,495	446

Son of man and cursed is he that maketh an arm of flesh his strength that puts his confidence in any Creature In a Word all the Glory that belongs to the Father the Father hath commanded us to give to his Son That all might honour the Son even as they honour the Father John 5.23 That all should honour the Son even as they honour the Father he that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father So much for this Doctrine I shall apply it under the next Doct. 2. That as Jesus Christ is truly God this God is the Saviour of lost Creatures He is a Saviour to all that do partake of Salvation there is no other Saviour but only Jesus Christ The Doctrine of God our Saviour Tit. 2.10 According to the Commandment of God our Savior Tit. 1.3 You have it several times in this Epistle It was under this Name that the Angels as Heralds from Heaven did proclaim his Incarnation He shall save his people from their sins Now a Saviour implies a state of misery it supposeth either some misery that we are under for the present or some danger that we are liable to for the future in both these respects all the Children of men do stand in need of a Savior We are Apostate Creatures have sinned our selves not only into a state of estrangement from God but we have invested our selves with enmity against God Now this Condition must needs be a perishing Condition for if the favour of God be better than life then the anger and displeasure of God is more dreadful than death it self This is the punishment of the damned it is expressed by this as the most significant part of their misery Depart from me ye cursed Mat. 25.4 Ye cursed There is hell enough in that one word leaving out the other as we are under great danger we have need of a Saviour now there is no other Saviour but Jesus Christ He is said to be the Saviour of all men that is of all that are saved Of all men not that every individual person shall be saved or was intended to be saved by the condescention of Christ but he is the Saviour of all men whether Jew or Gentile for Salvation of Old was restrained to the people of the Jews as to the means and we have reason to believe as to the effect for there is no Salvation without Christ other Foundation can no man lay 1 Cor. 3 11. For the opening of this I shall speak briefly to three things 1. From what it is that Christ saves 2. Whom it is that he saves 3. How it that he accomplisheth this work of Salvation 1. From what it is Christ saves He saves in general from every thing that is dreadful every thing that doth endanger the safety and well being of Souls to all Eternity 1. He saves from Satan the worst of Enemies he hath trampled upon Principalities and Powers and led them captive Object But are not the people of God continually molested and disquieted by Satan is not he as a roaring Lyon going up and down seeking whom he may devour or at least whom he may disquiet and disturb Answ I answer He saves indeed from Satan though not as a Tempter yet as a Destroyer he may disturb their peace and disquiet them in their course but he can never bring them back again to himself For greater is he that is in you that he that is in the world Fear not little Children though you have to do with Principalities and Powers with enemies more than your match yet greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world My Father is greater than all he hath you in his hand and he hath committed you to the care of his Son and Jesus Christ is greater than all 2. He saves from the wrath of God the sorest of Judgments To escape the wrath of God is the concern of all fallen Creatures Oh Generation of Vipers who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come There is no wrath like the wrath of God nor any wrath from God like that which is to come and the first intimation of the Gospel wherever it comes warns to flee from the wrath to come Now by this Salvation Christ sets his People free from the wrath of God which is to come That God whom they have made their enemy he makes to be their friend that God whom they have set against them he procures to be for them True the people of God may be under a sense of his wrath and in their sad thoughts may pray as David did Correct me not in thy hot displeasure yet they are free from the wrath of God as a Judge though not from the anger of God as a Father Though God will not condemn them and cast them off yet God may afflict and chastise them and that is their Priviledge Blessed is the man whom thou chastisest and instructest him out of thy Law We stand in need of Afflictions and those afflictions are so far from being an argument of Gods wrath that they are the fruit of his care for and love to us Every Son whom he loves he chastens God cannot be content to see them that he loves go on in a course that is apparently tending to their own ruine and therefore he steps and checks them by many sharp corrections 3. He saves from Afflictions so far as they they may be to their prejudice For a little time if need be ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations 1 Pet. 1.7 For a little time and if need be So sooner nor no longer nor any more of affliction than the state and condition of their Souls need 3. He saves from sin the worst of evils this is the great Tyrant that usurps it over the Souls of all the Children of Adam He saves them from the power of sin he saves them from the guilt of sin though he doth not save them from the very presence of sin it may afflict and disquiet them but it shall not ruine and destroy them 4. He saves from death it self which is the King of Terrors from the sting of Death though not from the Grave and rottenness The nature of Death is altered to all true Believers Christ hath taken away that was at first threatned as a curse so that in substance all that was as a curse is turned into a blessing to all that Christ takes care of So much for the first from what Christ saves Secondly who are the persons whom Christ saves we shall not look upon that Salvation which Christ bought out for the world to be of that vast latitude as to extend to every particular and individual person in the world for that is contrary to the whole strain of the Scriptures Do but consider that in John 3.16 God so loved the world that whosoever believeth in him should not perish Whosoever believeth in him Every Believer and none else but Believers

is stiled The Great God and the true God 1 Epist St. John 5.20 And we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ This is the true God and eternal life The true God is to be taken in opposition to all Idol-Gods and all those Metaphorical expressions where we finde this Name Elohim as sometimes given to Creatures Again he is stiled The Mighty God Isa 9.6 For unto us a Child is born his Name shall be called Wonderful Councellour the Mighty God He is called God blessed for ever Rom 9.5 Whose are the Fathers speaking of the Priviledges of the Jews and of whom concerning the flesh Christ came who is God blessed for ever He is stiled also The Lord of Glory 1 Cor. 2.8 Which none of the Princes of this world knew for had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory Nay the Name Jehovah which throughout all the Scripture is not so much as singly ascribed to any Creature is ascribed to Jesus Christ He is called The Lord our Righteousness Jehovah our Righteousness That is the first 2. He in whom are all those high and eminent perfections those glorious Attributes which transcend the capacity of any Creature must needs be God and these the Scripture ascribes to Christ I shall only give you some few hints He who is Omnipotent whose Power is boundless and unlimited whose Government reacheth Heaven and Earth He that can do all things must needs be God Take all the Power that is in the Creature there is 〈◊〉 confinement and limitation of their Power but Jesus Christ is Almighty Rev. 1.8 I am Alpha and Omega the Almighty Rev. 19.6 The Lord God Omnipotent reigneth 'T is true Angels do excel in Power but Omnipotencie is peculiar to the true God for they are but his Creatures and their power is limited by him they are his Messengers whom he imploys Again Omnisciencie this is ascribed to Jesus Christ He searcheth hearts and tryeth reins he hath a window open into all mens breasts and discovers what is their thoughts he needs not that any should tell him any thing because he knows it and therefore he must needs be God John 2.25 And he needed not that any should testifie of man for he knew what was in man that is as he is God John 13.19 He that knoweth all things before they come to pass must needs be God Now I tell you says he before it come that when it is come to pass you must believe that I am he believe him to be God So Rev. 2.23 I am he that searcheth the Reins and Heart and will give to every one of you according to your work● Now this is only peculiar to the great God 3. He is said to be Omnipresent He was in Heaven even while he was upon the Earth John 14.3 I go that where I am ye may be also He was on Earth but as God He was even then in Heaven Matth. 28.20 His promise to his Disciples is And loe I am with you always to the end of the world and so he is as God He is with them while he is in Heaven As Ubiquity is only peculiar to the great God he fills Heaven and earth with his presence for the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain him Now I will be with you when I am taken up from you when you cannot see me nor converse in the flesh with me any longer 4. Immutability and Eternity are ascribed to Jesus Christ Prov. 8.22 it is applied to him who is the Wisdom spoken of there principally The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way before his works of old ver 23 24 25 26. I was set up from everlasting from the beginning or ever the Earth was c. This shews that Jesus Christ was Antecedaneous to all Creatures and that speaks him to be Eternal Psal 90.2 Before the Mountains were brought forth or ever thou hadst formed the Earth and the World even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God So everlasting is peculiar to God which is ascribed to Christ Micha 5.2 Whose goings forth have been from of Old from everlasting Your Margent reads it From the days of Eternity Heb. 13.8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday and to day and for ever It is said of him There is no variableness nor shadow of changing and he is called The everlasting Father Isa 9.6 Lastly He that hath life in Himself and is the Principle of life to others must needs be God It is a Contradiction to be a Creature and to be self-Originated So is it said of Jesus Christ Acts 3.15 And killed the Prince of Life v. 16. And his Name through Faith in his Name hath made this man strong that shews the greatness of his power through faith in his Name John 5.26 For as the Father hath life in himself so hath he given the Son to have life in himself 3. He to whom works of Infiniteness are ascribed must needs be God No Creature can possibly do any act of Infiniteness because it is above the rank of a Creature The work of Creation which is a work of Infiniteness is ascribed to Jesus Christ John 1.3 All things were made by him So the work of Supportation is ascribed to him Heb. 1.3 Vpholding all things by the Word of his power He that not onely brought all things out of nothing by the Word of his power but he that upholds them from falling back into their first nothing again by the same All-mighty power must needs be God and this is ascribed to Christ So the work of Redemption this is attributed to Jesus Christ He that could subdue him that had the power of death that is the Devil He that could conquer Principallities and Powers and lead Captivity captive He to whom all things are made subject both in Heaven and in Earth Principallities Dominions and Thrones and every thing that is named that is every thing that is excellent are made subject to him Eph. 1.22 And hath put all things under his feet and hath left nothing unsubdued and gave him to be Head over all things to the Church That is the third Argument 4. He whom Angels adore and Creatures worship must needs be God and thus they do Jesus Christ God is very jealous of his own Honour and will not suffer them to be given to any other But honour and worship is by the Command of God to be given to Jesus Christ Heb. 1.6 Let all the Angels of God worship him And we are baptized in the Name of Christ Mat. 28.19 And we are bound to pray in the Name of Christ Whatever you ask in my Name that will I do John 14.13 And to believe in Christ John 14.2 Let not your hearts be troubled ye believe in God believe also in me Now to believe in any thing is to make a God of it weare taken off from setting our faith on any Creature Trust not in man nor in the

from strength to strenth that is the same which in other places is called from graceto grace and from faith to faith that is from a less degree to a higher I might instance in the Church of Philadelphia Thou hast a little strength Rev. 3.8 that is there is the reality of Grace but it is Grace as it was in its infancie thou hast but a little strength Indeed where ever there is Grace there is a proportionableness of strength Inlightening Graces are the strength of the understanding a Soul that is spiritually anointed acts strongly in its apprehensive faculty self-denying Graces are the strength of the affections and sanctifying Graces are the strength of the whole inward man But more particularly there is a three fold strength in Grace First a strength of interest as it intitles us to Christ 2. Strength of improvement as Grace grows up to a higher stature 3. A strength of evidence 1 There is a strength of interest by Grace by which we can claim an interest in the Lord Jesus Christ and that is great strength to our Souls when we are going hence and shall be no more If you can say Christ is yours then all is yours life is yours and death is yours 1 Cor. 3. last All things are yours If once God hath given us his Son he will with him give us all things and he that hath given us this Grace will with hold no good thing from us God will think nothing too much for them upon whom he hath bestowed his Son and who are the persons that have an interest in Christ John 3.16 God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have everlasting life that believeth on him there is the Grace of faith There is a time coming when we shall say to riches and to relations and all Creature-enjoyments there was a time when you were useful refreshing and comfortable but your time is now past it is not in you to comfort us to set open the door of Heaven for us it is not for you to appear before God on our behalves it is not in you to deliver us from the evils we now fear nor to confer upon us the good things which are to be desired Nothing can hide the Soul from the displeasure of God nothing can procure it those undeserved favours and make it compleatly happy but only Christ but if we have Christ we have all with him here is the strength of interest when the Soul is in want and to leave all its enjoyments in the world at once as friends estate relations yet if the Soul hath an interest in Christ death doth not separate it from Christ that you have Rom 8. last Nor heighth nor depth nor life nor death 2. These is the strength of improvement for though weak faith and weak Grace may hold its own in God and Christ yet this hold is not so firm and fast as when Grace is grown up to some stature and hath attained some degree of strength It is a notable passage of a Learned Writer They do but make a great noise in the world about Grace and Christ that make no improvement in Grace and are not every day making some farther prgress in their spiritual interest 'T is true where-ever there is the least degree of grace there is the mystical union to Jesus Christ and a communion with Christ in his Graces for light and heat always come and go together for when Christ comes into the Soul he brings along with him these blessings But yet though no Christian can be any farther in possession of Christ than he doth make use of him yet there are several degrees of strength which by out making use of Christ we may attain unto To instance in mortification of sins and the subduing of our corruptions A Soul that can appropriate Christ will be deriving Conquest from Christ over its inbred corruptions and power to get Authority over its continued temptations such a Soul will be crucified to the world and all the lusts of the flesh and so as to vivification and newness of life a Soul that can challenge a propriety in Christ will fetch dower not only from his death for the mortification of sin but also from his Resurrection for holiness and newness of life and conversation it will finde living desires and longings and lively stirrings of heart after God continually 3. There is the strength of evidence or assurance which results from Grace That I may recover may strength When the Soul by reflecting upon it self nnds that it hath made such improvement by the means of Grace and opportunities it doth enjoy and that really it hath got an interest in Christ and sees some Scripture-grounds to reckon it self among those beloved ones whose names are written in the Book of life this will fill the Soul with joy here and bear it up under all pressures and difficulties it may meet with in its passage this will animate it to look death in the face and that with comfort Now these three sorts of strength are so admirably advantageous will appear from the language of departing Souls when they come to lie upon their death-beds what is it that makes the poor Soul that is ready to take its flight into another world when it is just going hence and shall be no more to quake and tremble but the want of some of these strengths O says one If I had but an interest in Jesus Christ I could say with Simeon Luke 2.20 Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart Death should not then storm me no I would then make a quick and speedy surrender of my self to it then it should not lay siege to me Says a second had I more strength of improvement had I walked more circumspectly lived more self-denyingly had I approved my self more faithful in all my Relations I should then have been more able with the dying Swan to have sung my self asleep in my last bed as the Naturallist speaks Says a third had I an evidence and an assurance of my relation to Christ did I certainly know I have an interest in the love of God then I should welcome death and say welcome thou Prince of terrours for though thy face be grim yet thy message is comfortable so that it is only spiritual strength that will bestead the Soul at such a time and whatever mercy we may be found wanting of what a mercy will it be to us not to be found wanting of this mercy this spiritual strength It is no great matter in what way death comes to us if it find us with this spiritual strength in reference to our eterual condition 2. Part. This spiritual strength is subject to many failings and decays Our strength as to interest 't is true can not be lost for a Soul that is once united to Christ is never separated from him again My Father faith our Saviour is greater than