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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62052	The pastors farevvell, and vvish of vvelfare to his people, or, A valedictory sermon by George Swinnock ...	Swinnock, George, 1627-1673.	1662 (1662)	Wing S6280; ESTC R39111	44,281	80

He taketh his farewel of them and wisheth a welfare to them And now The opening of the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 since I see that I who am your guide must shortly be gone and since I foresee that Wolves will arise so ravenous as to conspire and endeavour your ruine what remains but that I should commend you to God who can prevent the effects of their cruelty and supply the want of my company And now The season is observable it s the last and the greatest kindness I can do to commend you to God The occasion is considerable And now the dying Father commits his children to a faithful Guardian And now I must leave you never to see your faces more but now I shall leave you to one who will never leave you nor forsake you And now Brethren This title is an affectionate term and speaks how dear and near they were to the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It discovereth much of his humility though they were his inferiors yet he calleth them his equals Brethren stand on the same level but more of his love this even relation is accompanied with great affection Love as brethren 1 Pet. 3.8 Love like water doth not easily ascend but will run swiftly and pleasantly on even ground And now my dearly beloved whom I both love and esteem as Brethren who are both near and dear to me since providence is parting us I cannot better evidence my affection to you or care of you then by committing you to him from whom none can part you And now Brethren I commend you to God To commend one to another in our English phrase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 significat Patrocinio cura ac tutelae alterius aliquid commendare Beza Commendare veluti commendatur depositum servandum is either to praise him for some worth in him or to present some respects from him but in Scripture sence besides the former acceptations it sometimes signifieth to refer one to the care of another Rom. 16.1 I commend to you Phebe our sister To commend in this place signifieth to commit them as dear pledges or as precious jewels to the tender custody and keeping of the blessed God As if he had said Be not discouraged nor disconsolate at my departure as if thereby ye should be left disolate for I commit and commend you to one who will abundantly make up my absence by his Almighty Power and favourable presence though I am taken from you and constrained to forsake you yet I commend you to that God who will be careful of you and never fail you who hath infinite strength for your protection and infinite Wisdom for your direction and infinite Favour for your consolation And now brethren I commend you to God And to the word of his grace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Scripture is called Gods Word because as men by their words discover their wills so God by the Scripture doth manifest his mind and pleasure But it s that part of Scripture which we call the Gospel which is emphatically termed here and in some other places The Word of his Grace because it speaketh Gods good will and good pleasure to the children of men Act. 20.24 Tit. 2.11 The Covenant of Works which God made with Adam and in him with all mankind was in some respects a Covenant of Grace for God was not bound to promise man eternal felicity upon his perfect obedience but might have required it by vertue of his Soveraignty and domion But since mans Apostacy and impossibility thereby of attaining happiness by his own works God hath been pleased to accept of the perfect obedience of Jesus Christ on the behalf of the beleiving penitent Christian which act of infinite Grace being revealed in the Gospel it is most fitly called The Word of his Grace The Law as the case stands with man now speaks nothing but fury and death but the Gospel speaks favour and life the Law wounds man with his blows the Gospel heals him with its balsom the Law condemneth man without pity to the sufferings of Hell but the Gospel alloweth him a Psalm of mercy and so saveth him from the wrath to come Now the affectionate Apostle commendeth his fainting patients to this rich Cordial the word of his grace They might think it was small comfort and a poor courtesie to be commended to a righteous and jealous God as stubble to be committed to a consuming fire therefore he tells them I commend you to God not under the notion of an angry Judge But in the relation of a gracious father and compassionate friend which if ye doubt of do but look into the Gospel which is Heavens Court rouls transcribed wherein ye may see the naked bowels of his good will and read his curious eternal contrivance of magnifying his grace in you and towards you I commend you to that word of his grace wherein every line speaks love and each expression his tender affection to you I know your poverty but that word of his grace is a mine of unsearchable riches ye are hungry but that is bread when ye are weary there ye may find rest whatsoever your conditions be there is sutable Consolation And to the word of his grace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which is able to build you up These words with them that follow are by Erasmus according to our Translation refered to the word of his grace but according to Beza and some others God is the antecedent to this relative who is able to build you up c. The reason of the doubt is because both are of the same gender whereby its uncertain to which of the two this latter part hath relation But there is a certain truth if we refer them to either God is able to build them up c. and also the Gospel or word of his grace is able to build them up c. God as the first cause and principal efficient the word of his grace as the second cause and subordinate instrument The Gospel cannot do it without God and God will not do it without the Gospel God ordinarily by the Gospel doth both sanctifie and save build up and give an inheritance Which is able to build you up The Foundation of godliness was already laid in their hearts but something was still wanting a greater degree of grace and holiness Paul knew that his brethren would not be contented barely to know Christ but were desirous to grow in grace and in the knowledge of Christ and did therefore the more lament his loss because he as a faithful Steward had furthered the welfare of their souls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by giving them their food in due season Now to allay their fears of famishing for want of his care he commends them both to the same Master and to the same meat by which they had hitherto thriven and prospered and which were able still to continue the same vertue and

in such good hands as Gods and that the publique faith of Heaven is ingaged for the payment of all your bonds For be confident he who will not suffer a Lyer to enter Heaven will much less suffer a lye to enter his own heart faithful is he that hath promised and also will do it 1 Thes 5.24 Thus my dearly Beloved I commend you to the favour and affection power and protection care and benediction of this God who is so able so loving and so faithful a friend But as I desire and shall endeavour by faith and prayer to commend you to God so I cannot but hope and I beg it of all amongst you that have any interest at the throne of grace that ye would commend me to God I beseech you for the Lord Jesus Christs sake that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me Rom. 15.30 Before I conclude as I have commended you to God so let me commend you to and commend to you the Word of his grace Julius Cesar being forced to swim for his life held his Commentary in one hand above water and swam to land with the other Without question you have more cause to value the word of Gods grace The law breatheth forth a cold blast a northwind of threatning but the Gospel sendeth forth a warm gale a Southwind of promises grace of all Gods attributes must not be neglected love can least endure to be slighted O let me beseech you for the Lords sake for your souls sake to value the Gospel Alas what are ye without it but condemned Malefactors every moment liable to be called forth and hung up as monuments of Gods fury in Hell If ever poor creature in fear every moment of being fetcht out of the Prison and carried to the Gallows did esteem a pardon sure I am ye have cause to prize the Gospel O sirs how had all of us at this day been shut up under the Laws curse in the Dungeon of endless wrath and misery had not the Gospel opened the prison doors knockt off our shackles and set our souls at liberty I commend the word of his grace to you under a fourfold consideration First To purifie your affections I know ye want grace now the word of grace can beget grace and increase grace It s the usual pipe through which grace may be conveyed into the vessels of your hearts The Laws of men may reform your actions but t is the Gospel of God which can renew your affections Some Poets speak of Musicians that by the force of their musick can make stones leap into Walls and tame beasts be they never so savage The word of Gods grace will do much more t will turn stones into Children of Abraham t will change an heart of stone into an heart of flesh t will tame Lyons and turn them into Lambs Isa 11.4 5 6. It hath made the very hearts of them to bleed whose hands were imbrued in the blood of the Redeemer Let your endeavour be that this word of grace may come with power to your souls that you may not onely hear it but savour it and not onely read it but rellish it O my friends the lack of this is the undoing of thousands What is the reason that some who seemed very fair for Heaven fall away fouly and as some Marriners boast can sail with all winds to what Haven soever they blow truely this the Gospel though sometimes it conquered their outworks never surprised the royal Fort of their hearts though it darted in some light yet it was never received in the love of it O therefore let me beseech you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain 2 Cor. 6.1 Ah how sad will it be for you if your hearts be like rocks on which the dews of grace falling make no impression as the Apricock Tree leaneth on the wall but is rooted in the earth so many seem to lean on Christ but are rooted in their lusts the word of grace abused is the condemnation If grace be your enemy ye have no friend in Heaven or Earth The fruits of no Trees ripen so fast the sins of no men grow so great as of them that stand constantly in the sunshine of the Gospel If the Gospel be not a morning star to you a forerunner of an eternal day by ushering in the Sun of righteousness upon you it will be an evening star to you bringing on you an everlasting night of death and darkness As the Ocean landeth some vessels safely at their happy ports when it sinketh others so the word of Gods grace will either be a savour of life unto life or a savour of death unto death 2. To be the rule of your conversations Your whole race must be regular and there is no such rule to walk or work by as the word of his grace As many as walk according to this rule Gal. 6.16 that is according to the Gospel It containeth not onely promises for your consolation but also precepts for your conversations therefore it s called a royal Law Jam. 2.8 A Law because it is to be the canon of our lives the Law delivered on Mount Sinai is by Christ adopted into the Family of the Gospel A royal Law because given us by God the King of the World who hath Soveraignty and Dominion over all and therefore power to command what he pleaseth The word of his grace is a royal Law because the Kings high-way out of which road none may wander under the penalty of Rebellion Indeed the Gospel is a Law of liberty but not a Law of licentiousness Jam. 1.25 It freeth us from the curse but not from the commands of the law A true Christian is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without law but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 under the law to Christ 1 Cor. 9.21 Look therefore to this Royal law Expound it and comment on it in your lives Let it be your rule for faith The Gospel is the onely Creed he that beleiveth this is a true beleiver As the Word Christ is the personal foundation so the Word of Christ is the Doctrinal foundation for every Christian to build on Ephes 2.19 20. This we beleive saith Tertullian when we first beleive that we ought to beleive nothing beyond the Scriptures Paul proves himself a true beleiver because he beleived all things written in the Law and Prophets Act. 24.14 Make it your rule for worship To serve God according to your own inventions or mens prescriptions is Rebellion and dis-service As the Moth eats out the Garment and the Rust the Iron so doth an Apochryphal worship in time eat out an Evangelical worship Mat 15.7 All worship of God without warrant is like private coyning mony high Treason against the King of Heaven God though men durst not charged Jeroboam with this crime He offered upon the Altar which he had made in the moneth which he had devised of his own heart 1 King 12.33