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A59623 Salvation by grace and never the less of grace, tho it be through faith and not without it in several sermons on Eph. II, viii / by John Sheffield. Sheffield, John, 1654?-1726. 1698 (1698) Wing S3065; ESTC R10848 48,475 122

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close Attendance upon Grace and a diligent waiting for its further Influences in the use of its appointed Means for the compleating of the Work that it has begun upon you You are yet but begun to be saved there is a great deal more to be done upon you before the Work be compleated Most of you are yet got but a little way out of Egypt and have many Stages to go before you come to the Land of Promise And Grace hath not yet put its last Hand to the greatest Saint that is yet on this side Heaven therefore let all continue seeking and waiting diligently for its further Influences in his own appointed Way Till he that has begun a good Work in you has finished and compleated it according to his own Promise Phil. 1. 6. FINIS Books written by the Late Reverend Mr. Nath. Vincent are Sold by Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside near Mercers-Chappel WOrthy Walking Pressed upon all that have heard the Call of the Gospel From Eph. 4. 1. I therefore the Prisoner of the Lord beseech you that ye walk worthy of the Vocation wherewith ye are called The Spirit of Prayer Or a Discourse wherein the Nature of Prayer is open'd the Kinds of Prayer are handled and the right manner of Praying discovered Several Cases about this Duty are Resolved From Eph. 6. 18. Praying always with all Prayer and Supplication in the Spirit c. Unto which is added a Direction for the Attaining the Gift of Prayer That Family-Duty may not be omitted nor Secret Duty discouraged through Inability of Utterance and Expression A Heaven or Hell upon Earth Or a Discourse concerning Conscience on Acts 24. 16. Herein do I exercise my self to have a Conscience c. The True Touchstone which shews both Grace and Nature Or a Discourse concerning Self-Examination by which both Saints and Sinners may come to know themselves Whereunto are added sundry Meditations relating to the Lords Supper The more Excellent Way to Edifie the Church of Christ Or a Discourse concerning Love The Design of which is to Revive that Grace now under such decaies among Protestants of ALL Persuasions The Conversion of the Soul Or a Discourse Explaining the Nature of that Conversion which is sincere and Directing and Perswading all to cease their Loving Sin and Death and to Turn to God and Live A Warning given to Sinners to prepare for Judgment to flee from Wrath to come and turn from All Sin but especially the Sin which does most easily beset them The Little Childs Catechism In which the Principles of the Christian Religion are in plain Words and short Answers laid down and suited to the Memories and Understandings of Little Children Whereunto are added several short Histories which may both please and profit them as also Directions how to Pray The Principles of the Doctrine of Christ Or a Catechism in which is contained the Sum of the Christian Religion or what is necessary to be believed and done in order to Salvation The Answers being but Seventeen in number and in very plain words easie to be understood Unto which is added a Catechism for Conscience wherein the Consciences of the Ignorant the grosly Profane the Young the meerly Moral and the Hypocrites are examined in order to their Instruction and Awakening and the Consciences of the sincere Christians are tried in order to their Peace and Comfort The Saints Triumph over the Last Enemy In a Sermon Preached at the Funeral of that Zealous and Painful Minister of Christ Mr. James Janeway Unto which is added His Character His sore Conflict before he died And afterwards His Triumphant manner of departing from Earth to the Heavenly Inheritance On 1 Cor. 15. 55. O Death where is thy sting Israels Lamentation at the Death of a Prophet In a Sermon Prophet at the Funeral of that Holy Learned and Painful Minister of Christ Mr. Thomas Cawton And now published at the earnest Desire of the Hearers On 1 Sam. 25. 1. And Samuel died and all the Israelites were gathered together and lamented him A Funeral Sermon Occasioned by the Death of Mr. George Baker First Preached and then Published at the earnest Desire of his Relations On 1 Pet. 1. 17. Pass the Time of your Sojourning here in Fear The Great Change Discoursed of in a Funeral Sermon occasioned by the Death of Mrs. Martha Thompson late Wife of Captain William Thompson in Wapping On Job 14. 14. All the Days of my appointed Time will I wait till my change come A Present for such as have been Sick and are Recovered Or a Discourse concerning the Good which comes out of the Evil of Affliction Being several Sermons Preached after his being raised from a Bed of Languishing Fountain Life p. 435.
makes it to be nevertheless of Grace still Indeed was Faith a Disposition acquired meerly by the power of Nature or onely by our own Diligence and Industry in the Use of Means without the Grace of God then it would lessen the Glory of Grace indeed and at best make it to be partly of Grace and partly of our Selves But it is not so Faith that doth qualifie and dispose us for Salvation is Gods Gift as well as Salvation it self Grace gives all both the Disposition to receive and the consequent Benefit received too But he always gives it in this wise and holy Way and Order that he makes one Gift to be the necessary Qualification to dispose the Soul for the receiving of another He gives Repentance to dispose the Soul to receive Forgiveness of Sin gives Faith to dispose the Soul to receive the great benefits of Justification and Adoption gives Holiness and Purity of Heart to dispose the Soul for Communion with God and the everlasting Injoyment of him and he always observe this Order and Method in bestowing the great and saving Gifts of his Grace and never varies it So that those shall never have the Gift of forgiveness of Sin that have not first the Gift of Repentance and those shall never have the Gift of Salvation that have not first the Gift of Faith and Holiness Obj. 3. But if Salvation be by Grace though it be through Faith which is but the hearty thankful acceptance of the Gift yet how is compleat Salvation that is the Possession of Eternal Life and Glory of Grace when so much Care and Diligence and persevering Continuance in the Duties of Holiness and Obedience is required in order to the Possession of it Ans. 1. It must be acknowledged that the greatest Diligence and Seriousness in the Duties of Holiness and Obedience and Continuance therein to our Lives end are required to our compleat Salvation yet this is not opposite to Grace nor make Salvation to be ever the less of Grace That these are necessary see what the Scripture saith Phil. 2. 12. Work out your own Salvation with Fear and Trembling Rom. 2. 7. To them who by patient continuance in well doing Eternal Life Heb. 12. 14. follow and Holiness without which no Man shall see the Lord. 2 Pet. 1. 5 6 7 8 10. And besides this giving all Diligence add to your Faith Vertue It discovers great ignorance for any to call the Preaching of and Pressing of Holiness and Obedience as such legal Preaching For if so never was greater legal Preachers heard then the Apostles Peter and Paul Nay if the meer pressing of such Duties be legal Preaching then our Saviour himself was a legal Preacher too Luke 13. 24 27. Strive to enter in at the strait gate Mat. 5. 16 17 19 20. and Mat. 7. 24. He that hears these sayings of mine and doth them And what Sayings were these why those excellent Precepts of Holiness and Obedience that he had Preached to them in his Sermon upon the Mount whence it is plain That it is not the pressing of the Duties of Holiness and Obedience that makes Preaching to be Legal Preaching but it is the Ends and Uses that they are pressed for that must denominate it If they are pressed for Gospel-Ends and Uses that is Gospel-Preaching and I see not how the Gospel can be truly Preached without the pressing of them in their place and if any do pretend to Preach the Gospel without it they either Preach not Christ's Gospel or but by the Halves but if any do press the Duties of Holiness and Obedience for Legal-ends and purposes that is Legal Preaching indeed But tho Holiness and sincere Obedience are necessary to Eternal Life and Salvation yet it is nevertheless of Grace for whosoever sets Grace and Evangelical Holiness and Obedience in opposition one to another they set Christ and his Word or Gospel against it self and make it to speak Contradictions and they ignorantly lessen and reproach and degrade that Grace which they would seem to exalt for Salvation is never the less of Grace tho Holiness and Obedience are necessary as the Means and Way to attain it which will thus appear 1. Because Evangelical Holiness and Obedience is it self a Gift of Grace even as Faith is for Faith is the Root and Principle of all true Obedience and all Holiness and Obedience is the Natural and Necessary Fruits and Products of it So that Holiness and Obedience are given virtually in the Gift of Faith it self when God gives a principle that necessarily produces such and such Effects he truely gives those Effects themselves in giving of the Principles as he that gives you a Tree that naturally and certainly will bear such Fruits he gives you the Fruit in giving of you the Tree as in Creation God gave Man a Principle of Reason which doth principally Difference him from bruit Creatures why now in giving him this principle of Reason he gave all the following Acts of Reason whereby a Man Acts in a higher and more excellent way than the Bruits are capable of why thus it is here 2. But further Grace doth not only give the Principle of Holiness and Obedience but Grace doth still continue to actuate the Principle and concurs to the Production of every individual Act of Holiness and Obedience Grace doth not turn us off to Trade with the Stock that is first given and bestowed upon us but it daily gives forth and communicates renewed influxes to us there is an exciting quickening Grace that stirs us up when we are dull and rouses us up to a Holy Diligence and Fervour when we are Drowsie and Slothful and there is helping aiding or assisting Grace given forth to every renewed Act of Obedience Without me saith Christ you can do nothing And if you abide in me as the Branch in the Vine then you shall bring forth Fruit but not else John 15. Phil. 2. 13. For it is God that Works in you both to will and to do of his own good Pleasure hence it is most plain that Salvation is of Grace notwithstanding such Care and Diligence in the Dutys of Holiness and Obedience be necessary in order to it For you see that Evangelical Holiness and Obedience it self is of Grace 3. Further still the more Holy and Obedient any are the more Grace do they receive from God and the more they are beholden to Grace and the greater Obligations they have to Praise and Admire the Riches of it towards them for the more Holy and Obedient any are the more large and bountiful is Grace in its Gifts to them 1 Cor. 15. 10. By the Grace of God I am what I am and his Grace bestowed upon me was not in vain for I laboured more abundantly than they all and to this Purpose we have a saying of St. Augustine the more any one doth the more Holy and Obedient he is the more is he a Debtor to the Grace of God Mr.