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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	covenant_n	seal_n	seal_v	4,393	5	10.3434	5	false

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A10394	Saint Pauls triumph, or cygnea illa & dulcissima cantio that swan-like and most sweet song, of that learned and faithfull seruant of God, Mr. Iohn Randall, bachelor of diuinitie: vttered by him (in an eleauen sermons, vpon the eight chapter of St. Pavl his epistle to the Romans, vers. 38.39.) lately before his death, in the time of his great and heauy affliction, and vpon the Communion-dayes, either altogether, or for the most part. And now published for the glory of God, the edification of his church and people, and the hononrable [sic] memoriall of the author, by William Holbrooke, preacher of the word of God.	Randall, John, 1570-1622.; Holbrooke, William.	1623 (1623)	STC 20678; ESTC S102568	146,192	249

are equall but here God and man must be mediated betweene the parties are very vnequall and therefore here is a further matter to be pressed If the King be displeased with the subiect he that must mediate betwixt them and makes the peace must be such an one as the King loues that so dearely as that for his sake he can be content to forgiue loue the party that hath offended him in this case the loue shewed to the offender is granted in his loue to the Mediator So it is betwixt God vs we haue displeased him therefore Christ our Mediator he must be so dearely beloued of God that for his sake God wil be reconciled to vs so that the ground of all Gods loue to vs is in Christ Iesus Yea here is yet a further matter much more enforcing this Reason Here is such a mediation as the like is not found in the world againe The Mediator is in both the parties betwixt whom he mediates and both they are in him that is God in Christ and Christ in God Christ in the faithfull and the faithfull in him and therefore there can be no loue of God to vs but it must be grounded on Christ Lastly in respect of his absolute State in himselfe for what saith the Apostle All the treasures of the wisdome and knowledge of God are hid in Christ Col. 2.2.3 If all Gods Treasure be in him then the riches and treasure of Gods loue is in him too In him dwels the fulnesse of the Godhead bodily verse 9. If the fulnesse of the Godhead then the fulnesse of Gods loue dwels in him there is the ground seate and Residence of it And therefore the ground of all the loue that God beares to vs is in Christ Iesus Vse 1 The first Vse of this point for matter of Confutation of two popish Errours at once namely concerning the mediation of Saints and the merits of man Vnderstand this one point well that Christ Iesus is the ground of all Gods loue to vs and the multitude of mediators and mans merits will fall to the ground euen as Dagon did before the Arke Christ is the ground of Gods loue to vs What neede we any other mediators he onely brings vs into Gods loue and fauour and none else can doe it so for mans merits they cannot procure Gods loue Christ merits all at Gods hand If we can merit any thing it is either grace or glory and this wee cannot merit vnlesse wee can merit Gods loue and that wee cannot doe vnlesse we can merit Christ Iesus who is the infinite treasure of God for he is the seate of it and if we will say that we can merit Christ then wee may say that we can merit Gods loue else we can neuer do it and if we cannot merit Gods loue then we can neither merit grace nor glory I do not hereby dis-hearten men from good workes but from the pride of them Doe not thinke to merit any thing at the hands of God by them all our merit is in Christ for God loues vs onely in him The second vse serues to shew vs the wofull and Vse 2 miserable estate of those that are out of Christ First shewing the wofull estate of those that are out of Christ and the blessed and happy estate of those that are in Christ First the wofull and miserable estate of those that are out of Christ all that are without Christ that is that are not regarded of God in Christ they are in a fearefull taking God loues them not they may loue themselues and the world may loue and applaud them but God doth not loue them When these prophane wretches shall come to fawne on God in their priuate houses by reading praying singing of Psalmes c. What wil God say vnto them Away get you from me you are not in Christ I loue you not If they come to Gods House to heare the word to receiue the Sacraments to call vpon God with the Assembly or the like what will God say to them Get you hence you are not in Christ I loue you not But when they shall come before Gods iudgement seate and there make profession of their almes deuotion profession formality in Religion and the like what will God say to them Depart from mee yee accursed yee are not in Christ I loue you not In that day they shall feele and finde what it is to be destitute of Gods loue and to be out of Ch●ist for the euerlasting wrath and hatred and curse of God shall be shewed vpon them to the vttermost Ioh. 3.36 Hee that beleeues in the Sonne hath euerlasting life and on the contrary hee that obeyeth not the Sonne shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him They that doe not beleeue and obey Christ they are exposed to the wrath and hatred of God it shall be their portion for euer The Apostle Eph. 2.12 speakes of the Ephesians before their calling and saith that they were without hope and without God in the world Hee that hath not his part in Christ hath no part nor portion in God but onely as the Beasts or the Diuels haue the maintaining hand of God for life and maintenance yea but there is no sauing loue of God to them that are without Christ but they are exposed to the curse and wrath of God And let vs take hold vpon one particular in that place for the present occasion It is said there That they were strangers from the Couenant c. You come heereto receiue the Sacrament the Seale of Gods Couenant see therefore that ye haue faith in Christ and be in Christ and that you be reconciled to God in him else you are strangers from this Couenant you haue nothing to doe with this Seale it concernes you not therefore if you be without Christ get you hence you are but Dogges and Swine in Gods estimation these precious p●arl●s these holy things of God are not to be communicated vnto you ye haue no part in these things Secondly Secondly shewing the blessed estate of those that be in Christ truely this shewes the happy blessed estate of all true Beleeuers that are truely in Chr●st and that desire to be ●●ke vnto him They haue a happy state they haue true right and title to that loue which God beares to his dearely beloued Sonne and to all the pledges and fruits of it If we be in Christ wee are intitled to the beginning of Gods loue his Election for in Christ we haue our Election Ephes 1.4 He hath chosen vs in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in loue Secondly in Christ we are intitled to the renewing of Gods loue to vs in our Redemption for in him we haue our Redemption Col. 1.14 In whom you haue redemption by his bloud c. Thirdly in Christ we are intitled to the application of his loue

thornes and was stroke vpon that Crowne to adde affliction to his afflictions so we must looke for many thornes many afflictions and for affliction to be added to affliction But yet be of good cheere Christ will recompence all with a Crowne of Glory Let vs apply this to the Sacrament We come heere to the Lords Table this is a great honour to vs therefore let vs be thankefull for it Secondly let it comfort vs that if we come in repentance we shall haue our comfort sealed vp vnto vs to our hands to our mouthes and to our hearts Againe we professe Christ to be our Lord then let vs examine whether we feare him loue him and obey him as our Lord. Alasse wee must all confesse we come short in these duties let vs acknowledge this vnto him and let vs say Lord though we deserue not to be thy seruants yet thou art our Lord and let vs come with more faith and feare and loue and with more resolution to obey him better then euer we haue done If this Sacrament Seale vnto vs that Christ is our Lord it must also seale vnto vs that we are his seruants and then we must not honor him for an houre while we are here but all our life time If thou be the seruant of Christ he is thy Lord but if thou serue the world or thy belly or thy pleasure or any thing else and not the Lord Iesus in the truth of thine heart then he is none of thy Lord nor thou art none of his seruant And therefore when thou shalt come and knocke say Lord Lord open vnto me he will answere thee away from me thou art none of my seruant therefore let vs subiect our selues vnto him in all obedience both in doing and suffering as vnto our Lord and so he will recompence vs with grace here and with glory hereafter FINIS THE FIFTH SERMON Vpon ROMANS 8. the two last Verses For I am perswaded or I am sure that neither Death nor life nor Angels c. IN handling this Scripture as GOD in mercy hath giuen strength wee haue proceeded thus farre First wee haue shewed the dependance of the verses with the former then we shewed the meaning of the words in themselues After that we cast this Scripture for our better instruction and memory into this mould and shewed that it did empty it selfe into these seauen particulars First that which is implyed namely that there is a Communion betwixt God and the faithfull Secondly that which is exprest namely the bond of this Communion and that is the loue of God Thirdly the Apostle shewes the ground of this Communion and of this bond too and that is Iesus Christ Fourthly hee shewes that the faithfull haue a neere interest in Christ Iesus and this he sets forth by a terme of neere Relation our Lord Thus farre we haue proceeded already The fifth point is that the Apostle auoucheth the safety of all the faithfull in the middest of all dangers that they are subiect to nothing shall seperate vs from the loue of God And this he inlargeth in many particulars as by and by we shall see This is the fifth thing then that we are to consider of namely the safty of the State of Gods children in the midst of all dangers wee will propound the the Doctrine thus The hould that the faithfull haue in the loue of God through Iesus Christ it is a sure hould Doctrine the estate of grace that they are in is an vndefeasable estate nothing can void them nothing can depriue them of it Consider well the words of the obseruauation the very words whereof are in effect the very words of this Scripture and the whole matter of the obseruation is the whole matter of this Scripture For that which we haue spoken heretofore touching our Communion with God the bond of it Gods loue the ground of both Iesus Christ c. haue beene but preparations to this Truth and these points which follow touching the Apostle his certainty he hath and the vse he makes of it are but inferences from this truth This is the truth it selfe that is here peremptorily and precisely affirmed that nothing shall seperate the faithfull from the loue of God to them in Iesus Christ nor from the estate of grace that they are in And this the Apostle contents not himselfe onely to affirme in the generall but withall confirmes it in particular by a sufficient reckoning vp of all the parts of the Aduersarie power that is or can be against vs Death shall not nor life shall not nor Angels c. nor any other creature nothing shall seperate vs not any one of these dangers asunder no nor all of them ioyned together no nor any other added to them nor any other Creature put what you will to them nothing shall seperate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus and to put the matter out of all shew of doubt he saith not onely they shall not seperate vs but he puts it vpon an impossib●lity they shall not be able to seperate vs let them ioyne all their powers together and doe what they can they shall neuer be able to doe it Thus we see the Doctrine is naturally raised and the Apostle presseth it as the maine matter of the Scripture Explication I will speake somewhat as our order is for Explication of the Doctrine and therein I will handle but this one point Because the Doctrine speakes of the loue of God and of the state of grace we must know what it is to be in that state of the loue of God and the estate of grace for either it hath been our state or now is or hereafter shall be our estate else we can neuer be saued therefore before we shew that wee cannot fall away from this state it is needfull to shew what it is to be in it The estate of the loue of God and the state of grace is to be throughly reconciled to God through the precious bloud of Iesus Christ whereby we are iustified from all our sinnes and entred into a course of true sanctification It is called the estate of Gods loue in opposition to the estate of Gods wrath wherein we are all by nature Ephes 2.3 In this state of wrath God lookes downe from heauen vpon vs in mercy and receiues vs freely into his loue through Iesus Christ and so wee are translated out of the estate of Gods wrath into the estate of his loue It is called the estate of grace in opposition to the state of sinne that we are all in Rom. 3.28 All haue sinned c. In this sinfull state the Lord lookes downe from Heauen in mercy vpon vs and in Iesus Christ bestowes vpon vs the sauing grace of Iustification forgiuing vs all our sinnes and the grace of Sanctification making vs new creatures and so translates vs out of the state of sinne into the state of grace These things wee must