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B06797 Two sermons concerning nature and grace. Preach'd at White-hall, April, 1699. / By E. Young, Fellow of Winchester-College ... Young, Edward, 1641 or 2-1705. 1700 (1700) Wing Y71; ESTC R41169 21,820 61

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our Present Infirmity either through Ignorance or Surprize but it cannot get Dominion over us without our own deliberate Option For it is an express Gospel-Promise against the Power of Sin that It shall not have Dominion over us against the Power of the Devil that Greater is he that is in you than he that he that is in the World against the Power of Temptations that God is faithful who will not suffer us to be Tempted above what we are able against Discouragement from the Pretext of our Infirmities that we may do all things through Christ that strengtheneth us and in case of falling We have an Advocate with the Father and a Propitiation for our Sins by means whereof the Favour of God may be Regained and that Principle of Grace Recovered upon which as upon a new Stock we may grow good again and to an entire Acceptance And now say How could the Safety of humane Vertue be better provided for Or in case we want Vertue of whom can we complain But 2. The present state of our Nature weak and depraved as it is gives Man the Opportunity of a more commendable Vertue From the state of greater Uprightness and Order of Mind and Composure of our Affections we might expect more elevated Thoughts Conceptions more worthy of God Acts of Adoration more steady and affectionate and a Discharge of Moral Duties less obnoxious to Errour and Interruption But in the mean time the present state of our Deficiency has no Reason to complain when it is vouchsafed thus much of Indulgence that the most abrupt Groanings of an humble Soul prest with Infirmities and wrestling with Temptations and thence feelingly imploring the Assistance of God is a more acceptable Sacrifice to him than any Hymns that the most exalted Understanding can dictate or any Office that the most composed Affections can perform Now Thus it is and This is the Reason of it viz. Because all the Notion we have of humane Vertue is this That it is a Conflict maintained by Rectify'd Reason against the lower Appetites according to which Notion the Holy Scripture calls the Christian Life a State of Warfare Now as Affections and Lusts do make the Opposition and occasion the Conflict so it cannot be doubted but that they give the great Commendation if not the very Being to our Vertue To kill a Passion to subdue a rising Motion of Anger Hatred Pride or Carnality is the worthiest Oblation we can offer to God and the more of these we have to subdue the more we have to offer When I am weak then am I strong says the Apostle and thus we may interpret him The more Infirmities there are in our Nature the more eminent Opportunities we have to be Conquerours in the Christian Conflict Wish therefore we may that Vertue were more cheap or more easie to us but we ought to remember That at the same time we wish away that which gives Vertue her best Title both to present Commendation and future Reward Which is another Advantage of our present State viz. that it makes way for a more Excellent Reward To dispute whether Adam if he had not sinned should at some Period of his Earthly Life have been Translated into Heaven and there united to God in his Eternal Enjoyments were only to be wise above what is written If we will confine our Judgment to what is written Nothing appears there but that the Promise of Heaven was made in Christ alone whose Undertaking for Mankind commenced purely upon the Occasion of the Fall And if we observe the Order of that solemn Prayer which our Saviour makes for his Disciples and the succeeding Church Joh. 17. where ver 17. he prays Holy Father sanctifie them by thy Truth and after this in a distinct Request at ver 24. he says Father I will that they whom thou hast given me be with me where I am We may reasonably argue from This That the utmost Sanctification humane Nature is capable of carries in it no Pretensions to Heaven but that This is a Title that rises simply from the Compact of our Lord's Mediation It is manifestly evident from frequent Passages of Holy Writ That although not simply Bliss it self yet the highest degrees of Bliss are annex'd to the Doctrine of the Cross to Afflictions Sufferings and Self-Denial none of which had had any Place or Occasion had it not been for the Depravation of our Nature For their End is perfectly Medicinal and design'd to correct that Depravation and to bring us to the Vertues of Patience and Humility Vertues which we are naturally averse from and yet they are necessary to reform and sanctifie our Nature Now if Afflictions Sufferings and Self-Denial are the things which are said to work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory and yet all these Methods of Discipline draw their Usefulness from the very State of our Corruption it cannot be denied but that this present State of ours does give occasion and make way for a more excellent Reward than Man Vndepraved could ever have hoped for What Room is there then for complaining of our Condition What for Reviling Our first Parents What for Censuring the divine Disposal of Things Our Nature is burden'd with Weakness and Disorder but it has its Remedy in a Religious Dependance which is able to turn all to Advantage And therefore to do right to this Contemplation we ought to close it with Acknowledgment and Wonder Oh the depth of the Riches of the Wisdom and Goodness of God! To whom be Glory c. FINIS SERMONS Preach'd by E. Young and Sold by Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in S. Paul's Church-Yard A Sermon Preach'd before the Queen at White-Hall on Easter-day 1693. A Sermon Preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen at Guild-Hall Chapel Febr. 4. 1682. A Sermon Preach'd at Salisbury on Sunday July 30. 1693. Being the Time of the Assizes A Sermon Preach'd at the Assizes held in Winchester July 11. 1695. Two Sermons Preach'd at Winchester Assizes The first on Feb. 26. 1694. The last on July 14. 1686. Two Sermons Preach'd at White-Hall The first on Sunday April 15. The second on Sunday April 22. 1694.