Selected quad for the lemma: grace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	deny_v	teach_v	ungodliness_n	4,302	5	11.7286	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96993	Elisij Campi. A paradise of delights: or an Elixier of comforts Offered to believers, in two short discourses of I. The confirmation of the Covenant from Heb. 6. 17. 18. II. The donation of Christ from Romans. 8. 32. By R.W. minister of the Gospel and sometime preacher at Tamerton-Foliot, in the county of Devon.	Wyne, Robert.	1672 (1672)	Wing W3774A; ESTC R231977	98,406	309

the soul that is in Covenant with him 3. God hath tied himself by ●ovenant to his People to heal ●●m and help them and to give ●●m all needful good things and to be all in all to them I will make an everlasting Covenant with them Jer. 32.40 that I will not turn away from them to do them good yea I will rejoyce over them to do them good Now the Soul knows that God is no Covenant breaker and therefore in remembrance of this tye which God hath laid upon himself while faith is awake and active the believer hath a dependance on his God O Lord thou art my God I will trust in thee I shall not perish I shall not want there is wisdom enough and power enough and goodness enough in my God and these Attributes of his are engaged to me that I may stay my self upon them Oh Christians the acting of faith with strength and vigour upon Gods Covenant would make us to depend on him and have confidence in him even in a Sea of miseries in the deepest affliction casting our selves upon the power and mercy and faithfullness of our God when our condition seems to be desperate Is it thus and thus with me are maters brought to this pass yet I will not let go the Covenant I will not lose my hold on God I know God will deliver me one way or other even in that way which he sees to be best for me This well be one happy improvement of our interest in the Covenant by acting faith upon it 7. By this means our interest in the Covenant would be improved unto love toward God and obedience to him I put them together as for hafts sake so in regard of their necessary connection and conjunction they being ins●perable in as much as obedience doth naturally flow from love I say the more constant and the stronger the actings of faith upon the Covenant are the more affection●tly will the Soul love God and the more chearfully and constantly obey him True faith is a loving faith which carries the affection of love unto God who hath given the Covenant of his love unto us and it is a lively working faith which moves and acts the soul towards God and gives it up to him who hath not with-held himself from us but hath bestowed himself upon us A clear apprehension of an excelling good and a knowledge of my interest in it must needs draw my affection to it Relation hath ever been a ground of affection where loveliness is apprehended Now the Lord full of all glorious excellencies transcendently good is my God my Father my Husband he love's me with an abounding immense constant everlasting love oh how can I chuse but love him yea love him much while he vouchsafes to give himself full of all goodness and blessedness into my bosome and so satisfies my soul fills me with himself I cannot chuse but love a satisfying good and oh I truly desire to please him my soul is grieved for any unkindness of mine toward him or disobedience to him gospel-Gospel-grace the grace of the Covenant which appeareth bringing salvation teacheth us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts Tit. 2.12 and to live soberly and righteously and godlily in this present world This is another notable effect and fruit of acting Faith upon the Covenant of grace 8. By this means our interest in the Covenant will be improved 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to that strong consolation spoken of in the sext Therefore God with whom the soul is in Covenant is called the God of all consolation 2 Cor. 13. Now they are as hath been said pure full sure comforts that are fetcht from the Covenant by the extractory vertue and power of Faith which is a rare Chymist indeed God comforteth the believer acting faith upon him shall tribulations in every pressing pinching condition This is my Comfort in affliction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psal 119.50 for thy word hath quickned me When the believer is damped in spirit and as it were dead in regard of spiritual operations and affections faith reviveth him drawing lift out of the word of promise from the Covenant of God Though it be thus and thus with me yet he hath made with me an everlasting Covenant The sence hereof doth not only support the soul but rejoyce it The soul is comforted against sin and Satan and death and Hell and amidst sorrows and afflictions in the world when a Christian remembreth what he hath in the Covenant and how he stands related to God and are these consolations of God small 9. Faith acted upon the Covenant leads the soul as it were to the top of an exceeding high hill or mountain and thence shews it the kingdome of heaven and the glory thereof And saith All this will God the Father give thee this is thy inheritance thy God hath given in thee in promise and will give it thee in hand for his Covenant is sure Faith acted upon the promise of God giveth the soul a lively hope of salvation verily there remaineth a rest to the people of God it is certain to them by the certainty of God's promise God's Covenant gives believers a right to it and it is certain to them as to their fruition of it by God's unchangeable decree Though it be to be enjoyed upon condition of enduring to the end of persevering in faith and new obedience yet in as much as that condition is likewise absolutely promised and Christ hath undertaken to be the worker and finisher of our faith and perfecter of our salvation this salvation is still absolutely certain upon promise Hope O my Soul saith faith hope to the end for the salvation which is to be brought to thee at the revelation of Jesus Christ Wilt thou distrust God hast thou not his promise to rest upon hath he not given thee his Covenant and Oath for thy assurance rance When the flesh hath nothing wherein it may rejoyce yet do thou O believing soul keep the rejoycing of hope firm unto the end 10. A lively acting of faith upon the Covenant will raise the Christian to heavenly mindedness to have his heart much in heaven with his God who is his portion and his treasure when faith reads the love and goodness and desirableness of God as he hath expressed himself in the lines of the Covenant and gives the soul a true account of it now the soul must needs love where it is thus loved and where there is such lovliness for this is attractive of love Now anima est ubi amat the heart the soul is where it loveth if the treasure be in Heaver there will the heart be therefore if we would have our hearts to be in Heaven let us keep them still possessed with true believing thoughts and apprehensions of the free abounding grace and love of God toward us expressed in the Covenant which he hath given us Oh if we could by faith lodge our

mercies John 4.10 What saith Christ to the woman of Samaria If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that saith unto thee give me to dri●ke thou wouldest have asked of him and he would have given thee living water Oh did you know the gift of God and what it is that he holds forth to you when he offreth Christ to you on condition of your repenting and believing I say did you know this gift of God you would not despise an offred Christ but would close with the motion accept of the tender withal your hart crying out to God ô Give me Ch. above all things Christ though without any thing else Lord what ever thou takest a way or withold'st from me give me thy Son bestow Jesus Christ upon me See how it is with Paul respecting this matter when the eyes of his understanding were opened and he once b●came thorowly apprenensive of the excellency of Christ I account all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord Phil 3.8 and d● count them but●dung that I may wi● Christ Were we thus taught of God were we convinced that Christ is such a transcendent good that he is beyond comparison the richest gift and best for us then desire would be carried unto Christ then you would be enquiring how may I get ●hrist and how may I know whether I have him or no and then people would come carefully to the Ordinances and attend to Preaching and wait without weariness upon the Ministry of the Word wherein God upholdeth the Mistery of Christ maketh this gift known and setteth forth the riches of it wherein he offers it to those that will take it and which is the means of Faith that is the hand to receive this gift of Go● But when people turn thei●●acks upon the Ordinances or sleep under it slighting the Doctrine of Christ it is because they are ignorant of the worth of these things they have no Knowledge of Christ they see no desireableness in him and so they prefer any thing before him And surely the Prophets Charge falls heavy upon a number of people They are foolish people they know not Christ Jer. 4 22. they are sottish Children they are void of Understanding while they set their hearts upon tristes highly prizing that which is worth nothing and in the mean time slight and make no reckoning of that which is infinitely more worth than all other things Ah foolish Creatures to forsake the Fountain of living waters and hew out to our selves broken Cisterns that will hold no waters Now to carry on this Use of Conviction by perticular demonstrations of peoples folly in neglecting and slighting Jesus Christ 1. Is it not folly to refuse that which will be to us 〈◊〉 om●ium as much as all things yea more than all other things that which will serve our turn at all needs Now Christ is such a full good he is all in all to the Soul that enjoyes him he is light in darkness peace in trouble comfort in affliction liberty in imprisonment health in sickness life in death and yet the offers of Christ are slighted and dispised Surely upon this account people are justly charged with notorious folly 2. Will not every one be ready to call him fool who shall accept of a small piece of money rather then of the gift and conveyance of a very great estate Now Christ is a conveyance beyond all conveyances in him by him and together with him God conveyeth all things pertaining to life and godliness makes over Heaven and Earth to us all things are ours if Christ be ours Ah what fools shall we prove our selves to be if we slight the offers of Christ 3. Christ is the engaging of God so that where Christ is received all other things may be expected because God hath promised to give all things with him and because Christ hath purchased all things for those who by Faith close with him and God cannot prove unfaithful to fail of his word nor can he be unjust to withhold from us that which Christ hath purchased for us Now will any wise soul refuse an engagement from God is it not a great matter to have God engaged to us So that we may be able to urge him with his own engagement coming to him confidently in the want of grace or when we stand in need of any comfort Lord give me this for thy Son's sake For thy promise sake Christ is mine and through him by vertue of thy Covenant and his purchase I have a right to other things therefore let not this be denied me Thus the beleever that hath laid hold on Christ may with an humble boldness plead Gods gracions promises and Christ's merits while he denies himself and in low abasement of spirit acknowledgeth his own desert of the contrary to that grace and mercy which he layes claim to through Christ and acting faith upon God in Christ may expect a gratious return from God in giving all that is necessary for salvation and in bestovving or else vvitholding or withdravving other things as he sees to be for the good of his poor servants And is it not folly I say to refuse such an engagement from God tendered to us Thus you have had a treble demonstration of peoples follie in refusing Christ and so I have done vvith the use of conviction Vse 3 I shall now give out some counsel First To all Exhortati Secondly To those that have received Christ I shall suggest and press two general counsels Exhort General 1. Seeing Christ is the principal gift of God labour above all things to get Christ Get Christ make out after him and seek to lay hold on him By vvay of motive I shall urge nothing but vvhat hath bin already suggested desiring you to think feriously thereupon for the vvorking of your hearts over unto Christ Consider Motive 1. that Christ is the engaging gift of God the Father so that vvhere this gift is receiued vvhere Christ is apprehended and applied there Faith hath good ground and sure fo●ting to stand and bear up the soule in expectation of all other needful good things For God hath given in Christ and vvith him a right to all things Christ is Lord of all things and in and through Christ Believers are Heirs of all So that if if vve do possess Christ we may confidently expect to receive from God all that may further salvation and vvhatsoever he sees to be good for us and the having of this gift gives the soul a certain hope of enjoying Eternal life hereafter It is good to look after this ensuring gift vvhich gives assurance of all needful good things here and of all compleat happiness hereafter What a quieting will this be to the spirit of a Christian in all the changes and turnings of this life in every condition vvhich providence orders for him to be able to say This