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B04886	No power but of God, and yet a power in every creature, or, A word in season, to all men not void of grace, or deprived of reason wherein is held forth that the Almighty God is not wanting to us in impowering of us, but we are wanting to him, in not improving our talent for him ... / by Robert Purnel.	Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.	1651 (1651)	Wing P4238A; ESTC R187132	119,586	280

here spoken unto is A It is a doctrine of Grace and a doctrine of Free-grace I know what be the judgments of many knowing men concerning this thing If you ask them what the doctrine of Christ is they will tell you it is a doctrine of Faith and Obedience but this is the effects of the doctrine rather then the doctrine it self For the doctrine of Free-grace being preached to a soule and having gotten entrance to lodg in the inward man then it works faith and obedience as the effects or fruits of that Spirit of grace Hence it is that when Christ sent forth his Disciples to preach this doctrine of Grace he commands them saying Into whatsoever house you enter say Peace unto this house Lo peace is the first word which word is full of grace Christ doth not bid them fire the people out of their nests by preaching the Law and then heal them with the balm of the Gospel no they must first preach peace for God is in the still voice that so the love of Christ held forth in the doctrine of Free-grace Tit. 2. 11 12. might teach them to deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and constrain them out of a principle of love to live godly and soberly in this present world Now that the doctrine of Christ is a doctrine of grace it will appear by these and the like Scriptures which I shall but name Act. 13. v. 39 43 compared together Act. 20. 24. Rom. 3. 24. Rom. 11. 6. Ephes 2. 5. 8 compar'd together In a word as was said before Creation Election Redemption and Sanctification ●…it is all of Free-grace Now me thinks I see most men in a sense give their assent and consent to the truth of this that the doctrine of Christ is a doctrine of grace and they will tell you further that they do abide in this doctrine Now then let us examine our selves a little by the effects of this doctrine for as a tree is known by his fruit so is this doctrine by its effects First then it is a doctrine of grace enlightening the soul Secondly it is a doctrine of grace working faith in the soul Thirdly it is a doctrine of grace workin love in the soul Fourthly it is a doctrine of grace working upon the will and affections to will and affect the things of God 1. The doctrine of Christ is a doctrine of grace enlightening the soul Luk. 2. 3 2. A light to lighten the Gentiles This is spoken of Christ and his doctrine Luk. 1. 79. To give light to them that sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death to guide our feet in a way of peace Joh. 1. 9. That was tha●… true light that lighteneth every man c. Now if thou dost abide in the doctrine of Christ thy soul is enlightened by Christ hence it is that the children of God are called the children of light E●● 5. 8 hence it is that they be exhorted to walk●…s children of the day Are you enlightened You will say I am What mean these works of darknesse then 2. The doctrine of Christ is a doctrine of grace working faith in the soul Joh. 14. 1. Ye believe in God believe also in me Joh. 6. 29. This is the work of God that you believe Joh. 14. 11. If you will not believe me for my words yet believe in me for the very works sake that you have seen me do 1 Joh. 3. 23. And this is his commandment that we believe on the name of his Sonne Jes●…s Christ No obedience like unto the obedience of faith no disobedience like unto that of unbelief for it makes the God of truth a liar 1 Joh. 5. 10. ●…e that believeth on the Sonne of God hath the witnesse in himself He that believeth not God hath made him a lia●● because be believed not the record that God gave of his Son But most men and women will say they do believe but there be but few that can shew their faith by their wor●…s for faith without works is dead Jam. 17 18 c. 3. The doctrine of Christ is a doctrine of grace working love in the soul First to God Mat. 22. 37. Christ told the Lawyer that came to him to know at least ●●s he pretended what was his doctrine and what was the most principal part of it why saith Christ Mat. 22. 37. Thou shalt love ●●he Lord thy God wi●…h all thy heart with ●…ll thy ●●treng●…h and with all thy soule Secondly it works love to the people of God Joh. 13. 34. A new commandment give I ●●nto you that you love one another as I have loved ●●o●… I loved you when you were in your ●…lood and filthinesse my love was free let yours be so I loved all mine do you love all the Saints I laid down my life for the ●…rethren you ought to lay down your lives for the brethren I loved you with a constant love having loved my own I loved them to the end so do you My love carried me forth to become servant to all even to wash your feet you if you will be followers of me and be known to be my disciples ought to do so too Thirdly as the doctrine of Christ is a do●…trine of grace working love in the soule first to God secondly to his people so thirdly to our enemies See and well consider that place Mat. 5. 44. But I say unto you love your enemies do good to those that ha●… you pray for those that despitefully use you a●● persecute you Never think that you contin●● in my doctrine unless you observe my commands My commands are that you shoul●… not only love God but also your brother and it must not be limited only there bu●… you must love your enemies or else yo●… will not be like unto me and my Father Mat. 5. 45. That you may appear to all th●… world to be the children of your Father which is in heaven for he maketh his sun to arise 〈◊〉 the evil and on the good and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust For if you love onely th●● that love you the vilest man in the world goeth so far this is no character or badge o●● my servants the Publicans and Harlots did 〈◊〉 much as this Fourthly it is a doctrine of grace working upon the will and affections to will and affect the things of God First it works upon the will it resigns it up unto the will of God nay it makes him live in the will of God 1. By doing his will 2. By suffering his will to be done though it crosse thy will Again it works mightily upon thin●● affections thy affections are taken off the creatures and fixed upon the Creator thou seest more and more beauty in God and ●…nd lesse and lesse beauty in the creature ●…he things of the world would satisfie thee ●●eretofore Now thou cryest out None but ●…hrist none but Christ Nothing will satisfie ●…ut his presence nothing will

and heavenly strivings if ●…ere be no ability in the creature to whom ●●u speak Hath the Lord indeed made ●…n an empty creature and void of reason ●●th not man many members in his body ●●d faculties in his soul cannot the Eye see ●●nnot the Ear hear cannot the Legs go ●●nnot the hands work c. And for the ●…ule is there not an understanding to un●●●stand is there not a mind or memory to ●●nde or remember is there not a judge●●nt to judge and determine of things is ●…ere not a will to will the thing that the ●●dgment doth judge as good Are there ●…t Affections to affect that which the ●●dgment presents as good Or else doth ●●d speak to man as a stock or a stone ●●th the most righteous God require impossibilities of his creatures doth he ca●… and cannot man answer or will he not a●…swer or doth he call and we hear him r●…quiring many things to be done by us a●● threatens us if we doe it not and gives 〈◊〉 no power to doe it No no this is not t●● administration of the Gospel for either 〈◊〉 doth impowre them before he command them or else with the command the●… goes forth a power and a promise to enab●● his creature to the performance of what 〈◊〉 requires onely thou and I doe many tim●… resist that Spirit and power as much as w●… can we are not faithfull to the Spirit w●… grieve it and sometimes in a sense quen●… it yea the Lord cals once yea twice an●… we doe not not nor will not hear him an●… if we cannot but hear him instead of goi●● to him we run to Elie See 1 Sam. 3. 5 6. Surely Joshua had a power as well as a r●…solution when he spake these words Jos●… 24. 15. I and my house will serve the Lord an●… those whom he there spake to in tha●… chap. Jos 24. 14 15. I say those people ha●… also a power to doe what he command them to doe or else his commands are i●… vain He exhorts them to fear the Lord a●● to serve him in truth and sincerity and in th●… 31. verse we read that they did as Josh●● ●●d commanded them for the Text saith ●…at Israel served the Lord all the dayes of Io 〈…〉 t and all the dayes of the Elders that overlived ●●shua c. So also in the twelsth of the ●●mans we have in that Chapter at least six ●●d twenty particular duties that we are ●…horted unto Now if there is no ability 〈◊〉 a Christian to perform or practise that ●●ich there is recorded then all those ex●●tations are in vain and Paul had been good have spoken to the men and wo●●n that were laid in the graves as unto ●●se he then spake unto If there be no power given forth from ●●d unto his people lay aside as needlesse uselesse all those precious directions in●●ctions perswasions exhortations and ●●cepts mentioned in Scripture and so ●●u wilt at once lay aside half the Old and ●●w Testament as many deluded souls do ●…his day and then thou liest open as ●…ing no guard to further temptations ●…en in comes Sathan and begins to reason 〈◊〉 case with thee Why saith he if half Bible be uselesse to us why not all And ●●e will undertake to teach thee and in 〈◊〉 so he will for he is one of the most la●●ious Schoolmasters in the world he ●●l improve all opportunities and take all advantages to fasten his doctrine up●● thee he will wait on thee continuall●… when thou liest down and when thou ri●● up he will be at thy elbow he will prom●… thee great things and give thee little 〈◊〉 will promise thee honour and bring thee disgrace he will promise thee pleasure a●● bring thee to pain he will promise th●● riches and bring thee to poverty he w●● promise thee life and bring thee to d●…a●… Oh then remember that bless●…d wor●● Jam. 4. 7. Resist the Devil and he shall flee 〈◊〉 thee Ob. But thou wilt object and say I h●● not faith to resist him And it is not in 〈◊〉 power of man by nature to believe as y●● may see I Cor. 1. 23. 2. 14. Rom. 8. 7 John 40. 44. Mat. 23. 37. An. It is true I have affirmed bef 〈…〉 that a man meerly natural cannot ac 〈…〉 supernatural things but I am not sp 〈…〉 ing to a man natural but to the recei 〈…〉 power of a man spiritual and the impro●●ment of that Obj. But before you proceed further 〈◊〉 desire satisfaction to this one question Q. Why doth God promise eternal 〈◊〉 only to those that believe and threatene 〈◊〉 nal death to those that do not seeing 〈◊〉 〈…〉 ot in their own power by nature to be●…ieve A. First that he might by his promises ●…nd threatnings work us unto that which ●…y nature we are averse to 2 Cor. 5. 11. 20. Secondly that we might appeare more ●●excusable when neither promises nor ●●reats will move us to imbrace free mercy ●…ct 13. 46. Then Paul and Barnabas waxed ●…ld and said it was necessary the word of God ●…ould first have been spoken unto you but seeing 〈◊〉 put it from you and judge your selves unworthy 〈◊〉 everlasting life lo we we turn to the Gentiles ●●d in the 51. vers And they shook off the dust 〈◊〉 their feet against them and came to Jerusalem ●●r the further proofe of this see Act. 18. 〈◊〉 7. Thirdly that the grace of God might as ●●ll appear in giving power to believe as giving Christ and in him forgivenesse of ●●nes to be believed Rom. 9. 16. So then it ●…ot of him that willeth nor of him that runneth 〈◊〉 of God sheweth mercy Rom. 11. 6 7. ●●d if by grace then it is no more of works Fourthly that we might apply our selves to God in the use of those means that ●…hath appointed for the working of faith ●●s Joh. 6. 27. Labour not for the meat that ●…sheth but for that which endureth to everlasting life c. Isa 55. 3. Incline your ear an●… come unto me heare and your soul shall live ●…c Rom. 10. 17. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God Fifthly that we might wholly deny ou●… selves and search and by seeking find in th●… Covenant of grace matter of free conveyance of power to believe whatsoever is required to be believed Rom. 4. 16. Rom. 3. 24 Psal 119. 104 105. Joh. 5. 39. Again when we look into the Old o●… New Testament and there find a comman●… wherein thou art required to be acting an●… doing something for God 1. Consider thou hast a power alread●… given forth to thee by which thou art 〈◊〉 ble to do the thing required 2. Or else with the command the Lor●… conveyes a power to enable thee to do th●… thing commanded 3. When thou lookest upon the Co●…mand on thy left hand then look upon t●● Promise on thy right hand wherein t●● Lord God hath promised to assist