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grace_n	sin_n	turn_v	wantonness_n	3,327	5	12.0665	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96328	The Christians hope triumphing in these glorious truths; [brace] 1. That Christ the ground of hope, is God, and not meer man, against the Arians, and other unbelieving Christians. 2. That Christ is the true Messiah, against the unbelieving Jews. 3. That there is another life besides this, against the grosse atheist. 4. That the soul of man is immortall, and doth not sleep till the day of resurrection, against the errour of some seeming semi-atheists. 5. How the hope of heaven should be attained, whilst we are on earth, against the carnall worldlings. 6. How this hope may be discerned where it is, and attained where it is not, for the comfort of every poor Christian. All which truths are briefly pointed out and cleared, in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords in the Abby-Church at Westminster on Wednesday, May 28. being the day appointed for solemn and publike humiliation. / By Jeremiah Whitaker. Published by order of the House of Peers.	Whittaker, Jeremiah, 1599-1654.	1645 (1645)	Wing W1710; Thomason E286_4; ESTC R200074	52,593	59

a wonder that the Centurion even before the Crosse when he was under the scandall of his passion should confesse him to be God and that any Christians after his Resurrection should affirme him to be meer man Seventhly Consider the judgements that are come upon the Jewes M. Fox his Sermon it was an argument that convinced one Jew here in England about 80. yeares since they said his blood be on us and on our seed and what they wished wantonly God hath poured out upon them extreamely for these 1600. yeares they have been a scattered people God hath kept them a distinct people and called his people by anothe name in times of their other judgements God gave them Prophets Moses in Egypt Ezra Nehemiah c. in the Captivitie but since they have had no Prophet no vision and the reason why God keepeth them a distinct people since their dispersion whereas other ations when they have been scattered have been so mixed that their originalls hath been scarce distinguishable is that as their curse and confusion is remarkable so their conversion might be distinct and admirable when the Lord Jesus shall take to himselfe his great power and rule gloriously and their bringing in will be such a cleer conviction to the Nations that they shall come into the brightnes of Christs rising I might add in the eighth place the carrying on the Gospell by the weakest meanes against the mightiest opposition other Religions are carryed on by an arme of flesh and humane policy but God in the spreading the Gospell set folly to contend with wefedome and weaknes with strength that the excellency of the power might be of God 1 Cor. 4.7 and not of men and when all the kings of the Earth would have crushed it in its infancy and strangled it in the wombe there being nothing for three hundred yeares but rackings tortures fire and fagot yet the blood of the Martyrs was the seed of the Church and the more they were lopt Plures efficimur quoties metimur Terrul Apol. Zach. 4.6 the more they grew and there were never more glorious Saints then in those times of darknes to make it appeare that the Kingdome of Christ was not carryed on by power nor by might but by the spirit of the Lord of Hosts Secondly Is Jesus Christ the great God Use 2 of Exhortation then be exhorted first to study the excellencie of Jesus Christ how transcendenlty admirable is he surely all the Kings and Kingdomes of the world are to him but as the drop of a bucket and the dust of the balance Isa 40.15 did you but see the Sun of Righteousnesse no starre else would appeare it would be happy if men and women that professe Christ were taken with the admiration of Jesus Christ did they but once know what Christ is they would count all losse to winne him the reason why many things seeme so great to our thoughts is because Christ seemes little if Christ were really apprehended of us it would seem a small thing to us to be jadged of men Secondly Be willing to close with Christ to accept of him Shall he be willing to come from Heaven to take your nature upon him and are ye unwilling to come out of sin and Hell to partake of his divine nature this unwillingnes for Christ is the great condemning sin of the world can any of you answer the slighting the Lord Jesus that he should be willing to take your shame on him and you not willing to partake of his grace and glory The Jew would have a Messiah for temporall ends to breake the Romane power and the carnall Christian for a carnall end that he might sin with immunity and commit sin without feare and turne the grace of God into wantonnes Hath Christ come to deliver you from the power of Satan and will you yet be under the power of your owne lusts Thirdly If Christ be this great Messiah exalt him First In your opinions of him have not meane thoughts of the God of Glory count his arguments the stongest his precepts to be the purest his comforts to be the sweetest his rewards to be the highest his people to be the happiest that you may be able to justifie the wayes of Christ against all the arguments of corrupt nature and the temptations of this present evil world Secondly Exalt him in your affections let the desires of your soule be to him and to the remembrance of his name that you may say and say truly Lord whom have I in Heaven but thee and there is none in Earth that I desire besides thee let him be the beloved of you souls that you may say my belove is mine and I am his set him up as the joy and rejoycing of your hearts that you may say Psal 43. Vnto God will I goe even unto God the gladnes of my joy Bs 8.13 magnifie him in your hearts and let him be your feare and your dread and if he be God blessed for ever make him the God of your confidence never be ashamed of him in whom you doe beleeve Heb. 7.25 and if he be God be then fully perswaded that he is able to save them to the utmost that come unto God through him and make him the God of your hope and expectation pour out your soules before him and say God is our hope and this leadeth me to the second Observation All those that would have benefit by Jesus Christ 2 Doct. must be united unto him and set their hopes upon him Our hopes are not in our selves nor in the creature in vaine is salvation hoped for from the hills Jet 3.23 and from the multitude of mountaines truly the Lord God is our hope and the salvation of Israel and happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his helpe whose hope is in the Lord his God Psal 146.5 the Doctrine needeth not so much explication to cleere the Judgement as application to better our practice Vse The Use therefore is first to intreate you to make Christ your hope this is the great duty God requireth one great end of all the great things he hath done for you in his workes Psal 78.7 that you might set your hopes upon him and of the good things he hath revealed to you in his word Rom. 15.4 that through the Scriptures you might have hope and not onely have it ver 13. but have it in abundance that you might abound in hope through the power of the Holy ghost this is the great priviledge God bestoweth on them that are good in his sight thou art my hope in the day of evil Jer. 17.17 this hope is to the soule as the Helmet is to the souldier 1 Thes 5.8 to cover his head in the day of battel and as an Anchor to the ship in a mighty storme Heb. 6.19 it is our hiding place our Citie and our rock of refuge and

ver 20. 1 Pet. 2.2 Job 23.12 that you desire the word as new borne babes the brests and long for it as much as for your appointed food this is a strong argument your hope is grounded upon the Word of God when the word doth nourist it this word weakneth the hope of Hypocrites discovereth the rottennes of their vain confidence but t is otherwise with the Saints though their soules have many doubts when they consult with humane reason yet when they come to the law Isa 57.19 and to the testimony the Lord createth the fruit of the lips to be peace and when their light is cleerest their hope is strongest Vse 3 Let this Doctrine make your soules in love with this hope which will be an arke to preserve you when others are drowned a City of refuge to secure you when others fall into the hand of that avenger of blood that doth pursue them If any aske how shall we attaine this frame of spirit to set our hopes on God I answer and so conclude Vse 4 Take these directions First strive to apprehend and meditate upon the great blessing of Jesus Christ let the thoughts of eternity dwell upon your hearts things not apprehended can never be desired nor really expected Secondly That you may apprehend these riches of Christs glory beleeve the excellencies revealed in the Gospel the object of hope is things invisible and faith must be the ground of such things hoped for Heb. 11.1 and the onely evidence we can have for those things that are not seen if any prophane person resolve I will not beleeve that there is a Heaven or a Hell nor the powers of the world to come till I see them Consider poore soule when these truths are the object of thy sight they cannot be the object of thy hope for hope that is seen is not hope for what a man seeth Rom. 8 24. why doth he yet hope for beleeve therefore the excellencies of Jesus Christ otherwise thou wilt never be at the paines to cleare thy interest in them and if Heaven be not first made the object of thy hope it can never be made the object of thy sight expectation must precede fruition Thirdly Love the excellencies of the Lord Jesus Christ many things may be beleeved as true Fides est ●●alarum rerum bonarum quare bona creduntur mala boc fide bonà non malâ c. Lombard l. 3. dist 27. Psal 43 4. Cant. 8.6 and yet not loved as good faith may be good when the object of it is evil for we are bound to beleeve every truth which God revealeth the evil of sin as truly as the goodnesse of grace but nothing is the object of hope but what the soule is really perswaded is truly good where love is weake the mind is carelesse and hope cannot be strong and that which is not earnestly desired is never greedily expected but when the desires of our soule are earnestly carryed out after Christ when we set up Christ in our hearts as the gladnes of our joy then we begin to long after him then love and hope prove strong as death and hope deferred maketh the heart sick but this is the great priviledge of this hope though in all other things you may meet with disappointments yet God will fulfill the desires of them that feare him and the expectation of poore soules in Christ shall never goe away ashamed Prov. 13.12 and when this hope is granted it will be a tree of life Fourthly In the use of all meanes that God hath appointed beg importunately the spirit of grace which God hath promised freely t is beyond the ability of mans will above the strength of ordinances above the reach of any created power to worke this hope t is easy to presume but to beleeve and hope in God that raiseth up the dead is an act of transcendent difficultie for a poore soule under the sense of sinne and Gods wrath and sight of Hell to roll it selfe upon the rich mercy of Christ to have all this guilt so great to be pardoned and all the lusts that are strong to be subdued this is onely the gift of God and therefore pray that the eyes of your understanding may be opened and that your hearts and consciences may experimentally feele that exceeding working of his power Ephes 1.19 1 Pet. 1.21 which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead that your faith and hope may be in God and that your soules may be so in love with Heaven and your perswasions thereof so well grounded that you may be above the love of this life and above the feare of death and that all the dayes of your appointed time Job 14.14 you may be waiting till your change come FINIS