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A64289 A sermon preached at the Cathedral Church of St. Canice Kilkenny, Feb. 27. 1669. By Joseph Teate, dean of St. Can. Kilkenny Teate, Joseph. 1670 (1670) Wing T620; ESTC R219172 20,777 55

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homage of gratitude to the Influenences of Heaven and the Blessings of God These are the Gifts of a Liberal God like those of a Prince in his Inauguration and Festivity for he sheds abroad the washing of Regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost abundantly upon us that we may abound in the work of the Lord. And as there is more light in the body of the Sun then in all the beams that shine on the World for suppose they were all Eclipsed the Sun in a moment or imperceptible time could supply them all by one Irradiation so if the Acts of Grace were all vanished they would be Renewed by the treasures of their Causes The Acts of Grace are Transient but the Habits are Permanent and Replenish the soul with innumerable Activities to the Comfort of the Believer and the Glory of the Giver This is called a Living by Faith therefore acts flow from the Habits of grace as beams from the Sun and streams from a fountain are many mighty pleasing vigorous and delectable they are free frequent natural and numberless 2. The Power of Godliness is the reducing the Habits of Grace into Exercise and Operation The same word doth the Apostle use to his son Timothy Be strong in the Grace that is in Jesus Christ go on from Strength to Strength till thou appear before God in Sion shine like the Sun more and more till the perfect Day who from the Twylight of the morning Runs his Race like a Gyant till it comes to its meridian brightness The Initials of Grace are weak like an Embryo infirm as an Infant but by superadded acts the Smoaking Flax is kindled into a Flame and the Bruised Reed becomes a Cedar the Habits grow in strength and stature by the addition of one grace to another which is the supply of every part extensively adding to faith virtue and intensively by the addition of one degree of Grace unto another till it comes to the measure of its stature when righteousness is revealed from faith to faith Grace is never commensurate in the beauty of proportion till it is consummate in the beauty of perfection They that were divorced from their sins as Phaltiel was from Michal who went weeping after her to Bahurim when this Gift of God is stirred up in them contemplate holiness with joy they that did deprecate Wrath with Fear implore Mercy with Confidence They that sought after him whom their soul Loved when with Andrew they have found the Messias Lean on his bosom Love him dearly Esteem him highly Follow him fully and Live with him eternally The weak in the faith and the feeble-minded wrestle not with Principalities and Powers but with God himself give all diligence to make their Calling sure press forward to the Price of their high Calling abound in the work of the Lord till by uncessant Labours they rest in the Fruition of him as if we might suppose a spark of Fire unextinguishable it would be in continual Ascents till it came to its own Countrey and Region under the Concave of the Moon 1. There is a mighty Tendency and Impulse in Habits to exert themselves into Act they are the full Breasts of Consolation that are uneasie till they are Drawn and Dispenced they are as seed cast into the Earth that lives and growes up into an Harvest They are Talents to be improved and Lamps to be furnished and because Flames are soon spent unless God be in the Bush and Streams soon vanish without an Ocean it being God that worketh in us both to Will and to Doe that giveth Life and Motion to these Qualities of the Soul we must have still Recourse to the Influences of his Power and the supplyes of his spirit 2. There is a Gratitude in free and frequent acts to further the Growth Strength and Radication of their Habits as natural Qualities are intended by natural Actions so are supernatural as the more a man playes on a Musical Instrument the greater are the habiliments of his art So Hoseah 6.3 Then shall ye know the Lord if ye follow on to know the Lord infused knowledge should be increased by a studious meditation So Coll. 1.10 Filled with the Knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding there is the Infusion of the Habit That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all well pleasing being fruitfull in every good work there it is reduced to act increasing in the knowledge of God there is the Radication of it For he that will do Gods will shall know of the Doctrine whether it be of God Joh. 17.7 they are not Lazy and Languid things but are discovered by the facility strengthned by the frequency of their own Actions The habit and the act are thus bound up together in the Bundles of life combine in Vigor and Virtue in Influence and Causality on one another and hence it is that an Habit of Grace is a Quality difficultly removed and although it may be interrupted and suspended by impetuous Temptations and imperious Lusts yet in this Hostility and Conflict it is Restless till it is prevalent and have Dominion as the Sympathy of a Needle touched with a Load-stone makes it unquiet in its greatest trembling and disturbance till it Rests as in its Center in a Direct Line poynting at the Polar star And as in an uneven Ally a Bowl may run one way when the Byass inclines it another so a Godly Man may be Disturbed by Surreption and Infirmity though the Habit doth sublimate and sway the heart to the service of God The habits of Grace will not be kept in arctâ custodiâ but will break prison and walk at Liberty This Power discovereth it self 1. In Resisting strong Temptations to express it in the Allusion of the Apostle it quits it self like a Man in its spiritual Olympicks when the messenger of Satan buffeted our Apostle he besought the Lord thrice the assault of an Enemy excites the valour of a Veteran Souldier so the urgency and vehemency of Temptation made him ingeminate his requests to God 2. In mortifying strong corruptions dethroning Satan from his strong holds captivating every Imagination that towreth against the commands of Christ destroying every Reigning sin as Josuah did the Kings of Canaan 3. In Acts of eminent Obedience A sacrifice can be worth but little that costs nothing Abel offered up his Best Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son St. Paul himself he was ready to be offered This Power animates and enobles the heart to hate father and mother to cast away his chiefest Joy as a snare to cut off the Right hand and pull out the Right eye to fling away the most precious Treasure as a Torment at the command of Christ if a man have Wit and Learning this divine power is as a spring of Motion to him to be usefull and profitable in worthy Instances and Institutions in meditations on Gods Word Defence of his Truth Instruction of his People and