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Four sermons publickly delivered at several times in Ecclesfeild Church in Yorke-shire By Immanuel Knutton preacher of Gods word there.
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Knutton, Immanuel, d. 1655.
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Angels behold thee with delight for the Lord takes pleasure in them that fear him in those that hope in his mercy Psalm 147.11 3. A third priviledge is thou shalt serve and glorifie God in an acceptable manner Hebr. 9.14 How much more shall the bloud of Christ who through the eternall Spirit that is his Godhead offered himself without spot to God purge your consciences from dead works to serve the living God namely in an acceptable manner Revel 7.14 15. These are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the bloud of the Lambe therefore are they before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his Temple and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them that as the waters of the Sea though they be salt and brackish in their own nature yet by running through the veines of the earth loose their brackishness and become pure and sweet so though our service we perform to God be weak and polluted with sin yet being presented through the intercession of Christ and persumed with his merit it becomes pleasant and acceptable to God and that as David loved lame Mephibosheth for Jonothans sake even so will God take in good part thy weak service for Christs sake 4. I told you in the fourth place that Christ washeth us with the saving grace of the holy Ghost This Use still serves to comfort all such whom he hath thus washed For first he will give thee a new and a tender heart Ezek. 36.25 26. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you a new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh This is an excellent fruit of his spiritual washing you it is a greater blessing than a house full of gold David earnestly desired God to create a clean heart in him happy for ever art thou that hast a tender heart forthy service performed to God will be pleasing to him thou art freed from the dominion and damnation of sin thou art more fearful to offend God and more careful to please him than others 2. Now thou shalt be able to walk in Gods wayes and to keep his Statutes verse 27. And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgements and do them This is a great happiness for the wayes of the Lord are right and the just shall walk in them but the transgressours shall fall therein Hosea 14.9 and blessed is every one that feareth the Lord that walketh in his wayes for these are wayes of pleasantness and paths of peace carnal people know not these wayes neither can they walk in them but God hath given thee life to walk in them without weariness and fainting for the way of the Lord is strength to the upright now thou walkest with God and to God thou shalt go at thy latter end 3. God will be thy God and will bless thee Ezek. 36.28 29. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers and ye shall be my people and I will be your God I will also save you from all your uncleannesses and I will call for the corn and will increase it and lay no famine upon you He is God Almighty and can do more for you than you can ask or think he is God infinitely merciful and pittiful and therefore will do more for you than any enemy can do against you if you have him to be your God what can you desire more he is the God of all grace mercy and glory all happiness is in him he is the fountain of all blessedness happy is that people that is in such a case happy is that people whose God is the Lord. 5. I told you in the fifth place that Christ washeth us by gentle corrections sanctified to us This Use still serves to comfort all that be cleansed by afflictions sanctified to them For first Christ will keep thee safe in the midst of great calamities and dangers thou shalt be mediis tranquillus in undis Job 5. 20 21 22. In famine he shall redeem thee from death and in war from the power of the sword thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh at destruction and famine thou shalâ— laugh neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth He will shew his power most in preserving thee when thou art exposed to extream calamities as he kept the Israelites at the red sea the three Children in the fiery furnace Daniel in the Lions den and though Christ works not miracles ordinarily now yet he can preserve thee by ordinary means as well as by miraculous meanes let the meanes be what it will be yet thou hast the same almighty power and fidelity of Christ to save thee 2. Thou shalt have peace with his creatures Job 5.23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee that is all creatures who are ingaged in the quarrels of their Maker shall now stand in good terms with thee and joyn together to thy use and service the blessed Angels have a charge too keep thee in all thy wayes Psalm 91. so they delivered Lot out of Sodom and Peter out of prison they saved Jacob from Esau The starres in their courses fought against Sisera and helped Deborah and Barak Judges 4 and 5. the waters of the red Sea gave way to the Israelites to passe over safely now you are at peace with the master of the family all his servants shall be at your service 3. Thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace and thou shalt visit thy habitation and shalt not sin Job 5.24 that is thy family shall live peaceably with thee and one with another all thine shall be safe and all thou hast shall prosper thou shalt look into the state of thy family requiring an account of thy children and servants how they have carried themselves and how things committed to them prosper and thou shalt not be deceived of thine expectation but shalt find things as thou thinkest and as thou wouldest have it and that thine have been faithful and thy affairs prosperous 4. Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great and thine off-spring as the grass of the earth Job 5.25 that is thou shalt live to see thy childrens children and shalt leave a great posterity behind thee like the grass on the earth for a good man being in covenant with God leaves Gods blessing for a legacy to his children when wicked men leave Gods curse to theirs 5. Thou shalt come to thy grave in
a full age like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season that is as full ripe corn is made into shocks and carried into the bâ—rn so thou shalt die in peace and shalt not be as wicked men cut off in their sins thy last day shall be thy best day and the day of thy death will be better than the day of thy birth whosoever closeth thy bodily eyes at thy dissolution the eye of thy soul shall see Christ in his glory whosoever bears thy body to burial the blessed Angels shall bear thy soul to heaven Vse 3. For direction I told you in the first place that Christ washeth us by baptisme This Use serves to direct us how to get our soules washt by baptisme First remember what a solemn promise we made in our baptisme and how often we break it this will be a good meanes to humble us and to make us more carefull to keep our covenant 2. Repent for the frequent breach of it else it will lie very heavy upon your consciences at the hour of death we would be ashamed to break our peace so often with man as we have done with God let Gods faithfulness to us make us be ashamed of our perfidiousness to him 3. Labour to feel the efficacy of your baptisme by faith in Christ indeavour to feel corruption mortified through the power of Christs death and your soul quickened with grace through the spiritual efficacy of his resurrection then you put on Christ to your eternal comfort 2. I told you in the second place that Christ washeth us by his Word This Use still serves to direct us how to get our soules washt by it First We must hide it in our hearts Psalm 119.11 Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee and when it cleanseth thy heart which is the fountain then it will cleanse thy words and actions streaming from it 2. Hear it with a purpose to practise it Psalm 119.33 Teach me O Lord the way of thy statutes and I shall keep it unto the end verse 34. Give me understanding and I shall keep thy law yea I shall observe it with my whole heart what good will the best meat do to an hungry man if he eat it not Or what good will an excellent plaister do to a wounded man if he apply it not So what is a man better for hearing and reading Gods Word if he do it not Micah 2.7 Do not my words good to him that walketh uprightly but if he walk not uprightly they are not like to do him good 3. Make use of it upon all occasions then as Christ said John 15.3 ye shall be clean through the word spoken to you obey the precepts of it apply the promises and stand in awe of the threatenings that your profiting may appear to all live by the rules of it walk in the light of it that you may be such as God would have you 3. I told you in the third place that Christ washeth us by the merit of his precious bloud This Use still serves to direct us how to get our soules washed by it that must be by faith Rom. 3.25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his bloud to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God We read in the New Testament how our blessed Saviour healed many that beleived in him there is mighty efficacy in a true lively faith to cleanse the soul by applying the merit and efficacy of Christs bloud beleive stedfastly in the Lord Jesus with all your heart and you shall find the strength of sin dying in you 4. I told you in the fourth place that Christ washeth us with the saving graces of his holy Spirit This Use still serves to direct us how to get our soules thus washed First Get a clear sight of the worth and necessity of them then you will pray to Christ with Peter Lord wash not my feet onely but also my hands and my head there is no desire of a thing unknown grace is so exceedingly sweet and lovely that the spiritual sight of it will set the heart a longing after it 2. Hunger and thirst exceeding fervently after grace and you shall be satified and washed Christ is very bountiful of his blessings now he is in glory for Revel 22.17 he freely invites us And let every one that is a thirst come and whosoever will let him take the waters of life freely The more you thirst after these living waters the faster will they flow into you 3. Labour to grow in these graces that you may be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect and holy as he that calleth you is holy think not that a stock of grace at your conversion without daily growth will bear you out to your latter end as many in their youth provide worldly riches enough to maintain them in their old age you must be alwayes adding to your stock if a child were no bigger at twenty yeares old than when its new born how could it help it self how could it maintain it self defend it self against dangers so if you grow no better after the receit of Gods abundant mercies and in particular under the plentiful meanes of grace how will you be able to serve please and glorifie God how will you be able to suffer for Christ to work out your salvation with fear and trembling therefore grow in grace and then you shall be more clean from iniquity 5. I told you in the fifth place that Christ washeth us by afflictions sanctified to us This Use still serves to direct us how to get our selves washed by them First Labour to know the right cause of them this course is prescribed in Lamen 3.39 40. Wherefore doth a living man complain a man for the punishment of his sins Let us search and try our wayes and turn again to the Lord that is let us not repine at Gods hand in correcting us but let us search and try our wayes to find out our sins our personal and particular failings which provoked God to afflict us this course if we take we may find cause enough in our selves to justifie Gods righteous hand in afflicting us 2. Let afflictions drive thee to repentance to make thee a partaker of Gods holiness Hebr. 12.10 But he for our profit that we might be partakers of his holiness then they are sanctified to thee and will tend to the health of thy soul as physick that works kindly proves healthful to the body let crosses make thee more penitent more holy more heavenly more upright then it will be comfortable to thee in thy latter end 3. Pour out earnest prayers and hearty suites to God in miseries this course Gods people took formerly Isaiah 26.16 Lord in trouble they have visited thee they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them pray to our Redeemer to be with thee in