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A51705	The inseparable communion of a believer with God in his love being the substance of several sermons preached on Rom. VIII 38, 39 / by ... Mr. Thomas Mallery ...	Mallery, Thomas, fl. 1662.	1674 (1674)	Wing M337; ESTC R32046	52,543	166

compassionate their 〈◊〉 Heb. 4.15 to present the sacrifice of himself for the errors of his people Heb. 9.7 See E●●k 24.10 he will succour their temptations and heal their backslidings he wil keep them from falling from the love of God and Communion with God and present Jude 24. Secondly not the second for Christ hath prayed John 17.15 16. Gal. 1. ● God hath promised to sanctifie them wholly and he will do it Thes 5.23 24. and Christ will do it 2 Tim. 4.18 Thirdly not the third God out-bids the Promises of the world 1 Tim. 4.8 when David in a temptation was ready to quit the ways of God by reason of the many hardships and difficulties and to fall in with the pleasures profits and prosperity of the world God kept him in close Communion Psal 73.23 24. Fourthly not the last because all these afflictions a●e made ordered and design'd to work up a believer unto a fitness for everlasting Communion with God in glory 2 Cor. 4.17 Heb. 12.10 Holiness sits for Communion with God 〈◊〉 The reasons of the point Reas 1. Because that God who hath taken believers into Communion with himself in love hath a Sovereignty and Authority over death and life and 〈◊〉 things that concern the state of both Deut. 32.29 Reas 2. All believers have Communion with Christ in his life and death Rom. 5.10 by which death and life and all things that befal them in life and death are sweetned and sanctified to them Thirdly Iesus Christ is to be magnified in believers whether it be by life or death Phil. 1 20. Fourthly Life and Death are reconciled to them who are reconciled to God they are ours as Christ is ours 1 Cor. 3.12.23 Fifthly Life and Death to believers are great advantages in Christ Phil. 1.21 Sixthly a Christians state in life and death is wholly consecrated to God ●om 14.7 8. 1. Use Let this caution believers concerning Life and Death both of them naturally afford many advantages to the enemies of your salvation continually against you In life walk circum●●●●●● you walk among snares be thou in the sear of the Lord all the day be in the faith of the Lord all the day be faithful unto death Wonder not if you meet with strong Conflicts to the last Attempts will be made to separate you if possible from Use 2. Christians be diligent above all things like the Apostle to fortifie your faith in the love of God which is in c. Here is your comfort and security against all the troubles and temptation in life and all the fears and ●errours of death Life and death are at the Command of God for good and not for evil to his beloved ones with him is the fountain of life to him belongs the issues from death Use 3. This should teach us patience under all the afflictions or suff●rings that befal us in life or death Many evils sorrows temptations may sorely afflict the godly in life and death but here is the consolation none shall separate him The Apostle makes no reckoning of all other troubles when a Christian remains inviolable in his Communion with God in love ROM 8.38 39. Nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers WE have seen the Ap●stle as the mighty Champion of believers encountring conquering and triumphing over the first Rank or Regiment of enemies that appear in this cause viz. that either attempt or endanger a separation The second Rank or Regimeat follow Angels Principalities Powers Life and Death are but certain states and conditions wherin Saints may be endanger'd abstractly considered are unactiver hangs in themselves but Angels Principalities and Powers are living Agents that have a mighty activity in them to hurt and endanger the welfare of such an they oppos Interpreters agree not in stating the quality of these three Agents First some by Angels Principalities and Powers understand the whole Host of good Angels distinguisht by their orders degrees and dignities as Cor. 1.16 The good Angels are called Principalities and Powers Secondly by Angels Principalities and Powers some understand the whole Host of Angels good an bad those in Heaven are called Principalitie and Powers Eph. 3.10 so are those in Hell Eph. 6.12 Thirdly but I rather judge the Apostle here intends three particular and distinct Agents all the creatures in Heaven Earth and H●ll for by his last expression And no other Creature it appears he intended to take in all creatures By Angels I understand the good Angell in Heaven by Principalities the Rulers Magistrates Governours of this world Tit. 3.1 Luke 12.11 by Powers the Angels of darkness Eph. 6.12 Dect The Point is That neither Angels who are the Powers and Principalitie of Heaven nor men who are the Powers and Principalities of this world nor Devils wh● are the Powers and Principalities of Hell shall ever be able to separate I shall consider the first particular touching Angels First why the Apostle ranketh good Angels among them who attempt or endanger to separate seeing there is no cause of fear or real danger from them in such a cause Answ 1. Because I answer first the good Angels stand not by their own strength if lest to themselves and the frai●ty of their own nature they might fall from their present station become Apostates and turn as bad enemies to believers as Devils are Their stability and unchangeableness is not from any natural power of inherent grace in themselves The Apostle here speaks by suprosition not as if the good Angels would really attempt to do it but if they should they could not It is like that speech Gal. 1.8 If an Angel Saints in the height of their saith and confidence of security in God have supposed such dangers as never were like to be and triumphed over them as if they had really been Psal 46.1 4. This wonderfully magnifies the security of Saints in Gods love that it is above all real or imaginary possible or ●upposed dangers Thirdly the Apostle holds forth the greatest Hyperbole of faith the Elevation of a soul wrapt up in Gods love above and beyond every creature of the highest Perfection Therefore he takes in the latitude of the whole creature that is below God himself not only men and devils but even the Angels and triumphs over them in this Cause Fourthly the Apostle here speaks as a man going into the field to meet his enemie who in the height of his resolution in the confidence of his strength and skill in his weapon bids his enemy chuse his Weapon chuse his Ground chuse his Second to his best advantage So the Apostle arm'd with Gods love enclosed in Gods bosom and confident nothing shall separate him bids his enemy in this cause chuse his Weapon Life or death Chuse his Ground Earth Hell or Heaven chuse his Second Men or Devils or the whole Host of Angels if these shall appear against him he fears not to encounter them be doubts not of victory over them By this the

the New Testament but the Principalities of the World rose up against him Acts 4●25 26. what began in his Person would be continued in his Saints Luke 21.12 what first befel the Apostles was continued to the Churches for three hundred years under the Principalities of the Roman Heathenish Empire when the Church after many pangs and hard Travel had brought forth the Man-Child Christ mystical in the Romans Empire No sooner were the Principalities of the Empire turned Christian but they turned Arrian and raised a new and more fierce persecution against the Saints that kept the Testimony of Jesus Here Christ sent in the barbarous Nations to ruine the persecuting Christian Empire and they brake the Western part of it in the European World into ten Kingdoms which helped the Church against the flood of Arrian persecution Rev. 12.16 But then they set up Antichrist and with one minde these ten Kings give their Power Rev. 17.12 13 14. and how much ever since the Saints of God have suffered under the Principalities of these ten Kingdoms is notoriously manifest What will be the fate of the Saints of the Church and Kingdom of Christ under all or any one of the Principalities of those Kingdoms while devoted to Antichrist is clear Let us consider what are the grounds of this great opposition the Princes Principalities and Lords of the Kingdoms of this world make against Jesus Christ and his Saints Reas 1. Christ and his Church Christ and his Saints which are his subjects are a Kingdom a great Principality set up by the God of Heaven in the days and ●n the midst of the Kingdoms of the ●orld Dan. 2.44 Therefore no won●er ●t finds such opposition If one Kingdom be set up in the midst of another there will be continual Conflicts between the Princes and Principalities of both be●ween the Principalities of the world on the one side and Christ and his Saints on the other for every Kingdom Parem ●nec patitur nec superiorem can brook no Competitor in it self much less a Superior Secondly the Kingdom of Christ is of a growing increasing property Isa ● 7 It enters upon the World by Conquest and where it conquers it goes forth conquering Rev. 6.2 and never leaves till the seventh Angel sounds Rev. 11.15 God the Father hath given Christ a Kingdom Psal 2.6 a Kingdom that is extended over all the Kingdoms of the world verse 8. by the irreversible decree of God he shall rule them by a Scepter of grace as subjects or with an iron Rod ●s Rebels v. 9. no wonder it s so much ●ated and opposed Thirdly it is Regnum Crucis the Kingder of his Patience Rev. 1.9 It began in ●re form of a servant the first Throne on which it was set up was a Cross the first Crown that was bestowed on it was a crown of thornes and no way into this Kingdom but by many afflictions Acts 14.22 The Prince of this Kingdom was the Lord of Glory whom the World knew not and therefore crucified in the ignominy of a servant 1 Cor. 2.8 for they knew him not The Nobles and subjects of this Kingdom are none of the wise mighty and noble of the world but 〈◊〉 1. Cor. 1.26 27. The great Royalties and present Rewards of this Kingdom are two afflictions and persecutions Luke 22.28 29. O● how contrary is this to the lusts pleasures sensual delights the Principalities of the Kingdoms of this world their only value No wonder therefore if the Kingdom of Christ and his Saints be vilified slighted opposed derided persecuted by the great the mighty the Principalities of the Kingdoms of this world Fourthly it is Regnum Nihilitudinis A Kingdom of Self-denial To which the Principalities of the World are most absolutely averse God hath sworn every knee shall bow to him Rom. 14.11 not only of the meanest but of the highest Potentates in the World He hath commanded Kings to Kiss Psal 2.11 He will have Kings to bring Presents to him Kings must throw down their Crowns at his feet Kings must have their Wills in subjection to his Will all their lusts to be his Vassals to be subdued spoiled condemned and crucified by him No wonder they say We will not have this Man Reign overus Fifthly it is an invisible Kingdom unconspicuons not attended with outward pomp and visible glory as the Kingdoms of the world which glory is yet but a Magical Inchantment which Satan the old Magician and god of this World hath put upon it Mat. 4.8 Christs Kingdom is not attended with worldly Pomp or Glory Luke 17.20 21. it is within you The Church the Kingdom of Christ is all glorious within The Principalities of Christs Kingdom are Righteousness and Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost Rom. 14.17 all internal things The subjects of this Kingdom are put to walk by saith not by sight to believe things they have not seen to hope for things they know not the Kingdom of Christ in appearance is an ignoble thing Sixthly it is a heavenly and spiritual Kingdom it is not of a worldly Constitution John 18.36 it s frequently called The Kingdom of Heaven It s 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is in Heaven Phil. 3.20 All its Laws from Heaven all its subjects gathered out of the Kingdoms of this world and translated into the Kingdom of Gods dea● Son Col. 1.13 no wonder the Powers of Hell and the Principalities of this World oppose it Now I shall shew that no Principalities of the world shall be able to separate the Church from Christ or the Saints in the Church First the Church hath Emanuel God with us Isa 8.10 and in him more for her then are against her 1 John 4.4 The world hath Power therefore her Principalities are called Hornes Zach. 1.18 Rev. 17.12 Jesus Christ is furnished with all Power ●niversal Power Power and not weakness no Power without him and what can any Power do against him The World and its Principalities are furnisht with Wisdom and Policy much is spoken of the Wisdom of the World Psal 83.2 5. Christ hath all the Treasures of Wisdom Col. 2.3 Wisdom by foolishness to bring to nought the understanding of the Prudent The World hath malice J● 17.14 Christ hath more love love that amounts to a jealousie if Christs love ●● angred displeased woe to them th● stand in opposition against him Zach. 1.14 Secondly because Christ ruleth still though in the midst of his enemies Psal 110.2 The Church of Christ which ●● his Kingdom is like a Garrison besieged round about with enemies but is invincible by all oppositions for Christ r●leth in the midst of her and her enemies He will rule in the spight of all his enemies and will rule securely in the midst of them none can separate believers believers from Christ who cannot first lead Christ captive or separate Christ from them Thirdly because Christ is both King of Saints and King of Nations Jer. 10.7 Rev. 15.3 This renders him and