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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80872	A discourse of spiritual blessings or a discovery I. That every Christian is blessed with all spiritual blessings in Christ. In four sermons. II. That God hath a high account of the least grace in the saints. In three sermons. By Mr. John Cromwell, late pastor of a church of Christ in the city of Norwich.	Cromwell, John, 1632 or 3-1685.	1685 (1685)	Wing C7038A; ESTC R228995	89,109	202

they would not yield up their members as instruments of unrighteousness unto Sin why so because the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in your mortal bodies and therefore says he don't yield your members don't yield your hands and don 't yield your tongues and don 't yield your ears nor don 't yield any of your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto Sin because the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in your mortal bodies and thus now I have taken notice of these diverse Spiritual blessings which the Apostle doth here instance in by way of illustration of this great Gospel mystery of grace and that is that God hath blessed every Christian with all Spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus I will wave the reasons and I will also wave the resolve of other inquiries that might be made and wrap up all in these three or four inferences VSE 1 First Is it so my friends that Christians are blessed with all Spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus Then Christians should be always Spiritual in Christ Jesus Shew me your blessings Sirs let it appear that your blessings are not like the blessings of the men of this world Nay nor only confined to the blessings that the hypocrites of this world have received from God don't shew me your gifts in prayer but let your graces be discovered in your praying Christians you should be Spiritual in all manner of conversation why because God hath blessed you in Christ Jesus with all Spiritual blessings for a man that pretends to this blessedness for such a one to be carnal for such a one to be earthly minded for such a one to be proud for such a one to be debauched in his Spirit and Principles and Practices how unbecoming is this to so great a pretence as you all make If I should come to you one by one and say to you friend don't you hope that God hath blessed you with all Spiritual blessings in Christ what means then this formality in duty this is not to be Spiritual What means this anger passion upon every provocation this does not argue that you are blessed with a Spirit of meekness why my friends if you be blessed with all Spiritual blessings then I pray let all your Spiritual blessings appear more or less in your whole conversation for a professor that pretends to be so blessed for him to be formal in his Prayer and for him to be dead and dull in Duty for him to be light and vain and frothy in his Conversation this is not like one that is blessed with all Spiritual blessings Christians the inference is natural if you be blessed with all Spiritual blessings then shew forth all your Spiritual blessings in all your duties be Spiritual in every thing The Apostle has a parallel expression to this wherein he gives us an account of his conversation in the 3 Phil. 20. For our conversation is in heaven from whence we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ that is the first inference VSE 2 The 2d is this Has God blessed us with all Spiritual blessings in Christ Then let those that pretend to a being thus blessed by the God and Father of Jesus Christ glorify the God Father of Jesus Christ with all their blessings Glorify him not only with what you have received but also upon the whole of the blessings that are to be received Christians you may rejoyce in what is in the hand of Christ for you as well as in what is in your own hearts I am persuaded that Adam was as perfect as God can make a creature out of Christ and yet you see no sooner doth the Woman come and tell him that the fruit is pleasant and fair but he takes it eats and so destroys all surely Christians you may rejoice in that little you have but you may more rejoice in that great deal that Christ hath for you you have received a little from and by Christ ay but Christ hath received a great deal more for you and therefore balance all your secular wants and secular troubles with this that you are blessed with unseen blessings It was Christs advice to his disciples to lay up treasure in Heaven it is the practice of the grace of God the grace of God hath done that which Jesus Christ advised his disciples and hearers to do What has he done Why he hath laid up treasure where neither moth can corrupt nor Thieves break through and steal And therefore rejoice glorify God for and in the view under the sense and apprehension of what you are blessed with in Christ I will freely say this one thing if I would choose of the two what to rejoice in I had rather rejoice in what I am blessed with in Christ Jesus then in all the gifts and graces that I have in my own heart and I think 't is safest to do so But then VSE 3 Thirdly Has God blessed you with all Spiritual Blessings in Christ Jesus Then never confine and limit your expectations from God or from Jesus Christ This naturally follows for why should a Christian that hath liberty to expect all content himself with less Christians should say upon every receipt Lord here is not all and be at him for more wait still upon Christ for more Cry still unto Christ for more and say Lord here is not all This is not all of the Spiritual Blessings that the Father have blessed me withal in thy self This is not all and therefore under your fullest receipts still Christians wait for more has the grace of God been so abundant as to bless you with all and will you shew so little grace as to be contented with a little I do not like neither I am perswaded does God like the tempers of most Professors which is a modest I call it a modest because 't is so generally apprehended but it is a sinful modest contentedness with a little if God give you any thing bless God for a little but never be satisfied with a little but ever and anon come to the Throne of grace and say Father here is not all in my heart that thou hast blessed me withal in Christ Come to the Lord Christ and say Lord here is not all the Father trusted thee withal for my Soul here is not all the faith all the love all the meekness c. But I am blessed with all Spiritual Blessings I say Christians having received a little be still pressing after more But then VSE 4 Fourthly and lastly Hath God blessed you with all Spiritual blessings in Christ Then Christians in the midst of all your wants and in the midst of all your straits be you still pressing after a more true and genuine improvement of all your Spiritual blessings If God hath blessed you with all Spiritual blessings in Christ then labour you under Christ to be Spiritual blessings unto others have you not

testimony of this in general in many places but especially in the shutting up of his ministry and of his life here below in Matth. 28. Go ye therefore says he and teach all nations go ye therefore Wherefore At the 18 verse All power is given unto me in Heaven and in Earth if he had had only power given him in Heaven he could not have Blessed sinners on Earth if he had had power given him only on Earth he could not have commanded the Blessings of Heaven But says he all power all authority is given to me in Heaven and in Earth Go ye therefore and teach all nations Lord to what end might the disciples say must we go Well says Christ I am the Lord of all the Blessings I have an absolute power to dispose of all the Blessings of Heaven and to manage all the heavenly Blessings upon Earth Therefore says he Go preach go teach all nations Go tell sinners that I am ready to bless them I have a heart that is willing to bless them I have a treasure to supply them fully according to all their necessities and according to all their straits Go preach the Gospel to every creature to every Saint and to every sinner I am Lord of all and therefore if you do observe it the commission that Christ gives to his disciples to his Ministers has a peculiar reference unto the Authority that he hath received all the authority that he hath received hath a peculiar reference to them and therefore it must needs discover that whatsoever he received as Soveraign he received for us and therefore no wonder that God blesses us with all in him because he hath made him Lord of all Christians want you peace Christ is Lord of it Want you grace Christ is the Anointed Lord of grace he hath made him Lord of all 2. Secondly The Lordship that Jesus Christ hath in and over us that are to be Blessed and in and over all the blessings that are to be conferred upon us he doth mannage and execute in a way accommodated to the general and particular cases of every Christian As now suppose that I or any of you were made Lord of the treasures that are lodged up for the poor It may be there is one that cannot stir out of doors and there is another that it may be can stir but cannot come at the time and to the place appointed others may it may be some cannot because of natural infirmities now the Lord he that is the Lord Treasurer the Lord Disposer of all those blessings he can accommodate himself to the conditions of every one he can go from house to house to see how many poor there are and what it is that you want do you want Bread or do you want Drink or do you want clothes what is it that you want I see you cannot come abroad and I am come to see your wants truly so my Friends our Lord Christ can accommodate himself to every ones condition he sees that poor creatures cannot make out unto him one is blind and another is lame and another is dead-hearted and discouraged and another is tempted and fettered and cannot go out unto the Lord ay but the Lord can come to them he can come to your cottages to your houses and the Lord can accommodate himself to you say to you Children what want you Children what ails you God hath made me Lord of all Spiritual blessings for you what want you want you wisdom and want you strength and want you peace and want you grace what is it that you want I see you cannot come to me because you want strength and you want a heart to come but I can come to you and I am come to you Thus the Lord of all can accommodate himself It was a great offence that the Scribes those devout superstitious Pharisees took against Christ that he could accommodate himself to the Publicans and Harlots and sinners of the day that could not come out to him but he must go to them and feast with them and this was an offence to them O says Christ I am sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel the sheep do not seek the shepherd but the shepherd is to seek the sheep a poor creature it may be cannot come to the Lord Jesus yet he notwithstanding all his Lordship and all his grandure and all his greatness I tell you Sirs he is such a Lord as can accommodate himself to the conditions of every one and therefore no wonder that the God of all grace hath intrusted him with all and hath blessed us with all Spiritual blessings in him that is the Lord and Master of so much grace Fourthly The 4th reason is this we are blessed with all Spiritual Blessings in him Because he is the Jesus of the New Testament When the Angel by a special commission was sent from God to name the Child he gives him this name Matt. 1.21 Joseph it seems was an honest a sober and a good man and upon that he had a mind to put away Mary privily that was betrothed to him but the Angel appeared to Joseph verse 20. and said unto him Joseph thou Son of David fear not to take to thee Mary thy wife for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost and she shall bring forth a Son and thou shalt call his name Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins Now my Friends if you do but observe how the Justice of God hath stated the Method of this Salvation you will see reason enough why God should bless us with all the Blessings of our Salvation in him I will open this also in these two Branches 1. The Justice of God hath stated the Method of our Salvaton to be in a way of suffering and in a way of purchase That we should have no pardons but what should be the price of blood that we should have no peace but what should be the price of blood that we should have no communion but what blood is at the bottom of that we should have no manner of fellowship with God here or hereafter but what is laid and founded in the blood of the Son of God this was the way and method that the Justice of God had stated Says Christ Heb. 10.5 6 7. Sacrifice and Offerings thou wouldst not but a body hast thou prepared me in burnt Offerings and Sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure then said I Lo I come to do thy will O God As if he had said Lord is there any peace to be purchased for transgressors here is my blood Is there any grace to be bought for sinners Lord here is my blood for it Is there any reconciliation to be wrought I am willing to offer my self to be a propitiation for thy Enemies Lo here I am Lord is there any Spiritual Blessing to be obtained by suffering Lo I come to do thy will