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A57158 A sermon preached before the king at White-Hall on March 22, 1667, being Easter-day / by Edward Lord Bishop of Norwich. Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676. 1668 (1668) Wing R1283; ESTC R32286 13,905 38

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Saint Austin hath reduced to Two Heads Ignorantia Difficultas Ignorance in the Minde the Natural man cannot know the things of the Spirit of God 1 Cor. 2. 14. Difficulty in the Will for want of Love in the Heart for want of Sense and Softness in all the other Faculties for want of Strength To the Removal of these Indispositions Grace is Necessary 1. Grace onely enlightneth the Eyes by the Spirit of Wisedom and Revelation Ephes. 1. 17 18. Christ onely giveth us an Understanding that we may know him that he is true 1 Joh. 5. 20. we have received the Spirit which is of God sayeth the Apostle that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God 1 Cor. 2. 12. 2. Grace onely Removeth Difficulty First from the Will by a sweet and effectual perswasion enclining us to love God by a secret and ineffable operation working in us veras Revelationes Bonas Voluntates as Saint Austin speaks 2. Grace onely removeth Difficulty from the Heart by Softening it with such an efficacy according to the Judgment of that excellent Father Quae à Nullo Duro Corde respuitur I will give them sayeth the Lord an Heart of Flesh Ezek. 36. 26. 3. Grace onely Removeth Difficulty from all other Faculties enabling them to do doe all things through the strength of Christ Phil. 4. 13. Not I sayeth the Apostle but the Grace of God which was with me 1 Cor. 15. 10. Thus Grace is Necessary ut Innotescat quod Latebat ut suave Fiat quod non Delectabat to make that known which was hidden from us to make that sweet which was Irksome to us as the same Father Excellently speaks 2. Grace is Necessary to put this Habitual Fitness into Excercise It is God that worketh in us both to will and to doe of his good pleasure Phil. 2. 13. It is God that Works all our Works in us and for us Isaiah 26. 12. Certum est Nos facere quum facimus sed ille facit ut faciamus as Saint Austin speaks It is true we are the Workmen when we do work but it is he by his Grace who enableth us to Work 3. Grace is necessary to our perseverance in well-doing as the presence of the Sun is Necessary to the Continuance of Light in the House He is able to Keep us from falling as Saint Jude speaks verse 24. Non Mihi sufficit sayeth Saint Hierom quòd semel Donavit nisi semper Donaverit Peto ut accipiam cum accepero Rursus Peto It is not enough for me that God giveth me Grace once except he give it me alwayes I begg that I may receive it and when I have received it I begg it still We must thus by constancy in Faith and Prayer Attend upon all the means of Grace because Every Stepp of our Sufficiency depends upon it We now proceed unto the Arguments used by the Apostle for enforcing the matter of this Prayer Drawn from the Mercy of an Everlasting Covenant From the Blood of Christ whereby that Mercy was purchased for us From his Resurrection whereby it hath been ratified and secured unto us and Lastly from his Pastoral Office whereby it is Administred and Dispensed for the Sanctification and Salvation of hi Church 1. Then our God of Peace was Pleased to enter into a Covenant of Grace with Man when he had violated the former Covenant The Lord might have left us in our Lapsed Estate as he did the Fallen Angels Non Expectavit Angelos sed praecipitavit saith Saint Bernard But he was more Mercifull to sinfull Man who since he fell not but by hearkning to the voyce of a Tempter should not perish without having provided for him the Blood of a Redeemer 2. This Covenant is Founded and Established in the Blood of Christ. Sanction is essential to Contracts which among the Antients was done by Killing of a Sacrifice of which Custom we finde mention Jer. 34. 18 and it was Imitated by the Gentiles Stabant Caesâ firmabant faedera porcâ That then which the Scripture calls the Blood of the Covenant was that whereby the Covenant was ratified or had its Sanction as we read in Tacitus Suetonius Plutarch and others of Leagues sealed by Drinking of Blood So Servius the Gramarian will have Sanctio to come à Sanguine faedus à feriendo Now Christ by his Blood is the Mediator and Surety in this Covenant as our Apostle telleth us a Mediator to Reconcile a Surety to Undertake according to the several Articles whereby the Parties in Covenant stand Engaged each to other 1. In behalf of God there is due unto him from Man Satisfaction to his Justice and Obedience to his Law Christ as our Surety hath in his own Person fully satisfied the Justice of God and Rigor of the Law and as our Head doth derive upon his Members the Grace of his holy Spirit whereby they are enabled to perform such Evangelical Obedience as the Covenant of Grace doth require and accept 2. In behalf of Man there is necessary Remission of Sinne Reconciliation unto God Re estating in an Inheritance Grace to make him Holy Glory to make him Blessed These things God in this Covenant of Grace doth promise to give unto us in Christ who by the price of his Blood hath purchased them for us Thus Christ as our Surety hath paid our Debt unto God and as the Purchaser and Treasurer of his Father's Mercie doth procure and perform God's Promises unto us 3. This Covenant is an Everlasting Covenant so called by the Prophet Isaiah 55. 3. as by Saint John an Everlasting Gospell Rev. 14. 6. Though the manner of its Dispensation in several Ages of the Church hath been Divers yet the Substance is one and the same for ever Varta Sacramenta Fides eadem as Saint Austin speaks A Covenant founded in Everlasting Love the Gifts whereof are without Repentance Rom. 11. 29. A Covenant Ratified by the Oath of God to shew the Immutability of his Counsell therein Heb. 6. 17. A Covenant of the Sure Mercies of David Isai. 55. 3. of a Kingdom which cannot be moved Heb. 12. 28. Lastly a Covenant the Benefits whereof are for ever Everlasting Salvation Heb. 5. 9. An Eternal Weight of Glory 2 Cor. 4. 17. An Inheritance Incorruptible and that Fadeth not away 1 Pet. 1 4. Now if we consider Each of these Three Particulars we shall finde them Weighty Arguments unto that Holiness and Perfection which the Apostle here prayeth for 1. The whole substance of the Covenant is Frequently in the Scripture comprised and re-capitulated in these two words I will be their God and they shall be my People And if he be Our God we must be Holy for it is written Ye shall be Holy for I the Lord your God am Holy Levit. 19. 2. And if we be His People we must be Holy for he Saves his People from their Sinnes Matth. 1. 21. He purifies unto Himself