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A23661 A discourse of divine assistance, and the method thereof shewing what assistance men receive from God in performing the condition of the promise of pardon of sin and eternal life / by W.A. Allen, William, d. 1686. 1679 (1679) Wing A1059; ESTC R17227 99,779 333

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work lay wholly on their hands These are they the Holy Spirit delights in and delights to spiritualize to influence quicken and strengthen and to lift them up near unto Heaven in preparing them for it For thus saith our Saviour to his Disciples speaking to them of the Spirit of truth whom the World cannot receive because it doth not know him but ye know him saith he therefore he abideth with you and shall be among you for so Dr. Hammond reads the place John 14.17 As if he had said because ye know how to value his presence and assistance therefore you shall have it CHAP. IX Something of the grounds of incouragement which such have to expect assistance fully to perform the condition of the promise as have not refused to make use of Gods preparatory assistance towards it THat God doth prevent all endeavours on our part of returning to him by his applications to us to make us sensible of the badness and danger of our sinful state to dispose us thereby to hearken to his merciful terms of being delivered from it before we our selves make any one step towards it I have shewed before Now those who have made so much use of Gods preparatory assistance as thereupon to become inquisitive what they should do to be saved and desirous to be taught These I reckon have encouragement to expect and hope to be further and further assisted until they are enabled fully to perform the condition of the promise 1. For first our Saviour hath positively asserted and that more than once that to him that hath more shall be given and he shall have abundance Mat. 13.12 and 25.29 Which can be understood I conceive of nothing more properly than of Divine Assistance and so he whosoever he be that hath had assistance from God towards performing the condition of the Gospel-Covenant and hath made use of it by using endeavours towards such a performance to him more shall be given to wit more assistance until he have abundance of it and of grace proportionably 2. Those who have made use of Gods preparatory assistance are given by the Father to his Son Christ Jesus to be assisted by him fully to perform the condition of the promise in believing and obeying the Gospel And those that are given by the Father to the Son to be thus assisted have great reason to be confidently persuaded they shall For our Saviour hath said of such that he will in no wise cast them out but receive them as Disciples and treat them as becomes such a Master That those who are given by the Father to the Son are such as have made use of Gods preparatory assistance appears by comparing our Saviours words in John 6.37 with those in the 44 and 45 verses All that the Father giveth me shall come unto me saith he verse 37. And in verse 44. he saith No man can come unto me except the Father which hath sent me draw him and verse 45. Every man that hath heard and learned of the Father cometh unto me Now if those and onely those come to Christ whom the Father giveth him then those must needs be the persons which are given to Christ which are prepared by the Father because all these and none but these come to Christ according to our Saviours words expresly Now that the Father gives these to the Son for that end that they may be assisted by him to perform the condition of the promise will I conceive appear by what will follow by and by The Fathers giving these to the Son doth not suppose them to have believed in the Son when he gives them to him but the contrary For the Fathers giving them to the Son is antecedent to their coming to him for Christ saith all that the Father giveth me shall come unto me not are come unto me And to what end do they come to him but to learn of him and be taught by him how to be saved i.e. to perform the condition on which salvation is promised For that I take to be the meaning of the Fathers giving these to the Son viz. his committing them to him to be made Disciples by him to be taught and enabled to do that on which salvation is promised Not that the Fathers thus giving these to the Son to be assisted by him is so to be understood as if the Father did wholly remit them to the Son and did not still continue to assist them by the same Spirit by which he prepared them for him at the first For that faith by which they perform the condition of the promise is the gift of God and those who are regenerated are born of God and it is God that worketh in them both to will and to do even when they perform the condition of the promise in the best manner that ever it is performed And accordingly we are to direct our prayers to the Father for the Holy Spirit and for all the assistances and fruits of it But those prepared by the Father are said to be given to the Son in order to their being brought by him to believe the Gospel because the dispensing of all Evangelical assistances and of all Gospel-grace is committed to the Son but yet so as that the Father gives this by the Son as the Son also does by the Holy Ghost For the better understanding of this matter we must know that after our Saviours humiliation came his exaltation by the Father who gave unto him as Mediatour God-man a Kingdom glory and greatness all power in Heaven and Earth he gave all things into his hands Joh. 3.35 committed all judgment to the Son Joh. 5.22 The Father committed to the Son the whole Evangelical Oeconomy the power of managing all affairs belonging to the being and well-being of the Church which he had purchased with his own bloud over which he made him head yea head also over all things to the Church for he made him Prince of the Kings of the Earth the onely Potentate as the Scripture speaks This authority and power is said to be given to Christ because he is the Son of man John 5.27 that is I conceive because he is the Messiah to whom such a Kingdom and Regal power was promised and foretold in the Prophets under that denomination of the Son of Man Thus Daniel saw in a Vision one like the Son of man to whom the ancient of days gave dominion glory and a Kingdom that all People Nations and Languages might serve him Dan. 7.13 14. And Son of Man is the appellation which our Saviour as the Messiah doth frequently give unto himself as is recorded in the Evangelical History and which S. John in his Book of Revelations doth also more than once give him And Isaias foretold concerning a child that should be born that the Government should be upon his shoulders upon the throne of David and upon his Kingdom to order and establish it for ever chap. 9.6 7. To which agrees