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A53095 Ultimum vale, or, The last farewell of a minister of the Gospel to a beloved people by Matthevv Nevvcomen ... Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669. 1663 (1663) Wing N914; ESTC R8564 50,710 82

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and take them in And because this Discovery which God makes of himself to sinful and fallen man by his holy Word is an Act of meer Grace which Man had no wayes merited not could merit nor God could no wayes be obliged or engaged to therefore this Word of God is called the Word of his Grace in respect of the original of it it came forth from God it was the Grace of God that first revealed it Reas 2. It is the Word of Grace materially because the Grace of God towards sinners in Jesus Christ is the principal proper and specifick matter and subject of it True it is indeed that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All-that can possibly be known of God is revealed in the Word The simplicity unity perfection of his Essence the glorious Mystery of the Trinity of Persons the Wisdom Power Goodness Justice Holiness of God all these are made known to us in his Word wherein as in a glass we behold the glory of the Lord 2 Cor. 3.18 But that which the Word doth principally and chiefly reveal it is the Grace of God towards sinners in Jesus Christ this was the substance of that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that first Word which God revealed immediately after the Fall of Man in Paradise The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head This was the substance and scope of all the Old Testament all the Sacrifices Laws and Ordinances concerning holy Persons and holy things they all tended to this And this is more clearly and fully the scope of the Gospel and New Testament to make known the unsearchable Riches of Christ as the Apostle speaks Ephes 3.8 And therefore of all the parts of the Scripture the Gospel the New Testament is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 called the Word of Grace and the Gospel of Grace because the whole design and scope of that is to reveal and make known unto sinners the Grace of God in Christ and that and that alone reveals it Men may talk what they please of those Universal Preachers the Sun Moon and Stars and tell us that they preach Christ The creatures indeed do sufficiently reveal God so as to leave all the World without excuse for not fearing and serving of God who made Heaven and Earth but worshipping the work of their own hands in his stead but Christ and the Grace of God towards sinners in Christ is the proper peculiar sole Revelation of the Gospel which therefore is called the Word of Grace Reas 3. The Word of God is the Word of Grace effectively because it works inherent qualitative Grace and Holiness in them that hear it not indeed in all the Word doth not work Grace in the hearts of all nor never did No but where-ever Grace is wrought in the hearts of any there ordinarily it is the Word that works and therefore it may be justly and duely called the Word of Grace So the Apostle Rom. 10.17 Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God So Gal. 3.2 Received you the Spirit by the works of the Law or by the hearing of Faith So our Saviour John 17.17 Sanctifie them through thy Truth thy Word is Truth So then the Word worketh Faith and Sanctification in the hearts of God's Children and therefore it is the Word of Grace Reas 4. The VVord of God is the VVord of Grace because it not only begets and begins Grace and layeth the foundation of it but it maintains and increaseth and carrieth on the work of Grace unto Glory As it follows here in the Text The VVord of his Grace which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified Now this in the first place should teach us to bless God for the enjoying of his VVord more than for any other our Enjoyments whatsoever It is true we have cause to bless God for any thing for every thing we enjoy that we have bread to eat though never so course that we have rayment to put on though never so mean we have cause to bless God that we live in a Land of Hills and Valleys that is watered with Springs and with the Dew of Heaven in a fruitful and plentiful Land but that we live in a Land whither God hath caused the Word of his Grace to come this we have cause to bless God for infinitely more than for Corn and Wine and Oyl in greatest abundance Had God inriched this Nation with all the Mines and Treasures of both the Indies were all the Hills and High-wayes in England as full of Gold as they are of Sand were all the Rivers as full of Pearls as they are of Pebles did Cinamon and Cassia grow in England as thick as Bulrushes were all the Riches and Glories of the World laid up here as in Natures Store-house yet if God had hid the Word of his Grace from us what a miserable Nation had we been all this our Wealth would have exposed us to the cruel covetousness and rage of other Nations as it hath done the poor Indians and have sent us down to Hell certainly and unavoidably without any help or remedy But blessed be God for the Gospel of Grace for this VVord of Grace blessed be God blessed be God for the Word of Grace bestowed upon England he hath not dealt so with every Nation In England is God known his Name is great in England in England is his Tabernacle and his Dwelling-place in England He hath not dealt so with every Nation he hath not dealt so with any Nation Praise ye the Lord. Psal 147.20 In the second place This should teach us above all things to fear and deprecate the taking away the VVord of Grace from us or from our posterity after us It was a sore Judgment which the Lord threatned against Judah Jer. 16.5 I have taken away my Peace from this People saith the Lord my Loving-kindness and Mercy O my Brethren when God takes away the VVord of his Grace from a People then is this direful Judgment come upon them then hath God taken away his Peace from that People even Loving-kindness and Mercy then is that People left Regnum Cyclopicum in the Region of Darkness and the shadows of death an habitation for Dragons and Devils Take the Sun out of the Firmament and what would the World be but a Chaos of Confusion a Land of Darkness And satius esset Solem è Colo said the People of Constantinople of that famous Preacher Chrysostom Better the Sun should be taken out of the Skie than Chrysostom out of the Pulpit Chrysostom and an hundred Chrysostoms may be taken out of the Pulpit and yet the Word of Grace not taken away but if once the VVord of Grace be taken away then VVo Wo We to that Place and to that People Brethren you may remember I am sure you ought to remember that upon the 13th of October 1658. from those words Amos 8.11 I shewed