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A20176	Grace, mercy, and peace conteining 1 Gods reconciliation to man, 2 Mans reconciliation to God. By Henry Denne an unworthy servant of the Church, ...	Denne, Henry, 1606 or 7-1660?	1645 (1645)	STC 6610; ESTC R175933	37,602	120

their heads they shall obtaine joy and gladnesse and sorrow and sighing shall flye away Isay 35.10 This is the promise of our Saviour Your sorrow shall be turned into joy Iohn 16.20 This is the office of the Holy Ghost To be the Comforter to speak peace and joy unto his people And therefore amongst the sundry precious gifts which are declared to be the fruits of Gods Spirit joy is not the least Gal. 5.22 This also is the lot and inheritance of the Saints of God for wee reade not of any converts in the Scripture but we also read of the joy of Gods Spirit replenishing their soules They even they who were pricked in their hearts and knew not what to doe doe not eat their meat with gladnesse and singlenesse of heart Acts 2.46 The Eunuch returneth rejoycing Acts 8.39 Samarias conversion causeth great joy in that City Acts 8.8 But why do I stay on particulars let us heare the Apostle for all We also joy in God through our Lord Iesus Christ by whom we have now received the attonement Rom. 5.11 We rejoyce in the hope of the glory of God And more we glory in tribulation also Verse 2.3 Can the Sun be without her light can the fire bee without heat Then also may the called of God the reconciled to the Father be without joy and peace in beleeving Can a man stop the ebbing or flowing of the water then may the soules of the reconciled to God be deprived of those flouds of comforts which flow from fountaines of comforts into the subject of comforts the soules of the people reconciled to God This is the first effect of reconciliation joy and peace The second followes which is Love to God Love is also an inseparable consequent of mans reconciliation can man behold the beauty of God and the glory of his face in Jesus Christ And the soule not be ravished with love See the love of the reconciled to God in that garden of sweet expressions the Book of Canticles Stay me with flagons comfort me with apples for I am sick with love Cant. 2.5 The love of the reconciled to God it is a great love Many sins are forgiven her for she loved much Luke 7. A love taking great delight and contentment in the object beloved My beloved is white and ruddy the chiefest among ten thousand His head is as the most fine gold his locks are bushy and black as a Raven his mouth is most sweet he is altogether lovely ' Cant. 5.10 c. Againe it is a restlesse love that canfind no content can take no rest nonot in her bed if shee may not enjoy the presence of her beloved By night on my bed I sought him whom my soule loved I sought him but I found him not I will rise now and goe about the City c. Cant. 3.1.2 That this love is an inseperable consequent a daily companion of mans reconciliation to God will bee plaine when wee shall see how the Holy Ghost describing unto us the called of God setteth them forth by this token of love unto Almighty God Eye hath not seen nor eare hath not heard c. the things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. 2.9 We know that all things work together for good to them that love God Rom. 8.28 This ornament of love is like the garment of divers colours with which all the Kings daughters which were Virgins were apparrelled 2 Sam. 13.18 If a Woman bee seen in the streets without a party coloured garment it is concluded that she is either none of the Kings daughters or at least no Virgin so is this ornament of love I say that thing wherewith all the people of God reconciled to him are adorned if wee see a soule altogether stript of this ornament we conclude They are not in the number of Gods people or at least not reconciled Therefore the Holy ghost concludes He that loveth not knoweth not God 1 Ioh. 4.8 And as on the affirmative pronounceth Grace be on all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity Eph. 6.24 So also on the negative If any man love not the Lord Iesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha 1 Cor. 16.22 Thus you see the consequents of our reconciliation inseparably conjoyned together so that no creature shall be able to put them asunder you have seene Peace to the brethren and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ Eph. 6.23 The third consquent is new obedience in newnes of the spirit As peace and joy and love follow and attend upon faith so is new obedience an attendant of love This is the love of God that wee keep his Commondements 1 Joh. 5.3 If you love me keep my Commandements Ioh. 14.15 If a man love me he will keep my words verse 23. This is that which I had occasion to speake of before that the holy Spirit of God doth not onely cleanse the conscience but in some measure the conversation also This is that which I said before Without holinesse no man shall see God and drunkards shall not inherit the Kingdome of God I say again that Christ entring into the soule shall drive out whatsoever is prophane and draw up the soule by the cords of love unto new obedience And to this place we refer hatred of sinne love of vertue a godly sorrow for transgression committed revenge upon our selves for the things that are past and a jealous care for that which is to come But of these particularly I cannot speake for as Rome was not built on a day so neither can it be puld down in an houre I mean the Doctrine of Rome And here I would have made an end of speaking of the consequents of our Reconciliation but that I fear the timorous soule will be ready to say In thus saying you have filled my heart with sorrow The consequents of our reconciliation being layd downe I confesse they are true but alas when I cast an eye back upon mine owne soule I find my joy comfort little my love to be lesse than my joy and my obedience to be least of all This this puts my heart in feare and makes my soule to tremble I answer what is it that thou fearest O thou of little faith Thou answerest thou art afraid that God is not thy God that hee is not reconciled unto thee See thy errour these things cannot be signes that God is not reconciled unto thee but they are signes that thou art not fully reconciled unto God but that thy faith is weake like the bulrush that thy joy is as little as thy faith and that thy love and obedience is as imperfect as thy joy Measure not the reconciliation of God to thy soule by the perfection of thy obedience for in so doing thou plungest thy soule into miferable doubts But seeing the imperfection not of Gods reconciliation to thee but of thy reconciliation to God cry thou unto the Throne of

must know that it is meere necessity that drives us we are by nature haters of God and cannot be brought to come to God in love before we perceive God to love us such is the malignant nature of man that if he could make any shift in the world hee would not bee beholding to God for helpe The prodigall sonne will never returne to his father so long as he can get cloaths for his backe and meate for his belly elsewhere but when he is brought to that passe that he would fain have filled his belly with husks which the swine did eate and no man gave unto him Luke 15.16 Then he is contented to thinke of submitting to his father but not before if he could have got a living by keeping of Hogs hee would not have returned Thus is it with man so long as he is in any hope to escape misery any other way there is no hope of his returning to God They that be whole need not the Physitian but they that are sick Mat. 9.12 The Pharisee thinketh himself able to establish his owne righteousnesse and therefore he will not submit to the righteousnesse of God Rom. 10.4 He cares not a pinne for Christ he is whole he cares not for the Physitian If any man will come after me let him deny himselfe and take up his crosse daily and follow me Luke 9.23 No man can follow Christ except he deny himselfe his own Righteousnesse and holinesse would you know a reason under the determinate counsell of God why the Publicans and Harlots received Christ but the holy Pharisees rejected him a true paterne of our dayes the Pharisees thought themselves able to stand upon their owne legs they were alive in their conceits and for them to heare of righteousnesse in another was too great a disparagement unto them and their holinesse when the publicans and strumpets being convinced of sinne and having no righteousnesse of their owne they are contented to accept it upon any terms A rich man he sometimes scorneth a gift and saith nay but I will buy it I will give satisfaction for it but the poor naked man is glad to receive what he wanteth Thus before the soule of man be brought to be reconciled unto God it is necessary that it see it selfe a sinfull creature yea so sinfull That neither crying nor howling can wash it away yea so sinfull that no correction or amendment of life is able to make satisfaction Thus farre of the antecedent conditions which as I said before are proper to all but not onely to them that are reconciled to God for these that I have shewed hitherto may be found in the not reconciled even as in the reconciled yea in the reprobate even as in the elect The second sort of conditions are present which go before reconciliation as the cause before the effect but is never separated from it as being the thing I say whereby the holy Spirit of God doth actually reconcile the soule to God Of this sort I finde but one only condition namely of faith or beleeving Here are two things to be pondered The first That without beleeving the soule remaining in the body cannot be reconciled unto God The second That by beleeving the soule is actually reconciled unto God For the first it is proved He that beleeveth not the Sonne shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him Iohn 3.36 To be reconciled to God is to see life therefore he that beleeveth not shall not be reconciled to God but the apprehension of the wrath of God shall torment his wakened conscience He that beleeveth not shall not see life he shall see nothing but wrath Secondly He that beleeveth not God hath made him a lyar 1 Iohn 5.10 That is hath accounted him a lyar Now who can finde in his heart to be reconciled to a lyar Wherby it is plain that without or before faith man cannot be reconciled unto God For the second that by beleeving the soule becomes to be reconsiled unto God is proved He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seale that God is true John 3.33 As many as received him to them he gave power to become the sonnes of God even to them that beleeve on his name Iohn 1.12 Whosoever beleeveth hath power to cry Abba Father And to this place we refer that knowne text Rom. 5.1 Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Iesus Christ And this is the proper office of faith as it justifieth to reconcile the soule and conscience unto God and to make us at peace with him by assuring us of his favour and good will towards us in Jesus Christ manifested in that God gave his only Sonne to be a propitiation for our sinnes and to satisfie whatsoever the justice of God required at his hands And this is our receiving of Christ our putting on of Christ and our living by faith if we take faith for beleeving And thus much of the second condition which is present Now followes the third sort of conditions which are consequent unto our reconciliation and things that accompany our salvation These conditions are first Ioy in the Holy Ghost Secondly Love to God and his Church Thirdly New obedience in newnesse of spirit and not in oldnesse of the letter First Ioy in the Holy Ghost is a necessary consequent and an inseparble companion to our reconciliation by faith as appears by that which hath been spoken before touching joying in beleeving with joy unspeakable and full of glory And indeed how can it be that it should be otherwise can the men of this world hear of great possessions fallen unto them without joyfulnesse How then is it possible that the children of the living God can come to the apprehension of the fatherly love of God in Christ but they must needs sing a new song yea break forth into singing and cry aloud with the blessed Virgin saying My soule doth magnifie the Lord and my spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour Luke 1.46 If I could this day bring you happy tydings of reconciliation betweene King and Parliament which the God of heaven effect what joy would this work in the hearts of every man here present How much more shall the tydings of eternall peace by Jesus Christ affect the soule with extraordinary comfort Here what the Lord speaks concerning the new Jerusalem God shal wipe away all teares from their eyes and there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying c. Rev. 21.4 Let others think what they will I firmely beleeve the new Ierusalem to be the glorious kingdome of Iesus Christ which is righteousnesse and peace and joy in the holy Ghost advanced in the conscience and hither also are to be referred those glorious things that are spoken of the City of our God by the Gospell Prophet in these words The ransomed of the Lord shall returne and come to Sion with songs and everlasting joy upon