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A87817	Christ exalted: in a sermon begun to be preached at Debenham in Suffolk, upon the 14. day of Febr. last, upon Coloss. 3. 11. / By Hanserd Knollys. Who was stoned out of the pulpit (as he was preaching) by a company of rude fellowes, and poor women of that town; who were sent for, called together, and set on by a malignant high-constable, who lives in the same town. Also, another sermon, preached at Stradbrooke in Suffolk, the 13. day of Febr. last, concerning sanctification; upon Ephes. 1. 4.	Knollys, Hanserd, 1599?-1691.	1645 (1645)	Wing K706; Thomason E284_14; ESTC R200061	21,848	24

Law but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousnesse which is of God by faith Phil. 3 9. The second Sort are all those formall professors who seem onely to be religious Iames 1.26 Having a forme of Godlinesse but denying the power thereof 2 Tim. 3.5 These will tell you they rest not on duties trust not to their owne righteausnesse confide not in their Humiliation as legal professors doe But they after much trouble of conscience for their sins got comfort joy and peace in applying some promises of the Gospell to themselves Consider I pray you the Parable of the stony ground hearers They on the rock are they which when thy hear receive the Word with joy and these have no root which for a while beleeve and in time of temptation fall away Luke 8.13 Here was some plowing though it went not deep enough and some Harrowing also to cover the good seed after this the●e was some joy but no root Here was the Word convincing and wounding and comforting but no Christ who is called the root Coloss 2.6 7 to quicken renew and sanctifie And therefore though they believed awhile yet they fall away in the time of Temptation And this is the condition of formall Professors they get comfort in promises but they receive not Christ and His sanctifying comforting-spirit in the promises let such hear what the Lord by His Prophet speakes to a formall professing people Isa 50.11 Behold all ye that kindle a fire that compasse your selves about with sparks Walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks that ye have kindled This shall ye have at my hand ye shall lye down in sorrow The third sort are all those carnall Professors who say they are the people of God and hold the common Faith Titus 1.4 which is the faith of Gods Elect Titus 1.1 and beleeve the common salvation Jude 3. That is to say common to every one that beleeveth both Jew and Gentile Rom. 1 16. But notwithstanding all this profession of generall redemption they themselves are the servants of corruption 2 Pet. 2.19 For they take liberty to live in sin and walk after the flesh fulfilling the lusts thereof turning the grace of God into lasciviousnesse and denying the onely Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ Jude 4 They are so fa●re departed from the Faith which they sometime professed and seemed to have 1 Tim. 4.1 that they question whether the Scriptures of truth be the Word of God Whether Christ be the sonne of God Whether the first day of the Week be the Sabboth of God And they are so farre from living godly and walking in the way of holinesse that they totally omit all holy duties they refrain prayer they speak not of the Word of God when they rise up nor when they lye down nor as they sin in the house together with their family They do not pertake of any Ordinances nor perform any worship to God And as for sin they make a mock at it some of them say God takes no knowledge of their sins He sees no iniquitie in them others affirm that they have no sin they are born of God and they cannot sin And some others are bold to say they are justified persons and therfore all their words and actions are alike acceptable to God and well-pleasing in his sight c. But these carnall professors are not holy are not the people of God This may make some discovery of those whose hearts are not right with God to whom I would give the Apostles exhortation Acts 8.22 3. Vse Will God have His people to be holy Then may this doctrine occasion a deep Humiliation and godly sorrow in believers for their unholinesse carnallnesse and sinfulnesse in heart or life O beloved let you and I commune with our own hearts how much unbelief hypocrisie self-filthinesse formality and wickednesse shall we upon diligent examination finde still remaining in us What vanity of minde and carnality is in our hearts How many hard thoughts of God have we still Notwithstanding all the experiences God hath given us of his unchangeablenesse his faithfulnesse and his everlasting loving kindnesse in Jesus Christ How apt are we by an evill heart of unbelief to depart from God Alas what sinfull contemplations have we in our spirits What evill concupiscence How do our hearts run out after the creature-comforts of this world and how are our affections still set upon the things below Christ and God How many Idols are set up in our hearts How great is our self-love self-seeking self-confidence self-dependence and self-sufficiencie O what high thoughts have we sometimes of our selves our gifts our graces our experiences our performances Surely we have just cause if God will in mercy work in us godly sorrow to be ashamed to mourn after a godly manner and to loath our selves for the abominations of our own hearts But my brethren let us examine our lives and search and try our wayes as well as commune with our hearts for the eye of the world is open upon us God and Angels men and Divels all observe us who are believers they hear what we say and take knowledge what we do O beloved how much vain carnall and sinfull communication comes out of our mouthes that ministers no grace to the hearers How many idle words do we speak What unprofitable talk have we among our selves and with others not gracious nor seasoned with the salt of truth and holinesse but very unsavoury speeches And when we meet together and speak one to another of Religion we are apt to speak slightly rashly formally inconsiderately and not soberly humbly and graciously as becomes the Saints Yea our conferences sometimes turns to vain janglings and un-edifying disputes wherein we strive for victory or to maintain our own opinion more then truth But besides all this How much ungodlinesse is there in our actions Albeit God preventeth us by His grace from doing actions simply and grossely evill and ungodly as drunkennesse uncleannesse c. Yet in doing lawfull things we often mis-carry the Messengers of Christ do sometimes preach themselves Fathers of Families do correct their children sometimes after their pleasure provoking their children being bitter to their Wives sometimes Oh how uneven do we walk in our callings and relations Wherein we should especially shew forth the power of godlinesse Oh had we tender hearts and were we truly sensible of our sinfull miscariages we could not speak of those particulars without teares of godly sorrow Can we consider how many yeares we have professed the Gospell how long we have enjoyed the Word preached in season and out of season unto us and yet how little our conversation is as becomes the Gospell how little we have profited how little we have grown in Grace and in the knowledge of Jesus Christ and not be affected to mourn under the feeling of our unprofitablenesse and great barrennesse But I hope God will give us

then I would beleeve but alas I have a hard heart a blinde minde a perverse will carnall affections c. I cannot dare not I will not beleeve that my sins are forgiven Thus most professors would bring in if not their owne righteousnesse some grace or work of God in them to joyne with Christ in their justification not considering that God justifies the ungodly Rom. 4.5 and that Christ is all and in all in the justification of sinners Secondly let Christ be all in all the gifts of the Spirit and graces of sanctification for as you heard he is the Author the Preserver and the finisher of them all therefore let him have the preheminence above all set an high esteeme of every gift and grace of God account a little grace better then all the riches honours pleasures and creature-comforts of this world But you ought to prize Christ farre above all his owne gifts and graces in us for he is the life of them all the marrow and substance of them a I. What is all knowledge unlesse ye know God in Christ 1 Cor. 13.2 nothing What is all Faith except Christ be the object of it 1 Cor. 13.2 Nothing Patience Temperance and all other Vertues what are they but either naturall qualities or morall habits unlesse Christ be the root of them Nature Education and acquired gifts of Art may produce the like yea the same in Heathens But Christ is the lustre and beauty of each spirituall gift and grace that influence beleevers receive from Christ and those rayes that come from this Sunne of Righteousnesse upon their graces makes them shining Saints beautifull and all glorious within Heare this you poore in spirit you new-borne babes in Christ who have the persons of beleevers especially Preachers in admiration and set them up on high in your hearts and extoll them with your tongues because you discerne so much humility love patience faith and other gifts of the Spirit and graces of sanctification in them should you not rather admire Christ exalt Christ and extoll him who is the purchaser the owner the donor and the author of all these spirituall gifts and graces for we have nothing but what we have received by his grace we are what we are and all the grace we have from his fulnesse we received it Joh. 1.16 therfore let him receive the glorie of all and let him have the preheminence in all for he is all in all Thirdly let Christ be all in all your affections words and actions Set your affections on Christ Oh let the discoveries of that superlative excellencie and glorious beautie of Christ which are made out to your soules by the Spirit and Word of God draw you to set your affections on him Col. 1.1 2. Love every one and every thing that God hath put the name of Christ upon for his sake but chiefly set your affectionate love upon himselfe love Christ in his Saints love Christ in his messengers in his ordinances c. this will quicken your desires to enjoy more of Christ more of Christ in his Saints Ministers Ordinances and in your owne hearts On let Christ be chiefest in your affections he is altogether lovely Cant. 5.16 Let him have your dearest love he is the wel-beloved of his Father and yours 2 Pet. 1.17 let him be your wel-beloved Christ beares you in his armes everlasting armes of mercy yea in his bosome Isa 40.11 63.9 Doe you beare him in your heart and let Christ be exalted highest there Againe let the absence of Christ be the chiefe occasion of your sorrow and mourning Matth. 9 15. cry after him enquire for him give him no rest untill he returne this was the practice of the Spouse Cant. 3.1 2 3 4. Cant. 5.4 6 8. Oh how was her affections set upon her Beloved tell him I am sicke of love Cant. 5.8 Though there be many other just occasions for mourning to the Saints yet this is the chiefe If a loving wife cannot thinke of the departure of her deare husband without sorrow how much more sorrowful will a gracious heart be in the absence of Christ Mary likewise who wept and being asked the reason by the Angels answered Because they have taken away my Lord c. Joh. 20.11 13 15 16. And as Christ should be all in your affections so let him be in your words and actions speake for him doe for him suffer for him let him be the matter of your communications and conferences that you may minister grace to the hearers what ever you do in word or deed let all be done to the honour of Christ for he that honours the Sonne honours the Father also The other branch of the exhortation is to such as are in their naturall condition without Christ seeing Christ is all in all be exhorted to seek Christ Paul preaching on Mars-hill to the Athenians tells them God made of one blood all Nations of men that they should seeke the Lord Act 17.22 26 27. and there be many exhortations in holy Scripture to this purpose as Isa 55.6 7. Seeke ye the Lord while he may be found c. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him returne unto the Lord c. The Apostle Peter in his speech to Simon Magus Act. 8.20 21 22 23. told him his heart was not right in the sight of God that he was in the gall of bitternesse and in the bond of iniquity And yet he exhorted him to repent and pray to God vers 22 Not that any man in his naturall condition can of himselfe come to Christ desire him or seeke to enjoy him for none can come to Christ except the Father draw him Joh. 6.44 It is God that workes in us to will and to doe according to his good pleasure Phil. 2.13 So then saith the Apostle it is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God that sheweth mercy onely know this God requiring poore sinners to use the meanes he hath appointed is pleased to make that meanes effectuall for their conversion and salvation For if God have purposed to shew mercy and conferre his grace upon your soules he will cause you to seeke unto him Ezek. 36.26 27 37. A new heart will I give you and I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walke in my Statutes Thus saith the Lord God I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel to doe it for them vers 37. Gods gracious and free promises doe not exclude the meanes he hath appointed to attaine the mercies therein promised It pleaseth him to tye his creatures to the use of meanes when he affords it them though he will sometime worke without it Now the ordinary meanes which God hath in his infinite wisedome appointed to convert sinners and also to build them up in Christ is the Word preached Rom. 10.8 17. This word of the Gospel God will have

and women in their blood or in their sins Ezek. 16 6 8. he in the the time of love forgives them all their sins covers their nakednesse with the skirt of Christs Righteousnesse and bids them live This is done when God enters into covenant with them and so they become his Now that God may be justified in so doing though he found them ungodly unbeleevers impenitent prophane c. He doth not onely forgive them all their sins and so leave them ungodly to go on in their wicked waies But he gives them his holy Spirit of Sanctificaton who changeth their hearts renewes the spirit of their minde sanctifies their wills and affection and produceth all those fruits of the spirit in them mentioned Gal. 5.22 23. whereby they are made holy in all manner of conversation 1 Pet. 1.15 16. And this reason the Apostle gives Ephes 1.4 6. That we should be holy to the praise of the glory of his grace and verse 12. That we should be to the praise of his Glory And herein is God justified in justifying the ungodly in that he doth make and keep them holy Jude 1. Reason 2. God will have his people to be holy for the honour and glory of his Son Jesus Christ to whom he hath given them All mine are thine saith Christ in his Prayer to his Father John 17.1 10. and thine are mine and I am glorified in them also verse 19. And for their sakes I sanctifie my selfe that they also might be sanctified Christ shall be glorified in his Saints especially in his Kingly Office Revel 15.3 4. Just and true are thy waies Thou King of Saints Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy Name for thou onely art holy And albeit now Christ and his poor Saints are scorned and despised of men yet that Prophesie of Enoch the seventh from Adam will have its accomplishment Jude 14. Behold the Lord commeth with ten thousand of his Saints The Lord Iesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels When he shall come to be glorified in his Saints 2 Thes 17 10. And in that day it will appear to all the world that it is the great glory of Jesus Christ that his Father hath given him so many ten thousands of Saints to be his Subjects and himselfe to be their King Isa 33.17 22. Reason 3. God will have his people holy that they may enjoy spirituall communion with him in this life and Eternall communion with him in heaven The Saints do enjoy spirituall Communion with God in this life 1 John 1.3 Truely our fellowship is with the father and with his Son Jesus Christ and with the Spirit Phil. 2.1 And they shall have eternall communion with God in Heaven in that Kingdome prepared for them which then thy shall receive Matth. 25.34 Now this communion with God none can have without holinesse Heb. 12.14 Therefore God will have his people to be holy 1. Vse Will God have his people to be holy Let it be usefull to us first for enquiry what holinesse is And how God makes His holy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Thes 4 3. 7 Holinesse or Sanctification is a reall change of the whole Man from the pollution of sin to the purity of the Image of Christ Rom. 6.22 But now being made free from sin and become servants of God ye have your fruits unto holinesse Here was a reall change in them from the pollution of sin 2 Cor. 3.18 But we all with open face beholding as in a glasse the glory of the Lord are changed into the same Image Here was the other part of that reall change in them to wit into the purity of the Image of Christ For as men in their naturall estate bear the Image of the Earthy first-man Adam so men in their spirituall estate bear the Image of the Heavenly second-Man CHRIST 1 Cor. 15.47 48 49. This holinesse or sanctification if you have respect to the Author and efficient cause thereof is called the sanctification of the Spirit 2 Thes 2.13 and 1 Pet. 1.2 If unto the divine act of God it is called Renovation or Renewing of the minde Ephes 4.23 and Rom. 12.2 If unto the Acts and fruits of holinesse in beleevers it is called Faith love long suffering gentlenesse goodnesse meeknesse temperance c. Gal. 5.22 If unto the root fountain and foundation of holinesse the Scripture saith Christ is our sanctification 1 Cor. 1.30 Thus you hear what holinesse is Now God maketh His holy by his Spirit and Word Whereby he doth convince them that they are without Christ Ephes 2.12 Maketh discoverie to them of the worth of Christ their need of him and Gods offer of him in a covenant of Grace upon Gospell termes changing their hearts into the Image of Christ 2 Cor. 3.18 Gives them Faith in Christ Repentance from dead workes Love to all the Saints c. And so the very God of Peace Sanctifie his people 1 Thessalonians 5.23 Thus much may suffice touching the Jnquiry 2. Vse Will God have his people to be holy Let us make use of this to discover who are the people of God who are not Those people that are ungodly unsanctified are not the people of God such may boast of their Justification but they deceive themselves for God hath no justified-unsanctified people 1 Cor. 6 9 10 11. They may talke of the free-grace of God manifested to them bringing them Salvation but they are deluded for the grace of God that bringeth Salvation teacheth us to deny ungodlinesse and to live godly Titus 2.11 12. Now there are three sorts of professors who would be esteemed the people of God and yet are not sanctifyed by the holy spirit they are not holy and therefore are not the Lords people in Covenant The first Sort are all those legall professors who having been by the spirit and word of God much convinced of sin Iohn 16.8 Sorely wounded in their consciences Proverbes 18.14 and somewhat reformed in their conversations by hearing godly Preachers as Herod was Mark 6 20. after all this goe about to establish their own righteousnesse and rest upon their duties humiliation and legall reformation And never have their hearts changed and renewed nor Christ given of the Father unto them These are not sanctified are not the Lords Hear what the Apostle speakes to such among the Galatians Are yee so foolish having begun in the Spirit are you now made perfect by the flesh Have you affired so many things in vain If it be yet in vaine Well such of you as God hath chosen in Christ that you should bee holy c. He will also by his Spirit and Word convince you of Righteousnesse to wit that all your own Righteousnesses are as filthy rags Isa 64.6 That being ignorant of Gods Righteousnesse you have gone about to establish your owne righteousnesse Rom. 10 3. and that you must be found in Christ not having your own righteousnesse which is of the