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A28172	Fellowship with God, or, XXVIII sermons on the I Epistle of John, chap. 1 and 2 wherein the true ground and foundation of attaining, the spiritual way of intertaining fellowship with the Father and the Son, and the blessed condition of such as attain to it, are most succinctly and dilucidly explained / by ... Hugh Binning.	Binning, Hugh, 1627-1653.	1671 (1671)	Wing B2930; ESTC R14103	146,932	280

is first declared in the Gospel Jesus Christ is holden out as partaking with you in all your infirmities he is represented as having fellowship with us in our sins and curses in our afflictions and crosses he hath fellowship in our nature to bear our sins and infirmities Now since he hath partaken in these you are invited to come and have fellowship with him in his gifts and graces in the precious merits of his death and ●uffering in his ●ising again and returning to glory And this is the exchange he makes and declares in the Gospel I have taken your sins ●nd cu●ses O come and take my graces and that which is purchased by my blood Now this is the first beginning of ● souls renewed fellowship with God and it is the foundation of all that is to come to imbrace this offer to accept him cordially as he is presented and to pacifie and quiet our own hearts by saith in that he hath done And this being once laid down ●s the ground-stone the soul will grow up into more communion with him To speak aright of this communion would require more acquaintance with it then readily will be found amongst us but it is more easie to understand in what it is exercised and intertained then to bring up our hearts unto it Certainly it must neither be taken so low and wide as if it consisted all in these external duties and approaches of men to God for there is nothing capable of communion with the Father of spirits but a Spirit and sure I am the most part of us removes them and acts little that way It is a lamentable thing that men pretend to please God with such vain empty shows ●nd bodily appearances without any serious exercise of their souls and attention of their minds in divine worship Neither yet must it be taken so high and made so narrow a● if it consisted only in these ravishments of the soul after God which are joyned with extraordinary sweetnesse and joy or in such rare pieces of accesse and liberty for though that be a part of it yet is it neither universal to all Gods children nor yet constant in any The●e may be some solid serious attendance on God in his Ordinances which may have more true substantial life in it and more of the marrow of Christianity in it though a soul should not be acquainted with these ●aptures nor ever carried without the Line of an equal walking with God Therefore that which I would exhort you to i● to acquaint your selves with Iesus Christ and you shall find a new way opened in him by which you may boldly com● to God and having come to God in him you are called to walk with him to intertain that acquaintance that is made till all the distance and estrangednesse of your heart● be worn out And I know not any thing which is more apt either to beget or preserve this fellowship then the communication of your spirits often with him in prayer ●nd with his word in meditation and this is not to be discharged as a custome but the love of God within drawing the heart willingly towards communication with him and constraining to pour out your requests to him and wait on him even though ye should not find that sensible sweetnesse that sometimes is found It were an happy advancement in thi● fellowship if converse with God whether in prayer and solemn retirements or in meditation or in our ordinary walking were become the delight of our hearts at least that they might be carried that way towards the intertaining the thoughts of his Majesty his Glory and Grace and Goodness and Wisdome shining every where as from a natural instinct even when we are not ingaged with the present allurements of that sweetnesse that sometimes accompanies it SERMON VII· 1 Joh. 1.3 And truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Iesu● Christ. Vers. 4. And these things write we unto you that your joy may be full IT was sin that did f●rst break off that fellowship that was between God and man and cut off that blessed society in which the honour and happinesse of man consisted but that fundamental bond being loosed it hath likewise untyed all the links of society of men among themselves and made such a general dispersion and dissipation of mankind that they are almost like wild beasts raging up and down and in this wilder then beasts that they devour one another which beasts do not in their own kind and they are like fishes of the Sea without rule and government Though there be some remnants of a sociable inclination in all men that shews it self in their combinings in societies and erecting governments yet generally that which is the true bond and ligament of men which alone can truly knit them together is broken that is love the love of God and our neighbours And therefore notwithstanding of ●ll the means used to reduce and to contain mankind in order and harmony by government yet there are nothing but continual rents distractions dissipations divisions and dissolutions in Common-wealths amongst themselves and between Nations so that all men may be represented as Lions Tigers Wolves Serpents and such like unsociable creatures till the Gospel come to tame and subdue them as it is often holden out in the Prophets Isai. 2.4 and 11.6 7 8. and 65.25 Now indeed you have here the express end and purpose of the Gospel to make up these two great breaches in the creature between God and men and between men and men It is a Gospel of peace where ever it takes hold of mens spirits it reduceth all to a peaceable temper joyns them to God ●nd one to another for the very sum and substance of it is the love of God to mankind and proposed for this end to engage the love of man again and love is the glew the cement that alone will conjoyn hearts unto this fellowship It is a strange thing and much to be lamented that Christendome should be a field of blood an Aceldama beyond other places of the world that where the Gospel is pretended to be received that men have so far put off even humanity as thus to bite and devour one another Certainly it is because where it is preached it is n●t believed therefore sin taketh occasion by it to become the more sinful alwayes let us take heed to this that it is the great purpose and grand design of the Gospel preached to u● to restor● us to a blessed society and fellowship with the Father and withal to a sweet fellowship amongst our selv●s for both you see are here We are called to fellowship with the Father ●nd what is that but to have the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ thy Father and thou to be his son by adoption of grace It is certainly the very marrow and extract of the whole Covenan● and all the promises thereof I will be your Father and ye shall be my sons

and daughters saith the Lord Almighty 2 Cor. 6.18 I go saith Christ to your Father and my Father and to your God and my God O what a sweet complication and interchange of relations Iob. 20.17 I will be your God and ye shall be my people he●e is the Epitome of all ●appinesse and felicity In this word all i● inclo●ed and without this nothing is to be found that deserves the desires of an immortal spirit For hence it follows that a soul is filled with the all-fulnesse of God Eph. 3.19 for that is made over to thee who believes the Gospel and thou hast as real a right and title to it as men have to their f●thers inheritance Then to have fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ is ●nother branch of this dignity and this is that which introduceth the other Christ is the middle person the Mediator between God and man given for this end to recover men from their woful dispersion and separation from God and reduce them ●gain to that blessed society and therefore our acquaintance as it were first begins with him and by him we are led to the Father No man can come to the Father but by the Son Therefore if you have his friendship you have done the busines● for he and his Father is one Now this fellowship to branch it forth mor● particularly is either real or personal Real I mean 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bonorum a communion of all good things a communion with him in his Nature Offices and Benefits and thi● must be laid down as the foundation-stone of thi● fello●ship he came near us to partake of flesh and blood with us that we might have a way ● ne● and living way consecrated even the vail of his flesh to come to God by for certainly this gives boldnesse to a soul to draw near to God with some expectation of successe and acceptation when it is seriously considered that our nature is so nearly conjoyned already to God by this step a soul climbs up to the Majesty of God and by means of this we become partakers of the Divine Nature as God of Humane Nature 2 Pet. 1.4 So by the same degrees we ascend to God that God hath descended to us he drew near us by our nature and we by the intervention of that same ascend to him and receive his image and stamp on our souls for the Lord did stamp his own image upon Christs Humane N●ture to make it a pattern to us and to represent to us as in a visible symbole and pledge what impression he would put upon us Then we have fellowship with him in his Offices I need not branch them out severally you k●ow what he was anointed for to be a Priest to off●r s●crifice and reconcile u● to God an●●o make intercession for u● to be ● King ●o ru●● us by his Word and Spirit and defend u●●g●inst our enemies to be ● Prophet to r●veal ●he will of God to u● 〈◊〉 instruct us in 〈◊〉 same He●e ●s ● large field o● fellowship we h●ve ●dmit● an● 〈◊〉 by faith in Jesus Christ to th● real ●dva●tage ●nd benefit of ●ll these there i● nothing in them but it r●late● to us ●nd ●edou●ds to us the living ver●ue of that sacrifice i● as fresh and recent this day to send up ● favour of rest ●o Heaven and to pacifie a troubled conscience as the first day it was offered That perfect sacrifice is as available to thy soul as if thou had offered it thy self and this day ye have the benefite of his prayers in Heaven we partake of the strong cryes and tears in the days of his flesh and of intercession since more then of our own supplications What shall I say ye have one to teach you all things that is needful for you one to subdue your sins under you and by vertue of fellowship with Jesus Christ in these Offices there is something derived from it and communicated to us by it that we should be Kings and Priests to God our Father Kings to rule over our own s●i●it● and lusts in as ●ar as grace reigns in us to eternal life and that is truly a heroick royal spirit that overcomes himself and the world and Priests to offer unto God continually the sacrifice of prayer and praises 1 Pet. 1.3 4 5. which are sweet smelling and pleasant in his fight yea we should offer up our own bodies a● a reasonable service Rom. 12.1 and this is a holy ●nd living sacrifice when we dedicat and consecrat all our faculties members and abilitie● to his will and service and do not spare to kill our lust● which are his and our enemies Let us sum up ●ll in this whatsoever grace or gift is in Christ Jesus whatsoever preheminence he hath above Angels and men whatsoever he purch●sed he purchased by his obedient life and patience in death there i● nothing of all that but the soul may be admitted to fellowship in it by its union with him by ●aith have him and have all that he hath Faith mak●s him ●ours and all that he hath is a consequential appendix to himself the Word of the Gospel offers him freely to you with all his benefits interests and advantages O that our hearts may be induced to open to him N●w being thus united to Jesus Christ that which I would pe●swade next to is a personal communion that is a suitable intertainment of him a conjunction of your soul to him by love and a conspiracy of all your endeavours henceforth to please him It is certain that true frien●ship is founded on a conjunction and harmony of souls by affection by which they cease to b● two and becomes in a manner one for love makes ● kind of transport of the soul into another and then all particul●r and proper interests are drowned in oblivion no more mine and thine but he makes an interchange mine th●ne and thine mine my heart thine and thy honour mine Now certain it is that in this God hath given us a rare pattern and leads the way for he declare● hi● love to the world in the rarest effects of ●t which give the clearest demonstrations possible God so loved the world that he sent his Son And you have the most in●allible argument of the Sons love greater love hath no m●n th●n this to lay down his life for his friends but h● for his enemies Now then you see how the heart of God and his Son Jesus Christ is fixed from everlasting on the sons of men so unalterably and so fully set towards them that it hath t●ansported the Son out of his own glory and brought him down in the state of a servant But it is not yet known what particular persons are thus fixed upon untill that everlasting love break out from under ground in the ingagement of thy souls love to him and till he have fastned this chain and set this seal on thy heart which makes thee impatient to want him

is here given of God communicable to us that as he is light and in him is no darkness so we being fully and perfectly shined upon by him may be light likewise without any mixtu●e o● d●●knesse as here it is not Now my beloved in the Lord this is that we are called unto to walk thus in the light in the light of obedience and sanctification and th●t is the great thing ye would lea●n to aspi●e unto rather then to enjoy the light of consolation Indeed I conceive that which maketh many of u● walk in darknesse as i● spoken in Isa. 50.10 that is without com●ort peace and joy and without clear disce●ning our interest in God i● because we walk in another da●knesse that is of sin and distance from God the one da●knesse is introductive of the other nay they cannot be long without other the da●k cloud of bold sinning and ca●elesse unci●cumspect walking that cannot but eclip●e the light of consolation and fill the soul with some ho●rour anguish and confusi●n Therefore if ye would walk in the light of joy and comfort O take heed nothing be interposed between God and your souls you must likewise walk in the light of his Law which is as a lamp to the feet and this light as the ray begets that light of comfort as the splendor which is the second light of the Sun I know i● is a disconsolat and sad condition to walk without the light of the knowledge of our interest in God but I would earnestly recommend unto you two things to support you and help you in that one is that you do not give over the chief point of this society with God that is walking in the light of his Law and Commandments but that you do th● more se●iously add●esse to the one that you want the other C●●tainly it ought to be no hinderance of your obedience and patient continuing in obedience that you know not your own interest and that his countenance shines not so upon you you know that sweet ●esolution I will wait upon the Lord who hides his face c. Isai. 8.17 Mic. 7.7 and his own command Isai. 50.10 Hos. 12.6 Ye that walk in such a darknesse neve●thelesse stay upon God Truly there could be no g●eater evidence of thy interest then thi● to give patient attendance upon him in the wayes of obedience till he shine forth this would in due time bring forth thy righteousnesse as the light if we would not substract and withdraw our selves from under the light because it is presently over-clouded Then moreover you would know that all this while that your interest in Christ lyes dark and under cloud you should then be most in the applic●tion of that blood to your souls most in trusting and staying upon the Name of God and his absolute promises Suppose thou do not as yet know that he is thine yet dost thou not know that he is made thine by believing in him and therefore while it is inevident that it is already thou ought so much the more to labour that what is not may be Now if thou canst not apply him to thy soul as thine own possessio● yet thou mayest and so much the more oug●test to apply thy soul to him an● re●ign and offer thy self to him as willing to be his posse●sion to be his and no more thine own in a word when thine own expe●imental feeling of the wo●k of Gods Spirit fails within thee th●n so much the more in●ist and dwell upon the meditation and belies o● the gene●al p●omi●es which a●e the p●oper object of faith and not 〈…〉 as our own inte●est is ●he proper obj●ct o● 〈◊〉 and not of saith Therefo●e the de●ect in the one need● not re●ound upon the other To ●um up all in one word i● thou thinkest that thou hast not y●t believed in Christ and 〈◊〉 no inte●est in him I will not dispute with thee to pe●swade t●ro ●hat thou art mistaken for all thi● debate would h● in the 〈◊〉 bec●use thou a●t in d●rkness but one th●●g I would s●y unto thee labour to do that whic● th●u would do which thou must do if ●uc● a c●●e were granted suppose it were so that thou had no in●e●est in him what would thou do then I am sure th●● would say I would labo●● by any 〈◊〉 to have him mine why then thou knows that cannot be before believing and ●eceiving him 〈◊〉 hi● promises and not at all but by believing Therefore since that this is it you must at length tu●n unto suppose the case were decided why do ye not presently ●at●er without more wea●ying your selves in the greatnesse of your way tu●n in hither as to a place of refuge without further disputing in the businesse ●nd so by believing in Christ and waiting upon him in his ways you shall put that o●t of q●e●●ion w●ich debating would make an end●e●● qu●s●ion The Lord make you wi●e to know the t●ing● that belongs to your peace SERMON XV· 1 Joh. 1.7 And the blood of Iesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin CAn two walk together except they be agreed A● darknesse cannot have fellowship with lig●● till it be changed into some con●o●mity to t●e light even ●o t●ere can neither be any fellowship in walking nor con●ormity in nature between God and u● who are enemies to him by n●●ure unlesse there be some agreement and reconcilia●ion os the difference Now here is that which maketh the atonement The blood of Iesus his Son ●leanseth us from all sin This is it that takes away the difference between God 〈◊〉 men and makes reconciliation for us This blood hath qu●nched ●he fl●me of indignation and w●ath kindled in Heaven against us And this alone can quench and extinguish the flames and ●u●ies of a tormented soul that is burnt up with the app●ehension of his anger All other things thou can ●pply or cast upon them will be as oyl to increase them whether it be to cool thy self in the shadows of the worlds delights such a poor ●hi●t as the rich glutton would have taken in hell those drops of cold water that thou can dis●ill out of the c●eature will never give any solid ease to thy conscience thou may abate the ●ury of it or put it off for a season thou who is afraid of hell and wrath may procure so●e short vacancy from those terrours by turning to the world but certainly they will recurr ●gain and break out in a g●eater fire like a fever that is not diminished but increased by much drinking cold water or if thou go about to refresh thy self and sati●fie thy challenges by thy own attainments in Religion and by reflection upon thy own heart and wayes finding something in thy esteem that may counterballance thy evils and so give thee some confidence of Gods avour these I say are but deceitful things and will never either quench the displeasure of God for thy si●s but rather add ●ewel to it because

of justice and mercy in the businesse of mans redemption and there is nothing so much declare● in●init wisdom as the m●thod order and frame of it Mercy might have been shewed to sinners in gracious and ●●ee pardon of their sins and dispensing with the punishment due to their persons yet the Lords justice and ●a●th●ulnesse in that fi●st commination might be wronged and disappointed by it if no satisfaction should be made for such infinit offences i● the Law were wholly made void both to the punishment as also to the pe●pe●son There●ore in the infinit deeps of Gods wisdome there was a way ●ound out to declare both mercy and justi●e to make both to shine glo●iously in this wo●k and indeed that is the great wonder of men and Angels such a conjunction or constellation of divine attributes in one work And in●eed it is only the most happy and ●avourable aspect that we can behold the divine M●jesty into The P●almist Psal. 85. expects muc● good from this conjunction o● the Celestial Att●ibutes and prognosticks salvation to be near hand and all good thing● as the immediat effect of it There is a meeting there as it were of some hon●urable personages vers 10 11. as are in Heaven the meeting is strange if you consider the parties mercy and truth righteousnesse and peace i● mercy and peace had met thus ●●i●ndly it had been lesse wonder but it would seem that righteousness and truth should stand off or meet only to reason and dispute the businesse with me●cy But here is the wonder mercy and truth meets in a ●●iendly manner and kisseth one another ther 's a perfect agreement and harmony amongst them about this matter of our sa●vation The●e was a kind of pa●ting at mans fall but they met again at Christs birth here is the uniting principle truth springing out of the earth because he who is the truth the life was to ●pring out of the earth therefore righteousnesse will look down from Heaven and countenance the businesse and this will make all of them meet with a loving salutation Now as this was the contexture of divine attributes in the businesse of redemption so our Lord and Saviour taketh upon him divers names offices and exercises different functions for us because he knoweth that his Father may justly exact of man personal satisfaction and hath him at this disadvantage and that he might have re●used to have accepted any other satisfaction from another person there●ore he puts on the habit and ●orm of a supplicant and intercessour for us and so while he was in the flesh he ceased not to offer up prayers and supplications with strong cryes and tears and h● is said still to make intercession for us ●●as he learned obedience though a Son so he learned to be a humble supplicant though equal with God because our claim depends wholly on grace he came off the bench and stood at the bar not only pleading but praying for us intreating savour and mercy to us and then he personats an Advocate in another consideration and pleads upon termes of justice that we be pardoned because his Father once having accepted him in our stead he gave a satisfaction in value equal to our debt and pe●formed all that we were personally bond to so then you may unde●stand how it is pa●tly an act of j●stice partly an act of me●cy in God to ●o●give ●in to believers though indeed mercy and grace is the predominant ingredient because love and grace was the very fi●●t rise and spring of sending a Saviour and Redeemer and so the original of that very pu●chase and prize He freely sent his Son and freely accepted him in our stead but once standing in our ●oo● justice craves that no more be exacted of u● since he hath done the businesse himself A sinner stands accused in his own Conscience and before God therefore to the end that we get no wrong there is a twofold Advocate given us one in the E●rth in our Consciences another in the Heavens with God Christ is gone up to the highest T●ibunal where the cause receives a definitive sentence and there he manageth it above so that though Satan should obtrude upon a poor soul a w●ong sentence in its own con●cience an● bring down a false and counte●feit Act as it were extracted out of the Register of H●●ven whereby to deceive the poor soul ●nd con●emn it in it self yet there is no hazard above he dare not appear there be●ore the highest Court for he hath already succumb'd on 〈◊〉 when Christ was here the Prince of the worl● was judged and cast out and so he will never once put in an accusation into Heaven because he knoweth our ●aith●ul Advocate 〈…〉 n●thing can passe without hi● know●edge and consent And this is a great com●o●t that all infe●iour sentences in thy perplexed con●ci●n●e which Satan through violence hath imposed upon thee are r●●●inded above in the highe●● Court and shall no● stand to thy prejudi●● whoever th●●●e that desires to ●orsake sin and come to Iesus Christ. But how doth Ch●ist plead can he plead us not guilty can he excuse or de●end our sins no that is not the way that accusation of the Word and Law against us is con●essed is proven all is ●ndenyably clear but he pleads satisfied though guilty he presents his satisfactory sacrifice and the favour of that perfumes Heaven and pacifieth all he shewes Gods bond and discharge of the recept of the sum of our d●bt and thus is he cleared and we absolved Therefore I desire you whoever you are that are challenged fo● sin and the transgression of the Law if ye would have a solid way of satisfaction and peace to your consciences take with your guiltinesse plead no● not guilty do no● excuse or extenuat but aggravat your guilt nay in this you may help Satan accuse your selves and say that you know more evil in your selves then he doth and open that up before God but in the mean time consider how it is managed above plead thou also sati●fied in Christ though guilty and so thou may say to thy accuser if thou hast any thing to object against me w●y I may not be saved thoug● a sinner thou must go up to the highest Tribunal to propone it thou must come before my Judge and Advocate above but for as much as thou dost not ●ppear there it is but a lie and a murdering lie Now this is the way that the Spirit advocats for us in our Consciences Iohn 14 and 15.26 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is rendered here Advocate the●e Comforter both suit well and may be conjoyned in one and given to both for both a●e comfortable Advocats Christ with the Father and the Spirit with us Christ is gone above for it and he sent the Spirit in his stead as God hath ● deputy-judge in man that is m●n● Conscience so the Son our Advocate with God hath ● deputy-advocate to plead the cause