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A50244 A sermon wherein is shewed that it is the duty and should be the care of believers on Christ to live in the constant exercise of grace by Mr. Nathanael Mather ... Mather, Nathanael, 1631-1697.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. Doctrine of Divine Providence opened and applyed. 1684 (1684) Wing M1266; ESTC R27641 13,097 32

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and body together and their mutual clasping on each other so 't is no act of spiritual life that proceeds not from the souls union with God and clasping about him in Christ Jesus Quest What Grace must a Christian walk in the excercise of Answ 1. The General Graces of a Christian that are never out of season nor ever unsuitable what ever the case and condition of a person be e. g. Faith Fear Thankfulness and Love Heavenly-mindedness Watchfulness c. Faith For Heb. 11.6 fetching spiritual strength from Christ and looking up to him for Acceptance in all Fear Prov. 23.17 that is An awful regard to the Authority and will of God as his rule subjecting himself to it 1. Pet. 4.2 Putting a respect of obedience to God on all he doeth Col. 3.17 doing all things in the name of the Lord. Thankfulness and Love and Joy Putting a respect of Thankfulness upon all his obedience as well as of obedience upon every action Col. 3.12 And from Love and Thankfulness designing in every thing the Glorifying of God 1. Cor. 10.31 Heavenly-mindedness Col. 3.1.2 Seeking and setting our affections on things above and an heart working Heaven-ward designing going to Heaven in all he hath and laying hold on Eternal Life Watchfulness See 1. Pet. 5.8 Luk. 21.34 36. Ephes 5.14 15. Heb. 3.12 2 Those particular Graces that a mans Relation Employment or Gods providence calls for Those which a mans Relation calls for For the Grace which the relation of a wife calls for 1. Pet. 3.2 So for servants Ephes 6.5 Those which a mans present Condition and Employment calls for If it be worshiping of God Heb. 12.28 Psa 5.7 If it be restoring a Brother overtaken with a fault then exercise and shew forth a spirit of meekness Gal. 6.1 Those which God's present Providence calleth for both particular and General Inward and outward When God afflicts we must put on humbleness and mourning as our garment and Constant attire in such a day 1. Pet. 5.5 6. If God favour then beautyful garments or garments of praise must be worn Isa 52.1 61.3 For the Reasons of this Doctrine I shall goe no further then this Discourse of the Apostle in this Chapter Reas 1. It will prevent your using your Liberty as an occasion to the Flesh and fulfilling the Lusts of it Of this there is great danger we are very apt to it Corruption is even present and active to get the Start of Grace and be before hand with it if we take not heed Yet this is a great Evil thus to abuse God's Favour and our mercies To prevent it there is no way like this of a mans walking in the exercise of it Continually Thus 't is in their allowed delights and Creature enjoyments and also in liberty given by the providence of God from subjection to others from Temptations from Afflictions And in liberty given by the Institution and order of Christ in Church matters and also Spiritual Liberty given by the Grace of God You shall not fulfil the Lusts of the Flesh See ver 16. Flagging in the Exercise of Grace and leting it fall exposeth to the prevailing of Temptations and Corruptions which hence come easily to grow up and get head over us Hence they not only stir within and sollicite but Lead us Captive and prevail over us If David Noah Lot Peter had kept up the Exercise of Grace they had not Fallen as they did The Apostle makes this out from the Contrariety between Grace and Sin ver 17. which is such that the exercise of one keeps down the other And lusts will mingle themselves in all we doe if we walk not in the Exercise of Grace then all we doe will become sin and so be put among our sins for pardon not our Obedience for Acceptance Every thing we doe is a fruit of the Spirit or the flesh and if Grace be not exercised 't is then a fruit of the Flesh not the Spirit Joh. 3.6 Thus men come to fulfil the lusts of the Flesh when they are doing duties that God calls for Hence in mens callings many men are but fulfilling the lust of covetousness and Love of the world And in duties of worship men thus come to be fulfilling a lust of pride and of Hypocrisie yea of contempt of God because not worshiping Him in faith from Love and with Fear they either look for Acceptance in it without regard to Christ or else heed not whether they be accepted of God or not Reas 2. This will clear it up that you are not under the Law but under Grace See ver 18. It will clear it up to others for hereby Grace will shine out in you and you will shew the Vertues of Christ who hath called you So Paul of the Churches of Macedonia 2. Cor. 8.12 and of the Thessalonians 1 Epist 1. Chapt. 3 4. ver from their works of Faith and Labour of Love Concludeth their Election It will clear it up to your selves in your own Consciences 1. Joh. 3.14 18 19. For thus to be lead in the Spirit is a certain Sign of it because the Law gives not the Spirit Gal. 3.2 He whose state is to be under the Old Covenant hath not Grace and therefore cannot exercise any therefore if a man exercise Grace 't is a certain Argument that he is in a New Covenant estate Exercising Grace will Clear up your State because Grace by Acting grows more and brighter and thence more discernable And because in this way the Spirit of God the spirit of consolation will reveal your State to you enable you to discern it clearly and judge of it certainly to your Comfort Thus God dealt with Abraham Gen. 22.12 15. Now I know thou fearest me And the Lord again reneweth his Covenant with him and Confirms it with his Oath for tho he made it before and gave him also a Seal of it Circumcision Yet I find not that the Lord Ratified it by his Oath till now And observe it that it is not the outward Act of Obedience that yeildeth peace and Assurance or on which Conscience can give a Testimony of a mans good estate for there is no outward Act but a Hypocrite may doe it 1. Cor. 13.1 2 3 4. but it is from the Exercise of grace in that Action that in Simplicity and in Godly Sincerity a man hath done it as 2. Cor. 1.12 or that it was done to the Lord or before the Lord as David speaks 2. Sam. 6.21 And David said to Michal It was before the Lord c. For our joy in every thing we doe comes in by such a tryal of our own acting as no other but wee our selves can be able to make thereof Gal. 6.4 But let every man prove his own work and then he shall have rejoycing in himself alone and not in another And against such as so walk there is no Law that can cast and condemn them For such hath one in Heaven that have satisfied