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Four sermons publickly delivered at several times in Ecclesfeild Church in Yorke-shire By Immanuel Knutton preacher of Gods word there.
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Knutton, Immanuel, d. 1655.
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his neighbour as Solomon speaks Prov. 12.26 because he is so like to God he is made a partaker of the divine nature which is the highest priviledge in the world by vertue whereof a godly man being a god-like man is worth ten thousand reprobates Christ would not part with such an one for all the wealth in the world You heaven-born Saints who walk with God by imitating him his heart stands most to you and he will own you for his at the last day when others shall be rejected and condemned 5. I told you in the fifth place that a Christian walks with God by his daily observing the passages of divine providence whether of mercy or justice This Use still serves to comfort all such as walk with God this way happy are you that are thus qualified God hath opened your eyes to see the holy One of Israel you may see many tokens of Gods favour to you which will confirm your faith in his promise and providence Isai 26.8 In the way of thy judgements have we waited for thee you wait for God in the way of his judgements therefore he will meet you in every cross and sanctifie it to you that it shall leave you better than it found you he will mitigate the smart of his rods to you and enable you to bear them and at last he will give a gracious issue out of all crosses Psalm 123.2 So our eyes wait upon the Lord our God untill that he have mercy upon us you gracious Christians wait for the Lord in the way of his mercies likewise doubtless mercies shall be mercies indeed to you you may see love in a little you may perceive the love of God in small favours because the mercies of God come to you by the merit of Christs bloud and through the conduit pipe of divine promises you walking so exactly with God he sends you many blessings in his special providence to maintain you in your journey until you come to heaven where you shall have enough 6. I told you in the sixth place that a Christian walks with God by having his conversation in heaven This Use still serves to comfort such as have their conversation there you sweet soules you may expect your Saviour confidently to come from thence to change your vile bodies and to make them like to his glorious body oh blessed are you that ever you were born but especially that ever you were born again you shall flourish like the tree planted by the water side you shall bring forth fruit in season your leaf shall not wither and whatever you do it shall prosper you live more like blessed Angels than men upon earth your life must needs be the sweetest life of all for you converse with Christ and are most inward with God you taste those sweet comforts and have a glimpse of those glorious joyes which the earth-worms of this world never see I am perswaded you would not change conditions with the wealthiest worldling upon earth I honour your holiness I admire your happiness 7. I told you in the seventh place that a Christian walks with God by fervent and frequent prayer expecting an answer This Use still serves to comfort all such as walk thus with God you may take much comfort to your selves in that God hath given you the spirit of supplication your prayers are sweet musick and delightful melody in Gods eares so Christ speaks to his Church Cant. 2.14 O my dove that art in the clefts of the rock in the secret places of the staires let me see thy countenance let me hear thy voice for sweet is thy voice and thy countenance is comely A father delights more to hear the pratling of his little child than the bawling of many beggars at the door God regards not the howling of hypocrites but for you that walk with God your prayers are as sweet incense in his nostrils though you chatter like a Swallow and cruttle like a Turtle yet the Spirit helps your infirmities and God who knows the meaning of the Spirit accepts of your desires though you can utter but non-sense in words and broken English yet God will make good sense of your suits because he delights in them Prayer is a corner of heaven to you your petitions shall not come weeping home for want of answer but God will fulfill the desire of them that fear him he will hear their cry and will save them for he is nigh unto them that call upon him in truth 8. I told you in the eighth place that a Christian walks with God by the life of faith This Use still serves to comfort all such as walk with God after this manner You blessed Christians that live by trust and confidence in God you live the surest life for comfort of all people in the world you are seated upon the Rock of eternity let the world be changed and turned upside down yet you stand safe you may see the rising and falling of many but you shall hold your hold for you have the surest hand hold by the hand of faith upon Gods all-sufficiency that is in the world when the creature is drawn dry and these broken cisterns can hold no water of consolation for you then shall your faith find super-abundant comfort in God the fountain of living waters Habak 3.17.18 Although the fig-tree shall not blossome neither shall fruit be in the vines the labour of the olive shall fail and the fields shall yeild no meat the stock shall be cut off from the fold and there shall be no heard in the stals yet I will rejoyce in the Lord I will joy in the God of my salvation the holy Prophet foreseeing by the Spirit the fearful desolation that the Babylonians should make in the Jews Nation comforts himself and other true beleivers in this that when all livelihood is wasted and outward maintenance perished when the Babylonian had plundered their Nation had not left them an house to dwell in nor any provision to nourish and releive them yet by the strength of his faith he assures both himself and others of comfort provision and nourishment enough in God The life of faith is a most secure life when a man by reason of want is ready to sink then faith holds the head above water and makes one to see contraries in contraries as fulness in want health in sickness life in death vivitur ingenio is the life of worldly men but vivitur fide is the life of righteous Saints Vse The last Use serves for exhortation to stir us up to walk with God as Enoch did 1. I told you that a Christian walks with God by acquainting himself with God and being at peace with him This life serves to exhort us all to walk with God this way consider the pathetical motives the Holy Ghost useth in Job 22.24 c. Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brook Ophir was a