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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44559	A plain discourse shewing how we are to walk after the Lord's Supper necessary for every communicant. From I Col. 10. That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing. Being the substance of several sermons preached to a congregation in Hatton-Garden. By John Horsman, an unworthy servant of Jesus Christ.	Horsman, John, fl. 1698.	1698 (1698)	Wing H2871A; ESTC R219052	49,125	155

soveraign Grace and Almighty Power owning and acknowledging whatever Grace there is already in our hearts we had it from his fulness in whom it pleased the Father that all fulness should dwell And what farther supplys of Grace we shall stand in need of we must still have it from him who is not only the head of Government to his Church but the head of Influence too in whom dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily A fulness of wisdom as the Prophet of the Church A fulness of Merit as the Priest of the Church A fulness of Power and Efficacy as the King of the Church A fulness of all habitual created Grace not for himself only but in a way of Communication and Derivation to others the Godhead continually emptying it self into the Manhood by vertue of that near close intimous union of the Humane with the Divine Nature in the Person of Christ from this fulness it is that we are still expecting fresh supplies of Grace and Comfort Distrusting our own strength as well as renouncing our own Righteousness submitting to all the commands and ordinances of the Lord Jesus Christ A proud heart shakes off the Yoke of Christ and will not be subject to the Lord the Redeemer and will be under the government of none but his own will and his own lusts like those proud Citizens we read of in Luke who said We will not have this man to reign over us We walk humbly when we lie at Christ's foot desiring to know his pleasure claiming no power over our selves or any thing that we have but intirely submit our selves to be commanded and governed by him submiting our selves wholly to his command and conduct This is to walk humbly and thus we are to walk after this Supper 3. More Thankfully What Christ hath done and suffered for us calls for the highest and most raised Thanksgivings from us We are to screw our Praises to the highest note Let us say to our Souls as holy David did to his Bless the Lord O our souls and let all that is within us bless his holy Name for his redeeming love who loved us and gave himself for us an Offering and a Sacrifice to satisfie Divine Justice O how should we be singing that new song of the heavenly Jerusalem above saying Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us unto God by thine own Blood out of every Kindred and Tongue and People and Nation and hast made us unto our God Kings and Priests and we shall reign on the earth c. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive Power and Riches and Wisdom and Strength and Honour and Glory and Blessing The work that Christ came to do and finish for us had in it all the expressions of love and calls for the greatest expressions of thankfulness and praise This is a just debt that we owe to Christ All the evil and misery we are freed and delivered from and the good we are possessed and made partakers of is owing to the Obedience and Sufferings of the Lord Jesus Christ Now that our hearts may be the more affected with this love of Christ and drawn out in thankfulness to him let us consider the evils we are delivered from and the good we are possessed and made partakers of by the Lord Jesus Christ First The evils and miseries we are delivered from and they are very great indeed But what are they you will ask why the guilt of sin the curse of the Law the wrath of God and the flames of Hell Man's state was once an holy state and whilst such an holy state But it was not long that he continued in this state being left to the freedom of his own will he quickly fell from that state in which he was created by sinning against God which sin was the Inlet of all misery It wofully corrupted depraved and debased our Natures robbed us of the Image of God which once was the greatest ornament and perfection of our Nature deprived us of all comfortable Fellowship and Communion with God laid us open and obnoxious to his wrath and curse to all the miseries of this Life and to the pains of Hell for ever O the depth of misery that all Mankind is plunged into O the innumerable evils that do encompass and surround us Temporal Spititual and if not found in Christ Eternal evils too will befall us but in and through Christ Believers are delivered from all that evil and misery that the Fall and Apostacy of our First Parents involved all Mankind into Through him the Guilt of Sin is removed the Wrath and Anger of God appeased the Thundering Law silenced the Image of God restored many Powerful and Potent Enemies Conquered and Subdued Secondly The good which we are possessed and made partakers of this also is owing to Christ to what he hath done and suffered for us even the good of present Grace and future Glory the good of Justification Sanctification Reconciliation for all these great benefits and good things we are beholden to Christ We are Justified by his Righteousness Sanctified by his Spirit Reconciled by his Attoning Blood Adopted by virtue of our Union with him and relation to Christ's Person as he is God's Natural Son All these blessed Benefits and Priviledges that we are made partakers of are owing unto Christ As the evils we lay under were too great for any meer creature to remove so the good things we stand in need of are too great for any mere creature to procure None beside that Person who was God as well as Man could either remove the one or procure the other Had not Christ himself undertaken the work nothing could have been done had not this Samaritain taken pitty and compassion on us in our miserable and forlorn condition we must for ever have dispaired of mercy or relief The Lord looked and there was none to help at length his own arm brought Salvation As for us we lay under an eternal incapacity and impossibility of helping or relieving our selves as for Angels they could not help us could any creature have done the work God would have employed that creature and spared his own Son But God very well knew that Redemption work was no work for an Angel no not for the whole Body of Angels If the whole order of them had come from Heaven and united all their force and strength together they could not have redeemed so much as one Soul How far God by his Almighty power could have enabled an Angel to have born up under the greatest sufferings we will not dispute but suppose an Angel might have been furnished with so much strength as to have been able to undergo and suffer all that Christ did yet under the highest communications of grace and strength to him he being still but a meer finite Creature could never satisfie for what was past nor Merit for what was