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A43821	The spring of strengthning grace in the Rock of Ages, Jesus Christ demonstrated in a plain and short sermon / preached at Twickenham in Middlesex, near Hampton-Court, April 16, 1648, by Thomas Hill ...	Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.	1648 (1648)	Wing H2029; ESTC R25713	49,510	59

Grave into Hell Also the Fourteenth of the Acts They ordained them Elders they loved to cry up Consecration of Churches and Dedication and such kinde of things and Episcopal Ordination too for these all advanced the power of the Priests and the Bishops which brought in Transubstantiation amongst Papists and therefore in the Geneva Translation that was render'd chosen by suffrages by lifting up of hands the word Primarily imports that it may be in some of the Fathers it includes both they will tell you because afterwards having chosen Elders by Suffrages or Voyces they did Ordain them Next I come to the first of the Corinthians 12.28 An abominable violence offered to the Original God hath set in the Church Apostles Teachers Helps Governments and you shall finde here a great imposture it may be now altered appearing so gross but I have seen it and read it in some Translations Helps in Government which is a most horrible prodigious violence to the Greek words for they are both the Accusative case Helps there are Elders Government there are Deacons now to obscure these you must put it helps in Government I had it related since the delivery of this plain Sermon by one who most confidently affirmed it That the learned man to whom it belonged to Translate the first Book of Samuel having rendred that which Samuel from God spake concerning Saul 1 Sam. 8.11 This shall be the maner of the King that shall reign over you He will take your sons c. He was sent for to Lambeth and there perswaded to make the words Will take your sons c. Shall take which he conscienciously refused well knowing it was not spoken by Samuel to Saul by way of direction for duty what he should do but Prophetically and Eventually what he would do And then lastly for Easter this was another place that was altered as you have heard to keep up that holy time of Easter as they would think it for herein was the innocency though unhappiness unto us of the Primitive Worthies and other Christians these had fair intentions in bringing in many things they thought to win upon the Heathen and therefore would not wholly anull but change things change some of their great Feasts into Christmas-time change now it may be Pentecost into Whitsontide and the Passover into Easter it had a good intent but minding their own intentions more then Gods Word their Rule you see how these constitutions of men are degenerated Now I beseech you let us not suffer our selves to be abused when a word Easter shall be thrust in for it was divers hundred years after Peter that the word Easter came in shall we therefore go and keep up an Easter Communion above all times else for such pretences as these are Brethren the more you joyn Truth and Love together the more you 'll be free from these fond kinde of Devotions And let me say this It is Blinde Devotion indeed and many men that are so zealous for these and women too they think to get protection for other courses It may be many a Lady that paints and spots and trifles away precious time if she be but zealous at an Easter Communion she thinks to get a protection for all vanities else A Citizen if he be a Patron to such a Minister frequent Lectures then he may be frollick and vain and loose c. Here is Love without Truth Let me adde this Truth without Love makes many swell and contemn others and Love without Truth edifies to Superstition and to Idolatry sometimes What brought in Praying to Saints but Love without Truth But you 'll allow me to be so indulgent to my self as that if either the ordinary place or the ordinary time be not observed to pity a man that hath seven moneths labored under a quartane Ague and had a fit late last night I might make three Uses and the first should have been this To shew you why many Professors are so barren and many Christians so dry and unstable amongst you because they have not minded this conjunction of Truth and Love which is the Gospel method to grow up into Christ and so to our Spiritual thriving For upon him all our fruit is found Hos. 14.8 Take this as a Use of Caution I beseech you would to God I knew what language to speak to win upon you I would beseech you this Honorable Representative City who have so great an influence have been so much concerned and are still so much interested to beware that you suffer not your selves by any policies of men or cunning undermining whatsoever to be cheated of your Truth and Love lest you lose your selves and Religion and City and Estates and indeed the Kingdom Brethren there are desperate Designs on foot and as so much good hath been brought to this Kingdom heretofore by the City and their Zeal and their Purses and their Courage and their Fidelity so now there hath been of late great tryings of conclusions how to work upon the City so far to make them instrumental for the destruction of all and the Devil hath many active Soldiers abroad First There is indeed one unhappy Regiment of those that are Erroneous though divers of them very honest-hearted and of those that are not such friends to love as they should be and certainly much hath been our misery by reason of uncharitable mistakes of Errors in matter of Faith and Schisms in point of Love Secondly There is another Jesuitical Atheistical Prophane Party that take advantage of these Errors and these Divisions as he saith They do fish in troubled waters that know how to improve all these Errors and Divisions to drive on their own Design and nothing more ordinary then for some Malignants though I love not names or disaffected persons call them what you will those that are no friends to Truth and Love nor Parliament nor Army nor any Scripture-Reformation they will come in one company and aggravate the Miscarriages of the Parliament and Army Now what is their plot to keep open the Breach that so at last Episcopacy and the old Common-Service-Book may come in again Who sees not this And I confidently say and pray God it may be considered in time that you out of any Discontent or out of any passionate Animosities I hope the Lord will keep so wise a City from it suffer not your selves to be ridden by them Do you not remember first they would have divided Army and Parliament there was a time God prevented that Do you not remember there was a time they would have divided City and Army the Lord keep you from that evil And now their last conclusion is to divide those that are Friends and engaged in one Covenant to try if they can set England and Scotland at variance and engage them in Blood again And this is their Plot and how shall they bring this about O by that malignant Jesuite

sunk him had he not had more then the strength of a man Therefore that he might be a perfect Mediator between God and man he was God-Man taking Humane nature into the fellowship of the Deity and communicating Divine nature unto those which he did intend to save Hence Paul saith Rom. 3.24 25. We are justified freely by Gods grace through the Redemption which is in Christ Iesus whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood Hence he further saith Acts 20.28 that God did purchase the Church with his own blood So that in this part of the Priestly Office of Jesus Christ there was the power of God himself put forth Neither is there less strengthning grace manifested when he comes to appear for his people in heaven in the presence of God as Heb. 7.24 This man because he continueth ever hath an unchangeable Priesthood which passeth not from one to another certainly here was wonderful strength that Christ being once offered should bear the sins of many and unto them that looked for him he should appear the second time without sin unto salvation as in Heb. 9.28 That his having done away all their sins should advance them to Salvation which still shews the strength of his grace Therefore well might Paul annex that Heb. 7.25 Wherefore he is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto him seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them This is the ground of Pauls triumph not onely for himself but in the name of all the Saints in that admirable place Rom. 8. from the 34 to the 39. ver Who is he that condemneth It is Christ that dyed yea rather that is risen again who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us Who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword As it is written For thy sake we are killed all the day long we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter Nay in all these things we are more then conquerors through him that loved us For I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. Here is strengthning grace of Almighty and everlasting efficacy As Jesus Christ is the Churches King he hath a proportionable inexhaust stock of strengthning grace without such a power he could never suppress the numerous and potent adversaries of the Church which was the the solemn agreement betwixt him and his Father Psal. 110.1 The Lord said unto my Lord God the Father said unto God the Son Davids Lord sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool He will bring them to the lowest and most abject condition though for the present they look never so high and big upon the poor members of Christ. And accordingly he is still acting in heaven whereas he doth appear for his people so doubtless against his enemies as is most clear in Heb. 10.12 13. But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever so much strength of grace in that it need be but one sate down on the right hand of God from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool We may with much encouragement wrestle with God and wait upon him both for the discovering and confounding of the great Impostors Mahomet and the Pope and the removing all the Crutches of Babylon in any of the Kings Dominions or elswhere for this work is carried on with so much power that in Gods time all the Kingdoms of the earth will become the Lords and his Christs To the same purpose you shall finde an Angel come down from heaven having great power and the earth was lightned with his glory and he cryed mightily with a strong voyce Babylon is fallen all suitable to the powerful design of Christ Rev. 18.2 And she shall be utterly burned with fire in whom was found the blood of Prophets and of Saints of all that were slain upon the earth some way reducible to her or her adherents for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her ver 8. Neither could Jesus Christ be a Resurrection to any sinners nor quicken with Spiritual life whom he would as Ioh. 5.20 unless that were true ver 26. As the Father hath life in himself so hath he given the Son to have life in himself and that to be able to raise his own unto eternal life ver 29. All which argues abundance of strengthning grace in him This was the foundation of Pauls Prayer for his Ephesians chap. 1. ver 18. That the eyes of their understanding being inlightened here is powerful grace still they might know what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe according to the working of his mighty power Here is a great heap of Emphatical expressions to shew the accumulative power of the grace that is in Jesus Christ Were he not so strong that he were able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think according to the power that worketh in us Eph. 3.20 Paul would never have used such an expression That ye may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height there must it seems be a power in us to inable us to fathom and comprehend the vast dimensions of that strengthning grace that is in our Head here is the breadth of this grace covering all the sins of every one of his ele●t even from Adam to the end of the world Here is the length of this grace it extends from everlasting to everlasting Here is the depth of it it lifts up poor creatures from the very pit of hell And the height of it it advances them to sit by him in his own throne in Heaven After the intrinsecal fulness of the grace of Christ follows the Redundancy thereof for there is in him not onely plenitudo vasis but also plenitudo fontis there is the original fulness of a living fountain in him which he delights to communicate for the supplies of his people This discovers it self in four particulars There is a Redundancy into all the faculties of our souls he fills the Minde with gracious principles the Conscience with a holy tenderness the Will with flexibleness and compliance with his Will and sways the Affections to act regularly upon their objects Doubtless Christ Jesus the second Adam will do as much for all those that have Vnion with him as the first Adam did against those that were in him And therefore whereas by his fall there was not onely a total deprivation of original righteousness but a universal depravation of all the faculties a general