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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43824	The strength of the saints to make Jesvs Christ their strength which heavenly skill was briefly commended and prescribed in a morning exercise in Westminster Abbey, the 19th of April, 1648 / by Thomas Hill ...	Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.	1648 (1648)	Wing H2030; ESTC R25713	22,258	28

10. a place I named before there is a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Finally my Brethren as if Paul should have said I have been leading you through the great and mysterious depths of the Gospel matters of speculation in the Chap. 1 2 and 3. I have beene leading you through the practicals of Christianity in the fourth I have been putting you upon the exercise of relative graces in the fifth and sixth telling you what husbands should do to their wives and wives to their husbands parents to their children and children to their parents But there is another peece behinde that must not be forgotten you must make account to conflict with temptations and therefore endeavor after conflicting graces you must wrastle many a fall with the Devill before you go to heaven a you must wrestle with God so you must wrestle against the Devill you will not be able to do this by any strength of your own the Devill is a strong man and there must be one that is stronger then he that must be able to bind him and take away his armor from him and that is onely Jesus Christ therefore a high point of wisedome it will be for all the Saints to learne this heavenly skill how to make Jesus Christ their strength the next thing I proposed was this To what effectuall purpose is this for the Saints to be at cost and charges to learne this skill 1. Hereby their spirituall and eternall estate will be much more confirmed and settled being establish'd in the faith being rooted and grounded in Christ in t e 2 Coloss. 6 7. and you shall find all this is by being in Christ for he wishes them in the 8. vers. take heed of vaine Philosophy or any thing which is not after Christ any thing which should draw you from Christ your rooting your establishing lies in Christ he is the roote of your strength and he it the foundation of your ability 2. It will conduce to this purpose to enable you to performe good duties and that with life and power it is not enough for Christians to have a formality of godlinesse an outward forme that is a prettie step and very desirable but you should have truth of godlinesse that is a better step and I wil adde this there is a best step not onely truth but strength you must not have a forme of godlinesse and deny the power thereof in the 2. of Timoth. 3 5. such persons are one of the Catalogue that shall helpe to make the last dayes perillous and indeed the more dangerous because the lesse discernable 3. It will conduce much to this happy purpose to fit you for variety of conditions you may be led forth to prosperity you may have suddain removes and changes from advesiry to prosperity and from prosperity to adversity and therein many loose themselves It is clean water indeed that when the glasse is shaked there is no filth appeares O they are rooted Christians in Christ and have a great deale of strength that walke unchangeably with God in changes that are the same in all varieties Solomon and Ezekiah lost themselves therein this you cannot doe but through Christ Paul had learned particular lessons for particular estates I have learned to want I have learned to abound and whence I can do all things through Christ enabling me Phil. 4. 12. And from the grace of Christ enabling him You may be led forth to searching temptations and then you 'l be at great losses and plunges without this strengthening grace of Christ A little temptation will prostrate a strong Saint if he be left to himselfe it must be the issuing of continuall supplies from the Lord Jesus Christ that must animate As constancy of supply from the Sunne doth quicken the plants here when he withdrawes the sap retires into the roote and trees look as if they were almust dead when he returnes he brings a spring with him so indeed doth the Sunne of righteousnesse into poore and seemingly at least wither'd or dying soules Fiftly and lastly and that may adde a very great Emphasis to all the rest It will conduce much to this purpose To have anhappy return of their prayers If his words abide in you and you abide in him in the 15 John 8. Aske what you will and it shall be done unto you Ask what you wil there is none in the world but are desirous in some degree often mov'd very inordinatly to have their wils the great controversie on foot upon earth from time to time and that that hath cost so much blood-shed in England and in other placesis this Who should have their will now if you would have your will I meane here a rectified will a holy a gratcious will if you would have it fulfilled and gratifyed let the words of Christ abide in you and do you abide in him get that strength from him from his quickning word and quickening spirit that hereby you may be fruitful in the strength of his grace and you shall have your wils the third thing proposed for explication followes The possibility of this how is it possible that Jesus Christs strength should be conveyed to us that we should make anothers strength our strength The Papists have a great quarrell against justification by imputed righteousnesse and they call it putative and take upon them at least that they do not or will not understand how it is possible for a man to be justifyed by anothers righteousnesse Can a man be warmed by anothers cloaths say they can a man be wise by anothers wisdome I answer it is very easily possible if that another mans wisedom be made ours or another mans cloaths be put upon us so this is possible if Jesus Christs strength be made ours that is the thing the Apostle presses it here be strong in the Grace in Jesus Christ let this be your care how to make the strength of Christ yours and therefore I say this possibility will be reduc'd to act in these three particulars First by our Union with Christ when once you are united unto Jesus Christ what is Christ is yours for union makes way to communion If there be a Union with him there is a Communion with him and a Communication of what he hath to us As he communicates his righteousnesse for our justification communicates his glory for our glorification so he communicates his spirit for our strength and holinesse and also conveyes quickening grace to us first by our union with him 2. By impressions from him for when ever Jesus Christ draws us to union with him he then draws us to communion with him in his Ordinances If we indeed have cōmunion with him we go away with an Ordinance tincture a Gospel impression upon our spirits in some degree molded into that word that was made known to us and delivered to us that you thinke and speake