and live to God Had he now sought Justification in a away of works and by the Law could he have ever bin able to have answered to this temptation Ye may see what the Apostle saies in the 7. chap. of his Epistle to the Romans he gives you a Similitude thus As a woman so is the sould of every man So long as a woman is married unto one man she brings forth children unto him and not unto any other but is dead unto all others but when that man dies she is free to marry and she marries another and she brings forth children unto him Now saies the Apostle at the 4. verse Wherefore my brethren ye also are become dead to the Law by the body of Christ that ye should be married to another even to him who is raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit unto God So that so long as a man is married to the Law he can never bring forth fruit unto God Now then thus lies the Reason If that the Law and Justification thereby be no Friend but a real Enemy unto all our Holiness then contraries having contrarie consequences Justification by faith alone is a friend and no Enemy unto our Spiritual life and Holiness Seondly This also will appear if ye consider the paralel between the first and second Adam Christ is our second Adam Now saies the Apostle in the 5. of the Romans As by the sin of one death came upon all men to condemnation so by the Righteousness of one life comes unto many Well but how came condemnation upon all men by the sin of one The first Adam he was a common person he did stand for all mankind when he sinned all mankind sinned and therefore assoon as any one is born the sin of Adam being imputed to him judicially that imputation is the original of all the Unholiness that is among the children of men So our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ being our second Adam he is a Common person stands in the room of al the Elect he was obedient not for Himself but for Them Christus non meruit sibi Obeyed not for Himself and he died not for himself but for them righteous for them When therefore a man is born into the world is regenerate by faith then all that Righteousness of Christ the second Adam is imputed to him And this imputation of his Righteousness by faith is the original of all that Holiness that is in our lives thus As al the Unholiness and Wickedness that is in the world does flow from the imputation of the first Adams sin So al that grace and holiness that is in the world does flow from the imputation of the second Adams Righteousness Now by faith alone this Righteousnes is imputed and does become ours and therefore Justification by faith alone is the principle and original of all our grace and holiness Thirdly If free-remission of sin and the sence thereof be the cause of our Holiness then Justification by faith alone must needs be a friend unto it For these Two Free-remission of sin and justification by faith alone go together and are ordinarily taken for one And therefore in the 3. of the Romans The Apostle having said as the 24. verse Being justified freely by his grace he saies at the 28. ver That a man is justified by faith and saying That a man is justified by faith he saies That a man is justified freely by grace these are put together Now Free-remission of sin and the sence thereof is the Cause of al our Holiness Ye know what the Apostle saies Tit. 2.11 12. The grace of God hath appeared unto all men teaching us to deny Vngodliness and worldly lusts and to live righteously and soberly in this present world All Holiness comes from thence The apparition of grace Free-remission of sin And ye know what it is that doth hatch the Chicken 't is not the fire that does hatch the Chicken nor is it the cold water that does hatch the Chicken but laying of the eggs under the warm feathers of the living Hen. Come to a man or woman that hath many eggs that are yet not Chickens within a month or two these are al become living Chickens Say you How comes it to pass that all these are now living Chickens What! did you lay these eggs unto the fire No for then they would have been roasted What! did you lay these eggs in the cold water No then they would have rotted but I laid them under the warm wings of the living Hen and so they are become chickens So you come to a living soul a living heart and you say Friend how came you to be thus enlivened and quickned a month or two ago I heard you complaining of your dead heart Oh! my heart is dead but how came you to be thus enlivened and to be thus quickned Did you go and lay your heart against the fire of the Law No that would have scorch'd me and tormented me What did you go and lay your heart in the cold world No that would have rotted me How then Truly after all my fears and after all my doubtings I went and laid my cold heart under the warm wings of Divine-love and so it came to pass that I am thus enlivened and I am thus quickened as you see this day for the which I blesse the Lord for ever Three things there are that do make up a gracious Conversation Repentance for sin past Mortification of sin present and the Obedience of faith or Obedience Now as for Repentance look I pray what is said in the 7. Chapter of Luke and see what is the Cause of that You reade there a story of a great Sinner that became a great Penitent at the 37. verse Behold a woman in the City which was a great sinner and she came and stood behind Jesus at the 38. verse weeping and began to wash his feet with tears and did wipe them with the hairs of her head She wept much Why for saies the text at the latter end of the Chapter she loved much But why did she love much She loved much because much was forgiven her So then Remission is the Cause of Repentance And have ye not so much expresly in that 16. Chapter of Ezekiel and the last verse I will establish my Covenant with thee that thou maiest remember and be confounded and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame when I am pacified towards thee for all that thou hast done So that this shame and repentence comes from pacification And as for this matter Luther had so great a fight into it that saies he before I was justified by faith alone and saw into this matter of Free-remission I look't upon that word Repent as a terrible word I did even hate that word and I wish't that there had been no such word in all the book of God but after once that word justitia was opened the righteousnesse
for first r. last p. 108. l. 12. for Dominus reginae r. Domina regina p. 109. l. 13. dele two p. 199. l. 13. for rigorous r. vigorous THE CONTENTS Of the Third VOLVMNE SERMON I GALATIANS 2.20 TEXT Opened Page 2 Doctrine 1 Every godly gracious man is a living man and lives a spiritual life Page 3 Explication 1 What this spiritual life is 1. A supernatual perfection Page 3 2 It ariseth from our Vnion with Christ by the Spirit Page 4 3 By it we act move and work towards God Ibid 2 How it may appear that every godly gracious man is thus a living man Proved 1 By vegetative life Page 5 2 By sensitive life ib. 1 They are sensible of their sins Page 6 2 Of the hiding of Gods face ibid 3 Of the miseries of the Churches Page 7 3 By rational life ibid How it may appear that others are not in this state of life Page 8 Objections answered Page 9. 10 Application Comforts for the Saints 1. It is above the life of Adam in innocency Page 12 2. It is the most pleasant life ibid 3. It is the most communicative life Page 13 4. The Lord looks upon all our former sins under a mollifying consideration ibid Object I am afraid I have not this spiritual life because I am dead cold and stiff Answered There is a deadness opposite to liveliness as well as a death opposite to life Page 15 There is a difference between the coldness of a living man and the coldness of a dead man ibid Object I am afraid I am not alive because I do not grow Answered 1. Do you grow out of love with your own righteousness Page 16 2. Are you less subject to be offended than before Page 17 3. Do you grow more off from youth ful things that godly men look to ibid Object I am alive to the world Answered Page 18 Duties flowing from this spiritual life 1. We should live at a higher rate than the world doth Page 20 2. Our hearts should not run too much after the things of this world Page 21 3. Our comunion and fellowship should be more with the living ibid Exhortation to those that are dead in sins to come to Christ Page 23 SERMON II. Gal. 2.20 Doctrine 2. Our Justification by faith alone is no enemy but a real friend to our spiritual life Page 26 Explication 1. What is meant by Justification by faith alone Page 27 2. How doth it appear that free Justification by faith alone is the original of all our holiness 1. By contraries Page 29 2. By the paralel between the first and second Adam Page 31 3. By the sence of free remission of sin Page 32 Instanced in 1. Repentance Page 33 2. Mortification ibid 3. Obedience Page 34 3. Objections Answered Page 34. 35 4. What there is in free Justification by faith that doth advance our holiness 1. The more a man forsakes his own good for Christ the more is Christ engaged to give his good to him Page 36 2. God doth never suffer any man to pass under relation but he writes the Law of that relation in his heart ibid 3. The more a man agrees with God the fitter he is to walk with God Page 36 4. As by seeking Justification by works a man is estated in the covenant of works so by seeking Justification by faith alone a man is estated in the covenant of grace Page 37 Application Hence we see the reason why men are no more gracious Page 39 Object I fear my obedience was never right because I have turned aside to a covenant of works Answered Page 41 Object My obedience is not right because it is so little Answer 1. Doest thou limit thy self Page 42 2 Doest thou oppose them that have much ibid Object My obedience is not right because I do not find the visible characters of Justification upon my Sanctification Answered 1. Doest thou mourn for sin because 't is pardoned Page 44 2. Is there a meeting of all graces in thee ibid Object Suppose I have not stood cleer from my own doings in matter of Justification how shall I do to do it Answered 1. Be humbled in the sight of God Page 46 2. Study much the transaction of things between God the father and Jesus Christ ib. 3. Acquaint your souls with the difference between the covenant of works and the covenant of grace ibid 4. When your duties are highest let your souls go beyond them ibid 5. When they are lowest you have an opportunity to stand cleer from them Page 47 SERMON III. Gal. 2.20 Doctrine Every true beleever that seeks Justification by faith alone is a self-denying person Page 50 Explication 1. What it is for a man to deny himself Answered Page 51 2. Whereby it may appear that the Gospel works this grace in the heart of man Answered 1. If the Law cannot do it the Gospel must Page 52 2. He that lives under the Gospel is of a disposition contrary to the world Page 53 3. He is tender of intrenching upon Gods prerogative Page 54 4. The more truly a man repents the more sensible he is of his own unworthiness ibid An objection How doth the Gospel only do this seeing moral men Heathens and Papists have spoken and written much for humility and self-denial Answer 1 Though they be humble yet they are proud of humility Page 56 2 'T is only in some particulars ibid 3 He is ruled by reason and not by the spirit ibid 4 There is no mysterie in it as there is in a Christians For 1 A Christian cries out what shall he do to be saved and yet he expects not to be saved by doing Page 57 2 He accounts himself lesse than the least of all Gods mercies and yet he thinks God hath done more for him than if he had given him all the world ib. 3 He prizes every duty though never so small and yet counts all dung in respect of Jesus Christ ib. 4 He looks upon himslf as the greatest of sinners yet would not change condition with a Drunkard c. for all the world ib. 5 He mourns under reproaches and yet triumphs over them ib. 6 He counts all he doth nothing and yet praiseth God for every thing ib. 4 What there is in the Gospel to being a mans heart to this frame Answered 1 The more of Gods glory a man sees the more humble he is Page 58 2 The more self-denial a man sees in Christ the more he denies himself Page 60 3 The more a man sees himself a debter to Christ the more humble he is Page 61 4 When Christ comes into the soule all other things must out ib. Application How hard a thing it is to Beleeve Page 62 Reply We hope we all have faith Answer Are there not some that 1 Cannot deny themselves in outward things Page 64 2 Seek themselves in spiritual things ib. 3 Stint themselves in the service of God Page 65
godliness But ye know a spark of fire though it be but a spark of fire it will not oppose the flame though it be not so great as the flame yet it will not oppose the flame it opposes the water but it doth not oppose the flame of fire And so if a man have grace though it be but a spark of grace yet notwithstanding if it be in truth it will not oppose a flame But now Civil and Moral men that walk in a way of works and are under the Law Oh! how do they oppose those that have the power of godliness that have more grace than themselves that are in a flame for Christ them they oppose Is it so with you that make this Objection Oh! No I praise the Lord your soul will say if it speak in truth though I have but little the Lord knows I do not oppose them that have much I rejoyce rather in those that have more than my self yea I rejoyce in those that have the power of godlinesse And Lord thou knowest I do not stint and limit my self Oh! I can never be godly enough and I can never Repent enough and I can never mourn for my sins enough Well be of good comfort this may be no other stream then what flows from this blessed fountain Free-remission and Justification by faith alone Object 3 Thirdly Will some say I fear that upon all this account my Obedience and my Holiness is not right for I do not find the visible Characters of Justification upon my Sanctification Justification by faith alone is the fountain of all our Holiness Then if my obedience were right it would tast of my Justification and of Free-remission if my Holiness were right it would savour of Free-remission but I do not find any visible Characters of Justification upon my Sanctification I do not find that my Sanctification does relish or savour of Free-remission or Justification by faith alone therfore I fear al is naught my obedience hath been naught and wrong all this while Answ For answer to this Know ye not beloved That a mans Justification may be hidden from Sence when Sanctification is in truth Know ye not That the life of grace is a hidden life not only hidden from the world but hidden from ones own soule many times Quest But what are those Visible Characters of Justification which are engraven upon a mans Sanctification so that when a man does see them he may say Surely here is a Sanctification that is no other than that which flows from Free-remission and Justification by Faith along Answ 1 First When a man does mourn for his sin because it is pardoned does not this repentance savour of Free-remission When a man does obey the Lord because God hath pardoned and forgiven him does not this Sanctification then savour of his Justification and of Free-remission Secondly When there is a meeting of all graces and one good work and duty and grace is reconciled to another in a mans life is there not then a tast and a savour of Justification and Free-remission When the Lord does justifie a poor sinner then al the Attributes of God are reconciled to one another Justice is reconciled to Mercy and Mercy is reconciled to Justice and all these reconciled Attributes of the Lord do meet upon the soul of a justified person and accordingly there is a meeting of all graces in the soul and all good works and graces they are reconciled to one another That whereas before a man was justified they were at ods at a distance one from another and were inimititious one to another now they are not Whereas before a man was justified he could not rejoyce in God but it hindred his mourning for sin and he could not mourn for sin but it hindred his faith and he could not beleeve but his beleeving hindred his repentance But now when a man is justified and reconciled to the Lord then all those Works Duties and Graces are reconciled to one another Why Because the Attributes of God are reconciled unto one another and all the Attributes of God they meet upon the heart of a justified person and so there are the Characters of his Justification upon his Sanctification here And I appeal to ye who ever you are that labor under this scruple Is it not thus with thy soul in truth Do not you find it thus That now you look upon the very Justice of the Lord as your friend the Justice and Righteousness of the Lord as your friend That now ye are reconcil'd as it were to those Duties that heretofore you looked upon as your Enemies That now you rest upon the Lord Christ that you may be Obedient and your very resting upon Christ makes you obedient your very beholding of Christ changes you from glory to glory as the Apostle speaks 2 Cor. 3.18 If you would speak in truth from your soul you would say thus Lord thus 't is with me Now I am reconciled to that Duty that before was an enemy to me and now these Workes Duties and Graces are reconciled for now the more I can rejoyce in God the more I can mourn for sin and the more I Beleeve the more I can Repent Heretofore the more I Beleeved the lesse I Repented my Beleeving was my Security but now I see these works and Duties are friends to one another that now the more I Repent the more I Beleeve and the more I Beleeve the more I Repent all these works are reconciled in me And Lord thou that knowest all things knowest That therefore I grieve for my sins because thou hast pardoned them and therefore I desire to obey thee because thou hast forgiven me Well then here are the Visible Characters of thy Justification upon thy Sanctification And therefore be of good comfort notwithstanding this Objection Only let me tell thee this It may be thou hast not stood enough at a distance from thy own Doings and Duties as to the matter of thy Acceptance with God But would you be more Spiritual and Holy in your lives labour more and more to stand at a distance from all your Duties and Doings as to the great matter of your Acceptance with God the father Quest But you will say Suppose that I have not stood cleare from my owne Doings as to the matter of my Justification or Acceptance with God the Father what shall I do that now I may stand clear in this matter that so this fountain of Free-remission and Justification by faith alone may be opened upon my soul and my Spiritual life thereby may be more inlarged and increased Some things by way of Answer to this and so I have done First Be ye humbled in the sight and presence of the Lord that you have walked in that way that you have tied Jesus Christ unto your conditions and that you have made use of Christ only to eek out your Performance as to the matter of your Acceptance Secondly Study much
the Transactions of things between God the Father and Jesus Christ And then you will find That Jesus Christ had satisfied God the Father before ever you came into the world and therefore your souls when you think of this will say How therefore can my Work or my Duty any way bring in Satisfaction or Acceptance with God the Father Study I say the Transactions between God the Father and Jesus Christ Thirdly Acquaint your soul much with the difference between the Covenant of Works and the Covenant of Grace In the Covenant of Works a mans Work is first accepted and then his Person But in the Covenant of Grace a mans Person is first accepted and then his Work And when you understand this then you will say I if this be true That a mans Person is first accepted and then his Work How can my Work any way fetch me in acceptance with God the Father O my soul for ever stand clear in this great matter of my Acceptance in my Duties Fourthly when ever your Duties your Works and your Graces are Highest then and then especially use thy soul to be beyond them and say thus Though now I blesse the Lord my heart is thus and thus Inlarged yet I do not count upon my Acceptance by reason of this Inlargment Though I blesse the Lord I have now Prayer that before had none yet I do not count my Acceptance with God the Father by this Prayer When I say thy Duty is Highest use thy soul to be beyond it Fifthly When your Duty Grace and Holiness is lowest then know that now ye have an opportunity to stand clear from your own Duties and Workings as to the matter of your Acceptance and Justification by faith alone If I have a friend in my house that lives in my house with me whom I would not have privy unto a Work or a business I 'le take the opportunity to do the Work when that friend is out of doors now say I he is abroad if he were at home he would be prying over my shoulder and he would have a singer in the business and he would see it but now he is abroad now I will take the time to do it My brethren your Duties Prayer and Humiliation they are all friends to your Justification but when Prayer is out and Duty is out and abroad and out of sight and not at home Now take your time to be clear in the matter of nesting upon Christ ad one and say Now my Prayer is gone and Duties gone and all out of sight Oh! Lord now I have an opportunity to rest upon Christ alone had my Prayer been at home and Duties at home they would have been peering and prying into this Work but now they are all out of sight now I will rest upon Christ and his righteousness alone This is certain that this Justification by faith alone and Free-remission of a poor sinner 't is the great fountain and principle of all our Grace and Holiness and therefore if you would be more Gracious and more Holy I beseech ye in the Name of Christ study it much and walk in the sence of it And what 's the reason that many Professors are no more Holy and Humble but waspish and peevish and harsh and of a rugged disposition but because they have not studied the Gospel more and Free-remission and Justification by faith alone and they have not the sence of this upon then hearts poor souls you want the Experience of this you think some of you there is no such way to be Holy and Gracious as to have Legal-breakings to have the Law prest upon you but I do here tell you in the Name of the Lord and I lie not That Justification by faith alone and Free-remission is the principle of all our Obedience and all our Holiness And when Paul came to this and the sence of this Now I live saies he And so wilt thou say poor foul when thou comest to the sence of this Truth I was dead before but now I live indeed I was down and my heart dead when I hung upon my owne Duties but now I live Now there fore as you desire to live and liue spiritually the Lord give you hearts to live in the sence and experience of this great Truth Justification and Free-remission by faith alone SERMON III. Preached at Stepney July 16. 1648. GALATIANS 2. part of the 20. vers Nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me THE Apostle Paul having spoken of our living to God in the former verse of our spiritual life in those words Yet now I live He proceeds unto the Properties of this spiritual life and those are Three First It is a Self-denying life Yet not I. I live yet not I. Secondly It is a Christ-advancing life But Christ liveth in me Thirdly It is The life of Faith And the life which I live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God I begin with the First at this time in those words Yet not I. The words hold forth a Self-Depression or Self-Annihilation The words are spoken in the Person of a Beleever So that in all these I's I through the Law and I am crucified and I live Paul doth personate a Beleever one that seeks Justification by faith alone according to the tenure of the Gospel And so the Observation is this Doct. Every true Beleever that seeks Justification by faith alone is an Humble Self-Denying person denying himself in Spiritual things The way of the Gospel is a Self-denying way Though a Beleever that seeks Justification by faith alone and not by the Works of the Law does live a spiritual life and so does act move and work towards God yet he cannot endure to write an I upon his own Performance Yet not I. He will Obey God but he will not have an I to be written upon his Obedience He will Pray to God but he will not have an I to be written upon his Performance Yet not I. I live yet not I. Where ever the Gospel comes in Power it does work this Self-denying frame of soul and spirit And thus it was with Paul in regard of his own Person as ye reade in the 1 Cor. 15. chapter speaking with relation unto the other Apostles at the 10. verse I laboured more abundantly than they all yet not I but the grace of God which was with me I laboured more abundantly than they all yet not I. I have been a Preacher of the Gospel and have been a means to convert many souls unto Jesus Christ Yet not I but the grace of God with me I have comforted many Afflicted souls yet not I. I have been a means to plant many Churches Yet not I but the grace of God with me He will not have his work defil'd with Self or this I to be written upon what he doth And so it is with every Beleever more or lesse this is the way and this
Faith laies aside all its own Righteousness Page 202 As temptations encrease so also shall faith encrease Page 206 Faith riseth above nature Page 209 Faith commends Christ above all other graces Page 210 The strength of faith doth not lie in the assurance of our salvation Page 212 See Justification Fall see Perfection Froward Froward spirits do little good in a common wealth Page L. 30 G Grace Growth in grace how it is known Page 17 Gracious The reason why men are no more gracious Page 39 The Saints should live gracious lives Page 114 See Quality God Gods willingnesse to hide his people in time of his anger Page L. 11 See Faith promise anger Godly Every godly man is a living man Page 3 Godly men reflect upon their own actions Page 8 Difference between wicked and godly men Page 112 Godly see Preachers Gospel How the Gospel causeth Self-denial Page 58 Gospel see Learned Growth see Grace H Heaven see Kingdom Hide Whom the Lord will hide in times of danger Page L. 14 Holy The reason why men are no more holy Page 39 Holiness see Original Justification House God hath 3. houses 1. A house of instruction Page L. 7 2. A house of Correction Page L. 7 3. A house of destruction Page L. 7 Humble see Beleever Humility Christ is an example of humility Page 60 Hypocrite What a Beleever hath more than an Hypocrite Page 85 Hypocrisie It is an evil thing to call Duties by the name of Hypocrisie Page 113 I In-Being What the In-being of Christ in a beleever is Page 76 The In-being of Christ in a beleever is hard to be understood Page 77 Limitations concerning the In-being of Christ in a beleever Page 78 In-being see Benefit Christ Incertainty Gods people must trust in him in incertainties Page L. 18 Injustice see Oppression Infinite The infinite love of Christ manifested Page 114 Justification The cause of our Justification Page 26 Justification by faith is a friend to Holiness Page 28 Justification by the works of the Law is an enemy to Holiness Page 29 How Justification by faith advanceth our holiness Page 36 Our Justification may be hidden from our sence Page 43 Visible Characters of Justification laid down Page 44 How a man may stand cleer to himself in Justification by faith alone Page 46 K Kingdom How the Kingdom of Heaven is taken in Scripture Page C. 1 L Law see Faith Justification Law how taken in Scripture Page 34 The preaching of the Law cannot make a man deny himself Page 52 Learned Learned men are most opposite to the Gospel Page 199 Living see Duty Life Life is the greatest good Page 4 How vegetative life is in Sants Page 5 How sensitive life is in Saints Page 6 How rational life is in Saints Page 7 Life see Spiritual Wicked Motion Little There is nothing little between God and man Page 41 Love The infinite love of Christ to man Page 87 Love see Infinite M Man see Godly Meditations Practical Meditations for beleevers Page 112 Meek Meek men do much good in the earth and why Page L. 30 Mercy Difference between Gods Mercy and his anger Page L. 5 Mercy see Temptation Mystery Mysteries that are in self-denial Page 57 Monument Monuments of praise erected and why Page C. 13 Morral Difference in self-denial between morral men and Christians Page 55 Mortification Whence mortification comes Page 33 Motion All motion comes from life Page 9 N Nation see Wrath Nature see Faith Natural see Perfection Notion Vnder what Notion the Lord looks vpon the sins of the Saints Page 13 O Obedience Obedience whence it comes Page 24 Objections against the smalness of obedience answered Page 42 Observations Waking observations for sleeping people Page C. 20 Oppression Oppression and injustice reign still in this kingdom Page L. 22 Ordinances How Ordinances are needful Page 100 Original What the Original of all our holiness is Page 28 P Papists How Papists deny themselves Page 55 People Why godly people are exposed to danger Page L. 12 Gods people are often left at great incertainties Page L. 16 Why Gods people are so often left at incertainties Page L. 18 Perfection There is some natural perfection still left in man from the fall Page 9 Pleasant The pleasant lives of the Saints Page 12 Prayers The Saints may have no present answer of their prayrs Page 204 The Saints duties when they have no present answer to their prayers Page 205 Prayer see Temptation Preachers Godly Preachers ought to be sent out and why Page L. 9 Preservation see Angel Present see Prayer Profession see Saints Promise Gods dealing sometimes seems to run cross to his promise Page 206 True faith finds out a promise in the refusal Page 208 Q Quallity The quallity of a gracious man Page 54 R Rational see Life Religion Men lose Religion by seeking after Religion Page L. 29 Repentance Repentance whenee it comes Page 33 Righteousness How Righteousness must be sought Page L. 24 Righteousness see Faith S Saints It is a desperate thing to oppose the Saints and why Page 112 Wherein Saints and carnal professors agree Page C. 2 Wherein Saints and carnal professors disagree Page C. 3 A shelter for Saints in the midst of a storm Page L. 13 Saints see Conversion Comfort Life Pleasure Self How self creeps into all actions Page 63 How self acts in man Page 10 Self-denial Self-denial what it is Page 50 Every beleever is a self-denying person Page 49 Tryal of self-denial Page 64 Self-denial is a hard duty Page 70 How self-denial may be attained Page 71 Self-denial see Beleever Law Moral Mystery Gospel Security A caution against Security Page C. 11 Sence see Justification Sensitive see Life Sleep see Desperate Sleepers Two sorts of sleepers their difference and events Page C. 21 Spirit The Spirit of Christ is in every beleever Page 98 The Spirit is the free gift of God Page 104 Spiritual What spiritual life is Page 3 Duties flowing from spiritual life Page 20 How to get spiritual life Page 23 Strength see faith Sudden see Christ T Temptations Temptations may rise higher after prayer Page 206 Temptations sometime come about Election Page 206 When Temptations come about Election the best way is to lay aside dispute and fly to prayer Page 206 Temptation see Faith Thankfulness An exhortation to thankfulness Page C. 16 Truth No truth to be dispised Page L. 27 U Vegitative see life Union Union of Christ with beleevers Page 75 Uncertainties What to do in uncertainties Page L. 24 W Wicked Wicked men are not in the state of life proved Page 8 Wicked see Godly Witness Three that bear witness in Heaven opened Page 85 Wonderful see Dispensation World The danger of the world Page 19 Wrath Gods wrath is not yet pacified towards this Nation Page L. 20 FINIS
of faith and after once I understood this Doctrine of Free-remission and Justification by faith alone then I loved Repentance As for the Mortification of sin Ye know what the Apostle saies Let not sin raign in your mortal bodies Rom. 6.12 14. or have dominion over you why for ye are not under the Law but under grace So then 't is being under grace that does mortifie sin And as for the matter of Obedience Ye know what the Psalmist saies There is mercy with thee O Lord Psal 130 4 that thou maiest be feared That is that thou maiest be Served that thou maiest be Obeyed So that Obedience also comes from the sight of mercy and of Free-remission Now if Free-remission and the sence thereof be the Cause of our Holinesse then surely Justification by faith alone can be no Enemy but must needs be a real friend unto all our spiritual life Object But by way of Objection it will be said In the Third place This Doctrine of Free-remission and Justification by faith alone seems to carry somwhat with it that is opposite unto Grace and Holiness for the more a man is bound unto the Law and takes himself to be so the more obedient he will be to the Law but now a man never takes himself more to be bound unto the Law than when he seeks to be justified by the works of the Law and so he will be most obedient Answ For Answer Ye must know that the word Law in the new Testament is taken Two waies Either it is taken for the Covenant of Works thus If you keep the Ten Commandements perfectly you shall live for ever this is the Covenant of Works Somtimes the Law is taken for the Ten Commandements the Rule of mans life In the first sence a Christian is dead vnto the Law and is freed from it but in the second sence a Beleever a Justified person is more bound to the Law to observe it as a Rule of life than ever he was Onely you must know there is a Twofold Bond There is the bond of Love and there is the bond of Fear as there is the Law of Love and the Law of Fear Love and the bond of Love is stronger than Fear and the bond of Fear for Fear is servant to Love Fear is the hand maid to Love for ye never Fear the losing of any good thing but what ye first Love Fear is the servant to Love and therefore Love is stronger than Fear and the bond of Love stronger than the bond of Fear Now though a Justified person be not bound unto the Law with the bond of a servile-Fear yet he is bound unto the Law with the bond of Love and so he is more obedient as the bond of Love is stronger than the bond of Fear A man must needs be obedient unto Christ that takes himself to be none of his own but Christs Therfore saies the Apostle 1 Cor. 6.20 Glorify Christ with your body because ye are bought with a price and because ye are Gods So long as a man seeks to be justified by works and by the Law so long he looks upon himself as his own but when a man sees that he is justified by faith alone then he looks upon himself as Christs that he is not his own and so he is more obedient unto Christ than ever be was before Object 2 Secondly If this be such a principle of Grace and Holiness How comes it to passe that men sin the more as they hear more of this Free-remission and Justification of a poor sinner by faith alone Oh! saies one God is merciful and gracious and therefore I will now live as I list and repent afterward If this Doctrine this truth and this Grace of God be the Principle of all our Holiness How comes it to passe that men sin more hereby Answ I pray How comes it to passe if that water do cleanse that it doth not cleanse the Blackmore and if fire do warm how comes it to passe that it doth not put heat into the Dead man and if the Sun do enlighten how comes it to passe it doth not enlighten those that are blind I may ask you the reason likewise But I wil tel you the reason the reason of this is Because men are contrary unto God and all that do make this use application of the Lords mercy and grace they are contrary unto God for God works good out of evil Now a wicked man being contrary unto God he works evil out of good God works the greatest good grace out of the greatest evil sin a wicked man he works the greatest evil sin out of the greatest good Gods love and grace Why because he is contrary to God But now take this Truth and this Grace of God as it is in it self and so it is a very real friend unto all our grace and holiness Quest 4 But in the Fourth place You will say then What is there in this Justification by faith alone or Free-remission that does advance our Holiness how comes it to passe what is there in this that hath such an influence upon our lives to make us the more holy the more heavenly Answ 1 First The more a man does forsake any good thing of his own for Christ the more Christ is engaged to give a man his good things There is no losing in losing for Jesus Christ what ye lose for Chirst ye shal gain by Christ And the greater and sweeter any blessing is that ye lose for Christ the greater blessing will Christ give unto ye in the room thereof Now what neerer thing is there to a man than his own Righteousness In Justification by faith alone a man laies down al his own Righteousness at the feet of Jesus Christ and therfore Christ is engaged to give him a better Righteousness the Righteousness of God Secondly God does never cause any man to passe under any Relation but he does write the Law of that Relation upon his heart For example If the Lord does cause a man to passe under the Relation of a Magistrate God wil write the Law of that Relation upon him and give him ability to it If God doe cause a man to passe under the Relation of a Minister God will write the Law of that Relation on him If God do cause a man to passe under the Relation of a Husband or a Father God will cause the Law of that Relation to be written upon his heart Now when a man is justified by faith alone then he becomes the Son of God To as many as receive him he gives power to be called the Sons of God even to as many as beleeve on his Name John 1.12 I say When a man is justified by faith alone he becomes the Son of God he passes under that Relation therefore then does the Lord write the Law of that Relation of a Son upon his heart and thereby he is made more Son-like by his