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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80872	A discourse of spiritual blessings or a discovery I. That every Christian is blessed with all spiritual blessings in Christ. In four sermons. II. That God hath a high account of the least grace in the saints. In three sermons. By Mr. John Cromwell, late pastor of a church of Christ in the city of Norwich.	Cromwell, John, 1632 or 3-1685.	1685 (1685)	Wing C7038A; ESTC R228995	89,109	202

but that it should be holy and without blemish God chose us that we might be holy and without blame and Jesus Christ has such a Love to us even as the Father has that we should be holy and without blame and my Friends the Spirit is all one with the Father and the Son Does the Father choose us and does the Son give himself for us that we might be so then comes the Spirit and resolves that he will make us so and therefore you shall find the Apostle in his Epistle to the Galatians giving us an account of the fruits of the Spirit in the fifth Chapter at the 18 verse if so be ye be led by the Spirit ye are not under the Law And then as to the energy the workings of the Spirit why says he in the 17 verse The Spirit lusteth against the flesh The fleshly part in us is an unbelieving part that is against living out of our selves upon Christ ay but the Spirit that works contrary unto these natural lustings and natural workings of the flesh for says the Apostle v. 22. The fruit of the Spirit is Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Goodness Faith c. By comparing these passages together you may raise this observation that even as the Father and the Son are concerned for our practical as well as personal holiness so also is the Spirit he lusts and he works and he strives and he never leaves lusting and striving and working against the flesh until he have brought forth these fruits of Love Joy Peace and Long-suffering and Gentleness and goodness and Faith c. So that this is the first particular God has chosen us unto personal and practical holiness and if you do observe it this Spiritual Blessing is also ensured unto us in Christ with all the contents of it and with all the proper effects of it May a Poor Creature say But how shall I come to attain to this And what security can I have of it Why says he according as he hath chosen us in him he hath Blessed us in him according as he hath chosen us in him and now says he he hath Blessed us with all Spiritual Blessings in him But then 2. The Second Blessing that the Apostle takes notice of is the great Spiritual Blessing of Adoption which doth not only discover a Relation to God but also a sutable frame and a sutable becoming sense of the Relation a sense of it and a frame comporting and complying with it This you have an account of in the 5 verse Having predestinated us to the Adoption of Children to himself c. I pray do but observe what the Apostle here doth discover concerning the Nature of this it is the Adoption of Children to himself The God and Father of our Lord Jesus hath ensured our Adoption with all the Priviledges with all the Blessed consequents of it unto us in Christ Jesus 'T is the God and Father of Christ Jesus and he that is so is in Christ Jesus a God adopting us unto himself by Jesus Christ This you shall find the Scripture frequently making mention of says the Apostle to the Romans We have not received the Spirit of Bondage but the Spirit of Adoption the Spirit of Sons and what is the proper work of the Spirit of Adoption You shall find what it is Rom. 8.15 Ye have not received the Spirit of Bondage again to fear but ye have received the Spirit of Adoption whereby we cry Abba Father Says the Apostle ye are Sons ay but the Sonship is managed by the Spirit ye are not only Sons but the Spirit witnesseth with your Spirits that ye are so and that is his proper work and what is the issue of that Why says he ye cry Abba Father you may go to God in your distresses and you may go to God under your Temptations and you may go to God as the God and Father of Jesus Christ under all your straits and troubles and under all your Spiritual wants and you may say unto him Father hear and Father help Says the Apostle ye have not received the Spirit of Bondage again to fear Indeed under the Law when they were under the Power of the Spirit of Bondage they stood at a distance from God they were under fear but now says the Apostle ye have not received the Spirit of Bondage again to fear but ye have received the Spirit of Adoption whereby ye cry Abba Father It is as natural a Priviledge to a Child of God and it is as Natural Language to gracious hearts to cry Abba Father as it is for a Child to cry to his Father Father or Mother ye have received the Spirit of Adoption says he and the same thing you have the Apostle giving us an account of Gal. 4. v. 4 5. God sent forth his Son made of a woman made under the Law Why what then That we might receive the Adoption of Sons and because ye are Sons says he God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying Abba Father I would only observe this to you which it may be is not so obvious to every apprehension Compare but these two Scriptures together and you shall find that in the one he is the Spirit of Adoption as he is the Fathers Spirit and in the other he is the Spirit of Adoption as he is the Spirit of the Son for saith he he has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying Abba Father The Spirit of the Lord Jesus the same Spirit that influenced the Humane Nature and in which Jesus Christ always prayed to God as a Father and always walked with God under all variety of providences as with a Father the same Spirit he hath sent forth and this same Spirit that cryed Abba Father in Christ crys Abba Father also in Christians 3. The third Spiritual Blessing that the Apostle makes mention of in this Chapter is an universal acceptance of Christians in all cases notwithstanding all disobligements one would wonder that a child should sin and though the sin be rejected yet the child stand still in a state of acceptation though the Father scourge the Child yet he doth not unchild the Child This you have an account of verse 6. to the praise of the glory of his grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved I pray do but observe it There is nothing that a Christian can propose to himself there is no case that the Devil and the world can expose a Christian to but the Christian is still accepted in Christ Jesus and that notwithstanding all his fears and under all his Jealousies and in the face of all his conscience accusations and his own self-condemnations yet the Child is accepted the Christian is accepted who hath made us says he accepted in the beloved my friends this is a great Spiritual Blessing indeed There are many that have their hearts greatly concerned and their Spirit wonderfully

disquieted about their acceptance O that I did but know that God did accept me O that I did but know that I were accepted in Christ Jesus Why truly Christians this is one of your proper Spiritual Blessings a Blessing which the Spirit is principally concerned in the manage of He hath made us says he accepted Though there be never so little grace in the heart yet it is accepted two Mites that the poor Widow cast into the Treasury you know what acceptation it found with the Lord Jesus Christ Verily says he I say unto you she hath cast in more then they all they of their abundance have cast into the Treasury but she hath cast in even all that she hath O Sirs if you have never so little grace cast it into your prayers and cast it into your Sermons and cast it into imploy it in your conversations Verily will Christ say this man hath done more then such a one he had but a few gifts and he imployed them all he hath but a little grace and behold I see this little i● every duty Verily he hath done more like a Christian then others that have a great deal and yet not half so much considering their proportion to be found in their duties The hand of th● Lord hath been open and hath fille many of your understandings with a great deal of Gopel light but alas there is but little of it seen in your lives and in your hearts it may be you are filled with grace ay but there is but little of this grace to be seen in your duties There comes a poor humble Christian with his Mite to pray and with his Mite to hear and behold he casts all in and the Lord sees that all the grace that is in his heart he puts forth in every duty and he exerciseth in every Ordinance Verily says Christ I say unto you she hath done more then they all Therefore my friends let me tell you the God Father of Jesus Christ for still we must consider him under that notion I say the God and father of Jesus Christ hath made us accepted in the beloved if there be any thing that is unacceptable in thee if there be nothing to be seen in thee but what is disobliging yet the Lord hath made you that are Christians accepted in the beloved not accepted in your own graces not accepted in your selves not accepted for this or that or the other but all your acceptance is still in Christ who hath made us accepted in the beloved Now my friends that the Spirit of the Lord doth manage this this also is evident if we do but consider what it is wherein our personal acceptation lies doth it lie in our gracious qualifications which we receive from Jesus Christ why those we receive by the Spirit doth the Lord accept us upon the account of the exercise of any grace in any duty why truly all this is also from the same Spirit There are says the Apostle diversity of gifts and diversity of operations ay but still there is one and the same Spirit It is the same Spirit It may be there is a great deal of humility in thy duty or in thy heart and thou art accepted in Jesus Christ but how camest thou by this humility how camest thou by this meekness why the Spirit of the Lord hath rested upon thee in the form of a Dove as the Spirit of meekness and as the Spirit of lowliness and as the Spirit of selfdenial The same spirit that rested upon Christ the same Spirit also hath rested upon thee So that you see also in this third great Spiritual Blessing how far the Spirit and how much the son is also concerned to the praise of the glory of his grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved O my friends that there should be such a mystery as this and all the Priviledges advantages of it should be ensured to all the seed in Jesus Christ It is God that makes us and not we our selves accepted in the Beloved wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved I will break off with this one short Reflexion upon what I have already delivered VSE You see my Brethren in the worst of times here is the Best of Blessings ensured in the worst of circumstances here are the gloriousest priviledges in safe hands for you what can you desire more then all Spiritual Blessings of the God and Father of Jesus Christ what can You desire more It may be he hath Blessed such a one with temporal Blessings such a one he hath Blessed with wisdom and such a one with strength and such a one with riches and honour and the like ay but my Friends he hath not blessed every one with all Temporal Blessings says Esau to his Brother Jacob I have enough my Brother ay but it was only Jacob It was only Israel that had prevailed with God that could say I have all My Brother I have all things what did he mean I have God for my exceeding great reward and I have all things in the Covenant I have all things in the blessing I have all things in the promise Now Christians take an occasion from hence to make an estimate of the vast difference that there is between a Christian indeed and one that is but a Christian in shew one that lay under great worldly disadvantages and yet a Christian and one that lay under or that is advanced up to the top of all secular advantages and blessings and preferments even by God himself Would you know Christians where the difference lay why it lies here the one hath all and that for ever and the other hath but what he hath in part and that not secured neither worldlings they have not their greatness in Christ they have not their honour given them in Christ they have not their Relations given them in Christ No no my Friends but now the meanest Christian hath not only all things but all things ensured him in Christ he is not only a better man then the greatest worldling is upon the account of the extent but also upon the account of the Method and Manner wherein all is give him and secured to him There is not a person in the world that can say or ever could say I have all things Nebuchadnezzar in all his glory could not say I have all things But a poor Christian a poor persecuted Paul could cry out I have all things and I can do all things even then when he had nothing at all in comparison says he I have all things and abound Now Christians I pray you rejoyce in your condition And I beseech you sinners become all Christians for whilest you are as you are you have but some things and what you have is all out of Christ but do but become Christians do but give up your heads and hearts to the Lord and then you may say Blessed be the God and father of