Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	apostle_n	call_v	holy_a	5,378	5	4.9588	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87817	Christ exalted: in a sermon begun to be preached at Debenham in Suffolk, upon the 14. day of Febr. last, upon Coloss. 3. 11. / By Hanserd Knollys. Who was stoned out of the pulpit (as he was preaching) by a company of rude fellowes, and poor women of that town; who were sent for, called together, and set on by a malignant high-constable, who lives in the same town. Also, another sermon, preached at Stradbrooke in Suffolk, the 13. day of Febr. last, concerning sanctification; upon Ephes. 1. 4.	Knollys, Hanserd, 1599?-1691.	1645 (1645)	Wing K706; Thomason E284_14; ESTC R200061	21,848	24

Christ Exalted IN A SERMON Begun to be preached at Debenham in Suffolk upon the 14. day of Febr. last upon Coloss 3.11 By HANSERD KNOLLYS Who was stoned out of the Pulpit as he was Preaching by a company of rude fellowes and poor women of that Town who were sent for called together and set on by a Malignant High-Constable who lives in the same Town ALSO ANOTHER SERMON Preached at Stradbrooke in Suffolk the 13. day of Febr. last concerning Sanctification upon Ephes 1.4 GALAT 4.16 Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth HEBR. 12.14 Follow Peace with all men and holinesse without which no man shall see the Lord. 2 CORINTH 11.25 Once was I stoned JOHN 10.32 For which of these good works do you stone me LONDON Printed in the Year 1645. TO THE HONOVRABLE Committee of Examinations Grace and Peace from God through CHRIST HONOVRABLE IT may be judged an act of great boldnesse in me who am under the Examination of this Honourable Committee to dedicate my poor labours at Debenham and Stradbrook to your patronage especially to publish them to the world Had not the hard reports of some persons too much credited by many constrained me to vindicate first the truth and in the next place to give some satisfaction to many who have heard those reports I should not have been so bold the consciousnesse of mine own inability and the knowledge of the profitable labours of many both learned and godly hath to this time and still had justly hindred me from publishing any thing by print to the view of the World Wherefore I being thus inforced to print my Sermons present them to your Honours wherein you have the summe and substance of all that I preached in Suffolk as many witnesses can testifie For my main endeavours there was to exalt Christ and to presse my Hearers to Sanctification in heart and life And if the Lord shall please to make my poor labours a blessing to any he will get glory and I have my reward with him Howsoever I humbly submit both my self and my Book to the Examination and determination of this Honourable Committee Your Honours to serve you in the Lord HANSERD KNOLLYS COLLOS 3.11 Christ is all and in all THe Apostle Paul who was a chosen vessell unto the Lord to beare his name before the Gentiles Acts 9 15. wrote this Epistle to the Saints and Faithfull brethren in Christ which were at Colosse chap. 1. verse 2. And as the Ensigne-bearer of His glorious Name displayed the Magnificency and transcendent Excellencie of Christ in the words of the Text Christ is all and in all And that he might lift up Christs All-sufficiencie he nullifies all other excellencies whatsoever chap. 3. ver 11 Where he gives the Colossians to understand that the advantage of a Jew above a Gentile the dignity of a Scythian above a Barbarian or the Immunities of a Freeman above a Bondslave however esteemed amongst men are nothing without Christ who is all and in all These words have their dependance upon the exhortation unto Mortification chap. 3. vers 5. Which exhortation the Apostle pressed upon the Colossians by telling them vers 9.10 they had put off the Old-Man with his deeds had put on the New-Man c. Where that is in which State of Regeneration there is neither Greek nor Jew c. But Christ is all and in all The lesson to be learned hence is this to wit Christ is all and in all in the New-Man Doct. Two thighs needs some explanation in this Doctrine viz. 1. Who is here meant by the New-Man and secondly How Christ is all and in all in the New-Man By the New-Man here we are to understand as was intended by the Apostle a true beleever or a faithfull Brother in Christ one sanctified in Christ Jesus called a Saint who is redeemed in the Spirit of his minde and hath put on the New-Man Ephes 4 23 24. which is done when by the mighty operation of the holy Spirit in the Promises given unto us we are made partakers of the Divine nature 2 Pet. 1.3 4. Non per participationem Essentiae sed per communicationem Spiritus gratiae ejus Gal. 4 6. Ephes 4.6 thus being by the Spirit and Faith united with Christ we are made a new creature or creation 2 Cor. 5.17 have a new Heart Ezek. 36.26 27. and walke in newnesse of life Rom. 6.4 And such may be said to have put on the New-Man the sum then is this Christ is all and in all in every true Beleever in every Justified-Sanctified person wo hath a New-heart and walke in newnesse of life Touching the Second particular to wit How Christ is all and in all in the new man The Lord Jesus Christ who is all in himselfe for in him dwelleth all the Fulnesse of the Godhead bodily Col. 2.9 which was the pleasure of God that in all things he might have the preheminence Col. 1.18 19. is all and in all in the New-Man First Fundamentally I mean Christ is the Foundation of all 1 Cor. 3.11 For other Foundation can no man lay then that is laid which is Iesus Chirist I say Christ is the Foundation of all that Faith Repentance Love other graces gifts and fruits of the Spirit which are in every true beleever He is a living fountain full of grace and from his fulnesse have we all received grace for grace Joh. 1.14 16. Secondly Communicatively I meane Chirst doth communicate all unto the New-Man to wit Life Light Grace and Glory c. We have nothing but what we have received and we have received all from his fulnesse Ephes 4.7 Joh. 1.16 The Titles given to Christ in the Scripture of truth will make this appear yet more fully viz. That Christ is all in the New-Man or in every true Beleever I shall instance some 1. Christ is our life Col. 3.4 Christ is the life of a Beleever even eternall Life 1 Joh. 5.11 12. That is to say The everlasting Spirituall well-being of a beleever is by union and communion with Jesus Christ in whom he lives a life of grace here and with whom he shall live a life of glory hereafter Yea all those spirituall breathings of the hunger-thirsting soule after the enjoyment of God in any of his holy Ordinances are from Christ and from him are all those quicknings and all that life we have in Prayer Preaching Conference and other spirituall duties In a word the spirit of life himselfe who so sweetly refresheth the weary soule comforts the sorrowfull heart and quickens the sanctified affections is from Christ and he is called the Spirit of the Son Gal. 4.6 whom God sends forth into the hearts of his Children 2. Christ is the true light of every beleever or in the New-Man That was the true Light Joh. 1.9 even Jesus Christ who inlightneth the eyes of our vnderstanding that we may know what is the hope of his calling and

and women in their blood or in their sins Ezek. 16 6 8. he in the the time of love forgives them all their sins covers their nakednesse with the skirt of Christs Righteousnesse and bids them live This is done when God enters into covenant with them and so they become his Now that God may be justified in so doing though he found them ungodly unbeleevers impenitent prophane c. He doth not onely forgive them all their sins and so leave them ungodly to go on in their wicked waies But he gives them his holy Spirit of Sanctificaton who changeth their hearts renewes the spirit of their minde sanctifies their wills and affection and produceth all those fruits of the spirit in them mentioned Gal. 5.22 23. whereby they are made holy in all manner of conversation 1 Pet. 1.15 16. And this reason the Apostle gives Ephes 1.4 6. That we should be holy to the praise of the glory of his grace and verse 12. That we should be to the praise of his Glory And herein is God justified in justifying the ungodly in that he doth make and keep them holy Jude 1. Reason 2. God will have his people to be holy for the honour and glory of his Son Jesus Christ to whom he hath given them All mine are thine saith Christ in his Prayer to his Father John 17.1 10. and thine are mine and I am glorified in them also verse 19. And for their sakes I sanctifie my selfe that they also might be sanctified Christ shall be glorified in his Saints especially in his Kingly Office Revel 15.3 4. Just and true are thy waies Thou King of Saints Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy Name for thou onely art holy And albeit now Christ and his poor Saints are scorned and despised of men yet that Prophesie of Enoch the seventh from Adam will have its accomplishment Jude 14. Behold the Lord commeth with ten thousand of his Saints The Lord Iesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels When he shall come to be glorified in his Saints 2 Thes 17 10. And in that day it will appear to all the world that it is the great glory of Jesus Christ that his Father hath given him so many ten thousands of Saints to be his Subjects and himselfe to be their King Isa 33.17 22. Reason 3. God will have his people holy that they may enjoy spirituall communion with him in this life and Eternall communion with him in heaven The Saints do enjoy spirituall Communion with God in this life 1 John 1.3 Truely our fellowship is with the father and with his Son Jesus Christ and with the Spirit Phil. 2.1 And they shall have eternall communion with God in Heaven in that Kingdome prepared for them which then thy shall receive Matth. 25.34 Now this communion with God none can have without holinesse Heb. 12.14 Therefore God will have his people to be holy 1. Vse Will God have his people to be holy Let it be usefull to us first for enquiry what holinesse is And how God makes His holy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Thes 4 3. 7 Holinesse or Sanctification is a reall change of the whole Man from the pollution of sin to the purity of the Image of Christ Rom. 6.22 But now being made free from sin and become servants of God ye have your fruits unto holinesse Here was a reall change in them from the pollution of sin 2 Cor. 3.18 But we all with open face beholding as in a glasse the glory of the Lord are changed into the same Image Here was the other part of that reall change in them to wit into the purity of the Image of Christ For as men in their naturall estate bear the Image of the Earthy first-man Adam so men in their spirituall estate bear the Image of the Heavenly second-Man CHRIST 1 Cor. 15.47 48 49. This holinesse or sanctification if you have respect to the Author and efficient cause thereof is called the sanctification of the Spirit 2 Thes 2.13 and 1 Pet. 1.2 If unto the divine act of God it is called Renovation or Renewing of the minde Ephes 4.23 and Rom. 12.2 If unto the Acts and fruits of holinesse in beleevers it is called Faith love long suffering gentlenesse goodnesse meeknesse temperance c. Gal. 5.22 If unto the root fountain and foundation of holinesse the Scripture saith Christ is our sanctification 1 Cor. 1.30 Thus you hear what holinesse is Now God maketh His holy by his Spirit and Word Whereby he doth convince them that they are without Christ Ephes 2.12 Maketh discoverie to them of the worth of Christ their need of him and Gods offer of him in a covenant of Grace upon Gospell termes changing their hearts into the Image of Christ 2 Cor. 3.18 Gives them Faith in Christ Repentance from dead workes Love to all the Saints c. And so the very God of Peace Sanctifie his people 1 Thessalonians 5.23 Thus much may suffice touching the Jnquiry 2. Vse Will God have his people to be holy Let us make use of this to discover who are the people of God who are not Those people that are ungodly unsanctified are not the people of God such may boast of their Justification but they deceive themselves for God hath no justified-unsanctified people 1 Cor. 6 9 10 11. They may talke of the free-grace of God manifested to them bringing them Salvation but they are deluded for the grace of God that bringeth Salvation teacheth us to deny ungodlinesse and to live godly Titus 2.11 12. Now there are three sorts of professors who would be esteemed the people of God and yet are not sanctifyed by the holy spirit they are not holy and therefore are not the Lords people in Covenant The first Sort are all those legall professors who having been by the spirit and word of God much convinced of sin Iohn 16.8 Sorely wounded in their consciences Proverbes 18.14 and somewhat reformed in their conversations by hearing godly Preachers as Herod was Mark 6 20. after all this goe about to establish their own righteousnesse and rest upon their duties humiliation and legall reformation And never have their hearts changed and renewed nor Christ given of the Father unto them These are not sanctified are not the Lords Hear what the Apostle speakes to such among the Galatians Are yee so foolish having begun in the Spirit are you now made perfect by the flesh Have you affired so many things in vain If it be yet in vaine Well such of you as God hath chosen in Christ that you should bee holy c. He will also by his Spirit and Word convince you of Righteousnesse to wit that all your own Righteousnesses are as filthy rags Isa 64.6 That being ignorant of Gods Righteousnesse you have gone about to establish your owne righteousnesse Rom. 10 3. and that you must be found in Christ not having your own righteousnesse which is of the

repentance unto salvation not to be repented of for all our unrighteousnesse 4. Vse Will God have his people to be holy Let it be usefull for the consolation of every true Believer especially such as at present groane under the tyrannicall power or captivating bondage of any corruption And sigh to God for supply from Christ of any grace wanting or weake in their apprehension sense and feeling Hearken poor mourning soul and consider what may be said for thy comfort and search the Scriptures whether it be so or not Know first That Gods eternall purpose toward thee who art a true Beleever in chusing thee in Christ was that thou shouldest be holy Ephes 1.4 and Rom. 8.30 I have purposed it saith God I will also do it Isa 46.11 Secondly That God hath made with thee an everlasting Covenant of Grace and Holinesse wherein he hath given thee many great and precious promises to pardon sin to subdue iniquity and to put his Law in thy minde and write it in thy heart Jer. 3.31.34 and 32.40 with Heb. 8.10.11.12 Micah 7.18 19 20 with 2 Pet. 2.3 4 to the 11. vers Thirdly that Christ hath prayed to His Father for thee that he would sanctifie thee John 17.1.17.20 Fourthly that Christ sanctified himself for thy sake that thou also might be sanctified Joh. 17.19.20 Fifthly that God hath given thee the spirit of his sonne Gal. 4.6 who is a comforting sanctifying spirit yea the Comforter John 14.16 17.18 And he that sanctifieth all the people of God 1 Thes 5.23 Sixthly That faithfull is God who called thee who also will do it 1 Thes 5.24 He called thee unto Holinesse 1 Thes 4.7 and he will both make thee holy He hath said thou shalt be holy Levit. 11.44.45 and 19.2 That is such a command as hath the force of a promise in it And though that place Levit. 20 7 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sanctifie your selves therefore and be ye Holy yet the 70. Interpreters renders it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Et sanctificabimi eritis sancti And so doth the Chaldees Paraphrast render it also And Hierom translates that place in the first of Pet. 1.16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be ye holy Sancti eritis Ye shall be holy And indeed there is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Margent of one Greek Testament for God can put a being to His Word And therefore be of good comfort thy sinnes are forgiven thee Matth. 9.2 And sinne shall not have dominion over thee Rom. 6.14 The grace of Christ is sufficient for thee 2 Cor. 12.9 He is full of grace John 1.14 And from his fulnesse thou shalt receive grace upon grace John 1.16 According as his divine power hath given us all things that pertain unto life and godlinesse 1. Pet. 1.3 5. Vse Will God have his people to be holy Let me conclude with an use of exhortation to holinesse As he that called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of Conversation 1 Pet. 1.15 God will have his people holy at all times in all relations and in every condition Therefore I beseech you brethren and exhort you in the Lord and for his sake to be holy in all manner of Conversation holy in your callings for godlinesse is great gaine holy in your Families in your shops in your journeyes in all your waies and in all your relations Godlinesse hath the promise both of this life that which is to come Piety hath a majestie in it it will give you a throne in the Consciences of others that they dare not sin in your presence Holinesse is an ornament to your callings to your persons to your families and to the place where you live The more holy the more like your Heavenly Father and the more you glorifie your heavenly Father and the more you adorne the Doctrine of Christ yea the more communion you have with the Father and with Christ Having therefore these promises dearly beloved let us cleanse our selves from all filthinesse of the flesh and spirit perfecting holinesse in the feare of God 2 Cor. 7.1 4. great is my boldnesse of speech toward you in this exhortation because I desire fruit that may abound to your account And give me leave to presse this exhortation upon such beleevers present who have carnall parents yoke-fellowes or other carnall friends You would have your naturall friends converted and to that end you pray for them mourne over them many a sigh and many a tear it may be they have cost you but they live in the flesh still are carnall still Oh let not an holy conversation be wanting that may further their conversion 1 Cor. 7.16 17. And if any obey not the Word they also may be wonne without the word by your Godly conversation 1 Pet. 3.1 And if they be not drawn thereby to a love of the truth yet their mouthes will be stopped that they cannot speake against it Would it not be a comfortable thing to have a carnall father speake thus of his godly son or daughter to wit I was unwilling my children should go so often to heare Sermons and be so often at Conferences and private fasts and the like But I have observed that since they professed Religion and gave themselves to pray and read the Scriptures They have been much more dutifull to us their parents then before and they are more diligent in their callings If this be the worst they shall have liberty to professe the Gospell still The like I might speak of other relations but should carnall parents or friends have cause by your loose or un even-walking to speak evill of the waies of God it would bee very uncomfortable to you and dishonourable to the Gospell I shall conclude in the words of the Apostle Phil. 4.8 Finally Brethren Whatsoever things are true Whatsoever things are honest just pure lovely or of good report If there be any vertue and if there be any praise thinke on these things and the God of peace shall be with you vers 9. One objection had need to be answered before I end and that is this May some say you have exhorted us to holinesse and the Apostle tells us 2 Tim. 3.12 All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution Object How may wee be encouraged and strengthened against the feares of persecution Solu I answer First pray to God that he will furnish you with suffering graces against persecuting times Colos 1.9.10 11. Secondly improve your interest through Christ in the promises and beleeve that the more sufferings for Christ the more comfort by Christ 2 Cor. 1.5 The more sufferings the more holinesse Heb. 12.10 The more sufferings the more happinesse 1 Pet. 4.14 Onely take heed of suffering as an evill doer verses 15.16 And if any suffer as a Christian Christ will suffer with him Isa 63.9 Christ will share with you in your suffering persecution Acts 9.4 5. And you shall share with Christ in glory Rom. 8.17 But you must bee holy in sufferings also praying for them that persecute you as Christ taught and practised and so did his Martyr Stephen 7.60 Lord lay not this sin to their charge And so let us pray for them that now disturbed us FINIS

necessitie of this new-birth Joh. 3.3.5.7 8. Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdome of God he cannot enter into the Kingdome of God vers 5. Now every one who is a new creature in Christ all things are become new in him or all things are made new as in the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ecce nova facta sunt omnia To wit first he is made a new man Ephes 4.21.22.23.24 Col. 3.10.11 and have put on the new-man where Christ is all and in all Secondly he hath a new heart Ezek. 36.26 A new heart also will I give you c. That is a new will and new affections yea and a new spirit will I put within you verse 26. That is Ephes 4.23 to be renewed in the spirit of our minde to wit a new judgement or spirituall understanding in the knowledge of Gods will Col. 1.9 Thirdly he walkes in newnesse of life Rom. 6.4 Even so we also should walk in newnesse of life That is the conversation of a new-creature should be such as becomes the Gospell Phil. 1.27 To wit humble harmlesse and holy 1 Pet. 1.15 16. And thus God hath promised in the everlasting covenant of grace that all and every one of his people shall walk Ezek. 36.27 And I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes c. Examine your selves Are you a new creature Such of you as have not put off the old man but still have your old hearts and your old sinnes and walk in your old wayes and fulfill the old lusts of your sinfull natures are not in a new creature you are not in Christ nor Christ in you But some may thus say within themselves I hope my soul is in a better condition I am not so wicked and carnall as some others are neither am I so vilde a sinner as I have been formerly but I am somewhat reformed and have forsaken my sinfull courses and begin to delight to hear Sermons and I pray with my family To this I would answer although your condition be not so desperate as others who have lived long under ordinatie meanes of grace and yet are not at all wrought upon I must tell you Professors may through strong Convictions horrour of conscience and feares of Hell leave the Acts of some sins and may customarily perform some religious duties and yet not regenerated Professors may have leaves like the unfruitfull Figtree and Lampes like the five foolish Virgins they may seem to be Religious and have a forme of Godlinesse and not be a New creature or creation I might instance many such in the Scriptures Herod Mark 6.20 He heard Iohn gladly and did many things Saul 1 Sam. 10.6 9. was turned into another Man had another heart yet unconverted So thou mayest be another Man and not a New-Man maiest have another heart but not a new heart But I speak not this to adde sorrow to the afflicted nor to break the the bruised for though some may deceive themselves herein Yet such of you as are borne again or borne of God though but New-borne babes who have put on the New-Man have a New heart and walke in Newnesse of life are in Christ and Christ in you 3. Vse Seeing Christ is all and in all in the New-Man Let it serve for the consolation of every true beleeve Christ is yours and all things are yours 1 Cor. 3.21 22 23. All are yours and ye are Christs and Christ is God Christ is your life your light your foode your All and by union with Christ you are one in God John 17.21 God is your God and Father John 20.17 All that is Christs is yours his Wisdome Righteousnesse Sanctification Faith Love Humility c. All in all fulnesse was in Him and dwels in him for his people to communicate to them Epes 4.7 Are you full of spirituall wants you may have supply from the fulnesse of Spiritualls in Christ Doe you want Wisdome Faith love c. What ever you want go to Christ for that grace There is enough in Christ to satisfie the most hunger-thirsting soules in spirituall things Epes 1.3 God hath blessed us with all spirituall blessings in heavenly things in Christ In whom are hid all the treasures of Wisdome and knowledge Col. 2.3 Doe you want power against corruptions go to Christ for strength His grace is sufficient for thee 2 Cor. 12.8.9 There is an all-sufficiencie in Christ Christ is all saith the Text therefore the Apostle having Christ said I have all I can do all through Christ Phil. 4.13 18. And know for your further consolation that Chirist is in all in the New-Man or in every true Beleever He is in you Col. 1.2 Christ in you the hope of glory Christ liveth in me saith the Apostle 2 Gal. 20. Christ is and lives in a true beleever by participation of his Divine Nature 2 Pet. 1.3 4. By incohation of his holy Spirit Gal. 4.6 and by communication of his saving grace Ephes 3.17 and 4 7. Christ is in your hearts in your gifts in your graces in your duties in all by whom you finde acceptance of your persons and services with God your heavenly Father Ephes 1.6 Christ is with you and in you in all conditions in all relations in all Afflictions Isa 63.8 9. And to conclude this use know for your increase of joy that Christ who is all and in all in you will abide in you for ever Nothing shall be able to separate Christ and your soules Rom. 8.35 38 39. Christ is the strength of your heart and your portion for ever Psalm 73.26 4. Vse Seeing Christ is all and in all in the New-Man suffer a word of exhortation which will conscerne every one present to hearken to viz. Both such as are in Christ and out of Christ And I am sure evere one of you are in one of these two estates either you are in Christ or without Christ The first branch of the exhortation shall be you who are beleevers and sanctified in Christ Iesus called Saints seeing Christ is all in all Let him be all in all in your justification take ye heed you bring not any righteousnesse of your owne nor any grace or worke of his in you to joyne with Christ and his righteousnesse in point of justification Phil. 3.9 This glory Christ will not give to another He is our jujustification or righteousnesse 1 Cor. 1.30 31. Christ will not permit any coadjutor concause or cooperator whatsoever in justification of sinners Consider this you who will not beleeve unlesse you could see your selves so holy so humble except you can first have such a sinne subdued you will not beleeve any of your sinnes are pardoned untill you finde and feele in your selves a soft heart a broken heart a praying spirit a mourning spirit you cry out you are not justifyed Oh say you if I could pray mourne for sinne profit by the meanes as such and such doe

preached to every creature in all parts of the world Mark 16.15 None are exempted or prohibited from hearing the Gospel preached but every one that hath an eare is required to heare Revel 2.7 And let such as neglect the hearing of the word of God preached by such as are called and sent of Christ consider what the Lord saith Prov. 1. from the 20. vers to the 32. vers But albeit some of you see it is that you ought to doe and that you had need to doe to wit to seeke the Lord assenting to what you heard in the first verse of the doctrine that there is much worth beauty and excellency in Christ and that poore-lost-undone sinners stand in need of him Notwithstanding how to obtaine Christ you know not as yet Let me tell you God offers you Christ upon Gospel-termes which are these three First God in the dispensation of the Gospell propounds Christ to lost sinners as the onely necessary and all-sufficient meanes of Salvation Christ is the onely necessary means of Salvation Act. 4.12 Neither is there Salvation in any other And Christ is the All-sufficient meanes of Salvation so that we need none but him Heb. 7.25 He is able to save them to the umost c. Secondly God doth offer Christ to lost sinners without respect to price or person He invites them that have no money to come and buy Wine and milk that is to say Christ without price Isa 55 1. And any one that will are invited to take Christ freely Revel 22.17 And whosoever will let him take the water of life that is Christ freely Thirdly God requires that those who do receive him shall depart from iniquity 2. Tim. 2.19 Live soberly righteously and Godly in this present world Ti●us 2 11 12 13 14 15. And that they shall sell all lose all and hate all for the sake of Christ and take up the Crosse and follow him You will say to me Alas here is my miserie to wit although God propound Christ upon good termes to poor sinners to me among others I have no power of my selfe to receive Christ to beleeve in him and accept of him True It is not as I said in him that willeth nor him that runneth but in God who sheweth mercy Rom. 9.16 It is the exceeding greatnesse of his power to us-wards who beleeve which must be put forth in your hearts to make you beleeve also according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead Ephes 1.19 20. And you ought to wait on God in the diligent use of meanes untill the day of his power come upon you and then you shall be a willing a beleeving people Psal 110.3 I may exhort you to repent of your wickednesse prophanenesse c. as Peter did Act. 8.22 But God must give you repentance unto life Act. 11.18 It is my duty to preach the Gospel to you and to exhort you to seek Christ Act. 17.22 27. but it is the meer mercy and free grace of God to drive you to Christ which nothing but his everlasting love can move him to doe Ier. 31.3 You ought to seek and wait aske and have and use all the meanes which God hath appointed and afforded you both secret private and publike Revel 2.29 But God must make the meanes effectuall Acts 16.14 And therefore I must say It is not in me I cannot draw you to Christ that is the Fathers worke John 6.44 But having exhorted you to seeke him in the use of meanes there I must leave you to waite on God for the moving of his holy Spirit where you must lye and continue like the poore impotent man at the poole of Bethesda for healing And though as he did so you may see many a Lame Blinde Deaf Dumb Naked-leprous soule get healing and goe away rejoycing and praising God and you remaine still so impotent that you cannot get in to the Fountaine set open for sin and for uncleannesse nor have any that can helpe you in that you may be cured yet be not disheartned as Christ came suddenly and unexpectedly and healed the impotent man after long waiting so Christ will come according to his promise to your soules that seek him Malac. 3.1 The Lord whom you seek shall come shall suddenly come saith the Lord of Hosts THE SECOND SERMON EPHES 1.4 That we should be holy IN this chapter you have First the inscription of the Epistle vers 1. and therein is declared both the Pen-man Paul and his Office an Apostle of of Jesus Christ by the will of God also the persons to whom the Epistle was written the Saints and to the faithfull in Christ Jesus which are at Ephesus Secondly A salutation vers 2. and therein is expressed the matter of the Salutation Grace and Peace the persons saluted you to wit the Saints the Author from whom Grace and Peace comes to the Saints From God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ Thirdly A congratulation vers 3. for spirituall blessings in generall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Who hath blessed us with all spirituall blessings c. or with every spirituall blessing Whereof the Apostle mentioneth some particularly in the following verses to wit Election Predestination Adoption In this 4 verse Saint Paul hints to us First That there is an Election Secondly That the Elect are chosen in Christ Thirdly That Election was before the World was founded And fourthly that the Elect of God should be holy and without blame in his presence in love Thus you see the occasion and dependence of the words of the Text which offers to your religious consideration this plaine Doctrine Doct. God will have his people to be an holy people This point of doctrine needeth no explanation And it is a truth so generally assented to by all professors that I shall give you but one Scripture to confirme it 2 Thes 3. This is the will of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 your Sanctification And indeed it appeares manifestly in the Scripture of truth that this is Gods holy will First because God hath chosen them in Christ to this end Ephes 1.4 That they should be holy Secondly God calles his to holinesse 1 Thes 4.7 God hath not called us to uncleannesse but unto holinesse Thirdly God hath given to every one of his the holy spirit to sanctifie them Rom. 15 16. being sanctified by the holy spirit Fourthly God affords them his holy word which is a meanes of Sanctification John 17.17 Sanctifie them through thy truth thy word is truth Yea when they sin against God he will chastise them for their profit that they may be partakers of his holinesse Heb. 12.10 So that God would have his people holy Reason 1. God will have his people to be holy that he may be justified in justifying the ungodly Rom. 3.26 That he might be just that justifieth the ungodly Rom. 4.5 God justifieth the ungodly that is He finding men