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

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〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he saith that the Elephant loves men I would have all these properties meet in every one of these Worthy Citizens that are any way betrusted with the Government of the City The God of Heaven give you wisdom and give you to remember all Providential Dispensations that are past and deliver you from passion and gall and make you flock together and head together and teach you to love men All this would still engage you against a common Enemy Love men as men love the bodies of men and you have given a most glorious accompt of that this year to your praise I must report it here is this year c. why here is a glorious proof of your love to men Love their bodies love their souls love them as Christians especially love them as Saints have a care to breed them up in Callings train them up in some degree of learning this is most honorable and I hope being done with an honest heart it will further your accompt at the great Day I yet dare take the boldness to adde the Rules which I chiefly intended Some Rules now for your pursuance of Truth and some for the pursuance of Love that they may be happily married this day For Truth let the Word of God be Rule and Judge when you enquire after Truth study the revealed will of God and make use of revelations in concurrence with the Word of God but do not set up revelations against the Word of God It was a desperate expression from Valde in a Book of his in great request now adays it is true he had many things good in him considering the darkness of the times wherein he lived a Spaniard saith he We must use the Scriptures as we use Pictures he was a Papist use Pictures for a while till we get apprehension of the thing or person realized to us then throw them away because now we can pray without Pictures So use the Scriptures till we have got our mindes raised and elevated and then we need no Scriptures The Lord deliver us from this Opinion which tends to undermine the very Word of Christ. Far be it from me to say any thing against New-Light properly so called though there is some so called which is I doubt Darkness nor against all Revelations for there is a Spirit of Revelation but I desire it may be wisely considered how the Spirit of Revelation discovers it self Thus chiefly not in bringing in a New Gospel and such New Dispensations to us as many talk of but in Discovering that Word which he hath revealed and we have by us in raising our mindes to understand that word more fully and those works of God that are in it more clearly I would heartily bless God for it in my self or in others if it were such a Spirit of Revelation as should help me to see any Word of God or any Work of God in me more clearly This is the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation the Apostle to the Ephesians speaks of but if you 'll talk of Revelations that you have Revelations beyond the Word and it may be sometimes in a maner contrary to the Word surely this is not the way of truth There is a poor old man Hero in Cassianus that thought he had a Revelation that when he was in the bottom of a pit he should get out but for all his Revelation he was deceived I desire such things may be considered The next thing is this Minde Truth wisely I would say under this head 1. Be sure it be Truth that you contend for not for unwarranted Ceremonies not for trifles for those things that deserve not the name of Divine Truth And then 2. Proportion your zeal to the nature of Truth There are some Truths de fide circa fidem and in some sence praeter fidem I must not allow the like zeal for all I will have the Substantial part of my zeal for Substantial Truths and for other Truths so much zeal as the nature of them calls for This is to minde Truth wisely this is that that becomes you And then withal Minde Truths according to the directions of Truth 1. Meddle not with things too high be sober A Spirit of Sobriety in Divine things and Modesty in Secret things is most suitable to a Saint Rom. 12.3 2. Minde not Curiosities with neglect of those things that are necessary Affirm constantly saith Paul to Titus that those that are believers maintain good works but as for fables let them go Tit. 3.8 3. If you 'll do what becomes you concerning Truth Do not clap a Jus Divinum rashly upon every one of your Opinions O that brings us into a great deal of bondage divers things may be very good and yet better and more safely settled as Prudentials as Humane Constitutions then as Divine Constitutions unless we be sure we are upon Scripture-grounds then I say nothing against it What is the reason now that the Pope cannot alter I have heard it from some that have spoke with learned sober Papists asking them What think you of Transubstantiation or the like Opinions they profess Though we would yet we cannot alter them the Pope having asserted them who is infallible so that if we change one Point of our Religion we spoil all Truly if we clap a Jus Divinum we cannot alter it for we are engaged to hold it though we were mistaken I had rather settle too little then too much then we leave room for New Discoveries We may better adde then diminish I cannot take away a Jus ` Divinum without a great deal of disparagement Do not presently obtrude with confidence your own conceits upon others but rather mistrust them Learned men have had their Errors the wisest men have been deceived and do not rashly run from one Extremity to another Chrysostom he would and others they would run from the Manichees so far that they went too far towards Pelagius Many of us run so far from Popery and Prelacy that we run into other Extremities very dangerous and unhappy O take heed let me adde this further as you would be friends to truth Know that you have to deal with those men that will bring in Errors sensim sine sensu as the Devil dealt with Adam and Eve at first how did he beguile them he corrupted their mindes by degrees take heed of his methods from the simplicity that is in Christ You shall first have a little step and something like a Truth and that may be disputed at first then comes another and then comes another and so at last you are involved in inextricable Errors But the sixth and last thing I shall say under this head Take heed of being too far engaged in a party it is the way to sell a mans judgement for if I be one of a party I must strain hard to say as they say and subscribe as they
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 get something within that may strengthen and enable thee to do thy work 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be strong be strengthned passively expect it from another Strength is that which men glory in and therefore very desireable But what strength In the grace He doth not onely say Be thou strong in the Lord and in the power of his might as Ephes. 6.10 But in grace indeed he ultimately intends a participation of strength but withal intimates the original of that strength to be Grace as if he should say Thou standest in need of strengthning vertue in thee all that strength must be derived from Grace expect it from no external motive without God himself we have no arguments to move him to bestow strength upon us it is his Prerogative Royal peculiar to himself to act independently to have mercy on whom he will have mercy and Because he will have mercy Rom. 9.15 Ephes. 1.4 6 9. All derived from grace and resolved into grace And where lies this strengthning grace In the grace that is in Christ Jesus very significantly in the Original by the Article indigitating Christ to be the Spring of thy strengthning grace God will not trust thee with grace in thy own keeping lest thou prove a Bankrupt as Adam did and thou wouldst soon grow intolerable proud if thou wast able to act by thy own strength independently upon God very hard to keep down that weed even now in thy most depending condition therefore thy strength shall lie in Christs hands and thou be at his disposal for the communication of it so that thou shalt always have occasion to say Lord I cannot mortifie pride by the strength of my own humility that often fails me Lord I cannot confute my unbelief by the strongest arguments my Faith can produce I shall never be able to trample upon Satan or keep up under his Temptations from sinking without the strength and sufficiency of that grace which is in my Head Christ Iesus Lord make me strong by that Almighty grace which is in him That there is such a Spring of quickning grace in our Rock Christ Jesus is evident Isa. 9.6 The Government is upon his shoulders for the perfection of his Church and many other good purposes which require strength which is hinted in the expression On his shoulders Paul had a Commission to Preach the unsearchable riches of Christ Ephes. 3.8 to display his grace which is like a Sea you can finde no bounds like a Spring you cannot reach the bottom The Sea of Christs grace as in nature flows from the Spring and the Spring from the Sea so there is no reason of grace but grace it self This is to be acknowledged by all to be the deep mystery of God and of the Father and of the Son in whom are hid all the tresures of wisdom and knowledge The same blessed Apostle Col. 2.2 3. treasures therefore 1. Abundance 2. of things of price of wisdom and knowledge which being directive as well as operative impart strength Hid sometimes we hide things for secrecy and so the life of a Saint may be hid from carnal from godly spectators yea from himself and they droop under doubts So other things we hide for safety so chiefly though secrecy not excluded Col. 3.2 3. the life is hid with Christ in God and here is security of the Saints when Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in glory Shall let Beelzebub and all his Angels do their worst appear with him in glory Upon the same account doth this man of God so intimately acquainted with Christ Iesus in his Epistle to Philemon ver 6. pray for him That the communication of his Faith might become effectual there is his Faith with the strength and the efficacy of it by the acknowledgement of every good thing which is in you in Christ Iesus there 's grace in Christ and therefore derivatively in you because originally in him I might hence gather several Observations the first whereof might be this 1. Doct. The Spring of a Christians strength is in the Rock Iesus Christ. Exp●ic Here you have three particulars conducing to Explication of this Gospel-Truth 1. The nature and proportion of this strengthning grace in Christ Jesus 2. His title to it and possession of it 3. The sweet variety and various sweetness of this strengthning grace in Christ. First for the nature and proportion of it two things will clear it 1. There is in Jesus Christ the fulness of grace 2. The redundancy of this fulness of grace He is a full fountain and likewise an overflowing fountain The more you contemplate Christ in the glorious glass of the Gospel the sooner you will discover in him a Prophetical fulness of strengthning grace and that both in regard of the strength of his Word and in regard of the power of his Spirit both which are of great strength If you cast your eye upon the second Epistle of Paul to Timothy Chap. 3. ver 15 17. you shall finde that the holy Scripture is able to make a man wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Iesus there must be still an improvement of that strengthning grace which is in him and likewise it is profitable that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good works There is that in the word of Jesus Christ which is able to compleat men as Saints and as Ministers and therefore doubtless full of glorious strength And so likewise in regard of the Spirit hear what the Prophet Micah saith Chap. 3. ver 8. But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord and of judgement and of might to declare unto Iacob his transgression and to Israel his sin And when Jesus Christ did appear to Paul Acts 26.13 to make him a Minister and a Witness both of these things which he had seen and in those things in the which he would appear to him ver 16. doubtless there was a powerful presence of the Spirit of Jesus Christ abundance of strengthning grace to be conveyed by him otherwise how could he possibly open their eyes to whom he was sent ver 18. to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me still they are led to the Spring of grace in Christ now all these speak no less then an Almighty power You may perceive a fulness of strengthning grace in Christ as he is the Churches Priest otherwise he could never make full satisfaction to his Fathers Justice He could never so prevailingly intercede for the Saints in Heaven which are the two Branches of his Priestly Office when all the sins of his people met upon him so it is in the Original Isa. ●3 6 they would have
disharmony being wrought in them accordingly Jesus Christ by the infusion of gracious habits will reduce them to an holy complexion and constitution as 1 Thess. 5.23 The very God of peace sanctifie you wholly and I pray God your whole Spirit soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ You see he takes care for the restitution of the whole man Let the Arminians as falsly as confidently suggest that for our Conversion there needs onely a wakening of the Vnderstanding and a rectifying of the Affections the Will according to them being left as Illibato virgo for freedom to good being never ravished by Adams fall Jesus Christ teacheth other Doctrine who knowing the corruption of the Will tells you what the tenour of The Covenant of Grace is Ezek. 36.26 27. The Lord saith He will take away the stony heart of Flesh and put a new Spirit within them and cause them to walk in his statutes There is the redundancy of Christs fulness for the supplying of the Will as well as other faculties with holy dispositions Christs fulness is redundant into all the graces of the Saints increasing them where they are little strengthning them where they are feeble and languishing acting and animating them where they are dull and dead Hence it is that some of the Servants of Christ who though they have but a little stock of grace yet keeping in with him and holding communion with him do thrive much more in the Spiritual trading both for the magnifying of Christ and for the good of their own souls then divers others who make a greater shew and it may be have a larger portion of habitual grace Hence it is that Paul hath recourse to this fountain by prayer Phil. 1.9 And this I pray that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all sense that you may approve things that are excellent that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God Unto this purpose the Spouse invites her beloved to send forth his influence Cant. 4.16 Awake O North wind and come thou South blow upon my Garden that the spices thereof may flow out It is the presence of Jesus Christ who makes the spices that is the graces of his Spirit which grow in the Garden of his Church to cast a sweet perfume whereas he being absent the Saints will seem to wither at least comparatively even as the Trees they will have an Autumn yea a Winter not onely send forth no pleesant fruit but even the leaves fall off and the sap retire into the root there will be a winter of their graces till the Sun of Righteousness return with healing and quickening in his wings that is by the gracious beams of his Word and Spirit Then and never till then shall they go forth and grow up as Calves of the stall Mal. 4.2 be fat and flourishing Christs fulness is redundant into all their Duties wherein they exercise those several Graces that they may with Spiritual vigor and powerful activity perform those services to which the Lord calls them as Paul saith With my minde I my self serve the Law of God Rom. 7. ult and Rom. 8.26 Likewise the Spirit helpeth our infirmities for we know not how to pray as we ought O what heartless and sapless Performances do we multiply when Jesus Christ withdraws then and then onely we pray with life when the Spirit of Jesus Christ doth help our infirmities A word in the Original is very Emphatical when the Spirit takes us into his arms and carries us on powerfully against those infirmities that would clog and cloud and depress our Spirits in duty then they do duties not onely materially good but formally well in a Spiritual maner from Evangelical principles upon Evangelical motives and for Evangelical ends when there is a redundancy of the grace of Christ into them upon whom all our fruit is found Hos. 14.8 There is a redundancy of the fulness of Christ into all their various estates As when they are called to suffer that they may do it with cheerfulness not sinking under carnal discouragements but rather chide their souls out of it as the Psalmist on the 42. Psal. ver ult Why art thou cast down O my soul and why art thou disquieted within me Hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him who is the health of my countenance and my God When they are advanced to a prosperous condition that they may have a victorious Faith triumphing over not onely the frowns but the favors of the world 1 Joh. 5.4 For want of this Solomon and Hezekiah did so miserably lose themselves in a Spring-tide of prosperity It was Pauls great advantage that he had learned how to walk unchangeably with God in great changes Phil. 4.11 12 13. Not that I speak in respect of want for I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content I know both how to be abased and how to abound Every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and suffer need I can do all things through Christ that strengthneth me Phil. 4.13 the same Original word with that in the Text. We are apt to overgrieve or undergrieve at crosses therefore Solomon gives that wise counsel Prov. 3.11 My son despise not the chastening of the Lord it should not be slighted neither be weary of his correction we should not faint under it And his father David before him spake as seasonably If riches increase set not your hearts upon them There is a danger as our Estates are greatned so our Affections should swell to an inordinate cleaving to them None of these evils can be prevented but by the strengthning grace of Jesus Christ. In the next place I shall endeavor to discover as God inables Christs Title to and possession of this strengthning grace which he hath by a threefold Claim He hath a grace of Vnion so learned Divines call it by vertue of the Hypostatical Vnion our nature being so highly advanced into such a near fellowship with the Divine Nature all his Saints though never so unworthy are brought into a capacity of receiving strengthning grace from him as Joh. 1.14 And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory the glory as of the onely begotten of the Father full of grace and truth where you see clearly when the Word was made flesh there follows in him a fulness of grace and truth And as express to this purpose is that of Paul Col. 2.9 10. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily First There is fulness in him that he might be able to empty and communicate himself according to the various necessities of his Saints Secondly There is fulness of
experience which made him groan so sadly Psal. 51.8 Make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce When he had broke his conscience by sinning God would break his bones for sin And again ver 12. Restore to me the joy of thy salvation and ver 10. Create in me a clean heart and renew a right Spirit within me It s true the Lord had so far deserted him in regard of sensible comforts that he may desire their restoring and which may be observed by the way let the proud Arminian say what he can David was not become silius irae but onely silius sub ira still a beloved son he begs indeed the cleansing of his heart but onely the renewing of a right spirit within him 2. The Lord whips his children to an improvement of the grace of Christ by suffering them in his holy and wise providence to fall into some great and it may be some scandalous sin which shall draw on a sharp affliction This is to a Saint a most sharp cure yet God makes it often effectual to that happy end for though we be the onely proper authors of sin yet Gods permission is not otiosa but eff●cax permissio He knows how to govern its subserviency to the Covenant of Grace and to bring good out of evil otherwise he would neither suffer evil of sin or punishment to be David too clear an instance of this Rule Hereby the Lord whipped him out of himself to seek mercy from his Savior Psal. 51.1 Have mercy upon me O God according to thy loving kindeness according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions FINIS Acts 24 25 The Apostle useth four Arguments to Vnity Endeavoring to keep the Vnity of the spirit in the bond of 〈◊〉 Verse 7. Vers. 11 12. Vers. 13 14. Verse 15. Doctr. 1. Doctr. 2. Doctr. 3. Doctr. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Headship it self o● Christ. 1. Respectu Dignitatis 2. Respectu Regiminis 3. Respectu Influxui 4. Respectu Vnionis The appropriation of Christs Headship Note Note Christs Title to this Headship of his Church Luke 19.10 Vse 1. Pope no vicarious Head of the Church v. Polau Sputag p. 3351. v. B●d●l Vse 2. Caution It s dangerous to be injurious to any of Christs members Dan. 2.45 Verse 4 5. Strong encouragement for all Christs members Rom. 16.28 Vse 3. Contrary to Pau●s Doctrine Phil. 2.13 Note To believe is mans act but faith is Gods gift Vse 4. Caution Rom. 9.15 2. Tim. 2.20 2. Doctr. Christs intention and expectation in giving gifts 1. That there should be a growth Eph. 1. last 2. A growing up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3 Growing up to Christ in all things Note The grounds Reason 1. Reason 2. Reason 3. Note The end The stability in Christ. Stability in judgement Stability of affection Psal. 73.25 Psal. 11. Stability of conversation Note Improvement of Christ. In all conditions and relations In all duties Vse 1. That is to preach the Gospel for the working faith in Gods elect Note Vse 2. For Citizens chiefly who enjoy such rich Gospel-advantage Mat. 11.22 Growth must be proportionable to the means you enjoy Growth must be of all parts Vse 3. For information concerning the Ministery Consider the Original of the Ministery Gal. 1.1 Note Doubtles it is a great and provoking evil to cry down the whole Ministery because some seek themselvs or others of the Ministers affect too much power hereby the devil carries on his design Behold the Ministery in Christs intention in the giving of it That Ordinances and Ministery now cease and we are under another new Administration A most dangerous and most unsound opinion See Mr. Saltmarsh his Book called Beams of the bright morning Star p. 134 c. What another Administration then that of the Father through the Son by the Spirit Reasons against this Interpretation of Mat. 28 20 for his third Administration 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Thess. 8.9 Iude ver 3. 1 Cor. 15.9 24 28. Eph. 4.11 1. What is Truth 2. What is this love 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. What is it to speak or follow the Truth in the Text. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vers. 14. Scripturae plenitudinem adoro Truthing it in Love a good motto for Saints Doctr. 3. 2 Ioh. 2.4 5. Verse 2 3. Reasons why Truthing it in love so useful What Truth and Love do to prevent evils singly considered ● Tim. 4.3 4 1 Cor. 10.28 29 30. 1 Cor. 8.13 What Truth Love do to promote the best good of Saints being joyntly considered 2 Tim. 2.25 What Truth and Love being joyntly considered 1 Cor. 8.1 Note 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after the Passover not after Easter if truly translated Acts 12.4 vid. Minshul●s Dict. Note 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acts 1.20 Acts 2.27 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There was both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet sometime the former included in the latter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Helps Deacons Governments Elders No●e this grand Imposture 1. Vse of Instruction 2. Vse of Caution Two dangerous Regiments Captare impacata inquieta tempora A little book in quarto called Look about you Note 3 Vse of Exhortation Note Some Errors are 1. Contrafidem 2. Infide 3. Praeterfidem In Elephante melancholia transit in nutrimentum corporis Though the Elephants be maximae virtutis maximi intellectus yet gregatim semper in cedunt and so not uociva as solivaga are Homini erranti viam ostendit Rules concerning Truth and the pursuance of it 1. Rule about Truth Ezek. 13.2 Eph 4.17 Cassianus his Collat. 2. de discretione cap 5. 2. Rule about Truth 3. Rule about Truth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jus Divinum nititur verbo Divino Ames Note 4. Rule about Truth Note 5. Rule about Truth 2 Cor. 11.3 6. Rule about Truth Note Inclinus ad neutram partem sit Dominis ●●rius● 1. Rule about Love 1 Cor. 16.14 Eph 5.2 Col. 3.12 13. 2. Rule about Love 3. Rule about Love 4. Rule about Love Rom. 5.1 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Basil. Eph 5 2 5. Rule about Love 6. Rule about Love Phil. 1.27 3.15 16. Concordi● communa periculum ●oll●t●r Livy l. 28. Note 3 Epist. ver 1. Verse 2. Verse 3. Non vis errare ego sum via non vis falli ego sum veritas non vis mori ego sum vita non habes quā eas nisi per Christum non habes quò eas nisi ad Christum Ezek. 28.3 Sermo Dei est sicut hamus non capit nisi capiatur Aug. 1 Cor. 9.19 to 22. four times together Isa. 8.18 Division 1. part 1. persons Exhorting Exhorted 2. part substance of Exhortatiō Be strong 3. part The rock of thy strength 3. The grace that is in Christ Jesus Explic. Note Note 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Non satis babuit humerorū was said of one who wanted strength proportionable to his work Some copies read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 others 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both will come to one purpose though the last more full and indeed more probable In Christ Fulness Redundancy of grace 1. A Prophetical fulnes of grace in Christ. 1. Strength in his word 1 Ioh. 2.14 2. Strength of his Spirit 2. A priestly fulness of grace in Christ. 1. Christs gracious satisfaction 2. Christs gracious intercession 3. Christs Kingly fulness of grace 1. Christs powerful suppressing his enemies Chap 18. last verse 2. Christs powerful advancing his people Col. 2.13 Psal 103. Mat 16 18. Rev. 3.21 2. The redundancy of grace that is in Christ Jesus 1 Redundancy of his grace into all their faculties Rom. 5.12 15. 2. Redundancy of the grace in Christ into all the graces of the Saints 3. Redundancy of the grace that is in Christ Iesus into all their duties 4. Redundancy of the grace in Christ Jesus into the various estates of his Saints Psa. 62.10 1. part Christs title unto possession of this strengthening grace which is threefold 1. By the grace of Vnion 2. By the grace of Vnction Note 3. By the grace of Office 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Camer 2 Pet. 1.4 Note 3 part The various sweetnes sweet variety of the strengthning grace in Christ Iesus Note Applic. A serious invitation for al strangers to seek acquaintance with and interest in Iesus Christ. Ioh. 3.19 Vid L. Verulans Apothegmes 26. Note 1 Vse Note See in Arminius his Works a notable Discourse about Gods Providence in mens sins Deus non permittit peccatum tanquam otiosus spectator sed eff●●aci quadam permissione quamvis nullo modo sit Author peccati