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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61265	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hal, Septem. the 26th, 1675 by John Standish ...	Standish, John, d. 1686.	1676 (1676)	Wing S5215; ESTC R13595	12,157	34

his own Graces to us and derive certain measures of the same holy Spirit upon us which himself as man had without measure because in him the fulness of the Godhead dwelt bodily Why should it be thought strange that this holy Spirit that united GOD and Man in one Person should as really unite us to our own Nature in CHRIST the Body to the Head the Branches to the Vine and make him dwell in us and us in him him one with us and us with him as the Scripture speaks If any man think our Union with CRIST to be merely Political that is no more than you may conceive between King Bramble in the Parable and the rest of the Trees his Subjects he is in a very novel and gross mistake To which I shall at present only oppose the words of two or three sound Divines of our own Church Though the Holy Ghost doth work Faith and other Graces in our Souls yet he doth not by these unite our Souls or Spirits immediately to himself but unto CHRISTS Humane Nature So the profound Dr. Jackson CHRIST is as truly united to me and I to him as my arm is united and knit to my shoulder So the Judicious Hooker in plain English By the influence of his present life CHRIST undergoes as it were a second Incarnation living and dwelling in our hearts by his Grace and reigning powerfully in our souls by Faith So the Learned Chillingworth to add no more So that upon the whole matter the sum of our Ambassy is this That JESUS CHRIST is both the Author and finisher of our Faith that he hath solemnly promis'd to give his holy Spirit to them that ask him that if men be not wanting to themselves but resign their hearts to his Conduct nay if they don't forcibly resist him and quench the holy flames he kindles in their Souls through his Servants Ministry he will make them real partakers of the Grace of CHRIST by working in them a firm Hope fervent Love pure Conscience clean Heart sober Mind chast Body pious Soul holy Life and first and last a true Faith in JESUS CHRIST without which it is impossible to please or to be reconciled to GOD. And if these things be so I cannot but animadvert a while upon those false Apostles and deceitful Workers who instead of building are ever pecking at the Foundation of our Faith with their Axes and Hammers in great Blasphemies and lesser Criticisms to change the old sound word of Reconciliation for new Ideas and devices of their own and other mens Brains That would supplant Christian Religion with Natural Theologie and turn the Grace of God into a wanton Notion of Morality that impiously deny both the Lord that bought them and his Holy Spirit that should seal them to the day of Redemption making Reason Reason Reason their only Trinity and sole Standard whereby to measure both the Principles and Conclusions of Faith that preach up Natural and Moral Religion without the Grace of God and Faith in Christ which is at best beginning at the wrong end and making Superstructures without a Foundation For the Jew cannot be saved by the Law of Moses much less the Gentile by all the Works of the Law of Nature which unless actuated by a lively Faith are no better than the cutting off a Dogs neck or the Sacrifice of a Fool. A Truth that Socrates himself in an ancient Dialogue ascribed to Plato makes no scruple to consent unto when he says ingenuously that no man can be good and vertuous by Nature Art Discipline Example or any other manner of way but only by Divine Inspiration So far do they out-strip a very Heathen that teach a good Life will carry men to Heaven though they be Jews Turks Antichristians or never such damnable Hereticks in point of Faith If any such as these be crept in among us unawares I am sure there is as much need of a Test for them how slily soever they carry it by amusing the World with other fears as for the rankest Errour in all the Pope's Dominions And I beseech you Brethren in our LORD beware of them Ye shall know them by their Fruits as He Himself foretels you He does not mean the Fruits of their Lives for they are the closest of all other Hypocrites they go demurely in Sheeps clothing too But the Fruits and Consequents of their Doctrine which are dismal enough one would think to make themselves afraid as Moses was of his own Rod turn'd into a Serpent For they are such as these That there is no such thing as supernatural Grace That CHRIST dyed in vain That ye are yet in your sins and every man must be his own Saviour or he is damn'd for ever From which Good LORD deliver us and GOD grant that by the Wisdom and Vigilance of the Defender of our Faith and his Prelates under Him no such Foreign Poyson may be privily conveighed through Press or Pulpit into our Church That those black-mouth'd Authors bearing date from Irenopolis may receive so timely and publick a check as that we shall not need to fear their growing the only Divines in Vogue by the next Age That we may never live to see our Youth trained up in the Cracovian Catechism never live to hear our selves called by any other New Name but that of GOD'S own giving That as the Disciples were first called at Antioch so they may be last called CHRISTIANS here in England And now I come to the third and last part of my Text The manner of the true Ambassadors Address in those words As though GOD did beseech you by us We pray you in CHRIST'S stead Which is first modest and humble We pray and beseech Let those Haughty Polish Envoys swagger themselves and others out of their Creed Let the Disciplinarian Agents Reprobate all the World but their own private Elect Let the Pope's Legates à Latere Lord it over mens Estates and Consciences let Them will and require all upon pain of Damnation to put their necks under his feet who in the Pride of his heart writes himself Servus Servorum that is in the Vulgar Translation Lord of lords As for us we have no such Message we have not so learned Christ We only pray you as men for whom CHRIST died quit your selves like men and fly to Mercy speedily lest you fall into the hands of Justice by letting your Sun go down upon the Wrath of God You have all a merciful Saviour who never did never will refuse a sincere Penitent if you will take his own word for it Him that cometh unto me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will in no wise by no means cast out We beseech you as Christians who have not only heard there is a Holy Ghost but are baptized into the name of the Eternal TRINITY have often tasted of the heavenly Gifts and Powers of the World to come We beseech you let the love of CHRIST constrain you to improve the Talent put into your hand and suffer his Holy Spirit to