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A23649	The way of the Spirit in bringing souls to Christ set forth in X sermons on John 16:7, 8, 9, 10 and chap 7:37 / by Mr. Thomas Allen, late pastor of a church in ... Norwich.	Allen, Thomas, 1608-1673.; Finch, Martin, 1628?-1698.	1676 (1676)	Wing A1047; ESTC R23572	153,393	274

yet if we have not really come to Christ we fall short of what we might have expected to have met with I thought to have prest the invitation on poor souls that they might come and drink of the water of life but the time is past Thirsty Sinners invited to Christ SERMON IX JOHN 7.37 In the last day that great day of the Feast Jesus stood and cried saying If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink THE Point or Truth that was before us from these words was this namely That such as being thirsty and come unto Jesus Christ shall certainly have a full and free supply Or as you may take it in the words of Christ If any man be a thirst let him come to Jesus Christ and drink This Jesus Christ did speak and cryed it in the hearing of many thousands saying If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink You have heard what it is to thirst and what this thirst is it is a thirst of the soul which Jesus Christ here speaks of If any man thirst it implyes these three things 1. There is a sence even an afflictive sence of something that it sees a necessity of As it is with the thirst of the Body if one be truly thirsty he doth not only want water or want drink or moisture but is sensible of it and is afflicted with the sense of it So now this same thirsty soul it hath a sence of spiritual want and is afflicted with the sense of it You may see David cryes out saying I am in a place where no water is And Psal 63. My soul thirsteth for God And the Prophet Isaiah saith The needy seek water and their tongue fails for thirst There is an afflictive sense upon the soul from the want of some spiritual good 2. There is not only a sense of want but there is also an ardent and vehement desire of a supply And 3. The Soul is not only lodging and desiring but is unsatisfied with any thing short of that it desires Several other particulars were insisted upon and I came to a third which now I shall desire to speak to through the Lords assistance Viz. That such as do come to Christ shall have a full supply Every soul that doth come to Christ shall be filled He that comes to me shall not only have a taste but shall have a full supply Let him come unto me and drink He shall not only have a full suyply but a free supply Christ doth not require any thing at all Whosoever he be that comes unto me he shall drink he shall be freely supplyed Rev. 22.17 Let him that is a thirst come And whosoever will let him come and take of the waters of Life freely And Isa 55.1 Ho every one that is a thirst come ye to the Waters He shall be made to drink and be supplied with all spiritual heavenly and eternall Blessings Jesus Christ he is a full supply and though we may have a Notion that in Jesus Christ there is a full supply yet we have a Principle and Notion in us that we have some supply in our selves A Popish Principle Christ may supply us in part but some from our selves and therefore we have a Notion as if we should go unto Christ with money in our hands to buy it of him Therefore a little to clear these things viz. To demonstrate 1. That Jesus Christ will certainly give a full supply 2. That there is a full supply that Christ will give out not a part only but a full supply to all that come to him First That Jesus Christ will give out a full supply of all spiritual Blessings Whatsoever good things the soul can stand in need of or can possibly desire Jesus Christ will give out a full supply unto all them even every of them that comes to him 1. The first Demonstration is taken from The Incomprehensible Fullness that is in Jesus Christ He is a full Fountain not as a Pail or a Bucket drawn from a Well but he is a full Fountain now from out of a fountain ●here is a full supply to be had a man may drink as much as ever he will as much as ever he can hold Now Christ is a full Fountain see what is said concerning Christ Zech. 13.1 In that day there shall be a Fountain set open to the house of David and to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness And so Coloss 1. It pleased the Father that in him all fulness should dwell even all fulness Now if Christ be a fountain a full fountain there is fulness of supply to be had in him Now all fulness of blessings are in Jesus Christ he is a fountain of all spiritual things that are needful for the salvation of a poor soul and there is a fulness of Spirit in Christ John 3.34 For God giveth not the Spirit by measure to him And so Coloss 2.9 't is said It pleased the Father that the fulness of the God-head dwelt in him as Mediator the fulness of the Deity the fulness of the Spirit 2. And then as there is a fulness of the God-head dwelling in him as Mediator and a fulness of the Spirit so there is also a Fulness of all gifts and of all graces in Jesus Christ John 1.14 He is the only begotten Son of the Father full of Grace and Truth And so in him are hid the treasures of wisdom and knowledge they are all hid in Christ he is the fountain of them and the Apostle hath another full expression Ephes 3.8 Vnto me who am less than the least of all Saints is this grace given that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ Unsearchable riches that can never be drawn dry The fulness of the Spirit the fulness of all Grace dwelleth in him 3. Thirdly There is a Fulness of Righteousness and Satisfaction in Jesus Christ so as to make a poor sinner to be accepted as righteous before God and discharge it of all sins as the Angel told Daniel Chap. 9.24 To make an end of Sins and to bring in an everlasting Righteousness a righteousness that will serve to all eternity for all from the beginning to the end of the World and though the Saints are striving after a measure and fulness daily yet notwithstanding there is a fulness in Jesus Christ the blood of Jesus cleanseth from all sin there is merit enough and vertue enough 1 John 2.5 If any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous and he is the Propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but for the sins of the whole World There 's righteousness and satisfaction and merit enough for all And 4 Then there is a Fulness of power to give out and to communicate unto others See John 5.26 27. For as the Father hath Life in himself so hath he given to the Son to have Life in himself and

Instrument to convert by his preaching now to see that their conversion was true and real by their continuing in the truth I have no greater Joy in this world saith he And why so I pray Why should this be such a matter of Joy and rejoycing to the hearts of the faithful Servants that their Ministry is made effectual for the Conversion of Souls 1. Upon this Account because Here is a Sign and Token that God hath blessed their Ministry that the Blessing of God from Heaven hath been upon their labours and I pray let me appeal to your selves is it not matter of Comfort Joy and Rejoycing to you that you find your labours and indeavours to have any Success to be blessed of God As now take a Nurse that brings up a Child and she sees the child begins to thrive by her suckling of it and it is the Joy and Rejoycing of her heart as on the other side if she see the Child pine away and doth not prosper 't is the grief of her heart when she takes all this pains and no good comes of it When you plant and sow seed if you take any pains in your Orchard or Garden in grafting and the like and you find that your labour is made fruitful is it not a Comfort to you to go into your Garden and see the seed that you have sown flourish and come up It is rejoycing to you and much more is it to the hearts of the faithful Servants of Christ that their labours in the Ministry are blessed and made fruitful and successful because now here is the more immediate presence of God upon their labours here is the blessing the blessing of God doth more immediately appear in their labours Now in sowing of Seed there is instrumental means and causes of its growing there is Dew and Showers and Rain from Heaven there is the influence of the Sun the fatness of the Soil that concur to cause it grow but now there is much against the Ministry of the Word to work upon the heart there is the corruption of the heart and the temptations of Satan and the World and all to hinder the Gospel from taking effect but now when the Lord makes the Gospel to take effect to become efficacious to the Conversion of Souls of poor Creatures here is now the blessing of Heauen upon his labours and now he hath cause to rejoyce greatly that God is with him and hath blessed his labours and now God doth own him as a Fellow-Labourer together with himself We are Workers together with God saith the Apostle We are Gods Husband men and we are planting for God and God goes along with us and cooperates with us what a mighty cause of rejoycing is this that we have the presence of God with us and the blessing of God upon us nay it is an argument and token that God owns their Ministry and labour and he seals their Ministry and Labour as the Apostle saith Ye are the Seal of our Ministry this is I say matter of great Joy and Consolation in regard it is a Sign and Token that God hath blessed the Labours of his Servants and owned their Ministry 2. 'T is a matter of great Joy and Consolation because now Here is a Testimony that Jesus Christ in Heaven and in his Glory is mindful of his poor Servants here below in the World he doth mind and remember such a poor Servant of his that labours in his Name and doth send down the Spirit to accompany him in his Labours as Christ said here to his Disciples I will send the Comforter and he shall assist you and I will remember you when I am in Heaven I will not forget you Thus Christ now sends down the Comforter the Spirit from Heaven to assist such a poor Minister in his labours and endeavours what matter of Consolation is this to think that Christ from Heaven sends down his Spirit to co-operate with him in his indeavours What matter of Joy and Consolation is this Take but one more 3. It must needs be matter of great Joy and Consolation to the faithful Servants of Christ to think that the Lord should please to make use of such as they are to be Instruments in his hands to pull down the Kingdome of the Devil and to inlarge the Kingdom of Christ That the Devils Kingdom and power should go down and that Souls should be drawn out of his Kingdom by the Labours of his poor Servants what Joy is this When Christ sent his Disciples to preach Luke 10.17 18 it is said They returned again rejoycing saying The Devils are subject to us Ay saith Christ I beheld Satan fall down from Heaven like Lightning Where the Gospel comes there goes such a Presence of the Spirit with the preaching thereof that Sathan goes down and poor Souls are brought out from under his power and Dominion as you know Christ told Paul that he should be instrumental to turn people from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God though they be under the Kingdom and Power of the Devil yet by the preaching of the Gospel when the Spirit concurs and goes along with it poor Souls are translated from the Kingdom of Satan into the Kingdom of his dear Son Col. 1.15 Now what Joy and Comfort must this needs be to the hearts of the faithful Servants of Christ that the Lord should please to make them Instruments in his own hands to pull down the Kingdom of the Devil and to inlarge his own Kingdom that such shall be added to the Lord as shall be saved I say it must needs be matter of Joy and Rejoycing But I would hasten to an end Briefly therefore by way of Application Application And here I might in the first place take occasion to speak a Word of Direction to the Ministers of Christ if it were a fit place and season namely to direct us how we may so preach that we may have most Joy and Consolation The faithfull Servants of Christ have more Joy and Consolation by being instrumental for the Conversion and Salvation of Souls than by all that ever the People of their Congregation can do for them If they may be instrumental in the Lords hand for their Conversion and Salvation this is more Joy and Consolation to them than any thing in the World can be Christ tells his Disciples that this would be matter of Joy and Rejoycing to their Hearts when he was gone from them therefore we should seek to convert and save Souls we should do as the Apostle saith I seek not yours but you we should seek the Conversion and Salvation of Souls and therefore we should be preaching of Faith and of Repentance as the Apostle Paul saith of himself Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and Repentance towards God whereby poor Souls may be converted and saved And we had need be much in pleading with God for the Spirit that the Spirit of the Lord may