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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97002	A sermon, preached in the Kings Chappell at VVhite-Hall, on Sunday last July 15. 1649. By Henry Walker cleric. author of the Perfect occurrences.	Walker, Henry, Ironmonger.	1649 (1649)	Wing W385; Thomason E565_18; ESTC R203995	9,933	19

the Spirit of Counsell and of might the Spirit of Knowledge and fear of God and shall make him of quick understanding in the feare of God and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes nor reprove after the hearing of his eares here is the impression of Gods Spirit which did rest upon his heart and it shall make him quick and nimble to act for God when the Spirit of God is powerfull upon the heart of a believer it doth make him act powerfully and couragiously I will pray the Father and he shall give you another comforter Iohn 14. 16. As if he should have said the Lord he hath great things for you to do to go forth and preach salvation to the people nay to lay down your lives for God and to act very great things for the good of the people and the glory of God In whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word of truth the Gospell of the salvation in whom also after that you believed ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance untill the redemption of the purchased possession unto the praise of his glory Here now you see that the seal is the earnest of our inheritance that they do act great things for the glory of God Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new Creature old things are passed away behold all things are become new If that you will be a new Creature this Spirit of God must make an impression in your hearts Now all old things are past away those things which at the first we had by nature but now by the Holy Ghost we do receive new things for when a man is in the ways of God all things become new there is a new mind a new spirit a new conversation there is nothing of the old man in him when before the mind was busied about earthly things now it is busied about heavenly things now his conversation is in heaven now when the Spirit of God doth make a new impression in the spirits of Men it doth enable them to act great things for the glory of God and for the good of the People And for this I shal give you some Reasons 1. The first ground or reason is taken from Gods decree for as the Lord prepared Heaven for the Elect so the Lord hath decreed that those that he hath appointed for salvation shall live with him and they shall have an influence of the Holy Ghost I say that it doth proceed from the Lords decree Ephes. 2. v. 10. For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them God hath before from all Eternity ordain'd that those that shall be saved shall live here a sanctified and holy life they shall receive an influence of the Holy Ghost the Spirit of God shall make a new impression upon their hearts 2. The second ground is from the communion we have from Christ it is impossible that there should be such a communion between the members and the head as there is between a Saint and God but there must be the Spirit of God and that Spirit must work effectually between them both there is a communion betweene him and us members the same grace and glory thar he hath the same hath his members John 17. v. 22. That the same glory thou gavest me I have given them that they be one even as we are one There is such a communion between Christ and his members that the glory which God hath given him the same he hath given them therefore they must get grace here that they may live the life of a gracious Christian for it is begun here and it shall be perfected when they come to glory hereafter 3. The third ground is from the operation of the Holy Ghost for those that have not the Spirit of God within them they are none of his those upon whose hearts the Holy Ghost doth not make an impression they have no right to Heaven nor to any of the glory that God hath prepared for his Children Rom. 8. v. 11. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead be in you he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortall bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you It is in vaine for any man to think that he doth write in the waies of God if that there be no influence of the Holy Ghost that makes an impression in his heart Now I will speak a word or two for application 1. For Reproofe 2. Instruction 3. For Comfort or Consolation Is it so that the Spirit of God when that it does make an impression upon the spirits of men it doth carry them on to act great things for the glory of God Then in the first place this must serve 1. To reprove those that doe make a stright account of it and low esteem of it insomuch that for any other temporall thing they will worke night and day for it but so slack for my heavenly matter and in the waies to be acquainted with God and Heaven that they doe cast it behind their backs they make no account of leaving the Holy Ghost 2. Another sort are to be reproved that though they could wish that they might go to Heaven and be saved yet they are drawn back by some Earthly Creature and by some sinne or other so that they are mighty slack to get communion with Christ they are so much in love with the World and Earthly things that they cannot hardly leave it 3. They are much to be reproved that have had a great discovery of God in their soules who were once inlightned by the word of God who have tasted of the good word who have had knowledge of God and now doe turne their backs againe upon the word of God with the Dog to the vomit and with the Swine to the mire Jer. 13. v. 15 16. Because they have turned from me my soule shall have no pleasure saith the Lord c. When those that did professe the name of Christ those that are of the Church and those that are called those that have gone farre in the waies of Religion and now fall back this doth make them odious in the sight of the Lord Heb. 6. v. 4 5 6. It is impossible who were once enlightned and have tasted of the heavenly gifts and were made Partakers of the Holy Ghost and have casted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come if they shall fall away to renew them againe to repentance seeing they Crucifie to themselves the Sonne of God afresh and put him to an open shame When they have gone so farre in the waies of God and Religion that have been enlightned and have tasted the good word and the power of God it is an impossible thing for to renew those Men to repentance