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spirit_n	body_n	motion_n	soul_n	7,616	5	5.6016	4	false

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A01972	An exposition on the vvhole fifth chapter of S. Iohns Gospell also notes on other choice places of Scripture, taken by a reuerend diuine, now with God, and found in his study after his death, written with his owne hand ...	Gouge, William, 1578-1653.; Pemble, William, 1592?-1623.	1630 (1630)	STC 12114; ESTC S103283	240,568	389

glorious 〈…〉 wi●h Christ 1 Ioh. 3.1 2. 〈…〉 This then must vp●old vs against all the scoffes and reproaches of the world against our owne wants and infirmities that wee be not daunted by them for Christ suffereth vs to bee tryed by these 1 That wee may see our owne vnworthinesse 2 To make vs the more thankfull for the more vnworthy wee are of a thing the more thankfull we bee for it As Abigail was of Dauids offer 1 Sam. 25. and was Ester a poore captiue more thankful for her aduancement then Vashti which is report●d to haue beene Cyrus daughter 2 This is a ground of great comfort vnto vs in that we ar● ruled by so wise glorious and powerfull a gouernor who wil and can deliuer vs from all danger c. which thing wee must consider when we are assaulted by the t●mp●ation of the deui●l and world For Christ hath a feeling of all our wrongs and iniuries euen as the head hath of all the hurts of the body and for this reason hee said vnto Saul Saul Saul why persecutest thou mee 3 This shewes that this vnion of Christ with vs is as neere as possible can be But of this more vers 30. 2 Doct. This further shewes the regiment of Christ ouer his Church of what it is That it is no Tyrannical but such as is for our good hee hauing alwaies a sence and fellow-feeling of our infirmities and wants The world hee ruleth as a Iudge with a scepter of iron Psal 2.9 110.1 c. But the Saints he gouerneth gently and mildely as a father not crushing them vnder his feete but exalting them Ioh. 14.3 3 Doct. Hence wee see from whence wee haue all graces namely from Christ as the body hath all sence and life and motion from the head For this cause is Christ not onely a liuing soule but a quickning spirit because he giueth life vnto vs 1 Cor. 15.45 Hence it is that he is called a Vine Ioh. 15.1 2. and that wee liue in him Gal. 2.20 This must make vs depend vpon Christ to haue reco●rs● vnto him for all good things Also this serues to strengthen our faith concerning our ful deliuerance not onely from temporall euill but from death and him that hath the pow●r of it Heb. 2.14 For if the head be aboue water there is no feare of drowning and therefore if Christ our head be safe if he be risen deliuered from the power of d●ath we must be safe if we perish he must perish too b●cause of this vnion And this may make vs bold to triumph against all our enemies Further obserue who they bee that are vnited to Christ They are the Church viz. all the Elect of God who are called sanctified whether militant on earth or triumphant in heauen Wee may also comprehend among them those that are not yet borne if we respect that that shall bee but not properly Doct. The gifts of Gods Spirit are proper to the Elect being called and sanctified 1 Thes 1.3 4. 1 Pet. 1.4 The most precious promises are giuen to them Rom. 11 29. Which refutes the opinion of those that say that iustifying faith and some sauing may bee in the wicked and reprobate aswell as in the Elect and that there is no difference but in the continuance 2 It teacheth the more highly to prize the proper graces for those things that but a few haue are wont to bee much esteemed Yet other and they will make so great account of common gifts 3 This serues for triall to know whether wee bee in the Church or no and so whether Christ bee our head Doe wee feele in vs spirituall life and motion namely the graces of Gods Spirit dwelling in our hearts It is a signe wee are vnited to our head Christ but if we bee still dead in our sinnes dull in our vnderstanding c. wee may iustly feare that wee are not in Christ 2 If there be a mutation and change in our nature if our conuersation bee heauenly and wee partakers of the diuin● quality it is a token we are grafted into the true Oliue tree which as they report contrary to other stockes changeth 〈…〉 into it owne Doct. Out 〈…〉 no saluation Which is to be vnderstood of 〈…〉 Church that they who are not of the numb●r 〈…〉 who are vnited to Christ can looke for no saluation ●nd not of particular Churches as to say that because he is not of this or that congregation therefore hee cannot bee saued though in the meane while it be a dangerous thing to separate himselfe from a particular Church where he sees the plaine not●s of a true Church Here are discouered two errors 1 Of the Papists that exclude all from saluation that are not of the Romish Church 2 Of the Separatists that doe wilfully abstaine from all particular Churches Further this shewes that this title of Head is proper to Christ alone as 1 who hath it alotted to him of God Ephes 1.22 2 who is most eminent high and powerfull 3 who only hath receiued the spirit aboue measure Then it is a presumptuous dealing of the Papists who make the Pope to be the head of the Church Their distinction of Imperiall and ministeriall head is but new found for heretofore they vsed to say that Christ took Saint Peter into the fellowship of the indiuisible vnity so making them both one And as false it is as neuer hauing ground in the Scripture but is a m●ere inuention of their owne braines for they say Christ is the Imperiall head that is he quickens giues grace The Pope is the ministeriall that is he gouerns which is to separate those offices that are cōioined in Christ secondly how doth the Pope gouern is it by maintaining the peace of the Church c No but by making lawes binde to mens consciences and the like Sauiour of his body Consider heere 1 The kind● of the benefit 2 The p●rson that bestowes it 3 The obiect of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Sauiour A word in Greeke which those that are Grecians say cannot bee fully expressed in Latin signifying as much as a most absolute deliuerer from all danger and all euill whatsoeuer Mat. 1.21 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He is h●e alone of and by himselfe Act. 4.11 a body all the Elect implying two conclusions 1 That all that are giuen to him of God are saued hee saues not a legge or an arme only but euery part of the body b 2 That none but those that are giuen to him are saued by him c Vse is 1 To amplify the benefit of the head-ship of Christ in whom we haue true rest and secur●ty so that wee may trust perfectly to the grace that is brought vnto vs. 2 It is for our comfort ioy and to stir vs vp to praise God as the Virgin Mary and old Simeon did and for this cause the Angell said that it was gladsome tidings that a Sauiour was borne vnto the