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A87817	Christ exalted: in a sermon begun to be preached at Debenham in Suffolk, upon the 14. day of Febr. last, upon Coloss. 3. 11. / By Hanserd Knollys. Who was stoned out of the pulpit (as he was preaching) by a company of rude fellowes, and poor women of that town; who were sent for, called together, and set on by a malignant high-constable, who lives in the same town. Also, another sermon, preached at Stradbrooke in Suffolk, the 13. day of Febr. last, concerning sanctification; upon Ephes. 1. 4.	Knollys, Hanserd, 1599?-1691.	1645 (1645)	Wing K706; Thomason E284_14; ESTC R200061	21,848	24

preached to every creature in all parts of the world Mark 16.15 None are exempted or prohibited from hearing the Gospel preached but every one that hath an eare is required to heare Revel 2.7 And let such as neglect the hearing of the word of God preached by such as are called and sent of Christ consider what the Lord saith Prov. 1. from the 20. vers to the 32. vers But albeit some of you see it is that you ought to doe and that you had need to doe to wit to seeke the Lord assenting to what you heard in the first verse of the doctrine that there is much worth beauty and excellency in Christ and that poore-lost-undone sinners stand in need of him Notwithstanding how to obtaine Christ you know not as yet Let me tell you God offers you Christ upon Gospel-termes which are these three First God in the dispensation of the Gospell propounds Christ to lost sinners as the onely necessary and all-sufficient meanes of Salvation Christ is the onely necessary means of Salvation Act. 4.12 Neither is there Salvation in any other And Christ is the All-sufficient meanes of Salvation so that we need none but him Heb. 7.25 He is able to save them to the umost c. Secondly God doth offer Christ to lost sinners without respect to price or person He invites them that have no money to come and buy Wine and milk that is to say Christ without price Isa 55 1. And any one that will are invited to take Christ freely Revel 22.17 And whosoever will let him take the water of life that is Christ freely Thirdly God requires that those who do receive him shall depart from iniquity 2. Tim. 2.19 Live soberly righteously and Godly in this present world Ti●us 2 11 12 13 14 15. And that they shall sell all lose all and hate all for the sake of Christ and take up the Crosse and follow him You will say to me Alas here is my miserie to wit although God propound Christ upon good termes to poor sinners to me among others I have no power of my selfe to receive Christ to beleeve in him and accept of him True It is not as I said in him that willeth nor him that runneth but in God who sheweth mercy Rom. 9.16 It is the exceeding greatnesse of his power to us-wards who beleeve which must be put forth in your hearts to make you beleeve also according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead Ephes 1.19 20. And you ought to wait on God in the diligent use of meanes untill the day of his power come upon you and then you shall be a willing a beleeving people Psal 110.3 I may exhort you to repent of your wickednesse prophanenesse c. as Peter did Act. 8.22 But God must give you repentance unto life Act. 11.18 It is my duty to preach the Gospel to you and to exhort you to seek Christ Act. 17.22 27. but it is the meer mercy and free grace of God to drive you to Christ which nothing but his everlasting love can move him to doe Ier. 31.3 You ought to seek and wait aske and have and use all the meanes which God hath appointed and afforded you both secret private and publike Revel 2.29 But God must make the meanes effectuall Acts 16.14 And therefore I must say It is not in me I cannot draw you to Christ that is the Fathers worke John 6.44 But having exhorted you to seeke him in the use of meanes there I must leave you to waite on God for the moving of his holy Spirit where you must lye and continue like the poore impotent man at the poole of Bethesda for healing And though as he did so you may see many a Lame Blinde Deaf Dumb Naked-leprous soule get healing and goe away rejoycing and praising God and you remaine still so impotent that you cannot get in to the Fountaine set open for sin and for uncleannesse nor have any that can helpe you in that you may be cured yet be not disheartned as Christ came suddenly and unexpectedly and healed the impotent man after long waiting so Christ will come according to his promise to your soules that seek him Malac. 3.1 The Lord whom you seek shall come shall suddenly come saith the Lord of Hosts THE SECOND SERMON EPHES 1.4 That we should be holy IN this chapter you have First the inscription of the Epistle vers 1. and therein is declared both the Pen-man Paul and his Office an Apostle of of Jesus Christ by the will of God also the persons to whom the Epistle was written the Saints and to the faithfull in Christ Jesus which are at Ephesus Secondly A salutation vers 2. and therein is expressed the matter of the Salutation Grace and Peace the persons saluted you to wit the Saints the Author from whom Grace and Peace comes to the Saints From God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ Thirdly A congratulation vers 3. for spirituall blessings in generall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Who hath blessed us with all spirituall blessings c. or with every spirituall blessing Whereof the Apostle mentioneth some particularly in the following verses to wit Election Predestination Adoption In this 4 verse Saint Paul hints to us First That there is an Election Secondly That the Elect are chosen in Christ Thirdly That Election was before the World was founded And fourthly that the Elect of God should be holy and without blame in his presence in love Thus you see the occasion and dependence of the words of the Text which offers to your religious consideration this plaine Doctrine Doct. God will have his people to be an holy people This point of doctrine needeth no explanation And it is a truth so generally assented to by all professors that I shall give you but one Scripture to confirme it 2 Thes 3. This is the will of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 your Sanctification And indeed it appeares manifestly in the Scripture of truth that this is Gods holy will First because God hath chosen them in Christ to this end Ephes 1.4 That they should be holy Secondly God calles his to holinesse 1 Thes 4.7 God hath not called us to uncleannesse but unto holinesse Thirdly God hath given to every one of his the holy spirit to sanctifie them Rom. 15 16. being sanctified by the holy spirit Fourthly God affords them his holy word which is a meanes of Sanctification John 17.17 Sanctifie them through thy truth thy word is truth Yea when they sin against God he will chastise them for their profit that they may be partakers of his holinesse Heb. 12.10 So that God would have his people holy Reason 1. God will have his people to be holy that he may be justified in justifying the ungodly Rom. 3.26 That he might be just that justifieth the ungodly Rom. 4.5 God justifieth the ungodly that is He finding men

and women in their blood or in their sins Ezek. 16 6 8. he in the the time of love forgives them all their sins covers their nakednesse with the skirt of Christs Righteousnesse and bids them live This is done when God enters into covenant with them and so they become his Now that God may be justified in so doing though he found them ungodly unbeleevers impenitent prophane c. He doth not onely forgive them all their sins and so leave them ungodly to go on in their wicked waies But he gives them his holy Spirit of Sanctificaton who changeth their hearts renewes the spirit of their minde sanctifies their wills and affection and produceth all those fruits of the spirit in them mentioned Gal. 5.22 23. whereby they are made holy in all manner of conversation 1 Pet. 1.15 16. And this reason the Apostle gives Ephes 1.4 6. That we should be holy to the praise of the glory of his grace and verse 12. That we should be to the praise of his Glory And herein is God justified in justifying the ungodly in that he doth make and keep them holy Jude 1. Reason 2. God will have his people to be holy for the honour and glory of his Son Jesus Christ to whom he hath given them All mine are thine saith Christ in his Prayer to his Father John 17.1 10. and thine are mine and I am glorified in them also verse 19. And for their sakes I sanctifie my selfe that they also might be sanctified Christ shall be glorified in his Saints especially in his Kingly Office Revel 15.3 4. Just and true are thy waies Thou King of Saints Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy Name for thou onely art holy And albeit now Christ and his poor Saints are scorned and despised of men yet that Prophesie of Enoch the seventh from Adam will have its accomplishment Jude 14. Behold the Lord commeth with ten thousand of his Saints The Lord Iesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels When he shall come to be glorified in his Saints 2 Thes 17 10. And in that day it will appear to all the world that it is the great glory of Jesus Christ that his Father hath given him so many ten thousands of Saints to be his Subjects and himselfe to be their King Isa 33.17 22. Reason 3. God will have his people holy that they may enjoy spirituall communion with him in this life and Eternall communion with him in heaven The Saints do enjoy spirituall Communion with God in this life 1 John 1.3 Truely our fellowship is with the father and with his Son Jesus Christ and with the Spirit Phil. 2.1 And they shall have eternall communion with God in Heaven in that Kingdome prepared for them which then thy shall receive Matth. 25.34 Now this communion with God none can have without holinesse Heb. 12.14 Therefore God will have his people to be holy 1. Vse Will God have his people to be holy Let it be usefull to us first for enquiry what holinesse is And how God makes His holy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Thes 4 3. 7 Holinesse or Sanctification is a reall change of the whole Man from the pollution of sin to the purity of the Image of Christ Rom. 6.22 But now being made free from sin and become servants of God ye have your fruits unto holinesse Here was a reall change in them from the pollution of sin 2 Cor. 3.18 But we all with open face beholding as in a glasse the glory of the Lord are changed into the same Image Here was the other part of that reall change in them to wit into the purity of the Image of Christ For as men in their naturall estate bear the Image of the Earthy first-man Adam so men in their spirituall estate bear the Image of the Heavenly second-Man CHRIST 1 Cor. 15.47 48 49. This holinesse or sanctification if you have respect to the Author and efficient cause thereof is called the sanctification of the Spirit 2 Thes 2.13 and 1 Pet. 1.2 If unto the divine act of God it is called Renovation or Renewing of the minde Ephes 4.23 and Rom. 12.2 If unto the Acts and fruits of holinesse in beleevers it is called Faith love long suffering gentlenesse goodnesse meeknesse temperance c. Gal. 5.22 If unto the root fountain and foundation of holinesse the Scripture saith Christ is our sanctification 1 Cor. 1.30 Thus you hear what holinesse is Now God maketh His holy by his Spirit and Word Whereby he doth convince them that they are without Christ Ephes 2.12 Maketh discoverie to them of the worth of Christ their need of him and Gods offer of him in a covenant of Grace upon Gospell termes changing their hearts into the Image of Christ 2 Cor. 3.18 Gives them Faith in Christ Repentance from dead workes Love to all the Saints c. And so the very God of Peace Sanctifie his people 1 Thessalonians 5.23 Thus much may suffice touching the Jnquiry 2. Vse Will God have his people to be holy Let us make use of this to discover who are the people of God who are not Those people that are ungodly unsanctified are not the people of God such may boast of their Justification but they deceive themselves for God hath no justified-unsanctified people 1 Cor. 6 9 10 11. They may talke of the free-grace of God manifested to them bringing them Salvation but they are deluded for the grace of God that bringeth Salvation teacheth us to deny ungodlinesse and to live godly Titus 2.11 12. Now there are three sorts of professors who would be esteemed the people of God and yet are not sanctifyed by the holy spirit they are not holy and therefore are not the Lords people in Covenant The first Sort are all those legall professors who having been by the spirit and word of God much convinced of sin Iohn 16.8 Sorely wounded in their consciences Proverbes 18.14 and somewhat reformed in their conversations by hearing godly Preachers as Herod was Mark 6 20. after all this goe about to establish their own righteousnesse and rest upon their duties humiliation and legall reformation And never have their hearts changed and renewed nor Christ given of the Father unto them These are not sanctified are not the Lords Hear what the Apostle speakes to such among the Galatians Are yee so foolish having begun in the Spirit are you now made perfect by the flesh Have you affired so many things in vain If it be yet in vaine Well such of you as God hath chosen in Christ that you should bee holy c. He will also by his Spirit and Word convince you of Righteousnesse to wit that all your own Righteousnesses are as filthy rags Isa 64.6 That being ignorant of Gods Righteousnesse you have gone about to establish your owne righteousnesse Rom. 10 3. and that you must be found in Christ not having your own righteousnesse which is of the

Christ Exalted IN A SERMON Begun to be preached at Debenham in Suffolk upon the 14. day of Febr. last upon Coloss 3.11 By HANSERD KNOLLYS Who was stoned out of the Pulpit as he was Preaching by a company of rude fellowes and poor women of that Town who were sent for called together and set on by a Malignant High-Constable who lives in the same Town ALSO ANOTHER SERMON Preached at Stradbrooke in Suffolk the 13. day of Febr. last concerning Sanctification upon Ephes 1.4 GALAT 4.16 Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth HEBR. 12.14 Follow Peace with all men and holinesse without which no man shall see the Lord. 2 CORINTH 11.25 Once was I stoned JOHN 10.32 For which of these good works do you stone me LONDON Printed in the Year 1645. TO THE HONOVRABLE Committee of Examinations Grace and Peace from God through CHRIST HONOVRABLE IT may be judged an act of great boldnesse in me who am under the Examination of this Honourable Committee to dedicate my poor labours at Debenham and Stradbrook to your patronage especially to publish them to the world Had not the hard reports of some persons too much credited by many constrained me to vindicate first the truth and in the next place to give some satisfaction to many who have heard those reports I should not have been so bold the consciousnesse of mine own inability and the knowledge of the profitable labours of many both learned and godly hath to this time and still had justly hindred me from publishing any thing by print to the view of the World Wherefore I being thus inforced to print my Sermons present them to your Honours wherein you have the summe and substance of all that I preached in Suffolk as many witnesses can testifie For my main endeavours there was to exalt Christ and to presse my Hearers to Sanctification in heart and life And if the Lord shall please to make my poor labours a blessing to any he will get glory and I have my reward with him Howsoever I humbly submit both my self and my Book to the Examination and determination of this Honourable Committee Your Honours to serve you in the Lord HANSERD KNOLLYS COLLOS 3.11 Christ is all and in all THe Apostle Paul who was a chosen vessell unto the Lord to beare his name before the Gentiles Acts 9 15. wrote this Epistle to the Saints and Faithfull brethren in Christ which were at Colosse chap. 1. verse 2. And as the Ensigne-bearer of His glorious Name displayed the Magnificency and transcendent Excellencie of Christ in the words of the Text Christ is all and in all And that he might lift up Christs All-sufficiencie he nullifies all other excellencies whatsoever chap. 3. ver 11 Where he gives the Colossians to understand that the advantage of a Jew above a Gentile the dignity of a Scythian above a Barbarian or the Immunities of a Freeman above a Bondslave however esteemed amongst men are nothing without Christ who is all and in all These words have their dependance upon the exhortation unto Mortification chap. 3. vers 5. Which exhortation the Apostle pressed upon the Colossians by telling them vers 9.10 they had put off the Old-Man with his deeds had put on the New-Man c. Where that is in which State of Regeneration there is neither Greek nor Jew c. But Christ is all and in all The lesson to be learned hence is this to wit Christ is all and in all in the New-Man Doct. Two thighs needs some explanation in this Doctrine viz. 1. Who is here meant by the New-Man and secondly How Christ is all and in all in the New-Man By the New-Man here we are to understand as was intended by the Apostle a true beleever or a faithfull Brother in Christ one sanctified in Christ Jesus called a Saint who is redeemed in the Spirit of his minde and hath put on the New-Man Ephes 4 23 24. which is done when by the mighty operation of the holy Spirit in the Promises given unto us we are made partakers of the Divine nature 2 Pet. 1.3 4. Non per participationem Essentiae sed per communicationem Spiritus gratiae ejus Gal. 4 6. Ephes 4.6 thus being by the Spirit and Faith united with Christ we are made a new creature or creation 2 Cor. 5.17 have a new Heart Ezek. 36.26 27. and walke in newnesse of life Rom. 6.4 And such may be said to have put on the New-Man the sum then is this Christ is all and in all in every true Beleever in every Justified-Sanctified person wo hath a New-heart and walke in newnesse of life Touching the Second particular to wit How Christ is all and in all in the new man The Lord Jesus Christ who is all in himselfe for in him dwelleth all the Fulnesse of the Godhead bodily Col. 2.9 which was the pleasure of God that in all things he might have the preheminence Col. 1.18 19. is all and in all in the New-Man First Fundamentally I mean Christ is the Foundation of all 1 Cor. 3.11 For other Foundation can no man lay then that is laid which is Iesus Chirist I say Christ is the Foundation of all that Faith Repentance Love other graces gifts and fruits of the Spirit which are in every true beleever He is a living fountain full of grace and from his fulnesse have we all received grace for grace Joh. 1.14 16. Secondly Communicatively I meane Chirst doth communicate all unto the New-Man to wit Life Light Grace and Glory c. We have nothing but what we have received and we have received all from his fulnesse Ephes 4.7 Joh. 1.16 The Titles given to Christ in the Scripture of truth will make this appear yet more fully viz. That Christ is all in the New-Man or in every true Beleever I shall instance some 1. Christ is our life Col. 3.4 Christ is the life of a Beleever even eternall Life 1 Joh. 5.11 12. That is to say The everlasting Spirituall well-being of a beleever is by union and communion with Jesus Christ in whom he lives a life of grace here and with whom he shall live a life of glory hereafter Yea all those spirituall breathings of the hunger-thirsting soule after the enjoyment of God in any of his holy Ordinances are from Christ and from him are all those quicknings and all that life we have in Prayer Preaching Conference and other spirituall duties In a word the spirit of life himselfe who so sweetly refresheth the weary soule comforts the sorrowfull heart and quickens the sanctified affections is from Christ and he is called the Spirit of the Son Gal. 4.6 whom God sends forth into the hearts of his Children 2. Christ is the true light of every beleever or in the New-Man That was the true Light Joh. 1.9 even Jesus Christ who inlightneth the eyes of our vnderstanding that we may know what is the hope of his calling and

precious then all creature-comforts whatsoever as friends liberties and life Again the precious blood of Christ hath a purging quality Heb 9.14 The blood of Christ shall purge your consciences from dead workes to serve the living God Sin doth both contract guiltinesse and pollution and therefore the blood of Christ doth both cleanse and purge pardon and purifie therefore we are also said to be sanctified by the blood of Christ Heb. 13.12 Wherefore Jesus also that he might sanctifie the people with his own blood Suffered without the gate Oh beloved what can be esteemed so precious to a gracious heart as this blood of Christ which washeth away all those defilements and uncleannesses which through our corruptions cleave unto us even in our best actions and holy duties Such of you as have many a time groaned in prayer to God under the feeling sence and sight of any corruption know by experience what high esteem you have had of the blood of Christ to save you from your uncleannesse Secondly the unsearchable riches of his grace Ephes 3.8 To me who am lesse then the least of all Saints is this grace given that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ Christs riches are of such an hight depth length and bredth that passeth knowledge yea thus much is spoken of the love of Christ Ephes 3.18 19. Also Faith in Christ is called precious faith 2 Pet. 1.1 To them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the Righteousnesse of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ yea all the Graces of Christ are the riches of the poore Saints Jam. 2.5 God hath chosen the poor of the world rich in grace c. Tell me beloved how did you esteem of the riches of Christ when you being poor in spirit mourned for Christ and his grace when you discerned Faith Love Humility c. in others of the children of God did you not prize it highly in them Did you not account them happy rich and blessed whom Christ had inriched with those jewels and adorned with such graces Ah how much more should you now prize Christ in whom is all fulnesse of these unsearchable riches and especially considering that from his fulnesse you have received grace for grace Ioh. 1.14 16. Thirdly the glorious liberties of his Spirit for where the Spirit of the Lord is there is libertie 2 Cor. 3.17 Not any carnall liberty to sin and so fulfill the lusts of the Flesh Gal. 5.13 but Spirituall liberty and freedome from sin I mean not a perfect and totall freedome from all sin as if the people of God could never sin after Conversion For if we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us 1 Joh. 1 8 10. But I mean a freedome First from the guilt of sin Rom. 8 33. And the Apostle saith Colos 2.13 That he hath forgiven us all trespasses Secondly from the polution or filth of sin Zach. 13.1 A fountain set open to Beleevers for sin and for uncleanesse And Ezek. 36.25 29. God promised they shall be cleane and he will save them from all their uncleannesses Thirdly from the raigning power of sin Rom. 6.14 Sin shall not have dominion over you under grace Fourthly from the punishment due for sin which is the cure of the Law Gal. 3.13 or condemnation Rom. 8.1 or any other satisfactory punishment 2 The great need you have of Christ may move you to praise him and set an high esteeme of him Christ is the one thing necessarie and therefore the Titles given him in the Scripture are such as declare his usefullnesse to Beleevers for he is our Life our Light our Bread Water Milke Wine His flesh our meat indeed His blood our drink indeed He is our Father our Husband our Brother our Friend our King Priest and Prophet He is our Justification Sanctification and Redemption He is our Peace our All. We can have no accesse to God but by his Mediation no acceptance with God without his Jntercession Revel 8.3.4 We cannot resist the next Temptation neither can we overcome the next Corruption nor shall we be able to suffer with patience the next Persecution or indure any tribulation unlesse we have renewed strength from Christ Beleevers have received that Grace they have from Christ Iohn 1 16. And they cannot have increase of grace bu by Christ Iohn 15.1 2. Lord increase our Faith said the Disciples neither can they persevere in grace unlesse they be preserved in Christ Iude 1. To conclude we are nothing have nothing can do nothing without Christ Iohn 15.5 Without me you can do nothing that is to say you cannot in your own strength nor in the strength of any grace received do any thing to please God or to glorifie God without me unlesse you abide in me and have renewed ability and strength from me you can do nothing that God my father will own or crown with acceptance or reward But yet we who are Believers have all and abound Phil. 4.18 can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth them Phil. 4.13 can suffer the losse of all Phil. 3.7 8 9. yea and conquer all nay be more then conquerours through Christ Rom. 8.35 36 37 38 39. Oh consider your need of Christ and learn to prize him let him be exalted highest in your hearts as the pearl of greatest worth as the one thing necessary which you most of all need let him be all in all in your communication and conversation 2. Vse Seeing Christ is all and in all in the new-Man let every one examine whether Christ be in him 2. Cor. 13.5 Examine your selves know you not that Christ is in you c. This nearly concernes you beloved for if you have Christ you have all Christ is all you heart but if you lose him you lose all you will lose your hopes Comforts and all your duties yea you will lose God Heaven and soul and all It matters not what you have if you want Christ no guifts duties reformations qualifications or other things whatsoever will make you happy without Christ And if you enjoy Christ it is not materiall what ever you want for my God saith the Apostle shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus Phil. 4.19 Therfore make sure that Christ is yours Some would ask this question How shall I so examine that I may know assuredly that I have Christ I answer you must bring your hearts to the touchstone of the Word of God and cast them into the ballance of the Sanctuarie and weigh them there And to this purpose I shall propound one Scripture of truth for your examination and triall to wit 2 Cor. 5.17 If any man be in Christ he is a new-creature or creation That is to say he is new-born born again or born of God Joh. 1.12 13. But as many as received him c. which were born of God And our Saviour urged the

necessitie of this new-birth Joh. 3.3.5.7 8. Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdome of God he cannot enter into the Kingdome of God vers 5. Now every one who is a new creature in Christ all things are become new in him or all things are made new as in the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ecce nova facta sunt omnia To wit first he is made a new man Ephes 4.21.22.23.24 Col. 3.10.11 and have put on the new-man where Christ is all and in all Secondly he hath a new heart Ezek. 36.26 A new heart also will I give you c. That is a new will and new affections yea and a new spirit will I put within you verse 26. That is Ephes 4.23 to be renewed in the spirit of our minde to wit a new judgement or spirituall understanding in the knowledge of Gods will Col. 1.9 Thirdly he walkes in newnesse of life Rom. 6.4 Even so we also should walk in newnesse of life That is the conversation of a new-creature should be such as becomes the Gospell Phil. 1.27 To wit humble harmlesse and holy 1 Pet. 1.15 16. And thus God hath promised in the everlasting covenant of grace that all and every one of his people shall walk Ezek. 36.27 And I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes c. Examine your selves Are you a new creature Such of you as have not put off the old man but still have your old hearts and your old sinnes and walk in your old wayes and fulfill the old lusts of your sinfull natures are not in a new creature you are not in Christ nor Christ in you But some may thus say within themselves I hope my soul is in a better condition I am not so wicked and carnall as some others are neither am I so vilde a sinner as I have been formerly but I am somewhat reformed and have forsaken my sinfull courses and begin to delight to hear Sermons and I pray with my family To this I would answer although your condition be not so desperate as others who have lived long under ordinatie meanes of grace and yet are not at all wrought upon I must tell you Professors may through strong Convictions horrour of conscience and feares of Hell leave the Acts of some sins and may customarily perform some religious duties and yet not regenerated Professors may have leaves like the unfruitfull Figtree and Lampes like the five foolish Virgins they may seem to be Religious and have a forme of Godlinesse and not be a New creature or creation I might instance many such in the Scriptures Herod Mark 6.20 He heard Iohn gladly and did many things Saul 1 Sam. 10.6 9. was turned into another Man had another heart yet unconverted So thou mayest be another Man and not a New-Man maiest have another heart but not a new heart But I speak not this to adde sorrow to the afflicted nor to break the the bruised for though some may deceive themselves herein Yet such of you as are borne again or borne of God though but New-borne babes who have put on the New-Man have a New heart and walke in Newnesse of life are in Christ and Christ in you 3. Vse Seeing Christ is all and in all in the New-Man Let it serve for the consolation of every true beleeve Christ is yours and all things are yours 1 Cor. 3.21 22 23. All are yours and ye are Christs and Christ is God Christ is your life your light your foode your All and by union with Christ you are one in God John 17.21 God is your God and Father John 20.17 All that is Christs is yours his Wisdome Righteousnesse Sanctification Faith Love Humility c. All in all fulnesse was in Him and dwels in him for his people to communicate to them Epes 4.7 Are you full of spirituall wants you may have supply from the fulnesse of Spiritualls in Christ Doe you want Wisdome Faith love c. What ever you want go to Christ for that grace There is enough in Christ to satisfie the most hunger-thirsting soules in spirituall things Epes 1.3 God hath blessed us with all spirituall blessings in heavenly things in Christ In whom are hid all the treasures of Wisdome and knowledge Col. 2.3 Doe you want power against corruptions go to Christ for strength His grace is sufficient for thee 2 Cor. 12.8.9 There is an all-sufficiencie in Christ Christ is all saith the Text therefore the Apostle having Christ said I have all I can do all through Christ Phil. 4.13 18. And know for your further consolation that Chirist is in all in the New-Man or in every true Beleever He is in you Col. 1.2 Christ in you the hope of glory Christ liveth in me saith the Apostle 2 Gal. 20. Christ is and lives in a true beleever by participation of his Divine Nature 2 Pet. 1.3 4. By incohation of his holy Spirit Gal. 4.6 and by communication of his saving grace Ephes 3.17 and 4 7. Christ is in your hearts in your gifts in your graces in your duties in all by whom you finde acceptance of your persons and services with God your heavenly Father Ephes 1.6 Christ is with you and in you in all conditions in all relations in all Afflictions Isa 63.8 9. And to conclude this use know for your increase of joy that Christ who is all and in all in you will abide in you for ever Nothing shall be able to separate Christ and your soules Rom. 8.35 38 39. Christ is the strength of your heart and your portion for ever Psalm 73.26 4. Vse Seeing Christ is all and in all in the New-Man suffer a word of exhortation which will conscerne every one present to hearken to viz. Both such as are in Christ and out of Christ And I am sure evere one of you are in one of these two estates either you are in Christ or without Christ The first branch of the exhortation shall be you who are beleevers and sanctified in Christ Iesus called Saints seeing Christ is all in all Let him be all in all in your justification take ye heed you bring not any righteousnesse of your owne nor any grace or worke of his in you to joyne with Christ and his righteousnesse in point of justification Phil. 3.9 This glory Christ will not give to another He is our jujustification or righteousnesse 1 Cor. 1.30 31. Christ will not permit any coadjutor concause or cooperator whatsoever in justification of sinners Consider this you who will not beleeve unlesse you could see your selves so holy so humble except you can first have such a sinne subdued you will not beleeve any of your sinnes are pardoned untill you finde and feele in your selves a soft heart a broken heart a praying spirit a mourning spirit you cry out you are not justifyed Oh say you if I could pray mourne for sinne profit by the meanes as such and such doe

Law but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousnesse which is of God by faith Phil. 3 9. The second Sort are all those formall professors who seem onely to be religious Iames 1.26 Having a forme of Godlinesse but denying the power thereof 2 Tim. 3.5 These will tell you they rest not on duties trust not to their owne righteausnesse confide not in their Humiliation as legal professors doe But they after much trouble of conscience for their sins got comfort joy and peace in applying some promises of the Gospell to themselves Consider I pray you the Parable of the stony ground hearers They on the rock are they which when thy hear receive the Word with joy and these have no root which for a while beleeve and in time of temptation fall away Luke 8.13 Here was some plowing though it went not deep enough and some Harrowing also to cover the good seed after this the●e was some joy but no root Here was the Word convincing and wounding and comforting but no Christ who is called the root Coloss 2.6 7 to quicken renew and sanctifie And therefore though they believed awhile yet they fall away in the time of Temptation And this is the condition of formall Professors they get comfort in promises but they receive not Christ and His sanctifying comforting-comforting-spirit in the promises let such hear what the Lord by His Prophet speakes to a formall professing people Isa 50.11 Behold all ye that kindle a fire that compasse your selves about with sparks Walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks that ye have kindled This shall ye have at my hand ye shall lye down in sorrow The third sort are all those carnall Professors who say they are the people of God and hold the common Faith Titus 1.4 which is the faith of Gods Elect Titus 1.1 and beleeve the common salvation Jude 3. That is to say common to every one that beleeveth both Jew and Gentile Rom. 1 16. But notwithstanding all this profession of generall redemption they themselves are the servants of corruption 2 Pet. 2.19 For they take liberty to live in sin and walk after the flesh fulfilling the lusts thereof turning the grace of God into lasciviousnesse and denying the onely Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ Jude 4 They are so fa●re departed from the Faith which they sometime professed and seemed to have 1 Tim. 4.1 that they question whether the Scriptures of truth be the Word of God Whether Christ be the sonne of God Whether the first day of the Week be the Sabboth of God And they are so farre from living godly and walking in the way of holinesse that they totally omit all holy duties they refrain prayer they speak not of the Word of God when they rise up nor when they lye down nor as they sin in the house together with their family They do not pertake of any Ordinances nor perform any worship to God And as for sin they make a mock at it some of them say God takes no knowledge of their sins He sees no iniquitie in them others affirm that they have no sin they are born of God and they cannot sin And some others are bold to say they are justified persons and therfore all their words and actions are alike acceptable to God and well-pleasing in his sight c. But these carnall professors are not holy are not the people of God This may make some discovery of those whose hearts are not right with God to whom I would give the Apostles exhortation Acts 8.22 3. Vse Will God have His people to be holy Then may this doctrine occasion a deep Humiliation and godly sorrow in believers for their unholinesse carnallnesse and sinfulnesse in heart or life O beloved let you and I commune with our own hearts how much unbelief hypocrisie self-filthinesse formality and wickednesse shall we upon diligent examination finde still remaining in us What vanity of minde and carnality is in our hearts How many hard thoughts of God have we still Notwithstanding all the experiences God hath given us of his unchangeablenesse his faithfulnesse and his everlasting loving kindnesse in Jesus Christ How apt are we by an evill heart of unbelief to depart from God Alas what sinfull contemplations have we in our spirits What evill concupiscence How do our hearts run out after the creature-comforts of this world and how are our affections still set upon the things below Christ and God How many Idols are set up in our hearts How great is our self-love self-seeking self-confidence self-dependence and self-sufficiencie O what high thoughts have we sometimes of our selves our gifts our graces our experiences our performances Surely we have just cause if God will in mercy work in us godly sorrow to be ashamed to mourn after a godly manner and to loath our selves for the abominations of our own hearts But my brethren let us examine our lives and search and try our wayes as well as commune with our hearts for the eye of the world is open upon us God and Angels men and Divels all observe us who are believers they hear what we say and take knowledge what we do O beloved how much vain carnall and sinfull communication comes out of our mouthes that ministers no grace to the hearers How many idle words do we speak What unprofitable talk have we among our selves and with others not gracious nor seasoned with the salt of truth and holinesse but very unsavoury speeches And when we meet together and speak one to another of Religion we are apt to speak slightly rashly formally inconsiderately and not soberly humbly and graciously as becomes the Saints Yea our conferences sometimes turns to vain janglings and un-edifying disputes wherein we strive for victory or to maintain our own opinion more then truth But besides all this How much ungodlinesse is there in our actions Albeit God preventeth us by His grace from doing actions simply and grossely evill and ungodly as drunkennesse uncleannesse c. Yet in doing lawfull things we often mis-carry the Messengers of Christ do sometimes preach themselves Fathers of Families do correct their children sometimes after their pleasure provoking their children being bitter to their Wives sometimes Oh how uneven do we walk in our callings and relations Wherein we should especially shew forth the power of godlinesse Oh had we tender hearts and were we truly sensible of our sinfull miscariages we could not speak of those particulars without teares of godly sorrow Can we consider how many yeares we have professed the Gospell how long we have enjoyed the Word preached in season and out of season unto us and yet how little our conversation is as becomes the Gospell how little we have profited how little we have grown in Grace and in the knowledge of Jesus Christ and not be affected to mourn under the feeling of our unprofitablenesse and great barrennesse But I hope God will give us