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A86549	Salvation from sinne by Jesus Christ: or, The doctrine of sanctification (which is the greater part of our salvation) founded upon Christ, who is both the meritorious, and and efficient cause of sanctifying grace, purchasing it for, working & perfecting it in his people. Applied (as it was specially intended) for the better information of our judgements, and quickning of our affections in holiness, wherein our everlasting our everlasting happiness chiefly consisteth. / Preached in the weekly lecture at Evesham in the county of Worcester, by George Hopkins, M.A. minister of the Gospel there.; Salvation from sinne by Jesus Christ	Hopkins, George, 1620-1666.	1655 (1655)	Wing H2743; Thomason E1608_1; ESTC R208454	135,124	325

If there be one Body one Spirit one Lord one Faith one Baptisme one God and Father of all can those that break all these bonds asunder and cast these cords away from them be easily excused 2. Consider how expresly contrary to the command of Christ this practice is John 13.34 A new commandement give I unto you that ye love one another as I loved you that ye also love one another 3. How expresly contrary it is to that mark whereby the Disciples of Christ are to be known unto all men John 13.35 Hereby shall all men know that ye are my Disciples if ye love one another 4. How expresly it is contrary to that Gospel-frame of Spirit promised in that great Gospel-promise called the New covenant Ezek. 11.19 I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within you where onenesse of heart and newnesse of spirit are joyned together 5. Doe not selfe-will'd dividers as plainly reject and slight the most affectionate beseechings wooings of the spirit of Christ as other grosse hard-hearted sinners who stop their eares against the invitations of the Gospel See 1 Corinth 1.10 Now I beseech you brethren by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye all speak the same things that there be no divisions among you but that ye be perfectly joyned together in the same minde and in the same judgement Phil. 2.1 2. If there be any consolation in Christ if any comfort of Love if any fellowship of the Spirit if any bowels and mercies fulfill ye my joy that ye be like minded having the same love being of one accord and of one minde May we not out of these words have divers patheticall arguments but for brevity sake I shall take that if any bowels and mercies as another argument for our consideration 6. Consider then whether these words doe not imply that those have cast off bowels and mercies who by rending and dividing spare not to pull out the very bowels of the Church And when Peter saith 1 Pet. 3.8 Finally be ye all of one minde having compassion one of another love as brethren be pitifull and courteous Doth not he so joyne being of one minde and having compassion one of another so together and loving as brethren and being pitifull that we may conclude that true pitty and compassion are banished away where division and contention possess the heart 7. Those that rend and divide in or from the Church pretend usually that they would have all things reduced to the primitive pattern and most necessary indeed it is that we write after that copy But how unlike is a Church divided rent and torne to that Church that continued with one accord in the Temple praising God being of one heart and of one soule 8. As the Primitive church was the best pattern for a Church so is the example of Christ the best president for our imitation Christ came to reconcile God and man and brake down the partition wall between Jew Gentile making both one and being the chief sheepherd seeks the reducing of all his sheep into one sheepfold But how unlike unto his example is the practise of those that build up walls of partition and separation between Christian and Christian sow discord among brethren and spare not to smite the Lords sheepherds that the sheep may be scattered Will the Lord account this an acceptable piece of service nay is it not an abomination to him See Prov. 6.16 17 18 19. These six things doth the Lord hate yea seven are an abomination unto him a proud look a lying tongue and hands that shed innocent blood an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations feet that be swift in running to mischiefe a false witnesse that speaketh lies and him that soweth discord among brethren The last is not the least of these evils and he that is guilty of the seventh cannot well be free from most of the six forementioned abominations Obj. But it is hard charging so much evil upon this one miscarriage for it is to be feared that many godly men especially in these times are guilty of it Answ The sinne is never the lesse in its own nature because godly men be they of one party or other are guilty of it Murther and Adultery are not a whit the lesse evil because David so eminent a Saint was guilty of them nor Idolatry the more to be pleaded for because Solomon fell to the commission of it nor is Polygamie to be accounted a small sin because many of the godly Fathers under the Law lived in it Yea 't is a greater sin for such as are godly to commit than such as have no feare of God before their eyes The worth of the person will but adde to the weight of the sin and the Lord aggravates the crimes of David Solomon and other of his servants because they were committed against greater mercies grace and light Upon these considerations as I cannot but judge this a necessary reproof so I am bound highly to prize and say blessed be the labours studies and endeavours of those who seriously minde and trace out the way of peace so little known And the Church shall reap more benefit and they themselves more comfort by such endeavours than ever any shall receive by all their ranglings and perverse disputings for things that are of sevenfold lesse consequence than the Church's unity and peace And I doubt not my brethren in the work of the Gospel but your late and continued prayers and endeavours for unity and concord in the Churches of Christ will yeild you more comfort and peace in the day of your account than all that ever you read or shall read of our novel controversies Let us go on then I beseech you and be as zealous for unity and peace as others are for strife and contention and if there be no remedy but we must strive let us strive and pray for the peace of Jerusalem yea let us strive with God in prayer that her walls may be built up and that peace may be within her walls and prosperity within her palaces for they shall prosper that love her A fourth fort of those that hinder the salvation of others from their sinnes are such as are men of evil practises who by their bad examples doe mischief to many Man is of an imitating nature especially in things that are evil spirituall diseases are infectious and this is one maine reason why admonition is required in case of disorderly walking and excommunication enjoyned in case of obstinate scandall because sinfull examples are of a leavening and infectious nature A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump examples of evil are more effectuall for mischief than all the arguments we can use for good upon the soules of men for one that is saved by good instruction from the Word of God a hundred perish by evil example As evil examples are dangerous in all so more especially in these four sorts of persons

is the sanctifying of the heart Circumcision Deut. 30.6 And the Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart and the heart of thy seed to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soule that thou maist live Rom. 2.29 He is a Jew which is one inwardly and circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit and not in the letter whose praise is not of men but of God Consider the foregoing verses On the contrary evil and unsactified hearts are called uncircumcised in Scripture Lev. 26.41 If then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled Jer. 9.25 26. Behold the daies come saith the Lord that I will punish them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised Egypt and Iudah and Edom and the children of Ammon and Moab and all that are in the utmost corners that dwell in the wildernesse for all these nations are uncircumcised and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart Acts 7.51 Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and eares ye doe alwaies resist the holy Ghost as your fathers did so doe ye Circumcision then as you see was not onely a seale of the righteousnesse of faith The Passover The Passeover or Paschall Lamb Exod. 12. was a Type of Christ the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world as it hath been explained before The sprinkling of the blood upon the doore-posts signified the sprinkling of the blood of Christ upon the heart and soule for removing of the filth as well as the guilt of sin which was also signified by other sprinklings and washings of the Law as I shall shew you anon Sacraments extraordinary The Baptism in the cloud and in the red Sea figured the same which is now signified by our Baptism under the Gospel of which I shall speak in its due place The Manna in the wildernesse was a type of Christ who is the bread of Life upon whom whosoever feedeth by faith hath a spirituall life in Christ he dwelling in Christ and Christ in him to wit by the graces of his spirit Christ himself thus expounded what the Manna signified as you may read at large Ioh. 6.48 to 59. Types The Brazen serpent Numb 21.9 with Iohn 3.14 15. was a type of Christ restoring spirituall life as well as delivering from the death of condemnation As Moses lifted up the Serpent in the wildernesse even so must the Son of Man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life And this is life eternall that they might know thee the onely true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent John 17.3 The Laver Exod. 30.17 typified our sanctification by the Blood of Jesus Christ Eph. 5 25 26. Even as Christ also loved the Church and gave himselfe for it that he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word We read of the Laver of regeneration Tit. 3.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 According to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renuing of the holy Ghost The blood of the Sacrifices sprinkled signified the blood of Christ in its sanctifying vertue Heb. 9 1● 14. For if the blood of Bulls and of Goats and the ashes of an Heighfer sprinkling the uncleane sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternall spirit offered himselfe without spot to God purge your conscience from dead workes to serve the living God! chap. 10.22 Let us draw neer with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water The Promises 2. Let us consider the Promises even of the covenant of promise Jer. 31.33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those daies saith the Lord I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and will be their God and they shall be my people Ezek. 36.26 27. A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh And will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgements and do them Here you see how large a part of this Covenant consisteth in the promises of sanctifying grace Prophecies 3. Let us consider the Prophesies Zach. 13.1 In that day there shall be a fountaine opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleannesse It is the uncleannesse of sin that is washed away by this Fountain of Grace Isa 61.1 2 3. The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek he hath sent me to binde up the broken hearted to proclaime liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound c. This freedom here spoken of is from a state of thraldome in sin from the bondage of corruption as well as from the obligation to punishment for it is said ver 3. the latter part That they might be called trees of righteousnes the planting of the Lord that he might be glorified The like we have chap. 42. 6 7. I the Lord have called thee in righteousnesse and will hold thine hand and will keep thee and give thee for a covenant of the people for a light of the Gentiles to open the blind eyes and bring out the prisoners from the prison them that sit in darknes out of the prison-house Here we see that the opening of blinde eyes is spoken of and what is that but the grace of saving knowledge and what the prison is you may gather out of my foregoing words upon the former text Mal. 3.2 3. He to wit Christ is like refiners fire and like fullers sope And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver and he shall purifie the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver that they may offer to the Lord an offering in righteousnesse Sacraments of the N.T. 4. The Sacraments of the New Testament signifie the same sanctifying grace Rom. 6.4 We are buried with him by baptisme into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the father even so also we should walk in newnesse of life 1 Cor. 6.11 But ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified Here you see the washing of Baptism signifies the sanctifying as well as the justifying vertue of the blood of Christ John 1.35 He that sent me to baptise with water the same said unto me Vpon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and remain on him the same is he which baptiseth with the holy Ghost See also chap. 5.3 Except a man be born of water and of the

1. Against the fear of falling away Psal 34.19 Many indeed are the troubles and temptations of the righteous but the Lord will deliver them out of them all Satan his Instruments are very powerfull they do and shall deceive many especially in such times as these But the Elect of God and such onely are effectually called shall not be deceived For saith our Saviour Christ Mat. 24.24 There shall arise false Christs and false Prophets and shall shew great signes and wonders insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very Elect. The Elect may be long deceived before their conversion they may after their conversion also be brought off for a time from some of the sound principles they have professed and from much of the practice of Christianity wherein they were forward as I am perswaded many are in these dayes whom God will cause in his good time to remember from whence they are fallen and repent and do their first Works And the most faithfull of Gods Elect are deceived all their dayes in lesser matters both in judgment and practise But the Elect of God shall not be utterly deceived in those things that are essentially necessary to be known and done Whosoever then thou art that sincerely fearest God rejoyce in thy firme and setled condition The Love wherewith the Lord hath loved thee is everlasting love Jer. 33.3 his mercy he will keep for thee for evermore Psal 89.28 the kindnesse of thy Redeemer is everlasting kindnesse Isa 54.8 The Covenant that God hath entred with thee is an everlasting Covenant Isa 55.3 Heb. 8. 8 9. c 13.20 The spirit i Scriptura non uno loco inculcat Spiritū S. electis datum inhabitare corundem corda Si autem inbabitat igitur domicilium fixamque sedem ibi deligit neq zimaginabimur cum excurrere vagari redire quod malum spiritum facere consucvisse Christus Mat. 12. testatur Zanch. Epist l. 1. Datur electis Spiritus S. ut arrbabo haereditatis coelestis Eph. 1. Nemo autem qui promissis pactisve vult stare arrbabonem reposcit quin potius in hoc totus est ut promissa sive pacta praestet ne tum quidem ubi illa praestiterit arrhabonem repetiturus Consequitur ergo Spiritum S. apud cum cui semel datus est relinqui Quod eo quoque comprobatur quod Eph. 4. dicuntur credentes per Sp. Sanctum in diem redemptionis obsignari Zanch. ibid. of Sanctification already given thee is the earnest of thy Inheritance Eph. 1.14 Thou art sealed by it to the day of redemption Eph. 4.30 It is sent unto thee not as a wayfaring man to tarry but for a night but to abide with thee for ever Joh. 14.16 The seed of grace is an incorruptible seed 1. Pet. 1.23 The life of grace is everlasting life For he that truely believeth hath everlasting life Joh 3.36 Ch. 5.24 Thou believest the record that God hath given of his Son and this is the record that God hath given us eternal life and this life is in his Son He that hath the Son hath life 1 Joh 5.11 12 Everlasting life is already begun in thy soule and the Lord is faithfull who will establish thee to the end 2. Thes 3.3 Satan indeed desireth to have thee that he may sist thee as wheat but Christ hath prayed for thee that thy faith may not faile Luke 22. 31 32. The powers that are against thee are great but the power that is for thee is k Nemo fallit redemptorem tuum nemo circumvenit nemo premit Aug. in Psal 103. v. 3. greater Thou shalt be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation 1 Pet. 1.5 The Lord that hath already rescued thee out of the jawes of Satan that was ready to devour thee as David rescued the Lamb out of the mouth of the Lion will carefully watch over thee that thou maist no more become a prey He that keepeth thee will not slumber Behold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep The Lord is thy keeper the Lord is thy shade upon the right hand The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil he shall preserve thy soule the Lord shall preserve thy going out and coming in from this time forth and for evermore Hear how Christ the great Sheepherd of thy Soul speaks for thy comfort John 10.27 28 29 30. My sheep hear my voice I know them and they follow me and I give unto them eternall life and they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand My Father which gave them me is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out of my fathers hand I and my Father are one And how confidently doth Paul triumph against all opposition Rom. 8.35 37 38 39. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or distresse or persecution or famine or nakednesse or perill or sword Nay in all these things we are more than conquerours through him that loved us For I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Thou hast cause indeed to feare Satans and the Worlds temptations and thine own inbred corruption with a feare begetting care for the prevention of the evil but let not thy feare cause thee to cast away thy confidence in Christ thy Saviour but in assurance of his help and protection fly unto him at all seasons and say as David did in another case Psal 66.3 What time I am afraid I will trust in thee Forsake not him and he will not forsake thee In this case I may say as Azariah said to Asa and all Judah and Benjamin The Lord is with you while ye be with him yea the Lord hath said I will not faile thee nor forsake thee A repetition of the same thing in Scripture is like Pharaoh's doubled dream which sheweth that the thing shall certainly come to passe which is foretold or promised Now we have here the Lord doubling his promise I will not faile thee nor forsake thee Note also that whereas two negatives in the Greek Language deny the more strongly we have here no lesse than five negatives two in the former and three in the latter clause of this promise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If we should translate the words literally it would be thus I will not not faile thee neither will I not not forsake thee Enemies indeed thou hast and the worst are in thine own house I meane which is worse in thine own heart Feare with a cautious but not with an incredulous feare Remember thou art here a member of the Church-militant among many Enemies warre thou must and adventure hazards and difficulties yet be not dismayed l Eisi diabolus peccatum