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A27575 A sermon preached before the Queen at White-hall, October 12. 1690 by William Beveridge ... Beveridge, William, 1637-1708. 1690 (1690) Wing B2114; ESTC R2113 15,061 37

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by sending his Holy Spirit of the same divine nature with himself into our Hearts which by degrees makes us also holy and spiritual and so in our capacities like unto himself and partakers of his own nature Now the great thing which he requires of us in order to his doing this great work for us is that we believe in him For he himself saith that we are sanctified by faith that is in him Not by believing only his Gospel in general to be true but by believing particularly in himself so as to have a sure trust and confidence on him to give us such illuminations and assistances of his Holy Spirit whereby we may be turned from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God and so be made sincerely as he is infinitely pure and holy And indeed this is the first and great thing that we ought to believe and trust in our Saviour for and that which is the foundation of all our other expectations from him For we have no ground to expect either pardon or any other blessing at his hands untill we repent and be converted But if we firmly believe and depend upon him in the first place for grace to repent and turn to God and so to become holy and new creatures according to the promises that he hath made us to that purpose as he will then most certainly perform such promises to us so all the other blessings that he hath purchased for us will then follow in course For if we be truly sanctified and made holy then our sins will be all pardoned our persons justified our duties accepted God reconciled to us and at length our Souls eternally saved But all these things depend upon our being first sanctified by him as that doth upon our believing in him But Faith as the Apostle saith is the Gift of God and therefore if we desire to believe so as to be sanctified we must ask and expect it from him in the use of those means which he hath appointed both for the begetting and increasing of it We must reade and hear and meditate upon his Holy Word We must fast and pray and receive the Sacrament of our Lord's Supper For these are the ordinary means which God hath established in his Church whereby to make known himself unto us to convince us of the truth and certainty of his Promises and so work and confirm in us a true belief of them by the power of the Holy Ghost which for that purpose doth continually assist and influence the administration and performance of such duties which therefore are not onely holy duties in themselves but the means too whereby we may become holy But for that purpose we must perform not onely one or more but all of them so as to go through the whole course that God hath prescribed for the healing of our spiritual distempers and for the restoring us to a sound frame and constitution of mind wherein as I have shewn the nature of true holiness properly consists And that we must doe too not onely now and then but through the whole course of our lives so as to be constantly as much as possibly we can employed in some or other of these holy exercises not in a careless and superficial manner but heartily sincerely earnestly as for our lives for our lives our eternal lives in a great measure depend upon it For it is by our continual exercise of those holy duties and the Grace of God always accompanying of them that our hearts are insensibly taken off from sin and the world and raised up higher and higher towards God and Heaven till at length our whole Souls being sanctified by a quick and lively Faith in Christ we are made meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light And what cause have they who are so to give thanks as St. Paul here doth to God the Father for it For the whole of our Salvation from first to last must be ascribed unto him It is begun continued and ended all in him For it was he who so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life It was he who spared not this his Son but delivered him up to be tempted to be scourged to be spit upon to be arraigned condemned crucified and all for us and for our Salvation It was he who having raised up this his Son Jesus sent him to bless us by turning every one of us from his iniquities And made him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him It was he who hath exalted him with his own right hand to be both a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance and remission of sins It is he who hath passed by the greatest part of mankind and hath revealed himself and his Son to us the unworthiest of all his creatures It was he who caused us to be born and bred within the Pale of his Holy Catholick Church and in one of the soundest and purest parts of it upon the face of the whole Earth It is he who still continues the means of grace to us and us to them and his blessing both to them and us It is he who gives us his holy spirit to mortifie the deeds of the flesh and to quicken us with newness of life to raise up our minds from the world and fix them upon himself to keep us from evil and to enable us to doe or suffer any thing we can for his sake It is he who calls upon us continually by the ministery of his Word to repent and believe the Gospel and gives us grace to doe it In a word It is he who hath sent me the unworthiest of all his ministers at this time to acquaint you in his Name how ye may be meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light and it is he alone can make you so And therefore all who are so made may well join with the Choire of Heaven in those Seraphick Anthems we find them singing in the Revelations Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne and to the Lamb. Amen Blessing and glory and wisedom and thanksgiving and honour and power and might be unto our God for ever and ever Amen FINIS Mar. 9. 44. Psal 89. 35. Amos 4. 2. Heb. 12. 10. 2 Pet. 1. 4. Isa 6. 3. Rev. 4. 8. Ephes 4. 24. 1 Pet. 1. 15. 1 Thess 4. 7. Psal 16. 3. 1 Cor. 15. 58. Rom. 8. 17. Heb. 1. 2. Rev. 21. 7. 1 Cor. 3. 21 22. 1 Cor. 13. 12. 1 Joh. 3 2. Act. 26. 18. 1 Thess 5. 5. 1 Pet. 2. 9. 2 Reg. 6. 17. Act. 7. 55 56. Heb. 11. 27. Exod. 33. 20. Job 31. 23. Rev. 21. 23. Isa 60. 19. Joh. 17. 24. Matt. 17. 4. Heb. 12. 14. Tit. 2. 14. 1 Cor. 1. 30. Joh. 15. 5. Phil. 4. 13. Act. 26. 18. Ephes 2. 8. Joh. 3. 16. Rom. 8. 32. Act. 3. 26. 2 Cor. 5. 21. Act. 5. 31. Revel 7. 10 12.