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spirit_n	heart_n	new_a	stony_a	5,787	5	13.2107	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05350	A warning for Israel in a sermon preached at Christ-Church, in Dublin, the 30. of October, 1625. By Henry Leslie, one of his Majesties chaplaines in ordinary.	Leslie, Henry, 1580-1661.	1625 (1625)	STC 15502; ESTC S102370	30,258	50

1.12 Iudg 20 26. Ion. 3. So did Nehemiah when hee heard of the desolation of Ierusalem and Iehosaphat when the Moabites came up against him and David when Saul and Ionathan were slaine and the Israelites when they were overthrowne by the Benjamites and the Ninivites when destruction was threatened against them And have wee not just cause to doe the like at this time If wee consider our grievous sinnes and the judgements of God which hang over our heads together with the troublesome estate of Gods Church in other places Even this last may minister unto us sufficient matter of griefe though our owne private estate were never so peaceable Godly Nehemiah being placed in the honourable service of Artashashte was not so much comforted at his owne good estate as grieved at the desolation of Ierusalem Nekem 1.4 1 King 19.4 1. Sam. 4 19. Decay of Religion and increase of Idolatrie made Elijah wearie of his life The Arke of God captivated and the glory departed from Israel drave all comfort out of the heart of Phineas wife These and many moe examples teach us That the affliction of Ioseph should bee the matter of our griefe Cast now but an eye upon the ruefull face of Christendome and yee will finde that it is time to Hang up our Harpes upon the Willowes Psal 137 2. I●●● 2 15. and as the Prophet cals us to blow the Trumpet in Sion and to sanctifie a fast turning unto the Lord with all our hearts and with fasting weeping and mourning But heere yee may aske mee the question Whether or not it be in our power to returne unto the Lord since wee are exhorted thereunto Answere No without a speciall grace given us from above The Scripture everie where hath disabled us pronouncing a man by nature to be the Childe of wrath Ephes 2.3 A transoressor from the wombe Isai 48.8 Dead in sinnes and trespasses Ephes 2.1 Coloss 2.13 Wee are not onely sicke with sinne or wounded by sinne or halfe dead but starke dead bereft of all spirituall life sense and motion And therefore in our selves wee are of no strength Rom. 5.6 For our minde is darke Ephes 5.8 Not perceiving the things of the spirit 1. Cor. 2 14. Our will perverse Gen. 6.5 Ierem. 17.9 The affections rebellious Tit. 3.3 Rom. 3.12 And wee are so confirmed in this naturall corruption that wee can no more doe good then an Ethiopian can change his skinne or a Leopard his spots Ierem 13.23 or Then an evill Tree can bring foorth good fruite Matth. 7.18 So that faith is Gods gift Ephes 2.8 Phil. 1.29 So is repentance 2. Tim. 2.25 So is the knowledge of heavenly mysteries Matth. 13.11 In a word every thing that is good in us is from Gods speciall grace For wee are not sufficient of our selves to thinke any thing as of our selves but our sufficiencie is of God 2. Corinth 3.5 It is God that worketh in you both to will and to doe Phil. 2.13 For who maketh thee to differ from another And what hast thou that thou didst not receive 1. Cor. 4.7 As if hee should say thou differs much from others who are not as yet converted but it is not thy selfe that hath made this separation by the right use of thy owne free will embracing that grace which was equally offered unto them but it is God that wrought more powerfully in thee then in them For God doth not onely beseech us by the Ministery of reconciliation but also Hee powres upon us the spirit of grace Zach. 12.10 Hee sheds on us abundantly the holy spirit Tit. 3.6 He workes powerfully in us Ephes-3 vers 20. So 2. Thes 1.11 Hee is said to worke faith with power and Ephes 1.19 It is called the exceeding greatnesse of his power and the working of his mightie power and Colos 2.12 This power in the conversion of a sinner is equalled to that whereby God raised up CHRIST from the dead Our Saviour himselfe to expresse this powerfull working cals our conversion a drawing No man can come to mee except the father draw him Iohn 6.44 Hee doth indeede draw us for of our selves wee are enemies to our owne salvation and doe nothing else but resist the holy Ghost in the Ministerie of the Word yet hee who is able to doe exceeding abundantly above all that wee aske or thinke overcommeth this resistence in the will of man and of unwilling makes us willing 1. Cor. 15.10 This is his Grace which never is in vaine for all that the father giveth mee shall come to mee saith CHRIST Iohn 6.37 It is also called a boring of the care Psal 40.6 An opening of the heart Act. 16.14 The Circumcision of the heart Deut. 30.6 And further to signifie not onely Gods powerfull working in our conversion but also our owne inabilitie to bring any helpe to this worke it is called a new creation Psalm 51.10 2 Cor. 5.17 Ephes3 10. Iohn 3.3 Iam. 1 18 Ephes 2.1 John ● 2● a regeneration a vivification and resurrection from the dead A man cannot create himselfe nor beget himselfe no6r quicken himselfe when bee is dead Nay hee cannot so much as bring anie helpe to these workes but is meerely patient So is hee in his conversion to God Finally the worke of our conversion is called a renovation of the heart Ezech. 36.26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you I will take away the stonie heart and give you a heart of flesh and I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walke in my Statutes This is a promulgation of the Covenant of Grace where yee may perceive the difference betweene this new Covenant and the old In the covenant of workes God required obedience to his law and wee were unable to performe it In the covenant of Grace God requires faith and repentance and wee are as unable to performe that Wherein then is the difference Even in this that the first covenant had no such power annexed to it to worke in us that which it required from us but in the new covenant that condition which God requireth from us hee worketh in us Hee cals us to returne and hee turnes us But then will a Papist say To what purpose are these exhortations Doth God commaund us that which is impossible And are his admonitions in vaine I answer First God commaunds us many things which are impossible Rom. 8.3 not absolutely but as the Apostle speaketh In asmuch as the Law is weake because of the flesh For once God gave us a power to doe whatsoever hee commaunded and wee by our fall have lost this power yet hath not God lost his right to demaund that debt of obedience which his creature oweth unto him So that the Commandements of God in this state of corruption are the measure of our debt not of our strength they shew us what wee should doe not what wee can doe Secondly neyther are these exhortations in