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A33664	The necessity of divine instructions in point of reformation discovered in a sermon preached before the Right Honorable, the Lord Mayor, the Right Worshipful, the sheriffs and aldermen, with other worthy citizens of the city of London, at a solemn anniversary meeting, April 4, 1648 / by John Cardell.	Cardell, John.	1648 (1648)	Wing C495; ESTC R6860	33,627	66

frequently called A light in Scripture yet is it not the Fountain of light Christ is the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world and the Word is but a means or instrument in his hand to convey light unto us It is not the word it self in the ordinary dispensations of it but Christ by the word that illuminates dark understandings and opens blinde eyes and turns people from darkness unto light and from the power of Satan unto GOD. Men may injoy the outward sound of the Gospel and yet never feel the inward power of it upon their hearts 〈…〉 Lord says the Prophet who hath believed our report and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed that is though there be a report made a sound of words in the ears of many yet unless the arm of the LORD be revealed in the Ministery of his Word there will be no believing nor no repenting nor no converting or turning in to God thereby But Secondly The special Instrument that God makes use of By his Spirit for the teaching and instructing of his people is his Spirit without which the very Word it self is but as a sealed Book Isa 29.11 or a dead letter unto them 2 Cor. 3.6 and by the means whereof he is pleased to reveal and manifest not onely mean and ordinary things but the secrets of the Gospel the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the deep things of God are hereby manifested and made known to the Saints 1 Cor. 2.9 10. Eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither hath entred into the heart of man the things that God hath prepared for them that love him But says he God hath revealed them unto us by his spirit for the spirit * Scrutatur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 id est nihil in Deo tam profunde ac penitus abditum quo non penctret spiritus nemp● quoniam perillum docemur etiam abditissima Bez. in loc Quia de Deo est hic spiritus omnia novit Dei Hic spiritus Dei docuit nos quos scit naturaliter non doctos docuit nos de mysterio Christi qui non solum spiritus Dei est sed Christi Am●ros Com in loc searcheth all things yea the deep things of God And in the same Chapter and following verse he tells us yet farther That as no man knows the things of a man save the spirit of a man which is in him even so the things of God knows no man but the spirit of God Though ye should have Ten thousand instructers besides as the Apostle speaks in another case yet all would do you little or no good without this instructer And therefore though the Ephesians had as excellent Preaching as any that the world afforded Quia animalis homo non percipit ca quae sunt Spiritue stultisia enim sunt ci Spiritualis verò disudicat omnia opu● est ergo Spiritus san●ti illuminatione ad inveniendum dijudicandum verum scripturae sensum Ita Paulus optat ●cclesiis Spiritum illuminationis Pater coelestis dabit Spiritum pe●entibus Chemnit Examen Decret Concil Trident. de Interpret sacr Script Ezangelium per humanam sapientiam capi non potest sed requirit operationem Spiritue sancti per quam cordibus nostris insinuetur Muscul loc com Ambiguitas igitur vel obscuritas scripturarum quam causantur pontificii non in●ringit carundem authoritatem sed ostendit necessitatem Spiritus illuminantis ministerii ●●centis atque exponentis scripturas Davenant de Iud. ac norm fid cap. 13. Palàm est verbum Dei Spiritus virtute armatum corda Piorum trahere ad consentiendum sibi decretis suis Id. ibid. Spiritus sapientiae revelationis ab officio dicitur quod vera Agnitione Dei ecclesiam ornat Centuriat Magdeburg lib. 2. centur 1. cap. 4. Paulus quaedam citavit ex Arato Epimenide sed affirmo Apostolos non propterea ejusmodi testimoniis usos fuisse ut inde caput aliquod fidei confirmarent nam ad eam rem semper Adhibucrunt expressos locos petitos ex scriptis Propheticis cosque Afflatu Spiritus sancti expossuerunt Sadeel de verb. Dei script advers Hum. trad Nos nihil hic somniamus extra ordinem sed id ipsum Agnoscimus quod in reliquis Articulis fidei omnibus nimirum omninò opus esse internâ Spiritus sancti persuasione ut libris sarris plená fide assentiamur Chamier Panstrat Cathol tom 1. lib. 6. cap. 1. D. White in his way to the true Church sect 8. num 1 11. Reinold Confer with Hart. Chap. 2. Divis 2. Jewel Repl. to Harding 15. Art 11. Divis in Pauls own Ministery yet you may see how earnestly he prays for them Ephes 1. That the GOD of our Lord Iesus Christ and Father of glory would give unto them the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him The eyes of their understandings being enlightened thereby to know what was the hope of their calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints and what the exceeding greatness of his power towards them that belieeve c. And that it may appear to you How necessary the presence and help of the Spirit is to bring in these Divine Instructions how necessary the presence and assistance of the Spirit is to bring in these Divine Instructions be pleased to observe thus much That the most plain Fundamental Truths that are cannot be rightly understood without the help and assistance of GOD's Holy Spirit To give instance but in one main Fundamental Truth and that which is indeed the very basis or foundation of all Christian Religion The Divinity of Iesus Christ The Divinity of Iesus Christ instanced in who is there almost that looks not upon it as a most dangerous yea damnable Heresie 2 Pet. 2.1 for any body to deny the Deity of the Son of God The Godhead of Jesus Christ who is not ready to say Out upon him it s not fit he should live that holds forth such an horrid Blasphemous Opinion as this But now I beseech you take heed Caution That whilest ye condemn this Opinion in others and cry out upon it others that in the mean time ye be not deeply guilty of it your selves And that this may appear to be no needless Caution pray give me leave to tell you That no man living is able to assert the Divinity of Iesus Christ in heart and life No 〈◊〉 able to 〈…〉 the Divinity of Christ in heare and life but by the help of the Spirit 〈…〉 Ambros but by the special ayd and assistance of Gods Holy Spirit Natural light will never reveal thus much unto a man it must be the Spirit of GOD that must teach him this lesson or else he will never be able to hold forth the power of this Truth That

Iesus Christ is every way the eternal Son of GOD. For the clearing of this to you Cleared by ●●ve places of Scripture I shall onely intreat you to cast your eyes upon two places of Scripture that may I suppose abundantly satisfie you concerning this particular The first place is that Matth. 16. from the 13. 〈…〉 place Mat. 16. from 〈◊〉 c. 〈…〉 verse c. It is there said That when Iesus came into the coasts of Cesarea Philippi he asked his Disciples this question Whom do men say that I the Son of man am And they said Some say that thou art Iohn the Baptist some Elias and others Jeremias or one of the Prophets Verse 14. Well says Christ this is the Opinion that the world hath of me Verse 15. But says he whom do you say that I am you that are my disciples and followers Simon Peter answered and said 〈◊〉 Confes●●● ver 16 Thou art Christ the son of the living GOD Mark here was Peters confession of Christ But then I pray observe withal Our Savior Reply v. 1.17 our Saviors reply to that answer of Peters at the 17. v. of that Chapter Jesus answered and said unto him Blessed art thou Simon Bar-jona for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee but my Father which is in Heaven But why does our blessed Lord say so Quest why does he tell Peter that flesh and blood had not revealed it unto him why may not flesh and blood reveal thus much unto any man almost As now suppose that one should come to any man in this Congregation or to any man of understanding within the compass of this great City and put this question to him Do not you believe that Iesus Christ is the son of the living God There is no man almost but would answer and say Yea I do believe that Iesus Christ is the son of the living God Sol. But let me here tell you Quad earo sanguis revelare non potuis Spiritus sancti gratia re●clatum est Hieron com in Mar. Non sit ergo mirum quod intelligere divina non valent qui Spiritum Dei non habent Fulgent cones Serm. ●ustid Ar. cap 18. That if nothing else but flesh and blood hath revealed this truth unto you if ye have onely learned it by rote out of a Book or if ye have taken it upon trust as it fell from the Ministers lips or if ye have meerly held it forth in conformity to the customs of the times if ye are onely upon such carnal Principles and Foundations as these are if the Spirit of God did never deal with you about it nor never instruct you with a strong hand about it nor never beam in light clearly and distinctly into your souls about it and thereby convince you of it ye are not yet in any measure sufficiently perswaded of this truth neither do ye rightly understand the meaning of it Flesh and blood says Christ hath not revealed it unto thee but my Father c. Adde to this another like place 1 Cor. 12.3 says the Apostle there The second place 1 Cor. 12 ● explained Thus much I give you to understand that no man can say that Iesus Christ is the Lord but by the holy Ghost No man can say it why every man says it almost with his lips and with his tongue what more ordinary then for men to profess That Jesus is the Lord and a desire to come under his Discipline and Government But yet though men may make an outward profession of these things with their lips Memo porest ut Dominum Deum seriò agnoscere nisi per Spiritum sanctum Bez hic Dictum enim ipsum quo significatur Deminus Jesus non adulatione hominum sicut idola dii vocantur sed spiritus sancti veritate profusum est Quicquid enim verum à quocunque dicitur à spiritu sancto dicitur Ambr. com 1. Ep. ad Cor. Lombard lib. 1. sentent dist 46. yet their hearts and consciences and spirits and lives can never stoop to the obedience of Christ in all things without the mighty over-ruling power and direction of the holy Ghost So that if ever ye would know things to purpose if ever ye would know Christ and his Truths not after the flesh or after a carnal maner but so as ye ought to know them and so as that ye may be the better for the knowledge of them then do not meerly rest upon mens teaching but be sure of this That the Spirit of God teach you how to compare spiritual things with spiritual 1 Cor. 2.13 1 Thess 5.21 how to try all things and thereupon to retain a savor of that which is truly good Not that I would by this lead you besides the Scriptures neither or any other Ordinance No denial of the Scriptures here or of any other Ordinance I have no such thought nor no such intention But still I say Attend the motions and the breathings and the teachings of the Spirit in the use of Ordinances and from the holy Scriptures without which they 'll all prove but dead letters and dry things unto you and ye will never understand the spiritual sense of any thing but still be carnal in every thing without the spirits ayd and assistance to you and continual vouchsafement of its presence and co-operation with you The truth is There is nothing spiritual but that which comes from the spirit Nothing Spiritual but that which comes from the Spirit as a fruit of ●●s teaching as a fruit of its teaching and of its divine and heavenly informations That which is born of the flesh is flesh says our Savior and That which is born of the spirit Iohn 3 6. is spirit As the Philosophers say of those things that they call Homogeneous Homogeneum est quod constat ●x partibus idem nomen cum toto habentibus Keekerm System log lib. 1. cap. 22. that each small portion thereof retains the name of the whole Quaelibet pars Aquae est Aqua every drop of water is water and every spark of fire is fire and so all that comes from the flesh is flesh and all that comes from the spirit is spirit All that comes from thence is spirit and All that is spirit comes from thence True it is that in all the truths of GOD and in all the ways of GOD there is something meerly external that belongs not to the substance of the business and that men may teach you How far mans teaching reaches and truly that 's all they can teach you Learned men large parted men brave gifted men they may teach you to be Protestants or teach you to be Presbyterians or teach you to be Independents they may engage you upon this outward Profession or upon that outward Form but they cannot teach you to be righteous or teach you to be humble or teach you to be