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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95857	A charge against the Jews, and the Christian world, for not coming to Christ, who would have freely given them eternall life. Delivered in a sermon, before the Right Honorable the House of Peers, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, on May 26. 1647. being the day of their publick fast. / By Thomas Valentine, one of the Assembly of Divines, and Minister of Chalfont in the County of Bucks.	Valentine, Thomas, 1585 or 6-1665?	1647 (1647)	Wing V24; Thomason E389_6; ESTC R201520	27,808	35

not what he hath the soule lives in hope to injoy God the will of man goes further in her art then any other faculty sence looks at the outside of a thing viz. colour reason hath an idea or notion of it but will desires the thing it self the heart of man is set upon God himself Charitas intrat scientia foris stat Biel and as in heauen we shall know God more so we shall love him more and injoy him more and none can tell what affections he shall have in heaven the soule shall have a wide capacity and receive in much of God which may appeare by these two particulars 1. God is sweet in the use of his creatures as meat to the hungrie clothes to the naked sleepe to the wearie fire to them that are cold these are very welcome but if God be tasted in them they are sweeter then ordinarie 2. In the Ordinances God is more to the beleeving heart when the troubled conscience can find rest no where if it hear of the mercy of God in Christ it is revived the soule that groans under the burthen of sin if it be put in hope of pardon it begins to look up which before was quite down and utterly dejected But what need I to speak how sweet God is in his Ordinances I appeale to all those hearts that ever have received good by his word whether it hath not been more then their appointed food far above all the comforts of this world but in heaven we shall injoy God not in his creatures nor in his Ordinances but in himself and we shall find the varietie of all comforts to meet in him we shall need no Sun to shine upon us no wine to make our hearts glad no oyl to make our faces shine nay we shall need no Sacraments no preaching of the word but God in himself and from himself will communicate the fulnesse of joy and it shall continue without interruption without any mixture of sorrow or sinfulnesse no devill shall be there to tempt no deceitfulnesse in our hearts to betray us no worldly occasion to entangle or trouble us our hearts shall be lifted up and never fall again our affections warm and never coole again our mindes settled in the full assurance of Gods favour and never doubt again our natures shall be perfectly holy and never sin again all our thoughts and desires shall be set on God and nothing else and for conclusion of this point we shall be happie and there will be no danger no possibilitie of loosing it again lo thus shall it be done to the man whom God will honour And now that I have explained what life eternall is I come to the latter part which is to shew you that Christ will confer upon you this life by way of gift Rom. 6.23 he will freely give it to you The gift of God is eternall life through Jesus Christ our Lord. And this aggravates the sin of the Jewes that they might have so great a blessing in such a free way of gift and yet would not come unto him and not onely the Jews in the daies of Christ were to be blamed but even in these daies the Papists will not come to him to have life in this way of gift they will merit it else they will not have it they will not have a heaven that costs them nothing To meet with both these I shall briefly shew you that Christ will freely give you life if you come to him and that you must have it this way or not at all Christ purchased it and meritoriously procured it and it is freely given by him to us he bought it as if it had been freely given it is freely given as if it had not been bought it is Christs purchase but our inheritance Christ is given who bought it the Word that works faith to apply it is given the Spirit that inables us to beleeve and to look after life eternall is given And therefore the grace of God is made the cause of salvation in generall Ephe 2.8 Rom. 3.24 Ephe. 1.6 7. and also ascribed to the particulars of justification adoption remission of sins and glorification And as God intended his glory should arise out of the manifestation of his severall attributes so he purposed severall works wherein they were to shine and more eminently to appear as his power in the Creation the invisible things of him Rom. 1.20 that is his eternall power and Godhead are seen in the Creation Wisdom and Providence are chiefly seen in the government of the world He made the Earth by his power he established the world by his wisdom and stretched out the Heavens by his discretion Ier 10.12 Justice is seen in the condemnation of the wicked and Gods free grace in the salvation of the elect Yet we must not imagine that nothing else but power and wisdom and justice and grace appear in these works but these are more eminent and perspicuous and the Attributes of God though they be not subordinate or inferiour one to another yet they give way one to another as the Mayor and Aldermen in a Corporation they give honour to him whose turn it is to have the chief place so here all give way to power in Creation none did so much appear as that and all give way to Gods free grace in our salvation and from those words of the Apostle Eph. 1.6 we were adopted to the praise of the glory of his grace We may infer the like he made the world for the praise of the glory of his power he governs it for the praise of the glory of his wisdom he condemnes wicked men for the praise of the glory of his Justice and saves his own for the praise of his glorious grace And how dare any shew themselves enemies to the grace of God or go about to obscure it or derogate from the goodnesse of Christ who doth freely offer life to them that come unto him That we may vindicate the grace of God against the Papist and others and shew that life eternall is not merited or deserved by man we will pick out an Argument or two such ●s see● to have most strength in them and answer them yet so as to deliver the positive truth rather then meddle much with the controversie There are two things alledged against this truth one by ancient Writers the other by Modern Papists which seem to prove that we are not to look for life at Christs hand of free gift I will put them both together thus If the holy actions and services of beleevers come from the Spirit of grace inabling them thereto and shall be rewarded not of grace and favour but of justice then they are meritorious and consequently life eternall comes not by free gift but is due to the Saints But both the former are true Ergo. The first is urged by Biell and Greg. de Valentia Biel li 2. dist 29.