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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66351	The kingdom of God in power a sermon preached before the Right Honourable Sir John Shorter, Knight, Lord Mayor of the city of London, at Grocers-Hall, November the 20th, 1687 / by Daniel Williams ...	Williams, Daniel, 1643?-1716.	1688 (1688)	Wing W2652; ESTC R1845	22,380	40

full they drew to shore and gathered the good into Vessels bnt cast the bad away You see that Hypocrites and Sincere Believers are of the Kingdom but Hypocrites belong to it as they wear the visage of the Sincere and therefore the name of Subjects belongs to them only equivocally Whereas in the most proper sense it is confined to men heartily devoted to Christ. He is eminently King of Saints even of such who have unfeignedly subscribed his Covenant Psal. 50. 5. All such are esteemed by him for his People and they yea only they can say concerning God The Lord is our Law-giver the Lord is our King he will save us I can hardly forbear to bewail the dangerous condition of many men professing Christianity Crowds will be found Rebels in heart dead as to a Spiritual Life whilst they have a name to live and obeying their Lusts when they bow the Knee to Jesus Having finished this Account of the Kingdom of God I proceed to explain how it is not in Word but in Power And with the Explication I will insert the proof of the Doctrine That the Kingdom of God in the three forementioned Instances is not in Word but in Power Whatever mens Conceits be of this Kingdom it will be found to consist not in Weak Appearances but in effectual Realities It attaineth the ends of the Constitution it is expressive of a Divine and Supernatural Virtue and is not a dead Image and carnal Matter 1. The Gospel of Christ our Redeemer is effectual by the Spirit to recover fallen Men and to govern and improve them unto eternal Life This is not an empty Sound it consists not in low or weak Matters but is Life and Power Every command is enstamped with the Authority of the Lord of Heaven and Earth and is not the faint advice of poor Mortals Men disobey them at their utmost peril Hebr. 12. 25. Life and Death is annexed to them by a Soveraign who is able and resolved to execute his Royal Sanction They have a Virtue in them to dispose us to Obedience and are holy spiritual and perfect The Matters revealed by the Gospel are not vain Conceits but glorious Realities they are beyond the Light of Nature to conceive they shine in a Light fit to illuminate the darkned minds of Sinners and when they are apprehended they must inspire with the highest Resentments and make lasting Impressions on the Soul. The Promises are not doubtful Words but great and sure they contain all that 's good they are founded on the Veracity of God who cannot lye and on the Virtue of Christs Undertakings and Death which cannot be disappointed Yea they are mighty to dispence the Grace contained therein to needy Souls and are the effectual Instrument to invest men in all the blessings of the Covenant when the Condition is performed by them The Sacraments and all Institutions of Christ as to Worship or Discipline are powerful to improve our Graces mortifie our Lusts maintain our Converses with God and dispence Joy and Comfort through the Operation of God by them The Arguments urged by the Gospel are fit to move and have all in them necessary to an Instrument of moral Government The Presence of God is promised and the Efficacy of all these means argue the Spirit 's operation by them they are the Vehicle of the Holy Ghost and therefore when we are profitable to the Souls of Men our Gospel cometh to them not in Word only but in Power and in the Holy Ghost This Gospel is called The Arm of God revealed the Scepter of his Kingdom and Rod of his Strength This affords those Weapons which are mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds and bringing every thought to the obedience of Christ. God hath appointed it to raise dead Souls and subdue rebellious Sinners to his Government In the Institutions of the Gospel God meets us and blesseth us he communicateth Light and Strength whereby the weak Christian is enabled to persevere What Trophies of its Power are in Heaven and Earth How many great Sinners hath it changed Every Age and Place where it cometh yield a Testimony of its Energy restraining some turning others from Idols to serve the Living God from a carnal Life to a spiritual This hath made the Ambitious and Covetous to Postpone all to the concerns of an invisible World and sacrifice their former Idols to the Profession of Truth How many weak Christians hath it strengthned to do and suffer unexpected things What Joy hath it infused into sadned Hearts On these accounts the Gospel is the Power of God unto Salvation to every one that believeth 2. The Graces and Actings which qualify the Subjects of Christ are so spiritual real and sublime as to argue a Divine life and the Dominion of God in the Soul. What this Kingdom requireth and effecteth are not bare Pretences weak Attempts sleight Attainments or external Performances these are too mean for God to injoin or accept He doth not paint a dead Carkass but raise it to Life he createth a new Heart wherein his Laws are prevalent Dispositions and communicateth a nature too Divine to derive its birth from a lower Original than Regeneration by the Spirit John 3. 3. Hence all real Christians are said to be born of God and partakers of the divine Nature Our crying Lord Lord and all external Alterations signify little in this new Man which after God is created in Wisdom and true Holiness I will hint at some particulars which have the chief place in this Kingdom and you 'l see that none of them is in Word but in Power Faith is not a faint assent to the Truths of the Gospel but such a realizing of invisible Objects reliance on Christ and consent to Him the Redeemer as purifieth the Heart worketh by Love and derives from Christ fit supports in the way of truth and holiness to eternal Life Gospel Repentance is not a bare sorrow for Sin but a true hatred and forsaking of Sin on Gospel-motives Our love to God is not in a few kind or sleighty thoughts of God but a prevalent esteem of God and delight in him as the supreme Good and this expressing it self in sincere Obedience to his strictest Laws and Zeal for his Interests when most despised If a man love me saith Christ he will keep my words If we love any thing as him it 's a hating of him by the Rules of this Kingdom The Worship which Christ insisteth on and disposeth all his Subjects for is in Spirit and in Truth it 's no sleight performance nor by humane Inventions Prayer must be a fervent pouring out of the Soul to God and not lip-labour Hearing the Word is of no esteem with him unless the heart be obedient to the word Jam. 1. 25. Baptism is not the putting away the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good Conscience toward