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A87817	Christ exalted: in a sermon begun to be preached at Debenham in Suffolk, upon the 14. day of Febr. last, upon Coloss. 3. 11. / By Hanserd Knollys. Who was stoned out of the pulpit (as he was preaching) by a company of rude fellowes, and poor women of that town; who were sent for, called together, and set on by a malignant high-constable, who lives in the same town. Also, another sermon, preached at Stradbrooke in Suffolk, the 13. day of Febr. last, concerning sanctification; upon Ephes. 1. 4.	Knollys, Hanserd, 1599?-1691.	1645 (1645)	Wing K706; Thomason E284_14; ESTC R200061	21,848	24

Law but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousnesse which is of God by faith Phil. 3 9. The second Sort are all those formall professors who seem onely to be religious Iames 1.26 Having a forme of Godlinesse but denying the power thereof 2 Tim. 3.5 These will tell you they rest not on duties trust not to their owne righteausnesse confide not in their Humiliation as legal professors doe But they after much trouble of conscience for their sins got comfort joy and peace in applying some promises of the Gospell to themselves Consider I pray you the Parable of the stony ground hearers They on the rock are they which when thy hear receive the Word with joy and these have no root which for a while beleeve and in time of temptation fall away Luke 8.13 Here was some plowing though it went not deep enough and some Harrowing also to cover the good seed after this the●e was some joy but no root Here was the Word convincing and wounding and comforting but no Christ who is called the root Coloss 2.6 7 to quicken renew and sanctifie And therefore though they believed awhile yet they fall away in the time of Temptation And this is the condition of formall Professors they get comfort in promises but they receive not Christ and His sanctifying comforting-spirit in the promises let such hear what the Lord by His Prophet speakes to a formall professing people Isa 50.11 Behold all ye that kindle a fire that compasse your selves about with sparks Walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks that ye have kindled This shall ye have at my hand ye shall lye down in sorrow The third sort are all those carnall Professors who say they are the people of God and hold the common Faith Titus 1.4 which is the faith of Gods Elect Titus 1.1 and beleeve the common salvation Jude 3. That is to say common to every one that beleeveth both Jew and Gentile Rom. 1 16. But notwithstanding all this profession of generall redemption they themselves are the servants of corruption 2 Pet. 2.19 For they take liberty to live in sin and walk after the flesh fulfilling the lusts thereof turning the grace of God into lasciviousnesse and denying the onely Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ Jude 4 They are so fa●re departed from the Faith which they sometime professed and seemed to have 1 Tim. 4.1 that they question whether the Scriptures of truth be the Word of God Whether Christ be the sonne of God Whether the first day of the Week be the Sabboth of God And they are so farre from living godly and walking in the way of holinesse that they totally omit all holy duties they refrain prayer they speak not of the Word of God when they rise up nor when they lye down nor as they sin in the house together with their family They do not pertake of any Ordinances nor perform any worship to God And as for sin they make a mock at it some of them say God takes no knowledge of their sins He sees no iniquitie in them others affirm that they have no sin they are born of God and they cannot sin And some others are bold to say they are justified persons and therfore all their words and actions are alike acceptable to God and well-pleasing in his sight c. But these carnall professors are not holy are not the people of God This may make some discovery of those whose hearts are not right with God to whom I would give the Apostles exhortation Acts 8.22 3. Vse Will God have His people to be holy Then may this doctrine occasion a deep Humiliation and godly sorrow in believers for their unholinesse carnallnesse and sinfulnesse in heart or life O beloved let you and I commune with our own hearts how much unbelief hypocrisie self-filthinesse formality and wickednesse shall we upon diligent examination finde still remaining in us What vanity of minde and carnality is in our hearts How many hard thoughts of God have we still Notwithstanding all the experiences God hath given us of his unchangeablenesse his faithfulnesse and his everlasting loving kindnesse in Jesus Christ How apt are we by an evill heart of unbelief to depart from God Alas what sinfull contemplations have we in our spirits What evill concupiscence How do our hearts run out after the creature-comforts of this world and how are our affections still set upon the things below Christ and God How many Idols are set up in our hearts How great is our self-love self-seeking self-confidence self-dependence and self-sufficiencie O what high thoughts have we sometimes of our selves our gifts our graces our experiences our performances Surely we have just cause if God will in mercy work in us godly sorrow to be ashamed to mourn after a godly manner and to loath our selves for the abominations of our own hearts But my brethren let us examine our lives and search and try our wayes as well as commune with our hearts for the eye of the world is open upon us God and Angels men and Divels all observe us who are believers they hear what we say and take knowledge what we do O beloved how much vain carnall and sinfull communication comes out of our mouthes that ministers no grace to the hearers How many idle words do we speak What unprofitable talk have we among our selves and with others not gracious nor seasoned with the salt of truth and holinesse but very unsavoury speeches And when we meet together and speak one to another of Religion we are apt to speak slightly rashly formally inconsiderately and not soberly humbly and graciously as becomes the Saints Yea our conferences sometimes turns to vain janglings and un-edifying disputes wherein we strive for victory or to maintain our own opinion more then truth But besides all this How much ungodlinesse is there in our actions Albeit God preventeth us by His grace from doing actions simply and grossely evill and ungodly as drunkennesse uncleannesse c. Yet in doing lawfull things we often mis-carry the Messengers of Christ do sometimes preach themselves Fathers of Families do correct their children sometimes after their pleasure provoking their children being bitter to their Wives sometimes Oh how uneven do we walk in our callings and relations Wherein we should especially shew forth the power of godlinesse Oh had we tender hearts and were we truly sensible of our sinfull miscariages we could not speak of those particulars without teares of godly sorrow Can we consider how many yeares we have professed the Gospell how long we have enjoyed the Word preached in season and out of season unto us and yet how little our conversation is as becomes the Gospell how little we have profited how little we have grown in Grace and in the knowledge of Jesus Christ and not be affected to mourn under the feeling of our unprofitablenesse and great barrennesse But I hope God will give us

preached to every creature in all parts of the world Mark 16.15 None are exempted or prohibited from hearing the Gospel preached but every one that hath an eare is required to heare Revel 2.7 And let such as neglect the hearing of the word of God preached by such as are called and sent of Christ consider what the Lord saith Prov. 1. from the 20. vers to the 32. vers But albeit some of you see it is that you ought to doe and that you had need to doe to wit to seeke the Lord assenting to what you heard in the first verse of the doctrine that there is much worth beauty and excellency in Christ and that poore-lost-undone sinners stand in need of him Notwithstanding how to obtaine Christ you know not as yet Let me tell you God offers you Christ upon Gospel-termes which are these three First God in the dispensation of the Gospell propounds Christ to lost sinners as the onely necessary and all-sufficient meanes of Salvation Christ is the onely necessary means of Salvation Act. 4.12 Neither is there Salvation in any other And Christ is the All-sufficient meanes of Salvation so that we need none but him Heb. 7.25 He is able to save them to the umost c. Secondly God doth offer Christ to lost sinners without respect to price or person He invites them that have no money to come and buy Wine and milk that is to say Christ without price Isa 55 1. And any one that will are invited to take Christ freely Revel 22.17 And whosoever will let him take the water of life that is Christ freely Thirdly God requires that those who do receive him shall depart from iniquity 2. Tim. 2.19 Live soberly righteously and Godly in this present world Ti●us 2 11 12 13 14 15. And that they shall sell all lose all and hate all for the sake of Christ and take up the Crosse and follow him You will say to me Alas here is my miserie to wit although God propound Christ upon good termes to poor sinners to me among others I have no power of my selfe to receive Christ to beleeve in him and accept of him True It is not as I said in him that willeth nor him that runneth but in God who sheweth mercy Rom. 9.16 It is the exceeding greatnesse of his power to us-wards who beleeve which must be put forth in your hearts to make you beleeve also according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead Ephes 1.19 20. And you ought to wait on God in the diligent use of meanes untill the day of his power come upon you and then you shall be a willing a beleeving people Psal 110.3 I may exhort you to repent of your wickednesse prophanenesse c. as Peter did Act. 8.22 But God must give you repentance unto life Act. 11.18 It is my duty to preach the Gospel to you and to exhort you to seek Christ Act. 17.22 27. but it is the meer mercy and free grace of God to drive you to Christ which nothing but his everlasting love can move him to doe Ier. 31.3 You ought to seek and wait aske and have and use all the meanes which God hath appointed and afforded you both secret private and publike Revel 2.29 But God must make the meanes effectuall Acts 16.14 And therefore I must say It is not in me I cannot draw you to Christ that is the Fathers worke John 6.44 But having exhorted you to seeke him in the use of meanes there I must leave you to waite on God for the moving of his holy Spirit where you must lye and continue like the poore impotent man at the poole of Bethesda for healing And though as he did so you may see many a Lame Blinde Deaf Dumb Naked-leprous soule get healing and goe away rejoycing and praising God and you remaine still so impotent that you cannot get in to the Fountaine set open for sin and for uncleannesse nor have any that can helpe you in that you may be cured yet be not disheartned as Christ came suddenly and unexpectedly and healed the impotent man after long waiting so Christ will come according to his promise to your soules that seek him Malac. 3.1 The Lord whom you seek shall come shall suddenly come saith the Lord of Hosts THE SECOND SERMON EPHES 1.4 That we should be holy IN this chapter you have First the inscription of the Epistle vers 1. and therein is declared both the Pen-man Paul and his Office an Apostle of of Jesus Christ by the will of God also the persons to whom the Epistle was written the Saints and to the faithfull in Christ Jesus which are at Ephesus Secondly A salutation vers 2. and therein is expressed the matter of the Salutation Grace and Peace the persons saluted you to wit the Saints the Author from whom Grace and Peace comes to the Saints From God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ Thirdly A congratulation vers 3. for spirituall blessings in generall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Who hath blessed us with all spirituall blessings c. or with every spirituall blessing Whereof the Apostle mentioneth some particularly in the following verses to wit Election Predestination Adoption In this 4 verse Saint Paul hints to us First That there is an Election Secondly That the Elect are chosen in Christ Thirdly That Election was before the World was founded And fourthly that the Elect of God should be holy and without blame in his presence in love Thus you see the occasion and dependence of the words of the Text which offers to your religious consideration this plaine Doctrine Doct. God will have his people to be an holy people This point of doctrine needeth no explanation And it is a truth so generally assented to by all professors that I shall give you but one Scripture to confirme it 2 Thes 3. This is the will of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 your Sanctification And indeed it appeares manifestly in the Scripture of truth that this is Gods holy will First because God hath chosen them in Christ to this end Ephes 1.4 That they should be holy Secondly God calles his to holinesse 1 Thes 4.7 God hath not called us to uncleannesse but unto holinesse Thirdly God hath given to every one of his the holy spirit to sanctifie them Rom. 15 16. being sanctified by the holy spirit Fourthly God affords them his holy word which is a meanes of Sanctification John 17.17 Sanctifie them through thy truth thy word is truth Yea when they sin against God he will chastise them for their profit that they may be partakers of his holinesse Heb. 12.10 So that God would have his people holy Reason 1. God will have his people to be holy that he may be justified in justifying the ungodly Rom. 3.26 That he might be just that justifieth the ungodly Rom. 4.5 God justifieth the ungodly that is He finding men

Christ Exalted IN A SERMON Begun to be preached at Debenham in Suffolk upon the 14. day of Febr. last upon Coloss 3.11 By HANSERD KNOLLYS Who was stoned out of the Pulpit as he was Preaching by a company of rude fellowes and poor women of that Town who were sent for called together and set on by a Malignant High-Constable who lives in the same Town ALSO ANOTHER SERMON Preached at Stradbrooke in Suffolk the 13. day of Febr. last concerning Sanctification upon Ephes 1.4 GALAT 4.16 Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth HEBR. 12.14 Follow Peace with all men and holinesse without which no man shall see the Lord. 2 CORINTH 11.25 Once was I stoned JOHN 10.32 For which of these good works do you stone me LONDON Printed in the Year 1645. TO THE HONOVRABLE Committee of Examinations Grace and Peace from God through CHRIST HONOVRABLE IT may be judged an act of great boldnesse in me who am under the Examination of this Honourable Committee to dedicate my poor labours at Debenham and Stradbrook to your patronage especially to publish them to the world Had not the hard reports of some persons too much credited by many constrained me to vindicate first the truth and in the next place to give some satisfaction to many who have heard those reports I should not have been so bold the consciousnesse of mine own inability and the knowledge of the profitable labours of many both learned and godly hath to this time and still had justly hindred me from publishing any thing by print to the view of the World Wherefore I being thus inforced to print my Sermons present them to your Honours wherein you have the summe and substance of all that I preached in Suffolk as many witnesses can testifie For my main endeavours there was to exalt Christ and to presse my Hearers to Sanctification in heart and life And if the Lord shall please to make my poor labours a blessing to any he will get glory and I have my reward with him Howsoever I humbly submit both my self and my Book to the Examination and determination of this Honourable Committee Your Honours to serve you in the Lord HANSERD KNOLLYS COLLOS 3.11 Christ is all and in all THe Apostle Paul who was a chosen vessell unto the Lord to beare his name before the Gentiles Acts 9 15. wrote this Epistle to the Saints and Faithfull brethren in Christ which were at Colosse chap. 1. verse 2. And as the Ensigne-bearer of His glorious Name displayed the Magnificency and transcendent Excellencie of Christ in the words of the Text Christ is all and in all And that he might lift up Christs All-sufficiencie he nullifies all other excellencies whatsoever chap. 3. ver 11 Where he gives the Colossians to understand that the advantage of a Jew above a Gentile the dignity of a Scythian above a Barbarian or the Immunities of a Freeman above a Bondslave however esteemed amongst men are nothing without Christ who is all and in all These words have their dependance upon the exhortation unto Mortification chap. 3. vers 5. Which exhortation the Apostle pressed upon the Colossians by telling them vers 9.10 they had put off the Old-Man with his deeds had put on the New-Man c. Where that is in which State of Regeneration there is neither Greek nor Jew c. But Christ is all and in all The lesson to be learned hence is this to wit Christ is all and in all in the New-Man Doct. Two thighs needs some explanation in this Doctrine viz. 1. Who is here meant by the New-Man and secondly How Christ is all and in all in the New-Man By the New-Man here we are to understand as was intended by the Apostle a true beleever or a faithfull Brother in Christ one sanctified in Christ Jesus called a Saint who is redeemed in the Spirit of his minde and hath put on the New-Man Ephes 4 23 24. which is done when by the mighty operation of the holy Spirit in the Promises given unto us we are made partakers of the Divine nature 2 Pet. 1.3 4. Non per participationem Essentiae sed per communicationem Spiritus gratiae ejus Gal. 4 6. Ephes 4.6 thus being by the Spirit and Faith united with Christ we are made a new creature or creation 2 Cor. 5.17 have a new Heart Ezek. 36.26 27. and walke in newnesse of life Rom. 6.4 And such may be said to have put on the New-Man the sum then is this Christ is all and in all in every true Beleever in every Justified-Sanctified person wo hath a New-heart and walke in newnesse of life Touching the Second particular to wit How Christ is all and in all in the new man The Lord Jesus Christ who is all in himselfe for in him dwelleth all the Fulnesse of the Godhead bodily Col. 2.9 which was the pleasure of God that in all things he might have the preheminence Col. 1.18 19. is all and in all in the New-Man First Fundamentally I mean Christ is the Foundation of all 1 Cor. 3.11 For other Foundation can no man lay then that is laid which is Iesus Chirist I say Christ is the Foundation of all that Faith Repentance Love other graces gifts and fruits of the Spirit which are in every true beleever He is a living fountain full of grace and from his fulnesse have we all received grace for grace Joh. 1.14 16. Secondly Communicatively I meane Chirst doth communicate all unto the New-Man to wit Life Light Grace and Glory c. We have nothing but what we have received and we have received all from his fulnesse Ephes 4.7 Joh. 1.16 The Titles given to Christ in the Scripture of truth will make this appear yet more fully viz. That Christ is all in the New-Man or in every true Beleever I shall instance some 1. Christ is our life Col. 3.4 Christ is the life of a Beleever even eternall Life 1 Joh. 5.11 12. That is to say The everlasting Spirituall well-being of a beleever is by union and communion with Jesus Christ in whom he lives a life of grace here and with whom he shall live a life of glory hereafter Yea all those spirituall breathings of the hunger-thirsting soule after the enjoyment of God in any of his holy Ordinances are from Christ and from him are all those quicknings and all that life we have in Prayer Preaching Conference and other spirituall duties In a word the spirit of life himselfe who so sweetly refresheth the weary soule comforts the sorrowfull heart and quickens the sanctified affections is from Christ and he is called the Spirit of the Son Gal. 4.6 whom God sends forth into the hearts of his Children 2. Christ is the true light of every beleever or in the New-Man That was the true Light Joh. 1.9 even Jesus Christ who inlightneth the eyes of our vnderstanding that we may know what is the hope of his calling and

precious then all creature-comforts whatsoever as friends liberties and life Again the precious blood of Christ hath a purging quality Heb 9.14 The blood of Christ shall purge your consciences from dead workes to serve the living God Sin doth both contract guiltinesse and pollution and therefore the blood of Christ doth both cleanse and purge pardon and purifie therefore we are also said to be sanctified by the blood of Christ Heb. 13.12 Wherefore Jesus also that he might sanctifie the people with his own blood Suffered without the gate Oh beloved what can be esteemed so precious to a gracious heart as this blood of Christ which washeth away all those defilements and uncleannesses which through our corruptions cleave unto us even in our best actions and holy duties Such of you as have many a time groaned in prayer to God under the feeling sence and sight of any corruption know by experience what high esteem you have had of the blood of Christ to save you from your uncleannesse Secondly the unsearchable riches of his grace Ephes 3.8 To me who am lesse then the least of all Saints is this grace given that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ Christs riches are of such an hight depth length and bredth that passeth knowledge yea thus much is spoken of the love of Christ Ephes 3.18 19. Also Faith in Christ is called precious faith 2 Pet. 1.1 To them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the Righteousnesse of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ yea all the Graces of Christ are the riches of the poore Saints Jam. 2.5 God hath chosen the poor of the world rich in grace c. Tell me beloved how did you esteem of the riches of Christ when you being poor in spirit mourned for Christ and his grace when you discerned Faith Love Humility c. in others of the children of God did you not prize it highly in them Did you not account them happy rich and blessed whom Christ had inriched with those jewels and adorned with such graces Ah how much more should you now prize Christ in whom is all fulnesse of these unsearchable riches and especially considering that from his fulnesse you have received grace for grace Ioh. 1.14 16. Thirdly the glorious liberties of his Spirit for where the Spirit of the Lord is there is libertie 2 Cor. 3.17 Not any carnall liberty to sin and so fulfill the lusts of the Flesh Gal. 5.13 but Spirituall liberty and freedome from sin I mean not a perfect and totall freedome from all sin as if the people of God could never sin after Conversion For if we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us 1 Joh. 1 8 10. But I mean a freedome First from the guilt of sin Rom. 8 33. And the Apostle saith Colos 2.13 That he hath forgiven us all trespasses Secondly from the polution or filth of sin Zach. 13.1 A fountain set open to Beleevers for sin and for uncleanesse And Ezek. 36.25 29. God promised they shall be cleane and he will save them from all their uncleannesses Thirdly from the raigning power of sin Rom. 6.14 Sin shall not have dominion over you under grace Fourthly from the punishment due for sin which is the cure of the Law Gal. 3.13 or condemnation Rom. 8.1 or any other satisfactory punishment 2 The great need you have of Christ may move you to praise him and set an high esteeme of him Christ is the one thing necessarie and therefore the Titles given him in the Scripture are such as declare his usefullnesse to Beleevers for he is our Life our Light our Bread Water Milke Wine His flesh our meat indeed His blood our drink indeed He is our Father our Husband our Brother our Friend our King Priest and Prophet He is our Justification Sanctification and Redemption He is our Peace our All. We can have no accesse to God but by his Mediation no acceptance with God without his Jntercession Revel 8.3.4 We cannot resist the next Temptation neither can we overcome the next Corruption nor shall we be able to suffer with patience the next Persecution or indure any tribulation unlesse we have renewed strength from Christ Beleevers have received that Grace they have from Christ Iohn 1 16. And they cannot have increase of grace bu by Christ Iohn 15.1 2. Lord increase our Faith said the Disciples neither can they persevere in grace unlesse they be preserved in Christ Iude 1. To conclude we are nothing have nothing can do nothing without Christ Iohn 15.5 Without me you can do nothing that is to say you cannot in your own strength nor in the strength of any grace received do any thing to please God or to glorifie God without me unlesse you abide in me and have renewed ability and strength from me you can do nothing that God my father will own or crown with acceptance or reward But yet we who are Believers have all and abound Phil. 4.18 can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth them Phil. 4.13 can suffer the losse of all Phil. 3.7 8 9. yea and conquer all nay be more then conquerours through Christ Rom. 8.35 36 37 38 39. Oh consider your need of Christ and learn to prize him let him be exalted highest in your hearts as the pearl of greatest worth as the one thing necessary which you most of all need let him be all in all in your communication and conversation 2. Vse Seeing Christ is all and in all in the new-Man let every one examine whether Christ be in him 2. Cor. 13.5 Examine your selves know you not that Christ is in you c. This nearly concernes you beloved for if you have Christ you have all Christ is all you heart but if you lose him you lose all you will lose your hopes Comforts and all your duties yea you will lose God Heaven and soul and all It matters not what you have if you want Christ no guifts duties reformations qualifications or other things whatsoever will make you happy without Christ And if you enjoy Christ it is not materiall what ever you want for my God saith the Apostle shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus Phil. 4.19 Therfore make sure that Christ is yours Some would ask this question How shall I so examine that I may know assuredly that I have Christ I answer you must bring your hearts to the touchstone of the Word of God and cast them into the ballance of the Sanctuarie and weigh them there And to this purpose I shall propound one Scripture of truth for your examination and triall to wit 2 Cor. 5.17 If any man be in Christ he is a new-creature or creation That is to say he is new-born born again or born of God Joh. 1.12 13. But as many as received him c. which were born of God And our Saviour urged the