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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10018	Sermons preached before his Maiestie; and vpon other speciall occasions viz. 1 The pillar and ground of truth. 2 The new life. 3 A sensible demonstration of the Deity. 4 Exact walking. 5 Samuels support of sorrowfull sinners. By the late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston Dr. in Diuinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Maiesty, master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Ball, Thomas, 1589 or 90-1659.	1630 (1630)	STC 20270; ESTC S120145	80,456	162

learning but never come to the knowledge of the truth that is to the saving knowledge of it But now for the last propertie of life as it is the propertie of every life not only to draw to it selfe things sutable but to expell and oppugne whatsoever is contrary and hurtful to it so he that is a living man in Christ Iesus though hee hath the reliques and the wefts and the remainders of sinne still in him yet he is sicke of them hee fights against them hee resists them continually as health resists sicknesse or as a living fountaine refists the mud that fals into it it workes it out and doth not rest till it bee cleare againe whereas another man works out those good things those good thoughts and motions that are injected and kindled in him for some good moods and good fits they may have I say they reject them and are sick of them and weary of them and of the meanes that should increase them and they are not well till they have gotten themselves into another element but for the sinnes which are suteable to them either by disposition or by education or by custome those they suffer to lye continually unexpelled and unresisted as mud in ponds and dead waters And this Beloved is a great signe of death for I will be bold to say this that if we lie in any knowne sinne that is if there bee a continued tract of any sinne that wee know to bee a sinne that is drawne as a thread through our whole conversation bee it fornication or adultery or swearing or drunkennesse or malice and envie or anie other I say it is verie dangerous yea deadly if it have dominion if we lie in it as you know a prevailing disease killeth and one disease will doe it as well as a hundred as a swine that passeth by a thousand dirty puddles and yet wallowes but in one if shee lie in one it is enough to make her unclean and filthy all over as if she had done it in more The Scripture is plaine in this case 2. Cor. 5. 17. Whosoever is in Christ is a new creature and old things are passed away all things are become new Gal. 5. 24. Whosoever is in Christ hath crucified the flesh with the affections of it So that if there bee one living lust in a man if there be one lust perfectly living it is an argument that the whole bodie of death is alive in us and if it bee so we are yet in a state of death and are not translated to the glorious libertie of the Sons of God And so I haue shewed you that every man by nature is dead in trespasses and sinnes and how you shall know it and that if wee continue in that condition and are not partakers of the first resurrection wee shall never partake of the second resurrection Now we come to the second namely that there is a life that is contrary to this death that you may understand what it is you must know that every man by nature is in a dead sleep and therfore he sees not this death nor feels it nor regards it for as a dead man feeles not that he is dead so hee that wants this spirituall life he is not sensible of it for the soule in the worse condition it is the lesse it feeles it though it be not so with the bodie And therefore the first thing that must bee done to bring a man out of this miserable condition of death is to waken him to open his eyes to see that hee is a childe of wrath and to see what extreame neede hee stands in of Iesus Christ and to seeke and to long after him as a condemned man longs after his pardon and as hee that was pursued by the avenger of bloud in the old law came to the citie of refuge for safetie and for shelter I say after that manner we must first be awakened This you shall see Eph 5. Awake thou that sleepest and stand up from the dead That wakening therefore is the first worke And so Rom. 7. 9. it is an excellent expression saith hee I was once alive without the Law but wen the Law came sinne revived and I dyed the meaning of it is this before when I was ignorant of the Law I thought my selfe a living man in as good an estate as the best but when the Law came that is when I was enlightened when I saw the true meaning of the Law that I saw my selfe and saw sinne in a right glasse then sinne was alive and I died that is I found my selfe to be no better than a dead man So that is the first worke that God doth to a man whom hee meanes to save to waken him out of this dead sleepe to charge sinne upon his conscience and to set it upon him to pursue him as the avenger of bloud wee spake of before When that is done once then a man will flie to the citie of refuge that is hee flies to Christ as Ioab did to the hornes of the altar he cries and cals earnestly for the pardon of his sinnes even as Sampson cried for water Give me water or I die And when a man comes thus to Christ thus humbled then Christ accepts him and then hee breathes this breath of life into him as God breathed the breath of life into Adam and so is made a liuing man according to that Ioh. 5. 29. The time shall come when the dead shall heare the voice of the Sonne of God and they that heare it shall live that is those that are spiritually dead shall heare the voice of the Sonne of God and those that heare it shall live for when a man toucheth Christ by faith as the woman touched the hemme of his garment there goes a certain vertue out from him that heales the soule as that vertue healed her bloudy issue And this is a thing much to be marked that even as you see when the iron comes neare the loadstone there goes a vertue from the loadstone that drawes the iron to it so though Christ be in heaven and we are on the earth there goes a certaine vertue from him that drawes us to him and not so onely but it changeth us and reformes us and quickeneth us by this infusion of a new life by this transmission of a certaine power and vertue that comes from him You will say But this is somewhat obscure what kinde of vertue is this what kinde of infusion and transmission is it My beloved it is true it is the great mysterie of life and regeneration but as farre as it is expressable we will explaine unto you It is done after this manner Euen as you see an artificer when he goes about any worke of art there goes a certaine influence from the skill that is seated in his minde that passeth upon the work as he moulds and fashions it and sets a stampe upon it according to that Idea