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A97021	None but Christ, or A plain and familiar treatise of the knowledge of Christ, exciting all men to study to know Jesus Christ and him crucified, with a particular, applicatory, and saving knowledge, in diverse sermons upon I Cor. 2. 2. / By John Wall B.D. preacher of the word of God at Mich. Cornhill London.	Wall, John, 1588-1666.	1648 (1648)	Wing W469; Thomason E1139_1; ESTC R210079	152,329	343

she goes to drinke troubles the waters as not being able to abide her own deformity it is the gald horse that cannot endure to be touched and if thou canst not endure the tryall of the word and thine own conscience how wilt thou endure the tryall of God who is greater then thy conscience For if our hearts condemne us God is greater then our hearts and knoweth all things 1 Iohn 3. 20. 2. Secondly Iudge thy selfe by the right rule the word of God and the promises therein contained let us build our confidence upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Jesus Christ being the chief corner stone Eph. 2. 20. Rest not upon Enthusiasmes dreams visions revelations thine own thoughts c. for these may deceive thee and will deceive thee if they be not according to the promises in the word I trust in Esa 8. 20. thy word saith David Psal 119. 42. so Heb. 11. 13. They saw the promises and embraced them Nay if God should send an Angel from heaven and tell us Christ is ours or should speak with an audible voice from heaven yet could we not be more sure then by the promises in the word for is it not all one to have a promise under his hand as from his mouth If thy knowledge of Christ be built upon a word from Gods mouth thou art sure it is built upon a rock that no winds or tempests can ever blow over God is faithfull he cannot deny himselfe and this made Abraham confident both that he should have a son and that though he should kill him yet he should receive him alive again because he knew God was faithfull and able that had promised Rom. 4. 21. In 2 Pet. 1. 19. Peter proves Christ to be the son of God by the voice that came from heaven saying this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased verse 17. but saith he in the 19 verse we have a surer proof then the voice that came from heaven to wit the word of the Prophets wherein Christ is revealed and promised we have a more sure word of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 firmissimum testim Prophecy c. What is the word a surer testimony then Gods voice from heaven I answer Beza reads it we have a most sure word intimating they had two sure testimonies the voice from heaven and the word of the Prophets Others read it as it is properly in the original Firmiorem a firmer word being a stronger foundation to rest upon then the voice from heaven Not that it was surer in it selfe for the same God that spake from heaven spake in his word as appears in verse 20. But in regard of the Iewes who might cavill at the voice from heaven as a delusion as they said before in the like case Iohn 12. 28 29. It thundred but they beleeved whatsoever the Prophets said to be true as at this day the Iewes beleeve not the new So Calvin Paraeus Aug. Ser. 27. de verb ap c. 4. Firmiorem propter in fide infirmiores Bull. Testament but stick to the law and therefore Peter sent them to the Prophets who all testify of Christ Joh. 5. 29. Acts 10. 43. The summe of all is that the word is a most sure foundation to build our faith upon and as sure as if we heard a voice from heaven because it came from heaven And perhaps in regard of us it may be more sure because we may be ready to feare whether such a revelation or vision were not a delusion And I am perswaded no● they are very rare if any at all for heretofore he spake by visions but now by his son that is by his word Heb. 1. 1. Object You will say the word is a good light when we are in darkenesse but when the spirit of God the day-star appeares in our hearts then we may live above ordinances for so saith the Apostle you do well to take heed to the word of prophesie untill the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts I answer Calvin thinkes the place of darknesse is this life and the day-star and Aecumen Corn. Lap. day-dawn is the light we shall have in heaven Others thinke it is meant the preaching of the Gospel which is clearer then the Law and the word untill doth not intend that then we should regard the Prophets no more but that we should have a clearer light by the Gospell Therefore if thou wouldst be sure Christ is thine let thy faith be built upon some Eph. 2. 20 promise in the word For faith or assurance Christ is ours consists in two things 1. to see Christ offered to us in the promises Hebr. 11. 13. as to those that are weary hungry mourning c. 2. To rest upon Christ for salvation according to those promises Heb. 11. 13. They saw the promises and embraced them and then our faith is grounded upon a rock immoveable when it is built upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Christ Jesus himselfe being the chief corner stone Eph. 2. 20. 3. Labour to get a right understanding of those promises which thy assurance is built upon take heed of taking common graces for saving weeds for flowers Samuel for the divell in his likenesse Thou sayest if I repent if I beleeve love the Saints have good desires then the word saith that Christ is mine but thou must know there is a kinde of faith which a man may have and yet have Acts 8. 13. John 2. 23. no part in Christ as Simon Magus beleeved and the stony ground beleeved Luke 8. 13. So likewise Judas repented Matth. 27. 3. Balaam had good desires Numb 23. 10. Herod loved John-Baptist Darius loved Daniel Pharaoh loved Ioseph c. There are transient motions that are not habituall dispositions there is difference between a mark with chalk and a fire mark one is quickly rubd out the other is durable So there are lighter operations of the spirit which may soon vanish Quest But how shall I know that I rightly understand the promises Answ I answer Be not willing to be deluded compare one Scripture with another inquire of the Ministers which are appointed of God thy teachers and pray earnestly to God to enlighten thee in the truth and he will lead thee into all truth necessary to salvation as it is written Ioh. 16. 13. When the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth 4. Having got a promise rightly understood hang and rest upon it and be not beaten off say God hath said if I mourn for my sinnes hunger after righteousnesse love the people of God c. then I have part in Christ But I mourne for my sinnes hunger after righteousnesse love the people of God c. Therefore I have part in Christ and I wil trust to his word if I perish I perish so did Abraham Rom. 4. 21. and Iacob Gen. 32. 9. 10. Thou hast said saith he

but they have been stung with a thousand Bees For so God hath told us before hand though we have golden dreames of framing a Paradise of pleasures to our selves here yet we shal find the gates of Paradise shut on earth open onely in heaven Our Paradise is now become a Bochim a place of Lamentation for so he hath decreed Cursed is the earth for thy sake in sorrow shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy life Thornes and h Gen. 3. 18 19. thistles shall it bring forth unto thee But will Christ feed us with vanities vexations With earth and ashes No no he will feede us with the dainties of heaven and will open unto us the treasures and Iewels that are found in the richest Cabinet of God himselfe Eph. 1. 3. He will give us Grace and glory and no good thing will he withold from us if we walke uprightly Psal 84. ult First He will give us the grace of justification Col. 2. 13. a pardon for all our sins and deliverance from hell and death Rom. 8. 1. Reve. 20. 6. He will say to us as to the Palsy man be of good cheare thy sinnes are forgiven thee Matthew 9. verse 2. and as to weeping Mary Woman thy sinnes are forgiven thee Luke 7. And this alone is a greater blessing then all the riches in the world Blessed is that man whose iniquities are forgiven Psal 32. 2. He will give us the grace of acceptation we shall be looked upon and accepted as righteous as Christ himselfe was for us for as he is so are wee in this world 1. Ioh. 4. 17. i 2 Cor. 5. ult 1 Cor. 1 ult 3. He will give us The grace of sanctification Not onely pulling off our chaines of darknesse the devils fetters k Col. 1. 13 but also decking us with the Jewels of holinesse the Angels glory by clothing our soules with divine inclinations to be made partakers of the divine nature ●Ezek 16. 12. Ioh. 1. 16 and our hearts to be made after Gods own heart 4. The grace of Adoption of vassals and children of the divell to be the spouse the members of Christ nay the sonnes of God m Ioh. 1. 12 which perhaps is that new name spoken of Reve. 2. 17. Now behold what love the father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sonnes of God! n 1 Ioh 3. 1. thereby intimating that he beares to us the affection and protection of a father to his children 5. He will give us the grace of reconciliation whereby God is as good friends with us through Christ as if we had never offended him Col. 1. 21. 6. The grace of Cooperation for we are able to doe all things through Christ that strengtheneth us Phil. 4. 13. John 15. 44. 7. The grace of corroboration for his grace shall be sufficient for us that no sin shall have dominion over us Rom. 6. 14. 2 Cor. 12. 9. 8. The grace of coagulation enabling us to grow in grace till we come to the measure of Grace that God hath appointed us to come unto Eph. 2. 21. 9. The grace of preservation to continue to the end 1 Pet. 1. 5. we are kept by his power through faith unto salvation our life is hid with Christ in God Col. 3. 3. so as Nothing shall ever separate us from his love for who can pluck us out of the hand of God and of Christ Joh. 10. 28. Rom. 8. ult 10. The grace of consolation for he will send the holy Ghost not onely the sanctifyer but the comforter to cheare our hearts as he promised us Joh. 15. 26. which exceeds all other joy and comforts being unspeakable and glorious 1 Pet 1. 8. 11. Lastly he will give us the grace and gift of glorification if we know Christ is ours then we know heaven is ours and all the pleasures that are in it That that day we dye we shall be with Christ in Paradise for the same glory thou hast given me I have given them saith our Saviour Joh. 17. 24. and we shall sit together with him in heavenly places Eph. 2. 6. Other knowledge may bring pleasure and content but no other knowledge can bring salvation but onely the knowledge of Jesus Christ and him crucified can the sonne of Ishai give you orchards and Gardens c. said Sa●l and can the knowledge of earthly things inrich you with these treasures 2. Secondly As Christ gives better things then the world hath so more satisfying These earthly things are cald empty pits because they are empty of content though there may be some good in them yet not the good we expect that is content Because nothing can give content but that that joynes God and the soule as friends together for which end it was created and without whom the soule can finde no content in all things else but flies up and down like a Bee from one flower to another from one comfort to another to get more sweetnesse but when once it enjoys God it saith I have enough as Jacob said I have enough my sonne Joseph is a live and then is as quiet as a Bee in her hive a bird in her neast a Beast in her den or the Dove in the Arke because God is alsufficient A Gen. 17. 1. Bee flyes from one flower to another because she wants hony enough in that flower but when she is put into a pot of hony then shee seekes no farther A thirsty man give him a glasse of water he is not satisfied for saith he this little water is not able to quench my great thirst but cary him to a river and then he saith he hath enougth Thirdly Christ gives more durable riches then the world hath Al other things have their time to leave us Hic acquiruntur hic amittuntur Here they are gotten and here they are lost The world is like the gardens in France or Italy where men may eat of the fruits of the garden what they please while they are in the Garden but can cary nothing out for then the Gardner searcheth and emptyeth their pockets even so when death comes she will empty our pockets that we can carry nothing with us out of the world Our time is a comming that we must bid a sad farewell to all things here farewell husband I shall never see thy face more farewell wife farewell children friends Riches have wings Honours are like a cristall glasse Quo magis splendescit citius frangitur And pleasures like bubbles of sope pleasant to see to but quickly blown out Luk 10. ult Rom. 8. ult riches honours and pleasures both sinfull and lawfull And perhaps if we be not the better provided we shall bid farwell God farwell Christ the joyes of heaven and eternall happinesse But Christ abideth ever If we know Christ ours we shall never bid farwell to Iesus Christ He is the good part that shall be never taken from us Then we may

be no Lord he will be no Saviour for therefore he died and rose and revived that he might be Lord both of quick and dead Rom. 14. 9. Sign 10 The tenth signe of a man that knowes Christ savingly is when the utmost end of all his actions is supernaturall even to yield obedience unto God commanding them and the advancing of his glory as a faithfull servant aimes at his masters profit when whatsoever he does it is to the glory of God when he lives not to himselfe but to him that died for him and rose again when he is more grieved at Gods dishonour then his own and is content to be abased that God may be glorified for now the will is elevated above nature to look at a higher principle then it selfe even the glory of God Thus did Ioseph it is not in me saith he but God shall give Pharaoh an answer a Gen. 41. 16. so Daniel there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets but as for me this secret is not revealed to me for any wisedome that I have more then others c. b Dan. 2. 28. 30. And the disciples when they healed the lame man told them why look you so earnestly upon us as though by our own power and holinesse we had made this man walk the God of Abraham c. c Act. 3. 12. And lastly to name no more Saint Paul tels them d 1 Thes 2. 4. 6. we speak not as pleasing men but God which tryeth our hearts v. 6. Nor of men sought we glory nor of you nor yet of others And hence it is that our Lord Christ makes it a mark of a righteous man e Ioh. 7. 18. he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him the same is true and there is no unrighteousnesse in him And this is made a mark of a vessell of honour by Paul f 2. Tim. 2. 20. Nihil agit ultrà sphaeram activitatis suae He is a vessell sanctified for his masters use And the reason is because nothing can move above its principle the stream can rise no higher then the fountain nor can nature go beyond nature as water cannot heat except fire be in it Caut. Not but that some risings of self remaines in the best as in David when he numbred the people and the disciples when they reasoned which of them should be greatest but they are lamented and repented off and mourned under as their greatest burthen as did Hezekiah who humbled himselfe because his heart was lifted up 2 Chron. 32. 25. Contrarily a naturall man makes a god of himselfe hath no higher end in all his actions then himselfe his own ease credit happinesse c. As God complaineth Israel is an empty vine yet he bringeth forth fruit to himselfe Hos 10. 1. and our Lord Christ of the Pharisees All their workes they do is to be seen of men g Matth. 23. 5. They may say of all their best actions though never so specious as Nebuchadnezzar said of his Babel is not this great Babel that I have built for the honour of my name So all they do is for the honour of their name like windmils which go because the wind blowes or like marigolds that open because the Sun shines upon them Now these their hearts are not upright in them Hab. 2. ●4 but like false servants that sell their masters wares well but then purloyn and rob them of the gaines He that speaketh of himselfe seeketh his own glory c. John 7. 18. and such cannot have part in Christ John 5. 44. How can you beleeve that seek honour one of another And it is a mark of those that were counterfeit beleevers they loved the praise of men more then the praise of God Iohn 12. 43. CHAP. XXI The eleventh signe of the saving knowledge of Christ is the witnesse of the Spirit THe eleventh and last sign I shall mention is the witnesse of the spirit Rom. 8. 16. The spirit beares witnesse with our spirits that we are the children of God Some make this the only mark to prove our interest in Christ and deny all signs from the fruits of the spirit but this were to deny the fruit grown upon the tree to be a signe that the tree is alive but our Saviour tels us a tree is known by the fruit and the Lord hath left them in Scripture as infallible markes and therefore to deny them were to impute folly or unfaithfulnesse to God himselfe which were the greatest Blasphemy Yet we exclude not the witnesse of the spirit as a certain evidence of our part in Christ a 1 Ioh. 5. 6. Eph 4. 13. Eph. 4. 30. Which consists in two particulars 1. First The spirit perswades my conscience I am the child of God Rom. 8. 16. A witnesse is for manifestation and confirmation 1 Cor. 2. 12. 1 Cor. 2. 12. As it were a secret voice speaking to our hearts and saying as Christ to the leper be of good chear thy sins are forgiven thee b Matth. 9. 2. 2. Secondly in an inward ravishi●g joy and comfort which the spirit workes and leaves with this assurance which is that hidden Mannah which that man that feels it in himselfe cannot expresse to others c Rev. 2. 17. which is called the Lords Supping with us d Rev. 3. 20. and his chearing us as with flagons of wine e Cant. 2. 5. and hence the spirit is called the Holy Ghost the comforter for he fils the heart sometimes by this testimony with such joyes is unspeakable the soule for the time being with Paul in his rapture rather in heaven then on earth though here he hath but a taste yet the fulnesse thereof are the joyes of heaven it selfe 1. For the Kingdome of heaven is righteousnesse and peace and joy in the Holy-Ghost Rom. 14. 1. Quest How shall I know that it is not a delusion Answ I answer this voice God sends usually when the soule is mourning and full of heavinesse as we give wi●e to them that are of a heavy heart Blessed are f Iohn 16. 20. they that mourne for they shall be comforted Matth. 5. 44. And likely either when they are waiting upon God in his ordinances to find Christ as Mary waited at the sepulchre to see him Or wrestling with God in prayer c. as Cornel. Acts 10. 31. Dan. 9. 31. But as for dreams visions and Enthusiasmes though Jacob Gen. 28. when he slept saw a vision of Angels and was comforted and diverse others yet God seldome now speakes by visions but by his word and spirit Heb. 1. 1. and therefore visions are to be usually little regarded 2. The spirit witnesseth alwayes according to the word and that by discovering the promises in the word to our consciences perswading us that they belong to us a 1 Iohn 3. 14. Matth. 5. 3. It fils his heart with love and thankfulnesse to God and makes him