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A86270	Repentance and conversion, the fabrick of salvation: or The saints joy in heaven, for the sinners sorrow upon Earth. Being the last sermons preached by that reverend and learned John Hewyt, D.D. Late minister of St. Gregories by St. Pauls. With other of his sermons preached there. Dedicated to all his pious auditors, especially those of the said parish. Also an advertisement concerning some sermons lately printed, and presented to be the doctors, but are disavowed by Geo. Wild. Jo. Barwick.	Hewit, John, 1614-1658.; Wilde, George, 1610-1665.; Barwick, John, 1612-1664.	1658 (1658)	Wing H1637; Thomason E1776_1; ESTC R209722	86,537	249

administration of the Sacraments He that shall not be circumcized shall be cut off Gen. 17.14 and the inward working of the spirit of God Isai 59.21 My spirit that is upon thee and my words which I have put into thy mouth shall not depart from thy mouth nor from the mouth of thy seed nor from the mouth of thy seeds seed from henceforth and for ever Aiming at the same end to wit salvation and life eternal But as to the accidents and in the manner of dispensation there is no small difference For in the Gospel the manifestation of doctrine is more clear express and efficacious as much more clear as accomplishments are before prophesies and things present then things which are as yet hid in the length of ages to come and so much the more clear in that at this day of exterior manifestation hath been added a greater abundance of the Spirits interior light according as it was prophesied Joel 2.28 And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesie your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions so that whereas they of old saw Jesus Christ but under shadows and images of what was to come we hold him as come already and look upon him as crucified before our eyes To this may be added their Covenant was contracted by the mediation of Moses ours by that of Christ The old Covenant was confined to one corner of the world and tyed to one family the new one hath reach'd to the ends of the earth and hath embraced the Nations The old one lasted but for a time whereas the new one shall not terminate but by the end of ages Jesus Christ is the same yesterday to day and for ever Heb. 13.8 This is the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world Revel 13.8 'T is he that is a light to the nations and the salvation of God unto the ends of the earth in waiting for him those of old found their consolation as we have ours in seeing him and the odor of his sacrifice expanding it self as well over the fore-going as following ages hath restored those souls who before or since have put their whole trust in him Wherefore although wee see those of old in rudiments which are seemingly gross let us not the lesse value their faith who for having the less of clarity have not the less of certainty Certainly prophesie was like a candle giving light in an obscure place the Law like the dawning of the day or the Star of the morning and the Gospel like the clear noon But all these lights though differing in clarity have been enough to make us see and follow the wayes of salvation 2 Pet. 1.19 And though it seem to us that we see no more promised to the people of Israel and their Patriarchs then a Canaan flowing with milk and hony and with a thousand sweets of temporal blessings yet let us not think that they stopt there or that they did not with Job raise their souls and carry up their desires to things spiritual to that inward peace and never-decaying glory which was represented to them under those shadows of an earthly happiness For in whatsoever was heretofore offered and presented to them they still cast their eyes on Jesus Christ the promised Messias in whom all Gods promises are yea and amen 2 Corinth 1.20 The consideration of whom would by no means suffer them to dwell upon the transitory sweetnesses of this world his Kingdom being represented to them by Prophesies not as a carnal or worldly one but as one altogether celestial and spiritual The Scepter said Jacob to his sons shall not be taken from Judah nor the Law-giver from betwixt his feet till Silo come Gen. 40. That is to say The seed of the woman the man to be born without a Father and to him the people shall assemble themselves He was to come forth of Judah but at the time that he was to come Judah must lose the Scepter not then to rule or signorize in Judah for if he were to raise Judah above the Nations he should not then be the hope of his people since his coming was to vanquish and subjugate them but to him all Nations were to run and to offer him voluntary obedience because under his yoke they should come to seek their liberty because he shall raigne over their souls and conduct them with a rod of comfort delivering them from the bonds of sin and the tyranny of Satan whose head he shall bruise and take away his Empire So likewise when the Prophets speak of the deliverance of Babylon of the peoples return into the land of promise and the re-establishment of the Temple presently you see them transported with a consideration of the Kingdom of this great Messias of the deliverance of the souls of the true temple which is the Church As if they would teach the people that the possession of Canaan and all the contentment depending thereon were but shadows not to be trusted to their felicity not consisting to live to govern and reigne here below but to serve God to be govern'd by him as that by the Scepter of his word and efficacy of his spirit he might reign in us and be fully obeyed So saith Esai that the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel Isai 42.3 4. But with what glory It is and he adds that he that is left in Zion and he that remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy and those that shall be in Jerusalem shall all be written to life when the Lord shall have washt away the filth of the daughters of Zion and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning and in the 11 Chapter he shews that the gifts he hath received from above to communicate to the world are all spiritual when he saith Isai 11.2 The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him the spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of counsel and might the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord He saith moreover that he will bring his people from the North and from the South and that the earth shall be too narrow to contain them that Kings and Queens shall be their nursing fathers and nursing mothers But this is not to promise a temporal Kingdom but to represent an arrival of all Nations to his Church and of their Kings themselves under whose protection she should abundantly prosper And here you may see the difference which is betwixt the advancements which the Eternal promises to Kings and he entrance which he prepares for his Son into the world Behold how he speaks to Cyrus Isai 45.12 3. I have taken thee by thy right band that thou

accomplish the work of our redemption The Law and the Prophets endured till John but since his time the Kingdom of God is Evangelized Luk. 16.16 Many Kings and Prophets have desired to see the things which were seen when Jesus Christ converst in the world and they have not seen them Luk. 10.24 And therefore Jesus Christ prefers the least that were under the Gospel before the greatest that were under the Law St. John pointed at him with his hand and shewed him to the World to be the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins for which cause he was raised above the Prophets and because he had not seen nor shew'd the glory and vertue which followed his death and his resurrection he was therefore set below the Apostles And St. Paul saith that the grace which hath been given us in Jesus Christ from eternal times is now manifested by the apparition of our Saviour Jesus Christ who hath destroyed death and put into light both life and immortality by the Gospel It seems then that this mystery of our redemption hath been hidden from precedent ages and that the ancient Fathers have had nothing but shadows and figures of things that were to come And yet Jesus Christ himself gives this testimony to Abraham that he desired to see this day of his and hath seen it and rejoyced Joh. 8.56 and St. Peter 1 Pet. 1.10 that the Prophets have enquired and made diligent search concerning the salvation of souls the reward of faith and by the Prophetick spirit in them have declared the sufferances which were to come to Jesus Christ and the joyes which were to follow them And for this reason it is that the Son of God sayes He had the testimony of Moses and the Prophets and that the Scriptures of the old Testament bare witness of him Joh. 5.39 To know then how that must be understood to resolve us in this appearance of contrariety and to begin our undermining at the foundation of Papistical errors touching the state of the souls of the Fathers deceased before the coming of Christ let us learn then from this confession of faith so fair so firm so clear as it can be in the noon day of the Gospel that we have no other faith nor other means of salvation then what the ancient Patriarchs had before us and that the ancient Covenant contracted with them in the substance and truth is the same thing with the new one contracted with us that are fallen into these later times all the difference which is in them consisting only in the order and the means of the dispensation which according to the diversity of times hath made it assume divers visages for as the Apostle Heb. 1.1 2. God hath heretofore many times and after many sorts spoken to the fathers by the Prophets and in these later times by his Son Jesus Christ. Where he seems to distinguish the times by the coming of the Son of God betwixt the preceding ages and those that were to come after The first part hath had divers seasons and divers manners according to which this dispensation hath been ordered The first season is counted from the fall of Adam unto Abraham during which we had no declaration more express of this eternal alliance of God with men then that which is contained in few words but of an high and full signification The seed of the woman shall bruise the head of the Serpent Gen. 3.15 upon which promise confirmed declared and entertained by the usage of sacrifices and carried from hand to hand and from father to son during all the first age of the world this faith was sustained and the hope of the faithful founded In the second season from Abraham to Moses during which Job lived a true Son of Abraham both according to the flesh and to the promise this general promise was as it were restrained in the family and posterity of this Holy Patriarch when God made this alliance with him that he would be their God and they his children and discocovered to him that from him should go forth the Redeemer of the World when he said that in his seed all the Nations of the World should be blessed Genes 12. giving him beside the sacrifices the particular seal of the circumcision as a sign of the justice of faith Rom. 4.11 The third was from Moses to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ where in a more especial and ample manner God was pleased to instruct his people exposing and confirming his Covenant unto them after divers fashions in which are remarkable two principal parts having reference each to other and ordained one for the love of the other Like the two Cherubims who being placed one right against the other and extending their wings one toward the other did both of them look toward the propitiatory Exod. 25.20 the one was the Law promising life and everlasting benediction under the condition of a most perfect observation of his commands A condition impossible to corrupted nature whose imaginations were nothing but evil at all times and yet very necessary and useful to make men know the duty wherein they were obliged to make them sensible of weakness and to make them comprehend the horrour of that condemnation into which their transgressions had precipitated them by that means to conduct them to the second part of the Covenant which was all of it purely Evangelical as that which under divers figures and ceremonies did represent mans reconciliation to God and his plenary deliverance by the ransom of that infinite merit of the sacrifice of the death and passion of Christ After this in the fulness of time came the great Redeemer of our soules who abolished the first means that he might establish the second abolish'd I say not wholly but in part not in the substance but in the accidents For as for the first part he exacts no more as it were by force of maledictions that perfect obedience of the Law but supplying the defects of nature by the abundant effusion of his spirit of grace he draws from sanctified hearts a voluntary obedience And in the second he hath caused the body to succeed the shadows the truth the figures the thing the signes all these things having been fulfilled in the death of Christ And from hence may we easily comprehend the difference that there is betwixt the new Covenant and the old between the faith of the Fathers that lived under the Law and theirs that live under the Gospel For it is the same thing in substance Having God for the Author his grace and mercy for the cause and the satisfaction of Christ for the meritorious foundation The same things promised grace and glory God is to us both a Sun and a Shield he gives both grace and glory and withholds no good thing from such as wait upon him Distributed in general by the same means and the preaching of the word Hearken and your soules shall live Isai 55.3 the