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A80200	Refreshing streams flowing from the fulnesse of Jesus Christ. In severall sermons, / by William Colvill sometime preacher at Edenburgh.	Colvill, William, d. 1675.	1654 (1654)	Wing C5431; Thomason E815_2; Thomason E815_3; ESTC R207356	165,987	210

Author of their Perseverance and performing the good work of grace is God to whom the Apostle giveth thanks vers 3. for calling the Philippians to the fellowship of the Gospel by preaching whereof the Lord had begun in them a good work of grace and of inward communion with Jesus Christ Doct. Perseverance is the free gift of God alone Perseverance the free gift of God Hos 2.19 I will betroth thee unto me for ever in loving kindness and in mercies 1 Cor. 1.8 The Lord Jesus shall also confirm you unto the end that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ Heb. 2.10 It became him in bringing many sons into glorie to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings Our election to glory is of Gods free love the decree and actual sending of Christ to suffer for us and in the end to bring us to that glory is also of free love Joh. 3.16 but we get a right and title to that glory only by the merit of his sufferings by his Spirit he leads us in the way of Sanctification and brings us in the end to that promised inheritance by his merit in our Justification we get jus ad rem a title and claim to the heavenly inheritance in our Sanctification and Perseverance we get the first fruits and the earnest and when our Sanctification is perfected at the end of our life we get jus in re actual possession and all this is through the merit of Christ and the efficacy of his Spirit for he is both the author and finisher of our faith Heb. 12.2 Reasons for confirming this doctrin are Reasons 1 1. As the new creature of grace depends on God alone in the production being of it for of him are all things and we to wit believers and renewed persons are his workmanship created unto good works Eph. 2.10 The new heart and the new spirit are his free gift Ezek. 36.26 As the new Creature depends on God in the production and being of it so also in the conservation and continuance of it for as he upholdeth all things by the word of his power Heb. 1.3 so by the power of his grace he keepeth the new creature 1 Pet. 1.5 Ye are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation 2. Our Lord and great High-priest in our behalf prayeth to the father for our perseverance Joh 17.15 Father keep them in thy name and power It were needless to pray unto God for perseverance if it were not of Gods free gift but of mans power to persevere The Apostle also prayeth to God for it 1 Thes 5.23 I pray God your whole spirit soul and bodie be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Iesus Christ 3. Thanks are given to God for the grace of perseverance Iud. 24. and by our thanksgiving we acknowledge him the Author of perseverance 4. Because it is God alone who establisheth and preserveth us in an hour of temptation and so maketh us to persevere 2 Thes 3.3 The Lord is faithful who will stablish you and keep you from evil Vse 1 This doctrine serveth for admonition Let no man depend on his grace received seeing God is the Author of perseverance let no man rest on the beginnings of Sanctification as if grace once received or begun Sanctification could preserve and continue it self No the creature cannot create it self no more can it by its own power keep and conserve it self in a being it is not the first gale and blowing of the wind that will continue a ship in her course if the wind do not continue there is no progress There must not only be a begun but a continued influx of water for continuing the motion of the Mil-wheel so the breathings of the Spirit of God must be continued upon our souls Otherwise we advance not in the course of Sanctification notwithstanding our fair and specious beginnings if the Spirit of God withdraw his breathing and influence we are as a ship under sail presently in a dead calm As a musical instrument though well tuned soundeth not when the skilful player withdraws his hand so a heart though well set in the work of regeneration by the finger of the spirit yet in its actings cannot sound forth to the praises of his grace if God with-hold his assisting grace Yea the Angels who stood not in the truth and also our first Parent Adam received grace of God in a large measure yet when it was left to their own keeping they both lost it and themselves For Exhortation Vse 2 when ever God calleth thee to renew thy duty of repentance faith and obedience Go to God for a new supply of grace go to God for assistance and a new supply of grace 1. Because we are not able to guide our selves and continue in a course of wel-doing without his assisting grace Joh. 15.5 without me ye can do nothing Jer. 10.23 It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps Man cannot without a guiding and over-ruling providence set down one foot after another in his bodily motion far less in his spiritual course toward heaven and happiness Psal 73.23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. 2. Go to God for assistance and for continuance of the work of grace in thee because he hath promised to renew strength to them that faint Prov. 8.20 I lead saith the wisdom of the father in paths of righteousness Jer. 31.9 I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight war wherein they shall not stumble It is said I will lead them with supplications that is in all the acts of piety taking one special part of piety for all the duties thereof This leading of us and our perseverance either in a gracious disposition or in actings is all of his free and fatherly love for I am a father to Israel saith the Lord. 3. The dear children of God pray for this assisting and leading grace of God Psal 5 8. Psal 27.11 Teach me thy way O Lord and lead me in a plain path not only are we ignorant of the way of righteousness and have need of the grace of faith and illumination but our will is froward and our affections impotent therefore there is a necessity they be set on God and his will and then led by his assisting grace in the course of obedience Psal 119.5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes 4. Because the children of God from faith into the promise and their own experience of begun graces have been confident of a leading and guiding grace in the course of Sanctification Psal 73.24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel and afterward receive me to glorie Psal 23.3 He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his names sake Psal 48.14 He will be our guide even unto death 5. There is a necessitie for thee to go to God for a renewed assistance so oft

Joseph it was expounded of his shameful death but greatest when his dream was fulfilled and himself led from the prison to the place of a painful and shameful death so wicked and profane men are greatly disquieted when thoughts of a resurrection and Judgement are sometime born in upon them against their will then are they as with a violent gripe and stitch suddenly surprised and suppressed but all this disquietness and anguish of Spirit is like a dream in comparison of that horror will overtake them in that day of resurrection Then will their own consciences suggest unto them what shall be their doom They will be self-condemned before ever the Judge pronounce his Sentence I require the senseless sinner to consider in time if after thy yester-nights drunkenness or other wickedness thy conscience hath smitten thee soundly sometime after thy first sleep in such a manner that thou couldst get no rest for the lashings of it which were as pricks in thy eyes and thorns in thy sides how thinkest thou thy conscience will torment thee in that day wherein there will be no rest no not for a moment from extream and endless pains then shall all thy sins be set before thee in the light of thy countenance If Judas was so tormented with the sense of one horrid sin to wit his treachery in betraying the Innocent what will thy torment and desperate horrour be when all thy sins will be set before thee as a shameful fang in the eye of a condemned thief The black sight of thy sins and of Judgement will be the first thing thou shalt see after thou art raised in the body Therefore while it is called to day harden not your hearts but obey that Act. 3.19 Repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord for though sins be forgiven only in this life wherein there is place for repentance and for reconciliation with God And though sentence of absolution is now quietl pronounced in the conscience of the true penitent and believer yet at the day of resurrection the sentence of Absolution and Justification will be solemnly pronounced in that great Court of Jesus Christ wherein it will be made known to Angels and men when he will say to them on the right hand come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you Math. 25.24 And contrarily men self-condemned in this world and dying in their impenitency shall then be condemned before Angels and men It serveth for a ground of sol d comfort to the Godly Vse 2 who honour God in the body Solid comfort to the Godly fall thy body where it will at home or abroad by a natural or violent death yet it shall be raised again Some of the dear children of God have been devoured by wild beasts others in the fire consumed into ashes and their ashes scattered into the Ayr yet these bodies will be raised as many report of the Phoenix out of their ashes some have been drowned in the waters and others smothered under the earth yet the Lord in that day will gather all his Iewels as men do their Gold out of the ruines of a burnt house Revel 20.13 the Sea gave up the dead that were in it and hell and death gave up their dead by hell is meant the receptacles within the lower parts of the earth as Jaylours are countable to the Judge for the prisoners delivered into their keeping and must present them to the Judge at his command So all the prison houses of the bodies of the Saints will be opened and all the Jaylours must make open doors in that great day of our Lords glorious procession that the prisoners of hope may come forth and be made partakers of that full redemption from the grave and corruption Ob. But what say ye of those Anthropophagi●men eaters Objection doth not their flesh and blood consist of the bodies of men devoured by them and if the substance eaten up by them shall be restored to the first owner then they themselves will have no proper substance of a body to be raised Answ 1. Answer These Canibals will cast out the dead bodies devoured by them at the command of the Lords mighty power as the fish did cast out Ionah 2. All the parts of the body were not devoured as the bones and some other parts The Lord out of those remainders both can and will raise up the body whole and intire 3. Whatsoever the devourer wanteth by restoring the parts devoured to the first owner God in his wisdom and power both can and will supply the same It is enough for us to believe as it is revealed that the Lord will raise up the same individual body we believe the matter but as for the particular manner we leave that to the power and wisdom of God who can do above all that we can think Eph. 3.20 and in the hope of our glorious resurrection we give to God Father Son and Holy-Ghost all praise honour and glory for now and ever Amen The third point considerable 3. Point The powerful means of our resurrection is the powerful means of our resurrection they shall hear his voice and shall come forth of this speaketh the Apostle 1 Thes 4.16 The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the Trumpet of God By that voice and trump we understand some sensible manifestation of his power and glory at his second coming as the Audible voice doth express the conception of our minde and as the sound of a Trump is an ordinary sign of state and power so this visible appearing in glory and the great work of raising the dead will be a manifest expression of the glorious power of the Son of God in this sense the Word of God is taken Heb. 1.3 He upholdeth all things by the word of his power that is by his powerful providence conserving the being of his creatures This active providence is as it were the word and expression of his infinite power whereby he doth in heaven and earth what he will Thus it is said Ionah 2.10 The Lord spake unto the Fish and it vomited out Ionah This speaking was Gods doing and working by his mighty power in such a language will the Almighty Lord speak to all the graves of the dead and in an instant at the word of his power they will cast out their dead Thus he is said by his word to have created the world the work of Creation was the expression of his eternal purpose so to do and of his omnipotent facility in doing as a word is easily spoken and doth express the thought of our mind It is called his mighty power or efficacy of power as it is in the original according to which he will raise the dead Philip. 3.21 he rent the vale of the Temple he shattered the