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A95855	The way to true happinesse, or, the way to heaven open'd. In a sermon before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, Jan. 28. 1654/5 / By Ralph Venning.	Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674.	1655 (1655)	Wing V232; Thomason E830_8; ESTC R207438	31,836	56

strengthening him do all things Phil. 4. ●3 tells us also in 2 Cor. 3.5 Not that we are sufficient of our selves and he doubles it as of our selves to think much lesse to do any thing but our sufficiency is of God Oh what need is there then of Christ Jesus to enlighten and enliven to quicken and strengthen us that we be able to do his Will When the Apostle had prayed Col. 1.10 that they might walk worthy of God to all well-pleasing he prayes v. 11. in relation thereunto that they might be strengthened with all might according to his glorious power * We are made willing in the day of his power we cannot pray unlesse the Spirit help our infitmities viz. that whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himselfe and that whereby he raised Christ from the dead as the prayer is Heb. 13.20 21. Now the God of Peace that brought again from the dead the Lord Jesus make you perfect in every good work to do his Will working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight 'T is a good rule that of Luther We must always observe God commanding us with an eye to Christ Serva mandata scil in Christo Keep the Commands or do my Will viz. in Christ or by Christ for without him we can do nothing 2. We do not only need Christ that we may do but we need Christ also when we have done the Will of God We have need not only of patience but of Christ that after we have done the Will of God we may inherit the Promise for my beloved we are but unprofitable servants when we have done our duty because we have done but our duty but alas how much more then are we unprofitable seeing we have not done our duty and if we sin what think you have we not need of an Advocate with the Father and such an one as yea the very Jesus Christ the righteous who is the propitiation for our sins I think and am confident let men talk at what rate they please that when the best in the world come to die they will say with the great Cardinal Tutius est 'T is safer to ground our hopes upon what Christ hath done and suffered then upon what we have done for alas our all is too little our best is too bad our most perfect obedience is too imperfect to relie upon yea I adde that 't is the Will of God we should do so as is evident from 1 John 2.1 2. Yet 5. I infer this without derogation from or contradiction to the former that Christs doing the Will of God doth not exclude our or exempt us from doing the Will of God Though he have done the Will of God yet we also are to do the Will of God though not to the same ends * To all the same ends Farre be it from me to undervalue what Christ hath done and suffered I must live by it if I live for ever but yet beloved I say this God forbid far be it from us let it not it must not by any meanes be that any of us should think that the obedience of Christ doth free us from obedience nay it strongly engageth us thereunto I come to do thy Will saith he and by that Will we are sanctified of which he speaks John 17.19 after this manner For their sakes I sanctifie my selfe that they also may be truly sanctified 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being as much as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sanctified in truth or as we reade it by the truth Shall we then live in sin because Christ hath died for sin because Christ hath fulfilled the righteousnesse of the Law and delivered us from by putting an end to righteousnesse by the works of the Law shall we neglect to do righteous works did Christ do his Fathers Will that we might do our own that we might live as we list God forbid be not deceived notwithstanding what Christ hath done we may go to hell if we be found Workers of iniquity Are not we his Workmanship created that is new created unto good works Is not he that is of God made to us righteousnesse made sanctification and redemption from all iniquity Can we think that he will take our sins from us and not take us from our sins Beloved let me tell you Christ died as much to sanctifie as he did to save you yea to sanctifie that he might save you Christ doth not only deliver his people from eternal condemnation but he delivers them also from a sinful conversation and to this end that he may deliver them from eternal condemnation This is the blessing with which he is sent to blesse you to turne you away from your iniquity The same grace that hath appeared bringing salvation doth also teach us Titus 2. to deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and live godlily righteously and soberly in this present world and where graces teaching is not learn't graces salvation will not be bestowed Why not why because he gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works These things hath the Apostle in the Name of our Lord and Saviour charged me as I will answer it at his appearing to speak exhort and rebuke with all authority and if any man despise it at his peril be it He will one day finde that it did concern him Let me then tell you again that he is become the Author of eternal salvation to them and only to them that obey him Hebr. 5.9 Though he be the Saviour of all yet the special salvation is to them that believe 1 Tim. 4.10 And these things saith he command and teach In a word to make short of it Though Christs satisfaction not our sanctification be the ground of our justification yet whereever he is justification he is sanctification also or else there could be no salvation for as I told you before I tell you still Without holinesse no man shall see God I beseech you to consider it 6. A sixth Information is this which I should have put in before if Gods Will must then our will must not be done the doing of Gods Will implies the denying of our own Christ came to do not his own Will but his Fathers i. e. not only his owne but we must not at all do ours but all as Gods Man should not leane to his own understanding but in all his wayes acknowledge him in the things of this life we may not confer with flesh and blood not with our own Wills nor do any thing because 't is our but because 't is the Will of God Whatever you do saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 10.31 from the highest duty of grace to the lowest of nature whether you hear pray buy sell eat or drink do all not only one or two things or one or two kindes of things but all to the glory of God that is to please God which is when