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B02218	Christs impressions strong, sweet, and sensible on the hearts of believers, delivered in a sermon at Athelstonfoord, June 16, 1700. at the celebration of the sacred Eucharist. With some addition, / By I.C. M.D.	Clark, James, 1660-1723.	1700 (1700)	Wing C4461; ESTC R171372	19,519	48

is the pro●uction of something out of Nothing by such an Almighty Divine Efficiencie as is not Communicable to any Creatures hence it is According to faith that all Creatures visible and Invisible by the alone word of his power were at the beginning of Time brought into a reall Existence without anie preexistent matter or subject to operate either upon or by Coll 1 16 Heb 11 3. Even so it is agreeable both to faith and feeling that they who are Regenerated and Renewed are made so by the Creative vertue of Christs Power therefore they who are Renewed in the Spirit of their mind are said to be Created after GOD in Righteouseness and true Holiness Eph 4 23 23 24 and 34 3 2 10. They are GODS workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto Good Works and 2 Cor 5 17 They are Called new Creatures and further Rom 12 2 The are said to be Metamorphosed as the Original word is or as we Translate it Transformed All which Import they are another thing then they were they pass under a new form and Figure Now to have the Image of GOD Imprinted where it was not to be made a new and an other Creature then before the Application of this Effecacious Divine vertue what an undeniably Sensible Impression is there made 2. The Divine hand is said to draw Sinners unto himself which is such an Act and exercement of Divine power that they who are drawn cant but be sensible thereof for to illustrate this let us Suppose when Christ first puts in his hand at the hole of the doo● of the heart of an Elect Sinner and by hi● Divine Touch sweetly Impresscis the Son to sway and move towards him thereupon the Devil the World and the Flesh are all alarmed and stirred to put thei● hand to hold fast the gripp they before had Now these all drawing and pulling upo● the one side as by a strong three fold Cor● of Iniquitie And Christ who is stronge● then they all drawing and pulling on th● other side it is not imaginable but tha● the party thus dragged and drawn feels Impressions from both these adverse part● drawing Contrar ways and from the greater Power the greater Impression Christ being at length Victorious and Imvincible Hence Jo. 12 32 And 8. I be lifted up from the Earth viz. On the Cross by the attractive vertue of my Crucifixion will draw all the Elect men unto me And Jo 6 44. No man can come unto me Except the Father which hath sent me draw him Yet we would not have any body to misunderstand this attractive ver●ue of Christ as if by his drawing he did violent the will of the Rationall Creature or did Committ a kind of perforcible Rape upon his Affections no but he so works agreeably to our Nature altho by a Supernatural Efficacie as that he Gently and Sweetly sways our wils upon most Rational considerations proposed and suggested to the Intellect at sundrie times and in diverse manners of choice and Compleasantly to Comply with his will and to yeeld to his working whereby of Naturallie unwilling he makes Supernaturallie willing in a day of his Power Psal 110 3 Therefore we may Imagine it to be such a Drawing as is spoken of Jer 31 3 I have loved thee with an Everlasting love therefore with loving kindness have I drawen thee Or as it is Hos 11 4 I drew them with Cords of a man with bonds of love 3. Christs opperations are also set off under the Notion of Fire We need not insist to demonstrate what Exquisitly sensible Impressions fire makes let any man if he would be satisfied by Experience but hold his finger to the Flame of a burning Coal or Candle and he will soon own it makes an Intollerable Impression the fire purgeth the fire melteth and makes malles able the fire Transformeth and fiercelie consumeth and that the most solide and hardest things as Pontanus saith Excoquit saxum violentus ignis And the fire still Augmenteth into a greater and more violent flame and it is fed and furnished with agreeable matter combustibly so that it may be hard to extinguish it Hence Solomon comparing Spiritual Love to Fire saith he Song 8.6 7. Love is as coals of fire which hath a most vehement flame many waters cannot quench love Neither can the floods drown it The narrow compass of one Sermon will not allow to be so prolix as to run the parallel betwixt the various Effects of fire and the many Analogous or correspondent impressions that Christ makes on hearts but seeing we may have occasion afterward to touch at some thing of affinity hereunto we will not now Enlarge further but let Suffice that Christs Impressions on the two Disciples Hearts are in our Text Exp●essed by the Figure of fire And John the Baptist saith of Christ That he Baptiseth with the Holy Ghost and with Fire Luke 3 16. 4 Christs workings are Represented by wind and the Blowings of it the Impressions whereof whoever have their Senses about them cannot deny to be sensible this pierceing Element affecteth and reacheth all the other Elements Enquire at the Gardner or Husbandman and they will tell you what Impressions the wind maketh on the earth and the Fruits thereof Ask the Merchant or Mariner and they will Informe you of its mighty power on the Waters Yea but spear at the Kitchen maid that Blowes the Bellowes and she can tell you how it forces Sparks into Flames It is a Common saying Aer est Anima ignis Air is the Soul of Fire which quickens and Animates it hence Paul hath a Phraze 2 Tim 1.6 Which alludes to this Stirr up the Gift of GOD which is in thee the word in the Original Greek is very Emphatical and Significant Anazoporein i e As with Bellows to blow the Coals and to revive or stirr up Fire that seems to be extinct and Bur●ed under Ashes O what would become of the Believer when his Spirit is dull and flatt when his Graces are Languishing and readie to dye if the Inspirations of the Almighty if the Sweet Breathings of the life giving Spirit of Jesus did not Influence and stirr him up unto Activity and motion in Heavenly things and Heaven-ward therefore do we find Languishing Christians in their Lasie flatt f●itts forced to cry out Son 4 16 Awake O North wind and come thou South blow upon my Garden that the Spices thereof may flow out And Christ himself Compares the working of his Spirit to Wind. Jo 3 8 5. Christs Impressions are whiles set off u●der the Notion of Water the Notable effects whereof are so many we cannot insi● to enumerate them all Hos 14.5 I will b● as the Dew unto Israel When Christ please● to make the dew of Heaven come down o● the Bellievers withered and barren Soul O how do the seeds of Grace and Vertue tak● life how do they Grow and Fructifie s● that the Believer lookes out more Verdent Fresh and