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A77300	The riches of grace displayed: the second part. In the great instances thereof. In giving the son. Sending the spirit. Effectual calling. God's covenanting with man. By W. Bagshaw, minister of the gospel	Bagshawe, William, 1628-1702.	1685 (1685)	Wing B433BA; ESTC R230488	68,148	214

Isa 62.1 2 3. Breathing much after the flourishing of Zion For her sake not being silent but praying that she may have Peace Peace freedom from Divisions within Psal 122.6 and not onely Persecutions from without that her Children may resemble their Heavenly Father and be full of Soul-prosperity The Ninth is Keeping up a Watch against all sin Mark 13. last and temptations thereunto Carrying in mind that the World is their great Adversary 1 John 2.16 Haec tria pro trino numine mundus habet and its Profits Pleasures and Honours are the great Baits it lays to ensnare ' em The last is Prizing Heaven as it is a place and seat of perfect Holiness and accordingly making preparations for it in exercising true and endeavouring for more through Purity I much fear many will trust and not try and too many will be slighty in their trying and not beg that God would search and try ' em Psal 26.2 If upon Tryal weaker Christians do find any one sure mark with a desire that the rest may be found on 'em it is a good sign More good Divines than one have said Dr. Sibbs Mr. Hollingsworth One right Grape cannot grow on a Thorn But let the unsound know their going about to divide between Graces and Duties is of ill signification The Fifth Inference is They who have not heard the voice of God nor known what his Calling is should not rest in their present condition but call on him whose Calls have Power in 'em to give 'em the Call they have heard and read of Know they 1. As far as any of 'em are off he can easily make 'em hear 2. As vile as any of 'em are John 5.25 1 Tim. 1.15 his Grace can fully forgive 'em and move him to call 'em Of this Paul had full Proof And in order to their being so Priviledged 1. May they be for seating themselves under a Ministry in which there is plainness 1 Cor. 1.21 clearness and seriousness thereby God usually calls 2. May they use all earnestness as those that would not be denyed Prov. 2.2 3 4. 3. Job 42.8 John 14.16 May they engage the Prayerful to engage in Prayer for ' em 4. May they when they dare not say they have an Interest in Christ Pray that he would take 'em into and bear 'em on his Heart and prevail with his Father to speak so to 'em by his Spirit that they cannot but hear O that there were such hearts and workings in sinners The Sixth and last Inference is They that are indeed and in truth the Lord 's Called ones 1 Pet. 2.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 should shew forth the Vertues and thereby the Praises of him that hath called'em 1. Psal 103.1 Should not their Hearts lead in their Praisings Should not all their Powers and Forces be called into this Service Are they not above others engaged and enabled thereunto 2. Psal 149.6 Should not the High Praises of God be in their mouths Should not the Calves of their Lips be offered to God 3. Eph. 4.1 Should not their Lives be referred to his Honour That they may be so May the Twenty Rules following be attended to O that they were more Answer'd by em 1. Psal 139.1 2 7. He is totius oculas Live they in and under a full and powerful apprehension of God's Omniscience Is he shut up or shut out any where And doth he not see their ways and Hearts with whom he is 2. Omne honum in summo bono Maintain they a constant dependence on God's All-sufficiency Is not all good bound up in the chief good Cannot he easily supply all wants Gen. 17.1 support under all pressures and fit for all Services 3. May there be on and in 'em abiding and influencing thoughts of the extream evil of sin See Dr. Goodwin c. Rom. 7.13 Is it not as truly as usually said A worse name than its own cannot be given it O that it more appear'd in its own ugly colours 4. Do they frequently review and reflect on the dishonour done to God by their sins past Psal 40.12 especially their heightened ones Can they fully number or weigh ' em And should not the sight of their black feet be very humbling to ' em 5. Take they into serious Consideration the shortness and insufficiency of their own Righteousness As to appeasing the wrath satisfying the Justice and procuring the favour of God Phil. 3.7 8. can Raggs cover ' em Can defiled Raggs cleanse ' em 6. Be they much in admiring the Riches of Grace which hath fully provided for 'em and the design thereof carried on by Christ for ' em Micah 7.19 Is not Gods Grace as the depths of the Sea which they cannot fathom And as the heights of Heaven which they cannot reach And doth not Grace that brought Christ down from Heaven to Earth intend to bring them up from Earth to Heaven 7. Keep they as near as near may be to the Blessed Jesus Gal. 2.20 Close they with his Person apply they his Righteousness and imitate they his Example May he lye Day and Night between their Breasts May they live on him as All and in All 8. Prize they the special Presence and wait they for the special Assistance of the Holy Spirit Gal. 5.16 May he more and more inspire their Souls and Services May he subdue their Corruptions and draw out their Graces 9. Keep they their Hearts under a deep and endearing sense of God's many great and choice Mercies to ' em How precious have his thoughts been to them-wards Rom. 12.1 Can they know the sum of ' em And hath not his hand of Grace in sundry Instances been lifted up high 10. Be they for out-shooting the Heathens in their own Bow and out-stripping 'em in the Vertues wherein they excell'd * See Reverend Mr. Porter This hath been styled borrowing the Jewels of the Egyptians and gathering the Flowers in Natures Garden to deck themselves with It 's a shame that they in and of the Church should be less sober chaste 1 Cor. 5.1 or just than some our of it 11. Study they to be extraordinary adorning the Doctrine of their Saviour in all things Tit. 2.10 May their Beds and Boards may their Shops and Fields may their employments and refreshments carry a mark of Holiness on ' em Zech. 14. last 12. Husband they their time and the seasons of Grace therein afforded to the best purpose and profit Eph. 5.15 May they not willingly trifle or squander away one Golden Hour but fill up every day with proper Duty 13. Be they for making a good use of the Word and Works of God Be they loath to be as leaking or broken Vessels Heb. 2.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See the late Reverend Dr. Owen thereon lest they take in Errors or let slip

Souls into Glory Mat. 22.32 Hath not he engaged to be their God And shall Death break that bond And are not they whose God he is as to their better part See Doctor Templar Idea p. 312 as are Abraham Isaac and Jacob at this present living to and with God Have they not good ground for their saying who say that by that time their Friends have well closed the Eyes of their Bodies Mr. Norton c. their Spirits shall be admitted to behold God's Face in Righteousness Shall they not immediately on their departure be with Christ 9. Shall not their Bodies on which Death seizeth be raised out of the Dust that in their whole Persons they may be Happy to and in Eternity Hath not our Saviour left it under his hand John 6.39 that he will lose nothing not onely no Soul but nothing no Body that is given him Are not the Bodies of Covenanters the Purchase of his Blood and Temples or Habitations of his Spirit M. Jeanes Scholast Div. p. 28 29. He is not the God of the dead of those any part of whom shall dye for ever Surely what I have written proves the Covenant to be of Grace May my Reader go to the Labours of that Dear Brother on this Subject Mr. H. Newcome on the Covenant whose Tongue and Pen God hath eminently Blessed And now must I go to some brief may it be blessed Application And the first Use shall be by way of Caution Take we heed lest from the Doctrine of God's Covenanting with Man we conclude that this his Covenant doth in all points answer those Covenants that are amongst and between Men Surely this Covenant doth far and far transcend ' em First Hath any Humane Covenant so much of freedom in it as God's hath 1. See the Ark of the Covenant opened Job 22.2 3. Do not Men in their Covenants propound something of Advantage to themselves This can have no place in God whom no Persons or Praises can in the least profit his glorious name being above ' em 2. Do not men ordinarily see something of worth and loveliness in those whom they take into Covenants of Friendship and Familiarity But what of worthiness or loveliness is there to be seen in fallen Man Ezek. 16.1 2 3 c. Is he not in his blood and gore in his filth and guilt And yet that is made a time of Love Secondly In what meer Humane Covenant is there such condescension as is expressed in this Covenant If a Prince should stoop to make a League with a Peasant Psal 82.5 6. Finiti ad infinitum nulla proportio yet he that is so far above as to Office is but an equal as to Nature But between the Creator and Creatures what proportion is there Thirdly What lower Covenant is like this high one in firmness and sureness Have not men like men transgressed and varied And on Mens part Hos 6.7 2 Chron. 13 5. Sal est duraturae amicitiae symbolum Isa 55.4 in this Covenant there are too many failures but as to the Lord it is a Covenant of Salt lasting and incorruptible Do not the sure Mercies of David belong to this Covenant Mal. 3.6 Jehovah changeth not therefore the Sons of Jacob are not consumed Fourthly Is it not eminently to mans Honour yea and to God's that God thus Covenanted 1. Though men may Bless others Psal 144. last are not they the Blessed of the Lord whose God he is in a Covenant-way Is not this a Covenant of Life 2. Are not God's Attributes as evidently so joyntly displayed herein Infinite Wisdom hath ordered a meeting of Mercy and Truth of Righteousness and Peace Justice receives satisfaction and Grace is in its exaltation sin is condemn'd and sinners sav'd the Law fulfilled as to the Surety and the Gospel advanced as to those for whom he is so The Second Use is for Information The first Branch is One step or consideration is before us on which we should stand and afresh wonder at Divine Grace 1. Rom. 9.3 4 5. Are not the People a People of Grace to whom the Covenant belongs as to its external and Ecclesiastical Administration Were not the Jews in this respect known and honoured above all the Nations of the Earth Exod. 19.6 being to God as peculiars and a Treasure 2. When Persons are inwardly in Covenant and have a right to its choice benefits can we take a measure of God's Grace to ' em What but that could move him to Covenant with them On their laying hold on this Covenant and Union to the Mediator thereof Rom. 8.3 4. the Covenant of works cannot demand any thing of 'em which Christ and his Righteousness will not answer And whereas they stand chargeable with injuring God's Justice and Holiness See Herle's Tripes the former will be righted through the satisfying Merit of Christ and respects paid to the latter through his Sanctifying Spirit by his Purchase they shall be freed from the damning power of sin and by his Power from the reigning Dominion of it The second Branch of the second Use is They are inexcusable who stand off from Covenanting with God and will by no means be prevailed with to come within this blessed Bond Isa 55.1 2 3. though the Lord say Ho every one Come come come 1. Many turn the deaf Ear on him Mr. Porter Prov. 1. and will not come within the hearing of Wisdom's calls that cry loud as one Phras'd it till she be hoarse 2. Many are Hearers onely 2 Thes 2.10 they open the outward Door of the Ear but keep the inner one of the Heart shut They are led unto Truth but not into it they receive it not in its light and love or if they rejoyce in some light it is but for a season May not many Preachers say Isa 53.1 Who comparatively believeth our Report Few are as the good Ground that had depth of Earth and moisture enough Few have been steep'd in sorrow or are in that stream carried to receive a whole Christ and resign themselves to him Few from a right understanding of the tenor of the Covenant with Hearts and Hands subscribe to it I will say to Recusants Isa 1.16 Come and let us reason together 1. Have you not been too too long sinfully coy forsaking your own Mercy 2. Can you possibly be happy if you be not in a Marriage-Covenant with the Lord 3. Can you stand under the wrath that is over rejecters of the Covenant Psal 2. last Is not a little a very spark of this fire scorching Can your hands be strong or your hearts endure in the day of God's sharp visitation Might not Chaff sooner endure the Wind Isa 33.14 and Stubble the Fire 4. What will you Plead why wrath should not have its free course on you 1. Was not closing in with the Covenant your Interest as well as Duty