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A96524	Two treatises concerning I. God's all-sufficiency, and II. Christ's preciousness Being the substance of some sermons long since preached in the University of Oxford. By Henry Wilkinson, D.D. Then principal of Magdalen-Hall, Oxon.	Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.	1681 (1681)	Wing W2240A; ESTC R230884	231,748	498

our Signs there is no more any Prophet neither is there among us any that knoweth how long Eligat opportunitatem qui libere dat misericordiam Aug. However it is a grand Duty incumbent on us to be earnest in Prayers and Supplications in the behalf of the Church as Psal 14. v. ult Psal 126. 4. Isa 62. 1 7 8. Some others there are who are inwardly Wounded and that Wound must needs be more full of dolour and Prov. 18. 14. anguish A wounded Spirit Who can bear God withdraws Deus unus animum fractum quassatum erigere restaurare potest idque verbo suo ●u● innitentes e naufragio emergemus caput attollemus Carthw the Light of his gracious Countenance from them and this is their greatest affliction They complain frequently of their Troubles by reason of Gods hiding his Face from them The Terrours of the Almighty affright them and Sorrow drinks up their Spirits To such are many suitable Promises to be applyed and the Application of them to themselves in particular is matter of singular Consolation Particularly let them Read and Meditate on what they Read viz. Psal 94. 11. Psal 112. 5. Isa 50. 10. He that Woundeth can only Heal Hos 6. 1. Una eademque manus vulnus opemque tulit Whether the Wound be outward on the Body or Estate or inward on the Soul and Spirit we must make our Adresses and Applications to that one only Healer the great God of Heaven and Earth Exod. 15. 26. For I am the Lord that healeth thee And our Duty is to make use of Gods healing Medicines Jer. 8. 22. What then is our great Duty but to hearken what God speaks in his Word and beware of Relapses Corporal Relapses are dangerous but Spiritual much more Psal 85. 8. I will hear what God the Lord will Speak For he will Speak Peace unto his People and to his Saints But let them not turn again to Folly CHAP. IV. Contains a Third Argument drawn from God's Providences A Third Argument shall be drawn Arg 3 from divine Providences from divine Providences God's Providences fulfil his Promises As God promiseth help supplies and succours unto his People so by his good Hand of Providence he performs what he hath Promised God Promised great things to Abraham Gen. 17. 1 2. And when Abraham was Ninety Years Old and Nine the Lord appeared to Abraham and said unto him I am the Almighty God Walk before Me and be thou Perfect And I will make my Covenant between me and thee and will Multiply thee exceedingly And God made his Word good to a tittle to him For God gave him Riches in abundance and a numerous Posterity and in him were all the Families of the Earth blessed At God's Command Abraham Heb. 11. 8. left the Land of his Nativity he disputed Valde commendat Abrahamum credulitas promissionis quoniam immediate credidit Deo relinquendo presentia dulci● chara ut obediret Deo propter absentia quae non videbat Tena not the Command but yeilded Obedience thereunto And where ever he went he had abundant experience of God's gracious Providence He and his Wife though exposed to great Temptations were safely preserved in the Court of Abimelech As soon as he went Gen. 12. 10. into Canaan there was a Famine in the Land yet God made Provision for him and Preserved him whither ever he went and he obtained Favour both in the Eyes of God and Man Not to multiply many more Instances In Joseph there was a Concatenation of several signal Acts of Providence Although he was envyed by his Brethren cast into the Pit sold to the Ishmaelites and by them to Potiphar Yet God was with him And when Act. 7. 9. through the false accusations of his Mistress he was cast into Prison yet God Gen. 39. 29. was with him in Prison and gave him favour in the Eyes of the Keeper of the Prison It 's very probable that there were several Prisons in Egypt but Joseph was cast into that very Prison where the King's Servants the chief Butler and Baker were Prisoners And it came to pass that each of the King's Servants Dreamed and Joseph Interpreted their Dreams and the Interpretation accordingly was Fulfilled for the chief Butler was restored unto his Place and the Gen. 40. 21 22. chief Baker was Hanged Joseph might hope that he had now purchased a good Friend at Court he reckoned upon the chief Butlers Friendship but he as soon as restored to his Place forgot Joseph Gen. 40. 23. He ungratefully past an act of oblivion of his Ingagements to Joseph But God's time is not yet come for Joseph's Deliverance Wherefore Pharaoh himself Dreams and then the chief Butler remembers his faults and becomes a Remembrancer of Joseph's Skill in Interpreting Dreams Hereupon Joseph is sent for and Interpreteth Pharaoh's Dreams and for his great Wisdom and Understanding is preferred by Pharaoh to be Ruler over all the Land of Egypt And here 's a further Remark of Providence that Joseph hath a Price put into his Hand to be not only under God a Saviour of all Egypt but likewise of his Father and Brethren For when the Famine was in Egypt Cannan and other Places Joseph supplyed their Wants and through God's Blessing upon his wife and provident care preserved multitudes of Families from Perishing Joseph himself acknowledged Act. 7. 9. Non es● sine ex●mplo quod Deus benefacit iis quibus vos nocetis maxime Grot. God's Hand in all things And St. Stephen making an Historical Narration of the several signal Providences exercised towards Joseph ascribes all to the Hand of God remarkable in Joseph's Preservation notwithstanding the envy hatred and malice of his Brethren To this History of Joseph we may add a series of divine Providences fastned together concerning the deliverance of the Jews from the bloody Designs of Haman Although Haman was highly advanced by Ahassuerus and obtained the King's Seal and Pur was cast even a day design'd by Lot for a barbarous Massacre yet Esther by a wonderful Providence though she was a Jew was advanced to be Queen instead of Vasthi She certified the King of Mordecai's faithfulness in discovering a Treason and Mordecai's Loyalty was Chronicled In perpetuam rei memoriam Esther Invited the King to a Banquet and Haman was Invited likewise She then interceded for the People of the Jews and Haman's intended Mischief was seasonably prevented and his horrid Design'd Wickedness fell upon his own Pate The Table proved a snare and the Banquet a forerunner of Hamans Destruction Mordecai was a Loyal and true hearted Subject to the King but Haman hated him for not doing | Non solum consuetudo sed etiam lex domestica Iudaeorum diserte vetat honorem deo debitum ulli mortalium exhibere Drus. in Est 3. 2. that reverence which he expected from him Some are of Opinion that Haman expected more

be happy hereafter we must here be Holy No Holiness no Happiness SECT II. Containing the Fruits of Justification which are a Ground of the Believers Comfort HAving proved the first Ground of the Comfort of Believers because they are Precious in the 〈◊〉 of Christ I come now and with this Section I shall conclude To lay down a second Ground of Believers Comforts drawn from the Fruits of Justification And they are set down Rom. 5. 1 2 3 4. Therefore being Justified by Faith we have Peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom also we have access by Faith unto this Grace wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the Glory of God And not only so but we Glory in Tribulation also knowing that Tribulation worketh Patience and Patience Experience and Experience Hope There are sixspecial Fruits of Justification by Faith mentioned as so many Daughters of that Mother or as so many Precious Fruits growing on that Tree And they are Peace Access Joy Hope Patience and Experience These I shall inlarge particularly and so finish the Treatise 1. By being Justified by Faith we have 1 Peace with God Peace with God We have sweet tranquility and security upon our Spirits What though Men Condemn and the World Persecute us What though troubles come as violently as Waves in a Storm dashing upon us with more renewed fury Yet Peace with God and security of Conscience will quiet our Spirits and comfort us amidst discontents and fortifie us against Euroclydons and most Tempestuous Storms When God Justifieth who can Condemn When God speaks Peace who can speak Trouble It 's a grand incouragement notwithstanding Troubles come thick and three-fold that in Christ we have Peace He is our Peace and Peace-maker and Reconciler However the World Storm yet Christ becalms the most Blasting Winds These things saith he I have spoken unto you that in me ye might have Peace But in the John 15. 33. World ye shall have Tribulation be of good chear I have overcome the World We should indeavour after the things that make for Peace and as the Apostle Commandeth If it be possible as much as in you Rom. 12. 18. lies live peacable with all Men. But some are of such implacable Spirits as will never be at Peace and of the same malitious temper with David's Enemies who when he was for Peace they make themselves Psal 120. 7. ready for Battel Yet here 's a ground of of singular Comfort that we have Peace with God and this will make amends for all For saith the Apostle What shall we then say to these things if God be for Rom. 8. 32. us who can be against us Wherefore let 's labour to get and keep Peace with God and a good Conscience Peace within will support and quiet us against all Troubles without as Aarons Rod swallowed up the Rods of the Aegyptians 2. Another Fruit of Justification by 2 Acces● unto God Faith is Access unto God Sin sets Bars against us and hinders our Access unto the Throne of Grace But Christ breaks the Rom. 5. 2. Barrs and gives us Admission We are led by the hand of Christ unto the Father The Original Word imports as much Rom. 5. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This Manuduction or leading of us by Christ unto the Father is a great Priviledg Hereby we are admitted into the presence of the great King None might presume to come into the Court of Ahasuerus unless the King held out to him the golden Scepter Behold Christ hath purchased this Priviledg of the King of Kings to hold forth his golden Scepter and admit Believers into his presence Hence a Beleiver enjoys a sacred Communion with the Father Son and Holy Ghost and hath freedom to make his request known in Prayer and Supplication What then remains but that we should make use of our Priviledg and reduce the Apostle's Precepts in continual Practice Heb. 4. 16. Let us therefore come boldly unto the Throne of Grace that we may obtain Mercy and find Grace to help in time of need A third Fruit of Justification by Faith is 3. Joy Joy and this is Joy in the Lord or a spiritual Joy in believing The sence of God's Love The apprehension of his reconciled Countenance The Believers Interest cleared up that he hath a new Name a white Stone and the hidden Mannah rejoyceth his Heart more than the Fruition of all the Honours Pleasures and Profits which the Universe can afford When God speaks to the Soul and saith Thy sins are pardoned this is the most joyful and welcome day that ever a Believer saw The good Hearers received the word with Joy and brought forth Fruit with Patience Amidst great straits and exigencies the Church discovers an heroical Resolution Yet will I rejoice in the Lord I Hab. 3. 1● will Joy in the God of my Salvation Amidst multiplicity of rolling troublesome Thoughts the Psalmist takes ground of encouragement Psal 94. 19. In the multitude of my Thoughts within me thy Comforts delight my Soul A Believer's Joy acts extraordinarily that which extinguisheth the Joy of a Carnal Man is Fewe● to enkindle the Joy of a Godly Man ●or saith the Apostle And not only so but we Rom. 5. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jam. 5. 2. glory in Tribulation also A Believer accounts it all Joy when he falls into divers Temptations He kisseth the Rod that beats him and with a Martyr bids welcome to the Cross of Christ and with the Apostles rejoice that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the Name of Christ Acts 5. 41. O! what Joy doth Faith bring to Believers in all their Sufferings so that scoffs and reproaches they account their Honour whips and tort ures scars of Mar●yrdoms Though a Believer be tost up and down with boistrous Waves and Tempests he can see Christ by the Eye of Faith Though his Body be tormented upon the Rack yet he can see Christ his Comforter Though his Name be trampled on upon Earth yet he rejoiceth that his Name is written in Heaven A fourth Fruit of Justification by Faith 4. Hope is Hope and this is the Anchor of the Soul Were it not for Hope the Heart would break in the days of Jacob's Troubles But days of Jacob's Troubles are days of Jacob's Hope When Ezra and the People were full of grief and perplexities because the Holy Seed had mingled themselves with Heathens and were unequally yoaked with strange Wives but notwithstanding Hope was left quasi tabula post naufragium Ezra 10. 2. Yet now there 's Hope in Israel concerning this thing Rom 8. 24. By Hope saith the Apostle we are saved When Spoilers come a Believer is a Man of Hope Whatever they take from him yet they cannot take away his Hope Amidst Clouds of Darkness his Hope is That the Sun of Righteousness will arise with healings under his Wings He hopes against his Reason

and Intercession Christ's Blood his Agony his Sweating in the Garden his Crucifixion upon the Cross all these were for his People Isai 53. 5. He was wounded for our Transgressions he was bruised for our Iniquities The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his Stripes we are healed So that hence it evidently appears that Believers and they alone have interest in Christs Merits and enjoy the benefits flowing from them They are his Seed the Church his Body his Members 〈◊〉 Redeemed ones a Peculiar People For them Christ pray'd Joh. 17. 9. For them Christ shed his Precious Blood For them he became a Ransome and a Price of Redemption For them he Died and Rose again For saith the Apostle Rom. 4. 25. Who was delivered for our Offences and rose again for our Justification And which is the highest Degree of Christs meriting for us He took our Sins upon him by imputation as the Apostle saith the 2 Cor. 5. 21. For he hath made him to be Sin for us who knew no Sin that we might be made the Righteousness of God in him A third Demonstration is That Believers Demon. 3. Believers have the Precious Influences Christs Spirit have the Precious Influences of the Spirit of Christ All true Believers do pertake of such Heavenly Influences as are from the Head shed down upon the Members Now the Influences of the Spirit of Christ are discovered 1. By the Graces of the Spirit and the resemblances whereunto the Spirit is compared 1. For the Graces of the Spirit or Fruits they are mentioned Eph. 5. 9. Goodness Righteousness and Truth And a large enumeration is set down Eph. 5. 22 23. Love Joy Peace Long-Suffering Gentleness Faith Meekness Temeprance Every Grace is the Fruit of the Spirit Now Christ as Head Communicates Grace to all his Members and they receive according to their Measure and Proportion There 's in Christ a fulness of Wisdom to Counsel of Mercy to Pardon of Righteousness to Justify of Holiness to Sanctifie And Pro Legis gratia quae praeteriit gratiam Evangelii accepimus hanc manentem pro numbris imaginibus veteris Testamenti gratia veritas per Christum facta est Aug. Epist 11. there 's a derivation from the Root to the Branches Joh. 1. 16. And of his fulness have all we received and Grace for Grace 2. Le ts consider the Resemblances whereunto the Spirit is compar'd There are certain Metaphors mentioned in the Scripture whereby the Properties and Influences of the Spirit of God are more evidenced as for instance 1. The Spirit is compared to a Fire 1. The Spirit is compared to a Fire 1. As Fire enlightens and gives Light to a whole Room so the Spirit of God inlightens the understanding 2. Fire ascends so where the Spirit of God is there the affections are raised from Earth to Heaven 3. Fire is Consumptive it burns Stubble so doth the Spirit burn and consume Corruptions 4. Fire hath a penetrative vertue to creep into the pores of a combustible Body So doth the Spirit penetrate the Windings and Diverticles of the Heart The Spirit searcheth the Reins and discovers the most hidden things 5. Fire doth inflame and transform things into its own nature It makes combustible matter like it self So the Spirit of God fills the Soul with a Divine Ardour It 's called the Spirit of burning Isa 4. 4. where the Spirit of God comes it purgeth away the Dross of Corruptions by the Spirit of Judgment and by the Spirit of Burning 2. The Spirit is compared unto Water 2. The Spirit is compared to Water 1. Water hath a quenching Vertue In Water there 's a quenching and purifying Property 1. In Water there 's a quenching Property Water quencheth Fire at least abates and cools the heat so where God's Spirit comes it sometimes quencheth the heat of inordinate Passions and sometimes abates cools and moderates the heat of them God's Spirit is a Spirit of Meekness A Man 's own Spirit is a boistrous Spirit which upon any disgust is all in a Flame But God's Spirit extinguisheth the heat of Fury and Anger When Christ bad the raging Sea be still there was a great Calm so when the Spirit of God comes into the Spirit of Man it becalms all the Affections it sets them in order and fixeth them upon the right Objects Philosophers write De sedandis affectibus and yet they are meer Strangers to that Meekness which is one of the Beatitudes Mat. 5. 5. Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth That is Meekness in a Theological acceptation which moderates Anger and keeps it within just bounds when there are causes of provocation To know when to be angry and when to be meek is a great Point of Wisdom To be zealous in the cause of God and meek in a Man 's own cause is well beseeming a Christian Wherefore Luther speaking of a right placed Anger or Zeal saith It 's the best Ira in suo loco est optimu●● Dei Donum Luth. Gift of God But when Men are transported with Passion like the Lunatick in the Gospel rending and tearing themselves or like Cities without Gates or Bars or like Waters that will keep in no Banks or like Fire that flames higher and higher O! what necessity is there of the cleansing Vertue of the Spirit of God which as Water quencheth flames of Fire so it quencheth the flaming Fury of exorbitant Passions and brings a Man into a sedate and composed frame of Spirit In Water there 's a purifying and cleansing 2 Water hath a cleansing Vertue Property Water casts out Garbidg and noisom Carrion And as Water cleanseth bodily Filthyness so the Spirit of Christ cleanseth from filthyness of Flesh and Spirit i. e. both outward and inward defilements Where the Spirit of God takes it's habitation it ringeth and washeth all clean what 's filthy and noisom it throws out For God's Spirit will not cohabit with a Cage of unclean Birds and noisom Lusts We read that Elias Christ's Fore-runner was like a Refiners fire and like Fullars Soap As the Refiner purgeth out Mal. 3. 3. Dross so doth the Spirit of Christ purge out Sin and Corruption and as the Fullers Soap scours washeth and cleanseth the Cloth and makes it pure and white so doth the Spirit of Christ purify and cleanse the Soul At Christ's transfiguration we read Mark 3. 3. And his Rayment became shining exceeding white as Snow so as no Fuller on Earth can white them From this comparison it 's intimated that although other Fullers can make Garments white and clean yet no Fullers Soap can make the Cloth so white and clean as the Blood of Christ can purify and cleanse the Soul 3. The Spirit is resembled to Ointment A third comparison of the Spirit whereunto it 's resembled is Ointment The Properties of Ointment are 1. To supple and asswage Humors in the Body so doth the