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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52035	The vvorks of Mr Stephen Marshall, late minister of the Gospel at Finching-Field in Essex. And since at Ipswitch in Suffolk. The first part. Viz. I. Of Christ's intercession. And of sins of infirmity. II. The high priviledge of beleevers. They are the sons of God. III. Faith the only means spiritually to feed on Christ. IV. Of self-denial. V. The saints duty to keep their heart in a good frame, etc. VI. The mystery of spiritual life. Attested by Ralph Venning. Thomas Lye. Thomas Jacomb.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1661 (1661)	Wing M747; ESTC R214099	148,133	252

they by virtue of their fellowship should walk in the light And then Secondly Explains this more particularly in the subsequent discourse and shews that by walking in the light he mainly intends walking in holiness that is to abominate and abandon the waies of sin and to live as becomes those that are born of God in holiness and righteousness and this is the plot of the whol Epistle And then he begins with the first branch of it and that is to depart from the waies of sin and sets down this conclusion That if any man do pretend Communion with Jesus Christ and walk in sin he is a meer Dissembler he hath not one dram of Communion with God and Jesus Christ That is a certain rule no man that hath Communion with Jesus Christ can walk in a sinful life but every branch of the great things that Christ bestows upon his people the purport and intent of them all is to make them leave sinning that they wholly overthrow the very tenour of the Gospel who talk of believing in Christ and walk in a Godless life Now this first Branch the Apostle prosecutes at large both in the first Chapter in this second Chapter and begins the second Chapter thus Now all these things do I write to you that you sin not and presently at the 3d verse takes it up again saith he If any man know him he must walk as he walketh and so proves it by many Arguments Now Brethren you shal see the intent of my Text The Apostle knowing what an uncomfortable Doctrine this would be if it were not explained how uncomfortable it would be even to the best of Gods Saints and people he prevents the sad objection that every gracious heart would be ready to make for when he hath set down this for his Conclusion He that is in Christ cannot sin he cannot sin he deceives himself if he talks of Christ and sins Why A poor Soul would presently come out and say Then am I utterly undone I have then no interest in Christ for I sin I sin dayly I cannot live without it I cannot perform one Duty but my corruption is intermingling it self with it wo be to me if that Doctrine go for currant that he hath nothing to do with Christ that sins Now by way of Prolepsis the Apostle anticipates this objection and cleers the mind of God about it and then proceeds further to prosecute his Doctrine and it is laid down in these words But if any man sin let him know that we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous who is the Propitiation for all our sins and not only ours that are Jews but throughout all the world if they be Beleevers This he laies down to stay the hearts of Gods people in reference to that sadness that they would be ready to be overwhelmed with Now Brethren because there is but one main Doctrine that I intend to insist upon I wil but briefly explain the words to you and then I wil propound the Doctrine First When the Apostle saith If any man do sin he thereby plainly implies that there are certain sorts of sins that even Gods Children though they dare not commit sin nor walk in sin yet even Gods own Children for them he speaks to my little Children I write this to you I say there are sins that Gods own people are overtaken with even after they have fellowship and Communion with Jesus Christ that is the first thing that he takes for granted Then Secondly To that he adds But saith he if any man sin that is when we do thus sin when Gods people do thus sin What then We have an Advocate that you all know the meaning of one that pleadeth our cause that is the office of an Advocate to appear in behalf of another in his cause We have an Advocate with the Father above in Heaven at his right hand that is Jesus Christ our Lord who died for us and loved us and gave himself for us he appears in Heaven for us yea he is Jesus Christ the righteous that is though he be so righteous that he wil never plead an ill cause yet this is a part of his righteousness to intercede and appear in the behalf of his own people even when they sin against him Jesus Christ the righteous who is the Propitiation for our sins that is who once upon earth offered himself up a Sacrifice to satisfie for them and now in Heaven pleads the benefit and virtue of it for ever in the behalf of his people And not for ours only that is we that are Jews but for the sins of the whol world supposing stil he speaks of the same matter of those that believe in Christ that have Communion with him throughout the world Rich and Poor Yong and Old Jew and Gentile this is a truth to them all When Gods people sin Jesus Christ the righteous at Gods right hand maketh mediation for them So the words thus briefly paraphrased upon do afford us this Doctrine which is the only Lesson that I intend to handle this day namely Doct. That the Lord Jesus Christs intercession in Heaven is the great dayly relief that al the Saints have upon Earth against their dayly sins A Doctrine which at the very first propounding Promiseth not only comfort to Believers but carnal men they wil be ready to promise themselves liberty though I hope without cause by that time I have done with it but Jesus Christs mediation in Heaven is the great relief to all Gods Saints upon earth against the dayly sins that they are overtaken with Now Beloved that I may handle this Doctrine for your profit there are two questions which God willing I shal endeavor to cleer and that wil be the sum of all my work the discussing of them First Quest. 1. What sins the Lords Children and People are liable to while they are in this world what those sins are that the Children of God may be overtaken with while they live in this world Secondly Quest. 2. I wil shew you how the Intercession of Jesus Christ is the great relief to Gods Children against these sins For the first First What are those sins which the Lords people his own Children are liable to while they live in this world And to make you the more attentive to it be pleased to note that there are two Conclusions about sin laid down so cleerly in the Scripture yea in this very Epistle that they almost seem to contradict one another and therefore it is of great weight to have that cleared First 1. Nothing clearer then this That he that is born of God doth not sin nor cannot sin and if a man say he hath communion with Jesus Christ and walkes in sin he is a Liar and deceives his own Soul Nothing clearer then this in this Epistle So likewise in Romans 6. How can we that are dead to sin Live any longer therein Sin cannot

into flagitious scandalous waies they make them so abominable that in regard of Gods glory the good of the Church it had bin better they had never bin born then commit them they do so harden the wicked so dishonor God so deeply defile their own Consciences that here is nothing can be said for any men that they have any part in Christ while they are given up to such waies No saith God Know you not that no Whoremonger nor Adulterer shall come into the Kingdom of Heaven they are as it were interdicted from all right of entring into Heaven while they are in that condition That is the first But then Secondly 2. When the Spirit of God awakens them to repentance that they grow sensible of their unworthy and unchild-like walking then the intercession of Christ so far is for them that there is a free access to come to the Lord to be in his Book and to enjoy Peace with him as if never any such thing had been committed by them at all Though the sins of Gods people when they are thus egregious are beyond al measure sinful and do exceeding mischief to others notwithstanding all this if once the soul be but humbled and that they consider what they have done against God and how they have provoked him and injured him Christ in Heaven prevails that there is no bar in the world against their acceptance but the Lords Arms stand open to receive them as freely as if the things had never been done by them and of this you have a world of Evidences I wil give you but two instances of it and one is that of Ephraim The Lord saith to him he was his dear Child but all the while he walked after that manner the Lord spit in his face and would not own him but you shal read of him in Jer. 31.18 saith the Lord I saw Ephraim bemoaning himself mark there Ephraim was come home by weeping Cross What did he do saith he I saw him bemoaning himself Oh! I have been an untamed Heifer the Lord hath chastised me and I was chastised but I was like a Bullock that would not bear the Lords Yoke Turn thou me and I shal be turned for thou art the Lord my God surely after that I was turned I repented and after that I was instructed I smote upon my Thigh I was ashamed yea even confounded because I did bear the reproach of my youth When this Spirit had seized upon him mark what follows The Lord stands behind the Curtain and hears his Child thus bemoaning and what saith he Ephraim is my dear Child he is a pleasant Child for since I spake against him I do earnestly remember him stil therefore my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy upon him saith the Lord He breaks out he can bear no longer when once he had a Christ and Mediator in Heaven and when once he was but sensible of it the Lords bowels yerned towards him presently And that other Instance is the example of the Prodigal in Luke 15. that the Lord intended to be the Pattern of those Children that should run away and be brought home again by Grace all the while that Wretch ran away and spent his goods his Father regarded him no more than his elder brother did when he came home but when the man was broken I have a Father saith he And I wil go to my Father and confess I am not worthy to stand before him and when he came tattered and lousie home the Text saith his Father ran to meet him as if he should have said No more of that Son come bring him in kill the fatted Calf and put a Ring upon his Finger and quiets his Elder Brother and it is fit it should be so thy brother is come home again I speak this the rather because if there should be any one here to hear me this day that hath run away from God and the Lord hath touched thy heart and thou beginnest to think how thou hast wronged him the Lord Jesus Christ hath made thy peace the door is open that thou maiest come freely to him as if there had never any such thing been As in Hosea 14. the latter end When Ephraim shal say Come take words and say Father receive us gratiously I wil heal him freely saith he There is the first Question answered I was the shorter in this because I would gladly hope there are none such here so wofully deserted of God as when they have received a new life that they should give up themselves desperately to walk in waies contrary to him Quest. 2. But now for the other question which is the lot of al the Saints of God I know there is no man heares me this day that hath any thing of the life of Christ in him but he carries a body of death about him whereby he is surprised one way or other or for want of sufficient strength he is overcome now such an one must know that when it is thus with him he hath a great reliefe by Christ Jesus his appearing at the right hand of God for him wherein lies that I wil open in four or five particulars with a very short application added Four conclusions I would set you downe about Christs being a reliefe to his Children against their daily corruptions their infirmities The first is 1. That Jesus Christ doth pitty in heauen he pities his Children under their sinful infirmities as much as any Parents pity their Children under their bodily infirmities that is the first That the Lord Christ who is their high Preist their suretie he hath compassion upon them in their infirmities and pitties them under them as Parents use to pittie their Children that lie under bodily infirmities no body I hope wil mistake me when I say pity I mean not such workings of bowels and passions in Heaven which we poor men are subject to upon earth but somewhat that is like to it somewhat that carries the thing in it and that you wil find cleerly in Scripture the Psalmist saith in Psalm 103. when he cals up himselfe to blesse the Lord there for al his goodnesse and tells us the Lord heals his infirmities surely he means his spiritual infirmities and there he blesseth God that pities them even as a Father pities his own Children And we have an high Priest saith the Apostle that cannot but compassionate our infirmities though he was without sin himselfe yet he hath a compassionate heart And there is one passage which if you will but read when you come at home it would give you abundance of satisfaction it is in Ezekiel 34. in the midst of the Chapter the Lord there quarrels with the wretched Shepeard that goared some of his Sheep and trod others under foot and killed some and fleeced some and when he comes to reckon with him he tels him that he would send the Lord Jesus and that he was the good Shepeard and what he