the Godhead in him not onely of some God-like dispositions and of the Image of God which may be in Saints Thirdly All the fulness of the Godhead the whole Divine Nature Fourthly All this fulness of the Godhead dwells in Christ he is there not as a Guest not as a Friend but as an Inhabitant to fix his constant abode there Fifthly And all this bodily personally most mysteriously and not transciently vertually and by participation onely as in a good degree it may be in the Saints And for this happy purpose hath Jesus Christ such a Spring of good in himself who is the Head of all Principalities and Powers in that ninth verse which is added because they should see they need not go to the Angels as their head verse 18. He hath this fountain of strengthning Grace in himself by the Grace of Vnction the unction of the holy Spirit which God giveth to him not by measure Joh. 3.34 not by drops and measure of the gift of Christ as to us Eph. 4.7 The Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into his hand ver 35. of Joh. 3. And amongst other good things the Holy Spirit the great New Testament Promise was the Promise of the Spirit as the Messiah was the grand Promise in the Old Testament And this he pours not drops out and that much more generally then before as Acts 2.17 And it shall come to pass in the last days saith God I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh And by vertue of this Unction of the Spirit you may see what glorious things Jesus Christ communicated unto poor sinners if you please to compare Isa. 61.1 with Luke 4.18 He hath it in him by the Grace of Office you will allow the expression being designed by the Father as a publike person for the advantage of all those whose Names are written in the Book of life and for those whom the Father had given to the Son He was appointed by Commission under the Broad Seal of Heaven to be The grand Lord Treasurer for his Church the common Storehouse of their strengthning provision This he doth signanter declare and that most fully Joh. 6.27 when he bids them Labor not for the meat that perisheth but for that which endureth to everlasting life Here is the ground which the Son of man shall give unto you never doubt it for him hath God the Father sealed This is the Doctrine that John the Baptist published concerning Christ Joh. 1.16 And of his fulness have all we received and grace for grace It seems there is an overflowing fountain of grace in him which was fully opened when he came into the world Joh. 7.38 39. else how could all Believers with John receive of his fulness had there not been a full fountain it would not have been drawn dry though communicated to so many and grace for grace 1. Whether it be by way of accumulation as some interpret it or 2. Whether by way of additional supplement we receiving the grace of the New Testament instead of the grace of the Old Testament or 3. Whether by way of correspondency there being such proportionable impressions of that grace that is in Christ so far as we are capable for there was that in Christ as Mediator wherein we cannot resemble him made upon us that as the print upon the wax answers to the Seal as the characters upon the Son answer to the Father so there are such visible stamps of the grace of Christ upon the Saints that in the language of Peter they are expresly said to be partakers of the Divine Nature having such Divine dispositions so incorporated so naturalized into them that what good they do springs not from external motives onely as in Hypocrites but from an inward principle of new Nature And therefore acting from this new Divine Nature they do good with more constancy and delight then others And upon the same account doth John tell you 1 Joh. 17. v. The Law was given by Moses but Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ In Moses Law there were shadowing Types in the Gospel of Christ there is the substantial Truth of them there were Predictions and Prophesies here fulfilling grace Hence Christ saith in the 10. Chapter of the Evangelist John ver 10. I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly that he might be a perfect Savior to answer the greatest exigencies of all his poor sheep maintaining their lives in despight of all their Wolvish enemies The third particular follows to wit The various sweetness and sweet variety of that strengthning grace that is in Christ This may be made appear to the great comfort and strong encouragement of the Saints and that in a fivefold Stream flowing from this living Spring of grace in Christ. First Here is strength from the electing grace of God in Christ where there is a great deal of strength and indeed the fundamental Stone which is the strength and support of the house The foundation of all the Spiritual and Eternal building lies there Ephes. 1.45 He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will Grace and his good pleasure is the Spring of all Secondly Here is strength from the transacting grace of Christ when there was an agreement betwixt God the Father and God the Son God had given so many to him he would undertake for those many God did accept his undertaking then Christ went on there was a great deal of strength in this transaction as 2 Tim. 1.9 According to his purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began how possibly given us before the world began why it was given us in Christ Jesus in his negotiating with God for us Thirdly Here is a great deal of strength also in the converting grace of Christ He hath saved us and called us with an holy calling not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace What purpose and grace That which was in Christ Jesus 2 Tim. 1.9 He did graciously purpose it therefore it should be infallibly effected A place that in the Synod of Palestina 1200 years ago and above the learned Divines made excellent use of to cut asunder the sinews of Pelagianism as indeed it doth and so still of Arminianism which is but that weed revived as learned Dr. Featly makes it most clearly appear in his Pelagius Redivivus Fourthly There is a great deal of strength likewise in the assisting grace of Christ when there shall be new supplies communicated from his Spirit to enable us to perform every duty and to order our sharpest sufferings to the best good of our souls as Paul assures himself Phil. 1.19 For I
have said enough to wise men and I 'le end all with that Prayer of John in his second Epistle to the elect Lady and her Children Grace be with with you mercy and peace from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of the Father in truth and Love And hope you 'll all say Amen to it FINIS To his very worthy Friend JOHN BROWN Esq One of His Majesties Justices of Peace for Middlesex and Clerk to the Right Honorable the House of Peers More intimacy with Jesus Christ. Most worthy Gaius AS there are some Capital Sins for which we must abase our selves all our days such as have broken our Consciences should often break our hearts As there are some Cardinal Vertues to speak in the Moralists language which must be our every-days work as being the Essentials of Christianity so are there some Providential Dispensations in the course of our lives which must be acknowledged even to Eternity amongst which we may well reckon loving and faithful friends constant mens affections being of themselves meer weather-cocks very mutable which are Gods Vials by which he pours his favors upon us And here Sir I must rank you with those for whose acquaintance I have much cause to bless God having received in few years more real love from you then divers do from some of their friends in many years Your hearty kindeness hath made so deep an impression upon me that I cannot satisfie my self without some publike Acknowledgement of that whereof so many have been witnesses I can confidently and indeed have very much reason speak to you in the language of John The Elder unto the welbeloved Gaius whom I love in the Truth far be it from be in a glorying way onely to complement with him who hath expressed so much affectionate reality unto me And without flattery I do pray That you may prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers through the rich mercy of God in Christ to you Pray let me adde this by way of thankfulness to God it being a return of weak Prayers I rejoyce greatly to hear so many of the deserving Brethren testifie of the truth that is in you and that not onely in your tongue or outside profession onely but that you walk in the truth making the truth your path which leads to Christ who is the Way the Truth and the life Joh. 14.6 And I trust through the goodness of your God I may have occasion in his time which is always the best to rejoyce as John also did that yours walk in the truth But your love to me together with your dear and gracious Consorts puts so much the stronger obligation upon me it being not onely personal both in my former health and time of present sickness but indeed to my dear Mother the University of Cambridge which I must ever love and honor whose welfare you have in your Sphaere most happily promoted and that with such laborious and bountiful respect as stands upon Record with thankful Acknowledgement amongst us Go on beloved Sir to love Jesus Christ in and for himself love him in his Ordinances and in his Saints value all the outward comforts with reference to him and his glory Ride on prosperously in your Zeal for Truth and in the exercise of meekness and moderation of Spirit which is a Scripture expression of the Spirit of Jesus Christ and for want of which many great pretenders to Reformation look too too much like as if they were acted by a Diabolical Spirit therein The Lord multiply his Graces in you and yours and his Blessings upon you all Accept this from him Who desires as a faithful friend to serve you in love Thomas Hill From your own house in Westminster Apr. 28 1648. The SPRING of Strengthning Grace IN THE ROCK of AGES Christ Jesus 2 TIM 2.1 Thou therefore my son be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus WEll might Solomon among other of his Divine Oracles publish this in the 30. verse of the 11. of the Proverbs The righteous is as a tree of life and he that wins souls is wise and Daniel who in Ezekiel was ranked amongst the chiefest of wise men They that be wise and they that turn many to God in Dan. 12.3 they shall shine like stars Paul likewise is a most glorious instance of this who took a great deal of pains though he met with many crosses in fishing for souls he became all to all that is in the use of indifferent things not to venture upon any thing which is unlawful as many wrest the place to gratifie their own lusts that he might save some Paul himself it seems did not expect to gain all he preached unto doubtless this is a very high point of wisdom for hereby they trade most for Gods glory and best for their own Eternal good being glorified with him and by him And I do not believe there is any that was a meer man to say no more that will bring more Troops more Regiments of Children such as have been victorious Soldiers over the Devil and his Agents at the day of Judgement then Paul will he will have a large flock as Behold here am I and the children thou hast given me and none of the meanest of these will be his Son Timothy which leads me to the first part of the words The persons Exhorting and Exhorted Paul the Father and Timothy the Son it may be a Son not so much because he beg at him to the Faith it is probable he found him a Disciple for ought appears in Acts 16.1 there the first time that I can remember that Paul met with Timothy and there he calls him a Disciple and you finde in 2 Tim. 1.5 how Paul blesseth God for the Faith that is in Timothy which dwelt first in thy Grandmother Lois and thy mother Eunice therefore he may be his Son rather in regard of his Spiritual Education then by being begotten As a Master or a Tutor is a Father though he did not beget his Children his Pupils or his Schollers but onely train them up 2. Here is the Exhortation The substance of it Be strong as becomes a Soldier of Jesus Christ. 3. Here is the Rock of this strength Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus It is not by any intrinsecal strength but in the grace that is in thy Head Christ Jesus 4. Here is the Engaging illation the particle that comprizeth an Argument that engageth him to it Thou therefore my son Therefore Why because thou hast so great a trust committed to thee Hold fast the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus and That good thing which was committed to thee ver 14 keep by the holy Ghost that dwelleth in us Still he leads him to seek strength from above Keep by the holy Ghost Be strong 〈◊〉
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 get something within that may strengthen and enable thee to do thy work 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be strong be strengthned passively expect it from another Strength is that which men glory in and therefore very desireable But what strength In the grace He doth not onely say Be thou strong in the Lord and in the power of his might as Ephes. 6.10 But in grace indeed he ultimately intends a participation of strength but withal intimates the original of that strength to be Grace as if he should say Thou standest in need of strengthning vertue in thee all that strength must be derived from Grace expect it from no external motive without God himself we have no arguments to move him to bestow strength upon us it is his Prerogative Royal peculiar to himself to act independently to have mercy on whom he will have mercy and Because he will have mercy Rom. 9.15 Ephes. 1.4 6 9. All derived from grace and resolved into grace And where lies this strengthning grace In the grace that is in Christ Jesus very significantly in the Original by the Article indigitating Christ to be the Spring of thy strengthning grace God will not trust thee with grace in thy own keeping lest thou prove a Bankrupt as Adam did and thou wouldst soon grow intolerable proud if thou wast able to act by thy own strength independently upon God very hard to keep down that weed even now in thy most depending condition therefore thy strength shall lie in Christs hands and thou be at his disposal for the communication of it so that thou shalt always have occasion to say Lord I cannot mortifie pride by the strength of my own humility that often fails me Lord I cannot confute my unbelief by the strongest arguments my Faith can produce I shall never be able to trample upon Satan or keep up under his Temptations from sinking without the strength and sufficiency of that grace which is in my Head Christ Iesus Lord make me strong by that Almighty grace which is in him That there is such a Spring of quickning grace in our Rock Christ Jesus is evident Isa. 9.6 The Government is upon his shoulders for the perfection of his Church and many other good purposes which require strength which is hinted in the expression On his shoulders Paul had a Commission to Preach the unsearchable riches of Christ Ephes. 3.8 to display his grace which is like a Sea you can finde no bounds like a Spring you cannot reach the bottom The Sea of Christs grace as in nature flows from the Spring and the Spring from the Sea so there is no reason of grace but grace it self This is to be acknowledged by all to be the deep mystery of God and of the Father and of the Son in whom are hid all the tresures of wisdom and knowledge The same blessed Apostle Col. 2.2 3. treasures therefore 1. Abundance 2. of things of price of wisdom and knowledge which being directive as well as operative impart strength Hid sometimes we hide things for secrecy and so the life of a Saint may be hid from carnal from godly spectators yea from himself and they droop under doubts So other things we hide for safety so chiefly though secrecy not excluded Col. 3.2 3. the life is hid with Christ in God and here is security of the Saints when Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in glory Shall let Beelzebub and all his Angels do their worst appear with him in glory Upon the same account doth this man of God so intimately acquainted with Christ Iesus in his Epistle to Philemon ver 6. pray for him That the communication of his Faith might become effectual there is his Faith with the strength and the efficacy of it by the acknowledgement of every good thing which is in you in Christ Iesus there 's grace in Christ and therefore derivatively in you because originally in him I might hence gather several Observations the first whereof might be this 1. Doct. The Spring of a Christians strength is in the Rock Iesus Christ. Expâ—ic Here you have three particulars conducing to Explication of this Gospel-Truth 1. The nature and proportion of this strengthning grace in Christ Jesus 2. His title to it and possession of it 3. The sweet variety and various sweetness of this strengthning grace in Christ. First for the nature and proportion of it two things will clear it 1. There is in Jesus Christ the fulness of grace 2. The redundancy of this fulness of grace He is a full fountain and likewise an overflowing fountain The more you contemplate Christ in the glorious glass of the Gospel the sooner you will discover in him a Prophetical fulness of strengthning grace and that both in regard of the strength of his Word and in regard of the power of his Spirit both which are of great strength If you cast your eye upon the second Epistle of Paul to Timothy Chap. 3. ver 15 17. you shall finde that the holy Scripture is able to make a man wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Iesus there must be still an improvement of that strengthning grace which is in him and likewise it is profitable that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good works There is that in the word of Jesus Christ which is able to compleat men as Saints and as Ministers and therefore doubtless full of glorious strength And so likewise in regard of the Spirit hear what the Prophet Micah saith Chap. 3. ver 8. But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord and of judgement and of might to declare unto Iacob his transgression and to Israel his sin And when Jesus Christ did appear to Paul Acts 26.13 to make him a Minister and a Witness both of these things which he had seen and in those things in the which he would appear to him ver 16. doubtless there was a powerful presence of the Spirit of Jesus Christ abundance of strengthning grace to be conveyed by him otherwise how could he possibly open their eyes to whom he was sent ver 18. to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me still they are led to the Spring of grace in Christ now all these speak no less then an Almighty power You may perceive a fulness of strengthning grace in Christ as he is the Churches Priest otherwise he could never make full satisfaction to his Fathers Justice He could never so prevailingly intercede for the Saints in Heaven which are the two Branches of his Priestly Office when all the sins of his people met upon him so it is in the Original Isa. â—3 6 they would have
sunk him had he not had more then the strength of a man Therefore that he might be a perfect Mediator between God and man he was God-Man taking Humane nature into the fellowship of the Deity and communicating Divine nature unto those which he did intend to save Hence Paul saith Rom. 3.24 25. We are justified freely by Gods grace through the Redemption which is in Christ Iesus whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood Hence he further saith Acts 20.28 that God did purchase the Church with his own blood So that in this part of the Priestly Office of Jesus Christ there was the power of God himself put forth Neither is there less strengthning grace manifested when he comes to appear for his people in heaven in the presence of God as Heb. 7.24 This man because he continueth ever hath an unchangeable Priesthood which passeth not from one to another certainly here was wonderful strength that Christ being once offered should bear the sins of many and unto them that looked for him he should appear the second time without sin unto salvation as in Heb. 9.28 That his having done away all their sins should advance them to Salvation which still shews the strength of his grace Therefore well might Paul annex that Heb. 7.25 Wherefore he is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto him seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them This is the ground of Pauls triumph not onely for himself but in the name of all the Saints in that admirable place Rom. 8. from the 34 to the 39. ver Who is he that condemneth It is Christ that dyed yea rather that is risen again who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us Who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword As it is written For thy sake we are killed all the day long we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter Nay in all these things we are more then conquerors through him that loved us For I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. Here is strengthning grace of Almighty and everlasting efficacy As Jesus Christ is the Churches King he hath a proportionable inexhaust stock of strengthning grace without such a power he could never suppress the numerous and potent adversaries of the Church which was the the solemn agreement betwixt him and his Father Psal. 110.1 The Lord said unto my Lord God the Father said unto God the Son Davids Lord sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool He will bring them to the lowest and most abject condition though for the present they look never so high and big upon the poor members of Christ. And accordingly he is still acting in heaven whereas he doth appear for his people so doubtless against his enemies as is most clear in Heb. 10.12 13. But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever so much strength of grace in that it need be but one sate down on the right hand of God from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool We may with much encouragement wrestle with God and wait upon him both for the discovering and confounding of the great Impostors Mahomet and the Pope and the removing all the Crutches of Babylon in any of the Kings Dominions or elswhere for this work is carried on with so much power that in Gods time all the Kingdoms of the earth will become the Lords and his Christs To the same purpose you shall finde an Angel come down from heaven having great power and the earth was lightned with his glory and he cryed mightily with a strong voyce Babylon is fallen all suitable to the powerful design of Christ Rev. 18.2 And she shall be utterly burned with fire in whom was found the blood of Prophets and of Saints of all that were slain upon the earth some way reducible to her or her adherents for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her ver 8. Neither could Jesus Christ be a Resurrection to any sinners nor quicken with Spiritual life whom he would as Ioh. 5.20 unless that were true ver 26. As the Father hath life in himself so hath he given the Son to have life in himself and that to be able to raise his own unto eternal life ver 29. All which argues abundance of strengthning grace in him This was the foundation of Pauls Prayer for his Ephesians chap. 1. ver 18. That the eyes of their understanding being inlightened here is powerful grace still they might know what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe according to the working of his mighty power Here is a great heap of Emphatical expressions to shew the accumulative power of the grace that is in Jesus Christ Were he not so strong that he were able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think according to the power that worketh in us Eph. 3.20 Paul would never have used such an expression That ye may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height there must it seems be a power in us to inable us to fathom and comprehend the vast dimensions of that strengthning grace that is in our Head here is the breadth of this grace covering all the sins of every one of his eleâ—t even from Adam to the end of the world Here is the length of this grace it extends from everlasting to everlasting Here is the depth of it it lifts up poor creatures from the very pit of hell And the height of it it advances them to sit by him in his own throne in Heaven After the intrinsecal fulness of the grace of Christ follows the Redundancy thereof for there is in him not onely plenitudo vasis but also plenitudo fontis there is the original fulness of a living fountain in him which he delights to communicate for the supplies of his people This discovers it self in four particulars There is a Redundancy into all the faculties of our souls he fills the Minde with gracious principles the Conscience with a holy tenderness the Will with flexibleness and compliance with his Will and sways the Affections to act regularly upon their objects Doubtless Christ Jesus the second Adam will do as much for all those that have Vnion with him as the first Adam did against those that were in him And therefore whereas by his fall there was not onely a total deprivation of original righteousness but a universal depravation of all the faculties a general
experience which made him groan so sadly Psal. 51.8 Make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce When he had broke his conscience by sinning God would break his bones for sin And again ver 12. Restore to me the joy of thy salvation and ver 10. Create in me a clean heart and renew a right Spirit within me It s true the Lord had so far deserted him in regard of sensible comforts that he may desire their restoring and which may be observed by the way let the proud Arminian say what he can David was not become silius irae but onely silius sub ira still a beloved son he begs indeed the cleansing of his heart but onely the renewing of a right spirit within him 2. The Lord whips his children to an improvement of the grace of Christ by suffering them in his holy and wise providence to fall into some great and it may be some scandalous sin which shall draw on a sharp affliction This is to a Saint a most sharp cure yet God makes it often effectual to that happy end for though we be the onely proper authors of sin yet Gods permission is not otiosa but effâ—cax permissio He knows how to govern its subserviency to the Covenant of Grace and to bring good out of evil otherwise he would neither suffer evil of sin or punishment to be David too clear an instance of this Rule Hereby the Lord whipped him out of himself to seek mercy from his Savior Psal. 51.1 Have mercy upon me O God according to thy loving kindeness according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions FINIS Acts 24 25 The Apostle useth four Arguments to Vnity Endeavoring to keep the Vnity of the spirit in the bond of 〈◊〉 Verse 7. Vers. 11 12. Vers. 13 14. Verse 15. Doctr. 1. Doctr. 2. Doctr. 3. Doctr. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Headship it self oâ— Christ. 1. Respectu Dignitatis 2. Respectu Regiminis 3. Respectu Influxui 4. Respectu Vnionis The appropriation of Christs Headship Note Note Christs Title to this Headship of his Church Luke 19.10 Vse 1. Pope no vicarious Head of the Church v. Polau Sputag p. 3351. v. Bâ—dâ—l Vse 2. Caution It s dangerous to be injurious to any of Christs members Dan. 2.45 Verse 4 5. Strong encouragement for all Christs members Rom. 16.28 Vse 3. Contrary to Pauâ—s Doctrine Phil. 2.13 Note To believe is mans act but faith is Gods gift Vse 4. Caution Rom. 9.15 2. Tim. 2.20 2. Doctr. Christs intention and expectation in giving gifts 1. That there should be a growth Eph. 1. last 2. A growing up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3 Growing up to Christ in all things Note The grounds Reason 1. Reason 2. Reason 3. Note The end The stability in Christ. Stability in judgement Stability of affection Psal. 73.25 Psal. 11. Stability of conversation Note Improvement of Christ. In all conditions and relations In all duties Vse 1. That is to preach the Gospel for the working faith in Gods elect Note Vse 2. For Citizens chiefly who enjoy such rich Gospel-advantage Mat. 11.22 Growth must be proportionable to the means you enjoy Growth must be of all parts Vse 3. For information concerning the Ministery Consider the Original of the Ministery Gal. 1.1 Note Doubtles it is a great and provoking evil to cry down the whole Ministery because some seek themselvs or others of the Ministers affect too much power hereby the devil carries on his design Behold the Ministery in Christs intention in the giving of it That Ordinances and Ministery now cease and we are under another new Administration A most dangerous and most unsound opinion See Mr. Saltmarsh his Book called Beams of the bright morning Star p. 134 c. What another Administration then that of the Father through the Son by the Spirit Reasons against this Interpretation of Mat. 28 20 for his third Administration 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Thess. 8.9 Iude ver 3. 1 Cor. 15.9 24 28. Eph. 4.11 1. What is Truth 2. What is this love 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. What is it to speak or follow the Truth in the Text. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vers. 14. Scripturae plenitudinem adoro Truthing it in Love a good motto for Saints Doctr. 3. 2 Ioh. 2.4 5. Verse 2 3. Reasons why Truthing it in love so useful What Truth and Love do to prevent evils singly considered â— Tim. 4.3 4 1 Cor. 10.28 29 30. 1 Cor. 8.13 What Truth Love do to promote the best good of Saints being joyntly considered 2 Tim. 2.25 What Truth and Love being joyntly considered 1 Cor. 8.1 Note 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after the Passover not after Easter if truly translated Acts 12.4 vid. Minshulâ—s Dict. Note 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acts 1.20 Acts 2.27 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There was both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet sometime the former included in the latter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Helps Deacons Governments Elders Noâ—e this grand Imposture 1. Vse of Instruction 2. Vse of Caution Two dangerous Regiments Captare impacata inquieta tempora A little book in quarto called Look about you Note 3 Vse of Exhortation Note Some Errors are 1. Contrafidem 2. Infide 3. Praeterfidem In Elephante melancholia transit in nutrimentum corporis Though the Elephants be maximae virtutis maximi intellectus yet gregatim semper in cedunt and so not uociva as solivaga are Homini erranti viam ostendit Rules concerning Truth and the pursuance of it 1. Rule about Truth Ezek. 13.2 Eph 4.17 Cassianus his Collat. 2. de discretione cap 5. 2. Rule about Truth 3. Rule about Truth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jus Divinum nititur verbo Divino Ames Note 4. Rule about Truth Note 5. Rule about Truth 2 Cor. 11.3 6. Rule about Truth Note Inclinus ad neutram partem sit Dominis â—â—riusâ— 1. Rule about Love 1 Cor. 16.14 Eph 5.2 Col. 3.12 13. 2. Rule about Love 3. Rule about Love 4. Rule about Love Rom. 5.1 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Basil. Eph 5 2 5. Rule about Love 6. Rule about Love Phil. 1.27 3.15 16. Concordiâ— communa periculum â—ollâ—tâ—r Livy l. 28. Note 3 Epist. ver 1. Verse 2. Verse 3. Non vis errare ego sum via non vis falli ego sum veritas non vis mori ego sum vita non habes quaÌ„ eas nisi per Christum non habes quò eas nisi ad Christum Ezek. 28.3 Sermo Dei est sicut hamus non capit nisi capiatur Aug. 1 Cor. 9.19 to 22. four times together Isa. 8.18 Division 1. part 1. persons Exhorting Exhorted 2. part substance of ExhortatioÌ„ Be strong 3. part The rock of thy strength 3. The grace that is in Christ Jesus Explic. Note Note 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Non satis babuit humeroruÌ„ was said of one who wanted strength proportionable to his work Some copies read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 others 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both will come to one purpose though the last more full and indeed more probable In Christ Fulness Redundancy of grace 1. A Prophetical fulnes of grace in Christ. 1. Strength in his word 1 Ioh. 2.14 2. Strength of his Spirit 2. A priestly fulness of grace in Christ. 1. Christs gracious satisfaction 2. Christs gracious intercession 3. Christs Kingly fulness of grace 1. Christs powerful suppressing his enemies Chap 18. last verse 2. Christs powerful advancing his people Col. 2.13 Psal 103. Mat 16 18. Rev. 3.21 2. The redundancy of grace that is in Christ Jesus 1 Redundancy of his grace into all their faculties Rom. 5.12 15. 2. Redundancy of the grace in Christ into all the graces of the Saints 3. Redundancy of the grace that is in Christ Iesus into all their duties 4. Redundancy of the grace in Christ Jesus into the various estates of his Saints Psa. 62.10 1. part Christs title unto possession of this strengthening grace which is threefold 1. By the grace of Vnion 2. By the grace of Vnction Note 3. By the grace of Office 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Camer 2 Pet. 1.4 Note 3 part The various sweetnes sweet variety of the strengthning grace in Christ Iesus Note Applic. A serious invitation for al strangers to seek acquaintance with and interest in Iesus Christ. Ioh. 3.19 Vid L. Verulans Apothegmes 26. Note 1 Vse Note See in Arminius his Works a notable Discourse about Gods Providence in mens sins Deus non permittit peccatum tanquam otiosus spectator sed effâ—â—aci quadam permissione quamvis nullo modo sit Author peccati