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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

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

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

the Holy Ghost There was no concurrence of Man As Christs Name so was his Birth and Conception wonderful You have the History of Opus erat virtute agente virtute non humanâ sed divina ex immundis enim genitus nec mundus esse potuisset formaliter nec mundans efficienter Unde ●andem quidem naturam communicatam habere debebat sed modo communicationi diverso debet esse ut 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 secundum divinam n●turam sic 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 secundum humanam ut plene responderet typo Melchisidechi Spanh dub Evang. both Matt. 1. 18 19 20 21 c. This is the mystery that the very Angels desire to peep into 1 Pet. 1. 12. Angels Proclaim it Wisemen came from the East to see it All the Heathen Oracles ceased Christ the Eternal God the Antient of days became became the Infant of days he whom the Heaven of Heavens could not contain lay inclosed in the Virgins Womb and when he was brought forth he was laid in a Manger That the Lord Christ the Eternal God should be wrapt up in Swadling Cloathes and became a Child This is an Evident Proof of his Humane Nature The * Quem Coelum Terra benedicit in praesepi angusto collocatur numeratur in saeculo qui est ante saecula Christus Jesus heri hodie idem ipse insaecula Aug. S. p. 589. Edit Frob. Fathers rise high in expression of this high Mystery † Christus multis servis in mundo minor esset aetate ipso mundo antiquior sine vetustate Homo fieret qui hominem fecit crearetur ex matre qu●m creavit portaretur manibus quas formavit sugeret ubera quae implevit in praesepi muta vagiret infantia c. Aug. de Temp. Serm. 21. That Christ should be made of that Woman who was made of him that Christ should be before all Ages and yet born in time These are Transcendent Mysteries We may not be over curiously inquisitive lest with the Men of Bethshemesh we smart for our curiosity Let it suffice us to believe that which we read in Scripture revealed and let us acquiesce in that belief 2. Christs Humane Nature may be easily Reas 2 Christs Humane Nature proved by his Life proved by his Life If we consider his actions of eating and drinking and his infirmities which were not sinful of Hunger Thirst and Weariness his Weeping at Lazarus his Funeral these are evident proofs of his Manhood Now Weeping Thirsting Hunger and Weariness are Infirmities incident only to Mankind These and all such Infirmities free from Sin were incident unto Christ Indeed Lameness Deafness Blindness and such like which are only incident to individuals and some particular persons these Christ had not But those Infirmities which are in Common to Mankind as Weakness Hunger c. these Christ was subject unto The Gospel gives many Instances as Matth. 4. 2. Joh. 4. 7. Joh. 11. 35. Joh. 4. 6. I refer my Reader to the perusal of those Scriptures 3. Christs Humane Nature appears by Reas 3 Christs Humane Nature proved from his Death and Passion his Death and Passion The God-head is impassible and hath neither Body nor Parts But Christ assumed an humane Body The Apostle Heb. 10. 5. which is taken out of Psal 40. 6. gives a full proof Sacrifice and Burnt-offerings thou wouldst not but a Body hast thou prepared me Christ had a real Body and therefore Marcion who held that Christs Body was Phantastical in Semblance and shew only likewise Manes and his Followers who held that Christ brought his Body from Heaven and Valentinus who held that Christ had an aerial Body and assumed nothing of Mary but only passed as Water through a Channel these Hereticks with their Heresies have been long since exploded and Condemned and they are not worth reviving by any repetition unless for a larger confutation Now the self same Body which was of the Flesh and Substance of the Virgin Mary was Buffeted Scourged Crowned with Thorns Spit upon Crucified Christ as the Apostle tells us Phil. 2. 8. Became obedient unto Death even the Death of the Cross Object But it will be Objected Is this for Christs Dignity and Honour to become incarnate My Argument I treat on is concerning Christs Dignity How can Christs Dignity and Incarnation stand together Answ For Answer Though it 's a great Humiliation in Christ to be incarnate and to assume Humane Nature yet his Divine Nature puts Glory and Honour upon the Humane Nature for what * Quamvis nulla substantia digna est ut Deus induat quodcunque tamen induerit ipse dignum facit Tertull. ever God assumes he makes honourable Christ advanceth the Humane Nature by taking Flesh upon him He sanctifieth it and afterwards will bring it unto Glory 3. Let 's consider the Hypostatical Uninion 3. The Hypostatical Union that Christ is God and Man in one Person these two Natures of Christ * Paulus eximiam Christi commendationem habet quaeduas in eo naturas disertè co●fitetur Humana natura indicatur his verbis Ex Judaeis secundum Carnem Nam per carnem Phrasi Hebraica t●tus homo intelligitur Divina natura apertissime describitur his verbis Qui est super omnia benedictus in saecula Pet. Mart. in Rom. 9. 5. as Peter Martyr observes are plainly set forth from Rom. 9. 5. Of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came who is over all God Blessed for ever How this may be understood I have read thus shadowed by a Similitude One Tree may be set into another and it groweth in the Stock thereof and becomes one and the same Tree though there may remain two Natures or Kinds of Fruits So in the Son of God made Man though there be two Natures yet both being united into one Person there is but one Son of God There are four * Quatuor haec adverbia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 totidem haeresibus in Symbolo Chalcedonensi opposit a sunt Adverbs which oppose so many Heresies and represent this Union viz. Inconfusedly Inconvertibly Undividedly Unseparably 1. Inconfusedly i. e. The Natures and Proprieties of the Natures remain still distinct There is no change or confusion in them When one propriety is given to another as when we read Christ purchased his Church aa Act. 20. 28. Salvâ proprietate utriusque natur● in un●m co●unte personam suscepta est à Majestate humilitas E● natur● inviolabilis unita est passibili Tertull. contra Prax. with his Blood The Son of God bb Gal. 4. 4. was made of a Woman The cc 1 Cor. 2. 8. Per haec qui erat Dei filius factus est hominis filius assumptione inferioris non versione potioris accipiendo ipse quod non erat non ●mittendo quod erat Aug. de temp Permanente integro statu divinitatis assumpsit hominem Dei filius nec amisit quod