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law_n	faith_n	live_v	righteousness_n	7,345	5	7.9606	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26158	Ten sermons preach'd before Her Royal Highness, the Princess Ann of Denmark at the chappel at St. James by Lewis Atterbury ... LL.D. and one of the six preachers to Her Royal Highness.	Atterbury, Lewis, 1656-1731.	1699 (1699)	Wing A4157; ESTC R35290	112,085	264

as well upon the bad as the good of his fullness all receive Grace for Grace Joh. 1.9 And tho' the Grace of God is not imparted to all alike yet every Man receives a sufficient Portion of it sufficient to supply all his Wants both Temporal and Spiritual For as if you dip Vessels of different Sizes into the Sea every one will be full of Water though every one doth not hold the same quantity so tho' there are different Gifts and different Administrations and different measures of Grace communicated to Men yet God with-holds from no Man sufficient Grace to enable him to be good and vertuous and to answer all his pressing and unavoidable Necessities The Israelites in the Wilderness gathered Manna Exod. 16.18 according to every Man 's eating when they did measure it with an Omer he that had gathered much had nothing over and he that had gather'd little had no lack So God gives his Grace unto Men according to every Man's necessity measure it with an Omer weigh all the Circumstances and you will find That neither he that has little has Cause to repine nor he that has much to boast One Man is surrounded with Temptations burthen'd and loaded even to the ground with Afflictions oppress'd with Difficulties and to this Man God gives a greater Portion of his holy Spirit he assists him more powerfully he strengthens and confirms him after an extraordinary manner and enables him to close and grapple with the Difficulty or Temptation which assaults him Another has been nurtur'd in Vice and brought up in Debauchery and it is necessary that he should be reclaim'd from his Evil doings with a strong hand and an out-stretch'd Arm. A third has been long accustom'd to good and is naturally inclin'd to Sobriety and Vertue and requires only the ordinary Assistance of God's Grace to keep him so Thus God like a Wise Housholder proportions his Gifts to the Wants and Necessities of his Children and Servants and will require of every one according to what he has receiv'd and reward them according to their Works he that has but one Talent given him if he well employs that one may obtain the Government of one City though he has not the highest place in the Kingdom of Heaven yet he will find Admittance there where the least degree of Happiness will consist of Joys unspeakable which transcend all comparison But if God call out any one to give Testimony to the Truth or to be an eminent Example of Patience or Long suffering or taking up the Cross he will furnish him with proportionable measures of Strength so that the good Christian may rest assur'd that though at present he finds himself weak and frail and unable to undergo the Affliction which he fears will suddenly fall upon him yet I say he may assure himself that the Divine Assistance will always attend him God will never leave him nor forsake him but as his troubles grow upon him so shall he be supply'd with more Power more Courage and more Ability to bear up under them God is faithful 1. Cor. 10.13 and will not suffer us to be tempted above what we are able to bear as St. Paul assures us And that God has been faithful in the performance of this as well as his other Promises we need no other Testimony but that of our own Consciences For if we look back upon the past Transactions of our Lives we shall find how frequently God's Grace has suggested to us This is the Way walk in it when we were in suspence how to behave our selves and has as it were Pointed out our Duty to us how often we have been prick'd at the heart when we have committed any Sin and stir'd up and incited to do good and the Reason why we have done amiss and transgress'd God's Commands has generally been because we have not improv'd those good Motions and followed the Dictates and Impulses of God's Grace within us For tho' we are not to look for any other Directions for the Government of our Lives besides those of God's written word and if we have any thing suggested to us which is opposite to this establish'd Rule of our Duty we ought to look upon it as a snare of the Devil and the Instigation of an evil Spirit Yet on the contrary when we find any vigorous and strong Inclination to do that which we are fully assur'd is our Duty to do at that time and in that place then we may assure our selves that this is the Motion of God's holy Spirit the Grace of God working in us and that 't is our Duty to comply with it to encourage and improve it and if we do so then it will certainly bring to pass that Effect for which God at the first design'd and intended it It remains therefore That God's Grace is sufficient for us i. e. gives us Strength Ability and Means enough to subdue the Devil the World and the Flesh and that if we are brought under the Dominion and Power of any of these we must accuse our own Sloth and Laziness in neglecting to use and improve to the uttermost those means and helps which God has afforded us This will be made more evident by considering 3. The Person to whom this Promise is made My Grace is sufficient for thee And if we consider the Person here spoken of the Apostle St. Paul according to that account which is given of him in the Holy Scripture we shall find in his Life such variety of Circumstances so very remarkable and instructive that there is hardly any Condition we can fall into wherein we may not receive Benefit by his Example and have an Instance of the Powerfulness and sufficiency of God's Grace Let us consider him as a Jew how zealous was he in the Profession of that Faith how furious in the Persecution of all such who either taught or liv'd in the Observance of the Christian Religion Acts 23.6 He was a Pharisee the Son of a Pharisee And by consequence a rigid Observer not only of the Rites and Ceremonies of the Law but also of all the Traditions of the Rabbies so that though he liv'd at that time when our Saviour Christ was on Earth and had heard of if not seen the Miracles which he wrought yet was he an inveterate Enemy to him and his Religion And this mistaken Zeal for the Mosaical Law carried him forth to a furious Persecution of the Church he was consenting to the Death of the Martyr St. Stephen Acts 22.20 Acts. 8.3 Acts 9.1 He made havock of the Church and breathed out nothing but threatnings and slaughter against the Disciples dragging Men and Women to Prison and procuring Letters of Inquisition against them from the High Priest and yet for all this God's Grace was sufficient to bring him from the bondage of the Law to the Freedom of the Gospel and the only Righteousness in Christ Jesus to make him Preach that