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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94069	The saints communion with God, and Gods communion with them in ordinances. As it was delivered in severall sermons / by that faithfull servant of Christ, Mr. William Strong, late minister at Westminster.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1655 (1655)	Wing S6006; Thomason E1693_2; ESTC R209425	55,425	233

THE SAINTS COMMUNION With GOD And GODS Communion with them in ORDINANCES As it was delivered in Severall SERMONS By that Faithfull servant of Christ Mr. WILLIAM STRONG Late Minister at Westminster LONDON Printed for George Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate-hill and Ro Gibbs in Chancery Lane 1656. To his Honourable friend Collonell William Purefoy Recorder of the famous City of Coventry SIR THis Book falling by Providence into my hands and the earnest intreaty of divers Christian and pious friends in London having drawn from me the Epistle to the Reader as also having heard much of your being an admirer of the Author hereof Reverend Master Strong now blessed in the Eternall Mansions above I made bold to commend the book also to your selfe as an humble acknowledgment of the faithfull service I owe you by the same way of fellowship and communion in Gospell-Ordinances with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ our Lord we must all attain to that blessed and eternall communion where the presence of God Christ in glory shall transcend the purest Ordinances here below But if either we turn our backs upon holy and pretious truths received and once publickly professed or let our zeal cool or by sitting still go not forward we both lose the comfort of communion here and shall have lesse communion in glory No doubt Sir but it is a wild age wherein we live many stupendious changes strange turnings and amazing alterations we have seen both in Church and State and who knowes what yet any of us must undergo we have therefore more need to stick to our principles more faithfully to own Gods name and to maintain our practise in holinesse with more vigor and constancy that in the end we may reap if we faint not Which that you Sir my Honourable friend may still perform and bring a greater glory to God and do more good to that my native City of Coventry where I was once an unworthy Lecturer and to the whole Country better service shining more gloriously in the end of your daies that so when you have finished your course with joy and kept the faith the houre of temptation which now is upon all the earth that then you may receive the Crown laid up for you which your Son Wife now both blessed and glorious are enjoying to all eternity is and shall be the hearty and earnest prayer of him who doubts not of your candid acceptation of this my bold presumption but desires in all things ever to be found Sir Your most humble and faithfull servant upon the best accompt JOHN HERING From my Study Brides-Church-yard London Christian Reader AT the earnest intreaty and request of some Pious and Christian Friends who finde sweet Communion with God in Gospell-Ordinances I am bold to commend the reading of this book unto thee The Author hereof I believe is now in Heaven receiving his wages after his work is done and a glorified Saint enjoying eternall Communion with God above Ordinances We must all confesse that in respect of human frailties we are not so STRONG but that weaknesse will attend the best of us whilest here below in our pilgrimage to that Heavenly Canaan He will be much deceived that reckons this World his Heaven but doth and will finde it his Wildernesse and at best but his passage through the Red-Sea and here we have need of Moses not only to kill the Aegyptian for us and to bring us out of Egypt and also lift up his Rod and stretch forth his Hand and so divide the Red-Sea that our passage may be safe but also of a Joshua to bring us into Canaan and this is our Lord Jesus Christ who is God blessed for evermore No true Saint in this life can live without or above Ordinances no more then the naturall body can live without food and raiment God in his infinite wisdome and mercy hath admitted the Churches new born babes in all ages to Ordinances whereby Grace and the seeds of Regeneration may be through mercy conveyed to them and are not Saints to the end of their daies perfected by them also as the Apostle speaks Ephes 5.26 27. Some waters are contained in Springs and Wells some in Conduits and Pipes and some also in the main Ocean yet they are all conveyances of Water for the several uses of the sonnes of men and they are all bounded within their due limits And so it is with Gospell Ordinances there 's the Wells and springs of life there 's the Pipes of spirituall Comfort and there 's the Ocean of mercy and all the priviledges of free Grace conveyed to the believing soule All those in these licentious daies which God will require some where that cry down Ordinances are forc'd themselves to devise new waies of conveying their apprehended spirit unto us And should we refuse the waies of Gods own appointment Whereever God shall record his Name shall we deny to worship him there How then will God come unto us and blesse us as he hath promised Let those wild men of this Age that have been at Jericho in stead of Ierusalem resolve the question how the Lord will appear in waies and Ordinances that are not of his own institution and allowance Will he not sadly personally and publickly say to them at the great day who hath required these things at your hands bring no more vain oblations Reader I will say no more but beseech thee to turn thy reading into prayer and thy praying into humble and holy practise that thou maist know the Trinity in Vnity and Vnity in Trinity which reason cannot understand and maist enjoy soule-Communion with all the Persons in the Trinity by Faith in Gospell-Ordinances and that both in the Temple and also in every Administration of the Lord Jesus to thee thou maist cordially affectionately and with comfort say Iehovah Shammah the Lord is there And with Iacob in his Pilgrimage be able to confesse Surely the Lord is in this place though sometimes I knew it not through mine own default And that thou maist finde all mercies and glories bottomed on thy spirituall Communion with God reconciled to thee in Christ thy Redeemer is the desire of him who thirsts after more Communion with God and Christ in holy Ordinances and begs alwaies to be found upon a spirituall account Thine in the Lord Christ IOHN HERING From my Study in Brides Church-yard London Octo. 27. 1655. The Saints Communion with God and Gods Communion with them in O dinances Exod. 20.24 The latter part In all places where I record my name or where I cause my name to be remembred I will come unto thee and I will blesse thee THe whole Chapter is made up of Gods giving the morall Law In the giving forth of which law there are many remarkable passages as why it must be given from Mount Sinai why immediately after their deliverance out of Egypt why in thunderings and lightnings why the world in its infancy lived without