reward of the Inheritance commonly set forth by this expression eternal Life Rom. 6.22 Galat. 6.8 2. Virtually and secondarily all sorts of spiritual blessings that have a tendency to glory and are required to fit us for the possession thereof that is to say grace and holiness pardon of sin and reconciliation with the Almighty the supplies of the Spirit for doing the will of God and ability to persevere in that way unto the end These are all included in this expression of eternal Life for they are the first fruits and beginnings of it As glory is but grace in its ripeness and perfection so grace is glory in the bud and blossom And therefore our Saviour calleth the knowledge of God eternal Life Joh. 17.2 3. This is life eternal to know thee the only trus God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent that is This is the foretast of eternal Life the way to it an earnest peny in order to the full possession it is none other than the gate of heaven Thus you are to understand it here in the full extent and latitude of the expression as it comprehends the saving mercies conferred upon the Saints on the earth as well as the crown of Righteousness to be enjoyed in heaven For in the covenant of Peace whereof the Text is an abbreviation God hath made provision for the one as well as the other He hath not only given Salvation if men are sanctified and repent but hath provided for the sanctification and repentance of his Elect that they may be saved Psal 73.24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel and afterwards receive me to glory And accordingly Christ the Mediator hath made his purchase he hath not only bought an inheritance to be given to the Saints but for the Elect of God he hath procured Saintship and all the appendices thereof that they may be partakers of that inheritance Tit. 3.5 6 7. That 's the first thing in the Text The mercy provided or the blessing conveyed 2. You have the Original or Well-spring of this mercy the fountain of this Blessing whence it is derived why from the free grace and pleasure of the Lord it is his gift It is not merited and deserved by us but freely and graciously bestowed upon us This is the record that God hath given us eternal Life Herein it differs from the reward of ungodliness that is the natural product of our sins but this is not the purchase of our boliness that is justly merited but this mercifully given as the Apostle observeth Rom. 6.23 The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Wherein the holy Ghost speaketh as if he did plainly intend to obviate and prevent the corrupt reasonings of men Will some be apt to argue If the wicked by their transgressions deserve eternal destruction then a Believer by his holiness doth merit eternal Salvation Nay saith S. Paul here I must have leave to deny the consequence the one indeed is a wages but the other is a gift We may take a view of the blessedness or salvation of the Saints in a fourfold period and in each of them in respect to us it is of grace God hath given us eternal Life In the 1. Purpose of the Father 2. Promise of the Gospel 3. Purchase of the death of Christ 4. Respect of our interest therein 1. In the eternal counsel and purpose of the Father As he determined and fore-ordained to bring sons to glory so it must of necessity be of grace and love Who hath first given to him and it shall be recompensed What could move the Lord to design compassion for some and to pass by others of the same nature with them of greater parts and dignity and in higher place as to worldly honours and accomplishments To appoint an handful in comparison unto bliss and glory to set them apart for himself and to leave the rest of mankind in their undone condition Surely it was only because it seemed good in his sight and therefore it is called election of grace Rom. 11.5 6. There is a remnant according to the election of grace and if by grace then it is no more of works It is ascribed to pure mercy nothing but mercy Rom. 9.15 16. For he saith to Moses I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion So then it is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God that sheweth mercy 2. In the Covenant and Promise which God hath made of eternal Life and whereby it is made over to Believers Pray whence was the Lord induced to make such a gracious Covenant but from his own good pleasure It is given to us 2 Pet. 1.4 It is true the faithfulness and in some sense the righteousness and justice of God oblige him to fulfil the Covenant when it is made Nehem. 9.8 but it was only free love that could incline him to make it or to enter into this Covenant and to make publication thereof to some and not to others Deut. 7.6 7 8. Psal 147.19 20. 3. In the purchase of it by the blood of Christ God sent his Son into the world upon that errand by his obedience and sufferings to become the Author of Salvation And what was the motive that prevailed with the Lord to send him what provocative stirred him up to make this Mission Why God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Joh. 3.16 He shut up the fallen Angels irrecoverably in the chains of darkness he gave not Christ to take their nature upon him but for us men and for our Salvation he came down from heaven and herein God commendeth his love to us Rom. 5.8 4. Lastly eternal Life may be considered in respect of our Title to it and interest therein together with the possession thereof which is accomplished in the work of Regeneration And whence doth this proceed Why it is a gift 2 Cor. 5.5 He that hath wrought us for the self same thing is God who hath also given unto us the earnest of his Spirit 2 Tim. 1.9 Who hath saved us and called us with an holy calling not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace It is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his own good pleasure That 's the second branch of the Text. The original of this mercy whence it doth proceed 3. We have the great dispenser of this mercy or blessing into whose hands it is put to be dealt forth unto Believers This is Jesus Christ the Son of God And this life is in his Son It is put into the hands of a Mediator and that Mediator is none else but the eternally and only begotten Son of God It is in him upon a threefold account 1. As in the meritorious
faith Col. 2.7 So much for the third signal mercy or blessing which floweth from ingrafture into Christ and hath dependance thereupon namely The communication of the supplies of the Spirit 4. A fourth mercy that depends upon having the Son or union with the Son is The gracious acceptation of all our service and duties Take an unconverted sinner and he may do many things in Religion he may suffer much upon a religious account and be at much cost and expence in his profession and practise And the God of heaven hath no regard unto it Herein lieth the misery of a man out of Christ that whatsoever he doth for God is not accepted of the Lord. He may make many prayers and lose all his labour therein For the cars of the God of heaven are shut against them Isa 1.15 When you spread forth your hands I will hide mine eyes from you yea when you make many prayers I will not hear When you spread forth your hands that is Although you call upon me with never so much seeming earnestness although you seek after me in a solemn seemingly affectionate maner with your hands stretched out towards heaven I will hide mine eyes from you i. e. I will 〈…〉 in a way cannot endure the sight of them And when you multiply to pray I will be so far from granting your requests that I will turn away my self in disdain from you I will not so much as give you the hearing O what a sad word is this to the ungodly They trust in their duties when the Lord abhorreth them See another Text setting forth their deplorable condition in this respect Jer. 7.21 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices and eat flesh It is unto the wicked he is speaking and it amounts to this As if he had said Keep your duties to your selves I will have nothing to do with them make your best of your offerings and never bring them unto me as long as you live in your iniquities Their burnt offerings or Holocausts were wholly to be burnt but as for their sacrifices the offerers themselves might eat some part of them Now saith God to those impenitent sinners Take them and and eat them both put them together and use them your selves make your best advantage of them for I regard them not Mark it These were costly duties and in respect to their signification they were Evangelical duties but whilst they were still in their sins God hath no delight in them What course then shall a man take that his sacrifices may be accepted Why he must get into Christ and be knit to him for this is a mercy which floweth from union with him Then if he offer up his duties in the Name of Christ the work is owned and the concomitant infirmities will be passed over Particularly then his supplications and prayers shall be graciously answered which is 〈…〉 given The Lord will with-hold no good thing from him Joh. 15.7 If ye abide in me and my words abide in you ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you O what a mercy is this to have the King 's eat the ear of the King of kings Your heavenly Father will deny you nothing And for the general acceptance of all their duties of God's appointment consult the Text 1 Pet. 2.5 Ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual house an holy Priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifice acceptable to God by Jesus Christ q. d. Then your performances will be accepted through him when ye your selves are built upon him and cemented unto him Here is another proof of the indispensable necessity of this Union No having the Son and no acceptation of any duties whatsoever 5. Another blessing which floweth from union with Christ and is attainable only thereby is A title to the promises of the Gospel which concern this life or that which is to come And this is a matter of unspeakable concernment for if you would enjoy the mercies conveyed by the promises you must have an interest in the promises You must secure a title to them as your heritage and portion and then they will prove a rich treasury or magazine to furnish you with every thing needful for life comfort and happiness There can be nothing desired for the advancement of a mans welfare which is not contained therein The promises are the foundation on which our hope is bottomed Indeed herein it differs from presumption which expects mercy from God without a word of promise to warrant the expectation thereof But good hope through grace is built upon the word Psal 119.49 Remember the word unto thy servant upon which thou hast caused me to hope If a person entertain strong hopes of mercy and salvation without a word for it or against the word that is hope of the devils causing or such as proceedeth from the delusion and cozenage of his own Spirit it will prove such an hope as will make him ashamed at length and will be like the giving up the Ghost When God causeth a man to hope it is built upon the word that is the word of promise whereby mercy is entailed upon the servants of the Lord. And pray mark it Sirs you can have no title to the promises so as to rest upon them and to be able to plead them with God and to lay hold upon them as your heritage till you have the Son and are knit unto Jesus For in him they are established They are part of the inheritance prepared for the Saints and unless a person be married to the heir he can lay no just claim to the inheritance 2 Cor. 1.20 For in him all the promises of God are yea and in him Amen unto the glory of God by us And therefore the promise is said to be given through faith in Christ Gal. 3.22 that is A title to the promise or the enjoyment of the mercy promised is made over to a sinner by faith in Christ by that uniting grace which joyneth us unto Christ This is the fifth special mercy depending upon union with the Son Except you have the Son the Mediator of the Covenant you can have no right to the promises contained in the Covenant Your title to them doth result and flow from your oneness with him 6. There is Union with God the Father and an intimate acquaintance with him Whilst out of Christ we are at a distance from the Father yea at an enmity with him He is a consuming fire and we are as so much bryars and thornes and it were a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God But by having the Son that distance is removed and the enmity taken away and we are knit unto God so as to have fellowship and communion with him As Christ is in the Father and the Father in him so Believers by being in Christ are in the Father also Joh. 17.21 That
your selves to an account how the case stands with you Say Have I the son Am I planted into Christ If people are unacquainted with this particular touching themselves it is mostly through the neglect or persunctory discharge of the work of Self-examination As will evid intly appear by these three following considerations 1. Without Self-examination a man can never pertinently and appositely apply the Word of God unto himself nor compare the frame and temper of his soul with the Word of the Lord so as to be able to pass a righteous judgment thereupon My brethren it is the Word of God which is the rule for discovery whether we be in Christ or not as I shall shew you more fully anon but this discovery cannot be made by a bare naked speculation of the truths contained therein except we personally apply the truths unto our selves and compare our selves with them Just as it is in secular matters The Carpenters line and plummet will discover the straightness or crookedness of a piece of timber but this it cannot do by taking a single view of the line unless it be applyed unto the timber The Standard is appointed to shew the justness or falshood of weights and measures but then you must bring them unto the standard and compare them with the standard So the Scripture is the rule for trial of mens hearts whether they be straight or crooked It is the standard to evidence a mans spiritual estate whether his person will hold weight in the ballance of the sanctuary when he cometh to be judged of the Lord but then he must apply this rule unto himself and compare himself with this standard Such persons as would know that they are of God must not only view the light but must also bring their persons and actions unto the light Joh. 3.21 He that doth good cometh unto the light that his deeds may be manifest that they are wrought in God He taketh the light of God's word and his own soul and purteth them both together that he may see what correspondency there is between the one and the other And it is said of the wicked v. 20. of that Chapter He hateth the light and doth not come unto it that is He cannot endure personally to apply it unto himself You have many carnal people could be content to know the truth in the general notion but they hate it in the particular application to their case But if you would know whether you are in Christ you must apply and appropriate the word of God unto your selves and compare it with your condition Now to bring this home to our purpose This application of the word and comparing our selves with it can never be done aright without self-examination Except the Physician know the constitution and temperament of the patient he can never apply suitable remedies unto him so except we search and enquire into the frame of our souls we can never apply the Scripture properly and suitably unto our souls Except a man search into his wayes and actions as well as into the word he cannot compare those actions with the word But he will be apt upon every turn to run into mistakes and practical errors He will take that word home to himself which doth not belong to him and pass such a sentence upon himself as is not to be passed upon him It is hinted as the ground of mens deceit and self-cozenage because they do not look into themselves Prov. 21.2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes but the Lord pondereth the hearts As if the holy Ghost had said If men did but search their own hearts they would not be so mistaken concerning their wayes nor pass such a false judgment upon themselves They presently conclude that their wayes are right because they do not throughly look into them nor take a view of their spirits which are the principle of action but God ponder eth their hearts 2. If you would know that you are or whether you are united to Christ you must be diligent in the examination of your selves and the reason is Because that is the very means which God hath especially designed to this end and appointed to be made use of to this purpose to bring us unto the knowledge of it This is a Maxim in Religion as clear as the noon-day That if we would comfortably expect any mercy from the Lord or gracious assistance unto any work or business we must look for it in the use of such means as God hath appointed to that end and wherein he is wont to convey such grace and assistance Now self-examination is the means which God hath required to be made use of to bring us to the knowledge of our ingrafture into Christ For Sirs although it is God alone who can powerfully and convincingly make it known to us yet we must not sit still and be idle and say if God will discover it to me I shall know it But we must wait upon him in the way wherein he is wont to meet his people to this end which is in the duty of self-examination If we would have our calling and election made sure our selves must give diligeâ—â—e to make it sure 2 Pet. 1.10 3. Self-examination is the way to arrive at this knowledge whether we are spiritually ingraffed into the Son Because hereby we shall find out those falshoods under which our spirits are apt to lie hid and those deceits whereby our hearts are ready to cheat us in passing a false judgment upon our selves Self-examination will shew us where the cheat lieth and upon what ground it is that we deal treacherously in this matter You read of a people Isa 28.15 who thought themselves to be free from the wrath of God when indeed they were the very generation of his wrath And what was the reason of it whence did this deceit proceed Why they took sanctuary in lies and covered themselves over with falshoods When the overflowing scourge shall pass thorow it shall not come unto us for we have made lies our refuge and under falshood have we hid our selves The meaning I take to be this They built their hopes of deliverance upon rotten pillars and sandy foundations They apprehended themselves to be in a right way when they were not that their hearts were for God when indeed it was a lie for they were set upon sin and idolatry and full of desperate wickedness They thought they were in the service of the Lord and that therefore he would shew them favour when in truth it was a falshood they were in the broad way that leadeth to destruction Now how should a man discover the falshood of these pretences and find out the fallacies whereby our hearts would impose upon us in this case Why By being diligent in the examination of our selves There is a full Text to this purpose Gal. 6.3 4. For if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth
state unto the end I answer It is built especially on a sixfold foundation 1. Upon the unchangeableness of the purpose of God concerning believers and the never failingness of his love towards them whereby he did elect and fore-ordain them to everlasting life and set them apart for the eternal enjoyment of himself This purpose of God cannot be frustrated or disappointed His counsel shall stand and he will perform all his pleasure and the love of God towards his chosen is not a transient fleeting but an everlasting love And therefore when he hath gathered a people unto Christ he will never suffer them to be divided from him again For that love which moved him to shew compassion upon them and to draw them unto his Son is unalterable as his own nature and essence * Dona dei sunt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 11.29 i. e. Dona illa quae proficiscuntur ex electione ut indicant verba proximè praecedentia Secundum electionem Charissimi Suar. de Praedest without any variableness or shadow of turning Jer. 31.3 I have loved thee with an everlasting love As for its original it is from everlasting so it reacheth unto everlasting whom he loveth indeed he loveth unto the end This is noted as the very ground of their perseverance 2 Tim. 2.18 19. Who concerning the truth have erred saying The resurrection is already past and overthrow the faith of some Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure having this seal The Lord knoweth who are his The foundation of God that is the eternal purpose and electing love of God upon which the salvation of the faithful is built as upon a sure ground-work This cannot be shaken that any of them should fall away to perdition whom God hath chosen to eternal life And the Lord knoweth who are his q. d. It is true the faith of some may be overthrown who were never sound in the faith but not a person who is the Lord 's indeed shall ever miscarry for their perseverance is built upon a sure foundation namely upon the electing love of God that will never fail 2. The indissolubleness of this union is built Vpon the nature of the Covenant made with believers and the truth and faithfulness of God in keeping Covenant with them It is such a lasting Covenant as is confirmed with an oath whereby the Lord hath manifested the unchangeableness of his counsel And wherein he hath made provision for the discharge and performance of the articles which are on their part to be discharged as well as for conveyance of the mercies which he is ingaged to convey thereupon This you have often spoken of as the ground of their establishment Isa 54.8 9 10. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment but with ever lasting kindness I will have mercy upon thee saith the Lord thy Redeemer For this is as the waters of Noah unto me for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth so have I sworn that I would not be wrath with thee nor rebuke thee For the mountains shall depart and the hills shall be removed but my kindness shall not depart from thee neither shall the Covenant of my peace be removed saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee As if he had said As sure as the day and night shall not fail according as I sware unto Noah after the flood so sure my mercy shall not fail towards you not shall ye at any hand fall short of it for I have made it over unto you by a covenant confirmed with an oath It is one remarkable difference between the word of God and his oath That sometimes a word of promise is made under certain exceptions and conditions implyed upon the failure whereof God may repent of the good which he promised to do Jer. 18.7 9 10. But when the Lord sweareth he will not repent That is a certain token of the immutability of his counsel Psal 110.4 Heb. 6.17 Now the perseverance of the Saints is a mercy which God hath sworn to give unto them Luke 1.73 74 75. The oath which he sware to our father Abraham that he would grant us That we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies might serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all the dayes of our lives Not only that we should be admitted into his service but likewise abide therein unto the death And for the freeness of the Covenant wherein God hath graciously obliged himself not only to perform the mercy promised but also to assist believers with his Spirit for performance of the duty required at their hands so as not to fall short of that mercy Take that noted place Jer. 32.39 40. And I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me for ever for the good of them and of their children after them And I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them to do them good but I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me 3. The indissolveableness of the union between Believers and the Lord Jesus is built upon the charge that is given unto Christ concerning them and his faithfulness in accomplishing what he hath undertaken for them Thus Sirs when God the Father did put all his elect into Christ's hands and constituted and ordained him to be a Mediator for them it was with this express charge That he should conduct them to glory Not only that he should gather them unto himself and give them spiritual life but that he should guide them with safety to the kingdom of heaven And this charge he undertook John 17.2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him Heb. 2.10 In bringing many sons to glory Now in pursuance of this undertaking Christ doth kni◠them to himself inseparably that he may be a faithful steward of the grace of God It is the very reason which our Saviour giveth why no man shall pluck Believers out of his hands because he is to give them eternal life John 10.28 And the Apostle Peter put much stress upon it when he prayeth for the settlement of Believers in the faith 1 Pet. 5.10 But the God of all grace who hath called us into his eternal glory by Christ Jesus after that ye have suffered a while make you perfect stablish strengthen settle you Here is a bundle of arguments to incourage our dependance upon God for our abiding in Christ There is scarcely a word but hath an emphasis upon it to that purpose 1. It is God that strengthens you he that is able to do it and is on your side so that greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world All your adversaries are but creatures who labour to draw you away but he that establisheth you
S. Paul stiles a being justified This is expressed elsewhere by not remembring transgressions any more Heb. 8.12 And there are three wayes how they shall not be remembred any more 1. God will not remember them so as to upbraid his people with their miscarriages He will never hit them in the teeth with their sins When the wicked seek unto him in affliction and howl for deliverance God doth upbraid them with their wickedness Jer. 2.27 28. Where are thy Gods which thou hast made thee Let them arise if they can save thee in the time of trouble q. d. Why do ye come to me seeing you hate me and cast me off and set up idols in your hearts Get you to them for deliverance for you are none of my servants But when persons are justified their sins shall be as if they had not been God will welcom them into his house and embrace them in his arms and never throw it in their dish how unkind or unthankful or stubborn they have been formerly See it in the return of the Prodigal Luke 15.20 21 22. When he was a great way off his father saw him and had compassion and ran and fell upon his neck and kissed him And the son said unto him Father I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight and am no more worthy to be called thy son But the father said unto his servants bring forth the best robe and put it on him and put a ring upon his hand and shoes upon his feet One would have thought he would have fallen foul upon him and said You are well enough served to depart out of my family you see what it is to think your self wiser than your father What account can you give me of the patrimony you received Do you think I will give you entertainment now you have spent your substance with riotous living and amongst harlots Go to your sinful companions that have made a prey of you and see what relief they will afford now in the day of your distress But here is not a word of such language But welcome my dear son he is a pleasant child my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy upon him Jer. 31.20 2. Their sins shall not be remembred so as to stop the current of God's bounty or to with-hold good things from them When God would have healed Israel their sins came to remembrance and put a stop to the progress of his mercy Hos 7.1 2. But now by the grace of pardon this obstacle is removed out of the way that his compassions may flow down freely upon them * â—et in peccati reatu est luerum cessans damnum emergens Ita condonatio peccati non est tantum ablativa mali sed collativaâ—oni Mic. 7.19 20. 3. He will not remember them so as to condemn them for sin iniquity shall not prove their ruine * Peccata sis velantur ut in judicio non revelentur Joh. 5.24 That is the first part of justification namely the pardon of sin 2. There is the acceptation of the person as righteous in God's sight pronouncing him such and dealing with him accordingly restoring him into that favour again which he had lost by his transgressions Rom. 5. v. 16. compared with v. 19. This is the first thing I would note to shew you the force of this argument That justification for the â—ature of it is the gracious pardon of the sinners transgressions and acceptance of his person as righteous in God's sight 2. In order to our partaking of this grace of the forgiveness of sin and accep ation of our persons we must be able to produce a perfect righteousness before the Lord and to present and tender it unto God And the reason is evident from the very nature of God himself He is infinitely immutably inexorably just as well as incomprehensibly gracious And in the justification of a sinner he doth act as a God of justice as well as of compassion He doth forgive iniquity in a way of righteousness 1 Joh. 1.9 He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness God doth not pronounce men righteous when they are not but first he maketh them righteous and then receiveth them as such and pronounceth them to be such * Non igitur docemus credentes sine justitiâ justificari qualem justificationem impii Deus pronunciat esse abominationem Prov. 17. Isa 5. Sed dicimus necesse esse ut in justificatione intercedat interveniat justitia Et quidem non qualiscanque-justitia sed talis quae in judicio Dei sufficiens digna sit ut justa pronuncietur ad vitam aeternam Chemn exam Conâ— Trid. So that if a man will be justified he must be able to produce such a compleat righteousness as wherewith he may stand before the justice of God This is a matter very seriously to be weighed because multitudes deceive themselves herein They hope God will forgive them because he is a God of mercy and of unspeakable compassions but they never consider what entertainment the justice of God will give them nor how they shall stand before his righteousness Why man remember The Lord is infinitely just as well as merciful and if ever thy sins be pardoned it must be by an admirable contemperament or mixture of mercy and justice together I will not enter upon the debate of that question which some have ventilated whether God in his absolute soveraignty could not have forgiven sin meerly as an act of grace without the sinners producing any satisfaction to justice Suffice it us to be assured That God will not and supposing his word and purpose he cannot for he is a God that cannot lie that cannot change or vary in his determinations It was one of the great ends of the Gospel dispensation that God might exalt his justice in the justification of a sinner Rom. 3.26 3. The only matter of mans righteousness since the fall of Adam wherein he can appear with comfort before the justice of God and consequently whereby alone he can be justified in his sight is the obedience and sufferings of Jesus Christ the righteousness of the Mediator There is not any other way imaginable how the justice of God may be satisfied and we may have our sins pardoned in a way of justice but by the righteousness of the Son of God And therefore this is his name Jehovah Tzidkennu The Lord our righteousness Jer. 23.6 This is his name that is this is the prerogative of the Lord Jesus a matter that appertains to him alone to be able to bring in everlasting righteousness and to make reconciliation for iniquity Dan. 9.24 All our obedience to the Law and the good works we can perform throughout the whole course of our lives can never be a sufficient righteousness for us Alas what are they even all out righteousnesses put together but as a
apt to think that God will not be so strict as some would press us to believe But if you are wicked sinners he will not abate you one transgression The very sins of thy youth which are slipt out of thy memory God will fill thy bones with them and make them lie down with thee in the dust Job 20.11 And as for thy secret sins which the world could not observe he will bring them to light and set them in order before thine eyes Eccl. 12.14 Psal 50.21 2. Persons out of Christ are in a wretched condition because they have God for their adversary who is the mighty possessor of heaven and earth in whose hands are all the corners of the world and at whose command and beck is every creature in being to fulfil his pleasure Against whom never did person rise up and prosper For he is wise in heart and mighty in strength Job 9.4 This all-powerful God is their enemy that setteth against them the living and eternal God who is able to pursue them that oppose him with fiery indignation for ever Into whose hands therefore it is a fearful thing to fall Heb. 10 31. Job 9.4 My brethren a few right and serious apprehensions of the nature and attributes of God would make a mans heart shiver and tremble at the very thoughts of having him for an adversary For as Moses saith Who knoweth the power of his anger Psal 90.11 No secure sinner knoweth it for if they did it would rouse them out of their security and cause them to flie for refuge unto the city of refuge * Omnis peccans est ignorans No unregenerate person knoweth it Had they but a glimps of the discovery of it their ears would tingle at the mention of his being against them It would be a vexation by day and by night only to understand the report of God's being their enemy who in a moment can break them in pieces like a potters vessel Who knoweth the power of his anger The meaning is It is unsearchably dreadful and past finding out So that this alone were sufficient to bespeak them throughly miserable For may a man say to the unregenerate as the King did to the woman that cried unto him for help 2 King 6.27 If the Lord do not help thee whence shall I help thee If God do not comfort thee what enjoyments can do it for they are all at his disposal and can minister no further assistance than he is pleased to put into them If the Lord of Hosts be set against thee who can deliver out of his hands 3. Vnconverted sinners are under a curse in all that doth concern them And how can they expect to succeed in any of their affairs when there is a curse from heaven intermingled therewith This is the condition of every person out of Christ to be an accursed person And that curse is of an extensive nature It rideth a large circuit it spreadeth it self upon and insinuateth it self into every mercy which they receive and every work they perform and every place and relation they are in and every providence they are under Prov. 3.3 The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked But what if he go out of his house may he not escape it No The curse will follow him whithersoever he goeth and suck out the sweetness of whatsoever he doth possess Deut. 28.15 16 17 18 19 20. It shall come to pass if thou wilt not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day that all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee Cursed shalt thou be in the City and cursed shalt thou be in the field cursed shall be thy basket and thy store cursed shall be the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land the increase of thy kine and the flocks of thy sheep Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out The Lord shall send upon thee cursing and vexation and rebuke in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do until thou be destroyed and until thou perish quickly because of the wickedness of thy doings whereby thou hast forsaken me Mark how the curse pursueth the ungodly and although he stave it off with all his strength and skill yet it will come upon him And if he flee from it it will follow after him And if he run never so fast it will overtake and seize upon him and all that he hath and will never be removed till he leave his sins and get into Christ or else be made eternally accursed This is the third particular to set forth the misery of a Christless condition It is an accursed condition And it must needs be so for Christ alone can deliver us from the curse of the Law and you can have no redemption through Christ except you are ingraffed into him 4. Persons unconverted and ununited to Christ must of necessity be in a perfectly wretched condition because all the comminations and threatnings in God's word belong unto them and hang over their heads and unless prevented by a speedy return unto God will actually fall down upon them As a Believer cannot but be blessed because he hath a right to all the exceeding great and precious promises of the Gospel so an unregenerate person cannot but be miserable because all the dreadful and direful threatnings of the word are his share and portion And this in very deed is the reason why sinners for the most part cannot endure to be conversant in the word and it is a trouble and vexation unto them when passages of the Scripture are darted into their Spirits Because as Ahab said of Micaiah it never prophecieth good concerning them it denounceth nothing but wrath against them All that is written in the Law is set against them and if there be not enough written God will bring upon them more evils than are expresly mentioned in the threatnings of the Law Their inward thought is that God will not deal so severely with them as is contained in the word But mind it Sirs if you continue in sin he will fulfil his word with advantage He will bring upon such all the plagues that are written Also every sickness and every plague that is not written in the book of the Law them will the Lord bring upon such persons till they be destroyed Deut. 28.61 So much for the third Inference That persons out of Christ must of necessity be dead for he that hath the Son hath life and he that hath not the Son hath not life There is one main objection should have been answered under this head which relateth especially to the third way of their being dead viz. in respect of impotency and inability to that which is spiritually good I will briefly touch upon it in this place though it cometh in a little out of order
That he will have a cooler place in hell than some others who have ran beyond him in the perpetration of horrid abominations 5. A meer civil conversation and inoffensive câ—â—riage towards men is a poor foundation of a mans hopeâ— You have some will lean upon this prop and be very confident of their salvation upon this ground because they pay all men their due and walk honestly towards their neighbours and defie all the world to bring in a bill of accusation against them But this will prove as a rotten pillar that cannot support the Fabrick For observe what our Saviour saith to the Pharisees Luke 16.15 Ye are they which justifie your selves before men but God knoweth your hearts for that which is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination to God Mark it here is the question Is thy heart washed and sanctified Art thou regenerated by the Spirit of Christ and so knit unto him The God before whom thou must appear is the searcher of the hearts and will bring to light the hidden things * Deest aliquid intus Said one of a picture when he tried to make it stand and vvalk of it self There wants something within So it may be said of the unregenerate moralist There vvants a Principle of spiritual life vvithin of darkness He seeth those secret and spiritual wickednesses that lodge within thee which the world cannot discern He taketh a view of those inward pollutions and filthinesses which pass the eye of the most curious inquisitor amongst the children of men Civility is a mercy for which thou art bound to bless the name of God but it will not entitle thee to the Kingdom of God * Va etiam vitae laudabili Aug. For the obtaining of that thou must be united to Christ Unconverted Paul was of a blameless conversation and yet a child of the wrath of God And therefore when he had a right knowledge of matters he did not rest herein but earnestly breathed after Christ and rejected all things that he might be found in him Phil. 3.6 8. 6. Legal sorrow for sin and a kind of reformation thereupon will not serve to beget a well-grounded hope of eternal life When sinners are under some pangs of conviction that damps their mirth for a while and their consciences are troubled for some ungodliness which they have committed and this trouble prevaileth so far as to make them leave the practise of that ungodliness for the present Hence they are apt to cherish strong confidence of their salvation Surely think they it cannot go amiss with us who have felt such disquietness in our spirits and begin to lead a new life What will bring a man to heaven if this will not But man one thing thou lackest yet and that is union with Christ the Son of God Unless thy sorrow for sin prove efficacious to drive thee quite out of thy self and to cause thee to give up thy soul into the hands of the Mediator whom God hath appointed it will in no wise conduct thee to everlasting glory Judaâ— was troubled for sin and restored the pieces of silver which he had gotten as the wages of unrighteousness and yet he went unto his own place Mat. 27.4 5. Act. 1.25 He had deep gashes of conviction cut in his conscience whereby he was wounded sorely and yet perished for ever for want of getting into Christ and application thereby of the healing balsom of his righteousness There may be much torture and vexation in the heart for sin and such as may carry a man to some amendment of life and yet not a drop of that godly sorrow that worketh repentance unto salvation not the least degree of that evangelical brokenness and contrition of spirit which driveth the sinner unto Christ that he may find rest for his soul 7. The meer external performance of spiritual daties is no sufficient ground whereupon to bottom our hopes of eternal life Such as prayer and reading the Scriptures and frequenting religious exercises and the like These are good means if rightly managed to bring a sinner unto Christ but in themselves they are no evidence of a good estate The Pharisee was much in outward duties and yet he was not justified Luke 18.12 A person may make many prayers and play the counterfeit in all that he doth many confess sin and plead against it with their mouths and in the mean while hug it in their bosoms they pretend to earnest desires of grace and holiness in their expressions but hate it in their affections with a perfect hatted they read the Scriptures to find out the will of God and yet retain a secret resolvedness of spirit to follow the dictates of their own wills they attâ—nd with their bodies on the Ordinances of Christ whilst their hearts go after covetousness and other base corruptions Ezek. 33.31 32. Many labour only to stop the mouth of conscience with outward performances who are utterly strangers to the workings of a renewed principle Besides What are the Institutions and Ordinances of Christ except they lead the soul unto Christ That is the very end of their appointment to bring us unto him and to build us up in him without an interest in whom by way of union with him there is no right to the kingdom of heaven attainable by any 8. The good opinions of the godly are but a sandy foundation of hope It is a great mercy to converse with such as are spiritually wise and to have a place and seat in their affections who are favourites in the court of heaven But it is no sure evidence of our title to heaven And the reason is this Because their estimation of others may arise from a mistake of their persons judging them only by what is visible and apparent in open view but God is a discerner of the secret recesses of the heart The Lord seeth not as man seeth 1 Sam. 16.7 How was David mistaken in Achitophel They took sweet counsel together and walked unto the house of God in company and yet he was an accursed person and wickedness was in his dwelling Psal 55.14 They may be much in the affections of the godly who are an abomination unto the Lord. So that trust not in this as a sign of a good estate Thon mayest be of great repute amongst Christians and yet alienated from Jesus Christ whereas it is only union with the Son and ingrafture into him which will give thee a right to salvation 9. Lastly that I may hasten to a conclusion A being joyned in fellowship with this or the other party who make a stricter profession of godliness than others is an insufficient ground whereupon to build our hopes of eternal life This is all the proof that some can make of their fincerity Because they are of such a perswasion and settled in a Church way with such eminent professors they are of the same judgment and hold the same opinions with them this is made the foundation of great
you bring forth the fruits of righteousness here and endeavour to be holy in all manner of conversation If you live in any course of sin or in the neglect of observing any of God's commandments it is not possible you should come to the enjoyment of God whilst you abide in that estate Never dream of being saved without holiness for such imaginations are but dreams and fancies Heb. 12.14 Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. 1 Cor. 6.9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Be not deceived c. q. d. It is a plain case that the unrighteous will perish unavoidably it is a token of gross ignorance to think otherwise Do not hope for or expect salvation without righteousness for by such hopes and expectations you will but cheat your own souls Gal. 5.19 20 21. Now the works of the flesh are manifest which are these adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness idolatry witchcraft hatred variance emulation wrath strife seditions heresies envyings murders drunkenness revellings and such like Of the which I tell you before as I have told you in time past that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Mark it if a man live in any of these sins or in any other sin like unto these whether it be filthiness of the flesh or of the spirit open or secret though not here particularly enumerated he cannot enter into eternal life It is a matter as if the Apostle had said which I have studied and the more I think of it the more I am confirmed in it I have preached this doctrine to you formerly and I am still of the same mind and therefore warn you of it again that if you be such persons you cannot be saved 2. Although I counsel you to be much in the works of righteousness yet you must despair of ever being justified or saved upon the account of your righteousness For alas what are the best of our righteousnesses to give satisfaction to the justice of God for the wrong that we have done him If you be pardoned and accepted of the Lord it must be for the sake of the righteousness of Jesus Christ and not by virtue of any thing of your own For the Seripture hath concluded all under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe Gal. 3.22 3. Although you must be active and diligent in the service of God and labour to walk in uprightness before him yet you are utterly to despair of doing this in your own strength It is only strength and aflistance from Jesus Christ that will inable you to be faithful unto Christ If you trust in your own hearts they will deceive you 2 Cor. 3.5 Psal 71.15 16. * Ad evulsionem hominis à statu peccati requiritur 3. ut ex evictione conscientiae desperatiosalutis consequatur respectu nostrarum virium omnis etiam auxilii quod à creaturis haberi potest Ames de cons 4. I would counsel you to work up your hearts to an utter despair of receiving either righteousness or strength from Christ except you get into him Sit down and rest in this conclusion that unless you be united to the Son of God you cannot dwell in the presence of God There is no salvation to be had upon other terms And thus to despair of deliverance in a state of separation from Christ is an excellent means or inducement to drive you unto him Thus the Law is our School-master to lead us unto Christ i. e. by convincing us of our undone condition without him * Lex in vero suo officio est ad gratiam ministra praeparatrix prodest ad justificationem non quod justificat sed quia urgeat ad promissionem gratiae cam facit dulcem desiderabilem Luth. It pursueth us with wrath as the avenger of bloud that we may be forced to hasten into the City of refuge Gal. 3.24 This is the first Direction I intended in order to the attainment of this grace of union Direct 2. If you would be united unto the Son Get the Spirit of the Lord Jesus into your hearts It is only the holy Ghost who is sent in his name that can lead you unto him and ingraff you in him and form Christ within you And if you have not the Spirit of Christ you cannot be his Rom. 8.9 And therefore to this end 1. Be much in prayer to God for this very mercy that he would graciously send the Spirit of his Son into your souls There is an encouraging word to draw forth your fervent supplications in this behalf Luke 11.13 If ye then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children how much more shall your heavenly father give the holy Spirit to them that ask him It is the mercy which he delights to be sought unto for and to be dealing forth in return to the prayers of his Servants 2. Be much conversant with the word of Christ and constant in your attendance upon the Ordinances of the Gospel Be frequent in reading and studying the Scriptures make them the matter of your daily meditations lose no opportunity to acquaint your selves therewith or to wait upon Christ in the wayes of his appointment Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom Col. 3.16 For it is the word and institutions of Jesus Christ which are designed as conduit-pipes to convey the spirit of sanctification into mens hearts And therefore the word hath the promise of conversion annexed unto it because the spirit of conversion worketh in and with and by the word Psal 19.7 The Law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul Jam. 1.18 Of his own will he begat us with the word of truth As the word cannot work savingly without the concurrent operation of the holy Ghost So the holy Ghost doth not ordinarily work without the word For the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth Rom. 1.16 And when our Saviour prayeth for them that should be gathered unto him it is under this expression For them that shall believe on me through their word Joh. 17.20.3 Take heed that you resist not the Spirit by quenching his motions or rising up in contradiction against the convictions that he is pleased to work upon your hearts Readily hearken to his call and comply with him in the tenders of grace If you repel him by the frowardness and perverseness of your spâ—rits you know not when he will return Joh. 3.8 Take therefore the Apostles advice Eph. 4.30 Grieve not the holy Spirit of God whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption Direct 3. If you would be knit unto Jesus and so have an interest in him endeavour after the uniting grace of faith in his bloud cast your selves upon his righteousness for salvation according to the proposals
the God of heaven Their tongues will make mention of the praises of his name and sing aloud of his righteousness Psal 149.6 Their hearts will be filled with an holy admiration of his greatness and majesty and wonderful goodness in their redemption 2 Thes 1.10 He will be glorified in his Saints and admired in them that do believe Their lives also will be filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God Phil. 1.11 2. God is glorified upon believers in more of his attributes and excellencies Peculiarly in his free grace and tender mercy which is the attribute that he delighteth to magnifie and taketh singular pleasure in the exercise of Mic. 7.18 God doth shew forth his truth and justice and declare his power and holiness in the ruine of the ungodly but there are no prints or footsteps of his free grace and compassion Their portion is wrath without mixture Rev. 14.10 But what saith the Prophet of them that are saved Mark that notable Text Isa 63.7 8. I will mention the loving kindnesses of the Lord and the praises of the Lord according to all that the Lord hath bestowed upon us and the great goodness towards the house of Israel which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses For he said surely they are my people children that will not lye So he was their Saviour Here is a discovery of grace rich inexpressible grace herein is manifest the goodness of God nay the great goodnesses of the Lord here is mercy and loving-kindness yea a multitude of mercies loving-kindnesses 3. In some of his attributes God is more transcendently glorified viz. in his wisdom and power It was a work of infinite skill and wisdom to find out a way to redeem lost sinners from the jaws of eternal death to execute vengeance upon the transgression and yet to save the transgressors O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! Rom. 11.33 It is a work of greater power to pull a soul out of the hands of the Devil than to give him over to the will of Satan Eph. 1.19 20. Nay the very justice of God is better satisfied by believers through their surety than in the damnation of such as perish in their unbelief Here the price paid is the death of a creature but there the precious bloud of the Son of God as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot 1 Pet. 1.18 The wicked that perish are ever satisfying and have never given full satisfaction for the wrong which they have done their debt is paying as it were by driblets But in the behalf of believers the work is compleated and finished the utmost farthing was paid together upon the nail and there is nothing further to be demanded For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified Heb. 10.14 Now if God be more glorified in the salvation of such as are in Christ undoubtedly he is willing that you should come unto Christ and is ready to receive you when ye come So much for the third direction Direct 4. To stir you up to a closure with this advice and diligent prosecution of this work of getting into Christ Often revolve in your thoughts and lay seriously to heart this following consideration viz. That if you perish for ever in a separation from the Lord Jesus and for want of being in him that you may partake of his righteousness it will wholly proceed from your own default and your bloud will be upon your own heads And what anguish and horror will this bring to thy conscience in the day of accounts to bethink thy self thus I might have been saved by the bloud of the covenant but I would not and now I must lie bound for ever in the chains of darkness For it is a sinners willful rejecting of the tenders of mercy upon the terms of the Gospel which is the cause of his falling short of the mercy tendred Although it is Gods free grace and not mans free will that doth conduct believers un o the kingdom of heaven yet it is the perverseness and obstinacy of the will of unbelievers which hindereth their deliverance from the damnation of hell Jo. 5.40 Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life Hos 5.4 They will not frame their doings to turn unto the Lord Ezek. 18.31 Why will ye die O house of Israel q. d. If you are destroyed for ever you may thank your selves you are the blame-worthy cause of your own eternal ruine by refusing the terms on which salvation is offered And I pray think of it often what an unspeakable torment it will be to thy spirit for ever to reflect upon this very thing I have been wooed and intreated to lay down the arms of my rebellion and to submit to the government of Christ that I might be saved and I would not How often hath the spirit of God strived with me and I still resisted the Holy Ghost The word of God hath called upon me and I have broken through the convictions of the word With what confusion wilt thou be filled when the Lord Jesus shall say unto thee how often would I have gathered thee into the number of my servants and thou wouldest not be gathered and now depart from me thou accursed wretch into everlasting fire Mat. 23 37. Thus I have ended the first head of exhortations directed unto the wicked who are yet strangers unto Christ 2. Let me speak unto the godly who are through rich mercy and grace ingraffed into Christ and made partakers of this priviledge of union with the Son Be exhorted 1. To be much in blessing the name of God for his signal saving and differencing mercy Adore him for advancing you to this high dignity Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon you that you should be called the sons of God! Nay that he should take you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ and intimately knit you unto him 1 Jo. 3.1 Will you bless God for temporal mercies and not be ravished with the contemplation of this super-eminent blessing Certainly my brethren eternity itself will be little enough to admire the wonderful and unsearchable grace of the Lord. 2. Be exhorted moreover rightly to improve the consideration of this unspeakable gift And that especially in these six cases 1. 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