Recommended from Phil.. 2. 1 2, I 3· caUrd to daJ, harden not )'Our HtartJ; for this is the only Time and Seafon for working. (2.) Secondly, A1 you muft workfpud;Jy ~it~out dday, .fo you muft !Vork confta~riy wirbout ceJTation or intermiffion. To fland fhl1 IS to backfiide, and to ceafe worktng is to undo and unravel what you have wrought. You arc not like Men that row in a ftill \Vater, that though they fiack their Courfe, yet they find thertJ.felves in the fJme ftation; but you are to go againft Tide an~ Stream; the Tide of your own Corruption', and the Stream of other Mens AC\:Jons a~d Examp!es; and the leaft intermiffion here will be to your Lofs; hereby you wtll be earned down the Tide mttch, yea, and much Pai_ns and Labour will fcarce fuffice to regain what a littl~ Sloth hath loft. So much for this Text. The Lord make what halh been fpoken profitable. .Amm. SERMON XXV. THE ASSURANCE OF Heaven and Salvation, e3c. HE B. xii. 28, 29. Wherefore we ha71ing received a J(ingdom that cannot be mcved, let tu h.r,vt grttee whereby 1Ve mtty ferve God acceptably, with reverence a;td godly fear : For our G(Jd is a confuming fire. T H IS Text contains in it a Do8:rine, a Ufe, and .:1 Motive: The Do. Clrine is, We have received a Kingdom th~tt camJot be moved. The Ufe or Inference from thence is this, Therefore let m firve God. And the Motive to enforce this Exhortation is in thefe Words, For our God M a confuming Jirt. (t .) In the ti.r'ft plrt, which is the Thefts or P~fition, We have received a King. dom that cannot be moved. We muft know, there IS a twofold Kingdom ; a King.. dom of Grace1 fet up in the Heart of a Saint where Chrift alone reigns as foie Monarch aild SoYereign; and a Kingdom of Glory prepared for us in the higheft Heavens, where we flull reign as Kings with Chrift for ever. If we tlke it .!lints in the former fenfe for the Kingdom 'J Grace, fo the Apoflle faith; we have a !J,ve 11 Kingdom, that is, we have it already in Poffeffion. Chrift hath eftablifhed his !Cf..ngdom Dominion over every B~hever, and t~ough he fits perfonally u~on his T~rone i.n ;:,:~;:" Hea\'cn, yet he Rules m us. by the Vice-gerency and Deputation of his Spint [pelf that received Commiffion from him, and alfo by the Law of his Word enacted • by it. lf we under!bnd lt in the latter feufe for the Kingdom of Glory, which feems moll coneruous to the Dcfign of the Apoftle, fo alfo, we have a Kingdom, and that in a fourfold fenfe. (t.) Firfr, B) GrAce giving m the earneft of it; by Faith realizing of it, by Hope embracin~ it, and by the Promifes aifuring of it. santJ 1 ( 1.) F1rft, We have a Kingdom of Glory in tht Earneft and ftrjf Fruits o( it, The h:t1Je a Comforts and Graces of the Spirit are very often in Scripture called the Eanuft of !(ingdoM our/nheritanH: So you have it in 2Cor. 1. 22. andin£ph. 1. J_t, Now an Ear- tFnt~tfirft "T ,_ rultsof nea.. i r.
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