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Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /
Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume / by several ministers in and about London, preached in October, 1689.
London: printed by James Astwood for John Dunton, 1690
Sermon 5: Quest. How is Gospel-Grace the best Motive to Holiness? SERMON V.
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2. That such an one as thus names the Name of Christ, is especially concerned and obliged to depart from Iniquity.
2. That such an one as thus names the Name of Christ, is especially concern'd and obliged to depart from Iniquity.
As to the first, What is meant by naming the Name of Christ?1 it is evident, that it cannot be understood of a bare speaking of the word Christ, sounding the letters of which it is made, which Pagans and Mahometans may do, and the wicked Jews often did; but by naming the Name of Christ, is understood, a making some special use of it, or of him that is signified by it: We must therefore consider,
- 1What is meant by naming the name of Christ.
That wheresoever there is any thing of Divine Revelation, there mans Fall and Misery is manifested: for tho by natural Light it could be perceived that all was not well with Man; hence the many complaints, that Nature dealt very hardly with Man, the noblest visible Creature, that had rule and command over the rest of the Creation, yet that he was so short-lived, so full of misery and trouble,1 which seemed as natural to him, as for sparks to fly upward: This was for a lamentation amongst the very Heathen: But [Greek or Hebrew], whence all this mischief came they knew not. In Scripture only we find the Cause of our disease, and the Remedy against it; and here, Ubi invenitur venenum, juxta latus ejus nascitur Antidotus. Where we may discover the Malady, we may seek for and discover the Remedy.