Sermons preached

And this is the Grace we give thanks for, not a Power to repent and believe if we please, but for Repentance and Faith wrought in us. If God did only give a Power to will if we please, to do if we please, Man would difference himself, 1 Cor. 4. 7.

3. With respect to Christ. We are his Workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, who is the Head of the new World, or renewed Estate. All things are new in the Kingdom of Christ, there is a Change of every thing from what it was before. There is a new Adam, which is Jesus Christ; a new Covenant, which is the Gospel; a new Paradise, not that where Adam enjoyed God among the Beasts, but where the Blessed enjoy God among the Angels; a new Ministry, not the Posterity of Aaron or Tribe of Levi, but a Ministry of Reconciliation put into their Hands, whom God hath qualified and fitted to be Dispensers of these holy Mysteries: New Ordinances; We serve God not in the oldness of the Letter, but the newness of the Spirit; therefore if we be in Christ, we must be new Creatures. We are both obliged and fitted by this new Estate to be so. Some are in Christ externally by Baptism and Profession, they are visibly in Covenant with him, and de jure of right are bound to be new Creatures. Others are in Christ by real internal Union; these not only ought to be, but de facto are new Creatures, they are made Partakers of his Spirit, Rom. 8. 9. and by that Spirit they are renewed and sanctified. Well then, since there is a new Lord, and a new Law, all is new, there must be a new Creation; for as the general State of the Church is renewed by Christ, so is every particular Believer.

3. With respect to Christ. We are his Workmanship, created in Christ Iesus, who is the Head of the new World, or renewed Estate. All things are new in the Kingdom of Christ, there is a Change of every thing from what it was before. There is a new Adam, which is Jesus Christ; a new Covenant, which is the Gospel; a new Paradise, not that where Adam enjoyed God among the Beasts, but where the Blessed enjoy God among the Angels; a new Ministry, not the Posterity of Aaron or Tribe of Levi, but a Ministry of Reconciliation put into their Hands, whom God hath qualified and fitted to be Dispensers of these holy Mysteries: New Ordinances; We serve God not in the oldness of the Letter, but the newness of the Spirit; therefore if we be in Christ, we must be new Creatures. We are both obliged and fitted by this new Estate to be so. Some are in Christ externally by Baptism and Profession, they are visibly in Covenant with him, and de jure of right are bound to be new Creatures. Others are in Christ by real internal Union; these not only ought to be, but de facto are new Creatures, they are made Partakers of his Spirit,