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A11197	Christ and the doves heavenly salutations, with their pleasant conference together: or A sermon before the communion in Anwoth. Anno 1630. By that flour of the Church, Mr. Samuel Rutherfurd	Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661.	1660 (1660)	STC 21464; Wing R2372A; ESTC S100009	19,105	30

The Debt of Faith and Obedience that we are aughting to GOD now to speak so is not our Debt but Christs and he is Cautioner for us It were a shame that a Poor Friend should be Imprisoned for his Chiefs Debt especially since he is a Rich-man and able to pay Now let us consider the Mutual Interest Christ and the Kirk has every one of another He is Mine and I am His He is my Husband and I am His Wife He is my Head and I am His Body He is my King and I am His People He is my Rich Cautioner and I am His Dyvour Now let us see what claim Christ has in the Kirk and what claim the Kirk has in Christ Now to hold upon the Comparison of this Song betwixt a Husband and a Wife for the Husband the Wife has no Sundry Goods if he be a King she is a Queen If he have a fair Inheritance it is hers also as long as he Lives If they Live ever together it is ever hers Then when she says he is mine I am his CHRIST is mine and I am his and all his his Flesh and his Blood his Death and Merits his Glory his Kingdom his Court and Credit and all is Mine and all Mine is His my Soul and Body my Sins my Trouble my Cross they are all His Christ and She is to speak so carded throw other John 15. Abide in Me and I in You Cursed be he that says not Amen to that John 17. 21. That they also may be one as Thou Father art in Me and I in Thee that they also may be one in Vs I in them and they in Me But we will labour to Reduce them the Particulars to a certain Number There be these Things Common to us betwixt Christ and Us First There is a Sibness of Nature betwixt Christ and us There be Pawns given and received betwixt both Sides He has a Pawn of Ours Our Flesh and he took that Pawn with him to heaven and he is never minded to give it again but we have as Good a Pawn of him his Spirit We were of that Flesh and Blood Hebrews 2. 14. Let us keep Christ's Pawn as long as he keeps Ours Let him not be to the fore with Us Now he keeps our Pawn for ever He will never lay down our Flesh We are never minded to lose the Pawn let him keep it for ever Long may he keep it Let us keep his Spirit For it is not his Will to loose that Pawn Let him keep it for ever Hebrews 4. 2. Christ would also be a Bairn and Partaker of Flesh and Blood Would to GOD ye would all strive to get his Pawn and to keep it well Seek his Spirit and keep it well Worldly Men Ye have little claim to Jesus GOD help you there is no Borrowing nor Lending betwixt You and Christ Secondly Community We got all his Good and he gets all our Ill that 's a Good Cooss for Us He took our Curses we took his Blessings He our Shame We his Glory He our Sins We his Righteousness He is the Kirks and the Kirk is Christs That Day GOD laid upon Christ he was shifted our from under GODs Wrath and GOD strook the Kirk's Head to let the Members go free When Christ was in blocking to buy his Kirk he knew the Faults in the Wares he kend well enough that Curse of GOD and Wrath of GOD and Hell and Sin and many Ills followed the Kirk Yet Christ wad not rew in time He said freely I will take her and all the Ills that follow her how beit she be Blind Lame yea a Cursed Bride Yet I will make her my Wife Would to GOD we could take Christ and all the faults that follow Him There be Men that will not Cooss with Christ but will keep their Will their Lust GOD was about to strike Us and had lifted to speak so his Wand to bring a Stroak of his Wrath upon Us and Christ came in and held his Hand and laid down himself and bade his Father lay upon Him Yea never saw such a Suiter as Christ he prays Us to Cooss for the better He crys to you for GODs Sake give me your Dross and ye shall get my Gold Give me your Sins and I give you My Righteousness Is it not an hard matter Men will not give their Ill to Christ and transfer and give over their Sins to Christ He says to you Give Me your Lust that I may Crucifie it and I will give you Love for it Give Me your Anger and I will give you My Zeal for it Then make a Cooss and take him at his Word ilk day be making New Blocks with Christ Deny your Folly and give it to him to Crucifie And seek ye his Wisdom you must do this ever while all Nature be away and done and nothing in you but Grace Thirdly There is a Community of Gifts and Graces betwixt Christ and Us Not a Grace we get from GOD but it comes throw Christ's hands to us So that Christ keeps the Pawns betwixt GOD and Us GOD gives Grace to his Kirk but where is it It is in Jesus Grace is laid in Pledge in the Hands of Jesus and it was made a running over Fountain For as we see in a Race the Wages or the Garland is not in the Hand of the Runners but some Friends keeps the Staikes for both So Christ keeps the Wage for the Father and Us Christ indeed is the Fountain John 1. 14 We beheld His Glory as the Glory of the Only begotten Son Some Friend keeps the Staikes for both There the Well running over But for what End Verse 16. That out of His Fulness we might all Receive even Grace for Grace So GOD gives us Life Eternal But who has this Life in Pledge Even Jesus Christ 1 John 5. 11. And this is the Witness that GOD hath given us even Eternal Life and this Life is in His Son LORD send us part of this consigned Grace Again ye send not up a Sigh to GOD but first it must be laid down in the hand of him that keeps the Pawns Revelation 8. 12. Be the Way I shall give the Vse with every Article of the Doctrine Try thy Light try thy Grace try thy Honour and Credit Riches all the Blessings that ye have The Silver the Gold whether these Blessings be Impawned in Christ's Hand or ye get them If ye get them not in Christ they are Unchristened Blessings and they want the Fashion Wo be to these Blessings that came never throw Christ's Holy Hands Again try your Prayers Sighs and Desires and your Service if ye offer them to GOD in CHRIST Many Unchristened Prayers goes to Heaven that are never Welcomed of GOD Ye must take your Communion out of GODs Hand at the nearest but out of CHRIST's Hand there should be nothing done betwixt GOD and Us but CHRIST should be at it Fourthly There is a

says GODs Justice be it so says CHRIST Man sinned and I the Man CHRIST shall Die 2. Man took on the Debt therefore an other cannot pay for him Be it so says CHRIST I the Man shall pay the Ransom 3. Man behoved to make amends because Man did the Fault Let it be so said CHRIST I the Man CHRIST shall make amends again Secondly If CHRIST had not been our Rock there had been no Dwelling in him he would not have keeped Wind and Weather off us Therefore the Divine Nature was a Pillar on which the Humane Nature did hing and this is the Cause why CHRIST-man leans to the Divine Nature as his Warrand in all that he does For if ye will consider in this Work there is Three Bargains or Covenants to speak so First GOD and Man bargained together ye shall believe that 's your Part. I shall give you Life Eternal that 's my Part says GOD Now Man dare not promise this of himself without CHRISTs Bond to Relieve him that is to Enable him throw his Grace to believe Secondly GOD Bargains with his Son Isaiah 53. 10. Son if Thou shall lay down Thy Life Thou shall see Thy Seed and Prolong Thy Days and have many fair Children Psalms 2. Ye shall have the Heathen to Serve You. Heb. 1. I will be Your Father and Ye shall be My Son CHRIST is content but he cannot do this alone he must borrow Flesh and Blood from Man and in it Suffer Thirdly The Man CHRIST Bargains with the Divine Nature The Humane Nature says I Love Man and I will Die for him The Divine Nature says now I shall hold Thee up under Thy Sufferings and Thou shall overcome Death The Man Christ without the Back-bond to speak so durst not for Ten Thousand Worlds have ventured to Yoak in the Fields with the Justice of GOD and Death and Hell and Sin and the Devil except he had the Divine Nature in a Personal Union to bear him up under his Sufferings Therefore CHRIST when he looks upon his Sufferings looks also upon his Warrand Isaiah 56. I gave My Back to the Smiters and My Checks to them that pulled off the Hair These be the Words of the Man CHRIST Now because it might have been said a Man will Suffer all that his alone But here he looks to his Warrand Verse 7. and says I have my Warrand with Me The LORD GOD will help Me I shall not be confounded I have GODs Warrand who is united to Me in a Personal Union to bear Me up Even Sick-like CHRIST goes down to the Grave Psalms 16. 10. Thou wilt not leave My Soul in Hell or the Grave neither wilt Thou suffer Thy Holy One to see Corruption As if Christ would say I am sure LORD Thou will be as Good as Thy Word and make Good Thy Bargain and will Warrand Me against Death See then how it goes The Man Christ takes Man by the Hand to bring him out from under GODs Wrath. So Beloved Be Glad in such a Saviour come all into the Rock for God Christ and Man all these Three are linked together as in a Chain and Christ in the middle link of the Chain Now let all the Kings of the Earth that boast of Fair Houses and Stately Palaces come and see if they can compare with the Dove that Dwells in the Holes of the Rock Nebuchadnezer said Is not this Great Babylon that I have built c. Surely Men are to be rebuked that are carefull for Houses and settling in the World and has no Assurance of this Lodging Worldlings are but Ravens that big in the Wild Mountains The Kirk is only at Home biging in Faith These be indeed Dear Chambers being built by Christ Himself GOD has made Holes and Windows in Christ that his Doves may flee into and make their Nest in his Heart O Dear and Precious Dwelling The Lodging cost us Nothing yet we are desired to Dwell in it Now what is Christ's Petition Cause Me to hear thy Voice It 's ordinary for Man to beg from GOD for we be but his Beggars But it is a Miracle to see GOD beg at Man Yet here is the Potter begging from the Clay the Saviour seeking from Sinners What is his Suit It must be some Great Thing it is even a Sight of his Bride He is even saying to her my dear Spouse be kind to Me let me see thy Face be not Blaite and Wavering be plain with me your Husband tell me all your mind in Prayer I delight to hear your lisping and hisping and speaking to me in Prayer Ye may see all the Wooing comes on Christ's Side of it She cannot hold up her Face or let one Love-blink on Christ but as He commands her and wakens her up She is a Soure Bride of her self if she Laugh it is He that makes her Rejoice by the Holy Spirit that is given to her Romans 5. 5. She keeps her Chamber and is ashamed to go forth He bides her be kind and shew her Face We cannot Love Him while he first Love us 1 John 4. 19. We run because he draws us Canticles 1. 2. John 6. 44. We apprehend Christ but we are first gripped of him Philippians 3. 12. Beloved there is great skill in wooing Christ every Bride has not the gate of it but he must teach us In all other Matches ye will find Two Things that are not here First In other Matches the Bride makes some Wooing of her own sort but here Men cannot move but as Christ's Spirit wooes in us and teaches us In other Contracts the Bride and her Friends are bound for their Part the Bride has some Toocher of her own or she may be an Heretrix she may have all and he Nothing But here the Bridegroom in this Contract is obliged for all he give his Name for himself and his Wife Ezekel 36. 27. I will put My Spirit in you and cause you to Walk in my Judgements Here the Kirk has no Toocher of her own and yet she has not the Good Manners to look up to her LORD but as he commands and holds up her Head All the Toocher is Christ's and the Inheritance is Christs the Kirk has Nothing he has the Houses John 14. He has the Land Romans 8. The Fine Gold Revelation 3. and buys the Spousing Cloaths of the Religion that came in with her Saviour Christ and that is the best Religion in the World for it gives most to GOD and least to Man I will tell you who are meet for Christ even these that are out of themselves and lays all upon Christ The best Schollars that Christ gets are Publicans and Sinners Whores Harlots Blind Lame Criples and such like and such as feels themselves Sinners Look how much ye trust in your selves and rest upon the World and Loves your Lusts as far ye are from Christ and when ye are all out of your selves and changed into GOD's Image from Glory

Community of Sufferings betwixt CHRIST and Us Poor would we be if his Sufferings were not Ours and Wo would be our Case if his Sufferings were not Ours But this Way it goes he is that Apple Tree Excellent above all the Trees of the Forrest and we do Rest under the Tree now when the Shower of Rain falls it lights first on the Tree and the Stroak of it is broken and it does not great Harm to these that are under the Tree Ilk New Shot at the Kirk lights first on the Head of Christ and he breaks the Point of the Arrow If ye be Ill-spoken off so was He If ye be Hated of the World so was He If your Blood be shed your Face Deformed so was his fair Face Deformed Marred Isa. 52. 14. be content to Drink with Christ Wo be to them that are not in Christ and yet are in Trouble The Arrow with the Sharp Point comes upon them goes to their Heart Slays them Try if your Troubles be Christened-Troubles that lights first upon CHRIST the Head then upon you as the Members Try if by Faith ye have an Union with him Now here by the way a Great Comfort in Trouble Those that are Dear to you Dyes ye Mourn Christ Mourned Groaned in Spirit for Dead Lazarus Ye Weep so he Weeped Are ye Poor and ay at the Borrowing So was Christ at the Borrowing Trade all his Days Should ye not then with Good Will Drink off the Cup that He Drank off before you when ye Murmure and will not Drink Willingly ye Refuse to Pledge Christ But ye must Pledge Him and Drink with GOD's Blessing and with Joy He will not Poyson you They are none of Christ's Friends that will not Pledge Him Matth. 20 21. Fifthly There is a Community of Glory betwixt Christ and Us The Heaven that the Mediator Christ Enjoys is our Heaven Our Heaven is to the Man Christ in a Conquest Heaven was bought with Blood to Him and Us and to make you Rejoice None of GOD's Children gets a Heaven properly of their own Why We got a share and part of Christ's Inheritance He is the Principal Heir Romans 8. We are the Conjunct-heirs Sweet is that Word which He speaks to his Children Luke 22. 29. And I appoint unto You a Kingdom as My Father hath appointed unto Me that ye may Eat and Drink at My Table in My Kingdom Sitting on Thrones Judging the Twelve Tribes of Israel The Meaning is My Father hath made a Disposition to Me of the Kingdom of GOD it is Mine and My Dear Children I will think Heaven uncouth if ye be not with Me Here I make a Disposition and Resignation of that Kingdom to you Ye shall Sit at my Table in My Kingdom Up your Heart howbeit ye be not Lords in Earth ye shall be Lords in Heaven I and Ye shall part Kingdoms and Thrones together Secondly Rejoice in this ye that are in Christ and see your Condition ye and Christ are Halfers together of Heaven and Glory O if GOD's Children be in a Sweet Case as long as Christ is in Heaven and keeps the Inheritance as long shall we keep our Right And who can cause him Flit The Devil hath made these Enemies of the Grace of GOD to Mis-ken all our communion with Christ they have put Christ and the Elect together as a Man in an Inns for a Night and to go away to Morrow They have yoaked Christ and us together as if He were one and we another as if He were His own and We were our own as if Christ had no Law and Right to Us and We had no Law and Right to Christ but met at a Venture and sundered at a Venture as if We had one heaven and He had another As if he had his Portion by himself alone and that he keeps for ever and that We had our Share be our alone too to Sell when We pleased Sells if we Dispone Heaven We Dispone not Christ's Heaven In the Fighting he fights all the Battles his alone We but look on But when it comes to the Dividing of the Spoil We get a Rich Share of the Spoil Yet he gave the Whole Sum for the Inheritance and We Nothing yet we are set at his Elbow in a Throne with him Now seeing our Right is also Good slip not from them Do not as some Unworthy Heir who having a Good Right slips from it for a feckless composition after Drink quites all howbeit he should Beg Indeed the Wicked does this The Devil drinks them Blankfull and fills them with Worldly Pleasures and garrs them Subscrive a Resignation and gives them an unworthy composition some present Pleasure Compone not with the Devil to go to the Law with him let Christ be your Advocat Subscrive not a Submission with the Devil come never in Trysting Terms with him hold you aback from the World and the Lusts of it it is the Devil's Arles that he gives to Silly Drunken Heirs when they cry Hills and Mountains fall on Vs They would fain give back the Arles and Rew but it is out of time And I am His This Property of the covenant is Mutual as she says and acknowledges that he is hers and so Christ is bound to her by his Promise So she acknowledges that she is bound to him and is his by Right Multitudes of the World would play fast and loose with him They would have Christ fast and themselves loose They devise a covenant of their own and says Christ Died for All and GOD is Mercifull to All and GOD will Relieve All Christian Souls from Hell and they think GOD and CHRIST fast enough to them But in the mean time they are loose and Lives like Dogs and Swine in their Filthiness These Men would have Christ as a Child in making of the covenant and exceeding Silly should Christ give himself for you and will ye neither give Life nor Goods for him Christ came to save you Matth. 20. 28. And will ye be his Master Are ye not obliged to Serve him This is to make a Gospel of your own Too many Obeys the Gospel as long as it Flatters them As long as it tells them Christ's Parts and that he shed his Blood and came to save Sinners freely That is the best Chapter in all the Bible But when the Gospel begins to tell them what is their Part and that they must Deny Themselves Crucifie their Lusts to Take up Christ's Heavy Cross they start aback These are Tender-footed-Christians that Walks in the Law and in the Gospel so long as they go softly on it as a Bed of Roses and Hurts not their Feet But when a Thorn of the Command touches them they stand aback Ye may not half GOD's Law and take as much of it as serves you As Christ gave himself to be Yours and has Subscrived the Contract So give your Selves to Him and Subscrive your Part of