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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36940	Sips of sweetness, or, Consolation for weake beleevers a treatise discoursing of the sweetnesse of Christs carriage towards all his weake members : particularly to such as are weake either [brace] 1. habitually, or 2. accidentally, by reason of [brace] 1. working, 2. sinning, or 3. suffering : being the summe of certain sermons preached upon Isa. 40, 11 / by John Durant ...	Durant, John, b. 1620.	1649 (1649)	Wing D2678A; ESTC R35030	84,697	224

it may as Spira did wish O that I might feele but the least sense of the love of God to me though but for one small moment as I now feele his heavy wrath that burnes like the torments of hell within me and afflicts my conscience with pangs un-utterable c. To winde up all I beseech you doe more then thinke i.e. O meditate of these things And let this whole though little Tract of Christs sweetnesse prevaile with your hearts to enter and to continue in the fold of Christ Remember while you are without Christ you are without God in the world you wander in a wildernesse of sin and sorrow you are but at best among wild-beasts you can expect nothing but dangers and devourings But when once you are returned to the great shepherd of your souls when once you are brought to and walke with Christ you are safe and sweet For if you are weake hee 'l carry you and that in his bosome If you wander hee 'l gather you and that with his arme while you are lambs hee 'l carry you safely and if you are Ewes great with young hee 'l lead you gently Say not sin is sweet and suffering bitter ease is pleasant and labour painfull But know that if Christ take you into his Fold you will say sin is bitter and persecutions for his sake though unto bloud are sweet you will then conclude the yoake of Christ is easie and his worke is full of sweetnesse Beleevers beare witnesse to this truth To the rest I say as Philip to Nathanael Come and see Let me end all with Calvins Comment upon my Text. Calvin in locum In these words is expressed the singular indulgence of God by which he is not onely led forth with a common affection towards his whole flocke but by which he declares according to the weaknesse of any his solicitousnesse in taking care his humanity in nourishing and his patience in bearing In which he omits nothing belonging to the office of a good Shepherd For all the sheep must be taken care for especially they are to be borne with or relieved if they be weak O taste and see that the Lord is good Psal 34.8 Sit downe under Christs shadow with great delight Cant. 2.3 and you shall finde his fruit sweet unto your taste THE ANALYSIS OR The Table of the chiefe things in this Treatise SECT I. CHAP. I. AN Introduction to the Discourse holding forth 1. The fallacy of Sathan to keep soules from Christ page 1. 2 2. The sweetnesse of Christ to such as come into his service page 3 CHAP. II. An entrance upon the Text shewing 1. The dependance of the words p. 5 2. The division of the words p. 7 3. The doctrines of the words p. 8 CHAP. III. The maine Doctrine propounded setting forth Christ as sweet in his carriage to all his weake members which is 1. Explicated opening what 1. Christs carriage is p. 9 2. Sweetnesse of that carriage ibid. 1. Negatively p. 10 2. Positively p. 11 2. Proved ib. CAHP. IV. A clearer explication of the point by discovering 1. Who are weak members of Christ p. 14 1. Habitually whose weaknesse is described 1. Generally by what it is 2. Particularly by what they are ibid. 1. Beginners in Christs Schoole p. 15 2. Babes in Christs house ibid. 3. Specially by the things in which it is as namely they are such as be weake 1. In their life p. 16 2. In their light p. 17 3. In their faith p. 18 2. Wherein Christs carriage is sweet to them held out from the Text in two particulars viz. 1. In that he gathers them with his arme when they wander p. 19 2. In that he carries them in his bosome while weake ib. CHAP. V. Particular discoveries of Christs sweetnesse in 1. His not casting them off when they come to him p. 22 2. In his preserving the weake graces which are in them p. 25 3. In strengthning and increasing the said weake graces p. 28 4. In bearing with the infirmities of their weaknesse p. 30 5. In not putting them upon any work for which they are too weake p. 33 6. In accepting that little which they doe though accompanied with many failings p. 35 CHAP. VI. Reasons of all this drawne from the consideration of 1. God the Fathers Commission which he gave to Christ p. 39 2. The weaknesse it self which is in weak beleevers p. 40 3. The intention of Christ to convince such as have hard thoughts of him p. 42 CHAP. VII Application of all in Vses of 1. Information p. 44 Vses of 2. Lamentation p. 45 Vses of 3. Reproofe p. 46 Vses of 4. Comfort p. 51 Vses of 5. Incouragement p. 51 Vses of 6. Imitation ib. Vses of 7. Exhortation p. 5. 5 SECT II. CHAP. I. THe point that Christ is sweet in his carriage to such beleevers as are accidentally weake p. 59 1. Proposed from the Text. p. 60 2. Explicated in shewing who are said to be accidentally weake ib. 1. Generally hinting what accidentall weaknesse is p. 62 2. Particularly instancing in such as are so viz. such as are weak p. 63 1. By works ib. 2. By Sins p. 64 3. By Sufferings ib. 3. Specially applying the said things to the metaphor in the Text. p. 67 CHAP. II. Demonstrations from the Text that Christ is sweet in his carriage to such as are accidentally weake by worke p. 68 1. Actually being with them in all their worke p. 69 2. Tenderly leading them about their worke ib. CHAP. III. Instances clearing the point of Christs sweet carriage unto working beleevers by his 1. Putting them upon no other worke then himselfe hath done p. 72 2. Giving suitable incouragements to the discouragements of their work As to the discouragements 1. Of Reluctancy p. 75 2. Of disgrace p. 76 3. Of doubt of successe p. 77 3. Affording ability to do what ever work be sets them about p. 78 4. Perfecting their workes himselfe with reference to their imperfections p. 80 5. Refreshing by incomes when in their worke they grow weak and weary p. 81 6. Bestowing eternall rest and reward in the end of their worke p. 83 CHAP. IV. Reasons of the point taken from the consideration of 1. Christs desire to declare himselfe to be as be is p. 86 2. His knowledge that soule working for him cannot worke without him p. 87 3. His designe to leave loyterers without excuse p. 88 CHAP. V. Application of this in uses of 1. Information p. 90 2. Reproofe p. 91 3. Conviction p. 93 4. Incouragement p. 94 5. Comfort p. 95 SECT III. CHAP. I. THe doctrine that Christ is sweet to beleevers weake by sins p. 101 1. Proposed in its truth p. 102 2. Founded in the Text. ib. CHAP. II. The point further offered 1. By premises to open it viz. 1. That beleevers fall sometime into sin p. 103 2. That such falls render them weak p. 105 3. That Christ though sweet to their persons is