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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81950	The right receiving of Christ· Or, An appendix to the worthy communicant, or A treatise shewing the due order of receiving the sacrament. By Jer. Dyke, late minister of Epping in Essex. Which was intended by the said author in his life time to be annexed to this treatise of the sacrament; as appeares in the epistle. Wherein a Christian may know, whether he hath rightly received Christ in the sacrament or no.	Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.	1645 (1645)	Wing D2959bA; ESTC R229229	52,271	144

present condition then yet so as that it was wholly in his own keeping like to a plant that grows upon its own bottome yet now is life so in himselfe as that it is more in another even in Christ from whom by vertue of union with him as from a root or fountain he receives vivificall power and vigour continually to produce all spirituall and living actions and to bring forth the fruits of holinesse unto eternall life even as the branch that lives not of it selfe but hath all lively sap and moisture both unto life and fruitfulnesse from the root or stock on which it grows and so is our estate in Christ the second Adam farre more secure and glorious then ever it could have been in the first besides herein is the excellency of man in this condition even above the Angels themselves in that Christ by assuming our Nature hath thereby advanced it above theirs Heb. 2. 16. which he never took upon him in which respect man is now higher then those glorious and celestiall Creatures who at the first was made inferiour to them though but a little Psal 8. 5. lower then they So that look what difference there sometimes was betwixt the first Temple and the second the very like may you see here betwixt these two conditions if you compare them of man in Adam before his fall as he was then by Creation and of man since his fall as he is now by Regeneration Only there the former house did exceed in glory and that so far as the ancient men Hag. 2. 3. of the Priests and Levites which had seene the first when they also saw the Ezr. 3. 12. last could not but weepe with a lowd voyce to behold the difference but here now the latter condition exceeds the former in so much that they who shall once live to see and experimentally to know the excellency of this above that cannot but rejoyce with exceeding joy And now Christian Reader should I here passe over in silence the farre more exceeding and transcendent excellency which is in Christ the fountaine of all that in the Saints excells in goodnesse I might seeme to obscure what all this while I have endeavoured to cleare for if their excellency in this renewed estate be not from him then is it not so great an excellency as I have said But if it be derived all from him as indeed it is then shall I neither give him that honour which is his due by being silent in such a case nor doe thee that right I should who by beholding of his beauty mayst perhaps be enamoured with it and so the rather be brought to fall in love with him in whom otherwise thou mayst see no forme nor Isa 53. 2. comelinesse nor any thing else that thou shouldst desire him Tell me therefore Is there nothing that thou canst behold in Christ more amiable and lovely then in the world Is it nothing that while the world is a lump of vanity and meere vacuitie Eccles 1. Col. 1. 19. yet that in him all fulnesse dwels fulnesse in other things hath an attractive and invitatory vertue the full garners drew Jacobs sonnes downe into Aegypt plentitude of wisdome the Queene of Sheba to King Salomon and why doest thou covet the world but from a delight de pleno tollere acervo to take of a full heap But alas all this is emptinesse to the fulnesse of Christ who hath transcendently in him all that this world affords One little piece of gold is fuller of worth then many of silver and one little Diamond then an heap of gold all the petty perfections scattered abroad in the creatures are in him united that great volume of excellencies spread up and downe through Heaven and Earth is in him epitomiz'd besides that fulnesse of Grace of which the world hath not a dram The world at the fullest is but an Ocean which is lessened by losing the least drop but Christ his fulnesse is the fulnesse of fire which is not one jot diminished though it gives light to a thousand Torches The continuall effluences of vertue out of him and influences of the sap of his quickning grace into all those fruit-bearing branches though infinite in number that draw from him is not the least evacuation at all unto him Is it nothing that while the creature doth allure us from God our own guilty consciences and the dreadfulnesse of his glorious Majesty deterre us Christ onely drawes us to him who is the chiefest and only good so that through him alone we have accesse Eph. 2. 18. unto the Father God is a Sunne the resplendent beames of whose Majesty so glorious an object would overcharge and even quite put out those presumptuous eyes that should dare to looke up to him unlesse overcast with the Cloud of Christ a Mediatour God is a consuming fire and mortall were it for us mortalls to come neere it without the interposed Skreene of Christ his Mediation First must wee come to the manger of Christs humanity before we can have an accesse with boldnesse to the Throne of divine Majesty Is it nothing that while the world in our greatest exigents sues out a divorce and then deserts us yet that Christ is constant in his love having once tyed himselfe to us with the knot of conjugall affection which with him is indissoluble Christ is our husband And hence how many precious priviledges ensured to us In law uxori lis non intenditur what then hath the law exacting obedience unto life to doe with Christians Againe Mulier fulget radiis mariti The Husband communicates all that he hath unto his Wife and even such a community of grace is there betwixt Christ and true beleevers Christ his graces and a beleevers differing onely secundum gradum i. e. in respect of measure or degree but not at all secundum speciem i. e. in kinde or quality in which respect they are the same Besides all which are all the benefits of our mysticall union with Christ nothing Hence spirituall life Hence conformitie Col. 3. 3. 4. Rom. 6. 5. 1 Pet. 1. 14. Phil. 2. 5. 1 Joh. 2. 6. Joh. 15. 5. Rom. 8. 35. with Christ our head a triple conformity in nature in minde in conversation Hence fructification for the present Hence perseverance for the future even to the end Hence glorification also in the end yea and therein admission of our bodies as well as soules into eternall glory at the last And is all this to be accounted nothing Many and many are the excellencies to be found in Christ and to be received from him which besides these that I have mentioned I might instance in and so lead thee still on forward in this way even till I should as in a maze or labyrinth lose both my selfe and thee in the contemplation of them But because I had much rather that thou shouldst be found in Christ then lost in the contemplation of