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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51249	Theosplanchnistheis, or, The yernings of Christs bowels towards his languishing friends wherein the sincereity, ardency, constancy, and super-eminent excellency of the love of Jesus Christ as it workes from him towards his friends is delineated, discussed, and fitly applyed / by S.M. ...	Moore, Samuel, b. 1617.	1647 (1647)	Wing M2588; ESTC R9458	55,323	150

qui nos ipsos non perfectè cognoscimus non possimus ad plenum scire quid nobis expediat ideò necesse est ut à Deoditigamur protegamur qui omnia novit omnia potest Aqu. sum 2 ● q 109. a. 9. crying Christians when you crie unto God Christ by his Spirit is crying in you and calling out Abba Abba Father Father can you then doubt of being heard when Christ prayes in you whom the Father heares alwayes Secondly Christ in them poures forth their requests to the Father and that by words sutable to his Majesty and their necessity this is called the help of the Spirit by reason of mans infirmity and this help is afforded because we know not what to pray for as we ought 'T is good to have a helper when wee goe into the presence of a great God especially when wee are helplesse for did not the Spirit help who else can give supplie in such a case Or what can be pleasing to God save that which comes from God can any thing lead to God ascend unto him besides that which descended from him surely nothing onely he that searcheth the heart knoweth the mind of the Spirit because that makes intercession according to the will of God Rom. 8.27 God and Christ puts words in his peoples mouthes as is clear from Hos 14.2 Turning to the Lord say these words take away our iniquities remove our sinnes from us receive us graciously be favourable to us so shall wee render to thee the calves of our lips that is we will bee thankfull so Luke 11. from the first to the fift When the Disciples desired Christ to teach them to pray hee puts words into their mouthes saying when yee goe to my God and your God speake thus call him Father the very name prayes for us k Ipsum nomen ●rat pro no●is pray him to sanctifie his owne name to let his Kingdome come his Kingdome of grace into the hearts of the gracelesse to let his will be done upon you in you and by you and for manner so an earth as 't is done in heaven viz. willingly chearefully readily with much willingnesse without any the least wearinesse aske for bread for the day all necessaries for the comfortable being of the outward man aske forgivenesse of sinnes for he is blessed to whom the Lord imputes not sinne though hee hath little of the things and necessaries of this life Beg you be not lead into temptation viz. not suffer'd to be tempted or else be kept from falling under the temptation l Jubet orare ne in tentationem dueantur i. e. ne ab câ vincantur Aug. l. de Cor. grat c. 6. and from being overcome of it and that you may bee delivered from all evill of sinne and suffering Yee shall aske what yee will and it shall be done unto you if yee continue in mee and my words abide in you Joh. 15.7 aske and ye shall have Christ names not what shall be given to let us know that gift is above all that can be named m Non dicitur quid dabitur quia donum supra omne nomen Aug. Secondly or without words for prayer is mentall as well as vocall and although a Spirit of son-ship is a Spirit of Prayer and every son of God is a man of prayer yet some sweet soules as deare to Christ as others cannot sometimes by reason of some distempers and distractions of body and mind I say they cannot utter their minds by words at the Throne of grace Rom. 8.26 Now Christ by his Spirit helps n Est metaphora ab onerious sump●a quae utrinque admotis manibus sublevantur Beza 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so Luk. 10.40 The Greek wor●●'s a decompound and there 's great force in it these sometimes even to sigh out their wants and sorrowes before him and obtaine o sometimes to groane out their desires unto him sometimes by weeping shedding teares which have a secret language and voyce in the eares of the Lord of rests Psal 6.8 Thou hast heard the voyce of my weeping and Christ himselfe hath wept for some * Christū flevisse legimus rifisse nunquam Salvian l. 6. Cum Spiritus hominis suspi●or Spiritus Dei aspirat Cyprian Matth. 6. sometimes the heart 's so full of sorrow so sad and heavie that nothing can bee said or done then even then the Spirit helps and all through love Christ ha's promised his beloved friends corporall succours every morsell a Saint receives hee hath it in way of a promise The Lord feedes others too but 't is onely so as he doth the beasts of the field in an ordinary way of providence wicked men may have much and yet inherit nothing because they possese not God in their injoyments injoy not him in conjunction and connection with the Creatures Take no thought saith Christ what ye shall eate or what yee shall drinke or wherewithall yee shall be cloathed It 's enough for a Gentile a Heathen a stranger to God and Christ to bee cuttingly carefull for these things that hath ne'r a heavenly Father to provide for him Doth your heavenly Father feed the fowles of the Heavens and shall hee not much more feed you Doth he cloath the Lillies of the field better than Solomon in all his glory and cloath the grasse of the field * Wicked men are like the grasse of the field with their gloria brevis whose end 's to be burn'd which remaines but for a time and shall hee not cloath thee who shalt live for ever abide for ever these are some of Christ's comfortable love discovering words And many other such like there be which for number are as the Starres of the Firmament that cannot be told 'T is said that one Crane a precious Christian though of meane estate in outward things being about to die and it being demanded by his friends what should become of his children hee answered thus God that provided for the Ravens will also certainly provide for the young Cranes and according to the good mans faith so it was that all his children were well provided for in this evill world Psal 34.9 There is no want to them that feare him that is of what is good for them and to misse an evill thing is no injurie to them If the Lord of his goodnesse doth foresee that riches will be a snare to one or other his sonnes of love and therefore withholds them from them what doth that child want save something which if hee had 't would make him more wanting in better things Some have much of the world and this hath been the fruit of it the cares of getting and keeping together with the feares of loosing the things of this life 'tas almost drunke up all that delight Joy and content they should and might have had in a spirituall God Christ and spirituall things If any man loves this world the love of the Father

of God Christ will crowne those with glory that had a heart to crowne him with thornes ſ Pudeat sub spinato Capite Membrum fieri delicatum Bern. in festo omn. Sanct. ser 5. if they 'l receive him he 's kind to the unthankfull that 's his goodnesse hee can blesse them that have curs'd him love them that hate him pray for them that persecute him oh flesh and bloud thou canst not doe these things This is the praise of Christ's love if you say he died for his friends we may answer as he did for his friends indeed as being heartily lov'd of Christ t Pro jam amicis nondum quidem amantibus sed tamen tam amatis Bern. in Psal qui habitat though like unkind friends they loved him not againe Or as Aquinas not his friends as loving him any thing onely his friends as lov'd by him alone v Non amici quasi amantes tantum amici ut amati Thom. Aquin in Johan uti Barrad to 4. l. 4. c. 15. And which is more Christ in suffering was no murmurer in the least measure he was led as a sheep to the slauohter and open'd not his mouth closed his blessed lips and was silent Oh Lamb of God! thou art exceeding good when wee suffer for friends there is some heart-risings in us some harsh and hard expressions fall from us discontented words are utter'd by us yea much more when wee suffer for our enemies But Christ was free from this did not charge his God with folly what ever he brought on him Some grudge to doe him service who never grudg'd to save them would they once accept of his love Sweet Christ's ill serv'd of some who have been well serv'd of him some thinke all too much they doe for Christ who thought all too little that he could doe for them would they come in But they 'l not come to him that they may have life sad soules I 'le sigh for you thus he refuseth his owne cure who acquaints not the Physitian with his griefe vv Ipse sibi denegat ceram qui medico non publicat causam Aug. Epist 118 hee dies deservedly who refuseth Christ bringing life eternally x Merito peritaegrotu● qui medicum non vocat sed ultrò venienentem respuit Musculus Prima pars sanitatis est velle sanati Seneca Secondly Christ loves more then a Father he loves children of Light more then Parents can doe theirs David may wish hee had dyed for his Absolom but the heart 's deceitfull and chiefly delusive in its affections That love may seeme strong which in great undertakings and workings may prove weake Christ did not onely wish a death once to preserve his from dying twice but did also embrace it will you heare his comfortable sayings in two or three words 't is this I lay downe my life no man takes it from me few words but full of worth They came from his heart had David died he could but have kept one alive and that not long but Christ's dying hath kept millions alive who shall never die the second death Christians what say you to your heavenly Father can you love as you are beloved how can you forget his goodnesse you cannot live much lesse die without the comforts of his love without him yee can doe nothing Joh. 15.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seorsim à me severed from me y Calv. Camer c. Thirdly Christ loves more than a husband where 's the husband that will marry with a black deform'd and adulterous wife and when he hath got her so love her as to lay downe his life for her z Quis enim potest sic ducere ut moriatur pro ea quam vult ducere Si enim mori pro ea quam vult ducere voluerit non e●it qui ducat Securus autem ille pro sponsa mortous est quam resurgens e●at ducturus Aug. in Psal 122. Christ hath done it and thou knowest it beleeving soule if thou know'st what thou wert when Christ betroth'd thee to him Christ matcheth like Moses Moses his spouse could not be more defective in nature and outward comelinesse than was Christ's Spouse in grace and inward comelinesse and yet thou Spouse of Christ consider Moses could not doe that for his Spouse which Christ hath done for thee Moses married a certaine Ethiopian but could not metamorphise or change her colour a Moses E●●i●yss●u● quand●m duxit uxorem sed ejus non potuit mutare colorem Bern dom 1. ●ost octa Epiph ser 2. she was as black when made his wife as ever she was before But Christ makes of black white findes foule but makes faire b In sola anima pulchritudo turpitudo apparent ideo is solus vir pulcher est qui est virtute preditus Alexan. poedog l. 2. c. 12. that 's his method Psal 45.13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All the glory of the Kings Daughter is within as the Septuagint read the words 'tas ever been Christ's lot to light of spiritually uncomely Spouses sweet Lord thou marriest meerely for love when Christ seekes a soule he ne're askes the question what is she or what hath she he 'le have her if she 'l have him so great 's his love 'T is not dowry or feature he have it all he aimes at is love for love c Quam quaeris alium inter sponsus necessitudinem vel connexionem praeter amari amare Bern. in Cant. ser 31. Fourthly Christ loves man more than man loves himselfe all men seeme to love themselves but really they doe it not thy soule 's thy selfe and that 's neglected whence are all those cares and paines about thy carcase why lay'st thou so much out on dust Is the bodies worth like the soule 's d Quid de te tu ipse tàm malè meiuisti ut inter bona tua nolis aliquod esse malum nisi tcipsum Aug. in serm de temp was not he found a foole that heaped up goods for many yeares and plac'd felicity in them and in one night lost them soule and all canst thou say thou lov'st thy selfe and yet workest not towards Heaven for thy soule thy better part what shall the body be sed warmely clad sweetly accommodated and shall onely the soule be brought to poverty Is this selfe-love to let self die for ever for lack of looking too wilt thou bury a living soule in a dead body who for many years hath given life to thy members at the close of dayes wilt thou lodge it in a hell of torment e Qui fecit te sine te non salvabit te sine te Aug. Quid miserius misero non miserante seipsum oh noble soule thou art a spirit whose nature 's to be active and act upward but thy prison the body hath been thy ruine Blessed God! what a bad case is such a soule in Others seem to seek out for their soules