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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57965	Christs napkin: or, A sermon preached in Kirkcubright at the Communion, May 12. 1633. By that flower of the Church; famous, famous, Mr. Samuel Rutherfurd. Never before printed	Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing R2373A; STC 21465; ESTC S116297	15,666	24

Tears will follow us to Heaven unto the very Entry of the Door our Face shall be wet for we go out of this Life Sad and Groaning for this Miserable Life and to thrust throw the last Port and to wade throw the hindermost VVater it is a sore set But be blyth Christians and Grip to the Promise But ye that Laugh now and so are far from Tears that Mock the Mourners of Zion ye may Sigh and close the Bible and say alas I never shed a Tear for Christ yon Text is not for me It may be Christ shall that Day gar you VVeep and shed Tears for Evermore This Soure Laughing World will away There is a Day of Tears coming on you Greeting and Gnashing of Teeth And when a Man Gnasheth his Teeth one against another he has no mind of Laughing But I would not have your Mirth for a World be doing we will see who will Laugh fastest yon Day Vse 2. There is an Ill coming on this Land Sin is not come to a full Harvest GOD's Bairns that can now Mourn for their own Sins and the Sins of the Land Rejoice in Heaven there is never seen a Greeting Bairn there GOD has a Napkin to dight their Faces It is the Laughing Rejoicing People that GOD Destroys He that Sate upon the Throne John heareth more of Christ a Sweet Speech Here Three Things 1. A Speaker 2. A Speech 3. A Direction to keep the Speech Who spake the Speech is not told whether an Angel or an Earthly King For they sit on Thrones also But it is He of whom it is said Rev. 4. 2. And a Throne was set and one sat on the Throne John tells not his Name But he thinketh so much of him that he takes it as granted that there is none Worthy to be a King but He and to sit upon a Throne but He. The Saints measures all the Affections of others by their own Affections As if one speared at John who is He that Sits upon the Throne He would have answered what needs you spear Is there any in Heaven or Earth in my Estimation Worthy to be a King but He and to Sit upon a Throne but He and to take a Crown but He upon His Head The Saints sets ay Christ His alone they set Him ay above all Speak of Kings to them but Christ is out of play So Cant. 2. The Kirk Meeting with the Watchmen saith Saw ye Him whom my Soul loveth What kend the Watchmen Him whom her Soul loveth For she might have loved a Lown or a Harlot or an Idol-god or the World But she measureth the Watchmen by her Self there was none in her Mind but Christ And therefore she needed not to tell them as she thought So Mary Magdalen John 20. 15 says to the Gardiner as she thought Sir if ye have born Him hence tell me where ye have laid Him She tells not what Him taking as granted none was so much in her Mind as Christ Nay I pray you let the same Mind be in you that was in John Let Christ be to your Soul the Pearl of the Ring Amongst all Kings to us Christ should be made High and Esteemed as He the Only He that is Worthy to Sit on the Throne So Canticles 5. He is to the Kirk the Chief among ten thousand Gather all the Angels and all the Saints in Heaven and Earth together Christ is too Good to be their Captain And indeed what is all that sits on a Throne It must be Infinitly more in Him And what Glory is in the World is far more in Him Take all the Roses in the Earth and put them all in one that would be a Dainty Thing and Sight Now what are all these to Christ No more than a Nettle to the fairest Rose Fy upon the Tasteless Love of Men that never Loveth Jesus Christ and yet falleth in Love with Lusts They Love Gold Riches and Honour and puts Christ to a Backside ay Christ gets not his own amongst us we Commend him not neither will we match with him Thirdly I will make all Things New This is as much as all Things were Old Sinhath made all things Old Rom. 8. They are like a Woman Groaning in Child-birth with Pain and Vanity because of our Sin All the Creation are sickned because of Sin Because of our Sin Vanity came on the Sun Moon and other Creatures they Sigh under this and Pray in their kind a Mallison and a Wo to Man for Sin has made us all Miserable The Heavens that are the fairest part of the Great Web of the World waxes Old as an Garment The Prophet saith they are like an Old Clout The Water saith Let me drown Sinners they have sinned against my Lord The Fire saith Let me Burn him let me Burn Sodom for they have sinned against my Lord All Things has lost their Glory that they got in their first Creation Jesus seeth all Things gone Wrong and quite out of Order And Man fallen from his Lord and He did even with the World as a Pylot once with an Untentive Man at the Rudder stirring the Ship on an Sand-Bank he stept in quickly and turned Her incontinent or else all would have gone to Confusion So our Lord steped in when the Great Ship of this World was running on a Sand-bed The Sun and Moon looked Sad like and said They would not Serve us Our Lord Renewed them by his Death and made them all Laugh on the Elect again and gave them all a Suite of New Cloaths Drunkards Christ gave his Blessing to the Wine that ye Spew on the Walls Ye that Dishonours your Maker with your Vain Apparel ye know not what it Cost Christ Our Lord bleed to buy a Right of them that ye abuse in Vanity All that sets the World in their Hearts where the Lord should be forgets that Christ bought the World to be their Servant and not to be as their Darling and Wife that lyes in their Bosom Ye that makes the Earth and the broad Aikers of it your Souls Portion so as ye Desire no more but Land ye forget Christ that bought the World and made it New to be a Foot-stool and not a Chair for your Souls to sit down upon And if Christ has this Art to make all Things New come to Him all ye that are Old ye that has Old Hearts come Indeed Christ may get his Craft among us if we would go to Him for He makes all Things New The Devil borrows another Man's Heart for Covetousness and he has crooked it with the Thorny-Cares of this World and holled it and dung the Bottom out of it O if ye would put it in Christ's Hand he would put it in his Furnace and Melt it again and by his Art bring it out a New Heart for himself to Dwell in Alas Christ gets not his Trade or Calling amongst us But why are not our Old Hearts mended Because we handle them as a Foolish

Mother doth a Datted Bairn She will not let him go to School to Learn and why Because she dow not want him out of her Sight She will therefore never let him do well but feed him to the Gallows We dow not give away our Souls to Christ who would fain have them and easily Mend them but Lust keeps them like the Foolish Mother out of Christ's Company And Pride keeps another Man's Heart and Covetousness another Man's Heart that that Dear Craftsman Christ that made the Heart and made the Earth under our Feet New and the Mountains New yet we will not let Him make our Old Hearts New Our Souls are all hinging in Tattars Worn and Old with Sin and we dow not put them in Christ's Hand that would make them Whole and Cleanse them Fy upon thee that thy Garden was Cursed in Adam's Days to bring forth Nettles and Thorns and is Blessed to bring out Fruit in Christ and thy Soul gets not so much Good of Christ as thy Yard It is made New and thy Soul remains Old and Christ gets not his Craft among us He bids John write these Things about the State of the Glorified and calls them Faithfull and True He would not Intrust his Word to Man's Memory and Conscience He will have it written Blasphemous Papists laugh not at this nor call the Pope's Breast the Bible Here a Warrand for the written Scripture But indeed it tells us that Mans Falshood wore his Conscience had his Conscience been a Faithfull Register there should have been no need of a written Bible But now the Lord has lippened more to Dead Paper than to a Living Mans Soul Our Conscience now under Sin has not been a Good Bible Because Man is ready to run away from his Conscience because what is written on our Conscience as that there is a GOD a Judgement a Heaven or Hell Satan and Sin comes in as Two False Witnesses and blots our that and writes that in the Fool's Heart that says there is no GOD And there is many Holes in our Souls the Word of GOD comes in and runs out again at back spouts except Jesus make their Soul Water-fast so that the Word of GOD may Dwell in them plentifully Colos. 3. 16. Is not our Hearts compared to a Field wherein the Preacher sows the Seed Mat. 13. and the Black Spirits of Hell comes and gathers up Christ's Wheat O but there are many running out Souls and much need we have of a written Bible and therefore make much of the written Word and pray GOD to Copy his Bible and to write a New Book of his Doctrine in our Hearts and put it in the Conscience as he directs Jer. 31. 1. Of his Prophesie 2. A Description 3. A Promise of Matter Christ says to John It is done That is Exponed in Rev. 16. and 17. The World is ended so speaks Christ of the World and Glory of it passeth away in the Twinkling of an Eye and Christ cryeth to those that has the World in both their Arms It is done It is a past Thing there is no more of it It is but a word to our Lord he said Let all Things be and they were He said Let all Things be and they are at an end And we are beginning with the World as if it would be evermore ours and our Lord says in a Moment let it be plucked from them and it is done It is no for nothing that the taking down of this Inns of Heaven and Earth is touched in so few words It is done For it is an Easie Thing for the Almighty to take the Staffes in his own Hand that holdeth up this Fair Tent and when he pulleth it he Garreth it come down with a Titt So Rev. 4. 7. Four Angels is brought in holding the four Winds in their Hands as if they had the World in their Hands and as if they had it ready to Fold it up as a Sheet And O! what a fighting and business do they make to get a Clout of this Sheet He starring out his Eyes and he setting out his Neck for a piece of this Hollie Clout and Sheet and for a Gloib of the Earth But see Rev. 6. 14. The Heavens shall depart away like a Scroll of Parchment that is rolled together and the Fair Stories thereof are like Figs with the shake of the Almighty's Arm they shall fall together to the Ground and what more with a Touch of the Almighty's Hand or a Put of his Little Finger with the Blast of his Mouth saying It is done The Cupples of the Walls of the House cometh down Now I cannot but speak of Fools that has their Heads full of Wind-Mills and crys it is beginning and to Morrow shall be as this Day and much more abundant Isaiah 56. And there is no end of Buying and Building I came not here to bide any Body be Unthrifty but not to be like Bairns building Sandy Bourocks at a Water-side when presently a Speat of Water comes and spills all their Sport or a Showre chases them in from their Play Men are even bigging Castles in the Air In very deed we are like Bairns holding the Water at a River-side with their Hand they think Daft Things they hold the Water while in the mean time it runs throw their Fingers And what says GOD of Honour Riches Pleasure Lands Fair Houses Sums of Money Even that in a word all is done Ask of them that had the World once at Will and had broad Lands and what is to the fore And what is to the fore of so many Thousands Nothing but their Name And what if their Name he Lost too What has the World of them but their Name And what is that Ten or Eleven or Twelve Letters of the A B C and for their Bodies howbeit they were Living Kingdoms would not content them and yet the Clay in which the Bodies are Dissolved would not now fill a Glove I think that a True Word and a Strange spoken Word Isa 40. 22. GOD sits in the Circle of the Heaven and all the World are as Grashoppers We even Creep like Grashoppers up and down the Globe of this Earth and cry to Men of the Vanities of all Things while Death come like a Little Common Thief without any Dinn or Feet and plucks them away and there is no more of them and then they say it is done All Men will say it is True that I say But I think to be Dead ere they believe it or be brought to Hate the World I think the World is the Devil 's Great Herry-water-net that has Taken Thousands and Slain them Ye say ye are sure of it Then I say ye are a Dyeted Horse for Heaven The Second Thing that is in the Verse is a Description of Christ I Am Alpha and Omega the Beginning and the End Our Lord here being to make an Offer of the Water of Life He first sheweth what He is even