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 â— 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 â—rat pro noâ—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 sumpâ—a quae utrinque admotis manibus sublevantur Beza 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so Luk. 10.40 The Greek worâ—â—'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 * ChristuÌ„ flevisse legimus rifisse nunquam Salvian l. 6. Cum Spiritus hominis suspiâ—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
soules to cleanse and sanctifie them to his own and his Fathers use p. 115. 4. Christ loves to save the soule harmlesse preserve and keepe it alive Satan loves to destroy but Christ loves to save page 116 117 Christs affection to his calling for action from them for him Ibid. 1. He 's active for you prayes for you pleads for you at the Throne of grace night and day against the accuser of the Brethren page 118. 2. Satans vassalls are active for him and 't is a most abhominable thing and not to be paralell'd that children of darknesse should doe more for their Father then do children of light for theirs Ibid. PART 2. CHAP. 1. CHrist-like affections working toward Christ page 1. The rise of this 1. Divine love is active and it acts towards Christ for fulnesse p. 2. 2. Christ is the Center to divine Love and arising aloft in him it ha's rest and the soule it selfe is then a serene Spirit page 3. 3. Every thing hath its end and moves towards that love has its end too thitherward it moves Grace has no other end but God glory Love is a grace and a great one full of heavenly motion page 4. 4. Divine Love is the Divine nature and cannot be confin'd in man who is but an heape of earth 't will break forth upward till it become Glory page 5. 5. Best intelects covet best objects Christians have the best intelects therefore they love Christ page 6. Christ how the best object of Love Divine made plaine in three particulars 6. Divine Love goes out workes towards Christ by a Divine instinct it ascends upward for it can doe no other page 8. 7. A spirituall soule is righteous seeth 't is a righteous thing to love Christ see 's some must love Christ shee knowes none has more cause then shee Ibid. 8 A divine soule is reasonable seeth 't is but reasonable to love him who loved her when shee had nothing in her worthy of love page 9. CHAP. 2. CHristians shewing love to Christ and how in twelve remarkable things page 9 c. CHAP. 3. LOvers of Christ how known 1. Such as love Christ see a motive in Christ to stir up love it being the emminencie of an object that ottracts love page 29. 2. A soul that loves Christ thirsts after his presence has never enough of his communion with her p. 30 31. 3. One that loves Christ feares to disprease him true Lovers are loth to offend those they prize and love page 33. 4 True love is of the person of Christ were he without portion or priviledges A Christ under shame as well as Glory a Christ abas'd as well as exalted page 33 34. 5. One that loves Christ would fain he doe like Christ p. 35 36. 6. They love Christs friends as the object of his delight p. 37 38. CHAP 4. THe passage of Divine Love as it works towards Christ may be obstructed and how cleared in six particulars page 39 c. CHAP. 5. CHrist keeping love alive in cbristians and how shewed in many particulars page 50 c. Incentives to love Christ what in ten particulars handled at large page 59 c. PART 3. CHAP. 1. VVHat things agree to make up a right sigt naturall p. 3. Visions of Heaven glorious and why Ibid. They have in them God a glorious object Christ a glorious medium and a light super-sensuall supernaturall and glorious too page 4 c. Right sight of Christ what 1. To see him as he is p. 11 12 13. 2. Right sight of Christ is experimentall page 14. The good arising from such a sight of Christ what express'd in four particulars page 4 c. The evill of the contrary not to see Christ ezperimentally clear'd by four things also page 18 c. 3. Right sight of Christ is to see Christ as a man is seene of Christ p. 21. How a Christian is seene of Christ in two particulars Ib. A perswasion to looke up to Jesus and why p. 23. Incentives to that glorious work what 1. All heires of everlasting life long'd to see Christ before their death and had their desires page 24. The language of a Christ-less man or woman at the Judgement-day what page 25. 2. Mans necessity calls for this hee must minde a Jesus see him by faith for he wants him and there is not another page 26. 3. A right sight of Christ gives a right sight of selfe and selfes estate it being most certain that men never see themselves so well as when they most see Jesus Christ page 28. Sight of Christ what sight of selfe it gives In him we may see what we have been are shall be page 29 c. 4. All right sight of Christ has in 't a sustaining nature a heart-relieving vertue a soule-reviving ability things of Heaven being all supporting much more Christ himselfe page 34. 5. 'T will encrease inward joy a joy of heart which excells the joy of harvest page 37 c. 6. 'T will strengthen patience under the crosse and chstaizement for Christ page 40 41 42. CHAP. 2. THe likenesse betwixt the 1. and 2d. or the naturall and spiritual birth what in eight particulars page 43 c. Four reasons why men should esteem it a greater priviledge to bee borne twice then to be borne but once page 56 57 58 59. How God brings in and brings up returning sinners 1. He principles them 2. Acts them 3. builds them 4. Constrmes them page 60. How God principles those bee will save Ibid. Christ's act by which he drawes out those principles what 1. Illumination page 61. What work light makes in a darke Soule Ibid c. 2. Humiliation page 63. How Christ humbles men kindly page 64 65. To what end Christ humbles layes low chosen vessels page 66. How Christ builds Christians 1. by keeping them and all their graces in continuall action p. 74. 2. By infusing strength suitable to opposition page 75. What Christ in building helps his people to live above whilst they live in the body 1. Above corruption 2. Above temptations 3. Above gracious evidences 4. Above glorious manifestations of his Fathers love how page 79. c. Christ confirms his how p. 87. The effects of such stability of heart in that respect what page 88. The faith of Saints concerning this what page 90. CHAP. 3. CItizens of heaven are strangers here What it is to be a stranger here 4. particulars of that page 92 c. Whence it is that Christ lets his live so far from home that God so kind a Father puts his children into such an unkind world page 105. 1. To put a difference betwixt Earth and Heaven 2. To glimpse out Glory to a faithlesse people page 107. 3. To save others alive page 108 109. 4. To dispose them for higher things and how page 110 111. 5. That grace might have a being as well as glory page 112. Strangers on Earth how knowne
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR The Yernings of CHRISTS bowels towards his languishing FRIENDS Wherein the sincerity 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. Minister of the Gospel of God I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood live Yea I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood live Behold thy time was the time of Love yea I entered into a Covenant with thee and thou becamest mine Ezek. 16.6.8 This is a great mystery but I speak concerning Christ and the Church Ephes 5.32 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Isocr Orat. ad Demon. Non requiescit amor in quacunque superficiali adeptione amati sed quaerlt amatum perfectè habere quasi ad intima illius perveniens c. Aqu. 1. 2ae 28. a. 2. LONDON Printed by Matthew Symmons in the yeare 1647. To the Right Honourable Philip Lord Wharton Baron of Wharton Right Honourable VNexpressible unconceivable are those cordiall joyes which proceed from the in-commings of Jesus Christ upon the Soul and her out-goings towards the Messiah againe For is' t not an heaven on earth so to commerce with Christ what but this may bee compar'd to that Heaven above where God gives out himselfe in fullest measures begetting like motions and operations in the glorified Saints What gives the Saints mercies and morsels a right relish save this a Mea non prosunt sine me nec tua prosunâ— sine te Bern. Christs comming in upon as hand in hand with them and making them good to us and can any thing but his absence mar the tast of mercies what shall I say he that hath Christ wants not * Is habet omnia qui habet habentem omnia he that wants Christ inherits not what he seemeth to have What 's good to us without God b Tolle meum et telle Dâ—â— and what can be bad to us when we enjoy him c Quid si sine domo et non sine domino sine veste si non sine fide sine sibo sine lecto et non sine Christo what the Father said of Joy that may I say of the Joy-maker and much more There is so great a sweetness in heavenly joy that if one small drop thereof should fall into Hell it would swallow up all the bitterness of that Tophet d Tanta est dulcedo caelestis gaudij ut si una guttula difflueret in infernum totam a maritudinem inferni absorberet Aug. Christ being had makes bitter things sweet rough things smooth and massie things light Oh! what a Jesus have we do's not the Saints lothnesse to bee rent from him speake out sweetly what an one he is to such as sit under his shade with delight e Qui semel Christi dulce dinem gustaverit deficile ab illo seperari sustinet Bern. Oh the power purity immensity and perenity of his love mercie and goodness how precious a thing is' t to have and to bee had of such a precious Christ Certainely time will discover it 't will be known at the time of his glorious appearance to judg the secrets of closest hearts to be honoured of all that believe Of which number I take the boldnesse to repute your Honour to be in the front among persons of Honour And what do I more then revive the ancient report which hath gone forth concerning your Honour many yeares since f Simulata non diu durant what bad men say it skils not sure I am good men speak you a man of a moderate spirit one who loves truth for the truths sake how you have done do still countenance the godly part of any party I need not tel the World but that which do's most ennoble your Honor and make you most famous is God's speaking out his approbation of you to your own soul for that only is Circumcision which is of the heart he is a right ChristiaÌ„ whose praise is not of men only but of God Sir I humbly present you with this small Treatise why should I doubt of your favourable acceptance in whose noble breast such wisedom ingenuity is found Let him doubt that lists for I will not the book is your honors such as it is if men mestake not it discovers hidden secret passages and proceedings betwixt Christ the Soul what 's more reviving to a spirituall person In a word this is but a small acknowledgement of your Honours worth yet future opportunities may cause to abound goe on in wel-doing noble Patriot and prosper reconcile the differences of Saints doe justice love mercy walk humbly with God you may doe much good by your good example For as the Father spake an Excellent Lord is better then an excellent Law Thus shal you live so as that you need not feare to die and propagate Gods glory with your own name fame to future generations Now that it may be the lot of your honorable self with your noble Consort and all your Posterity to prize Christ live in him be saved by him stated in everlasting glory with him shall be the desire prayer of him who is Your Honours humbly devoted to serve you in the things of Christ SAM MOORE TO THE CHRISTIAN READER THE great and glorious GOD whom we adore Thom 1â— parte q. 20. Artic 4. is love and what is best he loves most His love is great to his worke his people his truth but unto CHRIST it 's above all yea above the whole universe Raynerij Pantheolog Tom 1º p. 129. The greater any Good is the greater 't is belove'd The more neare acceptable like excellent lasting perfect any good is by so much it 's the greater The LORD CHRIST in all these he 's the nearest to God his humane nature is united to the divine Iohn 1.14 Mar. 16.19 Ephes 1.20 21 hee sits at the right hand of Majestie in glory his acceptablenesse was emphatically twice witnessed from Heaven Matth. 3.17.17 ch 5. Iohn 16.23 Ephes 1.6 This is my beloved Sonne in whom I am well pleased and it s for his sake that wee are accepted As for likeness the foundation strength of love for wheresoever's the greatest likenesse Hebr. 1.3 there 's the greatest love Hee is the expresse Image of the Father and his glory doth fully resemble the Fathers glory for excellencie Iohn 1.14 it 's his transcendently hee 's the chiefest among tenne thousand Câ—â— 10. Iohn 1.14 the only begotten Hebr. 1.6 Angels must adore him and all men must give him equall honour with the Father Iohn 5.23 Hee 's the most excellent and lasting good without any seede of corruption Acts 2.31 Esa 9.6 the everlasting Father Hebr. 13.8 The same for ever full of all perfections all the treasures of wisdome and knowledg were in him hee had all
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nocumenta Documenta Schola cruis Schola lucis Detrimenta corpotum incrementa virtutum Greg. Iam. 1.17 and hee will not suffer his faithfulnesse to faile towards them Psal 99.32 23. Christ can scourge his friends for and from their sinnes as well as for the exercise of their graces and yet love them dearly constantly and ardently In him is no variablenesse nor shadow of turning Not so much as a shadow colour of alteration or mutation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he will in no wise cast you out Joh. 6.37 and he that escapes the Lords affliction may suspect his owne adoption 1 Qui excipiturd munero flagellatorum excipitur à numero filiorum Trees are rooted the more firmely by shaking m Deus unicum habet filium sine peccato nullum sine flagello The Persian Kings shunned familiarity with their Subjects and were seldome seene that they might be the more honoured n Persona Regis sub specie Majestatis occulitur Iust l. 1. so Christ serv's Christiās 1. 'T is not length of time that can worke or occasion an alteration in his love It 's everlasting I have loved thee with an everlasting love Hos 2.19 Jer. 31.3 Behold I will betroth thee unto me for ever Wee may through tract and length of time forget and be forgotten As Joseph forgot his Brethren and was forgotten of them Length of time may either wholly weare out out affections or else coole and lessen their heat and strength towards our familiars But Christ's love tak's not cold is not cooled towards his 't is alwayes firme free full fervent Heb. 13.5 Hee hath said I will ne'r leave thee nor forsake thee The words are emphaticall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there is a duplication of the subject of the Promise I will not leave I will not forsake and a multiplication of Negatives o Est negationis conduplicatio ut fit vehementior pollicitatio Estius in locum there are five negatives in the promise by which he intimates he will not yea he will not surely he will not forsake his servants he will never totally reject them he will not utterly forsake them I will not leave you comfortlesse or as Orphanes as children without parents p 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Non descrit etiamsi dese rere videatur non deserit etiamsi deserat Austin Nam non dicessit Deus quando recessit Secondly no distance of place were it never so great yea although 't were as great as that which is betwixt the lowest earth and highest heaven yet cannot this part Christ and Christians or impare the strength of his affections towards them worke the least alteration in his love yea even now although his glorious Majesty possesseth the heavens yet his heart is where 't was 't is towards his Saints on earth You blessed babes and friends of Christ your head in the heavens prayes for you pleads for you takes notice of you and all your sufferings he 's in Heaven enter'd before you but 't is to make way for you fit a place for you and preserve your roomes till you come assure your selves he cannot forget you doe not you forget him Thirdly nor can strength of deformity worke a change in his love he can love Job on the dunghill with his filthy carcase Jerymiah in the d'ungeon with his rotten ragges q Anima quae nunc pannoso vestitu servili habitu tegi putatur in regno Coelorum Regina nobilis Regi astans reperitur Basil l. de vera Virg. Lazarus whil'st begging with his running sores Jonah in the Whale's belly though his head 's bound up with weeds Abel tumbling in his own bloud Paul and Silas in the stocks with contemptible chaines as he is no respecter of persons so neither is hee a respecter of conditions hee ne'r withholds his affection from his people in affliction CHAP. III. Of the degrees or rather the immensities of of Christ's unsearchable love INfinitnesse ha's no demensities by finite considerations Christ's love is of an infinite nature There 's a measure in every thing sait's our Proverb but Christ's love out-vies the worlds Proverb 't is without me asure ha's no measure in it It 's nothing above Geometrie that 's an Art that may teach to measure the earth but the Heavens are not so farre from the Earth as the degrees of Christ's love are above all Arts and parts of men Can you measure him who ha's measur'd the waters in the hollow of his hand Isaiah 40.12 and meeted out Heaven with a span Christ's love's immense knowing Christians can tell you so and that no mortall can describe its measure we 'l illustrate its greatnesse a little as the earthlinesse of the instrument will permit and leave the rest to be revealed in Heaven to all heavenly minds THe degrees of love as well as the truth strength force and ardencie thereof are as the relation is in which it acts which may be shadowed out thus First Christ loves more then friends there may be a knitting of soules among friends as in Jonathan and David but did you ever heare of a knitting of natures 1 Sam. 18.1 vide 2 Sam 1.26 friends of Christ Christ hath knit your natures to his you are one nature as well as one flesh are you glad on 't can the two natures of two friends be united in one person Christ hath don 't this is the mystery of perfect love The Law commands love thy neighbour as thy selfe but extends no farther but Christ hath done a great deale more marke beleeving soule Christ's love to thee hath excell'd the love of friends For Christ lov'd thee not onely as himselfe as his Father commanded but also more then himselfe as his love constrain'd Hath hee not given his owne life to save thine was not his soule wearie to the death to refresh thine under the powers of that death which is death indeed 't is the second death I meane to which the first is but a shadow Hee was as a sheep led to the slaughter to free his sheep from such shambles I lay downe my life for my sheep that 's the heavenly voice doe you heare it you sheep of Christ Joh. 10.15 Can Paul crie up some that would for his good have pull'd out their right eyes so well they lov'd him oh sanctified soules you have greater cause to crie up Christ for hee would and did draw out both his eyes yea his precious soule to doe you good both now and in your latter end also so well be lov'd you and he is the same hee was you blessed babes of Christ Secondly Friends may peradventure die for friends and that 's the greatest love that man can shew Joh. 15.13 but Christ's love is more he died for foes r Non existentes immo resistentes Ber. sup Cant. ser 20. Rom. 5.8 Christ can bleed freely to make a resisting rebell live sweetly the life
2.14 15. Before this God and his people by election were twaite did disagree and can two walke together except they agree if they could what comfort should a soule have to walk and worke with an Enemie trust himselfe in the hand of an Enemie Now this blessed act of Christ's love hath made God and his people friends hath taken away the wall of partition so that now we may goe boldly and freely to the Throne of grace * Heb. 4.16 through Christ who before durst not see his face Now that there was but one and had not he undertooke it there had been no other 't was greatest love that he in mans distresse would doe it There are two reasons of his fitnesse in this particular respect First he onely could discover how great the breach was that sinne had made Secondly he only could make the atonement being in favour with God the Lords equall Secondly that hee be able to beare the deserts of the offendor onely Christ was able to beare the just demerits of sinne that wrath of a Divine Majesty that was due to sinne Alas humanity cannot stand under the wrath of such Diety a little displeasure of God you see can breake us in pieces beat us to powder Wee cannot tell how to behave our selves under small afflictions a little paine in the head tooth heart bellie back or sides casts us downe when as all the paines and evills of this life are lesse then the least of all our sinnes how much lesse then could humanity stand under the wrath due to every sinne of one person nay to every sin of every person It must be a God as well as a man that was able to doe this This Christ did hee stood under the sinnes of all the elect that ever did or ever shall survive in this inferiour world Thinke of it then was there ever any sorrowes like to his sorrowes * Lam. 1.12 what a burthen bare hee The Church useth the speech to Christ when she was under but small suffering but might not Christ to dampe the Spirit of murmuring under a light Crosse have said so to her and all her children You just ones you see his fitnesse to die for you Thirdly that he be able to satisfie for the offence none else could satisfie Divine Justice and a just Law for sinne ô who then would sinne sith such suffering was required for satisfaction Some men will feare to offend against the civill Law if they perceive that any great satisfaction is required any great mulct inflicted for the breach of the Law Hence murthers rapines buggeries are not so many as they would be because the Law exacts no lesse then life in such a case and pray tell me what 's the life of man to the life of God of Christ it's nothing yet some out of naturall tendernesse will weep for the death of a man and that in great measure but have not one teare for Christ thinke not of him are every day striving as much as in them lies to crucifie the Lord of Glory afresh and put him to open shame by their sinnes If it be not so what meaneth the breaking out of your piercing sinnes flinty hearts ô foolish and unkind will yee thus requite the Lord and the love of Christ Fourthly that hee be without sinne he that is a sinner can but die for his owne sinne as in the case of two malefactors the suffering of the one cannot acquit the other because they are both under one and the same condemnation Christ was thus afflicted for your sakes Silver and gold was not the price of our soules corruptible thing 's were invalid to this purpose 't was precious bloud * 1 Pet. 1.18 not of a sinner but of one that saves from sinne a Lamh of God without blemish spotlesse * ver 19. Fifthly that he personate the party offending so as that the same perfection of nature may fall for sinne which fell in and by sinne Christ was the common person personating as a second Adam the first Adam and all his posterity offering the same nature for sinne which fell by sinne from the patterne of perfection God himselfe By man came death and by man came the resurrection from the dead * 1 Cor. 15.21 man for man person for person nature for nature name for name * ver 45. Sixthly that the satisfaction be eqivolent to the indemnitie suffered and sustain'd God suffered by the losse of his Image in man so as that nothing except the like in value to what was lost is of equall value in the Lords esteeme Thus did Christ and much more for the Elect he gave to his Father a more refined and better accomplished nature then Adam lost for Adam was left mutable and so he might either stand or fall But Christ hath so ordered the matter for Christians as that that part of the Divine nature which they have is uncapable of any such mutation g Qui operatur ut accedamus operatur ne discedamus Aug. de bon persev c. 7. Phil. 1.6 sooner may the Heavens bow downe to the earth and the earth it selfe ascend to the Heavens darknesse it selfe be made as the Light then that grace can cease to be grace till it becomes glory Satisfaction must be plenary First to put a glory upon Justice the Justice of him who exacts the reparation and that for the setting forth 1. The austerity of Justice 2. The impartiality of it First thus it pleased the Father to bruise Christ for sinners to set forth the austerity of his Justice in this particular whereas he would not be content with a slight satisfaction or payment God will have one worthy for another yea a person ten thousand times more worthy to satisfie for the wrong than was he that did the wrong for the first man was of the earth earthie who did the wrong the second man was the Lord from Heaven * 1 Cor. 15.47 who made the satisfaction Secondly the impartiality of Justice in discovering that the most high will not connive at sinne no not in his owne and onely begotten Sonne the Sonne of his dearest love Rom. 8.32 he spared not his owne Sonne but delivered him up for us all so that if the dearest Sonne of his dearest love will take upon him the sins of the elect he must beare their chastizement Hee was wounded for their transgressions and bruised for their iniquities the chastizement of their peace was laid on him and by his striyes they are healed * Isa 53.5 Could not Christ escape for sinne that he tooke upon him did not God spare a Sonne of love where then you sonnes of wrath can you bee safe from the hand of Justice Every man by nature is a sonne of wrath Eph. 2.3 and without this grace Christ had not been a Sonne of love oh yee sinners in Syon stand amazed at this strictnesse of God against sinne and turne not your
1. By the price they put on glory the thoughts they have of Heaven page 113. 2. By the language they speak page 114. 3. A strangers mind motion is home-ward though he lacks nothing page 116 c. The practice of S t s making good this principle and how Ibid. 4. Strangers in a strange Land content themselves only with things needful page 119. 5 Strangers ingage not themselves too much in the affairs of the natives of strange Lands page 123. How little cause Saints have to love this strange Land or be loth to leave it 1. Till then they 're far from their best friends chiefest favours they are in a farre Countrey whilst from their Fathers house page 124. Other considerations to loosen the Saints from the world p. 125 126. 2. They should not love it be loth to leave it for till then they 'l be foiled vex'd soil'd with filthy sins page 127. Saints being strangers what they should be and doe whilst ranging through this earthly region p. 128. CHAP. 4. SAints have their appointed time of change To be changed what 'T is to have a different manner of being 't is the cessation of a person or thing from being what it once was page 130. The sundry sorts of changes what in 3 particulars p. 131 132 133. 134 To be gloriously chang'd what page 135. A three-fold imployment for Saints in order to a disposing of them for their last greatest and best of changes page 136 c. Saints have need to be chang'd two reasons of that p. 140 c. CHAP. 5. GLory what page 182. What things concur to make up everlasting glory page 183 c. To be glorified compleatly what page 196 c. The glory of the soule in heaven what page 197 c. What the glory of the body shall bee in the Kingdome of heaven page 199 c. What the glory is that soule body shall possesse joyntly p. 206 c. The adjuncts of glory what page 224 c. The Errata Part 1. 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Coacreatae Some other lesser faults there bee which the Printer Corrector desire the Reader to relieve with his penne THE YERNINGS OF Christs bowells towards his languishing FRIENDS Joh. 13.1 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Having loved his own which were in the world he loved them unto the end * Quum dilex isset suos qui erant c. Montanus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 diligo simpliciter amo CHAP. I. Of the sence of the words and their usefulnesse unto all Christ-obeying Christians WHere affection is the spring of action and operation love is perfect to perpetuitie Christ act's as he is he 's with out end so is his love Things of Heaven are all lasting everlasting you may guesse at their beginnings but never at their endings The word in the originall * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 properly signifies to love something by adhering to it with the mind and heart a Suidas seu aliquem amore complector cum aliquo amicitiam colo as 1 Joh. 2 10. Mat. 6.24 cha 22.37 Mark 10.21 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so to be content and satisfied with it as that a man desires nothing else b Me aut amabis aut quo contentus sum diliges Cic. Others say 't is more then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as comâ—ounded of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 valdè 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 acquiesco quae enim diligimus in iis acquiescimus Alsied in Lexic signisicat contentum esse acquiescere Casaub in Mar. 10.21 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apud LXX Interpretes non semper pro diligere sed pro amicis blandisque verbis compellare laudare sumitur ut Cant. 1.14.2 Paral. 18.2 'T is hearty love Christ is said* to love the young man viz. hee spake friendly to him and dealt gently with him as the word there imports Blessed Messiah the Saints Saviour at his last departure from them adhered to them with all his might soule mind and strength and was so fully satisfied with them tooke such great content in them as that he desir'd no other portion besides them And thus speaking sweetly and kindly to them call's them his owne c Peculiaritèr destinatus Thess 1. v. 5. peculiaris ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cujus est certa quaedam minime cum caeteris communis idea Cajet 1 Cor 11.6 vide Bezam in loc The Lord Christ is call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God's owne Sonne quod sit filius Dei per aeternam generationem as being his peculiar portion His owne every word of Christ hath its weight every word drop's sweetnesse as the hony combe Christians you see your blessed lot you are Christ's owne and Christ is your owne This comfortable kind of speaking to Christians is very usefull in Scripture as Jesus Christ is the faithfull's owne so the faithfull are Jesus Christ's own Rom. 14.4 God is termed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the beleeving Christians owne master he shall be holden up by his owne Master for God is able to make him stand Christians have you had experience of the powerfull workings of Gods love towards you and on your Spirits and doe you feare a finall falling a partiall or totall declining from Jesus Christ and his sweetest wayes of soule-ravishing contentments Remember God's your owne he both can and will make you stand Those that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Sion that shall never be removed In generall consider Christ hath and may claime title to all by a right of dominion and so all then are Christs owne as he 's Lord of all creatures