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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44559	A plain discourse shewing how we are to walk after the Lord's Supper necessary for every communicant. From I Col. 10. That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing. Being the substance of several sermons preached to a congregation in Hatton-Garden. By John Horsman, an unworthy servant of Jesus Christ.	Horsman, John, fl. 1698.	1698 (1698)	Wing H2871A; ESTC R219052	49,125	155

and bountifully Communicate to the Necessities of the Poor Saints at Jerusalem they did to their Power nay they did beyond their Power their Charity was larger than their Ability thus open-handed and open-hearted were these Macedonians Where shall we find such Charitable Professours in our days Well then this they did And was this all that they did No they did not only give the greatest parts of their Estates towards the Relief of the poor distressed Saints but they gave their own selves unto the Lord. This they did not as we hoped that is * Erasm Multo amplius quam sper are audebamus much more than we could hope they exceeded our hopes and expectations But wherein why Quia non suas tantum facultates habuerunt expositas sed seipsos impendere parati fuerunt † Calvin sayes one Because they were ready not only to bestow their Goods but to offer also themselves They gave themselves sayes he first to the Lord and then to us by the will of God The giving of their Estates towards the relief of the Saints was highly commendable in them Their relieving others was very well especially when they were so low themselves But this was not all there was still some thing higher than this they gave themselves to the Lord. To give their Estates was vety much but to give themselves was much more and this was that which was given by these Believers Non solum res suas sed semetipsos dederunt domino quasi sacrificium immaculatum * Anselm They did not only give their Substance but Themselves unto the Lord as an unspotted undefiled Sacrifice Now to this great work and business of giving up our selves to the Lord I would hope there be none of us strangers to it who have this day been sitting down at our Lord's Table I would hope that this hath been in some measure done by every one of us before we did first venture to sit down at this Table Else from the time we first ventured upon this Ordinance we have been eating and drinking Damnation to our selves All that draw nigh to this Table who have not first given themselves to the Lord Jesus Christ are unfit and unworthy Guests indeed We find that these Macedonians first gave themselves unto the Lord before they sat down in Church-fellowship and Communion They first gave themselves unto the Lord and then to us by the will of God They first joyned themselves to the Lord before they joyned in this great Ordinance of Communion And this I have reason to hope concerning every one of you that before you did venture upon this Solemn Ordinance of the Lord's Supper that you were such as had solemnly and seriously given up your selves to the Lord Jesus Christ But yet there are none of us so much given up to Christ but we may be still more given up to him Alas there is a great deal of Carnality and Corruption and Unhelief in the best and holyest on this side Heaven which is the occasion of frequent backslidings and Apostacys from God And often times puts us upon doing those things that are very much unbecoming the Dedication of our selves to the Lord too much harkening to the whisperings of the Old Man Too much complyance with the Solicitations of the Flesh Top great an Adherence to the World and Conformity to the Vanities and Pleasures to the Fooleries and Fopperies and Fashions and Customs thereof Too much Self-seeking Self-love and Self-pleasing all which are wonderful unbecoming this Serious and Solemn Dedication of our selves to the Lord Jesus Christ Therefore there is great need that this work be often and frequently renewed It is not enough that it be done once but it must be done often and daily It ought not to suffice us that we be in some measure given up to Christ but we must still be more and more given up to him Daily Backslidings call for frequent and daily Renewals of our Dedication David renewed the Dedication of his House after Absalom's Sins and also renewed the Dedication of his Person after his own Foul and Personal Miscarriages Times of great Affliction call for the Renewal of our Dedication Thus when Jacob was reduced to great straits and knew not what to do then he sets upon the Renewing the Dedication of himself to God If God says he will be with me in the way that I shall go and will give me bread to eat and rayment to put on c. then shall the Lord be my God Gen. 28.20 21. Again renewed Mercys call for renewed dedication of our selves to God And lastly great dutys call for this renewal of our dedication Every time we Pray we are to renew our dedication But in Sacramental work we must do it in a more solemn and explicit manner not only before and at but after that Ordinance as coming under new and fresh Obligations and Engagements to be the Lords Thus much for the Exhortation Present your Bodies a living Sacrifice holy acceptable to God that is give up your whole selves Souls and Bodies to the Lord. Now the Argument or motive by which he presseth it is the Mercies of God in that Rom. 12.1 I beseech you Brethren by the Mercys of God that ye present your Bodies c. The Mercys of God are a great Argument or Motive to press us to this very thing of giving up our selves to God The Temporal but especially the Spiritual Mercys of God he doth not say Mercy but Mercies in the Plural number because they are many viz. Election of Grace Calling to Christ Justification by Faith Sanctification by the Spirit By all these Mercies which are every one of them more worth than a thousand Worlds he beseecheth them to give up or present themselves to God As if an indulgent compassionate Mother should beseech her child to do something by the womb that bare him by the paps that gave him suck by the knees that dandled him by the hands that fed him by all her tender compassions and indulgence towards him Certainly the heart of this child must be harder than any Flint not to yeild to her it would argue a temper very ungrateful not to comply with her So it would argue our hearts very hard and our tempers very ungrateful not to yeild to God when he that might condemn us doth intreat and beseech even by those tender Mercies whereby he begat us pardoned us called us renewed and saved us If Love and Kindness and Mercy will not win us and prevail upon us pray what will So the love of the Lord Jesus Christ his love in coming into the World in assuming our Nature his love in doing for us and dying for us and suffering for us is a great Motive and Argument to perswade us to give up our selves and all that we are and have fully and seriously and solemnly to him in token of our gratitude and thankfulness And O that the sense and feeling and

together as those that be well agreed God and the Soul holding a most delightful converse with each other whereas there was a shiness before now there is access with the greatest freedom and boldness Hereby Death and he that had the power of Death that is the Devil with all Principalities and Powers are subdued the Kingdom and Interest of Sin and Satan overthrown in the Soul and freedom from spiritual thrauldom is obtained The Son having made us free we are become free indeed These are great priviledges and O that our esteem of them were some way answerable to the greatness of them Tho' we come easily by them yet they cost Christ dear to purchase He was at a greater expense to Redeem one Soul than he was to create a whole World the one was done by the word of his Power he spake and it was done but the other is done by the blood of his heart and he must dye before it be done His life must be laid down a life more worth than all the lives of Men upon Earth or Angels in Heaven They came freely unto us but he must dye and suffer to purchase and procure them O that our Souls may with Mary magnifie the Lord who hath regarded the low estate of his servants for he that is mighty hath done great things for us 3. Another way by which we are to express our Thankfulness is by rendering again according to the Benefits we have received But when F speak of rendering back again according to the benefit received I do not mean in a way of recompense but in token of our Thankfulness Alas we are in no capacity of recompensing or making him amends for his kindness to us his love in doing and dying for us infinitely exceeds all our returns There is more proportion betwixt the light and heat of a Spark to the light and heat of the Sun than there is between his kindness and our returns When we have done all we can and suffered all we can for him it is nothing to what he hath done and suffered for us But tho' we cannot make proportionable returns yet we are to make suteable and becoming returns for the Mercys and Benefits we have received from him It is said in 2 Chron. 32.25 That Hezekiah rendered not according to the benefit he had received That is he did not make suteable and becoming returns for the great benefits he had received viz. that wonderful Victory he obtained over the Assirian Army mentioned in the 25. vers And that miraculous restoration and recovery from a very dangerous illness and the confirmation of that work by a strange and supernatural motion of the Sun All which instead of keeping him low and humble probably raised him up to an high conceit and opinion of himself as if these great things had been done if not by his own power yet at least for his Piety and goodness And instead of walking humbly with his God and giving the glory of all intirely and wholly to God he took the honour to himself and vainly shewed his Riches and precious Treasures to the Babylonish Ambassadors Now this was not a return any way suteable or becoming the great benefits he had so lately received So that I say tho' we cannot make proportionable returns yet we must look to it that we make suteable returns to our loving Jesus for the great and wonderful benefits we are made partakers of in and thro' him That as his heart was enlarged in love and pity and conpassion towards us so our hearts should be enlarged in returns to him We should be putting that question to our own Souls which holy David did to his Psal 116.12 What shall we render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards us But here it may be asked what is it that we ought to render unto the Lord Jesus for those expressions of his love in doing and suffering for us and for all the great and blessed benefits that do flow and proceed from hence To this I Answer We must and ought to render our whole selves to him Rom. 12.1 I beseech you therefore Brethren by the mercys of God that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice Holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service Here is an Exhortation and the motive or argument by which he doth urge it The Exhortation and that is to present our Bodies a living Sacrifice Holy acceptable to God or to give dedicate devote or offer up our whole selves Souls and Bodies unto God It is true the Body is only mentioned but the Soul must not be excluded it is a Synechdochical expression where a part is put for the whole That then which we are to render unto Christ in token of our Thankfulness and gratitude is our whole selves Souls and Bodies all that we are and have to live to him to suffer for him when ever he shall call us out thereto to be saved by him and not only so but to be ruled and governed by him Submitting our selves to the conduct of his wife Providence and to the laws and rules of his most Spiritual Government That is to say when no Lust or Corruption bears Rule or Sway in our hearts but when every thing within us and every thing without us is captivated and brought over to the obedience to the Lord Jesus When Christ by his Spirit makes entrance into our hearts and takes full possession of all the powers and faculties of our Souls and of all the members of our Bodies that whereas they have once been strongly and deeply engaged in the ways and service of Sin they become now as deeply and strongly engaged for Christ and in his ways and Service As when we see a Person in the full height and carreer of sin prosecuting with all his might his carnal corrupted desires and designes at the beck and command of that corrupt Principle that is within him employing that Reason and Understauding and Parts which God hath endowed him with in the contrivance of any sinful thing or action his power and strength for the perfecting and accomplishing and obtaining what he had so contrived and plotted why such a Person may be said to be given up to his Lusts and Corruptions but not to Christ So on the other hand where we see a Person at the beck and command of Christ employing his Reason and Understanding his Strength and Parts for the Honour and Glory of Christ obedient to and complying with every call and command of Christ industriously prosecuting the Glory of Christ as the great end of Life heartily submitting to his Laws and Commands as the great and only Rule of Life why such a Person may truly be said to be given up to Christ The Apostle Paul in 2 Cor. 8.5 speaks there of Persons that had given up themselves to Christ and speaks it in praise of the Macedonians This they did says he Why what did they do why they did liberally