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A43568	Christ displayed as the choicest gift, and best master: from Joh. 4. 10. Joh. 13. 13. Being some of the last sermons preached by that faithful and industrious servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Nathaniel Haywood, sometime minister of the gospel at Ormschurch in Lancashire.	Heywood, Nathaniel, 1633-1677.	1679 (1679)	Wing H1757; ESTC R218948	147,704	290

Kings Priests Prophets Titles of Dignity Names of Honour or whatever else was ascribed to them to express their Dignity and Soveraignty they were only used ●o express those transcendent Excellencies which these personal Types did adumbrate and appear most properly to belong unto this Prince of Peace 2. So for the New Testament he is almost expressed but always intended and implied in every chapter verse line and word thereof Take away Christ out of the Gospel and there remains nothing but empty words Take Christ out of the History and it is but a meer Fable and remove him from the Doctrine thereof and it falls to the ground being without a foundation Take Christ out of the Precepts and they are not of force or a yoke too heavy for us to bear Take him out of the Promises and they are not Yea and Amen The Promises without Christ are Wells sealed up bones without marrow In the Epistles if Christ be absent there is no Grace Mercy or Peace 2. He is the prime and marrow of all things as well as of words as Austin tells us having gone through all Creatures and enquired of them for God each one of them did answer I am not he Sed per ipsum sum quem quaeris in me but I have my being from him whom thou seekest in me So if we view the whole Creatition and note the particular excellencies of every Creature we should find that all these are derived from Christ he is the pearl of the word and of the world Is there any thing praise-worthy and excellent even in our estimation which we may not find Christ comprehend the same eminently in himself as the vertue and perfection of the effect is in the cause If riches be desirable and excellent Christ is rich and Lord of all in him are unsearchable riches treasures of wisdom and knowledg If you talk of honours as riches so honours are his We behold his glory as of the only begotten Son of God When man was at first created he was created with honour and glory Psal. 8.5 but Christ is better than man in his primitive purity and original splendour not men only but Angels also worship him Heb. 1.6 Philip. 2.9 God hath highly exalted him he saith not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God hath highted him but hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 over-highted or super-exalted him and hath given him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a name above all names that is real honour above all names all expressions and above all thoughts and above all excellencies not only in this world but in the world to come O how excellent is his name in all the earth Psal. 8.1 If there be any worth in pleasures as many conceive here then is an object altogether lovely and delightful here is beauty to delight the eye sweetest musick in his voice to ravish the ear and that which pleases all the senses of the inward man Another esteemed excellency is Wisdom which Solomon saith exceedeth folly as far as light exceedeth darkness Eccles 2.13 Now herein doth the excellency of Christ chiefly appear for he was filled with wisdom Luk. 2.40 In him were hid treasures of wisdom Col. 2.3 He is the Wisdom of God and saith Counsel is mine and sound wisdom I am understanding In a word there is one excellency more and but one in this world far transcending all these that is Grace for that makes a man excellent Psal. 16.2 The righteous is more excellent more honourable than his neighbour Prov. 12.26 and procures a name better than of sons and daughters even an everlasting name that cannot be cut off Isa. 56.5 But the grace of any Christian is but as the drop to the Ocean in regard of the grace of Christ who is full of grace and truth Iohn 1.14 Grace is poured into his lips Psal. 45.2 yea such uncreated grace hath no one Christ is better than health than wealth than peace than pleasure than wisdom or grace Christ made ours by his Fathers gift and goodness hath all the sweetness comfort and happiness of all these in him and infinitely more All these are but streams that lead us to the fountain but beams that guide our eyes to that Father of lights to that Son of righteousness God reconciled God incarnate 3. Christ is the first and chiefest of all persons which raises him one degree higher in his superlative excellency 'T is reported of Apelles that at his drawing of his rare pictures of Venus among the Heathens stiled the Goddess of beauty that he assembled together the most beautiful Women of the Island of Coos comprehending in that his own work their divided perfections so to conclude this Encomium of Christ I shall collect the Eminencies of all things and persons and beings and shew that he is the chiefest of all chieftains the choicest of all choice persons in Heaven and Earth God Angels and Men of gods so called he is the chiefest nay he stands alone he is the only true and wise God 1 Tim. 1.17 Of Angels he is the chief the Angel of the Lords substantial presence Isa. 63.9 he is the Archangel 1 Thes. 4.16 the Prince an● Head of those glorious spirits Col. 2.10 the head of all principalities and powers Of men he is the prince and choicest the chiefest of ten thousand the standard-bearer among the armies of Angels and men the choice of the flock the flower the rose the glory of all the children of men yea he contains all their excellencies whereof some had one excellency some another he hath all Abraham was excellent in his faith Moses in his choice Iob in his patience David in his sincerity having a heart like Gods heart but Christ hath all eminency of grace in one some are gods but must dye like men Christ is the Prince of life that never dyes some are wise but he is wisdom it self some are strong but he is most mighty some are fair but Christ is fairer than the Sons of men Among relations he is the chief among shepherds he is the chief shepherd of our souls 1 Pet. 5.4 the good shepherd Iohn 10.11 Among Sons he is the first-begotten Son Heb. 1.6 the first-born of every creature Col. 1.15 the first-born among many brethren Rom. 8 29. still he hath the preheminence Among Prophets Priest and Kings he is the most excellent and far transcends all others he is in every respect absolutely perfect and a superlatively excellent Saviour so that there is none such no Saviour besides him this is the person whom you undervalue and make light of 3. By refusing this gift of God you do exceedingly gratifie Satan the great enemy of your souls If a man had conference with the Prince of Darkness and should make this motion to him wherein he might most serve and gratifie him I am confident it would be his only wish to such a soul above any thing in the world that he would keep at distance from Christ neither

shall call and knock and it shall not be opened Prov. 1.24 I shall add a word of admonition and serious warning to them who have not yet nor are now resolved to accept this incomparable gift of God and that in the words of the Apostle See that ye refuse not him that speaks from heav●n Heb. 12.25 yea that came down from Heaven to seek and save your lost souls Now that Christ is freely offered to you by the Gospel if you set at nought his counsel and make light of his invitations and receive the Grace of God in vain it had been better for you that you had never been born or never heard the Gospel Now that God hath proclaimed terms of peace and shewed himself so unwilling that ye should perish that he gave his only begotten Son for you and to you and exacted nothing from you but acceptance that ye might have in him eternal life If you still refuse this gift and reject this counsel remaining under unbelief it doth exceedingly aggravate your sin and judgment it makes your sin above measure sinful your sin is inexcusable your condemnation unavoidable and your punishment will be intollerable Consider what you do and be wise before it be too late you exceedingly dishonour God undervalue Christ gratifie Satan Sin most inexcusably and undo your selves utterly 1. If you do not receive and improve this gift when offered in the Gospel you do exceedingly dishonour God What greater reproach is there amongst men than to refuse a gift offered freely out of love without any ground motive or occasion from the party that is to have it or deny to accept of an invitation to a great feast or fair estate if intreated and solicited to take it 'T is a sowr unmannerliness and sawcy proud presumption to prescribe on what terms they will have or when they will not be beholding to their superiors 'T is a great dishonour to God that vile sinful dust and ashes will not accept of his gracious offer of his Son If a King should come to a Prisoner condemned by the Law to death and lying in Chains and offer to set him free or put his Son in his stead c. but he so loves his bondage and hugs his chains that he will not be delivered You cast dishonour upon all the glo●ious Attributes of God His Truth He that receives Christ gives as much glory to the Truth of God as possibly he can he sets to his seal that God is true Iohn 3.33 But he that receives not this gift believes not God and so makes him who is truth it self a lyar because he believes not the record which God gave of his Son 1 Ioh. 5.10 O what horrid indignity is this to the most faithful God! His Mercy wherein he delights which as it is above all his works so this of bestowing Christ on men is above all his mercies It is no less than spurning at bowels of mercy Rom. 2.4 and despising of riches of goodness His Power 'T is a sad diminution of the glory of his Power and Soveraignty as if he could not do what he hath promised if we accept his offers or what he hath threatned if we refuse it Abraham on the contrary was strong in faith giving glory to God being fully perswaded that what he had promised he was able to perform Rom. 4.20 His Wisdom It 's a rejecting the counsel of Heaven and contemning that unconceivable depth of wisdom that contrived a way for Mercy and Justice to meet that his Glory might be advanced and sinning and perishing man might be saved His Justice How great is the affront that sinners offer to his Justice that sinners go on to provoke him with their unbelief and wickedness and as it were dare him to punish them In a word his Infallibleness and Unchangeableness are called in question when his gracious promises are not believed and embraced men judg him a person not fit to be credited The giving of the lye is accounted the greatest injury and disgrace amongst men but especially this is a great injury to God because he stands more upon his word than upon any other part of his name Psal. 138.2 He hath magnified his word above all his name And we have more experience of God making good his word than in any other thing Thus not receiving Christ doth rob God of his declarative glory it rifles his cabinet and takes away his chiefest jewel even that glory which he saith he will not give unto another 2. You do very unworthily slight and undervalue Jesus Christ. When a gift is offered if you deny to accept it you not only dishonour him that offers it but you disparage the gift it self you disesteem it as not worthy your acceptance and is Jesus Christ so worthless and inconsiderable a gift as that thou wilt not take him at the hands of God O horrible ingratitude Be ye astonished O ye heavens for my people have committed two evils ah these two are thousands and millions they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters c. Is it not the voice of Christ in the Gospel Who will have me Who will receive me and is it not the Gospel-quarrel Ye will not come to me that ye may have life Joh. 5.40 'T is the greatest folly to set so low a rate on Christ for he is the sum and substance marrow and worth of the whole word and all the works of God the most excellent glory of all persons and things in the world 1. Survey the Word of God from end to end and you shall find that there is nothing of excellency but what is derived from or reduced unto Christ he is called by one verbum abbreviatum the contracted Word into which all words are reduced as the rivers into the Sea from this word they came unto this word they tend and within this word they are all contained 'T is observed by Ierome that the sum of all knowledg is Divinity the sum of all Divinity is the Scripture for that is sufficient to make the man of God perfect 2 Tim. 3.16 17 and every Christian wise unto Salvation The sum of the Scripture is the Gospel for that is the power of God for the salvation of them that believe Rom. 1.16 and the sum of the Gospel is Christ. For these things i. e. the Gospel were written that you might believe that Iesus Christ is the Son of God and that in believing you might have eternal life Joh. 20.31 If you consider the Old Testament it is nothing else but the vail shadow and promise of Christ observe all the Types the Tree of Life the Ark of Noah the Ladder of Iacob the Mercy-seat the brazen Serpent and all such Mystical Types and Typical figures we read of what are they else but Christ take away the substance and what is the shadow And not only so but even all the men of note Noah Isaac Ioseph Moses Aaron Ioshua Sampson David Solomon