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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23642	The spouse of Christ coming out of affliction, leaning upon her beloved, or, A sermon preached by Mr. John Allin, the late Reverend Pastor to the Church of Christ at Dedham, at the administration of the Lords Supper, August 6, 1671 and may be useful to any Church of Christ, or true believer in a state of affliction.	Allin, John, 1596-1671.	1672 (1672)	Wing A1037; ESTC W22355	25,137	31

of any Church or Soul to give Glory to God by Believing thus Iob under all his afflictions and temptations could believe that his Redeemer did live and that he should see him at the last day upon the Earth which was an eminency in him it 's therefore I say the eminency of any Church or Soul to be strong in Faith it is a great dishonour to God and to Jesus Christ when Disciples that have been long in the School of Christ yet have but little Faith how oft did the Lord Jesus upbraid his Disciples with this Oh ye of little Faith and sometimes how is it that you have no Faith this is an eminency in a Christian when he can give much Glory to God by Believing Christ delighteth in this and admires the Faith of the Centurion Mat. 8.10 VVhen Jesus heard it he marvelled and said to them that followed verily I say unto you I have not found so great Faith no not in Israel ver 13. And Iesus said unto the Centurion go thy way and as thou hast believed so be it done unto thee and his Servant was healed in the self same hour In this life of Faith the Apostle Paul was very eminent when he said the life that I now live I live by Faith in the Son of God Psal 27.1 2 3. the strength of his Faith was such that he said though an Host should encamp against me my heart should not fai● though war should rise against me in this will I be confident Faith gives God the Glory of his Power faithfulness mercy and grace to lean and venture the whole Interest of the Soul for Eternity upon the Lord Jesus Christ notwithstanding so many Sins Corruptions and Temptations this is a great and glorious work this is our victory over the world even our Faith and this Faith is that which draws vertue from Jesus Christ which causeth the Soul to be in love with the Lord Jesus as we may see in the Spouse she leaned upon her Beloved upon his love to her and the more because she felt his love to her Oh the eminency of Faith and love as the Apostle highly commends the Church of the Thessalonians 1 Thess 1.2 3. VVe give thanks to God alwayes for your work of Faith and abou● of love so Chap. 58. He calls Faith and Love the Brest-plate 1 Tim. 1.14 the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with Faith and Love which is in Christ Iesus where ye see much Faith and Love you may say there is abundance of Grace in that Soul 1 Pet. 1.8 VVhom having not seen yee love in whom though now ye see him not yet believing ye rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory This Love causeth the Soul to love the Holy God his Holy Law and also to love all the Saints of God and this is far above nature it argues a purified heart to love the Saints as 1 Pet. 1.22 Seing ye have purified your Souls in obeying the Truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the Brethren see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently Love is the fulfilling of the Law and Faith worketh by love these two Graces will be the glory of the Shulamite the new Ierusalem that is to come down from Heaven and it is the beauty and glory of any Christian the want or defects in these graces is a great blemish in any Spouse of Christ or Christian let us therefore I say acknowledge the eminency of that Church or Soul that is much in the exercise of Faith and Love Vse 3. Instruction Here we may observe and see the safety of any Soul o● Church of Christ to lean and stay it self upon Jesus Christ in Wilderness Tryals and Afflictions So Caleb and Ioshua so long as they trusted in God and cleaved to him the Lord was with them and brought them into the promised Land what can any Soul have to lean upon in an evil day of tryal trust not in Princes or any Son of man his breath is in his nostrils by strength shall no man prevail Confidence in Church Priviledges if men trust to them or Ordinances yea if they cry the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord see what the Lord speaketh to this very largely Ier. 10. Isai 48.1 2. they call themselves the Holy City and stay themselves upon the God of Israel but not in Truth all such props as these will deceive them that lean upon them but now for a Soul to lean upon Christ as her Beloved in the enjoyment of all his Ordinances such a Soul may finde comfort herein as Holy David Psal 27.4 5. One thing have I desired of the Lord that will I s●●k after that I may dwell in the House of the Lord all the dayes of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in his Holy Temple● For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his Pavillion in the secret of his Tabernacle shall he hide me he shall set me upon a Rock Vse 4. Tryal But would you be safe in times of Tryal and Affliction● 1. Consider what interest you have in Jesus Christ can you lean and stay upon him alone and say he is my Rock my only Refuge have you chosen him as your Portion your all in all are all things dung and drosse in comparison of him can you suffer the loss of all for him this is a true leaning upon Christ as your Beloved but when the Soul wants an interest in Christ Jesus and hath not him to lean upon whether will such a Soul flee for help in times of tryal trouble and distresses there is then none but Christ none but Christ that will suit the Soul in this respect you may venture to lean upon him he is able and willing to bear all the weight that is laid upon him it doth therefore nearly concern every Soul to consider what interest he hath in Jesus Christ what perswasion have you had of the alsufficiency and grace and mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ have you tryed his alsufficiency can you be perswaded of the alsufficiency of one that you never tryed but especially consider whether God hath drawn your heart to chuse Jesus Christ for your portion for your stay and support for your all and in all and that you have laid the whole weight of your Souls upon him have you given up your selves to Christ to be at his dispose have you chosen and taken him for your Lord and Christ and are you at his command can you part with your dearest Lust and sin as his command engages your Souls to do and suffer any thing that he requires 2. Consider is he your Beloved do you lean upon Jesus Christ as your Beloved as he whom your Soul loveth as he that is altogether beautiful and desirable is your greatest delight in communion with God so that if Christ should ask you the Question he asked Peter Ioh. 2.1.17 Simon

THE SPOVSE OF CHRIST Coming out of affliction leaning upon Her BELOVED OR A SERMON PREACHED BY Mr. JOHN ALLIN The late Reverend Pastor to the Church of Christ at Dedham At the Administration of the Lords Supper August 6. 1671. And may be useful to any Church of Christ or true Believer in a state of affliction 1 Sam. 30.6 And David was greatly distressed for the People spake of Stoning him because the Soul of the People vvas grieved every man for his Sons and for his Daughters but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God Cambridge Printed by Samuel Green And are to be sold by John Tappin of Boston 1672. To the Reader Courteous Reader THe Great God whose all Creatures are and in whose counsels all their changes in all their Generations are formed hath according to the good pleasure of his own Will reserved us to this our Generation to an acceptable year to a day of Salvation and assigned to us this place of which vve may say the lines are fallen to us in pleasant places we have a goodly Heritage even in the clear Sun-light of Gospel truths he hath planted in N. E. a Vineyard in a very fruitful Hill which he hath fenced about with a Christian and Godly Government and gathered out the Stones and built a Tower in the midst of it and made a Wine press and he did plant it with the choicest plants and did send forth many faithful and skilful Labourers thereunto so to dress the Vine that it might want nothing that might make it fruitful and Oh that it could be said it brought forth no wilde Grapes but of late times the Great Lord of the Vineyard hath called home so many of those his Labourers that it makes many observant hearts trembling to say what is God about to do with this Vineyard And amongst others of those his choice ones he hath lately called home the Reverend Author of these two ensueing Sermons and ordered him to enter into his Masters joy who was a man that needs not our Testimony for his commendation his Works shall praise him in the Gate A man so well approved in the Churches of Christ that he was known to be a faithful labourer in the House of the Lord a wise Builder in his House He was a burning and a shining Light and we that were of his Flock a long season rejoyced in his light even from the first gathering of the Church of Christ in Dedham which was Anno. 1638. until this present year 1671. wherein August 26. after about ten dayes moderate sickness he entred into rest in the 75. year of his age in all which time he was a very constant faithful and diligent Steward in the House of God a man of peace and truth we were lead forth by the still waters in green Pastures our Table was fully furnished and our Cup did flow over and sometimes drop upon others some he did Plant and some he did VVater and some increase God did give so that he in some measure had wherein to rejoyce amongst us But now Alas Alas we that were full are become empty and even as sheep without a Shepard are left to beg our bread the wayes of our little Sion mourn because we want our solemn Feasts the joy of our heart is ceased our dance is turned into mourning the Crown is fallen from our head wo unto us that we have sinned we cannot but say Oh that it were with us as in times past as in the dayes wherein God preserved us when his Candle shined upon our Head and when by his light we walked through darkness The memory of those sweet distilling Dews that did formerly drop upon us are not yet so forgotten but that we desire to recal some of them and most especially the two last Sermons our Dear and Reverend Pastor did Preach amongst us being Texts that he came to in his ordinary course and not chosen purposely yet being by providence fitted as for his farewel and for our present state of affliction and emptiness though then u●●●een both to himself and us The consideration whereof hath moved the Church here by Vote to order the endeavouring of there-collecting of these Sermons and the fitting them for publick use and to be kept amongst them for the Edification of themselves and theirs and for the better keeping alive the memory of him whom we so much loved and honoured and have committed the care of effecting the same to some few of the Brethren But Alas we that are so intrusted know our selves altogether below such a work and after some time travailing betwixt sense of our own weakness and desire the work might be accomplished we at length by perusing our Pastors own Notes found in his Study and comparing the Notes of several Hearers taken in publick according to our weakness have Collected the ensuing lines knovving that if it had been done by the Author himself th●y v●ere like to be incomparably better yet vve have endeavoured to keep to his own Words Matter and Method and we know our God requires not of us according to what we have not but according to what we have and we hope and b●g that all such as may have the perusal of the following Lines to pass by such our weaknesses as they may there finde and cover them with the Garment of love We hope we have in no sort wronged the Author whom we so much loved and reverenced but have as truely and candidly as we are able rendred his ovvn and presented the truth And so vve commit the vvhole to that God that is able to give a Blessing and to make his strength knovvn in 〈◊〉 By some of the Hearers of the ensuing Sermons JOHN ALLIN IN HONI ALL Anagr. Cant. 8.5 part of the Verse Who is this that cometh up from the Wilderness leaning upon her Beloved SOme understand this of the Shulamite spoken of before Others of some other Spouse or Church of Christ to arise after her according to that promise of the waters that run from under the Threshold of the Temple towards the East leading towards Arabia Syria and Egypt Ezek. 47. but when we consider what went before and the other like places that charge ver 4. seems to be the occasion of this Question namely I charge you Oh Daughters of ●erusalem that you stir not up nor awake my Love until he please which words gives occasion of this Question paralel to this you may see chap. 3.5 6. chap. 5.8 9. chap. 6.1 Whether is thy Beloved g●●e O thou fairest among women c. as in those places the Daughters of Jerusalem are brought in enquiring after Christ the Beloved of the Spouse so in the Text they are brought in admiring and inquiring concerning the Spouse of Christ saying Who is this that comes thus up out of the vvilderness c. the Question is put in the Feminine Gender as if they should say vvhat Woman is this and indeed