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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81950	The right receiving of Christ· Or, An appendix to the worthy communicant, or A treatise shewing the due order of receiving the sacrament. By Jer. Dyke, late minister of Epping in Essex. Which was intended by the said author in his life time to be annexed to this treatise of the sacrament; as appeares in the epistle. Wherein a Christian may know, whether he hath rightly received Christ in the sacrament or no.	Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.	1645 (1645)	Wing D2959bA; ESTC R229229	52,271	144

well of his estate already he thinkes meanly of Christ The whole need not the Physitian need no Physicke and therefore care neither for Physicke nor Physitian Men that are strongly possest with the conceit of the present goodnesse of their estates and conditions Christ is vile in their eyes A man therefore that would ever receive Christ must first emptie his heart of all such conceits and be under the sence and under the pinch too of selfe-emptinesse A man that would receive Christ must come with an empty hand The full stomack despises the honey-combs of the Gospel and the full hand will never receive Christ offered Stout-hearted persons are farre from righteousnesse Isa 46. 12. Hearken unto mee yee stout-hearted that are far from righteousnesse I bring neere my righteousnesse God brings Christ and his righteousnesse neere to men he offers it them in the ministry of the Gospel and yet though it be brought neere they are farre from it because they doe not receive it And why doe they not receive it when it is brought so neere unto them Because they are stout-hearted They have a conceit that their estate is good already and they build and rest upon a righteousnesse of their own in their moralities and performances and this conceit makes them so stout-hearted that they will not submit themselves to the righteousnesse of God Rom. 10. 3. Wee are Lords wee will not come unto thee Jer. 2. 31. Beggers will come and receive Gods offers and his almes but whilest men conceit themselves to be Lords to have Lords estates they will neither come nor receive Gods offers If therefore wee would receive Christ wee must away with all these swelling conceits wee must away with our Lordships with our stoutnesse and fulnesse and labour to see our cursed and damnable condition by nature the emptinesse and vanitie of all wee have and doe we must be in a perishing condition Luk. 15. 17. in a lost condition Luk. 19. 10. He that will be Christs disciple and receive him for his Lord must deny himselfe The Apostle Phil. 3. counts all things dung that he may winne and receive Christ And Christ before he offers Laodicea Gold Rayment and eye-salve he first convinces her of her poverty beggery nakednesse and labours to empty her of her selfelove and selfe-conceitednesse that shee was rich and needed nothing Thereby giving to understand that it is a most dangerous hindrance that keepes men from receiving Christ to have an over-good conceit of a mans owne naturall estate of what he hath and doth As ever therefore thou wilt receive Christ away with it Such as goe downe to the dust and in the sence of their wretchednesse are laid in the dust That cannot keepe alive their owne soules and see no way but death they they are that will bow to Christ and receive him with all their soules Psal 22. 29. CHAP. VI. The love of our lusts a hindrance from receiving Christ ANother maine hindrance to the receiving of Christ is a love of our lusts an inordinate love of our profits pleasures credits c. Our lusts loved at all our profits and pleasures over-loved doe altogether hinder a man from receiving of Christ A mans lusts must be cast out if Christ be received in Now mens lusts are deare to them men are strongly bewitcht with them and they will never endure to receive Christ upon such termes as to turne their lusts going When Christ is once received for the husband there must be a bill of Divorce given to all these and they must be packt out That 's death to a carnall heart to doe so he can as easily die as doe it and therefore will rather refuse to receive Christ then he will receive him upon such harsh termes When it was propounded to the Roman Emperour to receive Christ for a God the Senate refused to doe it because they understood if he were received as a God he onely must be received and no other with him all other gods must downe if they received him upon the very same ground it is that men doe not receive Christ into their hearts because they see that if Christ be received their lusts must out of doores and Christ alone must have their hearts Christ will not be received by us whilest the roomes of our hearts are taken up by base and sinfull lusts As when he was borne he was faine to be in the stable because no roome for him in the Inne Luk. 2. 7. So if we make and will have our hearts common Innes and receptacles for lusts to harbour and lodge them How long shall thy vaine thoughts lodge within thee Jer. 4. 14. Christ cannot will not be received because there is no Roome for him What was the reason Diatrephes would not receive John but because he loved to have the preheminence 3 John 9. Lusts love to have the preheminence in the heart and therefore keepe out Christ from being received because if he be received they must lose their preheminence and they had as lieve lose their lives as that So it is also in the inordinate love of the world and our profits It was a faire offer which was made to them Luk. 14. Come for all things are ready Receive Christ tendred to you in the Gospel and yee shall receive with him all things your soules can desire And yet they received not Christ in that offer and all because their oxen and their farmes inordinately loved drew their hearts another way It is so in the case of credit and respect in the world inordinately respected Christ is offered to many a man in the world but he stickes at receiving him What is the matter Oh sayes he If I receive him I shall receive but little credit by it in the world nay I shall lose credit and respect amongst my friends If I might receive Christ and credit both I could then receive him but because if Christ be received my credit will be gone therefore I will none I will not meddle Our Saviour charging those with this sinne of not receiving him Joh. 5. 43. I am come in my Fathers name and yee receive mee not doth there shew this very thing to be the reason of their not receiving him ver 44. How can yee beleeve which receive honour one of another As if he had said I complaine that yee receive mee not and indeed it is no wonder yee receive me not when yee receive honour one of another that is you desire to have credit respect esteeme and good opinion one of another You see if any one receive me all his fellows will hate him scorne sleight and dis-esteeme him and you stand so much upon your honour and credit one amongst another that it is impossible for you thus inordinately affected to your credit ever to receive me So that if ever wee would receive Christ we must casheire all our lusts send them packing Wee must renounce all our carnall lusts worldly lusts and

we thrive in Christ Thirdly The conscionable and serious use of Gods Ordinances the Word 3. and Sacrament The Word is called Jam. 1. 21. The engraffed or Implanted Word that is the Word which by the Ministry is engraffed in our hearts Now as it is an engraffed so it is an engraffing Word which being rightly received doth engraff implant and roote us into Christ The seede that fell upon the stony ground had no Roote Matth. 13. but contrarily when the seede falles upon good ground it Rootes And when the Word rootes in our hearts it rootes us into Christ for Christ is received in his Word And when the Word rootes Christ rootes and when Christ rootes in us wee roote in him for it is a naturall and reciprocall Radication Two things are required to make a tree or herbe roote Planting and watring The Ministry of the Word is both 1 Cor. 3. Paul may plant and Apollos may water The Ministry of the Word therefore is a planting and a watering They therefore that would roote must seriously use that meanes which must plant and water them And so for the Sacrament of the Supper wee being once rooted by the Word it is an excellent meanes to make us take deeper rooting The barren figtree in the Parable Luk. 13. brought not forth fruit There was some fault not in the branches but in the roote and therefore the dresser would dig and dung it about the roote he would loosen and remove the hard earth from the rootes and lay some mellow moulds about the roote And wee see when such husbandry is used about trees that they roote the better a great deale The right use of the Sacrament is a digging and dunging of the tree roote is a fresh moulding of our rootes and the Sacrament rightly used and received as it ought will make our roote wrap about Christ and sprout and spread into him As therefore wee desire to roote in Christ so attend upon the Word and Sacrament with that due preparation and religious behaviour as God requires Wee shall finde this a sweet fruite of these Ordinances duely used that they will further our rooting in Christ CHAP. XV. How to know whether we bee Rooted in Christ or not IF every true Christian must be rooted in Christ then as wee would know whether wee be true Christians so let us examine our selves whether wee be rooted in Christ or not That may be knowne by those things mentioned before in the reasons of the point They that are rooted in Christ doe grow such as our growth is such is our roote If we grow not in Christ it is a signe wee are not rooted in him They that are rooted beare fruit Trees may roote and yet not alwayes beare fruit Though there can be no fruit unlesse there be a roote yet in naturall trees there may be a roote where there is no fruit But not so here There is none rootes in Christ but he brings forth fruite in Christ The Apostle speakes of bringing forth fruit to God Rom. 7. 4. but he first speakes of being married unto Christ which is equivalent unto rooting So that whosoever is rooted in Christ brings forth fruite unto God By it may be seene who is not and how many are not rooted in Christ By their fruits shall yee know them They bring forth no fruite unto God therefore not rooted in Christ What be the fruits they bring forth The fruits of swearing whoring drunkennesse prophanenesse covetousnesse c. Are these fruits unto God or fruites unto the Devill Doe they that are rooted in Christ bring forth fruits unto Satan Therefore in as much as the fruites that most men bring forth are fruites unto the flesh fruites unto Satan it is a signe that they are rather rooted in the flesh in Satan then in Christ And when men are so easily shaken and moved from the truth it is a signe that they are stony ground that they have no roote in themselves And how little men are partakers of the fatnesse of Christ appeares by the leanenesse and lewdnesse of their lives But besides these it may be discerned by these things First By that Rom. 11. 16. If the 1. roote be holy so are the branches namely the branches that are joyned to that roote Branches then that are rooted into an holy roote are such as the root is All that are rooted in Christ are such as he is There is the same sap in the roote and branches of a tree If a sweet sap in the roote a sweet sap also in the branches They that are rooted in Christ have the same Spirit that is in Christ Philip. 2. 5. Let the same minde be in you which was also in Christ Jesus Christ is an holy roote all that are rooted in him are holy persons Jude 1. Sanctified in Christ Jesus He is not onely an holy but an hallowing Christ Whatsoever touched the flesh of the sinne offering was holy Levit. 6. 27. Whatsoever touched the Altar was holy Exod. 30. 29. Both were types of Christ Now if but the touch of Christ make holy then much more when a man not touches him but is rooted engraffed incorporated into him By this may men try their Rooting in Christ If mens holinesse must be the evidence how many will bee cleane cast Let mens lives speake what holinesse they have I doe not thinke that if men had holinesse they would mocke and scoffe at it Secondly By a Radication in the grace of love and charitie He that is 2. rooted in Christ is rooted in love Ephes 3. 17. That Christ may dwell in your hearts When Christ dwells in us wee dwell in him and when wee dwell in him wee are rooted in him And when thus rooted in him see what followes That yee being rooted and grounded in love Then a man may be said to be Rooted in love when out of the sense and apprehension of Gods love to him in Christ his love is againe kindled towards God and his neighbour and so increases in him that it takes daily deeper and deeper roote in him So then a man that rootes in Christ roots in the love of God of Christ of his members The more wee are rooted in Christ the more wee are rooted in the love of God and his Saints and the more that love roots in our hearts And therefore it is that faith and love doe lead hand in hand still in Scripture and that not onely love to God but to his Saints Let mens consciences but search themselves and it is to be feared that they will finde such poore small rootes of love to God and his Saints as will give them just cause to question their being rooted in Christ Thirdly By Spirituall life and Nutrition Hee that is rooted in Christ drawes life from Christ and receives nourishment from him A tree that is rooted in the earth it lives by the sap it drawes out of the earth in which it rootes So the Christian that roots in Christ hee lives in Christ and drawes sap out of Christ that feeds and maintaines spirituall life in him Gal. 2. 20. As a tree lives yet not so much the tree as the roote and the life which the tree lives it lives by the roote in the earth Our life is hid with Christ in God Col. 3. The life of a Christian is in and from Christ Secret it is as the life of a tree is hid in the roote which is under the earth Doth Christ then quicken thee with spirituall life doth he nourish and feede thee with spirituall sap so as all thou doest thou doest by an influence of sap and life from him Then conclude comfortably that thou art rooted in Christ But many are so livelesse so dead and saplesse that it is a senselesse thing to conceive them other then rootlesse Christians FINIS

present condition then yet so as that it was wholly in his own keeping like to a plant that grows upon its own bottome yet now is life so in himselfe as that it is more in another even in Christ from whom by vertue of union with him as from a root or fountain he receives vivificall power and vigour continually to produce all spirituall and living actions and to bring forth the fruits of holinesse unto eternall life even as the branch that lives not of it selfe but hath all lively sap and moisture both unto life and fruitfulnesse from the root or stock on which it grows and so is our estate in Christ the second Adam farre more secure and glorious then ever it could have been in the first besides herein is the excellency of man in this condition even above the Angels themselves in that Christ by assuming our Nature hath thereby advanced it above theirs Heb. 2. 16. which he never took upon him in which respect man is now higher then those glorious and celestiall Creatures who at the first was made inferiour to them though but a little Psal 8. 5. lower then they So that look what difference there sometimes was betwixt the first Temple and the second the very like may you see here betwixt these two conditions if you compare them of man in Adam before his fall as he was then by Creation and of man since his fall as he is now by Regeneration Only there the former house did exceed in glory and that so far as the ancient men Hag. 2. 3. of the Priests and Levites which had seene the first when they also saw the Ezr. 3. 12. last could not but weepe with a lowd voyce to behold the difference but here now the latter condition exceeds the former in so much that they who shall once live to see and experimentally to know the excellency of this above that cannot but rejoyce with exceeding joy And now Christian Reader should I here passe over in silence the farre more exceeding and transcendent excellency which is in Christ the fountaine of all that in the Saints excells in goodnesse I might seeme to obscure what all this while I have endeavoured to cleare for if their excellency in this renewed estate be not from him then is it not so great an excellency as I have said But if it be derived all from him as indeed it is then shall I neither give him that honour which is his due by being silent in such a case nor doe thee that right I should who by beholding of his beauty mayst perhaps be enamoured with it and so the rather be brought to fall in love with him in whom otherwise thou mayst see no forme nor Isa 53. 2. comelinesse nor any thing else that thou shouldst desire him Tell me therefore Is there nothing that thou canst behold in Christ more amiable and lovely then in the world Is it nothing that while the world is a lump of vanity and meere vacuitie Eccles 1. Col. 1. 19. yet that in him all fulnesse dwels fulnesse in other things hath an attractive and invitatory vertue the full garners drew Jacobs sonnes downe into Aegypt plentitude of wisdome the Queene of Sheba to King Salomon and why doest thou covet the world but from a delight de pleno tollere acervo to take of a full heap But alas all this is emptinesse to the fulnesse of Christ who hath transcendently in him all that this world affords One little piece of gold is fuller of worth then many of silver and one little Diamond then an heap of gold all the petty perfections scattered abroad in the creatures are in him united that great volume of excellencies spread up and downe through Heaven and Earth is in him epitomiz'd besides that fulnesse of Grace of which the world hath not a dram The world at the fullest is but an Ocean which is lessened by losing the least drop but Christ his fulnesse is the fulnesse of fire which is not one jot diminished though it gives light to a thousand Torches The continuall effluences of vertue out of him and influences of the sap of his quickning grace into all those fruit-bearing branches though infinite in number that draw from him is not the least evacuation at all unto him Is it nothing that while the creature doth allure us from God our own guilty consciences and the dreadfulnesse of his glorious Majesty deterre us Christ onely drawes us to him who is the chiefest and only good so that through him alone we have accesse Eph. 2. 18. unto the Father God is a Sunne the resplendent beames of whose Majesty so glorious an object would overcharge and even quite put out those presumptuous eyes that should dare to looke up to him unlesse overcast with the Cloud of Christ a Mediatour God is a consuming fire and mortall were it for us mortalls to come neere it without the interposed Skreene of Christ his Mediation First must wee come to the manger of Christs humanity before we can have an accesse with boldnesse to the Throne of divine Majesty Is it nothing that while the world in our greatest exigents sues out a divorce and then deserts us yet that Christ is constant in his love having once tyed himselfe to us with the knot of conjugall affection which with him is indissoluble Christ is our husband And hence how many precious priviledges ensured to us In law uxori lis non intenditur what then hath the law exacting obedience unto life to doe with Christians Againe Mulier fulget radiis mariti The Husband communicates all that he hath unto his Wife and even such a community of grace is there betwixt Christ and true beleevers Christ his graces and a beleevers differing onely secundum gradum i. e. in respect of measure or degree but not at all secundum speciem i. e. in kinde or quality in which respect they are the same Besides all which are all the benefits of our mysticall union with Christ nothing Hence spirituall life Hence conformitie Col. 3. 3. 4. Rom. 6. 5. 1 Pet. 1. 14. Phil. 2. 5. 1 Joh. 2. 6. Joh. 15. 5. Rom. 8. 35. with Christ our head a triple conformity in nature in minde in conversation Hence fructification for the present Hence perseverance for the future even to the end Hence glorification also in the end yea and therein admission of our bodies as well as soules into eternall glory at the last And is all this to be accounted nothing Many and many are the excellencies to be found in Christ and to be received from him which besides these that I have mentioned I might instance in and so lead thee still on forward in this way even till I should as in a maze or labyrinth lose both my selfe and thee in the contemplation of them But because I had much rather that thou shouldst be found in Christ then lost in the contemplation of