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A12478	An exposition of the Creed: or, An explanation of the articles of our Christian faith. Delivered in many afternoone sermons, by that reverend and worthy divine, Master Iohn Smith, late preacher of the Word at Clavering in Essex, and sometime fellow of Saint Iohns Colledge in Oxford. Now published for the benefit and behoofe of all good Christians, together with an exact table of all the chiefest doctrines and vses throughout the whole booke	Smith, John, 1563-1616.; Palmer, Anthony, fl. 1632.	1632 (1632)	STC 22801; ESTC S117414	837,448	694

feeling of their wants We see Christ complained of his thirst so we may complaine to God of our wants And is it not also as lawfull to complaine to men Yes but wee must be sure to use no unlawfull meanes to ease our selves but wait on God where we may see the difference between a true christian and a man of this world● for the one may desire peace ease wealth and such like but there is a moderation in their desires not to have it with any cōdition but by good means which if they thus obtaine not they can rest contented with the good wil of God so we may desire these things but not against the peace of conscience but the other the men of this world care not what means they use to have their desires as Matth. 4. when Christ was hungry the devill came to him and bade him turne stones into bread so the devill doth still when Christians are in want and necessity he will come to them and bid them turne stones into bread that is use unlawfull meanes put themselves upon bad courses to come out of it but wee must take heed of this if wee have not our desires yet wee must waite on God and be contented with his good will So Psal 123. the Church doth As the eyes of a servant looke to the hands of his master and as the eyes of a maiden to the hands of her mistris so our eyes waite on the Lord our God till he have mercy on us In like manner if we be in want or in any trouble we may desire to come out of it but we must use no unlawfull meanes only waite we must on God and be contented with his good will whatsoever it be in the use of good meanes Thirdly the time of his complaint When all things were accomplished when he had lost a great deale of blood and indured a great deale of paine All this time he held it to himselfe till he had set mans salvation in safetie and made that sure he never complaines of his thirst Wherein we may consider the marvellous love of Christ that till hee had made mans salvation sure did not looke to himselfe such a carefull eye he carried for our good and safetie Which love of Christ to us must teach us to shew the like love to him againe to forget our owne ease profit and pleasures that wee may doe service to him as Io● did I have said he preferred the words of his mouth before my appointed food So Ioh. 4. Christ being weary set himselfe downe on a Well when his disciples were gone into the citie to buy meat in which time came a woman to draw water whom hee did convert after which when his disciples came againe with meat and would have had him to eate he made this answere That it was meate and drinke to him to doe his fathers will He had not so much regard to himselfe as to his Fathers will so it must bee with a Christian hee must passe by himselfe and care not what become of him so God may have glory Wee may see a worthy example hereof in Abrahams servant Gen. 24. 33 who being sent to get a wife for his masters sonne when there was mea●e ●et before him he could not eate till he had done his businesse he came about Now if a servant have so much care of his masters businesse that hee would not eate or drinke till hee had done it much more should we be carefull to do Gods will therefore when men have so much regard to their owne case and profit and passe by that which tends to Gods Glory this doth shew that there is not the like love to Christ we see in experience if a childe fall into the fire or water if the mother heare of it what businesse soever she hath shee lets all alone and cannot be at rest till she hath set her childe in safetie againe so it was with Christ he forgate himselfe till hee had set our saluation in safety and then he did thirst and we should shew as neere as may be the like love to Christ againe The fourth was The Event of his thirst Christ being on the crosse complaines of thirst Now is there any that brings him wine to comfort him or drinke to refresh him or water to coole him No but they give him vinegar to drinke And because it was not afflictive enough they gave him it with Hyssope to make it more bitter and sowre Here we may see the vilenesse of the souldiers to give such a draught to Iesus Christ our Lord and blessed redeemer in his extremity we are all ready to condemne them and that justly for it but I pray God we be not the men and women that doe the like For as Christ said vpon the crosse Sitio I thirst so be saith now to all the men and women by his spirit in the world Sitio I thirst what wilt thou stand still and gaze upon him or wilt thou not regard him I dare lay that there is never an one here but would be ready to say Lord what wouldst thou have what is it thou thirstest for Why I thirst not for the wine nor for the strong drinke nor for thy honey or thy milke But O man I thirst for thy salvation thy conversion thy Repentance and for thy faith And therefore seeing we heare that Christ doth thirst what wilt thou doe O man wilt thou give him vinegar to drinke as the souldiers did or wilt thou give him wormewood to drinke or temper a cup of poyson and give him Now the truth is There is no wormewood or gall so bitter to our taste as thy impenitencie hard-heartednesse and the sinnes thou livest in are unto Christ for every sinne we commit we doe as it were put a drop of poyson into a cup for Christ to drinke therefore whereas we condemne the souldiers we had neede condemne our selves and come home to our selves Let us therefore temper a better cup for Christ to drinke on than this let us repent us of our sinnes convert and turne to him this will satisfie Christ Wee reade in the English Chronicles of a Monke that got a Toade and pricked and pressed her in●● a cup of wine and gave it to his Liege-lord to drinke Now I dare say there is never an one here but doth detest the fact But the truth is every sinne we commit we doe as it were temper such a cup of poison for Christ our blessed Saviour and Redeemer therefore I pray God whereas we condemne them for this vile fact that there be not just cause to condemne our selves SERMON XXIIII IOHN 19. 30. VVhen Iesus therefore had received the vinegar hee said It is finished AMongst the seven last words of Christ this is the sixth in order And it is a Song of Gratulation and a triumphing Song for the worke of mans Redemption and Salvation When Moses had led the children

the power of God is in all places but the humanitie of Christ is confined to one place onely therefore this cannot bee the true sense indeede it is said Matth. 26. 64. Neverthelesse ye shall see the Sonne of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and comming in the Clouds the meaning whereof is expressed afterwards chap. 28. 18. that all power and authoritie is given unto him of God Secondly the Right hand of God is taken for The goodnesse and glory of beaven and happinesse as Psal 16. 11. At thy right hand are pleasures for evermore but it cannot be so taken in this place for though it bee true that Christ is blessed in the kingdome of heaven in joy and happinesse yet this is common to all the Angels and Saints for they enjoy all the pleasures in heaven but to sit at the right hand of God is peculiar to Christ onely as it is Heb. 1. 13. To which of his Angels said he at any time Sit at my right hand till I make thine enemies thy footstoole Thirdly the right hand of God is taken for the Next place to God in dignity and honor Rule and government It is the manner of Kings and Princes when they doe advance any to office next themselves to set them at their right hand as 2 King 19. Salomon caused a seate to be set for the Kings mother and set her at his right hand And Psal 45. 9. it is said Vpon thy right hand did sit the Queene in a garment of gold so to sit at the right hand of God is to be in the next place to God in Dignity and Honour in Rule and Government And this is heere meant for this sitting at the right hand of God is nothing else but a dignity and honour given him of the Father whereby hee is indued with a power to rule and governe all things immediately both in heaven and earth Secondly how hee is said to sit at the Right hand of God and that is because he is in the highest place next to God in dignitie and honour administration and government of this whole world and also particularly of the Church of God so to sit at the Right hand of God implyes two things First That Christ is in the next place to God in dignity and honour as Phil. 2. 9. saith the Apostle Wherefore God hath highly exalted him and given a name unto him above all names that at the name of Iesus every knee should bow of both things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth which is to bee understood not onely of the outward gesture and reverence to bee used at the Name of Iesus but chiefly of the internall soveraignty and authority of Iesus because hee should set his throne above all thrones in that all powers shall bee subject to him both in heaven and earth and so all knees shall bow unto him Secondly That hee is in Rule and Government in the highest place next to God Ephes 1. 20 21. it is said That God hath set him at his Right hand in heavenly places farre above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named not in this world only but also in that which is to come and hath made all things subject under his feet and hath appointed him over all things to be the head to the Church These bee the two things implyed in his sitting at the Right hand of God whence wee are to take notice of two things First That Christ hath enobled our nature and hath lifted it up above Angels and Archangels therefore seeing Christ hath thus dignified and enobled the nature of man in setting it above Angels and Archangels what shall wee answer to God if wee abase it and bring it below the meanest of the creatures I doe not say below the Sunne and Moone and Starres which are constant in their motions and courses but below the dumbe creatures for they doe moderate themselves in their appetites they will take no more meat and drinke than will doe them good and will bee moderate in their sleepe therfore what shall wee answer to God for our excesse But I would to God we could stay here Christ hath lifted up our nature above the Angels and we imbase it and bring it below the devils for when men bee ruled by the devill they make themselves slaves to him and so bring themselves below the devill as wee see hee could no sooner bid Adam eat but he did eat and Caine kill his brother but he kils him and Iudas betray his Master but he betrayed him so he can no sooner bid men sweare but they will sweare or lye but they will lye or prophane the Sabbath but they will doe it therefore when men are thus ruled by him what is it but to make themselves slaves to the devill and then how shall men answer this injury and wrong done to Christ we read Prov. 31. 4. Bathsheba saith to her sonne It is not for Kings O Lemuel to drinke wine nor for princes to drinke strong drinke lest they drinke and forget the law so is not for Christians to sweare to lye to deceive one another to prophane the Sabbaths for Christ hath graced them and therefore they must take heed they doe not disgrace their selves Christ hath innobled their nature and set it up above the Angels and therefore they must take heed they doe not disgrace it by a sinfull life Secondly we are to take notice that seeing Iesus Christ is in the next place to God in administration and government so he is in honour not onely next unto God but also hath all at his command hee is the ruler and governour of this whole world and therefore will governe it for the good of the Church and of his people and one day thou shalt blesse God and bow thy knees and thanke him that hee hath put the government into his hands Rom. 8. 24. it is said that all things shall worke together for the best or good of them that love him the whole world shall winde and turne to his good if a man be a friend to God and love him there be number of strange turnings and motions in this world all which shall turne and winde unto the good of the Church as in a clocke there be some wheeles turne one way and some another way they being crosse and contrary one to the other and yet by the skilfull and cunning workeman they turne all to one end to make the clocke goe so in this world there be many strange turnings and motions that seeme to runne crosse and contrary one to the other yet by the skilfull workeman Iesus Christ all is carried to the good of the Church therefore great is the comfort that the Church may have by this for what shall the Church doe in the time of trouble runne to Christ and pray him to turne all