counsel thee saith Christ unto the Church of Laodicea To buy of me tryed Gold that thou mayest be rich and white rayment that thy nakedness may be covered and the shame thereof may not be seen was not this good and sweet counsel that the Lord Christ did give to the Church that was poor and naked and shameful and destitute of all good So that the counsels of God are sweet counsels Secondly Are not the invitations that we find in the word very sweet sweet invitations are there made unto poor sinners Isa 55.1 Ho every one that thirsteth come ye unto the waters and he that hath no money come buy and eat come buy Wine and Milk without money and without price Here is a Hive of Honey and Honey-combs in these words come come come here 's water to quench your thirst here 's wine to comfort your hearts here 's milk to nourish you and cause you to thrive and grow in the wayes of God here 's bread to strengthen you and here 's all free without money How sweet are these invitations come come come and for such things as are so excellent and so precious so that of the Lord Christ in Matth. 11.28 Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden and all of you come unto me and I will give you rest how sweet is this now to a burthened soul to a burthened conscience for a man or woman that is in straights and knows not what to do to come to the Lord Christ and they shall have rest in the 14. Hos 1. saith the Lord there O Israel return unto the Lord thy God for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity one would have conceived that Israel should have first sought to God who had offended God but God comes to delinquent Israel and saith O Israel return unto the Lord thy God for thou hast fallen by thine iniquities Take with you words and turn to the Lord say unto him take away all iniquity and receive us graciously so will we render the Calves of our lips he puts words into their mouths how sweet are these invitations of the Lord to poor sinners So in Matth. 25.34 Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world There 's sweetness in the invitations that the word holds out unto us Thirdly Are not the promises in the word of God very sweet sweet yea sweet as the Honey-comb There are many great and gracious promises 2 Pet. 1.4 they are exceeding great precious promises to have a promise from a great man that is able to perform his promise and faithful is sweet unto a poor man but to have exceeding great and precious promises from the great God who is able and willing to perform and faithful and will not fail how sweet are these promises to the Sons of men Ezek. 36.25 26. I will sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all your Idols will I cleanse you A new heart also will I give unto you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh and I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my Statutes and ye shall keep my Judgments and do them Are not here sweet promises very sweet promises promise upon promise And all the promises of God they are very sweet Jer. 32.40 I will make an everlasting Covenant with them that I will not turn away from them to do them good but I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me what a sweet promise is this to poor souls that fear they shall fall away and shall not hold out to the end God will put his fear into them and they shall not depart from him I will heal their backslidings and love them freely Hos 14. full of sweet and precious promises is the word of God Fourthly Is not the Gospel and the Doctrines of it very sweet Is not the Gospel glad tidings Luke 2.10 11. Behold I bring you glad tidings of great joy to you this day is born a Saviour 'T is a Gospel of reconciliation that declares the reconciliation of poor sinners unto the great and holy God 2 Cor. 5.19 it is the Ministration of life and of Righteousness 2 Cor. 3.8.9 it is the Doctrine of Christ 2 Joh. 9. what gracious words came out of the mouth of the Lord Jesus never man said his enemies spake like this man but there 's sweetness in this Doctrine is it not sweet that rich mercy is held out unto the chief of sinners 1 Tim. 1.15 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief what a sweet saying is this here is mercy held out to the chief of sinners so that all manner of sins and blasphemies shall be forgiven how sweet is this Matth. 12.31 So that God hath freely given his Son Joh. 3.16 God hath so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son That whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Here is a sweet truth unto those that will understand truth there is more sweetness in it than they can taste or find out he is a propitiation in this is manifested the love of God towards us because that God sent his onely begotten Son into the world that we might live through him and to be the propitiation for our sins 1 Joh. 4.9 10 14 15. By him we shall live he is the Saviour of his body the Saviour of sinners So how sweet is that 1 Cor. 1.30 He is made of God unto us Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption Here 's sweetness in these things that we are freely justified by him Rom. 3.24 Acts 13.38 39. How sweet is that saying of the Lord Jesus Christ Joh. 6.37 if there were no more in all the Gospel but that all that the Father giveth me shall come to me and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out Let any poor creatures come unto me in their rags in their filth in their guilt in their sores I will not cast them out I will not send them away discouraged but they shall find favour in mine eyes So the Doctrine of Christs intercession with the Father 1 Joh. 2. If any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous He is an Advocate to intercede for us and to order all things for our good so that there 's a great deal of sweetness in the word of God Fifthly There is sweetness in the example of the Lord Jesus Christ Christ washed his Disciples feet what sweetness is there in it to think that the Lord of glory and the Prince of life and the Heir of the world should humble himself so as to
and unsound but there were others spake otherwise they were Gods Jewels they would not joyn with the wayes of God but rather did withdraw from them Heb. 10.25 Not forsaking the assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is we need not be so strict nor so oft in prayer and hearing and in speaking of the things and wayes of God the Commandements of God are grievous to them 1 Joh. 5.3 when Gods Commandements are grievous to a mans heart or spirit it 's a sign he hath a sick heart a sore heart a corrupt rotten heart when the Commands of God that would make them sound are grievous to them Many care not for examining their own souls when as the Scripture saith prove your selves examine your selves know ye not your own selves that Christ is in you except ye be Reprobates walk circumspectly redeeming the time such men have unsound hearts and one day they will be discovered to their shame 11. Those that can walk up and down in the world without having their thoughts carried unto God that can go all the day long and never think of God or Heaven or Eternity or Christ these men have unsound hearts in Prov. 23.17 saith the wise man there Let not thy heart envy sinners but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long A man should have God in his thoughts all the day long and should be fearing God from morning to evening and sanctifie God in his heart and make him his dread and his fear wheresoever he goes a man should be afraid to displease God in any place in any Company at any time but now when a man goes up and down all the day long and never thinks of God nor fears God this man is rotten at the heart he hath an unsound heart for he cares not for God nor for his Company depart from us say they in Job we care not for thy company So though this man saith it not with his Tongue yet he saith it with his heart The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life to depart from the snares of death how can you depart from the snares of death when you are not in the fear of God Some fear God in time of Thunder or in a common Plague but to live in the fear of God all the day all their lives they know not what it means these have unsound hearts and will be ashamed 12. Whosoever doth presume upon the merits of Christ and the mercies of God and walk loosely they are unsound hearted and shall one day be ashamed 't is a common thing in these dayes for Christians to presume upon Christ's merits why did not Christ dye for sinners is not God merciful yes but must you walk loosely now Christ did not dye for sinners that they might go and sin neither is God merciful to encourage you to sin but you will find Christ a Stone to grind you to powder and Gods mercy to be fury and vengeance to you that do so in Rom. 8.1 There is therefore now no Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus which walk not after the flesh mark but after the Spirit If men do presume upon Christs merits and Gods mercies and say they have a part in God and Christ they must not walk after the flesh but if you walk loosely you walk after the flesh what Drink Swear Whore Lye Cheat Rail Slander Backbite Defraud and Couzen in Bargaining and Selling you walk after the flesh you have no interest in Christs merits there 's condemnation and nothing but condemnation to you and mark what 's said in 1 Joh. 2.6 If any man say he abides in him that is in Christ he must walk as he walked what dost thou say thou art a Christian thou hast a part in the merits of Christ and in the free grace and mercy of God then must thou walk even as Christ walked in the world what 's thy walking is it so is it becoming the Gospel is it no otherwise than what Christ himself would do then thou mayest have comfort but if it be otherwise deceive not thy self thou hast an unsound heart and thou wilt one day be ashamed 13. They are unsound hearted who do account themselves rich strong wise knowing and full those that are conceited of their own worth of their own excellency of their own ability and as they have unsound hearts so they will be discovered one day for rotten hearted men and women It is incident to you all to have too high thoughts of your selves Paul tells you in Gal. 6.2 If a man thinks himself some body when he is nothing he deceives himself why should the Apostle lay down this Rule but that it was the practice of the Christians then these Galatians thought themselves wiser than Paul they must have another Gospel they must go another way to Heaven we will not be tyed to these wayes they thought themselves some bodies when they were nothing and so deceived their own souls O foolish Galatians they were fools indeed And the Church of Laodicea is a pregnant instance for you all to take notice of she said she was rich full and wanted nothing here was a Church had Priviledges Ordinances Enjoyments Apostolical men in her yet what saith Christ thou art blind thou art naked thou art poor thou art miserable thou wantest all things was not her shame discovered that Christian that is conceited of himself his Parts Gifts Graces Comforts Priviledges Enjoyments or Relations whatsoever they be that Christian is an unsound man and his shame will appear one day 14. Those Christians that do things in their own name and in their own strength they are unsound and they will be discovered and their shame will be thrown in their faces in due time 2 where almost is there a Christian but doth all in his own name and in his own strength I can do this and that saith one I can do so and so what canst thou do poor creature Christ tells thee without me ye can do nothing nothing to purpose nothing to please God nothing to afford you comfort or peace nothing to further your salvation without Christ the Apostle tells you We are not sufficient I Paul am not sufficient to think a good thought well see the Rule Col. 3.17 Whatsoever ye do in word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus don 't do it in your own name you are unsound if you do your principles are not right your knowledge is not right and sound but whatsoever ye do do all in the name of Christ what Christians and do any thing in any name but in the name of Christ you are base Christians and you should do all in the strength of Christ 2 Tim. 2.1 My Son he speaks to Timothy an Evangelist a man full of grace and of the spirit My Son be thou strong through the grace that is in Christ saith David I will go forth in the
be kept from wrath to come and to have everlasting life Now can you have greater benefit then to be delivered from all evil and enjoy all good God commands us therefore to believe that we might partake of these benefits God commands men to repent he would have them repent and be saved 2 Pet. 3.9 so here he commands them to believe and he would have them come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved 1 Tim. 2.4 God commands you to believe in his Son Jesus Christ that you might not perish but be sav'd he is very willing why will you dye why do not you come to my Son and believe in him I have lay'd help upon him that is mighty why do you not look for help from him God is willing that poor sinners should have the benefit that is to be had from Christ Thirdly I infer from hence a sufficient answer to all Objections that a doubting Soul can make Doubting souls are apt to make many Objections against believing troubled souls are ready to raise Objections Object I am not elected saith one and therefore it is not for me to believe Answ What saith God here dont thou look after thine election that 's a secret hidden thing but here 's a command that is visible and thy duty and I command thee to believe on my Son Jesus Christ Object I am a great sinner saith another and God will not pardon my sins Answ I but God commands thee to believe that thou mayest have pardon of thy sins though they be very great Object I have relapsed often into the same sin into passion and wantonness and covetousness and worldliness and the like I have a hard heart saith another I have no qualifications and dispositions The promises dont belong to me saith another I am not humbled enough I am dead and dull and weak and it 's not for such a one as I am to believe in Christ Answ Well know there 's nothing in us fits us to believe and nothing should hinder us from believing why here 's Gods command and shall thy indisposition or thy sins and fears cross and null a command of the great God whether shall prevail Gods command or thy fancy thy sins indispositions or want of qualifications here 's a command of the great God that thou believe in his Son Jesus Christ stop therefore the mouth of every Objection and say well here 's my duty God hath commanded me to believe Moses wrangles with God a great while but he must go at last so God hath commanded me to believe and I will lay down all my Objections and do my duty I will believe in the Lord Jesus Christ This concerns us all that we should not stick at any thing but answer Death Corruptions Flesh and World with this that he commands me to believe and shall I not obey the voice of God and when it is so for my good and I shall have relief against all that troubles me and burthens me and the like Fourthly We may see here also what is the right and best course for a troubled soul to take being wounded with sin and wearied with its sins We usually take the wrong course and the wrong way when we have sin'd and offended God we pray we mourn we groan we reform and labour to walk more exactly these things are not to be condemned I but it is not the right course to have the soul healed and therefore all comes to little of this nature Many have thoughts by such courses to please God and to make God some amends for their sins but this will never do it the right way is to hearken unto God here I command you to believe saith he 1 Joh. 2.1 I write unto you that ye sin not yea but we shall sin well If any do sin what then We have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins we are to go presently to Jesus Christ who is our Advocate and propitiation for our sins and to believe this well Jesus Christ is my Advocate and propitiation for my sin which I have fallen into through infirmity or temptation or incogitancy or any occasion whatsoever this is the way Did not Nathan deal thus with David when he had sinned he tells him the Lord hath forgiven thy sins and David comes to his penetential Psalms after his belief that his sin was forgiven and that 's the true repentance that flows from the apprehension of Gods mercy towards us in the forgiveness of sins When the soul hath sinned observe it it must be setled upon that which can take away sin and upon a righteousness that is not its own but is far beyond its own now who is that can do this but the Lord Jesus Christ For the first the soul must be setled upon him that can take away sin 1 Joh. 29. Behold the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world Behold him and look upon him that takes away the sin of the world he shall take away your sin the guilt of it the trouble of it and the vexation of it it must be the Lord Jesus Christ 't is not your Prayers nor repentance nor any thing comes from you can do it no 't is the Lord Jesus Christ alone that takes away sin Heb. 1.3 When he had by himself purged our sins 't is the Lord Jesus Christ alone that purges away sins Christ being without sin comes to take away sin and to purge away sin so that he condemns sin in the flesh Rom. 8.3 and our old man was Crucified with him Rom. 6.6 so that now there is nothing man can do that tends to the taking away of sin there 's nothing left for any man or woman in the world to do to take away sin but the Lord Jesus Christ he hath taken away sin and I am to believe on the Son of God who hath taken away sin and doth take away the sins of his people that they commit daily And if you will say as 't is in the 16 Prov. 6. By mercy and truth iniquity is purged By mercy and truth what 's the meaning of that that is by Gods promise in sending Jesus Christ and his truth in performing his promise iniquity is purged by Jesus Christ whom he sent and fulfilled and made good the promise so that sin is purged by Jesus Christ and by none else Therefore when we have sinned we are to look to Christ and to Christ alone Secondly So for righteousness it is Christ's must stand us in stead not our own as there is no sin to be satisfied for now but all is satisfied for in and by Jesus Christ so there is no new righteousness to be wrought now by any for salvation but what Christ hath already wrought Christs righteousness is everlasting righteousness perfect righteousness he hath brought in everlasting and perfect righteousness and 2 Cor. 5. last he was made sin
our good that God sent him to be bread and water of Life unto us that we might live through him God sent him to be our Mediator our Saviour our Redeemer and the like we are to receive these truths that God hath revealed concerning Jesus Christ Secondly It is to take Christ for the foundation and building and top stone of our Salvation 1 Cor. 3.11 Other foundations can no man lay then that is lay'd which is Jesus Christ To take the Lord Christ to be our Prophet to be our King to be our High Priest to be all in all unto us Thirdly It is to rely upon him and trust in him for the removal of all our sins supply of all our wants and investment of us in his own Righteousness this is to believe in the Name or in the Son and to depend upon him for Redemption for Sanctification for Reconciliation for Adoption for Salvation So then you see the point is that believing lyes under a command this is his Commandement that we should believe on the Name of his Son Jesus Christ I shall now come to some questions and the Qu. First is Have we power to believe can any do it may they not as easily keep the Law as believe on the Son of God is there any power in us to do it An. You know that there are in the world divers sorts of people that do acknowledge power in us to do it But know that man simply considered in himself hath no power to believe in the Son of God 2 Cor. 3.5 we are not sufficient of our selves to think a good thought but all our sufficiency is from him if we ben't sufficient of our selves to think any thing of our selves as good but our sufficiency is of God surely we cannot believe then which is so great a work and glorious a work and in Col. 2.12 Faith is said to be the opperation of God not of Man But for the further clearing of the point know First that as God commandeth us to believe so he hath promised to give us faith Mat. 12.21 it 's said in him shall the Gentiles trust here is a promise made to us that are Gentiles that we shall trust in the name of Christ God will work that power in them that they shall trust in Christ and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and Joh. 6.37 all that the father giveth me shall come to me here 's a promise they shall come that is they shall believe And faith is called the gift of God Eph. 2.8 By grace are ye saved through faith and that not of our selves it is the gift of God None but God can give Christ and none but God can give power to believe in Christ As faith is the Command of God so faith is likewise the work of God Joh. 6.29 This is the work of God that ye believe on him whom he hath sent that 's the first answer Secondly The Lord giveth the means whereby it is wrought namely the Gospel The Gospel is the means whereby faith is wrought which he hath appointed and ordained for that very purpose and therefore the Gospel is called faith Gal. 1.23 speaking of Paul that he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed preacheth the faith that is the Gospel which works faith and is the means that God uses to work faith in the Souls of Men and Women The brazen Serpent was appointed of God to cure the stingings of the fiery Serpent no other Serpent would do it nor no other means would do it if they had used all the Physitians in the world they could not have done it but the brazen Serpent which God had appointed So no other word will work it but the Gospel which he hath appointed to work faith and therefore the Apostle tells you that faith comes by hearing hearing of the Gospel which is appointed by God for that very end Thirdly The Lord he doth accompany his word with his spirit to make it effectual the word without the spirit would not be effectual and therefore God doth accompany his word with his spirit that it may be effectual to work faith in the hearts of Men and Women Hence it is that the spirit is called the spirit of faith 2 Cor. 4.13 We having faith the Apostle the same spirit of faith it 's called the spirit of faith because by the Gospel it doth work faith in the hearts of Merrand Women and Gal. 3.2 This would I know of you saith the Apostle received you the spirit by the works of the Law or by the hearing of Faith why you heard the Doctrine of Faith the Gospel and by the hearing of Faith you received the spirit for the Gospel is the Ministration of the spirit and the Chariot of the spirit and so God doth by the Gospel convey the spirit into the hearts of men and women and by the spirit works faith in their Souls Fourthly The Lord commands things that are hard for us yea impossible unto us that so we may seek to him to whom nothing is impossible Luke 1.37 for with God nothing shall be impossible no word is impossible to God whatever he hath said he is able to make it good and you know in the Gospel that blind Bartemeus he seeks unto Christ for the Cure of his eyes The blind man in Joh. 9. that was born blind his eyes were opened so we that were born blind and born dead still-born without grace without faith without spiritual life the Lord commands us to believe that we may look to him to convey life and work grace and faith in our souls But Fifthly There is in the Gospel the offer of Christ to sinners you shall see it clear in 13 Acts that the offer of the Lord Jesus Christ is offered in the Gospel and tendered unto sinners v. 26. Men and Brethren Children of the Stock of Abraham and whosoever among you feareth God to you is the word of this salvation sent to you it 's sent and v. 38. Be it known unto you therefore Men and Brethren that through this man is Preached unto you the forgiveness of sins and in the 46. and 47. verses Paul and Barnabas waxed bold and said it was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you but seeing ye put it from you and Judge your selves unworthy of everlasting life loe we turn to the Gentiles For so hath the Lord commanded us saying I have set thee to be a light to the Gentiles so that Christ and salvation and all spiritual mercies are offered and tendered in the Gospel unto us unto us Gentiles unto us Sinners And surely such an offer is worthy of acceptation This very offer hath some efficacy and virtue in it to stir up souls to receive Christ 1 Tim. 1.15 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Jesus Christ came into the world to save Sinners O 't is a faithful
How precious are thy thoughts unto me saith David so precious are the thoughts of Christ and of God towards poor sinners The Lord Christs thoughts were publick thoughts pure thoughts heavenly thoughts thoughts of mercy and loving kindness I know the thoughts that I think towards you saith God Jer. 29.11 They were good thoughts peaceable thoughts loving thoughts so there is in Christ choice thoughts towards poor sinners Prov. 12.5 The thoughts of the righteous are right Christ was the righteous one and all his thoughts were right thoughts righteous thoughts so now to have the same mind that Christ had is to have the same thoughts that Christ had have the same thoughts of God the Father that he had have the same thoughts of Truth that Christ had have the same thoughts of Sin that Christ had as an evil as the greatest evil have the same thoughts of Grace as Christ had have the same thoughts of the Church as Christ had have the same thoughts of the worth of Souls as Christ had what will you give in exchange for your Souls Christ valued a soul above all the world now to have the mind of Christ is to have the same thoughts of God of persons and things that the Lord Jesus Christ had Secondly to have the same mind that Christ had is to be carried forth with the same will and affections towards God and Man as Christ was Now how was Christ carried forth towards God and man Heb. 10.7.9 there you shall see then said I Lo I come in the Volume of the Book it is written of me to do thy will O God I come I come freely I am coming to do thy will whatever it be be it hard matters disgraceful matters be it in the matter of my life Loe I come to do thy will O God and so in the 9 v. Lo I come to do thy will I am not backward but I come to do thy will he was ready to make hast as David saith I made hast and delayed not to keep thy Commandments so that to be carried out towards God to do good and to do the will of God as Christ was is to have the very mind of Christ Joh. 5.30 saith Christ I seek not mine own will but the will of the Father which hath sent me I came and I came freely and willingly and nor to do mine own will but the will of him that sent me so now to be carried out to do the will of God as Christ was towards God and towards man is to have the same mind that Christ had Thirdly to have the same mind that Christ had is to live the same life that Christ did where there is the same mind there will be the same motions and the same operations now to have the mind of Christ is to live the very life of Christ Gal. 2.20 I live not saith Paul but Christ lives in me O 't is Christs life that I live so in the 1 Phil. 21. To me to live is Christ I dont account my life any life if I dont live the life of Christ and Tit. 1.11 12. The Grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men what 's the Grace of God Christ and the Gospel the mind of Christ Teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and Godly in this present world Now to have the mind of Christ is to live soberly Righteously and Godly in this world Soberly in regard of our selves Righteously in regard of men Godly in regard of God To have the mind of Christ is to live the very life of Christ 1 Pet. 4.1 2. For as much then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh arm your selves likewise with the same mind for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin If you have suffered as Christ hath done you will cease from sin he hath ceased from dying for sin and you must cease from committing of sin That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men but to the will of God So that if we have the mind of Christ we will live the rest of our time to the will of God we must walk as he walked 1 Joh. 2.3 Fourthly Lastly to have the same mind that Christ had is to be carried out to the same end that he was and his end was to do good to others and to glorifie God these were the intentions and end and mind of Christ Acts 10.38 God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the Devil for God was with him here was his design to do good to others and his great design was to glorifie the Father also Joh. 8.50.54 and I seek not mine own glory saith he there is one that seeketh and judgeth I seek not mine own glory 't is the glory of the Father that I seek and v. 5 4. Jesus answered iâ— I honour my self my honour is nothing it is my Father that honoureth me of whom ye say that he is your God My Father doth honour me indeed and I do honour my Father Joh. 17.4 I have glorified thee on the earth c. That was the great design of the L. Jesus Christ to go up and down and do good and to glorifie the Father and honour him now to be carried out to the same ends and to have the same aim that Christ had is to have the same mind that Christ had Thus you see what was the mind of Christ and what it is to have the same mind that Christ had Now I shall shew you the Reasons why we should have the same mind that Christ had Reas First we should have the same mind because we are Christians we have Christs name as you know those that are Lutherans they have the mind of Luther those that are Calvinists have the mind of Calvin those are Platonists have the mind of Plato those are Gallenists have the mind of Gallen So we are Christians and we should have the mind of Christ what a Christian and not the mind of Christ why we are his Disciples and Disciples use to have the mind of their Masters and of their Teachers we should learn his mind and be of his mind Eph. 4.21 22. ye have not so learned Christ if so be that ye have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus If you have heard Christ and learned of him you will be of his mind you are his Disciples and the Disciple is of the mind of the Teacher Col. 2.6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk ye in him As ye have received his Doctrine his mind so walk in his Doctrine and in his mind we are Christians and therefore we should be of the same mind with Jesus Christ Secondly those that are true Churches and true Christians