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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46734	The excellency of Christ, or, The rose of Sharon shewing the art of taking Christ as the onely soveraign medicine of a sin-sick soul : accomodated both for those that are without and for those that are in Christ who are thereby instructed how they must be fitted to apply Christ unto themselves in 25 cases thereby instructed how they must be fitted to apply Christ unto themselves in 25 cases upon that excellent text in Cant. 2:1 ... / by Christopher Jelinger.	Jelinger, Christopher.	1641 (1641)	Wing J542; ESTC R29877	111,385	294

Cor. 7.11 as the Apostle implyeth when he saith Behold this selfe same thing that you sorrowed after a godly sort what carefulnesse it wrought in you saith he to shew that there was none such in them before and that they did not grieve so before Now if some of you that cannot find so much comfortablenesse in Christ as was spoken of here be such then never wonder at it for what comfort can a man take in roses if he will not take the paines to fetch them or to apply them or if he be asleep how can he smell them though his chambers were full of roses well may others that wake be refreshed with the sent of them and take delight in them but he cannot so long as he sleepeth So you that are so carelesse what comfort can ye take or find in Christ as long as you will not take the paines to draw what comfort you can from Christ in that carefull manner as you ought yea are in a manner asleep in that you be so drowsie dead dull backward and carelesse in the doing of your duties and doe so seldome humble and afflict your soules for your manifold exorbitancies slips failings and grievous sins God comforteth those that are cast downe saith the Apostle 2 Cor. 7.6 but you are not so dejected * Tamē quod divinas cousolation●s non habemus aut rarius sentimus nos in culpasum●s quia cōpunctionē cordis non quaerimus Tho à Kempis de Imit Christi l. 1. c. 21. and therefore what wonder is it to heare that you are not comforted So that I for my part doe not intend to cast away the precious comforts of Christ upon you that are so carelesse preaching comfort to Gods people for you are not capable of comfort in this case and we ministers wrong both our selves and you too when we doe promiscuously pronounce and preach comfort to Gods people For then you carelesse ones perswading your selves to be Gods people as you may be doe snatch at such comforts and apply them though you doe not feele them nor indeed are then fit for them and therefore I must and will distinguish between you that are carelesse and those that are carefull telling you that you for your part being so secure and undejected you may not nor must not looke for any sensible comforts from Jesus Christ the rose of Sharon as long as you are and shall be so carelesly disposed But secondly 2 Carefull ones as for those that are carefull among us of every thing and humble themselves much continually and are dejected and yet find or feele no comfort for the present they must not therefore be disheartened because that he which should comfort them is farre from them as they conceive for they may take comfort in this that either 1. They have in times past sate downe under Christs shadow with great delight and his fruit was sweet to their taste that is that they have tasted of the sweet comforts of Christ wherewith he is wont to refresh young beginners especially in their minority and in the infancy of their conversion Cant. 2.3 2. Or if they have not yet been made partakers of the sweet consolations that are in Christ they may comfort themselves in this that such comforts belong to them and that in the * That is When you shall have most need of it either when the spirit would taile else without it Esa 57.16 Or against some great affliction approaching or some great encounter with the world for the name of Christ Goodwin in his returne of prayers p. 152. Lords good time they shall feele them as he who upon a great stoppage not being able to smell roses may and shall smell them in time when that stoppage is gone For so it is written Esa 54.6 7 8. the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit and a wife of youth when thou wast forsaken saith thy God for a small moment have I forsaken thee but with great mercies will I gather thee In a little wrath I hid my face from thee but with everlasting kindnesse will I have mercy on thee saith the Lord thy Redeemer But when it will be that he tels us not but keepeth it to himselfe and therefore you must live by faith you that complaine of the want of comfort and stay upon God even in the want of comfort as a man who in the want of bodily strength stayeth himselfe upon a staffe * Esa 50.10 for so saith God Who is among you that feareth the Lord that obeyeth the voice of his servant that walketh in darknesse and hath no light Let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Esa 50.10 the * baculus sic appellatus quod illi ho mo inmtatur originall is let him leane upon his God as upon a staffe which will be a comfort to him for the present by a gracious supportation of him in the want of comfort and in the end by a most sweet and sensible distillation of comfort into his sad and pensive soule as it is written Thy rod and thy staffe they comfort me Psal 23.4 that is as * Chrys in loc one of the Ancient expounds that place thy Christ who is my rod and my staffe in that he came in the old age of the world doth comfort me as a staffe which is a comfort and supporter to old age A Note Where note by the way that Christ is a staffe to comfort old age that is such as wait with old Simeon for the consolation of Israell Luke 2.25 and make not too much hast to have comfort by and by and hence it is that some of the most eminent Saints of God felt most comfort a little before their departure in the very last age and end of their dayes heare their owne words Deare wife * Foxe in his Acts and Monuments p. 1361. said M. Sanders that blessed Martyr riches I have none to leave behind me but that treasure of tasting how sweet Christ is to hungry consciences whereof I feele a part I bequeath unto you I am merry and I trust I shall be merry maugre all the devils in hell And when * Ier. Burroughes in his Grac. spirit p. 77. alleadgeth this speech Oecolampadius lay sick and his friends did aske him whether the light did not offend him he clapt his hands on his breast and said Hic sat lucis est here is light enough meaning comfort enough So * Edward Bagshaw in the life and death of M Bolton p. 34. blessed M. Bolton said to some of his parish that came to visit him when he lay a dying I am by the wonderfull mercies of God as full of comfort as my heart can hold and feele nothing in my soule but Christ c. If you shall reply 2 Ob. that you feare you shall never feele the like