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B12174	Christs love, and saints sacrifice Preached in a sermon at St. Pauls Crosse, on the 23. of August, 1635. By Iames Conyers, Mr. of Arts of Sydney-Sussex in Cambridge, and minister of Stratford-Bow, in Middlesex.	Conyers, James.	1635 (1635)	STC 5657; ESTC S114491	14,982	32

maculamur David the Lords Darling Iob whose crowne is Iustice Paul that vessell of mercy Peter the mouth of the Apostles those devout Women that were Apostolae Apostolis even Mary-Iesus the mirrour of the Saints speake freely and they will unanimously confesse to their own shame they were great sinners yet to the praise of Gods grace his Sonne washed them from their sinnes Object But in thus saying they may say to me as the widdow of Sarepta to Elias Am I come to bring their sinnes to remembrance I have no delight to rake in dead mens graves Resp or set their frailties on the Stage but so farre to confirme from them this truth in many things Amb. non solum docentes sed errantes instruunt we sinne all and that if we fall as they did wee may beare our selves upon the wings of mercy to obtaine as they have or make their faults as markes at Sea to steere our course wisely lest wee-runne on these Rockes and so sinke Barke and Goods Object But here may be obtruded a Dilemma if Christs Spouse be all faire then there is no spot so needes no washing if any spot how is she all faire as Salomon speakes withall is not this Cant. 4 7. derogatorie from Christs plenary satisfaction For resolution of the former part wee are to Resp consider the Spouse the body of Saints first in regard of imputative holinesse thus spotlesse Ecclesia nigra quia ex peccatoribus decora ex fide● Sacramento Ambros and more orient than the Sunne Secondly in their inherent holinesse thus as the Moone part blacke part bright And for the latter part of the Argument grant the Churches pollution it imperfects not Christs lotion to instance He that comes forth of the Bathe is cleane washed but trampling slimie earth the soles of his feet contract some sully yet therein for his defilement the Bathe is unblameable after the same manner we cleansed in that beatifying fountaine of Christs blood open for Iudah and Ierusalem to wash in for sinne and uncleannesse may not Zach. 13. 1. if the feet of our soules viz. our affections walking on this sinfull soyle licke up some defiling dust that we stand afterwards need of washing impute to this holy Bathe any imperfection and hereupon is it according to our Saviours saying He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet Iohn 13. 10. Avaunt then vaine Catharist that vaunts thy Consect selfe cleare of all tincture of sinne Elisha was of another minde witnesse his words What is man Iob 25. 14 15 16. that he should bee cleane and he that is borne of a Woman that he should be just behold hee found no stedfastnesse in his Saints Yea the Heavens are uncleane in his sight how much more is man abhominable and filthy which drinketh iniquitie like water Therefore to that selfe-beseeming pure generation I say no more but as the Emperour said to that Arch-Puritan Acesius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theod. Histor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 set thou the Ladder and goe alone to Heaven but for my own part with the Leper I confesse I am uncleane and with the wings of devotion faith and prayer hie me to the mercy-seat and in the Publicans posture crie Lord be mercifull to me a sinner and to conclude this with that Exhortation of the Apostle Clense 2 Cor. 7. 1. your selves from all filthinesse of the flesh and the spirit not from the great Beames but the least Motes not that the World may see on the outside but that thou knowst in the inside even all filthinesse of the flesh and spirit for into the new Ierusalem enters no uncleane thing Apoc. 21. 27. But you will say unto me wherewithall may we be made cleane To which I answer First flumine by Eye-water teares for sinnes distilled thorow the lymbecke of a contrite Soule which doe not only A●● quod defendi non potest ●●●ui potest wash but as a sponge wipe out Secondly flamine with the Holy Ghost which as fire scoures of rust-eating sinnes from the face of the Soule and for this shall every one pray with the Church Come Holy Ghost Thirdly sanguine by blood not mysticall as the blood of Martyrs nor typicall as was the blood of Goates but the naturall and most precious blood of Christ which clenseth from all sinne and this is that wherewith 1 Ioh. 1. 7. he washed us the third branch of the second generall part viz. the Organon of our purification Organon And washed us in his Blood In washing us with his Blood his love life blood is shed abroad in our hearts that it was not cold but warme as blood nor drye for with his blood he washed us nor little it was not gutta sed unda not a drop but a flood wherewith he washed us This was prophesied by good old Iacob of Christ under the name of Iudah hee Gen. 49 11. should wash his garment in Wine and his Cloake in the blood of the Grape what other meaning but that Christs Body the vestment of his soule should be all over bloody This was prefigured by the red Cow whose blood was to be sprinkled Numb 19. seven times before the Tabernacle so our Saviours seven times effused upon the Tabernacle of his Body First In his Circumcision Secondly in Pilates Hall stript and whipt till blood came Thirdly in the Garden sweat teares of blood Fourthly in his spineall coronation Fifthly in his crucifixion Sixthly in piercing his hands and feet with nayles and Seventhly at the last to be sure to take away life the Souldier thrust a Speare into the filme of his heart whence streamed Columb dere Anat. ● 7. water and blood in abundance whereupon the Element trembled Rockes rent asunder the Heavens covered the face of the Earth with darkenesse as with a sable Canopie vaile his bloody nakednesse It is noted to be the innative vertue of blood in its kinde 1. To mollifie 2. To purifie 3. To preserve alive 4. To revive the dead For the first So it is storyed of the Goat that albeit the Adamant in its owne nature bee inflexible and infrangible yet steeped in Goats blood it becomes pliable and tender But more efficacious is the impreciable vertue of Christs Blood that being sprinkled on the heart by the hand of Faith it intenders it though harder than the hardest Adamant This rent Rockes and made stones relent this wrought one of the Theeves on the Crosse as soft as Waxe to receive the gracious impression of the Spirit to beleeve in a crucified Christ and in the merit of that his Blood bubbling before his eyes to be with him in Paradise Blood purifies spots and purges over-spreading maladies therefore the Persian Magi as Nicephorus relates counselled Constantine the Lib. 7. c. 33. great being smitten with a loathsome Leprosie for his cure to bathe himselfe in the blood of Innocents

it savours Iesuiticall advise let the credit of the Story stand ad placitum but this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 worthy of all acceptation that Christs innocent Blood expiates our guilt and heales all manner of spirituall Leprosie Ioh. 1. 1. Blood preserves alive therefore Physitians prescribe the blood of a Dove a soveraigne against diseases in the eye and the braine Galen gives it against the bruises called Hyposphagmata which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 presents every thing to the eye red And Iul. Alex. commends it dropped on the corners of Lib. 4. salubrium the braine called Pia Dura Mater in the wounds of the head to helpe to hold in life So pretious was the blood of Christ a harmelesse Dove that dropped on our eyes whereas before all we could see were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 goare blood by reason of our bloody sinnes now wee behold as in a Glasse salvation before our eyes And whereas in our head Adam we had received a deadly wound by a Balme made of this Blood and laid to it we are alive unto God Blood hath revived the dead As the Story of the Pelican goes for currant her brood being stung to death by the brood of the Serpent by distilling her blood on her owne brood they have beene restored to life So Christ our true Pelican when by our serpentine firy-stinging sinnes we were stung to death by the vertue of his blood effused on our soules wee are quickned and raised to life to the praise of his glory But there is one maine and memorable difference betwixt this Blood and all others The blood of man or beast may give snow-white a scarlet tincture but never die scarlet snow-white but this and this onely by mercy and miracle makes scarlet Soules as white as snow In Salomon thus that Elder moved the question and made the answer to our Evangelist What are they that Apoc. 7. 13 14. are arrayed in long white robes and whence came they These are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their long Robes and have made their long robes white in the Blood of the Lambe Now that Christ washed us with his blood Hence a choake Peare to the Manichees who deny the truth of Christs-humanity to the Marcionites who averre he had a phantasticall Body to Apelles who conceived hee had a Sydereall substance He that runnes may read printed in blood the truth of his Manhood For as Alexander the great however the popular sort deified him yet having got a clap with an Arrow said ye stile me Iupiters Sonne as if immortall Sed hoc vulnus clamat me esse hominem this blood that issues from the wound proves me in the issue a man So may I say of our Saviour though myriads of Angels and Saints acclaime he is God ergo immortall and a crue of Hereticks disclaime him to be a man yet the streames of blood following the arrow of death that strucke him make good he was perfect man of a reasonable soule and humane flesh subsisting but this their heresie wee passe for there must bee 1 Cor. 11. 9. heresies and in holy admiration ponder in the chambers of our hearts the immense love of the Father and of the Sonne of the Father that hee would give his Sonne to shed his blood and dye the execrable death of the Crosse for the sonnes of men Ab aeterno genitum begotten before all eternitie His Sonne Psal 2. 7. Omnis creaturae primogenitum the first begotten of every creature Vnigenitum his onely begotten Col. 1. 16. Ioh. 1. 18. Mat. 3. ult Esa 42. 1. Sonne Dilectum his beloved Sonne and as speakes that Seraphicall Prophet Electum Animae suae such a sonne in whom his soule delighted and for us Caytiffes not worthy the least crum of his mercy And no lesse admirable is the love of Gods dearely beloved Sonne to powre out his soule unto death for us and our salvation It is storied of Cyrus King of Persia having Zenop. lib. 3. taken Tygranes King of Armenia with his Queene captives on a time he moved Tygranes what he would give for his Queenes ransome to whom he replyed That had hee what he once had viz. his Crowne and Kingdome hee would freely give it for her freedome and if that were too little he would purchase it with the price of his blood which love to his Spouse Cyrus observing presently reinvested them to their pristine liberties and honours Wherupon Tygranes spake unto his Queene Cyrus is a most 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 noble Prince the Queene made answer My affections were only bent on him that would have spent his dearest blood for me a fortiori should we espoused unto Christ the Prince of the Kings of the Earth fixe our hearts on him that not onely resolved our freedome from Persian but infernall thraldome and purchased it with his precious Blood To winde up in a word here every eye may see whereon to rest his Soule that it may be saved in that great and notable day not on his owne righteousnesse that is imperfect nor Saints oyle that is not sufficient for themselves nor the Popish incruentall Masse a Masse of horrible impieties no Popes pardon or Aqua benedicta of theirs to which they ascribe rare incredible both spirituall and corporall effects whereby they bewitch silly soules to inrich themselves and all not worth a bit of bread but solely in the blessed blood of that immaculate Lambe Christ Iesus Herein to our most precious soules is salus oblata salvation freely offered herein by our most precious faith is salus recepta salvation imbraced in this faith by the impresse of the Spirit is salus obsignata salvation sealed and hereby is the end of our faith salus consummata our salvation finished and while we sojourne in these terrene Tabernacles the foundation of our glory the rise and perfection is in and from this blood whereby wee are made Kings and Priests unto our God And this is the second branch wherein Christs love is manifested Hee hath crowned us Kings and consecrated us Priests to God and his Father Artaxerxes honoured Nehemiah much to Kings advance him to bee his Cup-bearer and Saul David to make him his Sonne in law but to make us Kings lesse than none save God alone what could be more but what manner of Kings Rex sol● deo minor not politicall but spirituall Et bene saith S. Gregory quia praelati cunctis motibus carnis c. Moral 36. c. 21. as reigning over our corrupt affections curbing luxury tempering intemperate avarice humbling hautinesse of spirit and extinguishing the fire of fury Will you a little more at large behold the majestie of as many as are truely made Kings Their unction is not oyle but holy blood Their Diademe is not 12. stones but 12. s●ars Apoc. 12. 1. The Sword is the Word of God The Scepter is the power