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truth_n	ground_n	martyrdom_n	quicken_a	15	3	15.8383	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75620	Theanthrōpos; or, God-man: being an exposition upon the first eighteen verses of the first chapter of the Gospel according to St John. Wherein, is most accurately and divinely handled, the divinity and humanity of Jesus Christ; proving him to be God and man, coequall and coeternall with the Father: to the confutation of severall heresies both ancient and modern. By that eminently learned and reverend divine, John Arrowsmith, D.D. late Master of Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge, and Professor of Divinity there.	Arrowsmith, John, 1602-1659.	1660 (1660)	Wing A3778; Thomason E1014_1; ESTC R10473	267,525	319

in consideration of this it may be of Use to us diverse waies as First Take it to pieces again In him was life as in the 1. In Christ is Life as in the Subject therefore fear and tremble before him Subject This should serve as a Canon to fear which we find called for in Daniel in this respect Dan. 6 26. I make a decree saith Darius that in every dominion of my kingdome men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel for he is the living God Let all fear and tremble before Christ for in him is life he is the living God What saith Paul Heb. 10. 31. It is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God O therefore tremble before him There are hands of God into which it is a comfortable thing to fall There are mercifull hands of Christ which he stretcheth forth to poor sinners to invite them and call them in to himself but if we refuse the Call which he now maketh to us if all the benefits which those bountifull hands of his spread out amongst us scattered in our Congregations and in our Houses if all these allure us not then remember what followeth It is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God one will follow upon the other If this mercifull hand cannot win us this destroying hand will be sure to reach us This maketh it fearfull because His is the living God Every death is the more fearfull by how much the more terrible the immediate Executioner of it is For a man to be drowned is more gentle than to be burnt Why Because Water is not so operative and active and quick as Fire Fire is a more raging element The wrath of God is the immediate Executioner of damned souls And what so terrible as that is If God live such souls must die And because God liveth for ever such souls must die for ever as fall into his revengefull hands Fear and tremble to offend Christ because such as fall into the hands of the living God must be miserable as long as he is happy and die as long as he liveth Secondly The consideration of this truth That in Christ is life as in a Fountain from whence all sorts of life are He is Life as in the Fountain therefore trust him seek him and depend upon him derived to the creatures according to their severall kinds may serve as a ground of faith First to put us upon trusting in Christ and seeking to him and depending upon him for all kinds of life Psal 36. 7th and 9th verses compared together The children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings vers 7. and the reason is rendred vers 9. For with thee is the fountain of life Therefore our trust should be in him because life is in him as in the Fountain Whither should he that wanteth water go but to the Fountain Carry Faith as the Bucket and then according to the bignesse of thy bucket shall be the proportion of thy water thou drawest from thence Life commeth in as Faith draweth from Christ Trust him for temporall life when we are sick and in dangers though means may be used and ought to be used there is no relying upon Physick Our utmost confidence must be in him from whom all life commeth Deut. 32. 39. I even I am he and there is no god with me I kill and I make alive I wound and I heal there is none that can deliver out of my hand And so for spirituall life when the pulse of Grace beateth slowly and unevenly Who shall we then depend upon for life but upon him that is the fountain of it the second Adam whom God hath made a quickning Spirit Secondly as it may be a ground of Faith at all times so 2. Therefore a ground of Martyrdom a ground of Martyrdom at any time when a man is called to seal the truth of his profession with his blood Now this being considered that life is in Christ as in the Fountain and derived from him to us this is a speciall ground to prevail with the soul to suffer it self even to be laid down for Christ Now he calleth for that life which he himself first gave we had it from him and now we are called to restore it to him the best husbandry that can be But to be provident of our lives in this case and to be over-thrifty is the way never to thrive as Christ saith Mar. 8. 35. Whosoever will save his life shall lose it Whosoever will lose his life for my sake and the Gospel's the same shall save it It is no such great matter Life is as common to brute beasts as to men and therefore when Christ calleth for it there is reason to part from it because he gave it It must be given up as a tribute to Nature What is it to part with it a little sooner as a sacrifice to Christ as a seal of our profession and as a pledge of our thankfulnesse It is not so much parting with it as restoring it to the Owner Thirdly it may serve as a ground of Encouragement Life 3. Therefore a ground of Encouragement is in Christ as in the Fountain therefore let all that wait upon Christ be encourag'd to expect life in abundance A great deal of complaining there is of dead hearts and dull spirits no life in the soul in duty or service Exercise Faith go to the Fountain for all and you shall have life and have it in abundance Christ doth not use to give niggardly when he is sued to It is said of Araunah All th●se things Ara●nah gave as a King Christ giveth as a Saviour in this very particular Joh. 10. 10. I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly He giveth so as to give it in abundance It will not be amisse to spend some time in clearing of that that Christians may go away with encouragement Whether we speak of the severall sorts of life of Spirituall life for I will not speak of Naturall or to the severall blessings that accompany every sort of spirituall life which is all derived from one fountain I take them together that I may speak the more briefly of them There are five sorts of Spirituall life which are proper to Saints besides a Naturall life which is common to all Five sorts of Spiritual life men First There is a life of Reconciliation which standeth in 1. A life of Reconciliation opposition to the wrath of God The wrath of God that killeth but in the favour of God there is life saith the Psalmist Psal 30. 5. Thy anger endureth but for a moment but in thy favour is life This life is from Christ because it is he in whom he is well-pleased and through whom he is well pleased with us God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself If any Reconciliation it is in