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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42551	The love-sick spouse, or, The substance of four sermons preached on Canticles 2.5. by William Gearing ...	Gearing, William.	1665 (1665)	Wing G436; ESTC R42046	36,957	51

shews us the reason why most people do not exercise their thoughts upon Christ Vse 1 and stretch forth their desires after him it is because they do not see their need of him for where there is no feeling sense of the want of Christ there are no earnest desires after him a man not feelingly sensible of his misery will not desire after mercy He that is not feelingly sensible of his condemned condition will not earnestly desire after a pardon If any man want wisdom let him ask it of God James 1.5 saith St. James it is not a particle of doubting whether any man did want wisdome for who doth not but it implies such as want wisdome and know they want it let such a one ask it of God It is very observable that when the sick the blind and the lame were brought to Christ to be cured of their maladies he would ask this or the like questions of them Wilt thou be made whole John 5.6 So to the blind man What wilt thou that I do unto thee Did not Christ see the one man sick and the other blind and know well what they wanted To what end then served such questions doubtless it was to affect them with the feeling knowledge of their own wants for it is sense of wants that puts men upon desires of supply There is a great necessity of our getting a sensible knowledge of the want of Christ 1. This will make every thing in Christ sweet to us A full stomach loathes the honey-comb but to him that is hungry every bitter thing is sweet Hunger is the best sawce it makes every thing to relish the palate well the heart that is full loathes Christ who is sweeter then honey and the honey-comb it loathes his righteousness loathes his graces much more will it loath the Cross of Christ the reproaches of Christ But oh how sweet is Christ to him that is pincht with the want of him and hungers after him the reproach of Christ is sweet the Cross of Christ is sweet the afflict one of Christ are sweet how sweet were the crumbs that fell from Christs table to the Woman of Canaan The least hint of salvation the smallest drop of mercy a cast of an eye from Christ any good news or glad tidings from Christ abundantly refresheth the soul of a Christian in his spiritual wants Our Saviour took care that the fragments of his broken loavs and fishes should be gathered up and he will have the least of his mercies to be prized and none will prize them but those who are feelingly pinched with the want of them 2. A feeling sense of the want of Christ will put us upon importunate desires after him Rachels shame of barrenness made her cry out Give me children or I die Solomon saith The poor useth many Entreaties Slight a beggar yet he will importune you Beggars are homines importunissimi the most importunate men in the World speak roughly to a beggar threaten him with a cudgell yet he will use Entreaties Oh Sir have pity on me I and mine are ready to starve Thus a man that is pinched with a feeling knowledge of the want of Christ he will lie at the door of Christ begging for mercy Lord I am ready to perish for thirst O thou who art the fountain of life refresh me with some living water I am ready to perish with hunger feed me with the bread of life By our sense of the want of Christ we see all that we have and all that we can do John 16.1 is from the fulness of Christ Of his fulness we all receive even grace for grace of his fulness of love we receive love of his fulness of humility we receive humility of his fulness of life we receive life It is Christs fulness of oyle that keeps our lamps continually burning The sense of our want of Christ keeps the heart alwayes in an humble frame that it doth not pride it self in gifts or graces the Soul saith what have I that I have not received from Christ This will alwayes make us acknowledge our continued dependance upon him 3. Where men are ignorant of Christ there is no desire after him The whole look not after the Physitian but the sick They that conceive themselves sound and well will neglect the best Physitian in the world but how welcome is a skilful Physitian to one dangerously sick and at the point of death if he hear but of such a ones name he cries out Oh send for him run for him let him come to me with all speed or else I am a dead man Let a Physitian put up his Bills of admirable cures on every post relating what great cures he hath done upon such and such persons he hath healed those that were helpless and hopeless c. Those that are well will read over the Note and the cures but will not seek to the Physitian Jesus Christ the great Physitian of souls sets up his bills of miraculous cures sheweth what great cures he hath done he hath cured the blind and the lame he hath cast out Devils healed sinners of all their diseases he hath healed Manasses of his Witchcraft and Sorcery Murder and Idolatry he hath healed Paul of his Blasphemy and Persecution healed Mary Magdalen that was possessed of seven Devils Yea he makes proclamation to all that there is no Saviour besides him there is no such Physitian in heaven and earth that can do such cures as himself I even I am he that healeth all your diseases I give Manna to the hungry living water to the thirsty halm to the wounded case and refreshment to the burdened Men hear of these things and read of these miraculous cures of mercy but will not seek to him for the cure of their spiritual maladies Vse 2. Labour then to see a present need of Christ Vse 2 then will ye be willing to take Christ upon any terms when guilt of sin and fears of wrath pursue a man at the heels when he is upon the top of the ladder and in his own apprehension ready to be cast over into the pit of destruction then he will let all fly then he will let his dearest lusts his credit his estate fly that he might be able to say I am Christs and Christ is mine Then let Satan let the world or his corrupt heart disswade him and use their most prevalent arguments to keep him from Christ he will answer all as Caesar did his Mariners in a storm disswading him from venturing on the Waters Oportet navigare non vivere I must set sail though I die there is more necessity of my sailing then of my living So a man fully possessed of his absolute need of Christ cries out Christ is the unum necessarium the one thing necessary tell me not of reproaches of crosses of persecutions of forsaking all I must have Christ or I am undone for ever there is no necessity of shunning these evils