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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

of his Spirit The Globe the World all things are theirs Their Royall Robes the syndone of Christs 1 Cor. 3. 22. Righteousnesse Their Princely Pallaces White-Hall Gods Sanctuary and Non-such the new Ierusalem the Esquires of their bodies a heavenly guard even 10000. of Angels their dyet is of the best the inconsumptible body and the blood of Christ and hee that made them kings is the King of Kings Beloved Brethren wee see our honourable calling let dogges returne to their vomit Hogs of Epicurus Heards wallow in their obscene Aliud Sceptrum aliud plectrum pleasures Kites feed on caerrion Beasts live like Beasts yet our calling calls upon us to live like men the chiefe of men Kings and Christian Kings What therefore was Iosuahs injunction ought to be ours in theory practice viz. the exercise of pure Religion to meditate in the Booke of the Law day and night to observe and Iosu 1. 8. doe according to all the Law not to turne from it to the right hand nor to the left that wee Deut. 17. 19. may prosper wheresoever we goe It is recorded in Ecclesiasticall History of Philadelphus King of Aegypt however hee had two hundred thousand volumes in his Library yet hee sent the keeper of his Library Demetrius to the Iewes to have the Booke of the Law and the Translators which we call the Septuagint Such was his love to the Law We need not send farre or spend much to have the Booke of the Law and the Gospel in our owne houses in Gods houses they are read and orthodoxally expounded every day and if the best of desires be not thereto to know and to doe we are not worthy the name of Christians much lesse the honour of Kings but if wee shall make the profession and the practice of sincere Religion our joy our glory and our crowne and be found so doing Kings we are here by grace and shall reigne with the King of Kings hereafter in eternall glory And thus I leave this and take hold on the last branch of our honour He hath consecrated us Priests to God and the Father Amongst the Heathen one man sometime was both King and Priest Rex idem hominum Virg. Phoebique sacerdos St. Peter combines both together Ye are a royall Priesthood St. Ambrose is 1 Pet. 2. 9. In Luc. c. 22. plaine Omnes filii Ecclesiae sacerdotes sunt all the true children of the Church are Priests spiritually Priests whereof Clemens Alexandrinus renders this reason Quia eorum caput Christus est Rex Sacerdos because Christ their head is both King and Priest Then Priests wee are therefore it behoves us to adorne our holy Profession as Priests to be filled with knowledge not of the most so much as of the best to send up the Heraulds of our soules to the Mercy-seat for our selves and others that we may be healed to purifie our selves when we approach the Temple and to be holy in all manner of conversation what other thing in Moses Law did that his Act Levit. 8. 24. typifie to put blood on the Priests eare the thumbe of the right hand and the great toe of the right foot than that to spirituall Priests the doore of knowledge and the instruments of action should be sanctified and being sanctified forget not to sacrifice Cum sale cum igne cum thure with discretion fervor of love prayer subdue Arrogance then we offer to the Lord a Calfe Orig. 9. Ep. ad Rom overcome wee anger then wee offer a Ramme quell we concupiscence that is to offer a Goat restraine we wandring imagination then wee offer Pigeons In three words to conclude all let us all offer the Philosophers three kindes of goods 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our externall goods doling Ethic. l. 1. c. 8. almes to the needy for with such sacrifices God is well pleased I but thou hast it not to offer yes sure not so poore but thou hast a sacrifice Si Zachei divitias non habes si desint tibi duo minuta Remig. c if thou hast not Zache his store not so much as the widowes mites no not a cup of cold water offer to thy God thy good will and God takes it well according to that Coronat Deus intus Voluntatem ubi non invenit facultatem 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 August 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the goods of our bodies so the Apostle Rom. 12. 1. supplicates the Romanes how this may be golden mouthed Chrysostome instructs elegantly Let thy eye behold no evill or no evill hold thy eye Hom 20. in Ep. ad Rom. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so thy eye is a sacrifice thy tongue speak no evill 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and it is an oblation thy hand act no evill 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and it is become a burnt Offering so order all other parts in Gods service and so they are made Gods sacrifices Lastly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the goods of our minde Prayers perfumed with faith incensed with zeale to make them as incense daily and duly presented by the hands of Christ Iesus to that God which heareth prayers and to close with our God in praises and praise him for all his mercies from the morning of our youth to the mid-day of our strength even to the evening of our dayes till our Sunne set that when the Sonne of righteousnesse shall appeare we may beare with Cherubins and Seraphins a part in their heavenly Hallelujah world without end Now to the God of Love the Spirit of grace that moves us to love and the Son of Gods Love Who loved us and washed us in his Blood and made us Kings and Priests unto our God a Trinity in Vnity and an Vnitie in Trinitie be ascribed Glory and Dominion for evermore Amen FINIS Imprimatur SA BAKER Fulham Septemb. 16. 1635.