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A50394	Love to the life, or, Some meditations upon loving, and washing in the blood of Christ together, with a tast of gospel-promises, as the churches stock, or, believers patrimony. By R.M. the Benjamin of his Fathers house.	Mayhew, R. (Richard)	1674 (1674)	Wing M1440; ESTC R217769	43,513	159

is a so doing Matth. 24.46 Blessed is that Servant whom his Lord when he commeth shall find so doing It is as true there is a so reading Acts 8.30 Understandest thou what thou readest Mar. 13.14 And let him that readeth understand If therefore thou wouldest so read look unto Christ For Jo. 15.5 without him thou canst do nothing And to the Spirit For that searcheth all things yea 1 Cor. 2.10 the Depths of God Now Isa 50.4 that he who hath the Tongue of the learned and knows how to speak a word in season to him that is weary may signally bless thy Reading unto Receiving and Rellishing and Remembring humbly and heartily prayeth READER Thy Friend and Servant for Jesus sake Richard Mayhew Vox audita perit sed Litera scripta manebit LOVING and WASHING Rev. 1.5 part thereof Vnto him that loved us and washed us from our Sins in his own Blood BEloved As Genesis begins so the Revelation ends this Book of God the holy Scriptures of Truth The ending part of this Book is called Apocalypse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the revelation of a secret from a greek word which signifie to reveal a secret Though the Old and New Testament make but one Book yet there are many Books in the Old and the New Testament that contribute to the making up of this one Book Now this Book of the Revelation is the last but not the least of the New Testament In the Title of this Book you have an Account of the matter contained therein Vers 1. 'T is called a Revelation The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto him that is which God committed unto him as man for he had it of himself as God In the Context you have the Person saluting the Persons saluted and the Salutation it s●lf The Person saluting That 's John But what John was He It was that John that had such intimacy with Jesus that John that lay so much in the Bosom of Jesus as if he could not live out of it that John that appeared to be an Euangelist in his Gospel an Apostle in his Epistles and a Prophet in this Book of the Revelation John The Persons saluted These are the seven Asiatick Churches John To the seven Churches in Asia The Salutation it self Herein you have The Matter of it Grace and Peace Grace be unto you and Peace Grace and then Peace not Peace and then Grace that 's the best wear in the World for it weares not out in wearing if once 't is ever though it may decay it cannot dye Grace and Peace Grace be unto you and Peace Grace and then Peace the Sun and then the Light Peace peace of Conscience and that 's an Anticipation of Glory a Heaven begun here Grace be unto you and Peace the Sun and the Light too the Fire and the Heat too Grace and Peace too that 's the subject Matter of the Salutation The Original of this Matter Here 's Grace and Peace but where may they be had Rev. 1.4 former part whence are they derived where do they Center from whom are they communicated from the Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity Father Son and Spirit From the Father Grace be unto you and Peace but from whom Rev. 1.4 mid part from him which is and which was and which is to come i. e. from the Father from him whose name is Jehovah Exod. 6.3 But by my name Jehovah was I not made known unto them Which name Jehovah signifie no less then this which was and is and will be From the Spirit And from the seven Spirits Rev. 1.4 later part which are before the Throne That is if I mistake not from the Spirit called seven Spirits in regard of his manifold graces which wrought so powerfully in those seven Churches as if a particular Spirit had been in each Church Seven Spirits seven is a note of perfection John speaking of the Lamb Rev. 5.6 Christ Jesus saith having seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the Earth From the Son And from Jesus Christ where may this Grace be had From Jesus Christ the God of Grace and the God of Peace Now follows a Description of Christs person He is thee faithfull witness One that fully and truly revealed Gods will by himself and his Apostles He is thee first begotten of the dead That is he is the first that arose from the dead to go to Heaven Enoch and Elias saw not death the first death they made a leap over the Grave and were translated they were taken into Heaven but they dyed not Others were raised and lived here but died after neither are their Bodies yet in Heaven Christ therefore is called the first begotten because the bodily life which we had by Generation is restored by the Resurrection And he is called the first begotten of the dead because he had the first corporal Resurrection given as Head of the Body the Church There are some that dyed and went to Heaven as to Soul but not as to Body there are two Enoch and Elias that dyed not and are gone to Heaven Soul and Body but for one that dyed Christ is that onely one that 's gone to Heaven Soul and Body He is thee Prince of the Kings of the Earth Ye have an Emphasis upon every distinct branch of the Description thee faithfull witness thee first begotten and thee Prince the King of Kings unto him all the mighty Monarchs of the World shall strike Sail and at his Feet shall they all cast their Scepters when he shall personally return from Heaven to Earth and be gloriously crowned where he was ignominiously crucified Thus John speak of Jesus by way of Emphasis Eminency and Excellency concerning Grace and Peace they being both in him formally R●v 1.5 as in the Subject of them and causally as in the Fountain of them that is in short Christ is the God and Giver of Grace and Peace which arrives me at my Text Vnto him who loved us and washed us from our Sins in his own Blood Beloved in this Text you have the Person and the Praedicate The Person Him or who that is Christ Unto Him The Praedicate Who loved us and washed us from our Sins in his own Blood Now here in you have The great Affection of the Person that 's Loving Who loved The greatest Demonstration of this Affection that 's washing And washed who loved and washed Loved and then washed not washed and then loved And herein you have The Persons that are washed Us. But who are these These properly are the seven Churches for unto these do John write and of these do John speak Us I say these expressively but not exclusively that is Us and all that have obtained like precious Faith with us as the grand Apostle of the Circumcision wordeth it 2 Petr. 1.1 That from which they are

LOVE to the LIFE Or some MEDITATIONS UPON LOVING and WASHING In the Blood of Christ TOGETHER With a Tast of Gospel-Promises as the CHURCHES STOCK or BELIEVERS PATRIMONY By R. M. the Benjamin of his Fathers house As the Father hath loved me so have I loved you continue ye in my Love Jo. 15.9 If I wash thee not thou hast no part with me Jo. 13 8. If ye be Christs then are ye Abrahams seed and Heirs according to the promise Gal. 3.29 Mala mea purè mala sunt mea sunt Bona autem mea nec pure bona sunt nec mea sunt London Printed for B. Harris at the Stationers Arms in Swithins Alley Anno 1674. To the Christian and Candid Reader READER THou mayst wonder to see Me the Benjamin of my Fathers House to add to the Heap and Pile of Books If my wickedly-wicked heart deceive me not not Glory unless of God nor Gain unless of Souls have been the wheels on which I have moved and the grand Incentives to Midwife the Babe into the World A Book may preach when the Author dare not when the Author cannot yea which is more when the Author is not I hope I can say without a Flourish that this Babe had been stifflled in the womb and not seen the Light had not my highest Ambition notwithstanding Brotherly Solicitation been my Fathers Glory and my Fellow Creatures Good Eccl. 12 12 Though of making Books there is no end and much reading is a weariness to the Flesh Yet there are some Books of which I may say as some Phisicians speak of their Pills there are Pilula sine quibus that is sine quibus esse nolo without which they would not be 'T is true the Bible is the Book of Books for that is Gods Book yet there are some Libelli sine quibus some little Books without which I would not be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If this little Tract have been preached to the Ear and shall be pre●ented to the Eye then the strength of Israel imprint it upon the Heart Reader If thou findest not in this Book Much in a Little yet wonder not Job 8.9 for I am but of yesterday and know nothing or not according to the Margent If any say why do this Dwarf trouble the World that 's under a Glut of Books already I shall modestly reply that though wordly praise and profit be the two Lackeys of most mens Labours yet through Grace I have been hunting after neither The Pen by far spreads it self farther then the Voice can reach the Pen is an artificial Tongue and sheaks to the Absent as well as the present yea it speaks not to the present Age only but to the succeeding Ages also The Pen is a kind of Image of Eternity and will make a Man live when He is dead Zach. 1.5 Though the Prophets do not live for ever yet their Labours may Heb. 11.4 ana Abel though dead yet speaketh or is spoken off What Solon saia concerning Laws that there were many good Laws made but there wanted one Law to make them put all those Laws in Execution So I may ●ay concerning Books there are many good Book written but there wanteth one Book to make us put those ●ood Books in practise O● such a Book were worth writing and worth reading Augustine with Ciceroes Hortensius I hav● read of one that was much taken with the Book of anoth●r but not finding the name of Christ in it he could not cordyally affect it Reader I doubt not but the Name of Christ who hath a Name above every Name will be Legible in this little little Book for 't is a Narrative according to my Stature of Christs Loving and Washing out of Love I would hope I shall never have cause to say concerning this Book as Nero did concerning a piece of his ultinum nescissem Literas wishing it had never been written God hath two Books his Works and his Word the Book of the Creatures and the Book of the Scriptures As for this latter Book the Holy Scriptures of Truth they are Christs Letters of Credence that when a poor desponding doubting and drooping Souls cannot see Christ it may read of a Christ and hear of a Christ and so hear from a Christ Now though for this Book especially we are to ble●s God for as there is a different Reading and what is said of a part is tr●e of the whole Rev. 1.3 Blessed is he or she that rea●eth and they that hear the words of this Prophesie and keep those sayings which are written therein Yet there are many other good Books for which I can bless God especially where there is much of a Christ most of a Christ as Saviour and Soveraign Reader Was not that a sad day when the Apostles who were so good Preachers were forbidden preaching Acts 4.17.18 They called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus So was not that a sad and sinful day in the time of Justin Martyr Clarks Eccles Hist 7. The Proconsul in Asia forbad that Christians should read any Books that spake of Christ In this little little Book thou mayest read of a Jesus the Loving of a Jesus the Washing of a Jesus whose Name is Honey to the Mouth Melody to the Ear and Musick to the Heart Pauls Epistles and Peters Epistles are Ours though not in their Inscriptions yet in their Benefit Words pass away and are forgotten when writing remain Every new Tide blots out a writing in the Sand and every new Term shews the former forgotten but writing deceives even Death it self If this Book should turn to the Good of None yet shall I sing but to the same Tune that others of Gods Servants have done before Me witness this place among others Isa 49.4 Then I said I have laboured in vain I have spent my strength for nought and in vain yet surely my Judgement is with the Lord and my work or reward with God Reader A pretention to satisfie every Reader were as ridiculous as his Attempt who studied to make a Vestement for the Moon that might fit her for every Interchange If therefore thou beest curious and critical I cannot pretend to the least hope of pleasing Thee for thou wilt I fear be finding faults besides the faults that are to be found But least this Epistle should swell and become tympanious I will give it a timely Check As it is true there is a so believing for there must be a believing with the Heart yea Acts 8.37 with the whole Heart If thou believest with all thine heart thou mayest And as there is a so repenting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for there must be sorrowing after a godly manner or as the Greek is a sorrowing according to God And 2 Cor. 7.9 as there is a so running So run 2 Cor. 9.24 that ye may obtain And as there