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A46734	The excellency of Christ, or, The rose of Sharon shewing the art of taking Christ as the onely soveraign medicine of a sin-sick soul : accomodated both for those that are without and for those that are in Christ who are thereby instructed how they must be fitted to apply Christ unto themselves in 25 cases thereby instructed how they must be fitted to apply Christ unto themselves in 25 cases upon that excellent text in Cant. 2:1 ... / by Christopher Jelinger.	Jelinger, Christopher.	1641 (1641)	Wing J542; ESTC R29877	111,385	294

even pant and thirst after me who am the health of thy countenance and thy God Psal 42.1.2.11 My company thou doest affect I see and it is most sweet unto thee and therefore my company thou shalt have here I am to be with thee as thou didst desire me for as thou takest delight in me so do I take delight in thee and as my voice is sweet to thee so thine is sweet to me Cant. 2.14 and as I am like a rose in thy sight most amiable and most faire so art thou like a garden of flowers most pleasant and most fragrant in my sight Cant. 4.12 and as the unexpressable and sweetest comforts of my spirit which are my fruit that I bring with me do marvelously please thee so do thy most * Cant. 4.16 pleasant fruits which are the * Vel bona opera Psellus in Cant. ● 16 graces of my spirit whom I find in thee when I come unto thee please me and therefore behold here I am to enjoy thee who dost so earnestly and ardently long to be with me 4. Be willing to be with Christ by reading much and often in the booke of God which is like a most pleasant * 〈…〉 l. 5. paradise as Irenaeus aptly resembles it in the which the Lord Jesus Christ doth flourish as a Rose in Sharon field shewing himselfe thorow the very thornes of the most pricking and piercing Law of God but especially thorow the green and reviving leaves of the soul-solacing Gospel and so consequently throughout the whole book of God whereof that Princely preacher the * Philip. Camerar in vitacom Anbalt Prince of Anhalt was wont to say what else is the whole Scripture but swadling clothes of the childe Jesus he being to be found almost in every page in every verse and line so as that the * Col. 3.16 Apostle might well terme the whole word of God the word of Christ because he is the matter of the whole and the contents of all the Bible * Ideo enim Moses posuit aeneum serpentem non inco●gru●●stendens quod lex Christum prophetavit Be●a in Num. ●1 shadowed in the Law shewed in the Gospel which caused * August in Psal 49.5 St. Austine to say most aptly Vnam vocem habent duo testamenta The word of the Lord containes nothing but the word which is the Lord. 5. Be willing to be with Christ in the reading of such good books as were written by good men of Christ For we must not thinke that the Pope of Rome onely is authorized to shew Christ by a rose of gold unto the people as his * Romanus ver● po●tifix successor utique P●tri●t vica●ius ●esu Christ● hu●● fl●rem fide●thus populis demons●rat Dur●●d Rat● 6. fo 11● flatterers doe make him beleeve No but every faithfull Minister of Christ may shew him forth in the best manner he can though he be not able to doe it in golden lines and phrases and therefore divers able men have done their best to shew Christ both by speaking and by writing unto the people of God whose most excellent treatises are to be found extant as so many delightfull rosaries or rose-gardens wherein Jesus Christ is most sweetly set forth and flourishes like a rose faire and pleasant so as that ye may doe well to fetch a walke in them now and then to recreate your wearied minds with the sight and smell of so fragrant and faire a flower and to manifest that ardent and longing desire to be with Christ which ought to be in every one of you 6. Be willing to be with Christ in the people of God who also are as a most delicious garden Cant. 4.12 In the which this faire rose doth shew himselfe most graciously by their sweet and savory speeches and fairest carriage emblematizing and representing in a most fit and proportionable degree that most admirable and ravishing pleasantnesse amiablenesse and fairenesse which is in Christ himselfe the rose of Sharon See Gal. 2 20. Psal 16.3 2. Be willing to be with Christ in heaven hereafter and not so unwilling to depart this fraile life as many are For so you shall mount up with Elias though not in a chariot of fire yet upon the wings or armes of Angels into the very bosome as it were of Christ that fairest rose of Sharon assoone as your earthly tabernacles are dissolved and unsouled by death you goe then to behold and to see his glorious beauty and to enjoy his sweetest society through all eternity * Socrates prosit●tur se ●bent ● m●●iturum ut poss●● videre 〈◊〉 caetus veterum h●●oum inter 〈◊〉 s● Or●●●eus Hes●●dus H●●●●cus c quid n●s si●●les No●●tique illos 〈◊〉 catus prophetarum 〈◊〉 ip●●m in sua g●oria A●et probl de Morte p 410. Socrates did professe once that he for his part was most willing to die that he might see those companies and assemblies of those ancient heroicall personages Orpheus namely Hesiodus Homer c. and should not you Christians that are espoused to Christ be infinitely more desi●ous to goe hence upon the summons of death that you might enjoy the beatificall and most glorious vision of Jesus Christ your coelestiall bridegroome that sweetest and fairest rose of Sharon blessed for ever should ye not even eccho forth as it were the same words which once issued from the blessed soule of that holy Apostle Phil. 1.23 answering him and saying we also have a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is far better 3. Be perswaded likewise to manifest it that you make more of Christ then ever you did seeing he is so faire and so usefull and so desirable a rose by a mighty care to keep him still as we keep and conserve roses over yere in glasses and vessels of earth so be carefull I say to conserve Christ that sweetest rose of Sharon not onely over yeare but every yeare and every day of your whole race till your very last gaspe If you ask me how and where would you have us to keep him Quest I answer Answ 1 In the vessels of your hearts and within the compasse of your minds striving to thinke upon him continually even as a spouse upon her best beloved and as * Val Max. Artemisia did ever carry in her mind her deare deceased husband Ma●seolus mingling her very drinke with his ashes so doe you beare Christ in mind who is your best beloved and mingle or bestraw all your meat and drinke and words and works with his sweetest remembrance even as the ancient * Romanis fol a rosarum serculis epularum inspergere mo●●rat Jonston Thaumato●r Nat. p. 215. Romanes did bestraw their meat with roses nay come you must promise him so much before ye depart in the words of his spouse * Cant. 1.4 We will remember thy love more then wine 2. Keep him not onely by way of a holy and perpetuall recordation and

which also shall never go out Ierem. 23.29 1 Pet. 1.23 that so it may like a pillar of fire conduct you safely thorow the great and terrible wildernesse of this men-devouring world into the celestiall Canaan not suffering you either to stumble against the stone of stumbling and rock of offence which is Christ accidentally 1 Pet. 2.8 or to wander totally and finally out of the way of Gods commandements Psal 119.6.9.105 and may likewise warme your faint and sickly souls when they begin to coole blazing and flaming as it were about your heads hearts and vibrating or sending forth now this then that most sweet and precious promise Besides a number of other holy truths and passages like so many hot burning sparks of fire whereby your cooling brains and breasts may be re-heated and re-enlivened and so consequently most blessedly re-enabled to hold out and and to persevere unto the end in the metaphysicall and supernaturall taking of the most effectuall Rose of Sharon 2 Pet. 1.19 3. By holding forth also your very heads and hearts against that ever burning fire which is God himself blessed for ever Hebrews 12.19 and bathing your ravished and aspiring thoughts even most deliciously and frequently in the hotte burning flames or manifestation of that most holy and everliving essence even as a blessed Martyr being condemned to be burnt alive did even bathe his hands in the flames of fire to evidence and to declare the unconceivable and unexpressable delight and joy which he tooke and felt in the midst of the fire so do you in like manner manifest and shew forth your inexplicable delight and soul-ravishing content which you take in God and Christ by so thinking upon God much and often yea ever with * Gen. 39.9 Ioseph and * Psal 16.8 David that so you may be ever afraid as Ioseph was to sin against his Sacred Majestie Genesis 39.9 and also may be ever warme and fire-hot as it were in affection but then especially when you do take and apply or have taken that most sweet most fragrant most pleasant most operative and salutiferous Rose of Sharon Christ Jesus our most deare and blessed Saviour to be adored and magnified for ever and ever FINIS The Contents SECTION I. THat Christ is like a Rose in Sharon Field is manifested by sixe grounds drawn from his 1. Operation or hidden vertues 2. Blood-shed 3. Fragrancie 4. Suffering in the field 5. Opennesse 6. Intention to draw his Spouse into the field to fight 7. Excellencie in generall 8. Pleasantnesse in speciall 9. Fervenoy of Love Two Queries resolved SECTION II. Informes us of Christs 1. Fairenesse 2. Vsefulnesse 3. Desireablenesse SECTION III. Satisfaction for the consciences of Christs people who may know that Christ is in them 1. By the mightinesse of his Rose-like purging where 1. An objection is answered 2. Two Questions resolved 1. Q. In what sense Christs people is said to be purged from sin 2. Q. How one may know that his evill thoughts are so purged as that they do not reign Cleered By six Evidences 2. By the sweet Saviour of Christ SECTION IIII. Conviction for the consciences of such as want Christ who may know it by the ill savour of their 1. Works 2. Words 3. Thoughts SECTION V. Matter of feare for such as reject Christ having no cloake for their sin seeing Christ is so faire where is shewed 1. What Christ may say to them on that day 2. What they are like to say of him again SECTION VI. Matter of shame for carelesse and loose Christians who are so foule whereas Christ is so faire manifesting it both 1. At home 2. Abroad bringing most foule 1. Mouthes 2. Hands 3. Hearts into Godsown house SECTION VII Comfort for Christs people set forth 1. By two resemblances 2. By five disproportions shewing how farre more comfortable Christ is then any Rose 4. Objections answered by severall very needfull distinctions and Solutions SECTION VIII An exhortation to such as want Christ to seeke him 1. In the Law 2. In the Gospel SECTION IX Faith must be gotten as a hand for the taking of Christ who himself must work it 1. By his Word 2. By his Spirit SECTION X. Christ must be sought speedily as Roses in the Summer whey they may be had before Either you may be taken from the means or the means from you SECTION XI Foure grounds which should draw men to Christ to take him 1. His Rose like sweetnesse 2. Delightfulnesse appearing 1. In his person 2. Titles being called 1. Light 2. A Saviour 3. Salvation 4. A Bridegroome 5. A Friend 3. Lovingnesse manifested by the effusion of his precious blood which makes him as red as a Rose 4. Needfulnesse in regard of the life 1. Naturall 2. Spirituall for 1. Mortification 2. Sanctification 3. Consolation 3. Eternall SECTION XII Sixe Impediments that keep men from Christs are to be removed 1. Blindnesse 2. Blockishnesse 3. Basenesse 4. Brutishnesse 5. Bitternesse 6. Businesse All founded and grounded upon the Rosie Metaphor or simile used in the Text. Of Blindnesse in speciall for the removeall whereof men are called upon 1. To pray to Christ for illumination 2. Christ is compared with those things which vain men do so preferre before Christ who is set forth by nine properties For Nine properties of Christ 1. He is most comely Nine properties of Christ 2. Most valiant and strong Nine properties of Christ 3. Most Rich. Nine properties of Christ 4. Most Wise Nine properties of Christ 5. Most Harmlesse Nine properties of Christ 6. Most Pleasant Nine properties of Christ 7. Most Sure Nine properties of Christ 8 Most Sublime Nine properties of Christ 9. Most Concupiscible and contentative all drawn out of Cant. 5.10 11 12 13 14 15 16. Whereas those things which are so valued above Christ are Nine Differences 1. Most Foule Nine Differences 2. Most weake Nine Differences 3. Most Poore Nine Differences 4. Most Foolish Nine Differences 5. Most Hurtfull Nine Differences 6. Most Bitter Nine Differences 7 Most Vncertaine Nine Differences 8. Most Low and Base Nine Differences 9. Most Vnsatisfiable SECTION XIII Of Blockishnesse to be removed by a 1. Frequent 2. Serious consideration of our last sicknesse when this Rose of Sharon will stand us more insteed then all Rose waters or Cordials whatsoever SECTION XIIII Of Basenesse the third lett which is to be removed by an exact 1. Ransacking of our hearts 2. Ripping up of our lives words and actions SECTION XV. Of Brutishnesse the fourth lett which must be removed by 1. A retiring of our selves from all meat and drink and other pleasant things for a season 2. By reasoning SECTION XVI Of Bitternesse the fift lett which we may remove by comparing the bitternesses which are said to attend Christ and those that chuse and take Christ with the sweetnesses and comforts of Christ SECTION XVII Of Businesse the sixt lett which concerneth worldly men and women who must 1. Leave all businesse for a time 2. Think seriously of that maine businesse which doth so neerely concerne them even the chusing and taking of this most delicious and needfull Rose of Sharon A Finall exhortation to a serious removing of all these six Impediments and an earnest and painfull labouring for and seeking after Christ the Rose of Sharon SECTION XVIII An exhortation to Gods people to be more for Christ who like a Rose is so delightfull usefull and desireable then ever they were 1. By a happy under-valuing of all earthly things in comparison of Christ for 3 Respects 2. By a holy willingnesse to be with Christ 1. Here. 1. In the Word preached 2. At and in the mysterious administration and participation of the blessed Sacrament of his Sacred Supper 3. In Prayer 4. In the reading of his own Sacred Book 5. In the reading of such good books as are written of him by holy men 6. In his best beloved people conversing with them as with Christ whose Image they beare and members they are 2. Hereafter 3. By a mightie care to keep him still 1. By a holy and perpetuall recordation and mindfulnesse of him 2. By a sweet and comfortable feeling of his gracious presence in their blessed souls Quest What if he will be gone can we keep him Answ You may keep him as you keep Roses with sugar 1. With sugared and sweet thoughts 2. Words 3. Works SECTION XIX Christs people should be willing to make more use of Christ who is so usefull being like a Rose then ever they did SECTION XX. Christ is to be made use of in 25. Cases set down in order SECTION XXI Eight Physicall Rules to be observed in and about the taking of Christ as the onely most Soverain Rose or medicine ordained of God for sin-sick Souls FINIS Errata PAg. 10.1.14 Cant. 1.10 read Cant. 5.10 p. 13. l. 8. next r. text p. 24. l. 14. I now not r. I know not r. p. 29. l. 26. rather to be farther r. rather to be wished farther p. 34. l. 25. notwithstanding is r. which notwithstanding it is p. 48. l. 18. in all eternitie r. to all eternitie p. 53. l. 10. degree r. decree p. 58. l. 1. he speaks r. he spake p. 79. l. 11. for them r. for that p. 83. l. 22. after Christ r. after Christ may speed p. 94. l. 18. you r. yea p. 124. l. 24. He most r. he is most p. 150. l. 9. combine r. combined p. 151. l. 4. breath r. breach p. 153. l. 24. remaine r. remove p. 156. l. 24. Lot r. let p. 173. l. 17. returne r. returnes p. 175. l. 1. floweth r. bloweth p. 189. l. 13. and him r. of him p. 192. l. 18. for himselfe r. for he himselfe p. 193. l. 11. runs r. is p. 198. l 22. are to be r. is to be p. 200. l. 2. cannot r. nor cannot ibid. l. 4. breathes r. panteth p. 203. l. 16. r. Deitie p. 218. l. 2. r. to be observed p. 223. l. 12. another of r. another matter of p. 225. l. 20. admired r. admireth ibid. 22. he cryeth r. and cryeth p. 230. l. 25. in the r. in that p. 248. l. 7. mans r. man