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A75710	Living loves betwixt Christ and dying Christians A sermon preached at M. Magdalene Bermondsey in Southwark, near London, June 6. 1654. At the funeral of that faithful servant of Christ Mr. Jeremiah Whitaker, Minister of the Gospel, and pastor of the church there. With a narative of his exemplarily holy life and death. By Simeon Ashe, his much endeared friend and brother. Together with poems and elegies on his death, by divers ministers in the city of London.	Ashe, Simeon, d. 1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing A3961A; ESTC R223578	67,742	92

while he is ab●ent are evidences of love unto him The Cant. 3. 5. Amor currit p●r desiderium Aug. loving Spouse shakes off sloth gets out of bed in the night and goeth abroad to seek him whom her soul loved Neither ease in a warm bed nor chamber comforts nor City-contentments could satisfie her Her Beloved she must have and her Beloved she will have for she is sick of love Love like the Load-stone is attractive and the needle touched with it will uncessantly move till it stand directly Northward In like manner will the heart which is well warmed with love to Christ this is its language Whom have I in heaven but thee and there is none that I desire on earth Psal 73. 25. besides thee Give me Christ or I die 6. Contentation in the enjoyment of Christ doth demonstrate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 valdèacquiesco Amor quiescit per gaudium Aug. Ad De●m apud qu●m invenies summam tranquillitatem Vatabl. in Ps 116. 7. Cant. 8. 5. Cant. 1. 13. Phil. 3. 3. love Some note this from the Greek word which signifieth Love viz. that wherein the heart taketh rest When any thing cometh to its centre there it is quiet and still So it is with the heart which loveth God This was Davids meaning as some Expositors judge when he having expressed his love to God speaketh thus in an holy Soliloquy Return to thy rest O my soul This rest the loving Christian attaineth in Christ by complacency and dependency The Spouse leaneth resteth her selfe upon her Beloved and he for delight is a bundle of myrrhe between her breasts whereunto the words of the Apostle suit very well We have ●o confidence in the flesh but rejoyce in Christ Iesus For the soul which possesseth Christ and knoweth what it hath in having him will say I have enough I have all I need no more for in him all wants are either supplied or sanctified In him justifying grace will make up all defects in service And what is wanting in the streames of creature enjoyments is given in with more sweetnesse in the full fountain of his Al-sufficiency 7. Communication of secrets speaketh friendship Haman Esther 5. 10. 6. 13. doth unbosome himself to his friends by laying open unto them all his concernments both crosse and comfortable And Christ bids him who was dispossessed of a devil Go home to thy friends and tell them how great things God hath Mark 5. 19. done for thee We can put that into a friends bosom which we would not have blazed abroad in the world Thus Christs friends do tell him of all their troubles fears wants temptations lusts as also of their comforts receipts experiences upon all occasions they step unto him and he knoweth from them by prayer how things go with 1 Sam. 1. 15. Psal 103. 4. them whether by encouragement or discouragement in their course I here remember the speech of Sampsons wife when he concealed what she desired to know How canst thou say I love thee when thy heart is not with me And doubtless Judges 16 15. our estrangement from Christ in not laying open our selves upon all occasions before him doth more then intimate our unfriendliness 8. Readinesse to comply with Christs command will undeniably prove that we are his friends Our Lord is often upon this Argument You are my friends if you do whatsoever I command you He that hath my Commandments John 15. 15. 14. 21 23. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and keepeth them he it is that loveth me If any man love me he will keep my words Thus Abraham made it manifest that he was Gods friend by being ready to offer up Isaac upon his call And the Apostle speaketh of the labour of love because love will not withdrw from any work wherein God seeth cause to imploy his friends The woman who Heb. 9. 10. loved Christ much will wash his feet and wipe them with the haire of her head This is the language of Love I Luke 7. 38. account no work too mean wherein I may serve Christ 9. Love is content to be at any cost for Christ Hearken unto the expressions of the loving Spouse At our gates Cant. 7. 13. are all manner of pleasant fruits new and old which I have laid up for thee O my beloved And I would cause thee to Cant. 8. 2. drink of spiced wine and of the juyce of Pomgranates The best of all kinds and the best of the best is provided for Christ if he be Beloved She who loved much brought a Box of oyntment very costly In like manner whatever Luke 7. 37. with John 12. 1 2 Sam. 24. 24. duties Christs friends discharge or whatever Ordinances they frequent they are wont to say with David I will not offer to the Lord that which costs me nothing They scorn to give him the chaff and bran when others eat the Kidneys of wheat To be warm and vigorous in creature communion and all a-mort chil and cold conversing with Christ is an abomination to Christs friends 10. Love is liberal and free not grudging any kindness laid forth for a friend This is the love of God saith the beloved 1 John 5. 3. Disciple that we keep his Commandments and his Commandments are not grievous When the most is done and endured for Christ the soul saith How little have I either acted or suffered for Christ Oh that it had been more Oh that it had been more How little is all my service how small are all my disbursments for Christ When Iacob had passed two Apprentiships for Rachel under a sowre Uncle and churlish Master wherein he had been pinched with cold and parched with heat They seemed to him but a few days Gen. 29. 10. for the love he bare unto her And when Ionathan had stripped himself of the robe that was upon him and gave it to 1 Sam. 18. 3. David and his garments even to his sword and to his bow and to his girdle we read not of any repinings afterward and the reason was because he loved him as his own soul Christs friends look upon him as deserving over and over againe infinitely more then they shall ever be able to requite and therefore are troubled that Christ hath had so little service never repenting that he hath received so much They know that God giveth liberally James 1. 5. and upbraideth not Worthy Doctor Sibs was wont to say Supposing a possibility of sorrow in heaven this would be the grief of the Saints there that they have done so little for Christ upon earth from whom they have received so much 11. Love maketh couragious for Christ Every one knoweth that St. Paul was Christs cordial friend which he expressed by his magnanimity I am ready not to be bound Acts 21. 13. Phil. 3. Discipulus plus amat

friend His graces which are like to a most fragrant perfume do in am our the hearts of all them who are truly spiritual Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy Name is as an Cant. 1. 3. ointment powred forth therefore do the Virgins love thee And in the song of conjugal loves this is rendred as the reason of those sparklings Thou art fairer then the children of Psal 45. 2. men As there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person then Saul from the shoulders upwards he was higher 1 Sam. 9. 2. then any of the people So Jesus Christ doth wonderfully over-top and exceed in all rich endowments the most amiable creatures in the world And as in all Israel there was 2 Sam. 14. 25. none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him and this might be some reason of Davids great love towards him So in the Lord Jesus there are perfect beauties without the least blemishes He is altogether lovely No wonder therefore that wise knowing Christians do chuse and value and embrace him with vigorous loves Reason 2 Because of his famous magnanimous undertakings and adventures as Mediator that he might at once advance his Fathers glory and the happinesse of his Elect. We read that Jonathans soul was knit to the soul of David 1 Sam. 18. 1. and that he loved him as his own soul because upon a Duel he had encountered and conquered the Monster Goliah who had blasphemed God and vilified his people Now this service was low and inconsiderable being compared with Christs renowned exploits who hand to hand combated with the devil in the wildernesse for the space of fourty days Luke 4. 2. Col. 2. 15. who spoiled principalities and Powers made a shew of them openly triumphing over them in his crosse Who did beare up bravely against the power of darknesse to be quell'd under the weight of divine justice to be satisfied and under the flames of his Fathers displeasure to be quenched These and the like rare actings of Christ being pondered by Christians do draw forth their hearts in friendship towards him He himself saith Therfore doth my Father love me because I John 10. 17. lay down my life And how can new-born Christians partakers of the divine Nature be otherwise affected upon the same account towards their blessed Master Reason 3 Because of their manifold rich receipts from Christ Davids heart giveth out loves to the Lord because upon his prayers he had delivered his eyes from tears and his feet Psal 116 1 8. from falling Now Christ hath rescued his people from wrath to come and that without respect to their requests yea before they sought him Our Saviour himself giveth this as the reason wherefore the sinful woman loved him Many sins are forgiven her Luk 7. 47. 1 Sam. 19. 5. therefore she loved much And Jonathan by this Argument laboureth to win Sauls heart towards David Because the Lord by him wrought a great salvation to all Israel In this respect the Apostle Paul was rationally under the 2 Cor. 5. 14. constraint of commanding Loves to Christ because of quickning grace received by his death Now if I should here discover our large enjoyments from Christ it would abundantly appear to every ingenuous soule that there is sufficient cause wherefore he should be accounted and affected as an incomparable friend By him we are delivered from sin and hell as is hinted even now from the curse of the Law the hater of God the Gal 3. 13. Eph. 2. 14 16. Gal. 1. 4. 1 Cor. 15. 55. Ephes 1. 3 6. 1 Cor. 1. 30. and 2. 1 20. deadly snares of the world and the poison-sting of death We are blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places We are accepted in the Beloved He is made unto us Wisdom Righteousnesse Sanctification and Redemption And all the Promises of God are in him Yea and in him Amen How rationally therefore doth living love to Christ spring out of this root Reason 4 Because of their full expectations from him for the future even unto soul-satisfaction and that to eternity Many chearing cordials are handed to Christians from Christ here upon earth in which regard he doth lie as a bundle of myrrh between their brests but he reserveth the best wine for Cant. 2. 13. the last Whatsoever for kind or for measure the believing John 2 10. Christians comforts are here yet to be with Christ in heaven Phil. 1. 13. will be far better and this this in glory is looked for through Christ This consideration causeth their love unto Christ to break forth in a great flame Let the words of the Apostle be weighed for the evidence hereof who having spoken both of the Inheritance incorruptible and undefiled 1 Pet 1. 3 4. that fadeth not away reserved in heaven as also of the assured Perseverance through Gods Power and all this by Christ he adds Whom having not seen yet ye love Ingenuous 1 Pet. 1. 8. Christians duly weighing the worth of their future happinesse dearly purchased by Christ and undoubtedly to be possessed by them through Christ do hereupon practically conclude that nothing can be imagined more reasonable then this that they should love him as their special friend Thus from confirmation I proceed to the Application of this Truth by way of Use which I will propound under three heads viz. 1. Information 2. Examination 3. Exhortation Vse 1 Sad therefore is their condition who are not loving friends unto Jesus Christ For doubtlesse though they be by profession in the estimation of others true Christians yet they are but only Slips in Christianity As Judas c. Our Saviour speaketh roundly unto such If God were Joh. 8. 42. your Father you would love me And if God be not their Father they are questionlesse the devils children children of the curse How open and expresse are the words of the Apostle to this purpose If any man love not the Lord Jesus let 1 Cor. 16. 22. him be Anathema Maran-atha The heavy and lasting maledictions of God hang over the heads of all them who love not Christ This is the great severity of God against such who are not friends unto Christ and that the righteousnesse of his Majesty herein may be manifested I wish that this may be minded viz. that unfriendliness to the Lord Jesus in Gospel-times wherein his excellencies deservings are so fully laid open doth proceed either from 1. Infidelity Or 2. Contumacy Either people hearing from Scripture of Christs loveliness do give God the lie to his face by not believing him or else their disregard of Christ ariseth from malignity and stubbornnesse of will though they yield to the report of his incomparable worth And 1 Joh. 5. 10. Non à c●citate mentis sed à