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A discourse of Christ's Second Coming and purging of his kingdom in two sermons on Matth. XIII, 41 / by Samuel Tomlyns.
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Tomlyns, Samuel, 1632 or 3-1700.
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his body of his flesh and of his bone As Eve was taken out of Adam as to her human Nature so we are taken out of Christ as to our new and divine Nature Water and Blood came out of Christ's Side John 19.34 The Blood of Christ is the meritorious Cause of our new State of Justification and the Water signified the Spirit that gives a new Nature in Sanctification And how Honourable is it for Subjects to be so nearly related to the King of Glory And how sweet easie and gentle is Christ's Government over his Children over his Brethren over his Spouse and Members Surely Christ will not carry a hard a heavy a rigorous Hand over those that are so near and dear to him He shall spare the poor and needy Psal 72.13 And as a Shepherd shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom and gently lead those that are with young Isa 40.11 Was there ever such an Honour put on a Flock as that they should be Members and Brethren and Children of the Shepherd 2. Christ's Subjects are nearly related to each other and this is a most sweet Truth as well as a great Mystery They are not only Fellow-Servants in the same House and Fellow-Citizens in the same City of God but they are Brethren in the same Family and Members of the same Body and animated or influenced and acted by the same Spirit and therefore have the greatest Obligations laid on them to love each other to seek one another's Good and promote one anothers Welfare Shall Brethren clash with one another or Members fight against each other He that for Christ's sake is hated of his Father Mother Brethren Sisters he doth by virtue of his Interest and Union with Christ recover a hundred fold more Kindred and Relations Elder Christians are as his Fathers and Mothers younger Christians are his Brothers and Sisters Mark 10.29 30. yea as his Children to serve and cherish him O what a blessed Kingdom is this when the Subjects are so endeared to each other that they have not only sold their Lands to relieve their spiritual Brethren Acts 2.4 5. Acts 4.34 but have also jeoparded and hazarded their Lives to preserve the Lives of their Holy Kindred Rom. 16.3 4. Aquilla and Priscilla laid down their Necks exposed themselves to the greatest Dangers to preserve the Life of Paul Rahab ventured her own Life to preserve the Spies that were the People of God Joshua 2.15 4thly If we consider the great Benefits that we receive from Christ's Kingdom 1. He heals washes refines anoints his Subjects A Governour is called a Healer Isa 3.6 7. Jesus Christ as a King is a Healer a Physician to his whole Kingdom and to all his Subjects Matth. 9.12 Our Souls are diseased weak feeble ruined and woe be to us if this Ruine be not under Christ's Hand Never was there such a Physician that dy'd to provide a Remedy to recover and restore his Patients By his Stripes we are healed yea by his Death we live If a King that is but a political Head be the Breath of his Subjects Nostrils Lam. 4.20 much more is Christ the Breath of our Nostrils as he is a natural Head that gives Life and continual influences of Grace 2. Jesus Christ washes John 13.8 Except I wash thee thou hast no part with me that is in the eternal Inheritance in the Kingdom of Glory None washes so powerfully as Christ he can wash away a Backsliding Revolting Rebellious Whorish Heart he can wash away our Spiritual Leprosie and Plague-Sores he can wash our Aethiopian Skin and our Leopard Spots Jer. 13.23 3. Jesus Christ Refines Mal. 3.23 and there is no such Refiner as Christ no such refining sire as Christ's is A Refiner or his Fire cannot change Iron Brass Tin or Lead into Gold and Silver but Christ by separating our Dross from us renders us precious and makes us Vessels of Gold and Silver 2 Tim. 2.20 4. Jesus Christ anoints his Subjects Ezek. 16.9 And I anointed thee with Oil. This is an Allusion to the sweet-smelling Oils that Persons were purfiied with Esther 2.12 The Graces of Christ's Spirit are fragrant and cause us to smell sweet in the Nostrils of God and Man Saints are called Christians because they partake of Christ's Ointment 1 John 2.20 27. You have an unction from the Holy One that is from Christ As the Mediator is anointed himself so he is styled Christ and as we are anointed by this Anointer so we are called Christians And this is peculiar to Christ's Subjects that they are all anointed and partake even of the unction of their King If we have not the unction of the Spirit of Christ he will not own us to be Subjects in his Kingdom or to be Members of his Body Rom. 8.9 If aâ— man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his Christ's Unction doth purisie us from Sin consecrate us to God teach us the sublime Truths and wonderful Mysteries of the Kingdom of God 1 John 2.20.27 The Prophets were anointed 1 Kings 19.16 and they by the unction of the Holy Ghost were Seers 1 Sam. 9.9 They did see sarther and know more than others From hence I conceive the Phrase is borrowed That the anointing teacheth us and Christ by anointing us fits and exalts us to be spiritual Kings Rev. 1.5 6. He hath made in Kings Saints do command and rule their own Spiri's govern their Thoughts order and bound their Affections curb restrain and keep under their Passions and as of old Wrestlers were anointed * Fabius Agonisticon that the Hand of the Adversary might slip off from them and take no fast sure hold of them to throw them so Christ by anointing us with his Spirit Satan is defeated he is disappointed he cannot fasten on us and have Advantages against us first to throw our Minds to the Earth and then to cast our Souls to Hell 2dly In Christ's Kingdom we have Rest Matth. 8.11 Many shall come from the east and west and sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of God Souls travel up and down traverse the Earth to and fro disquiet themselves in vain and weary themselves to no purpose they never come to sit down till they press and get into the Kingdom of God and here is a most honourable rest to sit in the Throne with Christ Rev. 3.21 3dly In Christ's Kingdom is a Feast but in Satan's Kigndom Souls famish starve and perish with thirst Luke 22.29 30. that you eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom God makes a Feast in his Holy Mountain Isa 25.6 Saints have the first Course in this World and so it is a Dinner Matth. 22.4 they shall enjoy the second and third Courses in Heaven and so it is the Marriage-Supper of the Lamb Rev. 19.9 Did ever any Shepherd feed his Flock with his own flesh and blood Is there any that is a Pastor and a Pasture too