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A43825 Truth and love happily married in the saints, and in the churches of Christ the contract drawn in one of the spittle sermons, preached April 3, 1648 / by Thomas Hill ... Hill, Thomas, d. 1653. 1648 (1648) Wing H2032; ESTC R25713 34,858 45

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though with a Chain he made him tremble and here in the first Verse he comes as a Prisoner for their sakes to beseech them and a further and special Emphasis he comes to perswade them to that which is most pleasing namely To Vnity to which purpose he uses four several Arguments First There is a common engagement of all Saints to Vnity I beseech you walk worthy of your Vocation whereu to you are called with all lovliness and meekness forbearing one another in love there is one body one spirit even as you are all called in one hope of your calling one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all here is a whole bundle of Arguments in this first consider your Vocation those Priviledges to which you are advanced thereby and they leave a very great obligation upon you as Saints to study Vnity Secondly There is an Argument from the Equity of the thing in the 7. Verse Vnto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ unto every one of us every one hath some gift as it pleases Iesus Christ to proportion out such a measure to this Saint and such a measure to that Saint the little finger in the mystical body so much as is fit for him in the hand so much as is fit for him and this with a common respect that there might be a mutual use of all those with subserviency to the whole in reference to the mystical body of Christ there is an equity in it Thirdly There is a very great congruity and that argument you shall finde in the 8 9 and 11 Verses Jesus Christ when he did ascend he gave gifts to men all the gifts that are in the Churches and graces they are derived from the same efficient cause and therefore it is most incongruous that they should be distracted and divided so as to reflect dishonorably upon him that is the sole efficient cause of them and that with common intents and purposes for good of the mystical body But then fourthly and lastly You have here another Argument from the necessity of it till we all come to the Vnity of Faith and that we be no more tossed to and fro as children and carried up and down with every wind of Doctrine but that we speak the truth in love and so grow up into Jesus Christ in all things who is the head here is the necessity of it you 'l never grow up to intimate communion and fellowship with Jesus Christ you 'l never make a wise improvement of him as members of the mystical body unless you learn this heavenly skill namely How to advance Vnity and so I come to shew you what propositions this last Argument drawn from the necessity of the thing will afford us in the 15. Verse which by Gods assistance according as the weak measure of strength I have will bear I shall insist upon at this time But speaking or following the Truth in Love grow up into Christ in all things which is the head where first its clear Doctr. 1 Jesus Christ is the head of Saints the head of the Church Doctr. 2 2. The Lord Jesus Christ when he ascended and gave gifts to men did intend did expect that there should be such an entertainment of the gospel that we should grow up into Christ in all things who is the head Doctr. 3 3. Thinking speaking following the truth in love is the Gospel method to our Spiritual welfare I 'le begin with the first Doctr. 1 Christ is the head of particular Saints the head of the Church In the state of innocency Adam was the head of the great family of the world when he forfeited his headship and all that he did enjoy by eating the forbidden fruit that family was dissolved he was turn'd out of Paradice all was scattered abroad and we with him were then cast into a desperate condition unless God would be pleased to finde out a second Head and to that purpose out of the riches of his Grace and the infiniteness of his Wisdom that which Angels could not reach which men had not so much as any thoughts of or desires after God pitched upon namely Christ and designed him the Head of the Corporation of his Church of a certain number given unto him in his eternal Counsel for whom he should undertake and this learned Expositors conceive to be the meaning of that place where he speaks of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} there in Ephesians 1. 10. That he might gather together all things that all things might be headed under one headed under Jesus Christ Now before the fall all were headed under the old Adam now when they were in a shatter'd condition they should be reconciled and collected headed under Jesus Christ for the better opening of this you may be pleased to take notice of three particulars First Here is the Headship it self Secondly Here is the Appropriation of this Headship to whom he is Head Thirdly Here is the Title to this Headship First For the Headship it self he is Head 1. In regard of his preheminence it is an expression in 1 Col. 17. 18. In all things having the preheminence he is the Head every member in the mystical body hath a Dignity and is advanced to an excellency to some degree of it but he that is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that hath the preheminency he is the Head that is Christ but this is not all if you look upon a Picture there the head of a man hath a preheminence therefore we must have more then this He is head 2. In regard of Direction and in regard of Power being a wise head able to advice and guide and govern the body as the Apostle Peter speaks of him in 1 Pet 3. 22. Who is gone into heaven and is on the right hand of God Angels Authorities and Powers being made subject to him he hath a universal and absolute regiment over all things in heaven and earth over men and Devils but then 3. In regard of that Influence that he doth convey to the bodies Sence and Motion is derived from Christ as the spring it is true that in the natural body there the heart is primum vivens but in the mystical body the head is primum vivens and he gives life to us and we derive our life from Jesus Christ the head he hath life and he hath it abundantly in himself and he lives that we may live as I remember there is such an expression in John 10. 10. 4. In regard of Vnion he doth tie altogether the nerves and sinews would not unite the members of the mystical body unless Jesus Christ were the Head As he is the Foundation stone and so supports the building so he is the Corner stone both the beauty and