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A04374	The Christians apparelling by Christ Where is shewed in three parts: 1. The happinesse, honour, aud [sic] confortable estate of all true Christians: with the wretched estate of all others. 2. The duetie it selfe, with particular directions. 3. The triall and examination of our selues by distinctiue notes. By R.I. B.D.	Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.	1625 (1625)	STC 14488; ESTC S106591	193,947	568

§. 70 because it growes not Euen such painted Sepulchres and Pictures are all Hypocrites and such as make no progresse in Gods wayes They haue no grace who thinke they want none for the measure of it Thus it is with such Hypocrites as yet would seeme to haue grace As for such who fall away to profanenesse there needes no other discouery of them their Apostasie is made knowne to all men and their sinnes goe before-hand vnto iudgment Hypocrites greiue not when they are depriued of their Meanes Such Hypocrites may they also take themselues to bee who being depriued of the meanes or of opportunitie and ability to doe good are rather glad that they haue such ease and freedome and doe not rather mourne and greiue for such restraint and inabilitie It shewes little desire of grace or goodnesse And thus much of the first sort of Hypocrites who vse no meanes Now secondly of such as vse not right and direct meanes Par. 3. § 71. We haue beene told that the true Sectian 71 Christian puts on Christ True Christians vse onely direct right Meanes of putting on Christ which is especially to his Iustification Now in Iustification there is considerable First our vnion with Christ Secondly the couering of our vnrighteousnes and sinne Thirdly Faith as the meanes on our part of this vnion remission righteousnesse and Iustification Now the righteous man pertaking in all these benefits In particular 1 Of their vnion with him 2 Of couering their sin by him 3 Of Faith in him hath attained thereunto in the vse of those onely meanes which God himselfe hath appointed him to vse which meanes haue bin named before and repeated in the entrance of this last point and the truth is Ephes 6.11 the cloathing we haue by Christ being also Armour it is called the armour of God that is such as God himselfe hath appointed and prescribed in his Word and which is agreeable to his wil It is not any humane carnal worldly meanes or of our owne deuising but diuine spirituall and f Gods o appointing Par. 3. §. 72 1 bound Christians are truely vnited to Christ 1 By Faith And 1. for their vniō with Christ which this clothing implies they come to it on their part only by Faith in Christ and on Gods part by his Spirit effectually cōmunicated vnto them in the vse of the word vnto which they carefully and with conscience doe attend by which when once they haue put him on are truly vnited vnto him they also are further knit and vnited vnto him 2 By Loue. in and by the bond of Loue louing him euen because he as their experience to their comfort telleth them hath loued them first clothing himselfe with their sinne shame and suffering on the Crosse yea for himselfe his own goodnes not in any by base or carnall respect They seeke their vnion with him first their Vine by being by faith graffed into him as branches Secondly their Head by being made his members and one body with him by the Spirit Thirdly their spirituall meat by receiuing him spiritually in the Word and sacramentally in the Eucharist by Faith for so himselfe saith hee that thus spiritually eateth my flesh Iohn 6.56 and drinketh my blood dwelleth in mee and J in him but how Ephes 3.17 Christ dwelleth in our hearts by faith Fourthly their Husband by being married to him in faithfulnes or by Faith which as the marriage Ring first knits them together after which or with which goes that other band of Loue which daily more and more increaseth as in married couples Others in seeming only Now I know Hypocrites and such generally as liue in the Church of Christ professe an Vnion with Christ whiles they entertaine his doctrine and beare his Name Yea As first the Papists but what is it in them which makes this Vnion Is it as it should be and also is in the faithfull first Faith and then Loue no the Papist in this Vnion and worke of Iustyfication Par. 3. §. 71 wil haue Loue if not before yet not behind Faith as the forme of it or as a concause of our Iustyfication and not as an effect of Faith inseperable from it as the truth is and as wee teach Whereunto they bring alledge abuse that place in Iesus Christ Galat. 5.6 Explained and vindicated from misinterpretation neither circumcision auaileth any thing nor vncircumcision but Faith which worketh by Loue so it doth but not in the worke of Iustification but in the exercises of Christianity though we admit not of Iewish Ceremonies to keepe vs doing against which the Apostle there disputes yet we want not Loue as the inseperable effect of that faith which we vrge as the only meanes of our Iustification which will neuer suffer a Christian to be idle which place to like purpose almost the mad Familist abuseth 2 The Familist for iumbling it vp with a like place H.N. thus speakes There auaileth before God neither circumcision nor vncircumcision but only a new Creature in Christ Iesus wrought through the Loue. This new creature Gal. 6.15 H. N. in an epistle to two daughters of Warwicke refuted by H. A. in his language Christ himselfe wrought and formed in vs in the Loue for hee makes Christ to be the Louely Being in vs this new Creature auaileth before God for righteousnesse and safe making from our sins as he elsewhere speaketh Thus what belongs indeede to Sanctification as the fruit and effect of our Faith and all Scriptures tending that way hee takes and puts in place of our Iustification as causes thereof making this our new birth and the fruits of faith to be the very cause of our happinesse righreousnesse it selfe yea and Christ himselfe these are Christians with a witnesse making themselues by their doctrine elsewhere very Christ and so one with Christ and God vnto which they abuse our Sauiours words in his prayer that they will be Godded with God Ioh. 17.21 and made pertaker of the very essence and nature of God Par. 3. §. 72 3 The worldling The Worldling also he will bee one with Christ and will be ready to sight with him that shall say otherwise But how is he one with him Is it by Faith and the Spirit nothing lesse his gold is his God and his faith trust and confidence is in vncertaine riches 1 Tim. 6.17 Iude. 19. hee is worldly and sensuall not hauing the spirit He trusts God no farther then hee hath from him these pawnes and pledges of his presence Yet this man wil loue God and so shew himselfe One with him And will he so indeed may it not be truly said of many a mans loue as the Deuill falsely said of Iobs feare of God Iob. 1.9 doth Iob feare God for naught So doe these men loue God for naught What ties them to Christ and to Christianitie and to the

hand was heauy vpon me When then not till he heartily confessed his sin but then his very thought and purpose of confessing obtained a pardon for saith he I acknowledged my sinne vnto thee and mine iniquitie haue I not hid I said I will confesse my transgressions vnto the Lord and thou forgauest the iniquitie of my sinne Euen thus are we all taught in the practise of the Prodigall Sonne who first said and accordingly did Luk. 15.21.22 saying Father I haue sinned against Heauen and in thy sight and am no more worthy to be called thy sonne What followed immediately hereupon Par. 2. §. 7 But his Father said to his seruants bring forth the best Robe and put it on him and put a Ring on his hand and Shooes on his feete Till thus our sinnes bee couered by our discouering of them vnto God it is in vaine by any meanes of our owne to seeke to hide them they may be hid from men such is the wisdome of men in the close carriage of themselues in their sinnes but yet hid they are not for they are knowne to their owne Consciences for no man sinnes without a witnesse within himselfe much more are they knowne to God vnto whose eies all things our very thoughts are naked and opened Heb. 4.13 and vnto whose Iustice and wrath sinners are exposed Section 7. The next thing is our Faith which we must reach out as our hand to receiue and applie to our selues 3. Faith this spirituall garment of Christ his righteousnesse and the pardon of our sinnes offered vs in the Gospell of Christ Part. 2. §. 9. without which faith neither Christ not his Word wil profit vs any thing God who prouides this cloathing for vs Heb. 4.2 and brings offers it to vs in his Word preached requires our Faith and that wee should take it to vs otherwise wee may well and should iustly starue and perish of cold if hauing garments brought vnto vs we will let them lye by vs and not vse them by putting them on It is our Faith which truly makes vs Christians by which Christ dwells in vs by which wee receiue the pardon of our sinnes and are iustified as was shewed in the beginning Section 8 4. Prayer 4. Prayer also is a notable means by which wee may obtaine the pardon of our sinnes and be discharged of all our debts this must not be neglected for when wee haue nothing of our owne to purchase Gods fauour then the Prayer of Faith will preuaile as wee see in that seruant in the Gospell who when he had nothing to pay and that his Lord commanded him to bee sold Mat. 18 25 26.27 32 and his wife and children and all that he had and payment to be made fell downe and worshiped saying Lord haue patience with mee and I will pay thee all whereupon his Lord moued with compassion loosed him and forgaue him the debt-after saying to him I forgaue thee all the debt because thou desiredst me This course we are directed vnto in the Lords Prayer where this is one principall Petition respecting our selues forgiue vs our debts Mat. 6.12 Luk. 11.4 or forgiue vs our sinnes now where sinne is forgiue in there it is also couered Section 9. Lastly the Sacrament of the Lords Supper is appointed as an excellent meanes of our further putting on of Christ 5 A reuerent receiuing of the Lords supper after once we haue receiued him spiritually by Faith For this reuerently and preparedly receiued helpes to gird Christ Par. 2. §. 10 nearer and closer vnto vs seeing in and by it is signified and sealed our strait and close vnion with him whereby wee become one with him and he with vs as also our communicating and participating of all his benefits especially such as belong to our Iustification and heereby wee againe renew that couenant which wee first made with God in Baptisme whereof the Apostle saith in my text all yee that are baptised into Christ haue put on Christ And these are the meanes which wee must carefully conscionably and constantly vse if euer we would put on Christ Iesus vnto our Iustification Section 10 Now wee are not to rest here but to see that we also put him on vnto Sanctification Meanes to be vsed for the putting on of Christ to our sanctification 1 Cor. 1.30 for Christ is made vnto vs of God not onely righteousnes but also Sanctification This is done particularly by Mortification of the old man and viuification of the new man generally by an imitation of Christ and by an expressing of him in all things The Apostle elsewhere tells vs wherein the fruit and effect of our Baptisme consists saying Rom. 6.3.4 Know yee not that so many of vs as are baptized into Iesus Christ are baptized into his death Therefore we are buried with him by Baptisme into death that like as Christ was rassed vp from the dead by the glory of the Father euen so wee also should walke in newnesse of life As therefore Christ died and rose againe to life so if we be Christs haue truely put him on must we reckon also our selues to be dead indeed vnto sin but aliue vnto God through Iesus Christ our Lord. Where wee see the Apostle makes these two Mortification Viuification in vs to be as inseparable as they were in Christ as inseparable in the effects as in the causes These meanes are the cause of Mortification in vs being Christs death the cause of our viuification being his resurrection each of them made ours by our faith 1 Mortification of the old man The first thing then is that wee take out the lesson of the Apostle who thus exhorts Let not sinne reigne in your mortall body that yee should obey it in the lustes thereof and Mortifie therefore ye that are dead Rom. 4.12 Colos 3.5.8 and risen with Christ your members which are vpon the earth that is the members of the body of sinne or of old Adam which is in vs fornication vncleannesse couetousnesse c. Put off all these anger wrath malice c. This must first be done before we can put on the new man as Christ first dyed before he could rise againe Labour then we must to be partakers of Christs death to find the power of it in vs daily to the weakning of the contrary power of in dwelling sinne not that we may hope to haue this in this life done perfitly in our selues though in Christ our Head all our sins are both dead and buried and not any one shall make vs guiltie of eternall death for whether wee respect the nature of sin wee find it still in vs for being it is still in vs though it be not imputed vnto vs or the motions of sinne wee must though we be regenerate confesse and say with Paul Rom. 7.23 I see another law in my members warring against the law