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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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restrained from Sin by an outward Prohibition but we hate it our Nature is averse from it and abhors it We are not meerly constrain'd by an imperious and urgent Command enforced with terrible Threatnings but sweetly and powerfully enclined by an inward Disposition and vital Principle Do you love your Heavenly Master and would not go free from him but be more subjected to him when others do break the Yoke of God and do burst his Bonds Psal 2.3 Jer. 5.5 Do you put your Necks into Christ's Yoke Matth. 11.29 and bend your selves with his Laws as pleasant light and ornamental Chains Isa 45.14 They shall come after thee in Chains Kings and Nobles are willingly bound with these Chains Psal 149.8 As the desire of Israel was to Saul and to have him to rule over theâ— 1 Sam. 9.20 so the Nations did run to Christ Isa 55.5 and desire him to rule over them Isa 11.10 The Gentiles are said to seek to him And also the converted Jews Hos 3.5 should seek to him as a King that he might give Law to them and rule over them Christ's Kingdom is not forced and obtruded on his People but voluntarily chosen and freely submitted to 5thly Examin how are your Hearts and Lives ordered 1. How are your Minds Wills Affections ordered Isa 9.7 Jesus sits on a spiritual Throne to order it The Soul is Christ's Throne and till he sits and rules in it all is disorderly The Thoughts are â—ain the Will rebellious the Assections vile and inordinate as at first the Water overwhelmed and covered all Gen. 1.2 till God said Let the waters be gathered into one place Gen. 1.9 and then dry land appeared and a Place was prepared for Mens Habitationâ— So while there is nothing but a spiritual Chaos Self-love as a Sea covers all swallows up all true Love to God and Man But when God by his Grace doth gather the Affections into their proper Chanels and unto their right Objects When God bounds banks and limits them then dry Land in a spiritual sence appears for God's Habitation in the Soul then room and place is made for him Are your Hearts directed into the Love of God 2 Thes 8.5 And are you taught of God to love your Brethren 1 Thes 4.9 Then Self love is ordered and is confined within its due and proper Bounds 2. Are your Conversations ordered aright Do you set God's Laws before you Psalm 119.30 as the Rule of your Hearts Words Actions Is it your true and greatest design to please God 1 Thes 4.1 and to be accepted with him 2 Cor. 5.9 When Christ comes into the Soul he Judges Isa 2.4 he Reproves Isa 11.3 Jesus Christ censures what is contrary and displeasing to God He rebukes Mens Lusts he puts a new Byass on the Will and enclines the Soul to a new way and walk Jer. 3.17 They shall call Jerusalem that is the Church that 〈◊〉 Spiritual Jerusalem the Throne of the Lord and all the nations shall be gathered unto it to the name of the Lord to Jerusalem they shall walk no more after the Imaginations of their evil hearts But they that walk in the light of the Lord Isa 2.5 and in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of his holy Spirit Acts 9.31 If thou dost still walk in thy own Counsels and in the Lusts of thine own Heart Psal 51.12 and in the common way of the World Isa 8.11 and as other Gentiles do in the Vanity of thy Mind Ephes 4.17 besure thou hast had no Experience of the Kingdom of Christ come into and set up in thy Heart If thy Heart be cast into a new Mould Rom. 6.7 and brought under a new Lord and Law thy Soul must needs steeâ—â— new course As Heaven and Hell do vastly differ so do the narrow and broad way exceedingly differ that lead to a blessed and miserable Eternity You reproach and disgrace the Kingdom of Christ if your Hearts are not leavened with Faith and Love and if your Conversations are not ordered better than others Christ's Sheep come and go at the Direction and Command of the great Shepherd but others out of Christs Kingdom are as wild Beasts that run to and fro move here and there at their own Pleasure they are turned up and down by the dictates of a vain Mind and wicked Will but yet if you are Christ's true Subjects you will not be brought under the power of tempting Objects without or reigning Lusts within 1 Cor. 6.12 3. Use Shall the workers of iniquity be gathered out of Christ's Kingdom then I would Exhort you sincerely to subject your selves to the Lord Jesus Christ as your King Let not your Lips slatter and your Tongue lye to Jesus Christ but indeed take Christ's Yoke come under his pastoral Rod enter into his Fold and into the Bond of the Covenant Matth. 11.29 Ezek. 20.37 John 10.9 1. Consider Jesus Christ is not sond of or sets a value on neither is he pleased and delighted with empty Names and Titles Matth. 7.21 It is not every one that saith Lord Lord that shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Christ will not own approve admit such in the Great Day a form of Godliness will yield but a vain Image of Happiness Would an earthly King be satisfied if Rebels did call him their Lord and would receive his Picture into their City but did shut out his Person And will the King of Glory be appeased and quieted with a Picture of Piety or with a cold and dead form of Religion We are bid not only to give the Hand to the Lord 2 Chron. 30.8 so it is in the Original and so in the Margin with allusion to those that did make Bargains and to conclude them did strike or give their Hands to each other but we are also required to give our Hearts to the Lord Prov. 23.26 The Life of the natural Man is but a vain shew of Life Psal 39.6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew And will it advantage us to add a vain shew of Religion to a vain Shew of Life Can Men make up a Summ to enrich them by multiplying Cyphers And Hypocrite is styled a vain Man James 2.20 But wilt thou know O vain man that faith without works is dead And the formal Prayers of Hypocrites are called Vanity Job 35.12 13. Men cry but none giveth answer But why are Prayers this fruitless and ineffectual the next Words toll us the Cause Surely God will not hear vanity neither will the Almighty regard it Both natural and instituted Worship is to be a Wine-press Matth. 21.33 and so to squeeze and draw out the Juice and Quintessence of Grace that is in the Soul else Christ will not regard Lip-labour and bodily Service The Heart is Christ's House and Throne the Mind and Will are the Tables he writes his Laws in 2 Cor. 3.3 He requires the best Room the Guest Chamber It is an Affront and an Indignity to Christ to be