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A23642 The spouse of Christ coming out of affliction, leaning upon her beloved, or, A sermon preached by Mr. John Allin, the late Reverend Pastor to the Church of Christ at Dedham, at the administration of the Lords Supper, August 6, 1671 and may be useful to any Church of Christ, or true believer in a state of affliction. Allin, John, 1596-1671. 1672 (1672) Wing A1037; ESTC W22355 25,137 31

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lovest thou me more then these can you then Answer in truth Lord thou knowest all things thou knowest that I love thee do you love to be in the company of Jesus Christ do you love the Image of Christ wherever you see it are you glad to do him any service do you love all that is Christs his Ordinances Word Law his Ministers Saints if you take delight in these things it is a sign Christ hath loved you and that you will lean upon Christ in the evil dayes and blessed and happy is that Soul that can thus lean upon Christ her Beloved when wilderness-tryals troubles and afflictions comes upon them all such have Christ for their Head and Husband and Saviour and are safe in his arms where this is wanting consider what we have Isai 10.3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation and in the desolation which shall come from far to whom will ye flee for help and where will you leave your glory Vse 5. Exhortation 1. To them that yet have no part in Christ Labour for that Faith in and Love to the Lord Jesus Christ that Christ may not shake you off in an evil day what interest have you in the World that can reach your Souls to save them what is there in Heaven or Earth that can save the Soul but only the Lord Jesus Christ He is able to save to the utmost all that come to God by him Joh. 3.36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life and he that believeth not the Sonshall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him Oh think oft of this Scripture and consider of the means of grace God hath so long afforded you and how oft he hath been calling upon you and knocking at the doors of your hearts Oh take the season while it lasts Oh to day to day while it is called to day harden not your hearts least God Sware in his wrath that you shall never enter into his rest Christ bad them walk in the light while they had the light and immediately he withdrew himself from them Oh do but forsake your sin all your sins and accept of the Lord Jesus upon his own terms and then you may venture to lean upon the Lord Jesus Christ he is able to bear the weight of all your Souls 2. Branch To the Spouse of Christ Be much in the exercise of Faith and Love First Be much in the exercise of Faith lean upon Christ as your Beloved stay on him rest upon him cast all your burthen and care upon him strengthen your selves in him you will need a strong Faith in wilderness tryals that may befal us consider how weak we are without Faith in Christ which will shield us against our potent enemies Sathan and all the World all other props are but as a broken Reed whereon will you lean else you have no righteousness no goodness no wisedome in your selves where will you lean then if not upon Christ what is there in the Creature that you may lean upon all the things of the World are Vanity of vanities therefore cast your care and your burthen upon the Lord Jesus who is able to stablish strengthen and settle you he is able to bear all the weight that is laid upon him do your sins and corruptions trouble you you may lay the weight of them upon the Lord Jesus he is able to bear them you may cast the care of your Souls upon him ye may cast the care of your Families the care of your Children you may cast all upon him he is able to bear the weight of all he is the Rock of ages Consider who your Beloved is the Lord Jesus Christ the God of Glory the Redeemer and Saviour of his People that Redeemeth Israel from all their Iniquities If any man sin we have an Advocate 1 ●ohn 2.1 He hath all Power in Heaven andEarth he is the Soveraign Lord of all you can be in no danger but he is able to save and he knows how to do it for he is only wise and he is faithful in all his promises and he is very loving he hath loved his with an everlasting love and from thence he hath given himself for us and will not lofe any that come to him whom he loveth he loveth to the end believe much and you shall receive much Christ saith to thee be it as thou wilt a Faith that will not be beaten off that hangs upon Christ for a blessing and as Jacob will not let go without a blessing shall surely have it what can any believing Soul finde in Christ that may not encourage him to lean upon him he is the Saviour the Head and Husband of his Church that takes care of them and that continually he is the Redeemer of his People that redeems them not only from all their adversities but from all their iniquities Oh then venture upon Jesus Christ and let Faith overcome all your doubts this Christ will accept of consider what encouragements a Believer hath to venture all upon Christ we have encouragement from the Covenant of Grace Ezek. 36.25 26. Then will Isprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean from all your silthiness and from all your Idols will I cleanse you a new heart also will I give you and a new Spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh and I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my way and I will write my Law in your inward parts and I will put my fear into your hearts and you shall not depart from me and I will forgive your sins and remember them no more consider how God hath confirmed this covenant even by his Oath he hath Sworn by himself that we might have strong consolation and he hath confirmed it also by the Seals of the Covenant the Lord hath given us two Seals he hath set the Seal of Baptism to it whereby God hath owned us for his We are Baptized into the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost besides he hath given us the blessed Supper of the Lord Oh what a blessed Seal is that wherein the Lord offers a crucified Christ to us with all his merits he offers Christ with all the benefits and priviledges thereunto belonging when Christ is offered all his offered this Ordinance it signifieth that spiritual nourishment your Souls may have by a crucified Christ when the Lord said This is my Body which was broken for you and this is my Blood which was shed for you shall we be unbelieving notwithstanding all this and weak in the Faith like Thomas God forbid Lastly Be much in love to Jesus Christ that you may say you lean upon your Beloved is there not great cause that we should love Christ dearly that hath given himself to death for us what love is due to him that dyed
for us where is there such love to be found in the World Oh what ardent love should then be to the Lord Jesus therefore let us shew our love to him and let our love be enflamed to him let us be willing to dye for him that hath dyed for us let us love him with all our hearts and souls and all our might that hath so greatly loved us THE Lord Jesus his LEGACIE of PEACE To Arm his Disciples against Trouble and Fear OR A SERMON PREACHED BY Mr. JOHN ALLIN The late Reverend Pastor of the Church of Christ in Dedham August 13. 1671. Being the last that he Preached before his Death which was August 26. 1671. Glory to God in the highest on Earth peace towards men good will Luk. 2.14 Cambridge Printed in the Year 1672. John 14.27 Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you not as the World giveth give I unto you let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid AFter so many Consolations and Promises of the Comforter as the Lo●d Jesus had armed his Disciples with against his departure in these words he takes his leave or farewel of them leaving this his Legacy with them namely The blessing of peace telling them what peace saying My peace I give unto y●u not as the World giveth and the fruit of Christ peace was to stay their hearts against all trouble and fear as ver r. Let not your Hearts be troubled but my peace I leave with you as my blessing as the Apostle speaks ●phes 6.23 Peace be to the Brethren and love with Faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 5.14 Peace be with all that are in Christ Jesus Amen and it is a frequent Farewel in the Scripture as also in Salutations the scope of our Saviour in these words or valediction is the same he began withal ver 1. to stay their hearts against all fear and trouble it was no doubt a great trouble and tryal to the hearts of the Disciples of Jesus Christ to loose such a Master and Teacher as he was and that by so painful and shameful a death as the death of the Crosse and so it was notwithstanding all that he had spoken to them therefore he leaves peace with them My peace I give unto you To open the words My peace I leave with you as if our Saviour had said I am now about to part with you I must leave you but I will leave this Legacy My peace and that not an ordinary peace but my peace and that I give unto you you shall have peace is usually taken for or ●mplies protection from all evil and the enjoyment of all good but that they may know what peace this is he tells them it 's my peace Christ is the Prince of peace the Attonement the God of peace all peace comes from him he it is that gives all manner of peace First He gives peace with God you will say what manner of peace is that the Apostle tells us Phil 4.7 The peace of God that passeth all understanding unspeakable and unutterable such a peace that even those that have it cannot conceive the excellency of it much less can they express it God is an Enemy against sin and sinners and they are at enmity with God and for a sinner that hath offended and provoked God and that therefore hath no hope in God now for such a sinner to be at peace with God who can conceive what it is you may see the excellency of it if you consider the persons that are now at peace for a poor wretched miserable condemned sinner to be at peace with God and that this should flow from the love of God in pardoning all his sins and to account him righteous in his sight that he that was an enemy to the Great and Holy God even in his minde by evil works and had God himself the Holy Just God an enemy to him that will avenge himself on his enemies by Eternal punishment yet now to be at peace with God and that God will own him as a Friend forgiving all his sins accepting him as just righteous to ete●nal life take him into his high favour as a Son and Heir of Heaven and all this through the Blood of his own Son yea by the blood of his Cross is this peace made so justifying his Law and Justice a great price must be payed to purchase it and the tearms is free grace in a covenant of grace to all that believe it is free grace in God to accept of a satisfaction in Christ he might have exacted it of the sinner himself and the tearms of this free grace are only to believe and accept of it the new Covenant is established upon better promises then the old wherein God hath promised to take away a hard and stony heart and to give a heart of flesh now for a sinner to be at peace with God through the merit and righteousness of Christ and upon the tearms of the covenant of grace and what follows God now takes them into the state of Sons ye shall be my Sons and Daughters saith the Lord God Almighty and they are made Heirs of the Glory of Christ for a sinner thus to be at peace with God I say who can tell what it is to be Heirs of God and co heirs with Jesus Christ this is Christs peace which he gives to his Disciples Secondly This peace is the inward peace of a good Conscience the sence of that peace which a Soul hath with God through Jesus Christ being prinkled from an evil Conscience we have boldness and access with assurance of Faith unto the holiest of all and confidence towards God 1 Joh. 3. God sending his Spirit the Comforter to witness that we are at peace with God yea he sends his Spirit to seal up this peace with God and this breeds joy unspeakable and full of glory it fills the Soul with all joy in Believing Rom. 15 13. Now the God of hope all you with all joy and peace in believing that you may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost so that we may boldly go to the Throne of grace yea even to the holiest of all with confidence to wards God and have liberty before him this is a singular part of this peace to be perswaded that we are at peace with God and that we are the Children of God and that we are partakers of all the priviledges of the Sons of God Thirdly Christs peace is a peace with men and so usually taken in Scripture and especially with the Saints Ephes 2.14 For he is our peace who hath made bath one and hath broken own the m●dd●e wall of partition between us that we m●y be all o●e●a Iesus Christ both J●ws and Gentiles Fourthly This peace comprehends peace with the Creature even with the Beasts of the field Job 5 23 For thou shait be in lea●ue with the