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A42767	A sermon preached before the right honourable the House of Lords in the Abbey Church at Westminster, upon the 27th of August, 1645 being the day appointed for solemne and publique humiliation : whereunto is added a brotherly examination of some passages of Mr. Colemans late printed sermon upon Job 11.20, in which he hath endeavoured to strike at the root of all church-government / by George Gillespie, minister at Edenburgh.	Gillespie, George, 1613-1648.	1646 (1646)	Wing G759; ESTC R30413	43,318	49

Doctrine of Jesus Christ was such as made many of his Disciples say This is a hard saying who can hear it And from that time many of them went back and walked no more with him A young man a ruler who came to him with great affection was so cooled and discouraged at hearing of the crosse and selling of all he had that he went away sad and sorrowfull The Apostles themselves having heard him say that It is easier for a camel to go thorow the eye of a needle then for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God They were exceedingly amazed at this Doctrine saying Who then can be saved As for his life and actions they were such not onely did the Gadarens beseech him to depart out of their coasts but his own friends and kinsfolks were about to lay hold on him for they said He is beside himself His sufferings were such that all his Disciples did forsake him and went away every man to his own home again And what shall be the condition of those that will follow him If we will indeed be his disciples he hath forewarned us to sit down first and count our cost He hath told us It will cost us no lesse then the bearing of the crosse the forsaking of all yea which is hardest of all the denying of our selves We must even cease to be our selves and cannot be his except we leave off to be our own And what shall the world think of us all this while Know ye not saith James that the friendship of this world is enmity with God Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God Let no man deceive himself saith Paul If any man among you seem to be wise in this world let him become a fool that he may be wise What do ye think now Are not all these hard sayings for flesh and blood to hear I might adde much more of this kinde But Thirdly Thus it must be to set the higher value upon Christ and upon the lot of Gods children Will I offer burnt-burnt-offerings to the Lord my God saith David of that which doth cost me nothing And shall our lines fall to us in pleasant places Or shall we have a goodly heritage which doth cost us nothing How should the preciousnesse of the Saints portion be known if we lose nothing that is dear to us to come by it Phil. 3.7 What things were gain to me those I counted losse for Christ Matth. 13.44 45 46. The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hid in a field the which when a man hath found he hideth and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath and buyeth that field Again The kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant-man seeking goodly pearls who when he had found one pearl of great price he went and sold all that he had and bought it Jacobs family must give away all the strange gods and all their ear-rings also before they get leave to build an Altar unto the Lord at Bethel Abraham must get him out of his countrey and from his kinred if he will come unto the land which the Lord will shew him Moses must forsake the Court of Egypt if he will take him to the heritage of Jacob his father The disciples must leave ships nets fathers and all if they will follow Christ And as they who come in sight of the South-pole lose fight of the North-pole So when we follow-Christ we must resolve to forsake somewhat else yea even that which is dearest to us Fourthly If it were not so there should be no sure evidence of our closing in covenant with Christ For then and never till then doth the soul give it self up to Christ to be his and closeth with him in a covenant when it renounceth all other lovers that it may be his onely Shall a woman be married to a husband with the reservation of another lover or upon condition that she shall ever stay in her fathers house So the soul cannot be married to Christ except it not onely renounce its bosome-sins lusts and idols but be content also to part with the most lawfull creature-comforts for his sake Forget thine own people and thy fathers house saith the Psal. 45.10 The repudiating of creature-comforts and a covenant with Christ go hand in hand together Isa. 55.2 3. Nahash would not make a covenant with the men of Jabesh-Gilead unlesse they would pluck out their right eyes intending as Josephus gives the reason to disable them from fighting or making war For the buckler or shield did cover their left eye when they fought so that they had been hard put to it to fight without the right eye This was a cruell mercy in him But it is a mercifull severity in Christ that he will make no covenant with us except the right eye of the old man of sin in us be put out O then let us learn from all this how miserably many a poor soul is deluded imagining as the Jews did that Christ shall even satisfie their carnall and earthly desires and that the way of salvation is broad easie enough If the way of Christ be such as you have now heard then surely they are far from it who give loose reins to the flesh as David did to Adonijah who have not displeased their flesh at any time nor said Why hast thou done so Who do not withhold their heart from any joy and whatsoever their eyes desire they keep it not from them Who are like the wiide Asse used to the wildernesse that snuffeth up the winde at her pleasure and like the swift Dromedary traversing her wayes Who cannot endure to be inclosed into so narrow a lane as Ministers describe the way to Heaven to be These are like fed oxen which have room enough in the Meadows but they are appointed for slaughter when the labouring oxen which are kept under the yoke shall be brought home to the stall and fed there Was it not so with the rich man and Lazarus Nay and many of the children of God fall into this same errour of making the way of Christ broader and easier then ever Christ made it and taking more libertie then ever he allowed Therefore mark ye well our Saviours words Matth. 7.13 14. Enter ye in at the strait gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in thereat Because strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be that finde it There be but few that seek it and yet fewer that finde it but fewest of all that enter in at it But how doth all this agree with Matth. 11.30 My yoke is easie and my burthen is light and 1 Joh. 5.3 His Commandments are not grievous I answer 1. That is spoken to poor souls