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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67286	The preciousness of Christ to the believing-Christian Plainly and briefly set forth for the edification and consolation of believers in, and lovers of the Lord Jesus Christ. In a sermon on I Pet. 2. 7. By William Walker, B.D.	Walker, William, 1623-1684.	1667 (1667)	Wing W432A; ESTC R219919	23,737	44

c. With some such prelibations of blisse foretasts of happinesse earnests of their promised inheritance doth Christ sometimes comfort the hearts delight the souls and endear to him the affections of those that truly believe on him and thence also he is very precious unto them Fourthly in respect of Vsefulness and Profitableness Men do usually set a great price upon things that are greatly Useful and Profitable to them as rich Land fat Pastures vendible Merchandize helpful Engines and Instruments c. And upon this account also is Jesus Christ very precious to a believing soul He is of mighty use hugely advantagious to it He is a Father to it for Care a Brother for Love a Head for Direction and a Husband for a Protection He is the Believers Prophet to teach and instruct him his Priest to sacrifice for and bless him and his King to govern and reward him Dost thou believe in Christ then let the Devil accuse thee Christ will be thy Advocate to justifie thee let God be angry with thee Christ will be thy Mediator to reconcile him to thee let the Enemies of thy salvation oppose and fight against thee Christ will be the Captain of thy salvation to fight for thee and defend thee Art thou a Believer in Christ then in sickness Christ will be thy Physician to heal thee in sorrow Christ will be thy Friend to comfort thee in need Christ will be thy Assistant to help thee in distress Christ will be thy Counsellor to advise thee and in danger Christ will be thy Saviour to deliver thee To the hungry he is bread to the thirsty he is drink to the naked he is cloathing to the destitute he is a covering to the persecuted he is a sanctuary to the weak he is strength to the blind he is light and unto the dead he is life He is wisdom to the ignorant righteousness to the guilty sanctification to the polluted redemption to the imprisoned salvation to the condemned In a word to the believing soul Christ is every thing that it can want or can desire And the believing soul being both perswaded by See S. Chrys Serm. 24. on Rom. 13. 13. the Gospel and finding by experience that he is all this unto it upon this account also as I know not how it should do any other holds him exceeding dear and precious to it self Fifthly in respect of Necessaries in order to the Believers happiness Men do usually make great account of and esteem very precious such things as they must needs have and can no wayes be or be well without as meat in hunger clothes in cold Physick in sickness c. And even upon this account is Christ Jesus exceeding precious unto those that believe on him They know that there is no salvation to be had without him that there is no other Saviour besides him there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved but his only They know that without him there would be none to give them any instruction or to make for them any satisfaction or to afford them any protection that without him they could neither be justified from guilt nor sanctified from corruption nor redeemed from damnation that without him they could neither do any thing but sin nor expect any thing but punishment nor be any thing but the miserable objects of Gods wrath and the Devils malice the power of Death and the plagues of Hell and therefore upon this absolute necessity that they apprehend themselves to have of him he is exceedingly dear and precious unto them And thus I have shewn you both that Christ is very precious unto them that believe on him and also upon what account it is that he is so precious to them The point will be useful two wayes first by way of Examination and then by way of Exhortation unto both which I now proceed And First for Examination You see Brethren that Christ is precious unto them that do truly believe on him examine your selves a while now whether he be so to you or no. By such examination you may come to understand something of your own condition and discern whether you be in the faith or no whether you believe or do not believe in Christ or at leastwise what kind of Believers in Christ you are Well then the question is Is Christ Jesus precious to you That which is precious to a man First he will have his mind much and often upon Secondly he will highly prize it Thirdly he will greatly desire it Fourthly he will diligently seek it Fifthly he will dearly purchase it Sixthly he will carefully keep it And so it is with those to whom Christ Jesus is precious By these notes Believers do use to evidence the preciousness of Christ to them by these notes therefore do you examine your selves about Christs preciousnesse unto you by that examination try the truth and see the slrength of your faith in Christ And first they to whom Christ is precious will have their hearts and minds much and oft upon him A mans heart will be much upon his treasure and so will the Believers heart be much upon Christ he thinks he can never have his fill of thinking of him and wishes to spend eternity in that communion with him But because the Bow cannot always be at full bent and the affairs of this temporal life do necessitate frequent interruptions of that spiritual commerce therefore he is forced to give entertainment to other cogitations but yet as if they were but only occasional diversions and not the business of his life he returns eftsoons after every interruption to his main concerning meditation An evidence whereof we may have in the Primitive Christians who did seperate not only a week of extraordinary days in every year but one Ordinary day in evry week ye and I had almost said a week of hours in every day to acts and exercises of holy communion with him praising him with David seven times a day and rising with him at Midnight also to praise him and all this besides what came in by the by in occasional ejaculations and devotions in respect of which they might besaid to pray continually and even without ceasing Now Christians examine your hearts how stand they towards Christ is their inclination like that of the needle towards the pole continually moving towards him Do your souls like Davids Psal 63. 8. hang upon him and follow hard after him Upon every interruption do your souls like the Spouses soul in the Canticles c. 6. v. 12. make you like the Charrets of Aminadib hot and swift in the retirement of him Plainly and shortly Is it a sweet thing to you to meditate upon him And do you exercise your selves much in that converse with him Are you often thinking of him And do you delight in such thinking Then 't is a sign you have some value for him that he is precious unto you But if the world