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A97021	None but Christ, or A plain and familiar treatise of the knowledge of Christ, exciting all men to study to know Jesus Christ and him crucified, with a particular, applicatory, and saving knowledge, in diverse sermons upon I Cor. 2. 2. / By John Wall B.D. preacher of the word of God at Mich. Cornhill London.	Wall, John, 1588-1666.	1648 (1648)	Wing W469; Thomason E1139_1; ESTC R210079	152,329	343

an account for losse Qui ludit in Cathedra legebit in Gehenna Bishop Hall Ier. 48. 10. of soules either through idlenesse and negligence in his preaching or not preaching Christ savingly to his people if one soule be worth a world then the losse of one soule is a greater losse then the losse of the whole world all blood cryes aloud Cain could not endure to heare the voice of his brothers blood but none to the blood of soules Ezek. 33. 8. for that death is to all eternity in hell fire Quest But one main question must here be answered before I leave this point seeing ministers must preach Iesus Christ and the Gospel whether then is it lawfull for the ministers of the Gospel to preach the law yea or no I answer negatively none ought to be legall preachers that is to preach salvation by keeping of the law so farre we are all Antinomians and for my own part I know none but Papists or popishly minded that are preachers of salvation by keeping of the law for we know and teach that we are not under the law that is under the Covenant of salvation by keeping of the law but under grace Rom. 6. 14. Col. 2. 14. Secondly I answer positively that the law must be preached as a rule of obedience for so God requires as perfect and personall obedience in us beleevers as he did in Adam in innocency though we cannot performe it nor are we bound thereto upon condition of life for else the defect were no sin as Matth. 22. 37. 38. God requires us to love him with all our heart c. which though we cannot performe yet God requires it still in us that believe and it is our sin if we faile therein and hence it is that the law was promulgated to the Iewes two thousand years after the Gospel was preached to Adam and foure hundred and thirty years asrer it was preached to Abraham and thus Christ himselfe Matth. 5 17. 19. Matth. 3. 8. Col. 3. 5. 12. Iohn-Baptist and the Apostles preached the law 2. Secondly the law must still be preached as a meanes to discover sin and convince men of their misery out of Christ as a Schoolemaster to drive us to Gal 3. 23. Christ which is Gods ordinary way to prepare us to the receiving of Christ for as the Brazen serpent was set up so Ioh. 3. 14. was Christ set up but that was only for those that were stung so is Christ only for those that are stung with their sins hence you see the promise of salvation by Christ is to those that are weary heavy-laden sick broken-hearted c. teaching us that legall humiliation at least is a preparation required ordinarily to the receiving of Christ by faith And thus God dealt with Adam first he began 1 King 19. 11. 12. with a terrible voice and then with a milder and with Elias who had three legall preparations before God appeared in mercy to him so likewise Paul the Iailor and those in Acts 2. 37. c. had the law preached to them before the Gospel The good Samaritan poured oyle and wine because it was into wounds we preach the law that we might preach the Gospel And certainly that will prove at last the best preaching that drives men to Christ and he the best preacher Non qui aures tetigerit sed qui cor pupigerit not that tickles the eare but that breaks the heart to seek after Christ Mens hearts are generally so hardened and secure that the word had need to come like a hammer a fire or sword to wound and melt stony hearts we had not need in these times be the sugar and hony but the salt of the world we have more need of the voice of the Turtle then the voice of the Nightingale to make men mourne rather then to rejoyce As Hierome wrote to Nepotian Hier. ad Nepot Bern. ser 59. Cant. when thou preachest Non clamores populi sed gemitus suscitentur lachrimae auditorum sint laudes tuae Libenter vocem audio saith Bernard non qui mihi plausum sed qui mihi planctum movet It s reported of Vincentius Ferer who preaching in England Scotland France Spain c. everywhere preached Repent Repent for the Kingdome of God is at hand and there followed almost every where delictorum paenitentia morum reformatio omnium contritio cessabant Blasphemiae Coren lap in lam p. 426. aleae ludi c. that is men repented of their sins reformed their wayes left off their blasphemies di●ings c. who converted thousands as is reported It is also reported of one A●tonius Padua who so moved the people with preaching the law that they smote their breasts in the streets and with sighs and tears cryed out misericordia domine misericordia mercy Lord mercy c as they did Acts 2. 37. Sirs what must we do to be saved Ramiz said if you would know a good preacher inspice p●pulum mark the people whether their hearts be set on fire or upon laughter if thou seest them merry applauding the sermon with O quam doctus eloquens c. O what a learned eloquent man is this scito concionem infructuosam esse know saith he it is an unprofitable sermon sin vides tristes percussos meditantes c. but if thou seest them sad silent deeply musing c. then it profits them And daily experience showes us the only way to bring men to Christ is to break their hearts and make them sick and stung with their sins and then they will more eagerly embrace Iesus Christ a Physitian to their soules Now follows the second part of the exhortation viz. that ministers do not only preach the Gospel but that they preach it in such a manner as the people may best come to the saving knowledge of Iesus Christ as Paul did in this text 1 Cor. 1. 17. 1 Cor. 2 1● 3. 4. Non Rhetoricè sed Apostolicé It s the foolishnesse of preaching that saves soules though not foolish preaching as Rams hornes blew down Jerichoes wals when golden trumpets could not have done it Moses serpent of brasse cured when Aarons Calfe of gold brought death who did not only preach Iesus Christ to them but in such a manner as that he might not make the Crosse of Christ of none effect And Paul prayes that we may make the Gospel of Christ manifest as we ought to speak Col. 4. 4. which consists in nine particulars First that we preach Christ plainly and perspicuously to the understanding of the meanest Non quant● eloquentia sed evidentia saith Aug. so that if the people used to call ossum a bone he would call it so too Melius est ut not reprehendant grammatici quam ut non intellig●nt populi Aug. on Psal 138. we are to be stars and lights to give light not clouds to darken the light as do p●inted glasse-windows in Churches the Gospel of Christ is

promised that neither life nor death shall be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ our Lord Rom. 8. ult 2. And secondly If thou knowest Christ to be thine thou art sure to dye a blessed death Reve. 14. 13. Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord. c. because that day and houre thou diest that day thou art sure thy soule shall be with Christ in paradise for to all that know Christ savingly death is but the harbenger to bring their Cyprian soules to Christ Ejus est timere mortem qui ad Christum nolit ire saith a father let him fear death that is loth to go to Christ do not thou feare that desirest to be dissolved and to be with Christ Death to thee is but as thy fathers horse to cary thee to thy fathers house or like Iosephs Chariot ratling with its wheeles ready to carry old Iacob to his son Ioseph so is death ready to carry thee to thy Saviour Iesus Alas our misery lies in our life morimur dum non morimur not in our death therein lies all our happynesse for we shall not die but live still onely we shall exchange the place of our living instead of Egypt to live in Canaan instead of earth to live in heaven Now are wee afraid to live No life is sweet then feare we not to die for that brings the sweetest and most happy life and will make an exchange of a life of misery for a life of glory Indeed to them that know not Christ O how bitter is death It must needes sting them like a serpent because they go from all their hapinesse to all their misery Death of it selfe is bitter but herein lies the sting and strength of death to all out of Christ in that it is entailed to eternall death they may say as once Elisha did 2 Kings 6. 32. Behold the murtherer death is come to take away mine head And is not the sound of his Masters feet even of the divel and hell behind him mori non metuo said one sed damnari metuo I feare not to die but I feare to be damned When Saul was told by Samuel as he took him to be to morrow thou shalt be with me therefore what else but in heaven yet the newes pleased him not his conscience preached otherwise to him but Saul fell all along on the earth and was sore afraid and there was no strength in him 1 Sam. 28. 20. so Belshazzar did read the hand writing before Daniel read it and trembled for his conscience told him there could come no good newes from heaven to such a wretch as he was And verily herein lyes the sad condition of all men that know not Iesus Christ savingly That though they may make themselves merry and be pleasant in their lives yet death makes them miserable they shall lye down in sorrow Esa 50. 11. And though now Christ seemes like a roote out of a dry ground having nothing in him why they should desire him Esa 53. 2. for though he hath made rich promises yet not of such things as they care or desire to be rich in and with such hard conditions too as seem unreasonable even the parting with their dearest lusts yet at death what would men give for assurance that Christ were theirs Would they not prefer this knowledge before all earthly blessings As Severus said if I had a thousand worlds I would now give them all to be found in Christ As crock-back Richard the third in his distresse cryed a Kingdome for a hors O then they will cry a Kingdome for a Saviour CHAP. XII A Reproofe of those that know nothing of Iesus Christ Vse 1 IF this be so that we ought to study to know nothing but Iesus Christ and him crucified then they are justly to be reproved that know nothing of Iesus Christ and him crucified There are five sorts of them who know nothing or very little of Iesus Christ and him crucified First the heathens who are the greatest part of the world and of whom there are milions of milions at this day who want the meanes of knowledge and can never attaine salvation for if our Gospel be hid it is hid to them that perish 2 Cor. 4. 3. And they are without hope Eph. 2. 12. Qui cuiquam salutem promittit sine Christo nescio utrum ipse salutem habere potest in Christo Aug. Acts 17. 31 Ir is true some conceive it is a sinne in Heathens to want habituall knowledge of Christ because it was in Adam in innocency and it had beene his duty so to have acted if God had commanded him as now he doth command all men Therefore habituall knowledge of Christ seems still to be required even of heathens Yea and actuall applicatory knowledge of all to whom Christ is revealed because the want is their sinne for which they shall be damned John 16. 9. Mark 16. 16. But where the Gospel is not revealed as among the Heathens there it seemes not a sinne for we are not bound to act that which God never revealed to Adam nor since There is Lex interna id est internus Deiconceptus and externa or revelata Now Gods secret will is not our Law but his will revealed Leges factae instituuntur cum promulgantur Rayner Panth. Some indeed think the moralized heathens that walked by the light of nature were saved as Chrys Clemens Alexand. Erasmus Casauhon and others but Christ tels us the contrary Act. 4. 12. Though in comparison of us that have the meanes they are said to have no sin Ioh. 15. 22. I grant whether it be a sin or no in the Heathens not to know Christ to whom he was never revealed is a question But of this I am sure if their negative infidelity be no sin being ignorantia privationis or negativa yet their positive fidelity is odious in that they trust to dumb Idols to the stock of a tree c. when as the light of nature tels them that they themselves are better then that they trust in by whichlight of nature they shall be judged Rom. 2. 12. yea light of nature tels them a living creature is better then the picture as a lamb in the field or a bird flying in the aire c. are better then a picture of them And yet saith one si accepto spiritu occurrerent ut monstra haberentur 2. The Turks that acknowledge God a father yet deny Christ a Redeemer though they heare of Christ yet despise him reject abuse him and his members and prefer their Mahomet before him whose sin is greater because their own religion is so absurd fleshly and filthy and his rewards all fleshly fitter for swine then men 3. The poore scatter'ed Iewes of whom and for whom Christ especially came to them still Christ is a mystery they acknowledge Moses law and the Prophets but reject Christ as an impostor looke for a saviour to come