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A12478	An exposition of the Creed: or, An explanation of the articles of our Christian faith. Delivered in many afternoone sermons, by that reverend and worthy divine, Master Iohn Smith, late preacher of the Word at Clavering in Essex, and sometime fellow of Saint Iohns Colledge in Oxford. Now published for the benefit and behoofe of all good Christians, together with an exact table of all the chiefest doctrines and vses throughout the whole booke	Smith, John, 1563-1616.; Palmer, Anthony, fl. 1632.	1632 (1632)	STC 22801; ESTC S117414	837,448	694

for as Physitians say there is a filme containing water about the heart which serves to coole it and keepe it in temper which they call Pericardium therefore Christs heart being wounded there came forth blood and water blood from the wound in his heart water from the Pericardium or filme involving the heart wherein is contained water That which was Miraculous was that the blood flowed apart by it selfe and the water apart without any mixture together therefore seeing the heart was wounded it is an Evidence to the World that Christ was truly and really dead and yet these two things had a further mystery and meaning First whereas we see the legges of Christ was not broken as the legges of the theeves were this was to teach us that all the wicked of the World could doe no more to Christ than God had appointed they could take him and buffet him and whip him and crowne him with Thornes and naile him to the Crosse and kill him at last but yet they could not breake a bone of him Hence wee may learne for our owne comfort that all the wicked in the World can doe nothing to a Christian without Gods appointment they may trouble and molest them but they cannot breake a bone of them so we see Psal 34. 20. Many are the troubles of the righteous good people may have many troubles and they may put them on the Crosse but they cannot breake a bone of them For the Lord keepeth all his bones so that not one of them shall be broken Secondly there was not a bone of him broken to shew he was the true Paschall Lambe As 1 Cor. 5. 7. Christ our Passeover is sacrificed for us as the Passeover did keepe the Israelites from the stroke of the devouring Angell so this same true Paschall Lambe doth keepe us from the wrath of God falling upon us at the day of Iudgement and as the Lambe was taken up foure dayes before they killed him So we should labour to get Christ into our hearts before death commeth The second Evidence is that water and blood did flow out of the dead body of Christ to teach us that God hath opened a fountaine of grace and life as Zecharie had foretold for sinne and for uncleanesse But what comfort have we by it Is there any power or vertue in the dead body of Christ I saith the Lord there is power and efficacie in it or from these two streames that issued out of the dead Body of Christ there is infinite comfort that doth arise as 1 Iohn 5. 6. saith hee This is that Iesus Christ that came by water and blood not by water onely but by water and blood There were two streames that did issue out of the dead Body of Christ there issued a streame of pure blood to wash away the guilt of sinne and a streame of cleare water as cleare as Chrystall to wash away the filth of our sinnes for these bee two maine things that trouble the people of God 1. The guilt of sinne binding us to punishment 2. The filth of sinne making us hatefull and loathsome in the eyes of God First therefore dost thou feele thy heart troubled with the guilt of sinne runne unto the Crosse of Christ and catch hold of some of the droppes of blood that came from the side of Christ offer them to God and say in thy meditation Lord behold the blood of thy Sonne and sprinkle it by the hand of faith upon thy Soule and Conscience and God will bee pleased and pacified with thee Secondly If thou be troubled with the filth of thy sinne runne unto the Crosse of Christ and get of the water that issued out of the side of Christ and besprinkle thy soule and conscience by the hand of faith and so thou shalt bee cleane in Gods sight To make this plaine suppose there were a man that had a foule yard who laid stones and gravell on it yet still it remained durty in which time there came a friend to him who seeing him labour in vaine to make his yard cleane gave him this Counsell saynig you have a Spring in your yard open it and it will carry all your soile and baggage away and so your yard will bee cleane So if wee finde our hearts uncleane wee must get to one of these same Springs that come out of the dead body of Christ and this will carry away all the baggage and soile this is the benefit wee have by the dead body of Christ therefore blessed be God that hath opened such a Fountaine for sinne and for uncleannesse and as David longed for the waters of the Well of Bethel 2 Sam. 23. 15. much more should wee long for the blood and water that did issue out of the side of Christ and labour for it although it be with the hazard of our peace and losse of our lives The next thing we are to speake of is Of the power of Christs death for although there seemed to be nothing therein but weaknesse yet there was power in the death of Christ for the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottome without any hands The earth did quake and the stones rent in sunder Hammers and other instruments could not doe it but the death of Christ did it The graves did open and the dead bodies of the Saints did rise and did goe into the holy Citie and shewed themselves to many so we see there was great power in the death of Christ as great Princes and Kings and great Monarches when they live are able to doe great matters but when they dye there is no power nor might in them they are able to doe nothing never a Cloud will moove a Stone stirre or Grave open at their deaths but at the death of Christ they did Therefore this doth shew there is great power in the death of Christ First it is said that the veile of the Temple did rent in twaine from the top to the bottome Christ did hang in Mount Calvary dead and yet the power of his death did pierce into the Citie and Temple and did rent the veile without hands from the toppe to the bottome Now they which know the Scripture know that the Temple was divided in two parts in the first was the Table the Shew-bread and the Candlesticke this was called the Holy place and in the other was the golden Censer the Arke of the Testament over-laid with gold round about wherein was the golden Pot which had Manna and Aarons rod which had budded and the Tables of the Testament and over the Arke were the glorious Cherubins shadowing the Mercy seat which two places were separated by a veile Now at the death of Christ this same veile was rent in twaine from the top to the bottome whereof there be divers Reasons First That an entrance might be made into heaven by his death for this

Gods favour yet it shewes us that this forsaking is but for a time as it is said Esai 54. 8. For a little while have I forsaken thee but with great compassion will I gather thee for a moment in mine anger I hide my face from thee for a season but with ever lasting mercie I have had compassion on thee saith the Lord thy Redeemer And therefore although wee feele not the Love of God at the present yet Faith must uphold us and wee must perswade our selves it is but for a little time And so likewise Psal 55. 22. it is said He will not suffer the righteous to fall for ever Howsoever they may fall yet they shall rise againe And Mic. 7. 8. The Church doth sustaine her selfe by this Rejoyce not against me O mine enemie although I fall yet I shall rise againe If a man fall into a swoond that he neither breathe nor pant yet bring him to the fire and chafe him put a little Aquavitae into his mouth and he will recover againe if there be any life in him even so if a man fall into a spirituall swoond that he neither breathe nor pant yet if he be brought to the use of good meanes as prayer preaching and the Sacraments if there be the life of grace in him he will recover againe This we see in David and Peter that when Nathan came to David and told him of his fault he straightway recovered and so Peter that had but a looke of Christ recovered If a man cast mud into a fountaine it will in time worke it selfe cleere So in Ioh. 4. 14. A Christian is compared to a fountaine in which although there be mud cast yet it will worke it selfe cleere The third action whereby faith sustaineth us in spiritual desertions is that al is for their good that God is departed from them For Ioh. 16. it is said It is expedient for you that I goe away from you So the absence of Christ from the Church is for their good that they may the more long for him when he is departed earnestly seeke after him and set the greater price upon him when they have him If a man have poysoned himselfe a Physition cannot helpe him but by giving him some ranke poyson even so the Lord lets us fall into some great sinne to expell some other sinnes And therefore as Christ said Ioh. 11. of Lazarus his sickenesse That it was not unto Death but for the glory of God So wee may say of all the falls of Gods people that there falls are not unto death but for the glory of God Now for worldly crosses faith sustaineth foure wayes First it perswadeth us that all the judgements of God that fal upon us are just and that he doth us no wrong thereby therefore that we must quiet our selves yeelding to the good will of God So we see the Church doth in Micah 7. 9. I will beare the wrath of the Lord because I have sinned against him So Ier. 10. saith he It is my sorrow and I must beare it As though he should say it is mine owne sinne I may thanke mine owne selfe for it it is my sorrow and I will beare it The good Theefe Luk. 23. 41. confesses Wee are indeed justly punished heere for wee receive things worthy for that we have done And therefore let us never murmur nor grieve at it we are heere righteously these things be justly come upon us Thus Faith makes us to quiet our selves in looking at the good will of God The second way whereby Faith sustaineth us in worldly crosses is that it makes us shut up our eyes and wholly to relie upon God So David in the Psal 73. 26. My flesh and my heart faileth but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever So Psal 119. 49 50. Remember thy promise made unto thy servant wherein thou hast made me to hope It is my comfort in my trouble for thy promises have quickened me And so likewise Iob saith Though hee kill me yet I will trust in him Faith it makes believe one contrary in another that although we die and rot yet wee shall live and we shall live againe and rise againe though God doth seeme to be our enemie yet Faith doth perswade us that he is our friend and although wee bee miserable yet that wee are blessed and happie thus Faith makes us beleeve one contrary in another Thirdly Faith doth hereby sustaine us in worldly crosses because it assures us that God is present with us in all our troubles in our sicknesse about our beds in our graves and in the gaole Even as God was with Moses in the bush and with the three children in the fiery sornace so God is with all his servants in all their troubles and afflictions The want of this consideration that God was not present with Saul made his affliction the greater saith he The Philistims made warre against me and God is departed from mee therefore when Faith shall assure us that in all our troubles and afflictions God is present with us this is a mighty meanes to sustaine and uphold us So sayes David Psalme 23. 4. Yea though I should walke through the valley and shaddow of Death yet I will feare none ill thy rod thy staffe they comfort me and Rom. 8. 31. If God be with us saith he who can bee against us When old Iacob was sent for into Egypt as wee may see Gen. 46. 3. The Lord spake in a vision to Iacob and said Feare not Iacob to goe downe into Egypt for I will goe with thee Even so when the Lord shall say to us feare not to goe into the grave for I will bee with you or into the dennes of death or into the gaole or into any other trouble whatsoever seeing hee will bee present to sustaine and to uphold us we ought to doe it cheerefully Fourthly Faith doth sustaine us in worldly crosses with this consideration and comfort that when all temporall things faile yet wee shall bee made partakers of spirituall and heavenly things Thus wee see Iob did sustaine himselfe when all temporall things failed him when hee had lost his children his goods and all then he comforteth himselfe in this I know that my Redeemer liveth And although after my skinne wormes destroy this body yet shall I see God in my flesh c. So David in the person of Christ in Psal 16. 9. Howsoever they deprived him of these temporall things and killed him yet saith hee comfortably My heart is glad and my tongue rejoyceth my flesh also shall rest in hope for thou wilt not leave my soule in grave neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption And Psal 27. 13. I should have fainted but that I beleeved to see the goodnesse of God in the land of the living and therefore howsoever temporall things faile us yet Faith perswadeth us of most happy and heavenly