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The great duty of Christians to go forth without the camp to Jesus set forth in several sermons on Heb. XIII. 13 / by S.T.M. ...
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Tomlyns, Samuel, 1632 or 3-1700.
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a Crown is laid up 2 Tim. 4.8 an Inheritance is reserved 1 Pet. 1.4 a Rest remains for them Heb. 4.9 While their Bodies feed on God's Creatures their Souls may delight in and feast on their Fathers Love accounting that he gives bread to them that fear him he will ever be mindful of his Covenant Psal 111.5 that he spreads their Table fills their Cup Psal 23.5 annoints their heads and hearts with Oyl of Joy as Ointment was poured on great and noble Guests when they were entertained at a Feast Cant. 1.12 Mat. 26.7 They take all as coming immediately from God Gen. 48.15 The God that fed me all my life long He looks beyond Joseph Egypt and all Creatures he ascends to God as the Priests had the Lord for their Portion he provided and gave maintenance to them the Altar was as it were their Field from whence they had Bread and Flesh Mal. 1.22 therefore what was brought to and laid on it is called the Fruits of it as if it grew there for the Priests that had their Portion of the Sacrifices and are therefore said to live upon holy things and partake with the Altar 1 Cor. 9.13 Even so God is the Portion of his People even in Temporal as well as Spiritual respects Psal 16.5 The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup. Their very outward Enjoyments are as Shew-bread or Face-bread as it is in the Original Exod. 25.30 They receive them as those Loaves of Shew-bread from the Face of God they see his Face and Love in them and therefore may call them Peniel Gen. 32.30 They take their daily Provision as a Dish sent from their Father's Table as Joseph is said to send Messes from before him to his Brethren Gen. 43. last Their Food is seasoned with the sense of their Father's Love and with the hope of his Kingdom and Glory and so their Sawee is better than their Meat Besides after this Hundred-fold in the present time they are to inherit Everlasting Life Christ saith He that loseth his life shall find it but he that finds it shall lose it Mat. 10.39 David said Died Abner as a fool 2 Sam. 3.33 So I may say Do Saints die as Fools Do they lavish out their Blood and rashly squander away their Lives Surely no they well understand themselves and know what they do if they lose their Lives for Christ they shall find a better Life for their very Bodies They lay down the vile common Plebeian Life of the first Adam but they shall at the Resurrection receive and take up the Honourable Royal and Glorious Life of the second Adam Phil. 3.21 He shall fashion our vile Bodies like his glorious Body If we be faithful to the death we shall receive from Christ the Crown of Life Rev. 2.10 Mark that Expression The Crown of Life This very Life is a Crown it is a Royal Life Rom. 5.17 it is said That they that receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life So that Saints lose a base and common Life and are recompensed with a Kingly Life All Vails shall be taken off all Clouds shall be scattered all Reproaches shall be wiped away from the Saints the righteous shall shine out in the kingdom of their father Matth. 13.43 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Sun that disperses all Clouds But those that resolve to save their lives shall lose them This is certain that by a fond and sinful sparing of their Lives here they shall cut themselves off from all the Glory and Blessedness that Saints shall enjoy in their Souls and Bodies Hereafter they shall only Be to be Miserable and be continued to endure the Blows of an Almighty Arm to drink the Wine of the Wrath of an Eternal God and this is but a Husk and Carcase of Being Isa 66. last to be preserved to be Fuel of Everlasting Flames This State of the Wicked therefore is not called Life but the second Death yea sometimes in this Life Apostates meet with remarkable and infamous punishment and quickly lose that Life that sinfully they preserved He in Queen Maries days that said See Foxes Acts Monuments he could not burn for the Gospel of which in King Edward's Days he had been a forward Professor was himself and all his House and Family burnt in the Night by a Fire that rose suddenly And the Priest that denied the Truth in France to save his Life and was discharged out of Prison as he was going home met with two Men that had a quarrel with him for merly who fell upon him and killed him See Clarke 's History of the French Martyrs Secondly I shall now lay down some Directions how you may attain such a frame of Spirit as will incline you readily and freely to go forth without the Camp to Jesus Direction 1. Endeavour to get a clear sight of the Shortness of Life and the Vanity of all the Things of this World Surely every man walks in a vain shew Psal 39.6 What is this vain shew I answer It is the Natural Life and the earnest and restless Endeavours of Men about it and for it This Life is but a vain shew of Life as a Shadow that hath the shape of Man's Body but yet is but a vain shew of a Body or a Picture that hath the resemblance of a Man of his Head Face Body Hands and Feet but come to handle it there is nothing but Canvas and Colours there is only a vain shew of a Man and of his Members but no Flesh Bones or Life So this present Life is but a Shadow a vain shew of that true and real Life that flows from Jesus Christ and is to be enjoyed for ever with him And all the Labours and Toil of Men to provide for and maintain this Life is but a vain shew of Business Men seem to do something but indeed do nothing to purpose as long as they neglect theit Souls It is a busie Idleness a laborious doing of nothing just like Children that make Pies build Houses dress Babies and talk over every piece of their Work as if it were some very serious weighty thing and all is but a piece of childish Folly and Vanity When God awakes to judge the World how will he himself despise and render most ridiculous and contemptible to others this Image of worldly men Psal 73.20 How will he deride their Folly that forget their Souls cast God and his Word behind their backs banish the Thoughts of Eternity out of their Minds and satisfie themselves with such a vile Life and such a vain Image of Happiness And the Psalmist in this 39 Psalm ver 6. saith That a worldly Man heaps up Riches and knows not who shall gather them He seems to allude to the Custom of some Countries where the Corn is heaped up and set Artificially in the Field so as to preserve it from Weather till all
speaks of the City of Caunus lib. 13. That the Inhabitants were so pale that Stratonicus said of them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That Dead Men walked about And is it not so here Men that are dead in Sin walk about and perform onely the Acts of the Natural Life The World is said to lye in Wickedness 1 John 5.19 as dead Lazarus is said to lye in the Grave John 11.41 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Verb is used in the first place and the Participle of the same Verb in the other This corrupt World is set out by the Dead Sea Ezek. 47.10 in which no Fish did live Engedi and Eneglaim there mentioned were Places that did lye one at the beginning the other at the end of the Dead Sea where Sodom and Gomorra stood of old and on the Banks of it Spiritual Fishermen are said to stand to draw Men out of this Dead Sea into Communion with Christ the Prince of Life The Cities of the blind Gentiles are said to be desolate Isa 54.3 because there were none in them that did live the Life of God And the Psalmist speaks of Wicked Men as dead Carcases when he saith The Pit is digged for them Psal 94.13 And shall we not come forth from such a World to Jesus Christ As God said of besieged Jerusalem of old Jer. 38.2 That he that staid in the City should die by the Famine or Pestilence but he that did go forth and yield to the King of Babylon should live So those that stay in this City of the World must be condemned and perish 1 Cor. 11.32 but those that go forth and submit to Jesus Christ shall be saved and live for ever Heb. 5.9 3. We should consider what Jesus Christ endured for us Heb. 12.3 How great a Person was he What provoking Contradictions did he suffer and that from base Worms and for vile Sinners He sanctified himself for our sakes to be a Priest and Sacrifice John 17.19 He was wholly for us he was born died rose again ascended to Heaven intercedes there and will come again for the good of his People Isa 9.6 Rom. 4. last Heb. 6. last Heb. 7.25 John 14.2 3. This precious Foundation was laid low in the Earth for us to build on this Noble Grain of Corn was sowed in the Dust that we might spring up from him to Everlasting Life This excellent Bunch of Grapes was cast into the Wine-press of the Wrath of God that we might drink new Wine with him in the Kingdom of his Father This generous Stock was wounded and cut that we as Grafts might be joyned to him and live in him for ever Do we believe Or can we think on these things and yet stick at any Service or recoil from any Sufferings for the sake of Jesus Christ 4. Let us consider how Honourable the Sufferings of Saints for Christ are Gal. 6.17 I bear about in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus the print of the Stripes and Wounds he had suffered for Christ's sake Saints may much more glory in these than Soldiers do in the Scars of their Wounds Was it not more Honourable for some of the clean Creatures preserved in the Ark afterwards to be offered in Sacrifice to God by Noah than for the unclean Creatures to survive them or for other Creatures to perish in the Deluge Gen. 8.20 Sufferings for Christ are part of our conformity to him in bearing the Cross and Testimonies of our Adoption that being chosen out of the World and called into the Kingdom of Christ therefore Earthly Men hate and abhor us John 15.19 The Sufferings of Saints are short their Evil things are measured by days Psal 94.12 13. but their Good and Happiness is commensurate to Eternity 2 Cor. 4.17 They drink of a Cup of Afflictions but it is a Cup like Christ's in this that it passes away by our drinking of it Matth. 26.4 Wicked Men shall drink of the Cup of Wrath and yet it shall always abide at their Lips but Saints shall drink of Christs Cup of Sufferings and the Cup shall pass away their Tears shall be dried up their Warfare shall be finished sorrow and sighing shall fly away Weeping shall endure but for a Night Joy shall come in the Morning Psal 30.5 After the smoaking Furnace of Bondage and Sufferings shall come the burning Lamp of Deliverance and Liberty Gen. 15.16 6. God sees and will reward the Sufferings of his Saints Rom. 8.18 2 Cor. 4.17 Though God doth set forth some of his People as men appointed to death 1 Cor. 4.9 yet he hath not appointed them to Wrath but to obtain Salvation by Jesus Christ 1 Thess 5.9 The Plowers indeed make long Furrows on them but God sowes them with the Promise of Everlasting Life while Men think to destroy their Gold of Grace God is refining them from their Dross of Corruption while Enemies would blow away the good Wheat that is in them God is winnowing them from their Chaff As Xerxes stood on the Shore and beheld the Sea-fight of his Men with the Grecians and when any of his Captains fought valiantly he had his Scribes by him to write down his Name and the Name of his City and Ship that he might reward him See Herod Hist 1.8 So Christ is on the calm Shore of a blessed Eternity he beholds all the Courage and Conflicts of his Servants he registers all in his Book and takes it on account in order to an eternal Reward 7. Consider the Benefit that hath accrued to the Church and the Advantage that hath redounded to the Kingdom of Christ by suffering Saints When Saints have suffered Death for Christ their Carcases have enriched and fatted the Ridges of Zion's Field their Blood hath watered the Furrows of Immanuel's Land and made it more fruitful When these Grains of Corn have fallen to the Earth and died many more have sprung up in their room Peter Martyr in Rom. 8.36 excellently observes That the Gospel hath been propagated in the World by Miracles and Torments by Works done above the Power of Nature and by cruel Sufferings patiently and joyfully endured beyond the strain or strength of Flesh and Blood These were wonderful Attestations to and Confirmations of the Truth of the Christian Religion 8. Let us consider That Christ's Interest shall at last be prevalent victorious and triumphant Crafty Worldlings desire to be of the strongest side The Decree of Heaven Psal 2.7 and the Zeal of the Lord of Hosts is for the Establishing of the Kingdom of Christ Isa 9.7 The Nations indeed have their time and are angry with Christ and his People but the time of his Wrath will also come Rev. 11.18 when he will tread them under his Feet punish and destroy them for ever Psal 110.1 Psal 21.8 9. Luke 19.27 God the Father hath promised to make all Christ's Foes to be his Foot-stooll Though Jacob be but a Worm yet shall he thresh the Mountains Isa 41.14 15. And