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Christs love, and saints sacrifice Preached in a sermon at St. Pauls Crosse, on the 23. of August, 1635. By Iames Conyers, Mr. of Arts of Sydney-Sussex in Cambridge, and minister of Stratford-Bow, in Middlesex.
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Conyers, James.
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it savours Iesuiticall advise let the credit of the Story stand ad placitum but this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 worthy of all acceptation that Christs innocent Blood expiates our guilt and heales all manner of spirituall Leprosie Ioh. 1. 1. Blood preserves alive therefore Physitians prescribe the blood of a Dove a soveraigne against diseases in the eye and the braine Galen gives it against the bruises called Hyposphagmata which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 presents every thing to the eye red And Iul. Alex. commends it dropped on the corners of Lib. 4. salubrium the braine called Pia Dura Mater in the wounds of the head to helpe to hold in life So pretious was the blood of Christ a harmelesse Dove that dropped on our eyes whereas before all we could see were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 goare blood by reason of our bloody sinnes now wee behold as in a Glasse salvation before our eyes And whereas in our head Adam we had received a deadly wound by a Balme made of this Blood and laid to it we are alive unto God Blood hath revived the dead As the Story of the Pelican goes for currant her brood being stung to death by the brood of the Serpent by distilling her blood on her owne brood they have beene restored to life So Christ our true Pelican when by our serpentine firy-stinging sinnes we were stung to death by the vertue of his blood effused on our soules wee are quickned and raised to life to the praise of his glory But there is one maine and memorable difference betwixt this Blood and all others The blood of man or beast may give snow-white a scarlet tincture but never die scarlet snow-white but this and this onely by mercy and miracle makes scarlet Soules as white as snow In Salomon thus that Elder moved the question and made the answer to our Evangelist What are they that Apoc. 7. 13 14. are arrayed in long white robes and whence came they These are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their long Robes and have made their long robes white in the Blood of the Lambe Now that Christ washed us with his blood Hence a choake Peare to the Manichees who deny the truth of Christs-humanity to the Marcionites who averre he had a phantasticall Body to Apelles who conceived hee had a Sydereall substance He that runnes may read printed in blood the truth of his Manhood For as Alexander the great however the popular sort deified him yet having got a clap with an Arrow said ye stile me Iupiters Sonne as if immortall Sed hoc vulnus clamat me esse hominem this blood that issues from the wound proves me in the issue a man So may I say of our Saviour though myriads of Angels and Saints acclaime he is God ergo immortall and a crue of Hereticks disclaime him to be a man yet the streames of blood following the arrow of death that strucke him make good he was perfect man of a reasonable soule and humane flesh subsisting but this their heresie wee passe for there must bee 1 Cor. 11. 9. heresies and in holy admiration ponder in the chambers of our hearts the immense love of the Father and of the Sonne of the Father that hee would give his Sonne to shed his blood and dye the execrable death of the Crosse for the sonnes of men Ab aeterno genitum begotten before all eternitie His Sonne Psal 2. 7. Omnis creaturae primogenitum the first begotten of every creature Vnigenitum his onely begotten Col. 1. 16. Ioh. 1. 18. Mat. 3. ult Esa 42. 1. Sonne Dilectum his beloved Sonne and as speakes that Seraphicall Prophet Electum Animae suae such a sonne in whom his soule delighted and for us Caytiffes not worthy the least crum of his mercy And no lesse admirable is the love of Gods dearely beloved Sonne to powre out his soule unto death for us and our salvation It is storied of Cyrus King of Persia having Zenop. lib. 3. taken Tygranes King of Armenia with his Queene captives on a time he moved Tygranes what he would give for his Queenes ransome to whom he replyed That had hee what he once had viz. his Crowne and Kingdome hee would freely give it for her freedome and if that were too little he would purchase it with the price of his blood which love to his Spouse Cyrus observing presently reinvested them to their pristine liberties and honours Wherupon Tygranes spake unto his Queene Cyrus is a most 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 noble Prince the Queene made answer My affections were only bent on him that would have spent his dearest blood for me a fortiori should we espoused unto Christ the Prince of the Kings of the Earth fixe our hearts on him that not onely resolved our freedome from Persian but infernall thraldome and purchased it with his precious Blood To winde up in a word here every eye may see whereon to rest his Soule that it may be saved in that great and notable day not on his owne righteousnesse that is imperfect nor Saints oyle that is not sufficient for themselves nor the Popish incruentall Masse a Masse of horrible impieties no Popes pardon or Aqua benedicta of theirs to which they ascribe rare incredible both spirituall and corporall effects whereby they bewitch silly soules to inrich themselves and all not worth a bit of bread but solely in the blessed blood of that immaculate Lambe Christ Iesus Herein to our most precious soules is salus oblata salvation freely offered herein by our most precious faith is salus recepta salvation imbraced in this faith by the impresse of the Spirit is salus obsignata salvation sealed and hereby is the end of our faith salus consummata our salvation finished and while we sojourne in these terrene Tabernacles the foundation of our glory the rise and perfection is in and from this blood whereby wee are made Kings and Priests unto our God And this is the second branch wherein Christs love is manifested Hee hath crowned us Kings and consecrated us Priests to God and his Father Artaxerxes honoured Nehemiah much to Kings advance him to bee his Cup-bearer and Saul David to make him his Sonne in law but to make us Kings lesse than none save God alone what could be more but what manner of Kings Rex solâ— deo minor not politicall but spirituall Et bene saith S. Gregory quia praelati cunctis motibus carnis c. Moral 36. c. 21. as reigning over our corrupt affections curbing luxury tempering intemperate avarice humbling hautinesse of spirit and extinguishing the fire of fury Will you a little more at large behold the majestie of as many as are truely made Kings Their unction is not oyle but holy blood Their Diademe is not 12. stones but 12. sâ—ars Apoc. 12. 1. The Sword is the Word of God The Scepter is the power