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death_n	afraid_a	mount_n	zion_n	19	3	9.0084	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50298	The rending church-member regularly call'd back to Christ and to his church, or, A sober answer to certain questions of a company of discontented and covenant-deserting brethren in which are laid down clear grounds of solid conviction ... / by Marmaduke Matthews ...	Matthews, Marmaduke, 1606-1683?	1659 (1659)	Wing M1325; ESTC R32419	20,458	55

that setling and confirming Seal the Lords Supper unto themselves before they be set and seated in the Lords House and have it regularly with the allowance and by the hands of the Stewards of his House whose Office it is to give their fellow-servants their several Portions in due seasons For I presuppose that ye dare not say That any ought to administer these Mysterious things save only they that are solemnly call'd thereunto as was Aaron Heb. 5.4 3. The third is that which promiseth a princely prizing of Christians as Christians and acceptance to ones person and performances although he were the Off-spring of infamous Ancestors as 't is apparent by what is prophesied Isaiah 56.4 5 6 verses Let not the son of the stranger which is joyned to the Lord say The Lord hath seperated me utterly from his people nor let the Eunuch say Behold I am a dry tree For thus saith the Lord to the Eunuches that keep my Sabboths and chuse the thing that pleaseth me and take hold on my Covenant even unto them will I give a Name better then the Name of Sons and Daughters and make them joyfull in the House of Prayer c. If joyfull admittance and acceptance be a priviledge that pertains to all those persons that take hold on Christ who is the Surety of the better Covenant by making and keeping it with God and marching to the holy Mountain of his Meeting-House as is expressly mentioned in Ezek. 20 37. And I will cause you to passe under the rod and I will bring you into the bond of the Covenant And the 40 verse I will chuse you out from among the Rebels in the high Mountain of Israel saith the Lord God then shall the House of Israel and all the Land serve me there will I accept them What then but disacknowledgement disregard and exclusion from coming within Christs gates can be the expectation of those persons that have so long neglected Christs House or else have behaved themselves badly there What else can they think to have then non-acceptance of their persons and performances What other complement can their eares expect to hear from Christs most sacred mouth then a Verily verily I know you not Mat. 25.11 What other Ceremony can they imagine they shall be received with then a Depart from me ye cursed Mat. 25.41 And what greater acceptance can they look for at the Servants hands then that which they had of the Master Surely Christs retinue and attendance may not respect those whom their Lord and Master doth disrespect 4. The fourth is that which assureth Prosperity of the soul and a flourishing estate whereof the antient Saints did use to sing in the Psalm for the Sabboth Psal 92.12 13. The righteous shall flourish like a Palme Tree and shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon Such as be planted in the House of the Lord shall flourish in the Courts of our God Have the forsakers of Gods House and Gospel-Institutions any grounded hope that they shall graciously flourish Who need to fear their flourishing if not such forsakers Who for such acts are esteemed inveterate enemies as Psal 74.4 5 6 7 8. Thine Adversaries rore in the midst of thy Congregation and set up banners for signes But now they break down the Carved work thereof with axes and hammers They have cast thy Sanctuary into the fire and rast it to the ground and have destil'd thy dwelling place and said Let us destroy them altogether they have burn't all the Sinagogues of God in the Land And Psal 83.2 Let us take to our selves the Houses of God in possession Yea also for their unwillingnesse to be ruled by Christs Institutions are to be openly slain before Christs own eyes as is most evident in Luke 19.27 Moreover those mine enaemies that would not that I should reign over them bring them hither and sl●y them before me 5. The fifth is that which warrants purifying of souls from slavish feare dread of death and is as Flaggons of Wine of consolation to conscientious walkers in Christ Church-waies as is promised in Isaiah 25.6 And in this mountain to wit the Church shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all people a Feast of fat things a Feast of Wines on the Lees of fat things full of marrow of Wine on the Lees well refined He will destroy in this Mountain the face of the covering cast over all people and the veil that is spread over all Nations and swallow up death in victory So Heb. 12.18 For ye are not come into the Mount that might be touched and that burned with fire nor unto blacknesse darknesse and tempest So terrible was the sight that Moses said I was exceedingly afraid and quak't But we are come to mount Zion and unto the City of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and an innumerable company of Angels To the generall Assembly and Church of the first born which are written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect And to Jesus Christ the Mediatour of the New Covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things then that of Abel Is' t probable that they shall partake of such a peculiar mercy of God who will not appear in the open Mount of publique Means of Grace Is this Wine or any part of all this provision promised to or prepared for persons that will not be perswaded to wait at the door-posts of the House of Wisdome Do we dare to believe that they have as yet attain'd unto either blessed bolduesse or any other endlesse benefit by the sprinkling of the blood of Christ who do not endeavour nor desire to Covenant with or conform to the obedient members of the Church of the first born 6. The sixth is that which assures a Christian that he hath a claim to an admirable Apellation or New Name Isa 62.2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousnesse and all Kings thy glory And thou shalt be called by a new Name Thou shalt also be a Crown of glory in the hand of the Lord and a Royal Diadem in the hand of thy God It shall be no more said unto thee Forsaken nor to thy Land Desolate but thou shalt be called Hepzibah and thy Land Beulah for the Lord delights in thee So Rev. 3.12 Him that overcomes will I make a Pillar in the Temple of my God and he shall go no more out And I will write upon him the Name of my God and the Name of the City of my God which is the New Jerusalem which cometh down out of Heaven and I will write upon him a New Name Can any have an approved Interest in Christs Name or Nature that care not by converting and confirming grace to be knit to Christ himselef and his Congregational Church in a Conjugell Covenant Without conversie they will be made known to be vile and notoriously vitious Citizens who have no Name in any visible City as