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A47030 A sermon preach'd before the University of Oxford, upon Act-Sunday, at St. Mary's in Oxford, 1698 by David Jones ... Jones, David, 1663-1724? 1698 (1698) Wing J938; ESTC R2577 15,702 30

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himself but not the Goad So it is with every one that Persecutes a Believer he kicks against the Pricks he kicks against the Goad he kicks against Christ and he hurts himself more than the Believer For he damns his own Soul while he hurts or perhaps kills the Believers Body And therefore a Believer is compared to a great and a burdensom Stone and to a hearth of fire among Wood and to a torch of fire in a sheaf of Corn Zechar. xii 3 6. And as a Man that strikes a great heavy Stone with his Fist is himself more hurt by striking than the Stone is by being struck And as a Hearth or a Torch of Fire burns up the Wood or the Sheaf of Corn that is thrown upon it to put it out So every Man that Persecutes a Believer is himself more hurt than the Believer is For whenever a Persecution is raised against a Believer Christ steps in between it and him and he takes the greatest part of it upon himself and lets only a little of it to light upon him And he that Persecutes Christ must needs come by the worst on 't you may be sure as he that strikes against a Stone a Hearth or a Torch of Fire And therefore as Christ partakes with a Believer in his Sufferings So a Suffering Believer has the Honour to be a partaker of the Sufferings of Christ and he fills up that which is behind of the Afflictions of Christ in his Flesh for his Bodies sake which is the Church 1 Pet. iv 13. compared with Colos i. 24. And therefore whenever thou callest a Believer a Hypocrite because his good Life reproaches by bad Life thou dost really call Christ a Hypocrite whenever thou callest a Believer a troublesom balling Fellow because he always tells thee of and reproves thee for thy Sin thou dost really call Christ a troublesom balling Fellow Whenever thou laughest at a Believer in Church at Home in the Streets or any where else thou dost really Laugh at Christ and thy Laughter will certainly end in Weeping and Wailing and gnashing of Teeth And whenever thou preferrest a Rich Sinner before a Poor Believer thou dost really and truly prefer the Devil who dwelleth and worketh in that Rich Sinner before Christ who dwelleth and worketh in that Poor Believer And how ought this to terrify and to keep all wicked Men from abusing Believers because they thereby abuse Christ himself and provoke him to take Vengeance on them And how ought this to comfort and to cherish all Poor Believers under all the Abuses which are put upon them by a base ungrateful World because Christ himself is at the same time abused with them and crucified with them and partakes of all their Afflictions and helps them under them and inables them to bear them and brings them out of them and rewards them for them with unspeakable Joy and Glory Fifthly and Lastly If every Believer be crucified with Christ Then let all here present who love to have the Word of God plainly expounded and applied home to their Hearts and Consciences Let all such serious Persons turn to the 2 Kings iv 34 35. and there you will find that when the Shunamite's Child was Dead the Prophet Elisha went and lay upon him and put his Mouth upon his Mouth and his Eyes upon his Eyes and his Hands upon his Hands and he stretched himself upon him and his Flesh waxed warm and he came to life And just thus let every Believer here present do by Christ crucified Let him by Faith stretch and spread himself upon the Cross of Christ and put his Mouth to Christ's Mouth and his Eyes to Christ's Eyes and his Hands to Christ's Hands and his Heart to Christ's Heart and thereby he will feel in himself the Death of Sin and the Life of Grace to warm and inflame his dead Heart If a Believer finds that he is apt to offend with his Mouth let him by Faith put his Mouth upon the Mouth of Christ crucified and Christ will make one of the Seraphims to fly unto him having a live Coal in his Hand taken from the Altar and he will lay it upon his Mouth and say unto him Lo this hath touched thy Lips and thine Iniquity is taken away and thy Sin is purged Isa vi 6 7. If a Believer finds that he is apt to offend with his Eyes let him by Faith put his Eyes upon the Eyes of Christ crucified and Christ will cause him to make a Covenant with his Eyes so that he shall not think upon a Maid because of the Destruction and the strange Punishment which God brings upon the Adulterer above all other Sinners Job xxxi 1 3. If a Believer finds that he is apt to offend with his Hands let him by Faith put his Hands upon the Hands of Christ crucified and Christ will take his Hands and will thrust them into his pierced Side and will put his Fingers into the Print of the Nails and will make him leave off smiting with the Fist of Wickedness and as ready to relieve as he was before to oppress the Poor Job xx 25 27. If a Believer finds that he is apt to offend with his Heart let him by Faith put his Heart upon the Heart of Christ crucified and Christ will take his Heart and purify it by Faith Acts xv 9. And so he may do with all the other Members of his Body and the Faculties of his Soul and he shall certainly have the same Success with them all For if Elisha restored a natural Life to a Child that was naturally Dead by applying the Parts of his Body to the Parts of that Child's Body then shall not the God of Elisha shall not the Lord Jesus Christ restore a spiritual Life to a Soul that is spiritually Dead when it is applied and united to him by a lively Faith And when a Believer does thus truly believe in Christ crucified and does thus experimentally feel himself to be crucified with him the Death of Christ mortifying his Body of Sin and the Life of Christ quickning his dead Soul Then the Believer finds what it is indeed to be crucified with Christ then his Soul is ravished with Joy and his Heart is filled with Comfort And when he lies sick upon his Death-Bed and the Devil comes and tells him of the Law which he has broken He presently tells the Devil again that he is crucified with Christ and Christ has long since blotted out the Law with all its Hand-writing and nailed it to his Cross and therefore the Law can affect him no more than a Bill or a Bond that has been long since paid and cancelled Colos ii 14. And when the Devil comes and tells him farther that he will drag him into Hell to receive the due Wages of his Sin eternal Death He presently tells the Devil again that he is not only crucified with Christ and dead with Christ and buried with Christ but that he has also long since descended into Hell with Christ and there spoiled all his Principalities and Powers and made a Shew of them openly triumphing over them in the Cross of Christ Colos ii 15. Oh! What will you give ye Mockers and Scoffers to have a true Interest in these two Texts of Scripture and to be able to apply them truly to your own Souls when you say the Creed in your Life-time and are ready to despair when ye come to die But when a Believer comes to die who does believe with full Assurance of Faith that he is freed from the Curse of the Law the Power of Sin the Sting of Death the Captivity of the Devil and the Fear of Hell How can such a one though never so much persecuted and tried with cruel Mockings How can he but stand with great Boldness before the Face of those that have afflicted him and made no Account of his Labours and bear his Testimony against them How can he be afraid to die though Death come upon him with all its Terror Yea how can he but even long to die and desire to be dissolved that as he has been crucified with Christ he may be also glorified with Christ and find Death to be nothing else to him but what Christ himself found it a short and a quick Passage to a Joyful and a Glorious Resurrection Which God of his infinite Mercy grant to every one of us here present for Christ his Sake who was crucified for our Offences and was raised again for our Justification If ye know these Things happy are ye if ye do them otherwise your Knowledge will be your utter Undoing Which that it may never be The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Love of God and the Fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen FINIS ADVERTISEMENT A Farewell Sermon Preached at St. Mary Woolnoth in Lombard-Street on Gal. 4. 16. A Sermon of the absolute Necessity of Family-Duties on Joshua 24. 15. Both by David Jones Studient of Christ-Church Oxon.
A SERMON Preach'd before the University of OXFORD UPON ACT-SUNDAY AT St. Mary's in Oxford 1698. By David Jones Master of Arts and Student of Christ-Church LONDON Printed for Brab Aylmer at the Three Pigeons in Cornhill over against the Royal-Exchange 1698. GALAT. II. 20. I am Crucified with Christ Nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me And the Life which I now live in the Flesh I live by the Faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me IN the sixteenth Verse of this Chapter St. Paul lays down this comfortable Doctrine All Men are justified by the Faith of Christ and not by the works of the Law But some took occasion from thence to infer That every Man might live as he list and never mind good Works because he should be certainly Saved by his Faith in Christ though his Life were never so Bad. But St. Paul denies that any such Inference could be justly made from that Doctrine For then says he ver 17. Christ would be the Minister of Sin by making us to renounce the Righteousness of the Law and leaving us to be a loose and a lawless sort of People Yea and I would make my self a Transgressor by Preaching up such a licentious way of living ver 18. Neither of which is true For neither is Christ the Minister nor am I the Preacher of Sin For says he ver 19. I through the Law that is I understanding that the End of the Law is not to justifie but to Convince Men of Sin and to send them to Christ for Justification Am dead that is I am set at liberty and made free as a Servant that is Dead is free from all the Bondage and Slavery that his Cruel Master was wont to put him to Am dead to the Law that is I am freed from the rigour and hardship of the Law which like a severe Schoolmaster requir'd more of me than I was able to do That I may live unto God that is though I am freed from the Law and do not expect to be Justified by it yet I do not intend to live a loose and a lawless Life but to live unto God to live a Life of Faith in Christ to the Glory of God's free Grace And when St. Paul had thus plainly and fully answer'd this Objection he presently foresaw another which is this If thou art justified by the Faith of Christ Crucified then thou art Justified by his Death And if thou art Justified by his Death then thou art Crucified and Dead with him And if thou art Crucified and Dead with him how then comes it to pass that thou art alive To which he answers in these words I am Crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me And when St. Paul had answer'd this Objection also he presently foresaw another which is this We see that thou livest a natural Life by Eating and Drinking and doing as other Men do and how then canst thou say that thou dost not live but that Christ liveth in thee To which he answers in these words The Life which I now live in the Flesh I live by the Faith of the Son of God And lest any Man should be so ignorant as not to know what this Faith of the Son of God is he tells us expresly That it is not a Faith whereby a Man only believes the Love of Christ to Mankind in general for such a Faith St. James tells us the very Devils themselves have who both believe and tremble But it is a Faith whereby a Man believes the Love of Christ to himself in particular A Faith whereby a Man can truly say of himself I firmly believe that Christ loved me and gave himself for me And thus I have shewn you what is the Connexion between the Text and the Verses that are before it And I now come to shew you what is the meaning of it In order to which I am to acquaint you First That when St. Paul says I am Crucified with Christ he does not say this of himself alone as if it had been some extraordinary Privilege which he had above all other Christians but he says it in the Name of all true Believers whoever and where-ever they are He says it in thy name and my name and the name of every one here present if we really and truly believe in Christ and live up to our Belief For what he here says in the singular number I am Crucified with Christ the same he says in the plural number Rom. 6. 4 8. We are dead with Christ and we are buried with Christ Secondly I am to acquaint you that there are two Selfs or two Men in every single Person that is a true Believer The one Self is corrupted and comes from Adam the other Self is renew'd and comes from Christ The one is the New and the other is the Old Man And these two Selfs or these two Men do signifie two different Principles that are in one and the same Believer The one Principle comes from corrupted Nature and moves a Man to Sin and the other Principle comes from renewed Nature and moves him to Grace And the truth of this is plain from the Text. For if St. Paul had not had these two Selfs he could no more have said I am crucified and yet I live than one and the same Man can be said to be dead and alive at one and the same time Thirdly I am to acquaint you that when Christ was Crucified upon the Cross he did not endure that shameful and cursed Death for his own but for our sake What he did and suffer'd there was not in a private but a publick Capacity as he was the Head the Root and the Representer of all the Elect. And therefore when Christ was Crucified all true Believers were Crucified in and with him as when Adam sinned all men sinned in him and with him or as when Abraham paid Tythes to Melchisedek Levi who was then in Abraham's Loins and unborn paid those very Tythes in and with him or to give you a more familiar Instance as when a Member of Parliament gives his Voice there the whole County or Corporation which he represents is said to give their Voice in and with him And the Truth of this also is plain from the Text. For it is almost seventeen hundred Years since Christ was crucified and neither St. Paul who lived some few Years after his Crucifixion nor we who live so many Years after it can ever be truly said to be crucified with Christ save only as he is our Head and we are his Members and he and we are one compleat and perfect Man and all the Benefits of his Crucifixion are as really and truly ours as if we our selves had all been actually Crucified with him in our own Persons And how hard and difficult soever this may seem to be yet let no Man in the least doubt or question the