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death_n	bear_v	die_v	sin_n	6,507	5	5.1003	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48929	An olive-leaf, or, A bud of the spring viz. Christ's resurrection and its end, viz. the conversion of sinners and a Christians compleat reliefe / opened by Nicholas Lockyer ...	Lockyer, Nicholas, 1611-1685.	1650 (1650)	Wing L2798; ESTC R31562	34,017	92

and endeavour for this he prayes sighes groans and in this heavenly industry continueth runnes and is not weary that if by any meanes he might attaine the resurrection from the dead and this in Gods acceptation is a heart as Gods own and holy as he is holy and turned and separated from sinne as he If this be properly Christs work to turne you from your sinne Vse know upon whose shoulders God hath placed your hardest work ye that are the people of God and expect that he will goe thorough with it The hardest worke of a Christian is to turn from his sinne and beares more upon him then any thing 't is true that many things goe ill but this goeth most to my heart that sinne cleaves so fast unto me saith a good soule Why Christ will doe that wherein thy difficulty lies he will subdue thine iniquities and east thy sinne into the depth of the Sea Mica 7.19 he will break every bond and remove every weight which presseth down greater is he that is in you then the greatest corruption that is in you the grace of Christ is sufficient to withstand what intices and to destroy what intices for this cause is Christ manifested to withstand yea to destroy the works of the Divell Christ doth turn us from corruption to destroy it The covenant is that Christ shall set in our heart as a resiner and purifier of Silver and shall purifie thee as they doe those mettles that thou mayst offer an offering in righteousnesse a pleasant offering and this being the covenant every thing shall conduce to this fruit the turning thy heart from thy sinne i. the purging and refining of it instructions corrections I will turn mine hand upon thee and purely purge away thy drosse saith the Lord therefore surely this hard worke will be down Goliah will be slaine and a little thing shall doe it If Christ be long ere he doe a necessary work it is probable that he will doe it very remarkably with some pibble of the brook with some Jaw-bone thrown by will he smite to death at once heaps upon heaps all that hath smote to death the peace and comfort of thy soule so long not by might or by strength doth Christ doe this that thine eye may be much sixed upon but by a still blow within by his Spirit shall be the death of that which hath been the death of thy life hitherto If Christ worke all our workes in us surely this work which is all the turning of the heart from sinne he will not leave undone he will purely purge thy soule renew a right spirit within thee and thy very fall shall conduce unto such a resurrection If this be the work of Christ to turn sinner from their sinnes then when Christ is about this work doe not hinder him he stands at the doore and knocks yea more calls To you O men I call whoso is simple let him turn in hither yea points this is the way walk in it nay and blocks up all other waies sometimes crosses and punishes the man in other courses hedges him up that he cannot finde his way convinces salts the soule with fire makes the mans own heart condemne him all this speakes Christ about his worke to turn thee from thy sinne and indeed if thou sinde these things Christ is at his worke hard O take heed of opposing and contradicting his glorious worke T is ordinary with men when conscience begins to awake and to smite when the Spirit begins to stirre to quench and stisle those things with more excesse of sinning to stop their eares when the call of Christ begins to sound loud in their conscience and so p●●cke and pierce and bring sinne to remembrance why thou that thus doest art in league with sinne and death thou wilt not be turned from thy sinne therefore thou shalt die ●…rein and thou shalt know in death that 〈◊〉 was nigh thee and this will aggravate thy doom that the kingdom of God came so nigh thee I was travelling with thee Christ will say and thou couldst not beare the pangs of the birth I was lancing thy wound and thou couldst not endure it I would have healed thee and then thine iniquity broke out then thou ragedst when I set thy sinnes in order before thee and hadst rather be kild thy self then that I should kill thy sin If this be the work of Christ to turn sinners from their sinnes let not Christ want worke present your conditions unto him and desire him to undertake them Labour not for the meat which perisheth but for that which endures to eve lasting life which the sonne of man shall give unto you for him hath the Father sealed Joh. 6.22 That this is Christs work should be made a ground of faith to us in going to him for he is under the Law of his place faithfull in all things to him that appointed him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Non non ejiciam saith the original and sealed him therefore he saith He that comes to him be will in no wise cast out Joh. 6.37 And hence that of the Apostle This is a faithfull saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ came to save sinners the chiefe of sinners Let this point be of all acceptation unto you you that have slaine Christ and your own soules yet think what Christ is made unto you he is made to make you to new make you who have marred your selves and waites thus to be gracious his meat and drinke is to be pulling such brands out of the fire and to quench them before they be quite burnt Christ is able to subdue all things to himself as willing You have done thus thus saith God yet be not desperate I Sam. 12 20. so say I to you great sinners Finally when I say this is the proper worke of Christ to turn people from their sinnes it is not to be understood as if we should not be instrumentall in his hand the effecting of this worke is indeed upon one but the means in and by which he doth this beares upon many shoulders Magistrates Ministers yea every one that is turned is by the law of that very condition as converted to labour to convert others and as advantages are more so to be more instrumentall this way generall calling and particular calling both sometimes engage this way Offices in government have this scope to beare up God and to beat down that and be a terror to that which would deface him God hath a double power by which he doth his great workes in this world one secret and invisible in which he alone is of which see Gen. 1.4 And God saw the Light that it was good and God divided between the light and between the darknesse Since this act of separation light will not have communion with darknesse being parted they constantly keepe apart oppose and continually conflict and expell each other and this is by a secret power

Christ should be actually given in our nature and die and not be left in grave to perish but be raised to the Throne to do all the works belonging to our eternall salvation Upon this beares the infallible determination of Christs state as the naturall sonne of God and so the messenger indeed of the covenant and no impostor Had not Christ been indeed the naturall Sonne of God his soule had been left in grave i. in Hell he had perisht everlastingly in that undertaking And * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 determined as it were by definitive sentence determined to be the Sonne of God with power according unto the Spirit of holinesse by the Resurrection from the dead Rom. 1.4 Compare this with Act. 13.33 God hath fulfilled the same to us their children in that he hath raised up Iesus again as it is also written in the second Psalm Thou art my sonne this day have I begotten thee God cals the day of Christs resurrection the day of his propagation and for this reason because this did as evidently declare and determine him to be the naturall Sonne of God as if but in that day begotten whereas his generation otherwise properly considered was from eternity and ineffable and therefore is it that the Prophet saith Who can declare his generation Christs resurrection determines him infallibly to be the naturall Sonne of God and so God coequall with his Father and a firm foundation of hope in all things wherein appointed of God to be hoped in which is the opening of that 1 Pet. 1.21 Who by him doe believe in God which raised him from the dead and gave him glory that your faith and hope might be in God God gave him glory by his resurrection what 's that why gave testimony by this to all that Christ was his own naturall Sonne begotten from eternity and so God coequall with him that so our faith and hope in Christ might be all one for firmnesse as in the Father himselfe being truly God Upon this to wit Christs resurrection beares his installment to Mediatorship and his standing and abiding in that Office upon this principle and therefore it is that the Apostle useth that expression yea rather that he is risen again Who is he that condemneth it is Christ that died yea rather that is risen again who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us Rom. 8.34 This is the foundation of his installment and endowment to be head over all and to derive life and conduct and whatsoever else is noble to all the mysticall body And he is head of the body the Church who is the beginning the first-born from the dead that among all he might have the preheminence Col. 1.18 This openeth that Scripture Act. 13.34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead now no more to returne to corruption he said on this wise I will give you the sure mercies of David Christ being raised upon this is founded his Mediatorship his preheminence in Heaven and Earth and this makes all sure to the seed of his loyns Christ is said in the second Psalm in the day of his resurrection to be begotten and in the first of the Colossians he is said upon the same ground to be borne from the dead One calls his resurrection a generation the other calls it a birth because 't was as both like Isaac's resurrection from his death his father received him from the dead and 't was to him as if he had been again begotten and again born and this last generation and birth rather then the first the foundation of the Covenant for upon this last generation and birth breakes forth the oath and the covenant and all that traine of glory and preferment to Abraham and his seed yea to use the expression of the Apostle upon this rather then upon the first birth Upon this beares and in this is involved the converting vigor of all visible Ordinances the Apostles would not otherwise have been so tender and strict in their place to beare witnesse of and give testimony to this point to wit Christs resurrection in all their ministery nor otherwise would they have found so good successe in the soules of men by beating so much upon this one thing if this one thing had not been a main thing even as all Wherefore of these men which have accompanied with us all the time that the Lord Iesus went in and out amongst us beginning from the baptisme of Iohn to this same day must one be ordained to be witnesse with us of his resurrection Act. 1.22 In which place we see what all the visible ordinances of God are principally to hold out as their and our vigour and life to wit Christ risen from the dead The like Scripture is that Act. 4.33 And with great power gave the Apostles witnesse of the Lord Iesus and observe the effect of this ministery thus pointed and great grace was upon them all Act. 2.36 37. and by both you shall see in what especially is wrapt up the converting vigor of visible ordinances Therefore let all the house of Israel knew assuredly that God hath made the same Iesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ i. raised him up and set him at his right hand Now when they had heard this they were prickt in their heart and said unto Peter and to the rest of the Apostles men and brethren what shall we doe Now when they heard this what why that Christ whom they had crucified God had raised and advanced That the Apostles found the vigor of their ministry involved and evolved in by this point is hinted by that in the fourth of the Acts 1 2. And as they spake unto the people the Priests and the Captain of the Temple and the Sadduces came upon them being grieved that they taught the people and preached through Iesus the resurrection from the dead It seemeth this point most prickt the heart and spoiled their party Not only the Apostles found this the piercing poynt of their ministery but also all the Prophets see Act. 26.22 23. Having therefore obtained help of God I continue unto this day witnessing both to small and great saying none other things then those which the Prophets and Moses did say should come that Christ should suffer and that be should be the first that should rise from the dead and should shew light unto the people and to the Gentiles With this place compare Luke 24.44 Christ to take off the admiration of his Disciples at his reviving and comming againe after death amongst them and sitting and eating with them saith These are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and in the Psalms concerning me This point is of dread to the ungodly Vse Christ being risen all shall rise for he riseth as a generall