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death_n	body_n	life_n	spirit_n	11,648	5	5.3153	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47349	Certaine observations vpon Hosea the second the 7. & 8. verses As they were delivered at a friends house who had broken his legg, for which meeting the author was committed to the White-Lyon by Sir Thomas Mallet late judge of assize for the county where he remaineth prisioner of Iesvs Christ. By William Kiffin.	Kiffin, William, 1616-1701.	1642 (1642)	Wing K423A; ESTC R222673	18,461	31

how they prescribe any lawes for the government of the Church that they step not up in Christs stead but this let all men know that Christ hath prescribed lawes already which are perfect and pure by which he both hath and doth and will governe his Church and therefore let this be the duty of us all to labour to know what these lawes and rules are that so we may be more and more subject unto them that wee dishonour not Iesus Christ by giving any thing to any other which is only of right due unto him 2. Vse If it be so that Christ is the head and husband of his Church and people then in the next place we may take notice of the wonderfull and singular love of Iesus Christ towards a poore company of creatures that Christ should stand under such a neere relation to them as a husband there is no reason can be given in respect of us why Christ should do it we may find reason enough in our selves why Christ should loath us condemne us reject us but that he should love us stand as a husband to us wee must seeke a reason of this elsewhere then from our selves and truely the Scripture doth declare the reason fully to us in the 2 Hos 19. I will marry thee to my selfe in mercy and compassion it has bin the meere mercies and compassions of Iesus Christ working in his owne brest hath brought this great and mighty worke to passe and truely the serious consideration of this thing were it well weighed by us it would cause us to be willing to be any thing to doe any thing yea to suffer any thing for him who hath bin and done and suffered so much for us 3. Vse exhorts all of us that seeing Iesus Christ is the head of his Church c. we should from hence be exhorted to yeeld subjection to Iesus Christ and his laws in all things And first of all our subjection to Christ must be free subjection Secondly it must be Universall subjection Thirdly it must be perpetuall subjection 1. Our subjection to Christ and his lawes must be free that is it must be raised within us from the consideration of that excellency that is in Christ and his lawes and from no by-end whatsoever this was Davids frame 119. Psal 94. saith he there I am thine save mee for I seeke thy Precepts as if he should say I seeke them meerely for that excellency that I see in them many may outwardly be subject to Christ but yet not under this consideration but as Christ saith 6. John yee seeke me for the Loaves so may Christ say to many you seeke mee you yeeld outward subjection to mee not freely from that excellency that is in me but for your owne by-ends and respects but wee must know that that subjection which Christ calls for must be free Secondly it must be Universall Christ calls for all 12. Mark 33. thou shalt worship the Lord thy God with all thy heart and soule and might and strength and saith the Apostle you are bought with a price therefore glorifie God in your bodyes and in your Spirits which are Gods Thirdly it must be perpetuall Christ cannot indure that any should deale deceitfully with him but we must prove constant unto him what ever it cost us 2 Rev. 10. be faithfull to death and in 1 Luke 74 75. Christ expects that his people should serve him in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of our lives Not a little season for a spirt but constantly and if we do but a little cast our eye upon Christ wee shall see that which may ingage us hereunto as 1 Christs love was a free love secondly it was a full love and thirdly it is a durable love whom he loves once he loves to the end And therefore we should be ingaged freely and universally and constantly to submit to Iesus Christ 4. Vse Is for consolation to the servants of God that have given up themselves to be swayed by the Scepter of Christ I say consolation in divers particulars as first if Christ be thy husband then be comforted in this that he will provide for thee 34. Psal 10. the Lyons shall lack and suffer hunger but those that feare the Lord shall lack no good thing 54. Esa 4 5. feare not for thou shalt not be ashamed neither shalt thou be confounded for he that made thee is thy husband whose name is the Lord of Hosts Secondly Wee may expect as provision from Christ so protection from Christ he will certainely protect his people 33. Deut. 3. all thy Saints are in thy hand he will either keep his people from trouble or support them in trouble 43. Esa 2. when thou passest through the water I will be with thee through the fire it shall not hurt thee the servants of God in all their trobles sorrowes which they undergo for his name sake go no farther then Iesus Christ himselfe goes along with them 63. Esa 10. In all their afflictions he was afflicted and the Angell of his presence saved them Thirdly as we may expect provision and protection from Christ so preservation also 13. Heb. 5. I will never leave thee nor forsake thee it is not any thing that men or Devils can do that can any way by any of their subtlties or persecutions separate Iesus Christ from the soule but as Christ saith because I live you shall live also and therefore when there was but such a conception raised in the heart of the Church 49. Esa 14. SYON saith the Lord hath forsaken mee and my God hath forgotten mee see what answer the Lord there makes vers 15 16. Can a Woman forget her child though she may yet will not I forget thee behold I have ingraven thee upon the palmes of my hands thy walls are ever in my sight As if he should say it 's as possible for men to pull away my strength from my selfe as to pull away my people from me which seemes to be held out in these words I have ingraven thee upon the Palmes of my hands now that which is ingraven in a mans hands is as it were made one with the hand you may as well pull away the part of the hand as the ingraven in the hand so indeed so deeply are the People of God interested into that great attribute of Gods strength that men and Devills may as soone pull God out of Heaven as the Saints out of Gods hands The fourth thing observable in the words and that is the motive by which she is provoked to return to her first husband laid downe in these words for it was better with me then now the consideration of that goodnesse that formerly she had found in Gods waies did mightily provoke her to returne againe from whence we may observe thus much That it is ever best with the servants of God Churches of Christ when they keepe closest to God What it is to keepe close to