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death_n	body_n	sin_n	spirit_n	9,196	5	5.3489	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68747	The poore mans teares opened in a sermon / preached by Henrie Smith. ; Treating of almes deeds, and releeuing the poore.	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1592 (1592)	STC 22683; ESTC S117534	41,436	133

couenaunt in stead whereof wee haue baptisme the whiche whosoeuer shall refuse wee accompt him as cut off from Gods Church Christ Iesus gaue inuisicle grace by visible laying hys handes vppon children and other sicke people So hee gaue the gift of his holy spirite vnto his Disciples when hauing breathed vppon them he sayd receiue you the holy ghost The Sscramentes were ordayned in the church of God for 3. vses first that we should acknowledge al those to be our fellows seruants whom we see to haue put on the same liuerie with our selues and in this sense said the Apostle Paule all those that are baptized into Christe haue put on Christ Secondly the Sacramentes do put a manifest difference betwixt the true church and the false as Peter hath taught vs in saying repent and be baptized euerie one of you in the name of Iesus Christ for to vse the promise made vnto your children all that are yet farre off euen so many as God shall call and our Sauiour saith to such belongeth the kingdomof God that is to such as lead an innocent life The third vse of the Sacraments is to seale vp in the hearts of the elect all those promises which GOD hath made vnto them in Iesus Christ his Son and their Sauiour in the which sense Paule spake when hee said that Abraham receiued the sign of circumcision as a seale of that righteousnes which he had by faith and in the verie same sense our Sauiour saith hee that beleeueth and is baptized shall be saued But it is to bee considered that the Institutor setteth downe the form of administring the sacraments when he saith baptizing them in the name of the father of the sonne and of the holie Ghost Hee commaundeth to baptize in the name of the father and of the son because the holie Ghost proceedeth from the father the sonne and in the name of the holie Ghost for except a man be borne of water and the spirite he cannot see the kingdom of God When our sauior offered to wash Peters feet he imagined it to be a nedles work for thou shalt neuer wash my feet said he but when Christ aunswered that such as are not washed by him haue no part with him that is neither part of his spirite nor of his kingdom Peter bethinking himselfe better would not haue his feet onlie but also his hands aud head washed howbeit it is not necessarie to washe any more then is vncleane as Peters feet defiled vvith dirt and mire so our soules spotted with sins must be cleansed by Christ his bloud onely And after this manner it is necessarie that euerie one of vs should be washed wherof the outward putting of water vpon the partie baptized is a liuelie figure Iohn Baptist was sanctified in his mothers wombe as the Angell had foreshewed But when our Sauiour Christ came to him to be baptized Iohn put him backe and said I haue neede to bee baptized of thee and commest thou to me That kingly prophet Dauid was a man after gods own heart yet he saith of himselfe I was borne in iniquitie and in sin hath my mother conceiued mee Iob was called by God himselfe a iust and vpright man fearing God and eschewing euill whose peere was not found vppon the face of the earth notwithstanding all this he saith of himselfe who can bring a cleane thing out of filthines the which question is all one with Paules affirmation who saieth such as the roote is such are the braunches as if hee had said with Adam the father of vs all was vndefiled then are wee his sons cleane also But if he were once dead in sinne beeing our roote then howe could wee his imps haue life of our selues All this was spoken of originall sinne as for actuall sins namely those sins which we continuallie commit they are as palpable as the darknes of Aegipt the which as Moses saith was so grosse that it might be felt in so much that Dauid saith when God looked down from heauen vppon the children of men that is when hee considered mans conuersation they were all so farre gone out of the way that there was none that did good in so much that the prophet repeateth it with an Emphasis and saith no not one And the man of God Moses saith when God beheld the boldnes of the olde world in sinning it repēted him that he had made man that is he was sorie that man whome he had made to liue well should liue so ill The continuall sinne of Sodome brought fire and brimstone from heauen to consume them in the same Dauid feeling the burthen of his sinnes began to sincke vnder them for saith he my sins are gone ouer my head and are like a sore burthen too heauy for me to beare Paule hauing by the vertue of the law learned his sinnes for he had not knowen sin except the lawe had said thou shalt not sinne fell to lamenting of them thus O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me from this bodie of death where it is to be noted that he calleth his bodie a bodie of death in respect of sinne which giueth power to death ouer our bodies And to conclude of such force is sinne in vs that if the goodnes of God had not so praeordained that the vnbeleeuing husband is sanctified by the beleeuing wife and the vnbeleeuing wife by the beleeuing husband our children should be verie vncleane Againe beeing washed or baptized in the name of the father sonne and holie Ghost wee are aduertised that wee must giue godlie christian and holy names vnto our children in in token of their sacred profession for holie is he that hath called vs and that we may be the more forward so to doe It will be worth our labour to consider of a few examples tending to the same purpose as of Zachary the father of Iohn the Baptist who being dum when that his son was born his friends made signes vnto him howe he would haue him called and askeing for writing tables writte saying his name is Iohn the which vvorde Iohn is as much as to say Grace and thus was Zacharie commaunded by the Angell to name him The scripture accordeth plentifull examples of those that haue giuen names to their children affoordeth to suche occasions as haue been offered in the time of their trauell As when Raell went with her husband Iacob toward Bethell to builde an aultar vnto God She trauailed in child-birth and in trauelling dyed but before shee departed shee called his name Benony that is the sonne of her sorrowe but his father Iacob called him Benony that is the sonne of his right hand So Leah hauing born to Iacob foure sons she said now will I prayse God c. And that shee might the better beare in minde her promise she named her last son Iudah

they were the men which were marked like his seruaunts therefore who but they shall enter into Heauen Yet Christ saith I know you not there is their revvarde I know you not as if he should answer you weare not my Liuerie you beare not my Cognisance for all your shewes therefore depart from mee So hee put them off because they had not put him on For though they had seene his person and hearde of his vertues yet they had not faith to applie his mercies his merites his death and his righteousnesse vnto them without which no man can put on Christ nor weare him Faith is the hande which putteth him on Faith taketh first his righteousnes couereth her vnrighteousnes then shee taketh his obedience couereth her disobedience then she taketh his patience couereth her impatiency then she taketh his temperance couereth hir intemperancie then shee taketh his continency and couereth her incontinencie then she taketh his constancie and couereth her inconstancie then shee taketh his saith and couereth her diffidence then shee taketh his humilitie couereth her pride then shee taketh his loue and couereth her rancour And so taketh one roabe after another aud tricketh her selfe vntill shee haue put on Iesus Christ that is vntill shee appeare in the sight of God like Iesus Christe cloathed with his merits and graces that God hath no power to be angry with her because shee commeth so like his Son This is to put on Iesus Christ as you shall see more liuelie vvhen you haue taken a vievv of the garment for we are to speak of christ the Garment and of our putting it on There be many fashions of apparell but they are too light or too heauy or to sad or too course or to stale and all weare out At last the Apostle found a fashion that surpasseth them all it is neuer out of fashion meete for all seasons fitte for all persons and such a profitable weede that the more it is worne the fresher it is what fashion haue you seene comparable to this It is not like the clothes of Dauids Ambassadours which couered their vpper parts but not their lower partes not like Saules armour which tried Dauid when he shoulde fight with it Nor like the counterfait of Ieroboams wife which disguised her selfe to goe vnknowne nor like to the old rags of the Gibeonites whiche deceiued Iosua nor like the paultrie suite of Michah which he gaue once a yeare to his Leuite nor like the gluttons flaunt which ietted in purple euery daie nor like the light clothes whiche Christ saide are in kinges Courtes and make them lighter that weare them But it is like the Garmēt of the high Priest which had all the names of the Tribes of Israell written vpon his brest so all the names of the faithfull are written in the breast of Christ and registred in the booke of his merites it is like Elias Mantell which deuided the waters So hee deuideth our sinnes and punishmentes that they whiche are clothed with Christ are armed both against sinne and death It is like the Garments of the Israelites in the wildernesse which did not weare fortie yeeres together they wandered in the desart and yet saith Moyses their shooes were not worne but their apparell was as when they came out of Egypt So the righteousnesse of Christ doth last for euer and hys mercies are neuer worne out As Mardocheus shined in the kings robes before the people So and more glorious are the faithfull in the robes of Christ before God When Christ was transfigured vppon the Mount Mat. saith that his face shined like the sunne and his clothes were as white as the light So when we are transfigured into the image of Christ wee shall shine before other menne lyke lights and therefore Christes Disciles are ca●lled Lightes because they were clothed with light and shined to the world Salomon was not so glorious in all his royaltie nor the Lillies whiche are brauer then Salomon as he which is clothed with Christ because the apparell vppon him is better then all the worlde about him Therefore if Dauid saide Weepe yee daughters of Israell for Saule which clothed ye in purple I may say reioyce ye daughters of Israell for Christ which hath clothed you with righteousnesse as it were with a vesture before you come to the banquet This is the wedding Garment without whiche no manne can feast with the Lord. This Garment is called an Armour because it defendeth vs from all the assaultes of the deuill the flesh the world the heat of persecution the cold of defection This Garment is called Light because it is the beautie and glory of them which weare it This Garment is called a kingdom because none but kinges do weare it that is they are inthroned in the kingdom of christ made kings ouer the world the flesh and Sathan whiche weare this Garment like the hair of Sampson which while he wore he was like a king and all his ennemies had no power to hurt him This Garment Paule hath sent vnto you to go before the king of heauen and earth a holy Garment a roiall garment an immaculate garment an euerlasting garment a garment whereof euery hem is peace of conscience euery pleat is ioy in the holy ghost euerie stitch is the remission of some sin and saueth him which weareth it If he which touched the hem of Christes garment was healed hee which weareth the garment nay hee which weareth Christ himselfe shall not hee bee healed of all his sores though he wer wounded from head to foot You neede not cloath him now which saith VVhen I was naked ye did not cloath me nor cast your Garments in his way as they did when hee came to Ierusalem but take hys Garmentes and suffer your selues to be clothed as Noah did to couer your nakednesse As the good Samaritane put him vppon his owne beast which was spoiled with theeues and bound vp his sores when hee was wounded So Christ Iesus mounteth the faithfull vpon his righteousnesse healeth their sins as though he should couer them with his Garments whom the world the flesh the deuill haue robbed of their Garmentes that is the righteousnesse whiche they had in Paradice before the serpent came so if wee put on Christ we are clothed with his obedience whereby our wickednesse is couered we are clothed with his merits wherby our sinnes are forgiuen we are clothed with his death wherby our punishment is released we are clothed with his spirit whereby our hearts are mollified and sanctifikd renued till we resemble Christ himselfe This is the Apostles meaning to put on Christ as it is vnfolded in Col. 3. 12. Where he bringes forth all the robes of Christ sortes them saith put on mercie put on meeknes put on humility