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A57965	Christs napkin: or, A sermon preached in Kirkcubright at the Communion, May 12. 1633. By that flower of the Church; famous, famous, Mr. Samuel Rutherfurd. Never before printed	Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing R2373A; STC 21465; ESTC S116297	15,666	24

so we Refuse Grace and makes Grace to be no more Grace for if it be given for any Worth in us it is no more Grace And therefore let Men here see then that the Kingdom of Grace is a Good Cheap World where the Best Things are gotten for Nothing And therefore I think in this Dear World wherein all Things goes for Money when Court cost Expences Lands are Dear and Gold is not gotten for Nought and Laws are Dearer than ever they were yea Papet and Ink are now Dearer than Jewels and Gold Rings were long syne Nothing now is bought for Nought Yet CHRIST for all that will not Change his VVorld but all Things with Him are given Gratis and ye are Welcome when all is done We get no Garments for Nought No Physick for Nought Christ gives VVhite Rayment Eye Salve and all for Nought without Money Sinners says LORD VVhat take ye for the VVater of Life He Answers Even Nothing and yet VVelcome Christ plays not the Merchant with his VVares he makes no Gain but Crys the VVell is free No says the Pope not a Drope till ye tell down Money That Bloody Beast would Sell the Water of Rome for Gold as meikle Money as meikle Gtace and Forgiveness Want ye Money He answers Ye shall not come here Nothing in Rome without Money Fy fy the stink of the Devil's World Nay but CHRIST is for Nothing Nay Justice giveth Money and Officers give Money it is a Dear World But CHRIST and his VVorld cares no more for Money nor before Verse 7. He that overcometh shall Inherit all Things Still in this Book John urgeth Fighting and Overcoming for Heaven We wonder much that GOD will not have Poor Men going to Heaven but by Fighting seeing he might have sent us to Heaven by a second Heaven But this is but a thought of Men that would have made a New Back-gate of their own to Heaven But GOD advised well when he made this Causay to it and ordained all his Saints and his own Sons to ●o that Way But it is easier for us to Complain on GOD's Decree than to Obey and to Dispute than Believe Men has too Thin Skins and for Health they will cut a Vein or let a Leg or an Arm be cut off for fear of a Feaster and yet for Life Everlasting they are so that they dow not Venture a Moments Pain Secondly There are Excellent Promises made to the Overcomers To him that taketh Heaven with Stroake of Sword and Blood For Heaven is a besieged City or Castle Armies of Sin with all their Armour and the Deceiving and Malicious VVorld The VVorld has Evah's Apple in the one Hand and Fire and Sword in the other and the Devil is the Captain of the Army Now here is a Price set and an Offer made to him that overcometh to him that will mount up by Faith and Hope and leap up in CHRIST's Chariot and betide him Life betide him Death he will go throw But they are Cowards that take a Backside and lets the Devil coup them in a Gutter But yet to lead Men on here is a Promise of Two Things First He shall Inherit all Things Then ye see that the Christian's Captain is a Man of a Fair Rent 1 Cor. 3. 21. For all Things are Yours whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the VVorld or Life or Death Things present or Things to come And to let us see he bides by the thing he has said He says again All Things are Yours Ye see then one has a Kingdom as Asa but wants Health and is Sick of his Feet he has not all Things Another has Strength of Body above any Living yet had many Troubles and wanted his Eyes as Sampson and therefore had not all Things O the Business Adam's Sons are at for Inheritances Here a Mealline there a Lairdship there a New Lordship that they call their all Things I think this is a Greedy Stile and Proud like Lordship or Lairdship that they call all Things Yet Greedy Adam's Sons has more Greediness here than Wit They run all upon their Lordships that they call the Lordship of many Things Luke 10. Martha Martha thou art troubled VVorldlings ye are ay troubled about this to be called my Lord of many Things But we shall see if the Text be True I Am Alpha and Omega Then First The Apostle here puts in Death Death is the Wages of Sin I think Death an Ill Mealline better want it out of the Charter How then have they all Things I Answer Death is also a part of the Lordship this way because it is my Lord of all Things and a Coatch to Glory CHRIST Himself being the Coatch-man and Driving the Horse Death is the Servant as the Wind serveth to bring the Sea-man Home So Death serveth him that hath the New Lordship Death is CHRISTs Ferry-Boat to Carry us Home For in CHRIST he sets his Foot on Death's Neck It is a Bridge o're the River of Hell that he walketh on to Heaven and it is his The Christian is advanced in CHRIST's Court and gets the New Stile to be my Lord of all Things the Prince the Duke of all Things Yet I shall get you a Lordship beneath them all but much sought for The Lordship of Vanity or Nothing Prov. 23. 5. Wilt thou set thine Eyes on that which is Nought For verily Riches has Wings He that is Rich has Nought Secondly If he Inherit all Things Then the whole World in his and so he wanteth Nothing A Third Question How is it then that the Saints are Hungry and Poor Answer This Promise is so taken from them 2 Sam. 3 14. Psal. 89. 27 28. I will set His one Hand on the Sea and His Right Hand on the River Then see how broad CHRIST's Two Arms are His one hand upon all the Sea and his other hand upon the River and that Promise is made to CHRIST as Principal-Cautioner of the Covenant For it is said Verse 26. He shall say unto Me Thou art My Father and My GOD and the Rock of My Salvation Verse 27. Also I will make him My First-born Higher than the Kings of the Earth Which is Exponed of CHRIST Heb. 1. 5. Rev. 10. 2. He has his right foot on the Sea and his left foot on the Land Put these Two together and see how Wide his Arms and Legs or Feet are they go over the whole World as his Inheritance which he Wan to himself and his Heirs after him with his Blood Now CHRIST got Land not to himself What needs him Land to give his Blood for Clay But he wan it to us and took Infeftment in the Earth in Name of his Friends And now it is True they are not Possessors of all Things But Secondly For Peoples Wants ye see their Interest is in and over all Things Yet their Tutour lets them go with a Toom-purse He knows the Heir is a Young one and cannot keep Gold and therefore he gives them Food and Rayment for their present Necessity but keeps the Lordship for the present Our Tutour CHRIST is made of GOD our Tutour our Purse-Master It is all one whether we have it in our Chist-neuk or if it be in CHRIST's Purse to keep while we need it providing we want not Thirdly A Third Question and a Third Doubt is at least Seeing they are under so many Troubles in this Life and has no Ease they have not all Things I Answer Yet I must Defend it and say if they have the Inheritance that they have all Things because the Sweet of the Comfort and Troubles are theirs A Fourth Question or Objection They have not Heaven and Glory at least in this Life and therefore they are not Inheritors of all Things I Answer The Promise is not fullfilled in this Life Yet when a Man has shorn a Stouk or two of Corn we say he has gotten Harvest and New Corn So the Believer gets Joy Hope Faith Assurance of Heaven and the First Fruits of the Spirit are New Corn So in the beginning he gets all Things 2. Having GOD and CHRIST they have all Things For ye see the Great-Ship Trailleth the Cock-Boat after her So the Great CHRIST bringeth all Things after him at his Back So I say having CHRIST they have all Things They have the Father and the Spirit the Word Life and Death Amen Let us Pray

to Pray or desire ye but a Desire of Prayer Hold on then there ye are Right The True Desire is Absolute and not Conditional Not like the Sluggard that wad have a Crope upon Condition he might have a Feather-bed to ly on for fear of Cold Even so they would have Heaven upon Condition they might keep their Lusts and take their Lusts with them But Secondly Hunger is ay seeking throw the whole House for the Belly can hardly play the Hypocrite The Natural-Man is in Darkness he is in a Sleep it is Night with him and he is like a Cumbersome Bairn Greeting in the Night for a Drink and crying Psal. 4. Who will shew us any Good Thing and Satan is ready at his Elbow with his Dishfull of the Dirty Myrie-Matters of Lust to the World and he Drinks while he Sweats and Tynes Breath and Tynes a Sight and Desire of Christ the Fountain of the Water of Life John 7. 37. It is true this Fountain of Life is said to proceed out of the Throne of GOD and from the Lamb But it is all one for the Streams of the Water of Life proceed from the Fountain Christ How then is the Water Christ Christ-Man Dying and sending out His Heart-blood for Quenching of the Thirst of such Poor Sinners as fi●deth the Fire of Hell at the Stomack of their Soul burning them up with the Fire of the Wrath of GOD for Sin this is the Well Why He is called a Fountain of the Water of Life As 1. Because a Man burnt with Thirst nothing can quench him no not a World of Gold is so Good as a drink of Pure cold Clean Fountain-Water In a word a Soul wakened under Sin findeth nothing in the World Satisfactory to the Souls Appetite but in Christ Tell me art thou a Thirsty Sinner after Christ thy Soul is Dead Sick while thou get Him Lay a Man down on a Soft Bed dry the Sweat off him give him a Cold Refreshing Drink Now ye cannot speak such a word to a Soul bursten thing under Sin as to lay it upon a Crucified Christ O that is a Soft Bed his sinfull Soul being stretched upon the open warm flowing Blood and Wounds of Christ O that is a Soft Bed O but a part of Christ●s Blood is a Refreshing Cooling Drink to him To know a Slave of Hell that he is made a Free Heir of Heaven O that is Sweet Hence it is that those that are wakened with the Furies of Hell howbeit they know not yet what Christ is to them Yet this World cannot Calm their Conscience because for Men that are Soul-sick and Sin-sick there is no Physick but one only a Drink of the Well of Life and because they ken not the gate to this Well of Life they loup out of this Life out of Despair into the Fire of Hell throw the Madness of an awakened Conscience For a Thirsty Sick-soul finds Two Things in Christ never to be found in all the World or any Thing else 1. Christ takes off the Hardness of Sin None has Power to do this but He All the Pardons of Sin are in Christ's keeping of Christs making It is His Office to forgive Sin 2. Besides they find in Him an Influence and Abundance of Happiness in Him So as what they sought before in the Creature they find no where else but in Him Then speak to them of Gold it is nothing to Christ Speak of Lands and Lordships a Saviour such a Saviour has and is another Name to a Sinner that is wakened Again The Text calls Him The Water of Life We see here there is some Water that is Rotten and Ill Tasted Will a Thirsty Man Drink of it he shall not be the better But the Wholsomest Water is the Running Spring So all that Sinners can get beside Christ is Standing-water Let them Drink in Gold and Kingdoms and Lands they shall never be Satisfying to a Sick Soul as He will be And who have drunk in these at Death they would be content to Spue them out again they ly so heavy upon their Stomack But Christ is the Coolling Wholesome Spring the Well of Water springing up to Eternal Life Now to make our Use of this Seeing Christ is such a Living Well of Water How is it in the Gospel that there are so many withered dryed Souls I Answer for GOD's Part indeed GOD has not put an Iron-Lock upon the Well of Life But Christ by His Word and Sacraments opens the Well in the midest of us and for Seventy Years and more in this Kingdom the Well has been Open Christ and His Messengers has been Crying to Dry Souls But now for ought we see He will Close the Well again for He has been setting out the Means of Life and opening His Booth-doors to give us freely even to such as will take it but He gets no Sale Therefore He must put up his Wares and go away for Men are not Thirsty for his Waters but Thirst for Court and Honour Another for Lust and Moneys A Third Lusts after Sinfull Pleasures 1. There be few Stomacks gapping for Christ 2. They have not a Vessel to cast down in the VVell and take up the VVater This is a Fruitless Generation Oh we loath Christ and Christ loaths us We need speak no more of the Call of the VVord All the Land Court King Noblemen and Kirkmen has spewed the Waters by Despising Mercy and Contemning the Gospel And in very deed when we cast in Clay and Mudd in Christ's Well and mixes His VVorship with the Poyson of the VVhores VVell of Rome What do we else but Provock the LORD to Close the VVell I will give it freely So are all Christ's Mercies given of Grace His Mercy is for Nothing and of free Grace I grant the VVell is Dear to Christ GOD's Justice digged it out of his Side and Heart and Hands and Feet The Man Christ got not this VVater for Nothing Yet He gives it to us for Nothing Because He minds not to make a Gain of us We live upon Christ's Winning For know ye that Christ Redeemed many do so by the Rule of Justice since He gave Himself and has bought all with His own Blood So that in this Sense Christ was bought to us with Blood else we could not get Him for He was both the Price and the VVares So that as far as we can see by Order of Justice it is Decreed by the Lord that Christ could not have lived and given to us the VVaters of Life It was Dear Water to him for in the Garden GOD Deserted him and Blood came out on the Cross GOD Bruised him and Blood came out and that is the VVell we have here And we have here a Great Impediment removed We think we would have something to give to Christ for the VVater of Life some of our own Righteousness some of our own Worthiness But that is plaistered Humility watered Copper and in doing