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The great duty of Christians to go forth without the camp to Jesus set forth in several sermons on Heb. XIII. 13 / by S.T.M. ...
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Tomlyns, Samuel, 1632 or 3-1700.
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their Harvest is cut and then they gather it all into the Barn and in this Expression he shews the shortness and uncertainty of Life when one Man hath plowed sowed reaped heaped up in the Field and is near the enjoyment of the Fruit of his Labours his Soul is suddenly required his Life vanisheth and another gathers into the Barn and enjoys what he had toiled for The Holy Ghost calls it but the fashion of this world 1 Cor. 7.31 The fashion of this world passeth away Some conceive it is an Allusion to a Comedy in which one acts the part of a Buyer another of a Lover that wooes and marries and another of a Mourner but all this is a vain shew it is but a personating Men and their Actions there is nothing of this that is True and Real but all is Fiction and Imagery The Affections of the Actors do not answer to their Actions So saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 7.29 30. They that have Wives should be as if they had none those that buy as if they possessed not those that weep as if they wept not and they that rejoyce as if they rejoyced not And why should Christians be so much unconcerned about the Things of this Life The Apostle renders the Reason in ver 31. For the fashion of this world passeth away All is but a Comedy a vain shew and therefore persons should not earnestly let out their Thoughts or lay out their Affections on the things of this World Man is said to fly away as a shadow Job 14.2 and Riches are said to fly away as an eagle towards heaven Prov. 23.5 And both Expressions do set forth the Vanity of Life and Worldly Enjoyments Direction 2. Endeavour to see and seriously to believe the misery of all those that have their portion in this life Psal 17.14 David desired to be delivered from those that were men of this world and had their All here he dreads to have his Lot among such he would not eat of their dainties Psal 141.4 Their Bellies were indeed full of the choicest rarest and best Dainties of the Creature which the Psalmist calls God's hid treasure because those things are not common ordinary or every where to be found but here is no mention of any Food or Furniture for their Souls The Kings Daughter is all glorious within Psal 45.13 and David speaks of the joy that God put into his heart by the light of his countenance Psal 4 6 7. It is spoken of as a grievous sin to mind earthly things Phil. 3.19 and it is threatned as a sore punishment for Men to have their names written in the earth Jer. 17.13 They that are written in the Earth how soon may their Names be blotted out and their Happiness destroyed But it is a matter of highest comfort and joy to have our Names written in Heaven Luke 10.20 Rejoyce in this that your Names are written in Heaven The Wind or the Foot of the next Traveller may blot out a Name written in Dust but who can or shall ascend and blot out a Name written in Heaven How are Men debased that set their Hearts on things below How disgraceful is it to be called onely Men of this World Men of this Earth Children of this World stooping and bowed down wholly to these present and perishing things Psal 17.14 Psal 10.18 Luke 16.8 And how woful is their State that receive their Reward their Consolation their Good things here Matth. 6.2 Luke 6.24 Luke 16.25 But when Death comes their Candle is quite put out they have no happy Reward after Death they shall never see the Light Prov. 24.20 Psal 49.19 They shall inherit nothing but Beggary and Poverty Torments and Misery in another World This World is the Bastards Portion but Heaven is the Childrens Inheritance As Satan with the Fruit of a Tree deprived our first Parents of the earthly so Satan with the Trifles of this World cheats earthly Men and bereaves them of the Heavenly Paradise As the Israelites in Egypt laboured onely for present Meat and Drink they had no Wages from the Egyptians so Worldly Men toil onely for present Provisions and Enjoyments they shall have no reward Prov. 24.20 As Ismael was turned out of Abraham's House with a few Loaves of Bread and Bottle of Water and was not to be Heir with Isaac Gen. 21.10 14. even so the Men of this World shall be thrust and excluded out of God's House and be put off onely with present and temporal things but shall not be Heirs with the Saints in Light And shall we stay with such in the Camp Is it not better to suffer from them than to be condemned and perish for ever with them 1 Cor. 11.32 Though the wicked spring as the grass and all the workers of iniquity do flourish here yet they shall be destroyed for ever Psal 92.7 Direction 3. We must overcome and be Crucified to the World Gal. 6.14 The World is Crucified to me and I am Crucified to it saith Paul If the world be as a dead Carcase to us and we are as dead Carcasses to it it will be no hard thing to separate and part two such dead Carcasses they cannot cling to and embrace each other If the world be Crucified to us that is be laid low in our esteem and judgments then we shall be Crucified to it that is our affections will die to it He that is Born of God overcometh the World 1 John 5.4 5. If men be not born of God have not a higher Nature and better life than others there will be neither Spiritual Souldiers or Weapons to fight against and overcome the World The new Nature inclines men towards and raises them up to higher Riches Honours and Pleasures than those that are the Objects of Sense Worldly lusts come to be starved by the Souls sight of and longing after heavenly enjoyments And the more these are prized and pursued the more a Christian is weaned from all things below And keeps a Spiritual Fast something like Christs Fast in the Wilderness who for Forty days did not only abstain from eating but did not hunger after Food Matt. 4.2 For it was at the end of Forty days that he was an hungry So this is that Excellent Fast that we should aspire to not to esteem hunger or lust after the things of this World Grace teaches to deny worldly lusts Tit. 2.12 13. As Pilgrims and Strangers we are to abstain from Fleshly lusts 1 Pet. 2.11 If the world live in our Hearts if our Affections cleave to it it will be a meer force an Act of Violence to tear us from what we embrace and delight in as our Happiness Thus it was with the Israelites they came out of Egypt as to bodily separation from it but they brought Egypt out in their Hearts they had Pleasant and Delightful thoughts of Egypt with Complacency they call to mind the Flesh-Pots of Egypt and the fullness of Bread they had there
speaks of the City of Caunus lib. 13. That the Inhabitants were so pale that Stratonicus said of them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That Dead Men walked about And is it not so here Men that are dead in Sin walk about and perform onely the Acts of the Natural Life The World is said to lye in Wickedness 1 John 5.19 as dead Lazarus is said to lye in the Grave John 11.41 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Verb is used in the first place and the Participle of the same Verb in the other This corrupt World is set out by the Dead Sea Ezek. 47.10 in which no Fish did live Engedi and Eneglaim there mentioned were Places that did lye one at the beginning the other at the end of the Dead Sea where Sodom and Gomorra stood of old and on the Banks of it Spiritual Fishermen are said to stand to draw Men out of this Dead Sea into Communion with Christ the Prince of Life The Cities of the blind Gentiles are said to be desolate Isa 54.3 because there were none in them that did live the Life of God And the Psalmist speaks of Wicked Men as dead Carcases when he saith The Pit is digged for them Psal 94.13 And shall we not come forth from such a World to Jesus Christ As God said of besieged Jerusalem of old Jer. 38.2 That he that staid in the City should die by the Famine or Pestilence but he that did go forth and yield to the King of Babylon should live So those that stay in this City of the World must be condemned and perish 1 Cor. 11.32 but those that go forth and submit to Jesus Christ shall be saved and live for ever Heb. 5.9 3. We should consider what Jesus Christ endured for us Heb. 12.3 How great a Person was he What provoking Contradictions did he suffer and that from base Worms and for vile Sinners He sanctified himself for our sakes to be a Priest and Sacrifice John 17.19 He was wholly for us he was born died rose again ascended to Heaven intercedes there and will come again for the good of his People Isa 9.6 Rom. 4. last Heb. 6. last Heb. 7.25 John 14.2 3. This precious Foundation was laid low in the Earth for us to build on this Noble Grain of Corn was sowed in the Dust that we might spring up from him to Everlasting Life This excellent Bunch of Grapes was cast into the Wine-press of the Wrath of God that we might drink new Wine with him in the Kingdom of his Father This generous Stock was wounded and cut that we as Grafts might be joyned to him and live in him for ever Do we believe Or can we think on these things and yet stick at any Service or recoil from any Sufferings for the sake of Jesus Christ 4. Let us consider how Honourable the Sufferings of Saints for Christ are Gal. 6.17 I bear about in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus the print of the Stripes and Wounds he had suffered for Christ's sake Saints may much more glory in these than Soldiers do in the Scars of their Wounds Was it not more Honourable for some of the clean Creatures preserved in the Ark afterwards to be offered in Sacrifice to God by Noah than for the unclean Creatures to survive them or for other Creatures to perish in the Deluge Gen. 8.20 Sufferings for Christ are part of our conformity to him in bearing the Cross and Testimonies of our Adoption that being chosen out of the World and called into the Kingdom of Christ therefore Earthly Men hate and abhor us John 15.19 The Sufferings of Saints are short their Evil things are measured by days Psal 94.12 13. but their Good and Happiness is commensurate to Eternity 2 Cor. 4.17 They drink of a Cup of Afflictions but it is a Cup like Christ's in this that it passes away by our drinking of it Matth. 26.4 Wicked Men shall drink of the Cup of Wrath and yet it shall always abide at their Lips but Saints shall drink of Christs Cup of Sufferings and the Cup shall pass away their Tears shall be dried up their Warfare shall be finished sorrow and sighing shall fly away Weeping shall endure but for a Night Joy shall come in the Morning Psal 30.5 After the smoaking Furnace of Bondage and Sufferings shall come the burning Lamp of Deliverance and Liberty Gen. 15.16 6. God sees and will reward the Sufferings of his Saints Rom. 8.18 2 Cor. 4.17 Though God doth set forth some of his People as men appointed to death 1 Cor. 4.9 yet he hath not appointed them to Wrath but to obtain Salvation by Jesus Christ 1 Thess 5.9 The Plowers indeed make long Furrows on them but God sowes them with the Promise of Everlasting Life while Men think to destroy their Gold of Grace God is refining them from their Dross of Corruption while Enemies would blow away the good Wheat that is in them God is winnowing them from their Chaff As Xerxes stood on the Shore and beheld the Sea-fight of his Men with the Grecians and when any of his Captains fought valiantly he had his Scribes by him to write down his Name and the Name of his City and Ship that he might reward him See Herod Hist 1.8 So Christ is on the calm Shore of a blessed Eternity he beholds all the Courage and Conflicts of his Servants he registers all in his Book and takes it on account in order to an eternal Reward 7. Consider the Benefit that hath accrued to the Church and the Advantage that hath redounded to the Kingdom of Christ by suffering Saints When Saints have suffered Death for Christ their Carcases have enriched and fatted the Ridges of Zion's Field their Blood hath watered the Furrows of Immanuel's Land and made it more fruitful When these Grains of Corn have fallen to the Earth and died many more have sprung up in their room Peter Martyr in Rom. 8.36 excellently observes That the Gospel hath been propagated in the World by Miracles and Torments by Works done above the Power of Nature and by cruel Sufferings patiently and joyfully endured beyond the strain or strength of Flesh and Blood These were wonderful Attestations to and Confirmations of the Truth of the Christian Religion 8. Let us consider That Christ's Interest shall at last be prevalent victorious and triumphant Crafty Worldlings desire to be of the strongest side The Decree of Heaven Psal 2.7 and the Zeal of the Lord of Hosts is for the Establishing of the Kingdom of Christ Isa 9.7 The Nations indeed have their time and are angry with Christ and his People but the time of his Wrath will also come Rev. 11.18 when he will tread them under his Feet punish and destroy them for ever Psal 110.1 Psal 21.8 9. Luke 19.27 God the Father hath promised to make all Christ's Foes to be his Foot-stooll Though Jacob be but a Worm yet shall he thresh the Mountains Isa 41.14 15. And