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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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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
though Zion be as a Tabernacle weak and contemptible in the Eye of the World yet its Stakes shall not be removed nor its Cords broken Christ must reign till he hath subdued all his Enemies And though to serve Christ's Kingdom seems to be as the Potter's Vessel and his Enemies seem to have the Rod of Iron to dash it to pieces yet Faith hath another View and Prospect of Things it beholds all the adverse Powers of the World but as a frail Potter's Vessel and Christ as having the Rod of Iron and an Almighty Arm to use it for the dashing of them to pieces This Treatise My Lord that I humbly present to Your Honour is not unseasonable If we look abroad into the World we may perceive that God hath made many Shilohs among the Protestant Churches Jer. 7.12 and he sends us to those Shilohs to behold their Ruines and Desolations We yet stand on the Shore and behold the Shipwracks of others but if he that Parks in the wild Ocean and treads its mountainous Waves into a smooth Plain doth not prevent we may quickly feel and taste the same Fruits of Antichristian Rage Fury My Lord I have Dedicated this small Piece to Your Honour as a Token of my Respects and as a Testimony of my Gratitude to You for Your Favour and Kindness expressed towards me who am one of the meanest of the Servants of Christ As the Sacrifices of the Law did not discharge the Debt of Sinners but were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Col. 2.14 a Hand-writing or Bond by which they confessed themselves obnoxious to God their Great Creditor so I presume not to pay my Debt by offering Your Honour this small Treatise but to recognise my Obligations and to confess my Engagements to Your Lordship That the Wing of Providence may overshadow Your outward and that the Well of Life may refresh Your inward Man That You may be established in the sound Belief and exemplary Practice of Gospel-Truths and so feel the Power and taste the sweetness of them for Your Eternal Comfort and Happiness it is the earnest Desire and it shall be the servent Prayer of Febr. 7. 1681. My Lord Your most Humble and Obliged Servant SAMVEL TOMLYNS Heb. 13.13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the Camp bearing his Reproach IN the Twelfth Verse the excellent Author of this Epistle speaks of the Sufferings of Christ as prefigured and typified by the solemn Sacrifice for sin that was Offered by the Jewish High-Priest on the day of Attonement That Sacrifice was not offered on the Altar as other Sacrifices were but was burnt without the Camp only the blood of the Sacrifice was brought into the most Holy Place to make Reconciliation for iniquity and for this end was sprinkled on Lev. 16.14 and before the Mercy Seat and the Fat of the Sin-Offerings only was burnt on the Altar Lev. 16.25 but the Flesh and Skins both of the Bullock and of the Goat that were offered for sin were to be carried without the Camp and there to be burnt Lev. 16.27 vid. Lev. 4.12 21. These solemn Anniversary Sacrifices offered on the great day of Attonement being the tenth day of the seventh Month did not only shadow out the Nature of Christ's Sacrifice viz. that he was to be a Sacrifice for sin Isa 53.10 2 Cor. 5. last but did also point at the very place of his Sufferings that he should be carried without the Gates of the earthly Jerusalem and there be put to death When the Israelites were Travellers in the Wilderness the Sacrifice was burnt without the Camp but when they arrived at and were setled in Canaan then the Sacrifice was burnt without the Gates of the City of Jerusalem And Jesus Christ to fulfill this Type suffered without the Gate The Divine Penman of this Epistle proceeds in the words of the Text to improve the Doctrine that he had delivered concerning Christ's suffering without the Gate and on it doth ground an excellent Exhortation and press a weighty Duty to wit To go forth to Jesus without the Camp bearing of his reproach The Sufferings of Christ were not only expiatory but also exemplary they did not only serve to appease God but also to instruct and animate men to tread in his steps to imitate his pattern to bean his Cross As Christ was an Abject so his people must expect to be Out-casts the world that was so unkind to him will not be friendly towards them as he was treated as unworthy to live among men so they must reckon to be cast out as unmeet to be accounted and reputed either as Parts of the Common-wealth or Members of the Church they must look to drink of Christ's Cup and to be baptized with his Baptism Rom. 8.36 1 Cor. 4.9 and so account themselves as Sheep for slaughter as men devoted to death as condemned Malefactors going without the Gate to Execution In the words we may observe these several Parts 1. A Duty urged and enforced on the Hebrews in which the Author of this Epistle doth comprize and comprehend himself Let us go forth to Jesus 2. The place to which they were to go viz. without the Camp 3. We have the difficulty of this Duty and what it will cost us to comply with it we must share in the reproach and ignominy of Jesus Christ To be separated from the world to be exclaimed against to be hooted and pointed at by men to be spoiled imprisoned condemned and executed as vile Hereticks as infamous Malefactors carries in it a great deal of shame in the Eye of sense When the people of God do suffer hard things they that are either actors in their Tragedies or spectators of their Miseries are very prone and ready to conclude that they have committed some great evil of sin and so deserved this evil of punishment I suffer saith Paul 2 Tim. 2.9 as an evil-doer even unto Bonds And Christ foretels to his Disciples that the men of the world should cast out their names as evil Luke 6.22 and elsewhere Matt. 5.10 11. he intimates that Adversaries should revile them and speak all manner of evil falsly against them for his names sake Nothing is more ordinary and common than that the world should calumniate brand and black those that will not wear its Livery and shape themselves after its Manners and Example And in these words bearing of his reproach we may discern and espy a motive and argument secretly couched to encourage and animate them to go forth to Jesus and to bear reproach for it is his reproach we are no worse used and treated than our Lord was we are but conformed to him in ignominy and revilings Was the Prince of life the King of glory thus clouded and eclipsed thus blackt and stigmatized by the world and shall we be tender of our Names shall we doat on our Credit or be fond of our Reputation shall we shrink and recoil from sufferings and