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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45701	The Christians best garment: or, The putting on of the Lord Jesus Christ Wherein the absolute necessity, excellency, and usefulness of Christ, as a garment, to believing souls, is briefly open and applied. Secondly, the naked, miserable, lost, and undone condition of all unbelievers, who have not put on this garment, discovered. Thirdly and lastly, some few brief, but powerful motives to perswade us to the putting on of this garment, with directions how to live to the glory of Christ here, that so we may live with Christ hereafter in glory. By a godly, able, and faithful servant of Jesus Christ.	Hart, John, D.D.	1664 (1664)	Wing H930; ESTC R216385	16,154	50

The Christians best Garment JOHN HART D.D. THE CHRISTIANS Best Garment OR The putting on of the Lord Jesus Christ Wherein the absolute necessity excellency and usefulness of Christ as a Garment to believing Souls is briefly opened and applied Secondly The naked miserable lost and undone condition of all Unbelievers who have not put on this Garment discovered Thirdly and lastly Some few brief but powerful Motives to perswade us to the putting on of this Garment with directions how to live to the glory of Christ here that so we may live with Christ hereafter in glory The third Edition By a godly able and faithful Servant of Jesus Christ John Hart. Rom. 13.14 Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ Col. 3.4 When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in glory London Printed for E. Andrews at the White Lion near Pye-Corner 1664. THE Christians best Garment OR THE Putting on of the Lord Jesus Christ Romans 13.12 13 14. The night is far spent the day is at hand let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armour of light Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envying But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof IN these Words beloved which I have now read unto you we have these two parts In the first place we have some things which the Apostle endeavours to perswade Christians from In the second place we have some things which the Apostle endeavours to perswade Christians to The things perswaded from are the works of darkness the things perswaded to are these 1. That we put on the armour of light and that we walk honestly 2. The Apostle having exhorted us to this two-fold duty 1. The casting off the works of darkness and the putting on the armour of light here sets down expresly some Christian directions how this is to be done and that two wayes 1. Negatively and then 2. Affirmatively 1. Negatively not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envy 2. Affirmatively by putting on the Lord Jesus Christ and denying of the works of the slesh and the motives here laid down whereupon the Apostle enjoyns this duty are these in the 12. verse The night is far spent the day is at hand therefore saith he let us cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armour of light Where by the way we may observe that works of darkness are very unsuitable and unseasonable to the times of the Gospel light and darkness are contrary In the words then you see 1. Here is a duty exhorted unto and that is laid down in the 12. verse And then 2. you have here also the Apostles amplification and illustration of this duty here exhorted unto and that is set down particularly in the 13. and 14 verses The duty exhorted unto you see here is two-fold 1. Here is something to be cast off And then 2. Here is something to be put on 1. The things to be cast off are the works of darkness 2. The things to be put on are the armor of light Let us cast off the works darkness and let us put on the armor of light And as the exhortation is two-fold so likewise are the reasons whereupon the Apostle grounds his exhortation also 1. The night is far spent And 2. the day is at hand Before I proceed to the observation give me leave a little to open the words unto you and first I shall endeavour to shew what is here meant by the night and then secondly what is here meant by the day by the night here may be meant the times of darkness and ignorance in which the Gentiles lived in before the breaking forth of the Gospel of Christ and those times may very well be compared to the night for these three reasons First In the night men cannot so well see their way and therefore may the more easily wander out of their way for it is onely the want of light that makes men to erre 2. In the night no thing is visible or discernable but darkness all light is then extinguished the blind man is not able to value or judge what a mercy it is to have the fruition and enjoyment of the light of the Sun 3. The night is the most suitablest time and season for the doing of evil in Job 24.14 15 16. The murderer saith Job rising with the light killeth the poor and needy and in the night is as a thief The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight saying No eye shall see me and disguiseth his face In the dark they dig through houses they know not the light They that are drunk saith the Apostle are drunk in the night 1 Thes 5.7 In Psal 25.20 The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty And then secondly by the day here is meant the times of the Gospel it is night in the soul till such time as the day light of the Gospel breaks forth and shines into it Matth. 4 16. The people which sate in darkness saw a great light and to them that sate in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up In John 13.19 Light is come into the world and men love darkness rather then light and why so the reason is saith he because their deeds were evil For every one that doth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light lest his deeds should be reproved Ephes 5.8 Ye were sometimes darkness saith the Apostle but now are ye light in the Lord walk as children of light In 1 Pet. 2.9 God hath called us out of darkness into his marvellous light Luke 1.78 79. The day-spring from on high hath visited us To give light to them that sit in darkness In Acts 26.17 18. The Apostle was sent to the Gentiles to turn them from darkness unto light In 1 John 2.8 The darkness is past and the true light saith the Apostle now shineth In Acts 17.30 The times of Heathenisme are there called the times of ignorance and it must néeds be night in such souls wherein Christ the Sun of righteousness never did arise as it is never day in the worid until the Sun ariseth so it is never day in the soul till Christ the Sun of righteousness ariseth with healing in his wings Now there are several useful and profitable points of doctrine which naturally from hence for our instruction and edification I shall onely name them and so procéed to that which I chiefly intend The first point of doctrine is this that works of darkness are works of the night night works Secondly that the times of the Gospel are times of light Thirdly that in the day of the Gopel all these works of darkness are to be cast off when the Sun shines