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A81056	Samson a type of Christ in a sermon preached at Mr. Pomfret's meeting-house in Gravel-lane near Hounds-ditch, London: at the morning-lecture, on July 22. 1691. from Judg. xiv.5. Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Tunnath; and came to the vineyards of Timnath; and behold, a young lion roared against him. Wherein is shewed, I. In six particulars, how clearly Samson doth type forth Jesus Christ, ... II. With respect unto Samsons marriage, ... III. As Samson loved and married an uncircumcised woman, ... IV. As Samson did overcome the young lion which opposed him: so Jesus Christ doth overcome and destroy that roaring lion, the Devil, that opposeth him. Published at the request of the Congregation, for Publick Good. By D.C. an unworthy servant of Christ.	Crosley, David, 1670-1744.	1691 (1691)	Wing C7247A; ESTC R232725	34,097	40

that is but a counterfeit Conversion But alas we see too many Examples of this nature at this day in the World many set forth fair for Heaven in all outward appearance for a while and yet afterwards wither and dry away The Lord make all these Examples as so many awakening warning Caveats to us to be the more watchful for though all sleep till the Bridegroom's Voice be heard yet woe to them that sleep afterwards Oh the many Evils occasioned by a lukewarm Spirit Who is able to express them But in a word Luke warmness if it prevail setteth open a door forth at which all present Enjoyments of God take their Flight and in at which Satan Sin Death and Darkness come in And truly when once it comes to this the Face of Heaven looks black upon such a Soul Therefore I beg of you all that hear me this day have a care of a lukewarm Spirit CAVTION 2. Again Secondly If you find God delivering you from this dangerous Rock of Lukewarmness directing your Feet from this dreadful Path which directly leadeth down to the Pit so as that Satan can do no good of you here Then have a care on the other hand of splitting your selves upon the no less dangerous Rock of Hypocrisie and Self-conceitedness And to prevent this 1st SEE that you be found in the Faith especially in the great Article of Justification 1. Holding Justification by Faith 2. And that not Subjectively but Objectively not as a bare Act in us but as Beholding Receiving Imbracing and applying of Jesus Christ according to that clear and most precious Text Acts 13.39 And by him all that do believe are justified from all things c. And 2ly BE careful to live Holily and as careful to do it sincerely the Grace of God inforceth Holiness but hateth Hypocrisie and that you may do this 1st See that you expect not that Holiness should bring you to Christ but that you should derive Holiness from Christ being by Faith Primarily brought unto him 2ly That the performance of good Duties moveth not God to give his Grace to you but his Grace first given to you and wrought in you moveth you to perform good Duties if you do them aright 3ly THINK not that your love to God or to Goodness doth produce love to God towards you which was not in him before but contrariwise that God's Love to you manifested and revealed in you produceth and begetteth love in you both to God Goodness and Good Men nay to your very Enemies But Oh wherewith shall it be lamented that this Godly Love which always produceth Christian Unity is so much wanting at this day among professors But 4ly IN all your Holy Actings do not as it were Act for Life or that you may receive Life but on the other hand Act as from Life already received from Christ by Faith and revealed and wrought in your Hearts by the Spirit LASTLY Be not puffed up with or by any thing that you do have done or can do Oh forget it look over it take Christ's Advice let not the left Hand know what the right Hand doth and when you have done whatsoever is commanded you still account your selves unprofitable servants Luke 17.10 And be sure you hold fast the Foundation and Corner stone Christ Jesus and bring nothing as a Ground of your Faith into the presence and before the Face of God but Christ and him alone Oh observe the words of Luther upon his Dying Bed which are said to be his last words Says he Christ have I loved Christ have I feared Christ have I served Christ hav● I preached in Christ have I believed and unto Christ I commende my Soul Beloved here was a Blessed end here was a Comfortable and Glorious End The Lord bring us all to such an End for his Names sake And would you come to such an end then beware of Hypocrisie But I haste A word or two more of Caution to the Wicked and so I come to the Application AND in the first place if there be any Persons among us this day that are Ignorant of and Strangers to God and his workings upon the Souls of his People and that are mindless and regardless of God Christ the Gospel Heaven and their Souls Salvation living either in desperate Wickedness Moral Civility or Legal Holiness and yet without God Well to all such I would say Oh have a care have a care how you dally away your precious time Consider your Souls lie at stake and if you miss of Christ you are undone for ever remember the Rich Man Luke 16. who never lift up his Eyes till he was in Hell Oh examine before hand what you will do upon your Dying Beds when you must take your Leave of Friends and Relations go off the Stage of this World and pass into endless Eternity Beloved pray mind me there is as it were two great Porters if I may so speak which stand beside the Gates of Death viz. Christ and the Devil Christ as it were on the right hand and the Devil on the left and when the Soul of a Righteous Man passes the Gates of Death Christ whose everlasting Arms are still spread under all his with open Heart and Hand is there ready to receive him and will not suffer Satan as much as once to come nigh him but will say No Satan the time of this Souls warfare is accomplished thou hast had thy time to try and sift him and hast caused him to feel many a bitter hour of Trouble but I who long since bought him have saved him from thy Hands and will now receive him to Glory where thou shalt never trouble him more for precious to the Lord are the Death of all his Saints and Blessed are the Dead which die in the Lord from henceforth for they rest from their Labours Trouble and Toil. But on the other hand when a Wicked Unbeliever dyes and comes to pass the Gates of Death presently he falls into the Jaws of the Dog of Hell i. e. the Devil and is caught in the Arms of Satan and so hurried down into Eternal Flames and if he cry Lord save me No saith Christ for in thy Life time thou contemnedst my Grace and Gospel and cast off my Counsel and Reproof thou set light by my Death and Merits and would have none of my Salvation I will therefore now Laugh at thy Calamities and mock when thy Fear cometh Depart thou from me O thou Worker of Iniquity O consider this all you that forget God and while it is called to day and while the Door of the Bride-grooms Chamber standeth open hear fear and lay it to heart return to the Lord accept of Grace and embrace those things that belong to your Peace before they be hid from your eyes For the Devil designs nothing more than to draw you on with one Temptation or another in Blindness and Forgetfulness of God till Death hath closed up your Eyes and then

how vehemently did he cry out Ely Ely Lama sabachthani i. e. My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Mat. 27.46 Oh happy that Man or Woman among us this day that is thus tender on and desirous of the Heart-inriching Soul-ravishing Love Company and Presence of Jesus Christ But again 4thly LET us note the terrible opposition that Samson met with in his Journey even when he came nigh to the place so the Text coming to the Vineyards of Timnath Behold a young Lion roared against him Young noting vigour and nimbleness a young Lion noting strength cruelty and fierceness a frightful Adversary indeed especially considering how unprepared Samson was to an eye of reason for such an Assault which affords us this fourth and last Proposition viz. That as Samson in going about to Marry and Espouse this Woman of Timnath this Daughter of the Philistines to himself met with many oppositions but more especially this young Lion so Jesus Christ in endeavouring the Redemption and Espousal of his Church unto himself hath and doth meet with many oppositions but especially that roaring Lion the Devil 1 Pet. 5.8 For 1. when he was in the Flesh in order to the Accomplishment of Mans Redemption how often did this Lion this Devil set upon him and not contenting himself with daily troubling vexing and persecuting of him by his wicked Instruments the Jews he first drives him into the Wilderness to tempt him there where he deals with him as it were Hand to Fist but still doth no good Again 2. He stirs up his Disciples to molest and grieve him first Peter by his fleshly advice hence Christ saith Get thee behind me Satan c. Mat. 16.23 Then secondly Judas to betray him for saith the Text Satan entered into him again Thirdly Peter to deny him and that with Oaths saying I know not the Man Oh horrible And after all this he again comes himself as it were accompanied with all the Powers of Hell to assist him and taking him at the greatest disadvantage even when under the heavy burden of his Fathers Wrath according to Psal 69.26 as designing if possible at once to strike him down to Hell for ever But blessed be God it was not possible c. Joh. 14.30 The prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me See then the Devils Malice though he had nothing in Christ yet would he not cease to afflict Christ whilst in his reach and he carries the same mind towards Christians also Luke 22.31 32. Simon Simon Satan hath desired to have you that he may sift you as Wheat c. Again secondly when he cometh in the Spirit in and by the Gospel actually to call and unite his People to himself the Devil still ceaseth not to interrupt him in his Proceedings if by any means he can although in this respect he doth not directly so much fight against Christ as Christians for he knows he can do no good with him he long since overcame him upon Mount Calvary Heb. 2.14 By death he overcame him that hath the power of Death even the Devil And now seeing he can do no good on Christ the Husband he desires to have poor Believers the Church that he may try and sift them as Wheat And truly Beloved the Devil hath put many a poor Christian hard to it he hath made many a one cry out Oh what shall I do And I doubt not but many of you in this Congregation have met with him to your sorrow and so by woful experience know these things I now speak to be true BUT to all you that are labouring in this bitter warfare and hour of tryal this day of Jacob's trouble let me say thus much to you Have a care of trusting to the Arm of Flesh and of putting confidence in Man Have a care of selling your selves for nought by putting confidence in that which cannot save but consider our great Samson is spiritually come down in and by the Gospel and he is among us and present with us and if he do but as much as shew his Head or make bare his Arm in any of our Hearts and Souls then the Devil is gone he is fled and though we seek him at such a time we cannot find him and why well because Christ is come down to dwell with us Oh Sirs could we but live more by Faith with and in Christ we should be less troubled with the Devils Company But I haste BELOVED time will not permit me to speak to all these Four Propositions thus raised from the words I shall therefore make choice of the Fourth and last of them for the subject of my remaining Discourse at this time viz. THAT as Samson in going about to Marry and Espouse this Woman of Timnath this Daughter of the Philistines to himself did meet with many Oppositions chiefly this young Lion so Jesus Christ endeavouring the Redemption and Espousal of his Church to himself hath and doth meet with many Oppositions and Opposers but especially that roaring Lion the Devil IN the handling of which Point I shall observe this Method First TO shew the State and Condition of Christ's Church in general and every Member thereof in particular before called by and United or Married unto Jesus Christ Secondly I shall consider whether the Church first seeketh unto Christ or Christ unto the Church in order unto the effecting of this Blessed Union or Marriage Thirdly MENTION some of the greatest Lets Hindrances and Impediments which do most interrupt this Blessed Union and Agreement betwixt Christ and his Church Fourthly I shall give you some Cautions in order to a timely prevention of the dangers occasioned thereby And Lastly MAKE some short Application First I shall shew the State and Condition of Christ's Church in general and of every Member thereof in particular before called by and United or Married unto Jesus Christ but I must be brief in the whole And First THE State of Christ's Church in general and of every Member thereof in particular before called c. is a State of Deadness This is plain from Paul's words to the Church at Ephesus Fph. 2.1 But you hath he quickened who were dead in sins and trespasses See also vers 4 5. Now this deadness is two-fold 1. A deadness to God and all Goodness And this deadness is 1. Absolute And 2. Universal 1. Absolute not a deadness in part as some do vainly imagine as if Man was partly dead and partly alive to God by Nature No for Man is wholly dead so as that there is no Spiritual Life to Heavenly things remaining in him 2dly It is an Universal deadness or a deadness throughout Death saith the Apostle Rom. 5.12 past upon all men for that all have sinned And as it passed upon all so it obtained a Compleat Dominion over all so that take an unconverted Man that is altogether natural and such a Man is with respect unto God a dead Man his Heart his Will