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An heavenly wonder, or, A Christian cloath'd with Christ purposely penned to comfort Christs sin-sick-spouse / by Sam. Moore, minister of the gospel of God sometimes at Brides in Fleetstreete, London.
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Moore, Samuel, b. 1617.
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can speake so well and thou deservest so ill that thy name do's not stink with God what but free grace full grace rich grace has put a difference 'twixt thee and other men lay then the blame of future sufferings upon thy sinning and let every unkindnesse in carriage towards Christ be killing to thy very heart and ponder his great goodnesse till all time be lost in eternity SECT 5. 5. TAke thy stand in Christ Motion ha's no rest till in a fit place nor thou Chrstian till quieted in Christ no bird will prune her selfe and sing till she ha's taken a stand that 's pleasing Mat. 9 27. adult dost thou suffer for Christ thou maist afford it thou gettest and gainest well by it thou mayst lay out ones for him lend him ones and hee 'l retaliate hundreds an hundred fould and better God lets us suffer not to abuse us but to use us make the best use of us yea he ha's already done and suffered Non ad exiâ—ium sed ad exercitium more for thee then thou ever didst or canst do for him Believers in this strange land may you hang up your Harps upon the willowes yet sing your Hebrew songs and songs of Sion to your King but by Physick is the way to health and to joy you passe through sorrow you have but your seed-time here your harvest hereafter may sow in tears but shall reap in joy Fructus est ipse in semine and even the fruit it selfe is in the root not to be afflicted is not to be affected to cover the Altar with tears is not so comely as to Bern. in Psal 90. Serm. 17 Mal. 2. 13. Hosea 14. â— do 't with the calves of our lips every bird can sing in the Spring but Birds of Paradize heavenly ones should sing in Autumn waters of wels are warmest in Winter so should thy heart be with joy in sorrrow there 's a mirth of mourning Paul and Silas sang Psalmes in the stocks and had pleasure in contemptible comfortless Peter Martyr in 2 Sam. 24. chains Luctus gaudio mixtus mourning with mirth mixed best becomes Martyrs some can weep singing for joy of heart in frowning Habet lacryinagna voluptas Seneca Ipse dolor voluptas est Aug. Confes l. c. 2. dayes Spouse consider thy Husband the fountain of joy it selfe did not in the dayes of his flesh seem a man of much joy yet rejoyced in spirit the wine of the grapes of the Canaan above and the water of life with the immortall bread is sufficient to make man heartily hardie in greatest hardships under the Crosse of Christ Such as gather Simples take herbs in the Spring flowers in Summer fruit in Autumne roots in winter and why Roots in Winter because the sap is then gone downe is most in the root when least in the branch most under ground when least above it the richest vains of oare lye deepest dost thou misse the sappe of sweetnesse in thy selfe a branch Christ is thy Vine thy Root and secures it for thee gather thy scattered comforts into Christ enjoy him and them in him and thou choosest the better part wilt finde losses for Christ clear gaine being eased of thy sin the greatest work is done the greatest trouble is over God shootes his arrow as Jonathan not so much to harme as to warne thee SECT 6. 6. STay thy marvel that so many mind earth and so few mind heaven they 'r not married to the Lambe else would they live lye downe and rise with him such Terriginae fratres are written in the earth O Lord they that depart Jer. 17.18 from thee shal be written in the earth because they have forsaken thee the fountain of living waters these Grashopper-like breed live and dye in the same ground and though winged they are in some measure for higher things yet fly they do not sometime they hop heaven-ward a little but fall to the ground again and at last their earthly wombe they make their heavenly Tombe moyling like muck-wormes clogging themselves with thick cley till in judgement thei 'r cloi'd men of the first Adam onely from the earth of Homo ab humo an earthly breed and hence are they strangers to this second Adam the Lord from Heaven Poor souls what 's the world 't is but a Cipher in Gods sight look even in the profits and pleasures they are but as smoak which wrings teares from the eyes and then becomes nothing and all the joyes of life are but seeming ones unto what 's future all seen things are sweeter in the ambition than in the fruition they 'r too too cloying upon a review we in time loath what we have formerly lov'd as Amnon served Tamor Desideria dilata crescunt at cito data vilescunt we love our food when it is meat but loath it when 't is excrement prize it when we take it into us despise it when it passes through us all secular and sublunary delights are like Sodom's Apples Quae contacta cinerescunt the inside of whoe 's beauty is but ashes SECT 7. 7. LEt all goe whether t will that Christ may come where and when he will let all Aut pax aut pactio when Christ comes goe for him where ere you finde him hee 's the onely Peace-maker and peace-matter who alone under his father can turne Golgotha into â—abatha Moses could loose a fructill Egypt for Christ a place where Nilus over-flowes and seed being sowne yeilds foure rich harvests in lesse then foure months to the owners thereof Origen chose rather to be a poore Ephes 2. 13. to 17. Sic certaminis Moderatur Plotinus Phil. 3.8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Catechist in Alexandria than denying Christ to be with his fellow Pupils in great authority and favour And all Pauls gaine was left deem'd losse drosse dunge and doggs meate for Christ such Quis non patiatur ut potiatur things if in competition with Christ are to such souls objects of loathing not of love and such great loosers for Christ are greatest gainers who repent they knew not the commodity sooner Deity rewards the devout SECT 8. 8 TAke comfort and be of good cheer that Christ accounts thee sinles thou art not such as the world would make thee thy worth is hid from their eyes when they'd minde nothing but thy failings let this refresh thy spirits for ever that thou art arayed with Christ in Christs attire thy nakednesse is not the shame and blame thereof is not thy sin is not but thy God is O heart open wide and well that Christ may fill thee now that which sought the life of thy glory beauty and comfort is dead now maist thou returne from the wildernesse of sorrow and solitarinesse and dwell in thine owne City not made with hands Now Christ is thy life and death will be thy gaine now maist thou sing triumphing O death 1 Cor. 15.55 56 57. In Christ saies the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 super superamus we doe over over-come Rom. 8.37 where is thy sling O grave where is thy victory and give thanks to the father who ha's made thee victor through Christ his sonne yea more then Conqueror for thou hast over over-come as the word is in the originall now to die is no more to thee but repatriasse to reverse home go to heaven againe now maist thou joy in affliction stand in temptation be perfect in action and go freely to Bern. the full breasts of consolation in Christ O Spousel speak wel of thy husband where ere thou goest commend him to all both friends and enemies and sith the Peace-maker ha's spoken peace-matter returne no more to folly Dixi. Laus Deo FINIS
though once pleased in the act her affections are crucifi'd to corruption so is corruption to them they are dead to each other sin in Saints is 1. Dead judicially dead in sentence they adjudge it to death resolve it shall die they sin not with an esteeme of sin their judgement 's against it they have laid hatred to the roote of sin which will be the death out â— T is in them Civiliter mortuus civilly dead a man is dead saith the Civill Law when hee 's in subjection to another is not acted and animated by the power of his owne will but by the will of him that rules over him so here sinne in Saints ha's not its own will is not its own Master is in subjection to them because their love thereof its life is withdrawne better be stowed laid out 3. Sin in them as loathed not loved is naturally dead things are naturally dead two wayes inchoate consummate inchoate as when a tree is smote at the roore with an Axe which is an omen it will wither die be fruitlesse for future though for present it have leaves and fruit upon it hence 't is said to be dead because it has received its deadly blow so a man is said to be a dead man when he has received a deadly wound though hee may stirre struggle strive and live a while after to doe some hurt to him that did the deed so a man alive in Christ by vertue of his union with him has a deadly blow given to the roote of his sin not onely in the judgement having lost its repute there but in the affections also it shall never any more â—oost and roote there never recover its strength againe and though it have a little life for a while and may be injurious to the subject where 't is yet cannot last long and bring forth as before but withers growes lesse and lesse till quite exhausted wasted notwithstanding its shew of leaves 2. A sin not beloved has a death consummate and it is so dead by this signe viz. when it brings not forth in its season i. e. when advantages and opportunities of sinning occur accord agree and come together In winter Trees and Plants seeme as dead but if in the spring wee see neither Doct. Sibâ— fruit nor leaves wee then say they 'r dead indeed so when a Christian has an advantage an opportunitie to fall into sin may doe it yet not work himselfe into outward blame and shame and sin do's not then beare fruit and bring forth in that fit season 't is dead indeed for what the season of the spring is to trees and plants the same or the like is an occasion of sinning unto sin Josephs case and his carriage Gen. 39. 7. to 13. in that case cleeres this well hee had an advantage an opportunity all advantages and a fit season to sin in a wanton Mistris who woed him often saying Lie with mee a continuation of her suit shee did it day by day her actuall assault shee caught him by his garment would have no nay a place of privacie there was none of the men of the House within no likelihood of accruing shame or blame in publicke and himselfe an high Officer a man of credit able to have crushed a rumor and bruit in the birth yet sin in him was then dead it could not live being loath'd Hee hearkened not unto her to lie by her or to be with her saith the Text he shunned and hated both the sin and the occasion Vitanda est glacies si nolis Cadere with the appearances thereof would not lie by her would not be with her a good patterne of pietie for others hee shunn'd the sin as crosse to God not men How can I doe this great wickednesse and sin against God yet then in that case his lust was life-lesse brought not forth Christs Spouse sins not with a love of sin the evill shee do's shee hates There 's no spot in thee SECT 7. 6. THey sin not with the whole man their fall is not Toti a toto in totum they sin not with a cleare freedom and full consent of the will there 's still some reluctance giving out drawing back of some of the inward powers they sin not with all their strength greedily with both their hands not earnestly as the Prophet speakes Micah 7. 3. their conflicts with sin when falling thereinto are an attestation of this the minde or soule we say is the man but the minde sins not With my minde I serve Christ and Rom. 7. 5. 19 20. the evill I would not that doe I saith the Apostle they sin against their wills cannot will sin they nill and null in the strength of Christ all sinfull thoughts words and works And if I doe that I would not 't is no Ver. 20. more I Quasi dicat there was a time when I willed what I acted and did what I would and could in sin but now I am not the man I am not I 't is no more I that sin sin is in mee but against my will I cannot will to sin choose to sin might I gain a world for so doing Christs Spouse sins not viz. not with cleare freedom and full consent of will Hence is said to be spotlesse not to sin for as to will Note sin is to commit sin in the account of Justice so to nill sin is not to commit sin in the account of mercy Man in the first Adam when he Matth. 5. 28. stood in the glory of his best perfection the image of the invisible God made out but a mutable will a will he had to stand or fall which hee pleased and hence did he will his fall freely but a man in the second Adam ha's a better standing greater strength and a better and more accomplisht will hence no man in Christ can will his fall will wandering from God and a wavering heart in the sence before asserted viz. with the wills cleare freedom and full consent so that Capell Tempt pag. 36. God imputes no more to us then is approved and allowed by us You have now seene what spots the Saints have not what sins they commit not But have Saints no sins do's Saint-ship and Son-ship make sinlesse No If wee say wee have no sinne wee deceive our selves 1 Joh. 1. 8. and the truth 's not in us saith John hee that Donatus-like sayes I have no sin for Christ to cleanse mee Non habeo Domine quod ignoscas from ha's no truth in him is like to his father who lyed ab origine from the beginning 1. Christs purest Spouse has the tincture of sin in her selfe it has befallen Christians in this case as it fares with a man who has fallen into a ditch notwithstanding he has bin washed from the mud yet may wee smell hee has been defiled Christs time of suffering was the Disciples time of sinning But secondly a Christian as