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A12178	The Christians portion Wherein is unfolded the unsearchable riches he hath by his interest in Christ. Whom injoying hee possesseth all things else. By R. Sibbs D.D. and preacher to the honorable society of Grayes-Inne, and master of Catherine Hall in Cambridge. Published by T.G. and P.N.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Nye, Philip, 1596?-1672.	1637 (1637)	STC 22486; ESTC S117304	16,083	102

shall not be laide to his charge all his deeds to a cup of cold water shall be set on the score And he shall be rewarded there is not a sigh not a teare but it is regestred the longer a man liveth if hee should live Methushelah his days the richer he should be in good workes and the more rich he is in good workes the more he shall have his part and share in glory after and therefore Life is yours The longer he lives the happier the time in which he lives is for his good and he makes the time happy and it is happier for himselfe the more rich he is in good workes the more rich hee shall be in glory after These things being so we should be very thankefull that God yeelds to us this life for besides an advantage of doing good It is a preparative to a better This life is as it were the seminary of Heaven Heaven indeede is the true Paradice of all the Plants of God but they must have a seminary to be planted-in first and therefore the Church is called the Kingdome of Heaven because wee are first planted here Now this life is an advantage we are planted here in the Church to grow a while untill we be taken from your semina ry the Paradice of the Church to the Paradice in Heaven So Life is ours for that end I will not further inlarge the point it is cleare Or Death As life is ours So death is ours It is astrange thing that death should be ours that is a destroying hostile thing to nature The King of feares as the Scripture calls it and that terrible of all terribles as the Philosopher the last enemy as Paul saith that death should be ours Death is ours many wayes you see here it is a peice of our joynture for these words containe the joynture of the Church The Church is Christs Spouse all things are Christs and therefore all things are the Spouses and among other particular gifts given to the Church death is ours It is a strange thing that death should be given to the Church and yet so it is and we shall see this if we consider how death in the Gospell is turned into another thing it is a harmelesse thing in the Gospell the sting is pulled out it hath lost all its venome in Christ. now death is a passage to another World it is the gate of glory death nothing but divests us of these rayments that we have here on our bodies and puts us into garments of glory it puts off these ragges and puts us into a better condition that is all the hurt it doth it ends all that is ill and all is determined in death it is the last evill and it is the beginning of all that is good that is everlastingly good that is spiritually good eternally good for by death we are freed both from the labour of sin which is a labour irkesome to Gods people by reason of a principle of corruption which they have in them that accompanyes them till they be in their grave death is the accomplishment of mortification in death there is an end of the labour of sinne and of all other labours whatsoever for death is a sleepe and all labours end in sleepe as after sleepe the spiritts are refreshed so after death we shall be more refresht then we can conceive now so death is ours It ends all labours of sinne and all labours of the body and it frees us from all contagion of wicked men and from all greife from wicked men and it sets us cleare out of Satans reach Satan hath nothing todoe with us when we are dead once because here the World is the Kingdome of Satan but when we are gone hence Satan hath nothing to doe with us and that is a great priveledge so death is ours it frees us from all that is evill our death is our birth-daie indeede we never live till wedie for what is your life alas it is a dying life Every day we live a part of our life is taken away we die every day The more we have lived the lesse of our life we have to live this is but a dying life There are three degrees of life The life in 1. The Mothers Wombe 2. The World 3. Heaven The life in Heaven begins at death death is the birth-day of that life Deaths day is the birth-day of imimmortality VVhen Christ came to die to purchase life he came not to die to purchase a sorry life on earth but he came to die to purchase immortall glory that is the life that Christ came to die for and to purchase The day of death is the first birth-day of that life and for our bodies they are but refined by death and fitted as Vessells cast into the fire to be moulded and fashioned to be most glorious Vessells after so our bodies are fitted by the grave till body and soule be for ever happy at the day of Resurrection so that death is ours and here upon it is that the Wiseman saith that The day of death is better then the day of birth When we are borne we come into miserie When we die we goe out of misery It is better to goe out of miserie then to come into misery If the day of death be better then the day of birth to a Christian certainly then death is theirs and blessed are those that die in the Lord saith the Spirit A voyce from Heaven saith so and therefore write saith hee it may be written if the Spirit saith it it is testimony and argument enough Blessed are those that die in the Lord they rest from their labours and their reward followes them They rest from all that is evill and their reward followes them all that is good their workes follow them so that if all evill cease and all good follows I hope death may well be said to be ours Death is ours it is our preferment why should we be afraid of that that is a part of our portion as the Apostle saith here Death is yours I beseech you therefore let us lay up this against those darke times wherein death will be represented to us as an uglie and grimme thing it is so to nature indeede but to faith death is my friend it is become amyable indeede there is nothing in the world that doth us so much good as death for its the best Physitian it cures all deseases whatsoever of soule body it frees us from all And indeede to shut up all this point death is the Death of death it is the destruction of it selfe forafter death there is noe more death so it consumes it selfe by death we overcome death Wee can never die more wee are freed from all death to be afraid of death is to be afraid of life to be afraid of victory For we never overcome death till we die Lay up these

are not CHRISTS Members that goe to Hell but there are many of excellent parts and indowments that God hath appointed to doe him great service though they have an evill eye and intend not his service but to raise themselves in the World yet GOD intends their service for much purpose and he gives them incouragement in the World as hee will not be behind with the worst men If they doe him service they shall have their reward in that kinde Psalme 62. 12. If it be in policy of state they shall have it in that and they shall have commendations and applause of men if they looke for that and if he give them not Heaven they can not complayne for they cared not for that they did it not with an eye for that now if God use the labour and the industry and the parts and indowments of wicked men for excellent purposes he will give them their reward for outward thinges Verily you have your reward sayth Christ Math. 6. 2. when he gives them life he gives them outward liberties and therefore they are noe usurpers in that regard yet those have not so full a Title as a Christian hath to that they have Now to come more directly to the Second Branch and to shew how wee are Christs I have unfolded that Poynt upon another Text and therefore I will but touch it here because there bee divers here that did not heare the unfolding of that Text. My beloved is mine and I am his Can. 6. 3. Not to speake of creation he made all things but we are Christs by his redemption and purchase he purchased his Church with his owne blood Acts 20. 28. And secondly wee are Christs by spirituall marriage for we are his and Christ is ours in all sweete relations he is ours he hath purchased us to be his in all the sweete termes of relation name what you will we are Christs we are his subjects as he is a King we are his servants as he is a Lord we are his Schollers as he is a Prophet we are his Spouse as he is a husband we are Members as he is an Head you cannot name any degree of subjection if it be a sweete subjection and subordination but we are that to Christ and Christ is that to us so that Christ is ours and we are Christs in all the sweete relations that can be we are his Members we are his Spouse we are his Children for he is the everlasting Father Isa. 9. 6. He is all that can be to us and we are all that can be to him that is lovely and good we are Christs and therefore all things are ours because we are Christs so that we see from this that Christ comes in betweene GOD and us GOD is a pure and holy GOD A consuming fire and we as chaffe and dust and therefore CHRIST comes betweene you are Christs Why Because God is a consuming fire of himselfe there must be a Mediator to come betweene who is a friend to both sides to us as man to him as GOD So must bee a meanes of conveying all things from GOD all things come originally from the Fountaine of all God they are Gods and in God you know the three Persons meete in one nature in GOD the Father Sonne and holy Ghost I but the holy GOD in three Persons doth not convey immediately good things to us but by the mediation of Christ Mediator All things are ours and therefore we are Christs and Christ is Gods for GOD would have it thus since the fall that having lost all wee should recover all againe by the second Adam that should bee a publike person a Mediatour betweene Him and Vs and so through CHRIST wee should have accesse and entrance to the Father by Him and that by Him we should have boldnes and that God againe downe-ward might doe all things with due satisfaction to his justice because we are as stuble and God a consuming fire were not Christ in the middle what entercourse could there be betweene the Lord and us noe other than betweene the fire and the stuble Majesty on his side and Misery and sinne on ours there must be a Mediator to bring these two contraries together And therefore all is ours because we are Christs and Christ is Gods so all comes downeward through Christ from God to us God doth all in Christ to us he chooseth us in Christ and sanctifyes us in Christ he bestowes all spirituall blessings on us in Christ as Members of Christ he conveyes all through Christ. To Christ first he hath put fullnes in him and of his fulnesse we receive grace for grace for Christ is compleat and in him we are compleat Now all things come downeward from GOD through Christ so from us to God upward all is ours and we are Christs and Christ is Gods and therefore we have noe entercourse with that great God who is a consuming fire if we be to deale with him in himselfe but through Christ and therefore we aske all in Christs name Whatsoever you aske the Father in my Name c. Joh. 14. 13 14. and doe all in the Name of Christ. Col. 3. 17. For it were presumptious arrogance and fruitlesse if we should goe to God in our owne name but we goe in the name of Christ considering that he is the midle that knitts God and us together and therefore Lord we come not to thee in our owne name and in our owne worth and in our owne desert which is none at all we come to thee in the merits of Christ in the mediation of Christ in that love thou bearest him and that for his sake thou bearest to us that are his Members that is the way of entercourse betweene God and us not to thinke of God absolutely out of Christ that is a terrible thought nothing more terrible than to thinke of God out of the Mediatour but to thinke of God in Christ nothing more sweete for now the nature of GOD is lovely comming to us in Christ and the majesty and justice of God are lovely comming to us from Christ. As the waters of the Sea though they be salt of themselves when they are strayned through the Earth are sweete in the rivers so though the justice of God be a terrible thing yet when it comes through Christ to be satisfyed it is sweete for Lord thou wilt not punish the same sin twice and the Majesty and greatnes of God is comfortable whatsoever is Gods is ours because Christ is ours God in his greatnes in his justice in his power all things being derived and passing through Christ are sweete and comfortable to us and therefore from excellent Wisedome the Apostle inserts the Mediator betweene All things are yours and you are Christs and Christs is Gods FINIS Imprimatur Tho. Wykes R. P. Epis. Londi Capell Domest The Apostles scope in these words The division of the Text. An inferencefrom the first particular 2 Particular The naturall world is the Churches Rom. 8. 21. The world of wicked men is also the Churches And therein first the good of this world 1 Tim. 1. 20 2 All wicked men Simile Iames 4 4. a A consectary from the former particulars 3 Particular 3 Particulars how Life is the Churches 1 The life of Ministers Philip. 1. 23 24. 2 The life of Magistrats 3 The life of every particular Christian. The benefit of longer life Vse of this particular Thankfullnes for life 4 Particular how death is the Churches a Ioh. 15. 26. u 1 Cor. 15 26. 1. Death by the Gospell is ●ours a Snake without a sting 2. It s the passage ●●●n all ●ill to all good 3 Death is the beginning of eternall life a 1 Cor. 15. 31. 3 Degrees of life a Eccle. 7. 1. u Revel 14. Vse Rom 6. 1 Cor. 15. 54. 5 Particulars how things to come are ours 1 All good things 1 Cor. 62. 1 Cor. 2. 9. 2 All evill Rom. 9. 23. Rom. 8. 38. 38. A Christian sure of the future Rev. 1. 8. u Heb. 13 ● Limitations and resolutions of some cases and questions 1. Concerning propriety Ob. Ans. How all is ours and not ours Read Iud 11. from 12 vers to 20. Ans. 1. 2. 3. 4. The 2. case concerning the right of evill men Ob. In ordine ad spiritualia Ans. Ob. Ans. 3. cas Ans. 4 Case Ans. 1 Cor. 10 25. Qu. Ans. Simi Qu. Ans. Vse The largnesse of the Churches Ioynture Singular consolation For all true Christians Qu. Ans. Ezek. 29 18 19. How wee are Christs Cant. 6. 3. 1. By his Redemption 2. By marriage in al sweete relations Christ is our Mediator and Why. All good comes to us from God through Christ. All must be returned to God through Christ.