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A15346	The summe of a sermon, preached at Sowthell the thirtith of March. 1596. By T.W.	T. W. (Thomas Wilcox), 1549?-1608.	1597 (1597)	STC 25630; ESTC S111705	37,554	76

where els eyther to be sought or found but in lesus Christ onely Where I beseech you first to marke both how this doctrine ariseth from hence and then the tearmes in which I doe propound and deliuer the same It is gathered from this place because our Sauiour calleth vs vnto him yea vnto him alone which if it had not bin the will of his Father and verie truth indeede or if hee alone had not had aboundant yea infinite matter of strong and solide comfort in himselfe he would neuer haue done as we haue already heard in the beginning of this exercise And for the wordes I doe not say there is no comfort to bee founde for meate drinke sleepe friends recreation and such like are comforts I confesse but not true and sound comfort for a distressed spirit For the affliction of the mind is inward and these are but outward therefore are not fitte for a person or partie so affected and I would as soone thinke and say that bodily food were the proper and sound nourishment of the soule as suppose that these outward things were the true and sound comfort of a broken and contrite heart But that yet wee may bee the better perswaded of the trueth of this point let vs proceed vnto some further proofes of it This was not in my mind obscurely signified vnder all the sacrifices of the old law whether they were ordinarie or extraordinarie dayly or yearly generall or particular all and euery one of them in measure more or lesse tending still vnto him whom they did prefigure and signifie as the Apostle at large declareth in the Epistle to the Hebrewes And why him because he was he alone in whom God was pleased to reconcile the world vnto himselfe and to make the one and onely obiect of our faith And this is plainely propounded vnto vs and proued also by manifolde texts of Scripture both in the old and new testament I wil not trouble you with many for I like not much of that course Out of that great store let vs take two or three both playne and pregnant for this purpose In the 55. Chapter of the booke of the Prophet Isaiah a place cited before and is as we all know and confesse an euident prophecie concerning Christ and the graces that wee shall finde in him if with a liuely and stedfast fayth we labour to lay hold of him it is sayd Encline your eare and come vnto mee Oh marke how like this Euangelical Prophet our Sauiour himselfe speake let this phrase also I beseech you serue for a cōfirmation and exposition of these wordes of our text Heare and your soule shall liue and I will make an euerlasting couenant with you euen the sure mercies of Dauid Euery worde hath his waight he yea he alone will establish not a momentany but an euerlasting couenant with all his faithfull of which that wee might be the better certified hee telleth vs it shall be sure yea as sure as the mercies manifested vnto and bestowed vpon Dauid which as they were large and almost innumerable so were they irreuocable and could neuer fayle To the same purpose serueth a notable sentence of the Apostle 2. Cor. 1.5 As the sufferings of Christ abound in vs so our consolation aboundeth thorow Christ. By sufferinges of Christ he meaneth not onely those thinges that we indure at the hands of persecuters for Christes sake for Christ did not onely suffer that way but euen those anguishes also that we haue in our soules and in our spirits Christ being as much yea farre more throwne down and humbled that way than all flesh as appeareth by his conflict in the garden and by his outcries vpon the Crosse saying My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee And though these haue bin were and are very good indeed as those that haue felt and doe feele thē know and confesse yet to the ende that wee might assure our selues that our ioyes shoulde match them he sayth Our consolations abound thorow him For if there were not a proportion betwixt our heauines and our comfort nay I will say more a superaboundance of our ioyes aboue our griefes then sure what by reason of Satans malice against vs and the dulnesse and hardnesse of our owne heartes to beleeue and the greatnesse of our griefes sorrows besides it would goe hard with a distressed spirit And therefore as for the comforting of vs against the hugenes and height of our sinnes we say with the Apostle where sinne hath abounded there grace hath ouerabounded So in this case of inward afflictions particularly we say our sorrowes may be sore and our griefes great yet our light affliction which is but for a moment causeth vnto vs a farre most excellent and eternall waight as of glory in the life to come so of ioy in this life raysed vp in our hearts by the comfortable feeling thereof And he that knoweth soundly and feelingly beleeueth the names natures person and offices of our Sauiour Christ together with the effects that from him in them are communicated to vs cannot chuse but see feele and confesse the trueth of this point Hee is good in him there is not or cannot be any thing but that which is absolutely good as in whose face and presence also there is the fulnes of ioy for euermore and at his right hand pleasures for euer and euer He is likewise so good that yet notwithstanding he is man like vnto vs in euery respect sinne onely excepted and one that hath bin touched with the feeling of our infirmities by meanes whereof we may the more boldly come vnto the throne of grace so receiue mercy and finde grace to helpe in time of neede Yea these two natures are so ioyned knit as we may say inseparably in one person euen from the very time of his blessed cōception in the wombe of his mother for the accomplishment of the worke of our redemption and our full comfort thereby as that they cannot be deuided or sundred hee being man that so hee might suffer and God that so hee might ouercome the perfection and full accomplishment of our redemption standing vpon these two partes suffering for sinne this is the first and then ouercomming sinne and death him that had the power of death that is the deuill And why is he called Iesus but because as it is sayd Matth. 1. He should saue his people from their sinnes For sinne and that that insueth vpon sinne as shame and confusion of face horror of heart condemnation c. is it that most stingeth mens mindes and soules Now all these beeing taken away in Christ why should they not as well and comfortably sing that tryumphant song O death where is thy sting O graue or hell where is thy victory the sting of death is sinne and the strength of sinne is the law But thankes be vnto God which hath giuen vs victory thorow our Lord Iesus Christ as well

as mournefully vtter that sorrowfull voyce Wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me from the body of this death His other name Christ and his stately offices of King Priest and Prophet contayned in it and vnder it set out vnto vs what doe they else but proue this point For why was he all in all but to giue vs to vnderstand that as all was in him so all must be fette from him or else it coulde no where be sound And though it bee true that diuers persons had as some one or other of those names for example Iehoshua so one or diuers of those offices vpon them at one the selfe same time as Melchisedech if you will yet neither had they all or if they had them they had them but as figures of him whose person and place they did for a while represent and those graces also they had in measure whereas in him they were in all fulnesse that so of his fulnes we might all receiue euen grace for grace that is aboundance of grace and yet when he hath giuen vs all that wee haue hee hauing neuer a whit the lesse in himselfe And this very thing haue all the godly in all ages felt in themselues and confessed before others that so if it were possible they might be made partakers with them of the selfe same comfort Abraham saith Christ in the Gospel after Iohn chap. 8. reioyced to see my day and indeed saw it and was glad Christ meaning thereby that the aboundant riches of Gods grace that was in him was made manifest in all former ages the fathers by the eye of fayth as the Apostle plainely sheweth it Hebr. 11. seeing in the promises that he shoulde come of whome also as they did very ioyfully lay hold on by fayth so in respect of him and the sweetnes of his promises they contemned all outward things And Dauid no doubt of it in many places fetteth out this grace and feeling to haue bin in himselfe and he to haue found fauour with the Lord as in regard of comfortable assurance of this matter How gloriously in many places of the Gospelles doth Peter the rest of the Apostles acknowledge it In the 16. Chapter of this Gospell in the great varietie of opinions that was amongst men concerning Christ some saying he was Elias some Ieremias or one of the Prophets Peter in his owne name and in the name of the rest being demaunded what they thought answered for them all Thou art Christ the Sonne of the liuing God Which what was it else but to acknowledge that in him alone and in none other was the fulnesse of all goodnesse trueth life comfort or whatsoeuer else we can thinke of or reckon vp And in the sixt of the Gospel after Iohn where it is shewed that euen for some points of doctrine which our Sauiour Christ did deliuer but were not rightly vnderstood many of his disciples went backe and walked no more with him Christ demaunding of the twelue whether they also woulde goe away Peter answered as he was alwayes a forward fellow Master to whom shall wee goe as if hee shoulde say certainly we cannot tell Thou hast the words of eternall life and we beleeue and know that thou art that Christ that Sonne of the liuing God But amongest all others yea aboue the rest as seemeth to me the Apostle Paul is most plaine and plentifull in this poynt whose seuerall sentences recorded in his holy Epistles concerning this matter would make almost a volume But let vs take one or two in steede of all the rest In his first Epistle to the Corinthians and first Chapter thereof towards the ende he saith concerning Christ and for the body of the faithfull that he is made of God vnto vs wisdome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption meaning thereby that all euen the chiefest graces that we can wish or would haue as true and heauenly wisedome absolute righteousnesse euen before God houest and holy life in the sight of men and deliueraunce from all sinne and all miseries and calamities whatsoeuer are to be found onely in him and no where else And in the Epistle to the Colossians once or twice for fayling he saith that it pleased the Father that in him should all fulnes dwell chap. 1. And in the 2. chap. he saith that in him dwelleth the fulnes of the Godhead bodily meaning thereby that he was replenished not onely with most plentifull but with infinite aboundance of all things both diuine and humane he being not onely most perfect in himselfe and passing all other things but teaching his that whosoeuer hath him neede require nothing more Yea that we might see in him what wee our selues should striue vnto euen euery one of vs as in regard of our owne parte or feeling hee doth not onely tell vs comfortable things 1. Tim. 1. but setteth a worthy preface before it saying This is a true saying and worthy by all meanes to be receiued that Christ Iesus came into the world to saue sinners of whom I am the chiefe Neither neede wee to thinke this strange that godly men haue euery where acknowledged it for euen the diuelles and wicked men conuicted with the euidence and clearenesse of this trueth haue bin constrayned though it haue bin full sore against their willes but for the further increase of their condemnation to confesse it saying What haue we to doe with thee O Christ the Sonne of the liuing God And this is it also that S. Iames meaneth when he sayth of thē the deuilles beleeue tremble And surely God himselfe doth not obscurely but most plainely rather propound this point both in the giuing of his gracious promises concerning Christ and in the reiterating of them also because as the Apostle saith In Christ Iesus all the promises of God are yea and Amen As for example when to our first parents after the fall hee sayth the seede of the woman shall breake or bruise the serpents head And when to Abraham he sayth in thy seede shall all the nations of the earth be blessed Which he doth repeat in Genesis twise or thrise at the least for sayling and the Apostle doth notably expound it in his Epistle to the Galathians saying in thy seed as of one which one is Christ That so in the particularizing of it wee might see still this to be most true that no where we can seeke for or find sound consolation but in him alone Which also may yet further appeare by this that God the Father hath not onely prouided for the continuance and conueyance of this trueth ouer or vnto men by the audible voice of preaching in the publicke ministery of the Gospell teaching them to sound and to publish it saying This is my welbeloued Sonne in whom I am well pleased heare him but hath offered to seale it vp in the heartes and consciences of them by instituting ordayning certaine visible signes and Sacraments both in the