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B12174	Christs love, and saints sacrifice Preached in a sermon at St. Pauls Crosse, on the 23. of August, 1635. By Iames Conyers, Mr. of Arts of Sydney-Sussex in Cambridge, and minister of Stratford-Bow, in Middlesex.	Conyers, James.	1635 (1635)	STC 5657; ESTC S114491	14,982	32

and am perswaded That neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities Rom. 8. 38 39 nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall euer be able to separate us from the love of Christ Iesus who loved us And thus much or rather thus little on this first point viz. the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Christ loved us and so we proceed to the second 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 why he loved us The Ethnicks feigne their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gods and Goddesses for some lovely good loved certaine Trees Iupiter the Oke for durance Neptune the Cedar for stature Apollo the Laurell for greennesse Venus the Poplar for whitenesse Pallas the Vine for fruitfulnesse but what should move the God of all gods to love us wildings in this fooles Paradise Trees indeed but such as St. Iude mentions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 corrupt fruitlesse twice dead and plucked up by the rootes St. Bernard resolves it in three words Amat quia amat hee loves because he loves the root of love to us lyeth in himselfe and by his communicative goodnesse the fruit is ours Hence then exclude wee all boasting in our selves and conclude sith Christ hath loved us and hereby is made to us wisdome in the headfaculty of our soules righteousnesse in the workes of our hands sanctification in our hearts redemption Zach. 4. 7. in all parts it was of grace and grace be to it and thus from the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 why he loved us passe we to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how he loved us Whereon while I muse I am rapt with amazement 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for suppose the Heavens as a scrowle of Parchment the Vaste Ocean Inke Creatures caelestiall and subcaelestiall Pen-men all were unable to unfold this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how he loved us The reason is his love as himselfe is infinite which no finite creature is able fully to comprehend yet in a modell we may conceive it is much so sounds that Trumpet of grace as if he loved overloved Propter nimium charitatem so it is rendred in the Ephes 2. 4. vulgar Our stupendious Divine hee speakes for order first grave Cyprian sayes Immerito dilexit 1 Iohn 4. 19. he loved us in mercy without merit St. Bernard thus he loved us Dulciter sweetly he In Cantic assumed our nature sapienter wisely he severed sinne and nature fortiter strongly Much waters could not quench love though never so bitter or so abundant nay the more waters the more love Magnes Amoris Amor. His love should be the magnet of ours But oh how are we drawn aside if we love him it is but a little too little or little or nothing at all as we should Will you reade the reason 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Isid Peleus Ep. 209. Since the love of Gold grew so hot the love of Christ hath growne cold Since Prince Mammon hath triumphed the Prince of our Salvation hath been underprized Shall this worlds goods which in respect of Christ are meere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rubbish or the god of this World which onely loves us as the Wolfe the Lambe to devoure have so strong a hand over us to draw our hearts from the love of our Saviour Absit God forbid Yet for feare of the worst open thy eare to Wisdomes voyce He that loves not Christ plus quam se suos sua more than himselfe his friends Mat. 10. 37. his meanes is not worthy of him If this should not win our love hearken to S. Pauls thunder If 1 Cor. 16. 22. any man love not the Lord Iesus Christ let him bee Anathema or if the voyce of consolation may worke on our hearts know all things worke togegether for the best unto them that love God Quae Rom. 8. 28. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Armies of Angels as for Elishaes protection Sunne Moone and Starres as for Duke Iosuah and Deboraes conquest dumbe creatures Quid non speremus amantes for instruction and preservation Gods rod for caution his rigide staffe for reverence sickenesse as in Ezechias even sinnes by accident meerely as in the Publican for humiliation and salvation these as so many matches may give fire to our chill affections to inzeale and inflame them with the Love of Christ but to prove it is all in all the touch-stone hereof is love to Gods materiall Temple in sincerity to behold the Probatio amoris est exhibitio operi● faire beauty of the Lord and to visit his holy Temple therein to hold up pure hands and hearts for the peace of Sion and to uphold it prece pretio with our prayers and with our purses in opposition to the old Massalians who to the number of their impieties adde contemptum templorum the disgrace of Cathedrals as also to crowne our soules with blessings for they shall prosper that love it And let not our love onely rest here but reach to the mysticall Temple viz. Christs poore members hereby we shall neither want Christs commemoration nor remuneration For what if the great Keeper of his Saints here and the Grand-Iudge of all at Doomes-day shall conceale Abels martyrdome Noah his saving a remnant from the Deluge Abrahams invincible Faith Peters Pauls Iohns sufferings yet of the acts of charity he will make a rehearsall Sermon I was an hungred and ye gave me meat Mat. 25. 35. I thirsted and ye gave me drinke I was a stranger and ye lodged me I was naked and ye clothed me I was sick and yee visited me I was in prison and ye came unto me and therefore I will remunerate your bowels of mercie with Come yee blessed of my Father c. Come ad me your Savior that dearely bought you Venite benedicti meos to my Saints and Angels your fellow servants mea to all that is mine joyes c. Honours interminable to all dimensions blessed of my Father before you were borne and blessed that ever yee were borne inherit by my grace not your merit no lesse than a Kingdome no other than a heavenly Kingdome prepared for you before all time purchased for you in the fulnesse of time and shall bee yours in possession when there shall be no more time Thus in a short compasse of time I come unto the last stage viz. Quos whom Christ loved Vs Vnto him that loved us Divine History perpetuates the memorable affection of Ionathan to David how his soule was knit unto his soule And hee loved him as his owne 1 Sam. 18. soule thereto was no little inducement for David was Ionathans Fathers beloved servant his owne faithfull friend a wise and valiant Captaine and all Israel loved him Humane story Val. Max. l. 4. cap. 8. survives of Orestillo when her life went from her Pla●tius at the instant became her second for a buriall in memoriall wherof was erected a

it savours Iesuiticall advise let the credit of the Story stand ad placitum but this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 worthy of all acceptation that Christs innocent Blood expiates our guilt and heales all manner of spirituall Leprosie Ioh. 1. 1. Blood preserves alive therefore Physitians prescribe the blood of a Dove a soveraigne against diseases in the eye and the braine Galen gives it against the bruises called Hyposphagmata which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 presents every thing to the eye red And Iul. Alex. commends it dropped on the corners of Lib. 4. salubrium the braine called Pia Dura Mater in the wounds of the head to helpe to hold in life So pretious was the blood of Christ a harmelesse Dove that dropped on our eyes whereas before all we could see were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 goare blood by reason of our bloody sinnes now wee behold as in a Glasse salvation before our eyes And whereas in our head Adam we had received a deadly wound by a Balme made of this Blood and laid to it we are alive unto God Blood hath revived the dead As the Story of the Pelican goes for currant her brood being stung to death by the brood of the Serpent by distilling her blood on her owne brood they have beene restored to life So Christ our true Pelican when by our serpentine firy-stinging sinnes we were stung to death by the vertue of his blood effused on our soules wee are quickned and raised to life to the praise of his glory But there is one maine and memorable difference betwixt this Blood and all others The blood of man or beast may give snow-white a scarlet tincture but never die scarlet snow-white but this and this onely by mercy and miracle makes scarlet Soules as white as snow In Salomon thus that Elder moved the question and made the answer to our Evangelist What are they that Apoc. 7. 13 14. are arrayed in long white robes and whence came they These are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their long Robes and have made their long robes white in the Blood of the Lambe Now that Christ washed us with his blood Hence a choake Peare to the Manichees who deny the truth of Christs-humanity to the Marcionites who averre he had a phantasticall Body to Apelles who conceived hee had a Sydereall substance He that runnes may read printed in blood the truth of his Manhood For as Alexander the great however the popular sort deified him yet having got a clap with an Arrow said ye stile me Iupiters Sonne as if immortall Sed hoc vulnus clamat me esse hominem this blood that issues from the wound proves me in the issue a man So may I say of our Saviour though myriads of Angels and Saints acclaime he is God ergo immortall and a crue of Hereticks disclaime him to be a man yet the streames of blood following the arrow of death that strucke him make good he was perfect man of a reasonable soule and humane flesh subsisting but this their heresie wee passe for there must bee 1 Cor. 11. 9. heresies and in holy admiration ponder in the chambers of our hearts the immense love of the Father and of the Sonne of the Father that hee would give his Sonne to shed his blood and dye the execrable death of the Crosse for the sonnes of men Ab aeterno genitum begotten before all eternitie His Sonne Psal 2. 7. Omnis creaturae primogenitum the first begotten of every creature Vnigenitum his onely begotten Col. 1. 16. Ioh. 1. 18. Mat. 3. ult Esa 42. 1. Sonne Dilectum his beloved Sonne and as speakes that Seraphicall Prophet Electum Animae suae such a sonne in whom his soule delighted and for us Caytiffes not worthy the least crum of his mercy And no lesse admirable is the love of Gods dearely beloved Sonne to powre out his soule unto death for us and our salvation It is storied of Cyrus King of Persia having Zenop. lib. 3. taken Tygranes King of Armenia with his Queene captives on a time he moved Tygranes what he would give for his Queenes ransome to whom he replyed That had hee what he once had viz. his Crowne and Kingdome hee would freely give it for her freedome and if that were too little he would purchase it with the price of his blood which love to his Spouse Cyrus observing presently reinvested them to their pristine liberties and honours Wherupon Tygranes spake unto his Queene Cyrus is a most 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 noble Prince the Queene made answer My affections were only bent on him that would have spent his dearest blood for me a fortiori should we espoused unto Christ the Prince of the Kings of the Earth fixe our hearts on him that not onely resolved our freedome from Persian but infernall thraldome and purchased it with his precious Blood To winde up in a word here every eye may see whereon to rest his Soule that it may be saved in that great and notable day not on his owne righteousnesse that is imperfect nor Saints oyle that is not sufficient for themselves nor the Popish incruentall Masse a Masse of horrible impieties no Popes pardon or Aqua benedicta of theirs to which they ascribe rare incredible both spirituall and corporall effects whereby they bewitch silly soules to inrich themselves and all not worth a bit of bread but solely in the blessed blood of that immaculate Lambe Christ Iesus Herein to our most precious soules is salus oblata salvation freely offered herein by our most precious faith is salus recepta salvation imbraced in this faith by the impresse of the Spirit is salus obsignata salvation sealed and hereby is the end of our faith salus consummata our salvation finished and while we sojourne in these terrene Tabernacles the foundation of our glory the rise and perfection is in and from this blood whereby wee are made Kings and Priests unto our God And this is the second branch wherein Christs love is manifested Hee hath crowned us Kings and consecrated us Priests to God and his Father Artaxerxes honoured Nehemiah much to Kings advance him to bee his Cup-bearer and Saul David to make him his Sonne in law but to make us Kings lesse than none save God alone what could be more but what manner of Kings Rex sol● deo minor not politicall but spirituall Et bene saith S. Gregory quia praelati cunctis motibus carnis c. Moral 36. c. 21. as reigning over our corrupt affections curbing luxury tempering intemperate avarice humbling hautinesse of spirit and extinguishing the fire of fury Will you a little more at large behold the majestie of as many as are truely made Kings Their unction is not oyle but holy blood Their Diademe is not 12. stones but 12. s●ars Apoc. 12. 1. The Sword is the Word of God The Scepter is the power