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A50394	Love to the life, or, Some meditations upon loving, and washing in the blood of Christ together, with a tast of gospel-promises, as the churches stock, or, believers patrimony. By R.M. the Benjamin of his Fathers house.	Mayhew, R. (Richard)	1674 (1674)	Wing M1440; ESTC R217769	43,513	159

LOVE to the LIFE Or some MEDITATIONS UPON LOVING and WASHING In the Blood of Christ TOGETHER With a Tast of Gospel-Promises as the CHURCHES STOCK or BELIEVERS PATRIMONY By R. M. the Benjamin of his Fathers house As the Father hath loved me so have I loved you continue ye in my Love Jo. 15.9 If I wash thee not thou hast no part with me Jo. 13 8. If ye be Christs then are ye Abrahams seed and Heirs according to the promise Gal. 3.29 Mala mea purè mala sunt mea sunt Bona autem mea nec pure bona sunt nec mea sunt London Printed for B. Harris at the Stationers Arms in Swithins Alley Anno 1674. To the Christian and Candid Reader READER THou mayst wonder to see Me the Benjamin of my Fathers House to add to the Heap and Pile of Books If my wickedly-wicked heart deceive me not not Glory unless of God nor Gain unless of Souls have been the wheels on which I have moved and the grand Incentives to Midwife the Babe into the World A Book may preach when the Author dare not when the Author cannot yea which is more when the Author is not I hope I can say without a Flourish that this Babe had been stifflled in the womb and not seen the Light had not my highest Ambition notwithstanding Brotherly Solicitation been my Fathers Glory and my Fellow Creatures Good Eccl. 12 12 Though of making Books there is no end and much reading is a weariness to the Flesh Yet there are some Books of which I may say as some Phisicians speak of their Pills there are Pilula sine quibus that is sine quibus esse nolo without which they would not be 'T is true the Bible is the Book of Books for that is Gods Book yet there are some Libelli sine quibus some little Books without which I would not be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If this little Tract have been preached to the Ear and shall be pre●ented to the Eye then the strength of Israel imprint it upon the Heart Reader If thou findest not in this Book Much in a Little yet wonder not Job 8.9 for I am but of yesterday and know nothing or not according to the Margent If any say why do this Dwarf trouble the World that 's under a Glut of Books already I shall modestly reply that though wordly praise and profit be the two Lackeys of most mens Labours yet through Grace I have been hunting after neither The Pen by far spreads it self farther then the Voice can reach the Pen is an artificial Tongue and sheaks to the Absent as well as the present yea it speaks not to the present Age only but to the succeeding Ages also The Pen is a kind of Image of Eternity and will make a Man live when He is dead Zach. 1.5 Though the Prophets do not live for ever yet their Labours may Heb. 11.4 ana Abel though dead yet speaketh or is spoken off What Solon saia concerning Laws that there were many good Laws made but there wanted one Law to make them put all those Laws in Execution So I may ●ay concerning Books there are many good Book written but there wanteth one Book to make us put those ●ood Books in practise O● such a Book were worth writing and worth reading Augustine with Ciceroes Hortensius I hav● read of one that was much taken with the Book of anoth●r but not finding the name of Christ in it he could not cordyally affect it Reader I doubt not but the Name of Christ who hath a Name above every Name will be Legible in this little little Book for 't is a Narrative according to my Stature of Christs Loving and Washing out of Love I would hope I shall never have cause to say concerning this Book as Nero did concerning a piece of his ultinum nescissem Literas wishing it had never been written God hath two Books his Works and his Word the Book of the Creatures and the Book of the Scriptures As for this latter Book the Holy Scriptures of Truth they are Christs Letters of Credence that when a poor desponding doubting and drooping Souls cannot see Christ it may read of a Christ and hear of a Christ and so hear from a Christ Now though for this Book especially we are to ble●s God for as there is a different Reading and what is said of a part is tr●e of the whole Rev. 1.3 Blessed is he or she that rea●eth and they that hear the words of this Prophesie and keep those sayings which are written therein Yet there are many other good Books for which I can bless God especially where there is much of a Christ most of a Christ as Saviour and Soveraign Reader Was not that a sad day when the Apostles who were so good Preachers were forbidden preaching Acts 4.17.18 They called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus So was not that a sad and sinful day in the time of Justin Martyr Clarks Eccles Hist 7. The Proconsul in Asia forbad that Christians should read any Books that spake of Christ In this little little Book thou mayest read of a Jesus the Loving of a Jesus the Washing of a Jesus whose Name is Honey to the Mouth Melody to the Ear and Musick to the Heart Pauls Epistles and Peters Epistles are Ours though not in their Inscriptions yet in their Benefit Words pass away and are forgotten when writing remain Every new Tide blots out a writing in the Sand and every new Term shews the former forgotten but writing deceives even Death it self If this Book should turn to the Good of None yet shall I sing but to the same Tune that others of Gods Servants have done before Me witness this place among others Isa 49.4 Then I said I have laboured in vain I have spent my strength for nought and in vain yet surely my Judgement is with the Lord and my work or reward with God Reader A pretention to satisfie every Reader were as ridiculous as his Attempt who studied to make a Vestement for the Moon that might fit her for every Interchange If therefore thou beest curious and critical I cannot pretend to the least hope of pleasing Thee for thou wilt I fear be finding faults besides the faults that are to be found But least this Epistle should swell and become tympanious I will give it a timely Check As it is true there is a so believing for there must be a believing with the Heart yea Acts 8.37 with the whole Heart If thou believest with all thine heart thou mayest And as there is a so repenting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for there must be sorrowing after a godly manner or as the Greek is a sorrowing according to God And 2 Cor. 7.9 as there is a so running So run 2 Cor. 9.24 that ye may obtain And as there

to God for Man so the● is a sanctification wrought by God in Man If the Blood o● Bulls and of Goats and th● ashes of an Heffer sprincklin● the unclean sanctified to th● purifying of the flesh Heb. 9.13 14. Ho● much more shall the blood 〈◊〉 Christ who through the etern● Spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God Here 's purging and purifying here 's sanctifying and spiriting unto Service but how through blood That is through an Application of Christs blood and this application is through Faith For the Apostle wordeth it Rom. 3.25 Whom speaking of Christ God hath set forth or so ordained to be a propitiation or mercy-seat but how through Faith in the Blood So that all arrive at a Satisfaction with respect to Justification and Sanctification concerning this Blood Christ was satisfied in shedding his Blood God was satisfied in Christs shedding his Blood And Man is satisfied because interessed in this Blood that was shed being delivered not from a Conscience of Sin only but from a Conversation of Sin also And washed us from our Sins in his own Blood Why Christ washeth from Sin in his own Blood Christ washeth from Sin in a two fold Respect in respect of the Necessity of it an● in respect of the commodity by it Reasons In respect of the Necessity of it It is expedient that one should dye for the People and that the whole Nation perish not There 's a Necessity of Christs Blood and that for these two Reasons among others Because Man had sinned Man is defiled and therefore Man must be washed Every man in a state of Nature is a Bartimeus the Son of the unclean as the word signifieth Oh Soul here 's thy pedigree though an Emperor was thy Father yet Adam was thy Grand-Father To this purpose the Apostle speaks Wherefore Rom 5.12 as by one Man sin entred into the World and Death by Sin and so death passed upon all Men for that all have sinned Or in whom all have sinned so the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Every Man and Woman living in the Region of depraved Nature is a Nero a Sinner as the word signifie Man is defiled and that from Head A Capitead Calcew to Foot that as the Philosopher saith concerning the Soul it is in every part where there is Life there is the Soul Tota in toto ●ota in qualibet parte for the Soul is the Life so what ever is in us and commeth from us and is acted by us receive a defilement from us Sin is like a Leprosie over the whole man like a Gangrene spreading over the whole Soul There is therefore a necessity of Christs Blood in order to Pardon and in order to Purity Because God would be satisfied God is infinite in his Attributes as well as in his Essence Justice is one of Gods Attributes and God will not loose one of his Attributes If Man sin God will avenge this sin upon the Person or upon the Passover As Man had sinned so God would be satisfied yea satisfied the same way he was offended 1 Cor. 15.21 By Man came Death by man came also the Resurrection of the dead In respect of the Commodity by it The Blood of Christ is advantagious in a manisold respect At this Door of Christs Blood enters Redemption Is not Redemption a great thing to be rescued out of the hands of the roaring Lyon is not this a great Mercy This is through Christs Blood Eph. 1.7 In whom we have Redemption but how through his Blood At this Door of Christs Blood enters Remission Is not Remission a great thing Pardon of Sin is not only a singular but also a plural Mercy Heb. 9.22 this Remission is through Christs blood Without shedding of blood no Remission At this Door of Christs Blood enters Access to God Is not Access to God a great thing Access to a mortal Monarch is eyed as a great thing but what is Access to an immortal God then Sin had set God and Man at an infinite distance Christs Blood bring these together The Apostle speaking of Christs preaching Peace to them which were asar off and to them which were nigh subjoins joins this Eph. 2.17 18. For through him we both have an Access by one Spirit unto the Father At this Door of Christs Blood enters Acceptance with God There 's an Acceptation through Christ and his Blood as to Person and as to Performance There is through Christs Blood an Acceptation as to Person Man was indebted and the Blood of Christ went to pay the Reckoning Eph. 1.6 Ye are bought with a price Christs Blood went for pay To the praise of the glory of his grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved There is through Christs Blood an Acceptation as to Performance As God hath respect to the Person of an Abel so to the Oblation of an Abel but respect to both through Christ Christ is a merciful and faithful high Priest Heb. 2.17 in things partaining to God to make riconciliation for the Sin of the People At this Door of Christs Blood enters Salvation Is not Salvation a great thing Is not this worth the hearing worth the having Is not Damnation a bitter Pil a bitter Potion This Salvation is through Christs 〈◊〉 from Wrath and from 〈◊〉 〈…〉 If the wrath of a King be as the Messenger of death 〈◊〉 what 's the wrath of a God then the wrath of the God of Gods then Christ by his blood saveth from wrath Rom. 4.25 Who was delivered for our offences and raised again for our Justification From Sin As the Blood of Christ saveth from the Guilt of Sin so from the Filth of Sin He shall save the People from their Sins Mat. 1.21 As Christ is a Saviour for Sin so from Sin What Vse may be made of this Lastly that Christ wash●th from Sin in his own Blood Here are three uses USE Caution Comfort Counsel Now this Use hath a double Aspect By way of Caution and looks unto the washed and unwashed Now if so there must be a distinct discussion in a way of Caution Art loved To the washed and washed be cautioned then against sinning for Christs Blood must go for washing Beloved what all the water in the Sea cannot do the Blood of Christ can do If thou beest washed from Sin 't is by Christs Blood What Man in his wits will be lavish of his blood Oh what Soul in love with Christ being loved of Christ will be lavish of Christs Blood Soul if there be sinning by Thee and Mee his Blood must go for washing Hath not Christ bled enough already when he hath bled to death to an accursed death but must he bleed again That as he was pierced again must he bleed again Jo. 20.27 Come Thomas reach hither thy hand and thrust it into