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A11197	Christ and the doves heavenly salutations, with their pleasant conference together: or A sermon before the communion in Anwoth. Anno 1630. By that flour of the Church, Mr. Samuel Rutherfurd	Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661.	1660 (1660)	STC 21464; Wing R2372A; ESTC S100009	19,105	30

Community of Sufferings betwixt CHRIST and Us Poor would we be if his Sufferings were not Ours and Wo would be our Case if his Sufferings were not Ours But this Way it goes he is that Apple Tree Excellent above all the Trees of the Forrest and we do Rest under the Tree now when the Shower of Rain falls it lights first on the Tree and the Stroak of it is broken and it does not great Harm to these that are under the Tree Ilk New Shot at the Kirk lights first on the Head of Christ and he breaks the Point of the Arrow If ye be Ill-spoken off so was He If ye be Hated of the World so was He If your Blood be shed your Face Deformed so was his fair Face Deformed Marred Isa. 52. 14. be content to Drink with Christ Wo be to them that are not in Christ and yet are in Trouble The Arrow with the Sharp Point comes upon them goes to their Heart Slays them Try if your Troubles be Christened-Troubles that lights first upon CHRIST the Head then upon you as the Members Try if by Faith ye have an Union with him Now here by the way a Great Comfort in Trouble Those that are Dear to you Dyes ye Mourn Christ Mourned Groaned in Spirit for Dead Lazarus Ye Weep so he Weeped Are ye Poor and ay at the Borrowing So was Christ at the Borrowing Trade all his Days Should ye not then with Good Will Drink off the Cup that He Drank off before you when ye Murmure and will not Drink Willingly ye Refuse to Pledge Christ But ye must Pledge Him and Drink with GOD's Blessing and with Joy He will not Poyson you They are none of Christ's Friends that will not Pledge Him Matth. 20 21. Fifthly There is a Community of Glory betwixt Christ and Us The Heaven that the Mediator Christ Enjoys is our Heaven Our Heaven is to the Man Christ in a Conquest Heaven was bought with Blood to Him and Us and to make you Rejoice None of GOD's Children gets a Heaven properly of their own Why We got a share and part of Christ's Inheritance He is the Principal Heir Romans 8. We are the Conjunct-heirs Sweet is that Word which He speaks to his Children Luke 22. 29. And I appoint unto You a Kingdom as My Father hath appointed unto Me that ye may Eat and Drink at My Table in My Kingdom Sitting on Thrones Judging the Twelve Tribes of Israel The Meaning is My Father hath made a Disposition to Me of the Kingdom of GOD it is Mine and My Dear Children I will think Heaven uncouth if ye be not with Me Here I make a Disposition and Resignation of that Kingdom to you Ye shall Sit at my Table in My Kingdom Up your Heart howbeit ye be not Lords in Earth ye shall be Lords in Heaven I and Ye shall part Kingdoms and Thrones together Secondly Rejoice in this ye that are in Christ and see your Condition ye and Christ are Halfers together of Heaven and Glory O if GOD's Children be in a Sweet Case as long as Christ is in Heaven and keeps the Inheritance as long shall we keep our Right And who can cause him Flit The Devil hath made these Enemies of the Grace of GOD to Mis-ken all our communion with Christ they have put Christ and the Elect together as a Man in an Inns for a Night and to go away to Morrow They have yoaked Christ and us together as if He were one and we another as if He were His own and We were our own as if Christ had no Law and Right to Us and We had no Law and Right to Christ but met at a Venture and sundered at a Venture as if We had one heaven and He had another As if he had his Portion by himself alone and that he keeps for ever and that We had our Share be our alone too to Sell when We pleased Sells if we Dispone Heaven We Dispone not Christ's Heaven In the Fighting he fights all the Battles his alone We but look on But when it comes to the Dividing of the Spoil We get a Rich Share of the Spoil Yet he gave the Whole Sum for the Inheritance and We Nothing yet we are set at his Elbow in a Throne with him Now seeing our Right is also Good slip not from them Do not as some Unworthy Heir who having a Good Right slips from it for a feckless composition after Drink quites all howbeit he should Beg Indeed the Wicked does this The Devil drinks them Blankfull and fills them with Worldly Pleasures and garrs them Subscrive a Resignation and gives them an unworthy composition some present Pleasure Compone not with the Devil to go to the Law with him let Christ be your Advocat Subscrive not a Submission with the Devil come never in Trysting Terms with him hold you aback from the World and the Lusts of it it is the Devil's Arles that he gives to Silly Drunken Heirs when they cry Hills and Mountains fall on Vs They would fain give back the Arles and Rew but it is out of time And I am His This Property of the covenant is Mutual as she says and acknowledges that he is hers and so Christ is bound to her by his Promise So she acknowledges that she is bound to him and is his by Right Multitudes of the World would play fast and loose with him They would have Christ fast and themselves loose They devise a covenant of their own and says Christ Died for All and GOD is Mercifull to All and GOD will Relieve All Christian Souls from Hell and they think GOD and CHRIST fast enough to them But in the mean time they are loose and Lives like Dogs and Swine in their Filthiness These Men would have Christ as a Child in making of the covenant and exceeding Silly should Christ give himself for you and will ye neither give Life nor Goods for him Christ came to save you Matth. 20. 28. And will ye be his Master Are ye not obliged to Serve him This is to make a Gospel of your own Too many Obeys the Gospel as long as it Flatters them As long as it tells them Christ's Parts and that he shed his Blood and came to save Sinners freely That is the best Chapter in all the Bible But when the Gospel begins to tell them what is their Part and that they must Deny Themselves Crucifie their Lusts to Take up Christ's Heavy Cross they start aback These are Tender-footed-Christians that Walks in the Law and in the Gospel so long as they go softly on it as a Bed of Roses and Hurts not their Feet But when a Thorn of the Command touches them they stand aback Ye may not half GOD's Law and take as much of it as serves you As Christ gave himself to be Yours and has Subscrived the Contract So give your Selves to Him and Subscrive your Part of

of Love for Christ and here Christ Sick of Love for his Kirk Christs Left Hand is under Her Head and His Right Hand doth Imbrace Her She is His Fair One His Love His Dove His Vndefiled She Dwells in the Wounds of Her Lord by Faith Yet for all this His Kirk is a Vineyard that has many Foxes in it to Destroy the Vines Then we see so long as GOD hath a Vineyard there will be Foxes in it to Destroy the Vines That is Crafty-men False-Teachers Deceitfull-Workers Transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ 2 Corinthians 1. 13. Paul Planted a Church in Ephesus Acts 20. 28. yet after his Departure Grievous Wolves entred in not Sparing the Flock Surely in this Life Marches are not redd betwixt GOD and the Devil The Devil Fyles the Score and comes over the March upon GODs Bounds Matthew 13. GOD Sows his Wheat and the Devil steals up the Rigg and with Hot-furr he Sows his Tares 1 Kings 22. In Achab's Court there is never a Honest-Man till he be Tryed The False-Knave and Truth are Door-Neighbours 1 Kings 22. In Achab's Court there is an Honest-Man that tells the King the Truth But there is Four Hundred False-Knaves that says against him and Poor-Man he must to Prison and they get leave to keep the Court for the Thief is ever the Honest-Man till he be Tryed The False-Knave and the Truth are Door-Neighbours and almost Twins born at one Time howbeit Truth be Eldest and First-born Isaiah Complains Chapter 46. Of Dumb Dogs that could never have enough Jeremiah 10. He Complains of many Pastors that Corrupted the Vineyard Ezekiel Complains of Foxes Zachariah 11. Of Idol-Shepherds Hymineus and Philetus spoke against Paul The Sadducees in Christ's Days Denyed the Resurrection And not only is there False Teachers in our Days but in the Best Kirks were and are many Foxes for all is not Fish that comes in the Net And if ye be GODs Sheep ye must not think to want Foxes to Nibble and to Work under the Earth to Destroy you Ye may not look that Christ is Master of the Fields without Blood Ye will not be long in Prosperity in the World There be a Number of Foolish People wonders that GOD brings such a Good Husband that should not hold out the Foxes from his own Vineyard They would have a Christ of Gold and a Kirk of Velvet or of Fair White Paper They think Christ's Bride should be Clade in Purple and Scarlet as the Whore of Rome is or does Wear I will shew you how Christ and his Kirk meets when the Bridegroom Wooed his Kirk Many a Black Stroak got He both of GOD and Man He was the Vine GOD and Man strake at him with Axes he Bought him Dear it cost him Blood ere he got her And think ye she has Fair Weather when she Wooes him Nay many a Cuffe gets she from the World This Fox and that Fox pulls the Skin off her She is hardly handled in this Wooing there be Stroaks on both Sides For fain would the Devil have the Contract Cancelled and the Marriage going back And let me speak to you that are GODs Young Vine make you for it the Foxes of the World will Peel the Bark off you If there be Grace in you they will do what they can to eat it up in the bud Hold your hands about the Grace of GOD be not Robbed And ye give them their Will they would pull the Skin off your Face Secondly Ye see Christ hath gotten out Letters of Caption against all his Foxes Here is a Commission obtained in Christ's Court that all that hurts Christ's Vineyard should be Apprehended and laid fast But alas the Commissioners the Pastors the Judges over-sees them But here a Comfort for you who are the LORDs Vines that are troubled with Foxes I assure you that the Kirk has Law against all her Enemies Be not casten down because the World Hates you Twenty six Hunder years syn Christ hath given out a Decreet against all his Enemies and Yours to take them Here ye have Assurance Your Enemies are Rebels and all of them under Caption Psalms 110. 6. He shall fill the Places with Dead Bodies He shall Wound the Head over them even in many Countries Ye that Complain of your Predominant Sin and thinks ye are hardned with them for these be also Foxes that do Harm the LORDs Vineyard fight against them for Christ has given out a Decreet against those that they shall be taken My Beloved is Mine These be the Words of the Contract of Marriage For there is a Covenant betwixt Christ and his Kirk Ezekiel 36. I will be Their GOD and They shal be My People But here an Doubt to be answered by these Words It would seem Christ and his Kirk are Two Different Parties in the Contract Christ upon the one side and the Kirk upon the other Is not Christ upon the Kirks Side and obliges for his Wife I Answer Christ having Two Natures has Two Contrary Considerations and yet he is one Party and we another and so Promises to us Life Eternal and we Promise by his Grace to Believe Secondly Christ is considered as Mediator GOD and Man and so he is upon our Side for the Promise is made to Him and His And he as Principal-Contractor binds for Us and we are his Assigneys So Jesus skips betwixt both the Sides because he is a Friend to both But it is certain these very Words proves him to be on our Side of the Covenant because our Beloved is Ours and we are His He is our Mediator and Cautioner bound for Us The very Words of the Covenant are spoken to Christ Psalms 87. 27. I will make Him My First-born Higher then the Kings of the Earth But he said Verse 26. He shall cry to Me Thou art My Father My GOD and the Rock of My Salvation My Mercy will I keep for Him for evermore and My Covenant shall stand Fast with Him The Enemies of Grace would have Christ a GOD folding his Fingers and a Looker on and beholding Fair Play Lyars he is more than Half-play master The Devil will not get his Name out of the Contract And Beloved see ye not but it is a Sweet Thing to have any thing to do with Christ His Chaffe is better than other Mens Corn If ye have any fastning with Christ the Cause is Won Now hold you be Christ it is a shame for him that ye fall out of the Covenant because he is Cautioner as ye know it is a shame for a Nobleman that his Poor Friend be cast in Prison for the Debt that he is obliged to pay Christ is now obliged that He fullfill the Covenant and make Good both your Part and his Part Boast not of your Selves or of your own Strength be not Proud of your Selves but ye shall have full Liberty to boast your Self of Christ Crac enough of Christ be Proud of Christ's Merits ye cannot erre there