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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.
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Conyers, James.
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Monument at Tarentum called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lovers Monument These wee must know were deare and neere an espoused paire but for Christ to set his love on us every way unworthy Rom. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hos 2. 19. to be beloved 1. weake 2. godlesse 3. sinners 4. enemies yea traytors to him and our owne soules though once espoused by a Ring of Love in-laid with the pearles of his Spirit yet by reason of spirituall adultery divorced and for all this to love us this is much Greater love than this Isa 59. 2. Iohn 15. 13 hath no man than to lay downe his life for his friend yet under correction To majorem habuisti charitatem Domine dilexti non existentes imò resistentes greater sweet Saviour was thy love thou lovedst us when wee were nothing yea worse than nothing sworne enemies to thy life In meditation whereof that inscription upon Senacheribs Tombe I may apply to Christ and the Christians use 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whosoever Herodot thou art make Christ thy spectacle learne of him to love thine enemies this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 6. 35. that spirituall wisdome which adopts thee Gods child hereto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 natures instinct workes all being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of one blood now never man hated his owne flesh this is the Royall Acts 17. 26. command I say to you Love your enemies and Mat. 5. 44 Christ himselfe herein is exemplum fine exemplo a matchlesse mirrour of benevolence and beneficence towards his enemies in that he loved us It is storyed of Alexander the Monarch that he Edicte vetuit de quis se praeter Apelle pingeret aut alius Lysippo Horat. Epist 2. would have no man draw his Picture save Apelles or engrave it save Lysippus the best Artists both for theorie and practice No Artist in Christendome can draw the most high GOD better to the life than in the lines of his owne life to blaze the true orientall colours of love towards his enemies after the example of the ingraven forme of his person that loved us which words ere I depart from me thinks ecchoes so sweetly in the eare of my soule and in thine except deafenesse or deadnesse have made a forcible entrie that Miriams Timbrels Asaphs Trumpet Davids Anthemes Salomons Epithalamions sound nothing so sweetly the ground Rom. 5. 10 is sound for if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Sonne much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life which brings me to the second general part the life of his love in ample manifestation 2 Generall part of the 1 Sacrifice Quest He washed us in his blood from our sinnes Hee Christ the Sonne of the living God Lord of Men and Angels majesty in excelsis in the highest to become humility in profundis in the lowest did this become him was not this a servile act viz. to wash us a staine to his honourable person To put this Question out of doubt or the Resp doubt out of question no whit for herein first was the complement of that Prophesie in a good sense The elder shall serve the younger Further it Gen. 25. 23. was of such absolute necessity that Peters case being ours except he had washed us we had had no part with him But to cleere the scruple Iohn 13. 8. it is illustrated thus A Peere of the Realme Ruff. in Symb. beholding a poore child wel-nigh choaked in the mud and to save him if some slime should adhere to him it were no dishonour rather an honour to doe so good a dayes worke as to save a soule semblablie that true Noble-Man Christ Iesus beholding with the eye of grace our silly soule plunged in the puddle of sinne albeit our slimy sinnes stucke to him to plucke us out and save us it did not impaire his honour yea rather set it off with a fairer lustre And by this act he reades us a Lecture of humility If I then your Lord and Master have washed your feet Ioh. 13. 14 15 ye ought also to wash one anothers feet for I have given you an example that ye should doe even as I have done How may this be Saint Cyprian is our Schoole-master Quoties igitur c. D◠Ablutione pedum as often as we perswade those which are under spirituall Pharoahs slavery to get them out of Aegypt mourne with those that mourne burne with those that are offended are infirme with those that are infirme that Aquin. in Cor. 2. 11. is as Aquinas interprets for him that is infirme in the Faith Dolemus in cordibus nostris sicut de nobis lament for them as for our selves so often wash we the feet of our Brethren And when this thy Saviours humility comes fresh into thy memory that he whose Throne is Mount-heaven footstoole the Earth whom all the inhabitants of the Earth and all the Angels of Heaven must worship that he would stoope to wash thee Stoope Gallant and learne of him to be lowly so to be it is a good argument thou art well loaden with grace for as branches of Trees and eares of Corne the better they are loaden stoop neerer the earth and the best refined Gold goes downe in the ballance so the more fruitfull and Quo sanctior hoc humilior Ambros precious a Soule is the more it lowers it selfe and the higher in Gods eye it shall bee exalted Obiectum And thus from Christs Act we descend to the Object what hee washed and from what Vs from our sinnes Which words argue 1 sinnes condition it is pollution so Zacharias brands it uncleanenesse 13. 1. Atramentum Evae Amb. 26. therefore Ezekiel compares it to scum 22. 18. Hosea to a rising leprosie S. Iude to a spot S. Ambrose to a blacke cloud Vna nubecula peccatricis totam fere obscuravit Ecclesiam Res est Ep. ad virg lapsam foetida saith Origen a spawne of an uncleane spirit which unlesse washed away in the laver of Christs purifying blood and a flood of cordiall repentance will in fine associate with a Cage of uncleane Birds Therefore minde we Apostolicall counsell touch not taste not handle not for as Syracides speakes hee that washeth himselfe because of a dead body and toucheth it Eccles 34. 26. againe what availes his washing And as his washing proves sinne its nature so it unmaskes all the sonnes of men that albeit in their originall they were like to the house of Iacob wherein Amb. de fug seculi c. 4. no image of impiety no spot of pollution but all as cleere as Chrystall yet since the prevarication all as Labans Lambes are speckled and spotted A capite ad calcem from top to toe Let Abraham the father of the faithfull Isa 1. 6. Aaron on whose bonnet was holinesse to the Lord Amb. a pol. Daniel Antequam noscamur