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The Christian laver. Or, a discourse opening the nature of participation with, and demonstrating the necessity of purification by Christ By T. Cruso.
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Cruso, Timothy, 1656?-1697.
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the Church of the Jews should affect every one and strike us with confusion How canst thou say I am not polluted Jer. 2.23 Unless this self-justifying Mouth be stopt the Fountain which God hath opened will be sealed up against us Secondly Address your selves to Christ with sincertity and fervency that he may wash you both within and without He offers this priviledge to you in the Word go you and urge it to him in Prayer Jer. 13. ult He says Wilt thou not be made clean Plead and expostulate with him in his own Language Lord wilt thou not make me clean When shall it onâ—â— be When shall I list up my fact to thee without spot and by that means without shame He is able both to convince you of your uncleanness and cure you too hâ—â— he hath Authority and Power to say Luk. 5.13 I will be thou clean and hâ—â— many promises upon record speak his readiness and inclination You may feel a little smart and pain while he is about thiâ— work Mal. 3.2 for the Prophet compare him to Fullers Soap which will search in order to cleansing But remember how much more tolerable this is Mark 9.49 than to be salted with fire One of these two must be if your filthiness be not purged Ezek. 24.13 fury will unavoidably rest upon you And therefore do not act the Hypocrites part in getting the outside only clean Mat. 23.25 like those Scribes and Pharisees to whom the greater damnation is threatned v. 14 Be heartily willing to lay aside all filthiness Jam. 1.21 if you do not so you do not so you do nothing If every performance do not proceed out of a pure heart 1 Tim. 1.5 the end of the Commandment is not answer'd You only mock God and deceive your selves Thirdly Live to Christ in the Exercise of pure and undefiled Religion and take heed of falling into the dirt again 2 Pet. 2.20 It is sad to be entangled in the pollutions of the World after we have escapt them through the knowledge of Christ Walk with all possible exactness and circumspection and say as the Spouse did to a worse purpose whenever the Tempter assaults you I have washed my feet Song 5.3 how shall I defile them My Saviour hath cleansed me from my sins by his own Blood I will therefore fore go and sin no more Upon this account stoop not too much to the filthy puddles of Creature-enjoyments Converse more with things above where Christ himself is Remember that he byed to purifie you to himself Tit. 2.14 Your purgation by so dear a remedy was to make you meet for the Masters use 2 Tim. 2.21 and not to leave you at Satans disposal by a sinful gratification of the flesh Fourthly Improve the continuance of Life for your increase in Holiness The best ground requires frequent culture and they that are in Christ want more purging still Therefore it is Joh. 15.2 that God does not immediately upon our Conversion take us out of the World and snatch us into Heaven but orders us to abide here for a while that we may be yet better prepar'd for his everlasting Presence God does not use to perfect so great a change in a moment or in the twinckling of an Eye though perhaps he may do it sometimes for the Exaltation of his Soveraignty Lusts are gradually mortified before they are totally extingnish't For this reason we are yet sojourning upon Farth because we are to atain further before we come to our Journey 's End Death is delay'd because the work of life is not done nor the design of it sufficiently accomplisht These are the days of our Purification when they are over our Glorification will commence Be diligent then in this your day like those under the Law that were to wash their clothes Num. 19.19 and bathe themselves in water and for a reward to such diligence you shall be clean at even Fifthly Get your holy Performances and earthly Comforts washt by Christ also There is a dung in our Duties Mal. 2.3 which he must separate them from or else they will not be acceptable to God When there were some that mentioned to an Eminent person on his Death-bed Mr. G. H. a piece of Service which he had done he answerd piously It is a good work if it be sprinkled with the bloud of Christ Even the Sacrifice of the Righteous as well as of the wicked would be an abomination to the Lord if it were not for the more grateful and unblemish'd Sacrifice of his Son Bring all your offerings therefore to this High-Priest that God may receive them from his hands perfum'd with his Incense All that we would have the Father to approve we must have him to recommend And there is likewise a ploouting vanity in Worldly things which will be mischievous to us if Christ do not remove it by his Spirit how miserable are they to whom nothing is pure Tit. 1.15 and how happy they on the other side Luk. 11.41 to whom all things are clean Let it then be your uneigned desire that you may not possess any thing in this Life which will tend to unqualify or indispose you for the next Sanctified wants and straits are ten thousand times better than the most plentiful corrupted Enjoyments Lastly You who have had Experience of this washing by Christ fear not the Devil 's foulest Accusations He may bespatter you but he cannot hurt you he hath nothing to do with you whatever he says against you Why then should you slavishly dread such a disarmed Adversary Why should you stand in tormenting awe of him who must necessarily fall before you His Weapons his chiefest Arguments the very sinews and strength of his cause wherein he trusted are now gone and he shall never be permitted to recover them While you were in an unpurified state he could alledge a great deal of truth for your Condemnation but now he must be forc'd to make use of Calumny and that cannot be to your prejudice You have the favourable word of Christ to relieve and vindicate you however he may dare to asperse you He that is washed says our Lord to his Disciples in this Chapter is clean every whit ver 10 All comfort is wrapt up in the assurance of this notwithstanding your daily slips and Satan's malicious devices Be encouraged as David was in that prayer to God Psal 65.3 Iniquities prevail against me yet as for our transgressions thou shalt purge them away Despise the Enemy that reproaches you and consider what a powerful Friend you have to confront and rebuke him It is the happiness and ought to be the support of Believers that though they may be blackned by their Hellish Accuser they shall be clear'd by their Heavenly Advocate The END Books Printed for and Sold by John Salusbury at the Rising Sun in Cornhil Written by the same Author 1. THE Duty and Support of Believers in Life and Death 2. The Period of Humane Life determined by the Divine Will 3. The Usefulness of Spiritual Wisdom with a Temporal Inheritance 4. The mighty Wonders of a Merciful Providence in a Sermon preach'd on the Thanksgiving-Day Jan. 31. 1688 89. 5. The Churches Plea for the Divine Presence to prosper Humane Force in a Sermon preacht on the Fast-Day Jun. 5 1689. 6. The Excellency of the Protestant Faith as to its Objects and Supports in a Sermon preach'd Nov. 5. 1689. A Rational Defence of Non-conformity wherein the Practice os Non-conformists is vincated from promoting Popery and ruining the Church imputed to them by Dr. Stillingfleet in his Vnreasonableness of Separation Also his Arguments from the Principles and way of the Reformers and first Dissenters are answered and the Case of the present Separation truly stated and the blame of it laid where it ought to be and the way to Union among Protestants is pointed at By Gilbert Rule Minister of the Gospel A Guide to the practical Physician shewing from the most Authors both Ancient and Modern the truest and safest way of curing all Diseases Published in Latin by the Learned Dr. Theoph. Bonet Physitian at Geneva and now rendered into English with an Addition of many considerable Cases and Excellent Medicines for every Disease Collected from Dr. Waltherus his Sylva Medica by one of the Colledge of Physicians London To which is added the Office of a Physician and perfect Tables of every distemper and of any thing else considerable The true Prophesies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus Physician to Henry the 2d Frances 2d and Charles the 9th Kings of France and one of the best Astronomers that ever were A Work full of Curiosity and Learning The Conformists Charity to Dissenters and Concurrence with the Favour granted them in the Act for Toleration proved from the Works of the most Eminent Divines of the Church of England Several Arguments humbly proposed for Concessions and Alterations in the Common-Prayer and in the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England in order to a comprehension by a Minister of the Church of England The Pattern of the Divine Temple Sanctuary and City of the new Jerusalem measured according to Ezekiels last and greatest Vision Chap. 49. to the end Designed as a Preface to two late Treatises viz. the Prophetick History of the Reformation till the great Re-reformation and the grand Apocaliptical Vision of the Witnesses Rising and Ascending which shall contemperate with this Temple opened in Heaven at the same 1697. By Tho. Beverly D. D. A new Examination of Lilly's Grammar in English and Latin in Twelves A Discourse of Marriage Together with some remarks on the Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca In Twelves The Portraicture of a Suffering Christian with an Introduction of Mans Creation