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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29932	Dwelling with God, the interest and duty of believers in opposition to the complemental, heartless, and reserved religion of the hypocrite / opened in eight sermons by John Bryan ...	Bryan, John, d. 1676.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1670 (1670)	Wing B5243; ESTC R31994	149,472	465

this the Fathers of old time Of whom the World was not worthy quenched the violence of Fire and turned to Flight the Armies of the Aliens Faith is of that force that it is able to hold Argument even against the wrath of God to quench the fierceness of his Arrowes Though he slay me yet will I trust in him It s termed a Shield every faculty of the Soul is defended by it against all manner of temptations A Shield serves for defence of the whole Body and every part of it Other pieces of spiritual Armor the Girdle of Truth the Brest-plate of Righteousness the shews of Patience the Helmet of Hope are for particular parts and serve against particular sins and temptations but faith puts by and blunts all blows and as if this grace were all in all a Christians whole warfare is called the Fight of Faith This with the other now named are defensive only or mainly like to which none can be found in any other Armory And for offence here is a Sword of which it may be said as David did of Goliah's There is none like that the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God So called because the Holy Ghost hath framed it and put it into Believers hands and is of a Divine strength and temper to pierce and overthrow the spiritual Enemies With this Word which is sharper than any two edged Sword Christ himself defended himself against the Devil and with the invincible force thereof foyl'd him fulfilling in part that Prophesie In that Day the Lord with his sore and great and strong Word shall punish Leviathan the piercing Serpent even Leviathan the crooked Serpent and in that Day he shall slay the Dragon that is in the Sea Moreover Princes and great Mens Houses are stored with goods for Ornament as well as for necessity and conveniency serving to delight and please the outward Senses of Seeing Hearing Smelling and Feeling that of Tasting hath been spoken to Rich Hangings Curtains Carpets Images and pleasant Pictures Pourtrayed upon the Walls Instruments of Musick Oyntments Perfumes Treasures of Gold and Silver and precious Stone Hezekiah shewed the King of Babylon's Embassadors his House of precious things the Silver and the Gold and the Spices and the precious Ornaments and all that was found in his Treasures In Solomon's House were Hangings of Purple a rich and a beautiful Stuff of a red and bloody hue a dye of great esteem And in Ahasuerus's Palace where he feasted his Princes and Servants There were white green and violet Hangings fastned with Cords of fine Linnen and Purple to Silver Rings and Pillars of Marble The Beds were of Gold and of Silver upon a Pavement of red and blew and white and black Marble In the Houses of those unnatural sensuality we finde Women that wore Hangings to make them more delightful No less is implyed in that passage Let them stretch forth the Curtains of thine Habitation What Lamentation is made when these are harmed Suddenly are my Tents spoyled and my Curtains in a moment Or when they are not handsomely set up There is none to set up my Curtains The Tabernacle had great store of costly Hangings and Curtains to make it beautiful and glorious of cunning work woven but wrought to the Life with a Needle in manner of Pictures like Arras work or other Tapistry Solomon carved all the Walls of the Temple round about with Figures of Cherubims and Palm-Trees and open Flowers within and without Nor was hardly any goodly House without its pleasant Pictures Images of Men pourtrayed upon the Walls with Vermilion Nor without Musical Instruments The Viol the Tabret and Pipe are in their Feasts As the Prodigals Elder Brother drew nigh to the House he heard Musick and Dancing But money answereth all things By this Men furnish their Houses with all the foresaid Ornament and their Feasts with variety of all delights Thrice happy is that habitation thought to be where there is no want of this and blessed are those Children thought whose Parents go to the Devil to procure and leave them bags of theirs in abundance What shall we say to these things If God be ours how shall not all these things be ours They whose House the Lord is have all these and infinitely more to please and delight their inward Senses yea their outward also That one sight of Jesus Christ hanging upon the Cross with his hands stretched abroad to embrace them and his Head bowed down to kiss them and his pierced Side streaming forth blood to wash them from the guilt and filth of their sins evidently set forth lively and naturally represented unto them with his Death and Passion and the Virtue and use thereof is a Picture most pleasant to their Eyes So are the Portraictures of his holy Apostles and Martyrs with the description and history of their acts and passions seen and read of them And to please your Sense of Smelling the House is filled with the savour of Christs good Oyntments as that House was with the Odour of that Oyntment of Spiknard wherewith Mary anointed his Feet Those gifts of the holy Ghost wherewith the Father hath anointed him and which he poureth upon them by the preaching of the Gospel whereof take a taste only of two words and hereby judge of the rest Herb. Ch. the Odour How sweetly doth my Master sound my Master As Ambergrease leaves a rich sent Unto the Taster So doth these words a sweet content An Oriental fragrancy My Master With these all Day I do perfume my mind My mind even thrust into them both That I might find What Cordials make this curious broth This broth of smels that feeds fats my mind And farther for the Sense of Hearing if the Musick made by Organs in the Church so sounded in the Eares of that Divine Poet that drew a Song of Thanks-giving to it from his Tongue and Pen. Id. Ch. Mus Sweetest of sweets I thank you when displeasure Did through my Body wound my mind You took me thence in your house of pleasure A dainty Lodging me assign'd Now I in you without a Body move Rising and falling with your Wings We both together sweetly live and love Yet say sometimes God help poor Kings Comfort I le dye for if you post from me Sure I shall do so and much more But if I travail in your Company You know the way to Heavens Door How infinitely sweeter must that Musick be to the Eares of this Houshold which the Organ of the Holy Scripture the Keys whereof are stricken with the hand of the holy spirit makes with such strains as these Fear thou not for I am with thee be not dismayed for I am thy God I will strengthen thee yea I will help thee with the right hand of my Righteousness When thou passest through the Waters I

sitting with him presented Him with the exercise of her Virtues And of his sitting down with his Twelve Disciples to eat the Passover and before this with many Publicans and Sinners All penitent Sinners whose habitation the Lord is ever had still have and ever shall have this Priviledge to sit with Christ in Heavenly places which are no other than the Loves of God in Christ from which Seats neither Death nor Life nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other Creature shall be able to seperate them Nor any such Beds to take rest in which the now named Loves make Herb. Evens My God thou art all Love Not one poor Minute scapes thy Breast But brings a favour from above And in this Love more than in Bed I rest The softest down Beds compared to these are harder than stones on which as little true rest can be taken as Ahasuerus took the Day before Mordecai was to be hanged on that Night could not the King sleep or as Job had when he wanted the sense of these Divine Loves When I say my Bed shall ease me my Couch shall ease my Complaints then thou scarest me with Dreames and terrifiest me with Visions In this Bed of assurance of Divine Love Jacob slept sweetly comforted by a Vision made by a Sign namely a Ladder set upon the Earth the top whereof reached unto Heaven c. and in words promising the Land whereon he slept a numerous posterity and protection in his going out and coming home when his Body lay on the cold Ground and his Head on a Stone And in the same Bed David slept securely when surrounded with Enemies I laid me down and slept and I will not be afraid of ten thousand of People that have set themselves against me round about Yea when their Bodies are upon Sick-beds God himself twines them makes them soft stirring up Feathers of Consolation under them The Lord will strengthen him upon the Bed of languishing Thou wilt make all his Bed in his Sickness Nor is there in any House such Linnen for Bed and Board which is spread and used as oft as rest or repast is taken and hath an influence into both making them comfortable yea into the very Dishes and Vessels wherein the Meat and Drink is served up making them precious and permanent and into the Couches or places of repose corporal as well as spiritual without which those would have no grateful relish nor these any refreshing sweetness Such as Jeremy found wrapped therein upon this I awaked and beheld and my sleep was sweet unto me But especially this Linnen serves for the cloathing this Houshold imparting not only warmth to which sufficient hath been spoken but also Ornament beyond compare To her speaking of the Church the Lamb's Wife was granted that she should be arrayed in fine Linnen clean and white for the fine Linnen is the Righteousness of Saints Of old great and honourable Persons were cloathed with fine Linnen Pharaoh arrayed Joseph in Vestures of fine Linnen Mordecai went out from the presence of the King in Royal Apparel and with a Garment of fine Linnen Dives was cloathed in Purple and fine Linnen The High Priests Garments were made of Gold and of Blue and of Purple Scarlet and of fine Linnen The Ephod and the curious Girdle the Coat and the Miter and so were the Vestures of his Sons which are said to be for Glory and for Beauty that is to make them Venerable and Majestick in the executing of their Office Every faithful Christian Man or Woman is a sacred King a Royal Priest hath Royal blood running in his Veins Was born not of blood is not such by natural Generation nor of the will of the flesh But of God by the power of his Spirit unto his own Image and so is higher than the Kings of the Earth hath Power as a King to subdue and keep under the rebellious motions and lusts of his own corrupt reason and will and is by faith partaker of Christs royal Dignity and Will being with him annexed Heir of an Heavenly Kingdome He is also made partaker of the Dignity of Christ's Priesthood better than the Levitical Priesthood which was not after the Order of Melchisedeck having God propitious to him by his Death having access to God by Prayer through his intercession and to offer spiritual sacrifices to him the Sacrifice of Prayer that is the fruit of the Lips giving thanks to his Name To do good also and to communicate for with such Sacrifices God is well pleased The Linnen wherewith these spiritual Kings and Priests are apparelled being the Righteousness of Christ's humane Nature called the Righteousness of God Because he is the Supream Author of it and appointed his Son who was true God for to fulfil and to acquire it out of his meer grace and imputes it to the Elect and accepts it for their absolution as far surpasseth in fineness purity and whiteness that wherewith Earthly Princes and Priests were arrayed as the finest Flax doth the coursest Sack or Hair-cloath For it is Angelical yea more pure and bright and transcendently glorious and makes them appear so The Kings Daughter is all glorious within Yea Glory it self in the abstract yea they do appear so not only in the Eyes of God but even in the Eyes of the Nations of the World as appeares by these words of admiration uttered by them Who is she that looketh forth as the Morning fair as the Moon clear as the Sun and terrible as an Army with Banners And this by reason of those gorgeous outward Garments and Jewels that cast a shining lustre wherewith they are invested and adorned Cap a pe like Herod in his Cloath of Silver which being beaten by the Sun-beames dazled the Peoples Eyes The exercise and exerting of those glorious Virtues mentioned by the Apostle Bowels of Mercies kindness meekness of mind long-suffering and charity which is the Bond of Perfection make them to shine as lights in the World He that will look into the Wardroab of this House shall finde besides these very many changes of rich Rayment fitted for all Sexes and Ages which being put on and worn abroad must needs make them glorious in the Eyes of all beholders And as there is no such Vestry in any House as this so neither is there any such Armony In the Tower of David which was builded for an Armory there hang a Thousand Bucklers all Shields of Mighty Men. There is in this one Shield of more worth to all intents and purposes than all those a thousand times told over The Shield of Faith a spiritual Shield serving to beat back and bear off all the fierce Temptations of Satan To quench all his Fiery Darts to hinder their pernicious working By