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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51249	Theosplanchnistheis, or, The yernings of Christs bowels towards his languishing friends wherein the sincereity, ardency, constancy, and super-eminent excellency of the love of Jesus Christ as it workes from him towards his friends is delineated, discussed, and fitly applyed / by S.M. ...	Moore, Samuel, b. 1617.	1647 (1647)	Wing M2588; ESTC R9458	55,323	150

his love to his by words or workes expressions or actions By words Christ lets his know hee loves them speaking good to them and of them to his Father First by words of nomination by the sweet Epithets hee gives them as is usuall among all lovers save that in this Christ outstrips them all when hee is verball he is alwayes reall so are not other lovers These sweet words demonstrate love 2 Chron. 20.7 Joh. 15.15 Mark 3.35 Cant. 4.12 Mal. 3.17 Zach. 2.8 Ioh. 21.5 Cant. 2.10 Dent. 32.9 Cant. 4.11 Cant. 5.2 Love Dove undefiled and those other words elsewhere my friend my brother my sister my Jewells the apple of mine eye my children my faire ones my portion my Spouse Are not these expressions full of love doe not these words of Christ speake you beloved We take it mighty kindly when the great ones of this world speake friendly to us and we thinke it a favour a friendship more worth then gold How will some plot contrive and lay their heads together for a few good words from an earthly Monarch Prince or Potentate Let such behold the King of Kings putting out himself freely in sweetest termes His Spouse lov'd to heare him speake let me heare thy voyce Cant. 2.14 for it 's sweet and thy countenance is comely Saints feele sweetnesse in their Saviours words he gives his beloved good names which are better then precious oyntments Christ also knowes his by those names Thou hast told me saith Moyses that thou knowest me by name Exod. 33.12 Though those hee hath elected may keep from him many yeares and not come at him untill their through conversion yet when they come to him hee can call them by their names he can call out Saul Saul goe to such a place thou art a chosen vessell Though afflictions both of body and mind may so change men as Job was changed by his noysome body poore estate meane dwelling which was on a dunghill Or as Lazarus was changed with running fores so as that a man that had seen them before would say that is not Job this is not Lazarus yet God hath not forgottē them he knowes them yea he knowes them by name he can say this is my friend Abraham this is my servant Job this is my son Adam tho'other is my child David a man after my owne heart hee calls them together as you doe your children by name Fetch mysonnes from far saith the Lord he cannot forget his What the Heathen Oratour spake flatteringly of Julius Caesar namely that hee was wont to forget nothing but wrongs and injuries a Nihil oblivisci solet nisi injurias Jer. 31.34 Heb. 8.12 chap. 10.17 is most true of God and Christ He forgets nothing but the sinnes of his people I will forgive and remember their finnes no more The Lord blots out their sinnes that they condemne them not puts them away that they hurt thē not casts them behind his back as though he regarded them not casts them into the Sea that they drowne them not covers them that they appeare not in the Judgement doth not impute them as if they were not A second sort of love discovering words that fall from Christ's sweetest lips are words of consolation Comfort yee comfort yee my people saith your God speake you comfortably to Jerusalem I saiah 40.1.2 O yee rectified Christians consider the fruit of Christ's words what fruits words spoken of Christ have 'T is said of Elizabeth when she heard the salutations of Mary with the tidings of a Jesus that the babe leapt in her belly and she was filled with the Holy Ghost The good woman was transported above her selfe that not onely the babe but her self also leaped for Joy Luke 2.41 to 5. and she brake out into singing of God's great goodnesse to her Consider what soule-ravishing comfort there is in words spoken by Christ Christ's words warme well as farre as they goe Did not our hearts burne within us Luk 24.32 when he talked with us spake to us were wee not inflam'd with love ravish'd with joy yea ravish'd in spirit especially when he opened to us the Scriptures those precious sountaines of living waters when Christ speakes to the heart with power he speakes from his heart in love and such kind of speaking must needs be very taking in and upon the Spirits of Saints Tell me ô yee servants of the most High when you feed where he feedes his flock when you rest with him at noone in the scorching times of trouble from within and from without tell me I say Is not this fruit sweet to your taste did you ever taste the like Cant. 2.3 what have you not found your hearts raised your Spirits quickned your doubts resolved your soules filled with his marrow and fatnesse Psal 63.5.6 and that invisibly b Pulcherrimam insulam videmus etiam cum non videmus Lyps ep ad Cambd●● my soule shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatnesse and my mouth shall prayse thee with joyfull lips when I remember thee upon my bed and meditate on thee in the night watches saith the Prophet as if hee should say I cannot once think on thee and thy goodnesse but it fattens my soule and strengthens mee as a man is strengthned with marrow much more in the multitude of my thoughts within me doe thy comforts delight my soule Psal 94.19 and elsewhere the good man is so full of the comforts of his good God after hee had spoken peace and comfort to him that his mouth is too narrow for his heart and observation and breakes out thus 139. Psal 17 18. How precious are thy thoughts to me oh God How great is the summe of them If I should count them they are more then the sands when I awake I am still with thee viz. I cannot be from thee I cannot be without thee thou art so good to me Thou man of God admire his goodnesse deplore thine own vilenesse A third sort of Christ's love discovering words are words of Promise c Quaelibet divina promissio est dilectionis Dei erga nos testimonium Calv. l. 3. Jnst c. 2. Policitis dives in praestatione ditior promissary words he discovers his love by sweerest promises made to them he loves even as 't is usuall amōg all lovers Promises that doe assure d In Dei promissis nulla falsitas est quia infacienais nulla est omnipotenti difficultas Fulgent them of spirituall helps and sufficiencies First that he prayes to his Father for them Secondly that he prayes to his Father in them he prayes to his and their Father for them First that their graces faile not Secondly that their natures soile not That their graces faile not Peter saith Christ Satan hath desired to have you that he might winnow you and sift you as wheat he would have you in his sive to sift out your grace and preserve nothing but the chaffe of your

qui nos ipsos non perfectè cognoscimus non possimus ad plenum scire quid nobis expediat ideò necesse est ut à Deoditigamur protegamur qui omnia novit omnia potest Aqu. sum 2 ● q 109. a. 9. crying Christians when you crie unto God Christ by his Spirit is crying in you and calling out Abba Abba Father Father can you then doubt of being heard when Christ prayes in you whom the Father heares alwayes Secondly Christ in them poures forth their requests to the Father and that by words sutable to his Majesty and their necessity this is called the help of the Spirit by reason of mans infirmity and this help is afforded because we know not what to pray for as we ought 'T is good to have a helper when wee goe into the presence of a great God especially when wee are helplesse for did not the Spirit help who else can give supplie in such a case Or what can be pleasing to God save that which comes from God can any thing lead to God ascend unto him besides that which descended from him surely nothing onely he that searcheth the heart knoweth the mind of the Spirit because that makes intercession according to the will of God Rom. 8.27 God and Christ puts words in his peoples mouthes as is clear from Hos 14.2 Turning to the Lord say these words take away our iniquities remove our sinnes from us receive us graciously be favourable to us so shall wee render to thee the calves of our lips that is we will bee thankfull so Luke 11. from the first to the fift When the Disciples desired Christ to teach them to pray hee puts words into their mouthes saying when yee goe to my God and your God speake thus call him Father the very name prayes for us k Ipsum nomen ●rat pro no●is pray him to sanctifie his owne name to let his Kingdome come his Kingdome of grace into the hearts of the gracelesse to let his will be done upon you in you and by you and for manner so an earth as 't is done in heaven viz. willingly chearefully readily with much willingnesse without any the least wearinesse aske for bread for the day all necessaries for the comfortable being of the outward man aske forgivenesse of sinnes for he is blessed to whom the Lord imputes not sinne though hee hath little of the things and necessaries of this life Beg you be not lead into temptation viz. not suffer'd to be tempted or else be kept from falling under the temptation l Jubet orare ne in tentationem dueantur i. e. ne ab câ vincantur Aug. l. de Cor. grat c. 6. and from being overcome of it and that you may bee delivered from all evill of sinne and suffering Yee shall aske what yee will and it shall be done unto you if yee continue in mee and my words abide in you Joh. 15.7 aske and ye shall have Christ names not what shall be given to let us know that gift is above all that can be named m Non dicitur quid dabitur quia donum supra omne nomen Aug. Secondly or without words for prayer is mentall as well as vocall and although a Spirit of son-ship is a Spirit of Prayer and every son of God is a man of prayer yet some sweet soules as deare to Christ as others cannot sometimes by reason of some distempers and distractions of body and mind I say they cannot utter their minds by words at the Throne of grace Rom. 8.26 Now Christ by his Spirit helps n Est metaphora ab onerious sump●a quae utrinque admotis manibus sublevantur Beza 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so Luk. 10.40 The Greek wor●●'s a decompound and there 's great force in it these sometimes even to sigh out their wants and sorrowes before him and obtaine o sometimes to groane out their desires unto him sometimes by weeping shedding teares which have a secret language and voyce in the eares of the Lord of rests Psal 6.8 Thou hast heard the voyce of my weeping and Christ himselfe hath wept for some * Christū flevisse legimus rifisse nunquam Salvian l. 6. Cum Spiritus hominis suspi●or Spiritus Dei aspirat Cyprian Matth. 6. sometimes the heart 's so full of sorrow so sad and heavie that nothing can bee said or done then even then the Spirit helps and all through love Christ ha's promised his beloved friends corporall succours every morsell a Saint receives hee hath it in way of a promise The Lord feedes others too but 't is onely so as he doth the beasts of the field in an ordinary way of providence wicked men may have much and yet inherit nothing because they possese not God in their injoyments injoy not him in conjunction and connection with the Creatures Take no thought saith Christ what ye shall eate or what yee shall drinke or wherewithall yee shall be cloathed It 's enough for a Gentile a Heathen a stranger to God and Christ to bee cuttingly carefull for these things that hath ne'r a heavenly Father to provide for him Doth your heavenly Father feed the fowles of the Heavens and shall hee not much more feed you Doth he cloath the Lillies of the field better than Solomon in all his glory and cloath the grasse of the field * Wicked men are like the grasse of the field with their gloria brevis whose end 's to be burn'd which remaines but for a time and shall hee not cloath thee who shalt live for ever abide for ever these are some of Christ's comfortable love discovering words And many other such like there be which for number are as the Starres of the Firmament that cannot be told 'T is said that one Crane a precious Christian though of meane estate in outward things being about to die and it being demanded by his friends what should become of his children hee answered thus God that provided for the Ravens will also certainly provide for the young Cranes and according to the good mans faith so it was that all his children were well provided for in this evill world Psal 34.9 There is no want to them that feare him that is of what is good for them and to misse an evill thing is no injurie to them If the Lord of his goodnesse doth foresee that riches will be a snare to one or other his sonnes of love and therefore withholds them from them what doth that child want save something which if hee had 't would make him more wanting in better things Some have much of the world and this hath been the fruit of it the cares of getting and keeping together with the feares of loosing the things of this life 'tas almost drunke up all that delight Joy and content they should and might have had in a spirituall God Christ and spirituall things If any man loves this world the love of the Father