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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08586	The saints societie Delivered in XIV. sermons, by I.B. Master in arts, and preacher of Gods word at Broughton in Northampton Shire.; Societie of the saints	Bentham, Joseph, 1594?-1671.	1636 (1636)	STC 1890; ESTC S117220	223,204	307

For truly our fellowship is with the father and with his Sonne Iesus Christ CHAP. II. Doct. 3. Saints have fellowship with the Father Doct. 3 AS the Saints have fellowship one with another so have they also communion with the Lord of glory or with the father our fellowship with the Father Ioh. 14. 23. We will make our abode with him 1 Cor. 14. 25. That God is in you 1 Ioh 4. 12. 13. If we God dwelleth in us we dwell in him and he in us ver 16. dwelleth in God and God in him Reason 1 Those who are link'd unto the Lord in the nearest and most intimate ties and bonds of society have fellowship with the Lord of glory or the Father But all the Saints of God are link'd unto the Lord in the nearest and most intimate ties of society Therefore The latter proposition I make evident thus Those who are link'd unto the Lord in the ties of servants which are the greatest favourites of friends who are best beloved are link'd to the Lord in the most intimate ties of society But al the saints of God are link'd unto the Lord in the tie of 1. Servants which are the greatest favourites The Lord is pleased to grace them with this title of being his servants Isa 44. 1 2. Iacob my servant Iob 1. 8 my servant Iob Num. 12. 7. my servant Moses is not so Let none object and say Is it any honour to be a servant for it 's a title of the greatest dignity to be stiled Gods servant Or if so is there sociall communion betwixt Master and Servant For there is intimate society betwixt Masters and beloved favourites though servants Witnesse the sociable association of Ionathan and David 1. Sam. 20. yet was David his servant ver 7 8. Witnesse the friendly fellowship twixt David and Hushai ● Sam. 15. 37. 16 17. yet was he his servant 15. ●4 16. 19. and Witnesse these servants of God who are his greatest favorites Exod. 4. 23. Let my sonne goe that he may serve mee yea so deare and tender in his sight are they that he would not have the least hurt or violence offered to them Psal 105. 15. touch not mine annointed esteeming them his speciall treasure iewels Mal. 3. 17. and the apple of his eye Zach. 2. 8. 2. Friends Isa 47. 8. the seed of Abraham my friend 2. Chron. 20. 7. and gav'st it to the seed of Abraham thy friend Cant. 5. 1. Eate O friends drinke yea drinke abundantly O beloved Iam 2. 23. called the friend of God Can any fellowship be more firmely cemented or intimately indeerd then that of Viservet animae dunidium meae lib. 1 Od● 3. friends surely no. The Poet Horace wishing a prosperous journey for his friend Virgill calleth him halfe his soule Saint Augustine bewailing the death of his friend Hebridius saith he thought his soule and the soule of his friend had bene 〈◊〉 ego sensi ani 〈◊〉 ●● animam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in da●bu● corporib●● c. lib. 4. Cons cap. 6. but one For I thought that my soule and the soule of my friend had beene but one soule in two bodies he therefore being dead life was dreadfull to me because I desired to live no longer yet therefore I feared to die least he should wholly die And the sacred Scripture affirmeth that a friend is as a mans owne soule Deut. 13. 6. that he loves at all times Prov. 17. 17. and stickes closer then a brother Prov. 18 24. If all the love of Pylades and Orestes Damon and Pythias Pyramus and Thisbe Scipio and Lelius and of all other renowned heathen friends unheard of or recorded If the most melting affectionatenes●e of Ionathan and David David and Hushai Augustine and Hebriaius and all other the dearest friends prophane and pious could possibly inhabit within any two created beings yet might there not be so much as any comparison betwixt such an imagined friendship and this reall of Gods to his Saints For for these his friends sakes it is that there is a continued course of summer winter that the world enioyes the comfortable aspect of all his excellent creatures that the world is not wholy consumed in the twinckling of an eye 2. Cor. 10 6. yea for them he gave his owne Sonne to suffer a shamefull death to them he gives his sanctifying Spirit and for them he reserves an everlasting crowne of glory Reason 2 He who takes that as done to himselfe which is done to the Saints hath fellowship with them But the Lord of heaven and earth takes that as done to himselfe which is done to the Saints Witnesse that sweet straine in the heavenly hymne of Moses the man of God Deut. 32. 10. He kept him as the apple of his eye Witnesse that faithfull petition of Israels sweet singer Psal 17. 8. Keepe me as the apple of thine eye Witnesse the Prophets reason of Gods heavy judgement upon the nations which spoiled his Church Zach. 2. 8. For he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye Witnesse that consolatory saying of our Saviour Math. 10. 40. He that receiveth you receiveth me and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me Witnesse that heavenly speech of Christ Iesus to that enraged persecutor of Gods people Why persecutest thou me Acts 9. 4. And witnesse that irreversible and irrevocable sentence of the most upright Iudge of men and Angels at the last and dreadfull day of judgement Math. 25. 40. 45. You did it to me You did it not to me Therefore they have fellowship c. 3. Those who are joyned to the Lord with an undissoluble bond of an everlasting love which can never be broken have fellowship with God But the Saints are joyned to the Lord with an indissoluble bond of an everlasting love which can never be broken Ieremiah 31. 3. I have loved thee with an euerlasting love hence is it that the gates of hell shall not prevaile against them Math. 16. 18. So he loveth them that nothing can separate them from the love of God Rom. 8. 39. So that they are sealed with the Spirit of God unto the day of redemption Eph. 1. 13. 4. 30 So that he hath purposed with an unchangeable decree to have them saved 4. Those who dwell each in other have fellowshippe one with another But the Lord of heaven and earth and the Saints dwell each in other 1 Ioh. 4. 12. 13. 15. 16. 1 Ioh. 3. 24. Ioh. 14. 23. CHAP. III. Vse 1. Comforting the Saints from this fellowship Vse 1 THis inestimable transcendent consociation affoordeth copious matter of consolation to every true-hearted Nathaniel 1. Against Bellarmines unsound and uncomfortable doctrine Consol ● Tom. 4. de ustificat lib 3. cap. 14. pag. 897. c. of finall and totall falling from grace the love and favour of God It 's possible I know for these goodfellowes to fall in part and for a time from some graces some measure of grace