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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42018	The sound-hearted Christian, or, A treatise of soundness of heart with several other sermons ... / by William Greenhill.	Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.	1670 (1670)	Wing G1859; ESTC R7468	196,980	326

thy pleasure on my Holy day and call the Sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord honourable and shalt honour him not doing thine own wayes nor finding thine own pleasure nor speaking thine own words Then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord thou wilt find sweetness in the Lord and sweetness in the words and wayes of the Lord in all things of the Lords thou wilt find sweetness such sweetness as will make thy soul to delight in the Lord. Thirdly If you would find sweetness in the word of God then take that which is suitable to your conditions There is somthing alwayes suitable to your conditions when you read the word or hear the word Preach'd something will concern you now that which is most suitable to your condition will be most sweet unto you If one want peace and there be a word suits you take that if one want comfort take that if one want counsel take that that that is suitable to the soul that 's sweet Fourthly Lastly make the word your delight Psal 119.24 Thy Testimonies are my delight So in the 77. v. Thy Law is my delight They were the delight of David and so he delighted in them that he meditated in them day and night Thy Testimonies are my Meditation v. 99. what you delight in you find a sweetness in so if you would delight much in the word of God you would find much sweetness in the word of God Thus you see those questions answered I shall now come to some Inferences or Conclusions First If the word of God be sweet and sweeter than the Honey and the Honey-comb then they that find no sweetness in the word of God they are in an ill condition they are in a state of death they are dead men and dead women A dead man tastes nothing so that man or woman that tastes no sweetness in the word of God is a dead man you read in Scripture of men dead in sins and trespasses and twice dead Let the dead bury their dead saith Christ how can the dead bury their dead let them who are dead in sins bury those that are dead in body if you find no sweetness in the word of God you are dead men dead women Secondly If the word be so sweet then it 's no wonder if some persons are so taken with the word of God they are always reading the word of God and looking into the word of God and meditating in it and why its sweet and delightful to their souls Those that have Gardens full of sweet flowers they love to be often looking into their Gardens so those that are Godly how do they find sweetness in the word of God In every promise in every truth in all the providences and experiences of the Saints they find a great deal of sweetness therein Thirdly If the word of God be so sweet then praise and bless the Lord for the sweetness of his word that he hath given you out such a word praise him for his sweet invitations for his sweet promises for the sweet and heavenly doctrines for the sweet titles you meet with therein In the 56. Psal you have it three times I will praise his word praise the word and praise God who hath given you such a word such a word that is so sweet that is so precious have you not found the sweetness of it in your affliction in your temptations in your darkness in your desertions O praise the Lord for his sweet word and let God have the glory of it Fourthly If the word of God be sweet and sweeter than Honey and the Honey-comb then surely they do ill that cast off the word of God and cast off his Ordinances and leave off the things that are good Many in these dayes they cast off Ordinances and lay aside the word of God and are altogether for the light within and nothing but for the light within but it is to be seared that their light is but darkness for the light of the Scripture will never direct men to cast off it self The word of God is to be a light unto our feet and a lamp unto our paths therefore they do ill who cast off the word of God that is sweeter than Honey and the Honey-comb and that lay aside the Commands of God and the Ordinances of God But they will say we lay aside the Honey-comb and we take the Honey For answer to that look into the 5. Cant. 1. I am come into my garden c. I have eaten my Honey-comb with my Honey The Church would eat the Honey-comb with the Honey she would have the Ordinances and the sweetness through the Ordinances by the Ordinances The Ordinances are the Honey-comb and the sweetness that God conveys through them is the Honey Fifthly If the word be sweeter than Honey and the Honey-comb then in all your afflictions and bitter waters you have to drink sweeten them with this Honey and this Honey-comb sweeten them with the word of God Afflictions are very sowr sad and heavy many times but the word of God is Honey to sweeten them when they came to the waters of Marah and could not drink them they were murmuring and troubled and they should perish for want of water but Moses takes a bough and throws in and sweetens the waters so that they could drink them and were revived and refreshed So if men and women would but sweeten their afflictions with the word of God they would go down very sweetly The steps of a good man saith the Psalmist are ordered by the Lord and he delighteth in his way though he fall he shall not utterly be cast down what though you fall into afflictions you shall not utterly be cast down for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand and James 1.12 Blessed is the man that endureth Temptations that is afflictions for when he is tryed he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord hath promised to them that love him who would now be troubled at temptations and afflictions when a blessedness is fixed to them Blessed is the man that endureth Temptations c. You shall have a crown of life for your temptations what if they take away life you shall have another life and a crown of life so that we should sweeten our afflictions with the consolations of the word 2 Cor. 4.17 The outward man decayes but the inward man is renewed daily and saith he our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory Here 's light affliction here 's weighty glory here 's glory opposed to affliction here 's weight opposed to light here 's eternal opposed to momentary and here 's exceeding above all that How sweet would this be in our afflictions if we did lay it to heart and receive in these truths to sweeten our afflictions Sixthly If the word of God be sweeter than Honey and the Honey-comb Then esteem the word of God very

the Father had drawn it it sees that Christ hath done all for it taken away its sin and put upon it his righteousness so that the soul sees no cause to boast at all Fourthly Where there is true faith in the Son of God that soul sees a lustre in holiness in grace and glory in the person in the life in the sufferings in the doctrine in the ordinances of Jesus Christ others see no beauty nor worth in the Lord Jesus Christ Joh. 1.14 The word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory the glory as of the onely begtoten of the Father what a glory did we behold in the person of Christ though he was cloathed with flesh and had put on our Sack-cloth yet we beheld a glory in him even the glory of the Father full of grace and full of truth a believing soul sees a lustre in Jesus Christ more glorious than the Sun and so in his Life what a glorious sin-less life he liv'd and lead and so in his sufferings glorying in the Cross God forbid saith Paul that I should glory save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ so in the Doctrine of Christ what a glorious Doctrine is it 2 Cor. 3. last but we all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord that 's in the Gospel are changed into tho same Image from glory to glory In the Doctrine of the Gospel there is a glory a marvellous glory 'T is called marvellous light in Peter so in all the Ordinances of Jesus Christ there is a lustre a glory in every thing of Jesus Christ he hath stamp'd something of his own Image and glory and excellency upon it In 5 Cant. say the daughters of Jerusalem What is thy beloved more than anothers beloved they saw no great matter in him O my beloved is white and ruddy the chiefest of ten thousand she saw a glory which they could not see Fifthly That faith which is right in the Son of God it interests the whole heart in Christ not a part but the whole heart Acts 8.37 Philip said if thou believest with all thine heart and he answered and said I believe that Jesus is the Son of God my whole heart runs out to this so that where faith in Christ is true there the whole heart is interested in Christ the understanding the will the affections they are taken up with Christ he is highly esteemed in the understanding he is fully closed with by the will he is greatly loved and delighted in by the affections the soul doth now love him and joy in him he is the exceeding joy of his heart When a woman is married to a rich man that is loving and suitable every way her whole heart is carried out to him so when the soul is married to Christ the whole heart is taken up with him and runs out strongly unto him Sixthly The soul that doth believe in Christ sets up Christ and all of Christ and nothing but Christ No King said the Jews but Caesar so saith the soul no King but Jesus Christ we have no King but Christ saith the believing soul it sets up the person of Christ it sets up the Laws of Christ it sets up the Ordinances of Christ no Prophet but Christ no High-Priest but Christ so saith the soul that is rightly united to Christ by faith believes aright in him yea it sets up the worst of Christ above the best of the world whatever place or profit or honour the world affords the soul that is rightly believing in Christ sets up the worst of Christ above it all Heb. 11.24 c By faith Moses when he was come to years refused to be called the Son of Pharoah's Danghten What Moses will you refuse to be Son to Pharoah's Daughter to be Heir to the Crown will you refuse that I he refuses to be called the Son of Pharaohs Daughter choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season what will you refuse the pleasures of the Court the choicest pleasures that can be invented I let them go for the afflictions of Gods people and mark in the 26. v. Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the Treasures in Egypt The reproach of Christ or reproach for Christ to be called a Phanatick a Seditious fellow a Schismatick and the like he did esteem that more than all the treasures in Egypt So that the worst of Christ which is reproaching and Persecution and Affliction and Imprisonment and Banishment it esteems all for Christ and therefore saith Paul Rom. 8.18 I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us Alas what 's in these sufferings to the glory that is to be had by Jesus Christ Seventhly The soul that doth rightly believe in Christ doth bring its heart and will to be one with the will of Christ As Christ who had faith in God and said My God my God he said Not my will but thy will be done So the Soul that believes in Christ rightly saith not my will but thy will be done It 's brought over to the will of Christ I live not saith Paul but Christ lives in me Christ hath his will altogether in me I have no will but Christs will What do you weeping and breaking my heart I am ready not to be bound onely but to dye for the name of the Lord Jesus Christ he dyed for him and laid down his life to fulfill the will of God and Paul had the same will that he had and we have the mind of Christ saith he Eighthly Lastly You have here one note in the Text and that is Love faith in the Son of God doth work love in the Soul and therefore mind the connexion of these Commands this is his Commandment that we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ And Love one another as he gave us Commandment The more saith you have in Christ the more love you will have to others for we do see in Christ so much love to us that were so unworthy so sinful in so damnable an estate and condition that we will have love and pity towards the worst and those are Godly we shall have love to them because they are in the same condition with our selves we see that they are Brethren they are Members of Christ and they have the same precious faith with our selves that they are glorious through the Robe of Christs Righteousness put upon them I we see that they are Heirs together with our selves of the same grace and in time shall be of the same Glory that they are Heirs with Christ and Co-heirs with him and so upon this account they come to love them and faith works by love O the love that is in the Soul that hath a right saith in Jesus Christ it 's full of