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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73267	The dignitie of Gods children. Or An exposition of 1. Iohn 3. 1.2.3 Plentifully shewing the comfortable, happie, and most blessed state of all Gods children, and also on the contrarie, the base, fearefull, and most wofull condition of all other that are not the children of God.	Stoughton, Thomas.	1610 (1610)	STC 23315.5; ESTC S117855	406,069	519

eldest brother and of the second brethren so of a king and his subiects so of the chiefe corner stone and of the other stones in the building As for other reasons of this our similitude and likenes vnto Christ they are also many Christ is the first fruits we the other Should not the first fruits and the other fruits be like Christ is the vine we are the branches Are not the branches like to the vine Christ is our husband we are his spouse and wife Is it not fit that the spouse and wife should be somewhat sutable and answerable to her husband Otherwise certainly they will not draw well together in one yoke Moreouer as Christ was made like vnto vs in all things sinne only excepted so is it meet we should in some things be made like vnto him As Christ was made base by taking vpon him the forme of a seruant for vs and in this respect was made like vnto vs in our basenesse so it is meet that wee should bee made by him like vnto him in glorie yea this is iust and righteous because Christ by his basenesse and by those things which he did and suffred for vs in his basenesse did purchase this our likenesse to himselfe in dignity and glory If hee therefore haue purchased it for vs and giuen the full price therof in our behalfe how can it be denied vnto vs As in this world wee are made like vnto Christ in ignominies reproches and suffring of other indignities so in the world to come we shall be made like vnto him in glory Rom. 8. 17. 2. Tim. 2. 12. This similitude and likenesse is in soule and in body In soule first in the perfection of the knowledge of God in the three persons Father Sonne and holy Ghost secondly in the perfection of holinesse and righteousnesse Notwithstanding this holinesse and righteousnesse is not only of the soule and inner man but also of the body and outward man as afterward wee shall heare in the next verse yea as wee haue heard before Of this similitude of soule touching knowledge the Apostle speaketh 1. Cor. 13. viz. first of it in this life verse 9. We know in part and we prophecie in part and secondly both of that and of the other which shall be in the life to come Now we see thorow a glasse darkly but then wee shall see face to face Now I know in part but then shall I know euen as I am knowen By the same place also may be gathered our similitude to Christ inwardly in holinesse and righteousnesse inasmuch as by distinguishing in that place loue which is the perfection of the law from faith and hope hee seemeth to insinuate that our faith and hope shall in the resurrection haue an end but that our loue shall continue and that therefore in this respect our loue is greater then either faith or hope Of our inward similitude and likenesse vnto Christ or rather both of our inward outward likenes in all holines and righteousnesse the Apostle speaketh saying If wee be grafted with him to the similitude of his death euen so wee shall be to the similitude of his resurrection Rom. 6. 5. Of our likenesse vnto Christ in our bodies the Apostle speaketh briefly Philip 3. 21. where he saith that Christ shall change our vile bodies vile here by sinne by the naturall frailty thereof and by the manifold calamities whereto it is subiect by sinne and make it like to his glorious body c. and more largely he speaketh of it 1. Cor. 15. 42. where most excellently he laieth it forth by comparing the seuerall points of the likenes of our bodies to the body of Christ by opposition of the contrary properties of our bodies in this life therunto It is sowen saith he in corruption it is raised in incorruption It is sowen in dishonor it is raised in glory It is sowen in weaknesse it is raised in power It is sowen a naturall body it is raised a spirituall body Afterward he proceedeth by similitude saying The first man is of the earth earthly the second man is the Lord from heauen As is the earthly such are they that are earthly as is the heauenly such are they that are heauenly verse 47. 48. Then he concludeth this point As we haue borne the image of the earthly so shall we beare the image of the heauenly verse 49. And afterward againe This corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortall must put on immortalitie verse 53. So then this is the likenesse of our body hereafter to the body of Christ that as Christs body is now incorruptible glorious powerfull spirituall heauenly and immortall so our bodies shal be like incorruptible glorious powerfull spirituall heauenly and immortall Of our likenes vnto Christ both in our bodies and in our soules Christ seemeth to speak iointly when he saith The glory that thou gauest me I haue giuen them that they may be one as wee are one I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in me c. Ioh. 17. 22 23. Although this place of the Apostle touching our future similitude to Christ may be vnderstood of our through perfect likenes both in soule and in body yet it seemeth the Apostle Note speaketh especially of our likenes vnto Christ in our bodies because that especially is most hidden from the world of that especially it may be said that it doth not appeare what we shall be For our future likenes in soule and in our inner man touching the perfect knowledge of God and touching our holinesse and righteousnesse begun here and to be made absolute and complete like to the knowledge and holinesse of Christ himselfe in the resurrection is here much more eminent perspicuous and manifest then the foresaid future likenes of our bodies vnto the body of Christ For that our likenes of knowledge and holines and righteousnes is apparantly begun in this life so is not our likenes in body touching the properties before mentioned incorruptible glorious powerfull spirituall heauenly and immortall For our bodies seem no more qualified touching these things after regeneration then before yea rather the regenerate by yeeres and sicknesses c. seem to be and do indeed grow daily more base more weake and impotent bodies as well as the vnregenerate Againe that the Apostle here especially intendeth the similitude of Gods children in body to the body of Christ seemeth to be insinuated also by the proofe following from the effect viz. that we shall see him as he is For this being spoken chiefly of the bodily sight it followeth likewise that our likenesse vnto Christ confirmed thereby doth signifie chiefly our bodily likenes vnto him This our future likenes vnto Christ Christ in part shewed in the mountaine when not only himselfe was transfigured before Peter Iames and Iohn his face shining as the Sunne and his clothes being as bright as the light Mat. 17. 2. and as white as

and body and of euery power of the one and of euery member of the other All is comprehended in the word himselfe Hither belong the places before alledged 2. Cor. 7. 1. 1. Thess 4. 23. Heb. 10. 22. Iames 4. 8. and many other Neither must this purging be of some things onely but of euery euill 2. Cor. 7. 1. Tit. 2. 12. Iames. 1. 21. 1. Pet. 2. 1. The like may be said of conforming our selues to euery good worke and to all that God requireth of euery one either as he is a Christian or is of any speciall calling God wil not haue some sinnes onely purged but all God wil not haue some good dueties performed but all These things are common and haue beene partly handled before Therefore I doe but name them This also as hath beene noted before must be a daily work 1. Because there is alwaies some sinne remaining of the old store which needeth daily purging 2. Because as the nailes of our hands though neuer so well clensed one day doe yet gather such new filth that they haue neede of new clensing the next day so it is with vs we daily so gather corruption that we haue need daily to purge ourselues Our whole hands and face also need daily washing yea the more they are vsed in any busines the oftener they neede to be washed So is it with our linnen for often washing and with our woollen apparell for often brushing according to our often wearing of one or of the other Our houses likewise must be the oftner swept not in the weeke only but also euery day the more that they are vsed The like is to bee said of any vessell that wee occupy touching scouring and other clensing thereof As it is with these things so is it with vs touching the cleansing and purging of our whole man from spirituall vncleannesse As also our bodies for the better preseruation of our bodily health need the oftener to be purged the corrupter the aire is where we doe liue likewise our soules and whole man for the better preseruing of spirituall health are the oftner to be purged because generally the aire of this neather world where we do liue is very corrupt and infectious sithence the first fall of mankind whereby not onely the breath as it were of all men is putrified and made infectious but also all other creatures likewise are in some sort defiled and made the more dangerous and pernicious vnto vs. The more likewise that men liue with sicke persons sicke especially of some infectious and contagious disease the more needfull it is for them not onely to take daily preseruatiues but also some daily purge mithridate or such like to expell whatsoeuer noisome breath they haue receiued from them with whom they do liue The like is necessary in this worke of purging for all men according to the company with who they haue to deale namely that the more they conuerse with the wicked the more carefull they bee not onely to carry about them continually the better preseruatiues against all spirituall infections viz. the more knowledge of the word which as a precious sauour they may often smell vnto and the more watchfull eie ouer all their behauiour and alwaies be the more in all priuate meditation and in priuate praier c but also to take daily some spirituall purge by examining their daily conuersation by the word by praying both forgiuenesse and also reformation of whatsoeuer where with they haue beene ouertaken contrary to the word that so they may the better expell whatsoeuer spirituall infection they haue any waies taken This world generally is like a flax-dressers shop or some other such house where it cannot be but any man shall receiue some soile In this respect therefore the children of God need daily the more carefully to brush as it were the garments of their Christian profession the more that they are conuersant in the world and deale with worldly affaires Though I spake briefly before of this point in my fourth obseruation vpon this verse viz. vpon the word purgeth especially vpon the present tence thereof yet considering the great necessity of this matter in this secure and carelesse age I thought it not amisse to take occasion to adde thus much for the better application of it But let the Christian reader with patience giue me lcaue to returne a little more backe To that therefore that euery one that hath this hope in him pu●geth himselfe that onely doth not belong that before we heard out of Paul to Titus chap. 2. 11. 12. 13. but a●so diuers other scriptures The Apostle hauing commended the goodnes of God 2. Cor. 6. in promising to dwell with men and to be their God and their father and to make them his people and his sonnes and daughters he beginneth the seuenth Chapter with an exhortation to this purging of our selues saying Seing then we haue these promises deerly beloued let vs clense our selues from all filthnesse of the flesh and of the spirit and finish our saluation in the feare of God So he teacheth all that hope for the performance of the former promises with the appurtenances of them to purge themselues in that manner euen from all filthinesse of the flesh and of the spirit c. To the Philippians also he ioineth these two together viz. to haue our conuersation in heauen that is to purge our selues as here the Apostle speaketh from all earthly corruption and to liue after an heauenly manner and from heauen to looke likewise for the Sauiour euen our Lord Iesus Christ Philip. 3. 20. 21. So he teacheth vs that whosoeuer doe looke for the Lord Iesus Christ from heauen to change their vile body and to make it like to his glorious body according to that which our Apostle hath before written do also behaue themselues here in earth after the foresaid heauenly manner To the Colossians likewise hauing said when Christ which is our life shall appeare then shall wee also appeare with him in glory here is the hope in this pla●● mentioned presently he inferreth an exhortation of mortifying therefore our earthly members c. that is of purging our selues Must not all therefore that haue that hope in them so purge themselues and mortifie their earthly members The Apostle Peter also vpon the like premises maketh the like conclusion Wherefore beloued saith he seeing that yee look● for such things be diligent that yee may be found of him in peace without spot and blamelesse 2. Pet. 3. 14. What is that to looke for such things but to haue this hope that heere the Apostle speaketh of what is this to be found in peace without spot and blamelesse but to purge our selues in that sort that here the Apostle commendeth yea the same Apostle in the same place and in the verses immediatly before had ioined holy conuersation and godlinesse with looking for and hasting vnto the comming of that day of God c. Iude. like wise