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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12177	The Christians end. Or, The sweet soveraignty of Christ, over his members in life and death VVherein is contained the whole scope of the godly mans life, with divers rules, motives and incouragements, to live and die to Iesus Christ. Being the substance of five sermons preached to the honorable society of Grayes Inne, by that learned and faithfull minister of Gods Word, Richard Sibbes, D.D. and sometimes preacher to that honorable societie.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1639 (1639)	STC 22485; ESTC S117259	45,936	138

but mortification We are not debters to the slesh saith the Apostle Therefore when a proud vindictive motion ariseth say I owe no suite or service to the flesh VVhat should these doe in a heart dedicated to God consecrated to Christ I am not mine owne much lesse Satans or lusts which be objects of mortification but no way worthy of my service Absolute deniall is required here Of other things a deniall is required onely as they stand in competition with Christ. In that case a man must sacrifice Isaac not onely his sinful selfe but natural self also his life and bodily liberty the dearest thing in the world and whatsoever is sweet for Christ. He having taken us off from our selves assigneth us to a true Lord. Wee live to the Lord and die to the Lord. It had not beene enough to say Wee ought not to live to our selves or die to our selves if he had not told whom we must live to and die to For naturally man will never leave any thing though but an apparāt good til he knoweth something better A man wil not part with a bad Master til he hath a better service Therefore he sheweth where to bestow our selves namely upon Christ who hath care of us both in life and death This is to be laid down for a ground had we not a better being in Christ then in our selves hee would never take us from our selves for God never biddeth us to our losse We have a better condition in Christ then we can have in the VVorld It is our gaine and advantage to live and die to Christ though it be to the losse of naturall self of civill selfe and whatsoever else yet it is our advantage It is Mercatorium not a losse but a trading VVee have a better for worse No man ever parted with any thing for Religion or a publike good but God made it up in a better kind Though God should not make it up in this world in the same kinde yet in Religion there be all things better then in the world If we lose honour here wee have honour from God If wee lose riches wee have them made up in grace here in glory hereafter If wee lose liberty we have it in the inlargment of a good conscience If wee lose friends wee get a God for a friend who can make our enemies fried̄s If we lose life wee are put into possession of eternal life and therfore wee need not stand at the bargain Wee have a better being in Christ then in our selves VVater is not lost when it emptieth it self into the Sea for there it is in its proper element A Christian is not lost when he loseth himselfe in his God in his Saviour For in him he hath a better being then in himselfe Hee is brought neerer the fountain I desire to depart and to be with Christ which is the best of all saith the Apostle Religion is a most excellent condition for as hee that saveth his life shall lose it so hee that loseth his life shall save it All our comforts have a better being in Christ then in● our selves and therfore wee should labour to have communion with him and to strengthen our faith in Christ and be in love with our happy condition in him which yieldeth comfort in life and death And all by vertue of the death of Christ and the resurrection of Christ. As he saith afterward Christ both died and rose again that hee might be Lord both of the dead and of the living The resurrection of Christ is the consummation of all If Christ had not risen again where had our comfort bin But the very thought of it that we are ingraffed in one who hath not only purchased us by his death for we are the price of his bloud but to make it cleer that it is so is now in heaven as our head having overcome death and intending to bring al his body where he is as it was his will That where hee is wee should be also is a glorious thought The glory of Christian Religion is in the resurrection of Christ and to consider that we that are creeping here on earth shal be members of him that is glorious in Heaven Lord of heaven and earth who not onely died for us but is risen againe and wil make us all both in body and soule conformable to his glorious selfe as the Apostle saith to the Philippians cannot but infuse life and vigour into all our actions estates and conditions be they never so mean And have a wonderfull influence into the whole life of a Christian. THE SECOND SERMON ROM 14. 7 8. None of us liveth to himself and none of us dyeth to himself for whether we live we live unto the Lord and whether we die we die unto the Lord Whether we live therefore or die we are the Lords FIrst the general scope of the Apostle is to take us off from our false ends None of us liveth to himselfe c. Secondly to assigne us to the true object to whom wee ought to dedicate our selves that is to the Lord. Thirdly the ground of all Whether wee live or die we are the Lords And then fourthly the spring of all Christ both died and rose againe that hee might be Lord both of quick and dead There is a conca●enation and knitting together of divine truths They following one another by a necessity of cōsequence As from the body of the Sunne there is a naturall issue of beames And as in plants derivation from the root into the branch so there is from Christ into all truths Grant him to be the second Adam and grant him Lord of the Living and of the Dead and it will follow wee ought to live to him If we grant we ought to live to Christ then wee must grant wee ought not to live to our selves For wee ought to live to Christ. Why to Christ because hee is Lord both of life and death Why is he Lord because hee hath purchased it by his bloud How doe wee know hee hath purchased it by his death satisfactorily because hee is risen againe and sitteth at the right hand of God to make all good for us Things are best to us when they are digested and made our own by the presence of good principles But here is the mischief Sin is ready and good principles are not ingraffed into us but if divine truths were as neere as corruption is then wee could withstand and repell all temptations As Travellers have the end of their journy in their thoughts habitually though not actually for every step they take is in vertue of their end So wee should consider that we are all Travellers in the way to Heaven and every step of our life should be to that end The ignorance of this maketh the life of most men to be but a digression from the mayne As if they were brought into the world onely to satisfie base lusts

that is Lord of Lords King of Kings that is Lord Paramount who will not suffer any thing to befall his Church or any particular Christian that shall not bee for their good for he hath all power in heaven and earth for that purpose and for ever What a comfort is it in life and death in the middest of oppositions here or from the powers of hell that we have a Lord that is commander of all Lord of life or death He hath the keyes of hell and death Himselfe hath conquered all and hee will conquer all in us by little and little What happinesse is it Isay to be under such a Lord The end of the fourth Sermon THE FIFTH SERMON ROM 14. 7. 8. 7 For none of us liveth to himselfe and no man dieth to himselfe 8 For whether we live we live unto the Lord and whether we dye we dye unto the Lord whether we live therefore or dye we are the Lords THere is nothing more availeable to the living of a Christians life then to have the eye of the soule on his maine end and scope And then to be furnished with some maximes and principles to direct our lives to that scope Where the parts are most noble and large there the aime and scope is most excellent Now a true Christian being raised above others hath an end and scope above other men And that indeed maketh him a Christian in good earnest When God by his Spirit discovers an higher excellency then the world can affoord and setteth our hearts towards it Now the Apostle setteth downe the scope of out whole condition both of life and death First Negatively No man liveth to himselfe No man dieth to himselfe Then Affirmatively Wee live to the Lord and dye to the Lord. And hee giveth the ground of both Whether we live or dye we are the Lords If we live to the Lord we shall have a being after life A Christian is when hee is not when he is not here he hath a being in heaven and ●uitably to his severall conditions he hath a Lord to owne him in all Now hee liveth yet cannot build on life nor any thing below because life is short and uncertaine But this he may build on Whether he liveth or dyeth he is the Lords Now Christ is said in Scripture to bee Lord oftener then God because God in the second person hath appeared in our Nature overcome all our enemies hath triumphed and is now in heaven in our Nature and because Lord is a word of authority and soveraignty And God hath made him governour of quicke and dead He is a Lord in regard of God the father by Donation God hath given the elect to him before all worlds He is a Lord in regard of himselfe by conquest over the enemies of our salvation And then by Ransome He hath paid a price to divine justice for us For though God gave Christ to us from all eternity and us to Christ yet on these tearmes that he should ransome us God will not have his justice a looser therefore Christ must pay a price to divine justice such was his mercy and the glory of his mercy to find out such a way to satisfie justice that God should dye No attribute of God must be a looser he must have the honour of all his attributes and therefore of his justice and here is the glory of his wisedome in contriving a way that mercy may triumph and justice may be satisfied And then he is Lord by our voluntary submission to him for we set a crowne upon his head when wee subject our s●lves to him He is our Lord in all estates living or dying At all times without limitation In all conditions whether it bee a life of prosperity or adversity let us dy by what manner of death soever And so I shewed wee are the Lords in a double sence In regard of our carriage to him and in regard of his care over us both must be included Wee are not the Lords onely for that hee taketh care of us and without our service nor that wee doe him service without his care of us but hee is so our Lord that wee have grace to acknowledge him and he hath grace and love and mercie to protect and acknowledge us both in life and death It is no prejudice to a Christians estate that hee is anothers it is the happinesse of the weake to be under a stronger of those that bee deficient to bee under fulnesse Now there is all-sufficiencie in Christ therefore to bee under him is our happinesse Give mee leave to illustrate this Every thing is beautifull in its owne place things that are highest it is fit they should bee highest things that are lowest it is fit they should bee lowest If the head were not in its owne place there would bee deformitie in the body And so it is fit Christ should be our Lord being God-man and the glory of our nature And it is our happines our beauty comelines our safety perfection to bee under Christ and to be onely under him Hee is onely larger than the soule he is of equall continuance with the soule hee is onely suitable to the soule being a Spirit he only is eternall and therefore being every way so aboundantly satisfactory to the soule it is the happinesse of the soule to have him for its Lord especially considering what a Lord he is a Lord independant Lord of Lords that hath all other Lords at command a bountifull and gracious Lord. And we are not onely the Lords while we live but when we come to dye therfore wee should bee willing to dye when our time cometh yea to dye any kinde of death because hee is Lord of quicke and dead We should be like David and Moses who were very fruitful towards their ends And as we are not ashamed to live so so good a Lord so we should not be afraid to dye to him as one sayd of himselfe This word Lord implyeth there bee some dut●●s owing by us wee are the Lords in our soules in our bodies in our conditions and therefore wee should wholly give up our selves to him and 〈◊〉 no thoughts to dishonour him give way to no ●isings no desires which become not the subjects and servants of the Lord believe no●hing that wee ●ake up of our selves keepe the chasti●y of our ●aith and underst●●ding not to believe lies and untruths But submit our very understandings and faith to God Wee must not bee servants of men in our judgements or soules no ma●cipium alien● 〈◊〉 as the Philosopher ●ayth But consider what Christ hath revealed and let us submit to that And therefore it is a grand errour in the Church of Rome who would have people to belie●e as ●he Church believeth which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first lye that leadeth them into all those erro●●s ●o believe