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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94505	Christ knocking at the doore, or, The substance of a sermon intended to be preached in Pauls upon the Sabbath day which fell upon the fifteenth day of April last: but not preached, by reason of a suddain obstruction of that liberty which was promised him, being indeed unworthy to be the servant of Jesus Christ in any such ministration for ever. / Published by the authour Philip Tanny commonly Tandy.	Tanny, Philip.	1655 (1655)	Wing T149; Thomason E1485_4; ESTC R208765	25,450	49

one word Farewell or I am gone I will stay no longer you use me coursly unkindely as if you loved me not What ere the words were 't is sure they stung for she saith expresly her soul failed when he spake Well but what follows sad work Christ knows and your souls know too if you have any acquaintance with Christ I sought him but I could not finde him I called him but he gave me no answer No! what Christ give no answer when a poor afflicted soul cals that 's sad my brethren but thank your selves for it he cals oft and you will not answer him and therefore it is but just with him that when ye call he likewise should not answer you 't was so with the Spouse and ha●h been so with us if we have any experimentall knowledge of Christ as a Beloved The Spouse under this transaction findes things go sadly with her afflictions come tumbling on her like waves one upon the neck of another and truly no wonder seeing Christ is gone Woe unto you when I depart from you But see how she is put to it she hunts after her Beloved when he was gone she now seeth 't was better rising before as she hunts and seeks about she lights upon the watch and the watch upon her she was catched abroad at unseasonable hours after midnight belike it may be about four of the Clock in the morning but how did the Watch serve her they smote her and the blows were no small ones we use not to strike children so 't is said they wounded her nay it should seem they left her dead else 't is like they would have carried her to prison but by them she is left belike and then she fals into worse hands at least not better for the Keepers of the Walls light upon her and they take away her Veil Beaten Wounded Rob'd you see she is this was great affliction hard usage but all this is nothing to the losse of her Beloved 't was he 't was he that was gone that had withdrawn himself her soul failed when she spake for him she is sick sick at heart sick of love and I tell you my Brethren and Sisters love-sicknesse is heavy sicknesse What sicknesse like it 'T is an affliction greater then beating wounding robbing especially if spiritual the Spouse tels you that plainly for though beaten wounded rob'd and ●ob'd by those that should have comforted her yet all her complaint seems to be that her Beloved was gone that he had withdrawn himself that she could not finde him and therefore being wearied with searching she seems to sit her down panting under her affliction and as if she were able to do no more she cries out to the Daughters of Jerusalem by which I think you may understand such afflicted souls as are beginning to look after Christ and being young do groan like little young children after him To these I say she cries out as being most probably likely to tell her some news of Christ because of his tendernesse to such souls as being perpetually ready to succour them And how doth she cry out to them truly she speaks as if she were now fainting and could do no more for her self I charge you O ye Daughters of Jerusalem that if she finde my Beloved ye tell him I am sick of Love And what think ye now my sweet Friends is it good slieghting of Christ Is it good refusing of him Doth the Sppuse think so No. And What can you think so that have heard this experiment Take need Take heed my Brethren what ye do You see what it cost her you know not what it may cost you if you deal unkindely with him If ye refuse to hearken and to yeeld up your affections as well as your ears to the words which he speaks what know you whether he will speak again for ever You cannot say absolutely but that the spirit of Jesus Christ may be speaking to you in me now at this very time season and moment I say nothing whose I am God in due time will bear me witnesse and bear witnesse with me if I am his Fly not like the moth too busily about the Candle of your own Consciences If you slieght the burning light of that Candle yet consider betime that 't is too great a boldness to play and dally with the Spirit of God who is a consuming fire Oh kisse the Soune lest he be angry if he be angry yea but a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him For Gods sake for Christs sake for the Conversion of Souls sake for your Childrens sake methinks these concernments should have some prevalency with you By all these and all the mercies of God if ever Christ knocks deal but as civilly with him as generally we do with strangers ask him Who 's at doore he will answer you doubtlesse 'T is I 'T is I Pray you open and let me come in for this he knocks calls cries But what will he do when he comes in He will do any thing that is good for us he will sweep the house clense our hearts wash away our sins wash our garments or clothe us at least with clean white linnen These things done he will make ready a Feast for us a Feast of fat things and when all is ready he will sit down with us he will sup with us nay his Father will sup with us too he with him both with us we with them Come Come my hearts I am again your Petitioner for Christs sake for your Souls sake for your Childrens sakes little do you think how much they are concerned in the account of your yeelding yeeld yeeld great hearts throw down the bars away with your oppositions your lusts your sins Let me break open doors at this time with those words of the Psalmist Psa 24.7 8 9 10. Lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in Who is the King of glory the Lord strong and mighty the Lord mighty in battell Lift up your heads O ye gates even lift them up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in Who is this King of glory the Lord of Hosts he is this King of glory I have done with the word Behold as 't is a note of Attention but I told you it sixeth us upon two Considerations and the second Consideration is point of Admiration I must say something of that too The word Behold is often used in such a tendency of signification Behold a virgin shall conceive with childe I need not quote Texts for that which is so obvious it is a note of Wonder and let it be granted so to be here for surely 't is matter of admiration that Jesus Christ should stand at the doores of such a wicked people such ungodly hypocriticall professors as this Church of the Laodiceans was we are but behold he doth it though it

be a strange thing for us to patterne such a patience yet 't is not a strange thing for Christ to set us such a copy this is the Lords doing and 't is marvellous in our eyes that he is so good so gracious so patient so that we must needs looke a little upon this word Behold in this sense of wonder and truely wonderfull it is if either you consider 1. Who it is that declares himselfe 't is I saith Christ 2. What he declares himselfe to doe he stands Non dicit venio sed sto saith an honest Expositor He doth not say I come and I sit but I stand 3. But where stands he looke and wonder I beseech you he stands at the doore Cur non aperit saith Mr. Brightman Why doth he not open the doores nay Cur non effringat fores Why doth he not breake open doores say I he can if he will but he doth not but there he stands But is the doore open no the more wicked they we all 't is shut yet he will not be gone for my Text saith he seeks for entrance fairely he knocks He knocks saith my ●ext but if you looke into the following words in this very same verse you shall finde he calls too for 't is said If any man heare my voice and open the doore c. Surely a voice a call could not be heard nor supposed to be heard unlesse there were a call unlesse there were a voice both then must be yeelded he knockt he calld he did so to them it may be he doth so to us Let me onely put you in minde before I come to closer examination that it may be we shall finde this true that pulsando vocat vocando pulsat imo demum effringit fores that by knocking he calls and by calling he knocks nay at length breakes open the doores You know what Christ saith to this purpose if we rightly understand it The houre is come and now is when the dead shall heare the voice of the Sonne of man and those that heare shall live The first point of Admiration lyes in the Consideration of the party who declares himselfe 't is I Behold I stand at the doore and knock I Who is that ver 14. tells us Ver. 14. These things saith the Amen the saithfull and true witnesse the beginning of the creation of God He is called the Amen in the Greeke 't is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ille Amen that Amen and who is that Amen the next words tell us 't is the faithfull and true witnesse And who is this fairhfull and true witnesse let the Scripture tell you plainly Rev. 1.6 Grace be unto you and peace from him who is and was and is to come and from the seven spirits whih are before his throne and from Jesus Christ who is the faithfull witnesse described after to be him that loved us and hath washed us from our sinnes by his owne bloud Anselme hath a very usefull note upon this very word quia dicturus erat scilicet Christus rem mirabilem quod tepidi excommunicandi de ore suo projiciendi essent qui ab hominibus boni credebantur subaudi nec tamen essent ideo promittit se veracem esse ut in his fibi credendum esse videatur ideo dicitur ille Amen or to this purpose and very neere these words Because saith he Jesus Christ was to speake of a wonderfull thing viz. that lukewarme persons were to be excommunicated by Christ and that these were to spued out of his mouth who were of men beleeved to be good and yet were not so he premiseth therefore that he is a teller of truth and that in these things it might appear that he ought to be beleeved therefore he cals himself the Amen or that Amen as much as to say My words shall be found to be true I warrant you Heaven and Earth shall passe away but one jot of my words shall not passe away When therefore you hear Jesus Christ by his Spirit in his Servants and Ministers threatning to spue you out of his mouth for your lukewarmnesse for do not your consciences tell you to your faces that you are neither hot nor cold nay are many of you of any Religion at all do not think that when your consciences are told of these things Christ dallies with you or that he will suffer himself to be dallied with for ever or that it is nothing to be spued out of Christs mouth or to take his Candlestick from you in case you think you have it Beleeve it eleeve it Gentlemen If Christ finde you in such a condition and course of sinfulnesse as to do this to you Evemere ex ere to spue you out of his mouth I must be bold to tell you that it were better for you that you had never been born or that so soon as you had been born you had every one of you a milstone tied about his neck and that you had been cast into the midst of the Sea You will finde these things true at the length for he that testifies these things which I have spoken of is the Amenille Amen that Amen not only in whom omnes promissiones as one observeth upon the place All the Promises are yea and Amen but from whom you will finde likewise Omnes comminationes all the threatnings of Christ will be yea and Amen to those that are out of him to those that have no part nor portion in him or whom he shall spue out of his mouth You see then who it is that stood at the doors in my Text 't is Christ and truly this consideration might be improved a little the better to fix upon our affections if we remember 1. The greatnesse and Majesty of Christ 2. That he is the party offended 3. The great concernment of souls that Jesus Christ is pleased to stand at the doore of any of us 1. If we consider the greatnesse and majesty of Christ In that place of the Psalmes which I quoted to you before he is termed the King of glory In the Vision which was presented to St John Rev 1. you finde amongst many other majesticall expressions that he is described having eyes as a flaming fite his feet were said to be like fine brasse as if they burned in a furnace in his right hand he is said to have the seven Stars the Churches implying he could protect them or do with them what he would he could throw them away if he pleased Out of his mouth it is said there went a sharp two edged Sword that could cut as fast as it spoke nay Heb. 4.12 Christ who is there called the Word of God is said to be quick and powerfull and sharper then any two-edged Sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughter and intents of the hearts My Masters do you think to deceive him you