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A05999	A commentarie vpon the first and second chapters of Saint Paul to the Colossians Wherein, the text is cleerly opened, observations thence perspiciously deducted ... Together with diuers places of Scripture briefely explained. By Mr. Paul Bayne. B.D.	Baynes, Paul, d. 1617.; Stubbs, Justinian, 1604 or 5-1681.	1634 (1634)	STC 1636; ESTC S101082	229,900	390

Whosoever and whatsoever teacheth Christ teacheth the mystery of the Gospell and whosoever teacheth not Christ teacheth not the Gospell Of Christ he saith that He is among us for so should the particle 〈◊〉 be here rendred as it is immediately before among the Gentiles For by the Gospell we have communion with God and with Christ His Sonne Observe hence Doct. That CHRIST dwelleth in His members in all true believers He lives in them He dyneth and suppeth and lodgeth with us we see and heare and feele we taste and eate Him How glorious then is the Gospell by which Iesus Christ is communicated with us and how glorious is the Church even the assembly of GODS people among whom CHRIST the Sonne of GOD dwelleth For better cleering of this point I will shew you what it is to have CHRIST dwelling in us viz. When He doth exist after another manner then He did before when there are other effects then there were before when He doth shew Himselfe kinde and favourable when He doth manifest His comfortable presence as he did in the Temple It is seene in foure particulars 1 When as He commeth into the heart to be there He is united unto it and made one with it 2 He continues in the heart where once he begins to dwell and that is the reason why we continue in the state of grace 3 He delighteth in us he delighteth to dwell in the place where He dwelleth For a man cannot properly be said to dwell in a place except he delight to dwell there A man may be in a prison all his life long yet cannot be said to dwell there because he hath no delight to be there he would not be there if he could choose 4 He is said to dwell in us because he is so operative there he worketh efficaciously in all the parts and faculties of the soule He dwells in the soule as fire in the iron He is in every part thereof If it be objected how can Christ so dwell in us Object seeing He is in heaven and we on earth He dwelleth in us as the Sunne in the house Answ by his influence of grace into our hearts so that though He be absent yet He dwells there By these effects Christ discovereth Himselfe to be in us But what doe the Saints get by His comming Quest Many speciall priviledges and benefits come thereby Answ as 1 Where CHRIST dwels He makes that person glorious He fills his heart with glory and this I take out of Psal 24.7 Be ye lift up ye everlasting deeres that the King of glory may come in Where CHRIST comes into the heart Hee comes as a King of glory Hee comes not as a man that is glorious who keepes his glory to himselfe but He communicates His glory to us And herein is the difference betwixt CHRIST and an earthly Prince When a Prince comes into a house the house is the same still he keepes his glory to himselfe But where Christ comes He changes the heart he alters the house He makes that glorious He beautifies and decks the soule with such excellencies as makes us seeme glorious to our selves and appeare so to others So Moses face did shine because God did communicate His glory to him now that outward glory was a type of this inward glory which Christ communicates to the soule of him in whom He dwells Where Christ comes in He ruleth and governeth the soule He guides the spirit where he dwells He keepes the heart in order He keepes the understanding will and affections in obedience and this I take also out of Psal 24. Be yee lift up yee everlasting doores speaking of the soule For Christ where He comes He comes like a King He ruleth as a King He brings His kingdome with Him As Sathan rules in the children of disobedience so CHRIST ruleth in the children of obedience He guides and orders the spirit the right way 3 Where Christ enters in and dwells He refresheth the heart He comforts the heart He brings a great deale of joy with Him So saith the Prophet Esay Chap. 57. Esay 57. ●● Thus saith the High and lofty one that inhabiteth eternity whose Name is Holy I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of contrite ones Here are two benefits layd downe To refresh To give life He doth refresh the spirit of the humble that is when the spirit is drooping and the heart is made sadde and dejected meditating upon nothing but feares and dangers then Christ comes into the heart and calmes all sets all at rest brings tranquillity and refresheth the soule even as a man that feareth death is refreshed when a pardon commeth He fills the heart with joy where He comes as the Sunne doth bring light where ere it is present and no more can a man have Christ in his heart without joy then he can have the Sunne without light For He brings matter of joy with Him He brings salvation with Him as when He came home to Zaccheus He said Luke 19. this day is salvation come to thy house and it Christ so say to any man He brings matter of great joy Again when he comes He brings the spirit of joy called the refore the joy of the Holy Ghost for where the Holy Ghost is He is full of joy Againe where He comes He brings His kingdome with Him and that conlists of joy Rom. 14.17 4 Where Christ dwells He gives life He makes them living men for He dwelleth in His Saints as the Vine in the 〈◊〉 and every man that is in Him is a branch in the Vine All the properties of life we have from Him our sense and motion is from Him in Him we live and moove and have our being from Him is our life derived He that hath the Son hath life 1 Ioh. 5 1● For as the old Adam did communicate corruption to us to make us active in sinne So the second Adam doth communicate grace and life to all that are borne of Him and therefore is called the quickning spirit For as a man doth then live when his soule comes into his body So doth the soule then live when CHRIST comes into the soule and therefore He is sayd to be the Resurrection and the Life for where He is there is Life 5 The last benefit is Defence Hee defends those in whom He dwels He is a buckler to them He preserves them from all crosses at the least from the evill of them And herein is the difference betwixt CHRIST and other Inhabitants Other Inhabitants are defended by their houses but Hee the Inhabitant defends the house And good reason for though He dwell in our hearts yet Psal 90.1 He is our Habitation This is excellently expressed Esa 4.5 6. Vpon all the glory shall be defence that is upon all the people that are glorious

conquerours and in the end crowned with a crowne of immortall glory There wanteth nothing but a little waiting Yet a little while and He that shall come will come and will not tarry Behold Hee commeth in the clouds and His reward of glory is with Him In the meane time let us live as those that look for His glory Vse 2 and not dishonour our selves with base actions of sinne that are appointed for such glory VERSE 27. To whom God would make knowne what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles which is Christ in you the hope of glory THe Apostle having commended the Gospel unto the Colossians by the excellencies ascribed unto it that it is a mystery and a Secret knowne onely of a few then from the antiquity of it hid since the world began and from the peculiarity of this priviledge onely to the Saints not to the rest of the world in respect of the saving vertue and power of it Now he presseth his exhortation to embrace and receive it and the rather we should be induced hereunto if we consider the cause moving God thus to deale with us viz. not for any thing in our selves not for our worthinesse for our parts our wit or wils or any thing else or any other creature but meerely of His owne good will and pleasure to whom God would What should move to make this difference betweene men seeing all naturally are in the same case and condition even his owne will and good pleasure Hence observe Doctr. That the cause why the Gospell is revealed to us and not to others is the will and good pleasure of God So CHRIST saith Matth. 11 25. I give thee thankes O Father Lord of heaven and earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto babes Even so O Father because such was thy good pleasure Were it any dispositions fore-seene in men then those should be called and taught who were of the best capacitie and towardnesse who were for civill carriage most unblameable but not many wise not many of great wit but babes and simples ones are called yea Publicans and Harlots had these things made known to them when Philosophers and Pharisaicall Civilians were excluded To shew it in particular as it is a grace of God to give His Lawes and ordinances so it is His meere Grace that they are bestowed on any rather than others This is shewed in giving them to Israel who were worse than Tyre and Sydon than Niniveh than the Nations I doe not send thee to a Nation of a strange tongue Ezck. 3.3 they would heare thee Had these things beene done in Tyre and Sydon they would have repented Niniveh repented at the preaching of Ionah Loe a greater than Ionah is here Yea God is forced every where to upbraid them with stiffe-neckednesse a necke of steele with hard hearts hearts like Adamant with brazen fore-heads yea to call them a gain-saying and rebellious people Even as His pleasure carryeth raine to one place and to another So He maketh His Ministers drop the Word of Wisdome amongst some and not amongst other some Matth. 10.6 Goe not into the way of the Samaritans So Acts 16.7 Goe not whither thou intendedst but into Macedonia Now if mans outward teaching be affoorded out of meere grace how much more God inward teaching yea His opening the eye of our mindes As no reason can be given why one mans eyes were opened one dead man raised rather than all the rest So no man can give a reason why these who now see and beleeve should be made to see rather than others Vse 1 This serveth to confute those who thinke the Word to be given or deteyned according to something in them to whom it is given or from whom it is deteyned in them or their progenitors But we have shewed sufficiently that it is first sent amongst any freely and if it be withheld from any it must be for their owne deserts or some who have beene before them parents to them not for their owne deserts for many of the heathen were not so hard hearted and impenitent as the Iew and for their Parents fault it could not be withheld unlesse we would make particular Parents to stand for themselves and their Children yea some thinke that the inward teaching which doth so teach that it changeth the mind that this teaching I say is given to such whom God doth see as fit to worke with it and use to this purpose as a Captaine setteth a man on a horse whom he doth see will mannage him well But this doth presuppose a connaturall Correspondence in corrupt nature to the supernaturall grace of God and a power in nature to use grace aright which hath long since beene condemned as a Pelagian error from these grounds that we cannot doe any thing which profiteth to salvation out of Christ that we are not fit to thinke a good thought Let us acknowledge Gods free grace that we have these things opened and revealed to us Vse 2 we of meane parts for understanding in comparison of others we who have beene often more vilely and viciously disposed then others let us acknowledge that He hath opened these things and hidde them from others even because it so pleased Him Finally let us walke worthy these ordinances to be fruitfull in them least He say to us as to Capernaum woe be to thee thou wert lifted up to heaven but I will throw thee downe to hell What is the riches of the glory of this mystery Vnto this mystery of the Gospell now spread abroad among the Gentiles be ascribed glory yea riches of glory that is abundance of glory Doct. thereby teaching us That the Gospell preached is not onely a mystery but a mystery full of glory Even that wherein the glorious power goodnesse and wisedome of God is set forth for what power goodnesse or wisedome is any thing comparable with that which appeareth in mans redemption verily all the glory of earthly Kings wherein they set forth their power goodnesse wisedome is nothing in comparison hereof The Gospell is not onely of great excellency in it selfe but it puts glory and excellency upon all that doe sincerely professe and embrace it it makes them to shine gloriously in all their conversation before God and men Pro. 4.8.9 so saith Salomon Exalt wisedome and shee shall exalt thee shee shall bring thee to honour if thou embrace her shee shall give thee a comely ornament unto thy head yea shee shall give thee a crowne of glory Let us then admire and adore this mystery of the Gospell Vse and the rather because we our selves are partakers of it and by it transformed into the image of God from glory to glory by the spirit of God This glorious mystery he setteth forth by the subject of it which is Christ Whence observe Doct. what the maine subject and substance of the Gospell is it is Christ