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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12161	The thankefull Samaritane In a sermon at S. Peters in Exeter, the sixth of August, Anno 1617. Being the day of the deliuerance of that citie from the rebels, in the dayes of King Edward the Sixth. At which time the Assises was also there holden. By Iohn Comyns Master of Arts of Exeter Colledge in Oxford, and minister of Gods word at Crediton in Devon.	Comyns, John, b. 1587 or 8.	1617 (1617)	STC 5614; ESTC S114489	17,113	24

beyond the loue that man can shew in giuing thy selfe vnto the death for vs thy sinfull enemies thy loue is a transcendent loue surpassing the greatest degree of the loue of man Shall not the consideration of this loue beloued Christians make vs to bethinke with our selues and to aske with the Psalmist Psal 116. What reward we shall render and what see we shall pay vnto him who out of his free loue vnto vs hath done and suffered so much for vs Surely hee expects at our hands the same fee which was paid him by one of the healed Lepers namely That we should returne vnto him and fall downe before him and worship him and giue him thankes If we looke into the practice of the Saints of God we shall finde that they haue euer beene carefull in the performance hereof When S. Iohn had spoken of the d Reuel 1.5 6. washing from sinnes in the bloud of Christ he presently interposeth a thankesgiuing before he had ended his record of the gracious works of Christ for his Church e Perkins in locum as it were interrupting himselfe for the great desire he had to the glorie of God he would proceed no further till he had giuen thankes To him saith he be glorie and dominion for euer and euer Amen Our sins are a leprosie and Christ is the Physicion and his bloud is the physicke and the washing of vs from sinnes in his bloud is the making of vs cleane againe by the merit of his sufferings and thankfulnesse is the fee which with S. Iohn we must readily and willingly and cheerefully giue vnto him that hath healed vs. So likewise a 1. Tim. 1.13 14 15 16 17. S. Paul speaking of himselfe as of a spirituall Leper euen a blasphemer and a persecuter and considering the riches of Gods mercy 〈◊〉 receiuing him into fauour and pardoning all his sinnes breakes out forthwith into thankesgiuing Now vnto the King eternall saith he immortall inuisible the only wise God be honor and glorie for euer and euer Amen In like manner doth the b Psal 103.1 2 3 c. Psalmist sing Praise the Lord O my soule and all that is within me praise his holy name Praise the Lord O my soule and forget not all his benefits which forgiueth all thy sinnes and healeth all thine infirmities The practice of those seruants of God must bee our patterne by them must wee learne to bee thankfull vnto God and to expresse our thankefulnesse by c 2. Cor. 5.15 liuing henceforth not to our selues but vnto him which dyed for vs and rose againe and by d 1. Cor. 6.19 20 glorifying him in our body and in our spirit sith that we are not our owne but his who bought vs with the price of his owne bloud and by e 1. Pet. 1.17 18 19. passing the time of our soiourning here in feare for as much as we were not redeemed with corruptible things as siluer and gold but with the precious bloud of Christ as of a Lambe without blemish and without spot Thus haue we seene that we are all infected with the leprosie of sinne that we are cleansed only by the bloud of Christ and that wee owe him thanks for our cleansing and finally that we should be carefull to pay him as did the one spoken of in the Text of whom we come now more pertinently and more particularly to discourse And one of them c. The number of the godly is but small Wee reade in the precedent verses of the cleansing of ten but we reade in the Text of the returning of one alone to glorifie God and to giue Iesus thankes yet mee thinks this one may afford vnto vs two profitable obseruations First That few of many come to Christ That the wicked doe in number exceede the good That the Dragon hath more followers then the Lamb The Deuill more retayners then Christ Loe here among ten the Prince of this world is attended on by nine and the Prince of peace but with one Well therefore might our Sauiour call his sheepe f Luke 12.32 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a little flocke well might God by his Prophet terme those whom he had reserued to himselfe in the general corruption among the Iewes g Esay 1.9 a small remant a h Esay 6.13 tenth or tithing part as here we see Christ had no more but the tenth And well might the Church breake out into a pittifull complaint of her small number and say a Micah 7.1 Woe is me for I am as when they haue gathered the summer fruits as the grape-gleanings of the Vintage there is no cluster to eate The b Matth. 13.3 c. Parable of the Sower and the Seede propounded and expounded by our Sauiour confirmeth the truth of the point obserued for among much stonie and more thornie there is but little good ground Many heare not the Word of the Kingdome and among the Hearers there are many sorts of bad and but one good Wherefore it remayneth vndoubtedly true that c Matt. 22.14 few are chosen though many be called I grant indeede that if we consider the Church of Christ perse Ecclesia Christi mul●a est per se considerata pauca verò collata ad ingentem impiorum qui pereunt multitudinem Brent in Luc. 13. in it selfe without respect or comparison it s a multitude innumerable a flocke exceeding great and they that shall be saued are a number numberlesse the Scripture saith so much Reuel 7.9 Matth. 8.11 Esay 60.3 4. c. but if we compare the Church of Christ with the Synagogue of Satan the good with the bad the Elect with the Reprobate them that shall be saued with those that perish How little is Christs flocke How few shall be saued Take a familiar instance for the illustration hereof A thousand is in it selfe a good round number but being compared with many hundreds of Millions it seemes almost to be no number at all so likewise those that shall be saued are in themselues exceeding many but compared with the multitude of those that perish they are indeede exceeding few I shut vp the iustifying of the obseruation with the speech of our Sauiour who was the truth it selfe and neuer spake a lye d Mat. 7.13.14 Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which goe in thereat but strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth vnto life and few there be that finde it And so from the explication of the point obserued I descend to the application of it We see then how well Multitude no true note of the true Church how ill rather our Aduersaries the Papists doe make Multitude a true note and marke of the true Church of Christ as though that Religion must needs be true which is professed and embraced by the most Indeede where many ioyne in the truth there is