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A67286	The preciousness of Christ to the believing-Christian Plainly and briefly set forth for the edification and consolation of believers in, and lovers of the Lord Jesus Christ. In a sermon on I Pet. 2. 7. By William Walker, B.D.	Walker, William, 1623-1684.	1667 (1667)	Wing W432A; ESTC R219919	23,737	44

Tyndal the Geneva Interpreters and our own Bibles both of the Old and New Translation taking the word in the latter sense render it precious and our late learned Paraphrast in the abstract the preciousness I suppose in conformity to the Context where Christ is once and again namely in verse the fourth and sixth beside this third place styled precious According to whether acceptation we take the word the sense of the Text is unquestionably sound and Orthodoxal We will therefore not reject either but consider and handle the Text according to both beginning with that which renders it Honour And the Point delivered in the Text according to this Interpretation of it is this That Christ is an Honour unto those that believe on him Whereas those feigned Deities which the Heathen Idolaters worship for Gods whether they be creatures of Gods making or of their own making are a shame and a reproach to the worshipers of them as being but so many either nothings i. e. none of the things that they are believed to be and ●rus ●bserv ● 16. c. 9. worshipped for or stinking things dunghil-gods which it were a shame for any rational man to do any religious reverence and perform any sacred worship to Yet Christ Jesus the God whom we serve even that crucified Christ who to the Jews is a stumbling block and to the Gentiles foolishness is so far from being any reproach or shame that he is an Honour and a Credit to the Believers on him to the Worshippers of him Such he is as in Himself Such he is in his Relations unto them and such also he is in that esteem which they have of Him And First Jesus Christ is an Honour unto them that believe on him if considered as such as he is in Himself And what is that Why the only begotten Son of God Joh. 3. 16. One with his Father Joh. 10. 30. The Power of God and the Wisdome of God 1 Cor. 1. 24. Whom God hath exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour Act. 5. 31. And hath made him Lord and Christ Act. 2. 36. The King of Kings and Lord of Lords Rev. 19. 16. The Judge of the World Act. 10. 42. The Lord of glory 1 Cor. 2. 8. The mighty God Isa 9. 6. The Head of all Principality and Power Colos 2. 10. Whom all things were created by and for and by whom all things do consist Col. 1. 16 17. Now Jesus Christ being such an one in Himself what an Honour can it but be unto those that believe on him that they do believe and trust in worship and serve such an one as he Secondly He is an Honour unto them that believe on him if considered in his Relations unto them What are they We may reckon many and all honourable He is their Brother Heb. 2. 1. their Husband 2 Cor. 11. 2. their Advocate 1 Joh. 2. 1. their Captain Heb. 2. 10. their Prophet Act. 3. 22. their Priest Heb. 8. 1. their King Rev. 15. 3. their Shepherd Heb. 13. 20. their Bishop 1 Pet. 2. 25. their Foundation 1 Cor. 3. 10. their Head Eph. 5. 23. Now what an Honour is there flowing from every of these Relations to every true Believer in Christ O what an honour is it to a a believing soul to have the onely begotten Son of God the Heir of all thing the first born of every creature to be its Brother To have the Lord of life and glory to be its Husband To have the Son of Gods love who is in the bosome of his Father to be its Advocate with the Father to have the mighty God to be the Captain of its Salvation to have the eternal wisdome of the Father to be its Prophet the Holy One of God to be its Priest the Head of all Principality and Power to be its King to be a Sheep in that Flock whereunto Christ is the Shepherd to be a Communicant in that Church over which Christ is the Bishop to be a Stone in that Building whose Foundation is Christ to be a Member of that Body whereof Christ is the Head Like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down upon the beard even Aarons beard that went down to the Skirts of his garments so the Honour of Jesus Christ descends upon and is derived unto evey member of his body even the lowest as well as the highest member of it the meanest as well as the grearest Christian in it Such honour have all his Saints from the Relations which he stands in unto them Such an honour he is unto them from those Relations Thirdly As in Himself and in his Relations unto his Saints so in that esteem which they have of him he is an Honour to them However he be disesteemed despised and rejected of other men to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Gentiles foolishness to Hereticks and Atheists a scoffe and scorn yet to the true Believers on him he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an honour in that account which they make and in that esteem which they have of him Hence proceeded their nameing of his name upon themselves calling themselves Christians and as it were glorying in that Appellation as did Sanctius the Confessor from whom no tortures could extort any other answer to whatever question was put to him but this I am a Christian. Hence their professing with a kind of delight to be related as Servants unto him and intimating that relation by a frequent respectful calling him their Lord and Master Christ Jesus my Lord so St. Paul Phil. 3. 8. Scarce would the devout Divine Mr. Harbert even in his ordinary speech mention the blessed name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ but he would adde unto it My Master How sweetly doth my Master sound My Master As Ambergre ese leaves a rich scent unto the Taster so do these words a sweet content An Oriental fragancy My Master So he begins one of his Divine Poems and goes on too in the same strain Hence again their free and bold confessing him even before Kings in times of hottest and sharpest persecutions for his name glorying in it and counting it an honour and an happiness to them to suffer shame and reproach yea torments and death it self for his Name If ye be reproached for the name of Christ happy are ye saith St. Peter 1 Pet. 4. 41. who together with the rest of the Apostles being beaten by the Council of Jerusalem for speaking in his name went away rejoycing that they were counted worthy or as the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may signifie had the honour done them to suffer shame 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be dishonoured for his name Act. 5. 14. In which expression St. Ignatius a follower of their faith and sufferings doth also follow them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so saith he of the chains wherewith he was bound for the name and faith of Christ I have been vouchsafed counted worthy or

That 's the thing I exhort you to labour for O labour to endear Christ to your souls Now if any would know how to do this Two Directions I shall give him in this case First let him study the worth that there is in Christ Secondly let him consider the need that he hath of Christ If there be any man to whom Christ is not precious surely it is upon one or both of these points either first because he is not sufficiently informed of the due worth of Christ or else secondly because he is not truly sensible of the great need that he hath of Christ That therefore he may be precious unto you be much and oft upon these Meditations First Study the worth of Christ consider the various excellencies that with most illustrious beams do shine forth in him and that whether you look upon him as God or as Man or as Meditator betwixt God and Man Look upon him First as man and how can ye but admire the exemplary holinesse of his life He knew no sin neither was guile found in his mouth How can ye but admire the insuperable patience of his Death He was led as a sheep to the slaughter and as a lamb is dumb before the shearer so opened he not his mouth Lastly how can ye but admire the incomparable charity which he shewed both in his life and death In his life he went about doing good and healing all manner of diseases and sickness of the people In his death he prayed to his Father for pardon for his very Crucifiers Secondly Look upon him as Mediator and acting in all his several offices And how can ye but admire the excellencies of his Teachings as a Prophet Gracious words proceeded out of his mouth Never man spake as he spake How can ye but admire the prevalency of his Sacrifice and Intercession as a Priest Thereby he made satisfaction unto God for our sins and makes our Persons acceptable unto God And how can ye but admire the magnificency of his Administration of the Regal Government as a King Thereby he rescues us from the power malice and injuries of all our enemies whether they be Sin or Satan Death or Grave World or Hell and both at present translates us into a Kingdom of Grace and will hereafter estate us in a Kingdom of Glory Lastly If you are able look upon him as God And how can ye but admire the incomparable greatness of his Power He is Omnipotent nothing too hard for him he can do all things How can ye but admire the incomprehensible deepnesse of his Wisdom He is Omniscient his understanding it is infinite he knows all things And how can ye but admire the unmeasurable largeness of his goodness He is Omnibenificent good to all and his mercy is over all his works Yea not an Attribute of his but may be a Subject for Angels to contemplate upon and even they too will come short of comprehending the full of it and lose themselves at la●● into high admirings and holy adorings of him for it O meditate my Brethren much and oft upon these things And when you find that the Lord whom you serve the Jesus whom you believe in the Christ in whom ye put your trust is so glorious a God so gracious a Man so efficacious a Mediatour betwixt God and Man you will find your hearts carried strongly forth in high and lofty affections toward him so that his person will be dear his name sweet and the very thought of him precious to your souls Secondly Consider the Need you have of Christ which will appear by considering the utter undonness of your condition without Christ The want of this consideration is one cause why it is that to many men Christ is no more precious than he is They set no price upon him because they discern not their need of him O call yourselves to a strict account and commune with your own hearts diligently about this even what need you have of Christ And that as we noted you will quickly discern when once ye come to understand the miserableness of your estate without Christ And alas What is man without Christ An enemy to God a servant to sin a slave to Satan a Child of wrath a Captive to Death a brand of hell Now surely to be in this estate is a fearful thing And to him that rightly understands the fearfulness of this estate nothing can be imagined more needful than that by which he may be delivered out of and freed from this estate Why there is no deliverer of any from this estate but Chrlst there is no deliverance for any from it but by Christ O how precious then must Christ needs be to a poor creature that is terrified with the fearful apprehensions of his being in so woful a condition Never was sight more welcome to man that was blind never feet more acceptable to him that was lame never health more desirable by him that was sick never liberty more dear to him that was imprisoned never pardon more precious to him that was condemned than Christ would be to such a soul Let me put a few Queries into your mouths to ask your selves about this businesse when you are at your best leisures Have you given a perfect unsinning Obedience to the whole Law of God in every point of it If so then you may challenge life from God as due debt upon the score of his promise This do and live But if not as sure you have not for there is none that liveth and sinneth not then are you able to bear that curse of the Law which is due to him that continueth not in every thing that is written in the Book of the Law to do it Are you able to dwell to all eternity with devouring fire If not that for who is able to dwell with everlasting burning then are you able to free your selves from it either first by powerful resistance not suffering the sentence to be put in execution or secondly by perswasive eloquence softning the Judge to a revoking of the sentence of your condemnation Or thirdly by prevalent intercession of interposing friends men or Angels extorting from him a pardon for your transgression Or fourthly by giving unto Justice in some way of Commutation a full and valuable satisfaction If your deliverance from eternal damnation be neither to be wrought any one of these wayes nor be obtained any other way beside these but only through the Redemption that is in Jesus Christ and that invaluable merit of his most precious blood there needs no more sure to tell you what need ye have of Christ How can a soul fully convinced of this but cry out for Christ as Rachel did for Children Give me Christ O give me Christ or else I die If ever there were any of you brought into that condition experimentally to understand the miserableness of the case of a man without Christ that is of a sinner without a Saviour I know your experience will confirm my sayings Let me yet add Which of you is able to overcome a temptation without strength from Christ Which of you sufficient himself to perform a good action yea even think a good thought without grace from Christ O what is the best of us but a with●red branch if separate from communion with Christ The all that we can do without him is just nothing at all In a word if all the hope of your acceptation with God of your Resurrection unto life and of your Reception into Glory be founded upon Christ and Christ alone then understand your need of Christ and accordingly as you need him so esteem of him If such extream need of Christ as in you added unto such exceeding Worth as in Christ be not enough to render him precious to you who is able to imagine what should be enough The Lord help you to such a frame of spirit as that Christ Jesus may be precious to you And yet I might further add First That to have a precious esteem of Christ is the way to be preciously esteemed of by Christ If Christ be in your esteem a pearl of great price you shall be in Christs esteem jewels of no little price Not the least drop of respect you shed on him but shall be showred back manifold upon your selves And this is comfortable There 's a sweet blessing pronounced on all those that are sincere lovers of Christ by St. Paul in the close of his Epistle to the Ephesians c. 6. v. 24. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity Amen Grace what 's that here Why the love the favour the mercy the kindness of God expressing it self in blessings from God This grace the Apostle prays that it may and according to his prayer most assuredly it will be with the sincere lovers of Jesus Christ unto whom he is precious Secondly I might add That not to have Christ precious unto you is the next to your making light of Christ If he that is not a lover of his brother be in Gods account a murderer of his brother O take heed that your not having a high esteem of the Son of God be not in the account of God a treading of his Son under foot And as the other was comfortable so this is terrible There is a bitter curse denounced against all those that are not lovers of Christ by St. Paul also in the close of his first Epistle to the Corinthians c. 6. v. 23. If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha Let him be Anathema Maranatha what 's that Why let him fall under the heavie●● censures of the Church be excommunicated to the severest degree of excommunication cut off from all communion with the Church of Christ and consequently from all union and communion with Christ himself as he deserves to be that makes light of Christ And what more sad c●●●●tion than this can a man be in on this side hell 〈◊〉 But I am loth to draw away your minds too far from the two former considerations namely that of the worth of Christ and that of your want of Christ which alone are sufficient to endear him very much unto you and therefore to give you room for Meditation t●●●eon I shall here break off and conclude my ●●●●ourse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FINIS