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A11006	Fiue and twentie lectures, vpon the last sermon and conference of our Lord Iesus Christ, with his disciples immediately before his Passion contained in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth chapters of the Gospel of Sainct Iohn. As also vpon that most excellent prayer, contained in the seuenteenth chap. of the same Gospel. Preached by the reuerend and faythfull seruant of God, M. Robert Rollok, minister of the Kirke (and rector of the Colledge) of Edinburgh.	Rollock, Robert, 1555?-1599.; Charteris, Henry, 1565-1628.; Arthur, William, fl. 1606-1619.	1619 (1619)	STC 21277; ESTC S116143	255,785	280

he moueth them to belieue from this argumēt of good works The end of faith is a sanctified life and the end of that vnion with Christ is good works As the grace of God in Christ is to make a regenerate man and of a dead sticke to make a liuelie branch and Christ came into the worlde to repare that lost image of God in man the ende of election is to liue an holy life Ephes Chap. 14. The ende of our vocation of our justification is to liue an holie life To Titus Chap. 2. vers 11.12 The grace of GOD that bringeth saluation to all men hath appeared and teacheth vs that vvee shoulde denie vngodlinesse and vvorldlie lustes and that vvee shoulde liue soberlie righteouslie and godlily in this present world There is the whole end of the grace of God and of the Gospel So if a man haue not good works in some measure he felt neuer the grace of Christ the grace of God may shine in their faces but not in their hearts Now followeth the third argument Except a man abide in me first hee shall bee taken and casten out out of the Vineyarde and next as it were an vnfrui●full branch hee shall wither then when it is withered wherefore serueth it Shall it be imped againe No but it shall bee casten into the fire The fire of Hell is for them who will not come to Christ A man goeth not to Hell at once but by degrees Hee who hath not adoe with Christ hee is casten out of the Kirke that is the societie of the Lords Elect that is the true and inuisible Kirke howbeit for a season they remaine in the visible Kirke outwardly Another degree Being out of that societie hee withereth and the last degree he is casten into the fire If faire offers will not moue a man to belieue in Christ Iesus then let the fire of Hell moue him If thou wilt not belieue for faire promises thou shalt see nothing but horrible judgement and as the Apostle speaketh to the Hebrewes an vnquenchable fire Tell a man nowe of beliefe in Christ and of a sanctified life if they will belieue in him it will not moue them because their delite is in murther filthinesse and adulterie Then I tell thee in the Name of the great God thou who art not moued with these promises the fire of Hell abideth thee tell them this Indeede it is true the godliest man that liueth hath euer need to be holden in Christ by a flame of fire we are so inclined to infidelitie Knowing sayth the Apostle of himselfe 2. Corinth Chap. 5. the terriblenesse of the Lord wee bring men to Christ that is to say Wee doe our duetie in our calling And if hee had neede to bee holden in awe much more had wee The godlie who haue a wakened conscience will finde this as soone as they beginne to fall away a flame of fire striketh vpon them for without Christ there is nothing but fire and the wrath of God seaseth vpon the necke of the sinner and neuer leaueth him till it bring him to destruction and shoote him into the fire of Hell Indeede men and women will bee out of Christ where there is one who belieueth there are ten who belieue not and it is a rare thing truelie to belieue in Christ Some there bee who denie Christ altogether and some who are prophane hypocrites and yet the very infidels will finde rest into this worlde and who will bee so wanton as they the greatest infidels the wantonnest But thinke not howbeit they bee at rest that the wrath of God leaueth them No the wrath of God is most vpon them when they are least sensible of it and perceiue it least for the wrath of God striketh first the heart with a deafnes stupidity and next followes the bitterest dririest wakening that euer was When the wicked cries peace then that judgement comes on suddenly as the pains on a woman trauelling in birth and then driery sorowfull shall that wakening be Now to end take vp here the way to Hell and that step by step The first step of all misery is infidelity when a man is without Christ and hath no part with him So when one departeth from Christ either to the one hand or to the other he is in a step to Hell The second fra he fall away from Christ he is taken and flung ouer the Dike as hauing no society with the members of Christ I vnderstand the number of his secret ones if the Lord in the Heauen excommunicate him The third degree Once casten ouer the Dike then they begin to wither and drie vp and all grace goeth away There is no grace no mercy no life but to them who are in that blessed society Last wherefore serue they when they are rotten and drie In that great day they are gathered together and casten into the fire of Hell If any man would eschew the last degree to Hell thinke not Hell a Bogill for it is the sorest burning in the world beware of the first degree beware thou neuer swerue from Iesus Christ in any step but striue to bind thy selfe in that vnion When thou risest in the morning looke that hee be with thee and thou with him and so when thou liest downe at euen looke euer thou bee in Christ and if thou finde the heart sweruing from him and coldnesse to grow in it and thee to growe slacke striue euer to claime till him againe and say Lord holde mine heart still that I decline not an ihtch from thee Therefore striue euer to holde thee with Christ and let not thy heart be blyth except thou feele him againe in thy soule and euer grow in holinesse be exercising thee this way and thou shalt find in stead of feare an infinit joy in Christ And I promise to you if ye will belieue in Christ the joyfullest end that euer was Only belieue and seeing it standeth in no mans handes to belieue say to the Lord in your hearts Lord worke thou that fayth in vs for Christes sake To whom with the Father and the Spirit of Trueth be all praise honour and glory for euermore AMEN THE TENTH LECTVRE OF CHRISTES DOCTRINE BEFORE HIS PASSION IOHN CHAP. XV. VERS 7.8.9.10.11.12.13.14 7 If yee abide in mee and my wordes abide in you aske what yee will and it shall bee done to you 8 Heerein is my Father glorified that yee beare much fruite and bee made my Disciples 9 As the Father hath loued mee so haue J loued you continue in that my loue 10 If yee shall keepe my Commaundementes yee shall abide in my loue as I haue kept my Fathers Commaundementes and abide in his loue 11 These thinges haue J spoken vnto you that my joye might remaine in you and that your joye might bee full 12 This is my Commaundement That yee loue one another as I haue loued you 13 Greater loue than this hath no man when anie man bestoweth

so long as he liueth Amongst all the Armour he saith Euer pray with all manner of prayer There cannot be a standing without there be a continuance in prayer night and day There is nothing more requisite if thou wouldest doe well than to continue in prayer for why all grace is in Heauen except wee gette grace drawne out of Heauen from God wee cannot doe any good turne and the only way to draw grace from Christ for hee is full of grace is first to belieue in him and to bee grounded on him then next with open mouth and heart to pray in his Name to the Father centainly Heauē earth shal go together ere thou want grace ere God deny thee thy prayer al shal be turned vpside down thou shalt get that grace he thinks meet for thee in this life and Heauen at length In the next verse as before he hath enarmed his Disciples whom hee was to send out to the world with a piece of armour to wit prayer so here he enarms them with another I command you to loue euery one another How needful it is that euery man woman who would do wel should haue loue Paul 1. Cor. 13. shews Let a man do all the things in the world yea giue his body to be burnt if there be no loue in the heart alauailes not But chiefly to come to a Minister of all men it is most requisite that a Minister haue loue in his hart otherways all is nothing all his language preaching auailes nought if the heart haue not a loue of the saluation of man and woman So the thing he regardeth is that loue be in their heart Yee knowe what a loue Paul had he had so great a loue to the safety of his kinsmen that he would haue wished to be Anathema for them looke what a loue he vttereth 2. Cor. 6. vers 11. he saith O Corinthians our mouth is open to you our heart is made large yee are not kept straite in vs but yee are kept straite in your owne bowels So there are manie graces required in a Minister but chiefelie loue and if hee haue no loue hee will not care by howe manie perishe Yet farder they should not onelie haue loue to their people but also Pastors should haue mutuall loue amongst themselues they shoulde haue vnitie of heart goe where they will There is nothing that serueth more for making vp of that bodie of CHRIST than the sweete agreeing of the Labourers when they agree the worke of the Lord goeth forward as workemen when they worke together in one vnion the worke goeth forwarde And a man who carrieth enuie in his heart hee shall neuer preach Christ truelie but hypocriticallie Paul in the first Chapter to the Philippians vers 15. hee speaketh of two sortes of Preachers Some saith he preach to increase mine affliction some of loue Then he saith What then yet CHRIST is preached all maner of wayes whether it be vnder a pretence or sincerely and I therein joy yea will joy He speaks this in his bands So whosoeuer hath contention against his fellow-labourer preach as they will preach they make the Gospel a cloake to couer their malice and hypocrisie Vpon the other part they onely who haue intiere loue to their fellow-labourers teach Christ sincerely Wee see the Apostles when they make mention of their fellow-labourers howe honourably they stile them what great affection they vtter vnto them as Paul when hee speaketh of Timothie Titu● and others Now I goe forward If the world hate you yee know that it hated mee before you This is the third part of the Chapter wherein he comforteth them against the hatred and persecution of the world and so hee warneth them to goe out after his departure I knowe well enough the world will hate you Then he comforteth them with his example Haue they not hated mee before you There is the ground The seruant is not greater than his Master The Lord Iesus is worth all the Apostles and Ministers that euer were Shall the seruant start and runne when he is hated seeing the great hatred and malice the Lord suffered No man in the worlde suffered so great persecution as the Lord and so patiently And had it not beene that the Lord Iesus tooke on that euill thou shouldest haue suffered more than the hatred of the world that is the very wrath of God So to moue them to patience hee layeth downe his owne example as before he proponed his example to loue God to keep his Commandements and loue their neighbour So hee commendeth neuer a thing to them without his owne example There is nothing that the Lord will bid thee doe but hee will let thee see that same first done by him Hee setteth himselfe before vs as a patterne And as concerning this patience in suffering it is needefull that this example of Iesus Christ bee euer before the eyes of any that woulde suffer for it is against our nature to suffer anie waye Yea it is so needefull that there was neuer a man or woman who suffered if they had not had that suffering of Iesus before them that could suffer patiently The example of all the patience in the worlde will not cause one to suffer patiently except thou get a sense of that suffering for faith in Christ Iesus is the ground of all well doing Iesus Christ must be in thine heart ere there bee any good vertue in thine heart for it is faith in Christ Iesus that reformeth the heart Except wee haue him in the heart there is no good in it Therefore Paul when he recommendeth any vertue vnto vs hee vseth to set before vs the example of Christ as a moste forcible argument as when hee exhorteth vs to modestie hee saieth Let the same minde bee in you which was in Iesus Christ Philip. Chap. 2. verse 5. And when hee commendeth patience in bearing the infirmities of weake brethren hee bringeth his example For Christ also saieth hee would not please himselfe Rom. Chap. 15. vers 3. Then if thou wouldest haue loue or meeknesse or anie vertue into thine heart haue the Lord into thine heart and cast thine eye vpon him In one word belieue in Iesus Christ and getting a sight of him thou shalt finde a sweete change of thy nature then thou shalt bee an holie liuer and a patient sufferer and thou shalt growe in all good vertue and that through Christ Iesus To whom with the Father and the Spirit of Trueth bee all praise honour and glorie foreuermore AMEN THE TWELFTH LECTVRE OF CHRISTES DOCTRINE BEFORE HIS PASSION IOHN CHAP. xv VERS 19.20.21.22.23.24.25.26.27 19 Jf yee were of the world the world would loue his owne but because yee are not of the world but I haue chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you 20 Remember the word that I saide vnto you The seruant is not greater than his Master if they haue persecuted mee they will persecute