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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04374	The Christians apparelling by Christ Where is shewed in three parts: 1. The happinesse, honour, aud [sic] confortable estate of all true Christians: with the wretched estate of all others. 2. The duetie it selfe, with particular directions. 3. The triall and examination of our selues by distinctiue notes. By R.I. B.D.	Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.	1625 (1625)	STC 14488; ESTC S106591	193,947	568

head to foot clothes himselfe with Christ and with his graces in imitation of his vertues This compleat armour needfull being sound and intire in each and not onely desiring and endeauoring but indeed growing in each part to the foresaid perfection as knowing that vnlesse hee clothes and armes himselfe fully at all poynts all is as good as nothing seeing he hath vigilant enemies who goe about him and narrowly view him on euery side where they may find him naked He therefore takes to him the whose armour of God this armour of light and putting it on Ephes 6.11 Rom. 13.12 armes and clothes himselfe wholly in all parts therwith as knowing that though hee haue an helmet on his head yet that is no fence for his heart and therfore hee also armes himselfe with a Brestplate and with all those other parts of Christian armour described by the Apostle Whereas Ephes 6.10.11 c. 2 Pet. 1.5.6 c. on the contrary wee shall find many counterfet Christians who in regard of this integritie of parts and sincerity of each are eyther maymed Hypocrites are either or monstrous They will put on Chris but how As if Christ were only for the head 1 Maymed being couered on the head not on the heart not heart they are well fenced with knowledge that heretiks and cunning Sophisters cannot deceiue them but their hearts are in them as cold as lead in regard of any true loue to that truth which they know these two truth and goodnesse And contrary wise being for subject the same and themselues without the power of godlinesse The heads of many now are better then their hearts so that they may crie out with Ieremy in an other different case My belly my belly my heart my heart As in former times of ignorance many mens hearts were better then their heads 2 Kin. 4.19 if good at all full of loue and deuotion but as empty of true knowledge who therefore might cry with the Shunamites sonne My head my head who not long after died Now the head and heart being principall parts Par. 3. §. 65 if either bee left naked and vnarmed how soone is the whole body destroyed Some againe put on Christ at the tip of their tongues and from the teeth outward are Christians good enough In their tongues not in their hands or feete but their hands feet other parts are naked deformed and vnarmed for want of good workes and of being sho● with the preparation of the Gospell of peace they are white only in the teeth as the Aethiopian else blacke all ouer Their tongues can talke of good things their braines swim with knowledge by Patience to indure crosses scandales but they either want feet to carry them on in Gods wayes according to the direction of the head and eyes which may bee inlightned or else they are vnarmed and vnshod and so cannot walke vpon thorny and hard places vpon Aspes and Dragons that is cannot indure or suffer hardnesse and persecution for Christ and so by such thornes are discouraged and giuen ouer Par. 3. §. 66 their head is too heauy for their feet and their feet that is their affections of loue ioy desire hope feare c. are too weake to sustaine them and therefore it befals them which befell Nebuchad-nezzars Image Dan. 2.32.33.34 the head whereof was of fine golde breast and armes of siluer his belly and thighs of brasse his legs of yron his feet part of yron part of clay when the stone of offence smites it vpon the feet it falls and breakes all to pieces Euen such is the end of such vnsound Christians Thus defectiue they are for want of some principall grace to arme some principall member Or monstrous yea withal monstrous whiles they grow not on proportionably in al parts Being either al head no feete being either all heads swolne and puffed vp with knowledge without legs and feet that is without obedience or without obedience to answere such knowledge or all feet without head that is all for a blind obedience like the Sciopodes whose one foot is so big broad that the shadow of it couers the whole body from the heate of the Sun so these men are couered and fenced more with shadow thē with substance Or al hands no heart Or they are all hands feet by works nothing in heart for faith with the mouth Rom. 10.10 c. for outward profession and confession exceeding large but for the heart with which they should beleeue vnto righteousnes very narrow or perhaps their faith is wonderful large extending it selfe through too much credulitie to beleeue lies lying wonders miracles whiles their knowledge is either none or very little in Gods word Thus monstrous are they through this disproportion of members whether in the being or in the growth of them whereas true and sound Christians grow vp into Christ in all things which is the head Ephes 4.15.16 and that vniformly and proportionably in all parts for from him the whole body fitly ioyned together and compacted by that which euery ioynt supplyeth Par. 3. §. 67 according to the effectuall working in the measure of euery part maketh increase of the body vnto the edifying of it selfe in loue Section 67. And thus much of this first propertie of putting on Christ which is that it must be whole wholly The other property is 2 The second propertie of putting on Christ is that this putting on is constant so that the sound Christian so puts on Christ as that according to the property of this spirituall clothing he neuer puts him off again but weares him constantly and perpetually Constancy 1 In putting off sinne This implies a constant putting off sinne and the old man for so indeed doe good Christians they so put off their sinne as that they resume it not againe neither put it on in their affections at least for else there is not the best nor the most wary but is in danger to bee brought back againe and insnared in the same sinnes yet hee hauing once in his heart affection and in the resolution of his soule put it off and cast it away he neuer so takes it vp againe as to delight himselfe with it He so puts it off as the begger doth his rags when once he growes rich and gets better apparell or as men infected with the plague being once cleansed throwe their infected clothes especially being course into the fire or els so part with them as resoluing for euer not to cloth them selues therewith againe whereas the hypocrite and vngodly hauing once escaped the pollutions of the world 2 Pet. 2.20 22. suffer themselues again to be intangled therein yea ouercome being like the dog which turnes to his owne vomit again and the sow which being washed turnes to her wallowing in the myre But he not only