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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47349	Certaine observations vpon Hosea the second the 7. & 8. verses As they were delivered at a friends house who had broken his legg, for which meeting the author was committed to the White-Lyon by Sir Thomas Mallet late judge of assize for the county where he remaineth prisioner of Iesvs Christ. By William Kiffin.	Kiffin, William, 1616-1701.	1642 (1642)	Wing K423A; ESTC R222673	18,461	31

a farre more excellent eternall weight of glory wherefore let us not rest satisfied with a face of profession but let us labour to make inquiry into our owne heart and see what discoveries God hath made to us of the creatures emptinesse and his owne fulnesse 2. Vse We may from the Doct. delivered see the reason why the Lord many times is pleased to strip his owne people naked of creature comforts it is that so the Lord may discover to his people the emptines the flittingnes of thè that so they may see more fulnes yea even all fulnesse in himselfe and therefore though the world misconster Gods meanings to his Saints in his carriages towards them in the passages of his providence in saying they are poore and meane and the off-scouring of the world and God regards them not let not the servants of God misconster his meaning too this will but aggravate their sorrow but let us see what the Scripture saith and consult with it 2 James 5. Harken my beloved brethren hath not God chosen the poore of of this world rich in Faith and heires of the Kingdom This is a thing worthy of serious attention that God should chuse poore nothings of this world to be rich in faith and heires of the Kingdom and this is most usually found that the meaner the Saines conditions are in the world the fuller and richer are they in faith and in Communion with Iesus Christ and therefore if God be pleased to take away Wife or Children or friends or liberty or estate if God be pleased to take away any of these from us and to empty us of these we should labour to make that use of it which the Lord expects we should namely to see more fullnesse in him from whom we have all our mercies The third thing laid downe in the words is the fruit or effect that the meanes wrought upon her expressed in these words then shall she say I will go and returne to my first Husband where we may take notice under what consideration she returnes home to God and that is here declared under the consideration of a husband she doth not say I will returne to my Saviour and so expect salvation from him but to my husband to him to whom I desire to yeeld subjection and obedience as a loving spouse ought to doe from whence we may observe thus much That Iesus Christ is the onely head and husband Lord Law-giver of his Church and People for proof of which let us examine the Scriptures 1 Ephe. 22 23. and gave him to be the head of all things to his Church which is his body the fullnesse of him that filleth all in all that fullnesse the body hath it hath from the head 4 Ephs. 15 16. where the Apostle exhorts them that they would not be tossed up and downe with every wind of Doctrine by the flights of men that lye in waite to deceive and that they might prevent this evill he layes downe a meanes in these 15. 16. verses but speaking the truth in love may grow up into him in all things which is the head even Christ from whome all the body fitly joyned together and compacted by that which every joynt supplieth according to the effectuall working in the measure of every part maketh increase of the body to the edifying it selfe in love 5. Ephes 23. Christ is the head of the Church and the Saviour of his Body and so in the 1 Col. 18. 33. Esa 22. Now for the reasons how it comes to passe that Iesus Christ is the only head and husband Lord and Law-giver of his Church 1. Rea. Because the Church of Christ is sprung up from the loynes of Christ they have beene taken out of the very sides of Christ for alas this we are all to know that though we were glorious in the loynes of our first Parents in the day of our creation though God made man righteous yet he sought out many inventions Eccles 7.29 The creature man soone lost his glory and became vile and miserable and so had continued had not Iesus Christ stept betweene the misery of the Creature and the wrath of his Father and by his owne blood made up that great breach which sinne had made betweene the creature man and the great Creator the Lord of Heaven and Earth had it not bin for Christ there had not so much as the name of a Church of God bin heard of upon the face of the Earth therefore as Adam claimes propricty in Hevah because she proceeded from his side saying this now is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh She shall therefore be called Woman So may Iesus Christ claime a propriety and interest in the Church to be Lord and husband of it because it proceeds from his very loyns his very sid●s 2. Rea. Because Iesus Christ hath bought his Church they are the travell of his soule the glory of his Mediator-ship are there not all the reasons that possibly can be seeing Iesus Christ hath travelled for his Church by his travels brought forth a glorious deliverance to his Church that now his Church should be subject to him and yeeld obedience to his lawes seeing Christ hath satisfied God his Father by his owne blood is it not reason that we should live to his praise and honour is it reason that when a mother hath undergone sore travell and pain with a Child and at last when the Child is through many difficulties and hazards of the Womans life brought forth that another Woman that stands by when the Child is delivered should snatch it up and say this Child shall be subject unto me and owne me for its mother and what I command it so it shall doe and what I command it to weare it shall weare would not this be compted injurious dealing with this poore Woman that hath suffered so much in bringing it forth that now she should be deprived of the comfort of bringing it up and is it not as injurious dealing with Iesus Christ that seeing he hath travelled for his Church and brought forth his Church that now other men should arrest it of his hands and prescribe lawes to them which they would force their consciences to be subject to and therefore by way of use in the first place this serves to reprove all these persons that so doe certainely Iesus Christ will one day be even with all those persons sure it is that the Church being the glory of his Mediator-ship he will not give his glory to any other nor his praise to graven Images but though m●n do now labour to dis-throne Christ yet there is a time comming wherein Iesus Christ will dis-throne all his enemies and will raigne gloriously in the despight of them all he will make his enemies his footstoole the mountaine of the House of the Lord shall be established in the tops of the mountaines therefore let all men for the time to come take heed