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head_n	door_n	glory_n	lift_v	2,537	5	10.4484	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81950	The right receiving of Christ· Or, An appendix to the worthy communicant, or A treatise shewing the due order of receiving the sacrament. By Jer. Dyke, late minister of Epping in Essex. Which was intended by the said author in his life time to be annexed to this treatise of the sacrament; as appeares in the epistle. Wherein a Christian may know, whether he hath rightly received Christ in the sacrament or no.	Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.	1645 (1645)	Wing D2959bA; ESTC R229229	52,271	144

but if Christ come with whom comes all good how awke and how backward are we to receive him Men blesse themselves with coming to Church and receivng the Sacrament and think all is well so long as this is done But how many come to Church that come not to Christ and how many receive the Sacrament that yet receive not the Lord Jesus Christ This therefore being a point of so great consequence and necessity as none greater it will not be amisse to help to sink it down with some considerations as may make way for it into our hearts Consider therefore these three things CHAP. II. Ignorance of the worth of Christ keeps men from receiving him FIrst consider who it is that is to be received It is Jesus Christ the Lord says the Text. He in whom is all our good and by whom we have all spirituall and eternall good that is to be had How gladly do some receive Lords great ones how gladly do men receive Kings Now Christ he is the Lord the King of Glory Upon this ground are we excited to receive him Psal 24. 7. 9. Lift up your heads O yee gates and be yee lift up yee everlasting doors that is lift up your hearts and set the doors of your hearts wide open But why what shall we get by it The King of glory shall enter So that when the King of Glory is to be received how readily should men set their hearts wide open to receive him Receive Christ and yee receive the King of Glory and the King of Glory enters The Apostle pressing to hospitality uses this argument Hebr. 13. 2. that some thereby received Angells Oh how glad would a man be to have such guests as Abraham and Lot had how glad would a man be to receive Angels I but here is a greater matter In receiving Christ we receive not Angels but wee receive the Son of God himself not into our houses but into our hearts What be Angels to the King of Glory to the Son of God If men did but consider who it is that should be received and what a guest they should receive when they receive Christ how easily would they be perswaded to receive him Men know not Christ know not his worth and excellencie and therefore receive him not Joh. 1. 10 11. That which is in one verse Knew him not is in the other Receive him not To shew that men therefore receive not Christ because they know him not they know not how precious a Christ he is Oh how gladly and readily would men receive him if once they knew who and what he were We find John 6. 19. that the Disciples not knowing Christ were afraid of him though he came towards them yet they were so farre from receiving him that they would well have wisht him further off Being afraid of him they must needs be afraid to receive him But when verse 20. Christ makes himself known unto them It is I be not afraid then verse 21. They willingly received him into the ship When once they knew it was Christ whom they should receive they then no longer feare but willingly and gladly receive him So when Christ is offered unto men they receive him not because they know him not and therfore indeed are many times afraid to receive him They think if he be received they may lose their credit and friends in the world that this Christ will mar all the joy and pleasure of their lives and that they should lead but melancholy mopish lives and so not knowing Christ are afraid of him I but it is the Lord Christ that is offered unto you the Lord of life and grace the Lord of all comfort and consolation it is a Saviour and Redeemer that is offered unto you It is that Christ that dyed for you that shed his blood for you that did undergo the curse of God and bare the infinite weight of his Fathers wrath to deliver you It is a Jesus Christ a saving Christ who is offered unto you Since therefore it is Christ and he such a Christ this should make us receive him and receive him as willingly into our hearts as they when they knew him received him into the ship It is the Lord Jesus Christ that is offered us be yee then lift up yee everlasting doors fly open yee gates of our hearts that Jesus Christ the Lord may be received and entertained How gladly did the Galatians receive Paul who was but a Minister and an Apostle of Christ Gal. 4. 14. Yee received me as an Angel of God even as Jesus Christ If they so received a Minister of Christ how then should Christ Jesus himself be received CHAP. III. The great benefit that comes by receiving Christ SEcondly Consider the great benefit we shall receive by receiving Christ we shall be sure to be on the receiving hand by receiving Christ It is a great advantage wee receive to our selves by receiving Christ into our hearts There is a great reward to be received in receiving a Prophet nay in receiving an ordinary righteous man Matth. 10. 41. He that receives a Prophet in the name of a Prophet shall receive a Prophets reward hee that receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous mans reward In the 40. verse our Saviour speaks of receiving himself Hee that receiveth you receiveth mee Now if such a reward to him that receives a Prophet if such a reward to him that receives a righteous man how much more shall that man that soul be richly blessed and rewarded that receives Christ Jesus the Lord the Prophet of the Church and that great Righteous One Let us a little then consider the Reward of receiving Christ what it is and what benefit will follow thereupon There is a three-fold Reward or Benefit that followes upon it The first Benefit is the Adoption of sons and daughters They that receive Christ shall thereupon receive this honour and happinesse to be made sons of God Seems it a small thing unto you to be the Kings son in Law saith David to the servants of Saul And if it be no small thing to be the Kings son in Law then it is no small honour to be Gods sonnes and daughters 1 Joh. 3. 1. Behold what love the Father hath shewed unto us that wee should be called the sonnes of God It was the greatest love that God could shew us the greatest honour that God could doe us to make us his sonnes But now how come wee to receive this great honour We receive this honour by receiving Christ They that receive Christ receive this honour to be the sonnes of God John 1. 12. To as many as received him he gave this priviledge to become the sonnes of God As many as received him What ever they were for outward condition rich or poore bond or free high or low old or young if they received him they lost nothing by it Christ thereupon gave them this