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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94505	Christ knocking at the doore, or, The substance of a sermon intended to be preached in Pauls upon the Sabbath day which fell upon the fifteenth day of April last: but not preached, by reason of a suddain obstruction of that liberty which was promised him, being indeed unworthy to be the servant of Jesus Christ in any such ministration for ever. / Published by the authour Philip Tanny commonly Tandy.	Tanny, Philip.	1655 (1655)	Wing T149; Thomason E1485_4; ESTC R208765	25,450	49

one word Farewell or I am gone I will stay no longer you use me coursly unkindely as if you loved me not What ere the words were 't is sure they stung for she saith expresly her soul failed when he spake Well but what follows sad work Christ knows and your souls know too if you have any acquaintance with Christ I sought him but I could not finde him I called him but he gave me no answer No! what Christ give no answer when a poor afflicted soul cals that 's sad my brethren but thank your selves for it he cals oft and you will not answer him and therefore it is but just with him that when ye call he likewise should not answer you 't was so with the Spouse and ha●h been so with us if we have any experimentall knowledge of Christ as a Beloved The Spouse under this transaction findes things go sadly with her afflictions come tumbling on her like waves one upon the neck of another and truly no wonder seeing Christ is gone Woe unto you when I depart from you But see how she is put to it she hunts after her Beloved when he was gone she now seeth 't was better rising before as she hunts and seeks about she lights upon the watch and the watch upon her she was catched abroad at unseasonable hours after midnight belike it may be about four of the Clock in the morning but how did the Watch serve her they smote her and the blows were no small ones we use not to strike children so 't is said they wounded her nay it should seem they left her dead else 't is like they would have carried her to prison but by them she is left belike and then she fals into worse hands at least not better for the Keepers of the Walls light upon her and they take away her Veil Beaten Wounded Rob'd you see she is this was great affliction hard usage but all this is nothing to the losse of her Beloved 't was he 't was he that was gone that had withdrawn himself her soul failed when she spake for him she is sick sick at heart sick of love and I tell you my Brethren and Sisters love-sicknesse is heavy sicknesse What sicknesse like it 'T is an affliction greater then beating wounding robbing especially if spiritual the Spouse tels you that plainly for though beaten wounded rob'd and ●ob'd by those that should have comforted her yet all her complaint seems to be that her Beloved was gone that he had withdrawn himself that she could not finde him and therefore being wearied with searching she seems to sit her down panting under her affliction and as if she were able to do no more she cries out to the Daughters of Jerusalem by which I think you may understand such afflicted souls as are beginning to look after Christ and being young do groan like little young children after him To these I say she cries out as being most probably likely to tell her some news of Christ because of his tendernesse to such souls as being perpetually ready to succour them And how doth she cry out to them truly she speaks as if she were now fainting and could do no more for her self I charge you O ye Daughters of Jerusalem that if she finde my Beloved ye tell him I am sick of Love And what think ye now my sweet Friends is it good slieghting of Christ Is it good refusing of him Doth the Sppuse think so No. And What can you think so that have heard this experiment Take need Take heed my Brethren what ye do You see what it cost her you know not what it may cost you if you deal unkindely with him If ye refuse to hearken and to yeeld up your affections as well as your ears to the words which he speaks what know you whether he will speak again for ever You cannot say absolutely but that the spirit of Jesus Christ may be speaking to you in me now at this very time season and moment I say nothing whose I am God in due time will bear me witnesse and bear witnesse with me if I am his Fly not like the moth too busily about the Candle of your own Consciences If you slieght the burning light of that Candle yet consider betime that 't is too great a boldness to play and dally with the Spirit of God who is a consuming fire Oh kisse the Soune lest he be angry if he be angry yea but a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him For Gods sake for Christs sake for the Conversion of Souls sake for your Childrens sake methinks these concernments should have some prevalency with you By all these and all the mercies of God if ever Christ knocks deal but as civilly with him as generally we do with strangers ask him Who 's at doore he will answer you doubtlesse 'T is I 'T is I Pray you open and let me come in for this he knocks calls cries But what will he do when he comes in He will do any thing that is good for us he will sweep the house clense our hearts wash away our sins wash our garments or clothe us at least with clean white linnen These things done he will make ready a Feast for us a Feast of fat things and when all is ready he will sit down with us he will sup with us nay his Father will sup with us too he with him both with us we with them Come Come my hearts I am again your Petitioner for Christs sake for your Souls sake for your Childrens sakes little do you think how much they are concerned in the account of your yeelding yeeld yeeld great hearts throw down the bars away with your oppositions your lusts your sins Let me break open doors at this time with those words of the Psalmist Psa 24.7 8 9 10. Lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in Who is the King of glory the Lord strong and mighty the Lord mighty in battell Lift up your heads O ye gates even lift them up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in Who is this King of glory the Lord of Hosts he is this King of glory I have done with the word Behold as 't is a note of Attention but I told you it sixeth us upon two Considerations and the second Consideration is point of Admiration I must say something of that too The word Behold is often used in such a tendency of signification Behold a virgin shall conceive with childe I need not quote Texts for that which is so obvious it is a note of Wonder and let it be granted so to be here for surely 't is matter of admiration that Jesus Christ should stand at the doores of such a wicked people such ungodly hypocriticall professors as this Church of the Laodiceans was we are but behold he doth it though it

that thou maist be rich and white raiment that thou maist be cloathed and that the shame of thy nakednesse doc not appeare and annoint thine eyes with eye salve that thou maist see Being such sinners such lukewarme professors how suitable is it that we should be put in minde of afflictions and of the chastenings of the Lord especially if he shall be pleased to rebuke and chasten us in love To conclude How exactly seasonable and agreeable is the exhortation to repentance immediately before my Text be zealous therefore and repent How doth the fire of Gods judgements and his late judgements of fire conspire as it were to set on this Exhortation to repentance but if Jesus Christ doe not set it on too by his own powerfull spirit all is to no purpose But for this end I hope we shall finde Jesus Christ knocking at the doores of our soules as heretofore he did at the hearts of the Laodiceans and happy are we if we heare him knocking and open our doore for if any man heare his voice and open his doore Christ will come in to him and will sup with him and he with Christ Behold I stand at the doore and knock this is my Text and you see how I am come to it be pleased to observe in it First A note of preparation Behold Secondly A declaration of an action which Christ did to this Church of the Laodiceans he stood at their doores and knocked The note of preparation fixeth us upon two Considerations First That the thing which followes after it is worth the marking and therefore Mr. Perkons calls it a note of Attention Pareus to the like purpose saith thus Ecce ex itantis particula pulsat aures corda ut dict is attendant This behold saith he is a particle of stirring up it forcibly strikes upon the eares and heart that they should attend to those things that are spoken both agree in one that the words of Christ here spoken werr diligently to be headed by the Laodiceans for they were written to them and that they are diligently to be heeded by us likewise for I suppose we take it for granted that they are written for our instruction Oh then let 's heare him let 's heare him pity it is we should turne the deafe care upon him for ever we have refused him enough already have we not aske your owne consciences commune with your owne hearts upon the point and be still and I am confident they must say they will say we have we have refused him enough but shall we refuse him still is that fit is it reasonable What shall we keepe Jesus Christ out of doores though perhaps his head be fi●led with dew and his locks with the drops of the night shall we let him knock till his heels ake as we say nay till his heart ake rill his provocations arise to such a height that he will be gone and leave us hath Christ deserved this of our soules or doe our soules stand in no more need of Christ then thus to serve him thus to set him packing with a construction of unkindenesse that we would not so much as open doores to him Doth this sound well or will it sound well in our eares to be charged with this at the day of judgement Is it well for Christ or well for us or well for any but particularly is it well for our Children that we should be so disobedient so gainsaying so mad not well for Christ sure for what friend can but take it unkindly to be so dealt with Not well for us neither for being so dealt with what can we expect but that Christ being thus denied thus refused thus driven away as I may say he should resolve to doe with us since the times of the Gospel as God did in the old Testament before the times of the Law My spirit shall not alwayes strive with man In a word what can we looke for but that he should call no more knock no more waite no more and then may we not justly say unto our souls Woe unto us for we have exceedingly sinned When Christ was dealt unkindely with by the Spouse Cant. 5. Consider the passage and you will see how nearly it concerneth us you will finde what pains it cost the Spouse before she and her Beloved met again At the 2d verse we finde she sleepeth but my heart awaketh saith she that 's well her awaking heart heard the voice of her Beloved It is the voice of my Beloved that knocks saying Open to me my Sister my Love my Dove my Vndefiled Oh how sweet are these words how heavenly these transactions how ravishing are these passages to such as understand them and the loving kindenesse of Jesus Christ in them Well Christ doth not only knock and call and it may be these or such like were the words which Jesus Christ used to the Church of the Laodiceans notwithstanding their wickednesse and indeed I am apt to think so by an inclination of my spirit which seems rationally to leade me this way and that is the reason that whensoever I shall have ended my Sermons upon this Text I shall follow them with these words of Christ in this 5th of Cant. v. 2. and the middle part only and then return to this 3● of Revelations and the residue of this 20th verse But this by the way To return where I was Jesus Christ doth not only knock and call as I said for he would fain come in but he reasons the case and pleads for entrance Open open my Beloved for my head is filled with dew and my locks with the drops of the night as much as if Jesus Christ should have spoken in other words thus Pray thee my Spouse my Love my Sister my Undefiled my Dove my Delight my any thing my every thing that is delectable and sweet to me Pray thee open door thou little thinkest what pains I have taken to come to thee to night Alas I am wet I do not say all over but my head is filled with dew and my locks are full likewise of the drops of the night thou knowest not but I may catch cold with thy staying Open quickly my dear sweet friend my Sister my Love if thou lovest me that am thy husband open and let me stay no longer Well you see the plea but doth it prevail a man would think it should 't is strange it should not but it doth not The Spouse reasons Christ away and in reasoning him away reasons her self into sorrow as you may see by what follows Jesus Christ being dealt unkindely with withdraws himself and it gone the Spouse then gets up when 't was too late it seems that he had pleaded so long that she was just rising as I may say when he was going It seems likewise that directly at parting he spake a word for a farewell that pierced her to the very heart and soul it may be 't was no more then in