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Christ and his saints spending their time together day and night: or, Christ and his saints. 1. Walking together in the fields, by day. 2. Lodging in the village, by night. 3. Early-rising together for the heavenly vineyards every morning. Beeing the substance of sundry sermons upon Cant. 7. 11, 12. By Christopher Jelinger, minister of the Gospel at South-Brent in Devon.
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Jelinger, Christopher.
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pray heartily to God that such a one may be sent from God and when he is sent hear him that you may be espoused to Christ by him 2. You must follow as Rebecah did Eleazar Beloved beleeve it that I for my part am come for you and to you this time purposely to espouse you to my Master Isaac I should say Jesus Chr. who hath sent me to tell you so much that he will marry you Hos 2.19 and therefore what say you will you that Christ shall marry you if it be your mind that he shall then let every one of you say in his heart I will I will with all my heart if God will but put faith to take him into my heant Oh Lord I beleeve help my unbeliefe 2. As for those that are reputed to be unto Christ espoused if they would be thereof assured let them manifest it by their holy desires to rise very early in the morning with and for Iesus Christ Here take these 1. Instructions with you 2. Considerations with you 1. Instructions 1. You must be Resolute 2. Active 1. Resolute as the spouse Canticles 3.2 I will rise now c. as if she should say what do I heare here is nothing but heavienesse slug gishnesse dimnesse and dullnesse disconsolatenesse and dismayednesse because he is absent from me who is wont to solace me and therefore I will come away from my bed of eas and rise with or rather before the Sun is up that the Sun of rightousnesse may give me his heavenly ease I was wont to love my bed as much as any but now for Christs sake I loath it and therefore by the grace of God I will leave it for these so do ye resolve likewise saying Lord we take up here this solemne resolution before thee that for the time to come we will all become as great early risers with thee as any thou hast that love thee our beds we did love that is certaine but love them so as we did we wil no more whilst we live but rather we will leave them when the shadowes flee a way and rise we will assoone as the day appeareth to rise with thee and for thee as long as we live and this we will begin to do to morrow God willing and so every morning by Gods blessing till we are dying 2. Active as thus 1. Offering violence to yourselves 2. To Christ himselfe 1. To your selves thus Because nature is fraile and the Devil strong you must strive and strugle mightily to come away from your beds of ease as if you were to win a city for what saith the flesh then what saith eas what saith cuftom Oh it is too soon too soone yet a little sleep yet a little slumber an houre hence it is soon enough to rise hence and if then we do not struglagainst the stream to get up wee go down amain downe with the streame and lie still till 8. til 9 may ten and therefore get up against the streame break your custome break sleepe and break away from your beds by force forcing yourselves to rise and leaping over your beds as gyants and conquerors over wals to win to gaine to obtaine the Mastery over your owne natures if thereby you know your selves to be dull and sleepy and let not your beds hold you when Christ will have you to be up to hold correspondence with you 2. Offering Violence to Christ Christ and heaven are convex or convexed and therefore looke as we must deale with one so with the other as for heaven that you know must be taken by violence saith Christ himselfe peremptorily by Matth. 11.12 and so say I of Christ semblably that if we will have him rising for him or keep him rising with him we must offer violence to him Beloved we must wen wrestle with the Lord that time as Jacob did in olden time Gen. 32.24 That is we must tell him in plaine termes that we will have him upon any termes we must encounter him with the promises of his word For they are a Christians Sword As for example Prov. 8.17 Matth. 28.20 I am with you alwaies Hereupon let a devout soul say to the Lord being risen for the Lord Lord I am up according to thy word but that cannot please my soul nor content my heart nor satisfie my spirite unlesse I can see thee also in my spirite my spirit therefore giveth thee no rest till it can see thee after my naturall rest For in thee I enter my chiefest rest Rest naturall is good but thine is better and therefore as I am risen so let God let Christ let my beloved rise too Ah Lord The Sunn is risen or rising upon me and the light thereof doth shine about me but where is the light of thy countenance which shining within me will infinitely more refresh me Ah Shine Shine Shine Thou pleasant and blessed sun of Righteousnesse as the sun now shineth nay before the sun is up If thou art up before it for thou art before it and as the darknesse now fleeth away so let my finnes flee away as I now do or shall see that admirable lamp of heaven so let me see thee that glorious sun of Righteousnesse I humbly pray thee Or thus Ah this Night I have enjoyed thee sweet and deare saviour so I desire to rise with thee and therefore come Lord Iesus come let us rise both I with thee and thou with me I humbly pray thee Ah my love I desire to have thee with me in that very place where I am wont to place my self to displace drousinesse and to make roome for Godlinesse and to talk with thee as if it were face to face and therefore Lord leave me not for I wil not leave thee till thou go with me and blesse me Deare love haft thou not said expressely Loe I am with you all wayes and wilt thou leave me now Ah farr be it from the Lord so to deal witha poor creatur which desireth to enjoy this infinitly more then anyother creatur Besides how can the Lord be true in all his sayings if he be not in this Loe I am with you alwaies if now the Lord do leave me here be earnest with the Lord and shew him the Book the verse the place where His promise lieth and tell him Lord arise therefore with me and shew thy selfe to me I Humbly Pray thee 2. Considerations as 1. Consider What good early rising will doe 2. What good this violence will doe 1. Early rising 1. It will speed all our worke 2. It wil chase away all our Enemies 3. It will sweeten our present Morning Sacrifice 4. It will put us into a gracious Tamper all the Day after 1. It will speed all our work For in the Morning is al the speed that is a Proverb amongst us and we shall finde it true as God is true When rising early you shal get Christ to rise with you we can doe
I doe but name also because I hasten to the principall The 6th Doctrin 6thly I will name but one more and then come to that which I chiefely aime at The lovers of Christ are very much bent together with Christ and assoone as they may to visit their bretheren and fellow-saints who by Gospell-preaching have been made the Vineyards of Christ 7 thly I note that Christs espoused Saints have a great desire The 7th Doâ—… to be up very early in the morning for and with Christ For the Illustration hereof I shall propose and Resolve these 3 Queeries 3 Quer The 1. Is how for him The 2. How with him The 3. Why both For the 1. 1 Querie Resolved I Answere to it That it is 1 to to take a journey from home so they as they have had him in their hearts when they weare abed so they desire to have him in their minds when they are up To take a journey for Heaven and so they carry him as they rife with him to the place where they are wont to displace all their Wordly cares and to powre out their most ardent praiers mingled with many warme and blessed showers of their gracious teares like blessed Mary which so sought him Weeping Iohn 20.15 3. Why both so early I Answere 1. When the Morning comes light cometh 2. When the Monning comes joy comes 3. When the Morning comes strongth comes 4. When the Morning comes opening comes 1. Light cometh for the Morning brings that light which the sun sheds abroad in all the World and as thereby light comeeth into the World so by Christ light then cometh into the heart For Christ wil give thee light Quoth the Apostle Ephesians 5.14 Vnderstand in the morning chiefly in that being that bright and Morning Starre he doth very early a rise in our hearts when we have very early sought him with all our hearts Pro. 8.17 2. Joycometh For the morning is * Aurora quasi Avium Hora. quasi avium hora that is the birds nowre because it exhilarates and makes those silly creatures so merry as to sing that time more sweetly then any other time Now as the Morning makes those poore creatures so glad so it makes us when we are early up with Iesus Christ and Christ with us then Christ himselfe we do lay open our very hearts to Christ telling him as Samson did Dalila all that is in our hearts Judges 16.17 Again our mouthes are open then when crying a loud as David did when he did rise in the morning Psal 5.2.3 We give the Lord no rest till we see heaven open with Stephen and the son of man standing at Gods right hand who but the night before did embrace us with his right hand all this cometh to be so when the morning cometh and therefore Christs espoused Saints do so desire to be up so early with him and for him in the morning The 1 Use The 1. Use Use of the point will be a use of interrogation and commination Then what are we When one of the ancient fathers had read the 5.6.7 chapters of Matthew he clapt up the book said either these are not the words of Christ or we are not christians so I either these words which I have chosen touching early rising are not the spirits of God and the spouses of Christ or we for the most part are not espoused to Christ For how few shall a man see or heare of that will rise so early with and for Christ For the world there be enough that will rise early enough so for mischiefe so for drink that we read Esa 5.11 so for idle-worship for eating and for playing Exo. 32.6 But tell such of Christ that he must be sought and served early and they will all with one consent excuse themselves as those Luke 14.18 One will say that he cannot rise because he is weake another because he is married to a wife from which he cannot come a third that he cannot rise so soon because he cannot wake so soone a fourth that he cannot be up so early because he goeth to bed so late or because he cannot sleep the first of the night or for fear that he shall be sick But let me tell you my friends 1. what wil become of you that can rise for the world for drink for mischief for play neglecting Christ the time will shortly come when that inexorable messenger whose name is the first death will unflesh you and when he hath done the second death will follow after and hell will have you for woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they away follow strong drink Esa 5.11 The like may be said of others wóe unto them that rise early to do mischief and to follow the world with all their might not caring for Christ 2. And as for you that love your beds so wel as that you cannot rise at all but say yet a little sleep yet a little slumber you are but a company of sluggards For so the spirit of God cals you and therefore you must looke for the sluggards portion and what is that you wil say I answer it is poverty Prou. 6.6.11 That is you shall want for ever if being out of Christ you care not for Christ to rise with Christ like purpurall Dives who wanted a drop of water to coole his tongue when he was tormented in his tongue as he lay frying in the armes of everlasting flames and if you be in Christ and yet will not as others do rise early for Christ Christ wil not rise for you to justifie you with the brightnesse of his face or to inrich you with the riches of his grace when others who are more gracious are refreshed with his likenesse greatned with his goodnesse being even fraighted by him to the full and sublimated by him to the highest top of vertues preferment then you shall be emptie and beggerly low and leane void of al consolation and full of confusion Use 2 2. For excitation as thus 1. If then you cannot rise with and for Christ in the morning you must get your selves espoused to Christ for then you wil because it is the desire of such so to rise with and for Christ Q. Q How get our selves maried to Christ A I answer thus it is written 2 Cor. 11.2 I have espoused you to one Husband namely Christ and therefore 1. You must desire God that he will by one Minister or other espouse you to his deare Son that you also may rise with his son Beloved it is not to be beleev'd what power there is in the preaching of a Minister which espouseth soules to Christ Christ is so declared his beauties so displayed his rarities so opened his sweetnesse so extol'd his merits so expansed his unsearchable riches so elevated to the zenith of highest commendation as that souls must needs be enamored with him when they heare so much of him and therefore