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A12399
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The vvedding garment
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Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.
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maketh himselfe faire too and auoideth euery foule thing least it should foule his clothes So must hee which putteth on Christ for the finest garment is soonest stayned Therefore when thou hast put on this Garment thou must washe thy selfe and pick thy way and choose thy workes and handle nothing that is foule for marring thy clothes that is thou must not thinke as thou didst nor speake as thou diddest nor liue as thou didst but remember that thou hast changed thy maister and serue him with whom thou art bound For if God the diuell could not agree vpon Moses body for one to haue one part and the other another part but God would haue all Much lesse will God agree that the diuel shuld haue part of the soule which would not yeeld him part of the body Thus haue you hearde what you must put off nowe heare how Christ must bee put on As the Angel taught Iohn to reade the booke when hee bad him eate it So we must put on Christ as if wee did eate him not as the Papists doe in their Masse but as the meate is turned into the substance of the body and goeth through euery part of man So Christ his worde should goe from part to part from eare to heart from heart to mouth from mouth to hand till wee be of one nature with them that they bee the very substance of our thoughts speeches and actions as the meate is of our bodies This is to eate Christ and his word or els wee doe not eate them but chew them and when our tast is satisfied spue them out againe Thus wee must put on Christ for the word signifyeth so to put him on as if thou wouldest put him in that hee may bee one with thee and thou with him as it were in a body toherher As hee hath put on all our infirmities so we must put on all his graces not halfe on but all on and claspe him to vs and girde him about vs and weare him euen as wee weare our skinne which is alway about vs. Then there shall be no neede of wiers nor curls nor periwigges the husbandes shall not force to racke theyr rentes nor inhance their fines nor sell their landes to decke their wiues But as the poore mantle of Eliah seemed better to Elisha then all the robes of Salomon so the wedding Garment shall seeme better then all the flants of vanity and put euery fashion out of fashion which is not modest and comly like it selfe If you will knowe farther howe to put on Christ you shall see how your text will Catechise you in three names of God Lorde Iesus Christ. The Apostle seemeth to spell out the way vnto vs how wee should wear this garment First we must put him on as Lorde then we must put him on as Iesus Lastly we must put him on as Christ. Thou must put him on as Lord that is thy ruler to command thee and thy Tutor to gouerne thee thy maister to direct thee thou must bee no mans seruant but his take no mans part against him but say with the Apostle Whether is it meete to obey God or you Thou must put him on as Iesus that is thy Sauiour in whom thou trustest thy protector on whoÌ„ thou dependest thy redeemer in whom thou belieuest Thou must not looke for thy saluation from Angell nor Saint nor any thing beside him For the name of Iesus signifyeth a Sauiour and is giuen to none but him and he is not onely called the Sauiour but the saluation in the song of Simeon to shew that hee is the onely Sauiour for there may bee many Sauiours but there can bee but one saluation as there may bee many tortures and yet but one death Therefore when hee is called the saluation it implyeth that there is no Sauiour beside him Thou must put him on as Christe that is a Kinge to rule a Prophet to teach a Priest to praye and sacrifice and pacify the wrath of God for thee For this name Christ doth signifye that hee was annointed a King a Priest and a Prophet for man a king to rule him a Priest to offer sacrifice for him a Prophet to teach him so that hee putteth on Christ as Lord which worshipeth none but him He putteth on Christ as Iesus which beleeueth in none but him and hee putteth on Christ as Christ which worshippeth none but him beleeueth in none but him and heareth none but him You put on Christe first when you are baptised then you were sealed and consecrated to his seruice so soone as you came into the worlde you vowed to renounce the worlde and follow God howe many haue put on Christ so and since haue put him off againe which haue broken the first promise that euer they made were neuer faithfull to God since You put on Christ againe when you are called and sanctifyed that is when you cast off the old man which is corrupt with the lusts of the flesh the pride of life the cares of this world and put on the new man which is regenerate in righteousnes holines to the image of Christ or likenes of Adam in his innoceÌ„cy for to put on the new man is to become a new man as if thou were borne againe and conceiued of the holy Ghost Of this Iob speaketh when hee sayth I put on iustice and it couereth mee You put on Christ again when you receiue his holy Sacrament are partakers of his body and bloud that is the merits of his obedience passion by faith which heareth him as if hee did see him and seeth him as if shee did feele him and feeleth him as if shee did tast him and tasteth him as if she did digest him theÌ„ Christ is become yours and dwelleth in you and feedeth you with his grace to eternall life as the bread and wine sustaineth the life present Lastly when you haue put on Christe in these three sortes which is your garment for this world after you shall put on Christ in heauen and be clothed with his glory and that shall bee your last vesture which shall neuer weare out Thus haue you hearde what is meant by putting on Christ first to cloth our selues with righteousnes and holines like Christ and then because our owne righteousnesse is too short to couer our armes and legges and thighs of sinne but still some bare place will peere out and shame vs in the sight of God therefore we must borrow Christs garments as Iacob did his brothers and couer our selues with his righteousnesse that is beleeue that his righteousnes shall supplie our vnrighteousnes and his sufferings shall stand for our sufferings because hee came to fulfill the lawe and beare the curse satisfie his Father for vs that all which beleeue in him might not die but haue life euerlasting Now I haue shewed you this goodly GarmeÌ„t you must goe to another to helpe you to put it on and none can put this Garment vppon you but hee which is the Garment the Lord Iesus Christ. Therefore to him let vs pray FINIS Gen. 43. 11. Reu. 1. 8. Ioh. 1. 29. vers 12. vers 13. vers 14. Psal. 109. 18. 1. Cor. 1. 30. Mat. 11. 29. Mar. 10. 21. Ioh. 3. 4. Luk. 1. 9. Gal. 3. 27. Rom. 4. 7. Gen. 37. 29. Mar. 3. 17. 1. Cor. 11. 3. Ephe. 5. 23. Reue. 3. 4. Mat. 22. 11. Mat. 7. 23. Luk. 13. 26. â—uk 13. 27. 2. Sam. 10. 4. 1. Sam. 17. 29. 2. King 14. 2. Ioh. 9. 4. 5. Iud. 17. 10. Mat. 11. 8. Luk. 16. 19. Exod. 28. 21 Mal. 3. 16. 2. Kin. 2. 8. Deut. 29. 5. Psal. 136. 1. Hest. 6. 11. Mat. 17. 2. Mat. 5. 14. Mat. 6. 29. 2. Sam. 1. 14. Math. 22. 12. Ephe. 6. 11. Rom. 13. 12. Mat. 6. 33. Iud. 16. 6. Rom. 5. 1. Rom. 14. 17. Mat. 9. 20. Maih. 25. 43. Math. 21. 8. Gen. 9. 23. Luk. 10. 34. This Sama ritane doth not signifie Christ but yet may be resembled to Christ. Gen. 3. 1 Col. 3. 12. vers 30. Math. 9. 2. Psal. 32. 1. Luk. 8. 37 Math. 8. 34. Math. 27. 35. Gen. 3. 7. and 21. 2. Sam. 10. 4. Iob. 9. 31. Isa. 64. 6. Gen. 9. 22. Gen 3. 21. 1. Cor. 1. 3â— Sam. 17. 40. Luke 18. 11. vers 12. 1. Sam. 5. 8. Deut. 22. 5. Mat. 2. 21. Leuit. 19. 19. Reu 3. 15. Ioh. 19. 23. Iud. 9. Reu. 10. 9. Ephe. 3. 30. 2. King 2. 13. Act. 4. 19. Iosua hath the likê name but not froÌ„ God nor to that end Luke 1. 69. Iud. 3. 9. Luke 3. 33 Act. 3. 22. Heb. 8. 3 Mat. 1. 16. Heb. 1. 8. Cal. 3. 27. Rom. 6. 3. Ephe. 4. 22. Rom. 12. 2. Iob. 29. 14. 1. Cor. 10. 16. Phil. 3. 21. 1. Cor. 15. 49. Gen. 27. 15. Ioh. 3. 16.