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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51249	Theosplanchnistheis, or, The yernings of Christs bowels towards his languishing friends wherein the sincereity, ardency, constancy, and super-eminent excellency of the love of Jesus Christ as it workes from him towards his friends is delineated, discussed, and fitly applyed / by S.M. ...	Moore, Samuel, b. 1617.	1647 (1647)	Wing M2588; ESTC R9458	55,323	150

power Col. 2.3 all things Colossi 1.19 all fulnesse Colossians 2.9 even the fulnesse of the Divinity Mat. 28.18 Iohn 3.35 so that hee was and is altogether lovely called the Fathers Well-beloved Now notwithstanding that CHRIST was the great and chiefe object of the FATHER'S love the delight of his eye and pleasure of his soule yet Him hath hee given unto the Sonnes of men for their life John 10.10 For their light and learning John 8.12 Matth. 11.29 For their livelihood John 6.51 For their redemption forgivenesse Gal. 3.13 Colossians 1.14 For their peace and reconciliation Eph. 2.14.16 For their righteousnesse Jerem. 23.6 Rom. 10.4 For their sanctification 1 Cor. 1.30 For their Covenant Esa 42.6 For their Councellour Esay 9.6 For their Consolation Hebrews 2.25 For their Mediatour 1 Timothy 2.5 For their Advocate 1 John 2.1 For the Shepheard and Bishop of their Soules 1 Peter 2.25 For their Sanctuary Esay 8.14 For their supply John 1.16 For their hope Acts 28.20 For their Foundation Ephes 2.20 For their Father Esay 9.6 For their Physitian Luke 4.18.10.34 For their Salvation Luke 1.69 And for their Glory Luke 2.32 The Father therefore having given his dearely and deepely beloved Sonne unto us for such ends and purposes wee should not doubt but that hee will be all these unto us This Author in the first part of his Elaborate worke layeth open the yernings of Christs bowels towards all his languishing Friends Reader if thou be one of them here 's an Optick Glasse in which thou maist clearly see how the Heart and Bowels of CHRIST stand towards poore sinners and so towards wards thy selfe What wouldst thou have which from him is not haveable Dost thou want life light maintenance countenance is' t pardon peace purity thou wouldst have speake is' t Righteousnesse Councell Comfort friend-ship safety thou needest Art thou wounded and wantest healing Art thou pursued by the Enemie and wantest deliverance is' t grace or glory thou desirest wouldst thou have a word spoke for thee to the great KING of HEAVEN have thy Cause pleaded for thee there Is' t resolution assurance salvation thou sighest and seekest after In CHRIST who is All thou mayest finde all Looke into this Treatise it sweetely sets out the Samaritanesse or compassionatenesse of Christ it shews thee how readie he is to supply thy wants and satisfie thy longings Here thou shalt feele him drawing thy heart unto himselfe and shewing thee the sight of glorious Mysteries It 's our ignorance of Christs love and bowells that fills us with feares doubts and jealousies that keepes us under bondage and causeth us to rest in shadowes and low things The Author hath provided a good Remedie hee hath opened Christs heart to thee to draw thy heart to Him and where should Saints hearts be but where the heart of the Father is and that 's in Christ His transcendent worth affects him his transcendent worth and bowells should affect us Love to any thing changes the heart into the likenesse of the thing loved If a man love earthly things hee 's vir terrenus an earthly man and his love is earthly If a man love heavenly things he 's vir caelestis a heavenly man and his worke is heavenly Wouldst thou bee a heavenly man and love with heavenly love This Worke will teach thee to love Christ which will change thy heart into the nature of Christs heart and so thy selfe and love will both become heavenly the more heavenly thou art the more fit for heavenly visions and glorious Mysteries Reader this Treatise needs not my penne it speakes for it selfe thou mayest accovnt it amongst thy treasures It hath that in 't is better then the Red earth of the world The God of all truth teach thee by his spirit to know prize and practise all truth Thine if thou love the truth W. Greenhil A Table of some few Heads contained in this Book Part. 1. CHAP. 1. WHat 's ment by loving page 1. c. How men are said to be Christs owne all are Christ's owne by right of dominion for he 's Lord of all page 4. Christs flock bis own by a six-fold right page 4. 5. 6. End what it signifies p. 7. 8. 9. Chap. 2. THe love of Jesus Christ what for kind 1. Sincere without mixture 2. Not selvish he loves not for rewards 3. Chast undefiled 4. Full immense page 11. 5. Free and acts freely p. 17. Christs love in what respects free page 21. c. 6. A tractive drawing p. 25. 26. 7. Coersive constraining p. 27. 8. Immutable it cannot change and why in three particulars p. 28. CHAP. 3. CHrists love what for degree 1. Christs love 's more then a friend and how cleared by divers instances page 34 c. 2. Christ loves more then a Father page 39. 3. More then a Husband p. 40. 4. Christ loves man more then he loves himselfe made evident in many particular cases page 41 c. 5. The love betwixt Christ and christians greater then that love which is betwixt the Soule and the bodie page 44. 6. Christ loves man more then man loves Christ Three reasons of that Ibid c. CHAP. 4. CHrist's love how discovered to his in two particulars By words or works By words there are 3. sorts of Christs loue-discovering words page 50. c. Christ prayes to his Father for Saints and to what end 1. That their graces faile not page 56. 57. And therein Christ peswades the soule of two things to comfort confirme it 1. That hee ha's prayed for as bad as that soule can be 2. That he alwayes prevailed for what he prayed page 58 c. 2. Hee prayes that their natures soile not page 61. Christ prayes to the Father in Sts. how and in what sence page 62. Christ putting words in his Disciples mouths and how p. 65 c. Christ's love how discovered by workes 1. By doing for them 2. By suffering for them 3. By suffering with them p. 74 75. Doing for them and that 1. in serving of them Ibid. 2. In making his services easie to them six wayes p. 76 ctc. Christ discovering his love by suffering for his page 82. The glory of the grace and favour of Jesus Christ to his how discovered in suffering for them shewed in sixe things page 83 c. The glory of that great worke glimps'd out by five things more page 94 c. Christ discovering heartie love to his followers by suffering with them and how page 103 c. CHAP. 5. TO what end Jesus Christ sets his love on lovelesse sinners and sinfull soules Christ loves a poore polluted Soule to make it lovely in his owne blessed sight and unto his owne glorious selfe page 111 c. 2. To present his object blamelesse both to himselfe and also to his Father page 113. How Christ differs from other lovers in this respect page 114. 3ly To present his beloved ones spotlesse he sets his love on

his love to his by words or workes expressions or actions By words Christ lets his know hee loves them speaking good to them and of them to his Father First by words of nomination by the sweet Epithets hee gives them as is usuall among all lovers save that in this Christ outstrips them all when hee is verball he is alwayes reall so are not other lovers These sweet words demonstrate love 2 Chron. 20.7 Joh. 15.15 Mark 3.35 Cant. 4.12 Mal. 3.17 Zach. 2.8 Ioh. 21.5 Cant. 2.10 Dent. 32.9 Cant. 4.11 Cant. 5.2 Love Dove undefiled and those other words elsewhere my friend my brother my sister my Jewells the apple of mine eye my children my faire ones my portion my Spouse Are not these expressions full of love doe not these words of Christ speake you beloved We take it mighty kindly when the great ones of this world speake friendly to us and we thinke it a favour a friendship more worth then gold How will some plot contrive and lay their heads together for a few good words from an earthly Monarch Prince or Potentate Let such behold the King of Kings putting out himself freely in sweetest termes His Spouse lov'd to heare him speake let me heare thy voyce Cant. 2.14 for it 's sweet and thy countenance is comely Saints feele sweetnesse in their Saviours words he gives his beloved good names which are better then precious oyntments Christ also knowes his by those names Thou hast told me saith Moyses that thou knowest me by name Exod. 33.12 Though those hee hath elected may keep from him many yeares and not come at him untill their through conversion yet when they come to him hee can call them by their names he can call out Saul Saul goe to such a place thou art a chosen vessell Though afflictions both of body and mind may so change men as Job was changed by his noysome body poore estate meane dwelling which was on a dunghill Or as Lazarus was changed with running fores so as that a man that had seen them before would say that is not Job this is not Lazarus yet God hath not forgottē them he knowes them yea he knowes them by name he can say this is my friend Abraham this is my servant Job this is my son Adam tho'other is my child David a man after my owne heart hee calls them together as you doe your children by name Fetch mysonnes from far saith the Lord he cannot forget his What the Heathen Oratour spake flatteringly of Julius Caesar namely that hee was wont to forget nothing but wrongs and injuries a Nihil oblivisci solet nisi injurias Jer. 31.34 Heb. 8.12 chap. 10.17 is most true of God and Christ He forgets nothing but the sinnes of his people I will forgive and remember their finnes no more The Lord blots out their sinnes that they condemne them not puts them away that they hurt thē not casts them behind his back as though he regarded them not casts them into the Sea that they drowne them not covers them that they appeare not in the Judgement doth not impute them as if they were not A second sort of love discovering words that fall from Christ's sweetest lips are words of consolation Comfort yee comfort yee my people saith your God speake you comfortably to Jerusalem I saiah 40.1.2 O yee rectified Christians consider the fruit of Christ's words what fruits words spoken of Christ have 'T is said of Elizabeth when she heard the salutations of Mary with the tidings of a Jesus that the babe leapt in her belly and she was filled with the Holy Ghost The good woman was transported above her selfe that not onely the babe but her self also leaped for Joy Luke 2.41 to 5. and she brake out into singing of God's great goodnesse to her Consider what soule-ravishing comfort there is in words spoken by Christ Christ's words warme well as farre as they goe Did not our hearts burne within us Luk 24.32 when he talked with us spake to us were wee not inflam'd with love ravish'd with joy yea ravish'd in spirit especially when he opened to us the Scriptures those precious sountaines of living waters when Christ speakes to the heart with power he speakes from his heart in love and such kind of speaking must needs be very taking in and upon the Spirits of Saints Tell me ô yee servants of the most High when you feed where he feedes his flock when you rest with him at noone in the scorching times of trouble from within and from without tell me I say Is not this fruit sweet to your taste did you ever taste the like Cant. 2.3 what have you not found your hearts raised your Spirits quickned your doubts resolved your soules filled with his marrow and fatnesse Psal 63.5.6 and that invisibly b Pulcherrimam insulam videmus etiam cum non videmus Lyps ep ad Cambd●● my soule shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatnesse and my mouth shall prayse thee with joyfull lips when I remember thee upon my bed and meditate on thee in the night watches saith the Prophet as if hee should say I cannot once think on thee and thy goodnesse but it fattens my soule and strengthens mee as a man is strengthned with marrow much more in the multitude of my thoughts within me doe thy comforts delight my soule Psal 94.19 and elsewhere the good man is so full of the comforts of his good God after hee had spoken peace and comfort to him that his mouth is too narrow for his heart and observation and breakes out thus 139. Psal 17 18. How precious are thy thoughts to me oh God How great is the summe of them If I should count them they are more then the sands when I awake I am still with thee viz. I cannot be from thee I cannot be without thee thou art so good to me Thou man of God admire his goodnesse deplore thine own vilenesse A third sort of Christ's love discovering words are words of Promise c Quaelibet divina promissio est dilectionis Dei erga nos testimonium Calv. l. 3. Jnst c. 2. Policitis dives in praestatione ditior promissary words he discovers his love by sweerest promises made to them he loves even as 't is usuall amōg all lovers Promises that doe assure d In Dei promissis nulla falsitas est quia infacienais nulla est omnipotenti difficultas Fulgent them of spirituall helps and sufficiencies First that he prayes to his Father for them Secondly that he prayes to his Father in them he prayes to his and their Father for them First that their graces faile not Secondly that their natures soile not That their graces faile not Peter saith Christ Satan hath desired to have you that he might winnow you and sift you as wheat he would have you in his sive to sift out your grace and preserve nothing but the chaffe of your