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heaven_n	day_n	lord_n	sabbath_n	9,284	5	10.5348	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36940	Sips of sweetness, or, Consolation for weake beleevers a treatise discoursing of the sweetnesse of Christs carriage towards all his weake members : particularly to such as are weake either [brace] 1. habitually, or 2. accidentally, by reason of [brace] 1. working, 2. sinning, or 3. suffering : being the summe of certain sermons preached upon Isa. 40, 11 / by John Durant ...	Durant, John, b. 1620.	1649 (1649)	Wing D2678A; ESTC R35030	84,697	224

because of his weaknesse But Christ comes and perfects that imperfection because of his sweetnesse Lord saith the Psalmist thou wilt perfect that which concerneth me Psal 138.8 The beleever is set on the worke of prayer and Christ sends the Spirit to helpe his infirmities And at the end of prayer he takes it and mingles with it his own incense and so presents it perfect to the Father His pure water perfects the soules puddle Looke as the writing-Schoole-Master not onely holds the hand of the learner in every letter but after al takes the pen and perfects the whole So Jesus Christ holds the hand all the while the beleever is writing suppose a love-letter to Heaven and because of the shaking of the beleevers weake hand there are after all many imperfections he takes the golden pen of his owne grace and perfects every letter that it comes to the Fathers hand perfect O the darke and deformed lines that beleevers draw when set about some curious peece How imperfectly doe they performe that about which they are set sometimes But oh the sweetnesse of Christ who comes with his owne pencill and after all perfects those imperfections Beleevers carry themselves weakly in all their workes and almost mar all about which they are set but Christ carries himselfe sweetly and comes and mends all that they doe amisse making their botched and bungled workes very brave with his owne hand Surely beleeving soules you have found this How many times did Christ set off that duty richly which came from thee poorly How oft hath he perfected thy imperfect performances when thy weaknesse came short hath not his sweetnesse made it up Beleeve it friends Christ carries himself sweetly toward working beleevers 5. The carriage of Christ appears to be sweet towards c. in that he comes in often to the soules of his working members with refreshing in the midst of their labours Beleevers are weake and while at worke are apt to be weary and to faine But Christ shews himself sweet in that he visits them and refreshes them in their worke 'T was the praise of Boaz and 't was a sweet carriage of his when he went into the field where his servants reaped to incourage them in their work And it s the praise of Christs sweet carriage toward working beleeevers that he visits them frequently and incourageth them sweetly while they are about his worke Baruch was at worke for Christ when he had written the words of Christ at the mouth of Jeremiah but he began to flag and saint And Christ gave a particular Prophesie to the Prophet to comfort and refresh Baruch Jer. 46. Christ gives power to the faint to them who by working have as it were no might Esa 40.29 he refresheth and gives strength Daniel was at a great worke and his strength was almost gone while he fasted and there came like the appearance of a man that was not Christ but an Angel from Christ and he strengthned him Oh the sweet refreshings which Christ by his Spirit brings into the soules of weak Saints even when they are ready to saint and sinke in their work How oft O beleeving soul hath Christ refreshed thee by his sweet spirituall smilings on thee even in the time of duty and while thou wert about his worke Surely thou must needs say Christ carries himself sweetly toward working beleevers doth not thy experience in this particular seale to this truth 6. It is evident that the carriage of Christ is sweet to the working Saints in that at the end of their worke be gives them rest and reward It s sweetnesse in Christ that he should accept any worke of the beleevers but more that he should reward Christ will deale sweetly with his working servants he hath made beds of rest for them in glory Sathan deals not so They shall rest in their beds Esa 57.2 his servants never rest to eternity I am weary saith the working beleever Thou shalt rest anon oh weak soul There remains a rest to the people of God Heb. 4.9 The word is a keeping of a Sabbath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There is a sweet and a long Sabbath remaines for you O working Saints and the morning thereof is ready to dawne or about morn and 't will be day You shall rest from your labours Apoc. 14.11 Christs will is sweet to thy soule O weak beleever and he hath provided rest for thee There is a Sabbath appointed for your soules Working Paul shall have that rest yea and weake thou too when the day shall dawne You who are thus troubled shall have rest with us saith the Apostle when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with the Angel of his power 2 Thes 1.7 And if rest be not enough to declare Christ to be sweet to his working members they shall haue reward also You shall not lose your labour yee working Saints Christ comes and his reward is with him Apoc. 22.12 you shall not worke all day and all night too Beleevers You shall rest at right and have reward in the morning The upright shall have dominion in the morning Psal 49.14 For a dayes work you shall have eternities rest For a little labour in this world you shall have an everlasting reward in the other world Oh sweet Christ that givest long rest for a little labour and great reward for little worke Surely when you shall in the end of your dayes-work go into Immanuels land and there rest your soules upon the rosie bankes that are by the Chrystall streames which runne there you will cry out oh How sweet is Christ towards his working members that gives such ravishing rest to them after all their works for him when the day shall be in which Christ shall come with Crownes of glory to put upon the heads of working Saints and you shall feel the weight of that glory with which you shall then be crowned then you will say oh the sweetnesse of Christ towards working beleevers who gives such an eternall weight of glory for such light and temporall works as the best Saints do Conclude O thou beleeving Ewe who art big with young that the day comes in which thou shalt travell and bring forth and then thou shalt see that Christ deals sweetly with such as thou art when for the joy of that rest and reward which thou shalt have hereafter thou shalt forget thy worke and thy weaknesse under which thou didst groan and travell here The shadows apace flye away and the day begins to dawne in which Christ shall give both sweet glorious ravishing eternall rest and reward to all his working members and then shall the fulnesse of this truth be sung viz. that Christs is very sweet to all weak-working beleevers CHAP. IV. Some reasons of the point YOu have seen both that and how Christ carries himselfe sweet to working beleevers I will now adde a word why Christ doth thus And there may be to omit others three