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A12177	The Christians end. Or, The sweet soveraignty of Christ, over his members in life and death VVherein is contained the whole scope of the godly mans life, with divers rules, motives and incouragements, to live and die to Iesus Christ. Being the substance of five sermons preached to the honorable society of Grayes Inne, by that learned and faithfull minister of Gods Word, Richard Sibbes, D.D. and sometimes preacher to that honorable societie.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1639 (1639)	STC 22485; ESTC S117259	45,936	138

one thing more though it must be our chief aime to looke to Christ yet God allows us to look also to our own salvation how to be saved and happy in another world God hath joined these two together as one chief end and good The one that he might be glorified the other that wee might be happy and both these are attained by honouring and serving him And this is no self-love for wee cannot seek our salvation but in honouring God and yielding the means that he hath sanctified for us which is to cast our selves on him for our salvation in his way Thus our happinesse and Gods chiefe end agree together As when there be two lines a●bout a Centre one drawne within the other a third Line cannot be drawne from the utmost Line to the Centre without cutting the Line within because it is included within the other So our salvation and happines is within the glory of God and we live to Christ not onely in serving him but in seeking our owne soules and what a sweetnesse is this in God that in seeking our own good wee should glorifie him This likewise teacheth us to live to Christ in a way of humility and self-deniall God will not deny to teach the humble and lowly soule his ways And thus a gracious man is fit for all the counsel● of God as a carnal heart is fit for al the services of the Devil Therfore le●us dedicate our selves services to God for happy are they that can lose themselves in God and be swallowed up in the love of Christ. Certainly there is never better finding of our selves then when wee are thus lost And therfore I beseech you whatsoever our corruptions have been heretofore let us now know it is heavenly wisdome to seeke Christs glory in the use of the blessed means fanctified for that end Surely we have all been baptized and what is our baptisme but the renouncing of the world the flesh and the Devit Our life is for nothing but to live unto God And having entred into covenant in Baptisme in the name of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost that wee intend seriously to lead a new life Wee must not trifle with God he wil not be dallied with It is not onely sufficient that we have spent our precious time amisse but more then sufficient For time wil come if we belong to Christ in which wee shal lament for spending our time in the pursuite of our owne vanities For if wee live according to our owne lusts we are but Rebels under Gods livery Wee are but traitors fighting under his Banner And how can wee give account at the day of judgment of our lives that have been nothing else but a constant service for Christs enemies under the colour of Religion This would seriously be thought upon Therfore as wee know a great deale and are beholding to God for living in times and places where there is abundance of the truth revealed so wee ought to make it our life and course to honour him to be vigorous in his service and to stirre up the grace of God in us to awaken our selves and to live to Christ and to put this quaere to our soules whom doe I serve my self or Christ him or his enemies Out of the Text you may see that a Christian will learne how to carry himselfe not onely to himselfe but to Christ. His carriage to himselfe is to live as a Christian exercised in his duty and calling His carriage to Christ is to live to him and die to him And for this end he taketh this course to search out himselfe what is unsound and corrupt in him and when hee hath found himself then he abhorreth himselfe and judgeth himselfe And having found out corruption in his heart he not onely loatheth it but crucifieth it and this is the course that a Christian taketh with himself in the searching and ●iscovery of his sins And this being done hee setteth up Christ in the place of selfe which ruleth in all men till they be Christians indeed eyther by way of admission or covenant But when Grace hath once taken place in the heart then the soule begins to live to Christ and that conscionably intyrely and uniformly consulting with all things how to helpe and further that life Other men consult how they may keepe their honours and reputations in the VVorld But a Christian having other aymes deviseth not onely ways to live to Christ but how to be better more and more how to get into Christ and how to grow up in him knowing that by living to Christ here he shall live with him for ever hereafter This is the course of a true Christian that looketh to have benefit by Christ. THE THIRD SERMON ROM 14. 7 8. None of us liveth to himself and none of us dyeth to himself for whether we live we live unto the Lord and whether we die we die unto the Lord Whether we live therefore or die we are the Lords WE have heard from the Apostles generall negative that selfe must be removed out of the way before we can live or die to Christ. Selfe indeed will come in every thing till the spirit of Christ be all in all in us It is lke Esau that came first out of the wombe it will appeare first in all consultations And therfore it is the method of our blessed Saviour Whosoever will be my Disciple let him deny himselfe and take up my crosse And it wil be easie so to doe when we have denyed our selves From the Apostles general affirmative wee have shewed that to live to the Lord is to acknowledge our selves to be his him to be ours and answerably to doe him service to resigne up our selves to him to seeke his glory and honour and credit in all things and to be wel perswaded that hee wil stick to us So that it is a comfort as wel as a duty To die to the Lord is to be willing to give up our selves to him when the time commeth● and to submit to him for the manner of our death whether hee will call us home to himselfe by a quiet or troublesome death by a bloudy or dry death with confidence that he wil receive our soules That we may be directed to pitch upon a right end VVe may know by the principles of nature A man is not for himself and from the order that God hath placed him in all things below are for him but he is for somthing above himself he is not of himselfe and therfore not to himselfe God onely is of himself by himself and to himselfe Every thing under God is of God and by God and therfore to God As Saint Augustine saith Thou hast made us for thee and our hearts rest not till wee come to thee As the Rivers never r●st till they discharge themselves into the Ocean And being not his owne end it is his wisdome and understanding to