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A70945	Christ all and in all. Or, several significant similitudes by which the Lord Jesus Christ is described in the holy Scriptures Being the substance of many sermons preached by that faithful and useful servant of Christ Mr. Ralph Robinson, late pastor at Mary Wolnoth London. Which were appointed by the reverend author on his death-bed (if his brethren should think fit) to be published.	Robinson, Ralph, 1614-1655.	1656 (1656)	Wing R1705; ESTC R223720	320,677	592

you be ignorant of Gods Wi●l of your duty you are inexcus●bl● becau●e the Sunne of light is risen upon you 〈◊〉 ● 1. Ephesians 4 17 18 19 20 2. G●● and keep 〈◊〉 warmth in your hearts The Sun●e hath an heating vertue C●ldness● of sp●●●t is a temper unbefitting a childe of God If a man be cold in winter when the Sunne is at a great distance 't is more excusabl● but to be cold when the Summer Sunne shines hot upon him argues great distemper To be luke-warme when Christ is risen upon you is inexcusable Christ expects heat and fervency from you in all your duties hot love hot devotion fervency of spirit in the service of God is expected from you R●m 12. 11. you will shame the beames of Christ if you have not a holy warmth in all your services My heart saith David was hot within me Psal 39. 3. Ex omni parte caluit igne Dei i. e. a-more Coelestium A cold-hearted Christian shames the Sun 3. Be very fruitfull The Sunne hath a fructifying vertue it ripens every thing Christians must be carefull that their graces be ripened raw lean weak graces shame the beames of Christ you must be sure to grow in grace to perfect holinesse 2 Cor. 7. 1. 4. Keep your soules sweet The Sunne hath a sweetning vertue A mouldy musty heart disparageth Christ you must be as the smell of a field which God hath blessed 5. Be raised up in affection to heavenly things The Sunne hath an exhaling vertue Christians must be higher then others Revel 12. 1. 6. Nourish spirituall softnesse The Sunne hath a molifying vertue A hard frozen heart is a shame to Christ Davids heart was like melting wax Psalme 22. 14. Josiahs heart was tender 2 Kings 22. 19. A frown from God an angry word from God must melt a Christians heart If your hearts be hard Christ may justly draw his beams from you if the Sunne of righteousnesse doth not melt you it is because you are clay not wax 3. For consolation Great comfort ariseth hence to godly men 1. Against spiritual darknesses Sometimes Gods people see neither Sunne nor Starres Esay 50. 10. Well be comforted Christ is the Sunne of righteousnesse he will arise and scatter all those black mists that trouble you your Sun is not set it is only eclipsed the light of it will shine again 2. Against all your own unrighteousnesse The servants of God finde much unrighteousnesse and guilt in themselves because of it they are cast down and go heavily Well remember Christ is a Sun of righteousness he is as full of righteousness as the Sun is of light and his righteousnesse is for thy benefit 'T is as much thine as if it were thine own 3. Against the want of sublunary comforts Gods people have often but little of these things Well yet the Sun is up what folly is it to complaine for want of Moon-light or Star-light when the Sunne shines If God hath cloathed you with the Sunne the want of Moon and Starres may well be endured CANT 1. 3. Thy Name is as ointment poured XXVII SERM. at Mary Wolnoth Lon. May 15. 1653. forth THe scope of the Holy Ghost in this song is to discover the exceeding great love that is between Jesus Christ and his Church We may see here Christ and his Church as it were striving who should expresse their love to each other most At the second verse in this Chapter the Church doth passionately desire to be made partaker of further Communion with Christ Let him kisse me with the kisses of his mouth Those who have once tasted of the sweetnesse of Christs love are exceedingly carried out after a further degree of his love The reason of this passionate desire is ver 2 3. namely from the sweetnesse of his love This is set out by a double comparison 1. His love is better then wine v. 2. 2. It s more desireable then precious ointments This is mentioned in the beginning of the third ver Because of the savour of thy good ointments and amplified further in the text Thy name is as ointment poured forth The words are a proposition in which we have 1. The subject Thy Name 2. The predicate Oyntment poured forth By the name of Christ some would understand the Doctrine of the Gospel So Ainsworth by his name saith he is meant the Doctrine of grace the Law of faith His Doctrine is sometimes in Scripture called his Name as the Iles shall wait for his Law Esay 42. 4. Which is expounded in his Name shall the Gentiles trust Mat. 12. 21. And it is most certain that his Law is far more sweet then the most precious oyntment But yet by his Name in this place we are better to understand his person as it is set forth in the Gospel his person is often called his Name as Mat. 10. 22. Ye shall be hated of all men for my Names sake and Act 9. 16. I will shew him how great things be must suffer for my names sake that is for my sake The Observation is this Doct. That Jesus Christ is like ointment poured forth Jesus Christ is spiritual ointment His Name both in the Hebrew and Greek signifies anointing or anointed He is called in Dan. 9. 26. Messiah which the Septuagint render 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 anointing The Prophet Esay chap. 10. 27. calls him the anointing It is reported by Historians that at the birth of Christ in Rome a sudden fountaine of Oyle sprung up and flowed for a day and a night together our Annotatours mention it in their Exposition of this text The Oyles or Ointments used in sundry cases under the ceremonial Law were some way or other typical of Christ the true ointment In the handling of this Doctrine I shall open these foure things by way of Explication 1. In what respects Christ is compared to ointment 2. Why he is compared to ointment poured forth 3. How this ointment is poured forth 4. How Christ excels all other ointments 1. For the first 1. Christ is ointment in regard of that divine unction wherewith he was anointed by God The Scripture makes mention of Christs being anointed with the graces of the Spirit as our Mediator This was typified by the anointing of the Priests under the Law especially of the high-Priest you may read at large of the holy ointment and of the anointing of Aaron and his sons with it Exod. 30. 23 24 25 30. It was also typified by the anointing of Kings and Prophets ye may read much in Scripture of the anointing of these Elisha was anointed to the office of a Prophet 1 Kings 19. 16. and Kings were also anointed We read of Davids anointing 1 Sam. 16. 1. of Solomons anointing 1 King 1. 34. 39. All these were types of Christ the great King Prophet and Priest of his Church the anointing Oyle did typifie the graces of the Spirit the anointing of Aaron with that Oyle did typifie Christs anointing with

conviction we may understand that of the Prophet Esay 11. 4. Where speaking of Christ he saith that he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips shall slay the wicked When Christ sets upon the work of conviction he comes with so much efficacy that he smites some to submission all to silence 2. For Conversion When Christ descends upon the soul in the work of Conversion what strength doth he put forth the strong holds of sinne are battered down every high thing that exalts it self against the knowledge of Christ is brought into captivity to the obedience of his Scepter 2 Cor. 10. 4. Devils are cast out of the possession which they have kept for many yeares without the least disturbance Strong lusts are mortified and the very constitution of the soul is changed What aileth thee O thou sea that thou fleddest thou Jordan that thou wast driven back ye mountaines that ye skipped like rams c. Ps 114. 5 6. The Prophet speaks those words of the powerful entrance of the children of Israel into Canaan The like is done by Christ in the conversion of a sinner Jordan is driven back the whole course of the soul is altered The mountaines skip like rams There are many mountaines in the soul of a sinner as p●ide unbelief self-conceitednesse Atheisme profaneness c. These mountains are plucked up by the roots in a moment when Christ begins the work of Conversion See how the Prophet doth allegorically set out the powerful descension of Christ in this work Esay 11 6 7 8. The wolf shall dwell with the lamb c. All the woolvish ravenous and brutish qualities and affections of the soul are powerfully subdued and brought under All that have known a person before wonder at the great change which is wrought and he wonders more at himselfe then all others can do Christ put his bridle of power into his lips and turned the current of his soul he scarce knows how When Christ came upon the heart of Elisha what a mighty power was put forth 1 Kings 19. 19 20 21. Elijah casts his mantle upon him the Spirit of Christ descends in that action and see how the man is changed He left the oxen and ran after Elijah forsakes all his friends to wait upon the Prophet When Christ by his Word and Spirit descends upon the heart of the Jaylor what a strange work is wrought upon him Acts 16. 33 He takes the Apostles the very same houre and washes their stripes Had any one that had over-night seen him beating the Apostles so cruelly as he did told him well before the morning-light thou shalt wish that all those stripes had been upon thy own body thou shalt before the Sunne arise wash those bloody stripes with thy tears would not he have thought him mad and yet all this came to passe Jesus Christ comes down with so much power that though the will would stand out against him yet it cannot resist Many a person comes to Church perhaps with an intention to laugh at the Preacher Christ poures down a shower upon him which hath so much power that he that came a scorner departs a mourner Zacheus is upon the Sycamore tree Jesus Christ lets a few drops upon him and he is so powerfully subdued that he comes down speedily at the first call Luke 19. 5 6. Matthew sits at the Excise-office gathering tribute Christ raines down but one shower and that hath so much power that the man leaves all and follows him he cannot stay to take one mans money more he ariseth from his profitable seat and runnes after Christ Matth. 9. 9 10. Peter and Andrew are busie as Christ passes by mending their nets Christ distils a few drops upon them in that call of his Follow me and I will make you fishers of men and how mightily are they overpowered they will not stay one tyde more yea they will not give another stitch but arise and follow him Mat. 4. 18 19 20. 3. For Consolation When Christ comes down with a purpose to comfort a sadded heart he comforts it with power See the promise Esay 66. 13. I will comfort you and ye shall be comforted The Consolations of the Word and Spirit of Christ come with such efficacy that the soul cannot shut them out the mourning is presently turned into dancing The Consolations of Christ are called strong consolations Heb. 6. 18. not onely in regard of the matter of them but in regard of the reception of them where ever they come they come with strength Hannah is in bitternesse of Spirit for a time Jesus Christ doth but as she is at prayer poure down a few fresh drops upon her and she goes away and is no more sad 1 Sam. 1. 18. Mary Magdalen stands at the Sepulchre full of sorrow she weeps many a brinish ●eare John 20. 11. Jesus Christ doth but open the cloud and drop a few drops upon her and what j●y is in her heart Take the most melancholy and persive sinner though he be like Rach●l that would not be comforted yet one promise of Christ rained down upon him and set on by his Spirit will make him lay aside his mourning garments Though Ministers cannot answer the objections of sorrowing Christians ye● Christ can answer them so powerfully that the soul shall have nothing to answer againe This is the second particular Thirdly The raine comes down voluntarily undeservedly The Prophet tells us how the dew and showers fall They tarry not for man nor wait for the sonnes of men Micah 7. 5. The raine doth not expect any humane concurrence or causality Though it come down upon us yet it comes down without us The raine descends for our advantage but not for our deserving The distillation of Christ comes down undeservedly on our part The soule meets with many a shower from Christ when it deserves no such thing The good either of Christs Doctrine or his Scepter or his Spirit are not merited by us Should we have no raine from Christ till we did deserve it we should suffer an eternal drought The first grace of Christ is preventing grace I am found of them that sought not after me Esay 65. 1. And all the after-grace of Christ is undeserved grace We do as little to deserve the influences of Christ as we do to deserve the distillations of the clouds All that Christ doth for us is onely from the meer motion of his own grace Esay 55. 1. Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth James 1. 18. We must say Grace grace to all the soul-fatning drops that come from Christ He forgets that Christ comes down as the rain that dreams of merit All the sonnes of men want Christ but none of the sonnes of men can deserve Christ Fourthly The raine comes down unexpectedly Sometimes when the skie is black with clouds the winde riseth and driveth them away without so much as a drop