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kingdom_n	israel_n	king_n	tribe_n	3,514	5	9.6944	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72251	The conditions of Christianity, or, The termes upon which Christ will be followed a necessary consideration for them that otherwise would bee apt to take up religion upon trust, and only keep company with Christ awhile for fashion sake / by Mr. Christopher Harvey, sometime minister of Gods word at Bunbury in Cheshire.	Harvey, Christopher, d. ca. 1602.	1636 (1636)	STC 12897.5; ESTC S5223	17,435	83

kingdom of heaven and those eternall joyes which heart cannot thinke nor have ever entred into the mind of any man to bee blessed and happy for evermore I will not endeavour to ●ell you the excellency of them that shall follow Christ my tongue cannot utter it the tongue of any man is but the tongue of a ●abe to tell you these things a small tast thereof in our soules will en●lame us with a longing after it one glimpse therof is sufficient to ravish us with a desire of it Our Saviour in a word telleth his Disciples asking him what they shall have that have left all and followed him Mat. 19.28 that they shall participate with him in his soveraigne glory and in his kingdome shall sit on thrones like Princes and Iudge th● twelve tribes of Israel Ye● shall bee made Kings not o● earth or earthly things bu● of heaven 1 Cor. 6.3 yee shall judg● the tribes of Israel yea th● very Angels themselves ● as Paul teacheth Tha● thing which wee see th● greatest in this world to bee a King Matth. 20.23 a Iudge tha● which Zebedees Children desired in this life that and farre greater shall every one of them have that follow CHRIST not Zebedees Children but every one of us that follow Christ shall sit on his right hand in his heavenly kingdome But let us see what condition is required of them that must come to this exceeding glory what the price thereof is and what wee must lay out if wee will attaine it Two things Christ requireth First that wee should deny our selves that is utterly to renounce whatsoever is naturally in us whether it appertaine to our wit or knowledge or whether it belong to our affections actions deeds and practices For our owne wit not to credit it to refuse our own counsell to renounce what flesh and bloud putteth in our heads and to bee content to know nothing to understand nothing but what Christ hath taught us and willed us to know 1 Cor. 3.18 Which Saint Paul declareth when he saith that if any will be wise the onely way is to become a foole a foole to the world a foole to flesh and bloud a foole to all that have not submitted themselves to Christ this is the way to be wise this is the first steppe which we must make in following Christ The first thing when wee come into Christs Schoole that wee must tread upon is our owne necke A hard lesson deare brethren for flesh and bloud which naturally is puffed up with a selfe-liking of it selfe and of those things which belong to it which is the cause indeed 1 Cor. 1.26 that so few wise so few noble so few mighty are called to follow Christ for that they are hardly brought to this passe to deny and defie themselves to account of their wisedome as folly their strength weakenesse their nobility basenesse to esteeme all things in them as dung to winne Iesus Christ. And yet so it is that until we be brought to this passe to deny all that is in us to lay even our crownes at Christs feet we cannot follow him Neither must wee onely deny our knowledge wit and understanding to learne and know onely what Christ hath taught us but we must also deny our owne deeds such thoughts and works as wee are naturally given unto For hee that will follow Christ 1 Pet. 1.15 2 Cor. 6.14 15. must be holy as he is holy for what fellowship can there be betwixt light and darknesse Christ and the sonnes of Belial wicked and ungodly persons Amos 3.3 and our Saviour Christ Can two walke together except they bee agreed By nature wee are all sinners our hearts are set on fleshly lusts and ungodly deeds which God hateth and his soule hath no pleasure in and all sinners are his enemies whom his soule hateth Wherefore till such time as wee have denied these ungodly lusts and naturall transgressions wherein we walk even from our birth we are enemies to God and therfore being not agreed and made friends wee cannot walke together with God we cannot follow Christ 1 Ioh. 1.6 Wherefore Saint Iohn telleth us that whosoever saith that he hath fellowship with Christ that he is his companion that he followeth him and walketh in darkenesse in his owne way he lyeth there is no truth in him For none can follow CHRIST but hee that hath denyed himselfe forgone his wicked life which naturally he is inclined to and is become a new Creature Here we may mark that our Saviour biddeth us deny our selves Hee saith not deny ungodly workes deny the wisedome of the flesh though he meaneth as hath beene said such things but deny our selves to shew unto us the great corruption which is in our nature Rom. 6.6 that wee are not only sinfull but even sin it selfe as it were this body of sinne wee must deny our selves Col. 3.5 So Saint Paul calleth them our members Mortifie your earthly members To which purpose also the Scripture speaketh when it saith that we are not only sick in sinnes and trespasses Eph. 2.1 or wounded or maymed but even dead of no more power and ability to doe that which GOD liketh then dead men to performe the actions of this life Ioh. 5.25 28. And our Saviour Christ teacheth that it is the power of his Gospell to raise not such as are fallen not such as are a sleepe but even those that are dead yea such as are in the graves over whom death hath dominion who are buryed as dead men Ps 51.10 in sins and transgressions Which also the holy Prophets acknowledged when David prayeth not to reforme or amend as a thing in which some small fault was but to create a new heart within him to frame him again and cast him as it were in a new mould Create in me a cleane heart O Lord and renew a right spirit within mee If you aske of me how can this be This is an hard speech that wee are dead that we can doe nothing to what purpose then is Gods word preached to us Why are wee commanded to serve God to follow Christ If wee be dead we cannot doe it it is in vaine to command any such thing Nay God forbid we should so think Our Saviours words bee truth and life Hee saith his Gospell is preached even to them that are as dead men in the graves And how then Is that to any purpose Yea sure Ioh. 5.28 for hee saith that the power thereof is such that they shall heare which are in their graves We be dead in sinnes not able to move one whit to any good thing yet is the Gospell preached to us c. that it will quicken us it will revive and set us on our feet it will raise us from the death of sinne and create us anew to serve God and walke in his Commandements Which point the Lord openeth in the Prophet Ezekiel speaking of