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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86947	The mystery of Christ in us, with the mystery of the Father, Word, and holy Ghost or Spirit, opened also, the parable of the rich man's flocks and herds, and the poor man's ewe-lamb, explicated. Likewise, the way that Christ takes to undo a man, and take away his life. Together with a discovery of the neerness of Christs coming, and of those glorious things which are to be fulfilled in these later days. Set forth and published by Ed. Hide jun.	Hyde, Edward, 1607-1659.	1651 (1651)	Wing H3866; Thomason E1372_4; ESTC R209351	80,214	204

Lamb nourish it up with himself and with his children feed it with his own flesh and with his own blood but it must lie in his own bosom his beloved disciple is so dear to him that he will not have it lie out of his own bosom And therefore he is said toca●ry the lambs in his own bosom Isai. 40. 11. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd he shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom and shall gently lead those that are with young And then he goes on with the Parable And it was unto him as a daughter that is as one of the daughters of Jerusalem See Cant. 3. 10. He made the pillars thereof of silver the bottom thereof of gold the covering of it of purple the midst thereof being paved with love for the daughters of Jerusalem Speaking of Solomon who made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon verse 9. See Luke 23. 28. But Jesus turning to them said Daughters of Hierusalem weep not for me but weep for your selves and for your children This was spoken when Jesus was a leading away to suffer See that in Cant. 5. 16. This is my friend O daughters of Jerusalem meaning Christ But what is a daughter of Hierusalem It is a daughter of love and glory Nathan goes on further with the Parable And there came a traveller unto the rich man This traveller is a wayfaring man and a wayfaring man is one that is here and there and everywhere an unstable and unsetled man Wayfaring men are often spoken of in Scipture See Jer. 9. 2. O that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men that I might leave my people and go from them for they be all adulterers and an assembly of treacherous men And that in Is 35. 8. And an high-way shall be there and a way and it shall be called the way of holiness the unclean shall not pass over it but it shall be for those the wayfaring men though fools shall not erre therein And that in Ier. 14. 8. O the hope of Israel the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble why shouldst thou be as a stranger in the land and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night This rich man spared to take of his own flocks and of his own herds to dress or make ready for the wayfaring man that was come to him but took the poor mans lamb and dressed it for the man that was come unto him The taking of the poor man's lamb and dressing it for the wayfaring man is the doing of any thing that is sinful before God as David's slayingVriah the Hittite and taking the Hittite's wife to be his vers. 9. Or a man offending his weak brother see 1 Cor. 8. 11 12. And through thy knowledge shall thy weak brother perish for whom Christ died But when you sin so against the brethren and wound their weak conscience ye sin against Christ Therefore he saith vers. 9 10. Take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to them that are weak For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idols temple shall not the conscience of him that is weak be by you emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols The committing of any sin is the slaying of the poor mans lamb for the traveller After this David's anger was greatly kindled against the man and he said to Nathan As the Lord liveth that is As sure as the Lord liveth the man that hath done this thing shall surely die or is worthy to die or he is a son of death This kinde of saying of David is sutable to that in a manner in Gen. 38. 24. And it came to pass about three months after that it was told Iudah saying Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot and also behold she is with childe by whoredom And Iudah said Bring her forth and let her be burnt In this 2 Sam. 6. 12. David sets forth what the rich man that had killed the poor mans lamb shall restore And he shall restore the Lamb fourfold according to the Levitical Law see Exod. 22. 18. Because he did this thing and because he had no pity of the poor man's lamb Sutable to this is that in Psal. 109. 16. Because he remembred not to shew mercy but persecuted the poor and needy man that he might even slay the broken in heart Now in the seventh verse of 2 Sam. 12. Nathan describes the man that took the poor mans lamb and slew it for the traveller And Nathan said unto David Thou art the man that did this thing See how all this while David condemns himself out of his own mouth and passeth sentence upon himself in passing sentence upon another just as Iudah did See that fore-named place of Scripture in Gen. 38. 25 26. When she was brought forth she sent to her father in law saying By the man whose these are am I with childe and she said Discern I pray whose these are the signet and bracelets and staff And Iudah acknowledged them and said She hath been more righteous then I because I gave her not to Shelah my son And he knew her again no more Iudah condemned himself out of his own mouth in condemning Tamar as well as David did in passing sentence upon the rich man And he knew after that Tamar had shewed him the bracelets signet and staff that he was the man that judged himself out of his own mouth The Parable being explicated there will arise naturally these Points of Doctrine The first is this That Nathan the Prophet never went about any thing but he was sent of God to do it The second is this That Christ suffers that disciple whom he dearly loves to be brought and nourished up with him and to grow up together with Christ and with his children to eat of his own meat and drink of his own drink and lie in his own bosom and to be unto him as a daughter The third is this That committing of any sin whatsoever is the killing of the poor man's lamb The fourth is this That God many times speaks in a Parabolical way and manner to awaken poor souls out of the deep sleep of security and sin by causing them unknowingly to pass an impartial sentence against themselves in the person of another that so they might be brought to unfeigned repentance The fifth is this That that which convinceth a soul of sin is God's saying unto him Thou art the man For the first That Nathan the Prophet never went about any thing but he was sent of God to do it this is clear from the words He was sent from God unto David to declare this Parable unto him he was sent from God to David to tell him that the Lord had put away his iniquity he was sent of God to David to speak nothing but what God had