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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86138	A three-fold cord to unite soules for ever unto God. 1. The mysterie of godlinesse opened. 2. The imitation of Christ proposed. 3. The crowne of afflicted saints promised. / As it was compacted by M. Richard Head, M.A. and sometimes minister of the Gospel, in his labours at Great Torrington in Devon. Published now, after his death, for publike profit.	Head, Richard, Rev.	1647 (1647)	Wing H1277B; Thomason E410_13; ESTC R204453	37,489	56

unto you that yee which have followed me in the regeneration when the Sonne of man shall sit in the Throne of his glory yee also shall sit upon twelve Thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel THe words are a promise made by our Lord and Saviour to the Apostles but extended to the Gentiles and so to the whole family of God for as they exclude Judas though present when Christ spake by reason of his apostasie so they include us though many Generations after through many Generations being beleevers The scope is to infringe those argnments of discouragement in the wayes of God which Satan and our owne corruption may and doe too often presse us with What profit is there in serving God To strengthen us against this objection Ye saith Christ who have followed me c. answerable whereunto is that of his if any man serve me him will my Father honour Observe in the words First a president of Christian Imitation Yee that have followed mee Secondly a reward of that Imitation Yee shall sit on twelve Thrones and judge the twelve Tribes of Israel Thirdly the determinate terme or time of this glory {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in the renovation and instauration of the whole world when Christ in his Throne of glory shall declare himselfe to bee the Sonne of God First the president of Imitation Yee that have followed me Christ is the example wee are all to follow hee cryes unto us as unto Matthew Come and follow mee But who is able to finde the way of a Serpent on a stone the way of a Ship on the Sea or of an Eagle in the ayre these saith Salomon are indiscernable and are not the wayes of Christ much more unsearchable His name is wonderfull hee rides upon a Cherub and makes darknesse his pavilion If discernable yet saith the Apostle hee inhabits Eternitie and dwells in Light inaccessible The workes of Christ are of two sorts first incommunicable secondly communicable Incommunicable As the work of his merit and mediation these cannot be imitated for saith the Apostle There is but one Mediator betweene God and man the man Christ Jesus no other name given whereby we may be saved They have not to doe with the Censer to offer incense who have not to doe with the Altar to offer Sacrifice Incommunicable also is the worke of Government and influence into his Church his dispensing the Spirit to the quickning of the Word his subduing his enemies his gathering together his people these are all personall Honours appertaining unto Christ as our Head and Saviour Communicable The actions of Christ whereof by his Grace others have been and may be made partakers and these are either extraordinary or ordinary Extraordinary for ministry and service not for sanctity or salvation such were the miraculous workes of the Apostles by way of priviledge and temporary Dispensation to them granted Ordinary and universall belonging to all his Members as praying fasting doing good c. Wee are then to follow Christ not in all things he did but in those things onely which he himselfe did and hath commanded he in the ordinary way of his obedience must be the type and patterne of ours Pirst Active Did Christ readily do what his Father commanded him so must wee when they sought unto him to make him King he refused that honour and we●t unto a Mountaine So ought we even to dye unto the honours and pleasures of this world How can you beleeve saith Christ if yee seeke honour one of another Was Christ meek and gentle and courteous so ought we to be and that because Christ was so Learne of me saith he Math. 11.29 for I am humble and meek And Jo●. 13.15 having washt his Disciples feet I saith he have given you an example not that we are to wash one the others feet for this was a custome onely of that age and place but that wee are to be of like affections one to the other all humble Let the same minde be in you that was in Christ Philip 2.5 Secondly Passive Christ suffered so must we Hee suffered saith the Apostle Peter leaving us an example If any man saith Christ will be my Disciple let him deny himselfe and take up his Crosse daily and follow me So that in suffering we are of Christs own Order Children of the Crosse and if wee suffer with him wee shall be glorified with him Rom. 8.17 Heb. 12.1 2. Christ not onely suffered but in suffering submitted unto his Fathers will Not my will but thine bee done So was ●ee as a Lambe before the shearer d●mbe Thus ought wee to doe in all our sufferings Si filius quante magis servuns Bern. So shall wee possesse our selves in an holy silence Lastly Christ being to bid the world sarewell prayes for his enemies Father forgive them they know not what they doe Thus ought we not onely to forgive but also to intreat God that hee also would forgive them that hate or hurt us We must follow Christ through the whole walke of his morall obedience his whole life was a living and shining and exemplary Precept a visible Commentary on the Law of God Et {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Nyssen Christianitie is nothing else then an imitation of our Maker Wee must bee holy a● hee is holy not in respect of equality but quality Tam non tantum we must bee as truly and sincerely holy following him as Peter Elonginque a farre off or as a little Childe his Father Non passibus equis so fast as wee can saying as the Church in one of her Songs of Love Draw us and wee will runne after thee The Reasons First this is one of the ends why Christ came into the World for first hee came to Redeeme us and then to sanctifie us This is hee saith Saint John that came by water and blood by blood to take away the guilt by water to take away the filth of sinne Secondly without this Imitation of Christ no sanctification for we are sanctified when wee are renewed unto God re-indued with the Image of God whereunto we were at first created Now in an Image there are these two things First the similitude of one thing to another Secondly a deduction derivation or impression thereof on some other from which againe wee take a third a fourth c. in want of which we alwayes run to the Originall the prototype Now as for the Image of God its holineffe Colos. 3.10 And have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the Image of him that created him This in our first Creation did gloriously shine in our faces in Adam wee lost it and therefore wee must all to God againe for it But this cannot be wee cannot come so neere him as to looke into him for he is a consuming fire hee dwells in light inaccessible 1 Tim. 6.16 Who onely hath