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A75538	Instructions about right beleeving: severall sermons leading unto Christ, directing unto faith, and incouraging thereto. Shewing the nature, measure, and necessitie of the sense of sinne. Christ the bread of life, a sufficient remedy for mans misery; with the way and meanes to obtain him; as also incouragements to come to him, from his abilitie and readinesse to give full soule-satisfaction. / By John Archer, Master of Art, sometime preacher of All-hallowes Lumbard-street. London.	Archer, John, Master of Art.	1645 (1645)	Wing A3613; Thomason E289_8; ESTC R200123	50,561	92

His Incarnation or joyning together of both Natures the Divine Humane in One Person was for to make him fit to be this Bread of Life Therefore Christ being about to shew Nicodemus that Eternall Life might be had by Him Iohn 3. 15. That is that He was the bread of Life He first shewes him his Incarnation double Nature Verse 14. That as Moses lifted up the Serpent in the Wildernes Even so must the Sonne of man be lifted up For as Bread is not made of one single substance but of severall joyned together So Christ the Bread of Life the Man-hood of Christ could not be effectuall to bring us to Life without the God-head being neither of Power enough to stand under and come forth frō that Wrath it must undergoe Nor of Vertue enough to make its Actions Suffrings of infinite worth without which an infinite debt could not be paid And the God-head though in it Selfe it s a Fountaine of Life very Communicative being infinitely Good Yet by Sinne It s sealed up and becomes terrible a consuming fire So that It Conveyes nothing but Wrath Destruction But the Man-hood makes it an Open Fountaine satisfying appeasing of It Heb. 10. 19. to 23. Thus Christs Incarnation Union of two Natures Viz The God-head Man-hood in One Person prepares and fits Him to be Bread of Life And Secondly His naturall Infirmities outward Meanesse and all His Sufferings were to fit Him for this As Corne is threshed ground baked in the Oven before it makes Bread Col. 1. 14. 21 22. These appeased Gods Wrath and satisfied His Iustice for our Sinnes by which we were Condemned And so His Obedience Fulfilling of the Law This prepared a Robe to cover us by vertue of which Wee might appeare spotles in Gods sight Rev 19. 8. And Thirdly His Resurrection was also to fit Him to be Bread of Life 1. Cor. 15. 17 And if Christ be not raised your faith is vaine ye are yet in your sinnes As Bread comes out of the Oven in which it is baked Or else cannot preserve our Life And Fourthly His Ascension siting downe in Heaven was also to fit Him to be Bread of Life This indeed was the last preparative Thing he did and but an Introduction or letting Him into that place Condition wherein He might doe the Worke of Bread of Life who was now by former things made fully Compleate Bread of Life Yet this also was done as a Concurrence to His being Bread of Life For before He could be given as Bread and worke as Bread He must be ascended Heaven and set downe there Therefore he saith He must ascend That the Spirit might come Iohn 16. 7. And Ehp. 4. 8. Ascending up He gave Gifts unto Men As Bread descends into the Stomack and so sends vertue strength into the Body before it can nourish preserve Life Thus ye see how Christ comes to be Bread of Life And how many Things were to be done to fit Him And though before he dyed He said all was finished He meanes not every thing for then why dyed he But all that was to be done before He gave up the Ghost And therefore he proceeded to doe that And therefore None but He can be it because none else Two Things to be gathered have nor can have all these necessary Quallifications And hence ye may farther gather Two Things 1. When Christ is actually The bread of Life namely in his state of Glory then when he is exalted at Gods right Hand All the tyme state of his Humiliation was to fitt prepare him to be bread of Life Heb. 7. 25. 26. Now he is made higher then the Heavens he is able to save to the uttermost And Iohn 14. 19. Now he lives Viz that glorious Life in Heaven they shall live And whereas He gave Life to many before he had done these things namely to all Beleevers before he came yet it was by vertue of all these done in Gods account because surely to be done and in Gods sight to whome all things to come aswell as past are present Acts. 15. 18. Knowne unto God are all his Workes from the beginning of the World Rev. 13. 8. The Lambe slaine from the foundation of the World And 2. Ye may hence gather what in Christ Is the Bread of Life Or how Christ must be considered applyed for Bread Namely thus The Man-hood of Christ furnished with all that which it hath Done Suffred consequently out of Merrit received as into a store house Is the bread of Life Therefore he saith His Flesh is meate his Blood is drinke indeed Iohn 6 35. It is true that the Man-hood singly considered without Personall Union with the God head is not This bread of Life for then it is not of vertue enough as ye heard before But the Man-hood as it is in Personall Union with the God-head and so made of Infinite Worth Vertue So the Man-hood is the Bread of Life 1 Cor. 1. 30. He of God is made that must be ment of his Man-hood though as it is in Personall Union with the God head For the God head cannot be made a Communicated Wisdome Righteousnes c. as that is God joyned in Person with Christs Man-hood hath by the Doings Suffrings and Merrits of the Man-hood to which it was inabled by the God-head furnished that Man-hood with all Sufficiency to free from Misery and make Happy It s not Christs God-head but His Man hood which is in Union with His God-head and so a Vertue Effect of the God-head and that which is in His Man-hood that is the Bread of Life Heere be Two Errors to be avoyded One when the God-head of Christ shall be made the Errors to be avoyded Bread of Life and that which is applyed by Faith and made One with us Another when the Man-hood shall be simply Considered and not as it is in Personall Union with the God-head and receives Vertue frō it to make its Acts of Infinite Worth And thus by Faith we eate this Bread whilst we receive apply trust in Christs Man hood that which he did suffred in by it through Union with the God-head for our Justification Sanctification and Salvation and by Faith we eate not his God-head but Man-hood and the Vertue of the God-head that is in his Man-hood And thus that Question Iohn 6. 52. is resolved How Christ can give us his flesh to eate 1. USE Vse 1 To teach us How much we owe to God Christ who hath provided Bread for our Soules as the Egyptians did to God for that Gen 50. 20. For by this he saves many Soules alive God was oft magnified for the Manna he sent for the Israellites when they were ready to perish for hunger This is more Mercy Therefore that Iohn 3. 16. God so loved the World So as cannot be immitated So as cannot be

INSTRVCTIONS ABOUT RIGHT BELEEVING SEVERALL SERMONS Leading unto Christ directing unto Faith and incouraging thereto Shewing the Nature Measure and necessitie of the sense of Sinne. Christ the bread of Life a sufficient Remedy for Mans misery with the way and meanes to obtaine him as also incouragements to come to him from his abilitie and readinesse to give full soule-satisfaction By JOHN ARCHER Master of Art sometime Preacher of All-hallowes Lumbard-street London ACTS 2. 39. Now when they heard this they were pricked in their heart MAT. 11. 28. Come unto me all ye that labour are heavie laden and I will give you rest JOHN 4. 14. Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a Well of water springing up into everlasting life LONDON Printed for Benjamin Allen and are to be sold at his Shop at the Crown in Popes-head-Alley 1645. ❧ TO THE READER GOOD READER COnsidering the state of most people to be either wholy insensible of their miserable estate and goe on securely not minding the precious and soule-saving Remedy tendred or some others who are sensible who are oft discouraged both through the malice and subtiltie of the Devill these ensuing Sermons in a plaine and profitable way tending to helpe in both these respects are here presented for a farre more publick advantage then they could be in the preaching of them They are not corrected and fitted for the Presse as it were to be wished but neere the matter and way of his delivery and the experience had of some mens Sermons so printed hath incouraged to these conceiving they will be profitable hoping all will be so charitable as to put good constructions and not by the contrary prejudice themselves or others from the good intended Some things are but briefly propounded in the Close but there are sevcrall things profitably opened to direct sinners to Christ and incourage sensible ones to come to him with incouragements so to doe shewing his fitnesse and sufficiency for their helpe and readinesse to it and the Soule-satisfaction to be had by him All which is here commended to thee for thy good in desire and with desire of which and of thy amending what escapes thou meetest with I leave thee and it to the blessing of God CHRIST IS THE BREAD of LIFE A SUFFICIENT REMEDY FOR MANS MISERY John 6. 35. And Iesus said unto them I am the bread of life he that commeth to mee shall never hunger and he that beleeveth on me shall never thirst THESE WORDS are an Answer to that Desire or Demand of the People in the former Verse Lord evermore give us this bread Wherein Christ opens to them What is that Bread which they seemed to desire Which Words of Christ I will Consider absolutely in themselves and passe what may be observed from their Coherence Dependence and will not stand on every thing which may be Collected frō the Verse but so much as may serve for my purpose Which is This Having shewed you the Misery you are in by Nature and how far you must be humbled with the sence The Sūme of the Wordes of it Now I shall shew ye the Remedy and by what Meanes it may be attained For which purpose this Verse is very full In which you have First a Discription of Christ Which is done Metaphorically by Bread I am the Bread of Life Secondly the Meanes by which this Christ may be had Viz By comming to Him That is as it s expounded By beleeving on Him Thirdly the Persons who may doe this and so make Christ their owne Viz Any One whoever as is implyed in the indefinite propounding of it He that commeth He that beleeveth as ye shall see more clearly heerafter Fourthly a strong Motive to perswade to labour for this Christ taken from the Benifitt Shall never hunger Shall never thirst FIRST The Description of Christ which is Metaphorically The Bread of Life DOCTRINE Doctrine CHRIST is the BREAD of LIFE Opened by answering divers Questions This is oft repeated in this Chapter And for opēing of which Consider these Questions Question 1 First What is ment By Bread of Life Answer I Answer whatever is needfull sufficient to bring People out of that Misery they are in by Sinne to that Happynes they lost in Adam A Sufficiency of Meanes To Free from Misery And Bring to Happynes As is more fully exprest though in other Metaphors In Verses 53 54. of this Chapter Except ye eate the flesh of the Sonne of man and drinke his blood ye have no life in you c. And therefore Christ culls out a Metaphor that is one of the cheife to support Mans mortall Life Viz Bread And therefore adds this Epithite Of Life That as Bread is specially usefull for our Life So is Christ for the Spirituall Eternall Life The Bread of Life That is the Remedy of Mans misery in which he is by Nature Sinne. Question 2 Secondly Whether this be proper to Christ Or common with him to some other Answer I Answer it is proper to Him Nothing else nether in whole nor in part hath any share in it except as his Instruments These Words I am the Bread of Life are not onely declarative of what He is but impropriative and restraining this to Him onely This is the meaning That He and He onely is the Bread of Life Therefore that Verse 53. Except ye eate Him ye have noe Life Therefore He onely is the Bread of Life And Gen 3. 15. The seede of the Woman that is Christ shall breake the Serpents head That is recover Man out of Misery God never promised it should be but Onely by Him Therefore by Him onely it shall be And so much is exprest by that Iohn 6. 67. 68. Iesus said unto the twelue will ye also goe away Then Simon Peter answered him Lord to whome shall we goe Thou hast the Words of Eternall Life If Eternall Life could have been had by any other then they might have gone away frō Christ that reasō had not been strong And this is expresse by that Acts. 4 12. Neither is there Salvation in any other For there is none other Name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved As the Israelites in the Willdernes had noe helpe from the deadly stings of fiery Serpents but by the Brasen Serpent Question 3 Thirdly By what Meanes Christ comes to be bread of Life I Answer by His Incarnation and all that He did suffered till He sate downe at Gods right hād in Glory All this was for the fiting making Him bread of Life How Christ comes to be Bread of Life as Christ came into the World for this end to become Bread of Life So all He did suffered in comming into and being in the World till He was translated out of it and set downe in Glory was for this end As 1.

exprest So as cannot be conceived This Mercy farther appeares If we Consider that which also this Doctrine teacheth us it cost God and Christ somewhat before they helped Soules Christ must be bread That is not his up doing it But much must he doe and indure before he was fited for it As Bread doth before it become Bread Therefore we are the more bound to Him for his undertaking the Worke of Our Redemption And to God the Father For Giving Him to that Worke If a King should appoint his Sonne and his Sonne undertake to save Traytors onely by comming to the Prison fetching them out it were worthy of much Thankes But much more when the Sonne by much paines and cost shall doe it Ioseph procured Bread for Egypt But Cbrist was made Bread 2. USE For Incouragement to Such as droope in the Sence of their Misery and want of Life I may say to such of you as be amazed with the Sence of your Misery by Sinne As Iacob to his Sonnes Gen. 42. 1. 2. Why doe ye looke one upon another Behold I have heard that there is Corne in Egypt c. Whatever you want whether Gods Favour Or Image The Life of Comfort Or of Grace despaire not For God hath provided Bread for you I and ye need not be affraid to come to this Bread and take it For he loves to have People eate of Him as will clearely appeare by this which also followes from this Point Viz That Christ Came from Heaven for this End To recover Sinners out of their Misery And to helpe them to live For that is the End of Bread It is not directly for any other use It is so of Christs Comming Math. 18. 11. For the Sonne of Man is come to save that which was lost Iohn 3. 17. For God sent not his Sonne into the World to condemne the World but that the World through Him might be saved And Chap. 12. 47. I came not to judge the World but to Save the World Therefore they that feele their need of him need not feare Comming to Him or question his helping of them It was the End of His Comming and the Use God cheifly put Him to Therefore he will not be averse from it Hence it was in that Math. 18. 11. Having told them that this was the End of His Comming to Save He by a Parable shewes them what Ioy it was to Him to save any one How can He but joy in making good the End of his Comming Therefore they that droope in a Sence of their Misery and dare not goe to Christ for helpe doe not knowe Christ Nor the Mistery of his Incarnation Nor the End of his Comming That it was to Releive the Afflicted Learne it now therefore and come confidently to Him for Helpe He cannot but with all readines entertaine thee and the Opertunity of making good the End of his Comming Therefore in Scripture Christ was greedy of any opertunity to releive a distressed Soule And did not quench the smoaking flax c. Math. 20 most meeke and gentle and easily intreated therefore a Dove sate on him in His first Instalement into his Office This is a maine thing that is taught in the Gospel and may be observed through the whole Story that Christ with abundance of gentlencs willingnes entertained incouraged all that in sincerity came to him for helpe Feare not then Christs rejecting thee so thou have a right desire to him but presse him if he seeme to deny thee as the Woman did Marke 7 27. 28. Let not want of Life or Weakenes hinder thee for he came to helpe such as bread is for the empty and weake Therefore say ye as Moses Exod. 16. 15. 16. This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eate c. 3. USE Vse 3 To teach us how much we should esteeme prize Christ and Labour for Him even as hunger starved people doe for Bread Israell desired a cruell Bondage for Breads sake Exod. 16. 3. the Egyptian bondage frō which they were freed And they Ioh. 6. 24 26. How did they follow Christ from one Coaste to another for Loaves What did Egypt doe for Bread-Corne not Bread nor fitted to their hands Gen 41. 55. They cryed to Pharaoh for bread And Cap. 47. 14. They parted with all their Mony for bread And Ver. 17. They parted with all their Cattle And Ver. 20. They parted with their Land And Ver. 23. They sould Themselves Would ye so doe for Christ ye should have him Isay 55. 1. Ho every one that thirsteth come yee to the waters and he that hath no mony come ye buy eate yea come buy wine milke without mony and without price and why should ye not since He is Bread not bread corne but ready fitted to your hands How did all Nations flock to Egypt Gen 41. 57. Because Bread Corne was there And why flock ye not to Christ since He is the Bread of Life Doe ye not manefestly give him the lye who calls Himselfe Bread And yee who so much care for Bread as if ye call it to mind ye did lately in the Famine yet prize not not care to get Him Though it may seeme not desirable as Bread oft doth to Children therefore when it is given them they cast it away Yet consider the case of your Soules hunger-starved And He the Bread of Life That I may quicken ye up to prize esteeme Christ Christ is better thē any bread in many perticulers more Consider in how many Perticulers He is better then any other Bread 1. Other Bread onely supports Life it doth not give Life as ye all knowe But Christ is a Bread that gives Life to them that be dead and therefore is called the Bread of Life Iohn 6. 53. 54. 57. 2. Other Bread preserves Life but for a while Gen 3. Eate it till thou turne to dust It doth but repreive as it were till an other Sessiōs It Corrupts and keepes not the Body from Corrupting But this Bread gives Eternall Life Iohn 6. 50. 51. This is the Bread which commeth downe from Heaven that a man may eate thereof and not dye But live for ever Therefore Christ by this Argument perswades them to prefer this before other meate Iohn 6. 27. Labour not for the meate which perisheth but for that meate which endureth unto everlasting life which the Sonne of man shall give unto you 3. Other Bread helpes but the Body in Point of Life and but in an earthly Life But this helps the Soule Body and that in a Spirituall Life 4 Other Bread is not enough to Life but with that there must be other things even in this sence is that true Man lives not by bread alone Therefore ye have Sampson not complaining of danger of Death for want of Bread but Water But this Bread is Allsufficient It alayes Hunger Thirst both as is in the Text Yea Its Wine Milke fat Things