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A77515	Two treatises the one, handling the doctrine of Christ's mediatorship : wherein the great Gospel-mystery of reconciliation betwixt God and man is opened, vindicated, and applyed. The other, of mystical implantation : wherein the Christian's union and communion with, and conformity to Jesus Christ, both in his death and resurrection, is opened, and applyed. / As they were lately delivered to the church of God at Great Yarmouth, by John Brinsley, minister of the Gospel, and preacher to that incorporation.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.; Ashe, Simeon, d. 1662.	1652 (1652)	Wing B4737; Thomason E1223_1; ESTC R22919	314,532	569

spiritually and that most eminently No food so nourishing to the body as the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ being eaten and drunk by faith are unto the soul Whence it is that he compares himselfe to that which is most alimentall most nourishing as to Bread I am the Bread of life John 6.35 Bread is the staffe of life naturall there being no food that yeildeth more solid nourishment to the body then that And thus is Jesus Christ the staffe of life spiritual nourishing up the soul unto eternall life Wherein this Bread excels all other bread Mannah was excellent bread Angel's food Man did eat Angels food Nourishing the Soul to Eternall life saith the Psalmist speaking of the Mannah in the wilderness Ps 78.25 Such food as Angels could eat no better if they used or needed food excellent food yet they which are of it died Your fathers did eat mannah in the wilderness are dead saith our Saviour to the Jews Joh. 6.49 But saith he speaking of himself in the next verses This is the bread which came down from heaven If any man eat of this bread he shal live for ever Such is the nourishment which Jesus Christ this generous and vigorous Head and Stock ministreth to all that are united to him engrafted in him What this soul-nourishment How this soul-nourishment is conveyed is and in what way supplied I might here further shew you I touched upon it in the last point Take it in a word Christ nourisheth those which are in him by the communication of his spirit unto them Thus doth the Head supply nourishment unto the members of the body by communicating unto them of those spirits which are in it self And thus doth Jesus Christ nourish his members by a continuall supply of his Spirit unto them This is that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Saint Paul speaketh of Phil. 1.19 where speaking of the malicious designes and intentions of his adversaries against himselfe I know saith he that even this shall turn to my salvation through the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ Thus are meats and drinks turned to nourishment to the body through a supply of spirits from the spirituous parts helping to digest and distribute them and extract nourishment from them And thus are all things made advantageous to the believer in furthering his salvation through the continued supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ which Spirit furnisheth the soul with all graces requisite and convenient and by that means maintains the spirituall life of it nourishing it up unto eternall life Applic. 1. Applic. 1. A Spring of Consolation to Believers For Application of this Branch Here is another spring of consolation unto all those living branches that are truely ingrafted into this stock all true believers that are made one with Jesus Christ let them know that being in him they shall find him a generous and a vigorous Stock Christ a generous and a vigorous Stock full of sap full of juice full of vertue sufficient to keep and maintain spirituall life in them in the midst of the hardest Winters or most scorching Summers the sharpest Solstices of Tentation or Persecution that can happen unto them Aye not only to keep life in them but to maintain them in a flourishing condition like those Trees of the Lord which are said to be full of sap Psal 104.16 So run these sweet promises Psal 92.12 The righteous shall flourish like the Palm-tree he shall grow like the Cedar in Lebanon Palmes and Cedars are Winter Plants green all the year long And such are the Trees in God's Plantation like those Trees which David speaketh of Psal 1.3 Trees planted by the rivers of waters which bring forth fruit in their season and their leaves wither not Living fruit-bearing flourishing trees Those that be planted in the House of the Lord shall flourish in the Courts of our God They shall bring forth fruit in their age they shall be fat and flourishing so the Psalmist there goeth on Psal 92.13 14. And whence have they this That when other trees wither and die so do Hypocrites who in the day of Tentation or Persecution cast their leaves of an outward profession losing what ever shew of piety and holinesse they once had yet these Trees of Righteousnesse should not onely live but flourish Why thanks to the Root the Stock into which they are ingrafted Thanks unto Jesus Christ who of his fulnesse thus communicates unto them giving unto them that water of life whereof himselfe speaketh John 4.13 that influence of his grace and Spirit which whosoever drinketh of shall never thirst more that is he shall not need to go seek for any thing out of Jesus Christ as the graft seeketh for nothing out of the stock for that water which he shall give him shall be unto him a well of water springing up unto everlasting life Vse 2. Vse 2. Come unto Jesus Christ for nourishment What remaines then but that every of us who would have our soules thus nourished come unto Jesus Christ Come we unto him even as the sons of Jacob came unto their brother Joseph who nourished them and theirs with bread according to their families Gen. 47.12 So come we unto our Joseph As Joseph's Brethrem came unto him the Lord Jesus Christ of whom Joseph as in many other so in that particular was a Type Come we unto him And that 1. 1. In the sense of our wants As they came unto Joseph in the present sense of our wants not knowing where else to find a supply Come unto Jesus Christ hungring and thirsting after him earnestly desiring to partake of his fulnesse He filleth the hungry with good things Luke 1.53 2. In obedience to our Fathers Commandement 2. In obedience to our Fathers Commandement So went they the first and second time to their Joseph by the direction and command of their father Jacob Gen. 42.1 2. So come we unto our Joseph in obedience to the direction and command of our Heavenly Father This is his Commandement that we should believe on the Name of his Son Jesus Christ 1 John 3.23 3. At Christ's own Invitation 3. At Christ's own Invitation So came they unto Joseph the third time being by him invited thereunto Gen. 44. 45. Thus come we unto our Joseph the Lord Jesus Christ whose gracious Invitation we may read John 7.37 In the last day the great day of the Feast Jesus stood and cryed saying If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink This spake he of the spirit which they that believe on him should receive ver 39. 4. But come not as they came with money in our hands 4. Come not as they with money in our hands So came they the first and second time not intending to be beholding but to pay for what they had But thus may not we come to Jesus Christ Gen. 42.2 43.15 We know how the

ease Still in whatever he doth he reflects upon himself making selfe the ultimate and last end of all But now the new creature hath a new end of his life not himselfe but God None of us liveth to himselfe saith the Apostle Rom. 14.7 8. but whether we live we live unto the Lord c. Thus doth the true Christian live He liveth to the Lord. 1. Acknowledging him to be his Soveraign Lord and himselfe his servant in duty bound to yeild obedience to him in doing in suffering his will 2. Framing and ordering his life and conversation according to his will in all things 3. Depending upon him for protection provision wages 4. Referring and applying his life in the whole course of it to his honour and glory Whether ye eat or drink or whatsoever ye do do all to the glory of God 1 Cor. 10.31 This a Christian should do And this so far as he is regenerate he doth And thus is his life a new life having a new end 4. Ordered after a new manner 4. Ordered after a new manner His conversation is a new conversation far different from what it was Time was when it was a vain conversation So Saint Peter calleth the conversation of all men before the grace of God meet with them 1 Pet. 1.18 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a vain conversation And so it is 1. Proceeding from the vanity of their minds Ephes 4.17 And 2dly In regard of the unprofitablenesse fruitlesnesse of it Men weary themselves for very vanity as Habakuk speaketh Hab. 2.13 What fruit had ye in those things whereof ye are now ashamed saith Paul to his Romans here ver 21. of this Chapter A vain and a carnall conversation intending chiefly the fulfilling the lusts of the flesh We in times past had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh Ephes 2.3 Perhaps it was a filthy conversation like that of those wicked Sodomites 2 Pet. 2.7 It may be a blind superstitious conversation like that of Pauls before his conversion Gal. 1.13 zealously bent against God against his truth servants purity of worship power of godlinesse Such it was But now behold a new life a new conversation viz. such a conversation as becometh the Gospel Phil. 1.27 a good conversation Jam. 3.13 an honest conversation 1 Pet. 2.12 a profitable conversation he that was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unprofitable before is now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 profitable to himselfe and others as Paul saith of Onesimus Philem. 11 12. And upright conversation Psal 37.14 an holy conversation 1 Pet. 1.15 an heavenly conversation Phil. 3.20 Thus is the believer raised as Christ was to a new life This in the Generall 2. In Particular 2. In particular Resembling the life of Christ being as his was This new life to which the believer is raised resembles the life of Christ both for kind and continuance For kind it is a spirituall life for continuance an immortall life Such was the life to which Christ was raised therein differing from the life of others whom we read to have been raised again They were raised up to the same life which they lived before to a naturall life to a mortall life A naturall life so as they stood in need of meats and drinks and such other supports of nature as they did before When our Saviour had raised Jairus his daughter he presently commanded to give her meat Luke 8.55 And as a naturall so a mortall life They all died again But it was otherwise with our blessed Saviour The life which he was raised to was a spirituall an immortall life A spirituall life not upheld by creature-supports and comforts as formerly it was True our Saviour did use some of the creatures after his Resurrection as the story informs us of his eating the broyled fish and honey-combe which his Disciples gave him Luke 24.42 But this he did not out of any necessity of nature but onely for the confirmation of his Disciples faith in the truth of his Resurrection and reality of his present apparition He lived then a spirituall life and that an immortall life He was raised from the dead no more to return to corruption as Paul hath it in his Sermon at Antioch Acts 13.34 Christ being dead he dieth no more saith our Apostle ver 9. of this Chapter In that he died he died to sin once ver 10. And in both these doth the Christian's spirituall Resurrection carry a resemblance of his Resurrection being a raising up of the soule to a spirituall to an immortall life 1. To a spirituall life 1. A spirituall life Such is the life of a regenerate person He that before was only a naturall man as Paul cals the unregenerate person 1 Cor. 2.14 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nay 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a carnall man as Paul saith of himselfe so far forth as he was unregenerate Rom. 7.14 living onely a naturall a carnall life he is now made a spirituall man as Paul cals him 1 Cor. 2.15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 indued with the Spirit of God and so living a spirituall life Not living by sense or yet by carnall reason as sometime he did but by faith The life which I now live in the flesh saith the Apostle I live by the faith of the Son of God Gal. 2.20 Paul still lived a naturall life he lived in the flesh but it was after a spirituall manner he lived by faith So doth every regenerate person in measure so far forth as he is regenerate he liveth a spirituall and heavenly life having spirituall meat and drink as the Apostle cals the Manna and water in the wildernesse 1 Cor. 10.3 4. Seeking after spirituall and heavenly things Whilest others mind nothing but earthly things as Paul saith of sensuall persons Phil. 3.19 profits and pleasures and honours curvae in terras animae c. having their souls bowed downwards groveling upon the earth like the Serpents brood feeding upon dust the regenerate person so far forth as he is regenerate he minds and seeketh the things which are above Col. 3.2 3. His conversation his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his chief negotiation and businesse is in heaven Phil. 3.20 The chief things which his thoughts are most seriously intent upon and taken up about are heavenly things How a Christian useth the things of this world As for the things of this world true he useth them but how why even as our Saviour did the broyled fish and honey-combe as as if he used them not He hath learned that distinction of Augustines or rather of Paul's 1 Cor. 7.30 31. betwixt uti and frui using and enjoying He useth earth and earthly things but he enjoyeth God and heavenly things making the one his viaticum his voyage-provision the other his possession his portion Thou art my portion O Lord saith David Psal 119.57 As for the things of this life his heart doth not run after them in such an inordinate way as sometimes it did