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B12174	Christs love, and saints sacrifice Preached in a sermon at St. Pauls Crosse, on the 23. of August, 1635. By Iames Conyers, Mr. of Arts of Sydney-Sussex in Cambridge, and minister of Stratford-Bow, in Middlesex.	Conyers, James.	1635 (1635)	STC 5657; ESTC S114491	14,982	32

Monument at Tarentum called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lovers Monument These wee must know were deare and neere an espoused paire but for Christ to set his love on us every way unworthy Rom. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hos 2. 19. to be beloved 1. weake 2. godlesse 3. sinners 4. enemies yea traytors to him and our owne soules though once espoused by a Ring of Love in-laid with the pearles of his Spirit yet by reason of spirituall adultery divorced and for all this to love us this is much Greater love than this Isa 59. 2. Iohn 15. 13 hath no man than to lay downe his life for his friend yet under correction To majorem habuisti charitatem Domine dilexti non existentes imò resistentes greater sweet Saviour was thy love thou lovedst us when wee were nothing yea worse than nothing sworne enemies to thy life In meditation whereof that inscription upon Senacheribs Tombe I may apply to Christ and the Christians use 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whosoever Herodot thou art make Christ thy spectacle learne of him to love thine enemies this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 6. 35. that spirituall wisdome which adopts thee Gods child hereto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 natures instinct workes all being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of one blood now never man hated his owne flesh this is the Royall Acts 17. 26. command I say to you Love your enemies and Mat. 5. 44 Christ himselfe herein is exemplum fine exemplo a matchlesse mirrour of benevolence and beneficence towards his enemies in that he loved us It is storyed of Alexander the Monarch that he Edicte vetuit de quis se praeter Apelle pingeret aut alius Lysippo Horat. Epist 2. would have no man draw his Picture save Apelles or engrave it save Lysippus the best Artists both for theorie and practice No Artist in Christendome can draw the most high GOD better to the life than in the lines of his owne life to blaze the true orientall colours of love towards his enemies after the example of the ingraven forme of his person that loved us which words ere I depart from me thinks ecchoes so sweetly in the eare of my soule and in thine except deafenesse or deadnesse have made a forcible entrie that Miriams Timbrels Asaphs Trumpet Davids Anthemes Salomons Epithalamions sound nothing so sweetly the ground Rom. 5. 10 is sound for if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Sonne much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life which brings me to the second general part the life of his love in ample manifestation 2 Generall part of the 1 Sacrifice Quest He washed us in his blood from our sinnes Hee Christ the Sonne of the living God Lord of Men and Angels majesty in excelsis in the highest to become humility in profundis in the lowest did this become him was not this a servile act viz. to wash us a staine to his honourable person To put this Question out of doubt or the Resp doubt out of question no whit for herein first was the complement of that Prophesie in a good sense The elder shall serve the younger Further it Gen. 25. 23. was of such absolute necessity that Peters case being ours except he had washed us we had had no part with him But to cleere the scruple Iohn 13. 8. it is illustrated thus A Peere of the Realme Ruff. in Symb. beholding a poore child wel-nigh choaked in the mud and to save him if some slime should adhere to him it were no dishonour rather an honour to doe so good a dayes worke as to save a soule semblablie that true Noble-Man Christ Iesus beholding with the eye of grace our silly soule plunged in the puddle of sinne albeit our slimy sinnes stucke to him to plucke us out and save us it did not impaire his honour yea rather set it off with a fairer lustre And by this act he reades us a Lecture of humility If I then your Lord and Master have washed your feet Ioh. 13. 14 15 ye ought also to wash one anothers feet for I have given you an example that ye should doe even as I have done How may this be Saint Cyprian is our Schoole-master Quoties igitur c. D● Ablutione pedum as often as we perswade those which are under spirituall Pharoahs slavery to get them out of Aegypt mourne with those that mourne burne with those that are offended are infirme with those that are infirme that Aquin. in Cor. 2. 11. is as Aquinas interprets for him that is infirme in the Faith Dolemus in cordibus nostris sicut de nobis lament for them as for our selves so often wash we the feet of our Brethren And when this thy Saviours humility comes fresh into thy memory that he whose Throne is Mount-heaven footstoole the Earth whom all the inhabitants of the Earth and all the Angels of Heaven must worship that he would stoope to wash thee Stoope Gallant and learne of him to be lowly so to be it is a good argument thou art well loaden with grace for as branches of Trees and eares of Corne the better they are loaden stoop neerer the earth and the best refined Gold goes downe in the ballance so the more fruitfull and Quo sanctior hoc humilior Ambros precious a Soule is the more it lowers it selfe and the higher in Gods eye it shall bee exalted Obiectum And thus from Christs Act we descend to the Object what hee washed and from what Vs from our sinnes Which words argue 1 sinnes condition it is pollution so Zacharias brands it uncleanenesse 13. 1. Atramentum Evae Amb. 26. therefore Ezekiel compares it to scum 22. 18. Hosea to a rising leprosie S. Iude to a spot S. Ambrose to a blacke cloud Vna nubecula peccatricis totam fere obscuravit Ecclesiam Res est Ep. ad virg lapsam foetida saith Origen a spawne of an uncleane spirit which unlesse washed away in the laver of Christs purifying blood and a flood of cordiall repentance will in fine associate with a Cage of uncleane Birds Therefore minde we Apostolicall counsell touch not taste not handle not for as Syracides speakes hee that washeth himselfe because of a dead body and toucheth it Eccles 34. 26. againe what availes his washing And as his washing proves sinne its nature so it unmaskes all the sonnes of men that albeit in their originall they were like to the house of Iacob wherein Amb. de fug seculi c. 4. no image of impiety no spot of pollution but all as cleere as Chrystall yet since the prevarication all as Labans Lambes are speckled and spotted A capite ad calcem from top to toe Let Abraham the father of the faithfull Isa 1. 6. Aaron on whose bonnet was holinesse to the Lord Amb. a pol. Daniel Antequam noscamur

maculamur David the Lords Darling Iob whose crowne is Iustice Paul that vessell of mercy Peter the mouth of the Apostles those devout Women that were Apostolae Apostolis even Mary-Iesus the mirrour of the Saints speake freely and they will unanimously confesse to their own shame they were great sinners yet to the praise of Gods grace his Sonne washed them from their sinnes Object But in thus saying they may say to me as the widdow of Sarepta to Elias Am I come to bring their sinnes to remembrance I have no delight to rake in dead mens graves Resp or set their frailties on the Stage but so farre to confirme from them this truth in many things Amb. non solum docentes sed errantes instruunt we sinne all and that if we fall as they did wee may beare our selves upon the wings of mercy to obtaine as they have or make their faults as markes at Sea to steere our course wisely lest wee-runne on these Rockes and so sinke Barke and Goods Object But here may be obtruded a Dilemma if Christs Spouse be all faire then there is no spot so needes no washing if any spot how is she all faire as Salomon speakes withall is not this Cant. 4 7. derogatorie from Christs plenary satisfaction For resolution of the former part wee are to Resp consider the Spouse the body of Saints first in regard of imputative holinesse thus spotlesse Ecclesia nigra quia ex peccatoribus decora ex fide● Sacramento Ambros and more orient than the Sunne Secondly in their inherent holinesse thus as the Moone part blacke part bright And for the latter part of the Argument grant the Churches pollution it imperfects not Christs lotion to instance He that comes forth of the Bathe is cleane washed but trampling slimie earth the soles of his feet contract some sully yet therein for his defilement the Bathe is unblameable after the same manner we cleansed in that beatifying fountaine of Christs blood open for Iudah and Ierusalem to wash in for sinne and uncleannesse may not Zach. 13. 1. if the feet of our soules viz. our affections walking on this sinfull soyle licke up some defiling dust that we stand afterwards need of washing impute to this holy Bathe any imperfection and hereupon is it according to our Saviours saying He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet Iohn 13. 10. Avaunt then vaine Catharist that vaunts thy Consect selfe cleare of all tincture of sinne Elisha was of another minde witnesse his words What is man Iob 25. 14 15 16. that he should bee cleane and he that is borne of a Woman that he should be just behold hee found no stedfastnesse in his Saints Yea the Heavens are uncleane in his sight how much more is man abhominable and filthy which drinketh iniquitie like water Therefore to that selfe-beseeming pure generation I say no more but as the Emperour said to that Arch-Puritan Acesius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theod. Histor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 set thou the Ladder and goe alone to Heaven but for my own part with the Leper I confesse I am uncleane and with the wings of devotion faith and prayer hie me to the mercy-seat and in the Publicans posture crie Lord be mercifull to me a sinner and to conclude this with that Exhortation of the Apostle Clense 2 Cor. 7. 1. your selves from all filthinesse of the flesh and the spirit not from the great Beames but the least Motes not that the World may see on the outside but that thou knowst in the inside even all filthinesse of the flesh and spirit for into the new Ierusalem enters no uncleane thing Apoc. 21. 27. But you will say unto me wherewithall may we be made cleane To which I answer First flumine by Eye-water teares for sinnes distilled thorow the lymbecke of a contrite Soule which doe not only A●● quod defendi non potest ●●●ui potest wash but as a sponge wipe out Secondly flamine with the Holy Ghost which as fire scoures of rust-eating sinnes from the face of the Soule and for this shall every one pray with the Church Come Holy Ghost Thirdly sanguine by blood not mysticall as the blood of Martyrs nor typicall as was the blood of Goates but the naturall and most precious blood of Christ which clenseth from all sinne and this is that wherewith 1 Ioh. 1. 7. he washed us the third branch of the second generall part viz. the Organon of our purification Organon And washed us in his Blood In washing us with his Blood his love life blood is shed abroad in our hearts that it was not cold but warme as blood nor drye for with his blood he washed us nor little it was not gutta sed unda not a drop but a flood wherewith he washed us This was prophesied by good old Iacob of Christ under the name of Iudah hee Gen. 49 11. should wash his garment in Wine and his Cloake in the blood of the Grape what other meaning but that Christs Body the vestment of his soule should be all over bloody This was prefigured by the red Cow whose blood was to be sprinkled Numb 19. seven times before the Tabernacle so our Saviours seven times effused upon the Tabernacle of his Body First In his Circumcision Secondly in Pilates Hall stript and whipt till blood came Thirdly in the Garden sweat teares of blood Fourthly in his spineall coronation Fifthly in his crucifixion Sixthly in piercing his hands and feet with nayles and Seventhly at the last to be sure to take away life the Souldier thrust a Speare into the filme of his heart whence streamed Columb dere Anat. ● 7. water and blood in abundance whereupon the Element trembled Rockes rent asunder the Heavens covered the face of the Earth with darkenesse as with a sable Canopie vaile his bloody nakednesse It is noted to be the innative vertue of blood in its kinde 1. To mollifie 2. To purifie 3. To preserve alive 4. To revive the dead For the first So it is storyed of the Goat that albeit the Adamant in its owne nature bee inflexible and infrangible yet steeped in Goats blood it becomes pliable and tender But more efficacious is the impreciable vertue of Christs Blood that being sprinkled on the heart by the hand of Faith it intenders it though harder than the hardest Adamant This rent Rockes and made stones relent this wrought one of the Theeves on the Crosse as soft as Waxe to receive the gracious impression of the Spirit to beleeve in a crucified Christ and in the merit of that his Blood bubbling before his eyes to be with him in Paradise Blood purifies spots and purges over-spreading maladies therefore the Persian Magi as Nicephorus relates counselled Constantine the Lib. 7. c. 33. great being smitten with a loathsome Leprosie for his cure to bathe himselfe in the blood of Innocents