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A97021	None but Christ, or A plain and familiar treatise of the knowledge of Christ, exciting all men to study to know Jesus Christ and him crucified, with a particular, applicatory, and saving knowledge, in diverse sermons upon I Cor. 2. 2. / By John Wall B.D. preacher of the word of God at Mich. Cornhill London.	Wall, John, 1588-1666.	1648 (1648)	Wing W469; Thomason E1139_1; ESTC R210079	152,329	343

Those that honour me I wil honour even here so farre as he sees good for us and in heaven eternally But on the contrary God will staine the pride of all glory Es 23. 9. and turn our glory into shame Prov. 25. 27. As to eat too much honey is not good because it turns into gall and bitternes so for a man to seek his own glory is not glory why because God turnes it into shame and infamy In the last place we must preach 9 Exemplarily Christ examplarily In holy conversation thas life and doctrine goe together and do not crosse each other Be thou an axample to the flock saith Peter 1 Pet. 5. 3. We must say as Gideon to his souldiers Iudg. 7. 17. look on me and do likewise We must not bind h●avy burthens upon other mens backs and we our selves not touch them with one of our fingers as did the Pharisees The Priests had on their breast-plates Vrim and Thummim because they were not only to give light of direction by teaching but also to be a patterne of perfection in their practice They had also upon the fringe of their garments bels and pomegranates typifying their sounding doctrine and their fruitfull life but if there be nothing but bels and no pomegranates they may make a noise but it will be like sounding brasse and tinkling cymbals And the disciples when the Holy Ghost came upon them had cloven tongues as it were fingers on their tongues to teach them their words should be their works It was the mark of a bad man but it is the note of a good minister to speak with his feet and teach with his fingers Prov. 6. 13. He must be tota vox not vox praeterea nihil Let the people say As we have heard so we have seen The people should see the preachers voice acted in his conversation Like the Angels that had wings and hands under their wings Ezek 1. 8. 1. Ministers are called Angels because perhaps we should be as Angels in our lives in comparison of other men but if Angels fall they turn divels We are cald starres which are the ornaments of the heavens because we should be the ornaments of the Church but if we be spotted and blemished with sinfull lives we are not the starres but stains and blemishes of the Church O then let our care be to be holy as Angels are holy yea as God is holy in all manner of conversation walking with God in our closets in our families in our words and speeches not given to foolish talking and unseemly jeasting but sober and gracious our lips dropping as an honey combe forgetfull of injuries slow to anger patient in afflictions ready to do good to all but harmefull to none and a companion of them that feare the Lord. We areas a city set upon a hill our conversation is narrowly looked into a little spot is soon seen a little hole soon spied in our coat yea if there be none they will make one if they can As Plutarch observs The least blemish in the face be it but a wart is more perspicuous then deformed scars in the rest of the body for a scarr in the body may be covered with garments but a mole in the face is apparent to all Therefore let our light so shine that men Matth. 5. 16. may see our good works and glorifie our father which is in heaven 2. We are called to draw neer unto God and be with God as it were in the mount as Moses was therefore we had need be holy I will be sanctified of them Medius inter deum populum debet esse similimus Rain Panth. Levit. 21. Zach. 3. 4. that com● neare me Levit. 10. 3. it was written upon Aarons forehead when he stood before the Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 holinesse to the Lord and no man that had any blemish could be made a Priest When Iohoshua the high priest stood before the Lord he was then commanded to put off his filthy garments Unclean hands are unfit to carry Gods ark Alas who are we to speak to God and live much lesse to speak from God to the people that they may live When God appeared in his holinesse wo is me said Isaiah I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips for mine eyes have seen the king the Lord of hosts Es 6. 5. 7. He was afraid to look upon God till God sent an Angel to him that said Thine iniquity is taken away and thy sin is purged How holy had they need be that draw neer to so holy a God who can dwell with everlasting burnings Es 33. 14. that is have cōmunion with the holy God Surely none other but he that walketh righteously as verse 15. Hence the Priest in the old law was not to go up by steps unto the altar least his nakednesse should have been discovered thereon Exod. 20. ult and they were appointed linnen breeches from the loynes to the thighs for the same end typifying Exod. 28. 42. 43. how holy we ought to be that draw near unto God that no filthy nakednesse do appeare 3. Then indeed we preach with authority Id ●um imperio dicitur quod pri●s agitur quàm dicitur Suadet loquentis vua Non oratio when we practise that our selves which we preach to others As our blessed Saviour taught with authority not as the Scribes because he did and taught Act. 1. 1. he taught by example as well as precept Learne of me saith our Lord Christ that I am meek and lowly So Ioh. 13. 15. when he washt his disciples feet I have given you saith he an example that you should do as I have done unto you c. Then is there life in our doctrine when there is doctrine in our life and likely that that comes from the heart goes to the heart and ordinarily affects more then all studied phrases and Rhetoricall flourishes Why did Herod reverence Iohn-Baptist but because he was a just Matth. 6. 20. man and holy in his conversation For holinesse is venerable Godlines with power is full of majesty This made wicked Saul so reverence the Prophet Samuel he was afraid of him And Ahab Elias And Ioash Iehoiada Yea a child or poor man-servant or maid-servant in a family have a throne set up in the heart of a wicked master father c. But on the contrary our words have little power with the people when our lives are contrary as the Scribes and Pharisees taught with little authority because they said but did not Words Dicta factis deficientibus erubescunt Quid verba audiam facta non video blush where deeds faile Physitian heale thy selfe Thou that sayest a man should not steal dost thou steal saith the Apostle Rom. 2. Suppose a man should smite another with a wounded arme alas he would smite but faintly because while he smites another he bleeds himselfe Mr. Dyke on Philem. tels a

have got a Levite to be my Priest according as the Lord promised Exod. 20. 24. In all places where I record my name I will come unto thee and I will blesse thee And in Exod 23. 23. yee shall serve the Lord and he shall blesse your bread and water and especially David Psal 132. 13. 14. 15. The Lord hath chosen Sion he hath desired it for his habitation this is my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have desired it I will abundant●y blesse her provision I will satisfie her poor with bread O then that we could sing the song of Zachary Luk. 1. 68. to the end blessed be the Lord God of Israel that hath given light to us that sate in darknesse as v. 79. But alas how many are weary of the Gospel of Christ and the revelation of him like sore eyes they love not the light of the Sun He that doeth evill hateth the light Iohn 3. ver 20. like those Ethiopians that live under the sunne and are scorched with the heat of it they curse the Sunne Mal. 1. 13. Amos 8. 5. and shoot arrows against it They hate despise the messengers or candlesticks that hold forth this light Never were they more vilified and reproached then among us at this day 2 Chron. 36. 16. Nay how weary are they of hearing of the Gospel Man Hu the bread from heaven is light bread men and women will scarce come out of doores to receive it The wise men in Matth. 2. went many weary hundreds of miles to find Christ at Jerusalem some think neere a thousand miles The Queen of the South went farre some say 964 miles to heare the wisedome of Solomon The holy Martyrs thought no weather too hot no winter too cold no journey too farre no torments too great to enjoy the preaching of the Gospel though darkly O how will they rise up injudgment against some of us that thinke any paines too much account any journey too farre any weather too hot or too cold and will scarce come out of their doors to the Temple to hear Christ revealed to them One week in their shops is sweeter then all the Sabbaths in the year as if they would tell the world they have got more there and found more sweetnesse there then ever they did in hunting and seeking after Christ And how just were it with Christ to say to those men verily I say unto you none of those that were bidden shall tast of my supper Luk. 24. 14. These shall be esteemed one day as despisers of Christ yea this is the condemnation that light is Luk. 10. 16. come among us but we love darknesse more then light saith our Saviour To be in darknesse is a great evill but this aggravates it to choose embrace and love darknesse the poor heathens whom we esteem accursed are infinitely happier then Matth. 11. these men Wo to thee Chorazin c. Nay may we not justly feare God will take away the Gospell for our contempt of it and leave us and our children in darknesse as our forefathers were and go to some other people that will more embrace it and more highly prise it Act. 13. 46. This judgement God threatned the ●ewes Amos 8. 9. 11. 12. that their Sunne should go down at noon day an● that he would send a famine not of ●read or water but hearing the word as v. 1● O Jerusalem saith Christ Luk. ●9 42. that thou hadst known that is regarded in this thy day the things that belong to thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes As Moses said Exod. 1. 6. there rose up a generation that knew not Joseph so perhaps there may spring up a generation that never knew of our plenty but may meet with as many yeers of famine as we have done of plenty and the wayes of S●on may mourn among us as they have a long time rejoyced and all for our contempt of the Gospel and the preaching of Christ What is now become of the seven Churches of Asia are they not now dungeons of darknesse and cages of unclean birds that were once Lam. 1. 4. seven golden candlesticks nay in Ireland and Germany to what a low ebbe is the Gospel brought where the enemies have burnt up all the Synagogues of God in the land And then if the Gospel be gone Icabod our glory is departed from this our Israel wo to us if once God departs from us and he departs when his Gospel departs or when Christ can be preached no longer among ●s● which judgment the Lord divert from us Then wo to them that put out the lights when they go not out by being wasted in Christs work but some ill breath has blown them out which else might stil have been burning and shining lights but happy are they that shall snuffe the lights to make them burn the clearer and tread out such snuffes as rather stink then give light And let us pray that lights may be set up in all the dark corners of the land yea that in every congregation there may be a faithfull Pastor to preach Jesus Christ savingly to the people To God be glory for ever Amen FINIS