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B07186	Sions svveets, or, The spouses spikenard; and mysticall myrrhe / by Thomas Barnes, preacher of Gods vvord at St Margretts in New-fifth-street. London..	Barnes, Thomas, Minister of St. Margaret's, New Fish Street, London.	1624 (1624)	STC 1477.5; ESTC S124289	64,452	85

Gods tribunall Now then if the graces that are inwardly wrought and the Workes that doe outwardly appeare in beleevers themselues can procure no further acceptance at Gods handes then their persons stand iustified and their sinnes acquitted before GOD in Christ then questionles as God once told the idolatrous Israelites neither thy Workes nor thy righteousnesse will profit thee c Isa 57.12 to iustification that art but carnall but ciuill That then I may cease to confute thee be a counseller vnto thee * Vse 3. Exhortation to disclaime our owne righteousnes let me exhort thee willingly to giue the Well beloued of the Church the glory of this grace alone Mingle not thy righteousnesse with his in the matter of iustification such a mixture such a composition stinkes before the Lord. I finde in the old d Exod. 30.34.35.38 Law how that the Lord commanded Moses to make a sweete perfume of Stacte Onicha Galbanum and Franckinsence and to temper it after the art of an Apothecary holy and pure Concerning which he threatned that whosoeuer should presume to make the like to smell thereto that soule should be cut off from the Lords people And hath the Father commanded a greater then Moses euen his onely begotten Sonne to temper an exact and most pure perfume of his owne righteousnesse and obedience for the Father to smell on that he might be pacified with the Elect for the Elect to smell on that they might be iust before GOD. And shall mortall sinfull man contrary to Gods charge presume to compose the like out of his owne righteousnes and yet the Lord endure it reckon that person amongst the number of his owne people No no. The ciuillest person that liues vnder the cope of heauen shall greatly displease the Lord if he presumes to offer it Didst thou equall nay excell the most vertuous moralists that euer were in iustice temperance magnanimitie affabilitie and the like yet thou must esteeme all these as nought in comparison of the righteousnesse of Christ crucified Learne therefore learne I beseech thee to disclaime thine owne righteousnesse Shuffle oh shuffle not in the merit the dignitie of any good deedes or desires of thine owne into this bundle least like the mixture of Opocalpasum with Myrrhe it proue deadly to thy soule as that to the body e As Mathiolus cites it out of Galen Opocalpasum exitiale est multosque nos sorte quadam vidimus nostrae aetatis de cursu mori quòd inscij Myrrham cui Opocalpasum admistum erat assumpsissent Mathio Comment in Dios li. 1. c. 67. Pag. 77. and thou neuer smell the sweetnesse of the same in assurance thou art iustified to thy consolation here and salvation hereafter Now to the end thou mayest learne to disclaime thine owne righteousnesse indeede This threefold Meditation will be very availeable * Three meditations to further vs in disclaiming our owne righteousnesse First that mans righteousnesse cannot acquit him discharge him before the Iudge Secondly that it breaketh euery way that it can fulfill no way the Law of God perfectly and entirely it omitteth much good it committeth much euill that good which it doth it doth not aright that euill which it escheweth is eschewed for by-respects Thirdly Meditate that the worthiest and holiest of the Saints of God haue cryed out of it neuer looked to be iustified by it As Dauid In sinne Lord hath my Mother conceiued me f Psal 51.5 and Iob The Angels are vncleane before thee how much more abhominable is man that is borne of a woman g Iob 15.15.16 And Paul I know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing h Rom. 7.18 These three things I say feriously and wisely thought of and paused vpon will much further thee to thinke meanely of thine owne righteousnesse beest thou neuer so ciuill Wilt thou know how I will show thee The first Meditation will driue thee to speake thus betwixt God and thy soule Good Lord cannot all my righteousnesse cleere me before thy Tribunall notwithstanding my ciuilitie my fidelitie in keeping my word my gentlenes of nature my abstaining from the grosse and enormious vices of the times doe I not stand discharged before thee the most vpright and vnpartiall Iudge Lord why should I then stand vpon my righteousnesse Oh cause me to abhorre my selfe in dust and ashes The second Meditation will driue thee to this What and for all my righteousnes doe I breake thy Law transgresse thy Commandements in the omission of good in the commission of euill in the doing of good and forsaking of euill after a wrong manner Lord I perceiue then by this that I cannot be iustified in thy sight by my selfe when as that righteousnesse which iustifieth before thee must performe an exact obedience to thy most righteous Law without sweruing one iot from the same The third Meditation will by the grace of God worke in some such wise with thee as this is Lord haue the best that euer were cryed out of their owne filthinesse complained of their natiue vilenes denied their owne righteousnesse and shall I be puffed vp with an opinion of mine owne worth Did so holy a man as Dauid was so patient a man as Iob was so good a man as Paul was cast downe their crownes before the Lambe acknowledge that in themselues was nothing but sinne no cleanenes no good thing and shall I a vile creature farre inferiour to the least of them stand vpon my patience my honestie my goodnesse Lord let it be farre from me c. And when these Meditations haue brought thee to this passe produced these effects tell me whither then it can be possible for thee to sing any Song but this in regard of thy iustification None but Christ none but Christ His righteousnesse his righteousnesse alone to discharge me before the Iudge to fulfill the Law for me to cure my spirituall sickenes to couer my naturall filthinesse If these Meditations were but duely made vse of by our ciuill Iustitiarians themselues they would vaile the Bonet come downe a peg lower in their owne conceits and runne altogether out of the garden of nature into the garden of grace for this Myrrhe and depend vpon Gods loue alone in Christ Iesus for their iustification But alas alas they meditate not vpon this and hence it is that they stand so much vpon their owne worthines that the righteousnes of Christ is neither thought on nor sought for by them as it should be Vse 4 Lastly is Christ the alone Iustifier of the Church and is his free grace the ground of it Advise to Beleeuers to be thankefull to their Iustifier how thankefull then ought this to perswade Beleevers to be and how carefull to sing such a Song as the Church here doth to the prayse of their Well-beloued We vse to say a Nosegay is worth thankes especially when it is giuen by a louer as a token of loue and

that with the couetous whom Dauid speakes of d Psal 10.3 blessest thy selfe and blasphemest God and with Goliah e 1 Sam. 17.9.10 cursest God and his people * 5. Contempt of authoritie Thou that with the sonnes of Belial f 1 Sam. 10.25 contemnest the powers that be ordained of God * 6. Vaine confidence Thou that trustest with Goliah g 1 Sam. 17.45 in thy sword and buckler with the wicked of Dauids time in the h Psal 49.6 Psal 52.7 multitude of thy riches with the i Isa 43.14 Chaldeans in the treasures thy shippes bring in by Sea with the old Israelites in thy pleasant pictures k Isa 2.16 that is in thy houshold furniture and riches l So Scultet expounds pleasant pictures * 7. Hypocriticalnes Thou that canst the Art of dissembling hauing Butter in thy mouth and warre in thy heart m Psal 55.21 that canst blesse with thy mouth but curse with thy heart n Psal 62.4 * 8. Loue to defence of bad company Thou that louect the company of the vngodly o Psal 1.1.2 and magnifiest the wicked which forsake the Law p Pro. 28.4 * 9. Malice to the Saints Thou that with the enemies of Gods Israel treadest downe the inheritance of the Lord q Isa 63.18 circumventing them as the Sodomites did Lots house r Gen. 19. spreading Net for their feet ſ Psal 140. reioycing at their hurt t Psal 35.15 drawing out the sword bending the bow that thou maiest suddenly hit them that are vpright in heart u Psal 37.14.32 * 10 Carnall securitie Thou finally that art at ease in Sion drowned in the depth of carnall securitie thinking thou shalt neuer be remoued x Psal 10.6 who hast made a couenant with death and art with hell at agreement thinking that when the ouer flowing scourge shall passe through it shall not touch thee and so making lies thy refuge and vnderfalshood hiding thy selfe * Isa 28.15 Thou I say that carriest of all these or any of these blacke brandes of the false Church these non euidences of the true Church heare thou this word of terror thou art not iustified by the Lord Iesus and not to be iustified by him desperate and fearefull must thy condition needes be yea so fearefull that neither can my capacitie reach it nor my tongue relate it For besides the absence of those admirable soule rauishing effects springing from iustification which thou shalt reade off afterwards y Page 67. it is an argument of Gods displeasure conceiued against thee it doth prognosticate wrath abiding for thee insomuch that if the Beloued of the Church be not this bundle of Myrrhe TO THEE TO ME and become our Righteousnesse the stinch of our sinnes will daily prouoke the Lord the smell of our courses will daily distast him the sauour of our very Sacrifices are a burthen vnto him neither are our sinnes remitted nor our sutes receiued nor our persons respected nor our good deedes rewarded nor can our soules if wee so continue be eternally saued Iudge thou then whither this poynt as sweete as it is to the godly doth not bring if thou beest not altogether hopelesse and helpelesse a sound of terror to thy eares and oh that it might but be a meane to produce an holy trembling in thy soule vpon the thought of thy great misery Vse 2 Secondly this is not so terrible to the wicked but it is as comfortable to the godly Is it their peculiar to be iustified by Christ Doe they alone participate of that righteousnesse which many thousands in the world neither haue nor are like to haue any share in What bountie what loue is this from Christ to them Myrrhe it selfe should not more refresh the smell then the consideration of this accheere their soule And accheere them it doth at sometime or other let the Deuill doe his worst as the next Doctrine shall declare which without any longer delay I come vnto And this it is That as the Church alone is capable of Christs righteousnes Doct. Christians alone haue the ioy of iustification so shee onely is sensible of the sweetnesse of the same Onely Beleeuers doe truely reioyce in the assurance of free iustification by Christ What saith Dauid to this purpose The RIGHTEOVS shall be glad in the Lord and all the VPRIGHT in heart shall glory z Psal 64.10 What saith the Prophet Esay also The RANSOMED of the Lord shall returne and come to Sion with Songes THEY shall obtaine ioy and gladnesse and sorrow and sighing shall flie away a Isa 35.10 Againe My SERVANTS shall reioyce my servants shall sing for ioy of heart I create IERVSALEM a reioycing and HER people a ioy b Isa 65.14.15.18 Of whom speakes the Church when she saith We will be glad in the Lord and reioyce in his saluation c Isa 25.9 I will greatly reioyce in the Lord my soule shall be ioyfull in my God for he hath cloathed me with the garments of salvation he hath couered me with the robes of righteousnesse d Isa 61.10 Of whom I say speakes the Church there but of her selfe I confesse that literally those speeches of the Prophet are to be referred to the reioycing of the Iewes at their returne from captiuitie But mystically they are to be interpreted of the ioy which beleeuers alone conceiue vpon their returne from spirituall bondage and vpon their iustification by the merits of Christ and free mercy of the Almightie Wherefore it was not without cause that Christ sayd to the Man sicke of the Palsey Sonne be of good cheare thy sinnes are forgiven thee e Mat. 9.2 And Elihu in Iob He that can say I haue found a Ransome especially such as Christs righteousnesse hath procured shall see Gods face with ioy f Iob. 33.24 6. compared ●ogether Reas 1 That which was the ground of the former poynt may be the first ground of this also Christians onely haue faith Now faith is not onely an Hand to plucke this Myrrhe the meanes to apprehend the righteousnesse of Christ that it may become ours but also it is the Nostrills to smell the sweetnesse of this Myrrhe Looke as the nostrills doe conuey sweete odours to the braine to refresh the animall spirits which are there so doth faith conuey the assurance of iustification to the rauishing and delighting of the soule If the Church alone then hath the nostrills of faith no wonder is it if shee alone be sensible of the sweetnesse of Christs righteousnesse Reas 2 Secondly Christ Iesus onely lodgeth and dwelleth in them whom he hath iustified but where Christ lodgeth there must needes be great ioy g Nonne videis cum amicū lomi quispiam ●ccipit quom ●raese ferat ●atitiam c. ●hrys in Iohan. ● 1. Hom. 19. Doe you not see if a man doth but receiue an