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lord_n	blood_n	body_n	jesus_n	12,126	5	6.1739	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90864	Spiritual flovvers for saints and sinners. Gathered out of the garden of the sacred scriptures, and writings of men famous in their generations. / By Robert Port minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.	Port, Robert, b. 1617 or 18.	1655 (1655)	Wing P2981; Thomason E1548_2; ESTC R209461	39,839	195

they appear That which makes God appear so glorious in our eyes is his so gratious appearing or appearing so gratious to the souls Apostles preaching The Apostles did preach to and not lord it over the Lords inheritance but since their dayes many lord it over and few preach to the Lords inheritance Arguing The best arguments that we can use with Christ are to tell him that we whom he loveth are sick that we are sick of love for him Ashamed Many men are ashamed of that wherein or whereof they should glory and glory in that whereof they should be ashamed Asking Though God hath promised to give to them that ask yet many ask and miss because they ask amiss Assurance There may be grace where there is no assurance but there can be no assurance where there is no grace B Babes in Christ Babes in Christ are but as carnal men yet are they not carnal as men that are but carnal for such are not babes nor as babes in Christ Baptized A man may be damned though he be baptized if he do not believe and a man may be saved if he do beleive though he be not baptized Behaviour It s better to carry our selves so that God may smile and the world frown upon us than to carry our selves so as that the world should smile and God frown upon us A Christian should so behave himself as not to be a shame to nor ashamed of the Gospel Being in Christ 'T is one thing to profess and to beleive our selves to be in Christ 't is another thing to be in Christ in whom we profess and beleive our selves to be for many may beleive themselves to be in Christ who are not and many may be in Christ who do not beleive themselves to be in Christ Beleivers Believers are all for Christ and Christ is all for Beleivers Better than others When we see others better than our selves we should not grieve but rejoyce that they are better than our selves yet we should not rejoyce but greive that we our selves are no better Beauty-Spots Christians should not went Beauty-spots seeing beauty-spots are the spots of beauty for their beauty is to be without spots Birth-day Some have cursed the day of their first birth but never any cursed the day of their second or new birth Blessing God The tongue blessing God without the heart is but a tinkling Cymbal the heart blessing God without the tongue is sweet but still musick both in consort make their harmony which fill and delights heaven and earth Seeing it pleaseth the Lord to bless us and that without cause given him how much should it please us to bless him who hath given us so much cause to bless him God doth not onely bless his people when they turn away from every one of their iniquities but God doth also blesse them in turning away every one of them from their iniquity Self-blessings When we begin to blesse our selves in earthly enjoyments God blasteth them to us either in taking them from us or us from them or if he leaves us the things he takes away the comfort of them Blood of Christ and Saints The bloud of Saints is pretious in the sight of Christ and the bloud of Christ is pretious in the sight of the Saints Blushing Some men blush to be known to be wicked who blush not to be wicked though it be known Body of Christ The body of the Lord was dead and buried but not the Lord of the body Calling Every man should have a Calling to follow and follow his Calling Every man should serve God in his vocation and some whose vocation it should be to serve God as all should do it so some should doe nothing else Called The Apostle though he saith not many yet he doth not say not any rich are called thus that none might despair Though he doth not say not any rich yet he doth say not many rich are called thus that none might presume Saints Care A Saint cares to keep himself in Gods way yet leaves the care of himself and his way to God Men cannot enter into the cares of the world but they must enter into a world of cares Carnal men Carnal men love the God that they make and hate the God that made them Children Stones cannot make themselves the Children of Abraham but God can make stones the Children of Abraham A Child of light may for a time walk in darkness and for a time a Child of darkness may walk in light 'T is one thing to be a Child under wrath another thing to be a Child of wrath Christ Christ is the Christians patron and the Christians patern Christ was made like to us that he might be tempted and we are tempted that we might be made like to Christ Christ who did our work for us without us will also work his work for us within us They who make a prey of them that are Christs shall themselves become a prey unto Christ Christ by drawing neer unto the Saints draws them neer unto himself A gratious soul so longs to be with Christ that he thinks it long ere he be dissolved that he might go to his long his long'd for home All the while Christ is without us we are without Christ The worst of Christ is better than the best of the world the afflictions of Christ better than the pleasures of sin and the reproaches of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt It was Christs abasement to be like us but 't is our advancement to be like Christ Christs work 'T is better to have the work of Christ in our hearts than the person of Christ in our houses Christ died that sinners might live Christ persecuted Christ was first persecuted by Paul in his members and was afterwards persecuted in Paul one of his members Christ our Mine 'T is more worth than all the mines of the world to be able to say Christ is mine Christian One may be an honest man as they say and pay every man his due c. and yet not be a Christian but one cannot be a Christian and not be an honest man and pay every man his due c. A man should not be a Christian onely in shew yet in every thing a man should shew himself a Christian Almost a Christian Most of the all that profess themselves Christians are 't is to be feared but almost Christians He that 's but almost a Christian will be but almost saved that is may go from the gates of heaven to the belly of hell though he be not far from the kingdom of heaven yet the kingdom of heaven is far from him Civility Civility and morality without sanctity is but guilded infidelity Comfort A Saint had rather have holiness without comfort than comfort without holiness The Saints have more comfort from Gods love to them than they have from their love to God 'T is better to enjoy soul-comforts though one have none for

you or else you are utterly lost and undone everlastingly Luke 19. 10. 3. Gods free and general offer of Christ to any that will take him by faith Iohn 3. 16. manifold promises to this purpose The ground of all Gods offers and donations of Christ being free Grace rich mercy underserved love Ephes 2. 4. to 8. Tit. 3. 4. to 7. 4. Christs sweet and gracious invitation of such to come to him as are weary of sin Matt. 11. 28. to buy as have no money no righteousness to commend them to Christ Isa 55. 1. no worth or desert in themselves 5. As sinfull vile wretches as you are have been bought of Christ and found in Christ see 1 Cor. 9. 9. to 12. 1 Tim. 1. 13. Phil. 3. 7. to 10. why may not you the more clearly you discern upon what grounds you take Christ the more clear is your title to Christ III. By surveying and observing in what manner you take Christ dayly and this by five resolves as 1. Whether you do wholly renounce all opinion and conceit of your own righteousness and desert Matt. 8. 34. Phil. 3. 7 to 10. So that you come to Christ empty of your self very vile yea nothing in your own eyes unworthy to receive Christ 2. Whether you lay hold on Christ alone with an empty hand of faith joyning nothing with Christ in the matter of salvation 3. Whether you find the Father drawing your heart after Christ Iohn 6. 44. in hungring panting desires that will never be satisfied without Christ So that the stream both of your judgment Phil. 37. 8. and affections 1 Cor. 2 2. Gal. 6. 14. run towards Christ 4. Whether you take Christ as a Lord to rule you as a Jesus to save you Col. 2. 6. As one that is all to your all your wisdom your righteousness your sanctification and redemdemption 1 Cor. 1. 30. your spiritual food Iohn 6. 36. Raiment Rom. 13. 14. Strength Phil. 4. 13. Life Col. 3. 3. Gal. 2 10. 5. Whether you seek and wait for Christ out of the sence of your spiritual penury sacraments prayer meditation conference not as they are your own works of sanctification but as they are Gods ordinances appointed of purpose for the manifestation communication of Christ to the soul frequent perusal hereof will clear to you your manner of taking Christ which wil evidence to you your right in Christ CHAP. III. LAbour to draw and derive from Christ by the pulling attractive force of faith ability sufficient for the day I. To perform all duties Phil 4. 12. II. To exercise all the graces 2 Cor. 3. 5 III. To resist and overthrow all temptations and corruptions Rom. 8. 37. IIII. To undergo all the trials afflictions thereof Phil. 4. 13. 2 Cor. 3. 5. Iohn 1. 16. Thus make your provision of grace and strength from Christ every morning fetch so much as you have occasion to use all the day long yea and upon all occasions that fall out in the day Go to Christ still for the wisdom that must direct you for the holiness that must character you for the souldier that must bear them if they be crosses for that strength that must resist them if they be temptations for ability to performe them if they be duties To this end act your faith dayly in the promises of grace and strength as Iohn 1. 16. Ezek. 36. 26 27. Isa 44. 3 Zack 10 12. which are both security given you by God that you shall receive grace and conduit-pipes or instruments of conveying the same from Christ unto you Loe this is the manner to do all in the strength of Christ and to take forth a great deal of Christ into the soul that not you but Christ may live in you Gal. 2. 20. CHAP. IV. Perform daily duties in family and closet especially these three Prayer Meditation Reading all with serious affection heat of affection deligence and delight Ier. 48. 10. Mal. 1. 14. 2 Chron. 21. 24. these three waies I. Watch to these duties H. E. keep thy heart in a good frame for them Ephes 6. 18. undefiled with sin untainted with the world II. Take the fittest time for the performance of them all when you are the least evil and sluggish Begin the day constantly with thoughts of God III. Be very reall serious and substantial with God in them IV. Indeavour to feel all duties in your heart inlivening enlarging infleming your affections These be duties of most importance and consequence commodity and comfort to the soul because they properly appear at and reach at the souls good and caelestial happiness to train up a soul of a Believer for heaven CHAP. V. FOrtifie your self every morning against your special lusts to which you are by nature most prone or shall be most tempted be it pride passion covetousness c. This must be done four waies As I. By arguments and holy reasonings within your selves drawn fom the sad effects thereof as disprofit discomfort disgrace c. to discover the unreasonableness of your sin and make your soul ashamed of it For instance Shall I be proud Then I am sure to fall and God will count me for his enemie for God resisteth the proud ●am 4 6. Shall I be angry If I let passion in I cannot keep satan out Ephes 4 26 27. I shall grieve thereby the holy spirit of God Ephes 4 30 31. Shall I be covetous I cannot but be very sinful sith the love of money is the root of all evil 1 Tim 6 10. II. By pondring in your minds precepts in the Book of God against such sins judgments threatned or inflicted Prov 6 23 24. on proud Herod Acts 12 23. voluptuous Dives Luke 16 28. churl●●h Na●a● 1 Sam 25 38. III. By applying promises of mortification close to your hearts as a plaister to the sore for subduing your iniquity Mic 7 19. Rom 6 14. IV. By drawing vertue from Christs death into the soul which hath in it a killing force of sin Rom. 6 4 107. Phi. 4 10. CHAP. VI. GEt your heart strongly fixt on God by trusting on him Psal 112 7. and submitting to him 1 Sam 3 18. against all the fears cares double trialls affliction of every day for sufficient to the day is the evill thereof Mat 6 34. This must be done five waies I. Be prudent to foresee your personal tryals and troubles what ever they are like to be Prov 22 3. II Go hide and lay up your self in God run unto his name for God is a work of habitation to which a poor soul may continually resort God will give commandment to save him Psal 71 3. 1 ●et 4 19. III. Especially commit that ver thing to God put it into his hands whatsoever you desire to keep or fear to loose 2 Tim 1 12. be it life liberty name friends maintenance c. what you would have resolved if it be a doubt Psal 37 5. or supply'd if it be a want removed if it be a