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A81950	The right receiving of Christ· Or, An appendix to the worthy communicant, or A treatise shewing the due order of receiving the sacrament. By Jer. Dyke, late minister of Epping in Essex. Which was intended by the said author in his life time to be annexed to this treatise of the sacrament; as appeares in the epistle. Wherein a Christian may know, whether he hath rightly received Christ in the sacrament or no.	Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.	1645 (1645)	Wing D2959bA; ESTC R229229	52,271	144

honour to be made the sonnes of God The Apostle twice speakes of the great priviledge of Christians Rom. 8. 15. Yee have received the Spirit of Adoption Gal. 4. 4 5. That wee might receive the Adoption of sonnes I but how come wee to receive the Adoption of sonnes God sent his Sonne that wee might receive the Adoption of sonnes But is that all that is to be done that God should send his Sonne No for though God hath sent his Son yet all are not made sons Therefore as on Gods part so something is to be done on our part also God sent forth his Sonne that we might receive his Sonne and so might receive the Adoption of sonnes For to as many as received him he gave them this priviledge to be made the Sons of God Luk. 19. 9. This day is Zacheus become a sonne of Abraham It is all one to be a sonne of Abraham in our Saviours sense and a sonne of God Now when became Zacheus a sonne of Abraham and so a sonne of God This day namely in which he had received Christ not onely into his house but into his heart The very same day and houre then that a man receives Christ into his heart that very day and houre he receives the honour and happinesse of being a sonne of God When we receive Christ God receives us and when he receives us wee receive the great benefit of Adoption 2 Cor. 6. 17 18. I will receive you And what shall we receive by that And will be a Father unto you and yee shall be my sonnes and daughters saith the Lord God Almighty Now what a motive is this if well considered to make us receive Christ It may be for thine outward estate thou art but the sonne of meane parents of poore obscure parents it may be in a servile and bond condition Or what ever thou art for thine outward yet for thy spirituall condition thou art naturally no better then a childe of wrath a childe of death a cursed childe a slave of the devill a base drudge to thy lusts And were it not now a faire advancement a goodly and a glorious priviledge for such an one to be made a son of God why then doe but receive Christ and he will presently honour thee with this priviledge to be made a sonne of God Gal. 3. 7. Know yee therefore that they which are of faith and so by faith doe receive Christ the same are the Children of Abraham yea know yee that they which receive Christ the same are the children of God Gal. 3. 26 27. Yee are the children of God by faith Why so Because yee have put on Christ He that puts on Christ receives him as he that puts on a garment receives it So that by faith putting on and receiving Christ we are made the sonnes of God Had wee but hearts to consider and in some sort but to conceive what it is to be a damned dog a son of wrath and what it is to be a sonne of God how would our soules not almost but altogether be perswaded to receive Christ If the receiving of the Kings sonne would make us but the Kings favourites how ambitious would we be and at what cost to receive him if but an opportunity offered But here now doe but receive Christ and thou shalt be not onely one of Gods favourites but one of Gods sonnes The second benefit is the Spirit of God There is a promise Act. 2. 38. Yee shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost It is a blessed thing to receive the Holy Ghost He is the Spirit of life and light the spirit of consolation power and prayer So that the receiving of the Spirit of God is the receiving of all spirituall good Isa 32. 15. where the Spirit of God is powred forth the wildernesse becomes a fruitfull field And there is thriving and growing in Grace Isa 44. 3. It were needlesse to insist in all the benefits we have by receiving the Holy Ghost Consider that 1 Cor. 2. 10. 12. But now how come wee to receive the Holy Ghost By Receiving Christ The Receiving of Christ is the way to receive the Holy Ghost Gal. 3. 14. That wee might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith Through faith wee receive Christ Joh. 1. 12. and through that receiving of Christ by faith we also receive the Spirit Joh. 7. 39. This be spake of the Spirit which they that beleeve in him should receive When Christ once is in us and dwells in us we have received him as he that dwells in an house is received thereinto And Rom. 8. 9 10 11. The Apostle shewes that by Christs being in us we have the Spirit in us As we know when Christ gives us his Spirit that he dwells in us 1 Joh. 4. 13. so we know also that when he dwells in us he gives us his Spirit It is not every mans case to have Gods Spirit As all men have not faith so all men have not the Spirit of God Every one receives him not every one cannot receive him Joh. 14. 17. The Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive And what is the reason why worldly men cannot receive him Because they will not receive Christ Christ must be first received before his Spirit can be received for the Spirit is Christs Spirit and therefore must he be received before his Spirit can No sooner is Christ received but he breaths upon that soule that receives him and sayes unto it as he did in that case to his Disciples Receive the Holy Ghost When Simon Magus saw that by laying on of the Apostles hands men received the Holy Ghost he would presently have been drawing his purse and would have given money to have had that gift Act. 8. 17 18 19. Now if wee would have the blessing our selves to receive the Holy Ghost wee shall not need to seek it by money that will not doe it It must be had not by Giving but by Receiving Receive Christ and his Spirit is ours Marke how the Apostle carries those words Rom. 13. 13 14. Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting drunkennesse c. But put yee on the Lord Jesus Christ One would have thought he should have said But put on the Graces of sobriety chastity love c. and all the graces of the Spirit but in stead of that he sayes put yee on the Lord Jesus Christ because the putting on of Christ and receiving of him is the putting on and the receiving of the Spirit and all the sanctifying graces thereof If then we prize the receiving of the Spirit of grace into our hearts then with all forwardnesse receive we Christ The third benefit is Power and Ability 3. to yeeld God obedience In receiving Christ we do withall receive power and ability to give God obedience He requires of us duties of obedience duties of worship as hearing prayer c. He requires of us to work the works of

but if Christ come with whom comes all good how awke and how backward are we to receive him Men blesse themselves with coming to Church and receivng the Sacrament and think all is well so long as this is done But how many come to Church that come not to Christ and how many receive the Sacrament that yet receive not the Lord Jesus Christ This therefore being a point of so great consequence and necessity as none greater it will not be amisse to help to sink it down with some considerations as may make way for it into our hearts Consider therefore these three things CHAP. II. Ignorance of the worth of Christ keeps men from receiving him FIrst consider who it is that is to be received It is Jesus Christ the Lord says the Text. He in whom is all our good and by whom we have all spirituall and eternall good that is to be had How gladly do some receive Lords great ones how gladly do men receive Kings Now Christ he is the Lord the King of Glory Upon this ground are we excited to receive him Psal 24. 7. 9. Lift up your heads O yee gates and be yee lift up yee everlasting doors that is lift up your hearts and set the doors of your hearts wide open But why what shall we get by it The King of glory shall enter So that when the King of Glory is to be received how readily should men set their hearts wide open to receive him Receive Christ and yee receive the King of Glory and the King of Glory enters The Apostle pressing to hospitality uses this argument Hebr. 13. 2. that some thereby received Angells Oh how glad would a man be to have such guests as Abraham and Lot had how glad would a man be to receive Angels I but here is a greater matter In receiving Christ we receive not Angels but wee receive the Son of God himself not into our houses but into our hearts What be Angels to the King of Glory to the Son of God If men did but consider who it is that should be received and what a guest they should receive when they receive Christ how easily would they be perswaded to receive him Men know not Christ know not his worth and excellencie and therefore receive him not Joh. 1. 10 11. That which is in one verse Knew him not is in the other Receive him not To shew that men therefore receive not Christ because they know him not they know not how precious a Christ he is Oh how gladly and readily would men receive him if once they knew who and what he were We find John 6. 19. that the Disciples not knowing Christ were afraid of him though he came towards them yet they were so farre from receiving him that they would well have wisht him further off Being afraid of him they must needs be afraid to receive him But when verse 20. Christ makes himself known unto them It is I be not afraid then verse 21. They willingly received him into the ship When once they knew it was Christ whom they should receive they then no longer feare but willingly and gladly receive him So when Christ is offered unto men they receive him not because they know him not and therfore indeed are many times afraid to receive him They think if he be received they may lose their credit and friends in the world that this Christ will mar all the joy and pleasure of their lives and that they should lead but melancholy mopish lives and so not knowing Christ are afraid of him I but it is the Lord Christ that is offered unto you the Lord of life and grace the Lord of all comfort and consolation it is a Saviour and Redeemer that is offered unto you It is that Christ that dyed for you that shed his blood for you that did undergo the curse of God and bare the infinite weight of his Fathers wrath to deliver you It is a Jesus Christ a saving Christ who is offered unto you Since therefore it is Christ and he such a Christ this should make us receive him and receive him as willingly into our hearts as they when they knew him received him into the ship It is the Lord Jesus Christ that is offered us be yee then lift up yee everlasting doors fly open yee gates of our hearts that Jesus Christ the Lord may be received and entertained How gladly did the Galatians receive Paul who was but a Minister and an Apostle of Christ Gal. 4. 14. Yee received me as an Angel of God even as Jesus Christ If they so received a Minister of Christ how then should Christ Jesus himself be received CHAP. III. The great benefit that comes by receiving Christ SEcondly Consider the great benefit we shall receive by receiving Christ we shall be sure to be on the receiving hand by receiving Christ It is a great advantage wee receive to our selves by receiving Christ into our hearts There is a great reward to be received in receiving a Prophet nay in receiving an ordinary righteous man Matth. 10. 41. He that receives a Prophet in the name of a Prophet shall receive a Prophets reward hee that receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous mans reward In the 40. verse our Saviour speaks of receiving himself Hee that receiveth you receiveth mee Now if such a reward to him that receives a Prophet if such a reward to him that receives a righteous man how much more shall that man that soul be richly blessed and rewarded that receives Christ Jesus the Lord the Prophet of the Church and that great Righteous One Let us a little then consider the Reward of receiving Christ what it is and what benefit will follow thereupon There is a three-fold Reward or Benefit that followes upon it The first Benefit is the Adoption of sons and daughters They that receive Christ shall thereupon receive this honour and happinesse to be made sons of God Seems it a small thing unto you to be the Kings son in Law saith David to the servants of Saul And if it be no small thing to be the Kings son in Law then it is no small honour to be Gods sonnes and daughters 1 Joh. 3. 1. Behold what love the Father hath shewed unto us that wee should be called the sonnes of God It was the greatest love that God could shew us the greatest honour that God could doe us to make us his sonnes But now how come wee to receive this great honour We receive this honour by receiving Christ They that receive Christ receive this honour to be the sonnes of God John 1. 12. To as many as received him he gave this priviledge to become the sonnes of God As many as received him What ever they were for outward condition rich or poore bond or free high or low old or young if they received him they lost nothing by it Christ thereupon gave them this