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love_n	affection_n	hate_v	love_v	3,235	5	6.3193	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94349	A sermon of consolation for all true Christians; as it was lately delivered at London-VVall, / by Mr Till, a faithfull minister of Jesus Christ, who though he be deprived of his outward bodily sight, yet is indued with inward spirituall light. Taken from him as it was delivered in short-hand, and now published for the comfort of all true Christians, by J.H. a friend of the authors. It being very usefull for dejected soules in sad times. Licensed, entred, and printed according to order.	Till, Mr.; J. H.	1646 (1646)	Wing T1163; Thomason E338_4; ESTC R200839	8,998	20

trust to silver or gold or the creature Three Reasons 1. From the free offer of Christ 2. From the fulnesse of the promise 3. From the emptinesse of the creature The first Reason proving that there is no comfort but in Christ is taken from the free offer of Christ unto his people You shall see who Christ offers himselfe unto He came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Marke here he came not to call the righteous that is he came not to call such as had need of none but trusted in their own no but sinners to repentance such who felt the burthen and weight of their sinnes God hath promised meat to the hungry and not to the full men must have right qualifications sutable to receive Gods mercies But now may a poore drooping dying soule say if it be so that wee must have right qualifications why then I have nothing to doe with Christ alas miserable is my condition I have no qualifications But for answer to this Art not thou dead art not thou sicke art not thou lame or art not thou blind why then thou mayest live thou mayest have health thou mayest be whole or thou mayest see if thou wilt Christ is offered unto all if they will receive him The second Reason is taken from the fulnesse of the Promise There is a fulnesse of grace of mercy of glory in the promise but sometimes perhaps you read some promises and you thinke they are empty but when a Minister of God comes and opens it then you will goe home and say you never thought there was so much in a promise O Beloved when you doe once see the fulnesse of comfort in a promise you will enquire more after them for all the promises in Christ are yea and amen blessed for evermore A third Reason is taken from the emptinesse of the creature And here I shall prove there is no comfort in the creature for goe towards Heaven to the creature the Angels why thou canst have no comfort by them for in the 1. Ephesians 12. All things are reconciled to God in Christ well then come downe to the Minister but doe not rest for comfort in him for if God be not in his Ministry he can doe thee no good Why then goe to thy rich friends will some say such a one hath an Unckle or an Aunt that are worth so much and so much I but what of all this alas this is nothing to what shall become of thy poore soule your fasting and sighing is nothing if Christ be not in them I would not give you a straw for a thousand such duties for in the 15. of John saith Christ without me yee can doe nothing So that there is no comfort to be had or found in any but in Christ and in the 15. of John 16. Whatsoever you shall aske of my Father in my name saith Christ he shall give it you Thus you have the reasons of the point why Jesus Christ is the ground of a Christians comfort I shall now come to the use of the point Foure Uses of the point 1. For Examination 2. For Comfort 3. For Terrour 4. For Exhortation The first Use for Examination To examine whether Christ be yours and so to be your comfort Some may say how shall I know whether Christ be ours or no 1. I answer by being a new creature and he that is a new creature hath a new soule and body new hands new eyes new actions he doth speake and walke in a better way then ever he did 2. He that is a new creature hath a new light before he faw the creature to be the chiefest good and now sees Christ to be the chiefest good not onely the chiefest good but his chiefest good 3. He that is a new creature hath a new will before the man would have his will though it cost him his life now he is a man of a new spirit Not my will but thy will be done O Lord and Lord what wouldst have me to doe or Lord what wouldst have me to suffer I will doe or suffer 4. New affections of love before he loved sinne and hated God now he loves God and hates sinne with an eternall hatred 5. New joyes and new sorrowes he mourned before because he could not injoy sinne but now he mournes for sinne and joyes that he can mourne for sinne 6. That man that is a new creature hath new hopes and new thoughts before he hoped in the creature now he hopes in Christ before he had revengefull thoughts and Atheisticall thoughts now he hath heavenly thoughts 7. Againe He that is a new creature hath new societie before he used to be among the wicked now he is with Davids companions with such as are godly wicked wretches are now as Hell to him 8. Againe He that is a new creature hath new strength and new experience before he performed duties in the strength of a creature but now in the strength of a God before by his owne experience but now by Christs experience 9. Againe He that is a new creature hath new parts before his parts puft him up with pride but now his good parts make him humble 10. Lastly He that is a new creature hath new resolutions and new ends he resolves now to give up himselfe to Christ and his end is to enjoy Jesus Christ Now if you can find all these that I have named then you are a new creature and it is a signe that Christ is yours The second Reason is this if Jesus Christ be the ground of your comfort see then how you improve him For he that makes Christ the ground of his comsort makes Christ the ground of his confidence he does not relie on any thing he does the Prophet David taught him that lesson and so the Prophet Jeremiah Trust not in lying vanities saying The Temple of the Lord So I say trust not in lying vanities trust not in your prayers saying My prayers my prayers for then you make your prayers lying vanities Why you will say what must not I pray I pray in the name of God but relie not on them put not thy confidence in them but relie upon Jesus Christ Thirdly He that hath Christ to be his is contented with him come what will come if Christ be his he is contented though times of famine come though times of bloud come as it is likely and the Ministers taken away and the Ordinance taken away yet he is resolved to feare nothing he will trust in Christ and be content with him Nay come to a childe of God that hath lost his estate and aske him how he does now why sayes he I am in health still though I have lost my estate Suppose he hath lost his libertie come to him now how dost thou now I am well still I have not lost my friends nay suppose he hath lost his yoak-fellows how dost now alive still through Gods mercy nay further suppose he