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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05990	The Christians garment A sermon preached in London, by the late faithfull minister of Gods word, Master Paul Bayne.	Baynes, Paul, d. 1617.	1618 (1618)	STC 1634; ESTC S113830	13,678	28

forth as Christ hath reference to this effect of not caring for sinfull lusts so farre this consideration may be fitly extended yea so far as he doth make vs and our waies beseeme the Light into which wee are translated but Christ both as an Authour and patterne concurreth to this secondary duty of not taking thought for fulfilling the lusts of the flesh 1. As an Authour in iustifying vs and sanctifying vs For sin entred before guit but guilt must be taken away before sinne can be abolished therefore hee iustifieth vs from guilt then purgeth out our corruption 2. As an Example in that hee hath left vs a President this way This putting on of Christ is properly so called or by a borrowed speech the proper putting on of Christ is when we do by an affianced knowledge and by consequent affections come more and more to be vnited with Christ As men are estranged from Christ by ignorance Ephes 4. so by knowledge such as is in truth and affectiue they come to haue coniunction with him by faith hee dwelleth in our hearts and we in him This affiance and trust to him is such that knowledge by benefit heereof doth vnite vs otherwise he being in heauen and seeing the glory of God euidently would not make vs one with him no more then a sore eye is accorded with light being brought into it yea affections increase this vnion by loue our hearts cleaue to him by hope ioy high estimation of him whom though we haue not seene yet we loue and beleeuing reioyce in him with ioy vnspeakable and glorious I count all things drosse in comparison of the knowledge of Christ Christ is said to be our hope 1. Tim. 1.11 Ob. But some will say haply Doth any thing but faith put on and vnite vs with Christ Ans The first and radicall vnion on which all following haue dependency is made by faith onely this layeth hold on God in Christ as now become our mercifull God whose anger before threatned vs for sinne nothing beginneth nothing continueth this Vnion but faith There is a secondary Vnion whereby the soule cleaueth more and more vnto God now reconciled vnto it and this is done by meanes of the affections abouenamed and the like c. Now this presupposeth the former for were it not for this precedent vnion of faith we should flye from God as a consuming fire yea though we knew him and that he is a gracious God in himselfe yet with those vnbeleeuing spirits we should tremble Now we are said to put on Christ improperly by imitation as a man is said to put on the person of such an one whom in his gesture and otherwise hee representeth And thus when we do by knowledge faith holy affections godly imitation so grow vp into Christ that he couereth vs His Spirit from him worketh al our works in vs for vs Not we liue but he in vs Gal. 1. that our inward and outward man are in some good measure conformed to that perfect patterne which he hath left vs in himselfe to follow Then we practise this duty heere enioyned when this I say is truely endeuoured which doctrine thus opened rebuketh many There are not a few which liue in grosse ignorance of Christ his Person Offices and Conuersation How few are they that labour for that confidence in his promises which might settle their hearts quietly through his grace But who almost of beleeuers doe tye Christ more neerely to them by working their affections towards him labouring to feele him their loue hope ioy the want whereof maketh Christians faith so weake that when the winde and storme of temptation ouertake them they thinke Christ is taken from them For though these affections come from faith yet they are daughters which strengthen their mother when she is assailed The wofull practice of Papists is hence discouered for they faile in the thing to put on and in putting it on Christ alone they put not on their faith is on my Lady S. Peter S. Paul on their owne righteousnes workes penall satisfactions Popes Pardons c. Obiect I but they hold Christ Ans As one hauing his hand full of this or that cannot catch hold of a third thing but hee loseth that hold he had of the former So heere seeking saluation in Saints and themselues and the Churches Treasury they fall from Christ Now for their Faith it is a bare knowledge without confidence that hee loued them and gaue himselfe for them Faith is presumption say they Their faith maketh them like to such who carry garments vnder their armes but leaue them to others to put on so they content themselues to know that the Sonne of God tooke our nature died to redeeme his Church but that he is their Sauiour and they his people that hee loued them and gaue himselfe for them this which applyeth him they disclaime as presumption In the second place let vs prouoke our selues to seek this wel-beseeming and sweet-smelling garment to be cloathed with this glorious Sunne of righteousnesse It is the folly and madnesse of men that this rayment is no more in request Why are not Infants ashamed of their naked parts They haue not vse of reason so farre Why are not mad men Their reason is so depraued and peruerted they think there is no shame in it So heere our spirituall childishnesse or madnesse maketh vs not respect our spirituall nakednesse so farre as to renew our care of putting on Christ daily Many in adorning the body are excessiue it is a yeere before they can haue done in dressing themselues and halfe the care of men is about the backe but they haue not wisedome once to thinke of getting their soules araied with Christ and his image But let vs not deceiue our selues glory is but an vpper garment if we be found naked of this cloathing we shall neuer be ouer-shadowed with that glory Nay Christ shall say Taeke that guest without a wedding garment cast him into vnquenchable fire In putting on our apparell we should raise our selues to such like meditation And take not care From the sequell and connexion of these one with the other wee see that the entertaining of Christ and retaining of our lusts to serue them stand not together the putting on of Christ and putting off the willing seruice of these sinfull lusts are inseparable companions you that are Christs haue crucified the flesh with the lusts of it Gal. 5.24 Whosoeuer is in Christ is a new creature 2. Cor. 5.20 If you haue learned Christ as the truth is in him you haue so learned him as to put off the old man Ephes 4. for the putting on of Christ doth transforme vs into his image 1. Cor. 2. As the Aire darke in it selfe ouerspred with the light of the Sunne becommeth inlightned Againe we see that further then old apparell is put off new cannot be put on Besides that other things can no longer occupy the heart whose

affections are possessed and filled with Christ For looke as a woman the more she putteth on and groweth vp into the loue of her husband the more she groweth out of lusting after any other the heart can truely loue but one at once So we our affections being once takē vp with the loue of our heauenly Husband do grow out of loue with adulterous desires and delights in the things of this world If we well marke our selues we may trace all our sinnes to this beginning viz. our not being cloathed with Christ Were our hearts so true to him as they should be we should go safe vndefiled by all the allurements of this world as a woman louing her husband loyally is safe though she meete with sollicitors to vnchastity Which serueth to deiect the vaine presumptions of many who thinke that Christ is quickly learned sufficiently if they can the Creed the Lords Prayer haue Christendome be orderly Church-men receiue at Easter they think this is Christianity enough as for putting off of lusts to which naturally their hearts encline they thinke it needlesse and that God who hath made and knoweth our natures doth not expect we should be freed from that which is by nature in vs But this is to get our lesson by rote Hee that crucifieth not his naturall sinfull inclinations hath no vnion nor communion with Christ Yea seeing these go together such must feare who fauour themselues in their lusts when the deuill shall winde this dart against them Such as are Christs they crucifie their lusts but thou hast spared and loued to haue thine vntoucht Well it will make vs shake the head they will be more bitter in their after-sorrow then euer they were pleasant while they were tasted But if any weake soule should thinke because they feele sinne raging in them and themselues captiue to it that therefore sin is not mortified in them they must know that it is one thing not haue their sinnes mortified and another thing not to feele any stirring and mouing of it in them It is said truely then to be killed when that is done vpon it which will make it die in time though it take on awhile as a wound will ake and tingle after it is dressed with a healing plaister Hee that feeleth it a burthen wherewith he is vnwilling to be laden He that desireth to be set free from it Hee that reneweth his faith toward Christ who is made of God his sanctifier and resteth on him to see these workes of the deuill vtterly dissolued hee hath mortified his sinne though the deuil and sinne should neuer so vsurpe and tyrannize in him Paul was crucified to the world and yet he felt sinne vsurping ouer him and leading him captiue Gal. 6. compared with Rom. 7. The voluntary subiection to it mortification presently causeth to cease the inuoluntary suffering of it is successiuely diminished but neuer till death totally remoued wherefore in the second place let vs resist all lusts as euer we will assure our selues we are truely in Christ What a shame is it for Christians not to haue power ouer their inordinate lusting in meates and drinkes when a dog will be trained to stand vpon a Table and touch nothing which is not giuen him How shall we thinke they perswade themselues truely that Christ hath shed his bloud for them who cannot forbeare a superfluous cup for his sake when their stomakes are before charged with more then enough If a companion come in though it were at their mouth they would thence pull it and yeeld to him Againe Lust is not satisfied when serued What was Amnon the better when he had got his will of his sister by violence Nay the very lusting for a thing maketh a good man that he dare not touch it when now it is present When Dauid had a months minde to the water of Bethlehem hee would not touch it when now it was bronght vnto him What ioy could a good man take who should get Manna and Quailes with murmuring and inordinate lusting And thus in generall More particularly we must note what is the property of one in Christ not to be a harbinger and purueyor making prouision to fulfill his sinfull lusts sin hath not willing obeysance performed to it You that are vnder grace sin raigneth not in you Rom. 6. But to conceiue of this the more fruitfully we must open the difference betwixt the sinning of one in Christ and one that hath no true fellowship with him which we may consider first in their dispositions before sinne secondly while they are in sinning thirdly after sin accomplished First before sin a true Christian doth not plot and set downe with himselfe aduisedly in a sinfull course but he intendeth to walke vprightly before his God sin closeth with him besides his purpose The wicked ones in their beds deuise their mischiefes Micah 2.1 The godly are taken at vnawares Gal. 6.1 Look as one trauailing in slippery waies cannot but slide and fall sometimes yet he doth not purposely set himselfe about it so do the godly in their waies of sinning The wicked who do it with full will haue greater resolution and delight while they are a working it then the godly can haue The Scripture saith that the wicked hardneth his face he will not be abashed in his course but will go thorow A Phrase taken from a trauailer who sets his face against the storme and will on his way what weather soeuer commeth Thus Pharaoh thus that Ichoram of Israel who would when two fifties were consumed send a third Againe sinne is sweet to them as a loosing vnder their tongues for it is their meate and drinke to haue their wils as it is a godly mans to do the will of his Father in heauen Now those who haue a contrary spirit cannot be so resolute and entire in following it nor tasting any such delight in it I speake comparatiuely For as they cannot so resoluedly do the good they would because sin lusteth against grace so they are but halfe of them in sin because the Spirit of grace lusteth against sin in them Dauid in his haste would kill and slay Abigails speech charmeth him when he had now committed sinnes of infirmity Nathans speech doth reclaime him And doubtlesse the experience of all Gods children will confirme that sinne is but a bitter sweet while the Law of grace vp-braides them in doing it Secondly after that sinne is attempted if it be not executed the wicked grieue sleep not Pro. 4. For as a man fasting for want of comfortable vapours such as nourishment sendeth vp to the braine cannot sleep so these wanting that which is as bread and meate to them are kept waking through the vexation of it But the godly defeated do at length when the fit is a little off at least blesse God with Dauid Blessed bee God thy selfe and thy counsell that hath kept me from shedding of bloud If it be accomplished the wicked they make a sport