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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	apostle_n	lord_n	love_v	3,294	5	6.0914	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12180	Christs exaltation purchast by humiliation Wherein you may see mercy and misery meete together. Very vsefull I. For instructing the ignorant. II. For comforting the weake. III. For confirming the strong. By R. Sibbs D.D. and preacher of Grayes-Inne, London. Published by T.G. and P.N.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Nye, Philip, 1596?-1672.	1639 (1639)	STC 22488; ESTC S117302	42,979	208

our Lord he is Lord of all Therefore it teacheth us our duty every way Our duty One to another To those that are not Christians To Christ himselfe It teacheth us in all standings how to carry our selves To give a taste of this the Apostle presseth it oft that Christ is our Lord and will bee our judge Therefore for others we ought not to be hasty in judging or censuring wee ought to love them because wee have all one Lord this must force love We have all one Lord one baptisme c. We are many in our severals but we are all one under this bond being all under one Lord. Then againe it teacheth us how to carry our selves to men otherwise affected not to be servants to the humours of men Christ rules over us both living and dying therefore bee not the servants of men but according to the scriptures limitation Marry in the Lord obey in the Lord walke in the Lord doe all in the Lord that is so farre as it may stand in the will and pleasure of him that is the Lord of Lords For when the authority of any superiour doth countermand against the will of this Lord it ceaseth to bind when they command any thing in subordination that may stand with the pleasure of the Lord then the authority is divine wee obey Christ in obeying them As Christ said to his owne mother when shee commanded things that shee had no authority to doe hee cals her mother no longer but Woman shee stretching then beyond her compasse Againe to goe on this should teach us in that Christ is the Lord of the living and of the dead to account our selves not our owne it should teach us perfect selfe denyall in matters of religion especially not to be overwhelmed of our owne conceites in the great mysteries that Saint Paul cryes out of Oh the depth you have many that quarrell with those things and would bring them to reason they will goe no further in religion then they can see reason whereas one saith I beleeve because it is impossible and too farre above reason therefore I the rather beleeve it it is oft times good to stand at a stay in God as if wee were at a nonplus to admire at him in the mysteries of Christs governing the Church why hee suffers some part of the Church that perhaps is better then other parts that are quiet and exempt from the crosse to be exercised with afflictions and others not not to scandall at this and to be overbusie in searching out the reason of this Christ is our Lord and he is infinite in wisedome and it is his prerogative to doe such things as hee is not lyable to give a reason of to us so God will have mercy upon whom hee will have mercy In great mysteries remember the soveraignty of this our Lord he is Lord of quicke and dead let this stoppe our judgements and teach us to deny our selves when wee cannot give a reason of them in a holy admiration say with Saint Paul Oh the depth And so for our will he is Lord of quick and dead we say of a wife she hath no will and a servant is not a distinct person as it were in law he is anothers wee are Christs servants his subjects his spouse and when wee beginne to be Christs wee have lost our owne wills we resigne them up to Christ thy will shall bee mine in all things if thou wilt have me doe this I will doe it if thou wilt have me suffer I will suffer if thou wilt honour thy selfe with my goods and with my life thou shalt have them Of thee I had this body this soule this state this reputation I have whatsoever I have from thee it is maintained by thee thou art mine and I am thine therefore I give up all to thee backe againe it is a ground of perfect resignation that Christ is Lord of the quicke and of the dead therefore stand not upon tearmes with Christ when hee calls for any thing in case of suffering and sealing the truth let him have it it is not lost wee have a better foundation in him then we have in our selves when wee give any thing to him life or state or credit or whatsoever wee have a better life a better state and condition in him because all is more eminently in him the primitive fountaine then in the derivation and beames from him when we lose any thing it is but a beame from the Sunne and whatsoever wee lose in particulars we have in the whole in the fountaine againe in Christ therefore faith would helpe all this in case of suffering and tryall what is the cause good or no then I will resigne my selfe and all that I have and am to Christ hee is Lord both of the quicke and of the dead Wee must know beloved that we are redeemed from our selves and therefore make this use of it when wee are tempted to any sinne Christ is my Lord I am redeemed from my base lusts what have I to doe with this anger what have I to doe with this ambition I am no debter to the flesh I am under Christ I am under grace he hath redeemed mee from my vaine conversation I owe it nothing but mortification and deny all therefore in all solicitations of corruption learne this lesson fetch arguments hence Christ hath done great matters for me he lived and dyed and lives for ever that is Lord of me living and dying there is no greater slave then he that is a slave to his owne flesh and to his owne lusts therefore when we are stirred to any thing by our base nature which must dye or else wee shall never live eternally we must kill it more and more daily and death is the summe and accomplishment of mortification when wee are stirred to any thing go to Christ and complaine to him blessed Saviour thou didst dye and rise and revive that thou mightst be Lord of the living and of the dead I beseech thee claim thine owne interest in me bring all into captivity to thine owne Spirit what hath this base affection to doe with me what have I to doe with it I am freed from it I am redeemed from my selfe what have I to doe with my selfe but deny all I am thine altogether therefore take thine owne interest in me possesse me fill me with thy Spirit be all in all in mee let pride and ambition and such things have no footing in me It is good powring out the soule to God to that purpose to complaine to Christ when it is thus with us because it is his office to rule us Now Lord Iesus do thine office thy office is to be King to rule in me other lords would faine rule in mee pride and lust and base covetousnesse would faine rule as the Prophet saith but what hath other lords to doe with me thou art my Lord and hast right to me living and dying It is a point

rising therefore a new Sabbath Saint Iohn saith I was in the Spirit upon the Lords day If a man be ever in the Spirit it is upon the Lords day when the Lord of the day doth honour his people giving them to enjoy his Ordinances and joyning effectually with them maketh them full of the Spirit and raiseth up our dead hearts after him And revived Why is this added to rising againe Hee revived To shew that hee rose never to dye againe and that indeede hee never meant to lay aside that body againe as once he had to dye for us Consonant hereunto is that Revel 1. 18. Behold I was dead and am alive and I live for evermore I have the keyes of death and of hell Hee lives for evermore as Heb. 7. Hee sits for evermore at the right hand of God there making intercession for us He dies no more Againe this revived is added to shew the kind of his life differing from that life hee lived before that life he lived before he dyed was supported with meate and drinke and refreshings even as our poore lives are It was a life subject to death that he dyed in but after his Resurrection except it were for a particular dispensation to confirme the faith of his Disciples he needed no more to eate or drinke or sleepe or any naturall supports and helpes for he was enlivened immediately by the Spirit of God which flowed into him he was full of the Spirit and that did supply all other things whatsoever Even as in heaven God shall be all in all that is hee shall be so immediately to us to supply all as we shall neither eate nor drinke nor sleepe nor have magistrates nor ministers but the Spirit of God will be all in all so it was with this life of our blessed Saviour when he revived the Spirit supplyed the absence of all other supports whatsoever that he used before he dyed And indeed our Saviour Christ came to bestow that life upon us that he lived after his Resurrection not this naturall life of ours that needes meate and drinke and refreshing this is not that life that Christ specially aimed at when he came to dye but that spirituall and eternall life that he lived after the Resurrection a life not subject to death a spirituall life not needing any created support whatsoever You see the grounds the inference from these grounds follow in these words That he might bee Lord both of the dead and of the living The ground hath three branches death resurrection and reviving how all these doe flow and give strength to this inference I will touch in the particulars First then Christ dyed that hee might be Lord of the dead and of the living Christ dyed 1 Pet. 3. to offer himselfe a sacrifice to redeeme us by his precious blood wee are not redeemed with Gold or Silver but with the blood of Christ hee could not be our Lord till hee had bought us now his death was the price of our redemption I say redemption not emption a thing may be bought that was never sold away before now we were sold to Sathan and under a contrary government now Christ satisfying divine justice redeemes us he buyes us againe wee had subjected our selves to the devill and put our selves under his regiment till we were ransomed by Christ now Christ shall have no right to us till the price be paid to divine justice for mercy must have justice satisfied the attributes of God must not fight one against another Christ therefore is Lord of us because by death he gave full content to divine justice so that now notwithstanding justice yet we are Christs and are saved nay now the justice of God helpes us the most terrible attribute justice is a ground of comfort for it stands not with justice to have the same debt paid twice For God is just and faithfull saith the Apostle so then you see there is a ground from death why wee are the Lords we are Christs because we cost him deare hee hath paid a price for us that is worth more then the whole world Now God shewed his love in nothing more then in this that he parted with that that is next himselfe the greatest his Sonne who being God yet dyed in that nature that could dye to redeeme us and hereupon becommeth Lord. Secondly Hee rose againe therefore he is Lord of the quicke and dead First because his rising againe was a manifestation that his death was a ful satisfaction to divine justice or else our sinnes should have kept him in the grave still hee being our surety but our surety being out of prison it is a signe hee hath fully discharged all our debt and the price is paid If the surety and the creditor be agreed we know the debt is paid Secondly in that hee rose againe he is Lord because in rising againe he entred into the possession and exercise of that Lordship that he had purchased The right is one thing and the use and possession of the right is another Christ was Lord of us before he dyed he was Lord of us when he dyed but hee did not enter into possession of this Lordship till he rose againe Therefore he saith All power is given to me both in heaven and earth when hee was ready to goe up to heaven to shew that by his resurrection the right hee had by death was manifest Lastly because his rising againe shewed that the father was fully pacified he obtained the gift of the Spirit which next Christ himselfe is the greatest gift God gave his Sonne first and then the Spirit that comes from the Father and the Sonne The Spirit was not given till his resurrection and ascension as it is Iohn 7. Why because till all enemies were fully subdued by his death and witnessed to be subdued by his resurrection the Spirit could not be so fully given the Spirit being a declaration of the good will of God that sent it Now when the enemies of Christ were tryumphed over and God had shewed by the raising of his Sonne againe that he was fully satisfied Then the Spirit comes as the Son of Gods favour which Spirit doth enable us to be subject to Christ and makes us come under Christs Kingdome which is a spirituall government Wherefore because he obtained the Spirit for his members upon his resurrection thereupon is the inference good he rose againe therefore he is Lord of the quicke and of the dead Thirdly Hee revived therefore he is Lord of the quicke and of the dead reviving and taking such a life as is not subject to death any more hee is now in heaven to make good that he purchased on earth He revived I say to be a King Priest and Prophet at the right hand of God for ever there to rule his Church and to overrule all the enemies of it till he hath subdued all till hee hath gathered all the Elect and brought his Church out of the