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A68805	The principles of Christian practice Containing the institution of a Christian man, in twelve heads of doctrine: which are set downe in the next side. By Thomas Taylor D.D. and late pastor of Aldermanbury London. Perfected by himselfe before his decease.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Jemmat, William, 1596?-1678.	1635 (1635)	STC 23849; ESTC S118277	210,265	656

and holiest men can make attonement but onely his blood which removeth the curse of the Law by satisfying for our sins which opens heaven now shut upon us and obtaines a perfect redemption Heb. 9. 2● Next the Vertue and Preciousnesse of this Cure Oh it was a powerfull and precious blood and that in five respects 1. In respect of the quality it is the blood incorruptible All other diseases are cured with corruptible things but this is opposed to all corruptible things in the world 1 Pet. 1. 18. Yee are not redeemed with corruptible things but with the precious blood of Iesus Christ. 2. In respect of the person it was the blood of God Act. 20. 28. and therefore of infinite merit and price to purchase the whole Church 3. In respect of the subject of it no other cure or remedy can reach the soule All others drugs conduce for healthfull life and worke upon the body but this makes for an holy life and workes upon the soule the sicknesse whereof the most precious thing in the world cannot cure Minister to a wounded spirit Aurum potabile Bezoar Alchermes dust of Pearles all is in vaine it is onely this blood which heales soules and spirits 4. In respect of the powerfull effects of it above all other cures in the world for first they may frame the body to some soundnesse of temperature but this makes sound soules according to the conformity of Gods Law Secondly they may preserve naturall life for a while but this brings a supernaturall life for ever Thirdly they may restore strength and nature decayed but this changeth and bringeth in a new nature according to the second Adam Fourthly they cannot keepe away death approaching but this makes immortall Fifthly they cannot raise or recover a dead man but this raiseth both dead in sinne dead in soule and dead in body Lastly in respect of time All other physicke is made of drugs created with the world but this was prepared before the foundation of the world 1 Pet. 1. 18. Againe all the worke of all other physicke is done in death but the perfection and most powerfull worke of this is after death By all this take we notice of our extreme misery by sinne seeing nothing else can cure us but the blood of the Sonne of God Gold enough can ransome the greatest Potentate on earth but here nothing can doe it but the blood of the Kings sonne If we had such a disease as nothing but the heart-blood of our dearest friends alive suppose our wife husband mother or childe could cure us what an hopelesse and desperate case were it it would amaze and astonish the stoutest heart But much more may it smite our hearts that we have such a disease as nothing else but the heart-blood of the Sonne of God can cure Looke upon the execration of thy sinne in this glasse If any thing can worke the hatred of sinne this may 1. To see the fire of Gods wrath kindled and nothing but this blood can quench it 2. To see the deadlinesse 〈◊〉 the disease in the price of the physicke and the dearenesse of the remedy 3. The danger of sinning against so precious a blood for if Abels blood being shed cryed from earth for vengeance much more will this blood trod under foot But those never saw their sinne in this glasse who conceive the cure as easie as the turning of an hand a light Lord have mercy or an houre of repentance at death and have lived in sinne and loved their sinne as if there were no danger in it passe away their daies and live in ignorance swearing cursing Sabbath-breaking lying covetousnesse filthinesse and all unrighteousnesse whereas had they eyes to see they might out of the price and greatnesse of the remedy gather the danger and desperatenesse of the disease For all the earth affords not any herbe or simple nor drug of this vertue but the Sonne of God from heaven must shed his blood Nay all the men on earth and all the Angels of heaven could not make a confection to cure one sinne or sinner Neither any of Salomons fooles who make a mocke of sinne ever saw it in this glasse Is it not extremity of folly to make a tush of sinne and to take pleasure and delight in it O consider in time that the sinne thou makest so light of cost Christ deare and the least sinne thou delightest in must either cost Christ his blood or thee thine in endlesse torments It is no safe jesting with edged tooles and to east darts and fire-brands and say Am I not in jest In this Cure we may observe a world of wonders First wonder and admire this Physician who is both the Physician and the Physicke Was ever the like heard of in all nature Secondly admire the confection that the Physician must temper the remedy of his owne heart-blood He must by passion be pounded in the mortar of Gods wrath he must be beaten smitten spit upon wounded sweat water and blood be trodden on as a worme be forsaken of his Father the Lambe of God must be slaine the just suffer for the unjust Doest thou not here stand and wonder 〈◊〉 there ever such a Prece 〈…〉 〈◊〉 the world that the wo 〈…〉 〈◊〉 one man should heale ano 〈…〉 〈◊〉 ●ound or that the wo 〈…〉 〈◊〉 Captaine should heal 〈…〉 souldiers The 〈◊〉 suffered darkenesse the earth quaked the rockes rent asunder the graves opened the dead arose to shew the admirable confection of this Cure and are we senslesse still Thirdly admire the power of weaknesse and the Omnipotent worke of this Cure by contraries as in the great worke of Creation there the Sonne of God made all things not out of something but out of nothing so in this great worke of our Cure by Redemption he works our life not by his life but by his owne death he makes us infinitely happy but by his owne infinite misery he opens the grave for us by his owne lying in the grave he sends us to heaven by his owne descending from heaven and shuts the gates of hell by suffering hellish torments He honours us by his owne shame he breakes away our temptations and Satans molestations by being himselfe tempted Here is a skilfull Physician tempering poyson to a remedy bringing light out of darkenesse life out of death heaven out of hell In the whole order of nature one contrary refisteth another but it is beyond nature that one contrary should produce another Wonder Fourthly admire the care of the Physician who provided us a remedy before our disease before the world was or we in it together with his bounty who bestowed on us so precious a balme when there was none in Gilead when neither all the gold in India nor all the metals or minerals in the bowels of the earth could save one soule nor all the wealth in the world oure one

application the doctrine may bee brought home to every mans heart and the heart may bee taught in wisdome It is the life excellency of preaching to be an able Minister of the Spirit by the shril trumpet of the Word to awaken the drowsie consciences and set mens sins in order before them And otherwise let a man teach generally without application long hee shall teach and his people remaine untaught the bellowes shall be burnt in the fire but the drosse remain still A garment fitted for all bodies is fit for no body and so is it with doctrine Or as a loafe of bread set among the children but none can they get cut and given them Which teacheth people how to esteem of such Preachers as labour in application and hold the glasse of the Law before mens faces to see their spots namely not as the world doth troublers of Israel or spy-faults or invective Preachers nor as our Libertines hold them Legall Preachers No but Ministers of Gods rich mercy whose wonderful favour it is to send us a Nathan that will say Thou art the man This hast thou done Were not the Disciples of Christ Preachers of mercy and the best Evangelicall Preachers yet what sharp points had their doctrine to pricke and pierce the hearts of men to make them cry out Men and brethren what shall we doe to be saved Act. 2. 37. Be also contrary to the practice of the world who most distaste that word which comes neerest to the conscience and neerest the bad customes and fashions of times and persons Whereas indeed a good heart honours the Word for nothing more than discovering the thoughts secret speeches and practices in nothing more can it be like to God an Idiot an Infidell now can acknowledge it to bee the Lords 1 Cor. 14. 24. 25. God is in you of 〈◊〉 truth What difference between Gods word and mans if it should not reach the conscience Where were the Spirit in it if it should not discerne the spirits and divide between the marrow and the bone Lastly it discovers the practice of wicked men who shrink more at the curse than at their sin and when they cannot blame or deny what is said then to flie upon the Preachers purpose and affection So ranking themselves among those wicked ones who rebuke the Priest Hos. 4. 4. Such a one wil not appeare an Atheist therefore will approve the doctrine but he remaines an hypocrite enemy therefore reviles the person and in effect rejects the doctrine This of the first note 2. In the manner note another point of wisdome namely in matters of much importance as is the losing of the soule or else of great danger as is the winning of the world to use more than ordinary vehemency The wisdome of God speakes not of tything Mint and Cummin as of the weighty points of the Law Neither hath every Verse in the Bible a verely or a behold in the beginning or a Selah in the end But in matters of greater intention or excitation some star is held over them that he who reades may consider Our Lord expressing such vehemency here shewes it the greatest matter in the world the gaining of heaven and saving of the soule And that the greatest danger in the world is the gaining of the world by the losing of the soule Can a man grapple thornes together and not feare pricking Can a man walk on snares safely and such is the gain of the world Mat. 13. 22. and 1 Tim. 6. 10. And therefore as the end of the whole Ministery is to draw men from earth to heaven so if in any argument we the Ministers could be more earnest perswasive we had need lay weight upon this as in this our Precedent in haling men from the gaine of the world to the gain of themselves from the care of the body to the care of their soules and from the eager pursuit of all false profits to the purchase of the best and surest commodity which shall eternally enrich them to life everlasting 3. Our Saviour in the manner teacheth how naturally wee are all of us inclined to the world to seek it with all greedinesse and so have need of many and strong back-byasses In that this care is implied here to be 1. the first care of a naturall man because it is of a sensible profit benefit 2. the most vehement care in that a naturall man sets his soule light for it 3. the most insatiable in that a man would gaine if it were possible the whole world for hee that sets his heart on silver cannot be satisfied Eccles. 5. 9. And this unmortified desire for the unsatiablenesse of it is compared to the Hors-leach which is never full till he burst Neither indeed can the round world if a man had it all fill the corners of a covetous mans heart Ob. Oh but many naturall men have despised the world Some Philosophers have cast away riches and this some orders of Papists professe and therefore every man is not naturally carried after the world Answ. I answer 1. It was not hard for many to despise riches when they saw they could not attaine them 2. Some by common grace above nature are repressed and restrained for many such common gifts are bestowed on wicked men for the common good of mankinde and upholding of humane society and otherwise every man would bee a wolfe and devourer 3. The vow of voluntary poverty in hope of merit is blasphemous a fruit of pride a grosse hypocrisie and nothing lesse than poverty indeed Well said one The purse is easier left than the will and if you will you may hold it and yet leave it Every covetous man then is a naturall man where covetousnesse reigns and commands there nature swayes and they are not only under this but all their sins A covetous man a godly man are incompatible no more than a man can be in heaven and earth at one time Findest thou thy heart bowed downward and fixed on earth with full desires never deceive thy selfe with profession of religion or godlinesse for religion entertained as well as professed 1. would shew thee better things 2. affect thee with them as with thine owne 3. order unquiet and unsatiable desires True contentment with food raiment if God give no more is the daughter of godlines 4. It would make thee and all thy wealth servants of grace employed for God and thought best saved when well laid out Consider and deceive not thy selfe Againe even professors of Religion and those that in part are gotten out of the world must espy flesh and nature still at worke and returning upon them in this behalfe It is a common and too just an imputation on many who make their profession heare ill their Religion doubted of that they binde up their hands from doing good from furthering their own reckoning yet all this