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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45700	The charitable Christian, or, A word of comfort from the God of comfort, to such as are truly poor and a word of Christian counsel and advice to such as are worldly rich, stirring them up to the Christian duty and practice of charity : with some powerful motives and perswasions thereunto, drawn from the Word of God, to convince men of the necessity of this Christian duty, with the sore evils and calamities which are threatned in the Word of God against unmerciful men / published by a lover of hospitality.	Hart, John, D.D.	1662 (1662)	Wing H927; ESTC R40133	26,662	59

that God who hath all and is all that was onely able to purchase this precious this costly this excellent no this glorious garment and yet notwithstanding all this thou mayest have him for nothing he is freely tendered and offered to bee in the Gospel of life though it be a cost●y garment to God yet it will be a cheap garment to thee God hath paid all and there is nothing at all left for thee to pay or to do but to take him and put him on Fourthly Iesus Christ is a seamless garment as Christs coat was seamless so is his person seamless there is no rent nor divisions in this precious garment and as there is no rents nor divisions in Christ so there ought to be none in Christians if there be no rent nor divisions in the head certainly there ought to be none in the Church which is the body And here beloved we might take up a sad and a bitter lamentation in consideration of the sad rents and divisions that are now in the Church of Christ whereas one saith He is of Paul and another of Apollos are we not therefore carnal 1 Cor. 1. Certainly beloved these things ought not so to be all the Saints of God they shall all have one heaven so they must all be saved by one faith and therefore surely they should all be of one heart if not o● one minde and therefore by the way those who go about to make rents and divisions in the Church of God doth not do Gods work but the Devils the spirit of God is not a spirit of division but of love of peace and a pure minde and as the Apostle Jude calls seducer and fase teachers ungodly men and separate from the Church are said by Jude in his 19 verse to be sensual and not to have the spirit And before I pass this point I hope it will not be amiss to shew you the wickedness and sin of those who go about to make divisions in the Church of Christ And first of all sowers of divisions are renters of Christ it is a horrible violence offered to the Body of Christ a dividing of Christ as St. Paul accounts it in 1 Cor. 1.13 it would make Christ seem to be the head of two bodies a most monstrous conceit indeed Secondly it resisteth the commands of Christ which is love and opposes the very end of Christ in dying for sinners which was that all his Saints should be on Thirdly division in the Church is very dishonourable and injurious to the Church for how can a body be rent and torn without prejudice it hinders also the peace of the Church Schismaticks saith one more oppose the peace of the Church then Heathens do if the body be rent and torn it is surely with much pain and smart and tearing and renting in the Church will surely cut the very heart of one that 's true Member of the Church It makes the Saints mourn and to be sure ●t makes the Devil laugh therefore let us labour to be rentless and seamless as Christ is To this end in the first place labour after holiness division and separation is a badge and mark of unholiness children in unholiness are ever men in malice Secondly be not overtaken with new fancies and novelties those new lights which hath set the Church of God so much on fire in these our dayes have all been taken out of the dark Lanthorns of old Hereticks and Iesuits all those lights which receive not their light from the word of God are all false lights and vapors that onely appear on purpose to draw men out of the may Truth should alwayes be imbraced though it be never in so old a dress they are itching ears that are most taken with novelties Lastly divisions beget sensuality sensuality usual follows separation even at the heels separating themselves saith Jude sensual not having the Spirit not to speak any more of this our own sad experience hath too manifestly witnessed this for a truth What horrid impiety desperate villanies have been committed by wicked and ungodly seducers in our dayes my heart trembles with the very thought thereof Fifthly Christ is a spotless garment there is not so much as a spark or spot in this garment and therefore it is that the Saints are said in Scripture to be cloathed in white robes Rev. 6.11 and that he offered himself without spot to God Heb. 9.14 and the Saints are said to be cloathed in fine linnen white and clean Rev. 19.14 and as Christ is spotless himself so he takes away all spots and defilements from his people they are washed in his blood and therefore are said to be clean by Christ himself John 13.10 John 15.3 and therefore he is called the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world John 1.29 It was onely a sinless Saviour that could satisfie for and take away the sins of sinful men If Christ had not been without spots himself he could never have taken away out spots he that was manifest saith St. John to take away our sin in him was no sin 1 John 3.5 Christ hath suffered for us saith Saint Peter 1 Pet. 2.21 22. who did no sinne neither was guile found in his mouth it is onely the blood of Christ that washes and needs no washing if he had not been without sin he could not have saved us from our sins nay he himself then had stood in néed of a Saviour although he took upon him our nature and was made flesh ret the nature of Christ was a pure nature in it self and therefore that of the Apostle doth most sweetly express this where he sayes of Christ that he in the likeness of sinfull flesh condemned sin in the flesh Rom. 8.3 and though he was in all things like unto us yet saith the Apostle Heb. 4.13 he was without sin Christ was not born in sin as we are he was conceived by the Holy Ghost and borne of a pure Virgin its true Christ was a sinner yea the greatest of sinners by imputation he having all the sins of all the Elect of God laid upon him But first had not Iesus Christ been sinless in himself he had never been able to have undergone so heavy a burthen Christ suffered not for his own sins but sor our sins He his own self saith the Apostle bore our sinnes on the Cross We indeed saith the converted thief on the Cross we suffer justly but this man hath done nothing amiss Luke 23.41 He hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin saith the Apostle 2 Cor. 5.21 He did no violence neither was there any guile found in this mouth Isa 53.9 Sixthly Christ is a comely garment a garment that will never be out of fashion He is the same yesterday and to day and for ever there is nothing so lovely and amiable in the eyes of Christians as Christ is Christians I beseech you consider you are never well drest till