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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20805	The lambes spouse or the heauenly bride A theologicall discourse, wherin the contract betwixt Christ and the church; the preparation against the mariage; and the solemnization it selfe, and the exclusion of hypocrites and temporizers, is plainly and profitably, with the partucular vses, set forth. Whereunto is annexed an exact preparatiue to the Lords Supper. By T.D. Minister of the word of God.	Draxe, Thomas, d. 1618.	1608 (1608)	STC 7185; ESTC S114693	59,295	211

thus excluded Lastly the ●enerall application and vse of the doctrine The person that excludeth them that indeed first excluded him because they did not nor would not receiue him into their heart is Christ the bridegroome the Sonne of God and the iudge of the world he is the porter by whom and through faith in whom all the beleeuers enter in and finde pasture Iohn 10. 9. hee is the Prince of shepheards as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Bishop of our soules that properly and by his owne power bindeth and looseth retaineth and remitteth For that which his Ministers doe subordinately and ministerially that doth hee absolutely and as cause and principall Iohn 20. 22. 23. Math. 16. 19. hee alone hath the Keye of Dauid which openeth and no man shutteth and shutteth and no man openeth so that hee hath right power and authoritie to receiue in or put out whome hee will Apoc. 3. 7. they that kisse him beleeue in and obey him shall bee saued and glorified Psalm 2. 12. Marke 16. 16. Hebr. 5. 9. and they that sinne against him hurt their owne soule they that hate him loue death Prou. 8. 35. they that will not haue him to raigne ouer them are his enimies and shal be slaine before his face Luke 19. verse 27. and they that eyther by open persecution or else by infidelitie and by contempt scorne or impenitencie fall on this stone shall bee broken and on whom soeuer of them it shall fall it will grinde him to powder Luke 21. 44. The vse of this doctrine is two-fold First it condemneth and ouer-throweth the vsurped false and forged authoritie of the Romish Antichrist who will needes bee Christs Vicar generall on earth and blasphemouslie assumeth vnto himselfe the Keyes of Heauen and Hell as though it were in his power to saue pardon or to retaine and condemne whome hee would whereas first hee cannot bee Christs vicar for Christ in the spirituall regiment and gouernment of the Church is with it to the ende of the world Math. 18. ver 19. 20. and is present by his power aud deitie in euery place Math. 28. 19. 20. and therefore needeth no substitute to supplie his Roome Secondly the holy Ghost is Christs deputy and vice●erent for hee is in euery place and enlighteneth guideth sanctif●eth and gouerneth the Church and so neither doth nor can the man of Rome saue himselfe from death diseases much lesse from the bottomlesse pit from whence hee came and whether hee must needes goe withall our consents as ●udas to his place Thirdly in respect of order and publicke administration the Christian Magistrate may with much better right and equity bee called the Vicar of CHRIST in gouerning the people according to the worde of GOD. And in this sense Eleutherius Bishoppe of Rome writing to Lucius King of the Brittaines calleth him Christs Vicar for by Christ Kings raigne and Princes decree iustice And as for the Authoritie of binding and loosing the Ministers of the true Church wherein the Pope hath no more right then the Pirate in the true ownershippe haue onely a Ministery of reconciliation and a ministery of binding and loosing but the inwarde operation and working of the Holie Ghost in the heart is Principall and belongeth to CHRIST IESVS alone Luke 24. 45. Act. 16. 14. So in censuring admonishing suspending excommunicating exhorting threatning and in all other Ecclesiasticall Offices CHRIST hath no deputie but onely instruments that doe witnesse and testifie his will according to the rule of Scriptures but the whole entire action is personall and proper to him alone and vtterly ouerthroweth the feigned and counterfaite supremacie of the Romish Pirate and Prelate Vse If wee would not haue Christ at the day of iudgement to disclaime and exclude vs as hee did the foolish Virgins wee must not by infidelitie and impenitencie debar●e him out of our hearts but by a liuely fayth let and receiue him into them and entertaine and feast him with loue reuerence amendment of life obedience and the like graces of the Spirit for CHRIST dwelleth in our hearts if we beleeue he knocketh at our hearts often by his worde by his Spirit by his mercies and by his iudgementes and if wee assent vnto him and by fayth admit into the Chamber of our hearts he will dwell with vs yea dine and suppe with vs and supply all our wants Apoc. 3. 20. Wherefore let vs not as the Church in the Cantikles suffer CHRIST our beloued to remaine without hauing his head full of dewe and his lockes with the drops of the night because forthwith wee would not arise and dresse vs nor defile our feete Cantickels 5. 2. and 3. or put our selues to any payne or trouble but let vs let open vnto him by yeelding vnto the truth and by beeing amended by his admonitions so shall wee bee CHRIST IESVS his possession his peculier people and a temple for him and his Spirit to dwell in otherwise if wee suffer any one sinne whether of Idolatrie or of infidelitie or of worldlinesse or of filtie liuing or of grosse ignorance or any raigning and dominering sinne that is vnfelt and vnresisted to sway vs and tyrannizc ouer vs wee driue and bannish IESVS CHRIST not so much out of our coastes as the Gergesites did Mathew 12. 45. as out of the Castle and pallace of our heartes and admit sathan our deadly enemie in his Roome and steade Thus much of the first part name●y the person who shutteth The second branch is the time when the gate is shut viz when all meanes and occasions of comming vnto saluation are taken away and when the time of grace repentance and reconciliation is past which is when this life is ended Luke 16. 23. 24. 25. 26. 28. 29. 〈◊〉 the ●iche glutton in hell desiring and seeking vnto Abraham that hee would send Lazarus whom hee had neglected and contemned to yeelde him the least comfort hee could not obtaine it and when he desired that Lazarus might bee sent to his fathers ho●se to aduise and warne his fiue brethren that they should not come into that place of torment hee speedeth not in his preposterous and vnlawfull suite but his brethren are referred and rem●tted vnto the interpreters of Moses and the Prophets Againe the dead do not praise the Lord neither doth the dust giue thankes vnto him or declare his trueth Isay. 38. 18. Secondly at the day of the Lord for as death leaueth men whether penitent or impenitent so the last iudgement findeth and iudgeth them and no otherwise it is no time of reconciliation and of obtaining mercy as the example of the fiue foolish Virgins and of those that Luke 13. 25. cryed Lord open vnto vs when the doore was shut and could not be admitted and intromitted doth plainly proue and demonstrate The reason hereof is because the Lord in his mercie and grace doth in this life to those especially that be in and of the visible church offer