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sin_n	believe_v	faith_n	unbelief_n	3,235	5	10.7449	5	false

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A81056	Samson a type of Christ in a sermon preached at Mr. Pomfret's meeting-house in Gravel-lane near Hounds-ditch, London: at the morning-lecture, on July 22. 1691. from Judg. xiv.5. Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Tunnath; and came to the vineyards of Timnath; and behold, a young lion roared against him. Wherein is shewed, I. In six particulars, how clearly Samson doth type forth Jesus Christ, ... II. With respect unto Samsons marriage, ... III. As Samson loved and married an uncircumcised woman, ... IV. As Samson did overcome the young lion which opposed him: so Jesus Christ doth overcome and destroy that roaring lion, the Devil, that opposeth him. Published at the request of the Congregation, for Publick Good. By D.C. an unworthy servant of Christ.	Crosley, David, 1670-1744.	1691 (1691)	Wing C7247A; ESTC R232725	34,097	40

his Father and Mother and Wife and Children and Brethren and Sisters yea and his own Life also he cannot be my Disciple That is Whosoever pretendeth to come to Christ and hateth not all these things with what else can be named besides Christ in comparison of or in competition with Christ cannot be his Disciple and then for certain not his Spouse Oh Beloved many keep a great stir about Sin being the main Let in the way of Union betwixt Christ and a poor Soul but I tell you it is not Sin but the Love of Sin that separateth betwixt Christ and the Soul See Rev. 22.15 Whosoever loveth and maketh a Lye is cast out of the Holy City not he that barely maketh a Lye through weakness or by reason of Temptation but he that not only doth so but also loveth to do so this is the Man of the Lord's Anger Therefore saith David If I delight in Sin God will not hear my voice This therefore is the main Let in our way of Union with Christ because we Love Sin and love the World together with the Pleasures and Profits thereof we love the Flesh and we love our Lusts our Selves our Works and our own Righteousness and therefore we cannot love Christ And further provided that we should hate Swearing and Drunkenness and yet love Pride and Covetousness this is nothing or if we should hate Pride and Covetousness and yet love Deceit and Hypocrysie we are still no better This is but as it were to change one Devil for another and so keep a Devil still But I cannot enlarge THE Third Let in our way of Union with Christ which I shall now mention is want of Faith in Christ And truly Beloved this is a great Mountain in our way indeed this is the Hydra the monster-Monster-Sin Vnbelief for as there is nothing impossible to him that believes so there is nothing possible to him that believes not For as Faith hath the preheminence above all other Graces so Unbelief hath the preheminence of all other Vices And how many a poor Soul is there that is both sensible of troubled for and burthened with Sin and also sees a want of longs for and desires to be with Christ and yet hath little or no Union with Christ by reason of Unbelief Yea there are many that are weary of the World weary of Sin weary of the Devil and of themselves too accounting in their very hearts all things nothing in comparison of Christ and yet for all this have little or no Fellowship with Christ because of the want of Faith Oh therefore this want of Faith is a great Soul-plague it is as the Devil's Castle and Tower of Defence from whence he shooteth so many Darts at the Souls of the Afflicted The Lord in Mercy arm us all against this Unbelief And truly my Friends there is no reason for the persons before spoken of to doubt of God's favour of all persons in the World for all the free and blessed Promises in the Gospel run with a direct tendency to and upon them I beseech you therefore if there be any such here this day that you would take courage trust in God and doubt no more and the Lord give and grant you Hearts thus to do for I know there is no such precious Herb as Faith is grows in the corrupted Garden of Mans Heart by Nature But oh you proud obdurate and hard-hearted ones whose hearts the Lord never yet touched nor who never yet trembled at Gods Words to you be it spoken the Dread ought to lie at your doors for there is not a Curse written in all Gods Book but it runs with a direct tendency to and upon you as little as you fear it think of it or are troubled for it now yet the Day is a coming even at the Door when you shall be made to know it The Lord God give you hearts to see it in due time before it be too late and the Offers of Grace be hid from your Fyes But there is at this day a sort of Professors of Christianity in the world who pretend to Faith and a holy Life or rather first a holy Life and then Faith as they suppose and these are still crying Do do do and upon doing they pronounce Men blessed happy and safe not regarding in the mean while whether such have any Faith or no or if they have whether it be rightly founded upon Christ or no without leaning to or depending upon any thing else especially in point of Justification But oh that such Persons would seriously consider 1. That Man as Man and whilst cut of Christ can do nothing So saith Christ himself Without me ye can do nothing John 14.5 But the strongest Argument that ever I met with to convince me of the truth of this is recorded in John 5.30 Where Christ saith thus I can of mine own self do nothing And from hence I infer That if the sinless spotless and only Son of God did acknowledge That he could of his own self do nothing that is as he was Man c. then is it most high Presumption for a poor mortal sinful wretched Creature Dust and Ashes to say or think that of himself as separate from the Grace Power and Goodness of God in Christ he can do any thing that is any thing acceptable or well-pleasing to God 2. Let them consider that whatsoever is not of Faith is Sin Rom. 14.23 And also that without Faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11.6 And lastly Let them consider that Faith is the Gift of God Eph. 2.8 and a Fruit of the Spirit Gal. 5.22 And if so then pray what is sinful Man in and of himself but a poor lost helpless nothing undone Creature And this must man be made to see before ever he can truly close with Christ Jesus in Truth and Sincerity And when once he comes thus to be stript of all and made nothing in himself then is he a fit Object of Mercy in which God once coming to work Faith in the heart in order to an embracing of Christ then a blessed Union betwixt Christ and the Soul is immedily brought forth BUT Fourthly and lastly For I cannot stand to mention any more Particulars Another dreadful and most mighty Let in this way of Union betwixt Christ and his Church is the Devil of whom it is said in another case and may accordingly be said in this He that now letteth will let until he be taken out of the way 2 Thes 2.7 And indeed it is him which the young Lion in our Text doth most directly point at for as the young Lion roared against Samson when he came down to Timnath to take this Daughter of the Philistines to Wife so the Devil roared against Christ both when he came in the Flesh to purchase and redeem his Church and also as he cometh in the Spirit to call and sanctifie his Church in order to the betrothing of her unto himself

he knows well enough that Hell shall close its Mouth on your Souls if you miss of Christ you miss of Heaven for ever AGAIN Secondly Beware that upon your turning from your evil ways you do not close with a false Faith in an unfound way of Religion for it will be a sad thing if you talk your selves to Hell with heavenly Words or go to Death and Judgment with a Lie in your right-hand But may be you will say But how shall I turn aright I answer I shall direct you to the Lord 's own counsel Jer. 4.1 If thou wilt return O Israel saith the Lord return unto me Mind the words Return unto me It is not enough to turn to this or that Man 's particular Way or Form nor to joyn to this or that Congregation though never so pure and Apostolical neither is it enough to turn from a vain and sinful to a good and godly Life from Vices to Vertues from evil and wicked Works to an outwardly holy and righteous Conversation though all these are good in their places and always certain Adjuncts of true Christianity and evermore Concomitants of true Faith in all that are truly godly so far as possible BUT the Root of the Matter lyes in this a sincere and godly turning to the Lord I say To the Lord and a closing in the first place with Jesus Christ by Faith as our Mediator Advocate and only Saviour as our King Priest and Prophet as our Head Lord King and Husband for ever Taking him as of God he is made over to us Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption believing that he hath bought us and paid our Debt for us that he hath acquitted us from Sin the Law Curse Death and Hell and that by him we are accepted of and justified before God Almighty and that our Sins are laid upon him and his Righteousness imputed to us by God the Father according to that golden Text 2 Cor. 5.21 He hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him And that now henceforward we must not live unto our selves but unto him that hath redeemed us and died for us and that we must fear him and serve him not as Slaves but as Sons not for Rewards but of a ready Mind accounting it as our Meat and Drink to do the Will of God according to his Word knowing that a Free-will Offering is only acceptable unto God These things I commend to your Consideration I would enlarge further but that time calls for a Conclusion However take a few words of Application AND first of all by way of Examination And because we are upon a Matter of very great Importance I desire we may all be faithful to our own Souls herein The several Particulars which I shall commend to your Consideration by way of Examination are these following FIRST Pray let us examine Whether Samson be come down to Timnath I mean Whether Christ Jesus be come home to our Hearts Whether he hath given an awakening and an effectual Call in and by the Gospel to our Souls which hath brought us out of darkness into his marvellous light and out of the Kingdom and Territories of Satan Death and Hell into the Kingdom of his dear Son OBJECT But may be you will say But how shall I know it ANSW To which I Answer by these three following Marks FIRST If Samson be come down to Timnath if Christ be come home upon your Hearts to call your Souls home to himself as aforesaid then hath he given you a true sight and a sense of your Philistine Condition of your Uncircumcised Estate which you are in by Nature A true sight of which doth chiefly consist in these five things 1st In being brought to see your selves to be the chief of Sinners even as Paul 1 Tim. 1.15 2ly In being brought to see the exceeding sinfulness of this Sin wherewith you are thus polluted Rom. 7.13 3ly In being made truly sensible of the dreadful Curse with the which the Law threatens you for and because of this sin and sinfulness Gal. 3.10 4ly In being accordingly made sensible of your own insufficiency by any worth or merit in your own selves to satisfie for the Sin or deliver from the Curse whereof you are guilty and with the which you are attended whilst you are in this condition 5ly In being brought to see at what an infinite distance you stand from God in this Estate and consequently to see how far you are 1st From Reconciliation with God and 2ly Of the Certainty of your Damnation if you be not reconciled unto God SECONDLY A Second Mark is this If Christ hath called you to himself out of darkness into his most glorious light then as he hath let you see an insufficiency in yourselves to save your selves so he hath let you see an All-sufficiency in himself whereby you are brought to understand that though you be wholly lost in your selves yet that there is a full and absolute possibility of your being both redeemed and saved in and by Jesus Christ so that despairing in the first place of all power peace and safety without Christ you may be brought wholly and alone to confide in Christ for the same And this is a sure and most happy Condition and I beseech you be serious in the Examination of it AND Lastly The Third and last Mark is this If Christ hath called you home to himself as aforesaid then are your selves become a burthen to your selves and you find your greatest Enemies to be them of your own House which makes you call and cry day and hour unto the Lord your God to help uphold and strengthen you against Self and all its Assistants that so being freed from the same you may be given up wholly to Christ Jesus both in Faith and Practice which is a Condition most desirable to all true Christians though God knows too many Professers at this day are strangers to the same SECONDLY A Second thing which I would have you to examine is Whether this young Lion the great Opposer of Christ viz. Satan be destroyed and slain yea or no OBJECT But may be you will say How shall I know that ANSW If this young Lion be slain I mean If Satan be overcome in and upon your account then you may know it in some measure by these following things FITST If Satan be thus overcome then you are made sensible that it was not you but another upon your account that did thus overcome him even Christ Jesus and so consequently that not to you but to him belongs all the Glory for evermore SECONDLY If Satan be thus overcome by Christ Jesus in you and for you then are you abundantly troubled for that you can no more love and give Praise to Christ Jesus for the same for Beloved I am very much satisfied that it is one of the greatest Troubles that a true Child of God meets