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B12174	Christs love, and saints sacrifice Preached in a sermon at St. Pauls Crosse, on the 23. of August, 1635. By Iames Conyers, Mr. of Arts of Sydney-Sussex in Cambridge, and minister of Stratford-Bow, in Middlesex.	Conyers, James.	1635 (1635)	STC 5657; ESTC S114491	14,982	32

it savours Iesuiticall advise let the credit of the Story stand ad placitum but this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 worthy of all acceptation that Christs innocent Blood expiates our guilt and heales all manner of spirituall Leprosie Ioh. 1. 1. Blood preserves alive therefore Physitians prescribe the blood of a Dove a soveraigne against diseases in the eye and the braine Galen gives it against the bruises called Hyposphagmata which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 presents every thing to the eye red And Iul. Alex. commends it dropped on the corners of Lib. 4. salubrium the braine called Pia Dura Mater in the wounds of the head to helpe to hold in life So pretious was the blood of Christ a harmelesse Dove that dropped on our eyes whereas before all we could see were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 goare blood by reason of our bloody sinnes now wee behold as in a Glasse salvation before our eyes And whereas in our head Adam we had received a deadly wound by a Balme made of this Blood and laid to it we are alive unto God Blood hath revived the dead As the Story of the Pelican goes for currant her brood being stung to death by the brood of the Serpent by distilling her blood on her owne brood they have beene restored to life So Christ our true Pelican when by our serpentine firy-stinging sinnes we were stung to death by the vertue of his blood effused on our soules wee are quickned and raised to life to the praise of his glory But there is one maine and memorable difference betwixt this Blood and all others The blood of man or beast may give snow-white a scarlet tincture but never die scarlet snow-white but this and this onely by mercy and miracle makes scarlet Soules as white as snow In Salomon thus that Elder moved the question and made the answer to our Evangelist What are they that Apoc. 7. 13 14. are arrayed in long white robes and whence came they These are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their long Robes and have made their long robes white in the Blood of the Lambe Now that Christ washed us with his blood Hence a choake Peare to the Manichees who deny the truth of Christs-humanity to the Marcionites who averre he had a phantasticall Body to Apelles who conceived hee had a Sydereall substance He that runnes may read printed in blood the truth of his Manhood For as Alexander the great however the popular sort deified him yet having got a clap with an Arrow said ye stile me Iupiters Sonne as if immortall Sed hoc vulnus clamat me esse hominem this blood that issues from the wound proves me in the issue a man So may I say of our Saviour though myriads of Angels and Saints acclaime he is God ergo immortall and a crue of Hereticks disclaime him to be a man yet the streames of blood following the arrow of death that strucke him make good he was perfect man of a reasonable soule and humane flesh subsisting but this their heresie wee passe for there must bee 1 Cor. 11. 9. heresies and in holy admiration ponder in the chambers of our hearts the immense love of the Father and of the Sonne of the Father that hee would give his Sonne to shed his blood and dye the execrable death of the Crosse for the sonnes of men Ab aeterno genitum begotten before all eternitie His Sonne Psal 2. 7. Omnis creaturae primogenitum the first begotten of every creature Vnigenitum his onely begotten Col. 1. 16. Ioh. 1. 18. Mat. 3. ult Esa 42. 1. Sonne Dilectum his beloved Sonne and as speakes that Seraphicall Prophet Electum Animae suae such a sonne in whom his soule delighted and for us Caytiffes not worthy the least crum of his mercy And no lesse admirable is the love of Gods dearely beloved Sonne to powre out his soule unto death for us and our salvation It is storied of Cyrus King of Persia having Zenop. lib. 3. taken Tygranes King of Armenia with his Queene captives on a time he moved Tygranes what he would give for his Queenes ransome to whom he replyed That had hee what he once had viz. his Crowne and Kingdome hee would freely give it for her freedome and if that were too little he would purchase it with the price of his blood which love to his Spouse Cyrus observing presently reinvested them to their pristine liberties and honours Wherupon Tygranes spake unto his Queene Cyrus is a most 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 noble Prince the Queene made answer My affections were only bent on him that would have spent his dearest blood for me a fortiori should we espoused unto Christ the Prince of the Kings of the Earth fixe our hearts on him that not onely resolved our freedome from Persian but infernall thraldome and purchased it with his precious Blood To winde up in a word here every eye may see whereon to rest his Soule that it may be saved in that great and notable day not on his owne righteousnesse that is imperfect nor Saints oyle that is not sufficient for themselves nor the Popish incruentall Masse a Masse of horrible impieties no Popes pardon or Aqua benedicta of theirs to which they ascribe rare incredible both spirituall and corporall effects whereby they bewitch silly soules to inrich themselves and all not worth a bit of bread but solely in the blessed blood of that immaculate Lambe Christ Iesus Herein to our most precious soules is salus oblata salvation freely offered herein by our most precious faith is salus recepta salvation imbraced in this faith by the impresse of the Spirit is salus obsignata salvation sealed and hereby is the end of our faith salus consummata our salvation finished and while we sojourne in these terrene Tabernacles the foundation of our glory the rise and perfection is in and from this blood whereby wee are made Kings and Priests unto our God And this is the second branch wherein Christs love is manifested Hee hath crowned us Kings and consecrated us Priests to God and his Father Artaxerxes honoured Nehemiah much to Kings advance him to bee his Cup-bearer and Saul David to make him his Sonne in law but to make us Kings lesse than none save God alone what could be more but what manner of Kings Rex sol● deo minor not politicall but spirituall Et bene saith S. Gregory quia praelati cunctis motibus carnis c. Moral 36. c. 21. as reigning over our corrupt affections curbing luxury tempering intemperate avarice humbling hautinesse of spirit and extinguishing the fire of fury Will you a little more at large behold the majestie of as many as are truely made Kings Their unction is not oyle but holy blood Their Diademe is not 12. stones but 12. s●ars Apoc. 12. 1. The Sword is the Word of God The Scepter is the power

Monument at Tarentum called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lovers Monument These wee must know were deare and neere an espoused paire but for Christ to set his love on us every way unworthy Rom. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hos 2. 19. to be beloved 1. weake 2. godlesse 3. sinners 4. enemies yea traytors to him and our owne soules though once espoused by a Ring of Love in-laid with the pearles of his Spirit yet by reason of spirituall adultery divorced and for all this to love us this is much Greater love than this Isa 59. 2. Iohn 15. 13 hath no man than to lay downe his life for his friend yet under correction To majorem habuisti charitatem Domine dilexti non existentes imò resistentes greater sweet Saviour was thy love thou lovedst us when wee were nothing yea worse than nothing sworne enemies to thy life In meditation whereof that inscription upon Senacheribs Tombe I may apply to Christ and the Christians use 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whosoever Herodot thou art make Christ thy spectacle learne of him to love thine enemies this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 6. 35. that spirituall wisdome which adopts thee Gods child hereto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 natures instinct workes all being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of one blood now never man hated his owne flesh this is the Royall Acts 17. 26. command I say to you Love your enemies and Mat. 5. 44 Christ himselfe herein is exemplum fine exemplo a matchlesse mirrour of benevolence and beneficence towards his enemies in that he loved us It is storyed of Alexander the Monarch that he Edicte vetuit de quis se praeter Apelle pingeret aut alius Lysippo Horat. Epist 2. would have no man draw his Picture save Apelles or engrave it save Lysippus the best Artists both for theorie and practice No Artist in Christendome can draw the most high GOD better to the life than in the lines of his owne life to blaze the true orientall colours of love towards his enemies after the example of the ingraven forme of his person that loved us which words ere I depart from me thinks ecchoes so sweetly in the eare of my soule and in thine except deafenesse or deadnesse have made a forcible entrie that Miriams Timbrels Asaphs Trumpet Davids Anthemes Salomons Epithalamions sound nothing so sweetly the ground Rom. 5. 10 is sound for if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Sonne much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life which brings me to the second general part the life of his love in ample manifestation 2 Generall part of the 1 Sacrifice Quest He washed us in his blood from our sinnes Hee Christ the Sonne of the living God Lord of Men and Angels majesty in excelsis in the highest to become humility in profundis in the lowest did this become him was not this a servile act viz. to wash us a staine to his honourable person To put this Question out of doubt or the Resp doubt out of question no whit for herein first was the complement of that Prophesie in a good sense The elder shall serve the younger Further it Gen. 25. 23. was of such absolute necessity that Peters case being ours except he had washed us we had had no part with him But to cleere the scruple Iohn 13. 8. it is illustrated thus A Peere of the Realme Ruff. in Symb. beholding a poore child wel-nigh choaked in the mud and to save him if some slime should adhere to him it were no dishonour rather an honour to doe so good a dayes worke as to save a soule semblablie that true Noble-Man Christ Iesus beholding with the eye of grace our silly soule plunged in the puddle of sinne albeit our slimy sinnes stucke to him to plucke us out and save us it did not impaire his honour yea rather set it off with a fairer lustre And by this act he reades us a Lecture of humility If I then your Lord and Master have washed your feet Ioh. 13. 14 15 ye ought also to wash one anothers feet for I have given you an example that ye should doe even as I have done How may this be Saint Cyprian is our Schoole-master Quoties igitur c. D● Ablutione pedum as often as we perswade those which are under spirituall Pharoahs slavery to get them out of Aegypt mourne with those that mourne burne with those that are offended are infirme with those that are infirme that Aquin. in Cor. 2. 11. is as Aquinas interprets for him that is infirme in the Faith Dolemus in cordibus nostris sicut de nobis lament for them as for our selves so often wash we the feet of our Brethren And when this thy Saviours humility comes fresh into thy memory that he whose Throne is Mount-heaven footstoole the Earth whom all the inhabitants of the Earth and all the Angels of Heaven must worship that he would stoope to wash thee Stoope Gallant and learne of him to be lowly so to be it is a good argument thou art well loaden with grace for as branches of Trees and eares of Corne the better they are loaden stoop neerer the earth and the best refined Gold goes downe in the ballance so the more fruitfull and Quo sanctior hoc humilior Ambros precious a Soule is the more it lowers it selfe and the higher in Gods eye it shall bee exalted Obiectum And thus from Christs Act we descend to the Object what hee washed and from what Vs from our sinnes Which words argue 1 sinnes condition it is pollution so Zacharias brands it uncleanenesse 13. 1. Atramentum Evae Amb. 26. therefore Ezekiel compares it to scum 22. 18. Hosea to a rising leprosie S. Iude to a spot S. Ambrose to a blacke cloud Vna nubecula peccatricis totam fere obscuravit Ecclesiam Res est Ep. ad virg lapsam foetida saith Origen a spawne of an uncleane spirit which unlesse washed away in the laver of Christs purifying blood and a flood of cordiall repentance will in fine associate with a Cage of uncleane Birds Therefore minde we Apostolicall counsell touch not taste not handle not for as Syracides speakes hee that washeth himselfe because of a dead body and toucheth it Eccles 34. 26. againe what availes his washing And as his washing proves sinne its nature so it unmaskes all the sonnes of men that albeit in their originall they were like to the house of Iacob wherein Amb. de fug seculi c. 4. no image of impiety no spot of pollution but all as cleere as Chrystall yet since the prevarication all as Labans Lambes are speckled and spotted A capite ad calcem from top to toe Let Abraham the father of the faithfull Isa 1. 6. Aaron on whose bonnet was holinesse to the Lord Amb. a pol. Daniel Antequam noscamur