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A49262 The zealovs Christian taking heaven by holy violence in severall sermons, tending to direct men how to hear with zeal, [how] to pray with importunity / preached by ... Mr. Christopher Love ... Love, Christopher, 1618-1651. 1653 (1653) Wing L3185; ESTC R31563 89,088 190

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had been slain by it as slaying in my bones Moses vvas a man very meek in his ovvn vvrongs Numb 12. 3. Moses was very meek above all the men that were upon the face of the earth but in the cause of God Exod 32. he carried himselfe as if he had been a man made up all of passion he broke the tables of stone So Jesus Christ vvas famous for his gentlenesse he vvas a lambe for meeknesse and yet in the cause of his Father he applied that to himselfe The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up John 2. 17. 2. He never thinks that he began to serve God soon enough or did him work enough Psal 63. 1. Early will I seek thee and v. 8. My soul followeth hard after God Act. 13. 22. God gave David this testimony and said I have found David the son of Jesse a man after mine ovvn heart vvhich shall fulfill all my vvill Psal 119. 6. Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect to all thy commandments 3. He is desirous to glorifie God by suffering as vvell as by doing to follow the lamb whitherscever he goes to the vvildernesse as vvell as to paradise to a prison as vvell as to a palace Jer. 2. 2. I remember the kindeness of thy youth when thou wentest after me in a land that was not sowne Cant. 8. 5. Who is this that cometh up from the wildernesse leaning upon her beloved from the wildernesse of afflictions Matth. 8. 19. A certain Scribe came to him and said Master I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest He would follow Christ in doing but not in suffering as cloth doth last in wearing but shrink in wetting for when Christ told him The foxes have holes the birds of the air nests but the son of man hath not where to lay his head verse 20. his courage was abated 4 He lookes more after duty then reward and complains more of his defects in it then for want of expected returnes to it Many men are content to follow God so long as there is any advantage in so doing they wil do their duty but they do not care for duty but upon expectation of rewards Remiss spirits follow God as a dog doth his master till he comes by a carrion then he leaves his master and turns aside to it So wicked men follow God till they come at a carrion till they meet with some stinking lust some occasion or object of sin but then they depart from God and close with it But on the contrary David followed after God and thirsted for God even then when he was in a drie and thirsty land where no water was Psal 63. 1. Had we been in Davids case we should have said O Lord give me drink had we been in a barren land we should have said O Lord give me food but David in a barren and thirsty land cries O Lord give me thy self That is the spirit of a man that is truly zealous after the Gospel 5 Difficulties and opposition do rather quicken then abase his endevours what adventures will he not make what paines will he not take what hazards will he not run for God And as it is with the fire in the Smiths forge● that growes hotter and more violent when the water is sprinkled upon it or as fire burnes the most vehemently in a cold and frosty day So that opposition that is made against a zealous man doth but make it the more eager and fervent by a holy Antiperistasis Thus it was in the dayes of Christ the harder it was to get to him the more violent and restlesse were they till they came to him They trod one upon another being an innumerable multitude of people Luke 12 1. Some forced their passage to Christ as we say hunger doth to meat through stone walls Mark 2. 4. And when they could not come nigh unto Christ for the preasse they uncovered the roof where he was and when they had broken it up they let down the bed c. Such was the temper of that Syrophenician whose zeal vvas not quenched but increased by opposition though even Christ did set himselfe against her as an adversary When Christ said It is not meet to take the childrens bread and give it to dogs Mark 7. 27. Here is cold vvater one vvould think enough to quench the zeal of many a professour but the fire of her zeal made fuel of this cooling expression She answered Yet the dogs under the table eat of the childrens crumbs verse 28. One compares a violent Christian to a burre the more paines you take to get it off it sticks the faster on So a zealous Christian the more you endevour to pull him from God he cleaves the closer to him This vvas Davids disposition vvhen he danced before the Lord vvhen Michal despised him and reproved him and fell foul upon him for it he ansvvers I will yet be more vile then thus will be base in mine own sight for it was before the Lord 2 Sam 6. 21 22. And thus much for the third particular the discovery of this holy violence I novv come to the fourth The fourth particular is the difference betvvixt an heady and rash and an holy and religious violence Novv I shall shevv that in 10 particulars 1 It is most seen in triviall and circumstantiall matters Such vvas the violence of the Pharisees about vvashing their vessels and their hands before meat but they never lookt after the vvashing of the heart So the Prelaticall party shevved much heat and violence about ceremonies vvhereas they vvere lukevvarm yea cold in more substantiall matters the observation of the Sabbath and the strict exercise of holinesse c. They were very violent for the linnen Ephod though it may be there was a leprous skin under it they took great care to have railes about the Communion-table but never took care to make a rail to keep prophane persons from the prophanation of the Sacrament but now a godly man is most conversant about that which may be most advantagious to him which will bring him neerest heaven which will be of most use to him to glorifie God and to save his soul 2 It is kindled by passion and vain glory in the one by a zeal and holy indignation in the other Thus many men are zealous in the broaching of errours when they cannot get glory by holding the truth then they will give up themselves to vent errours Whereas true violence comes from a better principle and aimes at an higher end The fire of the Altar was to come from heaven Levit. 9. 24. And when Nadab and Abihu offered sacrifice with strange fire it was not accepted nay they were slain in their enterprize Our zeal should be a fire from heaven God accounts that strange fire we fetch from our own hearts 3 Violent rash zeal makes a man go beyond the bounds
speake peace to his people but let them not turne againe to folly It would be both sin and folly in thee to returne to sin after God hath given thee an answer of peace This was Davids resolution for his owne particular Psal 6. 8. Depart from mee all you workers of iniquitie Why what is the reason The Lord hath heard the voyce of my supplication As if David had said O ye wicked men you have been occasions of sin to me and companions in sin with me but how that God hath been thus gracious to mee now that God hath graciously returned my prayers I will haue no more to doe with you Depart from mee yea workers of iniquitie And so much for the negative Cautions I shall now lay down a few positive cautions 1. If God hath returned thy prayers see that thou beest more frequent in prayer then thou wast formerly This was the purpose of holy David Psal 116. Because the Lord hath heard my prayer therefore I will call upon him as long as I live So let it be your care to set your self more solemnly and seriously to seek God then ever you have doue 2. See that you be more in praises to God then you have been Those mercies that thou hast won by prayer are to be worn by thankfulness Psal 145. 10. All thy works praise thee O Lord and thy Saints do bless thee All Gods works do praise him The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handy work That is they are all the passive monuments of Gods power in creating them But the Saints they are agents in praising God Blessing is more then praising A picture praiseth him that made it but it doth not bless him The Saints they bless God in a peculiar manner their mouthes are full of the praises of God They have a principle within them of praising God they are agents in setting forth his praise And therefore it is very fit that you should bless God 3. See that you be much in obedience If God doth much for thee see that thou do much for God If God hath an hearing ear thou must have a doing hand And so much for the use of caution Use 3 3. I shall speak something by way of comfort 1. To such as have not this importunity nor this return of prayers 2. To such as have returns to prayer 1. Here is a word of consolation to those that want this holy importunity and that in three respects 1. Thou maiest pray with sincerity when thou dost not pray with importunity The Lord saith David is nigh to all that call upon him but how Not onely to them that call on him importunately and powerfully but to all that call upon him in truth if thou canst say thou dost call upon God in truth and with a sincere heart God will be high unto thee 2. It is the office of Christ to pray for thee in heaven when thou dost not pray upon earth It is the work of Jesus Christ to make intercession for thee to his Father Although thou hast not importunity in thy self yet consider O believing soul that Christ is in heaven importuning the Father for thee 3. A sense and complaining of the want of this holy importunity is accounted by God a degree of it If you did never complain of the want of the Spirit it was a signe you never had the Spirit and now that you be wall the want of it it is a signe you have it Branch 2 2. Here is also a word of consolation to those that have returns of prayer and that in four respects 1. Thy mercies are double mercies It is a mercy to have mercy but to have it in such a way is a double mercy Psal 91. They shall call upon me and I will answer them and I will be with him in trouble c. It is a mercy to have deliverance out of trouble but to have it through prayer a deliverance that comes in by prayer is a double mercy 2. These mercies are sanctified mercies Mercies as you are creatures are good but as returns of prayer they are sanctified And blest mercies are much better to the soul that enjoyeth them 3. The mercies which thou hast as returns of prayer are costly mercies Mercies that come in by providence are easie and cheap but mercies that come in by prayer are costly they cost the price of Christs blood to purchase them and they cost thee many a prayer and tear to obtain them 4. These mercies are sealing mercies and that in three particulars 1. They are seals to you that you have the Spirit of God for Christ hears no prayers and no spirit but his own God is as well pleased with the barking of a dog as with the prayers of a Christless man 2. It is a seal to thee of an interest in Christs intercession If thy prayers are returned it is a signe they are accepted Now no prayers are accepted but by vertue of the intercession of Jesus Christ 3. These returns are a seal of more mercies a signe that thou shalt have more mercies from God One mercie that is given in by prayer is a pledg of another mercie and thy mercie in this life is a pledg to thee that thou shalt have eternal happiness in heaven to all eternity FINIS Rev. 2. 5. Rev. 2. 9. 3. 1. Psal 4. Sermons Preachtat Lawrence Jury April 22 1649. SERMON I. The Content opened Verse 7. Verse 8. Verse 9. Verse 11. The Text opened Coelum Empyreum a Regnum coelorum denotat praedicationem Evangelit propagationem Ecclesiae Paraeus b Regnum Dei significatstatum conditionem Ecclesiae quae propriè Christiana ●c●tur Camero in Mat. 18. ● Adeo avidi di sunt ut nulla vi rbstrahi possunt sed potius moaiuntur quam abstrahantur ab Evange●io Luther a Frigebant sub ministerio legis Scribarum Pharisaeorum fervebant sub ministerio Joannis Musculus Quest 1 Why the Gospel so successfull then b Natura hominum novitat is avida Mark 1. 27. 1 Thes 2. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Primum advertum nostrum Principiis savebant c. Isa 54. 1 2. Isa 2. 2. Isa 60. 3 4 5. Isa 40. 31. Zach. 12. 8. 2 Sam. 17 8. 2 Cor. 3. 15 16. 18. Isa 30. 26. Mat. 11. 28. Acts 15. 10. Quest 2. Why the Gospel not so succesfull now as formerly Reasons 1 In regard of Minister Luke 1. 16. Jerem. 23. 22. 32. 2 Cor. 4 2 Matth. 7 29. 2 Cor. 14 5. Job 38. 2. Mat. 3. 2. 2 In regard of the people Reason 1. Mat. 21. 26. 1 Thes 2. 13. Mat. 21. 25 26. John 10. 41. Miracula non sunt multiplicanda sine necessitate 1 Cor. 1. 22. 1 Cor. 14 22. 2 Cor. 12 12. Deut. 6. 6 7. Sermons Preacht at Lawrence Jury April 22 1649. SERMON 11. Jer. 8. 6. Jer. 2. 23 Eccles 8. 11. Hab. 2. 13. Prov. 4.