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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85175	The genealogie of Christianity and of Christians. Declared in a sermon at Mercers Chappel before the Right Honourable the Lord Maior of the City of London, April 28. 1650 and now thus published for the undeceiving of those, who say they are Christians, and are not, but do lie; and for the establishment and encouragement of those, who having named the name of Christ, do indeed depart (even in this hour of apostacy) from all iniquity, by C.F. one of the servants of the Lord Jesus Christ in the ministery of the new Testament.	Feake, Christopher, fl. 1645-1660.	1650 (1650)	Wing F570; Thomason E599_2; ESTC R202091	31,190	41

the world what though they should professe to have their conversation in heaven in respect of holy duties unblameable conversation and sweet carriage in doing good and in not being of the world free in outward appearance from covetousness and covetous practises and free from uncleanness filthiness and fordidness of living and what though they should seem to join with the people of God in carrying on the cause of God and interest of Christ against the common enemy yet if they should be and do all this and much more then this if they should not do it from that principle which is proper to Christians but from a principle of violence from without or a principle set on work by virtue of an end that is not suitable and congruous unto the great end that Christ propoundeth then certainly all the glory and honour of these men would lie in the dust notwithstanding all the three former and this is on purpose brought in to spoil the claim and title of the best painted hypocrite or false Christian though acting in the most glorious garb and carriage of himself And therefore mark and consider what was the principle of Jesus Christ Here some were observed to sit and ●eep from which he acted if any of you are sleepy and drowsie rouze up your selves for this is of great importance The principle by which Christ Jesus had his being in the world and acted and suffered and carried on the work that appertained to him it was the spirit of God as you heard before in the 61 of Isaiah the first The spirit of the Lord is upon me and he hath anointed me the spirit hath anointed me nay the spirit is that anointing in the book of Exodus a place formerly hinted you There the composition of that holy anointing oil which was to be poured upon the type of Jesus Christ the high Priest Aaron and upon his sons and upon all the holy vessels and utensils of the Tabernacle is at large described it is compounded of the richest spices the most aromatical the most odoriferous spices together with the oil Olive an Hin as it is there expressed in the 30. of Exodus the 23. 24. Thou shalt take to thee principall spices of pure Myrrhe five hundred shekels and of sweet Cinamon half so much two hundred and fifty shekels and of sweet Calamus two hundred and fifty shekels and of Cassia five hundred shekels after the shekel of the Sanctuary and of the oil olive an Hin and this ointment was to be madeafter the Art of the Apothecary the ingredients to be exactly weighed as the textspeaks And thou shaltant ointwith this ointment the Tabernacle and the Ark the vessels and thou shalt sanctifie them that they may be most holy and thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them that they may minister to me in the Priests office Now this was but a Typical representation of that holy anointing of Jesus Christ by the spirit and the anointing of his sons his people his children his disciples after him And in the Canticles when Christ comes to look after his spouse comparing her to a garden my sister my spouse is a Well inclosed a Fountain sealed c. thy plants are an Orchard of Pome-granates with pleasant fruits with Camphire Spicknard Saffron Calamus Crynamon Myrrhe Aloes and the like Now these spices of Arabia foelix those aromaticall spices in those hot countries of the world they are of a most pleasant smell and as Jesus Christ was made pleasant by the anointing of the holy Ghost grace was poured into his lips he spake as never man spake and grace was poured into his whole conversation his whole carriage savoured of the sweetness of the spirit of God So if you are Christians you are anointed with the self same spirit if any here say they are Christians and have not the spirit of Christ they are not Christians they are none of his Disciples For if they were of his Disciples and Christians they have received of this anointing it would run down from him the Head upon the Officers of the church and then upon every one even to the door-keepers of the Churches of the Saints the ointment will run upon these and they should smell of it in their conversation whereever they did walk or speak sweetness should break forth at their lips and it could not be but where ever they came they would smell of that sacred ointment too of that holy anointing and their actions would savour of the spirit of Jesus Christ Now this spirit I should insist upon it as being the Principle indeed as it is an informing Principle as it is an actuating P●inciple as it is an assesting Principle and as it hath been and is in our spirits ●cting with Christs spi●rit so that whatsoever we do as Christians we should do going forth in the strength of that anointing In the 1 Joh. 2. and the latter end read it over But that anointing which you have received of him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no l●e and even as it hath taugh you ye shall abide in him which is a choice scripture and none understand it though they understand the Grammar of it they understand not the Theologie the Divinity of it but those that have received it For Christ in the fourteenth of Iohn speaking of the Comforter this Anointing saith he which or whom the world cannot receive for they know him not but ye know him for he shall abide or dwell and be in you for ever And this shal suffice now for the doctrinal part shewing you how in congruity of reason the Disciples of Christ are called Christians because they savour and receive the doctrine of Christ they are imitators of the Convers●tion of Christ they promote the Interest of Christ the Principles by which he acted they likewise act in the world And indeed a through consideration of these 4 particulars should marvellously induce Christians to be ambitious to hold forth the glory and honour of that honourable title Christians and Christianity as becommeth the Disciples of Jesus Christ Vse 1 Now in the next place for application of this Doctrine the remainder of the time shall be spent that way Is it so that this honourable title and name Christians was given originally unto none but the Disciples of Iesus Christ unto the Churches of Christ of a new Testament form and frame as you may see in the words before the text They assembled themselves with the Church a whole year and taught much people and when they became a great company of people then they had a new name given them the Discriples were called Christians c. then first of all for Information and instruction of all those in this Congregation that are ignorant of this point By this we may take a due

estimate of the number of Christians in the world how many there may be in the world Men heretofore it may well be have thought there haue been more Christians in the world than indeed there were And now it s more than probable that divers here present will be more charitable and favourable in their Computation of the number than they ought to be lest they should exclude themselves This doctrine will help us to take an estimate of them thus By that time all those whose Conversation is in Hell as it were that make a Hell upon earth all Divels incarnate you know such there are the unclean spirit worketh effectually in them the Children of disobedience and yet are called Protestants and called Christians by that time I say these are abstracted By that time those whose Conversation is upon earth that are earthly minded men that mind the world and the things thereof By that time I say these are discounted by that time all those whose Conversation is between Heaven and Earth as it were between God and Mammon they are not down-right Altheists nor Papists but Protestants but yet carnall or loose o● formall at best as being Christians in an outward garb onely by that time these are discarded and set aside as utterly Heterogeneal by that time this is done even in this Nation how many think you will be left concerning whom it may bespoken and that in truth that they are Christians and Disciples of Jesus Christ When Diogenes in his time he was a very notable Philosopher Alexander the great much admiring him saying if he had not been Alexander he woud have been Diogenes when he saw the City in which he lived falling into so much injustice and wickedness one day came into the midst of the City with a Candle in his hand at noon day and being asked what was his meaning to come with a candle in his hand at Noon-day Oh! saith he I come to search every corner of the City narrowly to see if I can find an honest man in such a multitude of men and women he could not find an honest man Now by way of allusion is it not so at this day when Jesus Christ comes shall he find faith upon the earth If before Christ comes he should now send a Messenger with the Candle of the Lord in his hand into this City into the Markets amongst the buyers and sellers into your shops amongst the Trades-men If a man should come with the Candle of the Lord into the Courr of Aldermen into the Custom-house amongst those Officers to all the Committees of Parliament to the Councell of State with the Candle of the Lord and there be looking and espying and searching and being asked who do you look for might he not answer Why if I can find a Christian among so many Christians if I can find a Disciple of Jesus Christ amongst such multitudes of men and women that cal themselves Beleevers that call themselves Disciples but surely they call themselves such falsly and in much darkness of mind For now bring the Candle of the Lord and look and observe the difference between the one and the other and alas you can hardly find one of an hundred Vix centesimus quisque was the usual phrase of Calvin upon such occasions as this And assuredly scarce one of an hundred of those that are called and accounted Christians are such indeed that are in deed and in truth Christians and Disciples This bringeth to remembrance that of the fifth of Jeremy and the first verse Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem and see now and know and seek in the broad places thereof If ye can find a man if there be any that executeth Iudgement that seek the truth and I will spare it Behold here the paucity of true Israelites so now My Brethren so many Disciples of Christ in the Parliament so many Christians and no more and so many Disciples real Disciples of Jesus Christ in Common-Councel in the City as there are so many Christians and no more not one more Therefore you had need look to it you have possibly hitherto that have least cause to do so assumed to your selves the most honorable title of Christians and Beleevers Protestants Saints the like whereas when all those are removed that I spake of before where shall you find a man that may be so stiled Vse 2 Secondly Hence you may see the mistakes and the sad consequences of those mistakes wherein the generality of men in this Nation and City and Assembly for I will keep neer home and not expatiate abroad in what mistakes and consequences of such mistakes I say are such involved who confidently assume to themselves and attribute to each other this honourable Appellation of Christians Do thou sooth up me and I will sooth up thee Do thou have a charitable good opinion and esteem of me and so I will have of thee say these men one unto another in effect But now see here your errour and your danger and the mistake and the consequence of it What if you should argue Ex non concessis what if you should beg the Question and desire that may be taken for granted that is not granted what wofull mistaking is here Suppose that you say thus of your selves and others say thus that are men that judge as Christ saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 iohn 7.24 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rom 2.2 according to outward appearance yea but how if the Head of the Christians Jesus Christ the great Doctor of the Chair should not agree with that determination that thou hast made that thou art a Christian for he judgeth according to Truth What if all the world should call thee such and at the last day Christ should before all the world bid thee depart thou art no Christian what is the consequence of such a mistake as this is And therefore Christians you had need go upon sure grounds and you that are not Christians or have cause to doubt whether you are soor no you had need make enquiry from this day forward So thou that art an infamons person an odious wretch for sordid Lusts thy throat an open Sepulcher evaporating breathing out Oaths Cursings Blasphemings thou that hast thy bones rotting through thine uncleanness and filthiness wilt thou take upon thee the famous and honourable title of Christianity and a Beleever dost thou think to carry the cause thus Why Angels and intelligent men see cleerly thou art no such person much more doth Jesus Christ see it cleerly that is the Head of Christians Thou takest the Name of Christian upon thee even as the Jesuites take upon them the Name of Jesus it is a sweet Name an honorable Name a name of great respect But now the Jesuites that are denominated from Jesus assuming it to themselves they are the hatefullest men and the vildest persons in the world the greatest seducers So Paul

of the unbeleeving lews Behold thou art called a Jew and restest in the Law and mak●st thy beast of God Rom. 2.17 the most bloody and cruel minded men of all the Sects of the Papists Now it will be a sad case at the last day for thee to be ranked with these men these men they have as good a Name as thou hast and as famous and as honourable a Name as Chrysostome saith of the Name Christian Yea but it is not what thou art called but what thou art that will be enquired into at the last day however thou carriest it now * Behold thou art called a Christian and restest in that Name and makest thy boast of Christ but thou hast eyes full of Adulterie and thy heart is full of coverous practises and thou canst not cease to sin when thou sinnest thou rejoycest and then thou art most merry and jovial when there is the greatest cause that thon shouldest be most sad and disconsolate Now what art thou the better for the Name of a Christian and Beleever and a Protestant no Papist and the like if thou be such a base wretch and so continuest to the end And therefore you had need seriously to consider this mistake and the sad consequences of that mistake when you stile your selves Christians and are not so when you are accounted so by others and are not so indeed But especially I would speak to those that have professed themselves Christians and so have been taken to be upon a better account than others in regard of a form of Godliness and now are fallen off what a sad condition are these men in who have rejected the word of Christ despised the Spirit of Christ speak evil of the Wayes of Christ account the Ordinances of christ vain things in a word have renounced the whole new Testament Unction and being possessed by an unclean blasphemous Spirit account it and call it their Glory and their perfection to perpetrate the vilest abominations without the reluctancy of their own Spirit what will be the end of these men the Apostle declares in Heb. 10.26 F●r if we sin willingly after that we have received the know edge of the Truth there remaineth no more Sacrifice for sin but a certain fearfull looking for and expectation of judgement fiery indignation which shal devour the adversaries Give them a portion with Hypocrites noting to us that Hypocrites they are the first born of Hell they have the right of Primo-geniture a double portion as it were give him his portion with Hypocrites Vse 3 Now thirdly Here all men may discern as in a Glasse how to judge of themselves and what to set down by way of account concerning their estate if so be that the question be thus put among you from the greatest to the least in this Assembly Art thou a Christian Yes But art thou assured of it in the power and light of truth How knowest thou thou art a christian Why now here is a glasse whereby thou maiest discern whereby thou art enabled to enquire and examine out the truth Why you see plainly that originally those were called christians who were indeed Disciples The Disciples were called Christians first in Antioch So that now if thou art indeed and in truth a Disciple of Jesus Christ thou art a christian But if thou art none of christs Disciples but either Moses Disciple or Mammons Disciple if thou art a servant to the God of this world thon art an enemy to christ instead of being a Disciple an enemy to his Interest secretly wishing and desiring that this Interest that is now setting up in the world might be undermined and brought to Inought And if thou hast not the self-same Spirit dweling in thee that dwelt in Jesus Christ If thon art acted by a Spirit of self-love a Spirit of vain Glory thou art none of Christs his glorious unction is not yet poured upon thee Hast thou learned and walked in the way of the Lord for he that saith he abideth in him ought so to walk even as he walked if not with what face canst thou challenge to thy self the the name of his Disciple Oh consider I say again what little cause thou hast to assume to thy self the name of a christian If so be that you should see a man with his face and his feet contrary each to other his face looking upward forward and upward unto Heaven and his feet directly turned backward carrying him backward downward toward a steep precipice under which is a pit of destruction First you would say this is a Monster this is a Monster his face one way and his feet walking another and leading him backward And then secondly you would pity him he is going to destruction and sees it not sees not the precipice he sees not the pit the Gulf of destruction underneath at the bottom of that precipice you would say he is a Monster and you would pity him My Brethren this is directly the Description of a Counterfeit Christian here is a Character now of abundance of persons in the world and I fear of many here present It is true your faces are fixed upwards and toward heaven towards Christ towards God happiness salvation you look that way you profess that way look in your face it is a beautifull face and it is set the right way towards Heaven and salvation towards God and his Glory this is your pretence but look down now upon your feet and observe your walking your fect are turned clean contrary to your face and these feet carrying the body face and pretence and all to Hell and utter ruine and destruction such a man is a Monster amongst men and not a kindly Christian that is rightly born rightly begotten of the immortal seed of the Word born of God and not of man he is not such a man but a Monster amongst Christians And ah poor Monster whither art thou going walking carrying and drawing thy very face thy presence and pretence and demeanour together with thee down that precipice to eternall destruction Now although it is true I cannot determine which are these in this Assembly yet he that sits in heaven and observes all your down-lyings and uprisings and understands your thoughts a farre off he sees how many monstrous Christians there are in the world and here with their faces towards Heaven and their feet turned and distorted directly contrary to them And therefore it is that in the Ministery of the word this day he calls out to those Monsters of Christianity that have a beautifull face a fair pretence and their actions contrary Take heed whither are you going and look after the Precipice the downfall the gulf of ruine that is behind you and that you are going to and therefore now remember this truth this glass shews to you who are Christians who are not who are Monsters who have neither the face nor any thing no not any proportion of a Christian and who they