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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

whole religion is a Miscelany made up partly of the Jewish Doctrines and practises and partly of the heathenish doctrine and practises and partly of the doctrines and practises of Christians but that is the least part it being composed chiefly of Mosaicall and heathenish institutions unwritten traditions and many ridiculous ceremonies and the more any shall indeavour the introduction of those doctrines which are not taught by the Lord Jesus and his Apostles the more improbable is it they should be esteemed the disciples of Jesus Christ and consequently Christians at the last day for as you see he that is a true Christian understands the truth as it is in Iesus and receives it and cleaves unto it according to the a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mary sate at Jesus feet to hear his word Luc. 10.39 measure of faith given unto him and as the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith sitting at Iesus his feet to hear his word as the manner of Disciples was of old time b Paul brought up at the feet of Gamaliel and taught c. Acts 22 3. and is unto this day Secondly Christians are so called from Christ in congruity of reason in this respect because so soon as they are Christians there is such a sweet similitude between Christ and them in point of conversation that they mutually and reciprocally resemble each other to the observation of the Angels and discerning men where there is a great dissimilitude betwixt the Lord Jesus Christ and the children of men there is wanting a ground in reason to call such men Christians As it is an utter absurdity to call the Jews or Turks or wicked persons Christians because no similitude in them because utterly unlike to Jesus Christ so on the other side where any are found beleeving as Christ teacherh and walking as he walked observed to be in the world as he was in the world it is most proper to call and account such as these are Christians and disciples and when beleevers grow up to eminency in faith and practise reflecting much of the glory of Christ upon the world in these two Oh then how fitly may they receive this honourable appellation Christians Disciples of the highest form their Profiting appearing unto all This part of their discipleship is properly called imitation or following of the Lord. Be ye followers of me as I am of Christ the words are * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 11.1 be ye imitators of me 1 Cor. 11.1 and so 1 Thes 1. Ye became followers of us and of the Lord * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 imitators of us and of the Lord. And saith Paul thou hast ●ully known my doctrine manner of life In the margin of some of your Bibles it is * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Tim. 3.12 thou hast been a diligent follower of my manner of life Now this imitating and following of Christ in the manner of his life consists in these three particulars first in being second in doing third in suffering after the manner that Iesus Christ was and did do and suffer in the world * A Christians conversation in point of demeanour in the world is like Christs demeanour First of all they are in the world as Christ was in the world not of it while they are in it you may know what was the frame and temper and as I may so say the d●vine Genius of the spirit of Jesus Christ in regard of his father how he delighted to converse with God in prayer and communion with him that way by meditation and the like And you know the genius and property and the frame of the heart of Jesus Christ towards his Disciples that had received the same spirit how much love and delight in their company to teach them and to reveal to them the great things of God that they might grow in grace c. You know his demeanour and carriage while he was in the world to Publicans and sinners how he did reveal the love of God to them in the world and tels them that * John 3.16 God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son that whosoever beleeveth on him should not perish but have everlasting life And I am he that God the father hath appointed and sealed and sent into the world He did not lift up his voice in the streets he was not tumultuous nor turbulent but there was abundance of sweetnesse meeknesse and gentlenesse thus he was in the world and we should be so in the world and by how much the more Christians are like unto Jesus Christ by so much the lesse they are of the world as it is in the 17th of Iohn in the midst of that chapter twice repeated by Christ to the father Father saith he they are not of the world as I am not of the world And then secondly 2 In respect of their doings their actions and transactions in the world they are followers of Christ For their actings Jesus christ did not keep al his goodnesse to himself while he lived and make others the better for him when he died as the custome of rich men is they will keep their estates close while they live and do little or no good * That is comparatively or in any proportion to ability and opportunity in the place of their abode they dy there is a resurrection of their estates when they themselves go down to the grave then their estates shall rise up in their stead but oftentimes it attains not the end which they propounded But now from the time that Jesus christ was anointed at his Baptism and the holy Ghost came down upon him in the shape of a Dove and a voice was heard saying This is my wel beloved son in whom I am wel pleased which voice we heard saith Peter from that time forth for three years and a half the whole space of his life * Acts 10.38 he went up and down doing good preaching the Gospel of the Kingdome healing sicknesses and performing all duties and offices that belonged to him as he was the Son of Man the Man Christ Iesus so ought Christians in conformity to him to have their conversation here in the world to be willing to distribute ready to communicate * Christianns popullus per omnia sanctus est et non in templis tantum et ritibus Ecclesiasticis sed in omni vita omnitempore omnibus in rebus omnibus factis ac studiis nomins gloriae Christi consecratus Musc to order their whole conversation aright doing what the wil of the Lord is as Christ said I come to do thy will O God and so to be imitators or followers of him not onely in outward demeanour and behaviour which yet is exceeding comely and commendable viz. to be in behaviour as it becommeth Saints but also more especially in our actions practises and whole course of life And moreover