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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

persons signified by these two words viz. Christ and a Christian in the new-Testament sence do both partake of the self same unction with this difference that every Chirstian is more remote from the fountain of unction then Christ is he receiving it * immediates immediately the Christian receives what he receives by * mediante christo means of Iesus Christ first Christ afterwards they that are Christs This word Christ is also expressed in the old-Testament by a word proper to that language 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 now the self same word that is attributed to christ sgiven to others besides him indeed it belongs unto him eminently and emphatically the Messiah John 1.41 Joh. 4.25 we have found the Messiah which is being interpreted the Christ and the Translators read Daniel 9.25 the Messiah * Although there be no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 emp haticum prefixed to either word the Prince as in the 105. Psal there you shall find plainly the holy Ghost doth not speak of the Messiah yet those there specified are called by that name touch not mine anointed and do my Prophets no harm verse 15. Touch not my Christs Psalm 105. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mine anointed psalm 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his anointed my Messiahs the same word that is in the second Psalm his anointed his Christ as it is interpreted by Peter Acts 4. v. 26.27 And before I passe from hence you may understand this anointing is no other thing then the anointing of the Spirit The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to Preach c. as you read in the 61 of Isaiah the first ver so there is the notation of the word Christian gramatically But now thirdly You must observe the word according as it hath congruity of reason in its logical notation Christians so called from Christ they have this denomination in congruity of reason upon a four-fold account or in four respects First in respect of doctrine 2. in respect of conversation 3. in respect of interest 4. in respect of principles First Christians are so called from Jesus Christ upon this account of * Grammatica nudam vocem non naturam considerat Gr. log Logicus vocem considerat non qua vox sed qua ad ●entis intelligentiam refertur et rem explicat Keker in log reason because they and they onely do understand receive and embrace the truth as it is in Iesus and no other sort of people in the world do the like * Non sonum solum nominis expectes sed et sensum Tert. Receperunt nominari Christiani a Christo sicut Platonici a Platone Lyran in locum this is one distinguishing Character every Master or Rabbi or Teacher hath had his Disciples that hath attained to any eminency in any new and singular kind of learning There were among the heathens of old about Christs time and before the disciples of Plato the disciples of Aristotle Aristotelians and Platonists so distinguished because that the one followed the doctrines and teachings of Plato others followed Aristotle and imbraced for truth what he taught them there were disciples that were called Epicurians of Epicurus the Philosopher others were Stoicks the Disciples of that Doctrine as the Holy-Ghost gives you to understand Acts. 17.18 but it s no way necessary to acquaint this audience with the severall particular doctrines and oplnions of these Masters Only thus to our present purpose every one of these Masters of learning they had their Disciples and their disciple-ship consisted in this in owning and cleaving to the doctrines and opinions of their Teachers as they were doctrines distinct from all other doctrines in the world upon all occasions letting the world know by their disputes and professions by whose name they had chosen to be known and distinguished from other men Now as I said Christians in like manner derive their name as other disciples from their great Doctour the Lord Jesus Christ in respect of the particular distinct doctrine of the Gospel learned from him and that in a singular manner differing from all other doctrines in the world John 9 28. VVe are Moses disciples Mar. 2.18 The disciples of John and of the Pharisees distinguished from Christs disciples They cannot be called Moses his Disciples * neither can they be called Iohns Disciples neither can they be called the Disciples of the first Adam considered as in the estate of innocency as they speak in respect of their own righteousness but they are the Disciples of Christ in regard they own and cleave to the pure proper Evangelical truth those divine supernatural truths which are revealed by the Son from the bosome of the Father which neither Adam in his first estate nor the children of men since that time have been able by strength of rational enquiries to find out understand and entertain yea such truths as the holy Angels themselves were not aware of Iuc 1.31 c. John 1.14 1 Tim. 3.16 Ephes 1.4 Rom. 3.28 Gal. 2.20 Rom 8 11 Heb 7 25 26 until revealed viz. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God Joh. 1.1 And the word was made flesh And great is the mystery of godlinesse Christian godlinesse God was manifested in the flesh and the rest of the doctrine of the Incarnation Again Election in Christ before the world began Iustification by faith without the works of the law Living by the faith of the Son of God The i●●dwelling of the Spirit in the hearts of beleevers The sending of the Spirit from the Father and the Son The man Christ Iesus The doctrine of Christs intercession at the right hand of the Majesty on high and that in our nature With many other glorious Gospel truths which the Angels desire to look into thus you may see what I intend by the doctrine of Christ as distinct from all other doctrines And surely those that are ignorant of these and other Gospel truths strangers to this divine learning cannot properly be called Christians Indeed Antichrist and his disciples pretend to be Christians and disciples of Christ as you heard and its true some of these doctrines forementioned they profess to cleave unto but that of 1 Titus is verified in them they professs that they know God but on works they deny him c. And because of the admixture of contrary doctrines summed up in the confession of faith made at the Councell of Trent their doctrine may be called a mungrel doctrine and so their worship like that set up of old by the Jewish-Priest among the several nations 2. Kings 17.33.41 they served the Gods of the lands and of the Countries and they served Iehovah there was a mixture in their doctrine and worship and you know what the learned writers and best schollers that contend against the Papacy say of them their doctrine and worship their