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A13541	The Kings bath Affording many sweet and comfortable obseruations from the baptisme of Christ. Gathered by Thomas Taylor, preacher of the word of God at Redding in Barkshire.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1620 (1620)	STC 23831; ESTC S102223	77,312	281

pure heart Psalme 24. 3. What other spirit hath lighted vpon them then the spirit that beareth rule in the world The spirit of lying railing swearing slandering hath light vpon their tongues the spirit of reuenge wrong and wickednesse vpon their heads the spirit of fornication vncleannesse wantonnesse vpon all their parts and members and the spirit of errour delusion desperate impenitency hath settled vpon their hearts all this because they haue grieued this holy Spirit and made this Doue betake himselfe to his wings and left them to bee haunted with an euill spirit as Saul was when God had forsaken him A third quality of such on whom this Spirit of Christ hath lighted is chastity sincerity and singlenesse in heart and life in body and soule the Doue is a most chast bird truly keeping her to her mate and this is required in all the members of the Church Cant. 4. 1. Thine eyes are like the Doues that is single chast beautifull This eye of faith beholds Christ and him alone acknowledging all perfection of beauty and sufficiency in him it keepes the heart into him alone in the purity of his worship it keepes the affections vnto him as the chiefe of ten thousand it watcheth against all vnchast lusts and abandoneth all vnlawful strange and stolne pleasures called in 1. Cor. 7. 34. The holines of body and spirit Of spirit when it is not tempted to vncleannesse or being tempted yeeldeth not or hauing yeelded reneweth it selfe to repentance Of body when as a fit instrument to a chast soule it neuer exciteth nor being excited executeth vncleannesse Whence it followeth that those that goe a whoring from God as all Idolaters that seek to many louers or are bawds to their owne lusts and sinfull pleasures of any kind or prostitute their bodies to any vncleannesse or their members as seruants of vnrighteousnesse are not possessed with the Spirit of Christ. Idolatrous eyes adulterous eyes couetous eyes euill or enuious eyes blind eyes or wanton eyes are not the eyes of Doues A fourth quality in Isa. 60. 8. is this They al fly to the Church of God and ioyne together in his pure worship Who are these that fly like the Doues to the windowes A prophesie of the Gentiles conuerted that shall in such flockes come into the Church as if a whole flight of Doues driuen by some Hawke or tempest should scoure to the columbary and rush into the windowes The Church is compared to Gods culuer-house thither the Doues fly together feed together roost together which signifies the Communion of Saints who are of one heart and soule and which worship God purely with one shoulder It is no receptacle of Eagles and rauenous birds which deuoure one another and the reason is because the Spirit lighting vpon Christians tyes them together with fast bands of peace called The bond of the Spirit And hence it followeth that whosoeuer neglecteth the ministery which is the chariot of the Spirit the Spirit lights not vpon him whosoeuer ioyneth not in this society of Saints and carryeth not himselfe as one liuing with other the children of God vnder the same roofe of one Father he hath not the Spirit of God and consequently is none of his What may wee thinke of him that is an enemie to the Church that malignes the members of it that opposeth the pure worship and worshippers that flies from the culuer-house but to be an vncleane bird no Doue This is one speciall note of the presence of the Spirit which I would not omit because many may come to see themselues better by it Vers. 17. And lo a voice came from heauen saying This is my welbeloued Sonne in whom I am well pleased Sect. 8. HEre is the third sensible testimony of Christs most solemne setting into his office and that from heauen also as the other were and that by an audible voice wherein are two things 1. The circumstances three 1. Whose voice it was The Fathers 2. The place whence it came From heauen 3. The manner It was a sensible and audible voice II. The substance in which are three particulars 1. That Christ is the Sonne of God to note the relation between God and Christ. 2. That hee is his beloued Sonne to note the neernesse of that relation 3. The fruit of it in whom I am well pleased 1. The Person whose voice it was is God the Father for he saith Thou art my beloued Sonne Euery testimony receiues validity and authority from the Testator therefore this must needs be sound and good God had giuen testimony to Christ by many famous men euen all the Prophets and now lately by Iohn Baptist who was greater than a Prophet that Christ was greater than he yea more had giuen testimony of him by a multitude of heauenly Angels Luk. 1. 30. and 13. But not content with all this he giues from heauen his owne testimony of him 1. To strike vs with reuerence in receiuing this testimony which hath this priuiledge aboue other parts of Scriptures that it was vttered by Gods owne mouth not by men or Angels 2. To confirme vs in the truth of the testimony proceeding from him who is prima veritas Truth it selfe not onely true in his Essence and much more in his words and workes who cannot bee deceiued nor deceiue vs. 3. To shew the necessity of beleeuing this testimony being the first and onely principle in Christian Religion without which foundation laid can bee no religion nor saluation as we see in the Iewes and Turkes That we might more firmly beleeue in the Sonne of God for life Gods owne mouth testifieth so honourably of him 4. That such a glorious commendation of this testimony might stir vp our best attention and affections in the vnfolding of it wee haue heere the word of a King which was neuer stained and that not vttered by any Herald or a Lord Chancellor but from his owne mouth which carryeth more waight with it if God speake woe to him that heares not 2. The place whence from heauen for these reasons 1. For more authority to the Person of Christ whom God from heauen doth honour and if God thus honour him how ought we to honour him 2. Pet. 1. 17. Hee receiued of God the Father honour and glory when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory This is my beloued Sonne which was verified not onely in the time of his transfiguration but here also 2. Because the testimony containes the summe of the whole Gospell to declare that the doctrine of the Gospell which Christ deliuered to the world was from heauen because God from heauen so testifieth it to bee wherein it differs from the doctrine of the Law which although God renewed from heauen in the Tables of stone yet was it written in the heart of man by nature so was not the Gospell but as after y e fall it was immediately deliuerd by God to Adam in the promise

who easily spied their want of commission mightily preuailed against them Act. 19. 3. That God will blesse his labour and the workes of his calling and make it powerfull and fruitfull because it is his owne worke whereas such as haue not their commission sealed from the Lord finde not their sacrifices burnt by God but often labour all day and night and catch nothing A caueat not to runne vpon mans calling without Gods as the false apostles did against whom the Apostles opposed themselues see that the chiefe Bishop of soules send thee that he hath laid his hands vpō thee that hee hath bid thee receiue the holy Ghost as for the order and ordination of the Church it is onely a manifestation and declaration of him whom God hath fitted Let euery Minister be able to say as Christ himselfe did Isa. 48. 16. The Lord God himselfe and his spirit hath sent me namely to declare what Cyrus in his time was to performe to the Church And here he that would haue good and assured comfort of his commission must examine what kinde of gifts they be which he hath receiued of the Spirit for they be of two sorts 1. Common to good and bad as those of knowledge tongues interpretation eloquence to which if working of miracles if a man haue no more were added while he might much benefit others himselfe might remaine a reprobate For Saul and Iudas had the Spirit of God 2. Proper and peculiar to the elect as iustifying faith true loue inuocation repentance vnspeakable groanes and mourning of the Doue innocencie meeknesse sinceritie and such like testimonies that God hath sent the Spirit of his Sonne into the heart purifying it making it cry Abba Father These are gifts worth hauing making all the former not onely profitable to others but truly comfortable to himself and acceptable to God Now shall a man speake powerfully feelingly and conscionably and resemble those holie men of God who wrote the Scriptures in interpreting thē they shall speake and do as they are moued by the holy Ghost men shall perceiue and after a sort see a fiery tongue vpon their heads such shall be the efficacie and power of their ministerie in separating the precious from the vile 3. Note wheresoeuer the Spirit descendeth on any Christian it descendeth like a Doue that is maketh a Christian resemble the Doue Whence it is that the holy Church or company of beleeuers is called by Christ his Doue Cant. 2. 14. 1. Because the same sweet oyntment as that of Aaron runnes downe from the head to all the mēbers the same graces which this Spirit in the shape of a Doue did fill Christ withall aboue measure hee doth also bestow in measure vpon Christians Thus are we said to receiue of his fulnesse A fountaine sends the same water into the streames that it self hath 2. The Spirit of God is euery-where like to himself both in the head and members as the same iuyce is in the roote and branches in the tree and fruites looke what were the fruites of the Spirit in Christ the same also are in the members Gal. 5. 23. To examine whether we haue receiued this Spirit or no by the properties of a Doue 1. Meeknesse is an essentiall mark of one of Christs Doues and on whom the Spirit of Christ is descēded as himselfe witnesseth Learne of me for I am lowly and meeke 1. He in heart neuer conceiued fierce or reuengefull thought 2. In word being reuiled he reuiled not againe 3. In action hee was led as a sheepe to the slaughter and was dumbe before the shearer 1. Pet. 2. 23. Moses was the meekest man on earth but not like him If any be a rough Esau of a froward and peruerse disposition the Spirit of Christ hath not sate and lighted vpon him for in the kingdome of Christ the lyon and the lambe shall feed together Let vs therefore put on and decke our selues with meeknesse Col. 3. 12. A most beautifull grace much set by of God How glorious a sight was it and how delightfull to God his Father as the voyce witnesseth when the Doue sate vpon Christ and euen so the Apostle commendeth this grace to women as a most precious garment to set them out to God and make him set by them as their most costly garments doe set them out to men neither is it a garment proper to the women as distinguishing the sexe which the cloathing of our bodies doe or ought to doe but the condition between a naturall and spiritual man an old and new creature for this makes difference before God when none is betweene male and female And though we take little notice of a meeke-hearted Christian yet God doth so account of it as he doth denominate the righteous by it and maketh it a speciall title of the iust Zeph. 2. 3. Seeke the Lord ye meeke of the earth as though none were fit to seeke him and he would be found of none else A second qualitie of those on whom the Spirit is lighted like a Doue is simplicitie innocencie commended to vs also by Christ Be wise as serpents but innocent as Doues enforcing it plainly to be a qualitie of those who are baptized with the Spirit of Christ To which purpose he knitteth these two together Cant. 5. 12. and 6. 8. My Doue my vndefiled Elsewhere he calls the Church faire as the Sunne pure as the Moone the Lords holy ones vndefiled in their wayes Saints pure not only in regard of their iustification by the bloud of Christ clensing them from all sinne but also of their endeuour in sanctification These Doues of the Lords Culuer-house are cleane fowles not of the vncleane birds Vultures Crowes and Hawkes that can smell a carrion a farre off to flye to it and feede vpon it the Spirit neuer tooke such a shape Let vs be carefull of our wayes not to foule our selues with sin which is the most filthy vncleannes but rather when the Spirit sate vpon Christs head make knowne that it sate like a Doue on our head by purging our selues euen as he is pure 1. Ioh. 3. 3. as it is a marke of our adoption in that place He is not capable of any grace that endeuoureth not in this wil the Spirit of God dwell in a stye or will hee powre his gracious liquors into fustie and filthie vessels What may wee thinke the hire of those that moyle themselues in all filthie lusts and tumble like swine in their sinnes and in the meane time scorne at those who desire to bee more free and innocent from the riots of the world seeing GOD is good to none but the pure of heart heareth none pray but such as lift vp pure hands accepteth no seruice but a cleane offering and from a cleane offerer admitteth none to the blessed vision of God but the pure of heart and much lesse to stand in his Holy place but hee that is of innocent hands and a