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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29676	Apples of gold for young men and vvomen, and a crown of glory for old men and women. Or, The happiness of being good betimes, and the honour of being an old disciple Clearly and fully discovered, and closely, and faithfully applyed. Also the young mans objections answered, and the old mans doubts resolved. By Thomas Brooks preacher of the gospel at Margarets new Fishstreet-hill.	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1657 (1657)	Wing B4922A; ESTC R214145	141,163	402

and cryed if any man thirst let him come to mee and drink So in that Rev. 22.17 Let him that is a thirst come and whosoever will let him take the water of life freely so in that Rev. 3.20 Cant. 2.8 Christ comes leaping upon the Mountains and skipping upon the hills to shew his readinesse and willingness to do good to souls Behold I stand at the door and knock if any man hear my voice and open the door I will come in to him and will sup with him and hee with mee and so in that Luk. 14.21 The Master of the house said to his Servant go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the City and bring in hither the Poor and the maimed and the halt and the blinde Here is no man of quality of dignity of worldly pomp or glory or of any self-sufficiency that is invited to the feast but a company of poor raged deformed slighted neglected impoverished wounded sinners these are invited to feast with Christ Concerning this willingness of Christ I shall speak more when I come to deal with Old sinners in the close of this discourse and to that I refer you for further and fuller satisfaction concerning the great readiness and willingness of Jesus Christ to entertain returning Sinners Fourthly If you would bee good betimes then you must know betimes that Jesus Christ is designed sealed and appointed by the Father to the office of a Mediatour John 6.27 The father sealed even God so the Greek hath it Labour not for the meat which perisheth but for that meat which endureth to everlasting life which the Son of man shall give unto you for him hath God the father sealed God the father hath made Christs Commission authentical as men do theirs by their Seal It is a metaphor a simile taken from them who give Commissions under hand and seal God the father hath given it under his hand and seal that Jesus Christ is the onely person that he hath appointed and sealed allowed and confirmed to the office of our redemption If Jesus Christ were never so able to save and never so willing and ready to save poor Sinners yet if hee were not appointed designed and sealed for that work the awakened Sinner would never look out after him nor desire union with him nor interest in him and therefore it is of very great consequence to know that God the father hath sent and sealed Christ to be a Saviour to his people him hath God the father sealed sealed by way of destination and sealed by way of qualification sealed by his doctrin sealed by his miracles sealed by his baptism sealed by his Resurrection but above all sealed by his glorious unction Isa 61.1 2 3 Luk. 4.18 Christ was anointed of God 1 By way of designation 2 By way of Qualification 3 By way of Inauguration This annointing was ordinarily used in the installing men to offices of any eminence The spirit of the Lord is upon mee because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tydings unto the meek hee hath sent mee to bind up the broken hearted to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the Prison to them that are bound To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God to comfort all that mourn to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion to give unto them beauty for ashes the oyle of joy for mourning the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness that they might bee called trees of righteousness the planting of the Lord that hee might bee glorified neither Saints nor Angels are sealed and anointed to the great work of redemption but the Lord Jesus is you should always look upon the Lord Jesus as sealed and anointed to the Office of a Mediatour and accordingly plead with him Ah Lord It is thy Office as thou art a sealed and an anointed Saviour and Redeemer to subdue my sinnes to change my nature to sanctify my heart to reform my life and to save my soul and therefore do it for thy names sake O do it for thy Office sake do it for thy glories sake Psal 41.8 Act. 4.27 Thou art anointed with the Oile of gladness above thy fellows thou hast a larger effusion of the spirit upon thee than others thou art anointed with the Holy-Ghost Act. 10.38 and with power after an extraordinary measure and manner thou art indued with all Heroical gifts and excellencies plentifully John 1.16 John 3.34 abundantly transcendently thou art sealed and predestinated thou art invested into this office of Mediatorship under the fathers hand and seal and therefore whether should I go for salvation for remission for redemption for grace for glory but to thee Fi●thly If you would bee good betimes then you must know betimes that there is no way to salvation but by Jesus Christ Act. 4.12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is by or thorow the mediation of any other neither is there salvation in any other speaking of Christ for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved if ever you are saved you must bee saved by him and him onely you must not look for another Saviour nor you must not look for a co-saviour you must be saved wholly by Christ and onely by Christ or you shall never be saved Act. and Mon. you must cry out as Lambert did when hee was in the fire and lifted up his hands and fingers ends flaming none but Christ none but Christ When Augustus Caesar desired the Senate to joyn two Consuls with him for the better government of the State Suetonius the Senate answered that they held it as a diminution of his dignity and a disparagement of their own judgement to joyn any with so incomparable a man as Augustus Ah Friends It is a dimiuntion of Christs dignity sufficiency and glory in the business of your salvation to joyn any thing with the Lord Jesus and it is the greatest disparagement in the World to your own judgments knowledge Prudence and wisdome to yoak any with Christ in the work of Redemption in the business of salvation Augustin saith that Mercellina hung Christs picture and the picture of Pithagoras together many there are not only in Rome but in England yea I am afraid in London who joyn Christ and their works together Christ and their Prayers together Christ and their Teachers together Christ and their mournings together Christ and their hearings together Christ and their Alms together Ah! what a poor what a weak what an impotent what an insufficient Saviour doth these men make Jesus Christ to bee Except these men come off from these things and come up onely to Jesus Christ in the great businesse of salvation they will as certainly and as eternally perish notwithstanding their hearing knowing and talking much of Christ as those that never heard of Jesus Christ In the Old Testament Deut.