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A81485	A sincere believer, comforted, and encouraged. Or; a practical treatise, discovering the goodness of God to a sinful soul, in the enjoyment of Christ With the great benefit and comfort he hath thereby. Whereby as through a prospective, a true Christian may plainly see how to fit and prepare himself in such a manner, as his endeavours may not be in vaine. By R.D.M.A. and minister of the gospel in the Isle of Wight. Recommended to the serious perusal of all true Christians. By Thomas Goodwin, D.D. and Will Strong, M.A. deceased.	Dingley, Robert, 1619-1660.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Strong, William, d. 1654.	1656 (1656)	Wing D1500; ESTC R230249	203,361	369

to Christ in all his offices that we may be guided acted and ordered by Christ in all things See Rom. 6.13 but c●iefly u See Eln. Par. on Rom. 12.1 pag. 220. Rom. 12.1 I beseech you therfore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your Bodies a living Sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service When a sinner lies down at Christs feet and saith w Christus non indiget nostro obsequio sed nos ●llius do minio Hieron Here am I doe with me as seemeth good in thy sight I am not mine owne thou hast bought me with a price c. He that stands ready prest for God is not far from righteousnesse 3. By communication and infusion of the Spirit of Christ to new-mould our hearts to purge us and wash us and sanctifie us Rom. 8.10 11. If Christ be in you the body is dead because of sinne but the Spiis life because of righteousnesse for the Spirit of Christ dwels in you and quickens you c. The inferences from this point are three First Inference 1 see the dangerous condition not onely of prophane Gospellers that hope to be saved by Christ as well as others and yet are farre from righteousnesse see Heb. 12.14 but also of subtile Libertines that under the glorious pretence of exalting free grace secretly undermine holinesse and sanctification From such turn away you have not so learned Christ Secondly Inference 2 labour to find and feele this work in you that Christ is the Sunne and Fountain of righteousnesse imparted in you as well as in others that you may know him Ephes 4.24 and the power of his resurrection and that for these considerations 1. Imparted Righteousnesse is the Image of God and that Amability of inward splendor in which we were created at the beginning it makes us exceeding beautifull and lovely in the sight of GOD Angels and Men Grace makes us like the Kings Daughter All glorious within x Nigra est exterius Christi sponsa sed formosa interius Heare Christ Cant. 4.7 Thou art all faire my love there is no spot upon thee Grace is the most becomming thing in the world 2. 'T is the end of our y Ephes 1.4 Election z Titus 2.14 Redemption and a 1 Cor. 1.2 Vocation This is Gods great designe to make a holy and righteous people that we may honour him and the Gospel Nay 3. 'T is not the least part of glory and blisse eternall Ephes 5.27 Righteousnesse is Heaven begun and H●aven is Grace finisht Not onely Turkes Note but many Christians make false draughts of heaven conceiving it barely a place of content and happinesse but if you pencill Heaven out aright Psal 17.1 Phil. 1.23 and give it the true complexion you 'l find it the greatest Hell to carnall ones because a place of such holinesse there we shall have fulnesse and perfection of grace beatificall visions and enjoymens of God and serve God with Halelujahs and Adorations Ier. Burronghs now in glory and that without intermission or weariednesse Now if this be Heaven then Grace and Righteousnesse here is not the least part of that blessednesse 3. and lastly Inference 3 See whence all your infus'd righteousnesse must be fecht not from Divine Ordinances your own endeavours for bodily exercise profits little and 't is not of him that wills or runnes but God that shews Mercy Not from blessed Saints or b Angels o Summa est stultitia invocare Angelos cum invocādus sit Deus apud quem est potestas juvandi Musc in Psal 34.7 pag. ●8 they cannot heare you nor helpe you To which of them will you turne They live on Free-Grace the●selves Not from God out of Christ shall stubble petition the fire not to devoure it Will a man expect Grace and favour from his enemy that whets his sword and bends his bow for destruction But then be sure you goe nay run to God in Christ who is the Sun and proper full free Fountaine of righteousnesse infused And then to encourage you consider foure things full of comfort 1. He can easily doe it c Planè nihil Deo d fficile cui volu●sse s●cisse e●● Ambros. with a words speaking for all power is in his hands no soule so unrighteous or filthy but Christ can wash it 2. He loves to doe it 't is his office and delight to doe it he was anointed for this end and mercy is pleasing unto him 3. He hath done it for thousands as vile and grace-lesse as thy selfe he doth it daily and hourely for others doubt not but he will doe it for thee also 4. He hath engaged himselfe by Promise to doe it for all that are d Juvat qui jubet elected Is not this the Tenor of the new Covenant I will give you a new heart c Da Domine qu●d jub●s j●b● quod vis Aug. confess lib. 10. cap. 31. and I will cause you to know feare and love me c. What saith Christ to h s a●xious Spouse I le make thee bo●●e s of gold with studds of silver And in Ezekiel I●e m ke thee lovely by the comelin●sse I le put upon thee So then he hath promis't to worke all our works in us and for us To conclude this run fly to Christ as the Doves unto their windows crowd about him give him no rest say Lord whither should wee goe but unto thee for thou art the Sun of righteousnesse in thee is our light and life Doe thus and stand in Gods way lie at the poole frequent the Ordinances and know if thou canst but desire Grace thou hast it already 3. Christ the Sun of righteousness imputed 3. As Christ is the Sun of infused so of imputed righteousnesse Now the imputed righteousnesse of Christ is nothing else but that rich long and spotlesse Robe of Divine righteousnesse wherewith every Beleever stands gloriously cloathed in the sight and account of God and this by Imputation Rom. 4.6 God imputeth Righteousnesse without works And 5.19 By the obedience of one shall many be made righteous f Per vitrum vir●de omnia viridia videntur ita c. As red things put into a green glasse will appeare greene so sinners put into Christ are accounted righteous g Qui e go in nobis pecc●●ores sumus in Ch●ist per Ch●●stum justi sumus P●meran●s in 1 Corinth 1.30 whereupon followeth that gracious action of God which is justi f●eation which comp●izeth not onely h Col. 1 21 22. 1 Per. 2.24 remission whereby wee are free'd from the guilt and punishment of sin but i Phil. 3.9 2 Cor. 5.21 acceptation whereby wee are accounted just in the sight of God And the former of these is grounded on his k Heb. 9.22 Isa 53.5 passive the latter on his active obedience and his originall Righteousnesse so that now wee have fully

sic fuit contemptus abjectus ut esset omnium mortalium despicatissimus tantis vulneribus concisus tantisque dedecoris ignominiae maculis affectus ut oculos ab eo averteremus ne tantam indignitatem contemptissimi hominis usurparent Osor paraph. in Isa 53.3 p. 195. yet men despised him and Psal 18.4 the nations abborred him saith Isaiah and they counted him as one without forme or comelinesse Nay they studied wayes to grieve and misuse him they spat on him and buffeted him and preferred Barabbas before him c. The reasons John 15.18.20 Acts 2.23 Fourthly wonder and adore the matchlesse love of Christ to us Inference 4 in that hee bore our sinnes for us who never knew sinne hee that in himselfe was a milke white Lamb without e 1 Pet. 1.19 spot put on the skin of a L●opard and so by imputation was laden with sinnes f 2 Cor. 5.21 Paul saith Hee was made sin for us that knew no sin Not made sinfull Peccat iniquus punitur justus but Sinne even all sinne a lump of sinnes by imputation Oh what heart can sufficiently admire his love Fifthly hence it is manifest Inference 5 impenitent sinners shall not bee pi●tied or spared of God for did not God spare him that never offended and will he spare them that never leave offending O what madnesse hath besotted men as with stubborn wilfulnesse still to trust upon an unknown mercy in God though they live in their sinnes when Christ having sin but imputed was not spared God bruised him and ●●t him to griefe saith g Isai 53.10 Isaiah and the Lord afflicted him in the day of his fierce wrath saith h Lam. 1.12 Jeremy His owne Father that so entirely loved him yet finding others sins upon him was presently a devouring fire and an over-flowing torrent of wrath upon him Oh therefore how shalt thou escape that never hadst his love nor never leavest thy sinning Consider this you that forget God Sixthly and lastly Inference 6 seeing Christ is thus a Sunne of Righteousnesse by inherent holinesse in himself let us all lay him as a pattern before us i Praecedit Christus sequamur nos and purifie our selves as hee is pure The Moon is faire but she hath her k Vide Thom. Aquin. de coelo mundo lib. 2. lec 12. pag. 91. spots the Starres glistering but they have their erratick motions Behold the Sun it hath neither spot in its face nor errour in its course the best of Saints have their l Deut. 32.5 spots their m Prov. 24.16 failings n 1 Cor. 11.1 follow them no further then they follow Christ But Christ is a Sunne without spot a Sunne of Righteousnesse enriched with all grace and glory O therefore eye him o Frustra ille sortitur Christiani nomen qui Christum minime imitatur Quid tibi prodest vocari quod non es Aug. and learn of him Let the same minde be in you as was in Christ walk in love justice meeknesse and heavenly-mindednesse as he walked though you come short of the Copie yet write after it 2. Christ the Sun of righteousnesse imparted 2. As Christ is the Sunne of inherent Righteousnesse in himself p Sol sidera non sibi sed nobis lucent so also he is the Fountain of imparted or infused Righteousnesse too and in beleevers all their goodnesse and holinesse proceeds from him and all their spirituall graces are certain rayes shed from that glorious and pure Sun into the heart Now this imparted righteousnesse is nothing else but the conformity of our minds wills affections of our thoughts words and deeds to Gods holy Word and Will accord●●g to the measure of grace received from Christ Rom. 6.18 Being free from sin we become the servants of righteousnesse Thus you see there is a righteousnesse of imparted holinesse in the Saints although stained with many imperfections Quest 1. But how come Beleevers by it Quest 1 Answ 'T is created q Creatio fit ex nihilo Ephes 4.24 The new man is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse so that grace is another creation The same power that made the world goes to the new making of a heart 2 Cor. 4.6 Eph. 1.18 19. Quest 2. Created Quest 2 But by whom Answ Surely by Jesus Christ the Sun of righteousnesse in the Text. For Christ is the Fountain of their infused holinesse as the Sun is the fountain of light 1 Cor. 1.30 Christ Jesus of God is made unto us Wisdome and Righteousnesse and Sanctification and Redemption And John 1.16 r Christus bonorum omnium affluentiam in se continet ita ut nōaliūde ulla pars salutis nec gutta una gratiae petenda sit Calv in John 1.16 Of his fulnesse we all receive grace for grace So that all our water of joy is drawn out of this Well of salvation as Christ is called Isai 12.3 Christ as Mediator was not onely to pacifie God but as I said to engage and undertake for a change in us and that we should be pliable and obedient submitting to the new Covenant Christ therefore by his Spirit must purge his Church and principle his Elect that they may be presented spotlesse to the Father Agian All grace is conveyed unto us through this Conduit-pipe a Mediator because herein God is well pleased with us and so in him will give grace and glory and withhold no manner of good thing from us Lastly the gifts and graces of the Spirit are the fruits of Christs Ascension ſ Ergo Christus nostrae utilitatis gratia ad patrem ascen dit nam in coelum ipsum ingressus est ut appareat nunc in conspectu Dei pro nobis Musc in Joh. 16.7 as Elias when he was translated let fall his garment so Christ at his Ascension powred down his Spirit and let fall some golden rayes of his glory Iohn 16.7 I might add to this that Christ by his intercession prevailes so● grace for us Luke 22.32 In al● these respects Christ may be said here to be the Sun or Fountain of our imparted righteousnesse though the Spirit properly work it Quest 3. How is Christ the Sunne and F●untain of the Saints Righteousnesse imparted Quest 3 I answer by Conformity Resignation and Infusion 1. By conformity with Christ in his Life Death and Resurrection by faith we draw vertue from these to tranforme mortifie and quicken us Rom. 6.11 In that Christ lives he lives unto God reckon yee also your selves to be dead indeed unto sin and alive unto God through Iesus Christ our Lord. t Tho. Wilson expos on Rom. 6.11 pag. 186. Dialogue 5. You see Christ did not these things for himselfe we as his members have fellowship with him in all our old man was crucified with him and we are risen with Christ Coloss 3.1 that is by vertue of his resurrection 2. By Resignation giving up our selves

feare no evill for thou art with me thy rod and thy staffe they comfort mee b Qui operatur ut accedamus operatur ne discedamus August de bon persev cap. 7. Here are three things 1. David a childe of God reckons on such a time when by dismall desertions he should take a Turne in the darke and damp valleys of the shadow of death i.e. be incompassed with dreadfull terrors sor● tryalls 2. He resolves that in such a case he will feare no evill q. d. I will not be dismayed and utterly confounded and finke into the gulfe of despaire 3. He gives the reason and shewes the hand that holds him Thy rod and staffe comfort me with such Shephears used to guide and rule their flocks c Consult Levit 27.32 Ezek 20.37 Mich. 7.14 Zach. 11.7 8. Thou wilt teach stay comfort and uphold mee in such a condition The Saints are bid to rest on God then as you see Esay 50.10 we may feel his Arm sustaining of us when we cannot see his face shining on us wee may have assurance of adherence when we want assurance of evidence 17. The Sunne is usefull to generation and production of fruites d Sol dicitur esse anima mun di Sol homo generant hominem and the fruits of the earth are all fetcht out by the Sun Deut. 33.14 It makes the plants which lay hid in their graves to peep out and beare fruit c Non nulli dum coelum mun dum animal putarunt cerebrum dixere lunam cor solem certe ●acturi anima●l monstrum fecerunt Euseb Nierembergius Hist Nat. lib. 1. cap. 8. pag. 5. Why thus we are regenerated and born anew by the Spirit of Christ All the pretious fruits of the Spirit as holinesse faith love joy patience c. they are all drawn forth by Christ hee is very profitable to every soule where he is he comes richly laden with blessings and makes our spices to flow out Cant. 4.16 Good things in us lye dead and bound up unlesse the Spirit let them out he cherishes the graces that are ready to dye f Cum nullum agens secundum agat nisi in virtute primi sitque earo spiritui perpetuo rebellis non potest homo licet jam gratiam conse quutus per seipsum operari bonum absque novo auxilio Dei ipsum moventis dirigentis protegentis quamvis alia habitualis gratia ad hoc ei necessaria non est Aquinas Doctor Sibs on Cant. 4.16 we need not onely grace to put life into us at first but likewise the fresh in-comes of the Spirit to quicken and draw forth that grace wee have 18. The Sun workes diversly on divers objects it melts Snow Ice and soft Wax but it hardens and stiffens the Clay it makes gardens sweet and dunghils noysome g Indurandi verbum non solum permissio onem sed di vinae quoque irae actionem significa Cal. in Rom. 9.18 Thus Christ the sun of righteousnesse softens some and judicially hardens others according to his pleasure Rom. 9.18 From good hearts that are like beds of Spices he exhales by shining on them the sweet savour of thankfulnesse but the more Christ shines in a way of mercy to the wicked the more like h Reynolds van and vex of Cap. 77. dunghils they evaporate the filthy streams of ingratitude sinning freely because grace abounds Thus Christ is set for the rising and falling of many 19. Next The Sunne comforts and cheeres up the creatures Diogenes priz●d the Sunshine above any thing Alexander could give him light is sweet and pleasant but darknesse is uncomfortable and dismaying and it damps the spirits of men but when the Sunne shines all the creatures seem to smile together when Christ the Sun i Qui hac lae ●itia non effe ●untur supra caelos ut solo ●●●sto conten 〈◊〉 ●mundum de ●●●ciant frustra 〈◊〉 ●●●nt s● habe●● 〈…〉 ●●amabi●●● Christi 〈◊〉 of righteousnesse breaks out of the cloud Oh how sweet is his voyce and his countenance is lovely the sight of it is better then wine or life it selfe i. David saith Life up the light of thy countenance And Thou that sittest between the Cheruhims shine forth Psal 80.1 The soule that seeth Christ shining and God smiling hath joy unspeakable and full of glory 20. Neither Moon-light Star-light nor Candle-light can make day if the Sun be wanting k A saving of Heraclitus and they are all drowned cannot appear when the Sun is up with his greater glory Brethren 't is not the Moon-light of Reason the Star-light of Ordinances nor the dim Candle-light of Creature comforts that can make day in the soule if Christ be wanting And as all the creatures are sensible of the Sunnes absence the Marigolds droop and wrap up themselves as unwilling to be viewed by any eye but his and the birds refuse to sing their pleasant notes So it is with the soul no comfort in Christs with-drawing the Spouse is even sick and dying when Christ doth not beam forth his love-rayes upon her I am bowed down and goe mourning all the day long saith David Psalm 38.6 But heare Job I went mourning without the Sun this may bee meant of the Sunne of Gods favour my Harp also is turned to lamentation Job 30 28.31 The soul in such a case hangs up the Harp on the willow-tree she refuseth to be comforted by other Iovers l Deus ergo sol quo solo fruens beat us fit cultor ejus quo solo non sruens omnis mens misera est quaelibet realia perfruatur Aug. lib. 2. contra Faust 5. bring musick and friends and contentments c. all 's but the white of an egge m Quosdam deserit quosdam deserere videtur Amb. in Psal 118. if Christ the yelk which is the Sunnes picture be wanting no true relish or sweetnesse in any thing without Christ But then when a soule is in a storme when invironed with afflictions and temptations then to misse Christ is double misery Paul describing his dangerous voyage to Rome aggravates the tempest thus Then neither Sunne nor Stars appeared many dayes Acts 27. When there are stormes within and tempests without then to have no sight of Christ is irksome to have no comfort without nor within neither this is n N. Lockyer in his usefull instructions for these evill times Serm. 11. pag. 135. sad But on the other side when Christ the Sun of righteousnesse shines with full face with perpendicular rayes this drowns the lesser glory of Moone and Starres this darkens your outward comforts which indeed are not worthy a glance of your eye in respect of Christ the soule that sees him is in a continuall rapture and with heart-siftings and leapings sings There is no beloved like this beloved he is the fairest of ten thousand And then looking upon other things it counts all drosse and dung for Christ

satisfied divine justice and are most absolutely perfect and more righteous then Adam in Innocency but all this not in our own persons but in and by another even Christ All that he is hath done and endured being freely imputed unto us as if wee had been done and suffer'd it This is our Imputed righteousnesse and though it have many names in Scripture yet it flows onely from Christ the Sun and Fountaine of this Righteousnesse I finde that this is call'd the Righteousnesse of God of Faith of Saints and of Christ 1. This Imputed Righteousnesse is often call'd the Righteousnesse of God even the Divine Essence and in particular the Father Rom. 3.21 and 10.3 2 Cor. 5.21 Because God hath appointed to justifie man this way and no other and he as Judge is the justifier for the party offended must forgive m Non ait ut digni fit is sed ut d●gni habe●mini So Cajetan in 2 Thes 1.5 Rom. 3.26 2. 'T is call'd the Righteousnesse of Faith Rom 4.13 10.6 9.30 Because Faith onely is the hand that apprehends and Instrument that applies it Rom. 3.28 Faith singles out Christ as the onely sufficient l Rom. 3.22 Isa 9.6 1 Cor. 1.30 meanes of life and cleaves eternally to him for salvation 3. 'T is call'd the Righteousnesse of Saints Rev. 19.8 Because they onely are the subject of it and Christ never gives Imputed without infused Righteousnesse 4. 'T is call'd the Righteousnes of n Christus ut solus justus est ita suam justitiam in nos transferendo justos nos reddit Bullingerus Christ Jer. 23.6 And in the Text he is called the Sun of Righteousnesse because he lived and dyed for us and thus as Mediator efficiently justifies And so the Lord seeth no Iniquity in Jacob nor perversnesse in Israel Numb 23.25 1. Quest Are wee not righteous in Gods sight Quest 1 partly by Christs righteousnesse and partly by our own I answer No the Text is expresse Rom. 3.28 Wee conclude a man is justified by Faith without the deeds of the Law Linsey-woolsey-Garments were of old forbidden and so ploughing with the Oxe and Asse wee must not mingle nor couple Christs Righteousnesse and ours in Justification 2 Quest How Quest 2 Say our adversaries what righteous by another mans righteousnesse This is as if one should be said Alterius Doctrinâ doctus Learned by anothers learning c. I answer Dispar exemplorum ratio there is not the same Reason For one man is not united unto another as the Faithfull are to Christ Wee are members of his Body and are acted by one and the same Spi●it 3 Quest Doth not S. James say Quest 3 Wee are justified by works and not by faith onely Surely yes But he speaks not saith o Vide Bullingerum et Calvinum in Jacob 2.24 Calvin of the Imputation but demonstration of righteousnesse wee are righteous by works Non causative sed declarative Before others and in our own consciences But the word is full Rom. 8.33 By the deeds of the Law shall no flesh be justified in his sight The Inferences will be two First Inference 1 see the folly and madnesse of Justiciaries that doe not onely p Periculosa habitatio ●orū qu● habitant in M●●itis Bernard endanger their own precious soules but throw much dirt in the face of Christ for going about to establish their own righteousnesse they have not submitted themselves to the righteousnesse of God q The Papists jeeringly call it putative righteousness as Rom. 10.3 These dote on their own rags and reject his Robes They feed on husks and refuse viands Narcissus like they are enamour'd with their own shadows They stand a tip-toe and scornfully over-look Christ But when 't is too late then such will see the vanity of their own righteousnesse r Opera ante fidem inania ut cursus celerrimus praeter vi●m Augustin Enarrat in Psal 31. when Death and Devills looke them in the face then they 'l know what it is to slight Christ The Lord rouze such and shew them their hopes are Cobwebs their foundations sandy and their end destruction except they get into Christ ſ B●llarm●n hath his Tut●ssimum est c. Secondly How much comfort Inference 2 and confidence doth this administer to Beleevere they have the perfect righteousnesse of God upon them you may go to God with boldnesse look Death in the face with triumph and throw the Gauntlet to sinne Men and Devills as Rom. 8. What shall I say You have recovered more by Christ then you lost by Adam For 1. Adams righteousnesse was uncertain and ●uch as it was possible for him to loose 't was in his own keeping and therefore he lost it so soone But the righteousnesse wee have by Christ is made surer to us were it in our own custody wee might be tempted to sell it as Esau his birth-right for a messe of pottage But blessed be God it is in Christs hands and so it cannot be taken from us Our life is t Ponitur in tuto quia reponitur in Christo Col. 3.3 1 Pet. 1.5 hid with Christ in God and wee are kept by the Power of God to salvation 2. Admit Adams righteousnesse had been unchangeable yet had it been but the righteousnesse of man O but this is the righteousnesse of God and as the second Adam was a farre more excellent person then the first so is his righteousnesse more absolute more glorious To conclude Thou that hast the least faith thou that art the poorest and weakest beleever know thou art bottom'd on this rock cloath'd in this purple the very perfect righteousnesse of God is thine by imputation O that thou hadst eyes to see thy happinesse and an heart to be affected with it that so thou mayst rejoyce in it and be thankfull for it 4. Christ the Sun of righteousnesse remunerative 4. And lastly Christ is the Sun of righteousnesse remunerative he is a Sunne of righteousnesse or righteous dealing in impartiall distributions of rewards and punishments First he is the Sun of Righteousnesse remunerative in remembring defending and rewarding his followers and that because he hath promised it and they depend on him for it 1. u Promittendo se fecit debitorem Aug. Because he hath promised it and now must be as w Servus sum expecto alimētum miles sum exigo ab Imperatore stipendium vocatus sum postulo ab invitante promissum Ambr. good as his word I could easily instance in Temporals Spirituals and Eternals I referre you to the Margent x Psal 36.6 7. 2 Pet. 1.1 and Psal 24.5 Heaven is called a Prize for the Runner a Penny for the Digger * Nō in merit is nostris sed in misericordia Dei salus humana consisti● Orig. in Rom. lib. 9. cap. 11. not that man but Christ hath earn'd it and God hath promis'd it 2. The Saints depend on him for it

Funerall and inutterable howling of innumerable Spirits on the Sea-shore when the Marriner advised by a voyce pronounced these words Great PAN is dead The truth of which was avouched by Thamus Eph. 4.8 and others that heard it before Tiberias Caesar as Plutarch saith k Quid est captivavit captivitatem vicit mortem Mortem procuravit Diabolus et ipse Diabolus de morte Christi est captivatus Augustinus Christs death gave that blow to the head of the old Serpent which renders him a conquered enemy In this skirmish he smote all our enemies on the cheek bone bringing them to perpetuall shame and spoyling Principalities and Powers so that this was a joyfull rising to the world 3. Christ the Sun of righteousnesse may be literally said to rise to the world at his Glorious Resurrection from the dead 'T is said Mark 16.2 that the Maries came to the Sepulcher at the rising of the Sun Indeed two glorious Suns were risen that day for an Angel said unto them come see the place where the Lord lay Christ is not here but is risen This was much for Christs glory for hereby he declared himselfe to be the Sonne of God He seemed to be under a cloud in his Passion saith one l Sam. Torshell on the Text. pag. 82. but brake forth in his Resurrection and that by his m Nonpotestate precariâ sed virtute propriâ ut victor prodiit de Sepultur â. Bern. de Resurrect Christ Qui Agnus extuerat in passione factus est Leo in Resurrectione Idem Vide Ambrose in Joh. lib. 24. cap. 26. own power he suffered as a Lamb but rose as a Lyon saith Bernard And the● his Resurrection was for our good that wee might be assured of Remission and n Christus solus resurrexit sed non totus Bernard rise up with him to newnes of life Rom 25. He rose again for our justification not that any part of the Price of our Redemption was unpayed at his Passion but that our deliverance was not manifested till then God would never have let him out of the prison of the Grave but that all the debt was pay'd And if Christ were not risen then is your faith vaine and you are of all men most miserable saith Paul 4. Christ may be said literally to rise at his blessed Ascension Luke 24.51 Whilst he lift up his hands and blessed them he was parted from them and carried up into Heaven Having finisht his Fathers worke he is exalted in our o Dum naturam humanam syderibus Christus importavit cr●dentibus cielum patere posse monstravit Aug. in Act. Nature to consecrate a way and prepare a plane for us p Bish usher in his Body of Divinity he hath taken with him the paw●e of our flesh and left with us the earnest of his Spirit Our Head is ascended and all wee his members shall follow which is an unspeakable comfort to Beleevers Secondly 2. Mystically or spiritually as Christ the Sun of righteousnesse may be said properly and literally to rise to the world these foure wayes so he may be said to arise mystically and spiritually to the world and that three wayes When the Gospel is preached Church defended and the world judged 1. When the Gospel is preached and Christ comes in the purity and power of hi● Ordinances 1 Joh. 2.8 The darknesse is past and the true light now shines viz. The Gospel But see Luk. 1.78 Zachary in his Song prophesied of Christ That he should give knowledge of salvation to his people through the tender mercy of our God whereby the Day-spring from on high hath visited us to give light to them that sit in darknesse and in the shadow of Death and guide their feete into the way of peace This place q Jun. Paral. lib. 1. par 50. Junius and r Dan. Heinsius exercit ad Luc. 1.78 lib. 3. cap. 1. Heinsius parallells with the Text Paul expresses it plainly 2 Cor. 4.4 The Devill blinds the eyes of them that beleeve not least the light of the Glorious Gospel of Christ who is the image of God should shine upon them See Psal 102.16 2. When his Church is defended and his people prosper in the world when beleevers shall inherit the Earth and Civill Powers come into godly hands Then doth Christ arise on a Nation then is the Sunne seene in the Mount Isa 66.5 They that hated you shall be cast out and the Lord shall appeare to your joy and they shall be ashamed The Sun will arise o're the Hills Christ will appeare to your joy c. ſ Verum hic agi de secundo Christi advētu patet ex praetedentibus sequentibus quae omnia expectāt ad diē judicii Nam sicut Sol obscura illuminat videnda et confpicua oculis ommum exhibct sic Chrisius piorū virtut●m justitiam quae in hâc vitâ ab imptis obscurabatur in die judicii illustrao●t clarificabit toti orbi conspicuam gloriosam exhibebit Corn. a Lapide in Malac. 4.2 Pag. 355. 3. When the world is judged and Christ comes in all his Glory at the last day This Jerome and a Lapide think to be the meaning of the Text for as the rising of the Sun discovers the things that lay hid so Christ at the day of Judgement will open the secrets of all hearts he will come in flaming fire and so astonish and dazle the eyes of his enemies 2 Sam. 12 12. So here you see how Christ doth arise unto the world literally and mystically I see not but Malachy might respect all this and prophesie of Christs whose administration from his Nativity till his rendring up of the Kingdome to his Father * When Christ riseth in a soule Secondly When Christ the Sun of righteousnesse may be said to arise in a soule I answer When he comes in an inlightning renewing and quickning manner to the soule 1. Christ may be said to arise upon a soule when he comes to inlighten and informe it when light breaks into the mind 2 Pet. 1.19 Wee doe well in taking heed to the Word till the Day-starre that is Christ Rev. 22.16 arise in our hearts Till then though t Non omnes qu●● 〈◊〉 scriptu●●● admirand●●nt ●●usi●● rant nisi qui coelesti splendore gratià ●otiuntur Basil incircled with Gospel discoveries our u Rom. 1.21 foolish hearts will be darkned but when Christ whom the Prophet calls the Sunne and Peter the Starre that ushers in the Sunne when he I say shall arise with in us in our hearts to give us sanctified and experimentall insight into the things of Heaven then indeed wee shall be taught to purpose and know w 1 Pet. 2.9 all things 2. Christ ariseth in a soule when he comes to renew and transforme it when he suddenly works a change within and all things become new new Principles new Projects new resolutions How

are Physicians of no value Remember this there is a Time of healing see Eccles 3.3 Beware of dallying with God and letting it slip Be not so cruelly injurious to your precious soules as to let it slip unimproved for then e Qui aegrotāt animo quo gravius aegrotant hoc magis abhorrent á quiete et à medico Plutarch I tremble to utter it you 'l be judicially blinded and hardned of God least or for feare you should be converted and Christ should heale you Joh. 12.40 A sad place And a f Plorante medico ridet phreneticus plorantibus amicis August sad case to be past healing and yet on this side Hell To laugh at the Physician that shews you your danger and weeps over you To spit out divine Physick and fling away those Plaisters that are spread with the goare bloud of Christ how can they escape that neglect so great salvation 3. Here is marvellous comfort Vse 3 and glad tidings for poore sicke sinners that long to be healed for all pained and afflicted consciences that see * Dolores animae sunt animae dolorum and a wounded spirit who can beare no meanes of helpe in themselves but looke after Christ for ease Many doubts and Tentations are ready to perplex your hearts I would faine stifle your objections 1. Object Object 1 O but my sinnes are no ordinary sinnes my diseases are grievous my sins are heightned and aggravated sinnes as being committed against light and against love against meanes and against mercies c. Can or will Christ cure such evills I answer Solutio Surely yea for all sinners without exception are invited to come unto him and he undertakes to cure them Mat. 11.28 Come unto mee I le give you ease and rest saith Christ See Psal 103.3 He forgives all thine Iniquities great and small and heales all thy diseases g Verbum Dei Panacea vocatur à sanandis Omnibus Morbis It is a wicked distinction of Rome that divides sinnes into veniall and mortall because though some sinnes comparatively are greater then others yet no h Non leve quo Deus laeditur Salvian de Provid lib. 2. sinne is truely little or triviall because committed against a righteous Law and Infinite Justice nor any sinne mortall if by Faith and Repentance you close in with Christ Banish therefore all despaire say not with Cain My sinne is greater then I can beare my disease too dangerous to be cured Thou lyest Cain saith i Gen. 4.13 Mentir●s Cam. August Austin Where sinne abounds his Grace will much more abound The more dangerous thy disease the more glorious the Cure Now Christ will get him a name The sinne against the Holy Ghost is not too hard for Christ to heale but t is ever accompanied with malicious willfulnesse and all such will not be healed Suppose that sinne capable of Repentance and you must needs say 't is also capable of pardon k Sanantur nullo vulnera cordis ope not true in Divinitie God ean make Scarlet and Crimson sinnes whiter then Snow 2. Green wounds may be cured Object 2 but mine are old sores I have lived thirty fourty yeares in my sins is there any help for me I feare not Yes For God hath said it Sol. Ezek. 18.22 Isai 65.20 at what time soever you come hee will cure you The sinner of an hundred yeares old shall be accursed that is if hee continue in his sinne l Let not the oldest sinner despaire of mercy yet beware of customary sinning Consuetudo peccandi tollit sensum peccati Aug. Repent with the Thiefe in thy last houre and thou art safe when death is killing thy body Christ may bee healing thy soule however presume not remember that common but true saying True repentance is never too late but late repentance is seldome true and know the purchasing of heaven is like the buying the Sybils prophesie the longer we stand off the dearer 't will cost us the more teares harder repentance deeper sorrow the sooner thy bones are set the lesse pain c. m Qui promi sit poenitenti veniam non promisit peccon●● crastinum Aug. He that promised mercy to the penitent never promised a morrow to the sinner saith Austin 3. The next objection is this Object 3 Mine are relapses and of all diseases those are the most dangerous I have recovered out of sin and have fallen again and again into the same sinne This I confesse is sad Sol. ve●y sad but yet Christ can heale you and cure you Hosea 14.4 I will heale your back slidings and love you freely n Quoties ce cidit peccando toties resurgit poenitendo Solomon saith The righteous man falleth seven times a day if that bee spoken of sin and the same sin yet it includes his repentance o Peccasti poenitere Millies peccasti Millies poenitere Chrysostom Homil. 2. in Psal 50. for how could he fall seven times unlesse he had euen six Only sin not that grace may abound try not experiments with your poore souls 4. Object 4 Oh if Christ were but sensible of my spirituall diseases I make no question but he would heale me I answer Christ was a man of p Christ was Homo doloris say to him Non ignare mali miseris succurrito Christe sorrows Sol. and was in all points tempted as we are yet without sinne Hee is touch't withe feeling of our infirmities and in all our afflictions he also as our head and husband is offlicted he condoles and sympathizes with us Christ beares our sicknes saith Isaiah God hath fitted him as with a Body to be a Saviour so with a heart to be a pitifull Physician q Amarum peculum prius ●ivit M●dicus 〈◊〉 vib●● e●●er●t 〈◊〉 rotus Ita Christus c. Augustin in Psal 98. he hath tasted every bitter cup before us and his very bowels yearn over us 5. Oh but if Christ were at hand Object 5 it were somewhat but he is gone into Heaven 'T is true his Body is there Sol. but his Divinity is every where John 14.18 Heb. 13.5 I will not leave you comfortlesse I will come unto you saith Christ Psalm 34.18 He is neere unto the afflicted in spirit their eye-lids may be glewed up that they cannot see him yet hee it neer them even at hand and his presence is a little Heaven 6. But others neglect me Object 6 few pity me why should I thinke CHRIST regards me You all remember the Parable Sol. Luke 10.34 Christ was that good Samaritan Hee therefore heales thee and helps thee because no heart will pitie thee no hand can help thee but his Hee wants neither love nor power to doe thee good Ezek. 16.5 6. When thou layest rotting in thy sinnes none eye pitied thee nor had compassion upon thee but thou wast cast out in the open field to the loathing of thy person in that day r