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A11197	Christ and the doves heavenly salutations, with their pleasant conference together: or A sermon before the communion in Anwoth. Anno 1630. By that flour of the Church, Mr. Samuel Rutherfurd	Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661.	1660 (1660)	STC 21464; Wing R2372A; ESTC S100009	19,105	30

the Contract to be his as he is Yours Take therefore the Law and this Sweet Saviour both together bind your Selves to him to be his as he is bound to be Yours He Feedeth among the Lillies To prove that Christ doth Esteem her as his Kirk and Flock his Wife his Beloved She says He Feeds her amongst the Lillies that is the Pure and Uncorrupted Word of GOD or the Lillies are the Fruits of the Spirit opposed to Stinking Roots and Bitter Roots that grow in the Kirk When Judgement is like Hemlock or Wormwood Or the Lillies the Saints of GOD that are Lillies amongst Thorns Fifthly However it be it is certain the LORD feeds his Kirk with as much Spiritual Food as holds in their Life in the Way to Heaven while their Day of Marriage come Romans 8. 23. We receive here the first Fruits When a Man has shorn a stouk of his corn-field that puts him in assurance of the whole croop GOD would have Israel to Taste of the Vine Grapes of Canaan to assure them they should get the Land it self 2 Chronicles 1. 22 GOD hath sealed us and given us the Earnest of his Spirit in our Hearts There be Two Words First GOD does with his Children in this Life as a Merchant does with his Wares he has bought because he cannot Transport them presently he puts a Seal or Mark upon them and then it may be Sold to no other Body and his Children stricks hands he writes his Name and his Arms the Image of GOD in their Soul and then when the Devil comes throw the Mercat to buy for he offers ay Money in hand Pleasure Lusts Honours Ye have an Answer to give him Tell him your Soul is sealed already You have blocked with an Honest Merchant Christ and he has put his Mark upon you that ye may not Sell and it were a pity to beguile him And therefore bid that Deceiving Loun go seek his Mercat in another place ye are not his Merchant The Devil will promise them as fair as GOD he will not prig with them he will not care to promise much more than Heaven She shall be like GOD But he pays not so well as GOD doth Agree not with him Block not with him There is another Sweet Word used that GOD gives to his Children The Earnest of His Spirit in this Life He gives them Arles Faith Hope Joy these be like Six or Seven Shillings to warrand that Ye shall get the Principal Beloved had GOD blocked with you and given you Arles he would therefore that the Bargain hold Will ye not then take GODs Arles and block with the Devil By GOD's Arles ye have Assurance of this GOD will come and Loose his Arles Rew not of the block never any Man had cause to Rew the block with Jesus Christ There is another Word used John 16. Christ is going to Heaven to Leave His Disciples He promised to come again to them to see them How Sorry were they to want him and blyth were they of that word that he said he will come again Therefore in Sign and Token that he would come again he promised them a Pawn that was His Holy Spirit Ye know Christ and We are contracted in this Life We will be Married again at the Day he comes to Judge the World Now all the Wooing-Time there goes Love-Tokens betwixt Them and Missive-Letters Tell me when ye got a Letter last from Christ There will be Messengers going betwixt You. The same Word is a Messenger the Sacraments are Love-Tokens that our Wooer has left to assure us that he is contracted with Us I pray you take no Gifts from the Devil away with Ill-Conquest Away with Lusts and the Love of the World I hope ye are not minded to Marry with Sin if ye do ye are ashamed then for all your Days Ye are come off GOD's House and are his Image Fy it is a shame to hear tell of it to Marry with a Base Slave the Devil I allow you here to be Wife and Prudent in your Marriage Marry not for Gear keep your self to be a Good Match There be a sort of Indifferent-men that ye call Harmless-meu they have neither Good nor Ill they Love not Falshood they Love not Popery and yet they will not Burn for the Truth They are like Blank-paper as it is thought neither GOD nor the Devil has blocked with them But has not GOD given you Arles nor no Pawn Satan will get you But do this first hold your self with Christ then ye have an Answer to give other Lovers the World and the Devil Ye may Laugh and say ye are too long in coming I have promised my Self away to another Husband and therefore I cannot have you also for I will not have Two Husbands 1 Cor. 6. 19. The Apostle takes a Reason to Prove that the Body should not be given to an Harlot it is the Temple of the Holy Ghost Set the House of your Soul to GOD and then for shame ye cannot win off him to cause him Flit Ye are bought with a Price Married Folk has not many Wooers The Devil is busie to seek them that are Virgins and Love not Christ to be their Husband While the Day Dawn That is The Marriage-day and in Hebrew called Your Day for Excellency To say the Truth it is a Day and called the Day of Christ the Day of Redemption 2 Timothy 1. 2. It is called the Day for these Causes It is the Day when Christ is Perfect in his Members Now Christ's Body is Mangled Arms and Legs and Hands in sundry places Some not Born some Born But in the Devils Service some Rotten in the Earth and casten in the Sea Christ is Bleeding in his Members There is many a Wound in the Mystical-Body of Christ this Day all will be gathered in that he gets His Bride he enters in Peaceable Possession of Her Secondly That Day Christ shall give in his Accompts and all his Fathers Generally he shall Render an Accompt of all that he took by the Hand and shall put up his Sword and never Draw it again And as the Chief Shepherd he shall make an Accompt of all his Lambs and tell his Father these be all My Silly-Sheep They have win away with their Life I went throw Woods and Waters and Briers and Thorns to Gather them in and My Feet was Pricked and My Hands and My Side Pierced ere I could get a grip of them but now here they are Good Cause shall the LORD have to Clap Christ's Head that Day And judge ye if ye will have a Blyth Heart to hear Christ and his Father to Compt together when we shall be all standing under the broad Scarlet Robe of Christ's Righteousness and as many Glorified Angels looking on Thirdly And every Souldier that Day shall shew his Wounds to his LORD saying LORD I have losed this and this for Thee and GOD shall clap our Head and take us benn to his

to Glory as by the Spirit of the LORD 2 Corinthians 3 18 then ye are meet for Christ begging Poor Sinners are our LORDs Schollars The Lintel-stone of our LORDs School-door is a Low-stone ye must stoup Low and Lout Ye will be on your Knees with it or ye can win in Ye must be very humble else that Stone will take your head and ding you back and ye will not win in than be Fools that Christ may be your Wisdom 1 Corinthians 1 30 There is as much merit in Christ as will buy a Thousand Heavens Now if our Wooer Christ were not Kind and sought our Kindness even Words of us and brought the Love Tokens the Friendship betwixt Christ and us would soon wear out of Date grow Cold Christ ay blows at the Coal ere it wear out Christ would win a Friend yea a Foe to be kind to him He is ay thriping and claiming Kindness of us as if he were the Beggar and the Poor-man and we the King O he claims Kindness to us Then surely we need not think shame of our Friend Would ye ken for whom Christ Died and Payed even for Dyvours such as Swore themselves bare and came out of Prison upon Caution or a Cessiobonorum Poor-men that has been upon the Dyvours-stone and are far from Payment by the Dyvour-bill when there is not a finger in all your hand fastened upon your self then ye are meet for Christ For who are better met and yoaked than a Poor Sick Dying-man and a skillfull Physician Who is better yoaked than a crying Begging-sinner and a Rich Christ But oh it is ofttimes not so for Christ would give us more nor we will receive He scatters his Gold we Proud Beggars will not bow our back and lout down and gather He would fain Sell we will not Buy so there will be no blocking Let Me see thy Countenance An Allusion to Israel that was to present themselves before the LORD Thrice a Year in the Tabernacle The meaning is Walk before me It is not enough that thou believe and so dwell by Faith in the Holes of the Rock but thou must also shew thy Faith by Good Works and Prayers and Worshipping of GOD Christ loves not Professors that never wan or Love to Pray and such as hates not the World But you will see they are Believers by their Holy Living Matthew 13 The VVord of GOD is Seed sown that brings forth Thirty Sixty and an Hundred Fold Ilk Boll brings out Thirty Ilk Sermon ilk Communion should bring out an Hundred Good VVorks Beloved GOD's Land is Set at an High-price he is a Master that will have all his own from his Tennents and as the Song says Every one of GODs Sheep brings out Twins Hebrews 7 8 There is a Ground that drinks in Rain from Heaven and yet brings forth Briers and Thorns it is near a Curse Bring forth Fruit or else ye will make GOD say my Curse and GODs Mallison be upon thy Heart thou hears much and brings forth no Fruit Therefore beware Beloved a Tree that once gets a dadd with GODs Ax it will never do well again Ye shall become like the Girdle Jeremiah 13 17 which he did hide at the River Euphrates it was profitable for nothing it was marred it shall never go about GODs Wast again Beware then that ye be not Blasted Professors Fruitless Christians but be ye always in his Sight For there be some that comes never in GODs Sight they are GODs Dyvours They are aughting so much that they dar not come to GOD and Compt and Pay Outlaws and Borderers that comes not or keeps not Christs Kingdom but runs like Wild Asses and Drumadaries up and down the Mountains and snuffs up the Wind at their Pleasure I compare their Life to those that rides Post Many a Horse has Satan in his Stable and when these Out-laws has wearied their Greediness after Sin and has gotten they know not what they mount upon a Fresh-horse Some upon Pride and they ride once out of GODs Sight they run while they be in Hell in the end For the Devil is upon the Horse and the Rider GOD seeks Dear and for his Money ye must give him more than Ten in the Hunder For Five Talents he must have Ten again he must have double Stock Look what Grace ye receive by Weight render to him his own in Weight and more If his Gold want an Ounce he will cast it to you again For one Bolls sowing ye must give him Thirty again GOD would have his Servants ay keeping his Chamber if they go their own length from him he misses them Ye must not be GODs Chamber-pages and steal out of his Presence and give the Devil a Baggadge-yoaking nay he must ay see your Face and hear your Voice There be many that would serve GOD and be in Christs School but they are like Trowands that takes the Play and runs to Play sometimes with the World and the Devil and loves to sport themselves with the World and the Devil But GODs Schollars may not take the Play Let me see thy Face The Kirk might have said Dear LORD my Face Oh does Thou desire to see my Face it is very Black I am Sun-burnt Sin hath made me deformed and for my Voice it is both Harsh and Mistuned What then says Christ I think not so my Dear Spouse I think it is a Fair Face I think ye have a Sweet Voice It is Great Comfort for GODs Children when they rise many times off their Knees from Prayer with a woe heart thinking because they have no Heart nor Feeling nor Sence that GOD is offended with their Prayers and thinks little of their Works when as their Prayers and Tears and Works are accepted before GOD Ye think nothing of one Tear yet GOD puts it in his Bottle and nothing of one Sigh but GOD gathers it in his Treasure If GOD thought of us as the World does and as we think of our Selves oftentimes wofull would our Case be But GOD has not a Pleasanter Sight in the World nor the Face of a Child of GOD No Musick Delights Him more nor the Sighs and Tears Complaints and Prayers of his Children See ye not the Spirit of GOD bringing in Christ longing for a Sight of his Wife longing for a Word of her Proverbs 8. 31. Christ Rejoiceth and Sports and Plays in the Habitable Parts of the Earth and his Delight is with the Sons of Men Ye will see more of this upon the last words of this Song Take us the Foxes It 's a Speech of Christ to take the Kirk to take Convince Censure Rebuke Cut off and Excommunicat all Inordinate Livers and Offenders in the LORDs Vineyard Ezekiel 13. 4. O Israel thy Prophets are like Foxes in the Deserts Jeremiah 12. 10. Many Pastors have Corrupted My Vineyard O what can there be upon the Earth to make a Kirk Happy But it is here To hear a Kirk Sick