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A81950	The right receiving of Christ· Or, An appendix to the worthy communicant, or A treatise shewing the due order of receiving the sacrament. By Jer. Dyke, late minister of Epping in Essex. Which was intended by the said author in his life time to be annexed to this treatise of the sacrament; as appeares in the epistle. Wherein a Christian may know, whether he hath rightly received Christ in the sacrament or no.	Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.	1645 (1645)	Wing D2959bA; ESTC R229229	52,271	144

words shake off the dust of your feete It shall be easier for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of Judgement then for that Citie Why so See the reason ver 40. He that receives you receives me and so also he that refuses you refuses me So then he that refused to receive the Apostles their sinne was that they refused to receive Christ And what should become of those that refused to receive him Gods vengeance shall lie heavier upon such mens heads at the day of Judgement then upon the head of a cursed damned Sodomite That sin shall presse and sinke a mans soule deeper into hell then Sodoms sin How heavie and dreadfull will Sodoms Hell be in Hell whose sinne made a visible Hell on earth and such an Hell on earth the monuments whereof remaine extant and exemplary to this day to be a terrour to all ungodly ones And yet as heavy as Sodoms punishment shall be it shall be easier then thine that receivest not Christ when offered unto thee Indeed when Christ would have come into a village of Samaria Luk. 9. 53. they would not receive him and they did not receive him sayes the Text. The Disciples would have had fire from heaven to have consumed them And if they thought they were worthy of fire from heaven that would not receive him but to lodge in their Towne and in some of their houses How much more shall they be judged worthy of fire in hell that doe not and will not receive him into their hearts when his Ministers offer him to men and labour to make ready for him And though then Christ would not have fire come downe upon those Samaritans yet when the time of judgement comes he will bring fiery vengeance upon all those that have not received him into their hearts 2 Thes 1. 7 8. When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ Not to obey the Gospel is not to obey the commandements of the Gospel as not to obey the Law is not to obey the commandements of the Law Now the maine commandement of the Gospel is Receive the Lord Jesus Christ This commandement not obeyed will bring fiery vengeance on his head that obeyes it not Oh that men would but thinke seriously of this danger The stoutest sturdiest and most rebellious spirit that ever was when he shall see Christ come in Glory shall then with howling and wringing of hands cry out upon himself Ah cursed wretch that I am oh that I had had the grace to have received this Lord Christ when he was offered to me Ah beast and foole that I received him not when I was so often pressed to it now shall I receive vengeance and wrath for ever because I received not the Lord Christ Nay thinke upon one thing also before that day come There will be a day of Death before the day of Judgement Thou must dye and thou knowest not how soone and when thou commest to dye like enough thou wilt take up Stephens prayer Acts 7. 59. Lord Jesus receive my spirit Then full faine wilt thou be to have Christ Jesus receive thy soule Now wouldest thou in good earnest have Christ Jesus receive thy soule when thou dyest why then be as willing to receive Christ Jesus into thy soule whilest thou livest He will receive no soule that hath not first received him In vaine shalt thou cry at thy last gaspe Lord Jesus receive my soule if thy soule have not before received him He will returne thee a cold and a comfortlesse answer Oh now yee can call to mee to receive your soule I called all the dayes of your life to receive me for these thirty forty fifty yeares together and you would never bee brought to receive me As you have dealt by me so will I now deale by you I will now be quit with you I called upon you to receive me and yee would not now cry you on and howle on to me to receive you I will as little regard your calles as you regarded mine your owne measure be mete unto you Let this meditation sinke deeply downe into our hearts and as willingly as wee would have Christ receive our soules at death and as willingly as wee would be received into everlasting habitations at the last day so willingly so gladly receive the Lord Jesus Christ now he is offered to you in the Gospel It being a matter of so great consequence and necessitie to receive Christ Quest how may wee come and what must be done to receive him They that will receive Christ there must be two things done by them Answ 1. All hindrances must be removed 2. Some positive duties must be done CHAP. V. Hindrances to be removed by such as will receive Christ FIrst All such things must be removed that hinder the soule from Receiving Christ There is no man that receives not Christ but there is something that holds him off We reade of a man in the Gospel that had a withered arme Now if a man would have offered him money upon condition that hee would have received it with his hand he could not have received it because his arme was withered So God offers Christ to be received and men receive him not because their armes are withered A Palsey shaking hand may receive an almes but a withered hand cannot Now there is one thing or other that withers the hand of the soule that it cannot stretch out it selfe to receive Christ Men must therefore first consider what that is which withers their hand arme and must get that first removed before they can receive Christ When Antichrist was to come into the world he could not be received untill that which hindred were taken out of the way 2 Thes 2. 7. when Christ would and should be received there is still some one thing or other that lets and hinders it And he cannot be received till that which hinders be taken out of the way Let us see what those hindrances are that must be first taken out of the way They are these First An over-good conceit of a 1. mans own condition and estate wherein he is for the present Such a conceit disconceits a man of the necessitie of Christ and makes him regardlesse of him when offered Offer to a man a thing that he needs not and he will not be at the paines to reach forth his hand to receive it What cares he to receive a thing he needs not Offer an almes to a rich man and he scornes it what he take an almes that hath money of his owne in his purse he thinkes it an abuse a disgrace and a disparagement to him for one of his ranke and repute to have an almes offered him But offer it to a poore man to a needy person his heart is gladded at the offer and hee thankfully receives it A man that thinkes highly

Christ and because my hearty desire is for thee that thou shouldst be more a reall Christian and estated in him then contemplative and alwayes onely meditating of him as an excellent meanes therefore amongst many others to help thee in and guide thee to the Right Receiving of and rooting in Christ I can now forbeare no longer to commend unto thy perusall this following Treatise Not a packe of Brachygraphicall fragments and incoherent scraps jumbled together by some pragmaticall pen man but a worke upon my certaine knowledge perfectly finished and that purposely for the Presse by the learned and most judicious Pen of my Most deare and late deceased Father and then intended by him to have been annexed as an Appendix to that last worke of his which himselfe published before his death entituled A worthy Communicant Or a Treatise shewing the due order of receiving the Sacrament c. and this a Treatise intituled The Right Receiving of and Rooting in Christ the very Title which he himselfe did put upon it while he lived Which fore-named Treatise Christian Reader with all his Former Works by himselfe published that gracious acceptance which they ever found from thee and the duty and honour I still doe and shall ever owe to him made me thus farre to deny my selfe as to adventure though but a bungler at it to afford my obstretricatory assistance to this Posthumus Infant rather then it should alwayes lye gasping in the Presse ready to perish for want of helpe To speak any thing in the commendations of this Work it s own mouth denyes me and is the rather needlesse in that I have now so farre assur'd thee of its Author who himselfe had thus finisht it for thy use as thou now receiv'st it To speak much of the Author modesty and my neere relation to him will not admit of and to say nothing of him duty forbids me With the leave of modesty then will I speake thus much onely and no more and if any shall thinke I say too much I will leave it to duty to excuse me For his Fidelity and Impartiality in the Work of his Ministery who knew him and knowes not that the Sword of the Spirit was in his hands a two-edged Sword which cut every way not like Sauls that cut off the leane and worst of the people and cattell and spared Agag and the fattest cattell but like the Psalmists Sword which spared none Yet so as that alwayes mens sinnes not their persons were the objects of his hottest thunder-bolts I will here passe by his rare accomplishments with all Ministeriall abilities as better knowne then that I need to mention them Alii pleni non loquuntur hi non pleni loquuntur Alii multiscii muti hi ignari sonori How he was every way free from both these Ministeriall defects thou who know'st him not in the Pulpit reade him in the Presse and judge For his indefatigabilitie in his labours and all for other mens eternall profit more then his own private and worldly benefit he was one of Saint Chrysostoms Bees Gloriosissimum animal not because it labours but because its labour is to others profitable And for his inoffensive life who knowes not that he was none of those slimy Lizards who wipe out the wholesome Print of their Doctrine with the filthy tayle of their scandalous practises But here now though Modesty did not yet the Father would take me off who tells me now God hath taken the Arke of his blessed soule out of the moveable earthly Tabernacle of his body and placed it in the fixed Temple of celestiall blisse Imitationem quaerit August non laudes that my best commendation will be imitation While he lived God honoured him to be one of Gideons Souldiers who carried both a Trumpet and a Lampe the Trumpet of his Ministery he let fall and the light of his practise wee all lost when God cracked asunder his earthen Pitcher The greatest honour I can now doe him is not to Trumpet forth his praises and make a blaze with his commendations but to take up both the Trumpet and Lampe which he laid downe in an holy imitation of him both in soundnesse of Doctrine and piety of practise and in this case I am sure what duty commands me that Modesty will not forbid And thus that God would not onely bestow the mantle but double the spirit of this deceased Eliah upon his surviving posteritie be it thy daily Petition at the Throne of Grace and to requite thee that God would redouble a blessing of his servants Labours upon thy pious endeavours shall be the humble Supplication of The Churches devoted Servant JER DYKE ❧ The Contents CHAP. I. It is the dutie of every one that will be a Christian to receive Christ fol. 6. CHAP. II. Ignorance of the worth of Christ keepes men from receiving him 9. CHAP. III. The great benefit that comes by the receiving of Christ 13. CHAP. IIII. The great danger of not Receiving Christ 26 CHAP. V. Hindrances to be removed by such as would Receive Christ 32 CHAP. VI. The love of our lusts a hindrance from receiving Christ 37 CHAP. VII False and groundless feares a hindrance to the receiving of Christ 41 CHAP. VIII The Positive Duty which must be performed of all that will receive Christ 46 CHAP. IX How to know whether wee have received Christ aright 62 CHAP. X. Whosoever they are that have indeed received Christ they doe walke in him 75 CHAP. XI Trialls of Mens Receiving of Christ 80 CHAP. XII It is a Christians Dutie to walke in Christ 84 CHAP. XIII It is not enough for a Christian to professe and beare the Name of Christ but he must be Rooted in him 89 CHAP. XIIII What is to be done that wee may get our selves to be Rooted in Christ 104 CHAP. XV. How to know whether wee be Rooted in Christ or not 115 THE RIGHT RECEIVING OF AND ROOTING IN CHRIST COLOS. 2. 6 7. As yee have therefore received the Lord Jesus Christ so walke yee in him Rooted in him IN the former Chapter v. 23. the Apostle entred upon an Exhortation to perseverance in the faith In the first seven verses of this chapter he continues that exhortation laying down more reasons and removing objections 1. He layes downe reasons to presse them And they are specially two 1. The first taken from his owne care that he had for their and others good ver 1 2. 2. The second taken from the certainty sublimity and perfection of the Gospel ver 2 3. 2. He removes Objections What needs all this adoe with us might the Colossians say Answ I would have you construe it to be done out of a loving feare and jealousie lest any should seduce and wrong you ver 4. I but is not this an unchristian suspition in you thus hastily to surmise the worst by us might they reply Answ No such matter for I doe with great joy behold and acknowledge that great