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A57965	Christs napkin: or, A sermon preached in Kirkcubright at the Communion, May 12. 1633. By that flower of the Church; famous, famous, Mr. Samuel Rutherfurd. Never before printed	Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing R2373A; STC 21465; ESTC S116297	15,666	24

so we Refuse Grace and makes Grace to be no more Grace for if it be given for any Worth in us it is no more Grace And therefore let Men here see then that the Kingdom of Grace is a Good Cheap World where the Best Things are gotten for Nothing And therefore I think in this Dear World wherein all Things goes for Money when Court cost Expences Lands are Dear and Gold is not gotten for Nought and Laws are Dearer than ever they were yea Papet and Ink are now Dearer than Jewels and Gold Rings were long syne Nothing now is bought for Nought Yet CHRIST for all that will not Change his VVorld but all Things with Him are given Gratis and ye are Welcome when all is done We get no Garments for Nought No Physick for Nought Christ gives VVhite Rayment Eye Salve and all for Nought without Money Sinners says LORD VVhat take ye for the VVater of Life He Answers Even Nothing and yet VVelcome Christ plays not the Merchant with his VVares he makes no Gain but Crys the VVell is free No says the Pope not a Drope till ye tell down Money That Bloody Beast would Sell the Water of Rome for Gold as meikle Money as meikle Gtace and Forgiveness Want ye Money He answers Ye shall not come here Nothing in Rome without Money Fy fy the stink of the Devil's World Nay but CHRIST is for Nothing Nay Justice giveth Money and Officers give Money it is a Dear World But CHRIST and his VVorld cares no more for Money nor before Verse 7. He that overcometh shall Inherit all Things Still in this Book John urgeth Fighting and Overcoming for Heaven We wonder much that GOD will not have Poor Men going to Heaven but by Fighting seeing he might have sent us to Heaven by a second Heaven But this is but a thought of Men that would have made a New Back-gate of their own to Heaven But GOD advised well when he made this Causay to it and ordained all his Saints and his own Sons to ●o that Way But it is easier for us to Complain on GOD's Decree than to Obey and to Dispute than Believe Men has too Thin Skins and for Health they will cut a Vein or let a Leg or an Arm be cut off for fear of a Feaster and yet for Life Everlasting they are so that they dow not Venture a Moments Pain Secondly There are Excellent Promises made to the Overcomers To him that taketh Heaven with Stroake of Sword and Blood For Heaven is a besieged City or Castle Armies of Sin with all their Armour and the Deceiving and Malicious VVorld The VVorld has Evah's Apple in the one Hand and Fire and Sword in the other and the Devil is the Captain of the Army Now here is a Price set and an Offer made to him that overcometh to him that will mount up by Faith and Hope and leap up in CHRIST's Chariot and betide him Life betide him Death he will go throw But they are Cowards that take a Backside and lets the Devil coup them in a Gutter But yet to lead Men on here is a Promise of Two Things First He shall Inherit all Things Then ye see that the Christian's Captain is a Man of a Fair Rent 1 Cor. 3. 21. For all Things are Yours whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the VVorld or Life or Death Things present or Things to come And to let us see he bides by the thing he has said He says again All Things are Yours Ye see then one has a Kingdom as Asa but wants Health and is Sick of his Feet he has not all Things Another has Strength of Body above any Living yet had many Troubles and wanted his Eyes as Sampson and therefore had not all Things O the Business Adam's Sons are at for Inheritances Here a Mealline there a Lairdship there a New Lordship that they call their all Things I think this is a Greedy Stile and Proud like Lordship or Lairdship that they call all Things Yet Greedy Adam's Sons has more Greediness here than Wit They run all upon their Lordships that they call the Lordship of many Things Luke 10. Martha Martha thou art troubled VVorldlings ye are ay troubled about this to be called my Lord of many Things But we shall see if the Text be True I Am Alpha and Omega Then First The Apostle here puts in Death Death is the Wages of Sin I think Death an Ill Mealline better want it out of the Charter How then have they all Things I Answer Death is also a part of the Lordship this way because it is my Lord of all Things and a Coatch to Glory CHRIST Himself being the Coatch-man and Driving the Horse Death is the Servant as the Wind serveth to bring the Sea-man Home So Death serveth him that hath the New Lordship Death is CHRISTs Ferry-Boat to Carry us Home For in CHRIST he sets his Foot on Death's Neck It is a Bridge o're the River of Hell that he walketh on to Heaven and it is his The Christian is advanced in CHRIST's Court and gets the New Stile to be my Lord of all Things the Prince the Duke of all Things Yet I shall get you a Lordship beneath them all but much sought for The Lordship of Vanity or Nothing Prov. 23. 5. Wilt thou set thine Eyes on that which is Nought For verily Riches has Wings He that is Rich has Nought Secondly If he Inherit all Things Then the whole World in his and so he wanteth Nothing A Third Question How is it then that the Saints are Hungry and Poor Answer This Promise is so taken from them 2 Sam. 3 14. Psal. 89. 27 28. I will set His one Hand on the Sea and His Right Hand on the River Then see how broad CHRIST's Two Arms are His one hand upon all the Sea and his other hand upon the River and that Promise is made to CHRIST as Principal-Cautioner of the Covenant For it is said Verse 26. He shall say unto Me Thou art My Father and My GOD and the Rock of My Salvation Verse 27. Also I will make him My First-born Higher than the Kings of the Earth Which is Exponed of CHRIST Heb. 1. 5. Rev. 10. 2. He has his right foot on the Sea and his left foot on the Land Put these Two together and see how Wide his Arms and Legs or Feet are they go over the whole World as his Inheritance which he Wan to himself and his Heirs after him with his Blood Now CHRIST got Land not to himself What needs him Land to give his Blood for Clay But he wan it to us and took Infeftment in the Earth in Name of his Friends And now it is True they are not Possessors of all Things But Secondly For Peoples Wants ye see their Interest is in and over all Things Yet their Tutour lets them go with a Toom-purse He knows the Heir is a Young one and cannot keep Gold and therefore he gives them Food and Rayment for their present Necessity but keeps the Lordship for the present Our Tutour CHRIST is made of GOD our Tutour our Purse-Master It is all one whether we have it in our Chist-neuk or if it be in CHRIST's Purse to keep while we need it providing we want not Thirdly A Third Question and a Third Doubt is at least Seeing they are under so many Troubles in this Life and has no Ease they have not all Things I Answer Yet I must Defend it and say if they have the Inheritance that they have all Things because the Sweet of the Comfort and Troubles are theirs A Fourth Question or Objection They have not Heaven and Glory at least in this Life and therefore they are not Inheritors of all Things I Answer The Promise is not fullfilled in this Life Yet when a Man has shorn a Stouk or two of Corn we say he has gotten Harvest and New Corn So the Believer gets Joy Hope Faith Assurance of Heaven and the First Fruits of the Spirit are New Corn So in the beginning he gets all Things 2. Having GOD and CHRIST they have all Things For ye see the Great-Ship Trailleth the Cock-Boat after her So the Great CHRIST bringeth all Things after him at his Back So I say having CHRIST they have all Things They have the Father and the Spirit the Word Life and Death Amen Let us Pray

Mother doth a Datted Bairn She will not let him go to School to Learn and why Because she dow not want him out of her Sight She will therefore never let him do well but feed him to the Gallows We dow not give away our Souls to Christ who would fain have them and easily Mend them but Lust keeps them like the Foolish Mother out of Christ's Company And Pride keeps another Man's Heart and Covetousness another Man's Heart that that Dear Craftsman Christ that made the Heart and made the Earth under our Feet New and the Mountains New yet we will not let Him make our Old Hearts New Our Souls are all hinging in Tattars Worn and Old with Sin and we dow not put them in Christ's Hand that would make them Whole and Cleanse them Fy upon thee that thy Garden was Cursed in Adam's Days to bring forth Nettles and Thorns and is Blessed to bring out Fruit in Christ and thy Soul gets not so much Good of Christ as thy Yard It is made New and thy Soul remains Old and Christ gets not his Craft among us He bids John write these Things about the State of the Glorified and calls them Faithfull and True He would not Intrust his Word to Man's Memory and Conscience He will have it written Blasphemous Papists laugh not at this nor call the Pope's Breast the Bible Here a Warrand for the written Scripture But indeed it tells us that Mans Falshood wore his Conscience had his Conscience been a Faithfull Register there should have been no need of a written Bible But now the Lord has lippened more to Dead Paper than to a Living Mans Soul Our Conscience now under Sin has not been a Good Bible Because Man is ready to run away from his Conscience because what is written on our Conscience as that there is a GOD a Judgement a Heaven or Hell Satan and Sin comes in as Two False Witnesses and blots our that and writes that in the Fool's Heart that says there is no GOD And there is many Holes in our Souls the Word of GOD comes in and runs out again at back spouts except Jesus make their Soul Water-fast so that the Word of GOD may Dwell in them plentifully Colos. 3. 16. Is not our Hearts compared to a Field wherein the Preacher sows the Seed Mat. 13. and the Black Spirits of Hell comes and gathers up Christ's Wheat O but there are many running out Souls and much need we have of a written Bible and therefore make much of the written Word and pray GOD to Copy his Bible and to write a New Book of his Doctrine in our Hearts and put it in the Conscience as he directs Jer. 31. 1. Of his Prophesie 2. A Description 3. A Promise of Matter Christ says to John It is done That is Exponed in Rev. 16. and 17. The World is ended so speaks Christ of the World and Glory of it passeth away in the Twinkling of an Eye and Christ cryeth to those that has the World in both their Arms It is done It is a past Thing there is no more of it It is but a word to our Lord he said Let all Things be and they were He said Let all Things be and they are at an end And we are beginning with the World as if it would be evermore ours and our Lord says in a Moment let it be plucked from them and it is done It is no for nothing that the taking down of this Inns of Heaven and Earth is touched in so few words It is done For it is an Easie Thing for the Almighty to take the Staffes in his own Hand that holdeth up this Fair Tent and when he pulleth it he Garreth it come down with a Titt So Rev. 4. 7. Four Angels is brought in holding the four Winds in their Hands as if they had the World in their Hands and as if they had it ready to Fold it up as a Sheet And O! what a fighting and business do they make to get a Clout of this Sheet He starring out his Eyes and he setting out his Neck for a piece of this Hollie Clout and Sheet and for a Gloib of the Earth But see Rev. 6. 14. The Heavens shall depart away like a Scroll of Parchment that is rolled together and the Fair Stories thereof are like Figs with the shake of the Almighty's Arm they shall fall together to the Ground and what more with a Touch of the Almighty's Hand or a Put of his Little Finger with the Blast of his Mouth saying It is done The Cupples of the Walls of the House cometh down Now I cannot but speak of Fools that has their Heads full of Wind-Mills and crys it is beginning and to Morrow shall be as this Day and much more abundant Isaiah 56. And there is no end of Buying and Building I came not here to bide any Body be Unthrifty but not to be like Bairns building Sandy Bourocks at a Water-side when presently a Speat of Water comes and spills all their Sport or a Showre chases them in from their Play Men are even bigging Castles in the Air In very deed we are like Bairns holding the Water at a River-side with their Hand they think Daft Things they hold the Water while in the mean time it runs throw their Fingers And what says GOD of Honour Riches Pleasure Lands Fair Houses Sums of Money Even that in a word all is done Ask of them that had the World once at Will and had broad Lands and what is to the fore And what is to the fore of so many Thousands Nothing but their Name And what if their Name he Lost too What has the World of them but their Name And what is that Ten or Eleven or Twelve Letters of the A B C and for their Bodies howbeit they were Living Kingdoms would not content them and yet the Clay in which the Bodies are Dissolved would not now fill a Glove I think that a True Word and a Strange spoken Word Isa 40. 22. GOD sits in the Circle of the Heaven and all the World are as Grashoppers We even Creep like Grashoppers up and down the Globe of this Earth and cry to Men of the Vanities of all Things while Death come like a Little Common Thief without any Dinn or Feet and plucks them away and there is no more of them and then they say it is done All Men will say it is True that I say But I think to be Dead ere they believe it or be brought to Hate the World I think the World is the Devil 's Great Herry-water-net that has Taken Thousands and Slain them Ye say ye are sure of it Then I say ye are a Dyeted Horse for Heaven The Second Thing that is in the Verse is a Description of Christ I Am Alpha and Omega the Beginning and the End Our Lord here being to make an Offer of the Water of Life He first sheweth what He is even