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The great duty of Christians to go forth without the camp to Jesus set forth in several sermons on Heb. XIII. 13 / by S.T.M. ...
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be defiled by touching Sacrifices on whom the sins of Men were laid and so Christ was Condemned and cast out of the Gates of Jerusalem as if he were a very unclean loathsome and abominable Person having yet no sin of his own but being burthened with the sins of his People O! what reproach was this for Jesus to be separated and thrust out from among the Citizens of Jerusalem and then as a Sacrifice to be burned in the Fire of the Vengeance and Wrath of God without the Camp as those Sacrifices for sin were burnt in Material Fire without the Gate on the Day of Atonement And this is further to be observed that the Blood of these Beasts so charged with sin was yet brought into the most Holy Place in the Temple to sprinkle the Mercy Seat and to make Atonement by it in a Type even so though Christ died as an Infamous Person in the Eye of the World and as one charged with the sins of his People in the account of God yet his Blood as most precious is brought into the true Heavenly Sanctuary cries in the Ears of God and is pleaded before his Glorious Throne for the blotting out our sins and the making our Peace with God Thus our Transgressions which are our true and real shame and Reproaches are covered and wiped away before the Lord O! did Jesus Christ die to take away those sins that would have been our Eternal Infamy and Reproach and shall not we willingly go forth to Jesus without the Camp bearing the just and undeserved Reproaches from the World 4. Reas The World still banishes Christ thrusts and keeps him out from among them This is their Language against God and his Son Christ Come let us break their Bonds in sunder and cast their Cords from us Psalm 2.1 2 3. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us Is 30.11 We will not have this Man to Reign over us Luke 19.14 his word hath no place in them John 5.38.42 and the love of God and Christ dwells not in their Souls and may I not here apply the words of the Prophet Jeremiah They have saith he rejected the Law of the Lord and what Wisdom is in them Jer. 8.9 so I may say the World rejects the Lord of this Law and what Wisdom or Excellency is there in them O! shall we value the Favour Esteem the Friendship or Communion of such a World as rejects Jesus Christ Fox Martyr It is related of Bishop Ridley that it repented him that he had Eaten and Drank that he had accepted any Meat or Entertainment in the House of a Princess that refused to hear the Gospel Preached when it was by him offered to her and shall we Magnifie the kindness of a World that is unkind to Jesus Christ will not yield to his Authority entertain his Kingdom submit to his Laws or accept of his Salvation O! should we not call that Place and those Persons Ichabod 1 Sam. 4. two last Verses that thrust away Christ will not suffer him to dwell and reign among them Where is Glory if Christ be excluded and kept out what is Trade Honour Riches if Christ be absent O! how desolate how solitary how uncomfortable should that place and people be to us here we may not protess Christ may not Worship him and enjoy Communion with him in his Ordinances 2 Chron. 11.14.16 as the Levites and Israelites came away to Jerusalem If the World rage against us would separate us from Christ and obstruct our Converse with him how freely and readily should we go out from such a World When the Israelites by their Idolatry had highly provoked God and done much to drive him away and to berave themselves of his Gracious Presence among them Moses took the Tabernacle and Pitched it without the Camp far off from the Camp and those that sought the Lord went out of the Camp unto the Tabernacle to Worship God Exo. 33.7 So truly the World sets up so many Idols of jealousie in their Hearts and so put the stumbling Block of their Iniquity before their Faces that Christ cannot delight in them or dwell among them his Tabernacle is as I may so speak Pitched without this Camp and shall we not go forth to the Tabernacle of Christ and enjoy Communion with him though by this we lose a place in the Worlds Camp O! will you not follow Christ and resort to him will you prize their Favour or court their Friendship that slight and reject Jesus Christ As Amos 7.10 the Idolatrous Priest accuseth Amos the Prophet of the Lord to the King of Israel and saith the Land was not able to bear his words And Ezek. 3.7 the House of Israel will not harken unto thee for saith God they will not harken to me Jer. 12.8 Mine Heritage is unto me as a Lion in the Forrest it crieth out against me therefore he hated and forsook it And shall we linger and stay in such a Camp where God and Christ are not listened too where the Word will not cannot be born where Sinners indeed cry out against God when they pretend only to declaim against and revile Men O Righteous Father saith Christ the World doth not know thee John 17.25 As for Christ he was in the World and the World was made by him and yet it knew him not John 1.10 and the Spirit of Truth the World cannot receive because it knoweth him not John 14.17 And should we be much concerned or dejected if such a World doth not know us 1 John 3.1 but reproaches and casts us out 5. Reas We cannot be Faithful to Christ or enjoy Communion with him for ever if we do not go out to him without the Camp if we do not venture and Sacrifice all for Christ if we be ashamed of him before Men he will be ashamed of us before his Father and his Holy Angels if we deny him Mat. 10.32 33. he will deny us but if we confess him he will confess us before his Father in the Great Day of Judgment We cannot serve two Masters Mat. 6.24 especially when those are contrary to each other and each of them demands our whole Heart and Service we cannot please God Christ and the World too Know you not that the Friendship of this World is enmity with God whosoever therefore will be a Friend of the World is the Enemy of God Jam. 4.4 You cannot keep in with the World but you must break with God you cannot gratifie and oblige the World to you except you will fashion your selves according to its Pattern and Example you must drink in its Corruptions stain your selves with its Filth and run with them to the same excess of Riot else they will exclaim against you and speak Evil of you 1. Pet. 4.4 If you have not ductile Consciences flexible and compliant Spirits and Tempers if you cannot change say and unsay the World will not care for you it will be
dark hours of Temptation that have passed through Fiery Tryals and have endured great Fights of Affliction have taken joyfully the Spoiling of their Goods that have rejoyced they were accounted worthy to suffer for my Namessake that have not loved their Lives to the Death How will such a Confession of their Names by Christ put Eternal Honour on the Saints O! look beyond this gloomy Valley of the Shadow of Death to an Inheritance in Light Col. 1.12 Look beyond this short Night of Sorrows and Sufferings to the bright and glorious Morning of the Resurrection Ps 49.14 Though Saints now bow down and are laid as the Mire of the Streets Is 51. last Yet the upright shall have Dominion in the Morning they shall tread down the Wicked they shall be as Ashes under the soles of their Feet Ps 45.14 Mal. 2.3 Abigal went forth to David in his Afflicted State 1 Sam. 25.4 14 40 42. Married and followed him in a Wilderness and afterwards did partake of his Honour and Prosperity We read that after Sauls Death he led her out of this Wilderness-state into the Royal City of Hebron 2 Sam. 2.2 Even so if you now go out to Christ while his People are in a Wilderness Afflicted and Persecuted in the world Jesus Christ will make you partakers of his Honour Felicity and Glory The time will come when this Spiritual King David will lead his Afflicted Spouse to his Royal City above will place her at his Right Hand and delight in her as his Hephzibah for ever 8. Direct We must be filled with the Spirit Eph. 5.18 As there is such a strong and swift Current that always runs in at the Straits Mouth into the Mediterranean Sea that a Ship cannot come out at the Straits Mouth if it hath not a good stiff Gale of Wind So truly there is such a strong Torrent of Self-love and Carnal Affections that runs into the Camp of this World that a Soul can never come out to Jesus through the Streights of Afflictions and Sufferings and cross this violent Stream of sinful self-love and worldly lusts if the Sails of our Souls be not mightily filled with the Gales of the Spirit The Hebrews after they were enlightned endured a great fight of Afflictions Heb. 10.32 And who is it that doth enlighten but the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation Eph. 1.17.18 Our sight is cleared and recovered by the Spirits Eye-Salve Rev. 3.18 so that we can see more and further than the rest of the World Hence Saints are called Children of Light Luke 16.8 because they look into and take hold of another world As Stephens Eye was extraordinarily fortified and improved that he could see up into Heaven and behold Jesus at the Right Hand of God Acts 7.55 56. So the Spirit doth so renew and enlighten the Eyes of Saints Minds that they can see Invisible Heavenly and Eternal things And it is this sight that establishes the Heart against the threatnings and terrors of the World That which is born of the Spirit is Spirit John 3.6 that is Such are Spiritual Creatures and are also called Heavenly 1 Cor. 15.48 If you are Spirit you will not lust after and be captivated by Carnal things If you are heavenly Creatures you will not stoop and bow down to this Earth for your Happiness It is by the Spirit that we must mortifie the Deeds of the Body and Members upon Earth Rom. 8.13 Col. 3.5 These lusts that are fixed on fed and filled by Objects on Earth are tempting and drawing down Souls to a Center and Portion here below and it is by the Power of the Spirit only that we can repress and subdue them The Apostle bids Timothy to partake of the Afflictions of the Gospel according to the Power of God 2. Tim. 1.8 If we are to bear them our selves and were left to the frailty of Nature how soon should we be foiled and overcome But Saints by the Spirit and its power are enabled to deny themselves to conquer the Flesh and tread the world under their Feet Christ hath promised not to leave his People comfortless John 14.16 18. but that he would send them the Comforter What the Spirit shews John 16.13.8 Rom. 16.17 Eph. 1.13 testifies seals to the Souls of Believers is sufficient to buoy up the Hearts of Christians against all Temporal Evils If the Spirit could make supply instead of Christs Bodily Presence with his people if it could chear them in the absence and withdrawing of Christs Humane Nature can it not much more comfort us in the absence or loss of outward Enjoyments As a Tree that hath a River at its Root can retain its Verdure and Flourishing Sate though there be a great Drought and no Showers come upon it Jer. 17.8 Ps 5.2 So if we have the Comforter within if we are watered by the Rivers of its Consolations may we not be satisfied from our selves Prov. 14.14 though we have no Showers of worldly comforts or enjoyments If men would stir and labour and thereby excite their Natural Heat they would not absolutely need Fire in the coldest Weather to warm them So if Christians did more stir up Faith and walk in the Comfort of the Holy Ghost Acts 9.31 they would little need or regard the worlds consolations If you be led by the Spirit of Christ it will in some measure work in you as in him it will raise in you such apprehensions and kindle in you such Affections as were found in Jesus He that is joyned to the Lord is one Spirit 1 Cor. 6.17 That is He is of the same Spirit of the same Temper of the same Disposition and Inclinations with Jesus Christ As if the same Soul did animate many Bodies these several Persons would be of the same Will and have the same Affections So the Spirit of Christ dwelling in his People the same will be in them as was found in Jesus Rom. 8.9 Phil. 2.5 O! how freely did Jesus Christ yield himself to sufferings and death Ps 40.7 8. Lo I come I delight to do thy will O God yea thy Law is within my Heart And what was the Will of God that Jesus Christ did delight to do We are told what this Will was in Heb. 10.10 viz. that Jesus Christ should offer his Body once for all How difficult and hard was this Service yet such a Law of Love to the Father and perishing sinners was written in the Heart of Christ that he was straitned till this Bloody Baptism was fulfilled Luke 12.50 Though his Cup of Sufferings was so deep so large tempered with so many bitter Ingredients yet he resigned himself and said Father if this Cup may not pass except I drink of it thy Will be done Matt. 26.42 When Peter tempted him to favour spare and indulge himself he sharply rebuked him and said Get thou behind me Satan thou art an offence to me Matt. 16.22 23. How did Christ deny himself and subject his Will to the Will of God And when Christ was raised from the Dead how did he despise and disdain to be tempted to stay here below by the best things of this World Would the Riches Honours Pleasures of this world then have allured the Eye captivated or chained the Heart of Christ here below Could such things stay or stop detain or six him here below Was he not exceedingly raised in his Mind and Affections above the best things of this world This was his Request and Prayer to the Father Now glorifie me with thy own self with the glory that I had with thee before the Foundations of the World John 17.5 His Mind did soar upwards his Heart did aspire to a heavenly Kingdom and Glory Now if this Spirit of the Lord Jesus do dwell in our Hearts will it not fix our hearts and fortifie our resolutions to go through Fire and Water Floods and Storms for the Honour of God and for the Glory of Christ Shall we be of timerous base dastardly Spirits if the blessed Spirit of Jesus do dwell in us And shall we not slight also and contemn turn our Eyes from and our Backs upon all the Beauty and Excellency of this world if the Spirit hath given us a sight of the Glory of God in the Face of Christ Shall we not cry out to God as the Psalmist Ps 73.25 26. Whom have I in Heaven but thee and there is none on Earth that I desire besides thee How will such a Soul rate away and rebuke tempting Objects and say Get you gone I have fatness and sweetness I have fulness and satisfaction in my Lord Jesus my Eyes are closed against your Beauty my Ears are stopt against your Charms Christ I have chosen and I see no cause to repent of my choice to him therefore will I cleave and stick for ever And that you may obtain this blessed Spirit and all Spiritual good things as flowing from him Bow your Knees to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ And if Parents that are evil do yet know how to give good gifts to their Children much more shall our heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him Luke 11.13 FINIS