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spirit_n	flesh_n	jesus_n	lord_n	8,180	5	3.7669	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05990	The Christians garment A sermon preached in London, by the late faithfull minister of Gods word, Master Paul Bayne.	Baynes, Paul, d. 1617.	1618 (1618)	STC 1634; ESTC S113830	13,678	28

our hearts which may renew vs more and more to that heauenly Image from whence wee are fallen which standeth in sauing knowledge righteousnesse and true holinesse And because thou hast appointed thy Word preached for a meanes of begetting and strengthening this faith and perfecting thine owne Image in vs we beseech thee blesse thy Ordinance at this time vnto vs Thou who hast made the Ministery of it a Ministery of the Spirit in which thy Spirit worketh our saluations And because we know that when we should receiue the greatest benefite from thee that then Sathan is most malicious against vs we beseech thee to saue vs from the power of all spirituall wickednesse and from the darkenesse deadnesse wandring and wearinesse of our owne hearts O thou who hast promised that if we resist Sathan he shall flye from vs grant that we flying to thee in prayer of faith may begin proceed in and conclude these and all such duties to the glory of thy name and the furtherance of our true happinesse Blesse our dread Soueraigne the Kings Maiesty blesse his Person and his Throne sanctifie his heart enlarge it euery day more and more for thy glory his owne comfort and the good of his people Blesse the Queene the Prince with the Nobility and Clergie of this Land giue them all O Lord from the highest to the lowest such a measure of thy grace that they may faithfully and conscionably according to their seuerall Callings discharge such duties both in Church and Common-wealth as thou in thy sacred Word hast commanded Wee beseech thee to heare vs in these and all things thou knowest needfull for vs yea make vs to see that thou hearest vs for such is our perswasion toward thee in CHRIST that whatsoeuer we aske agreeable to thy will in his Name it is giuen vnto vs but make vs finde it by good experience that our faith may be strengthened and that wee may teach all flesh to resort vnto thee who art a God hearing prayer To whom with thy Christ and the Spirit be giuen from our hearts all Honour for euer Amen The Christians Garment ROM 13.14 But put yee on the Lord Iesus Christ and take no thought for the flesh to fulfill the lusts of it THE Apostle hauing exhorted to the works of loue doth in the 11. Verse inforce this exhortation from a double reason 1. The one taken from the neerenesse of their reward which made their diligence now more seasonable 2. The other from their present condition who liued not in the night of ignorance and lust of ignorance but liued in the day-light of knowledge and grace which the Sun of righteousnesse arising in their hearts had brought forth Such who are now neerer the fruit and end of their faith and loue such must be more diligent in the workes of them for the end of euery thing is of such force that the neerer wee come to it we do with more courage and diligence ply the meanes which do bring vnto it Againe though men in the night take rest and sleep vnapparelled not passing for vncomelinesse yet in the day they go out to labour and haue care of ciuill decency from which the Apostle doth proportionably argue that such Christians whose night is past who liue in the peep and break of the day must settle themselues as is beseeming for the day this is mentioned in the 12. Verse and this that follows And it is first more generally propounded in the 12. Verse 2. Repeated and further expounded in the 13. and 14. Verses The first hath two branches 1. viz. Of casting away that which was vnbeseeming Let vs cast away the workes of darkenesse The second of putting on such an habit as suted with the day to which part there is a iust correspondency in the amplification for Verse the 13 particularly vnfoldeth the works of darkenesse which we must auoide and the 14. openeth the habite which will well agree with vs whose day is at hand Put on Christ and take c. In which verse is contained a double duty The one principall The other secondary following vpon the former inseparable the first Put on Christ the second Take no care for the flesh as concerning lusts For the opening of which words wee must consider that the first member is laid downe by Phrase of speech borrowed from apparell and putting on of it so that not we but Hee is euery where seene to liue in vs this is resembled by the action of putting on which doth so couer the body that not the body but the rayment onely is discernable Secondly Christ who doth determine this action is brought in bearing the semblance of a garment because as that doth couer nakednesse defend from the iniury of the aire procure comelinesse to the body before men the like doth Christ to the whole man in the sight of God The latter duty may be conceiued first as set downe indefinitely Take no care for the flesh Secondly as construed by limitation viz. so farre forth as the flesh lusteth against the Spirit in you To open which words three things must be vnfolded first what is meant by Taking care secondly by Flesh thirdly what Lusts are heere excluded The first is a word which doth signifie prouidence and fore-thought how to bring about this or that 2. The flesh doth heere note forth the outward man 2. Cor. 7.1 For were it put for corruption of our nature opposite to the Spirit the limitation following viz. as concerning Lusts would seeme impertinent for corruption absolutely both roote and fruite is to be abhorred 3. The third thing is thus cleered there are lusts naturall and sinfull these are heere debarred The summe is grow vp so into Christ our Sauiour and Lord that he may couer you so that euery where not you but he may be seene to liue in you and though you cannot in this body liue without sinne yet be not harbingers and purueyors making prouision to fulfill sinne and though you cannot be without some care of this outward man giue no respect to the inordinate and sinfull desires of it We see then first what must be the daily indeuour of vs to attire our selues euery where with Christ I will not seek to proue this which the Text holdeth forth so manifestly but will leade you into a fuller vnderstanding of this duety by vnfolding these two points First how we may cōsider Christ as he is to be put on by vs. Secondly how we come to put him on Christ as he is to be put on by vs or of vs must be conceiued first as a iustifier of vs from sinne secondly as a sanctifier who doth free vs from the power of sinne rinsing away by the water of his Spirit that staine of corruption defiling our natures Thirdly as an example of life set forth for our imitation Learne of mee for I am lowly And so be you followers of me so far forth as I follow Christ for so farre