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A12384	Certain notes of M. Henry Aynsworth his last sermon. Taken by pen in the publique delivery by one of his flock, a little before his death. Anno 1622. Published now at last by the said writer, as a love token of remembrance to his brethren to inkindle their affections to prayer, that scandalls (of manie years continuance) may be removed, that are barrs to keep back manie godly wise and judicious from us, wherby we might grow to farther perfection again	Ainsworth, Henry, 1571-1622?; Robinson, John, 1575?-1625. aut; Staresmore, Sabine.	1630 (1630)	STC 227; ESTC S115946	14,398	34

Holy Ghost and those that are his subjects must be meeke and humble and therefore let all take heed that they be not offended at Christs meannesse nor yet stumble at the afflictions that come for his sake The 3. thing elect of God and precious Whence we may observe how opposite the actions of God and men are men make no accompt of Christ but count him vile but God honours and preferres him it is prophecyed of him that he should grow as a branch out of a dry ground so saith the Prophet Esaie of him and David compares him to a worme and no man despised of men yet this hinders not Gods respect of him for after suffring he came to glory Thus it is with all his people although they are despised of men yet are they in accompt with God God accompts them his treasure he pitcheth his tabernacle amongst them with whom he will dwell Christ is called the elect of God by the Prophet Esaie my servant whom I have chosen so wee are chosen in Christ before the world was God givs us eternall life by him In that Christ is elect and we in him it is to shew the assurance of salvation by Christ as Christ dyed and went to glory so shall we also even as God did regard him as his onely begotten sonne in whom he is well pleased notwithstanding all his basenesse in the worlds esteem so doth God accompt of all true Christians for this is for farther manifestation of the glory of God in accepting them in his sone Christ. Ye also as livinge stones are builte up a Spirituall House As in the first place we said it is not enough to come to Christ in our persons but we must adjoyn to his Church so now we must not content our selves with personall good but we must seek farther perfection to becom members of his visible Church It is not lawfull for Christians to wander in the world or to live alone nor to adjoyn themselves in communion with false Churches but as it is in the Acts The Lord added to the Church such as should be saved unto this estate all are bound to come and so to be made pertakers of all Christs graces who couples all the bodye together for this cause are they called living stones in similitude from the stones of the temple cōpacted into one bodye but the stones of the Temple were liveles these living and herein they differ As the first Temple was a figure of Christ so also it signifyed all the bodye of the faithfull who make all one house over which Christ is set If we then be his house let us hold fast our rejoycing to the end Moreover although those stones in that first Temple built by Salomō were without life yet God tooke possession of it and dwelt in the middest of it how much more with them that are a temple joyned together of living stones Now as this is for incouragement to all to become members of his Church so also it sheweth who are the fit members of his Church even those onely that are living stones And in that the members of the Church ought to be living stones it should teach us not to be idle in good works faith without works is dead and just men live by faith by faith we are made pertakers of the death of Christ and all other benefits Christ is the head of the body As is the nature of the head so must the members be and as the parts of the body naturall have life from the head so also we from Christ as he is the head and is living so ought all true Christians that come to him it is a thing against nature that a dead body should be fastened to a living head and therefore whoever is not fastened to him by faith cannot be made partakers of his life therefore however hypochrites may come into the Church by their seeming regeneratiō yet not having the life of God in them they can receive no benefitt from Christ by the ministery of man But because we are to insist upon the similitude of a building we will return to that We are built into an house three manner of waies first by the gifts of the spirit when God gives ability to build up one another by the graces we receive frō the Spirit of God 2. Besides these there are offices proceeding from the Lord Christ of which some were maister builders as the Apostles and Prophets next after them the Euangelists upō the Doctrines they taught and writt the church is builded as the Apostle testifyes to the Ephes. 2. 20. 21. To these he adds the ordinary ministery of the church Pastours and Teachers Eph. 4. 11. 12. Vnto these two we have a third namely the operations of God the father who makes his word powerfull and effectuall giving us grace to understand and apply it and to bring forth the fruit of it so that from the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost we receive life these benefitts here spokē of and so become a spirituall house This spirituall house is opposed to the matereall house builded by Salomon which was but a figure as the Apostle saith to the Hebrewes We are therefore to bee carefull that the graces of God be not received in us in vaine but that we grow in grace in faith and holines that we may be built up an holy house habitation by his spirit In this life we are but in the growth but in the life to come we shall come to be perfect men nowe in the mean time we are to know we are in this world as Christ was in this world still growing There is all waies an end of building as the Apostle saith Eph. 2. 20. The whole church is built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone in whom all the building is coupled together 1. groweth to be an holy temple in Lord wherby the holy Ghost shews the state of the Church figured by the Temple The second end is in the 22. verse to be the habitation of God by the Spirit hence is it the holy Ghost saith know ye not that your bodye is the temple of the holy Ghost Thus being the temple of God we may build upō the assurāce of the Lords promise of dwelling amongst us as it is said I will walk dwell amongst them and pitch my Tabernacle amongst you I will be your God ye shall be my people thus the most heavenly promises are sett downe under this mystery the full accomplishment wherof shall be fullfilled in the world to come In the mean time as Salomon prayed at the dedicatiō of the Temple behold the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee so we may say what are we that God should dwell amongst us or that he should poure out the graces of his

spirit upon us and forasmuch as we should be a spirituall house we are to take heed that we defile not our bodyes or soules see what care God had of old of the Temple none defiled might enter therein if a matereall house was so carefully kept how much more the living house the church of God if the former were carefully watched and looked to to keep it from pollution how much more should we be carefull to keep our selves from our own or others sins therefore let us take heed that we harbour not uncleannes within us but that we labour to be holy as he is holy because we are built a spirituall house Salomons house was seven years in building so we in this house of God must be still in building in that faith to which God hath called us The end of that house was to declare Gods word amongst them and there did the Lord promise he would accept their offrings From the house we are now to speak of the priesthood for that he speaks of next an holy priesthood As of Christ we are called Christ●ans so from the particular offices of Christ as of Prophet Priest and King we are ever with h●m made partakers of the same we have the annoynting of Christ to make us prophets priests and Kings of his priesthood we see here that we should be an holy priesthood Touching the holines of the priesthood it was appointed by the Lord onely to some for none might take that honour upon them but he that was called of God as was Aaron so no spirituall priest now but he that is called of Christ therefore there is now no true priests but of Christ as Christ offred to his father a spirituall sacrifice acceptable so we by him are made able to offer spirituall sacrifices The second thing belonging to the priesthood they must be without blemish if anie were blemished they were to be putt from their office signifying therby that he that is our high priest must be holy harmlesse and undefiled seperate from sinners the priest must abstein from unclean things we are not to marvel the Lord should be so carefull of the priests since he will be honoured in those that come near him they were to be tryed and known to be of holy conversation in the sight of God the same thing is required of us that we purge out that naturall corruption wherein we were born that we should be changed frō our deformityes and shake off our corruptions in the sight of God that we may be holy as the priests of God to offer holy sacrifices to him The sacrifices that the priests did offer of old were of two sorts some were to putt away sin some for thansgiving to God These sacrifices are now ceassed for Christ once offring himself hath satisfyed all and hath putt an end to all those legall types therefore now no sacrifice either bloody or unbloody is anie sacrifice for our sin but onely the blood of Christ which cleanseth us from all sin First for the burnt offrings they were signes of our offring our bodyes and soules to the Lord for in it the whole creature was given unto God onely the priest had the skin for his labour other free will offrings some were of beasts some of fowles and other of corne now in those offrings of beasts ad fowles they were not to be brought dead but living and therefore no fish that dyes so soone as it is out of the water was fitt for sacrifice God hereby teacheth us not to bring lame and dead sacrifices but to present ourselves as living sacrifices holy acceptable to the Lord in Iesus Christ. These things did the lawe of Moses teach them in those legall sacrifices but unto us we know all those outward sacrifices are abolished and therefore we are not to doe so but we are to kill our worldly lusts we must present our bodyes and soules to God and serve him with all our hearts with all our soule and with all our strength and this more then all burnt offrings and sacrifices For first spirituall sacrifices doe consist in the heart of which David speaks in the 51. Psalm The sacrifices of God are a broken heart a broken and contrite heart O God thou wilt not despise Then is there the fruit of the lips so that we must not onely have holy affections but also out mouths and lips must sing to his praise we must have no unproffitable and profane words to come out of our mouths 3. Likewise all our actions and benefits to the poore are acceptable sacrifices To doe good and to distribute forgett not for with such sacrifices God is well pleased so that in generall all good works God appoynts us to walk in in prayer in thansgiving in performing dutyes one to another in releife of our brethren wherin we are poured out as in sacrifice for our brethren Acceptable to God by Iesus Christ. These sacrifices then must be so offred as they may be accepted in Iesus Christ. If a man offered sacrifice not accepted he both lost his charge and his reward so God doth not respect sacrifices that are not offred in Iesus Christ. He then that would have his service pleasing to God must first have his person accepted otherwise his sacrifice cannot be well pleasing to God so in Cain and Abell the Lord had respect to Abell his offring first his person was accepted then his offring the reason is because the the sacrifice of the wicked is abhominable to God therefore no wicked man can offer a sweet smelling sacrifice to God because himselfe being wicked all his actions the Lord hath no respect to Secondly God doth not onely require holines in our persons but he farther requires that they be done at his cōmaund for if men had offred anie other sacrifice then he commaunded it was a thing that he abhorred therefore in offring their children to Moloch the Lord protests against it as a thing he never commaunded whatsoever worship then is done by the precepts of men without the commaundement of God it is vaine and sinfull In vain doe they worship me saith Christ that teach for Doctrines the commaundements of men 3. As we have a care to doe what God commaunds yet are we not to think for the worthines of the work done to be accepted but simply to delight to doe it as a thing commaunded of God in obedience to him 4. We must have faith that so it may be well pleasing to him we must perform it in him in whom the father is well pleased that is in Iesus Christ the reason is because every man by nature being corrupted we cannot offer anie thing wherewith God is pleased As it was impossible that the blood of bulls and goates should purge sin so is it not possible to offer anie other sacrifice pleasing to God but onely that

that is done in faith of Christ. 2. It must be by and through Iesus Christ because he is the Mediatour of the new testamēt because God we are not at one therefore we must have a Mediatour and there is no other Mediatour between God and man but Iesus Christ therefore whosoever offer anie duty not in faith in Christ they cannot please God be they prayers or anie other service In the sacrifices of old they were still to have salt as salt keeps from putrifying so it also alters the relish of the flesh which is to teach us not to think to come to God in the tast of our own works but by the Covenaunt of Iesus Christ. The summe of all is that we are called of God from our naturall and corrupt state to the state of grace in Iesus Christ which is despised in the world but rich in the sight of God and so ought it to be esteemed of us above all things even the greatest riches honours of this world Let us not then passe for the reproach of the world for having Christ we have all therefore we are to esteem of this priviledge aright and forasmuch as God requireth holines should be in his house of old and we are his spirituall house let us not think that God requireth lesse of us thē of old Labour we to keep our selves without spott As Christ was said to be faithfull in his own house whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence rejoycing of the hope firm unto the end for this is our happines that we are called to the communion of himselfe spiritt he defends us frō evill doth us good here and for ever and so should we be thankfull to God for if God would be honoured of the fathers in the matereall temple how much more of us to whom he hath given the spirituall house spirituall sacrifices the fathers saluted the promises a farr off God providing some better thing for us that they without us should not be made perfect A Postscript to the Brethren absent BRethren it may haply seem strange to you that the people here complained of should be so irregular in their proceedings so singular as to reject the help of all but since they had their reasons I thought it requisite to give thē their due herein The reason why they proceeded not by the rule Matt. 18. was because in this case they had nothing to doe with it but Iosua 22. 1. Thes. 5. 22. And the reason why they rejected all others help was because they said they were contrary to all mē As for farther things observed J referr myself to the indifferent present whether I have not sett down their offences sparingly they having beē mostly in addition in a constant course more then 7. years yet with griefe I speak it they are so confident and overjust in their courses that they continue wearylesse condemning all others censure those within their power that withstand them in it and this in deed and truth is the fountain whence all our present troubles have issued This I thought necessary to declare because it ministers just occasion to manie godly persons to stumble at us Things thus proposed Let the Brethren judg between us FINIS 1. Cor. 3. 5. 6 Matth. 21. 22. Matth. 11. 28 Ioh. 6. 44. Iohn 5. 26 1. 4. Matth. 7. 24. 25. 26. Vse Matth. 16. 18. Vse Iohn 6. 50. 51. Iohn 15. 5. Mark 6. 3. Rom. 10. 3. 1. Cor. 1. 23. Vse Luk. 24. 26 1. Pet. 4. 1. Matth. 10. 24. 25. Ioh. 18. 36. Rom. 14. 17 Matth. 11. 29. Esai 53. 2. Psal. 22. 7. Hob. 12. 2. Esai 44. 1. 2. Eph. 1. 4. 2. Tim. 1. 9. Ioh. 10. 10. 28. Vse Matth. 3. 17 Act. 2. 47 Heb. 10. 21. 1. King 8. 10. Vse Vse Iam. 2. 17. Hab. 2. 4. Ephe. 5. 23. 10 hn 8. 24. 1. Cor. 12. vers 4. vers 5. vers 6. Hebr. 9. 9. Vse 2. Pet. 3. 18. Luk 2. 52 1. Sam. 2. 26. Prov. 3. 4. 1. Cor. 6. Vse Lev. 26. 11. 12. 2. Cor. 6. 16 1. Kin. 8. 27 Vse 1. Tim. 5. 22. 1. Pet. 1. 16 1. Kin. 6. 38 Act. 11. 26. Exod. 28. 1 1. Chro. 23. 13. Heb. 5. 4. Lev. 21. 17 Heb 7. 26. Levit. 10. 3. Heb. 10. 4. with 11. 12. 1. Iohn 1. 7 Lev 7. 8. Vse Rom. 12. 1. Matth. 22. 37. Mark 12. 30. 33. Psal. 51 17. Hose 14. 2. Heb. 13. 15. Psal. 69. 30 31. Eph. 4. 29. Heb. 13. 16. Act. 24. 17. Philip. 4. 18 1. Cor. 8. 5. Gen. 4. 4. Prov. 15. 8. Psal. 69. 18. Ier. 7. 31. 2. King 23. 10. Matth. 15. 9. Heb. 11. 6. Hebr. 10. 4. Hebr. 12. 24 1. Tim. 2. 5 Lev. 2. 13. Mark 9. 49. Vse Heb. 3. 6. Heb. 11. 46. † Did you but know the wholsom counsell of Mr. Thorp our Elder which would have prevented all See the answer to the 14 que stiō in our Loving Tender published 1623. a 1. Thess. 2. 15. Notwithstanding all this the Lord in mercy hath here raysed another church void of these scandalls that walk in the fear of God Act. 9. 31. Gen. 31. 37.