Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92857	The riches of grace displayed in the offer and tender of salvation to poor sinners. Wherein is set out, the gracious behaviour of Christ, standing at the door and knocking for entrance. The dutiful behaviour of sinners in hearing Christs voice and opening to him. And the comfortable event upon them both. / By Obadiah Sedgwick. B.D. and late minister of the Gospel in Covent-Garden.	Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.	1657 (1657)	Wing S2379; Thomason E1683_2; ESTC R209163	87,999	316

the Application of all his benefits and vertues also unto us He becomes one with us for this very end that partaking of himself we might partake of all good by him 2. And the end of all his offices viz. His Office 1. Regal to rule us 2. Prophetical to teach and guide us 3. Priestly to expiate our sinne 3. And the end of his great works 1. He died to pay our debts 2. Rose to give us the acquittance and discharge 3. Ascended to give us gifts 4. Sits at Gods right hand to appear for us 5. Intercedes to compleat and apply all for us 2. Jesus Christ is ordained to invest beleevers with as good nay with a better estate then men had in Adam He is to repaire their lost condition he is to atone them with God and to fit them for a glorious fruition of him but this cannot be without a manifold communication of good unto them Of necessity he must impart unto them the vertue of his blood for this and the power of his Spirit for this and the arme of his alsufficiency and strength for this Ephes 5. 25. Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it Verse 26. That he might sanctifie and cleanse it Ver. 27. And that he might present it to himself glorious Our union with Christ is called a Marriage will Christ bring no portion with himself Divines do think that there was a necessity to impart some of his vertues for confirmation unto the Elect Angels And then surely much more must be imparted to sinful men for their Reconcilâ—ation and Reparation 3. All the promises of God are Yea and Amen in Christ that is they are to be fulfilled and made good to beleevers I say all the promises which are rich veines and full veines the store-houses of all mercy and grace and good These are to be made good unto us by Christ Not onely in a way of stability but likewise in a way of efficacy which could never be without a communication of the good things promised unto beleevers Christ hath the key of all these in his hands These therefore are in his dispose he is the Master to dispense them to his family the houshold of faith 4. Jesus Christ is filled with goodnesse in himself and with love also to his members who are beleevers Now although all goodnesse ex natura rei be deffusive of it self yet is it most communicating when either it is seated in a relation or engraven in an affection A good father will impart more good then a good man a loving husband will do more good then a meere husband The goodnesse in Christ is a goodnesse both wayes It is a goodnesse in relation that is in one who stands to beleevers as an head doth to its members and a goodness in affection that is in one who loves beleevers above all the people in the world and certainly love is bountiful it is an easie key to open and a liberal hand to bestow Fifthly What should Christ do with himself and with all his benefits God at the first contented not himself if I may so speak with himself and therefore created man to communicate some of his goodnesse to him And when Christ redeemed man he contents not himself with the perfecting of the work of redemption but he must communicate the vertue and fruit of it unto men unlesse we will say he lived in vaine or died in vaine or rose in vaine he died not for himself nor rose for himself But who shall partake of this purchased good shall enemies or friends shall they enjoy it who will not enjoy him shall they enjoy sweetnesse of his communion who shut their doors and hearts against him and abhor the union of his person O no we cannot sup together if we will not come together But as he wrote upon his book mihi meis this book is for me and for my friends or as we write in our Leases for us and our heirs so saith Christ of all his goodnesse this is for me and my members this is for me and beleevers I may look on others but I will live with them I may speak to others but I will sup with them others may have a call from me but these onely shall have communion with me 6. Beleevers have much work lying upon them for Christ active and passive ordinary and extraordinary none of which can be done without communication from Christ Christs works and Christs help are paralel The hand can do nothing for the head but by an influence imparted to it from the head Without me ye can do nothing John 15. 5. 7. All the good we do is done by the strength of communion The nerves or liguments of union import this For On Christs part it is the Spirit which is compared to fire and water that are diffusive and spreading and to oyntment the unction of the Spirit which spreds its savour and to light which is diffusive On our part it is faith and faith is a 1. Depending eye 2. Drawing mouth 3. Receiving hand 8. He glorifies himself in it His glory as Mediatour is enlarged by giving grace to his members by filling them with more grace he fills himself with more glory Though the glory of his person be full yet the glory of his office of Mediatourship and of headship to his Church this hath another additional fulness of glory from the good and happinesse of his members All the useful Application which I intend at this time to make shall be reduced unto 1. Consolation 2. Exhortation partly to persons 1. In this communion 1. Hold it fast 2. Improve it 2. As yet out of this communion by all meanes get into it Vse 1. The first Use shall be for comfort to all beleeving persons to all whose hearts have been opened to let in Christ twixt whom and them there is this high and glorious communion You have enough and unless you were in heaven it selfe you cannot have more As David spake of the sword of Goliah none like that the same I affirm of communion with Christ none like this It surpasseth all communions in the world in six respects 1. For dignity there is a communion 'twixt a sinner and lust 6. Respects this is of all the basest There is a communion 'twixt man and the creatures this is of all the poorest A fellowship with sinne makes up perfect misery a fellowship with the world makes up perfect vanity But the communion 'twixt Christ and a Beleever is truly solid and unspeakably eminent The Sonne of God with the sonnes of God the chiefest in heaven with the chiefest in earth the most excellent agents in heaven and earth by the most excellent meanes the Spirit and Faith This fellowship is more then Angelical It is a divine fellowship with the whole Trinity Our fellowship is with the Father and the Son saith â—aint John The communion of the Holy Ghest be with you saith Saint Paul 2. For

and God hath thought it much that we would not come down to open the doors and to accept of the blood of his Sonne We have made our God and Christ to waite upon us with spiritual deliverances Is it not righteous that we should wait upon him for temporal deliverances O that we could stop our mouths and silence and check our impatient and murmuring hearts this day Remember saith God how ye have dealt with my Christ with my Spirit with my Gospel with my Offers of grace and salvation Confesse it and be ashamed and humbled this day that you have dealt thus with your God and with your Saviour It is not that the Lords eare is heavy nor is it that his hand is shortned Isa 59. 1. that he heares not and delivers not all this while But it is to recompence unto us our own wayes Because when he called we would not hear therefore Prov. 1. 24 25. when calamities be upon us we shall call upon him and not be answered Vse 4. The next Use shall be of Exhortation to perswade you to let in Christ and not to close the door against him any longer but as the Apostle spake To day whiles it is called to day hearken to his voice Heb. 3. 7. and to know in the day of your visitation the things which concerne your peace O what a mercy is it for Christ to come and waite upon us Consider 1. Your withstandings of Christ are unspeakably dangerous you lost your soules once by Adams wilfulnesse will you lose them the second time by your own Every refusal of Christ is if mercy relieve us not a new destruction of the soule A contempt of Christ a crucifying of Christ afresh a cruel murdering of our own souls 2. All shall be pardoned if yet you will hearken and open to him mercy can pardon sinnes against mercy and Christ can pardon sins against Christ former refusals are no prejudice to future invitations and offers of grace If we be humbled and they be accepted Acts 3. 17. And now brethren I wote that through ignorancâ— you did it as did also your Rulers Verse 19. Repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out 3. What would a damned soul give for one opportunity more what would a dying man give for one day more what cuts his soul more then his delaying and slighting of Christ Soul-opportunities and Christ-opportunities are precious more worth then all the world mercy is in them grace glory eternity is in them The whole earth hangs on a point and so doth heaven on an inch of opportunity Quest But what must be done Sol. Get 1. Knowledge of your sinful condition and exigences and necessities 2. Knowledge of the worth and singularity of Christ to a sinners condition John 4. 10. If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that saith unto thee give me drink Thou wouldest have asked of him and he would have given thee living water Vse 5. The last Use shall be of Exhortation and encouragement to distressed and laden Consciences Behold yet Christ stands at thy door and knocks why doest thou not open unto him why art thou afraid of a gracious Saviour why yet holdest thou him at the the door with thy unbeleeving disputes and doubts O that God would set thee at liberty O that God would this day over-power thy heart O that Jesus Christ who hath made all ready to feast and welcome thy drooping heart woâ—ld by his Spirit command off thy fetters command on his strength that thou wouldest open thy doors and give one welcome to thy Saviour He is worthy to come in though thou be not worthy to receive him Once say O blessed Christ the door is open and such as I am is thine if thou wilt have all my heart all is thine welcome O Christ and welcome O blessed Spirit of Christ and welcome thou Covenant of Grace and welcome thou free mercy of God and welcome all the excellencies of Christ and welcome all the Lawes of Christ and welcome all you conditions of Christ Blessed Christ Take the best Roome I have set up thy self and abide in my Judgement as the most excellent Treasure In my will as the most excellent happinesse In my affections as the only love desire joy hope and confidence of my poor soul Thou holdest me at the door thou diddest not stand on my worthinesse nor except against me for my sinfulnesse O deare Christ Take me a poore miserable sinner and make me another an holy and well-pleasing creature I can bring nothing to thee but I will expect all from thee I will trust on thy blood for pardon on thy merits for acceptance on thy Spirit for holinesse on thy compassions for comforts on thy selfe thy selfe alone for salvation on thy faithfulnesse and fulnesse for all And is it so saith Christ and doest thou so saith Christ well be of good cheer thy sinnes are forgiven I will be thou cleane Grace Mercy and Peace enter into this poor soul for ever Rev. 3. 20. Serm. 3. Behold I stand at the doore and knock if any man hear my voice and open the door I will come in to him and will sup with him and he with me YOu have heard already out of these words the graâ—iâ—us behaviour of Christ towards sinners viz. his singular readinesse his earnest importunity and his patient expectations to enter into their hearts and save them Behold ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ stand at the door and knock I am now to discover the dutiful behaviour of sinners towards Christ If any man heare my words and open the doors I will come into him c. The words you see are expressed in an hypothetical or conditional form If any man c. to note unto us That something must be done on our part as well as something on Christs part though Christ be willing to save a sinner yet he will not save him against his will 'T is true this willingnesse to open unto Christ is not a natural but a supernatural effect it is voluntas mota nay mutata as Austin rightly speaks yet it it must be or else there can be no conversion no salvation of us Againe they are expressed in an indefinite way as well as conditional Not if this or that man but if any man c. To note That there is a latitude a full latitude in the offer of Christ and grace No sinner under the Gospel is excluded by Christ but by himself Although the Application of Christ be definite and particular yet the proclamation is indefinite and general Favours say the Lawyers sunt ampliandi Now the condition of Christs entrance is only this If any man hear my voice and open the doore The hearing answers to his counselling in verse 18. and the opening answers to his knocking in v. 20. Both of them united make up if I mistake not that which we call beleeving which comes by hearing and is in it self the

we may dispute of a fitnesse for union yet assuredly there must be a fitnesse for communion with Christ for communion implies a state of fitnesse Four things ever precede the state of communion 1. Contrition of heart A broken heart and a broken Christ will live together but an hardned heart and a gracious Christ cannot An heart meerly humbled is a legal heart that is fit for the Law to deal with A broken heart is a Gospel heart fit for Christ to have communion with Isaiah 66. 2. I will look to him who is of a contrite Spirit Isa 57. 15. I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite spirit to revive the heart of the contrite ones Isaiah 62. 1. The Lord hath anointed me and sent me to bind up the broken hearted Matth. 12. 20. A bruised reed he shall not break This is the heart which Christ invites to come to him and promiseth to give it ease and rest Mat. 11. 28. This is the heart that Christ 1. Pitieth 2. Inviteth 3. Cherisheth 4. Delighteth in 5. Bindeth up 2. Poverty of spirit A poore Christian and a rich Christ they have fellowship but a full Christian a proud Christian and a full and a lowly Christ have none an empty vessel is fit to be brought to the fountaine to be filled Luke 1. 53. He fills the hungry with good things but the rich he sends empty away This heart 1. Needeth 2. Prizeth 3. Seeketh 4. Relieth 5. Waiteth 6. Findeth Christ When the great feast was made the communion was not 'twixt the great ones the rich ones and Christ but 'twixt the blind and maimed and poore and Christ They would not come but these would This is the heart that Christ seeketh 2. Esteemeth 3. Converseth with 4. Imparteth himself unto He who holds communion with his own worth will hold no communion with Christs worthinesse If you can live without Christ you will dwell without Christ The rivers runne not upon the mountaines the lofty mountaines they runne in the low and humble valleys Christ holds communion with none but such as see their need of him and are content to be altogether beholding unto him for all their supplies 3. Discommunion with sinne Naturally every man is engaged to his â—usts And therefore the Scripture calls sinne an husband and a Lord and a lover and the sinner is said to make a covenant and an agreement with it I will give unto you so much proâ—â—t and so much delight saith sinne and I will give unto thee all my heart and love and strength and service saith the sinner But this communion must be broken up or else be confident you have no communion with Christ Psal 45. 10. Forget thine own people and thy Fathers house Ver. 11. So shall the King greatly desire thy beauty c. There is such a contrariety 'twixt these two objects Sinne and Christ and there is such an impossibily of inclination in the heart to embrace and converse with these two at once that of necessity you must as Christ spake of the world and of God either hate the one and love the other or else hold to the one and dâ—spise the â—ther Mat. 6. 24. Christ did lie in a Manger but never lived in a dunghil Communion the center of it is love and therefore it is shadowed by Solomons chariâ—t the midst whereof was paved with love Cant. 3. 10. your communion is where your love is but you cannot hold Christ and sinne in the same affection Mezentius the tyrant tyed a dead body and a living man together This was a distructive torment it was not a communicating favour They might die together but not live c. An heart dead in the love of sinne and a Christ the authour of life there can be no comfortable nay nor real Communion 'twixt them I have read of a diseased person who was in danger to lose his fight and his Physician prescribed Theotinus him to take heed of some leud courses What said he cannot I enjoy my sight and my delight too why then vale lumen Amicum I fear it is thus with too many Communion with Christ is sweet but may I not enjoy this and the world too now the young man goes away then vale lumen amicum And may I not continue my delight in sin and a delightful communion with Christ why then farewel Christ 4. Insitien or Insplantation into Christ for communion ever supposeth a relation As difference so distance too is opposite to communion If you cut off a limb from the tree the root hath no further communion with it because union ceaseth which is the foundation of communion If you put a stick upon the tree it receives no influence at all from the root because it is onely a naked opposition without any union at all But if you graft a science on a stock this will grow this receives sap and life because here is an union And so it is 'twixt Christ and us there must be a relation 'twixt him and you an union 'twixt him and you or else a communion is impossible Paul therefore desires first to be found in him and then he strives to finde something from him It is in Phil. 3. 8. That I may winne Christ Verse 9. And be found in him And then follows verse 10. That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferring 2. By the formal concâ—mitanâ—s There are foure properties of a Christ and a soul-communion 1. It is spiritual In Exod. 26. 6. you read of one Tabernacle and of several curtaines which were coupled together with taches and those taches were all of gold The communion wâ—th Christ and his with us as it is mâ—st high so it is most precious and the most precious communion is that which is most holy and spiritual It is a precious blâ—â—d which Christ imparts in communion it is a precious love c. They are precious fruits of his spirit c. They are spiritual blessings in heavenly places c. And Ã¨ contra they are precious and spiritual things which Christ looks for from you Not a carnal but a spiritual love to him Not common or dead but living and spiritual sacrifices and services spiritual praying spiritual reading c. This communion is holy 1. Causally because wrought by the holy Spirit 2. Objectively It is between an holy Christ and an holy people 3. Vertually the effects and fruits of either side are holy 4. Actually Christ holds communion with us through holy Ordinances and we with him by holy duties 2. It is a close and immediate communion my meaning is that nothing lies between the heart and Christ They say of the love of friendship it is the knitting of soul with soule so that the soule loving lives in the soule loved If a stone lies twixt the sience and the stock there is no communion And truly so it is in this

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